{"id":3002,"date":"2022-04-03T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2022-04-03T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:03:23","slug":"tape-measure-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/tape-measure-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Tape Measure Antenna&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Wind-up tape measure portable antenna for ham radio&#8230;.<br><br><strong>Dan Maloney KC1DJT<\/strong>\u00a0writes on Hackaday about how to convert a wind-up tape measure into a portable amateur radio antenna<br><br>If there\u2019s one thing that amateur radio operators are good at, it\u2019s turning just about anything into an antenna. And hams have a long history of portable operations, too, where they drag a (sometimes) minimalist setup of gear into the woods and set up shop to bag some contacts. Getting the two together, as with this field-portable antenna made from a tape measure, is a double win in any ham\u2019s book.<br><br>For [Paul (OM0ET)], this build seems motivated mainly by the portability aspect, and less by the \u201cwill it antenna?\u201d challenge. In keeping with that, he chose a 50-meter steel tape measure as the basis of the build.<br><br>Read the Hackaday post and watch the video at:<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2022\/03\/30\/wind-up-tape-measure-transformed-into-portable-ham-antenna\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2022\/03\/30\/wind-up-tape-measure-transformed-into-portable-ham-antenna\/<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind-up tape measure portable antenna for ham radio&#8230;. Dan Maloney KC1DJT\u00a0writes on Hackaday about how to convert a wind-up tape measure into a portable amateur radio antenna If there\u2019s one thing that amateur radio operators are good at, it\u2019s turning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/tape-measure-antenna\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}