{"id":73,"date":"2021-02-08T05:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2021-02-08T05:49:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:49:10","slug":"kf0bvg-signing-off-n8ovu-signing-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"KF0BVG signing off, N8OVU signing on."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In late December, I decided to apply for my late father&#8217;s old callsign &#8220;N8OVU&#8221;. It finally came through at the end of January. I&#8217;m happy to dumb KF0BVG, I wasn&#8217;t thrilled with the callsign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also thought about chasing down &#8220;KC6NMD&#8221; and maybe I&#8217;ll do that some day. Or maybe not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dad used to call himself &#8220;the General&#8221;, he was pretty proud of his accomplishment &#8211; he was licensed back in the days when you had to pass the Morse code requirement and he loved doing CW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We both fell out of the hobby around the same time but he kept his license going even after he had been off the air for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We both started our journey to become ham radio operators in the late 80s when I was overseas station in Japan. I got my first callsign: KC6JKN at the end of 1989 and my general in June of 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was first licensed as KB8LON, I don&#8217;t know exactly when but he was studying code seemingly forever. He used to send me cassette tape &#8216;letters&#8217; where he talked about his code practice. I still have a couple of those tapes, it&#8217;s a little sad listening to them, but I love that I still have some way to hear his voice &#8211; and a sample of him sending his callsign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good bye, KF0BVG, seems like I hardly knew ya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late December, I decided to apply for my late father&#8217;s old callsign &#8220;N8OVU&#8221;. It finally came through at the end of January. I&#8217;m happy to dumb KF0BVG, I wasn&#8217;t &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","anons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}