{"id":641,"date":"2016-04-11T16:57:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T14:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=641"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:14:25","slug":"vk0ek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"VK0EK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->I&#8217;ve been waiting for this expedition for 19 years to compensate the miss of VK0IR. However I planned to go to the contest station to generate more chance I was busy so I tried the die hard version. On the same day of FT4JA success I was able to go through on 40m CW, and YES the &#8220;dipole-on-the-ground&#8221; DOES WORK. \ud83d\ude09 Unfortunately 40m was the only band where I could copy the signals well enough to try to call them.<\/p>\n<p>How I received VK0EK that night:<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"shortcode\"><style>\r\n .player2408  .plyr__controls,\r\n .player2408 .StampAudioPlayerSkin{\r\n  border-radius: 10px;\r\n  overflow: hidden;\r\n }\r\n .player2408{\r\n  margin: 0 auto; }\r\n .player2408 .plyr__controls .plyr__controls {\r\n   border-radius: none;\r\n   overflow: visible;\r\n }\r\n .skin_default .player2408 .plyr__controls {\r\n   overflow: visible;\r\n }\r\n <\/style>\r\n<div class=\"skin_default\" id=\"skin_default\">\r\n  <div style=\"width:450px;--plyr-color-bg:#333\" class=\"h5ap_standard_player player2408\" \r\n  data-poster=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/plugins\/html5-audio-player\/shortcode\/player\/sticky-default.jpg\" \r\n  data-skin=\"default\" \r\n  data-title=\"Audio Title\" \r\n  data-song=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vk0ek.mp3\" \r\n  data-id=\"2408\" \r\n  data-options='{&quot;controls&quot;:[&quot;play&quot;,&quot;progress&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;,&quot;mute&quot;,&quot;volume&quot;,&quot;settings&quot;],&quot;seekTime&quot;:10,&quot;skin&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Audio Title&quot;,&quot;author&quot;:&quot;Author Name&quot;,&quot;disableDownload&quot;:false,&quot;fusionDownload&quot;:false,&quot;color&quot;:&quot;skyblue&quot;,&quot;background&quot;:&quot;#333&quot;,&quot;repeat&quot;:false,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;opt-1&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:false,&quot;muted&quot;:false,&quot;disablePause&quot;:false,&quot;startTime&quot;:0}'>\r\n    <audio  playsinline preload=\"auto\" class=\"player2408\" id=\"player2408\">\r\n      <source src=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vk0ek.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\">\r\n        Your browser does not support the audio element.\r\n    <\/audio>\r\n          <div class=\"h5ap_lp\">\r\n        <div class=\"bar bar-1\"><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"bar bar-1\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I know there are several other more difficult DXCCs to log but Heard Island somehow is the DXing for me. I&#8217;ll be ~55 years old at the next activation so I need to wait long for sure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek_log.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-674\" title=\"vk0ek_log\" src=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek_log.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek_log.jpg 503w, https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek_log-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;the great moment:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-678\" title=\"vk0ek\" src=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek.jpg 1785w, https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/vk0ek-1024x619.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}