Dayton Hamvention DX Activities

The SouthWest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA) is pleased to announce the speakers for this year's DX dinner to be held in conjunction with the 2009 HamVention.

Their speakers will be John Stanley K4ERO, and Ruth Stanley WB4LUA. This husband and wife team travel the globe installing, maintaining and training personnel for religious international shortwave stations.

They have been to over 60 DXCC entities and operated from more than 12 of them. John has written many technical articles in the ham journals (with one in the April 2009 issue of QST), is a recipient of the 2007 Doug DeMaw Technical Excellence Award and is an ARRL Technical Advisor, having contributed many pieces to the ARRL Handbook.

When they accepted the invitation to be our speakers, Ruth commented that they have "....lots of interesting details about antennas and contest sites and DXing possibilities along with stories and more stories. I can hardly wait to hear what we'll say."

The dinner will be Friday evening, May 15th, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, located in Dayton city center. Attendees will have their choice of either a steak dinner or a vegetarian dinner. They must be informed when the tickets are ordered if you want the vegetarian option. Tickets are 39.00 USDs per meal, payable in U.S. funds to SWODXA. (Sorry, they do not process PayPal or Credit Card payments.) Please advise if you want a vegetarian meal when you order.

Order from Pete Meyer, N0FW, at his CBA. SASE is required or you may pick up your tickets at the door. They attempt to honor group seating requests when tickets are ordered together. There is not a bad seat in the house, but seating is definitely limited. Come join them for an evening of fun and fellowship.

As in the past, there will be some nice door prizes. Last year the main prize was an Icom IC-756 Pro III, but this year ICOM has promised them one of the first IC-7600's to be brought in to the United States! Up-to-date information may be found on the club's Web site at: http://www.swodxa.com
Pete's E-mail address is: n0fw <at> live <dot> com.

Last year Yaesu joined them in sponsoring the DX forum during HamVention. They have agreed to partner with them again for 2009. There will be a FT-2000 with PEP raffled off at the end of the DX forum. The winner does not have to be present. Tickets for a chance on the FT-2000 are 5.00 USDs
each or 5 for 20.00 USDs. For your convenience, they may be ordered at the same time you purchase your DX dinner tickets. All proceeds from this raffle are used by SWODXA to assist in providing DXpedition grants.

Confirmed DXpeditions to present at the DX forum are: E44M by Simone, IZ0BTV; K5D by TBD; African DX Safaris by Frosty, K5LBU; VK9DWX by Josh, W4WJF.

The DX forum is currently scheduled for Saturday, May 16th, to begin at 2:45 PM.

Source: OPDX