{"id":617442,"date":"2019-05-16T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=617442"},"modified":"2019-05-16T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:19:00","slug":"first-ham-satellite-oscar-1-will-join-amsats-50th-anniversary-celebration-at-dayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=617442","title":{"rendered":"First Ham Satellite \u2014 OSCAR 1 \u2014 will Join AMSAT\u2019s 50th Anniversary Celebration at Dayton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A working prototype of OSCAR 1, Amateur Radio\u2019s first satellite, will be on display at AMSAT\u2019s Dayton Hamvention\u00ae booth. AMSAT\u2019s exhibit will be in Building 1 (Maxim Hall) at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Xenia, Ohio. OSCAR 1 (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio) was launched into orbit in 1961, at the dawn of the Space Age. Built by a group of California-based radio am&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/first-ham-satellite-oscar-1-will-join-amsat-s-50th-anniversary-celebration-at-dayton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">First Ham Satellite \u2014 OSCAR 1 \u2014 will Join AMSAT\u2019s 50th Anniversary Celebration at Dayton<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A working prototype of OSCAR 1, Amateur Radio\u2019s first satellite, will be on display at AMSAT\u2019s Dayton Hamvention\u00ae booth. AMSAT\u2019s exhibit will be in Building 1 (Maxim Hall) at the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}