{"id":63373,"date":"2025-07-11T07:08:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63373"},"modified":"2025-07-11T07:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:08:36","slug":"a-vintage-radio-sparks-family-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/a-vintage-radio-sparks-family-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vintage Radio Sparks Family Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rachael Myrow discovered her father\u2019s Telefunken Opus 7. (Photo: KQED)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor David Iurescia for sharing this touching story from KQED: \u201cHow a 1957 Vintage Radio Rekindled a Daughter\u2019s Bond With Her Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

A beautiful piece about memory, connection, and the emotional power of radio.<\/p>\n

Read it here: https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12047317\/how-a-1957-vintage-radio-rekindled-a-daughters-bond-with-her-dad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor David Iurescia for sharing this touching story from KQED: \u201cHow a 1957 Vintage Radio Rekindled a Daughter\u2019s Bond With Her Dad.\u201d A beautiful piece about memory, connection, and the emotional power of radio. Read it here: https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12047317\/how-a-1957-vintage-radio-rekindled-a-daughters-bond-with-her-dad<\/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],"tags":[10854,5430,681],"class_list":["post-63373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-kqed","tag-radio-memories","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gu9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12999,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/unlocking-the-trapped-fm-receiver-in-your-smart-phone\/","url_meta":{"origin":63373,"position":0},"title":"Unlocking the trapped FM receiver in your smart phone","author":"Thomas","date":"April 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"While Norway prepares to shut down FM, one group--the\u00a0National Association of Broadcasters--is trying to unlock FM receivers in smart phones; receivers built\u00a0into smart phones, but not allowed to be activated. 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Bruce writes: Here are three shots from the first few minutes of the 1962 James Bond film \"Dr. No\": The second shot is a close up of the radio in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4182017-123643-PM.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4182017-123643-PM.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4182017-123643-PM.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4182017-123643-PM.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44333,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/can-you-help-john-identify-a-vintage-shortwave-radio-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":63373,"position":4},"title":"Can you help John identify a vintage shortwave radio book–?","author":"Thomas","date":"July 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, John (KC8RZM), who writes: I wonder if anyone at SWLing can help me identify this book on shortwave listening from my childhood. It was an older book when I checked it out from the local library mid-1970s but what I remember specifically is that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-Dial-Angle-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-Dial-Angle-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-Dial-Angle-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Panasonic-RF-2200-Dial-Angle-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":46905,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/dans-respect-for-hammarlund-and-the-sp-600-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":63373,"position":5},"title":"Dan’s respect for Hammarlund and the SP-600 series","author":"Thomas","date":"December 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, DanH, who shares the following comment in response to this news article from the Citizen Times featured in Radio Waves yesterday: Here are my thanks to members of the Amateur Radio community and The News-Record & Sentinel for remembering the legacy of Hammarlund Manufacturing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hammarlund-SP-600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hammarlund-SP-600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hammarlund-SP-600.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hammarlund-SP-600.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63373","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=63373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63375,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63373\/revisions\/63375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}