| 2010 W5DXCC DX Dinner Tickets will go on sale at 9:00 a.m. on March 1 - click the "Admissions" link on the left to purchase admission. The DX presentation schedule for Saturday, June 12 is shown below. |
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Tom Harrell, N4XP - Team Co-Leader Midway Island K4M DXpedition |
The Lone Star DX
Association is pleased to sponsor the 2010 W5DXCC DX Dinner in
conjunction with Ham-Com. The dinner will be Friday evening, June 11, at
the Plano Centre in the Windhaven Room. This is the same location as
2009. The DX dinner program for the 2010 W5DXCC will be the 2009 K4M Midway Island DXpedition. Midway Island was on the very rare most needed DXCC entity worldwide list. Tom Harrell, N4XP, will present what promises to be a very interesting program. Several major door prizes will be given away again this year including a Yaesu FT-2000-1 and products from Force 12 and Array Solutions. A complete list will be available on the LSDXA Web site (www.dxer.org) as soon as prizes are firmed up. The evening will begin with a cash hospitality bar in the Plano Centre from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Dinner activities will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. This year we will have a served meal of Char-Broil Prime Rib with salad, rolls, baked potato, seasoned vegetables, and cheesecake for desert. A vegetarian option will be available upon request. Reserved seating for groups will be available. Please email requests for group seating and/or the vegetarian option to Rick, N0RB at rick-AT-crcwireless.net (replace -AT- with "@" symbol). A gathering afterwards in the bar area at the Abuelo’s Restaurant will be available for more dx/contest conversation. Chips and dips will be served.
The ticket price is $42.00 and can be purchased on the Ham-Com Web site, www.hamcom.org. or by sending your check to Rick Barnett, N0RB. Because of the banquet room capacity, a maximum of 200 tickets will be sold. Tickets must be ordered by May 30 and can be picked up at the Lone Star DX Association booth before the banquet. About the DX Dinner speaker - Tom Harrell N4XP, 62 lives in Monroe, Georgia. He was licensed in 1960 as KN4TSJ and soon thereafter was working DX as K4TSJ. Current achievements are:
He has also obtained 5BWAZ and WPX on Mixed, SSB and CW. Tom's DX operations include Team Leader or Team Co-Leader from AL7EL/KH9 and KH9/AL7EL; ZK1XXP; N6MZ/KH9, N2OO/KH9, N2WB/KH9 and K8XP/KH9; and KH5, T32O and K5K on Kingman Reef. Other operations include 9M0OO, 9M6AAC, BV4FH, N4XP/V7, N4XP/KH5, T32O, KH6, V7, V73XP, HR, HP, DL, SM, ON, OK, G, N4XP/GW and N4XP/GD. Tom also operated from KL7 for two years as AL7EL. He also holds call signs V73XP, ON9CXP, and OK8XP. Tom also manages QSLs for many DX stations having provided thousands of QSLs world wide. He is a member of the Southeastern DX Club, Northern California DX Foundation, INDEXA, the German DX Foundation, and the OK DX Foundation (OK). Tom is retired from the Federal Fire Service as a Senior Fire Officer with thirty years service. In 2006, Tom was recalled back into the service and now provides fire protection services to the United States Army Reserve throughout the southeast United States. He also is President of S. Thomas Harrell & Associates, LLC and provides consulting services in fire protection and prevention worldwide. |
Saturday, June 12
Presentations
8:00 a.m. Dave Jaksa, W0VX
“Dxing and Contesting for the beginner.”
9:00 a.m. San Hutson, K5YY
“60 meter Dxing and the role of the ARRL with QSLs”
10:00 a.m. Tom Harrell, N4XP
“Follow up on Midway Island and the proper way to QSL to a DX station
11:00 a.m. John Devoldere, ON4UN*
"Low Band DXing with a Focus on Receive Antennas”
* Special Internet link presentation
