{"id":10835,"date":"2009-08-13T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/soldersmoke-the-book-reaches-the-oregon-coast\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:12:45","slug":"soldersmoke-the-book-reaches-the-oregon-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/soldersmoke-the-book-reaches-the-oregon-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke (The Book) Reaches the Oregon Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhzjq4h_CP63a7ZeBDm6WVXldjZmq9LvjjywOwNGuMCnyIM5FvcTxjtCENjfYBoMJVFnYlZLDAhPmVlepvTxEUPwvtCJjT8mlloKr8DTdQVi7WGb6A5SB7mjBgfc3FkNSDVZWyXfuPUnV8\/s1600-h\/SS_on_Ore_coast.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/SS_on_Ore_coast.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369303614674457874\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Wes, W7ZOI, took the book with him on vacation and sent along this shot from the Oregon coast. I told Wes that I was really nervous when I saw his e-mail in my in-box. The book has sections about my &#8220;understandings&#8221; of various aspects of electronic theory. I worried that the e-mail would reveal that these were all &#8220;MIS-understandings.&#8221; I was very relieved that wasn&#8217;t the case! Wes provided an interesting bit of ham radio history\/trivia: Around page 169, I have the iconic picture of Wes out in the winter woods somewhere, with a homebrew QRP rig in his hands. I remember seeing this picture as a kid. I found it inspirational: a stoic homebrewer, using his invention to communicate from out in the hostile wilderness. In his e-mail, Wes tells me that in that photo, he was actually in contact with another station. It was Lionel, VE6WG, up near Calgary. This photo was taken by K7IUN. Thanks Wes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes, W7ZOI, took the book with him on vacation and sent along this shot from the Oregon coast. I told Wes that I was really nervous when I saw his e-mail in my in-box. The book has sections about my &#8220;understandings&#8221; of various aspects of electronic theory. I worried that the e-mail would reveal that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/soldersmoke-the-book-reaches-the-oregon-coast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke (The Book) Reaches the Oregon Coast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-hayward-wes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835","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=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10837,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions\/10837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}