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I got a warm reception from some folks on the repeaters, including a chat with a gentleman in Goose Creek, SC, about 160 miles south of here. Turns out that some of the repeaters in South Carolina are networked together on the weekend. I was surprisingly nervous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First on-air contact with my HT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-9I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":599,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=599","url_meta":{"origin":602,"position":0},"title":"CQ, CQ, CQ This is KK4LZQ calling","author":"Jorah","date":"October 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"CQ, CQ, CQ calling CQ 2 meters. 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