{"id":5451,"date":"2020-01-14T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/01\/14\/aeronautical-mobile-contact-from-the-dominican-republic\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:03:32","slug":"aeronautical-mobile-contact-from-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/01\/14\/aeronautical-mobile-contact-from-the-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeronautical Mobile Contact from the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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On the morning of January 9, 2020, I was up early, sitting alone out in my open-air tropical hamshack on Bahia Rincon on the Samana peninsula of the Dominican Republic. I had been looking at the stars. As the sky brightened I was listening to band noise from a still-dead 20 meter band on my uBITX. <\/b>

<\/b> Skies were partly cloudy. The Big Dipper hung upside down in front of me. I had also seen Corvus, Scorpio, Andromeda, and Leo. There were a few meteors and one bright satellite. <\/b>

<\/b> But 20 was quiet… until, suddenly, BOOM! A very loud and clear SSB signal came through. It was KX4WE\/Aeronautical Mobile. Mike was in a 767. I called him and he came back right away, giving me a 57 report. He gave his position as 170 miles Northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was heading to Port-o-Spain, Trinidad from Miami. We had a quick QSO — it reminded me a lot of my contacts with the MIR space station from Santo Domingo<\/a> in the mid-1990s. Suddenly Mike’s signal dropped very significantly. I figured that he had moved further south and was no longer line-of-site with me. I had some hills to my south and they were now attenuating Mike’s signal. I could hear him working M0NKL. We were Mike’s only two contacts on 20. <\/b>

<\/b> I realized later that had I looked up, I might have seen the lights of the plane. Below is the track of the aircraft. He was at 35,000 feet when he passed over the DR. <\/b>

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This contact was a lot of fun. Thanks Mike! <\/b><\/div>\n


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