{"id":2566,"date":"2018-10-03T23:43:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T23:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotearc.net\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2018-10-03T23:43:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T23:43:40","slug":"close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/close\/","title":{"rendered":"No cigar, but close!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we put our pedal to the metal and participated in a big contest; but this past weekend KS5TX and K5WW got together to play in both the CQ WW RTTY contest and the Texas QSO Party.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the radio problems at station 2, having one less operator this year, 10 and 15 meters not opening much, and the beam being &#8220;locked&#8221; to the northeast we got a result we can be proud of:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2015-2018-CQWW-RTTY.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2570\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2015-2018-CQWW-RTTY.png?resize=640%2C310\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2015-2018-CQWW-RTTY.png?w=645&amp;ssl=1 645w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2015-2018-CQWW-RTTY.png?resize=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2015 was our best effort ever in this contest; hence the comparison with that year.<\/p>\n<p>We made a few dozen QSOs less; but we operated 6 hours less as well. The score&#8217;s not even half of what we had in 2015; but that&#8217;s because of the juicy multipliers we missed on 10 and 15 meters. And we had fun; so we won! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the Texas QSO Party&#8230; No time, sorry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we put our pedal to the metal and participated in a big contest; but this past weekend KS5TX and K5WW got together to play in both the CQ WW RTTY contest and the Texas QSO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/close\/\">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-2566","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\/2566","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=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}