{"id":8400,"date":"2017-01-07T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/01\/07\/great-interview-with-farhan-re-bitx-40-and-bitx-history\/"},"modified":"2017-01-07T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T11:59:00","slug":"great-interview-with-farhan-re-bitx-40-and-bitx-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/01\/07\/great-interview-with-farhan-re-bitx-40-and-bitx-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Interview with Farhan Re BITX 40 and BITX History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2_BPq5E5MlA?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>W5KUB has a really good interview with Farhan. There are several spots where the Skype connection gets quite choppy, but hang in there &#8212; it gets better. Farhan provides a lot of good info on the history of the BITX rigs, his design philosophy, and the importance of the EMRFD book. He also talks about how the BITX 40 Module is produced. And he talks a bit about possible future rigs. Great stuff. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I was very pleased to hear that Farhan is trying to eliminate the need for his FT-817 (he currently needs it for its general coverage receiver) so that he can have a completely homebrew hamshack. FB! <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W5KUB has a really good interview with Farhan. There are several spots where the Skype connection gets quite choppy, but hang in there &#8212; it gets better. Farhan provides a lot of good info on the history of the BITX rigs, his design philosophy, and the importance of the EMRFD book. He also talks about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/01\/07\/great-interview-with-farhan-re-bitx-40-and-bitx-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Interview with Farhan Re BITX 40 and BITX History&#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":[28,65,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitx20","category-bitx40module","category-farhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400","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=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}