{"id":9435,"date":"2008-06-08T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/08\/jean-shepherd-knack-victim\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:31:46","slug":"jean-shepherd-knack-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/08\/jean-shepherd-knack-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Shepherd:  KNACK VICTIM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Shep.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\/2009\/07\/Shep.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209482194086203634\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Guys, stop what you are doing. Put down that soldering iron, or that cold Miller High Life (&#8220;the champagne of bottled beer&#8221;) and click on the link below. You will be transported back to 1965, and will hear master story-teller Jean Shepherd (K2ORS) describing his teenage case of The Knack. He discusses his efforts to build a Heising modulated transmitter for 160 meters. He had trouble getting it working, and became obsessed with the problem, obsessed to the point that a girl he was dating concluded that there was &#8220;something wrong with him&#8221; and that his mother &#8220;should take him to a doctor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This one is REALLY good. It takes him a few minutes to get to the radio stuff, but it is worth the wait. More to follow. EXCELSIOR! FLICK LIVES!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ia310115.us.archive.org\/2\/items\/JeanShepherd1965Pt1\/1965_01_29_Ham_Radio.mp3\">http:\/\/ia310115.us.archive.org\/2\/items\/JeanShepherd1965Pt1\/1965_01_29_Ham_Radio.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guys, stop what you are doing. Put down that soldering iron, or that cold Miller High Life (&#8220;the champagne of bottled beer&#8221;) and click on the link below. You will be transported back to 1965, and will hear master story-teller Jean Shepherd (K2ORS) describing his teenage case of The Knack. He discusses his efforts to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/08\/jean-shepherd-knack-victim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jean Shepherd:  KNACK VICTIM!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jean-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435","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=9435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9436,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions\/9436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}