{"id":272,"date":"2006-03-08T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T18:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=272"},"modified":"2006-03-08T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T18:42:38","slug":"famous-hams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Famous Hams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfstation.com\/images\/ev\/45\/7445a.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=5\/>I&#8217;ve developed a little bit of interest in famous hams &#8211; celebrities who also happen to be amatuer radio operators. <\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; I&#8217;ve decided to compile a list on the main page (purely for interest&#8217;s sake) of famous amateur radio operators. <\/p>\n<p>There are some obvious ones that are well known (<b>Joe Walsh WB6ACU<\/b>  from the Eagles, Country singer <b>Ronnie Milsap WB4KCG<\/b>, etc.) as well as some that are rumoured but not 100% confirmed (such as the popular rumour that rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot is a ham (<b>Anthony Ray N6IWP<\/b>)&#8230;.. <\/p>\n<p>Do you know of a celeb who is a ham? Let us know by replying to this thread. Please provide callsign info with your accusations (We don&#8217;t want to be sued &#8211; groundless accusations of being a ham might lead to nasty lawsuit situations, dontcha know&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>After we get a few, I&#8217;ll compile them into a list and make a permalink on the main page for future visitors to examine and say &#8220;My God&#8230;.. and to think I respected him as a human being and an artist&#8230;. who knew he was a ham&#8230;.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve developed a little bit of interest in famous hams &#8211; celebrities who also happen to be amatuer radio operators. So &#8211; I&#8217;ve decided to compile a list on the main page (purely for interest&#8217;s sake) of famous amateur radio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamsexyness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}