WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.660 This episode of HamTalk Live is brought to you 00:00:02.660 --> 00:00:06.040 by Tower Electronics. For connectors, cables, 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:13.000 and more, call 920 -435 -2973 or visit pl -259 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:17.660 .com. And by ICOM, heard it, worked it, logged 00:00:17.660 --> 00:00:22.879 it. Visit www .icomamerica .com slash amateur 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:44.259 for more information about ICOM radios. Hello, 00:00:44.280 --> 00:01:13.959 everyone. I'm your host, Neil Rapp. Call sign 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:17.400 is WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this episode 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:20.549 of HamTalk Live. Tonight we're joined by Paul 00:01:20.549 --> 00:01:26.329 Brown, WD9GCO, and Eric Elwell, KD4BNT, Michael 00:01:26.329 --> 00:01:30.790 Coulter, W8CI, and Green County Sheriff Scott 00:01:30.790 --> 00:01:34.370 Anger, as well as some other people. 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May 19th to May 21st, Hams can find 00:02:55.979 --> 00:03:00.659 ICOM at booth 2608 at Dayton Hamvention 2023 00:03:00.659 --> 00:03:03.879 in Xenia, Ohio. We hope to see you there for 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:07.139 the love of Ham Radio. For more information about 00:03:07.139 --> 00:03:11.159 ICOM's amateur offerings, visit icomamerica .com 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:14.560 slash amateur. Coming to you live from Dayton, 00:03:14.659 --> 00:03:18.560 Ohio, here's Neil Rapp with more Ham Talk Live. 00:03:20.430 --> 00:03:23.030 Mr. Carlson, I'm so glad I caught you before 00:03:23.030 --> 00:03:25.569 you left. I wanted to wish you a safe and successful 00:03:25.569 --> 00:03:28.629 mission to Dayton. Well, thank you, Les. Dayton 00:03:28.629 --> 00:03:56.340 is where Mother lives. I know, Les. Welcome back 00:03:56.340 --> 00:04:01.400 to Ham Talk Live. We'll check in with the weather 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.699 here in just a moment. Paul Brown, WD9GCO, is 00:04:05.699 --> 00:04:10.000 here with me in Metro Dayton. And Paul, you got 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.439 here this morning. I've been here for 24 hours 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:18.660 or more than that now. It's been kind of crazy 00:04:18.660 --> 00:04:21.709 trying to get everything set up and going, but 00:04:21.709 --> 00:04:26.310 we're here. We are here and we're ready to have 00:04:26.310 --> 00:04:30.009 a good time. We're doing this. You're here for 00:04:30.009 --> 00:04:34.370 the Yoda. We're both here for the amateur radio 00:04:34.370 --> 00:04:38.250 news line town hall reboot. And I've spoken to 00:04:38.250 --> 00:04:40.449 all of our speakers are all excited and ready 00:04:40.449 --> 00:04:46.129 to go. So the weather looks. The weather looks 00:04:46.129 --> 00:04:48.149 good for this weekend. There's supposed to be 00:04:48.149 --> 00:04:51.569 a little rain tomorrow. It's Dayton. It's Hamvention. 00:04:52.569 --> 00:04:55.470 That's going to happen. But otherwise, I think 00:04:55.470 --> 00:04:59.550 in the 70s, it's lovely weather. So I'm looking 00:04:59.550 --> 00:05:04.490 forward to it. Yeah, it's been nice setting up 00:05:04.490 --> 00:05:09.290 everything in the last couple of days. And Eric, 00:05:09.290 --> 00:05:11.670 I think has some good news for us here in just 00:05:11.670 --> 00:05:14.120 a little bit. So we'll We'll talk about that 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.439 and then later on in the show you're going to 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:21.660 be back and we're going to see what kind of trouble 00:05:21.660 --> 00:05:26.639 we can get into here with the random man on the 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.920 street. Is that the plan? That is in fact the 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.600 plan, yes. Okay, so that's the plan. And then 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:35.639 after all this is over you can tell me what in 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:40.000 the world we're doing tomorrow. I'll fill you 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:44.060 in on the details. Alright, well first let's 00:05:44.060 --> 00:05:49.000 check in with the weather and we have our usual 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:54.439 weatherman here with the exclusive Spectrum News 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:58.600 1 Hamvention weather forecast for HamTalk Live. 00:05:59.300 --> 00:06:05.720 Here is Chief Meteorologist Eric Elwell, KD4BNT. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.019 Eric, you're with us every year for this. I hope 00:06:09.019 --> 00:06:13.759 you're not getting tired of this. And let us 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:16.060 know what's going on, what to expect for this 00:06:16.060 --> 00:06:19.569 weekend. You know, Neil, something interesting, 00:06:19.610 --> 00:06:22.069 actually, that we've been watching the last two 00:06:22.069 --> 00:06:24.689 evenings, even though it's been bright and sunny, 00:06:25.269 --> 00:06:28.589 a kind of a haze in the air, that is actually 00:06:28.589 --> 00:06:32.310 some wildfire smoke that's coming in from some 00:06:32.310 --> 00:06:34.589 wildfires that are burning well up in Canada. 00:06:35.110 --> 00:06:36.910 And while we don't smell anything here at the 00:06:36.910 --> 00:06:39.410 ground, that smoke very high up. It's made for 00:06:39.410 --> 00:06:42.129 some pretty spectacular sunsets. We may see one 00:06:42.129 --> 00:06:44.629 or two more of those. We are tracking a cold 00:06:44.629 --> 00:06:46.389 front, though, that'll clear some of that smoke. 00:06:52.439 --> 00:07:00.600 The front is set to move by late Friday night 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:03.439 so much of the rain looks to fall while many 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.540 of us are sleeping late Friday night. We get 00:07:05.540 --> 00:07:08.180 out of here pretty early Saturday making for 00:07:08.180 --> 00:07:11.699 a really nice weekend. temperatures on Friday 00:07:11.699 --> 00:07:15.579 will pop out about 78 to 80 degrees. It's pretty 00:07:15.579 --> 00:07:18.779 warm on Saturday. It will cool to about 68 to 00:07:18.779 --> 00:07:22.100 70 degrees before we warm back up on Sunday. 00:07:22.699 --> 00:07:24.379 So it's a pretty nice weather. Again, a little 00:07:24.379 --> 00:07:26.019 bit of rain. We'll have to deal with the Friday 00:07:26.019 --> 00:07:28.240 evening slight chance during the day we see some 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.579 Friday, but otherwise pretty nice for convention. 00:07:32.889 --> 00:07:36.750 Uh, that's, that's always good news. Uh, Michael, 00:07:36.750 --> 00:07:40.430 uh, Coulter, the chair, uh, person, or the spokesperson, 00:07:40.790 --> 00:07:42.930 rather, for Ham Mention, uh, and, uh, we're talking, 00:07:43.689 --> 00:07:45.730 we're reminiscing about the first year it moved 00:07:45.730 --> 00:07:49.889 to Greene County and all the mud. And, uh, we're 00:07:49.889 --> 00:07:54.620 glad that it has been that way since. Well, so 00:07:54.620 --> 00:07:57.060 far we've been doing things right, I guess, now 00:07:57.060 --> 00:07:59.480 because of what it looks to cooperate. But, you 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:00.899 know, we may have to deal with a little rain 00:08:00.899 --> 00:08:02.980 Friday evening, Friday night, but it shouldn't 00:08:02.980 --> 00:08:05.000 be too big of a deal, and then we've got a very 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:08.279 nice weekend ahead. Just like, you know, a sweater 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.060 very early Sunday morning if you're heading out, 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:13.600 once that cold night comes by Saturday, but all 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.560 in all looking pretty nice. All right, that's 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.199 great. Remind people, too. We only have you on 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:23.139 here once a year. So remind people about your 00:08:23.139 --> 00:08:27.139 ham radio background. Well, I started as a kid. 00:08:27.259 --> 00:08:29.740 My father was a ham radio operator. And I was 00:08:29.740 --> 00:08:33.840 inspired by him probably when I was 16, 17 years 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.000 old. And I've been doing it for a while. I was 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:39.360 really involved with Morseau when I was in college. 00:08:39.500 --> 00:08:42.159 I did a lot of storm casing. And then I went 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:45.549 out to Kansas and worked out there. for several 00:08:45.549 --> 00:08:49.370 years before coming to Ohio. So that was pretty 00:08:49.370 --> 00:08:51.889 much a requirement. You had to have hand radio, 00:08:52.149 --> 00:08:53.730 you had to have two meter rig in your vehicle, 00:08:54.250 --> 00:08:57.070 and that's the way we communicate. Now, you know, 00:08:57.330 --> 00:09:00.830 before cell phones were too widely used, and 00:09:00.830 --> 00:09:02.809 now in Kansas, you know, there's not many cell 00:09:02.809 --> 00:09:06.409 phone towers in some spots. So that was, that's 00:09:06.409 --> 00:09:09.070 the way we communicate, and we still use that 00:09:09.070 --> 00:09:13.250 for emergency communications even today. background 00:09:13.250 --> 00:09:17.470 and it's been a lot of fun. All right you can 00:09:17.470 --> 00:09:24.370 check out Eric on Spectrum News One and as I'm 00:09:24.370 --> 00:09:26.649 always fond of saying we have Spectrum News One 00:09:26.649 --> 00:09:30.149 here at the hotel I'm staying at so you can tune 00:09:30.149 --> 00:09:34.590 in and watch Eric whenever we want. So make sure 00:09:34.590 --> 00:09:37.649 you check out Spectrum News One while you're 00:09:37.649 --> 00:09:40.730 here at Hamvention. Thanks so much Eric, we appreciate 00:09:40.730 --> 00:09:47.120 it. No problem 7 -3 guys. Take it easy All right. 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:49.840 Thanks again Eric and you can catch him again 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:52.940 Spectrum cable spectrum news one across Ohio 00:09:52.940 --> 00:09:57.039 on channel one while you're here and date well, 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:02.620 it's time for the gas report and gas prices well 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:08.700 They're a little bit better along I -75. So if 00:10:08.700 --> 00:10:13.159 you are looking for the cheapest gas, we're finding 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:19.659 329 at Sam's Club and Costco, which is actually 00:10:19.659 --> 00:10:24.639 off of 675. And then the Walmart and Moraine 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:29.659 all have gas for 329. If you're out in Xenia, 00:10:31.129 --> 00:10:34.889 The best price is $3 .43 at Walmart and $3 .46 00:10:34.889 --> 00:10:38.889 at Kroger. It goes up from there so it looks 00:10:38.889 --> 00:10:44.070 like substantially better if you're in Dayton 00:10:44.070 --> 00:10:49.809 properly and mostly along I -75 with the exception 00:10:49.809 --> 00:10:55.230 of Costco out there on the southeast side. So 00:10:55.230 --> 00:10:59.330 take a look at those gas prices if you see something 00:10:59.330 --> 00:11:04.309 in the 320 or 330 range, you probably should 00:11:04.309 --> 00:11:08.710 take it. Well, we'll come back and talk with 00:11:08.710 --> 00:11:12.750 Michael Coulter, WHCI, and we'll have the the 00:11:12.750 --> 00:11:15.370 New Green County Sheriff Scott Anger with us 00:11:15.370 --> 00:11:18.870 here in just a little bit. But right now we need 00:11:18.870 --> 00:11:22.269 to pay some bills and hear this word from Tower 00:11:22.269 --> 00:11:26.590 Electronics right here on HamTalk Live, live 00:11:26.590 --> 00:11:33.639 in Dayton. 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And of course if you are 00:12:49.529 --> 00:12:53.250 here at Hamvention this weekend they are in building 00:12:53.250 --> 00:12:59.070 3 in booth 3501 and they're also out in the flea 00:12:59.070 --> 00:13:05.850 market just to the to the side of building 4 00:13:05.850 --> 00:13:10.389 in space 9112 just look for the big yellow signs 00:13:10.389 --> 00:13:14.230 and blimp But you can visit them from anywhere 00:13:14.230 --> 00:13:19.490 at PL -259 .com and tell them you heard it on 00:13:19.490 --> 00:13:22.690 HamTalk Live and they may even charge you double. 00:13:23.570 --> 00:13:30.269 Let's have an eyeball QSO in Dayton. You're listening 00:13:30.269 --> 00:13:35.620 to HamTalk Live with Neil Rapp. Oh, Jennifer, 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:38.360 I guess I'm ready to leave. Andy and Herb went 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:40.500 down to get the Cordova. Have you remembered 00:13:40.500 --> 00:13:44.299 everything? I can't be sure. You're driving to 00:13:44.299 --> 00:13:46.840 Dayton, where you'll be staying at the luxurious 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:50.539 Hotel Ocean View. In Dayton. Now Jennifer, tell 00:13:50.539 --> 00:13:53.340 me again, why am I making this trip to Dayton? 00:14:13.740 --> 00:14:17.460 Welcome back to HamTalk Live, live from Dayton, 00:14:17.820 --> 00:14:21.159 Ohio. Our Hamvention Prep episode on Hamvention 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:23.600 Eve coming to you live from Spring Hill Suites, 00:14:23.740 --> 00:14:25.500 Miamisburg, just down the street from the Dayton 00:14:25.500 --> 00:14:28.700 Mall. Thanks for tuning in tonight. We hope you're 00:14:28.700 --> 00:14:31.980 helping your trip to Hamvention be a little more 00:14:31.980 --> 00:14:34.639 enjoyable. And yeah, we had to bring back the 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:41.580 WKRP clips from the trip to Dayton. So, you know, 00:14:41.899 --> 00:14:44.879 Paul, one of the things that you came for dating 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:49.440 for, you found like in five seconds. Yeah, it 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:53.600 was. There's a particular straight key that I've 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.500 been looking for for since I was a kid because 00:14:56.500 --> 00:14:59.240 it matches my paddle and I never got one. I've 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:02.879 never seen one on eBay, maybe once every couple 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:05.139 of years. I've never seen one at a ham fest. 00:15:05.620 --> 00:15:09.200 I walked out to the flea market. Very first table. 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:13.799 There it was. It's like apparently it was meant 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:18.620 to be mine. So I threw money at the man and it's 00:15:18.620 --> 00:15:22.500 now with me. So I'm happy. Unfortunately, that 00:15:22.500 --> 00:15:24.620 means that my shopping list is pretty much checked 00:15:24.620 --> 00:15:28.659 off already. So I'm sure I'll find some other 00:15:28.659 --> 00:15:30.679 things, but I did promise the wife that I would 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:34.200 be sensible this year. So, but now you and I 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:38.480 both know that what we consider sensible is different 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.700 than what. the rest of the world thinks. So I 00:15:41.700 --> 00:15:46.720 have some leeway. Yeah, that is true. But yeah, 00:15:46.860 --> 00:15:51.039 I saw the paddles. The straight key, it looks 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:55.220 very nice. And I'm glad you were able to find 00:15:55.220 --> 00:15:57.480 that. And it's not even Hanvinschen yet. It's 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:00.409 Hanvinschen Eve. That was one of the things I 00:16:00.409 --> 00:16:02.809 noticed was there's all these people going around 00:16:02.809 --> 00:16:05.210 everywhere and asking about this and ask about 00:16:05.210 --> 00:16:08.830 that. Well, I don't know. Tomorrow, when it's 00:16:08.830 --> 00:16:12.970 actually open, then, you know, maybe we'll, we'll, 00:16:12.970 --> 00:16:16.690 uh, we'll find out. But, you know, whatever. 00:16:17.070 --> 00:16:20.629 But, uh, there was a lot of, uh, a lot of activity 00:16:20.629 --> 00:16:24.899 today. Not so much the day before, which is Another 00:16:24.899 --> 00:16:28.360 reason why I get here two days early to get some 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:32.440 things done. But anyway, we had a chance to sit 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.860 down this afternoon with Michael Coulter, WHCI, 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:38.480 the official spokesperson of the Dayton Hamvention, 00:16:39.179 --> 00:16:42.080 and also Green County Sheriff Scott Anger to 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:46.440 talk about all the usual stuff, traffic and parking 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:52.820 and all kinds of stuff. So let's hear from Green 00:16:52.820 --> 00:16:56.860 County Sheriff Scott Anger. I'm here with the 00:16:56.860 --> 00:17:00.559 Green County Sheriff Scott Anger. And he's with 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:03.299 us to tell us a little bit about the traffic 00:17:03.299 --> 00:17:06.460 patterns and a little bit of construction going 00:17:06.460 --> 00:17:09.160 on. Although that's, that should be pretty clear 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.839 for this weekend and just some information about 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.779 coming into Hamvention this year. So Scott, welcome 00:17:14.779 --> 00:17:18.369 to the show and And tell us what's going on with 00:17:18.369 --> 00:17:21.390 the construction and roadways and traffic. Thank 00:17:21.390 --> 00:17:24.609 you, Neil. We've been fairly fortunate with the 00:17:24.609 --> 00:17:27.890 project that we have going on at Traybind in 00:17:27.890 --> 00:17:30.990 35. Most of the regular traffic patterns that 00:17:30.990 --> 00:17:33.730 everybody's used to coming in should be the same 00:17:33.730 --> 00:17:36.789 this year. That shouldn't be a problem. You can 00:17:36.789 --> 00:17:40.519 get on. We're going to have a Nixle thing set 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:42.559 up where you can get reports from Nixle if you 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.019 go on the Hamvention website and sign up for 00:17:45.019 --> 00:17:48.059 the alerts to get additional information. But 00:17:48.059 --> 00:17:50.720 we're hoping that all of our arteries are open 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.940 as well as they've always been. better signage 00:17:53.940 --> 00:17:56.000 than ever. We're going to have some assistance 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.640 with the Ohio State Patrol out on 35 in some 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:04.000 of the heavier traveled areas. Again, school 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.559 is not in session tomorrow, so we shouldn't have 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:09.220 issues with school buses or any kind of school 00:18:09.220 --> 00:18:12.079 traffic. So again, the committee has done a good 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:14.539 job of trying to get out ahead of what's been 00:18:14.539 --> 00:18:16.460 going on for the weekend so we can have the best 00:18:16.460 --> 00:18:19.299 possible results. Again, you want to leave early, 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:22.160 you want to use the shuttles that are available, 00:18:22.660 --> 00:18:25.599 and then follow the traffic patterns. And, you 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:27.000 know, some of the things we have problems with 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.279 sometimes just really take a good idea on where 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:33.000 you park your car. We try to really assist people 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:34.940 finding their cars sometimes, but sometimes that 00:18:34.940 --> 00:18:36.480 can get a little tricky and you just kind of 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:39.799 get excited to be here and you just take off 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:41.819 and they all start to blend together because 00:18:41.819 --> 00:18:43.640 there will be a lot of cars in our parking lot 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:47.619 tomorrow. So what is the construction that's 00:18:47.619 --> 00:18:51.019 going on there at 35 and Trebine? Which is where 00:18:51.019 --> 00:18:54.000 a lot of people come in as they come in from 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.579 from Dayton What's that project all about? Well, 00:18:57.579 --> 00:18:59.700 they're going to put an overpass in there. That's 00:18:59.700 --> 00:19:03.279 going to make the traffic pattern better It's 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:05.579 also going to make that intersection much safer. 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:09.140 So, you know Not next year, but the year after 00:19:09.140 --> 00:19:12.119 it should make things much better, even than 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:14.799 it is now for getting traffic in and out. So 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:17.400 it's going to be much more accessible from Traybine 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:22.319 Road and 35. And again, it'll be a lot less dangerous 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:26.339 intersection with that overpass. All right. And 00:19:26.339 --> 00:19:29.000 then you mentioned the Nixle. That's the text 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:32.470 alert. Correct. Yes, our sheriff's office pays 00:19:32.470 --> 00:19:35.710 for a service called Nixle. We've used that with 00:19:35.710 --> 00:19:38.829 the Hamvention for several years. It works out 00:19:38.829 --> 00:19:41.130 very good. If you get on there, it's very simple 00:19:41.130 --> 00:19:44.430 to sign up for text alerts. And we have a one 00:19:44.430 --> 00:19:46.890 group that's just for the Hamvention. So if there's 00:19:46.890 --> 00:19:49.509 any issues that come up, evacuations, weather 00:19:49.509 --> 00:19:53.329 issues, you'll get those texts in real time. 00:19:53.490 --> 00:19:57.589 And that helps keep confusion away from the event 00:19:57.589 --> 00:20:01.259 if something happens. Okay, and then Michael 00:20:01.259 --> 00:20:05.759 you said talk in of course 14694 Yeah, they those 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:07.900 folks are geared up. They got a great signal. 00:20:08.140 --> 00:20:10.819 We were all checking it out this morning. They're 00:20:10.819 --> 00:20:13.059 well -trained They've got information if you're 00:20:13.059 --> 00:20:15.740 trying to find a hotel the motel that you're 00:20:15.740 --> 00:20:17.839 staying at or you want to check conditions Coming 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:21.339 in here listen to them because they will be in 00:20:21.339 --> 00:20:25.269 tune with the sheriff's department as well as 00:20:25.269 --> 00:20:28.569 you know all the stuff that's going on and you 00:20:28.569 --> 00:20:34.049 can download the app that Scott is talking about, 00:20:34.710 --> 00:20:38.029 and you can go to the website, www .hamvention 00:20:38.029 --> 00:20:42.049 .org, and it's pretty prominent on there. And 00:20:42.049 --> 00:20:44.410 also we have another app there for all the events 00:20:44.410 --> 00:20:46.589 and all the things that are gonna happen here 00:20:46.589 --> 00:20:49.190 at Hamvention, and as updated all the time, you 00:20:49.190 --> 00:20:52.690 can download that. But you know, this is an example. 00:20:53.980 --> 00:20:57.259 You know, of Hamvention working really well with 00:20:57.259 --> 00:21:00.140 the community. And we so appreciate Scott. He's 00:21:00.140 --> 00:21:02.900 over here and wants to do the best he can with 00:21:02.900 --> 00:21:06.839 him and his team. And they love Hamvention and 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:09.759 they love happening in Xenia. And so I couldn't 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:13.160 be happier that he's here willing to do this 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:16.660 interview with us. And also, as always, I want 00:21:16.660 --> 00:21:19.380 to thank the 700 volunteers out there that are 00:21:19.380 --> 00:21:25.690 helping us put this on. Scott, talk to me a little 00:21:25.690 --> 00:21:29.150 bit about construction elsewhere in the area, 00:21:30.650 --> 00:21:33.250 any highways to avoid or anything on the way 00:21:33.250 --> 00:21:35.660 to Dayton or Xenia. Well, at this point, I don't, 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:37.799 anywhere from the airports or anything, I don't 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:40.420 have anything definitely to tell you on that. 00:21:40.500 --> 00:21:44.240 Again, I will, we will update you on Nixle with 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:47.859 anything that we have. Did want to make one kind 00:21:47.859 --> 00:21:49.440 of thing. One of the things we do love having 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:52.359 everybody here in Xenia, Sheriff Fisher was one 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:54.500 of the biggest people that just welcomed people 00:21:54.500 --> 00:21:58.059 in with open arms. And we got last year at fair 00:21:58.059 --> 00:22:00.500 time, so we have it available this time. We got 00:22:00.500 --> 00:22:02.640 a limo golf cart that we're going to use out 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:04.750 here. So we'll give some people surprise and 00:22:04.750 --> 00:22:07.990 we named it Sheriff Gene's limousine so we're 00:22:07.990 --> 00:22:10.190 pretty proud of that and we're happy to have 00:22:10.190 --> 00:22:12.849 that out here and again our idea is just for 00:22:12.849 --> 00:22:15.190 everybody to have a safe time a fun time and 00:22:15.190 --> 00:22:17.470 hopefully we get lucky with any weather events 00:22:17.470 --> 00:22:19.490 it looks like Saturday and Sunday are looking 00:22:19.490 --> 00:22:22.589 really good tomorrow is looking good you know 00:22:22.589 --> 00:22:24.829 except for maybe a little little bit here and 00:22:24.829 --> 00:22:27.369 there but we're just excited to have everybody 00:22:27.369 --> 00:22:30.670 here and try to do the best job we can to keep 00:22:30.670 --> 00:22:34.109 everybody safe. I love that idea. What better 00:22:34.109 --> 00:22:38.789 way to remember Sheriff Fisher than Sheriff Gene's 00:22:38.789 --> 00:22:44.450 limousine. I like that. Any other safety concerns 00:22:44.450 --> 00:22:49.450 here before we go? No. Again, I think that a 00:22:49.450 --> 00:22:51.210 lot of people that are coming are familiar with 00:22:51.210 --> 00:22:53.839 it, but just Paying attention to any announcements 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:57.859 on the intercom, like I say, upload or the Nixle 00:22:57.859 --> 00:23:00.200 have that. We have a real good event planner. 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:03.339 It's also a hand -vention guy, Doug Cope, that's 00:23:03.339 --> 00:23:06.599 doing a lot of our event planning for us. So 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:09.779 I think everything's pretty good. I think we're 00:23:09.779 --> 00:23:13.480 ready to accommodate everybody. Very good. Well, 00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:15.500 thank you for being on the show and thank you 00:23:15.500 --> 00:23:18.250 for your time. Let everybody know what's going 00:23:18.250 --> 00:23:20.150 on with the highways and hopefully we'll keep 00:23:20.150 --> 00:23:23.289 everybody safe while they're enjoying Hamvention. 00:23:23.849 --> 00:23:27.509 Thank you, Neil. Well, thanks a lot to Sheriff 00:23:27.509 --> 00:23:32.079 Scott Anger for taking time to. Talk with us 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:37.140 and then Continuing the conversation we have 00:23:37.140 --> 00:23:41.460 the spokesperson of The Dayton Hamvention. I'm 00:23:41.460 --> 00:23:46.079 here with Michael Coulter W8CI who has been running 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:50.799 around all week I'm sure but especially today 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:54.660 and in the usual chaos that is the day before 00:23:54.660 --> 00:23:59.299 Hamvention So how are things going Michael? I'm 00:23:59.299 --> 00:24:02.579 excited, Neil. I always get excited about hand 00:24:02.579 --> 00:24:06.880 benching. Everything's pulling together. There's 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:10.359 odds and ends of things that people don't like 00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:13.990 this or don't like that, but boy. 95 % of it 00:24:13.990 --> 00:24:17.410 plus, people are loving it. Smiles on their faces. 00:24:17.910 --> 00:24:19.670 I'm talking about the people who are getting 00:24:19.670 --> 00:24:21.930 things set up and the volunteers that are working, 00:24:22.109 --> 00:24:25.029 the vendors that are here. Some beautiful displays 00:24:25.029 --> 00:24:27.170 in these buildings that some of these vendors 00:24:27.170 --> 00:24:29.789 have put together. And I know another question 00:24:29.789 --> 00:24:32.009 that I get all the time is Kenwood back. Yeah, 00:24:32.170 --> 00:24:37.660 Kenwood's got, they've got a beautiful, booth 00:24:37.660 --> 00:24:40.640 and they've got a I think a new surprise for 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:43.359 everybody that they're going to unveil so You 00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:46.559 know, it's going to be real exciting But like 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:50.680 I say, please stay tuned and listen to the updates 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:54.039 and listen and download those apps They can be 00:24:54.039 --> 00:24:58.619 found on the hamvention org website. Sure. I'm 00:24:58.619 --> 00:25:00.119 looking forward to seeing everybody tomorrow 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:03.490 Neil and I think it's just a wonderful event. 00:25:03.789 --> 00:25:05.849 It's sort of the people's event in a way because 00:25:05.849 --> 00:25:08.609 we're all volunteers putting this on and we do 00:25:08.609 --> 00:25:10.230 have to charge money because there's bills that 00:25:10.230 --> 00:25:13.809 we have to pay but we consider this everybody's 00:25:13.809 --> 00:25:16.990 event and please come support us and thank a 00:25:16.990 --> 00:25:22.130 volunteer when you see one. Absolutely and it 00:25:22.130 --> 00:25:24.930 can be a lot of money but compared to a Taylor 00:25:24.930 --> 00:25:27.690 Swift concert ticket it's a whole lot easier 00:25:27.690 --> 00:25:31.640 and a whole lot cheaper. Yeah, it is, but you 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:36.559 know I Mike my grandkids They love Taylor Swift, 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:39.900 but I don't want a bad -mouth her at all, but 00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:42.460 this is a great event I mean, it's it's three 00:25:42.460 --> 00:25:44.680 days and by the way Sunday is free so if you 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:47.119 know somebody who's thinking about on the fence 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:49.140 about coming. They can go to the ticket booth. 00:25:49.180 --> 00:25:51.859 They get a free pass to come in. They don't get 00:25:51.859 --> 00:25:54.839 to put a ticket in the prize booth, but they 00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:56.920 can come in and find out a whole lot of stuff 00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:59.420 because there's a real strong attendance here 00:25:59.420 --> 00:26:01.660 on Sunday. All the vendors are here and they're 00:26:01.660 --> 00:26:05.880 eager to meet you. One of the things that I noticed 00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:09.839 immediately when I pulled in because we've got 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:13.539 the Yoda booth over in in building four was a 00:26:13.539 --> 00:26:17.799 nice new set of automatic doors. That's nice. 00:26:18.660 --> 00:26:20.940 And I hear they're wanting to put them everywhere 00:26:20.940 --> 00:26:26.079 now. Yeah, there's a lot of upgrades that go 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:29.640 on here every year. And it's based on a lot of 00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:32.480 input that we get during the event. And then 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:34.779 as we watch traffic flow and things like that, 00:26:34.940 --> 00:26:38.890 we want to make this place You really pop and 00:26:38.890 --> 00:26:41.210 we want to stay here for a while as you as you 00:26:41.210 --> 00:26:43.289 just heard the sheriff talking You know, the 00:26:43.289 --> 00:26:45.450 community is so behind us and when the sheriff 00:26:45.450 --> 00:26:47.930 was walking down he says Michael be here a lot 00:26:47.930 --> 00:26:50.509 this week and just I'll be here and we'll take 00:26:50.509 --> 00:26:52.430 care of anything that comes up But we just like 00:26:52.430 --> 00:26:56.470 being here and that's real community spirit Yeah, 00:26:56.470 --> 00:27:00.029 it's a really nice upgrade and several upgrades 00:27:00.029 --> 00:27:03.930 around every place. And yeah, I know the buzz 00:27:03.930 --> 00:27:09.420 yesterday on when we spotted the Kenwood crates 00:27:09.420 --> 00:27:13.579 being unloaded and Gigapart's announced the new 00:27:13.579 --> 00:27:17.119 handheld, so we'll see what they have to show 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:22.619 off tomorrow with that, but there's definitely 00:27:22.619 --> 00:27:26.259 a buzz going around about that, and it's just 00:27:26.259 --> 00:27:28.640 seeing a lot of people, and a lot of people that 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:31.180 I haven't seen in the last year or two I've already 00:27:31.180 --> 00:27:34.410 run into. several people who, you know, just 00:27:34.410 --> 00:27:37.029 haven't been here and we're just kind of finally, 00:27:37.289 --> 00:27:40.329 I think putting COVID behind us. Oh, you're right, 00:27:40.509 --> 00:27:43.109 Neil. And the other thing, you know, I was by 00:27:43.109 --> 00:27:45.390 your booth earlier and I want to tell everybody 00:27:45.390 --> 00:27:49.599 to please stop by. his booth and it's the Volta 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:52.339 building, is that right? And you go in there 00:27:52.339 --> 00:27:54.640 and he's one of the first on the left and there's 00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:57.200 a lot of youth activities in that building. But 00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:59.920 please stop by and see Neil. He's got all kind 00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:04.319 of stickers and flyers and handouts and a lot 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:08.059 of information about Yoda and the stuff that 00:28:08.059 --> 00:28:12.119 he has really been behind in making happen. I 00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:14.420 don't know how much people know about what he 00:28:14.420 --> 00:28:18.789 does and what he gets done. He absolutely does 00:28:18.789 --> 00:28:21.690 a lot of kid projects and young people's projects. 00:28:22.210 --> 00:28:25.069 Don't you have a youth meeting tomorrow? Yes, 00:28:25.130 --> 00:28:28.430 we have a youth social at noon on Friday and 00:28:28.430 --> 00:28:31.849 Saturday. So come by, free drinks, free snacks, 00:28:32.210 --> 00:28:35.289 and behind the booth. And Eris will be there, 00:28:35.369 --> 00:28:39.710 and Eris and HamSci will be giving some presentations 00:28:39.710 --> 00:28:44.420 back there too. So make sure you stop by. Anything 00:28:44.420 --> 00:28:46.200 else you can think of that people need to know 00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:48.799 here before everything starts in the morning? 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:52.299 Well, I'm not sure what anybody else would want 00:28:52.299 --> 00:28:57.339 to know. We have a lot of help out here. Bear 00:28:57.339 --> 00:29:00.579 with us if we have a hiccup because we get embarrassed 00:29:00.579 --> 00:29:03.079 by that. You know, those of you who remember 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:05.299 the first years of the mud and things like that, 00:29:05.299 --> 00:29:07.660 that doesn't look like that's in the forecast 00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:11.380 at all this time. But thank a volunteer, and 00:29:11.380 --> 00:29:14.700 if you have constructive suggestions for next 00:29:14.700 --> 00:29:19.119 year, we'd definitely listen to it. And man, 00:29:19.220 --> 00:29:21.779 we appreciate everybody coming, supporting Hamvention, 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:26.940 and I'll see you here tomorrow. Absolutely. One 00:29:26.940 --> 00:29:31.279 question here. Do you have any of that, the commemorative 00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:35.799 jars of mud from the first year out here? I actually 00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:39.940 do. So when you stop by Neil's booth, if you 00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:43.099 want to, if you want to put the order in and 00:29:43.099 --> 00:29:46.180 have some of that commemorative mud and you know, 00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:48.200 that's kind of a funny thing, you know, but one 00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:49.900 of the other things we joked about, you know, 00:29:49.940 --> 00:29:53.700 in the face of adversity is that maybe we should 00:29:53.700 --> 00:29:57.849 be selling flea market boots so people could 00:29:57.849 --> 00:30:01.369 wear the boots through there. But, you know, 00:30:01.849 --> 00:30:04.710 it really has excellent drainage in there. You 00:30:04.710 --> 00:30:08.630 know, we just had that, you know, they talk about 00:30:08.630 --> 00:30:11.809 the 100 -year storm, but I think we had the 500 00:30:11.809 --> 00:30:15.490 -year storm that first hand bench in here in 00:30:15.490 --> 00:30:18.339 Xenia. Hey Neil, thanks. Thanks for all you do 00:30:18.339 --> 00:30:21.680 on not only this program but all you do for kids 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:25.099 and to support the hobby. It takes all of us 00:30:25.099 --> 00:30:28.039 supporting this hobby and there's lots of us 00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:32.279 do in quiet ways and I'm glad to be a part of 00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:36.759 that team I hope. Absolutely. You put on a great 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:39.819 show here and you do a ton of work for Hamvention 00:30:39.819 --> 00:30:43.339 so thank you for all of your volunteer efforts 00:30:43.339 --> 00:30:48.500 as well as all of the other volunteers that I'm 00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:52.839 watching go by us here as we're live at Hamvenge 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:58.359 in 2023. And yeah, we'll get the weather from 00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:02.259 Eric LLK and 4BNT, but it looks like it's just 00:31:02.259 --> 00:31:04.339 going to be a little rain here and there, nothing 00:31:04.339 --> 00:31:08.400 major, so no more commemorative mud. No more 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:13.559 commemorative. So from Hamvention, this is WHCI 00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:18.880 Whiskey 8, Charlie India 73 everybody. Alright, 00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:22.680 well again for updates you can check the talk 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:29.220 -in frequency 146 .940 and a PL is 123. And there's 00:31:29.220 --> 00:31:35.009 a bulletin loop on 145 .525. and of course hamvention 00:31:35.009 --> 00:31:38.190 .org the webpage and social media accounts and 00:31:38.190 --> 00:31:42.190 there's the ARRL event smartphone app just check 00:31:42.190 --> 00:31:45.589 for hamvention in your app store and midcars 00:31:45.589 --> 00:31:50.089 is on 7258 so if you need help on HF you can 00:31:50.089 --> 00:31:53.349 even do that but lots of ways and of course you 00:31:53.349 --> 00:31:57.170 know the official word is always hamvention .org 00:31:57.170 --> 00:31:59.960 so We're bringing you some of the information 00:31:59.960 --> 00:32:04.980 from that official site, hamvention .org. One 00:32:04.980 --> 00:32:11.079 of the things that Paul, you and I will be attending 00:32:11.079 --> 00:32:15.240 is the open house at the National Voice of America 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:19.519 Museum of Broadcasting. That's going on in Westchester, 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:24.079 Ohio, just south of Dayton off of I -75, and 00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:28.799 tomorrow the hours will be 1 to 9. And that's 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:34.039 when we're going to be there. And then Saturday, 00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:36.720 it'll be noon to nine. That's when we usually 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.480 go, but I had to change around the schedule a 00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:43.559 little bit. And Sunday, noon to five. So check 00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:49.960 out voamuseum .org or wc8voa .org slash hamvention 00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:56.799 for all of those hours. Paul, I haven't even 00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:59.579 had time to fill you in, but there's some new 00:32:59.579 --> 00:33:04.640 stuff at the museum for us to see tomorrow. Really? 00:33:05.779 --> 00:33:11.220 Okay. Just let it be a surprise then. The museum, 00:33:11.539 --> 00:33:14.519 if you're not familiar with it, it's really special. 00:33:16.059 --> 00:33:19.759 It was a relay station when the VOA originally 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:22.940 set up. The main studios were in Washington, 00:33:22.980 --> 00:33:28.730 I think. New York and they set up several relay 00:33:28.730 --> 00:33:32.250 stations brute broadcast Transmitters further 00:33:32.250 --> 00:33:36.130 inland just in case submarines off the shore 00:33:36.130 --> 00:33:38.690 Well, you know had missile range to New York 00:33:38.690 --> 00:33:41.430 where the studios were they could still broadcast 00:33:41.430 --> 00:33:45.089 over ISDN lines from from out here in Bethany 00:33:45.089 --> 00:33:48.990 in Westchester and it's it's an amazing it's 00:33:48.990 --> 00:33:52.240 it's not functioning anymore, but The transmitter 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.599 is still in there, a huge 250 ,000 watt transmitter 00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:59.279 is in there. And you can see part of the antenna 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.740 switching network out in the backyard. It's also 00:34:02.740 --> 00:34:08.300 got probably one of the largest collections of 00:34:08.300 --> 00:34:12.059 Drake equipment I've seen. Pretty much one of 00:34:12.059 --> 00:34:15.280 everything Drake ever made. And a bunch of things 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:19.789 from old Crosley radio because Crosley... started 00:34:19.789 --> 00:34:22.670 the radio company to help promote his radio station, 00:34:23.630 --> 00:34:27.610 which is WLW right down the road, where there 00:34:27.610 --> 00:34:31.590 was a 500 ,000 watt transmitter. So within a 00:34:31.590 --> 00:34:34.909 couple miles when everything was cooking, there's 00:34:34.909 --> 00:34:38.969 three quarters of a megawatt just floating around 00:34:38.969 --> 00:34:42.429 that neighborhood. So it's very cool to see it. 00:34:42.429 --> 00:34:46.210 It's a history of the VOA. and what that accomplished, 00:34:46.710 --> 00:34:50.449 and it's still in existence today, although today 00:34:50.449 --> 00:34:53.429 it's mostly streaming over the internet. And 00:34:53.429 --> 00:34:56.570 then a history of other radio and electronic 00:34:56.570 --> 00:34:58.429 things. It's very cool. And then there's the 00:34:58.429 --> 00:35:01.170 club station, which you are always welcome to 00:35:01.170 --> 00:35:03.429 sit down and work a little bit, which I've done. 00:35:04.309 --> 00:35:08.329 And our editor in Newsline, Karen Eve, will never 00:35:08.329 --> 00:35:10.969 forgive me for talking to her brother before 00:35:10.969 --> 00:35:15.059 she did. So there's that. So yeah, if you get 00:35:15.059 --> 00:35:17.519 a chance definitely go out. It's a lot of fun 00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:21.039 All right, and then you know tomorrow we mentioned 00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:25.900 that the news line town hall is rebooting and 00:35:25.900 --> 00:35:29.380 Coming back and I know you're the main force 00:35:29.380 --> 00:35:31.820 behind that so tell everybody a little bit about 00:35:31.820 --> 00:35:36.639 the the town hall tomorrow All right It's something 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:40.300 that our founder Bill Pasternak did for decades 00:35:40.300 --> 00:35:43.750 he would choose a couple of topics and then invite 00:35:43.750 --> 00:35:46.670 some experts on those topics to come in and speak 00:35:46.670 --> 00:35:49.610 on them. And there was a little discussion about 00:35:49.610 --> 00:35:52.610 what was going on. And it was immensely popular. 00:35:53.110 --> 00:35:58.449 And then when he passed away, it stopped. And 00:35:58.449 --> 00:36:00.690 they've had a lot of people ask about it. And 00:36:00.690 --> 00:36:03.409 we've talked about it a lot. So it's like... 00:36:03.159 --> 00:36:08.039 I think it, earlier this year, yeah, we decided 00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:12.119 I think it's time to try it. And so we put our 00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:16.159 brains together and came up with some ideas and 00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:19.760 the fine folks at Hamvention gave us a slot and 00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:22.440 said, yeah, welcome back, let's do this. And 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:26.480 so we've got three speakers. First off, it's 00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:29.599 tomorrow. It's Friday starting at 1135 till 1 00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:32.880 o 'clock Our first speaker up will be Tim Allen 00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:36.400 who is the president of the IARU and he's gonna 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:40.840 be there to discuss Current issues facing the 00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:44.960 IR AR, you know what I'm trying to say Thank 00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:48.699 you. It's been a long day And and things that 00:36:48.699 --> 00:36:52.829 are there up that you know affect all of us Followed 00:36:52.829 --> 00:36:56.449 by Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, who, you know, 00:36:56.690 --> 00:36:59.550 former FCC enforcement officer, but is currently 00:36:59.550 --> 00:37:03.530 leading the ARRL's volunteer monitor program. 00:37:03.929 --> 00:37:05.949 And he's going to talk about the status of that 00:37:05.949 --> 00:37:08.309 program and how it's progressing and field some 00:37:08.309 --> 00:37:10.610 questions if there are any. And then our third 00:37:10.610 --> 00:37:14.110 speaker is Mark Smith, N6MTS, who is going to 00:37:14.110 --> 00:37:17.250 be talking about his proposed open headset interconnect 00:37:17.250 --> 00:37:23.670 standard. which is a because you've got a dozen 00:37:23.670 --> 00:37:25.750 different headphones all with different connections 00:37:25.750 --> 00:37:28.090 and different microphones and you've got hundreds 00:37:28.090 --> 00:37:30.889 of different radios all of which have different 00:37:30.889 --> 00:37:34.969 connectors and pinouts and things so for a field 00:37:34.969 --> 00:37:38.309 day event or for an emergency set up or even 00:37:38.309 --> 00:37:41.449 just if you have multiple radios at home it's 00:37:41.449 --> 00:37:44.570 proposed that you have I'll let him talk about 00:37:44.570 --> 00:37:47.090 it. I propose to have one connection between 00:37:47.090 --> 00:37:49.969 a headset and a standard connection to a radio 00:37:49.969 --> 00:37:53.289 and you can plug anyone into any of them. So 00:37:53.289 --> 00:37:55.349 that's a thing that I'm really kind of getting 00:37:55.349 --> 00:37:57.690 behind with him too. So I'm gonna let, he's going 00:37:57.690 --> 00:38:01.530 to talk about that. And so I think it's gonna 00:38:01.530 --> 00:38:04.849 be good. And you know, you and I are going to 00:38:04.849 --> 00:38:09.409 co -host it and... And it if it's successful 00:38:09.409 --> 00:38:11.349 we definitely have talked about we want to do 00:38:11.349 --> 00:38:13.570 it bring it back again next year and just keep 00:38:13.570 --> 00:38:16.230 doing it because you know, it was one of the 00:38:16.230 --> 00:38:19.590 things that bill really did well and And we would 00:38:19.590 --> 00:38:23.389 like to continue that in his honor Yep, it'll 00:38:23.389 --> 00:38:26.909 be be a great time. So make sure you check that 00:38:26.909 --> 00:38:32.690 out if you're here at Hamvention, so And then 00:38:32.690 --> 00:38:35.190 the Contest Super Suite is open every night from 00:38:35.190 --> 00:38:39.150 7 p .m. to 2 a .m. over at the Hope Hotel in 00:38:39.150 --> 00:38:42.429 Fairborn and pizza every night about 10 30 or 00:38:42.429 --> 00:38:47.010 11 depending on the day. And then Dara's Clubhouse 00:38:47.010 --> 00:38:51.030 is open from 6 to 8 p .m. on Friday and Saturday. 00:38:51.750 --> 00:38:55.489 That's on Bellefountain Road out in Huber Heights. 00:38:55.989 --> 00:38:59.050 So those are all some things there. And we've 00:38:59.050 --> 00:39:01.010 got a few more things here, but Paul, you're 00:39:01.010 --> 00:39:05.969 going to you're going to take off and see what 00:39:05.969 --> 00:39:09.690 kind of trouble you can get into here. So we'll 00:39:09.690 --> 00:39:14.710 see. Let's hear a moment. Let's see tomorrow. 00:39:15.230 --> 00:39:17.369 Top band dinner is at the Hope Hotel. It's the 00:39:17.369 --> 00:39:22.110 32nd annual one. The speaker there is John Zames, 00:39:22.250 --> 00:39:27.179 AA1K. Topbandinner .com is where you find information 00:39:27.179 --> 00:39:30.800 on that. Tickets are usually in advance, so check 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:35.460 that out if you want to go before you just go 00:39:35.460 --> 00:39:38.260 because you'll probably need a ticket ahead of 00:39:38.260 --> 00:39:42.320 time. SWODEXA, the Southwest Ohio DX Association, 00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:46.199 will be having a dinner at the University of 00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:49.389 Dayton Marriott. uh... cash bar at five thirty 00:39:49.389 --> 00:39:52.849 dinner at seven uh... go to swadexaevents .org 00:39:52.849 --> 00:40:03.329 at SWODXAS .ORG on saturday uh... at six thirty 00:40:03.329 --> 00:40:06.369 it will be the twenty -ninth annual contest dinner 00:40:06.369 --> 00:40:09.510 and that's hosted by the north coast contestors 00:40:09.510 --> 00:40:23.639 at the Hope Hotel Who is is away at college now, 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:27.659 he's a college man and He'll be speaking and 00:40:27.659 --> 00:40:30.360 of course, they'll have the CQ contest Hall of 00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:35.320 Fame inductions At the contest dinner as well 00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:39.920 at 8 p .m until midnight will be the Kansas City 00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:43.889 DX Club CW pile -up competition that the Hope 00:40:43.889 --> 00:40:47.309 Hotel. And the Collegiate Dinner is Saturday 00:40:47.309 --> 00:40:52.519 night, 6 .30 at Dewey's Pizza. a link to make 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:55.079 a reservation there just to make sure that there's 00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:59.019 enough room for you. So we actually have the 00:40:59.019 --> 00:41:02.139 QR code at the Yoda booth or stop by the Collegiate 00:41:02.139 --> 00:41:06.940 booth over at AWRL's area and you can sign up 00:41:06.940 --> 00:41:11.199 for the Collegiate dinner. So those are some 00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:15.559 things from hamvention .org. And I'm sure there's 00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:18.179 some other things that are going on, but they 00:41:18.179 --> 00:41:23.639 just weren't listed at the time. But let's go 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:27.239 to our live on the street reporter, Paul Brown, 00:41:27.380 --> 00:41:34.440 WD9GCO. Paul, are you there? Nothing like live 00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:39.320 radio, ladies and gentlemen. Let's see. Oh, he 00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:44.210 turned his mic on. Paul, are you there? And I'm 00:41:44.210 --> 00:41:48.429 here Okay, they're okay. Here we are. Yes, I 00:41:48.429 --> 00:41:52.409 can hear you now Okay All right, I can barely 00:41:52.409 --> 00:41:55.349 hear you. Um, I'm out in the parking lot and 00:41:55.349 --> 00:41:58.650 I am doing my annual walk through here and and 00:41:58.650 --> 00:42:02.889 I have to say That I'm absolutely disappointed 00:42:02.889 --> 00:42:06.570 because a There's no people out here to talk 00:42:06.570 --> 00:42:10.070 to and as I walk through looking for ham plates 00:42:10.070 --> 00:42:16.929 I see yours They see mine And that's that's it. 00:42:17.010 --> 00:42:19.230 You know, that's it. We're the only hams of early 00:42:19.230 --> 00:42:22.610 in this building No, I know better than that 00:42:22.610 --> 00:42:25.190 because I've seen sort of pizza party somewhere 00:42:25.190 --> 00:42:31.050 and I'm not even seeing Weird antennas on vehicles 00:42:31.050 --> 00:42:36.809 that that's that's very disappointing That's 00:42:36.809 --> 00:42:41.329 you know, how are we supposed to to play Let's 00:42:41.329 --> 00:42:43.510 look for hams in the parking lot if there aren't 00:42:43.510 --> 00:42:49.710 any hams in the parking lot. I know All right, 00:42:49.710 --> 00:42:53.610 do you see anybody out there? There is nobody 00:42:53.610 --> 00:42:56.630 out here. There's nobody out here. Okay, so that's 00:42:56.630 --> 00:42:59.489 the official report. There is no one in the parking 00:42:59.489 --> 00:43:02.969 lot live From where something happened hours 00:43:02.969 --> 00:43:08.630 earlier. That's right. I'm sure this place was 00:43:08.630 --> 00:43:11.340 just hopping All right, we'll cut we'll come 00:43:11.340 --> 00:43:13.960 up come on back in and we've got we've got one 00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:19.079 more thing to do so so come on back in and That 00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:21.300 reporting live from the parking lot. This is 00:43:21.300 --> 00:43:27.500 Paul Brown wd9 GCO. Yep. There you go Well that 00:43:27.500 --> 00:43:31.760 didn't work so well Remember one year I think 00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:34.719 it was a Texans where we were looking for Texans 00:43:35.430 --> 00:43:38.630 or something like that yeah yeah we were and 00:43:38.630 --> 00:43:42.230 i i found at least several cards this year just 00:43:42.230 --> 00:43:46.429 nothing fancy and aside from yours and mine no 00:43:46.429 --> 00:43:50.869 antennas yeah now julie when she was when julie 00:43:50.869 --> 00:43:56.030 was around uh at harrah she made the game you 00:43:56.030 --> 00:43:58.650 know she had to get license plates from all 50 00:43:58.650 --> 00:44:00.750 states and she she got pretty close there you 00:44:00.750 --> 00:44:06.250 go just with the uh with the The parking lot. 00:44:06.389 --> 00:44:11.449 Oh, hey. Here's somebody with a pamphlet and 00:44:11.449 --> 00:44:14.369 an antenna that's pulling in now. Oh, well, there 00:44:14.369 --> 00:44:17.610 we go. Let me chase them. All right. Are you 00:44:17.610 --> 00:44:19.409 going to chase them down? The parking lot. I 00:44:19.409 --> 00:44:26.230 hope they don't hit me. All right. All right. 00:44:26.269 --> 00:44:29.269 Hang on. Hang on. Okay. He's backing in. Okay. 00:44:33.309 --> 00:44:37.929 Oh, my goodness. This is what happens when you 00:44:37.929 --> 00:44:40.829 end up at Hamvention with nothing else better 00:44:40.829 --> 00:44:46.550 to do. We could do a live helicopter report. 00:44:49.510 --> 00:44:53.289 Hey there! I'm good. I'm Paul and I'm on with 00:44:53.289 --> 00:44:56.449 Neil with HamTalk Live. We're live right now, 00:44:56.909 --> 00:44:58.849 so he sent me out here in the parking lot to 00:44:58.849 --> 00:45:01.309 find hams or ham plates and aside from his and 00:45:01.309 --> 00:45:03.949 mine, yours is the first one I've seen. Cool. 00:45:03.949 --> 00:45:07.010 So what's what's your name? I'm Zach and your 00:45:07.010 --> 00:45:10.210 call I came for BLG and where are you from Zach 00:45:10.210 --> 00:45:12.409 from Asheville, North Carolina? All right, you 00:45:12.409 --> 00:45:15.369 just just drove in now Well, actually I got here 00:45:15.369 --> 00:45:16.750 earlier went out to eat with some friends of 00:45:16.750 --> 00:45:18.809 mine and came on back All right. Are you here 00:45:18.809 --> 00:45:20.909 for is this sure? How many times have you been 00:45:20.909 --> 00:45:22.949 to invention? Is this your first one or so? This 00:45:22.949 --> 00:45:24.829 will be my second when the first one was last 00:45:24.829 --> 00:45:26.909 year. All right, you're here for the whole weekend 00:45:26.909 --> 00:45:29.329 Yeah, yeah gonna be here the whole time all the 00:45:29.329 --> 00:45:31.349 way till it ends on Sunday. All right, there 00:45:31.349 --> 00:45:36.820 you go Neil Hey, you found somebody. Yeah. Way 00:45:36.820 --> 00:45:40.099 to go. Thank you, Zach. Okay. Now, wait a minute. 00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:41.880 Wait, wait, wait, wait. We have questions for 00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:47.440 Zach. We have questions for Zach. Okay. Okay. 00:45:47.699 --> 00:45:51.760 First of all, what was for dinner? Okay. We have 00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:53.719 questions for you. Okay. What did you have for 00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:56.559 dinner? Went over to a seafood place over here. 00:45:57.070 --> 00:46:00.710 Okay, there we go seafood. Okay. What's the what's 00:46:00.710 --> 00:46:02.650 the number one thing on the shopping list for 00:46:02.650 --> 00:46:05.530 tomorrow? What's the number one thing on your 00:46:05.530 --> 00:46:07.230 shopping list for tomorrow? Oh, I don't know 00:46:07.230 --> 00:46:10.349 just any good deal I can find I guess Yes That 00:46:10.349 --> 00:46:12.809 makes it easy. All right next. All right now 00:46:12.809 --> 00:46:16.090 now the last one is it's what's his favorite 00:46:16.090 --> 00:46:21.010 podcast? What's your favorite podcast I guess 00:46:21.010 --> 00:46:27.300 ham talk live. There we go Hey, there we go All 00:46:27.300 --> 00:46:35.039 right. Thanks, Zach. All right. All right, Paul. 00:46:35.219 --> 00:46:37.699 Come on. Come on back. We got one more thing 00:46:37.699 --> 00:46:39.920 we need to do and I need you in here for it. 00:46:40.380 --> 00:46:44.840 All right. So come on back and we'll get that 00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:48.039 going. But you made it. You got somebody. I'm 00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:54.539 impressed. It all worked out. But yeah proof 00:46:54.539 --> 00:46:57.139 that this is live, you know, I could go in and 00:46:57.139 --> 00:47:00.860 edit all that but make it sound slick and professional 00:47:00.860 --> 00:47:03.280 make it sound Yeah, make it sound like we actually 00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:06.960 know what we're doing Well, I'm white white ruin 00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:12.360 a good thing, right exactly All right, I'm coming 00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:17.639 down all right So, okay. Yeah one last thing 00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:20.579 and then we'll take one last look at the weather 00:47:20.579 --> 00:47:28.170 for tomorrow with Eric LLKD for BNT. And then 00:47:28.170 --> 00:47:31.250 we'll get on our way and start packing up all 00:47:31.250 --> 00:47:35.750 the equipment and go enjoy three days of Hamvention. 00:47:36.349 --> 00:47:40.389 So if you get a chance, stop by again, Youth 00:47:40.389 --> 00:47:43.510 on the Air is 4304 and we'd have a bunch of talks 00:47:43.510 --> 00:47:47.650 going on. From Eris and HamSci back there the 00:47:47.650 --> 00:47:51.190 youth social again is at noon And I'll be at 00:47:51.190 --> 00:47:54.070 the booth when I'm not off at a forum somewhere 00:47:54.070 --> 00:47:58.090 Which seems like it's gonna be half the time 00:47:58.090 --> 00:48:03.650 this year but But otherwise, you know stop by 00:48:03.650 --> 00:48:06.210 say hello check out what the kids are doing and 00:48:06.210 --> 00:48:10.369 we've got several of the youth that will be There 00:48:10.369 --> 00:48:13.949 at the booth as well. So As soon as Paul gets 00:48:13.949 --> 00:48:18.550 back here, we'll finish this up. Oh, I hear Paul 00:48:18.550 --> 00:48:25.969 now, I think. Is it working, Paul? Okay. All 00:48:25.969 --> 00:48:29.570 right. Well, anyway, we got him back in here. 00:48:29.949 --> 00:48:32.409 So before we take one last look at the weather, 00:48:32.650 --> 00:48:37.010 we have a presentation to make here, Paul. One 00:48:37.010 --> 00:48:40.050 of the things that, you know, we have our inside 00:48:40.050 --> 00:48:42.980 jokes at Amateur Radio Newsline. about several 00:48:42.980 --> 00:48:44.960 things. And every year at Dayton, it seems like 00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:49.880 we come up with some cockamamie idea of something 00:48:49.880 --> 00:48:54.480 fun to do, which rumor is that the Flat Dawn 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:59.280 thing may show up this weekend that we did before. 00:48:59.420 --> 00:49:04.179 But you're always talking about signing autographs 00:49:04.179 --> 00:49:10.059 at Hamvention. So I wanted to give you the official 00:49:10.059 --> 00:49:16.019 blue Sharpie. to sign your autographs. And here 00:49:16.019 --> 00:49:24.420 we have 100 glossy prints of Paul in his shack 00:49:24.420 --> 00:49:27.559 with the Newsline logo and everything. So there 00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:32.639 you go, Paul. You now have official autograph 00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:39.739 materials for the weekend. What say you? I'm 00:49:39.739 --> 00:49:48.150 speechless that there's no that's oh god yep 00:49:48.150 --> 00:49:50.650 all right folks so now you know i have a stack 00:49:50.650 --> 00:49:53.210 of eight by ten so if if you want one just come 00:49:53.210 --> 00:50:01.750 on by so there you go uh it looks pretty good 00:50:01.750 --> 00:50:05.190 i thought they turned out pretty nice so you 00:50:05.190 --> 00:50:09.409 you see paul you can ask ask him for for an autograph 00:50:09.409 --> 00:50:13.039 so There you go. All right. But if you sell them, 00:50:13.139 --> 00:50:15.880 you got it. The proceeds have to go to Newsline. 00:50:16.300 --> 00:50:18.840 So, yeah, whatever. All right. Well, let's take 00:50:18.840 --> 00:50:21.860 one last look at the weather with K and for B 00:50:21.860 --> 00:50:27.539 and T. You know, the weather's looking pretty 00:50:27.539 --> 00:50:30.119 nice for campus. Maybe for most of it. We're 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:31.940 going to deal with the pretty quiet conditions 00:50:31.940 --> 00:50:34.679 until we get late into Friday and Friday night. 00:50:35.260 --> 00:50:38.199 For the rest of tonight, we're looking for just 00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:40.320 some increasing cloud cover. The temperature's 00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:42.099 a lot warmer than we were the last couple of 00:50:42.099 --> 00:50:44.519 nights. We'll hold it out 58 to 60 as you head 00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:47.219 out the door early Friday. Friday afternoon, 00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:48.719 though, some increasing cloud cover. There's 00:50:48.719 --> 00:50:50.219 a slight chance for a shower during the day, 00:50:50.260 --> 00:50:53.179 but rain chances really ramp up Friday night. 00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:55.219 Much of the rain falling during the night and 00:50:55.219 --> 00:51:16.840 then moving out. Well, that's a wrap from Dayton, 00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:19.480 Ohio for this episode of HamTalk Live. Thanks 00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:22.480 to my guests, Eric Elwell, KD4BNT, Michael Calder, 00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:27.159 WHCI, Greene County Sheriff, Scott Anger, and 00:51:27.159 --> 00:51:31.860 for Paul Brown, WD9GCO, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, 00:51:31.940 --> 00:51:35.360 wishing everybody out there a big hearty thank 00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:38.780 you for listening to this. For now, we're saying 00:51:38.780 --> 00:51:42.559 seven three, seven five, and may the good DX 00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:57.760 be yours. I've been seeing you burning down the 00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:01.940 lava It's hard to believe that you're meant to 00:52:01.940 --> 00:52:02.159 be