{"id":3561,"date":"2013-05-08T20:44:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2013-05-08T20:45:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:45:55","slug":"pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3561","title":{"rendered":"Pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 5 miles]<\/p>\n<p>I usually use a pencil when I copy morse code.\u00a0 I have some cheap yellow pencils where the lead is not centered in the wooden part.\u00a0 Those sharpen so that the point is not centered.\u00a0 I have some others, round ones, which sharpen up really nicely.\u00a0 I have an electric pencil sharpener.<\/p>\n<p>I buy the notebooks from Walgreens or WalMart after the back-to-school sales are over.\u00a0 You can get either bound or spiral notebooks for a buck each.\u00a0 I use them to copy down the CW when I am listening or having a conversation.\u00a0 I may not write down everything, but most of it anyway.\u00a0 Over the years I have gone from all caps to a mix of cursive and printed lower case letters.<\/p>\n<p>I try to always write down the callsign,\u00a0 frequency and date\/time.\u00a0 I also have a logbook where I put the particulars.\u00a0 If I forget, or mess up the log, I can usually find it in my notebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 5 miles] I usually use a pencil when I copy morse code.\u00a0 I have some cheap yellow pencils where the lead is not centered in the wooden part.\u00a0 Those sharpen so that the point is not centered.\u00a0 I have some others, round ones, which sharpen up really nicely.\u00a0 I have an electric pencil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-operating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}