{"id":21260,"date":"2016-09-08T08:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21260"},"modified":"2016-09-08T08:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:15:44","slug":"npota-activating-the-carl-sandburg-home-ns07-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/npota-activating-the-carl-sandburg-home-ns07-today\/","title":{"rendered":"NPOTA: Activating the Carl Sandburg Home (NS07) today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Elecraft<\/a><\/p>\n

This afternoon (September 8), I should have a chance to activate the Carl Sandburg Home again for the ARRL National Parks on the Air<\/a> program. You might recall, I activated the site Sunday as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll plan to use the Elecraft KX2 and EFT TRail-Friendly antenna<\/a> combo once again.<\/p>\n

I should be on the air starting sometime between\u00a020:00-20:30 UTC (4:00 – 4:30 PM EDT). I’ll plan to operate SSB on two frequencies: 14286 and 7286 kHz. I should be on the air for one hour or so, if all goes well. Listen for my amateur radio call sign: K4SWL.<\/p>\n

It would be fantastic to log some SWLing Post<\/em> readers. If you do manage to hear my 10 watt signal, or work my station, please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon (September 8), I should have a chance to activate the Carl Sandburg Home again for the ARRL National Parks on the Air program. You might recall, I activated the site Sunday as well. I’ll plan to use the Elecraft KX2 and EFT TRail-Friendly antenna combo once again. I should be on the air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3],"tags":[5440,5083,4102,5089,5088,1303],"class_list":["post-21260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-carl-sandburg-home","tag-elecraft-kx2","tag-ham-radio","tag-national-parks-on-the-air","tag-npota","tag-qrp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5wU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21271,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/a-quick-recap-of-yesterdays-carl-sandburg-home-npota-activation\/","url_meta":{"origin":21260,"position":0},"title":"A quick recap of yesterday’s Carl Sandburg Home NPOTA activation","author":"Thomas","date":"September 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, I fit in yet another activation of the Carl Sandburg Home (NS01) for the ARRL National Parks on the Air. 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