{"id":4054,"date":"2025-04-25T06:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:34:35","slug":"downsizing-do-not-be-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=4054","title":{"rendered":"Downsizing &#8211; DO NOT BE STUPID!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To say I messed up when downsizing would be an understatement. \u00a0I am seeing this sunspot cycle slip away ( I am 80 do the math). \u00a0If you like to work DX and do not want to settle for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Being heard fairy well 600 mies away<\/li>\n<li>Receive marginal reports up to 2,000 miles away<\/li>\n<li>Work the occasional station beyond that point who works at pulling your signal out of the noise because there is no one else for them to work.<\/li>\n<li>See your signal on the RBN just above the noise level.<\/li>\n<li>Work the same park with the same operator for the 25th time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Do not downsize before really thinking it through!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note: Yes FT8 is ham radio and I do work the mode from time to time. \u00a0It has no personality to me. \u00a0Also, they say it is like shooting fish in a barrel. \u00a0Well my barrel is very large the fish appear to be very small.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To say I messed up when downsizing would be an understatement. \u00a0I am seeing this sunspot cycle slip away ( I am 80 do the math). \u00a0If you like to work DX and do not want to settle for: Being heard fairy well 600 mies away Receive marginal reports up to 2,000 miles away Work\u2026 <a class='read-more' href='https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=4054'>Continue Reading &lsquo;Downsizing &#8211; DO NOT BE STUPID!&rsquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx","category-operating","category-pota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4064,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/4064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}