WELCOME TO THE
 
SOUTHERN ARIZONA DX ASSOCIATION
TUCSON - WS7DX

CLUB OFFICERS
2012


PRESIDENT
Richard Solomon - W1KSZ


VICE PRESIDENT
Jerry Wothe - W6XI


SECRETARY/TREASURER
Larry Brown - W7LB
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CURRENT INFO

 
  
The SADXA meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month at Coco's Restaurant
located at 6095 E Broadway Blvd across from Park Place Mall at 5:30 PM. Click on map for directions.


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To Quote KR7RK

"Do we want SADXA to just be a supper club?"

A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT!

Thanks to John, WD7F, and his Web Page skills, we now have a "DXCC Ladder" for all club members to use. This new addition to the Web Site will show all your Confirmed Countries, by Band and by Mode, with a numerical total of all your inputs. Watch yourself "climb the ladder" as you work and confirm country after country.

 Your inputs should reflect Confirmed Countries, as shown on the Current DXCC List. No Deleted Countries, please Send your data to our new Data Manager, Rolly, KW7RS, at: rolland.sicard@yahoo.com  

Rolly will collect the data and it will be published on the Web Site. The frequency of updates is still to be determined, either Monthly or Quarterly. We will advise of which way we will go,but for now, get your data into Rolly.

73 and see you at the next meeting,
Dick, W1KSZ

Next Meeting
16 February 2012

LAST MEETING
19 January - 5:30 PM

The President  KR7RK - Keith called the meeting to order, mentioning that election of club officers would be a prime topic of business.  As usual, members were asked to identify themselves and tell of any DX activities since the last meeting.  Most spoke of some activity on 10 meters.  NO7P - Don said that he has worked his DXCC but was waiting for four more cards.   Carl - K0SBV related that he had sent in his DXCC cards to the card counter who told him he'd only sent 98 cards and had to return them.  When the cards came back, there were only 95.  Go figure.

Jerry - W6XI said "On February14th that my station will join two other stations to put AZ on the bands for the Arizona Centennial Celebration. There will be a station in Prescott, Phoenix and Tucson. We will be using the call K7UGA, which is Barry Goldwater's retired call and now held by the Central Arizona DX Associationn. club as the Special Events Station.   On Feb 14 we go on the air at 10AM local time and stay on for as long as we have operators that day. My station will concentrate on the WARC bands in the day time and late afternoon we will switch to 40 Meters for the evening activities. All operation will be on SSB however no specific frequencies have been chosen.  SADXA members are invited to stop by my place and either just check it out or stick around and do some operating.  My place is 12589 E Calle Tango, Tucson."

During the DX Roundup Jerry received two operating awards from the CQ Contest Group.  The first award was for the World Wide 160 Meters DX contest for 2011. He placed 2nd, Single Operator High Power Assisted CW, 2nd Place in 7th District  and 18th Place in USA.  He also won the CQ World Wide 160 Meters DX Contest SSB, 2011, 1st Place Single Operator High Power Assisted Arizona and 4th Place in 7th District.  Not bad.

Tom - NQ7R said that after many years of SSB only operation VK0TH has been fairly active on CW and Digital modes from Macquarie Island.  I was fortunate to work Trevor on Jan 01 (Z) on three new bands on CW RTTY and PSK.  An activity I set up for Central AZ DX club was what I called the "DXCC Triple Play" (of which I appear to be the only one interested).  It has two levels, the first is to work 100 countries on CW, Phone, and Digital which I reached on May 15 (starting on Jan 1, 2011)  and on Nov 24 I reached the second level which was having worked the same 100 countries on all three modes. Tom was selected DXer of the Year for the CADXA, an honor he said he really appreciated.

Our Secretary/Treasurer W7LB - Larry said that 60% of the members had paid their dues for 2011 and would be collecting.  He also said that his tower project was on a hold while he recovered from a bit of ill health.  

We had several guests for the evening, but first, let it be known that Wally is back!   It appears that Wally - KB7GAI may have dropped a pound or two, but looked pretty good considering his ordeal.  We're glad you're back Wally!  

A big SADXA elcome to KD7TMX - Cliff, K7ILA - Pink, The Johnsons, Lyle - KK7P and his XYL N7DZU Heather.  Lyle and Heather live in Mt. Vernon, Washington but are now snowbirding here in Tucson.  Lyle said he is probably going to join SADXA. 

The main business of the evening was to elect the SADXA officers for 2012.  After some discussion, W1KSZ - Richard, was elected President as is evident by the picture at the upper left. Congratulations Richard.   W6XI - Jerry and W7LB - Larry were re-elected in their respective positions.

After the break, W1KSZ - Richard gave a presentation on his converstion of a SB-220 Heathkit linear to 6 meters.  It was very interesting and a comment was made as to why he didn't bring it for show and tell and Richard said it was just a bit heavy to be dragging to Coco's.  

The evening was topped off by KK7P - Lyle who works with Elecraft and he brought with him the prototype KX3   transceiver, a small format, didital controlled, all mode with a built in paddle key that does all you could imagine and then some.  It looks like it would be a fantastic moble rig.

The meeting was great!  You shoulda' been there!