WEBVTT 00:00:00.940 --> 00:00:03.879 This episode of HamTalk Live is brought to you 00:00:03.879 --> 00:00:07.280 by Tower Electronics. For connectors, cables, 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:14.220 and more, call 920 -435 -2973 or visit PL -259 00:00:14.220 --> 00:00:18.879 .com. And by ICOM, heard it, worked it, logged 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:24.120 it. Visit www .icomamerica .com slash amateur 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:32.079 for more information about ICOM radios. With 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:37.539 Neographer, here we go Welcome to Amtok Live 00:00:37.539 --> 00:00:41.979 Call in, let's talk, Neil's your guy Amtok Live, 00:00:42.280 --> 00:01:07.989 here we go Well, we're sort of live. Episode 00:01:07.989 --> 00:01:15.530 number 317 WRTC 2023, recorded on April 20th, 00:01:15.670 --> 00:01:20.430 2023. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks 00:01:20.430 --> 00:01:23.609 for tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live. 00:01:24.409 --> 00:01:31.599 Today we're joined by Fabio Scattino. And we'll 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:34.640 be talking about the World Radio Sport Team Championship 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:38.920 coming up in Italy. Last episode, Michael Coulter, 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.200 W8CI, was here to talk about the Dayton Hamvention. 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:45.159 If you missed that show, you can listen anytime 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:49.079 ham talk live .com or on your favorite podcast 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:52.760 app or on YouTube. And speaking of hamvention, 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:55.900 let me remind you that the national voice of 00:01:55.900 --> 00:01:58.180 America museum of broadcasting will have their 00:01:58.180 --> 00:02:01.819 usual extended hours. 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Visit iCom America. running barefoot 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:40.279 is for the beach we're cranking 1 .5 trillion 00:05:40.279 --> 00:06:07.060 nanowatts right here on ham talk live Welcome 00:06:07.060 --> 00:06:11.540 back to HamTalk Live. Tonight, Fabio Schettino, 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:16.800 I4UFH, joins us on the Orlando Amateur Radio 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:20.720 Club and hamcation Zoom line. Fabio is the vice 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:26.180 president of WRTC. That's the World Radio Sport 00:06:26.180 --> 00:06:31.709 Team Championship. Uh, this year, 2023, it is 00:06:31.709 --> 00:06:36.509 in Bologna, Italy. So Fabio joins us, uh, from 00:06:36.509 --> 00:06:39.250 Bologna today. So thank you for being on the 00:06:39.250 --> 00:06:44.230 show, Fabio. Well, thanks. Hey, nice to meet, 00:06:44.290 --> 00:06:47.870 nice to meet you. Uh, surely we had time, uh, 00:06:47.970 --> 00:06:50.889 we're following together to meet this evening, 00:06:50.930 --> 00:06:53.709 but really we have a very pleasure to be here 00:06:53.709 --> 00:06:59.720 with you in your own local life. Well, WRTC has 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:04.519 been postponed and postponed and postponed due 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:09.800 to COVID -19. And so it's been a while since 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:12.680 we've had one of these. So if you could just 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:14.860 kind of fill everybody in if they haven't heard 00:07:14.860 --> 00:07:19.519 of WRTC or it's like I said, it's been a while 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.519 since we've had one because it's supposed to 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:27.040 be every four years, but Fill everybody in on 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:36.019 what WRTC is. Fine. Well, WRTC is almost an event 00:07:36.019 --> 00:07:42.920 that started in 1990 from Seattle in West coast, 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:48.579 inside of Goodwill games. And after a while, 00:07:48.779 --> 00:07:52.740 a lot of U .S. guys, mainly U .S. guys from the 00:07:52.740 --> 00:07:56.220 West Coast, starting to thinking that should 00:07:56.220 --> 00:07:59.180 be interesting to have a competition between 00:07:59.180 --> 00:08:02.519 the best of the best radio contesting guys around 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:08.000 the world. So in 1996, there was the first WRTC 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:12.480 with new rules where a lot of countries were 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:16.300 invited to compete together on the same play 00:08:16.300 --> 00:08:21.060 field. And year by year, even four years by four 00:08:21.060 --> 00:08:24.680 years, it started to become a real Olympic games. 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:37.340 It's four years. And I was active in almost five 00:08:37.340 --> 00:08:40.779 WRTC. So I am following this adventure for almost 00:08:40.779 --> 00:08:47.879 25 years. And as competitor or as referee. And 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:54.299 in 2018, we had the opportunity to promote Italy 00:08:54.299 --> 00:09:00.340 as the next WRTC state, a country that hosted 00:09:00.340 --> 00:09:05.659 this event. Unfortunately, the last two years, 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.159 three years at least, with the COVID, we had 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:15.080 a lot of issues to organize. sponsoring, even 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:18.600 this is, as you know, a voluntary event, so we 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:26.159 have a lot of trouble to find what we need to 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.960 organize this event. We have postponed it for 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:33.759 one year, but we are ready. And this July we 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:40.779 will be hosting almost 66 teams that are coming 00:09:40.779 --> 00:09:45.879 from all 45 countries all around the world with 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:53.820 66 referees that will be hosting all our network 00:09:53.820 --> 00:09:58.059 stations that we have all around the Pianura 00:09:58.059 --> 00:10:01.460 Padana area. It's a very flat area in the north 00:10:01.460 --> 00:10:04.360 and center part of Italy near the city of Bologna. 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:08.399 And Bologna is the city where was born Guillermo 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:12.960 Marconi, the father of a radio. So more or less, 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:18.220 you need to come in Italy just for visit the 00:10:18.220 --> 00:10:25.259 WRTC at quarter and the museum of the Marconi, 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:29.379 Guillermo Marconi, the father of a radio. Well, 00:10:29.500 --> 00:10:33.399 WRTC is almost a big competition, a competition 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:40.139 where is activated during the ARU contest in 00:10:40.139 --> 00:10:44.620 July. The second weekend of July is a 24 -hour 00:10:44.620 --> 00:10:50.440 competition. We have a 66 station all spread 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:57.500 out up about 80, 85 kilometers. And all these 00:10:57.500 --> 00:11:00.200 stations have the same equipment, same kind of 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:05.759 antennas, same kind of tower, cable length, same 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:10.820 rotator. The competition will be a multi -tool, 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:14.399 so two operators will be active simultaneously 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:18.480 on two bands simultaneously, so they need to 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.340 bring with them radios, filters, equipment. It's 00:11:22.340 --> 00:11:26.980 a 100 watt event, so no amplifiers. And it's 00:11:26.980 --> 00:11:32.419 like a big race on the same circuit, no? The 00:11:32.419 --> 00:11:37.320 24 -hours Le Mans, no? Same car, same circuit, 00:11:37.899 --> 00:11:41.279 the winner is who make more QSOs and more multipliers. 00:11:41.700 --> 00:11:46.039 This is a simple rules as any contest, but as 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:51.679 you know, each contest is his station, is a different 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:55.529 location, different continent, different... rules 00:11:55.529 --> 00:12:00.950 that are applied, so maybe good operators sometime 00:12:00.950 --> 00:12:04.570 have advantages of good location. In that play, 00:12:04.769 --> 00:12:07.169 in that case, there is no advantages from the 00:12:07.169 --> 00:12:10.129 location, no advantages from the power, from 00:12:10.129 --> 00:12:14.610 the antennas. Everything is equal. We have a 00:12:14.610 --> 00:12:19.230 very larger flat area of about 100 km by 30 km, 00:12:19.309 --> 00:12:23.600 so we have no issues about that. And is near 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:28.159 the Adriatic Sea, from Bologna City and the Adriatic 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:35.659 Sea on the right side of Italy. And surely we 00:12:35.659 --> 00:12:38.179 expect to have a very good, great competition. 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:43.940 We have almost all the, all five bands open almost 00:12:43.940 --> 00:12:48.980 24 years. That's right. 24 hours. Because 10 00:12:48.980 --> 00:12:54.210 meter is really open. even in the night, so really 00:12:54.210 --> 00:12:58.649 we have a very great opportunity to broker the 00:12:58.649 --> 00:13:03.570 6 ,000, 6 ,000 and a half QSOs in 24 hours in 00:13:03.570 --> 00:13:07.750 Amalt 2. And we really expect to have this, such 00:13:07.750 --> 00:13:13.190 kind of effort. For organizing this event, we 00:13:13.190 --> 00:13:16.529 have involved a lot of volunteers. They are coming 00:13:16.529 --> 00:13:19.370 almost from, most from Italy, but we have also 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:23.100 A lot of volunteers from Germany, from Slovenia, 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:27.960 from France that are interested to join us. As 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:30.940 you can understand, this is quite a unique event 00:13:30.940 --> 00:13:36.580 that should happen almost four, each four years. 00:13:36.980 --> 00:13:40.879 Don't really know when we'll be next time, but 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:44.539 probably I hope that we'll be in Asia because 00:13:44.539 --> 00:13:48.740 it is one of the continent that was never been. 00:13:49.289 --> 00:13:52.970 But nevertheless, we have a lot of volunteers 00:13:52.970 --> 00:13:56.210 that will be installed, all the antennas, all 00:13:56.210 --> 00:14:01.509 the towers up one week before the event. And 00:14:01.509 --> 00:14:07.330 we are all organized at everything into an headquarter 00:14:07.330 --> 00:14:11.029 area that is located in the small town that the 00:14:11.029 --> 00:14:16.409 name is Castel San Pietro, Terme. that you can 00:14:16.409 --> 00:14:20.090 see is 30 kilometers from Bologna. We have a 00:14:20.090 --> 00:14:27.710 lot of facilities. We have about 250 double bedroom 00:14:27.710 --> 00:14:33.789 available for all the guests, even was referees 00:14:33.789 --> 00:14:36.690 or competitors, or even all the only visitors 00:14:36.690 --> 00:14:41.769 that want to join us, our event. So this is one 00:14:41.769 --> 00:14:45.490 of the most interesting events that should happen 00:14:45.490 --> 00:14:51.149 for contesting. We are contesting guys from almost 00:14:51.149 --> 00:14:54.070 all the parts of the world, starting from Africa, 00:14:54.289 --> 00:14:57.990 South America, North America. We have about 10 00:14:57.990 --> 00:15:02.570 teams from North America. 12 teams, we include 00:15:02.570 --> 00:15:07.539 Canada too. And we have three teams from Oceania, 00:15:08.100 --> 00:15:13.340 from BK, ZL, Kilo, Hotel 6. South American is 00:15:13.340 --> 00:15:17.179 represented from the Charlie Echo guys. And Africa 00:15:17.179 --> 00:15:20.399 is represented for the first time from three 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:23.899 different teams, North Center and South Africa. 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.779 We have applied different rules, selection rules, 00:15:29.179 --> 00:15:34.320 different from the early WLTC. Because surely 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:37.600 you can understand that it's not fair to compare 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:40.600 results from Northern Africa to Southern Africa. 00:15:40.700 --> 00:15:43.659 There is almost 3000 kilometers between them. 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:48.179 So we have split Africa in three different areas 00:15:48.179 --> 00:15:51.320 and we have three different team leader. Northern 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:55.139 Africa, Central Africa and Southern Africa. Even 00:15:55.139 --> 00:15:57.820 the same with South America. We have Northern 00:15:57.820 --> 00:16:02.860 part of South America that includes the all the 00:16:02.860 --> 00:16:08.539 Papa 40 PJs area that are South America and Central 00:16:08.539 --> 00:16:12.059 America. Central South America include the Papa 00:16:12.059 --> 00:16:15.220 Yankee guys, the PY guys, and the Southern part, 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.379 including Charlie Echo, Lima Uniform, Charlie 00:16:18.379 --> 00:16:23.059 X -ray, and so on. We have tried to have a more 00:16:23.059 --> 00:16:33.360 fair way to split the selection area. And to 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:38.480 do that, we have analyzed up to 18 millions of 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:42.820 QSOs in the last five years of results, including 00:16:42.820 --> 00:16:48.519 ARL, CQWW and WPX score, collecting them into 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:55.269 a database and extracting where we call the density 00:16:55.269 --> 00:16:58.429 area. How many, how much radio are there in the 00:16:58.429 --> 00:17:02.169 final area? Well, this was the area of selection, 00:17:02.289 --> 00:17:06.049 the selection area. You really don't believe 00:17:06.049 --> 00:17:13.589 that almost we have 8 % of locks of QSO that 00:17:13.589 --> 00:17:18.150 during this 18 million of QSO that coming from 00:17:18.150 --> 00:17:22.450 Japan, but really very few lock from Japan. The 00:17:22.450 --> 00:17:25.670 selection criteria in this way, they've added 00:17:25.670 --> 00:17:32.509 two more competitors from Japan instead of one 00:17:32.509 --> 00:17:35.269 of the previous that we are seeing. Different 00:17:35.269 --> 00:17:39.349 logic, different way to have a more fair competition 00:17:39.349 --> 00:17:44.049 around the world. I'm really intrigued by having 00:17:44.569 --> 00:17:48.170 You know, the same antennas in the same general 00:17:48.170 --> 00:17:51.309 area, the same kind of train, you know, trying 00:17:51.309 --> 00:17:54.109 to make everything equal for these competitors. 00:17:54.109 --> 00:17:58.410 And it really gets, you know, intriguing because 00:17:58.410 --> 00:18:02.890 it comes down to, you know, just being a great 00:18:02.890 --> 00:18:09.170 operator and see those. you know, kinds of things 00:18:09.170 --> 00:18:14.470 and little things mean a lot when it comes to 00:18:14.470 --> 00:18:20.049 the competition and so I applaud your efforts 00:18:20.049 --> 00:18:24.329 in trying to make this as fair as possible because 00:18:24.329 --> 00:18:28.690 it's not an easy Easy thing to do and you know 00:18:28.690 --> 00:18:32.789 you already mentioned I think you said 250 room 00:18:32.789 --> 00:18:37.970 for 250 people and 66 teams that's a lot of antennas 00:18:37.970 --> 00:18:43.650 a lot of Tents a lot of stuff for a volunteer 00:18:43.650 --> 00:18:48.210 team to put all together and so so how are those 00:18:48.210 --> 00:18:53.220 preparations coming along for that? Well, we 00:18:53.220 --> 00:19:00.140 have step -by -step prepared everything in the 00:19:00.140 --> 00:19:04.099 last couple of years. We have received a huge 00:19:04.099 --> 00:19:10.000 amount of help from Limazul LZ antennas that 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:15.200 offered to us all the 67, 68 antennas free of 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.500 charge. We didn't pay the antennas, so we have 00:19:18.500 --> 00:19:23.190 a very huge support from Li -Masulu antenna that 00:19:23.190 --> 00:19:28.170 even the support of K1 Li -Masulu do and this 00:19:28.170 --> 00:19:31.250 is what the first start of that we have collected 00:19:31.250 --> 00:19:34.250 all the stuff we have manufactured the towers 00:19:34.250 --> 00:19:38.769 we have a small company in Sicily in IT9 area 00:19:38.769 --> 00:19:43.490 that have manufactured all the telescopic towers 00:19:43.490 --> 00:19:48.170 and so we have step by step collected all the 00:19:48.170 --> 00:19:51.900 stuff that we needed. Now we are storing everything 00:19:51.900 --> 00:19:59.880 in a very large places where we have almost all 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:05.380 the stuff ready to be installed. At least we 00:20:05.380 --> 00:20:09.519 need to move them in June. We expect to have 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:13.619 some trucks that go around the area to put up 00:20:13.619 --> 00:20:18.880 on this area all the towers and all the for the 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:25.519 antennas. And we have up about 14 group of volunteers 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:28.660 that will be installed this antenna one week 00:20:28.660 --> 00:20:31.880 before the contest. So we expect from the end 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:36.819 of June to the 6th of July that all this antenna 00:20:36.819 --> 00:20:44.059 will be up and ready to go. We are planning to 00:20:44.059 --> 00:20:47.039 have a lot of training to these teams. We have 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:51.420 about 14 teams that will be ready to install 00:20:51.420 --> 00:20:55.559 the old antennas. We have made a couple of training 00:20:55.559 --> 00:21:04.890 during the last couple of months. and we're expecting 00:21:04.890 --> 00:21:09.170 that everyone don't have any doubts how to install 00:21:09.170 --> 00:21:16.690 this system. Altogether, we have a new way, we 00:21:16.690 --> 00:21:21.349 have just the WOTC is like a platform to make 00:21:21.349 --> 00:21:25.190 some experiments, no? Like, we are harmiter radio, 00:21:25.210 --> 00:21:29.609 so we love to do some new technical experiment. 00:21:29.950 --> 00:21:38.150 And in this WRTC, we have had a way to collect 00:21:38.150 --> 00:21:46.269 all the QSOs from all the 65 stations through 00:21:46.269 --> 00:21:53.690 65 separate VPN, virtual private network. All 00:21:53.690 --> 00:21:57.349 these QSOs will be collected from a big data 00:21:57.349 --> 00:22:05.470 server. for what is the scope of that? Well, 00:22:05.589 --> 00:22:10.549 we want to generate in real time a ranking, an 00:22:10.549 --> 00:22:14.990 award ranking of who is working the WRTC station. 00:22:15.549 --> 00:22:19.890 So we can see in real time who will be the winner 00:22:19.890 --> 00:22:25.460 of the station that will work. all the WRTC may 00:22:25.460 --> 00:22:28.880 be in SSB, may be in CW, may be on 10, or may 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:32.180 be in all band and so on. Because any station 00:22:32.180 --> 00:22:37.200 can work, can be worked at up to about 10 times, 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:43.339 5 in SSB, 5 in CW. And then we have several award 00:22:43.339 --> 00:22:49.240 that will be held for this event. And this way 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:53.259 to collect all the cues of Aloha's to have a 00:22:53.259 --> 00:22:57.700 real -time ranking of all the commuterators that 00:22:57.700 --> 00:23:02.420 work at the WRTC station. So it could be very 00:23:02.420 --> 00:23:06.099 interesting to see this kind of racing in real 00:23:06.099 --> 00:23:12.240 time, that's available worldwide. And this is 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:15.980 even an experimental way, but we love to do something 00:23:15.980 --> 00:23:21.839 more new each WRTC. And I expect to be Confirming 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:25.619 the next one. It's a little bit complicated technology. 00:23:25.859 --> 00:23:30.539 You need to have some good IT guys, but even 00:23:30.539 --> 00:23:36.180 we try to do that. It's a, we try to do our best 00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:43.119 to allow everyone to be not as the, what I mean, 00:23:43.619 --> 00:23:47.279 the old timers know that I will see the results 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:50.890 after one month, after one week and so on. Real 00:23:50.890 --> 00:23:54.369 time, you know, if you are the first that winning 00:23:54.369 --> 00:23:57.569 your country or you're winning your continent 00:23:57.569 --> 00:24:02.789 and so on. I work a lot with youth Fabio and 00:24:02.789 --> 00:24:06.170 then this is one of the things that they have 00:24:06.170 --> 00:24:09.829 said over and over again that they would want 00:24:09.829 --> 00:24:14.390 for contesting is this live scoring so they can 00:24:14.390 --> 00:24:17.759 see where they are. uh... compared to everyone 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:21.720 else and it it's just made a a huge difference 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:26.519 uh... and so i'd again applaud your your idea 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:30.420 here of trying to make this a live competition 00:24:30.420 --> 00:24:33.980 uh... where you can uh... kind of cheer everybody 00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:38.079 on and uh... the competitors can see where they're 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:42.559 at uh... you know in real time and their families 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:47.940 and friends It just makes it much more interesting, 00:24:47.960 --> 00:25:11.769 I think. develop the new programs, not only push 00:25:11.769 --> 00:25:16.150 a button and make a QSO or maybe some digital 00:25:16.150 --> 00:25:21.269 QSO that really we don't agree at least. The 00:25:21.269 --> 00:25:27.109 content, the WRTC is SSB and CW mode only. It's 00:25:27.109 --> 00:25:31.130 a human mode, what I call human mode, not digital 00:25:31.130 --> 00:25:36.579 mode. And what we want to have, right? the best 00:25:36.579 --> 00:25:42.579 operators in both mode, CW and SSB, because both 00:25:42.579 --> 00:25:49.759 of the operators has been selected and ranked 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:57.220 in the last 24 contests, in the last 2019 -2020 00:25:57.220 --> 00:26:03.740 contests, scoring contests, and both of them, 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:08.369 both the operator has been selected between SSB 00:26:08.369 --> 00:26:13.369 and CW content so we need to have the best operator 00:26:13.369 --> 00:26:18.609 that can perform well in both modes. Lots of 00:26:18.609 --> 00:26:21.789 preparation, lots of time and effort and money 00:26:21.789 --> 00:26:27.089 to do this but a fabulous event and look forward 00:26:27.089 --> 00:26:29.369 to hearing more about that. We're going to take 00:26:29.369 --> 00:26:32.640 a break. And when we come back, we're going to 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:37.180 talk about some of the ceremonies, the parties 00:26:37.180 --> 00:26:40.000 that go on, the opening and closing ceremonies. 00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:43.640 I want to talk a little bit about some of the 00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:46.940 youth teams and some of that that's going on. 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:52.140 So we'll talk about all of that with Fabio I4UFH 00:26:52.140 --> 00:26:55.119 right after this word from Tower Electronics 00:26:55.119 --> 00:27:01.430 right here on HamTalk Live. Jerry, what's up, 00:27:01.609 --> 00:27:04.349 man? I haven't seen you at Sunbucks in a while. 00:27:04.829 --> 00:27:06.849 I used to see you every morning getting coffee. 00:27:06.930 --> 00:27:10.650 What's up? Well, I can't afford Sunbucks five 00:27:10.650 --> 00:27:13.349 days a week anymore. I had to spend my money 00:27:13.349 --> 00:27:17.009 on PL -259s. You know, those antenna projects 00:27:17.009 --> 00:27:19.809 I've been meaning to do. I had to do them before 00:27:19.809 --> 00:27:23.589 my HOA finds out I have antennas. That's too 00:27:23.589 --> 00:27:26.109 bad, Jerry. I miss seeing you and catching up 00:27:26.109 --> 00:27:29.420 over coffee. You should get your PL -259s from 00:27:29.420 --> 00:27:36.420 Tower Electronics. They have great stuff. Jerry, 00:27:36.619 --> 00:27:40.720 you're back. Oh, QRM Heterodyne Frappuccino. 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:43.720 That's a good choice. How's it going? Did you 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:46.519 get all those antennas up before the HOA police 00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:50.019 showed up? Yeah, I got them all done. Thanks 00:27:50.019 --> 00:27:52.539 for telling me about Tower Electronics. Now I 00:27:52.539 --> 00:27:55.440 can have my coffee. I just saved a bunch of money 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:59.160 on my PL -259s by switching to Tower Electronics. 00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:02.619 Don't get caught without PL -259s. Visit Tower 00:28:02.619 --> 00:28:07.539 Electronics online at pl -259 .com or at a HamFest 00:28:07.539 --> 00:28:12.660 near you or give them a call at 920 -435 -2973 00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:15.519 and be sure to pick up some power poles, adapters 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:19.839 and cables too. Coming up on the Tower Electronics 00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:23.759 HamFest schedule. Cedarburg, Wisconsin, May 6th, 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:26.980 Sandwich, Illinois, May 7th, Dayton, Hamvention, 00:28:27.339 --> 00:28:31.099 May 19th through the 21st, and you can visit 00:28:31.099 --> 00:29:03.099 them anytime at PL -259 .com. And welcome back 00:29:03.099 --> 00:29:07.539 to Ham Talk Live. Be sure to check us out on 00:29:07.539 --> 00:29:13.339 Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. And we're going 00:29:13.339 --> 00:29:18.059 to get back to Fabio here in just a moment. But 00:29:18.059 --> 00:29:22.059 just want to remind you again about Dayton Hamvention. 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:25.000 We've got a live show coming up the night before 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:28.589 on Thursday. So make sure you tune in for that 00:29:28.589 --> 00:29:32.269 for all the latest news. And of course, we mentioned 00:29:32.269 --> 00:29:35.029 earlier, the Voice of America Museum will be 00:29:35.029 --> 00:29:38.609 open extended hours there. There's a bunch of 00:29:38.609 --> 00:29:42.549 us that will be there as well. So make sure you 00:29:42.549 --> 00:29:46.109 check that out. And we're back with Fabio Schettino, 00:29:46.309 --> 00:29:52.130 I4UFH. He is the vice president of WRTC 2023. 00:29:52.829 --> 00:29:55.890 which will be held just outside Bologna, Italy 00:29:55.890 --> 00:30:02.150 and Fabio, I know that there's a whole procession 00:30:02.150 --> 00:30:05.269 that happens before and after all the celebration 00:30:05.269 --> 00:30:09.269 of all the competitors. So tell us a little bit 00:30:09.269 --> 00:30:12.730 about the opening ceremonies and the closing 00:30:12.730 --> 00:30:20.000 ceremonies at this year's WRTC. First step is 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:23.619 I want to talk about what will be happening for 00:30:23.619 --> 00:30:26.880 the next generation of our radio. We'll have 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:32.900 a special group of young boys, young operator, 00:30:33.460 --> 00:30:39.119 six teams, all the old members less than 25 years 00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:42.279 old that will be operating for the first time 00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:45.900 all together and they will compete with the big 00:30:45.900 --> 00:30:52.380 guns. And so this is what we expect that HWRTC 00:30:52.380 --> 00:30:58.359 need to have because we need to have Helmer, 00:30:59.220 --> 00:31:04.819 the next one, the next guys that will be our 00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:10.640 future of Helmer Radio Hobby. Even we have some 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:16.950 special agreement with YOTA Group. And probably 00:31:16.950 --> 00:31:25.609 we'll be hosting five or six members of the European 00:31:25.609 --> 00:31:29.210 YOTA members less than 20 years old that will 00:31:29.210 --> 00:31:34.150 be joining with us to be active all the way during 00:31:34.150 --> 00:31:38.190 this event. And what will be happening during 00:31:38.190 --> 00:31:42.029 the open ceremony? So before the contest and 00:31:42.029 --> 00:31:47.779 after the contest? Well... We will receive everyone. 00:31:47.940 --> 00:31:53.240 Everyone will join us on the 4th of July and 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:57.140 almost all around the world will be probably 00:31:57.140 --> 00:32:00.940 joining all together on the 4th of July. For 00:32:00.940 --> 00:32:07.559 American guys it's a holiday day. And on the 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:11.480 5th of July we have an open ceremony. We expect 00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:15.779 to have this ceremony. streaming on our channels 00:32:15.779 --> 00:32:19.779 or Facebook or streaming that so everyone can 00:32:19.779 --> 00:32:23.740 join us. And this is one more step that we want 00:32:23.740 --> 00:32:32.480 to add to the WRTC 2022. Belfast Ceremony means 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:35.740 that all the teams will be presented to the public. 00:32:37.019 --> 00:32:41.119 We have a mayor of the city that will host us. 00:32:41.450 --> 00:32:44.470 Will we have Ministry of Telecommunication that 00:32:44.470 --> 00:32:48.630 will help us to supply for a special, unique 00:32:48.630 --> 00:32:53.769 call sign? And obviously the call sign will be 00:32:53.769 --> 00:32:57.890 notified to the competitors only Saturday morning. 00:32:58.769 --> 00:33:02.009 So no one knows about that. Even that will be 00:33:02.009 --> 00:33:07.569 a special one. Never issued before. So this is 00:33:07.569 --> 00:33:10.910 very difficult to obtain in any country, it's 00:33:10.910 --> 00:33:14.869 probable. And so we have a very great support 00:33:14.869 --> 00:33:17.609 from the Ministry of Telecommunication that helped 00:33:17.609 --> 00:33:24.509 us to have this opportunity. Any teams will be 00:33:24.509 --> 00:33:28.650 presented to the community, any referees will 00:33:28.650 --> 00:33:34.670 be presented to the community, so all the up 00:33:34.670 --> 00:33:42.849 about 66, 198 people will be ready to compete. 00:33:43.829 --> 00:33:48.289 In the next two days, there will be a couple 00:33:48.289 --> 00:33:51.710 of meetings with competitors and referees just 00:33:51.710 --> 00:33:57.009 to question and answering, just to understand 00:33:57.009 --> 00:33:59.289 if there is something that is not clear in the 00:33:59.289 --> 00:34:05.730 rules. Friday there will be the withdrawal of 00:34:05.730 --> 00:34:10.550 a team referee and the place where they will 00:34:10.550 --> 00:34:15.210 be active. There are 66 places available so they 00:34:15.210 --> 00:34:22.150 will be withdrawn randomly. It could be interesting 00:34:22.150 --> 00:34:25.389 and thrilling to see who will be the team and 00:34:25.389 --> 00:34:31.800 who will be his referee. Everything will go smoothly. 00:34:31.940 --> 00:34:36.059 We hope smoothly until Sunday evening. Sunday 00:34:36.059 --> 00:34:42.260 evening, we have a very high event that is organized 00:34:42.260 --> 00:34:46.199 from the mayor of the cities. We have a big event 00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:51.559 with the citizens. Just to join amateur radio 00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:55.340 all around the world with the citizens of small 00:34:55.340 --> 00:35:04.840 cities, small towns. just to know who are the 00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:10.300 amateur radio, why we are there. And this should 00:35:10.300 --> 00:35:14.340 be an event that allows us to explain really 00:35:14.340 --> 00:35:16.960 what is amateur radio to all the people that 00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:23.139 will be presenting this event. And Monday evening 00:35:23.139 --> 00:35:27.139 there will be a closing ceremony. after a long 00:35:27.139 --> 00:35:31.820 day of love checking should be our final ranking. 00:35:33.739 --> 00:35:45.239 And we expect to have the Princess Electra, the 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:48.739 daughter of Guglielmo Marconi that is still alive, 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:52.739 that probably we need to be in a confirmation 00:35:52.739 --> 00:35:59.000 from her. she will be pricing the withers. And 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:05.719 this should be the best one amateur radio can 00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:09.840 commit, no? A doctor of recording. Absolutely. 00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:14.719 Really. Absolutely. And we still need to expect 00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:17.780 a confirmation from her. She's 96 years old. 00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:23.559 We expect don't have any trouble. She lived between 00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:28.539 London, Italy, and USA, depending if it's available 00:36:28.539 --> 00:36:35.619 in Italy or not. It's not a matter of else. It's 00:36:35.619 --> 00:36:37.500 not a matter that I don't know where it's living 00:36:37.500 --> 00:36:45.199 in July, if it's available or not. We have a 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:52.309 last dinner with a very hot music, a lot of party 00:36:52.309 --> 00:36:58.030 beer and Italian buffet that never to explain. 00:36:58.530 --> 00:37:02.449 We hope that everyone knows that Italy is one 00:37:02.449 --> 00:37:08.269 of the most interesting countries for food. And 00:37:08.269 --> 00:37:11.889 surely we had another interesting activity during 00:37:11.889 --> 00:37:17.840 this day that should be a visit to another interesting 00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:21.420 area of Italy that is the Motor Valley. We are 00:37:21.420 --> 00:37:25.840 not far from Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bugatti headquarters. 00:37:26.739 --> 00:37:30.380 So we expect to have, if someone is interested, 00:37:30.619 --> 00:37:35.239 to visit this museum that is up about one hour 00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:39.099 from our headquarters. So there is surely some 00:37:39.099 --> 00:37:43.280 interesting activities that everything will be 00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:49.679 Closing ceremony where the winner for the next 00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:54.599 four years will be the best team that had done 00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:59.000 the best effort to look for multipliers and to 00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:02.460 make more QSO than another one. Should be a very 00:38:02.460 --> 00:38:06.199 tight competition. In 2018, the competition, 00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:09.820 the first three places were enough about 100 00:38:09.820 --> 00:38:14.539 ,000 points over five million. So really brief 00:38:14.539 --> 00:38:21.199 few points for separate the first two way up 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:24.219 to the second and the third. Really, we expect 00:38:24.219 --> 00:38:29.500 to have a great competition to in 2022, 2023 00:38:29.500 --> 00:38:33.719 at least. Well, Fabio, thank you so much for 00:38:33.719 --> 00:38:35.860 telling us all about this. And if people want 00:38:35.860 --> 00:38:37.920 to know more about this, I know you mentioned 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:42.039 that. There will be a team coming to the USA 00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:47.099 for Dayton Hamvention, which I will be at and 00:38:47.099 --> 00:38:49.699 we've been talking about a lot on this program. 00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:53.480 So tell people how they can find you at Dayton 00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:56.800 and then if they're not at Dayton, how they can 00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:06.210 find you online. This will be the last year. 00:39:06.369 --> 00:39:08.590 We had the three, for the last three years, we 00:39:08.590 --> 00:39:12.769 was in Orlando too in February. And we expect 00:39:12.769 --> 00:39:15.710 to meet everyone that is interested in this event, 00:39:15.989 --> 00:39:19.210 just to support us. As you know, we are volunteers, 00:39:19.530 --> 00:39:22.329 so we really appreciate the help of everyone. 00:39:22.429 --> 00:39:26.369 This is a community event and we expect that 00:39:26.369 --> 00:39:30.510 the community can help us at least visiting our 00:39:30.510 --> 00:39:35.679 booth, nevertheless. And then if people want 00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:39.079 to go online to find out more about the WRTC 00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:43.579 and watch the scoreboard and watch the ceremonies, 00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:48.519 how do they do that? You can do that on our website 00:39:48.519 --> 00:39:58.780 www .wrtc2022 .it or over our Facebook page that 00:39:58.780 --> 00:40:01.579 will surely be streaming the open and closing 00:40:01.579 --> 00:40:04.920 ceremony. And of using a real time scoring will 00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:08.039 be available for everyone all around the world 00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:12.039 on our website. So really stay tuned in on our 00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:15.500 channels. Then we'll be and switch on the radio 00:40:15.500 --> 00:40:21.739 to work us. Very good. So W R T C two zero two 00:40:21.739 --> 00:40:26.460 two dot I T since there was the delay for, for 00:40:26.460 --> 00:40:30.039 COVID. So make sure you get the 2022 there when 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.780 you go look for that. Well, Fabio, any other 00:40:34.780 --> 00:40:38.460 items you want to talk about here before we say 00:40:38.460 --> 00:40:45.059 7 -3? No, not yet. No. We thank you again, Yul, 00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:48.280 for this opportunity to share with your media, 00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:54.940 with your channel, this event, even with your 00:40:54.940 --> 00:41:00.559 availability. during this time, and surely we 00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:04.179 expect everyone to work our competitors. We want 00:41:04.179 --> 00:41:08.380 that this event will be remembered like the event 00:41:08.380 --> 00:41:11.659 in the country of Guglielmo Marconi, one of the 00:41:11.659 --> 00:41:15.500 best events even in the world. We try to do our 00:41:15.500 --> 00:41:19.260 best, our volunteer, up to about 200 people that 00:41:19.260 --> 00:41:24.980 every weekend are building antennas and testing 00:41:24.980 --> 00:41:29.309 towers. manufacturing connectors. So we have 00:41:29.309 --> 00:41:32.289 a lot of people that are working all the weekend 00:41:32.289 --> 00:41:36.250 all over this project and just for them we want 00:41:36.250 --> 00:41:44.170 that they are proud to be a member of this WITC 00:41:44.170 --> 00:41:48.010 group just to have this event, one of the most 00:41:48.010 --> 00:41:50.690 interesting events of the year. Thank you very 00:41:50.690 --> 00:41:55.409 much to you. Thank you very much, Fabio. Appreciate 00:41:55.409 --> 00:41:59.389 you taking the time to tell us all about WRTC 00:41:59.389 --> 00:42:03.369 and I look forward to hearing everybody on the 00:42:03.369 --> 00:42:07.170 air and look forward to seeing you at Hamvention 00:42:07.170 --> 00:42:11.130 as well. Well, that is a wrap for this edition 00:42:11.130 --> 00:42:13.610 of HamTalk Live. I'd like to thank my guest. 00:42:13.949 --> 00:42:18.050 Fabio Escettino, I4UFH and everybody out there 00:42:18.050 --> 00:42:20.809 in cyberspace for listening and for a list of 00:42:20.809 --> 00:42:24.050 all of our upcoming guests, visit HamTalkLive 00:42:24.050 --> 00:42:27.909 .com. So for now, this is Neil Rapp saying 7 00:42:27.909 --> 00:42:43.400 -3, 7 -5 and may the good DX be yours. To you 00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:47.239 and your family I'll be seeing you further down 00:42:47.239 --> 00:42:51.579 the line It's hard to believe that you're N -2 00:42:51.579 --> 00:42:55.539 -O -D Cause you sound just like a local up here 00:42:55.539 --> 00:43:00.360 But why don't those whistling Mediterranean's 00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:02.460 Check it when the frequency's clear?