{"id":5841,"date":"2013-03-07T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T22:00:48","slug":"the-2013-swl-fest-another-good-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/the-2013-swl-fest-another-good-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2013 SWL Fest: another good one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5843\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_7099-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5843\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5843\" alt=\"The SWL Fest Saturday dinner banquet and raffle draws a large crowd. This year, yours truly even had a bit of luck in the raffle!\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_7099-001-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_7099-001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_7099-001-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_7099-001.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SWL Fest Saturday dinner banquet and raffle draws a large crowd. This year, yours truly (not pictured) even had a bit of luck in the raffle! (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m back from a week of travelling which happily included three nights in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, at the <a title=\"SWL Fest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swlfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASWA Winter SWL Fest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I look forward to the SWL Fest every year. Not only am I able to spend time with friends and radio &#8220;family,&#8221; but I have the opportunity to attend fascinating presentations and demonstrations that both explore and expand the very meaning of radio.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, the Winter SWL Fest will be held between February 28-March 1, 2014; location to be determined. Do yourself a favor, and earmark those dates in your calendar. If you enjoy reading the topics here on the SWLing Post, I assure you, you&#8217;ll enjoy the content&#8211;and the company&#8211;offered by the SWL Fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from a week of travelling which happily included three nights in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, at the NASWA Winter SWL Fest. As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I look forward to the SWL Fest every year. Not only am I able to spend time with friends and radio &#8220;family,&#8221; but I have the opportunity to attend [&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":[81,3],"tags":[818,1751,232,1615,234],"class_list":["post-5841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-news","tag-plymouth-meeting-pa","tag-shortwave-radio-conventions","tag-swl-fest","tag-winter-swl-fest","tag-winterfest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1wd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2657,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/the-winter-swlfest-25th-anniversary\/","url_meta":{"origin":5841,"position":0},"title":"The Winter SWL Fest 25th Anniversary","author":"Thomas","date":"January 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you readers who often feel you're alone in your enthusiasm for radio, I highly encourage you to attend the NASWA-sponsored SWL Fest in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania this year. 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