{"id":749135,"date":"2023-02-24T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=749135"},"modified":"2023-02-24T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T20:55:00","slug":"w8lt-a-history-of-amateur-radio-at-ohio-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=749135","title":{"rendered":"W8LT &#8211; A History of Amateur Radio at Ohio State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>W8LT is the call sign for the Amateur Radio and RF Club at The Ohio State University (OSU).<\/p>\n<p>The university club has a long history, and archive records indicate that 1926 was the year it officially became a club, likely making it the oldest one on campus. W8LT is just 3 years shy of celebrating its 100th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1920s, the call sign started out as 8LT, until the Radio Act of 192&#8230;<\/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\/w8lt-a-history-of-amateur-radio-at-ohio-state-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">W8LT &#8211; A History of Amateur Radio at Ohio State University<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W8LT is the call sign for the Amateur Radio and RF Club at The Ohio State University (OSU). The university club has a long history, and archive records indicate that&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-749135","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\/749135","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=749135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749135\/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=749135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}