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Okay, look at that good evening to everybody, thank you for being here.
I hope everyone had a really good Easter Sunday. And as I said
to some people earlier in the week, my wife included, I don't normally
live stream on Easter Sunday because I'd like to have a break every now and
then. But I was in Huntsville, Alabama last weekend coming back from the
HAMSAI event that Frank just talked about on his channel. You guys go check
out Frank's live stream. He just ended. If you didn't see that.
So I was out of town last Sunday, So I missed my live stream
and if things go right, I should be out of town next Sunday for
the eclipse. Now we're gonna talk about that upcoming, So you guys hang
out there and we'll get to some eclipse talk here in just a second.
But thanks for hanging with us tonight. Special shout out to all the YouTube
channel members. There's a lot of you guys in there tonight. I know
that Freddie Mack is in there, gray Man PoTA is in there, Roy
Jeff, who else is in there? William other William. I saw smoke
signals and KO four AFL in there in for VKF. I saw a zero
am in there. A lot of you guys in there. I'm sorry I
didn't if I didn't get everybody, but the chat's been rolling. I spun
up the live stream. Well, I sat down at the computer and started
getting all my files and and and web pages together at about about an hour
beforehand, and there was like thirty of you in there already waiting. I'm
like, okay, all right, people are people are gonna be interested in
this tonight, so that's that's a good thing. So we're talking about I'm
gonna talk to Richard, a main trading company. He's never been on the
show before with well that he's never been on the live stream before. I
have. I have done interviews with him at his place, at his shop
in Paris. We actually did a live stream for one of his ham Radio
days out there, so we're going to uh, we're gonna tease him about
that here in a little bit too. He needs to do another ham Radio
day. So yes, the the eclipse is a week from tomorrow, April
eighth. Once again, Frank talked about this on his channel. Ham Size
got a big thing going right right now on on their website. Uh,
and Verns texted me, I don't know why you're texting me, Vern good
evening, but uh, yeah, eclipse is Monday, April eighth. I
have some plans for that, but those plans might change due to weather.
So I'm going to talk about that with everybody once we get everybody on the
live stream here. But the solar eclipse q SO party is happening. That
is here in the chat, so you guys go check that out. If
you missed Frank's live stream, he interviewed one of the guys from HAMSI so
that that was fun to watch. I watch part of it, and then
the following weekend after that, we are headed to Springfield, Missouri for the
more Overlanding and off Road Expo. Now I've been to this, this will
be my third year to be here. Several of several of the guys that
you will recognize from the chat will be attending with me. Kyle tim from
gray Man Poda, Freddie Mack Frank will be there. Robert W five I
TR will be there from Digital Rancher. So we're gonna have a good Ham
radio presence at this overland show. And I'm going to be doing a class
on Ham radio versus GMRIS versus CB and just kind of talking about how they
all fit together and whatnot. So that's going to be a very fun show
as well. That is April nineteenth and twentieth, about three weeks from now,
for in Springfield, Missouri. So you guys go check that out if
you are able to come to that shit. It's a fun show. It's
a fun show. Again, weather contingent a little bit, but it is
a fun show if you're into off roading, overlanding, and getting Ham radio
into these adjacent topics. That's why we do that. Okay. So I
saw Frank pop into the chat, so let me switch this over here and
that right there and that right there. Frank, what's going on, man,
I'll let you talk for a second. I'm doing all right. Man.
We just had an awesome YouTube stream of talking about the HAMD Science studies
and the eclipse study coming up, and it was a blast and we kind
of hinted on what our plans will be. But okay, I can't wait
till this weekend. And I got just got off the phone with vern Maybe
that's why he's you, and he texted me so I'm like, you got
a notification by watching. I'm like, dude, I'm live, come on,
knock kidding. But yeah, it's all good. But yeah, okay,
so yeah, I want we'll talk about that here in a second,
because Richard is in. I'm gonna Frank, I'm gonna let you. I'm
gonna put you in the background, not in the waiting room, but in
the background. But as always, I'm waiting for questions. If you have
questions, go ahead and chuckle them at the track and I will hold on
to him. Ask him on air or at the end of the interview,
So go ahead, Jason, I thanks good, thanks, appreciate you being
here. Dude. All right, buddy, Richard, what's going on?
Man? How are you hey? Can you say me? This is crazy
man? Yeah? Yeah, that's yeah. Yeah, you're good. It
sounds good. And uh, this is like this is why like one of
your vertical Facebook live streams you do at the story where you just walk around
and talk about stuff. I just I just love had where's the camera there?
It is. I just love Ham radio, I love video. I
just love all this stuff. It's fun, Jason, it is it is.
I know, yeah, yeah, it is fun. Yeah. Richard
and I have had had fun at hamfests together in the past, and we're
just gonna leave that there. It's not for public consumption. But that's right.
Yeah, yeah, that's right. That's very very well said. I
haven't seen Val in the chat yet, but he might be out there somewhere,
comes in there. I hope he does. You know a lot of
times he is. You saw that right that I did? Uh? Yeah,
I was driving back. Yes, I was driving back from Huntsville last
weekend and Val called me and let me know about that. So yes,
I did hear but we'll have a moment of silence later for that. But
totally is awesome and I really miss him and the hand fast will not be
the same with that. Mike the koax man there, that's right, agreed,
Yeah, wireman, coax man, wireman Mike. If you guys ever
saw in any of the Texas shows. Yeah, he passed away on us
about a week ago. So if anybody knows him or his family, reach
out to them. So he was good dude, good dude. Yeah.
So, hey, today's Easter. Normally, I mean we're not doing a
lot of business on Easter or anything like that. But you know, the
tomb is empty and all that, and that's awesome and I'm happy for that.
We went to church this morning, went down to Clarksville, Texas.
My in laws are down there, and we had a big feed and kids
and Easter eggs and all that. But man, Friday Friday, they said,
look, and I mean, we'll get all this out in a minute.
They said, look, Richard, you're gonna have to go ahead and
do this. So I'm not ready. I'm still not ready. The new
website's not ready. You know, I'm sending emails. Hey, big news
is coming and all that. I know. We talked talked about it a
few months ago and you said, when when you get ready to break the
news, you know, be sure and let me know and we'll bring you
on the live stream. So I sent you a text or something and we
talked Friday, and I see it. It's about to happen. You said
when May first. I said, no, Monday, you know, April,
April first, April. We can't do it on April first because everybody
would thinks of joke for April four. So this is no joke. It
is so big, This is big, big stuff. It's gonna shake the
whole Ham Radio girls. Jason, Okay, all right, all right,
dude, all right, well whenever you're ready, man, I know people
were biting, chumping at the bell already. Are you all really ready,
because the news is about to break right here, right now, all right,
two months ago. Let's just back up to the beginning. Two months
ago or three months ago or whatever it was. I mean, I'm sitting
at my little day job and scrolling the internet and doing what I do,
and this guy emails from Italy. He says, hey, Richard, you
don't know me, but have you ever heard of experts amplifiers. I said,
yeah, I heard of him. He used to be a guy here
in Texas that rep those. And he said, yeah, we're looking to
set up another distributor. There a distributor. There is a difference between a
distributor and a dealer. We're a dealer. My little company's been in business
for what almost fifteen years is we're a dealer for Yazoo Icon, Kenwood,
a Linko, MFJ and Marytron and lots of other stuff. And I can't
even remember it all right now. But he said, we need a distributor,
and I said, we'll send me the information. I mean, we
get stuff like emails and text all the time China and everywhere, you know
what, you know whatever. I didn't think much about it, but I
started reading into it and all that, oh, you got the website up,
got the website up, Lash deals and yeah, Wood deals. But
hey, look, so long story short. I'm gonna try to make it
short anyway. I don't know about that. I look, here's the deal
starting April first. That's tomorrow, tomorrow. There's a brand new company that's
about to be launched, a brand new website. I can't even launch it.
We signed like legal documents. Christy has been Christine my wife. She's
been so busy behind the scenes. We formed a new LLC. Here it
is. It's expert amps US, a l l C. All right,
there's gonna be a new website pop up here early this week, maybe tomorrow
if I can get busy tonight. Expert Amps USA. I'm looking at her
because I don't know. You know. It's experts dot com. Yeah,
expert amps dot com. And we are gonna handle all the cells of expert
amplifiers s expert amplifiers. They're made in Italy, all the cells from North
America and Central America in the world. Baby, I mean, if you
want them. But we're the distributor for like, you know, this continent
and stuff. It's gonna be big. I mean, this is gonna be
so big. I said, I don't even know what an expert amplifier is.
So they said, anyone I hooked it up, Jason, there's a
little set up. I want sid thing and all that. You set it
up, it will take your hundred watt radio and turn it into a fifteen
hundred wat radio. It doesn't even need a hundred watts. No, it
takes like thirty watts or something to drive it to full power. You can
take it. You could take a G ninety and get leave it or twelve
hundred wats out of it a bit. What's a G nine kenwood Jazu and
icon baby this? You can take that and hook it to it, and
you tell it. You go in the thing and you tell it. I've
got a kenwood and you can hook two kinwoods to it. You can hook
kenwood in an icon, a kenwood in a Yasu, and it knows you
can key up either mike and it will y'all see my hands. I'm excited,
you know, but it'll know, it knows which mike and which radio
is transmitting, and it'll go. You can hook four antennas to it.
I mean, I'm terribly excited. This is not the old tube type honkers.
You know that you have and all that. If you have one of
those traded in, traded in, I'm gonna hook you up with a deal.
So four antennas, two radios, key it up, it'll go to
the right antenna. It has a built in antenna tuner, what meters built
in. You're saving money right off the bat It's a big deal. I'm
sold. My customers are gonna be sold pretty soon because this, I mean,
this is the next generation of HF power. This is not Russian tubes
that you can't get anymore. This is not three five hundred z's or three
x eight hundreds that are five hundred dollars apiece. This is the real deal,
Jason. This, I am so pumped up. I haven't been this
excited. I am so excited. I quit a six figure job to go
do this. I must be insane. Christie is like, you have lost
your mind. Maybe maybe I've done it before. I'm jon I'm sorry that
good man. That's awesome. That is awesome. So okay, so people
are asking, okay, so a couple of things. Number One, I
want you. I want you to tell people about the case that it comes
in you and I talked about that a little bit yesterday, and people are
asking the price of it and whatnot. But I know there's four different models,
So why don't you talk about that? Oh my gosh, look,
I think I've got to pull up over here. There's right, yes,
there's three. There's actually three core models right now. There's a hang on,
let me move this out of the way. I've got too many monitors
and stuff going here. There's there's a one point three K model with the
built in antenna tuner. All right. I'm not gonna tell you the price.
I should, but maybe i'm not. It's under five thousand. We'll
just say that under five thousand dollars, all right, which is a bargain
at twice the price. And the thing weighs the one point three K it
weighs like eighteen pounds, not even that. And it comes in a cool
case. Ruby Jack's here, Ruby Jack, hand me that case. She
just daughter, y'all look at my daughter, Ruby Jack. Can you see
it? Can y'all see it? Yeah? Yeah, she's in there.
Yeah. Look. Oh. It comes in this cool case right here,
and you can carry it the amplifiers in here. It weighs like nothing right
now. I mean, it's crazy, and it runs on it when they
come into me, it'll come in with the European plug on it. I'm
gonna hook you up. If you want it to run on one hundred and
ten or two twenty, I don't care. I just change the plug or
you can change the plug. And if you want to take it on your
d expedition down to I mean, if you're going to Antarctica or tarks and
Kkos or wherever you might be going, you can are the picnic table at
the lake. I mean it weighs like this. Look there's an amplifier in
here, y'all. Wow. Yeah, there's no light and you can plug
it in one hundred and ten or two twenty, it doesn't matter. It's
at home in the shack or out on the park bench. Either one.
That's the one point three K. They make a one point five. It'll
still run on one hundred and ten and two twenty as well, and then
they make the two K model as well. I don't think that one is
quite as portable as the other two models, but hey, they are all
awesome, every one of them. I have a one point five in my
shack. I'm fixed to put a two K. And there's news of a
a new model that's coming that's going to be announced at Dyton, and it
will be in my boot. The president of spe Italy will be in my
boot at Dyton. So I'm so excited. I know you are. I
can see it in your face. You're excited too. You you won of
course, Yeah, of course. I'm always excited, man, I'm always
excited. That's great. Okay, all right, so we got at least
three Yeah, I that is amazing. How lightweighted is I thought you said
that amplifier was in that case. I'm like, no, that's an empty
case, dude, Come on, it's stretched a little bit. Okay,
all right, all right. I was like, you can throw that thing
and bounce it off your head. Okay, but they're still not They're still
not very very heavy. I don't think right, no, they're not.
It's like I think it's like eighteen pounds for the one point Yeah, and
you can really the case though, this is like carry on. You can
carry it on on the plane if you're going somewhere or whatever, or yeah,
put it in your glove box. You got a big glove box and
you know, I mean, go to the park, have some fun,
throw up an antenna or let's talk baby. Yeah. So okay, so
it'll run on ten twenty yes, and that and you said you just you
just have to change a plug for that. So I mean that tells me
that it's really kind of always one one ten or one twenty and it just
takes an adapter to going to the two twin or how does that work?
Well? Like I say, when they when they when I get them,
they come in with the European plug right And by the way, I'm building
like a staff of experts right now, experts. Right now. I've got
service working out. I've got where there's a guy in Florida. I have
a guy out in Snyder, Texas that I've known for thirty years. And
then stuff that's happening right here in Paris, Texas. When the amps come
in, they come in with the European plug on them. We take that
off. I'm gonna put a two twenty plug or one ten, whatever you
need. But there's no jumpers. There's nothing to change inside the amplifier.
The power supply knows because it's a smart amplifier, Jason, like Alexa and
stuff. It's like smart and it knows what voltage and if you get the
cable, here's the whole beautiful thing to the amplifier. There's a sky down
I think he's in a livingstoner down around there. That's Texas. By the
way, Dan Tassel, Dan builds the cables for him. He's done it
for a long time, and you take Dan's cable, hook it to that
amplifier, hook it to your Kenwood. I can yazu. The amplifier knows
how much power to pull out of your radio through the ALC circuit. It
knows, and it will drive it to perfection. You cannot overdrive it if
you use Dan Tassel's cables. I'll have all this information on my website soon.
It's a very smart amplifier. It's way ahead of anything else out there.
I'm sold, I really, I'm so so. I told you I
quit my job. I can't even sleep at night. I believe it.
I believe. I've seen you do stuff like this before. So oh yeah,
I take risk all the time. And you said there was a people
are asking about service. There's a there's a guy in Texas that will service
them also correct. Well, I'm I'm not seeing the comments. I see
there's like a million of them on there. Yeah, a lot of people
to yes. All right, So right now, service, let's talk about
that for a minute, because currently, as of March something, I don't
know what it said. It was earlier this week, the current distributor has
ceased business operations. And I want to assure everyone out there listening that your
amplifiers are still under warranty. Richard Lenore Main Trading Company will take care of
all your warranties as long as they're in warranty. I have. I've been
talking to Steve in Florida. He's going to continue to service him. I
have another technician in training right now. He's out in Snyder, Texas.
That's Paul Brady. He's a Ham, been a Ham as long as I
have just about. And so that's happening. There's gonna be two service centers
here in the United States, and maybe even a third before too long.
So don't don't worry about the service. Richard's got you taken care of good
in warranty or out of warranty. That yeah, done, okay good.
Yeah. And you said that there's some guys that just they send them in
for that, they send them in for servicing when they don't even need it.
It's like a tune up or something, just like like a once over
check or something. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,
I mean it's it's it's the coolest thing. I mean there, I mean
I've ran like old heath kits and and stuff and tube types. I'll take
them outside and blow them out with the air hose or whatever, you know,
a couple every a couple of years or something. But these amplifiers,
I mean you should you probably should. You know, if you're really taking
them out to the beach or whatever, get them sucked full of sand and
elements and all that, you probably should send them in and have them serviced,
you know, in an outdoor environment and blow them out, clean them
up, check everything, and we're gonna get all that worked out as well.
So you can send them in and and have them looked at and cleaned
up and tuned up if needed. But there's really no need for if you're
running them in the home and your shock and all that. We don't have
to do that very often. Yeah. Ever, I mean I've been reading.
I've been lurking. I think that's the term. There's a couple of
websites. There's a Facebook group, there's it used to be Yahoo, it's
something else now I owe groups or something like that for yeah, yeah,
yeah, for expert apps. I've been really lurking in there for the last
couple of months, and you know, studying and reading and seeing what all
is happening and and all that, and yeah, a lot of people send
them in just to just to have them service and good. So we're gonna
we're gonna offer that. We're gonna offer that in warranty and out of warranty,
uh service center here and real close to Paris, Texas, and another
one in Florida and possibly another one a little further north soon. Good.
Okay, Okay, I'm outscited. I can tell yeah, Ham Radio Hobo's
asking if it's dual moss moss feed and I know you talked about that a
little bit yesterday. Tell me tell us about that. Yes they are.
Hey, there's a new one that's coming out, the Taurus. I have
emails into Italy right now. But yes, they these are uh dual moss
fat amps and there's hey, there's even a lot. I mean, two
months, how long has this been going? Going to Christy too much?
Two months? Three months at the most, That's all I know. I
mean, whatever you can learn in a few hours at night and just running
them. I'm still a little green on them, but I'm still learning.
I'm reading every night and I'm running mine pretty much every couple of days and
learning the stuff so I'm there's there's users. There's thousands of users of them
out here in the United States and North America right now. That they're way
more of an expert on them, expert by the way than I am.
But I look forward to learning as we go, and I'm gonna help my
customers. I can't wait, and I will talk more about that. I
can't wait to help everybody get one if they want one. Excellent, Yeah,
awesome. I've got an idea about how I can get one in my
hand. So I talk to you after the after I talked to that,
you do, yeah, okay. So people are a couple of questions about
if they can go buy your store sometime this week and pick one up,
and also a question about datingham mention. So let's let's talk about that real
quick. Are you going to actually have him in hand, on in stock
on him. Our first shipment should come in mid to maybe the third week
of April. You know, they've been on order for I mean since since
I first started talking about it and all that, so about two months and
then I've already I have another order that's ready to go in now for delavery
in June, and I'll fire that email off in the morning. You can't
come to my store and see them, not yet, but you will,
you will soon. I will. Here's I mean. I'm just putting it
all out on the table. By the way, we are not an authorized
distributor or anything until April first. Just need to get that out of the
way. So just got to state the facts and give us a price quote
or anything right now. I'll give you one if you want one. Whatever.
A lot of people are asking for prices, so you want to let
that cat out of the bag. It's it's up to you. Oh,
I'm looking at them right now, like on this screen over here, But
why don't why don't we wait and I will have that online. I just
want to make sure everything is good. I will have that done this week,
all right, And on the MTC radio dot com website. MTC Radio
will be a dealer for expert Amps. Expert Amps U s A is the
distributor, which is our company too, so there'll be a separate website for
that. Of course, you know how MTC does business. We make deals
and type trades and do all kinds of stuff. If you'll just give me
a couple of more days, I wasn't quite ready. This was supposed to
happen on May the first, not April first, So I'm just not quite
ready to launch. But you know, don't worry about the price. It
won't hurt long. It's just money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
just money. Okay, it's a question by broken circuit ranch is the FCC
type accepted? If so? Ten meters is the fifty AM power supply from
China. Let's just break those down. FCC type selected, Yes, approved,
Uncle Richard only sales quality equipment approved by the FCC. Ten meters Yes,
ten meters works right out of the box, right to Australia. On
my I wish I could take this camera, but it's wired. I want
to take it in my shack, which is like through that door right there
and show you, but I can't. You know, maybe I can get
on my phone or something in a minute. I don't Yeah, maybe maybe,
But yes, ten meters that works out of the box, no problem.
Fifteen hundred watts with the one point five or the two K, thirteen
hundred wants with the one point three K and some I think you said something
about a power sply. You don't need a power supply it plugs in the
wall one hundred and ten volt. I'm old school. That's I guess that's
one hundred and twenty votes now yeah, yeah, yeah, one hundred and
twenty or two forty. Just change the plug. Plug it in and go
change change the plug. Change? Are you change the adapters or the what?
Look the correct power? Hang up? I stand by. I don't
need to do this because I had to do mine. Can y'all see this?
Yes? I can't see it. Yeah, that's that's that's the European
plug. Look on this end of it. I cut those off. They
come in, I'm gonna change that out and put a us A ANEMA UH
type accepted plug on it, either one hundred and ten or two twenty.
I've already ordered those in. They're coming. And when I get the amps
in, I'm gonna check them out, make sure they're good. I know
they're good from the factory, but you know they come from Italy. That's
a long boat ride over here, right, So I want to make sure
your ramp is good, and then we're gonna ship them right out. I'll
put the plug on it, your choice, and is it the standard computer
plugs on the amplifier end plugged. It can be if you want one hundred
and ten you know, or one hundred and twenty volte whatever we can.
We can put that on either the one point five or the one point three.
That's that's no problem. Cool cool. I like two twenty though.
I like vaulted and watts you know. Yeah, find that in Texas,
right right? Yeah? Good, okay, okay, good? Uh that
for me, y'all hit me with some questions, man, I'm one about
what about Belton? What about Belton? I love Belton, Texas. It's
the greatest hand fast in Texas, that's for sure. Well, they want
to know you're going to be bringing these to Belton. Probably not. We
won't have them in in time because because we don't officially expert amps, LLC
does not officially exist until April first, so we will not see our first
shipment until the second or third week of April. So I doubt will have
them there. But I will have plenty of brochures and plenty of pricing and
hand fast deals and all that at Belton. Awesome. I saw a couple
of questions. Does it have bluetooth? I don't think it has blowtooth I
don't know of any amplifier that would have Bluetooth. I don't know why you
wouldn't both, but it will remote. You can plug it in to your
network and you can man all you guys. You guys out there in ham
Radio and Cyberland, you know more about this than I do. You plug
it in to your network and you plug your radio into your network, and
Jason, you know all about this remote roots and shacks and all that stuff.
I mean, you turn the radio on, the amplifier comes on,
and if you're out there in cyber Land on your phone, you can control
the radio. There's programming software, not programming remote software available that I'll have
on my website. You download it and you can remote right into your amplifier
from anywhere on planet Earth. Baby. That's great. Yeah, no,
that's it's good. It's good to have. You know, I've always I've
been wanting to take a radio the next generation twenty that are crap. This
is the deal, man, Oh yeah, this is the deal. No,
this is much better amplifier than an amertron. But yeah, Meeritron amplifiers
are good. There's nothing in the world wrong with them, but this,
you know, this one's lighter weight, solid state and all that kind of
good stuff. So yeah, and I don't think you can remote it America.
More to Go first class, baby, yeah, more to go first
class. That's right. Cost you a side johnt up to Washington and back.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, no kidding. So what else,
Frank, we got anything else? How does it do the s w R
match? This is from Wayne. Oh. I am so glad you asked
that, and I hope I can answer it correctly. All three models,
the two K and the one point five K come with the built in antenna
tutor. All right, So once you go through, once you get the
amplifier, I'm gonna have a document on the website, a fast start deal.
It's pretty easy. You go through, set it up with your radio.
You can hook four antennas to it or just one. You know a
lot of m's like may you just have one. You go through and set
it up and you tune. You go through every band. This is when
you get it out of the box. You go through every band, go
to the bottom of the band, tune it, go to the top of
the band, tune it, go through all your bands that you're active on.
It's done, and it has the tuner built in. The wat meter
is built in. You don't have to have a five or six hundred dollars
tuner or more that that will handle fifteen hundred watts. You don't have to
have a watt meter. You don't have to have any of that. And
then once it's set up, once you change bands on your radio, if
you get Dan Tassle's cable, by the way, it will it will remember
and it'll go right back and it'll tune your antenna every time. The tuner
is built in. Now, the one point three K of the smaller amplifier,
I say small, that's thirteen hundred what that's not small, that's not
a six hundred what rice box or whatever? I mean? This is the
deed one. I'm telling you. I'm pumped. You can't get the one
point three there without the antenna tuner built in. But all three are the
other the one point five and the two K comes with the tuner. And
and here's something pretty cool. The one point five it's so far it's my
favorite amplifier. I think it'll tune antenna's with a five to one mismatch.
I'm pretty sure. That's right. Yeah, that's Justin Man. Justin he's
in the chat and he's I kind of got the impression he like works for
him or something. I don't know. He's going to another we're letting out,
he says. Yeah, he says, it's a five point it's a
three point one on the two K and the one point three one point five
handle of five point one five to one mismatch. So yeah, yeah,
you're just to reiterated that a bit. You're tuning the tuner to the antenna
and you're not tuning your radio into the tuner, so when you tune it
up, you're gonna be tuning on the amplifier. I might have said that
those uh that box wrong, but you tuning from the the amplifier to the
antenna, and then you you're not gonna tune on your radio, gonna tune
it on the amplifier, right, Yeah, you just turn if your radio
as a built in antenna tuner, just turn that off. You don't,
you don't need that anymore. Yeah, yeah, perfect, Yeah, just
go. I mean, I have a I wish I could take this camera.
It's wire. We'll do it another time if you want to. I'll
show you my shack. I have a Kinwood. I just if you cut
me, I just bleed out Kinwood everywhere. I'm a kin would you know?
Yes? And but I have a Kinwood nine to ninety in there and
eight ninety. They're both hooked up to the radio to the amplifier. And
I mean you just you hit tune on on the radio. I turned the
tuner off. You hit tune with Dave in Tassel's cable. By the way,
are you going to sell those on the new website once? I'm not
going to sell them, Okay, AND's gonna sell him. I'll have the
link and how to get a hold of him, and and and he is
awesome And you know him? Do you know Dan? No? Yeah,
I might have met him. Yeah. I didn't think I knew him until
I looked him up on q r Z and I saw its picture and all
that. Oh yeah, okay, he goes to Okay, I probably would
recognize him. Cool dude, man, cool dude, Okay, cool.
He's on the Expert Team, by the way, Expert Team. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm gonna get to you, Jason. I you know what,
I'm looking forward to it. Man, I think I got a couple of
trade ends for you. I think I got a couple of trade ins for
you. Richard used to tell people that he would trade for anything as long
as it doesn't eat, and I think I think that's still true. It
is true, It is true, and I mean we have been in business's
main trading company, MTC Radio dot com. For what Christy is, she's
still here fifteen years almost almost. I think June is when we finally open
the store in two thousand and nine, and we started out, you know,
with a twenty five hundred dollars credit card and you know, just trying
to sell ham radios in between jobs and all that. Now we sell millions
of dollars of radios all over the world and we take trade ins every day,
and that's that's what we do. The ups truck backs up and brings
us everything we have traded for, hot wheels, collections, pianos, guitars,
amplifiers, trailers, cars, a Volkswagen rabbit? What else have we
traded for? She's shaking her head like, but it's true. It's I'm
not exaggerating. We traded for and we learned our lesson. You know,
we cannot trade for live stock anymore, or things that they eat. We
used to live on a city lot in the city of Paris. They just
they frown on having live stock in your backyard. And and plus it's you
can't make money on those. It's hardship and mule or chickens. Don says,
I have two pianos. He's gonna be up there tomorrow. Hey,
we'll do it, but pay much for pianos. I learned that lesson that's
almost in there with things that eat. Do you have any pictures that several
people are asking do we know what these look like? Or you go don't
so spe has a page on wimo dot com. This is an overseas thing,
and I don't know. If I'll pull this up real quick, Richard,
it will take about It's a twenty thirty second delay on YouTube. But
you can if you look at it, you can tell me this is looks
the same as what you're doing here. But this looks like the uh one
point five on the bottom, the one point three in the middle, and
I can't tell. I guess there's two k on top. There's several distributors
out there in the world. Of course, the factory you can buy direct
from the factory if you want to in Italy that's and I don't have a
problem with that, but you know, if you need them service or whatever
they're they're going to have to go back there. And any of you that
have bought radios from overseas knows about that. Yes, so, but yes,
if I don't remember, I think it's Linear Amplifier dot com or linear
Amplifier dot I T that looks like it. Whatever you've got pulled up there,
this is this is the WIMO dot com, s p E experts,
s p E experts. That's them. That's that's that's them. That's all
three models right there. That's what they look like. Yeah, thirty want
to fit the euros or whatever that is model that is, but that's the
amplifiers. Again, my website if it'll come, if I can get it
done this week, and I will, I will get it done. I'm
not sleeping anymore. What is it. It's expert amps dot com. That
will be up. It's you'll if you pull it up right now, it's
gonna go to Q T H and whatever. But you know, we're all
the cool hands hosts their websites. By the way, expert Amps dot com.
It's a new generation of of of h F power. This is the
real deal. I'm sold man. Yeah, those that's the amps. I'll
have the side up this week. Good good, good, excellent. Okay,
okay, what else? Cup? Yeah, yeah, mine's keep minding
my r V. So what are you guys doing? So so for the
eclipse next weekend, we were gonna go down to f and I still might
go. We're gonna go down Fredericksburg. We're going to place down there that
a friend of ours owns a place and we got invited down there. But
we were looking at the forecast and it looks like it might either be cloudy
or even possibly storming during on a week from tomorrow, on April eighth,
Monday. So, but what are you guys doing in Paris? Is in
totality as well? Correct? Did you say you're going to Fredericksbar? Yeah,
yeah, that's right outside of its outside of Frederick. That's weird because
I thought everybody in the whole country was coming to Paris, Texas well,
Waite, according to emergency management and all everything, that we're here here like
ten million people in Paris, Texas this week and most of them are coming
to buy Ham radios and expert amps too. So we will be open.
We will be open that next Monday. I'm looking at Christie because she Christie
is like the backbone of the company. I'm like, not so, but
anyway, she knows stuff I just talked. But yes, we will be
open Monday. They're expecting a madhouse of people. Here. Here's you know,
if you can see her there she is. Look at my pretty wife
here to keep him in line. No offense, no offense, Christie,
I don't think you do a for a good job on that. Yeah,
I don't know. Yes, we'll be open. Matter of fact, I
think Lawrence Keller and people from South Texas and Justin Man and famous people Ronnie
Millsap and Joe Walsh. Everybody's supposed to her starting on Saturdays. So you
know, you'll I'll come up and everybody will get a deal. How's that?
Hey? If I I got to decide what I'm gonna do about the
weather, but if I do, if I do decide to come out there,
would I would I have a place to park because parking is gonna be
a challenge. Ah, I doubt it, but we'll figure it out,
all right, All right, you know, just just come on up.
It'll it'll be fine. And all right, you know everybody gets a radio
that day. How's that? Yeah, there we go and somebody who's asking
about an expert amplifier giveaway on the channel, and boy, that'd be nice.
We're gonna have to We're go, yeah, we'll have to. We'll
have to conspire on that here in a couple of months, see what's going
on. But all right, so if you're around or near Paris, Texas,
there's gonna be in a pretty cool eclipse thing out there. So yes,
and you mentioned like rain and clouds and all that. The yeah,
the sun always shines and Aris, I'll just come on up Monday, except
for that one. Except yeah, I don't even remember that I was there
for that one. You gotta have to say, hey, man, you
give me back full time at the story. You need to start doing him
radio days in October. Yea, I know, I know. Hey,
we're doing and we're moving. I mean in the middle of all this stuff,
we've we you know, our warehouse. You haven't been there, Vale,
I think's been there, but it's off the loop in Paris, and
is it a bigger building it's a it's a whole lot, bigger building,
and that's where we you know, we buy all these palette deals and all
this stuff and all that. That's where we've always kept that because our store
is small, so we're putting everything under one roof. So the actual retail
store is gonna be around this size, maybe a little bit smaller, but
everything will be under one roof. And like on the big special days or
whatever, if we do a big event, we'll throw all the doors open
and just sell all that stuff. So, I mean, we're excited.
We we should be moving. I'm thinking June or July something like that.
We had some permitting issues with the city. They didn't know where we were
moving. And I got online and did a Facebook live, you know,
and and we were good. The people that were doing the work didn't have
the permits. And and then but once I walked outside and showed everybody on
Facebook where I was at, you know, and where we were moving to,
then the city came in and shut the whole operation down. So fun.
Oh well, okay, okay, all right, Frank, we have
any more questions Frank, driving, We're not having any driving. Oh I
was muted on my headset. I'm sorry. There was a couple of questions
about you moving to the large building, but I think you already covered that.
Yeah, I saw those. I was asking about that. And the
radios are not going to be available at the store for pickup tomorrow. When
they'll be released in your store, we should have a second or third week
of April. I mean, it's it's a big deal. I mean,
we're trying to do everything right. We used to order gosh, and y'all
didn't. You didn't ask this, but we used to order like millions of
radios out of China. The China brands or whatever. They don't care.
They'll just get them in here. And Jason, you know how they do
and whatever. But if you're getting from like a European country, you have
to do things the right way. And there's we didn't even know you got
to get like a bond and all this stuff. Wow. Yeah, So
we're doing all that and we're trying to be you know, legal, and
Christie's doing it. She's like she's a superstar. She's like customs forms and
all this stuff and you know, r s and all that. So crazy
like ordering both things off Amazon a little a little bit more to it than
that, right. Yeah, I can't wait, Jason, I know,
I know you're excited. Man, about everybody else? I see Lawrence KB
five z z B Yeah, light down there, man. I mean he's
been buying radios for me. I mean since he was a little kid.
I mean he is awesome. That's awesome. Uh does he do six meters?
No, they do not do six meters? I think hang on here,
let me look at something. I'm looking over here, just to make
sure. Because I don't do much. You get hang out, hang on
on my hangdaking news, more breaking news. Oh, one point five to
fifty megahearts. Yes, that's six meters. Does do six meters? We
learned something to not there? You go one point one point three k on
six meters would be quite fun. I bet I could finally. I bet
I could finally talk to Chuck Frank. He's always telling me that the pipeline
between Texas and California is open if you get your INTENTNA up high enough.
I've been If I shot thirteen hundred wats at him, he'd answer me,
Ye, you have to wear a Weldon who though, I don't know.
Yeah, that's good wear. A welding hood. All right, man,
Hey, this is uh. I appreciate you sharing this news with this,
Richard. This is this is fun and uh and uh it's it's it's definitely
something that people are excited about. So will you have these at Dayton?
Yes, we will have them at Dayton. We'll have which will have all
three models plus the brand new Taurus model. It's dual l DMOS or L
D M O S transistors and it'll be there. Gill Franco, he's like
the president of the of spe and Italy. He will be in my booth
and I can't wait to meet him in person. And he's going to be
there. This is such a big deal for all the US Hams or North
American Hams out here that are on HF or even want to get on HF.
I want to put one of these expert amplifiers in every ham shack in
the United States. That's my goal. That's my goal, and I'm going
to do it. Babe. That's great, that's great. That's awesome.
Something to shoot for him. Man, you can't along with that. That's
great, all right, Frank, do we have any more questions? Not
really about the the amplifier. Uh, we got a question about Montes Seno
and Huntsville. Is the More Expo equivalent to Monta Seno Sinanigan's what we do
up in It's a little bit more. It's a little bit more laid back
than Monta sano Is, I think. Uh, but we are gonna go
We are gonna go up there and set up a hex beam at the More
Expo so that people will walk by and ask if we're actually talking to aliens.
This is a non Ham radio crowd. We're gonna set up a hex
beam so that we can tell people about Ham radio. So we're gonna We're
definitely gonna be doing that. Yeah, it's it's not as it's. It's
a little bit more laid back and calm and relaxed than Monta sano Is.
But you know, it's still a fun show. I've enjoyed it the last
two years, so I'm looking forward to this year as well. I did
cover Dayton h H. Nancy said, look out, Richard's looking like he
used car salesman with that hat on. Oh man, I'm not gonna tell
you what I used today. Yeah, yeah, okay, and uh,
Donn and a couple other people are making fun of Sapphire. Will Sapphire be
at the more Expo? Nope, And Sapphire is a suburban overlanding vehicle.
Somebody said you should trade Sapphire in for a new expert amplifier, and I
think that was a great idea. I said, will bake reptail because she's
priceless. Priceless. Sapphire is Frank's little Barbie doll car that he drives around.
We call it Sapphire Frank. Frank likes to make fun of people with
big trucks, Richard, so we we make fun of his car. So
it's turned about turn about his fair play with that ranger by the way,
mm hmm, get rid of that big dog. Saphire is a Honda Civic
twenty nineteen in the beautifullest blue. And that's how she got her name.
And I love her. That's pretty much all I got right now. Man,
Hey, can I say one more thing? Yep, yep, go
ahead. A couple of couple of quick things. One, thank you Jason
for doing this and bringing me on. This is a big deal. And
I know for a lot of Hams that are not in the HF this is
not a big deal for them, but this is a huge deal for me
and my family and my company. And it's just a big opportunity. I'm
a believer in it. And if I can help you get one, or
the viewers out here get one, that's great. I want everybody to have
one that wants one. And you know it's Easter. We had a big
time today with family and church and all that, and hope everybody did too.
And I just want to thank you, man, thanks for making this
possible. Shop us, you know, EMTC radio dot com. Baby,
Hey, we sell stuff, we trade. We have a big time.
I can't wait to see it. Belting and dating and more Handfest dates will
be announced. This is gonna be like the old days, baby back.
You know Jason, how we used to row. It was the first thing
I asked you when you called me yesterday. I was like, that,
does that mean you're going back on the hem Fest circuit. Yeah, it's
gonna be fun and we're gonna I've ordered in crates and stuff and I told
you it. And the crates, I mean set up and take down at
a hamfast is such a killer man. Yeah, and especially bringing like we
used to do ten tables and ten booths and all that. We're gonna make
this portable and easy to get in and out, take orders at the show,
do the trades, and then go home. Man, so awesome.
I'm really excited. I'm really excited. I haven't been bit excited. He
ever the seventh threes. Man, all right, buddy, Hey, yeah,
okay, cool, thank you for to Hey, seriously, thanks for
taking the time out tonight. I know it was Easter Sunday and we set
it Richard, and I said, I mean, we've been talking about doing
this for like a month, but we put the nail on the coffin yesterday
because he called me. He is like, hey, man, it's happening
now. I'm like, all right, let's just do it. So I
appreciate you taking the time out today, man, and I look forward to
seeing you. I will. Somebody asked me just in the chat just a
minute ago, if if I'll be at Belton. I don't know yet if
I'll be at Belton. If I do go to Belton, I will get
up early Saturday morning and just drive out for the day. I've got something
to do that Friday, so I'm not going to go down there with a
camper like I normally do. But as as every every time Belton rolls around.
It will depend on the weather because if it's gonna be thunderstorm and then
I'm not gonna go. But but if it's nice weather out there, that's
a really fun show, especially outside. So I'm gonna I'm gonna wait and
see. That's for me. It's gonna be a wait and see game.
But hopefully I'll get to go on Saturday, but we'll see. So yeah,
man, I'll be looking forward to seeing you there Richard, and seeing
you and maybe maybe seeing you for the eclipse. I'll let you know what
we do for that. Man. Love you, guys, Love you everybody
out there and cyber Land and Land. That's right, Love you, baby.
This is gonna be big, and I'm excited. I can tell you're
excited. Good. It's good, man, It's good. It's it'll be
a good h'd be good? Uh good to see how well you do with
it. I think you'll do well with it. I think I think you
will. If not, the worst thing that can happen will go broke.
I've been broke before. It's not that. Yeah. Josh is saying he
has an expert running out of the back of his truck. Easy. Yeah,
that's the one he blessed. What Don was asking earlier, that's the
one he played. He's got a a new Ford Lightning, the evy Ford
Lightning, and it's got an inverter in the bed and he plugged it into
his inverter in the bed and ran it I think into like a stainless steel
whip. I don't remember what antenna used, but current, I mean they
don't want to draw any current. Yeah, that's it. That's it works
man, it works. That's that's it. So it's good cool man.
Thanks for your time tonight. Thanks everyone in the chat. Thank you for
the support in the chat. Guys. We will see you sometime this week,
well next week I guess now for the eclipse, maybe Belton More Expo
a couple of weeks after that, so we're looking forward to it all.
Seventy three guys. Somebody said early on is like this ain't no museum baby.
That's right. Thanks, thanks many y'all. Have a good night.
Seventy three doll