{"id":1483,"date":"2009-03-21T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/21\/going-solar-solar-qrss\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:32:54","slug":"going-solar-solar-qrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/21\/going-solar-solar-qrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Solar!  Solar QRSS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhWq2t_pngLc8vkmfwhR0Q-O6lSUKGW5_YbuEj3VT2JcjIEDP0NU7UpJuTXLGOfnqsT6Mdxq4V-sc17H2Be1WLyOhf9HKXp9AND1o3bJwMKlK4wloLg4hZADx8cr5YZJnN5NYlpWUdy_hs\/s1600-h\/QRPSOLAR2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/QRPSOLAR2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315582536759220274\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Bright sunny morning here in Rome. I was talking to Nigel, M0NDE, on Echolink and he mentioned his efforts to keep his new shack completely &#8220;off the grid.&#8221; That got us talking about the video I posted yesterday (scroll down) about making solar panels from donuts and tea, and the next thing you know, I&#8217;m connecting my Volkswagen solar panels (see above) to my QRSS beacon. No longer will my 50 milliwatt transmitter be contributing to the destruction of the planet! I feel better already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright sunny morning here in Rome. I was talking to Nigel, M0NDE, on Echolink and he mentioned his efforts to keep his new shack completely &#8220;off the grid.&#8221; That got us talking about the video I posted yesterday (scroll down) about making solar panels from donuts and tea, and the next thing you know, I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/21\/going-solar-solar-qrss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going Solar!  Solar QRSS!&#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":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}