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Speaker 1: Okay, Hey, good evening guys. Thank you for joining us
Speaker 1: tonight Sunday night again. And I love this Ham radio business.
Speaker 1: To steal a line from Richard Lenore, here we go.
Speaker 1: First of all, shout out. I want to give a
Speaker 1: shout out to the YouTube channel members. But more importantly
Speaker 1: than that, right now, where'd this go? Gary Graham sixty
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Speaker 1: is in the house. Thanks for being here tonight, Glenn.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the super chat, buddy, appreciate that a lot.
Speaker 1: And UH to see out there. Glenn. Always a good
Speaker 1: supporter of the channel. So tonight we're gonna do something.
Speaker 1: We're gonna kick off a little bit of a new
Speaker 1: thing that I've been contemplating for a while. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick a topic each month. I've got about a list
Speaker 1: of about a half dozen of them. So six months
Speaker 1: were the topics. And we're gonna invite a bunch of
Speaker 1: well known faces onto the channel, maybe some maybe some
Speaker 1: faces that you haven't seen for a while or haven't
Speaker 1: seen recently, and we're gonna talk about a topic inside
Speaker 1: of amateur radio. And these topics are derived from comments
Speaker 1: I get on videos, questions I get in the comment section,
Speaker 1: questions I get via email or on a discord server
Speaker 1: or something like that, and some of some of the
Speaker 1: more not necessarily controversial, some of them might be controversial.
Speaker 1: Tonight's is not controversial, but but it's it's a topic
Speaker 1: of interest because every time I bring it up, I
Speaker 1: have a lot of comments and questions and people who
Speaker 1: want to talk about it. So one of my most
Speaker 1: popular videos in my thirty Days of ham Radio series
Speaker 1: that I did last September was one six five to
Speaker 1: two simplex. So that's what we're going to talk about tonight.
Speaker 1: So looking forward to seeing that. If you guys aren't
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Speaker 1: If if Frank is in the Frank is in the chat,
Speaker 1: and I just unmuted myself in the zoom, so Frank
Speaker 1: can hear me now, So if he's on top of
Speaker 1: his game, he should have that link.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Let's see there he is right there. I can't complain
Speaker 1: with that. I can't with that. So I didn't think
Speaker 1: you'd get it there, Frank quite frankly, So, uh you
Speaker 1: know it's uh, I'm I'm co hosting. Yeah, you're knocking
Speaker 1: out of the park, buddy. All right, let's bring everybody on.
Speaker 1: What's up, guys, how's there doing?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 5: Everybody happy Sunday?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So next week is winter Field Day weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the weather says it's supposed to rain all day
Speaker 1: on Saturday in Galveston.
Speaker 5: Of course it is.
Speaker 6: So did y'all get the cabin or did y'all get
Speaker 6: doing it at the pavilion?
Speaker 1: Pavilion is the plan as of right now. But I
Speaker 1: think I might try to call in that cabin Moral
Speaker 1: and see if this time last year was under renovation,
Speaker 1: which is what they're doing to the Dangerfield cabin this year,
Speaker 1: because I called on that one about a month or
Speaker 1: two ago. So I might try to call and see
Speaker 1: what the status of the cabin is. Tomorrow called to Moral,
Speaker 1: see what the status of the cabin is, and if
Speaker 1: if we can get that, we might try to get
Speaker 1: that for like one night. I don't know. We'll see, but.
Speaker 6: Y'all are gonna have some fun. I'm gonna I'm jealous.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna be there. Also, Welcome back, Jason. You
Speaker 6: missed a Cowtown Handfest, a staple of the DFW area.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you didn't get the tie Mikes.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: Paul's jerky.
Speaker 5: Across the conventions. That's a smell that lingers that stays
Speaker 5: with We.
Speaker 6: Got to watch the videos to figure out what happened.
Speaker 7: Mine's dropping tomorrow.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, somebody shared a picture with I think
Speaker 1: it was in five SKT. He had shared some pictures
Speaker 1: in discord of you guys at then Hamfest on Saturday.
Speaker 6: So yeah, that was my face is the little reaction
Speaker 6: of smelling that jerkey.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, good to know, good to know. Well, uh,
Speaker 1: somebody has some Japanese whiskey for me. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to call anybody out or anything like that, Rob, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know I do.
Speaker 5: I have a couple of extra bottles, and you know
Speaker 5: someone's not going to be there.
Speaker 1: So still I say, I say we drink that one first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say we drink that one first. That's that's a
Speaker 1: fantastic idea.
Speaker 8: You know in Tank wouldn't mind if you drink his.
Speaker 8: I mean, he's he like I like.
Speaker 6: To share, but I have to be there to share.
Speaker 1: Well, you were invited, Frank, Who's whose fault is it
Speaker 1: that you're not going to be there?
Speaker 8: There you go, Frank.
Speaker 6: You can't say no to mom, That's true.
Speaker 1: You can just not it. Yeah, she doesn't like it.
Speaker 6: Let let's say when she puts together a cruise and
Speaker 6: flips the majority of the bill. You say, yes, ma'am,
Speaker 6: I will be there.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's that's a good way to think about it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sure, But so who all is doing winterfield Day next weekend?
Speaker 9: I'm sending your bulletin from Alabama?
Speaker 1: Nice? Okay? Good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, depending on the weather here. Yeah, we've got to
Speaker 3: We've got a minor plant.
Speaker 1: You know, if nothing else, we can operate from the
Speaker 1: beach house. We won't be in a PoTA spot. But
Speaker 1: winterfield Day can be done from anywhere. So we could
Speaker 1: always go sit out and run the coax inside and
Speaker 1: sit at the dining room table and be in the
Speaker 1: the nice shelter and uh, you know, we could do
Speaker 1: it that way. And then if it's clear weather on Sunday,
Speaker 1: we can go out and do park activation on Sunday
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, Guys.
Speaker 8: When I was activating this morning.
Speaker 1: I saw your I saw your post on Facebook about that.
Speaker 1: I think you said twelve degrees.
Speaker 8: Right, It was twelve when I got out, But yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: On the air, I saw the dedication, man, totally, it's dedication.
Speaker 1: So well, did you do any FM simplex, Tim not
Speaker 1: Fmplex because because it just so happens that tonight's topic
Speaker 1: is FM Simplex, So you know, it'd be really cool
Speaker 1: if you've made an FM simplex contact on Poda this morning.
Speaker 1: I just, you know, kind of segue into that really
Speaker 1: nonchalantly as it do.
Speaker 8: I've I've I've tried it occasionally. From where I operate
Speaker 8: in the park, there's not a lot. Every once in
Speaker 8: a while I will hear a couple of people talking
Speaker 8: locally on simplex.
Speaker 6: But what radios do FM simplex? The only one I
Speaker 6: know is the Icon. I know this more.
Speaker 1: Every HT you've ever, Every HT you've ever.
Speaker 6: I'll speaking sideband, I was speaking sidebands. I was thinking sideband.
Speaker 6: I don't know things sideband popped up into simplex simplex.
Speaker 1: Although that would be a good topic for another day.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not gonna talk about that today, but
Speaker 1: two meter sideband was another very popular topic on my
Speaker 1: thirty days of Ham Radio, so that would be that
Speaker 1: would be a popular thing to bring up on a
Speaker 1: on another stream. So but yeah, no, we're tonight we're
Speaker 1: talking about one FM simplex and more specifically one five
Speaker 1: to two and how we should be monitoring, especially if
Speaker 1: we're on a road trip monitoring FM simplex. If you've
Speaker 1: got a base station at home with a fact you
Speaker 1: can't see it really. But there's an FT eight forty
Speaker 1: seven behind me right here, which has HF six meter
Speaker 1: and two meter for forty zero mode. So it's hooked
Speaker 1: up to my GP nine right now, and so I'm
Speaker 1: monitor FM simplex here periodically. Although I think I got
Speaker 1: a break in my coax. My GP nine is not
Speaker 1: to not act and write. I think my coaxes it's
Speaker 1: that old broad Pro fifty MESSI and plonycoax with a
Speaker 1: solid core. I think I might have bicked it around
Speaker 1: one or one too many times, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Been good.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we gotta we gotta give a shout out to Paul.
Speaker 10: He brought us the stinky jerky, but he brought me
Speaker 10: a couple.
Speaker 2: I pas fan.
Speaker 10: I have no idea what it says other than session,
Speaker 10: I p and there's a frog that says I'm back.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 10: It does not smell like it did on Saturday or
Speaker 10: yesterday morning.
Speaker 1: Is that good? That's good?
Speaker 8: Well, you just need to breathe a little bit. Was
Speaker 8: that what it is?
Speaker 6: It's no, it's.
Speaker 10: More like it breathed a little too much.
Speaker 6: It needed this day in Japan. Yeah?
Speaker 5: Is that the perfect description? Right? It smells like you
Speaker 5: left your bait and your tackle box.
Speaker 10: Trying to give the sign.
Speaker 1: So it's it's, it's it's it's probably sushi that just
Speaker 1: went bad.
Speaker 7: You could call it that.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 6: It's going to be released Monday. Just swing by. It's
Speaker 6: it's fun.
Speaker 8: Can we encapsulate that into a soap and sniff sticker?
Speaker 1: You can? I've never seen Paul, Paul, I've never seen
Speaker 1: a more perfect name for an I p A. He
Speaker 1: says that one is called frog piss.
Speaker 3: Is it really there?
Speaker 4: You have it?
Speaker 1: That's what Paul says. I mean, it's in the chat.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and and if you ever had
Speaker 1: to describe what I p as tastes like, that's an
Speaker 1: accurate description.
Speaker 10: Okay, you will ever have another one of my all
Speaker 10: day I pas.
Speaker 1: Then you know what? That's okay?
Speaker 7: And Mike, okay, I can translate the can for you.
Speaker 6: I don't care.
Speaker 10: I guess I like frog piss.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 1: Is alcohol in it?
Speaker 7: I'll drink it?
Speaker 1: I would. I would hope there's alcohol in it. So
Speaker 1: all right, one forty six five two, So yeah, let me,
Speaker 1: let me uh retouch on the topic real quick. So
Speaker 1: we've got about one hundred and one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: more people watching than when I first started. Thank you
Speaker 1: for being here tonight. So I want so this is
Speaker 1: something I had, Uh I kind of semi sort of announced.
Speaker 1: Is very shoot from the hit, like I do most things,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing probably about once a month, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be doing a new topic like this. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: invite a bunch of people onto the zoom chat and
Speaker 1: go live. We're gonna talk about a specific topic inside
Speaker 1: of amateur radio. Tonight's topic is one forty six Top
Speaker 1: five to two Simplex or just FM simplex in general.
Speaker 1: But we are gonna talk about one forty six Top
Speaker 1: five to two tonight quite a bit. So really the
Speaker 1: topics and now, like I said, I got about a
Speaker 1: half dozen things written down, and the topics come from
Speaker 1: comments I get on videos, questions I get about videos,
Speaker 1: emails I get discord uh disc ushons and whatnot. So
Speaker 1: stuff I see on Reddit sometimes and topics inside of
Speaker 1: ham radio that we should be aware of and uh
Speaker 1: not necessarily controversial. But this one's not controversial. Just turn
Speaker 1: on your freaking radio. That's all you got to do.
Speaker 1: But uh, but I'd like to hear people's thoughts about
Speaker 1: what you about your the experience of FINS simplex in
Speaker 1: your area. Steve. I'm really gonna look forward to hearing
Speaker 1: from you, because you guys got some excellent, excellent traffic
Speaker 1: out there in Huntsville area. And thanks for I don't
Speaker 1: know what that was, Frank, but thank you. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so just let's let's let's just dive right in free
Speaker 1: for all anybody speak any anything you want to. And uh,
Speaker 1: there is a simplex frequency in the North Texas area.
Speaker 1: If you're not aware of it, it's one is it
Speaker 1: one forty six Yeah, I think it's one forty six
Speaker 1: dot five eighty. I think it's worse.
Speaker 7: I heard of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's one forty six eight and they're
Speaker 1: they used to call it the I think it started
Speaker 1: out as like the uh white Rock Lake FM simplex frequency.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people out there in Eastdallas were
Speaker 1: using it. But but I've I've heard people in Decatur,
Speaker 1: out towards uh uh Springtown, out in Weatherford, all over
Speaker 1: Terrant County, and I've heard a lot of people talk
Speaker 1: on that frequency. So if you're driving around town you're talking,
Speaker 1: or you want to monitor FM simplex. I hear some
Speaker 1: stuff sometimes on six top five to two around here,
Speaker 1: but but six top.
Speaker 6: I think it's six five eight gone cook, it's six
Speaker 6: as uh that is right?
Speaker 1: Five eighty yeah, okay, one five eighty yeah. So so yeah.
Speaker 1: And there's also an FM simplex net every Friday night
Speaker 1: at eight pm local time, and I think that's on
Speaker 1: one forty six five seventy yeah, one five seventy I
Speaker 1: think is where that is. So five eighties, five eighties,
Speaker 1: one frequency in five seventies the other frequency, I believe.
Speaker 1: But you'll hear that simplex net is cool because the
Speaker 1: last time I listened to it, the net control was
Speaker 1: that No, No, that's Hurst is another one. We can
Speaker 1: talk about that too. The net control is somewhere out
Speaker 1: east I'm sorry, somewhere out west Weatherford, Spring. I think
Speaker 1: there's a guy in Springtown who does net control. And
Speaker 1: they kind of start and they go by counties like
Speaker 1: Wise County, uh, Grace or not, Grayson County, Johnson County, uh,
Speaker 1: Tarrant County, and then they go through like a uh,
Speaker 1: what's uh, what's what's south. What's between Tarrant and Wise County. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's another county out there somewhere, Denton County. I think
Speaker 1: they go over to Dallas County at some point.
Speaker 5: You've got Parker County.
Speaker 1: Parker County. Yeah, I believe they. I believe they do.
Speaker 1: They start at Wise County and kind of go in
Speaker 1: a circle around the area. But it's it's fun too.
Speaker 1: It's fun to listen to You can't hear everybody. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of relay stations in there that'll come in
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, relay for this area, relay for this county,
Speaker 1: something like that, because I mean, unless you got a
Speaker 1: really tall antenna, you won't be able to hear everybody.
Speaker 1: But I checked in from the hunting Lease like the
Speaker 1: second or third weekend of season in November, and it
Speaker 1: was fun. I was sitting in a I was sitting
Speaker 1: in a deer stand second week of season, I think
Speaker 1: it was. And I've always got an HT in the
Speaker 1: in the deer stand with me, and I heard someone
Speaker 1: on one forty six five to two and he just
Speaker 1: started He's like, hey, SEQ one forty six five too,
Speaker 1: So I went back to him. He's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you're coming in like a five five.
Speaker 3: Where are you?
Speaker 1: I said, I'm sitting in a deer stand in Forestburgh
Speaker 1: And he's like, dude, a man after my own heart,
Speaker 1: you're sitting in a deer stand and you're talking on
Speaker 1: five six. I was like, yes, I am, Yes, I am.
Speaker 1: That's great. So I talked to him. He's like, you
Speaker 1: know that if you're talking to me, the deer aren't coming.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, the deer out here are actually
Speaker 1: kind of stupid. They don't you know, Like I'll see
Speaker 1: him walk through the field and I decide, you know,
Speaker 1: it was too too small or too young or something.
Speaker 1: I'll start yelling at him. They won't even look up
Speaker 1: at me, like they're completely oblivious. So it's not that
Speaker 1: hard to get something out there. But uh yeah, one
Speaker 1: two up there around Monte County is actually quite active.
Speaker 1: I just about every time I was out there this
Speaker 1: last season, I heard some not every not every time,
Speaker 1: but about every other time, maybe two out of three
Speaker 1: times I would hear somebody on one forty six five
Speaker 1: to driving into the area or you know, monitoring the
Speaker 1: frequency on an HT from the area. So if you're
Speaker 1: around the Monte County North Denton County areas turn on
Speaker 1: one forty six five two because there is activity, there
Speaker 1: is people out there listening to that. So want to
Speaker 1: hear some experiences from you guys. So please, whoever wants
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 7: Go, well, I'll jump in real quick.
Speaker 11: I actually had someone calling out on two when I
Speaker 11: was driving into work on Thursday or Friday this week.
Speaker 11: I heard something that kind of caught me off guard
Speaker 11: and I ended up working a guy just a couple
Speaker 11: of times over who was just calling out on on
Speaker 11: one just.
Speaker 7: For the heck of it.
Speaker 1: Just time good.
Speaker 11: But you know, yeah, ultimately, I think it comes down
Speaker 11: to you got to be listening. There's gotta be someone there. Yeah,
Speaker 11: calling out it's one thing, but there's got to be
Speaker 11: people that are listening. So I always have that on
Speaker 11: my B band when I'm in the car, and I'll
Speaker 11: always call out when I'm on road trips, if I'm
Speaker 11: on the highway and stuff. But uh, but no, that
Speaker 11: was cool because usually I feel like I'm the one
Speaker 11: calling out on five to two and uh, and it
Speaker 11: was just a little caught off guard, but that was
Speaker 11: nice to have a nice chat and uh it worked out.
Speaker 1: Well, good good. Yeah, I heard something like that. I
Speaker 1: was where was I? I was going somewhere, and well,
Speaker 1: I was driving. I was driving home from Galveston about
Speaker 1: a week a couple of weeks ago, and some guy
Speaker 1: zoomed by me on the highway and he had two
Speaker 1: big intendas on his truck and I'm like, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for it, and like twenty seconds later he goes,
Speaker 1: hey casey five HBB. I'm like, hey, buddy, what's up.
Speaker 1: I'm just by me. So we talked road to five
Speaker 1: or ten minutes. So that was fun. At least he
Speaker 1: had a radio one. I've had trucks and cars pass
Speaker 1: ask me on the highway before and I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: a ham radio antenna. Maybe they have a call sign,
Speaker 1: license plate. Maybe they don't, but I'll say i'd pick
Speaker 1: up the microphone one forty six five two and casey
Speaker 1: five h should be listening, and they're not. They don't
Speaker 1: even have a radio on. I'm like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's do it.
Speaker 5: You know, you know the one that drives me nuts
Speaker 5: is driving to Belton, right, We've got a decent drivecost
Speaker 5: thirty five to Belton, yes, And you know you're always
Speaker 5: seeing other hams drive by right, either by their license
Speaker 5: plate or by their number of antennas they have, and
Speaker 5: you know, probably nine times out of ten when you
Speaker 5: call out, nobody comes back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and it's like these.
Speaker 5: Guys are going to a ham fest, right right, they're
Speaker 5: hand radio operators. I mean, at least turn it on
Speaker 5: when you're going to a ham fest.
Speaker 1: Come on, if you and if you don't have a
Speaker 1: radio in your car, you're going to a ham fest,
Speaker 1: go buy a radio for crying out loud. So yes, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I totally agree with that. I mean, it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of it's one of those things where, you know, and
Speaker 1: I issued a challenge during my thirty Days of ham Radio,
Speaker 1: which was the September thing. I was like, turn on
Speaker 1: one forty six five to two. Try to call out
Speaker 1: on one forty six five to two. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be every day, but you know, once a week
Speaker 1: on road trips when you get in the car or
Speaker 1: something like that. If you don't have a base station
Speaker 1: at home, that's cool. You know a lot of people
Speaker 1: can't put up a nintenda at home. That's fine, but
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's try to light it up on the
Speaker 1: on the at least light it up on the road.
Speaker 1: If you can listen at home, then do that as well.
Speaker 1: I try to do that as much as I can.
Speaker 6: But Mike and I on the way to the Cowtown Hamfest,
Speaker 6: we were driving down talking on one four six, five two,
Speaker 6: and Mike was trying to egg people on, trying to
Speaker 6: get him come on five to two. He's like, come on,
Speaker 6: we're going to the Hamfest. We're only ten miles out
Speaker 6: and it's only me and Tank talking here, and he's
Speaker 6: on a h T and where where's everyone else at?
Speaker 6: And just silence.
Speaker 1: He did something similar to that. We were driving back
Speaker 1: from Iowa when we went to UH visit the Power
Speaker 1: of the Powerfilm Factory and we got in some track,
Speaker 1: some short minor traffic jam or something like that, and
Speaker 1: we're slowing down on the road and he picks up
Speaker 1: his mark phone. He's like, how come none of you
Speaker 1: have a radio one.
Speaker 10: I even tried to tried to call uh Fort Worth,
Speaker 10: Lil Dallas to spark some uh oh yeah converstation there,
Speaker 10: and nobody came back.
Speaker 6: I was like, that would drive anyone nuts over here,
Speaker 6: and nothing, nothing, and not until we got like two
Speaker 6: miles out we heard other people mm hmm, yeah, no.
Speaker 10: I didn't hear anyone till uh we were like two
Speaker 10: tenths of a mile away from the Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 1: Way go ahead.
Speaker 5: One thing I could say, at least in this area, right,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of repeaters, and I think a lot
Speaker 5: of people are on the repeaters. I think they're monitoring
Speaker 5: the repeaters.
Speaker 6: They're monitoring the ppeters. No one's on the repeaters.
Speaker 5: Well, it depends on the repeater.
Speaker 1: Depends on the repeater. Yeah. I can point you to
Speaker 1: four or five of them that get used pretty regularly.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it does depend on the repeater.
Speaker 1: But but you know, every time I meet someone I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say every time. Many times when I meet someone
Speaker 1: on Simplex, they'll be like I'll be like, oh, I've
Speaker 1: got Simplex on this side of the radio and a
Speaker 1: repeater and they're like, oh, I don't even talk on repeaters.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well that's cool, but let's get some
Speaker 1: more Simplex activity then.
Speaker 6: I mean, but we still need to make the repeaters
Speaker 6: active too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We'll talk about that on a on a different
Speaker 1: live stream, but yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 9: So well, think about this.
Speaker 4: You guys stay on top of Montasao, where six of
Speaker 4: the major North Alabama Repeater Association repeaters are, and you're
Speaker 4: on five to two.
Speaker 9: You're always on five to two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a there's a lot of great activity around Huntsville,
Speaker 1: Alabama on a regular day, not just on Hamfulls I mean,
Speaker 1: but tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll turn everything well, not that's the old house,
Speaker 4: but behind me.
Speaker 9: You know, I'll have you know, my all Star note.
Speaker 4: It will be usually connected to you or I'll connect
Speaker 4: into East Coast Reflector. But five to two is on
Speaker 4: one of the radios, and it's always kJ four d
Speaker 4: WX five to sim.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's on there all the time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Stephen Ford.
Speaker 4: If you have not worked Stephen Ford on any given
Speaker 4: day on five to two, you're not on five two, right,
Speaker 4: because he's that's all he does while he's driving for
Speaker 4: FedEx between the depots and every everything around here. He's
Speaker 4: he is what's keeping five to two alive here because
Speaker 4: you know, like like Tank said, the repeaters, they're used
Speaker 4: here around here, but not much. I mean, I would
Speaker 4: say in the afternoon when I'm going to pick up
Speaker 4: the kids from work, we're on the three three machine,
Speaker 4: you know, the big one on top of Monte Seyoh,
Speaker 4: but it's five to two.
Speaker 1: There's a repeater that's close to the store. I can't
Speaker 1: remember the frequency right now. It might be three three,
Speaker 1: but there's a there's a repeater with an all Star
Speaker 1: connection up there. And when I when I pull into town,
Speaker 1: I key it up. I was like, hey, casey five,
Speaker 1: it should we be anybody monitoring, and usually nobody comes
Speaker 1: back to me. So I just and connected into my
Speaker 1: system and I'll monitor that repeater with my system on
Speaker 1: it while I'm there.
Speaker 9: And I think it's the one on the arsenal that
Speaker 9: I think is moving.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you remember the frequency? M Okay, I've got
Speaker 1: it saved in my radio. I've got it saved in
Speaker 1: my ID fifty one. The truck as Huntsville. And then
Speaker 1: I said, but the way I save an all Star
Speaker 1: repeater in my radio is I'll name the town and
Speaker 1: then I'll put the five digit all Star node number
Speaker 1: next to it, five or six digit whatever, so that
Speaker 1: I know. I was like, oh, that's the that's the
Speaker 1: all Star number, so I can either key it up.
Speaker 1: I know it has all Stars, so I can key
Speaker 1: it up. And connect it to my system, or I
Speaker 1: can connect my my note in the truck to that
Speaker 1: number if I want to.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, I just kind I just learned Friday
Speaker 4: night that the one four seven, one to eight zero
Speaker 4: repeater is actually a dual FM P twenty five repeater.
Speaker 9: So you go in P twenty five twenty five out.
Speaker 1: Huh. That's interesting.
Speaker 4: All these years I've lived here and thought, oh, it's
Speaker 4: just going to be in you know, another repeater.
Speaker 9: Oh it's dual mode.
Speaker 1: Yeah cool, yeah, yeah, great great. One of the things.
Speaker 11: Oh sorry, go ahead, Jason.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, you go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 11: One of the things I was I was just thinking
Speaker 11: of that I did that. It seemed to generate a
Speaker 11: lot of interest. Is the last couple of years i've operated,
Speaker 11: I think it's in April when it's Autism Awareness Month.
Speaker 11: I've done the special event with the I think it's
Speaker 11: a whiskey to Alpha call sign. And what I've organized
Speaker 11: is I've done two meter FM potus during Autism Awareness Week,
Speaker 11: like one of the days I'll usually do a weekday
Speaker 11: after work, like around six o'clock to try to pick
Speaker 11: up people on their way home or whatever, and I
Speaker 11: talk it up on the repeaters, but the nuts share
Speaker 11: locally and stuff, and that's actually gone over really well,
Speaker 11: so much that there's been at least one or two
Speaker 11: other ops locally that have gone out as well. And
Speaker 11: they'll they'll get on five to five or five eight
Speaker 11: so that we're not stepping on each other at different parks,
Speaker 11: and you know, and then for like a good hour
Speaker 11: plus you'll have at least you know, one, two three
Speaker 11: PoTA parks in western New York on two meter simplex.
Speaker 11: And it's fun because it's just I've heard people talk
Speaker 11: about it. It's nice to hear activity and sometimes just
Speaker 11: doing something like that initiating it, then other people appreciate it.
Speaker 11: But other people start to catch on and they're like, oh,
Speaker 11: I'll give it a try. I'll give it a try.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll tell you. So we my wife and
Speaker 1: I spent the last week in Phoenix. She's got a
Speaker 1: cousin out there. We went and saw we've never been
Speaker 1: out there to see them. And Charlie lives out there.
Speaker 1: Read some of r F in J seven Victor and
Speaker 1: he's got h And the last time I was out there,
Speaker 1: which is a couple of years ago, let's see where
Speaker 1: did his text message go. They've got a simplex frequency
Speaker 1: that they monitor out there because a lot of them
Speaker 1: do soda in the area. And you know, there's like
Speaker 1: a mountain range that surrounds like the the emilyst my
Speaker 1: wife's cousin. She's in Scottsdale. My my nephew actually lives
Speaker 1: out there in Tempe now and Charlie, I think Charlie's
Speaker 1: in Mesa, and it's all kind of like suburbs of Phoenix,
Speaker 1: but there's like a mountain range that surrounds there. So
Speaker 1: but and I actually talked to someone on six top
Speaker 1: five to the last time I drove through there. But
Speaker 1: they monitor one forty four four ten and that's like
Speaker 1: they're a quote unofficial soda frequency. If someone climbs up
Speaker 1: a mountain, they're gonna try one forty four four to
Speaker 1: ten FM Simplex before they maybe before they get on
Speaker 1: CW or something. And I know that Charlie's made several
Speaker 1: videos where he activated all all fmsimplex. So if you're
Speaker 1: in the Phoenix, Arizona area and uh, and you've got
Speaker 1: an HT or a mobile rig yo one key that
Speaker 1: one up in tru see what activity you can drum
Speaker 1: up out there.
Speaker 7: M Yeah, it really depends on the area. Yeah, Charlie
Speaker 7: has lives in a great area for FM Simplex. Greg
Speaker 7: k K six e gg he lives in a great
Speaker 7: area for Simplex all up and down southern California on
Speaker 7: the coast there. Mike has a good area up in
Speaker 7: western New York. Here in Delaware. Nope, nothing, I I
Speaker 7: I do hear people. I do monitor one four sixty
Speaker 7: five two every once in a while while I'm here
Speaker 7: at my at my desk, and i'll i'll i'll see
Speaker 7: people talking on there. I will listen for a little bit.
Speaker 7: Sometimes I'll hear both sides. Sometimes I'll hear one side.
Speaker 7: H Sometimes it's clear as day. Sometimes it's nothing. But
Speaker 7: that's usually during the day or of the evening. During
Speaker 7: the week. I've gone out and tried to get contacts
Speaker 7: through on FM Simplex at the activation in a in
Speaker 7: a desperate attempt to get the park just activated. I
Speaker 7: did a video and I just couldn't get it activated.
Speaker 7: I was having just such a bad time. But there
Speaker 7: was a storm coming and I was getting all this
Speaker 7: noise on whatever band I was on, and I tried
Speaker 7: calling on the repeaters, say Hey, can someone get on
Speaker 7: one four six five two and like help me get
Speaker 7: some contacts. And people just couldn't hear me on Simplex.
Speaker 7: They heard me on the repeater and I was in
Speaker 7: a high location too, and I was just like, what
Speaker 7: is going on? But it really depends on your area.
Speaker 7: And I see a lot of people ask on the
Speaker 7: on the Facebook photo group. Hey, I'm a technician. I
Speaker 7: want to do PoTA. Can I do it on Simplex?
Speaker 7: I'm like, you can. It depends on your area. Though
Speaker 7: I wouldn't hold I wouldn't be so sure. I'll hold
Speaker 7: your Breathay, you're going to get it done, but you
Speaker 7: could try. But just remember, And I told them, just
Speaker 7: remember that not every area is good simplex rout on their.
Speaker 1: Or good elevation. I mean, like, yeah, out here in
Speaker 1: the flat lands, I mean you're not gonna find I
Speaker 1: mean you might, you might make a contact or two,
Speaker 1: but you're not going to get a ten ten ten
Speaker 1: contact activation on a photo park. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: wish I but I'd like to see that happen. I
Speaker 1: would like to see us start to the group of us,
Speaker 1: and everyone who's listening to me right now, and everyone
Speaker 1: who's watching this on the team replay. I would like
Speaker 1: to see us all kind of make a conscious effort
Speaker 1: to be more active on six top five two Simplex
Speaker 1: at least. And I have a question I want to
Speaker 1: ask you guys. Kind of wanted to get around Robin
Speaker 1: going through the room first. And I think everyone's talk Josh.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've heard from you or Tim, but
Speaker 1: I want to know or Freddie Mack. I want to
Speaker 1: know what what FM simplex is like in y'all's areas,
Speaker 1: because everybody's in a different area. Ru on the zoom,
Speaker 1: I have most of the quick story to share. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: one second, but I want to make a conscious effort
Speaker 1: to get more activity. That's one of the reasons that
Speaker 1: we're talking about this subject tonight. Go ahead, Freddy.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, my part of the woods, Northeastern Oklahoma is
Speaker 3: not a strong six to five to two presence. Necessarily,
Speaker 3: I try to I have two mobile radios that are
Speaker 3: dual band in my truck, and I try to monitor
Speaker 3: one of those VFOs all the time on six top
Speaker 3: five to two. A lot of time it's nothing. You
Speaker 3: get a special event going or something, and you might
Speaker 3: you might hit somebody on there. But I gained a
Speaker 3: whole new respect for it. Two years ago when I
Speaker 3: was going to Huntsville Hamfest for the first time.
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 3: I'm on the highway and i'm, you know, probably half
Speaker 3: an hour forty five minutes from Huntsville, and this car
Speaker 3: passes me. That's a an SUV or something, and the
Speaker 3: passenger window is down and the lady driver sticks her
Speaker 3: hands out the window and goes.
Speaker 1: Love, that means what that means? It sounds like she
Speaker 1: was she was calling you, and you weren't answering. Her friend,
Speaker 1: husband was. He was in the passenger seat.
Speaker 3: He was the ham and he was calling me and
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't monitor.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, I'm I'm a low life.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to a ham pass for God's sake.
Speaker 3: Oh My looked it over and we chatted all the
Speaker 3: way to Huntsville, and I'm like, dude, I'm never switching
Speaker 3: off of that frequency again, right, leave it on all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 5: And I called out on a couple of times.
Speaker 3: Today I had to go to the next county and
Speaker 3: back as I always do on Sundays, and nothing.
Speaker 5: Well, we just got to raise that awareness, man.
Speaker 7: We got right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just yeah, we just gotta we have to
Speaker 1: be more active so that we can ask others to
Speaker 1: be more active.
Speaker 6: So I see a good question here in the chat him,
Speaker 6: uh ky J five is asking is one more popular
Speaker 6: than four four six?
Speaker 1: Oh? Well again, I think it's going to be very
Speaker 1: area dependent. I don't know what you're trying to share here, Tim,
Speaker 1: but I'll let you do it. It's going to be
Speaker 1: very area dependent. But my experience is that, yes, yeah
Speaker 1: it is. Right now, I see a Mac and crash
Speaker 1: desktop with a with a hard drive at the top, right, Tim,
Speaker 1: what are you? What are you doing here?
Speaker 8: But hang on, that's not going there?
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, hacking your stream man?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're taking over see I'm oh yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is your this is your license plate. Yeah yeah, I'm.
Speaker 6: Not right there.
Speaker 8: If if if you know, you know kind of thing
Speaker 8: right right? Yes, you see intenn Is on other vehicles,
Speaker 8: you know their ham radio operators and uh so I've
Speaker 8: got the small v h f U H up in
Speaker 8: ten and I and I do have the athos and
Speaker 8: sometimes I take it off right, but uh, but the
Speaker 8: small one is on here. Since I don't necessarily stand out,
Speaker 8: and I'm not a big fan of like a Ham radio,
Speaker 8: at least the Indiana hamm right operator's license plates. So
Speaker 8: I did that. Six to five to two is a
Speaker 8: way and funny story. I'm in town up in Indianapolis.
Speaker 8: Down where I live. It's not very busy, but up
Speaker 8: in Indianapolis they do have a fairly decent, simple ex community.
Speaker 8: I had five two on. I'm at at a at
Speaker 8: a performance with my young son. We go to leave,
Speaker 8: the radio comes on and I hear these guys talking
Speaker 8: and all they're all they're saying is yeah, I think
Speaker 8: it's that that crazy guy that jumps out of airplanes
Speaker 8: and does Ham radios. Because and it turned out it
Speaker 8: was Carlos. He was coming down to Indianapolis to do
Speaker 8: something as.
Speaker 1: What other crazy guy do you know that jumps out
Speaker 1: of airplanes and does Ham radio? I mean, obviously they
Speaker 1: were talking about Carlis exactly. So I broke in and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is this guy's call sign? And I
Speaker 1: gave it back to me and I'm like, well, it's Carlos.
Speaker 8: So they they they actually relayed for Carlos and I
Speaker 8: until we got close enough that we could actually nice
Speaker 8: and then we went and met up and did somepoda,
Speaker 8: so nicely out of the plan. But yeah, but there
Speaker 8: you go. There's that's the funny five to two story.
Speaker 1: Good, good, excellent, Josh, we have you want to unshare, Tim, Josh,
Speaker 1: we haven't heard from you yet. What's it like up
Speaker 1: there in Tennessee.
Speaker 2: It's not bad, you'll hear. I'll be the first to
Speaker 2: admit I'm not a huge monitor of simplex. Although to
Speaker 2: your point, Jason, I'm going to try to start doing
Speaker 2: better with that good and last night actually reminded me
Speaker 2: of why I should be listening. Okay, to five to two.
Speaker 2: One of my good friends, thankfully he had internet. He
Speaker 2: was on the Foothills Parkway, which is Coda Park, just
Speaker 2: adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This was
Speaker 2: about nine o'clock and twenty seven degrees up there. His
Speaker 2: battery is dead in his car, so uh, granted he
Speaker 2: got he had internet signals, so he got a hold
Speaker 2: of me in discord. But he talked me in because
Speaker 2: I've never been in the Foothills Parkway at dark. There's
Speaker 2: no lights up there at all, and so h it's
Speaker 2: that reminded me it's important for us to listen because
Speaker 2: you never know if an emergency is going to come up,
Speaker 2: and where should people typically default simplex.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: But as far as far as PoTA goes, I've done
Speaker 2: quite a few PoTA activations on five to two. It happens,
Speaker 2: but I would certainly advise to be respectful of that space, right.
Speaker 1: I will generally have an HT sitting on the table
Speaker 1: when I have my HF radio going and uh to
Speaker 1: listen to six five two, and I made on an
Speaker 1: occasional contact here and there. In fact, I'll usually call
Speaker 1: out on six top five two before I start my activation,
Speaker 1: just to see if there's anybody listening, because that's a
Speaker 1: good way assuming that assuming that people are listening, that's
Speaker 1: a good way to know if someone else is in
Speaker 1: the park with you, because how many times have you
Speaker 1: activated PODA and found someone else on twenty meters with you?
Speaker 1: You're like you look down and and then the scope
Speaker 1: is just like lit up, and you're like, that guy's
Speaker 1: in my park. You can tune over to You're like,
Speaker 1: MANI s well besides that, I mean, just like on
Speaker 1: a regular activation.
Speaker 6: Well, usually these parks are so large that they will
Speaker 6: cut out you know, like ten ten killer hurts white,
Speaker 6: you just need to go up another fifteen.
Speaker 1: Well no, yeah, that's no. I'm not complaining about that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying yeah, but I mean, obviously, if someone's
Speaker 1: in the same park as you, you should be able to
Speaker 1: operate six top five to two and I both monitoring
Speaker 1: as we several times.
Speaker 6: Also you're like the guys like, yeah, I'm in the
Speaker 6: like in the park too somewhere. I'm like, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 6: It's like put each other out.
Speaker 1: Hockey Ham Hoki Ham. Hockey Ham says the guy with
Speaker 1: the dead battery was a dumb ass. Oh wait, that
Speaker 1: was me.
Speaker 6: I wonder what.
Speaker 8: I've actually worked France from from the Foothills Parkway on
Speaker 8: five watts before. That's a that's a good, good elevation.
Speaker 1: Nice yeah, well good okay. Uh so okay, so here's
Speaker 1: a question. Here's something we can tell you. Frank are
Speaker 1: you looking, are you watching for questions?
Speaker 5: Watching for questions?
Speaker 1: Okay, if anybody has any questions or comments, it'd be
Speaker 1: good to hear from everybody. But here's something that and
Speaker 1: we could talk about. I could talk about this for
Speaker 1: the next hour, which is primarily what we're talking about
Speaker 1: not only but primarily for forty six zero applies to
Speaker 1: this as well. Is the national calling frequency. Typically, typically
Speaker 1: you don't want to have QoS long q sos, especially
Speaker 1: on the national calling frequency. So what is y'all's thoughts
Speaker 1: about having a QSO on one fifteen and it's an hour?
Speaker 5: What do you think I invite the complaints.
Speaker 1: Complaints?
Speaker 7: Yeah, if no one's using it, I mean watch you
Speaker 7: just meet there and then go off to another frequency.
Speaker 7: No one's using it, just use it.
Speaker 1: It's well, we already have the complaint that the frequencies
Speaker 1: and the bands are dead right, that complaint is already there,
Speaker 1: So let's change that. And then I invite the problem
Speaker 1: I have too many people. I invite the problem there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that's an excellent problem to have
Speaker 1: that I would like to see reactivated. You look at
Speaker 1: him radio bands.
Speaker 7: Even if you have two people just ragtooing, and then
Speaker 7: a third comes on there just to join, not to
Speaker 7: complain that. Then now you've got a group of people.
Speaker 7: Then a fourth person comes like, hey, what's going on?
Speaker 7: I saw this was active, and he joins the conversation.
Speaker 7: Then you have a rag too for a good maybe
Speaker 7: an hour from forty minutes an hour, I don't know,
Speaker 7: and it's being used. Hey, that's a novel idea. Yeah,
Speaker 7: let's use a frequency and actually has some activity on it,
Speaker 7: not like right, meet there and then go off because
Speaker 7: then it's not being used. You know.
Speaker 1: Well, but that's I mean, that's kind of that. That's
Speaker 1: the purpose of a calling frequency is a meeting spot
Speaker 1: and then you go off. You say, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: go up to five dot two five or yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, whatever you want to get. But yeah, exactly
Speaker 1: if no one's using it. And I saw somebody complaining
Speaker 1: about this on I think it was unredded. You think
Speaker 1: it was on Reddit and they're like, they're like, no,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be ragtoing on because of the calling and
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, seriously, I mean, if we had the
Speaker 1: problem of too much activity on the bands today, then
Speaker 1: I would agree with that statement. But in the current
Speaker 1: situation of things, I just want I want six tot
Speaker 1: five to two to be lit up all day long.
Speaker 1: And if you, if you okay, frank, hold on, I say,
Speaker 1: I want to hear what you have to say. And
Speaker 1: if you if you're sitting there ragchuwing with two or
Speaker 1: three other people, and someone comes on and says, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: can I call my friend? Sure? Yeah, call your friend.
Speaker 1: You want to join our conversation, that's fine saying oh,
Speaker 1: call your friend and say okay, now you guys, drop
Speaker 1: down to five hundred or four to fifty or something
Speaker 1: like that. You know something you know or we will
Speaker 1: you know, say oh, well I or I find somebody
Speaker 1: on there say I want to call my friend. We'll
Speaker 1: drop down to four fifty or whatever you can. You
Speaker 1: can be polite with the frequency at the same time.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, I don't think I don't see that
Speaker 1: as a problem. So okay, Frank, what do you gotta say.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna I'm gonna just stand on the other side here.
Speaker 6: If you're doing it at a more regular basis, you're
Speaker 6: gonna degrade the usefulness of that band this minus you know,
Speaker 6: just the the RAG two as we're driving down the road.
Speaker 6: If you're constantly on there, it's going to cause people
Speaker 6: to turn off that frequency because if they're monitoring and
Speaker 6: just waiting to be hearing a break and then help
Speaker 6: out an emergency, the dead battery and if hams aren't
Speaker 6: a good being good hams, it's going to degrade the
Speaker 6: usefulness and it's going to cause people to turn that
Speaker 6: frequency off from their radios, So you don't want to
Speaker 6: be using it as a regular basis.
Speaker 10: That boils down to Ham's actually using etiquette. Yeah, and
Speaker 10: unlike on d m R, where everyone is just keying
Speaker 10: up so fast you can't even disconnect from the talk group.
Speaker 10: You gotta leave space every now and again, let's pause,
Speaker 10: anybody else need to check in just right.
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying, Frank, And I think that
Speaker 1: would be more of a problem if the frequency actually
Speaker 1: got used. But it's I mean, I I can't remember
Speaker 1: ever hearing someone say I don't listen to six top
Speaker 1: five too, there's too many people talking. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's I don't think that's been a thing
Speaker 1: in like two decades except for L Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would love for that problem to exist. And then if
Speaker 1: you get if you're talking on if you're keying up
Speaker 1: six top five to two every day, okay in your area,
Speaker 1: wherever your area is, wherever you're sitting right now, you
Speaker 1: key up six top five two every day, you get
Speaker 1: a group of three, four, five, ten people and y'all
Speaker 1: are all talking on six top five two every day.
Speaker 1: And this happened in the West Gulf, in the in
Speaker 1: the Galveston and Baytown areas. Okay, they were there were
Speaker 1: people that down there and they're like, hey, you guys
Speaker 1: are out here every day, can you guys maybe find
Speaker 1: another frequency? Qs Y And I think it was done politely,
Speaker 1: so those guys will down down there. If you're around
Speaker 1: the Bay area, Galveston, Baytown, Texas City, Lamark, Laporte, Lamark,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, there's two of them. If you're around
Speaker 1: that area, they talk on one five dot five to
Speaker 1: two often. And the reason is because there was there
Speaker 1: were so much activity on six top five two. People said, hey,
Speaker 1: would you guys mind taking your daily rags shoe elsewhere?
Speaker 1: And they did. They're like, okay, sure, so that and that.
Speaker 1: But that's a good problem to have, that's a great
Speaker 1: problem to happen.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: It also seems that when there's noise, other people join in.
Speaker 1: Yes, right, yeah, But.
Speaker 5: When everyone's sitting there silent, everybody sits they're silent.
Speaker 1: Right nobody. Yeah, So yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 5: Perfectly fine to use it. And I think, you know,
Speaker 5: if somebody asks you to move. I think you should.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's nothing wrong with either of those things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree, I was, I was.
Speaker 10: I don't hear a lot of five to two activity
Speaker 10: at all in Houston.
Speaker 5: A few weeks and probably about three weeks.
Speaker 10: Ago, I went down to visit ABR and on my
Speaker 10: way back I heard I heard a couple guys talking
Speaker 10: I think they were talking about fishing or something on
Speaker 10: five to two. So I chimed in and we ended
Speaker 10: up having We ended up having a nice qso for
Speaker 10: a while until I got to around the I forty
Speaker 10: five area, coming from like six from ten to six,
Speaker 10: ten to forty five, yeah, yeah, and then we kind
Speaker 10: of just started getting One of the guys had to
Speaker 10: drop out, and then me and the other guy were
Speaker 10: kind of getting a little far away. But there's like
Speaker 10: as big as Houston is, the fourth biggest large the
Speaker 10: fourth largest city in the country. Which is surprising to
Speaker 10: hear you say about Galveston and baitout at all that
Speaker 10: because every time I drive down there, I've always got
Speaker 10: my radio.
Speaker 2: On five to two.
Speaker 10: And hardly hear anything.
Speaker 5: I called c Q.
Speaker 10: Just just on Friday up in Dallas or I was
Speaker 10: a little bit west of Dallas. Then I was on
Speaker 10: whatever it was three or whatever. Oh, nobody came back.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't get used a lot up here, but
Speaker 1: you will find i'd say probably once a week, I
Speaker 1: probably hear somebody out there talking on it. And usually
Speaker 1: it's like usually you're hearing like half a conversation. You
Speaker 1: hear the one guy, but you can't hear who he's
Speaker 1: talking to. And usually I won't jump into that because
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I can't hear this guy anyway, but
Speaker 1: if I hear him sign with each other, maybe I will.
Speaker 1: I call. I throw my call sign out Mike every
Speaker 1: time I'm driving up and down forty five through Huntsville, Texas,
Speaker 1: just to see if Mike has radio on. I do
Speaker 1: that every time.
Speaker 10: Well, I mean I pretty much always have it on.
Speaker 10: Doesn't mean doesn't mean I'm listening or may have the
Speaker 10: volume turned down. Well yeah, yeah with the weather.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, drive by Mike's place, just leave a sticker or
Speaker 6: two randomly.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he likes her.
Speaker 6: Yeah, or in his mailbox.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure he loves that, as long
Speaker 1: as there's a cigar with it. Yeah. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't hear you know, I want to. I want to
Speaker 1: try to get more activity on the Galveston Island for
Speaker 1: six top five two as well, because I don't hear
Speaker 1: much down there. But but if you manage your one
Speaker 1: forty five up five too, you'll hear some activity. I
Speaker 1: hear I talk to those guys pretty much every time
Speaker 1: I go down there. But it's it's KB five U
Speaker 1: t y. Dave says he has it on with the
Speaker 1: volume down. I tried that too, Yeah, turn the volume up, Mike, Come.
Speaker 4: On, I was gonna ask Josh up there. I mean,
Speaker 4: I know you're not far far away from Knoxville, are you?
Speaker 2: Or are you ten minutes?
Speaker 9: Okay?
Speaker 1: So I mean all the.
Speaker 4: Times I go to Pigeon FORWARGE, for weekend trips, W
Speaker 4: four DXCC stuff, meeting up with that the Severeville Club,
Speaker 4: do they even use five two or are they? They
Speaker 4: love their repeater network up there so much.
Speaker 2: Definitely, We're fortunate to have a couple at least two
Speaker 2: large repeater networks owned by one guy, and they take
Speaker 2: great care of them. So yes, they are heavily heavily
Speaker 2: relied on. But when I do have my five to
Speaker 2: two on, I hear traffic I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: coming from Severevil or not. Most of it, it's usually
Speaker 2: somebody in Knoxville. I can hear Noxville no problem. But yeah, uh,
Speaker 2: it's simplex is used up here a lot of times.
Speaker 2: I know in my club. Our club will default to
Speaker 2: for forty six as are simplex frequency. Don't know why
Speaker 2: they do that, but they do so.
Speaker 9: They do the same thing in Chattanooga too.
Speaker 6: Whose frequency will go farther two meters four to forty forty.
Speaker 1: In theory, two meters will go farther, But it really
Speaker 1: depends on your terrain and what's between you and the
Speaker 1: other station building.
Speaker 2: I thought four forty would penetrates the buildings better.
Speaker 1: It does. It does penetrate. But if you're on a
Speaker 1: mountaintop talking to another mountaintop, two meters is is better?
Speaker 1: Interesting and two meters is well? I mean, okay, Robert,
Speaker 1: here's a question. Okay, so satellites are uplink down link?
Speaker 1: Is there a different can you tell a difference? Does
Speaker 1: this performance better? If if if a ground station is
Speaker 1: transmitting on two meters as to a ground station transmitting
Speaker 1: on for forty is there a better Is there one
Speaker 1: that works better than the other.
Speaker 5: Uh, I mean you always want more gain on four forty, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, so two meters does get your does get your? Okay,
Speaker 5: that two meter signal is usually stronger.
Speaker 1: So if you're listening to a satellite transmitting on two
Speaker 1: meters and then you're transmitting back to them on four forty,
Speaker 1: that the signal stronger from the satellite coming down on
Speaker 1: two meters.
Speaker 5: No, So what I'm saying is, so if you're listening
Speaker 5: to a satellite that has four forty down, uh huh,
Speaker 5: that's not going to be as strong as a satellite
Speaker 5: that has two meters down. Okay, So if you're on
Speaker 5: a ninety one, Yeah, if you're on a ninety one
Speaker 5: that has two meters two meters down, it's usually a
Speaker 5: stronger signal than the ISS. That's well, ISS isn't a
Speaker 5: good example, better than so fifty that has four forty.
Speaker 1: Down Okay, okay, yeah, for forty and especially nine hundred
Speaker 1: megerts are great for penetrating through buildings and shoot I
Speaker 1: was I mean, uh, when we flew to Phoenix, I
Speaker 1: had the meshtastic going both to and from and when
Speaker 1: you were over the airport at DFW, it just and
Speaker 1: then when you're landing in Phoenix lit up the whole time,
Speaker 1: and you might get you might get some signals if
Speaker 1: it was on for forty or two meters, but I
Speaker 1: don't think as much, just because it's it's penetrating a
Speaker 1: little bit better than nine hundred megahertz is But as
Speaker 1: far as distance goes, you know, you could do mesh
Speaker 1: tastic on one zero or something and probably get a
Speaker 1: lot further with it, but you might not penetrate those
Speaker 1: buildings or foliage or something like that as well.
Speaker 6: So I got some general questions.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, Frank.
Speaker 6: From the chat. How do you know what the calling
Speaker 6: frequencies are? Where they listed?
Speaker 1: ABORL has stuff, QRZ has stuff. I would, honestly, I
Speaker 1: just google it to say Ham radio calling frequencies. You know,
Speaker 1: I can tell you what they are. I can tell
Speaker 1: you what a lot of them are, not all of them,
Speaker 1: just from memorization from being doing this for so long,
Speaker 1: but just just google it. I mean, someone's got a link.
Speaker 1: We can share it here. But a double L is
Speaker 1: where I would look again.
Speaker 11: A RL's got a good list and it'll list the FM,
Speaker 11: the CW, THEB calling frequencies and a whole bunch for.
Speaker 1: All the bands, right. Yeah, So there's an AM calling
Speaker 1: frequency and an FM calling frequency sideband calling frequency, so
Speaker 1: it's not just FM ten meters has a DRED their
Speaker 1: AM calling frequency which I often will monitor when I'm
Speaker 1: at a park and to see if anybody's out there,
Speaker 1: which I rarely find, but but it is out there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, get a get an a double r L band
Speaker 1: plan and it'll tell you all that information.
Speaker 6: Nice. And then another question is using all Star or
Speaker 6: EchoLink to find repeaters and frequencies? Is that very common?
Speaker 7: Depends on how resourceful I think the person is.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that question. To find repeaters and frequencies he's.
Speaker 6: He says, using all Star EchoLink to get on a
Speaker 6: get on a repeater, then asking for comment areas or
Speaker 6: frequencies for other repeaters on the road trip.
Speaker 8: I meank dot com.
Speaker 1: Yeah, repeater book, Yeah, repeater Book's good for seventy two hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 11: Tuning.
Speaker 1: In fact, you know what I dare you to get
Speaker 1: on seventy two hundred and KEFM do that or AM
Speaker 1: or AM yeah, or start doing FT eight on that.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, repeater book is probably better than that.
Speaker 1: But I but someone did. Who was it? I was
Speaker 1: talking to a few weeks ago. You know what it
Speaker 1: might have been? It might I can't remember it was
Speaker 1: either it might have been a comment in that thirty
Speaker 1: Days of Ham Radio video I did. Someone made a
Speaker 1: I think this is where it was. Somebody made a
Speaker 1: comment that said that they would when they travel to
Speaker 1: a new when they drive to a new area or
Speaker 1: maybe and fly, they'll find a local repeater and key
Speaker 1: it up and say, hey, does anybody have any local information?
Speaker 1: And they'll ask is there a local simplex frequency? Or
Speaker 1: maybe they'll shout out on six top five two and say, hey,
Speaker 1: is there a local repeater that is commonly used around here?
Speaker 1: And they'll they'll get information that way. So six top
Speaker 1: five two is used everywhere, but repeater frequencies change here
Speaker 1: and there and depending on where you're going, So it's
Speaker 1: it might be a good idea to start doing a
Speaker 1: if you want to talk on repeater or monitor repeater,
Speaker 1: then call out on six top five two. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think that's a good practice either way.
Speaker 6: Someone else earlier asked what's the calling frequency for one
Speaker 6: and a quarter one point twenty five maker? Hurts, and
Speaker 6: given the band plan that we just shared, I used
Speaker 6: that and found that it's two two two dot one
Speaker 6: for I'm sorry, yeah, to to two dot one for
Speaker 6: sideband and c W Collin frequencies.
Speaker 1: Was that correct?
Speaker 11: It's two twenty three dot five for FM. But the
Speaker 11: dot one it sounds right for week signal.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah? Yeah, two two two dot one is sideband
Speaker 1: and two two three dot five is FM.
Speaker 6: That's that's correct either. Here it says digital FM simplex.
Speaker 6: I didn't see it listed as calling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's two two three dot five is the commonly
Speaker 1: commonly monitor not so commonly monitored. But I put a
Speaker 1: short I put a I put a reel up on Instagram,
Speaker 1: just like I don't know. Around Christmas time, I just
Speaker 1: happened to be listening to two two three dot five
Speaker 1: from an HT inside my house and I heard two
Speaker 1: stations talking and I'm like, and I'm looking at my
Speaker 1: radio to make sure that I'm listening, because it's it's
Speaker 1: the It was the the Rattail RT nine fifty, which
Speaker 1: is three three band display, and I looked at it
Speaker 1: like four times. I'm like, okay, I see this as
Speaker 1: two two three dot five. Am I looking at the
Speaker 1: right thing here, because I was so surprised to see
Speaker 1: activity on that frequency. But sure enough, there were two
Speaker 1: stations talking and I was on an HT inside my
Speaker 1: house and I was hearing them, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's pretty and now I gotta now, I gotta freaking
Speaker 1: go put my two twenty radio back in my shack
Speaker 1: because if I'm hearing him on an HT, what what
Speaker 1: am I missing on an HT? But by not listening
Speaker 1: with an outside antenna? So hey, Bill, Bill says, check
Speaker 1: me in short time, no traffic. Hey, got you on
Speaker 1: the got you in the log seventy three. Thanks for
Speaker 1: checking in tonight, Bill.
Speaker 6: Then Ben Kilo two Alpha Whiskey Charlie and also Tim's
Speaker 6: DMR said Frank has a great point. You need to
Speaker 6: let him talk more. Oh wait that I added that
Speaker 6: last part, but they both said I made great points earlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously they've had too much to drink tonight. That's
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 8: Hey, Jason, did you see the post thing that Jeff
Speaker 8: threw in the chat?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I was about to try and mention.
Speaker 1: That and what chat? And oh I did not hold on.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can open that without it.
Speaker 7: Someone said that to me an email, sitting there trying
Speaker 7: to get it on the chat on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what, someone mentioned that up front at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the stream, and then I kind of
Speaker 1: forgot about it. So thank you for sharing that. Let
Speaker 1: me switch over to that real quick.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll go ahead and drop that then right here.
Speaker 1: Okay, you can share that in the live chat.
Speaker 6: Frank yep, I was hitting.
Speaker 1: Yes, winter Heat, and I heard about this last year,
Speaker 1: and I think I I think I tried a little
Speaker 1: bit last year, but I don't remember if I actually
Speaker 1: ever made any contacts. January one to thirty one, so
Speaker 1: we're halfway through it. Winter Heat is a month long
Speaker 1: vhf UHS simplex event held every January. Main purpose of
Speaker 1: the events participants to make as many contacts as possible
Speaker 1: during the event. Many additional benefits arise blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so here we go. These are winter Heat frequencies.
Speaker 1: I could see that in the Yeah, I can. Let's see.
Speaker 12: Let's may move this up real quick. Make sure I
Speaker 12: get the whole screen in there. Come on, what is okay?
Speaker 12: Here we go right there?
Speaker 1: All right, So two meters is one forty seven up?
Speaker 1: Five to seven or one seven five two five seventy
Speaker 1: fty six seven forty six up four they've got two
Speaker 1: two six meter frequencies two two three dot four hundred
Speaker 1: for two meters and nine two seven one hundred for
Speaker 1: nine hundred, and then they've got a D star couple
Speaker 1: of D star Well, no, they got d star DMR
Speaker 1: and fusion frequencies for two meters and for forty right there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, uh theham active dot com website that Shank
Speaker 1: Frank just shared. So yeah, I need to I need to,
Speaker 1: you know, I forgot I remember hearing about this around
Speaker 1: the first of the year, and I just I I
Speaker 1: forgot about it. So I need to try to key
Speaker 1: that up maybe sometime this week and get out there
Speaker 1: and see if anybody's listening, is anybody has anyone in
Speaker 1: the chat? Have you guys done this yet?
Speaker 7: I haven't.
Speaker 11: Do you have to make the contacts on those frequencies
Speaker 11: or they just suggested ones?
Speaker 1: I mean, I I don't know.
Speaker 8: Read the rules?
Speaker 7: I uh yeah, uh general information all right. Participants must
Speaker 7: be registered blah blah blah with their logging system. All
Speaker 7: contacts must be made on the disc designated amateur radio
Speaker 7: frequency see below.
Speaker 1: Gotcha.
Speaker 7: Okay, so yes, you have to be on those frequencies unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's yeah, that's this line right here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: okay me, he's huh yeah, one five seven and one
Speaker 1: seven five two five. I could I could totally get
Speaker 1: on board with that, and I wouldn't mind trying to
Speaker 1: find some six meter activity out here as well. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so have you guys done this at all? Has anyone
Speaker 1: logged any contacts?
Speaker 7: I remember hearing about winter heat before, probably last year
Speaker 7: and this year, maybe because I've ditched the club that
Speaker 7: I was with last year. Last year, Yeah, it's probably
Speaker 7: like December twenty twenty four mm when I probably last
Speaker 7: heard about it, probably due to one of the clubs
Speaker 7: I was with. But after that I don't remember hearing
Speaker 7: anything about it. Nothing. Even like this past few months,
Speaker 7: I have not heard anything, not even on any of
Speaker 7: the nets that I've normally on that are out of
Speaker 7: the area too.
Speaker 1: I think I heard. I think I saw a post
Speaker 1: on kure Z about it, and then I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I need to do that, and then I forgot about it.
Speaker 1: So we should totally try to make that.
Speaker 6: Who runs that next year?
Speaker 1: I have no idea that's the question in the chat.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. If you go to the website,
Speaker 1: go down there and find I don't know it's so.
Speaker 7: Am Active is the name of the organization. I don't
Speaker 7: know much about it. But the Winter Heat is their
Speaker 7: flagship event. It kicks every January, followed by Spring Wire,
Speaker 7: Summer Thunder and Autumn Breeze. So they do this like
Speaker 7: every season like support Parks Weekend for OODA.
Speaker 1: Is it the same thing?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it a simplex event every so four months out
Speaker 1: of the year. Is that?
Speaker 7: Is that what you're saying, Well, that's what they listened
Speaker 7: right on the front page. I'm going to their other one.
Speaker 7: Spring Wire is single side band and they have a
Speaker 7: two meter six single sideband frequencies. Summer Thunder is the
Speaker 7: same as Winter Heat, okay, and Autumn bree Blaze is SSB,
Speaker 7: So the summer and winter are the same, and the
Speaker 7: spring and autumn are the same. It seems so they
Speaker 7: do a simplex and SSB and the alternate between the tail.
Speaker 1: If you click on event info on the left hand
Speaker 1: menu over here, you'll you can find information for about
Speaker 1: for all four of those events. Good Summer Thunder is
Speaker 1: a month long in July, okay, and then spring wire
Speaker 1: April fifteenth through thirtieth, so like the last half of April, okay.
Speaker 7: And the autumn one is August, I mean October.
Speaker 1: October okay, yeah, that month sweet, that's cool, Okay. I
Speaker 1: had never heard of those other ones. I've heard of
Speaker 1: winter Heat. I think I made like two contacts last
Speaker 1: year something like that, But I, like I said, I
Speaker 1: forgot about it this year, so I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to do that. I have to get
Speaker 1: on that here shortly.
Speaker 2: I have another similar event that hockey Ham just happened
Speaker 2: to text me and remind me of. Okay, like share
Speaker 2: everybody in the chat. There is a link I just
Speaker 2: dropped the zoom chat. Tennessee Amateur Radio Association. They've had
Speaker 2: a kind of a contest type event going on since
Speaker 2: October and it runs through the end of March. They
Speaker 2: called Simplex Saturdays, and you make make contacts on five
Speaker 2: two five two five two two two three, five hundred
Speaker 2: or four forty six, and each log will serve as
Speaker 2: an entry for a prize drawing that they are having.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, now, I think that Greg wanted me to
Speaker 2: point this out because Greg is number one. That's hockey,
Speaker 2: that's hockey ham. By the boy, he is number one on.
Speaker 1: The for more contacts.
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, are you saying him to get together
Speaker 10: hockey ham hockey Okay, I couldn't tell if you were
Speaker 10: saying hockey ham or hiking.
Speaker 1: Hm, hockey h O c k e y.
Speaker 10: Keep your stick on the ice.
Speaker 3: You got to adjust for the Tennessee accent.
Speaker 10: But red Green Mike, right, yeah, just your writ yeah
Speaker 10: there it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just your writ for those Tennessee guys.
Speaker 2: But this is a this is a new organization. I'm
Speaker 2: just now learning about them, but I think they've got
Speaker 2: some great ideas, so nice. Excited to see them doing
Speaker 2: this simp like Saturday, bringing some activity to absolutely frequencies.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, you know, that's a lot like this. DFW
Speaker 1: simplex net we have on Friday nights out here, which
Speaker 1: I rarely get to check into, but I have a
Speaker 1: couple of times, and it's quite fun. It's quite fun
Speaker 1: to do that and to see what you and the
Speaker 1: coolest thing about it, in my opinion, is you get
Speaker 1: to see how well your station works because you get
Speaker 1: to see, oh I can hear that guy over there
Speaker 1: in this county, in this county, but I can't. But
Speaker 1: they're talking now. The net control is talking to someone
Speaker 1: in this other county over here. He says, he's down
Speaker 1: around this highway and I don't I can't hear that
Speaker 1: dude at all. Now, maybe he's down low and you
Speaker 1: can't hear him because he's not a pie. But maybe
Speaker 1: you're not a pie enough too, so you know, And
Speaker 1: it's all about it's more about Yeah, it's sure we
Speaker 1: all want to reach out out and touch someone and
Speaker 1: pump a bunch of power out there and try to
Speaker 1: get heard, but it's also about how far you can hear,
Speaker 1: because if you can't hear the station, you can't work them.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a it's a good way to test
Speaker 1: out your station and see how well your simplex is working.
Speaker 1: And it's your current elevation, current setup and whatnot.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, what mesh Dave heard in the chat?
Speaker 2: He says he heard cocky cocky?
Speaker 1: HM could be I don't know. I don't know the guy,
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to say that.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 11: In addition to those two events that the winner he
Speaker 11: and and the Simplex Saturday, the VHF contest was this weekend.
Speaker 9: I just got back.
Speaker 11: I activated two parks on six meters up for the
Speaker 11: contest today.
Speaker 1: And sir, was that, I said, did you go ahead?
Speaker 11: Yeah, yep, and uh it's they do it January, June
Speaker 11: and September, and those are always good time. I'm sure
Speaker 11: you know, half the contacts for people that regionally are
Speaker 11: big into contesting, but the other half were just people
Speaker 11: listening on five to two or or whatnot. And you know,
Speaker 11: you don't have to contest to participate and just make
Speaker 11: a quick contact here there. It's a good way. And
Speaker 11: for newer hands, if you're attack, you can participate easily
Speaker 11: on all the bands.
Speaker 7: But uh, if.
Speaker 11: You want to test out your station or something, just
Speaker 11: see what you can do.
Speaker 8: Maybe you've got a new.
Speaker 7: Mobile in the car or something that.
Speaker 11: You know, those weekends with the VHF contest is a
Speaker 11: good chance. They're a good opportunity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally absolutely, yeah, and those are fun too. So
Speaker 1: I participated in that September contest last year. I was
Speaker 1: down there at that superstation now in I forget the
Speaker 1: name of the town down there, somewhere south of Dallas.
Speaker 1: But that was fun. That was fun. Those guys have
Speaker 1: Killawot amplifiers on two meters twenty four and one point
Speaker 1: two gear hurts and they got a big dish to
Speaker 1: do moon bounce with one point two gig and six
Speaker 1: they got six meters also and that was that was
Speaker 1: freaking fun.
Speaker 5: That's cool.
Speaker 1: It's a cool station down there, but very very fun setup. Well.
Speaker 1: The uh yeah, so the the theme is turn on
Speaker 1: one too. Here's your challenge this week this month, uh
Speaker 1: especially especially this week leading up to winterfield Day and
Speaker 1: during winterfield Day. Okay, turn on one. If you're driving
Speaker 1: to winterfield Day, if you're participating winterfield Day, if you're
Speaker 1: just gonna be at home listening to winterfield Day, turn
Speaker 1: on one forty six five to two. Let's try to
Speaker 1: make as many FM simplex contact because those totally count
Speaker 1: for winterfield Day. As long as you're not going through repeater,
Speaker 1: you can totally make FM simplex contacts for winterfield Day also.
Speaker 1: So turn on turn on one forty six five two
Speaker 1: and see what you can see this week leading up
Speaker 1: to winterfield Day.
Speaker 2: Can I add to that?
Speaker 1: Yep? Go ahead, So as.
Speaker 2: I don't guess this bunch will meet again before hand
Speaker 2: Casion next month, we should actually will Oh well, that's good.
Speaker 2: We should still light up the southeast on five to
Speaker 2: two as we're all traveling.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, agreed, Yeah, so.
Speaker 6: So we could do that if Bill flies me.
Speaker 10: Bill should come like fly and pick us all up.
Speaker 1: Right just land land land his airplane in front of
Speaker 1: all our houses. You mean you got.
Speaker 7: Df W right next to you.
Speaker 10: There's a small little airport right here in Huntsville.
Speaker 5: I'm sure Bill would I think.
Speaker 10: We need to go fundme for a private jet for
Speaker 10: I don't know twenty of us.
Speaker 9: You would think for the week for the weekend.
Speaker 8: A person bill statue, they were just lett him borrow
Speaker 8: the plane for the weekend. Yeah, you would think, so yeah,
Speaker 8: that kind of grip.
Speaker 10: We gotta have a plane just hitting around doing nothing.
Speaker 7: Everyone chipping for fuel.
Speaker 8: They gotta fly, I mean they gotta worthy, right, so.
Speaker 6: You know we can put the plane in the video.
Speaker 6: It's just like a sponsor and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a video sponsored video. Man, that's good.
Speaker 8: I'm thinking the movie Soul Plane.
Speaker 1: There's a there's an there's a little airport on guy
Speaker 1: Liston Island right next to Moody Garden, so totally.
Speaker 6: Running and a wire out of the plane. Try to
Speaker 6: tune up the futil odys.
Speaker 10: Wow, I bring my ninety that's right.
Speaker 5: A bulldozer out here. I think I could make a runway.
Speaker 6: It's all coming together.
Speaker 7: Bill.
Speaker 6: Yeah, someone needs to cut this and send it to Bill.
Speaker 1: I think Bill signed off and I know to go,
Speaker 1: but I.
Speaker 5: Wish he was still here running by now.
Speaker 1: I invited. I'm hoping Bill comes to winterfield Day. And
Speaker 1: I sent him a text the other day and invited him.
Speaker 10: So he already flies those smaller planes anyway, So yeahs did.
Speaker 1: He say it was coming when I talked to him
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. He said, thanks for the
Speaker 1: invite out. I'm gonna try to make it.
Speaker 5: But oh oh, and we got a flight.
Speaker 1: Paul says whiskey.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul served the whiskey to us.
Speaker 1: Paul gets playing first, Paul, are you coming down to
Speaker 1: Galveston for Winterfield Day? Buddy? I sent you a message
Speaker 1: in I didn't look back at it yet, So well, guys,
Speaker 1: he said, no, okay, I wouldn't sure what he was doing,
Speaker 1: but he's welcome there. He's welcome to come down. So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, So guys, lesson of the day, tune up
Speaker 1: on two. That's your challenge this month until we meet
Speaker 1: again next month and talk about a totally different topic.
Speaker 1: And uh, I appreciate everyone coming on to the stream.
Speaker 1: Uh if anyone has any like I said, I got
Speaker 1: about a half maybe five or six something like that
Speaker 1: subjects written down, including this one, so we've knocked one out.
Speaker 1: If you have a subject that you think would be
Speaker 1: a good subject for a discussion like this. And I
Speaker 1: just really like these free for all, open, totally open,
Speaker 1: non structured discussions. This is the kind of thing that
Speaker 1: I like. They get a lot of I get a
Speaker 1: lot of comments on these when when I do them,
Speaker 1: I'm not done this exact thing before, but you know,
Speaker 1: I get a lot of comments on the Happy Hour saying, oh,
Speaker 1: it was a great discussion about Antenna's y'all had that
Speaker 1: happy art and I'm like I was, I was two
Speaker 1: or three drinks into that happy I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: But hey, okay, cool, we had a good discussion. That's great.
Speaker 1: So but if anyone has any other topics or suggestion
Speaker 1: for something like this, I would love to hear them.
Speaker 1: We can definitely do keep the momentum going for this
Speaker 1: and whatever else we're going to do.
Speaker 2: So hey, before before we go, Jason, Yeah, congrats to
Speaker 2: Ham Radio Crusader for ten.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, ten thousand subs on Ham Radio Crusader.
Speaker 3: That was great you guys, and thank you all the
Speaker 3: new subs out there, and be looking for a live
Speaker 3: stream coming soon. I'm gonna give away one of my
Speaker 3: homemade I'll start link nodes.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, it's pretty cool looking.
Speaker 3: For the Thank you guys.
Speaker 12: And I'm over forty five hundred.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a couple of way you're how how many
Speaker 1: is a couple?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 8: Literally too at least that.
Speaker 1: Stream, So you're at forty four eighty eight.
Speaker 8: But if we have to forty five hundred or five
Speaker 8: thousand tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you know you might. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna shoot for the stars, you might as
Speaker 1: well shoot as high as you can.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: Wait, So.
Speaker 8: I mean if I make five thousand subs, man into
Speaker 8: the stream, Mike will give away last season's by day.
Speaker 1: What he loved last last season's by Day? Okay, what's that? Rob?
Speaker 1: It is seasoned?
Speaker 5: Yeah, forty eighth six Rob?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, so we're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: Tim and Rob onto a live stream here in a
Speaker 1: week or two and get you guys. Got the Hama
Speaker 1: Hamcash guys coming on next weekend right after Winterfield Day.
Speaker 1: But we'll have to get you guys on.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: If we get five thousand subs for you guys here soon,
Speaker 1: it'd be fun. I love doing those. But anything else,
Speaker 1: have anything else, anything cool upcoming on your channels. Everybody
Speaker 1: doesn't have to go, but if you've got something cool
Speaker 1: to say, go ahead.
Speaker 8: I'd like to find a radio that has three bands
Speaker 8: on it, not not like like two meter seventy four forty,
Speaker 8: so I can monitor three different frequents at the same time.
Speaker 1: Rad tael RT nine to fifty okay, t y t
Speaker 1: t H three fifty.
Speaker 7: Are they mobile now?
Speaker 9: See?
Speaker 8: I want to dors UH one six two, but also
Speaker 8: my all Star node in the truck. Well, I'm driving
Speaker 8: around so I can do all three.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know of a couple of radios
Speaker 1: that have like a TRY or quad display. I don't
Speaker 1: know of any of them that'll do APRS or not
Speaker 1: not do it well anyway.
Speaker 3: Yet that that red tail they're talking like there may
Speaker 3: be a firmware upgrade coming for that one. It's still
Speaker 3: in HT though, right Sorry, Yeah, it's still an h
Speaker 3: T and I don't think it has GPS, and it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has GPS does maybe that's why I heard it.
Speaker 1: Supposedly it'll do kiss T and c a p R S.
Speaker 1: I've yet to try that. A couple of comments in
Speaker 1: the chat said, oh, yeah, I've tried that. It doesn't work,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, it doesn't surprise me. But I want to.
Speaker 1: I do want to. I do want to try that
Speaker 1: and see what happens. But yeah, I don't know anything
Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, just do what I do. Tim,
Speaker 1: put more than one radio in.
Speaker 8: Your car, you know, I mean maybe that the Vero,
Speaker 8: the mobile version, Yes, because that'll do a PR.
Speaker 1: Yeah will yeah, a little radio.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In fact, you can get a tablet and run APR.
Speaker 1: It's droid with it, so which is easy too. Well,
Speaker 1: that's true, but there is there an Apple equivalent a
Speaker 1: PR s F I is that just the website or
Speaker 1: is that an actual app?
Speaker 11: That's an app?
Speaker 1: It's an io s app yep, Okay, yeah, I have it.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 1: The cool thing about apres droid is it's easy to
Speaker 1: send received messages. So you're driving on the road and
Speaker 1: you get an APRS message you click on reply, you
Speaker 1: click on voice to text and you talk to it
Speaker 1: and you click send. You're done. You don't have to
Speaker 1: yaiz you where's the A because it's not a Cody keyboard.
Speaker 1: Oh there it is, you know, so it's easy to
Speaker 1: do with APRS droid.
Speaker 8: You bleed out before you figure it out there Cordy keyboard.
Speaker 2: I'll throw one one final thought out. All right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna plug here. I want to see something cool. There's
Speaker 2: a reason I say you want to see something cool,
Speaker 2: folks that if you missed out Thursday night, we made
Speaker 2: Ham radio YouTube history. Oh yeah, with Chris Bowden. If
Speaker 2: you're not familiar with him, he has a science and
Speaker 2: engineering channel over one point five million subscribers randomly hinded
Speaker 2: up on mostery on Hamshak TV.
Speaker 6: You don't know how jealous I am. I've been watching
Speaker 6: him for years and when I saw him pop up,
Speaker 6: I'm just ah because I was literally trying to formally
Speaker 6: how to reach out to him because he has said
Speaker 6: he's looking to get his amateur radio license and incorporating
Speaker 6: the shack And I was like, do you need help?
Speaker 6: Where are you? And I wanted to do that after
Speaker 6: I got back with the cruise and then he popped
Speaker 6: up on your channel and.
Speaker 2: Took his test on the whim and passed it. Not
Speaker 2: only pasted it, passed it with flying colors. You didn't
Speaker 2: get a hundred, buy got thirty two out of thirty five.
Speaker 1: So he gets scroyed.
Speaker 8: Well done, and I think I seriously dropped most F
Speaker 8: bombs in a conduction of a test.
Speaker 2: Myself. Myself, Mike and one of my one of my
Speaker 2: regular interviewers, e O D. Kaboom, we were the ves
Speaker 2: that administered the test. And if you go, you can
Speaker 2: go back and watch the exam and we are just.
Speaker 1: Dying laughing all the Oh boy.
Speaker 2: But it's over on my channel, y'all go check it out.
Speaker 2: It's it was quite fun. I have a surprise.
Speaker 6: That's awesome. I'm watching all End detailed team replay.
Speaker 1: Cool. Well, guys, thanks once again for coming on tonight.
Speaker 1: This was a fun discussion. I really enjoyed it. I
Speaker 1: will do this again. Like I said, if anyone has
Speaker 1: any suggestions, feel free to drop me a line, discord
Speaker 1: or email something like that. We'll get it on the
Speaker 1: schedule and we're gonna knock it out. So seventy three guys, everyone,
Speaker 1: have a good week and Winter Field Day next weekend.
Speaker 1: I hope to work everybody on winter field Day. In fact,
Speaker 1: if you're coming to winter field Day with me, stay
Speaker 1: on the zoom for a minute and we'll talk for
Speaker 1: a minute. But yeah, seventy three to all, and appreciate
Speaker 1: you all joining tonight and we'll catch you next time. Later,
Speaker 1: see ya.