{"id":22227,"date":"2016-11-15T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=22227"},"modified":"2016-11-15T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:11:32","slug":"what-radio-would-you-grab-in-a-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/what-radio-would-you-grab-in-a-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"What radio would you grab in a fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scott-Marine-SLR-M\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lately, fires have been on my mind. No doubt, this is because there are so many wildfires in the greater southern Appalachian region\u00a0right now, which is in the midst of a record drought. Brush fires start up almost daily, and no rain is in sight. \u00a0In the mountains, the air is hazy with smoke,\u00a0and it’s become a struggle for fire departments to contain these blazes, even with help from outside the region.<\/p>\n

Living, as we do, in a forest, we’ve always had to think through contingency plans if a forest fire should threaten our home: \u00a0with only a two hour (or so) warning, what items would we grab and load into our truck?<\/p>\n

Of course, we’d\u00a0likely focus on those things that are irreplaceable and thus essentially invaluable: our few family heirlooms, boxes of photos, documents\u2013\u2013you know, stuff you can’t buy.<\/p>\n

But what about radios? \u00a0I hope I’ll never be forced to choose the\u00a0one thing<\/em>\u00a0I should save from my shack,\u00a0because there are several\u00a0to which I’m rather sentimentally attached…There’s my Zenith Transoceanic, for example–the first proper shortwave radio I ever owned. There are also a number of vintage radios as well as some SDRs which have become my staple receivers.<\/p>\n

\"Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the end, though, there’s no question which radio I’d grab. It would have to be my Scott Marine Radio Model SLR-M<\/a>, affectionately nicknamed “Scottie.”. True, she’s\u00a0not even close<\/em> to portable at a solid\u00a090 pounds, but I’d strap her to the roof of my vehicle, if I had to.<\/p>\n

Why? \u00a0Well, it’s the most pristine vintage radio I own, and I use it daily. If it’s not tuned to Radio Australia in the morning, it’s tuned to my AMT3000 AM transmitter<\/a> on 1570 kHz drawing in\u00a0any of a number of stations I relay from my WiFi radio.<\/p>\n

\"Scott-Marine-Radio-SLR-M\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Scottie simply isn’t replaceable. Even though my Elecraft KX3 probably costs more in terms of monetary value, I could eventually scrape together the money to buy another KX3. But I couldn’t buy Scottie again. Not this one.<\/p>\n

So, there you go: after we’ve saved those things important to our family, I’d grab a 1945 receiver and haul it to safety.<\/p>\n

Post<\/em> readers<\/strong>: Now I’m curious–if your<\/em> home was threatened by fire or other disaster, what radio would you save? Please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately, fires have been on my mind. No doubt, this is because there are so many wildfires in the greater southern Appalachian region\u00a0right now, which is in the midst of a record drought. Brush fires start up almost daily, and no rain is in sight. \u00a0In the mountains, the air is hazy with smoke,\u00a0and it’s […]<\/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":[1271,3,26,43,4796],"tags":[4097,1146,374,3492,3491,3493,3496,681],"class_list":["post-22227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat-anchors-2","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-vintage-radio","tag-am","tag-boat-anchors","tag-medium-wave","tag-scott-marine-radio","tag-scott-marine-radio-slr-m","tag-slr-m","tag-sstran-amt3000-am-transmitter","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Mv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17596,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/vendel-remembers-tuning-a-scott-marine-slr-m-at-sea\/","url_meta":{"origin":22227,"position":0},"title":"Tuning the Scott Marine SLR-M at sea","author":"Thomas","date":"March 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Vendel Boeree (K2DSI), who writes: Hi Tom, I just wanted to compliment you on your fine website. 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