{"id":58488,"date":"2015-08-14T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=58488"},"modified":"2015-08-14T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T04:48:00","slug":"antenna-and-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/antenna-and-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Antenna and other things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent much of the past few days, getting the 160 <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/meter\/\" title=\"View all articles about meter here\">meter<\/a> loop antenna put up.&#160; It was a 160 <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/meter\/\" title=\"View all articles about meter here\">meter<\/a> dipole then I pulled the ends together last fall and made it an 80 <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>meter<\/strong> loop\u2026 that worked ok but was really odd configured because I couldn\u2019t get it up high on the one <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/side\/\" title=\"View all articles about side here\">side<\/a> and it was too long that with out new corner poles I had to put a \u201cV\u201d in the north <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/side\/\" title=\"View all articles about side here\">side<\/a> to pull it tight\u2026 even in a very odd pattern it worked\u2026 but I had the need for more\u2026 the 80 would not tune on 160 and I want to work the low band\u2026 need one more state there to complete my WAS on 160\u2026 so\u2026 spent some time looking and figuring and came up with setting a couple of 4&#215;4 cedar posts\u2026 at the far points, add a piece to a <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/guy\/\" title=\"View all articles about guy here\">guy<\/a> <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/wire\/\" title=\"View all articles about wire here\">wire<\/a> <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/post\/\" title=\"View all articles about post here\">post<\/a> to get the loop up 24 ft., etc.\u2026 I found that I could use the pole that I had up for a Martin house and add a few feet to that\u2026 then the set 4&#215;4 cedar and then some tie offs in a couple of trees and \u2026 I had enough room to lay out a rectangular loop with enough <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/wire\/\" title=\"View all articles about wire here\">wire<\/a> for 160 meters\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SAM_3158.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SAM_3158\" style=\"border-top: 0px; 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I had to take her and the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>car<\/strong> stayed in the garage\u2026 it is still clean\u2026 We had a little shower come through about 8:30 or so and rained a bit for maybe an hour\u2026 just enough to get mud spots on everything\u2026 not really enough to get wet\u2026 but I did get this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_5440.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_5440\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_5440\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_5440_thumb.jpg?resize=640%2C361\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Been a while since I have seen a full rainbow\u2026 usually only get one end or the other\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>With 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