{"id":45154,"date":"2020-09-02T15:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=45154"},"modified":"2020-09-02T15:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:48:54","slug":"radio-war-looking-forward-to-this-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/radio-war-looking-forward-to-this-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio War: Looking forward to this read…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Have you ever ordered an item knowing you would be facing shipping delays, and when it finally arrives, you forgot you had even ordered it in the first place? Sort of feels like you got a gift from yourself?<\/p>\n

Please tell me you do–!<\/p>\n

That’s how I felt recently when my copy of Radio War<\/em><\/strong> by David Abrutat<\/a> arrived. I first read about this book in RadCom<\/a> and then in The Spectrum Monitor<\/a>. Being a WWII history buff and (obviously) a radio enthusiast, it doesn’t get much better than this.<\/p>\n

I’m brewing a cup of coffee right now, and heading to our porch for a little “DEAR” time as my girls like to call it (Drop Everything and Read).<\/p>\n

This is the life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever ordered an item knowing you would be facing shipping delays, and when it finally arrives, you forgot you had even ordered it in the first place? Sort of feels like you got a gift from yourself? Please tell me you do–! That’s how I felt recently when my copy of Radio War […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[251,3],"tags":[4090,8787,8786,8785],"class_list":["post-45154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news","tag-books","tag-david-abrutat","tag-radio-war","tag-radio-war-by-david-abrutat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bKi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60091,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/war-diaries-stalemate-by-volodymyr-gurtovy-us7ign\/","url_meta":{"origin":45154,"position":0},"title":"War Diaries: Stalemate by Volodymyr Gurtovy (US7IGN)","author":"Thomas","date":"June 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I am pleased to announce that my friend and SWLing Post contributor, Wlad (US7IGN), has released his latest book: War Diaries: Stalemate. You might recall Wlad's first book, War Diaries: A Radio Amateur in Kyiv, which we've recommended here and mentioned several times. 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Looks like it will be about the BBC WS during the cold war. https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000b1h0 Thanks for the tip, David! Readers, my post is a bit late--David sent this two days ago. 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