[Nodxa] Dayton DX Dinner News Release

[W8GEX at aol.com]

Gentleman would you be so kind to help me pass  this news release by sending 
it to your clubs and friends.   Joe  W8GEX
Dayton Hamvention DX Activities
The SouthWest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA) is pleased to  announce the 
speakers for this year's DX dinner to be held in conjunction with  the 2009 
HamVention. 
The speakers will be John Stanley K4ERO, and Ruth  Stanley WB4LUA. This 
husband and wife team travel the globe installing,  maintaining and training 
personnel for religious international shortwave  stations. 
They have been to over 60 DXCC entities and operated from more than 12 of  
them. John has written many technical articles in the ham journals (with one in  
the April 2009 issue of QST), is a recipient of the 2007 Doug DeMaw Technical 
 Excellence Award and is an ARRL Technical Advisor, having contributed many  
pieces to the ARRL Handbook.  
When they accepted the invitation to be our speakers, Ruth commented that  
they have "....lots of interesting details about antennas and contest sites and  
DXing possibilities along with stories and more stories."  
The dinner will be Friday evening, May 15th, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel,  
located in Dayton city center. Attendees will have their choice of either a  steak 
dinner or a vegetarian dinner. We must be informed when the tickets  are 
ordered if you want the vegetarian option. Tickets are 39.00 USDs per meal,  
payable in U.S. funds to SWODXA. (Sorry, we do not process PayPal or Credit  Card 
payments.) Please advise if you want a vegetarian meal when you order.  
Order from Pete Meyer, N0FW, at 3049 New London Road.,HAMILTON, OH 45013 USA. 
 SASE is required or you may pick up your tickets at the door. Pete's E-mail  
address is: _n0fw at live.com_ (mailto:n0fw at live.com)  
We attempt to honor group seating requests when tickets are ordered  
together. There is not a bad seat in the house, but seating is definitely  limited. 
Come join us for an evening of fun and fellowship.  
As in the past, there will be some nice door prizes. Last year the main prize 
 was an Icom IC-756 Pro III, but this year ICOM has promised one of the first 
 IC-7600's to be brought in to the United States!  
Last year Yaesu joined us in sponsoring the DX forum during HamVention. They  
have agreed to partner with us again for 2009. There will be a FT-2000 with 
PEP  raffled off at the end of the DX forum. The winner does not have to be 
present.  Tickets for a chance on the FT-2000 are 5.00 USDs each, or 5 for 20.00 
USDs. For  your convenience, they may be ordered at the same time you purchase 
your DX  dinner tickets. All proceeds from this raffle are used by SWODXA to 
assist in  providing DXpedition grants. 
Confirmed DXpeditions to present at the DX forum are: E44M by Simone, IZ0BTV; 
 K5D by TBD; African DX Safaris by Frosty, K5LBU; VK9DWX by Josh, W4WJF.  
The DX forum is currently scheduled for Saturday, May 16th, to begin at 2:45  
PM.



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