{"id":8561,"date":"2013-10-14T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/soldersmoke-podcast-155-bitx17-tek465\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:53:10","slug":"soldersmoke-podcast-155-bitx17-tek465","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/soldersmoke-podcast-155-bitx17-tek465\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Podcast #155  BITX17, TEK465"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1010199.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1010199.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong>Podcast # 155 is available for download (or you can listen by clicking on the button above): <\/strong><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke155.mp3\"><strong>http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke155.mp3<\/strong><\/a><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>October 14, 2013 (Delayed Back-to-School edition)<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Topics covered:<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>&#8212; BITX Beauty &#8212; Building a BITX17<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>&#8212; VFO woes, and the wisdom of Doug DeMaw&#8217;s love for crystals<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>&#8212; Why does a 55 year old man NEED clear nail polish varnish? <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>&#8212; How the VFO KILLED the Tek 465<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>&#8212; Trying to fix the Tek 465 (not for the faint of heart)<\/strong><br \/> <strong> <\/strong><br \/> <strong>&#8212; New products: Justin Beiber Duct Tape, bifocal safety glasses, <\/strong><br \/> <strong>magnetic reading glasses, Ward Silver&#8217;s new book <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>&#8212; Backwards British Bike Brakes<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>&#8212; MAILBAG <\/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>Podcast # 155 is available for download (or you can listen by clicking on the button above): http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke155.mp3 October 14, 2013 (Delayed Back-to-School edition) Topics covered: &#8212; BITX Beauty &#8212; Building a BITX17 &#8212; VFO woes, and the wisdom of Doug DeMaw&#8217;s love for crystals &#8212; Why does a 55 year old man NEED clear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/soldersmoke-podcast-155-bitx17-tek465\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Podcast #155  BITX17, TEK465&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,28,66,162,49,71,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicycle","category-bitx20","category-farhan","category-oscilloscope","category-soldersmoke-podcast","category-test-gear","category-wolke-alan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561","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=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8563,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions\/8563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}