{"id":5877,"date":"2009-07-05T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/soldersmoke-podcast-111\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:47:07","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/soldersmoke-podcast-111\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #111"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DSC_0332.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DSC_0332.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354961745625086082\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Lunchtime on Ponza (with Palmarola Island in the background)<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soldersmoke.com\/\">http:\/\/www.soldersmoke.com<br \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">In SolderSmoke 111:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">July 5, 2009<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1246798983_1\">Ponza<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> and the <\/span><span style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1246798983_2\">Pontine Islands<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Xtal Set Society &#8212; Great guys!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Spark plugs as lightning arresters<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The <\/span><span style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1246798983_3\">Grundig Mini 300<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> SW receiver<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1246798983_4\">Jupiter<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1246798983_5\">Rome<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> and from Mars<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Saturn from the window<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">More tremors<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Back to visual MEPT<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Is my antenna down, or is it conditions?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">W7ZOI on bidirectional amps<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Farhan&#8217;s simple &#8220;JBOT&#8221; 5W BJT amp<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA1TJ&#8217;s Xtaflex<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Regens from hell<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">WD-40<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sprat 139<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1246798983_6\">Arthur C. Clarke<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8216;s &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1246798983_7\">Voices from the Sky<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MAILBAG<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Check out the new book &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; A Global Adventure in Radio Electronics. &#8221; Read the first chapter here: <\/span><br \/><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.%20com\/content\/%20paperback-%20book\/soldersmoke%20\/6743576\">http:\/\/www.lulu. com\/content\/ paperback- book\/soldersmoke \/6743576<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunchtime on Ponza (with Palmarola Island in the background) http:\/\/www.soldersmoke.comIn SolderSmoke 111: July 5, 2009Ponza and the Pontine IslandsThe Xtal Set Society &#8212; Great guys!Spark plugs as lightning arrestersThe Grundig Mini 300 SW receiverJupiter from Rome and from MarsSaturn from the windowMore tremorsBack to visual MEPTIs my antenna down, or is it conditions?W7ZOI on bidirectional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/soldersmoke-podcast-111\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Podcast #111&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5877","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\/5877","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=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5879,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions\/5879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}