{"id":201,"date":"2018-03-12T14:47:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/?page_id=201"},"modified":"2020-09-27T02:19:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T02:19:23","slug":"contesting-for-the-little-pistol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/presentations\/contesting-for-the-little-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"Contesting for the Little Pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a summary of the presentation I gave to the South Lyon Area Amateur Radio Club on 13 November 2016. We covered an introduction to contesting, and some advice for the &#8220;little pistol&#8221; contester &#8211; usually the small home stations with barefoot power and modest antennas.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Brown, K9YC, article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k9yc.com\/KillingReceiveNoise.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Killing Receiver Noise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madriverradioclub.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mad River Radio Club<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madriverradioclub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MRRC_SS_Handbook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MRRC&#8217;s Sweepstakes Handbook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/k3ku_primerulesforcontesting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K3KU&#8217;s Prime Rule for Contesting <\/a>with advice for low power stations and Sweepstakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a summary of the presentation I gave to the South Lyon Area Amateur Radio Club on 13 November 2016. We covered an introduction to contesting, and some advice for the &#8220;little pistol&#8221; contester &#8211; usually the small home stations with barefoot power and modest antennas. Jim Brown, K9YC, article on Killing Receiver Noise &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/presentations\/contesting-for-the-little-pistol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Contesting for the Little Pistol&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":303,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-201","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201\/revisions\/490"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}