news bytes: Quartzfest Distance Challenge Winners

During the Northern Arizona DX Association’s recent Quartzfest, held in January 2023 at Quartzsite, Arizona, the club held its fourth Distance Challenge event to see which attendees could make the longest distance contact from the gathering site in the Sonoran Desert. There were four different classes of competition: Class A: 100 watts or less; SSB or CW Class B: 100 watts or less; FT8 Class C (QRP): 5 watts or less; SSB or CW Class D (W7Q special event station): 100 watts or less; SSB, CW, or FT8 According to Distance Challenge Co-Chairmen Bob Wertz, NF7E, and Lou Arminio, W7KFT, the winners and runners-up (Photo A) were as shown in Table 1. Each of the winners received a commemorative hard hat and bag of goodies. NF7E pointed out that since…

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CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023

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