{"id":2776,"date":"2009-09-21T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/i-didnt-care-i-had-a-secret-life\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:55:42","slug":"i-didnt-care-i-had-a-secret-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/i-didnt-care-i-had-a-secret-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I didn&#8217;t care.  I had a secret life&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEii7vBtVF_m6s3ay_fEVPlP5iqC26dSWequXwk2KCHBKRnNy__PcXD2Psf4Q_cD45I5qfXLKYpx3VAbN6M5-9I8pgQGFnaGhsdJvUnaGgFu9q7DPjj38n9X-u7A6e5Y8KuaS2oA8VVaWCc\/s1600-h\/IMS_0101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 346px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMS_0101.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383778727950472722\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\">Dreams of Escape\u2026<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\"> It began in Kentucky in the early \u201860s: I was a ham radio operator known as WN4KSW, a skinny burr-headed prisoner of school, isolated in the cultural drought of the Midwest. I was theoretically a smart little bugger, according to test scores, yet I kept hearing that I had attitude problems and wasn&#8217;t working up to my potential. With the exception of science fairs, my academic performance was apparently disappointing to authority figures.<\/span> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\"> Oh well. I didn&#8217;t care: I had a secret life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thus begins the really amazing and inspirational story of Steven K. Roberts, N4RVE, the &#8220;Knack on a Bike&#8221; guy whose videos I mentioned last week. Stop whatever it is you are doing, and proceed to his web site. Read his story:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/microship.com\/resources\/technomadic-tools.html\">http:\/\/microship.com\/resources\/technomadic-tools.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t miss the other great content on his site. Click on his <a href=\"http:\/\/microship.com\/resources\/index.html\">resources<\/a> link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreams of Escape\u2026 It began in Kentucky in the early \u201860s: I was a ham radio operator known as WN4KSW, a skinny burr-headed prisoner of school, isolated in the cultural drought of the Midwest. I was theoretically a smart little bugger, according to test scores, yet I kept hearing that I had attitude problems and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/i-didnt-care-i-had-a-secret-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;I didn&#8217;t care.  I had a secret life&#8230;&#8221;&#8221;<\/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":[372,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-steven","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}