✦ From the Neon Desert to the Edge of Space ✦
Las Vegas DX Club
Linking the world — one contact at a time. We're a club rooted in Las Vegas, open to everyone on the planet. Gadgets, innovation, DX, digital modes, satellites, and real people on real radios.
Vegas Meets the Ionosphere Neon lights below, radio waves above. From the Strip to the stratosphere — LVDX blends desert dazzle with DX adventure. Everyone's welcome at this table.
Hot Off the Wire
Fresh from the Innovation Corner — tap in for the full story.
Icom ID-5200 Debuts With Waterfall Display
The definitive ID-5100 successor — touchscreen, D-STAR, dual-band DV.
Read more → SpaceHam Radio Headed for the Moon
ARISS & AMSAT's CAVIAR project aims for lunar voice and video.
Read more → Open SourceM17: Digital Voice Without Lock-In
Codec2, open hardware, community-driven — the ham-spirit protocol.
Read more →Explore the Hobby
Ham radio isn't old-school — it's where tinkerers, explorers, and talkers meet cutting-edge tech.
HF & DX
Talk around the world on shortwave. Chase rare countries, contest, and feel the thrill when a distant station answers your call.
VHF / UHF / SHF
Local nets, repeaters, IRLP, EchoLink, and microwave — from 146 MHz all the way up to 10 GHz and beyond.
Digital Modes
FT8, DMR, D-STAR, Fusion, M17, MMDVM hotspots, Raspberry Pi rigs — the gadget lover's playground.
Satellites & Space
Work the ISS with ARISS, track AMSAT birds, and yes — moonbounce (EME) is still a thing.
Innovation Corner
What's new in ham radio? Our newspaper-style feed covers gear, protocols, space missions, and wild experiments.
Antennas
Build a dipole from wire and PVC. Understand why a coat hanger isn't ideal (but a Slinky might work).
Fox Hunting
Radio direction finding — hide a transmitter, grab a Yagi, and race your friends across the valley.
DXpeditions
Teams travel to remote islands and rare countries so you can add them to your log. Pure adventure.
Why Ham Radio When We Have the Internet?
Because there's nothing like the challenge. No infrastructure required. When cell towers fail, hams still talk. You build it, you fix it, you earn every contact. The internet connects computers — ham radio connects people, with skill, patience, and a little magic from the ionosphere.