{"id":8649,"date":"2009-12-31T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/happy-new-year-soldercake\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:03:11","slug":"happy-new-year-soldercake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/happy-new-year-soldercake\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!  SolderCake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjj-COZd6pkKMotLv5r7o-LFEypG86_Snl-BZnQV3QWGsdvCEc9KzqS2jtLhBzHKn2LZe6qScQ91dsafrHUBU3ry8YHIG_caAo_AV598HNDFUBuB-BSfbAIC1eN43L8lNSboRhDEMUTffc\/s1600-h\/DSC01884.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC01884.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421464624580444610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This is just so good, I felt the urge to share it immediately with the SolderSmoke community. Thanks Tom, and Happy New Year to all!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\">Bill:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1262282774_0\">Happy New Year<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\">! <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\">I am yet another listener who discovered your podcast by accident and am now hooked. I also thoroughly enjoyed your book. Both take me back to the days of scrounged parts and burned fingers, building balanced modulators and an FM stereo transmitter that earned me an invitation to leave a great <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1262282774_1\">southern university<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\">To celebrate the new year, rising sunspot numbers, and your 120th podcast, I offer the attached photo of a Solder Cake. It features 120 rolls of 60\/40 rosin core solder &#8212; several brands and gauges. The cake actually weighs 123 lbs. because the roll holding the <\/span><span style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1262282774_2\">soldering iron<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\"> at the top is 4 lbs. It has zero calories, but definitely contains lead! It should be baked at less than 370 degrees, or the icing tends to run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\">Why would anyone have 120 rolls of solder? I don&#8217;t remember precisely, but rumor has it that ebay and alcohol were involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\">73, and a wonderful new year to you and your family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\">Thomas Keister M.D. N5RTF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just so good, I felt the urge to share it immediately with the SolderSmoke community. Thanks Tom, and Happy New Year to all! Bill: Happy New Year! I am yet another listener who discovered your podcast by accident and am now hooked. I also thoroughly enjoyed your book. Both take me back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/happy-new-year-soldercake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy New Year!  SolderCake!&#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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649","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=8649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8651,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions\/8651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}