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of HamTalk Live. Tonight we're joined by Paul
Brown, WD9GCO, and Eric Elwell, KD4BNT, Michael
Coulter, W8CI, and Green County Sheriff Scott
Anger, as well as some other people. Paul and
I will, we'll talk about that in just. a little
bit. Last episode, Tony and Andy Maluzzi were
here to talk about the youth and collegiate events
happening this weekend at Hamvention. If you
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slash amateur. Coming to you live from Dayton,
Ohio, here's Neil Rapp with more Ham Talk Live.
Mr. Carlson, I'm so glad I caught you before
you left. I wanted to wish you a safe and successful
mission to Dayton. Well, thank you, Les. Dayton
is where Mother lives. I know, Les. Welcome back
to Ham Talk Live. We'll check in with the weather
here in just a moment. Paul Brown, WD9GCO, is
here with me in Metro Dayton. And Paul, you got
here this morning. I've been here for 24 hours
or more than that now. It's been kind of crazy
trying to get everything set up and going, but
we're here. We are here and we're ready to have
a good time. We're doing this. You're here for
the Yoda. We're both here for the amateur radio
news line town hall reboot. And I've spoken to
all of our speakers are all excited and ready
to go. So the weather looks. The weather looks
good for this weekend. There's supposed to be
a little rain tomorrow. It's Dayton. It's Hamvention.
That's going to happen. But otherwise, I think
in the 70s, it's lovely weather. So I'm looking
forward to it. Yeah, it's been nice setting up
everything in the last couple of days. And Eric,
I think has some good news for us here in just
a little bit. So we'll We'll talk about that
and then later on in the show you're going to
be back and we're going to see what kind of trouble
we can get into here with the random man on the
street. Is that the plan? That is in fact the
plan, yes. Okay, so that's the plan. And then
after all this is over you can tell me what in
the world we're doing tomorrow. I'll fill you
in on the details. Alright, well first let's
check in with the weather and we have our usual
weatherman here with the exclusive Spectrum News
1 Hamvention weather forecast for HamTalk Live.
Here is Chief Meteorologist Eric Elwell, KD4BNT.
Eric, you're with us every year for this. I hope
you're not getting tired of this. And let us
know what's going on, what to expect for this
weekend. You know, Neil, something interesting,
actually, that we've been watching the last two
evenings, even though it's been bright and sunny,
a kind of a haze in the air, that is actually
some wildfire smoke that's coming in from some
wildfires that are burning well up in Canada.
And while we don't smell anything here at the
ground, that smoke very high up. It's made for
some pretty spectacular sunsets. We may see one
or two more of those. We are tracking a cold
front, though, that'll clear some of that smoke.
The front is set to move by late Friday night
so much of the rain looks to fall while many
of us are sleeping late Friday night. We get
out of here pretty early Saturday making for
a really nice weekend. temperatures on Friday
will pop out about 78 to 80 degrees. It's pretty
warm on Saturday. It will cool to about 68 to
70 degrees before we warm back up on Sunday.
So it's a pretty nice weather. Again, a little
bit of rain. We'll have to deal with the Friday
evening slight chance during the day we see some
Friday, but otherwise pretty nice for convention.
Uh, that's, that's always good news. Uh, Michael,
uh, Coulter, the chair, uh, person, or the spokesperson,
rather, for Ham Mention, uh, and, uh, we're talking,
we're reminiscing about the first year it moved
to Greene County and all the mud. And, uh, we're
glad that it has been that way since. Well, so
far we've been doing things right, I guess, now
because of what it looks to cooperate. But, you
know, we may have to deal with a little rain
Friday evening, Friday night, but it shouldn't
be too big of a deal, and then we've got a very
nice weekend ahead. Just like, you know, a sweater
very early Sunday morning if you're heading out,
once that cold night comes by Saturday, but all
in all looking pretty nice. All right, that's
great. Remind people, too. We only have you on
here once a year. So remind people about your
ham radio background. Well, I started as a kid.
My father was a ham radio operator. And I was
inspired by him probably when I was 16, 17 years
old. And I've been doing it for a while. I was
really involved with Morseau when I was in college.
I did a lot of storm casing. And then I went
out to Kansas and worked out there. for several
years before coming to Ohio. So that was pretty
much a requirement. You had to have hand radio,
you had to have two meter rig in your vehicle,
and that's the way we communicate. Now, you know,
before cell phones were too widely used, and
now in Kansas, you know, there's not many cell
phone towers in some spots. So that was, that's
the way we communicate, and we still use that
for emergency communications even today. background
and it's been a lot of fun. All right you can
check out Eric on Spectrum News One and as I'm
always fond of saying we have Spectrum News One
here at the hotel I'm staying at so you can tune
in and watch Eric whenever we want. So make sure
you check out Spectrum News One while you're
here at Hamvention. Thanks so much Eric, we appreciate
it. No problem 7 -3 guys. Take it easy All right.
Thanks again Eric and you can catch him again
Spectrum cable spectrum news one across Ohio
on channel one while you're here and date well,
it's time for the gas report and gas prices well
They're a little bit better along I -75. So if
you are looking for the cheapest gas, we're finding
329 at Sam's Club and Costco, which is actually
off of 675. And then the Walmart and Moraine
all have gas for 329. If you're out in Xenia,
The best price is $3 .43 at Walmart and $3 .46
at Kroger. It goes up from there so it looks
like substantially better if you're in Dayton
properly and mostly along I -75 with the exception
of Costco out there on the southeast side. So
take a look at those gas prices if you see something
in the 320 or 330 range, you probably should
take it. Well, we'll come back and talk with
Michael Coulter, WHCI, and we'll have the the
New Green County Sheriff Scott Anger with us
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Let's have an eyeball QSO in Dayton. You're listening
to HamTalk Live with Neil Rapp. Oh, Jennifer,
I guess I'm ready to leave. Andy and Herb went
down to get the Cordova. Have you remembered
everything? I can't be sure. You're driving to
Dayton, where you'll be staying at the luxurious
Hotel Ocean View. In Dayton. Now Jennifer, tell
me again, why am I making this trip to Dayton?
Welcome back to HamTalk Live, live from Dayton,
Ohio. Our Hamvention Prep episode on Hamvention
Eve coming to you live from Spring Hill Suites,
Miamisburg, just down the street from the Dayton
Mall. Thanks for tuning in tonight. We hope you're
helping your trip to Hamvention be a little more
enjoyable. And yeah, we had to bring back the
WKRP clips from the trip to Dayton. So, you know,
Paul, one of the things that you came for dating
for, you found like in five seconds. Yeah, it
was. There's a particular straight key that I've
been looking for for since I was a kid because
it matches my paddle and I never got one. I've
never seen one on eBay, maybe once every couple
of years. I've never seen one at a ham fest.
I walked out to the flea market. Very first table.
There it was. It's like apparently it was meant
to be mine. So I threw money at the man and it's
now with me. So I'm happy. Unfortunately, that
means that my shopping list is pretty much checked
off already. So I'm sure I'll find some other
things, but I did promise the wife that I would
be sensible this year. So, but now you and I
both know that what we consider sensible is different
than what. the rest of the world thinks. So I
have some leeway. Yeah, that is true. But yeah,
I saw the paddles. The straight key, it looks
very nice. And I'm glad you were able to find
that. And it's not even Hanvinschen yet. It's
Hanvinschen Eve. That was one of the things I
noticed was there's all these people going around
everywhere and asking about this and ask about
that. Well, I don't know. Tomorrow, when it's
actually open, then, you know, maybe we'll, we'll,
uh, we'll find out. But, you know, whatever.
But, uh, there was a lot of, uh, a lot of activity
today. Not so much the day before, which is Another
reason why I get here two days early to get some
things done. But anyway, we had a chance to sit
down this afternoon with Michael Coulter, WHCI,
the official spokesperson of the Dayton Hamvention,
and also Green County Sheriff Scott Anger to
talk about all the usual stuff, traffic and parking
and all kinds of stuff. So let's hear from Green
County Sheriff Scott Anger. I'm here with the
Green County Sheriff Scott Anger. And he's with
us to tell us a little bit about the traffic
patterns and a little bit of construction going
on. Although that's, that should be pretty clear
for this weekend and just some information about
coming into Hamvention this year. So Scott, welcome
to the show and And tell us what's going on with
the construction and roadways and traffic. Thank
you, Neil. We've been fairly fortunate with the
project that we have going on at Traybind in
35. Most of the regular traffic patterns that
everybody's used to coming in should be the same
this year. That shouldn't be a problem. You can
get on. We're going to have a Nixle thing set
up where you can get reports from Nixle if you
go on the Hamvention website and sign up for
the alerts to get additional information. But
we're hoping that all of our arteries are open
as well as they've always been. better signage
than ever. We're going to have some assistance
with the Ohio State Patrol out on 35 in some
of the heavier traveled areas. Again, school
is not in session tomorrow, so we shouldn't have
issues with school buses or any kind of school
traffic. So again, the committee has done a good
job of trying to get out ahead of what's been
going on for the weekend so we can have the best
possible results. Again, you want to leave early,
you want to use the shuttles that are available,
and then follow the traffic patterns. And, you
know, some of the things we have problems with
sometimes just really take a good idea on where
you park your car. We try to really assist people
finding their cars sometimes, but sometimes that
can get a little tricky and you just kind of
get excited to be here and you just take off
and they all start to blend together because
there will be a lot of cars in our parking lot
tomorrow. So what is the construction that's
going on there at 35 and Trebine? Which is where
a lot of people come in as they come in from
from Dayton What's that project all about? Well,
they're going to put an overpass in there. That's
going to make the traffic pattern better It's
also going to make that intersection much safer.
So, you know Not next year, but the year after
it should make things much better, even than
it is now for getting traffic in and out. So
it's going to be much more accessible from Traybine
Road and 35. And again, it'll be a lot less dangerous
intersection with that overpass. All right. And
then you mentioned the Nixle. That's the text
alert. Correct. Yes, our sheriff's office pays
for a service called Nixle. We've used that with
the Hamvention for several years. It works out
very good. If you get on there, it's very simple
to sign up for text alerts. And we have a one
group that's just for the Hamvention. So if there's
any issues that come up, evacuations, weather
issues, you'll get those texts in real time.
And that helps keep confusion away from the event
if something happens. Okay, and then Michael
you said talk in of course 14694 Yeah, they those
folks are geared up. They got a great signal.
We were all checking it out this morning. They're
well -trained They've got information if you're
trying to find a hotel the motel that you're
staying at or you want to check conditions Coming
in here listen to them because they will be in
tune with the sheriff's department as well as
you know all the stuff that's going on and you
can download the app that Scott is talking about,
and you can go to the website, www .hamvention
.org, and it's pretty prominent on there. And
also we have another app there for all the events
and all the things that are gonna happen here
at Hamvention, and as updated all the time, you
can download that. But you know, this is an example.
You know, of Hamvention working really well with
the community. And we so appreciate Scott. He's
over here and wants to do the best he can with
him and his team. And they love Hamvention and
they love happening in Xenia. And so I couldn't
be happier that he's here willing to do this
interview with us. And also, as always, I want
to thank the 700 volunteers out there that are
helping us put this on. Scott, talk to me a little
bit about construction elsewhere in the area,
any highways to avoid or anything on the way
to Dayton or Xenia. Well, at this point, I don't,
anywhere from the airports or anything, I don't
have anything definitely to tell you on that.
Again, I will, we will update you on Nixle with
anything that we have. Did want to make one kind
of thing. One of the things we do love having
everybody here in Xenia, Sheriff Fisher was one
of the biggest people that just welcomed people
in with open arms. And we got last year at fair
time, so we have it available this time. We got
a limo golf cart that we're going to use out
here. So we'll give some people surprise and
we named it Sheriff Gene's limousine so we're
pretty proud of that and we're happy to have
that out here and again our idea is just for
everybody to have a safe time a fun time and
hopefully we get lucky with any weather events
it looks like Saturday and Sunday are looking
really good tomorrow is looking good you know
except for maybe a little little bit here and
there but we're just excited to have everybody
here and try to do the best job we can to keep
everybody safe. I love that idea. What better
way to remember Sheriff Fisher than Sheriff Gene's
limousine. I like that. Any other safety concerns
here before we go? No. Again, I think that a
lot of people that are coming are familiar with
it, but just Paying attention to any announcements
on the intercom, like I say, upload or the Nixle
have that. We have a real good event planner.
It's also a hand -vention guy, Doug Cope, that's
doing a lot of our event planning for us. So
I think everything's pretty good. I think we're
ready to accommodate everybody. Very good. Well,
thank you for being on the show and thank you
for your time. Let everybody know what's going
on with the highways and hopefully we'll keep
everybody safe while they're enjoying Hamvention.
Thank you, Neil. Well, thanks a lot to Sheriff
Scott Anger for taking time to. Talk with us
and then Continuing the conversation we have
the spokesperson of The Dayton Hamvention. I'm
here with Michael Coulter W8CI who has been running
around all week I'm sure but especially today
and in the usual chaos that is the day before
Hamvention So how are things going Michael? I'm
excited, Neil. I always get excited about hand
benching. Everything's pulling together. There's
odds and ends of things that people don't like
this or don't like that, but boy. 95 % of it
plus, people are loving it. Smiles on their faces.
I'm talking about the people who are getting
things set up and the volunteers that are working,
the vendors that are here. Some beautiful displays
in these buildings that some of these vendors
have put together. And I know another question
that I get all the time is Kenwood back. Yeah,
Kenwood's got, they've got a beautiful, booth
and they've got a I think a new surprise for
everybody that they're going to unveil so You
know, it's going to be real exciting But like
I say, please stay tuned and listen to the updates
and listen and download those apps They can be
found on the hamvention org website. Sure. I'm
looking forward to seeing everybody tomorrow
Neil and I think it's just a wonderful event.
It's sort of the people's event in a way because
we're all volunteers putting this on and we do
have to charge money because there's bills that
we have to pay but we consider this everybody's
event and please come support us and thank a
volunteer when you see one. Absolutely and it
can be a lot of money but compared to a Taylor
Swift concert ticket it's a whole lot easier
and a whole lot cheaper. Yeah, it is, but you
know I Mike my grandkids They love Taylor Swift,
but I don't want a bad -mouth her at all, but
this is a great event I mean, it's it's three
days and by the way Sunday is free so if you
know somebody who's thinking about on the fence
about coming. They can go to the ticket booth.
They get a free pass to come in. They don't get
to put a ticket in the prize booth, but they
can come in and find out a whole lot of stuff
because there's a real strong attendance here
on Sunday. All the vendors are here and they're
eager to meet you. One of the things that I noticed
immediately when I pulled in because we've got
the Yoda booth over in in building four was a
nice new set of automatic doors. That's nice.
And I hear they're wanting to put them everywhere
now. Yeah, there's a lot of upgrades that go
on here every year. And it's based on a lot of
input that we get during the event. And then
as we watch traffic flow and things like that,
we want to make this place You really pop and
we want to stay here for a while as you as you
just heard the sheriff talking You know, the
community is so behind us and when the sheriff
was walking down he says Michael be here a lot
this week and just I'll be here and we'll take
care of anything that comes up But we just like
being here and that's real community spirit Yeah,
it's a really nice upgrade and several upgrades
around every place. And yeah, I know the buzz
yesterday on when we spotted the Kenwood crates
being unloaded and Gigapart's announced the new
handheld, so we'll see what they have to show
off tomorrow with that, but there's definitely
a buzz going around about that, and it's just
seeing a lot of people, and a lot of people that
I haven't seen in the last year or two I've already
run into. several people who, you know, just
haven't been here and we're just kind of finally,
I think putting COVID behind us. Oh, you're right,
Neil. And the other thing, you know, I was by
your booth earlier and I want to tell everybody
to please stop by. his booth and it's the Volta
building, is that right? And you go in there
and he's one of the first on the left and there's
a lot of youth activities in that building. But
please stop by and see Neil. He's got all kind
of stickers and flyers and handouts and a lot
of information about Yoda and the stuff that
he has really been behind in making happen. I
don't know how much people know about what he
does and what he gets done. He absolutely does
a lot of kid projects and young people's projects.
Don't you have a youth meeting tomorrow? Yes,
we have a youth social at noon on Friday and
Saturday. So come by, free drinks, free snacks,
and behind the booth. And Eris will be there,
and Eris and HamSci will be giving some presentations
back there too. So make sure you stop by. Anything
else you can think of that people need to know
here before everything starts in the morning?
Well, I'm not sure what anybody else would want
to know. We have a lot of help out here. Bear
with us if we have a hiccup because we get embarrassed
by that. You know, those of you who remember
the first years of the mud and things like that,
that doesn't look like that's in the forecast
at all this time. But thank a volunteer, and
if you have constructive suggestions for next
year, we'd definitely listen to it. And man,
we appreciate everybody coming, supporting Hamvention,
and I'll see you here tomorrow. Absolutely. One
question here. Do you have any of that, the commemorative
jars of mud from the first year out here? I actually
do. So when you stop by Neil's booth, if you
want to, if you want to put the order in and
have some of that commemorative mud and you know,
that's kind of a funny thing, you know, but one
of the other things we joked about, you know,
in the face of adversity is that maybe we should
be selling flea market boots so people could
wear the boots through there. But, you know,
it really has excellent drainage in there. You
know, we just had that, you know, they talk about
the 100 -year storm, but I think we had the 500
-year storm that first hand bench in here in
Xenia. Hey Neil, thanks. Thanks for all you do
on not only this program but all you do for kids
and to support the hobby. It takes all of us
supporting this hobby and there's lots of us
do in quiet ways and I'm glad to be a part of
that team I hope. Absolutely. You put on a great
show here and you do a ton of work for Hamvention
so thank you for all of your volunteer efforts
as well as all of the other volunteers that I'm
watching go by us here as we're live at Hamvenge
in 2023. And yeah, we'll get the weather from
Eric LLK and 4BNT, but it looks like it's just
going to be a little rain here and there, nothing
major, so no more commemorative mud. No more
commemorative. So from Hamvention, this is WHCI
Whiskey 8, Charlie India 73 everybody. Alright,
well again for updates you can check the talk
-in frequency 146 .940 and a PL is 123. And there's
a bulletin loop on 145 .525. and of course hamvention
.org the webpage and social media accounts and
there's the ARRL event smartphone app just check
for hamvention in your app store and midcars
is on 7258 so if you need help on HF you can
even do that but lots of ways and of course you
know the official word is always hamvention .org
so We're bringing you some of the information
from that official site, hamvention .org. One
of the things that Paul, you and I will be attending
is the open house at the National Voice of America
Museum of Broadcasting. That's going on in Westchester,
Ohio, just south of Dayton off of I -75, and
tomorrow the hours will be 1 to 9. And that's
when we're going to be there. And then Saturday,
it'll be noon to nine. That's when we usually
go, but I had to change around the schedule a
little bit. And Sunday, noon to five. So check
out voamuseum .org or wc8voa .org slash hamvention
for all of those hours. Paul, I haven't even
had time to fill you in, but there's some new
stuff at the museum for us to see tomorrow. Really?
Okay. Just let it be a surprise then. The museum,
if you're not familiar with it, it's really special.
It was a relay station when the VOA originally
set up. The main studios were in Washington,
I think. New York and they set up several relay
stations brute broadcast Transmitters further
inland just in case submarines off the shore
Well, you know had missile range to New York
where the studios were they could still broadcast
over ISDN lines from from out here in Bethany
in Westchester and it's it's an amazing it's
it's not functioning anymore, but The transmitter
is still in there, a huge 250 ,000 watt transmitter
is in there. And you can see part of the antenna
switching network out in the backyard. It's also
got probably one of the largest collections of
Drake equipment I've seen. Pretty much one of
everything Drake ever made. And a bunch of things
from old Crosley radio because Crosley... started
the radio company to help promote his radio station,
which is WLW right down the road, where there
was a 500 ,000 watt transmitter. So within a
couple miles when everything was cooking, there's
three quarters of a megawatt just floating around
that neighborhood. So it's very cool to see it.
It's a history of the VOA. and what that accomplished,
and it's still in existence today, although today
it's mostly streaming over the internet. And
then a history of other radio and electronic
things. It's very cool. And then there's the
club station, which you are always welcome to
sit down and work a little bit, which I've done.
And our editor in Newsline, Karen Eve, will never
forgive me for talking to her brother before
she did. So there's that. So yeah, if you get
a chance definitely go out. It's a lot of fun
All right, and then you know tomorrow we mentioned
that the news line town hall is rebooting and
Coming back and I know you're the main force
behind that so tell everybody a little bit about
the the town hall tomorrow All right It's something
that our founder Bill Pasternak did for decades
he would choose a couple of topics and then invite
some experts on those topics to come in and speak
on them. And there was a little discussion about
what was going on. And it was immensely popular.
And then when he passed away, it stopped. And
they've had a lot of people ask about it. And
we've talked about it a lot. So it's like...
I think it, earlier this year, yeah, we decided
I think it's time to try it. And so we put our
brains together and came up with some ideas and
the fine folks at Hamvention gave us a slot and
said, yeah, welcome back, let's do this. And
so we've got three speakers. First off, it's
tomorrow. It's Friday starting at 1135 till 1
o 'clock Our first speaker up will be Tim Allen
who is the president of the IARU and he's gonna
be there to discuss Current issues facing the
IR AR, you know what I'm trying to say Thank
you. It's been a long day And and things that
are there up that you know affect all of us Followed
by Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, who, you know,
former FCC enforcement officer, but is currently
leading the ARRL's volunteer monitor program.
And he's going to talk about the status of that
program and how it's progressing and field some
questions if there are any. And then our third
speaker is Mark Smith, N6MTS, who is going to
be talking about his proposed open headset interconnect
standard. which is a because you've got a dozen
different headphones all with different connections
and different microphones and you've got hundreds
of different radios all of which have different
connectors and pinouts and things so for a field
day event or for an emergency set up or even
just if you have multiple radios at home it's
proposed that you have I'll let him talk about
it. I propose to have one connection between
a headset and a standard connection to a radio
and you can plug anyone into any of them. So
that's a thing that I'm really kind of getting
behind with him too. So I'm gonna let, he's going
to talk about that. And so I think it's gonna
be good. And you know, you and I are going to
co -host it and... And it if it's successful
we definitely have talked about we want to do
it bring it back again next year and just keep
doing it because you know, it was one of the
things that bill really did well and And we would
like to continue that in his honor Yep, it'll
be be a great time. So make sure you check that
out if you're here at Hamvention, so And then
the Contest Super Suite is open every night from
7 p .m. to 2 a .m. over at the Hope Hotel in
Fairborn and pizza every night about 10 30 or
11 depending on the day. And then Dara's Clubhouse
is open from 6 to 8 p .m. on Friday and Saturday.
That's on Bellefountain Road out in Huber Heights.
So those are all some things there. And we've
got a few more things here, but Paul, you're
going to you're going to take off and see what
kind of trouble you can get into here. So we'll
see. Let's hear a moment. Let's see tomorrow.
Top band dinner is at the Hope Hotel. It's the
32nd annual one. The speaker there is John Zames,
AA1K. Topbandinner .com is where you find information
on that. Tickets are usually in advance, so check
that out if you want to go before you just go
because you'll probably need a ticket ahead of
time. SWODEXA, the Southwest Ohio DX Association,
will be having a dinner at the University of
Dayton Marriott. uh... cash bar at five thirty
dinner at seven uh... go to swadexaevents .org
at SWODXAS .ORG on saturday uh... at six thirty
it will be the twenty -ninth annual contest dinner
and that's hosted by the north coast contestors
at the Hope Hotel Who is is away at college now,
he's a college man and He'll be speaking and
of course, they'll have the CQ contest Hall of
Fame inductions At the contest dinner as well
at 8 p .m until midnight will be the Kansas City
DX Club CW pile -up competition that the Hope
Hotel. And the Collegiate Dinner is Saturday
night, 6 .30 at Dewey's Pizza. a link to make
a reservation there just to make sure that there's
enough room for you. So we actually have the
QR code at the Yoda booth or stop by the Collegiate
booth over at AWRL's area and you can sign up
for the Collegiate dinner. So those are some
things from hamvention .org. And I'm sure there's
some other things that are going on, but they
just weren't listed at the time. But let's go
to our live on the street reporter, Paul Brown,
WD9GCO. Paul, are you there? Nothing like live
radio, ladies and gentlemen. Let's see. Oh, he
turned his mic on. Paul, are you there? And I'm
here Okay, they're okay. Here we are. Yes, I
can hear you now Okay All right, I can barely
hear you. Um, I'm out in the parking lot and
I am doing my annual walk through here and and
I have to say That I'm absolutely disappointed
because a There's no people out here to talk
to and as I walk through looking for ham plates
I see yours They see mine And that's that's it.
You know, that's it. We're the only hams of early
in this building No, I know better than that
because I've seen sort of pizza party somewhere
and I'm not even seeing Weird antennas on vehicles
that that's that's very disappointing That's
you know, how are we supposed to to play Let's
look for hams in the parking lot if there aren't
any hams in the parking lot. I know All right,
do you see anybody out there? There is nobody
out here. There's nobody out here. Okay, so that's
the official report. There is no one in the parking
lot live From where something happened hours
earlier. That's right. I'm sure this place was
just hopping All right, we'll cut we'll come
up come on back in and we've got we've got one
more thing to do so so come on back in and That
reporting live from the parking lot. This is
Paul Brown wd9 GCO. Yep. There you go Well that
didn't work so well Remember one year I think
it was a Texans where we were looking for Texans
or something like that yeah yeah we were and
i i found at least several cards this year just
nothing fancy and aside from yours and mine no
antennas yeah now julie when she was when julie
was around uh at harrah she made the game you
know she had to get license plates from all 50
states and she she got pretty close there you
go just with the uh with the The parking lot.
Oh, hey. Here's somebody with a pamphlet and
an antenna that's pulling in now. Oh, well, there
we go. Let me chase them. All right. Are you
going to chase them down? The parking lot. I
hope they don't hit me. All right. All right.
Hang on. Hang on. Okay. He's backing in. Okay.
Oh, my goodness. This is what happens when you
end up at Hamvention with nothing else better
to do. We could do a live helicopter report.
Hey there! I'm good. I'm Paul and I'm on with
Neil with HamTalk Live. We're live right now,
so he sent me out here in the parking lot to
find hams or ham plates and aside from his and
mine, yours is the first one I've seen. Cool.
So what's what's your name? I'm Zach and your
call I came for BLG and where are you from Zach
from Asheville, North Carolina? All right, you
just just drove in now Well, actually I got here
earlier went out to eat with some friends of
mine and came on back All right. Are you here
for is this sure? How many times have you been
to invention? Is this your first one or so? This
will be my second when the first one was last
year. All right, you're here for the whole weekend
Yeah, yeah gonna be here the whole time all the
way till it ends on Sunday. All right, there
you go Neil Hey, you found somebody. Yeah. Way
to go. Thank you, Zach. Okay. Now, wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. We have questions for
Zach. We have questions for Zach. Okay. Okay.
First of all, what was for dinner? Okay. We have
questions for you. Okay. What did you have for
dinner? Went over to a seafood place over here.
Okay, there we go seafood. Okay. What's the what's
the number one thing on the shopping list for
tomorrow? What's the number one thing on your
shopping list for tomorrow? Oh, I don't know
just any good deal I can find I guess Yes That
makes it easy. All right next. All right now
now the last one is it's what's his favorite
podcast? What's your favorite podcast I guess
ham talk live. There we go Hey, there we go All
right. Thanks, Zach. All right. All right, Paul.
Come on. Come on back. We got one more thing
we need to do and I need you in here for it.
All right. So come on back and we'll get that
going. But you made it. You got somebody. I'm
impressed. It all worked out. But yeah proof
that this is live, you know, I could go in and
edit all that but make it sound slick and professional
make it sound Yeah, make it sound like we actually
know what we're doing Well, I'm white white ruin
a good thing, right exactly All right, I'm coming
down all right So, okay. Yeah one last thing
and then we'll take one last look at the weather
for tomorrow with Eric LLKD for BNT. And then
we'll get on our way and start packing up all
the equipment and go enjoy three days of Hamvention.
So if you get a chance, stop by again, Youth
on the Air is 4304 and we'd have a bunch of talks
going on. From Eris and HamSci back there the
youth social again is at noon And I'll be at
the booth when I'm not off at a forum somewhere
Which seems like it's gonna be half the time
this year but But otherwise, you know stop by
say hello check out what the kids are doing and
we've got several of the youth that will be There
at the booth as well. So As soon as Paul gets
back here, we'll finish this up. Oh, I hear Paul
now, I think. Is it working, Paul? Okay. All
right. Well, anyway, we got him back in here.
So before we take one last look at the weather,
we have a presentation to make here, Paul. One
of the things that, you know, we have our inside
jokes at Amateur Radio Newsline. about several
things. And every year at Dayton, it seems like
we come up with some cockamamie idea of something
fun to do, which rumor is that the Flat Dawn
thing may show up this weekend that we did before.
But you're always talking about signing autographs
at Hamvention. So I wanted to give you the official
blue Sharpie. to sign your autographs. And here
we have 100 glossy prints of Paul in his shack
with the Newsline logo and everything. So there
you go, Paul. You now have official autograph
materials for the weekend. What say you? I'm
speechless that there's no that's oh god yep
all right folks so now you know i have a stack
of eight by ten so if if you want one just come
on by so there you go uh it looks pretty good
i thought they turned out pretty nice so you
you see paul you can ask ask him for for an autograph
so There you go. All right. But if you sell them,
you got it. The proceeds have to go to Newsline.
So, yeah, whatever. All right. Well, let's take
one last look at the weather with K and for B
and T. You know, the weather's looking pretty
nice for campus. Maybe for most of it. We're
going to deal with the pretty quiet conditions
until we get late into Friday and Friday night.
For the rest of tonight, we're looking for just
some increasing cloud cover. The temperature's
a lot warmer than we were the last couple of
nights. We'll hold it out 58 to 60 as you head
out the door early Friday. Friday afternoon,
though, some increasing cloud cover. There's
a slight chance for a shower during the day,
but rain chances really ramp up Friday night.
Much of the rain falling during the night and
then moving out. Well, that's a wrap from Dayton,
Ohio for this episode of HamTalk Live. Thanks
to my guests, Eric Elwell, KD4BNT, Michael Calder,
WHCI, Greene County Sheriff, Scott Anger, and
for Paul Brown, WD9GCO, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG,
wishing everybody out there a big hearty thank
you for listening to this. For now, we're saying
seven three, seven five, and may the good DX
be yours. I've been seeing you burning down the
lava It's hard to believe that you're meant to
be