{"id":5046,"date":"2016-04-08T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/from-vietnam-to-washington-dc-jonathan-san-kc7fys-w0xo-7j1awl-xv2oc-stops-by-with-his-at3b\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:16:19","slug":"from-vietnam-to-washington-dc-jonathan-san-kc7fys-w0xo-7j1awl-xv2oc-stops-by-with-his-at3b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/from-vietnam-to-washington-dc-jonathan-san-kc7fys-w0xo-7j1awl-xv2oc-stops-by-with-his-at3b\/","title":{"rendered":"From Vietnam to Washington DC  &#8212; Jonathan-san KC7FYS W0XO 7J1AWL XV2OC Stops By With His AT3b"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jonathan-san1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jonathan-san1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>I first saw that QRP Altoid-tin ATS-3b rig around 8 years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonathancharles\/sets\/72157606886612479\/\">in pictures that Jonathan-san sent from a beach in Vietnam.<\/a> He and his family were there on vacation from Japan. (Included was a memorable picture of his young son in an NVA helmet.) During this time period Jonathan also tried (unsuccessfully, I&#8217;m afraid) to teach me how to properly pronounce the name of that famous electronics market in Japan. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Jonathan and his family were in Washington yesterday and we got together for lunch. It was great to finally meet them. And to see that well-travelled ATS-3b. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JonXV2OC.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/JonXV2OC.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jonathan2527srig1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jonathan2527srig1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <b>Jonathan is a big fan of the ATS-3b, and for good reason. A very neat rig. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jonathan2527sfilters.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Jonathan2527sfilters.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <b>Plug in filters for the ATS-3b.<\/b> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw that QRP Altoid-tin ATS-3b rig around 8 years ago in pictures that Jonathan-san sent from a beach in Vietnam. He and his family were there on vacation from Japan. (Included was a memorable picture of his young son in an NVA helmet.) During this time period Jonathan also tried (unsuccessfully, I&#8217;m afraid) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/from-vietnam-to-washington-dc-jonathan-san-kc7fys-w0xo-7j1awl-xv2oc-stops-by-with-his-at3b\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Vietnam to Washington DC  &#8212; Jonathan-san KC7FYS W0XO 7J1AWL XV2OC Stops By With His AT3b&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,379,104,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-vietnam","category-washington-d-c","category-weber-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046","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=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}