{"id":27188,"date":"2017-07-16T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27188"},"modified":"2017-07-16T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:03:17","slug":"court-of-dreams-how-shortwave-radio-lead-to-a-lifelong-obsession-with-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/court-of-dreams-how-shortwave-radio-lead-to-a-lifelong-obsession-with-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Dreams: How shortwave radio lead to a lifelong obsession with tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BBC-Wimbledon-Shortwave-CBS-Sunday-Morning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27189\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BBC-Wimbledon-Shortwave-CBS-Sunday-Morning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BBC-Wimbledon-Shortwave-CBS-Sunday-Morning.jpg 833w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BBC-Wimbledon-Shortwave-CBS-Sunday-Morning-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BBC-Wimbledon-Shortwave-CBS-Sunday-Morning-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BBC-Wimbledon-Shortwave-CBS-Sunday-Morning-624x349.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following video from CBS Sunday Morning and notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those who may have missed this recent CBS Sunday Morning piece, which tells the story of a guy who, inspired by BBC broadcasts of Wimbledon, built his own top-level court in Iowa. It&#8217;s not often that shortwave gets such national exposure:<\/p><\/blockquote>\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\/UF20Cem5ado?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<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(Via CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&#8220;If you build it, they will come.&#8221; In the case of one tennis-obsessed fan who built a replica of Wimbledon&#8217;s center court on his Iowa farm, people have come from around the world to his All-Iowa Lawn Tennis Club, to play on his court of dreams. Steve Hartman reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UF20Cem5ado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This absolutely made my day, Dan! \u00a0Thank you for sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following video from CBS Sunday Morning and notes: For those who may have missed this recent CBS Sunday Morning piece, which tells the story of a guy who, inspired by BBC broadcasts of Wimbledon, built his own top-level court in Iowa. It&#8217;s not often [&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":[3,305,43,304],"tags":[327,3837,6341,6340,2635,34,4082,6339,4093],"class_list":["post-27188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-cbs","tag-cbs-sunday-morning","tag-court-of-dreams","tag-dan-robinson","tag-shortwave","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-tennis","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-74w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52794,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/cbs-features-wrmis-ukraine-war-news-over-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":27188,"position":0},"title":"CBS features WRMI&#8217;s Ukraine war news over shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"May 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kim Elliott, who shares the following report from CBS Weekend News: Florida residents broadcast Ukraine war news to Russian citizens (CBS Weekend News) A farm in central Florida has become one of the largest shortwave radio operations in the world. 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