{"id":280,"date":"2026-07-14T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/?p=280"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:59:20","slug":"mice-and-bogs-do-not-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Mice and BOGs do not mix!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My NW\/SE BOG suddently went dead. It had 30 dB less signal than on the NE\/SW BOG. After inspection, I found the obvious reason:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-12-7726933761264868304500-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279\" style=\"width:407px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-12-7726933761264868304500-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-12-7726933761264868304500-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-12-7726933761264868304500-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-12-7726933761264868304500-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-12-7726933761264868304500-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-12-7726933761264868304500.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and then this one was the &#8220;final straw&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-25-684718696585553433573-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276\" style=\"width:406px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-25-684718696585553433573-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-25-684718696585553433573-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-25-684718696585553433573-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-25-684718696585553433573-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-25-684718696585553433573-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-14-11-23-25-684718696585553433573.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Added a fresh piece of cable there and all is well again. However, I definitely need to get better\/thicker cable for my BOGs so that mice can&#8217;t chew them through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update:<\/strong> There are apparently wire coatings that are either rodent proof or have some chemical added that they taste bad. Need to look into this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My NW\/SE BOG suddently went dead. It had 30 dB less signal than on the NE\/SW BOG. After inspection, I found the obvious reason: and then this one was the &#8220;final straw&#8221;: Added a fresh piece of cable there and all is well again. However, I definitely need to get better\/thicker cable for my BOGs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham_radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aa6kj.hopto.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}