{"id":4711,"date":"2022-09-11T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/09\/11\/an-especially-good-old-soldersmoke-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:55","slug":"an-especially-good-old-soldersmoke-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/09\/11\/an-especially-good-old-soldersmoke-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"An Especially Good (Old) SolderSmoke Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQzzfiFk1rM?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>February 22, 2008 <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; We were in Rome. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; I read a 1931 QST ad sent to me by my fellow &#8220;Hambassador&#8221; David Cowhig, WA1LBP; David was in Okinawa when he sent it. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; I describe Wes Hayward&#8217;s comments about Pat Hawker, G3VA. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; I talk about getting on the air with my HW-8 (after fixing it!), re-tubing my Drake 2-B, and putting up a 30AWG antenna in Rome. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; I describe meeting up with Roman hams (including amplifier manufacturer I0ZY!) and visiting the local radio club.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The Science Museum in Florence, Italy. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; DSB from Rome with my NE602 rig. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Tony Fishpool and Graham Firth&#8217;s Test Gear book. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; An important corollary to Murphy&#8217;s Law. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Listening to SolderSmoke from safari, under the Southern Cross in South Africa. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Ron Sparks calls in from Dubai. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You can put on a playlist of all the SolderSmoke podcasts here: <\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLv9MEKq1quk-gnxog7eBqY_y7cpQadf6T\">(12) Videos of the SolderSmoke Podcast &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 22, 2008 &#8212; We were in Rome. &#8212; I read a 1931 QST ad sent to me by my fellow &#8220;Hambassador&#8221; David Cowhig, WA1LBP; David was in Okinawa when he sent it. &#8212; I describe Wes Hayward&#8217;s comments about Pat Hawker, G3VA. &#8212; I talk about getting on the air with my HW-8 (after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/09\/11\/an-especially-good-old-soldersmoke-podcast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Especially Good (Old) SolderSmoke Podcast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,33,333,329,60,140,75,332,49,276,388],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-dsb","category-dubai","category-fishpool-tony","category-hayward-wes","category-italy","category-japan","category-old-smoke","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-south-africa","category-sparks-ron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","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=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11357,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions\/11357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}