Eastern Iowa DX Association
Welcome to the Eastern Iowa DX Association web site! Our club is open to any amateur radio operator who is interested in DXing and/or contesting. You are cordially invited to attend club meetings and get acquainted. We have many friendly, outgoing members with varied areas of expertise, who would be delighted to meet you and offer their help as needed. (Detailed club information is on the "About EIDXA" page.)
Home of The
Eastern Iowa DX Bulletin.
About the EIDXA Website
The EIDXA website in its current form was the creation of Jason, NRØX back in about 2012 to 2014. After a few years Jason wanted to move on to other interests, and I volunteered to continue it. At this point, I have been maintaining the site for 10-plus years. Through the years, my main goal was always to maintain the character of the website that Jason created, while simultaneously expanding the offerings.
Six and a half years ago, that expansion produced the “Eastern Iowa DX Bulletin”, which has been published every Friday for all those years since. I enjoyed compiling news from DX bulletins around the world into one concise bulletin. My sources were DXNL from Germany, 425DXN from Italy and the ARRL DX bulletin and OPDX (now defunct) from the USA.
And now it is time for me to move on to other interests as well. Number one is to get back on the air, become active in a few contests and rekindle old friendships with DX ops around the world.
73 from Craig, KØCF, Webmaster
June 26, 2026
EIDXA News (Updated June 24, 2026)
EIDXA Web Site Updates
The "Buy-Sell-Trade"
page has been updated with a list of equipment donated to EIDXA by
WØFG, all for sale to support the club. Take a look! (April 11, 2026)
The "Officers" page has been updated. (January 6, 2026)
The "Members" page roster has been updated to reflect changes in the membership list, current dues status, DXCC standings and Silent Keys. (June 24, 2026)
The "Meetings" page has been updated with notice of the forthcoming July meeting. (June 24, 2026)
EIDXA
Meetings
(Updated
June 24, 2026)
Next EIDXA Meeting:
Date:
Friday, July
17,
2026.
Time:
Doors open at 6:15 PM; Meeting begins at 7:00 PM.
Location:
Plumb Heart Center at Mercy
Medical Center.
Program: 3YØK
DXpedition by Max Freedman, N4ML via Zoom.
Max Freedman, N4ML, the youngest
member of the 3YØK Bouvet
DXpedition Team, will be
talking to our group about the DXpedition.
Max works in the Education
Department at ARRL, and will also be a
competitor in the upcoming WRTC.
Todd had the opportunity to meet
and speak with
Max at the Dayton Hamvention this year and promises
that we will have a VERY GOOD educational and
entertaining
program
for the evening.
We
normally meet quarterly in January, April, July and October on a Friday
evening at the Plumb Heart Center at Mercy Medical Center in
Cedar
Rapids. The doors open at 6:15 p.m. and the
meeting starts at
7:00 p.m. A program of interest follows the business meeting. Complete
details,
including
an aerial map graphic, may be found on the "Meetings"
page.
Membership
roster
(Updated
June 24, 2026)
The membership roster lists all active club members and
dues status. It is
available for viewing on
the "Members"
page. Former members
who are now Silent Keys
are listed separately below the active members
list.
The Membership Roster and dues status were updated on June 24, 2026. The Silent Key list was updated on June 24, 2026. The DXCC standings are now provided by the handiwork of Gary, AAØCL. Thank you, Gary! We all appreciate your efforts. Updated on November 18, 2025.
Note: Please review your listing on the roster to verify that all your information is correct. Please advise the webmaster of any changes (email address on the "Officers" page).
The
Eastern Iowa DX Bulletin
The Eastern Iowa DX
Bulletin is published every Friday. It
is a compilation of currently
active
DX operations (or those that will become active within the current
week) from recent issues of DX bulletins from the US, Germany
and Italy and
other sources. The articles are
ordered by callsign prefix with dates of
operation highlighted in red.
Hot links for QSL and other information are provided if available.
Articles remain in The
Bulletin
while active. Also included is a Contest Calendar and a Propagation
section, which is updated as propagation conditions warrant.
Buy-Sell-Trade (Updated April 11,
2026)
The "Buy-Sell-Trade"
page provides a place to advertise any ham radio equipment you
may
have for sale. We can publish pictures of your gear and any text you
would like. Contact the webmaster to post your ad!
DXpedition
Support (Updated September
17, 2024)
EIDXA
offers financial support to DXpeditions that meet our formalized
requirements, which include top 50 most-wanted ranking, duration,
number of operators, planned bands and modes, and the interval since
any previous operations.
A list of operations that EIDXA has supported since 2002
is here.
Here is a photo from CY9C, which we recently supported:
Eastern Iowa DXer (Updated April 12,
2026)
The
Eastern Iowa DXer was EIDXA's newsletter, was published in advance of
each
quarterly club meeting. Bob, WØGXA, consistently published one of the
greatest amateur radio club newsletters anywhere! It was always loaded
with good information and was a great read! Unfortunately, Bob has
stepped down as editor, and his final edition was the October 2025
issue. Kudos for a job well done, and thank you, Bob! If you would be
interested in carrying on Bob’s tradition, please contact
Todd, KKØDX.
An archive of past newsletters is still maintained
on this website on the "Newsletter" page.
Email Reflector
The EIDXA email reflector is on Google Groups and is available for your
use. To post to
the reflector, email
your message for the group to:
eastern-iowa-dx-association@googlegroups.com
The reflector allows you to include photos or other files in your
message. If you are not a member of the group but would like to be,
please email the webmaster.
You may visit the group homepage
here:
https://groups.google.com/group/eastern-iowa-dx-association
The homepage has a complete archive of all messages exchanged
via the
group.