{"id":10229,"date":"2009-04-24T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/crossing-a-small-bit-of-the-pond\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:04:58","slug":"crossing-a-small-bit-of-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/crossing-a-small-bit-of-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing a small bit of the pond&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgGJySxrISFCKKbCv27L1Lryn7hwSMEKZlqXSzOM9NsQsjfc7YVyv9ZR6frqrGbIgLw9ZRmnGZkChS963qmRPIwGqyl7buIp8yD4xUj1d5zs58BH9VAGWbb4mZvTKEniL8MWd8mSh6n6HM\/s1600-h\/Oy3JE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Oy3JE.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328112288111932002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I got into WSPR because I wanted to one day walk into my shack and be greeted by a Google map with big long lines showing my milliwatt signal stretching bravely across various oceans. That hasn&#8217;t really happened yet, but I got a taste of it this morning courtesy of OY3JE&#8217;s WSPR station. Jan lives in the Faroe islands, about 1600 miles from me. Last night at around 2300 UTC my 18 mw WSPR signal made it to Jan&#8217;s location. I was 29 db below the noise. Thanks Jan! <br \/>(The images above and below are of Jan&#8217;s locations in the Faroe islands (from his site).<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Oy3je2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Oy3je2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328110680640231730\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got into WSPR because I wanted to one day walk into my shack and be greeted by a Google map with big long lines showing my milliwatt signal stretching bravely across various oceans. That hasn&#8217;t really happened yet, but I got a taste of it this morning courtesy of OY3JE&#8217;s WSPR station. Jan lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/crossing-a-small-bit-of-the-pond\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crossing a small bit of the pond&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faroe-islands","category-wspr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10232,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions\/10232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}