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 --> 00:00:30.079 sign up today and thank you for the support. I 9 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:31.719 don't know, Freddie, we might have some of that on 10 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:39.759 next weekend. Brother blowing snow sideways in Oklahoma right now? Yeah? No, thanks. 11 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:45.479 I don't know either snow or you know, either snow 12 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.799 or get or be windy. Don't do both, don't. I 13 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:51.240 don't think I want to. I don't think I want 14 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:54.119 to have both out there or not. But hey, guys, 15 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:57.560 good evening. Seriously, it's weird out here because this shack 16 00:00:57.640 --> 00:00:59.759 is actually a shack in my backyard. Gosh, I just 17 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.799 bump that it's actually a shack in my backyard. And 18 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:06.079 I'm not inside my house and inside my shack, so 19 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:10.519 the building's small, I can hear everything. It's not moving. 20 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:12.599 The building's not moving, so I should be thankful for that, 21 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:16.159 but it's a it's a it's a bit weird, a 22 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:19.959 bit weird. I can hear I don't know something. Something's 23 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:21.760 moving around out there. I can hear it. But all right, 24 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:25.480 good deal. Hey Ham Radio two point zero live stream 25 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.760 Sunday night. Thanks for joining us. I hope everyone's staying warm. 26 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:30.200 Uh. 27 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:34.719 It is a new year. Happy new year. If I 28 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.359 have not spoken to you since last year, Happy new 29 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.560 Year to all. Thanks for being here tonight. Special shout 30 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:44.040 out to folks in green text in the chat. Wayne, 31 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:46.359 I saw you in there, Buddy and W five WNR. 32 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:48.599 I saw that you said you got your battery arrived 33 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:50.959 a few days ago, so good deal. Congratulations on that, 34 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:54.719 Tom W B seven O U T I see AA 35 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:58.400 zero am in there, Tim gray Man Poda, thanks for joining, 36 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:04.599 Freddie Max in there, him Radio Crusader, W five WLG 37 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:07.560 Wayne Brian to see you in there. Thanks for joining Vic, 38 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:13.560 Stephen Vick again. Who else is in there? Let's see 39 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:18.120 Chris Radio in life, Ron Can for z VU thanks 40 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.719 for joining us tonight. Is O's in the house, h 41 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.159 He says he has his cigar. Hopefully it's not too 42 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:25.960 cold where you are, of course, it's probably always cold 43 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:29.360 where you are is zoh. So he said it's thirty 44 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:31.599 five early. Okay, so that's with the wind show. I 45 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:34.439 think it's gonna be slower. It's colder than that here. 46 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:39.000 So Michael don in five SKT dark Side Overland, what's 47 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:42.680 up Patrick? We were just talking about some overlanding trips 48 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.879 a minute ago. Patrick mentioned that probably talk about that 49 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.759 a little bit during the stream here. So couple of things. 50 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:51.000 So I had mentioned, uh, we're gonna get started here 51 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.199 in just a minute with grid tracker two two. They 52 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:57.240 got a two behind it. I'm gonna try to talk 53 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:59.840 him into make making it two point zero. But you guys, uh, 54 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.560 you be on my side when we bring them on 55 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.199 here in a minute. So, but first saying, I had 56 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:08.599 mentioned on the Happy Hour last month that I have 57 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:14.280 budgeted some money for twenty twenty five, and I now have. Frank, 58 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:16.599 I should have given you this, but I didn't. I 59 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:19.000 now have the first sign up form for the first 60 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.520 ah Chef Radio giveaway for twenty twenty five. Ham Radio 61 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:27.199 two dot com forward slash January twenty five, should take 62 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.759 you to this form Hamradio two dot com forward slash 63 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.919 January twenty five. I know, yeah, you probably won't be 64 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:36.800 able to spell January correctly, Frank, so let me yeah, 65 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:38.879 there it is right there. I will share this in 66 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:40.919 the chat here we go. I'll put all these links 67 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.719 in the description below as well or in when the 68 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:47.479 video when the livestream's done. So January Hamradio two dot 69 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:50.000 com forward slash January twenty twenty five will take you 70 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:53.400 to this sign up form name, email addressing, call sign. 71 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:55.879 Even if you're on my current email address, you need 72 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:58.800 to sign up on this new address. You will not 73 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:04.599 get duplicate emails, but this list will be all the 74 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:07.479 people who sign up for the HF radio that will 75 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:10.439 be given away at the end of this month, probably 76 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:15.199 a yay zuo Ft eight ninety one. Probably probably a 77 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:19.480 yay zu Ft eight ninety one, because I got picked 78 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:21.240 one of those up on the Let's make a Deal 79 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:25.480 gigaparts thing, and when I ordered, I said it would 80 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.120 be two to four weeks before its ships, which should 81 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.519 be before end of January anyway. But I got a 82 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:32.759 ship and notification from them last week, so it's very 83 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:35.279 possible that thing's gonna arrive sometime in the next few days, 84 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.160 and of course I'll take pictures of it whatnot, So 85 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.199 we'll talk about it then, but yeah, probably the Yazoo 86 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:42.879 and if not, I have another I have an icon 87 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:45.879 coming as well, so we'll keep you posted on that. 88 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:48.360 But you guys go sign up for that. Good luck 89 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:51.240 to you. We will talk about that on more live 90 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:54.000 streams and do the drawing on probably the last live 91 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:58.000 stream of this, probably the last live stream of January. 92 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:00.240 We'll see, I'm gonna hammer that out. We got the 93 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:02.759 nice we got the folks from winter field Day coming 94 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:05.279 on in a couple of weeks, and we've got the 95 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:07.879 folks from ham Kash coming on the weekend after that. 96 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.160 So we've got some cool live streams upcoming for you guys. 97 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:16.040 And I had talked about speaking of some overland stuff. 98 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:19.040 So I got hooked up with a group called Agape 99 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:22.600 Overland out of North Texas, and they do they do. 100 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.319 They do kind of spur the moment trips like they've done. 101 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.079 They did a they did a camp out at LBJ 102 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.439 Grasslands sometime in like mid December. They planned one for 103 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:36.800 New Year's Eve, and I went out there and hung 104 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:38.879 out with him for a few hours. And then they 105 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:41.560 already have and they kind of spur the moment to this. 106 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:45.639 Yesterday they went out to place up in Oklahoma, Blue 107 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.519 Lake at the Blue River something like that, do some 108 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:52.360 trout fishing. They got trout stock ponds up in Oklahoma, 109 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.279 only about two or three hours away. So this really cool. Anyway, 110 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:57.720 So we're gonna do We're gonna do a ham radio 111 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:59.800 two point zero gathering, kind of like a test bed, 112 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:02.600 a gathering up here at some point. This is a 113 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:06.519 PoTA spot. It's dispersed camping. It's free. We drive off 114 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:08.439 the end of the place. You can drive off the 115 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:10.639 road and camp anywhere that's within like ten or twelve 116 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.319 feet of the road, and there are some exceptions for that. 117 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:15.240 There is a pavilion in there. You can I think, 118 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:16.920 I think you just reserve it. I don't even think 119 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:19.800 it costs anything. I don't think it. But the whole 120 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:21.759 thing is a PoTA spot, and I really really want 121 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:26.360 to do a camping overnight camping gathering, something for folks 122 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:28.600 who are interested in off roading but also ham radio 123 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.560 at a PoTA spot. It's been my hope to do 124 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:32.879 that for the last year and a half. So we're 125 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:34.879 gonna do that. No dates on that yet, We're gonna 126 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:38.519 talk about it soon. We're gonna also talk about the 127 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:41.720 more expo upcoming in about four months in April, so 128 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:44.519 more to come on all of that very soon. Sign 129 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.160 up for the giveaway and just be thinking in the 130 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.040 back of your head if you want to if you 131 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:53.279 want to go camping, overlanding and do some PODA with this, 132 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:55.839 that's going to be a thing very soon. All right, 133 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:59.680 that's enough of me talking. Let's go ahead and bring 134 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:03.279 on the team here. Tag Bo, how are you guys 135 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:09.920 doing tonight? Good? How what's the weather like where you 136 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:15.519 guys are? Where are you at? 137 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:19.439 Oh? 138 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.120 Yeah, it's always cold in Oregon, isn't it well this 139 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:28.040 time of year? So yeah, okay, all right, good it's wet. Yeah, yeah, 140 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.079 I imagine so cool. Bo, you're a You're in an 141 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:36.879 r V in Arizona, not too far from Courtsfest. 142 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:40.279 Went to Courtsfest this year when the last couple of years, 143 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.480 but the timing didn't work out. So we're heading to 144 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.800 Tucson soon. Oh okay, at a BLM campground right now, 145 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:50.639 which I just realized he's close to National Historic Trail, 146 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:53.560 So yeah, missed a POTO opportunity. 147 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:59.439 Nice nice, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, sorry, guys, I 148 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:02.759 fixed the My bad, My bad, I was I was 149 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:05.000 trying to keep frank out in my ear and nobody 150 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:07.879 can blame me for that. So tag once again to 151 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:10.160 introduce yourself. Tell us where you are because I had 152 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:11.600 you muted by mistake on that part. 153 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:18.319 Oh, I'm Tag Willmas. I'm in Lebanon, Oregon, and it's 154 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:21.759 about fifty degrees out rainy and cold rain. 155 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:26.160 Yeah. Yeah, Now, Tagger, you the original creator of grid Tracker. 156 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:27.079 Am I wrong about that? 157 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:27.959 You are correct? 158 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:28.720 Okay? 159 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:32.240 I released it in February twenty eighteen. I worked with 160 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:37.600 Henry Forte and two VFL. He worked on the data 161 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:40.759 with me, but that was all the grid squares for 162 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:44.919 all of the dxccs. There was a lot of initial 163 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:49.000 work we came up with. And then yeah, so it's 164 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.200 coming up on seven years. 165 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:54.960 Wow. Nice okay, And this one's called grid Tracker two 166 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.320 point oh. All right, well I want to I'm gonna 167 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.360 call it. I'm gonna call it two point oh. That 168 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:01.399 kind of just rolled off my tongue these days, though. 169 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:01.720 Sure. 170 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.879 No, No, it's actually called grid Tracker two when you 171 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:09.399 download it, and and it's the executable files a grid 172 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:12.080 Tracker two. And I got that all installed up and 173 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:13.559 we're gonna look at that here in a second. So 174 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.159 what what are some of the major updates you've made 175 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:19.960 to it to make it a version two. There's actually 176 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:23.600 been a lot of updates to it. I had Sebastian 177 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.360 on the live stream two or three years ago and 178 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:29.159 we went through what grid Tracker did you know how 179 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:31.240 to do? Certain things, went through the menus, whatnot. Was 180 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.480 really great. There's been a lot of updates since then. 181 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.279 So what makes this one version two as compared to 182 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:38.799 some of the other So we. 183 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:41.000 Ran into an issue. We were using an old framework 184 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:44.480 called Node webcit also known as nw JS, and so 185 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:48.039 that allowed us to be cross platform on Mac, Linux, Windows, 186 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:51.279 and it was starting to show with Age wasn't staying 187 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:54.720 up current with bug fixes, and we were getting a 188 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:59.080 lot of issues on older Windows systems and max Firewall, 189 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.919 and there new entitlement issues for apps on the Mac. 190 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.600 So unless you were following all the rules, our app 191 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:08.879 was going to stop working very soon. So we decided 192 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:13.480 to convert to Electron, which is another it's a similar 193 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:18.039 system that uses Chrome and Node together to create a 194 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:23.279 Basically you're running grid Tracker just like Discord or Spotify, 195 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:27.399 is all running Chrome Engine, so you're running a Chromium 196 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:30.240 web browser with a node back end to talk to 197 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:35.279 hardware and and so that gives us cross platform ability. 198 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.600 And that's where bo Gunderson came in and helped out 199 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:42.240 with our conversion from this old system NWJS to Electron. 200 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:44.480 So that's that's where the two point oh comes from. 201 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:45.360 Gotcha. 202 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:48.759 And then we've we've added new projections driven by both. 203 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:53.279 He wanted to see what we where the how the 204 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:56.679 intent is working. Uh, you know as far as the 205 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.519 distance right now are on a two D map where 206 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:04.000 what we call them a cater projection, when you see 207 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:08.200 a signal, you'll see an arc and right, So we 208 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.320 have a new projection which is from your perspective, all 209 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:15.600 transmitting lines are straight because that's how the actual uh 210 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:19.080 you know, on a on a sphere, that's how the 211 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:21.960 signal is propagating, is a straight line. So now you 212 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.480 can we can now display that on a on a map. 213 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:27.080 And that's been a big part of things to both. 214 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:29.440 So good interesting. 215 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:32.440 I like that idea because you're you're right, it's not 216 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.720 the arcadia of projection going across right. 217 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:37.679 Yeah, that's a good idea. 218 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:39.960 And so we had some We we fixed some things 219 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:41.879 with the call roster. There was a lot of issues 220 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.919 with actual log loading. We had some discrepancies with UH 221 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.320 filesloading out of order. That is, we would load confirmed 222 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:53.759 before we reloaded your cute you know, your unconfirmed QSO files. 223 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.600 So there was a lot of issues with the one 224 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:58.759 point zero code base that we just needed to clean up, 225 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.840 and so we took a six week break of not 226 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:06.840 updating version one, converted to electron, started with the new maps, 227 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.080 made some changes to the UI a little bit. You know, 228 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.879 we didn't leave everything in the you know, on the floor, 229 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:13.679 but there were some things that we threw away. The 230 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:17.600 old audio alert system was completely out of sync with 231 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:21.240 the call roster. So if you had said that you 232 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:23.080 were listening to live band and mode and the call 233 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.480 roster and you were listening to mixband and mode in 234 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:30.519 for your audio alerts, then when you got an alert, 235 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:32.399 you didn't know why you weren't seeing it in the 236 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:35.799 call roster. So now we've synchronized them both. So you know, 237 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:37.480 we need to get an audio alert you know why. 238 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:39.559 If you look at the color roster you'll see it there. 239 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:42.320 So and you can independently turn them on and off. 240 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:45.840 For things you're interested in. So in my case, like 241 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:48.600 six meter, when I'm on six meter ft eight, I 242 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.960 want to know new grids, but I don't really I'm 243 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:53.919 not hunting states at that point. So I can have 244 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:58.960 six meter grids enabled for audio alerts, but I have 245 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:01.960 them both enabled for the call roster, so I can 246 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:04.799 see them both pop in, but only if I'm not 247 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:07.200 at my desk. If I hear a new grid from 248 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:09.039 my computer, I can run over and work the station. 249 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:13.879 Okay, that's cool, Okay, all right, good, And with a 250 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.559 call roster, you're you're hunting for specific call signs. 251 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:20.960 I'm looking for grids and states on six meters, okay, 252 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.200 so on other you know, other bands like ten meters, 253 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:28.360 I'm looking to look states or grids or d xCC. 254 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:34.120 But yeah DXCC on ten meters for sure. So okay, okay, good, okay, 255 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:37.039 Well let's switch on. Well, bo, do you do you 256 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:38.279 have anything to add to that? I don't want to 257 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:39.600 leave you out of the conversation, so. 258 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:43.200 Uh no, Just you know, my contribute contributions have been 259 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:47.240 relatively modest. You know, I'm a new contributor and helps 260 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:51.320 a lot with the electron conversion because I maintain some 261 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:56.600 other electron apps works really well. Notorization and signing for 262 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.679 mac os is a is a benefit of that. So 263 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:03.080 if you if you see my name in the like, 264 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:05.399 you know signed by if you're on Mac that's why. 265 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.159 Oh okay, and Windows as well, you're signing around. 266 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.720 Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I have yeah from a from 267 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:14.600 a yet a different electron app. I maintained, got all 268 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:19.440 the Windows stuff ready, So yeah, it's a ton of improvements. 269 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:23.399 I've used it a bunch for PoTA activations, uh as 270 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:27.080 as we have been beta testing it. Uh, and yeah, 271 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.240 I'm excited about all all the new stuff tag has added. 272 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:35.559 Mostly is uh, does it run natively in Linux? Yes, 273 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.360 it does. It does Debian flavor or something else. 274 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.000 We have packages for every Linux flavor except really except 275 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.039 for uh, Intel we do not support. 276 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:50.120 So yeah, that's that's probably what about rasbiyan or just 277 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:51.240 Raspberry pios. 278 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:55.399 It works on Raspberry five five through three. Three is 279 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:59.840 really painful, uh, but it does work for It's a 280 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.080 a little sluggish depending on what you have on screen. 281 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:06.000 Sometimes some people will have to disable three D acceleration, 282 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:10.879 but not everybody. And on the fives it works like 283 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:11.279 a dream. 284 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:13.720 Okay, what about on a four? 285 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:16.720 Oh oh sorry, Yeah, on a four it works pretty good. 286 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:19.679 Okay, all right, Yeah, I just I'm working on a 287 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.159 I had mentioned on another video. I'm working on a 288 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:25.159 kind of like a what they call a cyber deck, 289 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:28.600 and it's just basically a Raspberry pie minds a Pie 290 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:31.200 four with a big hard drive. That's all this stuff 291 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:33.399 that's downloaded on it. It's already installed, so you can 292 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:34.919 go out into the field and connect it to your 293 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:36.639 radio and use everything. But you don't have to be 294 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:39.279 on the internet to do it. So but yeah, that 295 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.759 if it's uh if, and I think I already got 296 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:43.759 I think I'm pretty sure already get downloaded grid tracker 297 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:45.799 two for that, because I sent you that. I think 298 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:47.679 I sent you a message and said it's it's called 299 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:52.440 an installer dot exx, which sometimes that means you download 300 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:54.440 a little file and when you click on the installer, 301 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:57.360 it does this web get from from the website. And 302 00:15:57.399 --> 00:15:59.320 I wanted to know if it was a full installer 303 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:01.399 that you downloaded or just a web geit, and you 304 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:04.440 told me it was the full thing, which is my 305 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:06.320 preferred way to do it, obviously, So but. 306 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:09.360 Yeah, so caveat the caveat to that is the call 307 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:13.200 sign databases US call sign and call signs. Those are 308 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:16.960 pulled after you've installed it. So maybe one time before 309 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.159 you go out in the field down, you know, let it, 310 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:22.200 let it go, grab the databases it needs, and that's 311 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.039 all you need. But it will still operate without you, 312 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:28.000 just won't be able to see the call sign. I'm 313 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:31.200 not the states where a US callers are coming from. 314 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:35.840 Okay, okay, fair enough, fair enough, it's good, good, good. 315 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:38.519 I see some questions in there, Frank, Are you on 316 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:39.000 top of that? 317 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:42.200 Yes, I okay, watching you in the background for any questions, 318 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:44.879 and I'll be uh interjecting them if where they make 319 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:46.320 sense or holding them to the end. 320 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.240 Okay, good, all right, So let's just uh, let's just 321 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:53.080 pull this up right here. So I've got I've got 322 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:55.559 Griod tracker running. This is this screen over on the 323 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:58.879 left hand side of my screen, right here, and I 324 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:02.879 can easily zoom in and out of you can mouse 325 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:05.920 over this and tell who that station is that's there, 326 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:11.319 and the yellow is I lost the legend it was 327 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:14.640 telling me a second ago the yellow is grids. I 328 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:16.559 don't have the bluest grids. I do have or I 329 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:17.519 may have that backwards. 330 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.440 The yellow are your worked okay, and the green and 331 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.480 blues are are live. So actually, if you go to 332 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.599 the Matthew filters on the right there and yes, select 333 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:31.079 data and select the data from logbook to live and light. 334 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:33.519 No not that. Then a few more down or it 335 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:35.160 says logbook and live, change that to. 336 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:38.599 Just live logbook and live, just live. Okay. 337 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:41.559 So here here's just live track okay. That your radio 338 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:42.200 is here. 339 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:43.279 Okay. 340 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:45.160 The other is what you've worked, so you can you 341 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.880 can switch between them. But for me when I'm working, 342 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:51.160 I keep the clutter on the screen down. But it's 343 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:52.599 you know, user preference. 344 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.559 Right, yeah, yes, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Now, the I don't 345 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:57.920 know what the name of the window is, but there 346 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:00.519 was a window in the older version that had just 347 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:02.920 the list of call signs everything was hearing that was 348 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:04.279 being shown on the map and it was like on 349 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:07.839 a window to the to the side or something, and 350 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:12.680 I'm that's the call roster okay, so that's probably this right, Yeah, 351 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:15.359 that's what I'm looking for right there. Okay, good, I'm 352 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.119 gonna put that over top of this right here. So 353 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:22.599 there's your call roster there, Okay, all right, so we can. 354 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:25.599 And I noticed that the band was you know, you 355 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:29.440 pretty much had to tell it which band you were on. 356 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:32.599 On the old one, Nope, you always were able to 357 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:36.480 select auto. And if you check auto, whatever WSJKX set 358 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:38.839 to is, what is the grid tracker set to? 359 00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:42.119 Okay, I was. I had it set to auto earlier today. 360 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:43.519 When I was I was kind of fiddling with it 361 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:45.799 and it was show. And when I moved it to 362 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:47.440 ten and I was on ten meters at the time. 363 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:48.920 When I moved it to ten meters, a bunch of 364 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.200 the squares changed. So maybe that was because of this 365 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:54.400 this mixed and live thing that I was on before 366 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:56.759 or this I'm sorry, this live and I had it 367 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:58.079 on logbook and live. 368 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:00.160 Right, And so you'll see when you have a on 369 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:02.359 that and you're switching bands, you'll see your different work 370 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:03.839 for that band in mode. 371 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:07.799 Gotcha? Joh Okay, that makes sense? Okay, good? Yeah, So 372 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:09.519 the good thing is right here. You can see who's 373 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:12.599 the second column. The first column is the call sign 374 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:14.400 right here. It might be a little bit small on 375 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:16.839 the screen for you guys, just to you know, maximize 376 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:20.160 the window there. And this call sign is your first column. 377 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:22.119 Here in the in the call roster, and the second 378 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:25.160 column is the station that they're talking to, or if 379 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:27.640 they're calling CQ, they're highlighted in green like that. So 380 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.359 it's really easy to see who's calling CQ, right, And 381 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:32.359 I've always thought that was a neat And you can 382 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:34.519 click here, I can. If I click there, my radio 383 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:36.599 will start calling back to that CQ station. 384 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:37.839 If you click their call sign. 385 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:40.519 Yeah, if you click the call sign, okay, okay, that's 386 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:42.799 what it is. And then go ahead. 387 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:45.599 You can filter at the top. We have exceptions at 388 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.079 the top right where you can define only wanted and 389 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:52.079 CQ only and that will reduce all the clutter to 390 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:53.799 more things you're really interested. 391 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:54.920 Yeah, gotcha. 392 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:57.720 So you're not seeing all the traffic from wsjt X. 393 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:04.519 Right right, Okay, it's good. And then can you can 394 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:08.359 you switch from well, if I wanted to just see DX, 395 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:10.799 would that be not my DXCC or only my DEA, 396 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:15.039 not my dxc C, not my DXCC. Okay, all right, 397 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:16.839 so right now now I'm on twenty meters now because 398 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:20.359 ten meters kind of died. I'm seeing Chile, Dominican Republic, 399 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:21.920 the Azores in Puerto Rico. 400 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:25.920 Is while you're talking about the context, is there a 401 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:29.000