{"id":5345,"date":"2016-08-18T06:43:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2019-08-06T04:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:44:14","slug":"2016-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=5345","title":{"rendered":"2016 MEETING PRESENTATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<br \/>\n<strong>January<\/strong> &#8212;President Chris WX7B explained about the N3FJP logging software which he and others in the SDXA use.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_5132\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5132\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSCN1966-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chris WX7B\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSCN1966-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSCN1966-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris WX7B<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>February<\/strong> &#8212; Video of February 2014 DXpedition to Amsterdam Island (FT5ZM); Show and Tell for favorite QSL cards.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ft5zm-216x300.png\" alt=\"ft5zm\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ft5zm-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ft5zm.png 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>March<\/strong> &#8212; Video of the Navassa Island DXpedition (K1N); Individual discussion of our first QSOs; discussion of upcoming Heard Island DXpedition (VK0EK).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/k1n-logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"k1n logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/k1n-logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/k1n-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/k1n-logo.png 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>April <\/strong>&#8212;Geoff Howard W0CG\/PJ2DX discussed his contest station PJ2T in Curacao &#8211;  &#8220;The Year of the shack at PJ2T &#8211;  a Total Interior Station Rebuild.&#8221;  Members discussed their worst fire occurring in equipment.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PJ2T-VIEW-OF-ANTENNAS-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"PJ2T VIEW OF ANTENNAS\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PJ2T-VIEW-OF-ANTENNAS-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PJ2T-VIEW-OF-ANTENNAS-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PJ2T-VIEW-OF-ANTENNAS-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>May<\/strong> &#8212;14th SDXA Birthday party at the South Hill Round Table pizza place &#8211; original meeting place back in 2002 for the first organizational meeting for the start of SDXA.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0009-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0009\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0009-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0009-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0009-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>June<\/strong> &#8212;Commercial (and amateur radio) tower climber Jeremiah Puhek from JP Telecomm gave a presentation on safe tower climbing and standards in the industry such as lightning protection, etc.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0023-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0023\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0023-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0023-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0023-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>July<\/strong> &#8212; Steve W7VI gave a presentation on hex beams including bring his 6-meter version he built himself.  He has two hex beams himself for HF, one for SSB and the other for CW and digital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>August<\/strong> &#8212;Annual Summer Picnic at Plante&#8217;s Ferry Sports Complex<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1758-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1758\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1758-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1758-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1758-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>September<\/strong> &#8212;Video of the 5A7A Libya DXpedition put on by Rudi DK7PE in November of 2006; also included info on other Libya DXpeditions, 5A0A in 1987, the 1995 operation, and recently 5A1AL.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/libya-mapuntitled.png\" alt=\"libya mapuntitled\" width=\"95\" height=\"96\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>October<\/strong> &#8212;Craig Stevens KG7H of Clark Fork, ID presented an introduction to EME especially as it pertains to his quad array of 9-element 6-meter antennas.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kg7h-6-meter-array-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"kg7h-6-meter-array\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kg7h-6-meter-array-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kg7h-6-meter-array-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kg7h-6-meter-array-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>November<\/strong> &#8212;upcoming 2018 Bouvet Island DXpedition &#8211; comparison to previous Bouvet Operations.  DVD of the 3Y5X DXpedition of 1989\/early 1990.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bouvet-20181334-300x202.png\" alt=\"bouvet-20181334\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bouvet-20181334-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bouvet-20181334-768x517.png 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bouvet-20181334.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>December<\/strong> &#8212;Annual Awards Banquet at the Longhorn Barbecue in Airway Heights.<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345","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=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12551,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions\/12551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}