{"id":401,"date":"2010-11-23T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/soldersmoke-in-botswana\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:05:54","slug":"soldersmoke-in-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/soldersmoke-in-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke in Botswana!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/banner_ok.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 161px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/banner_ok.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542701291345579442\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Frosty, K5LBU, sent us this report from Botswana:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I just completed reading your book tonight. I had taken it with me on the Dxpedition to<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Botswana and while there Jay W5SL read it and enjoyed it very much. But what was so great in his reading it was to<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> see a good friend of mine mentioned in your book. He was there with us and having a great time working the <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">pileups. This person was none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/italian-experimental-station-in-good.html\">Gianfranco I0ZY<\/a>.<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I have visited with him at his office and operated his great station in his home there in Rome.<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">What a small world it is. I will be back in Rome to pick up a new Amplifier from Gianfranco.<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">73&#8242;<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Charles Frost<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;color:#888888;\" >Frosty K5LBU<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Botwana.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 209px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Botwana.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542701703603040034\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We had a blog post about Gianfranco and his amplifiers last year. Check it out here:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/italian-experimental-station-in-good.html\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/italian-experimental-station-in-good.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frosty, K5LBU, sent us this report from Botswana: I just completed reading your book tonight. I had taken it with me on the Dxpedition to Botswana and while there Jay W5SL read it and enjoyed it very much. But what was so great in his reading it was to see a good friend of mine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/soldersmoke-in-botswana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke in Botswana!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-botswana","category-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","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=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}