{"id":5675,"date":"2009-09-21T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/weekend-qsos-from-ponticelli-on-40-20-and-15\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:26:43","slug":"weekend-qsos-from-ponticelli-on-40-20-and-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/weekend-qsos-from-ponticelli-on-40-20-and-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend QSOs from Ponticelli on 40, 20, AND 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi0qioPjhUjivf4gQQitgFuJlp3C8hzlBdDB3Gp3enJQNqQO7ClsUzI6BtuNCwoK_Oj0vbn6WYhKes9HHKkfIIxtNhQkjchP1Cs05S_CWnNkr1-IlrYg8ndSyCtYD0BWGWDvL_r2WI30uw\/s1600-h\/kvivikCMS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/kvivikCMS.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383767926025667746\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>When we returned to the Ponticelli site on Saturday I found that one end of my new doublet antenna had fallen down. No problem. One throw of the old rock-and-string and we were back in business. On Sunday I fired up the solar-powered HW8 and worked four stations on three bands: OZ8SW and US7IVW on 20, S59DDR on 40, and &#8211;icing on the cake&#8211; OY1CT in the Faeroe Islands on 15 meters (the picture above is of his QTH). I haven&#8217;t had a contact on 15 in a long time. I really like the frequency flexibility of the twin-lead doublet antenna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we returned to the Ponticelli site on Saturday I found that one end of my new doublet antenna had fallen down. No problem. One throw of the old rock-and-string and we were back in business. On Sunday I fired up the solar-powered HW8 and worked four stations on three bands: OZ8SW and US7IVW on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/weekend-qsos-from-ponticelli-on-40-20-and-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend QSOs from Ponticelli on 40, 20, AND 15&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,458,15,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-faroe-islands","category-hw-8","category-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675","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=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5677,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}