{"id":9117,"date":"2010-06-18T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/100-feet-up-in-a-pine-tree-soldering-iron-clinched-in-his-teeth\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:59:21","slug":"100-feet-up-in-a-pine-tree-soldering-iron-clinched-in-his-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/100-feet-up-in-a-pine-tree-soldering-iron-clinched-in-his-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"“100 Feet Up In A Pine Tree, Soldering Iron Clinched In His Teeth”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Radio Guys at University of Virginia, 1966<\/span><\/div>\n

Hi Bill.<\/p>\n

I emailed you once to the Yahoo! address, but thought I’d send an updated email to your soldersmoke address, in a desperate attempt to be mentioned in the gonging “SolderSmoke Mailbag”!<\/p>\n

I learned of the podcast at May’s Hamvention. I wish I had known of the Four Days in May event, but this was the first Dayton I’ve ever been to.<\/p>\n

I thought I’d mention that the ham club I’m involved with here in central Virginia, the University of Virginia club<\/span>, is putting together a rhombic antenna<\/span> out in the woods. Although more sweat (and hornet stings) than solder smoke is expected to come from this effort, I still thought it would be worthy of note within the realm of homebrew activity. I hope to have some photographs from our slingshot-and-fishing-line event. With a large crop of able-bodied 20-somethings at our disposal, we should be able to get this thing put together in short order (one of our new members even has extensive tree-climbing skills and a battery-powered soldering iron<\/span>! If I can get a shot of him 100ft up a pine with the iron in his teeth, I will be sure to pass along). It is hoped that our new monster antenna will help us compete with our cross-state rivals, the Hokies of Virginia Tech. I will be sure to sacrifice a few chickens to Papa Legba<\/span> prior to our outing.<\/p>\n

There are definitely still young people interested in homebrew radio and I work everyday alongside many victims of “The Knack<\/span>“. I’m working on spreading the SolderSmoke gospel to as many of them as possible, and letting them know of our library of “Sacred Texts”: EMRFD, Solid State Design, and Electronics of Radio, among others. And of course, some of our “Prophets” of the faith: Ashhar Farhan, the Haywards, and the late Doug DeMaw.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to say that since I have a lengthy commute to and from the university, I’ve been listening to ALL of the soldersmoke podcasts, starting from the first one. I’m up to the summer of 2007 now. I found it very sad to hear of Mike KL7R’s death in Jan 2007 and I find that I do miss the back and forth banter the two of your shared on the podcasts. However, it is still a lot of fun to listen to and I’ve kept a small logbook of ideas from the episodes, building up a list of projects I hope to soon embark upon.<\/p>\n

Best 73 and thank you for your podcasts.<\/p>\n

Bert WF7I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radio Guys at University of Virginia, 1966 Hi Bill. I emailed you once to the Yahoo! address, but thought I’d send an updated email to your soldersmoke address, in a desperate attempt to be mentioned in the gonging “SolderSmoke Mailbag”! I learned of the podcast at May’s Hamvention. I wish I had known of the … Continue reading ““100 Feet Up In A Pine Tree, Soldering Iron Clinched In His Teeth””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,50,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-books","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117","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=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9119,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions\/9119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}