{"id":2306,"date":"2015-09-28T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/first-ever-ssb-homebrew-to-homebrew-contact-by-n2cqr-with\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:03:04","slug":"first-ever-ssb-homebrew-to-homebrew-contact-by-n2cqr-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/first-ever-ssb-homebrew-to-homebrew-contact-by-n2cqr-with\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ever SSB Homebrew to Homebrew Contact by N2CQR.  With&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/N6qwn2cqrqso2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/N6qwn2cqrqso2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <strong><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">2322 miles. 3737 kilometers<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Pete Juliano and I were talking on Skype yesterday evening. He was regaling me with tales of the wonders of his new beam antenna. He mentioned that he was working a lot of East Coast stations&#8230; Wait a minute, I thought, I&#8217;m an East Coast station. And I have a 20 meter rig sitting right in front of me. &#8220;Meet me on 14.190 Pete!&#8221; It took me a minute or so to get the rig connected to the CCI amplifier and the 20 meter dipole. By the time I got everything fired up, there was a station on the frequency. I thought we&#8217;d lost the spot. But no! I realized it was Pete calling me. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>This was extremely cool. Pete was using his ZIA rig with the brand new beam. I was on my VFO BITX20. And I was using the CCI amp that Pete had coached me on (he taught me how to tap the holes for the heat sink). <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>This was the first time I had ever contacted another homebrew SSB station &#8212; and the first time Pete and I had spoken on the air. THE RADIO GODS WANTED THIS ONE TO HAPPEN! <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I recorded the QSO: <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/n6qwn2cqr.mp3\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/n6qwn2cqr.mp3<\/a><\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I will ask Pete to provide more detail regarding the California end of this QSO in the comment section below. Did you have your amplifier on Pete? <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2322 miles. 3737 kilometers Pete Juliano and I were talking on Skype yesterday evening. He was regaling me with tales of the wonders of his new beam antenna. He mentioned that he was working a lot of East Coast stations&#8230; Wait a minute, I thought, I&#8217;m an East Coast station. And I have a 20 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/first-ever-ssb-homebrew-to-homebrew-contact-by-n2cqr-with\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Ever SSB Homebrew to Homebrew Contact by N2CQR.  With&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,46,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20","category-hb2hb","category-juliano-pete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","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=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}