{"id":63876,"date":"2025-09-05T10:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63876"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:08:29","slug":"farewell-to-the-herculodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/farewell-to-the-herculodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to The Herculodge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Source: The Herculodge)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many of you long-time SWLing Post<\/em> readers may also be followers of my good friend Jeff McMahon\u2019s blog, The Herculodge<\/em><\/strong>. Since 2006, Jeff has been writing thoughtful, candid, and often entertaining and cheeky posts about radios, reviewing countless models, and chronicling his fascination with radio.<\/p>\n

Sadly, with the pending demise of Typepad on September 30, 2025<\/a>, The Herculodge<\/em> will finally be shutting down. Jeff mentioned to me that he kept the blog online in its basic mode for many years, even after posting less frequently, because it still served as a rich archive of his radio reviews and thoughts\u2014and because so many of us in the community (myself included) still referenced it.<\/p>\n

Jeff recently published a piece reflecting on the end of Typepad. You can read his farewell post here: Typepad R.I.P. \u2014 Obituary for a Dinosaur<\/a><\/p>\n

Although The Herculodge<\/em> will disappear, Jeff continues to write at his current site: Cinemorphosis<\/a>. As he notes, Cinemorphosis focuses more on literary, cultural, and philosophical topics\u2014not specifically radio\u2014but he hasn\u2019t ruled out posting the occasional review or reflection about his long-standing radio obsession.<\/p>\n

For those of us who have enjoyed and benefited from Jeff\u2019s writing over the years, The Herculodge<\/em> will be missed. Thank you, Jeff, for nearly two decades of radio insights, humor, and thoughtful commentary!<\/p>\n

And, hey, Jeff\u2014don\u2019t be a stranger around here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of you long-time SWLing Post readers may also be followers of my good friend Jeff McMahon\u2019s blog, The Herculodge. Since 2006, Jeff has been writing thoughtful, candid, and often entertaining and cheeky posts about radios, reviewing countless models, and chronicling his fascination with radio. Sadly, with the pending demise of Typepad on September 30, […]<\/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],"tags":[2940,4464],"class_list":["post-63876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-herculodge","tag-jeff-mcmahon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gCg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14969,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/jeff-gives-high-marks-to-the-sangean-pr-d4w\/","url_meta":{"origin":63876,"position":0},"title":"Jeff gives high marks to the Sangean PR-D4W","author":"Thomas","date":"September 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"My pal, Jeff McMahon, over at the Herculodge, has just posted a video review of the Sangean PR-D4 portable radio. 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