{"id":9090,"date":"2022-05-22T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T16:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2022-05-22T12:01:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T16:01:27","slug":"daytons-amateur-radio-hamvention-returns-for-70th-anniversary-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/2022\/05\/22\/daytons-amateur-radio-hamvention-returns-for-70th-anniversary-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton\u2019s amateur radio \u2018Hamvention\u2019 returns for 70th anniversary (Ohio)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>XENIA \u2014 Following a two-year hiatus as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dayton Hamvention returned to celebrate 70 years of what is now considered the largest amateur radio convention in the world, according to organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAmateur radio is a very interesting hobby of service that people all over the world communicate with,\u201d said Michael Kalter, spokesperson for the Dayton Hamvention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amateur radio, or ham radio, enthusiasts use the technology to talk to each other across town, around the world, or even into space. Ham radio operators have played a vital role during emergencies, severe weather and natural disasters, when traditional communications are not available. Today, there are more than 700,000 amateur radio licenses in the U.S. and roughly 2 million worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more &#8211; Dayton Daily News: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XENIA \u2014 Following a two-year hiatus as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dayton&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_16139062_16139062":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamfest","category-newsreel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9091,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions\/9091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}