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I appreciate you guys being here early. Thank you for joining me. Tonight.
It is Sunday night, April seventh, twenty twenty four, and tomorrow
is the big eclipse. Tomorrow is the big eclipse, and uh yeah,
it's gonna be a fun event. I think it's gonna be a fun event.
I've had some recent changes of plans for the eclipse, uh because well
for a couple of reasons. Uh. The first of which is that it's
supposed to be it's supposed to be bad weather, cloudy, possible chance of
rain tomorrow afternoon evening, but cloudy where I was originally gonna go. Where
I was originally gonna go, it's supposed to be cloudy. Now. This
is Texas weather, and you can't really believe it most of the time.
So it would not surprise me to learn that the guys who are out there
right now, which is Kadamurdy, Vern six, Frank, a couple other
guys you might know, are out there, and it might just be perfect
weather tomorrow. So I might miss out on that. I don't I don't
know. I don't, I don't know, but but we'll see either way.
I don't think that there was gonna be room. I had my RV
down there. My wife and I were in Fredericksburg for vacation last week.
I was gonna drive and the place that they're camping is for the eclipse is
about an hour away from there, and I was gonna drive the RV and
drop it off on Saturday and come home. We try to get our house
sitter slash dog sitter to extend through Monday, and she was not available,
so we had to come home Saturday, and I was going to go back
down there this morning and spend the night camp out, do the eclipse tomorrow,
and come home tomorrow night. But as it turns out, the weather's
supposed to be bad and it doesn't look like there's room for an RV down
there, or at least vern took the one spot for an RV down there.
Perhaps perhaps that's a better way to say it. I don't know,
but anyway, so I'm going to be here tomorrow and I am going to
be live streaming with the eclipse. I'm gonna take one of my phones or
tablets and set it out in the backyard and connect to my own Zoom account
so that we can watch the eclipse while it's happening. We're gonna do some
FT eight on the Flex radio back here. So that's what I'm going to
be doing tomorrow for the eclipse. Anybody with a YouTube channel, who Because
the eclipse goes through a specific part of the United States, I told my
wife was going to livestream. She's like, everybody's gonna be watching the eclipse.
I'm like, well, people who who the eclipse is not passing through
there that could be watching it, because you know, why would you?
It's got a distinct path through North America that it goes through. So if
you have a YouTube channel, if you've been on any of my Happy Hours,
if you have ever joined me on zoom before, you are welcome to
join me tomorrow at noon Texas time UTC seventeen hundred and we'll watch the eclipse
together, do some FT eight and that kind of thing. So yeah,
anybody who wants to do that is certainly welcome to do that. So special
shout out guys tonight to all the folks in Green Text YouTube channel members.
Appreciate you guys joining tonight and supporting the channel. I see Skeeter and Kooley
in there, W zero, RHP, Phil is in there, of course,
in five SKT is in there, Don Dea Gideo is in there as
well as Smoke Signals RF so Don Army full representation tonight. I appreciate you
guys being here. Andy and Lee were in there pretty early. See those
guys in there. Looks like KO four PDI Mike is in there, Randall's
in there, Brian, Jeff Don again and Jody VA five sar. Good
evening guys, So yeah, uh yeah, well I'm going to live stream
the eclipse, so yeah, Originally we were gonna have Originally we were gonna
have someone from out of town join us and uh bring a telescope and that
can record and record the eclipse. But I think and that person his name
is Jason. Also, everybody cool in him radio is named Jason. I'm
just gonna say that right now. But Jason from Gigaparts was going to join
us, but he's watching the weather and said he's not. It was a
sixteen hour drive one way for him, so he's not gonna come out here.
He said he's got a place in Missouri he's gonna go instead. I
still think he's gonna record it with his telescope and send me the footage later,
so we might have some cool We might have some cool footage later on
to look at with the with the recorded eclipse. So I want you guys,
how many of you guys? Well, first of all, first of
all, let me let me I got a couple of things tonight. Tonight.
It's very shoot from the hip, guys, very shoot from the hip.
So if you guys want to, if you got a question in chat,
please let me know. Frank's night here tonight. Frank's out at the
property so I'm by myself tonight. Kind of nice to do that sometimes,
Arthur Evening, Jason, it will be awesome to see your livestream tomorrow since
I'll be in California where we will not be having a full eclipse likely like
many do. Yeah, yeah, I was. I was thinking that the
California West Coast, guys, we're not gonna be able to see it,
or at least not a full eclipse. Not a full eclipse anyway, So
I'm not sure if it's parcel out there or not. I didn't look.
I did not look. But but yeah, y'all welcome to join us tomorrow.
So a lot of things to talk about tonight. This is again,
this is very shoot from the hip. I am gonna share. I'm going
to try to spend some of your money tonight. So I'm gonna try to
spend some of your money tonight a couple of things for a very good cause,
very good cause. We're gonna talk about Jim W six LG. He's
having some health issues. There's a couple of you guys who reached out to
me via email and discord and text messaging and said, hey, can we
do can you announce this PayPal link and donation link we have for Jim,
and I said, sure I can. And then and then one of the
guys from the couple of the guys from the Baytown Club. I don't I
don't think they're representing the club, but they're in the chat tonight, ron
and n fi BSB. He's in there, so I saw him in there.
Make yourself known, dude. And they they are gonna donate a They're
gonna auction off one of those real podable intent real podaable antennas, and the
winner of the all the all the proceeds from the auction will go to gym.
So we're gonna do a couple of those things tonight and I will get
to that here and just women, and then I got a couple other things
I'm gonna be doing as well or talking about as well. So if you
want to look at this real quick, this is my first official Rumble live
stream. I ate I'm actually live streaming on Rumble right now. And this
is the first time I've ever realized. I've tried this a couple of times
in five BSB, Bob, Thanks Bob, I blanked on your name.
Sorry about that, My bad. Yeah, Bob. Okay, So Bob's
in the chat right there. So this is my first Rumble stream. You
guys check this out. If you don't subscribe to me on Rumble. There's
a link there. You can live stream on Rumble. It works on restream
and I've tried to use it a couple of times. I've just kind of
been fiddling with it. It got it to work tonight. Go figure.
So there's my Rumble live stream right there. Always always always working, always
transitioning. So let's see. Uh, let's see. I wonder if they
sent the space station employees home for tomorrow. You never, I don't know,
good question. Digital dreamer Okay, don cal had some prizes for Raffle
he helped with earlier today. Yes, I I heard that Callum did some
stuff for Jim also, So we're just gonna we're just gonna hop to that
real quick. Uh. This is the PayPal page that was sent to me,
and I forget who sent this to me. I tell you right now
who sent this to me? Uh, this was the PayPal page sent to
me. I'm gonna share this link in the chat, so you guys can
go check that out if you've already seen callum stream. Maybe he shared this,
I'm not sure, but this was sent to me by Donald friend why
in why three Z, So I don't know he some somehow he had a
hand in setting this up. But this is a donation link for Jim W
six OLG. I don't know all the specifics of what's going on with Jim.
I have a couple of videos that were sent to me that I have
not watched it. I watched one of them, but not all of them.
But he is having some health issues and we as a YouTube I'm sorry.
We as a Ham radio community, we like to come together for one
another, as we've done before in the past for several other of our community
members. And this is the donation link that we're going to share tonight for
Jim. I just posted the link. It's a PayPal link. You can
go in there and put in any dollar amount you want, and that's the
link we're sharing in the chat tonight. So I'm gonna see if this other
thing's up yet. Okay, there'll be an auction up on eBay in a
minute, but it's not live yet, so I'll share that with you in
I'll share that with you in a minute. So let's see. Yeah,
the PayPal link is just a straight donation. The give it well, we're
doing it. We're not doing in a giveaway. We're doing an auction for
a so it's a rat It's kind of like a raffle raffle slash auction.
You go bid on this antenna and the winner of the antenna can all the
proceeds. The money that gets bid on the antenna all goes to gym and
then whoever wins it will get the antenna sent to them for free that they're
not gonna charge shipping on it. So once again, special shout out and
thanks to Bob and Ron for doing that. And I'll share the auction with
you as soon as it goes live. It's not live quite yet, So,
like I said, a lot of stuff going on tonight, and I
appreciate you guys being here for the for the pre eclipse show and for everything
else we're gonna share tonight. Let's see, Izzo says he donated earlier.
If everyone just donates ten dollars, we make a huge difference. Agreed.
Don totally agreed with that. Yep, okay, good, all right?
So next weekend I was gonna kind of going going in a weird order here
tonight, but next weekend is the Belton ham Expo. This is probably the
funnest ham Fest slash swapfest in Texas that happens twice a year, usually in
around April and usually again around October if the weather is good. If the
weather is good, this is a really fun show. They have a lot
of outdoor tailgating that goes on in the parking lot all day on Friday,
and then the tailgating on Saturday and the indoor stuff on Saturday happens as well.
I have some commitments on Fridays of during this semester, of during this
spring, so i will not be there on Friday, but I'm hoping to
drive down there a late Friday night and be there for the show on Saturday
this coming week, so like six days from now. The only thing that
would change that is if the weather. If it's gonna be thunderstorming, I'm
not gonna go because there's just there's not much the attendant, the tendance is
greatly affected if it does thunderstorm. It's usually not a very good attended show.
If it's thunderstorming or raining or windy, or something like that. But
it does. But it is a great show if the weather's nice like it
is today. Weather here is nice today. So next weekend is the Belton
Ham Expo. The following weekend is the MORE Overlanding and Off Road Expo in
Springfield, Missouri. I saw Kyle in the chat earlier. I didn't see
Robert or anybody else out there yet, but Robert Digital rancher Kyle. I'm
sorry. Robert and Frank and I are driving to the MORE Expo on a
week from this coming Wednesday. We're gonna meet up with Kyle Tim from Graymon
Poda, Freddie Mack from Ham Radio Crusader, a couple other guys. We're
gonna all meet up out there in camp. We're gonna set up an antenna.
Steve from Alpha Antenna's is gonna be out there. We're gonna have a
really fun and cool showing of Ham Radio, taking Ham Radio to an overlanding
show, which we've done for two years in the past, but not to
this scale. We've scaled it up this year, so it's gonna be really
fun. So if you guys are around the Springfield, Missouri area in two
weekends, go check that out. Moreexpo dot com is their web address.
You can go check that out and see it below. So let me see
them. Oh yeah, Richard K six RDJ, he'll be there with us
in Springfield. There we go. So I'm just reading the chat here guys.
Okay, there's Kyle. Thanks for joining us. Kyle really looking forward
to the more Expo in a week and a half. Absolutely, it's gonna
be a fun show, be really fun. It's been fun show last two
years. I have high expectations for it this year. So okay, here
we go, Here we go. The auction is now live. So once
again, if you guys want to buy a real potable real I can't say
that word real podaable antenna, you probably don't want to bid on this.
This will get you. The winner of this auction gets you a real potable
antenna. But it's going to go for more than than it more than it
should because all of this money goes to Jim W six LG and it's going
to a good cause. So here is the link to the eBay auction.
We're just gonna eBay it off. Place the bid right now and see what
kind of money we can raise for Jim so this is we're auctioning off this
antenna, and I share the PayPal link earlier that you can just do a
straight up donation ten bucks is great if you want to do more than that,
awesome. Uh so that's that's what we're doing for a gim W six
LG tonight, m is Oh, this is one of the you sent me.
Uh let's see six ZHO three brewing in Connecticut toasted pumpkin ale Ooh that's
good. Wow, tastes like toasted pumpkins. It's good. It's good.
Oh that's really good. Yeah, that's really good. Okay, So yeah,
you guys go, I'm gonna pin that link to the top of the
chat pen this message. There we go, the eBay auction link right there,
and you guys can go check that out and see how it goes.
I'm gonna hit refresh on this. Oh, I see where already got two
bids one hundred and seventy seven fifty. So good luck to somebody. Maybe
I'll go in there and bid a big number on it and see if you
guys outbid me. Uh yeah, Callum is doing some sort of auction fundraising.
I did not catch Calum stream from earlier today, but I'm told that
he had something going on for Jim as well. So hey, if you
guys donated to that already, don't feel like obligated to donate tonight. But
you know what's do whatever you want to do, do as much as you
feel comfortable with. So it's totally up to you. Here we go.
Okay, there's that. Yep, Okay, Toasted pumpkins tastes like pumpkins,
and toast tastes like this beer. Tim, Yeah, oh that's good.
I like it. I like pumpkin beer. I like pumpkin ale. This
is not the season for it. They all come out around October, right
after the October fests, and I bought a bunch. I bought four or
five local four packs of craft beer up in Connecticut when I was up there,
when Kyle and I were up there a last fall, and I gave
him to down. I'm like, well, you ship these to me because
I don't want to check him on the way home. He's like, yeah,
sure, and I forgot about him and he emails me like a month
ago, dude, I still have this beer. You want it. I'm
like, oh, yeah, okay, let me say here. Let me
send you a shipping label. So he shipped them all to me. And
oh yeah, I've had some good beers from Connecticut compliments of don Izzo.
I bought him, but he shipped him to me, so that that's the
bigger thing right there. So good deal. All right, y'all are talking
about GMRS Antennas. Is that Callum's raffle ended solds three thousand tickets at three
pounds each. Hey cool, good good. We had talked about doing a
raffle. I'm not sure there's some weird YouTube rules behind doing a raffle and
and raffles. Since I'm in Texas, I got to follow the Texas law
of doing a raffle. Also, I believe I can do a raffle once
a year as a for profit organization. And but I don't know what the
YouTube rules are. I've never actually done a raffle on YouTube, but I
need to look into that because that's a really good idea. That's a really
good idea, so I will. So hats off to Callum. Hope you
guys caught his live stream. Calum always has a good show going on,
and uh, I'm glad he was able to raise that much money for Jim.
That's great, it's time. It was time to clean out the garage.
Done, says yeah, okay, cool. Uh let's see uh that
out. This auction should end on your live stream next week. Oh okay,
yeah, six days and twenty three hours. Okay, excellent. I
didn't realize it was going that long, but good. Okay. Hey,
that gives me an opportunity to send it out to a lot more people,
so good, excellent. Okay. So the great thing about an auction is
you don't have to buy a raffle ticket. Only the winner has to pay,
and they can choose to pay how much they want to. I guess,
so got to be the biggest, the biggest payment. So there we
go. So we'll look at doing we might look at doing something different.
I'll do some research this week about doing raffles in the state of Texas in
the United States on YouTube and see what I can find on that. Maybe
we can do something like that upcoming. So there's that right there. Okay.
The raffles system ensures compliance with Google's rules. I've seen a few.
Yeah, I've seen the our A F F A L. Is that a
system? Is that a website? Jody I'll look that up. I'll look
that up. That's cool, okay, good, did duh? Is anyone
going to do a HAM setup at the expires and may? I don't know
what that means. I'm sorry, I'm not sure what that means. The
refall system our a f F A L Callum is using a third party service
to keep everything above board. Three thousand tickets at three to eighty per ticket.
Okay, good. Check out special events Whiskey to Echo tomorrow for solar
eclipse will be live on YouTube. Cool. Okay, yeah, I'm feared
there'll be a few things live on YouTube. Good good, good, okay,
thank you for that information. I'm just reading through the chat right now.
Stream is working flawlessly without Frank. Wow, so good, good,
good observation there, Don That is a fantastic observation. I'm glad you noticed
that. Thank you, Thank you for that. That's fantastic. I'm have
to do a do it clip of this part of the livestream and send it
to Frank Frank's laptop before he breaks it. Yeah, no doubt. Oh
yeah, that's good. Okay. You guys are talking about a GMRS and
tenor with biker and black I see that. Are any of y'all here's one.
Are any of y'all or any other Ham going to be at the Overland
Expo West May seventeenth, the nineteenth if so I can help on Sunday the
nineteenth, So, Doug, that's the largest. That's the largest Overland expo.
Overland Expo is a company and they have five or six overland shows in
the United States every year. Overland West, the one in Arizona is the
largest one. And the reason I will probably never get to go to that
show is because that's the same weekend as Daytonhamvention. So I've been to the
Overland Mountain West show in Colorado and the Overland East Show in Virginia. Both
were fantastic shows. I would love to go back to both of those,
But I will probably never get to attend the Overland West show in Arizona as
long as it's the same weekend as Ham mentioned every year. So unless something
starts to fall on a different weekend a few years from now because they because
of however the dates fall and whatnot, I'll probably never get to go to
that show. So you guys, let me know how you if you go
to that show. Let me know how you like it. But realistically you
should probably go to Dayton. But you know, it depends on if you
live close. If you live in Arizona, you live close to that show,
then yeah, you might want to just go there instead of going all
the way to Ohio. Yeah. Let's see. Okay, let's see.
Just reading through the chat here, you guys are talking about it. Five
oh one C three tax exempt nonprofit blah blah blah. That doesn't that doesn't
apply to me. Okay, shots fire run. That's good. Overland East
and Mountain are tiny compared to West. I'm sure that's true. I've heard
that West is the biggest show. But again it's the same weekend as Ham
mentioned, so I'll probably never get to go to it. We'll always have
Overland East in Virginia. I really enjoyed that. I went to Overland East
two years ago. I think it was twenty twenty one. I think it
was twenty twenty one when I went, and I thought that was a freaking
awesome show. Gigaparts went out there that year and had a they had a
booth there. So I flew to Huntsville and then and it's like an eight
or nine hour drive from from Huntsville to the to the something like that.
Maybe ten hours, I don't remember. We drove from Huntsville, Alabama to
Virginia and I hung out with them for the weekend. Then we drove back
and I flew home from Huntsville. But it was that was a fun show.
I enjoyed the heck out of that show. I really want to go
back. Kyle and I have talked about going back this year. I if
I go back this year, I will want to drive and probably make like
a week or two long road trip out of it. It's up in the
air right now. I want to do it. There's a couple other things
out there that there's two or three overland events that kind of take place within
a three week period of that time in October and around the Virginia and that
area out there. But it's, uh, it's it's up in the air
right now. I want to do it. I don't know if my schedule
is going to allow it, but we're gonna. We're gonna try it and
see what happens. What's up ed ac three ik is first, you guys,
he heard it here first. So that is the thing. Something else
I thought of something else. I thought of that we kind of talked about
in Orlando. I talked to one or two people about this Orlando. I
would like to do you guys have you guys have her well, some of
you might have heard of. Like they do, they do some things called
gatherings in the camping world. Paul Meddle State Armory does a gathering every year.
Sometimes they call it a rendezvous. There's two or three places that do
rendezvous in Overland. They rendezvous in the Ozarks. Brent Whiskey seven back Roads,
he does a rendezvous up in Wyoming. I think once a year.
There's a couple of rendezvous things. I would like to do a Ham Radio
two point zero gathering slash rendezvous, probably in Texas, somewhere in a camping
and a larger camping area where people who have overland rigs or you just want
to come out and throw up a tent. That's fine, and we do
a gathering and we probably sell tickets to it. Something nominal, not very
much, just something to pay for like some catered food and whatnot. I
I want to do something like that upcoming, probably next year. Something like
that. We don't have time to plan something like that this year, but
I want to try to do that this year or I'm sorry, next year,
So we will see. We will see about that. Something bouncing around
in my head right now. So you guys, let me know if if
that sounds something sounds like something you would be interested in. Uh, you
mean like this week, Frank. You know, if you'd been here on
time, Frank, you would already heard me talk about that. So yeah,
somebody I is, Oh, I guess that that was your fault.
You were talking about Frank, and then he just showed up magically, So
I don't know. I don't know, but yeah, it's it's all right,
Frank. Oh look at that. It's already up to three hundred and
sixty dollars fourteen bids. You guys keep going with that, that's cool.
The eBay auction is pinned to the top of the chat, so yep,
Vern is in there too. Vern. I'm pretty sure you took the only
trailer spot that was out there, so even if the weather was good,
I wouldn't have been able to bring my trailer out. I think I don't
know. You were saying you were stuck there, or you might be stuck
there for a few days. So I don't know, man, we'll see,
maybe invade Ray Roberts stick maybe we'll see. But yes, see how
that goes? Okay, all right, So a couple other things I told
y'all I was going to spend your money tonight, right, So couple things
I saw James Quirky QRP and thet he did yet another thing. We've got
a we've got a clipboard going right now. But but he did a he
did up a journal, hardcover quick reference notebook with charts and ITU zones map
by Quirky QRP. And now we've got him radio two point zero logo and
QR code that has access that takes you straight to the there we go straight
to the UH Technician training classes on my YouTube channel. So if you are
interested in that, it's kind of a neat looking thing here, So take
it out there. Those of you who are into paper logging, you like
to write down or like to have at least a piece of paper when you're
doing PODA. Were you in contesting or something? Be great for that.
So you got all the band plans, ITU regions other stuff right there.
Q Morse codes, Morse code letter and number of letters and yeah, letters
and numbers of special characters right there. So all this kind of good stuff.
So thank you to James Quirky QRP for putting that together. It's a
cool looking piece of kit. You guys go check that out real quick if
you want to. Which vertical have you finished? Which vertical have I finished?
What does that mean? Vertical antenna t and zero seven views out one
more than any of them. Probably. Let's see, there are three trailers
out there. Then how come vern was telling me that there was no room
for a trailer went on his video right? Or maybe he said he was
stuck. I don't know. He said he was stuck out there? I
don't know. But the point is that the weather out there is supposed to
be all cloudy and you're not gonna be able to see the eclipse if it
is cloudy, and it's supposed to be cloudy here also, although I thin
I think that might have changed by now, so I'm not sure. I'm
not sure. You know how Texas weather is. It changes every half hour
anyway, So Jerry's Simon and Witz Simonon wits got me extra two weeks ago.
Good friend got her tech this weekend, didn't score tests, but but
did get to hand her the cssee KB two GCG. So well, congratulations
on your extra congratulations on your friend getting your tech. Thanks for being here
tonight. Always good to hear that. Always good to hear that. In
the chat, let's see come to Oklahoma. Supposed to be visible, but
storm's rolling in not long after. I think that's kind of what they've changed
it to. Here is storm's rolling in afterwards. But I don't know,
we'll see I guess let's see there we go, just make some parky.
If I had, you know, Frank contees me about missing this weekend,
that's okay. If I had told you guys the list of everything that Frank
has missed, then we'd be here for the rest of the half hour.
You know, we're at seven thirty now. I usually go for an hour.
We would be here until eight o'clock. If I was to tell you
all the stuff that Frank has missed, yep, yep, yep. So
yeah, all right. And the one last thing, let's see checking the
auction sixteen bids, three hundred and seventy five dollars. That's great. The
last thing that is up now, this is this is brand new and I
share this on Instagram a week ago something like that. So Kevin Whiskey zero
Alpha Echo Zulu, he makes those big batteries for the FT one, two,
three, and five Yazu radios five ampower capacity USB C charging. He
did one for me with him Radio two point zero on the back of it.
So it's got my that's in military green and it's got my logo on
the back of it. And he's got twenty of these in stock right now.
So there is a link to that in the chat. And I believe
if you use the code of Jason five, it'll save you five percent.
So try that and see because he did set me up a five percent discount
code on his website, so check that out. Jason five will save you
five percent on that five amp hour USB C chargeable battery for the Yazoo ft
radios. I have one of these on my radio. I've had it for
six months. Works great, awesome, awesome battery and I really appreciate Kevin
doing that one up with my logo on it. So that's something, uh,
something else that we've been working on for a while, working on that
with Kevin and working on a couple other things with James Quirky QRP. So
you guys go check out both of those websites and see what you can find
out there, anything to your liking. Okay, let's see what the chat
has to say. Huh whiskey, three whiskey, lima whiskey. Wondering what
moon bounce will be like tomorrow? Good question. That's uh. I've never
tried any moon bounce, but it's uh, it would be fun to try.
Let's see. Cherry says you you were a general for twenty four years
before you got your actor. Well, congratulations, sir, that's awesome that
you got the upgrade. You'd it in sts one hundred to two hundred,
Which one to buy? You know, I've been thinking about that exact question
myself, and I think I want the HT version, which is the one
hundred. I think the two hundreds of the desktop version, if I if
I have that number correctly, And the reason for that is because I want
to take it with me when I travel, especially if I go to Galveston,
because we spend weeks, you know, a week or two three here
and there throughout the year at Galveston. It'd be nice to listen to the
Galveston Police and Fire Department out there when I'm down there. Of course you
could do that with a desktop version as well. You just have to pack
it up and take it with you have an extra inten I think the HT
just be a little bit more portable. So that's the one I'm thinking about.
But that's just my opinion. Yeah, that BP y on the FT
three, No man, My FT five will last for three days monitoring,
probably more than that, actually last for three days monitoring with me picking it
up sometimes and keying up my All Star or keying up my open spot to
talk into the Texas Patriots Room. Why sf It'll last for three days using
regular wear and tear. No no problem at all. Brent's asking, does
anyone know of a place or does anyone know of an SSTV transmission from someplace
where there will be totality that would be fun? I do not know of
anything, but that would I'm sure somebody will do that. Why wouldn't they?
Let's see, is he going to make a big battery for the FT
sixty ft soth? You know that might not be a bad one because it's
still in production and the original batteries on those radios were Nikad batteries, I
think, and they've got some upgraded I think they've got some upgraded lithium ion
batteries for that one. But good question. I've asked him to make a
battery for well, I've asked him to make a battery for the D seventy
five, because we all know the battery woes with the D seventy five,
those of you who have one of those. So I'm hoping he'll make a
battery for the D seventy five upcoming. But D seventy five form factor may
or may not be possible with a battery like that, but we'll see.
Ah, that's a good idea. Someone needs to send in a Simpsons old
man yells at son Meme via SSTV, whish someone would make one of those
batteries for the FT seventy that'd be good. That would be good. Hey,
Don, thank you for trying that. Don says, my code works
for the battery pack, so Jason five will get you a five percent discount
on this battery pack off of this military green battery with my logo on the
back of it. So thank you for that. Two of you who purchased
one so far, eighteen or twenty of those in stock twenty. We're in
stock eighteen left right now. And let's see what the auction is up to
eBay auction. Okay, we're still at three seventy five, but we got
a week. I'm gonna send this out an email. I'm gonna talk about
it on live stream tomorrow. I'll talk about on my live stream on Wednesday.
I'm gonna do five lives, no, four live streams this week,
assuming that I get down to Belton next weekend and do a live stream from
there, which I normally do if I'm at Belton, I will do a
live stream on Saturday. So I'm live streaming today in tomorrow. We're gonna
do a Wednesday live streaming this stream this week, we're gonna have Flex Radio
on. Kyle's gonna join us, and then I'll have a live stream on
Saturday from the Beltonham Expo if I make it down there. So yeah,
four live streams in one week, why not? Okay, what's the source
for that big battery? The source? James, what do you mean?
You mean? What power is the battery? It's uh, let's see LFP
cells six amp hour thirty two seven hundred lithium iron phosphate bear cells. I
believe it's got three of those. It might only have two. I don't
remember. No, it's got two of them there, it is right there,
it's got two of those, the thirty three two seven hundred thirty two
seven hundred. So that's what that. That's what that is. Yeah,
USB charging at the bottom. You can read about it at this link I
just shared. I'll share this link again. There we go. Check that
out there. Let's see uh in five, oh, Bob, you guys
will be a belt and also, yeah, Ron, you guys gonna have
a booth down there. You guys a lot of times set up a booth
in the flea market area outside cool. I hope I hope to see you
guys down there. I hope the weather holds. I hope it does well.
I hope it does well for that. All right, there we go.
What did I click on here? Okay? There we go. Good.
Oh, there's Kevin in the chat. He says he uses Samsung twenty
one seven hundred, Samsung twenty one seven hundred. Okay, so what are
those other extra batteries for? In the on that same page there then,
Kevin, that's just I was just reading the uh you got some six samp
hours there. Let's see there's a long text of Yeah. There it is
right there. Okay, so I missed it on the side there because I
was looking at the bottom. Right here uses new genuine Samsung twenty one seven
hundred cells built with a BMS to help protect the battery. Upgraded fifteen white
USBC charging module chargeable via USBC. Fully charges in under four hours, typically
under three hours. It is fast charging. I do not I knew.
I do know that. I've never timed it. I guess three hours is
probably right, but I do know it is fast charging. So there you
go. I was looking down here at the bottom to see and I guess
he sells sells for other things here, but the twenty one seven hundred is
the ones used in this specific battery pack. There we go. Thank you
for that info, Kevin. Does the clips grow in your battery? Yeah?
You could take the stock belt clip from the stock battery case because if
you if you know how the the the ft well the ft five the ft
five stock battery case, it has that that little case that you put into
that it clips into and you put the case on your belt, so the
belt, the screws on the belt clip come in from the back rather than
the front, and that fits on here. Just fine. I believe the
FT three one will fit on here too, but I had I haven't tried
it on my I need to get a second one of these to put on
my FT three. I haven't done it yet. The code for the battery
is Jason five discount five percent discount Jason five with that code, guys.
Hey, thanks Dawn, he says, clubhouse Tuesday night will promote the auction.
Also good. I'm not getting anything for this auction, guys. This
is totally done by n FI BSB and AA five r X, both of
them in the chat tonight. UH. This is going to be shipped to
the winner and all the proceeds are going to go to Jim W six LG
for his UH for his health issues that are going on right now. So
I'm just promoting it thanks to thanks. Is oh okay just reading through the
chat, Okaank good Ken, I have a question for you. I'm going
to take my seventy three hundred to a park tomorrow with the WRC seventeen foot
whip. I will be on a deck made of fiberglass. Will MT antenna
see the radios as elevated radios? Well, my antenna, probably my intenna
see the radios as elevated radios. I don't know. Good question off of
fiberglass. I don't know. Try it and see. I don't know.
I don't know. I haven't tried that. I never tried that myself.
H Jesus said, Yeah, all the airlines offering eclipse viewing flights are hopefully
checking their planes over today. That's for sure. There we go. Okay,
millions of people crowded into a small area of what could go wrong,
that's for sure. All right, there we go. So there's the battery
pack, there's the auction, there's the PayPal donation page, and there is
the Quirky QRP Journal hardcover quick reference notebook. I think I shared this.
I will put all of the links in the description of this video below for
those of you on Team Replay and those of you listening to the audio rip
after the fact. In five SKT, yes, you told me that you
were buying some acreage somewhere in East Texas, Gunburo City. That's where I
have my family reunion every well, for the last like three years, we've
been out there off of Lake c Cedar Creek Clay. Yeah, Cedar Creek
Clay. So that's cool. Good, that'd be. That's a nice area.
Let's see, Okay, asking Don if he's going to be retiring soon,
it's a good place to do it. Just ordered my battery. Thanks,
Ron, appreciate that. Ron. You have the FT seventy. I
know you like the FT seventy better than the FT five. You told me,
so which one are you going to put that on? Maybe you have
an FT five also, I don't recall. Let's see nine in stocks.
Kevin, we sold eleven of them so far. I knew these would be
popular. He's gonna continue selling these after these twenty are gone, on a
made to order basis. He got He told me I had twenty of them
in stock right now, because we've been talking about this for a couple of
months. So after these are gone, correct me if I'm wrong, Kevin,
after these are gone, he's going to do them on a made to
order basis, So when you order one, he'll make it and then send
it to you, so it'll be a little bit of delay. On shipping,
but you will get it, and this is stuff I will be These
are links I will be sharing on my shopping Friday shopping videos when I do
those, and in my email blast for a while, for as long as
Kevin wants to continue making them. Can I send my old FT seventy batteries
to Frank if you want to? You got an FT three, Okay,
I don't know. Frank don't have an FT seventy. Frank didn't have any
fusion radios. Does Kevin have an black or orange ones in stock? I
don't think he does an orange one for this specific model. Uh. He
was sold out of the black ones there for a while, and far as
I know, this is the only one he has in stock right now.
But maybe we'll do an orange one next. It'd be a fun color to
do, I think, or maybe the red because there's some red well,
no that the orange, like the button there the buttons on the side of
the FT five of course on the FT three. I think they're different colors,
but that might be a fun color to do as well. Frank has
a surey know that someone gave him and he doesn't use it. Very true,
don very true, Yep. Yep, he does because he's I don't
know. I don't know. I don't know. I've I gave up making
excuses for Frank a long time ago. Yes, yeah, I wish Frank
would get on All Star with us, but he has not done it as
of yet. I'll have my All Star node running tomorrow during my live stream,
I'll be on FT eight, but I have my All Star node running
tomorrow. It is up now. Let's see. I rebooted it earlier today.
Yeah, it looks like it's working. It's yeah, pretty good out
there right now. Katie four UFD is talking on it right now. So
there you go, Orange find it when you drop it. Very true,
very very true. So hi viz Orange can be a thing. Kevin says,
there you go. That's a good idea. I think that's uh yeah,
my UV ninety mate, that's Orange. I carry that radio when I
go to my hunting lease, and a lot of the times when I go.
I got one of the early ones, so it's full open transmits.
Don't tell anybody, but I carry that radio periodically. I put one of
those new USBC rechargeable batteries on it from Better Safe Radio works great, So
I get to charge that via USBC now. And yeah, the high viz
orange is a cool thing about that. Am I the only person who has
worked tomorrow? You know, my wife is going to work. But they're
all taken off like an hour or so in the middle of the day to
do to go outside and go across the street to the park across the street
and watch the eclipse. So assuming the weather cooperates with them. I don't
know. I heard they're closing schools in some areas, and uh, you
know it's good, good luck getting through all the traffic. I don't know.
Hopefully, wherever you're going, you're there now and you'll stay until this
time tomorrow if you know it, if you have any common sense to you,
we're monitoring all local repeaters here in ceverl Texas, and traffic is normal.
Good. Okay, how's the DX Commander build going, Troy. I'm
actually waiting on Shane and Frank. Both of you have a DX Commander expedition,
same one I have, and we've all we decided last year we were
gonna build them together. And about once a month, well about once every
month, I send him a message saying, guys, when are we gonna
do this. When are we gonna do this? So at this point in
time, I'm waiting on those two guys. Our schools have a noon dismissal.
Where in the ninety five percent totality, got's good, Richard will be
driving. You can pull over the side of the road though during the totality,
Richard, depend on where you are. I guess Wolloming is full cloud
cover winter storm morning, So no, they aren't taking time out. Yeah,
there's supposed to be clouds here tomorrow, but I think they just recently
changed that, and maybe it'll be clear during the eclipse and then it's going
to cloud up tomorrow afternoon late or something. I don't know. We'll see
what we see when we see it. Because whether some Texas ISDS closed due
to traffic concerns, Yeah, a lot of Texas repeaters are linking together tomorrow.
Interesting, Okay, Kevin's thirty two seven hundred battery cells and BMS units
are excellent. Weather forecast is scaring off the huge crowd? Yes, Yeah,
some of the places when we were in Fredericks for last week, some
of the places were concerned that they were expecting a big crowd. But they're
like. Well, with the weather, we don't know now, so we'll
see no oversized loads allowed in Texas during the highway clip Texas Highways during the
eclipse. Interesting, interesting, interesting, well anyway, Okay, so guys,
once again we are supporting Jim W six LG with this PayPal donation link.
I'm gonna share this in the chat again right now, and then this
eBay auction put that in the chat again right now. So go out there
and check that out right now. We're up to seventeen bids at three hundred
and eighty dollars for the real poto a bowl infed halfwave INTENDA. This is
a cool antenna. I took it out to a park. I used it.
It worked great. I've got it in my Explore backpack from Giga Parts,
where I keep a bunch of intennas. This one goes with me everywhere
I go. I've only used it like twice. The last I activated a
park down outside of Fredericksburg two or three days ago, and we were in
a confined space, so I didn't have enough room to roll out a full
intent. I just rolled out a ten meter infed halfwave instead. And I
could have done this one but I couldn't remember how many clicks it was for
ten meters only a ten meters sideband that was so I gotta I need to
print a chart that says how many revolutions and turns get this one in to
balance. So of course, if you have an analyzer with you, it's
not a big deal, but it is a great INTENTNA I really enjoyed using
it the two or three times I've used so we're doing that. We've got
the FT five D battery from W zero a Z right there, discount code
of Jason five for five percent off, and then we've got the quirky QRP
Quick Reference notebook with charts, its and ITU zone map and a QR code
that takes you to the technician training videos on this channel. Some people have
asked about a new general class, and I'm working with one of the local
Ham radio clubs here to livestream a new general class, hopefully later this month,
so stay tuned on that as well. I will send out links as
soon as I have that and dates and times and whatnot. You guys can
share it with all your local people if you don't mind trying to get trying
to get the word out about that. So that's a work in progress,
all right, Richard seventy three, buddy, thanks for being here tonight.
But that's about it. Guys. We are once again gonna be here live
tomorrow at noon Texas time, which is seventeen hundred UTC, for a couple
of hours during the eclipse. I'm gonna have a camera pointed at the eclipse
and connected via zoom to to my live stream assuming the weather, Assuming the
weather cooperates, we'll be able to see it. If Frank has zoom,
I'll text him later. I haven't seen where he went. I haven't seen
him say anything in a while. What bands does it support? It does
ten to forty meters. It actually actually since it's since it's adjustable, it'll
do anything up to forty meters or down to forty meters. However you want
to look at that. So you can roll it in and do thirty meters,
you can do seventeen meters, you can do twelve meters, ten meters,
six meters. It do all that. You just got to put an
analyzer on it and see and keep rolling it until you get down get the
dip down to where you want it. So it's an adjusta a variable adjustable
antenna that does multi band. So if you if you spin it out to
the forty meter element or the forty meter length, then like most infed halfwaves,
it'll do ten fifteen forty with no tuner so at that one length.
But that's where that is. So seventy three. I'll check out the link
for tomorrow for the solar eclipse and we will see you guys. Then,
thank you. I will put all the links that we talked about tonight in
the description blow as soon as the live stream ends for those of you on
the replay, and we'll talk about them again tomorrow in the live stream there
as well. So seventy three everyone, have a good eating