{"id":5132,"date":"2015-12-08T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/jean-shepherds-call-signs-a-qsl-card-and-much-more\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:23:42","slug":"jean-shepherds-call-signs-a-qsl-card-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/jean-shepherds-call-signs-a-qsl-card-and-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Shepherd’s call signs, a QSL card, and much more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was listening to 160 meter AM yesterday afternoon when I heard a familiar call: K2ORS. I knew that someone else had picked up Jean Shepherd’s last callsign, so I knew that I was not listening to a CQ from the great beyond. Turns out that K2ORS is now OM Warren Ziegler<\/a> up in Massachussets. Warren is active on HF and 160 and also works with experimental low frequency transmitters. He is a big fan of Shep. I think Shep would be pleased that someone who melts solder has his old call. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Searching for Warren on QRZ.com led me to a site with an amazing amount of info about Shep, his callsigns, and his early days in ham radio:<\/b><\/div>\n

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http:\/\/www.flicklives.com\/index.php?pg=318<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

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We talk about Shep quite a bit on this blog. Here are all the Shep blog posts: <\/b><\/div>\n

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http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Jean%20Shepherd<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

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Shep said that when, as a teenager, he got his ham radio license, he was so proud that he went around thinking of himseld as “W9QWN, a man of substance.” Indeed he was. <\/b><\/div>\n

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EXCELSIOR!<\/b><\/div>\n
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I was listening to 160 meter AM yesterday afternoon when I heard a familiar call: K2ORS. I knew that someone else had picked up Jean Shepherd’s last callsign, so I knew that I was not listening to a CQ from the great beyond. Turns out that K2ORS is now OM Warren Ziegler up in Massachussets. … Continue reading “Jean Shepherd’s call signs, a QSL card, and much more”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jean-shepherd","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","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=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5134,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions\/5134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}