{"id":3723,"date":"2018-09-01T23:29:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:39:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T18:39:34","slug":"new-dxcc-tr8ca-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/?p=3723","title":{"rendered":"New DXCC: TR8CA (Gabon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the end of August I found in EME chat a new callsign &#8211; TR8CA, whom I worked in year 2001 via satellite AO-10, and later on many HF bands on CW, RTTY and SSB. Sure. it was surprise for me! But at these days Alain started his EME tests to late for me: the moon was already below horizon. But 29th of August I saw his trace for the first time! He started every morning from 05:00 utc during approximately 1 hour. I called him many-many times without success. And his signal was up to -22 db,&nbsp;<span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\">so I could not understand, why he did not hear me? Alain answered to others, not often, but answered to some &#8220;Big Guns&#8221;, like I2FAK, UA3PTW, RX1AS &#8230;.. With my power over 1KW at the splitter and 21 db antenna gain&#8230; I was completely frustrated&#8230;. Let say, I spend around 5 hours on next 4 days to call TR8CA! But today, the 1st of September this dramatic story was finished: we completed&nbsp; our first EME QSO!&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\">I was so glad, that instead of taking a screenshot, I accidentally deleted the interface itself!<br \/>\nThanks to Alain: he was nice and sent me his&nbsp; screenshot.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TR8CA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3724 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TR8CA-170x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"150\"><\/a>Thus I&#8217;ve got DXCC # 177 and grid square #1018!<br \/>\nThank you, Alain!<br \/>\nThis QSO confirmed by QSL card and via LOtW.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end of August I found in EME chat a new callsign &#8211; TR8CA, whom I worked in year 2001 via satellite AO-10, and later on many HF bands on CW, RTTY and SSB. Sure. it was surprise for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/?p=3723\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no_heading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/es1rf.interval.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}