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it's like good, uh gonna miss this one. I'm like, dude,
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with that. So but get evening to all, thanks for joining. Tonight,
we're gonna talk about ham Cash in Florida, which is one two,
three, two weeks. Nope, next week, weext week three weeks from
yesterday, three weeks from Friday. Really, so three weeks from last Friday,
just three weeks away in uh in Orlando, and we're gonna talk to
Michael tonight and uh. We try to do this every year and it is
always a fan and I've been for the last I've attended ham Cash for the
last I don't know, five six years something like that, and it's always
a fun show, especially when especially when it's fifteen to twenty degrees in North
Texas and hopefully not that cold in Florida. Although I was in Tampa last
week and it was they were complaining that it was in the fifties. They're
like, yeah, it's usually not this cold here. I'm like, I'm
right. It was twenty five degrees when I left Texas earlier today, So
so it's kind of one of those things. But we're gonna see how it
goes. So let's go ahead and bring the guys on here. Hey,
Glenn, thank you for the super chat buddy, appreciate the support there.
So let's go ahead and bring Frank and Michael on. What's going on you
guys, nothing much. Thank you for having me on the show tonight.
And you were talking about weather. We actually, yes, we hit the
thirties here. Oh okay, okay, that's pretty cool. That is pretty
cold for Florida. Yeah, I'll give you that for sure. Wow,
okay, So I'll go forward to the warm weather, right, yeah,
I mean it was literally like like this time. Yeah, last Sunday,
it was like fifteen degrees fifteen eighteen degrees in the morning when I woke up,
when the right before the sun came up. And that's unusual for this
area. It gets below freezing about two or three times a year, usually
not till February. So it's a little bit earlier this year than it normally
is. But you know, it'll be like twenty eight, twenty nine,
thirty something like that. But fifteen degrees that was ridiculous. I'm like,
no, thank you, I don't want any part of that. So but
go ahead, Frank, I saw that you kind of let Michael talk first,
So it's all right. Yeah, they're the guests on it here.
I know that I've been telling you that for like two years. I'm just
saying it just finally started to click, you know. I know, man,
I'm doing good. I'm doing good to keep it warm and looking forward
to the warm weather coming up next weekend for our Winter field Day event.
And it's going to be awesome, man. Hopefully yeah, yeah, hopefully
the weather's warm. Yes, a, then we have a week of rest
and then or let no yep. Jim says he was in Orlando yesterday and
it was cold. I'm from Texas also. Okay, so you said us,
what like, what is it right now, Michael? What is it
today? Today? Right now? Is probably about fifty outside? Okay this
morning that was in the mid thirties, so about thirty six this morning?
Oh wow, sheeesh Okay, but we posted to warm up. They're staying
by the end of the week. We supposed to be back in the seventies.
Oh good, okay, Okay, Well, I'm I I can remember
some years past when we got we got to the festival, like first thing
in the morning. I used to ride with two guys that always have tables
inside the flea market area, so they'd get there earlier, like ride at
sun up because they want to go browse on the flea market tables. And
it was it was chili. It wasn't thirties chili, but it was chilly.
I was. I was like, man, I need a light jacket
this morning, so it can get it can get a little bit cool up
there. So all right, man, well, once again, thank you
Michael for joining the show. Ham Kashi is always a fun event. What
what can we look forward to this year? How's it been going. How
do you guys think sales have been going as far as vendor tables, flea
market tables, ticket sales and all that kind of good stuff. So what's
the what's the latest so far? Everything's been good. Cells seem to be
up really good this year. Our main commercial building has sold out. We
have a little bit of space left in our north building. Uh for the
first time ever that I know of. Our swaps, which is our indoor
flea market tailgate area has been sold out for a week and a half now
wow, no tables available in there. So now we've noticed the influence of
people buy inteligate spots since pretty much everything's sold out there, so that's been
coming in lately, and ticket sales are up this year so far for pre
sales. Okay, good, excellent, that's that's great news. Then,
Okay, well, yeah, because I always there's a lot of people who
do tailgate and like swapfest type sales out in like the RV area, And
along that road in the back there that one guy that's always on the corner
of the main road that goes between the commercial tables and he's and the road
that's perpendicular to it, he's right there, and he's always selling used Pelican
cases. I just remember that guy. He's always there. But but the
the building on the far I don't know if that's I don't know if that's
east or west. I don't know the far side over there where the swap
table is. That's usually. Yeah, usually in yours past, there's been
you know, you'll walk up and down the aisles and there's like I don't
know, maybe four or five tables that are just kind of sparsely by themselves
and not filled. So that's great that you've sold all of those for this
year, hopefully everybody shows up for it. Yes, that's that's the part
you're not sure of until the vient. But yeah, yeah, good deal.
Okay, what are we doing any sort of like, uh youth type
robot wars, youth forums or anything like that this year. I do know
there's a couple of youth forms for the actual robot robot stuff that we've done
in the past. It seems to be falling on the same weekend as a
championship for them the last couple of years, so we haven't been able to
get first Robotics in because of that. But for youth forums, I know
the Boy Scouts is actually doing a merit badge for their communications during Hamcasion,
which they've done it for that past three or four years. Uh So,
there'll be about twenty of them walking around. They talk to certain vendors that
actually go over some of the stuff that they have to learn, and then
they go to the Carol Perry has her forum there. She'll be there again.
Uh so yeah, okay, good. Yeah. That's where Word Silver
has a has a that yasmy Foundation whatever he calls it, is over there
in that kind of that same area. I think, yes, Okay,
good good forty five says he needs to win a Hamcasion non merit scholarship.
Yeah, good luck with that, buddy. You can afford yourrone ticket.
Seriously, but so okay, So what I mean other than you know,
just kind of like the obvious, well, let's see what Kenwood's gonna do
that kind of thing. So is there anything new that's happening this year that
that you guys haven't done in the past. For this year? I do
know first time in a long time. Actually, Gordon West will be back
this year. Okay, so he will actually be at the Arl Boost so
people can go see him there. It's been prior to it's probably been about
five six years since he's been there, so I know he's doing a large
for him also for his stuff. We do have a lot of new vendors
this year, reallything. Yeah, we probably have ten plus new vendors.
So you can go to the Hamcasion website look under Vene listen see them.
We have a lot of international vendors this year. We actually have Dark coming
from Germany to set up a booth. We have our GSB coming to set
up a booth this year. We do have a radio retailer AU of Brazil
called Radio House, which is basically like an HROO DX Engineering down there.
They're coming to set up a booth this year. So our international relations is
really working with Peter and Leader overseas visiting these different countries and advertising and hmcasion
for us. Excellent. That's great. Okay, good, it looks like
you've got Yeah, Ledo Radio will be there. Traded a couple of emails
with Jim about a week ago, so I got some new stuff I'm picking
up from him. He's always good to find out to grab some odds and
ends from for Mobile Mounting Solutions seventeen. Looks like the those guys have a
table again. That's good. Oh I was one. Okay, So soul
Tac is going to be there. They were there last year and I bought
one of the flashlights and I love it. I use it all the time.
So I'm probably gonna buy some more flashlights from them this year. Yeah.
I bought one actually from them in Stone Mountain this year and okay,
yeah, it's been really good. Uh, they were there last year.
They're actually in a new location this year in the main East West building,
so go see them. So yeah, good, excellent, good deal.
Well, hey man, that's that's great, that's great. What what what
about forums? What kind of what kind of different forms are we going to
see this year? This year we have lots of forms, lots of new
forms. Also this year we have three form tens setup. And last year
on Saturday, the open space where we actually did forums and the open out
there, that was a real hit. So we're going to set that up
again. So if you go to hamcasion dot com, slash forms, Daft
speakers, everybody, everything's up there. It's all current, it's live.
As we change stuff, we do update it there within twenty four hours,
so I know yesterday we just added a new forum up there. So there's
a lot of good information, a lot of good forms this year. Excellent.
Yeah, this is a I'm looking at it. I'm showing the website
on the livestream right now. This is a very good list of stuff that's
going on. HAMSI repeater book, la Craft flex radio, Yes, wires
X setup options. That's that ought to be fun. Good. Oh and
it looks like there's a all right, so this os pavilion outside? Is
that what that means outside pavilion? Correct? It's actually under the big pavilion
out there where the tents are. It's inside of the tent. We did
it last year where we set up a whole bunch of chairs with a set
of speakers and an actual TV for the monitor, and it was a real
hit last year with the Okay, I remember seeing that as I walked by,
but I did not. I didn't attend any forms last year, but
I didn't remember seeing that, so okay, all right. Good. The
other thing new for this year, we've actually have NWS Melbourne coming over.
They're going to have a booth this year, and also for the first time
ever, they're actually going to do a skyworn class on Sunday. You're in
hanmcasion, you have to go to the form site and actually click on the
link and register for it. Anybody can attend it, even if they're not
out of NWS Melbourne's area. You can still get skyworn certified and by doing
this also, the other big announcement is Sunday is a free day to attend
Hamcasion. There's no you do not have to purchase a ticket on Sunday.
Okay, okay, excellent, good, Thank you for sharing that link.
Frank so okay, good, Yeah, you guys have done that in the
past, though, haven't you with the free Sunday thing. This is our
first time, actually, is it. Okay, Dayton's done it past couple
of years. Maybe that's what I'm thinking about. This is actually our first
time doing it for Sunday. Okay, good, good, that's excellent.
So let's see, I'm trying to remember parking for himcash for those who may
not have attended before. How is that handled? All parking is free,
It is all on site. We have plenty of parking in different areas throughout
all outside the fence line there. We do have security. We actually have
Orlando Police Department that patrols the parking lots. We have parking attendants that actually
help people park. We have a large area for handicapped parking. Of course
it's never not enough, but we do have an area. So make sure
if you want a good parking spot, you get there early, of course,
to get a good parking spot. Good, good, excellent, Okay,
Well that's good. It sounds like it's coming together. Well so do
they. I mean, if if Florida's like Texas, which I think it
is, who knows how many times. The weather's going to change between now
and then. But what are they predicting for for the forecast for that weekend.
I haven't looked yet. It's kind of far out. You're over three
weeks away right now. Yeah, so it's it's right on the edge of
its starting to show like Monday Tuesday, but not actually deering handcasion. Okay,
but like like you said in Florida, it could be raining in the
morning, five minutes later it could be sunshine and then never looked like it
rained. That's right, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yep, good are
you guys? You guys in the chat. If y'all have any questions,
please feel free to speak up. Frank is watching the chat. The other
thing we're doing this year also is Wednesday night we're doing the kit build with
Joe Eisenberg again. Oh right, yeah, okay, So it will be
six pm in the Swaps building. If anybody's coming to it, they will
park actually out in the handicap area for that night, and we'll actually have
golf cars running back and forth to the Swaps building. This year, you're
the kit will be a q RP dummy loads slash watt meter. Okay,
so that we'll be doing, but you do have to register to do it.
Space is limited. We do still have some spaces left. If you
go to ham Cash under affiliated events, you can actually sign up for that
also, okay, affiliated events. There's an oxcom class it looks like,
correct, you have to preregister for that. That was during before hamd cation.
Yeah, yeah, from the six to eighth. Okay, good?
Yeah, good. And then there's a kit building if never and and I've
never been to Joe's one of Joe's kit building classes, but I know for
a fact he does a very good job of it. So if you guys
are interested in kit buildings, then that's definitely something to sign up. And
everything's free. We'll have all the tools, the kits are free. Everything
is actually donated by OARC and ham Case. So nice for and for the
build good okay, excellent, that's a cool thing that you guys do.
Okay, good. Do you have any let me know if you have any
questions. From the chat, Frank, I got mostly people saying they passed
their licenses. I haven't seen a question about ham Fest about itself. Maybe
I just saw one. Is there disabled parking when the event's going on?
Correct? Just like I said. Actually, right outside the East ticket booth
there's a large handicap parking area. We do have scooter rentals available if you
go to the website under attending hamdcas, scroll down a little bit. We
do have a new scooter company this year called Yellow Scooter that will be doing
it. But if you click the link and follow all the directions there,
you can prepay for the scooter all that and have it there for you for
hamdcas. Okay, I got a question, go ahead, can I get
a scooter? Frank, you will do uh, you will do mean things
to that scooter. I don't think i'd give. I don't think i'd let
let you'd rint a scooter if if it was up to me. But I
don't know. Let's see somebody said, uh, Dakota Okay, so Dakota
Lithium is attending. That's another new company. I think. Actually John's in
there posting some of our new I saw that, Yeah, I saw John
John posted. Uh, let's see four or five laser works. I thought
they had been there before, but I might be thinking. I know they
go to him mentioned, but they thought they have been there, but they
skipped a couple of years, so they're actually coming back this year. Ok
okay, okay, that's fair. Number six is there on site testing this
year? There is. We do testing on Friday and Saturday. All the
information is on the website under event info under testing. You do have to
preregister for that one. And also it's all electronic. We do not use
paper. Everything's done on tablets. Once you preregister, you'll get a four
digit code. You'll go in, you'll show them your license, somebody will
sit you down at the tablet. You'll punch in the four digit code.
Ever, what you pre registered for that test will pop up once you're done.
You will find out instantly right then if you passed or failed really instantly,
Okay, instantly and test results. Yep, that's great. I got
a good one. TICCAD text says can we bring our own scooters? You
can't. Scooters are allowed on property. You're allowed to have segways and stuff
like that. Those are not allowed in the buildings though. Only mobility type
of scooters are allowed in the buildings. Okay, okay. How to register
for OXCMG GREG If you go to the website, let me pull that back
up again right here and click on event info at the top and then click
on affiliated events. It brings up this page and there's a PDF that you
can download that gives you more information about the oxcom thing. That's right there.
Can you briefly explain what is ox con to us? He just gets
see the smiles. I mean I can, Yeah, I can give you
my version of it, but go ahead, Michael. Oxcom is actually a
DHS auxiliary communications course. It falls in line just not amateur radio, but
communications of any sort, commercial, amateur, CB, gmrs, pretty much
any type of communication. And basically it's a course that teaches you about all
this stuff, how to use it and disasters, how to use it with
emergency management and public safety. I'd like the course because it's always during amcation.
Uh, but uh, I do want to take it out here.
It's a very good course and you learn a lot of information in it.
I actually taken the Texas version or the the class here in Texas. It's
a good course. It's it's not meant for everybody. If you're interested in
musicy emergency communications and helping out with the city, it's also helps that you're
already involved with the city or another group that is working with the city for
that stuff, and this will be a good course, but it's not really
a good course for the everyday man to go and take it and and and
try to put those things to practice because it really focuses on some filling out
the government forms and what those forms are and everything. Yeah, I've I've
taken a couple of those courses. There's there's some of those that are required
for like racs and skyworn depending on what your race organizations does. Those are
THEMA courses, not the ox COM ones. Well, but they're I mean,
but they're all kind of similar, like they all kind of tie into
one another, I think because I took a couple of they weren't OXCOM courses,
but they were coming a couple of those other FEMA courses for red Cross
when I registered for Red Cross years ago, and I had to take a
couple of those. But ox COM, the actual OXCOM, I have not
done. But it kind of all ties in together with the right because actually
there is some prerequisitition you have to do before you take OXCOM, which is
actually some of those ICs courses you have to do. Those ICs courses help
you integrate to a integrated command center situation, and OXCOMB helps to support that
by doing the communications part. Yeah, and it will actually be a form
deuring hamcs about Oxcomb and what OXCOMB is. So if anybody is wondering,
you can't attend that form Deeringham CASS and they're explained everything about it. There
you go, don I SS one, two hundred, three hundred and four
hundred. I know those numbers. Well, yeah, I've taken I know
I've taken two or three of those. I don't think i've taken four hundred.
But anyway, but I was looking at OXCOM a few years back,
and I know, yeah that, like you said, Michael, there were
prerequisites for for that, or at least the whatever course I was looking at
at the time said they were so but good, Okay, well that's something.
It's definitely emergency community auxiliary communications is OXCOM is abbreviation, so it's some
sort of auxiliary communications for disasters and whatnot. So it's probably interesting. It
always sounded like it'd be interesting to me. So okay, there's Bill in
the chat. What's up Bill between in flight and Chicago. Got to get
my radio fixed. Bill wants to come down to winter Field Day with us.
He texted me earlier today, so we must see him next weekend.
Which bill uh bill Ham radio tectonics Bill oh zero k zero wh WHW?
So I still call my bed? Are we still open for more questions?
Or yeah? Okay, yeah ten tick can tech. That's a tongue twister.
Our generators and fire pits allowed or like solo stoves allowed in the RV
area. For the RV area, generators can be ran during the day,
but there is power hook up there for all the r vs. There's one
ten all the way up to fifty up on all the poles, so really
you shot near the generator. Also fire pits as long as that's a true
fire pit. Yes, you are not allowed to have an open fire as
of build a fire on the ground of course, but yeah, and then
grills and stuff like that are allowed to be used. Yes, they used
it. We growed some stuff last year. We didn't, but Matt did,
so somebody did. I did that, brought it, I grilled it.
Oh well. We do have a lot of RV spaces also, so
you can actually bring your RV stay on property and walk one hundred feet to
the front door handcasion and that's not filled up yet. It is not We
are getting up there in numbers. We are looking for maybe a record year
for r v's this year. During our national convention back in twenty sixteen,
we did have around two hundred and thirty RVs on property. We're probably about
two fifteen as of right now. Oh wow, so it's gonna be a
lot more than the last few years. He was going to see a lot
of RV's this year and do all. There's there's some like boon docking for
RVs in the back. If I'm not mistaken, how many hookup spots are
there. There's enough hookups for everybody. They've actually added a lot of new
hookups out there this year. If anybody remembers where the old pavilion was that
they tore down several years ago and built the new one that the forms are
in now that area by the lake, they actually just put all kind of
fifty hookups out there also, so we can host even more RVs out there
now. Good, Okay, that's excellent, Okay, Okay, So Frank,
yeah, Frank is posting the RV information in the chat right now.
Gray Man Potas says, did you not tell Frank that he's going to be
sleeping in the laundering room for winterfield days since he skipped a Friday stream.
Actually, I did tell him that. He just keeps saying he keeps ignoring
me when I'm saying that because that room's mine, I only will give it
up to couples. I don't know. I know, we'll see. Tents
are allowed in the RV area. No, Unfortunately, the City of Orlando
ordinances you're not allowed to have tents in the city of Orlando. Now,
there's ways around it. If you have a tent in the back of a
vehicle. There's a lot of people that bring pick up trucks that have the
tit built onto it. That's perfectly legal. The tit just cannot touch the
ground. There's a gentleman that actually brings a motorcycle that has a tit hook
up that goes on the side of the motorcycle somehow and it sleeps in it.
It has like a little fold out almost like a sidecar type of thing
that like has legs that fold out. It's pretty neat. That sounds fun.
Okay, that sounds fun. I haven't seen that before. I may
have to go take some pictures of that. Guy is there this year?
Good? Okay? Uh okay, So Brian, if someone can't make it
physically, does anyone stream live from there? I plan to do live streams.
I did live streams last year. Josh did some. I think I
think almost a lot of y'all guys did live streams at some point. Yeah,
there's no live stream of the whole event, like somebody walking around the
whole time live streaming, but I would probably say follow a lot of the
YouTubers and you will see different stuff bout Hamdcation. I will definitely be doing
some live streams, both inside and outside. So so, yeah, that
worked out well last year. Those are usually pretty well received. And having
kind of being able to go through and like let people at home think almost
be like they're there, so let them kind of watch it from that viewpoint
is kind of fun. Good okay. Anything else. The other thing that
we are bringing back this year, we had it several years ago before COVID,
but this year we'll actually bringing back the ham Cation Information Station, which
will be six' ten am radio, So if you actually tune your dial
to six ten am on your AMFM radio, we will be broadcast in pre
recorded messages about handcation, about parking, anything that comes up, and let's
say, if a parking lot is full or something, we can announce it
on there. Any traffic issues in the area we can put out on there.
So that's one thing we will have back this year. Nice okay,
okay, good y'all doing Also a talk around our talk in busy correct Our
talking is one uh the pl one O three dot five. The info is
on hammcasion under attending Hamcasion right at the top of it. It says all
the talking information. We do have a d star repeater that's going to be
more of a backup, but they will be modern can answer questions on it
also. So but yeah, we will have talking. And then this year
also we will have a special event station sponsored by Icon again. Uh they
will have a seventy six to ten in there in a ninety seven hundred for
people to go and use and play with. And uh we will be using
W one aw strike four this year for the talkit or for the special event
station. Oh good, okay, So whiskey won out for whiskey is going
to be yep, okay, good okay. Yeah, here's the talk in
right here mcasion dot com. Forward slash attending him cash. Yeah, you
got it, Frank, and then the talking's right there, so you guys
can write down with that'll be for the for the repeaters, D Star and
analogue. See that's how I earned that room. I got. Jim here
says, do you need to bring cast a person's a ticket at the entrance?
Uh no, We take all major credit cards at the entrances, both
ticket boosts on the South Gate and the Eastgate, so you do not need
cash. We can do Apple pay, Google Pay, credit cards, everything
everything. Huh good, yep, okay, okay, all right, good.
Well, hey, it's it sounds like you guys are really you've got
everything kind of already organized and put together and you're kind of ready to go.
So that's that's good. I'm glad to see it coming together. So
I'm sure it was a lot of work on the back end, but it
looks like everything's been successful so far. Are so hopefully the everything weather wise
and travel wise for people can uh you know what am I trying to say?
Uh works with us, doesn't doesn't try to stop us from getting out
there and whatnot. So hopefully there's no ice on the runway in Texas that
keeps our plane from getting their on time. But that kind of thing.
You gotta worry about that stuff sometimes. Yeah, I mean it can be
beautiful down here, and that happened several years ago where we had like several
vendors not be able to make it. People's product didn't make it because it
was stuck somewhere and snowstorms. So it happens. Just because it's so nice
here, it doesn't mean it's nice all over the country. Right, was
Orlando the the ham cation that the aa r L lost all their bags for.
Yes, that's that's what I talked about, where they had a snowstorm
and none of their product. Oh man, right, yeah, because they
were coming from Connecticut. Yeah, and it was really bad weather up there.
That's right. They got everything got storm when they all post a ship
and it was all delayed by days. So it actually showed up after a
handcasion was over with. Wow, hopefully were hopefully there was someone there to
claim it and say return to Cinder on it. There was, It was
already pre scheduled for that person. They knew they weren't going to make it.
But yeah, yeah, wow crazy. Yeah, somebody asked about the
the AM radio station. It is six' ten am. And then let's
see what else. Ticket booths open at eight am the day of the shows.
Now, what time does the show open to everybody? Nine am?
So the ticket booths will be open an hour before the show opens. So
nine am, will I'll be lined up? Yeah to stay awake. Yeah
yeah, yeah, first time though, go ahead. The other thing I
forgot to mention, we do have several sponsors again this year. Gigaparts is
a platinum sponsor. Uh. They've donated a lot of prizes. All the
prize information will be going up on the website this week. Uh. The
other one was DX Engineering is a bronze sponsor, and a company called prep
coom uh is actually a bronz sponsor also this year. Okay, prep com
Does they sponsored or they have? The last two or three years they sponsored
the the virtual q SO party that's that's done by qs SO today. So
they've been been a sponsor over there before. So good, good, good.
I got a good question here from John Knox. Are pets allowed on
on the grounds? Uh? Pets are allowed on the grounds uh anywhere outside
Uh for inside the building only service animals are allowed but outside in the r
VS, the r V area, any pets are allowed. Nice, Maybe
not any pets, but the reason. Yeah. Yeah, I like this
question by Bob here. This is a they must know topic. What type
of food vendors are you gonna have this year? Yeah, we'll have I
do know every year it kind of changes. I do know. They're working
on pizza vendor coming back. There'll be a barbecue vendor, a lot of
the same fair food that you see everywhere. So there is some rumors of
some port Chops maybe coming for one vendor. I do know. They're working
on last year a hit there. Apparently they did very well. They had
ice cream ice cream truck there or ice cream vendor. It did add very
well to the point that they were selling out. So they're looking at maybe
having two of those this year. Uh there, So we'll have lots of
food for everybody. Good. I love it. I love it. Yeah,
I bought ice cream. I think about every day out there. H
Stashed Pitt says, can I get a photo with the tank? Dude?
Yes, you can get a photo with any all of us. Yeah,
find it. Ask we would love to do it. Mark is asking,
am I driving or flying? Frank and I are flying in somebody else at
Grayman put it asked, what time will we get in there? Frank and
I are flying out Wednesday? And what time do we land? Do you
remember? It's like three four five in the afternoon something like that, something
like that. Yeah, yeah, it'll be no, I mean Wednesday.
Well wait, wait, the time change is the wrong way, so yes,
we're gonna lose an hour. So it's Friday that afternoon. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, we yeah, we lose an hour in the air going
from Central time zone to Eastern time zone. But uh yeah, so we're
flying out Wednesday and flying home Sunday evening, and uh so we'll be there
all day on Thursday, and of course the three the three days of the
show, and watch all of our Twitter. So when we go out and
do something publicly, I know they'll probably a public dinner somewhere or something like
that. We will announce it on Twitter and throw it out on our discords.
Well, in fact that now that you say that, it's a good
point, Frank, two weeks from tonight, I will have all of the
YouTubers on this live stream and we'll be talking about what our plans are for
I know that too has a they're doing a meat the Toads meet up.
I think it's at a park. I think they did it at a Potas
spot last year, and so they're doing that again this year. They're calling
it the second annual, which means they've done it once before. So so
uh yeah, we don't really have any dead set plans yet for dinner or
or bars at one of the nights, but I'll we'll probably do something.
Just keep an eye on Twitter, watch the live stream when when plans are
available, we will shout it out to the world. Totally. Absolutely,
Yeah, we'll talk about that again two weeks from tonight on this live stream,
we'll be talking about all of that stuff, So definitely stay tuned for
that. Good Okay, what else? What else, Frank? Do you
have anything else? Not? Right now? Let me go through the two
gentlemen that say they passed their test. We got Jim kJ five cts,
says he passes general last Saturday. Congratulations. Then we have Tim his call
signs k N for U U s K and for U U s uh he
says uh first time attending him. Kase, I'm looking forward to it and
rock on. Good excellent. That is uh, that's that's good. Well,
congrats on all the licenses and we always like to hear that on the
show for sure, So you guys keep sending those that information our way.
That's great. Also, is the uh the clubhouse pushing upgrade a to April?
Yeah, extra by April. Upgrade but yeah, upgrade but extra yeah
yeah good good good, Okay, Well cool, Michael. I like I
said at the beginning that this is this is always a fun show. I
attend. I enjoy attending myself, and I know that I think our usual
cast of characters on on the YouTube's is going to be attending this year,
and maybe a couple of new people who haven't been there yet I've been there
before might be joining them. I seen some new uh vendor or media badge
requests come in from a couple of YouTubers I've never seen before, Kay or
hasn't been the hamp casion anyway, I've seen that. Yeah, YouTube channels,
but I haven't seen them my handcasion, so uh, I do know
there's a lot of them, and there's there's actually every year it seems more
and more YouTubers or actually requested media badges which is good. So it keeps
the amateur radio out there in the world. Yeah, true, that that
that made me fake. Earlier when you were talking that people were talking about
tickets, I'm like, I can't remember if I ever requested that. I
don't know. Can you tell me if I'm on your list or not.
I'd like to be on the list. If I'm not, I'm not one
hundred percent sure. I get a copy of it, but I don't keep
a track of it. Actually, my media guy does it, the ones
that makes the badges. Okay, so uh, just if you haven't,
just go on the website request one. If it's a dupe, it's fine,
you know you have it, Okay. Yeah, I was looking.
I mean a lot that's not under tickets that I see, so I didn't
know where where that was. It's actually under actually I think it is under
tickets. Is it ticket ticket? Ticket purchased by male purchase online? I'm
not seeing it, that's yeah. That's one reason that I was like,
well, I can't remember. Some of you guys do it differently than others.
I think on him casion, it's on I'm on him mentioned it's on
the website, but for Okay. Actually I think it might be under contact
us. Yeah, it's under the contact us page. Yeah, I found
it. I was going to send it to you, but there it is.
Okay, there it is. Yeah, media Okay, I'll send it
in because I don't remember if I did or not, honestly, so I'll
send in a media pass. Yeah, I see it, thanks, Frank.
Good. Yeah, I definitely want to get that rolling, so because
I know that on Huntsville, we usually just email Mark and he puts us
on a list. So, but that's a thing, all right, So
you guys do not go out to ham Kashan and request a media pass if
you don't have an actual media account, because we do. Actually, we
do actually check YouTube channels make sure they are legit. Yeah, so we
request When you do it, it goes to a form that requests your channel
name, your link to it, all that. So we we do,
uh, we do check on things before we just issue them. That's good.
So last year, I think it was Hamvention last year, Carlos was
on the stream and asking, oh, where do I get a media pass?
We started talking about it in a live stream, and then when I
got to him vention, a couple weeks later, somebody came or we went
to get our passes, and they asked me at the media booth the like,
did you tell everyone in your livestream to go get a media Yeah?
So I'm like, no, I told Carlos, but we had three hundred
people listening to us, so I can't help what other people do, like,
don't go, don't go request a media pass if unless you have a
legit channel. So yeah, Mike's got one. So yeah, if Mike
can get one, pretty much anybody else can. So yeah, well they
probably looked at his current YouTube name ham Radio two radio. They didn't look
at k radio stuff. Yeah yeah, yeah, no kidding. So okay,
I'm going to search and see if I have that or not media pass
for Ham Kashon twenty twenty three, twenty twenty two. Apparently I haven't done
it yet. I'll go to good do that tonight. I forget, man.
I went to a small local ham fest here yesterday and I went in
in there and I bought a ticket, and I'm like, you know what,
I think, I'm just gonna buy a ticket. It's been so long
since I bought a ticket to a hamfest. But but that's okay. I'm
happy to support the Hamfest. So that's that's the thing. I just walked
in there. I was like, give me a ticket, and the guy's
like really, He's like, I know who you are. I'm like,
yeah, here, here's ten dollars. I didn't even ask. I just
I just paid for it and win. Oh they recognized me. You know,
Tank Radios known hey there. Yeah, the h r O guys know
you as my assistant, so you're definitely no, that's so true. The
first time, one of the first time, Hey, Frank walked into the
h ro O out here in Texas and said, are you Jason's assistant?
I have to tease him about that all the time. I guess right,
Oh good, okay, but yeah, okay, just looking at the chat
here, guys, h is it true that if Antenna's purchased at ham KSh
give you an extra five dB? Sure? Yeah, yeah, that's the
thing. Antenna's person at ham KSh give you an extra five dB, and
and any of my merch gives you another three d D sure, that's yeah.
And the beards helped you. That's right, okay, all right,
well anything else, uh, Michael, I think that is it? Okay,
okay, good, Well, I appreciate your time tonight, man.
Like I said, always a fun show. Really looking forward to it again
this year. And I'm sure that the weather's generally not an issue for for
Florida, you know, I mean, it might rain, but it's not
You're not gonna get blue. I mean, unless it's hurricane season. I
guess hurricane season doesn't start till like June. I think, right, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't have to worry about that too
much. So but yeah, but we are. We are looking forward to
it, Frank, like I said, Frank, and I will be there
for sure. I know Mike's going. I'm pretty sure Josh is going.
Let's see who else. A lot of you probably know. Carlos I think
said he's going. Carlos going, I believe so. And I know we
got Bill coming out. I wonder if Matt's gonna be showing up with his
trailer. I need to reach out to him. I don't know. We
were uh yeah, we were told the Why Car Why Cars guys are not
going to be in the r VSPA. They're gonna be there, but they're
not bringing up revis this year. So we don't have a place to hang
out, so so we'll see what happens with that. I wonder Jess and
Ken will be there also, I don't know. I don't know. We'll
have to check with them and see as well. So well, Michael,
thank you for your time tonight, buddy. We're looking forward to it.
I'll give you twenty minutes back fifteen minutes anyway, and uh uh, looking
forward to it. It's gonna be a fun show, I know. So
I will see you when we get there. All right, sounds good?
All right, man on the show, and uh see you in about two
and a half weeks. Yeah, sounds good, man, all right,
seventy three man, all right, thanks, but bye, all right,
Frank, what do you think? Man? I can't wait. It's gonna
be fun. I'm finishing up my email right now. Spell check no,
underline red and done. Mm hmm. Yeah, there we go. Yeah.
I'm saddened that the those guys are not going to be out there in
the r V park Man. They they are a riot, and they adopted
us as honorary members and allowed us to crash so many years, two or
three years now, Jess and Ken, I believe I don't know if they're
going to be out there there there fen friends too, so we might have
to find a new I hope they're they're going to be out there because I
always enjoy put my feet up out there in the r V park. Well,
I mean, if Matt's there, then we can hang with him because
he usually parks rights next to them. And then and then Ken and Jess
did last year as well. Carlos other Carlos was there. He was there
parked nearest last year. Haven't talke to him in a couple of months.
I'm not sure if he's coming or not. But AFL says Ken just should
be there, but we'll have to Well, we'll find we'll find somewhere.
Drive it out. Yeah, Yeah, that's a long drive with an RV
from Texas. Dude, I want to do that one of these years.
I want to hook up the trailer and just hit the road on like Sunday
night. Well, in fact, we might live stream then hit the road
and drive for just three or four hours, get the heck out of North
Texas, and then spend Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning driving the rest of
the way to Orlando. Take our time to get there not be in a
rush. Give me would two more weeks of uh paid time off, then
I will definitely be there. I can't. I can't control that for you.
Sorry. I could join you for all all these driving trips, man,
especially just going and hanging out and then uh your trip that you did
and come and find me with the APR speaking. Yeah, yes, yeah,
that was good. That was good, Mike. Was fun running after
you with a running man. Yeah. We were just talking about that the
other day. What were we talking about? We're gonna uh oh when we
uh if we go out to whenever the grand opening for the new Giga Parts
store is. He wants to ride with me because he said, yeah,
we got to do that whole aph s man running behind the truck. I'm
like, yeah, we got to do that. That's totally cool. So
oh boy man, So I can't wait till this come of weekend. Can
we talk about that or are we still gonna be on the Orlando No,
we could talk. We could talk. Uh we got like ten or fifteen
minutes. Well, we'll shut it down at the top of the hour.
I don't want to go too long tonight, but yes, uh yeah.
So Winter Field Day next weekend. I am leaving here on Thursday morning,
and I know that uh In a Yo is flying in to meet us,
and he's gonna get there sometime late throughesday morning, and I think Kaya de
Murdi is picking up in eight Yo. I'm gonna be careful saying Mikey too
many mics, so I think they're riding in together. And then Frank,
you're coming down on Thursday, aren't you? Yes, I'm coming down Thursday.
I'm gonna be leaving the DFW area around three. I'm hoping to get
out of the Dallas area before that traffic gets too too bad, and I'm
predicting to be there around eight to nine in the evening. So I'm ready
to go on Saturday. Good good? Then uh okay, then yeah,
I'll be going down. I probably I'll probably just get up. I'm gonna
pack the truck on Wednesday. Probably just get up and hit get in the
truck and go. And so I'll probably be there around noon or one something
like that on on Thursday. And then I think Knowle's coming down on Thursday,
if I'm not mistaken. And then I don't know about Shane or Bill
or Rob. Rob just says he's leaving around noon. I assume he means
Thursday because we're talking about Thursday. So yeah, but yeah, So I
think most of us will be there on Thursday and then staying through the weekend.
So Winterfield Day at Galveston Island State Park. If people want to come
down and join us, you guys are welcome to. We're gonna be hanging
out, we're gonna do some poda. I think we're gonna do the NASA
tour on Friday. I haven't, but you guys are confusing me with all
the tickets to this and tickets to that, and purchased this ticket here and
there for all the different things, and I'm like, I don't know what
I need to buy. So I may or may not buy a ticket just
when we get there or something. I don't know, but but I'm not
And that that one that was like two hundred dollars, I don't know if
I'm interested in them, and that one or I would like to do the
two hundred private tour. Yeah, but no, No, the one,
the one that we're eventually looking at is I think only forty dollars. That
includes general mission and the tour, so you don't need to buy both.
And they make it known this this ticket does include general mission. Also,
we're just trying to get the right time, just to give us time to
do things. But then, like like you said, man, uh,
starting with our field day Saturday, we'll be at the park and we're gonna
have a whole pavilion to ourselves. You got the pavilion. I'm shaking my
head. Yes, you called about the pavilion already. M hm, yes,
sweet, we got that in the works. Then, uh, setting
up the radios we had, We're gonna planning on four ISH radios, so
we'll be a four station, uh, running majority side band because digital is
no FT eight digital. Mike said he might try some just j S E
call that that is allowed? It is, Yes, that's correct, it
is allowed. M m hmm. What what is ship Shipley? So that's
just the regular ship donuts. I love shipping the donuts. Yeah, I'm
a donut fiend. Uh huh we have Shipley Donuts and oh okay, yeah,
no Bob, what's going on with Bob? Is he going to be
in Orlando? Oh, I'm sure he'll be in Orlando. I haven't talked
to Bob. I mean I talked to him two or three four times a
week, but usually just about shipping our Finder stuff. I haven't spoke to
him about field Day or about Orlando. I'm sure he'll be in Orlando.
I'm sure. Yeah, Yeah, I got a text from Chris at Buddy
Pol yesterday. He'll be in Orlando. Of course he always, he always
makes Orlando. So yeah, but yeah, I'm sure Bob will be in
in Orlando. All right, So if you're in Orlando and you want to
meet Bob, just go and camp out at any waffle House and you're guaranteed
to see him once. That's true, you will. He will hit waffle
house once a day. We did, did we not do? We went
to do a PODA in Orlando last year. Wo want Wo fifteen seventeen says
I may try to poda on the way down to Orlando, didn't we?
I know we went to the park. I can't remember if I sat down
and activated or not, but I think I did. I don't remember that
land. We never doing that in Dayton. We did it in Dayton,
but we did it in Orlando. Also, we rode out there with uh
guy. I can't remember that guy's name now Ken, Ken, remember his
name right now? But uh yeah, we rode out there with him.
He had a rental car and it was you and me and t O and
that guy. Again, I don't think I've seen him since Orlando last year,
so I can't remember his name. But we rode out there to a
park and there were several guys out there activating, and I'm pretty sure I
sat down and activated that park, but I can't remember for sure. I
may or may not have. We'll see. But while if you want to
see Bob go off an arrow rant, just remind him waffle House sells Paddy
Melts, not burgers. That's true, and he will go on so right
saying, you know, waffle House has the best burger in the nation.
Yeah, Bob's a strange duck. He's from New York. So we try
to cut him some slack when we when we when we have to. But
yeah, so you guys, mark down, your mark down your calendars.
For two weeks from tonight, I'm gonna have the YouTubers on uh this channel
for the live stream. We're gonna talk about plans for himcash and and we're
gonna probably just kind of go from there and uh yeah, Joey YouTubers meet
up. We haven't really planned anything official yet, but we'll probably talk about
it between now and then and just kind of announce it that night on this
live stream two weeks from now, so we'll probably I'm thinking we'll probably do
Friday night. But but yeah, we'll see. I don't know. We
don't have anything. We don't have anything set up yet, but we probably
will. Oh so, yeah, there's no back talking yet on it,
but I know there it will happen, right, Yeah, yeah, yep,
good, Okay. Rob says he bought a box of Liga Pravada anniversarios.
Will where will you be? He's coming, He's there for winterfield Day.
He's oh that Rob digital Rancher sweet Liga Liga Privadi. I should know.
I feel like I should know what that cigar is, but I don't.
I probably would. I probably look at that. Excuse me, I
don't think I had that one. It's gonna be awesome, man, I'm
gonna smoke cigars. It's gonna be amazing. Oh yeah, we'll smoke a
bunch of cigars that weekend. All right, guys, do you have anything
else? Yeah? Go ahead, I got something from my channel, can
I? James and I have done a collaboration together and we are came up
with oh wait, is that the I did copy the link? There's a
character missing. We came up with the next version of the all you gotta
have mousepad slash potapad. This is the we're calling it the tank pad,
and it's the size of a mouse pad and it has all the us BAND
plans on it and it is awesome. I dropped the link in the chat
and I forgot to copy it, and we're gonna do it one more time.
It's pretty cool, man, It's awesome. It has all the us
BAND plans, all the information you need to know, and it's the perfect
size to slide into your laptop sleeve and bring around with you on the activation.
I really like those desk pads that Mike has and he shows off all
the time, but he got to rolled up and it kind of awkward.
Sometimes it stuff that in your pot to pack. So this is a great
mouse pad to use your mouse on and get all your information. Yes,
yeah, so I have. I have James's quirky QRP, his original one,
and that's what I use. It's in my Poto pac my Explorer backpack.
That's what I put underneath my uh my radio when I'm out there.
But I think he's gonna do the clipboard for me. So I think he's
gonna do a clipboard for me. So I saw that mouse pad of yours
and I'm like, hey, that's a good idea because I was I was
thinking about a pad of my own. Actually I talk I think I talked
to Gigabarts about that. So I asked James. I was like, what
do you got that's not a pad because it's you know, everybody's doing pads.
And he's like, how about a clipboard. I'm like, oh,
that's cool, and he says the clipboards have made the USA. He goes,
so you'll like that, and I'm like, that is true. I
will like that. So yeah, more to come on that. But but
yeah, quirky QRP. Check out his Etsy store. That's where Frank just
listed there. He's got a lot of other stuff besides just oh yeah he
got great. He has a clock that has all the old radio information on
it. Yeah. Then all his mouse pads. He has a light up
mouse had I got one. I haven't plugged in yet and it gives you
the cool U ambiance on the desk or if I does that thing produced though,
great question to find out. Yeah, yeah. One way to find
out the the the book. UH. He made a cover book that has
both the band pens on it and also the UH, the q cos,
the Morse code keys and everything I have. That he sent me one because
I'd mentioned it on the stream one time because I got his email about it.
I was like, oh, I should order that, and I never
did order it, but he just sent me one. It's inside or I'd
show it to you right now, but it's pretty cool too. So all
right, awesome guys, thank you for joining tonight. Looking forward to UH,
ham Kash, looking forward to winter field Day next weekend and UH and
then the live stream about ham cashon the following weekend and then ham Cash the
following weekend. Lots happening in the next three weeks. Be sure to subscribe
and follow, follow us on Twitter and whatnot, like Frank said, and
winterfield Day, and we'll keep you posted on all the stuff we're doing.
So seventy three to all everyone, Stay warm out there. Bye bye,