{"id":13699,"date":"2020-08-03T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=13699"},"modified":"2020-08-03T13:10:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:10:47","slug":"progress-on-bob-w7sx-antenna-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=13699","title":{"rendered":"Progress on Bob (W7SX) Antenna Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob finished the tower\/antenna installation today on his 6 meter antenna. It is an M2 5 element 6 meter Yagi, on which he modified the driven element into a folded dipole and then fed it with 450 ohm ladder line.<\/p>\n<p>This tower\/antenna is at one the peaks on his property and the base is anchored in a granite outcropping&#8230;all guy anchors are also in granite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-tower-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13653 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-tower-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-tower-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-tower-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-tower-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture 1: construction and mounting of the base plate&#8230;..extra heavy hinge is two telescoped pipes welded to the base and the tower base (standard Rohn backed with 1\/4 inch steel plate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13654 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture 2: Kubota delivering the top section from the shop 400 feet down<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13655 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture 3: tower lowered<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13656 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Bob-Tower-4.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture 4 tower raised with the winch on the Kubota.<\/p>\n<p>The tower is 30 feet but it is at the top of the property with steep drop-offs in most directions.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12666 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/separator-line-300x83.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/separator-line-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/separator-line.png 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob finished the tower\/antenna installation today on his 6 meter antenna. It is an M2 5 element 6 meter Yagi, on which he modified the driven element into a folded dipole and then fed it with 450 ohm ladder line. This tower\/antenna is at one the peaks on his property and the base is anchored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13700,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions\/13700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}