{"id":10408,"date":"2025-05-04T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-heavens-with-a-tool-fashioned-by-ones-own-hand\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:17","slug":"unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-heavens-with-a-tool-fashioned-by-ones-own-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-heavens-with-a-tool-fashioned-by-ones-own-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unlocking the secrets of the heavens with a tool fashioned by one&#8217;s own hand.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEguDNgWzAw0-vwQodqbwtzmXgsmCQUuUYNNtkZNyOjClNLGSWYO6U6IrJXiTLlDBHVQ_vtKTVkyEBUB32xNMoAnHnF5i1xePxBt6gfWHHsM8jo5cqI01GAbu45iL1phTgNJhaMcAMD_4hnEa1YX-_MSyyHeFX4f8xA0cyMnx1VRVjuhDLqHLQtwrnTVG4E\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"183\" data-original-width=\"773\" height=\"97\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image_1753122298.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Click on the image for a clearer view. <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stellafane.org\/tm\/atm\/\">https:\/\/stellafane.org\/tm\/atm\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">This quote is obviously about telescopes, but I think in many ways it applies to homebrew radio. We sometimes use the term &#8220;first light&#8221; to describe the first signals heard through a new homebrew receiver. That term comes from astronomy, and is used to describe the first light seen through a new telescope. I think there are strong parallels with homebrew radio. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the image for a clearer view. https:\/\/stellafane.org\/tm\/atm\/ This quote is obviously about telescopes, but I think in many ways it applies to homebrew radio. We sometimes use the term &#8220;first light&#8221; to describe the first signals heard through a new homebrew receiver. That term comes from astronomy, and is used to describe the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-heavens-with-a-tool-fashioned-by-ones-own-hand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Unlocking the secrets of the heavens with a tool fashioned by one&#8217;s own hand.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408","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=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10410,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions\/10410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}