{"id":496,"date":"2006-09-23T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=496"},"modified":"2006-09-23T10:44:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T14:44:17","slug":"496","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Western Connecticut Hamfest"},"content":{"rendered":"

David KC2JNS<\/strong> submitted these photos from the Western Connecticut Hamfest in Newtown CT. As you can see, ham radio is still a young, vibrant hobby on he cutting edge of technology and popular culture.<\/p>\n

\"fest1.jpg\"<\/a>
\nThe main drag – one of CT’s largest hamfests<\/p>\n

\"fest2.jpg\"<\/a>
\nChecking out the wares<\/p>\n

\"fest3.jpg\"<\/a>
\nAssorted old electronic shit, a orbital sander, a Linksys router and a phone with no dialing-thingie<\/p>\n

\"fest4.jpg\"<\/a>
\nAgain, proving that Ham Radio is a young, vibrant hobby<\/p>\n

\"fest5.jpg\"<\/a>
\nMaybe, if you’re lucky, you’ll find microphones from *this* century.<\/p>\n

\"fest6.jpg\"<\/a>
\nThe amazing ‘everything for 50 cents’ box. Even the Gameboy with a broken screen.<\/p>\n

\"fest7.jpg\"<\/a>
\nThe submitter’s son tries vainly to find anything of value. Even the broken Gameboy got a pass.<\/p>\n

\"fest8.jpg\"<\/a>
\nNo Hamfest is complete with a table of crap manned by a woman in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n

Thanks!! If you want to submit photos from your local hamfest, send them to hamsexy.submissions@gmail.com!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David KC2JNS submitted these photos from the Western Connecticut Hamfest in Newtown CT. As you can see, ham radio is still a young, vibrant hobby on he cutting edge of technology and popular culture. The main drag – one of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamfest-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}