{"id":66084,"date":"2026-05-13T08:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66084"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:03:59","slug":"a-quick-hamvention-travel-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/a-quick-hamvention-travel-note\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Hamvention Travel Note"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I wanted to give SWLing Post<\/em> readers a quick heads-up that I\u2019ll be traveling this week and attending Dayton Hamvention<\/em><\/a> along with Four Days in May<\/em><\/a>. Because of travel and a very full schedule, I\u2019ll likely be slower than usual replying to emails and may also post less frequently over the next week as free time will be extremely<\/em> limited.<\/p>\n

Many thanks in advance for your patience and understanding!<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re attending Hamvention as well, please feel free to stop by and say hello. You can find details about where I\u2019ll be here: Heading to Dayton Hamvention and Four Days in May<\/a><\/p>\n

73\/72,<\/p>\n

Thomas (K4SWL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to give SWLing Post readers a quick heads-up that I\u2019ll be traveling this week and attending Dayton Hamvention along with Four Days in May. Because of travel and a very full schedule, I\u2019ll likely be slower than usual replying to emails and may also post less frequently over the next week as free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[6192,1150,11118],"class_list":["post-66084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-four-days-in-may","tag-hamvention","tag-hamvention-2026"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hbS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25629,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/destination-2017-hamvention-and-the-fdim-four-days-in-may-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":66084,"position":0},"title":"Destination: 2017 Hamvention and the FDIM (Four Days In May) conference","author":"Thomas","date":"May 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"As I mentioned in a previous post, I'll be attending and hosting a booth for ETOW at the 2017 Hamvention this week. 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