{"id":2492,"date":"2021-10-20T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2021-10-20T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:18:07","slug":"the-storied-history-of-the-ham-radio-callsign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/the-storied-history-of-the-ham-radio-callsign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Storied History of the Ham Radio Callsign&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every legal amateur radio operator in the world has a unique callsign assigned to them by their government, and many of us are better known by our callsign than our given name.\u00a0 But what world event was it that caused these monikers to be?\u00a0 Why are they constructed the way they are? Watch this video I put together as presented at the QSO Today Expo in March 2021, and discover for yourself the storied history of the ham radio callsign!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Storied History of the Ham Radio Callsign\" width=\"847\" height=\"635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Su76QvChuEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>73 &#8211; Mike Ritz, W7VO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every legal amateur radio operator in the world has a unique callsign assigned to them by their government, and many of us are better known by our callsign than our given name.\u00a0 But what world event was it that caused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/the-storied-history-of-the-ham-radio-callsign\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}