{"id":237,"date":"2008-01-20T11:04:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2008-01-20T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T18:04:01","slug":"road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Road trip!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/road-trip.jpg\" title=\"road-trip.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/road-trip.jpg\" alt=\"road-trip.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later this afternoon I will shut down my computers in San Francisco, and I&#8217;ll pretty much be out of the loop until I get to North Carolina.  I will start the drive across the country on Sunday, Jan. 27, with a one-day stop in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m in the Jeep, I&#8217;ll be using my ham radio GPS locator. A GPS device in the Jeep is attached to a 50-watt transceiver on the 145Mhz amateur band. Every five minutes it will transmit my location, altitude, speed, and heading. If I am in range of the right kind of amateur radio relay station, then the data will be gated to an Internet database and can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.findu.com\/cgi-bin\/find.cgi?call=k9WQ-2\">Where&#8217;s David?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The link should start working when I start the trip on Jan. 27. It may not work at all times. If I&#8217;m out of radio range, I may appear to stay in the same spot for a while, then I&#8217;ll suddenly reappear several hundred miles farther on. That&#8217;s normal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll resume blogging around Feb. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later this afternoon I will shut down my computers in San Francisco, and I&#8217;ll pretty much be out of the loop until I get to North Carolina. I will start the drive across the country on Sunday, Jan. 27, with a one-day stop in Sacramento. While I&#8217;m in the Jeep, I&#8217;ll be using my ham &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Road trip!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}