{"id":11,"date":"2016-05-22T19:56:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/?p=11"},"modified":"2016-05-22T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:56:41","slug":"weekend-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, sale<\/a> I sat out on the task of getting my office cleaned up, and my new rigrunner kit installed. \u00a0That may sound like a small task, but it involved rearranging some furniture in my home office to be sure that there was enough space to move around.<\/p>\n

A quick trip to Harbor Freight allowed me to pick up a new ratchet crimper. \u00a0My hope is to use this for the PowerPole connections. \u00a0I was too cheap to drop $50 on the Powerwerx \u00a0brand, so I’m hopeful that these will do the trick.<\/p>\n

However, when I went to hook up the RigRunner kit to my 25 amp power supply from Radio Shack, I found that the 12 gauge wire wasn’t able to connect to the terminals in the back. \u00a0I had the choice to remove the terminals, strip the wire, and run the bare wire into the power supply. \u00a0However, because electricity scares me – I did not. \u00a0I will look and see if I can find another solution.<\/p>\n

I did check into the 146.88 ALERT Sunday Night Net, on my Baofeng HT. \u00a0That’s the first time that I’ve done that in a few years. \u00a0I was told that my volume was a little low, and had to repeat my check-in. \u00a0I may have just been speaking quietly into the HT. \u00a0But my second transmission, on 5W, went without a problem.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0had also planned to check into the 146.580 simplex net. \u00a0However, I have not done any simplex work before. \u00a0I noticed that I was only hearing part of the traffic between net control and the stations checking in. \u00a0I have learned since then that only hearing 1 side of a conversation on simplex is common. \u00a0So I did not attempt to check in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, sale I sat out on the task of getting my office cleaned up, and my new rigrunner kit installed. \u00a0That may sound like a small task, but it involved rearranging some furniture in my home office to be sure that there was enough space to move around. A quick trip to Harbor Freight … Continue reading Weekend Work<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}