{"id":2841,"date":"2021-06-03T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/06\/03\/remastered-the-secret-life-of-radio-with-updated-comments-from-tim-hunkin\/"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:02:00","slug":"remastered-the-secret-life-of-radio-with-updated-comments-from-tim-hunkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/06\/03\/remastered-the-secret-life-of-radio-with-updated-comments-from-tim-hunkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Remastered!  The Secret Life of Radio &#8212; With Updated Comments from Tim Hunkin"},"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\/LMxate9gegg?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks to Stephen 2E0FXZ for alerting us to this important video. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>We first posted about the original many years ago. We were delighted to learn that they have remastered the video and added 10 minutes of retrospective commentary from Tim Hunkin. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Here are some of my reactions after watching the updated version:<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The Marconi videos were amazing. I actually met Elettra at a diplomatic reception in Rome. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; I was pleased to learn that Marconi was trying to &#8220;call up&#8221; Mars. FB OM. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; My son Billy and I sat in that same Royal Institution auditorium where, 100 years before, Oliver Lodge had demonstrated spark gap technology. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Tim&#8217;s comment on the connection to supernatural beliefs was right on the mark. We found out that the house we lived in in London was a center for occult beliefs and practices. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Those square lantern batteries brought back fond childhood memories. My first power supplies.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The Rexophone &#8212; used by Rex. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Very cool of Tim to homebrew a coherer. Extra credit for that.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; One of the capacitors looks familiar. EF Johnson? <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; I agree with Tim &#8212; crystal radios are a must-build for true radio hams. And do it with galena and a cats whisker. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Finally, the RCA ad introduces a term we might want to surreptitiously enter into the Enhanced SSB lexicon: That &#8220;Golden Throat&#8221; sound. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Stephen 2E0FXZ for alerting us to this important video. We first posted about the original many years ago. We were delighted to learn that they have remastered the video and added 10 minutes of retrospective commentary from Tim Hunkin. Here are some of my reactions after watching the updated version: &#8212; The Marconi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/06\/03\/remastered-the-secret-life-of-radio-with-updated-comments-from-tim-hunkin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remastered!  The Secret Life of Radio &#8212; With Updated Comments from Tim Hunkin&#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":[224,108,181,308,100,31,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armstrong-e-howard","category-crystal-radio","category-marconi-guglielmo","category-mars","category-old-radio","category-radio-history","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","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=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}