{"id":7387,"date":"2015-10-16T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/16\/a-message-from-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:50:03","slug":"a-message-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/16\/a-message-from-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"fancybox-image\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zs3aor.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444987509610_2555\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Hi Bill, <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444987509610_2554\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444987509610_2552\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>I am Pieter callsign ZS3AOR. I came upon your E-Book at Amazon and downloaded it to my Kindle and man, I really enjoyed reading about your endeavors with everything.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444987509610_2565\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The way you explained for instance the inner workings of transistors and mixers and problems associated with it is really good.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444987509610_2561\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Subsequently I downloaded the August Podcast and I am hooked with you and Pete. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444987509610_2574\" lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Kind regards from the Namaqualand region of South Africa (Northern Cape Province)<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Pieter ZS3AOR<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zs3aor1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zs3aor1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609WordSection1\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zs3aor2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zs3aor2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><\/span> <\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2060671609MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"> <strong>Pieter&#8217;s Workbenches<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Bill, I am Pieter callsign ZS3AOR. I came upon your E-Book at Amazon and downloaded it to my Kindle and man, I really enjoyed reading about your endeavors with everything. The way you explained for instance the inner workings of transistors and mixers and problems associated with it is really good. Subsequently I downloaded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/16\/a-message-from-south-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Message from South Africa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387","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=7387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}