{"id":10137,"date":"2022-09-14T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/09\/14\/soldersmoke-podcast-85-with-mike-herr-wa6ara-june-8-2008-wizard-island\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:55","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-85-with-mike-herr-wa6ara-june-8-2008-wizard-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/09\/14\/soldersmoke-podcast-85-with-mike-herr-wa6ara-june-8-2008-wizard-island\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #85 With Mike Herr WA6ARA June 8, 2008  WIZARD ISLAND!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEicsyu3aLT7Ak9ZQlHrdyjwAjFzYXFI0HKtHDfSwRExbL4hLH_OGUHh37rEL_GwFsQ4HXZqlUBkqvwpezKiLkyYdzFcMIHLkb07S5BqtLp2Oo2eDYbe0NnLf35BdcTAVVkzawbr_G5vav89ChXTDo_T5iryzoLtdj9fnVArr_u4RRI-Il2leClpH9nN\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"477\" data-original-width=\"650\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image_1753120510.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>When I was putting this podcast up on YouTube, I needed a picture of Mike Herr WA6ARA who was my guest on this episode. I found a picture of Mike activating a summit&#8230; THE SUMMIT OF WIZARD ISLAND! That is Wizard Island (above). Mike and his wife are shown at the summit (below). <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhG9ixCABW8SW2t3VwN48Q0eJfuM_-uEgqEMWgLl_XXn61GWDK5-NbtDZWvGurARnAjYVCxW0BthraG0-7K5FJaABfLpQkV7dNpgtddOVFh9JdJu9YDPSzNgBHdXoBb8A3tjJtlaWJlodgZMIvzynO4_OA8xYWHurfc2qU7tZPdMw8xAkwquLndVb6b\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"362\" data-original-width=\"650\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image_1753120514.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>I really liked talking to Mike, and to listening again to our conversation. But I realize now I should have asked him about parachutes! I&#8217;d been talking about the great picture of the Phoenix lander under canopy as it descended to Mars. Mike made and tested parachutes for NASA! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>You can listen to this 2008 podcast here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n9hH1WNuaA0\">(15) SolderSmoke Podcast #85 Jun 8, 2008 Pheonix Lander, The Woodpecker, Echolink QSO with Mike WA6ARA &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>You can fire up a YouTube playlist that will bring you a steady stream of SolderSmoke podcasts here: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLv9MEKq1quk-gnxog7eBqY_y7cpQadf6T\"><b>(15) Videos of the SolderSmoke Podcast &#8211; YouTube<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Here is a report from Mike on the Wizard Island activation: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwsota.org\/blog\/k7atn\/2016-november-12\/wa6ara-activates-wizard-island-or-august-2014\"><b>http:\/\/www.pnwsota.org\/blog\/k7atn\/2016-november-12\/wa6ara-activates-wizard-island-or-august-2014<\/b><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was putting this podcast up on YouTube, I needed a picture of Mike Herr WA6ARA who was my guest on this episode. I found a picture of Mike activating a summit&#8230; THE SUMMIT OF WIZARD ISLAND! That is Wizard Island (above). Mike and his wife are shown at the summit (below). I really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/09\/14\/soldersmoke-podcast-85-with-mike-herr-wa6ara-june-8-2008-wizard-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Podcast #85 With Mike Herr WA6ARA June 8, 2008  WIZARD ISLAND!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,332,286,324,32,484],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mars","category-old-smoke","category-parachute","category-sota","category-space-program","category-wa6ara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10140,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions\/10140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}