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forty five the A C and the shack works because I'm having a shack,
an actual hamshack that's a building in my backyard, and that air conditioner works
just fine. That one. That one works. Actually, it's probably not
quite big enough for the hamshack because last year it was running most of the
day. We haven't we haven't really gotten hot in North Texas until like about
a week ago, and we're talking about AC being out in the chat.
Good afternoon, everybody, it is twelve oh one. Thank you for joining
the lunchtime livestream today. I'm just talking talking to forty five Auto in there
because he's talking about how he hadn't turned his AC on yet this year,
and I'm like, yeah, well, I have my bedrooms upstairs, our
acre upstairs. AC went out on Sunday night, and it's been hard to
sleep because it's all just kind of sticky. Now it's been raining, started
raining on Monday. It's been cloudy, muggy, and humid. Not too
hot since then, but still not pleasant. And if I'm sweating and sticking,
my arms are sticking to my side, I don't sleep very well.
So I haven't had a decent night's sleep and probably two nights I don't know.
We'll see A C guy is supposed to come out. Myc's under warranty
until twenty twenty seven because we put a new one in twenty seventeen. It
had a ten year warranty. MYC guy's out of town. I use a
small company, single independent, independently owned. Dude did a great job in
the North Texas area. If anybody needs an AC guy, but he's been
out of town. I was like, why do you go out of town
in June? In Texas? Bro? Oh my goodness. So he's supposed
to be back today, so hopefully. I don't know. I'm trying to
get him to come out tonight, but it might be moral. We'll see
such as life and how things work pretty much whenever you whenever you need them
too, So that is it special. Shout out to all the folks in
green texts in the chat, thank you for being YouTube channel members. If
you're interested in becoming a YouTube channel member, click on the joint button below
this video. If you're watching on a computer, it's right there. I
think if you're watching, I think if you're watching from a smartphone, then
it's down there too. I believe, I believe it's down there. It's
a little join link. Just click on there and do that. Is that
actually Fry Fry? Wow? This is a dude I used to work with
in it. What's up? Dudey recently got his GMRS license. He's like,
hey, I hear you do radio stuff. I'm like, yeah,
a little bit. What's up, dude? Is this the first time you've
ever joined a livestream? That's fun? Wow? I was like, I
look like is that and I recognize the avatar? I was like, wow,
that's Fry In the chat that's awesome. So yeah, so YouTube channel
members special shout out. Thanks a lot forty five autos in there, K
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five O eb yip saw any Calley in there and five H three Nick in
there earlier. So thanks for being here today, guys. So Father's Days
this weekend, those of you who didn't know, hopefully you didn't know that
everybody's got a dad, even if you're not one. I have a dad,
but I'm not one. So that's a thing, and we're gonna talk
about We're gonna go through and do I created an Amazon what they call an
idealist that you can just put stuff in gift ideas for dad or gift ideas
for shoot, maybe if your son's a dad. Okay, and it's a
lot of it's hand radio related, but some of it's not. So we
can go through that here in a minute. But I got a couple of
links I want to share with you guys today, And usually when I do
these live streams around Amazon Day, they're pretty well received, so I wanted
to talk about that today. I have a question, where can we start
a class to learn? Where? Where can we start a class to learn
your radio here in Oklahoma. Every time I ask, it's like being thrown
out to was with no direction. I'm hoping you're David. I hope you
use voice to text because that's not English. You're typing in there. That's
almost like frank type that. I'm just teasing you if I understand what you're
asking. You're asking, where can we start a class to learn radio?
Okay, so I'm glad you asked that question. If you're asking how to
get your first Ham radio license? Okay, here is my suggestion to you.
Right now. You go to my YouTube channel right here, and you
scroll down to this very first row. This is usually a channel trailer at
the top. Here this very first row getting your first Ham radio license.
This second video right here is four ways to get your Ham radio license,
four places to study, four places to get the material. And this get
your first Ham Radio license now is an actual class that was put on by
Dan KB six in you in last November. That question pool is good for
another three years, so you can do that right there. And I am
happy I haven't announced this yet, but um yeah kq h x Q,
yeah, you're right about that. I haven't announced this yet, but Chris
Caught or Katie five, Hi Y and myself. Now those of you who
don't who might remember Chris, he is the one who taught the technician class
live stream that we did on this channel in twenty twenty was summer of twenty
twenty. So the Hirst Dammate Radio Club, which is about twenty minutes that
direction, it's the most active club that I'm a member of, and they
would hold free technician in general classes twice a year, usually in the fall
and the h and the spring every year. Well, when COVID came around
in early twenty twenty, there they're EOC. They're meeting places inside of a
fire station. Well the government controlled agency. We couldn't go there. We
spent a whole year not be able to go to the fire station doing zoom
meetings over zoom. So when that happened, I reached out to the club
and Chris and I said, hey, y'all want to do a live stream
about the technician class. And it's on this channel now. And even though
that question pool expired about a year ago, I still get a lot of
views and comments on that video. He does a deep dive into all and
he follows the W five YI material does a deep dive into all the things.
The class that's on my channel now by Dan KB six in You is
a no nonsense study guide's He gives you the bare minimum you need to pass
the test. The Hearst Club does a deep dive and they explain the question.
They explain the answer, they explain why the answer is whatnot. Some
people like to learn one way, some people like to learn another way.
Doesn't matter. Neither one is right, neither one is wrong. They both
work. They're both going to get you licensed. So Chris is going to
come back onto this channel with the new question pool that updated in July of
last year. He's going to come back on this channel. We're going to
do a three day live stream about new tech for new technicians at the end
of July, about a month and a half from now. So more to
come on that later. We've got a plan in place. I don't know,
I know the exact dates, but I don't know the exact time yet,
probably like a Thursday, Friday night and a Saturday morning, which I
think is what we did last time. So we're we have that on the
calendar and scheduled for the end of July, so just be watching for that.
I'll be sending emails out about that, tweeting about it, putting it
out on social media. Sign up on my email list Ham Radio two dot
com, forward slash email dash sign up. Go check that out there and
I'll send a bunch of emails about it. So anybody you know who wants
to get licenses as an excellent opportunity to do so. It because Christa's a
fantastic job of explaining why the answers are the way they are. And of
course those will be replaced. You don't have to catch the live stream.
They'll be replayable on the channel from now on, so just like the old
one is. So yes, let's see, I would love a Ham Radio
Happy I our T shirt. I need to get those on the website.
They're ready. I need to get those on the website. Racer XO seven.
I will see if I can do that this afternoon, En and Amateur
Radio is trying to get a class going, but we don't have many interested
persons. Great thing about doing a live stream is we don't really need anybody.
There'll be people watching the chat, of course, but it's then it's
replayable over and over and over again. So yeah, but en At Oklahoma
has a really good ham RADI they have a ham Fest every year. They
used to, I think they still do. But yeah, a good deal.
So yeah, y'all. Let y'all let me know the best place to
find well, that's study sessions. You can find classes on a r has
a web page that where you can find classes. So all right, so
let's hop into this real quick. I will say at the beginning, as
an Amazon associate, I can earn commissions from qualifying purchases. It's kind of
a thing that Amazon makes you say when you have a store. So anytime
you guys click on any links from my store, or if you click on
links from my store and don't buy anything at all, but then go buy
toilet paper or something, I still can I can get. Not everything on
Amazon has commissions, but some most everything does. So even when you are
not buying stuff that's directly on my store, if you start your browser session
by clicking on my store, it will continue to provide me with commissions for
twenty four hours. They have a twenty four hour cookie on their website.
So today is flag day. Yes it is. Yes, it is flag
Day. So Happy Flag Day, everybody. I should put my flag out.
The guy, the construction guys are in and out of my front door,
up and down the driveway. I didn't want them to. I thought
about this morning. I thought, well, I don't want to get messed
up. So I didn't put the flag out today. So let's talk about
a couple of things first. That mute that. Let's talk about a couple
of things first that are going on two websites before we get to Amazon.
Okay, So hamrhid Bridge com is doing the Ultimate Smoked Ham Giveaway six thousand
dollars value give away. They're given away a four thousand dollars smoker Real combo
a three hundred and fifty five dollar licensing course. So that looks like Ham
Radio Prep. I missed that. Interesting. Oh yeah, right there all
access past to Ham Radio Training course from Ham Radio Prep. All right there
you go, Ham Radio Prep a ht A DMR any Tone HT and their
Skybridge hot spot. Um this beyond this beyond braid toolpack. This looks like
some seasonings and um cooking spices and then a set of beef jerky and whatnot.
So you can scroll down here and I'm gonna share you guys the link
that I get credit for, which is right here. So I'm gonna put
that in the chat right now, So click on my link and go sign
up. It don't cost anything to sign up. It's free to sign up.
I've got fifty two hundred entries that you could see nine days left.
I've said before on multiple Friday Shopping videos, if I ever win anything,
I'll probably do a regiveaway of most of the stuff, although I'm gonna keep
that smoker, but all the other stuff, the ham radio prep, I'll
give away, the radios and hotspots I'll give away, but I don't know.
I probably won't win it. Anyway, I hope one of you guys
wins it, So you guys go check that out. Check the link in
the chat that I just put in the chat. The links that we talk
about today will be in the description of the YouTube video. I've already put
them in there. They're there right now. So for those of you on
Team Replay, just go check the links in the description if you're not in
the chat. So yeah, go click the link in the chat and go
sign up for that giveaway. Red Odo red Odo batteries, which you guys
might I've talked about them on two or three different videos. They're very reasonably
priced. The lithium iron five state batteries, they have a sale going on
right now. Let's I can yeah, zoom back on that. There we
go, one hundred amp hours, two hundred amp hours, two hundred and
thirty amp hours, three and four hundred ten our powers. All of these
current batteries, not their fifty mpower which is the last one I did the
video one, but this one hundred amp hour mini I have. I'm actually
running a test on it right now and you'll see a video on that upcoming.
They're doing a ten to thirty dollars discount ten to forty dollars discount on
everything, one hundred dollars off of the two hundred dollars off of the found
amp okay. On top of that, you can save an additional five percent
with the code of ham Radio. Okay. So I'm gonna put this link
in the chat right now, right there, and those those Father's Day prices
are already on their website. So you'll go on their website link I just
shared in the chat. You'll see that all the prices in yellow. Over
there on the right hand side, you'll see those prices already reflected no coupon
code, and then you'll see something come up that says save three percent by
signing up on their email list. You can do that, or you can
save five percent by using the code of Ham Radio, which I get credit
for. So um, yeah, not only a reduction in an extra four
percent off at checkout. Um, they're doing that right now for just a
general public. And again you can get five percent with the code of Ham
Radio, So check that out. I've been very happy with my fifty M
power battery. That is, I put it in a battery box and I
use it that that auto dunk battery box that I got from Amazon. I
did a video on that a while back. It's been it's been a killer.
I've I've loved I've done lots of Poto activations with that. If you
were at Daytenham vention, you saw that battery box sitting on on the table
outside of my RV. Charlie comes by, Red sumitar F. Charlie comes
by and he's like you guys, because Mike was with me. So Mike
and I were camping together and uh, and he's like, you guys got
a lot of battery boxes. We had like seven battery boxes out there.
I was like, uh, Mike, and I don't play around. We
got plenty of charging power coming by. It's fine. But one of those
battery boxes had my fifty red Otto and it's been real happy with that battery.
Charge it up, used it, charge it back up, used it
several times, I don't know a dozen or so times since I made that
video, and it's been I don't carry around a fifty mp hower battery with
me everywhere I go, but I usually due to Poda. So it's been
really good. I'm real happy. And that that little mini one hundred they've
got's pretty slick. Also, it's one hundred amp hours. That's just slightly
bigger than their fifty amp hour, so it it'll fit in a battery box
and whatnot. So red Otto's a good supporter of the channel. They have
sent me a few things, but they send me. They put me on
their email list and said, hey, share our sales if you don't mind.
I've done that several times and they are appreciative of that. So link
is in the chat once again and the link to this and to the Everything
we talked about today is in the description. So Enid Amateur Radio Hamfest on
September ninth. Cool. All right, so this is my Amazon store.
Oops, I was clicking around on stuff. I guess this is my Amazon
and once again I can earn commissions from qualifying items there. So we're just
going to go through everything that I put. I created this brand new Father's
Day twenty twenty three gift idea list here. I created it last week.
I talked about it on the Friday Shopping video, and then I have been
adding to it since then, kind of a little bit here and there.
I added a few items since a few items this morning actually, So this
is pretty cool. Okay, So this if you guys remember that video that
Josh put up like a year ago about a sixty twelve volt laptop. It's
no longer sixty dollars. But this is the laptop, the Evolve three Maestro.
It is twelve volt chargeable. In fact, they have these, they
have these bear Wire. This doesn't come with it comes with its own charging
cable, of course, but this bear Wire adapter right here, it comes
with the perfect plug for that laptop. Then it comes with bare wires on
the end, which of course I put power polls on so I can plug
that laptop into any of my battery boxes and charge that laptop because it'll take
up to like fourteen volts or something like that. So they were when Josh
did that video. I think they sold out pretty quickly and then evolved got
smart and raised the price on it, and then finally put them back on
Amazon because they were out of stock for a long time. So ninety nine
bucks is not a bad price for a laptop. But the cool thing about
it is this is a great PODA or field day laptop. Field days in
a week and a half. It's a great field day laptop because you can
plug it into your battery box that you're running your radio from that you hopefully
have a solar panel attached to, and boom, you're in business. This
thing runs Hammers great. I've got all of the Flex Radio smart str the
dacks and the cat control and all the all the software for smart SDR on
this laptop. It runs it just fine. Mike runs. Mike has something
on is that I don't have. I don't remember what it is. I
we both run hammers, and we both run um oh in three FJP we're
gonna be using for logging this week at at field Day next weekend, so
I haven't put that on there yet, so I don't. I don't,
I don't know, but I think it'll be fine. W s JTX works
fine on it. We can plug in. It's got Bluetooth in it and
that new FX four CR radio with Bluetooth. I connected it to this evolved
Maestro laptop and guess what it bluetooths. It connects and recognize it has cat
control and boom it is there. So not the greatest um, not the
greatest quality laptop in the world. It is a little bit. You gotta
be careful with it. The screen's a little weird. Frank bought one and
says is in a constant boot loop and he never has gotten to use is.
However, I bought like six of them, and I gave away three
or four of them. I've got three left. My wife wanted one,
so I gave one to her. Hers works fine. She just wanted something
small and lightweight to carry around. It's not her main laptop, but she
does use it from time to time. And then uh, and then I've
got a spare back up that I that I booted up one time and it
works, but I haven't. I don't take it out, but I keep
this in my UM Gigaparts explore backpack where I keep a lot of antennas and
feedline and in fed halfway of antennas and whatnot to take out to Poda.
So ninety nine bucks, it's not sixty bucks anymore, but it's still twelve
chargeable and there's only five lest says there's five left in stock. Um yeah,
still says five left in stock. So none of you have clicked on
it yet, but you have to de bloat it. I didn't. I
didn't de bloat mine. I didn't. I didn't do anything to mind I
uh. I booted it up, I installed Hammers, I logged into my
Google account, and I go from there. I don't have very much running
on it. It's only got like a sixty four gig hard drive, so
it's not a huge hard drive. So I'm not going to do any video
editing, editing on it or anything like that, although Mike says he's running
over on his cool But I did not deploat mine. If I did,
perhaps it would run a little bit quicker, but I've never really had a
problem with it, So do what you will. You can do whatever.
I know. Uh, Jason came for Ack. He loaded freaking Lennox on
it, so I think a boon two I think he put it. Was
either a Boontoo or Mint he put on it. So yeah, you can.
You can load a new operating system one. It's got a USV plug
on the side of it, which is always cool to see on a laptop
that's small. But twelve volts, twelve volt chargeable. That's the best thing
about that laptop. It's not great quality, it's not gonna win any awards
anywhere, but it's twelve volt. And if you want to twelve volt all
the things in your life, like I do, that's it's a great It's
a great laptop. Mike has it. Mike had issues with it. He
may have, but he uses his all the time. He uses his more
than I do. Maybe he deploated his. I don't know. I have
to check with him on that. However, whatever he did to his,
he uses his all the time, more often than I use mine. So
that's that. But there's only five in stock, so go grab one if
you want a twelve volt chargeable laptop. So these garments are here and there.
These are on daily sale today. Okay, so this garment end Reach,
which I've been wanting one of these for a while, is thirteen percent
off today, still three hundred and forty nine bucks. If you don't know
what a garment end reaches, it's basically a satellite communicator. You can send
and receive text messages via satellite, So if you're out in the woods away
from cell service, you can always be in the range of a satellite.
So it's got it's got satellites that are line of sight to the sky,
and you can always send a text message. It is a subscription service to
be able to send those messages. I want to say, it's like twelve
or fourteen dollars a month and you're limited you get like fifty texts a month
or something that's coming in going. I've been wanting to pick up one of
these for a while, and I was telling my wife about it the other
day and she's like, how offering are you out of cell range? And
I'm like, okay, that's that's a fair question. Still a cool toy
to have, a Still a cool communications device to have should you need something
like that. So they've got those on sale right now. Not not cheap,
not cheap. But if you do it a lot of hiking, dude,
a lot of traveling outside of self service, then that's uh, that's
a thing. There. I put one of their watches in there as well.
This is fun the data Lorian. This is the way T shirt in
there. That's in the store. It's a fifteen percent off today. There
you go. Now, I did a video what was I can't remember which
video that was. It might have been one of the FtM five hundred videos.
Um let me put the link to this idealist in there as well.
There we go. Okay, I did a video. Might I mentioned on
some video recently because I remember reading a comment saying, hey, you had
mentioned a way to USB charge your um, I took it inside your yasu
HT the FT five, the VX six R. I think the VF seven
and eight are as well. I'm not sure on those, but definitely the
FT three and the FT five. And somebody said they looked around for it
and they couldn't find it. This is the cable to charge In fact,
this one says Yazoo on it, although it's not made by yay Zu.
This is an up converter that converts five volts to twelve volts and will and
that's the that's the Yazoo plug that goes into the side of the most most
your common Yazoo hts. Now, since Yazoo hts are twelve volt chargeable,
you can take this cable, which I think is this I can't. I
meant to check this before the stream and I forgot. I think this is
a three point five millimeter barrel connector here. I think that's the same size.
You just got to make sure that the positive negative on the pin is
the same. I think that's the same thing as the Yazoo. I need
to check that. I haven't done that yet. But you can plug.
You can take your Yayzu Walward that came with the came with the radio and
cut the Walboart, cut the AC plug off the Walwart and wired up to
power pols and plug it direct on the end. Because if you look at
that Walbart says it outputs twelve volts. Those hts charge on twelve volts.
Also, again, I'm kind of on a mission to twelve volts. All
of the things and and you know USB's good enough USS the twelve voltes I
assume will charge a little bit faster. I don't know. This is an
UP converter, so it's technically charging at twelve volts, even though it's a
fake twelve volts. But but this is the u USB A cable, twelve
bucks on Amazon, free one day shipping, and compatible with most serious model
of yayzowakie talkie yay zoowaukie talkie. You can tell that the manufacturer doesn't know
what they're doing because they're calling it a yay zoowakie talkie. Nothing technically wrong
with that, but that's not what they're called. But yeah, so but
I've you know, I've got two of these. I keep one in my
ht box and one in my battery box and they work fine. So not
fast charging, but it will absolutely charge your yay zoo radio from a USB
A connection. HM. So there's that. These are kind of cool.
I just found these. I don't know how well these work or not.
I need to buy a couple of these. Um it's USBA to four four
different USBC cables, and it says it's a fast charger cable multi charging.
I question whether the current is very strong since it's splitting it into four.
But will it work? Of course? Is it fast charging? Maybe?
I don't know. So they look cool. You got four colors on them
on the four USB red, red, black, green, and blue.
You can't can't complain with that, so be interested to see if anybody's tried
those. Uh, you know they have a constant underrupted forty eight DC our
source in your house. Right. Oh, there's somebody talking. I'm six
to five two a constant uninterrupted forty eight volt DC power source in your house,
right sure, Now I don't know what you're talking about. But yeah,
let's see. So these are I picked up. Did I put that
in here? I don't think I put that in here. There's some battery
boxes that are just empty battery boxes on on Amazon. It's kind of like
the ones that Mike gets at Harbor Freight, and um, I picked up
one or two of them because I'm gonna attempt to build one of my own
just to do it. And these are some meters that I found that that
look really good and got some good like this one right here's got four point
through out of five stars, So that one looks good there. Um,
This one here has got the PD, the the power power distribution PD whatever
it's called, power delivery, power delivery, I think sixty five power deliver
USBC connector and the quick Charge three dot O for USBA. So got a
few of those in there, stuff like that. There's a panel right there
that's got I don't care for these cigarette lighter adapter ones. I'm like,
I'll take those out and put some power polls in it or something. I
don't know. But that one's got a voltage meter so that's kind of fun.
But I put some of those in there. These look, these look
pretty cool here. So these are guideline cord adjusters for tents. Well,
what else do you use guidelines for? I don't know what do you use
guidelines for. So there's a cool video right here that shows you basically how
to tie that. But you can wrap it in a certain way that um,
I don't think that does he yeah, right there, you can tie
you can tie it into a loop and go through that way, loop it
around. Nope, sorry, kind of like that multiple ways. So I
thought that was pretty neat. I'm like, man, you could you could,
guy, you could make your long guy wire a little bit shorter time
down a little bit for your for your tent, which is what it's advertised
for, or just for your antenna, or for your single mass single push
up poll that you're using on Poda, something like that. I was just
I was just browsing Amazon. I'm like, oh, wow, you get
twenty pieces for twelve bucks. That's kind of fun. So I always like
finding neat stuff like that. This is a power station. I think somebody
sent me this, not sent me the power station, but sent me a
link to it. Uh this this, this is a big freaking power station.
Portable power station. Input is the XT sixty and the barrel connector.
Okay, that kind of thing. Yeah, if you've got six hundred bucks
laying around, Actually it's a two hundred dollars off coup that might be why
I put it in here. It's five ninety nine. Normally they have a
two hundred dollars off coupon right now, so it's four hundred dollars three ninety
nine. So if you got four hundred dollars laying around and you need a
power station, there you go. There. It's probably it probably produces RFI,
but they all do. I haven't found one yet that did not produce
RFI when the DC to AC inverter is kicked on. Okay, now I
haven't gone out and spent ten thousand dollars on one yet. Perhaps the ones
that are that expensive actually quiet, I certainly hope so. But yeah,
yeah, they're all going to produce a little bit of r a little bit
of r IF I at least when the inverter is on. But that's just
how it is, all right, let's see trying to watch the chat here.
I don't have a frank today. Have you tried tim you instead of
Amazon? Very good prices, pretty quick from China. I've heard of that,
but I have not tried it. No Amazon, I can get stuff
a lot of times. I can get stuff same day from Amazon, but
at least next day. So sorry, Steve. I love that YouTube.
Notified me in the stream twenty eight minutes after it started. Well, I'm
at least you're here now. Sign up for my text messaging service. I
sent a text out thirty minutes before the stream started today, and yeah,
hand radio two dot com forward slash text me no spaces, what's up,
Fry. I have a hard time trusting reviews for stuff on Amazon that have
less than three hundred ratings and take it with you, grands. Oh yeah,
I'm I'm with you on that. Actually. You know, if something
has like ten or twenty or thirty ratings, yeah, if they haven't one,
I like the one. I like the stuff that has one rating and
it's five stars. This is awesome. I'm like, oh, so you're
the guy selling it. Okay, cool? But uh yeah, oh the
Evolve is USBC now is it really? Is it really USBC? Now?
That might be worth I wonder I would like to see. I would like
to see a test of a charging take the laptop down to take two laptops
down to ten percent, plug them both in one USBC and one two Anderson
twelve volt, and h see which one charges faster. I would like to
do that. So, um, what's up, Arthur? Good to see
here? Mass rent makes ten Yes they do. Mass rent does make tension
or that's true. Uh yeah, there we go. Okay, so that's
that's where we're at. Yeah, glad you got a buddy hat. Yeah.
Dawn was in in five SKT. He was in Discord yesterday, I
think maybe the day before. He's like dude, I just got an email
from Chris My buddy hecks is on the way. He's been on the waiting
list for a while, so um, congrats, you're gonna love it.
I'm gonna set mine up next weekend. So we've got these uh power pulls,
these fake Anderson power pulls, you see. I last purchased in August
of twenty nineteen. Still got these, still use him. I really like
these open ended crimp the metal pieces, the inserts in them. The ones
that are open are easier to fit around ten and twelve gage wire. The
ones that are closed the closed circle are made for like fourteen gage and smaller.
So I really like these open ended ones these. Every now and then,
you'll run across one of these that just flat doesn't fit for whatever reason,
like the insert won't go in properly, or they don't fit together,
the black and the red don't fit together properly, or something like that,
and I just usually toss him and go on to the next one. When
you compare the price of these to the price of real Anderson's, the number
of these that fail is very, very minuscule. So yeah, you're gonna
buy some that are a lot cheaper, and one out of every fifty fails.
I don't care. I mean, I really don't care. I use
these all the time and they're fine. So but get get what you want.
And these come with those little boots on them too, which I like.
So get what you want. If you want to get the real Anderson
stuff, then do that. Nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying that
some people will say, well, those are never fit to go. Well
that's not true. It's not that they never fit together. It's just that
every now and then you get one that's not good and blah blah blah.
There you go. This pack of twenty. I bought this a while back
and I keep that in my PoTA box because you can never have too many
clip on fair eye beads for different stuff. And this is a trail camp
I've got. I don't have this one, but I have one of these
at the hunting Lease and I really like to set it up and watch it.
And there's people people with large backyards should grab one of these and see
what kind of wildlife you have crossing in the middle of the night. But
hey, these your gift ideas for dad. So if your dad's a hunter,
or Fisherman something like that. There you go. These these roto packs
boxes here. I talked about those on my Friday video last week and somebody
came by and said, yeah, I've got one, but it leaks.
You can't really get these things to stop leaking, even with the with the
name brand ones. And I'm like, well, okay, I don't know.
I think you have to replace the caps on him every now and then
when they start leaking. But I don't know. I'm gonna grab one and
see put it on the truck kind of see what happens with it. But
I will report back on that. This be in tech Go. This is
the stuff that Mike uses in his battery boxes that he builds. It's very
flexible. Twelve this is this is the twelve gage version, the red and
black wire. You can buy him separately. You can buy red wire by
it self, black wire by itself. I'm get him in different colors and
whatnot, but twenty five foot stranded ten copper wire and we've had good luck.
I actually I didn't know he was using this kind. I asked him
what kind of he was using, and I went and looked it up on
Amazon, and I had found that I had purchased some not this one obviously,
but I had purchased some in the past. I'm like, oh,
I know what that is. So I've actually I've never built any battery boxes,
but I've used it in like the truck wiring stuff in the truck and
building just um different various cables for stuff that I keep in my go kit,
that kind of thing. So it's a very good cable and I really
like it. It's it's a good quality stuff. There. This right here,
this book by Mike Glover. It was just published in just released.
I bought it. I um see, I bought it on June seventh,
that was a week ago. I got it in the other day. I
thumbed through it. I haven't read it yet because I'm I was reading another
book that I just finished last night, So I might read that next or
maybe a couple of books down the road. But Mike Glover feel Craft's Survival,
if you've follow him on Instagram or anything, got some good uh,
got some good comments on stuff, says a mantle for surviving the worst case
scenarios. So perhaps the um what do they call it, the the sewage
flood and her Arena circa twenty sixteen or so. Maybe that's in there for
surviving worst case scenario. I don't know. I don't know if he included
that or not. Probably do it, but you never know. So,
but that's the stuff in there right now. I U. Yeah, this
evolved Mastros is pretty cool, just because if it's USBC, that's even better.
You know, my Dell xps will charge via USBC, but you've got
to have a beefy beefy transformer on it to do that. You can't just
plug a USBC cable into a regular old USBA or USBC power delivery port and
have it charged. It doesn't recognize it. If it's not a certain wattage,
it doesn't recognize it. I suspect that is not true for the Maestro
since they were already charged on twelve volts. But I don't know. Good
stuff there. So that's all I've got in the store right now. Again,
I will share the link to this in the chat and it is in
the description as well, and I'm probably gonna be adding this is for Father's
Day, so I've got we've got a few days to Father's Day. I'm
planning on doing a video on Friday to share several other things that I've got
that I'm on mailing lists and got information about. So the the I'll be
I'll be adding more stuff to this. So let me let me transition over
here and see the chat here. Freddie Mack, what's up? Uh,
I've seen fox raccoons, armadillan passa presumably on your trail cam. Yeah at
night? Yes, at night has night vision on it and a flash so
yes, um, moose in my front yard during the day. Um,
we don't have any mess here, but yeah, car uses be in tech
goo wire for their antennas. APE is specifically enamored with the pink colored wire
that that sounds one accurate. I believe everything you just said on that.
I can see that. I can totally see that. Um, let's see
actually miss what you miss? Dayton dude, r dy murs, sir,
you weren't at d yeah the Yeah, the DFWM expos last week. I
heard it was pretty good. I don't know. I didn't. It was
pot to weekend, so I didn't. I didn't get to go. We
were at the park doing parks on the air at Lake Ray Roberts. But
I heard it was good. A couple of guys said they went out there
and it was good. Dawn, I might bring you on one day,
buddy, that's a good idea. I've had a couple of people who are
home during the day on with me. Cal four AFL has been on once
or twice. I had a Ham Radio dude on once or twice. But
yeah, I might hit you up. I'll hit you on a discord or
something. But that is that once again for people who were not here a
minute ago, we've got um. The Bridge Calm giveaway is going on here
with all the stuff up at the top and the link to that I will
share once again. It's got all this stuff you can. You can go
to the link and read everything that's on it. Put that in the chat
again. There's a few more people watching now. There was the beginning and
then the red Odo sale that's going on right now. You can get an
additional five percent off if you use this link in the code of Ham Radio
right there. So follow those links, go sign up for the bridge Com
just for the heck of it. Man. It doesn't cost anything to sign
up for the bridge Com give away. And I hope one of you guys
wins it, I really do. So that's a thing right there. Sixteen
days to retirement for me. Hey, that's good. What's up Tom.
Good to see you in there reading through the chat. Here there we go,
smash the likes yep, and that's it. Okay. So when this,
uh, when I was I was gonna go for a whole hour,
we've only been going forty minutes. I usually try to go for a whole
hour. I thought I had more stuff in there. I need to add
more stuff to my Amazon store, so I'll do that at the end.
Well at about five minutes after one. So in about twenty five minutes from
now, somebody was asking about, uh my, if I'm going to do
this shopping thing on my overlanding channel, and I said, no, I
wasn't because I did the Black Friday thing in the over landing channel last November
and it didn't really get much response. Maybe the channel is too new.
I don't post on that channel enough. I'm trying to. I'm trying to
update that. Well. I have a brand new video that's posting. And
somebody else came by and said, wait a minute, you have an overlanding
channel. I said, yes, I do, that's right, here.
It's called Unplugged. It actually started as like a off grid gear review channel,
so I was going to do reviews of like solar panels and batteries and
stuff that runs on twelve volts and outdoor garments and coats and hats and that
kind of thing. It kind of it kind of hasn't found its sea legs
yet. I've done some overlanding stuff that's been decent. The most popular videos
on the channel are actually my RV videos, so and I guess that's sort
of in that same genre of stuff. But I'm going to share the link
to this. I have a premiere about the More expo that Shane and Kyle
and I attended last April in Springfield, Missouri, and it will premiere hearing
about about twenty five minutes, about five minutes after one Central time, so
whatever time it is for you right now, it's twenty minutes till the top
of the hour, and this video will premiere at five minutes after the top
of the hour. So I'm gonna be hanging out in that chat looking around
in there. What is the Texas GMRS network is a network they're at They're
at the ham fests. Dawn surprised you haven't seen them. Texas GMRS network
is a network of GMRS repeaters. A lot of them are linked to overall
Star in Texas. So I've talked on a couple They have a net on
like Wednesday nights. I think Wednesday Nights I've talked on in a couple of
times. Pretty cool. Have you looked at the AOIC cables? AOI c
K. I don't know what that is? AOIC cable? AOI c oh?
What the heck is that? Well, it's Ethernet? Is that right
down? Do you miss type that AOIC? Or am I miss reading that?
A I O c K. I don't know what that is. If
I put that in Amazon, it comes up with a bunch of Ethernet stuff,
Ethernet, Ethernet cables AI O C Yeah, a IOC cable? He
I see, I'm not Yeah, I don't know what that is. Sorry,
Hey, nope, yeah, I came up AOC cable. That's the
last thing in the world that I want. Is any cable named AOC.
Let's see A I O C. I don't think that's what you're looking at
it either, all the one cable, all in one klea okay, see
I don't. I don't um acronym very well, I guess boom, yeah,
this one right here, I mean I shared those. Uh. That
one's yeah. That one's the micro USB USBC and the FIN and the what's
it called not FireWire lightning connector, the Apple lightning connector. I don't have
any of those. No. In fact, the other oh, the other
end is the USBC within with the USB A adapter. That's nice. Huh.
I don't have any of those. No, I should probably get I
should probably try that. I mean, why the heck not? Right?
Only one cable there? Well, this braided cable. I like that braided
cable eight hundred and seventy three ratings, four point three out of five stars.
Let's put that in. I'm gonna put that in there. Okay,
there we go, blue. There you go. A five percent off coupon
on that one too. There you go. That's not it. Okay,
I don't know what y'all are talking about. Sorry, HRD and car had
talked about them. I use one and round aprs in my Balfang coffee and
hand Rados has it on their side. Not okay, All right, Well,
let's uh coffee bump AOYC board blaa boo shump now YC board out of
stock. The only one from Simon Coopers is an amazing addition to your HT
etc. Sometimes you can tell that to wrote this, wrote these descriptions,
you can use this APRS winning programs K one. Oh. I see,
Yeah, it goes into the Kinwood K connector doesn't it. Yeah if you're
ETOs But dude, huh, okay, I will have to I'll have to
get one of those from when they come back in stock, and then it
goes to USB A. I guess so you can. It's just an easy
way to add whatever computer connection to your HT. Okay, it's kind of
neat all right. I haven't seen that yet that I recall. Good,
Okay, cool, Well I'll go I'll go check that out. I'll hit
up t O and say, hey, send me one of these. I
can do a video about it. Good deal. He won't do it.
He won't send me one, but I'll ask him anyway. Uh, let's
see. Can we call him octopus or squid cables usp A one side micro
h if they were eight ends of it, Yeah, you could call an
octopus, but I don't think there's eight ends. I think there's four ends
to those cables. Uh later a hand radio crusader, it's not actually a
cable. Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, coffee and ham radios. If
they put up something and call it a cable is probably not going to be
a cable. Makes sense. It's like when Teo says, hey, I
make funny videos. Yeah, yeah you do. No, I'm kidding,
No, I'm not kind of well a little bit maybe, I don't know.
All in one cable. Yeah, this is not a cable. It's
a PC. It's a board with connections on it and no cover. How
was your trip back home from Dayton? It was fine, no problems at
all. Took too long, but you know, so be it is.
Charging batteries quickly always a good idea. Probably not depends on what battery you're
talking about. Depends on I mean, there's a difference between something that takes
eight to ten hours to charge and someone that takes ten minutes to charge.
You know, if my battery takes only one to two hours to charge,
I'm not going to be unhappy. I wouldn't want to overcharge it of worse,
but you know, I don't want to wait a day and a half
for it to charge either yep, and there we go. Okay, let's
see, I gave Mike the President Lincoln to review, and he is supposed
to bring it to you next. I know what a President Lincoln you.
I used to have a President Lincoln, long time ago, older model,
I assume probably not probably probably not the same one you've got, unless you've
got an older model too. But okay, ten twelve meters? Does it
actually go to twelve meters? Actually go down that far? I wonder if
it does? All right, guys, Well, thank you for joining us
today. Once again the links to everything or in the description. I will
add stuff to that store as the weekend progresses. I'll probably do a Friday
shopping. Oh that's what I should have mentioned that Ham Radio happy hours this
Friday, So Kyle's gonna do a trivia at seven Central time and happy hours
at eight Central time. I mentioned this on my Sunday live stream last Sunday,
and hopefully you guys put it on your calendar. But if you haven't,
please put it on your calendar or join us Friday night for trivia and
happy hour. Always a fun time. I've sent invitations to several guests,
and I'm hoping to get at least one or two of them show up,
so we'll see what happens with that. But yeah, it gonna be gonna
be a fun time. So I tried. Probably gonna do a shopping video.
I might do a shopping video Saturday morning instead of Friday morning for well,
I don't know. I don't know yet. I'll do it either Friday
or Saturday. I haven't decided yet. I mean Father's Day Sunday. So
if you're not shopping until Saturday, then you're not gonna get it by Father's
Day. Sorry, but we'll see. But well, we'll do a shopping
video about last minute Father's Day ideas either Friday or Saturday. We will do
the trivia and happy hour Friday night night, and then we'll be back on
to regularly scheduled livestream Sunday night as well. So seventy three all thanks for
watching. Check out this. Everyone head over here real quick and hang out
with me in the chat for this video that premiere is hearing about about fifteen
minutes, go hit the toilet if you need to go, Go get a
drink, get some lunch or something, and then meet me over in the
chat at that video right there. Seventy three all thanks guys for joining