{"id":1,"date":"2017-10-17T05:54:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T05:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-12-10T11:19:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:19:31","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2017\/10\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello world!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks!<\/p>\n<p>I got into ham radio in 1999, but mostly just worked in VHF hitting SF Bay Area repeaters on 2 meters. I wanted ultimate portability, but never knew what it would be like to have a powerful rig. In 2017 (yes, 18 years later of my handheld talkies gathering dust), I finally got moved to find out more about HF and higher-wattage rigs, and got a Yaesu FT-857D. This opened up what hams have known all along: There&#8217;s a big world of radio out there to learn about and explore!<\/p>\n<p>This site will have some of my learnings and notes about new contacts, as well as some of the passions that drive my interest in radio technology.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by! More to come, hopefully in less than 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks! I got into ham radio in 1999, but mostly just worked in VHF hitting SF Bay Area repeaters on 2 meters. I wanted ultimate portability, but never knew what it would be like to have a powerful rig. In 2017 (yes, 18 years later of my handheld talkies gathering dust), I finally got moved to find out more about HF and higher-wattage rigs, and got a Yaesu FT-857D. This opened up what hams have known all along: There&#8217;s a big world of radio out there to learn about and explore! This site will have some of my learnings and notes about new contacts, as well as some of&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2017\/10\/hello-world\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9naFX-1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":264,"url":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2017\/12\/passed-the-amateur-extra-exam\/","url_meta":{"origin":1,"position":0},"title":"Passed the Amateur Extra exam","author":"kf6ujs","date":"December 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It took a while of studying, and a HamCram at the end, but I got my Extra class ticket this afternoon with W6SF Stockton Delta Amateur Radio Club. 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I'd been studying for about a month. But last night I thought to cram for it since there was an available exam going on in the morning about 50 miles north of me. 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