{"id":2203,"date":"2009-06-04T02:22:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2023-10-16T21:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T21:45:10","slug":"achieved-the-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/04\/achieved-the-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieved the vision&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kx1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\" \/> It has been a long time goal to be able to sit in a comfy deck chair out in the backyard and have CW QSOs using my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsandersen.com\/building\/kx1\/\">Elecraft KX1<\/a>. Tonight it happen!<br \/>\nLast weekend I routed a feedline from an antenna switch down in the ham shack up to the deck in the backyard. I played around with it a bit, using the internal tuner to get a nice SWR on 80M, 40M, 30M and 20M. I listened around and tossed out my callsign a few times but didn&#8217;t have any takers.<br \/>\nI found myself back out in the backyard after dinner tonight, enjoying a wonderful evening. I broke out the KX1 (when I should of been doing my homework) and was listening around on the former 40M novice CW band&#8230;. I heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/WA0TYS\">WA0TYS<\/a> ably using a straight key and a Heathkit rig, calling CQ at a speed I could comfortably handle. I answered and Craig picked me up after a few tries. It was a short QSO, but I was elated. I hope to repeat this performance on a regular basis &#8211; it goes along way in maintaining my sanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long time goal to be able to sit in a comfy deck chair out in the backyard and have CW QSOs using my Elecraft KX1. Tonight it happen! Last weekend I routed a feedline from an antenna switch down in the ham shack up to the deck in the backyard. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/04\/achieved-the-vision\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Achieved the vision&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[39,69,143,197],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-backyard-portable","tag-cw","tag-kx1","tag-qrp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-zx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}