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share the link to this stream the same, hey, vern, So I
need to share the link to this stream on the other stream because I wasn't
able to start it because it was this is a mobile stream and it wouldn't
take it. So what's up, Robert, what's up? Oh? Nice,
I just got stealing the fry or great, that's not my fries.
They're black fries, not anymore. So uh well, I'm oh, I'm
just glad to be not traveling. All right. Let's see if you guys
fluto, I don't want to hear you. They didn't have any lets.
So yeah, we're getting started here in just a minute. If someone will
share the link to this stream in the chat on the other stream that I'm
not gonna use. I appreciate that. Guys, that's a burger. Okay,
that's so. Then thank you, Robert. You're welcome. We're gonna
get going. Yeah, I think most of you found it. It looks
like there's seventy watching. Now, what's Electra Mike. We're driving to town
and guess what we see? Oh yeah, gigaparts Bronco. Oh seriously,
because they were out here when we got here. Yeah, oh I saw
it when you when you sent me that, I thought you were here because
I knew there were Robert, that seat is wet. I haven't sitting out
there to drive. I mean, you can sit there if you want to.
But these three that are Frank, the three chairs here that are Frank's
are probably better. I set that out there, or you can. I
was gonna put it in the sun if it starts raining, well, fair
point doing good? Boom boom? Are you live now? Yes, we're
live right now? People watching? Everybody just yeah, yeah, here,
grab there's a microphone there, so yes, mm hmmm, where's your first
somebody said, hey, perfect, I was about to ask where your assistant
was, but I see him now. Forty five says Hi, Mike,
what's going on? Y'all? Take radio here? I just flew into joined
some Wendy. Uh oh boy, hello, hello, hello switch account that
they're there. So let's see if people have found the stream. Oh do
you have to make a new one? Yeah, I forgot to set the
one up yesterday as a mobile and it won't. It won't do the you
have to eat to do it mobile or not mobile. So let's see share
link copy. Okay, here, guys, we are in. What did
you guys give her Mike, HM, that's a great question. Probably a
little while ago. Uh maybe yeah, something like that, something like that
hour and a half ago. Sam Weaver says, it's still Frank's fault no
matter what. I'm good with that. Absolutely. Okay, there's that.
That turned the volume down. Okay, I gotta read the chat here now,
all right, folks, thanks for joining me today. I don't need
even need that. I can just pause the stream. I just want the
chat. Kyle's on the road monitoring one. I saw him in the chat
earlier. You need to turn the camera. Well, okay, is that
important to you? Yes? I want to be on camera. No,
you want to be on camera. All right, here we go. How's
that all right? Uh? Frank broke my laptop probably forty five Auto says,
hey, I pikes the live streams. That's right. Looks like you
were on starlink. No, we're not on starlink. I'm well, you
know what it might have connected to starlink? Is it bad? Don?
Does it not look good? Yes, sir, I was about to swamp
you. I was going to. Uh, I didn't turn off Wi Fi,
so perhaps I was gonna do it on just like four gen. But
let me know how this stream looks and sounds. Guys, thank you for
being here. I'll try that big GM and Mike and it. While we
were on the way, we talked to Jim on all Star on the way
coming in. We are monitoring all Star node number four three one three six
good, no dropouts five nine looks good, sounds good. Thank you,
videos perfect for now. Thank you, Chris, thank you, Tom,
Thanks Jay. Renee six is in the chat. What's up? Renee?
I saw vernon earlier? You noways just good? Due ray Man? What's
up Tim? Oh wow, Yeah, there's my wife in the chat.
We're here, honey. Sorry, I didn't text you. We got here.
We've been setting up everything. So consider this my notification. We have
a well, she could see me. We share each other. We share
our locations with each other on Google, so she knows where I am.
She ate this morning? Yeah, you can give her something. Sure it's
not spicy, is it? Yeah? No, that's good. So the
meshes up and running. We had some trouble. We were we were dinking
around with the with the with the mesh tastic at Kyle's house last night.
And if you turn on m Q T T and connect to Wi Fi,
Bluetooth does not work. Okay, okay, so that's stupid. So the
only way I can, yes, but the only way I can go into
there, and and I have to connect the web client through a laptop to
go in there and turn Bluetooth back on. So how you turn Bluetooth back
on? You can't connect with the phone, that's what you do? Did
you turn on Wi Fi and then it reverts back to Bluetooth? How do
you turn off Wi Fi if you can't connect to it? So well,
okay, so so my my okay, so my t being for whatever reason,
I think I did a poor soldering job on it. My screen was
working last night, so when I booted it this morning, the screen didn't
come up. I connected it to Wi Fi with the app and it rebooted,
the screen didn't come up. So I don't know what IP it's on.
So I can't connect to my t being with my IP address on Wi
Fi, and so I can't connect to it at all. Right now to
Wi Fi? Last night, were you connecting to Kyle? We were connecting
to Kyle's. So it doesn't because I tried to connect to my truck WiFi
and it when we were sitting in his living room in the front of his
house and my truck was on the street and it wouldn't reach it. So
yeah, so you're gonna have to do it through a console, a console,
okay, Okay, so I will fix that way. I know how
to fix it with a console. I just haven't done that yet because I
haven't. We just got here and set up and everything. But you going
to Kyle's. Because when said you're at Kyle's, I'm like, what,
where's the other microphone? When do you guys hold that we stopped at Kyle's
Kyle's. I didn't know that was we were talking to Kylin all Star.
Did you bring your all Star node? No you didn't, question? Oh
what yeah, exactly the one that Don in five s KT who's in the
chat right now, gave you that actually works that you have never booted that
thing? Yeah? Have you brought that now the house? Okay, it's
not connected to anything? All right, So it's on though, we wonder
why. See, we don't make fun of fun of Frank because we have
nothing better to do. We make fun of him because he deserves it.
So but uh, yeah, if you would have brought your all Star you
could have connected. But why pretty all Star. We're here at a radio
convention that everyone has their own radio. There's no need to run on Star.
Here we can hear Frank without the microphone on. Moore says, well,
go back to the first street. Frank speak clearly the mic Frank.
So I'll probably I'll probably connect my nodes up tonight to the web client.
Both of my I have a I have a the T beam where the screen
doesn't work anymore, and I have my hell Tech V three, well one
of them I have. I have four heltach V threes. Mike printed a
case and got the screws and the hardware and everything for it. So I
gave him one of my hel Tech V threes and he gave me a case.
So we both have that running right now. I have two extras of
those I might set up this weekend. So yeah, there is right there.
Yeah, print job. Yeah, where's your third? For me?
On that one? I didn't bring one for you. I would bring I
would give you one if you would use it. But as you clearly have
demonstrated with your all star doing, don gave you. You're not going to
use this mess. This is something different. I was excited about this.
Where is you have a third? One? Right? I have two more?
Two more? Yes, I have two more. Where is it?
It's in the truck. Actually it's in the trailer now. So I didn't
tell you guys the trailer story yet. So I went to go get my
trail at the Hunting Lease, which is where I keep it. On Sunday,
it'd been raining in Texas for three days. It was a muddy swamp
out there. I couldn't pull it out, so I rented this trailer on
Outdoorsy. We drove all the way in. We drove to Kyle's last night
and crashed. We just kind of decided to do that because Kyle was on
All Star. We were talking to him and our route was already taking us
straight through Saint Louis. We didn't detour. We were going through Saint Louis
and Kyle's like, hey, if y'all want to crash here, and we're
like, let's do that. So we crashed at his place. I swept
in his basement and we had the electure with us. It all worked out
and we got there and it's only six hours from Kyle's to here, so
we got up the cheer too small for you, dude. So we got
up this morning in about five and we left Kyle's house about five thirty.
It was about six hours in picked this up, came here, set it
up, and we did all that in time to go live. That's why
I pushed the live string back a little bit. So that's the story behind
that. But we'll let you know how this extended camper works. But so
far, so good. It's a lot lighter than mine because it doesn't have
a slide room. It's doing well. I mean it's only thirty minutes.
We picked it up thirty minutes down the road. So yeah, probably,
but yeah, thirty minutes down the road, I'm going to ask you how
did it slide out? But you say it doesn't slide out. But so
it seems like it's lighter than mine, but it's got two axles. Mine
only has one axle. So probably another piss poor design by Forest River that
you know, something they missed, because no, this is not a force
no els, it's not a forced River. So picks of Electra and Pixie
for discord. So Pixie did not like Electra, so Electric stay in the
basement. Yeah, she kept snarling her teeth at her and and Kyle's like,
yeah she does. She doesn't like other dogs. I'm like Electro would
have gotten along with her. Just fine. Yeah, so all right,
let me build this thing. I'm not gonna we're not doing that right now,
doing that right now, doing a live stream right now? Yeah.
Well, yes, we are going to have questions and we don't feel like
answering them right now. Yes, that's that's for sure. Mike and I
built Well you were there, Yeah, we built ours at the scar Bard
the other night. I was busy doing something else, but I would have
I should have busy sitting there. No, Josh has a case for me.
You know what, you know what, screw Frank. I'm not giving
my one of my cases so we can hear Frank. So Frank can have
one, I don't think so. How the T beam comes in a plastic
case? Yes, oh no, I have four T beams also, Yeah,
the little plastic snap case. Yeah? Did you really? That's awesome?
That okay? Hey, you know what, where there's a ham there's
a way right, that's awesome. Uh, don die gideo w J three
U says stay hi to Mike for me. Hid on Uh. Steve says,
we can hear Frank Chow. We bought a brand new twenty eight foot
camper trailer. Every time look at something that falls apart, ten you wore
to Yeah, mine as a ten year warranty also, but only on the
parts that are actually not falling apart. So, uh, hope y'all have
some inn five BSB. What's up, dude? I hope you'll have some
real adult beverages for later. Yingling is what I have now, And I
gave y'all to bring out here. Thank you for that. I actually do
appreciate that. Four roses. Yeah, it's in there. Yeah. I
bought a bottle of Buffalo trace, the single batch that had it on sale
that halls the other night. So yeah, that's that's where that is.
If you want a yngling, there's some in the in the fridge of my
truck. Uh, if you want one, Dave. Now you said you
didn't want one, but that's fine. We actually had an interesting flight.
Yeah, yeah, so we were Electra. We get to the airport and
our flight was laid a little bit. It comes in and they unloaded everyone
and we get onto the plane and the captain comes on and it's like,
sorry, we haven't pushed back yet, but this plane was slated to go
somewhere else and then filled it up and it's actually too much fuel for this
flight. Oh really it was overfueled. Huh yeah, Electra, that's enough.
So we can either ask thirty of y'all to come off or just unload
some fuel. Yeah. So hang out by fight five minutes and we'll get
this going about another ten. Yeah. She's actually quite friendly. She just
likes to bark at other dogs. So yeah, but it was very interesting,
Electra. Yeah, yeah, she's she's very friendly. She just makes
a show of herself as all. She well, yeah, as long as
there's another dog, there's another human coming. Now she's just like, hey,
how's it going. You got a treat for me? Buffalo trace is
excellent. Frank did not make it overweight. They did it, oh Handwridy
Crusaders any he's on larceny here around quiet? Yeah, answer, yelling into
the microphone. When we were he had more expo. We had a whole
bottle of Larsenes that we finished that first night. So, Mike, how
did you enjoy the ride over? This is long, yeah, but it
was faster than it would have been if we were pulling a trailer. So
what they don't have lettus inspired? So they no lettuce, no tomato.
I mean it's Wendy's. It starts off uninspired. Well, yes, David,
American Alliance did respond to me, so I know I made it.
And now we're talking about Wendy's. When we ordered the sandwich, yeah,
I ordered a Gus pepper sandwich yesterday and this is not a ghost pepper sandwich.
This is a regular spicy chicken. It's the same thing that gave me
less. I don't want I don't want people to hear me choose, I'm
just help. No no. Well, then when they were filling out all
the burger orders, they put no less, no less, no lettuce,
and robbers like, we want lettuce, we ain't got none. So when
we were coming back from the hunting lease on Monday, let's go, we
stopped at Wendy's and wherever it's cater or dent or whatever the hell we went
through and the app was like, there's a shortage of lettuce, we might
not have any, and we got lettuce, but he ordered the ghost pepper
chicken sandwich and he got a regular chicken sandwich. So Wendy's can't get their
act together with a ghost pepper chicken sandwich. I don't know. Great,
apparently they don't serve it outside the Texas even though it's on the menu.
Well, we were in Texas and you got the wrong one where no,
we weren't. When we were coming back from the hunting leves to get the
trailer hitch. Oh that yeah, right, two days ago. I was
thinking that was yesterday. Wow, you missed You're you're off a day too.
It seems like tuesday to me. Also, yep, I get David
leaving. Yep. By Dave, were going too far? No, no,
he'll be got Yeah, he left his cigars here. Let's tide him
right. You didn't leave that here. Let's get into it. See what
he has the Swisher suits. So were you all late and arriving on the
flight? Actually not that much, so we're about forty minutes late leaving,
but when we're in the air, like he made up time. Like we
landed pretty much right on time, probably about ten to fifteen minutes late,
but they made up time. I was like, you know what, you
should have used that extra gas to get here right on time. Of course
those engines a little bit harder. Yeah, Frank, can I use your
mm hmm, Robert, here's mine right here? You got a handy,
Yeah, thank you, sitting on top. So yeah, So what what
are y'all in the chat looking forward to? That's a good question. I
was looking forward to some some weather without rain myself. If I'm gonna get
that. Nope, But Tom, we landed in Cincinnati, which is in
Kentucky. Cincinnati's in Ohio, with the airport's in Kentucky. I am so
confused. Cincinnati Airport's in Kentucky. You landed in Kentucky. Why didn't we
stop and get any bourbon? Why did they have bourbon at the airport?
That's very true. I don't know any thoughts on the new Icon radio.
Is there going to be an Icon radio, that's the rumor started. What
kind of radio? I don't know, but I com I was talking to
Ray at Orlando and he said he's showing off the new amplifier. He doesn't
have a price point yet from the new amplifier. He said they're going to
announce the new price point here at this show. So I wonder if people
are getting the their wires mixed up thinking that the new thing is gonna be
a new radio. If there is a new radio, point me to some
sources, y'all, let's let's let's run this through the ground if we can.
But my expectations is gonna be a price point on the amplifier and actual
launch dates and more information. That's my two cents, and spend it how
you want it. At least I know Flex is just introducing something new this
weekend. They're gonna announce it at the at the at their banquet tomorrow night,
so I'll get a l about that. Of course. M H if
does something new. So are you gonna go to the Flex banquet? But
I'll to find out about it on Friday. That's fine. Pink Floyd have
a cigar? Yes, you're gonna go far mm hmm. I'm actually spoking
a Nika Niko Rustica. I really do like the cigar. It's like a
good everyday cigar. Today is a day, Today's a day. Freddy Max
says, I predict the new Icon radio will be an Icy seven. If
they do that, they will be my heroes. There's no way they're gonna
do that, but that would be the most awesome thing, either seven o
six or seven thousand, updated all mode built in sound card for one.
They'll probably call it the Icy three oh two. But I don't think they'll
do that, but they should do that in my opinion. What I'm gonna
go to four days? And what is that? Oh? Y yeah,
yeah, yeah, I got it, I got it, got it,
got it. It took me a second. Jason still needs a chair,
No, he's got a chair. Dave, was are you asking? If
you are you asking if you should bring a chair for the answer is always
yes, yeah, And when you're leaving it's okay. To ask for the
chair back, because there's actually two or three like little kiddie chairs in this
that came with this camera. Cool. We will if you're coming to hang
out and you're driving, bring chairs, Bring chairs, Bring chairs, bring
chair There will be lots of people here, just like Dave just laughed and
brought some kind of chair with hydraulics. It looks like, look at this
guy. It's like, I'm gonna lean back here scrolling up. Dude,
look at that. That's beautiful. There do an any podo? Maybe?
Maybe depends on the weather. Oh, thank you. I know there's a
some down in Ohio at that park. Yes, and Freddie Mack had an
adventure with his camper too. He got out on the road and his emergency
break was locking up, so had to go back home and fix it.
He's on his way now though. Was he losing panels also? And motorcycle
guys, but I know there's yeah, there's no There were no panels being
lost or or trim falling off or fresh water tanks an a y o,
man, I was just talking about you. I hope that you can make
it man. Yeah, yeah, Mike, where are you? Is there
a motorcycle design designated parking there. I don't know, it would not surprise
me if there was. That's great. You're lime juice and your growner.
That's good. I love it. Oh boy, Freddie Mac just past Springfield,
Missouri. Hey, so you just passed more so he's so you're probably
oh you're probably only like so he's got to stop at BUCkies then, yeah,
probably about nine hours away. Then if we were, if we saw
Bucky's from Cincinnati, I was definitely gonna get that breal. That's the way
that we came. We came. We came straight through, uh forty four
from Big Cabin and straight through. It's time to get into your gazebo.
Why is it raining? Oh? Yes, it is, isn't it?
Okay? Right? Yeah? Smoking lounge? All right, y'all you'll check
got this smoking lounge I've got here? Oh good's that right there there?
Joe? How's that? Okay? Get mine? Uh yes, as a
matter of fact, I do. We'll get the dog out of the rain.
You got her, frank m m, she's her. Her leash has
just kind of looped around that thing. Mm hmm. Okay, how do
you chat? Here? You go? Robert we on camera mich Uh,
there we go, thank yo, go in caright lect her? There you
are you? Oh she's not too bad. Hey, hey, hey,
don't be a girl. She hadn't said hello yet. Well that's true.
She gets to Yeah, she's gonna she's gonna want to be by the entrance.
Yeah. What did you bring me in here for? What are you
doing? Girl? We can open yeah, yeah, actually we can open
an event her cold strength? Yeah, electric girl. What's the best way
to do it? From the outside? Yeah? Okay, So this is
the canopy that we were using over a more huddled in here with a giant
fire pit. No, no, windows pretty much were open because we were
cold. I'll tell you this thing was what's the super chat? Uh?
Super chat? Super chat for Mike? Mike. Not sure if you all
ran into this this weekend. Have fun around me, dude, Mike.
One hundred dollars super chat from Mike fantastic, Probably not saying that right.
Yeah, hey man, we're definitely used that towards the troll up. Totally.
Thank you very much. So Jason has another hundred at the troll up.
I was already spend more than well I know, but now this is
another hundred yeah, definitely, thank you, Mike. I appreciate that I
got one, right, Robert, all right, you can come in,
come in, come on in more than this more. Oh yeah, we
had that chairs like chair to chair to chair to chair. We had to
have ten chairs in here. It seemed I think it was like seven,
right, yeah, yeah, it was seven and right of them. So
yeah, and this thing was a godsend. This thing is nice even with
an open door right there. If you put it like a little propane firre
ring in the middle here, it keeps it nice and toasty in here.
So I had to question, how large is your camping spot here? Are
you technically taking up two spots? Right? No, No, I am
not taking it two spots. I am. Uh, the edge of my
camping spot is Dave is parked in the spot next to us, but they're
not here yet, so it doesn't matter. But the edge of the spot
is basically where the where the gazebo is and then in the campus. So
no, I'm I'm uh pretty much right on the line. Yeah, yeah,
I saw your question. Troll pub is Saturday night. Yes, there
was some miscommunication, but it's Saturday always and vern I'm curious did you get
your h your meshtastic radio? I know yours was coming today. You don't
have to drink to come to the Troll Pub. You are welcome to come
hang out with us and drink soda, water, leumonade, whatever you want
to Drinking beer and whiskey is a lot of requirement. Just come and hang
out. Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a full restaurant.
Yeah. I mean, they serve everything there. It's it's not just
a pub. And they got a great if the weather holds, they've got
a great outdoor patio. It's really nice come here. Yeap, very true.
So I think next year we should coordinate a little bit better. So
Kyle was leaving his house today at noon picking up Charlie at the Cincinnati Airport.
I think around four and then they're headed this way. But I think
they're going straight to the airbnb. So we might if if the rain keeps
up, I fear, maybe we'll go hang out there. Yeah yeah,
and like, because they'll probably be there around six ish something like that.
There. Oh okay, well, okay, all right, I mean,
I'm I'm cool hanging out here for a while. But either way, but
I think in Cincinnati. No, it's in it's in datement. It was
one they had two years ago. Kyle said, oh, the between the
two ferns house. He did the twin two ferns at Huntsville. He did
it, but the idea came from the first Oh maybe the original unicorn.
Yeah, the original unicorn head the Josh Josh's live stream that was later hidden,
right, and it's still on his channel but private and still there.
So yeah, yeah, it was that. It was two years ago.
But it's that one again. So I don't know exactly where that is,
but but what we'll head of there in a little bit. It's three forty
right now, so I have forty five's asking if I'm going to attach a
mesh device to each goat. No, but I like the idea of attaching
one to each of the dogs. Oh yeah, I forgot idea. What
should do APRS the dog? Yeah? I actually I bought some parts to
do a little, uh, a little APRS project for the dogs. Yeah,
you set up an I gate at the hells. Then it left like
micro beacons because they don't need that much. Dang, that's a torch.
That's the same torch. Rough cut yeah, yeah, he's just got just
turned up higher than mine. But yeah, same torch a little yeah out
yeah, what live stream? That's it? Might? Uh? Vernon is
asking what times troll pub is pretty much right after the show ins, like
five thirty six, somewhere in there. I think last year we were there
about five thirty. I think we'll probably I think I think we probably head
over like fifteen minutes for the show ins. I probably head over there,
but you know, pretty much just right as the show ins. I think
the show ins at five are small. Let's see somebody else says M seven
t rs on a new radio not on one or seven ten? What would
you suggest? I think the seven ten is a better radio. But the
not on one A has fusion and all mode VHF U HF, So if
you want that then uh, not only one, but if you want just
HF only seven ten. You've got an eight seventeen, so you already have
the all mode. So it's uh, seven ten I think is a better
HF radio. It's newer. What's she wanted about? Maybe she likes him.
She hadn't been in the trailer yet. She wants to go check that
out. There you go you got to be your holder there. It's something.
Miss Letra is a good dog. But cigar smokes. You don't like
Joseph. We are on one four eight this year, simplex. I'm sorry,
what's that I saw the Oh yeah, that's pretty slick? Well was
it? You know? It's not like oh sure, yeah, yeah,
it's more back. Oh yeah, huh, that's cool. That's good though.
I'm golhad it works up for you? Oh? Actually, I bring
it. I didn't know if you noticed, Orlando, but I had this
in the booth. I think I did see that booth. Yeah, oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't blame it, don't Yeah, I
was so beat there. Apparently made it through the week really and you didn't
have nearly as many intends to sell that weekend, did you? Yeah?
Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah, but you only had what six or eight
door and tennis? How many? Yeah? That's all I could feet in
the exhibition. Okay, pulled the little U haul. Oh did you get
four rotatable good guy poles and twenty one X games. So I don't pull
the chat and click on click on the chat there, slide slide it to
the slide it to the right. There if to the left if you need
So, what's up Scott anything? Do you have anything new to announce that?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he was telling us about it awesome things.
Yeah, oh yeah. I'll ask you after the stream. I ask
you after the stream, unless you want to give us a little tease.
Well, the mask expansions for two four forty was for a whip and the
other ones for the yeaggy. They go right on top of my send a
mask. Nice, that makes sense. Yeah, people ask I get the
only Heck stream that would even handle something like last and people were asking,
he is Ago one. I just didn't want to do it. I'm like,
it's just too much. And we're talking about the b v h q
X mass. Is the fully outdoor mass that you could put up and leave
up year round. You're not to worry about anything. No storms. You
had pictures of hurricanes, hurricanes that came by and they right then didn't mess
the masks. It was still up. Yeah, there was just some guys
to them in Florida and there's the there's a guy down at the house a
lot of them and he lost one of the other brands and mine was like,
there's no stands in there. Right, nothing, you know, it's
a rugget piece of workers. It's all gonna go on, Kevin, I
think we had about eight people in this gazebel and more expell I think it
was we were soups nuts, Yeah, with a big flame fire pit in
the middle. Yeah, it was warm in here. It was nice.
It was real good. These dark see these stains on the thing. I
need to wash the thing, take it home, set it up and hose
it down. Real good. David. What is the height of your mask?
What's it? Your mass system? How high? All of the math?
Yeah? Feet three feet? But how how high can you get it?
What I mean? He doesn't make a mask? Hes okay, so
he makes the mass system. I thought you also sold the center. Man's
asking if he needs to bring the fire pit, I don't know. It's
not gonna be cold. It's gonna be it's gonna be in the sixties.
It's not more cold. It's not more cold. I mean, if he
wants to bring it, we could try. I think we'd have to turn
it down on low. Yeah, no, it's not it's not that cold.
It's not that cold. We were using it for heat though, That's
what it was I can. I can in the thirties overnight, but I
can't right now. Uh tonight. I would probably wish I had a hoodie.
They might want to stop at him. What the hell is in Xenia?
Is there a Walmart? Hey? Hey, Mike, there's got to
be one. I have a tank radio hoodie you can borrow. I'd rather
just shiver. Hey, I see Scott's out there radio for non techies.
Scott, Hey, Scott, sixties isn't cold. But this is Michigan degrees
Michigan complaining about the cold. And that is why I moved to Texas,
because sixty degrees is cold. Mike needs to cowboy ups, God says.
I do not care what any of y'all say. I was born in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida. Yeah, more south than all y'all. Y'all. Oh,
I like that. So I did a live stream. It was so.
I did a live stream on Sunday. That was my first one hundred
viewer live stream. And we sat around and talked about cigars for pretty much
the first half of the stream, and it was awesome. Uh, and
then we got talking about Dayton and what we were looking for and uh,
our plans that that was. That was so much fun. I set up
in my garage because it was raining outside, and I liked how I angled
the camera on that shot. Did you see that shot I had on myself.
M Yeah, that was a good shot. The front yard in the
background. Yeah, you always see my side high. You're a good side
there. Who are we missing? I wouldn't say I was missing it,
Bob? Who was here a second? There was? Somebody was here earlier?
There was there was another guy the campground was walking by off his dog.
No, no, no, no, this is it you put you
put electorate inside? Yeah, because I think she was whitings. Yeah,
she did not want to be in here. Yep, Okay. I should
have got a hoodie at BUCkies. Yeah, well you've already got a BUCkies
hoodies you hm hmm. I forgot about being cold and wet and how much
I hate that Walmart's eight minutes away. That's what they say, get shirt
or something? Ten ninety nine. Is that for the FD that that is
a great deal? Yeah? Yeah, I think that is an excellent radio
and it and it is a newer radio compared to the Icon seventy three hundred.
But Mike's thoughts on the Yazo menu are completely right. It's a it's
a better it's a better radio here first it's better hardware, newer, but
there their menus need to be improved. They did, and they and that's
what you get. M the W eight UH is that Craig. Craig's over
there at uh Caesar Creek State Park. Rock on man, throw my call
sign out ten times, k m r D k m r d km redy
k and a ready Ken already. So it sounds like he got the all
Star node up and going now it is, yes, yes, we are
on all Star. My hub is I've got my mobile node connected to my
hub which is on twenty four to seven. The hub number is four three
one three six. Freddie Mack is on there, Kyle is on well,
Kyle was on there earlier. I don't think Kyle has a mobile node,
which is really kind of fail on Kyle's part if you think about it,
because he's like older and all Star than most of us are. He's also
over it though maybe, but still he still needs a mobile node for road
Tree. He was saying yesterday about it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
so yeah, four three one three six on all Star Freddy Mack is
on there. Several other people are on there. I talked to Uh,
well, Kyle was on there earlier. We talked to him, but he's
left his house now. I can't remember who there was somebody else we talked
to. I can't remember who was right now. But yeah, but there's
several people connected all stars, so connect up and join us. We'll be
monitoring off and on all week. I have my note in the truck,
so wherever the truck is, that's where I'll be monitoring from. And I
do agree having that note in the truck as you travel around the state very
useful, very handy to have. I just don't see the point of having
it up at the house so you can talk to people. There's a couple
of questions on the tent. This is a gazebo, gazelle gazebo tent,
and it's fairly large and it's easy to put up, yep, especially when
the cost ground as it is. Money. How many money money moneys?
So fifty dollars more than my about four fifty. I think they're more than
that now I understand communications don Colorado Overland show their website Gazelle tens dot com.
Adams actually surprised Gazelle did not have a booth at More. I am
too. Yeah, there were a lot of news this year, but we
had a Gazelle outpost of them, yes throughout the campaign. Send them some
pictures and say, y'all need to come to the show next year. Don
you don't understand the beauties of plus ten minutes. It's very quick, easy
up. The hardest part is drilling is putting the stakes in the ground.
But this ground is so wet. They just that's so that didn't even taken.
They are screw anchors. Yes, their screw steaks with the with the
you just twist them in. But I just pushed him in because the grounds
are soft. Here. H r O has the ft M five hundred d
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see what price it is because that stupid heart I can't read. Let your
parts of your check earlier today? Uh huh okay, here we go.
Can v h Q hex be picked up at the new Hampshire location or hro
O? Would a Carlson roof tower be a good mounting option? Do you
have? Does a tro sell them off by directly from Okay, okay,
and you're in New Hampshire, like about an hour from the h Okay that
they have no inventory in any of the hr rows and fall drops. Okay,
so if you if you didn't hear that, HRO carries him, but
they don't carry him in inventory. It's all drop ship. Uh. And
you can pick one up directly from Dave who also lives in New Hampshire and
uh Carlson roof tower I'm not I'm not sure I'm familiar with that. I
don't know the brand name, but they make these little tripod towers the roof
Yeah. Yeah, don't go on anything that you're willing to put it on,
Okay, how heavy? Well I have a guy called me the other
day and he has an ancient a quarter masks on like a push up to
but I'm like, it's a little white yeah, okay, okay, turn
them to put it on there. I'm like that until it doesn't. Yeah,
well yeah. Usually what happens is those those lightweight things where he can
fall over and they snap. I've had a couple of people have that happened
recently and broke arms from dropping them. Give them a new arm. Pray
and they feel really good, you know. He said, blah blah blah,
great customer service order direct. He'll love to see you to swing by
and take it. That's right, that's what blah blah blah blah blah.
That's what he said. I could be a spokesperson for you. Well that's
saying Thomas. You bring Benjamin right, yeah, yeah yeah, cash price
on those things that at the mfest this weekend. So let's see uh from
scott Scotland, UK. Hey, welcome to the chat. Thanks for being
here. Uh, let's see volunteer firefighter walk on. Thank you, yeah,
thank you for your service. I met you at Belton. I was
walking my general exam test. I passed it last Friday, so congrats on
the general upgrade. Dude. I would love to see Frank put up a
X beam at his house. Who said that s N five s K T.
I could do that one. He's not using it. Yeah, actually,
if I give it, there's the only place I could really think about
putting that up at the house would be the front yard. I have so
many trees in my backyard. No, I love to create leaves that you
got to clean up in the fall. They create leaves for my mowers to
pick up, and I'm fairly happy with that. Yeah, who will be
at the Forum Saturday at nine am? I don't know. Is that the
if you go to? Is that the ham Nation one? Saturday at nine?
Is that the ham Nation one? I'm not sure. I haven't looked
at. I'm not sure. You know, I haventh So you know when
they did they had Nation form last year and Josh had us up on stage.
Yeah, I know. We were in the Hayden and Kyle and Jim
and t O and Sterling and I. We're all on the back road just
making noise, cutting up. So I loved it. I loved it when
I got up on stage and he said, just go announce your channel because
I think it was at at the end. And I went up there and
Josh was like, Frank, these mics are hot. Don't yell. I
said, okay, it was perfect. So I got up on stage.
I was like, and I was so nervous. I had the idea after
he said that. I was like, if I can't yell, I'm going
to have them yell at. So I went up there. I was like,
all right, I can't say it because I was told I can't yell
I'm Frank, and I'm and I just into the crowd and they yelled tank
Radio. Oh that made my year. That was awesome. But if that
crashed and burned, it'd be like tank Radio, small YouTube channel. Thank
you for your time, no doubt. Sheesh. Are you all going to
t O's talk? He's doing something on FT eight. I think we were
talking. I don't know digital contest. Isn't he with the digital contesting folks
with I'm not sure. I think so. Maybe I think it's some eight
RL thing, but Kyle was talking about it last night, but I didn't.
I haven't even looked at the forum schedule this year, so I don't
really know for what what this place is. I don't have any time to
be at the forum. The first two or three years I came to him
vention, I caught at least one or two forums. I would catch the
forum by John Birmingham, who was a DMR expert. I believe he's silent
key now, but I would catch the DMR forum because he had he knew
a lot about This is when DMR was in its infancy and radio and that
was always a good forum. But I haven't been to a forum in probably
five years at him vention. Well, I was at the ham Nation Forum
last year. Like like I said, we were just make noise on the
back rope. But you know, I've never even been in that building.
M Yeah, I'm gonna go to Kyle's. He's doing a node red chat,
so I'll stop in there for a bit and then airis is gonna have
a chat and Randy h. Burger from DFW is gonna be there, so
I'll stop in there to support those guys. He's on the board of ers
as far as I know, he's still on the board. Well, he's
the he's the director of technology. Now so yep, you truck's unlocked,
but yes, what do you need? You might want to get a rolled
them now. Okay, Actually, welcome back to the Tank Show. Host
it on ham Radio two because you know, Jason does like to support the
US small channel creators. Today we're just hanging out talking about cigars. We
got a cigar Brother Mike over there, and then cigar Brother Antenna over there
and Robert cigar Brother. Robert we're missing is that sounds like Robert? It
sounds like, uh, the opening of some sort of secret Society eating right.
Cigar Brother. Cigar Brother Bob is uh is running the session because I
rolled it down. I didn't roll it back up. There's no secret handshake.
As long as you have a cigar, you're welcome. Did you pick
up one of the I saw your brother at more Expo about that has that
ashtray? Did you? Yeah? It's a light hard rubber ashtray, silicon.
Mike says, know who I need to get back on my cigar social
stream? Joe, John, not Joe. We could get Joe back on
Joe Mama, Joe Mama. I was trying to remember what Joe you were
talking about. John Cruck. Every time I'm gonna put it together, I
think about putting it on, but I don't have his number or contact anywhere.
It's probably very deep in discord, but I need to get your number.
He'd be a good he'd be a good ad. He's always so busy.
I mean, that's that is a busy dude right there. He is
a busy dude. Well, he runs something else other than his job,
so I think he has a second something going on. Then we have Mike
on, then he can tear up the menus like, Okay, tell me
what that thought about this is. He's out there. There wasn't any thought,
Scott. Uh yeah, come by and see us. The best place
to see us here at the convention is around the Gigabarts booth and the Toads
meet up. I think it's at the flag Bole and Troll Pub if it's
not raining right here too, even if it is raining, Yeah right here.
Yeah, Tank Radio Live. Let's get tanked. Oh I'm going to
open up my cigar social with that next time. I love that. Oh
John's a E N T. That's right, thanks Don. Yeah, he's
got He's got so many different things going on. I'm curious what that is
they put Old Day seasoning and beer. I don't know what Old Bay is.
You know, ken Wood needs to release a mobile a mobile radio rimpoil.
It's chesapeag Bay thing. Yeah, it's it's like the Yeah, it's
it's the East Coast version of Zatarin's. Uh so, what what are you
talking about here? So a guy named Mike who brought us some beer last
year brought these to us this year. This dead Rise Old Bay Summer eight.
So that's probably got some spice to it. That should be good.
There's several of them in the fridge. Yeah, well hold on, let
me put on glasses. I want to see your face. I want to
see if it's a pickle beer face or if this is like pickle beer.
Yeah, it does. No, it's not bad. It's not pungent like
pickle beer. Yeah, so that's good. No, it's not bad.
If you want a drink after me, you're welcome to taste it if you
want one of your own. There's two two six packs in there, old
pay and beer. It's all right, is it really? Yeah? It's
it's it's like a muted old bay, like come here, you can't go
out there. It's it's raining out there. But she didn't like the cigar
smoke. I know it's all right, all right, I gotta try now.
If anyone asked that, ho covid s. Yeah, but it's like
a mute it it's not like you know it's there. Oh yeah, you
know it's there. Okay, that's it's it's a light I p at there's
a little bit of But yeah. Now, if this were a hot summer
day and we actually had a crab boil out on the table, that probably
really don't that'd be really good with that. Yeah, corn and potatoes.
That is vendor sitt up going on right now? Oh yes, yeah,
yeah, yeah, if you didn't. All the doors were open when we
drove by the Giga Parts Ronca was here. I guess they left because you
guys saw him in town, but yeah, you could see all the people
inside. So we saw him in town and we drove by. I was
like, oh, that's the gigapart Robert. We turned around. So we
turned around and I got a quick little video of me putting a sticker underneath
the windshot. We just slept. Then when we're sitting at Ondies, we
saw him come out of the Old Boy What big Boy, Big Boy,
Big Boy restaurant and we're watching him Steve. Yeah, so he's gonna climb
in there and go, I couldn't help myself. You take a video of
that. Yeah, I got some footage of it. That's I don't think
there's gonna be the short, but I'm gonna probably put that on our my
uh Shenanigan's video. I'm gonna try to release drive by Wait a minute,
that's Giga Parts, right, Yeah. Yeah, So if y'all watching gigaparts,
nothing but love. But I'm gonna get you twice like for all that,
because I thought that they smoked too fast, and some of them like,
yeah, that's how I got it. We got into the four thousand.
He got me into the drone four thousand, and that's kind of what
got the two thousand, three thousand, four thousand are all basically drive safe,
there, mic and smoke. I don't know how long we're gonna be
here, but probably around six at least. Uh, I want to start
headed to the frat house to put stuff down and get the sea pat going.
I thought, yeah, oh, I got a call from Charlie.
He was sitting at the airport. He called us and we talked for a
little bit, like, what are you doing? Is that that rothschild?
Yeah? What he done doing with it? Does look like it's going down.
I have them I've been slow smoking, so Eric, this is the
campground that's attached to the Green County fair Ground, so it's not really fair
to call it a campground, but there's I don't know me it's a field
field camping spots here. Yeah, they got electric hookups and water hookups.
Very very nice area, but it's it's right in the the Green County fair
Grounds. Good evening from Germany, Germany, Man, thank you for joining.
Where do you see that? Did you scroll up? It's yeah,
right toward the kind of the live part of the of the chat right now.
Delta Delta oscar one Alpha Sierra Sierra Alpha. M H. David,
you can you can put your name on the waiting list for the campgrounds is
super super limited, uh, camping spots. So these are campgrounds. If
you want to you have a campground, you got the first right to refuse
and then they go to that waiting list. It's not uncommon for that waiting
list to be a couple of years before you get your name called. So
there's there's also hotels around and campgrounds at state parks. M No pork chopped
Sammy's yet. I don't think there's a couple of food vendors out there,
but I don't think all of them are set up yet. Yeah, David
Dave from Temecula was asking if if anyone's had a pork chopped Sammy yet not
yet. That just doesn't sound appealing to me. They are good, did
you you didn't try? You should try? When they really are good,
go ahead and put a uh, put a one in the chat if you're
going to be up here. I'm just curious. I mean, I don't
I don't just I don't really know, not cooking the beans. But if
you're not a pork chopped fan, then yeah, I can understand. You
know, I can take Lawrence zero. I love it. So what what
are y'all looking forward to? Which vendors are y'all want to hit up?
Yeah? It may hold, but wants to go at some point I'd be
exciting that it would be too many names. James said, pizza is pretty
good, So I'm like, pizza is pretty good. And it was like
two bucks a slice, or maybe it was pretty cheap. I mean maybe
it was three bucks? Was it? Several foot long corn dogs? I
ate one for breakfast corn dogs? Got icon Flex's simplex is one four six
four eight? Yes, one four six four eight is going to be our
talking simplex frequency or just talking simplex frequency. Where is it he's two hours
out coming in coming here? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he's on his
way. I knew he's on his here here. I don't want a hotel?
Yeah, Mike, where are you staying in a way. Oh,
Mike, where are you staying at the Airbnb or where are you staying?
I don't think he was. He's not he's not in he's not in the
front house. Yeah, so I'm not sure. I mean, he might
be with someone else. But I wonder if Jim's going to get an Airbnb
this year, Jim, Jim, I know t will be here. I
don't know if Chuck's coming or not, because it was t O and Jean
had that fiasco last year. Yeah, they showed, they showed up to
the Airbnb and they found a foreclosed note on the Airbnb house and while they
were there, another couple showed up to rent the place out the same night.
So Mike says, Hope Health Hope Hotel tonight, Airbnb tomorrow. Nice
good. But is that Hope Hotel the one we stayed at with Bob.
No, don't stay at the Romata. Yeah, Airbnb that we're staying at,
right, and it had the last uh, the last listing from when
that property was sold. You should have seen that place. Yes, sold.
You want to talk about a hole in the ground, you can tell
somebody about it completely. I mean you had to completely renovate it. And
set it up for Airbnb. Yeah, they got a great deal on it.
Andrew says, APE is the only one not going eighth is the only
one not. Okay's coming now, I don't think he Yeah, he's I
told him I would buy him some Miller Lite and he's like, I don't
think I'm gonna make it. Man. I was like, okay, I'm
not gonna buy a Miller Run then, but I will some U. Let's
see. Do you have all Star node running? Ron says yes, Ron,
I assume you just got here. Uh four three one, three six
is the hub. We are connected to it and monitoring right now. And
thank you RC for putting that in the chat. Also yeah, RC final,
Okay, yep, good deal, Big John. No, I did
not get a message, but you're talking to forty five Steve. Yes,
MTC will be here. He's going to be primarily set up setting up the
expert amplifiers. I think that's all he's bringing because he's the new export amplifier
vendor. So those looks like an awesome new premium amplifiers. They're not that
new, they've been around a while. But yes, he's he's the new
distributor from North America and he's got one with my name on it. So
I'm gonna be doing some videos on that soon, normally make news. Mm
hmm. Wait there's Ambily food cookies, molasses cookies. All right, I'll
be back there. You jaspe where they at in the in the if Mike
didn't move them there in my fridge? Is cam free a c K gonna
be here? I believe he is coming. Yes, I haven't talked to
Jason in a month or so, but yeah, oh he's a ride back.
Okay, no, no, ye does he is that who you're giving
this to? He's uh and he's bringing an ELK antenna for me, so
oh that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I knew about
it. Yeah, I knew about the new from expert. I mean,
that thing packs up pretty decently, but it's still not great to yeah,
to put on a plane, so so he just drags it along. We
have bourbon erin, but if you bring your own, I'm sure no one
will complain. Happy to share. Don't have regular coke if you're in the
mix or so, yep, what time is it? I actually found cherry
coke zero. Yeah, yeah, there's cherry coke Zero's in there and somebody's
listening on All Star. Yeah, yes, Kyle says, A the letter
A. He typed the letter A. Well, thank you for joining good
good, good good stream. Kyle. Uh Laurence says, Mike, Wow,
I don't know what that's in reference to. But I'll take a while
sure, almost to Indie Airport to pick up Charlie. Kyle says, okay,
good deal, Kyle. You guys are going straight to the airbnb once
you get Charlie. Correct, Yes, that was different. Did we see
the door check show the chat? Yeah, she was in the chat when
we first went live. She's probably got it running right now. Thank you
for the cookies, Scottie. I don't think that Eric is not invited.
I just I think he just doesn't show up. He's been to him mentioned
a few times. Yeah, yeah, but it's it's not like he's not
invited. No, it's not no, no, no, one is not
invited. L w C. You open the door. I had to.
I'm gonna take the fifth on that. Hey, if he would show up,
I think I think we would all have lots to say, have lots
to say. That's a good way to say. If you know you're not
if you Yeah, no, we're not going to explain that one. If
you know, you know, when is Hayden getting there? He's not coming
this year, so he says, yeah, just like last year he wasn't
going to be here, So supposedly he's not going to be here this year
tomorrow, but not going to be here. I don't know. I'm just
saying it. Hello, Frank went there who said that lone Star Woodworks?
I would any rumors about what's new? Hey, what's up? Ron in
five h y h? So Icon has something new. We're undetermined whether it's
a radio or whether they're just releasing the pricing for their amplifier. Amplifier.
Yeah, and Flex has something new as well. Is the restroom good or
yeah? The rest of Yeah, no, it's fun. Yeah you number
one or number two. I just want to know how much time I have.
I just want to know. I just want to know how much time
I have. Finally figured out how to turn the lights on in the bathroom.
Oh was that a Was that tricky? Well? They looked like they
had motion sensors on them. Oh you know, yeah, but there's a
little switch on, Like I'm looking for a light switch. You think about
this. Uh, this is good. I like it that. What is
this charge charter? That's one of my favorites. Yeah, I think it's
good. That's I mean, that's a great six dollars stick right, Yes,
yeah, no, it's I would I would certainly buy these. I
mean six dollars a stick man, this is a great Uh mow the grass
stick right, this is sit on the mowor cost small? Try to average
out the day. Yeah, don I think you mean nine o five not
seven o five? Oh yeah Ashton, Yeah, svgs good KT money.
Yes, I would love to see fifty honestly, I d fifty two hundred.
This is double. If I try to think of a man of spell
Bound, they got like spell bound saucer or wizard. Yeah, but no,
yeah, that's that's a great cigar. I'd love to smoke two.
Yeah, I mean I'm like that would be run. That would be n't
and he want the color displaying waterfall would be awesome. I think the next
thing you're gonna see from Yeaz is a replacement for their q R p rig.
I have no. I don't expect to see it this weekend, unfortunately,
but I think that will be coming soon from YEAZQ plus. I run
a digital dental lab two to four hours a day. I worked twelve hours
a day seven days away. Hmmm, I don't have any time anything.
You got time now? So well a double so I really push the h
Lawrence. Yeah, Kenwood's working on that. I doubt we're going to see
that this weekend, but that is probably coming up next from Kinwood. I
would love to see Icon added two twenty Megga Hurts to their new radio.
I don't think it will happen. That would be fantastic. We were talking
on the Happy Hour last weekend about what can they what can they add color
screens? I don't know what else they can add that there doesn't have.
And if it was to twenty, then I think that would be a huge
step in the right direction. But I don't. I don't think that.
I don't think we're going to see that. But we'll see. I never
know a lot of people drive, but we'll see, we'll see what we'll
see. What's up with that? How big the boxer comes in? Oh,
that's not that bad. That's not bad at all. No boy,
Verne wants me to drop them a pin. But I don't even know how
to where we are now. It's the same place we were last year.
Here. I swear he was here last year. Well no, but I
mean there's like no roads or anything around the pin just yeah, just yeah.
I think is Frank cooking anything this weekend? No, he's not.
You know the original reason I used to bring Frank to these ham radio meetups
so he could cook. And then he stopped cooking. But he didn't,
he didn't. He kept showing up and I had a problem with that for
a while, and I still kind of tell him about that sometimes. So
you know, this summer, we're doing Summer phil Day. Yes, and
I'm probably gonna light up the smoker. And to be honest, last time
I smoked I think it was at that phild Day event. I've just been
so busy with everything else, i haven't really done a lot of smoking.
There was a request at the eclipse for me to make the beans, but
we just didn't get around to it. There was Mike's friend Ryan was cooking
up a storm for everybody and it was awesome. However, However, Jason,
however, more more expo, I was the camps. Yeah, that's
true, that's true, Kyle, thank you for bringing everything and now you
guys did a great job. I mean everything you guys made was fantastic.
So yeah, and we gotta start talking about summerfield Day, I guess.
So back to cigars. Let's see Hampton, he's asking anyone have experienced with
the money Cristo Nicaragua or Rocky Totel Grand Reserve. I'm pretty sure I've had
the rock to tail Grand Reserve. I have not on the Grand Reserve.
Rock Hotel makes it's good. Yeah, I like the Rocky tail Stone.
Really you don't like oh I do. I've never had one, But have
you had quality issues or you just don't like the flavor? The ones have
a good David, Oh, yeah, I got that right. Well.
Rocket Hotels is where I really started, and I think it was the blue
label of Rocket Hotel was a mile. One of their Miles cigars, and
that had me hooked on cigars for a while. Then once I started mixing
with bourbon, That's when I was like, Okay, let me try something
full body. And then now I was like, yeah, this is amazing.
Oh Josh's flight got delayed. Oh, but they'll probably make it up
in the air, Like tonight, didn't you have trouble last year agetting here?
Didn't you have to like go to Baltimore or yeah? Yeah, well
flying out of Orlando, Jason had to go up to Washington, d C
and fly back. I was like, geez, what you get getting that
first class seat? Yep, that's true. Well it was either that or
that the connecting flight with the first class seat was the same price as a
NonStop from Orlando to df W, and the Orlando to df W one left
it like one pm, so I would have to leave him Cashen early.
So for the same price, I got a connecting flight through DC on a
first class ticket, and I'm like, and it was. And I was
leaving, like well but but when I looked at that flight, I didn't
it did not show available when I bought my ticket. Okay, so because
yeah, that flight you guys were on was not available when because I bought
my ticket like a month and a half after you. Now you remember what
we were talking about it and then you didn't order it. I bought it,
and then you were like and then like a month later you're like,
hey, did you buy your ticket? I'm like, yeah, completely forgotten.
Yeah, I had to go back and look at flight numbers, and
then I was like, yeah, they're still open. Yeah, welcome to
Frank's Life of eighty d Let me do that now. And then oh,
look at that. What did I do? I don't think he did.
No, I did one earlier. Someone out I did? Sorry, Ben,
Ben, Ben, that was my elbow. Sorry, that was my
You come back in ten minutes, my bed. Oh yeah, seriously,
my bad. I'll give you a sapphire sticker if you're up here. Oh,
I brought some uh date and only special edition stickers. I gotta have
one. Yeah, it's the the sparkly sticker, So I'm only going to
give him out here now. I do have two Frank sticker comes with.
I have a sapphire sticker. Mike has one over there on his fridge.
I do have two other stickers that are only in my sticker pack. You
gotta get that sticker pack, Kenneth says, High King of all Heck's Beams.
Yep hr h Kenneth, Mike, Uh, this is the Gazelle Gazebo
tent that we're in is monstrous and it can sit six, no, eight
guys, almost eight guys around a fire pit Yep, it's not that bad
to set up. No, the tent set up is easy. It takes
five six minutes. It's easy. So ron. Yeah, the nine hundred
megahertz mesh is worked. The mesh tastic we were we were playing with it
at Kyle's last night. I have to go in and reset my Wi Fi
on it, but yes, it is working overall. I had mine turned
off on the plane. I gotta turn my I had a power mine back
on. I don't think there is a model for this tank. It's just
the gazebo tank. It's called a gazebo. I think it's called a G
six gazebo. G six G for gazebo and six for it. It's six
sided. David says G six Deluxe. Yeah, yeah, this is the
deluxe model. I have the older one, that's the non deluxe model.
I need to sell it, but I've got both of them. The deluxe
model comes with rain flaps. You can add rain flaps to the non Deluxe
model, but it doesn't come with it. Fantastic is growing here in the
UK. You know, I just got mine a couple of days ago.
I was really impressed with how cool those devices are and the app is is
really pretty great. I'm looking forward to play with one. It's a ton
of fun for twenty five Yeah. I oh, you got to show that
hat off. Hey, look at that. Turn to the camera there,
David, turn to the camera. Yeah, I love it. Yeah,
I'm looking forward to playing with that. Jason, we go to the when
we go to the Airbnb later, I'll take my laptop and I've got a
bag full of Mestastic hardware, and we'll take it and we'll set it up.
And the other thing that I was really impressed with is the web client.
I mean that's fantastic. Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, I mean
you don't need to load any drivers. No, no, I didn't have
to load a driver form the web client. It works really well. Well,
I'll have one, then Jason will have one. They're they're going to
be throughout the hand fest and now I'm looking forward to playing with it during
the hand fest and checking it out. You talk about the Mestastic So Evan
is bringing I forget Evan call signed. I should know it, but I
don't remember. No, no, no, no, Josh's admin. Evan.
I think that's from Houston. No, No, different guy. Okay,
he is bringing a one of those rack devices. Was out to a
rack devices and we're gonna put it on the fifty foot Gigabarts mast here at
the trailer. And he hit me up about that like two months ago.
He said, Hey, I want to bring this can anyone can. Where
can we put this? And I'm like, we can put that on the
fifty foot gigaparts mask. He's like, yes, let's do that. And
that's the reason I went and started setting up because I had bought some metastic
stuff that I hadn't played with yet, and I'm like, well, I
got to get this going for Dayton because he's going to have that repeater up
on the up on the tower. So that's gonna be that's gonna be slick
to see how far that thing goes well, And you guys were all talking
about it and I got fomo. I'm like, well, crap, I
got to go buy when it is. So I ordered one three days ago,
got it in and got it all set up. Eric. Are you
guys going to be camping out at Huntsville as Oh, yes, yeah,
we'll be. I reserved my spot at Huntsville. I think at the end
of the show last year, so yes, we'll be on Monte Sano for
the Huntsville Hamphis to gain this year in August. And also, I believe
Friday is the all day hanging up at the gazebo and hanging out at the
gazebo and it's going to be fun. So you also swing by. We
activate all day. We'll have at least one too many radios set up and
going and it's a blast. It was a blast. Yes, Don is
correct. So Don says Evans call sign is w A kJ R, so
he will be I couldn't remember his call sign for a minute. Yeah,
he's putting up a rack r ak no here at the campers, so he'll
get that. JN. Messa asked, what's a good antenna tuner for the
eight ninety one LDG. I've got, Well, I've got the Matt Tuoner.
That's yeah. Those are yeah to work with the tune function in the
radio. That works fantastic. I really like sure the LDG will do the
same thing. Yeah for sure. Yeah. Yeah. So so I didn't
say this up front, but there's more people watching now anyway. Uh LDG
is sponsoring all my videos this week. You guys can save a twenty percent
discount on everything at the Gigaparts table on LDG this weekend. So go to
the gigaparts table, ask him about LDG. Tell him you saw the live
stream or one of my videos this week. Twenty percent off of all LDG
tuners. There you go. I'm glad you asked that question because I meant
to say that earlier and I forgot just all around tuners well and antenna tuner.
I like the rigstick, so analyze, I know, yeah, okay,
I'm just it's just just so Ma, do you know, Yeah,
yeah, rigstick. That's a great code. Jason, Yes, yeah,
Don, I don't no. If online, I don't know, check the
gigaparts website. If it's not there, find what you want and I'll pick
it up for you. Now you got Don making fun of me too.
Now Don doesn't need any reason to make fun of you, should. I
tell the story of More Expo on the Gigabarts code. When I walked out
of the bathroom, we don't remember which we are, so I'm gonna take
that as a yes. So when we're at more Expo, I call them
walk wall huggers. People who are sitting next to the outlet charging batteries.
Yes, so late at night, after we had been in vibing a bounce
whiskey and stuff, I walked over to the restroom and I saw one of
these guys sitting next to the big battery battery. Yeah, the eco folow
batteries and charging it, plugged into the wall, charging it and do not
want to leave it out there. And I walked by him and I came
out of the restaurant. I just turned and looked and and said, hey,
man, looks like you needs some solar panels. He goes yeah.
I was like, go to Giga Parts Enter take it checkout for five percent
off. I turned and just walked off. Cayle turned to me. He's
like, if I was there, I'll punch you in the Dutch that much
funny. I'm like, you do not do that. He's like, yes,
I did. Like, oh my god, take that checkout. Piper
sent off, and I just turned and walked away. Oh it was it
was greatness with somebody on there. Yeah, I think Vern might be trying
to hit Yeah. Uh. The man for a tuner built into the radio.
The Gen ninety has the best tuner hands down, turned the stick around
twenty I did. We were over at what so many of these, Yeah,
the go box challenge, and they wanted to see if our rigs were
all are set up, our go boxes were actually operating able to make it
contact. And Mike didn't have his antennae set up, so he just took
his signal stick off the his HT put it on the G ninety and just
hit tuned and he goes fine, no no no no no, no,
no no no, and it's tuned, and then he keyed up twenty meters
and made a contact. Is that Richard? That is Richard? Well,
I don't think I am, but yeah, he's his his David. The
response at more Expo there were a number of people interested on what hand radio
can do for them, but they were more interested in the UHF VHF And
then they were complex why the UHF VHF spectrum did not work hundreds of miles
away like HF does, and they don't want to get the bigger radios to
do it. HF just real quick Andrew and one y l O dot nine
super chat. Oh yeah, yeah, he says another round on the troll
pub. Oh hey, guys, thank you very much for that. Andrew
very nice. Yeah, let me refresh for there he is, Yeah,
keep one while low. Yeah, thank you for the super chat, buddy.
Appreciate that. We will spend that at the Troll Club for sure.
Keep giving money to Jason to make him pay the troll pub tabah. To
be honest, I think the first year was twenty five hundred dollars. We
spent thirty five thirty five I believe, so thirty five hundred dollars. Did
you hear it? Yeah? In fact, did you remember Kyle's story in
the in the Happy Hour? No. He called to reserve it again this
year and she's like, are you guys the guys at the at the radio
show. He's like yeah. He's like, do I need to put a
deposit down? And she's like, no, you're good. We've always had
to put a two hundred and fifty dollars deposit down, which met which all
that means is if we got there and didn't spend at least that much,
then we'd have to pay the difference. We've never actually paid a depositive.
I think the first ten minutes the guy flag Jason said, we're past that.
You want to keep going. Yeah, yeah today they know it now,
so you guys keep donating those sweet sweet super chats and we can keep
drinking. That's right, Yeah, totally does anyone has Can anyone see if
the G ninety will tune on Mike's jewelry? That's from us from smart ass
McGee no more canby Anglers and and Trawlers fish Fishing Channel. I assume I
like angling. Yeah, I take back things. I said that sounds cool.
No, I'm sorry, my apologies. That was from Eric Katie two
h w D. Sorry I misread that. Uh hey there's uh there's Mike
Ko four pd I with a five dollars super Are you not coming, Mike?
He says, wish I was there. I thought you were going to
be here. Mike. What a hand mention to miss now. To be
honest, he does go to Orlando because he's right there, and I think
he's shown up to Huntsville a couple of times. So Huntsville is going to
be my first hand fest. I recommend if you're able to go to a
anfest, then from here or Orlando, it's just a toss up. Well,
it depends on what your what you want to get out of a hand
fest right first. Yeah, yeah, unless you want to just hang out,
right, then Huntsville is the one to go to. We do that
every so total. Yeah, but the hanging out is is kind of choice
at Huntsville. Yes, it is. Yes, that's why I say.
That's my camped on the mountain, right on the mountain, Tortoise Overland.
Thank you for the twenty dollars super chest. Uh cat uh from here.
I'm not sure, cat cat No, No, it's not that far.
That's the probably eight hours, eight hours. I'm gonna say eight hours something
like that. Look that up. Yeah, thank you. Ask me to
go there, and I don't want to. I'm calling it's a good show.
H third weekend of August. Yeah, second or second or third week
of August from here, seven hours, twenty three minutes. Nice. Wow,
that's Oh there's Renee Renee. Thank you very much, Renee Renee with
another one hundred dollars super chat for the troll pub see all there. Oh
yeah, thank you, Renee. Wow, very nice. Definitely, How
are you today, Kat tarot R E T F T d X or seventy
three hundred now or wait to the weekend or after this weekend? So h
RO apparently has the ft D extent on sale this weekend, so it'll be
a good time to get it this weekend. I mean it's only one building
and half it's a market. Yeah, it's not a large show. It's
it's like that. It's it's about the same size as that. It's it's
like Huntsville and near Fest and like one other. They kind of flip back
and forth between which one is the third largest in the country and uh and
Huntsville usually is, but I think NEARfest is kind of growing. So seven
or eight thousand something like that after COVID, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Huntsville came back strong. Yes, yes, Huntsville did come back strong.
Yeah. Zion yeah good, yeah yeah, Well Zion's one now Zion National
Park in southern Utah. They're spinning up a new Hanfest this year. And
they were on my channel a couple of weeks ago and I was interviewing and
we're trying to get more vendors out there. That's a long drive for you.
Oh did you really? Okay? That's an that's an a double L
division, the Rocky Mountain Division convention. So it should be a good show.
But this is their first year, we'll see Yeah, Brian Garber with
a super chat there. Yeah, Brian, thank you for the fifty dollars
super chat. Appreciate that, buddy. Anywhere sounds like you need a new
assistants. The one North Carolina, I believe David. David Pearson says Shelby
is very large. I think it's bigger than Huntsville Shelby. Yeah, I
knew there was one in North uh, North Carolina. I think it's North
It might be South Carolina. I think it's North Carolina Shelby. But that
used to be a good show. But I've never been to that show.
If that show is still going and it's large, maybe I'll put that one
on the calendar. M That was trade show tour for twenty five years.
Fight trade shows A Yeah, different countries all over the West. And about
ten years ago I went that's it. I'm not doing anymore shows that it
doesn't say. Kind of thing came along and that's for a couple of years.
North Carolina. Yeah, I thought it was North Carolina. Thanks guys.
If it's kind of thing I really didn't want to get into. I
don't know how many more, Tom, that's funny it's kind of funny.
I guess he must have been tanked. Sure. Yeah, I'm very active,
don't get me wrong. But when I push it. Yeah, yeah,
that's a lot of work, right, there's there's a lot that goes
into these shows. For sure. Has somebody to help. Man, it'd
be different. But they say your feet are gluing. Frank travel. Yeah,
companies have a six months to a year waiting greetings from Belgium. Thanks
for being here, David. For some reason anymore, I don't get that.
Yeah. Yeah, we've got several good whiskeys out here, Scott.
I brought a single batch from Buffalo Trace. Frank got his necessary four roses.
Which four roses? Okay? Which not the small batch? Not the
single barrel, the small batch. Ye, I don't even know what I
bought. But no, it's it's almost it's got to be better than Mad
Dog, but it's a it's a I think it's a leader. The vodka,
Oh yeah, grab a bottle of Vedka and the guys like, you
want something that's better and more than half, like it's like nine But with
Hilly Heavin Hill, we got some of that. In Galveston. We were
down their winter field Day. Yeah, that was given to us by a
Patreon up here last time I held yes, yeah, and then uh and
then they had two or three cases of it at the Galveston Yeah, I
hardly found Heavens Hill. Then we go to Galason in his case after case
stacked up. Okay, give me a bottle KT money. You al should
go to Overland West Expo and spread the ham radio to that crowd. Hey,
you know what, I've been to Expo East in Expo Mountain West in
Colorado, as Expo East is in Virginia, Expo Expo West is this weekend.
It's always the weekend of him mentioned, So I can't see myself ever
actually going to that. But yes, very good show. Hank Strangers will
be at that show this weekend. And I was texting with him the other
day. But he came out to Orlando one year. He lives just he
lives a couple Well he was in Orlando this year, Yeah, yeah he
was. Yeah, but he lives just a couple hours north of Orlando.
I think, yeah, well he's again. He's in Arizona this weekend,
Overland Expo Mountain West. I'm sorry, Overland Expo West, which out of
the five overland Expo shows throughout the nation, the West show in Arizona is
the largest one. I don't know if it's larger than this or not.
I don't know. I'm gonna say this is bigger. Maybe, I don't
know. I'd like to know how many people, how many tickets they sell
for Expo Western. It was kind of fun being at more Expo and being
kind of one of the numbers there, just going up and able to make
the talk talk to all the vendors and everything, and the noise level and
the building was noticeably quieter because, uh, for the YEA for interviewing here,
I had to bump up the mics so I can catch their voice over
everyone else's and uh there, I actually just had it tuned tuned down for
where I'm just talking outside in my backyard. So it was, it was.
It was nice. It was a nice Xpo. And we are definitely
going to go back. I'm definitely gonna be Oh yeah, we'll be back
at More Sure, Yeah, for sure. We're gonna have to. We're
gonna have to run a trailer, the three of us if we drive.
Yes, where's your brother this weekend? He's at home. As far as
I know. I no, actually no, he and he and my nephew
are going somewhere and I think they're going to Colorado this weekend. Nice thing,
I think I approve. Yeah, so or Frank, you could actually
buy a real car between now and more Expo next year and we could we
could caravan out there to get it on the list. I am remodeling my
bathroom right now and that's going on next month, and then after that I
am gonna be looking at a jeep. Jason. Take a peek at that
thumbnail here. That's a video that's dropping at five point thirty today. Okay,
if you can see so, that's so, that's your truck, meet
you and Frank hanging out of it. All the stuff in the back of
that's good. Electure's doing just fine. She's inside because it's sprinkling. Yeah,
she didn't want to be in the tent with the cigar smoke, but
she wanted to be outside in the rain. I'm like, no, I
don't want you getting wet, so Scott, Yeah, I've got a couple
of passes that I've identified that I want to try to do some live streams
here. I'm going to try to do them out by the there's like this
area that's kind of the centerpiece the flagpole. Yeah, it's out by the
flagpole. I'm going to try to do content if it's not raining. I
mean, our weather doesn't look like it's going to be great this weekend,
but if it's not raining, I'm going to try to do a couple of
live streams and do some contacts. Uh from from the flagpole? Good?
From the flagpole? Do you have some sorts to put up there? Run
run the shorts up the flagpole. It wasn't that. Yeah, there's the
joke. Don't leave any shorts laying around the frat house, Frank, they
might end up up the flagpole. Here you go, Robert, Here you
go, Robert. I don't I don't understand this question, but Andrew says,
is the CSN tracker recommended for this icy twenty seven thirty if I want
to get into satellites without programming frequencies, recommend it? Uh? I guess
that's an app. I don't know. I'm not sure what the CSN tracker
is, but the twenty seven thirty is so easy to prog for satellites you
don't even need to hook it to a computer. It's I mean, the
interface on that radio is fantastic. You can just you can just program that
through the radio face and it's super easy. Don't don't be intimidated by that.
Give it a try. You'll be uh, you'll be surprised how easy
it is. CSN is a box that controls the rotor at ninety seven hundred
for satellites. So the way Robert does it, he's just handheld an antenna.
There's no rotor involved. Yeah, it's all it's all handheld. It's
very light. Yeah, it's it's easy to travel with. That's why I
like it. Right, I've got the radio, the antenna and I just
use ISS tracker to see where the where the satellite is in the sky,
and it's it's a real lightweight way to work satellites works well. Make a
lot of contacts with it. We watched where were we? Oh, we
were at Kyle's last night. We were watching Tim's video that he did at
the More expo with you and then you did all those contacts. We watched
that again last night. I watched it. I had seen it before about
it. I don't know if Kyle had seen it, but well, Yeah,
Kyle was there. Yeah, Kyle live streaming and Kyle did put a
mic on you that YouTuber. Oh he didn't have a mic on me.
Yeah, the only one to put a mic on you and I and I
only got ten seconds for the footage off of it. Yep, code too,
yep. Okay, guys, this is always a fun live streaming.
Appreciate you guys. Hang out with us today once again. We will be
We're here in the camping area of him mentioned at the Green County Fairgrounds and
Xenia. Appreciate you guys hang out today once again. We will be.
Some people you just can't you just can't bring them on a stream. They're
just camp Oh it's inception. Its inception now the en So yeah, So
if you want to come out and hang with us at the camp site,
assuming the weather is nice, you're welcome to come out here. Come out
the building where the Gigabarts booth is. Come out the backside of that.
There's a door back there. Come out the back of that building and when
you walk out that door, look slightly to the right and you'll see a
bunch of r vs building three, uh huh, and come out and just
walk over there and look for this big tan gazelle gazebo. The road is
right here behind me, so you can see it from the road very easily.
And it's the only gazebo out here. I'm assuming. I don't think
you'll see a lot of gazelles out here this weekend. But y'all are welcome
to come hang with us. Troll Pub is Saturday. We'll be walking around
talking to people Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It is tomorrow. I don't
know what we're gonna do yet. I know that inn A Yo wants to
go to the Air Force Museum. A couple other people might go to the
Air Force Museum. I have undecided what I want to do. If the
weather's nice, I might try to go catch one of the potus spots tomorrow.
I don't know. Haven't decided really what I want to do yet tomorrow.
So we're just gonna play it by ear. But come see us at
Daytonham Bench. It's gonna be a fun show, and I'll be live streaming
Friday and Saturday both probably one day from well, we'll see one day from
the Flea Market if it's if the weather permits and then the other day I'll
be live streaming through all the buildings and whatnot, so watch the channel for
that. Thank you, Thank you to everybody for the super chats today.
We will we'll spend that at the Troll Pub on Saturday night, so definitely
come hang out with this there if you're going to attend him mention this weekend,
and we're looking forward to seeing everybody. It's gonna be a fun time,
not a hot show like Huntsville in August. So it's the weather's actually
it's pleasant temperatures out here right now, so there's no wind, it's not
raining at the moment, but we'll see what happens with that. So seventy
three guys, we're gonna shut this down. Thanks you everybody for being here,
and we will see you this weekend sometime