{"id":2118,"date":"2020-01-22T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serg.org.au\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2020-01-22T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:32:43","slug":"dipole-repair-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/dipole-repair-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dipole repair day."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three of our Members have spent nearly eight hours up at the Clubrooms this week replacing and tuning the eighty and forty metre dipoles for the Club Station.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2120\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0618.small_.-JPG-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0618.small_.-JPG-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0618.small_.-JPG-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0618.small_.-JPG-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0618.small_.-JPG-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A fault in the co-axial cable proved very elusive but was finally tracked to a lack of contact between the earth braid and the little metal collar that bears up against the connector to complete the earth contact. Once located it was fixed by removing a little of the outer sheath and soldering the braid to the collar. This made it behave properly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2120\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0618.small_.-JPG-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0618.small_.-JPG-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0618.small_.-JPG-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0618.small_.-JPG-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0618.small_.-JPG-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The team then started on the laborious process of analysing the antennas, lowering them to adjust the length, raise them again to full height and retest the s.w.r.<\/p>\n<p>This took quite a while to get right and accounted for most of the time spent.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the location of the tie off points for the support ropes this was a very tedious job as the mounting points must be kept at a height where passing children, (and others), who may have a streak of sabotage in them can drop our antennas as the Club is located next to a Primary School and alongside the Mt. Gambier Community Garden. Barbed wire also presents a hazard as the tie off points at one end are on top of a security fence surrounding the Community Garden which is part of the Old Gaol Complex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2122\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0624.small_.-JPG-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0624.small_.-JPG-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0624.small_.-JPG-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0624.small_.-JPG-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_0624.small_.-JPG.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A very big \u201cThank you\u201d goes out to Tom, VK5EE, Owen, VK5HOS and Trevor, VK5NC for their patience and persistence.<\/p>\n\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}