{"id":34,"date":"2014-08-13T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-08-13T15:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:34:26","slug":"20-meters-is-terrible-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"20 meters is terrible today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"wp-1407943559790.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1407943559790.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dictating this from my cell phone, so if it comes out looking a little funny that&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the photo captured above, 20 meters is not in good shape I&#8217;m running psk31 and it just is not doing too good. I worked two stations so far, probably about 150 miles from here and the band conditions are just not that great lots of QSB.<\/p>\n<p>It usually isn&#8217;t this bad, just the other day the band was hopping and I worked Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully things pick up here in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dictating this from my cell phone, so if it comes out looking a little funny that&#8217;s why. As you can see from the photo captured above, 20 meters is not in good shape I&#8217;m running psk31 and it just is not doing too good. I worked two stations so far, probably about 150 miles<\/p>\n<p class=\"excert-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/k8cpa.com\/wp\/?p=34\" class=\"excerpt-more-link\" >Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;20 meters is terrible today&#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":[3,10,4],"tags":[11,76,78,77,12],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","category-band-conditions","category-ham-radio","tag-20-meters","tag-amateur-radio","tag-band-conditions","tag-ham-radio","tag-psk-31"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m dictating this from my cell phone, so if it comes out looking a little funny that&#039;s why. 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