{"id":1651,"date":"2023-08-19T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/08\/19\/valveman-the-story-of-gerald-wells\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:04","slug":"valveman-the-story-of-gerald-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/08\/19\/valveman-the-story-of-gerald-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Valveman &#8212; The Story of Gerald Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y8w6iwaAGJ4?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Don&#8217;t be deterred by the annoying test patterns at the start of this video. Just skip past them. The rest of the video is quite good. Or you could just click on this link and avoid the first 83 seconds of test pattern: <span style=\"background-color: white; color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, \"sans-serif\"; font-size: 14.6667px;\"> <\/span><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y8w6iwaAGJ4?t%3D83&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692560118514000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2UZxPNVlNib4KabHG_ci4A\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y8w6iwaAGJ4?t=83\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri, \"sans-serif\"; font-size: 14.6667px;\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y8w6iwaAGJ4?<wbr><\/wbr>t=83<\/a><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Gerald Wells has been mentioned on this blog before, but I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve ever presented the full documentary on this fellow. Here it is. Gerry is clearly one of us: a radio fiend, obsessed (as he admitted!) with wireless, a victim of THE KNACK. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>George WB5OYP of the Vienna Wireless Society got to meet Gerald Wells and visit his museum. George alerted me to this video. Tony G4WIF also was able to visit Gerry and his museum. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The documentary is full of interesting stuff, and is, in itself, a Knack Story. Wells mentions the Crippens murder so well described by Eric Larson in &#8220;Thunderstruck.&#8221; It was this crime that brought radio to the center of public attention. <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t be deterred by the annoying test patterns at the start of this video. Just skip past them. The rest of the video is quite good. Or you could just click on this link and avoid the first 83 seconds of test pattern: https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y8w6iwaAGJ4?t=83 Gerald Wells has been mentioned on this blog before, but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/08\/19\/valveman-the-story-of-gerald-wells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Valveman &#8212; The Story of Gerald Wells&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,100,31,239,101,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knack-stories","category-old-radio","category-radio-history","category-the-knack","category-tubes","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11281,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/11281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}