{"id":29278,"date":"2022-05-09T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=29278"},"modified":"2023-07-05T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T10:53:25","slug":"11-may-contesting-pushing-the-boundaries-by-mark-haynes-m0dxr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/tonight-at-eight-archive\/2022\/05\/09\/11-may-contesting-pushing-the-boundaries-by-mark-haynes-m0dxr\/","title":{"rendered":"9 May 2022 &#8211; Contesting: pushing the boundaries! by Mark Haynes, M0DXR"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dDZ056alQ6c?start=248\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Mark&#8217;s presentation<\/h3>\n<p>Mark will talk about the very exciting world of contesting, also known as radio sport. He will explain how this aspect of amateur radio can be not only a good test for your station but also a great way to make lots of QSOs with many countries in a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>It allows the operator to test their abilities too, with a great personal challenge aspect and maybe even compete against others in your own country and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will cover the basics on contesting.\u00a0 It will also give a flavour of the more advanced techniques adopted by more experienced and extreme contesters and explain what it takes to achieve a world win in the largest events of the year.<\/p>\n<h3>About Mark<\/h3>\n<p>Mark is the founder of Contest University UK and is the current holder of the all-time England record for the CQWW CW, CQ WPX CW and IOTA contests as well as many more single band records.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of the K3LR Multi-Multi USA and TI7W Costa Rica Teams and also a committee member for CQ World Wide.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch live<\/h3>\n<p><em>Tonight @ 8<\/em>\u00a0webinars are live-streamed for free on our\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/theRSGB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube channel<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/batc.org.uk\/live\/rsgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special BATC channel<\/a><\/strong>, allowing you to watch the presentations and ask questions online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark&#8217;s presentation Mark will talk about the very exciting world of contesting, also known as radio sport. He will explain how this aspect of amateur radio can be not only a good test for your station but also a great way to make lots of QSOs with many countries in a short period of time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tonight-at-eight-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}