{"id":7840,"date":"2023-12-28T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/28\/around-the-world-twice-and-maybe-more-on-15-meters\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:02","slug":"around-the-world-twice-and-maybe-more-on-15-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/28\/around-the-world-twice-and-maybe-more-on-15-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the World Twice (and maybe more) on 15 meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image_1753104903.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"333\" data-original-width=\"619\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image_1753104903.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>John EI7GL has a great blog post about some experiments recently done by Salvador EA5Y. Salvador was aiming his 4 element yagi in one direction, sending dits, and watching for the signal to come around the other side. You can see the results in the display above. I commented that this might be the time for one of those antennas with which you can instantly reverse the pattern. Or, probably better, have some other hams aim their antennas in the opposite direction so that they can catch the circumnavigating signals. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Check it out: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ei7gl.blogspot.com\/2023\/12\/twice-around-globe-on-21-mhz-and.html\"><b>https:\/\/ei7gl.blogspot.com\/2023\/12\/twice-around-globe-on-21-mhz-and.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Two trips around is 80,000 km or about 50,000 miles! That&#8217;s quite a trip. But how about 3 times around? Or more? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Thanks to John EI7GL and to Salvador EA5Y. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John EI7GL has a great blog post about some experiments recently done by Salvador EA5Y. Salvador was aiming his 4 element yagi in one direction, sending dits, and watching for the signal to come around the other side. You can see the results in the display above. I commented that this might be the time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/28\/around-the-world-twice-and-maybe-more-on-15-meters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Around the World Twice (and maybe more) on 15 meters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,281,27,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ireland","category-long-delayed-echo","category-propagation","category-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","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=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}