{"id":45636,"date":"2020-09-30T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=45636"},"modified":"2020-09-30T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:16:15","slug":"proud-papa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/proud-papa\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud Papa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Apologies in advance, but I need to brag a bit…<\/strong><\/p>\n

This weekend, both of my middle school-aged daughters passed their amateur radio exams with colors flying. Volunteers with the WCARS VEC<\/a> were kind enough to meet us at a local park to conduct the test in a covered picnic area.<\/p>\n

At the test site I was more nervous than my girls were, but I really had nothing to fear. Both were hitting a 95% pass rate on practice exams in advance.<\/p>\n

Even though the girls have obviously learned a bit about radio through osmosis in this household, they did all of the exam prep on their own. Funny story: I remember allowing them both to send CW to my buddies K8RAT and WD8RIF on my lap when they were maybe 2 years old? Of course, they had no idea what they were sending, but they loved playing with the “clicky thing” (my paddles). I think WD8RIF actually copied their code to paper. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I purchased both of them an FT-60R<\/a> handheld radio from Universal Radio<\/a>. I think these HTs should serve them well for many years to come!<\/p>\n

I know one of my daughters is already chomping at the bit to pass her General now.<\/p>\n

Anyway, thanks for letting me brag a bit here. I’m certainly a proud papa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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