{"id":173,"date":"2026-05-16T15:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/?p=173"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:05:51","slug":"hamvention-2026-friday-let-the-fun-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Hamvention 2026 Friday &#8212; Let the Fun Begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Hamvention\u00ae 2026 in Xenia, Ohio, is officially under way, with large crowds filling the five exhibit halls, four forum rooms, and the giant flea market. Here\u2019s a summary of Friday, May 15.<\/p>\n<p>In the ARRL Expo area, attendees interacted with program representatives and volunteer leadership officials, including ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, and President Rick Roderick, K5UR. Emergency Communications&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamvention\u00ae 2026 in Xenia, Ohio, is officially under way, with large crowds filling the five exhibit halls, four forum rooms, and the giant flea market.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arrl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w4oix.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}