{"id":8526,"date":"2015-07-14T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/been-there-done-that-he-begged-his-oscillator-to-osc-and-his-amplifiers-to-amp\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:49:26","slug":"been-there-done-that-he-begged-his-oscillator-to-osc-and-his-amplifiers-to-amp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/been-there-done-that-he-begged-his-oscillator-to-osc-and-his-amplifiers-to-amp\/","title":{"rendered":"Been There, Done That:  &#8220;&#8230;he begged his oscillator to osc and his amplifiers to amp.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Handbookad.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Handbookad.jpeg\" width=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>This ad is from the December 1931 issue of QST. This copy has a LOT of mileage on it. In 1993 or 1994, David Cowhig (now WA1LBP) was living in Okinawa Japan and was operating as 7J6CBQ. I was living in the Dominican Republic and operating as N2CQR\/HI8. We were both contributing to a 73 magazine column (as &#8220;Hambassadors&#8221;!) and we were both in the Foreign Service. I wrote to David &#8212; he wrote back, sending me some old QSTs, including the one from which the above ad is taken.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> <strong>This ad shows that many of the homebrew\/troubleshooting woes that we face today are very old. And that having access to good technical books is very important when you are trying to overcome these difficulties.<\/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>This ad is from the December 1931 issue of QST. This copy has a LOT of mileage on it. In 1993 or 1994, David Cowhig (now WA1LBP) was living in Okinawa Japan and was operating as 7J6CBQ. I was living in the Dominican Republic and operating as N2CQR\/HI8. We were both contributing to a 73 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/been-there-done-that-he-begged-his-oscillator-to-osc-and-his-amplifiers-to-amp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Been There, Done That:  &#8220;&#8230;he begged his oscillator to osc and his amplifiers to amp.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,75,63,100,31,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-dominican-republic","category-japan","category-magazines","category-old-radio","category-radio-history","category-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526","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=8526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8528,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions\/8528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}