{"id":9377,"date":"2011-09-29T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/sputnik-rigs-cross-the-pond-cambridge-to-cambridge\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:26:04","slug":"sputnik-rigs-cross-the-pond-cambridge-to-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/sputnik-rigs-cross-the-pond-cambridge-to-cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sputnik Rigs Cross the Pond, Cambridge to Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sputnik1b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sputnik1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657719062190284594\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Chief Designer, Michael, AA1TJ, alerted us to this wonderful post on Roger, G3XBM&#8217;s blog: <\/span><br \/><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/sputnik-across-atlantic-today.html\">http:\/\/g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/sputnik-across-atlantic-today.html<\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">We clearly see the spirit of the International Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards in Roger&#8217;s comment:<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102);\"> &#8220;Nice to think that valves used in missiles aimed at each other in the Cold War end in bringing friendship and joy. CW is a wonderful mode if you want simple equipment capable of DX.&#8221; <\/span>Indeed. Well done! <\/span><\/span><\/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>The Chief Designer, Michael, AA1TJ, alerted us to this wonderful post on Roger, G3XBM&#8217;s blog: http:\/\/g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/sputnik-across-atlantic-today.htmlWe clearly see the spirit of the International Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards in Roger&#8217;s comment: &#8220;Nice to think that valves used in missiles aimed at each other in the Cold War end in bringing friendship and joy. CW is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/sputnik-rigs-cross-the-pond-cambridge-to-cambridge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sputnik Rigs Cross the Pond, Cambridge to Cambridge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,462,96,82,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aa1tj","category-igy","category-russia","category-satellites","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","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=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9379,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions\/9379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}