{"id":14962,"date":"2015-10-01T09:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14962"},"modified":"2015-10-01T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:09:48","slug":"tass-an-arduino-based-antenna-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/tass-an-arduino-based-antenna-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"TASS: An Arduino-based antenna switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TASS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14963\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TASS.jpg\" alt=\"TASS\" width=\"370\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TASS.jpg 370w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TASS-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader,\u00a0Stan (WA1LOU), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Enjoy your blog. I have been reading it for years. [H]ere is something your readers might be interested in that I mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horzepa.com\/2015\/09\/computer-controlled-switch-system.html\" target=\"_blank\">my blog<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horzepa.com\/2015\/09\/computer-controlled-switch-system.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.horzepa.com\/2015\/09\/computer-controlled-switch-system.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very cool! Goes to show that there are a countless number of applications for the Arduino system to be used with\u00a0amateur\u00a0and shortwave radio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horzepa.com\/2015\/09\/computer-controlled-switch-system.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read Stan&#8217;s informative post<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/tapr.org\/kits_tass.html\" target=\"_blank\">here to order the TASS system from TAPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Ackermann also produced <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/P-TUM2dOi4c\" target=\"_blank\">this informative presentation\/video<\/a> about the system:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-TUM2dOi4c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Stan (WA1LOU), who writes: &#8220;Enjoy your blog. I have been reading it for years. [H]ere is something your readers might be interested in that I mentioned in my blog today: http:\/\/www.horzepa.com\/2015\/09\/computer-controlled-switch-system.html Very cool! Goes to show that there are a countless number of applications for the Arduino system to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4199,3607,545,627,3,139,43,304],"tags":[4266,4263,4262,4261,4265,4264],"class_list":["post-14962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-antennas","category-ham-radio","category-how-to","category-news","category-radio-modifications","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-arduino","tag-john-ackermann","tag-stan-wa1lou","tag-tapr","tag-tass","tag-tass-computer-controlled-switch-system"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3Tk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34473,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/swan-island-featured-in-philately-magazine\/","url_meta":{"origin":14962,"position":0},"title":"Swan Island featured in philately magazine","author":"Thomas","date":"October 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Stan (WA1LOU), who writes: Besides being a radio aficionado, I also dabble in philately and subscribe to a couple of stamp magazines. 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