{"id":4305,"date":"2020-05-01T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/10-meter-quarantine-qsos-near-boston-kc1fszs-peppermint-10\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:54:39","slug":"10-meter-quarantine-qsos-near-boston-kc1fszs-peppermint-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/10-meter-quarantine-qsos-near-boston-kc1fszs-peppermint-10\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Meter Quarantine QSOs near Boston &#8212; KC1FSZ&#8217;s Peppermint 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KC1FSZ101.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"382\" data-original-width=\"622\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KC1FSZ101.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"> <b>Hi Guys:<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"> <b><br class=\"yiv2417638009\" \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"> <b>I hope all is well. Thanks for the more frequent episodes!<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"> <b><br class=\"yiv2417638009\" \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"> <b>I\u2019ve not submitted anything lately but I\u2019m still doing a lot of building. Over the last few weeks I\u2019ve been working to get myself on 10 meters. There is some good local activity up here in the Boston suburbs on 10. The result of this effort is the next in the Peppermint Line of high-performance radio products for the discerning operator: <span class=\"yiv2417638009\">The Peppermint 10<\/span>. This rig uses digital VFOs and puts out about 12 watts on a good day. It works in conjunction with a direct-conversion receiver that has been modified for 10 meters. The details are described in the write-up (see link):<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"> <b><br class=\"yiv2417638009\" \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"> <b style=\"color: #196ad4;\"><a class=\"yiv2417638009\" href=\"https:\/\/mackinnon-public-web.s3.amazonaws.com\/peppermint-10\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"color: #196ad4;\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mackinnon-public-web.s3.amazonaws.com\/peppermint-10\/index.html <\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">\n<div class=\"yiv0271057569ydpa1b623d7yiv0640613919\"> <b>73s,<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv0271057569ydpa1b623d7yiv0640613919\"> <b><br class=\"yiv0271057569ydpa1b623d7yiv0640613919\" clear=\"none\" \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv0271057569ydpa1b623d7yiv0640613919\"> <b>Bruce KC1FSZ<\/b><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KC1FSZ102.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"470\" data-original-width=\"626\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/KC1FSZ102.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2417638009\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Guys: I hope all is well. Thanks for the more frequent episodes! I\u2019ve not submitted anything lately but I\u2019m still doing a lot of building. Over the last few weeks I\u2019ve been working to get myself on 10 meters. There is some good local activity up here in the Boston suburbs on 10. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/10-meter-quarantine-qsos-near-boston-kc1fszs-peppermint-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10 Meter Quarantine QSOs near Boston &#8212; KC1FSZ&#8217;s Peppermint 10&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-meters","category-direct-conversion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","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=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4308,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}