{"id":6259,"date":"2022-06-10T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/10\/soldersmoke-fdim-interview-adam-k6ark-and-his-2-6-gram-mini-pixie-smd-transceiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:29","slug":"soldersmoke-fdim-interview-adam-k6ark-and-his-2-6-gram-mini-pixie-smd-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/10\/soldersmoke-fdim-interview-adam-k6ark-and-his-2-6-gram-mini-pixie-smd-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke FDIM Interview:  Adam K6ARK and his 2.6 gram Mini-Pixie SMD Transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6rKpxAWZ7uM?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I&#8217;ve not bee a big fan of the super-simple Pixie transceiver, but Adam K6ARK could make me a believer. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Our correspondent Bob Crane W8SX interviewed Adam at FDIM. You can listen to the interview here: <\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/2022 K6ARK.mp3\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/2022 K6ARK.mp3<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The video above shows Adam&#8217;s tiny Pixie in action in the California desert. His rig is about the size of a postage stamp and weighs about 2.6 grams. FB Adam. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Adam did a lot better with his Pixie than I did with my far larger and more complicated SST transceiver. He also did better than I did on 40 when I was using my ET-2 (two FET) transceiver. <\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b>I liked how Adam recorded in the field the CW from his rig, I also liked his key (!) and his EFHW antenna and &#8220;tuner.&#8221; Adam&#8217;s ability to cope with no CW sidetone was also admirable. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Adam&#8217;s YouTube channel is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/K6ARKPortableRadio\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/K6ARKPortableRadio<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Thanks to Adam and to Bob Crane. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not bee a big fan of the super-simple Pixie transceiver, but Adam K6ARK could make me a believer. Our correspondent Bob Crane W8SX interviewed Adam at FDIM. You can listen to the interview here: http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/2022 K6ARK.mp3 The video above shows Adam&#8217;s tiny Pixie in action in the California desert. His rig is about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/10\/soldersmoke-fdim-interview-adam-k6ark-and-his-2-6-gram-mini-pixie-smd-transceiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke FDIM Interview:  Adam K6ARK and his 2.6 gram Mini-Pixie SMD Transceiver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,228,85,87,324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-crane-bob","category-minimalist-radio","category-qrp","category-sota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11381,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259\/revisions\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}