{"id":40169,"date":"2019-10-14T06:39:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40169"},"modified":"2019-10-14T06:39:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:39:04","slug":"knock-john-sea-fort-and-life-on-fort-roughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/knock-john-sea-fort-and-life-on-fort-roughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Knock John Sea Fort and life on Fort Roughs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Porter, who writes:<\/p>\n

This is a recent posting of a trip out to the Knock John Fort and also of a new book about life on a sister fort, Roughs Tower.<\/p>\n

Report – – Knock John Sea Fort – May 2018 | Noteworthy Report<\/a><\/p>\n

The fort is still dry inside. This was the home of R Essex and the RCA ET4336 + T aerial. When Bates closed Essex they moved to the Roughs.<\/p>\n

Check Amazon for the book “Holding the Fort” by Bates son [affiliate link]<\/a>. It’s a hardback book and is excellent. An early Christmas present!! Plenty of pics and Sealand as well plus their TX and studio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fascinating!\u00a0 Thank you for sharing this, Dave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter, who writes: This is a recent posting of a trip out to the Knock John Fort and also of a new book about life on a sister fort, Roughs Tower. Report – – Knock John Sea Fort – May 2018 | Noteworthy Report The fort is still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,288],"tags":[4716,8066,8065],"class_list":["post-40169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-dave-porter","tag-fort-roughs","tag-knock-john-sea-fort"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-arT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35630,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/video-the-fort-and-the-field-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":40169,"position":0},"title":"Video: “The Fort and the Field Day”","author":"Thomas","date":"January 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Dennis Dura, who shares a link to this short video highlighting amateur radio at the 2017 Fort Wayne Field Day: https:\/\/youtu.be\/5gDCaiiocDs Click here to view on YouTube. 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