{"id":52755,"date":"2022-05-22T05:57:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T09:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52755"},"modified":"2022-05-18T06:12:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T10:12:48","slug":"guest-postyou-might-be-a-radio-nerd-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/guest-postyou-might-be-a-radio-nerd-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: You might be a radio nerd if&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Sangean-ATS-909X2-Tecsun-H-501x-Panasonic-RF-B65-alt-e1617917505167.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48475\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Sangean-ATS-909X2-Tecsun-H-501x-Panasonic-RF-B65-alt-e1617917505167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"689\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to\u00a0<em>SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/jock-elliott-kb2gom\/\">Jock Elliott<\/a>, who shares the following guest post:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>How can you tell if you are a radio nerd?<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Foxworthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Foxworthy<\/a> made a name for himself with his comedy routine, \u201cYou Might Be a Redneck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That phrase \u2013 you might be a redneck \u2013 is always followed by a qualifier, such as: \u201cIf you ever financed a tattoo.\u201d My favorite: you might be a redneck if you ever mowed the lawn and found . . . a car.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a cue from Foxworthy, I thought I might help the readers of the <em>SWLing Post<\/em> determine if they are radio nerds.<\/p>\n<h2>You might be a radio nerd, if . . .<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>You think DXing NOAA weather radio stations is kinda fun<\/strong>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/jock-satisfies-his-inner-radio-nerd-with-a-deeper-dive-into-noaa-weather-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That would be me<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>You made special arrangements with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to visit WWV, the NIST time station in Colorado.<\/strong> (That would be our very own Thomas, Maximum Leader of SWLing.com. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/listening-to-wwv-at-the-source-fort-collins-colorado-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>You traveled to Newfoundland, Canada, to lay out hundreds of feet of wire to listen to tiny maritime weather stations in Northern Europe.<\/strong> (That would be Don Moore, and if you have not read Don\u2019s posts&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/guest-post-don-targets-rare-norwegian-stations-during-newfoundland-dxpedition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this one<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/guest-post-an-introduction-to-dxing-the-mf-marine-bands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this one<\/a>&#8211;you are in for a treat!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>You see a display of pool \u201cfloaty\u201d noodles, and all you can think of is: \u201cConstruction materials for ferrite sleeve loop antennas.\u201d<\/strong> (That would be Gary DeBock, <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/gary-debock-experiments-with-fsl-antenna-nulling-to-eliminate-a-pest-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with this post<\/a> and numerous posts on SWLing.com.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>You think it is fun to get up in the middle of a 10 degree Alaskan night to DX an Australian station 8,000 miles away and then find yourself on an Australian newscast.<\/strong> (That would be <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/paul-walker-featured-on-abc-news-breakfast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Walker<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>You are constantly thinking about how you might improve reception at your station.<\/strong> (That would be most of us, I think.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>You have accidentally said your Amateur Radio call sign at the end of a telephone conversation.<\/strong> (Me, again.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>You find yourself using ham lingo in ordinary conversation: \u201cI\u2019m going to QSY to the kitchen.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, are you a radio nerd? If so, present your evidence in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Jock Elliott, who shares the following guest post: How can you tell if you are a radio nerd? By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM Jeff Foxworthy made a name for himself with his comedy routine, \u201cYou Might Be a Redneck.\u201d That phrase \u2013 you might be a redneck \u2013 is always followed by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[460,3194,545,3,43],"tags":[4101,4342,9323,2626,9818,9817],"class_list":["post-52755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-guest-posts","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-funny","tag-guest-posts","tag-jock-elliott-kb2gom","tag-radio-geek-heaven","tag-radio-nerds","tag-you-might-be-a-radio-nerd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dIT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52755","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=52755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}