{"id":7392,"date":"2012-07-26T21:14:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T03:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=7392"},"modified":"2025-02-17T18:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T00:10:36","slug":"rainbows-antenna-farms-and-secret-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2012\/07\/26\/rainbows-antenna-farms-and-secret-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbows, Antenna Farms, and Secret Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is me making pictures in “Section A” in the fall of 1978.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After Abby dozed off this evening, I walked around outside for a while. The sky was alight with the last of the sunset, and combined with a thunderstorm to our east, a rainbow formed. I walked down to the pond, which has been dry since the beginning of the month. I had my shovel with me; who doesn’t in the country, right? My plan was to shovel about eight big globs of pond bottom and throw the dirt on the dam, in hopes of both getting a decent workout and making the pond deeper in the middle so it will hold more water when it’s rainy again.<\/p>\n

As I did this and listened to the sound of the evening, I was reminded of the summer of 1978, when Michael<\/a> and I spent a huge amount of our time as 15-year-olds messing around in an area of Lawton, Oklahoma we called “Section A.” The moniker was part of a bigger plan to be part our secret society. It’s name? It’s a secret.<\/p>\n

The most amazing thing about our time in “Section A” is that we never picked up ticks, which probably would have killed us with all manner of parasite-borne illness.<\/p>\n

My slice of the green is browning up some now, which “Section A” always did at this time of year. Tonight was my little time machine to adolescence.<\/p>\n

I photographed the rainbow and the weeds that reminded me of yesteryear, then found that the light was just right on my antenna farm (read about why I have an antenna farm here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>), which I also photographed.<\/p>\n

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This is my antenna farm with a rainbow behind it. The antennas are, from left to right: Cushcraft Ringo Ranger AR-2 2-meter, Comet GP-1 dual-band 2-meter\/70-centimeter, Radio Shack scanner antenna, a 5\/8th-wave magnetic mount 2-meter antenna stuck on a coffee can, and my Ringo Ranger AR-6 6-meter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Abby dozed off this evening, I walked around outside for a while. The sky was alight with the last of the sunset, and combined with a thunderstorm to our east, a rainbow formed. I walked down to the pond, which has been dry since the beginning of the month. I had my shovel with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20,19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-abby-and-richard","category-journals-notebooks","category-our-patch-of-green-in-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32488,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions\/32488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}