{"id":337,"date":"2015-10-23T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=337"},"modified":"2015-10-23T14:43:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:43:33","slug":"cq-newsroom-contesters-please-protect-7060-for-mexican-hurricane-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"From the CQ Newsroom: Contesters: Please Protect 7060 for Mexican Hurricane Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some very important info for all hams!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/nhc-patricia.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Patricia as of Friday morning, 23 Oct. (NOAA satellite image via National Hurricane Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Attention Contesters: Please protect the Mexican hurricane emergency net frequency of 7060 kHz during the upcoming CQWW SSB DX Contest as potentially catastrophic Hurricane Patricia heads for Mexico&#8217;s Pacific coast. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This request comes from IARU Region II\/Area C Emergency Coordinator Arnie Coro, CO2KK, who says additional frequencies on 40 and 80 meters may be required once Hurricane Patricia makes landfall later today (Friday).<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>According to the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Patricia is the strongest eastern North Pacific hurricane on record and is &#8220;heading for potentially catastrophic landfall in southwestern Mexico later today.&#8221; As of Friday morning, the Category 5 storm had maximum sustained winds of 200 miles per hour (322 km\/h).<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Please avoid 7055-7065 kHz during the contest, to provide a clear frequency for the net on 7060. Thanks and good luck in the contest!<\/strong><strong>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/cqnewsroom.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/contesters-please-protect-7060-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">CQ Newsroom: Contesters: Please Protect 7060 for Mexican Hurricane Net<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is important and could save lives, keep it in mind when contesting this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some very important info for all hams! Attention Contesters: Please protect the Mexican hurricane emergency net frequency of 7060 kHz during the upcoming CQWW SSB DX Contest as potentially catastrophic Hurricane Patricia heads for Mexico&#8217;s Pacific coast. This request comes from IARU Region II\/Area C Emergency Coordinator Arnie Coro, CO2KK, who says additional frequencies on<\/p>\n<p class=\"excert-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=337\" class=\"excerpt-more-link\" >Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the CQ Newsroom: Contesters: Please Protect 7060 for Mexican Hurricane Net&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contesting","tag-contesting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}