{"id":963,"date":"2010-06-26T07:45:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T13:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2010-06-26T07:45:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T13:45:37","slug":"antenna-transplant-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Antenna Transplant &#8211; part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/SteppIR-Control-Box.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-964 alignright\" style=\"margin: 8px; width: 150px; height: 74px;\" title=\"SteppIR-Control-Box\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/SteppIR-Control-Box-150x74.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a>Got the new antenna working yesterday.\u00a0 There were a few problems with the cables to sort out but that only took a short time.\u00a0 Then there were several repetitions of <em><strong>RTFM<\/strong><\/em> before I finally figured out how to configure the control box.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that I had to enable the option for 80M in order for <em>any <\/em>band to work.\u00a0 The instruction book did not even hint at this.\u00a0 SteppIR needs some help writing their manuals.<\/p>\n<p>Once it was all working I made contact with stations in Greece and Italy.\u00a0 Not major DX but pretty good for early afternoon. \u00a0 At least it proves the antenna is working.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be playing with it some more today and get a better feeling for its performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got the new antenna working yesterday.\u00a0 There were a few problems with the cables to sort out but that only took a short time.\u00a0 Then there were several repetitions of RTFM before I finally figured out how to configure the control box. Turns out that I had to enable the option for 80M in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}