{"id":7730,"date":"2015-02-02T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2015-01-27T07:57:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T12:57:59","slug":"radio-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=7730","title":{"rendered":"Radio Theory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While studying for my Ham radio license, I noticed that each practice exam contained a variety of subjects.\u00a0 Some of the questions contained practical common sense items such as not climbing your antenna tower during a rain storm.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, there was a section on rules and regulations for operating your Ham radio station and a section on general electronics.\u00a0 And all of these I could deal with.\u00a0 But, when it came to radio theory, I was somewhat lost.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I had no idea what radio frequencies work best during a period of sun spots.\u00a0 Or what causes a &#8220;Knife edge&#8221; reflection.\u00a0 So, for these questions, I relied\u00a0 strictly on memorizing the answers.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, maybe some day I will learn the radio theory.\u00a0 But for right now, the focus is on passing the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While studying for my Ham radio license, I noticed that each practice exam contained a variety of subjects.\u00a0 Some of the questions contained practical common sense items such as not climbing your antenna tower during a rain storm. And of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=7730\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-20G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7733,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/7733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}