{"id":3446,"date":"2017-03-26T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/03\/26\/an-si5351-ham-sandwich-from-china-with-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:29:20","slug":"an-si5351-ham-sandwich-from-china-with-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/03\/26\/an-si5351-ham-sandwich-from-china-with-video\/","title":{"rendered":"An Si5351 Ham Sandwich from China (with video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Si5351CRKITSsandwich.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Si5351CRKITSsandwich.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Ernesto Marquez alerted me to the offerings of CRKITS &#8212; Chinese Radio Kits: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/crkits.com\/\"><b>http:\/\/crkits.com\/<\/b><\/a><b> Their Si5351-Arduino Pro Mini &#8220;sandwich&#8221; is quite interesting. Here is a video on the device: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8v3NiCrCNrY?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe> <br \/> <b>I must say, that nice little sandwich seems to be crying out for an organic slice of OLED&#8230;. How about it Adam? <\/b> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>While there is, of course, an enormous amount of electronics coming out of China, I haven&#8217;t seen much that comes from actual Chinese radio amateurs. But CRKITS is the work of a real Chinese ham. Adam Rong (Rong Xinhua) BD6CR seems like a very interesting fellow. From qsl.net:<\/b> <\/div>\n<h1 lang=\"zxx\"> <span style=\"font-family: \"andale sans ui\" , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">About BD6CR\/4<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: \"times new roman\" , serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Adam Rong (Chinese name: Rong Xinhua), BD6CR\/4 was first licensed in 1996 while in university in Hefei, Anhui province and now holds Class 2 Chinese amateur radio license (FCC Amateur General license equivalent). After graduation from university, he moved to Shanghai and call sign changed to BD6CR\/4 in July 2003. Adam is now living in Pudong new district with his XYL and their son.<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-family: \"times new roman\" , serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Adam holds a Master of Engineering degree in computer architecture and is an Engineering Program Manager in computer hardware industry. In spare time, Adam has written a lot about ham radio for magazines and papers, mainly about QRP, homebrew projects, APRS (Automatic Packet \/ Position Reporting System) and ham radio software applications. Adam has also translated two ARRL&#8217;s books into Chinese for Post and Telecom Press in China, including part of the ARRL Handbook and ARRL&#8217;s Low Power Communication: The Art and Science of QRP by Rich Arland, K7SZ. <\/b><\/span><\/span> <br \/> <span style=\"font-family: \"andale sans ui\" , sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: \"times new roman\" , serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><b>You can contact Adam by <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/null\"><b>email<\/b><\/a><b>, or track Adam&#8217;s real time position on Google map by clicking <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/aprs.fi\/?call=BD6CR-9\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>this link<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><i><\/i><u><\/u><sub><\/sub><sup><\/sup><strike><\/strike><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernesto Marquez alerted me to the offerings of CRKITS &#8212; Chinese Radio Kits: http:\/\/crkits.com\/ Their Si5351-Arduino Pro Mini &#8220;sandwich&#8221; is quite interesting. Here is a video on the device: I must say, that nice little sandwich seems to be crying out for an organic slice of OLED&#8230;. How about it Adam? While there is, of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/03\/26\/an-si5351-ham-sandwich-from-china-with-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Si5351 Ham Sandwich from China (with video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,105,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-kits","category-si5351"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","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=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}