{"id":56020,"date":"2023-03-07T19:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=56020"},"modified":"2023-03-11T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T11:52:40","slug":"chuck-rippel-sweetens-the-deal-on-the-great-medium-wave-daylight-dx-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/chuck-rippel-sweetens-the-deal-on-the-great-medium-wave-daylight-dx-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Rippel “Sweetens the deal” on The Great Medium Wave Daylight DX Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>by Jock Elliott, KB2GOM<\/strong><\/p>\n

After yesterday’s post appeared<\/a>, Chuck Rippel reached out to me and offered:<\/p>\n

To whomever logs the most stations using a GE SR-I or SR-II, I will donate that person, a <\/em>>free< SR-I or SR-II restoration.\u00a0 Includes, parts, alignment, cleaning, etc….\u00a0\u00a0 The winner’s only cost will be shipping.\u00a0 Should the winner already have a radio I restored, I have an alternate “reward” in mind.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That is a very generous offer, Chuck, and I am sure someone will be the delighted recipient.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, there is a very slight modification to the procedure for the challenge: I will be posting a reminder about The Great Medium Wave Daylight DX Challenge on Friday, and then on Saturday, I will post another The Great Medium Wave Daylight DX Challenge blog. That Saturday blog will be the place to post your results in The Challenge . . . .in the Comments section.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jock Elliott, KB2GOM After yesterday’s post appeared, Chuck Rippel reached out to me and offered: To whomever logs the most stations using a GE SR-I or SR-II, I will donate that person, a >free< SR-I or SR-II restoration.\u00a0 Includes, parts, alignment, cleaning, etc….\u00a0\u00a0 The winner’s only cost will be shipping.\u00a0 Should the winner already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[433,3],"tags":[6105,9323,10152],"class_list":["post-56020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-chuck-rippel-k8hu","tag-jock-elliott-kb2gom","tag-the-great-medium-wave-daylight-dx-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ezy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56008,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-great-medium-wave-daylight-dx-challenge\/","url_meta":{"origin":56020,"position":0},"title":"The Great Medium Wave Daylight DX Challenge","author":"Jock Elliott","date":"March 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM First a word of acknowledgement and thanks: it was Chuck Rippel who said (in part) -- in response to this post\u00a0-- \u201cWe could make this interesting by restricting listening to the period 10AM \u2013 2PM maybe 3PM.\u201d And that got me to thinking that maybe a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mediumwave"","block_context":{"text":"Mediumwave","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/mediumwave\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/satellit-800.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/satellit-800.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/satellit-800.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/satellit-800.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":56038,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/gentle-reminder-the-great-medium-wave-daylight-dx-challenge-is-tomorrow\/","url_meta":{"origin":56020,"position":1},"title":"Gentle reminder: The Great Medium Wave Daylight DX Challenge is tomorrow!","author":"Jock Elliott","date":"March 10, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are the rules: Frequency range is the medium wave band: 520-1710 kHz 10 am to 2 pm your local time on Saturday, March 11, 2023 . 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