{"id":1331,"date":"2019-07-26T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:38:09","slug":"ft4-contests-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/26\/ft4-contests-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"FT4 contests announced&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"story\">\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>RSGB Contest Committee<\/strong>\u00a0have announced a series of contests using the new digital mode\u00a0<strong>FT4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There will be a series of three short duration events on 80m (dial frequency 3575 kHz USB) to allow entrants to experience this new mode.<\/p>\n<p>As this series is experimental, there are likely to be changes as we develop experience with this mode, so please check the rules prior to each event<\/p>\n<p>The objective is to score as many points as possible based on the the distance between stations (subject to a maximum score per QSO).<\/p>\n<p>The contests will take place on:<br \/>\n(1) Monday September 2, 2019, 19:00 &#8211; 19:59 UTC<br \/>\n(2) Monday October 7, 2019, 19:00 &#8211; 19:59 UTC<br \/>\n(3) Monday November 4, 2019, 20:00 &#8211; 20:59 UTC<\/p>\n<p>Full details at<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/hf\/rules\/2019\/r80m_ft4.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.rsgbcc.org\/hf\/rules\/2019\/r80m_ft4.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FT4 is part of the WSJT-X suite which can be downloaded from<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/physics.princeton.edu\/pulsar\/k1jt\/wsjtx.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/physics.princeton.edu\/pulsar\/k1jt\/wsjtx.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0RSGB Contest Committee\u00a0have announced a series of contests using the new digital mode\u00a0FT4 There will be a series of three short duration events on 80m (dial frequency 3575 kHz USB) to allow entrants to experience this new mode. As this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/26\/ft4-contests-announced\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}