{"id":1228,"date":"2014-10-14T04:51:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T04:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotearc.net\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2014-10-14T04:51:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T04:51:27","slug":"makro-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/2014\/10\/14\/makro-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Makro what???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KN5S participated in the <a title=\"Makrothen RTTY Contest\" href=\"http:\/\/home.arcor.de\/waldemar.kebsch\/The_Makrothen_Contest\/The_Makrothen_Contest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Makrothen RTTY Contest<\/a> this past weekend. Big fun, even though part of the team felt like going on a fishing trip. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>This is a true DX contest, in that points are based on the number of miles (or kilometers in this case) between stations. Because of it the scores get phenomenal:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1231\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KN5S-Makrothen-2014.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1231\" class=\"wp-image-1231 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KN5S-Makrothen-2014.png?resize=249%2C198\" alt=\"KN5S Makrothen 2014\" width=\"249\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KN5S Makrothen RTTY Contest 2014 score<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yup, that&#8217;s almost a million points!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this contest we added a few more DXCC entities to the logbook. And we&#8217;re getting really close to that most popular amateur radio award:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1232\" style=\"width: 436px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KN5S-DXCC-12-October-2014.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1232\" class=\"wp-image-1232 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KN5S-DXCC-12-October-2014.png?resize=426%2C245\" alt=\"KN5S DXCC 12 October 2014\" width=\"426\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KN5S DXCC totals 13 October 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And a few more US states got logged and confirmed too:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1233\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KN5S-WAS-13-October-2014.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1233\" class=\"wp-image-1233 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KN5S-WAS-13-October-2014.png?resize=556%2C246\" alt=\"KN5S WAS 13 October 2014\" width=\"556\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KN5S WAS totals 13 October 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re getting there! We still need a bit of help on 10 meters; but I&#8217;m sure December&#8217;s <a title=\"ARRL 10 Meter Contest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/10-meter\">ARRL 10 Meter Contest<\/a> will take care of that. And yes; some more activity on 80 meters would be great too.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Who&#8217;s ready for the\u00a0<a title=\"JARTS WW RTTY Contest\" href=\"http:\/\/jarts.jp\/rules2014.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">JARTS WW RTTY<\/span> Contest<\/a>?? \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KN5S participated in the Makrothen RTTY Contest this past weekend. Big fun, even though part of the team felt like going on a fishing trip. \ud83d\ude09 This is a true DX contest, in that points are based on the number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/2014\/10\/14\/makro-what\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}