{"id":6983,"date":"2015-06-18T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/progress-on-petes-zia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:03:10","slug":"progress-on-petes-zia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/progress-on-petes-zia\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress on Pete&#8217;s &#8220;ZIA&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pete2527sZIA.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pete2527sZIA.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>It is practically SPARKLING! Beautiful job Pete. I&#8217;m glad you are actually boxing this one up! <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Pete has many more pictures of this project here: <\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.n6qw.com\/TIA.html\"><strong>http:\/\/www.n6qw.com\/TIA.html<\/strong><\/a><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>He also notes that there may have been some sub-conscious Knack wisdom at work when I dubbed his rig &#8220;The Zia.&#8221; I was thinking strictly in terms of language and ethnic heritage: TIA stands for Termination Insensitive Amplifier. But in Spanish it means &#8220;aunt&#8221;. But in Italian Aunt comes out as Zia. So Pete&#8217;s should be a Zia, right? Capisce? <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Well Pete puts an electronic twist on it: <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>&#8220;Once again you are spot on with ZIA (With Z the electronic symbol for Impedance). Thus Impedance (The symbol Z) Insensitive Amp. Thank You.&#8221;<\/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>It is practically SPARKLING! Beautiful job Pete. I&#8217;m glad you are actually boxing this one up! Pete has many more pictures of this project here: http:\/\/www.n6qw.com\/TIA.html He also notes that there may have been some sub-conscious Knack wisdom at work when I dubbed his rig &#8220;The Zia.&#8221; I was thinking strictly in terms of language &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/progress-on-petes-zia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Progress on Pete&#8217;s &#8220;ZIA&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,140,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitx-digi-tia","category-italy","category-juliano-pete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983","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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6985,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions\/6985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}