{"id":8564,"date":"2023-07-23T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/23\/first-contacts-with-15-10-rig-two-atlantic-crossings\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:04","slug":"first-contacts-with-15-10-rig-two-atlantic-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/23\/first-contacts-with-15-10-rig-two-atlantic-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"First Contacts with 15-10 Rig &#8212; Two Atlantic Crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/151020first20QSO.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1559\" data-original-width=\"4032\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/151020first20QSO.jpg\" width=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>I was just testing it, working (as usual at this stage) on final amplifier stability. Then I heard ON5WO calling CQ. I could not resist. I worked him, but had to use a test lead to manually key the .1 kW amplifier. Minutes later I worked OH6RM. He very diplomatically said that I had &#8220;highly unusual audio.&#8221; This was probably due to earlier efforts to shift the carrier oscillator to improve carrier suppression. (I will fix this.) <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I will continue to work on the rig; It should look a bit better when I am done. But hey, it works! It has already crossed the Atlantic. Twice! <\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just testing it, working (as usual at this stage) on final amplifier stability. Then I heard ON5WO calling CQ. I could not resist. I worked him, but had to use a test lead to manually key the .1 kW amplifier. Minutes later I worked OH6RM. He very diplomatically said that I had &#8220;highly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/07\/23\/first-contacts-with-15-10-rig-two-atlantic-crossings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Contacts with 15-10 Rig &#8212; Two Atlantic Crossings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,123,348,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15-meters","category-15-10-transceiver","category-belgium","category-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","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=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}