WEBVTT 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.140 This episode of HamTalk Live is brought to you 00:00:03.140 --> 00:00:06.540 by Tower Electronics. For connectors, cables, 00:00:06.759 --> 00:00:13.460 and more, call 920 -435 -2973 or visit pl -259 00:00:13.460 --> 00:00:18.160 .com. And by ICOM, heard it, worked it, logged 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:23.379 it. Visit www .icomamerica .com slash amateur 00:00:23.379 --> 00:00:32.630 for more information about ICOM radios. Here 00:00:32.630 --> 00:00:38.450 we go! Welcome to Hamtop Live! Calling Let's 00:00:38.450 --> 00:00:42.990 Talk, Neil's your guy! Hamtop Live! Here we go 00:00:42.990 --> 00:01:01.869 on Hamtop Radio! Hey! Hey everyone, it's time 00:01:01.869 --> 00:01:07.010 for HamTalk Live, episode number 304, The Collegiate 00:01:07.010 --> 00:01:12.269 QSo Party 2022, recorded on Tuesday, September 00:01:12.269 --> 00:01:17.950 20th, 2022. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. 00:01:17.969 --> 00:01:21.750 Thanks for tuning in to this episode of HamTalk 00:01:21.750 --> 00:01:28.709 Live. Tonight, we're joined by Andy Melusi, KK4LWR 00:01:28.709 --> 00:01:34.569 and Tony Melusi, KD8RTT. Last episode, Audrey 00:01:34.569 --> 00:01:39.969 McElroy came for BUN and Don Wilbanks at E5DW. 00:01:40.049 --> 00:01:43.489 We're here to talk about the Newsline Young Ham 00:01:43.489 --> 00:01:47.959 of the Year award. So congratulations to. Ms. 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.420 McElroy, and if you missed the show, you can 00:01:51.420 --> 00:01:54.980 listen anytime at HamTalkLive .com or on your 00:01:54.980 --> 00:01:59.359 favorite podcast app or on YouTube and We're 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:03.319 on WTWW on the weekends at Saturday afternoon 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:06.939 at about 3 30 p .m. Eastern Time. That's five 00:02:06.939 --> 00:02:12.960 zero eight five on your AM dial WTWW. 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And Andy 00:04:51.709 --> 00:04:55.689 is a key leader in the ARRL Collegiate Amateur 00:04:55.689 --> 00:04:58.430 Radio Program, a group that's been formed to 00:04:58.430 --> 00:05:01.110 share ideas and promote and rejuvenate amateur 00:05:01.110 --> 00:05:05.290 radio clubs in colleges and universities in North 00:05:05.290 --> 00:05:08.589 America. And trying to get in a word edgewise 00:05:08.589 --> 00:05:14.730 is his brother Tony KD8RTT. He is an aviation 00:05:14.730 --> 00:05:17.910 systems engineer with Garmin. He attended grad 00:05:17.910 --> 00:05:21.360 school at Ohio University. where he was the amateur 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.079 radio club president. During undergrad, he was 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:26.379 president of the Rose Tech Amateur Radio Club, 00:05:26.540 --> 00:05:31.819 W9NAA, over in Terre Haute, Indiana. And he is 00:05:31.819 --> 00:05:35.680 a pilot and also a key leader in the AWRL Collegiate 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.779 Amateur Radio Program. And you'll find him on 00:05:38.779 --> 00:05:43.500 satellites or operating CW or portable on HF. 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:48.259 So Tony and Andy, welcome back. Thanks, man. 00:05:48.379 --> 00:05:50.459 Yeah, thanks for having us and look Tony already 00:05:50.459 --> 00:05:52.839 got a word in edgewise I was thinking could be 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:54.959 a more accurate way to describe how the talks 00:05:54.959 --> 00:06:00.339 gonna go tonight Yes, if you tuned in that's 00:06:00.339 --> 00:06:04.079 usually how it goes with these two So so Tony 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.779 will have to fight for you to get some airtime 00:06:06.779 --> 00:06:16.879 here Yeah, that's yeah, that's always Well, it's 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:22.300 great to be with you once again and fall is here 00:06:22.300 --> 00:06:26.959 and I'm kind of excited actually we'll talk about 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:30.040 this offline, but but something happened yesterday 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:36.519 that That is kind of exciting at my college with 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:41.459 ham radio, so we'll see how that plays out but 00:06:43.339 --> 00:06:46.060 We may have another entry one of these days. 00:06:46.139 --> 00:06:50.300 We're working on it. But the Collegiate QSO party 00:06:50.300 --> 00:06:53.160 is something that you all have kind of spearheaded 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:57.079 and got going in the last few years. So let's 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:01.259 talk a little bit about what the Collegiate QSO 00:07:01.259 --> 00:07:04.699 party is and some of the history behind that. 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:09.199 Yeah, the collegiate QSO party is to celebrate 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:11.519 our colleges and universities and trade schools 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:15.220 on the air. It's open for any and every amateur 00:07:15.220 --> 00:07:18.819 radio operator to join and try and make as many 00:07:18.819 --> 00:07:21.620 contacts as they can with all of these awesome 00:07:21.620 --> 00:07:24.120 school clubs. One of the cool things about it 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:26.600 is many of these students are getting on the 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:28.220 air for the first time. Don't worry, we have 00:07:28.220 --> 00:07:30.560 some seasoned veterans in there too, but many 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:32.319 getting on the air for the first time, the first 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:34.560 sort of experiences with amateur radio. great 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.420 way to sort of welcome them to the hobby. And 00:07:37.420 --> 00:07:40.519 this is something that you kind of planned at 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.120 the beginning of the school year to kind of get 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:46.779 a jumpstart for things on the collegiate level, 00:07:46.779 --> 00:07:50.420 right? Yeah. One of the big challenges with college 00:07:50.420 --> 00:07:52.439 club is just getting activity going in the beginning 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:54.879 of the school year. We've done this right kind 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:56.500 of at the beginning of the fall semester or fall 00:07:56.500 --> 00:08:00.040 quarter. The goal being that schools can have 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:02.459 their activities fair where they'll show off 00:08:02.459 --> 00:08:05.759 their club. to other students and then invite 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:07.839 them to this event, you know, within a few weeks 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:10.860 afterwards, just show them what ham radio is, 00:08:10.899 --> 00:08:13.800 get them talking, being in kind of a more comfortable 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.959 environment, not such a fast paced contest necessarily, 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:19.699 but a fun and competitive way to show people 00:08:19.699 --> 00:08:21.980 what ham radio is. They've never seen it before. 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:25.980 And that's always the key is to get people on 00:08:25.980 --> 00:08:29.459 the air. It's not always the most fun thing to 00:08:29.459 --> 00:08:31.480 tell people that they have to go take another 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:37.350 test. It's about getting them on the air and 00:08:37.350 --> 00:08:41.129 get them hooked and that's a great way to do 00:08:41.129 --> 00:08:44.750 that. And there's been some creative things go 00:08:44.750 --> 00:08:51.309 on. I love the whole mascot on APRS thing that 00:08:51.309 --> 00:08:55.870 one college was doing. Some of the associated 00:08:55.870 --> 00:09:01.379 stuff here with the... Q so party so so every 00:09:01.379 --> 00:09:04.740 year when we talk about this Andy and I have 00:09:04.740 --> 00:09:07.679 this this this kind of trash talk thing going 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:13.019 on and and so, you know, Kentucky has always 00:09:13.019 --> 00:09:18.759 played Florida pretty early on and so you know, 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:24.100 it's usually about the time of the the Q so party 00:09:24.100 --> 00:09:28.039 that My Kentucky Wildcats and his Florida Gators 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.639 end up playing each other in football. And of 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:35.720 course, as soon as the game was over, the first 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:40.850 thing I had to do was text Andy. And I saw that 00:09:40.850 --> 00:09:46.450 text come in literally as time ran out. Neal 00:09:46.450 --> 00:09:49.830 did not waste a moment to let me know that the 00:09:49.830 --> 00:09:53.409 Gators, again, did not do so well against Kentucky. 00:09:53.490 --> 00:09:55.629 And to be fair, since that game they've also 00:09:55.629 --> 00:09:58.009 played South Florida and that one was light. 00:09:59.179 --> 00:10:01.320 Sounds like it's not the Gators time right now, 00:10:01.340 --> 00:10:03.120 but don't worry, they will come back and lay 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.980 up the chomp on the Wildcats. I know they will. 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:08.820 Maybe not this season, but definitely in the 00:10:08.820 --> 00:10:11.320 future. I mean, that's also part of the fun of 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:14.159 the QSO party is getting that opportunity to 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.559 trash talk your favorite friends as you work 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.879 them on the air or let the different schools 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.899 know who you're supporting that weekend in football. 00:10:24.890 --> 00:10:28.309 Yeah, there you go. So the final score Kentucky 00:10:28.309 --> 00:10:32.590 26 Florida 16 and for those of you playing along 00:10:32.590 --> 00:10:35.409 home and and and I was going to change the intro 00:10:35.409 --> 00:10:43.750 music Figured that might be rubbing it in too 00:10:43.750 --> 00:10:49.009 much. So so anyway, wait, the trash talk is kind 00:10:49.009 --> 00:10:52.620 of fun Yeah, I mean definitely a fun part I'll 00:10:52.620 --> 00:10:55.159 get you some go gators music for you know For 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:57.000 your next episode where you can just play that 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:59.419 instead of the usual hand talk live stuff I mean, 00:10:59.419 --> 00:11:02.200 oh instead of the theme song. I'm supposed to 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:07.340 play play go gators now Yeah, but seriously though 00:11:07.340 --> 00:11:10.679 connecting this with with the Q so party and 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:15.240 and and some of the other collegiate Operating 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:19.519 events like the North American collegiate championships, 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:23.860 you know, there's a level of trash talking and 00:11:23.860 --> 00:11:29.039 competitiveness. And, you know, I found back 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.320 when I was teaching high school and we were competitive 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.299 in the school club roundup that that was a thing. 00:11:35.539 --> 00:11:37.860 I mean, it was, you know, oh, you know, this 00:11:37.860 --> 00:11:41.980 school, I won't mention any, any names, but yeah, 00:11:42.100 --> 00:11:46.720 we're taking them down. I mean, that's part of 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:50.580 the fun, right? I mean, amateur radio is a social 00:11:50.580 --> 00:11:54.059 hobby, right? And that's some of the fun of when 00:11:54.059 --> 00:11:55.779 you participate in some of these events year 00:11:55.779 --> 00:11:58.000 over year, you know who's the strong competitors, 00:11:58.259 --> 00:11:59.820 you know who are the ones out there, and it's 00:11:59.820 --> 00:12:02.340 great just to have fun and heckle them a little 00:12:02.340 --> 00:12:04.840 bit. I mean, you want everyone to be successful 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.399 and to continue the hobby and grow it, but it's 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:11.480 also a fun way to sort of poke at each other 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.509 and get into the spirit. When I was working school 00:12:15.509 --> 00:12:17.649 up, because back in the day when I was in college, 00:12:17.649 --> 00:12:20.309 we didn't have the collegiate Uso party. I'd 00:12:20.309 --> 00:12:22.129 work at the school called Roundup, and you bet 00:12:22.129 --> 00:12:24.409 I worked all 24 hours that week, because I knew 00:12:24.409 --> 00:12:27.330 there were other stations out there that were 00:12:27.330 --> 00:12:29.629 also gunning for it. And there was, of course, 00:12:29.710 --> 00:12:32.809 some appropriate trash talk on the Yahoo group 00:12:32.809 --> 00:12:36.389 back in the day. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. That's definitely 00:12:36.389 --> 00:12:40.809 fun. Yeah, and I think we've even seen at Dayton 00:12:40.809 --> 00:12:44.460 Hamvention, the Collegiate Amateur Video Program 00:12:44.460 --> 00:12:47.360 presence there. We've had school do, you know, 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:49.820 continue that trash talk in person from last 00:12:49.820 --> 00:12:52.960 year's QSO party. So it kind of builds a nice 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:58.419 community competitiveness, but fun. Yeah, it's 00:12:58.419 --> 00:13:04.799 all the fun and it's something to keep life interesting. 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:10.200 keep it going on the air. So, so yeah, I always 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:12.399 get that in, but it's always more fun when Kentucky 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:16.580 wins. Cause you know, for the last 50 decades, 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.840 Florida would crush us. So, you know, so I had 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:26.879 to bring it up while I can. So, Oh, yeah. Yeah. 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:28.620 You'll be waiting for it next year. There you 00:13:28.620 --> 00:13:31.580 go. Well, Tony, tell us a little bit about the 00:13:31.580 --> 00:13:34.879 event info for 2022. How do people participate? 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.539 How do people get their college club involved? 00:13:38.580 --> 00:13:43.940 And then how do just everybody, you know, join 00:13:43.940 --> 00:13:47.320 in the fun here on the collegiate QSO party? 00:13:48.740 --> 00:13:51.080 Yeah. So this year, the collegiate QSO party 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:55.659 is October 1st and 2nd. the full UTC days of 00:13:55.659 --> 00:13:58.200 that weekend. Like we said before, everyone's 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:01.799 welcome to participate, whether you're a college, 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:04.740 university, or just an individual. You can actually 00:14:04.740 --> 00:14:08.039 head over to our website, collegiateqsoparty 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:11.980 .com. We have a link there to an info packet 00:14:11.980 --> 00:14:15.059 that has all the rules, all the information, 00:14:15.259 --> 00:14:19.600 some existing scripts for contacts, if you frequently 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.259 ask questions, all that sort of thing. So I would 00:14:22.259 --> 00:14:25.220 encourage people to take a look there. A couple 00:14:25.220 --> 00:14:27.679 things to note is we've had a totally new format 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.639 for this year. We're doing it more like a state 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:34.159 QSO party in that we're asking all the colleges 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:37.679 and universities to pre -register and provide 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:40.139 some information on what call sign they'll be 00:14:40.139 --> 00:14:42.580 using and then their school identifier they'll 00:14:42.580 --> 00:14:45.019 use in the exchange. So again, if you go to our 00:14:45.019 --> 00:14:47.740 website on the main page, there's a link to see 00:14:47.740 --> 00:14:50.360 all the registered colleges and universities. 00:14:50.990 --> 00:14:53.730 We're up to 15 already, and they keep coming 00:14:53.730 --> 00:14:57.269 in every day. Everyone from University of Florida, 00:14:57.929 --> 00:15:01.830 the Case Western Reserve, Dominion, Ohio State, 00:15:02.289 --> 00:15:06.129 St. Louis University, Missouri S &T, there's 00:15:06.129 --> 00:15:08.809 just a bunch. So they've got links there. You 00:15:08.809 --> 00:15:11.470 can check out more about their club. Perhaps 00:15:11.470 --> 00:15:13.649 they'll post some information about their operations. 00:15:14.590 --> 00:15:18.029 But we really built this event to be pretty easy 00:15:18.029 --> 00:15:20.679 to participate in. and really focus on the colleges 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:23.919 and universities and help build awareness for 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:27.379 them. Well, you know, I also might just go out 00:15:27.379 --> 00:15:29.539 there and say this, Neil. I heard him mention 00:15:29.539 --> 00:15:31.340 the University of Florida and the Gator Amateur 00:15:31.340 --> 00:15:34.960 Radio Club W4 DFU, but I didn't hear him mention 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:37.559 anything about Kentucky. And, you know, you can't 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:41.919 win if you're not in the game. Yeah, well, our 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:44.940 bunch are too busy building CubeSats, apparently. 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:50.740 I'm just saying, you know, that still might pull 00:15:50.740 --> 00:15:54.240 one out this season. I got faith in the club. 00:15:55.379 --> 00:16:01.320 This is true. All right. So you've got the hours 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:05.139 here, you've got the dates, you've got the website, 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:10.000 fill us in on the exchange bands, modes, all 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:13.200 that kind of thing. All right. Andy, do you want 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:17.210 to take it or? I mean, I can. You know, the exchange 00:16:17.210 --> 00:16:23.429 is a little different than in years past. So 00:16:23.429 --> 00:16:27.669 this year our exchange is adding in, besides 00:16:27.669 --> 00:16:32.070 your call sign and sort of the signal report 00:16:32.070 --> 00:16:34.690 that you're used to, we're adding in a school 00:16:34.690 --> 00:16:40.100 identifier where you get to You get to basically 00:16:40.100 --> 00:16:42.919 use a shortcut to identify your school. Some 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:46.480 people might not recognize your call signs. So 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:49.840 that's a great way for schools to, you know, 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:52.559 sort of, you know, be unique and make it easy 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:57.039 for stations that are not schools to log them 00:16:57.039 --> 00:16:59.980 because there are a lot of bonus points for work 00:16:59.980 --> 00:17:02.730 in the school. So they've all picked some. Um, 00:17:03.029 --> 00:17:05.490 you know, fairly unique to their station. It's 00:17:05.490 --> 00:17:08.150 about five characters or less. I think Mississippi 00:17:08.150 --> 00:17:11.930 state is the longest one, um, up there, but all 00:17:11.930 --> 00:17:14.430 of them are about five characters or less. And, 00:17:14.450 --> 00:17:16.450 uh, that that's a unique way to identify them. 00:17:16.450 --> 00:17:18.069 If you're not a school station, if you're not 00:17:18.069 --> 00:17:20.470 a, you know, a college university or trade school, 00:17:20.670 --> 00:17:23.829 um, you would identify with which you would share 00:17:23.829 --> 00:17:26.650 that as well. Um, for the school, you got out 00:17:26.650 --> 00:17:30.329 there, you identify what is what with your, with 00:17:30.329 --> 00:17:33.779 your QTH. your, uh, your home station location. 00:17:34.420 --> 00:17:39.460 Okay. So very good. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a good 00:17:39.460 --> 00:17:43.119 way. So that way, if you don't have all these 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.700 club call signs memorized, like I seem to have 00:17:46.700 --> 00:17:53.140 from doing school club roundup for years, uh, 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.920 that's a great way to instantly know what, you 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.859 know, who you're talking to. Exactly. I mean, 00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:03.299 there's a few of these call signs that I can 00:18:03.299 --> 00:18:07.240 see well, like when I see EEE or W8EDU pop in 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:10.220 there, but then there are some that, you know, 00:18:10.859 --> 00:18:14.059 I haven't seen, like K7BYI for Brigham Young 00:18:14.059 --> 00:18:16.720 University, Idaho, who are going to be participating 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:19.559 this year. So, you know, that's cool to see them 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:23.519 in there and, you know, their identifier is BYUI, 00:18:23.700 --> 00:18:26.539 so that makes a lot of sense. exit from that. 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:29.579 But there's some other ones in there too. University 00:18:29.579 --> 00:18:32.339 of Arizona has Wilbur as their call sign, which 00:18:32.339 --> 00:18:34.220 I think is their mascot, if I'm not mistaken. 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:37.319 So there's some really cool ways that some of 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:38.920 these schools are identifying and having fun 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:43.440 with it. Well, and even more chance of trash 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:48.359 talk. So that is all right. Well, there you have 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:53.359 it. 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New episodes 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:17.819 are coming your way, but before we get back to 00:22:17.819 --> 00:22:22.200 Andy and Tony, it is time once again for the 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:26.460 N9GSU Joke of the Week. Now it's time for the 00:22:26.460 --> 00:22:29.720 HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of the Week, the 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:32.500 part of the show where Rick tells us a ham radio 00:22:32.500 --> 00:22:35.400 joke. The HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of the 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:39.140 Week is brought to you by QRM Labs. Now, here's 00:22:39.140 --> 00:22:43.400 Rick Garrett in 9GSU with today's HamTalk Live 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:50.839 Joke of the Week. It's always a struggle for 00:22:50.839 --> 00:22:53.079 me to get antennas up in trees when I'm out doing 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:56.079 POTA activations. I swear I have tried everything. 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:59.279 I finally hit on the bright idea of using a boomerang. 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:01.519 I'd forgotten where I threw it, but it finally 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:05.720 came back to me. This has been the Ham Talk Live 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:08.420 Ham Radio Joke of the Week with Rick Garrett 00:23:08.420 --> 00:23:12.140 in 9GSU. Tune in again next week for another 00:23:12.140 --> 00:23:18.539 joke from Rick. Oh boy. It finally came back 00:23:18.539 --> 00:23:22.220 to me. Did it come back to you, Andy? No, I'm 00:23:22.220 --> 00:23:24.500 still waiting for mine to come back, Neil. Oh, 00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:28.779 you're still waiting. Well, we're coming back 00:23:28.779 --> 00:23:36.519 to Tony and Andy Maluzzi, KK4LWR and KD8RTT with 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:42.799 the collegiate QSO party coming up October 1st 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:47.839 to a radio near you. Make sure you check that 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:52.059 out. collegiatekisoparty .com, was it? Yep, that's 00:23:52.059 --> 00:23:58.039 right. .com. All right. Well, okay. So rare opportunity 00:23:58.039 --> 00:24:00.099 here. We're actually going to open up the phone 00:24:00.099 --> 00:24:03.019 lines because since we were doing this recorded 00:24:03.019 --> 00:24:06.539 and not live anymore, we don't always get to 00:24:06.539 --> 00:24:10.339 open up the phone lines. But tonight we've got 00:24:10.339 --> 00:24:13.579 a chance to do it. So good evening. Welcome to 00:24:13.579 --> 00:24:17.079 HamTalk Live. Good evening, Whiskey for India 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:20.079 Papa Charlie. Well, good evening, Connor. And 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:24.619 you're down at Old Dominion University and you've 00:24:24.619 --> 00:24:27.619 been working on getting them going again. So, 00:24:27.619 --> 00:24:30.640 so tell us what's going on down there. That's 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:32.440 right. We're at the Old Dominion University, 00:24:32.500 --> 00:24:35.220 not the New Dominion University down here in 00:24:35.220 --> 00:24:37.440 Norfolk, Virginia, next to the largest Navy base 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:40.200 in the world. We've got the club restarted here 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:44.559 after I believe 30 to 40 years of inactivity. 00:24:46.110 --> 00:24:48.869 Unfortunately, we haven't really been able to 00:24:48.869 --> 00:24:53.069 find much history of the club except for exactly 00:24:53.069 --> 00:24:56.849 two pictures that I was able to get the university 00:24:56.849 --> 00:25:00.269 archivist to dig up. But other than that, we're 00:25:00.269 --> 00:25:02.789 pretty much a first time club at the university. 00:25:03.769 --> 00:25:06.710 We've got several radios in the shack rack mounted. 00:25:07.150 --> 00:25:09.710 that the Navy has actually purchased for us. 00:25:09.849 --> 00:25:12.769 We're doing experiments with the Navy on HF radio 00:25:12.769 --> 00:25:16.710 and automatic link establishment. And we're pretty 00:25:16.710 --> 00:25:19.650 excited to operate the upcoming Collegiate QSO 00:25:19.650 --> 00:25:22.970 party from there, where we will probably do it 00:25:22.970 --> 00:25:27.089 via remote control from a shared space on University, 00:25:27.470 --> 00:25:30.930 where we can all sit down together and have some 00:25:30.930 --> 00:25:34.700 University -sanctioned pizza party. Over. Yes, 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:38.019 the pizza is always a requirement. Andy and Tony, 00:25:38.019 --> 00:25:41.599 you kind of left that part out, but it's a college 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.480 club, therefore pizza must be involved. It's 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:48.180 the best way to make sure people come. We have 00:25:48.180 --> 00:25:53.720 a pizza budget in our club activities fund from 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:55.920 the university. They gave us a pizza budget. 00:25:56.839 --> 00:25:59.039 What's the old saying? If you feed them, they 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:05.140 will come? That's true. So so y 'all are going 00:26:05.140 --> 00:26:08.019 to be on and and you're going to use some you 00:26:08.019 --> 00:26:10.900 know remote technology and sometimes that's that's 00:26:10.900 --> 00:26:14.559 a way to overcome some of the obstacles You know 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:17.779 getting a dedicated space on campus or getting 00:26:17.779 --> 00:26:22.140 some antennas up on campus Sometimes that could 00:26:22.140 --> 00:26:26.440 be a challenge and and might take a while To 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:29.259 jump through all the red tape and get through 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:33.359 uh... everything that make that happen so sounds 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:36.220 like uh... you've definitely got a plan there 00:26:36.220 --> 00:26:41.119 and and and pizza yes are our main problem is 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:43.460 they gave us a really nice space is probably 00:26:43.460 --> 00:26:49.119 a hundred by hundred foot room but uh... i'm 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:51.500 currently in the talks to fix this but currently 00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:55.180 uh... undergrads can't access that room without 00:26:55.180 --> 00:26:58.220 a professor uh... which which lends a problem 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:03.980 we can only be in there for things or you know 00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:06.500 club activities or open shack when we have a 00:27:06.500 --> 00:27:11.180 professor with us unless you're me so basically 00:27:11.180 --> 00:27:13.799 all the entire shack is remote controlled so 00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:15.779 we don't have to really go in there for anything 00:27:15.779 --> 00:27:19.259 and that's that's our major stepping stone there 00:27:19.259 --> 00:27:21.400 is to sort of get the university to trust us 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:26.019 enough to let us actually into our own room Yep, 00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:28.900 that's not unusual. And these are some of the 00:27:28.900 --> 00:27:33.940 challenges that colleges run into, that college 00:27:33.940 --> 00:27:36.680 clubs run into. I remember ours was in a mop 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:40.680 closet. And, you know, same thing. I couldn't 00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:43.640 get into it. I had to have one of the professors 00:27:43.640 --> 00:27:47.819 with me. The mop closet wasn't real great for 00:27:47.819 --> 00:27:50.920 the radio either, but that's that's a whole nother 00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:54.460 story But they know that with all the new remote 00:27:54.460 --> 00:27:57.839 technology. That's a that's a great way to do 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:02.359 it. So Andy anything else to throw in here or 00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:06.480 Tony? Well, I'll mention that one thing we haven't 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:08.279 talked too much about tonight is the collegiate 00:28:08.279 --> 00:28:10.640 amateur radio program that we're involved in 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:13.599 And we actually have monthly Calls that we discuss 00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:17.160 items and Connor was on this this past month 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:19.440 a little bit a week ago and actually showed off 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:23.779 their shack so You go to a double RL org slash. 00:28:23.779 --> 00:28:27.240 We want the letter you we want you There will 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:28.940 be a link to the recording of that and you can 00:28:28.940 --> 00:28:30.700 actually check out the station He was talking 00:28:30.700 --> 00:28:33.019 about so he did a great job showing us how they 00:28:33.019 --> 00:28:36.839 got that all set up And also, we've mentioned 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:39.000 it a few times here, the Collegic Amateur Radio 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.779 Program, CARP, as we affectionately call it. 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.799 But that's also news. It wasn't always called 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:47.920 CARP. We were Cary for a while. We were the Collegic 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:50.259 Amateur Radio Initiative. You know, the league 00:28:50.259 --> 00:28:52.779 started this initiative sort of thing. But, you 00:28:52.779 --> 00:28:56.339 know, after a half decade of doing it and literally 00:28:56.339 --> 00:29:00.059 thousands of members... on our Facebook group 00:29:00.059 --> 00:29:04.640 here. We're, you know, pushing about 1 .2 thousand 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:08.259 members, so 1200 folks, you know, representing 00:29:08.259 --> 00:29:10.759 colleges and universities all across the world 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:13.119 even at this point. We've graduated from being 00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:15.259 an initiative to something that's really a sustainable 00:29:15.259 --> 00:29:20.180 program and really a hallmark now of college 00:29:20.180 --> 00:29:22.980 stations around the world. So, you know, you 00:29:22.980 --> 00:29:26.160 can join the calls. We are hosting Hamfest forums 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:29.559 at Dayton. and Orlando. So if you'd come down 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:32.160 to Orlando Hamcasian in February or if you go 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:34.960 to Dayton Convention in May, there will be a 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:36.759 forum just for you if you're a college student 00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:39.640 or if you want to support college, university, 00:29:39.740 --> 00:29:43.380 and trade school students and help them be successful. 00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:47.039 So yeah, lots of great growth going on this year 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:50.579 with the program. Yeah, and you got a new logo. 00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:53.990 I was like, wait a minute. The first time I saw 00:29:53.990 --> 00:29:55.950 it I was like, wait a minute, I thought it was 00:29:55.950 --> 00:30:00.230 Carrie, not Carp. And all of a sudden there's 00:30:00.230 --> 00:30:02.950 a new logo and everything. Yeah, there's a new 00:30:02.950 --> 00:30:06.250 logo. I would say if you are a college student 00:30:06.250 --> 00:30:10.470 out there and that logo maybe gives you an idea 00:30:10.470 --> 00:30:14.369 of a particular sea -going animal, maybe you 00:30:14.369 --> 00:30:16.289 should join Discord and see how we've had some 00:30:16.289 --> 00:30:22.980 fun with that logo. It's a whole bunch of hams 00:30:22.980 --> 00:30:25.680 doing amateur radio for each other and sharing, 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:28.160 you know, and enjoying the hobby together. So, 00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:29.819 you know, I encourage everyone to sort of get 00:30:29.819 --> 00:30:32.900 involved and jump in on there. And from that 00:30:32.900 --> 00:30:37.720 ARRL website, ARRL We Want You, you can actually 00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:45.519 get a link to Ford in there and, you know, help 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:48.299 make collegiate amateur radio loud, you know, 00:30:48.299 --> 00:30:52.059 and who knows, you might hook your carp. All 00:30:52.059 --> 00:30:54.180 right. Well Connor, thanks so much for calling 00:30:54.180 --> 00:30:56.680 in tonight and telling us a little bit about 00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:59.440 Old Dominion and and best of luck in the college 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:03.279 or collegiate rather Q so party coming up October 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.180 1st Yeah, good to be here and make sure everybody 00:31:07.180 --> 00:31:10.460 listening works whiskey for Oscar Delta uniform 00:31:10.460 --> 00:31:13.200 very important I'll give you well, I'll give 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:15.740 you a handshake if I ever meet you There you 00:31:15.740 --> 00:31:19.960 go or a thousand nano bonus points There you 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:23.390 go. Yeah There you go. All right. Thanks, Connor, 00:31:23.430 --> 00:31:28.069 for calling in. Thanks for having me, Neil. All 00:31:28.069 --> 00:31:31.390 right. Well, Tony and Andy, let's talk a little 00:31:31.390 --> 00:31:33.589 bit about CARP here and we'll see if we have 00:31:33.589 --> 00:31:37.029 any other calls here. But we want to talk a little 00:31:37.029 --> 00:31:40.329 bit about CARP and the resources that are there 00:31:40.329 --> 00:31:43.950 for college clubs that are trying to get started 00:31:43.950 --> 00:31:47.849 or trying to get restarted. What are some things 00:31:47.849 --> 00:31:52.119 that are offered to help them out? Yeah, so in 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:54.380 addition to those monthly calls we just mentioned 00:31:54.380 --> 00:31:57.019 and the discord group we have another kind of 00:31:57.019 --> 00:32:00.740 repository of resources Linked there you can 00:32:00.740 --> 00:32:05.079 get sample club constitutions Information about 00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:08.160 other clubs out there. We also have a Facebook 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:10.480 group. So that's kind of the companion to the 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:13.160 discord What people are pretty active posting 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:15.900 all sorts of things online courses that clubs 00:32:15.900 --> 00:32:18.759 are hosting? Schools asking for advice on how 00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:20.900 to do a project or get started with their club 00:32:20.900 --> 00:32:24.299 So we really you know, we've got some basic resource 00:32:24.299 --> 00:32:27.240 people to start with and we have this nice community 00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:31.180 of people It's a go -to place that you can try 00:32:31.180 --> 00:32:34.160 to build your club out start a club And just 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.079 kind of give back to college clubs as well. So 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.759 Again, that's all accessible from a double RL 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:43.240 org slash. We want you the letter you there's 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:45.200 links to all that stuff including recordings 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:47.579 of all our previous calls And there's a lot of 00:32:47.579 --> 00:32:50.359 good material in there. All right, so some excellent 00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:54.759 resources out there for colleges that are trying 00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:59.319 to get started again or Keep going for that matter. 00:32:59.339 --> 00:33:02.680 Be sure to check them out as well as the the 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:06.930 Facebook group. So We're going to wrap things 00:33:06.930 --> 00:33:09.869 up here for tonight, but Andy, you know, we've 00:33:09.869 --> 00:33:12.569 known each other for a long time and we've talked 00:33:12.569 --> 00:33:15.690 to each other and our clubs have talked to each 00:33:15.690 --> 00:33:18.950 other. I think more importantly, uh, over the 00:33:18.950 --> 00:33:23.029 years, all, all the time. And we discovered this 00:33:23.029 --> 00:33:27.710 week that we were never in each other's personal 00:33:27.710 --> 00:33:32.609 logs. And lo and behold, I'm sitting on FT eight. 00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:35.920 and about to just give up and shut everything 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:39.119 down because I can't find any more Tasmanian 00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:41.579 stations. I'm trying to get that Tasmanian Devil 00:33:41.579 --> 00:33:45.279 Ward thing. And all of a sudden I see your call 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:49.319 sign flash across the screen. So we finally got 00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:53.500 a contact. Yeah, nearly a decade in the making. 00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:57.940 We finally got a contact. So that was fun. Your 00:33:57.940 --> 00:34:01.059 home state, your new home station to my new home 00:34:01.059 --> 00:34:04.240 station. Uh, yeah, that was, uh, a ton of fun. 00:34:04.460 --> 00:34:06.900 It was, uh, it was make that contact and then 00:34:06.900 --> 00:34:08.599 immediately pick up the phone and be like, Hey 00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:11.559 Neil, we finally made a contact. It was great. 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:17.659 With our own call signs for once. Yeah. There 00:34:17.659 --> 00:34:19.599 was a bit of a, hold on, let me search my log. 00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:21.820 Wait, I really don't have them in the log. Wow. 00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:26.139 And now it's on you, Neil, because I dropped 00:34:26.139 --> 00:34:29.400 in the mail today a QSL card your way, because 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:31.340 I'm starting to collect them now that I have 00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:34.119 a station to display them. So I need to get yours 00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:37.079 up on the wall. Yeah. Well, we'll have to get 00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:39.059 that taken care of. I got to get some new ones 00:34:39.059 --> 00:34:42.860 too with the new QTH. So I put it in my order. 00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:48.010 So they're on the way, hopefully. We'll get that. 00:34:48.170 --> 00:34:51.070 And Tony, Tony, I get on satellite. So I think 00:34:51.070 --> 00:34:54.210 we've worked actually several times. Yeah. I 00:34:54.210 --> 00:34:56.809 think over the past few years we've worked. Yeah. 00:34:57.050 --> 00:35:00.469 Multiple robes of, uh, for both of us, I think. 00:35:00.789 --> 00:35:04.389 Yeah. From, from, from all kinds of locations. 00:35:04.969 --> 00:35:08.130 Yeah. Yeah. That's been pretty cool. Tony does, 00:35:08.909 --> 00:35:11.949 uh, does some pretty cool roving out in the, 00:35:11.949 --> 00:35:17.219 uh, out in the Midwest and, uh, in some rare 00:35:17.219 --> 00:35:21.360 places, so you have to watch for KD8RTT out there 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:26.159 and check that out. All right, well, oh, and 00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:30.360 Andy, you know, your big announcement here, you're 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.039 running for AWRL Southeast Division Vice Director, 00:35:34.900 --> 00:35:37.460 so congratulations on that and good luck with 00:35:37.460 --> 00:35:40.969 that. Yeah, thanks. I threw my hat in the ring. 00:35:41.030 --> 00:35:44.349 I've had a lot of fun helping with the gang carry 00:35:44.349 --> 00:35:47.090 and now carp going and being on the PR committee 00:35:47.090 --> 00:35:49.550 as well as local clubs and stuff and I want to 00:35:49.550 --> 00:35:52.150 get back to the league at a bigger level, represent 00:35:52.150 --> 00:35:55.130 the Southeastern Division and help lead the second 00:35:55.130 --> 00:35:59.150 century of amateur radio. Yeah, well good luck. 00:36:00.570 --> 00:36:05.760 I wish you well in that. All right, well... That's 00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:08.340 going to do it for this edition of HamTalk Live. 00:36:08.460 --> 00:36:12.320 Thanks to my guests, Andy Maluzzi, KK4LWR, and 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:15.719 Tony Maluzzi, KD8RTT, and everybody out there 00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:19.079 in cyberspace for listening. And invite you back 00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:22.659 next time. And for our upcoming guests, you can 00:36:22.659 --> 00:36:27.619 see those at HamTalkLive .com. So for now, this 00:36:27.619 --> 00:36:32.510 is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 -3. Seven five 00:36:32.510 --> 00:36:35.550 and may the good DX be yours