Thank you for choosing to download the Ham Radio two point zero audio podcast rip.
This is the audio taken out of a video or a live stream I
did recently. You can catch all my videos on YouTube Ham Radio two point
zero and catch us live every Sunday night at seven pm Central Standard Time for
a different topic each week. Thank you for the support and thank you for
being a member of the community. All right, I'll show seven o'clock in
text as folks. Good evening to all. Appreciate everyone being out there tonight,
and we're gonna transition over right here. We got a pretty cool live
stream set up for you tonight. We're gonna be talking once again about the
Morse Monkey, which is a CW learning tool that is a kit that you
build. And we've had Scott on a couple of times before in the past,
and he's got a special discount for some people tonight, some people tonight,
So we'll get to that here in a minute. Special shout out to
all the folks in green text in the chat. I saw Andy Kelly in
there earlier. AA zero Am is in there, Donde Gideo's in there.
Thanks for being here tonight, guys. I see Wayne, I see Todd.
I see Tom, let's see him Radio Crusader's in the house, Big
John's hamshack Ham Radio Wilderness with Frank and in five s k T. Not
that Frank, the other Frank Kakey for hx Q. So thanks for being
here tonight, guys. Appreciate you guys showing up for the live stream.
So we do have Let me get to the right screen here, so great
vine. Amateurd radio dot com is my website, which is if you go
to shop dot Ham Radio two dot com, which is where it's linked from
a lot of the times. I'll put this link in the chat. This
is where you can get the Morse monkey. This is where you can get
sticker packs that Frank might talk about here in a minute. There's a Tank
Radio sticker pack. There several sticker packs from from me right there. There
are t shirts here and I'm looking for a T shirt designer if anyone has
any If anyone has any experience in T shirt design, hit me up in
discord. I would like to talk to you. I got a couple of
ideas and want to bounce off of you. But but that's where you can
get the most monkey that we're going to talk about here in just a little
bit, so, uh, I put the link in the chat. Glenn,
thank you for the ten dollars super chat. Appreciate the support out there
tonight, and we're gonna bring on Frank and Scott here. Let me make
sure I got the right the right screen and let me unmute you guys.
What's up? How are you guys tonight? Doing good, good doing,
doing great? Man. I just got off the live stream with Mike and
we talked about battery boxes, and I'll kind of just the starter basics what
you kind of need and want to look for, boxes, shrolers, charts,
controllers, wires, and just just we went all over the place.
So it's the perfect starting point if you're thinking about building a battery box,
because I'm gonna start. I'm gonna do that, and and of course take
radio stickers. Go ahead and head over there. I need to sell somewhere
of those packs. Please please buy some stickers. Yeah right, right right,
yeah, uh yep, so uh yeah, I see uh, I
see quirky QRP in the house. So I'm just watching to see what he
has to say. But you know who's excellent designer T shirts? Who Leah.
Well, yeah, yeah, I think she has a job though.
So yeah, yeah, I've been, uh, I've been. I've been
told that before as well. But yeah, she's she's kind of tied up
elsewhere, I believe. But yeah, so I had I had a couple
of I had a couple of new T shirts that I was working on,
and then we had to pivot because we lost our printer in Huntsville, Alabama,
and I've pivoted back to our printer here locally, so I'm kind of
working through that right now. So if you guys have ordered T shirts on
the website in the last week, week and a half or something like that,
they might be a little bit delayed. But we've got we've got it
working, so we'll we'll we'll have that updated and put back to normal very
soon. But that's that's where that is, so frank. But yeah,
so part of your stream, Yeah, I watched it. I only watched
it for a few minutes. I've been kind of under the weather today.
I've got some allergy stuff going on, so I haven't to I haven't really
done much today at all. But uh, we're gonna give Scott the floor
here in a minute and then I'm gonna I'm gonna if we if we end
early, then I'm gonna end it early. I don't. I think my
throat's gonna get to me before too long. My voice is gonna go out.
But we'll see, we'll see, we see how how far that goes.
As always, I'll be watching the chat for any questions. I'll bring
your questions up on air as the topic permits, or I'll just sit on
them and we'll have a lightning round at the end, and if Jason feels
a little bit on the weather, I'll take over and it becomes take Radio.
I love this idea. Yeah, I bet you do, I bet
you do. All right, Scott, Well once again, welcome back,
thank you for being with us again. Thanks for lending me on. Yeah
you bet, you bet. It's I mean, there's a I think you
were on Kyle's channel once talking about CW kits. Yes, yeah, I
invited me on as well, and I had the same problem that I had
talking to you earlier, where the tones that are being generated by this kit
actually we're getting muffled. I found a little setting silly zoom thought it was
background noise and was trying to squelch it so good, So I'm disabled that
now you can hear the fan of my of my laptop running at the same
time. So but we get give us a little demo real quick, Okay,
let me pull up this unit. There we go. The unit,
the new unit that I have here, can be powered by either batteries.
On this side. We plug in a FTDI serial cable if you want to
use this cereal interface on it, or just a regular old USB c plug.
And since Frank was talking about portable battery systems, most of them have
a little USB adaptor on there. So that makes means this thing can tag
along and be powered off one A battery one of those battery kits without without
having to use the double A batteries on it. So let me turn this
on, and I'm running right now on the power supply that's coming from the
UH from the FTD I cable. Go ahead, when you powered the screen
on, I just a real quick side note here you powered the screen on,
it said version one dot oh dot one? Is that the latest one?
Yes, this is the latest version because it does it does repetitive iambic
we got some people had asked about. So we'll go through that. When
you look up, the first thing it goes to is the settings menu.
I hope you can see these. I've got my light here. I'm trying
to get where you can see the l c D without getting too much glare.
It's perfect, man, I can see it just fine. Okay,
good. Select anything simply by pushing the knob and you rotate through all the
various settings. So we'll start with the iambics key, where you've got a
dual paddle key like I've got here, or a single key straight key.
Sorry. You've also got background lights which let me move my light out of
the way, and you can see that it turns on and off the background
lights that help you be able to read it in bright daylight. Or it's
actually a feedback as well, because it'll turn red or green when it's scoring
you. It'll do that for a couple of seconds to show you whether or
not you got it right or wrong. The words per minute I updated this.
This defaults to ten or you can do eighteen, and I've uped it
to six because I started playing with the words per minute setting, like I
was discussing earlier on my icon seventy three hundred yeah, I was actually measuring
the frequency of the tones, breaking that down into the number of words per
minute. Plus the menu that the icon has has a minimum of six words
per minute, So I was able to use those values to actually compute the
frequency of which the tones are generated, and also the timing measurement when it's
trying to understand what you had keyed in. We've got the side tone,
which somebody asked for. It's now always on. It's basically it will when
you're keying something, it'll play the it'll play the tone so you can hear
it. This allows you to swap the two keys. Which one is going
to be long, which one's going to be short, according to the tip,
the ring and the sleeve of the plug that you're plugging into the keyer.
Now, this uses a little one eighth key. It doesn't use a
three quarter inch, but you can get an adaptor for that. Okay,
Now, the Coke method for scoring got feedback from kJ five cbe. He
asked about adjusting the Coke setting because what this does is it will play back
something and you get to type it in using this FTDI cable in a terminal
on your computer. So when it plays back something, you type in what
you think it played, and it'll tell you whether you got it right or
wrong. When you get eighty percent or eight out of ten correct, it'll
move on to the next higher add additional letters to it. But he was
asking for being able to go higher sets. So this will actually go up
to twenty different tests and eighty percent of that, of course would be sixteen
of them correct. And then you can also set what kind of percentage you
want you wanted to move up when you're at sorry, eighty percent, ninety
or one hundred percent. So okay, I'm not I'm not sure not getting
framed here properly. I can explain the Coke method briefly if if you want
me to go into detail now, or we can do it later. As
I'm going through this, what do you well? We we yeah, we
can do that. Let's let's let's back up for just a second and just
and I should have said this is my fault. I should have said this
up front. I was like, let's explain exactly what this is because some
people may have not been here before. So this is a kit to build
that you that you build, and Scott's gotta got a kit in a bag
real quick that he's going to show you in a minute. And that's it
right there. And this is a kit you build that lets you learn CW
by by It's it's interactive. You type it in there and there's like four
or five different methods you can use. So you type in CW, it
tells you whether it's right or on. You can set the coke method,
you can set the words per minute, you can set the can change the
tones. I'm not sure, but but there's the it's so this is a
training kit for those of you wanting to learn c W and if you enjoy
kit building, it's really good for that as well. So I just I
should have said that up front, and I got distracted by something. So
yeah, go ahead, Scott, Yeah you want to you wanted to explain
the coke method, Please go ahead the coke method. Let me also pull
up a terminal here if I can find one really quick umming while you're doing
that, just a quick reminder, I'm looking for any questions in the chat,
So if you have any questions, go ahead and put them out there
and I'll read them on screen window capture. Okay, that's it, Okay,
And then fade to this. Now, let me turn this guy off
and back on again, and you get a terminal display. Yes, I'm
seeing that. Okay, so let me try to move that over to the
side and let me pull up not that, let me well up this again
and pull him over. So here we have the kit with a glare and
a terminal. Right, if you go into the coke method, what it
will do is it will play back tones and I've got the volume turned down.
I'm sorry, we turned that up, and it will repeat it every
ten seconds. H come on, don't think about it. Just right.
Am I doing this? Right? I hear it? But yeah, I'm
not. Yeah, I can't hear it. That's the problem. Oh you
can't hear it. I can't hear the tones. Uh, well, you've
got it. You've got to routed through zoom, but not to the computer.
I bet that's right, because I okay, so I don't I don't
know what it's playing. Let's let's say it's playing Q and Z. So
if I enter Q and z, oh, I'm sorry, I get to
put the cursor on the terminal Q and Z. Then it tells me I
got to incorrect. It was actually playing a six in a w which you
guys probably could tell. So I currently have zero out of the past ten
and it says I'll move up to the next level when I get eight in
a row. Correct, gotcha. The next level is it's going to play
three letters at a time, so let me get out of that. So
the Coke method is essentially I'm trying to pull the screen up here, pull
that off, pull it back just back in the center. The Coke method
basically is play two letters at a time, you try to score yourself and
then move up to three letters at a time when your score is high enough,
until it gets all the way up to six letters at a time,
and the playback speed is controlled by the WPM the words per minute. So
that was the Coke method. And as I said, thanks to a lot
of feedback from Dimitri, we could set how many times it will play back
that set. Currently it's playing two letters, it would play it back ten
times and wait for me to get eight in a row. But I could
increase that to eleven, twelve, all the way up to twenty before it
is before it's ready to advance me to the next level. And you can
also set what percentage you want to get correct before it moves you up to
the next level, from two characters to three characters up. Okay, So,
and then we've got whether or not we want iambic keying to be repeating
or not, so when you hold down the key, it'll repeat or with
it off, when you hold down the key, it'll just play the tone
once. And of course when you've got iamb king, you got long on
this side, short on that side. At least the way mind wired,
you can save all the settings. If you don't save the settings, then
when you power it off and power it back on, it either goes back
to the original default, it will restore the last time you save the settings,
and we go back and were at the top menu. So that was
really quick going through other settings. They're all documented on the website and where
you can download the assembly instructions. We've got practice mode, we've got dictate
mode, we've got Echo mode, we've got Coffee mode, and we've got
the coke mode. And then we're back to settings again. So I'm not
going to be able to see I'm not going to be able to hear what
I'm typing, unfortunately, but let me in practice mode. Push the button
and it says push to start and key whatever you want. So if I
just hold down that and I guess it played two longs and if I found
that, play two shorts, or if I hold on that long enough,
it'll play come on, three shorts. It's not doing that. It's playing
ease, playing one short. Oh did we Oh that's the problem. Let's
go back to Yeah, we won't repeat on there. We go back to
practice now and here we go. Just hold that. Oh boom, I
guess you can't see yeah, can you see me pressing the key? Here
we go, Well yeah, but now the screen's out of the screen.
To get both of them on the screen, right, it's okay, I
mean we can hear it. Just fine. So I just hold that two
three, No, that was two. That was H. That's five.
If you hold them both, it alternates back and forth. Okay. Now,
what it's doing is it's trying to interpret what it is that you keyed.
So we have an O, two h's, and a five. It
also put an asterisk there because that takes up less face than just putting in
WTF, because it couldn't figure out what it is you were trying to say.
Okay, I just hold this, you know, for a whole bunch
of long tones. Doesn't have any idea what it is, and unfortunately I'm
having to guess at what the duration of the tones are. That's a T
yep one really fast. One is going to be an eye an E yep
and bloom boom and a no, that's a T T. There we go.
Okay, you gotta do it really fast to get the A. There
you go. So a couple of quick questions here can you change the tone?
Now? The tone is set to that frequency? There is a way
if you want to be a bit of a hacker. The oscillator is generated
from this resistor of this capacitor, and it's actually very simple to lower the
tone by simply adding resistance or adding capacitance. But there's nothing in the menu
that controls what the what the tone frequency is. Okay, this is from
Terry. Do you need a key or or do you plug in your paddle
directly into the KITM on that one? Yeah, I don't understand that question.
You it's it has the uh you need your own key like unplugged the
three point five millimeter Jack Scott, you you get you get this is the
kit right, provide your own key. I bought this guy, uh in
order to develop with wired him up myself and for space considerations. It just
uses a little three point five millimeter one eighth inch plug, doesn't use a
big fat quarter inch plug. So okay, Frank, Okay. Then the
next one is kind of how difficult do you think this kit build is?
Uh? Frank, you've done it? Do you think it is? I
think it's it's a medium medium Okay, not, it's not. It's not
difficult, it's not easy, it's it's just kind of falls in that sweet
spot of it was fun. I got a video of me building the kit
up first version. Yeah, there's one thing that is a challenge, and
it's not for the faint of heart, because all of this is throughhole to
make it easier with one exception, and that is right here, I can
try get really close the USBC plug is and that is really really tight.
So that's you need a really fine soldering iron and you need steady hands.
But you don't have to put that on there though. You don't have to
use the USB plug if you wanted to use one of these, now I've
got I got another one of these floating around over here. Let me just
unplug it and uh, well, here he is. This is actually used
with a with like a Raspberry pie and a odroid. Uh, it's the
same thing. You've got this plug. It's got a USB plug on here.
When you plug this USB plug into just say anything in the world wise,
you can plug it that way. You can actually just run the Morse
Monkey with this. With this FTDI cable and one of any old phone charger
adapter. You don't actually have to have this thing plugged into the PC.
Now. You plug it into the PC in order to get the terminal up
so that you can use the coke method and other things that have a terminal
in your face instead of just the display. Okay, yeah, if you
if you are really faint of heart and you don't want to install that USB
plug, you can get by with just the just the six pin, only
five of which are used, and they're even labeled there too, black,
black, red, brown, so you know which way to plug this cable
in. Awesome, good, Okay, down, no other questions. Now
continue on. I'll let you keep going. I have some more later,
but keep on going. Okay, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm
going to do you do do here there, I'm gonna take these headphones and
I'm going to plug them into my mixer that is feeding the tone generator.
Now see if you can hear it. I'll pull one ear off. Now
I can hear you guys on one ear, and I can hear the tone
on the other. So we'll move on to the dictate mode. And this
is they want you to key what it is that you read on the display.
So it gives you a five. So we need to key a five
and we know and I am ic, we know that's it, and it
tells me it's correct. Switch back to the to the view of the to
the overhead view. I'm sorry, you're right, that's fine. I assume
that's what you were thinking. That's what I was doing. Yeah, there
we go. Okay, now it wants me to key a G. Anybody
know what a G is? Dash dash dot dot dot dit I think,
I think, hey, you got that right? Hey there I go.
I know one letter and then seven mm hmmm. So it's scoring you keeping
and that's not right. So we got an incorrect there. When you're done,
it tells you, hey, we got three right, and we failed
once. Gotcha, so you can use that score yourself. We move on
to the echo mode, and here all you do is repeat what you hear
and it won't tell you what the letter is. Hm, Nope, I
did that wrong, wrong side all right? Nopes, I got one right.
It sounds like you're uh your iambic is king a little bit faster.
Yeah, the I am king a bit faster than the playback is. But
it tells me. Now in this case, I only got one right and
I failed four times. So the next one is the copy method. This
one you don't use the key at all. This one you get out your
trusty little piece of paper. It will play back a call sign. Now
it's a randomly generated two y three call sign, and you're supposed to be
able to write that down, figure out what the call sign is. It
will repeat it every ten seconds. Oh, you're done. It's WW six.
Now it's WW one. I think whoops, Ah, I should not
have done that. I'm sorry. We'll start with a new one because it
randomly generates these. Yeah, this little dreamer says that was no, he's
six W that's his call sign. He's making joke. When you're when you're
giving up. When you're done, tap the key here, either the key
if you're using straight, or the long if you're using iambic, and it
will tell you what it was it was generating in this case, KG one
W T O. Now these are random. It'll always start with a K
or a W, and the third one will always be a number. Other
than that, anybody guessing the seconds behind my my listening skills are are where
I need to practice the most. This copy would help you, then,
yes, yeah, this, this would help. This would be great.
So when when we're done here, we're just tapped the key and it tells
us that is what it was actually typing W and it doesn't score you because
you're not actually telling it what you thought it was, right and uh.
The next one is the Coke method, which we already went through, and
that one requires cooked up to the car to the computer with the terminal so
you can actually enter what it is you thought it was and it'll score you.
And that goes full circle to all the functionality that's in there. Cool.
Good. I really like the copy. I think that will help out
a lot of people. And I gave that suggestion to Scott. I think
after talking to Mike, He's like, the hardest the hardest part about CW
sometimes is just copying the call signs. I'm like, well, that can
be an easy mode here, yeah, because that was one of the first
things you suggested was add that in there, and I thought, okay,
let's let's give people a tool that they can practice taking down call signs as
fast as possible and they're always going to be two by three call signs,
so and always to with the KRW SID I give you a bit of a
hint, and you didn't keep my menu name. It will say please copy
Kyle. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't use the Kyle, Please copy
Kyle. That's good. Cool, Okay, Well, let's let's talk about
the fact that we have a sale going on. There's so there's two versions,
Yes, there's there's the original version and the new twenty twenty four version.
And to my knowledge, Scott, the only difference is the USB plug
or is there something else? No, it's pretty much the USB plug.
Okay, what will Yeah, it's pretty it's the USB plug. Let me
open up okay this kit okays? The name the actually turn the screen back
on to overhead. There you go and we'll open up this kit. This
board just the original board functionally laid out the same size and everything. The
only difference is that this connector does not connect to the serial connection on here.
Okay, well, I'm sorry it does. I got this backwards.
This does connect to the serial connection on here, but this connector does not
power the board. And also the difference is the USBC plug here, because
what I've added right here is a little three point three volt regulator and bypassed
capacitors so that you can power it from either one of these plugs. The
older version of the board doesn't have that. But let me pull let me
put this back in his bag. Here. I put together these little kits
which I was hoping people would have an interest in, and nobody did.
So what I want to do. This little kit is actually an add on
which you can use to replace the uh my right screen. Here you can
use to replace the battery pack. So let me pull this thing up,
and I'm throwing in these little kits because what you do. You can see
the picture on the left, the battery pack has been removed and that kit
has been mounted where the battery goes, and it's got in this case a
USB Mini, not a USB C and it's also got the same five pin
plug. So functionally, by adding this kit to the existing earlier version of
the board, it becomes functionally almost the same as the new board. Gotcha,
Okay, the only difference being that in the new board you put this
back in the center. In the new board you can power with batteries or
with the adapter. If you put the adapter on the old board, you
can't power with batteries anymore. And actually this switch now powers from batteries when
it's up, powers from the exterior connectors when it's down. Okay, okay,
good, that's awesome. Okay, well, we had one person order
already, so that before that goes to before that goes too far. So
we're cleaning out, or Scott's cleaning out, I should say. The kits
the last of the old version, so he's dropped the price on these.
They're right here. This is the old version. So when you hit the
drop down menu, which you guys can't see that in the screen, but
if you click right here on original model you just got to trust me,
you get a drop down menu. One says the original model one says twenty
twenty four model. You can see it when I change. So the twenty
twenty four model is ninety nine dollars plus shipping. The original model was ninety
five dollars plus shipping. We've got it lowered to seventy dollars. Now.
I think you said you had eight left. Yes, there's eight left,
and I'm just ready to move them out because I've got boards and parts for
the new model. Gotcha okay, and got like forty five for fifty of
the new model in so plenty of those. Yeah, so we're we're gonna
blow out the old models. And some one person has ordered an old model
so far, so there's probably about seven left now. So if you guys
are interested in this at all and you don't care about the USB C plug,
I'm gonna give you direct link to it. There you go, Thomas,
you're asking for the website again, Please shop dot Hamradio two dot com
will take you there, And that link I just put in the chat will
take you directly to the more Smonkey CW training kit And there we go.
That's that's how that works. Go ahead and bring up unseasoned Ham's question.
Let's just clarify about the USB ports. Okay, let's see. Okay,
there you go. Perfect, Okay, go ahead and read it for me.
Okay, So I want to get back to the uh yeah, I
want to get back to this right here. Okay. So just to clarify
the USB connectors, many on the adapter board, USB C on the new
revision are strictly for power and do not pass day to question mark. You
still need the ftd I cable for a serial link question mark. Yes,
okay. One of the things I remember, Jason, you had asked me
about using a USB micro, which most cobbues use these days. I was
looking for a plug that would be USB micro. The only thing I could
find was surface mount, and I knew that that would that would be a
killer for most of the people wanting to do these projects. Yeah, I
think you're better off with USB C. So instead I had to go with
the USB Mini. The Mini a lot less common on the board. You're
still available, you can still find them, or the USB C, which
I was able to find something that is through hole, although as you saw,
the holes are really tight. Really yeah yeah, okay. Unfortunately,
the only thing that USBC does is power. I'm not able to come up
with a method for decoding the USB signal and turning it into a U are
cereal signal. Gotcha, Okay, I wish I could. That would make
life easier. Probably, it's probably possible. It's just you know, there
are but there are some chips that do that. Unfortunately. Guess what they
are? Surface mount Oh yeah, okay, So you're trying to avoid the
surface mounting. Understood, all costs I avoiding. I've had to do it
myself. I've done several things on surface mount and as a friend of mine
once told me, make sure you're fresh and your eyes are clear, and
you've had no coffee. Yeah, true, true, Yeah, okay,
So I had the other question. Here's from a Dell. What is the
serial looking cable connected to? It's just a USB cable that is plugged into
my PC. He showed that earlier. Yeah, and I've got it here
again. Let me pull it out again. I'm just whoops, my headphones
are falling off. I'll just pull this off right here. Yeah, put
it on me if you can. Sure. So we have the same little
six pen adapter, only five are used. The other end is just a
USB host. This is a standard FTDI cable. The website tells you exactly
which one to buy. In this case, it's a three point three vault
adapter. But the output of this, because any USB uses five vaults,
so I've got a five vault regulator on there. And it just shows up
on your on your PC as a Calm one, calm five, whatever your
PC decides to assign it. And as you pull up any terminal putty is
a very common uh you are terminal to use and you just set it for
nineteen to two bad and eight one? Okayo? And several questions about words
permitted. You can't up the speed to words permit it? Right? What
is the the settings there? Again? We've got default is ten. Let
me set this to eighteen and go back. What am I doing? You
guys can't even see this. What just just run three of the different settings
you have there for it? Well he showed that a minute ago, but
let's show it again again. Eighteen, six and ten. I use ten
because I'm kind of a rookie of this and sometimes I can keep up with
it. Six is really slow. Eighteen is one of the fastest ones.
So if I set it to eighteen and I go back and I pull up
practice mode and you can hear, Oh, there we go. You can
hear how fast eighteen words permitted is a couple of them? Go back to
six words permitted it. Oh that's that's hard. Yeah, let's yeah,
don't learn that way. Yeah. Yeah. The Coke method is supposed to
be something like eighteen words a minute, but the gaps that are in between
each character are longer to give you time to think about it, right?
And can you up? So the eight seenes the highest? Is there a
way to up it to like twenty or thirty two or another number? Those
right now are are fixed computations that are in the firmware. Okay, that's
what I was just kind of digging too. And is there freey printed cases?
Yes, Chris stevens w W three s w M because he just got
his extra class license. Oh yeah, he's proud of his new call sign.
He's got three D printable cases. He can he's actually I think he's
will let people down load. Yeah he's in the chat. And yeah,
he's in the chat. Chris. I said he's still working on the one
for the new model. I was trying to ask him to drop the link
to just to the other ones and your what was it thing, a verse
page or whatever for those three D printed repositories are so once it's updated,
we can go ahead and look for it there. Okay, W three SWM
Is that what you said? W three sw I remember someone had come up
with a case for it, but I couldn't remember who it was, so
and let me step away. I think I've got his case around here,
okay, somewhere, so well, once Scott's doing that, maybe this is
a good question for you, Jason. How does this compare to the Moreserno.
So it's I'm only used the more Sereno like twice, maybe three times.
The good thing about the more Sereno is that you can connect it to
the Internet and you can join like almost like a chat room, and you
can practice with someone across the internet across an SSH tunnel, I think.
But however it connects it's across the internet, maybe even across a LOCALARIA network.
I'm not sure this one does not do that. So that's important to
you, then the more Sereno is a good choice. If not, then
I think that this one's a little bit cheaper than the more Serena. I
don't remember exactly. We built a more Sereno on Kyle's channel like two years
ago. I still have mine over there. I haven't touched it in a
while. But great kit, great kit, nothing wrong with it. But
I actually like the Worse Monkey better because it's it's one bias. Let's put
it out there. Yeah. But on the other hand, it's all well,
after you get a built, you don't need anything else other than the
keyre so you can go ahead and work on when you're on the road and
play with it, pull it out on the plane if you want to.
And it's a nice all self contained kit, and especially with the newer features
there added to the to the Morse Monkey. Man, it's it's it's amazing.
I I'm embarrassed to tell Chris that I misplaced it. I put it
away someplace because I didn't want to lose it. And welcome to my life.
I know, it's really cool. He did a really good job with
it. The thing is, because I'm always doing development, I always have
that exposed if for sometimes tweaking some things, so the result is that I
don't use the case as much. Yeah. I did a quick Google search
for it and I'm not finding it. So if someone wants to send me
a link to where that I think he said it was printibles in UH in
the chat there, But someone wants to send me a link to it,
I'll put it on the website so that people can just click on it from
the website and go from there. But I can't. I can't find it
with just a quick shirt search. I don't want to go into a Google
deep diver. If you have it, yeah, if you have it and
send it to me and I'll put it on the website. But yes,
I mean to answer the question, yes there was a print There is a
three D printable case for this for the original version. So I'm dropping to
the chat and I'm sending it to you separately, Jared Jason, and then
you can dig to his main page. Yeah, okay boom. So Frank
was talking about how biased he is about UH course monkey. I appreciate that
also. I don't know about uh the other one. But in this case,
I've gotten feedback from two or three people, and I've used that to
improve the version of the firmware in there and do updates. And if you
get that same ftd I cable, you can actually reflash the device with updated
firmware. Ooh nice. So yeah, that's how I was able to add
the coke method. That's how I was able to add various settings on that.
That's how I was able to add the IAMBIC repeating mode. So I'm
I'm always open to good suggestions on that, and when I have time,
I try to make those improvements. And what I was doing in these couple
of cases is I was sending them advanced copies of the firmware so that they
could test it and give me feedback on it as well. Good. So
an ongoing project. That's always good to hear. Mm hmm. I like
it. I like it. That's all the questions I have about the Morse
monkey. Okay, yeah, unless you want to answer about, uh what
what's your favorite whiskey? I'm I'm adding the I'm adding the link to the
printbals dot com website to the to the website right now for the original Oh
cool, for the original? Uh certain link right there? New window there?
Okay, all right, save that? Okay, got that added real
quick, real time. Okay, good, So that I think that I
think it covered most of it. If if no one else has any questions,
then that's where it's at. It looks like there's still about six of
the original models left, and when we sell those out, those will be
gone. And then there of course there's plenty of the new model with the
USB C adapter on it as well, but it's seventy dollars for the original
model and about ninety nine dollars for the new USBC model. Yeah, it
takes me about thirty minutes to assemble one. It took Frank how long?
How long? How long filming it? It was like an hour, but
you know he had all the different shots and getting down close to the board
and getting those awesome b roll angles that it was about an hour. I'm
not fast on kit building, but I can. I can build a kit.
In fact, I enjoy building kits, but but I take my I'm
with them. I'm not trying to set any records. You're also not fast
and antenna building. I don't know. I built several antennas, just not
the one that you're talking about. Hey, I need to take my tower
down and adjust my forty meters because I'm getting bad SWR. It's a bit
long. I had a tornado or not a tornado, wind ripped through and
break off some of those elements. There were those mfjs, so I had
them set up as like a dipole, and they got broken off in the
wind. I brought the antenna down, screwed on the new ones or crew
on the new connectors, put the antenna back up there, put the thing
up, and I noticed that my swrs really sucked. Now, well,
you also skipped a point where you got it had a close lightning strike.
Yes, yes, I did have a lightning strike too. Really wow.
Fortunately, I every time one of those thunderstorms comes ripping through here, the
first thing I do is I disconnect the kind of from my icon seventy three
hundred good good idea. And but you had a in line of lightning arrestlers
too that looks like they did their jobs. Oh, they did do their
jobs. And I've got two grounding rods there too. So del Fergus is
asking if you sell pre assembled kids, He says, his eyes are getting
bad. I have not sold any pre assembled kits. I think he's the
second person who has ever asked for one. I suppose I could assemble one
and sell it to him if he wants. We'd have to arrange some kind
of an extra fee for the time to assemble it. But I could do
that. I suppose he could contact you and you could put them in touch
with me and we could sure read something. Yeah, yeah, Dell reach
out to me via email or discord, I'll put you in contact with Scott.
We don't we don't want to share email addresses on a live stream.
But yeah, totally these guys totally know me. Frank making kids what smells
like chicken? Right, Well, if you haven't done that at least once,
you haven't built enough kids yet. Som hmm. I mean that's my
opinion. Anyway, I'm not sure where that comes from. Burning your skin
on the soldering art. Yeah, let's pick this up now. Al yeah,
right, very true. Well cool, Well, thank you Scott for
your time tonight. I appreciate the updates. It looks like it's really fun
that you're taking suggestions and ideas from the community and implementing some of them.
You probably can't do all of them, and that's fine, but at least
there's it's open to updates in that regard, which is which is very ham
centric in my opinion, that you're you're able to do that sort of update
to it, and and now that people can do their own firm or updates,
you know, they they've got an existing kit, so they you make
a change and they can update it themselves. Because I remember on the on
the very first kids that was you had to send a chip back or something
like that. I think there's about fifteen of them that didn't have the ability
to update the new firmware. Yeah I did. I did do some trade
outs with a few people. I didn't hear from everybody, And I was
tracking the serial numbers from those first fifteen kids. So maybe they were just
happy with it, or maybe they just never got around to assembling them.
Yeah maybe, Okay, well either way, I mean it is sometimes that
happens. Sometimes you got multiple kids sitting on your shelf you haven't assembled yet.
So yeah, I know that feeling too. Yeah, so good deal.
All right, Well we're gonna call it quits there. Like, my
throat's getting a little bit, just a little bit dry, a little bit
sore. It's probably just allergy stuff, but it's it's all good. So
before you go go ahead, fin en off. Yea, now it's not
me. Several people in the question chat are asking how is the subscribers going.
Yeah, I saw Dawn ask that, so it seems like we're getting
there. The problem is that when I get a couple three four dozen people
sign up, I usually lose ten to twenty. So people sign up and
unsubscribe from the email list constant. It's a constant game of sign up and
unsubscribe. So if everyone would quit unsubscribing, we would have passed twenty thousand
by now. So I'm making a push to get my email list to twenty
thousand subscribers and then I'm going to do a giveaway. So if you're not
interested in giveaway, then unsubscribe, because it's keeping everyone else from the giveaways.
Starting from everyone else took. Yeah, I think we're around like nineteen
four, nineteen five something like that right now. Last time I look,
but I haven't looked in a few days. So yeah, the reason I
am getting new sign ups, but I'm also getting new dropouts, so that's
why it hadn't quite crossed twenty. But that's it. So that's it,
man, okay, man, all right, we'll let you go. Thanks
for having me you bet Scott, thank you once again. The links to
that we talked about in the are all in the live chat. When I
end the stream, I will put them in the description of the video.
You guys can go check that out just by amateur radio dot com and it's
it's right there on the front. But but I will put it in the
description anyway, so that you guys can go check that out. So thanks
Scott, and uh, we'll catch up again in a few months, for
six months something like that, or maybe if you have a new revision before
then, and we'll do this all over again, because these were always very
well received. Well, I haven't got any new revisions in the pipeline,
but people are asking me, what else could you come up with? Yeah,
yeah, I don't have any other ideas right now besides the Morse code
trainer. So okay, well that's fine. It's working well for you.
So thank you, thank you much for your time. All right, thanks,
all right, see you guys. All right,