{"id":44141,"date":"2020-07-05T08:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T12:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=44141"},"modified":"2020-07-05T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T12:22:40","slug":"qso-today-virtual-ham-expo-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/qso-today-virtual-ham-expo-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/qso-today-expo-orange-logo_orig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44142\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/qso-today-expo-orange-logo_orig.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/qso-today-expo-orange-logo_orig.png 718w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/qso-today-expo-orange-logo_orig-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/qso-today-expo-orange-logo_orig-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/qso-today-expo-orange-logo_orig-624x628.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Franco Venturi (K4VZ), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just found out that the podcast &#8216;QSO today&#8217; has organized a &#8216;Virtual Ham Expo&#8217; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsotodayhamexpo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.qsotodayhamexpo.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The current list of speakers and their topics looks interesting (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vSqJ_kRgPi67vsZojaZEfMEWjQ5JPB9rEpzasDwrHLZ1TYMiyenUj6CeeIaR7CqXJOYzbFguFRBxFHn\/pubhtml?gid=310093274&amp;single=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here to read<\/a>), and I thought you and other readers of the <em>SWLing Post<\/em> might be interested as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you so much for the tip, Franco. I&#8217;ve been meaning to post an announcement about this online event.\u00a0 It seems to have attracted a lot of vendors and at least early bird registration for the show is free. Vendors do pay fees to host virtual booths at the events.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of great presentations in the line-up, so I would highly encourage readers to check out the presentation schedule and register for the expo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qsotoday.vfairs.com\/en\/registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to register for the 2020 QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Franco Venturi (K4VZ), who writes: I just found out that the podcast &#8216;QSO today&#8217; has organized a &#8216;Virtual Ham Expo&#8217; (https:\/\/www.qsotodayhamexpo.com\/). The current list of speakers and their topics looks interesting (click here to read), and I thought you and other readers of the SWLing Post might be interested [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,43],"tags":[8638,4102,4582,8637,34],"class_list":["post-44141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-franco-venturi-k4vz","tag-ham-radio","tag-qso-today","tag-qso-today-virtual-ham-expo-2020","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-btX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56034,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/register-and-join-us-at-the-qso-today-virtual-ham-expo\/","url_meta":{"origin":44141,"position":0},"title":"Register and join us at the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo!","author":"Thomas","date":"March 8, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2023 QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo will be held on March 25 - 26 and I would encourage you to register now. 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