{"id":12,"date":"2016-05-22T20:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T01:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/?p=12"},"modified":"2017-05-12T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T18:25:29","slug":"j-pole-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"J-Pole Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I received the 2M J-pole antenna that I ordered from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpole-antenna.com\" target=\"_blank\">jpole-antenna.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m used to receiving over-packed items from Amazon, but the packaging on this one looked a little&#8230; sparse. \u00a0With some instructions that were apparently not followed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0567.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0567-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0567\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0567-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0567-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0567-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0567.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which resulted in a box looking like this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0569.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0569-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0569\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0569-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0569-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0569-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0569.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And even worse, an antenna looking like this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0571.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0571-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0571\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0571-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0571-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0571-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0571.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it was no big deal. The soldered connections looked good, and I was able to bend it back into shape:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0573.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0573-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0573\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0573-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0573-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0573-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_0573.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the connections had been damaged, I would have been upset.  I opted to buy the antenna, instead of making one myself, just to get up and running a little quicker.  I&#8217;ll hopefully give it a trial run this weekend.  I would only offer a friendly suggestion, to KB9VBR, that he package his antennas to survive a harsher transit experience.  Never underestimate what the UPS \/ FedEx \/ USPS folks can do.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I received the 2M J-pole antenna that I ordered from\u00a0jpole-antenna.com. Maybe I&#8217;m used to receiving over-packed items from Amazon, but the packaging on this one looked a little&#8230; sparse. \u00a0With some instructions that were apparently not followed: Which resulted in a box looking like this: And even worse, an antenna looking like this: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/?p=12\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">J-Pole Antenna<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","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=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}