{"id":25555,"date":"2020-08-07T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=25555"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:01:42","slug":"daniel-m7dnl-10-years-old-and-new-licensee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/g0ta2c-licensee-stories\/2020\/08\/07\/daniel-m7dnl-10-years-old-and-new-licensee\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel, M7DNL – 10 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel says: \u201cI often used to watch my Dad mess around with radios. When lockdown began he suggested it might be worth me getting my own amateur radio licence. I signed up for the Essex Ham online Foundation course and my Dad taught me quite a bit, too.<\/p>\n

\"\"I found memorising the different frequencies and connector types tricky. I thought I was going to struggle with the maths, but in the end it wasn’t so bad.<\/p>\n

I was a bit worried about doing the exam as it was the first proper exam I’d ever done. Once I got started and saw the other people on the WebEx meeting it helped me to relax me a bit.<\/p>\n

I’m enjoying keeping a log of the contacts I made – as a present for passing the exam I got a personalised log book with my call sign on the front.<\/p>\n

Watching the slow-scan pictures from the ISS come down got me interested in using satellites, so I’d like to give those a go next.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately no-one in my class or my cub group is a radio amateur but we\u2019re hoping that our local club will take part in the next JOTA event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel says: \u201cI often used to watch my Dad mess around with radios. When lockdown began he suggested it might be worth me getting my own amateur radio licence. I signed up for the Essex Ham online Foundation course and my Dad taught me quite a bit, too. I found memorising the different frequencies and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g0ta2c-licensee-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}