{"id":1093,"date":"2024-11-03T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T21:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2024-12-27T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T02:54:43","slug":"the-end-of-the-messing-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"The end of the messing around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After some careful reflection&#8230; I decided to drastically scale back my involvement in the ham radio hobby. I literally got rid of every piece of equipment except for my Kenwood TH-D75A, an Allstar node, and an openSPOT4 Pro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sold most of my bigger items. And gave away what no one seemed to want. With my Kenwood HT, my Allstar node, and my openSPOT4 Pro&#8230; I can still talk around the world. And&#8230; I can talk on a least four local repeater systems that have Allstar hookups. So I still have one foot in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some careful reflection&#8230; I decided to drastically scale back my involvement in the ham radio hobby. I literally got rid of every piece of equipment except for my Kenwood TH-D75A, an Allstar node, and an openSPOT4 Pro. I sold most of my bigger items. And gave away what no one seemed to want. With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=1093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The end of the messing around&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}