{"id":7359,"date":"2016-07-08T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/occams-bench-m0xpd-on-the-minimalist-measurement-mindset\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:47:19","slug":"occams-bench-m0xpd-on-the-minimalist-measurement-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/occams-bench-m0xpd-on-the-minimalist-measurement-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"Occam&#8217;s Bench: M0XPD on the Minimalist Measurement Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/M0XPDBeardedEnglishmen.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/M0XPDBeardedEnglishmen.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Our ace correspondent in Dayton, Bob Crane W8SX, caught up with Paul Darlington M0XPD (above, the guy with the rifle) and interviewed him about his presentation at Four Days in May 2016. You can listen to the interview here by clicking on the link below. I especially liked the comments on the joys of fixing things and the advantages of SIMPLE analog circuitry. Listen to the end and you will learn about Paul Darlington&#8217;s connection to the famous Darlington Pair. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/M0XPDFDIM.mp3\"><b>http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/M0XPDFDIM.mp3<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Paul provided more info (including his slide show and presentation notes) on his BRILLIANT Dayton talk here: <\/b><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/shacknasties\/presentations\/fdim-2016\"><b>https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/shacknasties\/presentations\/fdim-2016<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>You can buy Paul&#8217;s book here: <\/b><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/getting-there-Paul-Darlington\/dp\/1523452196\"><b>https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/getting-there-Paul-Darlington\/dp\/1523452196<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <b>Thanks Paul! Thanks Bob! And thanks to George Dobbs and William of Occam!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our ace correspondent in Dayton, Bob Crane W8SX, caught up with Paul Darlington M0XPD (above, the guy with the rifle) and interviewed him about his presentation at Four Days in May 2016. You can listen to the interview here by clicking on the link below. I especially liked the comments on the joys of fixing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/occams-bench-m0xpd-on-the-minimalist-measurement-mindset\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Occam&#8217;s Bench: M0XPD on the Minimalist Measurement Mindset&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,489,146,133,71,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-darlington-paul","category-dobbs-george","category-hamfests-and-flea-markets","category-test-gear","category-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359","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=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7361,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions\/7361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}