{"id":58215,"date":"2023-11-16T08:12:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58215"},"modified":"2023-11-16T08:12:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T12:12:54","slug":"1971-hippy-shortwave-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/1971-hippy-shortwave-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"1971 “Hippy” Shortwave Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Meara who shares this story on the SolderSmoke Podcast<\/a> and notes, “With more to follow…”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

From the Last Whole Earth Catalog (1971) — Short Waves — Part 1<\/h1>\nhttp:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke249.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

\"\"<\/a>Having recently returned from San Francisco, it seemed somehow appropriate for me to take a look into the Last Whole Earth Catalog (1971). I picked a copy of this book up some time ago. There is some radio stuff in it, a lot of it on shortwave listening. [To the right] is one article. I’ll post more in the days ahead.<\/p>\n

It was around 1973 that I gave my cousin’s husband Mike an S38-E shortwave receiver. It is a wonder that he survived. He did report electrical shocks.<\/p>\n

Click here to read this article and listen to the episode via the SoderSmoke website!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Meara who shares this story on the SolderSmoke Podcast and notes, “With more to follow…”   From the Last Whole Earth Catalog (1971) — Short Waves — Part 1 http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/soldersmoke249.mp3 Having recently returned from San Francisco, it seemed somehow appropriate for me to take a look into the […]<\/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":[3,305,43],"tags":[3254,3255,4657],"class_list":["post-58215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bill-meara","tag-soldersmoke","tag-whole-earth-catalog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-f8X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10945,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/bill-solves-the-cri-echo-mystery\/","url_meta":{"origin":58215,"position":0},"title":"Bill solves the CRI echo mystery","author":"Thomas","date":"September 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A few days ago, I posted an article about Bill Meara (producer of the SolderSmoke Podcast)\u00a0who was hearing audio echoes on his home brew regenerative receiver. 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