{"id":4047,"date":"2011-10-24T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2023-04-29T12:50:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T16:50:37","slug":"the-eri-lpx2e-rototiller-fm-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/the-eri-lpx2e-rototiller-fm-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"The ERI LPX2E Rototiller FM antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was in the back room of one of the radio stations we work for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"ERI<\/a>
ERI LPX2E FM antenna with RADOMES on the ground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is a burned-out ERI LPX2E antenna<\/a>. \u00a0The manager was complaining that it took up too much space and he didn’t know what to do with it. \u00a0Could I get rid of it? \u00a0Sure, no problem. \u00a0I could at least cut it up and scrap it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first looked at it, it seemed complete and undamaged, however, upon further examination it seemed that some of the inter-bay line had overheated and one of the tuning sections that goes from the power divider out to the bay was missing. \u00a0Therefore, I took it apart and separated the copper from the brass. \u00a0Most of the antenna is made from yellow brass, due to its hardness. \u00a0The inner line sections are copper and the mounting hardware is all stainless steel. \u00a0I will perhaps break even time-wise, but it is one of those projects that can be done on my time in between other paid work, so it will be fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"ERI<\/a>
ERI rototiller antenna bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am going to keep one bay intact with the RADOMES on as some sort of modern art project. \u00a0My daughter thinks we should install it in the yard as a part of a fountain-fish pond-bird bath contraption. \u00a0The idea is to mount the bay facing up as in the picture above and run a hose up the inside of the transmission line to the T section. \u00a0A hole will be drilled there and some type of fountain head installed to spray water up over the RADOME. \u00a0 The system will be run by a solar-powered pond pump. \u00a0I’ll have to take pictures when it is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was in the back room of one of the radio stations we work for: It is a burned-out ERI LPX2E antenna. \u00a0The manager was complaining that it took up too much space and he didn’t know what to do with it. \u00a0Could I get rid of it? \u00a0Sure, no problem. \u00a0I could at least … Continue reading The ERI LPX2E Rototiller FM antenna<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82,229],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-fm","tag-fm-antenna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11690,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions\/11690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}