Speaker 1: Hey guys, good evening, Happy Sunday, Comember Wednesday. Get started
Speaker 1: here in just one night.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see, let's think we're going to.
Speaker 1: Bring it in right here. Good evening, Happy Sunday to everybody. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't even know what the temperature
Speaker 1: is here right now, but it's been raining for like
Speaker 1: the past two days, and I've been talking to people
Speaker 1: in Discord. That's you know, they're getting temperatures of twenty
Speaker 1: degrees ten degrees minus fifteen degrees, some crazy numbers out there.
Speaker 1: So I want to know how warm or not warm
Speaker 1: it is where you are right now. Put it in
Speaker 1: the chat. How warm is it or how warm is
Speaker 1: it not? And let me know how my audio is.
Speaker 1: I'm using a different microphone tonight what I normally use.
Speaker 1: We're down here at the coast after winterfield Day and
Speaker 1: just doing all kinds of cool radio stuff down here.
Speaker 1: So shout out to folks in green text in the
Speaker 1: chat YouTube channel members. I saw A C three A
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Speaker 1: k H two x X good evening, Ka Luke, good evening,
Speaker 1: Jason Perez, how you guys doing, K T four E
Speaker 1: M Psycho ham doc or psycham does not psycho psycham doc? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, that's cool. Psycho would be cool too, KO
Speaker 1: five T y Bill Good evening, Downie nine E g
Speaker 1: L Good evening, mister j Plovlin, I've seen that one before.
Speaker 1: One's new Richard Hopkins. Let's see Rix Hamshack good evening,
Speaker 1: Amateur Signal Network Melvin. Yeah, I think that's kind of
Speaker 1: all the ones I saw in their early up tonight.
Speaker 1: So good evening to all. Thanks for being here tonight.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about Orlando Hamcash here in just one
Speaker 1: minute and minus. Okay, yeah, here we go. Nineteen in
Speaker 1: North Texas. My next thermostat at home earlier told me
Speaker 1: it was eleven when I first woke up this morning,
Speaker 1: told me it was eleven at home. Glad I'm not
Speaker 1: their ouch. Thank you for the super chat. K E
Speaker 1: four h Z C. Appreciate you being here tonight. Nine
Speaker 1: degrees feels like negative five right now. Seventy seven. We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out what it is in Orlando right now.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna like it. Nobody here is gonna like it.
Speaker 1: I can tell you right. No, we should just go
Speaker 1: to Hamcasion.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Let's just go now. And twenty six in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Negative twenty the last three days in the morning, Jake,
Speaker 1: where the heck are you man? Negative seventeen in Minnesota, No, thanks,
Speaker 1: twenty four in Arkansas, fifty one in Savannah, Georgia, fourteen
Speaker 1: dropping to six by morning. Wow, that's crazy. Twelve degrees
Speaker 1: Colorado Springs, twenty five in Roanoke, Virginia. Bill says, good evening, Bill,
Speaker 1: all right, Wow, okay, so that's a thing that is
Speaker 1: definitely a thing. All right. So I had talked last week,
Speaker 1: and because I'm kind of an idiot, I had talked
Speaker 1: last week about Simplex. We had a really good discussion
Speaker 1: about Simplex last week, and I completely.
Speaker 3: I hear you here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, my fault, guys, sorry about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see the lost audio, Thank you very much. My fault.
Speaker 1: My fault. This scene that I had right here, I
Speaker 1: didn't have the new microphone added to it, So we're good.
Speaker 1: So sorry about that. That that's my fault. We got it,
Speaker 1: we got it. So yeah, I was talking about the
Speaker 1: one forty six five to two stickers on the website.
Speaker 1: That's right there. I think you should be able to
Speaker 1: hear me now right here. Yeah, okay, enabled CTCSS, that's good,
Speaker 1: enabled CTCSS. I'm a microphone. That was my mistake. So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, everyone monitor one forty six five two if
Speaker 1: you're driving New Orlando hearing about we can have two weeks,
Speaker 1: however long it is, whenever you're gonna leave for land.
Speaker 1: This is what I was saying when I was muted
Speaker 1: by mistake. So one six five two simplex. I have
Speaker 1: the stickers on my website. I've ordered some new stickers
Speaker 1: that are larger than the ones I have now because
Speaker 1: I'm pretty much out of these smaller ones. But but
Speaker 1: my challenge to you is to monitor one forty six
Speaker 1: to five to two everyone who's driving to and from
Speaker 1: Orlando in a couple of weeks. We need to be
Speaker 1: on the air and light up that frequency. And if
Speaker 1: you're just flying in, then get on a get an
Speaker 1: HT and monitorated. At the show, I'm going to bring
Speaker 1: my man pac radio and set up an ed fong,
Speaker 1: roll up j pol intenna at my campsite and have
Speaker 1: one forty six five to two on and a little
Speaker 1: bit higher antenna than I did last time. So that's
Speaker 1: what I was saying before, in a nutshell something like that.
Speaker 1: Let's bring Michael on talk to him, because y'all probably
Speaker 1: don't need to hear from me much anymore. Michael, good evening.
Speaker 1: How are you man?
Speaker 3: I'm good, Jason, thank you for having me on the
Speaker 3: show tonight.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so. Tell us what's the temperature in Orlando right now?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 3: Let's see, let me give you an accurate reading alight, seventy.
Speaker 1: Four seventy four? Wow, you guys need to break out
Speaker 1: the park. Is I guess seventy four degrees out there
Speaker 1: in Orlando right now? But you're gonna get some cold
Speaker 1: temperatures here coming up in the next few days.
Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, tomorrow night, tomorrow sometime. We got a
Speaker 3: cold front coming through posted to drop us down to
Speaker 3: near freezing for almost a week. They're saying, this's gonna
Speaker 3: be like thirties in the morning and fifties during the
Speaker 3: day for about a week. Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, at least he's get it's up above freezing
Speaker 1: during the day, so that's not too bad, I guess.
Speaker 3: So true.
Speaker 1: Good, good, good, Okay, Well, Kyle is my Frank tonight,
Speaker 1: Good evening, Kyle.
Speaker 4: How are you hello?
Speaker 1: How are you good? Man? How'd it go with the
Speaker 1: I Share Radio?
Speaker 4: That thing is awesome. I cannot wait to them come
Speaker 4: out out of beta and there's a need they're scratching
Speaker 4: the itch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, total are they going to be a ham Cashion.
Speaker 4: I don't think they're gonna be at Ham Cason, but
Speaker 4: they're going to be at ham Vention anvention.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing him at Hamvention last year, but I
Speaker 1: was hoping they'd come to Orlando as well. Yeah, so okay,
Speaker 1: cool man, thanks for being here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you. Hi, Michael, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good? Kyle? Are you good?
Speaker 4: Good? Good?
Speaker 1: Good? All right? Michael. Well, the floor is yours. Tell
Speaker 1: us what we can expect from twenty twenty six hamcash
Speaker 1: what I'd like to know. I mean, I know you've
Speaker 1: got some new stuff to tell us, and there's some
Speaker 1: awards items I've been getting some emails about. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the floor is yours. Go ahead with whatever you got
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, our biggest thing this year. Lots of new stuff,
Speaker 3: a lot of sighting stuff. So yeah, earlier we did
Speaker 3: announce all of our award winners, but we did have
Speaker 3: a new award this year that we did give out,
Speaker 3: which was the Radio Hero Award. A gentleman from India
Speaker 3: actually won it. I will not try to say his name,
Speaker 3: but he is actually working on coming to hamcashon Hilm
Speaker 3: and his club down there is doing really good stuff
Speaker 3: with amateur radio and doing lots of good things since
Speaker 3: he's actually won award ham Cash and amateur radio is
Speaker 3: really getting a huge boost around then, especially in India.
Speaker 3: All the articles that was posted about him radio and
Speaker 3: him went in this award, I mean this news article
Speaker 3: after news article he was sending me from all over
Speaker 3: that area down there, So it's really good publicity for
Speaker 3: amateur radio and.
Speaker 1: Handcasion totally good.
Speaker 3: So other things that's happened, of course, our awards banquet,
Speaker 3: which we do have, but this year we're changing it
Speaker 3: up a little bit. We're actually doing our first ever
Speaker 3: actual banquet open to the public on Saturday night, so
Speaker 3: you can come to it. It's a farm to table
Speaker 3: dinner at Rosen Plaza all of our info is on
Speaker 3: the website table at the top that says banquet. Just
Speaker 3: click on that. All the info is there for it.
Speaker 3: So we will do awards ceremony to start with, then
Speaker 3: we'll do the dinner. Then we will have a keynote
Speaker 3: speaker which is going to be Bob Interbitten's from Arr.
Speaker 3: We'll be talking about communications basically. So the good thing
Speaker 3: about this is Ham Casson does fall on Valentine's weekend
Speaker 3: this year, and that is Valentine's Night, So if you
Speaker 3: want to take your wife or your significant another to
Speaker 3: a great dinner, it's a five star place, great food, farmed,
Speaker 3: a table, all fresh. It's a way to take her
Speaker 3: out after the show for her. Allowing you to come
Speaker 3: to Hamcashon on Valentine's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. That's a fantastic idea. Okay, okay, good,
Speaker 1: good to know. What's the name of the place again.
Speaker 5: It's going to be Rosden Plaza Plaza Okay okay, yep, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the same place that we usually did the
Speaker 3: dinner for the award ceremony before. It's just going to
Speaker 3: be in actually one of their banqwell halls.
Speaker 1: This time, gotcha Okay, good, excellent, okay, yeah. Cool.
Speaker 3: So other big things. One of the huge things this year,
Speaker 3: we've got eighteen new vendors that's never been a hamction.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all commercial fenders. A lot of them are spull TENA,
Speaker 3: Macony's Signals Solutions, Seed Studio, A Mesh Company, UH, National
Speaker 3: Amateur Radio Alliance, Air met Error, Armate, arm Reate Towers,
Speaker 3: U s W Magazine, Hamside Radio Club of America, UH
Speaker 3: three C Hamshack, Bad Dog Tools, LO Mesh, Morris Nexus,
Speaker 3: UH one Voice of America Museum is actually coming U
Speaker 3: Maker Nova Aylmore Brand Amateur Radio Directory Radioddity. One of
Speaker 3: the big ones this year is going to be her
Speaker 3: name is Donna snow King. She's an author and she
Speaker 3: will also have a Livy Medal of Honor recipient in
Speaker 3: their booth, UH making their his first UH radio contact
Speaker 3: deren HAMK So he's actually the only living Amateur Radio
Speaker 3: Metal of Honor recipient. Really well yeah, So lots of
Speaker 3: mesh stuff this year. I think we got a total
Speaker 3: of the three new ones and I think there's still
Speaker 3: two other ones, so about five different mesh ones this year, so,
Speaker 3: which is good totally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good, Yeah, I knew that. I knew that Seed
Speaker 1: Studios was going to be there. That was Dave who
Speaker 1: was in the zoom chat a minute ago. Okay, so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's I knew that. He said they were they were
Speaker 1: going to be there. So in fact, I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna kind of kind of carpool, not carpool. I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna kind of caravan up there together on our drive.
Speaker 1: But we still got to hammer that out. But looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. And then and then low Mesh. You
Speaker 1: mentioned them. I haven't heard of that one. I'm not
Speaker 1: familiar with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lo Mesh. It's actually he's actually a local guy here.
Speaker 3: I think he's like help in Gainesville area. He worked
Speaker 3: with another mesh company, one of the developing companies, for
Speaker 3: a while, and he started a his own business.
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 3: So yeah. The other one that many people heard about, Quicksilver,
Speaker 3: the gentleman actually bought the company. He will actually be
Speaker 3: at Hamcasion also so good.
Speaker 1: Good, not be going nowhere, which is good, good, good, excellent. Kyle,
Speaker 1: do you have a question.
Speaker 4: The Marconi signal systems? That is, I think Marconi makes
Speaker 4: if I'm thinking of the same people tell me if
Speaker 4: I'm correct here, Michael. He makes a CW key for
Speaker 4: remote c W keane and uses an ESP thirty two
Speaker 4: and communicates over the internet, and it is a really
Speaker 4: cool product. So if that's the same person I'm thinking of,
Speaker 4: that would be cool to see him at AMCATIONI.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, I believe that is the same one.
Speaker 4: I believe, Yes, it's that Max in five. Uh, this
Speaker 4: call is he's got an INN five call?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure on that one, but.
Speaker 4: Well, if it is, that's great.
Speaker 1: If not, we'll learn about somebody new. Yeah. Good, Well,
Speaker 1: I've gotta I gotta get a I gotta get a
Speaker 1: list of those new vendors from you, Michael, so I
Speaker 1: can uh make sure I visit all those and maybe
Speaker 1: get a few recordings of interviews with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, that'd be great.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if gray Man
Speaker 1: PoTA is oblivious or joking, but he says his wife
Speaker 1: is so selfless. She is insisting that I go to
Speaker 1: him vention and not worry about her. Well himvention's in May,
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure if that was a typo or
Speaker 1: or if he's just and like, I'm not gonna make
Speaker 1: it to hamcasion because of Valentie's Day. But okay, good
Speaker 1: for you, buddy. I don't know the end that his
Speaker 1: timate could go either way.
Speaker 4: So gray Man, Poda, I hope that in February you're
Speaker 4: not driving to Dayton. I hope that you're coming down
Speaker 4: to Orlando. How about that?
Speaker 1: That is true?
Speaker 3: So he made the wrong turn somewhere, right, Yeah, I made.
Speaker 4: A left turn in Aberquerque, left turn at Albuquerque.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, all right, Michael, go ahead, man? What else?
Speaker 1: What else you got for us?
Speaker 3: Other things? Was? We do have the stuff that the
Speaker 3: associated items during casion. So we have the Florida Contest
Speaker 3: dinner of course on Friday night that infos on the website.
Speaker 3: We have a kit bill with Joe Eisenberg on Wednesday night,
Speaker 3: and that's gonna be a good one. He's actually doing
Speaker 3: a vertical like almost like a Poda style antenna. So
Speaker 3: which is a good one. That'd be a good turnout.
Speaker 3: You have to sign up for it. There is still
Speaker 3: space available, so if you go under the website. The
Speaker 3: other one that y'all probably already know about it, of
Speaker 3: course you'll probably be there. I believe it's the fourth
Speaker 3: annual PoTA meetup, So there's info on the website on
Speaker 3: that one, and you do have to register for that
Speaker 3: one because there's some new park rules here in the
Speaker 3: i think the whole country does not Florida that you
Speaker 3: have to kind of register to do it apparently. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so the info is on the website on that. Also,
Speaker 3: we do have an Oxcom class again this year. It's
Speaker 3: Monday through Wednesday, so anybody that's looking for Oxcom, they
Speaker 3: still have space available for that, so go on the
Speaker 3: website and you can find that info also, Okay, And
Speaker 3: then Sunday we are having a Skywine Spoder class on Sunday,
Speaker 3: so if you're interested in becoming a skyworn spotter, you
Speaker 3: do not have to be local. It is being done
Speaker 3: by one of the local offices here, but they are
Speaker 3: covering just more than the stuff that they usually cover
Speaker 3: for our Florida type of stuff, so they are covering
Speaker 3: stuff for other areas of the country also for the
Speaker 3: Skyworn Spotter training and also on Sunday. It is also
Speaker 3: a free date. You do not have to have a
Speaker 3: hamdcasion ticket to come in, so if you're coming just
Speaker 3: for the spoder class, you can come for it. You
Speaker 3: do not have to pay cool.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's good. That's good, okay, sweet, Yeah, under
Speaker 1: forum speakers down here, we got event infos, a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff under event info on the website here, so yes,
Speaker 1: we'll find a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: And then all the forums are upddate on the website.
Speaker 3: There are lots of forums there were as soon as
Speaker 3: we get updates, we're actually updating them. So that is
Speaker 3: a live running for the forums.
Speaker 1: Good. Okay, how does the how does the RV reservations
Speaker 1: look as compared to last year?
Speaker 3: It's right on par with last year? So last year
Speaker 3: I think we hit don't quote me about and fifteen
Speaker 3: and we're right on part with that. So for RV's
Speaker 3: it's good. So people still traveling.
Speaker 4: So yeah, when is the last day that you can
Speaker 4: sign up for an RV spot? Do you guys have
Speaker 4: a cutoff?
Speaker 3: We do so on the website on January thirty first,
Speaker 3: all sales will end for anything on the website other
Speaker 3: than the banquet. You can still buy banquet tickets after that,
Speaker 3: but for anything after that point, tickets, RV swaps, all
Speaker 3: that will be shut down and then you would have
Speaker 3: to actually buy it at the the gate basically, but
Speaker 3: we've never ran out. We still have swap tables available,
Speaker 3: so tailgate of course is available, so yeah, we can
Speaker 3: accommodate yet the gate.
Speaker 4: Gotcha good?
Speaker 1: Okay, do you get your reservation yet, Kyle?
Speaker 4: No, That's why I was asking the question.
Speaker 1: I know you posted the chat a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago and You're like, I haven't even made my reservation yet.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I'm gonna think about it.
Speaker 4: January thirty. First, I'm gonna make my RV reservation. I
Speaker 4: guarantee you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 3: Okay. So the other big thing too this year, every
Speaker 3: year we've been able to use W one aw Strop
Speaker 3: four Slash four for our special event station. But actually
Speaker 3: this year it is falling in the ARL two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty America contact all fifty states contests, and actually
Speaker 3: ham Case will count for one of those contacts. So
Speaker 3: if you contact W ONEAW Slash four deering him, it
Speaker 3: will count as a Florida contact for the contest.
Speaker 1: Nice. Okay. I think I worked Dash four like a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago when we were on PODA.
Speaker 3: Did you. Yeah, it started probably about a month ago.
Speaker 3: I think different areas, but they have a schedule on
Speaker 3: their website and it shows each operator and where they
Speaker 3: are and then the time they're actually scheduled that will
Speaker 3: count toward the contact.
Speaker 1: Okay, good to know. Yeah, that'd be a fun thing
Speaker 1: to do, I think. So all right, well, how how
Speaker 1: did ticket sales look?
Speaker 3: Ticket sales are good. So pre sales is right on
Speaker 3: par with last year, if not a little better. So yeah,
Speaker 3: really good. And I do know also with all the
Speaker 3: new vendors we have for the first time this year,
Speaker 3: if you remember, the North Building which is where the
Speaker 3: ticket booth is, that whole center is all boosts this year,
Speaker 3: so we actually totally filled up the North Hall with
Speaker 3: denders this year, which is good.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 3: Yes, So, and then the other thing that's going live
Speaker 3: this coming week, the ARL Events app is actually going live,
Speaker 3: so that will have all the information pretty much it's
Speaker 3: on our website, on all the forums. Everything there will
Speaker 3: actually be on that app. Also during ham Cashion if
Speaker 3: you want to track who wins prizes stuff like that,
Speaker 3: all that will be on there also for the hourly winners.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Michael, what was the do you remember what the
Speaker 4: attendance was last year?
Speaker 3: Tendess last year I believe was twenty three thousand and something.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, that's a lot of people. That's a lot of hamds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that sounds that sounds right.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's not that's not a record, but
Speaker 1: it's getting up there close to being a record, right.
Speaker 3: Right Prior to the year, prior to COVID was actually
Speaker 3: our record than after COVID when we come back in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, we were down, but we're starting to
Speaker 3: grow back up toward that record again, right. I think
Speaker 3: twenty five thousand, six hundred, seven hundred was actually our
Speaker 3: record in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty seven thousand, Okay, okay, good good. So a
Speaker 1: couple of questions from the chat. Dave is asking, now,
Speaker 1: you may not know about this, and that's okay, we
Speaker 1: may need to ask somebody else about this. But have
Speaker 1: you heard anything about a custom mestatastic firmwhere I don't think? Okay, okay, tell.
Speaker 3: Us about they are working on it. We will put
Speaker 3: out more information once it's there, but I do know
Speaker 3: we will have different they're working on I think three
Speaker 3: different meantastic nodes to be put around the pairgrounds. So,
Speaker 3: but it is in the works.
Speaker 1: Yes, I remember there were two three last year. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't remember if we had custom firmware last year
Speaker 1: or not.
Speaker 3: I don't think we did, but this year there is.
Speaker 3: They are working on it.
Speaker 1: I think we just changed from from long fast to
Speaker 1: like short fast and change one other change it to
Speaker 1: like two hops instead of three, and I think that
Speaker 1: was it. But yes, but I mean we get custom
Speaker 1: firm where for him mentioned, so I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: what custom fermwhere they come up for him. Casions so good.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to try to trying that out. Good.
Speaker 1: The other thing is uh and prep Paan Paul is
Speaker 1: asking is it r V only or can you tint camp?
Speaker 1: And I know what the answer was last year, but
Speaker 1: go ahead if I don't know if it's changed or not.
Speaker 3: It has not. Unfortunately, in the city of Orlando, you're
Speaker 3: not allowed to camp from a tent. Uh. It's not
Speaker 3: our rules, it's not the fairgrounds rules, it's a city ordinance. Okay,
Speaker 3: so yes, you cannot do that, even on private property.
Speaker 1: But you could can't. You could camp in a tent
Speaker 1: if the tentp is attached to your vehicle. Is that
Speaker 1: still correct?
Speaker 3: Correct? So if you have a pickup truck, you can
Speaker 3: put a tent in the back of the pickup truck.
Speaker 3: The tent just cannot be on the ground.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, Okay, good to know? Good to know? Okay, sweet, Okay,
Speaker 1: any more questions in the chat you guys, go ahead
Speaker 1: and let us know. Michael, what else.
Speaker 3: Let's see here, there's I to think of other stuff
Speaker 3: that's coming up. I do know there will be a
Speaker 3: big announcement coming out. I was hoping to have it
Speaker 3: by the night. I just can't talk about it yet. So,
Speaker 3: but that will be coming out here probably with the
Speaker 3: next couple of days. We'll be doing a huge social
Speaker 3: media blast on it, so keep your eyes open for that.
Speaker 3: So and that will be one of those affiliated event
Speaker 3: type of things also for that one, so it'd be huge.
Speaker 1: Good. So, is there some you guys have a mailing
Speaker 1: list of people can sign up for to keep up
Speaker 1: with that?
Speaker 3: Yes, we do. So if you go to the front
Speaker 3: page of the website, scroll all the way to the bottom,
Speaker 3: there's a spot there that says hamcas for the latest information.
Speaker 3: You can sign up there for our mailing list. So,
Speaker 3: and we don't send out stuff all the time to
Speaker 3: it more. It's like a newsletter, so we wait until
Speaker 3: we get several items to send out, then we'll send
Speaker 3: it out that.
Speaker 1: Away, gotcha, okay, yep, hamcation dot Com. I just put
Speaker 1: the link in the chat scroll down to the bottom.
Speaker 1: That's where you'll see this form right here.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: And lots of sponsors this year, gigaparts, rivetus DX Engineering.
Speaker 3: We're in works up with actually a couple more right
Speaker 3: now coming on, So lots of stuff going on there.
Speaker 3: We do have talking so if you're traveling in in
Speaker 3: a vehicle so you can talk to us, we will
Speaker 3: be on analog with voice. And also d Star information
Speaker 3: is on the website for that, okay, So.
Speaker 1: Trying to find that.
Speaker 3: It's gonna actually be under the info attending hmcasion.
Speaker 1: Top on top one there, okay, there we go, and.
Speaker 3: Then it should be right there at the top under
Speaker 3: talking so.
Speaker 1: Yeah talk in section yeah, ye okay.
Speaker 3: So we'll actually be on that. Then we'll be on
Speaker 3: the local d Star repeater locally also, so and I
Speaker 3: believe that one's monitoring thirty seven Charlie thirty.
Speaker 1: Seven okay, all right, good, yeah, so cool.
Speaker 4: Michael, should they and then we will have the you're
Speaker 4: still on that page.
Speaker 3: The other thing you can listen for is the AM
Speaker 3: six y ten. We will have that again this year,
Speaker 3: so it's a radio broadcast that's actually broadcasting on six' ten,
Speaker 3: am so tune to. That any special announcements anything like.
Speaker 3: That traffic advisories will put up there for around the
Speaker 3: fairgrounds if anything changes coming, in plus all the normal
Speaker 3: information to be up there about the. Show and then
Speaker 3: another thing further, down if you want Hamd casion, apparel
Speaker 3: you can order a hand cas apparel from right. There
Speaker 3: it is done Through Gold Medal. Idea, so and that's
Speaker 3: actually our logo for this, year for The love Of Amateur.
Speaker 3: Radio so that's actually our official theme for this. Year
Speaker 3: so it is On Valentine's, day so you can actually
Speaker 3: get that.
Speaker 1: For The love of Amateur. Radio all, Right, kyle do
Speaker 1: you have a.
Speaker 4: QUESTION i noticed you guys have A twitter. Account do
Speaker 4: you guys post information on Your twitter or is that
Speaker 4: something people should? Follow?
Speaker 3: Yes, So, Facebook, twitter And.
Speaker 5: Instagram it's AT handcasi, okay and we post all three of, them.
Speaker 5: Gotcha our social media public relations guy posts everything to,
Speaker 5: it so yes we.
Speaker 4: Do, okay very, good.
Speaker 1: Good i'm following it. ALREADY i should, be but, YEAH
Speaker 1: i am, good, okay, Sweet well how far? OUT i don't.
Speaker 1: KNOW i, mean this is probably the same answer. Everywhere
Speaker 1: but do they have a weather prediction yet for that?
Speaker 1: Weekend it's it's two or three weeks, away so it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna change nine.
Speaker 3: Times but, yeah, HONESTLY i haven't looked at. IT i
Speaker 3: try not to because it just upsets. Me and just
Speaker 3: LIKE i tell, people the state Of florida is so unpredictable.
Speaker 3: SOMETIMES i, mean you could be thirty degree in the
Speaker 3: morning at eighty in the afternoon and it could be
Speaker 3: raining one, minute and five minutes later the sun can be. Out,
Speaker 3: yeah so it's one of those. THINGS i try to
Speaker 3: wait until a little closer to try to even look
Speaker 3: at that.
Speaker 1: INFORMATION i don't blame, you.
Speaker 4: Okay my experience is if it LOOKS i, mean if
Speaker 4: there's any indication of, rain bring a, raincoat bring an,
Speaker 4: umbrella and just be. Prepared but the nice thing About
Speaker 4: florida is it only rains for like fifteen minutes and
Speaker 4: then it's. Done that's, true.
Speaker 3: True, True, so and we do have the three large,
Speaker 3: buildings so there's a lot of stuff you can do.
Speaker 3: Indoors all the forms are actually inside, also so if
Speaker 3: it does start, raining there's plenty of area to get
Speaker 3: and take cover under why the rain is. Happening so,
Speaker 3: yeah and then the other THING i forgot to mention
Speaker 3: also is. Testing we are doing testing again this. Year
Speaker 3: this year we have actually something a little, different so
Speaker 3: we have partnered with WFIVE yi and we are actually
Speaker 3: doing no charge for, testing so you can come to
Speaker 3: a show take your. Test there's no charge at. All
Speaker 3: but here's the nice part about. It if you're a
Speaker 3: student twenty five years or younger and show proof of
Speaker 3: you are a, student WFIVE yi will cover YOUR fcc
Speaker 3: fee for getting your amateur radio, license so you can
Speaker 3: get your license totally for. Free you will not have
Speaker 3: to pay nothing if you're actually a student twenty five or,
Speaker 3: younger and that's for your licensees. Only that's.
Speaker 1: Great, yeah that is, awesome good. Deal how many people
Speaker 1: do you typically test any? Year does it vary or
Speaker 1: is it the number kind of you, know the?
Speaker 3: Average don't quote. ME i think last year they said
Speaker 3: the average over both days is around one.
Speaker 4: Sixty oh my, gosh per day total.
Speaker 3: Between both total, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Total, yeah that's still a really good. Number that's
Speaker 1: a very.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah AND i think they said last year about half
Speaker 3: of them were actually, new so taking.
Speaker 1: Their peck Last, okay, wow, good? Okay. Uh jeff is
Speaker 1: asking when is the early ticket drawing for people who
Speaker 1: bought tickets. Early i'm not sure what he's talking, about
Speaker 1: but you probably.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah the early bird drawing is done usually the
Speaker 3: first day of ham cash, uh and THEN i contact
Speaker 3: the winner at that point for the Early bird.
Speaker 4: Prize, Okay, michael remind, me do you have to be
Speaker 4: present to win a? Prize? What what's the deal with
Speaker 4: the prizes and being? Present all?
Speaker 3: Right so, prizes your Early, bird Your, Friday saturday And
Speaker 3: sunday grand, prizes we will melt to. You any of
Speaker 3: the hourly prizes have to be picked up before twelve
Speaker 3: noon On sunday or we rewraffle them one time at that. Point?
Speaker 4: Gotcha?
Speaker 1: Good? Okay what is the grand prize this?
Speaker 3: Year we're actually still in works on, that so it
Speaker 3: should be announced this coming.
Speaker 1: Week, Okay, okay, right that's.
Speaker 4: Fine i'm waiting for you guys to raffle off a
Speaker 4: d expedition to, like you, know places THAT i see
Speaker 4: on On windows screen. Savers that's that's WHERE i want to.
Speaker 1: Go i'd be done with. That it's not a bad.
Speaker 4: Idea you know Those fiji you, know the ones that
Speaker 4: are on the water right. There, yeah and then you
Speaker 4: just show up and your antenna has already you, know
Speaker 4: ran for, you and all you have to do is
Speaker 4: just set in your your little mosquito hammock and. Operate.
Speaker 3: Yeah but some of THOSE dx, EXPEDITIONS i see you
Speaker 3: really don't want to go to, them that's.
Speaker 4: True, yeah, YEAH i remember.
Speaker 3: One of them a couple of years. Ago they were
Speaker 3: like in a boat going across somewhere and they had
Speaker 3: the issues and all that kind of stuff was happening to.
Speaker 3: Them i'm, like and it was the only way to get.
Speaker 4: THERE i guess you guys won't be raffling off of
Speaker 4: A d expedition To, bobet. Right that's that that won't
Speaker 4: be in the.
Speaker 1: Mix.
Speaker 4: Right oh my.
Speaker 1: GOODNESS i was going to say something, political And i'm.
Speaker 1: NOT i decided against. It so it might be a
Speaker 1: good time to go To, Venezuela that's All i'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Say but, yeah, yeah but a the expedition would be.
Speaker 1: Fun those are quite quite entertaining for. Sure, yeah all, right, uh,
Speaker 1: okay what anything, Else, Mike that's a lot of really
Speaker 1: good INFO i appreciate to the only other.
Speaker 3: THING i, Got the biggest thing is please thank all
Speaker 3: the volunteers that. Volunteer there's four to five hundred volunteers
Speaker 3: that it takes to put on the, show and we
Speaker 3: always need. Volunteers you can still volunteer for HAMD. Cas
Speaker 3: so if you don't want to pay for a, ticket
Speaker 3: you can volunteer for four hours and get a free
Speaker 3: hand cation. Ticket so, yeah so please. Volunteer we start On,
Speaker 3: monday the week of hand, cas and run all the
Speaker 3: way To. Sunday so if you want to volunteer before the,
Speaker 3: event if you're in town, EARLY i want to get
Speaker 3: that free. Ticket that's a way to get a free.
Speaker 3: Ticket and then if you have nothing to do or
Speaker 3: get tired of the show and want to take a
Speaker 3: break and volunteer and do something a little different and
Speaker 3: learn what it's like to be on the opposite side
Speaker 3: of a, show please. Volunteer we need lots of.
Speaker 4: Help what are some of the jobs that people could volunteer?
Speaker 3: For all, right so if you go to hammcasion dot
Speaker 3: com under Event. Info there's a spot there that says
Speaker 3: volunteer once you click, that so we have commercial volunteer
Speaker 3: for commercial. Vendors there's forms volunteer which help out at
Speaker 3: The forbes, area golf cart driver if you want to
Speaker 3: help with transport and people around, hospitality so for, us
Speaker 3: like the vendors have a hospitality. Area we do feed
Speaker 3: volunteers if they work all day, long eight, hours so
Speaker 3: we have a hospitality area for. That it, logistics ticket
Speaker 3: sales is a good. One prize And Info Booth volunteer
Speaker 3: a R v volunteer out in R v helping to
Speaker 3: check in, people helping. People park security is one of
Speaker 3: the big ones that we need the most volunteers For
Speaker 3: special event station if you want to help set up
Speaker 3: and operate the special event. Station swamps tailgate talking is
Speaker 3: another one that we need lots of volunteers for just
Speaker 3: help talk to people on the, radio help them get
Speaker 3: into the. Show a lot of. Things most comic questions
Speaker 3: in there's, wins the show, open when it's, closed where's
Speaker 3: the prize? Barrel stuff like that people call in. For
Speaker 3: and of course if you're a ve WITH w five
Speaker 3: Y i you can volunteer for. Testing so there's lots of,
Speaker 3: opportunities and on that, website if you click on to
Speaker 3: any one of, those it actually gives a description of each,
Speaker 3: one what we're looking for and what the actual position. Entels, cool, good.
Speaker 1: A lot of.
Speaker 3: Stuff, yep, yeah pick today you want to volunteer and
Speaker 3: all that on. There so and then once you, volunteer
Speaker 3: ever who you volunteer for will contact you and actually
Speaker 3: schedule the time for that day when you would like to. Volunteer, gotcha, okay? Perfect?
Speaker 1: Cool, WELL i have lots of fun at Ham cash every,
Speaker 1: year so this is a really great. Show someone was
Speaker 1: asking how it compared To dayton in the. Chat it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a bit, smaller but not so much that you,
Speaker 1: notice and quite, frankly if you're into R v and
Speaker 1: camping and uh not tent camping in the traditional sense
Speaker 1: tent camping on a vehicle camping something like, that the
Speaker 1: spot here is much much larger than what it is
Speaker 1: at Him. Vention Him vention has a very limited area
Speaker 1: and you have to get on a waiting list to
Speaker 1: get AN rv, spot but there's lots of room in
Speaker 1: The Hamcash fairgrounds to do. Camping. Stuff SO i think
Speaker 1: the camping experience is probably one of the best ones
Speaker 1: out there, myself because you're just right there in the
Speaker 1: show and get out of THE rv in the, morning
Speaker 1: walk in and go to the. Show so it's it's
Speaker 1: got a it's it's a good.
Speaker 3: One. Yeah the paragrounds is actually eighty three acres of.
Speaker 3: Area we actually use all eighty three.
Speaker 1: Acres, YEAH i imagine you. Do, Sheesh, Yeah, cole this
Speaker 1: is your first year camping, there.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah i've always stayed at The Rosen So i'm
Speaker 4: gonna attach the the R v and and bring it
Speaker 4: down and, yeah it's gonna be. COOL I the one
Speaker 4: thing THAT i like about Ham cash is we kind
Speaker 4: of have our compound, there but we've got a compound
Speaker 4: at Hand vention, Too but the compound a Ham cash
Speaker 4: seems to be you, know everyone brings their r vs
Speaker 4: and everyone's all in all in kind of a, circle
Speaker 4: and it's it's very communal and we just kind of
Speaker 4: hang out there and, uh people come and go as
Speaker 4: they please and say hello and and uh then at
Speaker 4: night we kind of get together and eat a little
Speaker 4: eat a little dinner and just it's a really cool Time.
Speaker 1: Yep it. IS i really enjoyed. That last year was
Speaker 1: the first YEAR i ever camped, there AND i really
Speaker 1: really enjoyed. That so look forward to doing that again this.
Speaker 1: Year it's going to be a fun, time AND i
Speaker 1: know that there's going to be you And dave and
Speaker 1: a couple other people are coming for the first year
Speaker 1: to camp this.
Speaker 4: Year, Uh jake is a ck he's, coming but he's
Speaker 4: he'll be there last. Year, yeah, yeah he.
Speaker 1: Camp, yeah he's camped the last two or three. Years,
Speaker 1: Yeah SO i THINK i think it depends on his work.
Speaker 1: Schedule he's got to get a certain amount of pictures,
Speaker 1: taken and the weather has to cooperate with him. First
Speaker 1: But i'm pretty sure That i'm pretty sure he's he's
Speaker 1: usually there for him. Casion so, YEAH i DON'T i
Speaker 1: can't ever keep up with the schedule.
Speaker 4: Though but and you, can so remind me you. CAN i,
Speaker 4: mean you have to buy the, ticket but you can
Speaker 4: come into the R v section On, wednesday, Right Michael Good.
Speaker 3: CORRECT rv opens for RV's to start coming in On. Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Yeah the official time IS i believe at one. O'clock
Speaker 3: but as soon as we get everything in, position we
Speaker 3: try to open the gates as early as possible to
Speaker 3: start getting the RVs. In so most of the RV's
Speaker 3: i would probably say half of them come in On,
Speaker 3: wednesday and you can imagine having one hundred plus RVs
Speaker 3: sitting outside the fairgrounds lined up trying to get. In
Speaker 3: so open as soon as postible On. Wednesday my goal
Speaker 3: is nine, Am so the last couple of YEARS i
Speaker 3: was pretty close to that within ten to fifteen. Minutes but,
Speaker 3: yeah so, yeah So, Wednesday, thursday RVs come Or wednesday
Speaker 3: RV's come. In, thursday your tailgators come, in and Then
Speaker 3: friday opens to the. Show you CAN rv tailgate, also
Speaker 3: so if you want to sell stuff from YOUR, rv
Speaker 3: we do have areas along the roadside that's closer in
Speaker 3: away from the main, RVs so you can actually sell
Speaker 3: stuff from YOUR. Rv so we do HAVE rv tailgate spots.
Speaker 3: Also good, cool.
Speaker 1: GOOD i want to say we. ARRIVED i met up
Speaker 1: with a C k on the road in Northern, florida
Speaker 1: AND i want to say we arrived about eleven am last,
Speaker 1: year and we just we got we got right. IN
Speaker 1: i think there was one guy in line in front
Speaker 1: of us and and we went in there and he
Speaker 1: had HIS rv AND i had rented one that got
Speaker 1: delivered a couple hours. Later SO i just drove my
Speaker 1: truck in and we camped out or scoped out our.
Speaker 1: Spot and the guy who was delivering MY, rv he
Speaker 1: called me when he got, there AND i just rode
Speaker 1: up there and showed him where to come. Back and
Speaker 1: it was it was fairly fairly simple and easy to get.
Speaker 1: Into they were running running the entry gate very very
Speaker 1: well last, year very easy to get. Through my dog
Speaker 1: has something to. Say she's actually that's my older, Dog.
Speaker 1: Duchess she's a little bit off her. Nut she's just,
Speaker 1: yeah she's getting old and. Senile but it's just speaking
Speaker 1: Of SO i had a e lecture there last, year
Speaker 1: And i'll bring her again this. Year, kyle what are
Speaker 1: you doing With? Pixie she's.
Speaker 4: Coming the canine dog is COMINGG ca nine.
Speaker 1: Dog, yeah good, good we'll have. That have some a
Speaker 1: section for them as, WELL i guess right yea so, good, Okay,
Speaker 1: well anything?
Speaker 3: ELSE i think that's about. It just hope to see
Speaker 3: everybody In. February it's, thirteenth, fourteenth fifteenth is the dates of.
Speaker 3: It so for everybody up north come To florida enjoy
Speaker 3: some a little bit warmer. Weather our average temperature during
Speaker 3: Ham cashon is usually around seventy, five.
Speaker 1: So it was quite. Nice last. Year the weather was.
Speaker 1: Fantastic it was a little bit warm during the. Day
Speaker 1: it was a little bit warm if you're From minnesota
Speaker 1: during the day for tech FOR us In, texas it
Speaker 1: was it was just almost. Perfect but it was like
Speaker 1: it was like t shirt, weather like t shirts and
Speaker 1: shorts weather during the, day and THEN i think it
Speaker 1: got like, cool LIKE i say, cool like sixties at
Speaker 1: night something like. That not cold at, All LIKE i
Speaker 1: don't remember putting on a jacket or. Anything so it
Speaker 1: was pleasant the entire weekend last. Year so fingers. CROSSED
Speaker 1: i think it rained once but not very. Often, yeah fingers.
Speaker 1: Crossed we have those temperatures again this. Year but that's.
Speaker 1: Typical that's that's kind of typical For florida In. February
Speaker 1: IF i recall, correctly it.
Speaker 4: Is it's better than. Here it's twelve, here twelve, one two.
Speaker 1: Twelve we asked everyone to put their temperatures in the
Speaker 1: chat before you got, Here, kyle so somebody said it
Speaker 1: was negative twenty seven where they, were And i'm, like
Speaker 1: just stay, there just don't bring that stuff down here at.
Speaker 1: All sheesh so. Bad, yeah oh, yeah, gosh that's. Insane
Speaker 1: but all, right, well it's gonna be a fun time
Speaker 1: if you have an opportunity to travel To orlando a
Speaker 1: couple of, weeks, two but like three. WEEKS i do
Speaker 1: highly recommend. It it's it's always a fun. Times one
Speaker 1: of my favorite shows of the. Year and WHEN i
Speaker 1: camped last, YEAR i expanded on my enjoyment of the
Speaker 1: show BECAUSE i liked that even better than staying in
Speaker 1: a hotel and having a drive in every. Day so
Speaker 1: the camp camping is like the camping and hang out
Speaker 1: with everybody's almost as good as the. Show Ham casion's
Speaker 1: got a lot to, offer so it's not as good
Speaker 1: as the, show but it does definitely add to the
Speaker 1: enjoyment of the entire weekend to just kind of hang
Speaker 1: out there and camp with.
Speaker 3: Everybody so so, really and that's what a lot of
Speaker 3: the people FROM rv. Does there's lots of there's the
Speaker 3: R V network radio network that goes. There they have
Speaker 3: their meetings every, year so there's lots OF rv guys
Speaker 3: that do the same. Thing it's that's their meeting point every.
Speaker 1: Year, yeah, yep, yep don't blame. Them it's it's a
Speaker 1: good H it's a good place to do it for.
Speaker 1: Sure well, good, Okay, well we're looking forward to. It
Speaker 1: definitely going to be there in two or three, weeks And,
Speaker 1: Michael i'll come find you and we'll talk about some
Speaker 1: stuff and let me know if you need anything between
Speaker 1: now and. Then all, right sounds, good and you know
Speaker 1: THAT i appreciate your time. TONIGHT i appreciate. You appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys putting this on every. DAY i know it's
Speaker 1: a lot of like you, said a lot of volunteer,
Speaker 1: work but there's a lot of people that are there
Speaker 1: year round from y'all's club who put the show on.
Speaker 3: Too so, yeah, correct we actually have forty one committee
Speaker 3: members that do this almost year. Round then there's some
Speaker 3: of us that actually it's almost like a full time
Speaker 3: job for. Us but, yeah so, yeah on top of
Speaker 3: the four hundred, volunteers there's still forty one of us
Speaker 3: that actually run all the.
Speaker 1: Committees, Right, well you guys do a great job at.
Speaker 1: It i've been very impressed with it every Time i've been,
Speaker 1: there and really appreciate it for the great assets to
Speaker 1: THE ham radio. Community So i'm really glad that you
Speaker 1: guys are keeping it.
Speaker 3: Going thank. You.
Speaker 1: Yep cool, Time, yeah very. Good so all, right, guys
Speaker 1: we will stop it there for the. Night a little
Speaker 1: bit shorter than, normal but that's. Okay, PAUL i, Know,
Speaker 1: paul you're in the. Chat do you, Have, paul if
Speaker 1: you have a live? Stream paul usually goes live about eight,
Speaker 1: thirty which is about forty five minutes from, Now So,
Speaker 1: paul if you have a live stream that you're gonna
Speaker 1: go live with here in a little, bit feel free
Speaker 1: to share that link in the. Chat you, guys go
Speaker 1: check Out paul's live stream and then go Catch kyle's
Speaker 1: team replay FOR i Share, radio which is some new
Speaker 1: software that's remote control for agnostic. Radio in other, words
Speaker 1: everything not limited To, flex not limited To icon or,
Speaker 1: anybody but it'll work on, everything so gonna be gonna
Speaker 1: be a fun thing to use there as. Well so cool. Stuff,
Speaker 1: yep Thanks kyle for your time tonight as.
Speaker 4: Well thank.
Speaker 1: You all, right, guys we will see you next. Time
Speaker 1: seventy three all hope to see you In orlando in
Speaker 1: a few. Weeks tell me there right later to
Speaker 3: Be three huttott something