{"id":48212,"date":"2021-03-17T07:28:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=48212"},"modified":"2021-03-17T07:28:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T11:28:14","slug":"how-to-make-a-cheap-receiving-outfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/how-to-make-a-cheap-receiving-outfit\/","title":{"rendered":"“How To Make a Cheap Receiving Outfit”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friends over at the SolderSmoke Daily News<\/a> recently posted this fun piece from a January 1921 issue of Radio News:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is great! I’ve often thought a proper ground needed daily watering. And we know it must work: Mars is some serious DX!\u00a0 Professor Nutty T. Wyrlus was way<\/em> ahead of his time.<\/p>\n

Click here to check out the original post at the SolderSmoke Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our friends over at the SolderSmoke Daily News recently posted this fun piece from a January 1921 issue of Radio News: This is great! I’ve often thought a proper ground needed daily watering. And we know it must work: Mars is some serious DX!\u00a0 Professor Nutty T. Wyrlus was way ahead of his time. Click […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[460,3,305,288],"tags":[4101,4094,9201,3255],"class_list":["post-48212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-funny","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-news","tag-soldersmoke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cxC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58606,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/soldersmoke-7j6cbq-on-okinawa-and-a-translation-of-a-science-fiction-novel-about-ham-radio-in-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":48212,"position":0},"title":"SolderSmoke: 7J6CBQ on Okinawa — And a Translation of a Science Fiction Novel about Ham Radio in China","author":"Thomas","date":"December 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Meara who shares\u00a0the following article from the excellent SolderSmoke Podcast: 7J6CBQ on Okinawa -- And a Translation of a Science Fiction Novel about Ham Radio in China The\u00a0article about Sergeant Malik Pugh USMC\u00a0on Okinawa brought back memories from the 1990s. 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