I have scrapped these old antennas before, they are made mostly of hard yellow brass, which does not net too much at the scrap yard.\u00a0 In fact, by the time I finished removing the Radomes and separating the metal, I had more time for the job than it was worth for both myself and the client.\u00a0 Therefore, I present to you the ERI LPX lawn fountain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Upon completion, my wife and daughter, who are natural-born skeptics, even had kind words to say. It seemed like a simple project at first; enlarge the dry well for the basement sump pumps and install some type of mounting base for the old antenna. It turned into a little more than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It took several hours of backbreaking labor, a concrete form, and a few bags of ready-mix concrete to create the mounting base. Several wheelbarrow loads of gravel, some rocks from the old wall in the woods, and a pond pump from the hardware store round out the installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am not sure what else to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After replacing a burned-out FM antenna for one of our clients, the question became; what do we do with the old antenna?\u00a0 There were several options: I have scrapped these old antennas before, they are made mostly of hard yellow brass, which does not net too much at the scrap yard.\u00a0 In fact, by the … Continue reading Modern Art<\/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":[1],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","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=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11272,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions\/11272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ERI](\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/antenna-fountain.jpg\")
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