{"id":9752,"date":"2011-11-12T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/12\/sunspots-qrp-dsb-contacts-on-17-meters\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:11:20","slug":"sunspots-qrp-dsb-contacts-on-17-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/12\/sunspots-qrp-dsb-contacts-on-17-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunspots!  QRP DSB contacts on 17 meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/f10.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/f10.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674068347168174994\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">You can see here why I had so much fun in the summer of 2001 with my Azorean Homebrew QRP DSB rig. And why I am now re-CYCLING (get it?) and refurbishing the 17 meter gear that I built last cycle. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&#8217;ve had the DSB rig on the air yesterday and have worked seven stations (2 watts peak DSB to a dipole). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Back to the Future! Someone on QRP-L said the SFI was recently at 180! Go Sol! <\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/>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>You can see here why I had so much fun in the summer of 2001 with my Azorean Homebrew QRP DSB rig. And why I am now re-CYCLING (get it?) and refurbishing the 17 meter gear that I built last cycle. I&#8217;ve had the DSB rig on the air yesterday and have worked seven stations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/12\/sunspots-qrp-dsb-contacts-on-17-meters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunspots!  QRP DSB contacts on 17 meters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,33,27,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azores","category-dsb","category-propagation","category-solar-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752","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=9752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9754,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions\/9754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}