{"id":5398,"date":"2010-12-05T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/05\/ham-radio-on-npr\/"},"modified":"2010-12-05T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T07:30:00","slug":"ham-radio-on-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/05\/ham-radio-on-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio on NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mike: KC7IT sent in this very nice quote from National Public Radio:

NPR’s On The Media has a sweet little reference to <\/span>ham radio<\/span> this week, in <\/span>their report from a conference about Twitter<\/span><\/a>. Listen to conference organizer <\/span>Jeff Pulver<\/span>, starting at 4:15:<\/span><\/div>\n
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BOB GARFIELD<\/span>:<\/span> …. sharing thoughts is something people do, fulfilling a primal human need for keeping in touch, even virtual touch, with other humans. Conference organizer, Jeff Pulver:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

JEFF PULVER:<\/span> When I was nine years old I was a very lonely person, and I \u2013 maybe I\u2019m always lonely forever. But my – I went to my uncle\u2019s office one day and he had this strange radio and he turned it on, and he says, \u201cCQ, CQ, this is K2QQM calling CQ.\u201d<\/p>\n

And all of a sudden these squeaky voices started responding to my uncle. And I thought, this is pretty cool [LAUGHS], that these strangers are now talking to my uncle. And I became obsessed between the time I was nine to about twelve and a half. I taught myself Morse Code, electronic theory, I taught myself the rules and regulations all about amateur radio. In high school, junior high school, I would spend 40, 60 hours a week on the radio. And that was my lifeline. That was where I connected. And all I had to say is I was Jeff from New York, and it didn’t matter how old I was, it didn’t matter what I did for a living. I had this.<\/p>\n

And now all these years later, 6 o’clock in the morning<\/span> to 7 o’clock in the morning, every day, wherever I am in the world, I’m online. But instead of saying, CQ, CQ, I say, good morning. And a magical thing happens every day.<\/p>\n

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That was me too, way back in junior high on 2 meter AM with my Heath Twoer. Turns out Jeff’s still active too<\/span><\/a>. Nice.<\/span><\/p>\n

73 de KC7IT<\/div>\n
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Mike: KC7IT sent in this very nice quote from National Public Radio:NPR’s On The Media has a sweet little reference to ham radio this week, in their report from a conference about Twitter. Listen to conference organizer Jeff Pulver, starting at 4:15: BOB GARFIELD: …. sharing thoughts is something people do, fulfilling a primal human … Continue reading “Ham Radio on NPR”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","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=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}