{"id":2733,"date":"2012-06-26T11:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2012-06-26T11:34:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:34:29","slug":"vhf-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"VHF contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Todays run: silo route, 6 miles]<\/p>\n<p>The last few mornings we have had some DX possibilities on VHF sideband\/CW.\u00a0 Today there was a big red blob on the APRS map, which was just to the north of me.\u00a0 I figured I would probably be\u00a0 missing out on the action.<\/p>\n<p>I left the radio on, volume turned down low, and went about the morning household business.\u00a0 I started to hear a station, first on CW then on phone.\u00a0 It was KC0CF in central Iowa, grid en32.\u00a0 That was a nice surprise.\u00a0 I was able to work him on both code and phone.\u00a0 I could hear him working some other Mississippi stations.\u00a0 I did\u00a0 not hear anyone else but him.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a 670 mile shot from my house to his.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think that is the longest VHF contact I have done, but it is a pretty good one!\u00a0 (picture is a screen shot from the <a href=\"http:\/\/qrz.com\">QRZ.COM website<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=2734\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2734\" title=\"kc0cf\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kc0cf-700x463.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kc0cf-700x463.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kc0cf-1024x678.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kc0cf.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Todays run: silo route, 6 miles] The last few mornings we have had some DX possibilities on VHF sideband\/CW.\u00a0 Today there was a big red blob on the APRS map, which was just to the north of me.\u00a0 I figured I would probably be\u00a0 missing out on the action. I left the radio on, volume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-operating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}