{"id":3596,"date":"2017-05-30T21:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2017-05-30T21:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T20:02:27","slug":"70-mhz-portable-from-the-rainbow-and-dove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/70-mhz-portable-from-the-rainbow-and-dove\/","title":{"rendered":"70 Mhz Portable from the Rainbow and  Dove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George M1GEO and I decided to take part in the 70 MHz RSGB cumulative\u00a0contest over the bank holiday weekend. Using the 3e 50\/70 MHz antenna @ 12m on the PU12 mast we managed to work 39 stations. Our best DX was 516KM into GI Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Dave M0TAZ<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/34595046660_069c82c89d_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3597\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/70-mhz-portable-from-the-rainbow-and-dove\/34595046660_069c82c89d_k\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/34595046660_069c82c89d_k.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1152,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"34595046660_069c82c89d_k\" 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Using the 3e 50\/70 MHz antenna @ 12m on the PU12 mast we managed to work 39 stations. Our best DX &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/70-mhz-portable-from-the-rainbow-and-dove\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[7],"tags":[109,118,150],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-portable","tag-70-mhz","tag-portable","tag-rainbow-and-dove","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22sia-W0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","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=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}