{"id":5399,"date":"2008-07-22T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/22\/shep-seti-radar-spark-coils\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:58:03","slug":"shep-seti-radar-spark-coils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/22\/shep-seti-radar-spark-coils\/","title":{"rendered":"Shep, SETI, Radar, Spark Coils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiaevnnaeC0lLCovCT8EEAeI9nekHhrnvj2z_2fe_nGae_533WVYjQWGJR3TiRJHpHmz_DpraU8BlQzyytogqMe69Ntz489AOmTiW5ooFyke8HPOtCkpgOGzY-8Tm8aB19pnbGaYkHsAYc\/s1600-h\/Shep6.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\/07\/Shep6.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224960511328693506\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In this episode Shep builds a 2 meter rig to talk to locals, but picks up signals from much farther away. Musings on extraterrestrial DX. Also, our hero gets zapped by a spark coil.<br \/>As always, it takes Shep a while to get going on the ham radio stuff, so you might want to fast-forward through the groovy 1965 small talk at the beginning. EXCELSIOR!<br \/>Here is the mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ia310115.us.archive.org\/2\/items\/JeanShepherd1965Pt1\/1965_04_15_Radio_Signals.mp3\">Shep, 1965, 2 meters, SETI, Spark Coils.<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode Shep builds a 2 meter rig to talk to locals, but picks up signals from much farther away. Musings on extraterrestrial DX. Also, our hero gets zapped by a spark coil.As always, it takes Shep a while to get going on the ham radio stuff, so you might want to fast-forward through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/22\/shep-seti-radar-spark-coils\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shep, SETI, Radar, Spark Coils&#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":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","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=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5401,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions\/5401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}