WEBVTT 1 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:17.120 Hey guys, good evening, Thank you for joining tonight. We're 2 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:18.920 gonna get started here in just a minute, looking forward 3 00:01:18.959 --> 00:02:21.400 to minute to tonight's life. Thanks for being here early. Okay, 4 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:27.560 I show seven o'clock in Texas. Good evening to all. 5 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:33.599 And yeah, let's turn this up in a bit, turn 6 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:36.360 that up a touch. Hello audio boy. 7 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:36.879 Here we go. 8 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.280 Okay, Hey, good evening guys. Thank you for joining us 9 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:44.319 tonight Sunday night again. And I love this Ham radio business. 10 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:49.039 To steal a line from Richard Lenore, here we go. 11 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:50.840 First of all, shout out. I want to give a 12 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:53.159 shout out to the YouTube channel members. But more importantly 13 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:57.960 than that, right now, where'd this go? Gary Graham sixty 14 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:03.280 eight passed his technician tech yesterday, So congratulations Gary. Let 15 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:05.599 us know when you get a call sign. Really excited 16 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:06.960 to see you out there and excited to hear you 17 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:13.080 on there. So YouTube channel members go. George seven w 18 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.439 B seven out, Tom j LC A three twenty, Paul, 19 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:22.439 the Southern ham S Isaacs. Let's see Jason Perez, thanks 20 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:26.560 for being here, kJ five ft T William p r 21 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:34.080 K Radio, Curtis Looper, Let's see who else we got here. 22 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:40.039 Kevin KQ four FIP Good evening, and UH Ronald good evening, 23 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:44.000 KDE nine, y s W Good evening, Mark Redinbaugh good evening, 24 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:50.199 Brooks Good evening. Andy Cally's in the house, Amshak TV 25 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:54.840 is in the house. Thanks for being here tonight, Glenn. 26 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:58.439 Thank you for the super chat, buddy, appreciate that a lot. 27 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:02.120 And UH to see out there. Glenn. Always a good 28 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:06.400 supporter of the channel. So tonight we're gonna do something. 29 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:08.479 We're gonna kick off a little bit of a new 30 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:13.560 thing that I've been contemplating for a while. I'm gonna 31 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:17.360 pick a topic each month. I've got about a list 32 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:19.800 of about a half dozen of them. So six months 33 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:23.199 were the topics. And we're gonna invite a bunch of 34 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.240 well known faces onto the channel, maybe some maybe some 35 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:29.759 faces that you haven't seen for a while or haven't 36 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.800 seen recently, and we're gonna talk about a topic inside 37 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:38.720 of amateur radio. And these topics are derived from comments 38 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:43.160 I get on videos, questions I get in the comment section, 39 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:46.160 questions I get via email or on a discord server 40 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:50.120 or something like that, and some of some of the 41 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.560 more not necessarily controversial, some of them might be controversial. 42 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:57.519 Tonight's is not controversial, but but it's it's a topic 43 00:04:57.560 --> 00:04:59.439 of interest because every time I bring it up, I 44 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:03.160 have a lot of comments and questions and people who 45 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:05.199 want to talk about it. So one of my most 46 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:08.199 popular videos in my thirty Days of ham Radio series 47 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:12.199 that I did last September was one six five to 48 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:14.360 two simplex. So that's what we're going to talk about tonight. 49 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:17.160 So looking forward to seeing that. If you guys aren't 50 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:18.800 a member of the email list, sign up at Ham 51 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.759 Radio two dot com forward slash email dash sign up. 52 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:25.319 If if Frank is in the Frank is in the chat, 53 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:27.839 and I just unmuted myself in the zoom, so Frank 54 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:29.759 can hear me now, So if he's on top of 55 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:31.399 his game, he should have that link. 56 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:31.600 Right. 57 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.839 Let's see there he is right there. I can't complain 58 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:37.519 with that. I can't with that. So I didn't think 59 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:40.480 you'd get it there, Frank quite frankly, So, uh you 60 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:44.120 know it's uh, I'm I'm co hosting. Yeah, you're knocking 61 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:46.120 out of the park, buddy. All right, let's bring everybody on. 62 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:47.839 What's up, guys, how's there doing? 63 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:48.000 Hey? 64 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:51.800 Everybody happy Sunday? 65 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:56.600 Yeah? So next week is winter Field Day weekend. Yeah, 66 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.720 and the weather says it's supposed to rain all day 67 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:00.639 on Saturday in Galveston. 68 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:01.560 Of course it is. 69 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:05.639 So did y'all get the cabin or did y'all get 70 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:07.240 doing it at the pavilion? 71 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:12.399 Pavilion is the plan as of right now. But I 72 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:14.079 think I might try to call in that cabin Moral 73 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.560 and see if this time last year was under renovation, 74 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:20.920 which is what they're doing to the Dangerfield cabin this year, 75 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:23.040 because I called on that one about a month or 76 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:25.759 two ago. So I might try to call and see 77 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:29.079 what the status of the cabin is. Tomorrow called to Moral, 78 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.959 see what the status of the cabin is, and if 79 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:34.839 if we can get that, we might try to get 80 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.879 that for like one night. I don't know. We'll see, but. 81 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:40.600 Y'all are gonna have some fun. I'm gonna I'm jealous. 82 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.800 I'm not gonna be there. Also, Welcome back, Jason. You 83 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:47.439 missed a Cowtown Handfest, a staple of the DFW area. 84 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:47.920 Yeah. 85 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:50.319 Yeah, and you didn't get the tie Mikes. 86 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:50.800 I'm sorry. 87 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.240 Paul's jerky. 88 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:07.519 Across the conventions. That's a smell that lingers that stays 89 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:07.759 with We. 90 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.600 Got to watch the videos to figure out what happened. 91 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:11.920 Mine's dropping tomorrow. 92 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:15.720 All right, Well, somebody shared a picture with I think 93 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:18.560 it was in five SKT. He had shared some pictures 94 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:21.560 in discord of you guys at then Hamfest on Saturday. 95 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:24.720 So yeah, that was my face is the little reaction 96 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:26.319 of smelling that jerkey. 97 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:33.279 Okay, okay, okay, good to know, good to know. Well, uh, 98 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.199 somebody has some Japanese whiskey for me. I'm not going 99 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:39.720 to call anybody out or anything like that, Rob, but uh, 100 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:41.399 you know I do. 101 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.000 I have a couple of extra bottles, and you know 102 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:45.360 someone's not going to be there. 103 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:53.639 So still I say, I say we drink that one first. Yeah, 104 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.600 I say we drink that one first. That's that's a 105 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:56.720 fantastic idea. 106 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:58.680 You know in Tank wouldn't mind if you drink his. 107 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:01.240 I mean, he's he like I like. 108 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.399 To share, but I have to be there to share. 109 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:07.120 Well, you were invited, Frank, Who's whose fault is it 110 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:08.079 that you're not going to be there? 111 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:08.959 There you go, Frank. 112 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.040 You can't say no to mom, That's true. 113 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:16.279 You can just not it. Yeah, she doesn't like it. 114 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:19.600 Let let's say when she puts together a cruise and 115 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.120 flips the majority of the bill. You say, yes, ma'am, 116 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:22.759 I will be there. 117 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.800 Well, yeah, that's that's a good way to think about it. 118 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:26.079 Yeah. 119 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:29.839 Sure, But so who all is doing winterfield Day next weekend? 120 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.200 I'm sending your bulletin from Alabama? 121 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:35.600 Nice? Okay? Good? 122 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:39.080 Yeah, depending on the weather here. Yeah, we've got to 123 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:42.200 We've got a minor plant. 124 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:43.519 You know, if nothing else, we can operate from the 125 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:45.679 beach house. We won't be in a PoTA spot. But 126 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:47.879 winterfield Day can be done from anywhere. So we could 127 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:50.559 always go sit out and run the coax inside and 128 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:53.559 sit at the dining room table and be in the 129 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:56.200 the nice shelter and uh, you know, we could do 130 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.360 it that way. And then if it's clear weather on Sunday, 131 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:01.440 we can go out and do park activation on Sunday 132 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.440 or something. I don't know, Guys. 133 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:04.919 When I was activating this morning. 134 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:08.360 I saw your I saw your post on Facebook about that. 135 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:10.200 I think you said twelve degrees. 136 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.039 Right, It was twelve when I got out, But yeah, okay, okay. 137 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:17.320 On the air, I saw the dedication, man, totally, it's dedication. 138 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:23.159 So well, did you do any FM simplex, Tim not 139 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:27.360 Fmplex because because it just so happens that tonight's topic 140 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.399 is FM Simplex, So you know, it'd be really cool 141 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:32.799 if you've made an FM simplex contact on Poda this morning. 142 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:35.879 I just, you know, kind of segue into that really 143 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:37.399 nonchalantly as it do. 144 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:42.320 I've I've I've tried it occasionally. From where I operate 145 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:44.399 in the park, there's not a lot. Every once in 146 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:46.080 a while I will hear a couple of people talking 147 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.120 locally on simplex. 148 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.000 But what radios do FM simplex? The only one I 149 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:55.559 know is the Icon. I know this more. 150 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:00.080 Every HT you've ever, Every HT you've ever. 151 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:05.000 I'll speaking sideband, I was speaking sidebands. I was thinking sideband. 152 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:10.320 I don't know things sideband popped up into simplex simplex. 153 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.080 Although that would be a good topic for another day. 154 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:13.679 I mean, we're not gonna talk about that today, but 155 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:17.320 two meter sideband was another very popular topic on my 156 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:19.600 thirty days of Ham Radio, so that would be that 157 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:21.519 would be a popular thing to bring up on a 158 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:24.279 on another stream. So but yeah, no, we're tonight we're 159 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:28.399 talking about one FM simplex and more specifically one five 160 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:34.919 to two and how we should be monitoring, especially if 161 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:38.399 we're on a road trip monitoring FM simplex. If you've 162 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:41.600 got a base station at home with a fact you 163 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:45.039 can't see it really. But there's an FT eight forty 164 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.519 seven behind me right here, which has HF six meter 165 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.120 and two meter for forty zero mode. So it's hooked 166 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:55.759 up to my GP nine right now, and so I'm 167 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:59.039 monitor FM simplex here periodically. Although I think I got 168 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:02.000 a break in my coax. My GP nine is not 169 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:04.960 to not act and write. I think my coaxes it's 170 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:07.639 that old broad Pro fifty MESSI and plonycoax with a 171 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:10.240 solid core. I think I might have bicked it around 172 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:11.720 one or one too many times, I don't know. 173 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:12.679 Been good. 174 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.000 Yeah, we gotta we gotta give a shout out to Paul. 175 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.320 He brought us the stinky jerky, but he brought me 176 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:20.759 a couple. 177 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:22.679 I pas fan. 178 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.799 I have no idea what it says other than session, 179 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:30.080 I p and there's a frog that says I'm back. 180 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:31.759 Okay. 181 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:36.240 It does not smell like it did on Saturday or 182 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:37.120 yesterday morning. 183 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.879 Is that good? That's good? 184 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:43.919 Well, you just need to breathe a little bit. Was 185 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:44.559 that what it is? 186 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:47.879 It's no, it's. 187 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:49.519 More like it breathed a little too much. 188 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.240 It needed this day in Japan. Yeah? 189 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:59.000 Is that the perfect description? Right? It smells like you 190 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:01.159 left your bait and your tackle box. 191 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:05.639 Trying to give the sign. 192 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:11.080 So it's it's, it's it's it's probably sushi that just 193 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:11.639 went bad. 194 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:13.679 You could call it that. 195 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:15.200 It was. 196 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:21.000 It's going to be released Monday. Just swing by. It's 197 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:21.639 it's fun. 198 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.759 Can we encapsulate that into a soap and sniff sticker? 199 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:29.440 You can? I've never seen Paul, Paul, I've never seen 200 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:31.320 a more perfect name for an I p A. He 201 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:33.399 says that one is called frog piss. 202 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:34.840 Is it really there? 203 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:35.240 You have it? 204 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:37.159 That's what Paul says. I mean, it's in the chat. 205 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.279 I mean, you know, and and if you ever had 206 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.559 to describe what I p as tastes like, that's an 207 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:44.440 accurate description. 208 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:47.080 Okay, you will ever have another one of my all 209 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:48.000 day I pas. 210 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:49.159 Then you know what? That's okay? 211 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:53.480 And Mike, okay, I can translate the can for you. 212 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:54.879 I don't care. 213 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:57.600 I guess I like frog piss. 214 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:58.000 That's fine. 215 00:12:58.440 --> 00:12:59.279 Is alcohol in it? 216 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:00.840 I'll drink it? 217 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:06.679 I would. I would hope there's alcohol in it. So 218 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.120 all right, one forty six five two, So yeah, let me, 219 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:12.960 let me uh retouch on the topic real quick. So 220 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:14.879 we've got about one hundred and one hundred and fifty 221 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:17.440 more people watching than when I first started. Thank you 222 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:21.240 for being here tonight. So I want so this is 223 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.120 something I had, Uh I kind of semi sort of announced. 224 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:28.080 Is very shoot from the hit, like I do most things, 225 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:30.879 we're gonna be doing probably about once a month, we're 226 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:32.679 gonna be doing a new topic like this. I'm gonna 227 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:35.320 invite a bunch of people onto the zoom chat and 228 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:38.279 go live. We're gonna talk about a specific topic inside 229 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:40.399 of amateur radio. Tonight's topic is one forty six Top 230 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.720 five to two Simplex or just FM simplex in general. 231 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:45.200 But we are gonna talk about one forty six Top 232 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:50.000 five to two tonight quite a bit. So really the 233 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:51.600 topics and now, like I said, I got about a 234 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:54.159 half dozen things written down, and the topics come from 235 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:57.919 comments I get on videos, questions I get about videos, 236 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:01.000 emails I get discord uh disc ushons and whatnot. So 237 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:05.440 stuff I see on Reddit sometimes and topics inside of 238 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.080 ham radio that we should be aware of and uh 239 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.720 not necessarily controversial. But this one's not controversial. Just turn 240 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:14.919 on your freaking radio. That's all you got to do. 241 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:18.279 But uh, but I'd like to hear people's thoughts about 242 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:22.519 what you about your the experience of FINS simplex in 243 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.120 your area. Steve. I'm really gonna look forward to hearing 244 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:29.120 from you, because you guys got some excellent, excellent traffic 245 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:34.559 out there in Huntsville area. And thanks for I don't 246 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:38.080 know what that was, Frank, but thank you. So yeah, 247 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:40.799 so just let's let's let's just dive right in free 248 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:44.600 for all anybody speak any anything you want to. And uh, 249 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:48.120 there is a simplex frequency in the North Texas area. 250 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:51.320 If you're not aware of it, it's one is it 251 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:53.960 one forty six Yeah, I think it's one forty six 252 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.759 dot five eighty. I think it's worse. 253 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:57.320 I heard of this. 254 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:03.159 Yeah, I think it's one forty six eight and they're 255 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.240 they used to call it the I think it started 256 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:10.720 out as like the uh white Rock Lake FM simplex frequency. 257 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:12.320 So a lot of people out there in Eastdallas were 258 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:15.039 using it. But but I've I've heard people in Decatur, 259 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:21.320 out towards uh uh Springtown, out in Weatherford, all over 260 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:24.159 Terrant County, and I've heard a lot of people talk 261 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:26.480 on that frequency. So if you're driving around town you're talking, 262 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:30.399 or you want to monitor FM simplex. I hear some 263 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:32.919 stuff sometimes on six top five to two around here, 264 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:34.960 but but six top. 265 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:38.399 I think it's six five eight gone cook, it's six 266 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:40.080 as uh that is right? 267 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:45.639 Five eighty yeah, okay, one five eighty yeah. So so yeah. 268 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:49.200 And there's also an FM simplex net every Friday night 269 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:53.879 at eight pm local time, and I think that's on 270 00:15:53.879 --> 00:16:00.200 one forty six five seventy yeah, one five seventy I 271 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.399 think is where that is. So five eighties, five eighties, 272 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:05.879 one frequency in five seventies the other frequency, I believe. 273 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:10.480 But you'll hear that simplex net is cool because the 274 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.200 last time I listened to it, the net control was 275 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:16.639 that No, No, that's Hurst is another one. We can 276 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:20.000 talk about that too. The net control is somewhere out 277 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:24.639 east I'm sorry, somewhere out west Weatherford, Spring. I think 278 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:27.639 there's a guy in Springtown who does net control. And 279 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.399 they kind of start and they go by counties like 280 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:34.480 Wise County, uh, Grace or not, Grayson County, Johnson County, uh, 281 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:39.879 Tarrant County, and then they go through like a uh, 282 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:43.879 what's uh, what's what's south. What's between Tarrant and Wise County. Uh, 283 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:47.399 there's another county out there somewhere, Denton County. I think 284 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.320 they go over to Dallas County at some point. 285 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:50.440 You've got Parker County. 286 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:53.120 Parker County. Yeah, I believe they. I believe they do. 287 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:55.679 They start at Wise County and kind of go in 288 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:59.519 a circle around the area. But it's it's fun too. 289 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:01.879 It's fun to listen to You can't hear everybody. There's 290 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.840 a lot of relay stations in there that'll come in 291 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:06.680 and say, Okay, relay for this area, relay for this county, 292 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:08.720 something like that, because I mean, unless you got a 293 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:10.920 really tall antenna, you won't be able to hear everybody. 294 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:12.759 But I checked in from the hunting Lease like the 295 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:16.440 second or third weekend of season in November, and it 296 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:18.799 was fun. I was sitting in a I was sitting 297 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.079 in a deer stand second week of season, I think 298 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:23.920 it was. And I've always got an HT in the 299 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:25.720 in the deer stand with me, and I heard someone 300 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:28.319 on one forty six five to two and he just 301 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:31.240 started He's like, hey, SEQ one forty six five too, 302 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:33.359 So I went back to him. He's like, oh yeah, 303 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:34.599 you're coming in like a five five. 304 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:34.960 Where are you? 305 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.000 I said, I'm sitting in a deer stand in Forestburgh 306 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:39.920 And he's like, dude, a man after my own heart, 307 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:42.160 you're sitting in a deer stand and you're talking on 308 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:45.640 five six. I was like, yes, I am, Yes, I am. 309 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:47.599 That's great. So I talked to him. He's like, you 310 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:49.319 know that if you're talking to me, the deer aren't coming. 311 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:50.839 I was like, well, the deer out here are actually 312 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:52.960 kind of stupid. They don't you know, Like I'll see 313 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:54.720 him walk through the field and I decide, you know, 314 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:57.119 it was too too small or too young or something. 315 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:58.960 I'll start yelling at him. They won't even look up 316 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:03.559 at me, like they're completely oblivious. So it's not that 317 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.480 hard to get something out there. But uh yeah, one 318 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:11.960 two up there around Monte County is actually quite active. 319 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:13.960 I just about every time I was out there this 320 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:17.240 last season, I heard some not every not every time, 321 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:20.480 but about every other time, maybe two out of three 322 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:22.960 times I would hear somebody on one forty six five 323 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:25.799 to driving into the area or you know, monitoring the 324 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:29.640 frequency on an HT from the area. So if you're 325 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:33.240 around the Monte County North Denton County areas turn on 326 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:35.640 one forty six five two because there is activity, there 327 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.960 is people out there listening to that. So want to 328 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:41.720 hear some experiences from you guys. So please, whoever wants 329 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:42.279 to go. 330 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:44.000 Go, well, I'll jump in real quick. 331 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:46.880 I actually had someone calling out on two when I 332 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:49.559 was driving into work on Thursday or Friday this week. 333 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:51.720 I heard something that kind of caught me off guard 334 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:54.559 and I ended up working a guy just a couple 335 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:57.400 of times over who was just calling out on on 336 00:18:57.400 --> 00:18:58.720 one just. 337 00:18:58.640 --> 00:18:59.519 For the heck of it. 338 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:00.319 Just time good. 339 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:03.400 But you know, yeah, ultimately, I think it comes down 340 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:05.519 to you got to be listening. There's gotta be someone there. Yeah, 341 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:07.359 calling out it's one thing, but there's got to be 342 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:09.599 people that are listening. So I always have that on 343 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:13.799 my B band when I'm in the car, and I'll 344 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:16.000 always call out when I'm on road trips, if I'm 345 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.920 on the highway and stuff. But uh, but no, that 346 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:21.799 was cool because usually I feel like I'm the one 347 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:25.160 calling out on five to two and uh, and it 348 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:27.079 was just a little caught off guard, but that was 349 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:29.920 nice to have a nice chat and uh it worked out. 350 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:34.279 Well, good good. Yeah, I heard something like that. I 351 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:38.440 was where was I? I was going somewhere, and well, 352 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:40.559 I was driving. I was driving home from Galveston about 353 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:42.519 a week a couple of weeks ago, and some guy 354 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:44.559 zoomed by me on the highway and he had two 355 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:46.960 big intendas on his truck and I'm like, okay, I'm 356 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:50.160 waiting for it, and like twenty seconds later he goes, 357 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:52.759 hey casey five HBB. I'm like, hey, buddy, what's up. 358 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:55.640 I'm just by me. So we talked road to five 359 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:57.799 or ten minutes. So that was fun. At least he 360 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:00.000 had a radio one. I've had trucks and cars pass 361 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.079 ask me on the highway before and I'm like, that's 362 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:04.519 a ham radio antenna. Maybe they have a call sign, 363 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:07.480 license plate. Maybe they don't, but I'll say i'd pick 364 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:09.960 up the microphone one forty six five two and casey 365 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:11.920 five h should be listening, and they're not. They don't 366 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:13.839 even have a radio on. I'm like, come on, man, 367 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:15.160 let's go, let's do it. 368 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:17.400 You know, you know the one that drives me nuts 369 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:21.960 is driving to Belton, right, We've got a decent drivecost 370 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:26.240 thirty five to Belton, yes, And you know you're always 371 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:29.920 seeing other hams drive by right, either by their license 372 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:34.640 plate or by their number of antennas they have, and 373 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:39.359 you know, probably nine times out of ten when you 374 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:41.200 call out, nobody comes back. 375 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:43.720 Yeah, you know, and it's like these. 376 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:47.400 Guys are going to a ham fest, right right, they're 377 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:52.000 hand radio operators. I mean, at least turn it on 378 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:53.400 when you're going to a ham fest. 379 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:55.319 Come on, if you and if you don't have a 380 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:57.480 radio in your car, you're going to a ham fest, 381 00:20:57.480 --> 00:21:01.799 go buy a radio for crying out loud. So yes, yeah, no, 382 00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:05.279 I totally agree with that. I mean, it's it's kind 383 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:08.000 of it's one of those things where, you know, and 384 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:10.240 I issued a challenge during my thirty Days of ham Radio, 385 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:12.640 which was the September thing. I was like, turn on 386 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:14.759 one forty six five to two. Try to call out 387 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:16.519 on one forty six five to two. It doesn't have 388 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:18.400 to be every day, but you know, once a week 389 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:20.680 on road trips when you get in the car or 390 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:22.359 something like that. If you don't have a base station 391 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:23.799 at home, that's cool. You know a lot of people 392 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:26.359 can't put up a nintenda at home. That's fine, but 393 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:28.480 let's uh, let's try to light it up on the 394 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:30.559 on the at least light it up on the road. 395 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:32.640 If you can listen at home, then do that as well. 396 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:34.440 I try to do that as much as I can. 397 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:39.880 But Mike and I on the way to the Cowtown Hamfest, 398 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:42.559 we were driving down talking on one four six, five two, 399 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:46.880 and Mike was trying to egg people on, trying to 400 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:48.920 get him come on five to two. He's like, come on, 401 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:51.920 we're going to the Hamfest. We're only ten miles out 402 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:55.519 and it's only me and Tank talking here, and he's 403 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:58.640 on a h T and where where's everyone else at? 404 00:21:58.680 --> 00:21:59.839 And just silence. 405 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:02.039 He did something similar to that. We were driving back 406 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:04.599 from Iowa when we went to UH visit the Power 407 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:07.240 of the Powerfilm Factory and we got in some track, 408 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:10.119 some short minor traffic jam or something like that, and 409 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:11.799 we're slowing down on the road and he picks up 410 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:13.960 his mark phone. He's like, how come none of you 411 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:14.839 have a radio one. 412 00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:20.759 I even tried to tried to call uh Fort Worth, 413 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:25.359 Lil Dallas to spark some uh oh yeah converstation there, 414 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:26.440 and nobody came back. 415 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:30.000 I was like, that would drive anyone nuts over here, 416 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:32.759 and nothing, nothing, and not until we got like two 417 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:36.039 miles out we heard other people mm hmm, yeah, no. 418 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:40.359 I didn't hear anyone till uh we were like two 419 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:44.240 tenths of a mile away from the Yeah. 420 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:49.240 Right, yeah, yeah, the. 421 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:50.079 Way go ahead. 422 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:52.000 One thing I could say, at least in this area, right, 423 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:53.720 there's a lot of repeaters, and I think a lot 424 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:56.079 of people are on the repeaters. I think they're monitoring 425 00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:56.839 the repeaters. 426 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.079 They're monitoring the ppeters. No one's on the repeaters. 427 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:02.920 Well, it depends on the repeater. 428 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:05.319 Depends on the repeater. Yeah. I can point you to 429 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:08.440 four or five of them that get used pretty regularly. 430 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:12.319 So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it does depend on the repeater. 431 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:15.200 But but you know, every time I meet someone I 432 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:17.240 shouldn't say every time. Many times when I meet someone 433 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:19.599 on Simplex, they'll be like I'll be like, oh, I've 434 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:21.519 got Simplex on this side of the radio and a 435 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:23.640 repeater and they're like, oh, I don't even talk on repeaters. 436 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.960 I'm like, okay, well that's cool, but let's get some 437 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:28.440 more Simplex activity then. 438 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:30.160 I mean, but we still need to make the repeaters 439 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:30.720 active too. 440 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:34.680 Yeah. We'll talk about that on a on a different 441 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:37.559 live stream, but yeah, yeah for sure. 442 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:39.720 So well, think about this. 443 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:43.920 You guys stay on top of Montasao, where six of 444 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:48.400 the major North Alabama Repeater Association repeaters are, and you're 445 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:49.000 on five to two. 446 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:51.160 You're always on five to two. 447 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:56.160 Yeah, there's a there's a lot of great activity around Huntsville, 448 00:23:56.200 --> 00:24:00.599 Alabama on a regular day, not just on Hamfulls I mean, 449 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:02.160 but tomorrow. 450 00:24:01.799 --> 00:24:05.079 I mean, I'll turn everything well, not that's the old house, 451 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:06.599 but behind me. 452 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:09.720 You know, I'll have you know, my all Star note. 453 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:12.440 It will be usually connected to you or I'll connect 454 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:14.960 into East Coast Reflector. But five to two is on 455 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:17.799 one of the radios, and it's always kJ four d 456 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:19.119 WX five to sim. 457 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:20.839 But yeah, he's on there all the time. 458 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:22.240 Yeah, Stephen Ford. 459 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:25.240 If you have not worked Stephen Ford on any given 460 00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:29.200 day on five to two, you're not on five two, right, 461 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:31.799 because he's that's all he does while he's driving for 462 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:36.279 FedEx between the depots and every everything around here. He's 463 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:39.640 he is what's keeping five to two alive here because 464 00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:44.400 you know, like like Tank said, the repeaters, they're used 465 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:49.279 here around here, but not much. I mean, I would 466 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:51.160 say in the afternoon when I'm going to pick up 467 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:54.799 the kids from work, we're on the three three machine, 468 00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:56.720 you know, the big one on top of Monte Seyoh, 469 00:24:57.519 --> 00:24:59.880 but it's five to two. 470 00:25:01.640 --> 00:25:04.640 There's a repeater that's close to the store. I can't 471 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:08.480 remember the frequency right now. It might be three three, 472 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:10.720 but there's a there's a repeater with an all Star 473 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:13.920 connection up there. And when I when I pull into town, 474 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:16.079 I key it up. I was like, hey, casey five, 475 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:18.440 it should we be anybody monitoring, and usually nobody comes 476 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:20.680 back to me. So I just and connected into my 477 00:25:20.759 --> 00:25:23.519 system and I'll monitor that repeater with my system on 478 00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:24.359 it while I'm there. 479 00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:26.359 And I think it's the one on the arsenal that 480 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:27.240 I think is moving. 481 00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:33.119 Okay, do you remember the frequency? M Okay, I've got 482 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:34.759 it saved in my radio. I've got it saved in 483 00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:40.359 my ID fifty one. The truck as Huntsville. And then 484 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:43.799 I said, but the way I save an all Star 485 00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:45.960 repeater in my radio is I'll name the town and 486 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:48.680 then I'll put the five digit all Star node number 487 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:51.119 next to it, five or six digit whatever, so that 488 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:53.079 I know. I was like, oh, that's the that's the 489 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:56.039 all Star number, so I can either key it up. 490 00:25:56.599 --> 00:25:58.319 I know it has all Stars, so I can key 491 00:25:58.359 --> 00:26:00.119 it up. And connect it to my system, or I 492 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:02.759 can connect my my note in the truck to that 493 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:03.759 number if I want to. 494 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:06.599 So, I mean, I just kind I just learned Friday 495 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:10.440 night that the one four seven, one to eight zero 496 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:15.640 repeater is actually a dual FM P twenty five repeater. 497 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:18.279 So you go in P twenty five twenty five out. 498 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:21.240 Huh. That's interesting. 499 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:23.640 All these years I've lived here and thought, oh, it's 500 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:26.039 just going to be in you know, another repeater. 501 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:28.759 Oh it's dual mode. 502 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:34.640 Yeah cool, yeah, yeah, great great. One of the things. 503 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:36.160 Oh sorry, go ahead, Jason. 504 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:37.440 No no, no, no, you go ahead, go ahead. 505 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:39.839 One of the things I was I was just thinking 506 00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:42.119 of that I did that. It seemed to generate a 507 00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:45.519 lot of interest. Is the last couple of years i've operated, 508 00:26:45.559 --> 00:26:48.039 I think it's in April when it's Autism Awareness Month. 509 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:49.960 I've done the special event with the I think it's 510 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:53.079 a whiskey to Alpha call sign. And what I've organized 511 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:58.200 is I've done two meter FM potus during Autism Awareness Week, 512 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:00.759 like one of the days I'll usually do a weekday 513 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.000 after work, like around six o'clock to try to pick 514 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:05.400 up people on their way home or whatever, and I 515 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:07.920 talk it up on the repeaters, but the nuts share 516 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.240 locally and stuff, and that's actually gone over really well, 517 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:13.319 so much that there's been at least one or two 518 00:27:13.319 --> 00:27:16.240 other ops locally that have gone out as well. And 519 00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:18.400 they'll they'll get on five to five or five eight 520 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:20.880 so that we're not stepping on each other at different parks, 521 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:23.680 and you know, and then for like a good hour 522 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:26.319 plus you'll have at least you know, one, two three 523 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:31.000 PoTA parks in western New York on two meter simplex. 524 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:34.319 And it's fun because it's just I've heard people talk 525 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:37.079 about it. It's nice to hear activity and sometimes just 526 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:41.359 doing something like that initiating it, then other people appreciate it. 527 00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:43.160 But other people start to catch on and they're like, oh, 528 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:44.720 I'll give it a try. I'll give it a try. 529 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:49.119 So yeah, I'll tell you. So we my wife and 530 00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:54.240 I spent the last week in Phoenix. She's got a 531 00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:56.039 cousin out there. We went and saw we've never been 532 00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:59.599 out there to see them. And Charlie lives out there. 533 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.519 Read some of r F in J seven Victor and 534 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:05.559 he's got h And the last time I was out there, 535 00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:08.319 which is a couple of years ago, let's see where 536 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:12.079 did his text message go. They've got a simplex frequency 537 00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:13.920 that they monitor out there because a lot of them 538 00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:18.119 do soda in the area. And you know, there's like 539 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:21.599 a mountain range that surrounds like the the emilyst my 540 00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:25.839 wife's cousin. She's in Scottsdale. My my nephew actually lives 541 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:29.319 out there in Tempe now and Charlie, I think Charlie's 542 00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:32.720 in Mesa, and it's all kind of like suburbs of Phoenix, 543 00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:34.599 but there's like a mountain range that surrounds there. So 544 00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:37.799 but and I actually talked to someone on six top 545 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:40.400 five to the last time I drove through there. But 546 00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:44.240 they monitor one forty four four ten and that's like 547 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:48.640 they're a quote unofficial soda frequency. If someone climbs up 548 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:50.759 a mountain, they're gonna try one forty four four to 549 00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:53.160 ten FM Simplex before they maybe before they get on 550 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:56.680 CW or something. And I know that Charlie's made several 551 00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:00.559 videos where he activated all all fmsimplex. So if you're 552 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:03.759 in the Phoenix, Arizona area and uh, and you've got 553 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.079 an HT or a mobile rig yo one key that 554 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:09.960 one up in tru see what activity you can drum 555 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:10.640 up out there. 556 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.240 M Yeah, it really depends on the area. Yeah, Charlie 557 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:19.720 has lives in a great area for FM Simplex. Greg 558 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:22.480 k K six e gg he lives in a great 559 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:25.319 area for Simplex all up and down southern California on 560 00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:29.559 the coast there. Mike has a good area up in 561 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:36.799 western New York. Here in Delaware. Nope, nothing, I I 562 00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:39.319 I do hear people. I do monitor one four sixty 563 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:41.440 five two every once in a while while I'm here 564 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:44.640 at my at my desk, and i'll i'll i'll see 565 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:46.599 people talking on there. I will listen for a little bit. 566 00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:49.200 Sometimes I'll hear both sides. Sometimes I'll hear one side. 567 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:54.200 H Sometimes it's clear as day. Sometimes it's nothing. But 568 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:57.119 that's usually during the day or of the evening. During 569 00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:01.680 the week. I've gone out and tried to get contacts 570 00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:05.640 through on FM Simplex at the activation in a in 571 00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:09.279 a desperate attempt to get the park just activated. I 572 00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:11.839 did a video and I just couldn't get it activated. 573 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:13.680 I was having just such a bad time. But there 574 00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:15.960 was a storm coming and I was getting all this 575 00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:19.400 noise on whatever band I was on, and I tried 576 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:21.480 calling on the repeaters, say Hey, can someone get on 577 00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:24.319 one four six five two and like help me get 578 00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:28.200 some contacts. And people just couldn't hear me on Simplex. 579 00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:30.960 They heard me on the repeater and I was in 580 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.000 a high location too, and I was just like, what 581 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:36.240 is going on? But it really depends on your area. 582 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:38.000 And I see a lot of people ask on the 583 00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:42.680 on the Facebook photo group. Hey, I'm a technician. I 584 00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:44.559 want to do PoTA. Can I do it on Simplex? 585 00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:47.240 I'm like, you can. It depends on your area. Though 586 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:51.400 I wouldn't hold I wouldn't be so sure. I'll hold 587 00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:54.200 your Breathay, you're going to get it done, but you 588 00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:57.079 could try. But just remember, And I told them, just 589 00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:03.720 remember that not every area is good simplex rout on their. 590 00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:09.200 Or good elevation. I mean, like, yeah, out here in 591 00:31:09.240 --> 00:31:12.279 the flat lands, I mean you're not gonna find I 592 00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:14.279 mean you might, you might make a contact or two, 593 00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:16.920 but you're not going to get a ten ten ten 594 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:22.279 contact activation on a photo park. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I 595 00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:25.480 wish I but I'd like to see that happen. I 596 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:29.319 would like to see us start to the group of us, 597 00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:31.720 and everyone who's listening to me right now, and everyone 598 00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:35.440 who's watching this on the team replay. I would like 599 00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:37.519 to see us all kind of make a conscious effort 600 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.279 to be more active on six top five two Simplex 601 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:44.079 at least. And I have a question I want to 602 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:47.599 ask you guys. Kind of wanted to get around Robin 603 00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:51.200 going through the room first. And I think everyone's talk Josh. 604 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:54.200 I don't think I've heard from you or Tim, but 605 00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:56.359 I want to know or Freddie Mack. I want to 606 00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:58.519 know what what FM simplex is like in y'all's areas, 607 00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:00.720 because everybody's in a different area. Ru on the zoom, 608 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:04.519 I have most of the quick story to share. Okay, yeah, 609 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:07.000 one second, but I want to make a conscious effort 610 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.039 to get more activity. That's one of the reasons that 611 00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:11.079 we're talking about this subject tonight. Go ahead, Freddy. 612 00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:12.039 Uh. 613 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:14.960 You know, my part of the woods, Northeastern Oklahoma is 614 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.759 not a strong six to five to two presence. Necessarily, 615 00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:22.559 I try to I have two mobile radios that are 616 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:25.240 dual band in my truck, and I try to monitor 617 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:28.119 one of those VFOs all the time on six top 618 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:31.079 five to two. A lot of time it's nothing. You 619 00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:33.400 get a special event going or something, and you might 620 00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:35.839 you might hit somebody on there. But I gained a 621 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:38.079 whole new respect for it. Two years ago when I 622 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:40.680 was going to Huntsville Hamfest for the first time. 623 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:41.480 M hmm. 624 00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:44.240 I'm on the highway and i'm, you know, probably half 625 00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:46.720 an hour forty five minutes from Huntsville, and this car 626 00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:49.720 passes me. That's a an SUV or something, and the 627 00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:53.799 passenger window is down and the lady driver sticks her 628 00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:56.359 hands out the window and goes. 629 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:05.319 Love, that means what that means? It sounds like she 630 00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:08.160 was she was calling you, and you weren't answering. Her friend, 631 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:10.839 husband was. He was in the passenger seat. 632 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:12.880 He was the ham and he was calling me and 633 00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:13.279 I didn't. 634 00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:14.200 I wouldn't monitor. 635 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:16.839 And I'm like, oh, I'm I'm a low life. 636 00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:20.200 I'm not going to a ham pass for God's sake. 637 00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:23.200 Oh My looked it over and we chatted all the 638 00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:26.160 way to Huntsville, and I'm like, dude, I'm never switching 639 00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:28.720 off of that frequency again, right, leave it on all 640 00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:29.000 the time. 641 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:30.680 And I called out on a couple of times. 642 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:32.279 Today I had to go to the next county and 643 00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:34.880 back as I always do on Sundays, and nothing. 644 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:37.839 Well, we just got to raise that awareness, man. 645 00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:38.440 We got right. 646 00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:42.000 Yeah, we just yeah, we just gotta we have to 647 00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:43.880 be more active so that we can ask others to 648 00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:44.519 be more active. 649 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:48.720 So I see a good question here in the chat him, 650 00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:54.359 uh ky J five is asking is one more popular 651 00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:55.400 than four four six? 652 00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:00.279 Oh? Well again, I think it's going to be very 653 00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:02.680 area dependent. I don't know what you're trying to share here, Tim, 654 00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:05.759 but I'll let you do it. It's going to be 655 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:09.440 very area dependent. But my experience is that, yes, yeah 656 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:12.360 it is. Right now, I see a Mac and crash 657 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.519 desktop with a with a hard drive at the top, right, Tim, 658 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:16.559 what are you? What are you doing here? 659 00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:18.480 But hang on, that's not going there? 660 00:34:18.519 --> 00:34:20.880 Okay, all right, hacking your stream man? 661 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:28.039 Yeah, they're taking over see I'm oh yeah, okay, yeah, 662 00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:35.039 this is your this is your license plate. Yeah yeah, I'm. 663 00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:35.679 Not right there. 664 00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:39.199 If if if you know, you know kind of thing 665 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:42.079 right right? Yes, you see intenn Is on other vehicles, 666 00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:45.400 you know their ham radio operators and uh so I've 667 00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:47.199 got the small v h f U H up in 668 00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:49.840 ten and I and I do have the athos and 669 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:53.039 sometimes I take it off right, but uh, but the 670 00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:55.719 small one is on here. Since I don't necessarily stand out, 671 00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:58.599 and I'm not a big fan of like a Ham radio, 672 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:01.599 at least the Indiana hamm right operator's license plates. So 673 00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:05.880 I did that. Six to five to two is a 674 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:11.239 way and funny story. I'm in town up in Indianapolis. 675 00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:13.239 Down where I live. It's not very busy, but up 676 00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:16.880 in Indianapolis they do have a fairly decent, simple ex community. 677 00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:20.360 I had five two on. I'm at at a at 678 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:24.400 a performance with my young son. We go to leave, 679 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:27.199 the radio comes on and I hear these guys talking 680 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:29.480 and all they're all they're saying is yeah, I think 681 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:32.960 it's that that crazy guy that jumps out of airplanes 682 00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:38.719 and does Ham radios. Because and it turned out it 683 00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:41.280 was Carlos. He was coming down to Indianapolis to do 684 00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:43.440 something as. 685 00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:46.400 What other crazy guy do you know that jumps out 686 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:48.480 of airplanes and does Ham radio? I mean, obviously they 687 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:51.199 were talking about Carlis exactly. So I broke in and 688 00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:54.840 I'm like, what is this guy's call sign? And I 689 00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:56.639 gave it back to me and I'm like, well, it's Carlos. 690 00:35:56.639 --> 00:36:00.599 So they they they actually relayed for Carlos and I 691 00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:03.639 until we got close enough that we could actually nice 692 00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:05.840 and then we went and met up and did somepoda, 693 00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:09.599 so nicely out of the plan. But yeah, but there 694 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:12.119 you go. There's that's the funny five to two story. 695 00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:19.320 Good, good, excellent, Josh, we have you want to unshare, Tim, Josh, 696 00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:20.960 we haven't heard from you yet. What's it like up 697 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:22.159 there in Tennessee. 698 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:27.559 It's not bad, you'll hear. I'll be the first to 699 00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:31.440 admit I'm not a huge monitor of simplex. Although to 700 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:33.679 your point, Jason, I'm going to try to start doing 701 00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:38.239 better with that good and last night actually reminded me 702 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:41.920 of why I should be listening. Okay, to five to two. 703 00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:45.400 One of my good friends, thankfully he had internet. He 704 00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:49.480 was on the Foothills Parkway, which is Coda Park, just 705 00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:52.119 adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This was 706 00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:57.079 about nine o'clock and twenty seven degrees up there. His 707 00:36:57.199 --> 00:37:02.320 battery is dead in his car, so uh, granted he 708 00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:04.320 got he had internet signals, so he got a hold 709 00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:08.840 of me in discord. But he talked me in because 710 00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:11.960 I've never been in the Foothills Parkway at dark. There's 711 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:17.079 no lights up there at all, and so h it's 712 00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:20.480 that reminded me it's important for us to listen because 713 00:37:20.519 --> 00:37:23.559 you never know if an emergency is going to come up, 714 00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:27.800 and where should people typically default simplex. 715 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:29.079 Mm hmm, yeah, totally. 716 00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:31.800 But as far as far as PoTA goes, I've done 717 00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:35.280 quite a few PoTA activations on five to two. It happens, 718 00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:41.280 but I would certainly advise to be respectful of that space, right. 719 00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:44.760 I will generally have an HT sitting on the table 720 00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:48.920 when I have my HF radio going and uh to 721 00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:51.280 listen to six five two, and I made on an 722 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:53.920 occasional contact here and there. In fact, I'll usually call 723 00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:56.320 out on six top five two before I start my activation, 724 00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:59.320 just to see if there's anybody listening, because that's a 725 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:03.280 good way assuming that assuming that people are listening, that's 726 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:04.599 a good way to know if someone else is in 727 00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:05.960 the park with you, because how many times have you 728 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.880 activated PODA and found someone else on twenty meters with you? 729 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:10.960 You're like you look down and and then the scope 730 00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:12.920 is just like lit up, and you're like, that guy's 731 00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:15.559 in my park. You can tune over to You're like, 732 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:19.320 MANI s well besides that, I mean, just like on 733 00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:20.800 a regular activation. 734 00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:24.360 Well, usually these parks are so large that they will 735 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:28.800 cut out you know, like ten ten killer hurts white, 736 00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:31.000 you just need to go up another fifteen. 737 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:33.360 Well no, yeah, that's no. I'm not complaining about that. 738 00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:36.079 I'm just saying yeah, but I mean, obviously, if someone's 739 00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:37.480 in the same park as you, you should be able to 740 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.480 operate six top five to two and I both monitoring 741 00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:41.679 as we several times. 742 00:38:41.719 --> 00:38:44.079 Also you're like the guys like, yeah, I'm in the 743 00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:48.800 like in the park too somewhere. I'm like, yeah, that's awesome. 744 00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:51.079 It's like put each other out. 745 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:54.960 Hockey Ham Hoki Ham. Hockey Ham says the guy with 746 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:56.719 the dead battery was a dumb ass. Oh wait, that 747 00:38:56.840 --> 00:38:57.079 was me. 748 00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:02.679 I wonder what. 749 00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:08.880 I've actually worked France from from the Foothills Parkway on 750 00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:12.280 five watts before. That's a that's a good, good elevation. 751 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:18.760 Nice yeah, well good okay. Uh so okay, so here's 752 00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:20.840 a question. Here's something we can tell you. Frank are 753 00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:22.320 you looking, are you watching for questions? 754 00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:23.960 Watching for questions? 755 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:28.079 Okay, if anybody has any questions or comments, it'd be 756 00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:30.360 good to hear from everybody. But here's something that and 757 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:32.119 we could talk about. I could talk about this for 758 00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:37.559 the next hour, which is primarily what we're talking about 759 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:40.400 not only but primarily for forty six zero applies to 760 00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:46.000 this as well. Is the national calling frequency. Typically, typically 761 00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:51.199 you don't want to have QoS long q sos, especially 762 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:55.679 on the national calling frequency. So what is y'all's thoughts 763 00:39:55.719 --> 00:40:01.159 about having a QSO on one fifteen and it's an hour? 764 00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:05.280 What do you think I invite the complaints. 765 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:08.280 Complaints? 766 00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:10.840 Yeah, if no one's using it, I mean watch you 767 00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:13.320 just meet there and then go off to another frequency. 768 00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:14.800 No one's using it, just use it. 769 00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:17.480 It's well, we already have the complaint that the frequencies 770 00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:19.880 and the bands are dead right, that complaint is already there, 771 00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:24.360 So let's change that. And then I invite the problem 772 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:28.360 I have too many people. I invite the problem there. 773 00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:28.920 Yeah. 774 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.480 So yeah, I think that's an excellent problem to have 775 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:35.880 that I would like to see reactivated. You look at 776 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:36.760 him radio bands. 777 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:39.440 Even if you have two people just ragtooing, and then 778 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:42.000 a third comes on there just to join, not to 779 00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:44.440 complain that. Then now you've got a group of people. 780 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:47.480 Then a fourth person comes like, hey, what's going on? 781 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:50.840 I saw this was active, and he joins the conversation. 782 00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:53.559 Then you have a rag too for a good maybe 783 00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:55.880 an hour from forty minutes an hour, I don't know, 784 00:40:56.559 --> 00:41:00.400 and it's being used. Hey, that's a novel idea. Yeah, 785 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:03.199 let's use a frequency and actually has some activity on it, 786 00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:06.760 not like right, meet there and then go off because 787 00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:09.280 then it's not being used. You know. 788 00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:11.639 Well, but that's I mean, that's kind of that. That's 789 00:41:11.639 --> 00:41:13.960 the purpose of a calling frequency is a meeting spot 790 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:15.440 and then you go off. You say, hey, you know, 791 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:17.800 go up to five dot two five or yeah, you 792 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:20.599 know what, whatever you want to get. But yeah, exactly 793 00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:23.639 if no one's using it. And I saw somebody complaining 794 00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:25.840 about this on I think it was unredded. You think 795 00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:27.800 it was on Reddit and they're like, they're like, no, 796 00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:30.039 you shouldn't be ragtoing on because of the calling and 797 00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:33.119 I'm like, dude, seriously, I mean, if we had the 798 00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:35.679 problem of too much activity on the bands today, then 799 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:38.119 I would agree with that statement. But in the current 800 00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:41.159 situation of things, I just want I want six tot 801 00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:42.639 five to two to be lit up all day long. 802 00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:47.000 And if you, if you okay, frank, hold on, I say, 803 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:48.440 I want to hear what you have to say. And 804 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:50.760 if you if you're sitting there ragchuwing with two or 805 00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:52.960 three other people, and someone comes on and says, hey, guys, 806 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:56.159 can I call my friend? Sure? Yeah, call your friend. 807 00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:58.480 You want to join our conversation, that's fine saying oh, 808 00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:00.480 call your friend and say okay, now you guys, drop 809 00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:02.400 down to five hundred or four to fifty or something 810 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:05.000 like that. You know something you know or we will 811 00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:07.599 you know, say oh, well I or I find somebody 812 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:09.760 on there say I want to call my friend. We'll 813 00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:12.159 drop down to four fifty or whatever you can. You 814 00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:14.679 can be polite with the frequency at the same time. 815 00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.280 But but yeah, I don't think I don't see that 816 00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:20.199 as a problem. So okay, Frank, what do you gotta say. 817 00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:23.360 I'm gonna I'm gonna just stand on the other side here. 818 00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:26.480 If you're doing it at a more regular basis, you're 819 00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:30.840 gonna degrade the usefulness of that band this minus you know, 820 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:33.559 just the the RAG two as we're driving down the road. 821 00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:37.480 If you're constantly on there, it's going to cause people 822 00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:40.320 to turn off that frequency because if they're monitoring and 823 00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:42.840 just waiting to be hearing a break and then help 824 00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:48.000 out an emergency, the dead battery and if hams aren't 825 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:51.800 a good being good hams, it's going to degrade the 826 00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:54.400 usefulness and it's going to cause people to turn that 827 00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:57.760 frequency off from their radios, So you don't want to 828 00:42:57.800 --> 00:42:59.679 be using it as a regular basis. 829 00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:05.559 That boils down to Ham's actually using etiquette. Yeah, and 830 00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:08.920 unlike on d m R, where everyone is just keying 831 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:12.079 up so fast you can't even disconnect from the talk group. 832 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:16.480 You gotta leave space every now and again, let's pause, 833 00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:19.559 anybody else need to check in just right. 834 00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:25.039 I see what you're saying, Frank, And I think that 835 00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:27.320 would be more of a problem if the frequency actually 836 00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:31.519 got used. But it's I mean, I I can't remember 837 00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:34.039 ever hearing someone say I don't listen to six top 838 00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:36.840 five too, there's too many people talking. I don't. I 839 00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:38.920 don't think that's I don't think that's been a thing 840 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:44.119 in like two decades except for L Well, yeah, I 841 00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:47.599 would love for that problem to exist. And then if 842 00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:50.400 you get if you're talking on if you're keying up 843 00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:53.920 six top five to two every day, okay in your area, 844 00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:56.360 wherever your area is, wherever you're sitting right now, you 845 00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:58.159 key up six top five two every day, you get 846 00:43:58.159 --> 00:44:01.480 a group of three, four, five, ten people and y'all 847 00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:03.800 are all talking on six top five two every day. 848 00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:06.599 And this happened in the West Gulf, in the in 849 00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:11.679 the Galveston and Baytown areas. Okay, they were there were 850 00:44:11.719 --> 00:44:13.320 people that down there and they're like, hey, you guys 851 00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:16.800 are out here every day, can you guys maybe find 852 00:44:16.840 --> 00:44:19.559 another frequency? Qs Y And I think it was done politely, 853 00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:21.960 so those guys will down down there. If you're around 854 00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:28.199 the Bay area, Galveston, Baytown, Texas City, Lamark, Laporte, Lamark, 855 00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:30.599 whatever it is, there's two of them. If you're around 856 00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:33.480 that area, they talk on one five dot five to 857 00:44:33.519 --> 00:44:37.639 two often. And the reason is because there was there 858 00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:40.199 were so much activity on six top five two. People said, hey, 859 00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:42.760 would you guys mind taking your daily rags shoe elsewhere? 860 00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:45.320 And they did. They're like, okay, sure, so that and that. 861 00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:47.559 But that's a good problem to have, that's a great 862 00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:48.159 problem to happen. 863 00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:48.320 Well. 864 00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:53.239 It also seems that when there's noise, other people join in. 865 00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:56.000 Yes, right, yeah, But. 866 00:44:55.960 --> 00:44:59.440 When everyone's sitting there silent, everybody sits they're silent. 867 00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:02.599 Right nobody. Yeah, So yeah, I think it's. 868 00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:05.599 Perfectly fine to use it. And I think, you know, 869 00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:08.320 if somebody asks you to move. I think you should. 870 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:10.639 I mean, there's nothing wrong with either of those things. 871 00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:13.039 Yeah, no, I agree, I was, I was. 872 00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:15.239 I don't hear a lot of five to two activity 873 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:16.719 at all in Houston. 874 00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:20.559 A few weeks and probably about three weeks. 875 00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:25.639 Ago, I went down to visit ABR and on my 876 00:45:25.719 --> 00:45:30.480 way back I heard I heard a couple guys talking 877 00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:33.559 I think they were talking about fishing or something on 878 00:45:33.599 --> 00:45:36.440 five to two. So I chimed in and we ended 879 00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:39.920 up having We ended up having a nice qso for 880 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:42.559 a while until I got to around the I forty 881 00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.280 five area, coming from like six from ten to six, 882 00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:49.360 ten to forty five, yeah, yeah, and then we kind 883 00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:51.199 of just started getting One of the guys had to 884 00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:52.840 drop out, and then me and the other guy were 885 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:57.639 kind of getting a little far away. But there's like 886 00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:00.159 as big as Houston is, the fourth biggest large the 887 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:04.159 fourth largest city in the country. Which is surprising to 888 00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:06.639 hear you say about Galveston and baitout at all that 889 00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.320 because every time I drive down there, I've always got 890 00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:10.079 my radio. 891 00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:10.760 On five to two. 892 00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:14.079 And hardly hear anything. 893 00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:14.719 I called c Q. 894 00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:18.039 Just just on Friday up in Dallas or I was 895 00:46:18.079 --> 00:46:19.679 a little bit west of Dallas. Then I was on 896 00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:22.719 whatever it was three or whatever. Oh, nobody came back. 897 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:25.880 So it doesn't get used a lot up here, but 898 00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:30.599 you will find i'd say probably once a week, I 899 00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:33.039 probably hear somebody out there talking on it. And usually 900 00:46:33.079 --> 00:46:35.840 it's like usually you're hearing like half a conversation. You 901 00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:37.480 hear the one guy, but you can't hear who he's 902 00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:40.880 talking to. And usually I won't jump into that because 903 00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:42.400 I'm like, well, I can't hear this guy anyway, but 904 00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:44.599 if I hear him sign with each other, maybe I will. 905 00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:47.440 I call. I throw my call sign out Mike every 906 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:50.519 time I'm driving up and down forty five through Huntsville, Texas, 907 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.760 just to see if Mike has radio on. I do 908 00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:53.400 that every time. 909 00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:55.719 Well, I mean I pretty much always have it on. 910 00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:57.960 Doesn't mean doesn't mean I'm listening or may have the 911 00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:02.440 volume turned down. Well yeah, yeah with the weather. 912 00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:09.199 Yeah. 913 00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:12.079 Well, drive by Mike's place, just leave a sticker or 914 00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:13.199 two randomly. 915 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:14.280 I'm sure he likes her. 916 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:16.159 Yeah, or in his mailbox. 917 00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:20.679 Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure he loves that, as long 918 00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:24.480 as there's a cigar with it. Yeah. But yeah, I 919 00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:27.639 don't hear you know, I want to. I want to 920 00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:30.639 try to get more activity on the Galveston Island for 921 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:32.519 six top five two as well, because I don't hear 922 00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:36.280 much down there. But but if you manage your one 923 00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:38.440 forty five up five too, you'll hear some activity. I 924 00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:40.719 hear I talk to those guys pretty much every time 925 00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:47.639 I go down there. But it's it's KB five U 926 00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:49.239 t y. Dave says he has it on with the 927 00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:53.159 volume down. I tried that too, Yeah, turn the volume up, Mike, Come. 928 00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:56.199 On, I was gonna ask Josh up there. I mean, 929 00:47:56.239 --> 00:47:59.039 I know you're not far far away from Knoxville, are you? 930 00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:01.159 Or are you ten minutes? 931 00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:02.440 Okay? 932 00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:05.039 So I mean all the. 933 00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:08.360 Times I go to Pigeon FORWARGE, for weekend trips, W 934 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:12.679 four DXCC stuff, meeting up with that the Severeville Club, 935 00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:16.519 do they even use five two or are they? They 936 00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:18.559 love their repeater network up there so much. 937 00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:24.320 Definitely, We're fortunate to have a couple at least two 938 00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:29.840 large repeater networks owned by one guy, and they take 939 00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:32.840 great care of them. So yes, they are heavily heavily 940 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:36.679 relied on. But when I do have my five to 941 00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:39.199 two on, I hear traffic I don't know if it's 942 00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:42.480 coming from Severevil or not. Most of it, it's usually 943 00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:46.639 somebody in Knoxville. I can hear Noxville no problem. But yeah, uh, 944 00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:50.199 it's simplex is used up here a lot of times. 945 00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:54.599 I know in my club. Our club will default to 946 00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:59.159 for forty six as are simplex frequency. Don't know why 947 00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:01.079 they do that, but they do so. 948 00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:04.679 They do the same thing in Chattanooga too. 949 00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:10.000 Whose frequency will go farther two meters four to forty forty. 950 00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:13.360 In theory, two meters will go farther, But it really 951 00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:15.159 depends on your terrain and what's between you and the 952 00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:16.000 other station building. 953 00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:19.800 I thought four forty would penetrates the buildings better. 954 00:49:20.199 --> 00:49:22.039 It does. It does penetrate. But if you're on a 955 00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:25.960 mountaintop talking to another mountaintop, two meters is is better? 956 00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:31.480 Interesting and two meters is well? I mean, okay, Robert, 957 00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:38.039 here's a question. Okay, so satellites are uplink down link? 958 00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:41.960 Is there a different can you tell a difference? Does 959 00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.360 this performance better? If if if a ground station is 960 00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:48.719 transmitting on two meters as to a ground station transmitting 961 00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:50.960 on for forty is there a better Is there one 962 00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:52.000 that works better than the other. 963 00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:57.280 Uh, I mean you always want more gain on four forty, right, 964 00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:02.239 I mean, so two meters does get your does get your? Okay, 965 00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:04.559 that two meter signal is usually stronger. 966 00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:09.480 So if you're listening to a satellite transmitting on two 967 00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:12.679 meters and then you're transmitting back to them on four forty, 968 00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:14.800 that the signal stronger from the satellite coming down on 969 00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:15.400 two meters. 970 00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:18.079 No, So what I'm saying is, so if you're listening 971 00:50:18.119 --> 00:50:21.880 to a satellite that has four forty down, uh huh, 972 00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:23.840 that's not going to be as strong as a satellite 973 00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:26.599 that has two meters down. Okay, So if you're on 974 00:50:26.639 --> 00:50:29.239 a ninety one, Yeah, if you're on a ninety one 975 00:50:29.239 --> 00:50:33.519 that has two meters two meters down, it's usually a 976 00:50:33.559 --> 00:50:38.079 stronger signal than the ISS. That's well, ISS isn't a 977 00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:41.800 good example, better than so fifty that has four forty. 978 00:50:41.519 --> 00:50:46.159 Down Okay, okay, yeah, for forty and especially nine hundred 979 00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:49.920 megerts are great for penetrating through buildings and shoot I 980 00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:53.239 was I mean, uh, when we flew to Phoenix, I 981 00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:56.639 had the meshtastic going both to and from and when 982 00:50:56.639 --> 00:51:00.280 you were over the airport at DFW, it just and 983 00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:03.400 then when you're landing in Phoenix lit up the whole time, 984 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:06.400 and you might get you might get some signals if 985 00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:08.039 it was on for forty or two meters, but I 986 00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:11.320 don't think as much, just because it's it's penetrating a 987 00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:13.320 little bit better than nine hundred megahertz is But as 988 00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:16.119 far as distance goes, you know, you could do mesh 989 00:51:16.119 --> 00:51:20.320 tastic on one zero or something and probably get a 990 00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:24.360 lot further with it, but you might not penetrate those 991 00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:28.159 buildings or foliage or something like that as well. 992 00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:32.599 So I got some general questions. 993 00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:33.599 Okay, go ahead, Frank. 994 00:51:33.960 --> 00:51:37.599 From the chat. How do you know what the calling 995 00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:39.480 frequencies are? Where they listed? 996 00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:45.320 ABORL has stuff, QRZ has stuff. I would, honestly, I 997 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:50.639 just google it to say Ham radio calling frequencies. You know, 998 00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:52.760 I can tell you what they are. I can tell 999 00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:55.159 you what a lot of them are, not all of them, 1000 00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:58.119 just from memorization from being doing this for so long, 1001 00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:02.000 but just just google it. I mean, someone's got a link. 1002 00:52:02.199 --> 00:52:04.199 We can share it here. But a double L is 1003 00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:05.559 where I would look again. 1004 00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:09.239 A RL's got a good list and it'll list the FM, 1005 00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:12.920 the CW, THEB calling frequencies and a whole bunch for. 1006 00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:15.679 All the bands, right. Yeah, So there's an AM calling 1007 00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:19.039 frequency and an FM calling frequency sideband calling frequency, so 1008 00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:25.159 it's not just FM ten meters has a DRED their 1009 00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:28.760 AM calling frequency which I often will monitor when I'm 1010 00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:30.639 at a park and to see if anybody's out there, 1011 00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:33.000 which I rarely find, but but it is out there. 1012 00:52:33.559 --> 00:52:36.880 So yeah, get a get an a double r L band 1013 00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:38.920 plan and it'll tell you all that information. 1014 00:52:41.559 --> 00:52:46.599 Nice. And then another question is using all Star or 1015 00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:50.400 EchoLink to find repeaters and frequencies? Is that very common? 1016 00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:54.239 Depends on how resourceful I think the person is. 1017 00:52:56.280 --> 00:53:00.440 I don't understand that question. To find repeaters and frequencies he's. 1018 00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:05.159 He says, using all Star EchoLink to get on a 1019 00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:09.480 get on a repeater, then asking for comment areas or 1020 00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:12.599 frequencies for other repeaters on the road trip. 1021 00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:15.599 I meank dot com. 1022 00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:23.480 Yeah, repeater book, Yeah, repeater Book's good for seventy two hundred. Yeah, 1023 00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:24.039 that's right. 1024 00:53:27.159 --> 00:53:27.480 Tuning. 1025 00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:29.280 In fact, you know what I dare you to get 1026 00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:34.000 on seventy two hundred and KEFM do that or AM 1027 00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:36.639 or AM yeah, or start doing FT eight on that. 1028 00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:40.480 But uh yeah, repeater book is probably better than that. 1029 00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:43.000 But I but someone did. Who was it? I was 1030 00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:46.400 talking to a few weeks ago. You know what it 1031 00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:48.599 might have been? It might I can't remember it was 1032 00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:51.199 either it might have been a comment in that thirty 1033 00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.280 Days of Ham Radio video I did. Someone made a 1034 00:53:54.519 --> 00:53:55.760 I think this is where it was. Somebody made a 1035 00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:58.000 comment that said that they would when they travel to 1036 00:53:58.039 --> 00:53:59.639 a new when they drive to a new area or 1037 00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:03.199 maybe and fly, they'll find a local repeater and key 1038 00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:07.119 it up and say, hey, does anybody have any local information? 1039 00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:11.199 And they'll ask is there a local simplex frequency? Or 1040 00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:14.159 maybe they'll shout out on six top five two and say, hey, 1041 00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:18.000 is there a local repeater that is commonly used around here? 1042 00:54:18.119 --> 00:54:22.159 And they'll they'll get information that way. So six top 1043 00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:26.039 five two is used everywhere, but repeater frequencies change here 1044 00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:29.679 and there and depending on where you're going, So it's 1045 00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:32.199 it might be a good idea to start doing a 1046 00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:34.679 if you want to talk on repeater or monitor repeater, 1047 00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:37.360 then call out on six top five two. But yeah, 1048 00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:40.159 I think I think that's a good practice either way. 1049 00:54:42.280 --> 00:54:45.800 Someone else earlier asked what's the calling frequency for one 1050 00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:49.280 and a quarter one point twenty five maker? Hurts, and 1051 00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:52.440 given the band plan that we just shared, I used 1052 00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:55.679 that and found that it's two two two dot one 1053 00:54:56.639 --> 00:54:59.519 for I'm sorry, yeah, to to two dot one for 1054 00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:02.360 sideband and c W Collin frequencies. 1055 00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:03.920 Was that correct? 1056 00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:06.400 It's two twenty three dot five for FM. But the 1057 00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:09.599 dot one it sounds right for week signal. 1058 00:55:09.960 --> 00:55:12.960 Right, yeah? Yeah, two two two dot one is sideband 1059 00:55:13.639 --> 00:55:16.559 and two two three dot five is FM. 1060 00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:20.320 That's that's correct either. Here it says digital FM simplex. 1061 00:55:20.360 --> 00:55:21.960 I didn't see it listed as calling. 1062 00:55:24.119 --> 00:55:26.360 Yeah, it's two two three dot five is the commonly 1063 00:55:26.880 --> 00:55:32.719 commonly monitor not so commonly monitored. But I put a 1064 00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:35.480 short I put a I put a reel up on Instagram, 1065 00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:38.679 just like I don't know. Around Christmas time, I just 1066 00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:40.840 happened to be listening to two two three dot five 1067 00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:43.679 from an HT inside my house and I heard two 1068 00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:45.800 stations talking and I'm like, and I'm looking at my 1069 00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:48.480 radio to make sure that I'm listening, because it's it's 1070 00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:53.079 the It was the the Rattail RT nine fifty, which 1071 00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:56.159 is three three band display, and I looked at it 1072 00:55:56.239 --> 00:55:59.199 like four times. I'm like, okay, I see this as 1073 00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:01.000 two two three dot five. Am I looking at the 1074 00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:03.840 right thing here, because I was so surprised to see 1075 00:56:03.880 --> 00:56:06.480 activity on that frequency. But sure enough, there were two 1076 00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:08.920 stations talking and I was on an HT inside my 1077 00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:11.800 house and I was hearing them, and I'm like, okay, 1078 00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:14.280 that's pretty and now I gotta now, I gotta freaking 1079 00:56:14.320 --> 00:56:16.559 go put my two twenty radio back in my shack 1080 00:56:17.159 --> 00:56:20.119 because if I'm hearing him on an HT, what what 1081 00:56:20.199 --> 00:56:23.079 am I missing on an HT? But by not listening 1082 00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:28.440 with an outside antenna? So hey, Bill, Bill says, check 1083 00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:32.400 me in short time, no traffic. Hey, got you on 1084 00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:34.679 the got you in the log seventy three. Thanks for 1085 00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:35.559 checking in tonight, Bill. 1086 00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:42.920 Then Ben Kilo two Alpha Whiskey Charlie and also Tim's 1087 00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:48.440 DMR said Frank has a great point. You need to 1088 00:56:48.519 --> 00:56:50.639 let him talk more. Oh wait that I added that 1089 00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:54.320 last part, but they both said I made great points earlier. 1090 00:56:54.639 --> 00:57:00.320 Yeah, obviously they've had too much to drink tonight. That's 1091 00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:00.679 all right. 1092 00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:04.679 Hey, Jason, did you see the post thing that Jeff 1093 00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:05.400 threw in the chat? 1094 00:57:05.719 --> 00:57:07.079 Yeah? I was about to try and mention. 1095 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:10.960 That and what chat? And oh I did not hold on. 1096 00:57:11.039 --> 00:57:12.719 Let me see if I can open that without it. 1097 00:57:12.880 --> 00:57:15.239 Someone said that to me an email, sitting there trying 1098 00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:17.679 to get it on the chat on YouTube. 1099 00:57:17.719 --> 00:57:21.119 Oh you know what, someone mentioned that up front at 1100 00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:22.440 the beginning of the stream, and then I kind of 1101 00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:24.079 forgot about it. So thank you for sharing that. Let 1102 00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:25.440 me switch over to that real quick. 1103 00:57:25.920 --> 00:57:28.920 Okay, I'll go ahead and drop that then right here. 1104 00:57:29.199 --> 00:57:31.239 Okay, you can share that in the live chat. 1105 00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:33.360 Frank yep, I was hitting. 1106 00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:37.480 Yes, winter Heat, and I heard about this last year, 1107 00:57:37.639 --> 00:57:39.760 and I think I I think I tried a little 1108 00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:41.960 bit last year, but I don't remember if I actually 1109 00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:45.679 ever made any contacts. January one to thirty one, so 1110 00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:48.079 we're halfway through it. Winter Heat is a month long 1111 00:57:48.159 --> 00:57:52.719 vhf UHS simplex event held every January. Main purpose of 1112 00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:55.679 the events participants to make as many contacts as possible 1113 00:57:55.719 --> 00:57:58.480 during the event. Many additional benefits arise blah blah blah. 1114 00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:03.760 So yeah, so here we go. These are winter Heat frequencies. 1115 00:58:03.760 --> 00:58:07.320 I could see that in the Yeah, I can. Let's see. 1116 00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:09.920 Let's may move this up real quick. Make sure I 1117 00:58:09.960 --> 00:58:16.760 get the whole screen in there. Come on, what is okay? 1118 00:58:16.840 --> 00:58:18.960 Here we go right there? 1119 00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:22.559 All right, So two meters is one forty seven up? 1120 00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:27.519 Five to seven or one seven five two five seventy 1121 00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:31.000 fty six seven forty six up four they've got two 1122 00:58:31.159 --> 00:58:33.480 two six meter frequencies two two three dot four hundred 1123 00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:35.800 for two meters and nine two seven one hundred for 1124 00:58:35.960 --> 00:58:38.480 nine hundred, and then they've got a D star couple 1125 00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:40.719 of D star Well, no, they got d star DMR 1126 00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:45.159 and fusion frequencies for two meters and for forty right there. 1127 00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:49.440 So yeah, uh theham active dot com website that Shank 1128 00:58:49.679 --> 00:58:53.039 Frank just shared. So yeah, I need to I need to, 1129 00:58:53.079 --> 00:58:56.480 you know, I forgot I remember hearing about this around 1130 00:58:56.639 --> 00:58:58.079 the first of the year, and I just I I 1131 00:58:58.119 --> 00:59:01.119 forgot about it. So I need to try to key 1132 00:59:01.159 --> 00:59:03.119 that up maybe sometime this week and get out there 1133 00:59:03.119 --> 00:59:06.440 and see if anybody's listening, is anybody has anyone in 1134 00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:07.800 the chat? Have you guys done this yet? 1135 00:59:09.639 --> 00:59:10.039 I haven't. 1136 00:59:10.039 --> 00:59:12.239 Do you have to make the contacts on those frequencies 1137 00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:13.599 or they just suggested ones? 1138 00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:18.400 I mean, I I don't know. 1139 00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:20.280 Read the rules? 1140 00:59:20.519 --> 00:59:24.840 I uh yeah, uh general information all right. Participants must 1141 00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:28.039 be registered blah blah blah with their logging system. All 1142 00:59:28.159 --> 00:59:31.639 contacts must be made on the disc designated amateur radio 1143 00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:32.920 frequency see below. 1144 00:59:33.800 --> 00:59:34.119 Gotcha. 1145 00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:37.320 Okay, so yes, you have to be on those frequencies unfortunately. 1146 00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:42.840 Okay, yeah, that's yeah, that's this line right here. Yeah, 1147 00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:49.400 okay me, he's huh yeah, one five seven and one 1148 00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:52.320 seven five two five. I could I could totally get 1149 00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:54.239 on board with that, and I wouldn't mind trying to 1150 00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:58.119 find some six meter activity out here as well. So yeah, 1151 00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:00.800 so have you guys done this at all? Has anyone 1152 01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:04.360 logged any contacts? 1153 01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:07.880 I remember hearing about winter heat before, probably last year 1154 01:00:08.639 --> 01:00:12.800 and this year, maybe because I've ditched the club that 1155 01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:17.159 I was with last year. Last year, Yeah, it's probably 1156 01:00:17.239 --> 01:00:23.079 like December twenty twenty four mm when I probably last 1157 01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:25.079 heard about it, probably due to one of the clubs 1158 01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:28.559 I was with. But after that I don't remember hearing 1159 01:00:28.599 --> 01:00:31.400 anything about it. Nothing. Even like this past few months, 1160 01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:34.119 I have not heard anything, not even on any of 1161 01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:36.719 the nets that I've normally on that are out of 1162 01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:37.440 the area too. 1163 01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:40.840 I think I heard. I think I saw a post 1164 01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:43.679 on kure Z about it, and then I was like, oh, 1165 01:00:43.719 --> 01:00:45.480 I need to do that, and then I forgot about it. 1166 01:00:46.119 --> 01:00:48.440 So we should totally try to make that. 1167 01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:50.840 Who runs that next year? 1168 01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:53.599 I have no idea that's the question in the chat. 1169 01:00:53.719 --> 01:00:56.079 I have no idea. If you go to the website, 1170 01:00:56.239 --> 01:01:01.400 go down there and find I don't know it's so. 1171 01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:05.280 Am Active is the name of the organization. I don't 1172 01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:07.960 know much about it. But the Winter Heat is their 1173 01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:11.880 flagship event. It kicks every January, followed by Spring Wire, 1174 01:01:12.239 --> 01:01:14.760 Summer Thunder and Autumn Breeze. So they do this like 1175 01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:19.400 every season like support Parks Weekend for OODA. 1176 01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:21.119 Is it the same thing? 1177 01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:21.400 Is it? 1178 01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:25.239 Is it a simplex event every so four months out 1179 01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:26.159 of the year. Is that? 1180 01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:28.960 Is that what you're saying, Well, that's what they listened 1181 01:01:29.039 --> 01:01:31.920 right on the front page. I'm going to their other one. 1182 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:36.199 Spring Wire is single side band and they have a 1183 01:01:36.199 --> 01:01:42.719 two meter six single sideband frequencies. Summer Thunder is the 1184 01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:51.639 same as Winter Heat, okay, and Autumn bree Blaze is SSB, 1185 01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:54.679 So the summer and winter are the same, and the 1186 01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:58.239 spring and autumn are the same. It seems so they 1187 01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:02.760 do a simplex and SSB and the alternate between the tail. 1188 01:02:03.119 --> 01:02:05.079 If you click on event info on the left hand 1189 01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:08.679 menu over here, you'll you can find information for about 1190 01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:12.519 for all four of those events. Good Summer Thunder is 1191 01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:18.880 a month long in July, okay, and then spring wire 1192 01:02:21.760 --> 01:02:25.360 April fifteenth through thirtieth, so like the last half of April, okay. 1193 01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:28.280 And the autumn one is August, I mean October. 1194 01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:32.440 October okay, yeah, that month sweet, that's cool, Okay. I 1195 01:02:32.679 --> 01:02:34.440 had never heard of those other ones. I've heard of 1196 01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:36.840 winter Heat. I think I made like two contacts last 1197 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:40.320 year something like that, But I, like I said, I 1198 01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:42.800 forgot about it this year, so I'm gonna have to 1199 01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:45.480 I'm gonna have to do that. I have to get 1200 01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:46.800 on that here shortly. 1201 01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:51.400 I have another similar event that hockey Ham just happened 1202 01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:54.159 to text me and remind me of. Okay, like share 1203 01:02:54.199 --> 01:02:57.480 everybody in the chat. There is a link I just 1204 01:02:57.559 --> 01:03:04.079 dropped the zoom chat. Tennessee Amateur Radio Association. They've had 1205 01:03:04.119 --> 01:03:07.400 a kind of a contest type event going on since 1206 01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:10.000 October and it runs through the end of March. They 1207 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:16.079 called Simplex Saturdays, and you make make contacts on five 1208 01:03:16.119 --> 01:03:19.679 two five two five two two two three, five hundred 1209 01:03:20.119 --> 01:03:25.440 or four forty six, and each log will serve as 1210 01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:28.719 an entry for a prize drawing that they are having. 1211 01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:32.039 Oh nice, now, I think that Greg wanted me to 1212 01:03:32.039 --> 01:03:35.239 point this out because Greg is number one. That's hockey, 1213 01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:38.679 that's hockey ham. By the boy, he is number one on. 1214 01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:40.320 The for more contacts. 1215 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:43.440 Okay, all right, are you saying him to get together 1216 01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:47.000 hockey ham hockey Okay, I couldn't tell if you were 1217 01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:49.079 saying hockey ham or hiking. 1218 01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:52.159 Hm, hockey h O c k e y. 1219 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:53.440 Keep your stick on the ice. 1220 01:03:53.480 --> 01:03:55.199 You got to adjust for the Tennessee accent. 1221 01:03:55.280 --> 01:04:04.519 But red Green Mike, right, yeah, just your writ yeah 1222 01:04:04.519 --> 01:04:04.800 there it is. 1223 01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:07.280 Yeah, just your writ for those Tennessee guys. 1224 01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:10.440 But this is a this is a new organization. I'm 1225 01:04:10.519 --> 01:04:12.400 just now learning about them, but I think they've got 1226 01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:15.920 some great ideas, so nice. Excited to see them doing 1227 01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:20.280 this simp like Saturday, bringing some activity to absolutely frequencies. 1228 01:04:20.679 --> 01:04:23.840 Absolutely, yeah, you know, that's a lot like this. DFW 1229 01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:26.519 simplex net we have on Friday nights out here, which 1230 01:04:26.519 --> 01:04:28.079 I rarely get to check into, but I have a 1231 01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:30.599 couple of times, and it's quite fun. It's quite fun 1232 01:04:30.599 --> 01:04:32.840 to do that and to see what you and the 1233 01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:35.000 coolest thing about it, in my opinion, is you get 1234 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:39.079 to see how well your station works because you get 1235 01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:41.440 to see, oh I can hear that guy over there 1236 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:43.320 in this county, in this county, but I can't. But 1237 01:04:43.360 --> 01:04:45.320 they're talking now. The net control is talking to someone 1238 01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:47.000 in this other county over here. He says, he's down 1239 01:04:47.039 --> 01:04:49.000 around this highway and I don't I can't hear that 1240 01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:51.360 dude at all. Now, maybe he's down low and you 1241 01:04:51.360 --> 01:04:53.800 can't hear him because he's not a pie. But maybe 1242 01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:55.760 you're not a pie enough too, so you know, And 1243 01:04:55.800 --> 01:04:58.519 it's all about it's more about Yeah, it's sure we 1244 01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:01.000 all want to reach out out and touch someone and 1245 01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:03.440 pump a bunch of power out there and try to 1246 01:05:03.480 --> 01:05:06.360 get heard, but it's also about how far you can hear, 1247 01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:09.400 because if you can't hear the station, you can't work them. 1248 01:05:09.599 --> 01:05:12.039 So it's it's a it's a good way to test 1249 01:05:12.039 --> 01:05:14.440 out your station and see how well your simplex is working. 1250 01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:18.079 And it's your current elevation, current setup and whatnot. 1251 01:05:18.159 --> 01:05:23.039 So I'm like, what mesh Dave heard in the chat? 1252 01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:25.480 He says he heard cocky cocky? 1253 01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:29.320 HM could be I don't know. I don't know the guy, 1254 01:05:29.400 --> 01:05:30.440 so I'm not going to say that. 1255 01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:32.639 Well. 1256 01:05:32.679 --> 01:05:35.039 In addition to those two events that the winner he 1257 01:05:35.239 --> 01:05:39.559 and and the Simplex Saturday, the VHF contest was this weekend. 1258 01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:40.840 I just got back. 1259 01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:45.320 I activated two parks on six meters up for the 1260 01:05:45.360 --> 01:05:46.920 contest today. 1261 01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:51.039 And sir, was that, I said, did you go ahead? 1262 01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:55.840 Yeah, yep, and uh it's they do it January, June 1263 01:05:55.920 --> 01:05:59.559 and September, and those are always good time. I'm sure 1264 01:05:59.800 --> 01:06:04.000 you know, half the contacts for people that regionally are 1265 01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:07.239 big into contesting, but the other half were just people 1266 01:06:07.559 --> 01:06:11.400 listening on five to two or or whatnot. And you know, 1267 01:06:11.639 --> 01:06:14.480 you don't have to contest to participate and just make 1268 01:06:14.480 --> 01:06:17.159 a quick contact here there. It's a good way. And 1269 01:06:17.199 --> 01:06:20.519 for newer hands, if you're attack, you can participate easily 1270 01:06:20.719 --> 01:06:21.800 on all the bands. 1271 01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:22.840 But uh, if. 1272 01:06:22.760 --> 01:06:24.599 You want to test out your station or something, just 1273 01:06:24.599 --> 01:06:25.320 see what you can do. 1274 01:06:25.480 --> 01:06:26.280 Maybe you've got a new. 1275 01:06:26.199 --> 01:06:27.519 Mobile in the car or something that. 1276 01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:30.719 You know, those weekends with the VHF contest is a 1277 01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:34.039 good chance. They're a good opportunity. 1278 01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:37.800 Yeah, totally absolutely, yeah, and those are fun too. So 1279 01:06:38.199 --> 01:06:40.880 I participated in that September contest last year. I was 1280 01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:45.239 down there at that superstation now in I forget the 1281 01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:47.800 name of the town down there, somewhere south of Dallas. 1282 01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:51.360 But that was fun. That was fun. Those guys have 1283 01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:56.960 Killawot amplifiers on two meters twenty four and one point 1284 01:06:56.960 --> 01:06:58.719 two gear hurts and they got a big dish to 1285 01:06:58.880 --> 01:07:01.159 do moon bounce with one point two gig and six 1286 01:07:01.400 --> 01:07:03.920 they got six meters also and that was that was 1287 01:07:03.960 --> 01:07:04.559 freaking fun. 1288 01:07:04.679 --> 01:07:05.159 That's cool. 1289 01:07:05.159 --> 01:07:12.000 It's a cool station down there, but very very fun setup. Well. 1290 01:07:12.039 --> 01:07:18.159 The uh yeah, so the the theme is turn on 1291 01:07:18.159 --> 01:07:22.079 one too. Here's your challenge this week this month, uh 1292 01:07:22.199 --> 01:07:25.760 especially especially this week leading up to winterfield Day and 1293 01:07:25.840 --> 01:07:29.440 during winterfield Day. Okay, turn on one. If you're driving 1294 01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:34.039 to winterfield Day, if you're participating winterfield Day, if you're 1295 01:07:34.079 --> 01:07:36.320 just gonna be at home listening to winterfield Day, turn 1296 01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:38.320 on one forty six five to two. Let's try to 1297 01:07:38.360 --> 01:07:41.599 make as many FM simplex contact because those totally count 1298 01:07:41.599 --> 01:07:43.800 for winterfield Day. As long as you're not going through repeater, 1299 01:07:45.440 --> 01:07:48.480 you can totally make FM simplex contacts for winterfield Day also. 1300 01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:51.559 So turn on turn on one forty six five two 1301 01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:54.159 and see what you can see this week leading up 1302 01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:54.920 to winterfield Day. 1303 01:07:55.039 --> 01:07:56.039 Can I add to that? 1304 01:07:56.480 --> 01:07:59.480 Yep? Go ahead, So as. 1305 01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:03.960 I don't guess this bunch will meet again before hand 1306 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:08.079 Casion next month, we should actually will Oh well, that's good. 1307 01:08:08.159 --> 01:08:10.960 We should still light up the southeast on five to 1308 01:08:10.960 --> 01:08:12.480 two as we're all traveling. 1309 01:08:13.079 --> 01:08:17.600 Yes, yes, agreed, Yeah, so. 1310 01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:21.279 So we could do that if Bill flies me. 1311 01:08:24.199 --> 01:08:27.479 Bill should come like fly and pick us all up. 1312 01:08:27.720 --> 01:08:31.479 Right just land land land his airplane in front of 1313 01:08:31.479 --> 01:08:33.119 all our houses. You mean you got. 1314 01:08:33.039 --> 01:08:34.399 Df W right next to you. 1315 01:08:34.520 --> 01:08:36.920 There's a small little airport right here in Huntsville. 1316 01:08:38.159 --> 01:08:44.800 I'm sure Bill would I think. 1317 01:08:43.760 --> 01:08:47.000 We need to go fundme for a private jet for 1318 01:08:47.760 --> 01:08:49.079 I don't know twenty of us. 1319 01:08:49.199 --> 01:08:51.920 You would think for the week for the weekend. 1320 01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:54.119 A person bill statue, they were just lett him borrow 1321 01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:56.760 the plane for the weekend. Yeah, you would think, so yeah, 1322 01:08:57.000 --> 01:08:57.880 that kind of grip. 1323 01:08:58.079 --> 01:09:00.920 We gotta have a plane just hitting around doing nothing. 1324 01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:02.279 Everyone chipping for fuel. 1325 01:09:02.479 --> 01:09:05.439 They gotta fly, I mean they gotta worthy, right, so. 1326 01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:08.600 You know we can put the plane in the video. 1327 01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:10.920 It's just like a sponsor and. 1328 01:09:11.560 --> 01:09:14.479 Yeah, a video sponsored video. Man, that's good. 1329 01:09:14.520 --> 01:09:16.640 I'm thinking the movie Soul Plane. 1330 01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:20.319 There's a there's an there's a little airport on guy 1331 01:09:20.359 --> 01:09:23.279 Liston Island right next to Moody Garden, so totally. 1332 01:09:23.279 --> 01:09:25.560 Running and a wire out of the plane. Try to 1333 01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:26.720 tune up the futil odys. 1334 01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:29.600 Wow, I bring my ninety that's right. 1335 01:09:30.239 --> 01:09:34.000 A bulldozer out here. I think I could make a runway. 1336 01:09:34.840 --> 01:09:35.920 It's all coming together. 1337 01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:36.560 Bill. 1338 01:09:37.079 --> 01:09:39.800 Yeah, someone needs to cut this and send it to Bill. 1339 01:09:39.880 --> 01:09:42.159 I think Bill signed off and I know to go, 1340 01:09:42.239 --> 01:09:42.479 but I. 1341 01:09:42.439 --> 01:09:44.640 Wish he was still here running by now. 1342 01:09:45.279 --> 01:09:47.479 I invited. I'm hoping Bill comes to winterfield Day. And 1343 01:09:47.560 --> 01:09:49.600 I sent him a text the other day and invited him. 1344 01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:55.520 So he already flies those smaller planes anyway, So yeahs did. 1345 01:09:55.359 --> 01:09:57.239 He say it was coming when I talked to him 1346 01:09:57.239 --> 01:09:58.880 a couple of days ago. He said, thanks for the 1347 01:09:58.920 --> 01:10:00.520 invite out. I'm gonna try to make it. 1348 01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:02.680 But oh oh, and we got a flight. 1349 01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:05.079 Paul says whiskey. 1350 01:10:05.640 --> 01:10:09.119 Yeah, Paul served the whiskey to us. 1351 01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:14.920 Paul gets playing first, Paul, are you coming down to 1352 01:10:14.960 --> 01:10:17.800 Galveston for Winterfield Day? Buddy? I sent you a message 1353 01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:23.279 in I didn't look back at it yet, So well, guys, 1354 01:10:24.159 --> 01:10:27.359 he said, no, okay, I wouldn't sure what he was doing, 1355 01:10:27.720 --> 01:10:31.119 but he's welcome there. He's welcome to come down. So 1356 01:10:32.760 --> 01:10:37.359 uh yeah, So guys, lesson of the day, tune up 1357 01:10:37.399 --> 01:10:41.239 on two. That's your challenge this month until we meet 1358 01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:43.720 again next month and talk about a totally different topic. 1359 01:10:44.479 --> 01:10:47.600 And uh, I appreciate everyone coming on to the stream. 1360 01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:50.159 Uh if anyone has any like I said, I got 1361 01:10:50.159 --> 01:10:52.039 about a half maybe five or six something like that 1362 01:10:52.119 --> 01:10:54.840 subjects written down, including this one, so we've knocked one out. 1363 01:10:56.239 --> 01:10:57.920 If you have a subject that you think would be 1364 01:10:57.960 --> 01:11:00.039 a good subject for a discussion like this. And I 1365 01:10:59.920 --> 01:11:03.119 just really like these free for all, open, totally open, 1366 01:11:03.319 --> 01:11:05.479 non structured discussions. This is the kind of thing that 1367 01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:07.680 I like. They get a lot of I get a 1368 01:11:07.720 --> 01:11:09.680 lot of comments on these when when I do them, 1369 01:11:10.199 --> 01:11:12.840 I'm not done this exact thing before, but you know, 1370 01:11:13.159 --> 01:11:14.920 I get a lot of comments on the Happy Hour saying, oh, 1371 01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:16.760 it was a great discussion about Antenna's y'all had that 1372 01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:19.880 happy art and I'm like I was, I was two 1373 01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:21.760 or three drinks into that happy I don't remember that. 1374 01:11:21.800 --> 01:11:24.159 But hey, okay, cool, we had a good discussion. That's great. 1375 01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:29.640 So but if anyone has any other topics or suggestion 1376 01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:31.359 for something like this, I would love to hear them. 1377 01:11:32.079 --> 01:11:35.840 We can definitely do keep the momentum going for this 1378 01:11:36.039 --> 01:11:37.560 and whatever else we're going to do. 1379 01:11:37.680 --> 01:11:42.000 So hey, before before we go, Jason, Yeah, congrats to 1380 01:11:42.159 --> 01:11:43.960 Ham Radio Crusader for ten. 1381 01:11:43.960 --> 01:11:47.840 Oh yes, yes, ten thousand subs on Ham Radio Crusader. 1382 01:11:47.840 --> 01:11:50.199 That was great you guys, and thank you all the 1383 01:11:50.199 --> 01:11:52.279 new subs out there, and be looking for a live 1384 01:11:52.279 --> 01:11:54.439 stream coming soon. I'm gonna give away one of my 1385 01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:56.640 homemade I'll start link nodes. 1386 01:11:57.159 --> 01:12:00.039 Oh yes, it's pretty cool looking. 1387 01:11:59.800 --> 01:12:01.079 For the Thank you guys. 1388 01:12:01.279 --> 01:12:05.199 And I'm over forty five hundred. 1389 01:12:05.239 --> 01:12:10.159 Okay, it's a couple of way you're how how many 1390 01:12:10.199 --> 01:12:10.640 is a couple? 1391 01:12:11.039 --> 01:12:11.119 Like? 1392 01:12:11.359 --> 01:12:13.359 Literally too at least that. 1393 01:12:13.439 --> 01:12:17.119 Stream, So you're at forty four eighty eight. 1394 01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:19.640 But if we have to forty five hundred or five 1395 01:12:19.680 --> 01:12:20.640 thousand tonight. 1396 01:12:20.399 --> 01:12:24.000 I mean, you know, you know you might. I mean, 1397 01:12:24.079 --> 01:12:25.760 if you're gonna shoot for the stars, you might as 1398 01:12:25.760 --> 01:12:26.880 well shoot as high as you can. 1399 01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:27.159 Right. 1400 01:12:27.439 --> 01:12:28.159 Wait, So. 1401 01:12:29.720 --> 01:12:32.119 I mean if I make five thousand subs, man into 1402 01:12:32.159 --> 01:12:34.960 the stream, Mike will give away last season's by day. 1403 01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:44.359 What he loved last last season's by Day? Okay, what's that? Rob? 1404 01:12:44.840 --> 01:12:45.720 It is seasoned? 1405 01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:49.960 Yeah, forty eighth six Rob? 1406 01:12:50.199 --> 01:12:52.439 All right, all right, so we're gonna have to get 1407 01:12:52.439 --> 01:12:55.960 Tim and Rob onto a live stream here in a 1408 01:12:56.000 --> 01:12:58.319 week or two and get you guys. Got the Hama 1409 01:12:58.560 --> 01:13:03.279 Hamcash guys coming on next weekend right after Winterfield Day. 1410 01:13:03.560 --> 01:13:05.159 But we'll have to get you guys on. 1411 01:13:05.319 --> 01:13:05.520 See. 1412 01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:09.479 If we get five thousand subs for you guys here soon, 1413 01:13:09.720 --> 01:13:13.479 it'd be fun. I love doing those. But anything else, 1414 01:13:13.520 --> 01:13:17.039 have anything else, anything cool upcoming on your channels. Everybody 1415 01:13:17.079 --> 01:13:18.840 doesn't have to go, but if you've got something cool 1416 01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:19.680 to say, go ahead. 1417 01:13:21.479 --> 01:13:24.760 I'd like to find a radio that has three bands 1418 01:13:24.800 --> 01:13:29.319 on it, not not like like two meter seventy four forty, 1419 01:13:29.600 --> 01:13:32.039 so I can monitor three different frequents at the same time. 1420 01:13:33.079 --> 01:13:36.479 Rad tael RT nine to fifty okay, t y t 1421 01:13:36.640 --> 01:13:37.560 t H three fifty. 1422 01:13:37.680 --> 01:13:39.239 Are they mobile now? 1423 01:13:39.880 --> 01:13:40.079 See? 1424 01:13:40.079 --> 01:13:45.439 I want to dors UH one six two, but also 1425 01:13:45.520 --> 01:13:48.239 my all Star node in the truck. Well, I'm driving 1426 01:13:48.239 --> 01:13:49.199 around so I can do all three. 1427 01:13:49.720 --> 01:13:51.760 I don't know. I know of a couple of radios 1428 01:13:51.800 --> 01:13:54.720 that have like a TRY or quad display. I don't 1429 01:13:54.760 --> 01:13:57.039 know of any of them that'll do APRS or not 1430 01:13:57.560 --> 01:13:59.079 not do it well anyway. 1431 01:13:58.880 --> 01:14:02.079 Yet that that red tail they're talking like there may 1432 01:14:02.119 --> 01:14:05.439 be a firmware upgrade coming for that one. It's still 1433 01:14:05.479 --> 01:14:07.560 in HT though, right Sorry, Yeah, it's still an h 1434 01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:09.520 T and I don't think it has GPS, and it doesn't. 1435 01:14:10.520 --> 01:14:13.000 Yeah, it has GPS does maybe that's why I heard it. 1436 01:14:13.279 --> 01:14:15.520 Supposedly it'll do kiss T and c a p R S. 1437 01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:18.479 I've yet to try that. A couple of comments in 1438 01:14:18.520 --> 01:14:20.439 the chat said, oh, yeah, I've tried that. It doesn't work, 1439 01:14:20.439 --> 01:14:22.960 and I'm like, it doesn't surprise me. But I want to. 1440 01:14:23.119 --> 01:14:24.479 I do want to. I do want to try that 1441 01:14:24.600 --> 01:14:28.439 and see what happens. But yeah, I don't know anything 1442 01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:30.520 like that. But yeah, just do what I do. Tim, 1443 01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:31.479 put more than one radio in. 1444 01:14:31.479 --> 01:14:35.479 Your car, you know, I mean maybe that the Vero, 1445 01:14:36.199 --> 01:14:38.479 the mobile version, Yes, because that'll do a PR. 1446 01:14:39.239 --> 01:14:41.520 Yeah will yeah, a little radio. 1447 01:14:42.039 --> 01:14:42.239 Yeah. 1448 01:14:42.640 --> 01:14:44.680 In fact, you can get a tablet and run APR. 1449 01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:49.800 It's droid with it, so which is easy too. Well, 1450 01:14:49.840 --> 01:14:53.239 that's true, but there is there an Apple equivalent a 1451 01:14:53.359 --> 01:14:56.319 PR s F I is that just the website or 1452 01:14:56.399 --> 01:14:57.239 is that an actual app? 1453 01:14:57.600 --> 01:14:58.119 That's an app? 1454 01:14:58.439 --> 01:15:01.479 It's an io s app yep, Okay, yeah, I have it. 1455 01:15:01.560 --> 01:15:01.800 Okay. 1456 01:15:02.399 --> 01:15:05.760 The cool thing about apres droid is it's easy to 1457 01:15:05.840 --> 01:15:09.199 send received messages. So you're driving on the road and 1458 01:15:09.279 --> 01:15:11.560 you get an APRS message you click on reply, you 1459 01:15:11.640 --> 01:15:13.800 click on voice to text and you talk to it 1460 01:15:13.880 --> 01:15:16.159 and you click send. You're done. You don't have to 1461 01:15:16.239 --> 01:15:19.359 yaiz you where's the A because it's not a Cody keyboard. 1462 01:15:19.880 --> 01:15:22.760 Oh there it is, you know, so it's easy to 1463 01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:23.800 do with APRS droid. 1464 01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:27.439 You bleed out before you figure it out there Cordy keyboard. 1465 01:15:30.479 --> 01:15:35.680 I'll throw one one final thought out. All right, I'm 1466 01:15:35.720 --> 01:15:39.920 gonna plug here. I want to see something cool. There's 1467 01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:41.680 a reason I say you want to see something cool, 1468 01:15:42.239 --> 01:15:45.680 folks that if you missed out Thursday night, we made 1469 01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:52.399 Ham radio YouTube history. Oh yeah, with Chris Bowden. If 1470 01:15:52.439 --> 01:15:54.119 you're not familiar with him, he has a science and 1471 01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:59.119 engineering channel over one point five million subscribers randomly hinded 1472 01:15:59.239 --> 01:16:00.960 up on mostery on Hamshak TV. 1473 01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:04.159 You don't know how jealous I am. I've been watching 1474 01:16:04.239 --> 01:16:06.760 him for years and when I saw him pop up, 1475 01:16:07.800 --> 01:16:11.479 I'm just ah because I was literally trying to formally 1476 01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:13.239 how to reach out to him because he has said 1477 01:16:13.279 --> 01:16:16.560 he's looking to get his amateur radio license and incorporating 1478 01:16:16.640 --> 01:16:18.039 the shack And I was like, do you need help? 1479 01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:19.800 Where are you? And I wanted to do that after 1480 01:16:19.840 --> 01:16:21.760 I got back with the cruise and then he popped 1481 01:16:21.840 --> 01:16:23.239 up on your channel and. 1482 01:16:23.439 --> 01:16:27.920 Took his test on the whim and passed it. Not 1483 01:16:28.039 --> 01:16:30.239 only pasted it, passed it with flying colors. You didn't 1484 01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:33.319 get a hundred, buy got thirty two out of thirty five. 1485 01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:34.960 So he gets scroyed. 1486 01:16:35.039 --> 01:16:38.800 Well done, and I think I seriously dropped most F 1487 01:16:38.960 --> 01:16:42.640 bombs in a conduction of a test. 1488 01:16:43.880 --> 01:16:49.079 Myself. Myself, Mike and one of my one of my 1489 01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:52.600 regular interviewers, e O D. Kaboom, we were the ves 1490 01:16:52.680 --> 01:16:54.960 that administered the test. And if you go, you can 1491 01:16:55.000 --> 01:16:57.960 go back and watch the exam and we are just. 1492 01:16:58.199 --> 01:17:02.479 Dying laughing all the Oh boy. 1493 01:17:02.640 --> 01:17:05.199 But it's over on my channel, y'all go check it out. 1494 01:17:05.279 --> 01:17:08.199 It's it was quite fun. I have a surprise. 1495 01:17:10.039 --> 01:17:14.560 That's awesome. I'm watching all End detailed team replay. 1496 01:17:16.079 --> 01:17:19.319 Cool. Well, guys, thanks once again for coming on tonight. 1497 01:17:19.399 --> 01:17:21.479 This was a fun discussion. I really enjoyed it. I 1498 01:17:21.600 --> 01:17:24.760 will do this again. Like I said, if anyone has 1499 01:17:24.800 --> 01:17:27.159 any suggestions, feel free to drop me a line, discord 1500 01:17:27.239 --> 01:17:28.920 or email something like that. We'll get it on the 1501 01:17:28.960 --> 01:17:32.560 schedule and we're gonna knock it out. So seventy three guys, everyone, 1502 01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:35.880 have a good week and Winter Field Day next weekend. 1503 01:17:36.039 --> 01:17:38.960 I hope to work everybody on winter field Day. In fact, 1504 01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:41.000 if you're coming to winter field Day with me, stay 1505 01:17:41.039 --> 01:17:43.520 on the zoom for a minute and we'll talk for 1506 01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:46.760 a minute. But yeah, seventy three to all, and appreciate 1507 01:17:46.800 --> 01:17:51.279 you all joining tonight and we'll catch you next time. Later, 1508 01:17:51.720 --> 01:17:52.039 see ya.