{"id":6942,"date":"2009-03-02T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/gil-cartoon-of-w7zoi-on-the-mountaintop\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:58:58","slug":"gil-cartoon-of-w7zoi-on-the-mountaintop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/gil-cartoon-of-w7zoi-on-the-mountaintop\/","title":{"rendered":"Gil Cartoon of W7ZOI on the Mountaintop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhnYKanWNzF8Ddl07G5DRZq_P31aVcu2E-rrNtgYGJGL71kFQQsETHfoWsknNezBE68GFMgyQWuzcyTUvAPwh9sBxxkPYk9jEqyPfhBw3meIGpnQptdsrUDCPlKoU11TGRKBTBzWmCgeYE\/s1600-h\/w7zoi150.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/w7zoi150.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308449131092576578\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Steve, WA0PWK, sent this one in. He found it in an old issue of &#8220;Hints and Kinks.&#8221; Note the callsign on that FB HB portable rig. Wes tells me that this cartoon was actually a Doug DeMaw initiative. Doug took an older cartoon by Gil, W1CJD, and put &#8220;W7ZOI&#8221; on the rig. The drawing appeared next to a short article by Wes about an electronic keyer using a pair of 741 Op Amps. Wes also reports that his kids got a real kick out of it &#8212; his son Ron was taking an elective printing course in Jr. High School at the time, and printed up a bunch of W7ZOI QSL cards featuring the modified Gil cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that Steve, N0TU (now WG0AT !), would find this especially interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, WA0PWK, sent this one in. He found it in an old issue of &#8220;Hints and Kinks.&#8221; Note the callsign on that FB HB portable rig. Wes tells me that this cartoon was actually a Doug DeMaw initiative. Doug took an older cartoon by Gil, W1CJD, and put &#8220;W7ZOI&#8221; on the rig. The drawing appeared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/gil-cartoon-of-w7zoi-on-the-mountaintop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gil Cartoon of W7ZOI on the Mountaintop&#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":[7,60,373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demaw-doug","category-hayward-wes","category-w7zoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942","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=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6944,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}