{"id":8682,"date":"2008-07-13T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/13\/the-best-jean-shepherd-ham-radio-episode\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:06:24","slug":"the-best-jean-shepherd-ham-radio-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/13\/the-best-jean-shepherd-ham-radio-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"The BEST Jean Shepherd Ham Radio Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiOi6TZWYHpUTeGBfT88GAGQSqYZXZZiirm_3PLFwQ38KfPpJPZLEO4Funkz-wHAwQxkNrCz8jffIWy9o73kJpAuwe5VKsW4WddkuE2fishrmtqvjiZgDheEmsAFoay520XdUJO70aMLSg\/s1600-h\/shep4.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\/shep4.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222401043012520466\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Mark, W8MOJ, found this one a while back, but then somehow we lost it. This morning I found it again. Jean Shepherd talks about ham radio homebrewing, regen receivers, searching for parts at radio row, building stuff in the basement, secretly studying for his ham license during civics class, and one of his teenage ham friends who, in his basement, secretly built a&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other kids would draw Christmas trees and sailboats&#8230; I would draw schematics of phone transmitters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss this one! Here is the link to the mp3 file:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/ia360930.us.archive.org\/2\/items\/JeanShepherd1973\/1973_01_24_Historical_Moment.mp3\">Jean Shepherd, January 24, 1973<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark, W8MOJ, found this one a while back, but then somehow we lost it. This morning I found it again. Jean Shepherd talks about ham radio homebrewing, regen receivers, searching for parts at radio row, building stuff in the basement, secretly studying for his ham license during civics class, and one of his teenage ham &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/13\/the-best-jean-shepherd-ham-radio-episode\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The BEST Jean Shepherd Ham Radio Episode&#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-8682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682","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=8682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8684,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}