{"id":582,"date":"2011-04-19T18:55:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=582"},"modified":"2011-04-19T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T00:00:05","slug":"in-which-i-get-to-be-the-dx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"In which I get to be the DX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 8.9 miles (new highway loop)]<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that there are not a lot of amateur radio operators in Mississippi.  A ham in Sweden that I spoke to via CW a few days ago sent me his <a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=129\">QSL card<\/a> and wanted one in reply.  And he sent a greenstamp too.  I guess that makes me the rare DX.  Cool.<\/p>\n<p>And he asked if I know of anyone operating in neighboring Noxubee County, which I don&#8217;t.  But I wrote back that I would be willing to go on a road trip to operate portable if he wants to try that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got his QSL card from me ready for tomorrow&#8217;s mail.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-584\" href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=584\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-584\" title=\"SM5CAK\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Scan_Pic0038-700x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Scan_Pic0038-700x448.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Scan_Pic0038-1024x656.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Scan_Pic0038.jpg 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 8.9 miles (new highway loop)] It turns out that there are not a lot of amateur radio operators in Mississippi. A ham in Sweden that I spoke to via CW a few days ago sent me his QSL card and wanted one in reply. And he sent a greenstamp too. I guess that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}