{"id":1783,"date":"2021-02-15T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/jean-shepherd-works-through-a-satellite-in-a-school\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T05:21:00","slug":"jean-shepherd-works-through-a-satellite-in-a-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/jean-shepherd-works-through-a-satellite-in-a-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Shepherd Works Through a Satellite in a School"},"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\/n6fj1z4kL0E\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Ah, 1975. Obviously a very different time&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure if Shep would fit in <\/b><b>well in the classrooms of today. There was bit of Rodney Dangerfield in his demeanor &#8212; that would likely cause some trouble.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>But this clip was fun. Shep was right on target when he talked about how getting your ham license used to mean that you&#8217;d &#8220;mastered a technical art.&#8221; <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The OSCAR satellite they were using was 2 meters up and 10 meters down. There was a Heathkit HF transceiver with a transverter. And a Simpson multimeter. That mic was a Turner +3 <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks to Steven Walters for alerting us to this. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>EXCELSIOR! <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, 1975. Obviously a very different time&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure if Shep would fit in well in the classrooms of today. There was bit of Rodney Dangerfield in his demeanor &#8212; that would likely cause some trouble. But this clip was fun. Shep was right on target when he talked about how getting your ham &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/jean-shepherd-works-through-a-satellite-in-a-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jean Shepherd Works Through a Satellite in a School&#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":[183,100,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean-shepherd","category-old-radio","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","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=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}