{"id":522,"date":"2011-04-11T06:13:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=522"},"modified":"2011-04-11T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T14:18:44","slug":"contest-qso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Contest QSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: SFM 7 miles]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CQ Contest CQ Contest<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Five nine Alabama, over.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Copy five nine Alabama.<br \/>\nThank you for the contest contact.<br \/>\nTwenty over nine on this end<br \/>\nhere in Starkville, Mississippi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s the rig that you are running,<br \/>\nold man, at your contest station?<br \/>\nDo you have some mono yagis<br \/>\nstacked up on a tower?  over<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">QSL your 5 9 MS<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> Lost the tower in a wind storm.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> Now the pile is my ground plane<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> and I tune the downspout. over<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Copy on the downspout tuning.<br \/>\nSorry that you lost your tower.<br \/>\nDo you run an amplifier?<br \/>\nSignal now is five eight. over<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Amp and rig were fried by lightning<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> so I pulled out an old bread board<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> and brewed up a QRP rig<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> from an idea in SPRAT. over<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>QSL your QRP rig.<br \/>\nSignal now is five by seven<br \/>\nwith some fading at the end there.<br \/>\nGood luck in the contest. over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Power outage&#8230; since the fire&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"> Hampster in wheel&#8230;  rest and water.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> XYL now on the hand crank.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> Seven three and good luck old man. <\/span><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: SFM 7 miles] CQ Contest CQ Contest Five nine Alabama, over. Copy five nine Alabama. Thank you for the contest contact. Twenty over nine on this end here in Starkville, Mississippi What&#8217;s the rig that you are running, old man, at your contest station? Do you have some mono yagis stacked up on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-operating","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}