{"id":8536,"date":"2008-05-16T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/qst-1924-the-amateur-builder\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:50:30","slug":"qst-1924-the-amateur-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/qst-1924-the-amateur-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"QST 1924 &#8212; THE AMATEUR BUILDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhNUvXy8Ea0jDxIpTOPU22O0LC-s9DXKHH0s7hTPQ2HbqGdzTWWTIlXlwNDyVmWpDkvaChuaJFsd52jFlKBcwd6RCqNFrvg-EQHc5PR0WA6tN3-Ec6ASdReTpXfr7_iWH2gDDnLzARQ9CE\/s1600-h\/Amateur+Builder.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/AmateurBuilder.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200841035584891570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A few episodes back I was talking about the old QST articles in which amateurs were extolled to focus more on efficiency and technincal quality, and less on high power and brute force. Wes, W7ZOI was kind enough to send me some of these articles. Here is the header for one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few episodes back I was talking about the old QST articles in which amateurs were extolled to focus more on efficiency and technincal quality, and less on high power and brute force. Wes, W7ZOI was kind enough to send me some of these articles. Here is the header for one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536","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=8536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8538,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions\/8538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}