{"id":129,"date":"2008-04-27T08:34:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T12:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-04-27T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T12:34:02","slug":"almost-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Almost Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent much of Saturday &#8220;hanging around&#8221; on <a title=\"Other posts about the N1LN tower project\" href=\"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?s=n1ln+tower\" target=\"_self\">N1LN\/N1YXU&#8217;s 40m tower<\/a>.  After a couple of false starts, we got the top 40m antenna cranked up and seated in the rotor.  We then trammed and mounted a Tennadyne log periodic onto the mast about 12 or 15 feet below the top 40m antenna.<\/p>\n<p>That just about wraps up most of the initial construction.  Bruce has a 10m monobander that he plans to install on the lower 40m antenna on the tic ring rotor.  But with 10 meters as exciting as watching paint dry&#8230;.well it just doesn&#8217;t seem like a hot priority.  (except maybe to be able to say &#8220;done&#8221;.  But does the term &#8220;done&#8221; ever actually apply to a radio station?)<\/p>\n<p>But it sure will be interesting to operate from there when the bands are in better condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent much of Saturday &#8220;hanging around&#8221; on N1LN\/N1YXU&#8217;s 40m tower. After a couple of false starts, we got the top 40m antenna cranked up and seated in the rotor. We then trammed and mounted a Tennadyne log periodic onto the mast about 12 or 15 feet below the top 40m antenna.<\/p>\n<p>That just about wraps up most of the initial construction. Bruce has a 10m monobander that he plans to install on the lower 40m antenna on the tic ring rotor. But with 10 meters as exciting as watching paint dry&#8230;.well it just doesn&#8217;t seem like a hot priority. (except maybe to be able to say &#8220;done&#8221;. But does the term &#8220;done&#8221; ever actually apply to a radio station?)<\/p>\n<p>But it sure will be interesting to operate from there when the bands are in better condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}