{"id":3518,"date":"2017-01-04T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2017-01-17T21:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T21:45:50","slug":"turkey-wine-and-ultimate-3s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/turkey-wine-and-ultimate-3s\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey, wine and Ultimate 3S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over christmas I decided it was about time I got on with the Ultimate 3S project from QRP Labs. Inspired by George M1 GEO and Dave G7UVW QRSS on 10 MHz i decided to heat up the soldering iron and follow the instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Remembering the old adage &#8220;Bigger the blob, better the job&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here you will find the <a href=\"http:\/\/m0taz.co.uk\/2017\/01\/ultimate-3s-qrsswspr-project\/\">story of the project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/32046890066_bb18ebd23d_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3519\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/turkey-wine-and-ultimate-3s\/32046890066_bb18ebd23d_k\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/32046890066_bb18ebd23d_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=\"32046890066_bb18ebd23d_k\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/32046890066_bb18ebd23d_k-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/32046890066_bb18ebd23d_k-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3519\" src=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/32046890066_bb18ebd23d_k-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"32046890066_bb18ebd23d_k\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/32046890066_bb18ebd23d_k-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/32046890066_bb18ebd23d_k-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/32046890066_bb18ebd23d_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update 17\/1<\/p>\n<p>The TXM has continued to work flawlessly without issue. Ive move the antenna over to a dedicated 1\/4 ground mounted roach pole with 4 radials. The power has been checked again and its 250 mW, the best spot I have is from 6500 KM away into Asiatic Russia to the East, and West around the same distance into the USA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wspr_250mw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3527\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/turkey-wine-and-ultimate-3s\/wspr_250mw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wspr_250mw.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"896,426\" 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=\"wspr_250mw\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wspr_250mw-300x143.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wspr_250mw.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3527\" src=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wspr_250mw.jpg\" alt=\"wspr_250mw\" width=\"896\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wspr_250mw.jpg 896w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/wspr_250mw-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over christmas I decided it was about time I got on with the Ultimate 3S project from QRP Labs. Inspired by George M1 GEO and Dave G7UVW QRSS on 10 MHz i decided to heat up the soldering iron and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/turkey-wine-and-ultimate-3s\/\">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":[1],"tags":[171,20,88,172,170,45],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hans-summers","tag-kit","tag-qrp","tag-qrss-project","tag-ultimate-3s","tag-wspr","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22sia-UK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","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=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}