{"id":5421,"date":"2015-02-09T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2015-02-09T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T05:03:33","slug":"gary-k7gs-receives-highest-award-in-ham-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=5421","title":{"rendered":"GARY K7GS RECEIVES HIGHEST AWARD IN HAM RADIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5281\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/No1-Plaque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5281\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/No1-Plaque-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"NUMBER ONE HONOR ROLL DXCC AWARD\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/No1-Plaque-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/No1-Plaque-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NUMBER ONE HONOR ROLL DXCC AWARD<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To receive this award, you must work and confirm every ARRL recognized entity (mostly populated countries) in the World, all 340 of them.  It&#8217;s not a weekend task, but takes many years as many of the rare entities are not populated by any hams (or people) so one must wait for a DXpedition, a group of hams, to go to that entity and operate from it, a very expensive proposition.  For instance, Gary&#8217;s final (340th) contact was with a French DXpedition to Tromelin Island (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tromelin2014.com\/en\/\">FT4TA<\/a>).  Before that, the last DXpedition to that island was in the year 2000.  Congratulations to Gary!<\/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-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","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=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}