{"id":10220,"date":"2017-05-28T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/fdim-w8sx-interviews-mike-bryce-wb8vge\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:04:05","slug":"fdim-w8sx-interviews-mike-bryce-wb8vge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/fdim-w8sx-interviews-mike-bryce-wb8vge\/","title":{"rendered":"FDIM: W8SX Interviews Mike Bryce WB8VGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WB8VGE.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"651\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WB8VGE.jpg\" width=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Mike Bryce&#8217;s many contributions to the radio art and QRP definitely puts him in the Homebrew Hero category. I have Mike&#8217;s &#8220;Hotwater Handbook&#8221; (about the legendary HW-8) on my bookshelf. Our intrepid SolderSmoke media team (Bob W8SX) spoke to Mike at FDIM 17. His comments on the joy of a good troubleshoot, and on the pernicious, unfixable nature of many recently marketed appliance radios really resonated with me. <\/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>Mike has special expertise on Heathkit gear: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theheathkitshop.com\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.theheathkitshop.com\/index.html<\/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>Listen to the interview with Mike here: <\/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><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/FDIM17WB8VGE.mp3\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/FDIM17WB8VGE.mp3<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<p> <b>KEEP THAT GREEN FLAME BURNING MIKE!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Bryce&#8217;s many contributions to the radio art and QRP definitely puts him in the Homebrew Hero category. I have Mike&#8217;s &#8220;Hotwater Handbook&#8221; (about the legendary HW-8) on my bookshelf. Our intrepid SolderSmoke media team (Bob W8SX) spoke to Mike at FDIM 17. His comments on the joy of a good troubleshoot, and on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/fdim-w8sx-interviews-mike-bryce-wb8vge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FDIM: W8SX Interviews Mike Bryce WB8VGE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heathkits","category-hw-8","category-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10222,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10220\/revisions\/10222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}