{"id":3161,"date":"2015-10-04T22:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T21:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2015-10-04T22:26:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T21:26:19","slug":"rsgb-2128-mhz-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/rsgb-2128-mhz-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB 21\/28 MHz contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB contest provided an ideal opportunity to focus activity on the higher HF bands. Previous John M0UKD and I had built beams for \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qsl.net\/dk7zb\/3-Ele-Kurzwelle\/10m-28Ohm.htm\" target=\"_blank\">28 MHz 3e beam<\/a> and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qsl.net\/dk7zb\/3-Ele-Kurzwelle\/4-15m-28ohm.htm\" target=\"_blank\">21 MHz 4e beam<\/a>\u00a0using the design on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qsl.net\/dk7zb\/start1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">DK7ZB<\/a>website. \u00a028 MHz is a compact design using a 3m boom, and 21 MHz is somewhat bigger at 5m boom.<\/p>\n<p>The Racal PU12 mast was used for the 28 MHz antenna and Clark 10 for the 21 MHz antenna. Power was provided by the Honda 2KW silent generator and the radio was provided by George M1GEO the Icom 7700 delivering 200w RF.<\/p>\n<p>The full report and pictures available <a title=\"RSGB 21\/28 MHz report.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.m0taz.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/21317087623_4ce9fa5349_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3162\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/rsgb-2128-mhz-contest\/21317087623_4ce9fa5349_k\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/21317087623_4ce9fa5349_k.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"21317087623_4ce9fa5349_k\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/21317087623_4ce9fa5349_k-1024x576.jpg\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3162 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/21317087623_4ce9fa5349_k-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"21317087623_4ce9fa5349_k\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/21317087623_4ce9fa5349_k-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/21317087623_4ce9fa5349_k-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/21317087623_4ce9fa5349_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB contest provided an ideal opportunity to focus activity on the higher HF bands. Previous John M0UKD and I had built beams for \u00a028 MHz 3e beam and \u00a021 MHz 4e beam\u00a0using the design on DK7ZBwebsite. \u00a028 MHz is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/rsgb-2128-mhz-contest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":""},"categories":[65,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-operating-reports","category-portable","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22sia-OZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}