{"id":1280,"date":"2017-12-25T01:10:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T08:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2017-12-25T01:10:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T08:10:39","slug":"call-me-aj6bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2017\/12\/call-me-aj6bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Call me AJ6BD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CQ, CQ, CQ. This is AJ6BD.<\/p>\n<p>I officially have a callsign. I can now legally broadcast on the amateur radio bands.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been building radios since I was ten (really). I had plenty of help from my mentor, who taught me more than I realized there was to know about electronics, AC theory, signals, modulation, ionospheric propagation, phasors, oscilloscopes, and calculus. It was with his help I built that infamous Tesla Coil for my 6th grade science project.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all that, I never got into the transmit side of radio. There used to be a formidable requirement to send and receive Morse Code at a particular rate, but the FCC dropped that requirement around 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve experienced an uptick in interest in electronics, and a little nudge from W6RQ at work I brushed up on the materials and went in for my test. Actually three tests, which I somehow managed to pass.<\/p>\n<p>So as I write this, I&#8217;m in the unusual position of having an &#8220;Amateur Extra&#8221; license, but never having had a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Contact_(amateur_radio)\">QSO<\/a> (over the air contact).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re into Ham radio, leave your callsign in a comment below. Maybe you&#8217;ll be the first I make contact with. :)<\/p>\n<p>73, (best regards)<\/p>\n<p>Micah<\/p>\n<p>AJ6BD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CQ, CQ, CQ. This is AJ6BD. I officially have a callsign. I can now legally broadcast on the amateur radio bands. I&#8217;ve been building radios since I was ten (really). I had plenty of help from my mentor, who taught me more than I realized there was to know about electronics, AC theory, signals, modulation,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[1223,1225,587,1224,1190],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-amateur","tag-callsign","tag-ham","tag-morse","tag-radio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-kE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}