{"id":44333,"date":"2020-07-14T06:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T10:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=44333"},"modified":"2020-07-15T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T13:21:14","slug":"can-you-help-john-identify-a-vintage-shortwave-radio-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/can-you-help-john-identify-a-vintage-shortwave-radio-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you help John identify a vintage shortwave radio book–?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, John (KC8RZM), who writes:<\/p>\n

I wonder if anyone at SWLing can help me identify this book on shortwave listening from my childhood.<\/p>\n

It was an older book when I checked it out from the local library mid-1970s but what I remember specifically is that it had a cartoon of a truck driver delivering, and by delivering I mean dropping on the ground, a new shortwave receiver plus the horrified look on the new owners face. The caption read (from memory) “here’s your new radio buddy (or pal).”<\/p>\n

I checked that book out of my local library and pestered my parents to buy me a short wave radio kit.<\/p>\n

Assembled the kit (probably inhaling a decent amount of lead vapor from the soldering) and started listening.<\/p>\n

VOA was one of the first stations I heard and thought…what an interesting place the US sounds like compared to the small isolated Scottish village I grew up in (21-mile journey to school each way on narrow twisting roads that sheep could freely roam on, and did, all the time), what with all that NASA stuff going on there. I can still hear in my head the VOA host that presented a show on jazz.<\/p>\n

So that book, SW listening, and VOA started me on the road to becoming an American citizen!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a fantastic story behind that book, John! I hope one of our amazing readers can help you identify it! Please comment<\/a> with any helpful info!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: <\/a><\/strong>Bob solved the mystery! Click here to read the update.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, John (KC8RZM), who writes: I wonder if anyone at SWLing can help me identify this book on shortwave listening from my childhood. It was an older book when I checked it out from the local library mid-1970s but what I remember specifically is that it had a cartoon of […]<\/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":[3,305,7566,43],"tags":[8665,8660,4082],"class_list":["post-44333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-memories","category-shortwave-radio","tag-john-kc8rzm","tag-shortwave-books","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bx3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44364,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/johns-mystery-book-better-shortwave-reception-by-william-orr-w6sai\/","url_meta":{"origin":44333,"position":0},"title":"John’s mystery book: “Better Shortwave Reception” by William Orr (W6SAI)","author":"Thomas","date":"July 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Herein lies one of the wonderful things about our SWLing Post community.... 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