{"id":3506,"date":"2017-08-20T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2017-08-20T20:57:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T00:57:44","slug":"beavertail-lighthouse-activation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"Beavertail Lighthouse Activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five NCRC members, Paul N1PSX, Steve KC1AQQ, Scott WX1X, Mike AA1XQ, and Dave KC1GPA, activated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/beavertail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beavertail Lighthouse<\/a> yesterday during the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. \u00a0Operating as W1SYE, they made approximately 80 contacts on 20 meters from about noon until 3 PM. \u00a0Band conditions were beyond horrible yesterday, with long duration deep fades.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3507\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3507\" class=\"wp-image-3507 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Station setup in tent just in back of the lighthouse. Paul N1PSX just visible on left<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3508\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3508\" class=\"wp-image-3508 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BL3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rather than use the 63 foot base loaded vertical, the team erected a dipole using greenstick, a better choice for 20 meters<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to Scott WX1X for the photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five NCRC members, Paul N1PSX, Steve KC1AQQ, Scott WX1X, Mike AA1XQ, and Dave KC1GPA, activated Beavertail Lighthouse yesterday during the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. \u00a0Operating as W1SYE, they made approximately 80 contacts on 20 meters from about noon until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}