Okay, we're going to transition and good evening everyone, Sunday, seven pm
in Texas. It's new UTC day zero zero UTC all over the world,
just depending on where you're where you're at. So halfy Field Day. Hope
everyone had a good time this weekend. And we're gonna bring on a couple
of people who, um, we worked field Day this weekend. Some of
them were with me and some of them were elsewhere. So if you didn't
get the discord invite and you're in the discord, you know the one I'm
talking about, then you're welcome to join us. So somebody go wake up
TiO because he paying me about an hour ago, says I want to join,
but I'm falling asleep. I'm like, you're an amateur. There's no
sun in Wisconsin. I don't know why he's falling asleep after we baked in
the sun for four days in freaking Texas. But that's what is. So
one quick announcement, real quick, UM, if I can get over over
there. Okay, So a lot of you know that I did a technician
live stream with the Hirst Amateur Radio Club in twenty twenty because they used to
do a live and I think they're doing it again now. But after everything
shut down in twenty twenty four COVID, we decided to do a live stream
and that's one of the most popular videos on my channel. The question Pool
change about this time last year for technicians and Dan KB six in you Dan
Romanchet came on and did a one day tech class forced last November. That
livestream still in my channel, but that's just like a very here's what you
need to pass the test and go the Hearst Club. And I are going
to do a brand new live stream for the new technician class Pool Deep Dive
on July twenty twentieth, twenty first and twenty second, which is a Thursday,
Friday Saturday, and you everybody will be invited. It'll be a live
stream and Chris kat five Hiy, who taught the last class, is going
to come on with us and he will be teaching the new class with the
new question Pool. So that's gonna be really fun. I get a lot
of I still got a lot of really good feedback about that. We don't
have the exact times yet. It would be Thursday, Friday evening and then
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Hopefully you've got some field Day contexts this weekend, so let's let's bring on
the crew and make sure I've got my window transitioned here. So un mute.
Hey, hey guys, what's going on. Good evening, everybody.
Hey there it is hey field Day crew. So uh yeah, so field
Day counts in Canada. So we let Molson into the stream tonight. In
fact, if back Nor was working twenty meters last night making a button,
he made like a Saskatchewan and m uh mb month, I forget what that
stadnoa Manitoba, that's it. And then we we we both found one that
was golf Hotel and I'm like, where the heck is golf Hotel? We
didn't know where that was a Greater Toronto area and they changed. Okay,
I get greater Toronta. I didn't get that. Yeah, that's that's that's
pretty wild. So I did want to. I don't know if n A
Yo is in the chat or not, but I am drinking his pastry town
he gave me at dayton Um. This is damn it. I can't even
say. We were talking about how bad my ice I was getting. Rocky
Road, Rocky Road Imperial Stout aged fifteen to twenty months in bourbon barrels with
chocolate ice cream, marshamallows in walnuts. That sounds amazing. It it is
amazing. It is. I'm glad you asked it is, na Yo,
I expect you to bring some of those to Huntsville. It was. It's
it's pretty tasty talking abo. Something happened field Day that hasn't happened in any
of the other field days or you other things I go to with both Jason
and Mike. What's that? I came back with some whiskey. I've the
bottle at a little left. Yeah, that's a thing. I mean,
that's that's a thing that doesn't doesn't happen very often, so it never happens,
never happens I'm gonna give the floor to Josh and Adam for a minute
because they're in the super super secret, special awesome sauce location. Apparently they're
gonna be there till tomorrow. So what's going on, guys? How are
you all? He can you hear? It's okay, there's some wind in
there, but I can hear you. Yeah, we're gonna go inside in
a second, but we kind of wanted to show you our background. So
we are on San Clemente Island still, and we're staying in the cottages here,
and we've got this great scenior read to us when we walk outside the
place we're staying Friday, and we fly home tomorrow morning to make it back
in. So thank you everybody who you chased us and gotten at a super
rare grint square of d M zero to our eggs. So very cool.
That's awesome, very cool. Yeah you. I texted with Josh last night.
He said they were on fifteen meter f to eight, and I couldn't
I couldn't hear you, guys. At the time, fifteen meters was pretty
hot until Tannerton thirty kind of started to dwindle down then. But I worked
a lot of fifteen meter f to eight this weekend. But I didn't see
you guys, but fifteen most of the time on the buddy hecks and we
were having a fantastic time on the buddy heck. But side now because it's
it's getting windy, and the rest of the cruise in there too, so
we'll cool. Yeah we go, but awesome, it's amazing. Total it
is. It is. It looks a lot like well, not the not
the water, but when they wo walk inside to their cottage, it looks
a little bit like the place we stay in Costa Rica, although our place
is much smaller than that. So um, but yeah, kind of a
neat cup. See that's kind of cool, right there. Let's put that,
yeah, Russell, we'll pin that back up. There's it done.
So oh hey man, it's a beach house. It's supposed to be ruscued.
That's right, that's right. There's Austin, Hello, the man who
made all this happen. Board games. Let's play some board games I called
battleship all all all beach houses at board games. It's a rule. It
is a rule. It is a rule. So cool. Okay, Well,
yeah, we're we're gonna hang with Josh for a little bit. So,
uh, Mike, who I guess it is not? I guess Mike's
probably sleep. Mike and Frank and Shane and I plus a couple of the
guys tell him to join the livestream. He doesn't check, He hadn't checked.
He probably has no idea. He didn't check. Discord, did you
have to text him? Right? Well, no I didn't. I didn't
this time. But that's that's not really looks it looks like moon sun tea
Okay, yeah, let it sun tea leaden Son out. Okay, So
I want to hear about so I know about all about our field day,
and I'll let Shane and Frank talk here in a minute. But let's hear
about Moulson. How did it tell us what you said? Um? Well,
did you say that after? I don't remember now did you say that
before after livestream about new people joining your field day? Well, oh,
it was just fantastic. We had some some hands that were more kind of
the technician class. So here in canada's basic so they get the same frequency
privileges as technician and then we're really on the fire. They Actually I would
have to say, it's been two years since I've been reregistered. I just
reregistered with the club locally, and they really lit the fire underneath the club.
They're passionate to get out there and so it was awesome. We had
a lot of Almer's older gentleman who just just felt like they needed to take
them under their wing, and so it really just kind of put life into
the club and it was fantastic and it was really cool. Listen, they
drove all the rest of us to to go, you know, you know
when they're up till three o'clock in the morning, just because they're they're excited,
you know. Like, so it was a great experience. There's there's
so much that happened, but uh, the new people can really bring fire
to to you know, the multi generations in the hobby. So agreed.
Yeah, Now, what what was your section? Molson? We were Oscar
November Echo, Ontario East, and we were we were two Alpha with a
go to station. So nice, okay, all right, right, all
right, yeah, I joined a TiO stream on I guess it was last
night. Was that last night Friday? N Friday night? Okay, Yeah,
And I was like, hey, if you have a go to stap
ape Ape should go fund to go to station. He can actually get on
Nay, yeah, um rs on the air. That's what go to means.
What does go to means for everyone else the air? Get on the
air, get on the air, and then what what is that supposed to
be? What? How are you supposed to use that station? It is?
I mean somebody else can answer if they want. It is a station
run by a licensed HAM, usually not with the club call sign that anyone
can walk up to, sit down and make an HF contact if they're if
they're a technician, if they have no license at all, they can sit
down at the radio and make a contact just to get on the air with
third party traffic, to get their feet wack and get them interested in HAM
radio. Basically, that's a cool concept. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
fun. But the way it's described in the rules is that it can be
the operator has to be either an inactive HAM so someone that may be licensed
but it doesn't normally operate on the radio, or someone who's unlicensed. So
the intent is to get people on the air that wouldn't otherwise be on the
air. I thought it was for technicians also, who do not do not
have HF privileges, at least in the USA. Sure, yeah, they
could just be an operator then yeah, I think that fits the spirit of
the station there. So yeah, but you get bonus points, you get
extra point people doing get on the air. We got we had two folks
that got us ten contacts, which we got one hundred points for that.
So it's a gateway station exactly, a gateway Yeah. Yeah, it's a
gateway station. That's right. I have to be honest. So so,
um, there's three new Hams that that don't have HF privileges. They were
on the Gota station and I, you know, I'm addicted to running pile
ups. I so I was on a frequency and I got a piloup going
and these guys minds were blown, right, So I started, I started,
I started. I started to coach them. So they started running pile
ups on the Gota station. No, Lie, So the Gota station did
over three hundred contacts. That is awesome. That is freaking cool. Yeah,
that is really frequently. It was a lot of fun, all right.
So Charlie, what, Charlie, what did you do for for field
day? I went with my club that I am a part of. We
have our clubs about two hundred and twenty five members, so we had about
forty people at our field day. Nice. That's a that's a good group.
Yeah. We operated for Alpha Alpha Zulu and our call center was kilo
seven kilo and we were on sixty acres of private land that was completely surrounded
by Coconino National Forest and so great private and it was just us and had
a great time. Got down to twenty eight degrees one night. So jealous,
Oh my gosh that I'm coming to Arizona next year. I know.
Really, Jason, we need to go do field day with moles in Canada.
Yeah, yeah, we need to go. Yeah, no doubt I
was getting I was. I'm dead serious. Listen, I did not sweat
at Daytim, I did not. I was dripping wet yesterday. So it
was not a like, oh it's Canada's cold. It was, but it
wasn't one hundred and twenty degrees. No, it wasn't. But it fell
like, well it might be Shane might be exaggerating a little bit. Where
we well to eat index. Yes, the heat, it's very true.
The heat in decks. Yeah, there was a there was a pre field
day highlight or I don't know what you want to call it, but I
was. I was. We were setting up the radios and I thought,
you know, let me just check the bands and see if there's somebody doing
soda right now. And so I was spending the dial and I all of
a sudden I heard K six a r k Oh my gosh, and I
didn't have a paddle, so I hurried and ran and grabbed a somebody borrowed
somebody's and plugged it in and I didn't have the right adapter, so I
had to plug it into I had to plug it into the straight key jack
and use the left paddle, and uh, and I work, Adam.
I wanted to get that content. That was pretty cool. Love it.
I was like, oh, Charlie's using a straight key. Yeah. Question
is really slow today. How can you tell if it was a straight versus
A and that's a that's a that's a long question. It's just just got
you just gotta do. You just know, all right, You got to
get used to listening to it. It's like when people and I don't understand
this myself, like people can identify there's almost signatures you can fill. Yeah,
they fist like you can recognize someone's fist once you've heard it enough.
And I'm like, I don't get I haven't. I'm not that advanced yet.
I can't do that. But yeah, there's a way I can recognize
bugs that I hate hearing them. I love the mechanical sexiness of a bug
key. Yeah, but they send their their DAWs at like ten words a
minute and their dits at fifty. I saw you, I saw you showing
off that it was sixty six degrees there. Um, well you can't see
that it's still ninety eight. That's that's just parent's wrong. Well, let's
go. Carlos joined after Steve, but Steve turned his camera off. That's
why he's on the bottom. So I'm gonna let Steve go next. What'd
you do for field day? Man? So my club gets together every year
and we put up a lot of antennas, we set up a lot of
stations, and we make no contacts. It's so what we did was we
got a we got a fan dipole for twenty and forty up in the air.
We got a JPC seven, which is the Buddy Pole, the Chellicons
Buddy Pole. Oh yeah, set up and then we got we took the
repeater off the air and we used that for APRS, and but we didn't
we didn't make a single contact. We had one, two, three,
four, We had four stations at least, and we had a couple more
stations we could have set up, but we didn't. And then Scout seventy
five and I we played all day long getting his Raspberry pie set up and
getting it on APRS. We set up an eyegate and a Digi Peter and
I didn't know what we were doing, but that's that's the funny field day.
Yeah, Hey, that's a fun of Ham Radio for a good deal.
Okay, cool man, that sounds like what call sign? Did you
guys operate as W nine W A R Whiskey nine whiskey Alpha Romeo whiskey nine
war. I think I would have remembered that if I would have worked at
war stations, if you would have been on the air. I think I
don't think I've worked the worst, although I worked a lot of worked a
lot of FT eight where I was just kind of clicking yes, clicking yes,
clicking yes. And Shane Shane showed the riveting excitement about three stations all
working ft eight at the same time. Whatever was that a shorter Instagram?
Yeah, I put it on TikTok and I put it on as YouTube short.
Okay, all right, Jason, I got a really cool thing that
I want to share. Cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Man. My thirteen year old son, Nathan has been in the Shock
with me, and you know obviously watched and I brought him yesterday. The
reason why I brought him, don't tell him, is because my wife was
like concerned that him and his sisters would fight while she wasn't home. Yeah,
and eight o'clock at night, I was like, you know, but
I'm gonna drive you home, and he's like, no, Dad, I
don't want to leave. Like he got on the air, he made contracts
and he was talking. He was talking with the older gentleman too. So
he stayed till one o'clock in the morning with me this morning. Wow,
and he wants to get his license now. And so it's just crazy,
how like here on my shock, I got all this nonsense, all this
and it was field day that that kind of put a fire under his butt.
So you know, to me, it's kind of exciting. It's also
really cool that the older gentleman in the club took the time to hang out
and talk and converse and on a lot of different topics with a thirteen year
old kid. So, you know, I know a lot of I know
sometimes I'm gonna be saying a lot of crap has said about clubs and people
and old people. But let me tell you something. They made it.
They made a difference not only in my son's life, but other people's License
weekend, So it was really cool. It was cool. Good. Hey,
that's a great story, man, Thanks for sharing that that. I've
told the story before how I got licensed in ninety four and I was heavy
into it for two or three years, and then I dropped it for one
to three years, and then I picked it back up. At the end
I dropped again. I picked up. It was when I got my general
ticket, like freaking eighteen years later, like two thousand. I don't know
what would that be to twenty twenty twelve or something, twenty thirteen summer,
and I don't remember when it was that when I got HF and went to
field day for the first time, it wasn't really necessarily because of field day,
was because of HF. Overall, I haven't put him radio down since
then, so it's it's much more for me. For me, it's much
more enjoyable to be on HF than it is doing the other stuff. I
still like repeaters, but I really I really enjoyed HF and that's that's kind
of what's kept me hooked for the last ten years. Don't tell my wife,
but that's what it is. She might take away all my HF radios.
It only took me thirteen years to upgrade from technician to in general,
so I'm pretty sure that. I'm pretty sure I have you beat on that.
I think it was eighteen years for me. So I'm a slow learner
and uh and lazy. I'm very lazy. I just got bored during COVID
and was looking for something to do. So well, there you go.
Speaking of wives, here's here's a good one from Field Day Fall. Okay,
so you know, for my live stream, we have myself and uh
Brian W seven jet and Dan Casey seven MSU, all of the uh somebody
whoever he's got that plane in the background. Mute please yeah, Jason,
whatever, go ahead, go ahead, Charlie. Sorry, Yeah, all
of our wives were there. Dan's wife is not licensed mine as a general
and uh so's and I think Brian's is at least a general. But none
of them really had done a contest. My wife does soda, and I
think Brian's wife doesn't really like she just does FTA and doesn't like to get
on the mic. But the three of them, we're helping each other out
and we're running for quite a while on field day. Uh and and we're
I mean, of course they had a pilot because it was three women running,
you know and calling c Yeah, so one of them was logging,
one of them was calling, and then the other one was standing and kind
of helping and turn you know, I call out the call signs as they
were coming in. It was amazing, it was great. None of them
really had done this before, so they were excited. Yeah that's great.
We Uh my wife stopped by for like, I don't know, ten minutes,
well, probably longer than ten minutes. Um, yeah, she had
dinner, probably an hour. She's probably there an hour yesterday. And Shane,
I think it was a Noah's Noel. It was Noel who said,
hey, get the record button out on the on the FTDX ten and have
her call CQ and her voice, and I'm like, that's actually a very
good idea, idea. We didn't ask her to do that. She kind
of looked at the sideways. I'm like, all right, it's it's fine,
hey, because she got her general like a year and a half,
a couple of years ago, and uh, she's never used it. She's
like, I might want to do parks on the I was explaining to her
parks in the air. She went and joined the Facebook group and she she
created herself a photo account. I didn't do that for her. She did
herself. She's very she's very Internet savvy. She's not she works in she's
a CPA, but she does a lot of tech and it stuff inside the
CPA thing. So um so she's she doesn't have any problems with any of
that. But yeah, so she'll come to me and she'll ask me question.
She goes, I'll read this on the Poto Facebook group today, and
I'm like, really, if you know about that, it's kind of fun.
It's kind of fun. Uh yeah, So t O, thank you
for joining intro. Appreciate that, Josh. I'm not just a YouTuber.
I'm also a member. That's good yeah, two months, that's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah and uh in six kvs A remember for twenty months,
So good deal. Thanks guys. I appreciate y'all supporting the channel.
Let's go to Carlos. I want to Carlos. I want to hear how
many times you jump out of a plane during field day? Zero? Absolutely
zero, it's fair. Get off of my channel. Here's the thing.
I was like, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna get my stuff.
Just go make a couple of jumps of the local drop zone. It they
only go to nine k, but it'll be worth it, just for fun.
And then my club said, we're not gonna bother working yet and I'm
like, what the hell's the point six stuff? Five two? Man?
Come on, yeah, that counts for field day, simplex, let's go.
They're like only zid band and I'm like, oh my god, dude,
like Carlos, Carlos, next time, next year, come to Texas.
We'll let you jump out of a plane over our our dear leases as
often as you want you can. We got a big air balloon. Yeah
yes, yeah, that Shane has a really good idea. I'm gonna ask
him to talk about here in a minute. But yeah, tell us what
you did do, Carlos. Uh so I did a little bit of just
spinning the dial and hunting from home, using the club call, not the
club call. Might call him the club in the log um, you know
that dual credit thing. Yeah. And then what was that, Sagan,
the Whitney County Armature Radio Club. You didn't respond fast enough. I was
busy. Yeah. Um, I actually went to the to one of the
clubs, and I'm a member of two clubs. And uh, I worked
a radio and you know, nobody told me that this let's say, go
to station all the all the cart because I made on that station, don't
count? Oh what the club president came in about an hour later, What
are you doing on this station? I'm like making contacts this field day.
He goes, this is the go to station. None of your count none
of your long contact account. Maybe put a sign on it next time,
you know. It turns out they did have a sign on it. It's
just that we had storms coming through last night and the storm blew the sign
off and nobody put it back on your luck. Yeah, so no big
deal, you know, no big deal, Like I still got thirty so
much contacts at home. Uh, Jim called me an idiot. Yeah,
he saw the video that I plusted early at two o'clock. I thought Field
Day was over at two o'clock in the afternoon Easter my time, right,
and I put up a video showing the showing the bands are clear, because
they really were, like like at two o'clock the bands just yeah, yeah,
they died at one fifty nine. I couldn't find three k of open
space to save my life wide open. Yeah. Yeah, the the eight
r L does that. They turned the bands off and on every for twenty
four hours every year Field Yeah, yeah, that's their fault. Yeah.
I asked K five Ata that question directly and he's just like, um,
um, you got any coffee? He just really sidestepped question, you know.
So I kept making context after after two o'clock until a storm rolled through
here and I was like, you know what, I'm not risking this,
and I'm glad I didn't because I put my antenna down just in time to
see trees come down, and I'm like, I made the right call here,
Otherwise then it might be snatched totally again, totally yeah again again again
all right, Shane, I want you to tell everybody which you had idea
you had for next year. So Shane is a Shane is a pilot and
he's working on getting his blood. Have you finished that yet? I don't
know, but he still work down. Yes, Okay. I've been a
pilot for twenty good lord, twenty three years. Damn year old, I
know, right, And so I got this wild hair last year to get
to get my right. My lighter than air Commercial LTA, so I can
fly hid balloons. So my idea for next year was to take one of
the balloons out, tether it and I have these I have three three hundred
foot ropes, so we could take the balloon up to two hundred feet,
so we would have a basically a floating tower and we could do aeronautical mobile
mm and we've got we got one hundred and seventy five acres. Yeah,
you can do that, so yeah, wide open. Yeah, yeah,
that's gonna be a thing. I think it would have to be on the
unlike um, Sunday morning, because I wouldn't want to do it in the
afternoon with one of the ropes. Exactly, you could you can have power
from shore exactly. Well yeah, well then you would, I guess you'd
still be aeronautical mobile because you're still floating in the air. Biowindo, man,
biowinno. That's tough. But you need like one hundred amp power battery
and that would put a lot basket. I mean yeah, I mean the
baskets. There are the balloons rated to lift twenty seven hundred pounds, So
I think we could put a couple of bio when I was in there.
If it's just you could do that. Take a tech prepper man pack up
there with you. Now there you go, yeah, yeah, that'd do
it. Or take the MIC's three yeah, Mike, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. So Jody's saying, mounted buddy Hecks is a top hat.
No, no, no, you put it on the bottom of the basket.
You put it as like an upside down umbrella. That would be a
Buddy hecksppointed the wrong direction, that'd be that'd be cool. I bet we
could get Chris to sponsor that. I was like, hey, dude,
we're gonna put your buddy Hecks on a balloon you want to sponsor, I'm
gonna lift hang hang it down below us right right totally. How are the
batons for you? Guys. So that was another question I was going ask
you everyone, So I'm gonna I'm gonna say something, and I want to
know what everyone's opinion on this is. The bands were actually quite quite good,
and I saw Adam say something in the chat earlier. Six meters.
Sadly six meters was on fire on Thursday and maybe Friday, maybe Friday morning
as well, and then like when the weekend rolled around, it was pretty
much dead. I listened to six meters for about it. I turned on
six meters for about twenty minutes about three different times throughout the weekend, and
I think I saw like one or two stations. It was just nothing on
six meters because six meters ft eight has been has been really solid, the
lasting up and down, but really solid. The last month or so here
um ten meters. I didn't see much on ten meters at all. Uh
fifteen was on fire or the whole weekend twenty you couldn't find a place in
the dial on sideband forty. We had a lot of noise on forty in
our location, and that's something I need to track down myself. But it's
not it's nobody's fault, it's just location. That was interesting, though it
was so intermittent. It was intermittent, so I gotta be it. There's
a there's a there's power line, telephone poles on power lines running down the
dirt road that runs through the property. And I suspect there's a bad transformer
or something in there because it isn't remittent. I think it's across the street.
It could be. Yeah, there's a there's a it's either a natural
gas pump or I don't think it's an oil well. But I think it's
a natural gas well across the road from us. And so that's probably one
hundred and fifty yards or so from where we are, but um, maybe
two hundred yards from where we are. But it's it's not It could be
that as well. I don't know. But yeah, forty. We we
got some contacts on forty, but we didn't try it. We didn't try
eighty or one sixty at all. So talk commands, talking about the bands
man right at one o'clock. This was the first year I was able to
jump on the radio and those bands lit up at one o'clock. I'm telling
you, a double L turns on a switch. That's that's my theory.
No one's proved me wrong on that. Yeah, that's my theory. Any
frequency, Like I put my call our calls club call out, I had
three people answer. I'm like, which one of y'all I'm talking to here?
Because I was answering Guy A and Guy B and C came back on
trying to work me. Yes, like yeah, y'all, go away,
you're You're not. I wasn't trying to talk to you. Uh yeah,
take command, Frank, take that mand Yeah, well hey, hey,
you know what And if Frank, you and I both did this, I'm
not. I'm not bagging on you. I'm really not. But you and
I both are so used to working PODA that I caught myself almost calling CQU
Poda instead of c Q fiel day Company times, and and and and saying
my own call sign instead of K and five tr club call sign. So
I'm just like crap. I was like, man, I need to get
out of PODA mode. Yeah, oh yeah, you're five nine. Oh
no, you're not, you're three alpha or texting? Yeah, yeah,
it was. It's poda is Poda is awesome. I love Poda, but
it's hard to get out of that rut. Yeah, that so, what's
that, Adam. I heard a guy calling winter Winterfield dead. Oh,
that must have been Charlie when it was twenty eight degrees. Yeah, it's
probably it's probably those Arizona guys when it was middle of the night or something.
So my experience was I made the ribs and those were awesome. They
were good. They were good. And that was Friday. I really enjoyed
this year, not cooking anything on the Saturday of so I can jumped on
the radio right at right at the get go. I enjoyed that. And
and just the friends that we had around all weekend. It was amazing to
hang out for everybody and just relax and chill and play radio. Yeah.
Absolutely, so I noticed. And this didn't seem to last very I'm want
to know what everybody else thought about this. This didn't seem to last very
long. I was hoping Kyle would be on the stream tonight because he has
U he has experienced and what I'm about to say, there were a lot
of overdriven signals for like the first three or fourt Now, let me let
me let me clarify what I'm saying here. I think a lot of these
guys were working remote and using computer microphones which suck or which that well,
they're sucked. And that's why it was overdriven. That's why I was talking
about Kyle. Not that Kyle overdrives his stuff, don't. I'm not.
I'm not trying to bag on Kyle. I'm really not. Although he's not
here so we might as well. But No, there were a lot of
really like like these guys would come back, like I'd be calling c q
c Q field Day and this guy would come back to me and I swear
he was sitting in the lot next to me with his eleven meter amplifier cranked
up to maximum volume, with the with the mic game turned all the way
up, and I'm like, dude, I can't even understand what the hell
you're saying. Yep, you know, And it was there was a lot
of background noise. It sounded like oh, and there were a lot of
guys who were apparently using the Galaxy eighty eight because they were running their echo
white Ope. It was like c q c Q field day, field Day,
field Day, field Day, And I'm like, dude, go back
to channel nineteen, what is wrong with you? So I don't know if
these guys were just in loudass rooms with no carpet on the floor or I
don't know, but that seemed that seemed to last like the first for me.
For us, I noticed that the first three or four hours, and
then it kind of seemed to die down after that, and I didn't know
so much anymore. It was, you know, hard to work people because
they were literally right by us, sounded like right by us. And I
can write, yeah, I can't make a word out never so distorted.
Yeah, if you say Kyle's name enough, he's like candyman, he shows
up Jesus. That kind of reminds me of Uh. So, there's a
lot of older Hams in our club that have HF privileges, but they're never
on HF. And so I was sitting with one running a pile up and
I would say. I said to him, I said, you can tell
the guys that are running power, you know, yes, and and and
he's like, what do you mean. I said, well, listen to
the way it sounds right. And so it's really funny when like a guy
who's been licensed for I don't know, three years, because I'm on HF
all the time. But anyways, there's a lot of guys who were running
power. I'd say that not well not okay, a small percentage, but
you know, you'd hear it Um running power, and it was kind of
like, all right, Cheeter, you know what, there's nothing, there's
nothing. There's nothing wrong with q R. O okay, but learn how
to tune up your stuff, man, you know, don't don't tell us
Adam needs to put his hands over his ears. There's nothing wrong with q
R. Yeah, well that's true, that's true. Yes, but these
guys were either oh my god, these I don't know. I don't know,
these these guys were. I guess you could do it with like a
twenty or thirty dB game antenna. You're not power, but I don't know.
I mean when when you're running six y on field day? Yeah,
everybody else day there was one station we I swear. I was like,
that's an AM station. Guy. They're like, no, no, it's
not, it's not an AM station. I'm like, holy glad up.
So yeah, anyway, anyway, Kyle, welcome to them on this buddy.
Tell us about your field day experience. Yeah, it was good.
We Um. I went to my club and helped set up for a while
and then I did the tour around Saint Louis. I think I hit five
field days throughout the Saturday. So clubs, yeah, all clubs. All
people either are cool, small clubs, big clubs. It was very light
this year because of the heat. There was a lot. It was hot
here, so in years past there had been more people at some of these
clubs. But yeah, it was good. The bands were okay. I
came home on Sunday night late and I'm sorry Saturday night and got some sleep
and got up the morning this morning and did some did some running and bands
were this morning twenty was great. I was hitting the coast. Yes,
I have noticed in the past that if you a lot of guys would just
kind of hit the ground running when one o'clock, I'd say one o'clock,
when eighteen hundred UTC gets here, or just hit the ground running, and
then like by late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, you've got the same
stations on there calling CQU field Day and you've worked them all. So my
theory has always been I was like, you know, just wait like six
hours and then start working people because they're they're gonna want to work you because
there are a call sign you haven't heard before, So I don't know.
I mean, it's just it depends on propagation obviously, But um yeah,
I always always thought that, you know, do a delayed field day and
actually work the guys who were up on Saturday night late and Sunday morning and
Sunday late morning. See see how that works. I've always just seeing you
to say that, because go ahead, I was gonna ask Kyle that satellite
contact you posted this weekend, was that may during field day? And what
did you register that for your club? No? No, I didn't even
take my satellite stuff to day the clubs because I knew that, Um I
was. I'm too busy socializing and just hanging out to do any of that
stuff. So yeah, Charlie, I was just gonna say, our club,
they do an interesting thing. I'm not sure I agree with, but
it's kind of on the line with what you're talking about. So right at
eighteen hundred UTC, we hit the ground for a couple hours to three hours,
and then lights are out, we have like a pot luck lunch,
Lenard, I guess it's yeah, yeah, and there's no operation until that's
over, and then we have a raffle drawing and we have the field day
pictures and everything. Then it's probably dinner time before we start back up again.
But I you know, it works for us. That's good, you
know, I mean, it depends on propagation. The propagation lately has been
pretty good, although again I was I was really hoping to do some six
meter contacts this Fiel day and we didn't get to do that. But if
the bands are dead, then you're not gonna work very many people at all.
But if the bands are alive, twenty meters was it was? You
know? It was? Yeah, So Brian and I are the only two
CW ops, So it was he and I were basically the only two to
run and c W the whole time, and we had no reason during the
day up until about, I don't know, until till it got dark to
get to move off of twenty meters. When it got dark, we were
on forty the whole time until about eight am, and then we moved back
to twenty. We had no reason to go anywhere else. So that's that's
how that's how they get The conditions were in our mind, dude. That's
so you're a hardcore about this, I go to bed, no things.
We went to bed too. We operated till late, you know, I
don't know, tennish, and then I went to bed, and then I
got up at five, So over the middle of the night we didn't really
do too Yeah, get getting up at five does that doesn't compute? But
we I was up. Um, I was up till probably eleven eleven thirty
last night working and fifteen meters actually finally died. I'd say it died.
It it The waterfall wasn't as full when I shut the computer off it like
eleven fifteen or so last night, so there were still stations after calling CQ
field day, so that that was fun. But um, we're so,
is the CW portion of the band? Is it hard to find a clear
frequency to call CQ like it is on sideband. It's a little easier,
I think easier, but it's pretty it's still pretty hard sometimes. Go ahead.
It's a lot easier because CW is so narrow in bandwidth. You can
and just you know, set your filter down narrow and you can be every
you know, maybe two hundred, two hundred hurts, three hundred hurts and
and still have a clear enough frequency to be able to operate, so there's
plenty of room and it's way easier to work people. I wondered about that
because, if I'm not mistaken, on most bands, the CDW portion of
the band is narrower than the sideband portion of the phone portion of the band.
And also um CW is more low noise. It's it's it's a it's
a lower noise signal than sideband. Is a little bit, a little bit
harder to make sideband contact than CW. So I'm like, well, given
those two features, I would think that they'd be pretty full, that that
section of the band would be pretty full. But okay, I mean that's
good to know. It's good information. That's why I asked. Yeah,
well, I mean that you could find spots, but it's still i mean,
end to end, it's pretty there's somebody there. Yeah, okay,
did you guys, did you guys hear the have a lot of interference or
from the European contest that happened this weekend. No, nothing here. So
there's there's certain periods where there's a lot of europe There's a European contest that
was happening, So it was started, it started became there. You know,
people will be like CQU contest, contest, and then you just by
the accident, you'd have to you know, okay, that's not the contest.
I'm working. Good luck. I did hear a guy. I did
hear. I believe this guy was. I want to say he was South
American. I want to say it was a Hondura Hotel India station, or
perhaps a Papa Yankee station, but it could have been an Echo alpha.
It could have been a Spanish station, because I did hear some Spanish station
and there was a guy with a Spanish accent, Latin American or traditional Spanish.
I don't remember calling CQU contest and then I'm like, are you working
field day or what is there some other I didn't know what contest he was
talking about. It doesn't better. You could still take their content, of
course, and I tried to call him back and he wouldn't come back to
me, so I wasn't making it to him modly. But yeah, yeah,
very well. If he was in South America, he was running about
three to four kW. Yeah, so I'm just saying true. I'm just
saying, well. One of the issues we had a field day was antennas
not a major issue, but with the three stations, especially the GODA,
I think it's been I might be wrong, but it's been quite a while
since our club had an actual field day. And um so, out of
like the huge box of antennas, only one worked and another guy brought one
and so we tried at Jerry Reagan antenna. It didn't work. So I
came home. I climbed on my tower. Oh no, I took down.
I don't like where this is going work. Oh wow, I took
down. I took down my G five RV Junior and we hope better.
Yeah, and and that thing was a rock star and uh, but we
had issues with antenna's. It took like it was. We spent a lot
of time. I'm getting the antenna's going. But uh, at the end
of the day, and Jason, I googled this quickly. I saw a
video of yours. One of our club members was saying about getting two stations
on one antenna, and you did a video. Uh, two radios one
antenna. This was the Triples. I don't think that that was me.
No, no, no, that's a bad video. You, I swear,
but I didn't watch. Do not Google that I do not do,
not freaking google that listen. I didn't I didn't watch the video. I
didn't watch the video, so it could have been the idea of putting an
antenna switch. Okay, but but but I was like, I don't think,
I don't think. I am no, no, no, I'm this.
I'll look it up. But um so, I now Carlos Carlos talking
about cargistered Carlos is a deviant and that's why he's laughing harder than anyone else's
right now. He knows exactly what you're talking about. This guy, Yeah,
okay, all right, you go ahead saying. He almost got angry
at me, and I was like, you want to run two and ten?
I was, I mean two radios on one and ten. At the
same time, He's like, yeah, I'm like, I don't know.
I have a tri I have a triplex. I have a triplexer. For
the buddy HECKX, they make a pen. They make a penteplexer, which
is five bands. It's ten through twenty ten, twelve, fifteen, seventeen,
and twenty. I didn't buy that because it's literally twice the price to
get twelve and seventeen. I bought the triplexer from DX Engineer. He's like
three fifty for the triplexer, about seven hundred for the penteplexer. The triplexer
would do ten, fifteen and twenty, which are your non work bands,
which are the field day bands. I bought that a couple of years ago,
so we can use Buddy Hecks to do a station on ten, fifteen
and twenty sideband. In fact, that's what Frank and I were on.
Faker and I both had our FTDX tens. He was on twenty meters sideband.
I was on fifteen meter ft eight. Both on the Buddy hacks all
weekend. So yeah, absolutely, right there, Jason, look at that
face right there. Yeah, that's my two radios. Okay. I've probably
had a couple of beers since then. All right, So I want to
I want to say hi to Don and Jim, and then I have a
question for you guys. That something that came up a couple of three weeks
ago. But it's it's an intent of question, So I curious to see
what you guys want to how you guys will answer it. Don, what's
going on, Buddy? Did you work field Day this weekend? Yeah?
I did, but I just want to let everyone know something thanks to Molson,
somebody just charged my credit card to what he was talking about. So
I don't know what what what kind of sites you he has? Nobody somebody
somebody Molson spending your money? Yeah, yeah, somebody just fans seriously only
as hey. I had fun with my with my club. We did something
a little bit different this year. I took the ten zero seven n fed
sloper to balance about sixty seven feet and I ran it as a inverted V.
Now, normally I run that as a sloper randed as the inverted V.
It did fairly well, but here in Connecticut, um, I didn't
like how the bands were operating on twenty and forties. So, you know,
like any other good hamd what do we do? How do we plan
for? When? Or when do we start planning for field day for next
year? Right away? And I'm gonna and I'm gonna query my group to
see if they want to do something. Don't do it at the two o'clock
start time. Let's do something for maybe six or seven o'clock, five o'clock
in the year on the east clock start time. Well, yeah, you're
time. I'm sorry. The correct times time because when I big so when
I left, when I left our site and I got home around six o'clock
o'clock from right from this Loka, I was using my seven or six mark
two G. I think I did close to eighty nine contacts in about in
about three hours. Three and a half hours. M forty was incredible.
Twenty was good. I worked Frank and I don't know who else. I
heard that I was sitting. I was sitting next to Frank. If we
were working separate call signs, I would have picked up the mic. But
you got our club calls, so that was Yeah, that was cool.
I heard you work, Frank. That was cool and it was hard.
I gotta tell you soon because I was pulling in Arizona. I worked California.
I worked the Lax identifier, which has really been hard lately. But
I gotta Tyson. It was fun, man, It's all about having fun,
camaraderie, trying something new. But I want to do something different next
year. I think here for for us in Connecticut, and like I said,
we got three hundred and sixty four days to figure it out. You
should join us in Canada with Nelson. Yeah, we're gonna go up there
and take We're gonna take jackets and heaters up there and have a real field
day for winter field day. So we're gonna do no no, no like
like apparently apparently it's it's like cold in Canada or during this time of year.
Sorry, and you're in Connecticut. You don't know what he is.
I mean, you get the refund. Let me get that refund that somebody
just charged me on that because I went to that site that he was just
I won't fly the money towards it. Yeah, that sounds great for Steves,
that that'd be a beautiful place to have a field. That's a great.
Hey, you could put an intent on top of that water tower right
there. Yeah, there isn't ladder line. I can't see it. No,
but that doesn't mean anything. I see it. Yeah, double Jason,
did you talk about the set up at the dear least? I mean,
I need just slide out of the ways you can see the picture.
You didn't talk about what we were doing, what radios and no. But
I I was gonna. I was waiting. I was waiting to put us
last. Okay, So so I was I was inviting all my guests first
as maybe maybe Ham Radio Clubhouse didn't do that. I don't know. You
guys a bunch of jackets. They will let nothing. Yeah, they'll let
the guests in after an hour or two, right right? Yeah? Yeah,
oh yeah, we got a guest tonight. I think who is it
again? Yeah? Remember that next time you begged to come on to the
show, Frank, Yeah, busted, Frank. That's right. Let's go
to Jim Man. What do you do for field day? Bud ft eight
lots. That's great, there's nothing wrong with that. That's it. I
don't really I don't have a club I hang out with or anything, so
I don't have any big plans. I just I did. I did get
frosty and put it on a battery for a little while, and I got
tired of that. Now, Jim, are you up in Where the heck
are you? Are you in Wisconsin or Chicago or no, I'm I'm from
Chicago. I live in Alabama. Okay, maybe I'm thinking of where you're
where you said you were. Yeah, yeah, so you're in Alabama.
Yes, Okay, it's like it's probably I was gonna say it's probably hot
down there for you guys as well, right, and swamp like absolutely,
yeah, yeah, okay, you should want to join Joe Brett. Joe
Brett like two hundred three hundred miles away from me. It's not that far
a drive that's like that's like a court that's like a third of the way
through Texas. That's and it's just the swampy at Joe Brett's house as it
is here. So yeah, I'm saved the gas. Speaking up, where
is Joe Brett? I don't know. He was on. He put a
he put a video up. No one was watching some video from Joe Brett
like last night during while we were operating, and he's like that guy's out
of focus and I'm like, really, Joe bretton maybe he's drunk. I
don't know too much. Peanut butter whiskey probably for that dude. So that's
good. No, it is still calling CQ. Yeah, a call on
CQ. Carlos, did you tell him about the club you went? I
did my club? Well, I told you you called me an idiot,
for I did not call you an idiot. I just said, hey,
dude, you realize it's not over yet. For like about two hours.
Yeah, my club shot down at two o'clock, and so that the other
club and I'm like, one must be over at two o'clock. It is
two, it's two o'clock eastern. Well, there's a difference if you set
up your antennas beforehand, if you set it up after it ends at eighteen
hundred or seventeen fifteen nine UTC. Negative is that new this year? It
always used to. It always needs to be twenty four hours. No,
no, no. The rules are if you not if you're a club,
well I don't know if you're if you need to be a club, but
if you if you do not start putting up antennas after eighteen hundred UTC,
you can work those extra hours, which we did. Yep, that's what
you guys did. Josh. Yeah, Um, you guys were talking really
quick because I know you guys have kind of already covered us, but you
were talking about the weather conditions one hundred and something in Texas for instance.
Yeah, funny day out on the island, but we got hit with it
was like twenty five mile an hour way and like some righteous wins out there.
Yeah, buddy, your your your high iPad hates you right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was crazy. Ye so there was a
There was a year at winter field Day a couple of years ago where I
had the Buddy Hecks up and there was win so bad at winter field Day
in January where I took a video of this because it kept happening. I
sent it to Chris and it literally went ninety degrees and popped right back,
and then it went ninety degrees again, and it kind of stayed there for
like two seconds and it popped right back, and I sent that to Chris
and I'm like, dude, this thing's actually pretty resilient. It's actually kind
of fun to watch this day breaks. I need you to send me a
new one. But yeah, yeah, no he did. It didn't break
it. It survived the whole thing. So yeah, the Buddy Hecks is
great. And wind like that, Yeah, that would have been. That
would have been tough. We had thirty mile wins, but it was the
day before so we were lucky. But that that would have been We would
have had a hard time throwing up our antennas into the trees with the wind
like that. Man, it would have been a tough one. We did
not have. We didn't not have much wind. We had a nice breeze
all weekend, which was welcomed because it was so hot. Yeah, but
yeah, it's typically not windy in June in Texas, but it is windy
oftentimes, not all the time. Oftentime, it's windy in January, so
winterfield days usually when we have to contend with wind. But good. That
was a good choice of antenna, Josh, because that thing will will stand
up to it for sure. We had a lot. In fact, the
one that Adam brought his twenty meter half square right was was fantastic. It
was really really good. In fact, Adam ran twenty most of the time,
and I did fifteen sideband or FT eight or both. We had some
issues with radio, so it was a lot of FT eight you did sideband.
I did a few sideband contacts, but we had some strong local rum
mystery sources. It was just it was a lot easier to work to SEW
stations than bideband stations, so I did mostly Okay, I got on fifteen
meter sideband yesterday, or let's see Saturday afternoon, I got on Saturday evening
dinner time. Maybe I got on fifteen years sideband and I just tuned up
and down the band I'll tell you what, everybody who's on twenty meter sideband
that can't find a freaking spot, go down to fifteen, because my god,
it is. I mean, there's like five kill five killer hurts between
each station, and every station you hear out there is like ten over five
nine. It's just radical. And so I just worked up and down the
band and went back and did a did a search and pounce to all the
people calling CQ, and I probably made fifteen twenty contacts just hunting on fifteen
meters sideband where the real hands are. Yeah, I know it well,
you know I thought about I thought about changing around, but I got on
twenty and twenty was just butter. I didn't have to do anything except member
was scampacked. Twenty was on fire, I mean, and it always is.
Twenty twenties, always twenties, always on fire sideband in field day,
I'm telling me, blo. They turned, they flip a switch somewhere they
do they flip. Fifteen meters is a neat band. I found twenty meters.
I found twenty meters east again. This is East coast side band.
This is around eight o'clock my time, nine o'clock. I came off of
forty. Just like you guys. I went up and down, up and
down, up and down, and then I said, let me let me
try twenty right, can't hear the guys in Ohio. Uh, Missouri was
coming in Utah again, Arizona was coming in California, was coming in Colorado,
Montana, South Dakota. It was really really nice to work that section
that normally is such a struggle for us, and this part of the of
the solar cycle. So who knows, maybe it was the switch like you
said, but it was fun though. Man twenty was really interesting because there
were times when we were really long and we were hitting places like Connecticut,
and then there were times where we were hitting Arizona and Colorado and Nevada on
twenty meters and so that's really short. Yeah, I was crazy. Feel
I heard a lot of really good sounding stations out of Arizona. When I
had my buddy Hecks pointed north. That thing is supposed to be directional,
it's not, okay, So you got to point north, and I'm hearing
stations in Pennsylvania and in Arizona and a lot of really good sounding stations.
But the thing, I the thing I loved is that it's hard Texas.
In the middle of the country. It's hard to get Oklahoma, Kansas,
Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota, which is a straight north shot.
Even if your intendant's pointed north. It's hard to get those because the
propagation usually goes east west station Poda, I can't get it right those We
got all five of those states. This, in fact, a lot of
really good sounding stations from Kansas, but I got a few from Oklahoma,
one or two from Nebraska. I got one or two guys from South Dakota,
and the guy from North Dakota. I'm like, dude, thank you
for being the only Ham radio operator in North Dakota the key up this weekend.
I really appreciate you being out there. Yea. So it's yeah,
I mean, it's it's very odd. It's I shouldn't say it's odd.
It's very rare to get stations due north. I may. I don't know
if you guys are the same way due north of wherever you live, or
maybe perhaps due south if you're in Connecticut. But yeah, east west is
easier, but due north is is a lot harder for us out here.
They don't call the mid or the mid Parson of the United States the black
hole for nothing. It's very true, that's very true. All right.
We haven't heard the solo cycle real quickly. So well, yes, well
it's so different if you go back to where where solar cycle twenty four was
the last few years playing field day, win your field day, PoTA,
it's such a different We have to almost get like retrained. Yeah, on
where you are again. That's half the fun of it, you know,
yes, correct, I want to hear from Chuck. We haven't heard from
Chuck yet. What's up, buddy? How are you doing good? Um?
I mean I didn't do anything for field day except Chase. I chased
Josh and Adam there a little bit trying to get him on six, but
it just wasn't working. Nice. I can get into Fresno, which is
about halfway most of the time. I mean, well, it's in the
evenings when they do the Bozo net. But so I thought maybe we could
do it. But there's probably a bunch of stuff between us and didn't.
I didn't hear anything on six. You guys actually were hearing stuff on six,
right, I only check I only checked six meter what I said before
you join, Chuck was we set up on Thursday and it was either Thursday
or Friday morning. Six meters was lit like the band scope was freaking red
fire. It was Thursday night, okay, yeah, it was on fire.
And then by the time Saturday gets here was just dead. We didn't
make any official field day contacts on six meters ft eight at all because it
was just there was nothing. I checked it like three or four times and
I listened for like ten minutes each time. I'm like, there's nothing happening
out here right now. And I was disappointed because six meters ft has been
great for the last couple of weeks out. I've done good on six more
local than anything else, though a couple of years ago counts. But you
know, we had that opening, uh what a week or so ago,
and I was only using ten watts and I went coast to coast on ten.
Yeah, but you got a hell of an antenna. But yes,
ten one, I mean still ten ye, still impressive, But yeah,
I was. I was actually surprised I made the contacts I made. I
made like thirty contacts in about an hour, and you know, all the
way this um that's the farthest, actually the farthest I've ever done on six
meters, so really wow, because I run one hundred watch but the little
lad doesn't have it only has ten watts and my aunt unfortunately doesn't do six.
But I did. I wanted to try Josh and those guys on fifteen
two. I did. I did talk to a guy in Texas on fifteen
that was just booming. He was he was looking for New Zealand contacts and
stuff, and I could hear New Zealand a little bit, but I put
it. Yeah, I put a message in the chat like I was working
field day on fifteen years late last night at ten to thirty eleven, and
the ZEEL and VK stations were just yeah, I take that back. That
was that was seventeen. I got him on. I was on. Oh
no, I was on fifteen. Was seventeen you're not You're not supposed to
use seventeen. No he wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't doing film.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it again. Seventeen's great for
those stations too, but I was, yeah, I was, Yeah,
he had Josh Stenna, yeah yeah, yeah, the step by are Yeah,
he was on that and I could hear I could hear the guys on
my upside of my DOUBLET. I could hear the guy in New Zealand.
I thought I could have made a contact with them, but they were all
they were all over fifteen meters ft eight last night and I pincked Hayden.
I'm like, dude, you get fifteen ft eight. They're like all kinds
of ZEO and VK stations out there. Yeah, like you guys said,
twenty was just I went onto twenty and my I had my screen up and
it was just like almost almost the peaks were almost touching each other. You
know, so much stuff on there, right, and it's hard. It's
hard because you have to it's a little harder to tune than a regular radio.
You gotta turn off the snap so you can tune those like in between
things, you know. You know what I'm talking about. I'm sure,
yeah, And I'm still not used to that type of a radio. I
wish the thing had fifty lots, I'd be it'd be golden. Maybe I
had, but I had fun just I was. I was actually building antennis
for next year. Oh, I don't doubt that out of you Chuck,
you probably was. I actually was tomorrow checky heckx version fourteen in the word
No, you know, what I'm working on is a you did. We
could sell about a thousand though I know it. I can tell him.
I was like, I've got the logo. It's Chucky stabbing a hex beam
with blood all over. The Logo's my idea, Bundy, I gotta get
Poppet to make them all though. Man, that's that's a lot of word.
Well, that's that's just I just wanted. I just want royalties.
You have to make them all. I don't want to do the work.
And we just all showed our age because nobody in the chat knows too.
Chucky is right. Yeah, it's a it's a new it's a new show
on Netflix, man, come on or USA wherever it is. I'm actually
making a show three Element Mars for ten since tenn is I mean, since
we did made that contact with Hayden down in Arizona. Yes, I'm thinking
that ten's a pretty good one. Sometimes and it's not. It's twelve,
but it ends up being twelve foot by twelve foot square, so mox moxon
has three or four sides. It's four sided. It's usually a rectangle,
but mine's going to be square because of the extra element. So but does
the does the does the wire go around alf or does the wire go around
three sides and then the fourth side that's open as your X been. Yeah,
it goes around three sides, and then that's the other one comes back
at it, and the front one comes back towards all of them. Gotcha.
Okay, I don't know if it's gonna work or not. I was
trying to make it a fold up one, but that I kind of failed
at that today. So yeah, you done, Yeah, Chuck, I'm
not done yet. No, it was two three sixty four more days.
That's right, Yes, thank you so much, Thank you, Manion.
Really cool story that Molson told about the getting new people on the air.
So go back and watch that if you it's the first part of the stream.
I'm gonna have to watch the first part of this on replay anyway.
I want to. I want to know what y'all were talking about when I've
showed up. I have a theory I know what you were talking about,
and I'm a little frightened. It's well, Carlo Carlos said something derogatory about
you, and then you popped into the zoom and I'm like, oh,
well, Jim is Jim is like Kyle. You just mentioned his name three
times. He's like, shows up beetle juice. I mean, you know,
I was gonna say it's Josh and those guys your your hex be the
mass thing was like I was. You had a perfect view of it,
and that thing was you guys had it must have a guide really well,
because that thing was as windy as it was. I was expecting to see
that thing going crazy. Even the even the hexpeam wasn't moving a whole lot.
So the top there's two guys on h I couldn't see the guys.
We lowered. We lowered the heck right on top of the top. Okay,
that's why it was total sen Yeah, I've done that before. Chuck
needed a few lessons after after courts Fest. Holy leave it up down there,
man, I thought my trailer might blow. It was mine was attached
to my trailer and it was like a whipping that thing around. That's the
trick. Dropped that thing right on the top guy, and you're you're fine,
Yeah, it wasn't ready yet, so it was do you have the
thirty foot mast Works Josh, I don't know, is it? That?
Is it? That's I don't know. So so so he makes like,
at least I think he still does this. He used to make a ten
to twenty and thirty foot and I got the thirty foot Maskworks tripod and it
came out. The mass Works stuff came out like a year year and a
half before the Buddy Hecks was available. So he was putting his his dipole
as Buddy Buddy Pole Deluxe and Buddy Poole Regular Buddy Pole on top of the
tripod and it worked great. Great, put it all the way up thirty
feet. Great, you put that freaking heck beam on thirty and the top
two sections are basically worthless because they're not they're not sturdy enough to run the
hex beam. Now, having said that, you only really need to run
a hex beam at like twenty to twenty four feet. You don't really have
to have a hex beam up that high. I know guys who run them
at like ten feet and swear, swear to God they work DX with them,
and I believe it. Yeah, yeah, well no d X,
they're working d X. D claim they claim, that's what they claim.
And antenna just fine, right, I mean it's you know, we're in
a location like we're at we had some bit of elevation above the sea water,
so it's like, yeah, it's it's it's fine, we're not we're
not really hurt. I think minds a twenty foot or around it the twenty
fo Yeah, and so I never used because the last sections are like they're
they're really thin, right, They're really thin. Right. If it's a
completely still day, yeah, sure you can get like half of that section.
But most of the time I just leave it right at the top and
then just buy it. Really well, it's a good idea, Yeah,
but yeah, I mean, you know, I set up I've never set
up my hex beam in Galveston, but I set up other antennas there now
on the beach. We never set it up on the beach. I never
have. We should do that. We're talking about doing Winter Field Day in
Galveston in January. So if anyone's interested in coming to Texas, I'm talking
to I'm talking to the people in Zoom right now. I don't need four
anyone in Zoom right now. We do have a limited we do have a
limited space. However, well, well that's why we invite Frank. He
does all the cookie. So you know what I want to do on the
beach boxing that's a great you know, people say set, people say,
oh, I'm six hundred eight hundred one thousand feet above sea level. I'm
like, that's great. You put in antenna at sea level zero feet and
you can work the world. Man, it really doesn't matter. The Australian
guy, um Hayden, Simon Simon, that guy. Yeah, I was
joking. I didn't think that Simon, not Simon, the the guy that's
been around forever. Peter. It's always Peter Peter. Yeah, Peter Peter
does those. And then he just did another one the other day that was
actually easier to set up. He said, Um, I forget what it
was. It's kind of a triangular one, I think, but but something
like that on the beach would be really good directional and then stuff on the
beach man, I mean, I have worked. I mean I went out
to activate PODA in February with a vertical set, that seventeen foot vertical from
Chameleon Antennas, and it was it's just a steel it's just a vertical driven
in the ground, nothing special, one one hundred and fifty one max.
I think I was using my ftd X ten no power. I thought,
I'm gonna start on ten ten meters was open at the time. I'm gonna
start on ten meters. I'll do a little bit there and uh and I'm
just gonna And I was fifty feet from the ocean, sixty feet maybe from
the ocean, and I said, I'm gonna start on ten meters and I'll
just go to fifteen to twenty later because I won't get very many content und
in fifty contacts later on ten meters, I had worked two golf zero stations
that were at a park parked to park from Galveston, Texas on ten meters
with a vertical to a to a British park, and I'm like, this
is freaking cool. I just I'm gonna stay here for the next week.
So yeah, it was. Yeah, ten meters was on fire that and
that vertical antenna was awesome. So I mean in theory, you're like,
well, if you're up in the mountain, you'll make more contacts. Yeah,
maybe, but at sea level works, man, it's you know,
it's great. Uh, coastal waves. He's always yeah, he walks out
his back door, well front door probably, He's always planting a vertical right
there in the sand sitting. I did that. I did that. I
did in Hawaii with the same antenna and I had my radios were like washing
up on it was on the beach. I went right at desk and I
hit a VCA contest and just was killing it. Wow. Oh that's fun.
Fure Field data at courts Fest. It's the same courts Fest ends at
winterfield Day weekday. It's a long drive, man. I'm you know.
The one thing I loved quurts Fest. It was a fun trip. I'm
glad I went. I will probably go back, but I'm not going back
next year because I really really missed doing winter field Day last year, this
year twenty twenty three. So we're gonna do winter field Day. Um next
year. Um okay. I don't know who you're talking to, contest,
but hey, congrats so field Day. If you want real winter field Day
minus ten. No, we don't want the wind, I say no.
I might be outside for winter field Day. Yeah right, we won't turn
for winterfield Day where where we are we do outside summer and winter day I
loved. I was on W five KUB show one time, like three years
ago, and they were talking about how field day was so easy. It
was nice and pleasant. These guys are up in like minnes come to Wisconsin
and I'm like and I'm like, and they're like, yeah, winter field
day is a real test of your equipment. I'm like, let me tell
you, guys something. You want to test your equipment, bring that shit
down to Texas in June. Okay, come on, let's go. You
want to hear you You want to hear your radio overheating and panting and giving
you beats and errors. Yeah, come on, let's go. And your
field day is winter field day is easy? Okay? How many times we
put phones, computers, radios in the freezer or I know, too hot?
Are freaking my laptop that was hosting are in three FJP log overheated three
times yesterday? When equipment is sweating more than yes, right with the blower
and the fan going through your radio fan, you guys don't do that,
would Yeah, it doesn't get hot in California. You guys have the best
weather out there. Like it's hot sometimes, but not like you guys,
it's actually not It's actually not the heat. It's the humidity. Let me
let me say, let me say this real quick. I've lived in Texas
all my life. When my truck broke down in just south of Mesa,
freaking Arizona last summer, and we got out of the parking lot in front
of that grocery store and the black top parking lot was liquid. Like he
stepped out of the truck and it was like, I'm like, it's like
one hundred and thirty degrees out here on this black top. I'm like,
I'm like, Charlie, I don't know how you do it, buddy.
It's like I thought it was hot in Texas. Well. I got out
there, I was like, screw humidity. I mean, it's like like
your parking lot is like flowing ocean out there. Oh yeah, I think
it's just it's just it's just really damn hot. Oh my god, that
was you got some humidity with the tar pits. Man. I mean there's
California, California. You know, you go out to La you go to
out to the LA area, and it's a good eighty eighty five degrees in
the High Cup Pacifico in ten minutes before you get to the top, it
drops down to forty degrees and you're like, where's my coat? I didn't
bring a coat. This was hot the whole time. Such a dramatic change
for us. I mean, you know, I mentioned that we were twenty
eight degrees the other night. I think it was actually Friday night. Well
we came home you know today it was it's it's one hundred and almost one
hundred and ten. Now it was such a huge Oh my god, were
you up on a mountain, Charlie, we were up high? Yeah,
we were, ok, just south of Flagstaff. Yeah. Well sometimes in
the desert it can get cold at night hot during the da So it just
depends on the time of year, I guess. But yeah, TC fits.
Thank you for the super chat, buddy. No, I don't have
any pickle beard nights. Sorry, come back for the next happy hour.
But it sounds awesome. It is not horrible. It is not. It's
not It sounds like a Benjie burger from Culverts. Yeah. Yeah, anything
about an impossible burger. Impossible. That was the biggest fail ever there was.
My My wife one time ordered a black bean burger because she likes black
bean burgers with bacon, and they looked at her and they're like, you
know, bacon's not vegan. And she's like, I'm not a vegan.
I just like black bean burgers and I like bacon. I'm like, there's
nothing wrong with that. In my book, I thought that was funny.
I was sent to pick up I was sent to pick up burgers one day
and the old lady likes burger king and I said, what do you want?
She said, give me a whopper or something. Okay, So I
go down there and not and they have impossible whopper And I thought that meant
giant ass whopper. I thought that was like impossible to make. That is
not what that means? What does it? I don't know what does it
mean. I don't know. It's not me it's vegan. It's impossible to
believe that it's not meat. Hole think it's meat. Yeah, exactly what
they think is hemoglobin from soybeans. Ouch. We get what appears to taste
like blood from soybeans, and then we're gonna market it as burgers. That's
what they think its. She she didn't even taste it. She's like,
this is not a hamburger. Yeah, no, it's not. She said
some other words too, but we won't repeat all though. Yeah, Oh
my god, I was on I I was on a trip home from somewhere.
I was on a trip home and I was driving down the road I
was coming home, and uh, I stopped at a truck stop to Phillip
gas and I was really hungry, and the truck stop had a fricking burger.
I don't have burger king in years. And I'm like, okay,
I'll get a chicken sandwich. That was mistake. That was terrible. It
tasted like burnt burnt. It didn't taste burnt, but it takes his like
over over overdone chicken because we cooked it like three hours ago. But well,
and it was like it was like soggy, soggy breading on the outside,
fried bretty on the outside. I'm like three bites of it. It
was, oh my god, this was terrible. God. I couldn't even
eat it. I just threw most of it away. But I'm Robert.
Robert is in a chat written house. Yeah, I saw him. Those
things are fire and I don't like son. I know you have good tasting
whiskey, but apparently your tasting sandwiches is sketch, Robert. I took one
bite of that thing and I Joe Brett's in the house, buddy, Hey,
joined the zoom. I want to go what you did on field day?
Joe Brett five. Yeah, yeah, Hey, hey y'all, Hey
y'all, we're gonna we're gonna go do field Day Mississippi. That's awesome,
Joe Bret. Come defend yourself, buddy. Hm. So yes, winter
field Day in Galveston next year. I have limited sea, I have limited
sleeping area, so first come, first served. Yeah. Oh hey,
if you want to bring a camper beach, yeah, well we we need
so. Galveston Island State Park, which is a poda spot, is literally
about seven to eight minutes south south, no north, no, no south.
Well they call it they call it west. It's it's this way,
it's this way. It's actually they call it west. It's actually south southwest.
It's seven to eight minutes from the house. So I thought everybody brought
it up this week and they're like, hey, we want to do Winter
field Day at Galveston. I'm like, great, let's do it, because
we will go set up for Winter field Day inside the park and this double
submit our logs. You want to know the truth, Jason, So we
want to work running a daily shower. I'll tell you what. The shower
in my trailer is just fine. It's just you know, you fat asses
can't get in there very well. It's not it's not get in the way,
Frank, Is that the problem? The sh ahead comes up to here
on me? I know, right, I'm only six feet so I didn't
build. I didn't build the shower, but it works really well for me,
so I don't. I don't know what y'all problem. They can shower
outdoors, I don't want to have a Yeah, I'm an outdoor shower.
I'm an outdoor shower. So yeah, that's we have an outdoor shower at
the Galveston house. My wife just reminded me, or actually, I'm want
to take it that it is. It is actually quite refreshing having the ocean
breeze blow in while you're showering. It's actually it's actually very nice. It's
an enclosed shower. We have run out there. You're not out there being
all perv and whatnot. But you know, I mean, it's it's look
at us. Let's get real. I don't know if we were people would
like hand if you're married, I wants to see you. How many people
here have how many people here have jumped out of a plane naked, hand
down? Okay, yeah, that's what I thought, Carlos. So Carlos,
Carlos told us that story story. I'm all right, okay, Carlos
this year, yeah, Carlos told us that story last year at Huntsband.
Carlos tell us, as much as you want, you don't have to cheer
the whole you want. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's a tradition, right,
it's a right of passage on your hundreds of skydive is uh. You
know now they're they're getting pc about it, so you can do an Undie
Hundy. But most you know, prior to now, the tradition is you
go do a naked skydive on your hundreds of skydive. So I did,
and you know there are things that I didn't expect. Flapping in the breeze
made in it, Bill. Flapping in the breeze is one right, and
the thing is, here's here's the real fun part. Flapping against I will.
I said I was gonna do this jump and a lady decided to join
us a young lady, and I was like, yes, absolutely coming.
Nothing and I mean nothing looks good when it's being hit at one hundred twenty
miles. Okay, could have made it, you know, pull it out
or something. The one is the rudder just keeps the flapping in the breeze
and then when you land you don't realize happening. And then you go to
the bathroom and you can't touch him because it's that Oh my god. One
procedural question. Please did you go bear? I gotta hear this from from
you. I gotta hear this, Charlie. So did you go bear in
the air or do you do that pre pre plane? Or where? Where?
Where do you d roll? So t rope? You put on a
pair of shorts? Oh, you put on you everything on the ground,
and then you put on a pair of shorts over the over the bottoms right
on the over you take you take the shorts off before leaving the airplane and
then you just leave them in the airplane, or you stuff them until your
legs trap and then hopefully they're still there when you land, then you can
put them right back on. All right, jump, thank you? What
about all the bugs that are like in the upper atmosphere that you're falling through.
I mean, do you get like bugs hitting you everywhere? No,
collecting somewhere right? Better? You need to walk better. Oh my gosh,
bugs in the upper atmosphere. Yes, something, Yes, there is
light at three three four feet. I have had a completely covered windscreen from
bugs, really completely, and Texas, I believe that where I've almost to
the point where I almost had to stop at an airport to clean the windows
off. Oh yeah, that's absolutely true. You guys got bugs as big
as birds there, absolutely and one of the you're called mosquitoes when we're flying
around here. You've seen the terall this weekend. It was a killer wasp.
It was just a murder wasp. It was that big. Yeah,
it looked angry. It's like I want and it had it had praying mantis
legs. To wasp with playing mantis legs is like, oh, I don't
get you with my stinger. I'm gonna ninja your but just like completely,
I'm gonna completely kunk food your ass to oblivion. Just so, are you
are you gonna talk about your your the he don't remember five tank a radio
set up we haven't. We haven't went there yet. Which part you walk
with? No? No, no, he talked about everybody, but you
didn't talk about your Oh oh okay, okay, all right, all right,
my Paul. He was having too much fun, right, I'm trying
to I'm trying to underail this thing. Okay, yeah, with that,
so I'm way. I'm used to the clubhouse, Josh and had really quick.
I just want to do a quick one entire crew, So yeah,
totally, Marty, who you haven't seen yet. Good job Marty this weekend
and Austin the man so u yeah, sorry, guys, we gotta we
gotta go bail. But we we got recognized in the bar last night,
and the Marines want to talk to us about definitely, so we're gonna go.
We gotta small words, Josh, small words. He was really low.
They the signals intelligence guys, So we'll bring crayon. We're helping them
out. We're trying to upgrade them from Crystal sets that they're using right now.
We're working Adam. Adam is the guy to do that for him for
sure, right all right, Crystal, thanks Josh, thanks for joining you
guys. Cool. Okay, So our setup at field day was as follows.
Is that back there, This is the buddy hecks right there in the
middle, and if you can see over here, it's kind of behind the
tree, but that's the d X commander behind the tree right there. And
that was pretty much all we had. We had the buddy hecks. You
didn't need anymore. No, we really didn't need anymore. We had every
bag because it was it was well, yeah, and the and the and
the and the the DX commander will go it'll go to eighty. But Mike
didn't. I don't think Mike had his eighty radio up, but he had
forty twenty, fifteen, ten and six. Well, no, he didn't
have six, but we could tune six. Yeah, okay, So and
again we tried six a few times. There's nothing out there. And then
I skipped the twelve and seventeen Miller elements on the buddy hacks and I just
put up six, ten, fifteen, and twenty, and so we had
And again Frank and I were running two radios through the triplex or on that
antenna. I meant to bring my K three and I was going to put
that, but put the K three on ten meters and see if there's any
any activity out there. Turns out it wasn't missed because ten meters was dead
anyway. I was really hoping ten and six would be something on ten and
six this weekend, but there wasn't. So so but it but it was
fun. We had We had two Yazu FTDX tens. Miket is IC seventy
three hundred and is a DX commander and Frank and I run our FTDX tens
on the buddy hacks and that that was all we needed. We were three
Alpha North Texas. This was a big achievement for me. I actually brung
my own radio and ran a station. I wasn't a move on. I
know this was he doesn't have one. He has one that a that a
subscriber bought for same Yeah, shame, shame, shame, but no seriously,
so contacts Jason Radio. We made somewhere around two hundred and fifty sideband
two hundred and sixty sideband I think um FT eight. We had two different
stations running FT eight. Mike sent me as law earlier actually, so I'm
guessing by the end there was another another two to three hundred fifty or sixty
on FT eight for fifteen meters I got. I got ninety two on twenty
meters, but I wasn't going the whole time. I'd do it while I
was here and other stuff. We shut down about nine thirty or ten this
morning, a good three hours before it ended. We just decided to close
down and pack up and go ahead. It was that's what It was.
Still cooler outside, yeah, not for it before it got terribly hot.
Yeah, it's pretty hot when you're when you're tearing stuff down and carrying stuff
heavy in your truck. It's still hot. Yeah. So but m Carlos
went to get a whiskey. That's why he's blurred right now. Nice.
So I feel you, buddy, But yeah, I just have them all
at the desk. I don't know where he's going. Well, he probably
has his what's it's eight and it's still ninety six. I mean, it's
like in the eighties here. But outside all weekend war Field Day, oh
Farmers. Yeah, dude, I was wearing those sandals on my feet all
weekend. I got a white spot over over the top of each my feet.
I have one. You can't really yeah, I can see it.
Yeah, that's your watch. Yeah, Yeah, that's how you do field
day. You are literally outside operating on battery and generator power, um all
weekend to show that we have the readiness and sixty five outside. Yeah,
it's hot here, man, that would be nice hot. That's not hot.
Chuck four here, So I don't feel so bad. I'm gonna quit
mention about the heat. Now. Eighty four is not hot either. I
got news for you, right, That's what I'm saying. I'm for some
more for you, Carlos Frank Would you what else, any any other any
other field day stuff that you might have thought of in the last hour.
You know what I heard more than I that I believed was please copy.
All day long I said, I said please copy. I said please copy
one hundred times this weekend. Mike made front of me every time I thought
about Kyle, every time. I didn't care. Every time, I just
kept saying it. I tried not many people, Sorry, Kyle. I
did a lot of I did a lot of I did a lot of like
we are three off yeah, But the other station, the other station would
say please copyright, and I'm like, I plaice copy, Kyle. Kyle
stands on that. So I came home and ran today and I'm trying to
get it up here. Um, I had a police copy counter that.
I was Carlos stream that. Carlos, you take that little blue pill that
that's we talked about it when he said that, Yeah, when he when
he said I tried to get it up today. Yeah, I caught that
myself. I was gonna say, they make pills for that, now they
poos for that. I'm not that old. I don't have that issue.
Yeah, So Sat, So Saturday, Saturday, actually actually this next Saturday
starts the UH starts the UM thirteen colonies contest. So I'm gonna say police
copy a lot on that as well. Go ahead, Kyle. So,
I was on the air for I streamed for an hour and made sixty contacts
exactly, and twenty of them are please copy, so one third where police
copy. I can't believe you have a stat for that. Well, oh
I know, yeah, I just nod it's node red. You know that
note you know that Kyle created a node red statistic for police copy. Go
watch my stream today. You'll see police copy and all the all the hooligans
that we had same police copy. And you want to mention who we saw
on stream? And we get contact, Shane, you need to come on.
I'm gonna leave it to jail. I don't okay, No, I
don't done. However, think, oh my gosh, how do I say
this? I could say it's your it's your channel. I could just I
could be political correct about it. All right, Sam read, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna let Shane have the floor, and I and I do not
necessarily disagree or deny anything that is said in the next thirty five seconds.
So so here there was a particular YouTuber who doesn't normally participate with the rest
of us, who was live prior to the start of field day, and
we were like, you know what, let's test our radio, let's make
a contact. We stumbled, let's plea, let's play nice and pleasant and
friendly. And we tried to make contact with this particular individual and he ignored
every call sign that was sent to him. And you can hear me.
You can hear that on his lifestyle clear he ignored me, Jason, and
he hadjorged Mike except for the girl that was like, well no. So
eventually I said, you know what, I'm gonna. I want to have
an experiment. I'm a Ham. I'm gonna, I'm anna experiment. I
said, let me use the Ham Radio clubhouse call sign because he hasn't blocked
out on Twitter yet. And I said, so, I give out the
the the Ham the clubhouse call sign that said W two HRC whiskey too hotel
Romeo. Charlie came right straight back to me, boom, But we've been
tripping for twenty minutes ago. Right, No, I'm not no, he's
not no, no, no legit, this was go watch the livestre I
don't like to give this, but on the live stream, listen listen.
No, okay, just go go to K five y V Y and friends
go over to our discord and we have a Hammerdo clubhouse chat room. And
then the Arab posted the clips. If you would like to see what happened,
you can join us over there. For sure, much so because the
loud list on his face it went like this. He was typing in he
saw was on the call, so and then he went, oh yeah,
resting, resting, resting bach phase is that you're five next yeah you.
He would not even he would not even acknowledge anybody Mike Shane or I or
Frank Frank. He didn't Makenoledge Frank either. Frank. He deleted Frank's comment.
Frank commented in his live stream chat he deleted it. Yeah, yeah,
I have that much hate for We're all nice, We're all nice people.
Well, I was gonna say. I was gonna say, hey,
man, thanks for live streaming. You sound great in Texas seventy three.
Thanks for being out there. That's all I was going to say. And
that's what I said under the W two HRC. It's like, hey,
great to get you in the log man, you sound great. You got
a five nine plus ten in Texas. That's what any of all of us
guys have seen this before. I call us Hams lead the way. We
are better Hams. I don't mean that as exclusionary. I mean we,
all of us, we are the better Hams. We will we will make
contact with those that shun us. We will, we will rise above the
mess. Yeah, some of these people live in For example, if you
want to know what the call sign is, go to the K five Y
Y. I'm not gonna say it on the street. Yeah yeah, yeah,
we don't need it. Yeah, we don't say it. Here.
Here here's the bottom. Here, here's the bottom already, you've already provided
provided way more advertisement for that personally, exactly. Yeah, but he's still
dealing up. So Shane, Shane, share the clubhouse discord link in the
chat please. Yeah. So here's the bottom line, my channel, my
turn to talk. Here's the bottom line. Seriously, I'm being I'm totally
serious right now. Okay, you know what, I don't need you to
agree with everything I say. I don't need you to agree with the way
I do stuff. I don't need that. I really don't. But if
you badmouth other people trying to promote him Radio, go back to QRZ and
shut the hell up. I mean, seriously, that's that's that's what I
think. I mean, you know what you can do you you do your
channel the way you want to. I do not care, really, But
the people who I have had personally misses me talking right now, the people
I have had on my zoom calls, on my live streams, on my
ham Radio happy hours, these are the people who I think promote Ham Radio
in the right way that welcome outsiders, welcome other people, and welcome newcomers
to the chat, to the hobby and the some of the people, some
of the people who you've never seen on this channel before have been invited and
never showed up, and that's okay, that's all right. Some of the
people have intentionally not been invited onto this channel before. So if you've ever
seen anybody on this channel, I support everyone who has been on this channel
one hundred percent, and they will promote the hobby the way it should be
promoted. Different ways, and that's okay, it's all right. Everybody's got
their different style. Nothing wrong with that. But yeah, yeah, if
if all you want to do is bad mouth other people and disagree and block
people who disagree with you, then you know, seriously, moved to North
Korea and shut shut up. So don't be a website for that. Don't
be a male falic impendage, right right, yeah, right, probably had
enough time on best man, Let's move on. I was calling CCU field
day this weekend. I was sitting next to Shane and I said ciccu Field
gay one time, and Shane looked at me and I'm like, I'm sorry,
man, did I just offend you? I mean, look at him
laughing right there. Seriously, I just got tongue tied, That's all it
was. Ain't nothing wrong with that, Jason, there's n a YO links
drounded My question. Which of these million subchannels was this subchannel? Million sub
channel in YO. Check it out, buddy, I'm drinking your pastry town.
You need to bring one to Huntsville. I would like to have one.
You need to bring about seventeen of these to Huntsville because I'm won a
few of them myself. It's really good stuff. Make it the twenty five
twenty five good stuff. Which one of these million subchannels was that discussion?
We did not share the channel name? No, no, no, go
to go to go to the discord at Ham Radio Clubhouse and look it up
and going to it's under General Clubhouse Chat. Correct, See Shane googled it
for you. Mike, I'm not gonna promote his channel. Sorry, yeah,
no I don't. I wouldn't either. Jason nailed it though. It's
it's it's a crap. There's so many people who just do it. This
is what you say, crow hand Radio Clubhouse discord. Yeah yeah, probably
crashing discord right now? Yeah, well, thank you all the what's the
name of the what's the name of the channel against Shane General Clubhouse Chat,
General clubhouse. There it is right there. Yeah, it's under Ham Radio
clubhouse. If you scroll up, I'm looking, I'm looking at the general
channel. Wow, right, breaks gonna kill me, Mike. Thank you
so much for sharing the Actually I just posted there myself, so yeah,
scroll scroll up, scroll up. This is why I love you guys.
This is it. Oh yeah, that would be great. It's really two
words side of him first, Yeah, yeah, yeah, sad him and
he has that license plate on his wall. He's not the same, so
I don't doubt that keeps coming in. Yeah, Joe Joe Brett. Joe
Brett says, my notifications keep blowing up. That's what you get from joining.
Just zoom tonight, Joe. Seriously, I know you've probably been sucking
back on the peanut butter whiskey all night, Joe Breck. But you know
that's how it is. There's so many people joining. I knew, he
said. He says, I knew Shane did something. All of you.
I've just jumped in there. Thank y'all so much. No offense, no
offense. But we're not talking about we're not talking about that channel. Yeah,
yeah, I thought I thought Steve had to leave to go check it
out because he disappeared the first club. We don't we don't talk about Ham
Club. Yeah that's right. Yeah, yeah, we do not talk about
him. Yeah, dude, two one, I'm not sitting in the shed
with eight. Oh yeah. So Joe Brett said he's got tornado warnings.
Yeah, he showed me. He sent me a picture of like radar scoop
or something that's the same screenshot he uses every time he would Yeah, I'm
pretty sure. I'm like, you know, yeah, I seen that before.
So you're in Mississippi, you got tornads. Hey, congrats. Okay,
if you're your internet's obviously working because you're chatting. So Joe Brett,
seriously, right, Joe, it would be it would be a great it
would great, be a great boost to my channel. Come through. It
would be a great It would be a great boost to my channel. If
Joe Brett, if you would join the chat and you got swept way on
a tornado during my live stream. So please let's go, dude, Yeah,
let's go. So yeah, I'm blown away. There's still so many
new people that are just winning the discord. First off, thank you guys.
Second of all, look for my I reposted the actual channel that you
do not. Do not go watch that guy, watch Shane's clip, watch
Shane's clips, do not go to his channel. We don't want to go
to all this viewtime. No, no, he's gonna be like, oh,
I'm doing something right. We only had six people watching his live stream
anyway, but yeah, yeah, when one was Frank, when you're exclusive,
well three of them were us. We were here. I'll listen trying
to be like that. Yeah that channel. Yeah, yeah, craziness.
I'm looking for Yellowstone next year, by the way, people here, so
yes, um yeah, so Frank Frank is uh well I can tell you
right now it's gonna be count all the people that went to Grand Canyon and
put them down as yes, so uh yeah, but Frank is planning that
if you want to know about Yellowstone, contact Frank direct direct. Yes,
yeah, boo boo, don't mess it up, Frank. Right, we're
actually is very important I get ahead account and and figure that out with it
this week because um something that we have to figure out what what days we're
going? Man? Right, these are we going justly July of twenty twenty
four, just naked. I'll make sure I'm off. Yeah, I'm not
gonna miss you. I'm not gonna miss that far in advance. Even Shane
can take. So every nobody else has an excuse. Southwest does into Yellowstone,
don't care. Yeah, I'm driving, I'm driving. I'm driving.
It's a it's a yog where Yogi Bear is. Yeah, it's a national
park. July of next year, we're I don't know why we have an
exact dates. Why not ju huh Yellowstone July is hit the thermos that um
um uh yeah. Just just ride that up right, you'd be awesome.
But oh my gosh, kab one wsc I look, I feel sorry for
him. Looks like he the kid I gave Shroys j That's the best part
is when you watch the start of his dream. He had two hundred two
minutes and fifteen seconds of the best commentary on YouTube ever. Yeah. Yeah,
too much time for sure, Yeah, too much time on him.
These are these are um, these are homemade marshmallows by my wife. That's
what I mean. Tell her, I said, thank you for making those.
I'll catch him next time. Yeah, amazing, amazing. I'll bring
it into best first moores because they're bourbon infused with the chocolate and when you
melt that, they they burned hotter. Shane, would you broke break keta
for him? Yes? I did too. Dark at your house? What's
up with that? Well, you know, the sun is setting and I
haven't figured out where they they'll switch for that light is Carlos. Carlos is
in an airplane right now getting ready to jump out. Let me nice,
that'd be nice. So, okay, guys, we're gonna shut this down.
We've been going our forty minutes and this has been really fun. Thank
you everyone for joining. Thank you everyone for joining the chat and zoom.
It's really fun. I'm glad you guys had a good field It sounds like
everyone had a good field day. Jodey is a really fun time. I
really much enjoy it. We are going to do winter field well eighty five
nine percent chance we're gonna do winter Field Day at Galveston Beach next January.
So more to come on that. I gotta talk to I gotta talk to
my wife. January February Marcher, the dead season. We can go down
there anytime we want to. It's not a problem. So if anyone's interested
in coming to Texas again, I have a limited number of spots to sleep.
But if you want to run a hotel or camp on the beach or
camp bring a camper. There are literally about twenty RV parks on the island
Regardston. It's just it's crazy. One. Let me be a long drive
from Wisconsin. But you you're welcome too. Oh I'll be a Texas resident
here real soon. Yeah yeah, oh yeah, that's right. Hey,
come down there, man, let's go. Let's do it. You know,
I sid I got a quah silkcard from Steve this week on them in
the mail. I'm like, Texas, what right, where are you at
right now? To I'm still at my house in Wisconsin. But this,
this, this house right here behind me is is fully mobile. They're they're
practicing living in the RV. So we have we have spent living in the
three months now right, We have spent New Year's even day in Galveston for
the last two maybe three years. It would not be out of the question
to just stay there all through January. So perhaps off that next year.
So you guys come down. It's not it's it's it's warmer down there than
it is up here. It's about five hours south of where I am right
where I'm sitting right now. It's in the sixties here right, man,
it's chili. It's usually in the sixties in January in Galveston, that's usually
sixty seventies somewhere in there. Yeah, better than minus thirty five. I've
done that. So yeah, Texas doesn't do that. Texas would like literally
break off and fall into the ocean if it ever got to thirty minus.
Saw that two years ago. So yeah, it wasn't that freaking cold.
It was like fourteen, and we lost our minds at fourteen degrees. We're
not doing not negative thirty five fourteen the yeah, yeah, yeah, goes.
Hey you got some more cheese? Okay, yeah, is that beer
cold? Come on down, Carlos. We got room for you, buddy.
It's eighteen hours something. I'm guessing I'll do it, and you know,
I'll do it in two maybe three days. That way I can stub
it parks on the way and do parks in the air, fly southwest or
do do do eight hours a day, No, do six hours a day
and stop at a park each night just to activate the park. That's how
I did Courtsfest. It was fine, it was fine, I could.
I could fly south with the problem was flying southwest is but then I don't
have a place to stay if I drive my list. I have a place.
I mean, we could probably throw a tent on the beach. We've
got I mean, we've got because I'll probably fly south. We've got beds.
No, I don't pay anything, it's free. Yeah, we've got
seven beds in the house, but we've got more room and whatnot. We'll
figure it out. We'll put a tent in the backyard. So yeah,
so I might. I might bringing the truck and park on the beach.
That's that's totally fine too. On the beach, I can show there's a
there's a place there where where Mike and I, Mike and Frank and I
go right on the edge of Galveston Island, the state park, there's a
place that's a that's a parking section. You could drive down the beach and
then you walk across the fence and you're in the state park. So can
you take your coax and absolutely, I've done that many times. Yeah.
Yeah. You just back your your back your truck up to the fence,
you take your antenna and you set it one foot on the other side of
the fence and run your quacks to it and you're done. You're just transmitting
from the state park. Buddy. Absolutely, absolutely, And yeah it's a
little bit windy, but all I'm gonna worry is to sea breeze. It's
not already. Hey, if you guys camp on the beach, I'm coming
down there and staying with you guys. I'm gonna if I'm gonna come down
to the truck, I'm staying on the beach. I am, I am,
I am bringing my gazelle tent. I'm gonna put it up on the
beach myself. So yeah, I'm staying down there just because I can so
so. Jody Vassar says, Shane, when the tide comes in, your
tent on the truck roof will still be dry. Likely, yes, absolutely,
because I won't be anywhere near where high tides hat. I don't know.
High tide moves up and down really quickly out there. I could park
parking lot. I have fifty coax. Oh yeah, I could get I
could get one hundred foot running from Bloney Yeah. Anyhow, right. Digital
Dreamer says, maybe Carlos could skydive all the way there. Yeah, that
would be very difficult. Squirrels, the loft would have to be scream.
Just go up and jump off of the I SS It's easy. H Let's
just make sure you tuck for aeronautical purpose. There you go. Yeah,
yeah, let's drag that way right right right right right right. You're wearing
let's I mean, but it's still dragged. Jason, are we doing last
night? What are we doing last round? Yeah? Let's do last rounds?
Okay, So everyone tell me what's coming up in your channel? Make
it quick, Frank, go Phil Day, Phil Day, Monday, Phil
Day, Monday. I forgot what time? Two o'clock tomorrow, correct time
Central time? Good? Good, okay, Shane, go all right,
so TID Radio t d H from field Day. I'll have that review coming,
and then I have the zygu VG four or four band vertical. I'm
editing that video right now and that will be coming out. No thanks to
week. Oh my god, are you gonna actually put a video about that?
I got lots of great footage for that. How to how to legitimately
have us have a reason to commit suicide by building this antenna? Shane did
it wrong? Right? I'm gonna link there is no right to that antenna.
Okay, thanks Shane, Carlos, what's up? Video jump number three
at him mention, I'm blaming him putting him live tomorrow? Nice. Finally
number four will be the week after, and I have a couple of the
videos in the work. You can't release more than one video? Yeah,
well you know, well that's for you people that make videos like ten videos
a day. I I I think like one video a week, once a
video. One video a week is plenty you could do too, but one
video. If you're doing one a week, you are golden. Seriously.
So you're going to Huntsville Carlos, Oh hell yeah, yea. And not
only that, I'm jumping at the Huntsville, not at the hunt has itself
all be forty miles away. But I expect you all to radiate me.
I'll go for them at my campsite. Yeah, Huntsville is gonna be awesome,
awesome hus ham Fest in August. Everybody look it up and make plans
to go. Kyle, what's ham fast? But I'll make it to the
Huntsville. Yes, make it to Huntsville. Kyle, what's up? Um?
New CW Operator round Table tomorrow Field Day recap. Everyone who worked CW
come with your stories and that's it cool. Thanks for joining me, man,
Yeah, eight pm tomorrow night, eight pm tomorrow. Okay, Jim,
what's up lying with antennas? More tiger tails? No, there are
no more? You shut up? You You just doing some messing around with
with HD antennas. There's such a wide range of these things, and some
work better than others and some are just sad. Cool. Thanks Jim,
Chuck. What's going on? Um? I just dropped the video for tomorrow
morning on my three element moxin. Then I'm gonna build and it's it's gonna
be a two part thing because I actually went through all the steps of how
to make it this time more good, showing people how I how I do
it. I mean, if people want to do a different way, that's
fine. I don't care, um, but I did ask him to be
like, put in the comments if you have a better way or a different
way or whatever. You know. I got some kiweet stuff. I'm gonna
do a view on and post that up. I don't Radio's channel, Yeah,
I don't. I gotta find out what we're actually doing on that,
because maybe we can pull nice things. Maybe we can bring you on to
a live stream one of these days and talk about the theory behind moxin's that'd
be a good show. I don't know if I know any theory, but
yeah, sure you got plenty. Look at up. How did you how?
How how you build it? How do you build one? What you
look for? How you have? Why does it work combined? They?
I actually I think they're a little I think they're just a hair better,
not not a lot. I mean, probably couldn't tell than than a x
beam only because I think it's more straight, you know, more like a
Gregory aggy. They're actually within but they're single band correct, Well, they
can be multiple band too, can they? Okay, yeah, it's it's
a little hard. That's that's what the x beam does easier. Is it's
easier to do multiple bands with the x beam, but you can do it
with it with a box. And also I found a really good site.
There's a it's yeah, spider Beam makes one later Kyle four elements, but
supposedly my three element is better than the spider Beam four element on on ten.
But let's uh, let's schedule something in a couple of weeks on a
Sunday, Chuck, I'd love to get you on a live stream and just
talk about mosins for an hour. Sure, because I am I know what
a moxin is. I know basically how it's designed, but I don't know
any details about it. So I it could be a good good for the
audis beam right, Well, but nobody watched his clubhouse. We'll come on
to my channel and do some stuff. So I only I only said that
because Shane's here. No, I'm kidding, yeah, fighting back, Hum
well, Iso, I like, so ya, thanks brother, you're you
guys are both cigar brothers. I'm good with both of you. Y'all.
Y'all are fine, So yeah, thanks, thanks Chuck. Yeah, I'll
email you about some stuff, all right, Charlie, what's coming up on
your channel? See, I got a couple of things in post that I
should really sue. One as the quadruple goat four thousand points activation wow,
Charlie, humans four thousand, four thousand, quadruple go to be four thousand
ye? And then also, uh, does the GS five be radiotity radio?
Is it good for soda? It'd be surprised with the answer. And
then I am going to four corners Masa Verde Monument Valley for a tour and
doing soda on those and parks on the air on lalls, and then I'm
after that a week later, I'm going to Nashville. I'm gonna do some
soda in Nashville. So around there, there are you so question I want
to go to I want to go to Four Corners and do that poda.
Yeah, that's a good question. I've been there a long I've been there
a long time ago. But yeah, go ahead, Shane. How far
are you from Yosemite? Uh, it's it's a good it's a good stretch.
Probably sixteen hours. I had had one of my two of my co
workers win and because of all the two snow melt that they had this year,
that Yosemite looks absolutely fantastic. I can't I'd love it. I've actually
considered flying out to Fresno just to go out and do a soda up in
Yosemite somewhere. It's beautiful up there. We did that, We didn't we
do that? Like that was two years ago? Yeah, we went up
there two years ago. He was there two years ago. So I didn't
Well, that's wet. I wasn't around Frank was there. So if Frank
was there, everybody else was invited. Frank was invited. I mean,
come on, no, Frank and Charlie and Frank and Charlie and I flew
into Reno. We drove out and met car I'm sorry, h Adam Hobby
and I saw Chuck. Adam, Hobby and Chuck were there. Who else
was There were six of us there. Yeah, we met you guys there.
Yeah. Yeah, So that was a fun trip, a really fun
trip. Yeah, that would be fantastic. Did you do again? I
have a bee line on a giant cabin this think like fourteen. Hey,
you set that up and I'll be there. We're doing working, We're doing
uh, we're doing Yellow Stay next year, but i'd be I'd be down
for doing more than one in the year. Cool with me. So thanks,
Charlie, appreciate you being here. Buddy, TiO. What's up mar
Night Nuggets. We are getting a new Ham all the air with a zigu
G ninety for the first time. Should be fine. I'm sorry, I'm
sorry. You're gonna try to with a real radio winning these days. Also,
Oh, come on, every Monday, we try something that we've never
done before. Hopefully, and we do it live so you can see the
horrible mistakes or you need you need to get you need to get Carlos on
and have him do a skydive off of the ISSS that's never been done before,
So I will Carlos. Hello, good offend me. Hey guys,
I'm leaving all right later chuck. Yeah, guys, good hey, yeah,
yeah, yeah, thanks Teo. Glad you stayed awake, buddy,
Yeah, definitely. It was a long weekend. Oh yes, it has.
You're very you'll get it all up late and stuff is zo. What's
up? Day night, Ham Radio Clubhouse. We'll talk about nothing or maybe
we'll talk about a side Ham. You never know. This week's gonna be.
I suspect feel sane. I suspect Shane will have some content for you
guys this week. That's just a guess. I'm just guessing. Totally random.
Guess could be so yeah, it could be so Heay Radio Clubhouse at
seven pm, seven pm, Centrals zero UTC on Tuesdays. Check that out.
So thanks, guys. I appreciate everyone to be here tonight and glad
everyone had a good field day. It sounded like, so we will see
you guys this week, and um hey, Happy July seventy three, All
twenty three, everybody, good bye, everybody, everybody,