Speaker 1: It'll be good to talk to her. You know again,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing again. I see her all there, she is,
Speaker 1: I hello, I see her all the time. And that
Speaker 1: Poeta app and that Poeta app activating, and I can't
Speaker 1: hit her out there in California. It's frustrating, frustrating, you
Speaker 1: can't work.
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Speaker 3: Tell them you don't know nobody want to hear that
Speaker 3: is though.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Thanks, I'm blind, right, I'm so blind right now
Speaker 1: I have thought so hit hit the buttons. We're already loud, brother,
Speaker 1: just light, already hit the button.
Speaker 3: I thought she was practicing. What up, everybody? Hello to
Speaker 3: the channel members in Green, you'll get the first shout
Speaker 3: out tonight.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you all in Green. I see miss Murder
Speaker 4: day six in there. Yes, yes, the ones.
Speaker 1: In Green, the ones that helped pay pay for the
Speaker 1: train wreck. Oh my god, I'm seeing blue dots all
Speaker 1: over the place. What did you do? As though?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: These lights I use every care. So I looked into
Speaker 1: the light. Well, it flipped around in my hands. So
Speaker 1: there's three settings. Hang on, there's street settings, and then
Speaker 1: you get and then you get this one here. Why
Speaker 1: why why do you need a we wold? This is
Speaker 1: not going on anyone's dashboard.
Speaker 3: Just when you thought you were turning it off.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, because I clicked I forgot. I totally forgot.
Speaker 1: You got to click it four times not three. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's good.
Speaker 3: If you own the on the roadside having an emergence,
Speaker 3: say with like changing the tire or something.
Speaker 1: You in South Carolina, that'll get you in trouble.
Speaker 3: On boot sitting on side of the road down. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let me tell you to vehicle.
Speaker 1: You cannot run red or blue if they are forward
Speaker 1: facing or.
Speaker 3: Oscillating patched to the vehicle. So what you got now,
Speaker 3: it's sitting on the ground.
Speaker 1: Guess what you're gonna Oh, if you put it on
Speaker 1: the ground, you might be Okay, you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: attract alligators, kangaroos and misfits. So it's okay, No, that
Speaker 1: is not half brass, copper and lead. That will take
Speaker 1: the misfits here. Okay, So the three of us on stream. Hell,
Speaker 1: oh god, so I am serious. I am seeing everything
Speaker 1: is a pokon that does is? Oh how was your week?
Speaker 1: I played the two or three potus. I'm working on
Speaker 1: a kilo from one of the parks near me. That
Speaker 1: and it's a noisy park and it's very frustrating, and
Speaker 1: of course when band conditions are not great, it's even
Speaker 1: more frustrating. So you got to just make you know,
Speaker 1: you're fifteen or twenty, and just be satisfied with it
Speaker 1: and upload and go home. Yeah, or you know, upload,
Speaker 1: you know, go home and then upload. That's that's a
Speaker 1: sequence I upload from the park. I haven't figured. I
Speaker 1: uploaded to Google Drive, so it's saved as a as
Speaker 1: an emergency backup.
Speaker 3: You haven't watched video about having well.
Speaker 1: Yes, I did watch Yours and the Three Dots. Something
Speaker 1: about the three dots, right, yeah? No, no, no, I
Speaker 1: remembered it. I think I remembered it. No, no, I
Speaker 1: haven't tried it. No, no, okay, No, I did watch it,
Speaker 1: and I think I even posted a comment, didn't I probably,
Speaker 1: And you probably responded because you're yeah, but I haven't
Speaker 1: tried it, So what else? Tried? The six meters on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I didn't make any contacts, no, no, but I could
Speaker 1: hear stage. I could hear when I was playing with
Speaker 1: the squelchch on the seven h five, I could hear
Speaker 1: stuff in the background. It was on Sunday. What else? Oh,
Speaker 1: I had to work at midnight shift on Sunday too.
Speaker 1: That was that kind of threw everything in a like
Speaker 1: you know, what are you gonna do? I like go
Speaker 1: home on Saturday and take a nap on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: and but what else? What else? Did? I do a
Speaker 1: lot of ham radio though it's been fun. Even yesterday,
Speaker 1: I got out of work and I went into one
Speaker 1: of my favorite parks just because, just because, because band
Speaker 1: conditions looked really good too. I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen tomorrow or Thursday when I'm off, but it
Speaker 1: is what it is, what it is, so all right,
Speaker 1: my eyes are adjusting. Now. That's a good, good, good good.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, Shane looks funny down there.
Speaker 1: But it's not Shane. It's Joe Brad.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get that. I'm gonna get what that was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how you'll just keep on going, keep talk right thee.
Speaker 1: See we got a lot of questions, Okay, rolling thunder
Speaker 1: rolling to remember, rolling to remember, I'm sorry, I keep it.
Speaker 1: It's no longer rolling thunder rolling to remember. And I
Speaker 1: had that written down last week too, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot there's a lawsuit on that this year, sorry, remember,
Speaker 1: as well as what did you do with camera stuff?
Speaker 1: And all this other technical technical So I had the
Speaker 1: three sixty cam out of the bike. I'm going through
Speaker 1: the videos now, look hotly, so that I had to
Speaker 1: lead most of the weekend, so that was always fun.
Speaker 1: But I saw how high was that? So it was
Speaker 1: attached to the we call that thing the front bar.
Speaker 1: No it was, yeah, just on my handlebars and up,
Speaker 1: bring that back up again, bring that back up again.
Speaker 1: All right, let's say let's analyze that. I analyze.
Speaker 4: I paused it right as I was putting my chin
Speaker 4: bar down. Yeah no, no, that's fine, that's why. So how
Speaker 4: high up is it?
Speaker 1: It's actually mounted right here, and I want to say
Speaker 1: it was about here, just over my head. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: up enough that I thought i'd get the bikes behind me.
Speaker 1: But and did it? Did it work? Did you like
Speaker 1: your configuration? Yeah?
Speaker 4: It worked until I hit about sixty mile an hour,
Speaker 4: and then what happened. It started to blow back towards
Speaker 4: me a little bit, so I, uh, I reached up
Speaker 4: and slid it down.
Speaker 3: And down.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I got yelled at for it by my mother who
Speaker 4: was on that bike right there.
Speaker 3: And what she say to you, don't slide the camera down.
Speaker 3: I can't see me nasty.
Speaker 1: No, Actually I was making her nervous because I was
Speaker 1: my camera while I was riding. You're making me nervous.
Speaker 1: You're making me making me nervous, So you're making me nervous.
Speaker 1: So okay, so you're showing us about one hundred and
Speaker 1: what a little bit more than one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: degrees right now? Are you show? Yeah? Yeah, I'm looking. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's straight back right there. That's all right now.
Speaker 1: Now we'll take it and dry. Oh look at dis now,
Speaker 1: so you can pick and choose during your editing process
Speaker 1: what you want to show. Well, and now I don't.
Speaker 1: You'll have to give me a editory.
Speaker 3: Back on the middle middle house will all the way
Speaker 3: back and then point it down towards.
Speaker 1: Your Okay, look at that.
Speaker 3: That's play. Okay, it's so fun. Oh you're going to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, well here I'll back it up there you go. Yeah, cool,
Speaker 1: that is so. And this was the ride over to
Speaker 1: the National Cathedral, which I'll actually upload this video in
Speaker 1: full three sixty mode, so you can do what you want.
Speaker 1: But I'll have to stitch it with the second video
Speaker 1: you see there because it was a longer ride over.
Speaker 3: Mm you figure that out.
Speaker 1: Let me know, stitching the two together.
Speaker 3: Stitching the two together and keeping them three sixty functions. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it can't be done. I've put no
Speaker 3: effort into it. Yeah, but I need to figure it out.
Speaker 1: You guys watch me. You mean running two cameras at
Speaker 1: the same time. Okay, I've got I've got the two
Speaker 1: videos here that you see on the left. Yet I
Speaker 1: recorded it as one continuous video, okay, but it times
Speaker 1: out after twenty nine minutes and then starts the second entry.
Speaker 1: I want to upload both of them as one video
Speaker 1: to my YouTube. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna date myself.
Speaker 1: Back in the seventies, we would tell you when you
Speaker 1: would listen to like Pink Floyd or many other led
Speaker 1: Zeppelin to so many others. Rate certain music, certain music,
Speaker 1: certain instruments would come out as well as audio would
Speaker 1: come out on one channel and then on the other,
Speaker 1: can you do something? Can you split your screen and
Speaker 1: maybe show us something?
Speaker 4: I don't know how you would be able to then,
Speaker 4: you know, spin the camera around and look all around
Speaker 4: DC as I'm riding, or zoom and zoom out.
Speaker 3: Well, if you put it, if you put it in
Speaker 3: another editor, you're gonna yeah, you're gonna lose. It's all one,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Okay. My next question would be would it be fun
Speaker 1: if you were able to give the audience the opportunity
Speaker 1: if you went live with that and they can move
Speaker 1: the camera of view. Is that a possibility. That is
Speaker 1: a possibility, That is an option. Oh, look at that.
Speaker 4: I need to play with internet speeds and make sure
Speaker 4: I've got a good SD card, But I might do
Speaker 4: that next year.
Speaker 1: For the ride, because my concern would be Carlos, is
Speaker 1: he gonna point that camera at something that he should
Speaker 1: not be pointing, that should not be seen. That would
Speaker 1: be my only worry. And I love Carlows. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, we're twelve minutes in, but I'm gonna show
Speaker 1: you what he pointed at me doing this.
Speaker 4: It's about half the cars in DC because they don't
Speaker 4: look out for you. Oh ship, Carlos is in the chat. Yeah, yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: I called you out.
Speaker 1: You but so no, we we had a good time.
Speaker 4: It was an emotional weekend, stressful weekend because it was
Speaker 4: like herding feral cats. Four wheel redneck. Nos, he's been
Speaker 4: there with me. You see me chasing people around, yelling
Speaker 4: and yes, Carlos, I am still under the weather. But
Speaker 4: I had to be there for my blue Star mothers.
Speaker 4: You know, come hell or high water. So if I'm
Speaker 4: strong enough to ride, I will be there. But did
Speaker 4: not did not get to play radio on Friday because
Speaker 4: I had no voice when I got there, right, so
Speaker 4: I was going to try.
Speaker 1: To sneak out.
Speaker 4: Yes, Carlos, your favorite blue Star mother was there, your
Speaker 4: little spoon and her road name is Big Spoon. So
Speaker 4: she actually rode with Dad on Sunday. Dad has been
Speaker 4: her escort for four years now.
Speaker 1: Oh how was it getting up there? Any traffic? Any
Speaker 1: issues traveling?
Speaker 4: No travel up there was fairly light, a little bit
Speaker 4: of road construction in North Carolina, which was to be expected.
Speaker 4: But the bike was on the trailer, so I had
Speaker 4: my truck there, which actually saved a buddy of mine
Speaker 4: because he on his way up he had an issue
Speaker 4: with the dipstick on his Harley, so he had to
Speaker 4: come back here to Charleston swap out to the stock dipstick,
Speaker 4: so that cost him two hours.
Speaker 1: And then when he got to Quantico, he decided to
Speaker 1: run over a bolt and let me actually share these pictures.
Speaker 1: Uh you got pictures to look at this? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: let me find where he texted me. There we go, Carlos,
Speaker 1: what are you trying to say about Harley? He's not wrong,
Speaker 1: he's because he was. He's insinuating. Yeah, and listen, I'm
Speaker 1: not a right, I have no idea. I have no
Speaker 1: idea what what what brand is better? Or you know,
Speaker 1: maybe in the day, this brand was better for this
Speaker 1: h stands for one hundred dollars? All right, well, I
Speaker 1: that's that's why I kind of just just keep my
Speaker 1: mouth shut and just go, oh that looks nice.
Speaker 4: And we we give him crap about it all the time,
Speaker 4: and it's all in fun. But all right, so we're
Speaker 4: gonna stop that screen share. Let's grab So here's the
Speaker 4: bolt that he ran over.
Speaker 1: Okay, that doesn't look too bad, right, I don't know, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't Well, it's round. It's still in there, yep.
Speaker 1: Central But then oh me just share the whole freaking
Speaker 1: I mean, it all depends how the how the rubber
Speaker 1: took it. I mean on the tire, well, the rubber
Speaker 1: it went straight through. Okay, this is his rim and
Speaker 1: you see right there, Yeah, you see that crack. It tore,
Speaker 1: it shredded it was it came through. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: know it is zoom in. I'm working on a small
Speaker 1: screen too, and Steve in case people are listening to
Speaker 1: this on the podcast three weeks from now. That's a
Speaker 1: big asshole, right that. Well, it's actually not that big
Speaker 1: of a hole.
Speaker 4: It's about a quarter inch long crack through a magnesium rim.
Speaker 1: Magnesium. But it took the eight inch bolt though. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: here's it took boat took. Is someone going to be
Speaker 1: recording me on that one, y'all? I want to know
Speaker 1: because I want to start, you know, y'all almost start.
Speaker 1: I want residual royalties on this stuff, that's all.
Speaker 4: And here's the inside of the rim. Oh damn, look
Speaker 4: at that. You see where it was beaten against it?
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, Harley of Quantico.
Speaker 3: Boat and it was beaten against it.
Speaker 1: Just it just keep beating it and beating it and
Speaker 1: beating it.
Speaker 4: But shout out to Harley of Quantico. They did him
Speaker 4: a solid. They happened to have a very.
Speaker 1: Similar rim and new tire that he was able to purchase.
Speaker 1: And then, yeah, I thought I was just going to
Speaker 1: take the.
Speaker 3: Labor to story till yeah, there's receipts.
Speaker 4: Well, there's receipts for some of it. Credit card, please,
Speaker 4: they have a Harley credit card for a reason. Oh
Speaker 4: my god, So damn that thing hit it hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I tossed, Actually, Carlos's favorite Blue Star mother
Speaker 1: my the keys to my truck. M and she and
Speaker 1: another mom ran down to Quantico to pick my buddy
Speaker 1: up because it was going to be a day to
Speaker 1: get his bike back.
Speaker 4: And they decided to go through the express lane. And
Speaker 4: I thought Orlando was bad on tolls. I got the
Speaker 4: bill this morning for eighteen dollars easy pass.
Speaker 1: Was that one of those easy passing? Yeah? I love
Speaker 1: my easy pass. I've got the easy pass tied to
Speaker 1: the all the license plates. So and I like how
Speaker 1: they're expand Dave expand, like mine's from New Hampshire. But
Speaker 1: when I looked at the map, a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: It does pretty much all of the Atlantic States, and
Speaker 1: I think they're working on Florida. It does Florida as well.
Speaker 1: Oh it does now yep, yeah.
Speaker 4: Because I've got the sun Pass and it transitions back
Speaker 4: to easy Pass. Okay, but yeah, it was eighteen dollars
Speaker 4: for them to go about nine miles. Wow, you know somebody,
Speaker 4: I'm like, whatever, listen, listen, that's somebody that one.
Speaker 1: But somebody has to pay a guy to pick up
Speaker 1: the bolts on the highway. Okay, this is this is
Speaker 1: what's all about. But no, kudo kudos to Harley Davison
Speaker 1: for hooking them up. Yep, absolutely kudos Davison. That rim
Speaker 1: New was probably one thy twelve hundred dollars and he
Speaker 1: didn't pay near that. So well, you know, what do
Speaker 1: you think you're going to pay anywhere from three to
Speaker 1: five hundred on a vehicle? Oh, the tire alone is
Speaker 1: probably two fifty three hundred bucks. Right. My tires on
Speaker 1: all my trucks are usually around five hundred bucks. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, folks, this is this is again. This is
Speaker 1: not I'm not gonna sound like the old man, so
Speaker 1: you all can yell at me. But it is what
Speaker 1: it is nowadays now. Oh so, but yeah, he yah,
Speaker 1: he ended up driving my truck Saturday over at Arlington.
Speaker 1: I do not have video from that, but I do
Speaker 1: have some videos. I'll steal from some of the moms
Speaker 1: and put together another video for them of all of
Speaker 1: our pictures and stuff. When was the actual what did
Speaker 1: it start on Saturday or Sunday?
Speaker 4: So we actually start Friday night, okay, with a ride
Speaker 4: over to the Blessing of the Bikes at the National Cathedral,
Speaker 4: and then we do a candlelight visual down at the
Speaker 4: Vietnam Wall, then back to the hotel, and then Saturday
Speaker 4: we do a thing for the gold Star Mothers over
Speaker 4: at Arlington, and then Sunday is the official rolling to
Speaker 4: remember ride.
Speaker 1: All right, the Blessing of the Bikes. Are we talking
Speaker 1: like a Christian priest comes out with the oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the Christian garb, the holy water, burns a palm and
Speaker 1: flying the flying the Holy water over here in this
Speaker 1: and that because I got to lead the ride over there,
Speaker 1: h and let's jump man. That camera that camera is great.
Speaker 1: I like that because of my timing.
Speaker 4: So this is us rolling into the cathedral and you'll
Speaker 4: see here in just a second.
Speaker 1: There's a cathedral. That cathedral is gorgeous and I don't
Speaker 1: care what religion you are. That is a site to
Speaker 1: be seen. That's history. Man, look at that whole. And
Speaker 1: we take and we pull in.
Speaker 4: Of course, everybody else is already park and set up,
Speaker 4: and I bring the group in and we just park
Speaker 4: right in the front row.
Speaker 1: So it's sort of like being at those are all
Speaker 1: the sinners with the confessional. You get to go first
Speaker 1: and confession your sins. I like that. So that looks
Speaker 1: very very nice. I like that.
Speaker 4: There's your clergy. And then back here this group that's
Speaker 4: all in matching shirts. That's actually a high school choir
Speaker 4: out of Georgia and one of the one of the
Speaker 4: Amvett writers. It's the school near him, and they helped
Speaker 4: fundraise to bring the choir and the band up excellent
Speaker 4: and they sing and play for us here and Saturday,
Speaker 4: and they actually got to play the national anthem and
Speaker 4: God Bless the USA at Rolling to Remember on Sunday.
Speaker 1: They did an amazing job. Excellent. But yeah, you can
Speaker 1: see this. This is just a small number of bikes.
Speaker 1: Look at that. See your bikes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's small mm hmm. Years past the Pentagon
Speaker 4: Parking lot. If you look at pictures of the north lot,
Speaker 4: you can't see the asphalt.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. That many bikes pretty crazy. It was smaller
Speaker 1: this year for some reason.
Speaker 4: But we're trying to get it back to what it
Speaker 4: was mm hmm, back when Rolling Thunder had it.
Speaker 1: So it'll be. It'll get there, just take time. So
Speaker 1: let me guess I'm gonna throw some what I think
Speaker 1: are motorcycle names. Obviously Harley, Davison, Kawasaki, m Indian Yep.
Speaker 1: I think I'm missing somebody, Honda, Honda, yep. There's what four?
Speaker 1: Is there? Four or five prominent big name bikes? Am
Speaker 1: I missing? Who am I missing? Yeah? That I was
Speaker 1: taking of the Germans Yep and Carlos got it. Yamaha, Yamaha. Okay,
Speaker 1: I ride a Yamaha, Maha and Yep Triumphs. There's okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. Okay, can Am? I see Canam? And
Speaker 1: thanks guys. I appreciate any particular common We're talking one
Speaker 1: thousand cc, we're talking seven fifties. What do we is?
Speaker 1: Is there any any common? Well?
Speaker 4: The so this front row right here is a bunch
Speaker 4: of Harley's and i'd be willing to bet most of
Speaker 4: those are one hundred and eight cubicinch are larger. Mm hmmm,
Speaker 4: I'd have to do math to convert that over to CC's.
Speaker 1: I've heard of that before. All I've heard of it.
Speaker 4: My my mode is eighty eighty two cubic inch, which
Speaker 4: is right at thirteen hundred ccs.
Speaker 3: They got to be out there somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: There actually is a V eight motorcycle out there called
Speaker 4: a big dog.
Speaker 1: US a Chevy three point fifty. No. It will pass
Speaker 1: anything but a gas station, oh man. And they are
Speaker 1: absolute to handle. What about the the side cars yep,
Speaker 1: a lot of the side car and the try.
Speaker 4: We had actually in the road that went with us
Speaker 4: with the VIP escorts. We had two side cars. Both
Speaker 4: the sidecars had dogs in them.
Speaker 1: Nice. One of them is JR. He's a service dog.
Speaker 4: He's just an absolute behemoth of a dog and super
Speaker 4: sweet if he's out of the bike. If he's in
Speaker 4: the bike, he will take your arm off if you
Speaker 4: come near it.
Speaker 1: Mhm. Is everybody pretty respectful? Hey, that's your bike? You
Speaker 1: do you? And I don't care? Yep. Course, because the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks from months I'm seeing a lot
Speaker 1: of I don't want to say anger, but as Ham
Speaker 1: radio operators there getting everyone's getting a little wonky lately. Yeah, Nope,
Speaker 1: when we're when everybody's at DC, we're all there for
Speaker 1: the same reason. We don't care what you ride, just
Speaker 1: the fact that you ride.
Speaker 4: And I'm kind of speaking for everybody and might be
Speaker 4: speaking out of my backside there, but you don't see
Speaker 4: the Yeah, this is my territory kind of thing, right.
Speaker 4: I will drop two names that were there that you
Speaker 4: may recognize. Robert Patrick mm hmmm or the terminator h
Speaker 4: the terminator okay? And Jesse James Dupree.
Speaker 1: Why do I know that name from?
Speaker 4: He owned that bar in Sturgis, that full Throttle saloon.
Speaker 4: He was one of the owners there or played there
Speaker 4: every year. But they both rode their motorcycles in from California.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then Robert Patrick was actually one of the MC's
Speaker 4: for the National Concert on PBS Sunday Night.
Speaker 1: What can you get for gas miles or miles on
Speaker 1: a tank? Like, like, is it like your average tank
Speaker 1: tank gallons? Fifteen gallons of gas? I mean, what are
Speaker 1: you six? Six?
Speaker 4: My tank is six gallons? And if I can keep
Speaker 4: it below sixty mile an hour. I can go two
Speaker 4: hundred miles on a tank. Okay, Now I will.
Speaker 1: Tell you want to get off the bike before two
Speaker 1: hundred miles because you're hurting being in that. Your backside hurts,
Speaker 1: the wind kicks your absolute tail, blowing your head around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of work to ride a motorcyclist speed,
Speaker 1: which is why I started towing up that and having
Speaker 1: a vehicle there. Like, if if there's four or five
Speaker 1: people that want to go to dinner, pile on the truck.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Mike says, I bet it does better than Blowers than us.
Speaker 1: Probably he's up to that. He lives up by that
Speaker 1: Canadian border. Dude, Yeah, don gets two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: miles of his TESTLEA. It has air conditioning.
Speaker 3: Every time you air conditioning, that's right.
Speaker 1: That's right. Hey, as long as I'm moving, I got
Speaker 1: air conditioning. It may be hot air, but it's still
Speaker 1: air conditioning. Is there truly a bug issue? Because I
Speaker 1: know how my truck gets with the wind chills the
Speaker 1: front end. Oh you know yeah, because literally every three
Speaker 1: to four days I am powerwa washing my front I
Speaker 1: have to.
Speaker 4: I will say at seventy mile an hour, June bugs hurt.
Speaker 4: Oh you can feel him, Oh yeah, even through the jeans.
Speaker 1: Wow. See the things you'll learn here. It's like a rock.
Speaker 1: It's like an absolute rock. Just hit me in the ship.
Speaker 3: Keeps you awake that it does.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you think the bug is saying? What
Speaker 1: do you think his last words are? Holy shit? Or
Speaker 1: you know? He he just ate, he had his girlfriend,
Speaker 1: you know, he was at his girlfriend's place. He was
Speaker 1: over here, over here, decides to go and then here
Speaker 1: comes Steve.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, so seeing if I can find a
Speaker 7: big photo.
Speaker 1: There we go. You know, I'm seeing Julie while you're
Speaker 1: looking for that. I'm seeing Julie, and I'm sure I
Speaker 1: v one's whe her somewhere. I remember one of the
Speaker 1: times we went down to Florida. We stopped into one
Speaker 1: of the gas stations literally on the highway, and they
Speaker 1: had this power washing machine that you can go through
Speaker 1: for a couple of bucks and would spray you down
Speaker 1: just to And I didn't think, I'm like, what do
Speaker 1: I need this for? I went out to look at
Speaker 1: the front and Julie said it. The dragonflies were incredible. Oh,
Speaker 1: the love bugs in Florida are horrible and they're like,
Speaker 1: they're like this, you know, it's like.
Speaker 4: And they will absolutely ruin the pain if you don't
Speaker 4: clean them off. So there's Mom with her escort that
Speaker 4: is Lorraine on the back and they've ridden together two
Speaker 4: years now, trying to find some of the good photos.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 4: We had a crew join us from the Iron Horse
Speaker 4: clan and yes you're seeing that correctly. He is wearing
Speaker 4: a kilty and they ride in kilts.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. This show in the Ham radio
Speaker 3: community is what taught me what a kilt? You know
Speaker 3: what the name of those was?
Speaker 1: What you didn't You didn't know what a kilt?
Speaker 3: You didn't know the whole was really somebody around here
Speaker 3: wearing it's an Irish thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's or Scottish or wait a minute now
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm gonna get myself in trouble. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's Irish or Scottish. So if you're in
Speaker 1: the chat, please tell us or was it a combined
Speaker 1: but and there's my buddy Michael and his Indian He
Speaker 1: trailered up with me. Thank you Andy, Andy is uh Scott,
Speaker 1: Thank you thank you. Yeah, so, yeah, we got quite
Speaker 1: a few. I was looking to see if we had
Speaker 1: some good pictures along the ride. Here's Dad on the
Speaker 1: canam he rented up there in DC because he wanted
Speaker 1: to have another trick up there, so instead of you know,
Speaker 1: taking his two wheel bike, he rented a canm up there,
Speaker 1: so that we had two can ams. He rented one,
Speaker 1: said he rented one about one hundred and ten dollars
Speaker 1: a day. Oh yeah, one hundred and a day.
Speaker 3: Reasonable.
Speaker 1: Oh, very better stability. Oh yeah. It's three wheels, so.
Speaker 4: You kind of feel like you're liding out of it
Speaker 4: in a sharp turn, whereas on a bike you actually
Speaker 4: lean the bike. But when you have you know, a
Speaker 4: blue Star Mom or gold Star Mom that's getting up
Speaker 4: there in age mm hmm, it's a whole lot easier
Speaker 4: for them to get on three wheels. They feel safer.
Speaker 4: Here's my buddy Brad that actually had the bolt go
Speaker 4: through the rear tire. That's the new rear tire on there,
Speaker 4: so you can't even tell. The rooms aren't the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we call those things saddle bags back there, the
Speaker 1: saddle bags and the pipes. Yeah yeah, and the lady
Speaker 1: that's on the back of his bike is the current
Speaker 1: national president of Blue Star Mothers. You had some good weather, right,
Speaker 1: I had great weather. It was not too hot.
Speaker 4: You know, days started out cool and the nights got
Speaker 4: downright chili when we were riding mhm. But for the
Speaker 4: most part, you know, it was very comfortable weather, so
Speaker 4: we weren't dying sweating like we have been in years past.
Speaker 1: Carlos, you're not a saddle bag. You are not a
Speaker 1: saddle bag.
Speaker 3: Brother, and.
Speaker 1: You guys probably know this Yearhoo, that's you. That's me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's you. They had to get me in a couple
Speaker 1: of well what go back to that. I want to
Speaker 1: see that camera. Now, there's a good shot of the camera.
Speaker 1: There's there's the camera. Came there's a camera. You know.
Speaker 3: I was walking around with that camera. I figured out
Speaker 3: a way to mount it on my tactical backpack.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go.
Speaker 3: And so I was walking around Dayton. One guy he
Speaker 3: turned around, Luke and stopped and you kind of started laughing,
Speaker 3: and he's like, ah, I thought that was a cell
Speaker 3: phone intenda. I was like, you know, it's not a
Speaker 3: bad idea, but.
Speaker 1: No, Steve, did anybody say, what's the antenna for Did
Speaker 1: they think it was an antenna of some of some sort.
Speaker 3: Yea, yes, they do, kind of some similar to what
Speaker 3: we move or whatever you call it. Yeah, we we
Speaker 3: move if you look here, got some rhymes, right.
Speaker 4: This antenna here is actually my two meter antenna. Okay,
Speaker 4: because I do have a hammer radio on the bike.
Speaker 1: Helmet. Because that camera looks like the antenna that came
Speaker 1: with my bow fang UV twenty five. There you go,
Speaker 1: just some real crazy conception of but it works, it
Speaker 1: picks up stuff, and you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: So hey, if it works, it's not stupid, right, that's right.
Speaker 1: And even the ugliest antenna seemed to always work the best.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we got Joe, so that's it. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: let me take the rubber off. No, you're supposed to
Speaker 1: keep the rubber onto. I didn't say that.
Speaker 3: You just slide the rubber back on from the top.
Speaker 1: Yeah, down on it. Somebody record that. What's the battery
Speaker 1: capacity for us?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Seriously? Are you are we talking like an hour? Can you?
Speaker 3: You were probably doing more, Steve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I had it set in three K in
Speaker 1: three sixty mode mm hmm, and I still had quarter
Speaker 1: battery left after you know, recording. What about Well, let's
Speaker 1: see that's that's almost fifty minutes of video I have
Speaker 1: in the the two going over the cathedral. Now, if
Speaker 1: you weren't doing three K, can you knock it down
Speaker 1: to like that? That is knocked down? Oh that's the lowest.
Speaker 4: Uh no, no you can. You can go down I
Speaker 4: think to seven twenty. But why Yeah, I wanted a
Speaker 4: little bit better quality. But I know, like my phone,
Speaker 4: when I try to do four K gets hot.
Speaker 3: It will get hot so thermal group and that's it
Speaker 3: gets hot just sitting to the computer transferring the files.
Speaker 4: That's why I just pull the SD card out of it.
Speaker 1: Too much?
Speaker 3: Word gott to pop the battery?
Speaker 1: Is it one of those devices to where it only
Speaker 1: wants to see a thirty two gig SD card? Or
Speaker 1: we'll take something bigger.
Speaker 4: No, it'll take larger, okay, because four K files are
Speaker 4: larger in with and then yeah, and if you try
Speaker 4: to do four K three sixty, I'm sure those files
Speaker 4: are insanely large.
Speaker 3: Right they get they get prettyhifty. Just pulling up.
Speaker 1: Looking to see if I have any other good pictures, Frank,
Speaker 1: I wasn't going after Yazon on that one. I just
Speaker 1: know that was a topic of discussion with the yay
Speaker 1: Zoo and the SD cards and icon when Icon came out.
Speaker 1: So Frank, they're talking about you know, is it a
Speaker 1: Yazoo product. No, it's not. I will but very good
Speaker 1: Frank for paying attention. Is So, we actually took the
Speaker 1: Blue Star Mothers in Arlington up to see their founder.
Speaker 1: He's buried, and I had a picture of all of
Speaker 1: us there and thankfully these ladies love taking photos, so
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about it. I just stealing
Speaker 1: from them just like I do. Thumbnails So here's the
Speaker 1: group of Blue Star Mothers that were there this year.
Speaker 1: We're at George Mannis's grave, which is their founder. Very nice,
Speaker 1: and then we have all of the escorts. We find
Speaker 1: a good shot. It's not from the side, Steve. While
Speaker 1: you're doing that, do you find the event getting bigger?
Speaker 1: Has it plateaued as far as it actually shrank this
Speaker 1: year compared to last as people get older or what
Speaker 1: do you think? Be not not sure what caused it.
Speaker 1: There's the group of escorts that went up to the
Speaker 1: graveside with us, so not all of the escorts went,
Speaker 1: but it was.
Speaker 4: I don't want to speculate on the number just yet
Speaker 4: of how many were there this year, but they did
Speaker 4: say the parking lot was cleared out in about an hour,
Speaker 4: and in years past it's taken six to seven hours
Speaker 4: clear out.
Speaker 1: Well, let's face it, people are going to remember how
Speaker 1: they want when it comes to this topic. They're going
Speaker 1: to remember how they want to do it. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: too maybe it's too much. Maybe the emotion and the
Speaker 1: grief is just too much, and they want to do
Speaker 1: something a little bit, maybe more subtle, and we're going
Speaker 1: to respect that either way. So well, and you know,
Speaker 1: after doing this, this was your number thirteen for me.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I'm going to keep going until my
Speaker 4: ticket gets punched and I'm no longer standing on this earth,
Speaker 4: no matter.
Speaker 1: Where I'm at.
Speaker 4: But it's the emails of happy Memorial Day drive me
Speaker 4: crazy now because Memorial Day is for those that put
Speaker 4: on the uniform and never came right.
Speaker 1: It's not happy, no, No, I agree, wow, But you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's something that I don't want to say, Hallmark,
Speaker 1: but it's just how it it's just how it comes out. Well,
Speaker 1: and for those of you that follow me on TikTok.
Speaker 4: You've probably seen that I shared a bunch of Memorial
Speaker 4: Day stuff on TikTok from other creators just to get
Speaker 4: the message out. And it was all all talking about Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's not about barbecues, and it's not about the start
Speaker 4: of summer. No, because, like I said, that Saturday is
Speaker 4: a banquet for the gold Star Mothers of America, which
Speaker 4: means they've lost a child in service. And one of
Speaker 4: the moms got up and actually told her son's story.
Speaker 4: And sadly enough, the fact that he was killed was
Speaker 4: sad enough, but it was that he was killed going
Speaker 4: between thirty second Street in San Diego down to North
Speaker 4: Island on his motorcycle and somebody ran him off the road. Wow, Jim,
Speaker 4: thank you for the super chat. Yep, you're right, brother Jeffrey,
Speaker 4: brother gill all gave some brother.
Speaker 1: Jim just said it all everybody, He just said it
Speaker 1: all right there. Unfortunately, Steve, this is what has happened
Speaker 1: in our culture that we tie food into almost every event.
Speaker 1: Ye just just look at just look at a memorial
Speaker 1: wake service. Just look at what look what is Look
Speaker 1: how look how Christmas has turned out in Eastern Yah.
Speaker 1: You know you have something really so highly religious and that,
Speaker 1: but they tied in a bunny mm hmm, which has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the Christian well topic of Easter.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you from the.
Speaker 4: Gold Star mothers and from the gold Star wives, they said,
Speaker 4: you know, yes, enjoy your barbecue. That's what our son
Speaker 4: or our husband would have wanted, you know, because they
Speaker 4: enjoyed their barbecues. Memory they they enjoyed their long weekend.
Speaker 4: But if you take a minute and think about it,
Speaker 4: raise a glass for those that didn't come home.
Speaker 1: Set the missing man table. Yeah, I may that's the key, right,
Speaker 1: you know something, I may get you over the Legion
Speaker 1: and do a video on the missing man table. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. What you just said, Steve is
Speaker 1: very very important that I think at that everybody should
Speaker 1: do at however everybody wants to choose to do it
Speaker 1: that's appropriate for your family or whatever. Have that discussion
Speaker 1: that before we start saying past the hot dogs and
Speaker 1: the macaroni salad and go get the charts and the
Speaker 1: frisbee and all this other stuff, go get me a beer.
Speaker 1: We're going to stop and we're going to just remember,
Speaker 1: whether it's for one minute or five minutes or maybe
Speaker 1: talk about something in the family that's the important. I
Speaker 1: think that is something important. And when you instill that
Speaker 1: into the young folk of your family, and they will
Speaker 1: continue to do it, and when they get older, they
Speaker 1: will do it. And that's very very important, I think.
Speaker 1: And Joe popped up a comment there for a minute
Speaker 1: from K and four MD radioactive. People don't respect the
Speaker 1: sacrifices and the flag until they've been handed a folded
Speaker 1: one good point, and he's one hundred percent right.
Speaker 4: And then Frank came back and said, yeah, I eat
Speaker 4: some still don't respect it after that, and I've seen
Speaker 4: that too. But you know, sitting with these mothers and
Speaker 4: these wives over the weekend and hearing the stories. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then even some of my writers that are veterans
Speaker 4: that have buddies that didn't come home listening to their stories,
Speaker 4: and those stories need to be told. It's very very
Speaker 4: they need to be told. We need to hear it.
Speaker 4: We need to hear it, and that's important. Let that
Speaker 4: voice be heard well. And my my video from the
Speaker 4: ride Sunday, I am gonna try to do some creative
Speaker 4: editing on it and I'm going to overlay the names
Speaker 4: of the children of the gold Star mothers that were
Speaker 4: on the ride with me. That's nice touch because they
Speaker 4: don't truly die until their name is spoken for the
Speaker 4: last time. M you know, as long as we're speaking
Speaker 4: their name, their memory lives on right.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: So but yeah, I usually do a playlist. I didn't
Speaker 4: have time to do it this year with all the travel.
Speaker 4: Of just songs that I play while we're going through.
Speaker 1: And I never realized the power of some of the
Speaker 1: quote patriotic songs until you listen to the stories and
Speaker 1: then you listen to the the songs with these ladies.
Speaker 1: So somebody in the chat brought up Andy did regarding
Speaker 1: Ray Charles, that's a very very moving Maybe I don't
Speaker 1: know why. As I've gotten older, he always liked it,
Speaker 1: but it just has more of a deeper, deeper And
Speaker 1: I feel bad that sometimes here in America we are
Speaker 1: so split. We are so split right down the middle, hardcore.
Speaker 1: You know, one group wants it, one way, wants a
Speaker 1: vision for America one way. One group wants it, and
Speaker 1: we're always you know, and we're spending more and more
Speaker 1: time with division instead of being united, you know, And
Speaker 1: we gotta find some common ground. We gotta, folks, we
Speaker 1: have to start finding some common ground. I don't want.
Speaker 1: I am so sick and tired of seeing the signs
Speaker 1: for all these projects. And then now say it's a
Speaker 1: bipartisan project. You know, it's always been a bipartisan project
Speaker 1: because some you know, both groups agreed to to the
Speaker 1: funding for it. But there are there are much more
Speaker 1: appropriate ways. I feel that we as Americans at all levels,
Speaker 1: and we've got to start telling the politicians this is
Speaker 1: what we want. Yea, we we've we've stop it, stop it,
Speaker 1: stop it, stop it with your egos. This is about
Speaker 1: us in America as Americans and everything. So and I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm listen. Maybe what I just said it's
Speaker 1: it's happening all over the world, maybe out maybe in England.
Speaker 1: Are folks who are watching and listening right now in England.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're gonna tell me, hey, it's it's the same here.
Speaker 1: Maybe it is. I don't know. So say I'll share
Speaker 1: one more real, powerful photo here and then we can
Speaker 1: get back to the radio talk. If off those sacred grounds,
Speaker 1: you will understand the power of that photo. But that
Speaker 1: is one small small piece of Arlington National Cemetery and
Speaker 1: every one of those headstones is in perfect alignment, and
Speaker 1: there's thirteen inches below ground. Each headstone weighs two hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: They are four inches thick. So if that doesn't give
Speaker 1: you chills, something's wrong. Yep. Between that and the change
Speaker 1: of the guard, if you ever get the chance to
Speaker 1: make Darlington, you've got to go the tomb and see
Speaker 1: the changing. Yes, my kids did that. My kids were
Speaker 1: mine and you know my kids Steve yep and Matthew
Speaker 1: just said, Dad, you have got to do this. He
Speaker 1: said it was just so in your face and through
Speaker 1: your whole entire body and soul felt. And he goes
Speaker 1: He's like, he's like that. I don't know. I'm only
Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen, and you know, and I'm able to feel it.
Speaker 1: I said, good for you, good for you. I should,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: And I've had the pleasure of being up there a
Speaker 4: few times and having.
Speaker 1: A young.
Speaker 4: You know, student male, female, doesn't matter, but probably under
Speaker 4: the age of twelve, and you know, their parent will
Speaker 4: tell them you got to be quiet this somber place,
Speaker 4: and I'll lean down and say, make sure you count
Speaker 4: the steps, make sure you count how long that guard
Speaker 4: is paused. Oh, real heal and then tell me what
Speaker 4: you get after the changing. Every tomb guard takes twenty
Speaker 4: one steps on their walk and faced the tomb for
Speaker 4: twenty one seconds precision.
Speaker 1: Look at that. That's that and then they turned back.
Speaker 1: But do you know why it's twenty one steps for
Speaker 1: the twenty one gun for the I forget what the
Speaker 1: twenty one means that, but there's but there's a meaning
Speaker 1: for that, right, Yeah, So yeah, it's That's one thing.
Speaker 3: When I was up at d C, I wish that
Speaker 3: would have planned an extra day because Monday through Friday
Speaker 3: we were we were just cooped up all day. By
Speaker 3: the time you got out ate some supper, it was
Speaker 3: not to get dark. So I went to the what
Speaker 3: are they what are they called, the big the Lincoln
Speaker 3: Memorial and all that. Yeah, the mall.
Speaker 1: The National Mall, yeah, National Mall. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I went and walked all that and I got
Speaker 3: to see all that out there. But Artleton, of course,
Speaker 3: it was closed up, and it's been nice. If I
Speaker 3: if I go again, I'll try to schedule that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely schedule that.
Speaker 3: On a day to give me an extra day.
Speaker 1: What my first trip to DC, you know, my first
Speaker 1: rolling thunder. I had said something to the folks that
Speaker 1: were putting on a barbecue for us afterwards, about yeah,
Speaker 1: I've never been I want to go see the changing
Speaker 1: of the guard. And they looked at me and they said,
Speaker 1: if you go catch the Metro now, you can probably
Speaker 1: make the last changing of the day. And so Dad
Speaker 1: and I hopped on our bikes, ran over the Metro,
Speaker 1: took it down to Darlington and we made it in
Speaker 1: time for the last two changing of the guards and
Speaker 1: we stood there through both of them. Excellent part. But
Speaker 1: shout out to read there our buddy Alpha Bravo wait
Speaker 1: Alpha Sarah for assisting somebody in a wheelchair so that
Speaker 1: people can stand up during the changing. Thank you Read
Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Hoter flight escort is a big deal, Reid, thank you
Speaker 4: for doing that. Yeah, that's one of the things on
Speaker 4: my bucket list.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: You know when we talk about this, I always remember
Speaker 3: my granddad's I had. I had this one granddad that
Speaker 3: annoyed the hell out of you, the same stories over
Speaker 3: and over and over, right, And of course when when
Speaker 3: he's gone, it's like, man, I wish I could hear
Speaker 3: the story, But but then I had this other granddad, sir.
Speaker 3: He never spoke about it. Never, It was never spoke about,
Speaker 3: you know, and it just makes you wonder like was
Speaker 3: he just one that didn't speak about it, or was
Speaker 3: this some ship that maybe speak about it.
Speaker 4: I will, I will tell you my grandfather. I didn't
Speaker 4: know he served I until years later, and he would
Speaker 4: not talk about his service.
Speaker 3: Nobody in the family talked about it. Nobody.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: I finally got to sit down and talk to Dad
Speaker 4: about it one year and he told me my grandfather
Speaker 4: was a house cleaner in World War Two. They did
Speaker 4: not expect him to come home.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. He was sent into houses with a bayonet
Speaker 1: and a pistol. Yeah, clean it out. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I ended up. Of course he's going now. But my
Speaker 3: grandma is still still around with that that was married
Speaker 3: to that granddad. I couldn't help it. I asked her
Speaker 3: about it one day. Was calmly, you know, as nonchalant
Speaker 3: as I could, right right, she was just like, he
Speaker 3: just didn't wasn't something that he did, And it's probably
Speaker 3: because he saw some stuff and it was too.
Speaker 1: Traumatic for him to talk about it.
Speaker 3: I don't know what his job was or nothing I
Speaker 3: could imagine, well, Joe.
Speaker 1: We're almost an hour in and we haven't got to
Speaker 1: you yet.
Speaker 3: Yep, ain't that something?
Speaker 1: Tell you what, man, I just kind of took over
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry follow that. I said, this ain't a memorial thing, thankfully,
Speaker 3: but talking about it, this is more on the veteran side.
Speaker 3: And I had a veteran buddy come back and uh
Speaker 3: from from serving. He'd only been home maybe a couple
Speaker 3: of months, and uh uh I had bought me and
Speaker 3: a girlfriend at the time some concert tickets and you know,
Speaker 3: well I was single by the time the concert came around,
Speaker 3: and I said, hey, buddy, you need to get out
Speaker 3: of the house. You want to go to this concert
Speaker 3: with me? It wanna be my date? And he's like,
Speaker 3: yeah you. So here we go. We're we're sitting there
Speaker 3: and the you know, you got the bands playing, it's
Speaker 3: it's the right right thing. Whatever you got the the
Speaker 3: bands that headline the show, or not headline.
Speaker 1: It, but open the show, the opener.
Speaker 3: So while we're waiting on the headliner, uh, we go
Speaker 3: out to the to the smoke deck outside, you know,
Speaker 3: the fenced in pigpin and we're sitting there just chit
Speaker 3: chatting with me and him was the only one out there,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, the damn World Show, the
Speaker 3: main show started, and they started out with Piotech and
Speaker 3: we're just sitting there talking, looking at each other eye level,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, he disappears, like U hell,
Speaker 3: he stands back up and he's just holding a cigarette
Speaker 3: like It's like dall boy, that one was close. He
Speaker 3: he was laughing about it, but dude was trembling. We
Speaker 3: couldn't do nothing but laugh. But I dann the stuff
Speaker 3: that people go through. Oh yeah, so anyway, let's get
Speaker 3: off your saffy asses now talk about some radio. We're
Speaker 3: in you okay, that is.
Speaker 1: A yeah, I'm going I like to talk radio, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, so you know that.
Speaker 3: And it works out. We gave enough time for Mike
Speaker 3: MKA to get in here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So this whole damn six meters thing that he wrapped up.
Speaker 1: I tried. I tried.
Speaker 3: I really want to know how his experience turned out
Speaker 3: to be. If he even got on the radio, I
Speaker 3: don't know. He probably never returned.
Speaker 1: Well, he was in between kids stuff. I think a
Speaker 1: birthday paraty, a soccer game.
Speaker 3: That's about right, it's about right. Ever, talked about six
Speaker 3: meters chuck popping in the in the chat K six
Speaker 3: us y, what's up man? Figure out how to share
Speaker 3: the screen?
Speaker 1: Well, Joe Roke, while you're doing that, Joe, I think
Speaker 1: my problem was I didn't pull the beam from the rafters,
Speaker 1: the two element beam, and I didn't hook it up
Speaker 1: to the seventy three hundred and push a hundred watch trucks.
Speaker 1: I think I think ten watch through the seven o
Speaker 1: five through an infed halfwave.
Speaker 3: Look at that Saturday.
Speaker 1: Man, Now see now you and I could have worked
Speaker 1: in the World Radio League at that.
Speaker 3: Look at Saturday. Oh for the ship, I might as
Speaker 3: well use it for a year. Anyway. I wish I
Speaker 3: would have put I should have put Saturdays in there,
Speaker 3: But that wasn't the challenge. Sunday was a challenge, right, yes,
Speaker 3: and uh so this is only Sunday. And I got
Speaker 3: five contacts. Four of them was FT eight because sideband
Speaker 3: was there were some stations out there. I think some
Speaker 3: people heard Mike, you know, but they were in the
Speaker 3: noise for me whatever. I pulled out at one station
Speaker 3: up around New York, oh ad two h z. I
Speaker 3: that was a good contact. But that was one hundred
Speaker 3: watch with my eighty meter loop.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I worked that thing. It's it's an eighty meter
Speaker 3: full wave loop, but it does very little eighty meters
Speaker 3: and I don't have to tune it across any other
Speaker 3: band except twelve meters, right, nice, and I probably really
Speaker 3: don't have to use it on that. It's just like
Speaker 3: a little closer to three than I want it to be.
Speaker 3: But uh, yeah, I had a whole six meter conversation. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: it didn't. It was a I had a conversation on
Speaker 3: free DV yesterday, actually used free DV and contacted a
Speaker 3: fellow on twenty meters and we were talking about how
Speaker 3: my intena worked and how it was kind of weird
Speaker 3: how it works. But yeah, anyway, so that's Saturday. I
Speaker 3: think was a little better. But this is what I
Speaker 3: got for Sunday. Got five contacts in there, so I
Speaker 3: just wanted to show I did participate, Mike.
Speaker 1: So this is around what balling around three o'clock in
Speaker 1: the afternoon, maybe four o'clock in the afternoon. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at your well see because I was listening. I woke
Speaker 1: up around one thirty seven u TC. I woke up
Speaker 1: around ten o'clock in the morning from that midnight shift,
Speaker 1: so it was around ten thirty eleven, and like I said,
Speaker 1: I quickly threw on the seven oh five and I
Speaker 1: can hear things right in that noise for driving me crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I fired up the We go back to your photo
Speaker 1: that you had up there on the left hand side,
Speaker 1: probably when I created the log. Okay, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: Log the last one, but I.
Speaker 1: Gotta tell you I really liked what Mike and to
Speaker 1: m Aky did. He inspired us. He basically kicked our
Speaker 1: butts and said, guys, let's do this. Why why not?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, Minus, you gotta watch if you
Speaker 1: just make the call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there ain't nothing on ere tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well I saw n Yo said he got a
Speaker 1: new grid on six oh excellent, Mike, congratulations, good good
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 3: That's that.
Speaker 1: There's Mike with a five twenty five super chat. Thanks brother,
Speaker 1: We appreciate your trying. Very appropriate. Joe Bratt and everyone
Speaker 1: else I had fun heard others did too, So yeah,
Speaker 1: we thought.
Speaker 3: I think his message come come across and I think
Speaker 3: maybe some others were thinking it too, that maybe didn't
Speaker 3: hear his message, but they realized and.
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought his chat donation was going to
Speaker 1: be five hundred and twenty five dollars. But that's okay, I.
Speaker 4: Guess I'm only kidding me.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I did fire up the eight fifty seven.
Speaker 4: I actually had to run a couple of ladies over
Speaker 4: to their hotel after the ride, and on my way back,
Speaker 4: I went ahead and tuned up the A ties on
Speaker 4: six just to see if I could hear anybody right,
Speaker 4: and I called out a couple of times, but.
Speaker 1: Shame here the same here, I yes, all right now.
Speaker 4: I did, however, get to work on and Julie Sunday night,
Speaker 4: you know, on forty. They were in a park and
Speaker 4: every looked at me funny because I get up from
Speaker 4: the chair I was sitting in when we were all
Speaker 4: hanging out and go run out to the truck, tune
Speaker 4: up the INTWNA and.
Speaker 1: Try to work him. Band conditions have been really weird.
Speaker 1: The spots are very very low well and very low
Speaker 1: in between buildings. Did not help mm hm. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: I was able to get them, so Julie was happy.
Speaker 1: Been struggling late lately, just trying to get down the
Speaker 1: Florida I used to have a nice pipe, nice pipeline,
Speaker 1: and you know even the is it the eight Papa
Speaker 1: Bravo guy, I believe in Barbados on poda Again. I
Speaker 1: miss hearing that nice although I've been having a great
Speaker 1: pipeline to Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri. Go figure here.
Speaker 3: Let me let me tell you that every time I
Speaker 3: use six meters mm hmm, it favor is the northeast,
Speaker 3: the East coast, Okay, And it always has no matter
Speaker 3: if when I use my Titan DX vertical, I'm a
Speaker 3: loop because I used to hit six meter repeaters up
Speaker 3: and down the East Coast all the time. So it's
Speaker 3: for whatever reason where I'm I'm at the angle of
Speaker 3: my land here. I guess I can get out of
Speaker 3: the places, but the majority of my context is always
Speaker 3: the East Coast. So yeah, left try it.
Speaker 1: Some days, what I'm I have a posting note and
Speaker 1: they're in the bedroom in that over an that stationary
Speaker 1: de like this, and there's a there's a dual band
Speaker 1: comment here X two hundred that's not being used anymore.
Speaker 1: So the six meter yaggy can go on there. I
Speaker 1: gotta move the end fat. I found another location. I
Speaker 1: want to fool with it. So I think I I
Speaker 1: think I want to keep that six meter gaggy. Yet
Speaker 1: for a while I was reacher for that same one. Joe,
Speaker 1: what did he say? What did he say?
Speaker 3: Cow a zero? As War says that pipeline into Missouris
Speaker 3: though it was called the El Camino Path.
Speaker 1: It is great. Let me tell you something something about
Speaker 1: working anything across the Mississippi. I love it when the
Speaker 1: Montana Guide I'm working in Montana, Washington, Oregon and northern California.
Speaker 1: I love saying coast to coast, coast to coast, I
Speaker 1: love saying. And that's a great accomplishment when two stations,
Speaker 1: you know, just running a very simple wire or maybe
Speaker 1: I'm running the Athos whatever can do that. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the magic of this hobby. That'll never go away
Speaker 1: for me, never go away. I don't care if I'm
Speaker 1: on my three hundredth million contact. That's still exciting for me,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: So I'll let me know when you're ready for me
Speaker 3: to step on some toes.
Speaker 1: All right, dull haul Joe brant Rant.
Speaker 3: You know, we had we had guests on the show
Speaker 3: and stuff, and yeah, it's it's time to talk about
Speaker 3: this and it's time to talk about it. Uh, in
Speaker 3: a in a nice productive way. I'm not gonna rant
Speaker 3: so much like I did because I want to respect others, right,
Speaker 3: But are you ready for do we get some more stuff?
Speaker 1: Yep, you don't want to call it a rant, but.
Speaker 3: The whole subject revolves around this kind of device. What's
Speaker 3: that remind you of?
Speaker 1: Oh, light at the top of the tower tower bacon?
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: So I'm on the socials the other day.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I'm thinking of the guy who plows snows.
Speaker 3: I'm on the socials a couple of weeks back in
Speaker 3: this guy. You'll have to wait, David, I have not
Speaker 3: got that a ties from Jim yet.
Speaker 1: Now, David, David first rant first, let's just.
Speaker 8: Let's think, let's not mix thee we'll get We'll get
Speaker 8: to that, because I was thinking the same thing to David,
Speaker 8: making this just a complete rant.
Speaker 3: I opened, you know, opinions to become to me through
Speaker 3: the chat as well and on screen. But this social
Speaker 3: user comes on as talks about everybody. Every single person
Speaker 3: that has a radio tower should have it lit with
Speaker 3: navigational beacons for low flying aircraft to see you, Okay,
Speaker 3: which is not now he had I understood what he
Speaker 3: was saying, but what he was saying he didn't think
Speaker 3: all the way through. There's a reason that there's not
Speaker 3: a damn regulation for somebody with a fifty foot tower
Speaker 3: to have a blinking line on. Okay, Now, his reasoning
Speaker 3: was medical helicopters, maybe some prop dust or something like that.
Speaker 3: I kid it, Yeah, I understand that. But in the
Speaker 3: whole big scheme of things, pilots, if they lose their instruments,
Speaker 3: or if they're flying a plane that really doesn't have
Speaker 3: a lot of fancy instruments whatever, they're in a balloon
Speaker 3: floating chain't ha got all this radars shit on his
Speaker 3: blue But they look for landmarks, your sectional maps, your
Speaker 3: aeronautical sectional maps have towers of appropriate height, you are
Speaker 3: corrector pilots know to look for that, so they'll use
Speaker 3: them for navigational e's. They'll use them at night to
Speaker 3: determine their height above ground. Sometimes Yep, this is a
Speaker 3: regulated thing for tower two hundred feet or higher to
Speaker 3: be lit. So therefore the train pilot knows that if
Speaker 3: he sees a blinking light, that should be at least
Speaker 3: two hundred feet or higher off the ground. Correct if
Speaker 3: he's coming over kind of lost his way, lost his
Speaker 3: aids and sees my fifty foot tower or my forty
Speaker 3: foot tower with the big ass blinking beacon on it,
Speaker 3: and he thinks these two three hundred feet off the ground.
Speaker 3: He hears that he will behind my house. Then what
Speaker 3: did I just do? So there was a lot of
Speaker 3: discussion in this social post, and the best way I
Speaker 3: could relate it was, Man, what you're asking people to
Speaker 3: do is for every single person that resides at a
Speaker 3: house next to a intersection with traffic lights should install
Speaker 3: their own traffic light at the corner of their property
Speaker 3: nearest to that intersection. It's not because you know, it's
Speaker 3: additional lighting, right, So what happens when you're lights green
Speaker 3: but the real one's red but they see yours, You know,
Speaker 3: you just cause chaos because you're using an unregulated device
Speaker 3: for regulated Harry, right, right?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, Joe, I'll take it a step further. The
Speaker 1: regulation is not that the tower has to be lighted
Speaker 1: or not just that the tower has to be lighted.
Speaker 4: When it's over two hundred feet. You have to monitor
Speaker 4: that light to make sure it's working.
Speaker 3: It goes out, You have to notify so that they
Speaker 3: can notify their notes, you know, or put it on
Speaker 3: their notice.
Speaker 1: There's a question in the extra about that. I think
Speaker 1: there was something also maybe in the tech Yeah, something
Speaker 1: in the extra.
Speaker 3: I'm not passioning the guy completely. I'm just he was
Speaker 3: one of those that wouldn't listen to other people's opinions.
Speaker 3: There was several other folks on the same page.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but uh and if you hit my thirty foot tower, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to know how you missed my sixty five
Speaker 1: foot tree in my front yard. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I get everybody's thinking of these commercial built planes and everything. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 3: the likelihood of them not using instruments and not knowing
Speaker 3: besides looking at landmarks and blinking lights of where they're
Speaker 3: at and how high they are is very slim. But
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of the guy flying the little experimental plane
Speaker 3: that don't even require pilot's license. They ain't got a
Speaker 3: lot of instruments on it. Yeah, he probably shouldn't be
Speaker 3: flying at at night, but I don't know the regulations
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 1: I think sport probably they're not allowed to flat night.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't make a lot of sense, but uh, right,
Speaker 1: that would make sense to me. This is the whole thing.
Speaker 1: If if people, if a massive people just decided to
Speaker 1: start using regulated stuff in unregulated means, you cause confusion.
Speaker 1: You could actually call somebody to get hurt when you're
Speaker 1: trying to make it excel point excel point.
Speaker 3: But uh, that was my little rant about that.
Speaker 1: No, one hundred percent agree with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if when I was more fired up, that would
Speaker 3: have been like a thirty minute rant. But I don't
Speaker 3: hold on the grudges very long. It's been a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks.
Speaker 1: So as I'm sitting here having my cigars, should I
Speaker 1: just let everyone know that I'm having my cigars so
Speaker 1: so so nobody bumps into me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not gonna as though.
Speaker 1: You just need to turn on the lights on your truck.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, hell yeah, because if it's anything like your
Speaker 1: old truck, I know what light kit you had on there, Steve.
Speaker 1: I'll do a video for you, Okay, Yes, Julie Carlos
Speaker 1: has the tallest tower in the Midwest. Yeah, when when you.
Speaker 4: Come out of the airplane at fourteenth thousand feet and
Speaker 4: immediately deploy an antenna, you ruled v H four HF even.
Speaker 4: But I like the idea of wrapping him at Christmas
Speaker 4: lights to a point.
Speaker 1: Carlos, Yeah, I like that idea. That way we could
Speaker 1: see him better as he's coming down in between the
Speaker 1: bubble wrap.
Speaker 4: But I also know he needs access to his handles. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I want that correctly.
Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be Christmas lights. It could be
Speaker 3: it could be glow sticks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's glow ropes.
Speaker 3: Could bees around him coming around.
Speaker 1: Those led lights. Those led lights are going kids rooms
Speaker 1: and ever, and that will give him a disco ball.
Speaker 3: So Carlos, he's put that on his helm, yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: all right?
Speaker 1: Tell you if he jumped at Christmas time, well, actually
Speaker 1: he could Scott after Land. I know jumps in December
Speaker 1: a little cold though, depending we're gonna okay different, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Scout after Land, Florida.
Speaker 3: On my way to Xenia. How almost hit do you
Speaker 3: turn about Cincinnati?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Take out a ups truck.
Speaker 3: Seen that truck there. But it was a lady driver.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't cause her no problems. I respect the ladies.
Speaker 1: So did you say, hey, by by any chance you have?
Speaker 3: Like she was kind of over the day anyway, So.
Speaker 1: Hey, by any chance, here's my last name. Do you
Speaker 1: have a box of my last name. And I've done
Speaker 1: that in town. Uh, I've done that in town. All right,
Speaker 1: Mike seventh three that anything, Mike h a big big
Speaker 1: boy just popped in so Joe. Everybody wants, obviously to
Speaker 1: get kind of the the box has not arrived yet.
Speaker 3: No, I'm still don't get the box yet.
Speaker 1: What's the least tracking on it?
Speaker 3: The same it was two months ago?
Speaker 1: What a dianna?
Speaker 3: I may I may have a new T shirt idea.
Speaker 1: I think it's still in Alabama, Alabama.
Speaker 3: How can I do well, let's just sure the screen.
Speaker 3: I can't. I can't. Yeah, Oh, what's he doing? So
Speaker 3: I got this new T shirt idea and I'm oh, geez,
Speaker 3: I'm kind of I'm kind of his it because I
Speaker 3: almost got in hot water over the Hunts folks making
Speaker 3: their you know, my shirt a little too resembling to
Speaker 3: their logo, so that I'm not so sure how UPS
Speaker 3: is gonna feel that I was.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say UPS is a little bit larger
Speaker 1: legal department council. But you know, someone though I don't
Speaker 1: understand because I have never and I don't want to
Speaker 1: jinx myself. I have never had an issue with the
Speaker 1: with them FedEx and all the fed X Browns and
Speaker 1: the d h L. I have never had an issue.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what happened. Am I am I here?
Speaker 1: Am I one of the lucky ones? You know? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I will say out of all of them, UPS has
Speaker 1: been the best to me.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My guy knows there's like an alcohol area. If
Speaker 1: it's raining, it's wrapped, it's wrapped in plastic and it
Speaker 1: gets pushed. And now with the notifications that your thing
Speaker 1: is here, you could check, I could see it's not
Speaker 1: in the regular spot. I mean, my guy goes the
Speaker 1: extra mile? Is it just because that's him? Good guy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got a good guy, you know. And Chris and
Speaker 1: trust me, Christmas guy, Christmas time.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: He gets twenty five bucks, he gets some cookies or whatever.
Speaker 1: Either's there's three people here. You know.
Speaker 3: He's the same way. If the package ever get this close, yep,
Speaker 3: Like he knows what house he can leave it at
Speaker 3: if I'm not around and he don't feel comfortable leaving
Speaker 3: it on my port. Yeah, right, like without asking or anything,
Speaker 3: he knows it's okay.
Speaker 1: Because because him, do you there our male lady and
Speaker 1: our garbage, our garbage guy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The whole thing that is, when it comes to n
Speaker 3: antenna or tower, you got to get it out of
Speaker 3: Alabama first.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is do you guys up there do the same
Speaker 4: thing I've seen them do down here in the South,
Speaker 4: which some folks will put a cooler at a basket
Speaker 4: of snacks on their porch with a note for delivery drivers.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't know that. Yep. Well, during the gatorades
Speaker 1: and waters and stuff in the cooler during COVID, we
Speaker 1: left stuff out for him because we knew he was
Speaker 1: working ten twelve, sixteen hour days every day and ever,
Speaker 1: and it just became you know, first it was a
Speaker 1: wholal dance, a handshake, You get to know their first name,
Speaker 1: this and that, you start talking about the kids and
Speaker 1: this and that and again he's working for a living,
Speaker 1: just like me. Yeah. And the only difference is is
Speaker 1: in my job, people are not dropping off cookies and
Speaker 1: other things for me. But I feel obligated to do that. Man.
Speaker 1: I feel he's going the extra mile. Yes, he's doing
Speaker 1: his job, but there are many times he's going above
Speaker 1: and beyond. And I wish I could tell his boss that.
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell his boss. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's an email that's just gonna get you
Speaker 1: know whatever, And who knows if iver I get rid,
Speaker 1: I'd rather tell the man himself. That's how I look
Speaker 1: at it. And I told him I'm not asked kissing
Speaker 1: the man. I'm just this is just who I am.
Speaker 1: I say, thank you, you know, the guy for so
Speaker 1: for our trash bins. When he opens up the bin,
Speaker 1: there's a big envelope that says, driver, Merry Christmas. So
Speaker 1: he knows, you know, don't put it in the back
Speaker 1: of the truck. That's for you. You know, that's for you, all.
Speaker 3: Right, So it's just in case. The ups thing, the
Speaker 3: t shirt idea was a little edgy because you know,
Speaker 3: they're a big corporation or thing. If people felt like
Speaker 3: it probably wouldn't a good idea to step on their toes.
Speaker 3: Then I come up with another one. I think I
Speaker 3: think NASA would be okay with it right there you go.
Speaker 1: I mean, why would they have a problem. Why would
Speaker 1: they have a problem. That's how I look at it.
Speaker 1: I look at from a different why would they have
Speaker 1: the point? What's the problem with that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually had to stop for the night, like
Speaker 3: I was I have freedom Lay all these different brands,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I got to the whole reason I'm
Speaker 3: having to come up with.
Speaker 1: You got a freedom Lay. I love Freedo's. I love
Speaker 1: freedom Corn chips. Grew up on them. Wow, I'll take
Speaker 1: it wet or dry, I don't care. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: all about that flavor. You know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I want royalties on that.
Speaker 3: Is all the on.
Speaker 1: The cooler idea. I like that cooler idea.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I see where they think about that actually
Speaker 4: put you know, ups FedEx usps and Amazon. Yeah, because
Speaker 4: a lot of people down here drive for Amazon, not
Speaker 4: just full time, but even part time.
Speaker 1: Right. So it's funny you said about Amazon, Steve, because
Speaker 1: on Friday when I when I was ordering some stuff,
Speaker 1: I had had the option of it coming for Sunday
Speaker 1: and Monday. I said, No, you're not coming to my
Speaker 1: house on Sunday and Monday, not because you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get you know, anything from me. I don't want you
Speaker 1: coming to my house. You don't have to. You should
Speaker 1: be home like you're making money because you need money.
Speaker 1: If they're paying you some extra bucks, I get it,
Speaker 1: but tell you what so I held before I actually
Speaker 1: bought it. I waited until Sunday to order it so
Speaker 1: it would come this week. Yeah, I just didn't feel fun.
Speaker 1: I felt this is stuff that I didn't need it,
Speaker 1: like God to have it in emergency and don't don't
Speaker 1: come to my house if you can get out or early.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: One of the best legity systems in America is Amazon.
Speaker 4: They've got it figured out.
Speaker 1: But some of my Amazon stuff comes usps, some comes
Speaker 1: to ups.
Speaker 3: You know why you mentioned that, I'm gonna say because
Speaker 3: this has came up before too. I think maybe even
Speaker 3: on the show. I'm not sure, but uh, you order
Speaker 3: Amazon package and it comes in on a Sunday, and
Speaker 3: there's these people that, oh, man, I want my mail
Speaker 3: man having to work on a Sunday. Right. Well, I
Speaker 3: was the same way believer. I was like, dude, I
Speaker 3: tried not to order this thing where it comes on Sunday,
Speaker 3: and he said, oh, absolutely not. Make them all come
Speaker 3: on Sundays again. He said, all right, I want the
Speaker 3: extra work, contry pay due. They get paid good to
Speaker 3: do that on something the other do. Yeah, I'll deliver
Speaker 3: all the Sundays I can. I'm like, I got you, dude,
Speaker 3: I need two double a's on a Sunday, thank you?
Speaker 1: So did I screw up? And maybe on July because
Speaker 1: July I think July fourth is a Friday. Should I
Speaker 1: have them come to my house? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I try not to have stuff delivered on a holiday
Speaker 4: because I enjoyed my holidays off.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I know there's some people that just don't care, and
Speaker 4: they'll work seven days a week.
Speaker 3: At my local one so far. He told me, he said,
Speaker 3: it's a volunteer basis. You know, they ain't had a
Speaker 3: problem where they've had to volunteer somebody right now.
Speaker 1: See, I I wish Amazon had that had a had
Speaker 1: a third option. Let me choose my date now.
Speaker 3: Yeah they do.
Speaker 1: I only have two. Yeah, I have my Prime, so
Speaker 1: I have two. I want the third. Let me choose.
Speaker 1: I mean a day later than what you wanted to.
Speaker 1: Well that's well, that's what I ended up. I didn't
Speaker 1: order on Friday. I waited until Sunday. Well the kids,
Speaker 1: the kids were all doing their bonfire and all this
Speaker 1: other stuff, and there I am. You know, I popped
Speaker 1: onto uh popped onto Adjacent's happy hour, and in between
Speaker 1: the happy hour, I'm like you know something, I got
Speaker 1: something sitting in a cart. Let me take care of that. Well,
Speaker 1: and you know the contract basis of Amazon. You know,
Speaker 1: I've done some of those runs myself, and I'll watch,
Speaker 1: you know, if the rates start going way up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll jump on one. Yeah, I'll go burn three hours
Speaker 1: driving packages around. Guess what.
Speaker 4: The packages don't bitch about how you treat them.
Speaker 1: They don't complain about your driving. Mm hmm. I will
Speaker 1: not do uber left forget it. Yeah, well, I guess
Speaker 1: we should ask Kim uh not Kim? Is it Elizabeth?
Speaker 1: My chat? Oh? What did you do?
Speaker 3: Button? And it keeps going on?
Speaker 1: Joe, how did how did you get that request the chat? Oh?
Speaker 3: The person is in the chat? What's up? Big boy?
Speaker 3: I'm Radio Cat.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately I didn't bring that kenkoozy out here to night.
Speaker 1: I've got mine around here, so.
Speaker 3: I have for the past two weeks, Jody says. Joe
Speaker 3: Brett seems very ups at about this. Upset. Yep, I
Speaker 3: am a little upset.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: One thing I've noticed about ups if you'll look at
Speaker 3: where I don't know, I shouldn't say this everywhere, but
Speaker 3: there was when I was down in Jackson taking my
Speaker 3: drone class. There was a ups hub at the airport there.
Speaker 3: I am saying three planes. It was three planes. Only
Speaker 3: one of them disappeared the whole week. The other two
Speaker 3: never moved. Well, you go up here to Memphis, and
Speaker 3: Memphis is ninety eight percent fed Ex traffic constantly tail
Speaker 3: to tale man, So I'm like, maybe thats just wasn't
Speaker 3: one of their main.
Speaker 1: For Kim. If you're listening, I'm sending you a link
Speaker 1: through email right now. There you go. I just hit
Speaker 1: her and chat.
Speaker 3: So I got go all the way back to YouTube
Speaker 3: and get my chat back. Tell you what watching d.
Speaker 1: What alright? She was setting she was notified. That was
Speaker 1: up to her. She was notified. We'll take care of that.
Speaker 1: Take care of.
Speaker 3: That easy, is though.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we gotta take care of businessman. I'm watching
Speaker 1: the clock. We're an hour, We're an hour and twenty,
Speaker 1: we're an hour.
Speaker 3: And you had this rattle in your voice that we
Speaker 3: heard for you, Like really, yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, really got the rattles?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, you started getting that Jennifer voice.
Speaker 3: What do you talk to Jennifer?
Speaker 1: Oh no, the heck no, no no, no, hold uh no,
Speaker 1: I'm watching the clock. We're we're an hour and twenty
Speaker 1: almost twenty five minutes in here. She wants to come on. Man,
Speaker 1: we gotta get her on now.
Speaker 3: Man, now's the time, right, It's hard to get them,
Speaker 3: uh West Coast folks up in here, all right. It's
Speaker 3: still daylight where she at.
Speaker 1: She hasn't probably even had suffer yet.
Speaker 3: What are you using for lighting? Is that a porch
Speaker 3: light or something? Why is it so daylight looking? It's
Speaker 3: a ring ring, It's a ring light.
Speaker 1: Look at you.
Speaker 3: Operated the sun?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you know how all that ring like
Speaker 1: that was when the channel. That's when I had the
Speaker 1: channel going to that thing. That thing, that thing's got
Speaker 1: some history on it.
Speaker 3: I think Jeff in the chat already trying to tell
Speaker 3: me that I may need to preps the shame for
Speaker 3: what I showed. You might want to check your NASA website?
Speaker 1: Am I really orange? There? Do I look orange? No? Man,
Speaker 1: I'm not orange? Am I? And that's natural? That's natural
Speaker 1: light coming on? Maybe it's just.
Speaker 3: Frank's talking about it's easy to get us West Coast
Speaker 3: people up in here. Frank, Frank's always there everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is.
Speaker 3: He's an exception.
Speaker 1: I heard a doorbell. Is that her? Yep, right, give
Speaker 1: us up when you're ready. It'll be good to talk
Speaker 1: to her. You know again. I'm seeing again. I see
Speaker 1: her all there she is. I see her all the time,
Speaker 1: and that Poeta app and that Poeta app activating and
Speaker 1: I can't hit her out there in California. It's frustrating,
Speaker 1: frustrating when you can't work fronts to say park the
Speaker 1: park or here, you know whatever, and how you doing
Speaker 1: so so so you're here now, how you doing?
Speaker 5: I'm doing?
Speaker 9: Okay, I'm hanging in there. I'm hanging in there.
Speaker 1: Where's the dogs? Where's your dogs?
Speaker 5: I hold on? Okay there, okay, can you hear me? Okay, okay,
Speaker 5: I had to close the other window. I was getting
Speaker 5: uh everything, okay, yeah, I'm doing okay, I'm I'm in
Speaker 5: the back bedroom here because we gave up our master
Speaker 5: bedroom for my parents. So I feel like this is
Speaker 5: like the I feel like this is the college dorm
Speaker 5: room now. So we had my neighbor over here and
Speaker 5: Larry over here. We were like drinking here in this
Speaker 5: room and everything it did feel like toll college dorm room?
Speaker 1: Where's Larry? Tom was popping the camera way Yeah.
Speaker 5: He's in the other room. He's hanging doing his thing.
Speaker 5: So how are you guys doing.
Speaker 1: We're doing good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's still daylight here since kind of in my
Speaker 5: eye here. But yeah, it's uh, it's been challenging. You know,
Speaker 5: I have my parents here, so definitely a different uh
Speaker 5: you know, oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah. We can't really
Speaker 5: go anywhere, you know, without having plans or somebody come
Speaker 5: take care of my parents or something, you know, or
Speaker 5: just you know, barely pop over to the store. We
Speaker 5: have to do it between things going on. And yeah,
Speaker 5: so but we're we're gonna go camping in a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks for our anniversary.
Speaker 9: So thirty five years and we haven't killed each other yet.
Speaker 1: The King the graduations is excellent.
Speaker 9: Thanks, Yeah, we haven't killed each other quite yet.
Speaker 5: So but my always says the day is not over.
Speaker 1: Hey, Kim, refresh our memories when we see you on
Speaker 1: the poet responding page between you know, seventeen meters and
Speaker 1: twenty what antent are you using? What are your favorite antennas?
Speaker 5: Right? Right, So when we have the RV, I'm usually
Speaker 5: using the it's a home vertical, homebrew vertical. And then
Speaker 5: sometimes when we go out with the jeep. I'll bring
Speaker 5: the shark antenna, the shark sticks, you know, hamsticks, sharks sticks,
Speaker 5: same same thing, basically on a mag mount. So and
Speaker 5: those were my favorite band probably when I'm doing Poda
Speaker 5: is fifteen meters because it's quite a large band.
Speaker 1: So you know, noise, do you have less noise? I
Speaker 1: know I have less noise where I am. She's a
Speaker 1: little bit quieter, it is a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ten is great. Ten is great for a little
Speaker 5: less noisy. So it's definitely, you know nice, but uh yeah,
Speaker 5: and I like six meters and stuff like that. In fact,
Speaker 5: six meters was open for me a couple of days ago.
Speaker 5: I worked into Florida from from southern California. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nice.
Speaker 3: So this weekend because I was like, you know, I
Speaker 3: wonder if she has her six meter last room going.
Speaker 5: Oh, I was going to, I was going to, but
Speaker 5: then it kind of faded out. I was going to, yeah,
Speaker 5: so and I've been trying to think about doing that again.
Speaker 5: But you know, it was just open briefly and then
Speaker 5: it didn't last. So if I feel it's gonna last longer,
Speaker 5: I'll just throw it on. Maybe I'll do it more
Speaker 5: often and people can just even see if they can
Speaker 5: hear themselves.
Speaker 3: So that's exact exactly what I was going to say.
Speaker 3: I popped on there a few times when you were
Speaker 3: live streaming and just to see if I can get
Speaker 3: my signal out here. But I said earlier, my six
Speaker 3: meter signal always has always no matter what antenna from
Speaker 3: my home location. Anyway, his favorite did be to hear
Speaker 3: myself on six meters.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that would be great, That would be great six meters.
Speaker 1: What are you using? Are you also using a mag
Speaker 1: mount shark or something for six meters when we're.
Speaker 5: Out camping the vertical, I can tune pretty much pretty
Speaker 5: much everywhere on that vertical homebrew. I've got the antenna
Speaker 5: tuner and that will tune from six to eighty meters
Speaker 5: with some counterpoise and everything. With the sharks, I've got
Speaker 5: a six meter shark as well, so I've got lots
Speaker 5: of versatility. I've probably got all the shark's legs for
Speaker 5: all those so except for hundred and sixty that would
Speaker 5: be pretty cool, but be a pretty massive shark indenta
Speaker 5: for that.
Speaker 1: Have the band I mentioned earlier. We haven't had a
Speaker 1: lot of sun spots over the last maybe three or
Speaker 1: four weeks maybe are you did you see that again again? One?
Speaker 1: And that's always from where I am in the New
Speaker 1: England area, you know, Atlantic Ocean, east east coast of
Speaker 1: of of America. Sometimes it's different in other parts of
Speaker 1: the country as well, as you're different operating times than me.
Speaker 1: So have you been have you noticed some kind of
Speaker 1: weird band conditions lately?
Speaker 5: It has been a little uh, extra quiet for six
Speaker 5: meters this year, you know, overall, I mean we might
Speaker 5: you know Elmer and I talk about it. Just seems
Speaker 5: like six meters has been extra quiet. May would have
Speaker 5: been a really good opening usually typically for six meters,
Speaker 5: and I think November maybe as well. But yeah, it's
Speaker 5: been a little more quiet for six lately then typically
Speaker 5: you know, typically six is a tough band anyway, but
Speaker 5: it seems like it's been extra tough lately.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but what about fifteen now the last month
Speaker 1: or so, fifteen.
Speaker 5: Has been actually pretty good. I thought, you know, I
Speaker 5: was on the Shark antenna on fifteen meters and I
Speaker 5: made a contact to New Zealand so from photos, so
Speaker 5: you know, so those things work pretty good. I had
Speaker 5: I was on the Sharks one time, and the guy
Speaker 5: was asking me, Oh, what what tenant are are you on.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, I'm just on the Shark. He says, oh,
Speaker 5: they're awful antennas, Like I've had pretty good luck with them. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so hey, if you're on the air, you know, who
Speaker 5: cares what antenna it is. You're just on the air, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, you're trying, you're there. So it's convenient, you know,
Speaker 5: to have the Shark antennas. So and then you know,
Speaker 5: with a quick release, that's it's great.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times I don't want to generalize,
Speaker 1: but maybe I'll throw this out there. I think sometimes
Speaker 1: when someone says this antenna is horrible, Yeah, are they not?
Speaker 1: Is there a problem? Do they have a bad piece
Speaker 1: of coax? Is it not? If it needs a lot
Speaker 1: of grounding, or you know, like for instance, the Athoss,
Speaker 1: my Athoss. I know if it's not, if it's not
Speaker 1: doing something right. I go back up to the top
Speaker 1: of the truck and I look at and sure enough
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't mount it properly on the trimag
Speaker 1: I'm not getting enough metal on those mag mounts. And
Speaker 1: sure enough, soon as I move it and I use it,
Speaker 1: properly right, Well, you know, I hit that tune button
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, here come the signals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what I wonder sometimes, Scott, because I know
Speaker 1: some people are very very opinionated.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it has to be you know, resonant
Speaker 5: or it's crap. You know. I think any intended to
Speaker 5: get you on the air, you know, do it, you know,
Speaker 5: whatever it is, get it, get going on there.
Speaker 9: So that's my opinion. You know, how fun that's.
Speaker 5: All it is.
Speaker 9: It's just how fun get on the air.
Speaker 3: You know. To back what you were saying about six
Speaker 3: meters being good in May, I look back through my
Speaker 3: log book filter in just six meters May, Jun and
Speaker 3: July has been the heaviest context that I've put in.
Speaker 3: Sometimes in the winter a few contexts, but.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and then it's kind of interesting too. Sometimes
Speaker 5: Christmas Eve seems to have good openings too, you know.
Speaker 5: Figure so yeah, right, and maybe a couple of things,
Speaker 5: more people get in the new little radios and everything.
Speaker 5: But also, you know, just there's the meteors. I think,
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's the leonids, I can't remember
Speaker 5: which ones.
Speaker 1: I just say that they they pop here in August, yeah, August,
Speaker 1: and again in December or early or late November, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. But I know locally here the guys always
Speaker 1: used to talk about that. Yeah, play six meters when
Speaker 1: the meteors.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fun. I love it, you know. You know,
Speaker 5: I call SEEQ in the morning pretty much every morning.
Speaker 5: Right now, my brig is in the living room, right
Speaker 5: and I do need to remote that somehow because then
Speaker 5: most of the day, most of the rest of the
Speaker 5: day when my parents are up there in there, they're
Speaker 5: in the living room now, they're planted in there, you know,
Speaker 5: and so but before they get up, I'll spend you
Speaker 5: know a little bit of time just throwing the CQ
Speaker 5: out there on six meters and stuff. And that's when
Speaker 5: I made the Florida contact. So it's been really hard
Speaker 5: to have as much radio time as I used to.
Speaker 5: But if I can, you know, just remote, get some
Speaker 5: time to remote the you know, the radio, I've got
Speaker 5: the uh was it remote hamds on my phone. I
Speaker 5: could just put that on there. And but I've just
Speaker 5: got to get to dedicate the time. You know, by
Speaker 5: the time I get time for things, it's like I'm tired.
Speaker 5: What the I have the in the living room. I
Speaker 5: have the yesu ft.
Speaker 3: Okay, because it's the art control has do it? Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know if it.
Speaker 4: I know they sues you have to add that extra
Speaker 4: module to give them that the server side, or if
Speaker 4: you have a computer attached to them, do you remote hands.
Speaker 3: There is a few different ways.
Speaker 5: There's an Yeah, there's another one I was looking too,
Speaker 5: because my husband's like really concerned about, you know, the
Speaker 5: security and all that having an open port or something
Speaker 5: like that. I'm not I'm not in the know of
Speaker 5: all that thing. And there's another one.
Speaker 9: How was it like ham transmit ham t X or
Speaker 9: something like that.
Speaker 5: It was another remote It was a little more secure
Speaker 5: than than remote hams. So yeah, I have to figure
Speaker 5: that all out. So got to make him happy.
Speaker 1: To well state let's let's tackle that. Maybe it's a
Speaker 1: simple answer, having a port like that dedicated, Is there
Speaker 1: a security? Is it a valid concern or you know,
Speaker 1: gag It can be because what you're doing is you're
Speaker 1: opening a port on your network to the world and
Speaker 1: there are you know, nefarious actors out there that will
Speaker 1: just scan for open ports. You know that facy the
Speaker 1: outside world. So what is it? So? What? What is
Speaker 1: there one or more solutions of how do you combat that?
Speaker 1: The VPNED or what? What do you recommend? VPN is
Speaker 1: a good option, Yeah, what you have to host it yourself.
Speaker 1: You put a server side inside.
Speaker 3: Your nee or something similar.
Speaker 1: Tail scale is a good one that's been talked about
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: Recently, I asked, because you know there's different, right, I
Speaker 3: don't recommend any of the ones that hide your Netflix usage.
Speaker 3: A lot of those are shady.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that one, I can't remember. It's called a ham
Speaker 9: TX or something like that remote TX or something like that.
Speaker 9: That one't supposedly much more secure from what I did
Speaker 9: a quick search on.
Speaker 5: I forget which one it was. I didn't memorize it.
Speaker 5: But yeah, because that's that's been the issue, is that
Speaker 5: that port being open, and my husband's worried about the security.
Speaker 5: So and I can understand that, you.
Speaker 1: Know, guys in a chat are saying open OpenVPN or
Speaker 1: you know, of course down's going to just get a
Speaker 1: flex just just.
Speaker 5: Throw the money out there.
Speaker 3: Just Aurora and be done with that.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: So if Iran so does.
Speaker 5: The seventy seven sixty, is that one able to remote
Speaker 5: without going and opening ports and all that.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what I heard.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna have to justify that purchase that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can do the seventy seven sixty, and
Speaker 1: then of course you need the RSB one A or
Speaker 1: if you have Apple products, you can do the SDR
Speaker 1: APP on your control.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, so I just spend a bigger amount of money.
Speaker 1: What I get in my seventy six. Yeah, but Kim,
Speaker 1: it's for safety and security, exactly. It doesn't get classified
Speaker 1: under hand. If this is for safety and security.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 5: Exactly don't have to dope. And it's two hundred watts.
Speaker 5: That's what I've been missing, you know, on my radios
Speaker 5: because my ken Wood the forty eh X was two
Speaker 5: hundred watts, and that one's got some issues again. I
Speaker 5: have to send that in to get repaired. And before
Speaker 5: I spend more money again, because I already had it
Speaker 5: repaired one time, I'd rather maybe sink some money into
Speaker 5: a newer radio like that.
Speaker 1: So I just he'll be him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I read it, Joe a couple more Graham the
Speaker 3: seventy sixty. Yeah, five hundred watts, plug and play everything.
Speaker 1: You know what to do? Get out that piece of
Speaker 1: paper and write down the models and see what they
Speaker 1: what each one will offers, and at the bottom, what
Speaker 1: the cost is going to be versus what your knowledge is,
Speaker 1: what you're willing to learn to do the interfacing as
Speaker 1: well as I say.
Speaker 4: And the nice thing about the Flex is any computer
Speaker 4: that has the Flex software on it, yeah, can get
Speaker 4: into your Flex.
Speaker 9: Is that one more than the seventy seven sixties?
Speaker 5: That what you're saying?
Speaker 1: Believe they're about the same price?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, like six thousand dollars. What's seventy seven sixties?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, the Aurora is going to be close to seven.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know because there's different models, right.
Speaker 3: There's four different configurations. But but the Aurora is changing
Speaker 3: the game. You generate unless heat with it. You got
Speaker 3: five hundred whats in the box. You plug it into
Speaker 3: one ten outlet. The power is built in, the tun
Speaker 3: is built in, so you can consolidate three pieces of
Speaker 3: equipment right there.
Speaker 5: It is not nice?
Speaker 1: Wow, nice, that's option, isn't it. That's a nice option.
Speaker 1: That is options, many options, right, five to ten is
Speaker 1: sixty two hundred dollars right now?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's all well, I mean.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we.
Speaker 1: Ought to see if we can get a clubhouse discown
Speaker 1: Kukon going and that would help. Maybe we had a
Speaker 1: contact there.
Speaker 5: There you go, there you go. Yeah, he needs a
Speaker 5: new radio.
Speaker 4: You can get the Plex eighty four hundred for twenty
Speaker 4: five hundred dollars, but that's only one hundred watt radio.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I really want to get two hundred wats again
Speaker 5: if I can. So, yeah, I missed that extra.
Speaker 1: Wattage, but now I'm hearing five hundred watts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right.
Speaker 1: With the wattage right, Well, I wondered how long before
Speaker 1: they come out with a legal limit. So, Kim, then
Speaker 1: what do you use at the house then? For an
Speaker 1: or antenna's what do you have at the house right now?
Speaker 5: Because let's see, you've got the JIGU one antenna, that one,
Speaker 5: what is the G four or whatever antenna that one's
Speaker 5: up there, and then then there's a homebrew six meter
Speaker 5: antenna up there, and then there's a I've got a
Speaker 5: a folded dipole for eighty meters and forty meters and
Speaker 5: then I can do sixty meters on that as well.
Speaker 5: And then I've got I've made a redneck one hundred
Speaker 5: and sixty meter antenna. But I gotta fine tune that
Speaker 5: so that thing goes all around the property, in this
Speaker 5: small little property, it goes, it goes all around. Not
Speaker 5: very effective, but I've still got to figure that one out.
Speaker 1: So does you get you on the air? Do you
Speaker 1: like one sixty?
Speaker 5: I've tried. I've still got a it's the SBRs not
Speaker 5: so great. Yeah, so I'm still tinkering with that. So
Speaker 5: but it's kept for one hundred and sixty.
Speaker 1: So so my DX. So my DX commander, I can
Speaker 1: do eighty meters and I'll tune it to one sixty.
Speaker 1: Not the best still, you know, three issues. But one
Speaker 1: night I had nothing else better to do in the
Speaker 1: winter time, and I was going up and down the
Speaker 1: band bust some guys. They were probably around two three
Speaker 1: hundred miles away from me, and it was sort of
Speaker 1: like seventeen meters. They were gentlemen, it was. It was
Speaker 1: a great conversation. Some some of the topics were a
Speaker 1: little bit above and you know, over my my my understanding.
Speaker 1: But regardless, there was no you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: guys jumped in and and you know, one guy was
Speaker 1: brand new, and to me it was very encouraging. It
Speaker 1: was very encouraging because you know, sometimes on the bands
Speaker 1: it can get like the wild West and I don't like.
Speaker 5: Right, yes, yes, oh yeah, certain spot on eighty meters
Speaker 5: is like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of couple of bands have that and
Speaker 1: forty everyone they're forty two, right, So you stay away
Speaker 1: if it's not if that's not your cup of tea,
Speaker 1: that's that's my grandfather always said, you don't like what
Speaker 1: you hear. That's why it's called the VFO exactly exactly.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep. Yeah, So no, but that's just what's happening here,
Speaker 5: you know, busy with with my folks and uh, trying
Speaker 5: to plan trips when we can, and so it's it's
Speaker 5: all good, it's all working out. But it's a very
Speaker 5: big adjustment for us because you know, we just became
Speaker 5: empty nesters, right and then and then my husband retired
Speaker 5: and now we're back working again pretty much. So so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: and we did. We cleared out my mom and dad's house.
Speaker 5: And let me tell anybody who needs to hear this,
Speaker 5: don't leave your your kids with a ton of stuff
Speaker 5: that they'll have to go through, because my husband and
Speaker 5: I went through so much stuff to get their house
Speaker 5: ready for sale. It was just incredible. It was almost
Speaker 5: hoarding like, so it was it was tough. So don't
Speaker 5: leave that to your kids, whatever you do. That's that
Speaker 5: was a nightmare. So we my husband I did it ourselves.
Speaker 5: We cleaned it out and moved things, moved, furniture sold,
Speaker 5: furniture sold, a bunch of things, kept some things, couldn't
Speaker 5: keep everything.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 5: They actually just sold their house. It just sold the
Speaker 5: about one month ago. So yeah, so that that was hard.
Speaker 5: You know, they lived in that house for fifty one years,
Speaker 5: so that was an adjustment.
Speaker 1: So yeah, did they have any hobbies, like how we
Speaker 1: have our ham rate before of us, we have our
Speaker 1: ham radio hobby, right and along with it comes a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: It did.
Speaker 1: Yes, did they have a hobby that that had a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff?
Speaker 5: Yeah, my dad had some organs, like a ham and
Speaker 5: organ and a big huge I mean this this ham
Speaker 5: and organ was ginormous and then the.
Speaker 1: Speed they are they're huge.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah. It was in the living room and so.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Really yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So my dad when he bought that, he had
Speaker 5: to go even tected it. He put Jack's underneath the house,
Speaker 5: just to make sure it wasn't gonna sag on the
Speaker 5: wood floor. So and I'm not joking. So and then
Speaker 5: well my dad had the stroke. My mom's like, and
Speaker 5: my dad was in the hospital and my mom's like, I.
Speaker 9: Want that organ out of here.
Speaker 5: So we actually put an ad on pregslist for free
Speaker 5: because it needed some work. And I tell you, within
Speaker 5: three hours we had somebody coming from Lake Paris area
Speaker 5: to come get it. And he said, how many guys
Speaker 5: do you think I need to take this out of
Speaker 5: the house? And I'm like four. It was heavy. It
Speaker 5: was a heavy.
Speaker 1: It was like, what did the ads say? Free? Just
Speaker 1: get it out of here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he yeah, my husband wrote the ad and
Speaker 5: just what the model was and everything, and that thing
Speaker 5: messed away seven hundred pounds just the organ itself. And
Speaker 5: then there's a speaker too, So I mean it was
Speaker 5: it was these guys were struggling. There was four guys.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so but we're appreciative that he came and
Speaker 5: picked it up.
Speaker 1: So I always, I always think of myself and I'm
Speaker 1: sure I'm sure all of us here, even everybody in chat,
Speaker 1: what do we what our Ham all of our Ham
Speaker 1: Radio stuff. We're really again, what are people? I'm like,
Speaker 1: don't throw that away. Yeah I paid I paid some
Speaker 1: damn good money for or I got it for a
Speaker 1: great deal, and you're just gonna throw it away. I
Speaker 1: will haunt your ass. Do not do that, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: do that?
Speaker 5: You know, unless the spouse knows how much that's worth,
Speaker 5: that might be what happens.
Speaker 1: I d have fair value and listen. And I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of times because I've I've helped over over
Speaker 1: the years, you know, spouses, and and the answer is,
Speaker 1: you know, it's been sitting here for a year now,
Speaker 1: it's got to go. I understand. And I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm not like I'm looking to make some money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever you get, yeah, I'll take but you know, and
Speaker 1: I'll make a donation, you know, to your club or
Speaker 1: or something that you guys feel work. But it's just
Speaker 1: it's very weird looking at other people stuff because you
Speaker 1: look at it and the history of that device starts talking.
Speaker 5: To you, right right.
Speaker 1: It's just amazing. Yeah, you know when you go into
Speaker 1: someone's basement and there at the desk is the radio
Speaker 1: and all the all the little knick knacks that go
Speaker 1: along with it.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, well here's so. Yeah. On a side note,
Speaker 5: you sparked my memory was there was another Ham, well
Speaker 5: two Hams here in Clarmont, maybe about half a mile
Speaker 5: away from where I am K six GMV. George Dines
Speaker 5: and his wife were huge into six meters and they
Speaker 5: kept their six meter log books paper logs for for
Speaker 5: back in the fifties and sixties whatever seventies, I mean.
Speaker 5: And there's just tons and tons and tons of six
Speaker 5: year contacts.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's entries entries to scream. Don't those entries
Speaker 1: scream to us? And then the hobby for anyone else,
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, it's just it's just it's just paid
Speaker 1: for exactly.
Speaker 5: Somebody would trash them. Yeah, yeah, but I have them. Well,
Speaker 5: my friend will give them to me. So but yeah,
Speaker 5: it's pretty neat to have. You know that that is
Speaker 5: a history.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard to let go because it plus
Speaker 1: you know, plus you too, you know what you've paid
Speaker 1: for your stuff right right now, you're talking about about
Speaker 1: making another purchase in the next you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of months or whatever. Yeah, and then ten twenty years
Speaker 1: down the line, you know, God forbid or whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want that thing going for fifty bucks, right right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, my husband knows what's being paid for Ham radios,
Speaker 5: so he's not going to show away.
Speaker 9: But yes, but other spouses may not know.
Speaker 5: They may think, oh, just get it out of here,
Speaker 5: you know, throw it away, you know, or whatever, a
Speaker 5: piece of junk.
Speaker 9: It's just you know, it's gathering dust and taking up space.
Speaker 5: Get it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so no, that's.
Speaker 5: It's yeah, I can understand that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm dying to ask you this question. What's
Speaker 1: what's it like being on the West Coast and you
Speaker 1: fire up your radio and I don't care what band?
Speaker 1: What are you normally hitting? Are you hitting a lot
Speaker 1: of Pacific stuff? Are you hitting a lot of uh,
Speaker 1: you know, mid mid Midwest stations? For you to work me,
Speaker 1: I know that what two or three times that we
Speaker 1: have worked is it's always special. It doesn't happen all
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, So what's it like over on the
Speaker 1: West Coast to play Ham radio? How you're and for
Speaker 1: how you're doing it?
Speaker 5: Well, I've been a Ham for what sixteen years or
Speaker 5: so or more, I don't know when, and I've had
Speaker 5: my extra for like five and a half or six
Speaker 5: years something like that. I can't remember now, but it's
Speaker 5: been a while, but I've worked all the all the
Speaker 5: continents so over time. But my my pipeline, I would say,
Speaker 5: is probably New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, those kind of things. Japan,
Speaker 5: get a lot of Japan, get a lot of Japan,
Speaker 5: and sometimes I get a lot of Spain too, which
Speaker 5: is interesting. So I love that. So and then of
Speaker 5: course South America. Yeah, in South America, so beginning Russia
Speaker 5: lately too, so twenty meters uh, yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 5: fun though, but I like working at night time, you know,
Speaker 5: the bands get a little more quiet and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: But with the with the sun up and the heat
Speaker 5: and the static, and I've got power lines basically in
Speaker 5: my backyard, you know, from the electric you know, power
Speaker 5: lines and stuff like that. Pigfull, so that that's you know,
Speaker 5: probably adding to my noise. But eventually we can't do
Speaker 5: it now, but my husband and I would love to
Speaker 5: move and have a piece of land, you know, and
Speaker 5: not have neighbors so close. Although we love our neighbors,
Speaker 5: we really are blessed with some really, really great neighbors.
Speaker 5: It would be so nice to have, you know, a
Speaker 5: property that he can have his garage and I can
Speaker 5: have my Hamshock with all my antennas and you know,
Speaker 5: all that good stuff with not a lot of electrical
Speaker 5: noise or hearing the dogs barking across the street, you
Speaker 5: know kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So that sounds like sounds like Kim and Larry just
Speaker 1: need like fifty acres of just all that would.
Speaker 5: Be nice, right, that's not going to happen for a while.
Speaker 1: Sure, I think we all want that, Yeah, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think we like that. I call it the elbow room.
Speaker 1: We all like that. Yeah, but not too close kind
Speaker 1: of right, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And with my dad, you know, we were really tied
Speaker 9: down now.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's no way to move him. You know,
Speaker 5: he's very disabled, so that would be a huge undertaking
Speaker 5: to get him moved.
Speaker 9: You know, in his condition.
Speaker 5: My mom she's a little better, but she's still pretty slow.
Speaker 5: Got she needs some knees, new knees, you know, and
Speaker 5: all that kind of thing. So it would be a
Speaker 5: huge big deal to move both of them. But if
Speaker 5: my mom was still here my dad's passed, that would
Speaker 5: be more of a consideration of moving away, you know.
Speaker 5: And we've already talked to her and said, hey, mom,
Speaker 5: if something happens to dad, are you okay with moving
Speaker 5: with us? And she's like sure, So, so that's good.
Speaker 5: We've already had that, you know, that conversation. And sometimes
Speaker 5: when I wake up in the morning, I'm so surprised
Speaker 5: that my dad's still here to tell you the truth,
Speaker 5: you know, because some days he doesn't look so good.
Speaker 5: Other days he's like, looks great. So it's just a
Speaker 5: big roller coaster of okay, is this the night that
Speaker 5: I go to bed and he's gone the next day,
Speaker 5: you know kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And but at the end of the day, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're great. We're all blessed to.
Speaker 5: Have what we have, right Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: so we're definitely blessed. Yeah, so definitely. We didn't think
Speaker 5: we would be doing this at the time of life.
Speaker 5: You know, my husband and I are at now, you know,
Speaker 5: but it is what it is, so, you know, and
Speaker 5: they didn't plan for retirement, so you know, the house
Speaker 5: sell is is what they're living off of now. So
Speaker 5: and and we just if they were to go in
Speaker 5: a nursing home, that money would be just swallowed up
Speaker 5: pretty quick nursing homes are just crazy price. Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: it's terrible, but you know, some people are fortunate to
Speaker 5: be able to do that, but you know, in our situation,
Speaker 5: we can't, so it made sense to bring them here.
Speaker 5: So and now we're just the hired help.
Speaker 1: It's getting so getting back to you now for a minute,
Speaker 1: and I don't think we touched this the last time.
Speaker 1: Besides the RV, Like on your own personal vehicles, do
Speaker 1: you play radio? Do you know the v h F
Speaker 1: U HF repeters in your area are do you play
Speaker 1: Do you have anything installed or no?
Speaker 5: Nothing is permanent in the RV or any cars and
Speaker 5: stuff like that. So when we're driving, we're just driving
Speaker 5: and you know, not really playing radio. Although I do
Speaker 5: have one of my handhelds that I'll just have and
Speaker 5: I can listen to while we're right I have like
Speaker 5: earbuds actually can plug them into and just listen. I've
Speaker 5: actually heard because we have U my call sign is
Speaker 5: on the r V, and I've actually heard somebody call
Speaker 5: my call sign through you know what I'm listening to
Speaker 5: like one six five to two zero.
Speaker 9: So and then I've tried to come back to.
Speaker 5: Them, but you know, being on the freeway that it
Speaker 5: goes pretty fast. But but yeah, so if there's.
Speaker 1: Nothing really that's always a surprise, isn't it all.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 5: I'm just listening, you know. And and sometimes yeah, when
Speaker 5: we're driving, where's that radio, trying to think where it is? Oh,
Speaker 5: it's over there, but yeah it's the uh Jay su
Speaker 5: VR eight so and then you know, two meters forty
Speaker 5: and it has six meters as well. But I'll listen
Speaker 5: to two meters you know, on the the simplex, you know,
Speaker 5: calling frequency. And sometimes we're just driving, I'll here soda,
Speaker 5: you know, people working soda. You know, someone's in the air. Yeah,
Speaker 5: hear them. I can't come back to them. They will
Speaker 5: never hear me, you know, from you know the RV
Speaker 5: inside the r V, you know, but I can hear
Speaker 5: them sometimes, you know, working other people. And yeah, so
Speaker 5: we're here locals talking to somebody. I know, they're never
Speaker 5: gonna hear me with the antenna inside the RV. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna transmit through that most likely. So but yeah,
Speaker 5: it's fun.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 5: So and uh yeah, we're gonna get out again, go
Speaker 5: camping in a few weeks and just have a nice time,
Speaker 5: gonna go to the beach, gonna go to Refugio State
Speaker 5: Beach up near Santa Barbara. So enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Is.
Speaker 5: Yes, it is. I've activated that one before, so yeah,
Speaker 5: it's nice. So my favorite park, I'm a wood State
Speaker 5: Beach is closed for camping right now because they had
Speaker 5: some big king tides and just wiped out some of
Speaker 5: the roads coming into the park and so they're gonna
Speaker 5: eventually have to fix that.
Speaker 1: So I cannot imagine that coming in and ruining the roads.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the road was already really narrow to begin with,
Speaker 5: and so yeah, it was. It's got a lot of
Speaker 5: history that area, and it's i think one of the
Speaker 5: parts of the history for the EMA would State Beaches.
Speaker 5: I think it was an old World War two artillery
Speaker 5: range as well, so back in the day. So yeah,
Speaker 5: but it's it's one of my favorite places. And right
Speaker 5: now it's sadly I can't go. I mean we could
Speaker 5: go for a day, but the camping area is pretty
Speaker 5: inaccessible right now. From what I've heard, we haven't been
Speaker 5: able to go and see it.
Speaker 1: So so when you park the r V, walk us
Speaker 1: through what antennas are going to go.
Speaker 5: Up the deal is I'll make larious sandwich.
Speaker 9: He puts up the antenna, and that's the bribe.
Speaker 1: That's the bribe, right works and it works every time,
Speaker 1: does it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll make Lynch you get.
Speaker 1: You got him or.
Speaker 5: He's trained me. Either way, you know, it's still a.
Speaker 1: Damn good sandwich. Y. Yeah, this is right.
Speaker 5: So it's the it's the homebrew vertical that goes up.
Speaker 5: And if you look on my cure Z page, there's
Speaker 5: a picture of the r V and you can see
Speaker 5: on the back of the r V is the antenna,
Speaker 5: the blue antenna, the folks and then oh and then.
Speaker 9: I'm I was being pretty geeky that day.
Speaker 5: I put the shark uh on the front bumper, you know,
Speaker 5: with the magmount. So the shark's on the magmount on
Speaker 5: the front bumper, and then the other antennas on the back,
Speaker 5: the blue one on the back.
Speaker 1: So I got exactly vertical. But who cares?
Speaker 5: Right, No, isn't it? But see I'm not allowed to
Speaker 5: put the magnet mount on the paint.
Speaker 1: So is that Larry's Is that Larry's rules?
Speaker 5: Yes, that's Larry.
Speaker 1: So you gotta make you gotta make him a bigger sandwich.
Speaker 1: That's all. Throw a pickle and some potato chips on
Speaker 1: the side, come on.
Speaker 5: Right, and beer or something right.
Speaker 1: Sweeten the deal. Yeah, I kiss a kiss on the cheek.
Speaker 1: That's all it's going to take.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So yeah, so yeah, that's fun. It's I just
Speaker 5: make him a sandwich. I get the antenna put up.
Speaker 5: So there was actually one time I think we had
Speaker 5: already eaten and and you just put it up anyway.
Speaker 1: So that was it. So you're all r V and
Speaker 1: what's the radio and what are you doing for a
Speaker 1: power source? Now? Right?
Speaker 5: Okay, so the that's a BiONO battery and then usually
Speaker 5: I'll bring the Icon seventy three hundred. That's usually what
Speaker 5: I break. And then I have a backup radio which
Speaker 5: is the U Y fifty seventy, So that's the backup.
Speaker 5: And then sometimes if I feel a little bit like
Speaker 5: thinking that I may have weird troubles, I'll bring another
Speaker 5: extra radio which is the JIUG ninety just in case.
Speaker 1: Right, you know.
Speaker 5: All the bases right there, yeah, and some handhelds and
Speaker 5: stuff like that. But yeah, the power is the the
Speaker 5: the bio and no battery.
Speaker 1: So are you are you using any solar to recharge
Speaker 1: that bio and or do you wait to like, how
Speaker 1: do you do that?
Speaker 5: Right? The the RV does have solar so I can recharge. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so I have a Yeah, it's all perfect. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's great, it's great.
Speaker 1: Well, Jess got the big question, You're going to go
Speaker 1: to Alabama with that thing or what?
Speaker 5: I don't have any time right now, and I would
Speaker 5: love to. That would be so so fun to do that.
Speaker 5: But you know, that's getting away for just two days
Speaker 5: is great, but getting.
Speaker 1: So let's ask you. So let's say let's say let's
Speaker 1: say your home situation was different. Okay, I'm gonna pose
Speaker 1: a big question for you. Which hand fest would you
Speaker 1: go to? First? Would you go to Huntsville, hamd Cash
Speaker 1: or ham vengein which would would you know? Which one
Speaker 1: do you think you would want to go to?
Speaker 9: Okay, so I'm guessing the Huntsville is closer to the ocean?
Speaker 5: Correct?
Speaker 1: Nor?
Speaker 5: Now, which one's the closest to an ocean? Because I
Speaker 5: want to go Oh okay, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 5: Whichever one gets me to the ocean.
Speaker 3: I'm on the Big three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably an hour from the ocean.
Speaker 9: Okay, Yeah, then I'll do that.
Speaker 1: Because and then and because each ham Fest offers something
Speaker 1: a little bit different as far as as it's vibe
Speaker 1: going so right, and brother, don No, this year, I
Speaker 1: don't think I can because we got two kids leaving
Speaker 1: for college, and I think Huntsville is when number two goes.
Speaker 1: They go at separate times, so unfortunately, I think I'm
Speaker 1: just waiting for the schedules to come out. So but anyway,
Speaker 1: I'll get there, don I will get there.
Speaker 5: I would love to have never been to any of.
Speaker 3: Those, you know, just me either.
Speaker 1: I want to experience I want to experience that sensory
Speaker 1: overload right in a weird way. Of that would be
Speaker 1: Orlando or Dayton.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, Orlando sounds good. Yeah, I would love to.
Speaker 5: I would love to.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We went to Florida back in nineteen ninety nine, but
Speaker 5: that was for a business trip for my husband and
Speaker 5: it was a back in the day then nineteen nine,
Speaker 5: and they were trying to get us to move out
Speaker 5: there with this company. And and when we saw the
Speaker 5: size of the mosquitoes, we were a little a little concerned.
Speaker 1: That's the state bird of Florida. Yeah, Steven, Joe, my
Speaker 1: put everything else aside the eyeball handshakeing. Q shows have
Speaker 1: got to be great because I missed that here in
Speaker 1: my region. I really really missed. Am I right, that's
Speaker 1: got to be great to you know, especially that first time,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, absolutely, and yeah, Jeff said it, he's
Speaker 1: been to all three. Huntsville's his favorite. He grew up
Speaker 1: in Orlando, though, so there is that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Huntsville was my first, and that one is now
Speaker 4: just on my list to go.
Speaker 1: To every year. M hm.
Speaker 4: Because I know, I booked my campsite on my way out,
Speaker 4: if not a day or.
Speaker 1: Two before I leave for the next year. I think
Speaker 1: Joe does the same thing, right, because if not, you're
Speaker 1: not getting a campsite. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But if you can't, though, Steve, if can you stay
Speaker 1: at a local hotel and just carpool from the.
Speaker 3: Yeah he or whatever, you know, taking it at the
Speaker 3: right right.
Speaker 4: So the ham fist happens right next door to a hotel.
Speaker 4: You don't even have to walk outside mm hmm.
Speaker 1: If you want to spend the money the Embassy suite,
Speaker 1: I think it is the embassy.
Speaker 3: You never have to leave the air condition if you
Speaker 3: don't want to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could literally catch a shuttle from the airport
Speaker 4: over to the embassy and never even have to have
Speaker 4: a car.
Speaker 1: Right now, if you want to come up to the
Speaker 1: mountain where we're at.
Speaker 3: Right, and there's and there's other parts, it's just not
Speaker 3: where we're congregating at right. Yeah, So you know, if
Speaker 3: you're you're set on a bringing a camper or writting
Speaker 3: a camper or tent camping like you'd like to or whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's other close by parts.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, that would be a dream to go to
Speaker 5: one of those. I would love to, you know, I
Speaker 5: would really love to, but not not at the moment.
Speaker 3: Huntsles Just it's what's so attractive about it is everybody
Speaker 3: gets to slow down a little bit. There's still tons
Speaker 3: of of new gear and new vendor things, and then
Speaker 3: there's a big flea market section as well, and really
Speaker 3: it just keeps growing. Oh wow. But it's all inside
Speaker 3: and it's all air conditioned, so it don't matter if it's
Speaker 3: raining or how hot it is outside unless you're like
Speaker 3: me and you buy an Amritron amplifier and didn't bring
Speaker 3: no cart to tote it three miles back to card
Speaker 3: but just get just getting to to experience the show.
Speaker 3: And see everything at the show within the weekend, but
Speaker 3: then having so much time to sit and meet with
Speaker 3: folks at you know, when we get together Pavilion, or
Speaker 3: when we go out to the town and huntschool and
Speaker 3: find somewhere to eat and hang out. What I haven't
Speaker 3: been to Orlando, but Dayton. Now, Dayton is something that
Speaker 3: every Ham radio operator that everyone wants to go to
Speaker 3: any Ham fast should experience. But it's it's just so
Speaker 3: huge and anybody trying to make content or maybe working
Speaker 3: a booth or something like that, it's just so busy.
Speaker 5: So what's your favorite restaurant out there that and when
Speaker 5: you go and you're done and you think, you guys
Speaker 5: gonna have something to eat and.
Speaker 3: A Huntsville Yeah, so usually we go to a place
Speaker 3: called Campus eight or five. So that's an old you
Speaker 3: know school that they closed down and then they put
Speaker 3: several different breweries and eating places and stuff in it.
Speaker 3: That's been our go to because so many things to
Speaker 3: do in that one location. Oh nice, there's there's a
Speaker 3: lot of options.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we we found quite a number of different
Speaker 4: breweries in Huntsville and most of them have some sort
Speaker 4: of food mm hmm. But and then of course we
Speaker 4: all hang out up the state park where we're camping
Speaker 4: or in the cabins, depending on where.
Speaker 3: Breakfast you gotta go to the Blue Plate.
Speaker 1: Yes, breakfast, Wow, what's the favorite there? What's the favorite
Speaker 1: at the Blue play and eggs, pancakes, everything, everything, and
Speaker 1: is ooh, it's like the diners up there by you. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a true diner, true diner. Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 5: So the campground there in Huntsville, does that get pretty
Speaker 5: booked up around.
Speaker 4: Those Oh, it's entirely pat but already.
Speaker 3: They allow you to book up to three hundred and
Speaker 3: sixty four days out. It's booked. If you leave and
Speaker 3: don't reserve, you're going to have a hard time getting it.
Speaker 5: That's amazing because California, I think you're only allowed to
Speaker 5: book six months in advance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, Alabama residents can book a month earlier
Speaker 1: than thirteen months out. Oh okay, so what does everyone do?
Speaker 1: Put it on your calendar as a reminder, I need
Speaker 1: to go book on this day from a logistics.
Speaker 4: Well for Huntsville, Yeah, for Huntsville. Yeah, when you're checking,
Speaker 4: you can tell me you want it again, and they're like,
Speaker 4: well you have to wait. But if you know the
Speaker 4: hack to the website, you can actually go ahead and
Speaker 4: book your stay for the next year, even if it's
Speaker 4: outside of the date range, so you don't have to
Speaker 4: wait a day. Then if at least one of your
Speaker 4: days is within the date.
Speaker 3: Range, which talking about all these tips and tricks, we
Speaker 3: will be out of it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, don't give all the Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll literally book it as i'm driving in if I
Speaker 1: have to me.
Speaker 3: My wife used to always just get a cabin up there.
Speaker 3: And they ain't got it thirteen cabins, so they go quick,
Speaker 3: they go very quick.
Speaker 9: Oh wow, how many sites are at the park?
Speaker 3: Over eighty isn't And then you got primitive tip camping,
Speaker 3: pretty good size.
Speaker 1: Hang on, I'll tell you here in just a second.
Speaker 1: I am pulling it up right now. Jody says it
Speaker 1: best give away all your tricks and you'll be bunking
Speaker 1: with with with Jim now. Because Jim gets the single camp,
Speaker 1: single cabin stack him and Rackham.
Speaker 3: It comes down to that, I'm going to stay at
Speaker 3: the rangers. Ass Ah wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Be surprised if he doesn't set up some campsites and
Speaker 1: his front yard. They do. They have a way of
Speaker 1: expanding that Huntsville you're you know the area that you
Speaker 1: guys always go, is your way of them expanding.
Speaker 3: The building they're in, the Van Bryn Center. Yeah, Mark
Speaker 3: has talked about that before. They they've got so many
Speaker 3: options to expand in that building, they'll never run out
Speaker 3: of space.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then what about the pavilion now, which is
Speaker 1: a total separate now the park. The pavilions are what
Speaker 1: they are. There are one hundred and two campsites.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think the nice eighty five there's eighty
Speaker 1: five r V sites and then the rest are primitive.
Speaker 5: Nice. That's a decent amount.
Speaker 1: Is it fair to say? Though? The YouTube Ham Radio
Speaker 1: YouTube world exploded that area probably over the last five
Speaker 1: or six years.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Did it increase the popularity that park?
Speaker 1: Right, that's why.
Speaker 3: Well interesting that that part is popular on its own. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 3: that weekend is we're known as the Ham Radio people.
Speaker 3: Are you all the Ham Radio people? Yes, that's that's
Speaker 3: your residence.
Speaker 5: So the Rangers are pretty well used to antennas and
Speaker 5: all kinds.
Speaker 1: Of the Rangers of Ham.
Speaker 5: Oh, okay, there you go. That's even better, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he busted us on five too.
Speaker 1: First year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh nice, wow.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I'm looking this year for Huntsville. There are
Speaker 4: four No, sorry, there's a few primitive sites remaining.
Speaker 1: Still, Now, what is considered a primitive what's a what is?
Speaker 1: For a guy like me who doesn't know what's what
Speaker 1: does a primitive site mean? That's tenth only ten? Okay,
Speaker 1: you can bring sleeping bag two. Yeah, it's a flat.
Speaker 1: I'm picturing a what fifteen fifteen by fifteen piece of
Speaker 1: land for you? I doubt it. What's primitive? Full shade,
Speaker 1: no water, no sewer eight guess maximum two vehicles. Okay,
Speaker 1: how far away is the bathroom?
Speaker 5: You have to look that up on the map.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna have to plan your right.
Speaker 5: If you need a bathroom close, you need to know
Speaker 5: where that is, you know, when you're making your reservation.
Speaker 1: Because I'm an all I'm an old man.
Speaker 4: So if I got to get a walking four o'clock,
Speaker 4: there's a reason my sight is directly across from the bathhouse.
Speaker 1: I don't like walking that far that early in the morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're tent camping, is like hiking in.
Speaker 1: Him and I just gonna say a pit, toilet or whatever, man,
Speaker 1: can I bring it a five gallon you know, a
Speaker 1: home depot bucket with me? I mean it is full shade,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of trees around. Not saying you can, but
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you can't.
Speaker 3: Right, Mike Uhr. Car camped at least one night, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: In a primitive spot one night and then car camp. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of people do that.
Speaker 1: Jeff's mentioning about the deer, that's all. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: deer is gonna look at me and say, dude, what
Speaker 1: are you doing?
Speaker 3: You know, that's one of the.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 3: So that's one of the things that I do at
Speaker 3: h at the Parking Hospital because I like to get
Speaker 3: up early in the morning. Hopefully the weather's just right
Speaker 3: to where there's it's kind of foggy. I love a
Speaker 3: foggy morning, especially when you're up in a little mountain.
Speaker 3: Oh nice. But then get a cup of coffee and
Speaker 3: go walk in the trails and like ten fifteen feet
Speaker 3: away from you, there's here walking.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, Joe, walk the trail. Hell, we were sitting
Speaker 4: on your camping pad. Yeah, and they walked right past us,
Speaker 4: like eight feet away.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: One year we had to call the ranger was like, hey, buddy, uh,
Speaker 3: we got a little fun that mama. Don't run off
Speaker 3: and left her. And he keeps getting closer to us
Speaker 3: and he's like, don't touch it. I'm like, we're not,
Speaker 3: but we like he's already ran us away from the
Speaker 3: picnic table. We're standing in the road. We need you
Speaker 3: to come get this thing right. It's cool, and I'm
Speaker 3: having to keep my wife from scooping it up and
Speaker 3: catching a federal charge trying to take it home.
Speaker 1: You want to think it all. Yeah, she's already giving
Speaker 1: it a name. It ready has the name Joe At
Speaker 1: that boy, the worst.
Speaker 9: Worst animal we've run across in camping, you know, is
Speaker 9: a skunk.
Speaker 5: You know. I mean I have never been sprayed, but
Speaker 5: you know, we were at El Copye Tennesday Beach one
Speaker 5: time in the lower loop and at night time there
Speaker 5: was about ten skunk just walking around, you know, at night,
Speaker 5: and we're like, oh my god, get out of here.
Speaker 1: So is oh you asked here you go. Here's your
Speaker 1: primitive campsites up here on the top, and your bathhouse
Speaker 1: is down at the bottom of the page there or
Speaker 1: over on the left loop. And what's that scale? So
Speaker 1: what's that scale, like a five minute walk, ten minute
Speaker 1: What are we looking at? Yeah, five minutes the most,
Speaker 1: and night's gonna filly five miles, well, especially at night.
Speaker 4: And if you're looking at that lower bathhouse, let me
Speaker 4: see if I can zoom in on it here. So
Speaker 4: seventy four, Joe, that's your normal spot.
Speaker 3: Right, that's where I was at last year. I'm in
Speaker 3: thirty this, you're in thirty, okay, and I'm over in
Speaker 3: fifty one. I'm gonna make that whole big old loop
Speaker 3: just to get back around to thirty.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you do.
Speaker 5: That's a decent sized park for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's it's a great park.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've seen some of the YouTubers on there, and
Speaker 5: I'll I see it's really beautiful, a lot of trees.
Speaker 1: From what I say, it's it's full shade. So don't
Speaker 1: expect starling to work right.
Speaker 3: Right, except inside thirty Burne was a little upset that
Speaker 3: I got that. Holy that's neat. Sorry.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't have starlinks, so I don't worried about that.
Speaker 5: But but yeah, I'm sure a stream from there, you know,
Speaker 5: you do want that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Steve, you forgot to mention the buddy sits
Speaker 3: Mike and we forty nine by.
Speaker 4: Right, well, and I'm in fifty one either a ARB,
Speaker 4: I don't know which, and then Ken and Jess from
Speaker 4: Texas or in the other side of that, so they
Speaker 4: they rented out as two separate sites. But what you
Speaker 4: do is you find a friend that is coming and
Speaker 4: you make sure that you get that site with them,
Speaker 4: so you don't have somebody that's not.
Speaker 1: Part of your group. Has that happened before, it has
Speaker 1: it has the pretentious, pretentious the word.
Speaker 4: Somebody was in I think fifty one A and then
Speaker 4: this massive RV pulled into fifty one B. They were
Speaker 4: there for one night, and of course forty nine may
Speaker 4: have been the party site.
Speaker 1: So imagine those people, What the hell happened? What the
Speaker 1: hell do we picking? Can you imagine? Can you imagine
Speaker 1: the discussion of them when they were leaving, you know,
Speaker 1: was she blaming him or he blaming her? That that
Speaker 1: would have been a funny just to listen to.
Speaker 5: Most of the time, we have really good camping experiences,
Speaker 5: my husband and I and but there's been just a
Speaker 5: couple of times where we've had some of the worst experiences,
Speaker 5: and that's always because of the partiers there and they
Speaker 5: come to party and they're partying hard, you know, like
Speaker 5: four in the morning, and the police is called and
Speaker 5: you know, so yeah that that's only happened a couple
Speaker 5: of times, you know, But for as many times as
Speaker 5: we've camped over the years, we've been pretty lucky, i'd say.
Speaker 1: But when it's all about it's all about the quiet
Speaker 1: hours and you can still do your thing, kind of
Speaker 1: tone it down, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but yeah this, yeah, we've we've seen some
Speaker 5: ragers going on.
Speaker 1: There have been some late nights at Huntsville that there
Speaker 1: there will be, But as long as you tone it down,
Speaker 1: all yeah, right, right right.
Speaker 3: They always schedule the YouTuber's forum the first thing, what
Speaker 3: Sunday morning?
Speaker 1: Sunday morning?
Speaker 3: Do they really.
Speaker 5: So people are like hung over the next day.
Speaker 1: That may or may not have happened.
Speaker 3: We don't know. We don't use that description. We're just
Speaker 3: a little sleepy, just a little sleep ye at all,
Speaker 3: not all at all?
Speaker 1: What happens after the form, you guys are just you
Speaker 1: probably want to crash around what around noontime?
Speaker 4: Right or do you just start off well, so the
Speaker 4: Sunday show starts kind of really wrapping up about eleven
Speaker 4: twelve o'clock. Final drawing is not until what to Joe,
Speaker 4: but you can tell the vendors are wrapping up about
Speaker 4: noon and the flea market starts really clearing out pretty early.
Speaker 5: That sounds like a fun time.
Speaker 1: Wow, it is. It's a great time.
Speaker 5: I would love that, I think.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: So, I've never experienced it.
Speaker 1: And it's not unusual for people to rent on r
Speaker 1: V and have it delivered to Montano State Park. There's
Speaker 1: quite a few RVs on r V share outdoors e right.
Speaker 3: There in that area.
Speaker 1: Really interesting. I did that one year. I've towed a
Speaker 1: couple of years. I'm towing this year, renting one here. Like, so,
Speaker 1: what's that?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: I called this guy up and I say, I want
Speaker 1: this r V. Here's the price. They're going to drive it,
Speaker 1: park it. I'm gonna get the key. When I'm done,
Speaker 1: I just leave the key. They're gonna come take it away. Yep,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it comes with a price, but it does.
Speaker 1: There's a delivery fee with it.
Speaker 4: But then you don't have to worry about dumping the
Speaker 4: tanks if you use the facilities in the r V. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you don't have to worry about cleaning, pulling it through
Speaker 4: all the traffic, pulling it through the trees, damaging it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, damaging. Well yeah, yeah, I can either confirm nor
Speaker 1: deny if wires got cut. You know, Well, that's what
Speaker 1: happens when you're six meters antenna is on the front
Speaker 1: bumper on an angle. It's no, that's what happens when
Speaker 1: they don't check their CEO detector left. Yeah, we looked
Speaker 1: for the fuse, couldn't find it.
Speaker 3: I found it any any time I would uh see
Speaker 3: down on my radio set it all. My wife's and
Speaker 3: there trying to take an app It didn't go.
Speaker 1: Oh that doesn't go over all. Well, now so I've learned.
Speaker 3: I've got to I've got an extension cord now that
Speaker 3: stays in the camp, and fucking run the extension cord
Speaker 3: away from the camp a little bit. It doesn't bother it.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I will say this about transmitting. I've had
Speaker 5: an experience where my husband was out on the beach
Speaker 5: where at Silverstown State Beach, and I was on seventeen
Speaker 5: meters and he he was out by the the lifeguard
Speaker 5: tower right and he says, oh my god, I hear
Speaker 5: my wife calling c Q through the PA on the
Speaker 5: lifeguard tower. So I don't go on seventeen meters at
Speaker 5: that beach anymore.
Speaker 1: I go to other great.
Speaker 5: Life. I wonder if the lifeguard was up there, going
Speaker 5: what is going on with my PA?
Speaker 1: What is this? Because he was there?
Speaker 5: Yeah right, so yeah, yeah, seventeen meters is the one
Speaker 5: that I was going on the PA for the lifeguard tower.
Speaker 1: So that's great. I love it. Oh yeah, that one's
Speaker 1: downther Coronado. I activated that one last time I was
Speaker 1: in San Diego.
Speaker 5: Oh you did well? Did you see me?
Speaker 9: I've got like fifty activatients or something like that.
Speaker 3: Okay, so yeah, that's I haven't.
Speaker 5: Been there in a while.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 1: You're just east of LA, so that's yeah. I'm thirty
Speaker 1: miles easter L A three hour run for you down
Speaker 1: to Coronado.
Speaker 5: It's yeah, it's about one hundred and nine miles to
Speaker 5: get down there, so and yeah, probably about two and
Speaker 5: a half hours sometimes. And but it's a traffic. Man,
Speaker 5: that traffic is just awful. Sometimes Sometimes we go on
Speaker 5: a trip and I'm thinking, oh, we're gonna be home
Speaker 5: pretty quick.
Speaker 9: We're not totally far away. And man, the last time
Speaker 9: we were out camping.
Speaker 5: We hit the worst amount of traffic on the way
Speaker 5: home because we left at like two thirty didn't go
Speaker 5: home until seven.
Speaker 9: We I mean, we were only like one hundred miles away,
Speaker 9: so it was.
Speaker 5: Just all day. Ever, we kept picking traffic alerts, traffic alerts,
Speaker 5: and they did a traffic break and you know, the
Speaker 5: traffic alert and I was like, and it was a Wednesday,
Speaker 5: so it Yeah, it's la traffic.
Speaker 1: But now that that's a really nice speech. I activated
Speaker 1: on the Bay side.
Speaker 5: Oh right, I know where that is.
Speaker 1: Yep, right there in the pavilions.
Speaker 5: We've been camping there forever.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if I would have been doing PODA back in
Speaker 5: obviously it was PODA wasn't a thing. But you can
Speaker 5: still backlog. I have bazillion contacts from there and many many, many,
Speaker 5: you know, activations there. So but but it's I love it.
Speaker 9: But you know, the bad thing though, is that.
Speaker 5: They've had a lot of polluted water issues now, so
Speaker 5: it's just really too bad. I mean, it's been happening,
Speaker 5: but more so, it seems like in the last year
Speaker 5: or two. I think that from what I heard, I'm
Speaker 5: not sure. My husband said that I guess the Navy
Speaker 5: is not having their uh you know, troops practice on
Speaker 5: the beach right now because of that water issue. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so that's what I heard. I don't know if that's true,
Speaker 5: but that's what he told me. And he was kind
Speaker 5: of like not wanting to go down there because of
Speaker 5: the pollution from the water. And that makes me sad
Speaker 5: because I've swam in that ocean down there and loved it,
Speaker 5: and I mean I've had a lot of experiences there
Speaker 5: in the water. And one time I was swimming and
Speaker 5: then when I came back in, my husband said, do
Speaker 5: you know you were swimming right with four dolphins right there?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: You're like, I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I didn't know if there was really yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he could see them, you know, when
Speaker 5: the waves curl, you can kind of see in the water,
Speaker 5: and I'm out there, you know, body surfing and everything,
Speaker 5: and He's like, there was like four dolphins right there
Speaker 5: with you. Wow. Yeah, So I didn't know. I didn't
Speaker 5: even know they were there. I was like, really, they
Speaker 5: didn't even say anything, just kidding.
Speaker 1: Card right there right right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Unfortunately, a lot of that pollution is coming
Speaker 4: up from south of the border.
Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 5: It's just awful. It's just awful. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: that breaks my heart, really does, it really does.
Speaker 1: My cigars getting down to the end, so you know
Speaker 1: what that means. It's been two and a half hours.
Speaker 5: Thank you guys for.
Speaker 1: What did what did we tell you when you first
Speaker 1: came on?
Speaker 5: Just I was welcome anytime, welcome any time, Thank you,
Speaker 5: thank you for because I know.
Speaker 9: You guys are probably getting ready to wrap it up,
Speaker 9: and you know, and I.
Speaker 5: Was like, I wonder if it's too late.
Speaker 1: Doors always open, and I'm.
Speaker 5: Sitting here on the bed trying to like get comfortable,
Speaker 5: and I keep slouching down and so but I'm in
Speaker 5: a different room than I was and before, so, you know,
Speaker 5: because my parents are in the living room. So so
Speaker 5: I feel like this teenager again. I'm all in my
Speaker 5: little room.
Speaker 1: The only difference is the only the only difference is
Speaker 1: you don't have the telephone, right, the telephone and stereo.
Speaker 9: I bet you in there right, Well let's see there
Speaker 9: is a stereo and then my different phone.
Speaker 1: Right, different phone, different type of phone. So yeah, so well, Kim,
Speaker 1: We're glad, we are so happy. Anything as we go
Speaker 1: around the horn here. Anything you want to say, anything
Speaker 1: that you're doing, any special activations, anything going on over
Speaker 1: the next you know, a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in a couple of weeks, probably the week of
Speaker 5: let's see ninth through the fourteenth. I already have definite
Speaker 5: reservations at Refugia State Beach, but I'm just trying to
Speaker 5: get maybe if I can get a site a little
Speaker 5: closer to the ocean, I'll change that and it might
Speaker 5: change the date just a little bit. But I've still
Speaker 5: roped in, locked in for that beach. I've got a
Speaker 5: reservation there. Not the best site, but I'm going so.
Speaker 1: Questioning field day? What do you do for field day?
Speaker 1: Quick question?
Speaker 5: I this year I was home, so or I should
Speaker 5: say last year I was home, but just typically stay home.
Speaker 5: But in the desert winterfield day in the desert two
Speaker 5: years ago, I think it was two thousand and twenty three.
Speaker 1: I think it was so, yeah, excellent.
Speaker 5: So but this day, yeah, I don't know what. It
Speaker 5: may be a field day in the backyard or something.
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, it's all good, it's all good. Joe Brett,
Speaker 1: What about you, man? What are you got going on?
Speaker 1: And that light's old? That light still flashing there in
Speaker 1: the background.
Speaker 3: Get to cut that off, but from a D sized battery, then, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's why.
Speaker 1: Actually, what this was.
Speaker 3: I got this at a I've seen this at an
Speaker 3: antique store, a little thrift store, and I said it
Speaker 3: was up on the chef and I was looking at
Speaker 3: it and I was like, I wonder if that blinks?
Speaker 3: And I asked the guy and he's like, I have
Speaker 3: no idea, And I'm like, okay, what does he got?
Speaker 3: He's got five dollars on it. I think I gave
Speaker 3: him three, talked him down. Oh wow, come home, find
Speaker 3: me a D sized battery, and enough it blinks.
Speaker 1: And so you didn't give him You didn't give him
Speaker 1: five bucks for that?
Speaker 3: Oh? I probably did. What's interesting is got this what's
Speaker 3: supposed to be a suction cup. Of course it don't
Speaker 3: flex very much anymore, but this was I looked it
Speaker 3: up and I think it was like in the fifties
Speaker 3: or sixties, it was made for you to actually suction
Speaker 3: cup to the side of your car if you like,
Speaker 3: on the side of the road broke down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remember those days. Yeah, and that grandreno.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now they sell the little led beacons to do
Speaker 3: that with like electronic flairs they call it. That was
Speaker 3: that's the story behind it.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 9: But uh yeah, one thing, you just reminded me of
Speaker 9: your fines.
Speaker 5: Okay, so here and I should have brought it out.
Speaker 5: I didn't think of it. It's in a box here
Speaker 5: in the house. As I think, I remember mentioning to
Speaker 5: you guys, I used to be on the CB years ago, right,
Speaker 5: and that you had to say your CB license number
Speaker 5: and everything, and I said, I said, I remembered it
Speaker 5: as k B KK A two A three nine, and
Speaker 5: you know, my call or my call, like my handle
Speaker 5: back then was sweet Lady. And so my mom and
Speaker 5: dad for Christmas gave me a c B a base
Speaker 5: station because I was always using the mobile. But they
Speaker 5: had a little plaque printed or printed, I should say,
Speaker 5: engraved for me and it had k B K K
Speaker 5: two A three nine which the which was the CB
Speaker 5: license and then my handle sweet lady, and it's my
Speaker 5: mom kept everything. So that was at the house. I
Speaker 5: found that.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, absolutely yeah, hold on that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My great aunt, I don't remember her license number, but
Speaker 3: she went by a Sweet Mary. Her name was Mary. Oh,
Speaker 3: they always called her Sweet Mary.
Speaker 5: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they her and her husband had their license on
Speaker 3: the wall and stuff.
Speaker 9: Oh that's so cool. That's really cool. Yeah, my mom
Speaker 9: kept everything.
Speaker 5: And you know, when you have those dreams about losing
Speaker 5: your schedule from high school, yep, I should ask my mom.
Speaker 5: My mom kept all my schedules. I found them all,
Speaker 5: all of my all of my kindergarten through twelfth grade homework.
Speaker 5: My mom squirreled away.
Speaker 3: I couldn't lie.
Speaker 9: I had PTSD from going through my old schoolwork.
Speaker 5: Again, I'm not joking. I was having nightmares about it.
Speaker 9: Every time I thought I was done finding schoolwork, I
Speaker 9: look in another door.
Speaker 5: There's more schoolwork.
Speaker 1: I like a lot of report cards, I bet Oh
Speaker 1: my god, yes.
Speaker 5: Comments from teachers, and you know, just even my drawing
Speaker 5: from the dissecting of a frog. I had my mom
Speaker 5: kept that, Like what the heck?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, good times, right, Yeah, Steve, thank you very
Speaker 6: much for everthing absolutely that you did over the weekend
Speaker 6: and sharing the three sixty camera with us, and but
Speaker 6: more importantly, you know what you did down there in DC.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, the half of everybody. Thank you. Something
Speaker 1: I thoroughly enjoy And.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my dad's a bet too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my dad's a VET. He's a Korean wartime vet,
Speaker 5: so he's he was stationed. My dad was stationed Derek
Speaker 5: Cornado from fifty four to fifty eight, So yeah, he
Speaker 5: I not trying to keep you guys here, but I am.
Speaker 5: But he said that he remembers when there was nothing
Speaker 5: around there basically, and he can't believe that years later,
Speaker 5: you know, his daughter and son in law and grandson's
Speaker 5: going camping down there while he was stationed down there
Speaker 5: years ago, you know. But yeah, Timeshane did. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: love I love Silver Strand, I loved Coronado. I love
Speaker 5: that area so excellent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Steve, anything going on for this week until we
Speaker 1: talk to you next, do not have anything planned for
Speaker 1: this week. I'm hoping to get over whatever cred I
Speaker 1: got in Japan, maybe get my voice back for next week. Gotcha?
Speaker 1: So okay, very good, I got some I'm off tomorrow Wednesday.
Speaker 1: It's gonna rain here on Thursday, so that will be
Speaker 1: an indoor day Tomorrow. I'm gonna try to take advantage
Speaker 1: of maybe one to three parks if I can. The
Speaker 1: whole thing is, how early can I get my butt
Speaker 1: up and do stuff? In the morning and then you know,
Speaker 1: but we'll see, we'll see how it goes. So but
Speaker 1: that's it from here. I don't I can't remember if
Speaker 1: we have a guest, if it's next week or the following,
Speaker 1: but we'll have something going on here next next Tuesday. Everybody,
Speaker 1: be good, be safe, enjoy your hobby, whatever you're doing,
Speaker 1: whatever bands, whatever your modes. Be good guy out there.
Speaker 1: So everybody wave, say seventy three to everybody. Thank you everyone,
Speaker 1: So bye. Everybody turn a turn tower light off. It
Speaker 1: ain't tall enough. If you work him, you can work
Speaker 1: around eleven meters too.
Speaker 5: H