{"id":734,"date":"2013-07-31T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/soul-in-an-old-telescope\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:05:06","slug":"soul-in-an-old-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/soul-in-an-old-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul in an Old Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pevear-telescope_0115.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pevear-telescope_0115.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>I like this telescope. The owner built it in 7th grade and is still using it at age 70. I&#8217;m still using the Drake 2-B that I bought with newspaper route money, so understand the sentiments. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/2013\/07\/29\/through-a-diy-telescope-brightly\/\"><strong>http:\/\/makezine.com\/2013\/07\/29\/through-a-diy-telescope-brightly\/<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/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>I like this telescope. The owner built it in 7th grade and is still using it at age 70. I&#8217;m still using the Drake 2-B that I bought with newspaper route money, so understand the sentiments. http:\/\/makezine.com\/2013\/07\/29\/through-a-diy-telescope-brightly\/ Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke Our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/soul-in-an-old-telescope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soul in an Old Telescope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drake-2b","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}