WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:02.919 Thank you for choosing to download the ham Radio two 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:07.200 point zero audio podcast rip. This is the audio taken 3 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.240 out of a video or a live stream I did recently. 4 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:12.640 You can catch all my videos on YouTube ham Radio 5 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:15.119 two point zero and catch us live every Sunday night 6 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:19.079 at seven pm Central Standard Time for a different topic 7 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:22.359 each week. Thank you for the support, and thank you 8 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:37.119 for being a member of the community. Okay, I don't 9 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:39.719 know what that means forty five, but it's funny. I'm laughing. 10 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:44.200 I'm laughing with you, brother. I didn't watch it. I 11 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.000 didn't watch their live stream, but heay. 12 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:50.439 There you go. So see why camera's focused. Yeah, camera's focusing. 13 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:56.439 Stream is streaming and uh happy happy Sunday guys. Appreciate 14 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:00.000 everyone being here tonight. Hike It and Hammon in the chat. 15 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.759 What's up, buddy? How are you good? To see you 16 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:08.560 out there? Shout out to the YouTube channel members Nick, Wayne, Jason, 17 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:16.959 Brian Other, Wayne, Wayne, Garrett, W five, w LG, Carle, 18 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:22.640 Carl Carlyle, Carlyle, KO four Q and t IF I'm 19 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:29.599 saying that right, Carlyle, James Redman, Hikin and Hammon. See 20 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:31.680 smoke signals are f in the chat my wife is 21 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:34.760 in the chat. Thanks for being here, guys, appreciate y'all's 22 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.159 time tonight. Let me get that off the screen right there, 23 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:41.719 there we go. Okay, good to be back in the shock. 24 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.000 I was in Alabama all week and we got a 25 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:50.200 brand new general class recorded. Gigaparts does classes in their 26 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:54.640 classroom at their facility in Huntsville, Alabama. Some of you 27 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.159 may have known that, Yeah you have a Wayne Army 28 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.680 now it looks like it looks like it, but yeah, 29 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:03.079 Giga Parts does classes. I was out there in March 30 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:05.760 for a completely unrelated reason and I went by there 31 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:08.400 and they were actually teaching a technician class that week, 32 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:10.560 and I asked them about it and I'm like, is 33 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:13.039 this how often do you do this? And it was 34 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:16.280 like it's like every Thursday night for like an hour 35 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:18.520 or two for like thirteen weeks. And I'm like, okay, 36 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:20.120 can we condense that? 37 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:20.560 Can we? 38 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:22.520 Cause I need a new general class. The general class 39 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.319 on my channel, the question pool, expired about two years ago, 40 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:27.039 and the club I was working with here they don't 41 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:28.800 have a new one put together yet. So we got 42 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:31.840 one recorded last week at Gigaparts and I got to 43 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:34.039 work on the editing for that, and we're gonna put 44 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:39.400 it up soon. They're also doing drone classes now, doing 45 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:41.479 drone classes now, so guess what, i'ma have to go 46 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:43.439 out there and get my freaking drone license, which is 47 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.599 something I should have done a long time ago. But 48 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.639 but speaking of gigaparts, we are going to do. Mark 49 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:54.080 your calendars. It's going to be quick because we already 50 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.000 did one of these. When was this We did one 51 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:02.919 of these like a week ago. We could go last Thursday, 52 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:07.400 I think it was this Thursday. This coming Thursday, so 53 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:10.560 like four nights from now, where my calendar go. I 54 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:12.159 pull my calendar up and look at that. We're gonna 55 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:16.199 do another. Let's make a deal. That will be June 56 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:21.159 twenty sixth seven pm Texas time be eight pm on 57 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:25.000 the East coast and five pm on the West coast. Gigabarts, 58 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.039 Let's make a deal. Gigaparts dot com forward slash deal. 59 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:32.240 You won't see anything. This is old information here, but 60 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.639 this will be the link here. They're working on some 61 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:38.080 new stuff for the back end that they want to 62 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:41.240 do some testing on, so they're like, hey, let's do 63 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:43.360 it on They wanted to do it on Friday, night 64 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:45.120 this time, and I'm like, that's great. I'd love to 65 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.520 do it on Friday night, but my wife and I 66 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:51.199 are leaving for a vacation next Friday, so we're gonna 67 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.759 do it on Thursday night again. So you guys put 68 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:56.759 that on your Yeah, I know it says June twelfth 69 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:58.479 right now. This will be updated, but this will be 70 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:02.199 the website still be gigaparts dot com forward slash deals 71 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.039 or deals dot gigaparts dot com. I think that takes 72 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:10.680 you to the same place. And yeah, so it'd be 73 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:13.639 Thursday instead of Friday, So you guys make sure to 74 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.399 join us for that should be some good deals and 75 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.800 in addition to that, we're gonna have some prizes to 76 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.399 give away. We're gonna do some giveaways and make some 77 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:27.560 deals and it's gonna be a slightly different format than 78 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:32.759 we've done before, but not exactly not exactly different, very similar, 79 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:36.480 but slightly different what we've done before. Brent Brent Time 80 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:39.879 again is seven pm in Texas, eight pm on the 81 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:44.240 East coast, five pm on the West coast. This this 82 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:46.759 coming to this next Thursday, four days from now, June 83 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.319 twenty sixth, so mark your calendars for that. Send it out, 84 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:55.000 tell people to join let's get let's get a large 85 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.759 showing in the livestream that night, because gigaparts has been 86 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.319 gracious enough to do this my channel numerous times now. 87 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.920 So really appreciate them and their support for this type 88 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:06.800 of thing. And I don't know, they got some new 89 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:08.759 software on the back and they're like, oh, our back 90 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:10.600 end software worked really good last time. We got a 91 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:15.399 couple of tweaks to do it, and so they want 92 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:16.920 to do it again. I think they're kind of anxious 93 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:20.839 about it. I think they're looking to tweak this and 94 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.240 I don't know if they're looking to do it more 95 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:25.519 on a more regular basis or not, but they're looking 96 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.040 to do it again. So, No, you do not have 97 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:29.759 to sign up for the giveaway. You do have to 98 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:33.160 be present in the chat to win. We're going to 99 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:37.480 do real time giveaways in the chat of some It's 100 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:39.360 not gonna be a big chef radio or anything like that. 101 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:41.240 It's gonna be some smaller items, but we're gonna do 102 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.439 real time giveaways. You have to be present in the 103 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:49.279 chat to participate in that. So yeah, mark your calendars. 104 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:53.040 Why do you do this before I get paid? Sad 105 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:56.079 face I don't know, man, just good timing on your part, 106 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.199 I guess, I don't know, so, so yeah, mark your 107 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:02.399 calendars for that this coming Thursday. Also, I'm still adding 108 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.319 a bunch of stuff to the website. Got a bunch 109 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:09.240 of new brands here, O Light Lee Time, Madman, right 110 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:13.160 in the Rain. I've got two or three other different 111 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:15.399 things arriving this week going to be adding to that. 112 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:18.759 The mystery boxes are still up here. Those will renew. 113 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:22.399 Those of you who participated in the first month, those 114 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:27.199 will renew somewhere around July fifth, I think. And I've 115 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:29.439 already got the new round of T shirts ordered and 116 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.839 I've got extra stuff. And the first round was a 117 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:34.160 little rocky because I didn't know how many to expect, 118 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:37.360 but I am totally prepared for the second round to 119 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:39.480 come up, so it should be a lot quicker this 120 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:41.800 time than it has been. So mystery box is there, 121 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:44.680 and go check out all the new brands and different 122 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.800 things that I have on the website. Great Fine amateur 123 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:50.639 Radio dot com or shop dot ham Radio two dot com. 124 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:52.800 Both of them will take you to this website right here. 125 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:57.120 Appreciate your support on that and hope you guys maybe 126 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:59.839 have any questions about that. Surely let me know Edfong 127 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:01.759 and Tens are back in stock too. Those are always 128 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:05.360 a hot item. So let's go. I saw Frank join 129 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:11.000 we get this put up over here right there? This 130 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.959 switched around. You never know with Frank if he's going 131 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:19.079 to actually, you know, show up on time or be 132 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:20.600 here or what's up? 133 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:21.160 Dude? How are you? 134 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:24.319 I'm usually here. I let you know what. I'm not 135 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:28.040 here last week. I'm sorry. I got a killer of 136 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:28.480 my graine. 137 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:29.240 Oh no, it's all right. 138 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:32.759 I was like, I'm not even able to fake it, 139 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:34.240 so I just laid on the couch. 140 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:36.959 That's all right. Freddie Mack did a bang up job. 141 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.399 We did some We did some all star work that 142 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:42.759 worked on the the first time we did it, no way, 143 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:43.519 it was amazing. 144 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:44.199 I don't believe that. 145 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.720 It was totally new concept to me. So it actually 146 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.360 worked the first time we tried it. So it was 147 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:51.560 not in Nuggets episode. 148 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:54.120 Let's see about that. 149 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.240 Let me move myself over a little bit there, Sebastian, 150 00:07:57.240 --> 00:07:58.600 how are you tonight, sir? 151 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:01.639 How are you? I I'm great, happy to be here 152 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:04.680 with you guys, even if Frank can be unreliable sometimes, 153 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:09.319 so I appreciate. I appreciate the effort. Frank. 154 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.639 Yeah, this is why Sebastian fits in very well with 155 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:15.639 this at at the campsite of the Hamfest. 156 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:17.879 So h yeah, good dude can. 157 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.360 Talk smack because he's already been on my channel. 158 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:24.959 Right yeah, yeah, totally started out. Yes, Okay, so before 159 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:26.759 we get started, this is a good question, right, I 160 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:28.800 really like this question right here. So what are you 161 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:32.240 guys doing for field Day? Field Day's next weekend too, 162 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:34.720 that's next Saturday Sunday. 163 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:37.840 So you want me to take that, No, let's smash. 164 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:39.240 You go first, and then and then you get. 165 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:41.960 Okay, now, the things that I don't have good things 166 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.039 to say, it's like the the effort here in Sullivan County, 167 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:47.679 New York, where I live, we actually fell through. So 168 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:50.559 we're not gonna be able to do it. Uh, but 169 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:55.480 I'm thinking I might be doing a a robe. I'll 170 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:59.320 go visit a bunch of people around here that are 171 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:01.679 doing field Day that I have. I have lots of friends, 172 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:04.960 like a couple of hours around and might even combine 173 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.759 that with stopping at at parks on my way and 174 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.240 activate a few parks. I tried to get the the 175 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:13.759 I need to get the ten park rove. I think 176 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:17.320 it's the rhino. I have the five to fifteen and 177 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:20.480 the twenty five rove awards, but I need to get 178 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:22.120 the ten and the twenty park. 179 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:24.120 Is that all in one day? 180 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:25.080 Yeah? 181 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:26.679 All day? 182 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:29.519 Dare you to do that in Texas? Come down here 183 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:30.840 in England. 184 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:34.919 You got a picture, you can drive, You can drive 185 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.159 around Long Island and do ten parks in a day. 186 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.200 I mean there's a lot of parks out there. So 187 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.759 in an hour, yeah, yep, yeah, yeah, and then well 188 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.720 maybe not an hour, but yeah, quickly. So I did 189 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:49.480 a Poto rove of several years back, maybe ten years ago. 190 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:51.039 Now it's been a while since I've done that, but 191 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:53.440 I did a pro PoTA rove in Texas and I 192 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:57.840 drove to the I looked at the scoreboard from the 193 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:02.519 year prior and I found the highest scoring club for 194 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:06.360 North Texas, South Texas, and I don't remember if I 195 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:08.679 went far out as well. There's three section three able 196 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:11.720 ORL sections in Texas, North, South, and West, and I 197 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.600 don't remember how far west I went, but I know 198 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:15.360 I went to three or four clubs and they were 199 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:17.519 all some of the leading clubs for the year prior. 200 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:20.120 So I just went and interviewed them, looked at their setups, 201 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:21.600 kind of talked to people about what to do. 202 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:22.960 That was fun. I enjoyed that. 203 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:25.559 I didn't get to participate myself that year, but it 204 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:28.039 was fun talking to everybody else and seeing their setups. 205 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:31.279 So what if you, I know, you and Robert got 206 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:32.799 something going on, Frank, what do you guys. 207 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:36.559 See Robert and Paul, Paul and Paul. 208 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:37.639 Okay, we're going. 209 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:40.200 To head to Cooper Lake State Park. We got ourselves 210 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:44.200 a cabin that has ac and a nice restroom with 211 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:49.440 a shower and okay, that was my acquirements for a cabin. 212 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.440 I was like, I'm not just staying in cabin if 213 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.200 I have to go and walk to the bathroom. So 214 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:59.159 we found that awesome one Oprah Cooper Lake State Park. 215 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.960 We're going to be running a three station as of now, 216 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:10.440 and we're going to run like eighty eighty forty twenty ten. 217 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:11.519 And six meters. 218 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:16.200 Okay, of course we're going to get that satellite contact also, of. 219 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:16.600 Course you will. 220 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:20.240 Robert's there, Hey, Hey, hey, I got a satellite station too, 221 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:22.679 did y Yeah? 222 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.559 Yeah, okay, all right, I brought it. You see it? 223 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:28.879 Well, I tried calling. This was two or three months ago, 224 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:30.480 before I realized I was going to be out of town. 225 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:32.200 I'll tell you guys what I'm doing here in a second. 226 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:35.480 But I called that that last state part of the 227 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:38.000 Dangerfield and try to get that same cabin we had 228 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.039 and she was like, no, it's rented that weekend. Would 229 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.320 you like the next weekend? And I'm like no, She's like, oh, 230 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:44.519 it's open the next weekend. I'm like, I need it 231 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:46.559 for an event on this weekend. If it's not open, 232 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:48.639 it's not open. But yeah, she's trying to talk to 233 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:50.440 me in the next week. I was like, no, thanks, 234 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:53.440 but yeah, good, well, I'm glad you guys found a spot. 235 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:55.799 Perhaps I can work you because I will be in 236 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:58.639 a park that weekend. I forget which one it is. 237 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:01.559 My wife and I are going to Colorado for our 238 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.879 annual vacation. We're doing a road trip. We're gonna leave 239 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:08.159 here on Friday and stay somewhere outside of Denver Friday night, 240 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.320 but then Saturday and Sunday night. Her cousin. Yeah, her 241 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:16.879 cousin has a cabin in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. I think 242 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:20.279 that's like in the south west corner of Colorado. We're 243 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:22.159 gonna stay there for a couple of nights, but our 244 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:26.000 purpose in doing this is we're gonna tour for about it. 245 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.000 We'll be gone for about eight days. We're gonna tour 246 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:30.559 the entire state of Colorado and hit all four of 247 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.159 the national parks that are in Colorado. I'm gonna do 248 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.159 some hiking and some of them. I'm gonna activate all 249 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.080 of them. She's probably gonna activate all of them too. 250 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:41.399 I think that's what I said. We'll be in Peghosa 251 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.120 Spring Saturday and Sunday. I think that's what I said, 252 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.720 so will be I might have said it wrong. Will be, Yeah, 253 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:48.720 Saturday and Sunday will be in the same spot. I 254 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:52.960 think we're gonna change places we stay every night except 255 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:55.399 for those two nights. We'll be in the cabin for 256 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:57.000 those two nights, and then every other night we'll be 257 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:00.480 in a different spot. So during field day I will 258 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:03.919 be able to operate from maybe from a park, maybe 259 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:06.720 from the cabin. I don't know, but I'm just gonna 260 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:08.879 operate as myself. So I will look for you guys 261 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.320 on the bands, Frank, and hopefully we can. Colorado to 262 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:16.039 Texas is challenging, but it's not. I mean, it's it's. 263 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:17.480 Pretty I've gotten Colorado. 264 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:18.320 Yeah, yeah, we can. 265 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:21.120 Get Colorado pretty regularly. It was fun, it was fine. 266 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.440 The band has been so kind of up and down lately. 267 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:25.720 When I was in Dalveston last time I had, I 268 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:28.480 worked a station in Midland, a station in Olpaso, and 269 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:30.639 some other guy in like I think I worked a 270 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:32.799 station in the Dallas Fort Worth area, but he was 271 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:33.440 down in the noise. 272 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:34.480 He was really hard to hear. 273 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:38.759 But it's unusual to work Texas that that short of 274 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:42.000 arrange on twenty meters, but I did it, so we'll see. 275 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:46.120 Yeah, the bands has been characteristically weird. 276 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:49.399 Yeah, they've been kind of weird. So yeah, thank you 277 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:50.240 for the super chat. 278 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:50.559 Izzo. 279 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:53.879 Appreciate you being here, brother, And uh, you need to 280 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:57.919 put Ham Bencheon on your calendar, buddy. All right, So 281 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:02.279 tonight we're going to talk about pol Polo is the 282 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:06.039 subject tonight, and it is a ham radio logging app. 283 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:11.080 It's one of the easiest to use most updated apps 284 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:14.919 that's out there, in my opinion, the kind of the 285 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:17.840 thing that and I'll admit this right now just upfront, 286 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:20.759 so everybody's on board. I have Polo installed but I've 287 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.320 never actually used it blasphem me. I know, I know, 288 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:24.919 it's terrible. 289 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.080 What change screens with me? 290 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:33.480 I actually generally speaking, when I'm longing, I do. I 291 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:36.519 do take my laptop a lot, yes, but I usually 292 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:38.519 when I'm logging, I'm usually on Android. 293 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:39.600 Uh not. 294 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.639 Yeah, I'm probably sixty percent Android and forty percent Windows 295 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:47.960 something like that. So but you but but Polo only 296 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:50.960 works on Android iOS right right now? 297 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:51.840 Yes, right now? 298 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:54.039 Yes, you can run it on Mac laptops that the 299 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:58.720 new Max can run iPad apps, right, but we're working 300 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.159 on a on a desktop version that will run on 301 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:06.879 any Mac laptop, Windows and Linux. Okay, that's coming up 302 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:08.440 in a in a couple of months. 303 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:13.679 Yeah, yeah, uh prep, And Paul says, burn the witch. 304 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:16.440 They're talking about me not using Polo, and then n 305 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.159 a Yo says boo this man. 306 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:21.919 So right, I feel like I got to take over there. 307 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:24.159 It's so good. 308 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:25.840 So there's a lot of really good apps out there 309 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:28.879 right now, I like and want to use all of them. 310 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:31.919 And Sebastian and I were talking at Hamvinchin. I'm like, well, 311 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:33.519 we need to get you to come on to the 312 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:35.440 show and just talk about Polo. So I can learn 313 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:38.000 more about it myself. But yeah, and I think deal. 314 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:41.320 I think we're in at a great time for HAM software, 315 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:46.120 a resurgence of ham software. There's a lot of of 316 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:49.600 people trying to come up with new innovations. I think 317 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:52.960 that that we we've kind of been stuck with N 318 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:56.080 one MM and UH and three UH and three JP 319 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:59.279 of the of the software world, which they've done a 320 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:02.360 great job, that's what they've lasted so long. But it's 321 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.080 kind of like they they never jumped into the the 322 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:10.080 mobile bandwagon like right do mobile apps and UH and 323 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:13.759 even on their desktop offerings, they all feel like, I 324 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:18.320 don't know, a a a certain most HAMP software feels 325 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:21.519 like it was built maybe not in but for the 326 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:27.679 nineteen ninety seven crowd, right, it's a certain vintage, yes, correct, Yeah, 327 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:31.639 there's maybe maybe ninety nine. It's like post Windows ninety eight, 328 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.200 Windows MT four. That's kind of like where the the 329 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:42.039 style came about, Like you know, when when my when 330 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:46.919 my space was a thing to the geocds and MySpace. Yes, 331 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:52.799 it's predominant in a lot of app and websites, but 332 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:54.600 but in the last few years, I don't know, with 333 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:58.360 with Hammers, with the World Radio League and other efforts 334 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:02.159 and and of course Pollo up the I don't know, 335 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:06.599 it's been interesting seeing new apps coming out and offering 336 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:08.680 new ideas and new styles of doing things. 337 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:10.039 Absolutely, you know. 338 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:13.559 And something we hear often as YouTubers is just like, oh, 339 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.480 Ham radio is dying, it's going away, it's gonna you know, 340 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:20.000 everybody's gonna nobody's using it anymore, you know, blah blah 341 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:22.039 blah blah blah. And I'm like, you know what, there's 342 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:28.160 some really good innovation, innovation and forward thinking projects in 343 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.000 the software world for amateur radio. And if if if 344 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.400 Ham radio was really dying, which it's not, it's it's 345 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:36.960 just not the statistics prove otherwise. So everybody who says that, 346 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:39.119 I was like, now you're just being a blowhard, and 347 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:39.559 that's okay. 348 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:42.119 And the hardware too, companies are coming with new radios 349 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:44.839 and new ways of doing things too, Yep, yep. 350 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:47.839 But yeah, there's there's still lots of innovation in hardware 351 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.440 and software and applications and stuff that does new stuff 352 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.519 and all kinds of uh innovation still going on. So 353 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:58.039 seeing more options become available outside of the m LEE, 354 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:00.720 m M and N three F JP is is great 355 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:04.240 in my opinion. So yeah, so gonna looking forward to 356 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.240 seeing what you've got tonight to Sebastian, because I know 357 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:09.240 a lot of guys who use Polo that just say 358 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:12.599 they started using polo and they're like, yeah, that's all 359 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:16.400 all I use anymore. And I don't know, we'll see 360 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:17.960 if I get swept up in it when I use 361 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:19.519 the f In fact, I'm gonna I'm gonna make it 362 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:22.319 a point when we go on our vacation next week 363 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:24.200 I will use Polo in at least one part and 364 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:25.279 kind of see how I like it. 365 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:26.039 So do that. 366 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:28.759 Yeah, that's that's the best thing. A lot of people 367 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:31.920 don't don't want to log on their phones, and that 368 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:33.920 the main thing I want to there people is to 369 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:36.559 give data shot. I think that logging on your phone 370 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:39.839 is more than than possible. Is Actually I actually prefer 371 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:44.880 it nowadays, unless it's is like a serious contest effort. Yeah. 372 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:47.119 I prefer to log on my phone than to log 373 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:50.839 on a on a laptop or even a tablet. I 374 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:54.319 don't know. It's it's less things around me. It makes 375 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:55.680 the whole thing more convenient. 376 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:56.519 Mm hmm. 377 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.759 And I could say the thumb typing on a small 378 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:03.160 key it's fine. The speed at which you have to 379 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:06.359 type a call sign, it's still very slow. It's the 380 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:09.519 speed at which you're repeating the call sign. If you 381 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:13.759 can say kilo India to Delta, that's kilo India to Delta. 382 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:15.680 That's as fast as you need to type. You don't 383 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.519 need to type much faster than that. And then not 384 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.119 having to carry more gear with you, and not having 385 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:25.200 to put more stuff around you in the table where 386 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:27.799 you're operating or in your lap, it makes a big 387 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:31.119 difference to me. I mean, I've I've learned, I've gotten 388 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:33.160 used to log into my phone, and the main thing 389 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:35.000 I would want to invite people is to give that 390 00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:37.519 a shot. Go do an operation and log it all 391 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:40.839 on your phone, or log it with a tablet and 392 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:44.200 a small external keyboard. Tablet keyboards I do hate. I 393 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:46.039 don't like typing on a tablet keyboard. 394 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:48.839 I've got a big I've got that big ten inch 395 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.960 our Finder tablet. It's an Android tablet, and I will 396 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:55.039 log on that sometimes, but ever since I mounted it 397 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:57.359 in my truck, I don't. I won't take it to like, 398 00:19:57.519 --> 00:19:58.759 I don't take it out of the truck. I just 399 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:00.960 leave it in the truck all the time. And someday 400 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:03.880 if i'm activating from the truck, which I have a 401 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:06.680