{"id":7269,"date":"2019-12-08T20:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T02:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2019-12-08T20:42:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T02:42:51","slug":"antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=7269","title":{"rendered":"Antenna!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Yesterday: 3 miles with the pup]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finished up my feedline installation yesterday.  I used some 1\/2 inch fiberglass rods from the farm section of the hardware store to make standoffs from the roof line, keeping the feed away from the gutter and roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I drilled a hole in a basement window frame and routed the feedline into my workshop in the basement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I used the network analyzer to find an antenna tuner setting for the CW portions of 80, 40 and 20 meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope to be able to operate the fox hunt this week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve been sneezing and sniffling some, yesterday and today. I think maybe I am catching a cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>But for good news: today was the earliest-sunset day for 2019.  Starting tomorrow the sun will be up a little later in the afternoon every day until the middle of the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Yesterday: 3 miles with the pup] I finished up my feedline installation yesterday. I used some 1\/2 inch fiberglass rods from the farm section of the hardware store to make standoffs from the roof line, keeping the feed away from the gutter and roof. Then I drilled a hole in a basement window frame and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-other-thoughts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","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=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7271,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/7271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}