Spokane DX Association
\nK7SDX – Spokane, Washington<\/p>\n
SDXA \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 02 october 2008
\nthe meeting was called to order by President K7OX, Gary, at 19:05 local time.<\/p>\n
secretary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report by WA0WWW, jay: <\/strong> treasurer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report by K7EKM, Kirk:<\/strong> old business:<\/strong> = SDXA to host the 54th 2009 Pacific NW DX Convention, @ the Mirabeau Park, 7-9 august 2009. = promotional flyers for the PNW DX convention are available for anyone to take to other amateur club meetings, etc. you can get them K7OX or WA0WWW. <\/p>\n = the annual Pacific Northwest VHF Conference was in Moses Lake. see www.pnwvhfs.org for more details. K7AWB, Steve, is planning on being there.<\/p>\n = the annual december banquet planning is continuing. finding a place has been challenging. the Holiday Inn at the airport is a possibility. discussion at the meeting was suggesting going back to Perkins like last year. it was tight, but the food was good, Perkins did a nice job and the price was great. watch for more info on the banquet coming. we are trying for the usual night which is 04 december. <\/p>\n = the Salmon Run had a few SDXA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122rs. and there is an excellent chance our sponsored plaque, low power mixed, is coming back to the club. WX7P, had over a 1000 Qs. Thanks Wilse!<\/p>\n new business:<\/strong> = we had a quest tonight, W0CG (PJ2T) Geoff Howard. we all know of PJ2T. Geoff is moving to C d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122A, though will still be spending most of year (i assume the contest season) down south. hopefully we all will get a few points from him this year. <\/p>\n ——- contest calendar, just a few: <\/strong> ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW, \t2100Z, Nov 1 to 0300Z, Nov 3 (2pm sat \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 7pm sun local) program:<\/strong> = next month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meeting will be 06 november, 2008 at the North Spokane Library (at the 2 & 395 Y). the program may be WX7P\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 4-square, tbd.<\/p>\n respectfully submitted by wa0www, jay holcomb, secretary. guests at the meeting – 1 regular members present: – 7 .<\/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-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nminutes for september are on the club\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s web page: https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=337
\nWA1PMA moved and AC7GP 2nd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d to approve as posted. motion passed.<\/p>\n
\ntotal: $_Kirk was not available__ (not including Brackemyer Fund)<\/p>\n
\n= the annual Spokane Hamfest was a great success and over 500 were in attendance. thanks to all from the SDXA who came to help and man the registration table. it went very smooth. initial reports showed a nice profit and SDXA will get its share of the profits soon. <\/p>\n
\nour initial organization meeting had been set for saturday morning 11 october at K7OX\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s qth. contact one of the officers if you have some input for the convention. initial plans are to have a registration form and basic information on our web site by the end of the month, along with the countdown clock that is there now (thanks Steve!). a full report will be discussed at the november club meeting. <\/p>\n
\n= elections next month. please let any of the club officers know if your interested in running or would like to make a nomination. <\/p>\n
\nDX coming up:<\/strong>– not much of note, a little on Glorioso, islands SE of Africa in the Indian Ocean
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No date is fixed to date, but I’m doing all my best to lead Gloriosos 2008 before the end of this year.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nDidier Senmartin, F5OGL http:\/\/www.southgatearc.org\/news\/august2008\/glorioso.htm
\nwhat will be the prefix? the web shows: FR\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\/G Glorioso Is<\/p>\n
\nNorth American Sprint, RTTY, \t0000Z-0400Z, Oct 12 (5-9pm local)
\nCQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB, \t0000Z, Oct 25 to 2400Z, Oct 26 (5pm- 5pm local)<\/p>\n
\nARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB, \t2100Z, Nov 15 to 0300Z, Nov 17 (1pm sat \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 7pm sun local)
\nCQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW, \t0000Z, Nov 29 to 2400Z, Nov 30 (4pm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 4pm local)<\/p>\n
\n= we watched a DVD of the 2008 J5C Guinea Bissau operation. Guinea Bissau is a small country in western Africa. (thanks Randy, again!) <\/p>\n
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\ncall name<\/strong>W0CG \/ PJ2T Geoff Howard (C d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122A \/ Curacao) <\/p>\n
\ncall name present
\nAC7GP Bob Meenach x
\nK7HRT Patrick O’Dea x
\nK7OX Gary Elliott Pres x
\nK7TQ Randy Foltz VP x
\nW3AS Doug Brede x
\nWA0WWW Jay Holcomb Sec x
\nWA1PMA Wayne Millican x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"