Kansas City DX Club
Nihiles Ante Unum!
(Zeroes before Ones!)
Home of the Annual Dayton CW Pileup Competition
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The Kansas City DX Club is an ARRL-affiliated amateur
radio club open to anyone interested in DX or contesting. Our club callsign is W0CW. Many of our club members are from the Kansas City metropolitan area, on both sides of the Missouri/Kansas state line, but our roster also includes members from all over the United States.
Meetings are normally held on the last Monday of the month. The next meeting will be held on the last Monday in September (September 27) in Suite 115 of the Cloverleaf 3 Office Building, in the Cloverleaf Office Park located in the southeast quadrant of Shawnee Mission Parkway and Metcalf. See the Meetings page for specific directions.
President's Message
The dog days of Summer are once again upon us - those summer doldrums when it’s so hot outside we put off that antenna work until it’s cooler. Of course, for many of us that means we are out there freezing our tails off getting it done in winter!
This year, however, we can’t procrastinate in one particular area. WE HAVE ONE YEAR UNTIL WØDXCC 2011! The WØDXCC Committee is working extremely hard to make this event successful. It will take all of us to make this event something that we can take pride in. It is going to take every member to make this work. My expectation is 100% participation and attendance in the convention next year.
OK, so what can YOU do? First and foremost, start beating the drum. One of our biggest challenges is going to be advertising. The most effective advertising is word of mouth. Very soon Bill (KØVBU) is going to have a full-blown W0DXCC-2011 website up and running. Allow me to make the following suggestions:
- Access QRZ.com, and in your bio, add the notification and the WØDXCC link.
- Most of us belong to two or three other Amateur Radio Clubs. Ask those club officers to advertise the convention in their newsletter, club meetings, club homepage and announce, beginning now, the convention date of July 23, 2011, and ask them to keep mentioning it through July of 2011 in their club meetings and via their repeaters.
- If you know hams in other clubs, start mentioning the upcoming convention, send them flyers and ask their cooperation, placing information in their newsletters and announcing the convention on their nets.
- At hamfests, set up a table and hand out flyers (we will have downloadable flyers on the website.) At a minimum, take flyers to the hamfest so they will be available to everyone purchasing a ticket.
The KCDX Club is fortunate to have many members in various parts of the Central United States. The strength of the KCDX Club has always been the sum of its parts, our members, no matter where they live. They have always risen to challenge and occasion. It’s what we do…we have been drawn to the challenges of this hobby. It is what makes Alex (KU1CW) and others sit for 48 hours working the CQWW contest, it’s what makes Fred (NØXA) chase the new one on 16Ø or Bill (AKØA) one of the most successful RTTY Contesters in the country from his suburban home in Overland Park, KS. Let’s draw on this strength to get the word out to as many hams as possible.
Through your individual and collective efforts, I have no doubt this will be one of the most successful conventions ever! We will be able to look back and say “Remember that first WØDXCC that the Kansas City DX Club put on? Man, wasn’t that something?!”
73, Tom, N0AG