{"id":84,"date":"2011-05-25T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T23:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2021-06-28T16:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:08:34","slug":"48-hours-to-start-of-wpx-cw-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/48-hours-to-start-of-wpx-cw-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"48 hours to start of WPX CW 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We are now less than 48 hours from the start of the 2011 WPX CW Contest.<span> <\/span>There may be a small chance of \u2018cloudiness\u2019 in the solar forecast, but not enough dampen our spirits.<span> <\/span>Looking for lots of activity and new records again this year.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Rules in 14 languages: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/rules.htm\">http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/rules.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Results from previous years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/results.htm\">http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/results.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">67 plaques up for grabs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/plaques.htm\">http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/plaques.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">All-time records by world, continent, country, and call area: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/records.htm\">http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/records.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When the contest is over, please use the new web form for log submission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/logcheck\/\">http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/logcheck\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can upload your log, have it checked for formatting and all necessary header info, make corrections, and then submit directly to the robot.<span> <\/span>It\u2019s the perfect way to avoid robot anxiety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Even if you can\u2019t operate the full contest, get on the air for as much as you can.<span> <\/span>Please submit your log.<span> <\/span>It shows CQ Magazine how much we appreciate the contest and it helps the log checking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A few hints:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<ul>\n<li>Watch those dits.<span> <\/span>Letters like S, H, and 5, or V and 4, or B and 6, are often miscopied.<\/li>\n<li>Copy the serial numbers.<span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li>Need motivation?<span> <\/span>Go to the score database (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/scorescw.htm?yr=ALL&amp;mode=CW\">http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/scorescw.htm?yr=ALL&amp;mode=CW<\/a> ), select your country and call area, then work your way up the scores.<span> <\/span>Always feels good when you pass another score on the list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">73 and good contesting!<\/p>\n<p><span>Randy Thompson, K5ZD<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now less than 48 hours from the start of the 2011 WPX CW Contest. There may be a small chance of \u2018cloudiness\u2019 in the solar forecast, but not enough dampen our spirits. Looking for lots of activity and new records again this year. Rules in 14 languages: http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/rules.htm Results from previous years: http:\/\/www.cqwpx.com\/results.htm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/48-hours-to-start-of-wpx-cw-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">48 hours to start of WPX CW 2011<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[20],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-wpx-cw","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7uaXG-1m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}