[OKDXA] Navassa, Centennial and etc.

[Coy Day]

Gene,

I did't want to hear that we aren't going to have a banquet.  We don't
need a speaker to have the banquet.  We have enough talent that you could
charge some folks with telling their favorite dx stories or adventures.

Coy
-- 
Coy Day, N5OK
20685 SW 29
Union City, OK 73090
405-483-5632




W5LE wrote:
> As you probably all saw the other day via some posts on the reflector,
> Bob Allphin,
> K4UEE, and the KP1-KP5 project team, through many meetings with the Fish
> and Wildlife
> Service, has gotten the green light for a DXpedition to take place from
> Navassa Island.
> This entity is either at the top of the most-needed list or #2 on the
> most-needed list, according
> to whose list you look at.  At any rate, it's super rare and very much
> needed by just about everyone.  So rejoice those of you who have been
> waiting for this one to happen.  It will be
> taking place within the next 2 years.  Bob and the team of his choosing
> has not been officially
> told they're the team that will activate it.  Everyone who has applied
> in the past and been turned down is allowed to submit a new proposal,
> but, to me, it seems like a no-brainer that Bob and company should be
> the ones who activate it.  I got a request from Bob for a "Letter of
> Recommendation" from the OKDXA to support their proposal.  I was hoping
> that I might have a shot at being one of the operators on this
> particular DXpedition but was told by Bob that he has to give preference
> to the KP1-KP5 team.   And, apparently, they have people lining up to be
> operators on this one.
>
> On an unrelated matter, I attempted to find us a featured speaker for a
> banquet and was unable to do so.  Even though the founder of eQSL read
> my email, he didn't respond.  The founder of QRZ.com said he's going to
> be out of the country the whole month of October and then will be
> playing catch up the rest of the year.  I didn't find any fairly
> close-in hams who have recently returned from a DXpedition who would be
> candidates as a speaker.  San, K5YY, was in 7P8, Lesotho, earlier this
> year but didn't figure the OKDXA bunch would want to hear from the same
> guy 2 years in a row.  I mentioned this at the OKDXA meeting at Ham
> Holiday in Oklahoma City,
> but I realize a lot of you didn't make it to that meeting.  I solicited
> input from the gathering but didn't get any input.  I guess, as it
> stands, we won't have a banquet.  I am, however, open to suggestions.
>
> I want to give a huge verbal pat-on-the-back to our club members who
> acted as organizers of the Oklahoma portion of the W1AW/5, ARRL
> Centennial, operation.  Connie, K5CM, handled our first week in January
> and Sam, W5CU, handled the August operation.  Between the two
> operations, we gave around 55,000 people Oklahoma on Phone, CW, and
> digital.  I truly feel like Oklahoma brought its "A Game" and I'm proud
> of not only the organizers but also the many OK hams who jumped in with
> both feet.  Thanks to you all!
>
> 73 and see you in the pileups.
> Gene W5LE
>
>
>
>
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