{"id":8097,"date":"2019-11-02T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/11\/02\/soldersmoke-podcast-214-is-finally-out\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:02:41","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-214-is-finally-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/11\/02\/soldersmoke-podcast-214-is-finally-out\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #214 is FINALLY out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qDVHM35q2h4\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<p> <b><span id=\"goog_899613497\"><\/span><span id=\"goog_899613498\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: red;\">WE ARE WORKING TO IMPROVE THE AUDIO QUALITY. IN THE FIRST RELEASE OF THIS PODCAST SOME OF THE AUDIO WAS KIND OF MUFFLED. I TRIED TO FIX IT THIS MORNING AND I THINK I MADE SOME IMPROVEMENTS. THE IMPROVED AUDIO IS NOW AT THE LINK BELOW. <\/span><\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>4 November 2019 (shockingly late!)<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke214.mp3\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke214.mp3<\/a><\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>The visit of Farhan to Northern Virginia<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8220;I heard this guy from Southern California on 20&#8230;&#8221;<\/b><br \/> <b>Fire Report from Pete<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Pete&#8217;s Bench Report<\/b><br \/> <b>&#8220;When you know stuff, you can do stuff!&#8221; <\/b><br \/> <b>The CRAP rigs <\/b><br \/> <b>Old Boatanchors &#8212; the Swan 120 with SUPER STABLE ANALOG VFO! <\/b><br \/> <b>Ten Tec rigs dial cord replaced with Chinese digi sig counter <\/b><br \/> <b>Pete&#8217;s 500 mW encounter with a QRO curmudgeon<\/b><br \/> <b>The ZL2BMI Challenge has Pete building crystal filters<\/b><br \/> <b>The Left Coast Loafer CW rig <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Bill&#8217;s Bench Report<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>ET-2 Refinements<\/b><br \/> <b>N0WVA&#8217;s Regen Receiver <\/b><br \/> <b>Going from ET-1 to ET-2<\/b><br \/> <b>J-310s vice MPF-102<\/b><br \/> <b>100 mW from a single J-310<\/b><br \/> <b>Receiver kind of deaf -103 dbm MDS<\/b><br \/> <b>10 contacts so far in 9 states <\/b><br \/> <b>THREE contacts yesterday.<\/b><br \/> <b>Worked Wisconsin &#8211; 633 miles on 92 mW <\/b><br \/> <b>We are at sunspot minimum. <\/b><br \/> <b>&#8220;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.&#8221; <\/b><br \/> <b>Simplicity is the real reason for CW <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>IDEA: Get those Michigan Might Mites on the air! <\/b><br \/> <b>Use Reverse Beacon Network to see if you are getting out <\/b><br \/> <b>Use SDR receivers to make contacts<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>MAILBAG<\/b><br \/> <b>DL1AJG<\/b><br \/> <b>KC6SAX<\/b><br \/> <b>W9VNE<\/b><br \/> <b>KA4KXX<\/b><br \/> <b>N0WVA<\/b><br \/> <b>Zl2BMI<\/b><br \/> <b>AJ6BD <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pete2527sZL2BMIChallengeRig.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pete2527sZL2BMIChallengeRig.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><br \/><\/b>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pete2527sZL2BMIChallengeRigwSchematic.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"402\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pete2527sZL2BMIChallengeRigwSchematic.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pete2527sCrystalFilterontheAntuino.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"405\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pete2527sCrystalFilterontheAntuino.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p> <b><br \/><\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE ARE WORKING TO IMPROVE THE AUDIO QUALITY. IN THE FIRST RELEASE OF THIS PODCAST SOME OF THE AUDIO WAS KIND OF MUFFLED. I TRIED TO FIX IT THIS MORNING AND I THINK I MADE SOME IMPROVEMENTS. THE IMPROVED AUDIO IS NOW AT THE LINK BELOW. 4 November 2019 (shockingly late!) http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke214.mp3 The visit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/11\/02\/soldersmoke-podcast-214-is-finally-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Podcast #214 is FINALLY out!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,66,16,24,85,127,100,159,40,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-et-2","category-farhan","category-filters","category-michigan-mighty-mite","category-minimalist-radio","category-new-zealand","category-old-radio","category-reverse-beacon-network","category-sdr","category-soldersmoke-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097","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=8097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8101,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions\/8101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}