{"id":8178,"date":"2012-10-01T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/workbench-inspiration-from-ve7bpo\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:10:25","slug":"workbench-inspiration-from-ve7bpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/workbench-inspiration-from-ve7bpo\/","title":{"rendered":"Workbench Inspiration from VE7BPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/qrppops.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/qrppops.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;\"><b>&#8220;In time, you may recognize your electronics workbench as your greatest teacher. Bench experiments involve us thinking about and measuring our circuits so we know what&#8217;s happening instead of relying too much on folklore, guessing and copying others. Designing and\/or simulating circuits with software can enhance your learning but does not obviate the need to spend time in the trenches with meters, wires and solder.&#8221; Todd, VE7BPO<\/b><\/span><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Like most of you, I am a frequent visitor to Todd&#8217;s site. It seems like every time I go there, I learn something new and come away inspired. Yesterday I was looking at the page that describes his philosophy of homebrewing. Check it out. Good stuff: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qrp.pops.net\/info.asp\">http:\/\/www.qrp.pops.net\/info.asp<\/a><\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>He also has a very nice collection of Java Script Applets for Homebrewers: <\/b><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qrp.pops.net\/qrp-java-calculator.htm\"><b>http:\/\/www.qrp.pops.net\/qrp-java-calculator.htm<\/b><\/a><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Thanks Todd! <\/b><\/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>&#8220;In time, you may recognize your electronics workbench as your greatest teacher. Bench experiments involve us thinking about and measuring our circuits so we know what&#8217;s happening instead of relying too much on folklore, guessing and copying others. Designing and\/or simulating circuits with software can enhance your learning but does not obviate the need to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/workbench-inspiration-from-ve7bpo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Workbench Inspiration from VE7BPO&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,122,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-web-sites","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178","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=8178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8180,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178\/revisions\/8180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}