{"id":5009,"date":"2011-12-14T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/have-an-oz-knack-christmas-with-vk2zay\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:12:31","slug":"have-an-oz-knack-christmas-with-vk2zay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/have-an-oz-knack-christmas-with-vk2zay\/","title":{"rendered":"Have An Oz Knack Christmas with VK2ZAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Vk2zay2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 229px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Vk2zay2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685940424107168146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">This is not the most flattering picture of our friend Alan, VK2ZAY, but I find myself forced to use it (again!) because of the Christmas light head-gear. Sorry OM.<br \/> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I was thinking about Alan just the other day as I contemplated my broken Lafayette power supply (scroll down to the test gear article). You see, the meter in that little supply was destroyed by a trivial electric motor that Billy and I built a long time ago after a visit to Alan&#8217;s amazing site. Don&#8217;t worry Alan &#8212; the broken meter is not your fault.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Once again proving that he is a true Knack victim and a certified member of the International Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards, Alan is doing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/vk2zay\">&#8220;Advent Calendar&#8221; of YouTube tech videos<\/a> &#8212; one short video each day during the Christmas season. I looked at a couple of them this morning. You guys will love them. Alan obviously has a deep understanding of the circuitry and a great talent for explaining how his creations work. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Thanks a lot Alan! Here is the link: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/vk2zay\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/vk2zay<\/a><br \/><\/span><br \/>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>This is not the most flattering picture of our friend Alan, VK2ZAY, but I find myself forced to use it (again!) because of the Christmas light head-gear. Sorry OM. I was thinking about Alan just the other day as I contemplated my broken Lafayette power supply (scroll down to the test gear article). You see, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/have-an-oz-knack-christmas-with-vk2zay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Have An Oz Knack Christmas with VK2ZAY!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","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=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5011,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions\/5011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}