{"id":863,"date":"2008-12-18T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=863"},"modified":"2008-12-18T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:00:40","slug":"amateur-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-864 alignright\" title=\"dan_w5ehs\" src=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dan_w5ehs.jpg\" alt=\"dan_w5ehs\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dan_w5ehs.jpg 340w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dan_w5ehs-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a subject I haven&#8217;t discussed in Ramblin&#8217; Dan. I have been an amateur radio operator for almost 40 years. I was first licensed as a Novice in 1969. I was permitted to operate a 75 watt (input) crystal controlled transmitter, Morse radio code only. My call was WN8EHS. I am now W5EHS.<\/p>\n<p>Just the year before I became a &#8220;ham&#8221;, I had come off active duty in the Navy and married my sweetheart Gloria. The twins were still a few years away (1972). I had wanted to be a ham from the time I was ten years old. This was at last the right time to do so.<\/p>\n<p>John Petrek, W8BNO, a Chief ET at the Navy Reserve gave me the Novice test at the reserve center. He was with me a few weeks later as I made my first contact with K2UCE, a woman operator on the east coast. What a great time! More info is <a href=\"http:\/\/kautz.tedatum.com\/ham.html\">here<\/a> on my personal web pages.<\/p>\n<p>I will touch on this subject again from time to time. I operate as W5EHS from here in Frisco, Texas. Any other hams follow my ramblings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a subject I haven&#8217;t discussed in Ramblin&#8217; Dan. I have been an amateur radio operator for almost 40 years. I was first licensed as a Novice in 1969. I was permitted to operate a 75 watt (input) crystal controlled transmitter, Morse radio code only. My call was WN8EHS. I am now W5EHS. Just the year before I became a &#8220;ham&#8221;, I had come off active duty in the Navy and married my sweetheart&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[43,16,42],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-amateur","tag-hobby","tag-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}