{"id":4013,"date":"2024-03-07T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/03\/07\/the-wizard-of-schenectady-charles-proteus-steinmetz\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:42","slug":"the-wizard-of-schenectady-charles-proteus-steinmetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/03\/07\/the-wizard-of-schenectady-charles-proteus-steinmetz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wizard of Schenectady — Charles Proteus Steinmetz"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Such a beautiful article. Ramakrishnan VU2JXN sent it to me. It reminded me of how puzzeled we were when we found “Schenectady” on old shortwave receiver dials, amidst truly exotic locations. Rangoon! Peking! Cape Town! Schenectady? Obviously this was due to General Electric’s location in that New York State city. But reading this article, I am thinking that the presence of Charles Proteus Steinmetz had something to do with it. His informal title (The Wizard of Schenectady) confirmed that we have been right in awarding similar titles to impressive homebrewers. <\/b><\/p>\n

Here is the Smithsonian article that Ramakrishnan sent. <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022\/#ixzz2lRMjrfit<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

And here is a link to a PBS video on Steinmetz: <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/wmht-specials-divine-discontent-charles-proteus-steinmetz\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a SolderSmoke blog post about “Radio Schenectady”:<\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2020\/07\/radio-schenectady.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Such a beautiful article. Ramakrishnan VU2JXN sent it to me. It reminded me of how puzzeled we were when we found “Schenectady” on old shortwave receiver dials, amidst truly exotic locations. Rangoon! Peking! Cape Town! Schenectady? Obviously this was due to General Electric’s location in that New York State city. But reading this article, I … Continue reading “The Wizard of Schenectady — Charles Proteus Steinmetz”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,31,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-radio-history","category-short-wave-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","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=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}