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Speaker 1: for being a member of the community. Appreciate everyone being
Speaker 1: here early. Some good chat going on before for the
Speaker 1: stream went live, so thank you for that. And I
Speaker 1: caught the last little bit of Frank's video. He's got
Speaker 1: rob on over there, and I guess they're talking about
Speaker 1: the fram too satellite that recently went up, and I
Speaker 1: don't know. I haven't really been keep up with that.
Speaker 1: I talked to those guys the Frame. I talked to
Speaker 1: amsat and the Aris guys briefly at Hamcasion in February,
Speaker 1: so I know what the FRAM two is. I know
Speaker 1: what they're doing with it. They're gonna do an SSTV
Speaker 1: thing upcoming. I think if that hadn't passed yet, I
Speaker 1: don't remember. I don't remember if that's passed yet or
Speaker 1: I don't I remember. I don't remember what the dates
Speaker 1: on it are, but it should be a pretty cool
Speaker 1: effort for amateur radio and space amateur radio satellites. So
Speaker 1: if you are into that sort of thing, I would uh,
Speaker 1: I would suggest going and checking that out. Frank's got
Speaker 1: several videos on it and it's pretty cool to see
Speaker 1: what it's doing. I need to try to get some
Speaker 1: SSTV stuff going here. I've got MMSSTV installed back here,
Speaker 1: some listening a couple of weeks ago, and SSTV is done.
Speaker 1: That's why. Okay, yeah, that's I knew they were doing
Speaker 1: an after action report, but I don't know. I haven't been.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I haven't been keeping up with it. Glenn,
Speaker 1: thank you for the super chat. Appreciate you being here tonight. Buddy.
Speaker 1: Let's see the ISS has SSTV. Now, yeah, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a permanent thing. The ISS having SSTV is going
Speaker 1: to be a permanent thing, which I was I was
Speaker 1: hearing about that as well. So good deal. Thanks guys
Speaker 1: for being here. Appreciate everyone's willingness to spend your Sunday
Speaker 1: night with me. So Frank, I assume he's going to
Speaker 1: join here in a minute, but until he gets here,
Speaker 1: see that, see that camera camera freaks out sometimes. These
Speaker 1: Sonys have really fast focusing. But man, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not convinced I like it better
Speaker 1: than my canon. I might be going back to canon soon,
Speaker 1: we'll see. But okay, So first of all, I want
Speaker 1: to a couple of quick things, real fast before we
Speaker 1: get started here. I am working on. I say I'm
Speaker 1: working on. I'm leading the effort. I got a developer
Speaker 1: working for me and making some major updates to my
Speaker 1: website shop dot Hamradio two dot com or grape vineanmateur
Speaker 1: radio dot com. This is not finished yet. We're not
Speaker 1: finished with this yet, so let me make that a
Speaker 1: bit smaller T shirts and whatnot. Got a new T
Speaker 1: shirt here, Hamfests twenty twenty five, Ham Kashonhamvention Huntsville and
Speaker 1: more right there that went live today. Frank's new T
Speaker 1: shirt is there as well, his Blackout Tank Radio T shirt.
Speaker 1: That's all there. But there you might see some you
Speaker 1: might see some hiccups. It might come down for a
Speaker 1: little bit overnight, it might go back up again. But
Speaker 1: there are updates being made to this site right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm putting some new stuff on here and I'm
Speaker 1: redesigning it and restructuring it and whatnot. So check that
Speaker 1: out over there Great Vine Amature Radio dot com. That's
Speaker 1: where that is, and shite you guys following me over there. Also,
Speaker 1: the coffee site is up and running. As I've mentioned
Speaker 1: in the giveaways, ham Radio Overland dot Coffee is that
Speaker 1: you are o. These are monthly subscriptions that you can
Speaker 1: sign up for the Expedition Brew, Early Shift, Rare Grid,
Speaker 1: and a Texas Blend they've got over there, So those
Speaker 1: are going right now as well. Wanted to mention that
Speaker 1: I've actually got a couple other flavors of coffee I'm
Speaker 1: working on too, because that seems to be a popular
Speaker 1: thing right now. And although I don't drink a lot
Speaker 1: of coffee myself, when the weather's hot and the weather's
Speaker 1: starting to get hot, I don't know. I kind of
Speaker 1: I drank some coffee last week, and I'm like, you
Speaker 1: know what, maybe I'll just start drinking coffee more often.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll maybe we'll do a coffee see what kind
Speaker 1: of coffee we're drinking on live streams that night. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but that is all out there, and I
Speaker 1: know that people were asking after the live stream last week,
Speaker 1: and this is something that I wanted to mention last week.
Speaker 1: But I had Brandon from BattleBox on last week. That
Speaker 1: was a very fun live stream. He's already We've traded
Speaker 1: a couple of emails since last week and he's he's
Speaker 1: already been like, dude, let me know when you want
Speaker 1: to do it again. I'm totally down. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: really excited, which is cool. It was really cool. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to catching up with him next year in Orlando.
Speaker 1: But until then, we're gonna do some live we get
Speaker 1: we don't have anything planned right now. We're like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do some more stuff together. Cool. We don't know
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be yet, but Ham Radio Happy Hour
Speaker 1: this coming Friday. I haven't done this in a couple
Speaker 1: of months, and I want to get back to it.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna do one in Dayton on the couple
Speaker 1: days before Dayton next month in May, and then I'll
Speaker 1: probably do one around Memorial Day as well. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to get one in for April. So next Friday,
Speaker 1: Good Friday, two days before Easter. Ham Radio Happy Hour.
Speaker 1: I've I don't know who's gonna be. I've talked to
Speaker 1: a couple of people who are available, and hopefully Brandon
Speaker 1: from BattleBots we'll be able to join us on that.
Speaker 1: He expressed interest in wanting to join us on the
Speaker 1: next Happy Hour, so hopefully that will happen there and
Speaker 1: we'll be able to talk to him a little bit
Speaker 1: more oft than that. So there's Frank and where is
Speaker 1: Hold on second, I gotta make sure zoom meeting there
Speaker 1: we go right here. Oh that's why that was like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that the size is
Speaker 1: correct on that. What's up, dude, Hold on a second.
Speaker 1: I've got you on the wrong I got you on
Speaker 1: the wrong speaker because we had that we had that
Speaker 1: more expo thing the other night, so I turned on. Okay,
Speaker 1: now what is there? You go? There? It is there?
Speaker 1: You go? Yeah, Well that's going on.
Speaker 2: Doing all right, man, doing all right. I had a
Speaker 2: great weekend. I kind of took the weekend off from
Speaker 2: ham Radio and relax. However, that being said, Friday morning,
Speaker 2: I did film the complete unpacking of my new SAT
Speaker 2: like kit and it is complete and working, fully functional.
Speaker 2: Unlike Jason's camera is freaking out.
Speaker 1: I know it. Yeah, that's what I get for using
Speaker 1: a Sony. I got to go back to Cannon.
Speaker 2: Well, isn't that your canon was having the battery issues?
Speaker 1: Uh no, it was, well one of the well, I've
Speaker 1: got like four Cannon cameras, okay, so one of them
Speaker 1: was having a re it was rebooting itself for no reason,
Speaker 1: and that that's actually my newest one, sadly geez.
Speaker 2: But so yeah, I'm looking at getting some new cameras.
Speaker 2: I'm still doing it cheap ish, a couple of new
Speaker 2: cameras around. And the mic and the mic is I'm
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what i want to do with
Speaker 2: the mic. I'm thinking a shotgun mic because I hate
Speaker 2: personally having a mic right here as you're talking, and
Speaker 2: and half my mouth is either covered or partially or
Speaker 2: it's just right there. So I was thinking about a
Speaker 2: shotgun mic and maybe something I can use when I
Speaker 2: am out in the field and double that that be
Speaker 2: kind of cool. I don't know, but that's that's thoughts
Speaker 2: for later. I was talking about Satellite Kid, which I
Speaker 2: did just get done finishing showing on the live stream
Speaker 2: and the video coming up later this month, about breaking
Speaker 2: this down. It's working, Jason, It's worked good. Good, have
Speaker 2: contact yet.
Speaker 1: But good, well, well still good.
Speaker 2: I need I need time. I tried to do it,
Speaker 2: but it was just the timings for the satellite passes
Speaker 2: didn't work out. And okay, this is how I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say this, all right, say it. This weekend I played nerd.
Speaker 2: My my nerd card came out. I went to the
Speaker 2: Scarborough fayir of the Renaissance Festival.
Speaker 1: However, told me to double down on this.
Speaker 2: I had my HT. I had my HT on side too.
Speaker 1: And did you make content with anyone.
Speaker 2: In the parking line? And a couple of times we
Speaker 2: were resting. However, one time I was sitting in the
Speaker 2: bookshop and it was quiet, and people were looking at
Speaker 2: books and I'm trying to be quiet and I hear
Speaker 2: I forgot the call signed KG. It's like no way,
Speaker 2: and I pulled it out. I was like, KG five
Speaker 2: h Jay, what's going on? I'm overheat the Resaissance Vestival.
Speaker 2: I'm dressed up in garb and talking on a radio.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're getting nerdier than this. The female
Speaker 2: repellent is very active right now. What's up man?
Speaker 1: No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2: He was also there at the festival and broke away
Speaker 2: from his family to want to go to the car
Speaker 2: and play radio for a bit, and we had a
Speaker 2: find you. So when I was inside h and at
Speaker 2: that book, out of all the places, the places that
Speaker 2: everyone's waking, be quiet and read, and I'm there yelling
Speaker 2: at the radio being me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, perfect, there you go, there you go. Good. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you had five.
Speaker 2: I guess I should have wrote down the contact and
Speaker 2: submitted my name for your right simplex.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I got this, So I say, in a
Speaker 1: second ago, I know that people were talking about I
Speaker 1: kind of got distracted. I know that people were talking
Speaker 1: about the repeater challenge. So March is the last month
Speaker 1: of the Repeater Challenge, and I didn't announce the winner
Speaker 1: last weekend. So I have a winner, and it is
Speaker 1: k E E O d Y Chris. If we look
Speaker 1: over here, he says, he titled his email to me
Speaker 1: Repeater Challenge list. I put in some work, and he
Speaker 1: had quite a few things, almost every day going down
Speaker 1: here two meter for forty all of these no contacts
Speaker 1: that day. That's okay, A net that he had forty
Speaker 1: two check ins he was a part of. And he
Speaker 1: got on three twenty three and activated Spruce Knob with
Speaker 1: two eight five on a machine and spoke with some
Speaker 1: guys that I talk in great. Well, I activated Spruce No, okay,
Speaker 1: I guess not PODA. You can't activate PODA on a repeater.
Speaker 1: But you got You went to Spruce Nob in West
Speaker 1: Virginia and got on the repeater. So that's good as
Speaker 1: it is a repeater challenge, so that's great. So Chris
Speaker 1: k E once again k E eight od y repeater
Speaker 1: Challenge for March of twenty twenty five, and that's probably
Speaker 1: gonna do it. That's I think I'm gonna shut the
Speaker 1: repeater challenge down simply because I would like to keep
Speaker 1: it going. And oh, yeah he's in that there is
Speaker 1: k E eight od y Ham Dad there he is
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, congrats, dude. I'd like to keep the
Speaker 1: repeater challenge going, but I can't do it and the
Speaker 1: HF giveaways that I'm doing at the same time because
Speaker 1: of financial reasons. So maybe we'll spin that up back
Speaker 1: up again later maybe I don't know, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with that. But that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So where I got a couple of emails this week
Speaker 1: saying is it still going for April And the answer
Speaker 1: is no, No, I'm not going to do it for
Speaker 1: April again. I might do it a little bit later on,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I haven't decided a hundred percent on
Speaker 1: that yet. So thank you to everybody who participated. Still
Speaker 1: go out and kee up your repeaters every day. You
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about winning a radio for me
Speaker 1: or anybody else. But still go out and kee up
Speaker 1: your repeaters every day. What's sad trying to trying to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: Some of the most active repeaters around, but recently they've
Speaker 2: just been going quiet. I've been getting on and listening
Speaker 2: to the radio more and more in the mornings and
Speaker 2: it's just where are y'all? Where did they? Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a good conversation with someone on the
Speaker 1: roster and two meter repeater the other day coming back
Speaker 1: from the hunting Lees. I tried. I tried the the
Speaker 1: w f ARC repeater out there that Rob monitors and I.
Speaker 1: But I think it was during the day when he
Speaker 1: was probably at his office, so I'm assuming that he
Speaker 1: wasn't monitoring from his office. But I try to key
Speaker 1: up that repeater every time I drive north. But but
Speaker 1: I did have a good conversation on the Roster repeater,
Speaker 1: which is a very far reaching repeater.
Speaker 2: Oh, I kind of want to blame COVID on this one.
Speaker 2: COVID did open up a lot of doors some amateur radio,
Speaker 2: but I think it's killed the commute drivetime talking groups. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: And that's what I want to blame on COVID, because
Speaker 2: before COVID there was healthy talk groups on amateur radio
Speaker 2: repeaters in the Dallas area. There were a number of them,
Speaker 2: like always guys going And since then, I'm like, where
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I missed the fun ed AC three I k
Speaker 1: ask is the missus celebrating on Tuesday now that busy
Speaker 1: season is over?
Speaker 3: Lol.
Speaker 1: Actually that's a common misconception. That's a common misconception because
Speaker 1: she is a corporate CPA, and corporations don't have the
Speaker 1: April fifteenth deadline. She doesn't do personal taxes, so the
Speaker 1: April fifteenth deadline for her job is basically a romant.
Speaker 1: She does our taxes and she does my business taxes,
Speaker 1: and that's always that sometimes can be a challenge, but
Speaker 1: her job has nothing to do with April fifteenth at all. Plus,
Speaker 1: she doesn't really do tax work. She does light kind
Speaker 1: of exchange work. She does a specialty thing, and their
Speaker 1: busy season is actually January and February, so she's passed
Speaker 1: that busy season. But but yeah, the April fifteenth deadline
Speaker 1: doesn't really mean anything to her. So but she gets
Speaker 1: asked that question every year, So are you are you
Speaker 1: gonna take a break or She's like, now, my busy
Speaker 1: season two months ago, but it'll start up again in
Speaker 1: like April or like or there's the quarterly right, yeah,
Speaker 1: the quarterly quarterly stuff for corporations and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. But whatever, but that is that's what I said. Well,
Speaker 1: I saw him in the chat. What do you say?
Speaker 2: He said, I got my Tank Radio shirt and it
Speaker 2: looks great. Oh good, okay, And what he's talking about
Speaker 2: is the Tank radio shirt right there way yeah, uh
Speaker 2: out over at great fine Averagur Radio.
Speaker 1: I showed that, Uh did you look? Did you catch
Speaker 1: the redesign on my website? I showed that before you
Speaker 1: jumped on?
Speaker 2: Uh no, yeah, yeah, oh oh it's not done yet.
Speaker 1: It's not done yet. It's currently I I actually hired
Speaker 1: to Shopify editor and I'm paying her to do I
Speaker 1: told her what I wanted and she's made some changes
Speaker 1: and I really like the changes she's made. And uh,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's a work in progress, so it
Speaker 1: might go down for a few hours tonight or or
Speaker 1: tomorrow sometime. But it's been, it's been. There's been some
Speaker 1: major updates to it, but it's not done yet. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna be with that.
Speaker 2: Beautiful as long as they ordered the blackout Teacher, So
Speaker 2: take radio. I'm happy right right.
Speaker 1: I figured you would be. All right. The matter at
Speaker 1: hand that we're gonna do tonight, I'm going to start.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start this build tonight. And Freddie Mack
Speaker 1: and I were on Zoom two days this week putting
Speaker 1: together a brand new all Star node that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: use in the truck mobile, and we had some trouble
Speaker 1: with it and ended up taking us two or three
Speaker 1: or four hours to put everything together. And I made
Speaker 1: the comment when time I was like, thank god, we're
Speaker 1: not on a live stream. He's like, man, that's no doubt, man,
Speaker 1: because we'd struggle with a couple of things. That's just
Speaker 1: the nature of live streaming. But tonight, I'm going to
Speaker 1: start this build. This is called a dx FT eight
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen ed in the chat tonight, but
Speaker 1: ed into XDD shout out to him. He told me
Speaker 1: about this kit when we were at Hamsai last month
Speaker 1: and he's like, have you seen this kit? And he
Speaker 1: I don't know how old or new it is. I
Speaker 1: think it's fairly new. But it is a kit that
Speaker 1: you put together for this and apparently there's two versions
Speaker 1: of it. And I got the seven band. There's a
Speaker 1: five band and a seven band. And after doing a
Speaker 1: little bit of digging and sending a couple of messages
Speaker 1: in the group's there are no build instructions specifically for
Speaker 1: the seven band, but there are for the band. So
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna follow tonight. And you have to
Speaker 1: and it's only like forty bucks for this kit, okay,
Speaker 1: So if you I will share this link in the chat,
Speaker 1: you guys can go join this groups dot io if
Speaker 1: you want to and you can learn more about it.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to share this guy's You got
Speaker 1: to email a guy and he'll send you a PayPal
Speaker 1: link and that's how you buy the kit. And uh,
Speaker 1: his his name is Uh. You guys might recognize this guy.
Speaker 1: Keys Talent kb K five b c q K five
Speaker 1: B c Q Keys K E E S. He's the
Speaker 1: one who is in charge of putting the kits together
Speaker 1: and taking the payment and shipping them out. They're they're
Speaker 1: also they're designed by uh Bar W B two C
Speaker 1: B A and Charles W five B A A. But
Speaker 1: for some reason Keys is the uh He's the guy
Speaker 1: who takes all the orders and ships them to He's
Speaker 1: actually in Texas, believe it or not, so but that is.
Speaker 1: But that's what we're building. And I always thought it'd
Speaker 1: be cool to have a kit that you have a
Speaker 1: little QRP radio you can throw in your pack when
Speaker 1: you when you uh, you know, may travel on an airplane.
Speaker 1: Can't take a big intenna with you take you know,
Speaker 1: get a pac TENA, get a small QRP radio like this.
Speaker 1: And if you do FT alright, if you do c
Speaker 1: W great, But if you don't, this might be a
Speaker 1: great thing for you because it'll it's just ft eight
Speaker 1: only ed no no six meters. So the five band kit,
Speaker 1: let me see, I've got a let me find my temp,
Speaker 1: let me find my screen here. So the five band
Speaker 1: kit is let's see ten, twelve, fifteen, seventeen, and twenty.
Speaker 1: I think and then the the that's the I've got
Speaker 1: a few pages here. So here's the uh here's a
Speaker 1: picture of the board from the five band kit and
Speaker 1: it is uh no, I'm sorry, this is the seven
Speaker 1: band yet this is the seven band kit board. So
Speaker 1: this incorporates ten, twelve, fifteen, seventeen, twenty thirty and.
Speaker 2: Five forty one. Do you head again?
Speaker 1: I have the seven This is the one that I have.
Speaker 1: This is the one that I have right here.
Speaker 2: That's a good spread.
Speaker 1: Right exactly. Yeah, you know, thirty meters is great because
Speaker 1: it's CW only, but you can do digital, so you
Speaker 1: can do FT eight on thirty meters all day long
Speaker 1: if you want to, and thirty seventeen or twelve or
Speaker 1: work bands. So if you get out there and get
Speaker 1: you want to do some activating or operating during the
Speaker 1: contest weekend and you don't want to play the contest,
Speaker 1: you can get on seventeen or thirty meter FT eight
Speaker 1: and you can still do some stuff. So I believe
Speaker 1: the five band I had a there's a there's a
Speaker 1: there's a picture in here somewhere. There's a a lot
Speaker 1: of information in here, which is good. It's almost it's
Speaker 1: almost information overload. But I'm pretty sure that in a
Speaker 1: good way, in a good way, I'm pretty sure it does. Again,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't even know. I think it's
Speaker 1: like between two and five. It's a QRP radio.
Speaker 2: It's not a B can mean anything under ten.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yeah, yeah, that's true, but but it'll uh I
Speaker 1: mean QRP. Actually, the definition of QRP means turn your
Speaker 1: power down or are you running low power. It's actually
Speaker 1: not a number. I don't like it when people say, well,
Speaker 1: if it's over five, it's not qr Yes, it is.
Speaker 1: If it's less than, if it's fourteen hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine watts or less than, it's QRP technically. So I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's the T shirt I read at Dayton. Now
Speaker 1: I really really want to make one of those myselves
Speaker 1: because it's true. But yeah, QRP just means low powers.
Speaker 1: There's not actually a number assigned to it in the
Speaker 1: In the strictest definition of the Q code.
Speaker 2: It says no, it is a milli watt radio.
Speaker 1: It might be a million. I haven't read through all
Speaker 1: the files here. It might be a million watt radio.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. There's a lot the stuff that I
Speaker 1: read didn't have a power output, and I don't really
Speaker 1: care because FT eight is a low noise mode. It's
Speaker 1: not a low power mode. You want to run five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand wats on FT eight, you can certainly do that,
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with it. Just don't burn up your transformer.
Speaker 1: But it's a low noise mode, so it's easier to
Speaker 1: operate on low power than say sideband is so anyway,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure that the five band kit, which
Speaker 1: you can still get as well, just does not include
Speaker 1: thirty and forty meters. I think it's ten, twelve, fifteen, seventeen,
Speaker 1: and twenty. Now, in my typical in my typical way
Speaker 1: I do things here, I ordered this. I ordered two
Speaker 1: of these kits. I have a second one. I have
Speaker 1: a second one, and you have to order the kit
Speaker 1: and then you have to order this this board. Well no,
Speaker 1: with the instruction. Yeah, you have to order this board
Speaker 1: from mau either Mauser or Digike called this this STM
Speaker 1: thirty two board with the with the Ethernet port on
Speaker 1: it and whatnot. And I've ordered this board, but I
Speaker 1: don't have this board yet, so we can't complete the
Speaker 1: build tonight. But I knew a screen on it also,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, yeah, this is yeah, this is the screen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the screen board here that you will see
Speaker 1: because you can see right here that running right there.
Speaker 1: That's what it looks like when it's uh all done
Speaker 1: and up and running and whatnot. And in typical fashion
Speaker 1: the way that I do things, I ordered these, I
Speaker 1: got him in, paid for him, got him in. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, I'm gonna put these together, and uh
Speaker 1: only seven band of shipping, thanks Jerry. I didn't know that,
Speaker 1: but okay, But as soon as I got these two
Speaker 1: boards in, they announced a new version. So he's got
Speaker 1: a new version that he's taking he's taking orders for.
Speaker 1: I haven't started a ship yet that will have its
Speaker 1: own life Po four battery and BMS built in it,
Speaker 1: so you'll be able to just plug it in the wall.
Speaker 1: It will charge the battery, stop charging when it's uh
Speaker 1: when it's done. And then so it's got its own
Speaker 1: battery charger and BMS in. And so I ordered one
Speaker 1: of those. Key sent out an email and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: got this new one Lippo four battery. I don't know
Speaker 1: how big of a battery. I assume it's pretty small
Speaker 1: LIVEPO four battery with a BMS. I don't I think
Speaker 1: the price the price on this board was like forty bucks.
Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, go ahead and send me one
Speaker 1: of those when you're done with it. When you, I said,
Speaker 1: he goes, he goes, reply back to this email. Let
Speaker 1: me know if you want to be put on the list.
Speaker 1: So I did, and I said, put me on the list.
Speaker 1: And uh, I don't have any further information on that
Speaker 1: right now, but but that is what is going on
Speaker 1: with that. So I want to turn my camera on
Speaker 1: over there, and here is the kit I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: don't want to solder it on this thing. So here's
Speaker 1: the kit. Here's the board that we have here, and
Speaker 1: and it comes with this stuff. Here comes with the
Speaker 1: comes with this. No, there's not that much to it, really.
Speaker 2: I suspect that that's just a pain in the butt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these these are a pain. This actually comes as
Speaker 1: one piece. It's a forty pin uh whatever you call it,
Speaker 1: the riser pin card or whatever you call this thing.
Speaker 1: And you break it off into like four pieces, a
Speaker 1: six piece, two eight pieces, and a ten piece, and
Speaker 1: this got these little notches in here. It's just easy
Speaker 1: kind of Actually this one was broken when I got it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, that's already broken. So I
Speaker 1: hope that's right. The second one that I got, I
Speaker 1: told you about two of them. The second one I
Speaker 1: got is a whole piece that that's the full forty pins.
Speaker 1: So I hope this broke the right place. I don't know.
Speaker 2: So so everyone's asking, is the bill complete? No, we're
Speaker 2: about to do it live.
Speaker 1: No, we're about to We're about to do We're about
Speaker 1: to start this build live.
Speaker 2: And we're going to see if this is a weekend
Speaker 2: or a live stream milled.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, totally. So these are the risers here. You
Speaker 1: put the the the board I'm a build now, you
Speaker 1: put it on the bottom. You put the second board
Speaker 1: from Mauser or digit key on top on the in
Speaker 1: the middle, and then you put this little guy on top. Here.
Speaker 1: This is the This is the bottom bottom piece of it.
Speaker 1: So it comes with all this stuff. It comes with
Speaker 1: the case and whatnot, and the riser's in it, and uh,
Speaker 1: a little battery port for a CR I think it's
Speaker 1: a CR twenty thirty two, and then you know power
Speaker 1: cable that kind of thing. So this is not a
Speaker 1: hard build at all, and and I looked at it
Speaker 1: and like, oh, even I can do that. So this
Speaker 1: is why I chose it.
Speaker 2: So so that battery is just for the sea moss,
Speaker 2: and it's not correct power.
Speaker 1: That's correct, Yes, it is correct. Yeah, yep, that is correct.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I'm gonna turn this thing back on
Speaker 1: manual focus. I don't like the ways doing that, so okay,
Speaker 1: not tonight, but eventually. So so this is where we're
Speaker 1: gonna start tonight, and uh, I will get as soon
Speaker 1: as I get there again, I've ordered these, uh these
Speaker 1: mouser boards over here, and uh, I guess they take
Speaker 1: I don't know. It says can ship immediately, but I
Speaker 1: haven't gotten mine yet. Actually it might be at the
Speaker 1: mailbox waiting for me. I don't know yet. But these
Speaker 1: are about fifty seven fifty so all in, all in
Speaker 1: you're gonna look look about it, about one hundred bucks
Speaker 1: to build that, all the stuff that can tasting but not. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so pretty cool, kit, I think, And later John gotta
Speaker 1: get horizontal Long Day tomorrow seventy three. That's it. I
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: The other comment I love this is this ahead nuest episode.
Speaker 2: No wait, he's following the instructions nevermind.
Speaker 1: Ah, yes, yeah, so m hmm, so that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do tonight. These are cool. These these uh oh, where'd.
Speaker 2: You get that?
Speaker 1: County, Calm County. I've got this one. I've got a
Speaker 1: I've got an orange one, all Right'm sorry. I've got
Speaker 1: a green one and a gray one. These are really
Speaker 1: cool plastic. Uh what does that say? You find her inactive?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Inactive push anything?
Speaker 1: Okay, So yeah, well that's something else I did, so okay,
Speaker 1: so chalk this up to a boneheaded move. I took
Speaker 1: that camera to ham Side to record the Hamsie conference
Speaker 1: and it had my battery eliminator in it, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got to keep that, and I put it somewhere.
Speaker 1: I lost it. So it's running on battery power right
Speaker 1: now because I lost my battery eliminator I was gonna see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I woulder another and I forgot that I had
Speaker 1: lost that, so I order another one today. Of course
Speaker 1: it won't be here till tomorrow, so I've got to
Speaker 1: deal with the battery on this thing all night tonight.
Speaker 1: But oh well that's just how it is, all right,
Speaker 1: So real quick, real quick, you guys know that I
Speaker 1: turned fifty last year, right, yeah, there we go, all right?
Speaker 1: I uh, all right, So we're gonna uh, Frank, it's uh,
Speaker 1: you are in charge of the chat. I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: in on this and see what kind of bumbling we
Speaker 1: can get through here. And I've got I'm gonna pull
Speaker 1: up these build instructions here. I forget where that which
Speaker 1: tab did I have that?
Speaker 2: On?
Speaker 1: There? It is right there?
Speaker 3: Okay, good? So where that? Where did that gets it?
Speaker 1: So here's the here's the first page here? So and
Speaker 1: again this is the five band version, because I emailed
Speaker 1: and I said, do you have build instructions for the
Speaker 1: seven band version? And uh? And somebody replied back and
Speaker 1: they gave me this link right here with all of
Speaker 1: this stuff down here, a lot of pictures, a lot
Speaker 1: of images, some PDF files, some how to's and whatnot,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And someone said, ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: did you find the step by step? And I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I didn't, where's the step by step? Well, the step
Speaker 1: by step instructions are actually for the five band, but
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty darn similar. And then key and
Speaker 1: then uh and then what's his name? The guy barb.
Speaker 1: He replied. He's like, he's like, man, I'm sorry, I've
Speaker 1: just gotten he's busy. It's cool. It's not a you know,
Speaker 1: this is an open source project, you know. Uh. He's like,
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten a seven band instructure put together. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry for that. And I'm like, no, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: It's uh, I think I can get to it with this.
Speaker 1: I think he's working on that either way, though, So
Speaker 1: we're gonna see how we can do with this tonight.
Speaker 2: And Chris, we did talk about the price point all
Speaker 2: total with the secondary board that you need for the
Speaker 2: LCD screen plus the additional board, you're looking around eight
Speaker 2: hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, about one hundred bucks for everything something like that.
Speaker 1: So this board here, well, this kit with all the
Speaker 1: stuff that I just showed you is about forty bucks
Speaker 1: before shipping, and I think it's like five bucks for
Speaker 1: shipping or something, and then uh, the and then the
Speaker 1: the mouser board's like fifty seven bucks something like that.
Speaker 2: So let's let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's get to it. Uh. Let's see all right,
Speaker 1: So the first thing in this shot right here is
Speaker 1: to let me turn that on switch and switch. That's better.
Speaker 1: So I wish they wouldn't have used this red text
Speaker 1: on top of this green here because it's hard to
Speaker 1: read sometimes. But this says there's a switch over here.
Speaker 1: There's the T two six thirteen transformer here, the SMA
Speaker 1: connector down at the bottom, and then another connector over
Speaker 1: here and another switch there. Oh, power switch there. So
Speaker 1: there's two switches which you're right here, and then the
Speaker 1: U This is the barrel connector and this is the
Speaker 1: SMA connector right there. So we're gonna so we're gonna
Speaker 1: start on that and see how far we get. So
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, this is the SMA connector. I gotta
Speaker 1: remember which screen I'm on. Switches and a barrel connector.
Speaker 1: Bought a battery clip that on the bottom side. There
Speaker 1: we go. Okay, oh you Frank?
Speaker 2: All right? Uh the linked link for this again?
Speaker 1: Did you get that? I put it in there? Did
Speaker 1: you see it?
Speaker 2: You did it a while ago, and I did I
Speaker 2: wasn't quietly paid attention to your posts.
Speaker 1: That's okay, okay, So I'm gonna put it in again.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a link to the groups dot io
Speaker 1: and you can save that there. Frank, d x F
Speaker 1: T eight, dot groups, dot io, and that's where you
Speaker 1: get you can get all the information about who to email,
Speaker 1: how to order it, and that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I saved it off, okay, tip maintenance also, yes, a
Speaker 2: good safety thoughe. When you're done today, Jason, please don't
Speaker 2: forget to turn off your sawdery irons.
Speaker 1: That's a good idea.
Speaker 3: Frank.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying who, but someone on the stream left
Speaker 2: it off for a week.
Speaker 1: Well you know what I mean to each his own.
Speaker 2: I guess I walked in the room. I'm like, what
Speaker 2: what smells like? Bernie?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 3: Whoops, I gotta get some higher powered glasses.
Speaker 1: I think I gotta stand back from it.
Speaker 2: Okay, once you're done, your camera just went no signal?
Speaker 1: Oh hold on, okay, can it is that? Dep No?
Speaker 1: You know what. It's got a power saving feature that
Speaker 1: I turned off. But I don't think that power saving
Speaker 1: future works on battery power. So okay, tell me if
Speaker 1: that does that again.
Speaker 2: We're good. We're good.
Speaker 1: So you around next Friday for the happy hour, Frank, uh.
Speaker 2: This coming happy hour for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Weekend Thanksgivings in November. This is Easter.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, easter.
Speaker 1: I know what you mean, but it's a live stream,
Speaker 1: so I gotta tease you.
Speaker 2: Right perfect, Yes, I'll be here, okay, and and I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to it, and I'll probably be on my
Speaker 2: patio or deck.
Speaker 1: You know what. It's possible then I will string the
Speaker 1: camera out there and do that same thing.
Speaker 3: It's possible.
Speaker 1: You know what that This is a good solder joint
Speaker 1: if I do say so myself. So so everything else
Speaker 1: I do tonight that screws up. I'm gonna be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I put the switch in right, so we'll see, all right?
Speaker 2: Was there only two soldering joints? You did? There? You did?
Speaker 1: There was five pins?
Speaker 2: Five got five pins perfect.
Speaker 1: Five pins, three little pins in the middle, and then
Speaker 1: two two larger kind of slat pins on the on
Speaker 1: the side there. So okay, let's uh, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: back here. And this says a T to six thirteen
Speaker 1: dash one transformer and I I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what? Okay, so that is already on here.
Speaker 1: That's something I noticed. So this is something either different
Speaker 1: about the seven band or maybe they just started putting
Speaker 1: it on here. I don't know. This little guy right
Speaker 1: here that I'm pointing to this little white transformer. It's
Speaker 1: on these instructions it says to it to solder that on.
Speaker 1: But this is already on here, So we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: we're we can skip that part and then the uh,
Speaker 1: the SMA connect out. The SMA connector here has three
Speaker 1: pins on the top and two pins on the bottom.
Speaker 1: And you can see right there, if you can see it,
Speaker 1: there's three little slats there and two slats there, so
Speaker 1: you have to solder it on both sides of the board.
Speaker 1: So that is that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Next.
Speaker 2: What's the frequency? Happy Halloween by the way, way.
Speaker 1: Oh they got you there, Frank m.
Speaker 3: Is the frequency in use?
Speaker 2: Okay, Ed says, you need a circuit board holder for you.
Speaker 2: I'm on one hand, I don't like the holders. On
Speaker 2: the other hand, I want to holder.
Speaker 1: I have one. The helping hands I have one, and
Speaker 1: I find isn't that now I'm not an expert. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not an expert, and some of you guys who
Speaker 1: are more adept at this might not agree. But I
Speaker 1: find it to be a little bit more challenging to
Speaker 1: use than just sitting on the table. See this, this
Speaker 1: this pad that I have down here, I don't care
Speaker 1: if I get stuff on it, so I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't find them to be all that beneficial. If you
Speaker 1: guys disagree with that, let me know in the chat.
Speaker 2: Kevin, Happy New Year's to you.
Speaker 1: You get happy New Year's now?
Speaker 3: Huh that's good. Okay, put some more on that one
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 1: I actually got an email from some Chinese company wanting
Speaker 1: to send me a set of helping hams. Can you
Speaker 1: make a video on this? And I'm like, eh, I
Speaker 1: could use it in the video.
Speaker 2: Now it looks like we're doing the INTENTA port.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is the SMA port. That's correct. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: that's on there.
Speaker 2: Paul does not like the extra hands.
Speaker 1: Prep Pam, Paul, yep, yeah, okay. So next is that's
Speaker 1: not there? Okay? This is switch up top? And what
Speaker 1: is that on this on the middle there? Oh, that's
Speaker 1: that thing. Okay, So if you look at okay, so
Speaker 1: what this picture here is showing me is that there's
Speaker 1: another switch that goes right here, and there's what they're
Speaker 1: calling a DC barrel connector, which is this guy right here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna change this camera, Frank.
Speaker 2: Yep, and your other one just went.
Speaker 1: Okay, camera issues glory, Okay, I tell you what, Frank,
Speaker 1: you take it for a minute. I'm gonna change this camera.
Speaker 2: While Jason's changed the camera. I'm just gonna be hanging
Speaker 2: out with y'all. Many hat holidays to whatever one is
Speaker 2: happening in this particular moment in time. Yeah, but more
Speaker 2: expos also coming up, Jason, and I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be packing coming up this week. I got
Speaker 2: to do my tent and I'm making some beans. They're
Speaker 2: not going to be too outrageous. Toss me a link
Speaker 2: or show me where these helping hands are bulletholders are.
Speaker 2: Toss it to me on the discord and I'll get
Speaker 2: it out there because I'm kind of looking into some
Speaker 2: of these. I want to get back into doing kids
Speaker 2: and sometimes holding stuff down in the right place is
Speaker 2: really annoying. And I've tried the board clips and other
Speaker 2: stuff that it just getting it to hold it right
Speaker 2: is takes more time than just trying to finaggling it
Speaker 2: with just holding it on the table or with a
Speaker 2: pen or something.
Speaker 1: You're talking about helping hands there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, helping hands or some of the clips that I
Speaker 2: that came with some of the son and irons, like
Speaker 2: getting it right takes more time for the instead of
Speaker 2: like you're just doing putting a pen behind it, and just.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I just I just put a pin,
Speaker 1: a writing pin underneath that to kind of hold it
Speaker 1: up there for a second. And I find that, because
Speaker 1: now I've got all this space, I don't have to
Speaker 1: turn around it like that.
Speaker 2: I want to see what what options are out there,
Speaker 2: So maybe there is a nicer one, maybe a newer one.
Speaker 1: Possibly. Yeah. Yeah, the one I got is just from Amazon.
Speaker 1: It's nothing special. It worked, I mean it worked for
Speaker 1: what it is. It works. It's just I find that
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's like an extra step you
Speaker 1: have to do. And I was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: just get rid of it and you don't have to
Speaker 1: fool with it anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, Like I'm feeling like I'm watching a holiday from
Speaker 2: the holiday and.
Speaker 1: Ah, okay. So there's the DC connector right there, and
Speaker 1: I'll put another the other switch in. So this switch
Speaker 1: here says uh, let's see RF power select. So this
Speaker 1: is the switch. So this is the power select switch.
Speaker 1: Here high and low. I guess this switch here is
Speaker 1: the power the power off and on of the transceiver,
Speaker 1: so it's got two. Yeah, I should know if this
Speaker 1: single poll single three. I should know that, but I
Speaker 1: took my hand radio test thirty years ago and I
Speaker 1: don't remember. It's a two way switch. It's either left
Speaker 1: or right.
Speaker 3: So let's see.
Speaker 2: It's Josh Man. Welcome to the stream, he says, just
Speaker 2: got back from camping, Josh Hanrito crash course.
Speaker 1: Oh it's I didn't see him in there. M up, dude,
Speaker 1: So I saw you on twelve meter or no, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: twenty meter fight last night.
Speaker 2: Ooh that's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was before before his stream started too.
Speaker 2: We were talking in the chat earlier. Some people are
Speaker 2: saying FT's not fun and it's just you pushing a button,
Speaker 2: and I kind of agree with them. On the other hand,
Speaker 2: it has its place, you know, when I'm out there
Speaker 2: in one activating a park, I find it more fun
Speaker 2: to do voice. When you're running FTA. You just click
Speaker 2: a button and wait a minute and then yay, I
Speaker 2: got a contact. However, if you're looking to do some DX,
Speaker 2: you know FT eight is where it's that, especially on
Speaker 2: twenty meters. There's a lot of DX on there that
Speaker 2: it's hard to pull those voice contacts out. And then
Speaker 2: one of the place for me I really enjoyed is well,
Speaker 2: we're just sitting around at camp at night, smoking a
Speaker 2: cigar and relaxing and just click a button and we're
Speaker 2: still doing ham radio.
Speaker 1: So I find that FT eight is fun in two
Speaker 1: different ways. Number One, Yeah, if you go out, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about Poda here for more
Speaker 1: than anything else. Okay, So on Poda. I go out
Speaker 1: and I activate Poda and I get on sideband, and
Speaker 1: I do you know, fifteen hundred hundred fifty contacts whatever,
Speaker 1: and unless I'm just trying to get activated and leave.
Speaker 1: But if I'm going to camp overnight like we did
Speaker 1: in Big Ben National Park last week, I find that,
Speaker 1: you know, I get tired of talking and I'm like, eh,
Speaker 1: but I want more contacts. So I get on FT
Speaker 1: eight and I start making FT eight. I also like
Speaker 1: the fact that you go into your potologue on PoTA
Speaker 1: Dot app and you can see more activity than just sideband,
Speaker 1: so you could see sideband, digital and CW so you
Speaker 1: can see all of that and it'll do you know.
Speaker 1: I like doing different modes that way. So that's my
Speaker 1: own personal preference. You guys, If you don't like that,
Speaker 1: that's okay, there's nothing wrong with that. But that's that's
Speaker 1: what that's kind of what I like about it.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed at night, like you said, when I get
Speaker 2: tired of talking, or I'm around the campsite of campfire
Speaker 2: having fun with everyone, and I still want to play radio,
Speaker 2: but I don't want to be off by myself to
Speaker 2: saying c Q, c Q and c Q, right. I
Speaker 2: enjoyment out of that.
Speaker 1: Agreed, all right. So here's something I was. I was
Speaker 1: kind of tinkering with this a little bit before the stream,
Speaker 1: just kind of make sure I'm not gonna screw something up.
Speaker 1: So right here on the left of this picture is
Speaker 1: where you are. Now, this is the bottom side of
Speaker 1: the board, which you can see right right here, and
Speaker 1: right here where the circle is is where you put
Speaker 1: the battery holder. And then these are where you put.
Speaker 2: The uh these fourteen pins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the fourteen pin thing?
Speaker 2: Now, what's way to put the fourteen pin?
Speaker 1: I don't think that woe that one does not matter,
Speaker 1: but the battery does matter because it's marked on the
Speaker 1: board positive and negative. So this is the negative side.
Speaker 1: This is the positive side. And you have so you
Speaker 1: have to look on the battery and the battery is
Speaker 1: marked positive on this end right here. So it matters
Speaker 1: which way you put this hold. So it needs to
Speaker 1: go that way, not the other way, because to line
Speaker 1: up positive to positive obviously. So and this is a
Speaker 1: really tight fit. I was trying to get the pins
Speaker 1: turned a little bit or just kind of bent a
Speaker 1: little bit before the stream storted, but does are really there?
Speaker 1: It is okay, nice, So it just barely fits in there,
Speaker 1: but then it holds itself. So I'm just gonna turn
Speaker 1: over and solder it because it's gonna be easy while.
Speaker 2: You're doing that. Ken Simpson said he did his first
Speaker 2: PoTA activation today fourteen contacts and learned a lot good excellent.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on your first activation and being successful on your
Speaker 2: first activation. Sometimes it doesn't happen on your first one,
Speaker 2: and you will always learn to keep seconds of everything
Speaker 2: on doing charge of it.
Speaker 1: That's the truth of it right there.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank y'all. I see a bunch of links here
Speaker 2: in discord with helping hands. Let me get those loaded.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: We got that it's good there. Now this one here
Speaker 1: this uh so if we go down here, so it
Speaker 1: says to put these uh one right here down at
Speaker 1: this part right here, it says one six pin, two
Speaker 1: eight pens, and one ten pin are Dueno style male
Speaker 1: headers cut from a forty pin mail header. That's what
Speaker 1: it says right there. And I'm always like, okay, which
Speaker 1: side goes where? I don't know. But if you look
Speaker 1: at this picture right here, it shows that the long
Speaker 1: pin and the the header itself, the black part of
Speaker 1: the header go on the bottom right here. So that's
Speaker 1: what that that's what that's showing me. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: solder mine on. I've got this one broken down. This
Speaker 1: one here, that's the right number. And then yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I think I might have gotten there's enough
Speaker 1: for that one there. Oh no, that should be okay, okay,
Speaker 1: one two three, four, five, six seven eight on that one,
Speaker 1: two three seven eight, on that one that was nine,
Speaker 1: I think yeah, it was one too many.
Speaker 2: M one too many. Oh that means you got to
Speaker 2: pull one and put No.
Speaker 1: I think that there they gave me more than I need.
Speaker 1: I believe I counted, So I think I'm okay.
Speaker 2: Don welcome to the chat. Okay, what's the frequency? Says
Speaker 2: So we finally got the Alaska firmed contact and worked
Speaker 2: all bands, all states and all fifty states on each band.
Speaker 2: Wownda nice, I assume that's PODA because we're talking about PODA,
Speaker 2: were talking that. That is awesome. Don smoke signals r F.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the chat, he says. Next, thanks skimming. You
Speaker 2: can do FT eight during the holidays, and I laugh.
Speaker 2: I'm like FT eight and also this is correct. I
Speaker 2: probably will be on the band's Friday, not Friday Saturday,
Speaker 2: because that's when we're doing our family get together and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go hide where they start talking politics politics.
Speaker 1: That's a good day. Yeah, start family starts talking politics,
Speaker 1: go to FT eight.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, my stepdad is an amateur radio. He
Speaker 2: has his life and a radio. Yes, so when they
Speaker 2: start doing that, I'm like, okay, and I sneak off
Speaker 2: and turn on the radio in his office and start working.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that. He's the one who wy
Speaker 1: don't you plug his morse monkey? Real quick, Frank?
Speaker 2: Right, is that still on your shop?
Speaker 1: It's on there somewhere, but I couldn't tell you where
Speaker 1: it is. Right now because everything's been moved around.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, it'll.
Speaker 1: Be it'll be under like radios or kit. I might
Speaker 1: have a kit section.
Speaker 2: I don't know yet, but that would be the perfect
Speaker 2: transition for something else I'm looking. I'm looking categories antennas,
Speaker 2: bug out kits, solar shirts, monkey, monkey, monkey, bam. Here
Speaker 2: it is. This is my stepdad's Morse Monkey, a kit
Speaker 2: that you can put together for one hundred dollars to
Speaker 2: learn amateur or I'm sorry CWW. I was about to
Speaker 2: call amateur CW.
Speaker 1: Well, well it is. It is amateur CW. That's true.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep. There's a great kit to help you learn
Speaker 2: CW skills and there's several different modes and practices to
Speaker 2: strengthen your skills. And plus it is a fun kit
Speaker 2: to put together. And I've done it and it's fun.
Speaker 2: It is fun.
Speaker 1: It's a good kit.
Speaker 2: Then, since we're over here, these is magnetic helping hands
Speaker 2: sets like this, and what's the other one? Uh, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna come back to this one. I find it's harder
Speaker 2: and it takes more time to get these stupid clamps
Speaker 2: clamp correctly tightened up to hold the thing that you
Speaker 2: can solderate the magnifying glass. Okay, I kind of do
Speaker 2: like the magnifying glass. That does help. However, I think
Speaker 2: this is what Josh was showing on his stream. This
Speaker 2: is the circa board holder. I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: That does show some promise I've got. I've got that
Speaker 1: it is if you're doing an act like this, circuit
Speaker 1: board right here would probably be that's probably a good
Speaker 1: thing to be using right now. I didn't. I just
Speaker 1: didn't feel like using it because again, it's it's really
Speaker 1: a preference of what you want to do. Do you
Speaker 1: want to do if you find it more helpful to
Speaker 1: use that than use it. If not, then don't you know.
Speaker 2: But most of these I've used various types of them,
Speaker 2: and it just takes longer to get that clip hold
Speaker 2: correctly at that right position so you can solder it.
Speaker 2: Then it's really worth I wish, I wish, I want
Speaker 2: them because getting it right place right is such a
Speaker 2: pain in the butt. These were much more easier to use.
Speaker 2: There was another one that had was it the one
Speaker 2: camera again I just closed.
Speaker 1: I got you Okay.
Speaker 2: This one my friend has and it seemed to be
Speaker 2: a little easier because you can move the wire around
Speaker 2: and it holds in position, which is nice. So the
Speaker 2: other ones you had to unbolt, bolt, clamp down over here,
Speaker 2: plamp down. Then when you release it, they move. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they move, literally they move when you let go.
Speaker 1: Come on now, yeah, yeah, it's a little bit crooked.
Speaker 2: But this one is much nicer that you don't have
Speaker 2: all the bolts to for all the joints to lock
Speaker 2: it in place. Yeah yeah, maybe maybe, but it's not
Speaker 2: in the budget yet. However, the the circuit board, I'm
Speaker 2: going to consider that because I really do enjoy kits.
Speaker 2: I got another kit in the mail and I'm going
Speaker 2: to be putting it together later this month. It is
Speaker 2: in a ten kit. Good Okay, I am really enjoyed.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed doing those a tent kuts. Now I'm
Speaker 2: almost with Mike. Where I've got my I have so
Speaker 2: many in feds and other antennas, like I need another
Speaker 2: bag or box to put these in.
Speaker 1: I've got my carten that I took to the to
Speaker 1: the park when we were down there in Galveston last month,
Speaker 1: and I strung the wire out and I measured it.
Speaker 1: It's that, Uh what's the one? What's the uh? It's
Speaker 1: the nine to one in random wire. So they said,
Speaker 1: I think it's like forty one feet is the main
Speaker 1: element in like a seven or eleven foot I don't remember, uh, counterpoise.
Speaker 1: So I measured all that out and put all that
Speaker 1: together and it's ready to go. I didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to actually use it. But when I get when
Speaker 1: I get back out to that park, I'm gonna use that.
Speaker 2: I just thought of something. I was going to clean
Speaker 2: up this window. Uh not discord, where's zoom? Get away zoom?
Speaker 2: If this board had a secondary component so when you
Speaker 2: flip it over, because you're soldering on the top side, right,
Speaker 2: and when you flip it over, the component component will
Speaker 2: fall out on the on the circuit board holder. If
Speaker 2: it had like a helping hand or something that you
Speaker 2: can turn over and just say and then holds the
Speaker 2: thing up, the capasitor up, the something whatever you're soldering
Speaker 2: up so you don't have to hold it. Oh, that'd
Speaker 2: be pretty cool, all.
Speaker 1: Right, No, I agreed, Yeah, no, and it and it
Speaker 1: would work that way. It worked, just find that way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. But uh uh again, I've I've got one.
Speaker 1: I just I just opted not to use it today
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. So let's see put two off of
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 2: Two, Jeff, when you clamp hearts, be careful where you
Speaker 2: are clamping them. If they clamp is actually part of
Speaker 2: the solder or clamp, it will keep up.
Speaker 1: And it's true. Ye yep, that is a good point.
Speaker 2: Also, Don says, tape will do it. Yep. That I'm
Speaker 2: clicking on these the highlight. I'm like, but it's not
Speaker 2: my strength.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, it's okay. Sorry.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's why you bend the wire. Yeah, you could
Speaker 2: do that too, but bending the wire to hold in
Speaker 2: the place. But depending on what you're doing. Like these
Speaker 2: forty pins that Jason Soldery, there's no wire to bend.
Speaker 2: They're all straight wire.
Speaker 1: Correct. It's not wire, really, it's just pins.
Speaker 2: No, a pin is a wire is cut shortly.
Speaker 1: Technically, it's not stranded wire though.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Painter's tape raph says, yep, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I've actually used that before. I've used
Speaker 1: painters tape before. It is good idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know why my discord's not discording the sound
Speaker 2: to people sending me messages.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's a little annoying. I'm about to reinstall this whole
Speaker 2: computer and just go fresh again, maybe upgraded all the
Speaker 2: way to eight or eleven. I mean, there's a couple
Speaker 2: of things that I find annoying. Chrome is acting up.
Speaker 2: I just yeah, thinking about starting fresh. Yeah, yep, ten
Speaker 2: dollars super chat from don N five s KT says
Speaker 2: nice soldering job. And that's a compliment coming from coming.
Speaker 1: From don that's really good. Thank you done. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's all that not. I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: it's in there, it hasn't fallen out, so you know
Speaker 1: that's good.
Speaker 2: Well, if it's more, then he'll give you money for
Speaker 2: the right and disoldery stuff.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, exactly exactly. So okay, all right, here we go.
Speaker 1: So okay, so the next one is uh okay, So
Speaker 1: this is the disco what they call the disco board, uh,
Speaker 1: the audio interface board, which is the part that you
Speaker 1: get from digitke or mauser. They said they didn't give
Speaker 1: a link for mauser, but they did for digitke and
Speaker 1: has the Ethernet port on it right there. So this
Speaker 1: is the board that goes next, and then it tells
Speaker 1: you how to assemble the disco board and r F board,
Speaker 1: and this is the r F board here. You know
Speaker 1: this is an r F board because it has the
Speaker 1: SMA port, it has our F coming out of it.
Speaker 1: So and then it shows you how to assemble it
Speaker 1: there kind of like that goes through. That step.
Speaker 2: Is those additional things that you put on there are
Speaker 2: the no.
Speaker 1: In fact, it says the first step to do on
Speaker 1: this disco board is cut thirty millimeters one and a
Speaker 1: quarter inch along three different colored flexible cables. Solder those
Speaker 1: cables to the audio out connector IQ and ground pins
Speaker 1: for the RF board. So basically, just take some cable
Speaker 1: of your own and soldered on there. He's got yellow,
Speaker 1: black and blue on his right here, So you have
Speaker 1: to do that and then it kind of looks like
Speaker 1: that when it's done, or well, then you solder it
Speaker 1: to the other board when it's done, I guess, And
Speaker 1: it says sm on the bottom of it. There. That's
Speaker 1: where is that? See I don't even see that on here.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where that is. I'm have to figure
Speaker 1: that out. Oh, that's probably this little guy right here.
Speaker 1: It came with this guy. So there's a couple other
Speaker 1: pieces I haven't soldered on yet. These are all parts
Speaker 1: of that or so anyway, Yeah, it tells you how
Speaker 1: to do that and put all that together and there,
Speaker 1: and then it shows you kind of kind of like
Speaker 1: like it'll kind of look like that without the top
Speaker 1: on it. And then once you put the top or
Speaker 1: well the boughty technically that's the bottom there, and then
Speaker 1: that's what it looks like with the SD card, antenna
Speaker 1: connector all that kind of good stuff, bless you. So
Speaker 1: that's about as far as I can get on this tonight.
Speaker 1: All right, I've got the two switches on it. I've
Speaker 1: got the audio out cable here or the power out
Speaker 1: rather oh god, yeah, SMA connector and the four the
Speaker 1: four pin connectors down here.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: I've got to wait and get that that other board that's.
Speaker 2: In So a weekend project probably.
Speaker 1: Probably, you know, and I might do another live stream
Speaker 1: just you know, got another live stream to spin up
Speaker 1: this point in time. I've got like I've got so
Speaker 1: next week is Easter. I'm probably not gonna live stream
Speaker 1: when we're gonna again, we're gonna hammer it a happy
Speaker 1: hour on Friday. So you guys who have been on
Speaker 1: my happy Hour in the past, if you are welcome
Speaker 1: to join us again. And I was gonna send an
Speaker 1: email about that today and I just ran outs.
Speaker 2: I am, yep, you have a soft focus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, hold on, yeah, I changed it to manual
Speaker 1: focus on purpose.
Speaker 2: When you're doing the hand nomics. Gave you a super chat.
Speaker 2: It may be Thanksgiving, but I hope it doesn't smell
Speaker 2: like bird chicken tonight.
Speaker 1: Right right, totally thank you for the super chat, but
Speaker 1: yeah it's Yeah, so happy Hour next weekend. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna live stream on Easter. I'm gon take the night
Speaker 1: off and then the but that following weekend is the
Speaker 1: more Expo, so I might try to spin up something
Speaker 1: on Monday before the More Expo and the group of
Speaker 1: us can get together and talk about the More Expo.
Speaker 1: Or heck, I might just do a live stream from
Speaker 1: the More Expo Wednesday night. We might just do that instead.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so next Sunday is WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: Hear and says, hey, there you go, Sunday Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 1: Awesome. But uh but yeah, so h so that's where
Speaker 1: that is. Yeah, no live stream next Sunday, that's correct,
Speaker 1: But I am going to live stream from the More
Speaker 1: Expo and I'll probably do it on my overland channel,
Speaker 1: but I'll send an email out or a text message
Speaker 1: out to you guys, so y'all can join us over
Speaker 1: there if that interests you.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: If that interests you. Yeah, so I should My focus
Speaker 1: should be better now, No, you're good, okay, good?
Speaker 2: Yeah they were talking about earlier. It looks like it
Speaker 2: when you were sitting the manual focus and focused on
Speaker 2: the mic that puts you in the soft photos.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: They judge Judy focus right totally.
Speaker 3: Yeah hmm, but.
Speaker 2: That's about it.
Speaker 1: Planning on meeting you, Yeah, so so chat. I will
Speaker 1: put links to all this in the description below. You
Speaker 1: guys can go check that out if you want to
Speaker 1: pick up one of these pretty pretty nominally priced, pretty
Speaker 1: reasonably priced kit And it doesn't look like he's going
Speaker 1: to be that that difficult to put to.
Speaker 2: One hundred dollar is not that bad?
Speaker 1: No, No, I don't think so at all.
Speaker 2: So good fun mm hmm. Good Paul Prepp pant Paul says,
Speaker 2: got my new truck, bed, tent and hangars fan.
Speaker 1: So he's getting ready good good, getting ready good good.
Speaker 2: Hanging out with Paul I don't think he's hung out
Speaker 2: with us at night. He's gonna be in.
Speaker 1: He was it. He was at winterfield Day. He yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was at winterfield Day.
Speaker 2: I think he miss the first night of drinking. That's
Speaker 2: always the big yeah.
Speaker 1: Don I have seen the z bit X. Yes, I
Speaker 1: have the nest bit X version two over there. I
Speaker 1: think he has the version three out now, that's the
Speaker 1: one that he that he came up with last year.
Speaker 1: I have seen the z bit X and honestly, it's
Speaker 1: probably one of those things that I'll probably just be
Speaker 1: forced to buy at ham benchon on four days in May.
Speaker 1: This is coming next month, because I'll see it and
Speaker 1: I'll be like, oh, that's cool, I'm just gonna buy that.
Speaker 1: So and I think Josh built the QMX last night,
Speaker 1: which they announced a single side band. He's been talking
Speaker 1: about that for like a year and a half. The
Speaker 1: single sideman is supposed to be added to that that
Speaker 1: transceiver at some point, and I was I did not
Speaker 1: watch Josh's live stream last night it was out, but
Speaker 1: I saw his notification come across my stream and it
Speaker 1: says single sideban on the QMX, let's build one. So
Speaker 1: I assume that went. I hope that went well for
Speaker 1: him last night. But yeah, so I and I have
Speaker 1: a QMX kit and it's a lot more complicated than
Speaker 1: this one is. I just put it that way. One
Speaker 1: of these days, I might try to build it.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I kind of jealous of Mike because
Speaker 1: he just got them to build his, and it took
Speaker 1: him an extra few months and then they send it
Speaker 1: to him built, so he's already gone out and used it.
Speaker 1: But oh well, that's just how it is.
Speaker 2: Mike built one.
Speaker 1: No, he bought one and had them build it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, cheater. Yeah, but that's what you get for
Speaker 2: those Matt guys.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Mike's good at building kids. He just didn't
Speaker 1: build that one for whatever reason. And I have the
Speaker 1: kid and I've never built it, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: But whatever. It was a VOD premiere and it went
Speaker 1: well at least I think, okay, good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't want to build stuff live. I'm very
Speaker 2: slow building. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Well, see, and that's why I said up front. I
Speaker 1: was like, we're not going to finish this tonight. So
Speaker 1: it's just it's not going to be finished, which is okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't have all the pieces to finish
Speaker 1: it anyway, but but I wanted to, you know, at
Speaker 1: least start it. And I'll probably when I get that
Speaker 1: second board, and we'll probably do another live stream and
Speaker 1: start putting stuff together. I do have a live stream
Speaker 1: plan for the week after, yeah, two weeks from tonight,
Speaker 1: which will also be I have a high hand radio livestream,
Speaker 1: but it will also be our next RV chat live
Speaker 1: stream as well. So we're gonna do that that night.
Speaker 1: But sometime in sometime in May, we'll probably finish this
Speaker 1: one up. So you want to laugh, okay.
Speaker 2: I was looking over the comments and I did a
Speaker 2: short on the gigab This is the name of the video.
Speaker 2: First look at the gigaparts PODA thirty thirty mass mad, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the gigabarts PoTA thirty thirty mass okay. And then one
Speaker 2: of the comms what's this for? And a guy underneath
Speaker 2: it hand radio communications, I guess, But who does that?
Speaker 2: A guy underneath that? Geez? This whole time I was
Speaker 2: thinking it was a fishing rod.
Speaker 1: Ha. Yeah, I have mindset up like a fishing rod.
Speaker 1: At Galveston that time I was there and it was
Speaker 1: bent way over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like it says it's in the title,
Speaker 2: but show you shorts are not. No one's looking at
Speaker 2: the names.
Speaker 1: No, they're just wiping. That's true. It's very true. Cool. Well,
Speaker 1: what a you got coming up? Frank?
Speaker 2: Coming up? Not this Monday, but next Monday. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be talking about the armor link. I'm gonna lock. I
Speaker 2: said that wrong, armor lock yazu f T eight d
Speaker 2: x ten mm hm f T ten d lah I'm
Speaker 2: not like mathing right anyways, yaz f t d x
Speaker 2: ten cage. I've installed it and I took it to
Speaker 2: a park and I utilized it and I threw it
Speaker 2: in the bag and the full thoughts and reviewers are
Speaker 2: gonna come out on that. It's it's awesome. I love it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Then I'm going to be doing a build and talking
Speaker 2: about my new new masts or satellite pack. Right.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: So that's that's all coming up on the channel and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking and they're tugh. I just wrapped up this
Speaker 2: monthly farm to launch and got all that done. The
Speaker 2: live stream, I just finished talking about the winners and
Speaker 2: kind of looking back and how we tried to get
Speaker 2: all the images, and Robert came on and shared the
Speaker 2: images he was able to download. His working from home
Speaker 2: was able to let him get out more and to
Speaker 2: capture the images than me because I do team right, Hey,
Speaker 2: but it works sometimes it works out like that.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: Also going on in the average or ARIS amateur radio
Speaker 2: ISS currently to April sixteenth, there is also new slow scan.
Speaker 2: It was just being transmitted from the International Space.
Speaker 1: Station until the sixteenth.
Speaker 2: Until the sixteenth on what band? On twenty meters or
Speaker 2: from ISS two meters?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, on two meters okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these there are two meters four forty. I think
Speaker 2: it's they're on their two meter down link whatever their
Speaker 2: DOWNLAK frequency is. Okay, it's transmitting. So when the ISS
Speaker 2: is overhead, listen for it.
Speaker 1: I was, uh, when we were at Big Ben last week,
Speaker 1: I was tuning up and down the twenty meter band.
Speaker 1: There was some loud signals on fourteen two thirty for SSTV, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I didn't I didn't stop, and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know what that is. I'll may come back to
Speaker 1: it later, but I was trying to find some post contacts.
Speaker 2: So if you're just like tuning around, you know, pull
Speaker 2: up your phone and go to that Robot thirty six
Speaker 2: app and just lay it on the speaker. That's what there.
Speaker 1: Well you remember when we did that at Ray Roberts.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I was like, oh damn coming through. Great, Yeah,
Speaker 1: right there, Just.
Speaker 2: Sit there and throw it on top of the speaker.
Speaker 2: Wait for the images go. You don't have to have
Speaker 2: a computer.
Speaker 1: Right right true. Okay, guys, thanks for joining us tonight.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I did work n A Yo on a
Speaker 1: big bit. He was on sideband Believe or not nice
Speaker 1: came back to me on on at Big Ben and
Speaker 1: I got him in the log book, so that was fun.
Speaker 1: But yes, uh so thanks for joining tonight. We will
Speaker 1: do a follow up on this later as soon as
Speaker 1: I get the other pieces in and doesn't look like
Speaker 1: it's that complicated put together. In fact, I think programming
Speaker 1: and firmware download may be the most complicated part. So
Speaker 1: we'll see. Uh there's there's a little bit of information
Speaker 1: on that, but I've I've not read too deep into
Speaker 1: that yet, so we'll see what happens with that. But
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's where we are on that. So seventy
Speaker 1: three guys, thanks for being in the chat. To thank
Speaker 1: you for all the great comments and the super chats,
Speaker 1: and we will definitely catch you guys this week. The
Speaker 1: put the Ham Radio Happy Hour on your calendar eight
Speaker 1: pm Central Time, which is going to be zero one
Speaker 1: hundred UTC on Saturday this coming weekend, zero one hundred
Speaker 1: UTC Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: What's this for the UTC times, Texas time, Texas
Speaker 1: Time, Well, just people watch us from other places as well,
Speaker 1: So but seventy three guys, you' all have a good
Speaker 1: evening and we'll catch you next time.