{"id":82,"date":"2024-01-27T00:55:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T06:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/?p=82"},"modified":"2024-01-27T00:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T06:55:42","slug":"an-interesting-contact-and-a-glimpse-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"An interesting Contact and a glimpse of the future."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This evening while ensuring the logging software talked to the digital software in preparation for Winter Field Day, I ran across a young man calling CQ.  Someone else got to him first and as I listened to the conversation I was amazed that this 7th grade boy from the St. Louis area had his interest in radio sparked by the tv series &#8220;Stranger Things&#8221;.  When he wrapped up his conversation with a gentleman near Columbus Ohio I gave him a call.  We were only about 100 miles apart and the path was good.  He was operating in a portable fashion as he isn&#8217;t allowed permanent antennas at home.  Running one of the Xiegu radios into an inverted vee dipole that he made himself.   I pointed out to him that he has found a life long hobby as I was licensed as a Junior in High School in the early 80&#8217;s.  He carried on a good conversation and asked questions as well as answered them.   I hope to talk to him (Jackson) again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening while ensuring the logging software talked to the digital software in preparation for Winter Field Day, I ran across a young man calling CQ. Someone else got to him first and as I listened to the conversation I was amazed that this 7th grade boy from the St. Louis area had his interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"powered_cache_disable_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elmering","category-station-operation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}