{"id":704,"date":"2020-01-16T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/mike-wu2d-on-qso-today-with-eric-guth-4z1ug\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:02:08","slug":"mike-wu2d-on-qso-today-with-eric-guth-4z1ug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/mike-wu2d-on-qso-today-with-eric-guth-4z1ug\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike WU2D on QSO Today with Eric Guth 4Z1UG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Guth has a great interview with homebrew and boatanchor guru Mike WU2D. <\/b>

<\/b> Listen here: <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.qsotoday.com\/podcasts\/WU2D<\/a><\/b>

<\/b> Wow: “My receiver was from a Sherman tank.” <\/b>

<\/b> His story about getting in trouble after “borrowing” his friend’s callsign was really great. <\/b>

<\/b> I also liked his wise comment about how anyone who homebrews simple gear will collect some “wallpaper” from official observers and the FCC. Mike is right: we shouldn’t get too concerned about minor transgressions. If we do, we run the risk of becoming so careful, cautious, and fearful that we never BUILD anything. <\/b><\/p>\n

There is a wonderful discussion of the Paraset. <\/b>

<\/b> Mike coins a term that we might want to add to the SolderSmoke lexicon: RetroQRP. (Over to you Steve Silverman. Your call OM.) <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Guth has a great interview with homebrew and boatanchor guru Mike WU2D. Listen here: https:\/\/www.qsotoday.com\/podcasts\/WU2D Wow: “My receiver was from a Sherman tank.” His story about getting in trouble after “borrowing” his friend’s callsign was really great. I also liked his wise comment about how anyone who homebrews simple gear will collect some “wallpaper” … Continue reading “Mike WU2D on QSO Today with Eric Guth 4Z1UG”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,103,100,87,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cw","category-knack-stories","category-old-radio","category-qrp","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","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=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}