{"id":144,"date":"2017-11-04T22:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T05:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/?p=144"},"modified":"2017-12-10T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:13:15","slug":"first-reception-of-international-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2017\/11\/first-reception-of-international-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"First Reception of International Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I deployed my <a href=\"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/gear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40-6m OCF dipole<\/a> in my back yard here in Stockton, CA (grid CM98hb), and tuned on 20m on Saturday afternoon, and for the first time on this band found a clear QSO in progress.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJB4J9hA0J8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>W3BQG was transmitting initially with 1000w from near Pittsburgh, PA, and his CQ was answered by someone in Japan, whom I could also hear. He says he later bumped it down to 500w.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the time on simplex conversations like this,\u00a0it&#8217;s one-sided with only the nearer person audible, but this was an easy QSO to follow. I suspect the Japanese operator was sending high wattage as well. This was almost 3pm PDT, so that would have been close to 7am in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>20m is amazing during the day. I wish I could get my antenna real high so I could start trying to contact the busy DX bands. I did try later, calling CQ from KF6UJS\/AG, but no one could hear me. I&#8217;ll keep trying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I deployed my 40-6m OCF dipole in my back yard here in Stockton, CA (grid CM98hb), and tuned on 20m on Saturday afternoon, and for the first time on this band found a clear QSO in progress. W3BQG was transmitting initially with 1000w from near Pittsburgh, PA, and his CQ was answered by someone in Japan, whom I could also hear. He says he later bumped it down to 500w. A lot of the time on simplex conversations like this,\u00a0it&#8217;s one-sided with only the nearer person audible, but this was an easy QSO to follow. I suspect the Japanese operator was sending high wattage as well. This was almost 3pm&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2017\/11\/first-reception-of-international-traffic\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,11,7],"tags":[27,23,24],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-dx","category-phone","tag-dx","tag-hf","tag-interstate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9naFX-2k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":193,"url":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2017\/11\/first-hf-dx-qsos-id-co-and-socal\/","url_meta":{"origin":144,"position":0},"title":"First HF QSOs! 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