{"id":3419,"date":"2017-06-18T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2017-06-18T08:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T12:55:37","slug":"sunday-18-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/06\/18\/sunday-18-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 18 June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>08:55 &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> It was 68.1F (20C) when I took Colin out around 0715 this morning, mostly cloudy. Barbara is cleaning house this morning. This afternoon we&#8217;ll be working on science kit stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time yesterday preparing for the ham radio exams I&#8217;m taking this coming week. I did the Technician class sample exams 30 or 40 times. I scored 33\/35 once, 34\/35 a few times, and 35\/35 on all the others. Passing is 26\/35, so I&#8217;d estimate I have a >99% chance of passing the Tech exam, which is all I really care about. I&#8217;ll run through the General Class sample exams several more times over the next couple of days. Right now, I&#8217;m averaging 31\/35 or so on them, which I estimate gives me a >80% of passing that one without further study. If I pass, I pass. If not, I&#8217;m not going to worry about it. As long as I can work 2M and 70 cm, I&#8217;m happy. I have no real interest in DX, and no interest at all in building a ham shack or pursuing ham radio as a hobby. Been there, done that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:55 &#8211; It was 68.1F (20C) when I took Colin out around 0715 this morning, mostly cloudy. Barbara is cleaning house this morning. This afternoon we&#8217;ll be working on science kit stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time yesterday preparing for the ham radio exams I&#8217;m taking this coming week. I did the Technician class sample exams 30 or 40 times. I scored 33\/35 once, 34\/35 a few times, and 35\/35 on all the others.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/06\/18\/sunday-18-june-2017\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sunday, 18 June 2017 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}