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Speaker 1: think it's gonna be slower. It's colder than that here.
Speaker 1: So Michael don in five SKT dark Side Overland, what's
Speaker 1: up Patrick? We were just talking about some overlanding trips
Speaker 1: a minute ago. Patrick mentioned that probably talk about that
Speaker 1: a little bit during the stream here. So couple of things.
Speaker 1: So I had mentioned, uh, we're gonna get started here
Speaker 1: in just a minute with grid tracker two two. They
Speaker 1: got a two behind it. I'm gonna try to talk
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Speaker 1: here in a minute. So, but first saying, I had
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Speaker 1: And I had talked about speaking of some overland stuff.
Speaker 1: So I got hooked up with a group called Agape
Speaker 1: Overland out of North Texas, and they do they do.
Speaker 1: They do kind of spur the moment trips like they've done.
Speaker 1: They did a they did a camp out at LBJ
Speaker 1: Grasslands sometime in like mid December. They planned one for
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, and I went out there and hung
Speaker 1: out with him for a few hours. And then they
Speaker 1: already have and they kind of spur the moment to this.
Speaker 1: Yesterday they went out to place up in Oklahoma, Blue
Speaker 1: Lake at the Blue River something like that, do some
Speaker 1: trout fishing. They got trout stock ponds up in Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: only about two or three hours away. So this really cool. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do We're gonna do a ham radio
Speaker 1: two point zero gathering, kind of like a test bed,
Speaker 1: a gathering up here at some point. This is a
Speaker 1: PoTA spot. It's dispersed camping. It's free. We drive off
Speaker 1: the end of the place. You can drive off the
Speaker 1: road and camp anywhere that's within like ten or twelve
Speaker 1: feet of the road, and there are some exceptions for that.
Speaker 1: There is a pavilion in there. You can I think,
Speaker 1: I think you just reserve it. I don't even think
Speaker 1: it costs anything. I don't think it. But the whole
Speaker 1: thing is a PoTA spot, and I really really want
Speaker 1: to do a camping overnight camping gathering, something for folks
Speaker 1: who are interested in off roading but also ham radio
Speaker 1: at a PoTA spot. It's been my hope to do
Speaker 1: that for the last year and a half. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna do that. No dates on that yet, We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about it soon. We're gonna also talk about the
Speaker 1: more expo upcoming in about four months in April, so
Speaker 1: more to come on all of that very soon. Sign
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Speaker 1: back of your head if you want to if you
Speaker 1: want to go camping, overlanding and do some PODA with this,
Speaker 1: that's going to be a thing very soon. All right,
Speaker 1: that's enough of me talking. Let's go ahead and bring
Speaker 1: on the team here. Tag Bo, how are you guys
Speaker 1: doing tonight? Good? How what's the weather like where you
Speaker 1: guys are? Where are you at?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always cold in Oregon, isn't it well this
Speaker 1: time of year? So yeah, okay, all right, good it's wet. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I imagine so cool. Bo, you're a You're in an
Speaker 1: r V in Arizona, not too far from Courtsfest.
Speaker 4: Went to Courtsfest this year when the last couple of years,
Speaker 4: but the timing didn't work out. So we're heading to
Speaker 4: Tucson soon. Oh okay, at a BLM campground right now,
Speaker 4: which I just realized he's close to National Historic Trail,
Speaker 4: So yeah, missed a POTO opportunity.
Speaker 1: Nice nice, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, sorry, guys, I
Speaker 1: fixed the My bad, My bad, I was I was
Speaker 1: trying to keep frank out in my ear and nobody
Speaker 1: can blame me for that. So tag once again to
Speaker 1: introduce yourself. Tell us where you are because I had
Speaker 1: you muted by mistake on that part.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm Tag Willmas. I'm in Lebanon, Oregon, and it's
Speaker 2: about fifty degrees out rainy and cold rain.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Now, Tagger, you the original creator of grid Tracker.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong about that?
Speaker 2: You are correct?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: I released it in February twenty eighteen. I worked with
Speaker 2: Henry Forte and two VFL. He worked on the data
Speaker 2: with me, but that was all the grid squares for
Speaker 2: all of the dxccs. There was a lot of initial
Speaker 2: work we came up with. And then yeah, so it's
Speaker 2: coming up on seven years.
Speaker 1: Wow. Nice okay, And this one's called grid Tracker two
Speaker 1: point oh. All right, well I want to I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call it. I'm gonna call it two point oh. That
Speaker 1: kind of just rolled off my tongue these days, though.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: No, No, it's actually called grid Tracker two when you
Speaker 1: download it, and and it's the executable files a grid
Speaker 1: Tracker two. And I got that all installed up and
Speaker 1: we're gonna look at that here in a second. So
Speaker 1: what what are some of the major updates you've made
Speaker 1: to it to make it a version two. There's actually
Speaker 1: been a lot of updates to it. I had Sebastian
Speaker 1: on the live stream two or three years ago and
Speaker 1: we went through what grid Tracker did you know how
Speaker 1: to do? Certain things, went through the menus, whatnot. Was
Speaker 1: really great. There's been a lot of updates since then.
Speaker 1: So what makes this one version two as compared to
Speaker 1: some of the other So we.
Speaker 2: Ran into an issue. We were using an old framework
Speaker 2: called Node webcit also known as nw JS, and so
Speaker 2: that allowed us to be cross platform on Mac, Linux, Windows,
Speaker 2: and it was starting to show with Age wasn't staying
Speaker 2: up current with bug fixes, and we were getting a
Speaker 2: lot of issues on older Windows systems and max Firewall,
Speaker 2: and there new entitlement issues for apps on the Mac.
Speaker 2: So unless you were following all the rules, our app
Speaker 2: was going to stop working very soon. So we decided
Speaker 2: to convert to Electron, which is another it's a similar
Speaker 2: system that uses Chrome and Node together to create a
Speaker 2: Basically you're running grid Tracker just like Discord or Spotify,
Speaker 2: is all running Chrome Engine, so you're running a Chromium
Speaker 2: web browser with a node back end to talk to
Speaker 2: hardware and and so that gives us cross platform ability.
Speaker 2: And that's where bo Gunderson came in and helped out
Speaker 2: with our conversion from this old system NWJS to Electron.
Speaker 2: So that's that's where the two point oh comes from.
Speaker 1: Gotcha.
Speaker 2: And then we've we've added new projections driven by both.
Speaker 2: He wanted to see what we where the how the
Speaker 2: intent is working. Uh, you know as far as the
Speaker 2: distance right now are on a two D map where
Speaker 2: what we call them a cater projection, when you see
Speaker 2: a signal, you'll see an arc and right, So we
Speaker 2: have a new projection which is from your perspective, all
Speaker 2: transmitting lines are straight because that's how the actual uh
Speaker 2: you know, on a on a sphere, that's how the
Speaker 2: signal is propagating, is a straight line. So now you
Speaker 2: can we can now display that on a on a map.
Speaker 2: And that's been a big part of things to both.
Speaker 2: So good interesting.
Speaker 5: I like that idea because you're you're right, it's not
Speaker 5: the arcadia of projection going across right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 2: And so we had some We we fixed some things
Speaker 2: with the call roster. There was a lot of issues
Speaker 2: with actual log loading. We had some discrepancies with UH
Speaker 2: filesloading out of order. That is, we would load confirmed
Speaker 2: before we reloaded your cute you know, your unconfirmed QSO files.
Speaker 2: So there was a lot of issues with the one
Speaker 2: point zero code base that we just needed to clean up,
Speaker 2: and so we took a six week break of not
Speaker 2: updating version one, converted to electron, started with the new maps,
Speaker 2: made some changes to the UI a little bit. You know,
Speaker 2: we didn't leave everything in the you know, on the floor,
Speaker 2: but there were some things that we threw away. The
Speaker 2: old audio alert system was completely out of sync with
Speaker 2: the call roster. So if you had said that you
Speaker 2: were listening to live band and mode and the call
Speaker 2: roster and you were listening to mixband and mode in
Speaker 2: for your audio alerts, then when you got an alert,
Speaker 2: you didn't know why you weren't seeing it in the
Speaker 2: call roster. So now we've synchronized them both. So you know,
Speaker 2: we need to get an audio alert you know why.
Speaker 2: If you look at the color roster you'll see it there.
Speaker 2: So and you can independently turn them on and off.
Speaker 2: For things you're interested in. So in my case, like
Speaker 2: six meter, when I'm on six meter ft eight, I
Speaker 2: want to know new grids, but I don't really I'm
Speaker 2: not hunting states at that point. So I can have
Speaker 2: six meter grids enabled for audio alerts, but I have
Speaker 2: them both enabled for the call roster, so I can
Speaker 2: see them both pop in, but only if I'm not
Speaker 2: at my desk. If I hear a new grid from
Speaker 2: my computer, I can run over and work the station.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's cool, Okay, all right, good, And with a
Speaker 1: call roster, you're you're hunting for specific call signs.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for grids and states on six meters, okay,
Speaker 2: so on other you know, other bands like ten meters,
Speaker 2: I'm looking to look states or grids or d xCC.
Speaker 1: But yeah DXCC on ten meters for sure. So okay, okay, good, okay,
Speaker 1: Well let's switch on. Well, bo, do you do you
Speaker 1: have anything to add to that? I don't want to
Speaker 1: leave you out of the conversation, so.
Speaker 4: Uh no, Just you know, my contribute contributions have been
Speaker 4: relatively modest. You know, I'm a new contributor and helps
Speaker 4: a lot with the electron conversion because I maintain some
Speaker 4: other electron apps works really well. Notorization and signing for
Speaker 4: mac os is a is a benefit of that. So
Speaker 4: if you if you see my name in the like,
Speaker 4: you know signed by if you're on Mac that's why.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, and Windows as well, you're signing around.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I have yeah from a from
Speaker 4: a yet a different electron app. I maintained, got all
Speaker 4: the Windows stuff ready, So yeah, it's a ton of improvements.
Speaker 4: I've used it a bunch for PoTA activations, uh as
Speaker 4: as we have been beta testing it. Uh, and yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm excited about all all the new stuff tag has added.
Speaker 1: Mostly is uh, does it run natively in Linux? Yes,
Speaker 1: it does. It does Debian flavor or something else.
Speaker 2: We have packages for every Linux flavor except really except
Speaker 2: for uh, Intel we do not support.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's probably what about rasbiyan or just
Speaker 1: Raspberry pios.
Speaker 2: It works on Raspberry five five through three. Three is
Speaker 2: really painful, uh, but it does work for It's a
Speaker 2: a little sluggish depending on what you have on screen.
Speaker 2: Sometimes some people will have to disable three D acceleration,
Speaker 2: but not everybody. And on the fives it works like
Speaker 2: a dream.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about on a four?
Speaker 2: Oh oh sorry, Yeah, on a four it works pretty good.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Yeah, I just I'm working on a
Speaker 1: I had mentioned on another video. I'm working on a
Speaker 1: kind of like a what they call a cyber deck,
Speaker 1: and it's just basically a Raspberry pie minds a Pie
Speaker 1: four with a big hard drive. That's all this stuff
Speaker 1: that's downloaded on it. It's already installed, so you can
Speaker 1: go out into the field and connect it to your
Speaker 1: radio and use everything. But you don't have to be
Speaker 1: on the internet to do it. So but yeah, that
Speaker 1: if it's uh if, and I think I already got
Speaker 1: I think I'm pretty sure already get downloaded grid tracker
Speaker 1: two for that, because I sent you that. I think
Speaker 1: I sent you a message and said it's it's called
Speaker 1: an installer dot exx, which sometimes that means you download
Speaker 1: a little file and when you click on the installer,
Speaker 1: it does this web get from from the website. And
Speaker 1: I wanted to know if it was a full installer
Speaker 1: that you downloaded or just a web geit, and you
Speaker 1: told me it was the full thing, which is my
Speaker 1: preferred way to do it, obviously, So but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so caveat the caveat to that is the call
Speaker 2: sign databases US call sign and call signs. Those are
Speaker 2: pulled after you've installed it. So maybe one time before
Speaker 2: you go out in the field down, you know, let it,
Speaker 2: let it go, grab the databases it needs, and that's
Speaker 2: all you need. But it will still operate without you,
Speaker 2: just won't be able to see the call sign. I'm
Speaker 2: not the states where a US callers are coming from.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, fair enough, fair enough, it's good, good, good.
Speaker 1: I see some questions in there, Frank, Are you on
Speaker 1: top of that?
Speaker 5: Yes, I okay, watching you in the background for any questions,
Speaker 5: and I'll be uh interjecting them if where they make
Speaker 5: sense or holding them to the end.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, all right, So let's just uh, let's just
Speaker 1: pull this up right here. So I've got I've got
Speaker 1: Griod tracker running. This is this screen over on the
Speaker 1: left hand side of my screen, right here, and I
Speaker 1: can easily zoom in and out of you can mouse
Speaker 1: over this and tell who that station is that's there,
Speaker 1: and the yellow is I lost the legend it was
Speaker 1: telling me a second ago the yellow is grids. I
Speaker 1: don't have the bluest grids. I do have or I
Speaker 1: may have that backwards.
Speaker 2: The yellow are your worked okay, and the green and
Speaker 2: blues are are live. So actually, if you go to
Speaker 2: the Matthew filters on the right there and yes, select
Speaker 2: data and select the data from logbook to live and light.
Speaker 2: No not that. Then a few more down or it
Speaker 2: says logbook and live, change that to.
Speaker 1: Just live logbook and live, just live. Okay.
Speaker 2: So here here's just live track okay. That your radio
Speaker 2: is here.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The other is what you've worked, so you can you
Speaker 2: can switch between them. But for me when I'm working,
Speaker 2: I keep the clutter on the screen down. But it's
Speaker 2: you know, user preference.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yes, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Now, the I don't
Speaker 1: know what the name of the window is, but there
Speaker 1: was a window in the older version that had just
Speaker 1: the list of call signs everything was hearing that was
Speaker 1: being shown on the map and it was like on
Speaker 1: a window to the to the side or something, and
Speaker 1: I'm that's the call roster okay, so that's probably this right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm looking for right there. Okay, good, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put that over top of this right here. So
Speaker 1: there's your call roster there, Okay, all right, so we can.
Speaker 1: And I noticed that the band was you know, you
Speaker 1: pretty much had to tell it which band you were on.
Speaker 2: On the old one, Nope, you always were able to
Speaker 2: select auto. And if you check auto, whatever WSJKX set
Speaker 2: to is, what is the grid tracker set to?
Speaker 1: Okay, I was. I had it set to auto earlier today.
Speaker 1: When I was I was kind of fiddling with it
Speaker 1: and it was show. And when I moved it to
Speaker 1: ten and I was on ten meters at the time.
Speaker 1: When I moved it to ten meters, a bunch of
Speaker 1: the squares changed. So maybe that was because of this
Speaker 1: this mixed and live thing that I was on before
Speaker 1: or this I'm sorry, this live and I had it
Speaker 1: on logbook and live.
Speaker 2: Right, And so you'll see when you have a on
Speaker 2: that and you're switching bands, you'll see your different work
Speaker 2: for that band in mode.
Speaker 1: Gotcha? Joh Okay, that makes sense? Okay, good? Yeah, So
Speaker 1: the good thing is right here. You can see who's
Speaker 1: the second column. The first column is the call sign
Speaker 1: right here. It might be a little bit small on
Speaker 1: the screen for you guys, just to you know, maximize
Speaker 1: the window there. And this call sign is your first column.
Speaker 1: Here in the in the call roster, and the second
Speaker 1: column is the station that they're talking to, or if
Speaker 1: they're calling CQ, they're highlighted in green like that. So
Speaker 1: it's really easy to see who's calling CQ, right, And
Speaker 1: I've always thought that was a neat And you can
Speaker 1: click here, I can. If I click there, my radio
Speaker 1: will start calling back to that CQ station.
Speaker 2: If you click their call sign.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you click the call sign, okay, okay, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. And then go ahead.
Speaker 2: You can filter at the top. We have exceptions at
Speaker 2: the top right where you can define only wanted and
Speaker 2: CQ only and that will reduce all the clutter to
Speaker 2: more things you're really interested.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 2: So you're not seeing all the traffic from wsjt X.
Speaker 1: Right right, Okay, it's good. And then can you can
Speaker 1: you switch from well, if I wanted to just see DX,
Speaker 1: would that be not my DXCC or only my DEA,
Speaker 1: not my dxc C, not my DXCC. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: so right now now I'm on twenty meters now because
Speaker 1: ten meters kind of died. I'm seeing Chile, Dominican Republic,
Speaker 1: the Azores in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 5: Is while you're talking about the context, is there a
Speaker 5: way to filter out duplicates or stations you already worked
Speaker 5: for the day.
Speaker 2: Well, for PODA, that's automatic, so stations you've worked that
Speaker 2: day will will filter out. It filters out. If you
Speaker 2: want to click new calls, stations you've never or that
Speaker 2: you've worked won't appear. And so that's another exception.
Speaker 1: Hmm okay, Now Ka zero A Z's s is calling
Speaker 1: me right now. So if I double click, you have
Speaker 1: to double click on it to go back to them.
Speaker 2: Just left, but.
Speaker 1: Just left click, hold on actually left click.
Speaker 2: I think you may need to respond via wsjt X.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well I can certainly do that turn that off.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The one of the one of the things about
Speaker 2: the call roster and its ability to control w s
Speaker 2: at X is it's not actually controlling it. It's asking
Speaker 2: w s jt X to reply to this message. Ah okay,
Speaker 2: and so WSJTX we ask it and it's up to
Speaker 2: it to respond with transmitting or it could not, you know,
Speaker 2: not do anything. So we had a user today discover
Speaker 2: a new issue where they were transmitting yesterday they called
Speaker 2: a station that wasn't calling CQU. They clicked on it
Speaker 2: in the call roster and it was transmitting. Today it wasn't,
Speaker 2: and we discovered why that is if the hold the
Speaker 2: TX frequency is not checked. If it's not checked, wsjt
Speaker 2: X will not start transmitting to a you know, will
Speaker 2: not reply to a decode unless that station's calling CQ.
Speaker 2: And that's to prevent users from okay, interjecting in the
Speaker 2: middle of a Q soo and transmitting on the same
Speaker 2: offset as the person they're in a qso with.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that makes sense, that makes sense. Okay, Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I just make contact with K A zero A Z
Speaker 1: S and I wasn't calling, so I assume that assume
Speaker 1: he's probably in the chat right now.
Speaker 2: So, and that would that would be Randy. He's our
Speaker 2: main QA guy. He makes Okay, everything we produce is
Speaker 2: at least smoke tested before it goes out the door.
Speaker 1: Okay, I admit, you know, I've used grid tracker a
Speaker 1: whole lot here in the shack, but I have never
Speaker 1: used it on a PODA, so that that intrigues me.
Speaker 1: I think that would be really fun because you just
Speaker 1: I always I always wipe my w s j t
Speaker 1: X log when I when I go to PODA and
Speaker 1: I have it set. I have the color scheme set
Speaker 1: where everything is like deep I think it is. And
Speaker 1: then and then as you work stuff, you know, it
Speaker 1: changes shades depending on grid and state and DXEC entity
Speaker 1: and all that kind of good stuff. So but I
Speaker 1: always like that because when I work at station, it goes,
Speaker 1: it turns green, turns that station green on my on
Speaker 1: my list there. So I always always say, okay, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go green with FT eight here stand by.
Speaker 1: But but it's fun to see all the stuff you
Speaker 1: have worked when you're starting fresh from a fresh log
Speaker 1: that has no data and no information in it, and
Speaker 1: you can you can clearly tell who you have and
Speaker 1: have not worked literally today on this activation. Now, I've
Speaker 1: always thought that was a neat thing to do. So okay, cool, Well,
Speaker 1: let's dig in through some of these menus over here.
Speaker 1: If you don't mind, it.
Speaker 2: Can turn you jump into our new view. The one
Speaker 2: we talked.
Speaker 1: About that was absolutely, yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, asimole. Actually, bo, wyn't you introduce it because you're yeah,
Speaker 2: I wanted it.
Speaker 4: As zimmthyl equidistant and it's it is a map projection
Speaker 4: where from from the center of the projection. Any any
Speaker 4: line from the center is gonna be straight. It's not
Speaker 4: going to be like great great circle route, or rather
Speaker 4: the great circle route is straight. And so uh if
Speaker 4: you compare any of those two lines, you can compare
Speaker 4: them because they're they're straight lines and and so you know,
Speaker 4: like the distances make much more sense visually to your eye.
Speaker 4: So yeah, if you if you click it's that second
Speaker 4: icon in that in that big yet that one right there.
Speaker 1: Toggle as as you're gonna have to say that words.
Speaker 3: As I say it as zimthal. That might be wrong.
Speaker 1: Okay, don't ask Frank to say it. I can't even
Speaker 1: pronounce it though, So okay, yeah, ast me let me
Speaker 1: maximize this just for the sake of this demonstration.
Speaker 4: And yeah, and so your your q t H and
Speaker 4: you've got to update your q t H so that
Speaker 4: it's going to be center on your location.
Speaker 1: Where do okay, where do I? Where do I update?
Speaker 1: This is a pretty fresh install of grid Tracker, So
Speaker 1: where would I.
Speaker 4: It's I mean tag correct me if I'm wrong, but
Speaker 4: it should be getting it from w S JTX.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in your settings and next to your call sign
Speaker 2: is where you should specify your grid and it should change.
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, I know that's correct. Yeah, Echo Mike twelve
Speaker 1: call sign. That's yeah, that's correct. It's all correct.
Speaker 2: The grid.
Speaker 1: Yes, in ws J t X, my grid is Echo
Speaker 1: Mike twelve. And that is where I'm at.
Speaker 2: Okay, click on settings and then go to general and
Speaker 2: check your grid. It would be the green gear next
Speaker 2: to creative gear.
Speaker 3: I always lose that one too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's oh, I see it. I see it's okay,
Speaker 1: and go to grid.
Speaker 2: And what is your grid square?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 2: I keep pointing at that.
Speaker 1: It's it says center grid square. Echo Mike twelve. It's correct. Okay.
Speaker 2: Why don't you enter it again or change it and
Speaker 2: then change it back? Not seen this?
Speaker 1: Okay, there we.
Speaker 2: Go, There we go.
Speaker 1: Is that is that correct?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, let me change it Backy. I just changed it
Speaker 1: to thirteen. Okay, so this is how it should look. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a new issue we've not seen before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a pretty fresh install. I've been out
Speaker 1: of town for the last three nights. It's actually the
Speaker 1: last weekend of a regular hunting season in Texas. So
Speaker 1: that's where I've been. So I installed this about noon
Speaker 1: today and uh, and I haven't really done much with
Speaker 1: it since then, but I but I did see that
Speaker 1: it pulled in all my information as it should from WSJTX.
Speaker 1: But and this wsx JTX log is very, very old
Speaker 1: and long, so I've been compiling it for a long
Speaker 1: time now. But which is I think a good thing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 2: So now it's kind of hard to see since you're
Speaker 2: like centered in the United States, yes, seeing the distortion
Speaker 2: as much. So if you if you zoom out, okay,
Speaker 2: and you'll see what we're what what the layout will start.
Speaker 1: To change and oh yeah, how it's kind of curved
Speaker 1: over there. Europe is like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you keep zooming out, you'll see, yeah, a
Speaker 2: lot more distortions.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, and then it has a so so this
Speaker 1: guy here straight line two uh the congo wow? So
Speaker 1: yeah this D two U Y and the congo is
Speaker 1: as working KB nine N A L.
Speaker 2: It looks like so if you notice from some stations
Speaker 2: to other stations, they'll still be some curves, but any
Speaker 2: any transmissions to you or from you from your Gritzkert
Speaker 2: will be appear as a perfectly straight line.
Speaker 1: There's somebody was just calling me just then. Yeah, somebody
Speaker 1: looked like they were from California.
Speaker 2: So okay, and so we've added range rings, so there's
Speaker 2: a ring around at twenty five kilometers.
Speaker 1: And so that that's what this big circle here means.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's adjustable. You can change it in settings
Speaker 2: map if you don't like it, or if you want tighter,
Speaker 2: or if you set it to zero, you'll disable them.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, okay, twenty miles. That's that's pretty wild. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see who's calling me. Uh, I don't see it now,
Speaker 1: so call me again if you want to. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I I like that view. I think that's a neat view.
Speaker 1: I think that's a really cool thing that we couldn't
Speaker 1: do before. So that's good. That's really good.
Speaker 4: It kind of makes what you can see make more
Speaker 4: sense because there's no map distortion, so you can kind
Speaker 4: of get a sense for how the band is right,
Speaker 4: Like if you if everybody you can see is kind
Speaker 4: of grouped at that twenty five hundred kilometer mark, you
Speaker 4: get a sense for the skip zone, whereas on the
Speaker 4: previous projection you kind of had you could get a sense,
Speaker 4: but there was also like the map distortion to contend with.
Speaker 1: Right right right, Okay, okay, okay, apparently that's me calling
Speaker 1: to k I six t am but he stopped responding
Speaker 1: to me, or we lost propagation, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: So okay, well, yeah, I think that's a great view,
Speaker 1: very cool. Okay.
Speaker 2: So one of the cool things that we discovered we
Speaker 2: started to visualize if you zoom out and then turn
Speaker 2: on the prediction layers and we support for the EPI
Speaker 2: prediction layers and the probability of Aurora, they warp around
Speaker 2: the map as well, and so with the probability of Aurora,
Speaker 2: you can actually see there were borealis the potential for
Speaker 2: it as predicted by NASA which is updated every thirty minutes,
Speaker 2: and that's also supported on the main map. But it
Speaker 2: actually looks pretty neat because it's circ.
Speaker 5: Question along the same lines. Do you have gray line?
Speaker 2: Well we do. We do have gray line on the
Speaker 2: two D map, where it's problematic on the a q D,
Speaker 2: which is about we just shortened it. It's a e
Speaker 2: k D projection for uh, we don't support it as
Speaker 2: a right right now, we want to, it's just getting
Speaker 2: the map to support it. The there's also many gray
Speaker 2: line UH algorithms out there, and they all support rendering
Speaker 2: on a two D map, not in an a not
Speaker 2: in this projection, So so it'll take us some time
Speaker 2: to get it supported.
Speaker 1: All right, So you're talking about different map layers. Where
Speaker 1: do I go to change that?
Speaker 2: So if you there's a question mark where it looks
Speaker 2: like a skip arrows, it's right next to the radar
Speaker 2: button on the middle, just below the gear. Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: So the first one is the the.
Speaker 1: That's the MUFF m UF the multiple maximum usable frequency right.
Speaker 2: And then then the the end the verse what end
Speaker 2: this I forgot the name of it.
Speaker 4: That.
Speaker 2: If you click it again, I'll go to the next one,
Speaker 2: which is the vertical version of the muff. And then
Speaker 2: you clicked it one more time, which is the E
Speaker 2: P I the E S prediction, and then one more
Speaker 2: time gives you the probability of aurura.
Speaker 1: Oh so okay, so the probability is up there right now.
Speaker 2: So if you zoom out, you'll see it. It's on
Speaker 2: both the north and the south. Keep going you'll see the.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, oh nice, that's pretty cool. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: almost like you guys built in uh the the geochron
Speaker 1: to this or something.
Speaker 2: So discovery, that's what I call it.
Speaker 1: Right, yes, yes, for sure. Okay, So what is uh no,
Speaker 1: not that one? So if we go back to E
Speaker 1: F E P. I, what are these colors representing here.
Speaker 2: The probability that you'll have es.
Speaker 1: Scatter okay, and that it's the the like the red
Speaker 1: more probable or less probable.
Speaker 2: White is the most where it starts to go black,
Speaker 2: it's almost one guaranteed. But again, nothing of it is
Speaker 2: guaranteed at all. Yeah, you're dealing with six meters and scatter. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: if you click down down on the lower right of
Speaker 2: the map, there's an attribution that should say if you
Speaker 2: click it will actually take you to their website where
Speaker 2: this where we grab this image from. Tell you more
Speaker 2: about how how they decide what those colors actually mean
Speaker 2: and okay, and what we're seeing. So we just provided the.
Speaker 1: Layer I see. Okay, Okay, okay, good y'all hear those sirens?
Speaker 1: Good okay, I'm sorry to going by outside Joe.
Speaker 2: All right, all question, somebody asked Digital Dreamer how current
Speaker 2: is the data? So most of These are updated every
Speaker 2: thirty minutes. Some are updated every fifteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, okay, I'm working you guys. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to ignore you, so sorry about that, but we are.
Speaker 1: We are demonstrating this software here. So somebody had asked
Speaker 1: about the settings button. They said, that is the setting
Speaker 1: button been removed? No, it's right here. This this green gear,
Speaker 1: second row, fourth button from the left. This is the
Speaker 1: settings button right here. If that's the settings you're talking about,
Speaker 1: but it's still in there, or.
Speaker 2: You can press controls at any time.
Speaker 1: I'll take you to control s. Okay, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: good to know.
Speaker 5: I had a quick question Jason about the windows you had.
Speaker 5: You had white windows show in a waterfall and your
Speaker 5: radio settings. That's not great tracker, that's another application.
Speaker 1: Writing your radio talking about this right here?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Or is that an integrated pain to good tracker?
Speaker 1: This is? This is Flex radio. Okay, so we're we're yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm using Flex Radio smart SDR on my Flex
Speaker 1: the way I've been doing for years and years. But
Speaker 1: we're not really fun and it's just a single slice
Speaker 1: to emulate what i'd call a normal radio, a non
Speaker 1: SDR radio perhaps, But yeah, This will work with anything.
Speaker 1: This will work with anything that's w W S j
Speaker 1: t X is running. I have the Flex radio software
Speaker 1: up here running right now because that's the radio I'm running.
Speaker 1: But you could do it with Icon and ken Wood
Speaker 1: and everybody else. So yeah, but that's just that's all
Speaker 1: that is right there.
Speaker 5: Are you ready for some questions here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go ahead and hop into the unless uh
Speaker 1: unless tag you want to take us to show us
Speaker 1: something else real quick?
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about you, bo, do you want to jump in?
Speaker 4: I think we've I don't have anything cued up in
Speaker 4: terms of uh uh new features, but maybe maybe the
Speaker 4: questions will.
Speaker 1: The questions will, the questions will reveal a lot of that,
Speaker 1: So go ahead.
Speaker 5: Frank, Okay, awesome. Is there a pot an integration tracker?
Speaker 5: This is from Dawn.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's a PoTA for PoTA hunting, not for PoTA activity.
Speaker 2: So it's we put a lot of effort into hunting,
Speaker 2: but not so much in activation quite yet.
Speaker 1: So you can so if I understand that correctly, you can.
Speaker 1: You can hunt different parks and it will tell you
Speaker 1: on the map, you know, color wise, I guess if
Speaker 1: you've worked that park or not. Is that is that accurate.
Speaker 2: Let's let's reset your map to a you can just
Speaker 2: turn off the prediction layer. Well, uh, just one more, okay,
Speaker 2: so I'm sorry. I go to go to settings the
Speaker 2: settings features tab and under features be under online is
Speaker 2: PoTA hunting.
Speaker 1: Should Yes, PoTA Hunting is right there.
Speaker 2: That on and then now you'll need You'll see a
Speaker 2: new button appears in the button panel that's called poda.
Speaker 2: If you click it, it will show you current parks
Speaker 2: that are currently on FT eight on okay, twenty meters.
Speaker 2: I believe that's where you are. Yes, So if you
Speaker 2: mouse over one of those parks, it will tell you
Speaker 2: who's there and what they're doing with the last Q
Speaker 2: cell may have been if they're a self spot or yeah,
Speaker 2: so you learn where they are and who's there.
Speaker 1: Now all of these it looks like a tree looks
Speaker 1: like a Christmas tree to me without the lights on
Speaker 1: it the icon that I'm seeing so, and they're all
Speaker 1: and they're all green.
Speaker 2: Right, So what what this is showing is because your
Speaker 2: band is set to auto, which is great, the mode
Speaker 2: is mixed. So what you're asking grid Tractor to show
Speaker 2: you is everything PODA on the twenty meter band but
Speaker 2: what you're seeing with the tent is someone who's on
Speaker 2: band and on mode. So if you if you got
Speaker 2: thar over a tree, they should be like SSB or
Speaker 2: CW as their current mode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are these two are there's two two at
Speaker 1: this park and they're both SSB.
Speaker 2: So if you change your mode over in the Matt
Speaker 2: view filters to auto, then it will those will disappear
Speaker 2: and you'll just be left with the ones that are
Speaker 2: currently on your band in mode.
Speaker 1: Gotcha? Okay, so these are two. Yeah, there was somebody
Speaker 1: else on uh, Frank, they're down here at your park
Speaker 1: at Cedar Hill State Park. There was somebody in the.
Speaker 5: Chat off there that's my park, go home.
Speaker 1: There was somebody in the chat saying they were they
Speaker 1: were driving through the I think they were driving through
Speaker 1: the area. There were at US two nine nine six.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that's Frank's park. Yeah, it's cold, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know, if I could work,
Speaker 1: you might be too close for me on twenty meters.
Speaker 5: Are y'all pulling that data live from the podas site
Speaker 5: or from every five minutes, but you're not like scraping
Speaker 5: that through the W S J t X information.
Speaker 2: Okay, No, we have a we have an API that
Speaker 2: we call every five minutes to get all the park
Speaker 2: information or the parks that are currently being activated and scheduling,
Speaker 2: and so we can talk about that here in a minute.
Speaker 2: But we pull uh, the future scheduling for I think
Speaker 2: it's the next week worth of park activations that will
Speaker 2: occur and they'll come in handy here in a few minutes.
Speaker 2: When I talk about the call roster, it's portion.
Speaker 1: Okay, if I if I want to interact, if I
Speaker 1: see someone at this park, can I interact with them
Speaker 1: from this map? Or do I have to go back
Speaker 1: to the call roster?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, yeah, you can write click I believe, and it
Speaker 2: will generate messages in WS or No, it's left click
Speaker 2: will generate messages in W S J t X for
Speaker 2: you to believe left click, left click or I get
Speaker 2: did I screw that up? I think you may have
Speaker 2: to interact. This may be broken. Oh, but it's Most
Speaker 2: people use the color roster when dealing with quota, so
Speaker 2: right the maps of it, it's eye candy for for
Speaker 2: for most people. But it kind of gives you an
Speaker 2: idea who's out there that people are on the air.
Speaker 1: Is there a on the call roster itself? Is there? Oh? Okay?
Speaker 1: So there's a PODA checkbox right.
Speaker 2: Here, right and when you click it, a new column.
Speaker 1: A new column pops up. I see that. Okay, I
Speaker 1: see that now, okay, good. Yeah, I'd rather use the
Speaker 1: call roster anyway. But I was just wondering how to
Speaker 1: find how to actually work that station if you were
Speaker 1: to see them active. I don't think this guy's active.
Speaker 1: He's just it looks like that was uh well it
Speaker 1: says a minute and a half ago. But I'm not
Speaker 1: seeing him on the call roster. So he might be
Speaker 1: out there on the PoTA website, but I'm not able
Speaker 1: to hear him on my radio. So okay, good, good, good, okay.
Speaker 2: So if you have, like if you turn on only
Speaker 2: wanted to reduce the clutter, you just see just the
Speaker 2: PoTA and anything that you're after. There's one. There's one.
Speaker 1: There's one right there.
Speaker 2: But he's not calling CQ or is he.
Speaker 1: He's calling CQ PODA.
Speaker 2: Okay then so yeah, if you click on him.
Speaker 1: Oh I just worked him. Aha, he's green on my screen.
Speaker 1: Well I okay, no, no, I take that back here.
Speaker 1: I had I didn't just work it. I've I've got
Speaker 1: him in my log, but it's probably from another day.
Speaker 2: Right and then, so if you clicked on new calls
Speaker 2: in the exceptions, he'll still stay there. It's under exceptions tab.
Speaker 1: There's new calls exceptions.
Speaker 2: Tab far right for right right there, up.
Speaker 1: New calls right there. Okay, oh the except Oh exceptions.
Speaker 1: I didn't see where it said exceptions. I see it now, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right. Good.
Speaker 2: So even if you've worked them before, if they're calling
Speaker 2: podah and you're hunting Koda, they will appear in.
Speaker 1: The roster gotcha okay, excellent.
Speaker 2: And the bright pink uh quota yes park id means
Speaker 2: this is all time new and you've never worked them before.
Speaker 2: If you've worked them before, they'll appear a little dim okay,
Speaker 2: dimmer than this bright pink.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. Okay. I wonder if I can yeah,
Speaker 1: there we go.
Speaker 2: Oh, handy. If you hold down control and press plus
Speaker 2: or minus, it will increase or decrease the font size.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you could do that.
Speaker 2: You just hold it down and soon right in there
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 5: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2: I like that, And that works for any of the
Speaker 2: Windows in your tracker okay, and then if you want
Speaker 2: to reset control.
Speaker 1: Zero control zero reset okay, okay, Oh I like that.
Speaker 1: That's a neat view right there.
Speaker 5: That's like a Chrome thing.
Speaker 1: Yes it is. Yeah, yeah, well you said it was
Speaker 1: running on Chromium now, so that makes sense. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: quick toos.
Speaker 5: On that is this software standalone or do you have
Speaker 5: to install it?
Speaker 1: All? Right?
Speaker 5: It is? Do you have to install the standalone software
Speaker 5: or is it incorporated a web browser? Oh?
Speaker 2: It's standalone's yeah, it shipped it basically, It shipped to
Speaker 2: own its own copy of Chrome and Node together in
Speaker 2: its own package called Electron, just like if you have
Speaker 2: Spotify installed or Slack or Discord, same concept. It's its
Speaker 2: own standalone app.
Speaker 5: So can you take the software and run it in
Speaker 5: the field without Internet access?
Speaker 2: Yes you can.
Speaker 5: You just won't have any of the live data updates.
Speaker 2: Right, and you can simulate that at home if you
Speaker 2: you can actually go to settings features and go offline
Speaker 2: and it will it will make no Internet calls at all.
Speaker 2: It'll switch to internal maps or we call offline maps.
Speaker 1: Settings and features. Okay, so settings and features and offline mode,
Speaker 1: that's the first one.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Nice I like that. I like the heck out of that.
Speaker 2: So you click it, it'll switch to satellite map, which
Speaker 2: was yeah tracker, and yeah, now there's no more internet access.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 1: Nice, Okay, I'm going to turn it back on for
Speaker 1: this one. But next time I go out to Poda,
Speaker 1: you're yeah, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna absolutely do that.
Speaker 1: That's neat. I like that. All right, go ahead, Frank,
Speaker 1: I know we got a lot of question.
Speaker 5: Is there a update link or an update button somewhere
Speaker 5: in the old software or is this you got to
Speaker 5: download the new one and install the old one.
Speaker 2: Grid Tracker too. Now auto updates, or at least one,
Speaker 2: it'll prompt you to install on some systems such as Linux,
Speaker 2: but Windows and Mac are self updated. So when we
Speaker 2: release a new version, you fire up the version, or
Speaker 2: within every twelve hours we check and download if there's
Speaker 2: a new version. When you exit, it automatically installs.
Speaker 5: So software as a service for two. So if I
Speaker 5: have the old grid Tracker, I have to uninstall that
Speaker 5: one and install the new one.
Speaker 2: No, we prefer that you don't, because grid Tracker two
Speaker 2: will import from previous version of grid Tracker one version
Speaker 2: zero nine zero zero nine twenty two and zero nine eight.
Speaker 2: We can import settings from it. Any any grid tracker
Speaker 2: that you have that's older than that, you'll be starting fresh.
Speaker 2: So if you keep the old grid tracker installed, install
Speaker 2: the new one will import settings. Then you can uninstall
Speaker 2: the old good tracker. Okay, but from then on it
Speaker 2: will self update and everyone should be happy.
Speaker 5: This question. Yeah, that's the play. It all goes out
Speaker 5: the window once you release the software, and it all
Speaker 5: goes live. Question.
Speaker 1: I did not uninstall my old grid tracker. I just
Speaker 1: installed two and it put a second icon on my desktop.
Speaker 1: I have my old grid tracker and a second icon
Speaker 1: that says grid Tracker two on it and I just
Speaker 1: double clicked on that to open this up and it's
Speaker 1: working fine, So.
Speaker 5: Young nice question from Vick Miller here is well, I
Speaker 5: need to enter my Logbook of the World, a q
Speaker 5: r Z or any other logging credit credits or credentials
Speaker 5: after I install the new software.
Speaker 2: No, provided that you met the criteria V one, that is,
Speaker 2: having zero grid Tracker one twenty four, zero nine oh
Speaker 2: eight or zero nine twenty two installed. If you don't,
Speaker 2: then you're going to have to angry enter your congresses
Speaker 2: so we tried to uh step this along so people
Speaker 2: could upgrade, but you know, there's there's really nothing we
Speaker 2: can do to read the old settings from the old program.
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, and you know, and we get a
Speaker 2: lot of complaints that you know, I have to rea in,
Speaker 2: I'm my congress. It's like it's it's a password, it's
Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't seem you know, do you know
Speaker 2: how to log in you know, Facebook, once you're locked out?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know it's like I forgot my password,
Speaker 2: Well why didn't you write it down? So so yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a little annoying, but you only have to do
Speaker 2: it once.
Speaker 5: See my theory on that is all these autolog and stuff,
Speaker 5: people like them, but then they forget the password because
Speaker 5: they have everything autolog in, and then they don't know
Speaker 5: what their password is. So I like hammering my password
Speaker 5: each and every time so I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1: And Lord, I'm the same way. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: use any password managers.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean, if the only place you have
Speaker 4: your password is saved in like the Chrome auto saved
Speaker 4: password thing, you can still go look it up from Chrome.
Speaker 4: It's going to make you enter your system password, but
Speaker 4: it is safe there in a in a way where
Speaker 4: you can view the password.
Speaker 1: That's true. I have seen that before. That's right.
Speaker 3: That's saved me a couple of times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I like this question from Chris here. Are
Speaker 5: you going to try to bring in some of the
Speaker 5: data from PSK reporter or w SPR data into the
Speaker 5: map view?
Speaker 2: Great question. Yes, we already do. We support it. And
Speaker 2: it's a great transition of Matthew and our and our
Speaker 2: zero oh man in our zero Q suggests we talked
Speaker 2: about spots. So if you go back to your map
Speaker 2: view and you've been transmitting throughout this, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sure yes, yes, me, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm reading questions the chat. Yeah, I just work somebody.
Speaker 1: He said he was on a true SDX. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been. I've been transmitting off and on and people
Speaker 1: are calling me perfect.
Speaker 2: So let's go back to the map view truck the
Speaker 2: main window, and you'll see a spots button. It's on
Speaker 2: the second bottom row, and the button panel.
Speaker 1: Setting the spots.
Speaker 3: It's far left.
Speaker 1: Oh right here view spot reports. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So that's everyone who's hearing me right now.
Speaker 1: PSK reporter wise what.
Speaker 2: We call the off air Message Service and PSK.
Speaker 1: Reporter, yes, both of them.
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, So there's you mouse over each of the spots,
Speaker 2: you'll get a signal report and at the bottom will
Speaker 2: tell you the source where it came from.
Speaker 1: This, well, that's very cool. I like that.
Speaker 2: And this is if you scroll down, Well, I can't
Speaker 2: see your legend response down on the lower right of
Speaker 2: the map, which shows you a time value a slider
Speaker 2: there in the legend.
Speaker 1: And max age is fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: So if you click on that and slide it left right,
Speaker 2: you can see you can change the time to me obviously,
Speaker 2: so you see the last five minutes worth of spots
Speaker 2: or yeah, we can go all the way up to
Speaker 2: a day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well there's the last one minute right there. Oh
Speaker 1: that's neat.
Speaker 2: Click the spots button again and you'll switch to our
Speaker 2: heat map mode. This shows you kind of like what
Speaker 2: the signal strength as far as where you're really being
Speaker 2: heard of. A whisper is going to be a lighter
Speaker 2: color and the darker reds is where you're really being heard.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it looks like Indiana is doing good for
Speaker 1: me right now? Huh? Okay, I do like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: like that. That's neat.
Speaker 2: Also, I feel like at one more time you'll click
Speaker 2: off spots and turn it off. Yeah, or you can
Speaker 2: leave it on. I mean we leave it on on
Speaker 2: spots all the time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. When you have had it off all day,
Speaker 2: you fire it up. You want to make sure your
Speaker 2: rings working. I call CQ, I see it light up
Speaker 2: across the world. I'm like, okay, good to go.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're working. So yeah, totally absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2: And that's real time and there's no there's no delay.
Speaker 2: The old grid Tracker, it was a five minute refresh
Speaker 2: from uh PSK Reporter. We always had our live data
Speaker 2: so if you were running Good Tracker, other Good Tracker
Speaker 2: users would spot report in real time. But it was
Speaker 2: just in grid Tracker two where we support PSK reporters live.
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm being heard by two stations in Trinidad
Speaker 1: and Tobago. Nice. That that is cool.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 1: I like the heck out of that. Good. Okay, all right, Frank,
Speaker 1: what else?
Speaker 5: Does this only work with FT eight? Is there any
Speaker 5: chance for JS eight in the future?
Speaker 2: From Brooks, we've looked into js eight. They there was
Speaker 2: a kind of a high A remix of w s
Speaker 2: at X, and the messaging protocol for getting live data
Speaker 2: from w s at X was modified in such a
Speaker 2: way from just js A that it's incompatible. It requires
Speaker 2: polling to get data, and it's just an interface we
Speaker 2: can't seem to figure out how to make work with
Speaker 2: grid trackers. So for the foreseeable future, the answer is no,
Speaker 2: no JSA call unless and we got to work together
Speaker 2: to figure out how we can get live, real time
Speaker 2: data without polling. We could support it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that's fair. Okay, good, What are y'all calling
Speaker 1: me now?
Speaker 5: Is there any pdf manuals or wikis available more information
Speaker 5: to look into.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we we had a fantastic wiki for good Tracker one,
Speaker 2: but a lot of it doesn't no longer applies. So
Speaker 2: we are actively working now. Matthew and our zero Q
Speaker 2: and others are frantically trying to update the documentation and
Speaker 2: trying to stay ahead of me because I make changes
Speaker 2: all the time and then they drop in new new
Speaker 2: clip art for the things I've updated. So but they're
Speaker 2: they're making progress and we should have it out fairly soon.
Speaker 2: I don't have a date on it, but we are
Speaker 2: working on it, and we apologize.
Speaker 5: Hey, man, that's always the last thing done in a
Speaker 5: developer's mind is documentation.
Speaker 2: Right, I just I write this off. I make it happen.
Speaker 5: Man, Hey, I write code, not documentation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Frank, Frank can talk to you about code for
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 5: Uh. Is there a way to add like radar plots
Speaker 5: to the asthmuth view, like during the summertime, so you
Speaker 5: can see storm uh watching storms or storms coming across?
Speaker 5: This is from Chris. Sure.
Speaker 2: If we go back to the map, you can select
Speaker 2: the US radar LA.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that looks that looks right. Okay, okay, So
Speaker 1: here's your storm, here's your storms right there? This is
Speaker 1: this is a geochron. Where's the International Space Station? How
Speaker 1: do we pull that out?
Speaker 5: The only thing satellites?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah wow, but you mentioned it. That's what we're working on.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, totally. Yeah. There's that line of storms
Speaker 1: moving through the to the east of Texas right now.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's hitting Baton Rouge right now. That
Speaker 1: is neat. I like that. That is neat.
Speaker 5: It's not hitting us right now.
Speaker 2: So you want to geochron. Now, turn on the time.
Speaker 1: Zone lare time zone layer. Okay, which one is that?
Speaker 2: The globe with the clock?
Speaker 1: Download this one here Okay.
Speaker 2: Now you zoom out and you can move around and
Speaker 2: you'll see all the time.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, okay, look at them up there by themselves,
Speaker 1: just so pu and everybody's got to do their own
Speaker 1: time zone. Of course it looks weird because of that
Speaker 1: as as muthal view.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and if you switch back, you just press
Speaker 2: that ache you button again and you'll switch back to
Speaker 2: mercater projection that it'll look right.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I like I like this view a lot.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just because it's new, but I do. I
Speaker 1: like this view a lot. I think it's really.
Speaker 5: Correct for the scaling of lamb masses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yes, yeah, for your radio, for your signals.
Speaker 2: You know, it's in a straight line and you're talking
Speaker 2: to this guy twenty five hundred miles away there he
Speaker 2: is right. No, you don't have to your brain doesn't
Speaker 2: have to think about why is it curved?
Speaker 1: And you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1: There's case seven car on Poda again. He keeps popping
Speaker 1: in and out so my propagation, I think twenty meters
Speaker 1: is starting to fade a little bit. It was a
Speaker 1: little bit more full than this when we started, but
Speaker 1: somebody asked me to go to forty meters a minute ago.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, casey four l z N. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just worked you, so thanks for being out there. Go ahead, Frank.
Speaker 5: Does it also work in Hawaii? For he's just have fun? Though,
Speaker 5: I'd like this. No documentation equals job security here here here,
Speaker 5: we're not getting paid man.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Yeah, this is free software, so this
Speaker 1: doesn't apply here. Oh gosh, m all right, what else, Frank?
Speaker 5: I don't quite understand this question. It's from Hank. Is
Speaker 5: there a new call per band or over for all bands?
Speaker 2: I don't get that.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand.
Speaker 5: That was a red word for word no frankisms.
Speaker 1: So all right, type it again, Hank, I saw you
Speaker 1: in there a minute ago. Type it again. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: reword that question. Please go ahead, go on to the
Speaker 1: next one. Frank.
Speaker 5: This is for gray man, So prepare yourselves.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 5: I use Integrated f T, a program with a smart
Speaker 5: SDR for my flex on a back. How do I
Speaker 5: set this up? Integration with the new grid tracker two. Hmmm,
Speaker 5: yeah for.
Speaker 1: Read that again? He uses what for smart SDR? On amount?
Speaker 5: He uses an integrated FT eight program with SDR smart
Speaker 5: SDR for a.
Speaker 1: Flex Oh okay, so.
Speaker 5: The integration for the new grid track er.
Speaker 1: Two okay, so he is so for mac os and
Speaker 1: i os us smart SDR. I don't remember if it's
Speaker 1: called smart. But the Flex Radio version of mac os
Speaker 1: and iOS and iOS is not written by Flex Radio.
Speaker 1: It's written by oh, what's his name? I want to
Speaker 1: say Dwayne. I think that's wrong though he's a German guy.
Speaker 1: And because Flex Radio has an open API, so anybody
Speaker 1: can write software that integrates with it. So but but yeah,
Speaker 1: so I know what you're talking about. Tim. There's an
Speaker 1: integrated f T A program inside of that software that
Speaker 1: is not ws j t X. So he's using the
Speaker 1: integrated software inside of that mac os program to work
Speaker 1: f T eight instead of w s j t X. So,
Speaker 1: in a nutshell, will grid tracker work with a an
Speaker 1: FT some other flavor of f T A program that
Speaker 1: is not w s j t x.
Speaker 2: We support j T d X and we ort ms HV.
Speaker 2: Not on purpose, but as long as the message protocol
Speaker 2: is the original WSGTX protocol for sending out the the
Speaker 2: digital messages the API that they support that we support,
Speaker 2: then it will work. So if it works in other programs,
Speaker 2: it should work with us, like rum log or.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 2: I forgot the name. Boe would have a better idea,
Speaker 2: since you're actually the Mac user of the group.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but I think exactly what you said is right.
Speaker 4: If it supports the WSGTX protocol, then it works.
Speaker 3: If not, then no, it won't work.
Speaker 4: But I like it sounds if he had this working
Speaker 4: in grid Checker one, it should also continue to work
Speaker 4: in grid Checker two.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And just to clarify, it's not like we started
Speaker 2: from the ground up. Grid Tracker two. Nine eight percent
Speaker 2: of the code is the original code from three one,
Speaker 2: So okay, we've just been improving it, bug fixing it
Speaker 2: and adding new things and providing more platforms for us.
Speaker 2: So you even work on a Steam a Steam deck?
Speaker 1: Oh really? Okay?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you can you know, you can call Roster
Speaker 2: from the living room while you're watching ev.
Speaker 5: Okay, hey did answer us here? When clicking on a
Speaker 5: new call in the Roster is a per band, so
Speaker 5: like in the exceptions, you mean.
Speaker 2: Well, well, okay, so when when somebody appears in the
Speaker 2: call roster is entirely dependent on what you are looking for.
Speaker 2: So in the call roster, we have a logbook reference
Speaker 2: called logbook, and it current by default says lot live
Speaker 2: band and mode. And so what you're seeing is station's way.
Speaker 2: If you're on twenty meters or forty meters, let's say,
Speaker 2: just say you're on twenty meters ft eight. Anything appearing
Speaker 2: in there you have that in appears in the roster
Speaker 2: as new something you have not worked on twenty meters
Speaker 2: in ft eight. If you consider that you no matter
Speaker 2: what band mode you worked them on, and they've considered worked,
Speaker 2: you select mixed banded modes for your logbook reference, So
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if he worked them on eighty forty thirty.
Speaker 2: If you hear them on twenty, you won't see them
Speaker 2: on the roster, and so we do. And it's independence.
Speaker 2: You put it back to live band and mode, then
Speaker 2: it's just twenty meter ft eight for exactly.
Speaker 1: So you can switch it back and forth. In other words, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: makes sense. Good, okay, I want to get that question
Speaker 1: by what's the frequency did you see that, Frank, No,
Speaker 1: go for it. Okay, all right, So he's asking, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I completely understand. Is there any plans
Speaker 1: to add support for other laggers like World Radio League
Speaker 1: or smart Lagger. But I don't know what the logger
Speaker 1: I'm using right now. If if that's what you're referring to,
Speaker 1: is just the blogger built into WSJTX, that's the little
Speaker 1: pop up window is just the WSJTX default log So
Speaker 1: I have to go in here. If I want to
Speaker 1: add this all these contacts, I make it. If I
Speaker 1: want to add them to log book with the World
Speaker 1: or ham Rady with Deluxe or something else, I have
Speaker 1: to manually do that. I mean, there might be a
Speaker 1: way to auto integrate it. I've never done that.
Speaker 5: Matthew answered that question in the check.
Speaker 1: I have news for you it, okay, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys probably know more than I do.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, So if you open settings the green gear
Speaker 2: and go to.
Speaker 1: Logging settings and logging okay.
Speaker 2: And then you select your service here where you want
Speaker 2: to forward your logs that come out of WSGT. And
Speaker 2: we support a log book with the World at QSL
Speaker 2: club log all the ones here we support loading of
Speaker 2: local log files if you want to export from other
Speaker 2: log programs, we don't currently support directly, but we will
Speaker 2: send to N one mm log for I'm n three
Speaker 2: f JP d x keeper HRD logbook. We pull from
Speaker 2: currently qr Z clublog and lowdo and and three f
Speaker 2: JPS ac lagger we support that. We also support a
Speaker 2: live mode with ac lagger that if you are not
Speaker 2: using WSU tips or digital modes, but you are using
Speaker 2: ac Logger and you are how you're rig connected, we
Speaker 2: can track whether or not you're using SSB sideband rtt
Speaker 2: y and get live updates from there as well as
Speaker 2: when you log an entry in ac log it's automatically
Speaker 2: added to grid Tracker and added to your map, so
Speaker 2: it's great for PODA hunting SSB as an example.
Speaker 1: Gotcha okay, okay, good good, good to know? Okay, uh okay, Frank,
Speaker 1: you have anything else?
Speaker 5: Kevin's asking This is kind of rehashing, but I like
Speaker 5: it anyways. The green trees in the grid tracker, what
Speaker 5: do they mean?
Speaker 2: They mean stations that are currently PODA stations, PoTA activators
Speaker 2: that are not on your current band.
Speaker 1: In mode, that are not on your current band mode Okay.
Speaker 2: A tree with a tent is someone on band on mode,
Speaker 2: and then once you work them, you'll they'll be on
Speaker 2: a green mountain with a sunset and says you've now
Speaker 2: worked that park for the day, and at UTC zero
Speaker 2: it'll reset back to a tree or.
Speaker 5: A tent if they're still activating.
Speaker 2: If they're still activating, correct, Okay. So oh and one
Speaker 2: thing I want to mention real quick here. If you're
Speaker 2: going out to a park and you're an activator and
Speaker 2: you don't have internet access, please schedule it. Go to
Speaker 2: the PoTA dot app site and schedule that you're going
Speaker 2: to be at this park at this time in this window.
Speaker 2: So when grid tracker pulls that schedule every five minutes,
Speaker 2: when you do show up and you call CQDA, we
Speaker 2: know who you are. Don't have to wait for five
Speaker 2: minutes for self activating, et cetera. So we know what
Speaker 2: your park idea is, so that when you get a
Speaker 2: CUSO with you, we report the correct park ID to
Speaker 2: the PoTA app at the end of the qustone.
Speaker 1: That's what you're talking about the other night when I
Speaker 1: was on there, wouldn't it wouldn't right, Okay? Okay? I
Speaker 1: rarely schedule my PoTA activations because I'm usually doing sideband,
Speaker 1: and who in the world knows what frequency is going
Speaker 1: to be clear or even what band I'm on, because
Speaker 1: I will check like ten or yeah, ten, fifteen, and
Speaker 1: seventeen meters when I get to the park if any
Speaker 1: of those are up. I'd much rather work anything but
Speaker 1: twenty meters just because twenty meters is always open. I'd
Speaker 1: rather work a band that's not as prevalent a lot
Speaker 1: of times, so I never schedule but with but this
Speaker 1: is a good point, tag with.
Speaker 5: FT.
Speaker 1: If you're going to go out to a park and
Speaker 1: work FT eight, which is what I was doing on
Speaker 1: New Year or the twenty third, I think the no,
Speaker 1: not the twenty the thirtieth. Yeah, two days before New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve, I was if you're gonna work FT eight,
Speaker 1: then it's always the same frequency, so you just put
Speaker 1: twenty meter ft eight or ten meter ftier or whatever
Speaker 1: whatever you want to try to do. So yeah, that's it, Okay.
Speaker 1: I didn't think about it from that perspective because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I hate doing the pre planned thing because you never
Speaker 1: end up because you can say, well, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: on twenty meters. But where in the world, Well, twenty
Speaker 1: meters is gonna be opened, probably, But where in the
Speaker 1: world am I going to be on twenty meters? Because
Speaker 1: I could be anywhere, So people say, oh, what frequency
Speaker 1: are you gonna be on?
Speaker 5: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: It depends on what's open when I get there. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can probably find me on fourteen three hundred sometimes,
Speaker 1: but I don't say that out loud in most videos,
Speaker 1: so I'm kidding. But yeah, so yeah, But for FT eight,
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. Okay. I see where you're coming
Speaker 1: from now with that tag. I was not following you
Speaker 1: the other night when you were texting me. But okay,
Speaker 1: good deal, Uh, okay, go ahead, Frank. Do we have
Speaker 1: anything else? There's one from Dawn up there.
Speaker 5: Yes, let me get back to it. Does it work
Speaker 5: with the built in FTA in Ham Radio's Deluxe Ooh?
Speaker 2: Probably not?
Speaker 1: Okay, probably not, probably not, Okay. I don't know when
Speaker 1: he's running. When he is running that demo of HANM
Speaker 1: Radio Deluxe at hamfests, he has wsjt X running, so
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I've never done FT eight with Ham
Speaker 1: Radio Deluxe. I should do that. I should totally do
Speaker 1: that sometime just to kind of see how it works.
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure. I'm not even sure myself exactly
Speaker 1: how that works. But okay, okay, what else, Frank.
Speaker 5: I think that's all I got. That's all the questions
Speaker 5: that I wrote down. I'm scrolling back up to see
Speaker 5: if I missed.
Speaker 1: Daddy Well N five SKT has another question. Can we
Speaker 1: filter by dx entity on PODA? In other words, can
Speaker 1: I focus on PODA outside the US and Canada not exclusively?
Speaker 2: So the exception where you saw not my dxc C,
Speaker 2: it's per session, so it would you would lose everybody.
Speaker 2: So we don't have independent PoTA exceptions for against the
Speaker 2: rest of it.
Speaker 1: So okay, okay, but.
Speaker 2: Yes, you turn on not my DXCC, nothing in the
Speaker 2: roster will be from the US.
Speaker 3: And then I sort.
Speaker 4: You can sort on the PoTA column so that those
Speaker 4: at least go to the top.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Oh that's another new feature that we added V one,
Speaker 2: which so horrible, partly because I'm always a horrible coder.
Speaker 2: I've been just trying to get a lot of stuff
Speaker 2: in that everybody wants. And then it's the it's the
Speaker 2: basics that that I miss So it's column sorting are left.
Speaker 2: Click and hold a column header and then move it
Speaker 2: to the left of the right.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can rearrange my columns.
Speaker 2: It took me six years to figure out how to do,
Speaker 2: but we now do it.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, Okay.
Speaker 2: And now in the in the main window, the buttons there,
Speaker 2: the and the ones that everybody loses track of, you
Speaker 2: can now sort them and put them where you want,
Speaker 2: ok can you really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, So I can put settings at the
Speaker 1: top left because that's when I'm always losing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Okay, there we go. Hey, I'm gonna put Poda up
Speaker 1: there too, because that's probably the one I'll be using most.
Speaker 2: Now, boom, and we got a new button released on
Speaker 2: the first is the qth button, the one right next
Speaker 2: to where you move that.
Speaker 1: Yes, I see it.
Speaker 2: Well, center the map on your on your home square,
Speaker 2: and so if you get confused off map is zoomed
Speaker 2: in too far to a point where there's no more
Speaker 2: map tiles being rendered, you press that button.
Speaker 1: It'll take the press the qth and boom right there. Awesome, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's good, Okay, sweet, I can't get over that. I
Speaker 1: really really do like that view.
Speaker 2: And we have I don't know if users know this,
Speaker 2: but there's I think twenty plus maps. So this is
Speaker 2: the fault map nick by Open street Maps. If you
Speaker 2: go to settings map, we have a drop down all
Speaker 2: sorts of map styles and you have full control over
Speaker 2: all the video aspects, the grids, colors, and the grids
Speaker 2: tab with what we called the QSX pathlines q r
Speaker 2: Z lines between people calling you back so you can
Speaker 2: make them wider, different color, full control.
Speaker 1: Lots of very cool, lots of settings in there. Okay.
Speaker 2: My favorite now is like gray by during the day
Speaker 2: and streets down below by night.
Speaker 1: Streets see street by earl or E S R L
Speaker 1: rother Yeah y S three S free okay, Okay, well
Speaker 1: yeah that's a neat one. Okay.
Speaker 2: So we're trying to we're making inroads now of not
Speaker 2: supporting just digital modes. The first has been with ac
Speaker 2: log getting rig updates from ac log. We would love
Speaker 2: to support fl digit other digital modes. One of the
Speaker 2: things I'm seeing is a big gap is the ability
Speaker 2: to know what the rig is doing. Because one rig
Speaker 2: or one app WSJTX ac log name it want exclusive
Speaker 2: access to the rig to get status, And I wish
Speaker 2: there was a common library, common interface that everybody would
Speaker 2: use to say, I'm just here. I just want to
Speaker 2: know what frequency we're on from what band. I don't
Speaker 2: want to control anything, I just want to read it.
Speaker 2: If there was a common interface where we can get
Speaker 2: that info. Ac log doesn't need to control your rig,
Speaker 2: but it would like to know where you are so
Speaker 2: you can fill out your logs. So I wish it
Speaker 2: was a comedy PI that was cross platform that allowed
Speaker 2: for sure w s g t X to control the rig,
Speaker 2: but a whole bunch of other apps can just say hey,
Speaker 2: what frequency are we on right now without having to
Speaker 2: talk to W s g t X that has to
Speaker 2: go through the rig. Right. So yeah, and that opens
Speaker 2: up the door for us to do more interesting things
Speaker 2: with good trackers. So you can, you know, use it
Speaker 2: for SSP, for c W.
Speaker 5: Is there a good place for us to reach out
Speaker 5: and if we have more questions after this more and
Speaker 5: more like a discord server, yes.
Speaker 2: For too. So our website grid tracker dot org on
Speaker 2: the right is a community link for our discord server.
Speaker 5: I'm going there now so I can get that link.
Speaker 1: Yep, grid tracker dot org right here and Discord on
Speaker 1: the right. I've been a member of this discord server
Speaker 1: for a long time. They were talking trash about me
Speaker 1: in there earlier before the live stream that and then
Speaker 1: tag they know he you know he's in here, right.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm teased. They weren't really doing that, but no,
Speaker 1: they were, Yeah, we were. They were talking. They shared
Speaker 1: this live stream in their in their discord, which I
Speaker 1: appreciate that so but yeah, so yeah, discord right there
Speaker 1: at the front of their front of their website.
Speaker 5: I thought I got to go and turn on all
Speaker 5: the suppression stuff. So yeah, all right, I've been there
Speaker 5: now too.
Speaker 2: We've been trying hard to make sure that hams enjoy
Speaker 2: grid Tracker and what we do with our updates. Don't
Speaker 2: you know, break break the bus, you know, break down
Speaker 2: I went. I wanted to go play FT eight this
Speaker 2: holiday season. So guess what we didn't do. We didn't release,
Speaker 2: so we had a stable version and we just sat
Speaker 2: on it. So we are mindful that people are now
Speaker 2: using this a lot, and we are mindful of not
Speaker 2: losing old features or mindful of people coming from the
Speaker 2: old version to the new. And there's a little bit
Speaker 2: of pain if you didn't update you're good tractor V
Speaker 2: one to the latest before this migration. But you know,
Speaker 2: it is what it is. But we're trying and we
Speaker 2: are thinking about you guys. We're not trying to, you know,
Speaker 2: make anybody's life hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Good, okay, awesome, awesome, And this is yeah it's free. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's free.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go download it. We do it, We do it.
Speaker 2: We do take donations, but you know, we're.
Speaker 1: Yeah, someone did ask earlier, how can we support the
Speaker 1: grid track or project? So what what's y'all's answer to that?
Speaker 2: Go to good tracker dot org and click the donate
Speaker 2: tap and then click there's a there's an icon there
Speaker 2: with a little hand with a coin on it. Just
Speaker 2: click it and it'll take you to our.
Speaker 5: Right here at the moneyop to push to, you know,
Speaker 5: the Apple Store to put it on there, the Apple
Speaker 5: Store so you can download on.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you haven't developer acount yet hundred hunter bucks
Speaker 4: a year then, oh yeah, Apple charge is yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we just used mine that I had anyway.
Speaker 5: So it's still it's still it's money.
Speaker 3: It is money.
Speaker 1: It is much.
Speaker 4: I did know three people donated to a grid tracker
Speaker 4: during during this stream it looks like, oh good, thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you for doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, good, excellent, excellent, okay, all right, anything else, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is going to be I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 1: taking this out on Poda now really am.
Speaker 2: Oh you've got a message odell one thing that we
Speaker 2: can talk about. Now. There's a flashing message sign right
Speaker 2: next to your mouth, and it's also on the app
Speaker 2: right here, and it's also in the window. Yes, they
Speaker 2: have a pending message from somebody. And then the lower
Speaker 2: right there, uh huh with the flame, that's a new
Speaker 2: message somebody saying hi.
Speaker 5: So it's say, built in chat room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's it's uh, peer to peer single right
Speaker 2: what uses our own service our off message but yeah,
Speaker 2: so you can talk to And then in the call
Speaker 2: roster there's a column called omes that you can enable,
Speaker 2: and that shows all the users that you're hearing who
Speaker 2: are on either log four OM or grid Tracker with
Speaker 2: message and messaging enabled, so you can click their call
Speaker 2: that there that message button and start a conversation with
Speaker 2: them over the internet. There's been some confusion that when
Speaker 2: you message here that you're going over there, you're not, or.
Speaker 1: You're going over the internet. Oh yeah, this is I.
Speaker 1: I used to use this when I was especially when
Speaker 1: I was on live streams. People would message me in
Speaker 1: version one. So this has been around for a while,
Speaker 1: so it's a neat feature.
Speaker 5: I like it.
Speaker 1: Cool. Okay, I turned that OAMS column on, so yeah,
Speaker 1: k E I think that's an eight K E eight
Speaker 1: jwe is on there. Okay, cool? Good, Okay, anything else
Speaker 1: that's all I had today? Okay. Well, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to trying this on Poda and hunting
Speaker 1: Poda even from here here from the shack, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fire this up tomorrow. Ten meters has been
Speaker 1: hot lately. Oh yeah, on FT eight especially, so I've
Speaker 1: been working a lot of ten meter FT eight recently,
Speaker 1: and uh, I'm looking forward to turn this back onto
Speaker 1: ten meters. It kind of dies down when the sun
Speaker 1: goes down, which was about two hours ago here, but
Speaker 1: uh but it'll be it'll be up and jumping again tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I bet so. I'm gonna try to get back on
Speaker 1: ten meters tomorrow and and with this new software and
Speaker 1: see how it works. Good. Well, Tag, thank you much
Speaker 1: for and bo both of you, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: much for being on tonight. This is uh, this is
Speaker 1: some cool, some cool updates you've made here. I think
Speaker 1: you're doing a really good thing with very forward thinking
Speaker 1: and responding to the community, like like you were talking
Speaker 1: about a minute ago. I think this is a great effort.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh so okay, good, all right, all right, Frank, if
Speaker 1: you want to do that now you can't go ahead?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well thank you. Jason. My next live
Speaker 5: stream over on tank Radio January twelfth. Go ahead and
Speaker 5: head over to tank Radio and there's the live stream
Speaker 5: that is up right now. Hit the notify me because
Speaker 5: it is gonna be an amazing gigapart sales. So if
Speaker 5: you missed out on the sale that we had a
Speaker 5: previous live stream, this is your second chance amazing gigapart sale.
Speaker 5: More details will be announced on the day of at
Speaker 5: the live stream. This is only gonna be available during
Speaker 5: the live stream, So go ahead, head over to tank
Speaker 5: Radio and go ahead and hit the notify me button
Speaker 5: so when that goes live, you won't forget. And it's
Speaker 5: gonna be awesome. It's gonna be awesome, and I'm trying
Speaker 5: to dig up the link. Here we go, Tank Radio bam.
Speaker 1: And Frank has a banner birthday this year like I
Speaker 1: did last year. Yes it's not the same birthday, but
Speaker 1: it is a banner birthday.
Speaker 5: Yes, it is a big birthday, Giga parts. It's helping
Speaker 5: me out celebrating. So this is the first live stream
Speaker 5: of the new year, and my birthday's new year, so
Speaker 5: this is the perfect time to do it. So I
Speaker 5: can't wait January twelfth. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: Can't wait. There, good deal. All right, guys, hang out
Speaker 1: on zoom for a minute. If you guys need to go,
Speaker 1: that's cool. If if not, to hang out on zoom
Speaker 1: for a minute, and I'm gonna close us out here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something a little bit different tonight. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna close us out here. Frank, thanks for the
Speaker 1: help tonight as always, and and then I'll be right
Speaker 1: back on zoom with you guys here in a minute.
Speaker 1: So I when when you sit in a hunting stand
Speaker 1: for I don't know, four five, six hours, you uh,
Speaker 1: you kind of get bored. So I started getting bored.
Speaker 1: I love to watch in Instagram reels, started watching Instagram
Speaker 1: reels and and I found some really cool Instagram reels
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know what, this might be something
Speaker 1: that we can do that I can talk about after
Speaker 1: a live stream. So we're going to see what how
Speaker 1: you guys? How you guys like this? But here's what
Speaker 1: we're going to do right here. I gotta find the
Speaker 1: right freaking' nope, front find the right template. Here we
Speaker 1: go right here? All right? So, uh, this one is
Speaker 1: about negative people. Don't want to be a negative person.
Speaker 1: And as a YouTuber, you get a lot of negative comments,
Speaker 1: you get a lot of positive comments. Also get a
Speaker 1: lot of positive comments on YouTube videos. The positive far
Speaker 1: outweighs the negative. But negative comment but for some reason,
Speaker 1: we as humans focus on the negative. So here's a
Speaker 1: here's a thought about negative people that I wanted you
Speaker 1: guys to hear.
Speaker 6: If people ruin your life, There was actually a study
Speaker 6: that was done in two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: It was called the bad Apple effect, where they took
Speaker 2: groups of fire.
Speaker 6: Life people and randomly added a negative person to some
Speaker 6: of the group to see how it would affect the
Speaker 6: group while they were working on tasks. The groups that
Speaker 6: had one negative person did forty percent worse on all
Speaker 6: of their tasks and the quality of their work decreased
Speaker 6: by twenty five percent. They also found that groups that
Speaker 6: had a negative person had fifty percent more conflicts and
Speaker 6: more disagreements, which led to less effective collaboration. The crazy
Speaker 6: part about it, though these sessions were only like thirty
Speaker 6: to sixty minutes. Some of you have had negative people
Speaker 6: in your life, your entire life, though, Imagine what they're
Speaker 6: doing to you mentally.
Speaker 1: If people ruin your nuts, a minute kind of starts
Speaker 1: over again. So I found I found that, and I
Speaker 1: found a lot of other ones too, And I found
Speaker 1: and that just kind of spoke to me, and I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, it is a good it's a good outlook
Speaker 1: to put into perspective when you get negative comments about
Speaker 1: people about anything. There's a lot of back and forth
Speaker 1: on YouTube comments about bail fans or ruining Ham Radio
Speaker 1: or you know, we shouldn't be talking to GMRS people
Speaker 1: or whatever the heck okay, and some kind of outlandish comments.
Speaker 1: Don't be the negative person. Don't be the negative person
Speaker 1: in Ham radio. Be the positive person. Be a positive
Speaker 1: influence in Ham Radio, because that's what's gonna draw more
Speaker 1: people to Ham Radio and get us, get us to
Speaker 1: grow as a community. So I just thought i'd share
Speaker 1: that with you guys tonight, so thank you for joining me.
Speaker 1: I am going to kick off a new repeater initiative.
Speaker 1: I was gonna try it, I didn't have it ready
Speaker 1: quite today, so be watching for that this week. Key
Speaker 1: up your local repeaters and do and get those more active.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make twenty twenty five the year of rebirth
Speaker 1: for repeaters. So seventy three guys, thank you for joining
Speaker 1: us tonight. Check out grid Tracker at their website, go
Speaker 1: join their discord. Thank those guys if you talk to
Speaker 1: them in the discord for being on this live stream.
Speaker 1: And when they have some new update it's turn in
Speaker 1: a few months or a year, or however long it is.
Speaker 1: When they make another update again, we'll we'll bring them
Speaker 1: back on the show because this is great information. Seventy
Speaker 1: three to all, and y'all have a good evening.