{"id":10851,"date":"2010-04-29T13:15:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T11:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/blog\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:11:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:11:21","slug":"the-new-book-by-bob-locher-w9kni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/ham-radio-news\/the-new-book-by-bob-locher-w9kni\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Book by Bob Locher W9KNI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/yearofdx-w9kni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10852\" title=\"yearofdx-w9kni\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/yearofdx-w9kni-555x311.jpg\" width=\"555\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can a DX&#8217;er from a small town in southwest Oregon hope to compete in the Big Leagues of DX&#8217;ing?\u00a0 Bob Locher, W9KNI, author of the best selling DX Book ever, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idiompress.com\/books-complete-dxer.html\">The Complete DX&#8217;er<\/a>&#8220;, set out on a mission to prove it was possible.\u00a0 &#8220;A Year of DX&#8221; is Bob&#8217;s personal account of the challenges, joys and sorrows in pursuit of the Holy Grail &#8212; winning the CQ DX Marathon.\u00a0 Look over Bob&#8217;s shoulder as he works country after country, yes, and missing a few along the way, but always trying to optimize his chances and the hope of logging the next one.<\/p>\n<p>Mixed in is a wealth of other material, some dealing with equipment optimization, some thoughtful, some humorous. Anyone who enjoyed &#8220;The Complete DX&#8217;er&#8221; will surely be delighted with this book. 280 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Includes chapters on linear amplifiers, transmitter audio optimization, and propagation in a time of low sunspots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idiompress.com\/yearofdx.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Source<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a DX&#8217;er from a small town in southwest Oregon hope to compete in the Big Leagues of DX&#8217;ing?\u00a0 Bob Locher, W9KNI, author of the best selling DX Book ever, &#8220;The Complete DX&#8217;er&#8220;, set out on a mission to prove it was possible.\u00a0 &#8220;A Year of DX&#8221; is Bob&#8217;s personal account of the challenges, joys&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[75,190,194,195,203,234],"class_list":["post-10851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ham-radio-news","tag-book","tag-ham","tag-ham_radio","tag-ham-radio","tag-hamradio","tag-info","category-5","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}