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<v Speaker 1>Okay, Happy Sunday to everybody. Appreciate you guys being here tonight,

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<v Speaker 1>and Radio Tube in the house. My wife is in

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<v Speaker 1>the chat and several others of you are in the

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<v Speaker 1>chat there, so thank you for joining us tonight Sunday

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<v Speaker 1>Night Live stream. Ham Radio two point zero special shout

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<v Speaker 1>out to the folks in Green text and the chat

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<v Speaker 1>Ham Radio Crusader in there earlier. Thanks Freddy, Andy A

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<v Speaker 1>zero A MS in there, k Q four h x Q, Mike, saw,

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<v Speaker 1>Phil Todd. Let's see who else, Michael, KD eight G

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<v Speaker 1>I J I think I'm reading that right. Randall's in there,

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<v Speaker 1>Jody's in there. M netics huh v E five s

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<v Speaker 1>a ar hm netics so whatever that means. So thanks

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<v Speaker 1>for being there, guys, Brian to see you in there,

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<v Speaker 1>K E eight O VP, appreciate you guys being here tonight.

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<v Speaker 1>And oh there's a couple of Andy's. Yeah, they can't

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<v Speaker 1>hear you right now, Frank, there's there's a couple of Andy. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>there's Andy Kelly from the UK, and then there's A

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<v Speaker 1>A zero A m Andy. He's in there often as well.

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<v Speaker 1>So that is yep, that's the that's where it's at

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<v Speaker 1>but okay, so let me let me in fact, let

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<v Speaker 1>me just let me just bring Frank on real quick. Hi.

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<v Speaker 2>Hi, how you doing good?

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<v Speaker 1>Man?

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<v Speaker 2>Doing good? I wonder and and I know I should

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<v Speaker 2>have asked beforehand. I wonder how the pre sales are

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<v Speaker 2>and those mugs are going. Man, you know what people

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<v Speaker 2>hit me up? I ordered?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah I will. I'll pull that up real quick, because yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I've I've had I've had several of them sold. And

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<v Speaker 1>let me make this transition over here right there. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>there we go. So Tank Radio Coffee mug pre order.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a pretty cool looking mugg. It kind of looks

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<v Speaker 1>like that Yazu.

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<v Speaker 2>Mugl I kind of like it because the unique style

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<v Speaker 2>of it and everything, and it's not just like hey

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<v Speaker 2>it's a coffee mug. Oh you beat me to it.

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<v Speaker 2>I just found it. Oh sure, yeah man, Yeah, this

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<v Speaker 2>coffee mugs is to help support me and Tank Radio

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<v Speaker 2>and I. The is only only only a limited order,

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<v Speaker 2>so you have to pre order it. After I close

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<v Speaker 2>the pre orders, no more mugs are going to be

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<v Speaker 2>sold and I'm going to fulfill them. So get your mug.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, get it now, Get the mug now. Okay, yep,

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<v Speaker 1>sweet okay, Uh yeah, Jody says, I changed channel names

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<v Speaker 1>like I changed underwear, trying to show politicians how it's done.

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<v Speaker 1>There we go right there.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, politicians should be changed.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, often and frequently. That's right. Really, you're not gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be frank on now. It's gonna bring Frank cok. Just

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<v Speaker 1>kind of kind of ignoring him for as long as

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<v Speaker 1>I could, but you know, you know how that goes. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm stalling a little bit because I traded texts

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<v Speaker 1>with Chris yesterday to confirm our live stream today and

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<v Speaker 1>he's like, yep, we're all good, all good, all good.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I sent him the zoom link earlier and

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<v Speaker 1>told him what time he knew what time it was.

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<v Speaker 1>I told him what time it was, and uh, he

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<v Speaker 1>hasn't He hasn't joined yet. So we're just gonna sit

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<v Speaker 1>here in gab until he till he joined.

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<v Speaker 2>I am kind of ashamed. You've been talking about this book.

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<v Speaker 2>Josh Ham radio Craft course has been talking about this book.

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<v Speaker 2>Mike has formerly known as I'm forgetting his other channel.

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<v Speaker 2>Now I have radio stuff. Now he's Tube, but his

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<v Speaker 2>former I like to call the former. That's fun all

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<v Speaker 2>been talking about this book and I have not done

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<v Speaker 2>anything with it yet. I should have put it in

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<v Speaker 2>my audio. It is audio.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't get it in an audio. Yes, uh huh,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I read him, but yes, you can do that.

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<v Speaker 2>Because I I only listened to audiobooks because y'all know

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<v Speaker 2>how I read.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well yeah, yeah, let's see all Star Ooh.

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<v Speaker 2>Brian asked, will Sapphire be on the next mug? That

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<v Speaker 2>is a great idea. That's an idea, Sapphire mug the

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<v Speaker 2>tank radio mug to a beautiful blue Oh all right,

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<v Speaker 2>we're gonna pin that, and I'm writing it down. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>writing it down because I'm looking for new ideas, because

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<v Speaker 2>I like limited time orders because it's unique. And then

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<v Speaker 2>you'd be like, oh, I've been it's a fan way

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<v Speaker 2>back in the day. I got the mug and the

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<v Speaker 2>whiskey glass and the coin. Ah. I'm just I like

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<v Speaker 2>those little little calls. That's cool, all right.

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<v Speaker 1>So a couple of people are talking about my All

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<v Speaker 1>Star Yeah no, my All Star system. Here's here's all

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<v Speaker 1>the people that are connected to it right now? Uh

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<v Speaker 1>in in in five h y h ron he was,

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<v Speaker 1>I was training some emails with him earlier in the week.

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<v Speaker 1>He keeped up about a half hour ago. I have

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<v Speaker 1>not been on it for a week and a half

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<v Speaker 1>because I've been in Alaska. We took it. My wife

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<v Speaker 1>and I flew to Anchorage a week ago last Wednesday,

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<v Speaker 1>and we were in fact, there's kJ five e h

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<v Speaker 1>N right there Solina, Texas. So yeah, but let's see

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<v Speaker 1>who was it that just said that. Arthur is saying

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<v Speaker 1>W six h R who he's on there often he's like,

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<v Speaker 1>can you have can you reboot it? Having an issue connected?

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<v Speaker 1>We've still have we still have the connection issues that

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<v Speaker 1>we have not addressed yet because well, because I've done

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<v Speaker 1>some traveling, I have some live streams already planned and

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<v Speaker 1>we were gonna upgrade to all Start two dot ZHO,

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<v Speaker 1>but but.

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<v Speaker 2>Hold on, hold on all.

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<v Speaker 1>Star three dot oh is now available. They just came

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<v Speaker 1>out with I've been trading emails with a guy that's

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<v Speaker 1>that's writing some ASL, some of the ASL developers, and

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna get him and Charlie Freddy Mac Charlie Mack

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<v Speaker 1>Freddy Mack crusader him ready to crusader in the chat.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna get them on probably Kyle two and we're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna talk about upgrading the system to All Star three dot. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I just got to find a Sunday to do that

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<v Speaker 1>where I don't have a guest that's on that's not

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<v Speaker 1>showing up on time. So so we'll see, we'll see

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<v Speaker 1>what happens with that. But yeah, so some sometimes, uh

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes I still have to reboot it, although I've got

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<v Speaker 1>people who just connected to it in the last few minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'll go ahead and reboot it if because I

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<v Speaker 1>know that I know that Arthur's in there often and

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<v Speaker 1>uh yeah, so let me just do that now. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>just gonna log in right now and reboot this.

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<v Speaker 2>Sweet sweet hand rate of tectonics. Bill Man said that

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<v Speaker 2>the guy that reads him on audible does a great job. Bill.

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<v Speaker 2>We're gonna miss you at the Yellowstone Trip, but stay safe.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So, everybody who's connected to the over right now,

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<v Speaker 1>the all Star hub is number for three one three six.

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<v Speaker 1>I am gonna reboot it real fast. A lot of

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<v Speaker 1>you have auto connect on and that's cool. Appreciate you

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<v Speaker 1>guys being connected so regularly, and but I do still

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<v Speaker 1>have some of that issue going on where the All

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<v Speaker 1>Star system will disallow some people, but not everybody to connect.

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<v Speaker 1>It'll disallow connections at random sometimes. So but yeah, that's.

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<v Speaker 2>The door check's kind of calling you out about the activation.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well that's I was gonna. I was gonna I

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<v Speaker 1>was gonna talk about that anyway. So what we did

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<v Speaker 1>is we went to so long story short, let me

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<v Speaker 1>get back to the right template here. We flew to

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<v Speaker 1>Anchorage a week ago last Wednesday. We spent the night

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<v Speaker 1>in Anchorage. We were supposed to fly out in the

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<v Speaker 1>morning or no, like at one or two in the afternoon,

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<v Speaker 1>and we eat which got in our American Airlines app

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<v Speaker 1>we got a notification saying, would you like a three

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<v Speaker 1>hundred dollars voucher to delay your flight by like two hours?

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<v Speaker 1>And we're like sure, so we both took that. Uh So,

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<v Speaker 1>we took the voucher, got got a credit for a

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<v Speaker 1>ticket later on, and then we arrived. So we arrived

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<v Speaker 1>two or three hours later. We arrived that evening in Anchorage.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course, they're like four hours behind US. Alaskan time

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<v Speaker 1>is no, I'm sorry, three hours behind US. Alaskan time

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<v Speaker 1>is one hour behind California time. So uh so we

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<v Speaker 1>got there that night. We pretty much just went to

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<v Speaker 1>the Airbnb or the hotel we're saying that, went to bed,

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<v Speaker 1>got up the next morning, tooled around Anchorage for a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit, found a cool smoke shop there, got a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of cigars, and got rented a car and drove

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<v Speaker 1>to it. Drove south to Seward, Alaska, which is where

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<v Speaker 1>the ship leaves, and it and it and we spent

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<v Speaker 1>the night in Seward on Thursday, got up Friday, turned

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<v Speaker 1>the car in, went to the ship and took a

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<v Speaker 1>seven day cruise throughout ports in Alaska.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, that sounds amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was fun. It was a good trip. It

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<v Speaker 1>was a good trip. It was in the forties. It

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<v Speaker 1>was between like forty five and sixty five the whole day,

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<v Speaker 1>the whole time, and most of the time it was

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<v Speaker 1>in the fifties, not even up over sixty and it

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't too cold, but but it was. It was fun.

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<v Speaker 1>It was good. So we stopped at two different national

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<v Speaker 1>park well the national for there's one called I can't

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<v Speaker 1>remember the names of them.

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<v Speaker 2>Now.

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<v Speaker 1>There was a national forest we saw and it was huge.

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<v Speaker 1>While we were driving from Anchorage down to Seward, we

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<v Speaker 1>were driving in a national forest for probably one third

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<v Speaker 1>of that one quarter to one third of that trip.

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<v Speaker 1>So had I had a mobile HF antenna, I could

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<v Speaker 1>have put it on the rental car and been doing

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<v Speaker 1>mobile HF on FT eight, or me even calling CQ

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<v Speaker 1>with the microphone. So I didn't know that. I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>know that the route we were gonna go it was

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<v Speaker 1>going to go through National Forest. I could have been

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<v Speaker 1>in the National Forest making QSO's the whole time, but

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know that. So all I brought was my

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<v Speaker 1>infed halfway and we stopped inside of the National Forest

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<v Speaker 1>and set up one day, and I was hearing stations

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<v Speaker 1>on twenty meters FT eight, but I was I called

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<v Speaker 1>CQ for probably twenty to twenty five minutes and and

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<v Speaker 1>got zero people coming back to me. Later on that night,

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<v Speaker 1>I was putting. I was talking in discord and Kyle said,

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<v Speaker 1>he's like, man, I didn't see you on Hamblert PSK

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<v Speaker 1>report or anything. I'm like, yeah, I was like, I

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<v Speaker 1>think we were in a valley between some mountains, and

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<v Speaker 1>I just wouldn't getting only had ten watts, had the

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<v Speaker 1>IC seven O five with the external battery, So I

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<v Speaker 1>had ten watts on FT eight and just and those

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<v Speaker 1>guys that were down in Hamvention the last well two

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<v Speaker 1>months ago in May, who were from Alaska. He's like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>the propagation up there's weird. Sometimes you just can't activate.

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<v Speaker 1>So that kind of that kind of bothered me a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit when I heard that, but I'm like, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna try it anyway. So we tried that one day

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<v Speaker 1>and I just really couldn't get out. And then the

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<v Speaker 1>next we went to another national park, a free national park.

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<v Speaker 2>And.

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<v Speaker 1>Set up there, which I was inside of another national forest,

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<v Speaker 1>so that was really kind of a twofer, and set

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<v Speaker 1>up there and and I couldn't even hear anything there,

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<v Speaker 1>Like I like, I let the radio run for ten

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<v Speaker 1>minutes and I couldn't. I could on twenty meter ft

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<v Speaker 1>eight and like not even calling CQ, just monitoring fourteen

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<v Speaker 1>So notick, two unsuccessful activations didn't make even a single contact.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh, So I told her, I said, we need to

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<v Speaker 1>She didn't like Seward that much. She said it was

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<v Speaker 1>No, it's no, it's down south.

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<v Speaker 1>So uh so we did that and yeah, so I'm

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<v Speaker 1>different parks. There's a huge National forest that's out there,

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<v Speaker 1>and a couple of them really and it should be uh,

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<v Speaker 1>it should be doable because I'm just dedicated a whole

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<v Speaker 1>a hundred wats with me this time, I'd take my

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<v Speaker 2>My family's paying with an idea to go to Florida.

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<v Speaker 2>And what would be the pros and cons of taking

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<v Speaker 2>a radio that is less watt is versus the whole

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<v Speaker 2>hundred watt radio because you said you had some issues

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<v Speaker 2>not using one hundred watts.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's pack smaller, right, Oh yeah, definitely pack smaller.

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<v Speaker 1>M yep, yep, I don't. I mean to me, it's

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<v Speaker 1>always good. You always got more potential making contacts with

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<v Speaker 1>with more power. But you know, it depends on what

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<v Speaker 1>know when somebody talked about say, don't didn't you try

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<v Speaker 1>any c W? I don't know. I don't know CW

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<v Speaker 1>I can bumble my way through c W maybe maybe,

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<v Speaker 1>but I don't. I can't. I don't know it well

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<v Speaker 1>enough yet. I'm still studying, still trying to learn. I

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<v Speaker 1>want to get with I want to get with Long

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<v Speaker 1>Island c W Club and take one of their courses.

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<v Speaker 1>Mm hmm but or join one of their zoom sessions

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<v Speaker 1>or however they do that because they do those all

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<v Speaker 2>Mm hmm.

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<v Speaker 1>But I wanted yeah, but I just don't. I don't. Eventually, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>eventually I would like to do that, but today there's

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<v Speaker 1>just not not passed. So I took FT eight on purpose.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to do sideband, but then after those two

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<v Speaker 1>guys at hamvention were like, yeah, the propagation. If there's weird,

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes you can't activ it. I'm like, you know, FT

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<v Speaker 1>eight is a low noise mode, load noise of low

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<v Speaker 1>signal load noise mode, not a low power mode, low noise,

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<v Speaker 1>low signal mode. So I'm like, I would have better time,

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<v Speaker 1>better chances of activating FT eight then activating sideband, especially

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<v Speaker 1>if it's sideband QRP. So that's what I tried, and

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<v Speaker 1>like I said, I was that first day. I was

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<v Speaker 1>hearing all kinds of stations on twenty meters and I

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<v Speaker 1>just couldn't get out. And I might have gotten out

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<v Speaker 1>if I had one hundred watts, I might have been

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<v Speaker 1>able to do that, but don't know. So the purpose

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<v Speaker 1>of the trip was not to active. I would like

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<v Speaker 1>to take a trip up there for the purpose of

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<v Speaker 1>activating a park.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a side quest. It was the main point.

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<v Speaker 2>It was for you to get away and have some

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<v Speaker 2>vacation time with yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Right right. And we had a great It was a

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<v Speaker 1>great It was a great trip. It was a great experience.

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<v Speaker 1>I love Alaska. It was really I've always wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>go on Alaskan cruise. It was. We stopped in like

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<v Speaker 1>four different ports I think it was, and went into

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<v Speaker 1>port each day and did we did a we we

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<v Speaker 1>took a helicopter one day and we took a helicopter

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<v Speaker 1>up to the top of the mountain outside of which

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<v Speaker 1>one was that I think that was Scat Was it Skagway? No,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember. We stopped in Skagway the next day.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember which one it was we stopped, Oh

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<v Speaker 1>it was it was Juneo, the capitol, Juno, Okay, And

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<v Speaker 1>so we go into Juno. We took a helicopter ride

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<v Speaker 1>to the top of one of the mountains in Juno

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<v Speaker 1>and there's this dog sled team that goes up there

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<v Speaker 1>and trains dogs, and they took us around in a

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<v Speaker 1>dog sled and I talked to them. Yeah, and I

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<v Speaker 1>got video of the whole thing. So we're putting that

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<v Speaker 1>on the channel soon. And I talked to them about

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<v Speaker 1>because they got these wall tents up there, built on platforms,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, okay, so how do you And they're like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we stay up here for about four and a half months.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, okay, sort of a half months, that's

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<v Speaker 1>what they said. And it's completely off grid. Well it's complete,

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<v Speaker 1>it's completely off grid. But I did see a starlink dish,

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm like, so, how's it is. They're like, oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we got starlink. Man, it's great.

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<v Speaker 2>So what do they do for power? Do they do?

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<v Speaker 2>They have? This? This part just intrigues me so much.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that was the that was the thing I wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to talk to him about the most. It was they

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<v Speaker 1>they have. There's some generators there. I didn't see any

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<v Speaker 1>solar panels, but and it was really cloudy the time

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<v Speaker 1>we were up there, so I don't know how much

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<v Speaker 1>snow and rain and cloud cover they get. It may

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<v Speaker 1>not be worth it to even take a solar panel

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<v Speaker 1>up there. I mean, you're gonna get something from a

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<v Speaker 1>solar panel because the sun is out, but it's clouding

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<v Speaker 1>the whole time. It's gonna be less efficent, far less

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<v Speaker 1>efficient than you know, somewhere where the sun shiny. But

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<v Speaker 1>but that I saw some propane bottles and some gasoline

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<v Speaker 1>power generators and that kind of thing. They said that

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<v Speaker 1>they weren't really allowed to put space propane space heaters

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<v Speaker 1>in their tent because because of fire fire safety issues,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, okay, what about like yeah, so yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's I don't know. I just think that'd be

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<v Speaker 1>cool to stay up there, plant a plan, a DX

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<v Speaker 1>commander or maybe a X beam, I don't know, and

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<v Speaker 1>stay up there for four months and work with the

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<v Speaker 1>dogs and do live streams through their starlink and do

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<v Speaker 1>some ham radio, get a special event call sign and

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<v Speaker 1>just call CQ for four months. I just think that'd

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<v Speaker 1>be fun. So they said they got like two hundred

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<v Speaker 1>applications a year for people to go up there, and

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<v Speaker 1>they had like forty people there. So it's like, okay, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I told himly I was gonna try it, but I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know, we'll see.

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<v Speaker 2>Well they do they have visitors like come up and

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<v Speaker 2>spend a week or two with them. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>Not to do the question four.

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<v Speaker 2>Months camp, But that that sounded an amazing good question. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but that would really put my battery backup seapat machine

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<v Speaker 2>to the test. Because of I can do three nights,

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<v Speaker 2>three and a half nights on my twenty amp hour.

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<v Speaker 2>Then the augmented a solar, I can go almost it, definitely,

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<v Speaker 2>but you know I need solar the entire time I'm

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<v Speaker 2>there to help recharge the battery. It sounds like they're

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<v Speaker 2>also they're running maybe some generators.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they definitely had some gasoline power generators up there.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I don't I wasn't there long enough

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<v Speaker 1>to get an in depth analysis. Say how does this

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<v Speaker 1>all this work? But or how would you use when?

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<v Speaker 1>And they said, you know, most of the time, like

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<v Speaker 1>there wasn't anything running when we were there. We were

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<v Speaker 1>there at like, I don't know, eleven, twelve o'clock in

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<v Speaker 1>the morning, something like that. M hm, eleven in the

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<v Speaker 1>morning to noon somewhere in there, and there was nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>There was no generator noise, there was nothing running. I

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<v Speaker 1>asked them about running radios, and one of the guys

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<v Speaker 1>told me he said, he said, we used to have

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<v Speaker 1>a radio here and it was hard to communicate with

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<v Speaker 1>it because every time it would get knocked out of tune,

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<v Speaker 1>you wouldn't be able to communicate with it. And I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>what do you mean by that?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that the knob and they don't know what frequency.

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<v Speaker 1>To go back to or That's kind of what I

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<v Speaker 1>gathered from that. But at the same time, I I

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<v Speaker 1>he he he almost talked like it was knocking the

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<v Speaker 1>antenna out of tune, and I'm like, I didn't get

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<v Speaker 1>clarification what he meant by that, and I asked him

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<v Speaker 1>to explain. He's like, well, I just he goes operator.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm like, okay, Well that it wouldn't be that

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be that hard and you could definitely put I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>your top of a freaking mountain with fifteen minute helicopter

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<v Speaker 1>ride down to the valley below. They said that, and

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<v Speaker 1>everything up there was brought in by helicopter. So they

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<v Speaker 1>helicopter all this stuff in and helicopter all out at

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<v Speaker 1>the end of season.

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<v Speaker 2>But to be honest, though, they're probably using commercial bands

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<v Speaker 2>because it can't be the hand radio bands if it's

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<v Speaker 2>use for their operation, so it had to be commercial.

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<v Speaker 2>So and that just this opens up even more.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, I know. Yeah, but I'm thinking, like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a ten or even a ten to fifteen foot push

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<v Speaker 1>up poll or tripod with a VHF and ten on it.

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<v Speaker 1>You ought to be able to reach out a long

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<v Speaker 1>way with that because you're up so high. You're already

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<v Speaker 1>up way high. So I wouldn't think there'd be any

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<v Speaker 1>trouble contacting the valley down below. But I mean, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know, but chef would be fun. It'd be really

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, so I answered someone about a Jordan asked about

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<v Speaker 2>the battery c PAP. I put the link in the

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<v Speaker 2>chat to the series of videos I did for building

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<v Speaker 2>that system. It's a great system, I thought. I saw

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<v Speaker 2>another good question. It's gone keep going, keep going.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, all right, So Tongus National Force that was the

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<v Speaker 1>one that was in Where was that one that was

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<v Speaker 1>the one outside of Ketcha Can in Ketcha Can, I think, yeah, Tongas. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>in fact, they said that that's the largest national forest

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<v Speaker 1>in the United States. It basically covered the entire freaking

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<v Speaker 1>city of Ketchi Can. So now I didn't try to act.

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<v Speaker 1>That wasn't the one I tried to activate, but that

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<v Speaker 1>was one of the ones that I was in. There

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<v Speaker 1>was nowhere to really set up there and I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know it's that's but that could be could be the

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<v Speaker 1>one that I try next time, but it but that's

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<v Speaker 1>outside of Ketcha Can. So that's about I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>It's several hours south of Anchorage and those those port towns,

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<v Speaker 1>the Skagway, Ketcha Can, Juno, and uh another place called

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<v Speaker 1>Icy straight Point where the four stops we made and

416
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<v Speaker 1>Icy straight Point we didn't really get off the boat

417
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<v Speaker 1>there was you could. There wasn't anything there really you could.

418
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<v Speaker 1>You could walk off the boat to like a shuttle

419
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<v Speaker 1>and they would take you into a town that's like

420
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<v Speaker 1>twenty minutes away or something like that, and it was

421
00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:05.440
<v Speaker 1>just kind of like a It was kind of like

422
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<v Speaker 1>a tourist town because there's nothing in that area except

423
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<v Speaker 1>for stuff they built for the cruise ships. The other

424
00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:13.599
<v Speaker 1>the other port stops were actual cities that had stuff

425
00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:17.599
<v Speaker 1>to do and whatnot. I think Skagway was probably my favorite,

426
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<v Speaker 1>but Ketcha Cam was really Ketcha Cam was really cool

427
00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:23.960
<v Speaker 1>as well. Skagway had a brewery that Skagway Brewing that

428
00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:27.839
<v Speaker 1>was that was pretty good. So there was some cool

429
00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:32.160
<v Speaker 1>stuff up there, but it was u it was It

430
00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:34.799
<v Speaker 1>was definitely a good experience. I would love to go back.

431
00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:36.759
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't mind. I don't know how how long it

432
00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:39.359
<v Speaker 1>would take to drive from Anchorage, if you rent a

433
00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:42.480
<v Speaker 1>car and drive from Anchorage to Skagway and Ketcha can

434
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<v Speaker 1>I didn't really look at that you could do that.

435
00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:47.039
<v Speaker 1>And I know a couple of people that have talked

436
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<v Speaker 1>about driving from Seattle through Canada to Alaska and just

437
00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:55.119
<v Speaker 1>driving through Alaska, there were a lot of RVs.

438
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<v Speaker 2>It sounds so much fun.

439
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<v Speaker 1>I know in in Anchorage and Skagway and Juno, there

440
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<v Speaker 1>were a lot of people driving r vs, and I

441
00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:06.359
<v Speaker 1>got the I got the impression that they were rented

442
00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:07.880
<v Speaker 1>some of them, not all of them. Some of them

443
00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:10.039
<v Speaker 1>are rented RVs you could tell had their name on

444
00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:11.880
<v Speaker 1>the side or something like that, or maybe they all

445
00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:14.839
<v Speaker 1>had the same logo and the same size, the same color.

446
00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:16.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, you see those three RVs that are all

447
00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:19.160
<v Speaker 1>exactly the same, those are got to be rented. So

448
00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:24.400
<v Speaker 1>it's one of those things where people drive with r

449
00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:28.559
<v Speaker 1>V pulling up motor coaches, motor homes are bumper pool

450
00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:31.160
<v Speaker 1>RV's fifth wheels, that kind of thing. Vans, van life

451
00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:35.519
<v Speaker 1>stuff kind of yeah, that van life would be big

452
00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:42.759
<v Speaker 1>I would think so, Yeah, I would think so. But

453
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<v Speaker 1>we'll see Colin.

454
00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:45.839
<v Speaker 2>Thanks for the two months.

455
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<v Speaker 1>Good yeah calling and calling and VK, thanks for being here, buddy.

456
00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:58.279
<v Speaker 2>Yep, yah zipline did y'all zip line?

457
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<v Speaker 1>We did not zipline this time. We zipline when we

458
00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:04.079
<v Speaker 1>were in big Ben last April. I think it was

459
00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:08.559
<v Speaker 1>so Yeah, she said, we thought about doing the zipline

460
00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:11.680
<v Speaker 1>icy straight, but we'd already we spent money on that

461
00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:13.680
<v Speaker 1>helicopter ride, and then we spent money on a train

462
00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:18.519
<v Speaker 1>ride in June No Skagway. A train ride in Skagway,

463
00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:21.359
<v Speaker 1>like a four hour train ride that kind of looped

464
00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:23.319
<v Speaker 1>around the town, went up the mountain and came back down.

465
00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:26.160
<v Speaker 1>It was really cool, really cool train ride. I got

466
00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:27.920
<v Speaker 1>some a little bit of video on that as well,

467
00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:33.599
<v Speaker 1>so that was fun too. But yeah, sadly did not

468
00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:39.880
<v Speaker 1>get to activate. I don't know, I wish that. I

469
00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:41.519
<v Speaker 1>wish that I would have been able to do that,

470
00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:44.559
<v Speaker 1>but I was kind of like I was reminded why

471
00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:46.559
<v Speaker 1>I didn't like FT eight or I'm sorry why I

472
00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:50.640
<v Speaker 1>didn't like QRP, And if I would have had a

473
00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:53.960
<v Speaker 1>one hundred watt radio, I would have had better chances

474
00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:56.119
<v Speaker 1>of activating, but I still may have not been able

475
00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:58.680
<v Speaker 1>to because I couldn't even hear anything at that second

476
00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:02.519
<v Speaker 1>place we stopped. So I don't know. I don't know.

477
00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:08.400
<v Speaker 1>We'll see, but I have a wow wild hog and

478
00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:10.400
<v Speaker 1>Ham says, I have a neighbor that is in Alaska

479
00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:14.079
<v Speaker 1>now put his fifth wheel from Texas. Sheesh, Wow, that

480
00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:16.440
<v Speaker 1>would be a fun drive. See, I would enjoy that.

481
00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:20.759
<v Speaker 1>I think that would be a fun drive. I think

482
00:26:20.759 --> 00:26:22.720
<v Speaker 1>that would be a I think that would be a

483
00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:27.240
<v Speaker 1>fun drive. So we'll see. Well, maybe one day I'll

484
00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:29.519
<v Speaker 1>be able to do that. If you guys know Brent

485
00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:32.480
<v Speaker 1>W seven b R. Whiskey seven Back Roads, he's in

486
00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:34.440
<v Speaker 1>the chat sometimes. I haven't seen him time. He lives

487
00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:38.079
<v Speaker 1>up in Wyoming, and uh he has one of those

488
00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:42.319
<v Speaker 1>earth crawlers. Wow, he's talked. I can't remember if he's

489
00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:44.960
<v Speaker 1>told me he's talked about doing that trip from Wyoming

490
00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:47.880
<v Speaker 1>up to Alaska. Of course, Wyoming's a lot closer to

491
00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:50.319
<v Speaker 1>the northern border than we are here down here in Texas.

492
00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:58.119
<v Speaker 2>Yes, Don plus is the thing we were talking about

493
00:26:58.119 --> 00:27:00.440
<v Speaker 2>C plus plus today being the next grist thing for

494
00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:03.200
<v Speaker 2>amateur radio, and how we're going to use that. Bressed

495
00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:04.880
<v Speaker 2>up and do some awesome things.

496
00:27:05.079 --> 00:27:10.680
<v Speaker 1>Sure we are, Yeah, but but but I I would

497
00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:12.680
<v Speaker 1>like I would. I think it would be a fun

498
00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:14.559
<v Speaker 1>drive to do. That'd be it. You'd have to dedicate

499
00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:16.880
<v Speaker 1>like a whole frigging month to do that, because it

500
00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:19.839
<v Speaker 1>would take you a week to get up there, maybe

501
00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:22.960
<v Speaker 1>eight or nine days, depending on how you timed it out.

502
00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:25.359
<v Speaker 1>You could do it faster than that if you wanted to.

503
00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:27.079
<v Speaker 1>But if you want to enjoy the ride and stop

504
00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:29.279
<v Speaker 1>at certain places along the route, which is how I

505
00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:31.400
<v Speaker 1>like to do it. I like to enjoy the ride

506
00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:33.720
<v Speaker 1>trip or the road the road trip.

507
00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:38.640
<v Speaker 2>Brother, that'll be a monstrous trip, man. Yeah, and it

508
00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:43.079
<v Speaker 2>will be a lot. It will be a lot. Yeah,

509
00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:45.000
<v Speaker 2>drive the whole way, and I would love to do it.

510
00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.440
<v Speaker 2>I just need the time and the money and the

511
00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:51.240
<v Speaker 2>know how to fix something because if it breaks when

512
00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:52.720
<v Speaker 2>you're up there in the middle of.

513
00:27:52.680 --> 00:28:01.279
<v Speaker 1>Nowhere, Yeah, yeah, true. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's true. Uh

514
00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:06.759
<v Speaker 1>let's see, hold on, would it take a zillion dollars

515
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:10.680
<v Speaker 1>in fuel to drive that thing to Alaska? Probably? Yeah?

516
00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:17.079
<v Speaker 1>Probably so. Uh if you are ever near the area,

517
00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:22.160
<v Speaker 1>I don't know which where. Who's who Jordan's talking to? Okay?

518
00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:24.680
<v Speaker 1>Rick Jason, which cruise line did you take and what's

519
00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:27.559
<v Speaker 1>your opinion of it? So we were on celebrity cruises

520
00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:31.359
<v Speaker 1>and it was the Celebrity Summit ship is one of

521
00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:37.920
<v Speaker 1>their older ships, I think, and it was it was

522
00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:40.079
<v Speaker 1>a good we we had a we we did a

523
00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:42.720
<v Speaker 1>but prior to COVID so I think like twenty eighteen

524
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:47.160
<v Speaker 1>or twenty nineteen, we did a celebrity cruise in the Mediterranean.

525
00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:50.279
<v Speaker 1>We did a Mediterranean cruise. That's the first and only

526
00:28:50.319 --> 00:28:53.440
<v Speaker 1>time we've ever done that, and it was fun. We've

527
00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:59.920
<v Speaker 1>taken three or four Caribbean cruises on Carnival and then

528
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:02.559
<v Speaker 1>we've done Celebrity in the Mediterranean, now Celebrity in Alaska.

529
00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:04.440
<v Speaker 1>That's the ones we've been on. And all of the

530
00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:07.839
<v Speaker 1>people who said, all of the people who said somebody

531
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:10.839
<v Speaker 1>was talking about how it was Royal Caribbean or Princess

532
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:13.920
<v Speaker 1>or one of those that said that are very very

533
00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:16.599
<v Speaker 1>anti Ham Radio won't let you bring them on the boat.

534
00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:19.720
<v Speaker 1>They did not look at me twice. I had my

535
00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:22.559
<v Speaker 1>seven oh five. In fact, I have a video I'm

536
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.359
<v Speaker 1>working on about why I chose the seven oh five

537
00:29:28.119 --> 00:29:30.079
<v Speaker 1>And I haven't seen Ray Noback in the chat yet.

538
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:31.519
<v Speaker 1>So I'm just gonna go ahead and say this. I

539
00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:34.359
<v Speaker 1>did not want to take my seven oh five, not

540
00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.480
<v Speaker 1>because it's not a good radio. It's an excellent radio.

541
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:40.079
<v Speaker 1>It is the easiest radio to use for FT eight

542
00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:41.519
<v Speaker 1>if you want to do plug and play FT eight.

543
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:43.200
<v Speaker 1>In my opinion, one of the easiest radio is to

544
00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:47.200
<v Speaker 1>use great radio. But I didn't want to take it

545
00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:50.240
<v Speaker 1>because it's also one of the bulkiest QRP radios that's

546
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:53.000
<v Speaker 1>out there, and it's got the big screen on it,

547
00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:54.440
<v Speaker 1>and I didn't want to get it damaged. It was

548
00:29:54.440 --> 00:29:59.319
<v Speaker 1>fine the whole time, it's no problem. But twenty two

549
00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:03.279
<v Speaker 1>hundred miles for Seattle to Anchorage. Mike says, oh, well,

550
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:05.160
<v Speaker 1>that's that's how long. That's how far it is from

551
00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:07.279
<v Speaker 1>uh Dallas delle Passo. So that doesn't sound like any

552
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:09.880
<v Speaker 1>much to me, the Mike. But I'm kidding. It's not

553
00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:12.039
<v Speaker 1>that far, not quite. It's only like twenty one hundred

554
00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:16.160
<v Speaker 1>miles anyway. Uh uh So, So I got I'm working

555
00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:18.160
<v Speaker 1>on a video about why I chose that radio, what

556
00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:21.720
<v Speaker 1>other radios I looked at, what I did and that

557
00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:25.440
<v Speaker 1>kind of thing, but but they did not. I had

558
00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:29.680
<v Speaker 1>it packed in one of those max pedition water bottle bags,

559
00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:31.920
<v Speaker 1>which I think is what Kyle keeps his ends like

560
00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:35.000
<v Speaker 1>a It's like a round zipper bag with molly on

561
00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:37.319
<v Speaker 1>the outside of it, and uh, and it's padded, so

562
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:40.480
<v Speaker 1>you just put your I put my seven o five

563
00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:45.559
<v Speaker 1>down the bottom, had another small bag with my small

564
00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:49.160
<v Speaker 1>coaxe and my infant halfwave in it, and my the

565
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.039
<v Speaker 1>power cable for the seven o five put in that

566
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:55.319
<v Speaker 1>bag in the top, and then I put my Denco

567
00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:57.799
<v Speaker 1>battery in the front, so I had a six ampower

568
00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:02.079
<v Speaker 1>Dnco battery with it. All of that together, the TSA

569
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:04.240
<v Speaker 1>looked at coming back. They wanted to look at it

570
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:05.880
<v Speaker 1>going out there. They didn't. They didn't look at it

571
00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:07.559
<v Speaker 1>at all. Coming back. They wanted to look at it.

572
00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:09.559
<v Speaker 1>I put that through the scanner on the ship and

573
00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:12.880
<v Speaker 1>they're like, okay, see you. They didn't. They didn't care

574
00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:13.559
<v Speaker 1>at all.

575
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:16.079
<v Speaker 2>I bet they just get that it is some other

576
00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:17.960
<v Speaker 2>form of random electronics.

577
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:21.519
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, I think I think they put that thing

578
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:22.960
<v Speaker 1>about if you go to look at their website and

579
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:24.720
<v Speaker 1>it says it says no ham radio is allowed on

580
00:31:24.759 --> 00:31:26.960
<v Speaker 1>the ship. I think they put that on there so

581
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.319
<v Speaker 1>that if you're caught doing something like if you set

582
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:32.519
<v Speaker 1>up a big contenna or a dipoler on the on

583
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:34.559
<v Speaker 1>the upper deck, and you're doing they say, no, you

584
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:36.359
<v Speaker 1>can't do that. It says on our website, you can't

585
00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:38.680
<v Speaker 1>do that. We're gonna confiscate that and take it from

586
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:40.440
<v Speaker 1>you until the boats of them and you get it back.

587
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:42.519
<v Speaker 1>So I think that I think that's why they do that,

588
00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:46.000
<v Speaker 1>because they did not pay one iota of attention to

589
00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:48.599
<v Speaker 1>my radio that was packed into it and packed nicely

590
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:50.880
<v Speaker 1>in my bag. When we went on the ship. They

591
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:53.119
<v Speaker 1>were much more concerned about me bringing alcohol on. They

592
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:55.440
<v Speaker 1>didn't want me to bring alcohol on at all. Here's

593
00:31:55.440 --> 00:32:00.559
<v Speaker 1>a business idea for someone in Seward Alaska. I was ready,

594
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:03.720
<v Speaker 1>here's a business idea because we looked at this. Okay,

595
00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:09.920
<v Speaker 1>go onto Amazon and type in clandestine or secret or

596
00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:17.799
<v Speaker 1>sneak on liquor bottles. Okay, and there's people selling empty

597
00:32:18.279 --> 00:32:22.279
<v Speaker 1>shampoo bottles or shampoo look like bottles or hand cream

598
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:24.839
<v Speaker 1>bottles or something like that that you put liquor in

599
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.039
<v Speaker 1>and put it in your bag and you can carry

600
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:29.359
<v Speaker 1>it onto a cruise ship. None of but nobody, none

601
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:31.920
<v Speaker 1>of the shops in Seward Alaska had that. And I

602
00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:35.000
<v Speaker 1>told the lady. I went in and I had forgotten

603
00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:37.400
<v Speaker 1>my cigar cutter. I swear up and down. I got

604
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.279
<v Speaker 1>a cigar cutter cutter in my bag, but I took

605
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:43.960
<v Speaker 1>my cigars. It took some matches, and I went into

606
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:45.680
<v Speaker 1>a couple of liquor stores and asked for cigar cutter

607
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:48.039
<v Speaker 1>in several different places. The lady and Seward I went

608
00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:50.039
<v Speaker 1>in there. I was like, hey, and they didn't really

609
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:51.640
<v Speaker 1>have a good I was gonna buy a small bottle

610
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:53.319
<v Speaker 1>of whiskey. They didn't really have much that was that

611
00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:55.759
<v Speaker 1>looked good anyway. But I'm like, here's an idea. You

612
00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:03.319
<v Speaker 1>should be selling secret clan steine bottles, liquor bottles disguised

613
00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:06.079
<v Speaker 1>as shampoo bottles or whatever for the people coming into

614
00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:08.000
<v Speaker 1>this town. Do you know, cruise ship.

615
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:10.440
<v Speaker 2>You can't really do that because you need all the

616
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:14.039
<v Speaker 2>liquor labeling correctly, but you could sell the bottles and

617
00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:16.000
<v Speaker 2>then sell the liquor and be like, what you.

618
00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:18.720
<v Speaker 1>Do, Well, they already sell the liquor, They already sell

619
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:22.519
<v Speaker 1>the liquor bottles, and just have the bottles empty, don't

620
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:24.720
<v Speaker 1>fill them. No, you sell the bottles in like a

621
00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:27.079
<v Speaker 1>two or three pack like they were on Amazon.

622
00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:30.240
<v Speaker 2>Not to be honest, less of a cruises I went to.

623
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:33.279
<v Speaker 2>Some people are bragging, right, this is you know the

624
00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:37.480
<v Speaker 2>secret stash I got on their shipped through. Yeah, come on, alcoholic,

625
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:41.759
<v Speaker 2>you really need to do that because you're there. Spend

626
00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:44.759
<v Speaker 2>spend somebody, spend some time enjoy having the drinks made

627
00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:48.759
<v Speaker 2>for you. If you get that, that that all you

628
00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:49.519
<v Speaker 2>can drink past.

629
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.599
<v Speaker 1>Know that they're gonna be those those well, all of

630
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.839
<v Speaker 1>their drinks were watered down. Everything was watered down. So

631
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.640
<v Speaker 1>those drinkages are not worth it for two reasons. Number one,

632
00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:06.000
<v Speaker 1>they make you buy it for every day, including the

633
00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:08.880
<v Speaker 1>days you're at port, which if you do excursions or

634
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:11.000
<v Speaker 1>get off the ship, you're not on the ship drinking alcohol,

635
00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:13.440
<v Speaker 1>but you still have to pay the same amount. And

636
00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:15.840
<v Speaker 1>number two, they make you buy it for every adult

637
00:34:16.119 --> 00:34:18.519
<v Speaker 1>in your stateroom. Emily didn't want it. She drank like

638
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:19.639
<v Speaker 1>two drinks the whole week.

639
00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:22.880
<v Speaker 2>Yea, I had every adult because they don't want you

640
00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:23.880
<v Speaker 2>to share.

641
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:26.599
<v Speaker 1>Right, Yeah, so I can't buy it in her not

642
00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:28.079
<v Speaker 1>buy it, or she can't buy it and I not

643
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:30.079
<v Speaker 1>buy it. So they make you buy it for every

644
00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:32.039
<v Speaker 1>adult and for every day. And I'm like, that's not

645
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:34.000
<v Speaker 1>worth it. It's just not worth it. I'm sorry, It's

646
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.199
<v Speaker 1>just I don't want to feel like I have to

647
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.400
<v Speaker 1>drink all this alcohol to get my money's worth out

648
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:41.119
<v Speaker 1>of this alcohol package. I actually have been drinking, believe

649
00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:43.159
<v Speaker 1>it or not, I've been drinking less than less alcohol

650
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:46.320
<v Speaker 1>this year. I had I had a maximum of one

651
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:49.880
<v Speaker 1>drink every day on the boat. I think one day

652
00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:51.280
<v Speaker 1>I had two drinks and that one day I had

653
00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:54.159
<v Speaker 1>zero drinks. So I just and I'm talking about I

654
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:56.719
<v Speaker 1>didn't they didn't have any good beer. They're not gonna

655
00:34:56.760 --> 00:34:59.440
<v Speaker 1>they had pors like but I think they had Stella Artois.

656
00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:01.039
<v Speaker 1>It's all right, what's that.

657
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:04.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm just locking the the Oh okay, the exposure it

658
00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:06.119
<v Speaker 2>kept going out. Now it's getting.

659
00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:09.280
<v Speaker 1>Annoyed, okay. So yeah, So I just I mean, and

660
00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:11.440
<v Speaker 1>it was like I ordered the when we first got

661
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:14.320
<v Speaker 1>on there, I ordered a They had Old Forester eighty

662
00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:16.000
<v Speaker 1>six proof and one hundred proof. So I got an

663
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:21.079
<v Speaker 1>Old Forester single shot, neat of the eighty six proof,

664
00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:26.079
<v Speaker 1>and it was eighteen dollars. And I'm like, that's depending

665
00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:28.559
<v Speaker 1>where you go, that may or may not be a

666
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:30.079
<v Speaker 1>little bit high. I mean, that's higher than you I

667
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:32.159
<v Speaker 1>would probably pay nine or ten dollars for that here

668
00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:35.280
<v Speaker 1>in Texas, but I know some places in probably like

669
00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:37.800
<v Speaker 1>California and New York that's probably about what it is there,

670
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:40.679
<v Speaker 1>or maybe some fancy, fancy restaurants where everything's expensive that

671
00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:43.400
<v Speaker 1>might be in wherever part of the country that might

672
00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:46.480
<v Speaker 1>be how much it is there. So it was it

673
00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:49.760
<v Speaker 1>was eighteen dollars for one single neat shot not a shot,

674
00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:53.159
<v Speaker 1>but you know, it's a neat pore of old Forester

675
00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:56.280
<v Speaker 1>eighty six, and you know, so I'm just like, eh,

676
00:35:56.320 --> 00:35:57.719
<v Speaker 1>And they didn't have any good beers. I didn't. I

677
00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:00.079
<v Speaker 1>didn't drink any beer. They'll sell you a bucket of

678
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:01.400
<v Speaker 1>like bud light, and I'm like, yeah.

679
00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:07.519
<v Speaker 2>That's I've seen on ships, especially Carnival guys County number thirteen,

680
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:13.280
<v Speaker 2>number fourteen, trying to hit that twenty. I'm like, you're ridiculous,

681
00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:14.800
<v Speaker 2>and you're wasted and it's only noon.

682
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:18.039
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, exactly, yeah.

683
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:20.880
<v Speaker 2>Get away from me. Yeah, talking about drinking and everything.

684
00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:23.599
<v Speaker 2>How was smoking on the ship?

685
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:25.320
<v Speaker 1>It was fine?

686
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:27.599
<v Speaker 2>It was fine. Did you have like a designated area?

687
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:29.239
<v Speaker 2>Was there a cigar lounge?

688
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:36.360
<v Speaker 1>There was not a cigar lounge. There was so I

689
00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:40.159
<v Speaker 1>think We've been on four or five cruises, three Caribbean,

690
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:42.320
<v Speaker 1>Mediterranean in this one, I think five. We might have

691
00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:45.599
<v Speaker 1>been on four Caribbean. I can't remember. Out of all

692
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:47.360
<v Speaker 1>those ships, four or five ships I've been on in

693
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:51.199
<v Speaker 1>my life, one of them had an actual cigar lounge.

694
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:55.280
<v Speaker 1>And from what Emily read, most of them aren't doing

695
00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:00.679
<v Speaker 1>that anymore because pulled out. They feel like it's Carnival

696
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.239
<v Speaker 1>several years back had done a boat. I got a

697
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:09.119
<v Speaker 1>text from somebody had done a boat. It wouldn't him

698
00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:15.039
<v Speaker 1>come on Carnival years back had done a boat.

699
00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:19.199
<v Speaker 2>Oh, hold on, Carnival, I think you're going the Carnival

700
00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:22.079
<v Speaker 2>did a cruise ship that was no smoking own, no

701
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:26.159
<v Speaker 2>smoking in the entire cruise ship, and that ship itself

702
00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:29.199
<v Speaker 2>did not sell well enough and they reverted it after

703
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:30.679
<v Speaker 2>like three sailings.

704
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:33.559
<v Speaker 1>Correct. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.

705
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:37.599
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, hold on, Uh, I was just filling time here. Yeah,

706
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:42.760
<v Speaker 2>and that that's very interesting, especially the smoking in the

707
00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:46.119
<v Speaker 2>the the casinos is very allowable, even though they don't

708
00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:49.159
<v Speaker 2>allow cigars or pipe backo, which I don't understand because

709
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:50.320
<v Speaker 2>it smells so much better.

710
00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:56.519
<v Speaker 1>I know cigars too, so so there was uh yeah,

711
00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:58.519
<v Speaker 1>I lost my train of thought. Sorry. So, yeah, so

712
00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.119
<v Speaker 1>we we were and I remember this because I was laughing.

713
00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:05.400
<v Speaker 1>We were standing in line at so on the cruise,

714
00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:08.119
<v Speaker 1>they have a they have all these things where they

715
00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:10.719
<v Speaker 1>tried to nickel and din nickel and dimed to death,

716
00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:14.159
<v Speaker 1>but they have they have a concierge's table on the

717
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:17.159
<v Speaker 1>cruise where you can buy future future cruise options. Oh,

718
00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:19.559
<v Speaker 1>get one hundred dollars in credit, or get this discount

719
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:22.400
<v Speaker 1>off of a future cruise. So I remember being on

720
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:26.159
<v Speaker 1>that ship, one of the cardinalships, I don't remember which

721
00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:28.400
<v Speaker 1>one it was, and the lady in front of us

722
00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:32.119
<v Speaker 1>was talking to them, to them about a no smoking

723
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:35.320
<v Speaker 1>ship and Carnival, and the lady at the car behind

724
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:37.119
<v Speaker 1>the counter, the Carnival lady, she was like, yeah, we

725
00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:40.320
<v Speaker 1>tried that. We're closing it down because we just couldn't

726
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:42.079
<v Speaker 1>sell any tickets. And the lady at the and the

727
00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:44.920
<v Speaker 1>customer lady, she was like, what, you can't sell any

728
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:47.400
<v Speaker 1>tickets on a non smoking ship. She was totally floored

729
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:50.440
<v Speaker 1>that people actually liked to smoke. And I'm like, this

730
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:54.039
<v Speaker 1>is what's wrong with America, right, no smoking, the making

731
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:57.599
<v Speaker 1>you wear seat belts and banning smoking and restaurants is

732
00:38:57.599 --> 00:38:59.960
<v Speaker 1>where everything started to go downhill. That's my opinion. Will

733
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.360
<v Speaker 1>we'll get off on that topic on another day, but

734
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:03.119
<v Speaker 1>that's my opinion.

735
00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.360
<v Speaker 2>But they're not smoking, but it's.

736
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:10.639
<v Speaker 1>It's you know, so uh and she couldn't belave. Yeah,

737
00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:13.840
<v Speaker 1>So they tried that and it failed. But I guess

738
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:16.800
<v Speaker 1>the cigar room just basically took up too much room

739
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:17.760
<v Speaker 1>on the ship room.

740
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:20.039
<v Speaker 2>And you know, you buy a cigar and you might

741
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.039
<v Speaker 2>have a drink, and you're gonna be there to two

742
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:26.760
<v Speaker 2>to three hours. It's not a large money making thing

743
00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:30.440
<v Speaker 2>for that floor. They could probably put a storefront in

744
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:32.679
<v Speaker 2>there and sell much more merchandise.

745
00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:34.880
<v Speaker 1>Well that, and they they could put a they could

746
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.119
<v Speaker 1>put like a and they had like a piano in

747
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:38.760
<v Speaker 1>the cigar lounge, so there was a guy in there

748
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:41.800
<v Speaker 1>playing piano some times. And they had a bar, of course,

749
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:44.239
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know, you have a bar, but the

750
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:47.320
<v Speaker 1>but most of the ships I'm on where they smoke cigars,

751
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:49.159
<v Speaker 1>they have a lounge. They have like a table and

752
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.360
<v Speaker 1>chairs in a specific area outside, usually on one of

753
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:54.360
<v Speaker 1>the top decks, and that's where it was. It was

754
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:57.280
<v Speaker 1>called the masked bar on this on this show. So

755
00:39:57.320 --> 00:39:59.480
<v Speaker 1>we'd go outside and they had they had. You could

756
00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:01.760
<v Speaker 1>tell because it was the only tables on the well

757
00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:04.880
<v Speaker 1>this place in one other place were the only tables

758
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.280
<v Speaker 1>on the whole ship that actually had ash trays, so

759
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:09.760
<v Speaker 1>you could tell what it was. And I walked up

760
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:11.559
<v Speaker 1>to the guy and I'm like, hey, dude, do you

761
00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:14.239
<v Speaker 1>had I never found my cigar cutter. And I walked

762
00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:15.719
<v Speaker 1>up to the guy at the massbar the first day

763
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:16.760
<v Speaker 1>I was there, I was like, do you have a

764
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:19.079
<v Speaker 1>cigar cutter? He's like sure, So he let me borrow

765
00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:20.639
<v Speaker 1>a cigar cut and every day I went back to him,

766
00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:22.119
<v Speaker 1>he would he would let me borrow a cigar cutter.

767
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:24.039
<v Speaker 1>I cut my cigar the way I wanted, and I'd

768
00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:26.159
<v Speaker 1>buy a drink from him, maybe a coke, maybe, maybe

769
00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:29.920
<v Speaker 1>buy a soda from him or a Sometimes i'd buy

770
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:31.960
<v Speaker 1>an alcoholic drink, but usually it was just like so it.

771
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:36.360
<v Speaker 2>Was an actual bar area, so it wasn't just like

772
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:39.480
<v Speaker 2>two or three chairs in a corner, because that's what

773
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:42.960
<v Speaker 2>war was. Royal was like, here's your smoking section, and

774
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:46.599
<v Speaker 2>it was like the smallest table possible with two chairs,

775
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:49.400
<v Speaker 2>and people will just come up there with their cigarette

776
00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:54.000
<v Speaker 2>and just yeah and just like down it and leave

777
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:55.519
<v Speaker 2>and no one was hanging around.

778
00:40:55.960 --> 00:40:58.360
<v Speaker 1>How, No, that's not that's not how this one was.

779
00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:01.719
<v Speaker 1>This one had decent sized tabe four or five tables

780
00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:04.159
<v Speaker 1>at one large table and then two or three little tables,

781
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.639
<v Speaker 1>comfortable chairs around it, a seat of like a like

782
00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:10.480
<v Speaker 1>a booth type bench, curved bench on one side, and

783
00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:12.480
<v Speaker 1>it was next to the bar on the upper deck

784
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:14.159
<v Speaker 1>right above the pool, so you got to see the

785
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:16.320
<v Speaker 1>pool and you got to see outside over the side

786
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:18.280
<v Speaker 1>of the ship up here. It was a very nice area.

787
00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:20.800
<v Speaker 1>This one, This one was was great. The thing, uh,

788
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:24.639
<v Speaker 1>the thing that Charlie, are you going are you coming to?

789
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:28.719
<v Speaker 1>Uh you're coming to the Hamfest but not to Yellowstone,

790
00:41:28.719 --> 00:41:33.039
<v Speaker 1>I think, is that correct, Charlie. So this was so

791
00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:34.719
<v Speaker 1>the one that the last one we were on I

792
00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:37.360
<v Speaker 1>think it was the Benedrainian Cruise. Now see, I I

793
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:40.639
<v Speaker 1>saw one other guy on this ship smoking cigar, and

794
00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:42.440
<v Speaker 1>I didn't see him till like the second last day.

795
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:44.920
<v Speaker 1>I would go up. I'd smoke a cigar. Not every day,

796
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:47.519
<v Speaker 1>I smoked a cigar once a day for like four

797
00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:51.199
<v Speaker 1>days on this ship. And uh, and the guy that

798
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:53.800
<v Speaker 1>was the guy I saw like on the last day

799
00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:56.239
<v Speaker 1>second or last day. I told him. I was like, dude,

800
00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:57.760
<v Speaker 1>you're the only one. He's like, Oh, there's a guy

801
00:41:57.760 --> 00:41:59.599
<v Speaker 1>that goes downstairs in the other spot that I've seen

802
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:02.239
<v Speaker 1>him times, but there's not many people. The last boat

803
00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:04.880
<v Speaker 1>I was on had a smoking section was kind of

804
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:06.400
<v Speaker 1>off to the side somewhere kind of like what you

805
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:08.800
<v Speaker 1>were talking about, but the tables weren't that small, and

806
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:11.559
<v Speaker 1>he was there. There was two or three guys there,

807
00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:13.920
<v Speaker 1>like every time I went over there, and I got

808
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:17.639
<v Speaker 1>in the smoking cigars, not just cigarette people with smoking cigars,

809
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:19.760
<v Speaker 1>and I talked to them. We kind of kind of

810
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:21.480
<v Speaker 1>hit it off and just kind of talked about stuff.

811
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:24.159
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I didn't really find anyone like this on

812
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:26.079
<v Speaker 1>like that on distrip.

813
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:29.440
<v Speaker 2>On a carnival, I felt their smoking lounge area had

814
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:32.639
<v Speaker 2>like a couple of couches and nice tables in the

815
00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:36.079
<v Speaker 2>middle and individual chairs on the outside, and it was

816
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:39.920
<v Speaker 2>a social gathering area and I really just kind of

817
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:42.400
<v Speaker 2>hung out there and there were a number of people

818
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:45.280
<v Speaker 2>smoking cigars throughout the day and got to know them

819
00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:51.000
<v Speaker 2>and a couple of I got this from Steve, He's like,

820
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:54.039
<v Speaker 2>bring extra cigars because you know someone's going to say

821
00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:55.679
<v Speaker 2>I don't have a cigar, and you give them a cigar.

822
00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:57.519
<v Speaker 2>They have the grink package and they'll give you a

823
00:42:57.559 --> 00:43:00.360
<v Speaker 2>drink or two. And that's what I did. Man, that's

824
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:04.559
<v Speaker 2>a great I think about the box and guys like,

825
00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:06.920
<v Speaker 2>oh man, I forgot my cigars. I didn't feel like

826
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:08.800
<v Speaker 2>buy them out of the crappy store. I was like,

827
00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:11.360
<v Speaker 2>I got it, and I gave it to him. He's like, cool,

828
00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:13.760
<v Speaker 2>what are you drinking? I said, straight, whiskey. He's like

829
00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:17.559
<v Speaker 2>all right, And every time I saw him whiskey and

830
00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:18.719
<v Speaker 2>I gave him a cigar.

831
00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:21.079
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh, that's a great idea. I should have

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<v Speaker 1>thought about that. I totally should have thought about that.

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<v Speaker 1>But yeah, they have a and they have a liquor store,

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<v Speaker 1>a duty free liquor store on the boat. And they

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<v Speaker 1>had the big bottle of Buffalo Trace, the one leader bottle,

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<v Speaker 1>Like usually you and I get the seven fifty, right, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>they had the one leader bottle of Buffalo Trace for

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<v Speaker 1>thirty six dollars. That's cheap, but you buy it and

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<v Speaker 1>they hold it for you until you get off the boat, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and let you take it home. And I'm like, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not doing that because I'd have to check a freaking bag.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't check bags when we travel, and they will

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<v Speaker 1>because they won't let you take a bottle of liquor

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<v Speaker 1>liquid thing on a plane unless it's in a checked bag.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm like, I'm not But that guy he sold

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<v Speaker 1>but that liquor store on the boat sold cigars and

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<v Speaker 1>he had a six pack, yeah, six pack of different

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<v Speaker 1>girk girkh sampler six pack for forty five dollars. So

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, that's like just a little bit over seven

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<v Speaker 1>dollars a stick. That's not bad. That's not bad. Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't buy it, but I was like, okay, that's cool.

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<v Speaker 1>And they would let you take the cigars, so you

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<v Speaker 1>can buy cigars on the boat. Excuse me? How old

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<v Speaker 1>are they?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>How Yeah, I don't know. I mean that's the that's

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<v Speaker 1>the chance you take by buying cigars at any liquor store.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't know how how often they rotate out their stock,

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<v Speaker 1>how well they maintain their humidor that kind of thing.

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<v Speaker 2>But that tick says taking never travels without his hammador.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, that's true, that's true.

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<v Speaker 2>That is true always with me. The troubles that come

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<v Speaker 2>with that, though, is when you put it in your

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<v Speaker 2>check to luggage and you get your bag after the

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<v Speaker 2>you gotta have something like a butter knife to wedge

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<v Speaker 2>it in there, and probably lit open because all the

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<v Speaker 2>air escapes and it's under pressure.

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<v Speaker 1>I put I took five or six cigars, and I

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<v Speaker 1>bought three new cigars in Anchorage when we when we

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<v Speaker 1>found that smoke shop there. I put them all in

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<v Speaker 1>a brand new thick knit like an eight mil ziploc

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<v Speaker 1>bag with one of those one of those humid humids, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>the bubble pack. And that's all I took. I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>even take a humidor. I just put that in my

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<v Speaker 1>clothes bag and and and forgot about it. It's like that's

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<v Speaker 1>all there was, all right,