{"id":452,"date":"2010-11-13T22:02:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T04:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/?p=452"},"modified":"2011-11-13T00:26:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T06:26:02","slug":"dxcc-cw-200-countries-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/2010\/11\/13\/dxcc-cw-200-countries-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"DXCC CW 200 countries confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I got 200 DXCC countries confirmed in CW. Actually, even 201. <strong>YJ0HA<\/strong> confirmed 200th via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/lotw\">LoTW<\/a>, and <strong>ZL7J<\/strong> confirmed 201st with his paper card. I am not sure whether <strong>YJ0HA<\/strong> operation is already approved by DXCC Desk, so <strong>ZL7J<\/strong> became a welcome addition.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSince CW is my favorite mode, this is pretty important milestone to me. I heard people saying this number can be worked during single popular 48-hour contest. Probably, but not with my setup. It took me more than 4 years to achieve this result. Now I am looking forward to work and confirm 250 countries, probably in MIXED mode first.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is, after giving it some thoughts, I&#8217;ve decided to not apply for any awards this year in order to save some money. I could receive DXCC CW-200 endosement, and IOTA-200 award, but no rush. Both can wait until next year.<\/p>\n<p>You can find my award progress stats <a href =\"\/ham\/awards\/progress\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go:<br \/>\n<DIV class=\"rokbox-example\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dp50\">\n<div class=\"center\"><a rel=\"rokbox[780 580](cw200confirmed)\" title=\"DXCC :: CW\" href=\"\/hampic\/awards\/DXCC_CW.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cw200confirmed\" src=\"\/hampic\/awards\/DXCC_CW_s.jpg\" alt=\"DXCC :: CW\" \/><\/a><br \/>DXCC CW<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dp50\">\n<div class=\"center\"><a rel=\"rokbox[780 551](cw200confirmed)\" title=\"IOTA :: 200\" href=\"\/hampic\/awards\/IOTA_IOTA.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cw200confirmed\" src=\"\/hampic\/awards\/IOTA_IOTA_s.jpg\" alt=\"IOTA :: 200\" \/><\/a><br \/>IOTA 200<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I got 200 DXCC countries confirmed in CW. Actually, even 201. YJ0HA confirmed 200th via LoTW, and ZL7J confirmed 201st with his paper card. I am not sure whether YJ0HA operation is already approved by DXCC Desk, so ZL7J became a welcome addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[34,33,31,35],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activity","category-awards","tag-award","tag-dxcc","tag-ham","tag-iota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n1wq.com\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}