{"id":9481,"date":"2019-06-04T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/ham-radio-in-germany-1955-video\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T10:30:00","slug":"ham-radio-in-germany-1955-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/ham-radio-in-germany-1955-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio in Germany 1955 (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gnfgSpYTLA4\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>Don&#8217;t be deterred by the lack of English subtitles &#8212; radio amateurs around the world will be able to follow what is going on in this very interesting 1955 film. It is only about 14 minutes long. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>This video takes us back to a time when hams were hams and rigs were RIGS!<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Note the German OM who apparently slept fully dressed (with necktie) in order to be ready to spring into action on the ham bands in the middle of the night. That&#8217;s dedication my friends. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Also note the fellow sending out QSL cards that feature the schematic diagram of his rig. Lots of solder melted in 1955. Great stuff. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Thank God for the Heaviside Schicht! <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t be deterred by the lack of English subtitles &#8212; radio amateurs around the world will be able to follow what is going on in this very interesting 1955 film. It is only about 14 minutes long. This video takes us back to a time when hams were hams and rigs were RIGS! Note the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/ham-radio-in-germany-1955-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ham Radio in Germany 1955 (video)&#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":[95,100,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-old-radio","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","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=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}