{"id":677076,"date":"2020-12-29T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=677076"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T15:28:00","slug":"texas-biggest-ham-radio-show-ham-com-is-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=677076","title":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019 Biggest Ham Radio Show \u2014 Ham-Com \u2014 is Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 41 years, <strong>Ham-Com<\/strong> has decided to close its doors due to the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the rising costs of putting on a show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision was not made lightly, but the safety and wellness of our volunteers, vendors, clubs, presenters, and attendees is our paramount concern,\u201d Ham-Com President Bill Nelson, AB5QZ, said in an announcement on the Ham-Com website. Ham-Co&#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\/texas-biggest-ham-radio-show-ham-com-is-closing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Texas\u2019 Biggest Ham Radio Show \u2014 Ham-Com \u2014 is Closing<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 41 years, Ham-Com has decided to close its doors due to the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the rising costs of putting on a show. \u201cThe decision&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-677076","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\/677076","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=677076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677076\/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=677076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}