{"id":6126,"date":"2017-12-29T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/12\/29\/caribbean-beach-listening-post\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:23:46","slug":"caribbean-beach-listening-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/12\/29\/caribbean-beach-listening-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Beach Listening Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh man, I wish I was still there. It was 85F and very nice on Christmas Eve on the Eastern tip of the Island of Hispaniola in the Dominican Republic. I wasn’t transmitting — this time I was just doing some listening with my trusty Sony SW receiver. But it did occur to me that the palm trees would have been EXCELLENT antenna supports. <\/b><\/div>\n

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On December 24, 2017 around midday on 17 meter SSB I heard: <\/b><\/div>\n
NE2Q, NO4FR, IZ2LSR, N4DIR, PA1CC, N4LO, EA7JR, MI0TLG, VE1IOU, PA3WB, IU5FFM, KD4POK, HK2RMR, KB5VUM AND KG9DW I was just using the little telescoping antenna that comes with the Sony. <\/b><\/div>\n
On December 26, 2017 also around midday I heard on 20 meter CW K8GL AND ZS1C. They were in contact — I was located between them. <\/b><\/div>\n

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I am now back in Virginia where it is 15F, dark and windy. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh man, I wish I was still there. It was 85F and very nice on Christmas Eve on the Eastern tip of the Island of Hispaniola in the Dominican Republic. I wasn’t transmitting — this time I was just doing some listening with my trusty Sony SW receiver. But it did occur to me that … Continue reading “Caribbean Beach Listening Post”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,19,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17-meters","category-dominican-republic","category-short-wave-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126","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=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}