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and live readings all this this rig see Freak Sames Keilohelia Falls is freaking series
and what's up fellas fella? All right, what's up? Scott? Wish
you were here? Dude? Ye ten meters band? Yeah, we tried
the ten meter band earlier and it is there. We q contacts out there
on all the dawn, the Callas ten years on. A couple of minute,
counties are geting. M all right. We are live about two minutes
until field day starts. Another minute. Oh you're holding the fret. You
found a clear frequency frequency ten meters or no twenty meters good fourteen dot two
one five for Frank on twenty five Yeah, Keelan November five Tango Radio.
All right, here we go. What's up, fellas? Boom? Here
we go. The video looks a little choppy. All let me know how
it sounds. We're out here at the hunting Lease, obviously getting ready for
field day. Field Day is starting in about ten seconds according to my watch.
So but we are in the woods and the internet might be a little
bit choppy, So I apologize for that. Just bear with me and thanks
for joining us. Watching the guys moving out house over here. It's kind
of fun. No one built that thing. I mean, that's pretty impressive
if you if you think about it. I don't know why you try to
move it at the very beginning of field day, but that's where it's at.
All right, Wow, it's brought out here. I can't really see
the the screen very well. There is the buddy HECKX, the antenna to
end all antennas well at least up to twenty meters, and we're running that.
We've got a triplexor we're running Frank and I are running two radios through
a triplexer into the buddy hecks ten and fifteen or fifteen or twenty meters.
Actually, I's got his DX commander over here and it's we set it up
in the woods. In years past, we had trouble with the with the
noise on several bands when the DX commander was set up over there in the
in the woods somewhere. So we set it up in this spot this year,
and the noise has been much We still have noise, but it's much
better. It's much better this year than it than it has been in the
past. And I was on fifteen meter FTA just using my own call sign
yesterday and Mike was on twenty meter phone hunting PODA and neither one of us
had band pass folkers on, but we were not interferring with one another.
So just the distance of the antenna's being apart and the separation, it's been
working pretty well. So Frank's drew first Blood already making contacts for field day
fourteen dot two on five. You guys get on the vand and working.
Came five trs here. We're working as I can well. This field is
not a not a contest, remember contest. Yeah, that's true. A
lot of a lot of attention, a lot of a lot of a lot
of Yeah, we're gonna get this, We're gonna get disqualified. Yeah.
Sure, let's see something something trying to pull the chat back up here.
Uh, we are using the call sign if Kate and five t Keiler November
five Tangle Radio. That's our call sign. Go ahead, man, yeah
it is Oh no, no, no, I'm fine. I'm gonna do
this through though. If you want to sit there, that station is ready
to go, set up and everything for fifteen meter ft eight Just this.
All you have to do is hit and a will hit. Yeah, that's
it. Just start calling c Q. Just uh, it's already set up
for the field day mode and everything. Amen and Mike Nancy, Mike November.
So hopefully able r L has turned on the bands and there'll be some
ten meter activity now we think, Mike m whatever. Oh that's just the
lot that that just minimize that. You don't need that. That's just because
you're in field day mode. It's a it's a logging thing. I mean
yeah, I kind of figured that it might. Thank you for turning on
the bands, all right, Yeah, I'm sending a new sug to me,
Mike Frank, Josh Scott, Kyle mcoffing him radio guys, is a
new sug Well, thank you very much for that. No dirt bikes,
no ho turt bikes. Case since K zero m Martin, good morning,
good afternoon, I should say K zero K zero alpha. Juliet Whiskey,
North Dakota. Hey there you go, all right, change Chane's working some
uh fifteen meter ft eight which I guess we can't say the frequency, so
yeah, yeah, fifteen meter f tah rf juice right, it opens the
bands, it does, it does, so I need to change the sign.
Yes, yeah, you have to change call sign. So that's what
we're doing out here, guys. We've been running. We've been here since
Thursday. Set up the antennas yesterday, got the solar We've been running a
lot of solar stuff. That's the gigaparts three hundred WAT panel there, the
big orange one, the black one there. These two black ones here are
both. One of them is a ratty panel. I think the other one's
a Biwinno panel. To do. I've got a house solar panel, two
solar panel right there that's charging my Mega Geek Mega Geek ran two refrigerators all
day yesterday, plus charged up a couple of phones, and I was real
happy with that. Mega Geek has a fifty empower gigaparts battery. And then
I've got another battery box running my frigerus back there right now, which is
the fifty mp hour red Odo battery. Really really liked that red Otto battery.
Great battery. So pretty much all on battery power solar power. We
got some generators running to keep the trailer cool. The dogs in the trailer
right now. She was getting a little warm, so we got her put
away. She was she likes to hang out in the trailer when it gets
really hot outside. Had some threats at thunderstorms the last couple of days,
and it actually rained on this Thursday afternoon for like ten minutes, and then
it rained in yesterday. Its thundered and lightning a little bit. We took
the Intennis down, I waited, I put the hex beam up after the
lightning was gone. Mike Mike took his buddy Hex down or his Dick Smander
down, and but the lightning and thunder lasted maybe a half hour and it
rained like another probably ten minutes, and we put everything inside of the gazebo.
I'll take you guys in the gazebo here in a minute. Put everything
inside of the gazebo last night in case it rained. It didn't rain,
and it's clear, clear, sunny sky to day, not a cloud in
the sky to day, perfect field day weather other than a tot but we
already knew that going in, so not a big deal. Sunny in eighty
four in western Colorado. Hey, that sounds good. Have fun, Jason,
thanks for being in the chat. I think that's Bill. Keep that
puppy cool. Yep. At least it's only seventy today. I don't know
where you are, it's probably closer to it's probably about It's actually not that
hot today. It's probably high eighty, maybe ninety one or two. There's
a nice breeze coming through here, so it's not that bad. Honestly,
it's certainly been worse in the past and could be a could be a scorcher
out here, so it's really not that bad. But oh, I am
also monitoring my all Star node. I had that hooked up this morning.
I've had I've tried to keep that online for the last couple of days.
My Starlink system is dead. Quick note about Sterling. If I could get
the camera to work correctly one hundred and fifty years and four huttered humidity and
Garland, I believe that. I actually believe that. Uh uh yeah,
so Starling. So I took Starlink to Dayton. I had it on pause
before Dayton. I turned it back on, paid the bill, took it
to Dayton. It didn't work. You look it up on them please yell
at Sank radio and telling me Robs. I will do that, Rob,
Thank you. Um So, if you look up the app for Xenia,
Ohio, it says on Starlink's map that it's not covered. I guess I
should have looked beforehand. However, the next day somebody came in with a
starlink system camped out behind us, and there's work fine. So I took
it home and did some tinkering with it and set it up. I should
have done this two or three weeks ago, but I didn't. I set
it up last week at home, and I've used it at home before,
so I know it works there. And it still had the same problems,
like I could connect to starlink to the Wi Fi router, but the Starlink
dish said that it had no connection, no internet. So I opened a
ticket with Starlink and they said that their wait times were longer than normal,
and they apologized. You open a ticket inside the app, It's incredibly easy.
I was. I was impressed at how easy this process was. Opened
a ticket in the app. Two hours later they replied to me and they
said sorry about the long wait. Two hours. I didn't care. They
said, we've pinned your dish. It's throwing errors. We're sending you a
new dish. It'll arrive in the mail. It's actually going to be here
on Monday. That's why I should have done it a week ago. Oh
well, and they credited me for a month works of service because I said,
well, i've turned it off a pause, I've used it. I've
tried to use it for the last six weeks and it hadn't worked yet,
so they credit me for a whole month. That's great customer service, I
am. I'm I'm happy with that that. I wish it was working obviously,
but they fixed the problem. Presumably the new dish that I get in
next week will work where the old one does. I have to send the
old one back to him, which is fine, it doesn't work anyway.
And then and they paid for shipping. They're sending me a return label,
and I just put the old one in the box. The new one comes
in shipping back to him. Done. So I was real happy with the
outcome of that. So now at least I know now why my starlink wasn't
working. Okay, listening on my X sixty one hundred, why try FT
eight FT eight on the sixty one hundred easy plug and play built in sound
card. It's a great radio to do FT eight with. So good deal.
All right, we're gonna take another look through. Oh, let me
take you guys in the gazebo. So this is my gazelle gazebo, which
I really like. It is certainly hot inside of that tent right now,
but it's a great shelter for when it rains, all right. So this
is my Eco flow battery system, the Wave two MAX system that's with the
extra battery. Total together is just over four thousand WADD hours rated on that,
And that's my Eco Flow Wave two. That's a portable air conditioner,
the portable air condistry inside of this tent with the sun beating on it all
day does not work. I mean, it works, it's blowing cool there,
but it's not keeping it cold in here. I've turned it off now.
It's not running at the moment. So I was hoping that this would
be a field day tent, but it's just I think what we need to
do is we probably need to put an awning over top of this tent,
this gazebo to make thet the Wave two work better. The first day,
it was only like eighty five degrees outside. I turned it on and it
cooled it down in here fairly well, but not really what that It's not
really what that unit is made for. But I decided to try. It
didn't work as well as I was hoping it would, so I'm gonna do
some more testing with that. We'll see some videos on that up later.
I did a video on this a while back. Eco Flows gracious enough to
send me that Delta two Max, and that has been powering most of our
equipment all weekend. I've got a solar panel on it right now. I
did charge it with a generator overnight last night we went to bed, I
fired up my little generator, charged that overnight just to make sure it was
topped off. It was down at like fifty percent. But it has.
It has been a workhorse, charging batteries, charging air I'm not Eric dishers.
Well, I did charge air condisher yesterday as well, charging batteries,
charging refrigerators, running refrigerators. It's got the orange extension chord right there is
going out to a power strip. Mike's running his refrigerator off that, and
a couple of charging cells for other batteries, and then and then it's got
some USB stuff that's not being used right now. But then I've got three
hundred gigapart solar panel plugged into it. I can actually, this thing's got
plugs for two solar panels I could plug. You can see the XT sixty
chord right there. It's got another one right beside it, so I could
plug two of those up to four hundred watts per port, so eight hundred
wats of solar is wed it will take. I don't have a four hundred
wat panel right now. I've just got three hundred wats the biggest one I've
got. But it has done a great job. I love this panel.
I absolutely love this panel. This is available at giggaparts dot Com five percent
discount with the code of KC five HWB and they had that's the biggest one
they have. They have three sizes. That's the biggest one. But I
absolutely loved that three hundred wat panel. It works great. I use it
to charge the secondary battery in my truck all the time and been real happy
with it. So pretty pretty good, pretty good test of the Delta two
Max. Again, it's been running all day during the day for Thursday,
well half a day on Thursday. I got here Thursday about noon, half
a day on Thursday, all day yesterday. It never died. Of course,
it had solar going into it the whole time. It never died.
And it's been running all of our stuff. And it'll actually take one more
battery. I think I'm going to purchase on with my own money, the
second the third battery for it and have a six thousand watt hour inverter off
grid generator blah blah, and it's gonna be it's gonna be neat. I'm
looking forward to doing some more stuff with that. I'm using the peak Ron
two thousand FP solar. The peak Ron stuff is good. I did that
review on that six hundred. I really liked that unit. The six hundred
unit was cool because it had a phone charger built into the top of it.
You just set your phone down on top of the charge your phone.
You have to plug against all wireless, so Pekron's good too. I had
good luck with that one. But that's our field day set up. Guys.
We plan to be online or on the air rather all during field day.
We're gonna hang out here pretty much underneath the shade for the whole time
and gonna be on FT eight and sideband. I wish Kyle was here,
either Kyle or Mike and Yo, we're here to do some some CW for
us. But open invitation to both of those guys to come up and do
some CW for us one day. Uh. Digital rancher Robert W five I
t R. Is supposed to come up later. He doesn't live too far
from here. He's gonna come up and do some satellite contacts for us,
so we're gonna do so we're gonna do some SAT and he's really good.
He knows what he's doing with satellite. So I'm gonna watch him do satellite
contact so that we actually get satellite contacts in the log that's that's my plan.
So but that's that's what that is. So we plan to have a
good field day again. We're operating as k N five tr Kelo November five
Tango Radio. Frank is on twenty meter phone right now, Shane is on
fifteen meter ft eight, and I think Mike's on ten meter ft eight.
So go out there and look for us and get us in the log book.
UM, I am monitoring all Star. My my hub note is for
three one three six, So you guys go out there and uh connect to
us and talk to us via all Star as well. We'll be around most
of the data day. Oh and those of you in Texas, I've got
the Texas Statewide DMR talk group being monitored because the Roston repeater on a two
thousand foot tower is like two miles that way. So I was monitoring Texas
Statewide talk a couple of people yesterday and we got that going as well.
So Texas Statewide, inside of Texas, all Star elsewhere, and then HF
which is what field days all about. So we'll go through the chat real
quick. See if there's any questions. Come after him. Four hundred powered
now good good deal. Call again, yeah, call it but call sign
Kilo November five Tango Radio Tango Romeo, Texas Radio k N five TR.
It's a two by two, it's a club call. So that's what we'll
be operating as today. I appreciate you guys hanging out with us. They
just want to do a short livestream. I think abr L is going live.
Maybe they might be live right now. Go check out a r O
HQ channel. I know Josh is going live tonight at his normal time from
his uh. I forget the name of the place he's there now if he's
posting on Instagram about it. Kind of an island. I think office somewhere
outside of San Diego. Think I don't remember exact where he is, but
he's doing Field Day from there with a club. That'll be fun. You're
gonna try to get them in the log later, so definitely look for us
in the log and you guys go out there and have fun on Field Day
seventy three. All thanks for watching today