{"id":10407,"date":"2014-08-03T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T18:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10407"},"modified":"2014-08-03T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T18:14:30","slug":"etows-humanalight-featured-on-hamnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/etows-humanalight-featured-on-hamnation\/","title":{"rendered":"ETOW&#8217;s HumanaLight featured on HamNation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\/show\/ham-nation\/158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10409\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hn600.jpg\" alt=\"hn600\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hn600.jpg 200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hn600-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hn600-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I would like to give a hearty\u00a0shout-out to the good folks at <em><a title=\"HamNation\" href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\/show\/ham-nation\/158\" target=\"_blank\">HamNation<\/a>,<\/em> via Leo Laporte&#8217;s <a title=\"TWiT home\" href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">TWiT network<\/a>, for so prominently featuring <a title=\"ETOW\" href=\"http:\/\/etow.org\" target=\"_blank\">Ears To Our World\u2013<\/a><em>and ETOW&#8217;s\u00a0new HumanaLight kit!<\/em>\u2013in the latest episode.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u00a0<a title=\"Tallying up Dayton Hamvention purchases\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/tallying-up-hamvention-purchases\/\">at the Dayton Hamvention<\/a>, I was pleased\u00a0to meet\u00a0George Thomas (W5JDX), who produces the\u00a0excellent &#8220;Solder Smoke&#8221;\u00a0series of instructional videos which teach novices how to build kits and other electronic projects. I&#8217;ve always found these\u00a0videos clear, highly comprehensible,\u00a0and easy to follow. George kindly agreed to make an instructional video for us, clearly\u00a0illustrating\u00a0how to build the HumanaLight.<\/p>\n<p>George is also a co-host of <em>HamNation<\/em>, but I never thought he would include the HumanaLight in an episode. I was surprised\u00a0to find that he made the HumanaLight kit a &#8220;Solder Smoke&#8221; segment, then went on to\u00a0<a title=\"Check it out!\" href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\/show\/ham-nation\/158\" target=\"_blank\">prominently promote ETOW.<\/a>..truly\u00a0an honor. His video, moreover, does\u00a0an excellent job showing viewers how to build the HumanaLight (and mentions\u00a0that you can\u00a0purchase\u00a0one\u00a0<a title=\"Universal Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/universal-radio.com\/catalog\/misc\/0814.html\" target=\"_blank\">at Universal Radio<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/twit.tv\/embed\/16480\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the interesting history behind the HumanaLight, <a title=\"The ETOW HumanaLight now at Universal Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-etow-humanalight-now-at-universal-radio\/\">read this post<\/a> or check out <a title=\"HumanaLight\" href=\"http:\/\/humanalight.org\" target=\"_blank\">HumanaLight.org<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10417\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HumanaLight.jpg\" alt=\"HumanaLight\" width=\"750\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HumanaLight.jpg 750w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HumanaLight-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HumanaLight-100x32.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to give a hearty\u00a0shout-out to the good folks at HamNation, via Leo Laporte&#8217;s TWiT network, for so prominently featuring Ears To Our World\u2013and ETOW&#8217;s\u00a0new HumanaLight kit!\u2013in the latest episode. This year\u00a0at the Dayton Hamvention, I was pleased\u00a0to meet\u00a0George Thomas (W5JDX), who produces the\u00a0excellent &#8220;Solder Smoke&#8221;\u00a0series of instructional videos which teach novices how [&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":[3,554],"tags":[178,218,3149,3156,3148,3155,3157,3154],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-slightly-off-topic","tag-ears-to-our-world","tag-etow","tag-etow-humanalight","tag-george-thomas-w5jdx","tag-humanalight","tag-leo-laport","tag-solder-smoke","tag-twit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2HR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10435,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-etow-humanalight-now-at-universal-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":10407,"position":0},"title":"The ETOW HumanaLight now at Universal Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"August 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"If you've been an SWLing Post reader for long, you probably know that I'm the founder and director of Ears To Our World (ETOW), a charity\u00a0built on the belief\u00a0that\u00a0access to information is access to education.\u00a0And that access is achieved, of course, via radio: \u00a0self-powered radios distributed to schools and communities\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"HumanaLight-Front","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HumanaLight-Front.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HumanaLight-Front.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HumanaLight-Front.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HumanaLight-Front.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18820,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/stop-by-our-new-booth-sa0359-at-the-dayton-hamvention-next-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":10407,"position":1},"title":"Stop by our new booth SA0359 at the Dayton Hamvention next week!","author":"Thomas","date":"May 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"For the sixth year in a row at the Dayton Hamvention, fellow volunteers and I will be representing the charity Ears To Our World (ETOW). 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