Welcome to the Spokane DX Association  

Serving Eastern Washington and North Idaho

 

 

September 6, 2025 (NOTE: Change of date and location for the September activity)

Mobile and Portable Antenna Shoot-out

We will be holding a mobile and portable antenna shoot-out at the fabulous Gary AD7XG and Svetlana Bytnar’s Antenna Farm outside of Davenport, WA. The club will be providing hamburgers and hot dogs. It will be a fun time to compare different antennas in two categories: mobile and portable.

October 2, 2025

Awards Dinner

We will be back at the Long Horn BBQ in Airway Heights

 

 

November 6, 2025

“Six Meter Long-Distance Propagation via Es and TEP during the Decline of Solar Cycle 25”

by Frank Donovan W3LPL

 

Frank was inducted into the CQ Contest Hall of Fame in 1999 and is a regular presenter at Contest
University and to radio clubs and conventions around the world. He retired 13 years ago as a Chief
Engineer at General Dynamics Corporation after a 45 year career in electronics research, development,
engineering and operations of military spaceborne, terrestrial, subterranean, seaborn and subsea
electronic systems.

 

December 4, 2025 on Zoom

 

January 8, 2026 on Zoom

E51MWA – North Cook Islands Dxpedition

By Rob N7QT and Robin WA7CPA

This is a joint meeting of the Spokane DX Association and Inland Empire VHF Club

DXCC #68 Most Wanted   IOTA: OC-014  CQ ZONE: 32  Locator: AH99

E51MWA will be activating Manihiki Atoll in the North Cook Islands October 9-20, 2025. A team of six operators will operate CW, SSB, and FT8. The team members include Robert Fanfant, N7QT who is a veteran of many DXpeditions; YL Robin Amundson, WA7CPA; Jack Prendergast, N7JP; James McDonald, KC7EFP, and Brian Moran N9ADG.

We proudly introduce our sixth team member, Violetta Latham, KN2P, a 21-year-old YL, an up-and-coming SSB contester, a pilot and flight instructor, and organizer of K3LR Team Exuberance. Following our project Violetta will fly directly to PJ2T for an all-youth contest.
Violetta and Robin will team up on the operating schedule. We believe it will be a unique pairing of two YL’s on the same operating schedule rotation on a mixed team DXpedition

 

SDXA DX NETS

DXpedition SOLICITATIONS

ALL DXpedition funding requests are to be to the SDXA President. Since funding is limited, in this manner, our SDXA Officers can give your request the consideration it deserves.

SOLAR ACTIVITY AND PROPAGATION SECTION


For additional info, try this SOLAR LINK for everything you ever wanted to know about the current Sun at the SolarHam site by VE3EN
Link to SPACEWEATHER.COM, a quick source for the daily activity on the sun
Link to NOAA SPACEWEATHER
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SDXA  ANNUAL  CALENDAR

Every wednesday 80 Meter Net on 3840 khz at 08:00 PT
Every tuesday   160 Meter Net on 1855 khz at 20:00 PT – winter
Every sunday    6 Meter Net on 50.140 mhz at 20:00 PT – winter
Monthly SDXA meetings; 19:00 PT unless otherwise noted
02 January  – zoom
06 February – zoom
06 March – zoom
03 April – In person only
01 May – zoom
05 June – zoom
03 July – zoom
09 August – Annual Picnic
04 September – cancelled, for next:
06 September – Antenna Shoot Out
02 October – Annual Awards Banquet
06 November – hybrid
04 December – zoom

Contest Calendar – 2024-25

Pacific NW Challenge Trophy contests, with other Pac NW DX clubs:

  1. CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY 0000Z, Sep 28 to 2400Z, Sep 29, 2024
  2. CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB 0000Z, Oct 26 to 2359Z, Oct 27, 2024
  3. CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW 0000Z, Nov 23 to 2400Z, Nov 24, 2024
  4. ARRL RTTY Roundup 1800Z, Jan 4 to 2400Z, Jan 5, 2025
  5. CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest 0000Z, Feb 8 to 2400Z, Feb 9. 2025
  6. ARRL Inter. DX Contest, CW 0000Z, Feb 15 to 2400Z, Feb 16, 2025
  7. ARRL Inter. DX Contest, SSB 0000Z, Mar 1 to 2400Z, Mar 2, 2025
  8. CQ WW WPX Contest, SSB 0000Z, Mar 29 to 2400Z, Mar 30, 2025
  9. CQ WW WPX Contest, CW 0000Z, May 24 to 2400Z, May 25, 2025
  10. IARU HF World Championship 1200Z, Jul 12 to 1200Z, Jul 13, 2025

Other contests of SDXA interest

JOIN THE SDXA

Regular dues – $20 per person.
Second family member – $10.
Under 19 years of age are free.
DUES LINK.
We accept PayPal too.

The Miscellaneous Area


Gary Bytnar AD7XG

 


Recent News


Mike K7STO sets 7th Area World Record

Coming up at the end of August is the World Wide Digi (FT4/FT8) contest. Our own Mike K7STO set the 7th area World Record for 20 meters last year, You might want to try a single band contest. It can be fun and several bands have records that could be set.

SDXA DX Achievements

DXing (Distance Communication) is one of the key areas for the Spokane DX Association. To encourage people to connect all around the world, some highly sought after awards have emerged. In this article I would like to highlight several. DXCC Top of the Honor Roll Award. Currently there are 340 entities identified. To receive they […]

George Washington Special Event

Ham radio enthusiasts Woody Jacobson, right, and Mike Wren make contacts up and down the West Coast Friday at the beginning of the Columbia Basin DX Club’s three-day event in honor of George Washington’s Birthday. Joel Martin from the Columbia Basin Herald did a great newspaper article on the event. You can read the full […]

SDXA supported a recent DX’pedition to Glorioso

The SDXA supported a recent DX’pedition to Glorioso with Marek operating as FT4GL. Many of the club members were able to work Marek. Marek was kind enough to send some pictures of him holding printouts of the SDXA logo and wanted to share them with you.

2024 SDXA Picnic

The Spokane DX Association had their annual picnic at the home of Del and Diane Morissette. Their son Peter cook incredible ribs and pulled pork. A great time of connecting was had by all.

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