{"id":9619,"date":"2014-05-16T06:17:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T10:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9619"},"modified":"2014-05-16T06:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T10:17:03","slug":"ken-points-out-where-melson-series-derived-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/ken-points-out-where-melson-series-derived-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken points out where Melson series derived design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Ken,\u00a0commented that the “faux” knobs on the Melson S8<\/a> were derived from the Grundig Satellit 500.<\/p>\n

Ken has taken a photo of the two radios together (above).<\/p>\n

Note that the knobs on the left side of the Melson S8 are fake (right).<\/p>\n

Read the Melson S8 review, posted yesterday, by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Ken,\u00a0commented that the “faux” knobs on the Melson S8 were derived from the Grundig Satellit 500. Ken has taken a photo of the two radios together (above). Note that the knobs on the left side of the Melson S8 are fake (right). Read the Melson S8 review, posted yesterday, by clicking here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3,1936,26,43],"tags":[2895,2880,2894,2879,2878,2877,2881],"class_list":["post-9619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photos","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-grundig-satellit-500","tag-melson","tag-melson-fake-knobs","tag-melson-m7","tag-melson-m8","tag-melson-s8","tag-s8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2v9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9583,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/a-review-of-the-melson-s8-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":9619,"position":0},"title":"A review of the Melson S8 shortwave radio","author":"Thomas","date":"May 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The radio manufacturer, Melson, caught my attention a couple of years ago when it released the Melson M7\u2013an AM\/FM radio with a built-in MicroSD MP3 player. 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