{"id":4951,"date":"2024-01-28T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2024-01-29T21:16:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T21:16:17","slug":"empty-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/empty-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Calories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SKCC SKM results as of January 28th.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I have been spending too much time chasing K3Y activators. Don’t get me wrong – I appreciate those SKCC folks who have signed up for hour and two hour long slots to make contacts. I can only imagine not only the work that goes into organizing the Straight Key Month<\/a> but sitting a sixty minute shift logging contacts is serious work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first I thought I would just be focused on getting a sweep for the callsign areas. Then I wanted to get a sweep of all nineteen unique K3Y areas. Then I wanted to try and fill in fifty band slots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 and its fun, but not as much fun as having a real QSO. The rapid SKCC exchange just leaves me wanting more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I have had (and will continue to have) real QSOs while making SKCC contacts – just not in the context of a rapid exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am excited to have worked many SKCC DX stations this month; New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Israel, Japan, Hawaii, and Alaska. I will count the Yukon Territory as well. Making these contacts were cool. Many of these were ATNO (all time new ones) as CW contacts. And I doubt I will ever achieve CW DXCC unless contacts are made in some sort of contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end I think I get more satisfaction in having a real exchange with another op in Ohio (or Texas or wherever). Monitoring a watering hole, listening for a CQ, and having a chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been spending too much time chasing K3Y activators. Don’t get me wrong – I appreciate those SKCC folks who have signed up for hour and two hour long slots to make contacts. I can only imagine not only the work that goes into organizing the Straight Key Month but sitting a sixty minute … Continue reading “Empty Calories”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[338],"tags":[69,77,336,200,359,337],"class_list":["post-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-cw","tag-dx","tag-morse-code","tag-qso","tag-skcc","tag-straight-key"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-1hR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951","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=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4954,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}