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guys, good morning. Letting the livestream kind of wake everybody up here.
Paul from Ireland, what's up man? Good morning from ticket Hey forty five
forty five? Why were you not here? Great video and audio? Thanks
guys. Let's see testing. Uh, okay, let's see if this works,
because all right, I'm the phone's connected to the star link right now,
which means I can't really move far from here. But I'm gonna switch
that because I want to go inside and show you guys everything there, so
we'll see if this blips or not. Okay, all right, I switched
the networks. I think it blipped for a second, but I think it's
there now. So yeah, there's my scooter there paused for ten seconds.
Now you're back, okay, thanks Chris. All right, guys, So
here we are Beltonham Xpoke twenty twenty four and this is obviously the spring show.
And I got here yesterday morning about six thirty and so I left the
house about four am. It's about two hours fifteen minute drive down here.
And it was perfect weather all day yesterday, clear sunny skies, a slight
breeze got up to like seventy five seventy four to seventy five yesterday afternoon,
so a little warm inside the trailer, but not bad at all. But
you can see it's overcast this morning. Right now. It is anyway,
little chili this morning. It was a little chili yesterday morning, but it
warmed up pretty quickly yesterday because because there wasn't any cloud cover, so today
we don't have that luxury. But I'm walk you guys through the outside.
Then we're going to go inside. I did a speed test from inside earlier.
It seemed to work fine, so hopefully this will move along. Just
well, that's the row I'm on right there, and since I waited to
come down yesterday morning instead of coming down Thursday night, I'm one row over
farther than I used to than I usually am. I'm usually on this row
right here, and there was actually an open spot on this row yesterday.
I just decided to park on the end of it here, so maybe a
little bit easier morning main tree humping. He comes and sets up in the
parking lot like normal's doing a poda on the way home. No, I
got something I gotta do to not so, probably gonna go straight home.
I was like, I'll be west. What's up are you? He's sitting
there talking on the radio, putting that piece out about Oh yeah, yeah,
I still got mom. It's uh, it works well. He took
this go box in on trade yesterday. Go figure. I don't know,
man, network extender, that's an idea. Any truth about a new icon,
not that I've heard. I didn't tell me anything, but I've not
heard about a new icon they have all right, it's like the network whipped
just then. Let's see make sure. Yeah, wonderful, wonderful innet Okay,
Jack, let me know how that is. This is the food station
there. Yeah, it keeps uh, it keeps pausing here as well,
So I don't know. Maybe I don't know what it is. I did
a speed test earlier, about an hour ago, and it worked fine inside
and outside outside. Now there's really no excuse for it not working outside,
like, oh my god, somebody's car along going off. You hear that
a lot out here? Unfortunately you are back. Okay, So let's see
need starlink in a bag, boy, that's for sure. Yeah. If
I could carry the starlink around, that'd be a lot better at and T
is not cooperating up here. So it's a guy set up here in the
parking lot here that's doing three D printing. I thought that was kind of
a neat idea. He's got stuff going right now, they doing They got
far? Yeah, alright, I think it's working for the moment, so
we'll keep going. Uh god, I'm not getting go as one dam Hey
you got do you mean if you listen to somebody, you get it to
list? This guy outside of this van yesterday had a really cool go box
set up. He was toying with. It's up, bob, what's up?
Guys? If the internet cooperates, I'm live streaming, but it keeps.
Sometimes I'm on and sometimes I'm not. That's how it is. That's
that real potable antenna. I think it's The website is r E E L
e f h W R E E L infant Halfway and it I did a
video about it on a Poda Galveston a couple of months ago. It's a
neat antenna because you can wind it in and out and make it residant wherever
you want it. Somebody asked, does it work at seventeen meters and I'm
like, yeah, it will, because you just wind it out till you
get the seventeen meters, you put it on your analyzer and go from there.
So it is a It was a lot of a lot of people here
in the parking lot yesterday all day yesterday, and they're pretty much all still
here. But I think all the campers are cars are here, but pretty
much every person is inside because he's looking a little thin out here. But
it's also kind of gloomy with the uh with the weather clouds and whatnot.
So we'll walk inside and see how well the internet does or doesn't work.
Breen Oh, he said he was watching the stream, was walking by me.
Okay, that's funny. Let's see all right, entrance. I did
the speed test from the back of this building too, and it worked quite
well. But you know, at and T, I don't know, said
something disparaging about him when their network went down a couple weeks ago. Maybe
they're punishing me. I don't know. I doubt it. I doubt it,
all right, signman dot com right there. This location is Belton,
Texas, just south of Waco, Texas, straight off the Interstate I thirty
five. And this is a probably the largest show. Ah, it's a
toss up between this one in Houston, Texas doesn't really have a large show
anymore, but this is a good swapfest show. No real major vendors here,
but lots of good swapfest table opportunities. A b R is there,
yep, good morning, Like so up we go. What's up? Man?
Good? How are you's? That's nice? I didn't rest anything with
that right yeah? Yeah, without the dog, I'm not recognizable. So
Arma Lock was at the Houston show and they were set up out in the
parking lot and I talked to and he was here yesterday, so I'm like
I was talking too, and he's like, oh, we got a booth
in here today. They're gearing up to go to all the big ham fests
pretty soon. But they make these cages here. I've got three or four
of these now about it? Pretty cool stuff? Great, uh great cages
for a go bag go pack type thing for multiple radios, armor lock in
FI PSP. What's up, Bob? He was one with a real potable
antenna outside a minute ago. There's Brian, what's up? So here's the
A w R L booth and a camp functions wave with the camera. Steve.
This is fifteen dollars, hey, Bob for this is a live stream
on YouTube. Yeah, yep, yeah, I talked to Richard already.
Yep. Yeah, he and I have got some plans for it already,
so he's looking forward to getting them next week hopefully. Hey, how you
doing well? Thank you very much? Okay, oh good good good good
good well, good luck on that, Yeah, expert Amflaar. That was
Bob. He's the guy who sold them before two cellars ago. They're made
in Italy and they export them and Bob was selling them for a while then
I think bibera Plex had them and now Main Trading Company is going to start
selling them. That was the live stream we did on the channel two weekends
ago, and it was, uh, that was a fun live stream we're
going to do another one probably, but he should have those amps. He's
got twenty five or thirty of them coming in probably next week, and then
that many more coming in on h on June. These these are I think
these are the HRO rejects because because those guys used to all work at HRO,
now they're not there. I don't know why. I don't get it.
Those are the guys that used to be the both of them used to
be store manager at the Texas h R O. All right, I'm just
I try to be. I try to be everywhere you take the book from.
I'm descripting those in the United States, guys about seventy years old.
It's the most comprehensive audiobook I've ever saw. Wow. Okay, adio,
that's kind of neat. High end Tube Amplifier's Design Toolbox. H nice,
very cool. It's a twenty twenty three edition too. That's nice. Yeah,
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How you doing work in the group So this, uh, this table here
is where Jim the computer guy usually is, and apparently some genius decided to
schedule the uh Claremore Oklahoma Hamfest this same weekend, which is the biggest handfest
in Oklahoma outside of Tulsa. So this same weekend is both that that biggest
hamfest in Oklahoma and this one of the larger shows in Texas. So I
think these guys need to learn to communicate a little bit better about when they
plan their weekends. But that it is what it is. Whatever, where's
this ham meet? Hey you're in Monroe, Michigan. Thanks don. Yeah,
this is Belton, Texas, just south of Waco off of Interstate thirty
five. See he's getting free advertising right now. He doesn't even know it.
Excuse me, K E five U b O wants to buy cakes too.
I'll give you free advertising on my livestream right now. You didn't even
know it already, Mercer, I thought that was you West Hamfest in Texas.
That's sure. Put in the look at this guy here? Oh my
god, what's going on? What's up? Man? Y'all say anything like
this game out here? Yeah? Yeah, he's around here. Yeah,
either A v M eight thousand or VP eight thousand, j then you can
run around, say my big Johnson. So I have the older one without
the screen, and then I have the newer one with the screen. It's
not the newest one, I'm sure this is, but nine Mega Hurts or
nine hundred model VP nine. So it's a dual band, really, oh
V and seven eight? Okay, well did they make one v H if
you, Jeff, you have Johnson now the current b P eight thousand.
It's like an aprut. So it's tryband, okay, okay, really and
it'll do DMR. How much are those? Okay? I might, I
might do that. Do I have your car? Do I have your contact
info? You're a dealer for him? Right? No? For you?
Oh that's what that's what it was. You work for him. Okay,
okay, okay, let mean I'll might reach out to you about trying to
grab one. Yeah, yeah, okay, cool man, Thanks appreciate it.
Let's see that's a decent price on that seven of the six, assuming
that it works to find out there. That's all. That's a badass competition,
that's all. Okay, okay, cool stuff there. What were you
guys talking about with the yeah done, Yeah, N five SKT is correct.
The big one called Hamcom shut down. They're talking about spinning up a
new one in twenty twenty five that should be that should rival Hamcom. So
we'll see if that happens or not. And the Hammer. The DFW HAM
Expo is in June. I think it's on Father's Day weekend this year,
and people keep talking about how it's two days, so I'm gonna have to
go back to one. I missed that one last year, but I was
there two years ago. Broken. I'm gonna tell you guys, I'm kind
of a sucker for these icon these older icon hf rigs. The seven O
six and the seven thousand seven O six Mar two G and the seven thousand,
both great rigs. I own. I own two seven of six Mark
two g's, but one of them is dead, one of them looks almost
new, and I own two or three. I see seven thousand, So
every time I see one at a ham fest, I look at it,
and a lot of times they want too much money for him, and that's
okay, but there's spent some decently prized ones here, but that guy's allowed
zero five no four five zero five five to seven zero five nine four.
So, but I have seen no FT eight fifty seven zero zero. Well,
I'd take that back. Richard took win on on trade, but someone
just came up to him and traded him for it. There wasn't anything on
a table or anything. Seen a couple of eight ninety sevens. I have
an eight ninety seven, really like it. No eight fifty sevens. I
wonder why, because I think the Icon's a better radio than at fifty seven.
As far as comparing an ICY seven thousand to an eight fifty seven,
I think the ICOM's a better radio, but the A fifty seven was made
for longer. They're discontinued now, but they were not discontinued as early as
the ic seven thousand was. So I'm surprised I haven't seen because I would
like to have an eight fifty seventeen, And people say, well, why
do you want that radio? Because I don't have one because it would go
in a man pack. I've got like three or four different man packs I'm
building out right now. You'll see videos on that later. But that's why.
Yeah, that's why. So none, but I haven't found any here.
I just thought that was odd. Several icms, no yazers except for
the eight ninety seven, and that's a little bit bigger. It's not really
man. It could be a man pack. It could be a go bat
box radio. But I don't know. Just something odd I noticed, that's
all all right. So here's this stuff here. I skipped over the tool.
There's a bunch of tool stuff on that table. That's when I was
talking to you. You guys, there we go. No, I know
you didn't do it. I know I saw, yeah, I saw you
in the chat. I know there is another seven thousand right there where you
are. Time. Yeah, yeah, worse. I didn't even see Frank
in the chat. That's right morning. Hell are you good? Recognize that
guy? I can't remember his name? Paneled up inside him is free?
There you go, Thank you half so much. Now there's seven thousand here.
I saw this one yesterday. Well, well let's take it. Yeah,
it's true. Eight ninety seven. There, I wan'll howk over see
the sign? Got Yeah, I'm that's a little lot. I'm what's up?
It was all Lee's stuff right here? What a burger yesterday? All
right, I'm just reading the chat real quick as you're talking about waterburger.
I guess so yeah, this this one here, and I don't even think
you can have yeah, some of a few tables over here. So they
didn't sell all their tables this time, which is unusual. But what's that
cover? One forty eight gt O? Where was that one forty eight GTL?
Is a CB? Hey? How's going good? We're rappling off of
d X ten. Raffling off of d X ten. Okay, twenty dollars
a ticket. I'll make two hundred we got uh Steve Lott Smith? Du
oh yeah it tuesday on Tuesday, next week, this week, this week?
Okay, okay, cool, you will deliver it. Oh they'll deliver
it. Huh that's good. I uh, I probably come back and get
a ticket here in a little bit. Two tickets, please, yeah,
good life. My grandmothers hold ahead, I still pay. Oh boy?
Empty space is here? All kinds of radio shack t style trinkets and stuff
here, good computer stuff over there? How you doing mobile radios? Some
cool calling stuff here? Three weeks? How'd you do carry on? If
you see some military masks? Let me know, I have not seen anything
as of yet. Is ideally you go, I'm gonna either that or another
an like going DVD player lock airport I got right from frying. Also mention
about this is excited the screen do about it's just the interface, and like,
I'm not much of any pr S guy, but no, seriously,
you're not much an APRS guy at all. Only so check this out,
all right, viewers, come here, I found I found the dinings of
the rock Rights. You found what oh yeah, yeah, yeah that's the
FtM four hundred for three fifty. Yeah tell me here, yeah, I
would say so, yeah, yeah, because I wanted I was thinking of
getting the three hundred from Richards. Yeah, and it's about three fifty he
started three seventy nine. Okay, okay, so it's like, do you
would you get a four hundred or would you get a three hundred. I
would get the three hundred because well, and I only want APRS for trolling
purposes. But it's a lot easier to do APRS on that. Yeah.
Yeah, well that's what I was just saying. He like everybody like,
but yeah, ak and yeah probably you and anyone else that has the New
Year suies. Yeah, it's like you just can't make yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah. The five hundred is easy. The five hundred is not easy
to send messages over a p R S with. Did you see what Jason
had to do to get a quirty keyboard? Yeah, I haven't watched that
video yet, but I I like this thumbnail. It says we've done with
Yaz refuses to or something. I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah,
but yeah, no, that's a four hundred for uh it's it's there.
Get the three hundred. Yeah, one for the four hundred, two for
the three. And I like the three hundred better because you can use fusion
on both the top and bottom band. You can't do that on that one.
And I like, I don't I like the smaller form factor of the
screen because I've got five radios in my truck, but I've got and yes,
I don't think this would fit. Yeah yeah, that takes up a
lot more room. Everybody's typing one. Yeah, some people are typing three.
Paul Type three. I don't spend any of yeah right, yeah,
now that's a that's a good price on that either, even if you yeah
yeah, it's got the proprietary year old technology right yeah. Yeah, the
many many USD that's the only way to go. It is mini USB.
What's up? Andrew? How are you? Yeah? You too? Did
you just come here today? Oh? Yeah, okay, yeah, no,
it's live streaming right now. Ye. I should be there this year.
Yeah, yeah, I missed it. Sure it was my FAMI family
reunion weekend, but it's the weekend this year, so yeah it should be.
Here's Jason streaming inception. That's right, it's inception. Are you live?
Okay? I didn't think you were? Yeah, right, I could.
I could, yeah, but that would that would be yeah, too
much effort. Oh boy, here we go. So back to the tables.
We're just about at the end. Sad that you are you justin you're
asking good first radios to grow into both htm mobile. Literally, I have
videos on my channel that says best mobile radio, best handheld radio. I
haven't done a handheld for twenty twenty four yet, but my one for twenty
twenty three was in the latter part of the year, and then twenty twenty
four I've done the best mobile radio. But what I tell people is this.
I tell people to buy the most expensive radio that you can afford,
and if that's a twenty five dollars ball thing, then fine. Do that
is having a radio is better than not having a radio if you're you know,
if you have a license what's up? Rob? Hey good? But
if you can, but your more expensive radios are going to last you longer.
So the kinwoods, the icons of yay Zu's what's up, they're going
to last you longer than a thirty dollars ball fang or a fifty dollars walks
on radio or something like that. So bye bye by the most expensive radio
that you can afford. Nope, not many eight ninety ones around here.
Not many eight ninety ones this weekend at all. Eight fifty seven and eight
ninety ones have been in the used market, I should say, have been
rather non existent this weekend. The eight ninety one is so cheap, brand
new in a box, it's almost not worth buying unless you find one for
like three hundred bucks. It's almost not worth buying an eight ninety one.
I saw a U seventy three hundred yesterday. A guy wanted like nine hundred
dollars for it, and I'm like, eh, yeah, so I guess
you know, and he stepped like the last three weeks. So now I'll
just shut it off. Probably any k X three No, No, k
X three, not that I've seen. I found a guy with a K
three s out in the parking lot. He had done a bunch of work
to it, and he had a bill of sale on it for that was
like seventy four hundred dollars he had spent on doing all the work to it,
but it didn't have an actual asking price or what he was trying to
sell it for. I don't really know. I'm sure it's probably less than
that. Ja. Yeah, what's up? Oh hey man, how are
you? I'm good? Good? What do you do? Oh? You
said you were driving through the area, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's right. That's right. Cool. I was wanting to see you
today. I saw you your Instagram posts and I was like, oh,
let's see I see it. Yeah, yeah, for sure you didn't see
it. Scott, All right, what's going on? What brands retain their
value? Uh? I com can would yez do pretty well on the HT
market HT and mobile radio market? So no, not right now. But
I tell you people, I'm just telling the audience how there's been virtually nobody
selling uh eight fifty seven's bunch of bunch of icons, but no no yazeus
for whatever reason it does It does vary, that's true, Alla Craft in
Flex. Yes, not mobile radios. He was asking about HT and mobile
radios. But if you're into HF, yes, absolutely, Allocraft and Flex.
Oh you know what I want to go? Look back at this guy
over here. He's not a guy some cool military radios here. I never
did fast. I'm right. It's the biggest problem. We're using a st
When I was with World, it's a guy number back eleven. Get cool.
Yeah, PRC radios. How many contacts? So if you have any
questions, like the original Man Pack right there, original Man Pack Radio.
Very good answer. Any questions? What's this? How do you participate in
this? This is going to happen on May eleven? Are the last year?
Okay, take to wrel okay with them. Okay, we've got probably
thirteen stations programmed to be on the air. Okay, and uh they will
announce what frequency they're they're transmitting on. Okay, it'll be on dood frequencies.
But they're transmitting in the were transmitting in the d D spectrum, listening
in the HAM spectrum. Oh okay, I'll tell you what frequency does okay,
so I can transmit the Ham Spectrum. They'll hear me. Yep,
I'll got you. Okay, okay, So May eleventh, okay, I'll
go Armed Forces Day, right, yes, yeah, okay, so that's
last year. Yeah, some extra cars left over. Yeah yeah, okay.
I just recently picked up one of these. Well that this for the
for the eight for the Hot Talkie yeah version. No, No, it
is a Harriss, is a Harris. I bought it online, but it
was a Harris with the I got the bow faing version like two years ago
and did a video about how you shouldn't pay because at the time it was
like one hundred and twenty dollars and I'm like, and it advertises like ten
or fifteen wattson it was doing like seven, so I'm like, yeah,
don't get this thing. Yeah, this is just a remote for the several
Yeah okay, yeah. These are showing up on eBay now as well.
Yeah. Yeah. They had the option to get the remote with the HT
and I got both of them. It's got the GPS and everything in it.
So uh but it says it's a real Harriss, so fingers crossed.
It's actually I bought it on eBay, so hopefully it's a real harress.
But we'll see. Now. I'm good on fower cables. Thanks a lot.
Hey, good ever you you too? Does she spend all your money?
Yeah? Oh the ft five hundred? Yeah? Yeah? Ten other
people in our lock of radio because of that bre Oh wow, gosh,
are you gonna be here to one? H uh? Probably not? Probably?
Oh yeah, no, yeah, I know, I know, I
know it might take me that long to pack up, but I don't know
yet. All right, Hey, what's up? Done? All right,
we'll go see what's outside real quick. Yes, Mars' Military Amateur Radio Service.
That's correct, three three D prints still going over there? Will do
what I you do? Go back? Yeah? Hm? Good? How
are you? Are you going to Utah? I am going to Utah in
July? Are you talking about the uh the ham con Zion Ham Fest?
Is that the one you're talking about? You? Yeah? I guess Military
Auxiliary Radio Service Also reservists can accumulate retirement points by being in Marzona. Nice.
I really hate APR. I don't really do an absolutely fucking work.
I made a video saying how workless APR s. It's that's why I like
to do a RS. Mike's over here. You can't get away from Mike
talking about a pr S. You hadn't sold all this stuff. Yeah,
Richard, you got the three hundred. Okay, it's only money. Nobody
here is trying to talk me out of me. You can't take it.
No, no, not Kentucky out. But what did the chat say?
They said this or the four hundred? I don't remember now they typed to
one, but I remember what you said for one. I know I saw
it. Yeah, that's that's wrong. That's Ron. Is Ron selling that
four hundred? Richard? Yeah, I was selling here. A f r
S is great. Mike just didn't understand how to use it. Okay,
Yes, I'm going to hamcom Zion. Yes. In fact, those guys
will be on Sunday night live stream first week in May on my channel.
So what two to three weeks from now, something like that. So tomorrow
night we're gonna be talking with I'm gonna bring a Rob Digital Rancher. I
don't know if he's in the chat or not. I haven't seen him yet,
Rob Digital Rancher, Kyle A Zero, Zed Grayman, Poda, Tim,
I think James Ham Radio Adventure guy. Who else? Maybe Bill K
Zero WHW several of the guys, uh go into the MORE Expo, which
is next weekend, and we're gonna be doing the live stream. Oh and
Steve from Alpha Antennas is gonna join us as well. So Sunday Tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night live stream will be about the MORE Expo happening in Springfield,
Missouri next weekend. We're gonna leave out of here on Wednesday morning and get
there. We got VIP passes so that we could check into the camp site
on Wednesday night instead of Thursday morning at ten am like we did last year.
And we're gonna all meet up and check in together so we can all
camp. It's kind of like disperse camping once you get in there and then
so we're gonna talk about all that on the on the live stream tomorrow and
that's what we're doing next weekend. So this has been the beltonham Expo,
Belton, Texas twenty twenty four. This is the spring version because they'll do
the show again in October sometime sometime in the fall. So you guys,
oh, there's Kyle. See say Kyle's name, and all of a sudden
he shows up who knows talking about the live stream tomorrow night, Kyle,
but did you commented on it? Thank you? I said that you just
want fascinated youself wening. Oh okay, okay, well thanks, but yeah,
so tomorrow night, more expo chat planning for next weekend and that's where
we'll be. So thank you for hanging with me this morning. Guys.
It's always a good It's always good assuming the internet works. These live streams
from hamfests are always popular, so several people mentioned the DFW Ham Expo,
which is gonna happen in June. We'll be live streaming from there as well.
Should be should be live streaming from there as well. We'll see if
the internet is That's an indoor show, so we'll see if that the internet
holds up there, but you never know. Sorry seventy three guys, you
all have a good afternoon.