WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.399 Hey. Before we get started, be sure to head over 2 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.919 to ham Radio two dot com forward slash email dash 3 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.919 sign up to join my email list of over nineteen 4 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:14.400 thousand subscribers, where I like to send emails about upcoming events, 5 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.679 upcoming shopping deals, keep you updated with all the stuff 6 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:21.280 going on with my videos. Once that list reaches twenty thousand, 7 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:25.039 I will be doing a giveaway of another HF Radio 8 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:29.280 sign up today and thank you for the support. All right, 9 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:32.119 good to see everyone tonight. What's up? 10 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:32.479 Izzo? 11 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:37.359 Got to work Izzo at PoTA last week? That was 12 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:48.159 fun and several people. Okay, shout out to those of 13 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:53.960 you join us on Instagram and also on Rumble, thank 14 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:57.399 you for being here. Tonight we're going to switch this 15 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:01.240 over here. Good evening, guys. Ham Radio two point zero 16 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:03.640 Sunday Night livestream. Today we're going to be talking about 17 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:09.640 the brand new jesu FtM five ten, which is right 18 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:13.719 there and I picked it up at Gigaparts when I 19 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:18.319 was there two weeks ago. I drove through Huntsville. I 20 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:21.000 may or may not have invested some money into a 21 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.359 brand new three D printer that you might and might 22 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.959 not be seeing videos about, but spent the day at 23 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:30.560 gigaparts one day and grabbed that and a few other things. 24 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:33.640 So that's what we're going to talk about tonight. Glenn, 25 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.480 thank you very much for the superchat buddy, appreciate you 26 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:41.920 being out there. Fifty dollars superchat, good deal special shout 27 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:43.959 out to folks in green text in the chat. Andy 28 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:46.920 Kelly was in there earlier. Good evening to him. Vic, 29 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:50.079 I saw you in there before that, Damon, Wayne W 30 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:54.959 five WNR A SEU in there, Let's see Paul, I 31 00:01:55.079 --> 00:02:03.120 see you in there, Joe, Phil W zero RHP, Mike 32 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:06.480 Kale four P I, good morning, KB five U t I, Dave. 33 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:13.439 Thanks for being in the house tonight, Jeff, Arthur, Jody, 34 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.759 I see you in there. V E five s aar Ronald, 35 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:24.639 who else? Colt forty five, Dale, Anthony, several guys in there. 36 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:26.879 Thanks for thanks for being in the chat tonight. Thank 37 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:33.159 you for thank you for the being part of the 38 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:37.560 YouTube member family out there. TC fits no with no 39 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:40.879 trashy beer tonight, just regular beer tonight. Actually a good 40 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:45.960 beer that Matt eight four m Q gave me at 41 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:49.120 him Kashen. It's been sitting in the in the truck 42 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.759 forridge ever since then. So there we go. Yes, I 43 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:53.479 have a refrigerator in my truck runs twenty four to 44 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:56.639 seven and I just upgraded the battery system. You guys 45 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:58.879 are gonna see a video about that soon. It is 46 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:01.719 freaking cool. So a couple of things real quick. 47 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:01.919 Here. 48 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:05.919 We were in Galveston a couple of weeks ago, and 49 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:08.680 we wanted to stay longer. But spring break was the 50 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:11.080 week after we were there, and our house got rented 51 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:14.039 and we needed the rental income because the rental income 52 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.240 was way down for twenty twenty four for who knows 53 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:19.560 why what reason. Mike, thank you for the super chat 54 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.639 five dollars super chat from KO four PDI TC fits. 55 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:25.759 Thank you for the super Chat twenty bucks. Appreciate you 56 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.840 guys being out there tonight. So we we were out there, 57 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:30.639 we wanted to stay longer. We couldn't. We were I 58 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:32.680 was only there for like five nights. My wife was 59 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.759 there a little bit longer than that. So we want 60 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:38.199 to go back and went. We looked at the calendar 61 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:41.680 and between our own personal vacation and a couple of 62 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:44.159 weeks and him benchon in May, we chose to go 63 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:46.599 the last two weeks of the of May. Last two 64 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:49.240 weeks of the year, last two weeks of May, which 65 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:54.719 we'll coincide with Memorial Day weekend. So I called Galveston 66 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:56.439 Island State Park the other day and I rented a 67 00:03:56.479 --> 00:04:00.879 pavilion at Galveston Allen State Park for the Saturday Memorial weekend. 68 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.039 I want to say it's May twenty fourth. I don't 69 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:05.000 remember right now. I can't. I'm not looking at a 70 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.360 calendar right now, but look at your calendar for Memorial 71 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:11.000 Day and whatever. That said that, which is a Monday, 72 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.919 two days prior to that, that Saturday, we're gonna be 73 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:17.319 at Galveston Island State Park hanging out doing PODA. Everyone 74 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:20.959 is welcome to join us. They say that the pavilion 75 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:25.800 will hold up to seventy five people. There's picnic tables 76 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:27.920 around it, even if we get more than that. When 77 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:29.959 we've done these events in the past, we've usually done 78 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:33.240 forty fifty people something like that. We've never really had 79 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:34.759 a problem with that. But there'll be plenty of room 80 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.279 in the park outside of that as well. And you 81 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:39.079 will have to pay to get in five dollars to 82 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:40.839 get into the park for the daily pass, unless you 83 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.439 have an annual pass, which I highly recommend if you 84 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.079 ever go do poda, So check us out there. We're 85 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:50.319 going to be doing that Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. 86 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:54.160 And I spun up a couple weeks ago, I spun 87 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:58.120 up this new giveaway for March hem Radio two dot 88 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.560 com forward slash March twenty five is, and you'll come 89 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:03.959 up to this forum right here, and we're gonna give 90 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.319 away another radio at the end of this month. Is 91 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:08.879 probably gonna be April when we do the live stream 92 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:10.879 for the giveaway, but you'll have the entire month of 93 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:12.879 March to sign up. I think I've got about seventeen 94 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.240 hundred people signed up so far, giving away a brand 95 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:19.000 new icon I see seventy three hundred and something else 96 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:22.439 I worked out when I was at Gigaparts a couple 97 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:24.639 of weeks ago is after we give away. We gave 98 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:26.800 away a yazu Ft eight ninety one the first month 99 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:29.160 in January, gave away a seven or five last month, 100 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:31.639 seventy three hundred. This month and the next two months 101 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.399 will be yazu Ft seven tens and Gigabarts had a 102 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:40.360 big hand in helping me obtain those. So yeah, you 103 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:42.160 all go sign up for that. Good luck to you. 104 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:44.680 So we're switching it back and forth between Icon and 105 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:48.759 YESU and giving away some really cool HF radios. I 106 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.199 hope you guys win. Hope one of you went. One 107 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:53.279 of you is gonna win. All you gotta do is 108 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:56.519 reply to the email, and sometimes that's challenging to get 109 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.439 that done. So okay, all right, let's bring on John 110 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:04.079 and Frank. It looks like Frank turned his camera offices. 111 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:06.759 Is an excellent opportunity to just go ahead and bring it. 112 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:11.480 Oh, I'm still here. Obs has decided to restart. 113 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.240 Oh okay, Well let me know when you're back. 114 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.800 Frank. Yeah, it's launching right now. 115 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:17.160 All right, what's up John? 116 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:17.800 How are you? Man? 117 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:18.319 Good? 118 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:18.920 How are you guys? 119 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:24.639 Oh? Man, I'm I am hanging out and enjoying the 120 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:26.959 two two and a half weeks of actual spring that 121 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:28.759 we get in nor Texas. It's not gonna last long 122 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.680 before it gets too hot, I think. So we're gonna 123 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:35.240 see how that goes. How's your I know you've been busy. 124 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:36.519 What have you been working on? You want to tell 125 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:38.879 the audience what you've been working on? Is it super 126 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:39.920 top secret or something? 127 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:43.199 No, it's it's not super top secret. We get we're 128 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:46.560 you know, we're getting ready for him vention. Obviously that's 129 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:50.720 on the radar, and we're also getting ready a lot 130 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:52.319 of my time for people that aren't aware of it. 131 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:54.800 I don't actually work in the office in California. I 132 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:57.720 work out of my home office, and we have a 133 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:00.639 lot of stuff we're actually getting prepared up. We're actually 134 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.480 getting education on the five ten, the FtM one f 135 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:07.720 the FtM one, fifty thirty five, thirty one, sixty five. 136 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:09.720 So we got a lot of that. We released the 137 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:12.079 new versions of those radios that if people don't want 138 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.360 the ASP on there, it cuts down the price a 139 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:17.399 little bit. Because I saw that, Yeah, some people just did, 140 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:19.560 like I just want a radio. I don't need any 141 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:23.839 of the SDXDSP. It's not a future I'm gonna use' 142 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:25.839 like okay, okay, cool, fine, So we release this version 143 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:28.800 where the board's not included on there. And then of 144 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:33.920 course we've been working a lot with just kind of 145 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.639 you know, having fun at customer education. I like doing that. 146 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.439 And then on the personal side, I me, I've been 147 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:43.439 on my days and nights when I have so much time, 148 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:45.759 because you probably heard in the back I run a 149 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:52.079 big YCS server which is connected over to different modes 150 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:54.160 and stuff like that. So we've been on that in 151 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.000 the spare time. So radio radio radio radio. 152 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:01.319 Well that's good. Are you Are you still tinkering around 153 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:02.600 with that com jot radio? 154 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:04.759 I am, I am. I played with I play with 155 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:06.319 that a lot. I got both of those versions on 156 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:08.920 there and stuff like that. So in fact, that's where 157 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.040 I that's the DMR radio that I use of choice 158 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:14.040 now and stuff like that on there, so okay, when 159 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:16.279 I want to talk to my friends those kind of things. Well, 160 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:18.319 it's also have a phone radio. 161 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:20.439 Right yeah. I picked up one of those not too 162 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:22.439 long ago. I haven't really done much with it, but uh, 163 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:24.959 I know that you can do both DMR and fusion 164 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:26.399 on it, or at least that's the rumor. 165 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:30.160 So do you have DMR right now? But they got 166 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:32.080 a lot of people doing a lot of stuff. It's 167 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:34.639 a really neat, open source kind of radio. 168 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:39.200 Right right right, yeah, good, good deal? Sweet? Okay, Well, 169 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:41.759 it was good to see you last month, and I 170 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:43.519 hope that you guys had a good show at ham Kash. 171 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.200 I appreciate you taking the time out to uh to 172 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:49.080 talk about this new one here. I might the first 173 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.120 question when you told me about this radio at Hamcash. 174 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:56.080 The first question I asked was did they improve the 175 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:59.919 APRS messaging menus? And you're like no, So you were 176 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:04.360 really straightforward, straight forward with like no, didn't do that, okay, 177 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:06.399 but we got a lot of other cool features. And 178 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:08.440 I find I found out from a friend of mine 179 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:10.440 I was with. I was in I've been in New 180 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:12.679 Jersey for the last few days for the Hamsay event 181 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:15.799 and uh, one of my friends up there who I 182 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:17.440 think he's in the chat. I saw him earlier ed 183 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:21.519 into XDD. He has an FTV. Yeah, he was there. 184 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:25.000 He's the well it was. It was in the New 185 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.159 Jersey's part of the Hudson Division. He's the new director 186 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:29.279 of a double row for the Hudson Division, so he 187 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:33.279 was there. He and Bob were both there, and Nicole 188 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:36.600 was there as well. Uh so the what was I saying? 189 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.159 He has a FtM five hundred truck and he told 190 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.159 me about a new super secret Maybe it's not that 191 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.360 secret option where you could like turn the radio off 192 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:45.879 and hit a couple of buttons and powered on and 193 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:47.679 it comes up and it looks like an FTD X 194 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.919 ten menu and has the three by four tiles instead 195 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.240 of just the scrolling menu that goes through. 196 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:57.600 Yeah, that's that's not really any kind of secret squirrel 197 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:00.120 mess that message. Okay, it's really all it is. This 198 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:03.600 is actually it's really for tuning the radio, for doing 199 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.320 things on there. Okay, it gets into more of a 200 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:10.120 deeper menu kind of system on there. You It wasn't 201 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:12.360 really designed that way. And the reason we designed the 202 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:15.159 menu system a little different is because people actually did 203 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.080 not want the grid menu on there. So that's where 204 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:20.200 if you go ahead with the way the five hundred 205 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.200 set up and kind of even like with the three hundred, 206 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:24.639 five to ten, the one fifty even, you know, you 207 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.240 can actually hit the up down arrows and jump through 208 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:30.919 the categories, right, wanted that kind of thing on there. Yeah, 209 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.720 you could turn it on a different key combination on there. 210 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:36.559 But what it does is if people notice, like when 211 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:38.639 you're in the menu system where it's like kind of 212 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:40.919 like you want to say, like grouping and lines on there, 213 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.159 you'll actually still hear the traffic. But if you go 214 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:47.480 with that grid item, it actually turned off the traffic 215 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:50.080 on there. Because like I said, it's designed for like 216 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:53.519 fine tuning the radio and getting into the sub menu system. 217 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.159 I see. Okay, okay, all right, that makes sense. That 218 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.559 makes sense. I actually like the I like the the 219 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:01.720 list you that it comes with. By default. I don't 220 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:05.519 use the updown arrows. I just used the bottom The 221 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:08.519 bottom right knob does the kind of like the scroll 222 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.120 through the menus through the categories, and then the top 223 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.799 top right knob does like the individual lines and whatnot. 224 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:15.799 So that's generally what I use when I'm going through 225 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.399 that menu. And I found that very helpful because you 226 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:21.039 can get through the menus really fast. So I think 227 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:22.279 that's a cool feature. 228 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:24.440 All right. And then part of that also too, is 229 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:27.080 like we we tried, if you notice, like on a 230 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:30.000 lot of our newer radios, we're really trying to integrate 231 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:32.879 a lot of functionality back into the microphone because we 232 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:35.360 don't want people yeah, with the radio while they're driving, 233 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:37.279 because yeah, that's just not good. 234 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:40.720 Right, hmm, yeah, totally totally. Yeah, No, that's good. So 235 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:42.840 I just I just opened because I've been out of 236 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:44.879 town for the last few days. I just opened this 237 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.159 radio and powered it up like three hours ago, so 238 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:49.919 I've done nothing with it. So I'm gonna let you 239 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:53.840 give us similar to what you I did recording with 240 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:56.000 you at Hamcash that's on the channel. That got a 241 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:57.639 lot of hits and a lot of views and a 242 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:00.519 lot of comments on that video. But we probably have 243 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:02.200 some people watching tonight who hadn't seen that video. So 244 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:04.000 I'm gonna let you talk about that. But I'm very 245 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:07.399 well versed, probably not as much as I could, Probably 246 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:09.559 not as much as you are, obviously, but I'm I'm 247 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:12.960 very used to the FtM five hundred, so I've I 248 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:15.159 used that radio on my truck almost every day, So 249 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:17.519 that's what I'm used to. But tell us what the 250 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.240 big difference is besides the ASP and you can talk 251 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:22.840 about that too, but the PMG function. I'm looking forward 252 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:24.879 to getting you to show that, show us that tonight. 253 00:12:25.559 --> 00:12:28.600 Yeah, so there's is there a lot of change between 254 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:31.360 the five hundred and five to ten Not not really. 255 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:33.519 It's not a different RF board. It's not a different 256 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.480 circuit board. We've we've heard a lot of rumors that 257 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:38.840 it's all it's you redesigned the circuit board. No, we haven't. 258 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:42.039 What we did is is we actually released a five hundred, 259 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:44.240 and what we had was a lot of people that 260 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.000 actually came out and they said, John I want a 261 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:51.080 good analog radio and on a dual ban and one functionality. 262 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:53.279 And then so we were like, okay, well that's where 263 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:57.000 we released the FtM one fifty, right, So we brought 264 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.200 out the one fifty, which for the most part is 265 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:01.879 sort of like a cousin to the five hundred, but 266 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:04.600 it doesn't do digital. A lot of people love that radio. 267 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.320 A lot of people are saying that. But then we 268 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:09.240 started to get a surge of people that were saying, okay, no, no, no, no, 269 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.240 you're not listening to us. John, Okay. I was like, 270 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:15.039 what do you mean. They're like, we want good analog operation, 271 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:19.639 but we want APRS. We want to have some of 272 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:22.720 that functionality, the big head, the color display, the touch screen, 273 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:25.039 that kind of thing. So that's where we designed it. 274 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:28.480 And we came up with two main parts of the 275 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.440 five to ten. So the first one, obviously is we 276 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:34.960 added the ability to course do the ASP and the 277 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.879 SDX function. The SDX function was in the five hundred, 278 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.039 but now we added the ASP DAL signal digital processing. 279 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:46.519 And then we improved on the PMG because we're now 280 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:51.279 taking advantage of both receivers in the PMG. So for 281 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:53.799 those that may not know PMG. What PMG stands for 282 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:56.919 is primary memory grouping, and what the concept was on 283 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.120 that is, let's say you're at event. Let's say you're 284 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:03.919 doing something you want to monitor more than two channels, right, 285 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:06.320 because you can do you know that Maine and the subband, right, 286 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.120 so you can always unit two channels there. But people 287 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:10.840 are like, we want to do three four, you know 288 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:12.679 those kind of things. So he said, okay, here's what 289 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:14.879 we're gonna do. You can kind of put them into 290 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:19.159 a temporary group zone on however people want to use 291 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:21.840 that term. And then what you can do is with 292 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:25.159 the five hundred you were able to either watch manually 293 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.279 for it, so you watched the signal graph go up 294 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:30.240 when a signal's received and then you manually turn the dial. 295 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.159 Or with the five hundred you could do almost like 296 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.840 what we kind of call PMG scan And what that 297 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:40.240 would do is go through and the first frequency that 298 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:43.519 it would hit that had traffic, it would stay on 299 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:45.240 that one until the signal went away, and then it 300 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:47.960 would kind of go back to the scanning thing. Well, 301 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:50.080 people said, you know, hey, is there a way you 302 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:52.279 can improve on it? And so what we did was 303 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:54.159 is we went along and added this feature to the 304 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:56.799 five to ten, which you actually can get now in 305 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.440 the five hundred on a firmware upgrade. But what it 306 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:01.440 will do now is it actually will let you do 307 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:07.360 duel basic scanning function. So now can receive two of 308 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:09.919 the five frequencies that you're monitoring. You can receive both 309 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:11.320 of those at the same time. 310 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:16.720 Okay, Okay, that's cool. I use the heck. I don't 311 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.679 use PMG on many of my radios. I think I 312 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:21.960 use it on my FT five when I'm at like 313 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.840 Hamfest events, I'll use it there. But the most I 314 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.000 use PMG, I use the heck out of it on 315 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:30.440 my FtM six thousand. And the only reason I use 316 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:32.679 it on that one is because I have a little uh. 317 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:34.600 I have one of the tech prepper Man packs for that. 318 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:36.960 So it's got a little battery in it, it's got 319 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:39.200 a roll up j poll from ed Fong, and it's 320 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:40.679 got a couple other feet. I just now put a 321 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:43.120 digi rig in it. But I'll take that to an 322 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:47.360 event Poda Hamfest, just going out of town somewhere, and 323 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:49.879 I'll set that up and I'll keep six top five 324 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:54.159 to two, maybe my all Star node and maybe one 325 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:56.200 or two of the local repeaters, and I'll switch out 326 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:58.159 the menus, and then I'll go in and I'll put 327 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.159 those all in the PMG group and then I'll I'll 328 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.600 go into the scan menu and I'll choose PMG scan 329 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.039 and I'll hit that and it just says PMG scan. 330 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:07.559 I know some people who complained that it doesn't really 331 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:10.159 tell you what it's scanning. It just says PMG scan 332 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:12.360 on the menu, and I kind of agree with that. 333 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:16.360 But it's a very useful feature because you can scan 334 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:18.639 through the four or five or up to five i 335 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.080 think memory channels that you have in PMG. Because that 336 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:27.759 is my portable, very portable, backpackable full I mean full, 337 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:31.000 full powered, fifty watt dual band radio that I take 338 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:32.759 with me and set up at campsites and whatnot. So 339 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:36.960 I find that very useful for a radio that's always 340 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:38.600 getting the location changed on it. 341 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.960 Yep. And you know, we created PMG as you kind 342 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:43.320 of menta, and we actually went back all the way 343 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.399 to go back all the way to FT three. We 344 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.399 HADG functionality on that right, and the reason was is 345 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:51.120 that people, you know, people rote touting and this is 346 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:53.480 a this is a very big m COMMRA thing. And 347 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:55.279 even if it's not an m commra thing, it's like, 348 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:57.600 you know, a fairly active Hey we got an event, 349 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:01.000 a marathon race, whatever whatever on there that people like, 350 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.519 I don't want to take all my channels out of scan. 351 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:05.039 I don't want to do this, and I want to 352 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.480 do this, I just need like four or five specific ones. 353 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.480 The nice thing when you get into the five hundred realm, 354 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:12.119 whether it be the five hundred or the five to ten, 355 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:14.240 more so of the five to ten, is you can 356 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:18.960 do VFO frequencies or you can do memory. When PMG 357 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:20.920 first came out, like on the three, for example, it 358 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:23.799 was only memory channels. But now no, you can throw 359 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:26.920 in things on the fly there, so it's not an 360 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:27.519 issue at all. 361 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:31.079 Okay, okay, okay, good good. I always just do it 362 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.440 from the VFO on my six thousand. I mean I 363 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:35.400 don't I don't know if even I if I even 364 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:37.119 have any memory channel saved in that radio. I'm sure 365 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:38.839 I've got six top five to two. That's probably about it. 366 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:42.359 But yeah, good, okay, Well, let's uh, let's take a 367 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:43.880 look at it. It's gonna look just like what you 368 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.160 guys are frank. Uh do you. I don't. I'm not 369 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:48.519 trying to ignore you, Frank, are you I'm. 370 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.519 Here, I'm alive, yay, Hi, what's up? 371 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:52.640 Okay? 372 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:55.759 All right, I've been I've been doing a lot today, 373 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.279 watching for right now, watching the questions for the chat. 374 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.920 I did have one quick question. You were talking about 375 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:05.680 dual monitoring is like a full duplas can you transmit 376 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:09.240 and still hear the other side? Or is that it's 377 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:11.400 only in the monitor mode you can hear both sides. 378 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:14.960 No, So the the five to ten is cable just 379 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.359 like the five hundred of being opposite band, so you 380 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.200 can transmit on V and hear you at the same time. 381 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:24.240 But if you go V B you won't do that. Now. 382 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:26.920 The reason being is you have to look at Designer radio. Well, 383 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:29.079 it has two receivers on there. It only has one 384 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:32.039 antenna port on it, so we can't. We got to 385 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:33.839 be careful because if we're transmitting on V and the 386 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.640 other receivers on V, we're gonna overload the front end 387 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:39.200 and blow out the receiver. What this brings up a 388 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:43.160 good point, Frank, is at the five to ten works 389 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:46.720 great with satellites. I actually have done mobile satellite operation 390 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:51.880 with my five ten and a good antenna just with 391 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:54.200 it alone. I just program in the on the on 392 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:56.799 the sub band, I'll use it for receiving, and on 393 00:18:56.920 --> 00:18:59.839 the main band, I'll go ahead and tune into the 394 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.599 actually wire programmed the splits in there, so you get 395 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:04.920 your you know, fifteen killer herds above and below, and 396 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:07.559 I'll just go ahead and slowly turn and tune in 397 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:08.640 that way, and it works great. 398 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:13.119 So it's full duplex, crossbanded, but not on the same band. 399 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.039 Correct, not on the same band, okay, and it is 400 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:17.680 a crossband repeater at radio. Also. 401 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:21.160 Yeah, I was just trying to distinguish that because some 402 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:26.000 people will probably pick that, so good good, Thank you again. 403 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:28.359 Watching for questions, I just came to mind because I 404 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:30.680 was like, oh, you kind of said it. The satellite 405 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:32.960 guys are gonna ask, so let's let's just stem that 406 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:33.440 right now. 407 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:35.519 It's a good question. One of the one of the 408 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:38.079 most common questions I get when a new radio comes 409 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.079 out is is it full duplex? And uh, several several 410 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:42.559 of the new radios that have come out lately are 411 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:44.160 full duplex. I'm excited about it. 412 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:47.400 Is there a a a way to term that? Is 413 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:52.160 there a terminology for full duplex on two bands, but 414 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:54.880 not on the same band. Is there a way to 415 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:59.200 distinguish between that, you know not? 416 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:01.920 You know not? That we think because because usually if 417 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:04.000 you're if you're doing that in a band that's like 418 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:06.559 a repeater, you know what I mean, you know, on 419 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:09.599 the same band. When we usually say full duplex, we're 420 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:12.480 usually referencing in any of our material that we would publish, 421 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:16.279 it would be being able to receive on a different 422 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:19.400 band while simultaneously transmitting. 423 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:22.680 On the same band, or a different band on a 424 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:28.319 doc band. Yeah, so that'd be crossband repeat capabilities stuff. Okay, 425 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:31.920 all right, cool. I will sit in the background, y'all 426 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:35.119 ask you questions and I'll bring them up when we 427 00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:35.480 see it. 428 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:40.240 Cool, Okay, thanks Frank. All Right, so here's the radio. 429 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:43.599 I've got it sitting over here, and I can I 430 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:45.359 can go full screen like this if I want to, 431 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:50.680 But this is the view that I'm gonna sit on 432 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:54.200 right now. So, uh, John, take us through. Let's uh 433 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:56.200 just tell me what to do and we're just gonna 434 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:57.640 I just want to go through the menus. I want 435 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:00.559 to see how the PMG works differently than the the 436 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:05.160 older Now you said something about the firmware on the 437 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:08.160 firmware on the five hundred that's that's been released. What 438 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:10.920 is it. I know it's not adding the ASP because 439 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:13.079 it's got that's a different board, but is it adding 440 00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:14.400 this PMG function. 441 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:16.759 It is, it is adding the PMG functionality on it. Okay, 442 00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:18.079 so you will be able to go ahead and do 443 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:20.920 it that way. So the biggest thing, I guess we'll 444 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:22.480 start with the top buttons there to make it a 445 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:25.519 little bit easier, so your same button layout. The biggest 446 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:28.200 thing is the SDX button is going to go ahead 447 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:32.079 and do a dual functional So one of the things 448 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:34.599 I kind of want to just make clear on the 449 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:37.960 SDX button. Some people have said it's it's a pre amp. 450 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:42.279 It's not really a pre amp. If the better description 451 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:48.319 of it is it's actually taking the receiver sensitivity and 452 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.599 dropping it for the frequency you're on, that would be 453 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:54.640 a better description of what you're doing. But it's not 454 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:57.559 adjusting squelch because a lot of people are like, oh, 455 00:21:57.599 --> 00:21:59.839 it's just turning down the squelch. Not really what it's 456 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:04.160 doing is it's almost creating sort of like almost like 457 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:07.839 a squelch history. If people are familiar with repeaters and 458 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:10.039 stuff out there where what it's doing is is your 459 00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:14.480 repeater in your your squelch level, you receive sensitivities here 460 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.680 when you hit that SDX for that frequency, it lowers 461 00:22:17.720 --> 00:22:20.960 it to pull in that signal. Now that is going 462 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:25.680 to work on analog as well as digital. But if 463 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:28.480 you hit that, so hit that SDX button once, Jason, 464 00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:31.640 if you could just see the upcorn it says s DX. 465 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:36.480 That means once again it's dropping the received sensitivity down 466 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:40.400 for that frequency. Now if you hit it again, what 467 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:43.519 you're gonna do is now it says ASP. Now the 468 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:47.000 AP is active. And now what you're seeing on there 469 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:50.920 is you're seeing the advanced digital signal processing that you 470 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:55.039 don't normally find on VHF and UHF radios if you're 471 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:58.799 talking like HF Yeah, DSP is is part of the 472 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.720 sure right, but that's why this is unique on there. 473 00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:04.400 So once you have that active on there, that's what 474 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:06.880 you're gonna see on that point on there. Now, if 475 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:10.079 you go along and hit it again, you're gonna go 476 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:11.920 back to normal. But now I want you to push 477 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:16.200 and hold long present, Yeah, long pressent hold it now 478 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:18.440 you see it says auto F auto F. 479 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:18.759 Yep. 480 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:21.440 Now what that's going ahead and doing. It's actually engaging 481 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:23.640 both factors on there. 482 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:27.599 Oh, really, it does the the SDX and the ASP. 483 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:30.440 Correct, because what we wanted to do is, like I said, 484 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:32.440 ASP is not gonna make a hill of beans in 485 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:34.799 digital and the reason being is digital ones and zeros, 486 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:39.119 right dsp ASP on there is going to impact your 487 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:42.920 your actual analog audio waveform. Right, it's gonna go ahead 488 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:45.480 and clean that up. But some people want to do 489 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:47.799 it so like you're on five to two. Hey, I 490 00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:51.160 want not only the receiver sensitivity to be fine tuned, 491 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:53.759 and I want that ASP at the same time. I 492 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.759 want both. That's when you can activate the auto F 493 00:23:56.759 --> 00:23:58.759 function on there, and we'll go ahead and do that 494 00:23:58.839 --> 00:23:59.160 on there. 495 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:01.200 Excellent, okay, good. 496 00:24:01.799 --> 00:24:03.839 So now, and then to get it off auto F 497 00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:05.839 so some people where you got to push and hold it. 498 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:09.240 Again, Yeah, makes sense to okay. 499 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:11.759 And if you notice when you push the SDX button, 500 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:16.279 the light lit up over the little kind of the 501 00:24:16.359 --> 00:24:17.839 channel now there, So if you look at the chair 502 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:18.319 the main. 503 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:20.759 Oh, yes, the white the white light there. Yeah, I 504 00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:21.680 didn't notice that it first. 505 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:24.599 Okay, the white light always goes ahead in signals that Hey, 506 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:28.119 I either have SDX on desp on or I should 507 00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:30.359 say a SP or I have auto f on. And 508 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:32.640 you'll see that reflective in the upper right corner. So 509 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:34.440 if you hit it two more times, turn off both, 510 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:35.920 the little light's gonna go by by. 511 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:38.640 Yeah, okay, good go Now. 512 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:43.319 PMG is super simple. It's it's gotten better over the day. 513 00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:44.559 Back in the day, it was kind of a pain 514 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:46.519 and about to do it. But all you're simply gonna 515 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:49.240 do is, is you notice of the main tuning. Now 516 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:51.039 the big knob on the front, the upper left corner, 517 00:24:51.079 --> 00:24:55.000 it says PMG and then the white is PW. PW 518 00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:57.759 stands for PMG. Right, so you're gonna simply do is 519 00:24:57.799 --> 00:24:59.680 select what frequency you want. So if you want five 520 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:04.599 to two there, hold the PMG button. Boom, you just 521 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:07.519 opted it into PMG. Now you want to get back out, 522 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:11.759 hit the VFO memory button there. Now there you are. 523 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:14.680 You're out of that. Now. If you want to program 524 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:18.359 another frequency into PMG, all you have to do is 525 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:22.240 go to that frequency, push and hold PMG again. And 526 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:25.359 now what's happening is that you store two frequencies in there. 527 00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:27.440 Want to go ahead and go back out? You can 528 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:30.680 hit PMG again or you can hit the VFO memory 529 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:32.960 button on there. And then now what did you have 530 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:35.960 on there is you have two frequencies that are going 531 00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:39.640 in there. Okay, now as you see on there, there's 532 00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:42.880 no traffic right now. Right you see how the P 533 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:46.599 one is flashing. What's happening right now? Is you have 534 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:48.000 that or you're you're on P two but. 535 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:50.920 Yeah, it was Yeah, the one that's not selected is flashing. 536 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:54.359 Correct. What's happening in that case on there is that 537 00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:56.640 you were going ahead and you have in an autoo 538 00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:59.440 mode right now you have in a singular mode right now, 539 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:01.759 so it's going out and it's just a sampling the 540 00:26:01.799 --> 00:26:05.359 one frequency right oh okay, okay, push and hold the 541 00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:10.160 big dial button the main main knob there. Now it's 542 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:13.039 just a mode. Now you're doing the full scan. Notice 543 00:26:13.079 --> 00:26:13.839 how both are. 544 00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:16.240 Going both of them are doing okay, okay. 545 00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:17.880 So now you're going to have that that's going to 546 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:19.920 be scanning. Now if you put in like three more 547 00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:23.279 different frequencies for a total of five, kind of see 548 00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:27.720 how that progresses through that display on there. That it's 549 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:31.880 going to kind of be sampling those five frequencies and 550 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:33.880 then the first tow of traffic, are going to go 551 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:35.119 ahead and come up online? 552 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:39.200 Okay, back in man, Okay, So it stayed in auto 553 00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:41.720 mode even after I added a new frequency to it. 554 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:42.319 Correct. 555 00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:45.240 So is that basically like it's scanning right now? 556 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:47.799 Then? Yep, in automode it's okay. For the most part, 557 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:50.640 we didn't want to call it scan because that could 558 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:55.160 confuse people. Figured, but auto mode means it's automatically going 559 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:59.279 to pull up activity on now this case, the first 560 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:01.359 two that it I see. 561 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:07.000 Okay, okay, all right, good Now does this feature? Is 562 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:10.240 this feature on the new one fifty as well? 563 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:14.799 It is PMG is a feature on there. It does 564 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:17.279 like an automode, but it doesn't have a dual receive 565 00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:18.279 mode in essence. 566 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:24.079 Okay, okay, okay, all right, good deal. Cool? Okay, Yeah, 567 00:27:24.119 --> 00:27:27.279 that that's definitely new because I before I would put 568 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:29.799 you it's cool because you can if you have three 569 00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:31.519 or four or five in there, you can see when 570 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:34.720 there's activity pop up on one. If I'm monitoring P 571 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:37.480 one and there's activity on P two, it shows like 572 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:40.279 a little waterfall right there, or like a like a 573 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.200 like a status bar. But you'd have to manually tune 574 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:47.000 over to it to actually hear what's going on. So 575 00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:50.599 you have to be looking at the radio to to 576 00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:52.680 actually hear what's going on. So that's that's gonna be 577 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:54.759 a neat feature right there. I'm gonna like that, I think. 578 00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:57.799 Now here's another cool part. Say say you got you 579 00:27:57.839 --> 00:27:59.200 got that going there, and I'll say, you want to 580 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:02.079 go to your PCE three frequency right away? You have 581 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:06.240 the frequency at the bottom of the screen. Yep, right there. 582 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:09.200 Oh okay, So since just touch screen, you can just 583 00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:10.279 tap on which one you want. 584 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:12.119 And the reason we also did that too is because 585 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:14.559 remember when a signal comes in, you'll see a bar 586 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.279 graph go up. Now, the higher the bar graph, the 587 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:21.200 more strength the signal is. Right, you can do that 588 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:23.519 so instead of you're like, oh hey, here to that frequency, boom, 589 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:23.920 you can. 590 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:26.119 Tap tap tap tap, gotcha. 591 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:31.640 Okay, now you're doing PMG. PMG gives flexibility where a 592 00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:33.880 lot of times people don't think that it does. So 593 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:36.119 if you could push and hold the upper right the 594 00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:38.599 function button on there, push and hold the gate into 595 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:39.599 the deep menu system. 596 00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:41.960 Oh right here, push and hold it. 597 00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:45.319 Now do remember a menu number twenty two. 598 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:48.920 PMG. 599 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:51.480 Okay, PMG, Now go into there. Now you're going to 600 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:54.519 see in the PMG function, you can have your PMG timer. 601 00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:57.039 That's how long it's going to kind of do sampling 602 00:28:57.079 --> 00:28:59.039 of all them. So if you want to, you can 603 00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:02.319 actually change that from zero point five, so half a second, 604 00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:04.960 all the way up to two seconds if you want. 605 00:29:05.119 --> 00:29:07.759 If you want to clear all the PMG memories right away, 606 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:09.359 you're like, oh man, I screwed up. I don't want 607 00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:12.039 any of these five anymore. You MG clear will clear 608 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:15.079 them out, and then the PMG whole time you can 609 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:17.839 adjust all the way from two seconds all the way 610 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:21.559 up to thirty seconds. Now what that does is that 611 00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:24.400 basically is almost like a scan resume timers the way 612 00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:25.359 I'm going to describe that. 613 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:26.920 Okay, so if it's. 614 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:29.759 Hearing traffic in this case, the lost time will hold 615 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:32.319 is two seconds. But if you want to go up 616 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:35.079 to let's say fifteen seconds, let's say you can go 617 00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:36.960 ahead and do it that way on there, and then 618 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:38.839 that way it would be our ten I'm sorry, goes 619 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:42.960 ten twenty, It goes two five, ten twenty, and then thirty. 620 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:44.640 On there, no fifth right, yeah, yeah, yeah. 621 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:45.960 But if you want to hold it for ten seconds 622 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:48.720 so that you're not missing a conversation. You can adjust 623 00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:49.519 it right in there. 624 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:55.079 Yeah, okay, perfect, that's neat. Okay. I never played with 625 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:56.160 that deep menu before. 626 00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:58.400 Yeah, and it's and it's kind of a it's kind 627 00:29:58.400 --> 00:29:59.759 of one that a lot of people are like, you know, 628 00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:02.319 oh hey, I didn't realize this and that kind of thing, 629 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:04.119 and you know, we kind of have it on there 630 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:08.000 for that kind of aspect on the perfect Okay, let's 631 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.759 talk about memory, okay. 632 00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:13.519 Okay, I know a common question is the memory banks. 633 00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:16.559 Right, Okay, so we don't have memory banks. Yeah. Gave 634 00:30:16.759 --> 00:30:18.319 kind of two little options here. 635 00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:20.200 Okay, and let me. 636 00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:22.599 Go ahead and take a drink here real quick, because 637 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:24.759 this is this is gonna be a good one. So okay, 638 00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:28.079 all right, what we did is we we made what 639 00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:34.039 we call a memory group option on there. Now, what 640 00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:35.880 you can do is if you go into memory right now. 641 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:38.559 So if you back out and go into memory, you're 642 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:41.920 going to see the normal. So yep, go all the 643 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.079 way back back out out to the everything completely. Okay, 644 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:47.000 there you go, Now, go into your memory or do 645 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:47.920 you don't have anything of memory? 646 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:51.319 Do I don't have anything in memory? H zero? Is 647 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:52.079 what came in there? 648 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:54.559 Why don't you put like put five two real quick 649 00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:57.079 into memory. So just easy to put that one in there, 650 00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:01.000 even if you want to push and hold boom yeah, memory. 651 00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:06.319 Function knob funk yeah right there, right right, okay, all right, 652 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:08.519 easy just to put the memory in there. Yeah, okay, 653 00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:09.359 all that there. 654 00:31:09.559 --> 00:31:11.000 So, now here's what you're gonna do. Go ahead and 655 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:11.400 hit back. 656 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:12.480 Uh huh. 657 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:15.160 Now, once you go ahead and go to memory. Now 658 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:17.920 hit v A v M in the upright corner. It 659 00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:19.519 goes ahead and it says m all. 660 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:24.920 Uh upper left corner. Yes, I'm sorry, yes, huh. 661 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:26.599 Hit the band button once. 662 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:29.799 The band button Uh here yep. 663 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.160 I can see it's m VA CHEF. So now what 664 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:36.079 happens is when it's an m v H chef, any 665 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:39.480 VHF memory frequency we have in there, regardless of it's 666 00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:42.799 memory one two, five hundred seven hundred nine oh one, 667 00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:46.880 it's gonna only allow you to turn to the VHF frequencies. 668 00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:50.759 Oh okay, if you hit band again, you have a 669 00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:53.559 UA CHEF frequency in there, it's gonna go to m 670 00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:57.960 U A chef. But this says mg RP right, that's 671 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:02.240 the new feature. Oh, the M group now allows you 672 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:11.119 to program any of your memory channels into a separate group. Okay, 673 00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:14.039 So now this kind of gets you around that bank, 674 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:18.200 that zone, that group issue. So if you have let's say, 675 00:32:18.279 --> 00:32:21.400 like me, I travel obviously a lot, I drive down HONTL. Yeah, 676 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.920 I'm going along and I'm going through, I can adjust 677 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:27.519 this memory group now and so instead of my two 678 00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:29.720 hundred and soent the memory channels I have for all 679 00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:32.359 the repeaters I travel within nine ninety four and all 680 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:35.440 that kind of stuff, I can start throwing the individual 681 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:39.880 selected ones I have into the m group section there, 682 00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:42.759 and now I kind of have my own scratch pad 683 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:46.680 memory grouping, which is going to give me more than 684 00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:49.279 the five and PMG, but is not going to have 685 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.000 me have to use all my memory functions. 686 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.039 How many does it holds? 687 00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:56.519 As many as you want to put in there? So 688 00:32:56.559 --> 00:32:58.319 I guess okay, because you can load them up with 689 00:32:58.359 --> 00:32:59.240 all your memories. 690 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.559 Kind of defeats a purpose. But yeah, okay, it does, right. 691 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:04.920 Yeah, I've done it with. The most I've done it 692 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.480 so far has been twelve. Because as I travel here, 693 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:10.559 living near the Minneapolis, Minnesota area, I kind of travel 694 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:13.200 to the city's lot. I throw in my fuse select 695 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:14.920 that I always like to talk on and I know 696 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.240 on there, so I've done about twelve on there, which 697 00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:20.000 is not an issue whatsoever, but once again, it kind 698 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.920 of gives you that flexibility that you want to do 699 00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:23.400 on there. 700 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.440 Gotcha? Okay, yep, okay, And it's all. 701 00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:28.359 Done by hitting that band button just will you're in 702 00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:31.640 memory that band button and then boom, you're good to go. 703 00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:32.680 Okay. 704 00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:37.160 Now, one of the cool things is see how the 705 00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:41.000 M groups is the blue color? Yes, Notice the little 706 00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:43.759 light above your main tuning knob is blue. Yes, hit 707 00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:46.519 your band button again and you're gonna go back to 708 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:48.799 M group. Now, look at M group is green. The 709 00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:51.880 light above the knob is green. Hit your man one 710 00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:55.920 more time, M VHF and it's right. So it kind 711 00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:58.000 of gives you a quick reference of like, hey, why 712 00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:00.480 can't I find my favorite VHF re Peter, Well, look 713 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:02.839 at it. You want to be in green then, or 714 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:04.480 you know, whatever the case may be on there. 715 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:08.440 Right. Yeah, No, that's that's good because I'm I'm very 716 00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:11.719 used to looking at colors. So that's gonna once you. 717 00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:13.480 You just got to memorize it and know that red 718 00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:18.880 is VHF and green is memory h okay, good yep. 719 00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:21.679 Now what are the other things that we like to 720 00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:24.679 go ahead and kind of help people on. Here is 721 00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:27.760 dealing with kind of the way that the memory channel 722 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.079 list is laid out and everything. So if you actually 723 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:35.400 go to no memory list mode, you can go ahead 724 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:37.559 and turn that. So go into the deep menu system 725 00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:40.480 and go to memory twenty one twenty one. 726 00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:42.599 Okay, all right, memory list mode. 727 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:44.519 So memory list mode you can have that on or 728 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:47.320 off if you want to. Okay, But then when you 729 00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:50.199 have that, if you have that on, then you go 730 00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:53.440 up to memory or number twenty there if people want 731 00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:57.119 to go through it in a more organized fashion, you 732 00:34:57.119 --> 00:34:59.360 can have more of that list because people are always like, 733 00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:01.559 how do I get to the list easy? How do 734 00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:04.000 I go ahead? And how am I able to do that? 735 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.440 That kind of adds that little functionality on there that 736 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:08.880 we want to tell people about, because this is where 737 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:10.960 you're gonna go ahead. If you want to change names, 738 00:35:11.079 --> 00:35:14.320 if you want to change yeah, you know, tones or 739 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:17.559 frequencies or something, go into that memory list mode and 740 00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:19.559 now that you can go ahead and select through. 741 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:22.719 All of them there, gotcha, Okay, okay. 742 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:25.320 But go back to the main memory on there you 743 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:27.519 can also still go back to the main memory and 744 00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:29.920 then still operate it. But if you have that on, 745 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:33.000 now go hit back button. Now go to memory which 746 00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:36.480 you are. Now tune one more time. Now tune the 747 00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:42.400 big job when you change, and automatically goes through that 748 00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:46.920 list for you. So instead of going like channel by 749 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.159 channel by channel by the name, it puts you into 750 00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:53.360 that list mode. Now, what you can do is if 751 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:58.159 you have the microphone connected, for an example, have it 752 00:35:58.199 --> 00:35:59.960 in there. But if let's say you had a channel 753 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:03.559 number one fifty, you can enter one five zero on 754 00:36:03.599 --> 00:36:05.800 there and then it takes you to that channel in 755 00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:06.679 the list there. 756 00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:12.039 Okay, okay, yeah, nice, Okay. I like the fact that 757 00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:14.159 you can just go in there and like you're in 758 00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:16.079 this right here and you start turning this big knob 759 00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:17.880 and then it goes back to that view. 760 00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:19.800 I like that, yep. And then when you have it 761 00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:22.039 what you want to use? Do you select the channel 762 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:23.800 of frequency you want, then hit the main knob. 763 00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:25.280 Yeah, there you go. 764 00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:28.119 Now you're there, So it gives you that better quick look. 765 00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:32.360 Hey I'm driving, I don't wanna you know, I don't 766 00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:33.880 want to scroll through and stuff, and it gives you 767 00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:36.760 more Some people like that list view context on there. 768 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:41.559 I do, I think I do like that? Yeah, okay, good. 769 00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:44.800 So a lot of those are the main functionality on there. 770 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:48.360 One of the things I'll go ahead and comment on there. 771 00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:50.480 One of the reasons I love the five hundred is 772 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:53.440 if you quickly push that function button on there, it's 773 00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:56.599 going to give you what we call your CFL Customizable 774 00:36:56.719 --> 00:36:59.920 Favorites List. Right, you can move anything you want to 775 00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:03.800 on there except keep head and home channel so you 776 00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:06.079 can change. So, let's say you don't want scan function 777 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:08.000 on there. Let's say you want to, you know, do 778 00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:12.360 APRS messaging whatever. You could change any of those eight 779 00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.960 different combinations on there, and all you simply do is 780 00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:18.280 you select the one you want to change, push and 781 00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:21.079 hold that favorite list button, tune it to the menu 782 00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:23.599 item you want. Then when you tune it to the 783 00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:27.280 menu item you want, push and hold the favorites list 784 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.880 again or the function list again. Now you splashing, Then 785 00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:34.519 go ahead and hit that function button. Now boom, you 786 00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:36.840 just locked it into it. Your new item has been 787 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:37.559 changed on there. 788 00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:40.320 I use the heck out of this menu on my 789 00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:45.400 five hundred for APRS messages, APRS HERD HERD stations to 790 00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:48.159 turn the beacon off and on because I'll sometimes listen 791 00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:51.360 to APRS, but I'm not beaconing APRS, so I'll use 792 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:53.239 it to turn that off and on sometimes. But I 793 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:56.000 use that's probably the most common feature that I use 794 00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:57.880 on my current radio setup in the truck. 795 00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:00.440 Yeah, and a lot of people like that. A lot 796 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:02.840 of people are really unfamiliar with it there because it'll 797 00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:04.079 be like I wish you could do this, I wish 798 00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:05.719 you could do this. We're like you will here here 799 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:07.320 do this and do this, and all of a sudden, 800 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:08.840 right really and we're. 801 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:12.360 Like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I know you and 802 00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:15.000 I talked about this when we did the video about 803 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:18.840 the original five hundred on this channel. So people don't 804 00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:20.880 know about that, then they're not watching my videos. I'm 805 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:21.760 kind of hurt by that. 806 00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:23.519 But yeah, I'm disappointed. 807 00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:29.920 Yeah, come on, I appreciate all the new people out there, 808 00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:32.280 for sure, But yeah, No, that's that's a that that 809 00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:35.320 quick menu is is is really is a really fun menu. 810 00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:39.840 So just short press that to get into the quick 811 00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:42.519 menu and then you long press that to get into 812 00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:43.239 the deep menu. 813 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:46.280 Now, quick question when we're on the menu is how 814 00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:47.639 large is that screen? 815 00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:53.000 Uh? It's like a three it's a three inch screen. 816 00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:56.320 It's a it's it's a smaller screen. Maybe it's two 817 00:38:56.360 --> 00:39:00.559 something on there, but it's a fairly large size screen 818 00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:02.039 for the for the small size it is. 819 00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:05.760 Yeah, it's larger than the FtM three hundred and two 820 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:07.800 hundred screen, but it's not nearly as big as the 821 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:08.599 ft and four hundreds. 822 00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:10.360 Can you just like hold your hand up to it 823 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:12.360 well fast? I know you've been poking it all the time, 824 00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:14.159 but I saw that question like three times. 825 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:16.760 Yeah, I mean that's my hand right there. 826 00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:18.280 Okay, I mean you can. 827 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:20.760 You could take like a tip of a pen like 828 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:24.360 I have. I have, you know, and I can easily 829 00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:26.840 tap it on there and stuff like that. By the way, 830 00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:29.800 it's capacitive touch. It is pressure sensitive touch. 831 00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:36.000 Yes, yeah, yeah, which is much better. Wat's to frequency? 832 00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:38.559 Can it crossband repeat? Yes, sir, it can. We talked 833 00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:44.000 about that like ten minutes ago. I was just typing that, Yes, 834 00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:46.320 it will crossband repeat for sure. 835 00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:52.239 Oh okay, I know, I know you're a big APRS guy. Yes, 836 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:53.800 but I want to I want to help you out here. 837 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:55.400 I want to help you. Okay, Oh you can do it? 838 00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:58.320 So, okay, you go into your menu system. 839 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.360 I want you go to number twenty nine, like program key. 840 00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:03.440 Twenty nine. 841 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:08.599 Okay, okay, go into it now, go, let's go. Let's 842 00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:10.599 you know. P one is nice because that's the second 843 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:13.440 PCT if people aren't familiar with so just by going 844 00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:15.559 ahead and if you are, you going down the road 845 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:17.519 and I'll do it. I'll listen to two frequencies. If 846 00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:20.719 I need to talk on the submand I put automatically 847 00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:22.760 key up on there. Right, here's what I want you 848 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:26.960 to do. Go down to P two, push your function button. Now, 849 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:29.119 tune it and you could see guess what you can 850 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.159 tune in program with the button to do. See if 851 00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:36.440 you see it. Oh, look at that reply yep, reply, 852 00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:36.760 but go. 853 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:41.239 Back message list and go back station list. 854 00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:44.000 List, so you can program P two, three and four 855 00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:47.280 for station list, message list, and reply. So all you're 856 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:49.840 doing microphone now you can hit P two, P three, 857 00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:51.360 P four for what you want to do. 858 00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:57.679 For a messaging Okay, okay, okay, that's kind of cool. 859 00:40:57.920 --> 00:40:59.920 I like having the station I mean I thought it 860 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:02.119 was really conveniant to have the station list and the 861 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:07.000 h and the message list in that quick menu. Whatever 862 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:08.360 you whatever you call that quick menu. 863 00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:10.960 I know I'm not using the REFL CFL. 864 00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:12.840 CFL okay quick function list. 865 00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:15.119 Right customers, well favorite. 866 00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:19.880 List see okay, customizable favorite list. Yeah. But yeah, but 867 00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:23.519 but having reply in there, that's neat. I like that, 868 00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:24.360 that is uh. 869 00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:26.760 Now. The reason the reason I bring it up to 870 00:41:26.800 --> 00:41:30.440 people is because like for me, when I'm dropping and right, 871 00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:32.599 and I don't do that much APRS. If I do, 872 00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:34.920 if you ever see me beacon on APRS, it's usually 873 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.840 I'm just beconing to be honest with you, okay, because 874 00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:40.480 be honest with you. I'm on the Meshcastic bandwagon now 875 00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:42.760 and I bought a whole bunch of mescastic stuff, but 876 00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:44.239 that episode. 877 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:45.280 I did a whole we had a whole lot of 878 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:48.320 meshtastic activity up in New Jersey this last week. So yeah, 879 00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:48.960 I'm with you on that. 880 00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:52.440 And and but what I what I what I like 881 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:54.400 about it is is that I can do some of 882 00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:56.920 those APR stuff in those buttons there, but I can 883 00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:59.559 use that CFL for more of the stuff I want, 884 00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:03.800 so like scan or or the the once again, the power, 885 00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:06.559 the repeater shifting, all those kind of things like that. 886 00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:08.800 That's what I like to put in my CFL. 887 00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:11.800 I usually put I definitely want to put the tone 888 00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:15.280 in there too, to turn on an off tone squelch 889 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:18.920 or CTCSS tones and whatnot, so I do that in 890 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:21.480 mind as well. So yeah, yeah, no, I really, I 891 00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:24.239 really do. I really use probably that feature more than 892 00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:28.039 any other feature. And I'm not a big microphone button person, 893 00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:32.119 just because I forget about it really and I don't 894 00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:34.239 use it enough to have it memorized. But that's good 895 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:36.840 to know. If I can hit P two and reply 896 00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:40.920 to a pres messages, that's excellent. So Mike's asking, will 897 00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:44.320 it do that on the FtM three hundred, You. 898 00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:46.000 Don't, to be honest with you, I'd actually have to 899 00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:47.960 take a look on the three hundred because it's it's 900 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:50.400 been so long since I've spent mine up and I 901 00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:52.039 and you know, the other thing too is I don't 902 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.480 really use my three hundred that much for APRS stuff. 903 00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:02.199 I usually use it as as a comm thing. Yeah yeah, okay, okay, good. 904 00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:07.480 Richard says, go mestastic, Yeah for sure. 905 00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:10.320 Yeah. Yeah. We had some cool meshtastic stuff going on 906 00:43:11.119 --> 00:43:13.639 in uh well, we were at New Jersey Institute of 907 00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:17.119 Technology and they have meshtastic nodes. Actually at the campus. 908 00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:22.400 So we were we had a good, good mestastic. I 909 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.840 started typing ed and I were typing back and forth 910 00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:27.039 to one another, and some other random guy came in 911 00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:29.400 there and says, Wow, it's nice to see activity on here. 912 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:33.199 Like you guys must not use your own system, but 913 00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:36.440 it's cool, all right, Cool? What else, John? 914 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:39.519 You know, a lot of the same functionalities in there 915 00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:44.119 that we have on there then the five hundred, Like 916 00:43:44.119 --> 00:43:46.480 I said, we made a little few improvements on some 917 00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:48.599 things there. You can kind of see on there. The 918 00:43:48.639 --> 00:43:51.760 biggest thing is is we wanted it to be versatile. 919 00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:54.920 We wanted we wanted to be a vh excuse me, 920 00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:57.719 we wanted well VHF HF obviously, but we wanted it 921 00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:01.800 to be an analog user radio as a digital user radio. 922 00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:04.519 We don't want that to be like, oh it's digital, 923 00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:07.320 it's going to digital and screw the FM users and 924 00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:10.400 vice versa. No, we r we wanted along there. And 925 00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:13.039 that's why you know it's got a data jack on 926 00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:15.559 the back. I'm going to tell you, I hook my 927 00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:19.760 stuff up to it so that I can actually in 928 00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:22.079 my car, I have it with the data jack on 929 00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:25.159 the back. I have a separate radio completely set up 930 00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:29.119 for it that I can take my public safety portable 931 00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:32.760 on an amateur frequency though in FM, go into my car. 932 00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:36.119 My car then will repeat it into the five hundred 933 00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:38.159 or now the five to ten, and I can actually 934 00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:42.039 use fusion within analog radio because I'm repeating it through 935 00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:44.480 what I have up in the car. That's that data 936 00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:47.199 jack on there, that's that versatility. People are like, how 937 00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:49.840 can I interface a desktop microphone use the back of 938 00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:54.760 the data jack. It still has all the other functionalities 939 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:58.280 on there. So for example, if you go to and 940 00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:02.079 push the main volume knob on there, it still has 941 00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:05.480 that AESS functionality on there, so you're gonna go ahead 942 00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:09.039 and have that great audio response on there. So between 943 00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:14.239 going ahead and using ass technology like I'm seven ten, 944 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:17.679 you can also do with that SDX. And I'm just 945 00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:21.199 gonna tell you you're you're I'm picking stuff out of 946 00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:24.639 the mud that that other stuff is not hearing. Combining 947 00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:26.519 all three of these things together. 948 00:45:26.760 --> 00:45:31.239 HM, that's cool, okay, yep. 949 00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:33.679 And once again, you know this is one of the radios. 950 00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:36.440 You know the five ten started at the five ten continues, right. 951 00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:39.719 You can mount the whole main body unit like in 952 00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:41.920 the trunk out of the way. You have the speaker 953 00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:43.880 in the head, you have the microphone head, you have 954 00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:46.639 the SD card in the head. You got everything right 955 00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:48.159 from there. You don't even have to worry about that 956 00:45:48.159 --> 00:45:50.239 other radio or the other part of the radio. 957 00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:52.639 Yeah, and that's one of the great things about the 958 00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:55.480 FtM five hundred in the truck is that not only 959 00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:57.239 does it have the microphone jack in the head, which 960 00:45:57.239 --> 00:45:58.480 is right here if you guys can't see it, the 961 00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:00.639 microphones plugged into the side of the head, same as 962 00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:04.960 the five hundred, but having that having that speaker in 963 00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:07.320 it means I don't have to hook up an additional 964 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:09.639 external speaker for the one of the four or five 965 00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:12.599 radios I have in my truck. So yeah, it's it's 966 00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:15.480 all inclusive. It's it's all right there mounted to the 967 00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:19.400 remotely mounted to whatever system you have in your vehicle. 968 00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:20.920 And it does make it nice for sure. 969 00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:24.599 Yep. And like I said, full touch screen, don't be 970 00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:27.119 afraid to go ahead and do it. I like it because, 971 00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:30.079 unlike you know, the four hundred, which is a touch screen, 972 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:32.599 if I want to change modes or bands or stuff 973 00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:34.960 like that on there, I can, you know, I gotta 974 00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:38.880 you know, basically tap the screen or tap the modes, 975 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:40.679 like if I want to go from f M to digital, 976 00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:43.440 I could just write the FM on there. Makes it 977 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:45.440 so much easier, so much more simple to do. 978 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:49.000 Yes, yep, except for when you grab your HT and 979 00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:50.719 you tap it by mistake because you forgot to lock 980 00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:53.280 the screen, which I. 981 00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:55.920 Do, or you keep touching the screen and it goes. 982 00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:59.400 Well, and when you do lock the screen, you grab 983 00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:04.840 it and it goes tries to take like uh, I 984 00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:07.679 don't want to say retarded, but retarded more code to you, 985 00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:12.840 so making noise. So all right, Frank, do we have 986 00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:13.559 any questions? 987 00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:15.159 Oh? So many, so many. 988 00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:21.679 Well, let's let's let's stick to the questions about this 989 00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:26.039 specific radio and then we can get okay, okay, all right, 990 00:47:26.119 --> 00:47:28.400 and we can we can get into some some some 991 00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:32.079 more generalized YASU questions because I have the same questions 992 00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:33.840 you guys do. But John's not gonna be able to 993 00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:35.320 tell us much, I don't think. But let's let's just 994 00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:36.199 go ahead and see. 995 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:42.000 Right, Yes, I love it, let's do it. 996 00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:44.119 Let's yeah, totally. 997 00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:46.400 Know what if you feed me some lines to say, 998 00:47:46.679 --> 00:47:49.280 you can say I I have no control what Frank 999 00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:52.800 says I don't know where he's getting his epiphanies from. 1000 00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:57.280 But kind of off the bat, how much does this 1001 00:47:57.400 --> 00:47:58.000 radio cost? 1002 00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:01.280 You don't it is newer radio. There is a little 1003 00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:04.000 bit more of a cost to it. I don't know 1004 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:07.480 what the dealers are selling it for, and we leave 1005 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.880 that to the dealers. We don't do any sort of 1006 00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:13.360 MP pricing or mean advertised pricing or anything like that 1007 00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:17.199 with Yazu. So the best thing to do is to 1008 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:23.400 contact your favorite authorized when a stress authorized dealer, And 1009 00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:26.920 there's always specials and sales going on and everything like 1010 00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:30.239 that on there for this radio and any other other 1011 00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:32.960 Yaser radios too, so I would check to see what 1012 00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:34.960 the pricing is through them directly. 1013 00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:37.880 Is this the R version, Jason? 1014 00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:40.920 This is the R version? So yeah, So I'm pulling 1015 00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:42.880 up the gigabarts page right now. 1016 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:43.719 Yeah, so that's so. 1017 00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:48.400 No, this is the seven to fifty one, oh with 1018 00:48:48.519 --> 00:48:51.880 the R A SP So the RASP is seven fifty 1019 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:53.840 And then John was talking about how they had released 1020 00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:57.840 a version without the ASP with just the just the SDX, 1021 00:48:58.239 --> 00:49:00.119 and that one's one hundred dollars cheaper, and that's that's 1022 00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:03.320 what gigaparts has it for right now. Now. When those 1023 00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:05.599 when those last three models came out, they were announced 1024 00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:07.559 at one price and they were at that price for 1025 00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:09.440 a very short period of time before the price dropped. 1026 00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:11.679 And that's kind of typical of new radios for in 1027 00:49:11.719 --> 00:49:12.559 any everybody. 1028 00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:15.719 So yeah, and anything you know, news comes out in there. 1029 00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:18.199 I want to stress though, all the R means, and 1030 00:49:18.440 --> 00:49:21.639 this is a good point on there. People ask, well, 1031 00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:24.159 what does the R mean, what does the E mean? 1032 00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:26.760 Those kind of things like that. Our means that it's 1033 00:49:26.760 --> 00:49:28.920 the North American model, so it's going to be good 1034 00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:32.599 for the American frequencies one one forty eight and four 1035 00:49:32.760 --> 00:49:36.440 thirty to four fifty a version which you can't buy 1036 00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:38.800 through a dealer in the US or the North American 1037 00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:42.360 market because it's a European version that's going to only 1038 00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:44.679 give you one forty four to one forty six and 1039 00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:48.480 four thirty to four forty There are other versions for 1040 00:49:48.599 --> 00:49:52.119 other parts of the world. Only by the version for 1041 00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:54.840 your region, buy through the dealer for your region. We 1042 00:49:54.920 --> 00:49:57.480 have a lot of people now that are coming and 1043 00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:01.440 buying radios online and then they bring them over to 1044 00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:05.360 the US. One, they're not the right frequency band split. 1045 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:11.159 Two we can't operate and honor the warranty because it's 1046 00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:13.559 not in our same region here, especially when it comes 1047 00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:15.800 to HF, and then people will be like, oh, I 1048 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:18.320 can upgrade the firmware, I can modify the radio and 1049 00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:22.079 stuff some radios out of different regions. You can't modify 1050 00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:24.639 at all, and we cannot update the firmware on it. 1051 00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:27.639 That's actually illegal for US by FCC law. So that's 1052 00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:29.559 why we tell people if you're in the US, you're 1053 00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:32.800 in North America market, just buy from a dealer. Make 1054 00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:35.679 sure you're getting the R version right. 1055 00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:37.639 Interesting and good advice. 1056 00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:41.119 When you were talking about the SDX on this radio, 1057 00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:44.519 is there any negativity to just have that writing full 1058 00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:46.559 time or is it recommended to? 1059 00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:52.320 That's a very good question. So having SDX no once again, 1060 00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:56.320 that just goes ahead and lowers that receive sensitivity. You're 1061 00:50:56.320 --> 00:51:00.679 gonna maybe pick up more possibilities inner mod and like interference, 1062 00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:06.519 possibly because the receiver becomes super hot. The ASP. Yes, 1063 00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:11.039 if you have the ASP on, it's going to possibly 1064 00:51:11.119 --> 00:51:14.360 cause some issues. And here's why. Remember and these are 1065 00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:17.159 my my HF people understand this. And if you're not 1066 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:19.679 an HF or and you don't necessarily know about DSP 1067 00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:21.800 not talking down you. I'm just trying to give you 1068 00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:26.280 education here. When you have an advanced signal digital processing 1069 00:51:26.360 --> 00:51:29.840 like this does what it does, it kind of refines 1070 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:35.440 what is bad. Right. If it's good, it can't refine it, 1071 00:51:35.719 --> 00:51:39.760 and if it tries to, it's actually going to impair it. Right. 1072 00:51:40.599 --> 00:51:42.760 The example I gave to someone and I said, okay, 1073 00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:44.360 so let's say you go on the beach and you 1074 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:46.440 pick up a rock. Right, you pick up a rock, 1075 00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:48.519 and the rock's got sand on it. You take water. 1076 00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:51.880 Water is are asp an example here, Right, it's going 1077 00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:54.119 to clean the rock with the sand off and everything. 1078 00:51:54.159 --> 00:51:56.360 That's going to make the right rock nice and clean, right, 1079 00:51:56.400 --> 00:51:58.599 so you can see it. But if you already have 1080 00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:01.199 a clean rock, you're gonna put more water on it. 1081 00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:03.800 It's not gonna do anything for it on there. And 1082 00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:05.719 as a matter of fact, it actually after a while 1083 00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:08.119 you put more water on the rock, you know, it 1084 00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:10.280 could go ahead and make it look wet and make 1085 00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:13.159 it look horrible. That's what it does. Because we've had 1086 00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:15.440 a lot of people like when the thirty one eighty 1087 00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:17.599 five came out, the thirty one sixty five, the one 1088 00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:21.119 point fifty, they were having like a full S S 1089 00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:25.000 nine even full signal strength on there. They hit the 1090 00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:30.719 ASP button and then the signal almost disappears. Yeah, but yeah, 1091 00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:33.239 because you're you're overprocessing a good. 1092 00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:38.599 Signal, you know, right right it's somebody said in one 1093 00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:40.679 of the videos that it almost sounds like you're turning 1094 00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:44.239 the analog signal into C four FM, And it can 1095 00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:46.039 sound like that. I mean, if it's a good strong 1096 00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:48.719 signal already and you put the ASP on it, it 1097 00:52:48.719 --> 00:52:49.840 can almost sound digital. 1098 00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:52.960 Yeah, it was. It will sound it will sound waterfalls, 1099 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:55.920 sure like. Yeah, there's what we hear a lot. Once again, 1100 00:52:56.079 --> 00:53:00.320 that's because it's so much you know on there and 1101 00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:03.559 or like the HF people, it's like really cranking up 1102 00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:05.159 your DNR when you don't need it. 1103 00:53:06.079 --> 00:53:08.840 Yeah yeah, okay, thank. 1104 00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:12.519 You, thank you. Chris. Is this a dual bender or 1105 00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:15.639 a tribender because I'm looking at the listings and I 1106 00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:18.199 think it's two meters four forty, but I saw a 1107 00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:20.440 couple of people ask and lidded to it was also 1108 00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:21.119 to twenty. 1109 00:53:21.960 --> 00:53:26.199 It's it's transmit VHF UHF so two meters and seventy centimeter, 1110 00:53:26.480 --> 00:53:29.039 but it is wide band received, so we'll receive two twenty, 1111 00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:32.440 will receive nine hundred, it will receive eight hundred, you know, 1112 00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:34.679 cellular limitations blocked and everything like that. So it does 1113 00:53:34.719 --> 00:53:38.599 have a nice wide open receiver on there. So so yes, 1114 00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:40.639 it will do that in that regards there too. It 1115 00:53:40.679 --> 00:53:43.599 goes down to the aircraft, so the aircraft listeners. It 1116 00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:45.719 goes as low as one to weight, and then I 1117 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:49.360 think it goes up to nine nine ninety nine. I 1118 00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:51.320 actually have to try it here. I don't remember nine 1119 00:53:51.400 --> 00:53:55.000 nine nine. No, so it goes it goes way up 1120 00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:55.800 into nine hundreds. 1121 00:53:56.280 --> 00:54:01.559 Okay, so is well all right that speculation. Let me 1122 00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:05.760 move past that. So we'll transmit on two twenty then 1123 00:54:06.199 --> 00:54:10.320 well not no, okay, that removes that question. How many 1124 00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:13.239 wats it? We'll transmit on two none? 1125 00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:13.800 None. 1126 00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:18.920 Do you need a tnc with this radio or a 1127 00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:19.559 dig you rig. 1128 00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:23.760 Yes, if you want to use a different data mode 1129 00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:25.880 on there, if you want to do like wind link 1130 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:27.599 or all those kind of things like that, yes you 1131 00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:29.760 will need to go ahead and have like a digirig 1132 00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:33.599 something else on there on it. There's no built in TNC. 1133 00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:36.679 What is in there for APRS is more of an 1134 00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:40.800 algorithm kind of based APRS on there. There's not an 1135 00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:42.360 actual TNV in it. 1136 00:54:43.119 --> 00:54:48.840 Yeah, Tom, I've asked that question already. Go check out 1137 00:54:48.840 --> 00:54:52.880 the earlier but yeah, we're not talking about duplex. And again, 1138 00:54:53.519 --> 00:54:55.119 does this have a waterfall? 1139 00:54:56.440 --> 00:54:59.199 Yeah, and not a waterfall, but it has a band 1140 00:54:59.280 --> 00:55:02.159 scope on there, so if you actually hit the DSP 1141 00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:05.119 button on there, it will go ahead and show an 1142 00:55:05.159 --> 00:55:09.559 actual active bar graph on there with the you can 1143 00:55:09.599 --> 00:55:13.639 adjust a display on there. So I think it's uh, 1144 00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:16.639 what is it? Is it twenty twenty six channel? I'd 1145 00:55:16.639 --> 00:55:18.079 have to to be honest with you, I'd have to 1146 00:55:18.079 --> 00:55:20.440 go ahead and look at it again, but I know 1147 00:55:20.519 --> 00:55:23.239 it does the bar graph on there. And if you're 1148 00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:25.119 in memory mode, here's the other cool part. When you're 1149 00:55:25.159 --> 00:55:27.679 in memory mode, it will go ahead and show you 1150 00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:31.719 the activity on the memory channels alone. It won't go 1151 00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:34.159 ahead and show you the whole frequency range on it. 1152 00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:39.559 Okay, So don is asking? So there is a port 1153 00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:41.480 to connect a T and C two. 1154 00:55:42.199 --> 00:55:44.960 Yep? There is. The standard is a ten pin mini 1155 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:48.039 DIN style jack. You can buy the cable from us. 1156 00:55:48.039 --> 00:55:50.440 You're really only gonna use pins one through six. That's 1157 00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:53.719 the standard packet data layout kind of jacks on there. 1158 00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:55.719 But once again, it's not just data like I said. 1159 00:55:55.880 --> 00:55:58.119 It can be data, it can be voice, it could 1160 00:55:58.119 --> 00:55:59.679 be a whole bunch of different things on there. 1161 00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:05.960 Nice. Nice, How many different memory groups did you say 1162 00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:07.119 this radio can use? 1163 00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:11.880 So the different memory radio groups it has so automatically 1164 00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:15.639 has a standard memory going on there. Then it has 1165 00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:21.840 memory VHF has grouping for VIEWHEF, we'll have grouping for air, 1166 00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:25.000 We'll have a grouping for public safety. And then it 1167 00:56:25.159 --> 00:56:29.639 also has a that new memory group which is just 1168 00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:34.519 all of your own grouping on there. So that's the 1169 00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:35.880 one that you kind of put it in there. So 1170 00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:39.199 in essence, it has a couple of different ones on there, 1171 00:56:39.480 --> 00:56:43.400 depending on how you want to take a look at it. 1172 00:56:43.719 --> 00:56:45.400 Nice, Thank you. 1173 00:56:47.079 --> 00:56:48.920 Don wants me to show the back, So I'm gonna 1174 00:56:48.920 --> 00:56:50.159 go ahead and show the back of it. I'm gonna 1175 00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:51.440 turn it around, go ahead, Frank. 1176 00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:55.360 All right. While you're doing that, I'm trying to find 1177 00:56:56.280 --> 00:57:00.440 is the ASP the same as the one fifty and 1178 00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:03.039 does it have ASP interface with TNC? 1179 00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:08.000 So the ASP is part of the receiver circuitry, so yes, 1180 00:57:08.039 --> 00:57:10.280 it is the same ASP chip that's used in the 1181 00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:12.679 one fifty as well as the five ten. Here in 1182 00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:15.400 the thirty one and five thirty one sixty five. As 1183 00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:19.320 long as the signals analog, ASP will work on it. 1184 00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:21.239 So what would end up happening is is if you 1185 00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:24.480 connected a device off the back of it with the 1186 00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:27.440 data jack on there, Yes, if you turned ASP on, 1187 00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:30.639 it would hit the receiver. The receiver would use the 1188 00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:33.320 ASP technology and would put it out to the backside 1189 00:57:33.320 --> 00:57:33.559 of it. 1190 00:57:34.519 --> 00:57:38.480 Nice. So what we're showing is the den ten pen 1191 00:57:38.599 --> 00:57:42.239 underneath the power cable here right right there, and what 1192 00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:43.400 are the other ports there? 1193 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:47.239 There's two external speaker reports. It looks like yep, there's. 1194 00:57:47.079 --> 00:57:49.320 Two external speaker reports. So what you can do is 1195 00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:51.280 in the manual states how that you could do a combination. 1196 00:57:51.440 --> 00:57:53.480 So what you can do is you can do both 1197 00:57:53.559 --> 00:57:55.840 the main and the sub out of the one speaker port. 1198 00:57:56.079 --> 00:57:57.679 You can do just the main out of the one, 1199 00:57:57.760 --> 00:57:59.840 the sub out of the one. So whatever configuration you 1200 00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:03.519 want to have on there. Some people will take and 1201 00:58:03.599 --> 00:58:07.000 separately remote mount this radio, so that what it we'll 1202 00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:08.960 do is they'll be like, Okay, here we go. It's 1203 00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:12.079 it's the head is in the front of the the 1204 00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:14.360 head is only there. The main drawers in the back 1205 00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:16.760 of the rate car somewhere and then they'll have a 1206 00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:19.280 speaker and that speaker will put out the subband, but 1207 00:58:19.320 --> 00:58:21.400 they'll always have the main come out of the main speaker. 1208 00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:27.039 Nice. Okay, that's interesting since you said it, can we 1209 00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:30.199 connect a Cat six cable to this if we need 1210 00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:31.039 a longer cable. 1211 00:58:32.159 --> 00:58:36.199 So no, we do not recommend that. And here's here's why. 1212 00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:40.800 Two things. One, I cannot believe to tell you or 1213 00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:43.000 begin to tell you how many people have sent their 1214 00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:45.840 FtM five hundreds in because I was like, oh, it's 1215 00:58:45.880 --> 00:58:48.880 just a simple Cat five cable. They wired up wrong 1216 00:58:48.920 --> 00:58:53.960 and they fry things. Okay. Secondly, the CAT cables do 1217 00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:58.320 not provide enough shielding with it on there, and I 1218 00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.719 know a lot of people are like, nope, Cat, we'll 1219 00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:03.360 do it, and stuff like that on there. We have 1220 00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:06.639 had testimonies from customers that have said, you know what, 1221 00:59:06.800 --> 00:59:09.480 I took Cat six E cable and I hooked it 1222 00:59:09.559 --> 00:59:11.920 between the radio and the head and they were having 1223 00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:14.719 issues and we said, no, you can't do that. They said, 1224 00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:17.760 yes we can. We said go buy the cable, and 1225 00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:21.000 they went out, bought the cable, went to their favorite 1226 00:59:21.199 --> 00:59:23.639 Yazu dealer. That kind of thing got the cable hooked 1227 00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:25.760 it up, all their problems went away on there. 1228 00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:30.039 So that external cable, how long is it? And if 1229 00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:31.960 we need a longer one or shorter one, how do 1230 00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:34.480 we get like kind of a customized one for our setup? 1231 00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:37.280 So there is a ten foot and a twenty foot 1232 00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:40.559 cable that you can purchase on there. Like with anything 1233 00:59:40.639 --> 00:59:43.760 we use with our cables on there, we know that 1234 00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:47.639 the maximum amount that the radio can operate without issues 1235 00:59:47.679 --> 00:59:51.719 in this case would be twenty feet. Okay, So if 1236 00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:54.840 as somebody needs something longer than twenty feet, yeah, you 1237 00:59:54.920 --> 00:59:57.119 are going to have to manufacture something on your own. 1238 00:59:57.159 --> 00:59:59.400 But we can't say that it's going to work past 1239 00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:02.159 twenty feet because we've only tested it and we can 1240 01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:05.519 ensure that it'll work up to twenty feet. 1241 01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:08.679 How about if we need one short like six feet 1242 01:00:08.760 --> 01:00:10.519 or seven feet, can we cut it and we put 1243 01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:12.880 the head in there? Or is this is a standard 1244 01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:15.800 cat plug or is it it's not. 1245 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:17.599 It's not even like a cat cable if you actually 1246 01:00:17.599 --> 01:00:19.880 take a look, it's actually like a coiled cable kind 1247 01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:22.039 of in there and stuff like that. Well, we tell people, 1248 01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:23.960 if you need shorter feet, just get to ten foot 1249 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:25.400 one and then just loop it up. 1250 01:00:26.039 --> 01:00:29.360 Okay, thank you, Yeah, Jason, where you're say in the 1251 01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:31.920 back of the radio. This is another question came in. 1252 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:34.719 Does this radio have a GPS jack? I didn't really 1253 01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:35.199 see one. 1254 01:00:36.400 --> 01:00:38.239 No, I didn't see that, Jonah. 1255 01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:41.679 It's yes, above the microphone on the right hand side. 1256 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:44.760 Oh, right there. Okay, Yeah, there's a port right here 1257 01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:48.119 that you can't see right right now, but it's looks 1258 01:00:48.119 --> 01:00:49.760 like a three point five milimeter jack. 1259 01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:52.519 It's a three point five milimeter jack and it does 1260 01:00:52.599 --> 01:00:55.000 take it in the manual like what it's looking for 1261 01:00:55.000 --> 01:00:57.280 for the data pin connections on there and everything like 1262 01:00:57.320 --> 01:01:01.880 that on it. So we don't have a recommended GPS 1263 01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:04.320 for it. You would just need something that can do 1264 01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:08.920 the NMEA output of the GPS receiver. The reasoning is 1265 01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:12.039 that some need to be power amplified GPS antennas, some 1266 01:01:12.239 --> 01:01:14.840 are not, so it's kind of all across the board there. 1267 01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:17.039 So that's why we give you what the pinouts we're 1268 01:01:17.079 --> 01:01:21.239 looking for. To be perfectly honest with you, if you're 1269 01:01:21.519 --> 01:01:25.000 using an inside at a fixed location, just at the 1270 01:01:25.079 --> 01:01:28.800 GPS coordinates manually, and if you're using it in a mobile, 1271 01:01:29.159 --> 01:01:31.920 I personally have never had any issues even when I've 1272 01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:35.119 been like in downtown big city parking garages, it's always 1273 01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:36.599 been able to get a GPS signal. 1274 01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:38.920 Okay, yeah, I've never had any trouble with with my 1275 01:01:38.920 --> 01:01:44.920 five hundred getting GPS signal either. Okay, does it have Bluetooth. 1276 01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:48.199 It doesn't, so the five to ten does not come 1277 01:01:48.280 --> 01:01:51.960 standard with Bluetooth. If you want Bluetooth on there, then 1278 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:54.280 you can. To be honest with you, it kind of 1279 01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:57.440 came down to, like, well, do we add the ASP 1280 01:01:57.599 --> 01:02:00.000 and keep the Bluetooth or do we eliminate the blue 1281 01:02:00.039 --> 01:02:03.480 tooth because not a lot of people use Bluetooth as 1282 01:02:03.559 --> 01:02:05.880 much as people want to use Bluetooth or say that 1283 01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:07.199 they use it. So it's kind of one of those 1284 01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:09.440 things where to save some costs to kind of do 1285 01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:11.679 some things, we just said, you know, we'll take out 1286 01:02:11.679 --> 01:02:13.599 the Bluetooth board, but we'll keep the We'll put in 1287 01:02:13.639 --> 01:02:16.440 the ASP board in in a lieu of it. 1288 01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:19.159 So but you can't add it after the fact. 1289 01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:21.159 You can add it after the fact, yeah. 1290 01:02:20.960 --> 01:02:24.239 Okay, Okay. I think that one of the questions I 1291 01:02:24.239 --> 01:02:27.480 saw earlier was and I've heard this question before about 1292 01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:30.800 bluetoothing a keyboard to it. So that you could type 1293 01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:31.880 APRS messages. 1294 01:02:32.239 --> 01:02:35.239 Nope. All the Bluetooth does is just simple audio profile. 1295 01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:35.960 Okay. 1296 01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:37.480 As a matter of fact, I had a customer that 1297 01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:39.079 messaged me this week and the saying, hey, I want 1298 01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:41.519 to hook it up to I got like a Sony 1299 01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:44.280 speaker or something like that on there. And if it 1300 01:02:44.320 --> 01:02:48.000 has any sort of AD two P protocol, which is 1301 01:02:48.039 --> 01:02:50.239 a normal protocol used by a lot of Bluetooth devices 1302 01:02:50.239 --> 01:02:53.119 for control and syncing and everything like that on there, yes, 1303 01:02:53.320 --> 01:02:55.719 if you have like earbuds or like whatever, you can 1304 01:02:55.719 --> 01:02:58.840 tap the button and skip a song that kind of thing. Yeah, 1305 01:02:59.119 --> 01:03:00.880 not going to work with it. This is a very 1306 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:03.880 very simple Bluetooth audio profile. 1307 01:03:03.920 --> 01:03:07.079 Audio only okay. Okay, good to know. 1308 01:03:08.079 --> 01:03:11.119 Yep. And Jason, I do want to correct myself on there. 1309 01:03:11.599 --> 01:03:11.920 Okay. 1310 01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:18.000 Unlike its ancestor, the five hundred, the five ten only 1311 01:03:18.039 --> 01:03:20.079 goes up to five hundred and fifty megguards as does 1312 01:03:20.119 --> 01:03:21.960 not go nine hundred. I said that earlier. I do 1313 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:24.880 want to apologize for it on there. I just wanted 1314 01:03:24.880 --> 01:03:27.079 to double check on there because I was like, oh 1315 01:03:27.159 --> 01:03:29.000 wait a minute, no wait, there was a slight difference 1316 01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:31.159 in there. So we'll do one o eight up to 1317 01:03:31.280 --> 01:03:32.840 five fifty I. 1318 01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:35.639 Want to Okay, so it does aircraft ban receive. 1319 01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:40.239 It does aircraft ban and UHF aircraft ban so UHF 1320 01:03:40.280 --> 01:03:43.599 mill airy air. Oh yeah, we'll also HF mill air too. 1321 01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:45.199 So a lot of people ask that on there. I 1322 01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:46.920 will go ahead and do that. As a matter of fact, 1323 01:03:47.079 --> 01:03:49.119 that's why I looked up here. It will do one 1324 01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:51.360 oaight tow one thirty seven thirty seven seventy four, one 1325 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:54.039 seventy four to four hundred, four hundred and four eighty 1326 01:03:54.039 --> 01:03:56.519 and then four eighty five fifty. So therefore that one 1327 01:03:56.639 --> 01:03:59.039 seventy four to four hundred, it will do the mill 1328 01:03:59.119 --> 01:03:59.800 aircraft band. 1329 01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:02.800 Gotcha listen to the aircraft band? 1330 01:04:03.119 --> 01:04:06.760 Well listen, Yes, yes you can. You can't. Go ahead 1331 01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:08.519 and talk to Sully. 1332 01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:15.079 Since y'all were talking about keyboards, the text entry keyboard 1333 01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:18.079 on screen, is that the standard keyboard you used throughout 1334 01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:19.559 the menu systems. 1335 01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:24.840 As in like for putting names in and everything like that. Yes, 1336 01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:27.639 it and it is. It is a through z. It 1337 01:04:27.679 --> 01:04:31.119 is not quirty. The reason it's not quirty is is 1338 01:04:31.159 --> 01:04:33.920 because when we make the different versions of the radio, 1339 01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:40.079 not everything translates in quirty around the world. I know, 1340 01:04:40.159 --> 01:04:42.599 some people say, well Courty is the standard. Well, it 1341 01:04:42.679 --> 01:04:46.360 might be the standard, but when you start trans laning 1342 01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:49.360 it into you know, other languages like we have to 1343 01:04:49.480 --> 01:04:52.039 for the radio and stuff like that, it doesn't. It's 1344 01:04:52.079 --> 01:04:56.079 not a it's not a complete translation over. So that's 1345 01:04:56.079 --> 01:04:58.519 why we do a to z and then you hit 1346 01:04:58.559 --> 01:05:01.239 the button and then you can go one through zero 1347 01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:03.960 through nine and then your symbol mother. 1348 01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:08.440 Okay, I do like this question. We're still coming the 1349 01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:13.239 Bluetooth ish. Is the ASY going to adopt the Bluetooth 1350 01:05:13.400 --> 01:05:16.440 Hearing Aid standard here? 1351 01:05:16.639 --> 01:05:19.440 Well, here's the issue with Bluetooth right now. There are 1352 01:05:19.480 --> 01:05:24.480 technically nine different Bluetooth protocols. Yeah, and on all of 1353 01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:29.480 the Bluetooth protocols are slightly different depending on what happens 1354 01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:33.159 or takes place place with it. Part of those protocols 1355 01:05:33.199 --> 01:05:35.800 also include low energy so the blue the bt L 1356 01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:38.119 E s and stuff like that on there. It's really 1357 01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:42.480 difficult because when you start looking at it, it's all 1358 01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:46.639 of what does the Bluetooth access does it access audio? 1359 01:05:46.679 --> 01:05:50.199 Does it access data? Does it access both? What kind 1360 01:05:50.239 --> 01:05:52.000 of is? What kind of is to do it? On there? 1361 01:05:52.519 --> 01:05:55.079 Engineers have taken a look at it and to be 1362 01:05:55.159 --> 01:05:58.079 honest with you, it's like traveling down a path and 1363 01:05:58.119 --> 01:06:01.000 we just came to a you know, a nine half intersection, 1364 01:06:01.360 --> 01:06:04.800 like which one do you go down on there? And 1365 01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:08.599 then in addition, what kind of support of hardware do 1366 01:06:08.679 --> 01:06:13.159 you need for it to do that? We have been 1367 01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:17.199 told by different hands that have hearing gaid issues, those 1368 01:06:17.239 --> 01:06:19.639 kind of things like that on there that a lot 1369 01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:22.760 of find the aess just like on the seven to ten, 1370 01:06:23.119 --> 01:06:26.639 they can adjust the ass that if they're slight tone 1371 01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:29.519 deaf on there with and they need the hearing gates 1372 01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:32.400 for that, and we can do that. We've had other 1373 01:06:32.440 --> 01:06:34.400 people that have said that there's a third party out 1374 01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:39.519 there that can adopt a device that will kind of 1375 01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:43.119 transmit to a t coil on there. It's a third 1376 01:06:43.119 --> 01:06:45.400 party device, but it plugs in I don't know if 1377 01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:47.559 plugs and speaker or plugs into the data jack on 1378 01:06:47.639 --> 01:06:50.480 there for the speaker output. I don't know. We don't 1379 01:06:50.519 --> 01:06:52.880 test third party devices because we would we'd have a 1380 01:06:52.880 --> 01:06:57.719 whole division of that alone, right, But it gets difficult 1381 01:06:57.719 --> 01:07:00.360 for us. It's not that we're insensitive to it, it's 1382 01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:02.519 just which path do we go down? 1383 01:07:04.239 --> 01:07:04.639 Yeah? 1384 01:07:05.119 --> 01:07:13.239 I understand, let's see here kind of speculative, but I'm 1385 01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:17.719 gonna agree with this one, this digital dreamer. What does 1386 01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:20.400 the eager keep using those dang tea connectors? Can we 1387 01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:21.800 just get power poles already? 1388 01:07:22.920 --> 01:07:25.039 To believe it, Believe it or not, Tea connectors are 1389 01:07:25.039 --> 01:07:28.960 more standardized across the entire world than actually power poles. 1390 01:07:29.119 --> 01:07:31.719 They are they and it is, And you got to 1391 01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:35.440 remember it's if you actually take a look at back 1392 01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:38.159 in the day, we used to have a different antenna connector, 1393 01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:40.360 and we're going way back in the day for some 1394 01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:42.519 of our radios that we're built in different countries than 1395 01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:44.880 than in in like the US, and stuff like that. 1396 01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:48.119 On there, we've actually kind of standardized on there. Because 1397 01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:51.000 what ends up happening is once you start getting different connectors, 1398 01:07:52.599 --> 01:07:55.480 you know, it's it gets difficult because you know you're 1399 01:07:55.480 --> 01:07:58.320 gonna do all of this one region. And I'll be 1400 01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:00.920 honest with you, like it's easier for us to order 1401 01:08:01.039 --> 01:08:03.079 ten thousand power chords as a T connector and know 1402 01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:04.960 that they're going to interface not only the five to ten, 1403 01:08:05.039 --> 01:08:07.280 but the five hundred, the three hundred, the two hundred, 1404 01:08:07.480 --> 01:08:10.639 the one hundred, you know, every every radio almost underneath 1405 01:08:10.679 --> 01:08:12.880 the song that we've ever made too, then if we 1406 01:08:12.920 --> 01:08:14.840 start to get more of a different kind of thing. 1407 01:08:14.960 --> 01:08:18.880 So that's the reason why we've stuck with the tea connectors. 1408 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:23.279 I just had to bring it up because I clip 1409 01:08:23.319 --> 01:08:25.560 them off too, you know. 1410 01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:28.039 And somebody said earlier that they said that they fail 1411 01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:29.560 after a year or two. I was like, dude, I've 1412 01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:32.800 got I've got T connectors on my V seventy one 1413 01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:35.439 from like nine years ago that's still working. 1414 01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:38.600 And be honestly, the tea connector, I haven't really had 1415 01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:39.439 that much of an issue. 1416 01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:40.000 I haven't had it. 1417 01:08:40.039 --> 01:08:43.560 I've never had since that that clip and we do right. 1418 01:08:43.640 --> 01:08:44.920 Yeah, I give you that. 1419 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:48.479 I don't understand that they fail in a year. No, 1420 01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:52.319 tea connectors are better longevity. 1421 01:08:53.439 --> 01:08:54.159 I agree with that. 1422 01:08:54.479 --> 01:08:56.520 Go ahead, heard the T connector. And the only reason 1423 01:08:56.560 --> 01:08:59.119 being is in a pinch, the T connector, it's the 1424 01:08:59.159 --> 01:09:01.119 male on the radio. So if I don't have a 1425 01:09:01.119 --> 01:09:04.600 power cable, I can get two female spade connectors and 1426 01:09:04.680 --> 01:09:07.560 I slide it on. Yeah, and I'm I'm I'm cooking again. 1427 01:09:08.079 --> 01:09:12.399 That's true. That's true. Yeah, yep, I've never I always 1428 01:09:12.399 --> 01:09:14.960 hesitate to cut minep I usually do an adapter. I'll 1429 01:09:14.960 --> 01:09:17.920 do a tea connector to a power pole cable and 1430 01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:20.079 then I'll go power pole into my And that's what 1431 01:09:20.119 --> 01:09:21.439 I do with my truck on all my rates in 1432 01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:23.640 my truck, I go tea connector to power pool, power 1433 01:09:23.680 --> 01:09:26.079 pool to rig runner in my truck. I just I 1434 01:09:26.159 --> 01:09:27.840 never have been able to bring myself to cut the 1435 01:09:27.880 --> 01:09:30.199 tea connector off, just because if I ever go to 1436 01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:33.800 sell that radio, maybe the person wants power pools on it, 1437 01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:36.079 and maybe they don't. But I hate the guys that. 1438 01:09:37.039 --> 01:09:39.199 I hate the guys that cut off the power cable 1439 01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:40.600 in the back of the radio and leave this much 1440 01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:42.880 wire sticking out of it. It's just bare wire and 1441 01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:45.199 it's like, I give you that three inches long. I'm like, 1442 01:09:45.279 --> 01:09:48.960 come on, butt. 1443 01:09:47.840 --> 01:09:51.840 Right TwixT thing with power and. 1444 01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:52.960 It kind of yeah, yeah, it kind of is. Yeah. 1445 01:09:53.039 --> 01:09:56.279 I mean I love power poles. I do, but they uh, 1446 01:09:57.079 --> 01:09:59.680 I don't know. They're they're they can pull out easily 1447 01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:02.800 and they're not waterproof. The tea connector is not waterproof either. 1448 01:10:03.199 --> 01:10:04.960 But you know, when I was building my battery box 1449 01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:06.640 for the back of my truck, I use those SAE 1450 01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:09.000 connectors because I was like, I'd love to use pourpoles 1451 01:10:09.000 --> 01:10:13.119 but they're not waterproof. So but you've got options. That's 1452 01:10:13.119 --> 01:10:14.239 the thing. You've got options. 1453 01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:18.239 This is a fun question, John, What chair are you 1454 01:10:18.279 --> 01:10:18.720 sitting in? 1455 01:10:20.199 --> 01:10:21.079 I'm sitting This is. 1456 01:10:21.079 --> 01:10:22.119 An excellent question. 1457 01:10:22.399 --> 01:10:26.760 I saw that question ghost men, don't. 1458 01:10:26.840 --> 01:10:27.119 I don't. 1459 01:10:27.319 --> 01:10:29.880 Yeah, I don't know which one it is. I'm a 1460 01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:34.760 micro micro center geek. Yeah, and I'm in my office 1461 01:10:34.800 --> 01:10:37.960 so much. And if I could show you a disaster, 1462 01:10:38.079 --> 01:10:41.119 even if I can't, I'm not going through. I got 1463 01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:43.640 a green screen behind me. You don't want to see 1464 01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:47.119 the bench, but I'm here so much. That was like 1465 01:10:47.159 --> 01:10:49.600 an office chair would kill me after being in it 1466 01:10:49.640 --> 01:10:51.960 for like ten hours. So I'm like, you know, yeah, 1467 01:10:52.079 --> 01:10:54.359 I've seen these gamers on there for hours an hours. 1468 01:10:54.439 --> 01:10:57.000 So I bought myself a gamer chair years ago and 1469 01:10:57.039 --> 01:10:58.920 I love it absolutely. 1470 01:10:59.039 --> 01:11:01.560 Yeah. You can buy gamer chairs at gigaparts now. They've 1471 01:11:01.560 --> 01:11:04.079 got some really cool ones in there too. I'm like, 1472 01:11:04.199 --> 01:11:06.119 I've almost walked out with a chair a couple of times. 1473 01:11:06.119 --> 01:11:08.119 I'm like, I am driving home, so I could take 1474 01:11:08.119 --> 01:11:10.279 this chair over right now, but I haven't done. I've 1475 01:11:10.279 --> 01:11:11.640 been able to resist so far. 1476 01:11:11.800 --> 01:11:14.880 But we'll see. Robbie needs to open up a gigabarts 1477 01:11:14.880 --> 01:11:17.359 by me and Minneapolis and the goal there. But right, 1478 01:11:17.399 --> 01:11:21.159 I agree, all I have is microcenter and I kind 1479 01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:22.840 of feel like I'm gonna captain Kirk here. 1480 01:11:22.960 --> 01:11:26.199 You know that's right. There's a good question from Smoke Signals. 1481 01:11:26.199 --> 01:11:27.520 Go ahead with that one, Frank. 1482 01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:33.439 Yes, yes, I was gonna tweak it here zos asking 1483 01:11:34.600 --> 01:11:37.000 what's the last cigar you smoked? And I think we 1484 01:11:37.039 --> 01:11:38.720 should do a round table on this one. 1485 01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:39.680 I'm good with that. 1486 01:11:40.119 --> 01:11:41.399 So let's start with John's. 1487 01:11:41.439 --> 01:11:42.359 The lone goes first. 1488 01:11:42.720 --> 01:11:46.960 So if anybody has follen on me, I had a horrible, horrible, 1489 01:11:47.359 --> 01:11:51.760 horrible incident happened to me on February twentieth. My cigar 1490 01:11:51.880 --> 01:11:55.920 cabinet control panel flipped out and it oh from seventy 1491 01:11:55.920 --> 01:11:58.479 degrees all the way down by itself down to fifty 1492 01:11:58.520 --> 01:12:02.119 four degrees. So it was like, oh no, oh no, 1493 01:12:02.239 --> 01:12:06.239 because cigar mold is my my my worst worst fear, 1494 01:12:06.680 --> 01:12:09.119 so I am plugged it. The house is nice and warm, 1495 01:12:09.439 --> 01:12:11.840 but I finally got my new humidor in about a 1496 01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:13.920 week ago, so that's all up and running. It's a 1497 01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:16.399 heater and a cooler. Because I decided to live where 1498 01:12:16.439 --> 01:12:18.039 my face hurts from the wind. 1499 01:12:18.159 --> 01:12:18.920 Yes you do. 1500 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:24.319 That's another episode. So the last one I actually had 1501 01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:29.920 was Ah, I just got it for Christmas. Oh, I 1502 01:12:29.920 --> 01:12:36.720 can't think of it Carbot. No, I just I just 1503 01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:38.600 literally had the other hang on, let me look it 1504 01:12:38.680 --> 01:12:41.159 up here because I I just I posted a picture 1505 01:12:41.239 --> 01:12:45.600 on Faithbook of me with it. Oh yeah, okay, there, 1506 01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:48.239 but it was a I think it was a Carbot, 1507 01:12:48.279 --> 01:12:49.600 but I'm not one hundred percent sure. 1508 01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:56.119 John says in the chat, put drone two thousand. Nice cigar. 1509 01:12:56.520 --> 01:12:58.319 That's a good one with that one. That's it. That's 1510 01:12:58.359 --> 01:13:00.399 a good every day cigar. 1511 01:13:02.079 --> 01:13:05.520 Looks that up. I will say I had a Tennessee 1512 01:13:05.560 --> 01:13:09.000 Waltz and I smoked it with Mike when he was 1513 01:13:09.039 --> 01:13:09.920 here over the weekend. 1514 01:13:10.119 --> 01:13:12.960 Oh yeah, yeah, he came up for the the Go 1515 01:13:13.079 --> 01:13:15.439 Kit challenge. Right. So I was in I was in 1516 01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:18.039 Jersey for the last two nights, and the first night 1517 01:13:18.039 --> 01:13:19.319 I was there, I didn't have anything to do. That 1518 01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:22.920 was Thursday, and so I google cigar shop and I 1519 01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:26.560 walked because we're downtown, so everything's pretty much walking distance. 1520 01:13:27.119 --> 01:13:31.079 I walked to a place called him Inez a cigar shop, 1521 01:13:31.479 --> 01:13:33.159 and he's going there and it's like an old house 1522 01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:36.479 and the front. The front rooms like a living area 1523 01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:39.600 and nice couches and chairs. The back rooms like a 1524 01:13:39.680 --> 01:13:42.520 kitchen area, but it's like a like a wet bar area, 1525 01:13:42.600 --> 01:13:44.119 not really a kitchen, like a wet bar area. And 1526 01:13:44.119 --> 01:13:46.800 that's he's got some liquor behind the thing back there. 1527 01:13:47.800 --> 01:13:51.079 Very cool place to smoke, just plus chairs and couches 1528 01:13:51.079 --> 01:13:52.680 every are. I had an upstairs, I didn't go up 1529 01:13:52.680 --> 01:13:54.760 there and see what was up there. Had an outside patio, 1530 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:56.399 was a little cold for me, so I sat inside. 1531 01:13:57.960 --> 01:14:00.720 He only had his own brand of cigars, so he 1532 01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:03.479 had like six or seven or eight different sizes and 1533 01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:08.439 Vitola's Maduro Natural Sungrown. I don't know if I asked 1534 01:14:08.439 --> 01:14:10.640 if he made that. I said, are these your cigars? 1535 01:14:10.720 --> 01:14:13.199 He goes, yeah, I make those, and I don't. I 1536 01:14:13.239 --> 01:14:15.600 didn't get the impression he actually made made him. I 1537 01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:18.119 got the impression he had them made for him, but 1538 01:14:18.159 --> 01:14:20.760 I didn't. I didn't ask him for details. So I 1539 01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:26.119 smoked a Maduro Torpedo. That was good. I wouldn't call 1540 01:14:26.199 --> 01:14:28.279 it great. It's certainly not the best cigar I've ever had, 1541 01:14:28.319 --> 01:14:32.119 but it's always fun to go to new places when 1542 01:14:32.119 --> 01:14:33.840 you're out of town, go into a cigar shop and say, 1543 01:14:33.880 --> 01:14:36.279 what have you got here that you know maybe isn't 1544 01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:39.720 distributed worldwide nationwide or something. So yeah, but the ambiance 1545 01:14:39.760 --> 01:14:41.439 of that place was excellent. If I ever go back 1546 01:14:41.479 --> 01:14:45.760 to to Newark, which I can't imagine, why'd ever want 1547 01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:46.920 to go back to Newark? I mean it was a 1548 01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:48.199 Newark was okay, it was all right? 1549 01:14:48.479 --> 01:14:49.600 Oh were you talking about? 1550 01:14:49.720 --> 01:14:54.680 Uh? I'm gonna agree, yeah, but uh it was okay, 1551 01:14:54.760 --> 01:14:57.399 it was all right. But yeah, if I ever go 1552 01:14:57.439 --> 01:14:59.159 back there, I'd like to hit that cigar shop again. 1553 01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:03.079 You know, I don't I don't have my rapper I have. 1554 01:15:03.239 --> 01:15:06.039 I have my producer off screen here looking that up hopefully. 1555 01:15:06.439 --> 01:15:10.439 But I will tell you my my favorite, my favorite 1556 01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:13.920 cigar that I have now because I I coach. I 1557 01:15:13.960 --> 01:15:19.760 coach my daughter's seventh grade volleyball team, and and of 1558 01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:22.399 course I'm from Chicago, and people know when you think 1559 01:15:22.439 --> 01:15:24.640 of coaching and you think of Chicago, who do you 1560 01:15:24.680 --> 01:15:26.800 think of my did got right? 1561 01:15:27.279 --> 01:15:31.760 Of course? Yeah? My bears, bet bears. 1562 01:15:31.960 --> 01:15:34.159 And I will tell you my favorite cigar is actually 1563 01:15:34.199 --> 01:15:38.960 the one that he smokes, which is a Camacho triple Maduro. 1564 01:15:39.560 --> 01:15:41.920 And I will tell you that is a full flavored 1565 01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:44.840 being it's a triple maduro. It is a it is 1566 01:15:44.920 --> 01:15:47.760 at least an hour cigar because if you try to 1567 01:15:47.760 --> 01:15:51.159 smoke it any faster, go ahead and get a cigarette. 1568 01:15:51.399 --> 01:15:53.720 But I will tell you that that is a beautiful 1569 01:15:54.199 --> 01:15:57.520 I love them. I buy him, I I I get 1570 01:15:57.560 --> 01:15:59.600 him every single time, I if I if I'm short 1571 01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:02.079 on the box, and they're so hard to get sometimes 1572 01:16:02.079 --> 01:16:03.840 that I have to buy him by the individual stick 1573 01:16:03.880 --> 01:16:05.960 because no one will sell the box because I saw 1574 01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:08.720 it so quick. But it is it is a it 1575 01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:12.079 is a six by sixty ring on there and it's 1576 01:16:12.119 --> 01:16:16.800 a it's no tar, I mean, it's perfect. My wife 1577 01:16:16.880 --> 01:16:23.880 got me a Deadwood Tobacco Company, uh cigar holder for 1578 01:16:24.039 --> 01:16:26.399 me for Christmas. I'm going to try to do the 1579 01:16:26.399 --> 01:16:28.359 screen on the screen thing here, so let's see if 1580 01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:31.600 this will work here. But this was the this will 1581 01:16:31.640 --> 01:16:34.279 let's see if this works here, so that without too 1582 01:16:34.319 --> 01:16:37.039 horrible of a glare. That was the cigar I was 1583 01:16:37.039 --> 01:16:38.840 smoking the other night. But that's the holder that I 1584 01:16:38.880 --> 01:16:42.520 got there. And then of course I had men uh 1585 01:16:43.640 --> 01:16:45.880 men jewel up right, because you can get I'm sorry 1586 01:16:45.880 --> 01:16:46.159 you have. 1587 01:16:46.119 --> 01:16:48.479 To, and you have to have the ya zu next 1588 01:16:48.479 --> 01:16:51.680 to it. Also I was talking on the radio. I 1589 01:16:51.760 --> 01:16:52.560 do that all the time. 1590 01:16:52.680 --> 01:16:56.720 Yeah, totally communications and cigars is I was. 1591 01:16:56.720 --> 01:16:59.159 Gonna ask do you still do that live stream on Mondays? 1592 01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:03.199 I because I've gotten but yeah, I'm going to get 1593 01:17:03.199 --> 01:17:03.880 back into it now. 1594 01:17:04.159 --> 01:17:07.960 Okay, hopefully I think both of us will be happy 1595 01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:11.039 to be over there, and if yeah invite us, we'll 1596 01:17:11.039 --> 01:17:11.760 be guests with you. 1597 01:17:12.039 --> 01:17:14.359 Cool and you need to uh, you need to set 1598 01:17:14.359 --> 01:17:16.159 aside if you can. I know you're gonna be busy. 1599 01:17:16.239 --> 01:17:19.640 You set aside some time at him vention. Uh, we'll 1600 01:17:19.680 --> 01:17:23.680 be there on Wednesday, and I've got my camp site again, 1601 01:17:23.720 --> 01:17:25.319 I've already paid for it. They give me first right 1602 01:17:25.359 --> 01:17:27.800 to refusal every year. So if you walk out, if 1603 01:17:27.840 --> 01:17:29.319 you well, right next to you guys, you guys are 1604 01:17:29.359 --> 01:17:31.720 right next to Giggleharts. If you walk out that back 1605 01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:34.560 at the back door of that building and go kind 1606 01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:36.600 of towards there's the their hamshack over there with the 1607 01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:39.159 big tower. We're just to the left of that. Yes, 1608 01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:41.920 and we'll be out there smoking cigars Wednesday and Thursday 1609 01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:43.119 night at least. 1610 01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:46.239 Okay, so yeah, because you're kind of like right out 1611 01:17:46.359 --> 01:17:49.279 that back like almost hatty or the pathway that the 1612 01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:50.960 correct pathway. 1613 01:17:51.079 --> 01:17:53.079 Okay, yeah, yeah, we're like the second row. Once you 1614 01:17:53.079 --> 01:17:55.880 get past the blacktop to the first row of r vs, 1615 01:17:55.920 --> 01:17:58.399 we're on the second row, gotcha. So it's right there. 1616 01:17:58.439 --> 01:18:01.680 But uh yeah, it's so we'll be out there smoking 1617 01:18:01.680 --> 01:18:02.960 cigars this year. 1618 01:18:03.079 --> 01:18:05.840 Because you were well, yeah, you're always you're always close 1619 01:18:05.920 --> 01:18:08.000 to the birthplace of Papoda. 1620 01:18:08.399 --> 01:18:12.239 Yes, yeah, yeah, correct, So absolutely right. 1621 01:18:12.720 --> 01:18:16.199 Some of our friends around the YouTube sphere. Digital Rancher 1622 01:18:16.279 --> 01:18:21.640 says he's smoking a He smoked a Java State Drew Java. 1623 01:18:23.239 --> 01:18:25.359 Yeah, those are okay, yeah, those are pretty good. 1624 01:18:26.079 --> 01:18:28.199 Ate a box press, I will tell you this, if 1625 01:18:28.199 --> 01:18:31.479 you really want a good one, any Drew State Javas 1626 01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:35.079 and a box press cigar. It's weird, but I think 1627 01:18:35.119 --> 01:18:36.119 those taste the best. 1628 01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:39.000 I used to smoke those Rocky Totel box pressed all 1629 01:18:39.039 --> 01:18:41.520 the time. There was this cigar shop. There used to 1630 01:18:41.520 --> 01:18:43.399 be a cigar a chain of cigar shops around North 1631 01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:45.960 Texas called Up and Smoke, And I guess they just 1632 01:18:46.119 --> 01:18:48.680 there was so many different stories. I guess they got 1633 01:18:49.359 --> 01:18:51.560 good prices on stuff because we were and they'd be 1634 01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:53.520 on the bottom shelf, be on the bottom of the 1635 01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:55.800 Rockettel box pressed on the bottom shelf. I'm like, what's 1636 01:18:55.840 --> 01:18:58.399 wrong with these? They're like nothing? And I was like, man, 1637 01:18:58.439 --> 01:18:59.720 they were like at the time, they were like six 1638 01:18:59.800 --> 01:19:01.600 or so and bucks of stick. They were fantastic. 1639 01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:05.880 I think is a and I miscopied his but I 1640 01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:10.520 think he said he was also smoking a Podron four thousand, 1641 01:19:11.319 --> 01:19:16.119 and then Mike, he said he was smoking a tendency whatsoever. 1642 01:19:16.279 --> 01:19:17.279 Whatever Frank said. 1643 01:19:18.680 --> 01:19:20.600 Because I gave I gotta I gotta check out the 1644 01:19:20.640 --> 01:19:23.560 triple Maduro. I got to see if I bet they 1645 01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:25.319 I bet they don't have that but up in Michael's. 1646 01:19:25.359 --> 01:19:26.600 But I bet your Grapevine has it. 1647 01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:29.000 Michaels are just finicky. 1648 01:19:29.560 --> 01:19:33.159 Yeah, I know you're here's the one that's a Tabok 1649 01:19:33.239 --> 01:19:34.479 special by Drew Estate. 1650 01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:37.720 Oh yes, yeah, yeah, I. 1651 01:19:37.680 --> 01:19:39.760 Can remember the exact name of it. But like I said, 1652 01:19:39.800 --> 01:19:42.520 my my producer off the screen here, I told her, 1653 01:19:42.520 --> 01:19:44.239 and then yeah, let me just show it this here. 1654 01:19:44.319 --> 01:19:50.119 Here's here's the triple Maduro my finger. Yes, there's there's. 1655 01:19:49.960 --> 01:19:50.960 The thumb right yeah. 1656 01:19:51.079 --> 01:19:54.000 Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a six sixty ring. But 1657 01:19:54.079 --> 01:19:57.199 I mean this is this is if Yeah, this is 1658 01:19:57.239 --> 01:19:58.000 the big Boy cigar. 1659 01:19:58.159 --> 01:19:59.880 That's a that's a poker game cigar. 1660 01:20:00.239 --> 01:20:05.279 This LFD has like a big cigar, like it's it's 1661 01:20:05.319 --> 01:20:08.640 like almost like ten inches and it's a thick ring gaze. 1662 01:20:08.720 --> 01:20:11.159 I saw that, I was like, I think I bought 1663 01:20:11.159 --> 01:20:16.319 it once for like two hours. I'm sorry about four hours. 1664 01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:17.319 Through four hours, I was. 1665 01:20:17.319 --> 01:20:20.600 Like, the best, the best poker game cigar I ever 1666 01:20:20.680 --> 01:20:24.760 had was a ur a Puente Canonis and it's about 1667 01:20:24.840 --> 01:20:27.079 it's like eight or nine inches and it's like a 1668 01:20:27.119 --> 01:20:29.680 fifty two or fifty four, so it's not real thick. 1669 01:20:30.239 --> 01:20:32.479 It's a fifty I think it's a fifty four ring gauge, 1670 01:20:32.880 --> 01:20:35.039 and but it's like eight or nine inches. But you 1671 01:20:35.079 --> 01:20:38.399 are smoking that damn thing through the whole soul poker game. 1672 01:20:38.560 --> 01:20:40.640 I mean it's like it's like there's a lot of 1673 01:20:40.680 --> 01:20:42.560 times I'd go and smoke a robusto and like an 1674 01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:44.479 hour into the poker game, I'd be like, because we'd 1675 01:20:44.479 --> 01:20:47.800 play poker for three or four hours sometimes and I'm like, well, heck, 1676 01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:50.439 I gotta get another cigar. But that sucker would last 1677 01:20:50.479 --> 01:20:52.840 you through the whole game, it was, and that was good. 1678 01:20:52.840 --> 01:20:54.800 It was good flavor on those things too. But that's 1679 01:20:54.800 --> 01:20:55.359 a good stroke. 1680 01:20:55.880 --> 01:20:59.520 I like smoking through one and I'm like, okay, I'm 1681 01:20:59.520 --> 01:21:02.279 ready for another one. The majority of mine are all 1682 01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:05.319 full body, but you're just getting different flavors, different things. 1683 01:21:05.760 --> 01:21:09.159 Do you want to drink the same drink for five hours? 1684 01:21:09.960 --> 01:21:12.039 This one? I joke around with my friends. Some of 1685 01:21:12.119 --> 01:21:14.399 us we have a lounge. Well it's it's our it's 1686 01:21:14.399 --> 01:21:15.720 our porch, right, it's our patio. 1687 01:21:16.159 --> 01:21:17.560 Yeah, yeah, you know. 1688 01:21:17.600 --> 01:21:19.680 I have you know, fellow emesters and stuff come buy 1689 01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:22.039 and some of them smoke cigarettes. They joke around. They'll 1690 01:21:22.079 --> 01:21:23.640 say like, you know, are you are you doing your 1691 01:21:23.880 --> 01:21:26.760 fifteen cigarette cigar tonight? Because I'll smoke one of these 1692 01:21:26.800 --> 01:21:31.239 and they'll go to or something like that on there 1693 01:21:32.319 --> 01:21:33.000 nothing like yeah. 1694 01:21:33.079 --> 01:21:36.439 So my dad a couple of times I was like, 1695 01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:38.720 are you're going out to smoke? He goes, yeah, I am, 1696 01:21:38.760 --> 01:21:41.840 and he smokes a pipe and I went out there 1697 01:21:41.840 --> 01:21:44.520 with him and lit my cigar in like after five minutes, 1698 01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:48.399 I'm going inside. I'm like, I literally like five minutes 1699 01:21:48.439 --> 01:21:51.520 into cigar means I just lit this. Yeah, I'll be 1700 01:21:51.680 --> 01:21:54.640 here for two hours. He goes have fun and he 1701 01:21:54.680 --> 01:21:57.880 goes and side like you son of a. 1702 01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:00.880 I like, Sam's coming here. I work at my local 1703 01:22:00.920 --> 01:22:03.760 cigar shop to fund my radio needs. Well, you're you're 1704 01:22:03.760 --> 01:22:05.439 a stronger man than me, because if I worked at 1705 01:22:05.479 --> 01:22:08.159 my local cigar shop, I'd be like, Okay, my paycheck 1706 01:22:08.199 --> 01:22:10.520 today is one hundred and fifty bucks. How many cigars 1707 01:22:10.520 --> 01:22:11.000 can I get? 1708 01:22:11.520 --> 01:22:16.199 Sam? Just there? Please tell me you are in one 1709 01:22:16.239 --> 01:22:18.920 of these, you know, Hamfest areas. We can come and 1710 01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:23.439 see you, like we will make a pilgrimage. Yeah, in 1711 01:22:23.520 --> 01:22:27.439 one of these areas. Our cigar guy, one of them, 1712 01:22:27.600 --> 01:22:28.680 absolutely hates it. 1713 01:22:28.720 --> 01:22:29.000 What me? 1714 01:22:29.199 --> 01:22:31.359 Jason sits there and talks about radios. 1715 01:22:31.439 --> 01:22:32.680 Oh yeah, yeah, we talk every time. 1716 01:22:33.359 --> 01:22:35.720 Every time he's there. I was like, coming out tonight, 1717 01:22:35.800 --> 01:22:37.000 I need to talk to radio. 1718 01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:41.960 That's right, that's right. So and Digital Rancher says, we 1719 01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:43.640 need to set up a poker game, which is a 1720 01:22:43.680 --> 01:22:44.960 fantastic idea. 1721 01:22:45.439 --> 01:22:47.560 See, I have a pipe two and I do smoke 1722 01:22:47.600 --> 01:22:49.479 a pipe sometimes, but I always go ahead and people 1723 01:22:49.479 --> 01:22:51.000 always think I act to up at the in there 1724 01:22:51.000 --> 01:22:52.119 because I do. Right. 1725 01:22:54.000 --> 01:23:00.199 Yes, well, I have a long stamp pipe. 1726 01:23:01.079 --> 01:23:03.399 I have one of those long stamp gandolf pipes. I 1727 01:23:03.520 --> 01:23:06.159 like this. Oh yeah, read this and it's it's so 1728 01:23:06.239 --> 01:23:07.159 much fun being. 1729 01:23:07.000 --> 01:23:11.079 Like, uh, this is great. We could talk about this 1730 01:23:11.079 --> 01:23:13.720 for the next two hours, but we're not gonna know, so. 1731 01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:16.640 You know, and I'll tell you this. It's it's been 1732 01:23:16.680 --> 01:23:17.920 a good time. And I don't know how long you 1733 01:23:17.960 --> 01:23:21.079 want to go, Jason, but I know people got speculations, 1734 01:23:21.079 --> 01:23:23.119 people got questions. Do we want to do a couple 1735 01:23:23.159 --> 01:23:24.439 of the hard hitting questions? 1736 01:23:24.760 --> 01:23:27.079 Yeah? I was gonna and I know you can't answer 1737 01:23:27.079 --> 01:23:29.800 this because I already asked you this before, and someone 1738 01:23:29.840 --> 01:23:35.239 else asked this earlier in the chat. Okay, in n Yo, 1739 01:23:35.399 --> 01:23:37.880 you can fly down here. Don't go to O'Hare, but 1740 01:23:38.039 --> 01:23:40.319 you know, pick another airport, fly down here. You're welcome 1741 01:23:40.319 --> 01:23:45.359 to join us for poker. F T one X. What's 1742 01:23:45.439 --> 01:23:47.359 the new q R P F T one x F 1743 01:23:47.439 --> 01:23:49.600 or whatever it is ft X one F Yep, yes, 1744 01:23:49.720 --> 01:23:53.880 f T yeah, okay, so latest latest. I want to know. 1745 01:23:54.039 --> 01:23:57.000 My question to you, uh, maybe a month ago, I 1746 01:23:57.000 --> 01:23:58.760 don't remember when it was was Are we going to 1747 01:23:58.800 --> 01:23:59.560 see that at HIM vention? 1748 01:24:00.600 --> 01:24:07.319 And in all intents and purposes, yes, we're waiting for 1749 01:24:07.359 --> 01:24:11.720 the FCC and obviously typical Yeah, regardless of what side 1750 01:24:11.720 --> 01:24:13.239 of defense you are on politically, I'm not turning this 1751 01:24:13.279 --> 01:24:17.000 political thing or anything. It takes a little while. We 1752 01:24:17.000 --> 01:24:20.000 we introduced it, you know at Tokyo Hamfair, it was 1753 01:24:20.079 --> 01:24:22.840 under the dome because it wasn't type accepted eve over 1754 01:24:22.840 --> 01:24:26.279 in Japan. We are waiting to do a global release 1755 01:24:26.319 --> 01:24:29.159 on it. The reason we are waiting because people have said, well, 1756 01:24:29.159 --> 01:24:31.560 you haven't done that in passed with other radios. Correct, 1757 01:24:31.600 --> 01:24:33.560 But we have never we have not seen such a 1758 01:24:33.640 --> 01:24:38.119 surge of people buying radios in other countries and then 1759 01:24:38.479 --> 01:24:41.199 like buying them online on eBay and Ali Baba and 1760 01:24:41.199 --> 01:24:43.520 and in places that you really question you know where 1761 01:24:43.520 --> 01:24:45.960 they got the radio from and are bringing it here 1762 01:24:46.039 --> 01:24:48.239 and so many people are saying, well, it's not working now, 1763 01:24:48.279 --> 01:24:52.479 it's not this and unfortunately buy FCC law. As of manufacturer, 1764 01:24:52.479 --> 01:24:54.960 we are we can't work on the radio because it 1765 01:24:54.960 --> 01:24:58.000 has bands which are not legal in the US. You 1766 01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:00.760 don't want to see that happen. We're wait for it 1767 01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:03.760 right now. We have not had to get full FEC 1768 01:25:03.920 --> 01:25:08.960 type accepted yet. Once again, new new political things, new 1769 01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:10.680 everything like that, all the kind of things. 1770 01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:10.880 You know. 1771 01:25:10.920 --> 01:25:12.840 We avoided a government shutdown because I will tell you 1772 01:25:12.880 --> 01:25:15.239 if the government shutdown is gonna happen, that means things 1773 01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:18.039 are gonna be pushed back even more, that in essence 1774 01:25:18.079 --> 01:25:21.760 been inverted. So we're hoping to have at least a 1775 01:25:21.920 --> 01:25:25.920 demo of it at ham Ven. If we don't have 1776 01:25:26.000 --> 01:25:28.800 it out sooner, I will tell you this. And here's 1777 01:25:28.800 --> 01:25:31.000 what I can tell you this. There is a modularity 1778 01:25:31.039 --> 01:25:32.520 to it which a lot of people already saw a 1779 01:25:32.560 --> 01:25:33.319 Tokyo ham Ven. 1780 01:25:33.880 --> 01:25:34.119 You know. 1781 01:25:34.279 --> 01:25:36.119 Yes, people are saying, well, there's no tuner. Well, no, 1782 01:25:36.159 --> 01:25:38.479 there's the add on tuner. Why didn't it built in? Well, 1783 01:25:38.479 --> 01:25:41.159 not everybody wants a tuner. Well that's stupid. Well no 1784 01:25:41.199 --> 01:25:43.359 it's not. Not everybody wants a tuner. So want a tuner? 1785 01:25:43.399 --> 01:25:44.560 You can add one on there. You can't. 1786 01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:47.319 If you say it there was, then they'd be like, well, 1787 01:25:47.319 --> 01:25:49.399 why'd you have it tuner on it? It's just gonna make. 1788 01:25:49.279 --> 01:25:53.199 It heavier, exactly. So there is a lot of modularity 1789 01:25:53.239 --> 01:25:55.800 to it. Now, what I can tell you is this, 1790 01:25:56.640 --> 01:25:59.079 It is going to change the way and the concept 1791 01:25:59.119 --> 01:26:02.079 of operating. That's what I'm gonna go ahead and tell you, 1792 01:26:02.079 --> 01:26:04.640 And that's really all I can tell you right now. Well, 1793 01:26:05.079 --> 01:26:08.720 what what this is going to do is it's gonna 1794 01:26:08.760 --> 01:26:13.479 foster in a It's gonna foster in a great way 1795 01:26:14.239 --> 01:26:17.760 of operation, and I feel that this radio is going 1796 01:26:17.800 --> 01:26:23.199 to kind of be the bridge to things on how 1797 01:26:23.199 --> 01:26:26.800 it operates. Yes, it is HF plus two meters plus 1798 01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:29.920 seventy centimeters on there. It is gonna be ten watts. 1799 01:26:29.920 --> 01:26:32.680 It's not a traditional QRP. Some people say QRP is 1800 01:26:32.800 --> 01:26:35.199 five watts less you know that kind of thing. So 1801 01:26:35.359 --> 01:26:37.880 there is some things to it on there for operation. 1802 01:26:38.079 --> 01:26:40.600 But you'll see when this radio comes out and as 1803 01:26:40.640 --> 01:26:42.920 it starts to progress, you're going to be like, wow, 1804 01:26:42.960 --> 01:26:45.600 this is this is a new concept and innovative. 1805 01:26:47.079 --> 01:26:48.279 Okay, do you. 1806 01:26:48.239 --> 01:26:51.479 Can't have any like juices details like we all want 1807 01:26:51.479 --> 01:26:54.359 to know, like like price points or. 1808 01:26:55.000 --> 01:26:58.439 We don't because by law with FCC and they crack 1809 01:26:58.560 --> 01:27:01.439 down on this, I guarantee you they they watch it 1810 01:27:01.479 --> 01:27:05.960 heavily on it. We cannot offer it for sale, rent lease, 1811 01:27:06.399 --> 01:27:11.560 or distribute distribution until it is FEC type accepted. So 1812 01:27:11.680 --> 01:27:16.000 until we have that actual document in our hands with 1813 01:27:16.119 --> 01:27:19.119 the stamp of approval saying this is the FCC I 1814 01:27:19.199 --> 01:27:22.239 D and it is approved, we can't even offer it 1815 01:27:22.239 --> 01:27:24.479 for sale. That's why if you notice the dealers, the 1816 01:27:24.479 --> 01:27:27.439 dealers are offering a pre reservation on there yes, and 1817 01:27:27.720 --> 01:27:30.640 you put a small amount of money down to hold 1818 01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:33.000 your place in line. And some people said, well, I'm 1819 01:27:33.039 --> 01:27:34.279 not gonna do that because what if my money? And 1820 01:27:34.279 --> 01:27:36.319 that's that most of the dealers let you convert it 1821 01:27:36.359 --> 01:27:38.600 over to something else. So yes, you know that of thing. 1822 01:27:38.960 --> 01:27:42.399 But that's why they're only taking pre registers. Now, some 1823 01:27:42.479 --> 01:27:46.079 dealers across the world don't do the thirty five dollars. 1824 01:27:46.119 --> 01:27:49.199 They they're not offering it, so they're putting outrageous prices. 1825 01:27:49.239 --> 01:27:50.920 I had one person tell me it's gonna be nine 1826 01:27:50.920 --> 01:27:55.720 thousand pounds and I'm like, wrong, right, the one on 1827 01:27:55.720 --> 01:27:58.960 one MP is not even that much. But uh, there 1828 01:27:59.800 --> 01:28:03.199 no contrary to internet speculation or anything, there has been 1829 01:28:03.279 --> 01:28:05.359 no announced price yet. 1830 01:28:05.720 --> 01:28:12.439 Yeah, okay, all right. I would like to see someone 1831 01:28:12.479 --> 01:28:14.880 had mentioned this, I think shortly after that Tokyo Hamfair. 1832 01:28:14.960 --> 01:28:17.039 I would like to see like this be like kind 1833 01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:20.640 of a baseline model that you can add on to later, 1834 01:28:20.960 --> 01:28:24.840 like even like put into a hundred watt amp case 1835 01:28:25.680 --> 01:28:29.680 that you could like have and drop that into and 1836 01:28:29.760 --> 01:28:33.000 create basically an FT seven to ten or FTDX ten 1837 01:28:33.079 --> 01:28:35.439 out of this new radio and kind of have Oh 1838 01:28:35.479 --> 01:28:37.680 you want to take it out for QRP. Pull it 1839 01:28:37.680 --> 01:28:39.399 out and run away with it. You want to use 1840 01:28:39.439 --> 01:28:40.960 it in the hamshock, drop it in there. One hundred 1841 01:28:40.960 --> 01:28:43.560 watt's great, something like that. I'd like to see something 1842 01:28:43.600 --> 01:28:43.880 like that. 1843 01:28:45.159 --> 01:28:46.239 Modular connections. 1844 01:28:46.439 --> 01:28:50.000 Yeah, basically like a like a QRP radio that well 1845 01:28:50.079 --> 01:28:54.760 and in a small degree the u the Llocraft k 1846 01:28:55.039 --> 01:28:57.479 X two was or I'm sorry, the Lcraft K two 1847 01:28:57.640 --> 01:29:00.560 was like that. The original radio was ten and you 1848 01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:03.680 could and everything Allocraft does as module. The original radio 1849 01:29:03.800 --> 01:29:06.560 the kit you built was ten watts, and you can 1850 01:29:06.680 --> 01:29:09.359 you could add one hundred white amp into it, and 1851 01:29:09.359 --> 01:29:12.520 and then you know, you could once you added all that. 1852 01:29:12.560 --> 01:29:14.439 I don't think you could take it apart very easily, 1853 01:29:14.479 --> 01:29:17.159 but you know, being a small form factor and whatnot, 1854 01:29:17.199 --> 01:29:19.439 you can easily plug and play it into. Like you 1855 01:29:19.439 --> 01:29:23.239 could have a base and your shack and you could 1856 01:29:23.520 --> 01:29:27.119 attach this, uh, this ten wat q RP radio to 1857 01:29:27.239 --> 01:29:29.159 the base and then it would become one hundred watt 1858 01:29:29.239 --> 01:29:33.640 radio or something like that. So, uh, something something like 1859 01:29:33.760 --> 01:29:38.279 really modular like that is kind of There's been some speculator. 1860 01:29:38.319 --> 01:29:40.960 I mean, people speculate about stuff all day long. Who knows, 1861 01:29:41.479 --> 01:29:44.239 but I mean it's it's cool to kind of kind 1862 01:29:44.239 --> 01:29:48.119 of see stuff like that. I am excited. I am 1863 01:29:49.119 --> 01:29:51.920 I am excited, Yeah, like a laptop docking station. Digital 1864 01:29:51.960 --> 01:29:56.920 Rancher says, I am excited that it appears John that 1865 01:29:56.920 --> 01:29:59.239 that radio because I don't think I've really talked about 1866 01:29:59.239 --> 01:30:02.840 that radio much. That radio appears to be dual display? 1867 01:30:03.199 --> 01:30:04.520 Is that right? Okay? 1868 01:30:05.039 --> 01:30:07.560 It is dual display, And if you read the information 1869 01:30:07.600 --> 01:30:11.119 out there, it does say okay, dull simultaneous receive on there. 1870 01:30:11.199 --> 01:30:14.680 So yes, there are there are some details that are 1871 01:30:14.720 --> 01:30:17.560 out there about it right now. So what you see, 1872 01:30:17.920 --> 01:30:20.560 what you see out there that dealers have had or 1873 01:30:20.600 --> 01:30:24.319 that we've released, that is information that we can release 1874 01:30:24.680 --> 01:30:27.760 that is not going to be impacted by FCC type acceptance. 1875 01:30:27.800 --> 01:30:30.039 You have to remember, you know, when it comes there, 1876 01:30:30.319 --> 01:30:33.520 the receiver specification, power out, those kind of things, that's 1877 01:30:33.520 --> 01:30:36.399 what gets that hold up in there. But we were 1878 01:30:36.439 --> 01:30:39.119 able to release, we have released information on that so 1879 01:30:39.239 --> 01:30:43.159 far once we and I will say, it's it's kind 1880 01:30:43.159 --> 01:30:44.560 of there's a lot of holes in it, right, you know, 1881 01:30:44.600 --> 01:30:46.560 because we there are some things that we have to 1882 01:30:46.560 --> 01:30:48.640 wait to get approval to fill in those gaps, and 1883 01:30:48.760 --> 01:30:50.560 that kind of joke around it's called like Dino DNA 1884 01:30:50.720 --> 01:30:53.399 remember in Jurassic parts like, well, whatever we couldn't fill, 1885 01:30:53.479 --> 01:30:56.199 we kind of just filled in, right, waiting to fill 1886 01:30:56.239 --> 01:30:59.920 the gaps in once we get that information. But definitely 1887 01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:03.920 from what I can legally say, and. 1888 01:31:04.199 --> 01:31:06.600 I'll just say right, yeah, yeah. 1889 01:31:06.760 --> 01:31:09.439 Because there's yes, there's not a person standing next to 1890 01:31:09.520 --> 01:31:14.600 me watching me right now. No, you'll like it, and 1891 01:31:14.600 --> 01:31:17.079 and definitely I'll be more happy to come on once 1892 01:31:17.119 --> 01:31:19.760 we get it and kind of go through rundown out there. 1893 01:31:19.920 --> 01:31:21.920 It's it's it's going to be a pre big game 1894 01:31:22.000 --> 01:31:23.520 changing radio good. 1895 01:31:23.760 --> 01:31:27.079 Yeah, well, I I have one reserved and definitely want 1896 01:31:27.119 --> 01:31:28.960 to bring you back on to talk about it once 1897 01:31:28.960 --> 01:31:32.960 I get one in my hand. Did I know this 1898 01:31:33.079 --> 01:31:35.479 is you know, this is kind of one of those 1899 01:31:35.520 --> 01:31:37.239 things where it's like, hey, we would like to have 1900 01:31:37.319 --> 01:31:40.920 it by then. But I thought I remember hearing from 1901 01:31:40.960 --> 01:31:43.760 the Tokyo Hanfair that it was speculated to be released 1902 01:31:43.800 --> 01:31:46.720 in Q one of this year. Is that was that 1903 01:31:46.800 --> 01:31:47.359 the the. 1904 01:31:47.760 --> 01:31:51.279 Correct verbage was actually the first half the first half, okay, yeah, 1905 01:31:51.319 --> 01:31:53.640 first half. A lot of a lot of people, a 1906 01:31:53.640 --> 01:31:55.920 lot of people thought they said, oh the first of 1907 01:31:56.039 --> 01:31:58.399 the first of the year was like no, the first 1908 01:31:58.439 --> 01:32:00.680 half of the year, so that you know, okay, all 1909 01:32:00.680 --> 01:32:03.520 the way up through Ka and once again we knew 1910 01:32:03.600 --> 01:32:07.039 because once again it's not only US, it's Japan approval, 1911 01:32:07.159 --> 01:32:10.479 it's the UK. Well, there's a lot to it. 1912 01:32:11.159 --> 01:32:13.800 The Tokyo Hanfair was very unique, at least I think 1913 01:32:13.840 --> 01:32:16.880 it was unique this year because you guys, kin would 1914 01:32:17.039 --> 01:32:22.600 and ICM all announced new radio and none of them 1915 01:32:22.600 --> 01:32:25.439 were the same type of radio, Like ICOM has the 1916 01:32:25.439 --> 01:32:28.760 two hundred what competition grade HF radio that sits on 1917 01:32:28.760 --> 01:32:31.159 your desk. You guys have a really nice looking new 1918 01:32:31.239 --> 01:32:34.239 QRP Take with You radio, and ken Wood's got the 1919 01:32:34.239 --> 01:32:37.760 new triband VHF UHF radio. So it's like, okay, you 1920 01:32:37.760 --> 01:32:40.680 guys coordinated this. Obviously we get one of everything that's new. 1921 01:32:41.239 --> 01:32:44.279 And someone had said Q one during that It might 1922 01:32:44.279 --> 01:32:46.520 have been Icon because they released theirs last month, but 1923 01:32:46.840 --> 01:32:48.279 I was making a joke. I was like, yeah, Q 1924 01:32:48.359 --> 01:32:53.319 one basically means March thirty first, So but I was 1925 01:32:53.680 --> 01:32:57.359 so I was I was really really hoping to see 1926 01:32:57.399 --> 01:33:02.720 that radio by by by Ham mention, because you know 1927 01:33:02.760 --> 01:33:05.680 that's you're getting into like you're almost halfway through the year. 1928 01:33:05.720 --> 01:33:07.840 In hand mentions or you're about a month away. Yeah, 1929 01:33:07.880 --> 01:33:10.880 but yeah, be crossing our fingers to see if we 1930 01:33:10.880 --> 01:33:11.600 can see that. Then. 1931 01:33:12.039 --> 01:33:13.760 Yeah, well, like I said, we we said the first 1932 01:33:13.760 --> 01:33:16.079 part of the year because the first half of twenty 1933 01:33:16.119 --> 01:33:19.520 twenty five, because of once again we knew the we 1934 01:33:19.600 --> 01:33:21.960 know the logistics of timing and trying to plan everything 1935 01:33:22.039 --> 01:33:24.960 doesn't go as well as what we would think or 1936 01:33:25.000 --> 01:33:28.439 we would hold. Yeah, yeah, and I'll be honest with you. 1937 01:33:28.560 --> 01:33:30.760 Japan is you know a lot of people have asked 1938 01:33:30.800 --> 01:33:33.399 questions about like the S version of the H version. 1939 01:33:33.439 --> 01:33:35.119 So we were talking about letters earlier in the ar 1940 01:33:35.239 --> 01:33:38.560 to ease the ages. You got to remember, in Japan, 1941 01:33:39.159 --> 01:33:42.600 they go buy license class dictates the radio they can buy, 1942 01:33:42.720 --> 01:33:44.600 not like in the US. I mean the technician can 1943 01:33:44.640 --> 01:33:46.359 buy an h F rig, they just know not to 1944 01:33:46.399 --> 01:33:49.600 operate it. Not in not in Japan area. Like you 1945 01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:52.159 buy a radio, you have to buy for your license 1946 01:33:52.239 --> 01:33:57.359 class and that means ban privileges and power privileges. Really yeah, 1947 01:33:57.399 --> 01:33:59.319 so that's why that's why a lot of people have 1948 01:33:59.359 --> 01:34:01.520 done that. They've bought in those radios over in the 1949 01:34:01.520 --> 01:34:05.319 other countries and like, well it only chrances one six 1950 01:34:05.399 --> 01:34:07.720 and on the HF bands it only puts out ten watts. 1951 01:34:08.439 --> 01:34:09.760 You got a japan radio like. 1952 01:34:09.880 --> 01:34:13.680 Yeah, you know, well my job no, right, uh huh, 1953 01:34:13.720 --> 01:34:18.399 that's right, yeah, absolutely so, all right. The other popular 1954 01:34:18.520 --> 01:34:20.720 question I heard and well, we're gonna make this the 1955 01:34:20.760 --> 01:34:22.560 last one. We could keep John for the next two hours, 1956 01:34:22.600 --> 01:34:25.840 but I don't want to do that. The other popular 1957 01:34:25.920 --> 01:34:32.159 question I heard two or three people say was basically 1958 01:34:32.319 --> 01:34:34.600 I think one person put it as a smaller version 1959 01:34:34.600 --> 01:34:37.520 of the nine ninety one A, and someone said a 1960 01:34:37.560 --> 01:34:42.600 replacement for the eight fifty seven basically an listen to 1961 01:34:42.800 --> 01:34:45.119 put it in most modern terms, basically an eight ninety 1962 01:34:45.119 --> 01:34:49.920 one sized radio with vhf uhf in it. Anything looking 1963 01:34:50.000 --> 01:34:50.239 like that. 1964 01:34:50.680 --> 01:34:52.560 You know, we got a lot of things in research 1965 01:34:52.600 --> 01:34:56.720 and development right now. Because I'll even go ahead and 1966 01:34:56.720 --> 01:34:58.439 ill address the other thing too. I thought someone's gonna 1967 01:34:58.439 --> 01:34:59.760 ask a question about that. It's like what happened to 1968 01:34:59.800 --> 01:35:02.960 two one hundred and three hundred. Right now, we're really 1969 01:35:03.800 --> 01:35:07.359 reviewing a lot of our component availability, which drives a 1970 01:35:07.359 --> 01:35:11.319 lot of our obviously researcher development on there, and we're 1971 01:35:11.560 --> 01:35:15.520 we're waiting to see on there. Obviously, the ft X 1972 01:35:15.600 --> 01:35:17.399 one F is going to be the next focus the 1973 01:35:17.399 --> 01:35:19.359 big focus of the radio coming out from there. As 1974 01:35:19.399 --> 01:35:22.640 you're seeing we're still committed to VHF U of HF. 1975 01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:26.319 We still are committed to fusion, you know. Obviously that's 1976 01:35:26.359 --> 01:35:28.239 why I released the five to ten. We still have 1977 01:35:28.279 --> 01:35:30.960 a repeater program. So we have a lot of research 1978 01:35:30.960 --> 01:35:33.880 and development, but we kind of like to do it 1979 01:35:34.039 --> 01:35:36.800 step by step on there, because if you release too 1980 01:35:36.880 --> 01:35:39.600 much all at one time, that's where we've noticed a 1981 01:35:39.640 --> 01:35:42.319 lot of confusion happened. Like a good example is COVID. 1982 01:35:42.359 --> 01:35:44.520 We released a lot of radios during COVID. You did 1983 01:35:44.600 --> 01:35:46.720 actually cause a lot of cause a lot of confusion 1984 01:35:46.760 --> 01:35:48.760 with people because they're like, well, wait a minute, you know, 1985 01:35:48.800 --> 01:35:51.199 what is this radio for now? Why didn't replace this? 1986 01:35:51.279 --> 01:35:53.960 What did it do? That kind of thing. We are 1987 01:35:53.960 --> 01:35:57.199 committed to HF. We have the top three HF radios. 1988 01:35:57.319 --> 01:36:00.600 Alter say the top three. There was that one that 1989 01:36:00.800 --> 01:36:04.079 was by Flex but never came to actual market, so 1990 01:36:04.119 --> 01:36:05.680 we kind of say we had the top three on there. 1991 01:36:05.880 --> 01:36:09.359 But as you see our SDR technology is there, you 1992 01:36:09.399 --> 01:36:11.479 know you're going to see this SDR technology the ft 1993 01:36:11.760 --> 01:36:14.920 X one F. You're seeing how we're doing things with 1994 01:36:15.000 --> 01:36:17.279 audio that no one else is doing. On there. So 1995 01:36:17.560 --> 01:36:19.600 as I've always said, I know people hate this, but 1996 01:36:19.640 --> 01:36:22.479 it's the truth. Good things are coming. We got a 1997 01:36:22.520 --> 01:36:24.239 lot of stuff coming down the pipe. It's going to 1998 01:36:24.239 --> 01:36:27.840 be a next wild ride for the next three years. 1999 01:36:27.880 --> 01:36:28.319 Awesome. 2000 01:36:28.680 --> 01:36:31.960 Is there a two twenty? Is that on? Is that 2001 01:36:32.039 --> 01:36:33.600 on the roadmap somewhere? 2002 01:36:33.760 --> 01:36:33.880 Oh? 2003 01:36:34.119 --> 01:36:36.359 No, I'll be honest with you. We've we've talked about 2004 01:36:36.359 --> 01:36:38.800 it internally and stuff. There's no plans for any two twenty. 2005 01:36:39.119 --> 01:36:42.720 There's no plans for any nine hundred. And it's not 2006 01:36:42.920 --> 01:36:45.560 just us here, it's even in the other countries. There's 2007 01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:48.079 other bands that they are asking about that they won't 2008 01:36:48.079 --> 01:36:50.800 do just because, let's face it's not a lot of 2009 01:36:50.800 --> 01:36:54.359 global bands. And when you get really to a small market, 2010 01:36:54.439 --> 01:36:58.560 it's it's very difficult. I love our customers, everybody that 2011 01:36:58.680 --> 01:37:00.479 knows me and stuff like that that it's work with me. 2012 01:37:00.880 --> 01:37:03.039 I love to work with you guys and everything. But 2013 01:37:03.239 --> 01:37:05.279 you know, I've had so many people saying, yeah, I 2014 01:37:05.279 --> 01:37:07.039 would buy it. I promise I would buy it, but 2015 01:37:07.640 --> 01:37:10.279 I guarantee you if we came out, someone's not gonna 2016 01:37:10.319 --> 01:37:11.760 like it. Even though they said they would buy it, 2017 01:37:11.760 --> 01:37:14.039 they're not going to buy it. And to be honest 2018 01:37:14.039 --> 01:37:15.600 with you. In this day and age with the market, 2019 01:37:17.159 --> 01:37:19.960 we can't. We can't obviously, and it's not just us, 2020 01:37:20.000 --> 01:37:21.960 right if you take a look at all the other manufacturers, 2021 01:37:22.800 --> 01:37:25.399 we're we're not going to release mono banned radios or 2022 01:37:25.479 --> 01:37:27.880 radios and bands that are going to be questionable on there, 2023 01:37:28.279 --> 01:37:31.359 because then that takes time and development away from other 2024 01:37:31.479 --> 01:37:35.840 projects on other projects that are not that could could 2025 01:37:35.920 --> 01:37:38.279 do better, may serve a different purpose. If that makes 2026 01:37:38.319 --> 01:37:39.119 sense for everybody. 2027 01:37:40.039 --> 01:37:43.600 Okay, makes sense, Okay, I'm not I'm not happy to 2028 01:37:43.640 --> 01:37:45.960 hear that. I mean, I think that, uh. I know 2029 01:37:46.000 --> 01:37:48.760 that two twenty is not used in other countries, at 2030 01:37:48.840 --> 01:37:52.039 least I think maybe Canada. I think North America has 2031 01:37:52.079 --> 01:37:54.600 two twenty if I'm not mistaken, but I know it's 2032 01:37:54.600 --> 01:37:59.359 not using Europe in Japan. But at the same time, 2033 01:37:59.439 --> 01:38:00.800 you know, it's to make sense to me to go 2034 01:38:00.840 --> 01:38:02.800 ahead and make it two twenty radio anyway, because the 2035 01:38:02.920 --> 01:38:06.600 USA has the biggest we're your large largest customer base. 2036 01:38:06.600 --> 01:38:09.000 There's more hams in the USA than it is in Europe, 2037 01:38:09.039 --> 01:38:11.600 in Japan, especially Europe, well even Japan. 2038 01:38:12.279 --> 01:38:16.880 Correct. Yeah, And while that that is there, it's always 2039 01:38:16.920 --> 01:38:19.359 as interesting on how the sales aspect of it kind 2040 01:38:19.359 --> 01:38:21.600 of goes yeah. But I'll be honest with you. We've 2041 01:38:22.000 --> 01:38:24.000 sat and we've looked at how other companies have done 2042 01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:27.560 two twenty, kind of look at their things, and right now, 2043 01:38:28.039 --> 01:38:29.680 maybe it we'll get better in a couple of years 2044 01:38:29.680 --> 01:38:31.760 and maybe we might revisit it then, But as of 2045 01:38:31.880 --> 01:38:34.600 right now, it's one of those where it's like, yeah, 2046 01:38:34.640 --> 01:38:37.439 it's not it's not going to happen. 2047 01:38:38.079 --> 01:38:43.560 Okay, Okay, Well it's an honest answer. Good. Del Fargas says, 2048 01:38:43.560 --> 01:38:45.159 by a two twenty or nine hundred radio, so you 2049 01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:48.079 can talk to nobody maybe in your area. Maybe in 2050 01:38:48.119 --> 01:38:50.279 your area, that's true, but there is a very active 2051 01:38:50.359 --> 01:38:53.359 nine hundred megahertz repeater system here in North Texas, and 2052 01:38:53.399 --> 01:38:57.720 there's eight or ten to twenty repeaters that the noise 2053 01:38:57.760 --> 01:39:00.359 floor is so low on two twenty you can basically 2054 01:39:00.479 --> 01:39:03.279 work any of the repeaters from anywhere around the Dallas 2055 01:39:03.239 --> 01:39:07.079 Fort Worth area. They're not real active. You can find 2056 01:39:07.079 --> 01:39:08.600 people on there. In fact, a lot of times you 2057 01:39:08.680 --> 01:39:10.479 keep up on repeater and people say, wow, somebody on 2058 01:39:10.479 --> 01:39:12.279 two twenty. You come back and have our ten minute 2059 01:39:12.279 --> 01:39:16.199 conversation with somebody. But but yeah, I mean, it's those 2060 01:39:17.520 --> 01:39:19.600 and get I get guess what, I get comments on 2061 01:39:19.640 --> 01:39:23.680 my videos all the time saying VHF is dead. UHF 2062 01:39:23.760 --> 01:39:26.840 is dead, and I'm like, dude, maybe where you are 2063 01:39:26.920 --> 01:39:31.319 that's true, that ain't true everywhere. It's very regionally dependent. 2064 01:39:32.119 --> 01:39:35.680 There's a lot of there's a lot of simplex activity 2065 01:39:35.800 --> 01:39:37.880 on six top five two in Huntsville, Alabama. There's a 2066 01:39:37.960 --> 01:39:42.199 lot of repeater VHF UHF repeater activity around the Los 2067 01:39:42.239 --> 01:39:46.800 Angeles area. There's a lot of simplex activity on six 2068 01:39:47.479 --> 01:39:49.399 six five two and a few other bands around the Phoenix, 2069 01:39:49.439 --> 01:39:52.680 Arizona area. So it really depends and I know I'm 2070 01:39:52.720 --> 01:39:54.800 leaving a lot of people out. It really depends on 2071 01:39:54.840 --> 01:39:58.319 the regional So yeah, if you guys have a dead 2072 01:39:58.800 --> 01:40:03.359 VHF UHF area, yeah, be the solution. Key up your radios. 2073 01:40:03.359 --> 01:40:05.319 That's why did the repeater challenge the beginning of twenty 2074 01:40:05.359 --> 01:40:09.640 twenty five. Start talking on your repeaters and or simplex 2075 01:40:10.199 --> 01:40:12.880 be the solution that you want to see. So all right, 2076 01:40:12.920 --> 01:40:13.720 and soapbox down. 2077 01:40:15.039 --> 01:40:17.000 But Jason to add to that though, too, is yeah, 2078 01:40:17.079 --> 01:40:19.439 I can I can see things different obviously because as 2079 01:40:19.439 --> 01:40:22.680 a manufacturer and a manufacturer of repeaters, you know you 2080 01:40:22.680 --> 01:40:25.199 can see this and I will tell you the world 2081 01:40:25.239 --> 01:40:28.479 has migrated, yes, a lot to like the all Star 2082 01:40:28.520 --> 01:40:29.960 of the person or nodes and that kind of thing 2083 01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:32.600 like that on there. But there is a starving out there. 2084 01:40:32.640 --> 01:40:36.399 And we have heard great success stories where someone has 2085 01:40:36.439 --> 01:40:39.319 put up a repeater and once you get that information 2086 01:40:39.479 --> 01:40:43.079 out there about the repeater, then it goes ahead and 2087 01:40:43.119 --> 01:40:45.199 does it. But it's not going through and I'm the 2088 01:40:45.199 --> 01:40:49.720 president of Wisconsin Association Repeaters too. It's not through repeater listenings. 2089 01:40:49.720 --> 01:40:51.479 It's not through repeater book. It's not through those kind 2090 01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:55.800 of things. It's actually telling people about it and using it. Yeah, 2091 01:40:56.119 --> 01:40:59.199 and once people are aware of it, then people will 2092 01:40:59.239 --> 01:41:01.960 start to use it. I just think people are moved 2093 01:41:01.960 --> 01:41:04.439 to the mindset of everything's going to be a hotspot 2094 01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:06.680 or know that they forget that there's actual infrastructure all. 2095 01:41:07.079 --> 01:41:10.159 Yeah, I agree. Yeah. One of the things I've made 2096 01:41:10.199 --> 01:41:12.680 some videos recently talking about Brandmeister DMR and one of 2097 01:41:12.680 --> 01:41:14.880 the things I don't like about that network is it's 2098 01:41:14.920 --> 01:41:16.760 made up mostly of hot spots. That's why a lot 2099 01:41:16.760 --> 01:41:19.800 of the traffic sounds like crap, because it's I mean 2100 01:41:19.880 --> 01:41:21.640 to build a hot spot, to build a network out 2101 01:41:21.640 --> 01:41:24.720 of hot spots, if you have a have a choice 2102 01:41:24.720 --> 01:41:27.119 between one hundred dollars hot spot and a two thousand 2103 01:41:27.159 --> 01:41:32.079 dollars commercial grade repeater Yazoo, Bridge, Coom, even Motorola. Which 2104 01:41:32.119 --> 01:41:33.840 ones do you think is going to sound better? I mean, 2105 01:41:34.600 --> 01:41:37.640 it's not apples to apples. That's an Apple and oranges comparison. 2106 01:41:37.720 --> 01:41:39.840 So yeah, and there's a lot more to it than that. 2107 01:41:39.920 --> 01:41:42.720 I'm very I'm generalizing here a lot. I realized that, 2108 01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:46.880 but yeah, totally. I totally agree about the repeater situation. 2109 01:41:46.960 --> 01:41:49.319 Some people don't like repeaters and that's okay, But those 2110 01:41:49.319 --> 01:41:51.159 of us who do like repeaters and think that there 2111 01:41:51.199 --> 01:41:53.640 should be more activity on them should be the solution 2112 01:41:53.760 --> 01:41:56.520 that we want to see on the repeater networks. So 2113 01:41:57.039 --> 01:42:00.680 good John, I really appreciate your time tonight, buddy. I 2114 01:42:00.720 --> 01:42:02.840 cooked you. I kept you a little bit longer than 2115 01:42:02.840 --> 01:42:05.600 I had intended, but thanks for hanging with us. Always 2116 01:42:05.600 --> 01:42:08.439 good to talk to you, and we will absolutely have 2117 01:42:08.560 --> 01:42:11.960 you back on the show once yaz releases something new, 2118 01:42:12.000 --> 01:42:13.680 maybe next week. We don't know yet, I mean, because 2119 01:42:13.680 --> 01:42:14.920 you don't tell us until it's there. 2120 01:42:15.239 --> 01:42:19.000 So yeah, we are pretty aut it. But like I said, 2121 01:42:19.000 --> 01:42:20.800 we got we got some good things coming on, so 2122 01:42:21.479 --> 01:42:25.199 we're gonna We're gonna wait and then yeah, time will, 2123 01:42:25.479 --> 01:42:27.199 time will be around. Like I said this week, I 2124 01:42:27.239 --> 01:42:28.680 know a lot of people have even asked me this 2125 01:42:28.920 --> 01:42:30.359 are you're okay? I haven't been able to get a 2126 01:42:30.359 --> 01:42:32.479 hold of you last week. I've been in meetings, I've 2127 01:42:32.479 --> 01:42:35.479 been in trainings, we've been doing one on one customer 2128 01:42:35.800 --> 01:42:38.880 training sessions. Now is what we've actually kind of started. 2129 01:42:39.319 --> 01:42:42.760 So it really kind of is one of those deals there. 2130 01:42:42.960 --> 01:42:46.079 So by all means have me back on, We'll waltch 2131 01:42:46.479 --> 01:42:47.279 or and go for. 2132 01:42:47.279 --> 01:42:51.439 Consolutely absolutely cool man, Thanks a lot, appreciate it. Uh, 2133 01:42:51.840 --> 01:42:54.279 you guys have a good evening, seventy three to all. 2134 01:42:54.399 --> 01:42:56.319 We'll be back next week. I got some cool stuff 2135 01:42:56.319 --> 01:42:58.199 to talk about next week on the live stream. Frank, 2136 01:42:58.239 --> 01:43:01.279 do you have anything before we go. 2137 01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:02.640 Go Kit Challenge? The Go Kit Challes video for me. 2138 01:43:02.720 --> 01:43:06.000 It's coming out tomorrow. I'll go ahead and drop a 2139 01:43:06.079 --> 01:43:06.920 link for it. 2140 01:43:07.159 --> 01:43:07.359 Yeah. 2141 01:43:07.560 --> 01:43:14.800 That and other than that, man, I just been busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. 2142 01:43:15.279 --> 01:43:17.439 So a lot of things awesome are coming down the 2143 01:43:17.479 --> 01:43:22.319 pipe and awesome more expo and John, I have your 2144 01:43:22.359 --> 01:43:24.760 card now, I'm coming. This is the back of the 2145 01:43:24.800 --> 01:43:30.000 card is John's card. Hopefully I'm not showing anything I'm 2146 01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:32.359 not supposed to. You are gonna come on to a 2147 01:43:32.399 --> 01:43:34.800 live stream. I need to get you on and we're 2148 01:43:34.840 --> 01:43:38.479 just gonna talk to smoke cigars. You are definitely gonna 2149 01:43:38.520 --> 01:43:39.000 be coming on. 2150 01:43:39.359 --> 01:43:41.399 Yeah, he should be invited to your next cigar. 2151 01:43:42.520 --> 01:43:44.880 I keep saying I wanted him, but then I'm like, 2152 01:43:44.960 --> 01:43:47.159 send out all the invites, and I keep forgetting to 2153 01:43:47.199 --> 01:43:49.079 come out and dig up his card because I have 2154 01:43:49.199 --> 01:43:52.159 it sitting next to the computer. Now it's literally got 2155 01:43:52.199 --> 01:43:53.760 it underneath the camera. 2156 01:43:53.920 --> 01:43:57.560 So you are doing online and I'm sitting back watching 2157 01:43:57.600 --> 01:43:58.319 mony Python. 2158 01:44:00.079 --> 01:44:04.439 Yeah that's right, all right, yeah man, So we'll do it. 2159 01:44:04.680 --> 01:44:08.159 We'll do it. Yep, yep, alright, guys, seventy three to all. 2160 01:44:07.920 --> 01:44:10.039 We'll talk soon. Everyone, have a good night. 2161 01:44:10.239 --> 01:44:11.439 Bye later