{"id":2,"date":"2007-03-28T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T22:16:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-06-22T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T14:00:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Radio W4KAZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello. This is the site of Keith, W4KAZ, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bobuecker.com\">Bob Uecker<\/a>&#8221; of amateur radio contesting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"radar_img\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.weather.gov\/Conus\/Loop\/southeast_loop.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/radar.weather.gov\/Conus\/Loop\/southeast_loop.gif\" alt=\"Radar\" width=\"320\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Current SE-USA WX &#8211; Click image for expanded radar loop<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I was first licensed as WB5VWK as a high school student, but I unfortunately allowed that license to lapse. I grew interested in radio again after seeing a couple of local yards sporting Yagi&#8217;s, and I was re-licensed as KG4EQD as Tech-plus and then Advanced in 2000. I passed the 20 wpm code test(and have the CSCE certificate!) before the Extra requirements changed, but my upgrade paper work was delayed until after April 2001 change. I currently hold the Extra class license.<\/p>\n<p>Because of my station limitations I operate primarily during HF contests, predominantly on SSB. I&#8217;m trying to build up my CW skills to the necessary level for more serious contesting, but that is less easy than I had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>I will generally QSL only for SASE or through the &#8220;buro&#8221;, see my QRZ.com entry for QSL information. I use LOTW for all contest QSO&#8217;s, and will upload all other QSO&#8217;s to LOTW AFTER I obtain my LOTW DXCC. (It&#8217;s an experiment!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/w4kazpng.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/w4kazpng.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello. This is the site of Keith, W4KAZ, the &#8220;Bob Uecker&#8221; of amateur radio contesting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Current SE-USA WX &#8211; Click image for expanded radar loop<\/p>\n<p>I was first licensed as WB5VWK as a high school student, but I unfortunately allowed that license to lapse. I grew interested in radio again after seeing a couple of local yards sporting Yagi&#8217;s, and I was re-licensed as KG4EQD as Tech-plus and then Advanced in 2000. I passed the 20 wpm code test(and have the CSCE certificate!) before the Extra requirements changed, but my upgrade paper work was delayed until after April 2001 change. I currently hold the Extra class license.<\/p>\n<p>Because of my station limitations I operate primarily during HF contests, predominantly on SSB. I&#8217;m trying to build up my CW skills to the necessary level for more serious contesting, but that is less easy than I had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>I will generally QSL only for SASE or through the &#8220;buro&#8221;, see my QRZ.com entry for QSL information. I use LOTW for all contest QSO&#8217;s, and will upload all other QSO&#8217;s to LOTW AFTER I obtain my LOTW DXCC. (It&#8217;s an experiment!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}