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<v Speaker 1>It is twenty twenty five, and I have a repeater

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<v Speaker 1>challenge to issue to everybody that watches this channel in

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<v Speaker 1>all of the Ham radio community, and that is going

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<v Speaker 1>to include me. At the beginning of twenty twenty four,

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<v Speaker 1>I spoke about how I would like us to start

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<v Speaker 1>keying up our repeaters once a day every day, just

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<v Speaker 1>some local repeater close to you where you are, something

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<v Speaker 1>like that, and that went pretty well for a while.

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<v Speaker 1>I do admit that I kind of slacked off on

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<v Speaker 1>that myself. I was towards the end of the year.

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<v Speaker 1>I was doing it like maybe once a week, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>once every other week, something like that. During travel times

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<v Speaker 1>and road trips, you're not necessarily close to your home repeater,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe you can connect via all starback to it or

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<v Speaker 1>via yaseev DMR, depend on what your home repeater is.

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<v Speaker 1>But for twenty twenty five, I want to continue and

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<v Speaker 1>upgrade this initiative. I mentioned on a couple of live

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<v Speaker 1>streams in December that I've budgeted some money for some

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<v Speaker 1>HF Radio giveaways starting in January of twenty twenty five,

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<v Speaker 1>and in order to sign up for those, I will

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<v Speaker 1>have a different email list sign up per month, so

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<v Speaker 1>be watching on the channel for that sign up in

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<v Speaker 1>my email list Hamradio two dot com forward slash email

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<v Speaker 1>dash sign up. That's the main list. I'll have separate

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<v Speaker 1>lists for all the giveaways, but for the repeater challenge,

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<v Speaker 1>I thought, what I might do is this. Now, you

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<v Speaker 1>guys tell me if this is a good idea, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and we can change. This can change a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>throughout the first six or eight months of the year.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll see how it goes. At the end, I want

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<v Speaker 1>you guys to key up your local repeaters once a day,

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<v Speaker 1>and I want you to keep a log of it.

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<v Speaker 1>We're Ham radio operators. We love keeping log books, right, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So I want you to keep a log of every

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<v Speaker 1>time you key up a local repeater, the repeater frequency,

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<v Speaker 1>the location, city, state is fine, and if you made

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<v Speaker 1>a contact or not, yes or no, and then if

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<v Speaker 1>you had a conversation, just give a brief summary of

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<v Speaker 1>what it's about. It doesn't have to be detailed. There's

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<v Speaker 1>not like a checklist you have to do. Just give

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<v Speaker 1>enough information that you remember the contact and you can

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<v Speaker 1>refer back to it and it's obvious what happened during

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<v Speaker 1>that exchange. So at the end of every month, probably

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<v Speaker 1>on my lasts live stream of the month. I live

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<v Speaker 1>stream at seven pm every Sunday night. Put that on

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<v Speaker 1>your calendar seven pm Texas time, which is zero one

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<v Speaker 1>hundred UTC. On Monday, I live stream. I do a

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<v Speaker 1>live stream on the channel just about every week, probably

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<v Speaker 1>on the last live stream of each month, for the

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<v Speaker 1>first several months of twenty twenty five. And I hope

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<v Speaker 1>this continues to go through the whole year. I am

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to ask for those lists. Say if anyone

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<v Speaker 1>did this challenge, even if you just jotted it down,

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<v Speaker 1>and if you didn't do it every day, that's okay.

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<v Speaker 1>If you did it a couple of days a week

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<v Speaker 1>and you jotted down you only have eight or ten

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<v Speaker 1>entries at the end of the month, fine, no problem.

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<v Speaker 1>Jot it down. Email me that list and at the

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<v Speaker 1>end of that month. I spoke about budgeted funds for

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<v Speaker 1>giveaway radios a moment ago. At the end of that month,

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna give away a brand new duel band VHF

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<v Speaker 1>UHF radio. Jaz, you just released a brand new dual

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<v Speaker 1>band radio plus two monoban two meter radios. The FtM

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<v Speaker 1>six thousand is still a fantastic radio from Yazoo. The

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<v Speaker 1>FtM three hundred, two hundred and five hundred are all

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<v Speaker 1>still in production. The Icon twenty seven thirty is a

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<v Speaker 1>great dual band radio. Kenwood's about to release a new

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<v Speaker 1>dual hopefully tryband radio sometime at the beginning and hopefully

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<v Speaker 1>in Q one of twenty twenty five. We'll see how

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<v Speaker 1>that goes. So we've got several dual band VHF UHF

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<v Speaker 1>radios that we can choose from as a giveaway, and

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<v Speaker 1>I want to pick one of you guys every month

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<v Speaker 1>for the first several months. We'll see how long it lasts.

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<v Speaker 1>If I keep getting emails with log reports of repeater

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<v Speaker 1>activity at the end of every month, someone's gonna win something, Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you're the only one. If the first month

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<v Speaker 1>I get one hundred entries, great. If the second month

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<v Speaker 1>I get twenty entries and the third month I only

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<v Speaker 1>get five entries, that makes your chances a lot better

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<v Speaker 1>if you're one of the ones submitting entries. So key

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<v Speaker 1>up your repeater every day, your local repeater every day,

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<v Speaker 1>whicheveryone's local to you, whichever one you like to use,

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<v Speaker 1>whichever one you think might actually get some activity. Key

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<v Speaker 1>up your repeater every day, make a log of it,

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<v Speaker 1>make a note of what you did, which repeater it is.

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<v Speaker 1>Want to do multiple repeaters, that's fine, there's no rules here.

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<v Speaker 1>Just keep a log of what you do. Hopefully make

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<v Speaker 1>some contacts, and we're gonna get more repeater activity going

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<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty five, mainly focusing on analog repeaters. Here

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<v Speaker 1>analog repeaters to talk to people local to you. But

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<v Speaker 1>if hey, if the repeater you like to use is

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<v Speaker 1>a DMR or a d STAR or a system fusion repeater,

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<v Speaker 1>that totally counts to so key up your repeater every day,

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<v Speaker 1>start some conversations, get more activity on the repeaters. Keep

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<v Speaker 1>a logbook entry that you will mail to me at

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<v Speaker 1>the end. Email to me at the end of every month,

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<v Speaker 1>and someone's gonna win a radio at least for the

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<v Speaker 1>first two or three months, and we'll see how it goes.

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<v Speaker 1>Seventy three guys, and thanks for being part of the

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<v Speaker 1>Ham radio community.