{"id":10638,"date":"2010-04-21T20:47:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/blog\/?p=10638"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:11:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:11:21","slug":"voice-of-america-about-ham-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/ham-radio-news\/voice-of-america-about-ham-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"&#034;Voice of America&#034; about HAM Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ham-helen-dennis-mccarthy-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10639 alignleft\" title=\"ham-helen-dennis-mccarthy-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ham-helen-dennis-mccarthy-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><em>Photo: Dennis McCarthy\/CQ Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Helen Schlarman (W0AKI), 89, has multiple sclerosis and says ham radio lets her connect with friends she&#8217;s not able to see in person.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With millions of people posting up-to-the-minute photos on Facebook, checking Twitter and snuggling up to iPhones, it&#8217;s easier than ever to stay in touch.<\/p>\n<p>So you might expect those old ham two-way radios to have gone the way of rotary phones by now. A few years ago, several blogs even put ham radio alongside 35 millimeter film and VHS video tape on a list of once popular things slated to disappear. But they were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the hobby where you can make your own antennas to send and receive signals and tap out messages in Morse code is thriving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.voanews.com\/english\/news\/lifestyle\/Old-Two-Way-Radio-Thrives-in-the-Internet-Age-91595099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>More on VOA WEB site<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Dennis McCarthy\/CQ Magazine Helen Schlarman (W0AKI), 89, has multiple sclerosis and says ham radio lets her connect with friends she&#8217;s not able to see in person. With millions of people posting up-to-the-minute photos on Facebook, checking Twitter and snuggling up to iPhones, it&#8217;s easier than ever to stay in touch. So you might expect&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[190,195,203,234,510],"class_list":["post-10638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ham-radio-news","tag-ham","tag-ham-radio","tag-hamradio","tag-info","tag-voa","category-5","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}