{"id":9,"date":"2019-08-11T03:20:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/~bskrentny\/wp\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:49:29","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/free.timeanddate.com\/clock\/i52gwvyo\/n158\/fn17\/fc00f\/ftb\/bas4\/bat4\/bac39f\/pa4\/tt0\/tw1\/tm1\/th1\/ta1\/tb4\" width=\"167\" height=\"52\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/free.timeanddate.com\/clock\/i8yg8hc0\/fn6\/fs15\/fc00f\/tct\/pct\/ftb\/bas4\/bat4\/bacf00\/pa4\/tt0\/tw1\/tm1\/th1\/ta1\/tb4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"147\" height=\"50\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"503\" src=\"http:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_7446c-1024x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_7446c-1024x503.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_7446c-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_7446c-768x377.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I have been a licensed amateur radio operator since May 1991.&nbsp;&nbsp; I became  interested in ham radio after a few years of listening to a 2m repeater in California.&nbsp; My roommate at the time regularly listened to a weekly net and after a while we knew the hams quite well and thought it would great if we could talk to them.&nbsp; Of course we didn\u2019t really know what we had to do to be licensed but when they announced that they were having a social event at a local park we decided to pay a visit.&nbsp; After speaking to several hams I was motivated to get my license.&nbsp; They explained what I needed to do and shortly after I moved back to Wisconsin I studied for the test and got my license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> <strong>XYL Gets Licensed<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife (KC9BTF) received her license in May 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Home Station<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background\">I now have a Yeasu FTM-500D mobile on the air at my computer desk in the living room. I still plan to get an antenna on my tower and get back on the air in my ham shack &#8212; hopefully this fall.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/hamsoverip.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"hamsoverip.com\">Hams Over IP<\/a> &#8211; <strong>100175<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a licensed amateur radio operator since May 1991.&nbsp;&nbsp; I became interested in ham radio after a few years of listening to a 2m repeater in California.&nbsp; My roommate at the time regularly listened to a weekly net and after a while we knew the hams quite well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n9loo.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}