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for being a member of the community. It was wonderful. Yep, it
was. It was really good there. I mean you could chett coast to
coast. I know, yeah, yeah, no, not really, not
really, but we're we're just set the go live button. All right.
Well, so all right, man, hey, good to meet you John.
All right, guys, let me know how the audio is. Let
me know how the video is. I don't know if it's good. Video
Talk to one sounds good. Good morning, Tom says, all is fine.
Wes, what's up dude? Uh? Robert, Robert? Are you
here? I haven't seen you. I assume you're not here. All good
sounds good? Thank you, Thanks guys, appreciate that. All Right,
we're gonna take you a walk around to Houston Hamfest, which stay opened about
a half hour ago, and I wanted to do a live stream first thing
this morning. K E. M R D and Steve cam nine G should
be here, but they're not, so would be here later. I assume
they're on their way. Robert says, he's on his couch, on your
couch. Uh, that's cool, all right, I'm gonna walk outside for
a second. Excuse me. We have a very gloomy day out here.
There's a lot of people in the swap area, but it's growing right there.
You can see that. We'll go out there here in a minute.
So no, you're good. Hey, And they've got an air They had
an aries meeting over there in that building this morning. A lot of MCom
stuff set up here. So there's that guy right there has a has a
Class B camper van with some antennas on it, so I might go have
to talk to him in a minute. Yes morning, the loss of Bob
Hayle. Thanks guys for mentioning that. If you haven't seen the Josh did
a tribute to him on his channel, go watch that. If you haven't
seen it yet. I watched it yesterday. It's pretty good. So okay.
So that's the that's the outside gloom of the swap Fest. I'm gonna
walk you guys around the inside first, because I think it's a little bit
more to see in the inside, and it's actually missing on me right now.
And okay, reading the chat here, m okay, let's see Mike.
Thanks for the super chat. All right. A b R is here
because they're in the area, so camera's face the other way. You can't
see me right now. Some new chokes from them legal limit right there and
the transformer. So but they've got a pretty good showing here. Got a
couple of new vendors here this year that we're not here last year, so
we're going to see those here in a minute. A lot of swaps fest
stuff here. Thank you Steve for sharing that link. This is the main
building. They have another building here, uh next door with a maker space.
We might walk over there here in a minute. Well, I hope
you find a home for it. Raffle tickets, huh. There's your prizes,
all right? Five twenty five dollars or twenty five tickets for one hundred
dollars. How many for twenty five dollars, five for twenty five for twenty
gotcha? Okay, I might get some, but I need to talk to
you Okay, that's fine. I always feel guilty if I win something like
that, though, so I might come get some though. All right,
okay, him? Wear is this here? Shirts and hats to get printed
as you wait? They're usually here. They make it too. Uh most
of these shows they I think they're at Belton as well. Some cool stuff
in here, right, So Mastrant is here, first time they've been here.
So they've got a small table. But there's still some stuff towers and
guy ropes and stuff for tower hardware and tower maintenance whatnot. Look at this
AI five D D. Why are you not here? Man? They opened
lawn and they opened at eight, so about a half hour ago, A
little bit longer and half a lawn. Why aren't you here? I know
you're in Texas. I forget where though. Got the International DX contest ten
meters? Huh? Hey I do, Yeah, I know where you are.
I know you're in Oklahoma. So here's Jim the computer guy. Every
time I put Jim stuff on here, somebody puts a comment on the video
and says, hey, send me his phone number. So I hope you
guys are reaching out to him. He gave me permission to share his phone
number. But not on a live stream. I'll send it to you if
you want it. So a bunch of US stuff down this direction equipment check
table there. If you buy something you want to get checked good? Checked
here? Good? How are you good? To see you guys here?
Glad you'll have a check table going right? You got you got the rig
expert talk for Oh good? Yeah, yeah, rig expert? Good deal
good good good, South Texas, Harris County District fourteen areas. So look
at this guy. What's up, dude? How are you good? See
it? Hey? How's your dad doing it? Comes home on the twelve,
comes home on the twelve? Good, So I'm getting everything ready for
him now. All right, man? Well you around all day? Uh?
Yeah, I should be around most of the day. It goes to
like four. I probably won't stay that long, but yeah, okay,
okay, okay, I'll be around when we're walking the perimeter here. Yeah,
check out master rant. Good stuff there. Hey, these guys have
a they don't have it running right now? That a flex running yesterday?
That this they've got a Hermes light hey with a Zague amplifier. Yeah,
hooked up to the THETIS uh SDR software. THETIS status. However, you
want to say that this is pretty cool. They were listening to some guys
calling, uh seek you from a park yesterday and it's hooked to this antenna
right there, big Tribander MCom trailer, so you can get in there.
Hey, uh quality drop Bryant. Has anybody else said experiencing that? Let
me know how the uh let me know how it is. It might,
it might. I don't know how the internet is going to work inside the
building. That's the problem. Ta'll let me know. Ros here very fuzzy.
Okay, Well, I'm just gonna keep going. So shock in the
boxes here. Gym's here, first time he's been at the show. I'm
on the edge of the building right now. Hopefully it got a little bit
better that Yeah, no drops though, Yeah, that's the thing. If
it gets poor quality, that's not much I can do about that, since
we're inside of a building. On eighteen. I'm on AT and T.
I just realized the comedy and that I'm on AT and T. I'm always
on AT and T. So, yeah, shack in the boxes here.
Jim came down by himself, so he's got all his stuff set up here.
Hro was here hro was here last year and they said, hey,
hey, Jim, how are you man? Good weeks? That's right,
that's right, twice in two weeks. This is actually a very well attended
him. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, a lot of people here, but
yeah, yeah, good, good, Well, I'm glad. I hope
you do well, man, I think we are. Yeah. Uh Hro's
was here last year for the first time and they said, and they're back.
So they said they had a good show last year. So that's good,
really good. There's these guys Eddies at the Texas Store. Robert Steve,
manager of the Texas Store. Hey, Robert waved to the camera.
Bud wave to the camera. He's busy working. He's like, leave me
alone, I'm Workings Freddie Mac, good morning. Some used stuff over here?
Got that going tide lands Hamfest? Is this to I haven't been to
that show in a long time. My house down here is always rented.
In July. That's our peak season for our vacational we have in in Galveston.
So I haven't made it to this show in a long time. But
it is Saturday, July thirteenth. Those of you interested. These guys have
a pretty good All Star Network from repeaters throughout Houston, Corpus CHRISTI everything right
there. I took a picture of this. Sorry, I took a picture
of this earlier so that I could try some of these repeaters. The island
of Galveston is not covered, but a lot of the Houston area is.
It's a good all star system. It's more US stuff in here. So
Jim uh, Jim him uh shoot shack in the box, Jim. He
that's his first time here as mastrants first time here. And w fur O
p s Is here with his ham gear online stuff for Parks in the Air
and Winterfield Day all that stuff. It's his first time here as well.
So this Hamfest is growing pretty thanks sir, you bet hey appreciate. We're
live streaming right now. Man, So how you doing so far? How's
the show been? You know we had yesterday? Yeah, yeah, Saturday
is always busier. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I hope you have
a good show. Man, Glad, glad you're here. He made a
long trick to get here, so hey, good to see you. Good
to see you, Jason, you too. These guys EPO uh Electronics Parts
Outlet, they're always here at this show. Cool stuff in here, good
morning, Good morning. How are you doing this morning? Pretty good?
Oh, we've brought lots of misap here today, lots of mischief. That's
good, really good stuff. You got to come into the store for Yeah,
I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure. You can't bring a whole store.
Glad you guys are here. Thanks for being here. You have a
Burger tray goes in your cup folder. Hey, that's cool. Never know
what you're gonna find it a ham Fest Okay, all right, let me
know how the quality is if it's dropped. I'm in the middle of the
building now, so it may or may not be good. Two Thursday.
The size of hamcom session, maybe including a second building which we haven't gone
into yet. This is a large building and there's a lot of tables in
here, same quality, so it's kind of fuzzy. Still, Okay,
it's shooting outside. Ham Fest will go on today until like four pm.
People start shutting down probably early afternoon. I would expect typical ham Fest m
O is the skyhook that these guys sell that right there, going in.
How are you you're here? That's good? I saw him earlier. Yeah,
thanks for being here. Yep, this is Lee's stuff. Right here.
If you guys ever been to a Texas ham Fest or Orlando or Dayton,
Lee goes to all the big shows. Is open you want to get
to take us lasses or breaking existing? Last time? Now over the now
very well is over. Oh, I wonder if he's sold. Look at
this. He had a D seventy two yesterday. I wonder if he still
got it. No, there it is somewhere. I've got this day that's
hold on. I'm I show you guys at D seventy two. It's just
the radio by itself. That one's and then I've got a cleaner one from
one twenty. There you go. But he's ever wanted a D seventy two?
There it is right there, doesn't even have a belt clip on it.
Working good. I'm probably gonna pick up one of these. He's got
some some of these military masks fold over? What am I? What's the
word I'm looking for? They're they're tent courted masks that break down and they
could they unfold to like one length. There's one right there, and he
says that these are the official military ones with the true copper on them.
So I'm he wants forty five dollars a piece for these, they'd sell for
like one hundred and twenty one hundred and forty something like that online. I'm
probably gonna pick up one of those. That's a good addition to have in
your kit. You can put it. It's got a it's got the standard
mount on the bottom of the same thing as a hamstick. This right here
is that right there? Those are pretty cool and so those are pretty cool.
Look at this here it goes moving. I got I'd like to see
it as I've never said I'm trying to ever put you can think of who's
putting coming off here coming out with a loop antennant. It's still that's the
reason why to make You said something about server power supplies. I'm not sure
who that guy is. I did not. I haven't seen that. I
know what a server power supply is. I know what you're talking about.
I'm not sure which person you're talking about, but I have not seen anything
like that yet so far this show. It's a SUPERINTENDA three element six band
yaggy for about about about tree fitted You needed about tree Fitted p R C
seventy seven. Yes, that's exactly what it is, and it'll work on
multiples of those those old Harris radios tree fitted. I need about tree fitted.
Texas State Militia is here, Houston chapter. I just want to steal
that that tack from them right there. That's what I wanted cover the air,
So I might have to sign that list here in a minute. We'll
see this this Houston chapter, though I don't know if there's a North Texas
chapter or not. Yea, So there's a lot of empty tables. I
thought they had sold older tables, but perhaps not. I would love to
have a PRC radio. The uh those they're just uh, there's just good
quality old radios, those old military style radios. I really like them.
So you just hit a bad spot for Internet. Okay, how many people
are there? They're armed eighty percent, so whatever that number is, all
right, let's go outside and see y'all. Let me know if the internet
picks up here doesn't look as full as last year. I think it's better
than last year so far. Of course, you gotta remember that's only one
building. There's another building of there, although I think it's all makerspace stuff
in that other building, robotics, electronics and whatnot. Much better. Okay,
thanks Mike, thanks Freddy. Okay, good, all right, let's
walk around the swapfest area. This area was fairly empty yesterday. There was
three or four guys out there, a very pixelated inside. You couldn't read
the prices. Oh really yeah, well no, some people were saying that.
They were like, yeah, we get it, you get it.
Yeah, there we go. So here's Lee watching me. There you go.
Okay, we're gonna get a video about this thing later. That's a
pretty cool setup he's got there. So all right, let's go outside and
uh, let's go outside and I mean we're outside, let's go let's walk
out here to the parking lot and see all of the tailgate swat fest and
used gear that's out here. You know what. One of the guys from
Armorlock is here. Talk to him yesterday, Gary, So pretty cool stuff
he's got. Okay, let's switch that over. Walk through the outside section.
I'm trying question, you know, kind of take a I got one
of those microphones. Cool stuff in there. Make sure you grab one of
everything. Side boo. Why are you not here, dude? The show
is not too far from you. I've already met like three people from Beaumont
area on the table inside. Hey, what's up? What's up? Guys?
Yeah? Uh no, no, no, no other Jason, Yeah
right yeah, Ham Radio two point zero vide great, thank you. I
gotta talk with you for just a second if you can turn that off.
No, we're live streaming right now, So find me in a little bit,
okay, uh probably yeah, yeah, I should be inside. Yeah,
okay, okay, good. There's a df W unit and that's all
the info they'll give you until your flaw an application. Okay, well I'll
go check that out then. Okay, so here's armor lock. Look at
this stuff. I've got several of these myself. These are awesome, fixed
one and something else. It's always always cool to see. Uh was it?
You need that for your seventy three hundreds around it? That's your last
one, isn't it? Yeah? This one okay, and that's what happens
to mine. That one goes with the radio too. Yeah. Yeah,
oh so he said the whole the whole thing's two hundred and ten dollars.
That works for me. I'll buy that. Yeah. Uh well, here,
take take my car. I'm in Beaumont right, So if you change
your mind when you get home later and you've got a bunch of cars out
there in the parking lot five O R mark. Where are you? Yeah,
it's cool there here. Yeah, that guy Gary, he's in Beaumont.
And the guy Seth that runs the company, he's in Tennessee. I
think I think it's Tennessee somewhere up not somewhere up in the in the north.
Used to away from Texas and uh when he was here when that.
I was talking to Gary yesterday and he was like, oh, no,
I I helped Seth run the company. I'm like, oh, that's kind
of cool. So he has a lot of stuff. He's a he's a
distributary, he said, reseller. So and he's in Beaumont, Texas.
So there you go. They got a new that new that seventy three hundred
cage is new, and they got a new one for uh they got if
you go look at their website armorlock dot com, they've got some new stuff
for GMRS radios which they didn't used to have. So they're expanding their inventory,
which is really good. Yeah, it looks like all right, last
row here. Yeah, thanks to you for sharing Armlock website. That's kind
of that's neat old radio there. How you doing yeah, that's me.
Yeah, yeah, thanks cool. That's pretty cool stuff there. And that's
the complete circle of what's outside of the swap fest. So there we go.
I forget to hit that, like thanks, Steve is Coffee and him
Rado starting now. Steve said he was going to be here today, so
I don't know where he's at. I haven't seen him more Mike, I
know Frank's not gonna be here. I don't know where Scott is. Scott
lives closest to us. I don't know if he's coming or not. I
haven't talked to him. So there we go. But that's about it.
It's uh, it's about uh, it's a good show. It's it's it's
been a pretty decent show this year. I showed you guys three new vendors,
so h Ro's here. They were here last year, Shack in the
Box, him him club Gear online or Gear online, Michael Store, he's
here, and then Mas strands here and a couple other couple other people who
weren't here last time. So the show is growing. I was going to
try to get Bob from our finder up here. He wants to come to
the show, but he's having an issue with supply right now, which is
not his fault, but that's why he wasn't in Orlando. So at some
point I want to get him to come out to the show and we'll see
what it does from there. But thanks for hanging with me, guys.
If yeah, club gear online, that's it. That's it, Thanks Steve.
It's nice to have someone in the chat with linking capabilities. So there
it is, so all right. Twenty twenty four Houston Hamfest, first weekend
of March is Arma loc Is Yeah, Arma Loc has They have items here
there they're so I've not seen any CW clubs here, although there probably are.
There's a couple of there's a bunch of CW guys in one of the
tables in there, but that's it. So it's a smaller show, but
not too bad. It's always good to go to a ham Fest, and
I'm glad that these guys are growing from where they were the last few years.
So check out. Put the first weekend presumably it'll be the first weekend
of March again next year, so put that on your calendar now so that
you've got that plan for twenty twenty five and we'll be back here then.
So seventy three guys. Thanks for watching this morning.