{"id":20,"date":"2014-04-03T20:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2019-02-19T16:04:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:04:22","slug":"22-december-1969-first-time-i-stayed-up-all-night-to-dx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"22 December 1969 &#8211; First time I stayed up all night to DX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WCCO_Minneapolis_830a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25\" src=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WCCO_Minneapolis_830a-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"WCCO_Minneapolis_830a\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WCCO_Minneapolis_830a-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WCCO_Minneapolis_830a.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WCCO_Minneapolis_830b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26\" src=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WCCO_Minneapolis_830b-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"WCCO_Minneapolis_830b\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WCCO_Minneapolis_830b-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WCCO_Minneapolis_830b.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read in a Popular Electronics Magazine that even AM stations sent QSL cards so I decided to stay up all night on 21\/22 December 1969 to see what I could receive and maybe if things work out, send off reception reports. I had heard WCCO a few times before, and WWL a couple of times. But there had to be other stations out further east there. Sure enough, I heard WHAS for the first time ever. The next day, I spent some time writing the reception reports, and sent them off. A few weeks later, these cards arrived in my mail box!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WWL_New_Orleans_870a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WWL_New_Orleans_870a-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"WWL_New_Orleans_870a\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WWL_New_Orleans_870a-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WWL_New_Orleans_870a.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WHAS_Louisville_840a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WHAS_Louisville_840a-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"WHAS_Louisville_840a\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WHAS_Louisville_840a-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WHAS_Louisville_840a.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I will pull an all nighter on 21\/22 December 2019 to celebrate 50 years since I did it the first time, and try for QSLs from these same three stations. They are all still around in 2014, they should still be around in five more years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read in a Popular Electronics Magazine that even AM stations sent QSL cards so I decided to stay up all night on 21\/22 December 1969 to see what I could receive and maybe if things work out, send off reception reports. I had heard WCCO a few times before, and WWL a couple of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/?p=20\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">22 December 1969 &#8211; First time I stayed up all night to DX<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,50,49,46,47,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6537,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/6537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}