{"id":10612,"date":"2014-08-26T13:20:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T17:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10612"},"modified":"2014-08-26T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T17:22:24","slug":"how-shortwaves-keep-you-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/how-shortwaves-keep-you-young\/","title":{"rendered":"How shortwaves keep you young&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/dave-richards-aa7ee\/\">our recent posts<\/a> about <a title=\"Dave's page!\" href=\"http:\/\/aa7ee.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Richard&#8217;s<\/a> homebrew regenerative receiver?<\/p>\n<p>If so, you can imagine the laugh\u00a0I had\u00a0yesterday when I viewed\u00a0this latest creation by <a title=\"Dashtoons!  You know you want to!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dashtoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the infamous Jeff Murray<\/a>\u00a0(K1NSS):<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AA7EEbyK1NSS1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10616\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AA7EEbyK1NSS1.jpg\" alt=\"AA7EEbyK1NSS\" width=\"742\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AA7EEbyK1NSS1.jpg 742w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AA7EEbyK1NSS1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AA7EEbyK1NSS1-77x100.jpg 77w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;Short Wave &amp; Prosper&#8221;&#8211;? I have to agree! \u00a0And I&#8217;m completely in tune with Jeff&#8217;s sense of humor. If you are, too, be sure to bookmark <a title=\"Dashtoons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dashtoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dashtoons for more radio fun\u00a0and whimsy<\/a>. (Better yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dashtoons.com\/K1NSS_Design.html\" target=\"_blank\">get Jeff to design your own QSL card!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As for Dave, <a title=\"AA7EE\" href=\"http:\/\/aa7ee.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">follow his blog<\/a>\u00a0for the latest\u00a0on his many homebrew activities\u00a0(<a title=\"Dave\u2019s late night listening session\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/daves-late-night-listening-session\/\">that continue even when his pets\u00a0are interfering<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Major thanks to Dave for the\u00a0<a title=\"Dave builds a HumanaLight\" href=\"http:\/\/aa7ee.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/18\/the-humanalight-a-flashlight-that-uses-your-dead-aa-batteries\/\" target=\"_blank\">brilliant write-up<\/a> about\u00a0<a title=\"HumanaLight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earstoourworld.org\/humanalight\" target=\"_blank\">Ears to Our World&#8217;s HumanaLight kit<\/a>. [Want one? Get yours now\u00a0<a title=\"Purchase a HumanaLight\" href=\"http:\/\/universal-radio.com\/catalog\/misc\/0814.html\" target=\"_blank\">at Universal Radio<\/a>, and support <a title=\"ETOW's website\" href=\"http:\/\/etow.org\" target=\"_blank\">ETOW&#8217;s mission<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember our recent posts about Dave Richard&#8217;s homebrew regenerative receiver? If so, you can imagine the laugh\u00a0I had\u00a0yesterday when I viewed\u00a0this latest creation by the infamous Jeff Murray\u00a0(K1NSS): &#8220;Short Wave &amp; Prosper&#8221;&#8211;? I have to agree! \u00a0And I&#8217;m completely in tune with Jeff&#8217;s sense of humor. If you are, too, be sure to bookmark Dashtoons [&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":[508,545,3,26,5],"tags":[3109,3108,4101,2169,2723,2724,3111],"class_list":["post-10612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-radios","category-swlers","tag-aa7ee","tag-dave-richards-aa7ee","tag-funny","tag-home-brew","tag-jeff-murray","tag-jeff-murray-k1nss","tag-regenerative-receivers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2La","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9926,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/dashtoons-uber-cool-radio-art-by-jeff-k1nss\/","url_meta":{"origin":10612,"position":0},"title":"Dashtoons: \u00dcber cool radio art by Jeff K1NSS","author":"Thomas","date":"June 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Among the fascinating\u00a0people I met at the Dayton Hamvention this year\u00a0was Jeff Murray, K1NSS. 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