Dayton Hamvention 2026 May 15,
16, 17, 2026 takes place at the Greene County Fairgrounds and
Expo Center in Xenia, Ohio.
You can visit their website for more info!
Michael Kalter W8CI takes you inside with Q5 Magazine!
More info by Michael Kalter W8CI!
Hamvention is the world's largest annual gathering of radio amateurs and has been sponsored by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA) since 1952. "We are pleased to unveil our 2026 logo and theme," announced 2026 Hamvention General Chair Brian Markland N8UDQ, Assistant General Chair Hazel Everetts N8PTL and the Hamvention team.
Our theme for Hamvention 2026 is "Radio
Adventure!" To our team, this represents many aspects of the
hobby, including POTA, SOTA, Field Day, and balloon launches.
This is just naming a few.
For many, simply traveling to and participating in Hamvention is
a radio adventure in itself. Others find adventure in chasing DX
or joining an expedition. Because great adventures often lead to
astonishing stories, we hope you experience a memorable radio
adventure of your own at Hamvention 2026.
What will your Radio Adventure story look like?
VY 73,
The 2026 Hamvention Team
Hamvention 74rd Reunion 1952 - 2026
Hamvention General Chairman, Brian Markland N8UDQ is proud to announce the 2026 event had a record setting official attendance of 37,924. We thank everyone that attended and hope you had a wonderful time. People attended from all around the world and others from close by. You are the ones why we work to provide this event. Hopefully, you found the hardware/software and forums you desired. Again, I want to thank my hard-working Committee Chairs and their Assistant Chairs along with the approximately 600+ volunteers. There are several functions that occur before and after the show. However, a large number work during the show for a minimum of six hours, and some individuals work much more than that. In some cases, they work so much that they do not have a chance to see much of the event. I am especially appreciative of those efforts.
For the 5th time, starting in 2022, the contesters will be staying at Hope Hotel and Conference Center at Wright-Patterson Airforce Base, Ohio which is closer to Xenia, where the Hamvention is being held. There are 265 guest rooms that went on sale at 9:00 AM on June 8th and sold out within a few hours. A fill-out form was given to the guests to reserve a room for the following year! Contest University will be held here all day Thursday, May 14, 2026 and hosted by Tim Duffy K3LR. This is where the Top Band Banquet will be held on Friday May 15, 2026 with speaker Jeff Briggs K1ZM and Contest Banquet will be held on Saturday May 16, 2026 with speaker Mark Haynes M0DXR and moderator John Dorr K1AR. Visit contestuniversity.com or contact Tim for more info.
Buses starting at 7:00 AM leave from the Hope Hotel every 30 minutes to the Hamvention in Zenia. The buses also leave the Hamvention every 30 minutes back to the Hope Hotel.
The weather in Xenia, Ohio on the
Hamvention weekend was:
Thursday May 14: Partly sunny 64 deg. F.
Friday May 15: Partly sunny 70 deg. F..
Saturday May 16: Rain 69 deg. F.
Sunday May 17: Sunny 85 deg. F.
The SWODXA DXpeditioner of the Year.
The Southwest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA) announced its 2026
DXpeditioner of the Year Award at the SWODXA DX Dinner,
recognizing an operator who made an exceptional contribution to
the DX community. The award was given to YL2GM, Yuris Petersons,
for his solo ZS8W operation from Marion Island. His expedition
logged 31,672 QSOs and helped activate an entity that moved from
#11 to #25 in ranking. The association praised the effort as
well-organized and successfully carried out under very
challenging conditions.
The DXpedition of the Year.
The Southwest Ohio DX Association announced the 2025/2026
DXpedition of the Year Award at its DX Dinner, honoring
excellence in planning and execution from Most Wanted entities.
The award went to the Russian DXpedition Team for their 9U1RU
expedition to Burundi, which logged 179,831 QSOs and moved the
entity from #60 to #106 in ranking. The association recognized
the team for a well-organized operation carried out in a
challenging environment.
2025 Cass Awards.
Rikk Lewis WE9G has won the 2025
Single Operator Cass Award by working 11,296 unique
stations from Micronesia as V6WG.
Vasily Pinchuk R7AL, Slav Rodin OK8AU, Leo Berezhnoy RW9JZ, Hal Turley W8HC, Wlodek Herej SP6EQZ, Mike Alekseev RU3UR, Vic Filimonov UA3QLC, Ark Voloshin UA4CC, Nick Tolkunov R5EC, and Andrei Soldatkin RA4DX have won the 2025 Unlimited Cass Award by working 41,361 unique stations from Burundi as 9U1RU - a new record!
Presented annually by Club Log, the Northern
California DX Club, and DXLab,
the Cass Awards encourage DXpeditions to maximize
the number of DXers worked with a plaque for the single-operator
DXpedition that works the most unique callsigns within 2 weeks or
lessa plaque for the "unlimited" DXpedition that works
the most unique callsigns within 4 weeks or less.
These awards honor the wisdom and spirit
of Cass WA6AUD (SK), whose stories in the West Coast DX
Bulletin taught a generation of DXers that DX IS!
For more information, see http://www.cassaward.com
Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame inductees for 2026
Starting in 2025, the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame is kept alive by K8CX at Hamgallery.com. CQ Magazine discontinued in 2024. The limit was set to 3 inductees each year. There were plaques awarded to the current Hall of Fame inductees sponsored by North Coast Contesters. The list can be seen on Hamgallery.com. The inductees for 2026 were:
Prof. David B. Leeson, PhD, W6NL
(ex-W6QHS).
Dave was first licensed in 1952. He is the author of the ARRL
book Physical Design of Yagi Antennas, and was a designer of the
IARU International Beacon Network. Professionally, he received
degrees from Caltech, MIT and Stanford, is the author of widely
cited journal papers on oscillator phase noise and nonlinear
circuits, and is a Life Fellow of the IEEE. From 1968 to 1993, he
was the founding Chairman and CEO of California Microwave, Inc.,
retiring with a staff of two thousand. Since 1994, he has been a
Consulting Professor at Stanford, and is the faculty advisor of
the Stanford Amateur Radio Club, W6YX. He enjoys the friendship,
technology and contesting aspects of ham radio, having been part
of winning radiosport efforts from North Africa, the Caribbean,
the Galápagos and California. He drove a racecar, retiring in
1979 to return to ham radio after back-to back national
championships.
Richard
Dean Straw N6BV sk.
Dean was part
of a Navy project in the early 1990's to measure dipole and
vertical antennas in front of a hill, on top of a hill, and
behind a hill at HF in Utah. They used a helicopter that towed
either a 3-axis receiver (RELEDOP) or a transmitter (XELODOP)
that was developed by SRI International in Menlo Park, CA. This
system was used for measuring and verifying antenna performance
mainly for the military. It flew at an altitude of 10,000 feet
and could get the elevation pattern by flying from almost horizon
to horizon to get down to really low take-off angles. Dean wrote
the code HFTA (High Frequency Terrain Assessment) that worked in
Windows. Dean was the editor of the ARRL Antenna Book for many
years and had an extensive section on terrain analysis and how to
use HFTA. Dean's code worked with horizontal antennas including
stacking and also had statistics of propagation that he also
produced from VOACAP. Dean worked on the
creation of a huge database of propagation statistics using
VOACAP for various paths in the world for all sunspots, seasonal
variation, time of day, etc. It is also included in the ARRL
Antenna Book. This was just a voluminous amount of work that Dean
did putting these results into something that was understandable
to any Amateur interested in propagation. Dean was also an avid
antenna designer and modeling expert and designed many excellent
Yagi designs in the Antenna Book. Dean completely modernized the
previous versions with more accuracy and technical understanding
with antenna modeling. Another program he also made was TLW
(Transmission Line for Windows) which is also included in the
ARRL Antenna Book software. All of his work will live on by many
who have used it in the past and still use it presently. Dean
also was quite a competitive contester and was inducted into the
CQ Contest Hall of Fame.
Here is more history and results that can be produced from Dean's
HFTA, please look at the following link: CTU Presents.
Dr. Jose Otis Vicens NP4G.
First licensed at the age of sixteen, Otis, known to
friends and fellow operators on the air as NP4G, developed a
passion for amateur radio. Born and raised in Humacao, Puerto
Rico, he is the only amateur radio operator in his family.
Otis later moved to the United States to study Biology at Purdue
University, where he became active with the W9YB Amateur Radio
Club. In Puerto Rico he graduated from the University of Puerto
Rico School of Dental Medicine. He then completed a specialty
program in Pediatric Dentistry at Brookdale University Hospital
and Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. In 2008, Otis returned
to his hometown of Humacao to begin practicing orthodontics.
Early in his ham carrer Otis attended the DX Forum at Dayton
Hamvention, where presentations on major DXpeditions inspired him
to someday be a part of future adventures. He has now
participated in many DXpeditions from all over the world
including the very rare Bouvet Island (3Y).
Otis is very active in Puerto Rico ham radio. He is
Past President of the Puerto Rico Amateur Radio League
(PRARL).
One of his early memories of service through amateur radio was in
1998, when he helped provide communications support in Puerto
Rico following Hurricane Georges.
In 2012 and during the 2017 Puerto Rico hurricane
disasters NP4G helped coordinate amateur radio emergency
communications across eastern Puerto Rico.
In 2026, Otis NP4G is President of the International DX
Association (INDEXA) and was part of the KP4 team that created
the first all solar powered remote DXpedition. He led a team from
KP4 and other ops from around the world to remotely activate the
very rare Desecheo Island as KP5/NP3VI. This amazing technology
could open up activations from many environmentally sensitive
areas around the globe.
Heritage CQ DX Hall of Fame inductees for 2026
The Heritage CQ DX Hall of Fame
is dedicated to individuals that have contributed greatly to the
art of Amateur Radio DXing.
CQ Magazine ended in 2024. INDEXA is now in charge of the
CQ DX Hall of Fame.
Awards and ceremony was on Friday, May 15, at the SWODXA Dinner
at the Marriott Hotel and presented by Bob N2OO.
A list can be on INDEXA and on Hamgallery.com.
During the annual DAYTON SWODXA DX Dinner, two well-known DXers were inducted into the Heritage CQ DX Hall of Fame.
Charles
Wilmott M0OXO.
Charles Wilmott M0OXO has been inducted into the
Heritage CQ DX Hall of Fame. Charles has taken the QSL management
process to a new level. He handles logs with more than 9 million
QSOs in them. He has become one of the first QSL Managers
contacted to handle many of the larger DXpeditions that come
along. But not only does he handle the BIG ONES, he
also handles numerous smaller stations around the world. He has
converted his garage into a small office, and he can be found out
there from early morning through late evening in all weather,
including winter when the temperature in there is just above
freezing. He is truly an example of someone serving the DX
community by going well above and beyond the call of duty.
Elvira
Simoncini IV3FSG
Elvira Simoncini IV3FSG (most recently 3X3A) has been
inducted into the Heritage CQ DX Hall of Fame. Elvira has been an
avid DXpeditioner who has operated from 34 different DXCC
entities since 1990 often including a strong humanitarian effort
as well, which included an association with IT WITHOUT
BORDERS. In a world constantly facing new digital
challenges, this association seeks to bridge the digital divide
through the intelligent supportive and sustainable use of
technology by implementing nonprofit projects in marginalized and
emergency situations worldwide. It also promotes innovative IT
initiatives for people with disabilities. After a professional
life entirely dedicated to teaching, this voluntary work led to
extensive travel opportunities for activating amateur radio along
the way, almost all carried out independently while continuing to
optimize the portable setups used. This volunteer work often
included introducing young students to amateur radio through
dedicated courses and demonstrations.
CQ Contest Hall of Fame inductees for 2026
The CQ Contest Hall of Fame is
dedicated to individuals that have contributed greatly to the art
of Amateur Radio Contesting.
CQ Magazine ended in 2024. The CQ Contest Hall of Fame will be
kept alive.
The CQ Contest Hall of Fame now has their own website thanks to Randy K5ZD! The list can also be seen on Hamgallery.com and the Contest Dinner website!
Mark Pride K1RX
Mark Pride K1RX has been a ham for over 60 years and has
been active in contesting for nearly all of that time.
Mark has participated in most of the major contests since the 1970s, both international and domestic. He has won several times and holds numerous NH state records no small feat given the high number of contesters in that region. He has competed in Single-op, Single-op assisted, Multi-single, Multi-2, and Multi-Multi categories from his own and other stations as a guest operator or team member. He has been part of the multiop teams at W2PV, K1OX, K1CA, K1KP, WA1JUY, and KT1V. Operations from outside the country have included J7, VP2V, OH, BV, IS0, KP4, D4, 4U1ITU, and II9.
Mark has built his own competitive stations at multiple locations, including a multi-tower station with stacked monoband Yagis in Kensington, NH, and now a more modest but very effective station in Rochester, NH. In addition, he has been a tower and antenna builder in the New England region and beyond. He has worked on installing and repairing hundreds of stations over several decades.
Mark has been president of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club, the Port City ARC, and other organizations. He was a Director of the World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) in 2014, responsible for developing the antenna system and training 100 volunteers in the assembly and safe installation of the systems. His leadership enabled the successful construction of 65 stations in two days without issues.
Mentoring is Marks strongest characteristic and is reason enough for this nomination. His mentorship of fledgling contest operators dates back to his college days, when he taught contesters like K1DG and K1AR how to play the game while they were all students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His mentorship has continued by giving many W1-area amateurs their first exposure to contesting at Marks station or at his local clubs Field Day operation, which he manages. Mark recently produced a 7-part series on contesting for the Q5 Amateur Radio podcast. In addition to his operating mentorship, he has trained many contesters on antenna construction and installation.
Professionally, Mark has worked in numerous technical sales positions in the RF, microwave, and semiconductor industries, as well as a two-year stint working at ARRL Headquarters. Following his work at the ARRL, he joined the Cushcraft Corporation as the chief engineer. He is currently the U.S. representative for MomoBeam antennas and Mastrant ropes.
Doug Zwiebel, KR2Q
Doug Zwiebel, KR2Q, is one of the most influential
figures in the history of radio contesting, with a career
spanning nearly six decades. He is best known for his long
service on the CQWW Contest Committee, his pioneering work in
computerized log checking, his service as CQ WW Director
(2016-2017), and his excellence in operating.
Doug is a veteran contester from Randolph, New Jersey, first licensed in 1966 and active in contesting since 1967. He has operated from some of the most elite U.S. contest superstations, including K2GL/N2AA (where he was chief 10-meter operator for a decade), K5NA, and N2RM. He has operated primarily on low power from his home station and has set multiple CQWW QRP records.
Doug is the longest-serving member of the CQWW Contest Committee, having first joined in 1979. He brought the contest into the computer age by writing the first mass log-checking program (using Business BASIC) in 1980, and has devoted thousands of hours of volunteer time to the contest community.
Doug was instrumental in the formation of the Contesting Hall of Fame. In 1986, he arranged an event to present CHoF #1 to Hazard Buz Reeves, K2GL.
Doug holds DXCC Honor Roll #1 and has worked more than 250 DX entities using less than one watt of transmitter power.
Professionally, Doug is a hospital administrator in New York City.
Tom Lee K8AZ
Tom Lee K8AZ has been an extraordinary station builder,
a successful contester, and a great team leader for more than
three decades from his four-tower station in Chesterland, OH.
Tom has been extremely active and an integral contributor to contest clubs. He was an early and active member of the Mad River Radio Club in the 1970s. The beginning of MRRC created a new type of contest club to challenge the seemingly unbeatable Old Guard clubs, such as FRC and PVRC. Modern ARRL club competition rules and the concept of a regional contest club can be traced back to the sea change created by the founding of MRRC.
A founding member of the North Coast Contesters in 1987, Tom served as President and Vice President of NCC numerous times. He hosts an annual K8AZ Open House/NCC meeting in early January that has become a fixture of the Ohio mid-winter contest social calendar for more than 30 years.
Tom was a founding director of the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF). He did all of the founding paperwork at the inception of the WWROF in 2008 and continues to serve as its secretary. He devotes significant time to the organization, which has supported major contest infrastructure and worked to preserve assets important to contesting.
Since 1985, when he acquired his current station location on five acres in the far eastern suburbs of Cleveland, Tom has attracted a team of more than 70 hams. This group is amazing, not only in their individual operating talents and accomplishments but also in their dedication to the K8AZ station. In the early years of the station, any given Saturday would find many people working on various projects to build, maintain, or improve K8AZ. Putting sweat equity into station building was always rewarded with chair time in any contest in which the Team entered. This dedication and loyalty are directly attributable to Tom and his belief that contesting and station-building should be an enjoyable and cooperative effort.
The K8AZ station, with operating crews spanning many skill levels, has won high honors in every major DX contest for over three decades and consistently finishes in the box in either the Multi-Single or Multi-Two category each year. This high level of achievement has continued uninterrupted since the late 1980s and is a testament to Toms leadership.
During his active professional career, Tom was a litigation partner and Assistant General Counsel of a large midwestern law firm.
Paul Young K1XM
Paul Young K1XM was first licensed as WN1OCU in 1971 at
age 15, and later WA1OCU, Paul has spent 48 years participating
in HF operating, radio engineering, and contesting. Shortly after
moving to Hudson, MA, he established a station with his wife,
Charlotte Richardson KQ1F. Since 1985, he has gone on a
DXpedition every year, many around the CQWW CW contest. His love
of diving and photography has taken him to many DX locations.
Outside his DX activities, Paul is particularly well known for his involvement with SO2R boxes. He is the original designer of the hardware and software for the YCCC SO2R Box, the kit that made SO2R available and affordable. Over 700 were created. Paul also participated in the design and software for the SO2R Mini controller, an Arduino-based little box, with about 250 kits distributed. Almost 1,000 contesters use a K1XM box!
As part of the development for his controllers, Paul created OTRSP (Open Two Radio Switching Protocol), a simple set of commands and events for computer control of an SO2R device. Selflessly, Paul open-sourced the protocol, allowing other manufacturers, inventors, and software developers to implement it. Since then, it has become the de facto standard for communication between computers and their peripherals for SO2R and has been adopted by many software developers.
Pauls other technical projects have been similarly innovative for the modern contest station. Paul introduced the MOAS, or Mother of All Switches as a platform to completely automate station antenna switching at a very low cost. The MOAS is a serious piece of engineering. It can handle the most complex antenna switching functions, including key lines, lockouts, and multi-path wiring.
With the passing of 9A5K, Paul assumed the mantle of lead software developer for DXLog, a contest logging program quite popular in Europe. Under Pauls guidance, the code base has been refined, bugs removed, and new features added. At the same time, the softwares financial model was changed from paid to freeware. Paul has selflessly dedicated hundreds of hours to the DXLog project.
Paul has been an active member of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club for more than 35 years. He spent 12 years as the editor of the Scuttlebutt, the club newsletter. Paul has also served as the Clubs Vice President, and attends nearly every YCCC meeting often with a project in tow, or a talk to give.
Dayton Hamvention Award Winners for 2026
Technical Achievement Award Robert
Famiglio K3RF.
Robert B. Bob Famiglio, K3RF, has spent
almost 60 years in amateur radio, blending technical expertise,
legal knowledge, and leadership in emergency communications.
Licensed at 13, Bob earned a BSE in electrical engineering and a
doctorate in law, now admitted to practice in several states and
before federal courts and agencies while working in the
technology sector. For more than 40 years he has served as
Volunteer Counsel, advising hams on PRB 1 matters, zoning, and
antenna ordinances, RFI enforcement, and club governance; his
technical understanding of station engineering and interference
resolution has informed effective legal strategies and regulatory
comments. Elected to ARRL leadership for multiple terms (EPA
Section Manager, Atlantic Division Vice Director, and later
Director), he championed member rights, transparency, and
representative governance. Previously, Bob served several terms
as Vice President; General Counsel of the Radio Club of America
and functioned as corporate counsel for the board. In emergency
communications he served as ARES District Emergency Coordinator
for Greater Philadelphia, supporting regional response agencies
applying technical expertise, message handling, and
interoperability between amateur and public safety systems; his
formal training as a professional firefighter enhances his
ability to align ham radio technology with operational needs of
served agencies. A long-time mentor, Bob supports on-air training
nets and club programs stressing technical competence, regulatory
literacy, and readiness for public service. He believes that
amateur radios core value lies in the skills, service, and
technical capability of operators, not merely spectrum access,
and he has worked to translate complex technical
issuesspectrum coexistence, interference mitigation, and
regulatory complianceinto clear, actionable recommendations
for policymakers. Bobs blend of engineering, legal acumen,
and emergency response experience has encouraged continuous
training, lowered barriers to participation, and inspired new
generations of ham radio operators.
Amateur of the Year Award Dr. Jose
Otis Vicens NP4G.
First licensed at the age of sixteen, Otis, known to friends and
fellow operators on the air as NP4G, developed a passion for
amateur radio. Born and raised in Humacao, Puerto Rico, he is the
only amateur radio operator in his family. Otis later moved to
the United States to study Biology at Purdue University, where he
became active with the W9YB Amateur Radio Club. One of his early
memories of service through amateur radio was in 1998, when he
helped provide communications support in Puerto Rico following
Hurricane Georges. In Puerto Rico he graduated from the
University of Puerto Rico School of Dental Medicine. He then
completed a specialty program in Pediatric Dentistry at Brookdale
University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. In
2008, Otis returned to his hometown of Humacao to begin
practicing orthodontics. Early in his ham carrer Otis attended
the DX Forum at Dayton Hamvention, where presentations on major
DX-peditions inspired him to someday be a part of future
adventures. He has now participated in many DXpeditions from all
over the world including the very rare Bouvet Island (3Y). Otis
is very active in Puerto Rico ham radio. He is Past President of
the Puerto Rico Amateur Radio League (PRARL) in 2012 and during
the 2017 Puerto Rico hurricane disasters NP4G helped coordinate
amateur radio emergency communications across eastern Puerto Rico
following Hurricane Georges. NP4G is now President of the
International DX Association (INDEXA) and most recently was part
of the all KP4 team to activate the very rare Desecheo Island
with amazing technology as KP5/NP3VI.
Special Achievement Award Martha Fell
N3QBE and Joe Fell W3GMS.
Martha and Joe Fells journey began in 1966
when Joe earned his Novice license (WN3GMS) at the age of
fourteen. Shortly thereafter, he met Harry I. Davis, W3FDY (SK),
who mentored him for four years. Harry taught him to think
critically, design circuits, and execute projects with precision.
His guidance was life-changing, and Joe pledged to honor his
request to give back to others just as Harry had done for him. To
fulfill this promise, Joe chose to retire at age 56, following a
34-year corporate career and the successful launch of his own
company. The success of this mission is thanks to his wife,
Martha, whose dedication to overseeing administration and
logistics has greatly benefited their students. Their
programs reach has grown significantly over the decades. In
1976, Joe designed and built a repeater for his mentors
radio site which remains operational 50 years later, serving a
group of approximately eighty-five operators. Their weekly
technical net has become a primary resource for both new and
seasoned amateurs, including many professional electrical
engineers. Today, they mentor students of all ages and interests.
While their first student is currently pursuing a PhD in
Electrical Engineering at MIT, their youngest started at just
eight years old.
Club of the Year Long Island CW Club.
Long Island CW Club (LICW) is an online Morse code
training community built to help everyday hams become confident
and proficient CW operators. We combine high standards with
a welcoming culture: we teach real operating skills, we treat
people with respect, and we keep learning for fun. LICW offers
structured classes from beginner through advanced, a wide range
of topical forums, and practice resources that help students move
from copying characters to true conversational flow.
Our instructors are volunteers who remember what it felt like to
be new, and who coach students through plateaus with clear,
effective teaching methods, encouragement, and
accountability. LICW is also proud to be a diverse
community, with strong participation and leadership across
generations including more than four hundred women who
serve as instructors and club leaders along with programs
that support youth and hams with disabilities. LICW is a
community people who show up for each other, celebrate
progress, and share the joy of CW on the air.
The DXcellence Award.
For the 50th anniversary of the Northern
California DX Foundation in 2021, NCDXF announced the creation of
an award - "The DXcellence Award". To be awarded to the
outstanding DXpedition of the last twelve months, which received
funding from NCDXF. The award is intended to recognize excellence
in a DXpedition, exemplified by practices, ethics, management,
new technology, transparency, youth involvement and impact upon
the DXing community, and lastly, exhibited FUN!
The winner of the award is determined by the NCDXF Board of
Directors at their annual meeting.
The board considers several factors, including performance,
complexity of the DXpedition, impact on Club Log most wanted
ranking.
This year, the fifth anniversary of the award, NCDXF is proud to
award two DXcellence Awards.
1.The KP5/NP3VI Desecheo DXpedition for
its 100% solar powered, 100% remote operation, proving that
a new technology can provide a huge impact to DXing with almost
no environmental impact.
2. The PJ6Y Youth DXpedition to Saba Island for
the outstanding performance of a well-organized DXpedition that
emphasized youth participation and remote radio technology.
Contest University,
CTU created by Tim Duffy K3LR, took place on Thursday May 14 at
the Hope Hotel. Visit
their website for more info!
2026 Dayton Photo Gallery by K8CX
2026 SK List read at the Contest Dinner
WO9S, K5RC, K3OX, SM3CER, G3SJJ, W6RW, W4RX, K9SD, N2TU,
AA4V, VE5UF, W1ZA, IK1SPR, N8AA, N2LT, K1DJ, JA1WSX/KH0Y, UT3UA,
VE4EA, HA8DU/HG8DX, VP5JM, N6BV, N4MM, N7GCO, K4JA, OK2PAY, K5GH,
K1TN, N2ED, WL7E, OH1XX, K9ES.
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