{"id":13,"date":"2016-02-03T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-17T01:33:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T01:33:23","slug":"friction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/n5hrk-blog\/friction\/","title":{"rendered":"Friction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, no in-depth second ride report for the new mobile rig. I spent most of my drive home last night expecting a front wheel to fall off of the truck. I have ignored a humming wheel bearing for too long. Yesterday, the noise upgraded to rumbles of distant thunder punctuated by the screech of a pterodactyl. Well, what I imagine a pterodactyl might have screeched like.<\/p>\n

So, I’m back to the HT\/amp combo in a different truck today. With the now available mag mount, I put the antenna I had on my truck before I got the Comet SBB-7. I didn’t even know exactly what model it was, so I went out and looked at it just now. It’s a Comet SS680SB, a compact dual band with a bit of gain, 2.15dBi on 2m and 4.15dBi on 70cm.<\/p>\n

The bigger uglier problem with this truck is EMI. It’s a Ram 2500 with the Cummins diesel engine. With no spark plugs, you’d think there would be less noise. I need to investigate farther, but I suspect it’s alternator noise introduced by the connection to the amplifier.<\/p>\n

It’s temporary in any case, but I do get to remain on the air while my truck is repaired. Expecting to be back in it by Friday evening, maybe Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, no in-depth second ride report for the new mobile rig. I spent most of my drive home last night expecting a front wheel to fall off of the truck. I have ignored a humming wheel bearing for too long. Yesterday, the noise upgraded to rumbles of distant thunder punctuated by the screech of a pterodactyl. … Continue reading Friction<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n5hrk-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}