{"id":645294,"date":"2020-02-04T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=645294"},"modified":"2020-02-04T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:51:00","slug":"informal-special-event-to-commemorate-amateur-radio-newsline-cofounder-bill-pasternak-wa6itf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=645294","title":{"rendered":"Informal Special Event to Commemorate Amateur Radio Newsline Cofounder Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The <i>Amateur Radio Newsline<\/i> Amateur Radio Club will sponsor an informal activation of\u00a0<strong><span>WA6ITF<\/span><\/strong>, the call sign long held by <em>Newsline<\/em> cofounder Bill Pasternak, who died 5 years ago. Pasternak would have turned 72 on February 7. With Bill Orenstein, KH6IAF, Pasternak created the original\u00a0<i>Amateur Radio Newsline<\/i>\u00a0as the Westlink Radio Network, recruiting volunteer broadcasters to contribute ham radio ne&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/informal-special-event-to-commemorate-amateur-radio-newsline-cofounder-bill-pasternak-wa6itf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Informal Special Event to Commemorate Amateur Radio Newsline Cofounder Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amateur Radio Newsline Amateur Radio Club will sponsor an informal activation of\u00a0WA6ITF, the call sign long held by Newsline cofounder Bill Pasternak, who died 5 years ago. Pasternak would&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}