{"id":12244,"date":"2019-06-16T11:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T19:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=12244"},"modified":"2019-06-16T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T19:20:24","slug":"what-happened-at-the-may-2-2019-sdxa-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=12244","title":{"rendered":"WHAT HAPPENED AT THE MAY 2, 2019  SDXA MEETING?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Mel N7GCO gave an introduction to the newest digital mode by Joe Taylor and friends called <strong>FT4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ft4-screen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ft4-screen-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ft4-screen-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ft4-screen.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Show and Tell<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>Several hams showed off their projectile air &#8220;guns&#8221; to launch a weight with a fishing line over tall trees to eventually be able pull up a dipole, inverted V, or other wire antenna.   A fly fishing rod was even shown for those who know how to manipulate the skill.  Among the presenters were:<\/p>\n<p>1. John (K7KB) \u201cSerial rotor control box\u201d &#8211; but the internet connection at the library was not behaving.<br \/>\n2. Mike (K7STO) \u201cNON-Tennis Ball Antenna Launcher\u201d<br \/>\n3. Harold (AD7QJ) \u201cTennis Ball Antenna Launcher\u201d<br \/>\n4. Bob (K7TM) \u201cAntenna Launcher #3\u201d<br \/>\n5. David (WA7TNT) \u201cICOM AH-4 Modification\u201d &#8211; He showed his modifications to the ICOM AH4 remote tuner so one can disconnect the control cable and coax from the unit without going inside it, which is a feat due to the number of small screws and a very thin formed gasket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12245,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions\/12245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}