{"id":6327,"date":"2015-07-29T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/a-curiously-strong-frequency-counter\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:44:33","slug":"a-curiously-strong-frequency-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/a-curiously-strong-frequency-counter\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Curiously Strong&#8221; Frequency Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMGP3061.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMGP3061.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>I got a six digit San Jian frequency counter for use with my BITX20. I was trying to figure out how to put it in a box and mount it on the rig when I realized that the counter fits almost perfectly in an Altoids tin. THE RADIO GODS HAVE SPOKEN. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I found the counter on Amazon. I use an eight digit version with my BITX17. But I think the six digit version is better (it fits in an Altoids tin!)<\/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>I got a six digit San Jian frequency counter for use with my BITX20. I was trying to figure out how to put it in a box and mount it on the rig when I realized that the counter fits almost perfectly in an Altoids tin. THE RADIO GODS HAVE SPOKEN. I found the counter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/a-curiously-strong-frequency-counter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A &#8220;Curiously Strong&#8221; Frequency Counter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,174,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx20","category-frequency-counter","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327","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=6327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6329,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions\/6329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}