{"id":2341,"date":"2016-03-28T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T03:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2016-03-29T00:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T04:03:51","slug":"w1sye-works-vk0ek-on-heard-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=2341","title":{"rendered":"W1SYE Works VK0EK on Heard Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCRC adds another one to the DXCC count by working VK0EK on <a href=\"http:\/\/vk0ek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heard Island<\/a>. \u00a0One of the most difficult places on the planet to reach, Heard Island ranks as the #5 &#8220;most wanted&#8221; DX contact. \u00a0The contact was made on 30-meter CW, where the VK0EK signal was 3 S-units above the noise floor around 11 PM local time.<\/p>\n<p>A real-time &#8220;DX Atlas&#8221; provides almost immediate confirmation of the contact. \u00a0See the bearing from Heard Island of almost 235 degrees heading toward W1SYE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VK0EK-W1SYE-30CW.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2342\" src=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VK0EK-W1SYE-30CW-1024x658.jpg\" alt=\"VK0EK W1SYE 30CW\" width=\"584\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VK0EK-W1SYE-30CW-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VK0EK-W1SYE-30CW-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VK0EK-W1SYE-30CW-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VK0EK-W1SYE-30CW-467x300.jpg 467w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VK0EK-W1SYE-30CW.jpg 1139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRC adds another one to the DXCC count by working VK0EK on Heard Island. \u00a0One of the most difficult places on the planet to reach, Heard Island ranks as the #5 &#8220;most wanted&#8221; DX contact. \u00a0The contact was made on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=2341\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}