{"id":2856,"date":"2023-11-12T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2023-11-13T12:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:20:39","slug":"na-ssb-sprint-contest-nov-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/2023\/11\/12\/na-ssb-sprint-contest-nov-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"NA SSB Sprint Contest &#8211; Nov. 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='flex_column av-5i06uw-f920252ee435bd7ef63cbef80c4a69aa av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div  '     ><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-4pkj08-bda30b7d3e9cb8cd6ee51a3f744a54d9 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lovvkt44-fc366282df23d028280fb13e93df0242 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The evening of November 11th saw an IslandHF SSB contest team work the NA SSB Sprint Contest. The team members were Ron Richter VE7IRR, Curt Smecher VE7CAS, John Erskine VE7MHI and Glenn Lindsey VA7HC. Ron was located in Langford, Curt in Bamfield, and John and Glenn in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was four hours long (4pm &#8211; 8pm local) but most members worked less than that. Personally I worked contacts for 2 hours. Since I was mobile working from the Oak Bay Marina, I finished in the dark and cold.<\/p>\n<p>I found the contest invigorating. Unlike many contests, an operator can not sit on a frequency. Once a contact is complete, the originating operator must QSY. I worked 20 meters which was open for 2 hours. I made contacts from New York, to Florida, to California and up into Alaska. Operators were chock-a-block.<\/p>\n<p>Two other bands were part of the contest: 80 meters and 40 meters.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a great team contest. Thanks to Ron, Curt and John.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-2gyv4o-ee90dbb4a855d02e5e1b24ec11b7784d av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div  '     ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}