{"id":337,"date":"2008-09-18T20:16:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T04:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=337"},"modified":"2016-02-17T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T20:00:49","slug":"septermber-2008-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"September 2008 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokane DX Association<br \/>\nK7SDX &#8211; Spokane, Washington<\/p>\n<p>SDXA \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 04 september 2008<\/p>\n<p>the meeting was called to order by President K7OX, Gary, at 19:00 local time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>secretary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report by WA0WWW, jay: <\/strong><br \/>\nminutes for august are on the club\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s web page:     https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=330<br \/>\nAC7GP moved and WU7X 2nd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d to approve as posted.  motion passed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>treasurer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report by K7EKM, Kirk:<\/strong><br \/>\ntotal:   $105.80 (not including Brackemyer Fund)<\/p>\n<p><strong>old business:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>= SDXA to host the 2009 NW DX Convention, 54th year, @ the Mirabeau Park,  fri to sun, 7-9 august 2009.<br \/>\n\tK7AR, Alan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s final report of the Portland convention should be coming out soon.  our committee chair meeting has been moved to a saturday in mid-october.  let K7OX, Gary, know if you want to come and have a saturday that does not work for you. <\/p>\n<p>= the annual Spokane Hamfest this year will be on 27september at the usual place, University High School.   K7TQ, Randy, has been working on plans for our club that will be helping out at the registration table.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>new business:<\/strong><br \/>\n= we have a new member to the club, WX7B, Chris Pritchard has moved to the Mead area from Wyoming, where he was the section manager.  welcome Chris. <\/p>\n<p>= the annual Pacific Northwest VHF Conference will be 03-05 october in Moses Lake.  see www.pnwvhfs.org more details.<br \/>\nthe keynote speaker is Joe Taylor, K1JT, Nobel Laureate and &#8220;father&#8221; of WSJT, Software for VHF Meteor-Scatter Communication. Also speaking will be:  Lyle Johnson, KK7P (ex-WA7GXD), co-founder Tucson Amateur Packet Radio, Sean Kutzko, KX9X, ARRL Contest Branch Manager,  Eric Schwarz, WA6HHQ, Elecraft and many more. <\/p>\n<p>= WA1PMA, Wayne, reported the K7SDX DX cluster has moved to WA0WWW\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house and is back up and running with the same Telnet address, k7sdx.no-ip.org 7300.  the RF cluster on 145.09 is still up and now under K7HRT-1, Pat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call.  <\/p>\n<p>= we need to start to put together the annual december banquet.  if you have any suggestions, please send to one of the officers.<\/p>\n<p>= the Salmon Run is just a few weeks away, 20-21 sept.  we will sponsor the Low Power Mixed plaque again.  now with 3 modes, mixed is defined as a minimum of 10 contacts in 2 or 3 of the 3 modes, CW, SSB and Digital.  <\/p>\n<p>=  K7EFX, John, sent in some pictures of him flying in a AZ, cool plane.  <\/p>\n<p>contest calendar, just a few:<br \/>\nNorth American Sprint, SSB, 0000Z-0400Z, Sep 14<br \/>\nWashington State Salmon Run, 1600Z, Sep 20 to 2400Z, Sep 21   http:\/\/www.wwdxc.org\/<br \/>\nCQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY, 0000Z, Sep 27 to 2400Z, Sep 28<br \/>\nNorth American Sprint, RTTY, 0000Z-0400Z, Oct 12<br \/>\nCQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB, 0000Z, Oct 25 to 2400Z, Oct 26<\/p>\n<p><strong>program:<\/strong><br \/>\n= we watched a DVD on the 2007 Scarborough Reef DXpedition BS7H, unbelievable.  (thanks Randy!) <\/p>\n<p>= next month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meeting will be 02 October, 2008 at the Spokane Valley main Library (Sprague &#038; Pines).  the program is tbd. ____________________<\/p>\n<p>respectfully submitted by wa0www, jay holcomb,  secretary.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>guests at the meeting &#8211; 1<br \/>\ncall        name<br \/>\nWS7I\t\tJay Townsend <\/p>\n<p>regular members present: &#8211; 18<br \/>\ncall        name       present<\/p>\n<p>K7EIQ  Merle   Trenary    x<br \/>\nAC7GP  Bob     Meenach    x<br \/>\nAC7MV  David   Snyder     x<br \/>\nK7AWB  Steve   Sala       web x<br \/>\nK7EKM  Kirk    Mohror     Treas x<br \/>\nK7GS   Gary    Swartout   x<br \/>\nK7HRT  Patrick O&#8217;Dea      x<br \/>\nK7OX   Gary    Elliott    Pres. x<br \/>\nKC7QGV Marybeth Snyder    x<br \/>\nKE7AJ  Barb     Elliott   x<br \/>\nKE7KPO Carl     Maki      x<br \/>\nN5AR   Dan      Hearn     x<br \/>\nN7ER   Earl     Ringle    x<br \/>\nNE7F   Jim      Barnet    x<br \/>\nWA0WWW Jay      Holcomb   Sec. x<br \/>\nWA1PMA Wayne    Millican  x<br \/>\nWU7X   Dale     Avery     x<br \/>\nWX7P   Chris    Pritchard x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}