{"id":1313,"date":"2025-01-27T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/27\/first-10-meter-am-contact-from-hi7-n2cqr\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:59","slug":"first-10-meter-am-contact-from-hi7-n2cqr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/27\/first-10-meter-am-contact-from-hi7-n2cqr\/","title":{"rendered":"First 10 Meter AM Contact from Hi7\/N2CQR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rin36IOvMYQ?si=c1Jw0O5T0-5_eOO1?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I threw this in the bag on the way to the DR, almost as an afterthought. But I am glad I did. Today, watching reports on my 10 meter CW beacon (Mike WN2A provided the keyer), I noticed that my signal was unusually strong. At W3POA I was 7 db above the noise. At DF2CK I was 4 db above the noise. So I switched to the 10 meter AM rig (which is a converted GE brand CB rig) and worked John G3YPZ (see video above). I was running about 5 watts to a quarter wave vertical. But the signal reached the UK. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b>Here are some details on my rig: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2025\/01\/looking-for-contacts-on-10-meter-am.html&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1738080255313000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1AqoC3Bf2iUZiTVvKhzEgI\" href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2025\/01\/looking-for-contacts-on-10-meter-am.html\" style=\"color: #1155cc;\" target=\"_blank\"><b>https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.<wbr><\/wbr>com\/2025\/01\/looking-for-<wbr><\/wbr>contacts-on-10-meter-am.html<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>And <a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/11\/bill-n2cqr-goes-citizen-band.html&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1738080255313000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0kmAouPFTA8_5zyfISwikX\" href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/11\/bill-n2cqr-goes-citizen-band.html\" style=\"color: #1155cc;\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.<wbr><\/wbr>blogspot.com\/2023\/11\/bill-<wbr><\/wbr>n2cqr-goes-citizen-band.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks John! <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I threw this in the bag on the way to the DR, almost as an afterthought. But I am glad I did. Today, watching reports on my 10 meter CW beacon (Mike WN2A provided the keyer), I noticed that my signal was unusually strong. At W3POA I was 7 db above the noise. At DF2CK &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/27\/first-10-meter-am-contact-from-hi7-n2cqr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First 10 Meter AM Contact 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":[124,130,175,19,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-meters","category-am","category-cb","category-dominican-republic","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","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=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11163,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/11163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}