{"id":661792,"date":"2020-07-23T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=661792"},"modified":"2020-07-23T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:49:00","slug":"well-known-contester-and-contest-station-builder-grady-ferguson-w5fu-sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=661792","title":{"rendered":"Well-Known Contester and Contest Station Builder Grady Ferguson, W5FU, SK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>\u00a0A well-known contester and the co-builder of contest stations in Texas and Nevada<\/span><span>,<\/span><span> Grady Ferguson, W5FU (ex-NA5R)<\/span><span>,<\/span><span> died of COVID-19 on July 14. He was 76. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He was best known for his activities with the Texas DX Society in the 1970s and 1980s and, with Tom Taormina, K5RC, built a multioperator contest station in Texas that had a few outings before Hurricane Alicia destroyed it in 1983. In 2007<\/span><span>,<\/span><span> &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/well-known-contester-and-contest-station-builder-grady-ferguson-w5fu-sk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Well-Known Contester and Contest Station Builder Grady Ferguson, W5FU, SK<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A well-known contester and the co-builder of contest stations in Texas and Nevada, Grady Ferguson, W5FU (ex-NA5R), died of COVID-19 on July 14. He was 76. He was best known&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}