{"id":2830,"date":"2017-04-13T05:59:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T10:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2017-04-13T05:59:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T10:59:37","slug":"emergency-communications-driving-increase-in-amateur-radio-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/emergency-communications-driving-increase-in-amateur-radio-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Communications Driving Increase in Amateur Radio Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>Hams standing by and ready to help during disasters or other events.<\/em><\/h4>\n<h5 class=\"author-detail\"><span class=\"author\">BY JAMES CARELESS <\/span><span class=\"orange-highlight\">\/ <\/span><span class=\"date\">APRIL 11, 2017<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2831 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/radio5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More Americans than ever have been licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as amateur radio operators, and those in the know say that emergency communications is driving their passion to be \u201chams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a tremendous amount of interest in emergency preparedness since 9\/11 and Katrina, and this is true for the amateur radio community as well,\u201d said Mike Corey, the emergency preparedness manager for the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). \u201cEmergency communications is a gateway into amateur radio, and many join our ranks through an interest in being better prepared themselves and as a way to serve their community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/em\/disaster\/Emergency-Communications-Driving-Increase-in-Amateur-Radio-Operators.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the rest of the story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hams standing by and ready to help during disasters or other events. BY JAMES CARELESS \/ APRIL 11, 2017 More Americans than ever have been licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as amateur radio operators, and those in the know say that emergency communications is driving their passion to be \u201chams.\u201d \u201cThere has been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa3hIG-JE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clayares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}