{"id":54901,"date":"2023-01-05T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T12:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=54901"},"modified":"2023-01-05T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T12:06:01","slug":"wlodek-repairs-a-grundig-g3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/wlodek-repairs-a-grundig-g3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wlodek repairs a Grundig G3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wlodek-Grundig-G3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54902\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wlodek-Grundig-G3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wlodek-Grundig-G3.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wlodek-Grundig-G3-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wlodek-Grundig-G3-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wlodek-Grundig-G3-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wlodek-Grundig-G3-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wlodek-Grundig-G3-624x468.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a>Our friend, Wlodek (US7IGN), who was <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/bbc-radio-4-lights-out-call-signs\/\">recently featured in a BBC Radio 4 documentary<\/a>, has been repairing radios throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, he received a Grundig G3 from Charles (KC8VWM)&#8211;it was in need of repair. Wlod immediately cracked the case open and started diagnosing the problem!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.us7ign.com\/?p=2160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read his blog post detailing the review.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"UTKfFSmL5l\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.us7ign.com\/?p=2160\">Grundig G3 Globe Traveller<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Grundig G3 Globe Traveller&#8221; &#8212; US7IGN\" src=\"https:\/\/www.us7ign.com\/?p=2160&#038;embed=true#?secret=UTKfFSmL5l\" data-secret=\"UTKfFSmL5l\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend, Wlodek (US7IGN), who was recently featured in a BBC Radio 4 documentary, has been repairing radios throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A few weeks ago, he received a Grundig G3 from Charles (KC8VWM)&#8211;it was in need of repair. Wlod immediately cracked the case open and started diagnosing the problem! Click here to [&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":[3,43],"tags":[21,4547,9116,9951],"class_list":["post-54901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-grundig-g3","tag-radio-repair","tag-vlad-us7ign","tag-wlodek-us7ign"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ehv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54010,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/treetop-antennas-featured-with-my-friend-wlodek-us7ign-on-bbc-radio-4-short-cuts\/","url_meta":{"origin":54901,"position":0},"title":"Treetop Antennas: Featured with my friend Wlodek (US7IGN) on BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts","author":"Thomas","date":"September 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm very honored to be featured with my good friend Wlodek (US7IGN) in a short radio documentary on BBC Radio 4 today. 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Because of another air raid alert, I can\u2019t sleep and I decided to make a small comparison of the receivers of the 60s and the modern one. Of course, you can not compare their size\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wlod-Comparison-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wlod-Comparison-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wlod-Comparison-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wlod-Comparison-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wlod-Comparison-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":52872,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/swling-in-kiev-vlads-recording-of-vorw-radio-international\/","url_meta":{"origin":54901,"position":3},"title":"SWLing in Kiev: Vlad&#8217;s recording of VORW Radio International","author":"Thomas","date":"May 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to my friend and SWLing Post contributor, Vlad (US7IGN), who recently shared a recording of VORW Radio International he made in Kiev (Ukraine) on May 27, 2022, at 16:00 UTC using his Icom IC-756 Pro III connected to a roof-mounted GP 5 M antenna. 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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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