{"id":1824,"date":"2010-04-29T16:53:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T23:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2010-04-29T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T23:54:00","slug":"a-very-busy-sunday-and-a-picture-for-april-25-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"A Very Busy Sunday &#8230; and a Picture for April 25, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1825\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1825\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1825\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1825\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1825\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2802.jpg?fit=1539%2C986&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1539,986\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2802\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The first license available to people interested in amateur radio is a &amp;#8220;Technician&amp;#8221; license. That license allows some capability on most of the amateur radio frequency bands with the most capability licensed is on the very high frequency and higher bands.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;The 2-meter radio band (144-147 mhz) is very popular with Technician class hams. A number of 2 meter networks meet on the air during the week on this radio band. I join three of them, two on Sunday evenings. The first meets at 8:00 p.m. and the second one calls the roll at about 8:30 p.m. My handy little 2-meter radio serves well for these meetings.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;My 2 Meter Ham Radio&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2802.jpg?fit=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2802.jpg?fit=604%2C387&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1825\" title=\"IMG_2802\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2802.jpg?resize=300%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"My Little 2 Meter Rig\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2802.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2802.jpg?resize=150%2C96&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2802.jpg?resize=1024%2C656&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2802.jpg?w=1539&amp;ssl=1 1539w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2802.jpg?w=1208&amp;ssl=1 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My 2 Meter Ham Radio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sundays come in two flavors for me at present: busy and very busy. The first and third Sundays are generally in the &#8220;busy&#8221; category and the second, fourth, and fifth Sundays are in the &#8220;very busy&#8221; grouping. April 24th was a fourth Sunday and that meant a very busy day.<\/p>\n<p>They are, however, also fun and interesting days. On this particular Sunday I was assigned to speak in a Sacrament Meeting that started at 2:50 p.m. and talk about the subject of consecration. Then later that afternoon at 6 p.m. I was in charge of a meeting to include representatives from the ten Wards (or congregations) in our area. In that meeting we are planning a preparedness fair which will be held on October 9th. The planning has gotten a pretty good start and we should have an event that&#8217;ll be of interest to people living here in the south end of Pocatello.<\/p>\n<p>The day started with a meeting at 7 a.m., another set of meetings at 9 a.m., a Sacrament Meeting at 11 a.m., a Sunday School at 12:20 a.m., and then the speaking assignment at 2:50 p.m. and the preparedness meeting at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Then at 8:00 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m. I have two meetings on the air waves. The first is a meeting on the ham radio with the <a title=\"link to the radio club\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pocatelloarc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pocatello Amateur Radio Club<\/a> followed by another ham radio meeting with the <a title=\"link to Portneuf ARES\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portneufares.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portneuf Valley Amateur Radio Emergency Services<\/a> club. By the end of the day, I&#8217;m right ready to head for bed.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundays come in two flavors for me at present: busy and very busy. The first and third Sundays are generally in the &#8220;busy&#8221; category and the second, fourth, and fifth Sundays are in the &#8220;very busy&#8221; grouping. April 24th was a fourth Sunday and that meant a very busy day. They are, however, also fun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Very Busy Sunday &#8230; and a Picture for April 25, 2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-tq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}