{"id":4896,"date":"2015-07-26T16:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T21:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2015-07-26T16:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T21:05:17","slug":"antenna-feed-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4896","title":{"rendered":"Antenna Feed Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Yesterday: 5 miles; today: 4 miles (run\/walk)]<\/p>\n<p>So the next step for the FM radio station antenna is to get it up on the tower.\u00a0 But before that, I need to have a &#8220;jumper&#8221;, a piece of feedline coax cable which will go from my high efficiency non-bendable line to the antenna itself.\u00a0 This part needs to be bendable.<\/p>\n<p>Generally speaking, the non-bendable stuff is higher efficiency and the bendable stuff is lower efficiency, generally.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been digging through my pile and I have a couple of options.\u00a0 I need about 15 feet of cable.\u00a0 I have three about 10 feet long and I could join two of them together.\u00a0 Or I could take the fittings off of one of them and use it on a single piece I have.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t decided yet which way to go.\u00a0 I suspect the single cable with fewer fittings would be &#8220;better&#8221; in an electrical sense, if I could count on my skills putting on the fittings to be as good as the factory-made jobbies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Yesterday: 5 miles; today: 4 miles (run\/walk)] So the next step for the FM radio station antenna is to get it up on the tower.\u00a0 But before that, I need to have a &#8220;jumper&#8221;, a piece of feedline coax cable which will go from my high efficiency non-bendable line to the antenna itself.\u00a0 This part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-book-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4897,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}