{"id":1446,"date":"2021-02-27T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/27\/jean-shepherd-goes-to-a-hamfest-and-much-more\/"},"modified":"2021-02-27T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T03:49:00","slug":"jean-shepherd-goes-to-a-hamfest-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/27\/jean-shepherd-goes-to-a-hamfest-and-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Shepherd Goes to a Hamfest &#8212; And Much More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7M-zCaNLTZ0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Here is something nice to listen to in your shack&#8230; <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I hadn&#8217;t heard this one before. It is about Shep&#8217;s teenage trip to a hamfest, but it also about his youthful enthusiasm for ham radio and electronics. Many of us can identify with this very easily. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>He talks about what must have been a very early use of &#8220;blue boxes&#8221; &#8212; the audio tone generators that allowed young miscreants (including the Woz) to make long distance phone calls for free. I wish I had gotten into this. It sounds like fun. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>He talks about how painful it was to be on phone (AM phone) with just 2.5 watts homebrew, when everyone else was running a lot more power. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>And wow, they played a baseball game at the hamfest. Phone guys vs. CW guys. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I won&#8217;t spoil it by telling you the results of the hamfest raffle. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something nice to listen to in your shack&#8230; I hadn&#8217;t heard this one before. It is about Shep&#8217;s teenage trip to a hamfest, but it also about his youthful enthusiasm for ham radio and electronics. Many of us can identify with this very easily. He talks about what must have been a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/27\/jean-shepherd-goes-to-a-hamfest-and-much-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jean Shepherd Goes to a Hamfest &#8212; And Much More&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,133,183,103,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamfest","category-hamfests-and-flea-markets","category-jean-shepherd","category-knack-stories","category-wozniak-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}