Dave Kalter Memorial
YOUTH DX ADVENTURE
KB8OCP (SK) 11/18/13
Dave Kalter, KB8OCP, is a longtime friend, fellow contester and DX’er. Dave has been on the CQWW SSB contest team at TI5N since 2008. Dave is also a co-founder of the Youth DX Adventure (YDXA), an organization that sends young hams, ages 12-17, with a parent to a DX location during the summer to operate as a DX station. Dave was a past vice president of the Southwest Ohio DX Association (SWODXA) and an active member in the Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA) and Hamvention. Dave liked RTTY, PSK, and CW. He maintained a rate of 275 Q’s per hour in the CQWW SSB contest from TI5N, an inspiration to all hams of all ages. Dave became a silent key on November 18, 2013, at his home with his family at his side. Dave is survived by his brother Michael, W8CI, former General Chairman of the Dayton Hamvention and past president of DARA. Dave was also survived by his sister Patty and his beloved soul mate Lynn. (Picture at TI5N in Costa Rica, October 2012 working the CQWW SSB contest) Photo by Don Dubon, N6JRL
2025 is a special year.
PJ2Y – Now QRT
Major update – JoAnn Wagner studied hard during the trip and while everyone relaxed Monday evening at the pool house, she tested for Technician class via zoom remote VE session. Welcome to our new Ham KC1YCL and well done!
Monday evening we had a station issue so we wrapped early. Thanks for the 9,015 QSOs from 105 countries. Entire log has now been uploaded to LotW, QRZ and Clublog. You can check your contacts below in the red box. Will work on any issues later in the week. This was an extremly dedicated team who worked over 12 hours per day making contacts.
Just started Day 3 in the Caribbean. Kids got on the air around 10:00AST as they worked until almost midnight last night. Now at 8,816 qso and going strong to continue their record-breaking effort. Will take a break around 1300AST to do some Tourism and maybe a couple of POTA activations. Might get back on the air early evening depending on endurance levels. We leave the island tomorrow evening so tonight may be last chance. Thanks to all who have worked us so far and hope you can still contact them. We have several WAK (worked all kids). Can some do it on one band? Listen for the different voices and work em.
Day 2 in progress. Just passed 4,000 QSOs at 18:20AST. Still going strong. At 23:15AST they exceeded 5,049 total contacts and still going. Three radios being used at this time. Clublog upload during late evening hours. At 17:30AST QSO count exceeded the second highest record for our teams. They are determined to beat the 2022 record of 8,217. at 20:10AST they are over 8,000 and will beat the old record.
Day 1 is in the books. 2,008 QSO. Will work on uploading to Clublog and try to start their livestream. Ran 2 positions most of the day and brought up a third once 40m opened up. No 80m yet. Tried to setup FT8 but have technical issues so not looking good for that option. The Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure plans to be on the air until July 22. The Caribbean Contesting Consortium (PJ2T) super contest station is hosting us for the fourth time. We anticipate several thousand more QSLs on most bands.
This trip is sponsored by DARA, DX Engineering, QCWA Foundation, along with several other clubs and individuals. See the team page for more information.
We are On The Air
Just uploaded yesterday’s (Friday) log to clublog. Livestream not working for us at this time so will do periodic uploads. May be few and far between.
Jul 18 we got on air around 9:30AST. Plan is to operate two stations. Will vary between SSB and CW.
Here is a sample of Josiah WD5JR doing CW. Note it is all hand key.
Hosts
2025 PJ2Y Special Event
PJ2T
July 17 2022
The kids hit the qso record bell at 2045z exceeding the old record of 6,583
