"South Florida DX Association"  Online NEWS LETTER

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To the Members- 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

New Members- for 2009      Welcome ! !

KI4WDQ

N4IEW

W4DL

KI4IQZ  Martin Falk

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