{"id":306,"date":"2013-10-10T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T19:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/?p=306"},"modified":"2016-09-27T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:12:16","slug":"we-made-it-home-with-just-under-4500-qsos-in-the-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/2013\/10\/we-made-it-home-with-just-under-4500-qsos-in-the-log\/","title":{"rendered":"We made it home with just under 4,500 QSOs in the log"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all made it home late yesterday evening after almost exactly twelve hours travelling from Herm back to Essex and we ended up with just under 4,500 QSOs in the log this year. \u00a0We had a great week and I&#8217;d like to thank everyone who called and worked us while we were away.<\/p>\n<p>Our full log has been uploaded to ClubLog and you can check the log to see if you appear using the gadget on <a title=\"QSL Policy and Log Search\" href=\"http:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/qsl-policy\/\">this<\/a> page. \u00a0LoTW will follow in the next few days. \u00a0If you&#8217;re not in the log and you think you should be, please email <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/G6NHU\" target=\"_blank\">G6NHU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to everyone who worked us, there would be no point in putting on a DXpedition if nobody wanted to work us and the pileups showed that we chose a popular destination. \u00a0I&#8217;d also like to thank our sponsors, <a title=\"Kenwood UK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kenwoodcommunications.co.uk\/amateur-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kenwood UK<\/a> and <a title=\"M0CVO Antennas\" href=\"http:\/\/m0cvoantennas.webs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">M0CVO Antennas<\/a> for the loan of their equipment. \u00a0 A special thanks goes to the individuals who helped us by loaning equipment, specifically Rob M0VFC for the Elecraft KPA500 and Rich and Dick, M5RIC and GU4CHY for the Expert 1K-FA amplifiers. \u00a0Finally I&#8217;d like to thank Louis, 2U0FER who helped us out at the last minute with a box of parts which he sent over on the first ferry from Guernsey to Herm on Saturday morning, without which, the start of operation would have been seriously delayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all made it home late yesterday evening after almost exactly twelve hours travelling from Herm back to Essex and we ended up with just under 4,500 QSOs in the log this year. \u00a0We had a great week and I&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/2013\/10\/we-made-it-home-with-just-under-4500-qsos-in-the-log\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","category-herm-dxpedition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martellotowergroup.com\/gp0pkt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}