New Band and Some Beisbol

I’m on my holiday break now and am among things doing some radio. I just got the necessary bits to get my Buddipole antenna to work on the 80 meter ham radio band and tonight was the first chance I had to try it out. Success! I had two contacts on 80 meters Morse Code, one to Idaho, another to Banning, California, the latter signals being especially strong.

Tuning up from there, I heard what sounded like a baseball game in Spanish on Radio Rebelde on 5025 kHz. Pica confirmed my identification of the sport. Cuban baseball! Very cool to hear, especially since we are deep into the off-season here in the United States.