{"id":6246,"date":"2013-10-20T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/bitx-build-update-16-first-qso\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:36:12","slug":"bitx-build-update-16-first-qso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/bitx-build-update-16-first-qso\/","title":{"rendered":"BITX BUILD UPDATE #16 &#8212;  FIRST QSO!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CU7MD.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CU7MD.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <strong>Wow, it is very clear that the radio gods are pleased with my BITX efforts! I had my first QSO on the new rig today. And it was with a station in my old home, the place where I got my start in 17 meter homebrew phone: THE AZORES! CU7MD. Very cool. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it is very clear that the radio gods are pleased with my BITX efforts! I had my first QSO on the new rig today. And it was with a station in my old home, the place where I got my start in 17 meter homebrew phone: THE AZORES! CU7MD. Very cool. Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/10\/20\/bitx-build-update-16-first-qso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BITX BUILD UPDATE #16 &#8212;  FIRST QSO!!!!!!!!!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azores","category-bitx20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","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=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6248,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions\/6248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}