{"id":86,"date":"2021-04-08T21:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2021-04-08T21:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:39:47","slug":"bit-of-a-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"bit of a hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>I have not been very active lately. Between work and work I&#8217;ve had little time for radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a little sad that I&#8217;m not doing any CW contacts, that&#8217;s really the whole reason I jumped back into ham radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s that there are fewer people doing it, except during events, at which time they send at 50wpm and only want to 599 you and move on to the next 599.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have zero interest in that kind of ham radio. It feels cheap and sleazy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And those same 599 people will shit on FT8 and other digital modes as meaningless exchanges with no info aside from a signal report. Oh, the irony!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have run across a few SKCC folks that want to do extended rag chew CW sessions but my fist can&#8217;t hang, I start getting super sloppy and make so many mistakes I get embarrassed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The WX is getting better, more daylight to spend outside so I suspect radio activity will decline even more!<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been very active lately. Between work and work I&#8217;ve had little time for radio. I&#8217;m a little sad that I&#8217;m not doing any CW contacts, that&#8217;s really &#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-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","anons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}