{"id":9256,"date":"2014-04-12T18:20:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T22:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9256"},"modified":"2014-04-15T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T13:17:17","slug":"another-solution-for-whole-house-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/another-solution-for-whole-house-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Another solution for whole-house shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"@LondonShortwave on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonShortwave\" target=\"_blank\">London Shortwave<\/a> posts the following <a title=\"read on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonShortwave\/status\/455041328024653824\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inspired by <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWLingDotCom\">@SWLingDotCom<\/a>&#8216;s <a title=\"My Raspberry Pirate is now radio-active\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/my-raspberry-pirate-is-now-radio-active\/\">RaspberryPi post<\/a> I put this together to listen to the radio in my shack around the house <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vOX41wIS1Qk\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/LYceu41Ap3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-expanded-url=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vOX41wIS1Qk\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/vOX41wIS1Qk\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOX41wIS1Qk\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vOX41wIS1Qk&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, London Shortwave explains that much of his modern system was inspired by a drawing from a 1930s shortwave listening magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a scan of the original illustration that inspired him:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WholeHouseShortwaveRadio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9294\" alt=\"WholeHouseShortwaveRadio\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WholeHouseShortwaveRadio.jpg\" width=\"638\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WholeHouseShortwaveRadio.jpg 638w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WholeHouseShortwaveRadio-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WholeHouseShortwaveRadio-70x100.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Shortwave posts the following on Twitter: Inspired by @SWLingDotCom&#8216;s RaspberryPi post I put this together to listen to the radio in my shack around the house http:\/\/youtu.be\/vOX41wIS1Qk\u00a0 On YouTube, London Shortwave explains that much of his modern system was inspired by a drawing from a 1930s shortwave listening magazine. Below is a scan of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[627,3,43,304],"tags":[2504,2704,2627,2630],"class_list":["post-9256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-londonshortwave","tag-london-shortwave","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-raspberry-pirate-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2pi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18018,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/london-shortwave-says-farewell-to-radio-belarus\/","url_meta":{"origin":9256,"position":0},"title":"London Shortwave says farewell to Radio Belarus","author":"Thomas","date":"March 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post contributor, London Shortwave, hit his local park\u00a0today with his Tecsun PL-680 and Zoom H1 in tow, then recorded the final broadcasts of Radio Belarus. 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