{"id":1495,"date":"2009-01-10T11:30:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2009-01-10T11:30:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T15:30:47","slug":"big-antennas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/01\/10\/big-antennas\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Antennas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m on a local ham radio mailing list. (Though I’m actually not sure how this came to be.)<\/p>\n

So a few neat links. The first is a yagi for 160 meters<\/a>. Antenna size is inversely proportional to frequency, and 160 meters is the lowest ham radio frequency out there. The notion of a 160 meter yagi is almost obscene. You can just barely make out that there are two people working in the antenna.<\/p>\n

There are also photos as a neat site called Artificial Owl of the former Russian Woodpecker<\/a>, a Cold War-era “over-the-horizon radar” meant at detecting incoming missiles. It’s rumored to have transmitted as much as 10 million Watts (ERP), spewing interference all over the HF\/shortwave bands the world over.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m on a local ham radio mailing list. (Though I’m actually not sure how this came to be.) So a few neat links. The first is a yagi for 160 meters. Antenna size is inversely proportional to frequency, and 160 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-links","category-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}