Welcome to the Spokane DX Association
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WHAT YOU MISSED!
On Thursday, February 4th, Dan N5AR presented a program on AMPLIFIERS and what to look for in your purchase. Also, he covered a recent group purchase of ferrite cores and showed some of the multi-turns of small diameter coax around the circular cores for increased inductance.
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From Ward N0AX’s ARRL Contest Update dated February 3, 2010:
“It seems that we just sent in the logs, but 2009 ARRL November
Sweepstakes results are already online, including the Club
Competition! Click on “Initial Results” for a PDF of the final results
and the line scores. The searchable database, Log-Checking Reports and
in-depth writeup will still be published on the usual schedule in QST
and in expanded form on the Web. The effort to turn the scores around
quickly was a great success and a big thank you is extended to the log-
checkers and paper log data entry volunteers.
Due to an error in the Club database, the Northern Rockies DX
Association was mistakenly listed as the winner of the Local Club
category in the 2009 ARRL November Sweepstakes.
The correct Local Club winner is the Spokane DX Association. (Thanks,
ARRL Contest Branch Manager, Sean KX9X).”
SDXA made 462,188 points with seven entries. This club competition
combines the cw and phone sweepstakes scores.
The local scores were:
ssb-
Lamar WA7LT 161,318
Jay WA0WWW 43,068
Kirk K7EKM 30,500
Gary K7GS 19,500
Chris WX7B 17,666
cw-
Gary K7OX 155,156
Jay WA0WWW 34,980
Here is the list of the club’s previous wins in gavels:
ARRL CLUB GAVELS WON - 3
2002 ARRL November Sweepstakes (phone) - 1st place in local club
category
2005 ARRL RTTY Roundup - 1st place in local club category
2005 ARRL International DX contest (phone) - 1st place in local club
category
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2010 ARRL JANUARY VHF SWEEPSTAKES
Several members of the SDXA participated in the two day contest. The biggest signal came from the Rover entry of Mark K7HPT, new member to the SDXA, and his buddy John W7OE, well know for his cw prowess in the community.
Mark supplied these pictures of his 2nd day of operation Rover station which is located on Mica Peak, Southeast of Spokane. The first day of operation was from Kamiak Butte . The station featured operation on 6 meters, 2 meters, 222 MHz, 420 MHz, and 1.2 GHz . SSB, CW, and FM modes were used, where appropriate. Other SDXA members heard in the contest were: Steve K7AWB, Gary K7GS, Jay WA0WWW, Kirk K7EKM, George W6AEA, Bob N7AU, and Dick W7BHP.
Views from the top
View of the Spokane Valley from Mica Peak
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Lamar WA7LT in the early days of radio multi-operator contesting.
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Final call: 2010 DUES are payable now; send them to the SDXA Post Office address:
SDXA
P.O. Box 19358
Spokane, WA 99219
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The repeater is located at approximately at 32nd and Grand on the South Hill :
Frequency: 147.16 MHz, +600 KHz offset, 136.5 Hz tone
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The race for the Challange Trophy is on again; its the start of the annual Contest Season! Here are the ten contests in which our Association is in competition with the other three large NW clubs. See LINK at right side for the latest rules as passed at the August SDXA DX Convention by the four club presidents.
1. CQ WW DX RTTY - September 26-27 COMPLETED
2. CQ WW DX SSB - October 24-25 COMPLETED
3. CQ WW DX CW - November 28-29 COMPLETED
4. ARRL RTTY ROUNDUP - January 2-3 COMPLETED
5. CQ WPX RTTY - February 13-14
6. ARRL DX CW - February 20-21
7. ARRL DX SSB - March 6-7
8. CQ WPX SSB - March 27-28
9. CQ WPX CW - May 29-30
10. IARU - July 10-11
Send your score to Steve K7AWB. If you were a multi-operator station, I need the calls of all operators.
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