{"id":253,"date":"2013-02-28T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/?p=253"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:08:22","slug":"what-kind-of-antenna-does-w0zsw-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/2013\/02\/28\/what-kind-of-antenna-does-w0zsw-use\/","title":{"rendered":"What kind of antenna does W0ZSW use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The antenna at W0ZSW is a 200 foot long double extended Zepp, otherwise known around here as a &#8220;W0OXB Special&#8221;.\u00a0<!--more--> It is fed in the center with 450 ohm ladder line to a current balun.\u00a0 The current balun transform impedance and also allows us to match 50 ohm coaxial cable &#8211; a very short run of just a few feet to a manual antenna switch and an LDG AT-200Pro automatic antenna tuner.<\/p>\n<p>The antenna must be tuned to receive and transmit properly, so the LDG takes care of that when RF is applied.\u00a0 Tuning takes up to 10-15 seconds if a frequency has not previously been tuned.\u00a0 Once the LDG has automatically tuned a frequency, it is memorized and tuning is nearly instantaneous.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/balun_cover1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-169\" alt=\"The plastic food container covers the MFJ current balun at the point of entry outside the ham shack.\" src=\"http:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/balun_cover1-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/balun_cover1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/balun_cover1.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plastic food container covers the MFJ current balun at the point of entry outside the ham shack.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The antenna at W0ZSW is a 200 foot long double extended Zepp, otherwise known around here as a &#8220;W0OXB Special&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handiham.org\/remotebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}