{"id":5262,"date":"2012-03-04T22:53:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T06:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2012-03-04T22:53:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T06:53:56","slug":"my-ukranian-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5262","title":{"rendered":"My Ukranian import."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful day but a ham radio contest was going on. I finally dragged myself away from the radio only to be reminded that I hadn&#8217;t finished my taxes yet.So, instead of sitting inside having fun talking on the radio I sat inside typing numbers into boxes and hoping I didn&#8217;t have to pay the government more money.<\/p>\n<p>Most people would think I&#8217;d have a nefarious import from the Ukraine or some poor deluded mail-order bride, but it&#8217;s an antenna analyzer. It checks to see if your antenna is properly tuned. Really useless for most people and quite uninteresting to them as well. Updating the firmware took a bunch of fiddling and I&#8217;ve used it one whole time already to see what the frequency span of my antenna was. Wow, talking about it was even less interesting than I thought.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I feel any better or any more adult now that I&#8217;ve finished my taxes, but at least that&#8217;s done. And I got to play with my radio too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a beautiful day but a ham radio contest was going on. I finally dragged myself away from the radio only to be reminded that I hadn&#8217;t finished my taxes yet.So, instead of sitting inside having fun talking on the radio I sat inside typing numbers into boxes and hoping I didn&#8217;t have to pay the government more money. Most people would think I&#8217;d have a nefarious import from the Ukraine or some poor deluded mail-order bride, but it&#8217;s an antenna analyzer. It checks to see if your antenna is properly tuned. Really useless for most people and quite uninteresting to them as well. Updating the firmware took a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Ukranian import.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5264,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions\/5264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}