{"id":10021,"date":"2013-10-14T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T12:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=10021"},"modified":"2013-10-14T08:18:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T12:18:32","slug":"did-it-just-get-a-little-more-nerdy-in-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/did-it-just-get-a-little-more-nerdy-in-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Did it just get a little more nerdy in here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/VA3PID-eQSL-eWAS-PSK-20131014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10022\" alt=\"VA3PID-eQSL-eWAS-PSK-20131014\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/VA3PID-eQSL-eWAS-PSK-20131014-320x249.png\" width=\"320\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/VA3PID-eQSL-eWAS-PSK-20131014-320x249.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/VA3PID-eQSL-eWAS-PSK-20131014-160x124.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/VA3PID-eQSL-eWAS-PSK-20131014.png 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>Aw yiss! After more than two years of trying, I finally got a confirmed contact in North Dakota last night. That means I&#8217;ve now worked all of the US states using the PSK digital mode. Yay me!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d contacted 47\/50 within a few months of getting my licence, including Maine. Utah I spoke to in November 2011, South Dakota in January 2012; but the last one, North Dakota, I didn&#8217;t pick up until last night. I was just about to turn off the radio for the night when I have 40m a try, and there was <a href=\"http:\/\/qrz.com\/db\/ND0B\">Bill (ND0B)<\/a> calling from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/?mlat=47.5534&amp;mlon=-99.5808#map=10\/47.5534\/-99.5808\">Cathay, ND<\/a>. Sometimes you find what you&#8217;re looking for without even trying. Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aw yiss! After more than two years of trying, I finally got a confirmed contact in North Dakota last night. That means I&#8217;ve now worked all of the US states using the PSK digital mode. Yay me! I&#8217;d contacted 47\/50 within a few months of getting my licence, including Maine. Utah I spoke to in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2290],"tags":[2463,2285,1471,2727,2429,1215,1008,2286,2726],"class_list":["post-10021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-eqsl","tag-ham","tag-nerdy","tag-north_dakota","tag-psk","tag-radio","tag-usa","tag-va3pid","tag-worked_all_states"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2BD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10023,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions\/10023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}