Well I received my Earchi End Fed antenna today. Waiting on my Jackite 31′ fiberglass pole to arrive tomorrow. I hope to have the antenna up this weekend to see how well it performs as a quick portable QRP antenna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well I received my Earchi End Fed antenna today. Waiting on my Jackite 31′ fiberglass pole to arrive tomorrow. I hope to have the antenna up this weekend to see how well it performs as a quick portable QRP antenna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71CVO-1u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":96,"url":"http:\/\/www.k4kyd.com\/?p=96","url_meta":{"origin":92,"position":0},"title":"Earchi End Fed Antenna Update","date":"June 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Well I have had this antenna for quite some time now and have made several contacts with it and I really like it. 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