{"id":3628,"date":"2017-07-31T20:36:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2017-07-31T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T19:38:00","slug":"iota-working-an-ideal-portable-hf-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/iota-working-an-ideal-portable-hf-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"IOTA working an ideal portable HF weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbiota.org\/\">IOTA<\/a> (Islands On The Air) is a very large international contest, supported by many countries around the world. It also provides an ideal opportunity\u00a0to work some often rare DX stations. Many of the stations have travelled at great expense to a rare island just so you can have the opportunity of working them.<\/p>\n<p>We opted for a slightly less rare option <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbiota.org\/info\/groupinfo.php?refno=EU-005\">EU005<\/a> better know as Great Britain and set up our portable stations.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m0taz.co.uk\">report online<\/a> and view the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the weekend, the 2 stations worked nearly 900 QSO.<a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3630\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/iota-working-an-ideal-portable-hf-weekend\/35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1152\" 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=\"35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3630\" src=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/35849554390_5549bdf7d9_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> A really fun weekend with the opportunity\u00a0to work some DX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOTA (Islands On The Air) is a very large international contest, supported by many countries around the world. It also provides an ideal opportunity\u00a0to work some often rare DX stations. Many of the stations have travelled at great expense to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/iota-working-an-ideal-portable-hf-weekend\/\">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":[65,7],"tags":[72,197,210,118],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-operating-reports","category-portable","tag-hf","tag-hf-weekend","tag-iota-2017","tag-portable","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22sia-Ww","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","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=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}