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The Kansas City DX Club is an ARRL-affiliated amateurlogof4f4f4 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. The Club normally meets on the last Monday of each month at the Johnson County Library, 9875 W. 87th St. (87th & Farley) Overland Park, KS.

However, we are experimenting wih alternate locations due to continuing scheduling difficulties at the library.

NOTE:

FEBRUARY MEETING LOCATION (same as January):

The February Kansas City DX Club meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, February 22nd, 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.

cloverleaf building

The address is 6405 Metcalf, but the building is accessed from a frontage road just east of Metcalf. Enter the frontage road by turning east from Metcalf at 65th St. After you round the first bend in the road, the Cloverleaf 3 Building, identified as such and by the numbers "6405" (duh!),  is the first multi-story building you encounter

The parking lot and entrance are on the east side. Please try to be on time, since someone will be waiting to let you in (buildings entrances are locked shortly after 6:00 p.m.)

If you have any questions or need more directions, call me any time on my cell phone: 913.908.6906.

If you are late, and call that number, I'll come let you in.

See you all then!

Bill, K0VBU

President's Message

Well, the election is over and I won!  It might make me feel better if  I had beaten somebody for the job but the truth is I was “un-opposed”.  When I told my wife her only comment was: “Are congratulations or condolences in order?”  She’s a funny gal. 

The truth of the matter is the KCDX Club is in transition.  I thought I could make that transition easier.  We have just had a tumultuous year.  The personality issues notwithstanding, we lost WØAR, Lee and WØJM, Johnny.  The country is in the deepest recession since the great depression.  It is easy to see the difficulties the KCDXC faces.  However I also see opportunities.

The Kansas City DX Club by its very nature is unique.  It is the only club in the metro area that draws members from all over the country.  It is the only club in the metro area that has a national presence.  It is the only club that has the potential to increase it’s membership substantially by appealing to the “best and brightest”, so to speak.   We are not constrained by geography or parochialism.  We have great opportunities!

We have decided as a club to sponsor the Midwest DX Convention in the year 2011.  We have the opportunity to showcase the Kansas City DX Club and Kansas City itself to our fellow amateur radio operators.  I urge everyone to become involved in this effort, it is going to take quite an effort by everyone to make this a really first class event.

Am I the only one that “doesn’t get it” when it comes to dxpeditions?  I mean when the guy says: “The Queen Queen, go ahead”  how does that translate to “KILO BRAVO ZERO MIKE ZULU GOLF” (in a 2KW SPLAT I might add)?  Jaysus, the FT5 operation that just wound up had some problems but it was made so much worse by POOR operating.  That’s it for now de NØAG