{"id":3590,"date":"2012-05-19T06:58:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T10:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2012-05-19T06:58:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T10:58:16","slug":"boatanchors-and-antique-wireless-at-the-dayon-hamvention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/boatanchors-and-antique-wireless-at-the-dayon-hamvention\/","title":{"rendered":"“Boatanchors” and antique wireless at the Dayon Hamvention"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always found the Dayton Hamvention flea market to be a great place to find antique radios, but this year, the selection (along with the weather) seems to be exceptional.<\/p>\n

I’ve attached a few photos I took yesterday morning as a gallery below. Simply click on a thumbnail to enlarge. \u00a0Enjoy<\/p>\n

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I’ve always found the Dayton Hamvention flea market to be a great place to find antique radios, but this year, the selection (along with the weather) seems to be exceptional. I’ve attached a few photos I took yesterday morning as a gallery below. Simply click on a thumbnail to enlarge. \u00a0Enjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,26,43],"tags":[1148,1146,1147,1142,4082,1149],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-antique-radios","tag-boat-anchors","tag-boatanchors","tag-dayton-hamvention","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-tube-radios"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-VU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3621,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/c-crane-at-the-dayton-hamvention\/","url_meta":{"origin":3590,"position":0},"title":"C.Crane at the Dayton Hamvention","author":"Thomas","date":"May 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As I walk around the Dayton Hamvention, I'm finding a lot of familiar faces from the shortwave radio community. In the North Hall, I came across non other than Bob Crane with C.Crane Radio. We had a nice chat about their CCradio SW--one of my favorites for simplicity of operation\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Interviews"","block_context":{"text":"Interviews","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/interviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9783,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/jerrys-flea-market-estate-sale-radios\/","url_meta":{"origin":3590,"position":1},"title":"Jerry’s flea market and estate sale radios","author":"Thomas","date":"May 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post reader, Jerry (WW0E) writes: \"Sorry I missed your table at Dayton. 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It was especially fun meeting so many SWLing Post readers and contributors in person! Thank you for stopping by our booth at 6508. 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