{"id":8,"date":"2005-09-23T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-09-23T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T00:34:00","slug":"ham-radio-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Ham radio License"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had almost  forgotten about my ham radio license. I wrote the examination at Trivandrum centre of  WPC on 20th January 2004. I was expecting a license in 4 to 5 months time. But nothing happened for a long time. I thought something  had gone wrong after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/hackgnu.org\/license-timeline.html\">Ramakrishnan&#8217;s <\/a>experience about ham license in India .  Fortunately, Sunu Sthaynathan  came to learn Linux from me . It seems, he is a hardcore ham. He virtualy forced me to call up Mr. Irshad Ahemed at WPC Delhi. Mr.Ahamed  today faxed me   a letter stating that the ministry had decided to grant me a  Grade 1 license back in 2004. It seems they sent some letter in November 2004. It has not reached me yet!  I am sending all the particulars and demand draft  towards license fee  today and I hope I will be on the air soon.<br \/>\nBy the way Ramakrishnan&#8217;s  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackgnu.org\/cgi-bin\/pyblosxom.cgi\"> weblog <\/a> is a wonderful source of information related to ham radio and debian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had almost forgotten about my ham radio license. I wrote the examination at Trivandrum centre of WPC on 20th January 2004. I was expecting a license in 4 to 5 months time. But nothing happened for a long time. I thought something had gone wrong after reading Ramakrishnan&#8217;s experience about ham license in India&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ham radio License<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstorms.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}