{"id":7824,"date":"2022-07-24T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/07\/24\/a-surprisingly-good-movie-from-the-late-1960s-the-hams-wide-world-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:26","slug":"a-surprisingly-good-movie-from-the-late-1960s-the-hams-wide-world-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/07\/24\/a-surprisingly-good-movie-from-the-late-1960s-the-hams-wide-world-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A Surprisingly Good Movie from the Late 1960s: &#8220;The Ham&#8217;s Wide World&#8221; (Video)"},"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\/0bJPY96NaSs?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I found this movie to be surprisingly good. Narrated by Arthur Godfrey, it features Barry Goldwater, and a lot of other hams. There is a homebrewer too! Lots of old rigs we know and love: a Drake 2-B, a couple of Galaxy Vs, a Benton Harbor lunchbox, Heathkit SB-series rigs, many Swans, and was that an HQ-170 that I saw in there? There are also many cool antennas, including a 15 meter quad set up by a bunch of Southern California teenagers. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Near the end, when they visit ARRL Headquarters, we briefly see none-other-than Doug DeMaw, W1FB! FB! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Please take a look at this video and post comments about the rigs, antennas, and radio amateurs that you see in the film. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this movie to be surprisingly good. Narrated by Arthur Godfrey, it features Barry Goldwater, and a lot of other hams. There is a homebrewer too! Lots of old rigs we know and love: a Drake 2-B, a couple of Galaxy Vs, a Benton Harbor lunchbox, Heathkit SB-series rigs, many Swans, and was that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/07\/24\/a-surprisingly-good-movie-from-the-late-1960s-the-hams-wide-world-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Surprisingly Good Movie from the Late 1960s: &#8220;The Ham&#8217;s Wide World&#8221; (Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,271,336,6,364,100,82,101,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-arrl","category-california","category-drake-2b","category-mexico","category-old-radio","category-satellites","category-tubes","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11371,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions\/11371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}