{"id":128,"date":"2016-04-01T18:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T18:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/?p=128"},"modified":"2016-04-01T18:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T18:06:55","slug":"wallpaper-canada-day-contest-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wallpaper-canada-day-contest-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper: Canada Day Contest 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-129 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2015CanadaDayNF8M.jpg\" alt=\"2015CanadaDayNF8M\" width=\"250\" height=\"193\" \/>Bart, VE5CPU, just surprised me with a certificate for my entry in the 2015 Radio Amateurs of Canada&#8217;s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.rac.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015-Canada-Day-Write-Up-V1.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Canada Day contest<\/a>. With 10,640 points, I was first place in the 8th US call area.<\/p>\n<p>I always enjoy working the RAC&#8217;s two contests each year &#8211; the Canada Day contest, always held on July 1st, and the RAC Winter Contest, usually the Saturday between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Day. <!--more-->It&#8217;s among the friendliest contests and a pleasure to work our neighbours to the North (or South, if you&#8217;re in Detroit).<\/p>\n<p>My score total wasn&#8217;t as high as in other years, but with the contest being on a Wednesday, there wasn&#8217;t as much activity from the States &#8211; only 126 entries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bart, VE5CPU, just surprised me with a certificate for my entry in the 2015 Radio Amateurs of Canada&#8217;s annual Canada Day contest. With 10,640 points, I was first place in the 8th US call area. I always enjoy working the RAC&#8217;s two contests each year &#8211; the Canada Day contest, always held on July 1st, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wallpaper-canada-day-contest-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wallpaper: Canada Day Contest 2015&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nf8m.com\/nf8m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}