{"id":5538,"date":"2014-10-22T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/22\/two-guys-and-a-minima-walk-into-a-bar\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:12:40","slug":"two-guys-and-a-minima-walk-into-a-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/22\/two-guys-and-a-minima-walk-into-a-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"“Two guys and a Minima walk into a bar…”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thomas, KK6AHT, was in Washington this week. He and I got together for a beer and a look at his Minima. <\/b><\/div>\n

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I’d seen pictures of it, but it was much more impressive in person. Thomas did a great job on this rig. It is a really nice mixture of digital and analog. I liked the fact that he built the analog portion Manhattan style using MePads. He and I agreed that while it would make sense to produce a PC board for the Arduino\/Si570\/LCD portion of the rig, builders should be encouraged to do the rest Manhattan style. <\/b><\/div>\n
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Showing true homebrew dedication, Thomas was unhappy with the level of audio output when we turned it on. He started to trouble-shoot right there in the Ruby Tuesday bar! <\/b><\/div>\n

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It turns out that we were in a very Knack-ish location. We were on the site where they created ARPANET. <\/b>

<\/b> Thomas very kindly left me with a nice package of Minima digi-parts including the Arduino chip loaded with the software and an SI570. So now I have no excuse. <\/b>

<\/b> Thanks Thomas! <\/b><\/p>\n

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":"

Thomas, KK6AHT, was in Washington this week. He and I got together for a beer and a look at his Minima. I’d seen pictures of it, but it was much more impressive in person. Thomas did a great job on this rig. It is a really nice mixture of digital and analog. I liked the … Continue reading ““Two guys and a Minima walk into a bar…””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino","category-minima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","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=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5542,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions\/5542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}