{"id":32,"date":"2026-09-23T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.w1mv.org\/?p=32"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:00:47","slug":"when-you-need-a-new-windshield-pota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/23\/when-you-need-a-new-windshield-pota\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Need a New Windshield&#8230; POTA!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Tom WA1TOM:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you do when your vehicle needs a new windshield. You pack your POTA gear, play Frogger trying to cross 44, get permission from the U-Haul to access US-0891 from behind their building and go play radio. I hunted KB1WCK Joe and WC1N Bob on CW and KB1NNH Gerry on SSB. Not a bad way to make 2 hours fly by. de WA1TOM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"34\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.w1mv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-1-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-1-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"37\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.w1mv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"35\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.w1mv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-4.jpg 720w, https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" data-id=\"36\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.w1mv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-3.jpg 720w, https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POTA-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tom WA1TOM: What do you do when your vehicle needs a new windshield. You pack your POTA gear, play Frogger trying to cross 44, get permission from the U-Haul to access US-0891 from behind their building and go play radio. I hunted KB1WCK Joe and WC1N Bob on CW and KB1NNH Gerry on SSB. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1mv.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}