{"id":36259,"date":"2019-03-01T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36259"},"modified":"2019-02-21T08:56:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T12:56:03","slug":"video-the-secret-life-of-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/video-the-secret-life-of-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Secret Life of Radios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Allied-2682-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-26918\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Allied-2682-Dial-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Allied-2682-Dial-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Allied-2682-Dial-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Allied-2682-Dial-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Allied-2682-Dial-624x413.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Allied-2682-Dial.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Skip Arey (N2EI), who shared the following video on Facebook:<\/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\/2roG4jIjvEk?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><p>Any electrical spark creates radio waves and acts as a transmitter. You hear sparks on a radio as interference. That&#8217;s why lighting makes radios crackle, and even the tiny spark in a switch is enough to make a noise on the radio when turning on a light.\/blockquote&gt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2roG4jIjvEk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch on YouTube.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Skip Arey (N2EI), who shared the following video on Facebook: Any electrical spark creates radio waves and acts as a transmitter. You hear sparks on a radio as interference. That&#8217;s why lighting makes radios crackle, and even the tiny spark in a switch is enough to make a noise on [&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":[3,305,43,1113,304,4796],"tags":[7624,7623,5755],"class_list":["post-36259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","category-tutorials","category-videos","category-vintage-radio","tag-how-radio-works","tag-secret-life-of-machines","tag-skip-arey-n2ei"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9qP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13851,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/passport-to-world-band-radio-now-available-for-download\/","url_meta":{"origin":36259,"position":0},"title":"Passport to World Band Radio now available for download","author":"Thomas","date":"June 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to my buddy, Skip Arey (N2EI), who informed me that the\u00a0American Radio History website has added\u00a018\u00a0issues of the late Passport To World Band Radio\u00a0to their free downloads archive. 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