{"id":2091,"date":"2022-08-30T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/08\/30\/old-smoke-soldersmokes-early-theme-music-from-w8moj-boatanchors-in-south-africa-and-homebrewing-in-dubai\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:56","slug":"old-smoke-soldersmokes-early-theme-music-from-w8moj-boatanchors-in-south-africa-and-homebrewing-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/08\/30\/old-smoke-soldersmokes-early-theme-music-from-w8moj-boatanchors-in-south-africa-and-homebrewing-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Smoke:  SolderSmoke&#8217;s Early Theme Music from W8MOJ, Boatanchors in South Africa,  and Homebrewing in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhHx4P-nhonMbXy2Vgg-F08WIJam7iiVGIQnrzCHpK9ug9_Ya3f_sJRTLQITjZVlhlv0AzwcQIJ_ofKHtuvoFFi6lxXyHMAbAIvYqJmsHkrMygc1W0SfN-_u362-SUYSIZdzH56kKw2nWNELZvUEaSoiKSAOCpAfdSeRGxT-i5_A8MN9SwZC9nwlbQR\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"382\" data-original-width=\"1521\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image_1753065745.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Over on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/soldersmoke\">SoulderSmoke YouTube<\/a> channel I have been putting up some podcasts from days-gone-by. Recently they have been from our last days in London and our earliest days in Rome. We have had a nice series that includes &#8220;Echo-calls&#8221; from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/ZS6ADY\">Andy ZS6ADY<\/a> in South Africa, talking about old tube radios (Boatanchors) in that country. Soon we will start a series that includes Echo-calls with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/AG5RS\">Ron Sparks AG5RS<\/a>, who was homebrewing in Dubai. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>But these early podcasts begin and end with some very distinctive techno-music from Mark O Johnson, W8MOJ. Here is our old blog post that describes Mark&#8217;s musical contribution to SolderSmoke. Thanks Mark! <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/tech-details-on-soldersmokes-theme.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/tech-details-on-soldersmokes-theme.html<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the SoulderSmoke YouTube channel I have been putting up some podcasts from days-gone-by. Recently they have been from our last days in London and our earliest days in Rome. We have had a nice series that includes &#8220;Echo-calls&#8221; from Andy ZS6ADY in South Africa, talking about old tube radios (Boatanchors) in that country. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/08\/30\/old-smoke-soldersmokes-early-theme-music-from-w8moj-boatanchors-in-south-africa-and-homebrewing-in-dubai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Smoke:  SolderSmoke&#8217;s Early Theme Music from W8MOJ, Boatanchors in South Africa,  and Homebrewing in Dubai&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,277,214,332,276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dubai","category-echolink","category-music","category-old-smoke","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","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=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}