{"id":8880,"date":"2017-09-12T09:18:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2017-09-12T09:18:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:18:52","slug":"the-2017-pnw-dx-convention-in-spokane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=8880","title":{"rendered":"THE 2017 PNW DX CONVENTION IN SPOKANE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>THE 2016-2017 PNW CHALLENGE CUP TROPHY WAS WON BY THE WILLAMETTE DX CLUB OF PORTLAND<\/p>\n<p>SEVERAL OF OUR SDXA MEMBERS WON SIGNIFICANT PRIZES<\/p>\n<p>NEXT YEAR&#8217;S CONVENTION IS IN VANCOUVER, BC IN AUGUST<\/p>\n<p>MANY THANKS TO THE IDAHO DX ASSOCIATION FOR THEIR CO-SPONSORSHIP OF THE CONVENTION<\/p>\n<p>PICTURES FROM THE CONVENTION:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2875-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2875-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2875-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2875-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nChuck Williams KI7DG was MC and Announcer for the convention.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2879-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2879-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2879-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2879-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe A\/V men: Mel Ming N7GCO and Del Morissette WA7AQH.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2877-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2877-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2877-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2877-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nRick Roderick K5UR, President of the ARRL, presenting &#8220;The DXCC Program.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2883-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8649\" \/><br \/>\nJay Townsend WS7I presenting &#8220;Remote RTTY Contesting from W4AAW.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_0061-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_0061-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_0061-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_0061-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Willamette DX Club wins the Challenge Cup Traveling Trophy for the ten-contest event between PNW DX Clubs.  IDXA President Emmett Mccormick NA7EM presents the trophy to WVDXC President Mike Ritz W7VO.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2870-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2870-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2870-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2870-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nSuper raffle ticket salesman Dale Avery WU7X sells multiple strips of raffle tickets.  He was a &#8220;go-getter&#8221; in this endeavor.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2868-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2868-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2868-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2868-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nSDXA President Chris Pritchard WX7B chats with Goeff Howard W0CG\/PJ2DX\/PJ2T.  Geoff was one of the seminar presenters.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_0049-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_0049-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_0049-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_0049-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nSDXA President Chris Pritchard WX7B presents a special plaque to Convention Chairman Randy Foltz K7TQ for thanks for the convention.<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880","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=8880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}