{"id":5669,"date":"2011-07-03T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/03\/copthornes-heathkit-hw-8\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:26:16","slug":"copthornes-heathkit-hw-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/03\/copthornes-heathkit-hw-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Copthorne&#8217;s Heathkit HW-8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cop2527s8.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 147px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cop2527s8.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625062306852495330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Here&#8217;s evidence that I am moving ever further along the ham radio hippie trail: This week as I was browsing through the 1970&#8217;s era columns of Copthorne MacDonald, I came across this gem about our beloved Heathkit HW-8. (The photo is of Cop&#8217;s rig.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/infoark.org\/InfoArk\/Sustainability\/Mother%20Earth%20News\/70\/MEN_CD\/mendemo\/dcd\/047\/047-040-01.htm\">http:\/\/infoark.org\/InfoArk\/Sustainability\/Mother%20Earth%20News\/70\/MEN_CD\/mendemo\/dcd\/047\/047-040-01.htm<br \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Inspired, I connected mine to my salvaged and solar-charged gel-cell battery and made a number of contacts on 40 meters. It was all really groovy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Peace, Bill <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s evidence that I am moving ever further along the ham radio hippie trail: This week as I was browsing through the 1970&#8217;s era columns of Copthorne MacDonald, I came across this gem about our beloved Heathkit HW-8. (The photo is of Cop&#8217;s rig.) http:\/\/infoark.org\/InfoArk\/Sustainability\/Mother%20Earth%20News\/70\/MEN_CD\/mendemo\/dcd\/047\/047-040-01.htmInspired, I connected mine to my salvaged and solar-charged gel-cell battery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/03\/copthornes-heathkit-hw-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Copthorne&#8217;s Heathkit HW-8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,15,155,87,31,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heathkits","category-hw-8","category-macdonald-copthorne","category-qrp","category-radio-history","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669","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=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5671,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions\/5671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}