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Spotlight Photos

These are photos that have appeared as the "Spotlight" on the front page of the Central Texas DX & Contest Club web site. Each photo is on the club web page about one month, and new photos are generally added after each club meeting. If you have a photo you'd like to see in the Spotlight, send email to the webmaster.

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2008: CTDXCC member Dennis Ignatenko NT5TU, operating at the NX5M contest station, is a fan of the Russian DX Contest. Are you?
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2007: Last September, several CTDXCC members had dinner with Jimmy WA4ILO and John K4BAI, who were both in Austin to attend a judicial conference.
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2007: The new antenna setup at the Travis County station of CTDXCC member Craig Markley AD5YJ includes a tribander and a two element Yagi for 40 meters.
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2007: The five towers at the W5KFT Ranch Station on the weekend of the 2007 W5 DX Bash.
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2007: Guest speaker Tim Duffy K3LR delivered a fantastic presentation to the DX and Contest Forum at the 2007 Austin Summerfest.
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2007: CTDXCC member Dave Cockrum N5DO operates Field Day from the Big Bend region of the West Texas ARRL section.
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2007: Jim George N3BB examines the base of the crank-up tower at the station of Bob Farmer W9BF during the June CTDXCC Contest Branch meeting.
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2007: The mobile station of CTDXCC member Tad Danley K3TD features both a Yaesu FT-100D and an Icom IC-2720H.
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2007: Gerald Youngblood K5SDR (ex: AC5OG) and Gary Schmidt W5ZL, at the FlexRadio Systems booth at the 2006 Dayton Hamvention. Hamvention 2007 will be May 18-20.
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2007: Rune Wande SM5COP, with Leslie and Gary Schmidt W5ZL, at the March, 2007 CTDXCC club meeting. Rune spoke about the 2002 S9LA DXpedition to São Tomé.
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2007: CTDXCC member Dennis Ignatenko NT5TU, operating the 2002 Russian DX Contest from the Grimes County station of Mike Hance K5NZ. The 2007 RDXC is March 17-18.
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2007: CTDXCC member Dick Kriss AA5VU has completed his American Red Cross training and is now an Operator/Driver of an Emergency Communications Response Vehicle (ECRV). There are nine ECRVs strategically located throughout the country.
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2006: Marv Bloomquist N5AW received awards at the annual CTDXCC holiday dinner for the top CTDXCC low power scores in the 2006 ARRL International DX Contest, CW and ARRL International DX Contest, Phone.
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2006: Strong winds on November 15, 2006 were too much for this 40 meter vertical at the Burleson County contest station of CTDXCC member Bob Pack NX5M.
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2006: New CTDXCC President Jay Sewell W5SL is an active HF DXer with 338 DXCC entities confirmed, including 251 entities on RTTY.
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2006: Jim Wallgren K5WWT, seen here operating HF phone while wheelchair portable, has been elected CTDXCC club treasurer for 2006-2007.
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2006: Tom Whiteside N5TW demonstrates the double-action snap hook on his work positioning lanyard at the first CTDXCC Contest Branch meeting on 23 July 2006.
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2006: The antenna system at the station of Richard Kriss AA5VU is a Wilson System 33 tribander, a W9INN multi-band vertical dipole, and a Cushcraft Ringo Ranger 144 MHz vertical.
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2006: Elvin Yuji Miura JA3CZY and Skip Cameron W5GAI visit Barton Springs Pool during Elvin's trip to Austin in April, 2006. Elvin is an HF DXer with one of the largest eighty meter Yagi antennas in Japan.
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2006: Bob Logan NZ5A recently published an article on the ARRLWeb about operating in the 2004 Texas QSO Party from the club station W5LEX aboard the U.S.S. Lexington.
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2006: Ken Harker WM5R has built a prototype shortened 80 meter vertical antenna designed to be compact, portable, and self-supporting for use in an ARDF course. The loading coil is 170 turns of 12 ga. stranded wire.
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2006: Scott KI5DR took this photo of one of the towers full of HF monoband yagis at the W5KFT Ranch Station in Llano County.
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2005: This is the home station of CTDXCC member Bob Autrey AD5VJ. Bob is an active DXer, and recently passed his Amateur Extra exam.
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2005: DX visitor Kamal Edirisinghe 4S7AB tunes the bands during the DX Bash at the W5KFT Ranch Station this year.
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2005: This is the home station of CTDXCC member Marcus Barnes W5CN. Marcus is a CW DXer, and currently also holds the callsign VP5ME.
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2005: This 500W solid state amplifier gives the mobile station of John Dvoracek KE5C an extra boost on CW. Are you ready for the 2005 Texas QSO Party?
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2005: This is the new antenna at the QTH of Jay Sewell W5SL. The SteppIR Antennas MonstIR covers 40 meters through 6 meters. It was installed with the help of AB5K's Dual Tram technology.
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2005: Terry Gerdes AB5K has built this custom version of the WX0B RD-6, a set of six W3NQN bandpass filters and switching for SO2R contest operation.
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2005: Richard King K5NA is the first-ever to work all 80 W/VE sections in the ARRL 160 Meter Contest. Congratulations, Richard!
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2005: This is the home station of CTDXCC member Don Inbody AD0K. Don is an active DXer, and enjoys RTTY contests.
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2005: Robert K5PI and Gary W5ZL were among the operators who enjoyed the 2004 CQ World Wide DX Contest, CW, last November at the W5KFT Ranch Station on Lake Buchanan.
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2004: On Christmas Day, four inches of snow fell at the Corpus Christi home and station of CTDXCC member Reid Hill KC5YKX.
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2004: One of the many loads of radio related hardware that John Brosnahan W0UN has been hauling from Colorado to his new location in Bandera county, Texas.
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2004: Richard King K5NA, operating in the 2004 Texas QSO Party, as part of a three-operator, one-vehicle Multi-Operator Mobile team that covered 37 counties.
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2004: Gerald Youngblood AC5OG demonstrates his Flex-Radio software-defined HF transceiver to Tom Whiteside N5TW at the W5KFT Ranch Station.
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2004: Lance Jahnke KB5ZFO operated 10 meters phone at the NX5M multi-operator contest effort in the 2004 IARU HF World Championship.
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2004: John Dvoracek KE5C has built a COM port CW interface that can also be keyed by a bug. The interface powers a CW sounder, which John is using to teach himself the American Morse code.
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2004: Scott Pederson KI5DR accepts the trophy for CTDXCC's victory in the club aggregate competition of the 2003 Texas QSO Party!
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2004: New CTDXCC member Larry Hammel K5OT, seen here operating in 2001 as EY8/K5OT in Tajikistan. Larry has recently moved to the Austin area.
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2004: CTDXCC member Marv Bloomquist N5AW has recently built a new operating desk for his station in Burnet County.
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2004: This new vertical for 80 and 160 meters was recently installed at the station of Terry Gerdes AB5K, in western Travis County.
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2004: The ten meter antennas at the station of CTDXCC member Bob Pack NX5M, in rural Burleson County.
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2004: The station of CTDXCC member Wayne Wright W5XD on the snowy morning of February 14, 2004. See more photos of CTDXCC stations in the snow!
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2004: This tower at the Leander, TX station of John Benedict KE5RS has an M2 6M7 at 63', a Cushcraft A3S at 55', and a Cushcraft Ringo Ranger 2M vertical at 45'.
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2003: Tom Whiteside N5TW recently built this homebrew switch box to switch configurations in his stacked yagi arrays at his station in Williamson County.
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2003: Terry Gerdes AB5K recently added a Force 12 C31XR to a 90' rotating tower at his hilltop station in western Travis County.
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2003: Jen Harker W5JEN was one of eleven operators at the K5NA M/M contest effort in the 2003 CQ World Wide DX Contest, Phone.
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2003: Robert K5PI examines the tree that was a guy point for a 30' tower at W5KFT. The tower survived. Come see the new guy system October 10-11 at the W5 DX Bash.
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2003: The compact DXing station of CTDXCC member Bob Redoutey N5KF features an Icom IC-736, an Icom IC-251A, a Yaesu FT-7100, and a Kenwood TS-450.
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2003: Steve Norris K5ZP presenting his recent operations as YI9A in Iraq at the 2003 Austin Summerfest DX and Contest Forum sponsored by the CTDXCC.
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2003: Scott Pederson KI5DR operated 50, 144, 222, and 432 MHz as a rover from nine Texas grid locators in the 2003 ARRL June VHF QSO Party.
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2003: A new ventilation system has been installed to cool off the amplifiers in the K5NZ multi-operator contest station.
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2003: Two of the four towers at K5NA.
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2003: Reid Hill KC5YKX operated the 2003 ARRL International DX Contest, Phone, in the SOSB 15M category from station N5TW.
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2003: Tom DeWitt W5TD, SK.
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2003: The HF mobile station of CTDXCC member Ben Worrell NE5B.
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2002: Skip Cameron W5GAI recently installed a new Tennadyne T-10 ten-element log periodic antenna that covers 10-30 MHz at his QTH in Austin.
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2002: The Force 12 C-4XL HF antenna at the station of Bob Allen KK5MI, on 65 feet of Rohn 45G.
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2002: The station of Don Hinte KA5EYH. Don sysops a DX cluster in the San Antonio area.
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2002: Bob Pack NX5M is ready for ten meters this winter. This tower alone has five of the eleven mono-band 10M yagis at his station.
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2002: The team at K5NA operated 80CW, 40CW, and 15SSB as part of the W1AW/5 contest effort in the 2002 IARU HF World Championship!
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2002: Ignacio Rubio EA4AHD and Sarla Sharma VU2SWS have each been visiting the Austin, Texas area this July. Ignacio is here for work and Sarla is visiting her son. They both got a chance to operate HF from the station of Tom Whiteside N5TW.
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2002: Skip Cameron W5GAI and Tom Christian VP6TC enjoying dinner at a Lake Travis restaurant. Tom's recent visit to Austin included a presentation to area hams and an appearance on a KEYE 42 newscast.
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2002: One of three forty meter yagis going on a new 195' rotating Rohn 55G tower this spring at the N5CQ super-station in southwest Travis county. The tower was designed by K5IU and the yagis by K7PN and Custom Metalworks.
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2002: CTDXCC members gather at the semi-annual Belton Ham Expo, the largest hamfest in central Texas.
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2002: Jen Sims W5JEN runs stations while Robert Brandon K5PI looks on, as the W5KFT team sets a record score in the ARRL International DX Contest, Phone, Multi-Two.
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2002: Dave Harper WD5N, operating at WP2Z on the island of St. Croix in the CQ World Wide DX Contest, CW. Dave does most of his serious contest operating in the Caribbean.
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2002: CTDXCC member Duane Calvin AC5AA, at his station in north Austin. Duane enjoys CW DXing, and has over 300 DXCC entities worked.
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2001: Jack Markum N5DUW and Ralph Bowen N5RZ, operating at N5TW in the 2001 CQ World Wide DX Contest, Phone.
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2001: The stars and stripes flying from one of the five towers at the W5KFT Ranch Station, during the annual W5 DX Bash held there in early October.
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2001: CTDXCC club member Brad Rehm KV5V, at his station in rural Williamson County, about 45 miles north of downtown Austin, TX. Brad is an active DXer.
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2001: Some of the towers going up at K5TR. From left to right, the towers are 35' of Rohn 45G (VHF/UHF antennas,) 60' of Rohn 25G (10M antennas,) and 70' of Rohn 25G (15M antennas.) Not pictured are 90' and 120' Rohn 45G towers for 20M antennas and 40M antennas.
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2001: Dennis Mowers K5YA, checking out the vendors at Austin Summerfest, the largest annual hamfest and convention in Austin, Texas.
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2001: Robert Brandon K5PI, on his way down from an antenna installation at K5NA. The tower Robert is climbing is 190' of Rohn 45G.
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2001: Greg Worthington AG5W has a new 120' Rohn 45G tower with a Cushcraft XM240 and a pair of Hy-Gain TH7DX antennas. The top two antennas are rotatable.
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2001: A 106' crank-up tower has just been installed at AB5K. 9.25 cubic yards of concrete in the base required 28 days to cure. The yellow bags on the front of the trailor are 800 pounds of ballast.
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2001: John McColly W5RQ and Phil Duff NA4M, operating at N5TW on Saturday afternoon of the 2001 ARRL International DX Contest, Phone.
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2001: Bob Allen KK5MI, Mike Spenn W5RQA, and Robert Brandon K5PI, operating at N3BB in the 2001 ARRL International DX Contest, Phone.
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2001: Larry Alkoff N2LA and Robert of Custom Metalworks, preparing a run of 1 5/8" hardline for installation on a new 120' Rohn 55G tower.
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2001: CTDXCC club member Alan Brown K5AB, a member of the K5K Kingman Reef 2000 DXpedition. The K5K operation made over 80,000 QSOs.
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2001: CTDXCC member Jim George N3BB, chasing early morning DX at his station in suburban Hays County.
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