{"id":65,"date":"2005-06-05T22:52:43","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T03:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=65"},"modified":"2005-06-05T22:58:02","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T03:58:02","slug":"the-rochester-hamfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"The Rochester Hamfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the larger Hamfests in the season happens every June in Rochester, NY. Once an active and happening fest, it has seen a marked decline in recent years. A few years ago the organizers, sensing the dwindling numbers of attendees and exhibitors, started to allow non-radio exhibitors to show at the fest. The result is an influx of model railroad, handicraft and other vendors selling everything from homemade soap to Japanese schoolgirl pornography. <\/p>\n<p>Our man Nessman (Five-time winner of the Buckeye News Award, as well as the Silver Sow),  took these photos for us. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/avon.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAh, nothing says HAMFEST like skin care products.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/lawnornament.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll look that way too if you spent three days trying to sell lawn elves to 400lb radio misfits<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/xxx.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAh, nothing says HAMFEST like boxes of hardcore pornography<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/dome1.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe spartan interior of the hockey dome demonstrates unfortunate lack of interest in the Hamfest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/rit.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe Rochester Institute of Technology Ham Radio Club wisely decided not to show up<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/life.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n$5 for a Glucometer bought at a hamfest=BAR-GOOON!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/hambulance.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe world famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hambulance.com\">HAMBULANCE<\/a>!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/whacker3.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nRochester wasn&#8217;t without it&#8217;s whackers &#8211; this one&#8217;s pretty sad. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/scooter2.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s fooling anyone&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/scooter5.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nProves you don&#8217;t have to be old or enfeebled to trade in a scooter for your legs (and your dignity)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/scooter7.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nWe call this a &#8220;Dayton Traffic Jam&#8221;&#8230; except it&#8217;s in Rochester!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the larger Hamfests in the season happens every June in Rochester, NY. Once an active and happening fest, it has seen a marked decline in recent years. A few years ago the organizers, sensing the dwindling numbers of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=65\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-65","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\/65","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}