{"id":4628,"date":"2010-02-25T10:15:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2010-03-01T22:37:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T04:37:30","slug":"bexar-operators-group-supports-breast-cancer-awareness-in-a-unique-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4628","title":{"rendered":"Bexar Operators Group Supports Breast Cancer Awareness In A Unique Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/balloon-w5bog1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4629\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" title=\"balloon w5bog\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/balloon-w5bog1-262x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/balloon-w5bog1-262x350.jpg 262w, http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/balloon-w5bog1-150x200.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/balloon-w5bog1-769x1024.jpg 769w, http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/balloon-w5bog1.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/strong><\/a><strong>The Bexar Operators Group will be &#8220;Flying Pink&#8221; with a 9 foot pink weather balloon<\/strong> with an attached pink (ok, reddish pink) 260 foot vertical wire antenna during the 160 meter contest this weekend to show our support for breast cancer awareness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>We had a choice of balloons to purchase\u00a0and chose the pink colored ones<\/strong> (boy, do they look small un inflated)\u00a0and even chose the pink topped helium tank when offered a choice of others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Pictures of our contest operation<\/strong> at Choke Canyon State Park&#8217;s &#8220;Calliham Unit&#8221; will be posted next week<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>If you can hear us on 160 meters<\/strong>\u00a0(probably around 1.85 &#8211; 1.9 mhz after sunset until dawn), please either post us on &#8220;DX Summit&#8221; or other internet resources\u00a0or make a QSO with us! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>A large,\u00a0stamped -self addressed envelope<\/strong>, sent to the QRZ address of W5BOG\u00a0will net stations contacting us a special QSL certificate showing our support for breast cancer awareness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; font-size: medium;\">Bob W2IK &#8211; W5BOG<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bexar Operators Group will be &#8220;Flying Pink&#8221; with a 9 foot pink weather balloon with an attached pink (ok, reddish pink) 260 foot vertical wire antenna during the 160 meter contest this weekend to show our support for breast cancer awareness. We had a choice of balloons to purchase\u00a0and chose the pink colored ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,21,140,4,2],"tags":[539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628"}],"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=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4643,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions\/4643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}