{"id":7589,"date":"2014-07-16T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/our-first-listener-brad-smith-wa5psa\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:10:57","slug":"our-first-listener-brad-smith-wa5psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/our-first-listener-brad-smith-wa5psa\/","title":{"rendered":"Our First Listener:  Brad Smith, WA5PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wa5psa1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wa5psa1.png\" height=\"299\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>I got a nice message yesterday from Brad Smith, WA5PSA. Brad told me that he had listened to both of the Pete Juliano podcasts&#8230;TWICE. As a result, he is planning to build a phone rig. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>In the message Brad reminded me that he was the source of the very first feedback that Mike, KL7R, and I received about the SolderSmoke podcast. I remember it very well. We had uploaded SolderSmoke#1, and were wondering if ANYONE had listened. Then came this message from Brad (was it an e-mail?) saying that he&#8217;d listened to the show AS HE JOGGED THROUGH TULSA, OKLAHOMA. Wow! Tulsa! Our voices from London and Juneau had been heard in ear-buds by a jogger in Tulsa, OK. It was a bit like when you were a kid and you ran into the kitchen to tell your mom that you had just talked to a guy in TULSA. Somehow, that day, Tulsa seemed as exotic as Tokyo. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Thanks Brad! Good luck with the phone rig. Hope to work you on 17. <\/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 got a nice message yesterday from Brad Smith, WA5PSA. Brad told me that he had listened to both of the Pete Juliano podcasts&#8230;TWICE. As a result, he is planning to build a phone rig. In the message Brad reminded me that he was the source of the very first feedback that Mike, KL7R, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/our-first-listener-brad-smith-wa5psa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our First Listener:  Brad Smith, WA5PSA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,272,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-juliano-pete","category-kl7r","category-soldersmoke-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589","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=7589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7591,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions\/7591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}