{"id":9010,"date":"2024-01-02T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/02\/long-time-soldersmoke-supporter-ramakrishnan-vu2jxn-interviewed-on-qso-today\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:42","slug":"long-time-soldersmoke-supporter-ramakrishnan-vu2jxn-interviewed-on-qso-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/02\/long-time-soldersmoke-supporter-ramakrishnan-vu2jxn-interviewed-on-qso-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-time SolderSmoke supporter Ramakrishnan VU2JXN Interviewed on QSO Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image_1753112818.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"556\" data-original-width=\"566\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image_1753112818.png\" width=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsotoday.com\/podcasts\/vu2jxn\">https:\/\/www.qsotoday.com\/podcasts\/vu2jxn<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>I think we got our first e-mail from Ramakrishnan way back in 2006. At the time he was VU3RDD. On June 22, 2008 in SolderSmoke #86 we reported on the birth of Ramakrishnan&#8217;s new harmonic. In this interview with Eric 4Z1UG we hear of Ramakrishnan&#8217;s daughter (the same harmonic) getting her ham license and working with her dad on electronic projects. Ramakrishnan has been with us for a long time! <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>It was very cool to hear Ramakrishnan talk about the Lamakaan convention, the BITX 40, and the book <i>The Electronics of Radio. <\/i> There was a nice mention of SolderSmoke and Pete. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Listen to the interview here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsotoday.com\/podcasts\/vu2jxn\">https:\/\/www.qsotoday.com\/podcasts\/vu2jxn<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Thanks Ramakrishnan! Thanks Eric! <\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.qsotoday.com\/podcasts\/vu2jxn I think we got our first e-mail from Ramakrishnan way back in 2006. At the time he was VU3RDD. On June 22, 2008 in SolderSmoke #86 we reported on the birth of Ramakrishnan&#8217;s new harmonic. In this interview with Eric 4Z1UG we hear of Ramakrishnan&#8217;s daughter (the same harmonic) getting her ham license and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/02\/long-time-soldersmoke-supporter-ramakrishnan-vu2jxn-interviewed-on-qso-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Long-time SolderSmoke supporter Ramakrishnan VU2JXN Interviewed on QSO Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,102,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-israel","category-knack-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9012,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions\/9012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}