{"id":2008,"date":"2015-04-05T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/transcontinental-recording-of-my-bitx-17\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:35:23","slug":"transcontinental-recording-of-my-bitx-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/transcontinental-recording-of-my-bitx-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcontinental Recording of My BITX 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: black;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"background-color: black;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/na1aQSL.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/na1aQSL.jpg\" height=\"275\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I had a nice QSO with Duke, NA1A, out there in Irvine, California on Sunday. Duke has a deep interest in the quality of SSB signals &#8212; he is part of the ESSB group. So I was pleased when he said my BITX 17 sounded good. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/Recording%20by%20NA1A.mp3\"><strong>He recorded<\/strong><\/a><strong> a little bit of my transmission. Click below to listen to the BITX 17 tran-continental, with some help from my CCI amplifier (120 W PEP) and my 17 meter Moxon antenna. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Thanks Duke! <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/Recording%20by%20NA1A.mp3\"><strong>http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/Recording by NA1A.mp3<\/strong><\/a><br \/> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a nice QSO with Duke, NA1A, out there in Irvine, California on Sunday. Duke has a deep interest in the quality of SSB signals &#8212; he is part of the ESSB group. So I was pleased when he said my BITX 17 sounded good. He recorded a little bit of my transmission. Click &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/transcontinental-recording-of-my-bitx-17\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transcontinental Recording of My BITX 17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","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=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}