{"id":2087,"date":"2021-12-18T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/18\/on-17-meter-cw-from-santo-domingo-with-a-ubitx\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:06","slug":"on-17-meter-cw-from-santo-domingo-with-a-ubitx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/12\/18\/on-17-meter-cw-from-santo-domingo-with-a-ubitx\/","title":{"rendered":"On 17 meter CW from Santo Domingo with a uBITX"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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We are up on the 12th floor of a building in Santo Domingo. I brought my uBITX and managed to check in as baggage a 16-foot crappie fishing pole. I figured I needed to get the 1\/2 wave antenna away from the building — last time I was here I was unable to make any contacts from this location with the antenna stretched along the balcony. Last time I was QRP with an SST transceiver. <\/p>\n

The fishing pole worked well, but I operated with fear that it would fall or that the neighbors would complain). Today I got on 17 CW with the uBITX (more power than the SST), put it on 17 CW and promptly worked W4A, a special events station commemorating E. Howard Armstrong. <\/a> Turns out that today is Armstrong’s birthday. TRGHS. <\/p>\n

On the Reverse Beacon Network my CQs were heard by KO7SS in Arizona <\/a>(very cool skimmer station at 8100 feet!) and by W2NAF<\/a> (interesting operations in Antarctica, Svalbard and Virginia Tech). <\/p>\n

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We are up on the 12th floor of a building in Santo Domingo. I brought my uBITX and managed to check in as baggage a 16-foot crappie fishing pole. I figured I needed to get the 1\/2 wave antenna away from the building — last time I was here I was unable to make any … Continue reading “On 17 meter CW from Santo Domingo with a uBITX”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,224,116,19,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17-meters","category-armstrong-e-howard","category-cw","category-dominican-republic","category-ubitx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","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=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}