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Speaker 2: we are. Yeah, Happy Black Friday and Happy Thanksgiving. Happy
Speaker 2: blated Thanksgiving from ed ac three IK. Thanks buddy, thanks
Speaker 2: for being here tonight, and thank you everyone else in
Speaker 2: the chat. We're gonna do some Black Friday stuff here.
Speaker 2: I might have done a couple of videos about Black
Speaker 2: Friday already on the channel, but you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: always finding new stuff. I'm always finding new stuff. So
Speaker 2: we're gonna do some Black Friday stuff here for a
Speaker 2: little bit, and then in about twenty ish twenty to
Speaker 2: twenty five minutes something like that, I'm gonna bring on
Speaker 2: the usual cast of characters and open up the zoom.
Speaker 2: If you've ever been on one of my Happy Hours
Speaker 2: before in the past, and you have my zoom link,
Speaker 2: feel free to join us. I send an email about
Speaker 2: that about a week ago. I hope you got it,
Speaker 2: but if not, you are still welcome to join us
Speaker 2: in the Happy Hour live stream starting in about twenty
Speaker 2: five ish minutes, shortly before eight o'clock. So here's the thing, Okay,
Speaker 2: here's the deal. Gigaparts is in the chat right now, okay,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna do something special once we once eight
Speaker 2: o'clock rolls around, or like I said, a few maybe
Speaker 2: a few minutes beforehand, something like that, I'm gonna bring
Speaker 2: everybody on and gigaparts is gonna take the floor for
Speaker 2: ten or fifteen minutes something like that, and they're gonna
Speaker 2: walk around the store. They're at the store right now,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna walk around the store and they're gonna
Speaker 2: do let's make a deal. So you guys go to
Speaker 2: gigaparts dot com right now, fine something that you want
Speaker 2: and figure out an offer price to make them. Okay,
Speaker 2: don't go find a one on one d and offer
Speaker 2: one hundred bucks. It's probably not gonna happen. Okay, but
Speaker 2: you know any of their Explorer line stuff, uh, They
Speaker 2: did a two for one deal today on the qr
Speaker 2: Z one dual band HT radio. They had some really
Speaker 2: good sales on the new the new Yea Zoo radios
Speaker 2: are out if you guys haven't seen that yet, they
Speaker 2: have those for a good price, lower price than what
Speaker 2: we were told they would be. Everybody has the same
Speaker 2: price on those. So go to gigaparts dot com. Figure
Speaker 2: out something you want to make an offer on. Don't
Speaker 2: put it in the chat yet because they're not monitoring
Speaker 2: the chat right now. So we're gonna give them the
Speaker 2: floor they're gonna monitor the chat. I'm gonna say, hey, uh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick on Freddy for a minute. Hey, Freddy's
Speaker 2: in the chat and he's offering X number of dollars
Speaker 2: on this product. So and they're gonna say yes or no.
Speaker 2: They might say no, but they might say yes. So
Speaker 2: it really depends though. So find something that you think
Speaker 2: find something that you think you want that you may
Speaker 2: be like, oh, yeah, you know, i'd like to have that,
Speaker 2: but I haven't been in a really big hurry to
Speaker 2: buy it. Maybe if it was ten or twenty or
Speaker 2: thirty dollars cheaper, I might buy that. Go find that thing,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna do let's make a deal, and if
Speaker 2: this goes well, if it goes well, which I'm sure
Speaker 2: it will, we're gonna do this again later on with
Speaker 2: them for a whole hour. So that's the deal there.
Speaker 2: Somebody's texting me. Who's texting me? The smoking ape is
Speaker 2: on FT eight right now. You have to have his
Speaker 2: call sign to be able to see that. I'm not
Speaker 2: giving you, guys his call sign. There might be some
Speaker 2: money involved in that later, probably not, though probably not,
Speaker 2: though I'm sworn to secrecy, and I haven't had enough
Speaker 2: of these yet. And that's just where we are. So
Speaker 2: shout out to YouTube channel members in the chat folks
Speaker 2: in green text in one Jay you are, I see
Speaker 2: you in there, Vic Miller, Jody, I see you in there.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining tonight. Guys. Let's see Jeff Randy the
Speaker 2: portable Ham. That's cool. Portable Ham, that's cool. Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: on board with that. Ed AC three iks in there earlier,
Speaker 2: Big John's ham Shack. Who else is in there? Let's
Speaker 2: see Vic. I called you out already. Lester was in
Speaker 2: there earlier. K E eight UFI of course Ham Radio
Speaker 2: Crusader's in the house and h Josh is in there.
Speaker 2: Ham Radio Crash Courses in the house. Thanks for joining
Speaker 2: us tonight, guys. Yeah, you guys stand by. I've got
Speaker 2: the I've got the zoom open. But everybody's in the
Speaker 2: waiting room. So we're gonna do some stuff first here.
Speaker 2: So all right, So if you have not done this yet,
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna I'm gonna go through. Hey, if if
Speaker 2: you guys know of any good Black Friday sales that
Speaker 2: I haven't talked about on any of my previous videos
Speaker 2: up until now, put a link. You probably won't you
Speaker 2: probably won't be able to put a link in the chat,
Speaker 2: so type it out in the chat or send me
Speaker 2: a link in Discord. I've got my Discord window up
Speaker 2: here on this other screen. Yep, there it is, and
Speaker 2: uh yeah, you guys, you guys, put it and put
Speaker 2: a link in Discord if if it's something I haven't
Speaker 2: talked about yet, So go sign up on my email
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Speaker 2: We are trying to build this list up to twenty
Speaker 2: thousand subscribers. It's about nineteen thousand, nine hundred right now,
Speaker 2: so I got about one hundred to go, and it
Speaker 2: would be probably closer to twenty one thousand right now
Speaker 2: if people would stop leaving the list. So keep get
Speaker 2: getting people unsubscribing from the list, but we're gonna do
Speaker 2: a giveaway of a brand new CHEF radio as soon
Speaker 2: as this list reaches twenty thousand subscribers and kind of
Speaker 2: stays there. It's jumped up and drop back down over
Speaker 2: twenty thousand underneath twenty thousand, maybe three times in the
Speaker 2: last few months, something like that. So uh so, once
Speaker 2: everyone decides to stay and it's and it kind of
Speaker 2: maintains it twenty thousand, that's when we're gonna do some
Speaker 2: some giveaways of a brand new HF radio. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure which one yet, but something. All right, let me see,
Speaker 2: I don't have Frank tonight. Frank is at a wake
Speaker 2: tonight for the owner of a local cigar shop who
Speaker 2: passed away a couple of weeks ago. I think his
Speaker 2: funerals tomorrow, maybe a week ago. I don't remember exactly
Speaker 2: when it was, but he's at awake tonight. He's like, man,
Speaker 2: I really want to be there, but it's I feel
Speaker 2: like I should go pay my respects to this guy.
Speaker 2: And Frank knew the guy a lot better than I did.
Speaker 2: I've met him once or twice, but it's been several
Speaker 2: years ago. So I'm like, well, okay, no problem, but
Speaker 2: I already had this planner. That's probably where i'd be.
Speaker 2: A brand new True SDX at twenty k mail is
Speaker 2: brand new True SDX, Okay, I mean I was. I
Speaker 2: was thinking something a little bit more expensive. I think
Speaker 2: you're joking, right, are you joking? I think you're joking.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's cool, Josh, that's not a bad idea,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I think we could probably do better than that.
Speaker 2: Oh boy. Okay, all right, so there's the email list
Speaker 2: right there. Flex Radio has a Black Friday sale, as
Speaker 2: they do most years. I did not put them on
Speaker 2: my video this SMA. So you guys go out there
Speaker 2: and check out Flex Radio. Looks like they've got some
Speaker 2: US stuff in Certified pre Loved pre Loved Radio, Certified
Speaker 2: pre Loved f Flex sixty seven hundred Signature Series SDR
Speaker 2: forty three hundred bucks or forty three ninety nine for that.
Speaker 2: I believe the sixty seven hundred brand New which has
Speaker 2: been discontinued now but still great radio was around it
Speaker 2: says four ninety nine. There, I was thinking they were
Speaker 2: around five ninety nine. Or I'm sorry, it says forty
Speaker 2: nine ninety nine. There, I was thinking they were around
Speaker 2: fifty nine ninety nine. But whichever they are, that's a
Speaker 2: pre love that comes with a certain warranty from Flex Radio.
Speaker 2: They've got a sixty six hundred Obi Kit bundle, a
Speaker 2: Maestro Kit Bungle, and a Power Genius one thousand dollars
Speaker 2: off their Power Genius Legal Limit, professional grade amplifier, Military
Speaker 2: grade amplifier if you will, so go out to Flex
Speaker 2: Radio today. They have a Black Friday link, but a
Speaker 2: Black Friday link at the top of the page, but
Speaker 2: I just put it in the chat as well. So
Speaker 2: Signal Stuff is doing their Black Friday sale today. You
Speaker 2: guys might have heard about this. This was on my
Speaker 2: video earlier this morning. They run one sale a year basically,
Speaker 2: and they've done a Black Friday sale for the last
Speaker 2: two years that I'm aware of. Ever since I started
Speaker 2: promoting their stuff, and I hit up Richard about a
Speaker 2: week ago. He goes, yeah, we're gonna do something. I'll
Speaker 2: send you link as soon as it's ready. I said,
Speaker 2: that's fine, no problem. That started today. That started today.
Speaker 2: So go out there and get a good deal on
Speaker 2: your signal Stuff signal stick antennas from Ham Study. So
Speaker 2: signal stuff dot com is the website address. I just
Speaker 2: put the link in the chat. And they've got these
Speaker 2: mag mounts. This, they've got magmounts that you can use
Speaker 2: these super elastic signal sticks to actually use in a vehicle.
Speaker 2: And I was on Frank's live stream last weekend and
Speaker 2: talking about how the fact that Robert W five I
Speaker 2: tr the digital Rancher, he's got one of those on
Speaker 2: top of his truck. And we were driving to mesh
Speaker 2: Con a couple of months ago, and he made two
Speaker 2: satellite contacts from a signal stick on a mag out
Speaker 2: on top of his truck while driving. Not no yaggy
Speaker 2: ar antenna or anything like that. He's just driving down
Speaker 2: the road and he's here's this, and he's he's got
Speaker 2: the all the all the frequencies for the for the
Speaker 2: vhf uhf uplink down link whatever it is program for
Speaker 2: a lot of different birds in the air. And he
Speaker 2: made two contacts off of a signal stick. That's pretty impressive,
Speaker 2: I think. But they got BNC SMA Male and female
Speaker 2: different adapters for that stuff. They just came out with
Speaker 2: a new uh what they call a rat tail. I
Speaker 2: don't think they call it a rat tail. They call
Speaker 2: it something else. This uh signal stick a boost. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's in there too, So go check that out and
Speaker 2: put that link in the description of the chat. Quirky
Speaker 2: QRP has a sale going on you can use. You
Speaker 2: can get I think twenty five percent off and free
Speaker 2: shipping for orders over one hundred dollars with the coupon
Speaker 2: code of Quirky Turkey twenty twenty four. So this is
Speaker 2: I haven't seen this one yet. Look at this FT
Speaker 2: eight drove me to drinking. Okay, that's good. Some of
Speaker 2: the stuff he comes up and I don't know. Oh,
Speaker 2: here's some Balfang slippers, those bowfang slip. No, that's just
Speaker 2: a circuit board slipper. Okay, so I've got the Balfang
Speaker 2: shoes though. I wore the boal Fangs shoes to the
Speaker 2: troll pub last daytinghamvention. I did. I wore them and
Speaker 2: they were they were pretty comfortable. I think I need
Speaker 2: some inserts for him though, because they're a little bit
Speaker 2: big on me. But they're pretty but they're pretty well
Speaker 2: made that it feel like a pair of Chuck Converse shoes.
Speaker 2: So Converse All Star. Whatnot? Look at that? Don't tread
Speaker 2: to my frequencies? Okay, Yeah. Quirky QRP on the Etsy store.
Speaker 2: Quirky Turkey twenty twenty four is the coupon code twenty
Speaker 2: five percent off and free shipping if your orders over
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars. So, James, I see you in the chat, buddy,
Speaker 2: you're welcome to join us. Oh that's good. I like
Speaker 2: that one. Eric, I'd say fourteen three hundred drove me
Speaker 2: to drink. Yeah, yeah, that one's good too. So you'll
Speaker 2: probably see a T shirt with that soon because James
Speaker 2: is like, oh, that's a great idea and then he
Speaker 2: makes it. So copyright that real quick before James sees it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm kidding, but yeah, James, if you
Speaker 2: want to join us here in about I'll open up
Speaker 2: the chat here in about fifteen minutes, though, zoom chat
Speaker 2: here in about fifteen minutes. You want to join us
Speaker 2: for just a few minutes, you're welcome to man, thanks
Speaker 2: for being in the chat tonight. So yeah, some cool
Speaker 2: stuff from Quirky QRP. Let's see, I'll put this link
Speaker 2: in the chat as well. FT eight allows for more drinking.
Speaker 2: I'm on board with that. Yeah, because you can't slur
Speaker 2: your your your audio over the over the air. You
Speaker 2: can slur your your voice on single sideband or AM.
Speaker 2: You can't slur your FT eight very well if you're
Speaker 2: you know, although you might click on the wrong thing,
Speaker 2: you might be striting trying to call cqftaight on like
Speaker 2: twenty eight four hundred. I don't know, but you never know.
Speaker 2: All right, next one, Now, these guys here, as far
Speaker 2: as I know, these guys have never run a sale
Speaker 2: before armlock dot com. If you guys saw them at
Speaker 2: the Houston Hamfest if you're in Texas, the Belton ham
Speaker 2: Radio Expo that they were at this last October and
Speaker 2: larger than that. They were at the Huntsville Hamfest last
Speaker 2: August in Huntsville, Alabama. So they're going to be attending
Speaker 2: more Hamfest. I think they're going to Hamcashan. I keep
Speaker 2: telling those guys Ryan and Seth they need to go
Speaker 2: to Hamvenein. So I think they're going to one of
Speaker 2: those this year. Not sure which one, but they're running
Speaker 2: a Black Friday sale ten percent off with the code
Speaker 2: of b FS twenty twenty four and all of their
Speaker 2: cages and connectors and relocation or if relocation, they have
Speaker 2: relocation units for the power pole that comes out of
Speaker 2: the back of your radio, or well the power plug
Speaker 2: that comes out of the back of your radio. You
Speaker 2: can reroute it and put it on top of the
Speaker 2: cage into a power pole format. You can reroute the
Speaker 2: cwkere or the external speaker, the or the antenna or
Speaker 2: the dual antennas like on an FT eight fifty seven.
Speaker 2: It's got two intenta ports. You can put them all
Speaker 2: at the top so that you can fit the cage
Speaker 2: and the radio down in the bag something and it
Speaker 2: keeps it really nice and safe and it's easy to access.
Speaker 2: So whole store is ten percent off this Black Friday
Speaker 2: with the coupon code of BFS twenty twenty four. That's
Speaker 2: just armilock dot com right there. You can definitely slur
Speaker 2: your FT eight if you blow your ALC two Shae,
Speaker 2: all right, I'll give you that. I'll give you that, okay,
Speaker 2: all right. So I got a text from Richard at
Speaker 2: Main Trading Company about three hours ago and I had
Speaker 2: mentioned him on my video earlier today and he's like, hey, man,
Speaker 2: thanks for the shout out, because we got a lot
Speaker 2: of orders today or a lot of I think maybe
Speaker 2: a lot of calls today. I think some people ordered
Speaker 2: from him. And he's like, several people had never heard
Speaker 2: of it. And I'm like, really, you've never heard of
Speaker 2: Main Trading Company. Okay, if you're new to him radio, hey,
Speaker 2: it's cool. It's totally cool. But this is the best
Speaker 2: deal that Main Trading Company had. He's got some deals
Speaker 2: on some other stuff as well. This is the best
Speaker 2: deal that he had today, a brand new icon. I
Speaker 2: see seventy one hundred for eight ninety nine. Everybody else
Speaker 2: is still up to eleven to twelve hundred dollars range.
Speaker 2: I'm not exactly sure. And it doesn't say he's beast.
Speaker 2: He used to sell be Stock rados from my colm
Speaker 2: when he would get them. He probably will again so
Speaker 2: be Stock rados from I Com. But yeah, this one
Speaker 2: here is eight ninety nine, brand new, looks good. All
Speaker 2: the data on it right here, So go check that out.
Speaker 2: And if you guys go over to MTC for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: tell him that Ham Radio two point oo sent you
Speaker 2: Richard's a good dude. I've known him for a number
Speaker 2: of years. We used to go to Hamfest together and
Speaker 2: do the party circuit after the show. He and Richard
Speaker 2: Stubbs from MFJ and my buddy Corey that used to
Speaker 2: run with us and Tammy from Mating Trading Company. We
Speaker 2: used to go and and and Lee and Val. I
Speaker 2: haven't seen Val in the chat in a while. Value
Speaker 2: out there, I don't know, but uh, it's a fun
Speaker 2: He's a fun dude to hang with though, So there
Speaker 2: we go. Hmm, hey, smash that like buttoner thumbs up
Speaker 2: and buy a mystery box. I don't have any mystery
Speaker 2: boxes right now. I got a really good idea today
Speaker 2: for a new mystery box, mystery box and video. Actually
Speaker 2: so yes, I got it really new, so you're gonna
Speaker 2: see that up. Shane, what's up? Buddy K six APX
Speaker 2: in the house, thanks for joining tonight. And people are
Speaker 2: texting me on Discord. Let's see who's this Halibut, how's it?
Speaker 2: Black Friday sale? Halibut Electronics running a Black Friday coupon
Speaker 2: right now fifteen percent off of everything this cyber menday.
Speaker 2: Halibut Electronics. Let me see I've recognized that name, but
Speaker 2: I can't remember exactly what they've got. Okay, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: I know who these guys are. Yeah, fifteen percent off
Speaker 2: of everything in the Halibut Electronics story. Use coupon code
Speaker 2: of Halibut Black Friday Dash twenty twenty four. So here's
Speaker 2: a link to that right there. Thank you Eric for
Speaker 2: sending that over appreciate that got that out of discord.
Speaker 2: So you guys go check that out. This is the
Speaker 2: Black Friday sale page at gigaparts. So once again, so
Speaker 2: there's several more people watching now, we're up to three hundred.
Speaker 2: Gigabarts is gonna when I bring on the zoom people
Speaker 2: here in about ten minutes, Gigaparts is gonna come on
Speaker 2: with everybody, and they are at the store in Huntsville
Speaker 2: right now, and they are gonna play, let's make a deal.
Speaker 2: So they're gonna walk around the store and you guys,
Speaker 2: they're gonna give you guys an opportunity to put an
Speaker 2: item and a price, an offer price in the chat
Speaker 2: and they will say yes or no, and maybe they'll
Speaker 2: negotiate with you. I don't know yet, but this is
Speaker 2: the first time we've done this, so this is kind
Speaker 2: of an experiment. We're gonna do this for ten or
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. If it works out well, we might do
Speaker 2: a whole hour live stream with it later on. But
Speaker 2: they're gonna play let's make a deal. I said before.
Speaker 2: Don't come up and offer one hundred dollars for a
Speaker 2: brand new Ye's uft one oh one d. They're probably
Speaker 2: not gonna take that, okay, but if you get something
Speaker 2: like like a new antenna or any of their Explorer
Speaker 2: line backpacks, batteries. I don't think they have solar panels
Speaker 2: in stock right now. The qr Z one is on
Speaker 2: buy one, get one today for Black Friday. Stuff like
Speaker 2: that might be a good time to kind of pick
Speaker 2: up some extra stuff that that maybe you've been eyeballing.
Speaker 2: You're like, you know, I wish that was like twenty
Speaker 2: or forty dollars cheaper. You know, this is a this
Speaker 2: is this is a good time to do it. Tree Fitting,
Speaker 2: I said, I doud about tree Fitted, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I got that reference. That was that's the best episode
Speaker 2: ever of south Park. Proved me wrong. That's that episode's hilarious.
Speaker 2: It's like the second or third season's freaking hilarious. So yeah.
Speaker 2: But this is the gigabarts web page here with all
Speaker 2: of the Yazou and icon deals. I noticed they didn't
Speaker 2: put anything Knwood on there, although they do have them
Speaker 2: in stock. There's the buy one, get one free on
Speaker 2: the QR Z one due b in ht. Two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty dollars off of an eos are one hundred,
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty dollars off of rig Expert stick
Speaker 2: Pro stick x pro. That's a good price. Let's see
Speaker 2: sixty dollars off of Intelltron SWR and watt Meter. Mystery
Speaker 2: boxes unboxed, the thrill Grab yours, Nerve Grab yours now,
Speaker 2: ten percent off of power film some computer monitors down here,
Speaker 2: fifty percent off of Molly backpacks. Look at that fifty
Speaker 2: percent off. Awesome. So twenty dollars off of Thelinko G
Speaker 2: forty sixty fifty dollars off of the Kinwood D seventy five.
Speaker 2: A Hey, there you go. That's cool. Several other things
Speaker 2: are Finder Bluetooth items. Here's the three New Yese radios
Speaker 2: right here. This one this uh the duel band. The
Speaker 2: FtM one fifty R was advertised that it was probably
Speaker 2: going to be around four to twenty four nineteen. I
Speaker 2: think four nineteen is the price that they told us
Speaker 2: what was going to be. So you can see it's
Speaker 2: three seventy nine right here, and this is what everybody
Speaker 2: has it for. I think HRO has it for that
Speaker 2: same price and RNL has it for that same price.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if that's a Black Friday sale
Speaker 2: because these are brand new radios, or maybe they just
Speaker 2: decided to lower the price a little bit, or the
Speaker 2: the SRP price that we were given when these radios
Speaker 2: were announced was suggested price, but you know, not the
Speaker 2: actual price. I don't know. So there you go. Twenty
Speaker 2: percent off of all flashlight gear Nightcore. I got a
Speaker 2: couple of Nightcore flashlights a couple of weeks ago, been
Speaker 2: tinkering around with those really good quality flashlights.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of you guys in the chat that
Speaker 2: are well, there's a lot of you guys in the
Speaker 2: discord that are flashlight nerds. And I think that's awesome
Speaker 2: because I started talking about flashlights a couple weeks ago
Speaker 2: and one guy was in there He's like, no, I
Speaker 2: get this one, not this one, And I'm like, okay, cool. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so there's a cult following behind flashlights, so uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's good too. Awesome. Fifty percent off of their
Speaker 2: World Gaming mousepad. Fifty percent off of Explore bag accessories.
Speaker 2: There you go. Some more computer stuff right there, this
Speaker 2: right here, what's this? Ten percent off of Select camera
Speaker 2: bags ready for seventy dollars off the twenty four Empire battery,
Speaker 2: eighty dollars off the fifty Empera battery. I've got both
Speaker 2: of those. I've used both of them for a long time.
Speaker 2: They both still work very well. I think I got
Speaker 2: like one of the first runs and they were it
Speaker 2: was what year and a half, two years ago something
Speaker 2: like that. I still use both of them almost every week,
Speaker 2: and especially during hunting season. I use a lot during
Speaker 2: hunting season. Twenty five twenty five percent off of personalized
Speaker 2: Santa Hats, personalized Santa stocking, free bag with this cool
Speaker 2: lots of cool stuff at the gigaparts website here. Black
Speaker 2: Friday sale going on. I will put this link in
Speaker 2: the chat as well. Make sure I get the right
Speaker 2: there we go, right there, there we go for that,
Speaker 2: and yeah, I go check that out. Now, this last
Speaker 2: thing here. Oh yeah, So I got a coffee page
Speaker 2: set up because that's never been done before. Been working
Speaker 2: with a company that probably the same company everybody else
Speaker 2: works with, doing some unique coffee blends. I'm calling it
Speaker 2: Ham Radio Overland Nott Coffee. And if you click right
Speaker 2: here you will see the four flavors that I'm currently doing.
Speaker 2: I do it. I got a Texas blend. If anyone
Speaker 2: else has a Texas blend, they're doing it wrong because
Speaker 2: I'm in Texas and nobody else is in Texas. And
Speaker 2: then we've got a d expedition brew an early shift
Speaker 2: in a rare grid. The early shift is a breakfast blend.
Speaker 2: This one, I think is a I forget which one
Speaker 2: that is, but what I might do. I started collecting
Speaker 2: coffees from various Ham Radio shops here two months ago.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you guys. I don't drink coffee
Speaker 2: much during the summer when it's hot outside. I like
Speaker 2: to drink coffee when it's cold outside. So I've been
Speaker 2: drinking coffee a little bit more regularly over the last
Speaker 2: couple of weeks because the temperatures have finally started to
Speaker 2: drop here in Texas. Even though it was seventy degrees
Speaker 2: two days ago, but it was like low forties in
Speaker 2: the morning, so I had a cup of coffee in
Speaker 2: the morning. But I'm going to do I'm gonna probably
Speaker 2: get some of this. I might do some giveaways of
Speaker 2: this on the channel. But uh, I'm gonna do a
Speaker 2: video about uh Ham Radio coffee. And I have bags
Speaker 2: of coffee from Quirky QRP, from who else somebody, like
Speaker 2: like three other stores. I can't remember who else it
Speaker 2: is right now, but but yeah, but now I've got
Speaker 2: my own coffee and these are all Ham Radio two
Speaker 2: point zero endorsed, So we'll see what how that goes.
Speaker 2: So Ham Radio Overland dot Coffee. Is that link there?
Speaker 2: I'll put that in the chat as well. Yeah, a
Speaker 2: lot of people love coffee all year longe all year long.
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with that, Nothing wrong with that. But hey,
Speaker 2: no worries n A Yo, what's up buddy, Good to
Speaker 2: see you in there today. Uh, when are the Ham
Speaker 2: Radio tubers going to start a liquor line? Frank and
Speaker 2: I are seriously talking. I don't know if you're joking
Speaker 2: or not. Eric, Frank and are seriously talking about that.
Speaker 2: We are We are honestly talking about getting some sort
Speaker 2: of white label, some sort of bourbon company do a
Speaker 2: white label product for us. The trick is how to
Speaker 2: sell it, because if we buy let's say we buy
Speaker 2: fifty bottles with our own logo and our own blend
Speaker 2: or whatever from this liquor company, well, we can't sell
Speaker 2: it because we don't have a liquor license. Now, if
Speaker 2: they sell it, then that's that might be a thing,
Speaker 2: might be having a unique link. Go here, buy it here,
Speaker 2: get it shipped to you. You take care of it.
Speaker 2: They take care of all that stuff. So yeah, maybe maybe,
Speaker 2: But I said that, we talked about that on a
Speaker 2: live stream. I don't know, a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and two or three of you guys, one of you
Speaker 2: guys who lived maybe two of you guys who live
Speaker 2: in Kentucky sent me some links to stuff that I
Speaker 2: went and looked at. I haven't found anything exactly what
Speaker 2: I want to do yet or exactly how I want
Speaker 2: to do it, but yeah, probably so probably, so we're
Speaker 2: probably going to do that. So all right, I show
Speaker 2: seven fifty two in Texas. Guys, it looks like I've
Speaker 2: got about six foot folks waiting. So if you're waiting
Speaker 2: to join the zoom chat. Now might be the time
Speaker 2: we're going to bring everybody in. M boy, that's good,
Speaker 2: that is good. Somebody needs to mute. Okay, that's giga
Speaker 2: parts they were. You are now muted, sir. Oh that's
Speaker 2: a freaking Jason. You gotta mute. You gotta mute the
Speaker 2: live stream, buddy. Oh he can't hear me, Jason, you
Speaker 2: gotta mute the live stream, buddy. He's not mute yet. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm muting him.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Let's see. So let's see here, this right here looks
Speaker 2: like we've got most people well I know, I know
Speaker 2: at least two or three more are going to join us.
Speaker 2: All right, let's just bring everybody on and get this
Speaker 2: show rolling. Yeah, I'm gonna do this one here. I
Speaker 2: gotta change this. Hold on, guys, there's that and unmute myself.
Speaker 2: Turn that on. But I'm gonna turn that off. I'd
Speaker 2: sell few. Here we go, all right, let me get
Speaker 2: you guys over here. That's a different number of people
Speaker 2: who joined. So now that the aspect is all off,
Speaker 2: hold on, I'm just gonna all right, you guys are unmuted. Now. Hello, Hello, Hello,
Speaker 2: good evening, Good evening. How are you.
Speaker 5: Going good?
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're complained, fat and happy, full of turkey.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's that means it's Thanksgiving? Right cool? Cool? Thanks guys,
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us. We're gonna Yeah, we're frank free tonight.
Speaker 2: In didn't realize that.
Speaker 7: Yet, so that's why it's quiet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why it's quiet. So he had
Speaker 2: to go to a wake tonight, which yeah, I get it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we which was planned before I had planned this. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize it was on the same night, but it's
Speaker 2: kind of unavoidable holiday weekend and all that. All right, Jason,
Speaker 2: you're ready, Oh, we're going right into it. He well,
Speaker 2: he is awake tonight. Yeah, that's Jason, which was planned
Speaker 2: before I had planned this, right right, right, right right?
Speaker 2: He doesn't know. You gotta mute. You gotta mute your
Speaker 2: live stream.
Speaker 8: Mute the YouTube.
Speaker 9: I can't tell. Can you all hear me?
Speaker 2: I can hear you. But you gotta mute the YouTube
Speaker 2: live stream because it's feeding. It's it's the audio. Mute
Speaker 2: the YouTube go into YouTube it. No, you're good, did
Speaker 2: you get it? I think you got it.
Speaker 8: I don't know what I'm doing, I say, Jack, get
Speaker 8: your act together.
Speaker 2: I think you got it. I think I think you're good.
Speaker 9: I don't.
Speaker 2: You can you can you hear me?
Speaker 8: I think he doesn't have a zoom audio setup.
Speaker 2: I doesn't. I don't think that's right. Yeah, so he's
Speaker 2: literally listening to the delay.
Speaker 7: Get your act together.
Speaker 2: I still think no, not if you can't hear me,
Speaker 2: you're not. I mean he is, but he's he's only
Speaker 2: hearing the YouTube, right, yeah? Yeah, think that's You need
Speaker 2: a headset.
Speaker 9: I don't don't have to fix this problem.
Speaker 8: Let us remote desktop at your computer.
Speaker 2: Right yeah? Yeah, yeah, So click on the up arrow
Speaker 2: next to the audio at the bottom left corner of
Speaker 2: the screen and choose your.
Speaker 9: I'm just I'm guys, I promise I am choose.
Speaker 2: Your audio sword. You need a headset. You need to
Speaker 2: put the audio into your headset. Well, if he's listening
Speaker 2: to the.
Speaker 10: I think he said he got YouTube YouTube muted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, text him that he's been on here a bunch
Speaker 2: of times. So I don't know what's I don't.
Speaker 9: Know what he's I gotta figure it out.
Speaker 2: Can you hear me now?
Speaker 9: I can hear you now?
Speaker 2: Okay? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 9: Originally, originally we were roaming the store, but it is
Speaker 9: incredibly loud, it is incredibly busy, so we have to
Speaker 9: quick fast and in a hurry come back here to
Speaker 9: the back corner of the store. So I apologize, guys.
Speaker 2: No, no, no worries, no worries, no problem at all.
Speaker 9: So maybe you know me long enough, you know, with
Speaker 9: them subject to failed miserably at this.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's all good. It's all good, okay. So all right,
Speaker 2: so I'm going to give you the floor, sir. So
Speaker 2: I've I've prepped everybody for you a couple of times
Speaker 2: and you can maybe explain it a little bit better
Speaker 2: than I did. But because this was, this was your idea,
Speaker 2: so go for it.
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, we just decided that, hey, you know,
Speaker 9: let's let's make a deal, and we're going to look
Speaker 9: at it what everybody is offering us, and we are
Speaker 9: going to reply via the text. If we do not
Speaker 9: like your deal, we will capture the deal and if
Speaker 9: we can come to an in Greece and on it,
Speaker 9: we will we will change the price on the website
Speaker 9: and it will reflect almost immediately. So normally is go
Speaker 9: into the system, say we want to do a the
Speaker 9: extent for one thousand dollars. We'll change that in the
Speaker 9: system for one thousand dollars and anybody can participating buy
Speaker 9: it at that price.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, Wow, that's great.
Speaker 9: Okay, So I think we'll let this. I think we'll
Speaker 9: let these prices ride for well the duration of the show.
Speaker 9: They will not be imperpetute. So you know, so shall we.
Speaker 2: Begin, Yes, let's begin. So yeah, so you guys put
Speaker 2: your hopefully you've gone to the gigaparts website and looked
Speaker 2: around because we were talking about that thirty minutes ago,
Speaker 2: and uh, go find something you want that you want
Speaker 2: to make an offer on and put it in the chat.
Speaker 9: Sea I wave two for seventy dollars. Done, We'll do it.
Speaker 11: I would also remind people gigaparts sells three D printers, metals,
Speaker 11: cotecting equipment, cor computers.
Speaker 8: Right, so do go to the website.
Speaker 1: Right, you know.
Speaker 9: Now, I will say this, guys. You know, it's gonna
Speaker 9: be hard to get to everybody in the ten minutes
Speaker 9: or so that we have that. We're gonna stay on.
Speaker 9: We're gonna mantra chat. We'll we'll keep on answering everybody's
Speaker 9: text along the way. So if we don't get ten
Speaker 9: to ten minutes. Hang in there. We're gonna really keep
Speaker 9: talking to everybody via the chat.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've got the bridge too far, We've got the
Speaker 2: portable ham, the Poda, the new Poda, thirty three masts
Speaker 2: for one five. I don't know what the retail price
Speaker 2: on that one is that one looked at it yet.
Speaker 9: Well, I will tell you that as of a few
Speaker 9: minutes ago, even though the system might say they're still
Speaker 9: in stock.
Speaker 10: God, God, God, one seventy nine I think was the
Speaker 10: retail price on that is that?
Speaker 2: It was that? Okay? Yeah, an FT sixty one.
Speaker 9: Stand by.
Speaker 11: Operators are standing by for your deal.
Speaker 9: What y'all don't see is the team behind the scenes
Speaker 9: fevers things.
Speaker 2: Right, right, what's our cost on that?
Speaker 4: Can we do that?
Speaker 9: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Exactly right? Yeah? I told everyone. I told everybody not
Speaker 2: to offer one hundred dollars for a one and I
Speaker 2: specifically said that.
Speaker 10: Jason, you need to get that elevator music to play
Speaker 10: while we're waiting in jeopardy.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I've already got the background. Why not, right? Yeah,
Speaker 9: it's a fortune though, So what's the final price?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Is our counter offer.
Speaker 2: For the FT sixty Okay? Okay, m.
Speaker 9: It's on the website and it's live now.
Speaker 11: So if you want to wow a counteroffer, you just
Speaker 11: went live at the counter wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah there yeah go yeah, that's super cool. It's still
Speaker 2: a deal. Yeah okay, uh ftd X ten four thousand
Speaker 2: dollars because you said that, Jason, but you know that's
Speaker 2: gonna be That was just a it's an example.
Speaker 9: Please don't hold me to that. But let's see what
Speaker 9: we got.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is in my stories. ZMW
Speaker 2: clear speaker or Z I'm sorry, z W M clear speaker.
Speaker 9: That's clear speakers, West Mountain I.
Speaker 2: Think Okay, okay, West Mountain Man, they're they they can't
Speaker 2: keep up with it. It's gonna say, yeah, it's hard
Speaker 2: to find their stuff in stock good stuff, but it's
Speaker 2: hard to find it in stock.
Speaker 9: Well, team, what have we got on the d X
Speaker 9: two rowing dock? So is that your final press two
Speaker 9: eleven seventy five is the best we can do on
Speaker 9: the d X two?
Speaker 2: Okay? Probably probably think of stuff that's not made by
Speaker 2: Yasu yesu I commer Kenwood. Yeah, yeah, there's no, there's no,
Speaker 2: there's not there's not there's not much wiggle room on those,
Speaker 2: but everything else Ohio Pro seven s for two hundred.
Speaker 9: All right, we're looking at that right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, can I say more than one at a time
Speaker 2: or you or do you need do I need to
Speaker 2: go lower? I can hear Robbie in the back one time.
Speaker 10: I have one too, Jason.
Speaker 2: If this is fun, hold on, Tim, I'll let you
Speaker 2: go next.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 11: It's tough because most of us really do not have
Speaker 11: an idea of what the margins are play here, so
Speaker 11: we're not feeling around in the dark.
Speaker 2: I've got a tail, I've got a trunk. Is this
Speaker 2: an elephant?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 10: My goodness, so true, Jason, I think your camera dropped out.
Speaker 9: If you, guys would like to expedite this quick the uh,
Speaker 9: every every product has a Gigaparts stock number. That would
Speaker 9: make things infinitely faster for us.
Speaker 8: Oh interesting.
Speaker 9: On the website.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, ATOSS one twenty for three hundreds. Not bad.
Speaker 11: I wonder what's the that's the that's the offer.
Speaker 2: This could be.
Speaker 11: This could be huge, guys, if you get something that's
Speaker 11: not bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got what I'm trying to go in order though.
Speaker 8: Oh sorry, I'm just talking. I'm not sorry.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 8: I didn't mean that for them to run with it.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 8: I meant that that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: That is that? Yeah? That is that is a sorry
Speaker 2: you have.
Speaker 9: Me squirrels work over here right now, We're.
Speaker 2: All like, uh the a toss whoa, that's pretty good?
Speaker 2: Three oh nine?
Speaker 10: Okay, stock is that in stock?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Not anymore?
Speaker 2: Not anymore? I mean three nine.
Speaker 9: I was.
Speaker 10: I was looking earlier today atoss on twenty a.
Speaker 4: M h.
Speaker 9: We'll take back orders on too at that price. So
Speaker 9: if we stuck out, well we'll do backwarders on it.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 9: Pretty quck alright, looking stock? What's next?
Speaker 2: All right? Tim? What do you got next?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 10: The West Mountain? Uh?
Speaker 4: Four?
Speaker 10: Oh h it's the uh the w M Yeah, r
Speaker 10: R dash four zero zero eight Hotel dash, Charlie.
Speaker 2: I believe that's when I have in my truck the
Speaker 2: forty amp rig runner.
Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, that's the horizontal one.
Speaker 2: What's your what's your offer?
Speaker 10: One hundred dollars?
Speaker 11: Oh we needed we need a soundboard for yeah, like
Speaker 11: like when Vana White does the where they do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yeah, we need that. We need that. Hold on,
Speaker 2: let me see, Oh my.
Speaker 9: Goodness, yeah, hundred dollars we'll do it all right.
Speaker 2: There you go, Okay, Tim, get ready, go get one
Speaker 2: before they get sold out. Uh, well, this one, this
Speaker 2: one's this one was pretty reasonable. I think. Uh a
Speaker 2: p O four power of fifty amp battery, throw in
Speaker 2: the charger.
Speaker 11: Oh that's interesting. What if you can combo?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I I take that to mean sell
Speaker 2: it at the price you're already asking and throw in
Speaker 2: the charger.
Speaker 9: So, guys, I can't I can do something like that,
Speaker 9: but there's no easy way to just go adjust a
Speaker 9: price and do that.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 9: We'd have to create a code, and that is a
Speaker 9: not right now kind of thing. Okay, but let's let's
Speaker 9: table that one for another show. That would be a
Speaker 9: great another show one. And what we can do is
Speaker 9: we can take your guys thoughts on that and then
Speaker 9: address them in the show live at that point in
Speaker 9: time and be more prepared. Does that sound like a plan.
Speaker 2: That's great. I'm just trying to keep us moving. Rig
Speaker 2: Expert Pro for three.
Speaker 9: Rig Expert Pro that we're looking at. He was looking
Speaker 9: at the stick pro right now, so stand by.
Speaker 2: Awesome, okay, and then James t added you guys with
Speaker 2: a skew number, A red paddle of some sort.
Speaker 7: Do you guys still have the Explorer backpack?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yes, I don't see it on the website.
Speaker 7: It's not look good.
Speaker 2: To go to the Black Friday link that I posted
Speaker 2: in the chat earlier and scroll down about two thirds
Speaker 2: of the way.
Speaker 9: Stick the Pro three twenty five done.
Speaker 2: Okay, Stick Pro three twenty five vic go grab it
Speaker 2: or keep refreshing the page.
Speaker 9: It takes about five seconds from Tom. He says it
Speaker 9: saves a nari En for it to go live on
Speaker 9: the website. So cool, heat refreshing.
Speaker 2: So this said this red Paddle Skew for seventeen ninety nine.
Speaker 9: Red Paddle Skew for seventeen ninety nine.
Speaker 2: It's he. It was James T. He did an at
Speaker 2: Gigaparts in the chat and eight PM and he gave
Speaker 2: you a Skew number like you asked, and it says
Speaker 2: red Paddle seventeen ninety nine.
Speaker 9: We're looking at up. Okay, could you could you verbalize
Speaker 9: that SKU Sports.
Speaker 2: Real quick absolutely, Sierra Kilo uniform, Zulu Charlie Whiskey dash
Speaker 2: three seven, dash eight one zero dashes zero.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 7: How about the Explorer backpack for forty five.
Speaker 9: I have about that many left because those are getting updated.
Speaker 9: Oh as a completely redesigned.
Speaker 2: And you might or might not see that video on
Speaker 2: this channel next week. Don't tell Frank.
Speaker 9: It's possible he might be made out of exotic materials,
Speaker 9: like I don't know, X pack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, we're gonna have an X backpack. Okay,
Speaker 2: this one's cool, Lee Waters. I'm looking to purchase my
Speaker 2: first ham radio. I would like to get an FtM
Speaker 2: five hundred for four hundred dollars. For four hundred dollars,
Speaker 2: it's probably yeah, it's probably a little bit too low,
Speaker 2: but we'll we'll check. How's that.
Speaker 9: Thirty two dollars on the red paddle is the lowest
Speaker 9: we can go in that one?
Speaker 2: Okay it is and it's live.
Speaker 1: So if that's the.
Speaker 2: Thirty two dollars on the red paddal, it may.
Speaker 11: Not be acceptable for that first person, but there's other
Speaker 11: people that will.
Speaker 2: This is I didn't know you guys, we want to
Speaker 2: change the price on the website. And then yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a great idea.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, you know, is su Casto man?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, a couple more and said, well, we'll keep this
Speaker 9: in the chat and keep working on okay, and then
Speaker 9: we can pop in every once in a while, because
Speaker 9: I don't want this. I don't want just to be
Speaker 9: the whole hour where we're doing this.
Speaker 11: Of course, people in the chet want it to be
Speaker 11: the whole hour, so you know, soy, and we will
Speaker 11: and we will do that.
Speaker 2: We will absolutely do that on the future live stream.
Speaker 2: So people in the chat are there's more chat messages
Speaker 2: coming in, and that it's now scrolled up far enough
Speaker 2: where I can't I can't h I can't read the
Speaker 2: oldest one anymore. So I'm gonna scroll down here, mister
Speaker 2: g we already talked about an FT sixty. It is
Speaker 2: the updated price on the website. That's the best price
Speaker 2: you're gonna find. Uh. Let's see. Okay, here's this a
Speaker 2: Bamboo PLS combo three DP twenty twelve skew uh for
Speaker 2: five forty nine?
Speaker 9: What was that? Skew again?
Speaker 2: Three d P twenty twelve.
Speaker 9: Okay, and what was the offer?
Speaker 2: Five forty nine? If I'm reading that correctly. I don't
Speaker 2: know how much that printer is normally, but.
Speaker 11: Uh, it's a damboo ones right yeah, yeah. The p
Speaker 11: is the open one, the open chassis, right.
Speaker 2: Mhm that's one that's possible.
Speaker 9: Do you want to ask combo? All right? That was
Speaker 9: normally seven hundred and forty nine dollars.
Speaker 8: Oh, that's the combo.
Speaker 9: I see, okay, let's see what we can do for that.
Speaker 7: Those are nice. Those are yeah, good printers.
Speaker 8: I have the non combo one of that.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: Five oh three. Nick says.
Speaker 9: This is bankers, by the way, that they're doing a
Speaker 9: promotion on that right now. So we're pretty much at
Speaker 9: cost on it, as it says, do another ten dollars
Speaker 9: off of and that's about it.
Speaker 10: Okay, you said the bamboo bamboo A one.
Speaker 2: P one P one s comba P one s combo. Okay,
Speaker 2: here's when you might be able to do. Uh, pat
Speaker 2: nobody can see you right now, Tim, I got Jason
Speaker 2: up there, but but feel free keep it there and
Speaker 2: you can show it later. So Patty Boy says, a
Speaker 2: shark mono band vertical five pack.
Speaker 9: Dash S yes, five F five S.
Speaker 2: M M for eighty dollars for eighty dollars. There's a
Speaker 2: little bit of wiggle room in those shark uh hamsticks.
Speaker 2: Those are great intennas. By the way, I've done several
Speaker 2: several PoTA activations. Whoa added boy? Done? Okay, let's do
Speaker 2: two more.
Speaker 7: By the way, is the best price you're gonna get
Speaker 7: for that printer? Right now?
Speaker 1: I just looked at Google.
Speaker 2: Nice. Okay, what the pot twenty? You guys have PoTA
Speaker 2: twenties in stock.
Speaker 9: Let's take a look, all right.
Speaker 11: I want to ask you how you could which you
Speaker 11: can go down to in a garrett at pro.
Speaker 9: Hey, hey, let's make that the second one. Let's let's
Speaker 9: work on the poted twenty four.
Speaker 10: Anybody care I'll go back, Josh, I might, I might
Speaker 10: be interested that. Okay, actually the new one that got
Speaker 10: coming out.
Speaker 9: Okay, what's the offer of the police twenty guys?
Speaker 4: Sixty?
Speaker 2: I think someone said sixty earlier.
Speaker 8: Yeah, people thought they were getting out of.
Speaker 2: Friday seventy five?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Oh Dennis? Dennis asked, can you do one for seventy nine?
Speaker 2: Ninety five? So you just got a better deal, dinners
Speaker 2: the deal? Go out there and do that. Okay.
Speaker 9: Hey, there's there's this many of them like this many
Speaker 9: of them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so go grab that now.
Speaker 9: Yes, if you want to put twenty, you better go
Speaker 9: run fast.
Speaker 2: All right. The last one, at least two maybe three
Speaker 2: people have asked about the epic powergate from powerworks.
Speaker 9: Let me go ahead and answer that question about the
Speaker 9: epic power gate. It is epically never in stock.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I've had them for epically six months.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, I would love to have
Speaker 2: one myself. Right, Yeah, they're great.
Speaker 9: But the gart the Garrett at pro Let's, that's that's
Speaker 9: a fun one. We'll finish on that one. But like
Speaker 9: I said, guys, we will.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, it's a good one. It's world but yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, let's yeah, that's not him radio, so let's
Speaker 2: do that. Well it's a radio though, it's a radio. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, all right? Sound like what was that offer?
Speaker 9: The Garta tea pro?
Speaker 2: I didn't give one. That was just Josh's thing. I
Speaker 2: think four fifty would be nice, but I think that's
Speaker 2: too low.
Speaker 8: I think it's whoa.
Speaker 2: Well there you go.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 9: If that's what you want, you're going to go bro.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, you got me, Well you got it
Speaker 2: now you gotta Yeah. I don't want to. I don't
Speaker 2: want a text from Lea tomorrow morning about this.
Speaker 11: Okay, it's bad over here, bad, it's been bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 9: Do you like this? Do you want to you want
Speaker 9: to do?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 10: I think Jason. I had a quick question that the
Speaker 10: West Mountain one that we talked about a minute ago.
Speaker 9: The four zero zero eight?
Speaker 10: Uh h did they put that in at? You said?
Speaker 9: Maybe I had a lot here the wrong partner. Give
Speaker 9: me the partner one more time.
Speaker 10: It was four zero zero eight h da dash okay.
Speaker 2: And there are several people were saying the site has crashed.
Speaker 11: It's still you can't use the search. You gotta go
Speaker 11: find So if you go to the homepage, the updated
Speaker 11: products are showing right at the top. I just saw
Speaker 11: the Garrett's right there.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 9: The West Mountains figs guys, awesome, thank you. All right,
Speaker 9: we're going to keep up in the chat, so keep
Speaker 9: firing away and we'll reply to chat and it'll go
Speaker 9: live for everybody.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, all right, good. So yeah, so we're so
Speaker 2: they're going to monitor the chat. You guys can keep offering.
Speaker 9: So we know you're coming right.
Speaker 2: Tag them at with the at gigaparts. Yeah. Good, okay,
Speaker 2: that was great. That was great. Oh you got free
Speaker 2: shipping on that ship man. Wow. M oh gosh, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, well I just refreshed their page, guys, and
Speaker 2: I'm getting into it. Fine, so yeah, let's maybe the
Speaker 2: search is he Jason was saying something about the search that.
Speaker 11: Was me I couldn't get you said, okay, but all
Speaker 11: the updated products as they're updating them alive, they're going
Speaker 11: right on the top of the website, right on the homepage.
Speaker 2: On the on the homepage homepage.
Speaker 11: Yeah, just pulled up the homepage and sell the eight
Speaker 11: pros right there. Yes, it's right clear, Okay, I see it,
Speaker 11: I see it.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, what am i? Oh buddy, what am I
Speaker 2: out of pocket?
Speaker 1: Here? All right?
Speaker 2: We did it? Here we go. Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get a text from Leya tomorrow morning. Josh is
Speaker 2: not allowed to do your live stream. Don't never do
Speaker 2: that again. Don't never do that again. Oh boy.
Speaker 9: In a couple of weeks.
Speaker 11: Yes, this is you should do this like monthly. Yeah,
Speaker 11: just on your YouTube channel?
Speaker 2: What anyway? Just duly amazing? Yeah we can. Hey, hey,
Speaker 2: look at because I do every year I do a
Speaker 2: live stream on New Year's Eve. There you go, so
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve would be an excellent time to do this.
Speaker 2: We uh we broke the uh we broke the Pac
Speaker 2: Tenna website one year on New Year's Eve. That was fun.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed that. I think everybody has. Yeah, yeah, uh
Speaker 2: huh yeah so uh yeah, so look at that, Jason.
Speaker 2: Well we'll talk ninety seven times between now and New
Speaker 2: year'sz but yeah, let's let's do that. New Year's Eve
Speaker 2: is a good time. So awesome. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for that. This was fun.
Speaker 8: That was that was really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh, I'm gonna let you talk about Teachers Institute.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, thank you, Bud. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Sure, so yeah, we got a fun little telethon coming
Speaker 11: up tomorrow. In fact, let me just pull up my
Speaker 11: where is it? It's somewhere anyway. I think I lost it.
Speaker 11: But anyway, we're gonna be doing a live telethon for
Speaker 11: the Teachers Institute, which is the able RL's basically way
Speaker 11: they reach out to youth via teaching the teachers how
Speaker 11: to explain Ham radio to the youth.
Speaker 2: Right, and it.
Speaker 11: Is funded in its own out of its own budget, right,
Speaker 11: that is a part of the able RL. It's all
Speaker 11: ran by Steve good Game K five ATA, which many
Speaker 11: of us know. You've probably seen him a lot on
Speaker 11: both on his YouTube channel and then out here when
Speaker 11: I'm busy.
Speaker 8: Right now, I'm on a live stream right now.
Speaker 2: I can't turn it down. Please, it is too loud.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard it. Turn it down, thank you.
Speaker 8: Wow, great, wonderful time.
Speaker 2: It's my channel. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: So we're gonna have a why does it keep showing
Speaker 11: this is the wrong site? Anyway, We're gonna have a
Speaker 11: cavalcade of people on tomorrow, a bunch of Ham radio YouTubers,
Speaker 11: but also a bunch of people from the Teachers Institute.
Speaker 11: Teachers who've gone through the process and have then gone
Speaker 11: back to their schools with gear that is provided to them,
Speaker 11: which is pretty much all free to the teachers and
Speaker 11: the schools, which is great because, as we they don't
Speaker 11: just let hams roll into campuses to teach kids about
Speaker 11: ham radio. It's generally got to come with the syllabus
Speaker 11: and a little bit more rigor that goes into the
Speaker 11: learning process. And that's what the Teacher Institute does. They've
Speaker 11: been successful now for many years and they continue to
Speaker 11: mint new HAMM radio operators, and so this idea came about.
Speaker 11: It was last year I think it was last year
Speaker 11: from Mike Kate MRD and his live stream ended on
Speaker 11: ended up going for a very long time, so like
Speaker 11: four am.
Speaker 2: I think that was two years ago, thoughouldn't it was
Speaker 2: it to Wow, I think I think it was two
Speaker 2: years ago. But he ran for I.
Speaker 8: Don't even know how many hours it was.
Speaker 2: It was a long nine nine to nine and a
Speaker 2: half something like that. I was on for a little
Speaker 2: over half of it. And they raised a ton of
Speaker 2: money for the ABRL, which pays for the teachers to
Speaker 2: come out and do the whole thing, right, and this
Speaker 2: money only goes to them. YouTube takes none of it.
Speaker 2: The YouTubers take none of this. It goes straight to
Speaker 2: them via the YouTube donate process, and literally it is
Speaker 2: a fund for just this. So even if you don't
Speaker 2: really have a membership to the a DOUBRL, but you
Speaker 2: think this is a really good idea, donating will go
Speaker 2: straight to them, and we'll go straight to Steve. He
Speaker 2: gets to do the fund do with what the funds
Speaker 2: of what he will. But we're going to turn this
Speaker 2: into a fun thing.
Speaker 11: It's going to be about eight hours or so and
Speaker 11: we're going to have segments of knowledge, if you will,
Speaker 11: a teaching kind of thing like twenty to thirty minute segments.
Speaker 11: A number of people are going to be hosting different
Speaker 11: talks throughout the period, and we're going to be taking
Speaker 11: your donations live. Now, what's the best part about this
Speaker 11: is the a DOUBRL has lined up funding matching, so
Speaker 11: for an amount of money.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, they've.
Speaker 11: Fre allocated a pretty large amount of money, substantial money
Speaker 11: that we don't want to leave on the table, right,
Speaker 11: So come join us tomorrow. Jason's going to be there, Mike, Kate, MRD,
Speaker 11: lots of people you know will be there and we
Speaker 11: are going to try and maximize the matching to get
Speaker 11: as much money as we can to the Teachers Institute
Speaker 11: because they do a fantastic.
Speaker 2: Job and we want to support them. And to clarify
Speaker 2: what Josh is talking about with the un not taking
Speaker 2: any money is when you guys send super chats on
Speaker 2: a normal live stream, YouTube usually takes thirty percent, which
Speaker 2: is fair because they give us a free channel that
Speaker 2: they don't owe to us. I have zero issue with that.
Speaker 2: But you can go into YouTube when you set up
Speaker 2: a live stream and you can choose a nonprofit fundraiser,
Speaker 2: our entity, institute, company, whatever, and that's and A double
Speaker 2: rol is in there. So when you donate one hundred
Speaker 2: dollars to a nonprofit, one hundred dollars goes to that nonprofit.
Speaker 2: When you donate one hundred dollars to me, I get
Speaker 2: seventy dollars of that. So it's a very cool thing
Speaker 2: that YouTube does and lets you donate to a nonprofit
Speaker 2: or and charity organizations and they get one hundred percent
Speaker 2: of the money. And we've done this, We've done this
Speaker 2: several times before.
Speaker 11: And specifically, this donation is for the A Double All
Speaker 11: Teachers Institute. It's not the A Double All General Fund.
Speaker 11: It goes directly to them. It is a fun setup
Speaker 11: for just them. So I dropped the link in the
Speaker 11: in the chat if anybody's interested. We start at two
Speaker 11: pm Pacific time tomorrow and it's going to go for
Speaker 11: a while.
Speaker 2: It's gonna go for a while, so it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: It will be Yeah, I get to talk about Hurricane
Speaker 2: Helen and how everyone should have a portable man pack.
Speaker 2: Oh cool.
Speaker 11: I mean, I know we talked a little bit about
Speaker 11: yeah MCom stuff, but I was wondering which way you're
Speaker 11: gonna go with it?
Speaker 8: So yeah, I'm excited to watch that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So I kind of did a video about
Speaker 2: that a while back, but I I've part After I
Speaker 2: did that video, I thought of like three other things.
Speaker 11: I'm like, I should have done this this. So I'm
Speaker 11: gonna be talking about that. So it's gonna be really quick.
Speaker 11: There is a there's a chat box on my head
Speaker 11: now great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
Speaker 11: The question is, last year my credit card did not
Speaker 11: allow a large donation to YouTube? Will it direct to
Speaker 11: t I donation get the match? So my understanding and
Speaker 11: we can we can sort this out tomorrow. If you're
Speaker 11: watching live, there is a way to do a donation
Speaker 11: by check that will count the same, or or some
Speaker 11: other method. I'll make sure I talked to Steve beforehand
Speaker 11: to line that up.
Speaker 2: He has he has a URL that's uh twenty four
Speaker 2: seven that you can donate directly to him. I have
Speaker 2: to I have to change the battery in my camera.
Speaker 2: I didn't go anywhere. Hold on a second, helping a
Speaker 2: message to a digital rancher there, Okay, so I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: Oh James is joining this. Okay, you guys, chill for
Speaker 2: a second. And change batteries. I'll fill the air for
Speaker 2: a little bit more about it. Go ahead, go ahead,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 11: So yeah, well, we'll sort out all the links, will
Speaker 11: have it available and through that link, and for the
Speaker 11: period of time that we'll be doing it, all the
Speaker 11: funds will We'll make sure that it's matching so that
Speaker 11: you know, we get the maximum amount of that money.
Speaker 11: It's a It's a substantial amount though, right for the
Speaker 11: for the amount of matching, I appreciate that we may
Speaker 11: not be able to hit it, but I'd certainly like
Speaker 11: to try.
Speaker 2: Greg K six eggs.
Speaker 8: Will there be drinking. I assume many people will be drinking.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna be kind of corraling a lot of the
Speaker 11: show on the back end, so I Am probably not
Speaker 11: going to crack some beers until we get successful with
Speaker 11: the amount of donations. I forgot one of the most
Speaker 11: important things. One of the most important things. I have
Speaker 11: four radios that I'm going to give away. These are
Speaker 11: just two of them. So as we start making our
Speaker 11: way through the donation goals, I'm going to start giving
Speaker 11: away radios.
Speaker 2: So hey, another reason to show up.
Speaker 11: And you do not have to be a donator to
Speaker 11: qualify to enter into the giveaway. We're gonna do it live.
Speaker 11: It's just gonna be the people that are chatting, because
Speaker 11: that would be illegal.
Speaker 2: Otherwise if you legal.
Speaker 11: Contest available to who's ever on the air with us
Speaker 11: and watching live and yeah, so come on out, it'll
Speaker 11: be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Speaking of giveaway radios, something I meant to say at
Speaker 2: the beginning of this stream and forgot about. REDI US
Speaker 2: contact me about two weeks ago. They want to give
Speaker 2: away three different radios on one of my live streams tonight.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it all over you.
Speaker 2: Oh James, you're kind of allowed, dude. Hold on, I'll
Speaker 2: give you a floor in a second, James. So yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm giving away three radios read of us tonight,
Speaker 2: the RT ninety five, the R eighty, U R eight,
Speaker 2: R A eighty nine, and R A seventy nine. So
Speaker 2: I would I'm just gonna pick random people from the
Speaker 2: chat that make me laugh. Also, there's something else I
Speaker 2: kind of forgot to to h Frank. Frank brought me
Speaker 2: the pickle whiskey tonight and because we were at the
Speaker 2: cigar bar the other night and he's and I said
Speaker 2: something about I need to get some kind of nasty
Speaker 2: beer to drink for super Chats. And he's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'll bring you this bottle of pickle whiskey. And I
Speaker 2: put this in and said it on the table and
Speaker 2: my wife's like, you're gonna drink that whole thing. I'm like,
Speaker 2: hell no, but I'm gonna pour myself a glass of it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put it in your h in your glass, Brint,
Speaker 2: I saw you in the Chat Whiskey seven Back Roads.
Speaker 2: So this is the Superchat glass right here.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: This does not go to the Teacher's Institute or Oh man,
Speaker 2: I can smell that as soon as I took the
Speaker 2: lid off. My god. But this is all super Chat
Speaker 2: for me tonight. So but you guys, but I'll be
Speaker 2: making a big donation myself tomorrow the Teacher's Institute, I'm sure,
Speaker 2: like I did last year.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm sure I will, aside from the radios I bought.
Speaker 11: But yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: James, what's up brother? How are you? Hey?
Speaker 12: Guys, I'm doing I'm at a theme park with the family.
Speaker 12: I just wanted to jump in and say hi real quick.
Speaker 12: I wasn't expecting this, but uh yeah, I saw the beginning.
Speaker 12: Thanks for plugging my stuff, and happy holidays to everybody. Absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 12: I'll let you guys go. I'm I'm lost in a
Speaker 12: theme park.
Speaker 2: All right, buddy, thanks for joining. Appreciate you joining. Man
Speaker 2: serve three guys. Yeah later, cool quirky QRP right there
Speaker 2: in the house, guys. Okay, all right, let me I
Speaker 2: wonder if I turn on my I think I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go show soap view, but I'm gonna switch my camera
Speaker 2: to here. That's better, and then I'm gonna go to
Speaker 2: this screen.
Speaker 4: Where did it go?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, multi speaker just like that. Okay, cool, So
Speaker 2: we're we're we're just totally on zoom now, digital ranchers
Speaker 2: in the house, rob feel free to join us if
Speaker 2: you have the uh he's Oh, I see you're in
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania with lousy internet. That's too bad. Okay, but yeah,
Speaker 2: you're still welcome to join if you want to. You
Speaker 2: couldn't be worse than James's internet right there. So all right, guys,
Speaker 2: let's let's go around the room. Pat, I haven't haven't
Speaker 2: heard from you in a long time, buddy. How's it
Speaker 2: going out there?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 7: I know, I've been busy, busy, busy. But tomorrow I'm
Speaker 7: going on a little bit of a de expedition.
Speaker 2: Cool to uh Ruba. Oh nice, very cool.
Speaker 7: Go play some poda down there on the island of
Speaker 7: a Rube w BP four and three pm, so that'll
Speaker 7: be a lot of fun. And then in April I'll
Speaker 7: probably go back down the Guatemala and do a bunch
Speaker 7: of poda down there. So yeah, we've just been playing
Speaker 7: poda when we can. But I've been I've been more
Speaker 7: active on TikTok lately than YouTube.
Speaker 2: Really. Yeah, well there you go. I you know, I
Speaker 2: never put TikTok on my new phone. I'm just like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna get in a second phone and
Speaker 2: put TikTok on it. I think.
Speaker 7: Well, I tell you what, Ham Radio is a lot
Speaker 7: of fun on TikTok.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of Yes, that is true. I agree
Speaker 2: with that, yeah, because.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of like I think, like you know,
Speaker 7: with the YouTube algorithm, you see a lot of like
Speaker 7: English speaking content, but with TikTok you get like stuff
Speaker 7: from all over the world. So like you see people
Speaker 7: in Europe, Asia, even like South America playing Ham Radio.
Speaker 7: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: That's pretty Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, I've been enjoying
Speaker 2: the UH. I used to watch TikTok a lot, and
Speaker 2: lately I've been joining the Instagram reels just because they're Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's almost everybody who posts on TikTok. Almost everybody posts
Speaker 2: the same thing on Instagram reels, so you kind of
Speaker 2: get everything as it is.
Speaker 7: But I do the same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah cool man, Thanks for joining. Appreciate that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: thanks Tim. What's going on, buddy? How are you? No? Man?
Speaker 10: Living a dream? Living a dream? Just staying busy doing
Speaker 10: some videos? Did A did a nice? I was gonna
Speaker 10: say it's to me a subarctic pote activation at thirty
Speaker 10: some degrees, but I spoke with the station in North Pole, Alaska,
Speaker 10: and he said negative twenty of course, and that was
Speaker 10: in freedom units, So I don't know what that translates
Speaker 10: to celsius. But it was cold, nonetheless, so I had
Speaker 10: I had no room to complain, but nonetheless still had
Speaker 10: fun knock out about one hundred and ten contacts in
Speaker 10: about an hour.
Speaker 2: Nice. What ten meters has been on fire lately? I've
Speaker 2: I did some FT eight the other day and I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: I need to get out to. It's just so inconvenient
Speaker 2: to Giga part says the po to thirty three is gone.
Speaker 2: So good job, guys, y'all sold, which is what we
Speaker 2: want to see. But yeah, I just I'm thirty minutes
Speaker 2: away from a park anywhere direction, in any direction I can.
Speaker 2: I can drive from my home, so when I get
Speaker 2: down to Galveston, it's like seven minutes. And that's why
Speaker 2: I'm always doing PODA from down there. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: need to get back out there because ten meters has
Speaker 2: really been on fire the last few I saw a
Speaker 2: buddy of mine, I saw him posting I have him
Speaker 2: on ham alert, one of the guys in the local
Speaker 2: club here. I saw him spotted on twelve meter ft
Speaker 2: eight about a week ago, and I'm like, heck, if
Speaker 2: if twelve meters is open, then freaking everything is open.
Speaker 2: So it's time. It's time to get out into a park. Boys.
Speaker 2: That's that's just a it's a great time to be
Speaker 2: out there. Cool. Thanks for joining, Tim, No, thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 2: What's going on, Bud? How are you?
Speaker 5: I'm doing good? Work's been kind of crazy for me.
Speaker 5: They had one person move to a new group, had
Speaker 5: another one let go. So now to my job by myself.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 5: So I've been decompressing from that when I'm off work,
Speaker 5: trying to get some videos done.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 5: I received a new bamboo three D printer last week
Speaker 5: and this past Wednesday I probably took it out of
Speaker 5: the box, set it all up, printing my first thing
Speaker 5: right now. It's probably a little bit more than halfway done.
Speaker 5: So going to get into that soon among other things.
Speaker 8: Too, fantastic printer, good choice, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've I had a I think it was a
Speaker 2: Prusa printer several weeks. Yeah. Yeah, But like everybody's talking
Speaker 2: about this bamboo thing, and the only drawback is you
Speaker 2: have to connect it to the internet so they can
Speaker 2: monitor everything you're doing.
Speaker 10: But you don't know you can you can punt it
Speaker 10: directly to the printer.
Speaker 8: Now you can. But that's it, Jason.
Speaker 2: That used to be true, that you So they've changed that. Okay,
Speaker 2: I didn't realize they changed that. Okay, But but from
Speaker 2: from other than that, everything everyone says that that printer
Speaker 2: is just plug and play, easy, easy, easy. So so
Speaker 2: I've been been wanting. I've been kind of looking at
Speaker 2: getting one maybe, so we'll see, but I don't know. Okay,
Speaker 2: so let me Jeff. Thanks for being here, buddy. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Where is where is? Where is epoch in here? Who? Uh?
Speaker 2: Ham radio nomad? I saw a message come in from them,
Speaker 2: but where did they send it to me? Okay, I'll
Speaker 2: find that. Let's uh, let's go to uh Paul. What's up, buddy?
Speaker 2: How are you hey?
Speaker 3: I can't complain? And all Thanksgiving was quiet, low key.
Speaker 3: I made a nice turkey. It came out great. Excited
Speaker 3: for the two thousand subscriber giveaway tomorrow. Of course, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have to jump in Josh's and donate to the
Speaker 3: teachers first, but huh yeah, No, I appreciate you inviting
Speaker 3: me in and and it's always great to be here.
Speaker 3: I love seeing all the people in the chat and
Speaker 3: it's just a great community. Honestly, I'm so happy to
Speaker 3: be a part of it.
Speaker 2: It is a fun community, for sure. Yet you got
Speaker 2: a little bit of clipping in your microphone. You didn't
Speaker 2: sound like that last week, so just FYI.
Speaker 1: There, but.
Speaker 4: I'll make an adjustment here.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well, thanks for being here, buddy. I
Speaker 2: appreciate you your time tonight. So we got a battery
Speaker 2: we might be given away. So okay, Vince your next bro.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining. I know that you were I'm sure
Speaker 2: if you could join us or not, but welcome.
Speaker 4: I was just a little bit double booked here. I
Speaker 4: have just spent a month in the hooscal and I
Speaker 4: just got out today. And that's dead serious. My employer
Speaker 4: had me working in a correctional institution for the last month,
Speaker 4: so it has been a whirlwind of getting as many
Speaker 4: new entities that I could activated. I'm way down in
Speaker 4: the southern part of the province, just about an hour
Speaker 4: north of Montana. I've been so I've been so close
Speaker 4: to the US border so many times in the past month.
Speaker 4: My cell phone doesn't know its identity anymore. It's like
Speaker 4: rizon At and t Talispell. It just doesn't care anymore.
Speaker 4: So it's a It's been an absolute hoot. And so
Speaker 4: I just finished my last shift. I head home tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Been grateful man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me where you are again.
Speaker 4: I am in Lethbridge, Alberta. As the vocals call it,
Speaker 4: l A.
Speaker 2: L A that can be deceiving, that could be just yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: cool man. Thank you for joining us tonight.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me man, you bet all right.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of messages coming at me right now.
Speaker 2: Epoch or Epic Batteries is in the chat. I did
Speaker 2: a couple of instant ram posts about them today, and
Speaker 2: I talked about them on my shopping video this morning.
Speaker 2: You guys, hey there you want Eric, Eric, why are
Speaker 2: you not with us tonight? I would like to know
Speaker 2: that because that needs to be a that needs to
Speaker 2: be a thing, right there. Okay, so here's to Eric.
Speaker 2: Right here. This pickle whiskey. I've never had this before.
Speaker 2: I like, I can smell it from like way over there.
Speaker 2: I can smell it. You would like it, Josh.
Speaker 8: If you don't like pickles, you won't like it.
Speaker 2: I mean that's I like pickles and I like beer,
Speaker 2: but I don't like pickle beer. So probably it smells
Speaker 2: like liquid pickle juice right here.
Speaker 4: But what does it taste like?
Speaker 2: That's actually not terrible. It's not terrible. Is it the
Speaker 2: spicy one or is it just the regular? It is
Speaker 2: the crock Kroco dill tears. Yeah, spicy, spicy, Yeah, spicy
Speaker 2: pickle whiskey. Yeah it's good. It's yeah, it's fine. That's
Speaker 2: not od no, yeah, he hates it. He drinks it
Speaker 2: on stream. He's like, I was like, it's not as
Speaker 2: bad as that pickle. It does sound gross, but it's
Speaker 2: just it's not as bad as that pickle beer. So yeah,
Speaker 2: all right. So Epoch Batteries is in the chat and
Speaker 2: they I missed it. I apologize because there's a lot
Speaker 2: of messages coming at me right now. They said they
Speaker 2: wanted to do a battery giveaway. So I got this.
Speaker 2: I got this. I got connected with these guys over
Speaker 2: email a few months ago. And you guys who have
Speaker 2: seen my f two fifty mobile ham radio setup know
Speaker 2: about the battery bank that I have in the back.
Speaker 2: I was running a three hundred empower battery for a while.
Speaker 2: Prior to that, was running a Renergy two hundred empower
Speaker 2: and uh and Epic. I think it's pronounced Epic, but
Speaker 2: I it's spelled Epoch. They reached out to me, O, yeah,
Speaker 2: for satellite times and whatnot. It's yeah, thick, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's epic. But they reached out to me and they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: we want to send you a battery do a video.
Speaker 2: I'm like, cool, So I've got this whole system I'm
Speaker 2: building in the back of the truck. Victron Total off
Speaker 2: grid total dis tolls that and they're in the chat
Speaker 2: tonight and they want to, uh we will give away
Speaker 2: a twelve three hundred Empire battery during the stream. Let
Speaker 2: the boss know. Nice, thank you Jody for sending me that. So,
Speaker 2: uh yeah, I assume that's William in the chat. William
Speaker 2: from Epic in the chat let me know, and yeah,
Speaker 2: well let us let me know how you want to
Speaker 2: do that, so that'd be great. Thank you guys. That's
Speaker 2: These are some really well made hardened batteries with Victorn
Speaker 2: Canvas systems built into some of them, not all of them,
Speaker 2: and they're just it's I I know, Battleborn is kind
Speaker 2: of like the leader of the pack as far as
Speaker 2: like the overland world, but I think I think I've
Speaker 2: used a battle Born once before. I think these would
Speaker 2: almost stand up to that, if not stand up to
Speaker 2: that just as well. Further testing is required, but either way,
Speaker 2: this is a kick ass battery system. So really good.
Speaker 2: Epoch Batteries dot com go check out their website. I
Speaker 2: talked about them in the shopping video earlier today. Hey Jason, Yes, sir.
Speaker 9: I think we've caught up with everybody to this point.
Speaker 9: Does anybody else have anything?
Speaker 2: Okay, does anyone else have anything for gigaparts? What did
Speaker 2: Shane buy?
Speaker 7: I put in the chat the arrow two meter of
Speaker 7: four forty it's normally like one thirty nine? How about
Speaker 7: for like one ten?
Speaker 9: Did you send me the SKU? I did not. By
Speaker 9: the way, Jason, I just want to remind you that
Speaker 9: we got your new battery box in last week.
Speaker 2: Yes indeed, I yeah, I talked about that in a
Speaker 2: video last week, but not today. So brand new gigaparts
Speaker 2: battery box with an upgraded power distribution us BE seaports.
Speaker 9: Yeah, sixty five w PD.
Speaker 10: Ice.
Speaker 9: Maybe we should we do a deal now for that one.
Speaker 2: I think we should because that thing is really it's
Speaker 2: really new. So I was waiting to see if you
Speaker 2: guys were going to put that thing on sale. It's
Speaker 2: ninety nine dollars. You can always say five percent off
Speaker 2: with the code case five h WB because it's on
Speaker 2: that page. It's on my page. But yeah, what kind
Speaker 2: of deal do you want to do? Jason?
Speaker 9: How about when you seventy nine ninety five and your
Speaker 9: five percent still applies?
Speaker 2: Okay, let's do that all right? Let me pull that
Speaker 2: back up because I've got that right here. Is that
Speaker 2: right there? Okay, so we're.
Speaker 4: Gonna somebody in the comment says, just looking for a
Speaker 4: battery box a good time.
Speaker 2: Oh well there there you go. All right, okay, so
Speaker 2: this is it right here. I'm going to put this
Speaker 2: link in the chat. It says ninety nine to ninety
Speaker 2: five right now. So wait, you guys hit the seconds.
Speaker 2: You guys hit this and keep refreshing.
Speaker 4: What size battery doesn't fit? That's the question.
Speaker 9: The largest I can put in there right now is
Speaker 9: a bo only thirty.
Speaker 2: It'll take a yeah, it'll almost take the fifty, not
Speaker 2: quite take the fifty.
Speaker 9: Well that's sexty PD module is a little little thing.
Speaker 2: It's okay, okay, I've suggested, Okay I have. I have
Speaker 2: the original battery box there. It is right there. They're
Speaker 2: just right there. So use the link I just put
Speaker 2: in the chat. It's twenty dollars off. Use also the
Speaker 2: code of k C five HBB for an extra five
Speaker 2: percent off. I have the original battery box, and I
Speaker 2: have the original twenty four Empower Gigaparts battery, the PO
Speaker 2: four Power twenty four Empire battery, and I've had that
Speaker 2: since it was I've got the Like I said at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the stream, I've got the first one
Speaker 2: of the run of batteries from them and the first
Speaker 2: first run of battery boxes. And I use that thing
Speaker 2: all the time. That's the battery I take with me
Speaker 2: most places because it will it's got enough ports on it.
Speaker 2: Well it'll it'll run your radio, sure, but it will
Speaker 2: charge your phone, your camera, your headset, your uh, anything
Speaker 2: else that's USBC chargeable. Well you're ht laptop now, well
Speaker 2: the new one will. Yeah, now I'm talking about the
Speaker 2: old one. I still take it with me everywhere. So
Speaker 2: it's great.
Speaker 9: But those coming your way next week, so they'll be forthcoming.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, looking forward to it. I was hoping to
Speaker 2: get that done this week actually. But it's all good.
Speaker 2: It's all good.
Speaker 6: I know you.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's you've been busy. It's black Friday. Man,
Speaker 2: it's cool. It's all it's all good.
Speaker 6: So yeah, big how big a box a battery do
Speaker 6: you have in your box?
Speaker 2: Twenty four ampower twenty four? Okay on this box you mean.
Speaker 6: The one that the one that you said you're using currently.
Speaker 2: Well, I've got multiple battery boxes do. But this one
Speaker 2: right here, this gigaparts one, the Explorer battery box. I
Speaker 2: have a twenty four it'll fit that thirty Empower chins
Speaker 2: or Eco worthy from Amazon, just fine, Like, no problem,
Speaker 2: it'll it'll It'll almost fit two of them, Like you
Speaker 2: could put them together, two twenty four empowers or two
Speaker 2: thirty empowers in parallel. You could almost do that. But
Speaker 2: I have one twenty four Empower in mine, and then
Speaker 2: and and it's got this much space on the side
Speaker 2: of it, and I put a bag in there with
Speaker 2: a bunch of USBC connectors. So and I take that
Speaker 2: with me almost everywhere. I just leave it in my
Speaker 2: truck most days. And you know, if I'm out on
Speaker 2: a road trip or a family gathering or a picnic,
Speaker 2: or you know, just going out for the day to
Speaker 2: do something, then I take that with me. And my
Speaker 2: wife's like, my phone's almost dead. Well here you go
Speaker 2: plug in here, so it works.
Speaker 9: Well, all right, we're gonna play catch up on some
Speaker 9: of these new ones, guys.
Speaker 2: All right, man, awesome, Okay, let's look at the uh
Speaker 2: is Mike in the chat. Oh, Mike, join us on
Speaker 2: zoom buddy. I'll see you in the chat k m
Speaker 2: R d Uh, let's see Richard K six rd J.
Speaker 2: What's up brother, Thanks for joining us tonight. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: there's Richard. All right, Well let's go around the room here.
Speaker 2: What's everybody drinking tonight?
Speaker 6: I got a little uh Woodford Reserve.
Speaker 2: That's always a good choice, always a good choice.
Speaker 4: Right there, it's cold. H two.
Speaker 10: Oh, I have a classic great value, great value.
Speaker 2: Water drinking water, tim drinking water.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Whatever makes your happy hour happy.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah? Yeah, true modern time. Oh I've said I've
Speaker 2: had that Modern times.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Good brewery and uh outside of San Diego.
Speaker 2: Hmm, what's that one that's uh that's out there? Josh mmmm.
Speaker 2: They make some really good stouts. It's there's a there's
Speaker 2: a lot, but uh well yeah, but they they distribute
Speaker 2: out here. You sent me a couple one time, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I can get these here, but it
Speaker 2: was flavors I couldn't get here. I can get that.
Speaker 2: I think it's called the brewery.
Speaker 11: Oh, the brewery, Yeah, b are you e or y
Speaker 11: or something like that, yees exactly, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Stuff.
Speaker 11: They got pretty prolific, and not just stouts, but they
Speaker 11: started making like a bunch of wild sours and everything, like, yeah,
Speaker 11: if you can find it, you can actually buy it online.
Speaker 11: 'tis the season for this beer? Actually, it comes out
Speaker 11: in November. It's called Black Tuesday. It is a huge stout.
Speaker 11: It's like the biggest strongest stout you can You can
Speaker 11: probably buy Black Tuesday from the brewery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I have to look for that. I haven't
Speaker 2: seen that one, but so you won't see it.
Speaker 8: You have to buy it online. You have to buy
Speaker 8: it from them.
Speaker 11: It's like a small batch, specialty reserve once a year
Speaker 11: kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I see. Okay, Yeah, all right, good good. I've been
Speaker 2: keeping up with a couple of different cigars around uh
Speaker 2: that there's there's two or three companies that make cigars
Speaker 2: that release during this time of year, and that's it.
Speaker 2: And Frank and I were dealing with that the other night. So,
Speaker 2: but as far as the beers go, I was like,
Speaker 2: I was talking to my wife yesterday, I think, and
Speaker 2: she's like, well, she says something about me buying beer,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, I haven't really bought or drank
Speaker 2: much beer this year. But once the pumpkin season gets
Speaker 2: here and then the cold weather gets here and all
Speaker 2: the stouts come out. I'm like, that's my beer time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't care about drinking beer do this summer forget it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll drink some whiskey. It's cool. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: all good, good stuff there. So I mean I do.
Speaker 11: I mean, you're you're kind of like being comes to stouts.
Speaker 11: You like the the pumpkin stuff is good, but like
Speaker 11: I like the coconut stouts a lot of this, Yes, fantastic,
Speaker 11: And I am with you that I don't drink anything
Speaker 11: like that in the summer.
Speaker 2: I'll drink like an I p A in the summer.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so this is tis the season for stout stouts, porters.
Speaker 2: Yes, the red ales, all that stuff.
Speaker 8: Perfect perfect.
Speaker 2: I don't care for I p as. I've said that before.
Speaker 2: I've gotten to where I like the Belgian ales oh
Speaker 2: so good, yes, yes, and the English and the Scottish shales,
Speaker 2: which are which are quite rare to find something with
Speaker 2: Like a Scottish shale. It's kind of like a it's
Speaker 2: kind of like an amber, but it's got more spice
Speaker 2: and less heaviness what I would describe as to it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's it's just very it's like a Belgian ale,
Speaker 2: but it's a darker Belgian ale. And I just I like,
Speaker 2: like if I if I go into a place and
Speaker 2: I see a scottishale, I'm like, can I have a
Speaker 2: taste of that? And nine times out of ten I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what I want. It's very good. It was.
Speaker 11: It was actually a Belgian triple that was kind of
Speaker 11: like my first foray into non macro beers. It was
Speaker 11: from Duval Duvelle Duval. It's like the you know, there's
Speaker 11: a little dragon boat on or something like that. It
Speaker 11: was kind of like my first foray into into good beers.
Speaker 11: So yeah, Belgian triples are fantastic. Belgian doubles are basically
Speaker 11: doubles are like ales, brown ales, all kinds of good stuff,
Speaker 11: and they're not I p A at all.
Speaker 2: They're more yeasty than anything. They've got some right writing.
Speaker 2: Oh no they're not. They're not I PA, They're not.
Speaker 2: They're not very happy or bitter. The IBU is really
Speaker 2: low on those. So in fact, Matt a four m
Speaker 2: Q he makes an excellent Yeah, triple he does triple,
Speaker 2: he makes is it's just fantastic. So you made me laugh.
Speaker 11: Those The Scotch Ale, the scotch als are also kind
Speaker 11: of like rare, the good ones. Yes, there's a there's
Speaker 11: a number of breweries that make they call it scotch
Speaker 11: ales that are like, they're just high alcohol content like
Speaker 11: gas station beers to get people trashed, and they're absolutely bad.
Speaker 11: So don't go get into some random gas Jason said,
Speaker 11: these Scotch jails are real good.
Speaker 2: He means a legitm a craft a craft Scotch jail. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: a legit brewery. Yeah, totally. This one's good. Hedgehog got it.
Speaker 2: I bet it's delicious. Oh yeah, I'm sure. Hey what
Speaker 2: was that? What was that? Ghost Pepper? I p A
Speaker 2: you sent me a couple of years. Yes, yeah, So
Speaker 2: are they still making that? No?
Speaker 11: No, well they didn't this year because I went out
Speaker 11: I asked them, Yeah, and because we both wanted them.
Speaker 2: You asked me to get some of them shipping to me.
Speaker 11: I was like, heck, yeah, went there and they're like, no,
Speaker 11: we didn't make them this year because I don't think
Speaker 11: they were very popular. When I was going in, I
Speaker 11: was buying them by like the truck loads.
Speaker 2: I was the only person keeping this thing. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, so go next time you go in
Speaker 2: there and say, you know, we've got a YouTube community
Speaker 2: that would buy like a whole palet from you, because
Speaker 2: I mean, if you keep them cold or I pas,
Speaker 2: if you keep them in the fridge, they should be
Speaker 2: okay for a long time.
Speaker 11: It's a milkshake I PA, so it's different, right, but
Speaker 11: then it's also proper spicy. It's actually very spicy. Yeah,
Speaker 11: you don't like spicy things. This isn't like you got
Speaker 11: the spicy chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like king, this is yeah, no, this is this
Speaker 2: is like this is like you drink this thing. So
Speaker 2: you have a glass here and you like you have
Speaker 2: your I P A and an actual beer glass, right,
Speaker 2: and you're like this right, mm, that tastes pretty good.
Speaker 2: And then your lip right here starts burning the hell
Speaker 2: out of you, and like like you're like, give me
Speaker 2: a freaking paper towel. I was like, my lip is burning,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right now, my throat
Speaker 2: is on fire. It's fantastic, It's it's awesome. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah it was. It was. Josh sent me two of
Speaker 2: them and I drank one and I'm like that's so good.
Speaker 2: I gotta save the other one. I drank it like
Speaker 2: three months later. I don't think it was as hot
Speaker 2: letting its sit that long, but it was still damn good.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's yeah. If if and there was a
Speaker 2: there was a place that I went to. I can't
Speaker 2: even remember where that was. It was a place I
Speaker 2: went to, Oh, it might be this local brier here
Speaker 2: in Grapevine. But they had a Auben neuro Ale and
Speaker 2: it was like it was a very light colored, very
Speaker 2: you know, like yellow light colored. Looked like a Miller
Speaker 2: light beer. But they would only serve it to you
Speaker 2: in like a shot glass, like a like a five
Speaker 2: ounce poor I think. And then and you drink it,
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, yeah, that's why. But it's so good.
Speaker 2: It's like when it when it's cold beer and it
Speaker 2: burns going down. It's cold and burning at the same time.
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is really good. I like that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: If if anyone has any beers like that that they
Speaker 2: can recommend, I would very much like to uh to
Speaker 2: talk to you.
Speaker 9: You can have a cold and burning guys. We finished
Speaker 9: up with last of the cold and burning offers.
Speaker 2: Okay, we are done for to night, guys.
Speaker 9: We gave you an hour. I think we did some
Speaker 9: pretty good deals.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely cool, but uh, let's do this again. We
Speaker 2: will absolutely do this again. I think this was a
Speaker 2: great idea, Jason, This was all your idea, So thank
Speaker 2: you Ida. Good job. Yeah, totally totally.
Speaker 9: Guys. Well, we're gonna we're gonna get on out of
Speaker 9: here and recharge for tomorrow and we'll see all later.
Speaker 2: All right, man, thanks for joining sah, thanks Jason. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you guys, go check out gigabarts. They still got a
Speaker 2: Black Friday sale going through the weekend.
Speaker 8: Buying a metal detector was not on my list of.
Speaker 2: Things, Oh my god. But it's really good though, because
Speaker 2: it has good discrimination.
Speaker 11: So I mean, if you didn't know this, right, if
Speaker 11: you look at a metal detector, you know how there's
Speaker 11: like a loop, an outer loop and an inner loop. Right, Well,
Speaker 11: it's literally sending a pulse into the ground and the
Speaker 11: reflections coming back to it are picked up by the
Speaker 11: receiving loop, and the signal strength gives them an idea
Speaker 11: of what the composition is of the metallic thing that's
Speaker 11: sending back the reflections, and so they can use that
Speaker 11: to discriminate to a certain type of metal like Composition's
Speaker 11: gold silver coin. So this a t pro is actually
Speaker 11: pretty good at discriminating what you're actually looking at when you're.
Speaker 8: Over the top of the ground. So it's it's a
Speaker 8: good one.
Speaker 11: So if anybody's interested in another hobby, right right, go, Yeah,
Speaker 11: gigabarts for four fifty is four fifty is pretty good
Speaker 11: for for me, pretty good if you uh, that's better
Speaker 11: than the Garrett website right now?
Speaker 2: Is black Fried a deal that is way better than
Speaker 2: the Garrett?
Speaker 9: Really?
Speaker 1: Yes, I looked.
Speaker 2: I looked. Yeah, if you live near a beach like
Speaker 2: Josh does or like Mike Gallison houses, get a metal detector.
Speaker 2: It's amazing what you could find in the sand. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a different thing.
Speaker 8: There's two types of detectors.
Speaker 11: There's there's the v F I mean very high frequency,
Speaker 11: and then there's pulse induction. You need pulse induction if
Speaker 11: you're going to go in the water.
Speaker 2: So just keep I'm not even talking about it. I'm
Speaker 2: just talking about on the beach. Yeah, I'm just talking
Speaker 2: about walking the beach. But yeah, it's I mean, because
Speaker 2: you know the tide roll in, you know, several times
Speaker 2: a week, and then you you know the tide comes
Speaker 2: up and he goes down. It comes up and goes down.
Speaker 2: So go in at low tide and just walk around,
Speaker 2: you know, just right in front of the water on
Speaker 2: the beach and with your metal detectors see what you
Speaker 2: can find. You might be surprised what you find.
Speaker 11: My uncle, his hobby was waiting until ten PM and
Speaker 11: then going down to the southern California beaches at low
Speaker 11: tide and then doing that going on the wet sand.
Speaker 11: Remember for wet sand though, you probably need the pulse induction.
Speaker 11: He got enough gold jewelry watches he paid for the
Speaker 11: last two of his brand new F one fifties, which
Speaker 11: oh with just junk gold, like swapping out like he
Speaker 11: had mason jars full of just junk gold that he
Speaker 11: would send in. He made a mint off of this.
Speaker 11: It's legit if you if you actually know what you're doing.
Speaker 11: It's particularly on the beaches in California.
Speaker 2: They work.
Speaker 8: It works out pretty well, dude.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 8: It's gnarly.
Speaker 11: He now has a cyber truck, which you know even
Speaker 11: Irashi about.
Speaker 2: You paid for that with the Tesla truck. Yeah, I saw.
Speaker 2: I saw a post on Instagram the other day and
Speaker 2: it was the Tesla truck sitting in the garage, and
Speaker 2: in front of the truck was was a big like
Speaker 2: a three fifty or four hundred Chevy engine on a
Speaker 2: on a on a cherry picker engine hoist and down
Speaker 2: at the bottom it says we're about to ungay the
Speaker 2: cyber truck.
Speaker 11: I wonder what nobody's done that yet because it doesn't
Speaker 11: have an Yesta in the front.
Speaker 2: Well, not the cyber truck. But they put they put
Speaker 2: a they put a Chevy three fifty in a in
Speaker 2: a Tesla model whatever it was, yes, yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 2: they like they showed like an Instagram video of it
Speaker 2: pulling up to a stop sign and it's smoking while
Speaker 2: it's running and people are looking at it like what
Speaker 2: the hell is this and it's like the no emissions
Speaker 2: at all open headers. Yeah.
Speaker 11: The problem with the cyber truck is there's not a
Speaker 11: lot of space in the front area. No like an
Speaker 11: l Las or something like Vy l last or drop
Speaker 11: something crazy.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. But what's up, Mike?
Speaker 2: Are you well?
Speaker 1: Well, hello, I'm not sorry to Scott here. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Can you hear me?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 1: Is everything good?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, continue amongst yourselves?
Speaker 2: Are we?
Speaker 11: Are we going to talk about our big pickups? Did
Speaker 11: anybody pick up anything awesome from Black Friday? Because we
Speaker 11: do that too, right, We gotta we gotta figure out what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta tell you I bought hang on.
Speaker 1: I got a story about Karma.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, okay, why don't you tell that? And then
Speaker 2: we'll talk about black you guys, you guys, how's she doing?
Speaker 1: She's all right, you know, keep black great, keeping right?
Speaker 2: But all right, all right, So who bought what for
Speaker 2: Black Friday? Who wants to go?
Speaker 7: I got a f DM five hundred.
Speaker 2: Did you from where?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 7: D ex engineering? I think the lowest price. It was
Speaker 7: like a dollar cheaper.
Speaker 2: It's like until Jason's stream.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Camel camel camel from Josh's stream.
Speaker 2: Huh what about him?
Speaker 1: So good saying just saying so good.
Speaker 11: If you're not using camel camel camel, you better be
Speaker 11: before you buy anything on Amazon for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I have a I have a plug in called coopert. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: it tells you what the what the historic aggregate is
Speaker 2: of the of the product. No, it finds other websites
Speaker 2: they're like, we found seven other websites with the lower
Speaker 2: price and blah blah blah.
Speaker 11: So so Camel Camel Camel will tell you, like, over
Speaker 11: the course of a year or more, what the price
Speaker 11: has been. So when you go on the Black Friday
Speaker 11: site and it's like, used to be eighty dollars, now forty,
Speaker 11: and then you look at Camel Camel Camel, It's like, no,
Speaker 11: it's been forty dollars for eighteen months.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 11: It totally rats out Amazon for trying to trying to
Speaker 11: sleeve out people.
Speaker 2: I saw several I saw several ham Radio websites that
Speaker 2: were claiming that this this weekend as well. So I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's cool, no problem, I'm not dogging you,
Speaker 2: but yeah, that was your price three weeks ago. Also
Speaker 2: for your Black Friday sale, It's good, all right? So
Speaker 2: who bought what? So Pat got a FtM five hundred,
Speaker 2: who else? Not something for Black Friday?
Speaker 9: I just picked up.
Speaker 1: Twenty what?
Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry, what the a toss one twenty oh
Speaker 2: from gigabarts.
Speaker 1: From Giga Parts.
Speaker 4: Now I need to go to my local HRO pick.
Speaker 9: Up a eight ninety one.
Speaker 1: I'll probably do that tomorrow.
Speaker 10: Yep, I also bought one too.
Speaker 2: Did you really know?
Speaker 4: The dirty secret about the one twenties is if you
Speaker 4: go off and buy the Larsen forty nine inch whip,
Speaker 4: which is w the partnerbers at W four and I'm
Speaker 4: pretty sure it's a stock whip, you pull out the
Speaker 4: Yasu whip, the thirty inch whip, you drop the forty
Speaker 4: nine inch whip directly in. You lose six meters VHF
Speaker 4: and UHF, but you gain all kinds of performance off
Speaker 4: the HF bands. It's a simple, easy modification.
Speaker 2: Really, yes, sir.
Speaker 4: I've been I've been running mind like that for twenty years.
Speaker 10: Oh wow, what was that partner of bregains.
Speaker 4: Whiskey four nine zero bravo. It's like a twenty year
Speaker 4: thirty dollars whip and your funny monopoly money.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, you know, in order to be monopoly money,
Speaker 10: it's got to have different colors.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 4: Oh, I've forgotten, I'd forgotten that. You're right.
Speaker 1: Hang on a minute, hang on, hang on, hang on,
Speaker 1: slow your role. What do you mean it's what do
Speaker 1: you mean it's a better antenna?
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't say it was a better antenna. It
Speaker 4: improves the.
Speaker 1: Performance, improve the performance?
Speaker 4: How well you put more radiating element in the area,
Speaker 4: put one hundred and fifty percent more radiator on it?
Speaker 1: How long was that whip? And you're you're saying, this
Speaker 1: is just a whip that you drop in the A tooss.
Speaker 4: Yeah, instead of this, instead of I.
Speaker 1: Got it in here is I've been listening to the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to hear it from Vince.
Speaker 4: Instead of the stock thirty inch whip, you know, which
Speaker 4: is like this long, you put the forty nine inch whip,
Speaker 4: which is like this long, one hundred and fifty percent more,
Speaker 4: just about one hundred and sixty something like that. Just
Speaker 4: a just a what it's it's longer just a what?
Speaker 1: Just a boot?
Speaker 4: Yeah, just a boat?
Speaker 1: Sure, whatever you're talking. You're talking the stock a toss whip. Hey,
Speaker 1: get the stock a tass whipper versus a drop in
Speaker 1: Larsen forty nine inch because it fits. So there's it.
Speaker 1: So there, hang on, So there's a drop in whip
Speaker 1: for the a toss. Listen, dude, I'm coming home for
Speaker 1: my birthday dinner. Okay, So screw you guys, happy, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk, never scroll that. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the Athos.
Speaker 2: You're going to win the button here in a minute,
Speaker 2: do it, Mike, Mike hold on, like if I may, Mike,
Speaker 2: if I may.
Speaker 11: So, if you go to the h R O and
Speaker 11: Anaheim and you buy an ATOS, one of the first
Speaker 11: things they recommend is that you buy the longer extension
Speaker 11: whip because it makes it a more effective radiator. With
Speaker 11: that said, there's a caveat when you get going real
Speaker 11: fast and you get a lot of deflection on.
Speaker 8: That whip that can affect it.
Speaker 11: But yeah, it is a longer piece of metal and
Speaker 11: it makes the tuning a little bit easier to the caveat.
Speaker 1: Josh is if you go to the HRO O and Anaheim.
Speaker 8: No, but you can buy this with anyway.
Speaker 2: It's just a stinger. It's just a long stinger, that's
Speaker 2: all it is. Yeah, yes, what he said, and longer
Speaker 2: longer what he said.
Speaker 4: I run a sixty inch whip in mine. I had
Speaker 4: to do a little bit of light machining at the top.
Speaker 1: I didn't know there was a drop in whip for this,
Speaker 1: So this is exciting for me.
Speaker 11: So anyway, you might have to hog it out a
Speaker 11: little bit with a drill bit though.
Speaker 1: But I can't drive. I h you just can't.
Speaker 2: You know, there's this thing called the Internet. It's it's
Speaker 2: actually how we're communicating right now. It's the Internet. And
Speaker 2: there's these things called websites, and they sell Josh fake dud.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mute myself, Jason. I'm happy to be here
Speaker 1: at continue with your stream.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'm happy you're here too. And your
Speaker 2: slurred speech happened before you got here. I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: say that, I wait, not my fault this time. So
Speaker 2: I bought I bought a Baja lighting system for my
Speaker 2: I bought a forty inch led Baja light for my
Speaker 2: my roof rack. I've been looking at those for months
Speaker 2: and they put they put the whole website on twenty
Speaker 2: percent off or twenty five percent off today. So I
Speaker 2: bought that today. That's I think that's the only thing
Speaker 2: I've actually bought for Black Friday. So I bought this.
Speaker 2: Oh did you get? Oh that's the eighty five white model.
Speaker 11: Okay, eighty five, And I'm gonna give it away tomorrow,
Speaker 11: are you after? Alf I will ship it after I
Speaker 11: finished the video review for you, right, yeah, now, I
Speaker 11: am told I am told that this this ass signal
Speaker 11: processing is amazing. Like the quality of what they're doing
Speaker 11: with this signal processing is better than the FtM five hundred,
Speaker 11: better than a lot of the more recently.
Speaker 8: This is like next level for audio processing.
Speaker 11: So I will give this away on the live stream
Speaker 11: tomorrow after I do you know, I'll ship it after
Speaker 11: I do the video review. And then I also bought
Speaker 11: a I bought a Power Genius. Did you really did
Speaker 11: that too? Did you get a new one or a use?
Speaker 11: I bought the one on Black Friday. It's like seven
Speaker 11: hundred dollars off, so I.
Speaker 2: Bought yeah, yeah, huh, well, good luck to you. That's
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. It's gonna be. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you fact check that seven hundred dollars off on the.
Speaker 2: I think it's it's it's it's actually one thousand dollars
Speaker 2: off on their website right now, A thousand for the
Speaker 2: Power Genius.
Speaker 11: Well, I say, I spaved. That's what we call do.
Speaker 11: It's we're spending to save. That's what we did here.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 7: I gotta fight to catch in the morning, so I'll catch.
Speaker 2: You all later, all right, Pat, thanks for joining man,
Speaker 2: appreciate yeah, I've got the I've got the legal limit
Speaker 2: as expert amplifier. Oh yeah, in the that's in the
Speaker 2: bagging and carry around. So I've gotta I've got to
Speaker 2: do some stuff with that. But I gotta set up
Speaker 2: the freaking hex beam because I don't have an intended
Speaker 2: that will handle it besides that one as far as
Speaker 2: portable work goes. Anyway, I figured, you know, we're we
Speaker 2: gotta we got a Christmas light. Yeah up here, Oh
Speaker 2: you should tell me put that power Genius on the
Speaker 2: Christmas lights. I'm gonna put it.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna put a tuner between it so I don't
Speaker 11: kill the kill the amp or anything.
Speaker 2: But uh huh, yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 11: I got this this eight eleven. H It's been fine.
Speaker 11: It's I'm on my seventh year of doing the Christmas
Speaker 11: light antenna string.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been doing there for a while and so
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 11: This amp is kind of on its last legs anyway,
Speaker 11: so I figured let's do the do the thing.
Speaker 8: So here we go.
Speaker 2: Hmm, Well, there you go. That Power Genius is a
Speaker 2: badass samp. It's just it's it's freaking awesome.
Speaker 1: That's real sweet of you, Josh to to do that
Speaker 1: for the rest of us Hams.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 11: Now you have the order of having a working in
Speaker 11: contact with me, right is that right now?
Speaker 1: We have that. We got that years ago. It's just
Speaker 1: that you're willing to sacrifice the amp now.
Speaker 2: For it's so magnanimous of me to do this. I know,
Speaker 2: I know you should totally do it. Giveaway with that amp.
Speaker 2: There you go there eight eleven age. Oh, you know what,
Speaker 2: that's not a bad idea. I put some put some
Speaker 2: new tubes in it and give it away.
Speaker 11: Man, No, it's not the tubes. There's something else going
Speaker 11: on because I swapped the tubes out. It's it's got
Speaker 11: other problems. So we'd have I'd have to have somebody.
Speaker 11: There's a guy in Anaheim. I think that'll do a
Speaker 11: tune up on him. Yeah, so I may. I may
Speaker 11: drop it off with him. And And that's a really
Speaker 11: good idea, except goddamn shipping an amp.
Speaker 8: That's not a fun idea. That brought a fun idea.
Speaker 2: Well, Well, if you, if you, if you, if you
Speaker 2: do a give what I've done this before, if you
Speaker 2: do a giveaway of something that's really heavy like that,
Speaker 2: just say hey, I'm going to give this to you,
Speaker 2: but you might have to pay for shipping, depend on
Speaker 2: where you are, you know, if you want to meet
Speaker 2: me and so col Hey, come out here, I'll give
Speaker 2: it to you. Here you go, good, good luck. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of hams in California. So yeah, that's really
Speaker 2: good point. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, like if you're if you're international, you're going to
Speaker 11: have to help me out with the shipping because I oh, totally.
Speaker 1: I just shipped a one hundred amp hour battery Mini
Speaker 1: to California and it costs sixty dollars.
Speaker 9: Wrap.
Speaker 8: How heavy was it?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: How much is it?
Speaker 9: What is.
Speaker 2: About the many? The Mini's not dim if in California.
Speaker 1: It costs me It cost me sixty two dollars to ship.
Speaker 11: Well, I think my amp is weighs less than that,
Speaker 11: so at least okay, now I got a frame of reference.
Speaker 11: But yeah, no, it's not cheap out there to ship stuff.
Speaker 10: Hey, did Mike here the news about the PoTA thirty
Speaker 10: three sold out? Yeah?
Speaker 2: They sold out of those all right, that's hold, we
Speaker 2: sold them. We sold them out of those tonight, did
Speaker 2: you guys?
Speaker 1: Really? That's great? Yeah, great, thank you.
Speaker 2: They only had a few left, he said, they only
Speaker 2: had a few left. But yeah, we sold him out
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I came here late, but it's my birthday.
Speaker 2: And obviously you were doing other things because you have. Yes,
Speaker 2: I drunk. You haven't been sleeping. I can tell you
Speaker 2: that right now, like we didn't.
Speaker 11: We couldn't tell dude, you could You're you're passing, bro,
Speaker 11: you're passing.
Speaker 2: You've got You've got probably eighteen hours too. You have
Speaker 2: to get back onto a live stream during all night
Speaker 2: with Josh and do it all over again, treat that
Speaker 2: much again.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like I'm like, I need to
Speaker 1: I need to drop and like, you know, but whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I got to record.
Speaker 11: I got to record a uh podcast after this, so
Speaker 11: then I gotta go to the sea and then we
Speaker 11: gotta do the live stream. And I already have like
Speaker 11: at least eight hours of content at this point.
Speaker 2: So well, I recorded several videos this week, all of
Speaker 2: which well not all of which, but most of which
Speaker 2: have been premiered already. But uh, it is that time
Speaker 2: of the year. Every now and then you get the
Speaker 2: Yahoo that comes by your comment section. It says, well,
Speaker 2: it's just a hamor radio channel. It's just a Ham
Speaker 2: Radio channel or are you just selling it? Are you
Speaker 2: just selling stuff? I'm like, yes, it's both, it can be.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, I'm like, I love the guys
Speaker 2: who complain about the bow Fang videos. When I put
Speaker 2: up a bow Fang video and in the first twenty
Speaker 2: four hours it gets twelve thousand views, and then some
Speaker 2: Yahoo comes in there and says, how come, what are
Speaker 2: you doing Bellfang, bellfan suck? Were doing because all of
Speaker 2: you guys watch it. That's why I put it my
Speaker 2: first seven on five video and like thirty two hundred
Speaker 2: people watched it. Put up a val Fang video and
Speaker 2: twelve thousand people watch it? What do you think I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: There's a good question in the chat is that somebody
Speaker 4: please suggest a good handheld radio compliment the ya su
Speaker 4: f tt X ten.
Speaker 2: A handheld that compliments to the d X ten.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of struggling with that too. I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: you know, there's there's the there's the f T five,
Speaker 4: Mike's favorite radio. I mean, right, f T seventy. If
Speaker 4: if they're on a budget, what do.
Speaker 1: You mean by compliment?
Speaker 2: I don't understand. Yeah that I don't understand what that means.
Speaker 9: The biggest thing. Yeah, that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's yay, Sue, So why not stay in
Speaker 5: the in.
Speaker 9: The company, in the brand.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's top h H handheld. So he got
Speaker 5: like the top radio or one of the top radios.
Speaker 9: Get the top h.
Speaker 2: T Jody says, compliments as in matches the color. Yeah
Speaker 2: there's one a black HTSH. That's cool. Yeah, yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 10: There are several Black Friday deals on Jesu handhelds, so
Speaker 10: there's a variety of them, and depending on whether you
Speaker 10: want digital or not, it really comes down to the features.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, yeah, pick the digital mode you want. The
Speaker 2: FT five D from yaz is great, the ID fifty
Speaker 2: or I'D fifty two from i comm is great for
Speaker 2: d star, and then the best DMRHT out there right
Speaker 2: now still in my opinions, that any Ton eight seven eight.
Speaker 2: So they just come out with that newer one that's
Speaker 2: the D one six eight and it's good, nothing wrong
Speaker 2: with it, got a few of us features. It's like
Speaker 2: almost half the price of the eight seven eight, So
Speaker 2: if you're on a budget, that might be a choice
Speaker 2: for you, but uh, but it's hard to beat that, uh,
Speaker 2: that ID fifty or fifty two, the FT five or
Speaker 2: the or the D seven. The only bad thing about
Speaker 2: the D seventy five is it has really crappy battery life.
Speaker 2: Other than that, it's a fantastic rate you really really
Speaker 2: good radio people complain about.
Speaker 10: Jim go ahead, I was gonna say, I think the
Speaker 10: D seventy five has got a pretty good uh sale
Speaker 10: on it to this this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there was some sales on that this
Speaker 2: week as well.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna find out I Black Friday to
Speaker 4: D seventy five, So we'll we'll see. I'll compare it
Speaker 4: against my D seventy four. People had to complain about
Speaker 4: D seventy four that the battery life stunk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bay, same battery similar, right, I have.
Speaker 4: I have never had that issue. Really, man, people complain
Speaker 4: that the f T seventies battery life stinks. I have
Speaker 4: never had that issue. So I swear it's just the
Speaker 4: way that they're continued.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, turn on a PRS off.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, turn on a PRS.
Speaker 1: Well, but a.
Speaker 4: Pr S isn't useful. According to mister mister Mike mister birthday.
Speaker 2: Exactly why you should use it exactly.
Speaker 4: No, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so yeah, of course, if you turn off all
Speaker 11: the features that you might want to use, you don't
Speaker 11: have to use APRS all. You can just turn it
Speaker 11: off and then yeah, you'll say, have a ton GPS
Speaker 11: off is always a good thing to turn off.
Speaker 2: As well, if you're not actually needing that, which you don't.
Speaker 2: The reason the reason that you buy that radio is
Speaker 2: because it has all those features. But if you turn
Speaker 2: off all those features, then the battery lasts a long time,
Speaker 2: you know that kind of kind of thing. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: the FT five has I won't say it's better APRS.
Speaker 2: If you're wanting to send APRS messages, the D seventy
Speaker 2: five is probably better. Oh yeah, but but the smart
Speaker 2: begonning on the on the Yazoo, it works really well. Sure,
Speaker 2: and the battery life on the Yazoo's much much better
Speaker 2: than the Ken would so agreed.
Speaker 11: Kinds of what you're doing, I mean, aesthetically like that
Speaker 11: that look of the ftd X ten I feel like
Speaker 11: is aesthetically just talking aesthetics is like the FT seventy
Speaker 11: that's like peak that the look, I fifty seventy or
Speaker 11: seventy ten?
Speaker 2: Well, so what was the hand held?
Speaker 8: The HF radio? Yeah, because he wanted an accompany to
Speaker 8: the FT X ten.
Speaker 4: And accompanying FT radio.
Speaker 11: Yeah, the FT seventy with electric notch on. It looks
Speaker 11: feels like but the screen's wrong. The screen's wrong.
Speaker 4: Well, the volume control is wrong to press a button
Speaker 4: and then turn it off. No, nobody's got time for two.
Speaker 8: I know what it is.
Speaker 11: It's the FT three d R, not the FT five.
Speaker 11: The FT three d R looks like the FT ftd
Speaker 11: x ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I agree with that.
Speaker 2: They came out there it is. He's got it, he's
Speaker 2: told it right now. Yeah, I still have my FT three.
Speaker 2: I didn't get rong. I love that radio. It's a
Speaker 2: great radio.
Speaker 10: That in the four hundred for life.
Speaker 2: M hm, yep, I agree, but that's uh yeah, I
Speaker 2: D fifty two for the live. Oh, Ryan's in the
Speaker 2: chat KF eight, I V what's up, buddy? Good see you.
Speaker 2: Leya is in the chat. But I don't think it's
Speaker 2: your Lea, Josh. It's just my god, was she here?
Speaker 8: Was she here for u?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 10: That's he's in.
Speaker 2: Trouble, Leah I don't think it's the spelling of my
Speaker 2: wife's name.
Speaker 11: That is she here when we were talking about the
Speaker 11: Black Fridays.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't know. I was not My alerts
Speaker 2: were not on.
Speaker 11: So Hi the credit card statements, you know, what she's
Speaker 11: asking is definitely not something my wife would ask.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, that's a different layers.
Speaker 10: So Josh, I'm thinking, uh, maybe some adjacent to you guys,
Speaker 10: maybe like offer a service where people could have you
Speaker 10: call your their spouses and break the news to them
Speaker 10: on ham radio purchases they might have gotten on Black Friday.
Speaker 2: Like like a crisis negotiator. What are we talking?
Speaker 10: Maybe you know they would they would, they would, they
Speaker 10: would reach out to you on discord and then you know,
Speaker 10: Josh could call the spouse and you know, and and
Speaker 10: just just break the news to him and it's you
Speaker 10: know you Apparently I've got a lot of a good
Speaker 10: practice at this and.
Speaker 6: Yeah, signed me up for that call center.
Speaker 2: There you go down.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think you got to go find like a
Speaker 11: swat team where they got their hostage negotiators not being
Speaker 11: fully utilized and like, hey, you're looking for to pick
Speaker 11: up a little a couple of hours we have you work, uh,
Speaker 11: work the negotiations with the wife when she finds out
Speaker 11: that you're their husband's paid way too much.
Speaker 2: For their radio equipment. All right, here's uh, here's a
Speaker 2: here's an excellent, excellent discussion. Jake in the chat says
Speaker 2: FT three d R greater than symbol FT five d
Speaker 2: R Go no, who says yes? Who says no? Arguments
Speaker 2: either or.
Speaker 8: Go I I f T five is better than the
Speaker 8: FT three.
Speaker 2: Agreed, totally agreed. Yeah, because when they designed the FT five,
Speaker 2: they took into the account that and and John said
Speaker 2: this on a livest in a while back, like the
Speaker 2: the PTT button stuck out too far from the side
Speaker 2: on the FT three, so when you'd grab it on
Speaker 2: your belt, you would key it up accidentally. And and
Speaker 2: the touch screen when you would touch it, it would
Speaker 2: go into the menu. So you have to long touch
Speaker 2: the FT five. So they changed esthetic things like that
Speaker 2: on it that people complain about. They're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: people are complaining about this. This makes sense, Let's change this,
Speaker 2: let's update it. So I agree. I still have my
Speaker 2: FT three, love my FT three, but the FT five
Speaker 2: is a better radio. I agree with that.
Speaker 11: Now, isn't it also more water resistant. There was more
Speaker 11: physical differences too, I thought than that, but.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, IPX rating.
Speaker 2: Oddly enough, though, there is one thing that they did
Speaker 2: on the FT five they don't have on the FT three,
Speaker 2: and that's that scanning feature bugginess.
Speaker 8: No, it's not a bug.
Speaker 2: They intended it this way the PMG.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 11: So if you if you go into scanning like you're
Speaker 11: doing frequency scanning, yeah, on the FT three, it will
Speaker 11: actually show the frequencies being scanned. On the FT five,
Speaker 11: it it didn't do that. They had to push a
Speaker 11: firmware upgrade that only happened a couple of months ago,
Speaker 11: and that only works for the frequency scan. It doesn't
Speaker 11: work for the memory channel scan.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 11: So if you are in memory mode and you hit
Speaker 11: scan on the FT five, it just says mem scan
Speaker 11: on the screen while it's doing it in the background.
Speaker 11: The FT three will actually show you the channel.
Speaker 2: Show you the channels, yeah, which I think that's what
Speaker 2: people want. That they want that. That was an.
Speaker 1: Early thing that people were complaining about with the FT
Speaker 1: five though, is that it didn't change the Yeah you
Speaker 1: didn't see the Yeah.
Speaker 11: They updated it. It works now with the frequencies. That
Speaker 11: happened just recently. The firmware update. The memscan though is
Speaker 11: not done.
Speaker 2: My my FtM six thousand that I have does that
Speaker 2: as well. If I put in five channels to the PMG,
Speaker 2: it'll hold up to five channels, so I put in
Speaker 2: six top five to two. I put in my all
Speaker 2: Star node, and depending where I'm at, I might put
Speaker 2: in a local simplex or repeater. Frequencies are a couple,
Speaker 2: and I'll hit program scan PMG scan and it just
Speaker 2: flashes PMG scan on the screen instead of like telling
Speaker 2: you what frequencies and what channels it's scanning. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I would much rather see the actual channel names or
Speaker 2: frequency numbers on the scan than that. So that's a
Speaker 2: that's a recent update, a firm update to the FT five,
Speaker 2: is what you said.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I made a video on it a couple of
Speaker 11: months ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, I haven't updated my FT five firmware
Speaker 2: in a while, So maybe that's a that's a thing.
Speaker 2: All right, here's a here's.
Speaker 11: A mad person who's upset that just because they ask
Speaker 11: a question, we don't stop immediately to answer it.
Speaker 2: I'm not seeing that. Where is it?
Speaker 8: Mister B D have his question answered immediately.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't work to ask a question.
Speaker 8: It just it just doesn't. I guess it just doesn't work.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't, mister b D. Who I guess.
Speaker 1: What is your question?
Speaker 8: I don't know, but I'm enough to go back.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not all any Are you there all.
Speaker 8: Answer the comments?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 9: Here we go?
Speaker 2: He's oh there is? Yeah? Are you all? Are you
Speaker 2: all answered the comments? Yeah, there's a lot of comments
Speaker 2: coming through, buddy. Yeah, it's a bigti. I'm happy. I
Speaker 2: am happy to answer your question. But you gotta be persistent.
Speaker 2: I can't. You know, there's three hundred and fifty people watching.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't. So you answer everything he asked.
Speaker 11: He did ask the question, I'm looking for an upgrade
Speaker 11: radio for my bowfang, something to mount in my car,
Speaker 11: but he left off the most fundamental and important thing
Speaker 11: you must do, this question hang on.
Speaker 1: But I didn't want to. I didn't want to say that.
Speaker 2: That's the answer. That's the question. Sorry, Mike, we all.
Speaker 1: Know it is. But I could just say easily, because
Speaker 1: I've been in his situation. I think we all have
Speaker 1: we get our technician license, we get a bow fang,
Speaker 1: and we're like, I got, dude, I'm a tech. I
Speaker 1: got I got repeaters, I can hear. I got my radio.
Speaker 1: But now I want to drive, man. So what I did.
Speaker 1: I got a just some little diamond magnet mount. It
Speaker 1: was like a little nineteen inch antenna, and I ran
Speaker 1: the co axe in through the door and I slammed
Speaker 1: the door on the co axe and then I plugged
Speaker 1: that coax into my Bowfang radio. Of course you do,
Speaker 1: and sure, sure is cancer. I'm talking to a guy
Speaker 1: on the repeater on my Boofang radio and he said,
Speaker 1: what radio are you using. I'm like, dude, I'm on.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm on a UV five R and I'm
Speaker 1: like a brand new tech. He's like, you stand. You
Speaker 1: sound like you're standing right next to me. You're five
Speaker 1: to nine full quieting, all the all the good audio
Speaker 1: reports that you could get just a little nineteen inch
Speaker 1: mag mount on your car, so throwing pottery. The movie goes,
Speaker 1: don't use your radio inside your car, because you are
Speaker 1: Your car is kind of a Feritay cage and it
Speaker 1: blocks the signals. So if you can take the cheap,
Speaker 1: crappy antenna that I just did and put it on
Speaker 1: the top of your car. Just getting the antenna outside is.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is the way. Totally totally agree with that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: get an external antenna much better.
Speaker 6: This is the way.
Speaker 2: Budget is one who tough to.
Speaker 1: You're gonna buy You can buy fifteen of those antennas.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: The uh there's a couple of like twenty watt thirty
Speaker 11: wat something VHF UHF mobiles that are on Amazon right now,
Speaker 11: probably for Black Friday. You might be able to score
Speaker 11: one for one under one fifty and that'll leave you
Speaker 11: enough money for Mike's Madmount solution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, qit or it's not for.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget about the question at hand. What can
Speaker 1: I do with what I have now? So the answer isn't.
Speaker 1: We all want to say, just get a better radio,
Speaker 1: but the answer one one hundred percent of the time
Speaker 1: is get a better antenna. The time is getting better antenna.
Speaker 2: And make sure that antenna's if you're talking mobile, make
Speaker 2: sure that antennas on top of your car. A lot
Speaker 2: of people don't like to do that. They want to
Speaker 2: put it on their trunk or on their hood or
Speaker 2: on their door or something. Okay, cool, but you're gonna
Speaker 2: get better performance if it's as high on your car
Speaker 2: as you can put it. It's just a fact.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're not wrong. You will you you will one
Speaker 1: get better performance just by your antenna not being inside
Speaker 1: the car though. Jason is correct. Yeah, I mean there
Speaker 1: are optimal places that you can put an antenna. Don't
Speaker 1: get fussed up in that. Get your antenna outside the
Speaker 1: car with your bowfang, mh. Just get your antenna outside
Speaker 1: the car.
Speaker 2: I saw a guy on Reddit the other day. They
Speaker 2: were arguing about something. I don't remember what it was,
Speaker 2: no way, and then yeah, yeah, it's kind of amazing, right,
Speaker 2: and then he said and then he said something about
Speaker 2: he's like. One of the last comments was, well, Bellfang
Speaker 2: has saved this hobby from extinction for the last several years.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, are you literally on crack? I mean,
Speaker 2: like seriously, what what I mean? Like, if you're a troll,
Speaker 2: good job, if you're serious, Like what rock have you
Speaker 2: been living under? My god? It has hell? Yes, But
Speaker 2: they were saying that nothing else matter. Balfang was hit.
Speaker 2: Fang has saved the hobby. The hobby would be dead
Speaker 2: without balf.
Speaker 10: I make that statement on a regular basis. But what
Speaker 10: I say is that they they don't necessarily save the hobby,
Speaker 10: but they have gotten a lot of people. They have
Speaker 10: reduced that price point to get people in the door.
Speaker 10: And once you're in, then it's a whole different story.
Speaker 10: But to Mike's point, you know, until you're ready to
Speaker 10: take that next step, because the handheld in your car
Speaker 10: will not work very well. It's that's just the reality.
Speaker 10: So you either, uh, we'll stick with that, you'll get
Speaker 10: out of it. But but to make that initial step
Speaker 10: to say I'm gonna spend one hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 10: or two hundred dollars versus twenty dollars, I mean, that's
Speaker 10: a that's a big difference now today. Ten years ago,
Speaker 10: there weren't as many radios, so Balfang was pretty much
Speaker 10: yet on the well.
Speaker 2: Actually, actually walk Sun was in the USA before Balfang was.
Speaker 2: And the reason I know this is because I got
Speaker 2: out of Okay. So when I got my first hand
Speaker 2: radio license in nineteen ninety four, thet I was in college,
Speaker 2: I had no money. The cheapest and I mean the
Speaker 2: absolute cheapest ht radio I could get was a HTx
Speaker 2: two O two from Radio Shack. It was one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty nine dollars. It was the size of a
Speaker 2: friggin' brick. It held sixteen memory channels, it did five watts,
Speaker 2: and it was one forty four to one forty eight
Speaker 2: and that is it. Great radio. Still have mine, Okay,
Speaker 2: great radio. But it was one hundred and eighty nine dollars.
Speaker 2: So when I when I got back into Ham Radio RS,
Speaker 2: it did not. So when I got back into Ham
Speaker 2: Radio in like twenty twelve or twenty thirteen, I kind
Speaker 2: of got out of it for a while and back
Speaker 2: in and back out, back in. So I got back
Speaker 2: into about twenty twelve twenty thirteen is somewhere in there,
Speaker 2: and I've been into it ever since then. Obviously, I
Speaker 2: went to hamcom uh in Texas. Here was in Plano
Speaker 2: at the time, and that's the first time I ever
Speaker 2: met Richard at Main Trading Company. I went up. It
Speaker 2: was like Main Trading Company, they sell I cam yez
Speaker 2: you everybody. And I went up and I found a
Speaker 2: wals On kg UVD one P which I still have
Speaker 2: that radio too. It was a dual band one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty eight channel radio for ninety nine dollars. I
Speaker 2: couldn't get my wallet out of my pocket fast enough.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what ninety nine dollars for one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty eight channels and it's duel band? What the hell
Speaker 2: that is freaking Because Radio Shack came out with an
Speaker 2: HGX for twenty I think it was I don't know
Speaker 2: the guy who created that model number. I don't know
Speaker 2: what he was doing in the back room, but HCHS
Speaker 2: twenty yeahs.
Speaker 4: He used to work for IBM IBMO. He famously had
Speaker 4: a twelve inch monitor called the eighty five to thirteen
Speaker 4: had a thirteen inch monitor. I shit, you not called the.
Speaker 2: Twelve There you go, okay. So AHCX four twenty was
Speaker 2: a dual band radio for Radio Shock and it was
Speaker 2: like four hundred dollars. It's like three eighty nine or
Speaker 2: something like that, three sixty nine, I don't remember somewhere
Speaker 2: in there. So when I saw that walks on UVD
Speaker 2: one P for ninety nine bucks, I'm like, holy crap.
Speaker 2: And that's what got me back into hammer. And that
Speaker 2: was long before I ever heard of Balphane twenty twenty
Speaker 2: thirteen I think twenty thirteen, I think, And it was
Speaker 2: I didn't hear about Balfan I didn't hear the name
Speaker 2: Balfang for two years after that. Walks On was in
Speaker 2: the USA long before that, but they were one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Then Balfang comes in with twenty five dollars rail other
Speaker 2: twenty five dollars radio. Fine, it's a twenty five dollars radio.
Speaker 2: If you understand it's a twenty five dollars radio, and
Speaker 2: you treat it like a twenty five dollars radio.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 2: I think it's great that people can get into ham
Speaker 2: radio with one hundred and twenty eight channel dual band
Speaker 2: radio for twenty five bucks. It's awesomeson, yes, but I
Speaker 2: have really ever.
Speaker 1: I have never filled up one hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 1: channels of my UV five R.
Speaker 8: Oh I can blow through?
Speaker 2: Oh of course you can't, la la boy. Yeah, well no, no, no.
Speaker 2: The point is that, well, UV five R number one,
Speaker 2: if you have one of the original ones, it'll do
Speaker 2: murrors and ap and frs.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I'm I've never like when I when I first
Speaker 1: got licensed in twenty sixteen. I'm like, I got the
Speaker 1: UV five R. It's got one hundred and twenty eight channels.
Speaker 1: I still almost well shoot ten years into the hobby.
Speaker 1: Eight years into the hobby. Now I still don't have
Speaker 1: where I live now, one hundred and twenty eight channels
Speaker 1: to fill up a UV five R.
Speaker 2: No, but you put it. You put in channels for
Speaker 2: places you travel to.
Speaker 1: That's why I have an icon mighty fifty.
Speaker 2: There you go, that's a well that didn't exist in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, did it?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: I didn't. But in twenty sixteen I had a UV
Speaker 1: five R. It still exists today that I bought for
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars then and now it's seventeen dollars now.
Speaker 1: So whatever the point, I don't even know what the
Speaker 1: point is.
Speaker 2: But I don't know what your point is either.
Speaker 1: My point is where wherever I've lived, Remember, there's there's
Speaker 1: not one hundred and twenty eight or one hundred.
Speaker 2: And ninety, No, there's not. There's not like even with.
Speaker 1: The shoddy memory, low memory that a UV five R has, Like,
Speaker 1: where are you that you have one hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: eight channels that you're going to put in as a
Speaker 1: memory unless you're unless you're La boy, Well, you're.
Speaker 4: Start working the birds and you'll need all the satellite memories. Right,
Speaker 4: your memory your.
Speaker 2: Thinking about just Ham radio channels.
Speaker 1: So well, no, no, because I had all I had
Speaker 1: all my repeaters, I had all the GMRS channels, I
Speaker 1: had all the FRS channels, which are separate. But there's
Speaker 1: the same, the same. No, it's I might have fifty
Speaker 1: memories and that's being generous. Like if you just want
Speaker 1: to get it a Ham radio, get a UV five
Speaker 1: R plugah, plug the things in the repeaters.
Speaker 2: But the walks on is a better radio.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm not. I'm not arguing that.
Speaker 8: I don't think anybody's disagree with you.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, I'm coming from a solely like memory
Speaker 1: number standpoint one hundred and ninety eight memories or the U.
Speaker 2: Five R is yeah, it's eight. But no, no, you're right,
Speaker 2: you're right, you're right most of the time, you're right.
Speaker 10: But the must have it was was basically the barrier
Speaker 10: of entry, right, get them in the door. They don't
Speaker 10: feel bad if they not to stay in. It agrees,
Speaker 10: it's a small investment versus a large investment. Like you
Speaker 10: said you couldn't get your wallet out fast enough when
Speaker 10: it was one hundred bucks. Right, yeah, so I agree
Speaker 10: with it on that statement, but it no, it's you.
Speaker 10: You're going to quickly if if you really dive into
Speaker 10: this hobby, you will become dissatisfied with it at some
Speaker 10: point and you'll want a different radio, or you could
Speaker 10: have Apparently this new thing I've heard of it's called
Speaker 10: mark multiple radio disorder or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yes, I've heard of that. Yeah, I just heard that
Speaker 2: term the other day. Multiple radio disorder. It's a sickness. Actually,
Speaker 2: never heard of it.
Speaker 1: Never heard of it.
Speaker 2: There's there's a medication for it called wife. That's what
Speaker 2: the medication is called. That's why I am not heard
Speaker 2: of it. Yeah, that's why you've not heard of it, Mike.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you're immune.
Speaker 1: So all right, if any of you guys want to
Speaker 1: come over and see what it's like, you're well.
Speaker 2: Epic Batteries is back of the chat, buddy, thanks for
Speaker 2: joining us tonight. They want to give away what do
Speaker 2: they want to give away? They want to give away
Speaker 2: a battery tonight. Uh, give away a twelve three hundred
Speaker 2: empower battery.
Speaker 1: Epic bound.
Speaker 2: That's an epic amount of ampower. Yes, yes, ep ep
Speaker 2: EO c MIC. I got connected with him a couple
Speaker 2: of months ago. There are the new battery that's going
Speaker 2: in the back of my truck and my my big
Speaker 2: system in the back.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, what are they going to
Speaker 1: supply you for charge? Well, you got the charger, what
Speaker 1: do you got a forty AM charger connected to that
Speaker 1: when you're at home?
Speaker 2: Uh? Well no, no, I've got a d C to
Speaker 2: d C charger from uh from red Arc in the truck.
Speaker 2: So when I start the truck, the chargers my second battery.
Speaker 1: But didn't you when like when you back up to your.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got I've got that that forty charger that
Speaker 2: I think red Otto sent me. But it's like the
Speaker 2: same charger that everybody else has.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Okay, So I've not heard of this battery company.
Speaker 2: So I hadn't heard of it. I haven't heard of
Speaker 2: him before a couple of months ago either, but they
Speaker 2: E P E O C I'm sorry E P E
Speaker 2: E P O C H Batteries dot com. Fuck okay,
Speaker 2: it's time. Yeah, it's it's it's spelled epoch, but it's
Speaker 2: pronounced epic, I believe. So, yeah, you guys go out
Speaker 2: there and check that out because some kick ass batteries,
Speaker 2: Like I'm really impressed with the one they sent me.
Speaker 2: I've got a four hundred and sixty em power and
Speaker 2: it is going to run my truck for like a
Speaker 2: week and a half. I did, That's insane. No, they
Speaker 2: do up to forty. They have some forty eight volt stuff.
Speaker 2: They have twenty four and forty eight volt stuff as well.
Speaker 10: Because I'm still looking, I'm working on figuring out power situation.
Speaker 2: For the bill. I would love to get like a
Speaker 2: like a forty eight volt power wall in my house,
Speaker 2: especially once we moved to Galveston, because apparently Galveston gets
Speaker 2: forgotten about when there's power outages because they just turn
Speaker 2: off the Galveston power and just like, oh, everybody else
Speaker 2: gets power. That's what happened when in the snow.
Speaker 1: Moved to Galveston. Or how's that going to work?
Speaker 2: When we as in? My wife and I remember I
Speaker 2: said that thing about wife a minute ago. I have
Speaker 2: to take her with me.
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't hear that part. Sorry, Sorry, Emily,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: Think it was a thing. Yeah, but that's the part.
Speaker 10: That wall behind me is going to be dedicated to
Speaker 10: power and radio gear right there. Net rack.
Speaker 2: That that's that's the that's awesome.
Speaker 10: That's that's the future of the of the shack here.
Speaker 2: That's great. So all right, so this is uh, where
Speaker 2: is my screen here?
Speaker 4: It's right where you left it there, It is right there.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this one right here Epic Batteries dot Com
Speaker 2: Black Friday Sale fifteen percent off of all products plus
Speaker 2: free shipping coupon code of BF twenty twenty four. And yeah,
Speaker 2: they have twelve volt twenty four volt. Will Prows has
Speaker 2: done videos on them, so take that for what it's worth.
Speaker 2: But twelve vote, twelve volt, twenty four volt, forty eight volt,
Speaker 2: thirty six volt, all of the things. This is the
Speaker 2: one I have right here. They got all the volts,
Speaker 2: all the volts. Yeah, and it interfaces with a Victor.
Speaker 2: It has a Victron commsystem in it, and it's freaking rad.
Speaker 2: So yeah, awesome, awesome battery there.
Speaker 6: I might need to upgrade the boat batteries now.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, all right, Uh, William, I see your three
Speaker 2: hundred an hour in the chat. How do you want
Speaker 2: me to pick somebody? You want to pick somebody? How
Speaker 2: do you want me to do this?
Speaker 7: Bud?
Speaker 2: Uh? You who roue proud of your boy? That's a
Speaker 2: hell of a name right there. That's the super Chat
Speaker 2: for a dollar ninety nine. So here's here's a pickle
Speaker 2: whiskey for you, sir, because that is that's that's what
Speaker 2: the super Chat gets, is a pickle whiskey.
Speaker 1: I'll take that with you.
Speaker 2: It's actually not bad. It's not it's not that bad.
Speaker 2: It's something different. Yeah, it's it's better than the pickle beer.
Speaker 2: I can tell you that right now.
Speaker 8: It's better than the pickle beer.
Speaker 1: The same pickle whiskey that Frank gave me.
Speaker 2: Yes, Frank, Frank dropped this off in my house. He
Speaker 2: dropped this off in my house yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's still the bottle.
Speaker 2: It's still the bottle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he hadn't drake hardly any.
Speaker 1: Of it is the most file.
Speaker 2: Really you've had it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a year ago out of that same bottle, Josh.
Speaker 11: I, he said he sent one to He sent one
Speaker 11: to me. Yeah, he told me he sent you next
Speaker 11: months or more ago. I think my wife and I
Speaker 11: probably killed three quarters of it during a podcast recording.
Speaker 2: It's good. It's not bad at all. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: I know it is not good, but it's not bad.
Speaker 2: You're right about that part.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: But it's not bad, but it's not bad. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're all friends, I really don't.
Speaker 4: That is just such an underwhelming endorsement. It's not bad.
Speaker 2: We some of us have a refract. I don't mind.
Speaker 2: I don't mind iPhone. I don't mind iPhone users, Mike, I.
Speaker 1: I enos. You don't have to go there.
Speaker 2: This is I just did you just you just.
Speaker 1: A you're just drinking pickle whiskey.
Speaker 2: Don't whatever whatever you have drank, whatever you have drank
Speaker 2: so far are before before this minute, it has obviously
Speaker 2: worked better. Not pick whiskey.
Speaker 1: It was not windows and doors technology. It's just alcohol.
Speaker 1: But you're.
Speaker 2: Well, you said, friends.
Speaker 1: I know what that tastes like. And I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: hit mute.
Speaker 2: And everyone cheers in the chat that Mike has muted himself.
Speaker 11: The closest analogy I gave is, like, you know how
Speaker 11: you get like flavored coffee or people who dump like
Speaker 11: a bunch of flavor stuff in their coffee, It's because
Speaker 11: the coffee isn't that good to begin with. So I
Speaker 11: assume that when you have a flavored anything, it's because
Speaker 11: it's not a good baseline quality of the original thing,
Speaker 11: because if it was good enough to be it's the
Speaker 11: thing you'd serve it on its own. So it's already
Speaker 11: like a lower quality, but it still tastes fine if
Speaker 11: you assume that, if you if you keep that in
Speaker 11: your mind, it's it's fine.
Speaker 8: Look at Mike.
Speaker 1: It's like if you take kerosene and then put pickles
Speaker 1: in it, and then you decide did it tastes good
Speaker 1: and you want to drink it.
Speaker 4: I'd like to know exactly how Mike knows what kerosene
Speaker 4: tastes like.
Speaker 2: No, you don't, you don't.
Speaker 1: Everybody. Everybody has smelled kerosene that.
Speaker 2: It's smelling it and tasting Here's a few different things,
Speaker 2: but nah, smell is the most important.
Speaker 1: They never forget about that. You guys are dumb. Smell
Speaker 1: taste kerosene.
Speaker 2: Here's to you. Hmm all right. So uh epoc He
Speaker 2: says it's like Tupac but with an E. So Epoch batteries,
Speaker 2: Oh they are.
Speaker 8: They're not saying epic. It's like Epoch.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: No. So I watched two or three when I when
Speaker 2: I first got that battery, I watched two or three
Speaker 2: YouTube videos and they were all pronouncing it epic, and
Speaker 2: I said epoch.
Speaker 11: But so in the in the satellite world, when we
Speaker 11: sink time with satellites and do other things like that,
Speaker 11: it's epic time. We call it epic, right, like yeah,
Speaker 11: time saying I've heard so they call it cool?
Speaker 8: Like do you you do you?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 8: I'm all right verging in my engineering world here.
Speaker 2: It doesn't need to go there. It's all right, all right,
Speaker 2: he says, think of a number between one and three
Speaker 2: hundred and let them post until you see it on
Speaker 2: the screen. I think that is an awesome idea.
Speaker 9: That's fair.
Speaker 2: Sixty nine So sixty sixty nine twenty isn't there? Do
Speaker 2: we have it? So sixty nine, that's not between one
Speaker 2: and three hundred.
Speaker 8: Oh damn, I fail.
Speaker 4: So it is a track sixty nine from four twenty.
Speaker 2: So let me think of a number. Never mind, I
Speaker 2: know what, okay, Okay, I have a number. I have
Speaker 2: a number in my head. What I'm going to do
Speaker 2: to keep everybody honest, I'm going to post this number
Speaker 2: in the zoom chat so that everybody on zoom can
Speaker 2: see the number. Okay, I'm gonna post it in the
Speaker 2: zoom chat right now. We super chatsh hold on, guys,
Speaker 2: hold on, I'm not even looking the chat. Don't be
Speaker 2: posting your number yet. Oh my god, ancient whole chats exploded. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, starting starting right now. I just posted my
Speaker 2: number in the zoom chat so everybody can keep me honest.
Speaker 2: So starting right now. Uh, okay, So I'm gonna start
Speaker 2: right here. So you see Interstellar starman says Mike is
Speaker 2: rocking it hard tonight. I bet he's packing too. Everything
Speaker 2: after that, everything after that, Okay, I'm looking. I'm looking
Speaker 2: for the number. Everything after that? Do you want to
Speaker 2: post it in the internal chat? And I did? I did.
Speaker 2: It's in zoom. It's in zoom.
Speaker 8: Okay, I got it.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to Holy smoke.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 11: If you don't use that night bot, do you have
Speaker 11: you got night bot?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 8: You should look up night bot.
Speaker 2: Is that does that work on obs? Yeah?
Speaker 11: It's a website based thing. It links to your stream
Speaker 11: and then you can type in a number or any and.
Speaker 2: I've seen the one that stream yard, but uh which one?
Speaker 3: Tracy Tracy Kennedy K, I five UX guess your number?
Speaker 9: Wait?
Speaker 6: Scroll it?
Speaker 2: Yes, I see him right, Tracy Kennedy K I five
Speaker 2: U x N is the winner. Yeah, right there, there
Speaker 2: we go. One forty seven was my number. There you go,
Speaker 2: all right, Tracy, email me Email me k C five
Speaker 2: HWB at gmail dot com. Please email me your contact
Speaker 2: info and I will send it over to the guys
Speaker 2: at Epoch Batteries. Okay, you guys can stop typing numbers
Speaker 2: in the chat right now, it's done. There's a thirty
Speaker 2: second delay. I get that. That's cool. Did the chat
Speaker 2: crash the chad crash? Maybe? I don't know. Yeah, what's
Speaker 2: it called? Josh? What the plug night But okay, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to do because that stream yard has a
Speaker 2: plug in that works really well, but it doesn't work
Speaker 2: in obs or zoom. Uh no.
Speaker 11: Well, so it's it's its own separate thing. So night
Speaker 11: Bot links to the stream and you say, okay, I'm
Speaker 11: gonna do a giveaway, and then you tell night Bot
Speaker 11: I'm I everybody that posts this word can get added,
Speaker 11: and then it'll be the list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it'll pick one.
Speaker 11: That's how stream yard works too. Yeah, okay, yeah, so
Speaker 11: it's it's it's on its own. But then you can
Speaker 11: do the opposite, which is what you got here where
Speaker 11: you had one forty seven and you want to know
Speaker 11: who typed.
Speaker 2: One type that? Okay, yeah, okay, okay, all right, so yeah,
Speaker 2: Tracy is the Tracy is the winner. Tracy. Email me
Speaker 2: k C five HWB at gmail dot com and I
Speaker 2: will put you in contact with Epoch Batteries. William. Thank
Speaker 2: you for that. Thank you for that support, buddy, Thank
Speaker 2: you that you guys. Get go check out the whims. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you guys, go check out that website. I'm putting the
Speaker 2: link in the chat right now. Go give them some love.
Speaker 2: Check out their fifteen percent off Black Friday sale, and
Speaker 2: you will be seeing several videos about that entire vehicle
Speaker 2: setup in my truck, both on this channel. I'm going
Speaker 2: to do my hand radio stuff on this show, but
Speaker 2: I'm going to do the overlanding stuff on the other
Speaker 2: channel too, So you're gonna see three or four videos
Speaker 2: across two channels. I'm looking at their side now. It's good.
Speaker 2: Good stuff looks good. Absolutely yeah, so cool. Thank you,
Speaker 2: Thank you for ye by the way, Oh thanks, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's a guy on YouTube called marine X.
Speaker 2: He's actually here in North Texas. He lives in the
Speaker 2: Plano area, I think, and he does a lot of
Speaker 2: EDC stuff. You guys, go check him out, and I
Speaker 2: get a lot of my inspiration and for the I
Speaker 2: started the pac Man channel before I found him, but
Speaker 2: now that I've been watching him, I get a lot
Speaker 2: of my inspiration from him, a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of E d C flashlights, E d C knives and
Speaker 2: just what's in your pocket today type stuff. So he
Speaker 2: does he does a really good uh good job. What
Speaker 2: is that, Mike? It's your birthday? Oh that was that
Speaker 2: was me.
Speaker 1: That was my text to my birthday.
Speaker 2: I got it. Well, there is he's he's got it.
Speaker 1: I gotta do it.
Speaker 6: I gotta do an e DC pocket dump at some
Speaker 6: point because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's really kind of it's kind of
Speaker 2: it's it's kind of amazing how much people are interested
Speaker 2: in that. I'm like, what do you care about the
Speaker 2: crap in my pocket? But it's huge, it is, really is.
Speaker 2: It's huge. The E d C.
Speaker 11: It's larger than ham radio, the population. Oh yeah, videos,
Speaker 11: it's it's huge. And the little boutique handmade stuff spoke
Speaker 11: crap that people put out is staggering, staggering.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one more, the little two inch Damascus knife that
Speaker 3: you carry in.
Speaker 5: Your pocket, yeah, or packing your pouches and how you
Speaker 5: have it organized and right for this pouches for that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's pouches, packs, backpacks and whatnot and
Speaker 2: carry even for like like I have a pot to
Speaker 2: pack video that I'm about to really I've done that before,
Speaker 2: but I've upgraded mine since then. I'm gonna do another one.
Speaker 2: But it's like it's like it's it's deeper than that.
Speaker 2: It's more like organization. It's like, Hey, I have all
Speaker 2: this crap. How do I make it look nice where
Speaker 2: I can actually find stuff when I need to find it? Oh,
Speaker 2: you do a packout pack and you do packing cubes
Speaker 2: inside of the backpack inside of this and do this
Speaker 2: kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So let me speak to your defense, Jason, because.
Speaker 2: My defense that bag right there, yes.
Speaker 1: Is because of you. I bought that because that's that
Speaker 1: expedition and we were in Iowa.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, Well you can you
Speaker 2: can blame uh.
Speaker 1: No, the bedet's in the car, but no, that's that
Speaker 1: My MX is in there. When Jason and I were
Speaker 1: in Iowa visiting Power Film. One of the many things
Speaker 1: we talk about on the thousand mile drive up there.
Speaker 1: Would you believe his Ham radio?
Speaker 2: What a concept.
Speaker 1: We talked about bags, and he was telling me about
Speaker 1: this bag, yeah, and that that happened to beyond sale.
Speaker 1: He I think he did a video like that night
Speaker 1: and I saw that and I was like, son of
Speaker 1: a bitch, that I need that. That is a bag.
Speaker 2: Well that can you you can actually I'm going to
Speaker 2: blame it forward and you can actually blame Jason came
Speaker 2: for a c K for that because I got that
Speaker 2: idea from him, oh for sure. And he did a
Speaker 2: video about that exact bag and his his ed c
Speaker 2: HT radio and he put some stuff in it. I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's a great idea. I'm gonna do that, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna add to it. I added a bunch of stuff
Speaker 2: to mind that he didn't have in his.
Speaker 1: But well, the thing is about watching both of your
Speaker 1: videos is that I see what Jason uses his for.
Speaker 1: I see what well, let me back up, I see
Speaker 1: what smart Jason uses his for. I see what you
Speaker 1: years years, and I see what I use mine for.
Speaker 1: But it's it's just it's a little stupid bag. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I mean it's you know, it's it's fun
Speaker 2: to uh, I say, it's fun. It's very convenient and
Speaker 2: very peace of mind to have all of your stuff
Speaker 2: in a pack somewhere, like I know where that is
Speaker 2: because that's in a pack over here. Oh, that's in
Speaker 2: a pack over here. I've got four packs inside of
Speaker 2: this larger pack, and you know where everything is. It's
Speaker 2: it's all about organization. It's all about organization. So yeah,
Speaker 2: but that's basically that's basically what the what the pack
Speaker 2: band channel it's about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a couple of super Chats there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got you who you whooruh you hooru. Sounds
Speaker 2: like a Star Trek character, it is. And then I
Speaker 2: got mister g I got you too. I'll take it.
Speaker 2: I drank one for each, but I'll take another drink
Speaker 2: here it is guys. Hmmm, Oh that's good. He's just
Speaker 2: it's not good.
Speaker 1: He's just kind of only sipping. It was that the pickle?
Speaker 2: That is the pickle? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How much was that super chatworth?
Speaker 2: Dollar ninety nine?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would only.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like TC Fitz gets in there, he's like
Speaker 2: donates fifty percent and he's like drink Like.
Speaker 1: Seriously, a couple of bucks ain't gonna get me.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah okay yeah Shane good
Speaker 2: uh good, uh good comment there. So yes, I mentioned
Speaker 2: this on Frank's live stream last week. Steve Goodgame K
Speaker 2: five A t A was in the hospital and I
Speaker 2: asked him about before sharing this on the live stream.
Speaker 2: I said, is it okay if I He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's fine. He was in the hospitals for some heart issues.
Speaker 2: I don't know the that's all he told me. I
Speaker 2: don't know the further extent than that. And he's like
Speaker 2: when I when I text him, I'm like, dude, are
Speaker 2: you doing okay? Because I saw he put something on Instagram.
Speaker 2: So I texted him and he's like, before you ask, yes,
Speaker 2: I stopped drinking coffee about five days ago yep. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, is there anything I can do for you?
Speaker 2: He goes, yeah, bring me some coffee. So, uh, yeah
Speaker 2: he is. He is back home now, I'm told and uh,
Speaker 2: he will be on the live stream on Joss's channel
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. So uh, but yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 2: his current status is. Uh, you guys come over to
Speaker 2: Josh's channel tomorrow night and ask him about it, because
Speaker 2: he he didn't seem too shy about sharing it with
Speaker 2: me over text, and when I asked him if I
Speaker 2: could share it online, He's like, yeah, sure, this fine,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 10: I believe he was referring to the people in the
Speaker 10: hospital as commies because they wouldn't let him have coffee.
Speaker 2: That's a that's I agree with that, that label I
Speaker 2: would label. Yeah, yeah, in a way he had never seeds.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Josh, Josh, you're uh your audio has
Speaker 2: gone to crap. It was crackling a minute ago and
Speaker 2: now it's all crackle and I can't hear you. Oh
Speaker 2: there's Brandon.
Speaker 4: That's what like a whole glass.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna literally pour you another poor here, go ahead, Josh?
Speaker 2: Is that better?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I can't hear you at all.
Speaker 4: You're muted.
Speaker 2: You're muted. He's got a bad connection. Get some messy
Speaker 2: and plony connectors on there, Bud, that's it.
Speaker 4: No, get some new tricks, mane Nope, gotam.
Speaker 2: Josh is first day on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Give him a break.
Speaker 2: Nope, Brandon, this is for you, buddy. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: that's good. Nope, still nothing, Josh, How you tried turning
Speaker 2: it off and back again? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Have you trying to factory reset, pick it up and
Speaker 4: shake it. Just catch joke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's just catch. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Do you guys like that gigabarts thing. Wasn't that freaking cool?
Speaker 2: That was all their idea, That was all their idea
Speaker 2: all that. Yeah, yeah, you're good, Josh, Yeah, sounds good too.
Speaker 11: I got there's like a USBC cable problem I have
Speaker 11: between this. I'll do that before live stream, but uh,
Speaker 11: very so. I think the comment was on Steve. We're
Speaker 11: gonna see Steven Risk where he's not caffeinated. I don't
Speaker 11: know that we've ever seen that before, so it should
Speaker 11: be interesting.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna have to go to the UPS
Speaker 2: store tomorrow and like overnight him some coffee stout.
Speaker 8: I don't think he's allowed to have any coffee.
Speaker 2: Oh well, coffee stout beer. I don't Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't want to. I don't want to be a
Speaker 2: bad influence on him, but I also want to be
Speaker 2: his friend. So I'm like, if I'm in the hospital
Speaker 2: and I can't drink beer, I'm like, bring me some beer.
Speaker 1: Well, actually, Jason, if you bring him a coffee stout,
Speaker 1: it would only be like half coffee and half beer. Right,
Speaker 1: so that would be.
Speaker 2: It's actually not even half coffee. It's like just a
Speaker 2: little bit of coffee.
Speaker 1: Hey, go with me here, guy, right, you know, so
Speaker 1: I'll suggest a coffee that he can drink that isn't coffee.
Speaker 4: And don't laugh at this one. Go to Starbucks and
Speaker 4: get their instant decaffeinated coffee and you would not know
Speaker 4: the difference for taste. And yes, I'm a coffee snob.
Speaker 1: I'd rather just go to the gas station a couple
Speaker 1: of waters.
Speaker 4: Yeah I knew, No sucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Starbucks coffee is not good in the first place.
Speaker 2: Number one, It's like.
Speaker 4: I can't the only their only coffee that I will
Speaker 4: drink is this decaffeinated instant. That's the only one I
Speaker 4: will coffee.
Speaker 2: Old position to take coffee is garbage.
Speaker 4: Don't knock it till you try it.
Speaker 1: Decaffeinated drink? Did you de caffeinated instant coffee?
Speaker 2: Instant coffee is from garbage, garbage from Canada. From it
Speaker 2: is No, that's like farther away from Columbia than we are.
Speaker 2: So like, you guys have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: I will if I send you some of the stuff.
Speaker 4: Will you try it?
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll try it. Ok absolutely, Okay.
Speaker 11: When I am on a hike, I will definitely drink
Speaker 11: instant coffee. Like if you're in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 11: you warm with water. Yes, absolutely, throw anything in there
Speaker 11: and it's drink.
Speaker 1: Can't you that's not as you like?
Speaker 2: You like you like pickle beer, Josh, that that's not
Speaker 2: that's not a thing.
Speaker 1: Proper. If you brought me a grain of coffee, I
Speaker 1: would enjoy it slightly more than just regular water. That's
Speaker 1: what Josh is saying, right, you don't.
Speaker 2: You don't like coffee anyway, Mike doesn't. But whether I
Speaker 2: instant coffee, instant palette, instant coffee is.
Speaker 1: Making fun of these guys. So, Jason, we're on the
Speaker 1: same page.
Speaker 2: I know, I got I get you, I got you,
Speaker 2: I got you. Instant coffee is taking those Starbucks like hiking.
Speaker 2: I've taken them hiking. They're fine. When the instant one
Speaker 2: O the Starbucks on little tubes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly the ones I'm talking about.
Speaker 8: But not not decaf. I haven't done that like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet so okay, so so so full disclosure here,
Speaker 2: caffeine does not affect me. Like I can drink a
Speaker 2: cup of caffeinated coffee the eleven o'clock at night, go
Speaker 2: right to sleep. I'll drink in the morning. Doesn't wake
Speaker 2: me up. So decaf I don't really care. I'll drink
Speaker 2: caffeine decaf, I don't care. It does not bother me.
Speaker 2: But instant coffee sucks. I've never had a good one.
Speaker 2: So if you think you have a good instant coffee,
Speaker 2: send it to I'll try it. Sure, Yeah, yeah, I will.
Speaker 3: I will be I would be willing to bet that Tim.
Speaker 3: Tim would agree me with me and on this. But
Speaker 3: when I was active duty and marines, right, we got
Speaker 3: instant coffee at our m R packets and yeah we
Speaker 3: used to pack that ship like a dip. Right, Oh,
Speaker 3: instant coffee absolutely awful, But we would pack that like
Speaker 3: a dip because oh, yeah, you.
Speaker 6: Need the caffeine.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
Speaker 6: Oh it's garbage. Instant is garbage.
Speaker 11: This is before the little packs that everybody's running now,
Speaker 11: that's all enlisted.
Speaker 8: What's a little pack?
Speaker 2: Zen?
Speaker 8: Everybody's doing zen now Zen?
Speaker 2: So yeah, Rob Digital Ranchers in the chat, He's like,
Speaker 2: I bring a pour over when camping, so here's the
Speaker 2: thing they make on Amazon. They make these little, itty
Speaker 2: bitty filters that fit over the top of your coffee mug,
Speaker 2: and then you just put coffee grounds in the top
Speaker 2: of that filter and pour hot. That's all you need.
Speaker 2: Pour Over. Pour over is my new thing. I do
Speaker 2: the big pour over the craft pour over at home,
Speaker 2: but that's like the new thing.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like the only the pour over is great.
Speaker 2: I love the poor over, But like three years ago
Speaker 2: at my hunting Lea's, one guy brought out a percolator
Speaker 2: and he put folders in the percolator and put it
Speaker 2: over the campfire and let it percolate over the campfire,
Speaker 2: and then he poured me a cup, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's good. A percolator is much better than like a
Speaker 2: drip coffee machine. So it's all about how you brew it,
Speaker 2: is what I've decided. It's either a pour over or
Speaker 2: French press, or a percolator or just a regular cheap
Speaker 2: ass coffee make coffee machine. It's all about how you
Speaker 2: brew it. Good coffee can be great, great coffee can suck.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, that's my thing, but I will My big
Speaker 2: thing is the grind I'm a bird grinder, dude, so
Speaker 2: I would agree with that too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So I'm a.
Speaker 2: Pourover guy as well.
Speaker 11: I just have a kettle, right, hot enough kettle with
Speaker 11: a little spout that you can pour over, right, you do.
Speaker 2: I have the same thing. I have the same thing.
Speaker 11: Six is the filter that I use. It's a little
Speaker 11: bit different, I think than what you use. But the
Speaker 11: grind is the most important thing. A proper burg grinder.
Speaker 11: Which that's what makes it tough when you go out hiking,
Speaker 11: is that you're not you can the grinders do it
Speaker 11: camp little camp grinder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have the manual grinder from my campsite. You
Speaker 2: can do that.
Speaker 11: You can do that, and some of them are burg
Speaker 11: grinders and they'll they'll pass through. But a lot of
Speaker 11: that is the snobbiness actually comes out, I think in
Speaker 11: the grind and the preparation of the coffee before you
Speaker 11: even put water to it in a lot of cases.
Speaker 2: Agreed, Yes, totally agree, totally agree, Jay, that one's for you, buddy.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the super chat.
Speaker 10: So when I was in the Navy, we used to
Speaker 10: brew coffee in fifty five gallon drums on the ship.
Speaker 10: So uh, burg grinders were non existent. That's how I
Speaker 10: learned to bring coffee. Yeah, and don't mess with the coffee.
Speaker 10: If they ever washed the coffee pot, Oh my god,
Speaker 10: there were fights on the mess decks.
Speaker 1: Why is that?
Speaker 10: I don't it changes, it's it's.
Speaker 2: It's coffee is coffee is serious business. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: serious business. It''m likestition. Like like I've I've been following
Speaker 2: a bunch of prepper channels for the last year or so,
Speaker 2: and all of them, Mike Glover included all of these guys.
Speaker 2: They're like, so you want this in your prepper pack?
Speaker 2: You want this, this, this, and this. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 2: want coffee also. I'm like, seriously, like I would be
Speaker 2: like I would be like I'd want whiskey, but I'm like,
Speaker 2: you guys want coffee.
Speaker 10: It's from from the military standpoint. Coffee is is morale.
Speaker 2: Morale is yes, what absolutely ye? And I'm like, I
Speaker 2: just I don't disagree with it. I'm just kind of
Speaker 2: surprised it's so popular.
Speaker 1: So what what I don't get is the the obsession.
Speaker 1: So there's there's a channel that I watch called Way
Speaker 1: Top Whiskey Alpha Top, Yes, Top.
Speaker 2: Right, I haven't seen.
Speaker 1: That and he in the very like, you know, five
Speaker 1: seconds he makes his thesis and then he's like, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get some coffee and we'll come back to it.
Speaker 1: And he's got the and he shows the little of
Speaker 1: the drips, the of the thing, like coffee is an
Speaker 1: obsession and his show Waytop is freaking awesome. But it
Speaker 1: pisses me off because he's in fucking good game with sorry,
Speaker 1: I mean's good game would be right here backing up Waytop,
Speaker 1: because he's like coffee first, coffee, coffee, and I just
Speaker 1: don't get it, Like I'm Coca Cola, Like I wake
Speaker 1: up in the morning, I drink a Coca Cola. That's
Speaker 1: my coffee, if you will. And I appreciate, I really
Speaker 1: really do appreciate a good cup of coffee nice, you know,
Speaker 1: when the MLT is nice and right, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. But to just wake up
Speaker 1: in the morning, like I don't talk to me unless
Speaker 1: I've had my coffee, right right, Like that mentality you
Speaker 1: don't get. I don't get. I'm not saying it's wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not talking down on it. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking good on it. But Way Top does that okay,
Speaker 1: and m rdy.
Speaker 2: Okay, So okay, Eric, I don't know why you didn't
Speaker 2: join earlier, but you know it's all right, man, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to hold that against you.
Speaker 6: Well I will, yes, absolutely hold it against them.
Speaker 2: Yeah I will. Okay. So and when ju are oh so,
Speaker 2: not that Eric. Let's going on.
Speaker 10: You can't.
Speaker 2: Screw either of them, not the Eric.
Speaker 10: Okay, you can't have to those Northeast.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, the Eric that Josh and I are
Speaker 2: talking about is not all right. So a while ago,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put this in the in the chat real quick.
Speaker 2: A while ago. Okay, how many of you are into overlanding?
Speaker 2: Raise of hand, how many of you have seen those
Speaker 2: jeep guys with the ducks in their in their front windows?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, ready, yeah, ready, yeah, okay, good, they're all yes,
Speaker 2: hold on, hold on, hold on, don't don't open your
Speaker 2: mouth yet, okay, get ready. Because I had the idea
Speaker 2: a couple of months ago. I think to say, hey,
Speaker 2: why don't we do a ham radio thing? And no, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's not a bell fang, it's not a bowel fang.
Speaker 2: Hold on a second, I gotta fix.
Speaker 4: My what what's that joke. Oh damn, I left the
Speaker 4: window rolled down on my my car unlocked, and I
Speaker 4: got eight bowel fangs left in the back seat.
Speaker 2: Right right, yeah, totally yeah.
Speaker 1: I left the bow fang rolled.
Speaker 2: Down, I left the bal fang rolled up. Then I
Speaker 2: got back right right totally totally. So here is right there,
Speaker 2: live freeinham dot com forward slash shop. Here is the
Speaker 2: country Ham. This is this is this is freaking cool.
Speaker 2: So here's the Ham piggy that you put on your dashboard.
Speaker 2: And they come with this little disc on the bottom
Speaker 2: that says you've been hammed. And by the way, Eric,
Speaker 2: you're the glue We're off on like four of those
Speaker 2: you sent me, so you need to use better glue, Bud.
Speaker 2: But they come with these disks on the bottom. You
Speaker 2: write your call sign in it, and when you see
Speaker 2: a Ham radio operator in the wild, you put one
Speaker 2: of these on your car on their car and say
Speaker 2: you've been hammed by Casey five hiv B whatever, And
Speaker 2: then you leave this little piggy with a little wooden
Speaker 2: disc on the bottom of it. And then we start
Speaker 2: to put pigs in our dashboards for Ham radio instead
Speaker 2: of ducks, which are actually very good to shoot and
Speaker 2: eat ducks or duck is duck is actually a very
Speaker 2: good delicacy. Oh no, not if you cook it right, man.
Speaker 2: Duck is awesome. I I bought some duck eggs at
Speaker 2: my local, uh local farm last week. Duck eggs are awesome.
Speaker 8: They taste like chicken eggs. They're just larger. They're larger.
Speaker 2: They're not yeah, yeah, yeah, they're just larger. So but yeah,
Speaker 2: So here you go live freeanham dot com fort slash shop.
Speaker 2: And Eric was gonna come on here tonight and tell
Speaker 2: me about this crap and he didn't join the zoo.
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 11: I I'm cautious in my answering this, but I think
Speaker 11: it's I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 8: I love the idea that the community growing.
Speaker 11: Yes, I think that's the that's that's a fantastic Uh,
Speaker 11: it's a fantastic thing.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna we're gonna encourage people to, as Jody says,
Speaker 4: commit acts of handalism.
Speaker 8: That's funny.
Speaker 4: Good, Yeah, that's very good.
Speaker 2: It's a good idea. It was my idea, I think,
Speaker 2: and then he took it and took it to the
Speaker 2: next level, which is totally cool. I wasn't going to
Speaker 2: do it, but he's like, hey, I I created some
Speaker 2: rubber pigs. You can put it on your dashboard. I'm like, sweet,
Speaker 2: let's do it. Awesome, So it's it's it's uh yeah, Eric.
Speaker 3: Eric brought that up to the Liffey and Ham crew
Speaker 3: a couple two three weeks ago anyways, and he was like, hey,
Speaker 3: He's like, this was Jason's idea, but I'm going to
Speaker 3: run with it.
Speaker 6: What do you guys think? And I was like, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I wasn't gonna do it. I just thought
Speaker 2: it was a good idea. I'm like, we should start
Speaker 2: putting pigs on everyone's cars. So here's the thing. Hold on,
Speaker 2: hold on, hold on, here's the thing. Follow that link
Speaker 2: that I just put in the chat. Buy yourself five
Speaker 2: to fifty of those things and bring them to Orlando
Speaker 2: in February and put them on every car with your
Speaker 2: call sign. Oh that's hilarious, that's funny.
Speaker 4: Do that?
Speaker 2: Do that?
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Mike, so we all know Frank Frank?
Speaker 2: Do we.
Speaker 9: Know Frank?
Speaker 1: Would you believe? Would you believe?
Speaker 2: We heard? The stories are already, but go ahead, never mind.
Speaker 2: Then on Frank's Channel none on you're.
Speaker 1: Talking about you're talking about making these little POGs to
Speaker 1: tag someone's cars. Frank alf alf You were just talking
Speaker 1: about these little states.
Speaker 2: No, No, you're right the.
Speaker 1: Last segment Frank. Okay, So I swear to God. A
Speaker 1: week ago today, Frank, Well, Frank drove by my house.
Speaker 1: He drove to my house. He was at my house.
Speaker 2: I was my wife, tell a story.
Speaker 9: He was in my house.
Speaker 1: Frank Frank put tank stickers all over my car while
Speaker 1: I was sleeping up on his way back because he
Speaker 1: was seeing scott Ham radio for non techies who lives
Speaker 1: south of me. Frank lived north of me. But I'm
Speaker 1: right on, I have forty five. So Frank just stopped
Speaker 1: here and then he called here because I got my
Speaker 1: radio on five to two and I hear KG five
Speaker 1: h J. I'm like, huh, so I come back.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I swear to Like.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here in this chair doing something and I
Speaker 1: hear age Jan. I'm like, Frank, what on five to two?
Speaker 1: He's like yeah, He's like, I might be in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I can't make this up.
Speaker 4: I know you get how many stories are we talking here?
Speaker 1: Well? I so all right. So he left, there was
Speaker 1: a bunch of stickers, like six stickers, but he put
Speaker 1: two cigars on my front windshield, so ah.
Speaker 11: Right, well, and they were like that sounds like a
Speaker 11: frank thing. That sounds yes, it does, yeah, but what.
Speaker 1: A dick move. He's gonna tag my car and put
Speaker 1: cigars on it and then leave?
Speaker 2: Did you even did you knock?
Speaker 1: Knock on the door like I'm out.
Speaker 2: And then he's like yeah.
Speaker 1: Then he's like a mile down the road. He was like,
Speaker 1: k h on five to two and I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: somebody's on five to two in Huntsville text.
Speaker 2: Something, right, Yeah, that's an accomplishment right there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's frank.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm still in your neighbor and I'm like, dick.
Speaker 4: Head, turn around like it would It would have been
Speaker 4: a perfect opportunity for him to run a p R S.
Speaker 2: I run. I run APRS. Every time I drive down
Speaker 2: forty five from Dallas area to Galveston, I run APRS
Speaker 2: and usually oh wow. Usually usually I will also.
Speaker 4: Hold on your audio is good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. Usually I will also call on on six
Speaker 2: top five two. I've never reached Mike, like never, so.
Speaker 1: Just I feel we talked on a repeater.
Speaker 2: We did talk on the repeat yes, yes.
Speaker 1: All right, so on five to two. So Frank, I
Speaker 1: talked on five to two and another guy this is
Speaker 1: within like the last let's say two months, and that's
Speaker 1: being generous. I've heard two. I've made two or three
Speaker 1: contacts on five to two just recently. Really, it's actually
Speaker 1: sad and actually amazing.
Speaker 2: It actually is kind of sad.
Speaker 1: I agree, it is sad. But Josh is in l
Speaker 1: A and he like, and good for you, I mean
Speaker 1: good for you, but like where I'm at.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't five to two doesn't happen. So for somebody
Speaker 1: to be driving by Huntsville, Texas and calling c Q
Speaker 1: on five to two.
Speaker 2: It's on an interstate forty five. Man, there's no excuse
Speaker 2: to not.
Speaker 1: I think Josh understands the I thing. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: last guy I talked to was I don't even know
Speaker 1: where he was.
Speaker 2: Could you put a the in front of it though,
Speaker 2: like please though, what the five to two or no,
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just high way. They were going down
Speaker 2: Oh oh oh the forty five. Sorry, so forty thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you. I get now, I get it. You take
Speaker 2: I didn't understand before.
Speaker 1: Now you take the six, you take the six, ten
Speaker 1: to the forty five. Got it all the way up
Speaker 1: to the Yeah yeah, okay, thank you, to the forty west.
Speaker 1: You get and then you get off the four or
Speaker 1: five north and you get.
Speaker 8: Off area and Lobrea.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, that's talk. Okay, Okay, I'm just I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna say, and I've said this on multiple videos in
Speaker 2: the past. Okay, everyone, Everyone who is hearing my voice
Speaker 2: right now, whether live or on replay or on the
Speaker 2: audio podcast rip everyone, monitor six dot five to two
Speaker 2: when you're driving, everyone, if we do that, I'm not
Speaker 2: joking right now, I'm totally serious. Okay. If we all
Speaker 2: do this on road trips, when we're driving around town,
Speaker 2: when we're in the car, if we all put one side.
Speaker 2: If you don't have a dual band radio with with
Speaker 2: two VFOs on it, then you know, welcome to twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. Get a dual band radio. FtM five hundred whatever,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter what it is. I come, I fifty one,
Speaker 2: FtM five hundred, the uh whatever, V seventy one A
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Literally anything, literally anything. Put one four to six,
Speaker 2: top five to two on your radio on one side
Speaker 2: of your radio, and monitor it all the time, all
Speaker 2: of time when you are driving on a road trip
Speaker 2: or driving around town, and everyone key up on it.
Speaker 2: And I've been preaching this whole Hey, kee up your
Speaker 2: local repeaters once a day, and I'm all for that.
Speaker 2: That's great. Do your repeaters once a day also, But
Speaker 2: if you're on a road trip, driving cross country, cross state,
Speaker 2: crossing state lines, monitor six top five to two and
Speaker 2: key up and throw your cross sign out once every
Speaker 2: thirty to sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: Jason, Let's make sure we give the full frequency there.
Speaker 1: It's one four six dot five to two zero. There
Speaker 1: is some some for like we say five to two,
Speaker 1: but for like the new people.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, agree, agreed, agreed, Yeah, one five to two zero.
Speaker 1: Which is the natal trip simplex calling frequency.
Speaker 2: Two meter simplex calling frequency. So yeah, it's a thank
Speaker 2: you Eric ten dollars super chat. I'm gonna pick a
Speaker 2: whiskey you right now. There you go, right there, But no,
Speaker 2: I'm absolutely one serious here. We as a online hamm
Speaker 2: radio community, the YouTubers, yes, but all of you guys
Speaker 2: who are in all of our chats also, Okay, you
Speaker 2: guys need to help us. We can't do it by ourselves.
Speaker 2: We need to light up six top five to two.
Speaker 2: And I'm not just talking about for a weekend or
Speaker 2: a week or a month or something like that. Every
Speaker 2: day for a year. We need to well forever. Actually,
Speaker 2: we need to actively activate six top five to two.
Speaker 2: I think it needs to be a thing again. Mike
Speaker 2: and I were driving back from Iowa and he drove
Speaker 2: up there to power Phone. We had a really good
Speaker 2: time touring their factory and he was driving back. We
Speaker 2: got into some traffic jam on whatever highway we were on.
Speaker 2: He made me laugh. He picks up his microphone. Was
Speaker 2: a radio on his uh uh, what's the VHF radio?
Speaker 2: You have three hundred. He picks up his microphone on
Speaker 2: the three hundred and he's like and and there's this
Speaker 2: big traffic jam. There's probably one hundred cars around us,
Speaker 2: and he's like, he grabs the mic and he's like,
Speaker 2: how come none of you guys are on the radio,
Speaker 2: And he puts the mic down and he's like no
Speaker 2: one responded. I'm like, that's a damn good question. Seriously,
Speaker 2: we need we need to all be on six top
Speaker 2: five to two. When we're on the road anytime so
Speaker 2: that we as a community can promote it to everyone.
Speaker 11: Trying to add just a flavor of that. Go right
Speaker 11: ahead when you are in so So Cal. We got
Speaker 11: a ton of you know, two meters simplex fre access
Speaker 11: right there's a ton.
Speaker 8: Of people talking.
Speaker 11: So it's gone so far that there's a second frequency
Speaker 11: that we're all on, which is one four six dot
Speaker 11: five eight zero, which is the adventure frequency, and that's where.
Speaker 2: All the local So Cow guys are on.
Speaker 11: We have to activations, so have that as another frequency
Speaker 11: that you also monitor.
Speaker 8: Because I was.
Speaker 11: Just chilling in the shack doing some stuff here getting
Speaker 11: ready for the live stream, and a full on net
Speaker 11: broke out entirely on Simplex on five eight zero. And
Speaker 11: how the net worked was they would go down the
Speaker 11: roll call and everybody listening was supposed to record the
Speaker 11: call sign of the people they heard and their signal strength,
Speaker 11: and then when it was their turn, they talked about
Speaker 11: this person was he was a five to nine, he
Speaker 11: was a four to three, he was.
Speaker 8: A four to two.
Speaker 11: They would go through the whole list, all on Simplex
Speaker 11: on five eight zero. It was the one of the
Speaker 11: coolest nets I've experienced in a long time, and it
Speaker 11: was all for that purpose of radio to radio communication
Speaker 11: and people getting their antennas higher and working on the
Speaker 11: whole thing.
Speaker 2: It was super super cool. It was really really impressive.
Speaker 2: We have a Friday night net every in the North
Speaker 2: Texas area Dallas for zach in like north western fort Worth,
Speaker 2: but we have a net on one forty six top
Speaker 2: five eight every Friday night. I think it's at eight pm.
Speaker 2: I've checked into it like twice. But on top of that,
Speaker 2: we have a group of people who hang out on
Speaker 2: I think it's one forty five seven to two simplex
Speaker 2: and it is, and I'll hear people on six top
Speaker 2: five two sometimes. But we have a good simplex group
Speaker 2: in this area if you know where to listen at.
Speaker 2: But my point is when you get outside of your area,
Speaker 2: six top five to two is where everyone should be.
Speaker 2: Everyone should be. Everyone should have a radio. Yeah, everyone
Speaker 2: should have a radio monitoring that frequency twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: If you're next to a radio, yep, just set up
Speaker 2: a radio and monitor that all the time.
Speaker 10: So two things. My uh so, I've got a four
Speaker 10: hundred a beacon out APRS. It tells people on APRS
Speaker 10: what frequency. My other my A band is on and
Speaker 10: it's always one four sixty five to two. So you know,
Speaker 10: anytime I drive and anywhere I go, I don't really
Speaker 10: follow much with the monitor with the repeaters anymore. But
Speaker 10: interesting story. So I had the radio on. I'm taking
Speaker 10: my son up to a performance up in Indianapolis. Turn
Speaker 10: off the radio and go in. I turn it back
Speaker 10: on when we get in the car, and all of
Speaker 10: a sudden, I hear these these three stations talking. Two
Speaker 10: I could hear one, I couldn't. And one guy says
Speaker 10: to the other guy goes, yeah, he's that crazy YouTuber
Speaker 10: that jumps out of airplanes. Carlos. It was Carlos. It
Speaker 10: was the third station. I couldn't hear him. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 10: I'm halfway across the state. Carlos is halfway across the state.
Speaker 10: We're in the town together and had a chance encounter
Speaker 10: on one four six five two. We go and meet
Speaker 10: up and go to a a PODE activation that was
Speaker 10: was going on in town, and I wasn't even planning
Speaker 10: on going to. I had my little my son with me,
Speaker 10: So so there you go. There's there's something that happens
Speaker 10: when you listen to one four six five two. Yeah,
Speaker 10: I'll tell you. So you get to meet famous YouTubers
Speaker 10: that jump on.
Speaker 2: I think I think the good thing about this, Why
Speaker 2: is that off? But yeah, can you guys see me
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, good? So I think the good thing about this
Speaker 2: Get ham live freeinham dot com shop and these get
Speaker 2: hammed h toys is what they are, Spiral Ham ten pack.
Speaker 2: Anything you can do to promote Ham radio is good
Speaker 2: in my opinion. So this is a great thing to do.
Speaker 2: And it's just it's kind of like, well, get on
Speaker 2: the air, obviously, that's the best thing you can do.
Speaker 2: But anything you if you get a couple of these
Speaker 2: uh Ham packs and take them out, if you're you
Speaker 2: just keep like three or four in your vehicle and
Speaker 2: you're out and about and you're like, oh, there's a
Speaker 2: guy with an antenna. I drive down. My wife and
Speaker 2: I own a property in Galveston. I've I've told you
Speaker 2: guys a bunch of times. I'll be driving up and
Speaker 2: down the coast in Galveston and I'll see some with
Speaker 2: fitching rods sticking out the top of their car. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: is that an antenna. I'm like, oh, no, that's a fishing,
Speaker 2: they look like antenna's driving down the beach. But I
Speaker 2: will absolutely notice a car with an antenna on it
Speaker 2: when I'm out and about driving through wherever I am,
Speaker 2: and if I got one of these things, I will
Speaker 2: I will stop, I'll put it on the car, and
Speaker 2: they like, hey, get on six top five to two.
Speaker 2: So I just I think, I think we as a
Speaker 2: community and the YouTuber community, but you guys who follow
Speaker 2: us as well, just need to like be ambassadors for
Speaker 2: six top five two. Let's get some activity going, because
Speaker 2: I'm I think we should light that frequency up and
Speaker 2: keep it that way all year long.
Speaker 11: That's the thing I'll add another caveat because we have
Speaker 11: a lot of this here in Soco. Go ahead five
Speaker 11: five to two is super popular. There's so many people
Speaker 11: that are on five two, and it gets to the
Speaker 11: point that people are like.
Speaker 8: Clogging the frequency right basically.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, And so that's a good problem to have. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a good problem to have.
Speaker 11: But we'll have people come out in like hall monitor
Speaker 11: five too, and they'll be like, hey, this is an
Speaker 11: emergency frequency. You got to get off of this, blah
Speaker 11: blah blah, And so a lot of times, a lot
Speaker 11: of times some of the guys, and it's really cool.
Speaker 11: What's kind of come out of this is that some
Speaker 11: of these guys will be like, Hey, you and I
Speaker 11: are having this conversation. We got a really good path
Speaker 11: to each other. We're gonna slide off frequency a little bit,
Speaker 11: go five up, you know what, Yes, and then they'll
Speaker 11: continue their conversation off of that. So have the wherewithal
Speaker 11: to know that we're we're talking frequencies, So you can
Speaker 11: be frequency agile. You can find somebody you got a
Speaker 11: really good connection with, and if you're going to talk
Speaker 11: for a while, go.
Speaker 2: Ahead and slide off of it.
Speaker 11: Go and say, hey, let's go five up, let's go
Speaker 11: five down, whatever mega hurts, right, we're talking, and then
Speaker 11: just continue the conversation. Because to a certain degree, it
Speaker 11: is true that it is kind of like our emergency frequency,
Speaker 11: if you will, in the in the in the liberals
Speaker 11: of sense, right, it's.
Speaker 2: A calling frequency. Yeah, it is a calling free another
Speaker 2: word words. In a perfect world, you would call someone
Speaker 2: on six top five to two. I would call Josh.
Speaker 2: I was driving to California. I'll call Josh. He comes
Speaker 2: back to me. He's like, hey, man, what's going on. Hey,
Speaker 2: let's move off to this other frequency, and then we
Speaker 2: continue our conversation for the next half hour on that frequency.
Speaker 2: That's great. But my point, and you're not wrong in
Speaker 2: saying that, you were absolutely not wrong. But my point
Speaker 2: is that these days six top five to two is
Speaker 2: so dead that we should just stay on that until
Speaker 2: we have that problem.
Speaker 11: Well, yes, get get to the point where you're at mine,
Speaker 11: to the point yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then use
Speaker 11: it because that's what it's supposed to.
Speaker 2: Be correct, correct. Yeah, So yeah, just light up six
Speaker 2: top five to two. Man. I think we should all
Speaker 2: do that. We should all have one side of our
Speaker 2: radio on that frequency at all times when we're driving
Speaker 2: around town on road, especially on road trips, and just
Speaker 2: throw your call sign out every half hour and see
Speaker 2: who you can reach, because I would like to really
Speaker 2: see that frequency light up again, you know, the way
Speaker 2: it used to be twenty or thirty years ago.
Speaker 4: I have had some excellent conversations with people on five
Speaker 4: to two run.
Speaker 2: I have two on the highway.
Speaker 4: You run it up and down the highways in Ontario
Speaker 4: where there's a lot of traffic southern Ontario. I had
Speaker 4: a half hour chat with a guy that was transitting
Speaker 4: through southern Ontario from northern Michigan down to upper New
Speaker 4: York State. Awesome, it's great fun.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely And Vince, that's that's yours too many
Speaker 2: your simplex calling frequency also in Canada, Yes, sir, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: So if you're driving north into Canada, same frequency.
Speaker 1: Vince, I will echo what you just said. When I
Speaker 1: was coming back from Huntsville Hamfest just this year, I
Speaker 1: was driving down I twenty and I I mean, we
Speaker 1: look at each other's cars. We know we got antenna
Speaker 1: is right, so we saw each other. We're like, hey,
Speaker 1: we threw out our call signs, had a great, great
Speaker 1: one four six dot five to two station for half
Speaker 1: hour forty five minutes. I was maybe driving a little
Speaker 1: bit faster than maybe a little bit whatever, but we
Speaker 1: had a great conversation on five to two. Driving down
Speaker 1: I twenty, it's just hammering. He and he wasn't even
Speaker 1: coming from Huntsville ham Fast, which blew my mind. I'm like,
Speaker 1: how are we both going that way away from Huntsville,
Speaker 1: Alabama and you weren't. He's like, I've never been he
Speaker 1: was actually he was driving from Maine all the way
Speaker 1: down to I think Texarkana. He might have been Wow,
Speaker 1: he might have had he might have had four hundred
Speaker 1: cases of Cory's beer.
Speaker 2: But I swure know he was driving a nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: seven transit.
Speaker 1: Serious as a heart attack, though he was actually going
Speaker 1: to Alabama, and I think he was. He was going
Speaker 1: like the golf kind of where Jem lives. He was
Speaker 1: kind of going in that era. But we're driving on
Speaker 1: iwe and uh, I may or may not have been
Speaker 1: in the left lane and passed him. Excuse me. He
Speaker 1: saw my he saw my license plate because I have
Speaker 1: my call sign on my license plate, and he threw
Speaker 1: his call out and he well, he's like K and
Speaker 1: m r D this is whatever. And I'm just like
Speaker 1: because I'm monitoring one four six dot five to.
Speaker 2: Two right right.
Speaker 1: And But to go back to what Jason is saying,
Speaker 1: make five to two great again, Like as we're driving
Speaker 1: down the freeways of tim buck to and across the
Speaker 1: Great United States or wherever you're going, and I'm and
Speaker 1: I'm guiltier than everyone. I don't I don't get I
Speaker 1: don't key up, you know.
Speaker 2: Say hey, I don't do that.
Speaker 1: That's my problem me too, so imagine if we all
Speaker 1: did that, Like we're all in agreement, Like we all
Speaker 1: have our radios on five to two and four four
Speaker 1: four four six point zero because we're out of our
Speaker 1: repeater range. We're in tim buck too. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to listen to the two meter simplex frequency which is
Speaker 1: one four six point five two zero, and the seventy
Speaker 1: centimeter frequency which is four four six zero zero zero.
Speaker 1: There's a new guy in the chat here. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to answer questions for them while we're doing this. But
Speaker 1: we I think that we want up more, we need
Speaker 1: to keep up, and I don't. I don't agree that
Speaker 1: because I don't want to talk to people. I'm an introvert.
Speaker 1: I got the I got the windows down, I got
Speaker 1: the stereo cranked, and I have the ham radio speaker
Speaker 1: also cranked.
Speaker 2: So I am guilty of that as well. I need
Speaker 2: to key up more often. I am always monitoring, but
Speaker 2: I need to keep up more often myself, and I'm
Speaker 2: I'm issuing a challenge to myself. But also you guys
Speaker 2: in the zoom, you guys in the chat, you guys
Speaker 2: on the team replay a non audio podcast monitor six
Speaker 2: top five to two and throw your calls on out
Speaker 2: every now and then. It doesn't have to be every
Speaker 2: five freaking minutes, but sometimes do that, especially on a
Speaker 2: road trip, because when it's up to us, it's up
Speaker 2: to us. It's not up to the six seventy year
Speaker 2: old curmudgeons on z that want to bitch about everything.
Speaker 2: It's not up to those guys. It's up to us
Speaker 2: to keep these frequencies alive. And that you're using it
Speaker 2: too much, I don't care. I don't care, but it's
Speaker 2: a good video. Everybody make a video on it. It's
Speaker 2: a good idea. That's a good idea.
Speaker 4: There is a universal hand signal for this too. If
Speaker 4: you're going down the road and you call on five
Speaker 4: to two to the guy and uh and he doesn't
Speaker 4: answer you, that's get.
Speaker 2: The get the get the sticker, the kinwood or the
Speaker 2: able arrow sticker that goes in the back of your car,
Speaker 2: that says monitoring six top five to two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but we don't know the other guy is.
Speaker 4: And I've done that. I've done the hand gesture and
Speaker 4: I used all my fingers, not just the one of them,
Speaker 4: and the guy. The guy got the message and enjoined.
Speaker 2: We had a great chat. I've talked to a couple
Speaker 2: of I will I will beacon a p R S
Speaker 2: and and and my message says monitoring six top five
Speaker 2: to two. And I've talked to people like that before.
Speaker 1: Nick Tree De Paul says, where did he go? He
Speaker 1: tried keying up on five to two? And Willis that's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Buddy, Willis is right there by you. You should be
Speaker 2: able to hear that. I'm just I'm not I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to blame any anybody or I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: say you're doing something wrong. What I'm saying is turn
Speaker 2: on your freaking radio and monitor six top five to two.
Speaker 2: And if you know that's that's he's going to be
Speaker 2: at winterfield Day. So if you hear, if you even
Speaker 2: hear bro right, I think he has that. Actually, if
Speaker 2: if you hear someone call out on six top five
Speaker 2: to two, answer them. You don't have to talk to
Speaker 2: them for a long time. Say hey man, I heard
Speaker 2: you out there. Can't talk right now, but hey, thanks
Speaker 2: for using six top five to two. Case five, hibb
Speaker 2: that's it, Or talk to him if you want to.
Speaker 2: But I just think I really, really, really really think
Speaker 2: that we should as a community to try to light
Speaker 2: up this frequency as much as possible nationwide.
Speaker 1: There was not at all a light up two meters event.
Speaker 2: There was, actually yeah, but that was just like.
Speaker 9: Happened.
Speaker 2: That was like a weekend. It's like a weekend. But
Speaker 2: I'm talking about doing it.
Speaker 1: Let's light It was called light up two.
Speaker 2: Meters, light up two meters. Yeah, yeah, I participated the
Speaker 2: first time I heard about it. But I'm talking about
Speaker 2: doing that all the time, all the time. Every time
Speaker 2: you get every time you get into your vehicle, and
Speaker 2: for more than ten minutes, be on six top five
Speaker 2: to two and throw your call sign out at least once.
Speaker 1: Let me throw something at you then, and I am
Speaker 1: one hundred agreeance with you.
Speaker 2: Okay, what do I do when I don't want to
Speaker 2: talk to people?
Speaker 1: Which is ninety nine point nine.
Speaker 11: Per Oh you you beacon APRS because well, Josh, nobody's
Speaker 11: talking to you.
Speaker 2: We're gonna shut this down in a minute, Josh. Anyway.
Speaker 2: So so realistically, and I'm sad to say this, but realistically,
Speaker 2: if you throw your call sign out on six top
Speaker 2: five two, you're probably not going to get anyone to
Speaker 2: come back to you anyway. Mike, worry about that problem.
Speaker 2: After we have solved the problem of six top five
Speaker 2: two being so quiet, Take this time.
Speaker 1: Take this answer is actually a good one, and it
Speaker 1: is I hate to say that.
Speaker 2: You take this time, Take this time to contribute to
Speaker 2: the activity on six five to two. And when it
Speaker 2: gets so busy, just back out. That's cool.
Speaker 1: It's no problem but the bottom but so like mic fright,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid, like seriously, just just just push the button.
Speaker 1: Push the button. Just just push the button and stay
Speaker 1: your call sign correct. Don't worry about saying it phonetically,
Speaker 1: don't worry about anything, worry about don't worry about anything.
Speaker 1: Just push the button and say this is K or
Speaker 1: W or N whatever your call sign is. Tell them
Speaker 1: that you're new.
Speaker 2: I promise you, yes, it's not like. It's not like.
Speaker 2: It's not like the assholes online. It's the people on
Speaker 2: the error are not like the assholes online.
Speaker 1: It is not I promise you. If you have the
Speaker 1: gumption to key up your microphone and throw out your
Speaker 1: call sign on a repeater, just say, hey, this is
Speaker 1: whatever your cause, Hey, this is K and M. Already
Speaker 1: just got my license. Want to see if my radio's working.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to talk. Whatever your message is, just say hey,
Speaker 1: somebody will come back to you. And dude, if somebody,
Speaker 1: if somebody hears you on the repeater, and you have
Speaker 1: to understand that, like not everybody is sitting in their
Speaker 1: shack listening, So don't be afraid to throw it out
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Dude, the second you get that
Speaker 1: first contact, whoever that guy is that makes contact with you,
Speaker 1: that's an honor to make a contact.
Speaker 2: It really is first.
Speaker 1: Like I just threw my call sign out and they
Speaker 1: will welcome you to the hobby. They'll be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, how you're a tech. Great, that's what are
Speaker 1: you talking on? You got a bow fing? That's great,
Speaker 1: you sound great.
Speaker 2: Or they'll be honest, you sound like crap right right,
Speaker 2: but that's radio.
Speaker 1: Don't don't take that.
Speaker 10: Personally correct hamsplain things to you.
Speaker 1: Because you're talking on an a tea inside your house
Speaker 1: where radio waves don't really work.
Speaker 11: So well, yeah, why don't I hear anything when I'm
Speaker 11: sitting in my bal fang in a barca lounger, Mike,
Speaker 11: why don't I hear when I'm on.
Speaker 1: My you know what? Josh Okay, worst person asked about
Speaker 1: this because you've made videos working HF on uh lawn lawn.
Speaker 2: Chair lawn chairs. Yeah, yeah, what wife hit. The title
Speaker 2: of video was wife mad again.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: I showed that to my wife and she thought it
Speaker 2: was funny. So water, Mike great, great points. Agree with
Speaker 2: you one hundred percent. Josh, tell us about your t
Speaker 2: I thing tomorrow. Once again, we're gonna shut this down,
Speaker 2: all right. So we have the Teachers Institute coming up.
Speaker 11: We're doing a live stream to support the efforts that
Speaker 11: they've been doing. They've been doing it for years, so
Speaker 11: this is not like a new thing that's come up
Speaker 11: or anything like that. Actually, that's one of the teachers.
Speaker 11: Everett's right there. K five Ata is the lead of
Speaker 11: that group. Mike, who's here with us right now. Kind
Speaker 11: of kick this whole thing off doing a telethon where
Speaker 11: we stream as long as possible to bring up funds
Speaker 11: for them, and it goes to the Teachers Institute. It
Speaker 11: doesn't go to the AARL General funds.
Speaker 2: It's for the teachers.
Speaker 11: Educating teachers about amateur radio, get them all educated up.
Speaker 11: They can then take that back to their classes and
Speaker 11: teach the youngsters about what Hamm Radio is. This is
Speaker 11: high school teachers, middle school teachers, elementary school teachers, to
Speaker 11: get them all exposed at you know, basically what we
Speaker 11: all want to do. We all want to get involved
Speaker 11: with educators and teach people. But the best way to
Speaker 11: do that is really teach the teachers that do this
Speaker 11: their everyday job to educate people.
Speaker 8: And so that's what the TI does.
Speaker 11: And we're going to do a telethon tomorrow to make
Speaker 11: as much money as we can for them. Every cent
Speaker 11: goes to their fund to help support what they're doing.
Speaker 8: And we're gonna start at.
Speaker 11: Two pm tomorrow. Jason's gonna be there, Mike's gonna be there,
Speaker 11: a number of other people will be there. It's gonna
Speaker 11: be a lot of fun. And if you can come
Speaker 11: on out to the Hamber deal Craft Course tomorrow, please
Speaker 11: do so.
Speaker 8: We'd love to have you.
Speaker 10: And that's that's two pm Pacific, correct.
Speaker 2: Pacific specific time.
Speaker 8: That's right, thank you.
Speaker 1: So I want to be I want to be very
Speaker 1: clear here. Uh one hundred percent of the funds go
Speaker 1: to the A R r L Teachers Institute, correct, which
Speaker 1: means if you donate, your donations are one hundred percent
Speaker 1: tax deductible right, like, literally, we have every single dollar.
Speaker 1: YouTube doesn't take a cut. Google doesn't take a cut,
Speaker 1: nobody takes a cut. Every single dollar.
Speaker 2: Goes to it's a good thing that YouTube does. There's
Speaker 2: a there's a number.
Speaker 1: Of fundraising one goes to ar L.
Speaker 2: Josh, you need to send me that number in private chat?
Speaker 8: Which number?
Speaker 2: Whatever number you're talking about, the matching number?
Speaker 8: Oh do you know what it is?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 11: Okay, So there and the ah BRL has lined up
Speaker 11: from very generous donors matching funds for all of our
Speaker 11: donations up to a certain point.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about it tomorrow. And I'm giving away at
Speaker 2: least for radios tomorrow.
Speaker 11: There's two of them that I'm gonna be giving away
Speaker 11: as we hit our donation goals.
Speaker 2: So come on out. We're gonna have some fun with it.
Speaker 2: Everybody else for the giveaways, Can I give away my
Speaker 2: Redivius radios tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I could work that out absolutely. Okay, I might do
Speaker 2: that tomorrow because I've been watching the chat tonight, but
Speaker 2: I've been watching a bunch of other stuff too. I
Speaker 2: might do that tomorrow. So cool, good, so yes, very good.
Speaker 2: Cause something we talked about on this channel, Josh's channel,
Speaker 2: Mike Channel a bunch of times in the past, Teachers
Speaker 2: Institute promoting Ham radio for teachers who teach students and
Speaker 2: youth about Ham radio. There's nothing wrong with that at all,
Speaker 2: like yep, ever, so yeah, great deal, thanks man, appreciate
Speaker 2: you guys being here tonight. Uh let's switch this right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: there we go, right there, So seventy three to everybody,
Speaker 2: thank you for being here. Check out the links in
Speaker 2: the description below. And oh really I thought it would
Speaker 2: I thought it would have been more than that, but okay, cool,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah yeah, who knows, so we'll see. But uh yeah,
Speaker 2: uh yeah, join Josh, put your uh put put you
Speaker 2: have your live stream link already, yeah, put in the
Speaker 2: chat put in very much. You've gotta you've gotta admin.
Speaker 10: What was the what was the total that was raised
Speaker 10: last year? Our goal for this year? Right as a.
Speaker 2: Minimum, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: I got the on the lot on the live stream,
Speaker 1: we raised about eighteen k but after kind of because
Speaker 1: you could go to the r L and donate too,
Speaker 1: it was over twenty k.
Speaker 10: Oh for that episode. So that campaign.
Speaker 1: Right for the ARL Teachers Institute that we did last
Speaker 1: year we raised about twenty k. Yeah, so I'm hoping personally,
Speaker 1: from just being a sales guy and being on Josh's channel,
Speaker 1: we should we should easily double that.
Speaker 2: I would love that. That'd be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we raised twenty k on my channel and
Speaker 1: I've got like four subscribers. Right, if we take this
Speaker 1: whole thing to Josh's channel, who has like three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand subscribers.
Speaker 10: Mike, I heard you just one over like like five subscribers.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 9: He lost one today.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 1: If we have this son Josh channel, imagine how.
Speaker 2: Much I hope I mean, I mean, imagine how.
Speaker 1: Much more we can raise. Imagine now we have we
Speaker 1: have like yeah, what are we calling them the Josh benchmarks?
Speaker 1: To get the to get like a mac old or something.
Speaker 2: This is this is not about this is damn.
Speaker 1: Last year was Last year was Last year was straight
Speaker 1: up wild West?
Speaker 2: Yeah, wild wild West?
Speaker 8: Yes, this year is like Okay, but here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, see what we can really do and by we
Speaker 1: I mean we as a Ham radio community.
Speaker 2: It's important. It's important.
Speaker 1: Biggest question, Hang on, Jason, this is the biggest question
Speaker 1: that we always ask. Okay, Cartman. What can we do
Speaker 1: to get younger people in a ham radio. We're doing it.
Speaker 1: This is what we're doing. We're funneling money at it. Right,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Jason.
Speaker 2: No, I know you're You're totally right. I like to
Speaker 2: make fun of you and you're an iPhone guy and
Speaker 2: it's okay, but but you're totally right. I completely agree
Speaker 2: with everything you just said. This is this is this
Speaker 2: is the thing. This is a thing that we like
Speaker 2: to do, and we've been doing it for we YouTube community,
Speaker 2: like I've had Steve on my channel two or three times.
Speaker 2: Kyle has been a big help in promoting teachers Institutes
Speaker 2: because Kyle will take donations for the food at Huntsville
Speaker 2: Hamfest every year for the last three years, and every
Speaker 2: all the donations that we get for the food, we
Speaker 2: buy the food, we have a cookout, whatnot, and then
Speaker 2: everything extra Kyle donates to to Steve's Teachers Institute. So
Speaker 2: there's multiple streams of income that Steve has, which is great.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 10: I think that raised over twenty five.
Speaker 2: Something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It's just it's tens of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 2: Where it's it's good to every I know it's good
Speaker 2: to get everyone on this zoom call and everyone in
Speaker 2: the chat and everyone who's not here tonight all together
Speaker 2: to raise money for this effort on the Teacher's Institute
Speaker 2: that we all believe in.
Speaker 1: So you know what, you know what, Jason, it's it's
Speaker 1: going to be so cool tomorrow mhm. Because our community
Speaker 1: is just like if Andy Cowley alone.
Speaker 10: He's already he's already at the waiting.
Speaker 1: And already on fifty of our That's what I'm saying, dude,
Speaker 1: Ham Radio is like, the community is so good. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's it's already there. Everybody's already waiting.
Speaker 12: Two.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm not or not. It's gonna be like
Speaker 2: six six to eight hours.
Speaker 1: Listen, I've got, I've got.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna join. I'm going to join like
Speaker 2: three to four hours after he starts, so I can
Speaker 2: go to the end and show everyone what a bunch
Speaker 2: of whiskey tastes like. So, yeah, we.
Speaker 11: Do have a program, a bit of some yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: I start start drinking after I do my presentation.
Speaker 11: I will start drinking when I hit my particular goal.
Speaker 2: And oh yeah, totally honestly, this is the.
Speaker 1: Limit from my point, like the drinking is kind of
Speaker 1: off the table. It's it's about it's about the kids.
Speaker 2: Apparently you've done enough of that tonight.
Speaker 1: Do this is my birthday?
Speaker 2: I agree, it is not my freaking problem.
Speaker 1: It is. It is your problem. But no tomorrow and
Speaker 1: uh no.
Speaker 7: It's it's it's really not.
Speaker 2: I gotta go.
Speaker 1: I gotta go fight you to the death. I will
Speaker 1: fight you all.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I am cale, I am yeah, that's the battery. It's hey, guys, seriously,
Speaker 2: thank you for tonight. This was awesome. I love the
Speaker 2: Happy Hour live streams. We will do this again New
Speaker 2: Year's Eve. Mark your calendars. All of you guys are old.
Speaker 2: You're not going out if you're New Year's Eve anyway.
Speaker 2: Kind of like me, kind of like me. It's a
Speaker 2: streaky night, Davidson says.
Speaker 1: So when do we do a shot? What is the
Speaker 1: word for the shot?
Speaker 2: The CU word for the shot is ham harder. That's harder,
Speaker 2: that's as Yeah. Yeah, no, we'll do this again Happy
Speaker 2: Hour on New Year's Eve and it'll be a fun stream.
Speaker 2: You guys mark your calendars, please please join me. I
Speaker 2: would love to have twenty people on the zoom call
Speaker 2: that night. So it's a fun time. Check out Josh's
Speaker 2: stream for tomorrow night for the g Institute. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be a fun stream. Also, I'll be there, Michael Blair
Speaker 2: be there, and he shared a link to that earlier.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys joining us tonight. Thank you for the
Speaker 2: super chats, Thank you for Thank you to Gigaparts. You
Speaker 2: guys like gigaparts parts is awesome, right yeah, Gigaparts is
Speaker 2: freaking awesome. We're gonna do We're gonna do that again
Speaker 2: on an hour long stream for a make let's make
Speaker 2: a deal type thing.
Speaker 10: I was gonna say, put one in the chat if
Speaker 10: you yeah, took advantage of.
Speaker 2: That, Yeah, yeah, put one in the chat.
Speaker 8: If you didn't, it made me take advantage of it,
Speaker 8: because right right, I.
Speaker 1: Don't want to pote a thirty three with five off
Speaker 1: with code already at gigaparts.
Speaker 2: That's right where we're going there, Yeah, that's where we're
Speaker 2: going seventy three guys. Thanks for raining us tonight. See
Speaker 2: you tomorrow night on Josh's live stream. You guys, have
Speaker 2: a good night.
Speaker 4: I'm smarter, I'm smarter.
Speaker 2: Yeah,