{"id":6372,"date":"2011-05-14T13:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2011-05-14T23:31:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T03:31:49","slug":"g5rv-in-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/14\/g5rv-in-the-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"G5RV in the mist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There it is – I finally have the antenna installed. Works like a champ on 30 to 6m \u00e2\u20ac\u201d when I remember to tune it, that is. I’d really like to thank Bob Morton of Maple Leaf Communications<\/a> for helping me with the equipment choice. There’s also a J-Pole for VHF-UHF out of shot, but they’re not so interesting.<\/p>\n

I’ve spoken on local 10m nets<\/a> (and probably blasted people away, as I was on 100W and didn’t realize it). I’ve mostly been working PSK31 on 20 and 30m \u00e2\u20ac\u201d so far, I’ve reached<\/a> Poland, Russia, Wales, Germany, the US (from WA to FL), the Canary Islands, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico (and been gently berated from there for using too much power, oops). While it would be easy to e-mail folks in all of those countries, with PSK31, you don’t know who you’re going to get. All these folks can be calling in on the waterfall, and if you and they can exchange messages, they’re your neighbours, whether they’re in Podgorny or next door.<\/p>\n

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PSK31<\/a> sounds a bit like aliens whistling. Here’s what my CQ sounds like: va3pid-cq-psk31.mp3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There it is – I finally have the antenna installed. Works like a champ on 30 to 6m \u00e2\u20ac\u201d when I remember to tune it, that is. I’d really like to thank Bob Morton of Maple Leaf Communications for helping me with the equipment choice. There’s also a J-Pole for VHF-UHF out of shot, but […]<\/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":[2302,2303,1215],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-antenna","tag-psk31","tag-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1EM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372","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=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}