{"id":13128,"date":"2015-05-06T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13128"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:50:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:50:06","slug":"listener-post-greg-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/listener-post-greg-blair\/","title":{"rendered":"Listener Post: Greg Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SP600Dial3\"<\/a>Greg Blair\u2019s radio story is the latest in\u00a0our series called\u00a0Listener Posts<\/em><\/a>, where I place all of your personal radio histories.<\/p>\n

If you would like to add\u00a0your story<\/a>\u00a0to the mix,\u00a0simply send your story by email<\/a>!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, many thanks to Greg Blair who originally posted the following on the Shortwave Listeners Worldwide<\/a>\u00a0Facebook group. \u00a0Greg writes:<\/p>\n

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How I Discovered Shortwave Radio<\/h2>\n

\"BoysBookOfRadio\"<\/a>I discovered shortwave radio almost by accident.<\/p>\n

I had built a simple crystal radio from plans in a library book…(I think it was “The Boy’s Book of Radio” or similar. ) I added a one transistor amplifier later. I had a really great long wire antenna from the garage to the house, up about 30 feet, about 75 feet long, and a good earth ground.<\/p>\n

I was playing around with it, and I had an old phonograph amplifier I connected to the output of it. I de-tuned the coil and apparently managed to get it tuned into the 49 meter band. All of a sudden I was hearing broadcasters from Europe. Some were in English, others in foreign languages.\"CrystalRadio\"<\/p>\n

Up to that point I had thought that all radio was like AM broadcast, only good for a few hundred miles even at night. I was flabbergasted. That marked the beginning of my addiction to radio. I have never gotten over the miracle of HF radio ever since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Many thanks, Greg, for sharing your memories with us!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I can only imagine the thrill is must have been to tune in stations from across the planet on your simple, home-brew radio set.<\/p>\n

I encourage other SWLing Post<\/em> readers and contributors to submit their own listener post<\/a>! \u00a0Tell us how you became interested in radio!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greg Blair\u2019s radio story is the latest in\u00a0our series called\u00a0Listener Posts, where I place all of your personal radio histories. If you would like to add\u00a0your story\u00a0to the mix,\u00a0simply send your story by email! In the meantime, many thanks to Greg Blair who originally posted the following on the Shortwave Listeners Worldwide\u00a0Facebook group. \u00a0Greg writes: […]<\/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":[627,2262,3,43],"tags":[617,3827,4122],"class_list":["post-13128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-listener-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-crystal-radio","tag-greg-blair","tag-listener-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3pK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43290,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/listener-post-mike-stutzers-love-of-radio-began-with-a-hallicrafters-s-120\/","url_meta":{"origin":13128,"position":0},"title":"Listener Post: Mike Stutzer’s love of radio began with a Hallicrafters S-120","author":"Thomas","date":"June 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Stutzer, who recently shared the following listener post: I started SWLing as a teenager. 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