{"id":192,"date":"2016-02-20T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/dr-rufus-turner-w3lf-homebrew-hero-and-radio-pioneer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:44:46","slug":"dr-rufus-turner-w3lf-homebrew-hero-and-radio-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/dr-rufus-turner-w3lf-homebrew-hero-and-radio-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Rufus Turner, W3LF. Homebrew Hero and Radio Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Rufus20Turner20W3LF.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div> <b>Thanks to Farhan for alerting me to this <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/02\/15\/do-you-know-rufus-turner\/#comments\">great Hackaday article<\/a> about a homebrew hero who was &#8212; sadly &#8212; unknown to most of us. He lived in Washington D.C., right down the road from where I live now. The Hackaday article leaves no doubt about it &#8212; Rufus Turner was one of us. He had THE KNACK. He was a true radio pioneer and homebrew hero. It is really a shame that we&#8217;ve known so little about him. <\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/02\/15\/do-you-know-rufus-turner\/#comments\">http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/02\/15\/do-you-know-rufus-turner\/#comments<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\" class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"> <b><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Farhan for alerting me to this great Hackaday article about a homebrew hero who was &#8212; sadly &#8212; unknown to most of us. He lived in Washington D.C., right down the road from where I live now. The Hackaday article leaves no doubt about it &#8212; Rufus Turner was one of us. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/dr-rufus-turner-w3lf-homebrew-hero-and-radio-pioneer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr. Rufus Turner, W3LF. Homebrew Hero and Radio Pioneer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,103,100,31,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farhan","category-knack-stories","category-old-radio","category-radio-history","category-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}