{"id":8377,"date":"2015-06-03T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/rigs-vs-radios-a-real-rig-in-a-real-shack\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T22:59:00","slug":"rigs-vs-radios-a-real-rig-in-a-real-shack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/rigs-vs-radios-a-real-rig-in-a-real-shack\/","title":{"rendered":"Rigs vs. Radios:  A Real RIG in a Real SHACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJvLRrInxKM?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Earlier this year Pete and I were talking about the use of the word &#8220;rig.&#8221; For me this is a hallowed term that captures much of the essence of ham radio. Sadly, in modern parlance &#8220;rig&#8221; seems to be increasingly substituted by word &#8220;radio.&#8221; If you are wondering what the difference is, well, I think this video presents a good example of a rig. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>There was a nice exchange of e-mails on QRP-L about this video: <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <span class=\"thread-date\" role=\"presentation\"><em><strong><span class=\"short\" role=\"presentation\" title=\"Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:54 PM\">Jun 2 at 9:54 <span class=\"ampm\">PM<\/span><\/span> <\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/> <em><strong> <\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<div class=\"thread-body\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433294159679_14201\" role=\"presentation\">\n<div class=\"body undoreset\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433294159679_14200\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"email-wrapped\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433294159679_14199\"> <em><strong>Hi Bill. <br clear=\"none\" \/>I&#8217;ve operated a breadboard rig <span style=\"background-color: yellow;\">just to watch the electrons move thru the circuits<\/span> but never worked such a kluged station yet. <br clear=\"none\" \/>73 de Ed, K1RID<br clear=\"none\" \/>(formerly KC1BBC)<br clear=\"none\" \/><br clear=\"none\" \/> On Jun 2, 2015, at 21:30, Bill Cromwell wrote:<br clear=\"none\" \/> Hi Ed,<br clear=\"none\" \/>I worked some lashups like Mike&#8217;s. I still do. Once upon a time I &#8220;temporarily&#8221; taped a T-R relay under a shelf and used it temporarily enough months for it to come untaped and fall in the middle of a QSO! I finished the QSO anyway. I don&#8217;t tape relays to the bottom of shelves any more but the top of the shelf is fair game. <span style=\"background-color: yellow;\">No relay ever fell *up*.<\/span> I&#8217;ve worked Mike on the air. We have some of the same views.<br clear=\"none\" \/> 73,<br clear=\"none\" \/> Bill KU8H<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\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>Earlier this year Pete and I were talking about the use of the word &#8220;rig.&#8221; For me this is a hallowed term that captures much of the essence of ham radio. Sadly, in modern parlance &#8220;rig&#8221; seems to be increasingly substituted by word &#8220;radio.&#8221; If you are wondering what the difference is, well, I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/rigs-vs-radios-a-real-rig-in-a-real-shack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rigs vs. Radios:  A Real RIG in a Real SHACK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-radio","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377","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=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}