A HUGE thanks to ICOM America for donating a IC-705 for our Hamvention raffle this year!  Thanks Ray Novak, Will Jourdain and ICOM America for committing to supporting youth involvement in Amateur Radio.

The winner of the IC-705 was drawn at Hamvention and is:

Dave Kalter KB8OCP is a long time friend of Don DuBon N6JRL and fellow contester and DX’er. Dave has been on the CQWW SSB contest team at TI5N since 2008. Dave is also a founder of the YDXA (Youth DX Adventure) an organization that sends young hams age 12-17 with a parent to Costa Rica during the summer to operate as DX. Dave is the past vice president of the Southwest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA) and an active member in DARA and Hamvention. Dave likes RTTY and PSK and CW we have seen him maintain a rate of 275 Q’s per hour in the CQWW SSB contest. An inspiration to all hams of all ages. Dave became a silent key on November 18th 2013 at his home with his family at his side. Dave is survived by his brother Michael W8CI, former General Chairman of the Dayton Hamvention and past president of DARA Dave is also survived by his father Jack ,sister Patty and his beloved soul mate Lynn. (Picture at TI5N in Costa Rica Oct. 2012 working the CQWWSSB contest) Photo by N6JRL

 Just about time to go! July 14-19, 2022.

Soon we will be winging our way to Curacao. The team is all ready and excited to be finally going. Travel has gotten interesting and some of us have overnight stays at airports in order to make connections. We are scheduled to arrive late afternoon on the 14th and hope to be on the air int the early evening. We may be tired so bear with us. Plan to be on all bands SSB, CW and FT8. Not all at once but we plan to have at least two radios on the air as much as possible.




As everyone else, expenses have gone through the roof. Please consider supporting the effort with a donation. All those donating will have their name and callsign or logo shown on our qsl card. See the left panel for mailing instructions for donations. We are part of a 501c(3) organization.

We are extremely grateful for the generosity of the CCC, especially Geoff and Uli in hosting us again for our 2022 event. 
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Below is information about our last 2019 event.

BOOM!!!! They just passed the record number of QSO's. Set a new one at 6,569.

All QSL requests have sent out. See PJ2Y qsl page for instructions on how to obtain one.



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