{"id":74687,"date":"2020-07-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74687"},"modified":"2020-07-20T06:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:21:54","slug":"ham-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74687","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/telecom\/wireless\/the-uncertain-future-of-ham-radio\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s dying<\/a>, like hoop rolling and tethered airplanes and lots of other 1930&#8217;s activities, because young people don&#8217;t care for it.<br><br>What, you just talk to people?&nbsp; You can&#8217;t see them, no interactive video?&nbsp; So the people are in different countries, so what?&nbsp; It&#8217;s basically a telephone.&nbsp; What fun is that?<br><br>Joe Doakes, ham radio license KE0GCG, on the 2 meter band<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been on my long &#8220;to do&#8221; list for years.   May just accelerate that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s dying, like hoop rolling and tethered airplanes and lots of other 1930&#8217;s activities, because young people don&#8217;t care for it. What, you just talk to people?&nbsp; You can&#8217;t see them, no interactive video?&nbsp; So the people are in different countries, so what?&nbsp; It&#8217;s basically a telephone.&nbsp; What fun is that? Joe Doakes, ham radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74692,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74687\/revisions\/74692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}