{"id":2054,"date":"2009-02-22T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2009-02-22T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T18:32:22","slug":"force-12-from-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/22\/force-12-from-santa-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Force 12 From Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.force12inc.com\/mediac\/400_0\/media\/F12SIG5.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"400\" height=\"532\" \/> In an attempt to improve his antenna situation my dad, KD6EUG, was perusing Craigslist and found a seller in Santa Cruz that was looking to part with his Force 12 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.force12inc.com\/31943\/31964.html\">Sigma 5<\/a>.  I had just been reading about this antenna on one of NE1RD&#8217;s blog&#8217;s:<a href=\"http:\/\/100pounddxpedition.blogspot.com\">The 100lbs DXpedition<\/a>.  Scott used his Sigma 5 on a few DXpeditions and <a href=\"http:\/\/100pounddxpedition.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/force-12-sigma-5-first-impressions.html\">reported<\/a> good results.  The Sigma 5 is a 5 band (20-17-15-12-10) vertical dipole.  This should be easy for my dad to setup at the home QTH in San Jose, CA and also up at the cabin in the Sierras.  I also have high hopes that this antenna will allow for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=1502\">HF QSO<\/a> between my dad and me.  And a big thanks to Jack, WA6FYD who was the previous owner of the Sigma 5.  I got to exchange emails with Jack &#8211; he&#8217;s retired military and a devoted CW aficionado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to improve his antenna situation my dad, KD6EUG, was perusing Craigslist and found a seller in Santa Cruz that was looking to part with his Force 12 Sigma 5. I had just been reading about this antenna on one of NE1RD&#8217;s blog&#8217;s:The 100lbs DXpedition. Scott used his Sigma 5 on a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/22\/force-12-from-santa-cruz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Force 12 From Santa Cruz&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[6,11],"tags":[27,135],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-radio","tag-antenna","tag-kd6eug"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-x8","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","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=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}