{"id":5975,"date":"2012-07-04T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/good-emergency-advice-from-her-majestys-government\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:57:52","slug":"good-emergency-advice-from-her-majestys-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/good-emergency-advice-from-her-majestys-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Emergency Advice from Her Majesty&#8217;s Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/keep-calm-and-melt-solder-6.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; \"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/keep-calm-and-melt-solder-6.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5761260075327692770\" \/><\/a><b><span >I thought of this during our recent bout with the &#8220;Derecho&#8221; storm and the subsequent power outage. It is not really from HMG of course &#8212; it is actually the work of Carl, 2E0TEC. But I&#8217;m sure HMG would be on-board with the &#8220;musn&#8217;t grumble&#8221; &#8220;stiff upper lip&#8221; spirit of the poster. Now if I could only get my soldering iron to run off the solar-charged 12 volt gel cell&#8230;.<br \/><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; \"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\" style=\"font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; \">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\" style=\"font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; \">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">Our Book Store: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\" style=\"font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; \">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought of this during our recent bout with the &#8220;Derecho&#8221; storm and the subsequent power outage. It is not really from HMG of course &#8212; it is actually the work of Carl, 2E0TEC. But I&#8217;m sure HMG would be on-board with the &#8220;musn&#8217;t grumble&#8221; &#8220;stiff upper lip&#8221; spirit of the poster. Now if I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/good-emergency-advice-from-her-majestys-government\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Emergency Advice from Her Majesty&#8217;s Government&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-power","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","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=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}