{"id":213,"date":"2026-06-18T01:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/?p=213"},"modified":"2026-06-18T01:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:37:45","slug":"d44ec-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/d44ec-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"D44EC in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This afternoon I landed in Praia and after a taxi ride to my holiday QTH, I can now say that D44EC is on the air. The first antenna I set up was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigsignal.es\/en\/antennas\/antenna-big-signal-deltaflex-115.html\">BigSignal Deltaflex<\/a>. I made a few contacts on 15 CW, with good signals in Spain and the EU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a planned break to buy supplies, I resumed transmissions on 15 FT8. The other antenna and equipment won&#8217;t be operational until tomorrow. I&#8217;m currently transmitting with an IC-705 with 10W and the Deltaflex. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0010-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0010-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0010-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0010-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0010-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, it&#8217;s pitch black in Praia, and I&#8217;m working 40m FT8, contacting stations in the EU and USA with good signals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">73s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I landed in Praia and after a taxi ride to my holiday QTH, I can now say that D44EC is on the air. The first antenna I set up was the BigSignal Deltaflex. I made a few contacts on 15 CW, with good signals in Spain and the EU. After a planned break &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/d44ec-in-the-air\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;D44EC in the air&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.d44ec.ec1a.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}