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Thank you in seventy three. I hope you enjoy it. I didn't
want to give a shout out to Katy in the chat because she got her
general license just the other day. Look at that got general on Saturday.
Thanks for the videos to study, and thank you for being here, and
thanks for let me know that's really really fun. You have to let me
know how much you like parks in the air. Go do parks in the
air. It is highly recommended. One of the best things about having General
is to be able to do parks in the air on HF. So thanks
for joining today lunchtime live stream. It's twelve o'clock at twelve oh one in
Texas, I show and we're going to talk about field Day, which is
this weekend. Officially, it starts at one pm Texas time on Saturday and
goes for twenty four hours until one pm Texas time on Sunday. So that's
eighteen hundred UTC, eighteen hundred UTC Saturday to eighteen seventeen fifty nine UTC on
that's right, Yeah, that's right on Sunday, So twenty four hour event.
If you've never done field Day before, or find a local club near
you, go out there. Most clubs that i've most clubs I'm aware of
that do field Day. They welcome new people, or you don't even really
have to be licensed at all. You could just go out there and kind
of check out their setup and see what they're doing, and they'll be happy
to explain things to you. If you're in the DFW area, there's a
lot of really good clubs. Dallas Club, Didn't Club, a lot of
the clubs in mid Cities, the Hearst Club, the net Ark Northeast tern
Amateur Radio Club, the Bedford Club, the Uless Club, the Carrollton Metrocrest
Amateur Radio Society, Mars Club they do. They all do field day,
and I know they would all welcome you out to take a look around and
see what the setup is. So that is that is where it is this
weekend. And I suspect you've got a club near you that's going to do
field day, So check them out, email them, call them whatever and
find out if you can go. Kind of just search through what they're doing
and kind of watch them for a little bit and get a feel for it.
If you've never done field day before, if you've done field day before,
then plan on participating this weekend if you can. We're going to be
operating as K and five t R Kilo November five Tangle Radio out at my
hunting least. It's going to be pretty fun time. I suspect although it's
going to be freaking hot, but I don't know. Whatever, it's it's
all good. It's all good. Sign the book too, yeah, good
good idea ed. Most of them have it like a guestbook at their field
day event where they can get people sign up and if you don't want to
give your phone number and email, you don't have to usually, but just
kind of they like to get accounts of the community that comes by and checks
out their set up for field Day. Let's see, look for the go
to station at field Day. That's a good place to get Yeah. So
a lot of a lot of clubs will set up a GODA station. Get
on the air is what that means. Goota and it is a station set
up specifically for people who are new to him radio, not club members,
maybe not even licensed. As long as someone with the GODA call sign is
sitting there right next to you, it's perfectly fine for you to get on
the air with third party traffic and make a couple of contacts and see what
it's all about. So a lot of stations have a GODA station set up
as well, and that's they do that so that people can so that newcomers
can come by, non licensed people or somebody who's just never done Field Bay
field Day can come by and get on the air and see what it's all
about. So yeah, good shout out there overlanding for fun YouTube channel member
special shout out to the rest of you who are YouTube channel members. I
see ed in the chat Ham Radio Crusader Randall k R five ee Skeeters in
there, K seven t R d rick K nine E I D I e
ED is in there I e ed and who else? There was somebody else
up there earlier, I think in five Skat and five with three Nick were
the first two to comment, so appreciate the support there. Yeah, that's
a good one for Steve al dot org forward slash field Dash day Dash locator.
So I will pin that to the top of the chat. You guys
go check that out real quick and you can find out who's doing field day
wear and see if there's somebody near you. So we did a well.
First of all, let me let me start with this because those of you
who were following me or who met up with me in Dayton, you know
that my all Star node died. I rebuilt it yesterday. So I rebuilt
my all Star node yesterday. I turned the camera on and I put a
brand new micro SD card into my Sherry Note. Well, I imaged it,
I showed how to image it, put it into the Sherry node,
and went through the set up configuration. So that's going to be a video
upcoming. I realized the other day, maybe maybe a week or two ago,
I don't remember. I realized that I have never done a video on
all Star that was not a live stream, so I didn't have anything edited
shorter form edited uploaded video on the channel about how to set up all Star,
and I wanted to do that for this note, my node conveniently died
on me, so I was like, yeah, this is a good opportunity
to go ahead and show how to set up a Sherry node from scratch,
brand new SD card a micro SD card imaged for imaged with the ham Voipe
image. Just the word I was looking for image with the ham Void image,
which you can download and used image a micro SD card through a program
on Windows called Win thirty two imager. When thirty two disc Manager, that's
it. There's several of them out there. When thirty two disc Manager is
one of the ones. That the fact if you go out and download the
ham Voipe image, it's a self extracting ZIP file, so you it's a
it's a dott ex file, so you just run the dott e xc and
it self extracts to a folder and it has five or six files in it.
One of those files is when thirty two disc Manager and when SCP is
in there as well. It's another another way to image a microst card with
a with a dot IMG file on a on a Windows box. So,
um, that that is what I did. I recorded that yesterday, got
my node backup going yesterday. This is my Superman page to the all Star
server I'm running in the cloud. Those of you who might be who might
have that's good Lorne. I like that, those of you who might have
been connected yesterday. So I got an email from this gentleman in four LPK
a week or so ago, and he's like, hey man, I'm trying
to connect to your node. Is do you have me blacklisted? I'm like,
no, dude, I haven't blacklisted anybody from my my Ulstar node.
And he was having trouble connecting, but he was the only one reporting it.
And at the time I had seven eight nine stations connected and they were
all talking and I'm like, okay, so it's working well. When I
got my Sherry node rebuilt yesterday, I tried to connect. I couldn't connect
to it at all. It did not Yeah, I could not connect.
I connected to another node. I tried to check and see if Kyle was
online. Kyle was not even online. His nodes not even online. So
so there's some other guys down in West Gulf Texas down there and around U
League City and whatnot that keep a allstar node on a simplex frequency. So
I connected to them and it worked just fine. It's like, Okay,
maybe there's some kind of something something going on with the server. So I
rebooted my cloud server yesterday. So if you were on and three or four
stations auto can have auto connect enabled on their on their configuration file obviously because
they've reconnected back up. But if we were on and connected yesterday and got
kicked off, that's because I rebooted the server, feel free to reconnect.
This is my cloud server at four three one three six. I am connected
right here. This is my Sherry node. It's inside the house right now.
I wanted to get that up and running and connected and configured and working
prior to field Day because I'm gonna take that with me to field Day this
weekend. So I am that's that's my plan for UM for this weekend,
to have that share my Shrry node with me at the at the field day
site and then connected to this server where I stay connected ninety nine percent of
the time. So it is back up and running, it's working well.
I held several quesos yesterday. I was listening to a guy some guys talk
this morning, and that's that's where it's at. It's all. It's all
good now, So please connect to all Star and talk with us if you
choose to see two people that have already connected. So there we go,
thanks guys. Yeah, Kyle at him? You start talking bad about Kyle,
and all of a sudden he pops up in the chat. I can't
even connect to my pie that runs aster. I know if you go to
stats dot all Star linked dot org you and search for a zero Z,
you don't show online at all. So yeah, I figured that. Um,
I figured that you're you'd turn it off. Or maybe maybe it just
you know, maybe it just is acting like a raspberry pie. It needs
a kick in the pants, which you know that happens sometimes. Don that's
a very good question. Where is KG five h J in that list?
I don't know. That's a very good question. I would like to I
would like to know the answer to that myself. Good old Frank. All
right, so thank you for those of you who just connected. We're a
I'll be on after. I don't have my radio outside. I didn't want
to get distracted by it right here, so I don't. I'm not monitoring
it at the moment, but as soon as we end the livestream, I'll
be back on there. I've got some stuff to do. I've got to
pack the truck this uh this afternoon, get ready for field Day, and
I will be monitoring after we ended the live stream here in just a little
bit. So field Day is coming up again. It starts on Saturday at
eighteen hundred UTC. And this is a list I keep on my Amazons tour.
Now. For those of you who might be new here, I am
an Amazon associate. I can make affiliate commissions on certain items from Amazon.
So if you are interested in moving the show for and supporting the channel,
you know I appreciate your use of my links that I will share with you.
It is The link is in the description. I'll put it in the
chat right now as well. This is a idea list I created on Amazon
for field Day twenty twenty three. I took a lot of the stuff that
was on my field Day twenty twenty two list and I added it in here,
and then I added some more stuff to it also. So this is
certainly not everything, And if you guys have some suggestions for other things to
add, please feel free to put them in the just you won't be able
to post a link in the chat, but just tell me what it's called.
I'll go out there and find it. Brent. Yes we're doing.
We're doing Field Day from the Hunting Lease again this year. Yes, we
are. So this I've been sending. I sent this out in email a
couple of times. This is the Evolve three Maestro laptop. This is and
this used to be a sixty dollars laptop. I picked up, like I
don't know, six seven eight of them back when they were new, when
they were first discovered, I should say I think they were new, and
I gave a bunch of them away on a live stream like I was doing
last year. Well, they were out of stock for a while on Amazon.
They've been back in stock for I don't know a month or two something
like that. I don't know. They're no longer sixty dollars obviously, they're
nine ninety eight right in one hundred bucks, twenty three percent off of what
they call their list price, which is one twenty nine ninety nine. The
great thing about this laptop is that it charges from twelve volts twelve votes,
no transformer, no step up or step down converters needed. You plug it
directly into It doesn't come with a twelve volte charger. It comes with a
with a little proprietary semi rietary plug, this little barrel connector that goes to
a regular one hundred ten volts AC outlet. Okay, And what you can
do is you can cut that plug off the end of it and put power
poles on it and plug that the rest of that cable directly into a battery
box or a biwino or something like that, and then keep the plug and
put the put the power poles on the plug also so that you can plug
the power poles on both ends of that cable you just cut together and plug
it back into the wall as well, because that little transformer transforms from one
hundred and ten vold AC down to twelve bold DC and it charges via twelve
bolts. I picked up a couple of these fan case fan casey. However,
you say that three foot replacement cables that come with these bare wires on
them, and I put power pole. I think I got two, I
got two or three of these, I don't remember which one, and I
put power poles on all of them, and I put one in my battery
box that I leave there with a bunch of other cables, and I kept
one with the laptop. I gotta get it. I don't have a laptop
sleeve. I need to get a laptop sleeve that I can put some stuff
in with it. I might pick that up here in just a little bit,
but um, in fact, let's put that in there, because it
says that laptop sleeve fits this laptop. Field Day, twenty twenty three.
But the great thing about this laptop is that it charges via twelve volts.
Now I run the smart SDR software for Windows for Flex Radio runs it just
fine, no problems at all. It's not the most powerful laptop in the
world. It's not even it's not even that well put together. I shouldn't
say it's not well, it's it's it's a little bit fragile. I'll put
it that way. You know, the screen, if you if you if
you're to put a lot of pressure on the screen and bend it, you'd
probably crack the screen. It's not durable. It's not a tough book.
It's not anything like that. But it does work if you just take care
of it. The keyboard kind of tends to stick a little bit. Sometimes
you gotta be you gotta mash the keys down to type accurately. But it
runs all the things. It runs smart SDR, run hammers on it,
run a grid tracker on it, run um what. I haven't tried to
HRD. I'm try him Radio Deluxe. I haven't tried that yet, but
you know, for what it is for a backup laptop that you keep in
your bag or your go kit for ham radio, it works really well.
I think it does. Any idea what the current draws for that laptop when
charging? You know, I have not measured that. Perhaps I will do
a video and measure that because I've got one of those. Uh, I've
got the Amazon Special and I've got the power works the little inline meter with
the power poles on either side of it, so I'll check that out.
I do not know ws JTX also, yes done. I've run w s
JTX connected to my Yasu FTDX ten from this laptop. I've run w s
JTX connected to my Smartest DR and connected back to the radio here in the
shack. From the laptop. It all works fine. I've not had any
problems with this with running this laptop at all. I don't do any video
editing or anything intensive like that on it. I just use it only for
ham radio and it works great. So that is in the store there.
I've got that down right there. Right next to it is this uh fancase
or have you say, at cable three foot replacement cable for for additional charging
sources. So I have a really bad habit of losing cables like that.
So I bought two or three of them as backups, and I keep one
in different places. I got one in my my go kit or my my
my battery box, one in my maybe one in two different battery boxes actually,
and then one with the laptop itself. So that's that this. Several
of you asked. If you're on my email list, you probably saw this
already, but several of you asked after a live stream I did a couple
of weeks ago about charging solutions for a Yazoo radio. I don't have my
no, I don't have my my FT five out here right now, but
if you go look at your Yazy radio, if you have an FT three
and FT five a VX six, r VX seven, r VX eight,
all of the ones right here. It's it's saying the FT FT two seventy
FT two seventy seven, that kind of a bunch of different Yazoo handheld you
will see. Look at the charging cable where you plug the cable into the
radio, and then in the wall and look at the transformer on that charging
brick and see what it says. It's going to tell you that it's that
it's transforming to twelve DC. And these Yazoo radios charged directly on twelve volts.
So I bought two of these myself and put one in the GO box.
And I have an HT box as well. I keep four or five
hts in I keep. I take those everywhere and put one in there.
I put one in my battery but my Explore battery box from Gigaparts, And
um, yes it'll work with the three. Yes it'll work with the FT
three. In fact, I'm pretty sure i'll even work with the FT one
in two. But yes, it will definitely work with the FT three in
the FT five because they all basically take the same charger. There's one good
thing that Yazu done well, I don't mean one, get that. That's
another good thing that Yazu does is they keep their chargers pretty much all the
same. They're not all the same, but there's a lot of Yasu hts
that use the same type of charger. But yeah, so it comes with
bear wires. I put powerpolls on it. And now I've got a Yazoo
charging cable for my FT five and my vxix are both of which I keep
in my HT box. I've got that with me. I've got one of
those cables in my battery box. I've got one in the HT box itself.
And then and I keep the twelve volt cable at the house somewhere.
But yeah, so you can definitely charge. And they make one of these
four let's see, I don't remember if I put that in there or not.
Didn't put that in there. If I go over here, they make
it where you can actually get one of these cables for I put it on
my Father's Day list, one of these cables for USB. Now, this
guy right here, we'll plug into a yay Zoo. In fact, it
says yeay Zoo on the on the device here, but it's not made by
yay Zuo. It's made by zeroone Store or whatever that is. So this
plugs into the Yazoo and that plugs into USBA, so you can charge it
via USBA. I got a couple of these as well. They work very
well. They're not quite as fast for obvious reasons. It only charges at
about zero point four to one amp, so it's but it is a charging
solution. If you have one of those little bricks with the solar panel on
it that you keep maybe in your bag to charge your phone, it's got
two or three USB A ports on the front of it. You can charge
this into that same brick and charge your HT as well. So it just
depends in if you don't want to carry around a larger, heavier bioeno or
a battery box itself. If you're trying to go lightweight, this might be
a good option because if you've already got a charging brick for your phone,
which I always carry a charging brick from my phone in my backpack, so
this you can charge from a Yazoo. You can charge your Yazoo HT from
an actual USB port instead of going directly twelve volts into it, So there's
that option for you as well. It's just depends on what you want to
use. I'm want to put that in my field day list as well,
So back over here, let's refresh right there once again. I'm gonna share
this field day list link in the chat. I do make commissions from a
lot of items on that list, and it helps to grow the channel.
So I appreciate it if you guys use it. But if you don't want
too, that's okay. Just go to Amazon and search for these items we're
talking about today. You can find everything. There's nothing special in here is
stuff that I found on Amazon. You can always always benefit. I bought
a pack. I think I bought two packs of these and put them in
my um my, my my new, my new. Kyle made me buy
it a plain box. In fact, you know what, Let's go find
that real quick because I want to I want to see. Let's see.
Let's go here, Kyle, I should put this in my I should put
this in my uh list here, I put this in my list here in
a second okay videos ideas, uh okay, this guy right here, No,
that nice got sun drop. I didn't see a sundrop short. That's
funny, Okay, I think it's the Yeah, thinks this one here all
right, So I'm gonna put this in the chat. You guys go watch
this. Kyle inspired me. He brought this to the More Expo and he's
got one or maybe closer to seven of like everything in this freaking box it
is. It's it's got a lid on the cover like that. You'll see
he opens it up, he's going he goes through all the stuff that's in.
He goes through everything he's got in here, which is neat to see.
But then you see he opens it up and it opens from the middle.
Watch this. It opens from the middle, and it's got this this
deep side on the left hand side of your screen right now, and then
this thing over on the right, this translucent piece over on the right opens
up again and has another pocket underneath that. So let's see if I can
where he does that part. Well, okay, so so he opens up
this part here, opens that up, and then he closes that and he
shows underneath over there, and it's got even more stuff right there. So
crazy. He pulled that out at the More. I think it was at
the More Expo, I'm pretty sure. At the and Shane and Kyle and
I went to do a park. They're in Springfield, Missouri. He's only
like a ten minute drive down the road. When we were at the More
Expo, we're like, hey, let's go, h let's go activate a
park. There's one right down the road. And he pulls this thing out
and Shane and I are like, what is that. He's like, Oh,
do you need a cable for a for an Allcraft Kicks one that has
been made in sixteen years? Here? Here you go. You're freaking crazy.
Uh right, Uh so it's it's insane. Anyway, I went home,
No, I didn't. I didn't even go home. We went back
to the camp side. I found this freaking thing on Amazon and I bought
one immediately. So now I've got one that I'm filling. I have mine
like a tenth of the way full. Kyle's is full. I have mine
like a tenth of the way full. So yeah, it's uh Plano fourteen
forty four tackle box. And you know what I'm gonna do you a solid,
Kyle. I'm gonna share Kyle's affiliate link in the chat. There you
go, there's Kyle's affiliate link in the chat to this plane O fourteen forty
four tackle box, and uh wow, it is it's it's it's it's really
cool. I mean, you know, you know you're a nerd. When
you're nerding out on stuff like this. You're like, hey, that's a
pretty cool fishing tack of the fisherman. Guys, You're like, oh,
yeah, that's a cool tackle box. But then when you see it full
of like barrel connectors and pl two fifty nine and SMA connectors and heat shrink
and just fairte beads and toroids and all that kind of stuff, You're just
like, Okay, apparently I'm apparently I've lost my mind. So yeah,
so I'm gonna add that one to my store. But that's Kyle's uh,
that's Kyle's affiliate link in the chat. So if you guys are serious to
go about going to buy that, click on cows affilatingly, because I wouldnt
know about this if it wentn't for him. Fourteen forty four. Yeah,
here it is right here. It's about fifty five bucks, so it's not
cheap and plano. If you guys have ever been around fishing, I grew
up fishing. My dad's a huge fisherman. I didn't grow up hunting.
Everybody knows that I have a hunting lease nowadays, but I grew up fishing.
We went fishing all the time when I was a kid. A Plano
is a very well known name inside of the fishing tackle box world. They
make very good, high quality products. They used to be made in the
USA. I'm pretty sure they are still made in the USA, I believe.
Don't quote me on that. I could be wrong, but either way
they're still They are very well made, very well made items. So I'm
gonna stick that in my field Day box and you'll see that probably in some
videos that I do from field Day this year, because I've got it,
and I've got all. I put all my power pole stuff in it.
I put all my what beat a bunch of heat shrink fair eight beads that
I just showed you, stuff like that, so that that's gonna be a
thing at field Day this year as well. Bump field Day. There we
go. Okay, yeah, so fair eyede beads. You can never have
too many of these, because you never know where you're gonna get our FI
or especially if you're operating multiple stations next to each other. It's always good
to have these available various of four different various sizes in this kit. So
yeah, pick that up, put it in the bag, because you will
use it. I know I've used mine a lot. Plano factories in Plano,
Illinois. See, we have a Plano Texas here and at one point
in time, long long time ago. Bill Dance is taking notes right now.
See I got that reference plan. There's a Plano Texas and for the
longest time I thought that they were made in Texas, but I was told
that wasn't true. But I don't know. Yeah, Plano, Illinois,
that's still in the United States, so yeah, I'm pretty sure they're um,
pretty sure they are still made in the USA. So I think there's
a show about orders. Yeah, okay, second Amendment strong freaking awesome name.
And I'm pretty sure this guy told me he was like fifteen years old,
fourteen years old something like that. Great name. Dude, I'm getting
my tech license. What do you think from model radio? Max prices three
hundred dollars. I have a video on that. Go look at my best
HT video of for twenty twenty two. I'm I haven't done the twenty twenty
three version yet. Right now for three hundred dollars. Well at Daytonham mentioned
they were selling the Yazu FT five for two ninety nine show special. You
won't find it for that price again, but that was a heck of a
price right there, probably under three hundred dollars. I would say the new
Com ID fifty ID five zero that's about to come out might be roughly about
that price. It's big brother, the ID fifty two that's been out for
a while, is about four to fifty. But the new ID fifty that's
coming out is a toned down versions, a smaller, less, a lower
featured version of the ID fifty two. So it might be around the three
hundred dollar price, but they haven't they have not um, they have not
announced the price on that yet, so not sure. Maybe one of the
walks on radios from better Safe Radio dot com uh great radios for a new
Ham because they all come preprogrammed. So if you go to better Safe Radio
dot com and you go up here and you these are the ones. The
UV nine Papa x ray Uh yeah, UV nine Papa x ray is in
stock in stock chips in four to seven days. You can save a seven
percent discount with the coupon code of h are two all seven on anything on
this site. This one comes pre program it's it's channel capacities about nine hundred
ninety nine channels. They have about nine hundred and twenty channels pre program and
a lot of it HAM, a lot of itt gmrs, business band,
that kind of thing. So if you're starting out you don't know where to
listen, that's a good option right there. That's that's a decent radio.
I've got the UV ninety mate, which is this one's like an eight WAT
version. I think yeah, eight what version? The UV ninety mate is
a ten WAT version. There's gonna be little, if any, very very
not noticeable difference between eight and ten wats on NHT. You don't worry about
that. I wouldn't worry about that either. Uh yes, Shane is correct.
So the UV the any tone, well any tone is a little bit
um, a little bit higher, but the any tone eight seven eight UV
two plus is about three fifteen and it is yeah right there, three fourteen
ninety nine. This is a great radio. This is one of my favorite
radios. I've put this radio on my favorite list for the last like three
years. Um. Well, it in its predecessor the model that came before
this one. So uh, beautiful screen, a large long battery life,
does full transmit and receive APRS beaconing five hundred thousand contacts in the DMR world.
Does DMR and analog easy to program from the front panel. So this
one's three hundred and fifteen dollars and it's it's a good option as well.
So yeah, I don't want to spend too much time on that. It's
a great question and and good luck on your test. But um um,
yeah, it's not what today's live stream is about. But feel free to
email me you want to email me, I'll give you some more details.
Happy to talk about that. Uh, let's see two nineteen at get Well,
that's not the that's not the UV two plus, oh unless it's an
open box or something gig um. The thing that a lot of people don't
realize is that those prices are set by any tone, any tone. Don't
let people sell those radios for less. Let's see eight seven eight UV two
plus. Yeah, eight seven eight UV two plus is three fourteen ninety nine
at gigaparts as well. Let's just search for any tone. They might have
an older model. Okay, that one right there. That's the UV two.
That's the not the Plus model, that's the UV two, and it's
still a great radio. It's nothing wrong with the UV two. Nothing wrong
with the UV two. It doesn't have I think it does only transmit and
not receive aprs, and it only holds three hundred thousand contacts for DMR.
I think that's the main difference between those two models. So if you're not
into DMR, you may not care about that. If you don't care about
APRS, that's fine too, you may not care about that. But yes,
yeah, that's that's the one right there. So but the latest and
greatest of the UV two, which is three fifteen. Everywhere there we go.
Okay, so back to field day. Yeah, you guys are I'm
thirty seconds ahead of you guys. So everything you hear me saying right now
is I said thirty seconds ago. So I see talking about the non plus
model on the chat. Yes, you can get the non plus model for
less than that. Absolutely, So okay, So this guy right here is
a smart charger and I bought this let's see, I purchased this September of
last year, and it's actually right over there. Yeah, so I've used
this for a long time. If you watched my video about the which one
was it? It was one of the power stations I was reviewing, and
I had a lot of RFI. Well, this thing produces a lot of
RFI. So if that's a concern to you, I would not recommend this
smart amp charger. But I really like this smart amp charger because they're smart
battery charger. Because it has a screen on it. You can set it
for lithium, you can set it for AGM or lead acid, or you
can set it for life pot four and it has a screen on it.
It tells you exactly how much is charging, how many amps. It goes
up to twenty amps max on twelve volts. It'd also do twenty four volts
and it will uh, it'll show you what it's doing on the screen.
I really like that. So don't use it while you're trying to operate radio.
But you know, when you when you go to bed at night and
you plug your stuff in charge up for tomorrow. It's a great it's a
great option for that. Mine broke on me. The plug in the side
of it got loose, like I would notice that would I would plug it
in and and clip it to a battery, and it would beep and then
turn off and then beep in then turn off when I would touch it.
So it had a short in it somewhere. Well, I open it up
and you'll see this on a video. I recorded a video about this.
I open it up. I'm like, this can't be that hard to fix.
I open it up and it had two cold solder joints on the plug.
I resoldered and put it back together. It works great, So I'm
not saying yours is gonna break. And sixty two dollars is a little bit
high high of a price for something that but I used the heck out of
mine. I use it everywhere, take it everywhere, charge my battery boxes
with it, my external battery in my truck with it, everything, So
I really like it. I think it works well. Other than the RFI.
That's the only anything that really sucks about it. But for UM,
for what it is, I think it's a it's it's a useful charger.
So you'll see you'll see a video about that upcoming soon that will be UM
how I repaired it, which if I could repair it, everybody else can
do it. No problem. Okay, I'm just watching the uh watching the
chat here Liberty Cave. Good, okay, cool, awesome, okay,
good, yeah we're yeah, yeah, all if I'm noisy, but but
it works well. So who's used this one tigress stuff I have? I
have this chair. Some of you might laugh at this chair. Um,
let's see. They have dog packs, that's awesome, tent sleeping bags,
but uh chair, I don't know, maybe they don't have that one anymore.
But I bought this chair a while back. It's one of those ones
that sits down low to the ground and you might have trouble getting out of
sometimes. Okay they don't. They don't have it on Amazon right now.
Well, I bought that chair a long time ago. It folds up into
a little bag and that's when I keep and I keep it in my truck.
It's just a little spare chair that I keep in my truck that you
know, when I get places I need. But I was really happy and
impressed with the quality, so I put this. Um, this tent.
I would love to have this, this hot tent. Of course, you
don't need a hot tent this time of year in Texas, but this looks
really cool because you got a hammock inside the tent, so you're not even
sleeping on the ground. You're sleeping in the hammock inside of a tent.
I guess you could sleep on the ground if you want to, you know.
And this one right here, he's got a hammock, a cot,
a chair. My chair looks similar to that one. And you can put
a hot you can put like a titanium type stove with a smokestack in it.
That's that goes through the through the roof. And this is just a
really looking tent. I want to do some stuff with this this winter at
um at the hunting Lease and maybe set up set up a radio station in
there, kind of go out in the woods and just do some radio and
do some hunting and or not hunting, but do some camping and whatnot.
So but that's that's kind of a neat looking tent. So I thought that
was a cool looking tent. I put that in there. The eco Flow
Wave two, I got this I email. Eco Flow sent me a couple
of power stations and battery and uh solar generators as they're called, and I
emailed them and I was like, hey, I've got an opportunity where I
could actually use this field day, and I wonder if you could send me
one of these, and they're like, sure, here you go, and
they sent me the extra battery. I didn't even ask for that. So
I've got this and I'm gonna set it up inside of one of our tents
at field day and see how well it works. So I set up on
my patio the other day and turn it on and I was just sitting there
with the with the two blowing me right in the face, and I'm like,
this feels pretty durn good, man, it feels pretty durn good.
So, but it has a it has this This port here is the is
the AC vent. This port right here is the heat or vent, so
it also acts as a portable heater. And then you put a tube and
it's got an intake in the back there. It comes with two tube,
so you put the intake tube on so it sucks the air in from wherever
you are, and you can extend the tube. It's like a it's like
an accordion style tube. You can extend it, bend it around, and
then you put either the AC or the heat tube on whatever you want,
and you stick it into the into the tent or something like that, or
maybe you stick maybe you put the whole thing in the tent and you stick
the heat or tube outside and so that it's blowing heat outside the tent and
then you're and then you've got ac blowing inside the tent and heat blowing outside
the tent, and you can switch that during the winter if you wanted to.
So I'm looking forward to trying that. It seems to work really well.
Don't know how long it will last with that extra battery, but they
say it'll last eight hours, but I'm like, okay, eight hours in
what kind of conditions? If it's one hundred degrees outside, it probably is
not gonna last as long as if it's like eighty degrees outside. So yeah,
I don't know. Eight hours is kind of like maybe maybe not not
cheap. In five SKT didn't you recently get one of the oos? I
think you said you got one of those if I'm not if I'm not mistaken,
but but yeah, So looking forward to trying that, and watched a
couple of YouTube reviews from different channels. I'm like, yeah, this this,
this should work fine. So there's that not cheap, not cheap,
but if you need a portable air conditioner, there you go. This is
their seven hundred and sixty eight wide hour power station that they sent me,
and they say, this is the largest power station you can get. Solar
generator you can get that is sub one kilwatt so and it's it's small and
lightweight. Cut this carry handle on the top. It works well. It
produces a little bit of R five but it's not bad. It's not bad.
Just kind of set it away from your stuff and it'll be just fine.
So that's in there as well. There's those cables. This is cool.
This go. This is non load bearing. This goes into the hitch
on the back of your camper or your jeep or your truck or something like
that. And I have put my spider beams seven meter mast into that and
done parks on the air with it just hung an infed halfway from the spiders
mast, extended all the way out, dropped it inside that hitch attached to
the truck, and there you go, instant intent amount wherever you go.
So I've got one of those in that I keep in my truck now and
it works well for oh, it says currently unaviable. That's too bad.
But there's another one right that's gosh, that's expensive. That's not right.
This one right here that's more the that's closer to the price I paid.
I think mine was like twenty or thirty bucks something like that. This one
right here might be load bearing seventy bucks. Maybe it's a little bit more
heavy duty, but it seems a little it seems a little high. The
one I have is thin metal. You can tell it's not You couldn't You
couldn't do much with it. So I've dropped this one in there because the
one I bought is actually out of stock right now. But it's it's neat
to have that to keep in the truck. You want to go out and
do a poda activation and maybe set up somewhere where you're in a parking lot
or there's no trees around or something like that. Just mount it to your
truck and go easy. Yeah, don I thought you bought one of those,
uh, one of those wave twos, So you have to let me
know how you like it. I assume you're gonna use it at field day,
but I don't know. I ran my twelve general trouble refrigerator two days,
one hundred Empire battery. It was down to uh, are you talking
liberty take cave? Are you talking about that wave two or what are you
talking about? Kind of watching trying to watch the check. But yeah,
question. When I transmit on my FtM six thousand, it about turns my
sub urban engine off. It is wired to a house two hundred and twenty
battery system with a separate charge system. When I transmit on FtM thousand,
it turns my suburban eng Really, what's wired to your house? Your FtM
six thousand is wired to your house. It's wired to a house two hundred
and twenty MP battery system with a separate charge system. That sounds to me
like you've got a problem with your suburban engine because I've never in my life
heard of a fifty watt VHF UHF radio turning an engine off. I mean,
yeah, it might be. It's obviously when you're transmitting, you know
you're you're going to get some interference from stuff, you know, like when
I key up an HT right here in the b is in the mic.
But wow, I've never heard of such a thing. I would think that's
a problem with your engine, because have you tried another radio, probably the
least expensive way to do it, Try another radio and see what happens with
that. But RF getting into the ECU, yeah obviously. Yeah. Yeah,
that sounds like a really poor grounding issue on your on your vehicle computer
or something like that. Yeah. House battery, Yeah, so a house.
Yeah. So the way I read that, you say it is wired.
You don't say what it is, whether it's the suburban or the radio.
So I think I think it's I think you're talking about the radio.
It is the radio is wired to a two hundred and twenty amp battery system
with a separate charge system. So you're running your FtM six thousand inner home
I assume in your home, or maybe it's all. Maybe it's all in
the same system. Maybe it's all. Is it all in your suburban.
You've got a separate battery in your suburban, and you've got a separate charging
system for it, And when you key up your radio in your suburban,
it shuts your engine off. That's still it's still it's still a that's still
an engine issue. Yeah, RF is getting into your engine and your engine
is not properly shielded. Your engine or your engine computer is not properly shielded.
To prevent that sort of thing, I would I would try a different
rate. The easiest thing to do. Get a different radio, get a
different fifty watt radio and try it and see if you get the same result.
It's possible. You your FtM six thousand is messed up somehow and producing
spurious emission where it shouldn't be. It's possible. But if it does it
with a second radio, you've got engine problems. And that's going to be
my guess. I'm seeing you've got engine problems. Poor grounding, poor,
um, poor, um? What are they? Poor? Shielding is the
word I'm looking for on your on your computer and or your engine inside your
suburban. So yeah, yeah, yeah, you need to You need to
ground it for sure. But even without outground and it shouldn't shut off your
freaking engine. That's ridiculous. Yeah, So okay, back to the situation
at hand. I will say this real quick. I want to thank most
of you or many of you who sounds like sounds like a Baifang distributor cap
that's good. Um. I want to thank a lot of you who emailed
me and commented on the AMA video that I did last Sunday. Um,
that's the third time I've done an AMA video and I always get a lot
of really good comments on it. So I think I'm gonna start that on
a regular thing. I think I'm gonna start doing that about once a month.
And my thought was to invite one get speaker generally a YouTuber. I
think Shane's gonna come on with this next month and just say, Hey,
we're gonna have an AMA you guys come in there, come chat. We'll
just we'll just respond to the chat for the whole hour live stream. I
don't half live stream however long it goes. And because I got a lot
of really positive feedback on that setup last Sunday, after the stream last Sunday
and also the LA the two times I did it before that, I got
a lot of really positive feedback on it, so I was I was happy
to hear that. I'm happy to hear that you guys are enjoying that and
have and interested to come in and into the chat with questions. So yeah,
so be watching for that. I'll make an announcement for that in a
couple of weeks, but probably sometime in July. We're gonna bring Shane on.
We're gonna do another AMA, and then it's gonna be a monthly thing
from then on out. I've got Hayden and TiO who have both showed interest
in coming on as guest speakers for an AMA. So that's, um,
that's gonna be a thing. So yeah, I appreciate you guys being out
there for that side note there all right, So B and CMA old UHF
female. You can never have too many of those. Um the brands you
buy on Amazon are okay, They're not as good as as like say,
Infanol Connectors or or um like Messi and Plomi connectors, but they're less expensive
also, so to have a couple of these as a backup is not a
bad thing. I think. Uh these led lenser flashlights. I bought my
dad one of these four it was it was the p P seven R I
believe was the model I got for him. I got one of him.
I got him one of those for Father's Day. And these are really well
made flashlights. I met this guy at the More Expo in twenty twenty two.
I was walking by his table. He stopped me. He's like,
hey, Jason, I watched your show. Turns out he's a ham he
owned this company, or at least that maybe it's a franchise. I'm not
sure. And um, and he gave me some flashlights. Why. I
went back this year and I bought a couple of flashlights from him because I
liked them so well. So yeah, led Lenser makes really good stuff.
You guys are gonna be how be with those if you if you try one?
Uh Chrissy, Uh, thanks for the super chat. Yeah, I
hope you do some field days stuff as well. Do you know of a
good twelve volt battery eliminator for a Baio fent Baio fangman Uh, twelve volt
battery eliminate? Oh uh no, I would just I don't have one on
top of my head. Don I would just I would just probably search Amazon
for it. I've never never really tried one myself. I got some more
flashlights here this right here, this energy suitcase. Okay, so those are
innavailable as well. Interesting. I need to update that it was a Simbi
tool, notpe Okay Energy two hundred. I got one of these last year,
used it several times. I broke I broke one of the MC four
connectors on it. I need to repair, so I might make a make
a video about repairing NC four connectors because I've never done that before. So
but these are um. This works really well. I set this out in
the stand right next to the RV and I used it charges RV trailer and
it works good. I like the way that's set up, has its own
It has a charge controller built into the back of it, so you just
take the alligator clips that come with it and plug it into your battery and
you're done. In fact, they call it a two hundred what suitcase,
Yeah, suitcase, So I wonder if they changed the two hundred. Yeah,
that's it right there. Okay, that one that was probably they probably
have updated it since I got mine. That's probably a old model. But
those work really well. It's nice and convenient because it's it's firm and it's
rigid. It comes with a carrying case that you put it in that looks
like a suitcase, so you just open it up. It's got a solar
charge controller. You plug it up to your battery and you're done, and
then as the sun moves during the day, you just kind of adjusted on
the ground. That works well. I've been I've been happy with mine.
These Mopica sensors are really cool. If you have an RV or a gas
grill or something with a propane tank, you put this on the bottom of
the propane tank. It's magnetic, so you just stick it on the very
bottom of the tank and then you can download the Mopica app on your phone
and it will tell you how much gas you have left, so you always
know how much how much propane you have left when grilling or when you use
it. I use it. I use the heck out of this thing on
my RV during the winter when we're out at the hunting lease at during hunting
season to keep a tab on how much propane I have because my heater and
my trailer runs on propane. So it works great. All an app right
on your phone and it tells you, tells you right how many, how
many you've got? So so good product. There these ice Co fridges.
I still have my ice ridge. I have that exact model right there,
and they work well. Twelve ol fridges are not cheap, but that's probably
the largest fridge I have. I'm gonna have two, two or three fridges
at field Day this year or so. Probably I might do it like a
comparison video or something on and we'll see. But those ice co fridges are
really good as well. All right, let's look at the chat. Right,
that's true done twelve old battery eliminator from Balfang. You may be able
to use one from the b Tech. Yeah, the b Tech would work.
The b Tech. The b Tech five by three is the same form
factor as the UV five R, so all the accessories are interchangeable. Tom,
thank you for the super chat buddy, appreciate you being here. Yeah,
Stephen says, Mopica works great. Yeah, I love that Mopica thing.
Man, It's awesome. Because I was always running out of gas and
my old trailer, and now I had two bottles of my old trailer,
so I would just have to get up in the middle of the night.
I'd get cold. I was like, oh the gas is off, okay,
So I get out and go out, turn the first bottle off,
turn the second bottle on, and just go back. Because I like to
keep one bottles, I don't turn both bottles on at the same time.
I turn one on at a time. That way, if I run out,
I've got a spare bottle. But my new trailer only has one bottle.
Now I'm gonna upgrade that. I'm gonna I'm gonna put a dual bottle
system on it, but right now I haven't done that yet. Either way,
it's nice to see how much gas you've got because the gas is used
for the water heater. My new trailer, the GA. The gas is
used for the heater, the water heater and UM and of course the stove.
Then the two burners that I have they use gas as well, so
you know if you're using if you're taking showers at night and cooking during the
day, then you're still using gas. So it's it's good to even during
field day, we'll be doing that, and it's good to know how much
gas you've got. I have a twelve volt cooler that's much more affordable than
twelve volt fridge, not as large, but good for beverages. Were meats,
I would be careful with meats. And I don't know what you mean
by cooler instead of fridge. Give me a making model of what you're talking
about and I'll look it up. Twelve ol fridges are not cheap, that's
true, but you're saying a twelve volt cooler, so obviously it still runs
on battery power. Um, so if it still runs on battery power,
you can control the temperature. Then meats would be okay. And there I
usually just put I usually just put drinks in mine. Honestly, I've kept
I've kept some sandwich meat in it before. But yeah, just don't remember
free swap your tanks. That's a good point. I don't really swamp my
tanks. I have a place here I get them refilled, so I just
take it up getting refilled and put the same tank back on. But yes,
yeah, you don't want to forget it because as it is on the
bottom of the propane tank, and it will it will get forgotten because you
can't see it. So these these guys right here, oh, this the
So this is the the soldering station that's sitting right here on the desk.
You can't see it right now. This is soldering station I used. And
last year we were making coacts out of some messy and plumbing stuff that Mike
had and he brought his whole soldering station with him. So he carries this
one into box to where I suspect he'll have it at Field diag in this
weekend. I don't know, but that's a really good that hacko or hack
hacko I think is how you say it, soldering station variable temperature control on
this unit, and uh, really good soldering station there. So I keep
that one in the in the box. These are really fun to keep around
because you can use them for all kinds of stuff. This is the same
type of espioner that's on the end of a pactenna and you can use those
for guy wires, you can use him for tie downs, you can use
him for anything you want to. So I've got a couple of packs of
those in my in my my new Kyle tool box. So but that's uh,
that's their parachord. Paracord is always good to have around. You're gonna
run out, or someone's gonna get torn up, or you're gonna have to
cut it to a short length and you lose part of it or something.
So parachords is always good to have a round as well. But that's it.
I will add some more stuff to in here between now and field Day.
Amazon has um two days shipping on most things, especially if you have
prime, you have two days shipping on most things. So if you're gonna
if if if I've reminded you of something today, you might want to go
out there and grab it so that you can get it shipped today and be
here by Friday before you go to field day this weekend, because it will
come down to being too late before you know, in another day or two,
you're not gonna have time to get anything unless you have a local store
to you. You have a local radio, still have a radio shack near
you. Those of us Interron County have a mouser or down south, but
they're closing the weekend, so you can go down there till Friday and get
some stuff. But yeah, I just you know. The great thing about
Amazon is like I think about sometimes, like oh I need to order this.
I go click order. I was like, Okay, I'm not in
a hurry for it. I can wait a day or two. I don't
need it right now. So I love that part of it. That's good.
Nol. I like that new T shirt idea. Ask me about Kyle's
box h twelve volte cooler. Cooler was a coalman did not get as cold
as a fridge. No, I wouldn't think it would. My fridge will
get down. My fridge has ice crystals in it. One of them does
well, two of them do. Two of them ice crystals. My Snowmaster
that I keep in my truck, it's about seven years old now. It's
it works, it still works, but it'd helped if I didn't keep it
in the back of the truck and sit in the sun all day, it
would probably work better. Oh well, uh second amendment strong, Okay,
the video I was talking about, let's see bump. Oh help if I
type the right U R L. Let's see right there. Mm hmmm.
Best HT for twenty twenty two right here, and there's been two or three
new models come out since I've recorded this video. I need to do the
twenty twenty three version of it. But but you can go back to uh,
you can go back and check that out. Just LinkedIn in the chat.
Yeah, but that's it. So all right, guys, thanks for
hanging with me today lunchtime. Live streams are always fun. And once again,
those of you who might have just joined us, it's um. I
appreciate you using the links we share today in the chat and going out and
using my Amazon store. I can make commissions and it does help to support
the channel. But if you don't want to, for whatever reason, just
go to Amazon dot com and type in all the stuff we talked about today.
It's not hard to find so, but that is where it is.
So we will be operating as K and five tr KLO November five Tango Radio
this weekend four Field Day, So I invite you guys to come out there
and try to make contact with us. Put it, put it into your
ham alert, Put kN five tr in your Hammelert. I will be operating
FT eight, so it'll be easy to the reverse peakon network and the other
network. The other spot or networks pick up FT almost immediately. So put
k N five tr into your ham alert and U and watch for me on
FT eight and then you can sometimes you can get sometimes you can get alerts
about sideband also depend on who's picking it up. And lastly, one last
time, the all Star node is the All Star hub is up and running.
I got my individual node repaired yesterday. L four Affil is in there.
What's up Steve in the an all Star? I saw you in the
chat of course an all Star, So I got my Sherry node rebuilt yesterday.
You'll see a video on that probably next week showing how to set that
up. From scratch, and I've got it connected in there right now,
and I'll be monitoring the all Star hub for the rest of the day.
Four three, one three six is that All Star system, and I plan
to take it with me to field Day this weekend and monitor it. You
know, I won't be monitoring it every day because I'll be on the HF
radio a lot, but I plan to have it running out there while we're
at field Day and and have an HD turned on to kind of pick it
up. When I hear somebody talking or something like that and I'm not on
the HF radio, I will grab it and talk to you. So seventy
three all thanks guys for joining everyone. Have a good field Day, and
be sure to buy it. I should have put cases of water on my
Amazon store, but I didn't go buy yourself a case of water or three
if you're gonna Field Day in Texas this weekend because it's gonna be hot.
Seventy three guys,