{"id":9192,"date":"2023-12-26T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/26\/a-marines-home-workshop-on-okinawa\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:02","slug":"a-marines-home-workshop-on-okinawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/26\/a-marines-home-workshop-on-okinawa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Marine&#8217;s Home Workshop on Okinawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiwMXesyYJDEgl5ghDKhYvPg3gp94FEUZBAskDB3FZaVpLs9f4o5smgkBr6f-mPvw8W7gfPejvHd1S26FwOu_nPdqu_SoN2IjU8WWL5-fNCdzwr_TgC7rLEo_0fjX9AodSC8TUQ_CzNt_usmA3uYsaU9eHxizPubAavTFufDzmEnfI3MNu9-NZHJcc4heA\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"609\" data-original-width=\"916\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image_1753113931.png\" width=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Sergeant Malik Pugh recently won the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal for stepping forward and 3D printing a part that was needed to put a satellite terminal back in operation. That&#8217;s was great, but even more interesting for us is the fact that Sergeant Pugh has a home electronics workshop in his place on family quarters on Okinawa. See picture above. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>The workshop seems to be focused on RC cars, robots and drones, but there is clearly ham radio potential there. This may be the first time since David Cowhig WA1LBP&#8217;s tour on the island in the early 1990s that we see a workshop like this one. David was 7J6CBQ and, in addition to his duties at the American Consulate at Naha, Okinawa, served as 73 Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Hambassdor&#8221; (I was the Hambassador to the Dominican Republic at the same time). <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Read about Sergeant Pugh here: <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/branches\/marine_corps\/2023-12-25\/mobile-satellite-communications-marine-japan-award-12465031.html\"><b>https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/branches\/marine_corps\/2023-12-25\/mobile-satellite-communications-marine-japan-award-12465031.html <\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergeant Malik Pugh recently won the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal for stepping forward and 3D printing a part that was needed to put a satellite terminal back in operation. That&#8217;s was great, but even more interesting for us is the fact that Sergeant Pugh has a home electronics workshop in his place on family quarters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/26\/a-marines-home-workshop-on-okinawa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Marine&#8217;s Home Workshop on Okinawa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9194,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions\/9194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}