[South Florida DX Association] SFDXA May Meeting Announcement

[Ray Smolenski]

SFDXA MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

 

 

The next meeting of the South Florida DX Association will be held on
Wednesday evening, May 6, at the Florida Medical Center (FMC) Auditorium in
Lauderdale Lakes (5500 West Oakland Park Blvd. adjacent to the Florida
Turnpike). Members and guests will gather at 6:00pm for our bi-monthly
fixed-price dinner ($7 per person). As usual, our meeting and program will
begin at 7:33pm.

 

We are honored to have George Wallner (AA7JV) as our featured speaker at
this month's meeting. George just returned from the Coral Sea where he and
Tomi Pekarik (HA7RY) staged their VK9GMW DXpedition to Mellish Reef.  George
will describe how they had to battle the weather, equipment failure, the
lack of a tent (!) and numerous other hardships on their way to more than
20,000 QSOs (including more than 2,000 Q's on 160m). Don't miss what
promises to be a great story!  

 

The SFDXA "DX Hog" Award will be presented at our May meeting. Who will win
this year? Come to our May 6th meeting and find out!

 

As announced at our March meeting, the SFDXA is planning to offer a "DX
University" instructional program if members express sufficient interest.
Want to improve your pileup success rate?  Figure out when that rare DX
station will be on the air?  Get those all-important QSLs?  We are planning
a series of classes that will prove particularly useful for the
inexperienced DXer, covering tactics and strategies that may take you years
of trial and error to learn otherwise.  Whether you are a "Big Gun" or a
"Little Pistol", these classes will give you tips to make your DXing more
productive and rewarding. Classes are tentatively planned for the first
Wednesday evening of even numbered months (June, August, etc.) at 7:30pm at
a location to be determined in central or east Broward. IMPORTANT NOTE:
Please contact me or Ed Callaway (N4II) at our May meeting (or by email) to
sign-up since we need a count of participants.

   

I look forward to seeing each of you on May 6th at FMC!

 

 

 

 

73,

 

Ray - N4RU

SFDXA President