{"id":9831,"date":"2024-05-21T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/05\/21\/laser-communication-in-london-2007-a-pointer-a-vw-solar-panel-and-radio-kismet\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:41","slug":"laser-communication-in-london-2007-a-pointer-a-vw-solar-panel-and-radio-kismet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/05\/21\/laser-communication-in-london-2007-a-pointer-a-vw-solar-panel-and-radio-kismet\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Communication in London 2007 &#8212; a Pointer, a VW Solar Panel, and Radio Kismet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJ1dcIHfces?si=5JdbplBfR3-F-YND?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Hack-A-Day has an article today about using a laser for data transmission. This reminded me of a discussion I had with Mike KL7R about similar systems. My son Billy and I built a very simple version in London in 2007. Check out the podcast above. Scroll foward to 19 minutes 15 seconds and you will hear how we did this. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>This was Mike&#8217;s last podcast. He was killed in a car accident in Hawaii about 10 days later. RIP Mike. 73 OM. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhTXgXWtGV8GaSzbfdXpUVXcT2r_i9IAGEk9625BNDwTEzbxWO6sodATmKTWOGD6JOmre802ZmcTcKzzNBQuUyrF1nvAvy07nk4j3Srk53xA91Nc9qVNbw8nGYXv7z19NMile39T-W07PEGCeQ1DnBHv9AkC_PrS0wJLlURQz8THDTGYQTDFG-Nlf68XYo\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"284\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image_1753118680.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Mike KL7R<\/div>\n<p><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hack-A-Day has an article today about using a laser for data transmission. This reminded me of a discussion I had with Mike KL7R about similar systems. My son Billy and I built a very simple version in London in 2007. Check out the podcast above. Scroll foward to 19 minutes 15 seconds and you will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/05\/21\/laser-communication-in-london-2007-a-pointer-a-vw-solar-panel-and-radio-kismet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laser Communication in London 2007 &#8212; a Pointer, a VW Solar Panel, and Radio Kismet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272,212,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kl7r","category-laser","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","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=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9833,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions\/9833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}