FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The SOUTHWEST OHIO DX Association (SWODXA) is pleased to again sponsor the DX Dinner ™, held in conjunction with the 2011 Dayton Hamvention®. The dinner will be held on Friday, May 20, 2011. This year the dinner will be at the Dayton Marriott, 1414 S. Patterson Blvd., Dayton, OH 45409. MAP

We are excited about our new venue. It is less than five minutes from our previous location, has a much larger capacity, and the dining room is on the ground floor so there are no steps. There is ample, free, on-site parking.

As in the past, there will be some major door prizes. And there is always great anticipation as to who will be named the “DXpedition of the Year”. Program details and a list of the prizes will be available soon at www.swodxa.org or www.swodxa.blogspot.com.

There will be a cash bar starting at 5:30 p.m., with dinner served at 7:00. Tickets are $40 each, payable in US funds. Sorry, we do not process Paypal or credit card payments. If a vegetarian meal is desired, it must be indicated when tickets are ordered. We attempt to honor group seating requests when tickets are ordered together. Each table seats ten, and seats are assigned as the requests are received. Check or money orders, payable to SWODXA, should be sent to Kirk Swallow, W8QID at 3137 Compton Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45251. Be sure to include a SASE for ticket return.

The Marriott is a large hotel with many room choices. Should you need accommodations, their phone number is 937 223-1000 or the website is http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dayoh-dayton-marriott

Following the meal, there will be a separate room and cash bar available for more fellowship. This is an excellent opportunity to meet and renew old acquaintances. We look forward to seeing everyone at the DX Dinner™ at the Marriott and at Hamvention®. Good Dxing!

Source: Southwest Ohio DX Association

This note is from Randy N0TG the team leader. The club has sponsor this DXpedition.

Hi Joe……below info as update/info for all of you.

Sable Island – CY0: 21 – 29 October; with only six weeks remaining the team has assembled most everything and shipped to Halifax. Gary, VE1RGB is organizing everything for it’s final destination. The Home page of the web site has been updated to conveniently display the dxpedition frequencies and QSL information. www.CY0dxpedition.com

73 Randy – CY0/N0TG

SWODXA DX DINNER 2011

Southwest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA) is happy to announce plans for the 26th annual DX Dinner™. This dinner, which is held in conjunction with Dayton Hamvention®, will be held on Friday, May 20, 2011.

Because we realize many attendees make their plans well in advance, we want to let you know that our location for the dinner has changed. It will be at the Dayton Marriott located at 1414 S. Patterson Blvd., Dayton, OH 45409. MAP Here

We are excited about our new venue. While it is less than five minutes from our previous location, it has a much larger capacity, has been recently renovated, and we will have a new menu selection. Other advantages are that there are no steps as the dinner will be held on the ground floor, and there is ample, free, on-site parking. In our planning meetings, the staff has been very receptive and is anxious to meet the needs of our attendees and graciously welcomes SWODXA.

The Marriott is a large hotel with many room choices. Should you need accommodations, their phone number is 937 227 1000

the website is http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dayoh-dayton-marriott.

When tickets become available, more information regarding the dinner will be posted on our website at http://www.swodxa.org/. and http://www.swodxa.blogspot.com/

We look forward to seeing everyone at the DX Dinner™ at the Marriott and at Hamvention®. Good Dxing!Southwest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA) is happy to announce plans for the 26th annual DX Dinner™. This dinner, which is held in conjunction with Dayton Hamvention®, will be held on Friday, May 20, 2011.

Source: ARRL

05/26/2010

Many hams have long complained about difficulties they have encountered when purchasing International Reply Coupons (IRCs) from their local post offices. Now the US Postal Service (USPS) has made it easier to get those IRCs to send with your direct QSL cards — order them online from the USPS Web site. The USPS ships all in-stock domestic orders for stamps and retail items within 1 business day via Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation or First Class Mail. Shipments should arrive within 3-5 business days. All stamp orders are charged a $1 handling fee, regardless of the order amount. IRCs purchased from the USPS, whether online or in person at a post office, cost $2.10 each.

International reply coupons (IRCs) provide foreign addressees with a prepaid means of responding to inquiries, solicitations, or other types of communications that are initiated by US senders. IRCs are exchangeable for postage stamps by postal administrations in member countries of the Universal Postal Union (UPU). Each IRC is equivalent in value to the destination country’s minimum postage price for an unregistered airmail letter. According to the UPU, some 2.2 million reply coupons are sold each year by 121 postal administrations. While not all countries sell IRCs, all the postal operators of the UPU’s 191 member countries, and their territories, are required to exchange them.

More than a century after it first appeared in 1907, the IRC remains a useful item. Aside from its traditional use for correspondence, according to the UPU, two particular groups of users have emerged: Students who use them as a means of exchanging correspondence with academic institutions, and Amateur Radio enthusiasts, who use coupons when exchanging their QSL cards.

As of October 11, 2007, only those IRCs that have been printed by the UPU may be redeemed at US post offices. The valid version of the international reply coupons printed by the UPU is approximately 3.75 inches by 6 inches, has a bar code on the back and an expiration date of December 31, 2013. This policy is for those IRCs issued by the United States, as well as for those issued by foreign postal administrations.

Here is a website that has a nice display of the top 25 DXCC Entities. You can go through the album and see all the places.

Click here

This is a video of the K5D Desecheo DXEpedition from February 2009. This was a relatively easy DXEpedition for us to work in the US.

Thanks to the crew that provided us with this DX entity and for PY2MAJ for putting this together!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foBy2Bk_ZYA

I have just implemented a “Forum” for everyone to use. You access from the Page category in the Navigation bar above. Or Here There are many different Topics that I set up that you can read or reply to.

Topics I have created so far include: Contesting, DX, Digital Modes, Mobile, Propagation, QSL, SSB and CW Modes, Ham Shack Items, Antennas, HF and VHF/UHF radios, Accessories, For Sale/Trade/Wanted, Emergency Communications, APRS, Introductions, Help, Suggestions, and Club Related.

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People participating in an Internet forum may cultivate social bonds and interest groups for a topic may form from the discussions.

Source: Wiki

[caption id="attachment_749" align="alignleft" width="45" caption="ARRL"][/caption]Bill Moore, NC1L, ARRL Awards Branch Manager, reports: “This is a reminder that the cut-off date to have submissions in for the 2009 DXCC Annual and Honor Roll Listings is December 31, 2009. Applications must be postmarked by this date.

“December is expected to be a heavy period so applicants are encouraged not to wait until the last minute to get their submissions in. Also, with the holiday season approaching mail handling will sharply increase.

“Applicants are strongly encouraged to check the ‘List of DXCC Applications Received’ link on the DXCC web site to assure that their applications were logged in for 2009. With the mail being heavy in DXCC, last minute applications received after December 31st, may get logged in for 2010. Also, the USPS postmarks are often unreadable so this could also affect last minute submissions.

“If you find on this page that your 2009 submission was logged in for 2010, you must contact DXCC by February 1, 2010, to get this corrected. DXCC is not responsible for 2009 applications that are logged in for 2010 after February 1, 2010.

“We expect for December that the turnaround will increase in excess of 12 weeks. This is normal for this time of year and we appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to get all 2009 applications completed.

“The 2009 DXCC Yearbook is expected to be in the mail by late May or early June 2010. Please remember that in order to receive the free copy you must:
- Be a member of ARRL
- Submit an application within the 2009 calendar year, or
- Be current on the DXCC Honor Roll (329 current entities
or higher).

“If you did not qualify for the yearbook, copies will be avaliable from the ARRL catalog. Send questions to: dxcc@arrl.org ”

Source: ARRL

ARRL

Four Radio Amateurs Killed in Plane Crash While En Route to CQWW Phone Contest (Oct 21, 2009 [REVISED Oct 22, 2009 11:05 ET]) — Just after take-off — around 6:30 AM on Wednesday, October 21 — a twin-engine plane carrying four Amateur Radio operators crashed into the woods, only 250 yards off the end of the runway in Jedburg, South Carolina, about 20 miles northwest of Charleston. The plane — piloted and owned by Peter Radding, W2GJ — carried Ed Steeble, K3IXD, Dallas Carter, W3PP, and Randy Hargenrader, K4QO. The four men were on their way to the Bahamas to operate in this weekend’s CQ World Wide Phone Contest as C6APR, competing in the Multi/2 category.
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Midway - K4M Latest update from their website – With the exceptions of a few hardware failures (including 1 radio and two amplifiers) we are humming around the clock.

As of 22:00 UTC 15 October we passed 27,000 Q. 4 more days of operating. We will remain on 20 mtrs around the clock in order to provide everyone a chance for at least one QSO. First RTTY and 160 operations last night and this morning local time. We will continue to push both windows.