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Whoa. Unexpected but received my first QSL card in the mail today from my 2nd ever (and farthest so far) interstate contact: WD1W in Colorado.<\/p>\n

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QSL card from WD1W Chris in Colorado.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What a great ham tradition. I gotta get me some QSL cards made up to send to people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whoa. Unexpected but received my first QSL card in the mail today from my 2nd ever (and farthest so far) interstate contact: WD1W in Colorado. What a great ham tradition. I gotta get me some QSL cards made up to send to people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,7,13,6],"tags":[25,23,24],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx","category-phone","category-qsl","category-ssb","tag-contact","tag-hf","tag-interstate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9naFX-3x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":459,"url":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2018\/03\/first-cw-qso-confirmed\/","url_meta":{"origin":219,"position":0},"title":"First CW QSO Confirmed","author":"AD6DM","date":"March 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I received my first reply QSL card. 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