{"id":56228,"date":"2023-04-01T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=56228"},"modified":"2023-04-01T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T22:08:07","slug":"ham-official-documentary-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/ham-official-documentary-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"HAM &#8211; Official Documentary (YouTube)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grazing the rich pastures of the interwebz I just stumbled upon this short documentary made by students of the School of Visual and Media Arts program at the University of Montana. It aired on Montana PBS in November 2022 and was uploaded to YouTube 2 weeks ago.<br><br>I like the modern style of this work, letting the images and the people in them speak for themselves, and radiate their fascination with the hobby. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wt5wZhC5crI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grazing the rich pastures of the interwebz I just stumbled upon this short documentary made by students of the School of Visual and Media Arts program at the University of Montana. It aired on Montana PBS in November 2022 and was uploaded to YouTube 2 weeks ago. I like the modern style of this work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3],"tags":[3079,4102],"class_list":["post-56228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-documentaries","tag-ham-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eCU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35630,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/video-the-fort-and-the-field-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":56228,"position":0},"title":"Video: &#8220;The Fort and the Field Day&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"January 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Dennis Dura, who shares a link to this short video highlighting amateur radio at the 2017 Fort Wayne Field Day: https:\/\/youtu.be\/5gDCaiiocDs Click here to view on YouTube. 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