{"id":61540,"date":"2025-01-04T05:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T09:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61540"},"modified":"2025-01-02T09:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T13:19:11","slug":"is-billy-joel-a-shortwave-buff-or-ham-radio-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/is-billy-joel-a-shortwave-buff-or-ham-radio-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Billy Joel a Shortwave buff or Ham Radio operator?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Larry Thompson, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I recently came across a photo of Billy Joel\u2019s office in Sag Harbor in an interview with Willy Geist.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It looks like he has several shortwave radios or ham transceivers. Just wondering if anyone has a clue to his radio interests.<\/p>\n

Readers: please comment if you have any insight!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Larry Thompson, who writes: I recently came across a photo of Billy Joel\u2019s office in Sag Harbor in an interview with Willy Geist. It looks like he has several shortwave radios or ham transceivers. Just wondering if anyone has a clue to his radio interests. Readers: please comment if […]<\/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_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":[3,305],"tags":[10648,6357],"class_list":["post-61540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-billy-joel","tag-larry-thompson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g0A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16099,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/the-annual-santa-net-on-3916-khz\/","url_meta":{"origin":61540,"position":0},"title":"The annual “Santa Net” on 3916 kHz","author":"Thomas","date":"December 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"If you have a shortwave radio with SSB mode, you too can listen to the Santa Net on\u00a03916 kHz LSB every night until Christmas starting at 01:30 UTC (7:30 PM CST). 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