{"id":6190,"date":"2011-04-01T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T10:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=6190"},"modified":"2011-04-13T07:55:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T11:55:34","slug":"the-silence-of-the-hams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/the-silence-of-the-hams\/","title":{"rendered":"the silence of the hams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s highly likely I&#8217;m doing something wrong, but I&#8217;m getting nothing on the 2m &amp; 70cm bands in eastern Toronto of an evening. After a week of dedicated listening, I&#8217;ve stumbled upon a couple of nets (one of which I <em>briefly<\/em> participated in), heard one morning commute chat, noted a couple of dudes talking about power supplies in Portuguese, and managed to key up a repeater which said hello back to me. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not expecting the airwaves to be crackling with witty repartee all the time, but most of the time there seems to be no-one out there. Calling CQ on simplex VHF might as well be shouting into a hole.<\/p>\n<p>I know I have a <a title=\"Wouxun KC-UVD1P\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wouxun.com\/Two-Way-Radio\/KG-UVD1P.htm\">cheapo rig<\/a> and a <a title=\"Maple Leaf Communications Portable J-Pole\" href=\"http:\/\/mapleleafcom.com\/portable_jpole_antennas.shtml\">flimsy aerial<\/a>, but I must be able to contact people within the neighbouring kilometres &#8230; must I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s highly likely I&#8217;m doing something wrong, but I&#8217;m getting nothing on the 2m &amp; 70cm bands in eastern Toronto of an evening. After a week of dedicated listening, I&#8217;ve stumbled upon a couple of nets (one of which I briefly participated in), heard one morning commute chat, noted a couple of dudes talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[2290],"tags":[2284,1215,2286],"class_list":["post-6190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-amateur","tag-radio","tag-va3pid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1BQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6239,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions\/6239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}