{"id":11043,"date":"2024-01-17T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/17\/listen-to-this-great-contact-with-ka1bwo-on-10-meter-am-1800-miles-with-4-watts-am\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:42","slug":"listen-to-this-great-contact-with-ka1bwo-on-10-meter-am-1800-miles-with-4-watts-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/17\/listen-to-this-great-contact-with-ka1bwo-on-10-meter-am-1800-miles-with-4-watts-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to this great contact with KA1BWO on 10 meter AM &#8212; 1800 miles with 4 watts AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gFfRtYR8HSs?si=SNtX_3cs-dwpbKZ8?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Joe KA1BWO is a well-known AM operator who moved West to Idaho several years ago. <\/b><b>We had a very nice contact on 10 meter AM on January 14, 2024. See the video above. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I was using an old CB rig that I had converted to legitimacy on 10 meters using the mod developed by Jerry K5JC: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;\"><span face=\"Roboto, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #0f0f0f;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcoffman.net\/WB5RUA\/10_meter_AM_conversion_w_Photos.html\" style=\"color: #6131bd; text-decoration-line: none;\">http:\/\/www.jcoffman.net\/WB5RUA\/10_meter_AM_conversion_w_Photos.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b>I was running 4 watts on AM to a Hex beam. The signal path was over 1800 miles from Virginia to Idaho. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe KA1BWO is a well-known AM operator who moved West to Idaho several years ago. We had a very nice contact on 10 meter AM on January 14, 2024. See the video above. I was using an old CB rig that I had converted to legitimacy on 10 meters using the mod developed by Jerry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/17\/listen-to-this-great-contact-with-ka1bwo-on-10-meter-am-1800-miles-with-4-watts-am\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Listen to this great contact with KA1BWO on 10 meter AM &#8212; 1800 miles with 4 watts AM&#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":[124,130,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-meters","category-am","category-cb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043","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=11043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11244,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043\/revisions\/11244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}