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Speaker 1: like that step one by an FTX one. I mean
Speaker 1: that makes the most sense to me. Good evening to everyone,
Speaker 1: and it is really good to be back in the shack,
Speaker 1: back in Texas, back to and you know what, it's
Speaker 1: it's been raining since we've been back, so I haven't
Speaker 1: really been hot. But we spent the last week in
Speaker 1: Colorado touring the entire state and hitting all of the
Speaker 1: national parks in Colorado, and I recorded I'm Gonna take
Speaker 1: Frank out of My Ears, and I recorded a video
Speaker 1: about that whole trip that will go live on my
Speaker 1: unplugged channel because it's about travel. We did do. My
Speaker 1: wife and I both activated all four national parks for PODA,
Speaker 1: so it was it was fun. And then we also
Speaker 1: both activated. We also went down to four Corners and
Speaker 1: activated that, so it was a good trip. More to
Speaker 1: come on that later, but thanks for joining us tonight.
Speaker 1: So all right, tonight we're going to talk about the
Speaker 1: ftx one, brand new firmaer updates, some new hardware, some
Speaker 1: new this, some new that. But first, but first, Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime Day is starting Tuesday, and I've already got ah
Speaker 1: here's my link to my Amazon idea list for Prime Day.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys using that. It is an affiliate link,
Speaker 1: and I get commissions for some items that you buy
Speaker 1: on Amazon through that. We're gonna go live on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: the first day. I've done this the last three or
Speaker 1: four years on Prime Day and Prime Big Deals Day
Speaker 1: and Prime Summer Deals Day and whatever else they're coming
Speaker 1: up with. And they're doing it for four freaking days
Speaker 1: this time. So usually it's like Tuesday, Wednesday, or maybe Wednesday, Thursday, today,
Speaker 1: this week, this week, this year, this summer. It is
Speaker 1: Tuesday through Friday, and I suspect we're gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot of change, Like if you go look at the
Speaker 1: deals on Tuesday, I don't think they'll probably be the
Speaker 1: same deals again on Thursday or Friday. Maybe they'll last today,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll last until they're sold out and they'll kind
Speaker 1: of rotate through. They've done that before, so yeah, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to check the list each day. I
Speaker 1: will be live streaming more than one day, but I
Speaker 1: haven't decided when yet exactly. Definitely going live on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so you guys keep watching on that. Sign up for
Speaker 1: email alerts, do sign up on the text message something
Speaker 1: like that, and you guys can keep up with that.
Speaker 1: So Prime Day is starting Tuesday. That's where we are
Speaker 1: right there. And immediately following this live stream, we are
Speaker 1: going to do another live stream on the Unplugged channel.
Speaker 1: For the next RV base camp chat. We're going to
Speaker 1: be talking about where to get water when you're on
Speaker 1: the road. So there's a topic that Kyle came up with.
Speaker 1: Is a good topic in my opinion, because you always
Speaker 1: have to figure that out whether you want to fill
Speaker 1: up the water tank and drive to your destination with
Speaker 1: that extra weight in your RV, or whether you want
Speaker 1: to empty the water tank, drive to where you need
Speaker 1: to go and fill it up a few miles before
Speaker 1: you get there. But we'll see, so you guys for that,
Speaker 1: we'll roll over to that and I'll share that again
Speaker 1: at the end of this live stream and something else
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk. We're gonna talk about the Texas flooding
Speaker 1: going on in the Hill Country area. In fact, I
Speaker 1: got a couple of questions for Frank about that. So
Speaker 1: anyone who knows anything about the Texas flooding or relief
Speaker 1: efforts for the Texas flooding, I'm gonna ask that question
Speaker 1: here in a moment. Okay, But if those of you
Speaker 1: who didn't see my shopping video, this is the new
Speaker 1: separation cable. And Josh mentioned this on his live stream
Speaker 1: last night, and I mentioned it on my Friday shopping video.
Speaker 1: Yazu has released, well they're about to. They've they've announced
Speaker 1: these will be ready mid August. So I'm told, okay,
Speaker 1: there's a five foot and a ten foot extension cable
Speaker 1: for this radio, specifically for we were told this wouldn't
Speaker 1: This was not a separatable kit.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: I don't know the story behind it. I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened. I don't know if they were planning this
Speaker 1: the whole time, or if they just listened to the
Speaker 1: audience and said, well, crap, we need to build some cables.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know what happened, but
Speaker 1: but here's the thing. Until about July fourteenth, I think
Speaker 1: it is gigaparts will gigaparts is offering a ten percent
Speaker 1: coupon off of these cables. They're kind of pricey. You
Speaker 1: can build your own, you can do that, totally cool.
Speaker 1: But if you want a ten percent discount off of
Speaker 1: either one of these cables, use the code of six
Speaker 1: to six hr two. Sixty six is the it's for
Speaker 1: SCU sixty six is the Yazoo model number. So there's
Speaker 1: a SU six six five foot and an SU sixty
Speaker 1: six L ten foot. But you can use the coupon
Speaker 1: code of six six hr two at gigaparts to get
Speaker 1: a ten percent discount off of either one of these
Speaker 1: cables and save some money that way. So there you go.
Speaker 1: So you know, eleven twelve thirteen dollars off of that price. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're a little bit pricey. I agree, But we were crying.
Speaker 1: A lot of us were crying that it was not
Speaker 1: a separatable radio originally, and I understood that point. Well
Speaker 1: now it is, so picker battles. Take what it take
Speaker 1: what it's worth and and go from there. So that's
Speaker 1: where we're going to go. Now, let me unmute Frank
Speaker 1: and cover my ears. What's up, dude, Hey man, what's
Speaker 1: going on? It is? It is going? I got the
Speaker 1: air constr this stream, yes, agreed, agreed, I was.
Speaker 2: I kind of didn't know if you were going to
Speaker 2: be home or not, so that's why I texted you
Speaker 2: this morning. Yeah, but it's actually I I took you
Speaker 2: last week off because it was the fifth Friday. I
Speaker 2: was not supposed to stream anyways, but I was like,
Speaker 2: gotcha streaming? No, no, no, no, I'm gonna go and spend
Speaker 2: some time hanging out. So I spent some time with
Speaker 2: some friends and family. That's always nice. And how do y'all?
Speaker 2: We got the tanker going on in the check tanker
Speaker 2: forty five. Yeah, y'all are amazing Tom. Other than that, man,
Speaker 2: I had the radio out on my deck for a
Speaker 2: lot of this week when I could geez, man, rained,
Speaker 2: rain rain, rain. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well it was okay, so we were you know, it
Speaker 1: rained off and on in Colorado. But dude, it was
Speaker 1: so freaking nice the day the last three days we
Speaker 1: were there, it was clear and sunny with white clouds
Speaker 1: in the blue sky. And had we been in Texas
Speaker 1: with skies like that, it would have been ninety five degrees,
Speaker 1: but it was like eighty degrees in Colorado. So I'm
Speaker 1: not complaining about the weather at all. Much less humid,
Speaker 1: a little bit warm, eighty you know, lo to mid
Speaker 1: eighties something like that. It was nice. It was really
Speaker 1: nice weather in Colorado the whole time, except for the
Speaker 1: few times it did rain. But the rain was short lived.
Speaker 1: We didn't get rained out of anything we were gonna do,
Speaker 1: so it was good. Phil day was yes, beautiful, good.
Speaker 2: It was a little warm, but since we had that cabin, man,
Speaker 2: you would have loved this cabin. Did you see a
Speaker 2: video on it?
Speaker 1: I did not know. I I see I saw it.
Speaker 1: It came across my feed. I think maybe Emily watched it. Oh,
Speaker 1: it came. It came across but she subscribes to you
Speaker 1: and and Mike and a few others. But uh, it
Speaker 1: came across my feet. And I do want to watch
Speaker 1: it because I want to see what I missed on
Speaker 1: field day. I did some field day logging and used
Speaker 1: the Polo app for field day, mostly for field day
Speaker 1: and activation because there's no cel service in National parks
Speaker 1: for the most part, so an online logger was not working,
Speaker 1: so we used the Polo app. I promised Sebastian I
Speaker 1: would use the Polo app on that trip, and I did.
Speaker 1: I used it like three or four times.
Speaker 2: So and overall, what was your feel for it?
Speaker 1: I like it, I don't. I like the World Radio
Speaker 1: League app better, not because of anything Polo is doing wrong,
Speaker 1: but just because of a few extra feature that it's missing.
Speaker 1: But I know that he's working on. So in other words,
Speaker 1: World Radio League is just a little bit ahead in
Speaker 1: the race than Polo in my opinion. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: you guys can disagree with me. It's okay, but I'm
Speaker 1: actually I'm actually working on a video that kind of
Speaker 1: compares the two. Okay, and long story short, both of
Speaker 1: them are great and you're not going to be disappointed
Speaker 1: with either one. There's just different features that each one does.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say that in the video, I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, if you like this one, use this one.
Speaker 1: If you like the other one, use the other one.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. I mean, it's they're both. They're birth grate apps.
Speaker 2: So I am Polo now on the phone. I think
Speaker 2: it's a little bit easier it was a little clonky
Speaker 2: in the beginning. There was a learning curve to it.
Speaker 2: I'm like hammers, you open up Hammers. Everything was immediate,
Speaker 2: everything was parent and it was really easy to see right. However,
Speaker 2: once I got used to Polo, Polo was so much faster.
Speaker 2: Film the streamline now the computer hands down Hammer's pro.
Speaker 2: I was even using it on my activation for uh
Speaker 2: Cooper Lake State Park and we I used that. I
Speaker 2: did like four hundred contacts before field day.
Speaker 1: I was getting ham alerts about you working ft A. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was totally. I was totally getting Hamlert everything. Man, yep.
Speaker 2: So, but yeah, you should check out that video.
Speaker 1: Watch it, watch it, watch it tonight.
Speaker 2: Last good you were missed. Robert was missed, Mike was missed.
Speaker 1: I mean I think Mike did a video, uh with
Speaker 1: his buddies in Michigan. He went up to Michigan, I
Speaker 1: think so. And I saw I saw that come across
Speaker 1: my feed behaving.
Speaker 2: Both of the y'all scheduled trips. Shame on y'all schedule
Speaker 2: for field day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 3: After a scheduled I don't blame you, but come on, yeah,
Speaker 3: I will, all right, so today we're going to update
Speaker 3: the firmware on the on this on this radio here.
Speaker 1: Okay. Now, I know a lot of people are this
Speaker 1: radio has been a hot topic. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that there's a lot of people that have issues
Speaker 1: with the radio. There's a lot of people that like
Speaker 1: the radio. I've heard good and bad points about the radio.
Speaker 1: I like it. Did you I like it? I didn't.
Speaker 1: I did not. I did not take it. I did
Speaker 1: not take it. I took my emty. I took my
Speaker 1: ftd X ten. Okay, Now, about half the time we
Speaker 1: activated from the truck, like Great Sand Dunes and which
Speaker 1: other one I think, uh, Black Canyon and the Gunnison.
Speaker 1: We we had uh and and four corners. We couldn't
Speaker 1: really there weren't really picnic areas. I think Black Canyon
Speaker 1: and the Gunnis And we were just pressed for time.
Speaker 1: Uh Great sand Dunes, there wasn't really a picnic area.
Speaker 1: So we activated from the truck. And I have determined
Speaker 1: that my TS four A d h X I have
Speaker 1: in the truck. I don't. I don't like it. And
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is it's not it's not
Speaker 1: great on the receiver. If you if you use the
Speaker 1: TX four eighty and then you go to another park
Speaker 1: and sit down and break out the ftd x ten
Speaker 1: night and day difference. The ftd X ten has so
Speaker 1: much better filtering and such a much better receiver. It's
Speaker 1: just it's not And to leave aside the fact that
Speaker 1: it has a big screen with the waterfall, I don't
Speaker 1: even care about that for the purpose of this argument.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just a it's a much much newer
Speaker 1: radio than the Kinwood, and it's just it's it's much
Speaker 1: easier to activate PODA. I worked Dave KB five U
Speaker 1: T Y. I don't know if he's in the chat tonight.
Speaker 1: He was. He texted me on one of them. He's like, dude,
Speaker 1: I guess you can't hear me because I can hear you. Guys,
Speaker 1: you're down in the noise, but I can hear you.
Speaker 1: And he was trying to get back to me. I
Speaker 1: couldn't hear him at all. And then the next day
Speaker 1: he blew my speaker out of my Yazuo. When they're
Speaker 1: sitting in Rocky Mountain. He's like, he's like uniform tager yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, dude, you're like blowing my speaker or
Speaker 1: ten over five nine, and he's like, dude, you're twenty
Speaker 1: over five nine coming back to Texas. He's like, the
Speaker 1: band's better today. But I was like, well, I got
Speaker 1: a better radio also, So it was I don't know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so guess what separation cables? Now? I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I think I'm gonna put this in the truck.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna put this in the truck, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Do you think they did that on purpose or did
Speaker 2: they react to everybody saying why don't we have a
Speaker 2: sex separation cable?
Speaker 1: Because I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think jenuine they saw that, and I think this
Speaker 2: was a reaction. I don't think this was in the
Speaker 2: pipe and they're trying to trick people. I think this
Speaker 2: was a reaction because so many people said, we need one,
Speaker 2: we need one, we need one, we need one.
Speaker 1: I don't think there was anything nefarious about it. No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that that was I don't think that
Speaker 1: was it planned originally. I don't know. Was it something
Speaker 1: that they responded to the audience about. I certainly would
Speaker 1: like to think so, I think don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I did invite and he's he. I didn't think he would.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he would show up. I did invite
Speaker 1: John to this live stream. I know he was real busy.
Speaker 1: I was trying to get him on last month. He
Speaker 1: was real busy last month. I haven't really talked to
Speaker 1: him this month. I said, I send him a link
Speaker 1: to the to the live stream. I was like, join
Speaker 1: us on zoom if you want to. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about this radio either way, but you know, if if
Speaker 1: you want to. I didn't get a reply from him,
Speaker 1: so I don't expect to see him tonight, but I
Speaker 1: would love to. I would love to pick his brain
Speaker 1: about that and see what he see what he says
Speaker 1: about it. I don't, I don't. I don't really know.
Speaker 1: I don't think there was anything like, oh, just let's
Speaker 1: lie to everybody and then and then uh and they
Speaker 1: released it. Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't think it
Speaker 1: was that, at least I would like to think it's
Speaker 1: not that. I really don't think it was that.
Speaker 2: I really think it was a reaction to the audience.
Speaker 2: They did not predict the amount of people that wanted that.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think you're right. Josh Ham
Speaker 1: Radio Crash course twenty gift memberships. Thanks buddy. I guess
Speaker 1: he's returning the favor I've given him five, like I
Speaker 1: don't know two or three times like that. Thanks buddy,
Speaker 1: thanks for being here. But yeah, yeah, but m welcome
Speaker 1: to the uh welcome to the gift for memberships. Guys.
Speaker 1: Thanks for that, Josh so yeah, so no, I don't
Speaker 1: think there was anything nefarious about it at all. But
Speaker 1: so here's what we're gonna do to not We're gonna
Speaker 1: update the now. I already made a video about updating
Speaker 1: the firmware to the first two things. Number One, people
Speaker 1: were like, oh, well, the radio is like three weeks old.
Speaker 1: They've already got a firmware update. That is not unusual.
Speaker 1: That's not unusual at all. Okay, that that that is
Speaker 1: that well, perhaps true, but even for even for Zet
Speaker 1: like Zaigu had like three updates in the first month
Speaker 1: because that sixty one hundred and sixty two hundred was
Speaker 1: full of features that didn't work. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: give you that, it's not unusual for radio manufacturer to
Speaker 1: release new firmware updates for a new radio early on. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's happened before, it's gonna happen again. Get over it.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to buy a new radio because
Speaker 1: of that, if you want to wait a year to
Speaker 1: buy radio, okay, cool, cool, good, do that your decision.
Speaker 1: So they came out with a firmware update, and I
Speaker 1: did a video saying here's how you update the firmware.
Speaker 1: And this was more of a steps thing to just
Speaker 1: like step one, step two, step three, here's how you
Speaker 1: do it. So all of those steps will apply to
Speaker 1: what we're doing tonight. But the newest revision of the
Speaker 1: firmware update. Let's see, yeah, right here, So this is
Speaker 1: we where we are tonight. This is what we're gonna
Speaker 1: do tonight. We're gonna update to firmware. It's it's dated
Speaker 1: June of twenty twenty five. And this this this manual,
Speaker 1: this update information PDF document. It's actually June twenty seventh
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, so less than two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: like nine ten days ago, something like that. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I've already downloaded the firmware. We're gonna go through it
Speaker 1: here in a minute. But here is this. This was
Speaker 1: great because the first the first one in the in
Speaker 1: the update notes, it said fixed operation features. It was
Speaker 1: very vague. It didn't really tell what the first one did.
Speaker 1: But this one's good. It lays out details of what
Speaker 1: is in this firmware. Added APRS message function. Now, anyone
Speaker 1: who saw Jason cam for ACK's video knows that there
Speaker 1: was no way to send a message or reply to
Speaker 1: message on APRS OOPS. Originally he made a video, he
Speaker 1: put it up there. JESU responded to it and said, Yep,
Speaker 1: you're right, we're gonna have to fix that, and they
Speaker 1: owned it, and you know, kudos to JESU for doing that,
Speaker 1: and now it looks like they've fixed it. Okay. They
Speaker 1: added support for the ATOS one twenty eight displays the
Speaker 1: selected HF and ten at connector number at the top
Speaker 1: of the screen. I didn't notice that at first, but
Speaker 1: that's that's cool, okay, because, as I said in one
Speaker 1: of my first videos, the Optima has two Intenta ports
Speaker 1: on it, which for a radio in this price range
Speaker 1: is a little bit unusual. It's not unheard of, but
Speaker 1: it's a little bit unusual because my FTDX ten doesn't
Speaker 1: even have two Intenta ports. Improved APRS beacon reception sensitivity.
Speaker 1: That was another thing that came for Ackjason talked about.
Speaker 1: Fixed issue with GPS coordinates not being displayed properly. Improved
Speaker 1: the noise blanker characteristics. Fixed issues with the vol volume
Speaker 1: not being adjustable while in CW message or voice memory
Speaker 1: screen is displayed. Hadn't experienced that on myself. Fixed issue
Speaker 1: with subside receiving sound being output during split operation, fixed
Speaker 1: issue with setting menu not being backed up to SD
Speaker 1: card properly, and other minor fixes. So this is a
Speaker 1: good list of updates to firmware for this radio. So
Speaker 1: that's what. So that's what we're going to look at today.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, I have, let's say'm gonna
Speaker 1: switch back over here real quick. I have a Bluetooth
Speaker 1: module and a GPS module I picked up at Gigabarts
Speaker 1: when I was there a couple of weeks ago, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna put those in tonight. I also have and
Speaker 1: I don't have my Optima out here. It's inside, but
Speaker 1: I got to carry handle for the Optima as well.
Speaker 1: Kind of lame that it that that the Optima doesn't
Speaker 1: come with this, in my opinion, but you know, to
Speaker 1: each his own, that's what it is. Let's move on.
Speaker 1: So So yeah, so we're gonna do this firmer update
Speaker 1: real quick, which is not gonna be hard. It wasn't
Speaker 1: hard the first time. It's not gonna be hard this time. Okay.
Speaker 1: So what we want to do is we want to
Speaker 1: look and see what the current version is. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we're going to turn this back on. Okay, so it
Speaker 1: says press that hold it down the function of but
Speaker 1: in other words, going to the menu. Come on there,
Speaker 1: we go, slide over to menu three right there, and
Speaker 1: go to extension setting and then scroll down to software version. Okay,
Speaker 1: and now here, I know you guys can't see that.
Speaker 1: I'm showing you the screen right now. So here's what
Speaker 1: we're on right now. Okay. The display is on zero
Speaker 1: one dash zero two, the main is on zero one
Speaker 1: dash zero four. DSP is on zero one, zero one.
Speaker 1: There wasn't an update to that one in the last
Speaker 1: firm where SDR is on zero one, zero three and
Speaker 1: DST is USA. Okay, whatever that means. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: go back over here and we're gonna kind of follow this.
Speaker 1: This is this is really easy, okay. So you download
Speaker 1: the you download the zip file from jazu dot com.
Speaker 1: You find the page for the FTX one. You go
Speaker 1: to files and you can go to updates, and you
Speaker 1: can see this right here, and you can download certain
Speaker 1: things here. And then you go to files and you
Speaker 1: download the ftx one USA firm or Update twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five six, the second to last file right here, and
Speaker 1: uh and that's what the that's the firm where we're
Speaker 1: gonna update today. And then it opens up and it
Speaker 1: includes uh five, hold on, let me one. Two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: five different firmware files, plus this PDF file that I'm
Speaker 1: showing you right now, which is the manual English manual
Speaker 1: for update instructions. So all of that. So six different files,
Speaker 1: this PDF plus five different dot SFL files is the
Speaker 1: file extension and those are your former update versions and whatnot. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna take this or no, not this one.
Speaker 1: This one here is when I'm yeah, so we downloaded
Speaker 1: the firm where we unzipped it. I've got it sitting
Speaker 1: here on my desktop. You guys can't see that right now.
Speaker 1: Copy the file directly under the ftx one folder. So
Speaker 1: in other words, underneath the root not the root of
Speaker 1: the SD card, but the but in the same directory
Speaker 1: as the root of the st card. And and that's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do here. So I'm doing this off camera.
Speaker 1: But basically all you want to do.
Speaker 2: Is it's it's pretty simple. It's only one folder deep.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yeah, yeah, it's only well, it's not even that
Speaker 1: it's actually in the same it's that this FDx one
Speaker 1: is in the root directory, so it's it's actually going
Speaker 1: in the root directory of the SD card. So it's
Speaker 1: it's not even one folder deep. Really, So copy the
Speaker 1: firmer to this location. Yep. Okay, so that's so I
Speaker 1: did that real quick. Okay, so turn the transceiver off
Speaker 1: and let's turn the transceiver off, remove the battery. Oh,
Speaker 1: remove the battery. Connect to an external power source. Oh crap,
Speaker 1: it didn't bring my cable with me. Wait extern Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do remember that from last time. I kind of
Speaker 1: forgot about that.
Speaker 2: Is that because where the SD card is or.
Speaker 1: I don't know? No, no, no, because the SD card's
Speaker 1: on the side of it here. So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: why they say to do that. And I think it's
Speaker 1: more safety than anything. I think it's more hey, don't
Speaker 1: want your radio dying during the update, you know, and
Speaker 1: maybe it pulls too much voltage when it's doing an
Speaker 1: update something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if if I programmed it, it would
Speaker 2: be safety. So if you programmed it, hey, I do
Speaker 2: a lot of good customers.
Speaker 1: I did not. I just laughed. It was a funny statement.
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me find my let me find my
Speaker 1: power cable here, just give me one second.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the tank Radio screen. Head over to tank
Speaker 2: Radio subscribe. Now where are my notes here? We are?
Speaker 2: Oh those are good notes. But yeah, man, if y'all
Speaker 2: haven't catched the field day video, our field day was
Speaker 2: awesome and we had a lot of fun and Treddy
Speaker 2: water here. Coming up tomorrow my video. We're gonna be
Speaker 2: talking about uploading your A double r L logs. We
Speaker 2: are uploading the logs.
Speaker 1: That tickets inside, Frank, so I have to go inside
Speaker 1: and get it.
Speaker 2: We are uplating lost your show, I am. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about my show. Tank Radio already dropped my link uploading
Speaker 2: logs to the a w O r L for your
Speaker 2: field day. We're exporting them at N three f JP.
Speaker 2: And that is what I did. We I tried so
Speaker 2: hard to tail that into exporting those logs from N
Speaker 2: three f JP uploading them to the A w L.
Speaker 2: Then appendium to your potologues because you probably did poda
Speaker 2: per your post field day and then doing that one
Speaker 2: upload to poda. But that crash to burn so hard. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's going to be something else that if you watch
Speaker 2: my video, I'm hitting at something I might be doing.
Speaker 2: Matthew says, question for Frank, I do question for question Tank.
Speaker 2: I have not uploaded my radio yet updated. Can I
Speaker 2: go straight to this update or go through the older
Speaker 2: one first? I think how they did it. Matthew, you
Speaker 2: should be safe enough to go straight to this update,
Speaker 2: I unless they really do not in their read me,
Speaker 2: and we'll ask Jason to pull up to read me again.
Speaker 2: I say you should be fine to write, just to
Speaker 2: go ahead and upload it directly. We'll circle back to that. Matt.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about cigars. Don says man, I've been just
Speaker 2: enjoying a tat cilguard that TAHAWEENI. I can't say that line.
Speaker 2: We just call them tats at my store because they
Speaker 2: laugh at me too much when I try to say it.
Speaker 2: And here I am going to show y'all a hint.
Speaker 2: I was meant to do that, but then I got distracted.
Speaker 1: Okay, sorry about that. It was a new cake mistake.
Speaker 1: I knew that it needed that, and I totally forgot
Speaker 1: because I've done this already, but so I haven't done
Speaker 1: it with this version, but I've done it for more
Speaker 1: update already.
Speaker 2: I'm hinting that what I've been typing on in the background,
Speaker 2: I'm working and I'm coding on something Ham Radio related.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, Well watch my video and talk
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Okay, when you want people to actually know about it,
Speaker 1: we can bring it back onto the live stream. I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm just messing with your frank.
Speaker 2: No cigar today because I'm inside and I didn't feel
Speaker 2: like setting up and Don knows don from the clubhouse.
Speaker 2: My camera was not acting right with the sun behind me,
Speaker 2: so that's why I'm not on my port.
Speaker 1: That was Yeah, that that did look a little weird.
Speaker 2: Well, I was trying to tweak the camera settings before then,
Speaker 2: and I put it in manual mode trying to get
Speaker 2: the light right, and I did at the beginning, I
Speaker 2: was trying not to get blown out, and I thought
Speaker 2: that there was a cloud covered to diffuse the sun
Speaker 2: and be fine, and I kind of tweaked it for
Speaker 2: a while and it worked great. But then I forgot
Speaker 2: it was on manual mode, so when the sun went down,
Speaker 2: the ISO wasn't high enough. Oh yeah, So when I
Speaker 2: went back there and switched it to autel, it was
Speaker 2: like whoa, we're good.
Speaker 1: Yep, okay, so we turned the transceiver off. I've got
Speaker 1: the it's a little micro st card here.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm hmm.
Speaker 1: I think it goes in this way, doesn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did it correctly the first time. Oh my god. Okay,
Speaker 1: now that's going so updating the field head only. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's a there's an update to the Optima as well.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that right now that one's in.
Speaker 2: So you said this was the second update. There was
Speaker 2: a question correct related.
Speaker 1: To how to do the updates, and I have a
Speaker 1: whole video on that.
Speaker 2: Well, no, not how to do them, but the order
Speaker 2: did this say at the top of the release saying
Speaker 2: you had to do the previous update first, or you
Speaker 2: should be able just to up from the factory that
Speaker 2: came on to this one.
Speaker 1: Let me, that's a very that's a very good question.
Speaker 1: Important notes. I'm supposed to.
Speaker 2: Anywhere.
Speaker 1: There's nothing it doesn't It doesn't say one way or
Speaker 1: the other. Okay, so it does not say one way
Speaker 1: or the other. I think you it's always safer to
Speaker 1: go step by step.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't if they don't call it out. I think
Speaker 2: you'd be fine going on.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, And in theory that should be right.
Speaker 1: In theory, that should be right. But you're not gonna
Speaker 1: you might or might not harm it going straight to
Speaker 1: the newest one. You absolutely will not harm it going
Speaker 1: step by step in series, and it doesn't take very
Speaker 1: long at all. It doesn't take very long to update
Speaker 1: this firmware. So I would go step by step. But
Speaker 1: you guys, do whatever you want to and that's up
Speaker 1: to you. Okay, remove the battery, then connect to an
Speaker 1: external power source. Okay, we're the good there. Insert the
Speaker 1: Myceto SD card with the written firmware and Mike car okay,
Speaker 1: good pressing Q, VM and m V, which are these
Speaker 1: three buttons here on the top, hit the power button
Speaker 1: and the firmware update date screen appears. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: press let's see yep, memory memory, VM and Q and
Speaker 1: B these three right here, and we're gonna power it on. Okay,
Speaker 1: and now it says insert latest version firm resty card,
Speaker 1: touch the screen to continue. Okay, uh do, But but
Speaker 1: in the intend it said this last time too, do
Speaker 1: not touch the screen, proceed to next step. So the
Speaker 1: radio is telling you to touch the screen, and then
Speaker 1: the firmware update says, do not do that.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, did not touch the screen after the
Speaker 2: firmwors has started updating.
Speaker 1: No, no, no no. So when you first boot it up,
Speaker 1: you see this, Okay, it says, insert latest version firmware
Speaker 1: SD card that's already in the radio. Touch screen to continue.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, so did you did you have to do
Speaker 2: like a call.
Speaker 1: To I did I? Did I press? I pressed these
Speaker 1: three buttons at the same time and powered it on.
Speaker 1: That's where we are now. But the instructions correct. But
Speaker 1: the instructions clearly say do not touch the screen. Turn
Speaker 1: the function knob clockwise five clicks or more, and the
Speaker 1: Yaesu bootloader screen appears. So that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Right here, We're gonna turn this function knob. There we
Speaker 1: go Yaesu bootloader. And there we are. So the top
Speaker 1: one is display ready, the second one is main which
Speaker 1: is not checked. And then the DSPNSDR say no such
Speaker 1: file okay, and the instructions say, make sure make sure
Speaker 1: I got the right screen. Make sure the display shows
Speaker 1: a check mark. Do not mark anything other than display.
Speaker 1: This is what we did the first time. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the display is marked and he wants me to click update.
Speaker 1: The update protest indicators display the firm of transfer begins.
Speaker 1: Wait until the progress is finished. So we're gonna hit
Speaker 1: right there, this one's check marked. I'm gonna hit update.
Speaker 1: Do not turn off power. You can see the indicator
Speaker 1: right there at the top. Don't touch the freaking screen
Speaker 1: that touch the touch screen right there, it's going.
Speaker 2: I was waiting for you to touch it with something
Speaker 2: break Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So that's that's not taken too long. Okay.
Speaker 1: When the update is complete, the power is automatically turned off,
Speaker 1: unplugged the DC chord, then reconnect the DC chord. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it rebooted itself. Powers automatically turned on, proceeded. It's
Speaker 1: step twelve. Okay, so I'm gonna unplug it it. It
Speaker 1: tells me that the power is turned off, and it
Speaker 1: says to unplug it and replug it. So that's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do, even though it came back on by itself. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're right there. Turn power on. Okay, we're gonna go here. So, so,
Speaker 1: if the current main former is version is different than
Speaker 1: zero one zero zero, start from step eleven, turn the
Speaker 1: trancy ron press and hold the function. We'll go back there.
Speaker 1: Go to extension settings and go to software version and
Speaker 1: you can clearly see right here software version touches d
Speaker 1: card okay if okay, So it says if the main
Speaker 1: firmware version is different than zero one zero zero main firmware,
Speaker 1: and it is. It's different than zero one zero zero
Speaker 1: it's zero one zero four. Start from step eleven. So
Speaker 1: step eleven here says to go right there, go to
Speaker 1: extension setting, touch sd card touches d card okay, and
Speaker 1: then click on firmware update and it says done, and
Speaker 1: then it'll bring you this screen and everything should be
Speaker 1: checkbox indicates from her to be updated. If there's no
Speaker 1: such file, there's no target, touch update to get and
Speaker 1: it lets you do them all at the same time.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go over here and we're gonna look.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna we're on the SD card screen here,
Speaker 1: We're gonna touch Oops, no that shoot back, okay, come
Speaker 1: on my fault. Okay, go to firm or update and
Speaker 1: click on done from our update. That is what it
Speaker 1: said right from her update that yes, okay. There goes
Speaker 1: file checking okay, and it says it whatever is. A
Speaker 1: list of firm restored on the SD card is displayed
Speaker 1: and it says you can check everything that's available. You
Speaker 1: can see that the DSP and SDR are not available
Speaker 1: on this update, but this one is. The display and
Speaker 1: the main are both available. It says to click on
Speaker 1: update update okay. Do not turn off power processes and
Speaker 1: indicator okay. Progress indicators displayed when the former transfer begains
Speaker 1: wait until it was When the update is complete, powers
Speaker 1: are automatically turned off and then turned on again. Now
Speaker 1: it told me that last time. It told me it
Speaker 1: would turn on again by itself, but it did not.
Speaker 1: And then once this is done, we have to reset
Speaker 1: the transceiver, which is going to wipe out all of
Speaker 1: your memory channels, which I don't have any of those.
Speaker 2: Problem there was no way to back them up on
Speaker 2: the SD code.
Speaker 1: You know what. I think there probably is, but I
Speaker 1: didn't look at that because and that those instructors are
Speaker 1: not in the firm updates. Maybe they should add that,
Speaker 1: but I didn't have anything saved in memory anyway, so
Speaker 1: I didn't care. I didn't even I didn't even look.
Speaker 2: At Some people care that they do a lot on
Speaker 2: those radios.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, I agree, I agree with you, but
Speaker 1: I don't care because I didn't have anything. I had
Speaker 1: one channel saved before I did the first firm or update,
Speaker 1: and it wiped it out when I did the firm
Speaker 1: update after I did the reset, so I haven't put
Speaker 1: any channels in. In fact, I don't even think i've
Speaker 1: used this the thing since then. So don remember the
Speaker 1: firmware update was not written in C plus plus, so
Speaker 1: it's safe to run. That's between you, and that's between
Speaker 1: you and don uh m hmm. All right, so that's
Speaker 1: still going there. All right, Frank, Here's something I was
Speaker 1: gonna ask you, and we kind of rolled into this quickly.
Speaker 1: Have you heard from TECHSAR at all about the Central
Speaker 1: Texas thing?
Speaker 2: I have not yet because I am technically still disabled
Speaker 2: on their their lists, so I haven't got a lot
Speaker 2: of their stuff. They probably are if their request and
Speaker 2: help is a good uh. The texts ARE is a
Speaker 2: Texas Research for Rescue group and they do deploy around
Speaker 2: Texas for search and rescues. They have boats. This will
Speaker 2: be great because for them because they are active in
Speaker 2: boat rescue, they have flit swift water rescue and also
Speaker 2: a lot of Ham radios well, also a lot of
Speaker 2: radio stuff on the commercial bands. But yeah, Ham Radio
Speaker 2: just for me tied in it very well.
Speaker 1: So I spoke to Josh Johnston, who is the A
Speaker 1: Double RL Emergency Coordinator MCom coordinator. I think I'm butchering
Speaker 1: his title, but he's basically in charge of MCom stuff
Speaker 1: for the A double RL. I spoke to him at
Speaker 1: Ham Cash in February of this year and I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: I want to get you on the channel because because
Speaker 1: of all the flooding issues that I'm sorry, the hurricane
Speaker 1: issue that happened in North Carolina last year. We brought
Speaker 1: on those guys who were in the area, including Thomas
Speaker 1: k four SWO and that other gentlemen whose name escapes
Speaker 1: me right now. But I talked to Josh about that
Speaker 1: at him Kashan, I said, I want to get you
Speaker 1: in the channel. I want to learn about what we
Speaker 1: can do to get the word out when radio operators
Speaker 1: are needed post disasters like this and He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great idea. Let's let's get together after him casion,
Speaker 1: and then we just never did, which is my fault.
Speaker 1: I should have followed up with him, and I didn't see.
Speaker 2: See the hard thing is, and because I've done a
Speaker 2: little bit of Red Cross training, I have done all
Speaker 2: the EOC trainings and Mercy Operations Center how how they work,
Speaker 2: and been helped out with the EOC and Tarrett County,
Speaker 2: the EOC and hers. I'm just patting my credentials here
Speaker 2: and Texas. The first thing they tell you about any
Speaker 2: of these things is never, never, ever, ever self deploy.
Speaker 2: Do not go out there and be like I'm here
Speaker 2: as a HAM radio operator and I want to do X.
Speaker 2: You know what, They're going to tell you to go home,
Speaker 2: get out of there. They don't want you, they don't
Speaker 2: want to hear about you. You're not credentialed and just them.
Speaker 2: So the best thing is to get in touch with
Speaker 2: an organization that does something like that. So, because there
Speaker 2: are nine times out of ten going to go to
Speaker 2: these organizations, and Red Cross has radio satellites and other
Speaker 2: things that you deploy with and hand. Radios go hand
Speaker 2: in hand with a lot of those operations, and yes,
Speaker 2: we could use hand bands and everything as part of
Speaker 2: emergency communications because if it's you know, emergency, a lot
Speaker 2: of our worlds go out the window. There's OXO in
Speaker 2: Texas and some other states arts COM auxiliary communications. I
Speaker 2: had that certification ten years ago and never really done
Speaker 2: anything with it because at the State of Texas dropped
Speaker 2: it for a while. They did bring it back, but
Speaker 2: I didn't go back and do all the classes. And
Speaker 2: that's kind of like an amateur radio operator can fold
Speaker 2: into the LCOM or l COM and and there's another
Speaker 2: one and and go in and help out stand up
Speaker 2: some communication of repeaters and things, and just kind of
Speaker 2: more of a grunt on the ground. They're not doing
Speaker 2: the emergency band plans and all the other things that
Speaker 2: go along with it, but they're just kind of like
Speaker 2: a technician out there to kind of hand out radio
Speaker 2: make sure things are working, and that fold easily into
Speaker 2: the the eoc's operation plans. I'm forgetting what the actual
Speaker 2: names is because it's been a while, but yeah, that's
Speaker 2: the best thing you can do.
Speaker 1: Yes, other than I agree, I agree, I just I
Speaker 1: think that I think that it's important to I would
Speaker 1: like to. I would like to know if there are
Speaker 1: any organizations that are because I haven't. I haven't gotten
Speaker 1: any word from anybody about any thing going on, and
Speaker 1: I know it's probably just because I haven't signed up
Speaker 1: on the right list somewhere, and I would like to
Speaker 1: learn more, and this this could be a topic for
Speaker 1: a future video. I would like to learn more about
Speaker 1: how to get notified when these types of deployments are
Speaker 1: needed able. L's one source. Tech Star is one source,
Speaker 1: and there's you know, there's multiple other sources out there.
Speaker 2: But I reach out to red Cross. Red Cross would
Speaker 2: be my stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, and I did red Cross for
Speaker 1: a while and uh Roger Katie five UJL he was
Speaker 1: in charge of our Red Cross chapter here and I'm
Speaker 1: good friends with him and he was in that for
Speaker 1: a while. But okay, so what it says after all that,
Speaker 1: it says reset. The next step is reset the transceiver
Speaker 1: see page nine. And then it goes through this other
Speaker 1: thing about this opt OPT option to update again, which
Speaker 1: I don't have that I just looked and I don't
Speaker 1: have that. But it says to reset the transceiver first.
Speaker 1: So let's set the transceiver see page nine. Turn off
Speaker 1: the transceiver while pressing back and find fast that keeps.
Speaker 1: Simultaneously turn the transceiver on. The frequency displays one on
Speaker 1: the subband and seven megahertz on the main band. So
Speaker 1: transceiver's off right there. We're gonna press these two buttons
Speaker 1: right here on the bottom power it on, and there
Speaker 1: you go one and seven megaherts. Okay. There, this completes
Speaker 1: the firmware update process. Okay, so now I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna press I'm gonna see if that option shows up,
Speaker 1: because right here it's telling me to do something else
Speaker 1: for this uh SD card firmer update. And then this opt,
Speaker 1: this opt at the bottom of the list says check
Speaker 1: this one and do that and run that one. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see if that's even an option in here.
Speaker 1: If it's not, I'm not gonna worry about it.
Speaker 2: So there's answer somethings I saw in the chat. It
Speaker 2: said operators just get on the repeaters and help out
Speaker 2: each other, and that is one of the great things.
Speaker 2: And it's something I just thought of. If you're if
Speaker 2: there's a RACIS group in your yes, yeah, right, definitely,
Speaker 2: because the races are already folded into the city or
Speaker 2: county emergency communication plans, and they have plans on what
Speaker 2: to do, where to go, how to coordinate. There's already
Speaker 2: a structure there. But if cert it's another good one.
Speaker 2: They're not really amateur radio oriented, but there's radio aspects
Speaker 2: like techs are that you can help out with their.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So I'm not getting this opt option
Speaker 1: that it's mentioning right here. I don't see that option.
Speaker 1: I don't see that at all. And somebody, did you
Speaker 1: the bug killer? Did you roove the st car? No?
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 1: It's still in there, so and it's seeing the same
Speaker 1: updates again. So I'm just not gonna worry about this.
Speaker 1: I don't know why it's telling me to do that,
Speaker 1: because that is not showing up as an option in
Speaker 1: this update. So we're not gonna we're not gonna worry
Speaker 1: about that right now. But if we go back here,
Speaker 1: cancel and I go to software version, Nope, there we go.
Speaker 1: So now we're on display one oh one O two,
Speaker 1: Main is OH one O four, DSP is oh one
Speaker 1: oh one. That one didn't change, SDR is on OH
Speaker 1: one O three, and DST is on USA. So we'll
Speaker 1: go back here and then well it didn't work, okay,
Speaker 1: Uh back band ab let's see uh which one which
Speaker 1: button is out? Okay? Well all right, I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: change the band here two I forget which there it
Speaker 1: is to okay, And now I just want to go
Speaker 1: into the APRS menu and see if, if if it's changed.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go here and APRS station list, which
Speaker 1: is there's not anything in there, and message list so
Speaker 1: now you can Okay, there's no messages in there, so
Speaker 1: there's not much you can do there. So I gotta
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to tinker around with the APRS and
Speaker 1: see about about actually sending messages. So APRS setting, setting
Speaker 1: beacon filter, APR setting APRS beacon APRS filter. That was
Speaker 1: all there before, but well we're gonna have to tinker
Speaker 1: around with that. So supposedly that was updated. We'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see how that works. What's up, Dave? I was
Speaker 1: just talking about you earlier, dude, KB five U t
Speaker 1: y Dave. So But yeah, so that's that. Okay. So
Speaker 1: the next part is too, I'm gonna install these things.
Speaker 2: M M.
Speaker 1: This is the Bluetooth adapter. I want to do that.
Speaker 1: One second, and do that one last.
Speaker 2: This is the this is the what so are these
Speaker 2: modules going into the radio and like an adapter slot
Speaker 2: or are they just attached outside kind of stupidly.
Speaker 1: The blue Yeah, the bluetooth goes inside the radio. The
Speaker 1: GPS dongle here, this guy goes on the outside, so stupidly.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, something that can break off easily, something
Speaker 1: that can.
Speaker 2: Doesn't even fit there off the buttons. Oh there it goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah it does. It fits. So nothing came up on
Speaker 1: the h nothing came up on the screen.
Speaker 2: Is this a Pacific GPS dongle?
Speaker 1: This is a yes, this is the I got this
Speaker 1: from Giga Parts. This is the Yazoo f GPS DASH
Speaker 1: five GPS antenna unit.
Speaker 2: Can use any type of GPS unit or.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. That's a good question. That's
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good question. So it's possibly I
Speaker 1: don't know, possibly not, but that's the one for that.
Speaker 1: So we don't have anything there, Okay, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take that out for the set for the moment, and uh,
Speaker 1: there we go, and then I'm gonna turn it up
Speaker 1: like this because the bluetooth module, which I also got,
Speaker 1: goes right here. Inside of this so in the Bluetooth
Speaker 1: module we got and it says that, it said, so,
Speaker 1: so I look, there's paperwork that comes with the Bluetooth module,
Speaker 1: and it said, or no, that's the that's the wrong one.
Speaker 1: Paperwork that comes with the Bluetooth module. It says, look
Speaker 1: in the manual to determine how to install it, which
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy to find in the manual. It's back
Speaker 1: here on page seventy eight, and it says, remove this. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see make sure I got that in the screen there.
Speaker 1: Remove this cover here, which is this cover I just
Speaker 1: took off this guy right here, and it says, there's
Speaker 1: a plot. There's a double sided tape that you apply
Speaker 1: which comes with the Bluetooth module, the Bluetooth unit, and
Speaker 1: a separate cover. So all of that is in this
Speaker 1: package right here. Let's see double sided tape right there,
Speaker 1: stuck to the inside there it is. Okay, double sided
Speaker 1: tape right there, Bluetooth module right here, and then an
Speaker 1: extra cover. So this cover that comes off, you're you're
Speaker 1: not going to use that anymore. Okay, You're going to
Speaker 1: use this extended cover. It's a little bit deeper.
Speaker 2: I like how they did that's that's sweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, kind of neat. I mean the argument could
Speaker 1: be made that it should have had that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it should have I'm gonna turn the power off. It
Speaker 1: doesn't say, oh yeah, it does, turn the transceiver off.
Speaker 1: I need to read turn the transceiver off, remove the
Speaker 1: bluetooth unit, apply the uh I could I could well
Speaker 1: the batteries out. It's connected to external power, right, UNPLU
Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, so apply the double stick tape right there. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's just like a good okay. And then the bluetooth
Speaker 1: module which goes like uh, it plugs in. It's odd,
Speaker 1: seems like it would go this way where this plug
Speaker 1: is on it. And then this guy right here right there.
Speaker 1: I don't know that says to put that double sided
Speaker 1: tape in a weird spot, but I guess that's right.
Speaker 1: It's all together. It's plugged in. So now try this right.
Speaker 1: See if the bluetooth shows up as an option in
Speaker 1: the menu. Yeah, all right, totten here man sweating. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't like to Texas. Yeah, no kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 1: I don't have any idea where the let's see, uh,
Speaker 1: operation setting, radio setting, no operation setting. Let's see nope.
Speaker 1: I guess I could look at the manual extension setting. Okay. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's where you can find out if the GPS is
Speaker 1: working or not. Okay, apees setting. Okay, so let's look
Speaker 1: at the manual and see where the no magic smoked
Speaker 1: on says, I guess I did something right. Okay. For
Speaker 1: additional details on bluetoth functions, refer to the Advanced Manual,
Speaker 1: which may be downloaded from the Okay, So there's not
Speaker 1: even anything in here about bluetooth. You have to go
Speaker 1: to the Advanced manual. The Advanced Manual, so I assume
Speaker 1: it's in there correctly. But I don't see anything in
Speaker 1: the menu of the radio too that does anything with Bluetooth.
Speaker 1: You would think it'd be an option in here now
Speaker 1: operations setting general, Okay, nope, come on, oh Bluetooth. Okay,
Speaker 1: so under operation setting, under option and Bluetooth done. I
Speaker 1: don't know what this does. Let's see if something blows up,
Speaker 1: Bluetooth is off and I can there we go there
Speaker 1: it is right there. I found it without the manual.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so okay, so I had to turn it on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Russell says, see if your phone can find it. I
Speaker 1: figured that you'd have to turn it on though, so BLUEO. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Bluetooth, I can turn it on, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to turn it on if the module would installed.
Speaker 1: So there we go. All right, more to come on
Speaker 1: that later. I'm not going to go through the whole
Speaker 1: Bluetooth thing right now, but we have Bluetooth in this
Speaker 1: radio now, so I'm happy. So let's see. I want
Speaker 1: to see if I'm not sure I got all these?
Speaker 1: Ah these what all these firmware updates? Honestly, because it's uh,
Speaker 1: there's a function on extension setting sd card done, turn
Speaker 1: the transceive your own extension setting. I just want to uh,
Speaker 1: sd card done firmware update. Here we go. There we
Speaker 1: go checking, yep, that's all the ones that are there. Huh.
Speaker 1: It seems like there should be more than that, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let me see if I can find
Speaker 1: and a what should the versions be after this update
Speaker 1: type thing? It doesn't really say right there because it
Speaker 1: says it has x's in the in the and the
Speaker 1: file names here, So Maine underscore v x x x x, display, I,
Speaker 1: f D, s P, SDR and control and all five
Speaker 1: of those files are on this card and there's okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. So Maine one O four one O
Speaker 1: one O four and soctware version okay, Maine is O
Speaker 1: one O four yep. Uh f t X one, display
Speaker 1: is one O two yep. F P, uh d s
Speaker 1: P is oh one O two. Okay. So the DSP
Speaker 1: didn't update. I f D s P is oh one. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't have that one in here, and control is
Speaker 1: V one one one okay, So I don't know what
Speaker 1: that oh you know what that might that might be
Speaker 1: stuff for the Optima because it did say that there
Speaker 1: was Optima updates also, so I may have to do
Speaker 1: the Optima update to get the rest of this stuff going.
Speaker 2: But the.
Speaker 1: Which one was it? The I f DSP No, yep,
Speaker 1: that one's correct. That one's correct. The I f D
Speaker 1: s P. There's two I f DSPs so sd I
Speaker 1: f D s P and the SDR. The SDR should
Speaker 1: be O one O it's O one O three. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm probably gonna have to connect this to the
Speaker 1: Optima and perform the update again because it does mention
Speaker 1: about the Optima. It says right here, it says, uh,
Speaker 1: let's see the la la la la. That download that
Speaker 1: reading about the optima right here, updating the FTX one optima,
Speaker 1: connect the field head to the external power source, and
Speaker 1: then and sorry, and then follow these steps again. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to do that. I'll do that. I'll
Speaker 1: do I don't have my optimis inside right now, so
Speaker 1: I'll have to do that later. Opt will not installed
Speaker 1: with the Optima being yes, Jeff, I kind of. I
Speaker 1: thank you for the clarification. That's what I was assuming.
Speaker 1: Opt will not install without the Optima being connected. So
Speaker 1: that's that'll be okay. So I'll do that next time
Speaker 1: because it's the same steps that we already did. It's
Speaker 1: just I would connect this to the Optima and have
Speaker 1: more options there. That makes sense. That makes sense, So
Speaker 1: there you go back. Okay, but successful installation of the
Speaker 1: software for the head unit at least, and then I'll
Speaker 1: do the optima. I might do it later tonight or
Speaker 1: I might do it tomorrow or something like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so the Bluetooth is installed, that's successful, and we've got
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put the GPS back in. Yeah, this GPS,
Speaker 1: this thing is gonna freaking break, man, It's gonna somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna somebody's gonna break that off. I thought having no
Speaker 1: internal GPS would be much more preferred.
Speaker 2: Do you want to answer this versus that radio question? Sure?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: All right? What question? This is from formal formal Pluto.
Speaker 2: I like the name. Silly question, he asked, But for
Speaker 2: someone looking into a new q RP radio, why would
Speaker 2: someone get the FT one X over the IC seven five?
Speaker 1: You know? I think the answer to that will depend
Speaker 1: on the person, because some people wouldn't. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're an ICOM guy, you're gonna the ICOM radio. If
Speaker 1: you're a here we go. If you're a it's not
Speaker 1: picking up my position yet, but it might after a
Speaker 1: few minutes. So if you're an Icom guy, you might
Speaker 1: want the icon. If you're a Yazu guy, you might
Speaker 1: want the Yazoo. But the the icon has d star
Speaker 1: and this has fusion. That might be an option for you.
Speaker 1: The icon does not do APRS. This does especially now,
Speaker 1: this does a PRS now if you want to do
Speaker 1: a PRS that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The icon does not have a hundred white amp that
Speaker 1: you can attach to it, not specifically made for it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: of course, you can attach any hundred of what amp
Speaker 1: you want to. But yeah, but it doesn't have a
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a specific IC seven or five amplifier.
Speaker 1: Neither one of them have a built in tuner. The
Speaker 1: seven O five does have built in Bluetooth, Wi Fi
Speaker 1: and GPS, so that's a thing. I don't know the
Speaker 1: the The answer to that is going to depend on you.
Speaker 1: What do you want? When the IC seven O five
Speaker 1: was brand new, it was the same price as this
Speaker 1: FTX one radio. But again it comes with Bluetooth, GPS
Speaker 1: and Wi Fi. So, but it does not do APRS
Speaker 1: like this one will. So, but I would reflash the
Speaker 1: st card with the files. Four files should have installed
Speaker 1: during the update on that configure. That's a good one, Wayne,
Speaker 1: ft X one optima versus ftd X ten, which one
Speaker 1: ftd X ten.
Speaker 2: It's what do you want? What do you? What do
Speaker 2: you want?
Speaker 1: Yeah, same question.
Speaker 2: TB ten is much heavier. This is a smaller form factor,
Speaker 2: it has newer processing. Does it have more filters?
Speaker 1: But the but the but the Sherwood reports rates the
Speaker 1: ten higher than this radio, so the receiver run that,
Speaker 1: Yeah it does. Yeah, this one's actually pretty far down
Speaker 1: on the Sherwood reports for a YAZ radio. So yeah,
Speaker 1: if you if you don't care about vhf UHF ol
Speaker 1: mode or fusion or a pr S, if you just
Speaker 1: want to really really kick ass HF radio, get the
Speaker 1: ft d X ten. It's cheaper. It's cheaper than this
Speaker 1: whole setup anyway. But this adds more features like everything
Speaker 1: I just named. Vhf UHF all mode. Do f T
Speaker 1: eight CW single sideband on VHF u HF. You can
Speaker 1: do fusion, you can do APR, APRS speaking, APRS, messaging,
Speaker 1: all that kind of good stuff. So yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: so let's so let me format. I'm gonna format the
Speaker 1: SD card, which I didn't do this today because I
Speaker 1: did last time and when I took the card out
Speaker 1: of the radio, it was still in the radio. The
Speaker 1: card was still in the radio. Took the card out
Speaker 1: of the radio, put it in the computer, drag the
Speaker 1: new files over to it, put it in there, and
Speaker 1: you guys watched me do everything after that. So okay,
Speaker 1: so that's a good suggestion. Whoever made that, uh, whoever
Speaker 1: said that a minute ago? There should be four files
Speaker 1: on there. Okay, so let's do it just because, just because,
Speaker 1: just for the heck of it, right, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take this out. Oh boy, there we go. Okay, put
Speaker 1: this in here. Nope, not that one. Where'd it go? There?
Speaker 1: It is reflash that okay. So that's a formatted card there, okay,
Speaker 1: FTX one folder copy okay, and now all of the files.
Speaker 1: There's five files display, I, FDSP, Main, SDR, and control
Speaker 1: and again some of those are for the optima. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I take that out, put this back in here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna power this off. This back in here, and
Speaker 1: we're going to minimize that. All right, yes, well, pressing
Speaker 1: these three power on there's that turn this until it
Speaker 1: gets there. M hm, remove st card, yazy bootloaders, no
Speaker 1: such file, okay, hold on, insert ladies for okay, remove
Speaker 1: sd card. Doesn't like that. All it says is removed.
Speaker 1: There's no there's no such file on any of them,
Speaker 1: and it says remove sd card. Interesting, Yeah, try that again.
Speaker 1: I don't new this. This this it's an external power
Speaker 1: source for good there and certain latest versionsy card. You
Speaker 1: can't touch the screen, it says, remove st card. No.
Speaker 1: I didn't like that. I didn't have to gracefully remove
Speaker 1: this last time. Ejected from Windows. But maybe that's it.
Speaker 2: Normally I don't have to.
Speaker 1: No, you don't have to do that with modern Windows boxes.
Speaker 1: But let's see it pops up. Okay, all those files
Speaker 1: are still on there after it popped up. Let's eject
Speaker 1: it just for the heck of it.
Speaker 2: But if that when, if that was the issue, it
Speaker 2: would have corrupted everything on it.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: Yes, you ain't reinjecting it. You're probably right just by
Speaker 2: putting in there, checking the file folder structure, that would
Speaker 2: be all corrupt.
Speaker 1: Yes, there we gollop helloo eh, okay, problems solmuch Jason,
Speaker 1: Yes they are in the root. Ron, good evening, Ron.
Speaker 1: How are you hf digital modes via Bluetooth? I would
Speaker 1: hope so do the reset. I did the reset. I
Speaker 1: could do it again. Okay, yep. Does not like that.
Speaker 1: Doesn't like that for whatever reason. Let's reset it again
Speaker 1: for the heck of it. I mean, I've reset it
Speaker 1: once already, but we'll we've said it again. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna lose anything. D d well, turn transceiver off. We're
Speaker 1: pressing back and find fast. Turn the transceiver on frequency displayed. Boom. Okay,
Speaker 1: that that should be the reset mm hmm. And then
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this. Okay, I'm going to remove the
Speaker 1: power and put it back in. For the heck of it,
Speaker 1: there's that, this, this, this, turn that on. Nope, still
Speaker 1: doesn't like that. So for whatever reason it doesn't. It
Speaker 1: already flashed it successfully once. It only updated the main
Speaker 1: and the the display, nothing else. And for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it doesn't want to read that file again. So perhaps
Speaker 1: I will get it. Perhaps I will get it trying
Speaker 1: to get another eddor I just did that. I just
Speaker 1: reformatted the card in the radio, took the card out,
Speaker 1: put it in the computer, drug the files over to
Speaker 1: it again, and uh.
Speaker 2: Maybe it seems the same firmware it's already on there.
Speaker 1: Well, it's possible, it's possible. It just said, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: there's no updates to be had. It's certainly possible. Yep.
Speaker 1: And how do you where's the main button? I forgot?
Speaker 1: I forgot there was a let's see there it is. Okay,
Speaker 1: there we go. That's how you do it. Okay, those
Speaker 1: buttons there. So I just wanted to get back to
Speaker 1: the two meter side. Okay, So we uh do a
Speaker 1: save to the SD card to create the file structure. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't have to. When you when you format it,
Speaker 1: it creates the file structure itself. And I know that
Speaker 1: because both times today and the last time I did that.
Speaker 1: You format it, you take it out of the radio,
Speaker 1: you put it in a computer, and when it pops
Speaker 1: up in Windows, it has an ftx one folder in
Speaker 1: the root directory. So when it formats it, it creates
Speaker 1: the file structure itself. That's the reason you format. And
Speaker 1: it says in the instruction. The first thing it says
Speaker 1: is format a new SD card. Well, I already did that,
Speaker 1: because this is my second time to update firmware. So
Speaker 1: I had a formatted SD card in there already that
Speaker 1: I successfully updated firmware with. So I just used that
Speaker 1: same st card, drag the files over to it, and
Speaker 1: you guys watched earlier it's it did update. I don't
Speaker 1: think it updated everything, but it's possible that we just
Speaker 1: haven't updated everything because the optim is not connected. So
Speaker 1: more so I will work on that. Don says, I
Speaker 1: had this problem the files go in the ft x
Speaker 1: one folder. Well that's not what the instructions say. I
Speaker 1: think they did say, and not no they don't either.
Speaker 1: Watch look right here now. I'm not saying you're wrong, Don,
Speaker 1: because there's been a couple there was a couple of
Speaker 1: things in the first and the first firm or update
Speaker 1: that we're not correct. Oh where did it go? I
Speaker 1: lost it? Here it is, okay, right here, it says, well, actually,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm reading that wrong, the folder configuration formata.
Speaker 1: I am reading that wrong. It does say to put
Speaker 1: it in the ftx one folder. Okay, Well, I guess
Speaker 1: trust the Java guy, I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2: No, Okay, see guy, And I thought I pointed that
Speaker 2: out earlier to you, but you're like no, right on.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, okay, yeah, and that's I'm really
Speaker 1: pretty sure that it was the root folder last time. Okay,
Speaker 1: So maybe I read that wrong. Maybe I did eh. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so let's get rid of these just for
Speaker 1: the heck of it. Yes, bump, okay, let's put these here.
Speaker 1: Copy over there. Okay, there we go. Now, now they're
Speaker 1: in the ftx one folder. Okay, maybe I've read Okay,
Speaker 1: so I read it wrong. I'm pretty sure it didn't
Speaker 1: say that last time, but maybe I don't remember. You
Speaker 1: know how much I've done, how many videos I've done
Speaker 1: since that last time? Okay, So now let us okay,
Speaker 1: so we're still here and and let's uh nope, let's
Speaker 1: do this this this power this on. Okay, over there, Okay,
Speaker 1: now we have okay, so display says no such file.
Speaker 1: Now we have main DSPN SDR. So it took the
Speaker 1: display update already, Yeah, because the display is supposed to
Speaker 1: be one of four according to these instructions here. According
Speaker 1: to this, the displays one O four and that's what
Speaker 1: we're at. So we're just gonna do this this, this,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna say update, do not turn off power. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, don says Jason. I read it wrong. Also, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, good well it's not just me then. You
Speaker 1: guys didn't know this was going to be an episode
Speaker 1: of Nuggets, did you. H Mmmm? All right, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna let we're gonna wait for that, but yes, uh.
Speaker 1: Circling back to our No, I'm not on the battery, Tim,
Speaker 1: Tim's DMR. I'm on external power. Took the battery off
Speaker 1: a while ago. Uh, let's see what was I gonna say?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Circling back to the tech to the search and rescue
Speaker 1: conversation a little bit ago, if anyone has any information
Speaker 1: about the Texas flooding and ham radio operators volunteering and
Speaker 1: helping and in some sort of organized capacity for that.
Speaker 1: Please email me. You can put it in the chat
Speaker 1: and I'm probably not gonna see it. Email me k
Speaker 1: C five h tw at gmail dot com because I'd
Speaker 1: like to know about that. So we're gonna wait for
Speaker 1: this to finish, and then we're gonna probably shut this
Speaker 1: down shortly and we're gonna move over to the other channel.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, if I had money, i'd be down there
Speaker 1: helping you out. Well, see, and I've gotten I was
Speaker 1: out of town all last week when it was first
Speaker 1: going on, and I was watching some chats that I'm
Speaker 1: involved in and watching some people talk about situation down there.
Speaker 1: But I don't Again, I'm not gonna just drive down
Speaker 1: there and show up. I want to be part of
Speaker 1: an organized effort or something. So I want to if
Speaker 1: something like that exists for him, even if it's not
Speaker 1: for him, Mary. I mean, like, if they just need
Speaker 1: volunme tears for whatever I'm not, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be him radio. I did get an email from Starlink
Speaker 1: that Elon Musk is turning Starlink on for people in
Speaker 1: the affected area. And not charging for it. So if
Speaker 1: you have a Starlink dish in the affected area, you
Speaker 1: can use it without use it for free right now,
Speaker 1: So check with vern six. That's a good, good, good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know how close he is. He's a lot
Speaker 1: closer to it than I am. Link to other channel.
Speaker 1: I'll share that in a minute, Jeff, I.
Speaker 2: Do see that TECHSAR itself is actively being deployed down there,
Speaker 2: are they? Yeah? And if you want to help sponsor them,
Speaker 2: they have a donation button at the bottom. Then if
Speaker 2: you're looking to volunteer with them, there's uh, that would
Speaker 2: be volunteer information. But they are completely volunteer organization where
Speaker 2: you fund yourself going through and getting certifications and getting
Speaker 2: your gear, and it is a real search of rescue group.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is Greg still leading that for this chapter.
Speaker 2: He's not leading it for the chapter anymore, but he's
Speaker 2: still a part of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay. The Cajun Navy is there.
Speaker 2: Huh, I'm not talking about them.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is.
Speaker 2: They are a loose, loosely assembled group that they say
Speaker 2: that they are a big group, and they really cause
Speaker 2: more chaos then they do help people, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: but there's been a lot of chaos around them. But
Speaker 2: they are a group of self deploying people.
Speaker 1: Oh well, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: It's there's just the Cajun Navy is a loose term
Speaker 2: that people with folts go out there and you're like,
Speaker 2: with the Cajun Navy, no way of contacting each other.
Speaker 2: They they use zel on the phone. Yeah, they use zello.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so they're communicating via Zello. But
Speaker 2: when you go to a place that has no data,
Speaker 2: how's that going to work for you?
Speaker 1: Well, everywhere has data. Let's if you listen to anybody
Speaker 1: with UH that says that HAM radio's obsolete, then that's
Speaker 1: what they tell you. So okay, uh Jody, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was kind of that was kind of my point. My thinking.
Speaker 1: Video opportunity would be good to cover current weather alert
Speaker 1: radio is, especially how SAM enabled radios. Yep. You could
Speaker 1: also check with your church. They may know ways to help.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe that's again, Yeah, just look for a radio
Speaker 2: organization that is already out there and it's established and
Speaker 2: get get with them. Uh TECHSAR is the big one
Speaker 2: in Texas that does a lot of search and rescue.
Speaker 2: I know some churches do have a radio affiliation that
Speaker 2: will be able to deploy if if requested. Last thing
Speaker 2: you want to do is just drive down there, Sam here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, that's that's it's not what I
Speaker 1: was looking for.
Speaker 2: I know it's not what you're looking for. I'm just reiterating, right,
Speaker 2: you're right, No, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 2: Now, if you're in the affected area, just get on
Speaker 2: a radio and if you can help figure out something
Speaker 2: right on the radio, just just don't go down there.
Speaker 2: If you're safe and put you in this position where
Speaker 2: you might need to be rescued and or you do
Speaker 2: something stupid, then then that is the issue.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, Beatle Bailey. You've got the highlighted name in the chat,
Speaker 1: so I assume you have a I have the same
Speaker 1: thing for my channel, so assume you have a confirmed channel.
Speaker 1: I tried to look it up. I didn't really see
Speaker 1: it under your name, but I probably just missed it.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do three things at once.
Speaker 2: Welcome Tomorrow world.
Speaker 1: The main is finished, the DSP is almost done, and
Speaker 1: the str is weddar. Okay, so it's.
Speaker 2: Interesting allows you to reflash it, and I guess that
Speaker 2: is a feature you do want. Maybe it's a bad
Speaker 2: take or anything. Yeah, And it's good for them for
Speaker 2: allowing it, because I was wondering if they were just
Speaker 2: kicking it off and be like no, no, no, you
Speaker 2: got it.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm yep. Verified. Yes, that's the word I was
Speaker 1: looking for. I have the same thing. I've verified it
Speaker 1: when I get down on other people's channels that shows
Speaker 1: up in the gray highlight, also with the check mark
Speaker 1: verified channel, because why not. I like to be verified.
Speaker 1: I don't like to just show up at places like
Speaker 1: Frank doesh uh uh? Are you gonna Are you gonna
Speaker 1: smoke this week? Frank?
Speaker 2: I'm thinking Tuday. There's a little complication I'll tell you
Speaker 2: in the back end, but I'm thinking tuesday.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So we're almost there, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do a reset again after this update, because it tells
Speaker 1: you do these updates and then do a reset. I've
Speaker 1: already reset it twice. But who cares. It doesn't I'm
Speaker 1: not intersteller Storm, and I am non verified and want
Speaker 1: to keep it that way. I'm not I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if it's a good thing that YouTube verifies you or not,
Speaker 1: but it is a thing. It's a thing I did
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Am I verified you're not.
Speaker 1: But you know what, in my area, show it that
Speaker 1: way because you're a mod on my channel. It may
Speaker 1: show it differently because you're a mod on my channel.
Speaker 2: I'm odd on most people's channels that we all know.
Speaker 2: So interesting.
Speaker 1: It is like radio.
Speaker 2: Man, right, it's been a.
Speaker 1: While man since date he was at Dayton this year again?
Speaker 1: Yeah soue. Okay for those two of you who were
Speaker 1: not here in the beginning, this is my Amazon store.
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Day starts on Tuesday, boom, and I will
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Speaker 1: I will be live streaming about Prime Day on Tuesday
Speaker 1: and probably again later in the week as well. But
Speaker 1: Prime Day is coming up in two days, so we'll
Speaker 1: be live on this channel again in about two days.
Speaker 1: Thank you for using the link that I just shared,
Speaker 1: because it does help to support the channel. It is
Speaker 1: an affiliate link, all right. So let's go back here
Speaker 1: and do the reset, because why not yeah, show it
Speaker 1: who's boss. And I think ED said, let's see do
Speaker 1: the reset blah blah blah. Okay, power it off. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're not doing the optima because we don't have
Speaker 1: the optima right now. So power it off, hold these
Speaker 1: two down, power it back on, and it comes back
Speaker 1: up to the dual display seven megahertz. Boom, there it is. Okay.
Speaker 1: Now if we go into the menu extension software version, okay,
Speaker 1: that that does look better. Display is one oh one
Speaker 1: O two, main oh one O five, that's different, DSP
Speaker 1: is oh one O two, that's different, SDR z oh
Speaker 1: one O four, And I think I think that's the
Speaker 1: what matches here? Which one Which screen was it that
Speaker 1: said what the actual versions were? Yes, okay, Maine one
Speaker 1: O four Actually that's later. Not display is a one
Speaker 1: O two yep, DSP one O two yep, SDR uh
Speaker 1: four yep. Okay, So all that's good. All that's good.
Speaker 1: There you go. Okay, so now we're successful. Now we're
Speaker 1: successful with the latest update, and there you go, and
Speaker 1: we're going to go there and that's my display how
Speaker 1: I like to see it. There we go, all right,
Speaker 1: So thank you don for the tip. Yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: both read it wrong. But hey, you know what, that's
Speaker 1: why it's called amateur radio. So we're all good man,
Speaker 1: all good? So okay, so it'd be interesting. You see,
Speaker 1: I want to take this thing out to Potam maybe
Speaker 1: sometime this week. I might go out to PoTA this week.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I got a couple of things going. And
Speaker 1: then heck, I think I'm gonna take this to our trip, Frank,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna bring this with us on our trip.
Speaker 1: That way we can kind of tinker with it. I
Speaker 1: might even have Kyle do some CW on it, just
Speaker 1: to tell me how what he thinks about it, and
Speaker 1: uh and go from there. So good deal. But yeah,
Speaker 1: got the Bluetooth installed, got the uh, got the little
Speaker 1: dongle for the GPS here, which is I think might
Speaker 1: be troublesome. You're gonna have to take that out. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to take that out and not leave it
Speaker 1: in so it doesn't break, and then take it out
Speaker 1: and put it somewhere so you don't lose it. So
Speaker 1: but you only need that, really, well, I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say you only need that if you're
Speaker 1: gonna do APRS but that's not true. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: do some FT eight, then you need GPS. Also, you
Speaker 1: need time with eight. So that might be a really
Speaker 1: good time sink thing for for FT eight. So we'll see.
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, so we're gonna we're gonna move over
Speaker 1: to the other channel and we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: this is my r V base camp chat. It looks
Speaker 1: like Cooley's already over there, and here is the link
Speaker 1: right there. We're gonna talk about r V base camp chat.
Speaker 1: It's called r V base camp. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: where to get water while on the road with your
Speaker 1: van and your RV. And we're gonna we're gonna move
Speaker 1: over there. So give me about five to eight minutes
Speaker 1: to reset up everything and then I will see you
Speaker 1: guys over there. Frank, any parting words.
Speaker 2: Be safe out there. I know we talked a lot
Speaker 2: about helping out in disasters. If you're in the disaster
Speaker 2: area and you're safe and able to provide a radio
Speaker 2: assistance to others, then great, go ahead and do that,
Speaker 2: but please don't self deploy. If you want to help,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna it's too late for this disaster. Join one
Speaker 2: of these organizations, so you be ready for the next one.
Speaker 2: That and that's all I really want to say. I'm Frank,
Speaker 2: and I'm Frank Tank Radio. Head over to Tank Radio
Speaker 2: to find more about me. And also I do have
Speaker 2: talking about my life events. I'm over on to be
Speaker 2: Frank and that's just talking about life and that's two
Speaker 2: videos a week and just yep, goals and weeks stuff
Speaker 2: and how how how just how I'm doing. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: that's about it. And there's Tank Radio stuff over on
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Speaker 1: Or great great great fine Amateur radio dot com. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my my mystery Box subscriptions just renewed a couple of
Speaker 1: yesterday yesterday in the day before, so those are gonna
Speaker 1: be going out later this week as well. So seventy
Speaker 1: three guys hope to see you on the live stream
Speaker 1: on Tuesday for Amazon Prime Day and on the r
Speaker 1: V base camp chat here in about five to eight minutes,
Speaker 1: So seventy three Bye later.