{"id":14728,"date":"2015-09-25T14:05:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14728"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T18:05:28","slug":"wwii-spy-radio-the-sstr-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/wwii-spy-radio-the-sstr-1\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII Spy Radio: the SSTR-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SSTR-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14947\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SSTR-1.jpg\" alt=\"SSTR-1\" width=\"644\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SSTR-1.jpg 644w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SSTR-1-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/the-canadian-international-dx-club-cidx-messenger\/\" target=\"_blank\">the CIDX Messenger<\/a> for sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L2qENm9XNCk\" target=\"_blank\">this video<\/a>:<\/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\/L2qENm9XNCk?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 the CIDX Messenger for sharing this video:<\/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":[3,304],"tags":[4251,677,4252,676],"class_list":["post-14728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos","tag-strategic-service-transmitter-receiver-number-1","tag-world-war-ii","tag-wwi-spy-radio","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3Py","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37983,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/otr-listen-to-the-spy-on-the-kilocycles\/","url_meta":{"origin":14728,"position":0},"title":"OTR: Listen to &#8220;The Spy On The Kilocycles&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"May 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jarno (PA3DMI), who shares the following Old Time Radio (OTR) show, The Spy on the Kilocycles, which features Henry Fonda who had just completed his military service (October 8, 1945). 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