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Hey everyone, it's HamTalk 00:01:29.349 --> 00:01:34.280 Live, episode number 310. the 12 days of Christmas 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:38.180 special event recorded on Monday, December 12th, 00:01:38.180 --> 00:01:43.400 2022. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9's VPG. Thanks 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:47.819 for tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live. 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:52.879 Tonight, we're joined by Sally Rosato, K2RYD, 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.909 and Lou Maggio, N -O -2 -C. And last time here 00:01:57.909 --> 00:02:02.170 on the big show, Case Van Osprey, W -0 -A -A 00:02:02.170 --> 00:02:05.189 -E, was here to talk about December Yoda month. 00:02:05.269 --> 00:02:07.709 So I hope you've had a chance to work some of 00:02:07.709 --> 00:02:10.009 those Yoda stations. If you haven't, get out 00:02:10.009 --> 00:02:12.870 there and work some of those. 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And the Tower Electronics 00:04:23.509 --> 00:04:26.509 HamFest schedule, they just finished up their 00:04:26.509 --> 00:04:29.790 December schedule so they'll be taking some time 00:04:29.790 --> 00:04:34.149 off for Christmas but they'll be back at it again 00:04:34.149 --> 00:04:38.790 down in Florida in the end of January and of 00:04:38.790 --> 00:04:42.300 course hamcation in February. But you can still 00:04:42.300 --> 00:04:45.540 visit them and order from them anytime at PL 00:04:45.540 --> 00:04:51.180 -259 .com. It's not the amount of power, it's 00:04:51.180 --> 00:05:06.730 the size of our tower. HamTalk Live. Welcome 00:05:06.730 --> 00:05:11.189 back to HamTalk Live. Tonight, Sally Rosato, 00:05:11.329 --> 00:05:18.050 K2RYD, and Lou Maggio, NO2C join us on the Orlando 00:05:18.050 --> 00:05:21.509 Amateur Radio Club and Hamcation Zoom line. Sally 00:05:21.509 --> 00:05:24.670 and Lou are here to talk about the 12 Days of 00:05:24.670 --> 00:05:28.930 Christmas special event. Sally, K2RYD, came up 00:05:28.930 --> 00:05:31.589 with the idea and they've operated and managed 00:05:31.589 --> 00:05:35.750 it together. This is the fourth year of the event, 00:05:35.790 --> 00:05:38.930 and they are members of the Great South Bay Amateur 00:05:38.930 --> 00:05:43.569 Radio Club in Long Island, New York. So, Sally 00:05:43.569 --> 00:05:46.689 and Lou, welcome back to the show. Thank you. 00:05:46.689 --> 00:05:51.050 Thank you very much. Well, there's all these 00:05:51.050 --> 00:05:54.850 special events going on this month, and yet another 00:05:54.850 --> 00:05:57.050 one that we're featuring here on AmTALK Live 00:05:57.050 --> 00:06:03.060 is the 12 Days of Christmas. So we want to talk 00:06:03.060 --> 00:06:05.500 a little bit about it. So Sally, tell us how 00:06:05.500 --> 00:06:08.540 this all got started and some of the history 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:12.500 behind the 12 days of Christmas special event. 00:06:13.259 --> 00:06:21.180 Okay. Well, it started in 2017 and I was at a 00:06:21.180 --> 00:06:24.199 meeting at Gisborne and we were talking about 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:26.160 special events and someone said, Oh, we should 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.399 run a special event for the 12 days of Christmas. 00:06:28.660 --> 00:06:30.860 So I said, well, that's a really good idea. So 00:06:30.860 --> 00:06:36.240 I. Ran with it and I Lou and I we Decided what 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.600 we were going to do. We had a lot, you know different 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.180 operators from the club helped us out a lot I 00:06:41.180 --> 00:06:45.620 had I sent emails to operators from different 00:06:45.620 --> 00:06:50.319 Special events that I had called in and everybody 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:53.079 got on board. I had like 20 operators the first 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:56.149 year and Every year it's the same operators, 00:06:56.149 --> 00:06:58.209 and then I add some more. This year I have quite 00:06:58.209 --> 00:07:01.730 a few new ones. I still have my Gisborne alumni. 00:07:02.230 --> 00:07:04.889 They're still going to operate for me. And you, 00:07:04.990 --> 00:07:07.709 Neil, you're even going to operate for me. I 00:07:07.709 --> 00:07:11.410 am going to operate as best I can from the from 00:07:11.410 --> 00:07:16.149 the new QTH inside of the HOA, but I'll give 00:07:16.149 --> 00:07:20.990 it a shot. So we'll get some QSOs. uh... sent 00:07:20.990 --> 00:07:25.689 out here from northern kentucky so uh... well 00:07:25.689 --> 00:07:30.290 let's talk a little bit about uh... last time 00:07:30.290 --> 00:07:32.829 around how did things go last time around and 00:07:32.829 --> 00:07:36.550 i know last year you had uh... you had to uh... 00:07:36.550 --> 00:07:39.910 qrx for a little while so tell everybody about 00:07:39.910 --> 00:07:43.629 uh... uh... what happened last year and and then 00:07:43.629 --> 00:07:46.889 the last time that you were able to run the event 00:07:47.740 --> 00:07:50.699 Well, the last time I run the event was a third 00:07:50.699 --> 00:07:55.819 annual was in 2020 and Last year my horse was 00:07:55.819 --> 00:07:58.100 having a lot of health issues. So I decided I 00:07:58.100 --> 00:08:00.779 was not in the mood So I decided not to have 00:08:00.779 --> 00:08:03.379 the events because I wouldn't have operated people 00:08:03.379 --> 00:08:06.399 did volunteer to run it for me But I just was 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:08.800 not in the mood. It was a you know, not a good 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:16.339 time for me But we're back. So how did it go 00:08:16.339 --> 00:08:19.199 last time? You have any numbers on how it went 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:23.439 last time? Anything to report? Well, we had over 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:30.300 10 ,000 queues last in 2020. We were trying to 00:08:30.300 --> 00:08:33.659 break the 13 ,000 record, but we didn't. And 00:08:33.659 --> 00:08:36.480 I don't know if conditions were that great, but 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:39.279 well, we can only go up from zero from last year. 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.399 So whatever we do this year. We really just need 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:49.539 one more. That's right. I have a lot of new operators 00:08:49.539 --> 00:08:52.340 this year. I have operators from Voice of America, 00:08:52.659 --> 00:08:55.139 from Last Man Standing, from the world's largest 00:08:55.139 --> 00:09:00.740 teapot, from the K -3 FBI, 13 Colonies, K -2 00:09:00.740 --> 00:09:07.120 Heroes. I have so many new operators. Well, what 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:11.200 am I looking for? My alumni, my old standbys. 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:16.960 Yeah, so it should be a good one. Well, that's 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.879 pretty cool. I just want to say, you know, last 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:23.320 year when I sent out the email, you know, I put 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:25.340 on my QRZ page that I wasn't going to be having 00:09:25.340 --> 00:09:28.700 the event. So many hands, you know, wrote in. 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:35.090 They really did. They contacted Sally and It 00:09:35.090 --> 00:09:38.269 was great. I know the circumstances were not 00:09:38.269 --> 00:09:41.769 good, but it's nice to know that the support 00:09:41.769 --> 00:09:46.350 was there. Yeah, it was good that way. So we're 00:09:46.350 --> 00:09:50.110 looking for a really good event this year. I 00:09:50.110 --> 00:09:53.409 can't wait. It starts on the 14th at 800, at 00:09:53.409 --> 00:09:56.769 zero hundred. So hopefully a lot of my operators 00:09:56.769 --> 00:10:01.059 will be on. We have Sideband. CW and we have 00:10:01.059 --> 00:10:03.220 one guy doing satellite. He can do anything he 00:10:03.220 --> 00:10:10.059 wants He wants everybody gets assigned a call 00:10:10.059 --> 00:10:13.179 sign and some signs have four operators on that 00:10:13.179 --> 00:10:17.159 three I know John in Virginia. He's a 13 colonies 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:20.899 Operator and he I give him a sign all to himself 00:10:20.899 --> 00:10:24.559 because he just goes he's on the radio 24 hours 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:36.659 a day, I think We have operators in Kentucky, 00:10:36.980 --> 00:10:40.460 you are in Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia, Arizona, 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:45.559 Ohio, Nebraska. We have, and I got my last operator 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.419 today in California. So I have West coast coverage. 00:10:48.789 --> 00:10:51.090 And this year we're going to do the call sign, 00:10:51.309 --> 00:10:55.429 which goes from W2P for partridge to W2D for 00:10:55.429 --> 00:10:58.450 drumming. And we're going to have the operators 00:10:58.450 --> 00:11:01.629 use a stroke with their call area. So people 00:11:01.629 --> 00:11:06.309 who have beam antennas, they can turn their beam 00:11:06.309 --> 00:11:09.750 to the six call area or the two call area or 00:11:09.750 --> 00:11:11.889 the four call area and get through because I 00:11:11.889 --> 00:11:15.850 had some complaints that they didn't hear. They 00:11:15.850 --> 00:11:18.429 don't know where the operator is, so they can't 00:11:18.429 --> 00:11:26.190 point their beams or get a good line of communication. 00:11:26.629 --> 00:11:29.370 So we have the stroke this year, and hopefully 00:11:29.370 --> 00:11:33.230 it'll be good. Hopefully we'll get a lot more 00:11:33.230 --> 00:11:35.450 contacts than we have. It'll be a record year. 00:11:35.929 --> 00:11:37.450 And a lot of guys are going to operate sports. 00:11:38.090 --> 00:11:42.549 Yes, and I have one guy from Brooklyn, James. 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:45.940 He, you know, whenever we talk on the radio, 00:11:46.100 --> 00:11:48.360 doing a special event or me calling in or him 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.779 calling in, I just know who he is from his accent. 00:11:50.940 --> 00:11:53.139 You could tell them from Brooklyn from my accent. 00:11:53.379 --> 00:11:55.960 And we just say, Oh, my Brooklyn buddy. And we 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:59.679 talk on the radio and, uh, he came onto the intrepid. 00:11:59.700 --> 00:12:01.840 I operated from the intrepid this year and I 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:04.379 invited him to come on and operate with us cause 00:12:04.379 --> 00:12:06.740 he was bugging me for two years to do so. So 00:12:06.740 --> 00:12:10.820 I finally said, okay, you can come on the intrepid. 00:12:10.820 --> 00:12:14.600 And since then he, uh, He wanted to operate for 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:17.279 12 days, so I gave him a call sign and he's going 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.480 to be good. He's going to operate from the park, 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.120 so he'll do poda and also the 12 days. Don't 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.700 forget he did work us from the Aleutian Islands. 00:12:27.299 --> 00:12:29.799 Yes, he did. He did. And he also brought me home 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:35.759 a rock. So you heard it here first. The way you 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:38.399 become a 12 days of Christmas operator, if you 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:43.539 want to, is that you really bug Sally. So everybody 00:12:43.539 --> 00:12:48.440 right in to, no, no, no, just kidding. But yeah, 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.799 you know, there's a lot of, a lot of good ops 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:57.899 here and a lot of seasoned special event operators 00:12:57.899 --> 00:13:03.460 here. And you all helped out and really got the 00:13:03.460 --> 00:13:08.100 last man standing event, which was huge. Got 00:13:08.100 --> 00:13:13.659 that off the ground and running. Um, just so 00:13:13.659 --> 00:13:17.700 many people, uh, appreciated that. And, um, so 00:13:17.700 --> 00:13:20.080 we're looking forward to, uh, to a good one, 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:24.500 uh, this year. So, so Lou, what have you been 00:13:24.500 --> 00:13:27.700 up to here to, to, I know you, you run a lot 00:13:27.700 --> 00:13:30.120 of logs and get, get everything through here. 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:33.740 What are you doing to support your wife's, uh, 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:36.960 cause here? Let me just say if it wasn't for 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.299 him. I wouldn't be able to do this because he 00:13:39.299 --> 00:13:41.940 handles all the logging, all the, you know, getting 00:13:41.940 --> 00:13:46.620 the certificate, the, when email everybody to 00:13:46.620 --> 00:13:49.440 pick up this certificate. So he's, he's, he's 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:53.539 handling a lot for me. So I'm grateful for him. 00:13:55.779 --> 00:13:59.860 Basically, what winds up happening is we try 00:13:59.860 --> 00:14:02.460 to keep the operators up to date as to how many 00:14:02.460 --> 00:14:07.629 contacts. So as people tell me, how many contacts 00:14:07.629 --> 00:14:10.629 they've had every day, I keep a running total 00:14:10.629 --> 00:14:16.110 on Discord. And I also accumulate all the logs 00:14:16.110 --> 00:14:18.909 as they send them in to me so I can see how many 00:14:18.909 --> 00:14:20.970 states we've worked, how many countries we've 00:14:20.970 --> 00:14:23.250 worked, and just kind of keep that out there 00:14:23.250 --> 00:14:25.149 just for the ops. The ops are the only ones that 00:14:25.149 --> 00:14:29.350 see that on Discord. And that's worked really 00:14:29.350 --> 00:14:33.799 well. And plus Sally monitors the totals and 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:36.980 she will switch off operators. She'll switch, 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:40.059 tell an operator to switch to a different call 00:14:40.059 --> 00:14:43.320 sign. Because to get the clean sweep, you have 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:48.259 to work all 12. And sometimes they fall behind, 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.500 propagation can cause you issues. So I try to 00:14:52.500 --> 00:14:54.700 keep all those numbers up to date for Sally, 00:14:54.779 --> 00:14:57.399 plus I operate. This year, I'm going to also 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:00.139 be in a park. So I'm going to go to some parks 00:15:00.139 --> 00:15:02.960 and operate. Because that is definitely a magnet. 00:15:03.019 --> 00:15:05.440 When you get out there on Pota, it's a magnet. 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.139 So we have a park at the end of the block. We're 00:15:09.139 --> 00:15:15.000 300 feet away from a park. So I'll be in there 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:19.120 and operate with one of the call signs as a Pota 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:24.179 park, which is not hard to do. And it does encourage 00:15:24.179 --> 00:15:27.799 people to call you. So I think that's going to 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:29.960 be very exciting too. So I'm looking forward 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.960 to this. And you were telling me before the show, 00:15:32.980 --> 00:15:38.220 you've worked a couple of parks. Yeah, I just 00:15:38.220 --> 00:15:44.460 recently passed 5 ,500 parks. So I have worked 00:15:44.460 --> 00:15:47.259 and confirmed by the way, it's confirmed also 00:15:47.259 --> 00:15:52.799 5 ,500 parks. Sally is at about 2 ,600. Parks 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:55.879 because Sally doesn't do CW. So I'm sometimes 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:58.139 too lazy to get off the couch to come into the 00:15:58.139 --> 00:16:06.799 shack, too But she's honest, yes, yeah the Aleutian 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:09.820 Islands The Aleutian Islands was a really good 00:16:09.820 --> 00:16:15.220 one when James went to the Aleutian Islands we 00:16:15.220 --> 00:16:19.000 were able to work him and And the conversation 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.970 went like this I hear Sally! I hear Sally! And 00:16:22.970 --> 00:16:25.029 James started yelling and the other operators 00:16:25.029 --> 00:16:29.950 that were in the tents next to where he was were 00:16:29.950 --> 00:16:32.629 telling us the story that he picked her voice 00:16:32.629 --> 00:16:37.169 out, which he does. That's KB2FMH, by the way. 00:16:37.250 --> 00:16:40.809 So he picked her voice out and that got him, 00:16:41.169 --> 00:16:45.250 you know, so he worked me on CWN voice and Sally 00:16:45.250 --> 00:16:49.539 on sideband. So it was good. It was a good thing. 00:16:49.860 --> 00:16:52.360 And I do enjoy chasing the parks. It's fun. In 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:56.539 fact, we worked at Alcatraz. Alcatraz Island. 00:16:56.679 --> 00:16:59.100 It was a woman. She set up there 50 watts on 00:16:59.100 --> 00:17:01.360 Alcatraz Island and we worked her. That was pretty 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:06.119 exciting just to get through. So it's I do enjoy 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:11.819 doing that. Well, how do people find out the 00:17:11.819 --> 00:17:14.359 call signs that are in the special event so they 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:19.380 know which ones? They still need and how do they 00:17:19.380 --> 00:17:23.099 submit logs or get certificates or that kind 00:17:23.099 --> 00:17:28.319 of thing? Well, people can keep track of the 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:32.880 12 days that they get. That's up to them. That's 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:35.839 not up to me. What they do is lots of people 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:41.440 sneak. Oh, I worked all 12 The slide most of 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:45.039 the time we're not gonna it we're not the 12 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.480 days of Christmas police, but we like honesty, 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:54.880 but Oh God, what was the question? The list the 00:17:54.880 --> 00:18:00.650 list of call signs to get By the way, I'm going 00:18:00.650 --> 00:18:04.690 in so many different directions. The QRZ page 00:18:04.690 --> 00:18:09.390 for K2RYD has all the information for all the 00:18:09.390 --> 00:18:11.809 call signs and also the certificate information. 00:18:12.869 --> 00:18:15.569 It's not updated. The certificate information 00:18:15.569 --> 00:18:17.950 is not updated yet because we don't have the 00:18:17.950 --> 00:18:20.410 certificate. What's on there is probably the 00:18:20.410 --> 00:18:22.829 old certificate. So once we get the certificate, 00:18:23.250 --> 00:18:27.079 we'll put it up there and You can't get until 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:30.440 after January 30th because we have to get all 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.339 the logs in and from all the operators and sometimes 00:18:33.339 --> 00:18:37.160 that takes a while to do And that's about it. 00:18:37.259 --> 00:18:42.279 So and I you know, I can people pick up their 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.440 certificates from their email, but sometimes 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.480 an operator they call will say oh, I'm blind 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:53.279 or whatever so we mail them a certificate and 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:56.720 That's how we get everybody to get their certificate. 00:18:58.119 --> 00:19:04.420 It's up to them. So check out qrz .com and k2ryd 00:19:04.420 --> 00:19:06.920 and you'll see the list of call signs and all 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:10.359 the information on how to log in and download 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:14.819 the certificate once you have have that clean 00:19:14.819 --> 00:19:20.619 sweep. We have 12 drummers drumming, 11 lords 00:19:20.619 --> 00:19:30.160 leaping. I'm starting to lose it. You don't want 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:34.839 me to say it, do you? Well, sure. Okay, so there's 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:38.740 W2P is partridge in a pantry, two turtle doves, 00:19:39.019 --> 00:19:42.539 three French hens, four calling birds, five golden 00:19:42.539 --> 00:19:45.640 rings, six geese laying, seven swans are swimming, 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:48.160 eight maids are milking, nine ladies dancing, 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:52.910 10 lords are leaping, 11... Piper's Piper's piping 00:19:52.910 --> 00:19:58.569 and 12 Yeah, I'm an 11 I'm an 11. Yeah, I'm 11 00:19:58.569 --> 00:20:06.529 11 Piper's piping I think The problem here Sally 00:20:06.529 --> 00:20:12.309 is that I've heard so many of the other Renditions 00:20:12.309 --> 00:20:15.869 of the 12 days of Christmas With all the wrong 00:20:15.869 --> 00:20:19.910 words that now I lose track of the right words 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:25.380 Used to do the wrong words too, until I started 00:20:25.380 --> 00:20:30.240 doing this event. And then there's the picture 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:35.220 of Danny Partridge in a tree. And people are 00:20:35.220 --> 00:20:37.140 like, yeah, Danny Partridge from the Partridge 00:20:37.140 --> 00:20:41.819 family. And they're like, yeah, that's a sign 00:20:41.819 --> 00:20:44.359 that you're old. If you know, if you get the 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.240 joke, you know, if you see Danny sitting in a 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:51.900 tree that, you know, that's. not in my partridge 00:20:51.900 --> 00:20:59.880 in a pear tree all right well we're going to 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:04.480 take a break here and uh pay some bills and we're 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:06.680 going to come back with sally and lou and talk 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:08.920 a little more about the 12 days of christmas 00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:13.900 special event and another special event on the 00:21:13.900 --> 00:21:16.680 25th of december that lou will tell us about 00:21:17.019 --> 00:21:20.380 So we'll do that right after this word from ICOM 00:21:20.380 --> 00:21:25.180 America right here on HamTalk Live. Happy Holidays 00:21:25.180 --> 00:21:28.619 from ICOM! 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All right, well, we're going 00:24:54.250 --> 00:24:56.049 to talk some more about the 12 days of Christmas 00:24:56.049 --> 00:24:59.390 with Sally and Lou here in just a moment. But 00:24:59.390 --> 00:25:02.670 right now it's time for the HamTalk Live Ham 00:25:02.670 --> 00:25:06.789 Radio Joke of the Week with N9 GSU. Now it's 00:25:06.789 --> 00:25:10.170 time for the HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of the 00:25:10.170 --> 00:25:12.589 Week, the part of the show where Rick tells us 00:25:12.589 --> 00:25:15.849 a ham radio joke. The HamTalk Live Ham Radio 00:25:15.849 --> 00:25:19.130 Joke of the Week is brought to you by QRM Labs. 00:25:19.470 --> 00:25:23.369 Now, here's Rick Garrett in 9GSU with today's 00:25:23.369 --> 00:25:31.250 HamTalk Live Joke of the Week. The other day 00:25:31.250 --> 00:25:33.990 I was in my shack and I heard my wife say you 00:25:33.990 --> 00:25:36.809 haven't heard a word I've said have you and I 00:25:36.809 --> 00:25:39.309 thought to myself That's a very strange way to 00:25:39.309 --> 00:25:43.170 start a conversation This has been the ham talk 00:25:43.170 --> 00:25:46.349 live ham radio joke of the week with Rick Garrett 00:25:46.349 --> 00:25:50.029 in nine GSU Tune in again next week for another 00:25:50.029 --> 00:25:56.190 joke from Rick We're back here on HamTalk Live 00:25:56.190 --> 00:26:02.769 with Sally K2RYD and Lou NO2C. They are in charge 00:26:02.769 --> 00:26:06.869 of the 12 Days of Christmas special event coming 00:26:06.869 --> 00:26:12.089 soon to a radio near you and we want to finish 00:26:12.089 --> 00:26:14.329 up a few things here and then we're going to 00:26:14.329 --> 00:26:19.410 talk about another special event that's a little 00:26:19.410 --> 00:26:26.170 more... Targeted will say that the 12 days of 00:26:26.170 --> 00:26:29.630 Christmas where everybody gets involved. But, 00:26:29.630 --> 00:26:33.089 uh, first of all, some of the, some of the logs 00:26:33.089 --> 00:26:37.630 and QSL stuff here. So, so we just want to make 00:26:37.630 --> 00:26:42.029 it clear that, that where, where are all these, 00:26:42.029 --> 00:26:44.589 you know, the verifications coming from Lou, 00:26:45.130 --> 00:26:48.569 do people need to send you logs and, and QSL 00:26:48.569 --> 00:26:51.970 cards and all that? No, as a matter of fact, 00:26:52.190 --> 00:26:54.910 we would prefer that they didn't send it. The 00:26:54.910 --> 00:26:59.589 operators, similar to the way 13 colonies does 00:26:59.589 --> 00:27:01.789 it, the operators are the key to the whole thing. 00:27:02.670 --> 00:27:07.089 And you send in the, our operator sends our logs, 00:27:07.710 --> 00:27:10.509 we put that on a website, and then you just go 00:27:10.509 --> 00:27:15.329 in and you enter your call. And if you've worked 00:27:15.329 --> 00:27:19.250 all 12, it will... You can download a certificate 00:27:19.250 --> 00:27:22.490 or actually email you a certificate that says 00:27:22.490 --> 00:27:26.170 Clean Sweep on it or let's say only work one. 00:27:26.230 --> 00:27:28.710 You can download a certificate that says 12 days 00:27:28.710 --> 00:27:32.609 of Christmas and it checks off which one you 00:27:32.609 --> 00:27:34.849 work. No, we don't have that. Oh, we don't have 00:27:34.849 --> 00:27:37.190 that. No, we forgot that. Forget that. It was 00:27:37.190 --> 00:27:40.509 last night standing. Yeah. And it'll give you 00:27:40.509 --> 00:27:42.549 a certificate that doesn't say Clean Sweep. I'm 00:27:42.549 --> 00:27:46.660 getting all my certificates mixed up. You just 00:27:46.660 --> 00:27:50.259 need to work one, 12 days, one day for a certificate 00:27:50.259 --> 00:27:53.359 or 12 for a clean sweep. Yep. And it's easy. 00:27:53.779 --> 00:27:55.279 But you don't have to do anything. You don't 00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:57.240 have to submit anything to us. You just go to 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:01.099 the website. We will email everybody at the end 00:28:01.099 --> 00:28:04.160 that that worked us. If your email is good in 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:07.460 QRZ, we will be sending you an email saying, 00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:14.220 please pick up your certificate. So people also 00:28:14.220 --> 00:28:19.190 need to remember That if they don't have their 00:28:19.190 --> 00:28:22.289 email in QRS ad to put it in there and make sure 00:28:22.289 --> 00:28:26.289 it's up to date Yeah, what if what if and if 00:28:26.289 --> 00:28:28.950 they don't how what do they do? Well, they can 00:28:28.950 --> 00:28:32.490 still go to the website after January 30th They 00:28:32.490 --> 00:28:34.609 can go to the certificate website still put their 00:28:34.609 --> 00:28:36.690 colon and it'll tell them You know, they'll give 00:28:36.690 --> 00:28:39.529 it to them if they if they are in the logs So 00:28:39.529 --> 00:28:41.730 it's not that it has to be in there. It's just 00:28:41.730 --> 00:28:44.680 that We know that people are looking for the 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:47.559 certificate about 30 seconds after the event 00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:53.819 starts About 30 seconds in you get the first 00:28:53.819 --> 00:28:58.220 I can't find the certificates Yes, so even though 00:28:58.220 --> 00:29:00.279 we're telling people it's deliberately not up 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.549 on the QRZ page the links not there yet They 00:29:03.549 --> 00:29:05.930 still go looking for it. The link will be there 00:29:05.930 --> 00:29:08.549 January 30th. Yeah, we'll turn it on. Or when 00:29:08.549 --> 00:29:10.630 we're done. If we're done with the logs and the 00:29:10.630 --> 00:29:12.490 logs are all processed. And the certificate is 00:29:12.490 --> 00:29:15.930 done. Then we'll make the link available. So 00:29:15.930 --> 00:29:19.269 it's pretty straightforward like that. And we've 00:29:19.269 --> 00:29:21.230 done a lot of certificates for a lot of events. 00:29:21.829 --> 00:29:25.970 So we've got that down for you. Yeah, you sure 00:29:25.970 --> 00:29:32.430 do. All right. So again, No, no QSLs. No logs 00:29:32.430 --> 00:29:36.390 just punch in your your call sign and you download 00:29:36.390 --> 00:29:40.049 your certificate and Let's kind of reiterate 00:29:40.049 --> 00:29:47.309 to you on the stroke call district things because 00:29:47.309 --> 00:29:50.470 Yeah, there are some people I am NOT one of these 00:29:50.470 --> 00:29:52.769 people fortunate enough to have this technology, 00:29:52.809 --> 00:29:55.930 but there are some people that that the beam 00:29:55.930 --> 00:29:59.289 will automatically turn to whatever position 00:29:59.289 --> 00:30:04.049 qrz .com says it is and So, you know when you 00:30:04.049 --> 00:30:06.970 have multiple operators in multiple states in 00:30:06.970 --> 00:30:12.089 multiple places You can't really do that. And 00:30:12.089 --> 00:30:14.990 so you're trying out something new this year 00:30:14.990 --> 00:30:18.470 with the stroke and then the number to At least 00:30:18.470 --> 00:30:22.690 know kind of which direction to point Um, so, 00:30:22.690 --> 00:30:27.890 you know, for instance, let's see, I'm, um, Piper's 00:30:27.890 --> 00:30:35.049 piping. Is it K is it K two? No, you are K two 00:30:35.049 --> 00:30:39.089 P K two P. So I'm going to be K two P stroke 00:30:39.089 --> 00:30:42.710 four. Right. Right. So that's what you would 00:30:42.710 --> 00:30:47.900 put on the, on the spotting program. stroke four 00:30:47.900 --> 00:30:50.579 and you can say it if you want you don't say 00:30:50.579 --> 00:30:53.180 it every time just say stroke four you know k2p 00:30:53.180 --> 00:30:55.759 stroke four every once in a while because people 00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:57.559 are going to be there's be 50 people waiting 00:30:57.559 --> 00:30:59.940 to talk to you now i'm not sure what i'm going 00:30:59.940 --> 00:31:02.220 to do with the new york operators yet because 00:31:02.220 --> 00:31:07.039 it's it's a two call it's a two you know so i 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:09.880 don't know if it should be stroke two or whatever 00:31:09.880 --> 00:31:15.720 so just if you If there is no stroke, then it's 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:18.920 probably a New York operator. Otherwise, there'll 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:24.099 be a stroke with the call area. One thing, Nia, 00:31:24.279 --> 00:31:27.660 I want to stress, if you're a handicap hand, 00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:31.980 blind or have an issue and downloading and printing 00:31:31.980 --> 00:31:36.039 the certificate is an issue for you, but they 00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:39.660 still want it. It's going to be everybody. It's 00:31:39.660 --> 00:31:44.480 going to be everybody. If you tell us that when 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:48.160 you work us, we will print it out ourselves on 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:50.940 cardstock and mail it to you. For a small fee. 00:31:51.140 --> 00:31:57.599 No, no fee. Be happy to do it because we do get 00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:00.099 we do get two or three of them every event. We 00:32:00.099 --> 00:32:02.660 get two or three people who. have no way to print 00:32:02.660 --> 00:32:05.220 they just can't do it and uh no if you don't 00:32:05.220 --> 00:32:08.079 have a printer is one thing you can go to your 00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:11.880 friend's house and get I said handicapped handicapped 00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:15.059 yeah not anybody who doesn't have a printer no 00:32:15.059 --> 00:32:21.759 and we've you know we've done that in the past 00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.740 for them and and it's worked quite well yeah 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:29.259 Okay, well that's very, very kind of you to do 00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:32.619 all of that. So it's the 12 Days of Christmas 00:32:32.619 --> 00:32:35.440 special event. Again, for more information, QRZ 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:41.019 .com and look up K2RYD, Romeo, Yankee, Delta, 00:32:41.099 --> 00:32:46.119 and you'll see the whole list of all of the people 00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:48.980 there and you can talk to crazy people like... 00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:52.440 like me and, and Paul Brown is also going to 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:58.160 be on K2P and, and who knows who knows who you're 00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:02.480 going to get. So, um, that's a lot of fun. Well, 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:06.660 Lou, this is, this is your special event here. 00:33:06.900 --> 00:33:09.200 You've got this other special event on December 00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:13.279 25th, but Uh, and I guess everybody can participate, 00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.220 but it's really kind of geared toward a very 00:33:16.220 --> 00:33:21.180 select few. Tell us about the December 25th special 00:33:21.180 --> 00:33:25.119 event. It was kind of unusual. Uh, in our club, 00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:30.259 uh, Karen KD2GUT is a member. I did say KD2, 00:33:30.299 --> 00:33:34.140 I thought KD2GUT. And we were talking one night 00:33:34.140 --> 00:33:36.960 and it came out that both of us were born on 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:42.640 Christmas day. So. Karen, she switched immediately 00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.799 into editor role and she said, why don't we do 00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:49.759 a special event for Christmas birthdays? So that's 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.259 what we do. And so on Christmas day, the two 00:33:52.259 --> 00:33:54.519 of us get on the air and it's just a fun thing. 00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:58.220 And we operate typically make 100 to 200 contacts 00:33:58.220 --> 00:34:02.000 and they get a special certificate for working 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:04.819 us on Christmas day. And we bounce on and off 00:34:04.819 --> 00:34:07.819 the air during the course of the day. Karen is 00:34:07.819 --> 00:34:10.539 on and I'm on. And anyone else that happens to 00:34:10.539 --> 00:34:12.480 be a Christmas birthday can join us. You know, 00:34:12.539 --> 00:34:17.099 it depends. But it's pretty popular. We do some 00:34:17.099 --> 00:34:20.880 VHF, we switch around. And there is a certificate. 00:34:21.099 --> 00:34:23.539 There is a certificate for it, yes. And this 00:34:23.539 --> 00:34:25.659 will be the fifth year? This is the fifth year. 00:34:26.019 --> 00:34:28.460 This is the fifth year we'll be doing it. So 00:34:28.460 --> 00:34:30.559 and it just was a coincidence when we found out 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:34.079 there were two of us in the club. I guess Christmas 00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:37.539 Day people are just home. you know, enjoying 00:34:37.539 --> 00:34:39.860 their families, whatever, and the hams have to 00:34:39.860 --> 00:34:42.300 run into the ham shack for something, so they 00:34:42.300 --> 00:34:45.639 just call, they see the call, sign on the cluster, 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:48.340 and they just say, happy birthday. Happy birthday, 00:34:48.780 --> 00:34:51.619 you know. But is it because they have fewer presents 00:34:51.619 --> 00:34:54.000 to open because their birthday and Christmas 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.739 are on the same day, so they... No. No, because 00:34:56.739 --> 00:35:03.199 it's not. Yes. It's not hams in need. I will 00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:06.809 tell you a quick story. You don't have to be 00:35:06.809 --> 00:35:12.449 born on that day to call in. I will tell you 00:35:12.449 --> 00:35:17.369 a quick story. We were at a parade recently, 00:35:17.590 --> 00:35:20.610 Sally Road in a parade and a woman comes up to 00:35:20.610 --> 00:35:24.289 me and she's very pregnant and I hear her talking 00:35:24.289 --> 00:35:26.829 to a friend and she's saying, I really want to 00:35:26.829 --> 00:35:28.610 find someone born on Christmas. I want to ask 00:35:28.610 --> 00:35:31.090 them a question. I said, well, you did. I'm here. 00:35:31.110 --> 00:35:34.320 Here I am. And she said, I just want to know 00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:37.340 if my child is going to hate his birthday if 00:35:37.340 --> 00:35:40.079 he's born on Christmas. I said, oh no, no, it's 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:43.059 the opposite. Everybody will be jealous. And 00:35:43.059 --> 00:35:45.000 she said, why do you say that? I said, well, 00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:46.940 number one, I was born on Christmas, so I know. 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:51.059 And I said, what happens is the whole family 00:35:51.059 --> 00:35:54.179 is always together. You're not going to be doing 00:35:54.179 --> 00:35:56.400 it on the weekend when Aunt Millie is having 00:35:56.400 --> 00:35:58.260 her birthday. It's not going to happen like that. 00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:02.599 It's going to happen on your birthday. And you 00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:05.860 get two presents, of course. So I said to her, 00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:09.699 I said to her, he or she, they didn't know what 00:36:09.699 --> 00:36:13.219 the sex of the baby was yet. I said, he or she 00:36:13.219 --> 00:36:15.679 will be thrilled with Christmas as a birthday. 00:36:16.659 --> 00:36:19.219 It's a wonderful birthday and I wouldn't trade 00:36:19.219 --> 00:36:23.199 it for the world. So Karen and I do this thing 00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:25.440 and we've done it, now this will be what, the 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:28.380 fifth or the sixth year? Fifth year. Fifth year. 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:33.690 So it's a fun birthday. Yeah, yeah sounds like 00:36:33.690 --> 00:36:37.070 a lot of fun. All right. Well, we're going to 00:36:37.070 --> 00:36:39.889 to wrap this up here but I want to thank both 00:36:39.889 --> 00:36:42.889 of you for taking the time out to come on the 00:36:42.889 --> 00:36:45.250 show and share with us about the 12 days of Christmas 00:36:45.250 --> 00:36:48.969 as well as Making all of this happen and coordinating 00:36:48.969 --> 00:36:51.489 all these schedules and logs and certificates 00:36:51.489 --> 00:36:55.750 and and all this kind of stuff You all do a fabulous 00:36:55.750 --> 00:36:59.550 job uh... with this and and i know you know other 00:36:59.550 --> 00:37:01.690 special events we've always said well if you 00:37:01.690 --> 00:37:04.070 want to know how to run a special event these 00:37:04.070 --> 00:37:07.050 are the people you want to call and you've you've 00:37:07.050 --> 00:37:09.769 been helpful for for some of the view a events 00:37:09.769 --> 00:37:12.909 and and that kind of thing uh... so i just want 00:37:12.909 --> 00:37:15.510 to personally thank you for for all that you're 00:37:15.510 --> 00:37:21.809 doing but i do have one last question it is is 00:37:21.809 --> 00:37:24.789 going to be Is there going to be an amplifier 00:37:24.789 --> 00:37:28.130 under the Christmas tree for this year? We not 00:37:28.130 --> 00:37:31.690 only have an alpha, we have an alpha as a backup. 00:37:36.070 --> 00:37:38.449 It's sitting right in the garage. We have an 00:37:38.449 --> 00:37:41.409 alpha that we had repaired and it's as a backup 00:37:41.409 --> 00:37:46.590 to our regular 1500 watt amplifier. I remember 00:37:46.590 --> 00:37:49.030 when the first one went down. That was not a 00:37:49.030 --> 00:37:52.469 good day. No, no, it was not a good day. No, 00:37:52.469 --> 00:37:54.510 it went down three times. That's what happens 00:37:54.510 --> 00:37:59.309 when you buy used equipment. So, so we went out 00:37:59.309 --> 00:38:01.809 for a brand spanking new. Oh, the stock just 00:38:01.809 --> 00:38:07.389 crashed on all the used equipment markets. But 00:38:07.389 --> 00:38:10.730 in seriousness, we, we decided the one thing 00:38:10.730 --> 00:38:13.190 that we really felt we couldn't do without was 00:38:13.190 --> 00:38:15.610 an amplifier. So when, when it did go down, we 00:38:15.610 --> 00:38:18.650 found a place to plot a ham down there. did an 00:38:18.650 --> 00:38:22.670 incredible job repairing it and we went and bought 00:38:22.670 --> 00:38:26.329 a brand new 1500 watt amplifier. Not solid state, 00:38:26.389 --> 00:38:29.710 we went with tube. We decided to stick with tubes 00:38:29.710 --> 00:38:33.869 and so we do have a backup amp. We do have a 00:38:33.869 --> 00:38:39.110 backup amp. You out on the 160 meter contest 00:38:39.110 --> 00:38:41.570 that Lou was doing one year. So we have a backup 00:38:41.570 --> 00:38:45.349 to the 1500 watt antenna. Yeah, there you go. 00:38:45.750 --> 00:38:47.989 Well, you know, you stick with the tubes. It 00:38:47.989 --> 00:38:51.130 does get cold in New York in the winter. So yes, 00:38:53.050 --> 00:38:57.349 we know when the. This is the warmest room in 00:38:57.349 --> 00:39:00.559 the house. Yeah, there you go. All right Well, 00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:02.719 we look forward to hearing everybody on the 12 00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:05.559 days of Christmas special event and the the youth 00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:08.639 on the air month and the the Christmas birthday 00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:11.880 special event and all these things going on this 00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:14.460 month so thanks for taking the time out to talk 00:39:14.460 --> 00:39:17.559 with us and Look forward to hearing you on the 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:21.480 air here in just a few days for the 12 days of 00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:25.670 Christmas okay so if you're talking to w2p mention 00:39:25.670 --> 00:39:32.949 you heard me on ham talk live there you go yes 00:39:32.949 --> 00:39:36.590 and you'll get the same certificate that everybody 00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:44.739 All right. Well that is a wrap for this edition 00:39:44.739 --> 00:39:47.500 of ham talk live. I'd like to thank my guests 00:39:47.500 --> 00:39:51.900 Sally K to RYD and Lou NO to see and everybody 00:39:51.900 --> 00:39:54.119 out there in cyberspace for listening and invite 00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:57.139 you back next time For a list of our upcoming 00:39:57.139 --> 00:40:01.380 guests go to ham talk live .com So for now, this 00:40:01.380 --> 00:40:05.579 is Neil rap WB 9 VPG saying seven three seven 00:40:05.579 --> 00:40:12.829 five and may the good DX be yours So 73's, to 00:40:12.829 --> 00:40:16.469 you and your family, I'll be seeing you further 00:40:16.469 --> 00:40:21.269 down the log. So 73's, to you and your family, 00:40:22.809 --> 00:40:25.010 I'll be seeing you further down the log.