{"id":3621,"date":"2024-01-22T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2024-01-22T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T21:53:00","slug":"7o2wx-socotra-island-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/7o2wx-socotra-island-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"7O2WX &#8211; Socotra Island, Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vladimir OK2WX starts his latest DXpedition to Socotra Island, Yemen on January 25. An announcement is up on <a href=\"https:\/\/dxnews.com\/contesting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>DXNews.com<\/strong><\/a>. This amateur is very experienced but this site which is approximately 500 kilometers from the Yemenese shoreline seems a little foolhardy. With USAF FA-18s and Houthi missiles flying overhead, his Elecraft and ICOM rigs will be buzzing. But that&#8217;s only my humble opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s the whiskey; perhaps it&#8217;s the gin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out his call sign on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">QRZ<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, should you make a contact with him (he&#8217;s will be on the 160 meter contest this weekend), drop me a line via the Contact US tab and I&#8217;ll highlight your contact here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Socotra-Island.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Socotra-Island.jpg 850w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Socotra-Island-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Socotra-Island-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Socotra-Island-495x400.jpg 495w, https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Socotra-Island-705x569.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir OK2WX starts his latest DXpedition to Socotra Island, Yemen on January 25. An announcement is up on DXNews.com. This amateur is very experienced but this site which is approximately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contesting","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","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=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3628,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}