{"id":6796,"date":"2020-04-30T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/30\/shortwave-dials-exotic-locations-hong-kong-berlin-springfield-schenectady\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:42:17","slug":"shortwave-dials-exotic-locations-hong-kong-berlin-springfield-schenectady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/30\/shortwave-dials-exotic-locations-hong-kong-berlin-springfield-schenectady\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Dials &#8212; Exotic Locations &#8212; Hong Kong!  Berlin!  Springfield?  Schenectady?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ShortwaveDial2.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"639\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ShortwaveDial2.jpeg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Click on the picture for a closer look. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>No offense to the birthplace of Homer Simpson, but Springfield? And Schenectady? This dial glass is all that remains of a shortwave receiver used by my wife&#8217;s grandfather in the Dominican Republic. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Many years ago the Boatanchor enthusiasts had a very informal &#8220;dial lights&#8221; competition. Which receiver cast the best glow from its dial lights. (I think my HQ-100 was the best.)<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>The dials of many old shortwave receivers have recently started to show up on the Shortwave Listening group on Facebook. Some have some very exotic foreign locations. Perhaps we should launch a similar competition: Which SW receiver dial has the most exotic foreign locations? <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the picture for a closer look. No offense to the birthplace of Homer Simpson, but Springfield? And Schenectady? This dial glass is all that remains of a shortwave receiver used by my wife&#8217;s grandfather in the Dominican Republic. Many years ago the Boatanchor enthusiasts had a very informal &#8220;dial lights&#8221; competition. Which receiver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/04\/30\/shortwave-dials-exotic-locations-hong-kong-berlin-springfield-schenectady\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shortwave Dials &#8212; Exotic Locations &#8212; Hong Kong!  Berlin!  Springfield?  Schenectady?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,176,100,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dominican-republic","category-hammarlund","category-old-radio","category-short-wave-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","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=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6798,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/6798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}