{"id":21,"date":"2014-06-24T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T22:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2015-09-06T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T15:01:51","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/w4cdk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/w4cdk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;\">Located in Talbott, TN 37877 \u00a0 Grid: EM86hd<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5;\">CQ Zone: 4 \u00a0 \u00a0ITU Zone: 8<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My journey into amateur radio begin around August 2013. \u00a0I was raised in the electronics and computer age, and the thought of amateur radio always interested me. \u00a0In September of 2013 I decided it was time to get my license and dive into this hobby. \u00a0After passing the Technician test I was issued the callsign KK4UFA. Along the way, I learned of the vanity callsign process and found that my initials were available, so I jumped on that opportunity to get W4CDK. In October of 2013 I upgraded my license to General class and began making contacts on HF, and on June 19th 2014 I upgraded to Extra class! I am a VE for my local radio club, and I am particularly enjoying the digital modes on both VHF and HF. \u00a0My next main focus is learning morse code.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I joined up with my local ARES group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcares.org\" target=\"_blank\">JCARES<\/a>, and thoroughly enjoy working with a great group of guys. \u00a0They have provided so much help and guidance to me since getting into the hobby, I can&#8217;t thank them enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My current rig at the QTH is a Yaesu 897D transceiver connected to a homebrew 80m center fed dipole (I use an LDG YT-100 to get on the higher bands). For portable\/deployment HF work I use a Yaesu 857D either on an\u00a0Eagle One vertical antenna or an End Fed 9:1 UNUN Long Wire antenna with an LDG YT-100 tuner. \u00a0For VHF\/UHF I&#8217;m using a mixture of Vertex commercial rigs and an Icom ID-880H\u00a0connected to homebrew J-pole or 2m\/440 vertical dipoles. \u00a0The Tigertronics Signalink decodes all the digital modes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m currently active on several nets, including the Tennessee Phone Net on 3.980mhz in the evenings, as well as several other local ARES nets on VHF. I mainly monitor the LARC 147.030 repeater as well as the KI4OTR\/W4KEV Linked repeater systems (145.410, 145.370, 147.195, 147.345). The linked system has echolink capabilities as well, and that&#8217;s been a fun thing to learn also. I&#8217;m also very active in SkyWarn and our local National Weather Service Field Office in Morristown, TN&#8230;WX4MRX. I&#8217;ve also as of late dove into the world of satellite amateur radio, making several contacts on SO-50 as it passes by. \u00a0DSTAR is quickly earning my attention also since getting the Icom 880H.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you for visiting, please come back often for updates!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">73, <a href=\"mailto:chris@w4cdk.com\">Chris Knight &#8211; W4CDK<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kk4uezw4cdk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kk4uezw4cdk.jpg\" alt=\"kk4uezw4cdk\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/when_all_else_fails.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/when_all_else_fails-300x57.jpg\" alt=\"when_all_else_fails\" width=\"300\" height=\"57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/when_all_else_fails-300x57.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/when_all_else_fails.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located in Talbott, TN 37877 \u00a0 Grid: EM86hd CQ Zone: 4 \u00a0 \u00a0ITU Zone: 8 My journey into amateur radio begin around August 2013. \u00a0I was raised in the electronics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"Layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w4cdk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}