{"id":6205,"date":"2008-07-08T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/shepherd-learns-morse-and-discovers-ham-radio\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:32:39","slug":"shepherd-learns-morse-and-discovers-ham-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/shepherd-learns-morse-and-discovers-ham-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherd Learns Morse and Discovers Ham Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/shep2.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\/shep2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220491963692406370\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here is another gem from Jean Shepherd. He describes his discovery of CW at age 6 or 7, his first shortwave receiver, and his discovery of amateur radio. Plus, some Army Signal Corps madness.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for the mp3 audio file: <a href=\"http:\/\/ia360931.us.archive.org\/2\/items\/JeanShepherd1973\/1973_06_07_CW_Code.mp3\">Shepherd, Morse, Ham Radio<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ia360931.us.archive.org\/2\/items\/JeanShepherd1973\/1973_06_07_CW_Code.mp3\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another gem from Jean Shepherd. He describes his discovery of CW at age 6 or 7, his first shortwave receiver, and his discovery of amateur radio. Plus, some Army Signal Corps madness. Click here for the mp3 audio file: Shepherd, Morse, Ham Radio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jean-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205","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=6205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6207,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions\/6207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}