{"id":1113,"date":"2020-02-06T20:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2021-01-04T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:20:32","slug":"ham-radio-at-make-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/ham-radio-at-make-lehigh-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio at Make Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lehigh Valley Amateur Radio Club stopped by for a visit on Saturday, Jan. 18, which sounded like a great excuse for us to make stuff! So we gathered some materials and got to work building yagi antennas out of tape measures and PVC pipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00201.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00201.jpg 600w, https:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00201-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00201-255x170.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00205.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00205.jpg 600w, https:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00205-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00205-255x170.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We used the plans available at <a href=\"http:\/\/theleggios.net\/wb2hol\/projects\/rdf\/tape_bm.htm\">http:\/\/theleggios.net\/wb2hol\/projects\/rdf\/tape_bm.htm<\/a> and it looks like they work great! 1.1 on the SWR meter is pretty darn good for a homemade antenna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00204.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00204.jpg 600w, https:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00204-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/makelehighvalley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ham-00204-255x170.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested in bringing your club to Make Lehigh Valley, or got an idea for an activity? Get in touch and we&#8217;ll make something happen! Send mail to info@makelehighvalley.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lehigh Valley Amateur Radio Club stopped by for a visit on Saturday, Jan. 18, which sounded like a great excuse for us to make &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-2","category-member-projects"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Make Lehigh Valley :: Ham Radio at Make Lehigh Valley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Lehigh Valley Amateur Radio Club stopped by for a visit on Saturday, Jan. 18, which sounded like a great excuse for us to make stuff! 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