{"id":6234,"date":"2011-04-12T23:05:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T03:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=6234"},"modified":"2011-04-14T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T12:00:26","slug":"out-of-my-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/out-of-my-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"out of my tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00090-20110412-1946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6236\" title=\"j-pole (plus cane) in the manitoba maple\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00090-20110412-1946.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00090-20110412-1946.jpg 512w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00090-20110412-1946-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00090-20110412-1946-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>Well, the above may not be the most orthodox antenna placement, but my <a href=\"http:\/\/mapleleafcom.com\/portable_jpole_antennas.shtml\">Maple Leaf Communications Portable J-Pole<\/a> works a champ when wedged in the tree by our deck. Important reception equipment is here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00090-20110412-1946.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00091-20110412-2004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6235\" title=\"radio and innes &amp; gunn blonde\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00091-20110412-2004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00091-20110412-2004.jpg 512w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00091-20110412-2004-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/xIMG00091-20110412-2004-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was on two nets tonight; the <a href=\"http:\/\/ve3we.org\/archives\/2228\">SARC 2m net<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marc.on.ca\/marc\/home.asp\">The Mississauga Amateur Radio Club<\/a>&#8216;s 8:30pm 2m net. I think I&#8217;ve got the hang of squelch on the Wouxun now \u00e2\u20ac\u201d thanks to Chris and Nick (VE3CLT [of the <a title=\"Computer Power Supply Converted to 13.8V for Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transmission1.co.uk\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=34&amp;t=17983\">awesome PC PSU mod<\/a>] and VE3EBC) for the advice basically to never use CTCSS on a repeater that you&#8217;re not 100% sure uses it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the above may not be the most orthodox antenna placement, but my Maple Leaf Communications Portable J-Pole works a champ when wedged in the tree by our deck. Important reception equipment is here: I was on two nets tonight; the SARC 2m net and The Mississauga Amateur Radio Club&#8216;s 8:30pm 2m net. I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2290],"tags":[167,2292,2291,2286],"class_list":["post-6234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-beer","tag-j-pole","tag-net","tag-va3pid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1Cy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}