{"id":49091,"date":"2021-06-01T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49091"},"modified":"2021-06-01T06:32:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T10:32:01","slug":"don-recommends-radio-boulevard-for-a-deep-dive-into-radio-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/don-recommends-radio-boulevard-for-a-deep-dive-into-radio-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Don recommends Radio Boulevard for a deep dive into radio history!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Radio-Dial-e1530836181998.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33104\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Radio-Dial-e1530836181998.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Don (W7SSB), who writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Hi Thomas,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>One of my friends has probably the best museum in the history of radio !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radioblvd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.radioblvd.com\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Your readers can spend days looking at all the information from the early days to present ! <\/strong><strong>Plenty of pictures!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Don W7SSB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the tip, Don! What a deep treasure trove of radio nostalgia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Don (W7SSB), who writes: Hi Thomas, One of my friends has probably the best museum in the history of radio ! https:\/\/www.radioblvd.com\/ Your readers can spend days looking at all the information from the early days to present ! Plenty of pictures! Don W7SSB Thank you for the tip, [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,288,43],"tags":[4102,4094,9298,4091,1302,4082],"class_list":["post-49091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ham-radio","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-boulevard","tag-radio-history","tag-radio-nostalgia","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cLN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47424,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/don-discovers-a-treasure-trove-of-digitized-vintage-radio-books-and-magazines\/","url_meta":{"origin":49091,"position":0},"title":"Don discovers a treasure trove of digitized vintage radio books and magazines","author":"Thomas","date":"January 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Don (W7SSB), who writes: I thought these links might be of interest to your readers: https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/va3iul\/Files\/Old_Radio_Frequency_Books.htm https:\/\/www.qsl.net\/va3iul\/ Brilliant! Thanks for the tip, Don! Of course, another deep treasure trove is the World Radio History website.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/books.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/books.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/books.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/books.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/books.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44461,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/photos-of-the-lab599-discovery-tx-500-in-the-field\/","url_meta":{"origin":49091,"position":1},"title":"Photos of the lab599 Discovery TX-500 in the field","author":"Thomas","date":"July 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Don (W7SSB), who shares the following photos of the new lab599 Discovery TX-500. Don notes that all of these photos were taken in Russia--where the TX-500 is manufactured--and include a number of Chameleon resonant field antennas. Thanks for sharing these, Don.\u00a0 The thin form-factor\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lab599-TX-500-Field-17-scaled-e1595503646241.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lab599-TX-500-Field-17-scaled-e1595503646241.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/lab599-TX-500-Field-17-scaled-e1595503646241.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44801,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/video-joshs-lab599-tx-500-deep-dive-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":49091,"position":2},"title":"Video: Josh&#8217;s Lab599 TX-500 Deep Dive &#038; Review","author":"Thomas","date":"August 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Don (W7SSB), who notes that Josh (KI6NAZ) at Ham Radio Crash Course has just posted his final TX-500 video. If you've been considering the TX-500, it's very much worth your time: https:\/\/youtu.be\/CiDgjfGv7TY Josh is actually sending me this very same TX-500 for review in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Discovery-TX-500-QRP-Transceiver-4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Discovery-TX-500-QRP-Transceiver-4.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Discovery-TX-500-QRP-Transceiver-4.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Discovery-TX-500-QRP-Transceiver-4.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":46604,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/radioshack-has-a-new-owner-who-wants-to-make-it-cool-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":49091,"position":3},"title":"RadioShack has a new owner who wants to make it &#8220;cool again&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"November 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Don (W7SSB), who shares the following story from Forbes.com: Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV), the retail acquisition company that bought Pier 1 and Modell\u2019s Sporting Goods out of bankruptcy and snapped up the Dressbarn brand after it liquidated, has a new rescue mission: Radio Shack.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RadioShack-StoreClosing-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RadioShack-StoreClosing-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RadioShack-StoreClosing-2.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":52351,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/video-the-glory-days-of-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":49091,"position":4},"title":"Video: &#8220;The Glory Days of Shortwave Radio&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"April 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adi, who writes: Hi Thomas, this video just popped for me on YouTube. I searched the SWLing Post and didn't find it, it's not new so maybe you missed it. Thank you, Adi. I'm almost positive I've posted this one before--but if I have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/QSL-collage.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/QSL-collage.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/QSL-collage.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/QSL-collage.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":65029,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/video-when-shortwave-radio-connected-soldiers-overseas-with-their-families-in-wwii\/","url_meta":{"origin":49091,"position":5},"title":"Video: When Shortwave Radio Connected Soldiers Overseas with Their Families in WWII","author":"Thomas","date":"December 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Fred Waterer, who writes: \"The History Guy\" (a terrific YouTube channel) talks about the technical marvel of uniting the four radio networks and soldiers overseas via shortwave at Christmas 1942 and 1943. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xiS4Imqs47M Click here to view on YouTube.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/xiS4Imqs47M\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}