{"id":3354,"date":"2016-07-31T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2016-08-01T09:28:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T08:28:27","slug":"rsgb-iota-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/rsgb-iota-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB IOTA contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of the\u00a0SNB contest group<\/a>\u00a0came together to play some radio in the\u00a0RSGB IOTA contest<\/a>. Some stations make the trek to far flung Islands in exotic parts of the world, we opted for the contest site close to Kelvedon Hatch in Essex.<\/p>\n

The SNB contest site has the added bonus of a 50m onsite mast, making an ideal platform to hang dipoles. George\u00a0M1GEO\u00a0<\/a>and Dave M0TAZ<\/a> decided to operate or respective calls from the two radio setup, using 3.5, 14, 21 and 28 MHz. George also added his 50\/70 MHz beam on the mast, and this provided some interesting contacts using MS and JT65.<\/p>\n

You can read the full report and view further pictures on M0TAZ blog site<\/a>.\"28601025301_c233643f9c_k\"<\/a> \"28646929116_1d6734145a_k\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of the\u00a0SNB contest group\u00a0came together to play some radio in the\u00a0RSGB IOTA contest. Some stations make the trek to far flung Islands in exotic parts of the world, we opted for the contest site close to Kelvedon Hatch in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":[65],"tags":[74,72,158,118,159],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-operating-reports","tag-contest","tag-hf","tag-iota","tag-portable","tag-snbc","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22sia-S6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}