Central California DX Club

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The Central California DX Club, Inc., was organized August 2, 1981, and is composed of Amateurs from Mariposa to Kern Counties and from the Central California Coast who are interested in DX. The club meets 4 to 5 times per year in the Visalia-Tulare area, at lunchtime for travel reasons.

The club has a net on Wednesdays at 08:00 PM on 3.760 mHz. All Amateurs are invited to join the net. The emphasis is on DX. (*Please NOTE: At the January, 2010 meeting, after noting no net activity for the past year, members voted to discontinue the Wednesday evening 75M net. Until such time when a club member volunteers to reorganize and enlist participation, the net will remain suspended.)

Long time members will remember when this net was held on a club-owned repeater on 147.09+ mHZ, located on McKittrick mountain. Because of marginal coverage for some members, the net was moved to 75 M, but the club continued to operate the repeater. Finally, after high winds destroyed the repeater antennas in the spring of 2009, the club decided to discontinue repeater operation and to relinquish the frequency pair.

The club sponsors two plaques in the ARRL International DX Contest. The club publishes a newsletter, QUA DX, 5 times per year and publishes a weekly email version of QUA DX. The paper bulletin appears prior to the meetings. The club has 3 club call signs, W6MEL, W6YK and W6YO, all three holders of these calls were prominent members of the CCDXC before becoming Silent Keys.

The club has a Summer DX Super Sprint, which runs from June 1 to August 31 each year. Rules are printed in QUA DX, and here:

Complete Contest Rules.

Members of the Central California DX Club can check your QSL cards for DXCC awards, Worked All States, 5-Band Worked All States, Worked All Zones, and CQ DX Awards.

Members of the Central California DX Club are available to make presentations on the subject of DX at club meetings. Contact Charles McConnell, W6DPD, at w6mel@arrl.net to schedule a presentation.

Becoming a member requires that you have an interest in DX activities. To become a full member, you must present evidence of confirmations of 100 DXCC countries or a DXCC certificate.

The Central California DX Club

Welcome!

The CCDXC Endorses the DX Code of Conduct!

Join the worldwide effort to clean up our bands!

Our President Announces the 2012 Summer Sprint!

Mission and Purpose