{"id":56176,"date":"2023-03-23T08:27:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=56176"},"modified":"2023-03-23T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:27:58","slug":"in-which-c-crane-displays-a-high-degree-of-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/in-which-c-crane-displays-a-high-degree-of-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"In which C.Crane displays a high degree of &#8220;cool&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bobs-simple-wire-antenna-sml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56177\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bobs-simple-wire-antenna-sml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bobs-simple-wire-antenna-sml.jpg 400w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bobs-simple-wire-antenna-sml-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay, let&#8217;s get this straight to begin with: I&#8217;m not on C.Crane&#8217;s payroll; I get nothing for what you are about to read. I have bought two of their radios with my own money, and they sent me one for review.<\/p>\n<p>Today I received an email from C.Crane, headlined &#8220;How to make a shortwave antenna.&#8221; It links to an online article, written by Bob Crane, with the same title. <a href=\"https:\/\/ccrane.com\/how-to-make-a-shortwave-antenna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It explains, clearly and concisely, how to make your own shortwave antenna, and it also adds some safety warnings. <a href=\"https:\/\/ccrane.com\/how-to-make-a-shortwave-antenna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check it out<\/a>; it&#8217;s worth reading and maybe home-brewing your own antenna.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this a high degree of cool is that C.Crane also sells shortwave antennas . . . and yet they tell you how to make your own if you so choose. Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;ve been a fan of the C.Crane company for years. Now I am a bigger one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM Okay, let&#8217;s get this straight to begin with: I&#8217;m not on C.Crane&#8217;s payroll; I get nothing for what you are about to read. I have bought two of their radios with my own money, and they sent me one for review. Today I received an email from C.Crane, headlined &#8220;How to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"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":[3607,3],"tags":[190,9323],"class_list":["post-56176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-news","tag-ccrane","tag-jock-elliott-kb2gom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eC4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54841,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/checking-out-the-new-c-crane-cc-skywave-ssb-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":56176,"position":0},"title":"Checking out the new C.Crane CC Skywave SSB 2","author":"Jock Elliott","date":"November 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Jock Elliott, KB2GOM Folks who are regular readers of my posts here have already figured out that I am a big fan of the CCrane Skywave SSB. 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