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It's HamTalk Live, episode number 318, Youth
and Collegiate Activities at Hamvention. Recorded
on May 11th, 2023. I'm your host, Neil Rapp,
WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this episode
of HamTalk Live. Tonight, we're joined by the
famous Malusi Brothers. And the last episode,
Fabio Scattino, I for UFH was here to talk about
the World Radio Sport Team Championships, 2023
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And we're going to be talking to Hamvention again
tonight, so let me remind you that the National
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once again. On Thursday and Friday next week,
the hours will be 1 to 9 p .m. On Saturday, they
will be open from 12 noon until 9, and then on
Sunday from 12 noon until 5. So if you need a
list to remind you of that, go to wc8voa .org
slash hamvention. Again, that's whiskeycharlie8voiceofamerica
.org slash hamvention. And you can check that
out. They'll have the Drake exhibit, the WLWO
transmitter. It's been restored and all the other
exhibits as well as the ham shack, which has
been newly restored. Uh, and you can make a few
cues while you're there and admission is $10
at the door. And don't forget HamTalk Live will
be live on Hamvention Eve as always live from
Dayton with weather traffic and the latest news.
So we'll hope to speak with Michael Calder, WHCI,
the official spokesperson of Hamvention, and
also the new Green County Sheriff to talk a little
bit about traffic, so make sure you tune into
that. We're putting that at nine o 'clock. Don't
know that that's going to be exactly on the dot
at nine o 'clock on Thursday evening of Hamvention
Eve, but look around nine o 'clock for that to
take place. Alright, well tonight Tony and Andy
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Preview here on HamTalk Live. And welcome back
to HamTalk Live. Tonight, Tony Maluzzi, KD8RTT,
and Andy Maluzzi, KK4LWR join us on the Orlando
Amateur Radio Club and hamcation Zoom line. Andy
is the past president of the Gator Amateur Radio
Club at the University of Florida in Gainesville,
and he is currently a senior ride control systems
engineer for Walt Disney Imagineering. And he's
a key leader in the Collegiate Amateur Radio
Program at ARRL, a group that's been formed to
share ideas and... promote amateur radio clubs
in colleges and universities. And Andy got into
ham radio thanks to his brother Tony KD8RTT.
He is an electrical engineer with Garmin and
he's attended grad school at Ohio University
where he was the amateur radio club president
and during undergrad he was the president of
Rose Tech in Terre Haute, Indiana. W9NAA, he
is a pilot and also a key leader of carp and
you can find him on the satellites or operating
cw or portable on hf and probably regrets ever
introducing andy to to ham radio because he never
gets a word in edgewise is that right tony yeah
but hold on there tony you don't want to yeah
it's been a great great hobby for andy you know
yeah We always have to get that joke in there
and Andy and I have to fight about the Gators
and the Wildcats on the basketball scene and
the football scene. I don't know about baseball.
Gator baseball is very good. Gators have a great
baseball team. You know, we can't be good and
everything, you know, at UK. So, uh, well we're
going to talk about Hamvention tonight and later
on we're going to talk about just some of our
favorite stuff. Uh, but first we want to, to
do the, uh, the, the proper thing here and talk
about, uh, some of the youth activities and the,
um, collegiate activities that will be taking
place at hamvention so I have my list here which
is going to be on a big poster in the at the
youth on the air booth but on Friday we've got
the instructors forum so if you are interested
in you know teaching young people about ham radio
Carol Perry has a forum just for you. It's on
Friday at 10 25 to 11 25 and the guest speaker
this year is Me, so I'm not sure if you want
to go or not, but But I'll be talking about how
Yoda can help you do your job basically so that
that's what I'll be talking about at the instructors
forum and then at 12 noon we have A youth social
hour at the Yoda booth. So we have free food,
free drinks. In fact, I made my Costco run this
afternoon. Um, so I'm stocked up on, on water
and Gatorade and pop and chips and all that fun
stuff. Um, so just, uh, just finish that up this
afternoon. So come to the Yoda booth and we'll
have just a social hour. There's, there's no
program. uh... no speakers it's just a get -together
uh... just uh... all the young people and typically
we we say under under twenty six but we can we
can slide that a little bit but uh... come and
socialize but then on saturday we've got a whole
bunch of things and you know it starts off with
the youth forum we'll come back to that because
i want to talk about some of this collegiate
stuff here what with uh... andy and tony Um,
and then we'll have another youth social hour
and everything, but, uh, you guys have a forum
on Saturday afternoon. So tell us about the forum.
Yep. So, uh, we have a collegiate amateur radio
forum at two 40, uh, on Saturday afternoon in
room three. And, uh, you know, we've been doing
these every year for the past, uh, what? 2016,
2017, something like that. 17. We started at
Orlando hamcation. Yep. And we kind of model
this as a really a forum that's open discussion,
not so much us talking to you, but encouraging
the audience to be full of college students and
previous college students and college students
to be to talk about Ham Radio, get involved,
figure things out, what we can do to serve the
community better. So that will be happening again
this year. And we'll actually also be streaming
it online, part of our monthly calls, our monthly
call this month of May was moved to be that forum.
So you can register on the AWRL .org slash we
want the letter U website. There's a, there's
a link there to register for our zoom call to
register for that. You can listen into the forum
live. Okay. And that's in forum room three is
what I have here. Is that right? Yes. Yep. To
40. Okay. So, you know if you are interested
in what's going on at the collegiate level or
you are one of those collegiate persons or a
sponsor this would be a great time to go and
Interact with with others. So so who is your
audience? Who all do you want to show up at this
thing? We would love to have every college ham
in the world be at the forum. That's the goal
but we will settle for any that just happened
to be in Dayton that weekend. That is our audience.
We are looking for students, faculty, staff,
advisors, those who are directly involved with
college or university amateur radio programs.
That could be a faculty member that's using amateur
radio in their classroom. That could be students
that are actually running a club at their school,
or alumni and staff that are active participants
and keeping the club going, maybe even between,
you know, activities. you know, just to sort
of keep it around. So that is our audience. That's
what we're looking for. We really would love
to see students out there. We want to hear the
most from students. We want this, you know, one
of the major things of CARP has been about the
students for the students sort of thing. It's
a unique ARL program in that it's open to any
student. You do not need to be an ARL member
to participate in CARP. You can get all the benefits
from the Facebook group, from the Discord, from,
you know, what the league has put up there for
anyone. That is a college student that is doing
amateur radio. So you don't have to be a league
member So if you're unsure if you can show up
because of that, nope, definitely come share
your ideas share your challenges And hopefully
we can you know have some good learnings again
this year in the room It's uh, it's always amazing
how much red tape there is at the college level
to you know get antennas up on the roof or you
know install this or get that and and so That's
a challenge, but you guys have You know the stories
of how you finally got it to go through and can
help each other do that and and I know that was
You know part of the goal of the Facebook group,
which you know was just to kind of get everybody
together So talk a little bit about that Yeah,
actually We have a perfect example of that recently
There was a club that was had to take down their
their tower for some maintenance at the building
and Basically, there was some concern when they
tried to put it back up from from the school
administration About you know, the aesthetics
of it and it's something I know a lot of people
can You know commiserate with but they've reached
out to the group and said hey other schools that
have ham clubs. Can you send us pictures of the
antennas on your building? Give us some background.
We want to pull this together, present it to
the administration, show that there's other schools
doing this. This is an important part of the
hobby, but for the school also. And they collected
all that and they were successful in showing
the administration to get them to approve that
they could put the tower back up. So that's the
kind of stuff we really want to be able to facilitate.
with our Facebook group and Discord of having
the central place people can go, communicate,
and build the hobby through colleges all across
the world, really. We've kind of been through
some of that with Yoda. We're at a university
campus for the first time this year, and had
all these wonderful plans. Safety code and that
safety code came up and this and that and and
so you know it they were surprised how difficult
The job was and I know I'm still trying to get
just an antenna up where I teach So hopefully
we can work on that again this year, but after
the forum In that same room, AWRL has the youth
outreach forum and Steve Goodgame, K5 ATA will
be doing that. And so that'll be kind of the
same, kind of the same thing. It'll talk about
how to, you know, reach young people and work
with young people. And then after that, we have
another collegiate event. So Tony, tell us about
Dewey's. Yep, so for many years there has been
a collegiate amateur radio dinner at Dayton.
I think it's typically been on Friday nights.
It's just been an open invitation to people to
come hang out, you know, eat some food. So we're
continuing that again this year. This year will
be a Saturday night, so the 20th on Saturday
at 630 p .m. We'll be meeting at Dewey's Pizza
at New University of Dayton. Again, all are welcome
who are associated with Collegiate Amateur Radio.
It's a big social hour. Again, no agenda per
se other than just to give an opportunity for
everyone to hang out and talk. So we actually
have an RSVP if you'd like to come. I don't know,
Neil, if you can add a link somehow. If you make
it to our Discord or Facebook group for the Collegiate
Amateur Radio program, we have a link there.
We just want to have RSVP so we have enough seats
saved. So definitely join us for that. And it's
worth noting that the league is graciously stepping
in and helping offset some of the costs of that
as well. So that is fantastic. As always, the
league has been very generous for this sort of
stuff. And you mentioned Steve. Steve Goodgame
not only does the youth, but he's also one of
the liaisons for the collegiate program as well.
So a lot of great support there. Yeah. So that'll
be a whole afternoon of of AWRL youth outreach
between the collegiate program, the youth outreach,
and then the dinner at Dewey's. So that'll be
cool. Yeah, we have a QR code that's on the poster
at the Yoda booth to RSVP for that, but I'll
put a link in the description here after we get
done. And that way people will have a link to
sign up for that. So let's see. about that at
the collegiate amateur radio program booth at
Amvention. We'll have QR code also in sign. So
stop by there for more info. We'll be in the
ARRL area. You'll see Andy or me or some other
students. Yeah, we have a great group of volunteers.
They'll be manning the booth. I think almost
all of them are active students, you know, that
are coming down to Hamvention and hanging out
for a couple hours with us in the booth. So hopefully
trying to build those connections again as well.
So if you are a student out there, I know Neil
has a large portion of the collegiate community
that listens to HamTalk Live. So be sure to stop
by. you know the booth and you know you might
see us but you also might see some other students
and you can have some of those very practical
conversations that you know oh yeah I have this
struggle at my club too here's how I got around
it or yeah this is something that we would love
to collaborate on and you know build a lot of
those connections I mean that's what Dayton's
all about is building connections and seeing
friends so trying to facilitate as much of that
as we can. Absolutely that's what it's about
is seeing everybody and Gathering together and
sharing ideas and some deals occasionally. That's
what we're after. So that's some of the stuff
on Saturday. Of course, Saturday morning right
at the beginning, 9 15 is the youth forum that
Carol Perry puts on in forum room two. And we
have some former Yoda campers that will be speaking
at the forum. I know Katie and Lyle are there.
I forgot to look at the list and see who else
is there, but I know for sure they will be there
speaking. And again, we'll do the youth social
hour at noon again, so we're gonna keep these
college kids well fed we have snacks both days
and then pizza At Saturday evening, so we'll
keep everybody well fed So those are some of
the things for the young people And then let
me talk a little bit about what's going on at
the Yoda booth in the behind the Yoda booth.
There's a small area for some miniature forums
and Eris is partnering with us on that this year
and we've always had Ham -Sci there. And so there'll
be some many forums there. At 10 o 'clock on
Friday, Dan White from Valparaiso University
will be there talking about sparking interest
in amateur radio and teachers and students through
Eris. So that will be going on Friday morning
at 10. And that's going to be at booth 4303.
So 4303 behind the Yoda booth and behind the
Eris booth there is where you'll find that. And
then Dave Casden, 88Y from Case Western Reserve,
will be speaking with HamSci at 11. And then,
of course, our youth social will be at 12. And
then one of Dr. Nathaniel Frisell's students
from the University of Scranton will be speaking
at 1 o 'clock. And then at 2 o 'clock, Eris's
engineering Chair, Randy Berger, W A 0 D will
be speaking. So those are on Friday. And then
on Saturday at 10 o 'clock, Randy will be speaking
again, giving a how to work the repeaters on
the ISS. So if you wanted to do that, Randy is
going to be there to talk about that and take
some questions. Gary McKeaton from HamSci will
be speaking at 11 about the festival of eclipse
ionospheric science so we've got another eclipse
coming up so that's at 11 and then 12 o 'clock
again youth social One o 'clock VLF science by
another one of the University of Scranton folks.
And then at two o 'clock on Saturday, heiress
will have a post forum question and answer session.
So that'll be right after their forum and a meet
and greet. So that will be taking place and we'll
have a big poster up with all of that on it.
But if you go to youth on the air dot org slash
ham vincen, twenty, twenty three, or just look
on the front page of youth on the air dot org.
There's a link and it'll run all those times
down. So if you missed those, uh, you can, you
can check those out. All right. Well, we're going
to take a break. When we come back, we're going
to talk some more about Hamvention with Tony
Malusi, KD8RTT. and Andy Malusi KK4 LWR right
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.com. We're back with Tony Melusi, KD8RTT and
Andy Melusi, KK4LWR. And guys, I just want to
talk a little bit about Hamvention. I'm excited
and ready, almost ready to go, I should say.
The pile of stuff in my dining room is getting
bigger by the day. All these banners and signs
and pamphlets and... TV, TV show up today. There's
all kinds of stuff down there. And so, you know,
I'm really looking forward to having the booth
and having all the young people meet each other
again and see how they're doing. Since they attended
camp and meet some new young people who might
be coming to camp at some point. So what are
you guys looking forward to this year at Hamvention?
So I haven't been to Hamvention since COVID in
person. So I am looking forward to just being
back. You know, it's one of those things where
it was such a big part of my life. Then we took
those two year break and last year I ended up
getting married. So, you know, this is going
to be my first time going back to Hamvention.
since 2019. So, you know, that's a long time.
So I'm just looking forward to that, seeing friends
who I haven't seen in a while. All that sort
of thing, you know, watching to see what Jocelyn
points to, you know, all of that stuff. Yeah,
there's an inside joke there about Jocelyn. It
seems like every time at camp we would have a
picture of him, he would be pointing to something
to show somebody something and so. So we say
that Jocelyn's continually pointing at things.
So yeah, Jocelyn will be there and probably even
have his little pointer stick. You haven't seen
the pointer stick? No, I haven't. He's got the
pointer stick with the little Mickey hand on
the end of it. Oh. Is he going to be taking that
to to Yoda camp this year? Yeah, I would imagine
so. He did last year anyway. So, you know, I
think he's got the official the official Jocelyn
pointing stick so he can point out everything.
Well, how about you, Tony? Yeah, no, it's kind
of the same thing. I mean, I was there last year,
but I'm so excited to get back, see people. That's
that's the main thing. You know, there's there's.
There's a handful of people I run into every
year at Dayton that's nice to see them. People
I met on the air and then only knew from on the
air, then met in person, ran into them by chance.
There's also a bunch of the collegiate people
and other younger hams I've been seeing for years,
Sterling, Marty, et cetera, just hanging out,
seeing people again, my favorite part, and me
entering through the flea market a few times
to see if I can find anything good. Find something
that you can't live without. Yes, but I can stuff
in my suitcase. Yeah, that boat anchor might
be a little expensive to get home. Yeah. Yeah,
what was that on Ham Nation last night? The 290
pound Transformers? Yeah. Yeah. Might not quite
fit in the luggage Tony. Sorry Or that that case
of 10 meter FM radios. Yeah. Yeah Yeah exactly
But you know invention that's cool is you can
find that person that drove up from Florida and
asked if they could drive back with Whatever
you bought meet up. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, of course
of course, so Now, if somebody's coming to Hamvention
for the first time, what's on the must -do list
for them? Ooh, that's a tough one. There is a
lot to do at Hamvention. I know the first year
I barely even hit the flea market because I was
just consumed in the commercial section the whole
time. There's just enough there for two days,
seeing all the different vendors and all the
different things because it's never a quick...
Never a quick interaction when you talk to someone.
You go over to Eris or you go over to Amsat,
and you're like, oh, this is going to be a quick
little chat. And two hours later, you're still
talking to them because you're learning something
new or you're trying something for the first
time. So there's a lot of that at Hamvention.
So I think commercial area is pretty good. If
you have something, though, on your mind that
you want to find in the flea market, that is
the first thing you have to go hit up. Yeah.
If you want something, be there first thing in
the morning. Yeah, that's my advice. If you want
something, hit the flea market first thing when
you get there and then also the last thing before
you leave because that's when you'll get the
deals. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If there's something
you need and it's not Amvention, you don't need
it, but you got to be there early. You got to
be there at the beginning. You got to find it.
You got to get it before it's gone. And then
like you said, at the end, nobody wants to take
that stuff home. So you got to hang out at the
end and that's when you'll get the deals on everything.
But if there was something you were counting
on, it almost assuredly will be gone by the time
you wait until Sunday at one. But sometimes you
find some real gems in there too. Oh yeah. Tony
and I have gotten pleasantly surprised by finding
attenuators or adapters or stuff. Saturday or
Sunday morning is a great time to get them. So
And of course Sunday is free So you can get you
can get a free ticket If you just go on Sunday,
but you only get like what was it four hours
nine to one I think The other thing I highly
recommend especially if you're gonna be there
all weekend is get your tickets and go to the
redrawing of prizes Oh yeah. You never know what
you'll win in the redraw. So I highly recommend
that. I know at a Hamcasian in Orlando, I won
a 7 ,300 off that. So like there can be some
good prizes by going to that redraw. I had a
friend in college who won a tower at that. Wow.
And then he had to deal with how he could get
the tower when he didn't own a house. But he
won a tower that's cool. Yeah. Yeah the only
thing I remember winning Was it Dayton and it
was one of those through the glass mobile two
meter antennas I don't know if you ever remember
those but they had this little box that you'd
stick on the windshield and then the other side
there was this little little triangular shaped
thing and then the whip would stick out of it
and they were terrible. Which is probably why
they're not around anymore. But yeah, I won one
and I used it. I used it. I had a card and I
had to use it because I couldn't put a different
antenna on it. So it solved the issue. But yeah,
SWR wasn't real great on that one. But hey, I
want it, the Dayton. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing
I'd recommend people check out or seek out, I
should say, is look at what's going on in the
evenings after the show. You know, I've got the
contest suites and you've got people having dinners,
you know, the collegiate dinner, but there's
other dinners and get togethers and tons of stuff
going on in the evening. So. Um, and from, in
my experience and everyone's pretty welcoming.
So make some friends throughout the day, see
what they're doing and, uh, go have fun at night.
There's plenty going on. Yeah, I know Bryant's
going to be speaking at the contest dinner. I
believe it is. And there's the top band dinner
and CQ hall of fame inductions. And there's,
there's just so much going on at night. That,
uh, it's like the day you can't get to all of
it at once. So I know, uh, the spurious emissions
band I heard are taking a year off. So I was,
I was really making plans to make sure that I
got to that this time. I keep saying, I'm going
to go and see it live instead of on YouTube.
And then I heard that they're taking the year
off, so you won't be able to do that. But the
contest, super sweet. And there's pizza parties
at like 10 30 or 11 o 'clock every night at those.
So if you like pizza, there's plenty of opportunities
for pizza. Not to mention, you can make some
really incredible friends by going to those contest
suites. And even just the conversations and talking
with folks there, even if you're not a big contester
and you're just a DXer or even just starting
to get into the hobby, you can learn a lot from
just sitting at a table, sharing some pizza with
folks who have been doing this for 10 or 15 or
more years and just get some great pointers from
operating or from gear to get or setups to have.
So highly recommend those contest suites there.
There's a lot of great learning there All right,
so the next question is what's the one thing
you have to bring home I Think I think an antenna
of some sort I feel like every year I've gone
to Dayton. I've come on with an antenna It's
it's kind of a tradition be it a little rubber
duck or something bigger. So Find that antenna
you don't need and buy it. Yeah, I know this
year I'm looking for a dummy load. So that's
what I'm hoping to come home with. But every
year there also seems to be usually a field day
shirt has been something that I always seem to
end up getting at Hamvention. You know, it's
a month away and all that. The league is there.
They have a pretty good in -stock supply of shirts
and books and stuff like that. With Tony and
I hanging out in that section a lot with the
collegiate booth, I tend to walk home with at
least a field day shirt. More recently, it's
also been with a renewal of my Diamond Club membership.
Yeah, it seems like, you know, there for a long
time, I had to come home with a Dayton shirt
every year. And that, but I know I can order
this stuff online or, or, you know, back then
I could go to my local ham radio store. Um, when
those were actually a thing like everywhere and
not just here and there, um, and, and, you know,
and get stuff or order stuff, but. There was
always just something special about picking it
up at Dayton and taking it home. The instant
gratification of, you know, I'm going to take
this home and I'm going to go back to the hotel
and open it up and start programming it or, or,
you know, or I'm going to go install that antenna.
Yeah, there are definitely some like cult classics
though for Dayton. If it's your first time, there's
the Waffle House shirt. There's the Dayton Ham
Mention shirt. There's the Boy Scouts patch.
You know, there are some definite Dayton specific
things that I know a lot of people year over
year will not, you know, miss out on. So, you
know, that's always something to look at too
is, you know, if you're like really into some
of those things, you know, both Tony and I are
in the scouts. So we've gotten a few patches
over the years and stuff like that. But Uh, yeah,
those are definitely highlights for some folks
at Dayton. And then, you know, I was probably
sick of hearing the cheesecake on a stick story,
but, you know, back when it was at Harrah Arena,
the buildings were all scattered out all over
the place, but there wasn't like a clear path.
And so there was this one intersection that the
only way to describe it that you had to turn
to go into the other building was that's where
the Cheesecake on a Stick stand is. And so it's
like, you know, you go down this way, you turn
left at Cheesecake on a Stick, you go down the
ramp and you, you know, and that's, that's where,
you know, this booth is. And, and so it just
became a thing. And so eventually I'm like, you
know, I've been to Dayton all these years. I've
never had Cheesecake on a Stick. So I finally
got it and then they, you know, moved and they
didn't have it the first year out in Greene County.
And so I said something and now it's like three
different places have cheesecake on a stick now.
I mean, the food vendors there, you can pretty
much find anything deep fried, you know. Oh yeah.
There's definitely a, you know, if you are into
deep fried food, Dayton certainly has you covered.
Yeah. Yeah. The ice cream's pretty good. I usually
go for the grilled chicken, but that's a shorter
line. I think that's why it's too healthy. Yeah.
It's too healthy. Oh, geez. Well, I look forward
to seeing the two of you. at Hamvention as well
as a bunch of other people and no photo contest
this year, Andy? No, no, none going on right
now. Was that your last Hamvention? When you
had the photo competition? With Michelle? Yeah,
I think that was actually. Yeah, it's been a
while, so. Yeah, I remember Andy coming up to
me and he's like, Oh, hi, I finally ran into
you. Hey, I need to take your picture and take
off. I'm like, okay, sure. And you know, take
my picture with you and you take off. And I'm
like, okay. And then later found out it was some
competition you guys were in. So yeah, there's
some shenanigans and fun stuff that always happens
to Dayton. So I did hear a rumor and I probably
I'm sworn to secrecy. So, but I did hear a rumor
that there's going to be quite a fun activity
going on. So Make sure you keep your ear to the
ground on some of the other podcasts, we'll say.
It sounds like a lot of fun. I'll just say that.
Just keep an ear to the ground. The thing I am
actually most looking forward to for this Hamvention,
on top of everything else, is actually if this
sort of kicks off a few months of seeing some
friends and doing some amateur radio because
the three folks on this chat tonight are getting
the band back together in July. Yes, we are getting
the band back together. Oh, I was doing the Yoda
camp in Canada and I didn't I never did hear.
Are Daisy and Max coming to camp this year? No,
Daisy and Max are not going to venture up north
of the border. That might be too cold for their
Floridian blood. As you know, Minotridoxins are
best kept warm in Florida, not moderately warm
in Canada. Yeah, there you go. I will look forward
to yeah, we look forward to getting the band
back together there as well and We've got a great
week lined up for the Yoda camp again this year.
So Thanks guys for these these two are working
on the building aspect of Camp so they get to
start right away after we take all the camp photos
Monday morning I'm going to be building some
antennas and some code oscillators and a straight
key, I believe, this year. And then we're going
to use them for the next five days. Yeah, we're
going to use them. We're going to do a POTA activation.
It's a twofer for those of you who are into POTA.
So make sure you keep an eye out for that. But
I'm looking forward to it. Well guys, I'm gonna
call it quits here for tonight, but the next
episode will be live from Dayton and Hopefully
We'll have some more to talk about so Sounds
good Sounds great. Thanks. Thanks Neil and drop
by the collegiate amateur radio booth if you're
in Dayton say hello. Yeah, we look forward to
seeing everyone and Yeah Also go Gators. And
go Wildcats, yes. All right. Well, that's a wrap
for this edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my
guests, Tony Melusi, KD8RTT, and Andy Melusi,
KK4LWR, and everybody out there in cyberspace
for listening. and invite you back Thursday night
right around 9 p .m. Eastern Time live from Hamvention.
For a list of all of our upcoming guests go to
HamTalkLive .com. For now this is Neil Rapp WB9VPG
saying 7 -3, 7 -5 and may the good DX be yours.
To you and your family I'll be seeing you further
down the line