{"id":6389,"date":"2011-05-16T07:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2011-05-16T07:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:55:56","slug":"life-in-feld-hell-the-dot-matrix-printer-heard-round-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/life-in-feld-hell-the-dot-matrix-printer-heard-round-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in (Feld) Hell: The Dot-Matrix Printer Heard &#8216;Round the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit of a sucker for odd digital radio modes at the moment. Sometimes, a whole new set of tones comes through the waterfall, and I&#8217;m left wondering what it is. I&#8217;d read about <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Hellschreiber\">Hellschreiber<\/a> before, and thought that no-one could possibly want to use a mode that turned your radio into a very slow dot matrix printer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/feldhell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6390\" title=\"feldhell\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/feldhell-320x39.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/feldhell-320x39.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/feldhell-160x19.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/feldhell.png 1016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>Last night, I sent out CQ on 40m, and was immediately answered by Don (<a href=\"http:\/\/qrz.com\/db\/WB8MKH\">WB8MKH<\/a>) in Michigan. We had a good long talk, and Don let me know about the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/feldhellclub\/Home\">Feld Hell Club<\/a> and their monthly sprints. I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be much for contesting, but this sets my nerd whiskers aquiver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit of a sucker for odd digital radio modes at the moment. Sometimes, a whole new set of tones comes through the waterfall, and I&#8217;m left wondering what it is. I&#8217;d read about Hellschreiber before, and thought that no-one could possibly want to use a mode that turned your radio into a very [&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":[],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1F3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","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=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}