WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:15.439 The Ham Radio two point zero audio podcast Rip. Thank you for downloading and 2 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:19.239 listening to this podcast. So basically what I do is I take all the 3 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:24.679 audio clips out of my videos and upload them to spreaker, and then from 4 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:30.199 there they're spread out to iTunes and SoundCloud and now Amazon Audible as well. 5 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:34.719 But I want to welcome you and thank you for joining the audio section of 6 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:39.679 this series on Ham Radio. I hope you enjoy it, and I would 7 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:45.560 appreciate you leaving us a comment or a review on whatever podcast service you're listening 8 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.640 from. Thank you. In seventy three, I hope you enjoy it. 9 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:59.799 I mentioned, well, that's that song you're singing yesterday, Old Rip, 10 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:11.560 deep River. My home is over Jordan. All right, Mike, game 11 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:17.599 down a little probably, how do you do that? Jesus cheesus. There 12 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:25.280 we go. Nope, setting transmitter, Mike's shaking the camera. Yeah we're 13 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:29.840 live, so you can go ahead and change yeah settings, that's where I 14 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:36.879 thought it was minus two. We'll go a couple of dB down, okay, 15 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.079 why not one two? One two? Okay? Well you left mine 16 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:47.239 a little bits okay, yeah, all right, um, let us know 17 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.519 how we sound. I probably sound amazing because I have this wonderful new Lavelier 18 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:55.120 microphone. I know. Well, these sound amazing by themselves. They're a 19 00:01:55.120 --> 00:02:00.920 little noisy. Five nine, Shane says Shane, are you coming out? 20 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:04.319 Yeah, Shane, Yeah, Shane, are you coming out? I brought 21 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.840 one of the cigars you sent me just so I can smoke it with you. 22 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:10.599 Ah, yes, that Dumas cigar or whatever. Do are we backwards 23 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:15.360 in the camera? H see we're backwards in this but well yeah, but 24 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:22.280 it's probably because it's front facing cameras, right exactly. But sometimes you sometimes 25 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.960 you gotta know, sometimes this is backwards day. Charlie's at the airport. 26 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.800 Good deal. Thank you for sharing the link. Steve. Yeah, I 27 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:35.400 did a I set up a live stream this morning, and I told it 28 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:37.639 on the app. I did it on my laptop, and I told it 29 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:38.319 on the app that I was going to do it mobile. But when I 30 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:42.680 went to the mobile app to choose that live stream, it said it wasn't 31 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:49.240 available. So ah, but wait, at some point I was live oh 32 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:52.759 am, I yeah, what do you know? So the All Star node 33 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:57.439 died pretty much right when we got here. Good, okay, pretty much 34 00:02:57.520 --> 00:02:59.800 right when we got here. We had it all in the truck all day 35 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:02.520 the last two days, and it pretty much died when we got to boot 36 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:06.879 up. I don't know why. So I texted Kyle this morning. He's 37 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.520 my all star Admin Elmer. He is an all star. He is an 38 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:15.159 all star. Kyle is an all star. He really is. And and 39 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:19.960 the theory is that the the SD card went bad. That they tend to 40 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.159 do that sometimes if you plug him up and down a lot. And I 41 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:29.520 have another SD card with me, but I don't have an Ethernet cable with 42 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:31.840 me, so I can't access the Raspberry Pie. So Kyle's bringing me an 43 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:35.039 Ethernet cable. We're going to check it out tonight. Wait a minute, 44 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:42.400 we are you putting just Rasbian on it? Uh? No, him vo 45 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:46.039 ip is is its own. It's got it's its own script that has him. 46 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:51.400 He built into rasbian. Okay. So yeah, because when you first 47 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:54.240 boot up Rasbian, it should just like if it doesn't see an Internet after 48 00:03:54.280 --> 00:04:00.319 a while, it should just broadcast its own up addressed yah be able to 49 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.680 see his WiFi that way. Yeah, it's it's h Yeah, it doesn't 50 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:06.840 do that. Um, it doesn't connect to Wi Fi. It doesn't broadcast 51 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:14.919 in an accident, give me talking computers. So it's um yeah, probably 52 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:19.519 going it's probably um, but just the SD cards just because the powers of 53 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:24.600 power to the Raspberry Pie. Yeah, but nothing else seems like it's working. 54 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:30.879 I was messing with. I had one Raspberry Pie dedicated to um that 55 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.639 emulation station so you can play like old video games. Yeah, dude, 56 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:38.839 I had an itch and to play Super Mario World like a week ago. 57 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.160 Yeah. So I'm going through like all my SD cards. I'm like, 58 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:46.199 I know it's on here somewhere somewhere, couldn't find because I had one that 59 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:48.639 was just like I had all the games on it and everything. Couldn't find 60 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:54.000 it. So I'm going through all my SD cards and like nothing was working. 61 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.879 So I had to remember how to put games on it, and it 62 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.839 still wouldn't work. So I didn't get to play games. Ah'll kind of 63 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.800 because the Super Mario World's freaking awesome. Yep, yep, I agree, 64 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:05.600 I agree. What can you do? Yeah, so it's been kind of 65 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.720 a morning of disappointments. Now, the weather is fantastic. I can't complain 66 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.800 about the weather. A little cold, yeah, Mike, think Mike, 67 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.240 things is a little cold. It's chilly. I wouldn't call it cold, 68 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:17.519 but the All Star Node I couldn't get it to work when we got here 69 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:23.319 last night. The battery it was plugged into died fine, so we plugged 70 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.160 into another battery, couldn't get to boot back up. So I guess it's 71 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.920 just one twoson when it was plugged in a Little Geek when we were driving, 72 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.079 right, but not after we Yeah, not after we got here, 73 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:34.480 So I unplugged it from Little Geek when we're moving stuff. So it's probably 74 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:40.360 my fault. Okay, it got shot unplugging it and replugging it. And 75 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:43.279 they say that, They say if you don't shut it down properly, which 76 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:45.920 nobody does that because you'd have to log into it every time. How are 77 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:46.600 you going to do that? Yeah, you'd have to. You'd have to 78 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:50.160 ssh into the thing each time you want to shut it down and go in 79 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:54.759 and send it at a command. Nobody got time. Nobody got time for 80 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.040 that. So now this is another reason I want to get a Sherry note 81 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:01.160 installed permanently in the truck so it's there all the time. I was pretty 82 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:04.920 sweet being able to drive down the street and yeah, like it's it's analog 83 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:09.800 so it sounds good, right, I mean it's still over the internet. 84 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.720 Yeah, like DMR or if you know any of the other ones. But 85 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:15.399 it's sound like I was using my five dollar boath. No. Yeah, 86 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.800 it works with a five dollar boat that's a great thing about All Stars. 87 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.000 Yeah, it just works with any radio. Yeah, so it was nice. 88 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:24.000 So we we talked on All Star the whole way here. Talked to 89 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:25.800 a bunch of you guys in All Star. And there's a bunch of people 90 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.959 connected all Star right now, and I'm actually connected. I disconnected it now, 91 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.399 but I got the DV switch program connected compliments of November eight. Papa 92 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:35.319 Charlie. He's got his system connected in So if you go to hand Radio 93 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:39.720 two dot com forward slash all Star, that pulls up my Superman page and 94 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:43.319 there's like twenty twenty five people on there right now. And when we end 95 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:45.319 this stream, I will be back on there. I'm not on there right 96 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:50.360 now because I'm using the phone to stream instead, but uh yeah, yeah, 97 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:53.519 that's where that is. And so I get So we get here. 98 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:56.399 Last night, we set up camp and everything. We kind of pull everything 99 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:59.160 out and unpack all our crap. This morning, I get up and I 100 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:02.480 put the starlinks them all together. There's no starlink Zenia. There's no Starley 101 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:08.040 coverage in Zenia at all. You pull up the nap and it's like it's 102 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:12.439 like there's a little circle of coverage to the to like the northeast of Zenia. 103 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:15.360 Zenia is here, and Dayton's like I think over here and Dayton's covered, 104 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:19.160 but Zenia is not covered, and I'm like, crap. So no 105 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:27.279 starlink at all. So like, as far as travels go, we're when 106 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:30.279 when you and I have been camping, Yes, I think we're owing three 107 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.319 now for the starlink. H it doesn't work here. It didn't work at 108 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.920 Montisano. It doesn't work there. It didn't work at the Grand Canyon. 109 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.480 Both Montisano and the Grand Canyon. It didn't work because of the trees. 110 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:45.360 But yes, that's correct. Yeah, yes, I don't care what the 111 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:47.399 reason is. It didn't work. Yeah, here we got we got blue 112 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:51.800 skies and Barfie Burgers here and it's still at working. So, m what 113 00:07:51.920 --> 00:08:01.480 can you do? But so I finally updated my uh my my cell phone 114 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.759 plan, so I now have unlimited data. I was on this really really 115 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:11.639 old grandfather clause. So I'm probably gonna stream something. Uh either I might 116 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.879 stream tomorrow just here if people are hanging out. Um no, and I'm 117 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:24.600 thinking i'll maybe i'll stream like the outfield the flea market on Friday. I 118 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:28.879 don't know, but I'm paying for it, so I might as well do 119 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.320 something. Last year I streamed. Um. I think I did the indoor 120 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.840 stuff on Friday and the flea market on Saturday, and that worked out well, 121 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:41.039 so I'll probably do that again. I'll just pick a time, uh 122 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:46.039 that doesn't conflict with anybody else. This is a Shane. This is a 123 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:52.519 Padrone nineteen sixty four anniversary, compliments of Dave from VHQ hex Beam, who 124 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:54.679 already met. He's already in there with his x beam set up. So 125 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:56.960 yeah, you gotta go introduce me. Yeah, well, yeah, you 126 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.039 don't want to know what I'm spoken. Yeah, I'm trying to get rid 127 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.320 of these. Actually this is this is the Drewis States Factory smoke. These 128 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.840 are some cheaper ones I got. I got a bunch of nice cigars with 129 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:11.720 me, but um, this is the sun grown uh one. I like 130 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:13.639 the Maduro, I don't like this sun grown, so I'm smoking it just 131 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:18.000 to get rid of it, but it's kind a good drive mean, it's 132 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.159 not bad. I just I don't like this kind of rapper I like. 133 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.279 I like the Maduro's and the more full bodied ones. How is the weather 134 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.320 there to transmit? So that's a great question. I'm glad you asked that 135 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:37.240 I have. I brought my eight one eight with me and I set up 136 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.799 and antenna last night. I have. You can see the the green hole 137 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:46.399 behind right here, that's my MFJ forty three foot mask. I've got the 138 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:48.960 pack tenna hooked up to it right now. I had it. I had 139 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:54.279 the K six r K n fed hooked up to it earlier. Solid s 140 00:09:54.399 --> 00:10:00.840 nine noise floor on receive. I'm looking actually uh nine plus right, there's 141 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.320 a there's a power, there's a telephone power right there. There's a transformer 142 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:07.000 right there. So yeah, that probly doesn't help. But there's gonna this 143 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:09.679 place is gonna be literal with RVs by the time Friday gets here. So 144 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:11.279 there's gonna be all kinds of RFI here. It's gonna be terrible. I 145 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:16.919 did make one contact on sideband last night to a med out in California. 146 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.879 He was doing a poda and you were on five watts, yeah, five 147 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:24.399 watts with the eight one eight. I brought my amplifier, my little MXP 148 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:28.919 fifty amplifier, but I don't have an extra connector to hook the coax up 149 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:33.679 to it. So I've got I've got that I just brought. I didn't 150 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:37.679 get it because you said you said that there the antenna was only handled twenty 151 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.080 wats. Well that well, I have to pack ten up now so we 152 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.039 can. But regardless, there's an S nine noise floor, so we can't 153 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.960 hear anybody. I'm on ft eight and even ft eight from every band twenty 154 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:52.200 seventeen, fifteen, twelve and ten like I'm sitting on twenty that and there's 155 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:56.399 still there's not a lot of activities, so I don't know if there's a 156 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:58.440 solar flare or what. But I don't know, you know, I really 157 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:03.480 don't care. Sitting at the Green County Fairgrounds. The weather out of here 158 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.559 is beautiful. It's it's if it stays like this through the weekend, we're 159 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:09.000 going to be golden. It's not going to stay like this through the weekend. 160 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.320 It's supposed to be like this today and tomorrow, and then it's supposed 161 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.960 to rain a little bit Friday and Saturday mornings. Yeah, but I think 162 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.679 it's limited to just the morning, so hopefully it clears up in the afternoon. 163 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.799 I don't know so, but those of you arriving today should have some 164 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.559 really nice weather tonight and tomorrow. Yea, it is chilly at night though 165 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:28.120 we had the heat on. Yeah, and up until about twenty minutes if 166 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:33.759 I still had my hoodie on. So but I don't want anything to do 167 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.879 with the cold. I didn't see it. I didn't think it was think 168 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:41.320 it was that cold. It's cold shorts or jeans weather. I haven't put 169 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:45.039 on shorts yet. I'm wearing tactical sweatpants right now. It's only going to 170 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:48.200 be in the mid seventies at the high. It's not gonna be hot like 171 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.919 tonight's gonna be in the forties, I think is a low. So it's 172 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.559 it ain't like last year. Was I get in the eighties, it was 173 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.399 it was pretty comfortable, But yeah, this year is a bit cooler. 174 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.320 So definitely bring a hoodie, you know, bring a sweatshirt or something, 175 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:05.080 Bring some pants, some shoes and socks. Prepare to not be hot. 176 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.720 Yep, yep, it's definitely warmer. At home than it is right here, 177 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:13.720 and it had I not checked the weather before I left um because I 178 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.759 was just thinking, all right, it's it'll be like every time I've been 179 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.679 here it's been hot. I checked the weather and it's like loads of fifties. 180 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:22.480 I'm like, oh, hell, now I'm bringing my hoodie and a 181 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:26.000 pair of pants. There was one year years ago when it was at hera 182 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:33.519 that I forgot to bring any cold weather clothes and I bought him vention sweatshirt 183 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:35.480 in the in the flea market because it was so cold. I was like, 184 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:41.120 I gotta do that, so I gotta go buy it. I got 185 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.320 it. And last year I came by and I went to go buy a 186 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:48.320 T shirt on uh was it Saturday morning or Friday morning? It was early 187 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:52.080 I think it was Saturday morning. First thing I went to go buy a 188 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:54.519 T shirt and they were sold out everything but small. Because my buddy, 189 00:12:56.639 --> 00:13:00.159 yeah, well I'm not. But my buddy David, when he's like I 190 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:01.759 can't make it this year, go buy me a T shirt. I said 191 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:03.039 sure, And I went over there and I'm like, you guys are sold 192 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:05.200 out? Did you print? Oh no, we printed the same amount. 193 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:11.000 And I'm like I don't think that's true. Hopefully they printed more this year. 194 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.279 I'm gonna go buy a T shirt first thing this year because I didn't 195 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.840 get one last year. But that is I got it. I got an 196 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:20.360 embroidered hat the first year I was here. What was that twenty nineteen when 197 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.440 we all came out here. Yeah, and the hat is like so big 198 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.120 it just looks goofy. So I never wear it. I don't. I 199 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.720 don't really wear hats that much though. Yeah. I keep getting though. 200 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.240 Every time I cut you go to hand face, you get a hat, 201 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.679 right, Yeah? No, I got an Icom hat. I don't even 202 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:39.279 know how I did that. They were handing those out last year, were 203 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:43.399 they? Yeah? No, because I think I just got it. Oh 204 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.799 damnication. Maybe well they don't know. They were handing out care packages last 205 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:50.600 year. And I got an icomb hat last year. But I wonder I 206 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.519 have known it somehow. I have an icon hat, and then I don't 207 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:56.840 know. I have like a million hats now. Shane says, they're they're 208 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:00.679 any good breweries up here. Yeah, we went to a brewery years ago. 209 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:05.320 Of course, we'll have a troll pub on Saturday night, will have 210 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:11.679 local drafts there from local brewery, so you'll be able to sample more than 211 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:13.679 just one brewery by going to troll Pub. So that's that's that's my plan. 212 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.840 But there's a brewery right here in Zenia too, Yeah, there is. 213 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:24.039 I think we went there last year. It's called like Devil Something I 214 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:26.559 feel. I think we went there last year. It might have been in 215 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:33.960 twenty nineteen. I don't remember. But everything closes early. We got here, 216 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:39.000 we were ready for dinner at like nine thirty or ten, and like 217 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:43.399 everything is closed. Devil Wind Brewing. That's it, Devil Wind Brewing. 218 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:48.000 Okay, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I remember that place. I'm 219 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:50.080 pretty sure we stopped in there last year. I don't remember now, it 220 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:54.840 could be wrong about that, but we got a few taps there. I 221 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:58.240 got probably ten taps there. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. Good, 222 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.679 but that is they have twelve, they have them numbered. Look at 223 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:07.279 that good good. I'll be dying, let me real quick. I was 224 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:13.559 asked to promote LDG during this trip. Those are you coming to him mention. 225 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.879 This video is officially sponsored by LDG Electronics. You will be able to 226 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:20.840 save twenty percent off of all LDG products at the Gigaparts booth this weekend. 227 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.399 So if you need LGD tuners or antenna accessories or anything they make, you 228 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:30.039 should have told me my LDG hat is in the car and would have word. 229 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.320 Yeah minds are the good minds in there somewhere too, So yeah, 230 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:37.440 LDG twenty percent off of the Gigaparts booth this weekend, and they have they 231 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:41.519 offered to sponsor all of my videos this week so special thanks to LDG for 232 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:43.879 doing that. We're gonna get an interview with them probably on Friday. So 233 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.480 I think they have a new um, I think they have a new something 234 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:50.519 coming out. Maybe I'm thinking of somebody else. There will be a new 235 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:58.440 rig expert a a three thousand tutor year that will cover a yeah analyzer, 236 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.919 I'm sorry, yeah, um, yeah, I got DG tuners on the 237 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:06.159 brain. Yeah analyzer will cover up to three thousand mega hurts to be able 238 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:07.840 to do your two point four gigg hurt's Wi Fi crap with it, so 239 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.200 it'd be kind of fun, ye but yeah, So that'll be on display 240 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:15.799 at the Giga Parts booth as well. But if you guys go buy gigaparts 241 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:19.120 and get something, tell them you saw this stream and this channel whatnot. 242 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:22.679 It's because they like hearing that. They're good folks there, very supportive of 243 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:27.159 the Ham radio community YouTuber community in general. They are good people. We 244 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:30.919 were just talking with Steve there earlier. I want to him and his wife 245 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.320 were in there. Oh you saw him, Okay, Yeah, I saw 246 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.320 him in there. Yeah, Steve Molo from Giga Parts. He's already in 247 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:40.120 here starting on the booth set up flex radios here. I just talked to 248 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.679 those guys. Michael and Lorie are in there, and lou is in there. 249 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:48.799 Another guy I met for the first time. I saw a whole stack 250 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:56.000 of tar heel antenna's too. Seriously, yep, wow, Gigaparts. Was 251 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.679 that quicksilver? I didn't say. I didn't see what brand it was, 252 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:06.440 but I mean it's like literally like you know where that Uh well, no, 253 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:08.079 I mean was it a reseller of tar heel? Was it tar Heeled 254 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:11.960 themselves? Booth? They might have been a reseller. I think it was. 255 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:15.880 Yeah, like just boxes and boxes of tar heels, which is something 256 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.279 I haven't seen for a while. No, that's been a while since I're 257 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:21.920 looking for a tar heel antenna. I feel I saw many boxes of little 258 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.519 tar heels. I mean they had all the the whole display of all of 259 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:29.200 their screw driver antennas, so right literally right next to to get parts. 260 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:32.480 Yeah, where that you know that where that explorer sign is like if you 261 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.039 just if you're facing that Explorer sign look right. See he didn't have any 262 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:38.480 of the signs that when I was like, okay, so yeah, they're 263 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:42.079 asking about Frank coming. Oh he thanks for the super chat Arthur. Um 264 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:45.559 haven't heard you on Uh you've probably been there, but you should see a 265 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.519 bunch of extra people connected to the All Star system. Arthur. He's all 266 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:53.559 Arthur's always connected. Oh your luster antenna. But yes, Frank is coming. 267 00:17:53.680 --> 00:18:00.839 He and Adam are flying into it's either Since out of or Columbus. 268 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:03.079 I can't remember where. They're flying into the same airport this evening, five 269 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:06.880 or six pm something like that. And then they're driving in together. Adam's 270 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:10.359 running a car, so Frank will be Frank and Adam will be here tonight. 271 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:12.720 Yeah I know it. And hey, at least he wasn't in our 272 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:18.279 car. Yeah, but Kyle's driving in. Charlie said he's at the airport 273 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:22.039 right now. I don't know if that means here or there. Uh Rob 274 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:26.119 W five I t R Digital Rancher. He's coming in today. He'll be 275 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:30.319 in here about an hour. I think, who else is that our timer? 276 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:36.599 Ohio time? I think it's Ohio. Well, I'm on Ohio time 277 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:40.880 right here. I'm not so yeah. Yeah, so my watch doesn't update 278 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:45.240 automatically. Kyle says he's driving now. Uh okay. Charlie says he's still 279 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.799 in Arizona and boarding. I think Kyle is picking up Sterling, and then 280 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.359 Charlie hound you think. I don't know. It's a good, good question. 281 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.480 How many cans of sun drop you bring in this Kyle, He's probably 282 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:56.720 got at least the case I would have been, Yeah, I would think 283 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:03.599 so. So we got the third the third campers here. Yeah. Yeah. 284 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:06.759 We got here yesterday and we were the only ones here. I thought 285 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.240 we got here about eleven eleven in the morning on Wednesday last year and there 286 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:14.119 were three, four or five people set up, not very many at all. 287 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:17.279 I thought I'd probably be a couple of people there on Tuesday. There 288 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:18.839 was nobody here in this area. There was a couple of people up front, 289 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:22.839 but nobody and their kids. They can see that in a few hours 290 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:26.279 on my channel. Yeah, well there you go. At three pm Central, 291 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:30.640 four pm Eastern on k MRD Radio Stuff, I did a whole blog 292 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:38.640 of Monday and yesterday's adventures fun times, fun times set to a nice soundtrack 293 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:45.279 of some good easy listening music. It's death metal. No, here's the 294 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.000 guy, here's here's the new coach that just came in. Look at that. 295 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:56.519 Damn, that's that's nice. Yeah, the same thing is that. 296 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:59.799 Yeah, well they're still they're both nice. Yeah, and that guy didn't 297 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:03.960 have a cooi holler in the back. That's how you ham harder. That's 298 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:07.759 how you ham harder. Yeah, hit the road in one of those things. 299 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.519 Man, I don't know forty gallons a mile, Yeah, that's right. 300 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.079 H d X Engineering is here. Yeah, everybody's here. Yeah. 301 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:19.799 I comes in there setting up. I didn't see Ray yet. No, 302 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:26.319 I don't think Ray right Friday morning when he has to be here. H 303 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.720 All the folks that FLEX are in there. He's setting up. Yu's in 304 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:33.519 there setting up. Yep, who else did I see? Uh? It's 305 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:41.200 still earlier. Still everybody an early Yeah. So yeah you look this thing's 306 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.000 burning like crap. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Yeah, that is 307 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:47.559 bad. That's what you get for two dollars and fifty cents cigar? Ye, 308 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:51.119 come on, drew A states you can't make a cigar that burns evenly. 309 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:59.559 Yeah. Ray Novack is who we're talking about, Richard, but he's 310 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:00.519 not here, all right, I mean, well he may be here. 311 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:06.799 I haven't seen it yet though, but yeah, he's uh But there's people 312 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:08.519 in there setting up. All the big names are in there setting up. 313 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.400 Yeah. I ran into Bruna from Begali. Oh yeah, I saw yeah, 314 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:18.200 I saw them in there. I gotta pick up a key for Paul. 315 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:22.559 Oh, Okay, I don't know which one, hope hopefully she hopefully 316 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:33.599 she knows which one. And then I'm on the lookout for an atoss for 317 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:38.839 Ben m h and a new one or a usual. Yes, okay, 318 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:45.160 I'm sure that uh hro and Gigga Parts will have a tosses and stock. 319 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:51.839 Are they really even for him? Vention went on gigaparts website. Yeah, 320 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:55.480 did they rat hole any for to bring the him mention there? I haven't 321 00:21:55.480 --> 00:22:00.000 asked. Maybe I should yeah, yeah, but no, they've been at 322 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:04.039 stock for a while. Yeah. I gotta get my what the deal is? 323 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:07.480 I gotta get my I have a Torquel I need to get it hooked 324 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:12.079 up. How long am I saying that? Two years something like that? 325 00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:15.799 Yeah, well, I was waiting on the I was waiting on the new 326 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:18.799 radio. Did you do it when you do the X commander? Yeah, 327 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.599 no, I'll do it before that probably. Dude, it's so easy to 328 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.759 hook up a fricking screwdriver at tenna. Yeah, well ridiculously. I mean, 329 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:30.240 I know you got that bracket and custom mount for it. Yeah, 330 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:33.920 still you bolted on you. I mean, it's it's are you capable of 331 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:40.960 running two wires? I actually just last week bought a right angle. I 332 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:44.119 wanted a right angle pl two fifty nine so that it didn't come out and 333 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:47.680 have to stretch it around. So I got a right angle and MESSI and 334 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:52.880 plumey Evo connector for it. I've got some airborne co accs that I'm gonna 335 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:59.680 run to it. So, uh so I've got that final and I think 336 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:06.480 it's born seven. Yeah that'll work. So yeah, so that's gonna that's 337 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:11.279 gonna be a thing. And then uh yeah, yeah that's all good. 338 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:15.440 So it's gonna be a fun show, fun show, fun show. You're 339 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:21.240 freaking blast yep. I think there's freaking smoking Ape's coming smoking. Ape will 340 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:23.079 be here too. Yeah, yeah, that's right, Yeah, like you're 341 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:32.680 coming. He's like, only because you're coming, He's getting in tomorrow night, 342 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:37.359 I feel m hm. So, oh, yes, he's Steve cam 343 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:40.720 nine G. He's on his way. He said he was gonna leave at 344 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:45.240 the crack of yawn this morning and drive down from Wisconsin. I think it 345 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:49.039 was ten or eleven hours shorter than our drive. Shorter than our drive. 346 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:52.160 So he'll be here. He's way up on the top of Wisconsin. So 347 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.720 yeah, yeah, so he'll be here and m And I don't know if 348 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:00.799 he's picking up Jim or if Jim's driving separately. I'm not sure how that's 349 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:04.680 working out, but FEP labs, Jim will be here, and Steve will 350 00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:08.920 be here and Shane Shane, what's your status, dude. I saw Shane 351 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:15.519 in the chat earlier, but he's uh. We have heard back and forth 352 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:18.839 about whether he's gonna come out here, and you can get a confirmation from 353 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:22.440 Shane, that'd be great. Yea, So did you come up through Indianapolis? 354 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:26.480 Yes, we did. It took us on a different route this time 355 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:27.440 than it's taken us in the past. It took us all the way north 356 00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:34.000 through Oklahoma into the Droplin area, came through Joplin, through um Saint Louis, 357 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:40.559 and then through Indianapolis and then up that direction, so we bypassed Cincinnati 358 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:44.720 completely. Driven up through Cincinnati in the past. Usually I'll take I forty, 359 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.000 I thirty through Little Rock and then I forty and through Memphis across the 360 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:52.160 Mississippi. That's the way I'd normally go. But for whatever reason, it's 361 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:56.839 uh, it took me a different route this time. So I'm okay with 362 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:00.440 not having to drive through Cincinnati. Yeah. Yeah. I seventy is always 363 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:06.200 under construction and is always a traffic jam. First flight lands at twelve in 364 00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:12.200 Columbus. For who Shane twelve today or twelve tomorrow we talk about you're talking 365 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:15.599 about tomorrow. I think, I mean he has a second flight. I 366 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:18.599 think he's try and stand by because he's an airline employee, so I think 367 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:22.160 he's gonna try to get on that one. I seventy was fine. You 368 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:26.039 know, we had a fairly uneventful drive the whole time. Not a single 369 00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:27.559 traffic jam, not a single traffic jam. No. There was a couple 370 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:33.039 of places along the interstates where they closed the right lane or closed the left 371 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:34.599 lane, but there was so few traffic everybody just kind of merged over and 372 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:38.039 it went on through. So we had even in Indianapolis. We drove through 373 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:41.839 in an appolis at through a little after five o'clock, where you think would 374 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:44.839 be the harder rush hour. Nothing, it was fined on through. We 375 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:48.240 didn't have any trouble getting a goal, so other than they just the long 376 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.480 ass drive. But you know, I have five flights lined up. Lol. 377 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:59.279 Wow, so he's really determined to get here. Zack's flying? What's 378 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:02.359 up? Zach? Loyal is in the chat? He's flying out tomorrow. 379 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:06.880 You're coming out, too, Loyal, sweep, yep. What's Matt's status, 380 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:08.160 Zach? Do you know what? I haven't talked to Matt in a 381 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:14.160 few weeks? Not sure what? Um sure? When when he'll be here? 382 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:17.000 Is he coming? I don't know. I don't know. I don't 383 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:19.599 know if he's coming or not. Good question. Hey that's not our free 384 00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:26.960 but oh no, that's fine. Sometime Friday, Shane says, okay, 385 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:33.000 who Shane says sometime Friday, Shane will be here Friday, Yeah, okay, 386 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:36.640 Zach says, he's flying last I heard Matt is flying last I heard 387 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:41.200 my wife says she's starting to feel left out. This is the show, 388 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:45.319 babe. Yeah, she's coming. She's coming with me to uh to Huntsville. 389 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:52.079 She's coming hunt back to Huntsville this year. I'm pretty surprised you last 390 00:26:52.160 --> 00:27:03.200 year. Yeah, right, that was fun. Mm hmm, yep, 391 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:10.759 that is it. But yes, once again, we are those of you 392 00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:15.039 who have All Star. We are on hub four three one three six monitoring 393 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:21.440 that I've got a connection from my phone. Now Kyle's bringing um, Kyle's 394 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:26.279 bringing me a new an Ethernet cable to access my failed Sherry note that hopefully 395 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:30.160 just has a bad SD card. So we're tinker with that tonight at the 396 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:33.519 Airbnb. But I am connected via phone app. As soon as I am 397 00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:40.359 finished streaming, I'll reconnect again. Well on Simplex. We are on one 398 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:45.480 four six dot four five right four five on Simplex here at the fairgrounds. 399 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:49.599 I haven't monitoring now there's nobody on it right now because they're the only ones 400 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:57.799 here. Yes, that is true. So mm hmm. If you would 401 00:27:57.880 --> 00:28:03.880 learn to light your cigar directly, Don says, yeah, it's definitely not 402 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:08.519 the crappy Drew Estates three smoke well, because this costs two dollars and fifty 403 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:17.039 cents. Literally every single don I've got that is I can't. That's or 404 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:23.640 a field TechEd on No um, I've got these in sixty nine percent Bovidas. 405 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:29.200 It's just it's just these. When I smoke other cigars, they burn 406 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:33.200 fine, it's just these drew A States factory smokes. They suck, but 407 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:34.759 they're cheap. It's just a cheap everyday cigar. You know, every day 408 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:37.920 cigar. If you want to smoke ten dollars cigar, you want to smoke 409 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:40.240 a two dollars cigar. I want to smoke a ten dollars cigar, but 410 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:49.119 go broke hi a cheap cigar and go through one lighter per cigar. Yeah. 411 00:28:49.240 --> 00:29:00.440 Yeah, well gas is pretty cheap. M Yeah. So that coach 412 00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:04.000 behind you still trying to park sounds about right. Took this guy a couple 413 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:10.279 of times a part two. But I don't know what he's I don't know 414 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:12.079 what he's doing back there. I'll go park it for him here in a 415 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:23.640 minute. Hey, he's almost got it. Let's see. Does Ohio honor 416 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:30.319 your carry permits? Yeah, yeah they do. They are reciprocal so yep, 417 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:37.279 we got several freedom sticks with us. And this is my boom stick. 418 00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:44.319 This is this is not primates. Yes, several boomsticks with us. 419 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:48.079 Yeah, and uh say Shane says, when it's poda, we're gonna have 420 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:49.920 to go poda to morrow. I think, yeah, I think that's we 421 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.319 have to go to Mars about the only day we Uh yeah, I would 422 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:56.720 be able to. Yeah. Yeah. Is there an official repeater that folks 423 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.759 use when James getting here? Do you know? I don't know. I 424 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:04.599 don't know when James is getting here? Um, yeah, there are one 425 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:12.160 forty six nine four is the him vench and talking repeater. But the does 426 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:15.880 the fair ground allow boomsticks? They do in the parking lot. Yeah. 427 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:21.720 So funny you say that because I was riding around on the bike and all 428 00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:26.799 the buildings have which you wouldn't be able to carry in a building with this 429 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.440 capacity anyway, when they're like at least in May and the gun laws are 430 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:37.119 like like public areas that have like a capacity of twenty five hundred or more. 431 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:40.839 There's there's a few like no churches obviously, you know, schools, 432 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:44.160 you know, places where people would want to come do your harm. Literally 433 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:48.279 every door has like no gun signs. Yeah, I'm not sure how official 434 00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:51.000 that see in Texas, that would be a oh it's very efficial, non 435 00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:52.680 non official sign. You can put up a no gun sign, but if 436 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.279 you don't post the ordinance itself, no, it's it's an official. Well, 437 00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:00.400 I'm not trying to go to jail and Ohio. Yeah, that very 438 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:06.559 I'd rather get back to Texas right. Oh, when you guys go to 439 00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:07.920 PODA, I will need to ride out to the part guys. Richard says, 440 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:11.720 so, yeah, somebody. I'm sure somebody will have an extra seat. 441 00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:18.160 I think my seat's full. But what battery I knew you to power 442 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:25.400 my seventy three at the at the camp side. Any battery depends on what 443 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:27.759 you're trying to do with it. I mean I did for the longest time 444 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:32.599 when I when when kind of Poda first started taking off and I was doing 445 00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:36.119 podas, I was using my eight ninety one and a ten amp hour battery, 446 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:38.400 And that was when you'd have to call CQ for an hour just to 447 00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:44.799 get ten contacts. Is nobody knew what the hell Podo was, so boy, 448 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:49.119 those days, a twenty amp hour battery is a good battery. To 449 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:52.119 have. I have a thirty amp battery and in my battery box, I've 450 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.720 not come close to draining it, even even when I'm like so like on 451 00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:04.319 Tuesday nights, I'll sit out and watch the Ham Radio clubhouse guys, and 452 00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:08.440 I'll sit here playing FT eight for for a couple hours and maybe use eight 453 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:13.279 ten amp hours out of it. I'm only running sixty nine percent power, 454 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:20.799 but still that's I've got three battery boxes with me. My Giga parts box 455 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:22.400 with the twenty four am hower, and my other two boxes both have fifty 456 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:27.960 amp hour batteries. So go bigger, go home. And then if you 457 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.759 augment it with solar, you know, we've both got solar panels out right 458 00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.240 now, solar panels out. I've got it. I've got a thirty am 459 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:39.839 bio eno hooked up to my pan it over there, I've got I've got 460 00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:45.000 a thirty amp my battery box, because a thirty amp bio eno in it 461 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:52.759 here powering my my eight one eight one eight on on transmit on FT eight 462 00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:57.559 five wads puts out pulls like two amps. Power in eight went eight for 463 00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:00.279 for a hundred lifetimes, and then I and then I got one hundred and 464 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.480 twenty white solar panel on the ground. So we're good. Do you guys 465 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:08.480 know what park you're gonna do? Poda KB nine VBR is at Caesar's. 466 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:13.680 Caesar's Creek is where we were planning to stay. My buddy West is staying 467 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:17.640 there, and James from Billy's staying there too, Billy Stan Billy's Billy got 468 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:21.160 another one. He tried. He tried to get Caesar's Creak and he said 469 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:25.880 it was sold out. James Um Greater Venture guy. He's staying at caesar 470 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.519 Creek. So we know at least two people that are staying at Caesar's Creek. 471 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:32.400 So we're gonna go over there probably in tomorrow. We can just roll 472 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:35.640 up on him too, and they'll just have stuff set up. Yeah, 473 00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:37.240 don't have to. Yeah, we'll let them do all the work. Yeah, 474 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:42.960 yeah, exactly, Would you push that CQ button for me? Yea, 475 00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.680 I hear, I hear that. James kind of knows what he's doing 476 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:47.279 with Poda, dude. I was just looking at his stats the other day 477 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:52.079 because I was I was just putting around on the Podo website. Yeah, 478 00:33:52.400 --> 00:34:00.720 he has over one hundred and fifty thousand Poda contacts. That's one hundred and 479 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:04.640 fifty kiloads. I think, I think, I think he's got he's like 480 00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:07.800 number three on the like total leader. Not quite Okay, I thought he 481 00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:10.800 was number three. He's very close. He's up there. He's up there, 482 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:15.079 and he's only been doing this for a little over a year. Last 483 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:19.880 year he did that Bailey Spot Award thing. He literally poted every single day. 484 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:22.960 But he doesn't just go to one park. He'll do like ten parks 485 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:24.960 in a day. He stopped. He's only working four days a week so 486 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:30.039 he can pot him more. Now. He's not, he's just he's he's 487 00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:32.880 he's addicted. He's got he's got problems. Yeah, yeah it. I 488 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:36.559 tell people when they get emails from people all the time, they're like, 489 00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:38.159 hey, your video has got me inspired to do pot. I'm like, 490 00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:40.920 be careful, man, it's addictive. Yeah. Maybe I didn't tell him 491 00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:44.400 that. No, No, that's true. It's very addictive. True. 492 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:47.000 Yep. I've been wanting to do a lot of PODO lately, but it's 493 00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:54.320 been freaking raining in Texas every damn day. So brand yesterday or on Monday 494 00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:58.840 when we left, we posted Monday night the day the second I got to 495 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:04.599 Jason's house to unload my crap and put it in his caravan. Started raining, 496 00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:07.960 It started raining. It was clear all day until Mike arrived and started 497 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:12.920 raining. You know the Texas snowmageddon we had like two years ago. We'd 498 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:15.519 never had that in Texas until Mike moved to Texas. A little Detroit boy, 499 00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:22.039 I'm just saying, brought that crap with him from Michigan. Technically, 500 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:28.960 I was in Texas January eleventh. Yea, the movers, oh, the 501 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:30.960 movers. But I was in a I was in a like an extended stay 502 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:35.440 for like six weeks, trying to find a place to live. And then 503 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:37.840 the movers brought my stuff down. And it was like a day or two 504 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:42.480 after that because when they were moving my stuff and it was like forty degrees, 505 00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:45.719 I'm like, sorry, it's cold. You guys were coming down to 506 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:49.880 Texas thing, it's gonna be nice and sunny. I was doing a poda 507 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:53.079 in my in my uh, in short sleeves in January when I moved down 508 00:35:53.119 --> 00:36:00.079 there. That's very We've done in shorts on January first at the beach twice. 509 00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:09.679 So we are complaining about ham radio tips and tricks. Uh, yeah, 510 00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:13.320 we are complaining about snow. If we wanted to be if we wanted 511 00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:16.480 to live in snow, we wouldn't be in Texas. I was born further 512 00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:21.679 south than most people in this country. Yeah. For the first eight years 513 00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:29.239 of my life, I lived in Lighthouse Point, Florida, which is two 514 00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:31.760 more people, you know, pomping on just north of four Lauderdale. I 515 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:38.880 know where that is. Two people showing up with the RVs good times, 516 00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:45.719 good times, So steve from him seventeen project. I saw you in there, 517 00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:52.239 buddy, gonna get you on interview again this weekend. We talked to 518 00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:55.679 them. I talked to them in Florida. Yeah, yeah, they're making 519 00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:00.039 some good now. He's in every one of my damn freaking live stream. 520 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:07.280 Yeah yeah. I wonder if this guy knows he's supposed to back in. 521 00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:12.880 I don't. I think he's angled the wrong way and maybe he's pulling forward 522 00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:16.039 to Yeah. I didn't back in. I pulled. I pulled around that 523 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:25.760 way. But yes, one thirty, Sorry, Jason. I bought it 524 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:31.400 d X Commander from Mike. He's selling d X Commander's no for that Easter 525 00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:36.199 thing. I know what he's talking about. I saw, I saw them 526 00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:40.559 all for all you guys. Column texted me. He's like, he's like, 527 00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:45.639 what the well, like they're god. He texted me like a week 528 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:46.519 before. He told me about the thing a week or two before, and 529 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:49.639 I said, while I'm on vacation that week. I was in Big ben 530 00:37:49.719 --> 00:37:52.679 that week, and I said, I'll send an email to my email list 531 00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:53.760 for you. Just let me know when he goes. Yeah, yeah, 532 00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:59.280 I like Tuesday or Wednesday or whatever it was. Well, he he put 533 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:00.719 him up there like a day or two early, and they were all sold 534 00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:05.079 out by the time I got to it. So yeah, yeah, I 535 00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:08.800 just made a video that morning. Yeah, gone, yep, that will 536 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:13.599 do it great. I don't know if we still I still have an antenna 537 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:16.239 to give away. I've got two. I've got two because because from that 538 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:21.320 Easter sale, because I sold out first. Oh right now, I bought 539 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:24.000 I bought two of the antennas off of my own off of my own link, 540 00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:27.960 and then two of the expedition. So I've got him in the garage. 541 00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:30.480 Actually I bought three, about one for myself. I didn't have an 542 00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:34.480 expedition. I have the Old Classic and Kellum says that it's so old that 543 00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:37.480 it's he's changed everything on it now. No, he's changed him like three 544 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.840 times probably. So I bought a classic or expedition for myself and about two 545 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:44.320 expeditions to give away wish we're going to be given away probably at the end 546 00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:46.880 of this month, probably on our Happy Hour Memorial Day Happy Hour livestream and 547 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:51.559 give it those away, so y'all keep watching for that. I guess those 548 00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:54.320 guys are angled this way. It makes sense. Yeah, I gets driving 549 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:59.639 that way and then you're back in. But I've got it. I've got 550 00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:02.639 the d commander, the twelve meter thing, but I got it. It's 551 00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:07.239 a freaking ranting Ravens house and I I was gonna. I was gonna go 552 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:14.760 down pick it up last Friday or two fridays ago, but me and Ryan, 553 00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:20.000 Me and Ryan decided to go poda and get drunk instead. Huh, 554 00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:21.960 that was no, that was Sint go to Mayo we had when we had 555 00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:24.960 the Podo Rita's. Oh yeah, I coined. I invented a new term, 556 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:29.840 Podo reata a poda you drank Margarita's and Saint go to Mayo. Podo 557 00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:34.880 Rita's highly recommend we had. We had good They were made with padrone silver 558 00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:43.679 um, what's that really high end triple sec better than Quantro not? Uh 559 00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:46.840 yeah, Quantro is a triple secon, isn't it. I don't talk about 560 00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:51.400 I don't know. Well, Margarita is a you know, you get to 561 00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:54.480 the tequila, the sweet and sour and triple sack we had. It was 562 00:39:54.559 --> 00:40:01.480 all top shelf and we put him in U like the Thermis tumblers. Oh 563 00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:05.199 yeah, Like you don't want to have like a solo cover or nothing out 564 00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:07.920 that you don't want the rangers knowing you put it in a water bottle. 565 00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:10.719 Yeah, yeah, yeah, there, that's the way to be in cognito 566 00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:15.599 here yep. Follow Kay at MRD for more tips, like I'll teach you 567 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:19.840 how to poda. They don't call me Papa Poda for them, that's right. 568 00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:23.639 Shane says we need to have a build party for d expeditions. He's 569 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:29.159 got a or d ex commanders. He's got an expedition as well. Frank's 570 00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:31.800 got one. Yeah, and uh yeah, we should get together on that. 571 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:36.639 It'd be fun. And I'll be there and I'll just set mine up 572 00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:37.599 and I'll be on the air while you guys, I'll watch you guys. 573 00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:44.960 I'll set them up. I need something that I'm glad I got that expedition 574 00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:46.519 because I need something that I can take to a park and put my amplifier 575 00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:51.880 behind. Yeah, and all of the infant halfways won't handle five hundred what 576 00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:57.360 but so me and side Boom side Boom's got a thousand and one amplifier. 577 00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:01.679 Yeah, and we're fixing to do Uh. I gotta I gotta see if 578 00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:06.480 I can get I got see if I can pull some strings to get a 579 00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:09.880 power source for this. But we want to do a we want to do 580 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:15.719 a thousand wat PoTA activation on p with the on battery power with the d 581 00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:20.039 X commander. Be good. That's gonna be freaking awesome. Yeah, that 582 00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:22.440 would be good because we only live a few hours he lives. He lives 583 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:28.320 in Louisiana, so he's not too far. So we'll probably go somewhere near 584 00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:34.679 uh, probably somewhere around Baketown actually, um oh yeah, okay, somewhere 585 00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:37.159 in that area, maybe a little bit west, any closer to Orange or 586 00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:39.599 something kind of by the border. Somebody's asking if you can buy tickets at 587 00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:44.920 the fairgrounds. Yes, and you don't have to pre order, you can. 588 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:49.000 Somebody's calling me, and I'm going to ignore it. Uh so, 589 00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:54.079 yeah, you can buy tickets at the at the at the gate and come 590 00:41:54.119 --> 00:42:00.519 on out. Don't don't be shy. Yep, no shortage of rounds. 591 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:04.559 Yeah, if you're you know, if you're I was riding my e bike 592 00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:07.920 in there earlier and Michael Caulter he I saw him, so I stopped and 593 00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:09.320 talk to him from it a minute and he's like, he's like, yeah, 594 00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:12.920 you can't ride that during the show. Our insurance won't won't allow it. 595 00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.679 And I'm like, so your insurance will allow you to for these really 596 00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:21.159 old guys to ride these scooters that they can't hardly walk to. But I 597 00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:23.760 can't ride a bike that I can control one hundred percent. But okay, 598 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:28.360 yeah that's fine. I don't care. And then guys the scooters will just 599 00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:30.440 run you over. Yeah, yeah, they don't care. Yeah, they 600 00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:35.199 don't even have a little bell or not, but they got a little I 601 00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:36.960 don't know if they use it, but they got it. So no, 602 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:38.400 they just run you over. They don't care. I mean, I guess 603 00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:43.199 when I'm that old and ordering, I won't care either. But what time 604 00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:46.079 you heading to Cedar creekd You know, I don't know. Um Adam is 605 00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:50.280 doing a presentation at four days in May tomorrow afternoon. I want to say 606 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:54.400 it's around one or one thirty, and I say we head over after immediately 607 00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:58.639 after that. So I gotta find out what time adams presentation is at four 608 00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:01.880 days in May. And I'll tell you the best way to find out when 609 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:07.559 we're on the air, ham alert, Ham alert. Ye, look at 610 00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:14.280 that freaking spider. Holy crap. Oh yeah, yeah, why don't we 611 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:23.800 dispatch that guy because he's a I don't want to button the dog check. 612 00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:30.760 I don't know where he is, but he in here. Now kick them 613 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:35.000 in here? Now? Have you not put the new uh firmware on these 614 00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:37.639 No? I haven't done. You can turn the lights off and everything. 615 00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:42.800 It's great. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. No, I 616 00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:45.400 turned the lights off on these things. Yeah. I like to have the 617 00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:49.840 lights on so I know that the battery's not dead. That's what the freaking 618 00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:52.039 receivers for. Yeah, but if you're not looking at the receiver, if 619 00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:55.840 you're front facing your phone interviewing someone, I gotta, I gotta, I 620 00:43:55.920 --> 00:44:01.000 gotta show you how to use your phone, buddy. I well, I 621 00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:04.400 don't have an iPhone, so you can't really show me how to use that. 622 00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:07.159 How did the five hundred do in the trip beautifully? In fact, 623 00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:10.719 I'm still it's beaconing aprs right now casey five h should be dash six. 624 00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:16.199 You can see that we were beaking in the whole whole way here. In 625 00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:20.280 fact, it's funny. Somebody got on All Star they were talking about this. 626 00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:22.760 They're like, because Mike's icon is a little stick man and mycon's a 627 00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:28.599 little truck or the vehicle. And it showed Mike behind me because he was 628 00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:30.719 only beaconing five wats and I was beaking in fifty. So I think it 629 00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:34.599 was just the times that we were. He could be, it could be, 630 00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:37.599 but but I was behind the It looked like the stick man chasing the 631 00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:42.599 truck down the road the APR. I mean, if you if you look 632 00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:44.960 as if you look at it, you can still see us man. Yeah, 633 00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:49.000 probably probably so probably So that was funny. I guess I guess that 634 00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:52.679 guy gave up. Yeah, I don't know. See, you looks like 635 00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:55.639 a homemade he was pulling his power card. I don't I don't think he 636 00:44:55.679 --> 00:45:00.920 was close enough. Ah, Okay, he's just he just pulling around. 637 00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:07.360 So, yes, live from the Hamvention Ferret Grounds. Guys, hope to 638 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:13.519 see all of you this weekend. Well you can't see it now because the 639 00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:17.679 coach there, but the the building three where Gigaparts and Yasu are is right 640 00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:22.000 there. So you just come out that building, turn a little bit to 641 00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:23.599 the right and walk back here to this RVs. So you see a bunch 642 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:27.440 of RVs back here, come find us. We'll be hanging out here kind 643 00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:30.679 of off and on. This is our break taking spot. We'll look for 644 00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:32.440 the big tall green mask because that would be up. Yeah, yeah, 645 00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:36.199 the big the m f J mask will be up to be able to see 646 00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:39.840 that starlink is up although it's not connected to anything. And uh, but 647 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:45.960 we're right the Dara ham shack is right there with the big Yaggy's right there. 648 00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:50.119 So y'all come see us at some point in time. That's the first 649 00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:54.719 it's the first kind of road of the campground and we're five or six spots 650 00:45:54.719 --> 00:46:01.920 in on the left. What did that say last year? Jeff was there 651 00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:05.039 with you. When does he get it? He gets in tonight. I 652 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:08.320 think he lands at like six or something like that. And then he said 653 00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:12.760 he'd be at the I think we're gonna we're all meeting at the Airbnb later, 654 00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:15.679 so I think he gets there between like seven and eight tonight something like 655 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:20.800 that. So he's renting a car and driving in from wherever he flies into. 656 00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:22.239 I don't know if he's flying in the Cincinnati or Columbus or wherever. 657 00:46:24.679 --> 00:46:29.800 So yeah, yeah, Josh will be here tonight. Adam Frank will be 658 00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:35.039 here tonight. Rob will be here here in just a little bit, Sterling, 659 00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:40.920 Kyle and Red will be here this evening. Probably somebody else too. 660 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:52.320 I can't remember who else. But let's run some AM while smoking cigars? 661 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:57.280 Sure, why not? Some AM with eight with the eight one eight. 662 00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:02.519 We were at the More Expo in last month in Springfield, Missouri, and 663 00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:06.440 Shane had his seventy three hundred set up there at our campsite. He was 664 00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:09.239 We was just hunting poda and he saw the waterfall and AM signal, so 665 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:13.719 we tuned around to the guy and he made an AM contact and he said 666 00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:16.400 that We sat there talking guy for five minutes and it was like he's like, 667 00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:19.599 man, it's been a long time since I made an AM contact. 668 00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:22.480 Sounded fantastic. We should do that more often we should do a PODA activation 669 00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:29.960 with AM. I've made a few AM contacts, but not many. Yeah, 670 00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:31.440 yeah, yeah, it's been a while since I've done one before. 671 00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:37.719 Before that, it was the it was the one hundred and sixty meter AM 672 00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:44.159 contest, but I was still in Michigan. I used my my MFJ tuner 673 00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:47.599 to tune up my forty meter off center fed dipole on one hundred and sixty. 674 00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:52.760 Yeah, all right, but I made like two or three contacts. 675 00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:57.519 R Field Tech says, when is Sterling going to make more videos? That's 676 00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:00.440 right, he does make videos. That's the question. That's the question, 677 00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:02.079 you know, Sterling. I don't know if he should be allowed to stay 678 00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:07.440 in the YouTuber's airbnb. You gotta be a YouTuber to stay at the YouTuber's 679 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:10.719 airbnb, So I don't know. It might be a little bit sketch tonight. 680 00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:14.360 You might have an extra bed. We have to tell Sterling has to 681 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:15.719 sleep on the sidewalk outside, so there might be an extra bed there. 682 00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:22.239 You guys ask Kyle about that. See if we allow Sterling in there or 683 00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:24.239 not. I mean, he has a channel, he has a channel. 684 00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:30.280 Yes, a lot of people have to doesn't take much to be a YouTuber. 685 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:39.039 Look at me, I know it. Yeah yeah, h m hm, 686 00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:52.519 ooh boy, thank you for watching everybody. We're just hanging out at 687 00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:57.519 the campsite. This is where we'll be rest of the day, probably the 688 00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:00.719 rest of the day to day, well until that we're gonna go meet everybody 689 00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:07.239 at the Airbnb tonight. But yep, fun times. Should be a good 690 00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:09.239 time. Yeah, we're looking forward to the weather out here is very nice, 691 00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:17.159 guys, very nice weather. Yeah, Today in the Morrow are going 692 00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:22.119 to be the two nice days yep. M and then then typical Ham fast 693 00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:25.599 fashion, we'll have some rain. J four. Why is that? I 694 00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:30.519 Eric? I don't know if he's coming or not. Honestly, I don't 695 00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:32.320 think he is. Is he not? I mean I haven't talked to him. 696 00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:39.719 I haven't talked to him since uh Ham cation. Yeah, what's the 697 00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:45.400 post COVID turnout? Last year, they had a really good turnout. And 698 00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:49.000 again when I talked to Michael Coulter earlier today, but about an hour and 699 00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:52.360 a half ago, probably a couple hours ago something like that, he said 700 00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:55.840 they had sold more tickets this year than they had at this time last year. 701 00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:00.079 So the campgrounds, of course it is sold out. They don't have 702 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:04.400 very many campground spots. But yeah, they've sold more tickets this year than 703 00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:07.519 they did last year, and it should be a really good show. So 704 00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:23.320 numbers are numbers are looking good. Rain late Friday night only, Yeah, 705 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:27.719 they can changing that. Originally they said it'll change all the time. Yeah. 706 00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:30.280 Originally said am showers on Friday and Saturday, and I think they've changed 707 00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:34.079 that to where it's going to be late Friday. I've had the misfortune of 708 00:50:34.119 --> 00:50:37.840 living in Ohio twice and then working in Ohio a third time, but I 709 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:43.039 lived just over the border because I was working in Toledo. You have no 710 00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:45.719 idea what's going on here? No, No, the same saying, it's 711 00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:49.519 kind of the same thing everywhere. It is. Literally in all the states 712 00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:52.800 that I've lived in, everybody says the same thing. Oh, just white 713 00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:55.480 five minutes to the weather, it'll change. Done. Matt Weather's Michigan, 714 00:50:55.480 --> 00:51:00.400 Ohio, Virginia, Florida, New Jersey, Texas, X. I lived 715 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:07.920 all over the place. It doesn't matter. Everybody thinks. Everybody thinks they're 716 00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:14.079 they're unique. Yeah they're got Yeah, I'm very well traveled. Big news 717 00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:16.480 at the DX Engineering Oh yes, Okay, so we're going to announce that. 718 00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:21.079 I do know some big news about because because Calum actually told me that 719 00:51:21.480 --> 00:51:24.079 three days ago. Okay, so Dan, he told me that longer than 720 00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:27.599 that, well, he told me I could announce it three days ago. 721 00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:30.119 He told me that like a month ago. I think I think it was 722 00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:34.800 about a month ago. Anyway. Yeah, DX Engineering is selling DX Commander 723 00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:38.519 antenna's naw yeah, buddy, US distributor inside the USA DX Commander antennas. 724 00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:42.280 That's gonna be huge because you got to when you order from Calum, you 725 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.719 gotta pay shipping DX Engineering. You ain't paying the shipping over ninety nine dollars 726 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:51.559 with DX Engineering, right right. So that's how they get me because when 727 00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:53.840 I build big geek, I order all my power at my anders some power 728 00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:59.599 polls from them. Oh and it's always like seventy nine bucks or something. 729 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:06.800 Bastards, So they sucker. Are you into buying something else? Yeah? 730 00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:08.679 Either, no matter what, you're playing one hundred bucks if you get DX 731 00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:13.559 Engineering, but go buy the DX Engineering booth. But they're shipping is fast. 732 00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:15.960 Yeah, well, Callum's shipping is fast. Kelly, if you order 733 00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:19.960 a DX Commander today, you'll have it yesterday. Yeah, that's right, 734 00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:25.840 because they fly around the world the other way. Yeah, so they reverse, 735 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:30.960 they go the other way of the international date line. That's how they 736 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:39.480 do it. Yep, that is true. Did not see an email letting 737 00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:42.920 me know about the live stream? No, I didn't send an email today. 738 00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:46.119 We're here in the field. Um, but I did talk about this 739 00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:50.559 live stream on the live stream last Sunday when I had all the YouTubers on. 740 00:52:50.639 --> 00:52:53.119 We were talking about our plans for this week. So and I did 741 00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:57.079 the same exact live stream. I'm just gonna go with Yes, that's from 742 00:52:57.079 --> 00:53:01.360 Skoggins. That's from Scoggins. Yeah, uh sure, yeah, yeah, 743 00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:06.039 tell yeah, tell him. Sure. We're gonna have a really good representation 744 00:53:06.079 --> 00:53:09.239 of Devo's Light Rangers out here, because somebody else texted me with that earlier 745 00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:17.000 too, but it wasn't him, but yes, uh, Devo's light Rangers 746 00:53:17.159 --> 00:53:22.079 for nighttime and uh good stuff. All right, this cigar sucks. Yeah, 747 00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:31.440 I've got some really nice cigars in there, though. You want one? 748 00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:36.679 No, I all right, No, I don't need this. I 749 00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:45.000 don't need the chain smokes cigars. Well, give me fair. If you're 750 00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:49.360 interested in a VHQ hex Beam. I talked to Dave. He's in there 751 00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:52.159 with his hex Beam set up. I did an interview with him at Hampkation 752 00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:57.760 last February and he says that he's a lot due to my video. He 753 00:53:57.880 --> 00:54:02.039 brought I think five or six with him today that you can take and take 754 00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:07.800 with you. So it is if you want the biggest most kick ass Hecks 755 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:14.960 beam that that it exists today. Now. I love my Buddy Hecks, 756 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.079 don't get me wrong, but the Buddy Hecks is made for portable operations. 757 00:54:17.079 --> 00:54:21.360 The VHQ is made to put up and leave. I know guys who put 758 00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:22.960 up the the Buddy Hacks and leave it, and you can do that, 759 00:54:23.400 --> 00:54:28.000 but that's not really what it's designed for. The Buddy Hecks is designs for 760 00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:34.119 portable operations. VHQ is designed for put up and uh oh there's a hurricane 761 00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:38.280 coming, Just leave it there. It's fine. So yeah, great antenna, 762 00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:42.280 Absolutely great antenna. I think that I think I'm gonna put mine up 763 00:54:42.280 --> 00:54:45.199 on the house. I haven't told my my wife yet, but you just 764 00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:51.840 did. I just did. Surprise. She's gonna look at that and be 765 00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:59.519 like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to put I want to 766 00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:00.960 bolt it to my chimney on the top of my two story house. Yeah, 767 00:55:01.199 --> 00:55:04.480 I think that's what I'm gonna do. A pretty sweet legal limit, 768 00:55:04.519 --> 00:55:06.880 buddy. Well think, but think about the guy that lives down the street 769 00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:09.000 from Frank. Oh, I know he's got that. He's got that step 770 00:55:09.239 --> 00:55:12.519 the step by r or something whatever, whatever it is. He's got two 771 00:55:12.599 --> 00:55:16.119 or three good triband farm out. Yeah it does. Uh huh. And 772 00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:20.880 Frank still doesn't have one antenna thrown out. He does, he has, 773 00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:22.840 he's got a he's got a I think he takes it up and down. 774 00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:25.679 But he's got an antenna strung up in a tree in the backyard. Not 775 00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:30.880 when I was there, well, and that was just that was just before 776 00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:34.239 leaves it there. But he does do. What's the plant of it? 777 00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:37.480 I don't know. This is Frank we're talking about. Logic is out the 778 00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:40.679 window. I've got two antenna's up. Yeah. Three Actually, if you 779 00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:44.719 kint the VHF I want, I've got well, if you count my VHF, 780 00:55:44.719 --> 00:55:50.599 I've got three up also, and gmrs and a VHF and a officer 781 00:55:50.679 --> 00:55:57.039 fed dipool for HF. Yeah right now. So Frank's got room. No, 782 00:55:57.239 --> 00:56:00.440 yeah, he's got plenty of room up. He doesn't have our good 783 00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:07.360 excuses. Yeah, I can't wait to get there. Richard Truckingham, Well, 784 00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:09.480 come on, dude, drop your load off and get over here. 785 00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:13.760 There's semi's in here. You should be able to get a semi in here. 786 00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:16.639 I don't know. I think that coach is bigger than his pot. 787 00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:21.119 There's literally you can't see him now, but they're bringing him. Yeah load 788 00:56:21.119 --> 00:56:25.480 true stuff, that's true. And there's there's you know, fifty foot trailers 789 00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:30.239 with pickup trucks bringing them. There's a My understanding is that DX Engineering will 790 00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:36.280 have DX Commander antenna's here at this show. I believe. I don't quote 791 00:56:36.280 --> 00:56:37.639 me on that, but because they just announced this, and I think they 792 00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:44.000 timed it to announce fourhand mevention. So yes, I believe that DX Commander 793 00:56:44.199 --> 00:56:50.800 antennas will be available at the DX Engineering booth this show, hopefully, because 794 00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:57.039 that'd be cool. Yep, it would be cool. That would be very 795 00:56:57.079 --> 00:57:06.000 cool. Oh hello from Cincinnati. I'll be there Saturday. I mean to 796 00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:08.159 be fair, that duly right there. Yeah, it's the same size as 797 00:57:08.159 --> 00:57:12.239 a pickup truck. It's just not as as a semi. It's just not 798 00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:15.760 as tall. Yeah, it's true. That's true. Yep, that's that. 799 00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:20.239 That bobtail is smaller than that coach right there. God, yeah, 800 00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:24.760 that's a little bit. Huh yeah, Richard, I would suspect he'd be 801 00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:30.639 able to get in here. There's another duely, Tom says, Mike, 802 00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:36.199 you're butters stick pro with the stand works great, You're a would you call 803 00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:49.320 try try lamb try lamb lamb de lambda lambda Yeah. Uh, I'm gonna 804 00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:52.239 have to retire before I can ham fest. That's sad. Yeah, you 805 00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:59.280 don't get any holiday time at all. Yell. Working to the bone sounds 806 00:57:59.280 --> 00:58:04.760 like my old job, that's right. Yeah, yeah, I think I 807 00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:10.039 had, like because I was so tenured, I had probably four or five 808 00:58:10.119 --> 00:58:15.039 weeks a holiday every year, and they'd kill you anytime you wanted to take 809 00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:19.559 it. Really Oh it was terrible, terrible, That is terrible. Yeah, 810 00:58:20.760 --> 00:58:24.400 ye seed end up, you'd end up just like taking a payout for 811 00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:27.480 some of it at the end of the year. Oh yeah, well, 812 00:58:29.400 --> 00:58:31.000 well it carries over it because it would carry over to the next year or 813 00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:35.000 two, and it's like, well, yeah, when when do I have 814 00:58:35.079 --> 00:58:39.320 time to take it? Because yeah, I'm your little slave. Have everyone 815 00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:44.880 in your group spend fifty dollars or under and see who gets the best deal 816 00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:47.880 of the hand fest is over. I wish I could, probably, I 817 00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:52.280 wish I could limit my spending to fifty dollars. It's probably not gonna happen. 818 00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:58.119 I don't see myself spending much money at all. I don't, I 819 00:58:58.159 --> 00:59:00.519 don't. I don't need anything. I don't need anything. The only thing 820 00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:02.679 I get it, like every ham Fast is just more connectors. Yeah, 821 00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:07.280 more connectors, you know, adapters whatever. I bought that time. I 822 00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:09.280 bought that IC seven or five case at ham Cason that I wasn't planning to 823 00:59:09.360 --> 00:59:14.840 buy. It was like three three seventy five. So then he bought that 824 00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:21.280 ken Wood at Belton YEP about the Kenwood Belton TS four eighty because I needed 825 00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:25.719 that. I did. Actually I need mobile. Well, I needed a 826 00:59:25.880 --> 00:59:29.840 newer radio than my C seven thousand. Yeah, I was getting a little 827 00:59:29.880 --> 00:59:34.599 long in the two bouncing around in the truck. UM works great, I'm 828 00:59:34.639 --> 00:59:38.440 gonna put it. I'm gonna put it in a packable pack like UM with 829 00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:44.000 the arm alot cages on it. So use that as a PoTA pack. 830 00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:49.320 But that is that. But yeah, I needed I needed a new HF 831 00:59:49.480 --> 00:59:52.719 radio. Nobody makes an HF radio these days except for Yezo, the eight 832 00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:57.840 ninety one. Not a mobile one you got you got seventy one, Yeah, 833 00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:00.519 that's it. Yeah, And I would have I would have gone with 834 01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:02.480 the seventy one hundred, but but I'm glad I found a four eighty for 835 01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:07.320 a good price. And so yeah, I've got two hundred what's that extra 836 01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:14.679 three dbs? Well, plus you got the big tar. He'll so it'll 837 01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:16.599 take, it'll handle more pat Yeah, yeah, don't. Yeah, usually 838 01:00:16.679 --> 01:00:21.559 think the little tar he'll handles. It'll hand them one two hundred ways, 839 01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:25.039 several hundreds. I can't remember, six hundred something like that. I don't 840 01:00:25.079 --> 01:00:27.960 know, but I mean I don't have any more than a hundred, so 841 01:00:28.079 --> 01:00:32.800 I don't care. Yep, yep, I've never needed more than one hundred. 842 01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:37.239 Freak the freaking pile ups you get. It's such like such a compromised 843 01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:40.840 intenna, any mobile, any mobile intenn as a compromised intenna anymore. But 844 01:00:40.920 --> 01:00:46.519 you know, you think about like when I'm out doing PODA a good portion 845 01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:51.000 of the time, regardless of the antenna I'm using, I mean, I'm 846 01:00:51.039 --> 01:00:53.400 usually using the pac Tenna or the Dax commander. Yeah, like if I 847 01:00:53.559 --> 01:01:00.599 had more power or a more efficient antenna, which I mean, yeah, 848 01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:02.400 you get some loss with a forty nine to one just in the transformer, 849 01:01:02.480 --> 01:01:08.320 but not much. Um It's like I did. I did a Poto a 850 01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:14.199 few probably a month or so ago. I had like three hundred and fifty 851 01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:16.679 contacts in like two and a half hours. Like you just you. I 852 01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:22.559 don't know how you could work any more people faster Like no, no, 853 01:01:23.079 --> 01:01:32.760 so no, it just doesn't matter, not really, Gary says two point 854 01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:36.199 zero and MRDI in the same place. This is going to be interesting. 855 01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:38.880 It's been interesting for an hour. Man, where are you been? Yeah, 856 01:01:40.440 --> 01:01:44.440 Dawn's got to sign up, see you Dawn. Oh now, Jason's 857 01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:52.800 calling me, So I'm live streaming Sun Scoggins. Oh yeah, he's called 858 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:58.039 yeah. Yeah, you forget that he has a hamlet he has them. 859 01:01:58.639 --> 01:02:07.199 Yeah yeah, yeah, Scott, if you're calling me live streaming telling everybody 860 01:02:07.239 --> 01:02:12.760 about In fact, let me say this again. This weekend him vention twenty 861 01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:17.320 percent off of l all LDG tuners and electronics at the Gigger Parts booth. 862 01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:22.960 They are sponsoring this video, So thank you for the sponsorship. LDG at 863 01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:25.519 the gigger parts spooth come by and get twenty percent off. Tell him that 864 01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:30.320 we sent you. So that is a thing, because yeah, I don't 865 01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:35.199 know why he's calling me after texting you. He done nowhere together, I 866 01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:37.840 guess, well, but yeah, he just texting you and asks you about 867 01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:43.039 the camp side. What are you doing? Skoggins should be in the chat 868 01:02:43.159 --> 01:02:46.960 right now, son, Yeah, this is bringing you a light And he 869 01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:50.360 said he's bringing me but I said bring me a light. He said, 870 01:02:50.480 --> 01:02:53.559 well, you said I'm bringing you beer. You're thirty beers sitting right there. 871 01:02:54.400 --> 01:03:00.440 What's the cell service like in the buildings, we need internet, Steve 872 01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:05.440 says, uh as good as sell single will be in a metal building. 873 01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:10.320 Last year I live streamed in the buildings, and in certain spots it would 874 01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:14.880 kind of slow down and buffer a bit, but for the most part I 875 01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:20.320 was able to live stream last year. Um, I don't know, dude. 876 01:03:20.360 --> 01:03:23.199 I think they have a I think they have a vendor connection for for 877 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:29.000 what for um Square credit card machines, blah blah blah. So I don't 878 01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:32.800 know how that is, but last year it was okay. Haven't tested it 879 01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:38.000 yet today, so I don't know. But outside it's fine. We're live 880 01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:42.159 streaming on four G right now, five G. Actually, I'm getting five 881 01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:45.679 G right now. So we're live streaming on AT and T right now. 882 01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:55.320 I've got unlimited, so outside it's perfect. Sprint T Mobile, AT and 883 01:03:55.360 --> 01:03:58.880 T AT and T. Yeah, Sprint T Mobile. I don't do Boost 884 01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:01.199 Mobile. I don't know T mobile because it doesn't work at the hunting room. 885 01:04:01.400 --> 01:04:04.960 What's that? What's that one? That was it? Ryan Reynolds Mint, 886 01:04:05.159 --> 01:04:09.320 Mint Mobile, Mint Mobile? Yeah, I don't know. I've had 887 01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:16.920 AT and TH forever. Yeah, me too. Well, that's the one 888 01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:20.960 hour mark. Guys. I appreciate y'all hanging with us. Please do come 889 01:04:21.039 --> 01:04:25.719 by and see us at the camp site, or just stop us if you 890 01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:28.000 see us walking around, which we will be doing a lot of that. 891 01:04:29.079 --> 01:04:33.760 On four six dot four five zero our is our frequency. One six four 892 01:04:33.920 --> 01:04:38.360 fifty is our simplex frequency. Will be monitoring if you have all Star connecting 893 01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:45.480 the all Star system. I will be monitoring that from multiple connections and uh 894 01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:48.480 fourth the all Star note is four three one three six four three one three 895 01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:53.559 six. That's my hub that runs on a virtual private server and a data 896 01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:57.239 center. It is connected twenty four three sixty five. So connect to that, 897 01:04:58.039 --> 01:05:01.880 talk to us and come see us at Ham mentioned twenty twenty three. 898 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:06.079 Appreciate you guys hanging out with us today and look forward to seeing anybody this 899 01:05:06.199 --> 01:05:11.840 weekend. So seventy three to all. Kyle drive safe, buddy, Yeah 900 01:05:12.119 --> 01:05:15.960 buddy, Yeah, don't if you're gonna have a rack to it before you 901 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:20.679 pick up Charlie because he's fragile, So drive safe, dude. Everyone. 902 01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:25.079 Uh, everyone, have a good rest of the day and we'll see you 903 01:05:25.159 --> 01:05:30.000 this weekend. Bye bye, have anybody How do you stop this? I 904 01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:33.920 have no idea. Okay, well I should be able to. Uh nope, 905 01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:36.960 nope, nope, bye bye, see you later. Here we go 906 01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:41.639 in live stream. There we go right there. Boom,