{"id":27023,"date":"2021-04-18T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T09:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=27023"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T09:26:32","slug":"glen-hamilton-m0mhg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/g0ta2c-licensee-stories\/2021\/04\/18\/glen-hamilton-m0mhg\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Hamilton, M0MHG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.2.9 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.services\/public\/video\/glen_hamilton_exam.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><strong>I was interested in radio when I was young and was fascinated\u00a0by scanners and listening to the airwaves. I would sit and listen with my Dad in the evenings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I joined the army when I was 21 and even though I was a tank driver and then a dog handler for two tours of Afghanistan, I was always interested\u00a0in carrying the troops\u2019\u00a0radio while out on patrol. They were very heavy bits of kit!<\/p>\n<p>During lockdown I have been working as a welding inspector on pipe-laying vessels offshore or quarantining in hotels around the world. I studied for the Foundation and Intermediate licences mainly whilst quarantining and I took my Foundation exam in a hotel in Rotterdam whilst waiting to go offshore!<\/p>\n<p>For my Full licence it was a totally different ball game as there is a lot of studying and you need to understand things in depth. I am a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/g3nmdnews.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Houghton-le-Spring Amateur Radio Club<\/strong><\/a> and my club tutor, Greg, M0ODZ helped with my studying an awful lot via Zoom calls while I was in Senegal and Equatorial New Guinea last year.\u00a0 You can see from the video clip how happy I was when I passed my Full licence!<\/p>\n<p>I liked the remote invigilation exams as they took the \u2018exam pressure\u2019 away.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite part of amateur radio has got to be propagation. I love the science\u00a0behind\u00a0it as I also do some aurora\u00a0chasing\u00a0in the winter. I have seen some beautiful\u00a0auroras in my home town\u00a0in Sunderland and I have travelled to Iceland to see it too. There is an obvious link with amateur radio propagation so I enjoy both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested in radio when I was young and was fascinated\u00a0by scanners and listening to the airwaves. I would sit and listen with my Dad in the evenings. I joined the army when I was 21 and even though I was a tank driver and then a dog handler for two tours of Afghanistan, [&hellip;]<\/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-27023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g0ta2c-licensee-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023","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=27023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}