{"id":5385,"date":"2018-05-24T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/05\/24\/an-epic-evening-on-40-meters\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:56:55","slug":"an-epic-evening-on-40-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/05\/24\/an-epic-evening-on-40-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"An Epic Evening on 40 Meters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had a good night on 40 meters last night. The Radio Gods were obviously with me. <\/b><\/div>\n

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First I called CQ and VP2EIH on Anguilla responded. Nice to start with a whiff of DX. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Then Jason W5IPA called in and said he wanted to try out his uBITX! See the pictures below. FB! <\/b><\/div>\n

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Then I got a call from K5WDW on Hilton Head Island — Dexter runs Collins gear from an ocean-front shack (see above). Check out his QRZ page. <\/b><\/div>\n


<\/b> Then WA4PUB called in. Dave has been on the air since 1948 and was a student of legendary ham and radio astronomer John Kraus. Dave has directional antennas on 40 — when he switched the pattern he went from LOUD to barely detectable. FB. Check out Dave’s homebrew rig below. <\/b>

<\/b> Finally Gary W7DO joined us. He has a big 4 Square on 40 that also has some really impressive directional properties. See below for a look at his 80 meter 4 Square. <\/b>

<\/b> TRGH<\/b>

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I had a good night on 40 meters last night. The Radio Gods were obviously with me. First I called CQ and VP2EIH on Anguilla responded. Nice to start with a whiff of DX. Then Jason W5IPA called in and said he wanted to try out his uBITX! See the pictures below. FB! Then I … Continue reading “An Epic Evening on 40 Meters”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,69,431,455,454,30,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-antennas","category-collins-a-frederick","category-k5wdw","category-kraus-john","category-radio-astronomy","category-ubitx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385","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=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5391,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions\/5391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}