Steve Norris K5ZP/YI9A, at Summerfest 2003

Every year, the Central Texas DX and Contest Club sponsors a two hour long forum at the Austin Summerfest Amateur Radio Convention. Summerfest is the first weekend of August, and the DX and Contest Forum is usually scheduled from 10 AM to 12 noon on the Saturday of the convention. Topics in the past have included slide shows or documentary videos of great DXpeditions, introductory material on DXing and contesting, antenna programs, discussions of HF propagation prediction, post-contest analysis, and more!

Many years, CTDXCC financially sponsors a guest speaker from out-of-town to give a presentation to the Austin area Amateur Radio community. If you know of a guest speaker, forum topic, or video presentation that you think would be great for Austin Summerfest, please let our club officers know.

Summerfest 2010: August 6-7 The DX and Contest Forum at the 2010 Austin Summerfest will be from 10 AM to noon on Saturday, August 7. [Exact date and location subject to change. Keep watching this page for updates.]

• 2009: The program presented at the 2009 DX and Contest Forum included "Youth Contesting in Jamaica" by David Kopacz KY1V and "The K5D Desecheo Island DXpedition" by Mike Thomas NA5U.
  
  
• 2008: The program presented at the 2008 DX and Contest Forum included "DXpeditioning in India" by Sarla Sharma VU2SWS and "Software Defined Radios, the CW Skimmer, and the Future of CW Operating" by Bob Wilson N6TV.
  
  
• 2007: The program presented at the 2007 DX and Contest Forum included "Contest Station Design and Tour" by Tim Duffy K3LR, "African DX Safari:Botswana 2007" by Jay Sewell W5SL/A25SL, and "DXing for Everyone" by Gary Schmidt W5ZL.
  
  
• 2006: The program presented at the 2006 DX and Contest Forum included "World Radiosport Team Championship 2006: the PT5U Story" by George Fremin III K5TR, and "The Texas QSO Party: You Can Do It!" by Gary Schmidt W5ZL and Scott Pederson KI5DR.
  
  
• 2005: The program presented at the 2005 DX and Contest Forum included "The VU4 DXPedition: Video and Presentation" by Charly Harpole K4VUD, and "Living Large on the Top Band" by John Battin K9DX.
  
  
• 2004: The program presented at the 2004 DX and Contest Forum included three forum topics: "DXing and Contesting for Everyone," "The Texas QSO Party: Our Own Fun Operating Event," and "The August, 2003 V73T IOTA DXpedition to Taongi Atoll." Over 100 people attended the session.
  
  
• 2003: The program presented at the 2003 DX and Contest Forum included three DXpedition presentations: Steve Norris K5ZP described operating as YI9A in Iraq, Bill Priakos W5SJ talked about his DXpedition to Fernando de Noronha PR0F, and Bernie McClenny W3UR recounted his 4W/W3UR operation in Timor-Leste.
  
  
• 2002: The program presented at the 2002 DX and Contest Forum included a video presentation of the CTDXCC W1AW/5 contest effort in the 2002 IARU HF World Championships, filmed by Bob Allen KK5MI, and a slide show presentation of the VP8THU/VP8GEO "Micro-lite" DXpeditions by George Fremin III K5TR.
  
  
• 2001: The program presented at the 2001 DX and Contest Forum included a discussion of HF propagation prediction by Jim George N3BB, a tutorial on DX cluster usage by Terry Gerdes AB5K and Richard King K5NA, and a video of the 2000 K5K Kingman Reef DXpedition, presented by DXpedition member Alan Brown K5AB.
  
  
• 2000: The program presented at the 2000 DX and Contest Forum included a presentation on DX contesting by reigning world champion contester Jeff Steinman N5TJ, and a forum on the World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) led by Jim George N3BB.