{"id":10690,"date":"2025-01-01T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-from-the-dominican-republic-skn-from-hi7-n2cqr\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:19","slug":"happy-new-year-from-the-dominican-republic-skn-from-hi7-n2cqr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-from-the-dominican-republic-skn-from-hi7-n2cqr\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year from the Dominican Republic!  SKN from HI7\/N2CQR"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgYY_amyvSbqFOTMFV_XiAHqH_Txwx-1UVtFEeAdu6j3rFDX-_MTW-QHRggMy_o8LrKUxUOZWI0EVYwE7CP5fyPiRCBtAy9c0AofFHb1i3xae0Ow1Jq88XvqiwWlYvDwqoZKfPKk89Q1486JyLQlNORy2vCgQgj5GrnR3HfQvwr72ROp3FJirZ8Gu01flA\/s4032\/IMG_8998.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3024\" data-original-width=\"4032\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_8998-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>As you guys know, here at SolderSmoke we are all about tradition. Things like homebrewing, thermatrons, crystal radios, April 1, and even (at least once a year), MORSE CODE. This morning was the morning for morse. Straight Key Night my friends. I got on the air with a QMX transceiver that my friend Bob had given me, and with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ramvsankar\">Sankar VU3XVR<\/a> key that Farhan gave me a few years ago. It all worked great. First contact was with DF0W, then in quick succession WA3KCP, K3CQR, and K4DY. All 5W 20 meter CW with a 1\/4 wave vertical. TRGHS. FB. HNY!<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SKN20Spots.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"304\" data-original-width=\"681\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SKN20Spots.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">2 days of RBN spots, QMX barefoot to vertical at HI7\/N2CQR<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">December 31, 2024 &#8212; January 1, 2025 <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you guys know, here at SolderSmoke we are all about tradition. Things like homebrewing, thermatrons, crystal radios, April 1, and even (at least once a year), MORSE CODE. This morning was the morning for morse. Straight Key Night my friends. I got on the air with a QMX transceiver that my friend Bob had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-from-the-dominican-republic-skn-from-hi7-n2cqr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy New Year from the Dominican Republic!  SKN from HI7\/N2CQR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,66,159,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cw","category-farhan","category-reverse-beacon-network","category-summers-hans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10694,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions\/10694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}