{"id":3413,"date":"2015-03-04T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/video-of-the-moment-colin-made-his-first-homebrew-contact-with-australia\/"},"modified":"2015-03-04T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T22:43:00","slug":"video-of-the-moment-colin-made-his-first-homebrew-contact-with-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/video-of-the-moment-colin-made-his-first-homebrew-contact-with-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of The Moment Colin Made his First Homebrew Contact With Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zxyu8tX3Zhc?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Our British cousins are not a wildly emotional people. The word &#8220;phlegmatic&#8221; is sometimes used when describing them. Stiff upper lip and all that. But as you can see at the 51 second mark in this short video, contacting Australia whilst using a new scratch-built homebrew BITX20 on battery power from a windy English hilltop WILL get those English fists pumping and those thumbs up. The wind drowns out Colin&#8217;s voice, but his gestures say it all. Well done Colin! Brilliant!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our British cousins are not a wildly emotional people. The word &#8220;phlegmatic&#8221; is sometimes used when describing them. Stiff upper lip and all that. But as you can see at the 51 second mark in this short video, contacting Australia whilst using a new scratch-built homebrew BITX20 on battery power from a windy English hilltop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/video-of-the-moment-colin-made-his-first-homebrew-contact-with-australia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video of The Moment Colin Made his First Homebrew Contact With Australia&#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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","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=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}