{"id":1307,"date":"2019-02-05T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T02:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:46:19","slug":"testing-a-40m-wire-dipole-on-mt-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/2019\/02\/05\/testing-a-40m-wire-dipole-on-mt-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing a 40m Wire Dipole on Mt. Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YiUQbc_Ia44\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick video showing how I deployed a DIY 40m dipole antenna on Mt. Hood a while back. Though not the most interesting video, I think it shows the results pretty well. I used an AirSpy HF+ supplied by KK7B for a project I&#8217;m working on. A Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 helped stave off the rain.<\/p>\n<p>The dipole itself is two sections of 65 ft speaker wire connected to an SO-239 connector. I took a couple of sections of PVC and drilled holes in the end so I could attach some paracord and hoist it into the air. I tuned the antenna using a fancy MFJ-259C antenna tuner. Bethany and I both had very cold fingers after pulling the antenna down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting more on this as it develops&#8230; for real though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick video showing how I deployed a DIY 40m dipole antenna on Mt. Hood a while back. Though not the most interesting video, I think it shows the results pretty well. I used an AirSpy HF+ supplied by KK7B for a project I&#8217;m working on. A Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 helped stave off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[312,240,313,61,311,314],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-40m","tag-antenna","tag-mountain","tag-radio","tag-sdr","tag-sota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}