{"id":3659,"date":"2013-09-18T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2013-09-18T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:59:39","slug":"what-you-missed-at-the-september-2013-sdxa-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=3659","title":{"rendered":"WHAT YOU MISSED AT THE SEPTEMBER, 2013  SDXA MEETING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don K4ZA has a 2+ hour, 2-disk DVD set out that discusses what makes a proficient contester?  What makes a good operator?  For most of us, it takes years.  Practice, participation and persistence are key factors. Contesters are a truly elite bunch who possess unique operating skills\u2014things which we\u2019re not born with and that are not covered or learned by reading any radio\u2019s manual, or Handbook, or on the neighborhood repeater, or down at the local radio club. Using over 24 hours of raw material, K4ZA has edited and collected the experience, wisdom, and opinions of 50 of today\u2019s contesters in one place. VP Randy K7TQ selected the best of the lot to make a one-hour program for the SDXA.  More on this DVD set at this <a href=\"http:\/\/k4za.com\/book-dvd\/290\/\">LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}