{"id":2023,"date":"2009-02-18T01:58:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T01:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2009-02-18T01:58:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T01:58:14","slug":"yi9mi-qsling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/18\/yi9mi-qsling\/","title":{"rendered":"YI9MI QSLing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/exchange_stamps.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>I have devoted a significant amount of time to plow through QSL cards for my YI9MI operation in Iraq last year.  The highlight was getting a few cards with actual valid CW contacts.  The hard part was sending QSL cards back to folks who had contacts with the CW <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=1883\">pirate<\/a> station.  I know this isn&#8217;t a news flash, but why does the Post Office never know what to do with an IRC?  I handed over a stack and it took a few phone calls before the postman working the counter said I could get one 0.94 airmail stamp for each IRC.  I know that is not the right answer, but at least I got the QSL cards in the mail.  So now all the direct QSLs have been taken care of and I will get the QSL BURO cards finished by the end of the week.  I have never used the ARRL&#8217;s outgoing QSL bureau before, so this will be a learning experience.<br \/>\n   I have been reviewing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/contests\/forms\/fd-2009-rules.pdf\">rules<\/a> this year&#8217;s field day.  It looks like my dad and I will be running a 2B field day site.  Now we have to figure out what antennas we are going to use.  I would like to try a wire vertical in addition to the flattop dipole we are putting up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have devoted a significant amount of time to plow through QSL cards for my YI9MI operation in Iraq last year. The highlight was getting a few cards with actual valid CW contacts. The hard part was sending QSL cards back to folks who had contacts with the CW pirate station. I know this isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/18\/yi9mi-qsling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YI9MI QSLing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[27,89,199,271],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-antenna","tag-field-day","tag-qsl-cards","tag-yi9mi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-wD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}