{"id":2425,"date":"2010-03-24T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/was-marconi-the-first-radio-amateur\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:17:00","slug":"was-marconi-the-first-radio-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/was-marconi-the-first-radio-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Marconi the First Radio Amateur?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9oP5ZMWJ0fU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9oP5ZMWJ0fU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Steve, WG0AT, posed this question in the title line of his latest (excellent) video. I really liked the recordings of Marconi speaking in English. (I&#8217;d heard him in Italian, but never in English.) <\/p>\n<p>So, was he one of us? I say yes. Definitely. Why? Because he very clearly had what we would call a shack. This is discussed in SolderSmoke &#8212; The Book. When his mom saw that his tinkering with electricity had some potential (!), she had an attic room in the family home near Bologna configured as a workshop for her Knack-afflicted son. And there he tinkered. Just as we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, WG0AT, posed this question in the title line of his latest (excellent) video. I really liked the recordings of Marconi speaking in English. (I&#8217;d heard him in Italian, but never in English.) So, was he one of us? I say yes. Definitely. Why? Because he very clearly had what we would call a shack. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/was-marconi-the-first-radio-amateur\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Was Marconi the First Radio Amateur?&#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":[181,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marconi-guglielmo","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","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=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}