{"id":119,"date":"2016-04-01T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/?p=119"},"modified":"2016-04-01T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T04:41:00","slug":"in-the-log-at-vk0ek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/in-the-log-at-vk0ek\/","title":{"rendered":"In the log at VK0EK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening the last few nights to the pileups on 40 meters for the <a href=\"http:\/\/vk0ek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">VK0EK DXpedition<\/a> to Heard Island in the south Indian Ocean. Propagation hasn&#8217;t been the greatest on 40 and I haven&#8217;t been able to hear them, though I can hear everyone trying to work them (they&#8217;re usually listening down from their transmit frequency, rather than up).<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, though, I tried 30 meters, and found them at 10.116 MHz, sending VK0EK DN, so I tuned down, didn&#8217;t hear much, and set my transmit frequency to 10.114.5. Gave a few calls and heard them send <strong>ZM?<\/strong> a couple times, so I tried again, heard <strong>8M? <\/strong>and with one more call got the reply I was waiting for. The usual 599 exchange, and I&#8217;m in the log, as shown in the screenshot of their <a href=\"http:\/\/dxa.vk0ek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">live on-line logging:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek_logged.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek_logged-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"vk0ek_logged\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek_logged-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek_logged-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek_logged-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek_logged.jpg 1147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice to be able to add another all-time new one. Thanks guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening the last few nights to the pileups on 40 meters for the VK0EK DXpedition to Heard Island in the south Indian Ocean. Propagation hasn&#8217;t been the greatest on 40 and I haven&#8217;t been able to hear them, though I can hear everyone trying to work them (they&#8217;re usually listening down from their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/in-the-log-at-vk0ek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the log at VK0EK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}