WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.359 Hey, Before we get started, be sure to head over to Hamradio two 2 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:10.320 dot com forward slash email dash sign up to join my email list of over 3 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:14.880 nineteen thousand subscribers, where I like to send emails about upcoming events, upcoming 4 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:19.000 shopping deals, keep you updated with all the stuff going on with my videos. 5 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:23.440 Once that list reaches twenty thousand, I will be doing a giveaway of 6 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:28.000 another HF radio sign up today and thank you for the support. Here we 7 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:34.520 go mute that, and I'm gonna go transition over there right there. Hey, 8 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:39.399 guys, good afternoon. It is well good noon. That's twelve o'clock, 9 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:44.799 twelve o'clock straight up in central Texas, and we're gonna do this today 10 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:53.399 because I didn't get to go down south to where Mike and Ryan and Frank 11 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:56.920 and Vern and several other people apparently are and I hear it's cloud I don't 12 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:00.320 know if it's cloudy down I haven't talked to those guys this morning, but 13 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.760 it was forecast to be cloudy down there, and it's forecasted to be cloudy 14 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:10.319 here, and it is somewhat cloudy here. I'm gonna show you guys the 15 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:15.319 zoom screen and that's the camera that I currently have at pointed at the sun, 16 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:21.560 zoom in on that just a touch there, so you could see the 17 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:27.599 clouds. I could see the sun pretty good a second ago, but not 18 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.480 at the current point in time. But though you see, those clouds are 19 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:36.680 moving through there pretty quickly, and so hopefully we'll get a chance to actually 20 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:40.719 look and see what the eclipse looks like. My information says the totality should 21 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:42.680 start about one thirty, about an hour and a half from now. But 22 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:47.480 I read yesterday that you're gonna kind of start to see a little bit of 23 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:51.439 moon kind of start and creep in somewhere around like twelve thirty five, so 24 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:55.599 about thirty five minutes from now, So it's gonna the totality is gonna last 25 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:57.079 four minutes, but you're gonna see the moon kind of move in and move 26 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.480 out on either side of that. I don't know how long all that's gonna 27 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:05.599 take. I guess maybe like an hour total something like that. So it'll 28 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:10.319 be just it'll be cool to see what we can see and what the clouds 29 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:15.360 allow us to see and what happens that way. So anyway, that's where 30 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:21.280 we're at today. Uh, let's see, I'm gonna bring in Scott over 31 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:25.240 here. He joined me on zoom. They unpinned this one, and uh, 32 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:31.039 let's fix that. Well, I'm just gonna do this right here. 33 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.319 I think. What's up, dude? How are you doing? Pretty good? 34 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:37.319 Man? Everybody? How about yourself? Oh I'm hanging in there. 35 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:43.840 Yeah. Just one of the maps I saw today of the eclipse and the 36 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:47.639 weather between Texas and Maine. Yeah, Texas is getting the worst of the 37 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:52.680 cloud coverage. Oh yeah, up about Missouri. Now. It's funny, 38 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:54.439 is my parents live up in Maine, and if you've ever been to Maine, 39 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:59.719 clouds just come upon you, like instantaneously, and it's just yeah, 40 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:04.879 time up there today. We've got the best weather for it. Well, 41 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.840 there you go. I'm just twenty miles off off kilter, right right right, 42 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:13.520 totally totally. Well, I guess we'll see what we see. Yeah, 43 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:15.800 it's too bad. That too bad there's clouds out there for a day 44 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:20.039 like today. But I guess you know, you's got to roll with the 45 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:23.120 punches. Man. There's another smaller eclipse coming in September, isn't there. 46 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:30.280 I believe. I believe that's correct. I believe. So there's a I 47 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.719 don't know if it's a yeah, it's not a totality. And there's another 48 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:38.000 eclipse. I think it's an almost total eclipse coming in like twenty forty five, 49 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.439 like twenty years from now, but I don't think it comes through this 50 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:44.960 area. So it's it's kind of like how much of the eclipse is going 51 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:46.120 to happen, Where is it going to happen, that kind of thing. 52 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:50.759 So it's it's one of those situations where you don't you don't really know until 53 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:52.479 I mean, you can go look it up. I guess, but I 54 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:54.719 don't have it memorized. Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. But I 55 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:59.919 think they said that what's happening today, we in America won't see you from 56 00:03:59.919 --> 00:04:03.879 No. Two and forty four years something like something something like that. Yeah, 57 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:09.360 yeah, something like that. That's that's I believe that's true. Yeah. 58 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:13.800 So guys in the chat, uh, do you think eighty one sixty 59 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:18.319 meters will open up? I think that is the uh, the guess or 60 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:23.600 the educated, the very educated guess is that eighty and one sixty will open 61 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.279 up at some point when the moon starts to move in place and block out 62 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:30.879 the sun. So I don't know if the d layer will completely disappear or 63 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:33.240 not be in that maybe it'll disappear for about four minutes. I don't know. 64 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:38.000 But the D layer, the D layer of the ionosphere disappears at night 65 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.959 and the F one and F two layer combine, I think, and then 66 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:44.319 during the day you have a D layer and E layer and F one and 67 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:47.480 F two. So so I don't know how much of that will happen for 68 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:54.120 four minutes. And I don't know if that's dependent on how the sun where 69 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:58.040 the sun is as compared to because the Sun's not moving, the Moon's just 70 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:00.600 going to move in front of it, and that's what caused the eclipse. 71 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:02.279 So I don't know. We're gonna see what we see. I guess yeah. 72 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:05.199 FT eight was forty meter. FT eight, which I pulled up earlier, 73 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:09.839 was pretty quiet here as well. I took a look at eighty. 74 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:14.160 I didn't see anything at all. Ten meters was pretty quiet at about nine 75 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:16.560 am this morning, which kind of surprised me. Twenty meters was up. 76 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:20.680 There was a little bit on seventeen and fifteen, and then ten meters opened 77 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:25.319 up maybe an hour and a half ago something like that. So I kind 78 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:28.800 of thought that the bands would be up a little bit more by now, 79 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.480 but we'll see, we'll see. I am, let's see. I think 80 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:35.720 let's switch over here. I know you guys can it's probably small in the 81 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:44.560 screen, but I'm calling CQ SEQP on ten meters right now and we'll see 82 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:48.839 how well that does or doesn't work out. So don't know. But yeah, 83 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:54.240 we're just kind of hanging here and doing whatever. And you know, 84 00:05:55.279 --> 00:06:00.040 no really not really scheduled plans or anything like that. We're just gonna We're 85 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.319 just gonna hang out and kind of watch and see how this thing goes. 86 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.920 So I appreciate you guys hanging with me. Some of you probably don't have 87 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:12.000 the clips, didn't even coming through your area, so I wanted to do 88 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:15.199 this for you guys more than anything. So there we go. Scott, 89 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.079 you said it was totally cloud covered down there. Yeah, we got really 90 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.759 bad cloud cover expecting rain today, tomorrow and Wednesday, so it's gonna be 91 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:26.480 pretty much a wash for us here unless some something comes to and burns out 92 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:31.279 the clouds for us. Okay, well that's too bad, I guess, 93 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:36.199 but it is what it is. Yeah, I saw a really funny meme 94 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:42.000 today. It's been kind of going around the Facebook groups out there. Okay, 95 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.120 you know they always have mark safe from blah blah blah. Yes, 96 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.120 well today was mark mark safe from the eclipse being anything more than an astronomical 97 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:59.399 event. Okay, astronomical event. Huh that's funny. I guess we'll that's 98 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:01.759 good. Yeah, that's good. I like that one. Okay, Uh, 99 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:06.079 let's see are you in now? That's okay? So that view right 100 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:12.279 there, I'm gonna have to add you to. Uh there's no desktop audio 101 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:14.680 in that view right there, so I'll have to bring that audio in so 102 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:16.519 you can talk to me while I'm doing FT eight. There you go. 103 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.639 But uh yeah, so okay, so you can kind of see how the 104 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:25.959 uh the sun has moved out or I'm sorry, the clouds have moved out, 105 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.759 so you can kind of see the sun right there, and uh then 106 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:32.720 the shot there next to Scott. So I'm gonna have to go outside at 107 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:41.240 some point and adjust that because I don't uh, I don't have I don't 108 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:43.920 have it on like a like a it's not a it's not a follow thing. 109 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:47.319 I don't have it on like an asthmuth follow thing. So now are 110 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.279 we looking at the ridge line of your rooftop in this shot, that's the 111 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:54.319 ridge line of the ham shack. Ok So, yes, so yeah, 112 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:59.000 yeah, towards the pop of the picture, you can be moving towards your 113 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:01.639 towards towards the right if you're looking at it towards the right of the picture. 114 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:07.360 Okay. So, because my backyard face is pretty much due south, 115 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.600 so it's moving to the west right now, which is to the right. 116 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.000 If you're looking at it straight on, it's to the right. So it 117 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.480 in the zoom, it's moving closer to you, Scott, Okay, gotcha. 118 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.720 Yeah. So it'll continue to go that way, which is that way 119 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:22.839 right there. As I'm looking at it, it's that way, So it'll 120 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.399 continue to go that way as the day goes on. So we'll see what 121 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.079 happens with that. Yeah, I just want to make sure don't go back 122 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:33.240 behind your ridge line right at the point of interest. No, No, 123 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.919 it's it's moved. Yeah. Yeah. I tried two or three spots about 124 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:41.759 to try to get it get the camera set up on two or three spots, 125 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:43.919 and I thought, you know, this one will cause there I originally 126 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.279 set it up in the on the side of my patio and I had it 127 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:50.039 looking and I'm but it was getting the edge of my patio on the right 128 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.960 hand side of the screen, and I'm like, by the time noon or 129 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.720 maybe twelve thirty or one o'clock gets here, that's going to behind the patio 130 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:58.360 scene there, so that this way it kind of the sun will kind of 131 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.960 follow the path of the of the line of the hamshack there. Nice, 132 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:11.120 you're running any special antennas for this thing or Nope, just just regular old, 133 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:16.120 regular old, not doing anything special at all. I just they just 134 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.159 wanted, uh, for the as far as the HAMSAI guys, the SEQ 135 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:24.559 Party, se seq P, Solar Eclips, QUSO Party, they just wanted 136 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:28.200 people to get on the air and you know, send signals into the atmosphere 137 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:31.720 so they can monitor it with their monitoring tools. That was my original plan. 138 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:33.759 I wanted to go out someplace, you know, if we're gonna have 139 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:37.279 a little more visual out there and at set up you know, eighty meters 140 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:41.039 and other other types of antennas, just to give it a test and see 141 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.960 what happens. Yeah, yeah, worse with only with only four minutes of 142 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.399 playtime and got to talk quick well see yeah true, And I wonder I 143 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:54.279 wonder how much, you know, because you're gonna have a certain amount of 144 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:56.279 time to where it you're gonna be able to see the moon in front of 145 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:00.399 the Sun before it's in there completely, right, So I wan wonder how 146 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.080 much of that time on the on the one side of the Sun and the 147 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.679 other side of the Sun will actually affect all the solar signals. And that's 148 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:09.639 what they're that's what they're That's one thing they're monitoring is like how much is 149 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:15.080 this going to be affected? How long before totality and how long after totality 150 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:20.200 are are we seeing a noticeable difference in in you know, just atmospheric propagation 151 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:22.480 in that way. So well, I hope somebody is actually doing experimentation with 152 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:26.679 this opportunity today and going to get some data on that acuit. They would 153 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:35.120 be very helpful and informative. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. Uh A meritron 154 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:39.120 is warming up, Gregory says, there you go, get that get that 155 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:45.159 am formed up, buddy. Hey Ron, Okay, So Ron says, 156 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:46.440 three hundred and ninety dollars, and I know what you're talking about there. 157 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:50.240 I have that pulled up over here. So we had on my live stream 158 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.519 last night. Let me get that right, the right screen up. On 159 00:10:52.559 --> 00:11:00.679 my live stream last night, we had talked about auctioning off an antenna, 160 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:05.320 one of the real poda able antennas, and all the proceeds that for this 161 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.919 intenna go to Jim W six LG. So it's one of the things we're 162 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:11.519 doing to support him. It is up to three hundred and ninety dollars at 163 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:16.159 eighteen bids. I saw it this morning. It was at like sixteen bids, 164 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.679 so it's had like only like two bids today. And you can buy 165 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.159 one of these antennas on their websit. I'm gonna have to pull up that 166 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.159 website. Run. I don't remember what y'all's website is. You can buy 167 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.440 one of these intennas for a lot less than that. So if you just 168 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.840 want the intenna, go out there and grab one. I have one. 169 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.799 I like it. It works very well. But again, these proceeds are 170 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.919 going to support Jim W SIXLG. So when this auction ends about six days 171 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.440 from now, all the money that is, whatever it ends at, that's 172 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:48.759 the money that'll go to gym to help with his medical expenses. Again, 173 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:52.440 we also have a I say we this was set up by someone else not 174 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:58.440 me. This is a PayPal link that is set up to donate straight to 175 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:01.279 Jim ten dollars, fifteen dollars, whatever you want to donate. If you 176 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:05.279 want to donate a large amount, that's certainly fine as well. Is that 177 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.080 the link from his YouTube channel? I believe so someone sent this to me. 178 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:11.679 I think this was the link that Callum was talking about, So I 179 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:16.399 think it. This is the link from his YouTube channel. Yes, I 180 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:18.240 believe it's all just one thing. This is not something I set up. 181 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:24.600 So yeah, hopefully that's uh, hopefully that works out well and we were 182 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.000 able to get him some extra cash to help him through this hard time. 183 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.399 Yeah, I wanted to make mention. I talked about this, I shot, 184 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.799 I premiered a video about an hour ago talking about this very topic. 185 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:37.679 And one of the things I stated there, you know, back last year 186 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:41.399 and I had my accident, you set up a GoFundMe, and you know 187 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:45.840 the handbry too community came out of the woodwork to help. Yes, And 188 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:48.639 I pointed out the fact that not only was I not only was I so 189 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:52.679 appreciative of that, but it was interesting that people who never met me just 190 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:58.559 saw me on YouTube, saw me as a YouTuber made more donations than people 191 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.759 I knew as my personal friends. I thought that was interesting. Well, 192 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:07.639 yeah, this community takes care of each other. Absolutely, yep, agreed, 193 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:11.279 agreed. Well that's great, that's great to hear. I'm glad that 194 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:15.759 you had that experience and uh are able to share that with us. So 195 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.000 yeah, I want to forward for Jim absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, I 196 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:22.960 try to try to do that. I got after I did, I did 197 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.759 that for you and one other one or two other guys and uh. And 198 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.919 sometimes I'll get emails from people that I just I don't recognize, and I'm 199 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.200 like, you know, I'd love to do that for everybody, but you 200 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:35.840 don't want to. You don't want to take advantage and have a different giveaway 201 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.399 or donation every week. Some people I don't know, And let's face it, 202 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:43.279 there are scammers in the world, so I don't know if sometimes people 203 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:45.879 are just kind of full of it and trying to get scam some money. 204 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:48.480 So I try to limit it to people I know I've met. I've never 205 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:52.159 met Jim face to face. I have worked him on Poda. I was 206 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.799 working Poda one time from Galveston and he reached out to me of course I 207 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:58.919 know who he is through his YouTube channel. But but you know, he's 208 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:03.799 a member of the community that that most people know and and it's it's been 209 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:05.120 around for a while, been around for a while. Yeah, so I 210 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:11.200 feel pretty good. Yeah. He actually commented on a couple of my videos 211 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:16.559 in the past when I first started my channel and offered to be like an 212 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:18.000 elmer to me and stuff like that, and I just I hadn't didn't get 213 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:20.679 a wrap back around to him. It was too involved with trying to learn 214 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.480 all this stuff. And but yeah, he's a good guy. I mean 215 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:28.279 I watched his videos and you know, you know stuff. Yeah, yeah, 216 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:31.399 yeah, for sure. So yeah, you guy. You guys help 217 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:37.080 out there if you can. But Rich is going to try to operate forty 218 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:48.360 from the mobile. That's good. Okay, let's see good from there. 219 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:52.519 Okay, let's go back over here and see if I made any contacts. 220 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.840 Nope, no contacts yet. Well I made one contact a minute ago, 221 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:03.519 okay, calling CQ Solar Clips QUSO Party on ten meter ft eight And you 222 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:05.720 can see the sun next to Scott over there, and that's where it is 223 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.519 right now as far as cloud cover goes. So looks like the clouds of 224 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:16.840 shifted direction. Yeah, yeah, that direction. That big bright spot in 225 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:20.759 front of the in the camera, that's the sun o case she didn't figure 226 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.200 that out on your own, Well, it's not an led ring light. 227 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:30.000 No, no, not an led ring light. Although good idea. So 228 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:31.080 we're gonna hang out here for a while, guys, and I hope that 229 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:35.720 you'll hang with us, and if anybody has any questions or wants to join 230 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.240 us or you know, feel free to uh just put a message into the 231 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:43.559 chat and we'll see what we're uh see what's going on there. So, 232 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:48.440 okay, we had talked about the real potable a bull antenna a minute ago. 233 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:54.279 This is their website and I will share this link here. Boom, 234 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.559 uh you can get you picked this intent up for about one hundred and twenty 235 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:03.399 dollars. So the so the eBay auctions almost three times that twenty four is 236 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.480 actually it is three times that right now, a little bit over three times 237 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:12.559 that. So again, this is for a ch charitable donation to Jim W 238 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:18.360 six LG. You know, I think it's absolutely fantastic and innovative that somebody 239 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:23.320 took a chalk line into Yeah. Yeah, and that a great idea I 240 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:26.440 would have I would have not thought about that, but uh, apparently it's 241 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:29.720 been done before. Though they're not the first ones to do it, but 242 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:32.519 I think they're the first ones to actually market it. I saw a couple 243 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:36.039 of YouTube videos where guys were just built one for themselves, and I'm like, 244 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:40.320 that's that's actually a good idea. But yeah, yeah, very click. 245 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:41.480 I was I was going to try to reverse engineer one for myself. 246 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.519 So I was like, nascrew it. Somebody's already done us buy one if 247 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:52.159 I want one, right, yeah, yeah, totally totally. So all 248 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:56.519 right, let's go over here. Oh, somebody sent me a h A 249 00:16:56.679 --> 00:17:03.600 F seven J sent me a message through grid tracker. Hey, what's up 250 00:17:03.319 --> 00:17:08.640 watching on YouTube? Hello? Hey, how are you? Thank you very 251 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:17.440 much for being here. Okay, so let's switch that over and I'm gonna 252 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:29.839 add Scott. You're muted for the moment. Let me add you where is? 253 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:33.160 Where did that go? There? It is? Hold on you up 254 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:40.160 capture. Okay, all right, you're back in there so they can They 255 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:41.359 can't see you at the moment, but they can at least hear you now. 256 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:47.000 Because I didn't have the I didn't have the desktop audio added there. 257 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:52.319 So I just worked a case one LBR. It looks like what's that there? 258 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:55.839 And you can see if you look at grid tracker right here, you 259 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:57.720 can see where the moon is. I pulled that up earlier. I thought, 260 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:00.799 oh, I'm gonna be able see where the freaking moon is on grid 261 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:06.079 tracker. So even better, So we're gonna watch the moon right there, 262 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.240 top left corner of the screen there above me is grid Tracker. That's the 263 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:15.319 uh that's the map that is built into grid Tracker, with this information down 264 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.400 the right side, with the black bar behind it. This right here, 265 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:26.279 this this station list right here is also part of grid Tracker. And and 266 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:30.720 that you can see right there that's AF seven J send me a message through 267 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.960 grid Tracker. There's a messaging service built into it. So that's all grit. 268 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:37.920 Every time I pull this up on a live stream somewhere, somebody says, 269 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:40.119 hey, what is that program that you're running in the background. That's 270 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.079 grid Tracker, is what that is. We've done live streams with those guys 271 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:45.799 on the channel, but it was several versions ago. So I've invited them 272 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.000 back on into the channel. We're trying to trying to get them back on 273 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:51.960 into the channel. Talk to us more about grid Tracker soon. Yeah, 274 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:55.480 grid track is really awesome, but there's so many features apparently, and including 275 00:18:55.480 --> 00:19:00.240 this one you got here with all these uh your top right window there out. 276 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:03.000 I don't know how to you just set that up or how to activate 277 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.359 that. I gotta sit at some point in time and really just play with 278 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:11.240 grid Tracker more and just figure out all the different feature offers that. All 279 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:14.000 of these buttons over here kind of like where my mouse is right now, 280 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:17.400 all of these buttons activate a different feature. And this, uh, this 281 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:22.240 what it's called a hall router here is one of these buttons of I don't 282 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.440 remember which when it is. But once you once you shut grid Tracker down 283 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:29.240 then launch it again, everything pops back up that you had before. So 284 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:32.160 I've had this running for a couple of years. I don't remember which button 285 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:33.920 it is. But this tells you where everybody is, like, it tells 286 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.799 you the call sign on the left column who they are current. Who this 287 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.799 call sign on the left is currently calling is in this column right here. 288 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:47.240 It's like this guy right here in France is calling c Q K one g 289 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:52.359 u y is calling CQ for Z one T K that's a that's a Israeli 290 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:56.359 call sign is calling CQ, and then it says what grid they're in here, 291 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:00.039 and then it says what they're dxcc ENTD is here, so you and 292 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:02.759 see what they're If you see a call sign you don't recognize because you don't 293 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:04.160 have everything memorize, you're like, where are they, it'll tell you right 294 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:07.200 there where they are. And I worked that when I first fired up FT 295 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:11.279 eight this morning about an hour almost two hours ago. Now, the first 296 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:18.240 station I saw was an Israeli station four Z one U T or something like 297 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:21.720 that, I think, And I went back to him and he came right 298 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:22.480 back to me. I called him, and he came right back to me, 299 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:26.799 and I worked him. I'd never had I'd never worked Israel on FT 300 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:29.839 eight on ten meters, so that was that was kind of a neat thing 301 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.319 too. Oh yeah, see earlier, Yeah, yeah, I know wsjt 302 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.279 X has something similar on that left box over there where kind of tells you 303 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:40.359 who's calling CQ. But I always when I checked when I set my settings 304 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:44.839 for wsjt X, I put the CQ only, so I always get a 305 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:47.440 list of people that are actually calling CQ. So I can try to respond 306 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:49.079 and make a contact with them, right, That's usually what I Yeah, 307 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:52.039 I've got that box checked right here and can uncheck it and see where other 308 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.759 people are doing. But yes, I like the good tracker option. That 309 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:57.400 looks really you get a lot more information there, it does. Yeah, 310 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:00.359 it gives you a lot more info on that. So there you go. 311 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:11.640 I popped up quickly. Uh k KG two. See why I have this 312 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:15.519 kind of shrunk down on my screen, right down so I can't see it 313 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:18.960 very well. Let's see, there's an N one station, call me and 314 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:26.240 go back to him real quick. All right, So let's go back over 315 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:36.559 here and look, No, not that one all right there? Okay, 316 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.160 not seeing much on the Yeah, there's too many clouds up there right now 317 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.839 to really see what the sun's doing. But uh, we will see what 318 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:48.279 we see. I'm gonna go out there. I'm gonna have to go out 319 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:51.200 there and adjust it here in just a little bit, so at least you 320 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:53.559 have some blue sky. Yeah, yeah, well like I have. This 321 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.680 morning, it was mostly cloudy. I looked out and I was like, 322 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.720 okay, it is gonna be cloudy, and then it cleared off and I'm 323 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:03.599 like, okay, typical texts, right, so, uh so it cleared 324 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:07.119 off, and then these white clouds started rolling through, and like I said, 325 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:10.079 they were rolling, they were rolling pretty quickly right now. So I 326 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:11.599 don't know. We'll see what we see. I guess when we when we 327 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:15.279 get there. But I just want to be able to see something, really. 328 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:18.279 I just say, hey, there, it is right there. Okay, 329 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:21.079 I'm good. I don't really care which but it is. I just 330 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:27.079 want to see something. What percentage of the totality are you in? You 331 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:30.720 know, like eighty five percent or you know what, that's a good question. 332 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:36.559 I know that Hillsboro, which is just like thirty forty minutes south of 333 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:38.599 me, is in totality, so I'm not far from it. I bet 334 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:42.400 I'm like seventy five to eighty five, maybe ninety percent something like that. 335 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:47.039 Yeah, I think you're probably close to ninety. Yeah. Yeah, I 336 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:49.839 think it's it's pretty it's it's going to be. It's supposed to be pretty 337 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:53.440 total here, depending on what the clouds are going to let us see, 338 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:57.319 of course. Yeah, because the band or the width of the uh totality 339 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:00.440 of things like seventy miles wide or something like that. I can't remember the 340 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:08.519 exact number. Yeah, yeah, something like that. There we go, 341 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:12.240 there's some there's some blue sky and sunlight. Yeah, there it is right 342 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:22.319 there. Michael Box. What's up, dude, Good to see you in 343 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:25.839 there. I guess you're uh, oh you work from home full time. 344 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:32.240 Now. Uh, there's no solar filter on the camera. No, it's 345 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:33.599 just my phone. It's it's it's an extra phone I have. It's not 346 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:37.440 my phone. This is my phone, but it's an extra phone I have. 347 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.640 So just no, I just I just uh stuck it up there and 348 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:47.680 and uh let it go. So you know, during during the during the 349 00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:48.720 last eclipse, I was trying to figure out a way to look at this 350 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:52.160 thing. When it happened. Yeah, dawned on me that I have a 351 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:59.720 solar powered welding helmet. Oh oh, I went wrapped myself, my my 352 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:02.200 helmet, came outside. That's sit in the sun little bit to charge the 353 00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:04.960 batteries up so I don't weld like all the time. And when you look 354 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:07.480 to the sky instantly goes black on you. Now I was able to sit 355 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.839 there and watch the whole thing. It was really cool, nice, very 356 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:15.319 cool. Yeah, that's that's great. My wife is at her office in 357 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:21.279 Dallas, and she says it's clearing in downtown right now, So I think 358 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:23.599 there her whole office is gonna do a thing. In fact, they might 359 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:26.440 be out there now. There's a park not too far down the road from 360 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.759 where they are, and they're gonna all go as a team out there to 361 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:33.960 the park and watch the eclipse. So a lot of people are getting work 362 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:38.319 done today in the USA. In Texas way back, amber alert signs on 363 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:41.559 the freeway says, don't stop on the freeway to watch the eclipse. I 364 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:45.119 know it. Yeah, yeah, I saw a lot of that coming back 365 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:47.759 from fred Driving home from Fredericksburg on Saturday, there's a lot of this, 366 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:49.680 no stopping on the side of the road, no stopping on shoulder. And 367 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:53.240 I'm like, yeah, I'm kind of glad I stayed home today because I 368 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:56.759 don't want to be a part of all that madness down there. But yeah, 369 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:06.480 yeah, yeah, yep, but yeah, I'm happy and safe up 370 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:11.000 here in my studio with a bottle of rum. Yeah yeah, I don't 371 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:15.480 know that rum you brought to field Day. That was evil. I don't 372 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:19.559 think I want any more of your rum, dude. Now what I got 373 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:22.359 today, this is the uh if you don't know if you're how familiar you 374 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:26.559 are with bourbons. But the most popular bourbon out there is Pappy van Winkler 375 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:30.519 by one of course, yes, or to get three thousand dollars a bottle. 376 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:36.000 This is the Pappy van winkle of RUMs four square? Is that what 377 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:40.279 that says? Yep? Right out of Barbado or Barbados. Huh okay, 378 00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:41.119 I haven't heard of that one, but that I mean, I'm not a 379 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.440 rum connoisseur, so yeah, okay, I've been kind of playing with it 380 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:48.599 because RUMs kind of uh care free, there's no real rules in it, 381 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.359 whereas bourbon you have specific things you have to do make a bourbon a bourbon 382 00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:56.440 and rum doesn't care. You're still sugar and something fermented and you're still isn't 383 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:00.559 that's the difference between That's a difference, I mean for your of course you're 384 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:03.480 correct about bourbon. But that's the difference between bourbon and whiskey. If if 385 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:07.119 you don't do it right for bourbon, it's just just a whiskey, right 386 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:12.640 right. So yeah, that's a I've been I've been testing out new bourbons 387 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:17.240 and whiskeys lately, and I found a couple that that Devil's River. Single 388 00:26:17.400 --> 00:26:22.079 single cask is pretty good. I like that stuff. And uh, the 389 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:26.039 Elijah Elijah, Elijah Craig, Elijah Craig. That's it. Yeah, that 390 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:30.440 that one's pretty good. Single barrels like a hidden secret kind of thing. 391 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:33.400 Come on, clouds there, Yeah, move out of the way. What 392 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:44.079 do you do it blow really hard? Yeah? There we go. Good. 393 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:47.279 I wonder if I do. I do have a polarizing filter for a 394 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:49.240 camera of mine somewhere, but I couldn't tell you where that was. It's 395 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:52.680 been years since I use that. I could just go set it on top 396 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:56.440 of the phone. Maybe, but well, polarizing filters generally work at a 397 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.599 specific angle of yes from point right at the sun at I won't act like 398 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.640 much of anything. No, that's probably true. Yeah, that's probably true. 399 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:07.400 If you've got a old pair of sunglasses and put that over your lens, 400 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:08.799 I might block. Then I might. I could. I might. 401 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:12.480 Yeah, I might try that. We'll see see what happens with that. 402 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:15.559 So you can, or you can run Harbor Freight and pick up a solar 403 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:19.519 powered welder's helmet. Well, well I can't. I can't add that to 404 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:22.319 I can't add a welder's homet to zoom unless it comes with built in Wi 405 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:29.240 Fi. SOE put you put your phone inside the helmet pointing through the lane. 406 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:32.200 Yeah, I guess you could do that. Yeah, yeah, that's 407 00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:40.880 true. That's good. Uh, just saying for a friend says that it's 408 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:45.880 one hundred and fifteen miles wide. Oh really, and we should be ninety 409 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:51.000 nine percent here in North Texas area. So very cool. So yeah, 410 00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:56.839 I'm pretty I pretty pretty sure. That's uh, that's I was thinking it 411 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.319 was like ninety to ninety five, but I don't remember. It's been a 412 00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:02.440 while since. I Look, I wasn't originally planning on being here during it. 413 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:03.960 I was gonna go down there, and it's pretty much one hundred percent 414 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:07.720 down there where in Kerville where the guys are today. But like I said, 415 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.279 it's not Yeah, I don't know what the weather at. Frank said 416 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:12.480 he might join the zoom so we might be able to hear from them a 417 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:18.279 little bit later. But he joined the zoom last night, but I didn't 418 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:21.000 have it running, doesn't have it. I don't have any have any guest 419 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:29.640 speakers last night. But there we go. Yeah, combined two polarizing filters 420 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:40.920 maybe mm hmm. Neutral density filter. You know, I want to say, 421 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:45.839 I want to say it does have a neutral density filter. It's a 422 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:52.519 software filter, neutral density software filter on that camera. So it's probably not 423 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:56.480 as good as a hardware filter obviously, but but in the in the camera 424 00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:03.279 program, it has a neutral, neutral density virtual software filter. So yeah, 425 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:04.839 I think a lot of the Sony cameras have that. I'm looking at 426 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:10.200 buying Sony A seven three's pretty soon, and that's got a built in indie 427 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:11.920 filter, but I'd rather have actual ones that put on the end of the 428 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.279 left. Yes, agreed, agreed, Yes, true. Yeah, you 429 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:19.519 know that Gigabarts is a full fledged Sony dealer down right really Yeah, well 430 00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:26.160 all cameras they have Sony, Cannon, Nikon, Panasonic, U Fuji, 431 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.400 I think, yeah, yeah, the whole the whole kit and kaboodle. 432 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:36.599 They're uh, they're getting into the telescopes. US got a lot, yeah, 433 00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:38.759 got a lot of a lot of stuff that's good for content creators, 434 00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:44.759 YouTuber's, podcasters, that kind of stuff. So yep. Yeah, I've 435 00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:48.359 been a Nikon guy for about twenty years now, and uh, I just 436 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:52.680 started discovering the Sony cameras and this particular model making model and looking for is 437 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:57.599 uh supposed to be far superior with the color profiles it has built into it, 438 00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:00.480 and you can literally take the camera out of the box and get perfect 439 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:07.759 exposure, perfect everything, minimizing the uh post production you gotta do on any 440 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:12.240 photos or video. Mm hmm, I haven't seen that. But I've been 441 00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:15.519 a You said you were a Sony guy or a Nica, Well, I 442 00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:18.359 was a Nikon guy. I've got a D five hundred here and a whole 443 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.160 bunch of lenses and all kinds of accessories for it. See, I've been 444 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:25.759 I've been a Canon guy for gosh. I've got an old a to Canon 445 00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:30.000 EOS A two, which was like their second or third top of the line 446 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:34.559 camera next to the EOS one thirty five millimeter film cameras, and I've still 447 00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:37.279 got it, I mean, used it a long time, but I've but 448 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.200 all the all the lenses for that pretty much fit all the new stuff. 449 00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:42.599 You have to get an adapter for the mirrorless, but it's there. They're 450 00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:45.799 still easy to use. And uh, but those Sony's, Uh, those 451 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:51.319 Sony cameras are are nice that I've I've looked at a couple of them, 452 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:57.000 so I think Okay, so according to this website here, let me pull 453 00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:07.279 this back up again. According to this website right here, I think we 454 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:15.599 should be starting to see something around like the twelve thirty five twelve thirty seven 455 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:19.200 time period, so basically five to seven minutes now we should start seeing something 456 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:23.640 kind of come into the picture. So we're gonna keep watching it and see 457 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:29.000 what happens. I think we also have like seven planets aligning at the same 458 00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:34.440 time. This just happening, really yeah, wow, huh yeah, I 459 00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:38.799 saw and I was doing some research on NASA's website or some other website this 460 00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:41.960 morning. Is there's like seven planets are lining up in the same time as 461 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.839 this thing's happen. There's a lot of weird little things going on today. 462 00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:49.880 I'm not looking overthinking and reading into it or anything. It's just you know, 463 00:31:51.000 --> 00:32:00.480 it is what it is. Yeah, okay, all right, Josh, 464 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:05.400 Josh. I would I would make a comment, a snide remark about 465 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:08.240 your last comment, but I'll be nice. It's solar eclipse day, man, 466 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:13.240 I'll be nice. I'm just it would just be a tease anyway. 467 00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:19.119 I wouldn't be serious. I'm never serious. So somebody said, what was 468 00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:21.319 it forty five. Yeah, forty five. Auto was in there a minute 469 00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:23.720 ago, he says. I'm twenty five miles from Kerrville. I've seen the 470 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:29.640 sun for about twenty seconds, so I think we're seeing more son than Frank 471 00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:40.720 is. Right now, let's see who uh something else nobody's answering me. 472 00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:44.200 Oh, though, there's somebody's coming back to me, Papa Alpha two station 473 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:50.720 coming back to me. So I'll be interested to see what what eighty. 474 00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:52.640 I don't think I can do one sixty with this antenna, even with this 475 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:57.839 tuner, I think I can get eighty to work. But more than anything, 476 00:32:57.880 --> 00:32:59.880 I just want to see. I want to go down to the band 477 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:07.680 see if the band opens up, so we'll see what that u u oh 478 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:13.079 see you knew what I was gonna say. Josh, Yeah, totally set 479 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:15.319 it up so the kids can watch it. Awesome, how much? How 480 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.799 much? I don't think California is in the uh? Oh are you are? 481 00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:21.039 You're setting up something so you're not pointing a camera at the sky. 482 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.039 You're probably setting up something else for that. Cool? Yeah, do that? 483 00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:29.880 Those kids are gonna want to watch it for sure. I hope we 484 00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:32.519 don't get invaded. Well, that's basically the hope every day that I wake 485 00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:44.519 up with, let's see uh watching McCallum. It's already started for us. 486 00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:47.119 If you have the eclipse glasses, you should see a small sliver cut out 487 00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:59.279 of the sun. Okay, cool, I feel bad for Frank. Yeah, 488 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:07.559 I kind of do to actually, mm hmm, Okay, well there 489 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:12.440 it is right there. Oh okay, I lost my I lost my feed 490 00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:15.639 So Scott, I'm gonna let you have it for a minute. Oh good. 491 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.480 The camera might have the phone might have overheated. We'll see, we'll 492 00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:22.599 see what happened. So I'll be uh yeah, hopefully not. I don't 493 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:23.119 know. I'll let you have it for a minute. I'll rap back. 494 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:47.079 I'm gonna mute myself just okay. So all the cussing. Yeah, so 495 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:52.320 it's ought to be pretty interesting. Even though I got no uh visual of 496 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:54.559 the eclipse today. I mean, I'm still gonna go dark outside. That 497 00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:59.559 ought to be kind of freaky. Uh. Either way, I did I 498 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:02.079 touched story before. A couple of years ago there was an eclipse that happened, 499 00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:08.880 and I don't love this. Particular artist thought this up or somebody around 500 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:13.519 him thought it up. But right at the time, of the last eclipse 501 00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:16.000 that they had. There was a concert going on, and I guess Ozzie 502 00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:22.719 was there, and they timed it so that just as he came out onto 503 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:25.840 the stage, the eclipse was starting, and of course he sings bark at 504 00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:30.639 the Moon. They timed it just writes when he got to the course of 505 00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:34.199 bark at the Moon, the eclipse was in actual totality. I thought that 506 00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:36.960 was just kind of cool. Once in a lifetime thing is never going to 507 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.480 happen again, but it's definitely kind of cool when people think ahead and think 508 00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:47.760 outside the box a little bit and plan for stuff like that. Hopefully his 509 00:35:47.880 --> 00:36:00.519 phone didn't deep six itself. But what happened. The phone overheated, all 510 00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:04.480 right. I took it down. I put it in the fridge, so 511 00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:07.920 yeah, well, yeah, I'll bring it back here in just a little 512 00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:14.679 bit up an ice pack. Yeah. I think I've got a nice pack 513 00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:17.440 inside that I could probably do that with. Yeah, maybe I'll try that. 514 00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:23.320 But yeah, yeah, the phone overheated, so that's got a little 515 00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:27.880 warm. We're in the seventies or eighties up here today, seventy six right 516 00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:32.400 now, it's seventy nine according to my thermometer. I have out here and 517 00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:37.320 U and it's been sitting out there for probably an hour and fifteen minutes something 518 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:40.280 like that. So it lasted that long. That's not bad. It's been 519 00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:55.760 out there a while. Yeah, alright, so just don't forget about the 520 00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:00.840 phone and leave it in the fridge. Well it's not gonna not gonna hurt 521 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:08.920 that, but yeah, we'll see see what happens. Alright, I'm still 522 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:15.679 calling CQ SEQP on ten meters and ten meters still looks pretty good for now. 523 00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:24.960 I was seeing a huge well it was like a multiple signal thing about 524 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:31.320 down here around like twenty eight oh three or four, and I'm like, 525 00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:35.679 what is that? So I scrolled down to it before I started the live 526 00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:37.920 stream, and it was like it sounded like five or six or seven people 527 00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:44.119 all doing CW. It's just like this big conglomerate of CW. Just one 528 00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:46.199 guy was going really fast. I assume it was Charlie, but I don't 529 00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:51.920 know. But yeah, that's gone now. You can you could see it 530 00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:54.760 was really wide too, as large CW gathering down there on the bottom of 531 00:37:54.840 --> 00:38:06.280 ten meters let's see. Okay, so we're calling CQ right now. It's 532 00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:19.679 all good, right, there. Something said, soak your phone in water. 533 00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:30.920 Yeah, yeah, maybe I'll do that. Stand by James at Quirky 534 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:36.719 QRP says he's hitting Alaska in Japan on thirty meters. Wow, let's let's 535 00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:39.119 go back over there and kind of look and see what the halt transmission. 536 00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:52.960 There's some let's see, where's thirty meters there? It is seeing much on 537 00:38:53.039 --> 00:39:07.159 thirty meters here, okay, uh forty ft eight seven seven four not seeing 538 00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:14.920 much there either, I mean for the FT eight propagator. Yeah, I'm 539 00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:17.320 just looking at the FT eight frequency to see how Yeah, that's a good 540 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:22.679 measure of propagation on you know, just kind of like check and see if 541 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:27.760 the band's up type thing might not be worth it might be just worth uh 542 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:31.840 tuning up on thirty and just see what happens. Yeah yeah, goold. 543 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:40.599 Yeah, nothing on eighty either, So let me go back to thirty. 544 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:52.760 Oh yeah, that's no good. And ten is not really made for thirty, 545 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:57.000 but I'm pretty sure this tuner will handle it. Nope, no, 546 00:39:57.159 --> 00:40:10.639 we're not. Now, we're not gonna be able to do thirty, which 547 00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:13.880 is I mean, it's not really showing anything out there right now anyway. 548 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:22.239 But there's fifteen. I totally forgot you had a flex radio. Oh yeah, 549 00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.159 oh yeah, seventy three hundred wasn't good enough for you, huh. 550 00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:30.079 I've never had the seventy three hundred in my shack. It's always been a 551 00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:34.440 field radio. Okay, so just like my FTDX ten. Actually it's always 552 00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:37.320 been a field radio. I was actually pretty impressed the after d X ten 553 00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.159 when you had it over in Galveston and we got to play a little bit. 554 00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:45.039 That was pretty cool. Yeah yeah, I like it. I like 555 00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:47.239 it a lot. The filtering on it was actually what stood out to me. 556 00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:55.480 Yes, yeah, yep, very true, very true. All right, 557 00:40:55.559 --> 00:41:01.719 so I'm monitoring fifteen meters now, fifteen ft eight. We'll see what 558 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:07.000 comes through some There's somebody right there calling CQ SEQP, so we'll go back 559 00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:09.519 to him real quick. All right, I'm gonna go get my phone, 560 00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:13.920 Scott. Let me switch it back over to you. Appreciate you being my 561 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:19.800 co host today, No problem, and uh, all right, be right 562 00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:34.719 back. Sounds good. I have I kind of expected more questions from you 563 00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:38.880 guys. I guess everybody's kind of doing their thing here and just here for 564 00:41:39.000 --> 00:42:01.599 the participation. That's pretty cool. Shep I didn't. Yeah, that's awesome. 565 00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:06.559 You got you got a whole lineup of the Icon family of radios. 566 00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:15.039 That's pretty slick. Yeah. I'm kind of expecting with this whole thing happening 567 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:20.519 right now that forty meters will pick up a little bit and might get a 568 00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:30.000 little bit more more activity on there. Can we make the eclipse go faster? 569 00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:38.800 I'll try. I'll keep pushing the moon further. My main radio is 570 00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:42.920 a Icon seventy three hundred. I have two of them, one for the 571 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.840 shack and one I use for portable. I've also got the seven o five, 572 00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:51.559 which is my QRP radio, and that's pretty much it. I haven't 573 00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.880 really been looking to get into any other radios at the moment, aside from 574 00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:58.960 the one. I want to get a seventy six to ten down the road, 575 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:01.280 but that's gonna be a little wow. But I've been pretty happy. 576 00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:05.360 I was seventy three hundred who came out in twenty fifteen. Still a solid 577 00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:07.559 radio, still works, you know, and get him for about a thousand 578 00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:21.679 bucks. Let's see, try to catch up all the questions here. I'd 579 00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:29.000 be a question for Jason about the wow. That says a lot of icons. 580 00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:44.280 Man, it's like Jason got the phone working again and the sky cleared 581 00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:52.679 up for him. Okay, we'll see how long that lasts. I'm sure 582 00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:59.119 that I'm probably gonna have to go cool it down again at some point. 583 00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:02.519 I did check there is a neutral density filter running in the software, neutral 584 00:44:02.599 --> 00:44:08.840 dnsity filter running on the camera. But there it's probably not the greatest quality 585 00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:12.840 in the world. You'd probably a lot better off with a hardware filter over 586 00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:15.559 it, I would assume. Yeah, oh, usually you know, hardware 587 00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:17.519 filters would work better anyway. Right, Yeah, tell you what though, 588 00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:22.639 your camera shutting down like that and giving it time to cool down. Look 589 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:24.280 at the sky. Now you get that one little cloud there, and there's 590 00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.239 nothing else. I can see nothing else there. Yep, that's not true. 591 00:44:29.400 --> 00:44:35.880 Have a perfect moment there, Yep, yep, that's true. Let's 592 00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:40.800 see KO four AFL is in the house. Just mount the camera to the 593 00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:45.360 DX commanders. Everyone, someone's in every live stream. Someone's got to be 594 00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:50.639 a smart ass. So Steve wins the prize today. I guess so somebody 595 00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:53.039 had asked a question you scroll up on your comments there about your flex radio. 596 00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:57.719 That a comment that I couldn't or a question I couldn't answer there. 597 00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:09.400 Let's see if I can find it. It's K zero OTC Tyler. Okay, 598 00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:14.039 Uh, is there a reason you don't run multiple slices for FT eight 599 00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:16.199 on your Flex? Group tracker does a great job of summarizing all the data. 600 00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:27.159 So my Flex is a sixty four hundred which only has one MDU or 601 00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:35.840 some processing or whatever. Basically, basically my Flex is limited. I should 602 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:37.760 have gotten the sixty six hundred, and my hope is to upgrade one of 603 00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:42.559 these days. But the two antenna switches, the two intenta ports on the 604 00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:45.199 back of the radio act like a switch, so only one is active at 605 00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:52.239 a time. I have not ever tried to jack around with multiple slices on 606 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.760 one intenna switch. I could totally do that with a MULTIPI on Intenda, 607 00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:58.639 obviously, but no, I just I just haven't never. I just haven't 608 00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:05.360 never really done that. So uh, maybe that's something I'll play with soon. 609 00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:07.920 All right, So Cheddar Steve is in the house, and I see 610 00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:14.320 you there only because you are You're coming in from Rumble. And when I 611 00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:16.480 ran Rumble last night was last night was the first time I ever live streaming 612 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:20.119 on Rumble I've been kind of tinkering with it, and it worked well last 613 00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.559 night, but the chat was not coming through from Rumble through restream. But 614 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:29.199 it looks like it's working. Now. There we go, and that's me 615 00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:34.960 replying in Rumble. Sweet okay, so even better. Wow? All right, 616 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:38.119 so we're streaming on Rumble now, guys, and this guy's not answering 617 00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:44.280 me on fifteen FT eight. So I want to go back to Colin c 618 00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:49.760 Q. And I had an opportunity on FT eight about a week ago. 619 00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:53.639 Pittcarn Island came up. Ooh, and there's very few hams on that island. 620 00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:58.519 Yeah, and I think I think one or two were related to the 621 00:46:58.599 --> 00:47:02.639 guy who was on the the Bounty back in the seventeen hundreds whatever. Yes, 622 00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:06.760 yes, yes, that's really kind of a cool contact to get if 623 00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:12.679 you can actually nail it. Yes, agreed, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 624 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:15.599 Tyler. My hope is to upgrade to a sixty six hundred one of 625 00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:20.559 these days so that I can do because you can have four slices on the 626 00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:23.960 sixty six hundred as I as I understand it, and it's a it's a 627 00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:27.719 neat it's a neat thing to be able to tinker with. But I haven't. 628 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:31.960 I haven't really done much yet with that, so one of those things 629 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:37.480 I'm hoping to do soon. Those things are not cheap, in case you 630 00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:49.960 haven't noticed, new car or new radio, right, yeah, basically yeah, 631 00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:55.519 basically true goodness. Okay, I still want that all Craft K four 632 00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:59.920 HD man oh man, I do too radio. I want one of those. 633 00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:02.239 Oh yeah, I want one of those. Also. It's a buddy 634 00:48:02.239 --> 00:48:07.360 of mine's got the he didn't have the HD. He's got the first one, 635 00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:09.840 the H or whatever it is, and they didn't have the HD out 636 00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:15.000 when he got his, So he let me go over there and film a 637 00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:16.440 video to walk around with it, kind of look at some of the buttons 638 00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:21.000 and knobs and whatnot. So that videos on the channel. But it is 639 00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:23.360 a nice radio for sure. The screen and the waterfall and that radio look 640 00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:27.199 fantastic. Oh yeah, And I think at one of the hamfests you had 641 00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:30.719 done a live you were interviewing the guys over Allocraft and they were saying something 642 00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:32.920 that really just blew my mind. He's like, yeah, the instruction manuals 643 00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:36.519 built into the radio. You just hit a button comes up on the screen. 644 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:38.039 It's like, that's cool as hell? That is right? Yeah, 645 00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:42.719 yeah, yeah, totally, yeah, yeah it was that's right. I 646 00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:45.480 kind of forgot about that actually, but yes it is. You just hit 647 00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:46.960 you just hit a little menu at him and it comes up on the screen. 648 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:49.880 You scroll through like how do I do this? Oh? Here? 649 00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:52.960 It is right here, and you never have to worry about losing the manual 650 00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.239 or worry about your you know, printing out an eight hundred page PDF or 651 00:48:55.239 --> 00:49:02.039 any of that stuff. Yeah, totally, totally okay, John, did 652 00:49:02.119 --> 00:49:07.639 I just work? You? Looks like I just worked casey four l z 653 00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:22.519 N. Let's see. Yeah, I see you there seventy three John, 654 00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.480 He said it was plus seven. Good, okay, it looks like you 655 00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:34.719 were plus one. You were plus one, so good. Thank you for 656 00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:38.199 thank you for the contact for sure, and guys, thanks for hanging with 657 00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:44.519 me today. Four hundred and seventy eight of you watching. Only twelve of 658 00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:45.719 you have hit the thumbs up though, I don't know, I don't know, 659 00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:52.880 maybe nobody, nobody likes the stream. But yeah, this is fun. 660 00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:55.960 Like I said, I wasn't originally planning on doing this. I was 661 00:49:57.039 --> 00:50:00.840 originally planning on being down in Kerrville, Texas, which about an hour outside 662 00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:04.920 of Fredericksburg. That's where Frank is right now. Vern's down there, Kadum 663 00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:07.039 Redy, Mike is down there, A couple other guys are down there, 664 00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:15.800 and there's supposed to be clouds and thunderstorms later this afternoon. I am on 665 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:22.599 fifteen meter ft eight, guys, fifteen meter ft eight, let's see put 666 00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:25.440 that upright there for the moment. Yeah, fifteen meters ft eight. That's 667 00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:29.280 where I'm at right now. So, yeah, we were supposed to go 668 00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:31.559 down there. We'd had that plan for probably three or four months something like 669 00:50:31.639 --> 00:50:38.519 that, and then the storm. The weather forecast has just been crapped for 670 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:42.559 the last couple of weeks, so we've been watching it and I told my 671 00:50:42.599 --> 00:50:45.719 wife, I was like, you know, with all the added traffic and 672 00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:49.239 all the Yahoo's on the road and all this kind of stuff, if the 673 00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:52.039 weather is not going to clear up by the time we finish our vacation, 674 00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.800 which was last Saturday, because I was going to drive that we had. 675 00:50:55.920 --> 00:51:00.639 We were down in an RV park outside of Fredericksburg. Lukenbach actually got to 676 00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:06.000 go to the Lukenbach Texas Bar. That was pretty cool. Uh. So 677 00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:07.840 we were down there for the last week, I was going to drive the 678 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:12.000 RV over on Saturday and drop it off and bring her home Saturday night because 679 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:17.199 we couldn't get our house sitter slash dog sitter to extend, and too until 680 00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:22.360 Monday, we only planned her through through Saturday. So uh, so I 681 00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:24.480 was gonna do that, but you know, with the weather and everything, 682 00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:31.800 I just I just decided to skip it because it was traffic predicted and rain 683 00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:36.079 and storms and thick clouds predicted, and I'm just like, eh, I'm 684 00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:39.679 not going to do that. So that's where I'm And then I decided, 685 00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:42.960 and then I was I was Uh. I was driving home and I was 686 00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:45.519 like, oh, I could do a live stream. This is how terrible 687 00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:47.519 of a YouTube I am. I was like, I didn't think about it 688 00:51:47.559 --> 00:51:50.360 until like almost the last minute. I was like, I could do a 689 00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:53.000 live stream, and uh, I was like okay. So I went around 690 00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:58.159 and checked several of the channels that I knew that were in the totality path, 691 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:00.639 and I'm like, okay, I'm not I'm not seeing anybody else that 692 00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:05.000 has anything planned, because I don't like stepping on people's toes if somebody else 693 00:52:05.039 --> 00:52:07.599 already had something planned. But I didn't find anything, so I'm like, 694 00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:09.440 well, okay, let's just go ahead and spin up a live stream. 695 00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:13.119 What the heck? So I had to kind of improvise a camera at the 696 00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:15.840 last minute because I don't have an outdoor camera on my hamstrack. Josh has 697 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:21.719 an outdoor camera on top of his house that points to his step by our 698 00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:23.559 antenna, and I always thought that was a good idea something I wanted to 699 00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:29.599 do, but I've never done it because I don't have my tower up yet, 700 00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.440 and my wife and I keep talking about moving and we're going back and 701 00:52:32.519 --> 00:52:35.719 forth, and I guarantee you as soon as I put that tower up, 702 00:52:35.719 --> 00:52:37.960 we'll decide we want to move. So that's how it happens, right, 703 00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:44.639 That's why I haven't put it up yet. So yeah, that's right, 704 00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:51.960 yep, yep. So we'll see all right, I'm not seeing anything in 705 00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:57.800 the sky on that cam right there, but you know, without a without 706 00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:00.800 a proper filter, it might be kind of hard to see, but it's 707 00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:05.280 gonna there will there will come a time where it'll be it'll come in there 708 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:08.639 and you'll be able to see it at some point. So we're just gonna 709 00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:15.239 keep watching. Got a nice beautiful sky there at least, yes, yeah, 710 00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:23.800 yeah, at least the cloud's kind of moved out. Absolutely, So 711 00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:28.679 I hear the CERN super collider is also going to be testing the Higgs Boson 712 00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:32.000 theory today, trying to create a God particle at the time of the eclipse 713 00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:36.320 as well. Okay, you're gonna have to. I understood the word super 714 00:53:36.360 --> 00:53:37.679 collatter, and the rest of that I didn't get so explained with that, 715 00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:40.880 right. Well, there's a there's a thing called the Higgs Boson particle. 716 00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:44.360 It's a particle they been trying to find for a long time and they've been 717 00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:45.480 trying to figure it out. They call it the God particle. It's like 718 00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:51.159 the theory of everything, kind of a particle thing. Okay, I don't 719 00:53:51.199 --> 00:53:52.679 don't don't get me talk about quantum physics, like I don't know a whole 720 00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:58.119 lot about it. Yeah, but apparently they're running experiment today and going to 721 00:53:58.199 --> 00:54:00.519 run this thing through and try to create this thing at the time of the 722 00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:04.920 eclipse or somewhere around today. So there's a lot of weird little things going 723 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:07.679 on. You know, you got NASA launching rockets into this thing today, 724 00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:15.719 and yes, yeah, that's true. Somebody earlier said that the NASA YouTube 725 00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:20.719 channel was streaming. So I wonder, I wonder what they're showing over there. 726 00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:24.880 I haven't popped over there to look yet. Massive clouds over Tyler, 727 00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:32.559 Texas. Less than thirty five minutes too. Totality yes, correct, yes, 728 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:37.320 yeah. According to this website here, totality should be right at one 729 00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:42.199 thirty r right at the bottom of the hour, after one o'clock, we'll 730 00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:46.320 see a big G says hello from Baytown, Texas. Are you having any 731 00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:52.000 more clarity in the sky down there? And you're only about twenty thirty miles 732 00:54:52.039 --> 00:55:08.119 south where I am? Good question. So if we look at grid tracker 733 00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:13.400 here on my on this screen, it still shows the moon could be a 734 00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:17.960 little bit south of Mexico, so I'm not sure how real time that is. 735 00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:22.039 Look at the bands that are opening up on your FT eight though, 736 00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:30.360 Yes, that's changed. Where are you seeing that your little red vertical things 737 00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:32.639 up the top? Oh right up here? Yes? Yes, yeah, 738 00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:37.039 yeah, yeah. Ten twelve It says twelve meters is open. In fact, 739 00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:40.840 it says twelve meters is open more than fifteen and seventeen. Let me 740 00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:49.880 go look at twelve meters. I worked a couple of you on fifteen twelve 741 00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:53.840 meters is a fun band because it's so rarely open. It's like open even 742 00:55:53.920 --> 00:56:02.000 less often than ten meters. Is yeah, here we go. Okay, 743 00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:07.559 let's see what my tuner looks like. Intenta looks good, all right, 744 00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:19.480 switching to twelve meters. Guys, SEQP on twelve meters WB four EHG is 745 00:56:19.519 --> 00:56:30.519 out there calling. I answer that guy perfectly clear in Eastland County. Sean 746 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:36.440 says, you can see the eclipse on PSK reporter. Really, I gotta 747 00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:55.039 pull that up. What was that beep? Something beeped at me? Ah, 748 00:56:55.400 --> 00:57:02.159 yes you can. That's pretty slick. There's PSK reporter right there, 749 00:57:04.760 --> 00:57:09.320 so grit trackers a little bit behind. Yeah, it looks like the moon's 750 00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:16.719 actually west of Mexico. Yes on PSK. According to PSK re reporter, 751 00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:22.920 that is true. Okay, where I made one contact on twelve meters So 752 00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:27.960 I'm happy, but I'm gonna call CQ anyway. So, speaking of FT 753 00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:32.000 eight, what was your most unique prized Q? SOO on FT eight. 754 00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:42.400 On FT eight, oh, you're getting Antarctica. I have not gotten Antarctica. 755 00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:45.559 I got a I gotta I I monitor the I have on my hand 756 00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:51.719 alert. I have the call sign for McMurdo station, which is like casey 757 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:54.199 four USV or something like that. I have it, I don't, I 758 00:57:54.199 --> 00:57:57.119 don't. I don't remember, but it's I mean, I could look it 759 00:57:57.199 --> 00:58:00.559 up, I guess, but I gotta. I gotta alert that they run 760 00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:02.960 forty ft eight one time and I was not at home, I'm like crap, 761 00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:07.639 And I was not at a place where I could remote into my flex 762 00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:10.480 from where I was either, So that would be that would that would be 763 00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:16.280 the ultimate The ultimate goal for me is to get McMurdo station down there Antarctica. 764 00:58:16.599 --> 00:58:23.320 I have worked, you know, I guess the most unique thing I've 765 00:58:23.320 --> 00:58:28.760 ever worked is I worked a couple of Caribbean islands. One time. I 766 00:58:28.880 --> 00:58:32.360 got uh oh, I got King of Prussia all the time. That was 767 00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:37.599 cool. I can't remember. I can't really remember what else I got, 768 00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:40.159 but it was there. There was there was some cool. Uh. I 769 00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:45.840 got South Korea. I thought that was neat so South Korea. So yeah, 770 00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:51.000 stuff like that, But Murdo stations on my list for sure. Yeah. 771 00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:54.000 I think all I've ever gotten as far as like the unobtainium kind of 772 00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:59.440 QSOs. I got South Africa. Yeah, that's kind of difficult to get 773 00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:01.480 a hold of. Some times I hear that you can. You can get 774 00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:08.239 Madagascar, I believe has somebody down there, and then also the Falcon Islands 775 00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:14.280 down below in South America. But I got the one guy in Greenland that 776 00:59:14.400 --> 00:59:16.960 plays FT eight. Really it took me a half hour to get him, 777 00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:21.920 but he comes on. Everybody just files up. Bodim. Yeah, I'm 778 00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:23.480 sure. Yeah, I have got Iceland two or three times. I've never 779 00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:31.559 got Greenland, though I got Uh, I did get I did get South 780 00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:36.840 Africa, as you said, South Africa. Yeah, I got South Africa 781 00:59:36.920 --> 00:59:42.119 one time. And I don't think I have the Falkland Islands though, I 782 00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:45.480 don't think I ever got them. But yeah, Greenland, that's good that 783 00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:50.679 that that would be That would be fun. Australia, Yes, Australia. 784 00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:53.280 I've got Australia, New Zealand. I've worked several times on several bands on 785 00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:58.119 FT eight. They're they're actually, I won't say they're easy to get, 786 00:59:58.199 --> 01:00:05.760 but they're easier than you might think they are to get. You know, 787 01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:08.960 that beeping might be your microwave telling you your popcorns. Ready, now it's 788 01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:13.320 my uh, it's I got one of these new clocks from a teletron and 789 01:00:13.639 --> 01:00:15.920 and it's it's over there beeping out. I guess I've got an alarm on 790 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:19.079 it or set something. I need to go turn that off. And it's 791 01:00:19.239 --> 01:00:22.880 it'll go It'll go away by itself, I think. So let's see. 792 01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:25.719 I wonder if this is this is probably not tracking, so let me refresh 793 01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:39.840 that page. Okay, hmm, well we'll see. I guess I do 794 01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:52.119 want to check out the zoom here. Those clouds are starting to be obnoxious 795 01:00:52.119 --> 01:00:54.519 again. It looks like they're moving north now. Looks like the clouds are 796 01:00:54.559 --> 01:01:00.800 moving north. They were moving east earlier, but that direction they're moving kind 797 01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:07.320 of up like that on the screen that's north. Okay, well wind shift 798 01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:10.639 it happens, yeah, yeah, yeah. The cool thing is we're in 799 01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:15.400 Texas. See you wait five minutes, that'll that'll all disappear exactly, Yes, 800 01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:21.840 very true, Lon Moore says, light Haze and Garland, which is 801 01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:27.400 about twenty minutes that way for me, twenty minutes west of me, Sun 802 01:01:27.480 --> 01:01:30.360 is about one third covered. See I can't I can't see that do the 803 01:01:30.480 --> 01:01:36.679 clouds right now? So what is the advantage of FT eight over SSB. 804 01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:42.960 Joe Wallace asks, FT eight is a low noise mode, so a lot 805 01:01:43.039 --> 01:01:51.119 of the times when you can't get SSB is the hardest way. Well, 806 01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:57.360 maybe AM is a little bit harder, but voice fue voice voice over HF 807 01:01:57.440 --> 01:02:00.199 is the hardest way to make a contact. Not that it's difficult or you 808 01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:02.840 can't do it. I do it all the time. Parks on the Air 809 01:02:02.880 --> 01:02:09.480 is a great way to use SSB on on HF on multiple bands, but 810 01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:15.639 CW and digital modes are more low noise. So if you have a signal 811 01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:17.239 down in the noise, you're gonna be able to pull it out a little 812 01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:22.159 bit better with FT eight and FT four and even PSK thirty one and Riddy 813 01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:27.679 than you would on sideband. So for those stations that just like to work 814 01:02:27.760 --> 01:02:32.760 some far off stations, like if I'm hearing South Africa or South Korea or 815 01:02:32.840 --> 01:02:36.840 something on FT eight, most likely I can scan through that band and not 816 01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:44.800 hear anything on voice. So it's better at pulling up weak signals then than 817 01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:47.760 sideband or AM is so, and it's fun to use as a YouTuber, 818 01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:52.320 it's fun to use. While you're doing this, I'm talking to you guys, 819 01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:55.880 on the camera rather than talking to on the on the radio. So 820 01:02:57.960 --> 01:03:06.599 all right, Frank, rotated, not rotated, You're you're well, now 821 01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:09.599 you're rotated. Now you rotated the wrong way. I'm just gonna hold this 822 01:03:10.199 --> 01:03:14.159 for a second. See it happens every every time you move the camera it 823 01:03:14.519 --> 01:03:17.519 it changes the rotation on you and put you back to being sideways. The 824 01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:24.920 eclipse is affection. See all those clouds behind you, so you guys can't 825 01:03:24.920 --> 01:03:29.280 see anything right now. Okay, See that's what I was afraid of today. 826 01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:32.559 Man, it happens. Man, what are you gonna do? I 827 01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:37.840 know we're here having fun. I can't find the eclipse long enough for the 828 01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:43.280 thirteen thirteen hundred millimeter to get a great picture of it, but I've been 829 01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:47.119 able to get it with the two hundred milimeter and then but you know, 830 01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:52.559 I'm gonna blow those up. But I do have the radio station going where 831 01:03:52.800 --> 01:04:00.000 is maybe maybe I turn on rotation is on? That's right side up. 832 01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:08.519 There's my station right now running for the Ham Science that is just recording onto 833 01:04:08.599 --> 01:04:13.760 my computer. And we got the antenna way over there, and there's a 834 01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:16.280 bunch of people that's hanging out. We're having fun. Mal you's just still 835 01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:20.800 come down. It was an excuse to get together and you know, drink 836 01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:27.519 a bunch of bourbon. Mike lit a huge fire. You should have see. 837 01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:30.760 I can't even see y'all anymore last night. You're gonna see on my 838 01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:34.639 video coming up. I'm hoping gonna get it out Tuesday, matches, I 839 01:04:34.760 --> 01:04:38.239 know. Yeah, yeah, who gave up? We might matches man, 840 01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:43.000 Mike access to fire. But no, you you sent me a picture last 841 01:04:43.079 --> 01:04:45.320 night. Frank, Is that that fire you sent me a picture of last 842 01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:47.920 night? Yeah? Yeah, it got so hot this morning. We just 843 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:53.880 put a gigantic log on the embers and it lit again at five in the 844 01:04:53.960 --> 01:04:57.079 morning. When I woke up to us to the restroom, it was still 845 01:04:57.199 --> 01:05:03.960 blowing orange. Wow, the ridiculous. Yeah, just throwing on logs all 846 01:05:04.079 --> 01:05:09.760 night like bigger, bigger, bigger. That's actually a common thing at at 847 01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:13.119 the Deer Least. We we we we build a fire large enough to see 848 01:05:13.159 --> 01:05:15.559 the next morning lots of times. But that's good. It's fun to do. 849 01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:16.239 It's fun to do. I'm glad you guys got to do that. 850 01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:23.199 Mm hmm. You ever start a fire using tenor right? No, it's 851 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:26.719 a challenge and we are going to do it this summerfield day. There you 852 01:05:26.840 --> 01:05:30.000 go, Yeah, because we need a fire when it's one hundred and forty 853 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:32.920 degrees in Texas, right right, idea, Yeah, yeah, we don't. 854 01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:36.679 We don't do that. It's about halfway right now, and it's dropped 855 01:05:36.679 --> 01:05:43.360 and noticeable about six degrees. If we had the clear sky, you could 856 01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:48.519 start seeing now the little half moons between, like leaves and stuff, and 857 01:05:48.679 --> 01:05:54.440 a couple other cool things that are happening. Yeah, we're just getting brief, 858 01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:59.159 brief glimpses of it. Who's a lot that you got there? How 859 01:05:59.199 --> 01:06:02.679 far away from Jon are you in? Miles? Miles? I don't know. 860 01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:09.280 We're in Texas, so I'm about uh two to twenty two thirty something 861 01:06:09.360 --> 01:06:13.480 like that. Who's life feed you're stelling there? That's me, that's uh, 862 01:06:13.639 --> 01:06:17.639 that's my that's my smartphone pointed at the sun right now with oh shit, 863 01:06:17.760 --> 01:06:21.800 is that clear in Dallas? Yeah? Yeah, I was. I 864 01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:26.639 was surprised. I was surprised it was it was that, But yeah, 865 01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:29.360 I can't see a sliver. I don't have the correct filter on the camera. 866 01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:33.760 But having a camera is better than having no camera. Since I'm cursing, 867 01:06:34.199 --> 01:06:38.920 I hate you right now. Whatever I mean, that's you know, 868 01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:42.599 it is what it is. So yep. But well you might go up 869 01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:45.920 outside, Jason, to step out and see if the leaves are given that 870 01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:49.760 crescent moon look on the ground. Oh that's an idea. Yeah, maybe 871 01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:54.519 I'll do that here in a minute. Yep. So we've got twenty five 872 01:06:54.559 --> 01:06:59.800 minutes until suppose the total totality in this area, so fingers crossed, the 873 01:06:59.800 --> 01:07:01.599 clouds will stay out of the way for at least four or five minutes. 874 01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:09.199 So yep, nice man, nice am, I muted. No, you're 875 01:07:09.239 --> 01:07:11.559 good. Ok, here we're going on, Jason. What's going on? 876 01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:15.119 Guys? Hey, what's up? I'll pull you back off. Hey, 877 01:07:15.199 --> 01:07:17.480 Matt, I was wondering if you're going to make it out there. I 878 01:07:17.559 --> 01:07:21.719 texted you like three days ago and didn't get a reply. Oh I didn't 879 01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:25.639 realize it didn't reply. Yeah, of course I told you a week you 880 01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:29.079 guys coming for sure, had time off. This is where we planned to 881 01:07:29.159 --> 01:07:31.360 go. Well I knew that, but I thought you guys might detour, 882 01:07:31.480 --> 01:07:34.360 depending uh, based on the clouds. That's why I was letting you know. 883 01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:40.360 We're doing stuff out here in central the Central Texas Hill country for the 884 01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:44.199 next two three days. Nice. Then we're headed then we we're heading back 885 01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:48.079 east. Yeah. So it's been a fun time. Good. You're gonna 886 01:07:48.079 --> 01:07:50.920 come through. You're gonna come through Dallas at all? No, I think 887 01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:56.039 part as north was. We're gonna get as Austin. Okay, okay, 888 01:07:56.079 --> 01:07:59.760 so cool man, good to see. I'm glad you made it out there. 889 01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:03.840 Due y'all. Y'all have yeah, y'all have fun doing doing that that 890 01:08:04.039 --> 01:08:06.639 road trip. It'll be fun. Oh, it's been a good it's been 891 01:08:06.679 --> 01:08:11.239 a good time. So all right, I'm gonna go back, sit back 892 01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:15.239 down. I just heard Jason's voice over here. Figure out, thanks man. 893 01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:20.399 Kyle tried to Kyle tried to join the zoom and I I either didn't 894 01:08:20.439 --> 01:08:24.720 see you on time or you you only were there for a second. So 895 01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:28.960 Kyle, if you want to join again, please do is Kay passed out 896 01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:31.479 in his tent or something. No, he's over there spitting by the fire, 897 01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:38.079 of course. But but my up and coming eclipse video will be tonight 898 01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:41.720 or tomorrow. Just watch my channel. It's about to travel down here and 899 01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:45.680 the fun times we had and of course the eclipse, and it's been fun. 900 01:08:45.720 --> 01:08:48.600 It's been fun. So I'm gonna say seven three, y'all, I'm 901 01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:54.039 gonna probably put the two hundred milimeter, get some quick thoughts the sun goes 902 01:08:54.079 --> 01:08:57.520 away. Unfortunately, I can't use that big man. I was really one 903 01:08:57.560 --> 01:09:00.000 of that big lens. I can really zoom in on that guy and he's 904 01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:04.720 huge. Yeah, yeah, okay, put me in for some good shots. 905 01:09:05.479 --> 01:09:09.680 Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure, all right man, 906 01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:13.279 Yeah, send me some pictures when you have some. Yeah, I'll 907 01:09:13.279 --> 01:09:16.880 give the chance. All right, seven three, enjoy the eclipse, and 908 01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:23.279 uh you too, have a good one. Are you coming back tonight? 909 01:09:23.439 --> 01:09:27.560 Frank yep during the thunderstorm. That might be a part of the video. 910 01:09:28.159 --> 01:09:32.119 I'm gonna there you go. All right. Well, I'm gonna be sitting 911 01:09:32.159 --> 01:09:36.319 on the patio smoking a cigar tonight probably, So I'm already doing that one 912 01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:40.920 today, sir. Yeah, I spoked one yesterday, so I'll catch up 913 01:09:40.920 --> 01:09:44.840 to you. So all right, man, it looks like it looks like 914 01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:47.479 Kyle's got his clear sky there behind him. Look at that beautiful sky you 915 01:09:47.600 --> 01:09:53.800 have. I hate you very clear, are you guys? The Q SO 916 01:09:53.960 --> 01:09:56.239 PARTI is not still going, is it? Yeah? It is. It 917 01:09:56.319 --> 01:09:58.680 started about a couple of hours ago, and I think it goes to like 918 01:09:58.760 --> 01:10:00.600 four. No, I'm meant I met the Missouri q SO party you were 919 01:10:00.640 --> 01:10:05.600 doing last weekend. No, it's done. Yeah, we won. We 920 01:10:05.720 --> 01:10:11.920 want it. Awesome, awesome, that's great. Well, congratulations to you. 921 01:10:13.159 --> 01:10:17.640 So yeah, I'm I'm calling CQSEQP on twelve meter ft eight right now 922 01:10:18.439 --> 01:10:24.000 night. So what is there A lot of people on? There's actually quite 923 01:10:24.000 --> 01:10:27.159 a few. I made a bunch of contacts on ten and a few contacts 924 01:10:27.199 --> 01:10:30.119 on fifteen, and there's actually more people on the twelve meters is lit up 925 01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:33.800 right now, more than I expected it to be. So yeah, I've 926 01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:36.680 made I don't know, four contacts so far on twelve meter ft eight, 927 01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:44.399 So not bad for twelve meters, I'd say that's that's not bad. So 928 01:10:44.640 --> 01:10:48.880 yeah, it's a storming there in Texas, not where I am. You 929 01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:53.800 can see if you see in the zoom, I've got a second camera set 930 01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:58.119 up pointed at the sun. So that's right outside the ham shack. Gotcha. 931 01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:00.239 Well it looks good if the out clouds just get out of the way. 932 01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:05.520 Yeah, yeah, yep. So it should be totality here in about 933 01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:12.119 twenty minutes. Gotcha. I think we live stream from Mazatland, Mexico. 934 01:11:12.279 --> 01:11:18.199 Right now, that's a live stream. Wow, very cool, would you 935 01:11:18.199 --> 01:11:24.239 say, Kyle? I was gonna say, how how long are you in 936 01:11:24.399 --> 01:11:27.840 totality? Do you know? Do you remember? Four minutes? Yeah? 937 01:11:28.319 --> 01:11:32.159 So we're on the northern side of I'm in Missouri here. I think we're 938 01:11:32.199 --> 01:11:35.479 going to get like two and a half to three. I think. Okay, 939 01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:44.239 okay, recording in progress. Just in case I hit that earlier. 940 01:11:44.279 --> 01:11:50.439 I forgot uh fifteen Uh Andy says, fifteen meters is dropping out. Okay, 941 01:11:50.479 --> 01:11:54.119 nobody's answering me on twelve. So let's uh, let's see what else 942 01:11:54.159 --> 01:12:00.680 we can do here. Change to uh, fifteen meters still looks alive to 943 01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:06.840 me from here, let's look at ten ten meters still looks alive. I'm 944 01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:12.039 go up to forty and see what happened. What's happening down there? See? 945 01:12:12.039 --> 01:12:17.239 How do I change my camera? Not really seeing much for forty. 946 01:12:19.359 --> 01:12:24.640 I thought forty would light up kind of when this thing started. There's a 947 01:12:24.840 --> 01:12:36.800 small line there. Okay, there's a couple of people on forty. Okay, 948 01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:40.840 we're gonna do it. We're gonna go forty. Let's see what that 949 01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:47.560 looks like for a while. Yeah, you were talking about FT eight contact. 950 01:12:47.640 --> 01:12:50.680 I was really impressed, Scott. Back during Christmas, I did a 951 01:12:50.760 --> 01:12:56.119 live stream and I was waking up early for whatever, because my sleep patterns 952 01:12:56.159 --> 01:12:59.359 have been weird my whole life, so sometimes I wake up early, and 953 01:12:59.439 --> 01:13:00.840 I was. I turned on forty ft eight just for the heck of it, 954 01:13:01.119 --> 01:13:05.640 and I was working Japan on forty metert I get. I can get 955 01:13:05.720 --> 01:13:10.680 Japan on ten meters and fifteen meters sometimes twenty meters on forty meters. I 956 01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:15.319 thought that was pretty darn cool for my little old station here inside of the 957 01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:18.359 Valley neighborhood I live in in Texas to work Japan on forty meter FT eight 958 01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:23.199 at a hunt at like ninety watts. So I thought that was pretty That 959 01:13:23.319 --> 01:13:30.359 was pretty good. Absolutely. Yeah. But anyway, getting darker here in 960 01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:36.239 West Texas wk WK. It's sliced. Have you you can see the slice? 961 01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:43.199 Yeah, I can see the srice. That's awesome. Yeah, I 962 01:13:43.239 --> 01:13:45.560 don't know if I can hang on. Let's see if yeah, put your 963 01:13:45.640 --> 01:13:49.119 put your camera in front of it and see if that were just science here, 964 01:13:49.279 --> 01:13:55.159 Yeah, it is science. Atlanta's just coming out of the eclipse. 965 01:13:55.199 --> 01:14:09.159 Now all right, let's see. I can yeah, I can kind of 966 01:14:09.199 --> 01:14:14.920 see it. Hang on, hang on, better science here, better better 967 01:14:15.000 --> 01:14:19.239 science, improve your science, sir. Okay, there you go. It 968 01:14:19.359 --> 01:14:23.520 just looks kind of blurry there. I don't see a slice though. Yeah, 969 01:14:24.319 --> 01:14:34.960 sorry, guys, it's wait a minute, I don't know. Oh 970 01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:43.239 my gosh, that's maybe if I just point my camera towards the son who 971 01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:51.039 knows not much. Yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of what it looks 972 01:14:51.079 --> 01:14:55.800 like here as well. But I can't really see much of a slice yet. 973 01:14:55.920 --> 01:15:00.199 But yeah, there's uh so it's all right, I put my camera 974 01:15:00.239 --> 01:15:03.359 up there. Sorry, guys. So it is, Oh my gosh, 975 01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:08.439 I am all over the place. That's all right. This is horrible. 976 01:15:08.880 --> 01:15:15.840 My glasses are falling off. I can't get my that's good. So yeah, 977 01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:19.079 it's it's got a big chunk out of it. It's got it's probably 978 01:15:20.399 --> 01:15:28.000 I don't know. Maybe. Oh we're getting close to the time here. 979 01:15:28.039 --> 01:15:34.119 It's already one fifteen. So yeah, yeah, it's uh, yeah, 980 01:15:34.279 --> 01:15:39.920 you can see a chunk. So I guess, oh, here come the 981 01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:49.359 aliens here here they cut. Well, we'll see what we see. I 982 01:15:49.399 --> 01:15:54.319 guess. Yeah, somebody somebody the chat said that the NASA stream has a 983 01:15:54.399 --> 01:15:59.319 million people watching it right now. I wish I could tap into that. 984 01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:03.199 Hey, NASA, guys, come over here. You never heard of Ham, 985 01:16:03.359 --> 01:16:09.239 You ever heard of Ham radio? There was quite a bit of traffic 986 01:16:09.359 --> 01:16:14.279 if you if you pull up Potosi, Missouri. We drove to Potosi to 987 01:16:14.359 --> 01:16:18.520 get here, and uh, there's quite a bit of traffic. So I'm 988 01:16:18.600 --> 01:16:25.319 assuming that fifty five north coming out of this place, coming north into Saint 989 01:16:25.399 --> 01:16:29.439 Louis, it's going to be a zoo here in about an hour. Oh 990 01:16:29.560 --> 01:16:35.439 yeah, yeah, imagine you're right. Everybody's live streaming NASA's footage of the 991 01:16:35.800 --> 01:16:42.760 eclipse down in Mexico right now. Yeah. Yeah. So PSK reporter right 992 01:16:42.800 --> 01:16:48.520 now has the moon pretty much in the middle of Mexico right there, kind 993 01:16:48.560 --> 01:16:58.520 of outside of uh just uh just east of Coal Col Coula Scan or something 994 01:16:58.600 --> 01:17:05.079 like that, pretty much do east of LAPAs, Bolivia. M So, 995 01:17:05.319 --> 01:17:13.119 but that's where it's uh, that's where it's showing right now. So we'll 996 01:17:13.119 --> 01:17:15.760 see how far that one keeps going. I am calling c q S e 997 01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:20.520 QP on forty meters. It looks like it's there's some activity out there, 998 01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:27.520 not a lot, but but there's some there's a little bit of activity out 999 01:17:27.520 --> 01:17:32.279 there. So Kyle, you you changed your hair? Yeah? He disappeared, 1000 01:17:33.000 --> 01:17:39.920 hold it and well, well greetings, how are you good? He 1001 01:17:40.039 --> 01:17:42.439 walked off and goes, pulp this. I went, okay, not the 1002 01:17:42.520 --> 01:17:49.880 first time, it won't be the last. That's oh boy, Yeah, 1003 01:17:50.000 --> 01:18:00.960 he's I see him. Oh, let's see see you guys out there doing. 1004 01:18:00.279 --> 01:18:03.920 Are you doing the contest then, Kyle? No, we uh, 1005 01:18:04.119 --> 01:18:09.159 we're all contested out. I bet you are. You guys had a wild 1006 01:18:09.279 --> 01:18:13.399 ride last weekend. I was watching part of that. Yeah, So we 1007 01:18:13.520 --> 01:18:16.359 did a PoTA this morning and we called it quits. We're just gonna hang 1008 01:18:16.439 --> 01:18:23.520 out. So good callum, what's up, dude. I'm just really excited 1009 01:18:23.560 --> 01:18:30.760 about least. I've only seen myself one complete eclipse. I was outside at 1010 01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:34.000 the time and it was just it was just have you actually seen one of 1011 01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:38.840 yourself before? Jason? Yes, yeah, twenty seventeen. I think we 1012 01:18:39.399 --> 01:18:43.359 had one come through here. And I want to say sometime when I was 1013 01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:45.279 a kid, we did too, but I don't really remember, so long 1014 01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:47.079 time since I was a kid. Dude, I don't know if you know 1015 01:18:47.159 --> 01:18:51.119 this or not, but I turned fifty last month. Yeah. Yeah, 1016 01:18:51.239 --> 01:18:57.239 I just I just wanted to crash the penalty because I'm just quite absolutely in 1017 01:18:57.319 --> 01:19:00.119 mine. Absolutely. Yeah, glad you're here. I'll shut up. Mostly 1018 01:19:00.279 --> 01:19:05.520 I haven't shaved, that's all right. I read a story this morning on 1019 01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:09.640 the news. There's a guy out there who is one hundred and five years 1020 01:19:09.640 --> 01:19:14.319 old. He's witnessed thirteen total eclipses in his life. Wow, holy cow, 1021 01:19:15.279 --> 01:19:17.239 I guess, I guess if you want to have goals, that's that's 1022 01:19:17.279 --> 01:19:28.800 certainly a worthy one. Jeez. Oh my goodness. Half half covered. 1023 01:19:28.840 --> 01:19:33.039 Now noticeably cooler outside. Okay, all right, so I'm going to walk 1024 01:19:33.079 --> 01:19:36.199 outside for a minute and just kind of feel what the weather's like. I'll 1025 01:19:36.239 --> 01:19:40.840 be right back. It's if those crescent moons are showing up on the ground. 1026 01:19:41.000 --> 01:19:45.199 Yeah yeah, I'll look for that. Hey, Dight Scott, doing 1027 01:19:45.239 --> 01:19:47.760 pretty good man? How are you? Yeah? Very good? I like 1028 01:19:47.840 --> 01:19:53.319 you last couple of bit y it's good good stuff, man. I'm actually 1029 01:19:53.439 --> 01:19:57.640 enjoying a libation from your part of the country. Which one is that Smith 1030 01:19:57.720 --> 01:20:01.359 and Cross to make it frum out of London? Oh croky very nice. 1031 01:20:03.600 --> 01:20:09.800 Hard to find around here, but I love it. I'm sure actually because 1032 01:20:09.840 --> 01:20:14.079 it is what is the time now locally it's twenty past seven at night, 1033 01:20:14.239 --> 01:20:23.439 So I'm just gonna get another base. Go here, you go, So 1034 01:20:23.600 --> 01:20:26.600 no crescent moons on the ground, but you can totally it feels like it's 1035 01:20:26.760 --> 01:20:30.479 nighttime out well not quite. It feels like it's dusk. You go out 1036 01:20:30.520 --> 01:20:35.079 there and it's it's like both starting to get dark and light at the same 1037 01:20:35.159 --> 01:20:41.760 time. Yeah, so it's pretty it's pretty noticeable right now. It looks 1038 01:20:41.760 --> 01:20:45.399 about like a seven thirty at night out here right now now towards the sun 1039 01:20:45.479 --> 01:20:48.920 still kind of up, but it's like getting ready to disappear once. Yes, 1040 01:20:49.520 --> 01:20:58.159 yes, so callum. Somebody had asked if the uh that the twelve 1041 01:20:58.239 --> 01:21:08.159 meter the ex commander came with a guileless system. No, it'd be fun 1042 01:21:08.239 --> 01:21:11.439 to try, but it wouldn't have right in the living daylights out of you. 1043 01:21:11.880 --> 01:21:15.600 But you have that, you have that that hinge thing available right or 1044 01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:20.000 is that? Yeah? I did it? Just it would so the nine 1045 01:21:21.840 --> 01:21:26.359 there's three or four more sections to the twelve, so it would be like 1046 01:21:26.520 --> 01:21:30.840 sticking a nine on top of something. It's you know, another twelve to 1047 01:21:30.880 --> 01:21:39.680 fifteen feet long, maybe the eighteen or the twenty six. I haven't got 1048 01:21:39.720 --> 01:21:45.319 a twenty six. I'm pulling your leg. Yeah, twenty six meters? 1049 01:21:45.000 --> 01:21:48.359 Yeah, well, what is that in bloody feet? Heaven's alive? I 1050 01:21:48.439 --> 01:21:51.520 do? How am I waiting for the fifty the fifty meter to come out? 1051 01:21:53.880 --> 01:21:59.960 Well, go talk to the BBC about that. Does it come convert? 1052 01:22:00.159 --> 01:22:12.079 Twenty six meters two feet eighty five foot? That's no good? Hold 1053 01:22:12.119 --> 01:22:20.439 on, I'm experimenting, okay. Experimenting is good. Yeah, experimenting is 1054 01:22:20.479 --> 01:22:23.720 good. Is good, It is good. It's good. It's good, 1055 01:22:23.760 --> 01:22:26.760 it's good. Good's good. Good. No, So there's eight hundred and 1056 01:22:26.960 --> 01:22:32.520 sixty thousand people watching NASA's that's crazy. Rips, that is crazy. I 1057 01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:35.119 thought you were doing well. It needs six hundred. Jason, I know 1058 01:22:35.239 --> 01:22:47.520 it. Yeah, no doubt. Let's see there's that no background? Nos. 1059 01:22:48.800 --> 01:22:53.279 Has Jason joined his own stream? I'm going to walk outside with this 1060 01:22:53.439 --> 01:22:58.279 camera. Oh how cool? If I can figure out how to switch ith 1061 01:22:59.039 --> 01:23:03.279 Yeah, you'll need to the audio on on the mobile. Yeah I can. 1062 01:23:03.359 --> 01:23:06.359 I can unmute that, but I want to switch the camera to where 1063 01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:12.520 it's the front facing camera rather than there it is right there. Okay, 1064 01:23:12.600 --> 01:23:15.000 there's that you have a tidy desk. Oh. Yeah, it's very tidy 1065 01:23:15.079 --> 01:23:19.279 desk. There's all you guys right there, very tidy desk. Okay, 1066 01:23:19.359 --> 01:23:23.720 we're finally gonna look at the inside of your shack. Oh. If you 1067 01:23:23.760 --> 01:23:26.439 haven't seen that, you haven't watched my videos. I've done that. Yeah, 1068 01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:30.680 I've seen. I've seen. I've seen. Go in and get outside, 1069 01:23:30.720 --> 01:23:44.479 man, Yeah, you want to go outside? Kyle scrowing his hand. 1070 01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:55.520 Yeah, yeah, I ain't can Okay, good loud and clear, 1071 01:23:56.439 --> 01:24:02.840 better audio as well. I'm not seeing any like half moons or anything like 1072 01:24:02.920 --> 01:24:13.960 that yet, all right, but I don't know. Oh you know what, 1073 01:24:14.520 --> 01:24:15.600 I shouldn't look at it with my eye, but I just did, 1074 01:24:15.640 --> 01:24:19.760 and I can see a crescent in it. Uh ah, probably the last 1075 01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:27.560 thing you're gonna see. That's funny. Just lob bottomize yourself. You can't 1076 01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:31.399 really you can't tell. But it looks like it's evening out here. There's 1077 01:24:31.399 --> 01:24:35.039 a there's a darkness that you can't really tell in the camera. Yeah, 1078 01:24:35.159 --> 01:24:40.000 and they said cool a tool Jason a little bit. Yeah, it's a 1079 01:24:40.039 --> 01:24:45.880 little cooler, yep, Sriz. Okay, well, I wanted to see 1080 01:24:45.920 --> 01:24:51.439 what that looked like in the camera. It works well, well, don't 1081 01:24:51.439 --> 01:25:04.039 forgiven out of Kade. Can you still hear us? Jason? Hopefully not. 1082 01:25:09.199 --> 01:25:14.439 The good news is that the camera shouldn't overheat anymore. Don wanted me 1083 01:25:14.479 --> 01:25:16.319 to let you know, Jason, that he sent you a link last week 1084 01:25:16.399 --> 01:25:21.520 of cameras pointed out over Richardson about nine cameras. Yeah he did, Okay, 1085 01:25:23.640 --> 01:25:27.800 he did. I'll have to Uh, oh, I guess they. 1086 01:25:27.920 --> 01:25:33.640 I have lost my class. Okay, where did he send me that? 1087 01:25:33.720 --> 01:25:35.960 Though he sent me that in discord, I don't remember. Yeah, he 1088 01:25:36.000 --> 01:25:45.960 said in discord in discord. Okay. Yeah. Somebody also asked if you 1089 01:25:45.000 --> 01:25:47.720 had a DX commander in your backyard just now, and you went back here. 1090 01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:54.199 No, it's in the garage. That's a good place for it, 1091 01:25:54.840 --> 01:25:59.600 right. A propagation there it works so faulty if you've got a big enough 1092 01:25:59.680 --> 01:26:05.079 CARO. He's got those forty foot ceilings in his Uh wow, Yeah, 1093 01:26:06.479 --> 01:26:12.279 I'm watching the NASA stream and it's all about propagation. And oh god, 1094 01:26:12.279 --> 01:26:17.239 there's an icon that's well hand radio stuff on the NASA stream. Now on 1095 01:26:17.319 --> 01:26:21.199 the NASA stream, huh yeah, how do I transition to this which NASA 1096 01:26:21.239 --> 01:26:24.840 streams? I'm on one here from NASA and all see them talking to a 1097 01:26:24.920 --> 01:26:29.359 snoopy. What the hell am I looking at? Uh? It's it's about 1098 01:26:29.560 --> 01:26:38.960 Uh it's about seventy five, is it? It's got clouds over it where 1099 01:26:39.000 --> 01:26:44.279 I'm at, So even if I mean, I bet you're gonna be able 1100 01:26:44.319 --> 01:26:47.039 to see it here pretty soon in the camera, even without the filter on 1101 01:26:47.119 --> 01:26:57.079 it. But yeah, go Doug, Yes, yeah, the sun looks 1102 01:26:57.159 --> 01:27:00.960 like a half or you know, a half moon. Oh yeah, well, 1103 01:27:00.159 --> 01:27:09.199 see's Kyle. That's cool. Jason. How far away is Kyle from 1104 01:27:09.239 --> 01:27:15.199 you? Mm hmmm? Six hours? Okay? Yeah, I don't know 1105 01:27:15.239 --> 01:27:17.880 where Kyle is right now, but probably now I'm in southern Missouri. We're 1106 01:27:17.920 --> 01:27:21.359 probably how long does it take you here Springfield? Jason? Six hours? 1107 01:27:21.520 --> 01:27:27.800 Six hours? Yeah, yeah, we're probably nine nine okay in Springfield. 1108 01:27:28.319 --> 01:27:39.279 Okay, all right, So forty is forty meters is not doing that great 1109 01:27:39.399 --> 01:27:45.359 right now. Honestly, I thought forty meters would be up a little bit 1110 01:27:45.399 --> 01:27:49.319 more, but I don't. I don't see that at all. It's getting 1111 01:27:49.399 --> 01:27:53.239 close. You're gonna step away for a second. Look out the window here 1112 01:27:53.279 --> 01:27:57.199 of my studio one second. Yeah, cool, yeah, oh at all? 1113 01:27:57.279 --> 01:28:04.319 Do you remember the twenty seventeen one. Yeah, yeah, eighty meters 1114 01:28:04.399 --> 01:28:11.840 is not doing much either, Oh so much. That dream it just looks 1115 01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:17.520 like a cloudy day in Texas. Well, yeah, I imagine that's true. 1116 01:28:25.560 --> 01:28:30.039 Right, funny enough, I've just recorded a video about propagation. What 1117 01:28:30.239 --> 01:28:33.760 happens? I mean, do all the bandons shop for two minutes or something? 1118 01:28:35.560 --> 01:28:38.960 Well, and that that that's kind of what they're monitoring right now. 1119 01:28:39.000 --> 01:28:43.079 The Hamsaig guys are kind of monitoring that to see just exactly what does happen, 1120 01:28:43.199 --> 01:28:47.920 because I mean Josh said twenty died on him. Twenty. I haven't 1121 01:28:48.000 --> 01:28:53.840 checked twenty. Let's check twenty. That's eighty meters is dead. Forty meters 1122 01:28:53.920 --> 01:28:58.439 is non pretty much non existent. That's going to fire up by remote. 1123 01:28:58.479 --> 01:29:02.600 Then look at FTA to Jason. But I can't be bothered. He's not 1124 01:29:03.239 --> 01:29:09.600 He's not rare enough. The X shot where's that from? That's that was 1125 01:29:09.640 --> 01:29:13.960 sent to me in discord just now by hem Radio Hobo. I think he's 1126 01:29:14.039 --> 01:29:17.479 in Utah. I think he's in Utah. Twenty meters FT eight is still 1127 01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:29.479 very much alive here. Okay. I don't know how long that's going to 1128 01:29:29.520 --> 01:29:33.279 be true, but that's how it is right now. So we've got some 1129 01:29:33.439 --> 01:29:39.680 clouds clearing there. Uh huh. Hopefully all roof or whatever isn't going to 1130 01:29:39.720 --> 01:29:44.840 get away in the sun. Uh no, no, it's it's yeah, 1131 01:29:44.920 --> 01:29:48.000 the sun should be moving to the right okay of the camera, so it's 1132 01:29:48.079 --> 01:29:53.560 not gonna it shouldn't. Yeah, and what you got about another ten minutes 1133 01:29:53.560 --> 01:29:56.560 before you're going to go totally black there? It's supposed its supposed to go 1134 01:29:56.640 --> 01:30:00.119 totally black here, and it's supposed to be in like one minute. Not 1135 01:30:00.239 --> 01:30:03.199 to be superstitious, Jason, we have six hundred and sixty six people watching 1136 01:30:03.239 --> 01:30:10.920 the stream. Where's Ka Ka Emerdy when you need him? Right? Yeah? 1137 01:30:11.000 --> 01:30:16.520 There you go, trying to pronounce my iron Maiden. Yeah, yeah, 1138 01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:20.520 no doubt sheezh Okay, Hey, you want to go back outside, 1139 01:30:20.600 --> 01:30:24.600 Jason, that was quite good fun with I might I might do that here 1140 01:30:24.640 --> 01:30:28.399 in a minute. Yeah, I'd like a live reaction from you. You're 1141 01:30:28.960 --> 01:30:32.800 darker out there, Jason. Yeah, yeah, it is getting darker a 1142 01:30:32.880 --> 01:30:40.000 lot more than it was hour or so. That see that it's out here's 1143 01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:45.800 the heavy rainstorm coming. It's one thirty so yeah, we're within the range, 1144 01:30:45.800 --> 01:30:47.279 I believe for now. The next eight minutes or so. I think 1145 01:30:54.960 --> 01:30:58.439 ham Radio Hobo is saying he used to sew the glasses over his phone to 1146 01:30:58.479 --> 01:31:15.520 get that picture. A very cool Okay, let's see good morning progress. 1147 01:31:17.720 --> 01:31:34.840 Okay, there we go one one. I'm so bad, I know, 1148 01:31:35.600 --> 01:31:41.000 yeah, I just turn it down. Yeah, it's supposed to be totality 1149 01:31:41.079 --> 01:31:43.039 right there. You can't really see it in that camera though. Okay, 1150 01:31:43.039 --> 01:31:47.560 I'm gonna walk outside. Don't do it, brother, I want to know 1151 01:31:47.600 --> 01:31:53.520 how cold is Oh, look at that. I just got a uh, 1152 01:31:54.319 --> 01:31:57.920 here we go. I just got an alert. My channel just passed nine 1153 01:31:57.960 --> 01:32:00.560 hundred thousand views where you can't see that stud but number okay, I think 1154 01:32:00.560 --> 01:32:05.439 you're gonna say die, one hundred thousand subscribers. I wish really well, 1155 01:32:06.760 --> 01:32:11.119 Wow, it is really dark out here? Is it really? Oh? 1156 01:32:11.239 --> 01:32:16.279 Yeah? Okay, yeah, your camera must be picking up a lot more 1157 01:32:16.399 --> 01:32:21.479 light than what you're actually seeing out there. Yeah you can. Yeah, 1158 01:32:21.520 --> 01:32:29.279 the camera's just picking up a lot of white. But does he feel the 1159 01:32:29.359 --> 01:32:36.159 sun. But it's just noticeably darker than before though for the uh, for 1160 01:32:36.319 --> 01:32:58.439 the camera, it's there, the clouds clear a little bit. See the 1161 01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:02.720 beams around it, sunbeams coming off the center yeah, yeah, I can 1162 01:33:02.800 --> 01:33:12.079 see that. Yeah. Is it cooler, Jason? Is it? Is 1163 01:33:12.119 --> 01:33:18.560 it white? Told? Uh uh yeah a little bit. It's cool down, 1164 01:33:18.600 --> 01:33:20.840 you know, like it would be in like eight or nine o'clock at 1165 01:33:20.880 --> 01:33:30.079 night probably, uh huh yeah. Yeah, looking outside here, it's hopefully 1166 01:33:30.159 --> 01:33:44.840 darker than it was before. This is better than the NASA stream anyway. 1167 01:33:45.399 --> 01:33:49.680 Yeah, they're talking about dog, are they? Yeah? Are they? 1168 01:33:49.760 --> 01:34:01.720 Oh no, now they've moved over. What's that the live chat on the 1169 01:34:01.840 --> 01:34:06.840 NASA street It's so tense you can't read it. Oh yeah, they're just 1170 01:34:08.039 --> 01:34:15.520 like it's like, yeah, I pulled up the live NASA stream here on 1171 01:34:15.640 --> 01:34:21.920 my screen here. Nice. They even turn it on. Yeah yeah, 1172 01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:26.439 I am too, honestly. Now, So way over NASA's mess with the 1173 01:34:26.479 --> 01:34:34.159 filters, Yeah, it doing that. So are they flying high above the 1174 01:34:34.199 --> 01:34:40.840 clouds taking these pictures or something? I don't know. They might just have 1175 01:34:40.920 --> 01:34:44.239 a really good telescope or a lens or something on this with some filters on 1176 01:34:44.359 --> 01:34:48.479 it. It's a good question. I'm not sure where their camera is. 1177 01:34:48.800 --> 01:34:53.079 And I was supposedly launching a couple of rockets up during this thing today, 1178 01:34:53.199 --> 01:35:08.079 so okay, no, so uh I got two here, one of them 1179 01:35:08.199 --> 01:35:10.840 is three hundred and nine thousand watching. The other one is eight hundred and 1180 01:35:10.880 --> 01:35:17.479 twenty thousand watching. Yeah, why they have two streams at once? Yeah, 1181 01:35:17.520 --> 01:35:23.239 I don't know, but if you got the budget of NASA, I 1182 01:35:23.279 --> 01:35:27.119 suppose you would. I just went into the chat and said first in the 1183 01:35:27.199 --> 01:35:44.239 NASA chat. See if I could say it second? Yeah, fun chat 1184 01:35:44.279 --> 01:35:46.000 wouldn't chat wouldn't even roll in. And now it's going like ninety miles an 1185 01:35:46.000 --> 01:35:57.239 hour. I'm scrolling back up for yours. That's funny. You think the 1186 01:35:57.279 --> 01:36:00.439 people on that stream over there you'd get the joke. I don't think. 1187 01:36:00.560 --> 01:36:04.479 I don't think they probably saw it with as many messages coming through. H 1188 01:36:05.920 --> 01:36:10.079 m hm. So are you? Are you done at dust? Did you 1189 01:36:10.159 --> 01:36:15.119 think, Jason? The world? It's almost dark. It's almost dark outside. 1190 01:36:15.119 --> 01:36:17.399 I can't even see shadow. I kept the door of the ham shack 1191 01:36:17.479 --> 01:36:24.159 open. I can't even see shadows anymore. Okay, Well that's probably because 1192 01:36:24.199 --> 01:36:30.159 the clouds, though. You can see that. If the clouds weren't covering 1193 01:36:30.199 --> 01:36:41.039 the sun right now, it'd be a lot more uh m hmm. Look 1194 01:36:41.079 --> 01:36:46.640 at your roof getting darker. Yes, very true. Weird sunny not sunny 1195 01:36:46.680 --> 01:36:59.920 sky here in Wisconsin totality. In Lake Buchanan, Texas, they're actually seeing 1196 01:37:00.119 --> 01:37:04.760 stars. Wow. That's pretty. That's pretty wild those seven planets that are 1197 01:37:04.840 --> 01:37:10.840 lining up right now? Yeah yeah, uh huh, definitely don't see that 1198 01:37:10.960 --> 01:37:16.479 here, but you can see the sky's getting darker. Okay, So how 1199 01:37:16.560 --> 01:37:21.800 many minutes before your town gets it? And supposedly it's it should be right 1200 01:37:21.840 --> 01:37:26.880 now, Like it's dark outside right now. I'm looking out my door to 1201 01:37:27.000 --> 01:37:30.199 the hamshack and in my backyard it looks like it's probably nine o'clock at night. 1202 01:37:30.560 --> 01:37:33.159 Okay, it's not dark dark, but it's pretty it's like right before 1203 01:37:33.239 --> 01:37:38.439 dark. Yeah. So if your old camera phone thing that's going to keep 1204 01:37:38.479 --> 01:37:42.079 compensating to the last minute, isn't it right right? Yes? Yes, 1205 01:37:45.760 --> 01:37:49.039 totally just ended in Curvial, Texas, and Frank probably didn't even notice. 1206 01:37:49.840 --> 01:37:54.119 Yeah, Don in five SKT is probably seeing the same thing. I am. 1207 01:37:54.560 --> 01:38:08.239 Ok. He says it's dark now. Oh, they've got a Curveville, 1208 01:38:08.279 --> 01:38:13.720 Texas feed up on the NASA channel or they did a second ago and 1209 01:38:13.800 --> 01:38:18.399 it was dark dark. Okay, Wow, I just got a lot darker 1210 01:38:18.399 --> 01:38:23.079 out where I am. Yeah, it's it's getting starting to get dark here 1211 01:38:23.159 --> 01:38:27.520 too, like really dark, pretty slick. It's it's oh my god, 1212 01:38:27.560 --> 01:38:42.000 it's got really dark here as well. Okay, oh boy, oh let's 1213 01:38:42.039 --> 01:39:11.119 see boop kah, okay, all right, here we go echool all right, 1214 01:39:15.239 --> 01:39:41.640 okay, yeah, oh yes, Delton for sure. Yeah, oh 1215 01:39:41.800 --> 01:39:50.720 yeah, I'm just about a cat's it's a clips I'll be right with you. 1216 01:39:53.880 --> 01:39:56.600 Hey, for everybody looking at my screen, here, here's Russellville, 1217 01:39:56.720 --> 01:40:03.119 Arkansas. Right now. H looks like kind of an upside down smiley face. 1218 01:40:03.800 --> 01:40:12.960 Yeah. Yeah, Jason's wondering around at night. He's back y outlet 1219 01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:19.800 right right. Oh, I can see it through the clouds now, Oh 1220 01:40:19.840 --> 01:40:28.279 wow, really in there? Okay? Right, wow, wow wow. 1221 01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:35.399 Twenty seconds till NASA launch? How long? Twenty seconds or probably ten seconds? 1222 01:40:35.479 --> 01:40:42.840 Now? Oh? Get dark? He? Oh so dark? You 1223 01:40:42.960 --> 01:40:48.479 come? It's dark out here too, is he really? Yeah? Yeah, 1224 01:40:48.680 --> 01:40:50.920 I mean I got cloud cover whereas looks like, you know, the 1225 01:40:51.039 --> 01:40:55.760 end of the night. Yeah, it's a lot darker than it was earlier. 1226 01:40:57.680 --> 01:41:01.840 Paris Lock says off. Look, oh now it's really dark. Alright. 1227 01:41:01.920 --> 01:41:10.520 What happens if you put your spectacles over the lens? Now it's really 1228 01:41:10.800 --> 01:41:13.600 Oh, I can see the outline. See the outline and the cloud. 1229 01:41:14.039 --> 01:41:15.760 I'm gonna make my own eclipse right here with my head. Yeah, we're 1230 01:41:15.880 --> 01:41:20.880 noticing. Oh ah, don't do that. Just look at the lights. 1231 01:41:23.800 --> 01:41:32.079 Okay, okay, yeah you see that. Nah. Oh wait a minute 1232 01:41:33.039 --> 01:41:38.560 on your solar cam, I could detect it's getting dark. Look your your 1233 01:41:38.640 --> 01:41:51.640 mobile cam's gone offline? Okas it? Okay, So I want to see 1234 01:41:51.640 --> 01:42:05.359 somebody capture that ring of fire. Yeah you see that? Leo me, 1235 01:42:05.520 --> 01:42:15.680 Doug. I'm taking pictures, taking pictures of my camera. Cara NASA is 1236 01:42:15.720 --> 01:42:34.319 featuring Hamsai on their livestream right now. Yeah. Oh really, mh that 1237 01:42:34.439 --> 01:42:38.760 looks freaking cool. Guys, can you see that in the camera at all? 1238 01:42:39.840 --> 01:42:44.800 Your your mobile camera is offline. I'm watching, I'm watching solar cam. 1239 01:42:45.039 --> 01:42:53.279 It's definitely again, can you see that? Not really, there's a 1240 01:42:53.319 --> 01:42:56.800 lot dimmer dot in the middle where the sun was before. Oh good, 1241 01:42:57.119 --> 01:42:59.560 I mean look at the tree. The tree is black. Oh yeah, 1242 01:43:01.359 --> 01:43:10.560 I'm waiting to get that blue sky gone. It's darker, isn't it. 1243 01:43:11.239 --> 01:43:16.239 Absolutely? Ah, Jason's back with mobile. Oh here we go. Do 1244 01:43:16.279 --> 01:43:24.520 you go on cooler Jason? Oh yeah, totally cool. Okay, yeah, 1245 01:43:24.640 --> 01:43:27.119 Jason is about two hundred and fifty miles north of where I'm at. 1246 01:43:28.399 --> 01:43:58.920 Uh huh okay, oh m. You can see it through the clouds and 1247 01:43:58.960 --> 01:44:02.920 everything. So it's still getting darker. Your wait, Jason, it's about 1248 01:44:02.920 --> 01:44:05.319 as dark as it's going to get right now. Okay, so the sun's 1249 01:44:05.399 --> 01:44:09.079 just now starting to peek through on the other side. Oh wow, yeah, 1250 01:44:09.199 --> 01:44:19.439 got that see that? Yeah in real time? Yeah, yeah, 1251 01:44:19.439 --> 01:44:25.640 it's coming back out now. Okay, I'm going to get my dinner out, 1252 01:44:25.760 --> 01:44:28.479 I said, Well I've grabbed hung around. That was a good glove. 1253 01:44:29.319 --> 01:44:32.760 Have some milk for me, Calum lovely. Okay, all right, 1254 01:44:32.800 --> 01:44:35.199 boys, hey listen, have a good time. Hey, have a go 1255 01:44:35.800 --> 01:44:40.800 coming out seventy three, seventy three, See it's got see Jason, Kyle, 1256 01:44:40.800 --> 01:44:43.840 all the see you, Calum, thanks man, bye bye fellas. 1257 01:44:45.239 --> 01:44:49.079 Yeah, you can see it's coming out now. Yeah, definitely different. 1258 01:44:59.319 --> 01:45:08.199 Look at that mm hmm. And there it is boom, so bright. 1259 01:45:08.319 --> 01:45:12.479 Now you can't tell. Well, you got shadows back on the ground in 1260 01:45:12.560 --> 01:45:16.359 sunlight hitting your grass there, so yes, yes, it's gonna it's gonna 1261 01:45:16.439 --> 01:45:36.159 keep getting Oh that's pretty cool. Okay, turned this out. Boom, 1262 01:45:38.760 --> 01:45:42.760 yep, you know, I have to wonder if it's worth the investment to 1263 01:45:42.920 --> 01:45:45.800 come up and go buy the gear. So in something like this and we 1264 01:45:45.880 --> 01:45:47.680 have an event like this that we're prepared for it, next you get some 1265 01:45:47.800 --> 01:45:51.319 really really good footage. I think it's just so rare. I don't want 1266 01:45:51.359 --> 01:45:54.439 to spend all the money on that. Just be so it happens once every 1267 01:45:54.479 --> 01:46:25.119 couple in twenty years. Yeah, that'd be pretty cool. That's a good 1268 01:46:25.159 --> 01:46:38.920 selling point, wouldn't it. It was you know, it's kind of like 1269 01:46:39.000 --> 01:46:42.279 what you're seeing now. The clouds are kind of screwing things up. But 1270 01:46:42.600 --> 01:46:48.199 you could definitely tell it was darker, but there wasn't. Not really, 1271 01:46:49.079 --> 01:46:51.880 I didn't know, no ring of fire, no, uh no major detail 1272 01:46:53.000 --> 01:46:58.800 like that. That's really gonna be hard to pick up without having some kind 1273 01:46:58.800 --> 01:47:01.880 of filters that the ammer can actually focus in on it and and uh make 1274 01:47:01.960 --> 01:47:35.399 it clear. Oh very cool. Yeah, that's a great shot, Jason. 1275 01:47:38.079 --> 01:47:44.560 Wow. Yeah, but you can still see if there's no yeah, 1276 01:47:55.439 --> 01:47:58.880 yeah, without a proper filter, you could burn out your uh your sensor. 1277 01:47:59.560 --> 01:48:01.359 Oh sorry, guys, I was muted. I had myself muted on 1278 01:48:01.479 --> 01:48:05.880 on obs, but not on uh not on zoom. So you guys were 1279 01:48:05.880 --> 01:48:10.199 hearing me. Uh, okay, So yeah, this is the this is 1280 01:48:10.239 --> 01:48:13.600 the camera that I was uh, this was my phone that I was standing 1281 01:48:13.640 --> 01:48:17.840 at holding, uh, holding my my phone in my hand outside, and 1282 01:48:17.920 --> 01:48:21.760 this is what I was trying to film, uh from with the second zoom 1283 01:48:21.800 --> 01:48:28.760 feed. But that's it. Look. I was hoping that that first camera 1284 01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:31.720 would pick that up, but I guess it didn't. I didn't really pick 1285 01:48:31.760 --> 01:48:34.760 it up that much. Still, some once in a lifetime shots you got 1286 01:48:34.800 --> 01:48:36.760 there, man, Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean that's ye. 1287 01:48:36.880 --> 01:48:42.720 It's pretty cool for what it is. I guess it doesn't suck. Yeah. 1288 01:48:42.920 --> 01:48:44.760 Yeah, So you can see it in the sky right there, there's 1289 01:48:44.800 --> 01:48:47.880 my intent over on the left. Hmmm. Yeah. So we couldn't see 1290 01:48:47.920 --> 01:48:54.199 that with that clarity when you were doing it live. Uh, I can 1291 01:48:54.239 --> 01:48:56.319 see. I can see more detail there. And the clouds are kind of 1292 01:48:56.359 --> 01:48:59.119 acting like a filter there a little right right. Yeah, the clouds were 1293 01:48:59.159 --> 01:49:03.680 acting as a filter, and uh, and it was it was I was 1294 01:49:03.760 --> 01:49:05.960 really hoping that the other camera would pick that up, but I guess not. 1295 01:49:06.199 --> 01:49:10.399 So. Huh. If the clouds weren't there, it'd be even more 1296 01:49:10.399 --> 01:49:16.199 spectacular. I think that's that's still pretty cool. Yeah, it's still it's 1297 01:49:16.239 --> 01:49:19.520 still pretty slick. Still pretty cool, I think so I can see it 1298 01:49:19.520 --> 01:49:24.680 again for twenty forty four years, so right, right, what'd say, 1299 01:49:24.760 --> 01:49:28.399 Kyle? It's getting darker here, is it? Okay? You guys are 1300 01:49:28.439 --> 01:49:32.000 about to experience what we just saw. I think it's getting lighter outside, 1301 01:49:32.000 --> 01:49:35.039 but it still looks like it's dusk out there. It doesn't look like normal. 1302 01:49:39.199 --> 01:49:57.279 Yeah, it's lightened up here a little bit. Hmm. Pretty cool, 1303 01:50:05.600 --> 01:50:11.079 pretty cool, Okay, making sure I wouldn't mute somebody else. Somebody 1304 01:50:11.119 --> 01:50:15.079 said I was still muted, but I'm not. I'm hearing myself on YouTube. 1305 01:50:19.239 --> 01:50:24.960 Let's see that right there, made a couple of contacts on twenty meter 1306 01:50:25.119 --> 01:50:41.359 ft eight calling cqs EqP. I was so focused on this video thing, 1307 01:50:41.439 --> 01:50:46.479 I didn't think to take out my SLR camera and try to get some still 1308 01:50:46.520 --> 01:50:53.760 image, some decent still images better than a phone still images. Yeah, 1309 01:50:53.840 --> 01:50:55.840 but if you zoom in and stuff like that, you really want to have 1310 01:50:55.920 --> 01:51:01.399 that on a tripod? Yeah? True, Yes, that is true. 1311 01:51:03.640 --> 01:51:06.000 We had that super moon a couple of years ago, and I came out 1312 01:51:06.000 --> 01:51:11.479 in the backyard and try to get can't catch pictures of it, and I'm 1313 01:51:11.479 --> 01:51:15.199 sitting there leaning up against the wall of my house, put my hand tight 1314 01:51:15.279 --> 01:51:20.960 inside my my elbows to my sides, and right right, that's going back 1315 01:51:21.000 --> 01:51:28.359 in grabbed a tripod and got much better shots later, Callum, thanks for 1316 01:51:28.479 --> 01:51:45.920 joining us, buddy. Oh boy, if I could find it. Why 1317 01:51:46.079 --> 01:51:50.960 is Kyle miming? He's got people there with him, He's just muted. 1318 01:51:54.399 --> 01:52:08.880 That's funny. Yeah, that's funny. We got another I don't know, 1319 01:52:09.119 --> 01:52:13.960 ten of five minutes here until Oh, it's really darker. You can't see 1320 01:52:13.960 --> 01:52:15.680 it on the camera. It's really dark. That's how it was here. 1321 01:52:15.760 --> 01:52:19.720 Yeah, the camera compensates for the low light to a certain degree and you 1322 01:52:20.159 --> 01:52:23.680 can't really tell, but the shadows look a little bit more harsh where you 1323 01:52:23.720 --> 01:52:28.960 are, Kyle. I know this isn't the same thing. But a couple 1324 01:52:28.960 --> 01:52:30.439 of years ago, when I was living in my condos before he bought our 1325 01:52:30.479 --> 01:52:33.319 house, I had a telescope and I managed to figure out some way to 1326 01:52:33.439 --> 01:52:39.399 book my phone up to whatever or my camera. But I shot this lunar 1327 01:52:39.479 --> 01:52:42.439 shot. Oh nice. It was the lunar eclips and I just took a 1328 01:52:42.439 --> 01:52:46.640 picture every ten or fifteen minutes during the entire thing. It came out pretty 1329 01:52:46.680 --> 01:52:50.359 slick. That does look good, yeah for sure. And you see the 1330 01:52:50.439 --> 01:52:54.399 detail on he can zoom in on these things and just yeah, a lot 1331 01:52:54.439 --> 01:52:59.439 of detail in the moon there. That's pretty cool. Yeah, apparently lunar 1332 01:52:59.439 --> 01:53:03.600 eclipse is pretty pretty common. They happened. Yeah you're still oh yeah, 1333 01:53:03.680 --> 01:53:08.800 absolutely, it's still something you don't see every day. For sure. That's 1334 01:53:08.880 --> 01:53:17.680 no moon. Yeah, that's a death star. You have to let us 1335 01:53:17.720 --> 01:53:20.279 know when it gets to totality. What time is it supposed to get totality 1336 01:53:20.319 --> 01:53:31.479 there, Kyle Connor, When when was it? Okay, that's two minutes 1337 01:53:31.520 --> 01:53:34.640 from now, but mine was My totality was a good fifteen minutes later in 1338 01:53:34.720 --> 01:53:42.399 what they they said it was would be. Yeah, there's just a little 1339 01:53:42.439 --> 01:53:46.640 bit slice left. I mean it's darker and uh yeah, there's just a 1340 01:53:46.680 --> 01:53:51.880 little bit of slice left. Let's see. Let's see what PSK reporters saying. 1341 01:53:53.439 --> 01:53:56.119 Oh yeah, you know, I totally forgot that. Somebody said I 1342 01:53:56.359 --> 01:54:00.199 had a good suggestion. Take your phone out of auto camera mode. Is 1343 01:54:00.239 --> 01:54:02.319 having an automodi the phone's trying to use the software to compensate for the light, 1344 01:54:02.960 --> 01:54:06.680 or you put it in a real mode and you can control. It's 1345 01:54:06.680 --> 01:54:12.239 a good idea. Yeah, too late for us, but right, yeah, 1346 01:54:12.399 --> 01:54:19.560 well, yeah it's over. According to PSK reporter, it's just in 1347 01:54:19.840 --> 01:54:33.800 the western side of Tennessee and the southern tip of Missouri. The geochronod probably 1348 01:54:33.840 --> 01:54:38.359 have would probably have shown some cool images of this. I would imagine. 1349 01:54:41.880 --> 01:54:45.800 Is that PSK reporter you're on now, Yeah, this is PSK reporter. 1350 01:54:45.000 --> 01:55:01.239 Yes, yeah, it got I mean it was. It was pitch black 1351 01:55:01.279 --> 01:55:06.079 outside for a good four minutes probably, so that was pretty That was pretty 1352 01:55:06.119 --> 01:55:11.880 cool, even with the clouds because you could tell and then it was like, 1353 01:55:12.000 --> 01:55:19.359 you know, well, sun's gone waiting for the waiting for the who 1354 01:55:19.439 --> 01:55:25.159 do they call the Chakari from from the Avengers to kind of come out of 1355 01:55:25.199 --> 01:55:32.640 the sky. Mike says he got some cool pictures from his geochron. That's 1356 01:55:32.720 --> 01:55:41.199 I I imagine so imagined that geochron would be showing some gs k uh k 1357 01:55:41.439 --> 01:55:45.279 zero b l R PSK reporter dot info. It's a website, PSK reporter 1358 01:55:45.600 --> 01:56:04.399 dot info. All right, that guy stopped replying to me. Twenty meter 1359 01:56:04.520 --> 01:56:15.800 ftaight, still seems pretty hot. Look back at ten meters. Ten meters 1360 01:56:15.880 --> 01:56:18.399 is still hot too, I never did see forty. There was a little 1361 01:56:18.439 --> 01:56:31.760 bit on forty. I never saw anything on eighty at all. I don't 1362 01:56:31.800 --> 01:56:36.640 even think I have an antenna that does one sixty unless the impasse does it. 1363 01:56:38.079 --> 01:56:41.640 I don't have I don't have room for that. I actually don't even 1364 01:56:41.680 --> 01:56:44.399 have a room for a full eighty meter in my backyard. I'd have to 1365 01:56:44.439 --> 01:56:46.079 string it up to the tree in my front yard, which I've thought about 1366 01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:50.439 doing that, but yeah, technically I don't. I don't have room in 1367 01:56:50.560 --> 01:57:08.880 the backyard for an Ephra off center fed eighty meters antenna. Mm hmm. 1368 01:57:12.239 --> 01:57:15.399 Oh you guys six hundred and one watching and three hundred and three likes. 1369 01:57:15.760 --> 01:57:21.640 Oh good, okay, yeah, thank you for thanks guys for being here. 1370 01:57:34.800 --> 01:57:41.600 Okay, Ed, this isn't the clips Rouletta. I just wanted to 1371 01:57:41.720 --> 01:57:44.319 thank you. I just passed my technician test for him radio. Hey, 1372 01:57:44.560 --> 01:57:47.039 congratulations, Ed, awesome, congratulations. All right, you guys can't tell, 1373 01:57:47.199 --> 01:57:51.319 but it is totally dark. It is so dark. Serious. Yeah, 1374 01:57:51.319 --> 01:57:54.880 it doesn't look like it in your camera, dude, it is. 1375 01:57:55.520 --> 01:58:01.359 The light is on behind oh yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, the 1376 01:58:01.479 --> 01:58:04.600 dust to don lights on. Oh my god, it is. It is 1377 01:58:04.680 --> 01:58:10.359 so dark. Can you possibly take your phone out of auto the auto setting 1378 01:58:10.439 --> 01:58:23.399 for the uh uh yeah, don't worry about it. It's getting darker in 1379 01:58:23.439 --> 01:58:30.439 the camera now, Kyle chickens. It's getting darker now in the camera now, 1380 01:58:30.520 --> 01:58:42.079 Kyle, all right, yeah, there we are totality awesome. Let's 1381 01:58:42.079 --> 01:58:45.359 see it. Let's see it. I see stars. Yeah, there's a 1382 01:58:45.439 --> 01:58:48.760 star right there. Actually it's a planet that should be that should be Jupiter 1383 01:58:48.920 --> 01:59:02.239 or Venus. I think, interesting, I can't see the ring. Let's 1384 01:59:02.279 --> 01:59:10.319 see. You're you're you're cool, you're your parking lot light is brighter than 1385 01:59:10.319 --> 01:59:13.319 the sun right now? Yeah, I kind of google. Have it looked 1386 01:59:13.319 --> 01:59:15.359 at, like which one's the sun? Like? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 1387 01:59:16.760 --> 01:59:23.600 yeah, there it is there. Yeah, yeah, you can see 1388 01:59:23.680 --> 01:59:25.920 it. Probably is a planet. Scott's probably right, it is a planet. 1389 01:59:26.359 --> 01:59:28.159 Yeah. If it's twinkles, it's a star. If a dozen, 1390 01:59:28.239 --> 01:59:33.000 then it's a planet. Get a selfie with the sun. Yeah, oh, 1391 01:59:33.079 --> 01:59:38.600 I'm using my my camera, of course you are. Why wouldn't you 1392 01:59:38.680 --> 01:59:43.600 make them and I'll get it and send them to me. Yeah. It 1393 01:59:43.640 --> 01:59:46.720 definitely looks considerably darker out there than it was a little bit ago. Yes, 1394 01:59:47.119 --> 01:59:55.000 yes, agreed, agreed that is wicked and there's yeah, there's a 1395 01:59:55.479 --> 01:59:59.039 Scott. You said that's Venus. It's either Venus or Jupiter. It's one 1396 01:59:59.079 --> 02:00:01.319 of those. It's one of the two. I think it might be Uranus. 1397 02:00:06.119 --> 02:00:15.239 Mars is coming through the sunset. Yeah, yeah, yep. It 1398 02:00:15.359 --> 02:00:21.520 definitely feels surreal, doesn't it. It does. And the crickets are out 1399 02:00:21.560 --> 02:00:29.279 too. Can you hear the crickets? Serious crickets or cricket? That's wild? 1400 02:00:30.000 --> 02:00:33.600 Oh I just looked up at it. VD VD in the chat says 1401 02:00:33.840 --> 02:00:47.520 hurry sacrifice something. Yeah. Wow, so it's it's you can see how 1402 02:00:47.560 --> 02:00:53.119 bright it is already. Yeah. Yeah, you only got probably a couple 1403 02:00:53.119 --> 02:00:56.520 of minutes then. Yeah, we only got like, yeah, it's two 1404 02:00:56.520 --> 02:01:00.880 and a half. Yeah, we're on the northern part of Big Yeah. 1405 02:01:00.880 --> 02:01:03.239 If anybody out there has that skymap app, you can point that up towards 1406 02:01:03.279 --> 02:01:08.640 a general direction. It'll show you what planets are in view. Yes, 1407 02:01:10.520 --> 02:01:14.079 we use that at the Hunting Lease all the time. Yeah, it's pretty 1408 02:01:14.079 --> 02:01:26.880 cool. Please copy. It's dark outside. You should add a poda. 1409 02:01:28.439 --> 02:01:30.840 Add Poda to your grid tracker list. A lot of activators out there, 1410 02:01:30.960 --> 02:01:34.439 you know what, I don't know how to do that. Sean. But 1411 02:01:34.600 --> 02:01:39.359 yeah, I've seen that done. I knew you could do that, but 1412 02:01:39.439 --> 02:01:43.239 I've never really tinkered with that. But that's a great idea. Perhaps I 1413 02:01:43.279 --> 02:01:49.760 will do that. I'm trying to get the grid Tracker guys to come back, 1414 02:01:49.800 --> 02:01:55.079 the admins to come back onto the stream. I emailed them. I 1415 02:01:55.119 --> 02:01:59.880 don't know. It's been a couple months ago now, but there's been several 1416 02:02:00.039 --> 02:02:01.319 new versions of grid Tracker come out since the last time we had them on 1417 02:02:01.359 --> 02:02:04.960 the stream. So would love to have those guys come back on the stream. 1418 02:02:05.079 --> 02:02:10.439 So if you guys are listening or know the guys the grid Tracker admins, 1419 02:02:11.279 --> 02:02:13.920 uh, tell them to reach out to me, shoot me an email 1420 02:02:14.359 --> 02:02:16.079 and get them back on a Sunday night live stream. You know, I 1421 02:02:16.199 --> 02:02:18.199 just do it. Oh go ahead, sorry, go ahead, No, 1422 02:02:18.279 --> 02:02:20.000 no, go ahead. I was just saying, if you want to see 1423 02:02:20.039 --> 02:02:25.359 something kind of cool if you notice this on PSK reporter, but as the 1424 02:02:25.520 --> 02:02:30.520 moon is blocking out everything, the map on PSK reporter is showing the night 1425 02:02:30.640 --> 02:02:35.720 map with all the city lights as opposed to the regular Yes, yeah, 1426 02:02:35.720 --> 02:02:40.760 I did. Yeah, that's those are those are city lights? Is what 1427 02:02:40.880 --> 02:02:42.960 that is? Yeah? Yeah, it's like that. That's if you look 1428 02:02:42.960 --> 02:02:45.319 at this at that city at night, that's all the city lights. Kind 1429 02:02:45.319 --> 02:02:54.000 of interesting, that's kind of fun. So it's basically in uh, where's 1430 02:02:54.000 --> 02:02:56.760 that. That's Kentucky right there, and say this is a good part of 1431 02:02:56.760 --> 02:03:05.359 Missouri headed towards Indianapolis. Burn Burn just posted up. He says, I 1432 02:03:05.439 --> 02:03:11.920 got two pairs of eclips glasses for sale, y'all five grand each. That's 1433 02:03:12.000 --> 02:03:28.319 good. Oh, Shane got a comment in the sky. Where do you 1434 02:03:28.359 --> 02:03:33.199 see that? It's on hony move it's over so I can see everything. 1435 02:03:33.520 --> 02:03:45.119 Put it up on the screen here, damn it. Okay, check that 1436 02:03:45.279 --> 02:03:51.520 out. Oh is that what that is? Wow? That's kind of commet 1437 02:03:51.560 --> 02:03:56.960 in the sky over the same time that the eclipse was happening. Very cool. 1438 02:03:57.640 --> 02:04:01.000 Now there's just all kinds of crazy weird stuff happening. Yeah. Trip 1439 02:04:02.640 --> 02:04:11.880 trippy, Yeah, trippy for sure. Sheesh m. Apparently cern didn't create 1440 02:04:11.880 --> 02:04:14.399 a black hole and stuck us all into oblivions. That's a good thing, 1441 02:04:15.079 --> 02:04:19.760 true. That's always gotta look on the bright side of things. So yeah, 1442 02:04:23.319 --> 02:04:32.479 that's for sure. Okay, all right, still on ten meters fifty 1443 02:04:32.520 --> 02:04:50.159 eight for now on the list click more controls, More controls Okay, I 1444 02:04:50.239 --> 02:04:53.640 didn't see that for poda ah. There it is, I see it. 1445 02:04:54.159 --> 02:05:00.680 Awesome. Okay, so we got the podah thing going now Apparently did they 1446 02:05:00.720 --> 02:05:05.800 did have now we're tanking them a they did have a decent viewing. If 1447 02:05:05.840 --> 02:05:11.159 it was if if it was as dark as it was here, which presumably 1448 02:05:11.239 --> 02:05:16.279 it was, and the clouds down there were able to filter it like I 1449 02:05:16.319 --> 02:05:19.119 did here, I imagine they had a really good showing down there. Yeah, 1450 02:05:19.239 --> 02:05:23.319 Verne took a couple of shots posted on Facebook. There. All right, 1451 02:05:23.399 --> 02:05:28.000 guys, we're gonna we're gonna pack up and head toward head to Saint 1452 02:05:28.039 --> 02:05:30.159 Louis. All right, buddy, thanks for joining. Okay, thanks for 1453 02:05:30.199 --> 02:05:38.399 letter see yeah bye, all right, I think I will probably call this. 1454 02:05:38.760 --> 02:05:41.439 Uh, I really did. Scott, thank you for joining and helping 1455 02:05:41.479 --> 02:05:45.720 out and everyone who was in the chat. Definitely thank you for hanging with 1456 02:05:45.880 --> 02:05:49.720 us today. If you have, if you got any good pictures or video, 1457 02:05:49.840 --> 02:05:54.199 send them to me in discord hem Radio two dot com, forward slash 1458 02:05:54.319 --> 02:05:56.640 discord. If you're not a member, already, send him to me in 1459 02:05:56.680 --> 02:06:00.359 discord. I might make a collause or something put them up somewhere. But 1460 02:06:00.119 --> 02:06:04.359 but yeah, that's that's great. So seventy three to all. I'm gonna 1461 02:06:04.399 --> 02:06:09.279 keep calling. I'm still calling cq S, CQP on ten meter ft eight 1462 02:06:09.359 --> 02:06:12.720 right now, so I'm gonna stay on there for a little bit. And 1463 02:06:13.119 --> 02:06:19.000 uh and I will have Michael Walker and Kyle on my Wednesday live stream two 1464 02:06:19.079 --> 02:06:24.479 days from now to talk about the brand new Flex Radio Maestro. So those 1465 02:06:24.479 --> 02:06:27.239 of you who were asking about Flex Radio earlier in the stream, I got 1466 02:06:27.279 --> 02:06:30.399 a brand new Maestro. I'm gonna be selling my old Maestro. It's a 1467 02:06:30.520 --> 02:06:35.319 Maestro B. The new one is the Maestro C. So if anybody's interested 1468 02:06:35.359 --> 02:06:39.600 in an old Maestro that's less cost than the new one is for sure, 1469 02:06:40.720 --> 02:06:43.359 let me know. Hit me up on Discord or something. So seventy three 1470 02:06:43.399 --> 02:06:46.960 all, thanks for being here. Happy Solar Eclipse Day. Everyone, have 1471 02:06:47.159 --> 02:07:05.119 a good rest of the afternoon. Thanks Scott, Thank you. Count Problem