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 April 5, 2024)
EIDXA Web Site Updates
The "Members"
page roster has been updated with current dues status and DXCC standings. (February 16, 2024)
The "Meetings" page has been updated with the minutes of the EIDXA Meeting of January 12, 2024. (January 14, 2024)
The April 2024 edition
of EIDXA's newsletter, the Eastern
Iowa DXer, is now available on the "Newsletter"
page. (April 1, 2024)
EIDXA
Meetings
Next EIDXA Meeting:
Date:
Friday, April 12, 2024.
Time:
Doors open at 6:30 PM; Meeting begins at 7:30 PM.
Location:
Hall Perrine Cancer Center rooms A & B at Mercy
Medical Center.
Program:
Joe Spinks, AAØKW, comparing a Flex Radio to a Yaesu Ftdx-10.
We will be using Zoom as needed at the Meetings. The Zoom link will be emailed to members via the EIDXA Email Reflector.
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 February 16, 2024)
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.
Note: Please review your listing on the roster to verify that all your information is correct. Please advise the webmaster of any changes (email address on the "Officers" page).
Eastern Iowa DXer (updated April 1, 2024)
The Eastern
Iowa DXer
is EIDXA's newsletter, published in advance of each quarterly
club meeting. The April
2024 edition is now available on the "Newsletter"
page. Bob, WØGXA, consistently publishes one of the greatest
amateur radio club newsletters anywhere! It's always loaded
with
good information and is a great read! Be sure you
don't pass it by! Kudos and thank you, Bob!
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. Also included is a Contest Calendar and a Propagation section, which is updated daily.
DXpedition
Support (updated August 2, 2023)
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 April 5, 2024)
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!
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.