{"id":1621,"date":"2020-01-11T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T13:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2020-01-11T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T13:39:23","slug":"south-orkney-islands-dxpedition-vp8pj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/11\/south-orkney-islands-dxpedition-vp8pj\/","title":{"rendered":"South Orkney Islands DXpedition VP8PJ&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"story\">\n<p>We are pleased to announce that the call sign for the Perseverance DX Group&#8217;s expedition South Orkney 2020 will be changed to\u00a0<strong>VP8PJ<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In past years it was relatively easy to get a preferred VP8 call sign for the British Antarctic Territory. After a licensing administrative change, we were unable to obtain a VP8 call sign for operation from South Orkney and were advised to use \/VP8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan, VK6CQ<\/strong>, a recent addition to the team, holds the call sign VP8PJ that was issued to him for operation from the British Antarctic Territory.<br \/>\nAfter submission of a copy of Alan&#8217;s license, ARRL has issued us a new LoTW certificate for the use of this call from South Orkney for the duration of our expedition.<\/p>\n<p>73,<br \/>\n<strong><em>Team VP8PJ<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWebsite:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sorkney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sorkney.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nPlease direct your questions to: info@sorkney.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">OPDX<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the call sign for the Perseverance DX Group&#8217;s expedition South Orkney 2020 will be changed to\u00a0VP8PJ. In past years it was relatively easy to get a preferred VP8 call sign for the British Antarctic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/11\/south-orkney-islands-dxpedition-vp8pj\/\" 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-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","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=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}