{"id":5135,"date":"2015-07-18T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/soldersmoke-podcast-178-anniversaries-zia-lbs-ii-old-mics-antenna-dreams-interviews-mailbag\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:23:54","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-178-anniversaries-zia-lbs-ii-old-mics-antenna-dreams-interviews-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/soldersmoke-podcast-178-anniversaries-zia-lbs-ii-old-mics-antenna-dreams-interviews-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #178: Anniversaries, ZIA, LBS II, Old Mics, Antenna Dreams, Interviews, MAILBAG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SolderSmoke Podcast #178 is available: <\/strong>
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http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke178.mp3<\/strong><\/a>
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18 July 2015<\/strong>
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Anniversaries: <\/strong>
Pete Juliano — One year with the podcast <\/strong>
BITX20 — Ten years of homebrew fun <\/strong>
SolderSmoke Podcast: Ten years of podcasting <\/strong>
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Bench Report: Pete’s ZIA and LBS II<\/strong>
Bill messes around with old microphones <\/strong>
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Looking ahead: <\/strong>
Pete plans antennas<\/strong>
Bill lusts after ladder line (spurred on by Farhan’s new blog)<\/strong>
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On the Air Reports: <\/strong>
Pete on 20 with ZIA and LBSII<\/strong>
Bill having fun on 40 (even with the Spectral Purity Police) <\/strong>
Bill tries rock-bound QRPp. It is hard. (Spoiled by QRO BITX luxury)<\/strong>
Bill’s verdict: BITX40 with Yaesu filter, Si5351, and TIA best of the 3 rigs. <\/strong>
Catching Cubesats with Pete’s SDR Dongle <\/strong>
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Digitizing old paper logs (and finding a lot more HB rigs) <\/strong>
Interviews with Eric 4Z1UG on QSO Today Podcast <\/strong>
FDIM interviews by Bob Crane<\/strong>
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Peter Parker’s review of DSB kit<\/strong>
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MAILBAG: <\/strong>
Parts from W8NSA<\/strong>
Colin’s tuna Tin Mighty Mite<\/strong>
Dean’s Tiny Tia <\/strong>
Bryan’s MMM dreams<\/strong>
Armand braves the heat at the Manassas Hamfest <\/strong>
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Our book: “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics” http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SolderSmoke Podcast #178 is available: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke178.mp3 18 July 2015 Anniversaries: Pete Juliano — One year with the podcast BITX20 — Ten years of homebrew fun SolderSmoke Podcast: Ten years of podcasting Bench Report: Pete’s ZIA and LBS II Bill messes around with old microphones Looking ahead: Pete plans antennas Bill lusts after ladder line (spurred … Continue reading “SolderSmoke Podcast #178: Anniversaries, ZIA, LBS II, Old Mics, Antenna Dreams, Interviews, MAILBAG”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soldersmoke-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","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=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}