WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:04.679 Thank you for choosing to download the Ham Radio two point zero audio podcast rip. 2 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:09.000 This is the audio taken out of a video or a live stream I 3 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:13.039 did recently. You can catch all my videos on YouTube Ham Radio two point 4 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:18.280 zero and catch us live every Sunday night at seven pm Central Standard Time for 5 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:22.559 a different topic each week. Thank you for the support and thank you for 6 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:32.320 being a member of the community. All right, I'll show seven o'clock in 7 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:38.200 text as folks. Good evening to all. Appreciate everyone being out there tonight, 8 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.960 and we're gonna transition over right here. We got a pretty cool live 9 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:46.840 stream set up for you tonight. We're gonna be talking once again about the 10 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:51.840 Morse Monkey, which is a CW learning tool that is a kit that you 11 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:56.640 build. And we've had Scott on a couple of times before in the past, 12 00:00:57.159 --> 00:01:00.719 and he's got a special discount for some people tonight, some people tonight, 13 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:04.319 So we'll get to that here in a minute. Special shout out to 14 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.159 all the folks in green text in the chat. I saw Andy Kelly in 15 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:12.000 there earlier. AA zero Am is in there, Donde Gideo's in there. 16 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:17.040 Thanks for being here tonight, guys. I see Wayne, I see Todd. 17 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:21.359 I see Tom, let's see him Radio Crusader's in the house, Big 18 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:27.079 John's hamshack Ham Radio Wilderness with Frank and in five s k T. Not 19 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:32.359 that Frank, the other Frank Kakey for hx Q. So thanks for being 20 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:37.599 here tonight, guys. Appreciate you guys showing up for the live stream. 21 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:42.640 So we do have Let me get to the right screen here, so great 22 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:46.879 vine. Amateurd radio dot com is my website, which is if you go 23 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:49.560 to shop dot Ham Radio two dot com, which is where it's linked from 24 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:52.159 a lot of the times. I'll put this link in the chat. This 25 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.040 is where you can get the Morse monkey. This is where you can get 26 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.879 sticker packs that Frank might talk about here in a minute. There's a Tank 27 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:02.159 Radio sticker pack. There several sticker packs from from me right there. There 28 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:07.040 are t shirts here and I'm looking for a T shirt designer if anyone has 29 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.919 any If anyone has any experience in T shirt design, hit me up in 30 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.159 discord. I would like to talk to you. I got a couple of 31 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:16.000 ideas and want to bounce off of you. But but that's where you can 32 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.280 get the most monkey that we're going to talk about here in just a little 33 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:22.960 bit, so, uh, I put the link in the chat. Glenn, 34 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:25.479 thank you for the ten dollars super chat. Appreciate the support out there 35 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:30.319 tonight, and we're gonna bring on Frank and Scott here. Let me make 36 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:36.120 sure I got the right the right screen and let me unmute you guys. 37 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:40.520 What's up? How are you guys tonight? Doing good, good doing, 38 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:44.639 doing great? Man. I just got off the live stream with Mike and 39 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:49.960 we talked about battery boxes, and I'll kind of just the starter basics what 40 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:53.840 you kind of need and want to look for, boxes, shrolers, charts, 41 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:58.159 controllers, wires, and just just we went all over the place. 42 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:01.400 So it's the perfect starting point if you're thinking about building a battery box, 43 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:05.879 because I'm gonna start. I'm gonna do that, and and of course take 44 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.879 radio stickers. Go ahead and head over there. I need to sell somewhere 45 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:14.879 of those packs. Please please buy some stickers. Yeah right, right right, 46 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:19.280 yeah, uh yep, so uh yeah, I see uh, I 47 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:22.680 see quirky QRP in the house. So I'm just watching to see what he 48 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:32.759 has to say. But you know who's excellent designer T shirts? Who Leah. 49 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:36.159 Well, yeah, yeah, I think she has a job though. 50 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:39.560 So yeah, yeah, I've been, uh, I've been. I've been 51 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:43.479 told that before as well. But yeah, she's she's kind of tied up 52 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:47.080 elsewhere, I believe. But yeah, so I had I had a couple 53 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:51.199 of I had a couple of new T shirts that I was working on, 54 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:54.680 and then we had to pivot because we lost our printer in Huntsville, Alabama, 55 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:58.639 and I've pivoted back to our printer here locally, so I'm kind of 56 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:00.879 working through that right now. So if you guys have ordered T shirts on 57 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.439 the website in the last week, week and a half or something like that, 58 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.560 they might be a little bit delayed. But we've got we've got it 59 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:12.199 working, so we'll we'll we'll have that updated and put back to normal very 60 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:15.879 soon. But that's that's where that is, so frank. But yeah, 61 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:19.120 so part of your stream, Yeah, I watched it. I only watched 62 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:21.160 it for a few minutes. I've been kind of under the weather today. 63 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:25.439 I've got some allergy stuff going on, so I haven't to I haven't really 64 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.439 done much today at all. But uh, we're gonna give Scott the floor 65 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:31.879 here in a minute and then I'm gonna I'm gonna if we if we end 66 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.319 early, then I'm gonna end it early. I don't. I think my 67 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.920 throat's gonna get to me before too long. My voice is gonna go out. 68 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.040 But we'll see, we'll see, we see how how far that goes. 69 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:44.560 As always, I'll be watching the chat for any questions. I'll bring 70 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:47.879 your questions up on air as the topic permits, or I'll just sit on 71 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:53.120 them and we'll have a lightning round at the end, and if Jason feels 72 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:55.639 a little bit on the weather, I'll take over and it becomes take Radio. 73 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.040 I love this idea. Yeah, I bet you do, I bet 74 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:01.199 you do. All right, Scott, Well once again, welcome back, 75 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:05.319 thank you for being with us again. Thanks for lending me on. Yeah 76 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:08.480 you bet, you bet. It's I mean, there's a I think you 77 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:13.680 were on Kyle's channel once talking about CW kits. Yes, yeah, I 78 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:16.879 invited me on as well, and I had the same problem that I had 79 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:24.319 talking to you earlier, where the tones that are being generated by this kit 80 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:30.160 actually we're getting muffled. I found a little setting silly zoom thought it was 81 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:34.439 background noise and was trying to squelch it so good, So I'm disabled that 82 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:38.959 now you can hear the fan of my of my laptop running at the same 83 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:44.120 time. So but we get give us a little demo real quick, Okay, 84 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:48.639 let me pull up this unit. There we go. The unit, 85 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:54.680 the new unit that I have here, can be powered by either batteries. 86 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:59.560 On this side. We plug in a FTDI serial cable if you want to 87 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:04.120 use this cereal interface on it, or just a regular old USB c plug. 88 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:10.040 And since Frank was talking about portable battery systems, most of them have 89 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:14.720 a little USB adaptor on there. So that makes means this thing can tag 90 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:18.439 along and be powered off one A battery one of those battery kits without without 91 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:23.920 having to use the double A batteries on it. So let me turn this 92 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:28.360 on, and I'm running right now on the power supply that's coming from the 93 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:32.920 UH from the FTD I cable. Go ahead, when you powered the screen 94 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:35.439 on, I just a real quick side note here you powered the screen on, 95 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:40.000 it said version one dot oh dot one? Is that the latest one? 96 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:44.199 Yes, this is the latest version because it does it does repetitive iambic 97 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.160 we got some people had asked about. So we'll go through that. When 98 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:49.600 you look up, the first thing it goes to is the settings menu. 99 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:54.360 I hope you can see these. I've got my light here. I'm trying 100 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:58.120 to get where you can see the l c D without getting too much glare. 101 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.240 It's perfect, man, I can see it just fine. Okay, 102 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:08.560 good. Select anything simply by pushing the knob and you rotate through all the 103 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:14.519 various settings. So we'll start with the iambics key, where you've got a 104 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:18.360 dual paddle key like I've got here, or a single key straight key. 105 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:25.120 Sorry. You've also got background lights which let me move my light out of 106 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.879 the way, and you can see that it turns on and off the background 107 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:33.480 lights that help you be able to read it in bright daylight. Or it's 108 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:39.959 actually a feedback as well, because it'll turn red or green when it's scoring 109 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:43.120 you. It'll do that for a couple of seconds to show you whether or 110 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:46.680 not you got it right or wrong. The words per minute I updated this. 111 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:51.680 This defaults to ten or you can do eighteen, and I've uped it 112 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:57.040 to six because I started playing with the words per minute setting, like I 113 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:01.959 was discussing earlier on my icon seventy three hundred yeah, I was actually measuring 114 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.639 the frequency of the tones, breaking that down into the number of words per 115 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:11.120 minute. Plus the menu that the icon has has a minimum of six words 116 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:16.079 per minute, So I was able to use those values to actually compute the 117 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:22.040 frequency of which the tones are generated, and also the timing measurement when it's 118 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:26.720 trying to understand what you had keyed in. We've got the side tone, 119 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:31.759 which somebody asked for. It's now always on. It's basically it will when 120 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:33.600 you're keying something, it'll play the it'll play the tone so you can hear 121 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:41.279 it. This allows you to swap the two keys. Which one is going 122 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:46.039 to be long, which one's going to be short, according to the tip, 123 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:50.159 the ring and the sleeve of the plug that you're plugging into the keyer. 124 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:52.960 Now, this uses a little one eighth key. It doesn't use a 125 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.799 three quarter inch, but you can get an adaptor for that. Okay, 126 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:07.399 Now, the Coke method for scoring got feedback from kJ five cbe. He 127 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:13.279 asked about adjusting the Coke setting because what this does is it will play back 128 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:18.840 something and you get to type it in using this FTDI cable in a terminal 129 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:22.840 on your computer. So when it plays back something, you type in what 130 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.720 you think it played, and it'll tell you whether you got it right or 131 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:31.759 wrong. When you get eighty percent or eight out of ten correct, it'll 132 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.679 move on to the next higher add additional letters to it. But he was 133 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:39.480 asking for being able to go higher sets. So this will actually go up 134 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:46.080 to twenty different tests and eighty percent of that, of course would be sixteen 135 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:52.480 of them correct. And then you can also set what kind of percentage you 136 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.879 want you wanted to move up when you're at sorry, eighty percent, ninety 137 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:03.000 or one hundred percent. So okay, I'm not I'm not sure not getting 138 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:09.879 framed here properly. I can explain the Coke method briefly if if you want 139 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:13.039 me to go into detail now, or we can do it later. As 140 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:15.879 I'm going through this, what do you well? We we yeah, we 141 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.159 can do that. Let's let's let's back up for just a second and just 142 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:20.360 and I should have said this is my fault. I should have said this 143 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:24.799 up front. I was like, let's explain exactly what this is because some 144 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.919 people may have not been here before. So this is a kit to build 145 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:31.840 that you that you build, and Scott's gotta got a kit in a bag 146 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.320 real quick that he's going to show you in a minute. And that's it 147 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:37.519 right there. And this is a kit you build that lets you learn CW 148 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.559 by by It's it's interactive. You type it in there and there's like four 149 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:45.039 or five different methods you can use. So you type in CW, it 150 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:48.200 tells you whether it's right or on. You can set the coke method, 151 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:50.279 you can set the words per minute, you can set the can change the 152 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.200 tones. I'm not sure, but but there's the it's so this is a 153 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:58.480 training kit for those of you wanting to learn c W and if you enjoy 154 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:01.559 kit building, it's really good for that as well. So I just I 155 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:03.840 should have said that up front, and I got distracted by something. So 156 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:05.559 yeah, go ahead, Scott, Yeah you want to you wanted to explain 157 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.320 the coke method, Please go ahead the coke method. Let me also pull 158 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:20.679 up a terminal here if I can find one really quick umming while you're doing 159 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:24.000 that, just a quick reminder, I'm looking for any questions in the chat, 160 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.720 So if you have any questions, go ahead and put them out there 161 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:35.080 and I'll read them on screen window capture. Okay, that's it, Okay, 162 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:41.600 And then fade to this. Now, let me turn this guy off 163 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:48.360 and back on again, and you get a terminal display. Yes, I'm 164 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:54.759 seeing that. Okay, so let me try to move that over to the 165 00:11:54.000 --> 00:12:01.759 side and let me pull up not that, let me well up this again 166 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:09.919 and pull him over. So here we have the kit with a glare and 167 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:16.120 a terminal. Right, if you go into the coke method, what it 168 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:22.200 will do is it will play back tones and I've got the volume turned down. 169 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:24.200 I'm sorry, we turned that up, and it will repeat it every 170 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:33.399 ten seconds. H come on, don't think about it. Just right. 171 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:41.879 Am I doing this? Right? I hear it? But yeah, I'm 172 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.519 not. Yeah, I can't hear it. That's the problem. Oh you 173 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:46.799 can't hear it. I can't hear the tones. Uh, well, you've 174 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.360 got it. You've got to routed through zoom, but not to the computer. 175 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.399 I bet that's right, because I okay, so I don't I don't 176 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:58.840 know what it's playing. Let's let's say it's playing Q and Z. So 177 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:03.240 if I enter Q and z, oh, I'm sorry, I get to 178 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.200 put the cursor on the terminal Q and Z. Then it tells me I 179 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:11.200 got to incorrect. It was actually playing a six in a w which you 180 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:16.480 guys probably could tell. So I currently have zero out of the past ten 181 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.080 and it says I'll move up to the next level when I get eight in 182 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:24.720 a row. Correct, gotcha. The next level is it's going to play 183 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:28.360 three letters at a time, so let me get out of that. So 184 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:35.039 the Coke method is essentially I'm trying to pull the screen up here, pull 185 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:39.799 that off, pull it back just back in the center. The Coke method 186 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:45.720 basically is play two letters at a time, you try to score yourself and 187 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:48.720 then move up to three letters at a time when your score is high enough, 188 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:50.720 until it gets all the way up to six letters at a time, 189 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:58.720 and the playback speed is controlled by the WPM the words per minute. So 190 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.840 that was the Coke method. And as I said, thanks to a lot 191 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:07.879 of feedback from Dimitri, we could set how many times it will play back 192 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:11.000 that set. Currently it's playing two letters, it would play it back ten 193 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.639 times and wait for me to get eight in a row. But I could 194 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:18.480 increase that to eleven, twelve, all the way up to twenty before it 195 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.919 is before it's ready to advance me to the next level. And you can 196 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.200 also set what percentage you want to get correct before it moves you up to 197 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.480 the next level, from two characters to three characters up. Okay, So, 198 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.799 and then we've got whether or not we want iambic keying to be repeating 199 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:39.720 or not, so when you hold down the key, it'll repeat or with 200 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:43.440 it off, when you hold down the key, it'll just play the tone 201 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.639 once. And of course when you've got iamb king, you got long on 202 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:50.559 this side, short on that side. At least the way mind wired, 203 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:54.759 you can save all the settings. If you don't save the settings, then 204 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:56.840 when you power it off and power it back on, it either goes back 205 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:03.519 to the original default, it will restore the last time you save the settings, 206 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:07.440 and we go back and were at the top menu. So that was 207 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:11.159 really quick going through other settings. They're all documented on the website and where 208 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:18.159 you can download the assembly instructions. We've got practice mode, we've got dictate 209 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:24.240 mode, we've got Echo mode, we've got Coffee mode, and we've got 210 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:28.200 the coke mode. And then we're back to settings again. So I'm not 211 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.519 going to be able to see I'm not going to be able to hear what 212 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:37.879 I'm typing, unfortunately, but let me in practice mode. Push the button 213 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:41.519 and it says push to start and key whatever you want. So if I 214 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:48.600 just hold down that and I guess it played two longs and if I found 215 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:52.639 that, play two shorts, or if I hold on that long enough, 216 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:58.279 it'll play come on, three shorts. It's not doing that. It's playing 217 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:04.799 ease, playing one short. Oh did we Oh that's the problem. Let's 218 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:12.360 go back to Yeah, we won't repeat on there. We go back to 219 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:21.039 practice now and here we go. Just hold that. Oh boom, I 220 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:26.039 guess you can't see yeah, can you see me pressing the key? Here 221 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:27.480 we go, Well yeah, but now the screen's out of the screen. 222 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:30.679 To get both of them on the screen, right, it's okay, I 223 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:36.279 mean we can hear it. Just fine. So I just hold that two 224 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:41.519 three, No, that was two. That was H. That's five. 225 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:48.519 If you hold them both, it alternates back and forth. Okay. Now, 226 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.120 what it's doing is it's trying to interpret what it is that you keyed. 227 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:56.799 So we have an O, two h's, and a five. It 228 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.960 also put an asterisk there because that takes up less face than just putting in 229 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:04.799 WTF, because it couldn't figure out what it is you were trying to say. 230 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:08.680 Okay, I just hold this, you know, for a whole bunch 231 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:14.440 of long tones. Doesn't have any idea what it is, and unfortunately I'm 232 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:19.119 having to guess at what the duration of the tones are. That's a T 233 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:23.359 yep one really fast. One is going to be an eye an E yep 234 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:29.799 and bloom boom and a no, that's a T T. There we go. 235 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:38.160 Okay, you gotta do it really fast to get the A. There 236 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:45.519 you go. So a couple of quick questions here can you change the tone? 237 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:51.319 Now? The tone is set to that frequency? There is a way 238 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:55.640 if you want to be a bit of a hacker. The oscillator is generated 239 00:17:55.720 --> 00:18:00.039 from this resistor of this capacitor, and it's actually very simple to lower the 240 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:06.720 tone by simply adding resistance or adding capacitance. But there's nothing in the menu 241 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:12.480 that controls what the what the tone frequency is. Okay, this is from 242 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:18.119 Terry. Do you need a key or or do you plug in your paddle 243 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:26.200 directly into the KITM on that one? Yeah, I don't understand that question. 244 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:30.319 You it's it has the uh you need your own key like unplugged the 245 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:33.519 three point five millimeter Jack Scott, you you get you get this is the 246 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:38.039 kit right, provide your own key. I bought this guy, uh in 247 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:47.599 order to develop with wired him up myself and for space considerations. It just 248 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:52.200 uses a little three point five millimeter one eighth inch plug, doesn't use a 249 00:18:52.200 --> 00:19:00.000 big fat quarter inch plug. So okay, Frank, Okay. Then the 250 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:06.440 next one is kind of how difficult do you think this kit build is? 251 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.400 Uh? Frank, you've done it? Do you think it is? I 252 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:17.000 think it's it's a medium medium Okay, not, it's not. It's not 253 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:21.160 difficult, it's not easy, it's it's just kind of falls in that sweet 254 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:26.519 spot of it was fun. I got a video of me building the kit 255 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:32.519 up first version. Yeah, there's one thing that is a challenge, and 256 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:37.480 it's not for the faint of heart, because all of this is throughhole to 257 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:42.799 make it easier with one exception, and that is right here, I can 258 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:51.279 try get really close the USBC plug is and that is really really tight. 259 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:55.799 So that's you need a really fine soldering iron and you need steady hands. 260 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:57.799 But you don't have to put that on there though. You don't have to 261 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:02.799 use the USB plug if you wanted to use one of these, now I've 262 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:06.720 got I got another one of these floating around over here. Let me just 263 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:14.240 unplug it and uh, well, here he is. This is actually used 264 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:19.720 with a with like a Raspberry pie and a odroid. Uh, it's the 265 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:23.279 same thing. You've got this plug. It's got a USB plug on here. 266 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:32.559 When you plug this USB plug into just say anything in the world wise, 267 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:37.599 you can plug it that way. You can actually just run the Morse 268 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:42.480 Monkey with this. With this FTDI cable and one of any old phone charger 269 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.960 adapter. You don't actually have to have this thing plugged into the PC. 270 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.000 Now. You plug it into the PC in order to get the terminal up 271 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:53.519 so that you can use the coke method and other things that have a terminal 272 00:20:53.519 --> 00:21:00.279 in your face instead of just the display. Okay, yeah, if you 273 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.839 if you are really faint of heart and you don't want to install that USB 274 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:07.680 plug, you can get by with just the just the six pin, only 275 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.920 five of which are used, and they're even labeled there too, black, 276 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:15.680 black, red, brown, so you know which way to plug this cable 277 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:22.519 in. Awesome, good, Okay, down, no other questions. Now 278 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:26.079 continue on. I'll let you keep going. I have some more later, 279 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.720 but keep on going. Okay, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm 280 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:44.160 going to do you do do here there, I'm gonna take these headphones and 281 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:48.680 I'm going to plug them into my mixer that is feeding the tone generator. 282 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.039 Now see if you can hear it. I'll pull one ear off. Now 283 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:56.839 I can hear you guys on one ear, and I can hear the tone 284 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:02.079 on the other. So we'll move on to the dictate mode. And this 285 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:07.559 is they want you to key what it is that you read on the display. 286 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:10.440 So it gives you a five. So we need to key a five 287 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:15.559 and we know and I am ic, we know that's it, and it 288 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.519 tells me it's correct. Switch back to the to the view of the to 289 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:23.480 the overhead view. I'm sorry, you're right, that's fine. I assume 290 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:26.640 that's what you were thinking. That's what I was doing. Yeah, there 291 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:32.319 we go. Okay, now it wants me to key a G. Anybody 292 00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:37.640 know what a G is? Dash dash dot dot dot dit I think, 293 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.039 I think, hey, you got that right? Hey there I go. 294 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:49.359 I know one letter and then seven mm hmmm. So it's scoring you keeping 295 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:56.519 and that's not right. So we got an incorrect there. When you're done, 296 00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:59.200 it tells you, hey, we got three right, and we failed 297 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:03.559 once. Gotcha, so you can use that score yourself. We move on 298 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:11.440 to the echo mode, and here all you do is repeat what you hear 299 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:18.240 and it won't tell you what the letter is. Hm, Nope, I 300 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:38.440 did that wrong, wrong side all right? Nopes, I got one right. 301 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:44.400 It sounds like you're uh your iambic is king a little bit faster. 302 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:48.119 Yeah, the I am king a bit faster than the playback is. But 303 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:49.640 it tells me. Now in this case, I only got one right and 304 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:56.039 I failed four times. So the next one is the copy method. This 305 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.279 one you don't use the key at all. This one you get out your 306 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:06.480 trusty little piece of paper. It will play back a call sign. Now 307 00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:22.079 it's a randomly generated two y three call sign, and you're supposed to be 308 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:23.799 able to write that down, figure out what the call sign is. It 309 00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:36.799 will repeat it every ten seconds. Oh, you're done. It's WW six. 310 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:47.000 Now it's WW one. I think whoops, Ah, I should not 311 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:51.039 have done that. I'm sorry. We'll start with a new one because it 312 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:56.839 randomly generates these. Yeah, this little dreamer says that was no, he's 313 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:03.000 six W that's his call sign. He's making joke. When you're when you're 314 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:08.559 giving up. When you're done, tap the key here, either the key 315 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:11.839 if you're using straight, or the long if you're using iambic, and it 316 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:15.960 will tell you what it was it was generating in this case, KG one 317 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.240 W T O. Now these are random. It'll always start with a K 318 00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:23.920 or a W, and the third one will always be a number. Other 319 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:42.400 than that, anybody guessing the seconds behind my my listening skills are are where 320 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:47.039 I need to practice the most. This copy would help you, then, 321 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:48.960 yes, yeah, this, this would help. This would be great. 322 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:53.960 So when when we're done here, we're just tapped the key and it tells 323 00:25:55.039 --> 00:26:02.799 us that is what it was actually typing W and it doesn't score you because 324 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:07.839 you're not actually telling it what you thought it was, right and uh. 325 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:11.440 The next one is the Coke method, which we already went through, and 326 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:15.799 that one requires cooked up to the car to the computer with the terminal so 327 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:18.839 you can actually enter what it is you thought it was and it'll score you. 328 00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:26.640 And that goes full circle to all the functionality that's in there. Cool. 329 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:30.480 Good. I really like the copy. I think that will help out 330 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:34.079 a lot of people. And I gave that suggestion to Scott. I think 331 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:40.119 after talking to Mike, He's like, the hardest the hardest part about CW 332 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:42.079 sometimes is just copying the call signs. I'm like, well, that can 333 00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:45.759 be an easy mode here, yeah, because that was one of the first 334 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.200 things you suggested was add that in there, and I thought, okay, 335 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:53.160 let's let's give people a tool that they can practice taking down call signs as 336 00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:57.519 fast as possible and they're always going to be two by three call signs, 337 00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:00.759 so and always to with the KRW SID I give you a bit of a 338 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:06.680 hint, and you didn't keep my menu name. It will say please copy 339 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:11.599 Kyle. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't use the Kyle, Please copy 340 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:19.240 Kyle. That's good. Cool, Okay, Well, let's let's talk about 341 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:23.079 the fact that we have a sale going on. There's so there's two versions, 342 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:27.480 Yes, there's there's the original version and the new twenty twenty four version. 343 00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:30.680 And to my knowledge, Scott, the only difference is the USB plug 344 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:34.480 or is there something else? No, it's pretty much the USB plug. 345 00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:40.400 Okay, what will Yeah, it's pretty it's the USB plug. Let me 346 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:47.279 open up okay this kit okays? The name the actually turn the screen back 347 00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:52.119 on to overhead. There you go and we'll open up this kit. This 348 00:27:52.279 --> 00:28:00.200 board just the original board functionally laid out the same size and everything. The 349 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:07.960 only difference is that this connector does not connect to the serial connection on here. 350 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.680 Okay, well, I'm sorry it does. I got this backwards. 351 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:15.920 This does connect to the serial connection on here, but this connector does not 352 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:22.079 power the board. And also the difference is the USBC plug here, because 353 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:26.480 what I've added right here is a little three point three volt regulator and bypassed 354 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.440 capacitors so that you can power it from either one of these plugs. The 355 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:37.279 older version of the board doesn't have that. But let me pull let me 356 00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:42.319 put this back in his bag. Here. I put together these little kits 357 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:45.720 which I was hoping people would have an interest in, and nobody did. 358 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:52.039 So what I want to do. This little kit is actually an add on 359 00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:59.319 which you can use to replace the uh my right screen. Here you can 360 00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:03.319 use to replace the battery pack. So let me pull this thing up, 361 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:08.519 and I'm throwing in these little kits because what you do. You can see 362 00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:12.920 the picture on the left, the battery pack has been removed and that kit 363 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:18.680 has been mounted where the battery goes, and it's got in this case a 364 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:25.519 USB Mini, not a USB C and it's also got the same five pin 365 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:33.039 plug. So functionally, by adding this kit to the existing earlier version of 366 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:38.880 the board, it becomes functionally almost the same as the new board. Gotcha, 367 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:45.000 Okay, the only difference being that in the new board you put this 368 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:48.519 back in the center. In the new board you can power with batteries or 369 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:51.640 with the adapter. If you put the adapter on the old board, you 370 00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:56.920 can't power with batteries anymore. And actually this switch now powers from batteries when 371 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:07.279 it's up, powers from the exterior connectors when it's down. Okay, okay, 372 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.000 good, that's awesome. Okay, well, we had one person order 373 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:17.200 already, so that before that goes to before that goes too far. So 374 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:21.599 we're cleaning out, or Scott's cleaning out, I should say. The kits 375 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:25.839 the last of the old version, so he's dropped the price on these. 376 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:27.200 They're right here. This is the old version. So when you hit the 377 00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.799 drop down menu, which you guys can't see that in the screen, but 378 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:33.759 if you click right here on original model you just got to trust me, 379 00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:36.759 you get a drop down menu. One says the original model one says twenty 380 00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:38.720 twenty four model. You can see it when I change. So the twenty 381 00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:44.079 twenty four model is ninety nine dollars plus shipping. The original model was ninety 382 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:45.920 five dollars plus shipping. We've got it lowered to seventy dollars. Now. 383 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:49.160 I think you said you had eight left. Yes, there's eight left, 384 00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:56.440 and I'm just ready to move them out because I've got boards and parts for 385 00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.599 the new model. Gotcha okay, and got like forty five for fifty of 386 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.319 the new model in so plenty of those. Yeah, so we're we're gonna 387 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.559 blow out the old models. And some one person has ordered an old model 388 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:10.759 so far, so there's probably about seven left now. So if you guys 389 00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:14.480 are interested in this at all and you don't care about the USB C plug, 390 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.039 I'm gonna give you direct link to it. There you go, Thomas, 391 00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:21.920 you're asking for the website again, Please shop dot Hamradio two dot com 392 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:25.160 will take you there, And that link I just put in the chat will 393 00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:29.279 take you directly to the more Smonkey CW training kit And there we go. 394 00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:33.440 That's that's how that works. Go ahead and bring up unseasoned Ham's question. 395 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:40.279 Let's just clarify about the USB ports. Okay, let's see. Okay, 396 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:44.880 there you go. Perfect, Okay, go ahead and read it for me. 397 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.240 Okay, So I want to get back to the uh yeah, I 398 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:52.000 want to get back to this right here. Okay. So just to clarify 399 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:56.640 the USB connectors, many on the adapter board, USB C on the new 400 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.920 revision are strictly for power and do not pass day to question mark. You 401 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:04.759 still need the ftd I cable for a serial link question mark. Yes, 402 00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:09.559 okay. One of the things I remember, Jason, you had asked me 403 00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:16.160 about using a USB micro, which most cobbues use these days. I was 404 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:22.799 looking for a plug that would be USB micro. The only thing I could 405 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:28.640 find was surface mount, and I knew that that would that would be a 406 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:30.519 killer for most of the people wanting to do these projects. Yeah, I 407 00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:35.079 think you're better off with USB C. So instead I had to go with 408 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:39.119 the USB Mini. The Mini a lot less common on the board. You're 409 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:44.319 still available, you can still find them, or the USB C, which 410 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:49.000 I was able to find something that is through hole, although as you saw, 411 00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:52.880 the holes are really tight. Really yeah yeah, okay. Unfortunately, 412 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:59.960 the only thing that USBC does is power. I'm not able to come up 413 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.599 with a method for decoding the USB signal and turning it into a U are 414 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:09.519 cereal signal. Gotcha, Okay, I wish I could. That would make 415 00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:14.480 life easier. Probably, it's probably possible. It's just you know, there 416 00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:19.079 are but there are some chips that do that. Unfortunately. Guess what they 417 00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.759 are? Surface mount Oh yeah, okay, So you're trying to avoid the 418 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.960 surface mounting. Understood, all costs I avoiding. I've had to do it 419 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:30.640 myself. I've done several things on surface mount and as a friend of mine 420 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:36.279 once told me, make sure you're fresh and your eyes are clear, and 421 00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:43.000 you've had no coffee. Yeah, true, true, Yeah, okay, 422 00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:47.400 So I had the other question. Here's from a Dell. What is the 423 00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:54.759 serial looking cable connected to? It's just a USB cable that is plugged into 424 00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:59.960 my PC. He showed that earlier. Yeah, and I've got it here 425 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:04.920 again. Let me pull it out again. I'm just whoops, my headphones 426 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:09.920 are falling off. I'll just pull this off right here. Yeah, put 427 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:15.559 it on me if you can. Sure. So we have the same little 428 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:20.920 six pen adapter, only five are used. The other end is just a 429 00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:24.519 USB host. This is a standard FTDI cable. The website tells you exactly 430 00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:30.360 which one to buy. In this case, it's a three point three vault 431 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:34.760 adapter. But the output of this, because any USB uses five vaults, 432 00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:37.079 so I've got a five vault regulator on there. And it just shows up 433 00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:40.719 on your on your PC as a Calm one, calm five, whatever your 434 00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:45.599 PC decides to assign it. And as you pull up any terminal putty is 435 00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:49.960 a very common uh you are terminal to use and you just set it for 436 00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:58.039 nineteen to two bad and eight one? Okayo? And several questions about words 437 00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.519 permitted. You can't up the speed to words permit it? Right? What 438 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:08.519 is the the settings there? Again? We've got default is ten. Let 439 00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:14.679 me set this to eighteen and go back. What am I doing? You 440 00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:17.679 guys can't even see this. What just just run three of the different settings 441 00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:21.679 you have there for it? Well he showed that a minute ago, but 442 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:27.360 let's show it again again. Eighteen, six and ten. I use ten 443 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.280 because I'm kind of a rookie of this and sometimes I can keep up with 444 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:34.039 it. Six is really slow. Eighteen is one of the fastest ones. 445 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.559 So if I set it to eighteen and I go back and I pull up 446 00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:50.280 practice mode and you can hear, Oh, there we go. You can 447 00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:58.400 hear how fast eighteen words permitted is a couple of them? Go back to 448 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:07.239 six words permitted it. Oh that's that's hard. Yeah, let's yeah, 449 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:12.440 don't learn that way. Yeah. Yeah. The Coke method is supposed to 450 00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:16.360 be something like eighteen words a minute, but the gaps that are in between 451 00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:20.760 each character are longer to give you time to think about it, right? 452 00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:24.119 And can you up? So the eight seenes the highest? Is there a 453 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:30.360 way to up it to like twenty or thirty two or another number? Those 454 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:35.440 right now are are fixed computations that are in the firmware. Okay, that's 455 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:43.840 what I was just kind of digging too. And is there freey printed cases? 456 00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:51.679 Yes, Chris stevens w W three s w M because he just got 457 00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:57.000 his extra class license. Oh yeah, he's proud of his new call sign. 458 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:02.679 He's got three D printable cases. He can he's actually I think he's 459 00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:08.760 will let people down load. Yeah he's in the chat. And yeah, 460 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:13.039 he's in the chat. Chris. I said he's still working on the one 461 00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:15.639 for the new model. I was trying to ask him to drop the link 462 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:21.719 to just to the other ones and your what was it thing, a verse 463 00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:27.000 page or whatever for those three D printed repositories are so once it's updated, 464 00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:32.119 we can go ahead and look for it there. Okay, W three SWM 465 00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:37.360 Is that what you said? W three sw I remember someone had come up 466 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:39.320 with a case for it, but I couldn't remember who it was, so 467 00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:45.760 and let me step away. I think I've got his case around here, 468 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:50.280 okay, somewhere, so well, once Scott's doing that, maybe this is 469 00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:53.039 a good question for you, Jason. How does this compare to the Moreserno. 470 00:37:54.239 --> 00:38:00.679 So it's I'm only used the more Sereno like twice, maybe three times. 471 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:04.039 The good thing about the more Sereno is that you can connect it to 472 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:07.639 the Internet and you can join like almost like a chat room, and you 473 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:13.000 can practice with someone across the internet across an SSH tunnel, I think. 474 00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:17.280 But however it connects it's across the internet, maybe even across a LOCALARIA network. 475 00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:22.039 I'm not sure this one does not do that. So that's important to 476 00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:24.519 you, then the more Sereno is a good choice. If not, then 477 00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:27.559 I think that this one's a little bit cheaper than the more Serena. I 478 00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.039 don't remember exactly. We built a more Sereno on Kyle's channel like two years 479 00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:32.079 ago. I still have mine over there. I haven't touched it in a 480 00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:36.679 while. But great kit, great kit, nothing wrong with it. But 481 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:43.239 I actually like the Worse Monkey better because it's it's one bias. Let's put 482 00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:47.440 it out there. Yeah. But on the other hand, it's all well, 483 00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:51.079 after you get a built, you don't need anything else other than the 484 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:53.119 keyre so you can go ahead and work on when you're on the road and 485 00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:55.639 play with it, pull it out on the plane if you want to. 486 00:38:57.199 --> 00:39:00.840 And it's a nice all self contained kit, and especially with the newer features 487 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:06.320 there added to the to the Morse Monkey. Man, it's it's it's amazing. 488 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:12.119 I I'm embarrassed to tell Chris that I misplaced it. I put it 489 00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:17.119 away someplace because I didn't want to lose it. And welcome to my life. 490 00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:21.519 I know, it's really cool. He did a really good job with 491 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:23.920 it. The thing is, because I'm always doing development, I always have 492 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:30.760 that exposed if for sometimes tweaking some things, so the result is that I 493 00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:37.920 don't use the case as much. Yeah. I did a quick Google search 494 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.519 for it and I'm not finding it. So if someone wants to send me 495 00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:45.239 a link to where that I think he said it was printibles in UH in 496 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:47.519 the chat there, But someone wants to send me a link to it, 497 00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:50.679 I'll put it on the website so that people can just click on it from 498 00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:53.239 the website and go from there. But I can't. I can't find it 499 00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:55.880 with just a quick shirt search. I don't want to go into a Google 500 00:39:55.920 --> 00:40:00.320 deep diver. If you have it, yeah, if you have it and 501 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.280 send it to me and I'll put it on the website. But yes, 502 00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:07.159 I mean to answer the question, yes there was a print There is a 503 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.719 three D printable case for this for the original version. So I'm dropping to 504 00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:16.840 the chat and I'm sending it to you separately, Jared Jason, and then 505 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:27.280 you can dig to his main page. Yeah, okay boom. So Frank 506 00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:32.000 was talking about how biased he is about UH course monkey. I appreciate that 507 00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:37.880 also. I don't know about uh the other one. But in this case, 508 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:40.039 I've gotten feedback from two or three people, and I've used that to 509 00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:45.159 improve the version of the firmware in there and do updates. And if you 510 00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:50.679 get that same ftd I cable, you can actually reflash the device with updated 511 00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:54.360 firmware. Ooh nice. So yeah, that's how I was able to add 512 00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:58.880 the coke method. That's how I was able to add various settings on that. 513 00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:05.920 That's how I was able to add the IAMBIC repeating mode. So I'm 514 00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:09.760 I'm always open to good suggestions on that, and when I have time, 515 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:15.760 I try to make those improvements. And what I was doing in these couple 516 00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:19.719 of cases is I was sending them advanced copies of the firmware so that they 517 00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:23.519 could test it and give me feedback on it as well. Good. So 518 00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:28.840 an ongoing project. That's always good to hear. Mm hmm. I like 519 00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:31.079 it. I like it. That's all the questions I have about the Morse 520 00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:37.360 monkey. Okay, yeah, unless you want to answer about, uh what 521 00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:46.599 what's your favorite whiskey? I'm I'm adding the I'm adding the link to the 522 00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:52.000 printbals dot com website to the to the website right now for the original Oh 523 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:59.840 cool, for the original? Uh certain link right there? New window there? 524 00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:01.639 Okay, all right, save that? Okay, got that added real 525 00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:07.679 quick, real time. Okay, good, So that I think that I 526 00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:09.480 think it covered most of it. If if no one else has any questions, 527 00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:13.639 then that's where it's at. It looks like there's still about six of 528 00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:15.920 the original models left, and when we sell those out, those will be 529 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:19.480 gone. And then there of course there's plenty of the new model with the 530 00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:23.639 USB C adapter on it as well, but it's seventy dollars for the original 531 00:42:23.679 --> 00:42:30.280 model and about ninety nine dollars for the new USBC model. Yeah, it 532 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:35.199 takes me about thirty minutes to assemble one. It took Frank how long? 533 00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:39.079 How long? How long filming it? It was like an hour, but 534 00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:45.480 you know he had all the different shots and getting down close to the board 535 00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:52.639 and getting those awesome b roll angles that it was about an hour. I'm 536 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:55.480 not fast on kit building, but I can. I can build a kit. 537 00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:00.159 In fact, I enjoy building kits, but but I take my I'm 538 00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:04.480 with them. I'm not trying to set any records. You're also not fast 539 00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:07.079 and antenna building. I don't know. I built several antennas, just not 540 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.719 the one that you're talking about. Hey, I need to take my tower 541 00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:17.519 down and adjust my forty meters because I'm getting bad SWR. It's a bit 542 00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:22.679 long. I had a tornado or not a tornado, wind ripped through and 543 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:29.480 break off some of those elements. There were those mfjs, so I had 544 00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:32.679 them set up as like a dipole, and they got broken off in the 545 00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:37.559 wind. I brought the antenna down, screwed on the new ones or crew 546 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.119 on the new connectors, put the antenna back up there, put the thing 547 00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:44.079 up, and I noticed that my swrs really sucked. Now, well, 548 00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:47.280 you also skipped a point where you got it had a close lightning strike. 549 00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.159 Yes, yes, I did have a lightning strike too. Really wow. 550 00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:57.920 Fortunately, I every time one of those thunderstorms comes ripping through here, the 551 00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:01.880 first thing I do is I disconnect the kind of from my icon seventy three 552 00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:08.320 hundred good good idea. And but you had a in line of lightning arrestlers 553 00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:12.360 too that looks like they did their jobs. Oh, they did do their 554 00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:19.480 jobs. And I've got two grounding rods there too. So del Fergus is 555 00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:22.360 asking if you sell pre assembled kids, He says, his eyes are getting 556 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:28.079 bad. I have not sold any pre assembled kits. I think he's the 557 00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:34.559 second person who has ever asked for one. I suppose I could assemble one 558 00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:37.960 and sell it to him if he wants. We'd have to arrange some kind 559 00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:42.639 of an extra fee for the time to assemble it. But I could do 560 00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:46.079 that. I suppose he could contact you and you could put them in touch 561 00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:50.360 with me and we could sure read something. Yeah, yeah, Dell reach 562 00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:53.000 out to me via email or discord, I'll put you in contact with Scott. 563 00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:55.400 We don't we don't want to share email addresses on a live stream. 564 00:44:55.400 --> 00:45:02.679 But yeah, totally these guys totally know me. Frank making kids what smells 565 00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:07.360 like chicken? Right, Well, if you haven't done that at least once, 566 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:09.960 you haven't built enough kids yet. Som hmm. I mean that's my 567 00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:14.960 opinion. Anyway, I'm not sure where that comes from. Burning your skin 568 00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:21.039 on the soldering art. Yeah, let's pick this up now. Al yeah, 569 00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:27.480 right, very true. Well cool, Well, thank you Scott for 570 00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:30.880 your time tonight. I appreciate the updates. It looks like it's really fun 571 00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:36.119 that you're taking suggestions and ideas from the community and implementing some of them. 572 00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:37.239 You probably can't do all of them, and that's fine, but at least 573 00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:43.039 there's it's open to updates in that regard, which is which is very ham 574 00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:45.400 centric in my opinion, that you're you're able to do that sort of update 575 00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:49.840 to it, and and now that people can do their own firm or updates, 576 00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:52.559 you know, they they've got an existing kit, so they you make 577 00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:54.280 a change and they can update it themselves. Because I remember on the on 578 00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:58.239 the very first kids that was you had to send a chip back or something 579 00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:02.639 like that. I think there's about fifteen of them that didn't have the ability 580 00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:07.239 to update the new firmware. Yeah I did. I did do some trade 581 00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:09.719 outs with a few people. I didn't hear from everybody, And I was 582 00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:15.079 tracking the serial numbers from those first fifteen kids. So maybe they were just 583 00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:16.880 happy with it, or maybe they just never got around to assembling them. 584 00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:22.159 Yeah maybe, Okay, well either way, I mean it is sometimes that 585 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:25.440 happens. Sometimes you got multiple kids sitting on your shelf you haven't assembled yet. 586 00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:30.199 So yeah, I know that feeling too. Yeah, so good deal. 587 00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:32.440 All right, Well we're gonna call it quits there. Like, my 588 00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:35.960 throat's getting a little bit, just a little bit dry, a little bit 589 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.599 sore. It's probably just allergy stuff, but it's it's all good. So 590 00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:43.639 before you go go ahead, fin en off. Yea, now it's not 591 00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:47.079 me. Several people in the question chat are asking how is the subscribers going. 592 00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:52.559 Yeah, I saw Dawn ask that, so it seems like we're getting 593 00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:58.199 there. The problem is that when I get a couple three four dozen people 594 00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:01.840 sign up, I usually lose ten to twenty. So people sign up and 595 00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:07.159 unsubscribe from the email list constant. It's a constant game of sign up and 596 00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:10.679 unsubscribe. So if everyone would quit unsubscribing, we would have passed twenty thousand 597 00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:15.239 by now. So I'm making a push to get my email list to twenty 598 00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:17.519 thousand subscribers and then I'm going to do a giveaway. So if you're not 599 00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:22.400 interested in giveaway, then unsubscribe, because it's keeping everyone else from the giveaways. 600 00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:27.760 Starting from everyone else took. Yeah, I think we're around like nineteen 601 00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:30.920 four, nineteen five something like that right now. Last time I look, 602 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:35.320 but I haven't looked in a few days. So yeah, the reason I 603 00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:37.840 am getting new sign ups, but I'm also getting new dropouts, so that's 604 00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:45.360 why it hadn't quite crossed twenty. But that's it. So that's it, 605 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:47.280 man, okay, man, all right, we'll let you go. Thanks 606 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:52.800 for having me you bet Scott, thank you once again. The links to 607 00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:54.599 that we talked about in the are all in the live chat. When I 608 00:47:54.679 --> 00:47:58.199 end the stream, I will put them in the description of the video. 609 00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:00.400 You guys can go check that out just by amateur radio dot com and it's 610 00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:04.000 it's right there on the front. But but I will put it in the 611 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:06.320 description anyway, so that you guys can go check that out. So thanks 612 00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:08.000 Scott, and uh, we'll catch up again in a few months, for 613 00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:12.199 six months something like that, or maybe if you have a new revision before 614 00:48:12.280 --> 00:48:14.880 then, and we'll do this all over again, because these were always very 615 00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:16.920 well received. Well, I haven't got any new revisions in the pipeline, 616 00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:22.119 but people are asking me, what else could you come up with? Yeah, 617 00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:27.400 yeah, I don't have any other ideas right now besides the Morse code 618 00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:30.400 trainer. So okay, well that's fine. It's working well for you. 619 00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:34.320 So thank you, thank you much for your time. All right, thanks, 620 00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:36.039 all right, see you guys. All right,