{"id":6337,"date":"2020-03-31T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/03\/31\/quarantine-rig-vk3ye-resurrects-an-old-bitx-project\/"},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:10:00","slug":"quarantine-rig-vk3ye-resurrects-an-old-bitx-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/03\/31\/quarantine-rig-vk3ye-resurrects-an-old-bitx-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine Rig:  VK3YE Resurrects an Old BITX Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7fTwfD13Sk\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>I think we should start calling these &#8220;Quarantine Rigs.&#8221; Many of us are pulling off the shelves rigs that we started a while back but then put aside. Now, with the pandemic, we have the time (and the need!) to work on them. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I like Peter&#8217;s BITX receiver video, especially the part in the beginning where he wipes the grime and oxidation off the long-neglected copper-clad board. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Follow Peter&#8217;s lead: Pull those old projects off the shelf. Get them going. Now is the time. SITS! Melt solder and flatten the curve. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Thanks Peter. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we should start calling these &#8220;Quarantine Rigs.&#8221; Many of us are pulling off the shelves rigs that we started a while back but then put aside. Now, with the pandemic, we have the time (and the need!) to work on them. I like Peter&#8217;s BITX receiver video, especially the part in the beginning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/03\/31\/quarantine-rig-vk3ye-resurrects-an-old-bitx-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quarantine Rig:  VK3YE Resurrects an Old BITX Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-bitx20","category-parker-peter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337","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=6337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}