{"id":6455,"date":"2011-05-23T14:56:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T18:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2011-06-19T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T21:36:47","slug":"the-accidental-dxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/the-accidental-dxer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Accidental DXer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: I have a <em>much<\/em> better <a href=\"http:\/\/glaikit.org\/ham-radio-qso-map\/\">Ham Radio QSO Map<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>I had modest expectations when I set up my antenna and rig. I might&#8217;ve expected to work some of Canada, the northern US states, and maybe far western Europe, and that&#8217;s about it. But this map, extracted from my logs, shows different:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/accidental_dxer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6456\" title=\"accidental dxer\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/accidental_dxer-320x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/accidental_dxer-320x206.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/accidental_dxer-160x103.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/accidental_dxer.png 805w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>New Zealand, Ukraine, Patagonia, Greenland, Brazil, the Azores &#8230; way beyond what I expected.<\/p>\n<p>I know the map&#8217;s not quite right. The lines should really be curved to be great circle lines on a Mercator map. Also, the NZ contact path was probably roughly SW through Hawaii. This round world doesn&#8217;t work on a flat page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: I have a much better Ham Radio QSO Map now. I had modest expectations when I set up my antenna and rig. I might&#8217;ve expected to work some of Canada, the northern US states, and maybe far western Europe, and that&#8217;s about it. But this map, extracted from my logs, shows different: New Zealand, [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2290],"tags":[2304,2303,1215],"class_list":["post-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-dx","tag-psk31","tag-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1G7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","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=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6458,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions\/6458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}