{"id":47855,"date":"2021-02-19T08:10:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T12:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=47855"},"modified":"2021-02-19T08:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T12:11:36","slug":"lemons-into-lemonade-nick-is-taking-advantage-of-texas-power-outage-to-play-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/lemons-into-lemonade-nick-is-taking-advantage-of-texas-power-outage-to-play-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemons into Lemonade: Nick is taking advantage of Texas power outage to play radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45760\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display.jpg 1900w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display-1536x861.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Radio-Exterior-IC-705-Waterfall-Display-624x350.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Nick Booras, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am stuck in the house in Texas, bored and with no power. So I decided to make a couple videos with my phone. One nice thing about a power outage&#8230; no RFI [Radio Frequency Interference].<\/p>\n<p>This Icom 705 is an awesome radio! Perhaps your viewers might like these.<\/p><\/blockquote>\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\/NeqwTyI1Az4?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<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\/esH_Xu6cY0s?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<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\/4NimabeZuvE?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<p>Thank you for sharing these, Nick! Yes, as we&#8217;ve noted before, <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/post-storm-power-outage-leads-emilio-to-find-the-rfi-spewing-source-of-his-problems\/\">power outages are an ideal time to play radio<\/a> and indulge in a low-noise environment! And I agree with you: the IC-705 is a superb shortwave broadcast receiver.<\/p>\n<p>I hope our readers in Texas will have power restored soon&#8211;this has been a rough week for many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Nick Booras, who writes: I am stuck in the house in Texas, bored and with no power. So I decided to make a couple videos with my phone. One nice thing about a power outage&#8230; no RFI [Radio Frequency Interference]. This Icom 705 is an awesome radio! Perhaps your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[545,3,196,43],"tags":[7978,2884,7977,8760,8236,4089,1296,453,34],"class_list":["post-47855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-qrm","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ic-705","tag-icom","tag-icom-ic-705","tag-nick-booras","tag-power-outages","tag-qrm","tag-rf-noise","tag-rfi","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-crR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55298,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/video-nick-explores-the-benchmark-icom-ic-r9500\/","url_meta":{"origin":47855,"position":0},"title":"Video: Nick explores the benchmark Icom IC-R9500","author":"Thomas","date":"January 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Nick Booras, who writes: Hello Thomas I recently got a new Icom 9500 and have made several in depth videos on it for my YouTube channel including multiple direct comparisons to other premium receivers. Here is the main overview video: https:\/\/youtu.be\/-u8_f7avUHg Click here to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Icom-IC-R9500.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Icom-IC-R9500.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Icom-IC-R9500.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Icom-IC-R9500.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Icom-IC-R9500.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":39379,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-new-icom-ic-705-qrp-portable-backpackable-transceiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":47855,"position":1},"title":"The new Icom IC-705 QRP portable, backpackable transceiver","author":"Thomas","date":"September 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This weekend at Tokyo's Ham Fair 2019, Icom announced an innovative transceiver to their line-up: the Icom IC-705 QRP transceiver. 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Although many of us don't speak Japanese, it's easy to understand what she's talking about as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Icom-IC-705.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Icom-IC-705.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Icom-IC-705.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":45958,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/more-field-time-with-the-new-icom-ic-705-general-coverage-qrp-transceiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":47855,"position":3},"title":"More field time with the new Icom IC-705 general coverage QRP transceiver","author":"Thomas","date":"October 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been using the Icom IC-705 pretty heavily since I took delivery of it a couple weeks ago. 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