{"id":7472,"date":"2013-12-25T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/12\/25\/santa-arrives-at-soldersmoke-hq-rigol-and-blackdecker\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:58:44","slug":"santa-arrives-at-soldersmoke-hq-rigol-and-blackdecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/12\/25\/santa-arrives-at-soldersmoke-hq-rigol-and-blackdecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Arrives at SolderSmoke HQ!  Rigol and Black&#038;Decker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1010007.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1010007.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>Santa Claus obviously heard my distress call when the TEK 465 gave up the ghost. This morning it was replaced by a RIGOL digital scope. I&#8217;m going through the tutorials. Wow, lots of features. A Black&#038;Decker jig saw also arrived &#8212; this will help in my cabinetry efforts. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Last night just before dinner I talked to Kiyo, JH1MDJ, in Tokyo on 17 meter SSB with the 5 watt BITX. <\/strong> <strong>I kind of broke through a small pile-up and we then had one of those &#8220;please repeat your power level&#8230; I can&#8217;t believe that is 5 watts to a dipole&#8221; conversations.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Happy Holidays to all!<\/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>Santa Claus obviously heard my distress call when the TEK 465 gave up the ghost. This morning it was replaced by a RIGOL digital scope. I&#8217;m going through the tutorials. Wow, lots of features. A Black&#038;Decker jig saw also arrived &#8212; this will help in my cabinetry efforts. Last night just before dinner I talked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/12\/25\/santa-arrives-at-soldersmoke-hq-rigol-and-blackdecker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Santa Arrives at SolderSmoke HQ!  Rigol and Black&#038;Decker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,162,71,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-oscilloscope","category-test-gear","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472","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=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7474,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions\/7474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}