{"id":735199,"date":"2022-09-15T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=735199"},"modified":"2022-09-15T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:51:00","slug":"amateur-radio-takes-center-stage-at-the-big-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=735199","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Radio Takes Center Stage at The Big E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>by Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R<\/p>\n<p>The Big E, \u201cNew England\u2019s Great State Fair,\u201d kicks off on Friday, September 16, 2022, and includes Project Big E, a 17-day amateur radio exhibit that runs through October 2, 2022. <\/span><span>The fair, held in West Springfield, Massachusetts, is the largest agricultural event on the eastern seaboard and the sixth-largest fair in the nation<span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Planning for\u00a0<span>Project<\/span>\u00a0Big E began in 2021 by&#8230;<\/span><\/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\/amateur-radio-takes-center-stage-at-the-big-e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amateur Radio Takes Center Stage at The Big E<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R The Big E, \u201cNew England\u2019s Great State Fair,\u201d kicks off on Friday, September 16, 2022, and includes Project Big E, a 17-day amateur radio exhibit that&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-735199","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\/735199","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=735199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735199\/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=735199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}