{"id":48,"date":"2026-04-04T21:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:10:27","slug":"operating","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/operating\/","title":{"rendered":"Operating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>The Basics&#8230;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From home, I operate all modes on all HF bands except 60M, with an output power not exceeding 200W. I&#8217;ve not been active much at all on the WARC bands to date. That will change from here on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I enjoy Single Operator, Low Power (often unassisted) CW, RTTY and to a lesser extent SSB, contesting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I do Multi-Single and Multi-Two High Power CW and RTTY contesting with EI7M, the East Cork Radio Group. I occasionally help out with SSB contests but that&#8217;s not really my thing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I like to operate \/P and beginning this year (2026), I&#8217;ll be activating POTA and SOTA locations in Ireland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I spend an inordinate amount of my time Navtex DXing and low frequency (160M and below) SWLing &#8211; mainly aviation NDBs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I try to be a good QSL buddy; LoTW and ClubLog uploads are done daily and I try to do buro and direct cards a few times a year when folk look for them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"ei4-hq-page-layout","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ei4hq.ie\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}