{"id":6001,"date":"2021-09-08T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/08\/sst-qrp-on-the-beach\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:35","slug":"sst-qrp-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/08\/sst-qrp-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"SST — QRP On The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Up in a beach house on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, I put the SST on 20 meters using an End-fed Half Wave antenna and QRP-guys tuner. Conditions were pretty bad, with solar storms causing disturbances in propagation, but I did manage to get picked up by RBN skimmers in Iceland, Germany and Italy (see below). And I had one nice QRP-QRP contact with DK4AN.<\/div>\n
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I was having trouble getting out until I used the oar to raise the central portion of the half wave antenna — that’s where the current is. <\/div>\n
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Thanks again to Bob KD4EBM for sending me the SST. <\/div>\n
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Up in a beach house on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, I put the SST on 20 meters using an End-fed Half Wave antenna and QRP-guys tuner. Conditions were pretty bad, with solar storms causing disturbances in propagation, but I did manage to get picked up by RBN skimmers in Iceland, Germany and Italy (see … Continue reading “SST — QRP On The Beach”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,87,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-qrp","category-sst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6007,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions\/6007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}