{"id":98,"date":"2019-09-15T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfandjf.hopto.org\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:17:58","slug":"vk3kw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/15\/vk3kw\/","title":{"rendered":"VK3KW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Located in Moe Victoria, Australia in grid square QF31dt. Moe is located about 130km&#8217;s south east of Melbourne in the Latrobe Valley in South and West Gippsland.<\/p>\n<p>My station consists of an Elecraft KX3 (serial 1675) with all the trimmings &#8211; KX3, Roofing Filter, 2 metre module, ATU and charger\/real time clock. I also have a KXPA100 (0530) with inbuilt ATU and a PX3 (233).<\/p>\n<p>My antenna is a 43 foot vertical with a few counterpoise wires with\u00a0 an LDG RT\/RC 100 at the base. I wish I could have a tower with a Yagi but as we are renters that&#8217;s not an option. On the boundary of the property there&#8217;s a great big Eucalypt about 30 metres tall which will quite possibly be pressed into service for one end of a random sloper of some description.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a Yaesu VX-7R, a Yaesu FRG100, a Yaesu FT-817 (non ND) and an old Eddystone EB35 MKII in perfect working order apart from a bit of deafness on FM.\u00a0 Sooner or later I&#8217;ll get around to fixing that though. Of course I have sundry small portable receivers &#8211; mostly Sony.<\/p>\n<p>When I get around to it I&#8217;ll put up a few photos &#8211; probably about when I get around to fixing the Eddystone.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located in Moe Victoria, Australia in grid square QF31dt. Moe is located about 130km&#8217;s south east of Melbourne in the Latrobe Valley in South and West Gippsland. My station consists of an Elecraft KX3 (serial 1675) with all the trimmings &#8211; KX3, Roofing Filter, 2 metre module, ATU and charger\/real time clock. I also have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/15\/vk3kw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VK3KW&#8221;<\/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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}