{"id":6872,"date":"2021-01-17T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/stop-listen-shep-on-building-a-shortwave-receiver\/"},"modified":"2021-01-17T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T23:27:00","slug":"stop-listen-shep-on-building-a-shortwave-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/stop-listen-shep-on-building-a-shortwave-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"STOP.  LISTEN.  Shep on Building a Shortwave Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l5I0Ex3RF-M\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Oh man, how could I have possibly missed this one? Perhaps I didn&#8217;t, but even if this one has been on the blog before, it is so good that it is worth repeating. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Shep really captures the frustrations and joys of a teenage radio builder. I could really identify with this. It all reminded me of my heartbreaking effort to build the Herring Aid 5 receiver. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>So much cool stuff in this 1963 recording: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The wonderful smell of radio service shops. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The terrible shirt and tie choices of radio service guys. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The truly dire consequences of mistakes in published schematic diagrams. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The AGONY of not being able to get a homebrew radio to work. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The JOY when you finally do get it to work. Shep&#8217;s &#8220;whole life changed&#8221; when that happened. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Hugo Gernsback, Lee DeForest and &#8220;unscientific scientists.&#8221;<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>As the YouTube video plays, they show several covers of old Short Wave Craft magazines. At one point they show some homebrew phone rigs. I think they look like my wooden box BITX rigs. And the front panels are clearly Juliano Blue. TRGHS. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Here is the 1933 Oscillodyne article that launched Shep&#8217;s effort: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/schematiclounge.weebly.com\/uploads\/6\/4\/5\/7\/6457679\/oscillodyne.pdf_0001.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1SKvnmHuAW3eh5MKJH2-2vgoE0jZAdwrBy4-IBiEaZosbXnPPZJtDieSU\">https:\/\/schematiclounge.weebly.com\/uploads\/6\/4\/5\/7\/6457679\/oscillodyne.pdf_0001.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1SKvnmHuAW3eh5MKJH2-2vgoE0jZAdwrBy4-IBiEaZosbXnPPZJtDieSU<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>EXCELSIOR! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, how could I have possibly missed this one? Perhaps I didn&#8217;t, but even if this one has been on the blog before, it is so good that it is worth repeating. Shep really captures the frustrations and joys of a teenage radio builder. I could really identify with this. It all reminded me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/stop-listen-shep-on-building-a-shortwave-receiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STOP.  LISTEN.  Shep on Building a Shortwave Receiver&#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":[167,183,103,63,100,31,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-herring-aid-5","category-jean-shepherd","category-knack-stories","category-magazines","category-old-radio","category-radio-history","category-regens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","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=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}