{"id":1389,"date":"2020-09-17T20:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2020-09-17T20:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:04:04","slug":"weekends-are-made-for-hf-contesting-or-how-to-work-a-lot-of-stations-in-a-short-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/2020\/09\/weekends-are-made-for-hf-contesting-or-how-to-work-a-lot-of-stations-in-a-short-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekends are made for HF Contesting (or, how to work a lot of stations in a short time)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;ve worked HF for any length of time you know that HF contests on weekends are &#8220;target rich environments&#8221;.  You don&#8217;t have to be a contester to work a lot of stations and pick up new countries, states and US counties.  Just this coming weekend are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Collegiate QSO Party <\/li><li>Iowa QSO Party<\/li><li>New Hampshire QSO Party<\/li><li>New Jersey QSO Party<\/li><li>Washington State Salmon Run<\/li><li>Wisconsin Parks on the Air<\/li><li>And More!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These events are full of stations wanting to work YOU!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A great way to see what events are coming down the pike is the WA7BNM Contest Calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contestcalendar.com\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.contestcalendar.com\/index.html<\/a>  The calendar has an 8 day schedule, 12 month schedule, QSO party calendar and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check it out, and get on the air!  (and be sure to send pics of you at your station to blogmaster@lakelandarc.org) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve worked HF for any length of time you know that HF contests on weekends are &#8220;target rich environments&#8221;. You don&#8217;t have to be a contester to work a lot of stations and pick up new countries, states and US counties. Just this coming weekend are: Collegiate QSO Party Iowa QSO Party New Hampshire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}