{"id":4899,"date":"2015-08-02T09:19:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2015-08-02T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T14:33:45","slug":"operating-from-the-back-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4899","title":{"rendered":"Operating from the back porch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Wednesday: 3.4; Saturday (yesterday): 6 miles]<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been blogging like I&#8217;m supposed to!\u00a0 Sorry about that.<\/p>\n<p>On the Thursday night 20 meter fox hunt I operated from the back porch.\u00a0 I strung up a dipole made from two wires and a length of 300-ohm TV-twinlead.\u00a0 That fed into my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norcalqrp.org\/norcal_blt.htm\">BLT antenna tuner<\/a>.\u00a0 And I used the Willamette 20 meter transceiver.\u00a0 I also used my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w5jh.net\/brasspaddle.htm\">Arizona Scorpion paddles<\/a> and some ear buds.<\/p>\n<p>It all worked well.\u00a0 I was able to contact both of the foxes.<\/p>\n<p>And there was a full moon so no artificial light was required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=4900\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4900\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150730_204427_708-675x1200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150730_204427_708\" width=\"675\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150730_204427_708-675x1200.jpg 675w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150730_204427_708-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150730_204427_708.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Wednesday: 3.4; Saturday (yesterday): 6 miles] I haven&#8217;t been blogging like I&#8217;m supposed to!\u00a0 Sorry about that. On the Thursday night 20 meter fox hunt I operated from the back porch.\u00a0 I strung up a dipole made from two wires and a length of 300-ohm TV-twinlead.\u00a0 That fed into my BLT antenna tuner.\u00a0 And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-operating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","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=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4904,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}