{"id":4019,"date":"2008-08-16T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/08\/16\/conrads-garage-birth-of-kdka-k4hu-sk\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:26:49","slug":"conrads-garage-birth-of-kdka-k4hu-sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/08\/16\/conrads-garage-birth-of-kdka-k4hu-sk\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrad&#8217;s Garage &#8212; Birth of KDKA &#8212;  K4HU, SK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/k4hu1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/k4hu1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234993430657638738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Harry Mills, K4HU, passed away recently. Harry was 100 years old and was active on the ham bands right up until the end. National Public Radio featured Harry and his ham station in an &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; segment about early radio. It came out in 2001. I don&#8217;t know how I missed this one &#8212; it is really great. Have a listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/atc\/features\/2001\/nov\/garage\/011130.garage.html\">NPR program on KDKA, K4HU<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/atc\/features\/2001\/nov\/garage\/011130.garage.html\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Mills, K4HU, passed away recently. Harry was 100 years old and was active on the ham bands right up until the end. National Public Radio featured Harry and his ham station in an &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; segment about early radio. It came out in 2001. I don&#8217;t know how I missed this one &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/08\/16\/conrads-garage-birth-of-kdka-k4hu-sk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conrad&#8217;s Garage &#8212; Birth of KDKA &#8212;  K4HU, SK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-old-radio","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","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=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}