{"id":3607,"date":"2024-02-20T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2024-03-03T06:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T11:38:35","slug":"a-real-qso-with-the-norcal-40b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3607","title":{"rendered":"A real QSO with the NorCal 40B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, two watts is useable with an attic antenna for a nice QSO.\u00a0 A little rig like the NorCal 40B goes very nicely for a long rag chew when things are just right (band conditions, time of day and distance).\u00a0 I had just such a QSO with a station about 340 miles away during the daytime hours.\u00a0 Great chat until my fist decided it was time.<\/p>\n<p>This is my temporary QRP r<a href=\"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/NorCal-40B-Operating-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3606 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/NorCal-40B-Operating-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/NorCal-40B-Operating-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/NorCal-40B-Operating-rotated.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>adio setup.\u00a0 The keyboard normally resides on the pullout shelf.\u00a0 (One screw still to be put in the top cover -hi hi.)\u00a0 Behind the radio is my Elecraft W1 Power Meter and the bug is a Lafayette Radio MS-435 circa the early 1960&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, two watts is useable with an attic antenna for a nice QSO.\u00a0 A little rig like the NorCal 40B goes very nicely for a long rag chew when things are just right (band conditions, time of day and distance).\u00a0 I had just such a QSO with a station about 340 miles away during the\u2026 <a class='read-more' href='https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=3607'>Continue Reading &lsquo;A real QSO with the NorCal 40B&rsquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-norcal-40b","category-operating","category-projects","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}