{"id":36450,"date":"2025-02-20T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=36450"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:25:44","slug":"when-lima-leads-to-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/your-stories\/2025\/02\/20\/when-lima-leads-to-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"When &#8216;Lima&#8217; leads to licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36452 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/01\/Alex-M0MHM-operating-GB24YOTA-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Alex Kowalski, M0MHM \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/01\/Alex-M0MHM-operating-GB24YOTA-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/01\/Alex-M0MHM-operating-GB24YOTA-2-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2025\/01\/Alex-M0MHM-operating-GB24YOTA-2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex, M0MHM, now aged 12, and his Dad, Jakub, M0KUK, were on a shopping trip together when his Dad started teaching Alex the phonetic alphabet. This activity wasn\u2019t planned, or structured, it was merely father and son enjoying some time together. However, in doing this, Alex\u2019s interest in amateur radio was sparked.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, Alex started studying for his<a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> Foundation licence<\/strong><\/a>, which was soon followed by his <a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/intermediate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Intermediate<\/strong> <\/a>and then his <a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Full<\/strong> <\/a>licence in November 2024. He particularly likes designing circuits and building electronics kits and would like to design his own radio. He is also hatching a plan for a youth competition to build a beacon finder and aerial.<\/p>\n<p>Alex has also been supported by his local club, <a href=\"https:\/\/cvrs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cray Valley Radio Society<\/strong><\/a>, and says: \u201cI really like my club because it\u2019s full of people who have great ideas and lots of advice. I also like the direction-finding competitions and field days\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Next time you are out with friends, family, or even colleagues, why not try bringing the hobby, and your love for it, into the conversation. You never know who may be interested, and who knows, you may even just spark an interest into something they may love.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex, M0MHM, now aged 12, and his Dad, Jakub, M0KUK, were on a shopping trip together when his Dad started teaching Alex the phonetic alphabet. This activity wasn\u2019t planned, or structured, it was merely father and son enjoying some time together. However, in doing this, Alex\u2019s interest in amateur radio was sparked. Following this, Alex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36450","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\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36450"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36744,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36450\/revisions\/36744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}