{"id":2908,"date":"2016-01-24T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/01\/24\/blizzard-prep-priorities-protecting-the-160-meter-l-network\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:13:17","slug":"blizzard-prep-priorities-protecting-the-160-meter-l-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/01\/24\/blizzard-prep-priorities-protecting-the-160-meter-l-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Prep Priorities: Protecting the 160 meter L network!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d been meaning to build a proper cover for my improvised 160 meter L network. The approach of Winter Storm Jonas pushed me into action yesterday afternoon. <\/b>

<\/b> First I mounted the variable cap (from an old Johnson rig) and the roller inductor on a suitably sized piece of wood:<\/b> <\/p>\n

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Then I put the tuner inside an old cooler. I drilled holes in the bottom for the coax and the antenna wire and the ground. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Here it is at the feed point. Pretty cool, don’t you think?<\/b> <\/p>\n

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And here it is 24 hours later:<\/b> <\/div>\n
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The blizzard has been quite impressive. Early this morning it featured lightning and thunder! <\/b><\/div>\n
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I’d been meaning to build a proper cover for my improvised 160 meter L network. The approach of Winter Storm Jonas pushed me into action yesterday afternoon. First I mounted the variable cap (from an old Johnson rig) and the roller inductor on a suitably sized piece of wood: Then I put the tuner inside … Continue reading “Blizzard Prep Priorities: Protecting the 160 meter L network!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,69,289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-160-meters","category-antennas","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}