WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:05.639 And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:09.919 welcome. It is time now for our community connection right here on K one, 3 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:14.119 the one that you trust, and we're gonna be hamming it up a 4 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:16.440 little bit out. Did I say I knew I was going to do that. 5 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:20.120 I'm sorry, but we have Paul ready in here and he's vice presidents 6 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:24.800 here with the local HAM radio at Bartsville Amateur Radio Club. How are you 7 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:27.519 doing? First of all, doing good? Tom? Well, you know, 8 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:30.640 you know, we got this broadcast stuff here. That HAM stuff is 9 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:33.439 really pretty good though. Yeah, I love that stuff. Some guys have 10 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.640 us set up almost just like this, big microphones and everything they can. 11 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:40.000 Really I think it's big. Hey, I gotta tell you this is one 12 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:45.280 thing that I was telling you earlier that I came to know a little bit 13 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:50.359 about it back in the late seventies early eighties, and some fellas had some 14 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:53.159 HAM equipment. They said, he got to come out to the house and 15 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:56.640 check this out. Like by golly, right there on the desktop, they 16 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.479 had everything they needed. They had the antenna up the side of the house 17 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:03.799 and they are broadcasting people all over the place. Where's the farthest you ever 18 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:08.280 yet Australia is probably the furthest that's like low over seventeen thousand miles. Wow, 19 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.920 that's it. That's quite a reach. Yeah. Now tell us what 20 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.519 does HAM stand for? Well, ham is kind of a term. I 21 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:19.280 kind of forget how it came about, but you know amateur radio and HAM 22 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:22.480 is kind of like hamming it up, So that's what. So people on 23 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:25.359 the radio were kind of hamming it up and they still do today. They 24 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:30.359 still do today. It's really amazing because before the Internet, this was like 25 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.599 the cool thing. This is how you talk to people from around the world. 26 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:36.879 Right. I got licensed in the early eighties. I was thirteen when 27 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.000 I got my first license. Wow. So we had to go down to 28 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.840 Oklahoma City to take a test and at that time we had Morse Code requirements, 29 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:47.840 so you had to do most code. Now since then, what are 30 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:49.879 the requirements now for HAM operators? Do you need to do? You need 31 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.200 that? You do not need Morse Code anymore? There are. They used 32 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:57.120 to have like five licenses now the down to three, the Technician, the 33 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.560 general, and the extra class. So you still have to have license license 34 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:06.799 and each UH license as you go up the ranks gives you more space and 35 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.599 more bandwidth to operate on. Very good, you know, I was. 36 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:15.639 I was telling Paul that it was the hurricanes really Implorida where I really got 37 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.960 to see how this really works. First of all, it's a lot of 38 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:23.199 fun. But second of all, when the stuff hits the fan, a 39 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:28.639 lot of people rely on you guys and gals who are Ham operators because sometimes 40 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:32.400 you're the only signal, You're the only communication going out right and down Louisiana. 41 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:38.479 It took a couple of days to get communication restored. So yeah, 42 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:44.479 so we're down there or people a HAM radio operature down there passing traffic from 43 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.960 the Red Cross and and so forth to you know, give our companies and 44 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:53.240 reports of damage in different areas and also welfare checks on people and things like 45 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:58.319 that. My goodness sakes, it comes into extra handy. Now we've got 46 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.280 a we got a pretty cool thing coming out what tomorrow, yep, what's 47 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:06.000 going on? Well tomorrow is what we call field Day and it's the fourth 48 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:12.800 Saturday of June, so this is the ninetieth annual Field Day, so it's 49 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.840 pretty cool. We will be out there at Johnstone Park. We're setting up 50 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:21.680 some radios and antennas and then about one o'clock in the afternoon, it's when 51 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:25.360 everything starts, and that's when everybody's when the radio waves get busy. There's 52 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.439 people calling people, and the idea is trying to make as many contacts as 53 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:35.240 you can in the next two days. Now we will be offering Saturday. 54 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.479 We won't be offering Sunday, Bill, Okay. So Saturday is going to 55 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:42.360 be a real good time for people young and old alike to come out and 56 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.520 witnesses. It's a lot of fun, it really is. Yeah, there's 57 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:49.120 there's a lot of youth in the program too. There's what they call youth 58 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:53.599 on the air, so there are youth on the air groups across the US 59 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:57.120 and across the world, so there's a lot of youth into it too. 60 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.319 My goodness sakes, now you're telling me. Yeah, Actually, he picked 61 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:02.080 up a signal on the little island of Fiji out in the middle of the 62 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.159 water, out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, that's kind of That 63 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:10.759 was a real surprise. It's one of those rare bands that opened up at 64 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:14.520 this time of year, and I was able to get that through and I 65 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:17.439 was like, wow, Fiji, it's hard enough to get to California. 66 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:24.319 Now there's something cool that HAM operators are doing right now. It almost sounds 67 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:29.800 like a contest where you're you're going to national parks and broadcasting kind of remotely. 68 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:32.839 Yeah. They actually started that in twenty seventeen as a year long contest, 69 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:36.439 so going on. Yeah and yeah, so it's like this is so 70 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:42.120 great, let's just keep it going. And they've taken all the like state 71 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:47.680 of the national parks and wildlife management areas and people just take their radios out 72 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.759 there. Each one is assigned a number, and so you could say I'm 73 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:56.560 at Park Kadesh, you know, went to before, and people track that 74 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.480 on a website. They can track all the parks that they've contacted, all 75 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:03.279 the parks that you've activated. They call it activating the park. And then 76 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:09.800 you just go out there and have fun and my contacts. Now it's not 77 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.920 as big a equipment load as it used to be. Used to take a 78 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.519 pretty good sized hunker, your desk, a little corner room in your house, 79 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:19.399 but the remote capability it kind of fits in a something about the size 80 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:21.480 of a like a suit. You have a small suitcase. Yeah, I've 81 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:26.319 got I've just got this one radio. Now that it's probably about eight inches 82 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:29.600 long, about three in four inches tall, three inches deep, like a 83 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:30.879 lunch box. Yea, yeah, you just throw it in your backpack and 84 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.600 throw an antenta in there. It actually has an antenna tuner in it, 85 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:38.040 so if you're frequent, if your antenna is not tuned quite where it needs 86 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:42.680 to be, it'll kind of account for that, and then people might contacts. 87 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:46.920 I talked to someone on a wire that's like I think the wires about 88 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:48.879 thirty two foot long. We had only five foot off the ground and the 89 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:53.040 radio is only putting out about three and a half wats And I contacted somebody 90 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:56.639 on that. You go, yeah, it was in a different space. 91 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.680 I forget the state now. But this morning I talked to see a Morse 92 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:04.199 code contact with a guy in Virginia at a park. Oh my, So 93 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:06.879 you know, this is some of the things you're gonna learn about Saturday at 94 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:15.079 Saturday at one at Johnstone Park and it's Ham Radio Field Day activation. And 95 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:18.079 it'd be nice because I know what's gonna happen. You're gonna have young and 96 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.839 old alike. You're gonna have youngsters going wow, look at that, wow, 97 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:25.199 listen to this, and then the ulsters are just gonna smile and say, 98 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:30.680 yeah, ain't that cool? Yeah I can I can always just see 99 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:32.319 that out there. Yeah. We've got a couple of guys that they're just 100 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:35.759 wizards at the Morse Code. So oh yeah, they can just listen to 101 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:39.720 They didn't have to write it down. They so it comes through so fast 102 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.720 they can just pick it out. Oh wow, that's amazing. I was 103 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:46.519 telling Paul that when I first became a broadcaster nineteen one hundred and seventy five, 104 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:53.439 boy, that sounds like a long time ago that broadcasters used to have 105 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.639 a license to broadcast, and you used to have to go to an FCC 106 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:00.680 field office and take a task to get certified. I did that. I 107 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:04.600 was I couldn't even drive a car. But a lot of that, some 108 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:10.600 of that stuff in the middle was things with Morse Code. Had know a 109 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:14.600 little bit about that, and we had to know a little bit more of 110 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:18.439 ship to shore radio than I could ever imagine. And then they made us 111 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:23.560 do sos with flags. And I'm thinking, I'm a radio guy. I'm 112 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:26.519 gonna be a cornball playing rock and roll music on the radio. What am 113 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:30.120 I gonna do with flags? I asked the fellow, I guess it's the 114 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:32.879 proper After it was over with, after the test, he said, I 115 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:35.360 you only missed one. I said, yeah, what's the business with the 116 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:41.800 flags? He says, the war? It just never got rid of that 117 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.560 part. But yours is quite different because it has things to do with frequency, 118 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:50.040 you know, in different ratios, and you know, phasings and things 119 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:54.079 like that, a lot of math. There's a lot of math into it. 120 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:56.199 If you you know, you can get it as deep as you want 121 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.160 to. So you know, if you don't want to do that, you 122 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:01.800 don't have to. But I'll be a surface guy. Right. You can 123 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:03.839 go buy a cheap radio and antenna. It's already been tuned and put on 124 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.040 the air, you know. But you know, the main thing is just 125 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.680 getting on the air and just using the radio, just having fun communicating with 126 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:13.759 people. 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Arnold Moore and knee Camp Funeral 152 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:03.200 Home, seven ten Dewey Bartels Event. We'll walk through this together. Welcome 153 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.120 back to our community connection. We're talking to Paul Ready. He's a vice 154 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:09.080 president here with the Bartaswelle Amateur Radio Club. We're going to have the Ham 155 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:15.720 Radio Field Day activation at Johnstone Park and that'll be one o'clock tomorrow. Now, 156 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:18.600 in earlier before we got on the air, you kind of had a 157 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:24.759 real cool celebrity encounter on Ham Radio. Tell us about that. Yeah, 158 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.240 there was interestingly the last man standing, you know, Tim Allen. Yeah, 159 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:31.759 that they had featured a Hammer Radio station there on the set and sometimes 160 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:37.960 they had that in the show. And Tim Allen is actually licensed and when 161 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.919 he went and got his license, and that was a functioning hammerdio station. 162 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.120 So I thought that was a prop. No, it's not a prop, 163 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.120 not just a prop. It was actually a fresh deal. So when they 164 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.480 started, when they were about to end the show, they had about a 165 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.360 week long or look it over, a week long special event where they had 166 00:10:54.440 --> 00:11:00.559 stations all across the US that if you made contact with them, you could 167 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:07.120 submit and get a card and they sent back a autograph photograph of the of 168 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:09.799 the crew and all the stations that you worked. And I was able to 169 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:15.720 work all of them except for the actual station on the studio. Oh but 170 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:18.399 it's pretty dark, good though. Yeah, And so that's cool. I've 171 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.360 got that photo at home. That is nice, really cool to see what 172 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:24.840 kind of funny you can have. And you can find out more about it. 173 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:26.879 So tell us once again about the big activation day tomorrow. Okay, 174 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:33.039 so a field day being down Johnstone Park at the pavilion further in, so 175 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.039 it's not the one and along the road by the way MCA, it's the 176 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:41.559 one further in and we'll be starting operations at one o'clock. Alrighty be there 177 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.679 and bring a friend because it's a lot of fun to share. Yeah, 178 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.080 all right, hey, thanks for being with us today. Well, by 179 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.759 the way, do you have a Facebook page or anything like that. Well, 180 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:52.600 our website's part of the Ville Amateur Radioclub dot com, so it's one 181 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:56.120 of the longest rails you'll ever type in. But if you just type in 182 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:01.720 Bartlesville Amateur Radio and search for it, you'll find find us and then from 183 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.639 there we've got links to Facebook page. Oh wonderful. Well, great, 184 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:07.279 Hey, thanks for taking time to visit with us today. I'm glad to 185 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:09.639 be here. Good luck tomorrow, and bring lots of water. It's gonna 186 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:11.360 be a little warm. Thank you.