{"id":4429,"date":"2009-12-24T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T19:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2009-12-24T14:57:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T20:57:39","slug":"better-late-than-never-nebraska-qso-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"Better Late Than Never &#8211; Nebraska QSO Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2008-NQP.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4430\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px; border: 0px;\" title=\"2008 NQP\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2008-NQP-350x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2008-NQP-350x268.jpg 350w, http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2008-NQP-200x153.jpg 200w, http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2008-NQP.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Checking my mail box yesterday, I was quite surprised to find an envelope from the &#8220;Heartland DX Association&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This club runs the Nebraska QSO Party, which is held in late April each year.<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdxa.net\/\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.hdxa.net\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had competed in this contest in 2007 and was given a certificate for top score from Texas. In 2008, I again competed but never received a reply nor were any results posted. Since I never knew what really happened, I didn&#8217;t compete in the 2009 event.<\/p>\n<p>You can imagine my shock when I just received a certificate for &#8220;Tops From Texas&#8221; for the <strong>2008<\/strong> contest!\u00a0\u00a0 In 2010 I\u00a0will compete in other state QSO events and hopefully will get rewarded with more certificates, but in a more timely manner.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You should try a few of these contests as well as they are alot of fun!<\/p>\n<p>Also see: <a href=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=821\">http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=821<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 73 Bob W2IK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checking my mail box yesterday, I was quite surprised to find an envelope from the &#8220;Heartland DX Association&#8221;. This club runs the Nebraska QSO Party, which is held in late April each year. See: http:\/\/www.hdxa.net\/\u00a0\u00a0 I had competed in this contest in 2007 and was given a certificate for top score from Texas. In 2008, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140,4,81,2,23,14],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4435,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}