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The Ham Radio two point zero audio
podcast rip. Thank you for downloading and

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listening to this podcast. So basically
what I do is I take all the

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audio clips out of my videos and
upload them to spreaker and then from there

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they're spread out to iTunes and SoundCloud
and now Amazon Audible as well. But

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I want to welcome you and thank
you for joining the audio section of this

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series on Ham Radio. I hope
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Thank you in seventy three. I
hope you enjoy it. Hello everyone,

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it's Freddie Mack, your Ham Radio
Crusader and I'm back with another video.

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But I'm on the wrong channel,
that's right. Jason Johnston over at

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Ham Radio two point zero asked me
to make a video and introduced myself to

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the rest of you. Well,
it's like I said, I'm Freddie Mack.

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My real name is Freddie McGuire.
All of folks call me fred Freddie

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Mack. Kind of stuck. I've
been here for every since so I have

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been in law enforcement the last thirty
three years and I am retiring. I

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got my Ham ticket in nineteen ninety
eight, but I had a family to

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raise, several one of five kids
and I have about ten plus grandkids,

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ten grandkids. I've got some monearies
in there. But nonetheless, I'm retiring

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in like thirty two days, and
I'm king a crusade to get back to

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Ham Radio and make a contribution.
I love Ham Radio. I got away

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from it for a while, not
so intense as I used to be,

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because it costs a lot of money
sometimes sometimes it takes a lot of time,

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and I just couldn't sacrifice at all
with career and family. So I'll

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let it take a back seat for
a while. But guess what, I'm

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making my way back thirty two more
days. We're gonna hit the ground running.

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I want to thank Jason Johnston Case
five HWB Ham Radio two point zero

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for this opportunity. Thank you.
Nonetheless, i want to talk to you

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today about all Star. I'm about
to start a series of videos from beginning

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to finish about how to build your
own home all Star node. And you

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can do it out of a two
way radio or a Raspberry pie with a

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pie hat board on it. That's
a radio board. And I'm going to

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walk you through all of that here
in just a little while. But All

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Star is what's bringing me back more
than anything. I don't get me wrong.

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I enjoy the digital modes. I
truly do have a lot of fun

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with that. Analogs my first love, and all Star could bring you back

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that. Back in the day,
we dabbled with echo link our Ham Radio

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Club did and it wasn't bad,
but it was the sound quality was kind

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of poor, and the constant announcements
and folks from China and other countries that

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didn't speak English connecting up and manipulating
airtime got to be a big hassle,

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and we just kind of let it
go. All Star comes along, I

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don't know how long ago, long
enough and makes everything more convenient. The

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sound quality is awesome, the features
set is amazing, and the control that

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you have over your own node is
outstanding. It's a second to none in

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my opinion. Nonetheless, and this
series of videos that's to come we will

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cover that. But I want to
give you some basic components of things that

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you may need or will need if
you want to build your home node out

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of a mobile radio. Now I'm
going to show you some of the basic

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components that you need to build your
own home all Star node. I like

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to start with. My favorite radio
currently is the TYT th nine thousand D.

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It's a simple little radio, single
band. This one is VHF.

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I got a really good deal on
it used I've already tested it. It

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is working. You can also use
and there's tons of these laying around the

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internet all over eBay, the Motorola
Radius GM three hundred or the Max Track

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three hundred. I think sometimes they're
just called max Track. But as long

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as they've got that's sixteen pen accessory
poured in the back, but it usually

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has an accessory connector sometimes it looks
a lot like this. As long as

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it's got a sixteen pen and it's
a functioning radio, you can you can

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do several things. You can either
build a cable like this one and that

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cable fits right into the back of
the radio. This twenty five, This

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dB twenty five end will fit right
into a DMK engineering Uri XB sound fob.

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I'll show a picture of that here
in just a moment. I have

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one, but it's actually an operation
and I want to demonstrate my Allstar notes.

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So you can also go to Repeater
builder dot Com and buy one of

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these little beautiful things. It's called
a rim maxtrack. It will also work

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on the GM three hundred and it
plugs right into that sixteen pin connector.

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The other end is a USB that
plugs right into your Raspberry Pie and you

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load your sd car up with all
Star os, which we will cover in

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the coming videos, and once it
boots up, it will talk to the

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sound card, which will talk to
the radio and control it. So that's

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another option for a sound card.
Scott Zimmerman makes these sir stinking awesome.

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They're worth every penny and they run
around in fifty fifty five bucks. I

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think you can also visit Techno by
George dot Com. I've covered him before.

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He makes this little beautiful thing.
This is the ARA one plus.

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He makes an RA Dash one and
an ARA Dash one plus. This one

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has three lights on it, one
to detect COS, the other one for

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red PTT, and the green one
is a heartbeat that blinks to let you

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know that it's communicating with the Raspberry
Pie. It comes with these two little

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gems. This is the USB plug
goes into the U goes into the Raspberry

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Pie. This end plugs into here
and goes to your custom made interface cable.

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I have an a Linko cable here
that would have to be rewired just

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a little bit for the T Y
T T H nine thousand d. The

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reason I picked this now is because
these little sound fobs are wired identical to

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the DMK Engineering Urix, but they're
only fifty seven dollars and ninety cents,

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where the uri X is one hundred
and nineteen dollars four. Shipping may include

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shipping to any licensed ham But and
they work really good, Don't get me

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wrong, they rock and roll,
but these are little cheaper, and you

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know I'm on a budget. Fixing
to be retired, fixed incoming. All

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you'll need these sound cards, you'll
need a radio, you'll need an interface

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cable, and you'll need a Raspberry
pie. Wow, did we ever think

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this was going to be so hard
to get this time in our lives?

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When COVID hit and created shortage after
shortage, the silicone chip shortage really hit

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home because these things that we picked
up for thirty five bucks here and there

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without worrying about them ever being in
stock, disappeared and now Pie four one

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megabyte is almost one hundred bucks I'm
sorry a gig a RAM, but the

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pipe, the Pie two, I'm
sorry. The Pie four two me two

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megabyte. Two gigabytes a RAM are
one hundred bucks and more all over eBay

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and dad Gemmith. That's a tough
price to pay. I can also have

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a Pie two. You can run
an all Star node off of Pie two,

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but you want to run it with
minimal resources because you can load up

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the extra extra modules of all Star, and a Pie two will start to

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struggle. It only has a half
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it's it's processor is a little slower, so you don't really want to overload

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it too much. A Pie three. I've got one on running mode running

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a node in about twenty miles away, and it's a Pie three and it

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does a DMR bridge with DV switch. It's amazing. It works really good.

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Occasionally I got to reboot it.
I mean, it's just the nature

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of the beast. But recently got
my hands on a couple of Pie fours

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and I'm starting to convert those out
because I really want to put a workload

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on, as it were. Once
you get your all Star node up and

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running, and we will cover setting
up the software. We will cover how

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to ssh into your all Star node
pie your Raspberry Pie where hand VoIP runs.

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I only know how to set up
hand VoIP version of all Star.

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There is the ASL version of all
Star, and don't get me wrong,

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there's probably not a thing wrong with
it. I've just never used it.

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I've seen it a few times,
and I know it's really good if you're

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going to set up a radiolist node
on a server. But ham VoIP is

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the one that I love because it's
the one that I learned first, and

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I know it's ends and out,
and I know the features I can set

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up. The beautiful thing about these
is once you get them set up,

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you don't have to worry about them
that much. My lights dimmed when I

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keet up the radio. That's my
all Star node, and I also have

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this little beauty. Let's switch back
over here and take a look at the

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Shari pie hat you. This is
an amazing little device I invention. For

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lack of a better word, this
is a Raspberry Pie four and it has

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on the GPIU pens right on top. Let's say this for instance of this

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top cover wasn't here there's a radio
board that locks right into these GPIOs.

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And you've got a wire in one
wire for USB power. Why that's why

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there's a plug in this USB hole. Uh, you wired it around and

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take it underneath. There's just two
solder joints you have to make. Not

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a big deal. Let's talk about
how to control your all Star node once

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it's implemented. It has a built
in web server so that you can access

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through your browser and interface to view
your settings and your node and see what

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its current state is, and then
you can log into it and control it.

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So let's go here and this sight
one dot two zero three is my

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all Star node interface called Superman.
This is Superman two. Superman stands for

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Supermonitor, but the first one that
you set up is actually called Supermon.

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There's the current version. There's actually
a version seven now, I believe,

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And once you log in looks as
something like this. Now you've got control

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buttons up here. You can switch
your note your different nodes. I have

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one public node my five eight one
seven six on this particular setup, and

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this setup has two private nodes.
Now there's also Superman too. I've got

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it zoomed in right now for purposes
of the video, but you can come

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across the top here and put in
your own custom website links. I think

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Superman has it as well. Yeah, but Superman two does as well.

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And we've got Superman, We've got
Superman two. We've got to get radios,

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sound card interface, cables. All
Star can join you to the world.

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All Star is a wonderful way to
keep in touch with a lot of

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folks and ham on and play radio. It's great and it has a lot

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of awesome features for day to day
use. But I'm the guy that's been

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in Ham radio for a while.
I'm not a expert by any means.

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But if you want to do MCom
by all you better learn some HF and

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you better have a nice pototype rig
set up so that you can run your

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rig anywhere, portable antenna, portable
power, and be ready to go.

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That's just the way I look at
it. I'm not there yet, but

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I'm coming, world, I'm coming. We'll cover a lot of things in

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these series of videos that's coming up. I want to thank Jason Johnston Ham

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Radio two point OKC five HWB for
this opportunity to be on his channel,

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and I hope you got something out
of this video because I love All Star,

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I love amateur radio, and I
love my amateur radio friends, which

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is all y'all. Ham Radio Crusader
is about a guy who's crusading himself back

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to Ham radio and I want to
make a contribution to the hobby. So

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here I come, World, Here
I come. This is Katie five Ham,

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you your Ham Radio Crusader, signing
off seven threes Ham on