{"id":6855,"date":"2022-07-11T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/07\/11\/surface-mount-solder-smoke-is-this-really-homebrew\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:27","slug":"surface-mount-solder-smoke-is-this-really-homebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/07\/11\/surface-mount-solder-smoke-is-this-really-homebrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface-Mount Solder Smoke &#8212; Is THIS Really Homebrew?"},"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\/C7jFupvuy9M?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I was <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/would-this-really-be-homebrew.html\">recently noting<\/a> that the assembly of IC, CPU-based projects doesn&#8217;t seem like real homebrew radio. I realize that there is a danger here &#8212; there is a tendency in ham radio to reject the new and to stick with the old. &#8220;SPARK FOREVER&#8221; was the rallying cry when CW came along. There are still a lot of AMers who refer to SSB as &#8220;Single Slop Bucket.&#8221; So, with that in mind I point the blog to the above video. He is using complicated ICs that probably have thousands if not millions of transistors. But he is definitely making something new. And he releases some real solder smoke in the process. FB. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div><b>It is probably not for me, but others may like it. <\/b><b>Like the old song says &#8220;Different strokes for different folks.&#8221; YMMV. <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently noting that the assembly of IC, CPU-based projects doesn&#8217;t seem like real homebrew radio. I realize that there is a danger here &#8212; there is a tendency in ham radio to reject the new and to stick with the old. &#8220;SPARK FOREVER&#8221; was the rallying cry when CW came along. There are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/07\/11\/surface-mount-solder-smoke-is-this-really-homebrew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surface-Mount Solder Smoke &#8212; Is THIS Really Homebrew?&#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":[100,97,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-radio","category-solder","category-surface-mount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","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=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11374,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions\/11374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}