{"id":26,"date":"2007-07-04T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=26"},"modified":"2009-01-26T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T14:17:59","slug":"iota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"IOTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planning to operate IOTA with N4YDU at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaned up and tested the SWR on a couple of vertical antennas today.  One is a hy-gain ATV18 I got on loan from NT4D.  This antenna has seen one too many field days.  The so-239 on the base is broken, but I can use a short coax jumper to feed it. The 10 metertrap seemed intermittent at first, but is working for now.<\/p>\n<p>The other is a 20 meter quarter wave that I made from parts of a broken CB 5\/8 wave.  The base was sound, but I needed to do a bit of surgery on the upper elements.  I also replaced the bolts with hose clamps, and some of the rusted hardware with stainless parts.  This is a project that had been laying around, but a trip to the beach moved it up the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning to operate IOTA with N4YDU at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaned up and tested the SWR on a couple of vertical antennas today. One is a hy-gain ATV18 I got on loan from NT4D. This antenna has seen one too many field days. The so-239 on the base is broken, but I can use a short coax jumper to feed it. The 10 metertrap seemed intermittent at first, but is working for now.<\/p>\n<p>The other is a 20 meter quarter wave that I made from parts of a broken CB 5\/8 wave. The base was sound, but I needed to do a bit of surgery on the upper elements. I also replaced the bolts with hose clamps, and some of the rusted hardware with stainless parts. This is a project that had been laying around, but a trip to the beach moved it up the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}