{"id":10699,"date":"2021-05-30T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/30\/qrp-qrp-contact-from-dominican-republic\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:58:14","slug":"qrp-qrp-contact-from-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/30\/qrp-qrp-contact-from-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"QRP &#8211; QRP Contact from Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-1955.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1536\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-1955.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">It took some brass pounding on my homebrew key, but on May 28, 2021 I made a real QSO from the eastern tip of the island of Hispaniola. KJ4R came back to my CQ near 14.060 MHz. I was running just 1-2 watts from my SST transceiver to an end-fed half wave antenna. Ed KJ4R was in South Carolina running 5 watts, also to an EFHW antenna. TRGHS. Thanks Ed. And thanks to Bob Scott KD4EBM and Wayne Burdick N6KR.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took some brass pounding on my homebrew key, but on May 28, 2021 I made a real QSO from the eastern tip of the island of Hispaniola. KJ4R came back to my CQ near 14.060 MHz. I was running just 1-2 watts from my SST transceiver to an end-fed half wave antenna. Ed KJ4R &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/05\/30\/qrp-qrp-contact-from-dominican-republic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;QRP &#8211; QRP Contact from Dominican Republic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,69,202,116,19,87,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20-meters","category-antennas","category-burdick-wayne","category-cw","category-dominican-republic","category-qrp","category-sst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699","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=10699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10701,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699\/revisions\/10701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}