{"id":5981,"date":"2013-03-16T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/03\/16\/vanguard\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:58:18","slug":"vanguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/03\/16\/vanguard\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanguard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vanguard.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Vanguard.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>Wow, Vanguard even <em>looks<\/em> like a QRPp satellite. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I suspected that something was up: I noticed that Mike Rainey, AA1TJ has recently been crossing pond with a QRPp Germanium rig&#8230; Then Steve &#8220;Snort Rosin&#8221; Smith clued me in: The next period of Vanguard QRPp Activity Days begins tomorrow. &#8220;Club 72&#8221; has a nice write up, and a nice collection of pictures of the Vanguard rigs that have been built around the world: <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.club72.su\/vanguard.html\"><strong>http:\/\/www.club72.su\/vanguard.html<\/strong><\/a><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Go Germanium! Go Vanguard!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, Vanguard even looks like a QRPp satellite. I suspected that something was up: I noticed that Mike Rainey, AA1TJ has recently been crossing pond with a QRPp Germanium rig&#8230; Then Steve &#8220;Snort Rosin&#8221; Smith clued me in: The next period of Vanguard QRPp Activity Days begins tomorrow. &#8220;Club 72&#8221; has a nice write up, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/03\/16\/vanguard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vanguard!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,85,86,82,319,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aa1tj","category-minimalist-radio","category-rainey-michael","category-satellites","category-smith-steve","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","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=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5982,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/5982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}