{"id":1282,"date":"2010-11-23T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tom-nan.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2010-11-23T21:00:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T03:00:55","slug":"a-cool-dx-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/23\/a-cool-dx-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"A cool DX Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The short story:<br \/>\nI was about to crash for the night last night and decided to get on the radio and got a 5\/9 signal report&#8230; From Gambia, my first contact from Africa!<br \/>\nDetails:<br \/>\nI was listening to the 3905 net on 7.178 MHz for a while when I got home from work yesterday and then turned the volume down instead of shutting it off. Went out for a bite to eat and watched a movie&#8230;\u00a0 When I came in here to shut the radio down I decided to tune across the band and picked up a good signal at 7.18425 MHz.\u00a0 His call sign was C50C and he was starting to get a pretty good pile-up.\u00a0 I almost shut the radio off but decided to try to call him; after the third try I heard him say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;N2XU five nine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Called him back told him he was five nine in Florida&#8230; This was a 4572 mile contact, pretty awesome considering my antenna is just some 16 gauge speaker wire cut close the the correct length. Looked him up on QRZ.com and here&#8217;s the info:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>C50C<\/strong><br \/>\nDX Expedition Gambia 2007 and 2010 of OM0C<br \/>\nContest team<br \/>\n17. &#8211; 30.11. 2010 Banjul,<br \/>\nThe Gambia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is getting fun and addicting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;first contact from Africa&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}