{"id":62935,"date":"2025-05-13T05:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62935"},"modified":"2025-05-13T05:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:41:08","slug":"taking-a-short-break-for-hamvention-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/taking-a-short-break-for-hamvention-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Short Break for Hamvention Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Just a quick note to let you know I\u2019m hitting the road today for Four Days in May<\/a> and Hamvention 2025<\/a>, and will be away for about a week.<\/p>\n

During this time, I\u2019ll have very<\/strong><\/em> limited ability to reply to emails and publish new posts\u2014Hamvention tends to keep me on my toes from early morning to late evening!<\/p>\n

Thanks so much for your patience and understanding. I\u2019ll be back next week and look forward to catching up then.<\/p>\n

73,
\nThomas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a quick note to let you know I\u2019m hitting the road today for Four Days in May and Hamvention 2025, and will be away for about a week. During this time, I\u2019ll have very limited ability to reply to emails and publish new posts\u2014Hamvention tends to keep me on my toes from early morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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],"tags":[1150,10816],"class_list":["post-62935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-hamvention","tag-hamvention-2025"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gn5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19106,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/2016-dayton-hamvention-inside-exhibits-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":62935,"position":0},"title":"2016 Dayton Hamvention: Inside Exhibits Photos","author":"Thomas","date":"May 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Most years I attend the Dayton Hamvention, I take photos of the outdoor flea market.\u00a0It's a great opportunity for me to gauge used equipment prices and check out rare finds. 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