{"id":7,"date":"2016-05-16T08:44:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T13:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/?p=7"},"modified":"2017-05-16T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T21:10:52","slug":"expensive-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Expensive Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself in Huntsville this past Friday, so I stopped by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigaparts.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaparts<\/a>\u00a0store. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been wanting to add my Yaesu 2M (FT-8900) radio to my home setup, and didn&#8217;t want to wire the radio directly to my Radio Shack 25amp power supply. \u00a0So I picked up a RigRunner 4005H Complete Powerpole assembly.<\/p>\n<p>I also bought\u00a0a portable 6-Meter J-Pole antenna from KC0ZEO, to put into my go-bag that I keep in my truck:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_4249.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_4249-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4249\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_4249-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_4249-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_4249-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_4249.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks to be a nice little assembly. \u00a0This will give me an excuse to break out my 6M HT and use it. \u00a0I&#8217;ll let you know how it tests out.<\/p>\n<p>I also ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpole-antenna.com\/shop\/2-meter-amateur-radio-j-pole-antenna\/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Pole antenna<\/a>, from KB9VBR, to mount\u00a0in my\u00a0attic.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just need to start putting everything together. \u00a0Easier said than done. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself in Huntsville this past Friday, so I stopped by the Gigaparts\u00a0store. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been wanting to add my Yaesu 2M (FT-8900) radio to my home setup, and didn&#8217;t want to wire the radio directly to my Radio Shack 25amp power supply. \u00a0So I picked up a RigRunner 4005H Complete Powerpole assembly. I also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/?p=7\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expensive Friday<\/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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-ki4eyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ki4eyn.com\/wp3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}