{"id":6739,"date":"2010-11-19T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/19\/the-secrets-of-success-of-the-pensacola-snapper\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:34:08","slug":"the-secrets-of-success-of-the-pensacola-snapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/19\/the-secrets-of-success-of-the-pensacola-snapper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secrets of Success of the Pensacola Snapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/w4hbkpeninsula.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 123px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/w4hbkpeninsula.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541205818454832658\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Bill, W4HBK, sent a nice note in response to my blog post describing his MEPT QRSS grabber receive station. <span>You can see the peninsula he describes above. <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><\/span><span>Bill writes: <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>Wow, what a pleasant surprise. I do remember pulling you out of the noise while you were in <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1290161367_0\">Italy<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> and enjoying your reports from there. If there is a secret to my grabber it is a combination of environment and antenna. My neighborhood has underground utilities and is well away from town on a peninsula which juts out into <\/span><span style=\"border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; font-style: italic;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1290161367_1\">Pensacola Bay<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">. My main antenna is an inverted V 60&#8242; up in a <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1290161367_2\">tall pine tree<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> for good low angle response and rejection of vertically polarized noise. About the only noise I hear is sferics.<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thanks for the article. 73 bill w4hbk<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill, W4HBK, sent a nice note in response to my blog post describing his MEPT QRSS grabber receive station. You can see the peninsula he describes above. Bill writes: Wow, what a pleasant surprise. I do remember pulling you out of the noise while you were in Italy and enjoying your reports from there. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/19\/the-secrets-of-success-of-the-pensacola-snapper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Secrets of Success of the Pensacola Snapper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qrss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739","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=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6741,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions\/6741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}