{"id":1191,"date":"2006-04-27T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2006-04-27T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T20:18:00","slug":"lighthouse-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/27\/lighthouse-activation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighthouse activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/arls.gif\" align=\"left\">On Sunday I headed out to Fort Monroe and activated the Old Point Comfort Lighthouse with limited success.  About 4 hours on the air and two contacts.  The first contact was Colorado, a loud, booming 59.  The next was Virginia Beach&#8230;. about 5 miles across the water.  I need to come up with a better plan than my hamstick vertical.  I&#8217;d like to do the next activation during Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day coming up on Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have any antenna ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday I headed out to Fort Monroe and activated the Old Point Comfort Lighthouse with limited success. About 4 hours on the air and two contacts. The first contact was Colorado, a loud, booming 59. The next was Virginia Beach&#8230;. about 5 miles across the water. I need to come up with a better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/27\/lighthouse-activation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lighthouse activation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[27,135,147,191,200],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-antenna","tag-kd6eug","tag-lighthouses","tag-portable","tag-qso"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-jd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}