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 – Scheduled for July 17-22

We are pleased to announce the Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure plans to participate in a DX adventure to Curacao operating as PJ2Y on July 17-22, 2025. The Caribbean Contesting Consortium (PJ2T) super contest station is hosting us for the fourth time and housing has been reserved. We look forward to again seeing our host friend Uli Thielke, DL8OBQ. At this site, we operate as the DX and are a special event station. Operations by the kids are about four days and sometimes around the clock! We anticipate several thousand QSLs on most bands.

This trip is sponsored by DARA, DX Engineering, QCWW Foundation, along with several other clubs and individuals. See the team page for more information.

We were On The Air

Jul 29, 2024

We got on the air around 8 a.m. this morning and the numbers were going up. We’re getting good signal reports from all. We operated until 4pm. For the first hour Grace and Katie mentored Ian and Lilly and then turned them loose. The bands were mostly open and the kids rotated between the bands. 1,957 QSLs were accomplished.

2025 W3Y Special Event

 

2025 K3Y Special Event

 

PJ2T

Through the generosity of Geoff Howard W0CG and the Caribbean Contesting Consortium the 2022 trip was at the super contest station PJ2T Curacao

July 17 2022

The kids hit the qso record bell at 2045z exceeding the old record of 6,583