{"id":7831,"date":"2026-01-23T13:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:37:39","slug":"position-two-metre-beacon-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/position-two-metre-beacon-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Position two metre beacon antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday 20\/1\/26 Nick VK5NJS and Norbert VK5MQ re-positioned the two metre clover leaf antenna for the 144.550MHz beacon.<\/p>\n<p>Previously the beacon was seriously desensing the 2M repeater and we had found it necessary to turn the beacon off.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than being less than 2 or 3 metres from the repeater antenna it has now been relocated\u00a0 about half way up the tower. Desense has gone and the beacon is performing as it should.<\/p>\n<p>John VK5DJ and Tom VK5NFT were on site for encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7832\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7832 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2M-re-position-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2M-re-position-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2M-re-position.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clover leaf about halfway up on left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}