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.)
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Eastern Iowa DX Bulletin.
EIDXA News (Updated November 29, 2022)
EIDXA
Meetings
Next EIDXA Meeting:
Date:
A Friday evening in January, 2023.
Time:
Doors open at 6:30 PM; Meeting begins at 7:30 PM.
Location:
Hall Perrine Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center.
Program:
To be determined...
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.
Membership
roster
(updated on November 29, 2022)
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.
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 November 29, 2022)
The Eastern
Iowa DXer
is EIDXA's newsletter, published in advance of each quarterly
club meeting. The October 2022 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 Sunday morning. 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.
W9TW
Silent Key
EIDXA
member Ed Guzis, W9TW, became a silent key on September 7. He was 80
years old. He was first licensed as WN9PJK in 1955 at age 13 in NW
Indiana and was primarily a
CW operator. He had retired from ALCOA in 2001.
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 November 19, 2022)
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 is a new "Want to Buy" ad! Please take a look.
There is a new listing for a FREE Rohn 25G 40 foot tower!
The Tom Vavra, WB8ZRL (SK) estate sale continues. The complete list of remaining items is still on the "Buy-Sell-Trade" page. Please visit the page - there may be a special treasure waiting just for you.
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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