Eastern Iowa DX Association
Welcome to the Eastern Iowa DX Association web site! Our club is open to any amateur radio operator who is interested in DXing and/or contesting. You are cordially invited to attend club meetings and get acquainted. We have many friendly, outgoing members with varied areas of expertise, who would be delighted to meet you and offer their help as needed. (Detailed club information is on the "About EIDXA" page.)
Home of The
Eastern Iowa DX Bulletin.
EIDXA News (Updated May 30, 2023)
EIDXA
Meetings
Next EIDXA Meeting:
Date:
Friday, May 12, 2023.
Time:
Doors open at 6:30 PM; Meeting begins at 7:30 PM.
Location:
Hall Perrine Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center.
Program:
"What is a Real Ham" by Dr. Glenn Johnson, WØGJ. This is the
same presentation that Glenn will give at the Visalia DX convention in April.
Prior to the meeting, the EIDXA has scheduled
an early dinner for Glenn and Vivien at the "Black Sheep Social Club",
600 1st Street SE. Please join us at 17:00 local (5 PM). We will order
at 17:30 and depart for the meeting at Hall Perrine around 19:00 local
(7 PM). The restaurant has a web site https://www.iamtheblacksheep.com with the menu listed. Please let Gayle, KØFLY (email: KØFLY) know if you are attending, so that he can finalize the reservation.
If
you are coming in on I-380, take the Diagonal Drive SW exit and head
east as if going to Mercy Medical Center (note that Diagonal Drive
becomes 8th Avenue SE). Take the first left after crossing the bridge
on to 2nd Street SE, then take the first left again, onto 7th Avenue
SE. There is a surface parking lot on the right, or on-street parking
is available on 1st Street SE adjacent to the restaurant.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at one or both events.
We
normally meet quarterly in January, April, July and October on a Friday
evening. Our normal meeting
location is the Hall Perrine Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center in
Cedar
Rapids. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the
meeting starts at
7:30 p.m. A program of interest follows the business meeting. Complete
details,
including
an aerial photo map, may be found on the "Meetings"
page.
Al Groff, KØVM Honored
FlexRadio
has announced their Dayton 2023 Awards, and EIDXA Member Al Groff, KØVM
has won the “Top Tester SmartSDR Award”. Mike, VA3MW from FlexRadio
commented that, “Al has been recognized for his remarkable consistency,
thoroughness, and reliability. He consistently offers clear steps for
reproducing reported issues and diligently follows through with testing
and reporting upon resolution. His unwavering commitment has
significantly contributed to the stability of our products.”
Congratulations, Al! A much-deserved award!
Membership
roster
(updated on May 31, 2023)
The membership roster lists all active club members and
dues status. It is
available for viewing on
the "Members"
page. Former members
who are now Silent Keys
are listed separately below the active members
list.
EIDXA has a new DXCC Honor Roll member: Rich Haendel, W3ACO achieved Honor Roll status with FT8WW, giving him 331 current entities, 332 total. Congratulations, Rich!
A new page of archival rosters from 1975 to the present is now available on the Members page. Please check it out!
Eastern Iowa DXer (updated
on March 30, 2023)
The Eastern
Iowa DXer
is EIDXA's newsletter, published in advance of each quarterly
club meeting. The April 2023 edition is now available on the "Newsletter"
page. Bob, WØGXA, puts together a great
newsletter, loaded
with
good information. It's always a great read! Be sure you
don't pass it by!
The Eastern Iowa DX Bulletin
The Eastern Iowa DX
Bulletin is published every Friday. It
is a compilation of currently
active
DX operations (or those that will become active within the current
week) from recent issues of DX bulletins from the US, Germany
and Italy and
other sources. The articles are
ordered by callsign prefix with dates of
operation highlighted in red.
Hot links for QSL and other information are provided if available.
Articles remain in The
Bulletin while active, but with a 5-week maximum.
DXpedition
Support (updated
on August 7, 2022)
EIDXA
offers financial support to DXpeditions that meet our formalized
requirements, which include top 50 most-wanted ranking, duration,
number of operators, planned bands and modes, and the interval since
any previous operations.
A list of operations that EIDXA has supported since 2002
is here.
Buy-Sell-Trade (updated
on May 17, 2023)
The "Buy-Sell-Trade"
page provides a place to advertise any ham radio equipment you
may
have for sale. We can publish pictures of your gear and any text you
would like. Contact the webmaster to post your ad!
There are new ads from Nelson, KUØA, for three great antennas. Check it out!
Email Reflector
The EIDXA email reflector is on Google Groups and is available for your
use. To post to
the reflector, email
your message for the group to:
eastern-iowa-dx-association@googlegroups.com
The reflector allows you to include photos or other files in your
message. If you are not a member of the group but would like to be,
please email the webmaster.
You may visit the group homepage
here:
https://groups.google.com/group/eastern-iowa-dx-association
The homepage has a complete archive of all messages exchanged
via the
group.
The
Eastern Iowa DX Bulletin
Craig Fastenow,
KØCF, Editor
The Eastern
Iowa DX Bulletin is now on its own page:
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