{"id":344,"date":"2013-04-01T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T17:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=344"},"modified":"2017-04-24T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:00:08","slug":"major-upgrade-to-w1sye-antenna-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Major Upgrade to W1SYE Antenna System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">The original W1SYE Repeater antenna had been damaged during recent storms, and water ingress had degraded the signal. \u00a0Club members Rick Brendlinger (N3RWB), John King (WA1ABI), John Mills (N1JSM), and Willy MacLean (W1LY), plus\u00a0Henrikas Tamulynas, spent three days working on the antenna system. \u00a0They spent two days assembling a new G7, taking down the old antenna, and installing the new one. \u00a0On the third day they ran 180 feet of new Andrew hard line. This was secured using stainless clamps which were supplied as part of a Red Cross antenna upgrade package and augmented with hardware supplied by John King and John Mills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">After cleaning up all existing coax and topping up the battery the repeater was tested and found to be much improved. \u00a0Besides this new antenna system, there are two spare runs of coax, the control antenna, and a backup 2 meter antenna on the tower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 21px;\">Members are reminded that\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Rich Travers (N1ZSR) runs a net each night at 7 PM (<a title=\"Repeaters\" href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?page_id=11\">details on Web site<\/a>) and with the improved operation of the W1SYE machine, increased club usage is encouraged.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">You can see a few photos of the antenna work on the <a title=\"Photos\" href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?page_id=98\">photo tab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original W1SYE Repeater antenna had been damaged during recent storms, and water ingress had degraded the signal. \u00a0Club members Rick Brendlinger (N3RWB), John King (WA1ABI), John Mills (N1JSM), and Willy MacLean (W1LY), plus\u00a0Henrikas Tamulynas, spent three days working on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-president","category-public-service","category-repeater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}