{"id":8066,"date":"2026-06-27T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:23:50","slug":"field-day-at-oak-bay-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/field-day-at-oak-bay-marina\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Day at Oak Bay Marina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan VE7UBA, Brian VE7JKZ and Andy VE7PT spent a few hours chasing a few contacts in Queen&#8217;s Park just north of Oak Bay Marina.\u00a0 It was a beautiful day but propagation was very disappointing. We found that Alan&#8217;s home-made antenna with self-measuring radials (made out of tape measures) vastly outperformed Andy&#8217;s commercial Chameleon Antenna.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8068\" src=\"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260627_114544-scaled-e1782603635223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan VE7UBA, Brian VE7JKZ and Andy VE7PT spent a few hours chasing a few contacts in Queen&#8217;s Park just north of Oak Bay Marina.\u00a0 It was a beautiful day but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8073,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}