[ADXA] ADXA Update & Rambling

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Greetings to all ADXA Folks,

The section in our ADXA quarterly newsletter reserved for the President 
was once called "Words of Wisdom". I never viewed anything I had to say 
as "wisdom" and as such I have none to provide during this situation we 
find ourselves in other than its getting pretty darn old! I've occupied 
my time with a number of work and radio projects but still find the 
restrictions from what was a normal lifestyle to simply be depressing.

Obviously, I have no insight as to what will transpire over the coming 
weeks into the summer but obviously our scheduled 2nd Quarterly meeting 
set for Saturday June 20 is questionable however we will see how things 
go. The ADXA Board of Directors will review things over the next few 
weeks.

So, there are a number of radio related things you can plan to 
participate in during May to occupy your time. These include:

May 9 Saturday - Arkansas QSO Party. Details have already been 
publicized here and if you forgot the website URL where the details are 
located we have a link setup on our ADXA website.

May 14 Thursday - Contest University. If you never have had the 
opportunity to attend, here's your chance!!! Since Dayton is cancelled 
CTU will be on-line via Zoom and registration is FREE this year. Go to 
https://www.contestuniversity.com/ to register. It is an abbreviated 
schedule from the in-person event however there are some very excellent 
sessions to catch and two of our previous ADXA Conference special 
guests, W3LPL and N0AX, are presenting. You also want to catch Rob 
Sherwood, NC0B's presentation. This is the first year in about tens 
years that I am not presenting at CTU. I had already declined this year 
and was going to miss Dayton due to a professional conflict so I'm 
pleased that I can still join in on some of the action as a "student" 
this year.

May 30-31 - CQWW WPX CW Contest - Here's an excellent opportunity to 
break the boredom with some real CW contest action! Details are here 
https://www.cqwpx.com/

If you have not already done so, I want to make one final plea for you 
to renew your ADXA membership. The updated list is on our website. If 
you're not on the list I want to encourage you to do so. If you're not 
on the list and you did renew, please let me or Glenn, N5RN know so we 
can resolve the matter.

On a final note, we still expect to have an annual conference later in 
the year however what that will look like and what it will involve is 
yet to be determined. Planning is currently on hold until things become 
more clear.

Thanks for your support of ADXA, ARRL and amateur radio.

73 Joel W5ZN