{"id":8443,"date":"2017-10-19T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/ham-radio-dilbert-dating-and-the-baofeng-breakup\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:39:17","slug":"ham-radio-dilbert-dating-and-the-baofeng-breakup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/ham-radio-dilbert-dating-and-the-baofeng-breakup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio, Dilbert, Dating, and the Baofeng Breakup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BaofengBreakup.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"424\" data-original-width=\"428\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BaofengBreakup.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Was the young lady turned off by his obvious &#8220;appliance op&#8221; status? Was it the Baofeng? Would he have fared better with a homebrew rig? <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Dilbert addressed the relationship between ham radio and success in the dating game: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DilbertHamRadio.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"194\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DilbertHamRadio.gif\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>I blame Peter VK2EMU for this digression. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was the young lady turned off by his obvious &#8220;appliance op&#8221; status? Was it the Baofeng? Would he have fared better with a homebrew rig? Dilbert addressed the relationship between ham radio and success in the dating game: I blame Peter VK2EMU for this digression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-knack-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443","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=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}