{"id":3687,"date":"2013-07-02T07:51:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T12:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2013-07-02T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T12:51:01","slug":"on-the-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3687","title":{"rendered":"On the radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: rest day]<\/p>\n<p>I fired up the ham radio this morning.<\/p>\n<p>I went through a bit of a drought in activity in May and June, don&#8217;t know why.\u00a0 But today I got on 40 meters and had a nice chat with k8ehe, Terry in Dublin, OH.<\/p>\n<p>He is retired and works as a lay minister at a church where he&#8217;s been attending for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>I told him about visiting Dublin around 20 years ago for some training sessions with OCLC and he knew where that was.<\/p>\n<p>I told him we had fed the chickens and that my wife keeps chickens and bees.\u00a0 He said that fresh eggs and honey sounded good to him.<\/p>\n<p>This was all in morse code, so the conversation is kind of slow and simple.\u00a0 I was using my <a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1930\">homebrew straight key<\/a>, and my arm started to get a bit tired.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t done much straight key work recently.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the physical effort, the other part of morse code that keeps things slow is trying to remember how to spell words as you send them.\u00a0 I have an electronic gizmo that shows me the letters as I send them.\u00a0 That is very helpful because my spelling is more visual-based.\u00a0 I can see if it &#8220;looks right&#8221; as I go.\u00a0 Without that I frequently get into spelling trouble.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: rest day] I fired up the ham radio this morning. I went through a bit of a drought in activity in May and June, don&#8217;t know why.\u00a0 But today I got on 40 meters and had a nice chat with k8ehe, Terry in Dublin, OH. He is retired and works as a lay [&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-3687","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\/3687","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=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}