{"id":3100,"date":"2017-07-16T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2017-07-15T20:21:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T03:21:14","slug":"more-geeky-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/more-geeky-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"More Geeky Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I haven\u2019t had much time to play lately, I have been doing more with the new ham radio hobby. First, I had been studying to upgrade my license from \u201cTechnician\u201d to \u201cGeneral,\u201d which gives me more extensive privileges on the radio. It won\u2019t have much practical effect for now, but I\u2019m glad I got it done.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had a couple of opportunities to go to the workshop, and I went to a ham radio group picnic. While at the shop I started on some homemade ham antennas.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The picnic was to include an \u201cantenna party\u201d where we could get help from more experienced hams in building our own antennas. I wanted to get a head start, because I knew I needed to have some of the parts ready in advance.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> This is kind of a unique antenna, since it does not include a physical connection between the radio and the antenna. The walkie talkie clips on to a bracket on the antenna, and those rods (elements) are supposed to enhance the signal. I don\u2019t have high hopes for it, and I haven\u2019t had time to test it, but it was in interesting experiment.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The second antenna does have a wire connection to the radio. I haven\u2019t had a chance to test this one either. It isn\u2019t pretty, but it\u2019s more likely to work. Both are intended to be more or less portable.<\/p>\n

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Although I haven\u2019t had much time to play lately, I have been doing more with the new ham radio hobby. First, I had been studying to upgrade my license from \u201cTechnician\u201d to \u201cGeneral,\u201d which gives me more extensive privileges on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-news","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}