{"id":57,"date":"2024-11-18T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/?p=57"},"modified":"2024-11-18T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:37:54","slug":"fists-fall-sunday-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/18\/fists-fall-sunday-sprint\/","title":{"rendered":"FISTS Fall Sunday Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t really work contests much, but I&#8217;m a long-time <a href=\"http:\/\/fistsna.org\">FISTS club<\/a> member, and I noticed that the Fall Sunday Sprint was this weekend. It&#8217;s the last one of 2024, and there&#8217;s a note that if participation doesn&#8217;t increase through 2024, then future sprints will be cancelled effective 1 January 2025. So I decided to work it, at least this one time if they&#8217;re discontinued, and try to work them going forward if they continue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As always, CW operators are always a pleasure to work on HF, one of the things I really enjoy about HF CW. I started about 17 NOV at 0030 UTC and wrapped up with twenty-six total contacts just before 2359 UTC. Special thanks to Nes, LU9FFS, for answering my CQ right at the end and adding the sole non-VE DX QSO&#8211;and giving me a new country (Argentina!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m mainly in it for the enjoyment, rather than chasing points, but with a total of 26 QSOs (one more than required for a 250-point bonus) working 16 FISTS members and 10 non-members, and 15 states\/provinces\/entities, I calculate a total of 1,750 points. All that&#8217;s left is to prep the log and send it in! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All in all, quite a bit of fun this weekend. Here&#8217;s hoping they&#8217;ll keep coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really work contests much, but I&#8217;m a long-time FISTS club member, and I noticed that the Fall Sunday Sprint was this weekend. It&#8217;s the last one of 2024, and there&#8217;s a note that if participation doesn&#8217;t increase through 2024, then future sprints will be cancelled effective 1 January 2025. So I decided to [&hellip;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/18\/fists-fall-sunday-sprint\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to: FISTS Fall Sunday Sprint\">&rarr;Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4,5,6],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contest","tag-cw","tag-fists","tag-hf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ac0cw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}