{"id":9493,"date":"2017-06-29T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/the-workshop-at-aa8v\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:37:54","slug":"the-workshop-at-aa8v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/the-workshop-at-aa8v\/","title":{"rendered":"The Workshop at AA8V"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEha-ZNFjDmukeD9yU4cYylkikhMB8VbAPUFn548T2Hi7iQ8w2tqUanX4Kzls7Q3HCHrsCg8z_qEnh2FPDX1QXR_9NR02RboxTHDzRXstmNFmRgLZiXUDoh0-WuoNTiNT5TPs8bBAqmOVnI\/s1600\/AA8V+Workshop.bmp\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"200\" data-original-width=\"258\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AA8VWorkshop.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>Field Day was a big success for me this year. I was in category &#8220;1E&#8221; which meant that I was home in the air conditioning, but doing my bit for emergency service by using a gel cell as my power source. A SOLAR CHARGED gel cell. So don&#8217;t anyone call me a slacker, OK? <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I was on my HW-8 and made a total of two contacts. The second was with AH6AX. I wasn&#8217;t fooled &#8212; I knew they weren&#8217;t in Hawaii. But the op gave me his home call: WB8YYY. Curt is a SolderSmoke listener. In a follow-up e-mail he alerted me to the web site of AA8V. Great stuff. Thanks Curt. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Here is the AA8V workshop: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.frostburg.edu\/phys\/latta\/ee\/workshop\/workshop.html#electronics1\"><b>http:\/\/faculty.frostburg.edu\/phys\/latta\/ee\/workshop\/workshop.html#electronics1<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <b>AA8V was on the QSO Today podcast not long ago. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Field Day was a big success for me this year. I was in category &#8220;1E&#8221; which meant that I was home in the air conditioning, but doing my bit for emergency service by using a gel cell as my power source. A SOLAR CHARGED gel cell. So don&#8217;t anyone call me a slacker, OK? I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/the-workshop-at-aa8v\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Workshop at AA8V&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-day","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","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=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9495,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions\/9495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}