A HUGE thanks to ICOM America for donating a IC-705 for our Hamvention raffle this year!  Thanks Ray Novak, Will Jourdain and ICOM America for committing to supporting youth involvement in Amateur Radio.

Dave Kalter KB8OCP is a long time friend of Don DuBon N6JRL and fellow contester and DX’er. Dave has been on the CQWW SSB contest team at TI5N since 2008. Dave is also a founder of the YDXA (Youth DX Adventure) an organization that sends young hams age 12-17 with a parent to Costa Rica during the summer to operate as DX. Dave is the past vice president of the Southwest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA) and an active member in DARA and Hamvention. Dave likes RTTY and PSK and CW we have seen him maintain a rate of 275 Q’s per hour in the CQWW SSB contest. An inspiration to all hams of all ages. Dave became a silent key on November 18th 2013 at his home with his family at his side. Dave is survived by his brother Michael W8CI, former General Chairman of the Dayton Hamvention and past president of DARA Dave is also survived by his father Jack ,sister Patty and his beloved soul mate Lynn. (Picture at TI5N in Costa Rica Oct. 2012 working the CQWWSSB contest) Photo by N6JRL

 The 2022 trip details are set. July 14-19, 2022.

The team that was scheduled for our postponed 2020 trip has confirmed they are available to participate in the 2022 trip. At this time no other applications are being accepted. Once again we will have a booth (#2602) at the Dayton Hamvention. Come meet the kids that can make it and the team. As seen on the left we are raffling off an Icom 705 at our booth and will be drawn on Sunday May 22.



Please consider supporting the effort with a donation. All those donating will have their name and callsign shown on our qsl card. See left panel for mailing instructions for donations.

We are extremely grateful for the generosity of the CCC in hosting us again on short notice and rescuing our 2022 event.  Our best wishes for the group as they deal with the issues in keeping the site up during these times.

Below is information about our last 2019 event.

BOOM!!!! They just passed the record number of QSO's. Set a new one at 6,569.

All QSL requests have sent out. See PJ2Y qsl page for instructions on how to obtain one.



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