{"id":5540,"date":"2016-09-26T21:15:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5540"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:17:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:17:54","slug":"d66d-in-comoro-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5540","title":{"rendered":"D66D on Comoro Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 3.5 miles]<\/p>\n<p>There is a &#8220;dx-pediation&#8221;\u00a0 taking place on Comoro Island.\u00a0 A dx-pedition is a group of ham radio guys who go in an expedition to a far-away place and set up ham radio stations and talk to the rest of the world.\u00a0 Talking to far-away places is called &#8220;dx&#8221;\u00a0 which is shorthand for &#8220;distance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Some hams like to collect at least one confirmed contact with each country and political entity in the world.\u00a0 A lot of these are small islands all alone in far away locations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comoro_Islands\">Comoros<\/a> is located between Africa and Madegascar.\u00a0 It is an independent nation made up of several small islands.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to hear the dx-pedition on the air a bit yesterday.\u00a0 Their callsign is D66D.\u00a0 There was a big pile-up of people trying to get through to them.\u00a0 I was not able to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Because of where they are, my signals have to go to the northeast, over parts of Europe and across a lot of Africa to reach them.\u00a0 And they only really are reachable for a couple of hours during the day, around 1800 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to keep trying, see if maybe the pile-up of people thins out over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 3.5 miles] There is a &#8220;dx-pediation&#8221;\u00a0 taking place on Comoro Island.\u00a0 A dx-pedition is a group of ham radio guys who go in an expedition to a far-away place and set up ham radio stations and talk to the rest of the world.\u00a0 Talking to far-away places is called &#8220;dx&#8221;\u00a0 which is shorthand [&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-5540","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\/5540","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=5540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5543,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}