{"id":2289,"date":"2021-05-22T08:59:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2021-05-22T08:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:59:35","slug":"a-novel-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/n5hrk-blog\/a-novel-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"A Novel Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have told this story before. I first became a Novice (KA5RZY) ham in the early 1980&#8217;s. I upgraded to Technician (N5HRK) in the mid 80&#8217;s. I never got over the 13 word per minute hump, so never upgraded to General. Many years passed and I did Other Things &#8482; and my license lapsed so hard that even the 10 year renewal grace period was years out of date when I got interested in the hobby again around 2011 or so. I had to study and test again to get my license anew. It is a no-code license and between the study tools and my own experiences, it was possible for me to take the tests for Technician, General and Extra in one sitting. I kinda squeaked by Extra (AE5XB), but I did pass. I didn&#8217;t like my new Extra call all that much, though it did have a X in it. I searched for a vanity call. For all the searching, the best vanity call for me was my old Technician call, so here I am, N5HRK again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, 10 years have passed and it is time to renew my license and for the first time ever, I did it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have told this story before. I first became a Novice (KA5RZY) ham in the early 1980&#8217;s. I upgraded to Technician (N5HRK) in the mid 80&#8217;s. I never got over the 13 word per minute hump, so never upgraded to General. Many years passed and I did Other Things &#8482; and my license lapsed so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/n5hrk-blog\/a-novel-experience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Novel Experience<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n5hrk-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}