{"id":15548,"date":"2024-03-06T18:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T01:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=15548"},"modified":"2024-03-06T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T01:23:47","slug":"arrl-international-dx-contest-80-meter-dual-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=15548","title":{"rendered":"ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST 80 meter Dual Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year ago Mike\/K7STO and Brian\/W7BJN were talking about doing the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/W7BJN-and-K7STO-ARRX-DX-contest-2023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15549 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/W7BJN-and-K7STO-ARRX-DX-contest-2023-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/W7BJN-and-K7STO-ARRX-DX-contest-2023-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/W7BJN-and-K7STO-ARRX-DX-contest-2023-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/W7BJN-and-K7STO-ARRX-DX-contest-2023-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/W7BJN-and-K7STO-ARRX-DX-contest-2023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> and decided to do 80 SSB&#8230;.in different categories for the simple reason they don&#8217;t like butting heads with good friends in Contests. So they ended up winning 2 different categories on High Power Single Op SSB. The heavy lifting on Brian&#8217;s end was just a simple Double Bazooka Inverted Vee. Mike&#8217;s antenna was the DX Engineering VA-2 Vertical&#8230; As you can see in the attached picture&#8230;One year and 2 days later they both received their Division Winner plaques in respective categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year ago Mike\/K7STO and Brian\/W7BJN were talking about doing the 2023 and decided to do 80 SSB&#8230;.in different categories for the simple reason they don&#8217;t like butting heads with good friends in Contests. So they ended up winning 2 different categories on High Power Single Op SSB. The heavy lifting on Brian&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15550,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15548\/revisions\/15550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}