{"id":9078,"date":"2023-04-24T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/24\/four-old-bbc-shows-on-radio-hams-physics-and-antique-wireless\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:24","slug":"four-old-bbc-shows-on-radio-hams-physics-and-antique-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/24\/four-old-bbc-shows-on-radio-hams-physics-and-antique-wireless\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Old BBC Shows on Radio:  Hams, Physics, and Antique Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PPg-D33RnS8?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>The first one, about ham operators in general, is pretty depressing. Then it goes downhill as they shift to those who are listening to baby monitors and cell phones. Yuck. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The second one seems to show some physicist having understandable difficulty explaining particle-wave duality in a short TV segment. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>There is a short bit (that I didn&#8217;t quite get) about the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Teddy Bear&#8217;s Picnic.&#8221; <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The final one is about Gerald Wells and his Antique Wireless Museum in South London. Note the white coat &#8212; clearly a boffin. For a while I confused him with <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/knack-story-rupert-goodwins-soldersmoke.html\">Rupert Goodwins G6HVY<\/a> (similar white coat, but a different bloke). <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first one, about ham operators in general, is pretty depressing. Then it goes downhill as they shift to those who are listening to baby monitors and cell phones. Yuck. The second one seems to show some physicist having understandable difficulty explaining particle-wave duality in a short TV segment. There is a short bit (that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/24\/four-old-bbc-shows-on-radio-hams-physics-and-antique-wireless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Four Old BBC Shows on Radio:  Hams, Physics, and Antique Wireless&#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":[100,39,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-radio","category-physics","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078","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=9078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11300,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078\/revisions\/11300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}