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Tonight we're 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:27.799 joined by Mitch Arenstorf, AD0HJ, and Andrew 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:33.930 Northam, K -E -8 -F -Z -T. Last episode, Adam 00:01:33.930 --> 00:01:36.670 Johnson, KD9KIS, was here to talk about Youth 00:01:36.670 --> 00:01:40.250 on the Air Camp 2022 and hope you had a chance 00:01:40.250 --> 00:01:43.170 to check out the highlight videos from each day. 00:01:43.370 --> 00:01:47.469 Had another successful camp with 21 campers, 00:01:47.489 --> 00:01:51.650 so make sure you check those videos out at youthontheair 00:01:51.650 --> 00:01:55.150 .org or the Youth on the Air YouTube channel 00:01:55.150 --> 00:01:58.719 and see what we were up to. uh... but if you 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:01.159 missed the show you can listen to that anytime 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:04.659 at hamtalklive dot com or on your favorite podcast 00:02:04.659 --> 00:02:07.760 app or we're also on youtube and you can catch 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:11.860 the rebroadcast of hamtalk live saturday afternoons 00:02:11.860 --> 00:02:15.259 at about three thirty p m eastern on shortwave 00:02:15.259 --> 00:02:21.719 w t w w that's five zero eight five a m so make 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:24.479 sure you check that out as well Alright, well 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:26.860 I'll be back with Mitch and Andrew right after 00:02:26.860 --> 00:02:31.319 this word from ICOM America, right here. on HamTalk 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:35.020 Live. 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Visit icomamerica .com 00:05:06.449 --> 00:05:10.329 slash amateur for more information on ICOM radios. 00:05:11.170 --> 00:05:13.949 Your host, Neil Rapp, may be two radios short 00:05:13.949 --> 00:05:16.970 of a full ground system, but he's back now with 00:05:16.970 --> 00:05:32.889 more HamTalk Live. Welcome back to HamTalk Live 00:05:32.889 --> 00:05:36.470 tonight and it's Aaron Storf, AD0HJ, and Andrew 00:05:36.470 --> 00:05:40.120 Northam. K -E -8 -F -Z -T join us on the Orlando 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:43.800 Amateur Radio Club and Hamcation Zoom line. Mitch 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:46.300 is a very active satellite operator from Jackson, 00:05:46.300 --> 00:05:49.720 Minnesota and is the co -founder of the 80 Zero 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:54.139 Squared Award. And Andrew is no stranger to the 00:05:54.139 --> 00:05:57.839 show because his daughter wrote the song we use 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:01.519 here on the show during Christmastime, the radio 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:07.100 radio jingle. Andrew is also an avid satellite 00:06:07.100 --> 00:06:10.939 operator from Portage, Michigan. So guys, welcome 00:06:10.939 --> 00:06:15.540 to HamTalk Live. Hey, good evening, Neil. Hey, 00:06:15.620 --> 00:06:17.579 good evening, Neil. Thanks for having me on. 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:22.199 All right. Well, I saw the tweet the other day 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:27.060 and I got all excited because we had a year off 00:06:27.060 --> 00:06:31.460 there and, you know, it was one of the favorite 00:06:31.460 --> 00:06:36.459 events in ham radio I think in in my 45 some 00:06:36.459 --> 00:06:40.519 years in ham radio and it's it's Wimploda the 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:43.240 Walmart parking lots on the air it's back for 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:47.220 round three so before we tell everybody about 00:06:47.220 --> 00:06:49.759 what's going on this year let's talk a little 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.339 bit about how this event started for those people 00:06:53.339 --> 00:06:58.189 who don't know how how it all came about Sure, 00:06:58.310 --> 00:07:01.410 that's right Neil. We've been missing the last 00:07:01.410 --> 00:07:07.189 two years of Wimploda and first event actually 00:07:07.189 --> 00:07:12.329 happened when Chris K7TAP, another big amateur 00:07:12.329 --> 00:07:15.569 radio satellite operator, had put out a tweet 00:07:15.569 --> 00:07:19.750 that he had operated a grid line from a Walmart 00:07:19.750 --> 00:07:24.480 parking lot in Morgantown, West Virginia. And 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:30.600 as things often happen in Twitter, a lot of other 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.660 people mentioned how they had also worked from 00:07:33.660 --> 00:07:37.180 Walmart parking lots and a lot of them were on 00:07:37.180 --> 00:07:41.220 gridlines also. Well, it makes sense because, 00:07:41.220 --> 00:07:43.939 you know, these Walmart parking lots are pretty 00:07:43.939 --> 00:07:47.060 big open areas and, you know, so it makes it 00:07:47.060 --> 00:07:49.819 an easy place to, you know, park at the end of 00:07:49.819 --> 00:07:54.360 the parking lot and get some uh get some elevation 00:07:54.360 --> 00:08:00.600 for uh pointing the antenna that is a good point 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:04.779 probably not as good as uh being out in the middle 00:08:04.779 --> 00:08:09.060 of farmland north dakota certainly being my favorite 00:08:09.060 --> 00:08:13.779 um and you're gonna have a lot of of radio interference 00:08:13.779 --> 00:08:17.720 but typically parking lot like you said is big 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:22.720 enough you can get away and actually do a satellite 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:27.259 pass that would be 20 30 degrees at least over 00:08:27.259 --> 00:08:31.660 the horizon Yeah, and you know Walmart's typically 00:08:31.660 --> 00:08:34.960 aren't all that tall either so that that kind 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:38.279 of helps out a little bit but Seems like there's 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:40.659 some good places and there are several and I 00:08:40.659 --> 00:08:44.320 know there's one that I'm contemplating about 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:46.559 an hour south of here that's sitting right on 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:49.620 a grid line and I'm trying to make up my mind 00:08:49.620 --> 00:08:52.480 if I'm going to drive down there or just run 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:55.559 from here but there are several that happen to 00:08:55.559 --> 00:09:00.139 end up on grid lines so that counts for both 00:09:00.139 --> 00:09:02.679 grids if you're sitting right on the grid line 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:07.720 so a lot of people like that. So let's talk a 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.600 little bit about this year so when is Wimploda 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:15.500 this year and are there any rule changes we need 00:09:15.500 --> 00:09:22.009 to know about? Sure, yeah. This year Wemploda 00:09:22.009 --> 00:09:28.230 was shortened to a 24 -hour event. A little different 00:09:28.230 --> 00:09:31.269 than the previous years. Wanted to interfere 00:09:31.269 --> 00:09:35.750 a little less with the holiday weekend. But Wemploda 00:09:35.750 --> 00:09:42.809 takes place this weekend, July 2nd, and it starts 00:09:42.809 --> 00:09:48.450 Friday night at zero zero zero zero Zulu and 00:09:48.450 --> 00:09:53.690 goes for 24 hours. So Andrew, why is this event 00:09:53.690 --> 00:09:56.210 taking place on July 2nd? Is there some kind 00:09:56.210 --> 00:10:01.269 of significance to that? Oh yeah, Neil, the July 00:10:01.269 --> 00:10:06.070 2nd is the anniversary of Walmart's opening date. 00:10:08.319 --> 00:10:11.620 Okay, very good. So, you know, it's Walmart's 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:14.000 birthday, so to speak. In fact, there's one of 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.659 the bonuses that talks about that. We'll deal 00:10:16.659 --> 00:10:19.539 with that in a little bit. But any rule changes 00:10:19.539 --> 00:10:23.659 for this year? No, I don't believe there are 00:10:23.659 --> 00:10:26.940 any rule changes this year. You know, the goal 00:10:26.940 --> 00:10:30.679 is to make as many contacts as you can. You can 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:35.159 participate as either a shopper or an associate. 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:40.860 An associate would be operating from a Walmart 00:10:40.860 --> 00:10:46.080 store, whereas a shopper would be operating from 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:49.100 home trying to contact all the associates at 00:10:49.100 --> 00:10:53.779 those Walmart locations. Okay and then typically 00:10:54.220 --> 00:10:57.980 the exchange that we use on satellite is call 00:10:57.980 --> 00:11:02.159 sign and grid square so uh... the exchange is 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:03.960 a little different and it depends on whether 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:06.860 you're an associate or whether you're a a shopper 00:11:06.860 --> 00:11:09.840 so explain what the exchange will be for all 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:14.740 of this okay the exchange will be if you are 00:11:14.740 --> 00:11:18.639 an associate you would give your call sign and 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:23.700 walmart store number You can look that up Walmart 00:11:23.700 --> 00:11:27.700 store locator on the internet and it should give 00:11:27.700 --> 00:11:32.620 you the unique store identifier that you're that 00:11:32.620 --> 00:11:36.919 you're at also If you're on a linear satellite, 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:39.720 you might as well give the main head grid square 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.799 and if you're a shopper four -ditch main head 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:47.940 grid square is Is what you want along with your 00:11:47.940 --> 00:11:52.509 call sign? Okay. So again, the associates are 00:11:52.509 --> 00:11:54.330 what they call, you know, what would normally 00:11:54.330 --> 00:11:58.649 call activators or rovers or whatever. Uh, you're 00:11:58.649 --> 00:12:00.889 operating actually from the Walmart store and 00:12:00.889 --> 00:12:03.750 then the shoppers are the people who are trying 00:12:03.750 --> 00:12:07.809 to work them. So, uh, so if you're a shopper, 00:12:08.029 --> 00:12:12.070 go just normal grid square, um, and call sign. 00:12:12.350 --> 00:12:16.690 And then, um, for the, the associates, the activators, 00:12:16.769 --> 00:12:19.889 uh, Throw in that store number if you can, that'll 00:12:19.889 --> 00:12:24.590 help cut down on some of the dupes. So Adam, 00:12:24.669 --> 00:12:29.230 K0FFY, kind of took this on and kind of got the 00:12:29.230 --> 00:12:31.970 ball rolling with the website and Twitter and 00:12:31.970 --> 00:12:36.370 making it all official like. And he's on vacation 00:12:36.370 --> 00:12:41.129 this year. So talk a little bit about your role 00:12:41.129 --> 00:12:44.250 kind of standing in to make this happen this 00:12:44.250 --> 00:12:51.700 year. Sure. Adam K0FFY and a lot of others started 00:12:51.700 --> 00:12:54.480 this back. I believe the first event, actual 00:12:54.480 --> 00:13:00.899 Wimploda, was April of 2018. So they did quite 00:13:00.899 --> 00:13:04.080 a bit as far as getting the the website Wimploda 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:09.840 .org updated and there's also a wiki and associated 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:14.820 Twitter account. A lot had been done there, 2018, 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:23.659 2019, 2020, 2021. I believe it was dropped because 00:13:23.659 --> 00:13:27.440 of COVID and everything that was happening there. 00:13:28.620 --> 00:13:32.179 And I was watching for it, of course, this year, 00:13:32.340 --> 00:13:36.600 like a lot of other satellite operators, looking 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:40.460 to see if Wimploda was going to happen. and heard 00:13:40.460 --> 00:13:45.360 some rumblings of it, but yeah, nothing was coming 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:50.899 together. We decided on a date on the AMSAT Twitter 00:13:50.899 --> 00:13:54.519 Meetup Net that we do every Wednesday night on 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.320 DMR, January or July 2nd was going to be the 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:02.220 date, the founding of the first Walmart by Sam 00:14:02.220 --> 00:14:07.919 Walton in Rogers, Arkansas. So we had that reaching 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:13.340 out to Adam? Yeah, Adam was going to be busy. 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:16.840 Like you said, he was on vacation. So, so I decided 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.320 to pick it up and looking for volunteers. Andrew, 00:14:20.379 --> 00:14:25.720 KE8, FCT was good enough to help me out. Well, 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:29.100 Andrew, talk a little bit about your role in 00:14:29.100 --> 00:14:32.700 this helping, helping out with Mitch and, and 00:14:32.700 --> 00:14:38.179 getting this party started again. Oh yeah. I've, 00:14:38.179 --> 00:14:41.240 uh, you know, been a participant of Wimplata 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.879 since day one. You know a couple years ago during 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:49.700 Wimplata I did a big massive rove up in the the 00:14:49.700 --> 00:14:54.799 UP or headed towards the UP on vacation there. 00:14:55.220 --> 00:14:57.700 Unfortunately this year I'm not really going 00:14:57.700 --> 00:15:01.159 anywhere and was really looking forward to Wimplata 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:04.039 so you know wanted to reach out to Mitch and 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.580 help out and you know helping out. Getting some 00:15:07.580 --> 00:15:10.799 posts on Twitter and promoting it, you know trying 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:18.000 to get kicked off the amps at BB Having a great 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:24.360 time there so You know This is one of the let's 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:27.820 see. How did I put it? I've got it in for newsline 00:15:27.820 --> 00:15:30.779 this week also to help promote it and I think 00:15:30.779 --> 00:15:38.159 the word I used was zany activities And I remember 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.580 as this was coming together and I was actually 00:15:40.580 --> 00:15:44.480 in on some of it as well. Um, you know, people 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:47.019 were on Twitter just coming up with all these 00:15:47.019 --> 00:15:50.879 ridiculous, you know, crazy bonuses. And, and 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.080 it was just, it was a lot of fun to just kind 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:56.980 of sit around and think up, you know, okay, what 00:15:56.980 --> 00:15:59.940 would, you know, what would these bonuses be? 00:15:59.980 --> 00:16:03.070 And, you know, what. What should the rules be? 00:16:03.230 --> 00:16:05.330 And, and, and it was just, it was hilarious. 00:16:05.549 --> 00:16:10.269 And, and it finally came together. And, um, I 00:16:10.269 --> 00:16:13.490 remember, um, driving down to Lexington and getting 00:16:13.490 --> 00:16:16.190 on from the grid line there. One year I was in, 00:16:16.190 --> 00:16:18.830 uh, Connecticut actually getting ready to go 00:16:18.830 --> 00:16:21.649 to the ARL teachers Institute and that stopped 00:16:21.649 --> 00:16:25.289 at like three different. Walmart's on the way 00:16:25.289 --> 00:16:29.889 trying to break in and I remember I never did 00:16:29.889 --> 00:16:33.649 get in that year but the year before I got several 00:16:33.649 --> 00:16:39.129 from a couple of different locations. It's always 00:16:39.129 --> 00:16:42.269 been a fun event, one that I always look forward 00:16:42.269 --> 00:16:45.789 to and looking forward to it again on Saturday 00:16:45.789 --> 00:16:53.929 July 2nd, 0100 UTC to 2359. Okay, well we'll 00:16:53.929 --> 00:16:56.789 come back here in a minute and talk some more 00:16:56.789 --> 00:17:00.570 with Mitch and Andrew about Walmart parking lots 00:17:00.570 --> 00:17:04.210 on the air right after this word from Tower Electronics 00:17:04.210 --> 00:17:10.759 right here on HamTalk Live. Thanks for choosing 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:13.779 Tower Electronics. How may we help you today? 00:17:14.420 --> 00:17:18.240 We have PL259s, we have in connectors, we have 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:21.720 SMA adapters, we have BNC adapters. What can 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:25.000 I show you today? Where's the tower? Well, we 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:28.160 don't actually have a tower with us. But we have 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:30.400 all kinds of things you can use with a tower. 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:34.099 We have power poles, antennas, soldering irons 00:17:34.099 --> 00:17:37.359 and meters. Where's the tower? 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That place I could just run down 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:57.099 and get something when I was working on a project. 00:19:57.420 --> 00:19:59.220 They're not around anymore. I'm going to start 00:19:59.220 --> 00:20:02.160 a chain of electronic supply stores for hobbyists 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:05.880 and I'm going to call it the Ohm Depot. This 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:09.220 has been the HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of the 00:20:09.220 --> 00:20:12.940 Week with Rick Garrett in 9GSU. Tune in again 00:20:12.940 --> 00:20:18.670 next week for another joke from Rick. All right. 00:20:18.809 --> 00:20:23.710 Well, from, from Ohm Depot to a Walmart parking 00:20:23.710 --> 00:20:27.049 lots on the air. Uh, we're back with, uh, Mitch 00:20:27.049 --> 00:20:29.970 Aaron Storf, 80 zero H J and Andrew Northam, 00:20:30.190 --> 00:20:33.910 K E eight F Z T talking about this, uh, this 00:20:33.910 --> 00:20:40.220 rather unusual, uh, crowd, uh, created special 00:20:40.220 --> 00:20:44.559 event happening at a Walmart parking lot near 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:50.539 you on July 2nd. So just looking over the scoring 00:20:50.539 --> 00:20:53.519 here, but before we get into all the details 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:56.240 and everything, Mitch, you want everybody to 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:59.279 fill out the little spreadsheet so that everything 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:05.119 is scored kind of auto -magically, right? Yeah, 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:08.059 absolutely. We have no idea what Walmart you 00:21:08.059 --> 00:21:11.599 visited, what bonus points you've gone after 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:17.000 so in the Wimploda website there's a link for 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:19.720 the the wiki actually it's under rules and awards 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:22.279 if you go to the very bottom there's an award 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:27.099 submission Wimploda scorecard either in excel 00:21:27.099 --> 00:21:33.420 or open office okay so you just go in there and 00:21:33.420 --> 00:21:35.759 check the boxes punch in the numbers and it'll 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:40.410 calculate everything for you and Send it in to 00:21:40.410 --> 00:21:45.289 Mr. Sparky, right? Oh, yeah, Mr. Sparky been 00:21:45.289 --> 00:21:49.769 around the satellite community for I'd say three 00:21:49.769 --> 00:21:55.009 years Really good monkey 80 zero squared has 00:21:55.009 --> 00:21:58.410 utilized him to push out QSL cards and a few 00:21:58.410 --> 00:22:01.569 random tasks So so we did obtain him for this 00:22:01.569 --> 00:22:05.309 that he was happy to work with us and We appreciate 00:22:05.309 --> 00:22:10.490 mr. Sparky being there All right, so yeah fill 00:22:10.490 --> 00:22:14.490 out spreadsheet send it in and and They'll tally 00:22:14.490 --> 00:22:17.670 up the the results here. So again, we explained 00:22:17.670 --> 00:22:20.930 you know a shopper is somebody who's just calling 00:22:20.930 --> 00:22:25.029 an associate is someone who's at the Walmart 00:22:25.029 --> 00:22:29.849 store and then you get multipliers for like the 00:22:29.849 --> 00:22:33.390 number of Walmart stores you activate and that 00:22:33.390 --> 00:22:35.269 kind of thing So let's talk a little bit about 00:22:35.269 --> 00:22:40.200 multipliers here. Yeah the multipliers Multiply 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:44.440 your QSOs times the number of unique associates 00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:48.059 worked. We're gonna add that with the Walmart 00:22:48.059 --> 00:22:51.779 stores activated as an associate. We're gonna 00:22:51.779 --> 00:22:54.400 add the number of satellite passes that have 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:57.670 had at least one confirmed contact. We're going 00:22:57.670 --> 00:22:59.930 to also add the number of different satellites 00:22:59.930 --> 00:23:02.849 that were used for at least one confirmed QSO, 00:23:03.029 --> 00:23:05.549 and we're going to add the number of different 00:23:05.549 --> 00:23:08.730 grid squares with at least one confirmed QSO. 00:23:09.349 --> 00:23:12.109 So as you can see, there's a big opportunity 00:23:12.109 --> 00:23:16.569 if you travel around, visit a few Walmarts, cross 00:23:16.569 --> 00:23:19.670 a few state lines, you can have a big multiplier 00:23:19.670 --> 00:23:24.269 in this contest. All right, and then we get to 00:23:24.269 --> 00:23:30.700 the bonus points. which are rather creative, 00:23:31.539 --> 00:23:36.339 we'll say. So, you know, some kind of, you know, 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:38.319 ordinary ones, you know, if you're working on 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:40.640 a grid line, you know, where you get both grids 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:44.420 at the same time, of course, or near a grid line. 00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:47.799 But there are some other ones that are a little 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:54.609 more unique to this event, shall we say. Exactly 00:23:54.609 --> 00:23:59.029 and like you said before this is all a grassroots 00:23:59.029 --> 00:24:03.609 effort by the satellite operating community. 00:24:04.349 --> 00:24:10.329 AMSAT or Walmart any other entity is not behind 00:24:10.329 --> 00:24:16.029 us. It's just satellite operators and of course 00:24:16.029 --> 00:24:19.230 we want to be good stewards while we're at the 00:24:19.230 --> 00:24:24.410 Walmart so you will get a points for finding 00:24:24.410 --> 00:24:28.390 the shopping carts and putting them back or picking 00:24:28.390 --> 00:24:33.869 up trash, buying birthday cake from Walmart, 00:24:34.190 --> 00:24:37.289 eating it, take a picture of it, post it to Twitter, 00:24:37.849 --> 00:24:40.750 you get points for that. There's, let's see, 00:24:40.890 --> 00:24:46.019 there's some for social media posts. Ooh, I like 00:24:46.019 --> 00:24:49.200 this one called to the office 30 points for having 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:53.339 an actual Walmart manager participate in an on 00:24:53.339 --> 00:24:56.240 air Q. So, and the great part about that, it 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:01.859 says planned or unplanned. So to me, that means 00:25:01.859 --> 00:25:05.200 that maybe the manager had to come out and talk 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:08.599 to you. Now, to my knowledge, that's, that's 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:12.160 never happened. So if, if anyone does have that 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:16.660 happen, 30 points. for a call to the office. 00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:20.000 Yes. And we need to hear the story. That would 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.420 be even better. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Uh, let's see, 00:25:24.420 --> 00:25:29.160 um, special envoy. You get seven points for being 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:32.740 an advocate and explaining what Wimploda is to 00:25:32.740 --> 00:25:37.859 an actual Walmart customer. So, and then there's 00:25:37.859 --> 00:25:44.710 like some, some for Alaska, Hawaii, uh, Northwest 00:25:44.710 --> 00:25:48.450 territories none of the Yukon all that kind of 00:25:48.450 --> 00:25:52.829 thing. I Know we didn't we've got the zombie. 00:25:53.549 --> 00:25:56.829 Oh Yeah, the zombie, you know land multiplier 00:25:56.829 --> 00:25:59.789 So that's you know, of course two additional 00:25:59.789 --> 00:26:04.309 QSO points When you make a contact through a 00:26:04.309 --> 00:26:07.569 oh seven, of course a oh seven we all know came 00:26:07.569 --> 00:26:12.160 back from the dead many years ago and It's a 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:14.140 great satellite working out there and hopefully 00:26:14.140 --> 00:26:18.839 it'll be up and running in well on Friday night, 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:23.559 Saturday. And then we've got the zombie apocalypse, 00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:27.740 which is activating a zombie Walmart. So it's 00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:30.779 a permanently closed Walmart that remains vacant. 00:26:31.339 --> 00:26:33.680 So, and then there's some with spelling bead 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:37.200 where you can take the call signs and spell out 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:42.049 words and stuff like that. So. So, Mitch, what's 00:26:42.049 --> 00:26:46.029 your favorite one out of this list? I don't think 00:26:46.029 --> 00:26:50.349 it's on this list. The one I always liked was 00:26:50.349 --> 00:26:56.670 the MacGyver Works at Walmart award, and I can 00:26:56.670 --> 00:26:59.970 only remember one person ever doing that. That 00:26:59.970 --> 00:27:04.789 was Soren. I can't remember Soren's call sign, 00:27:05.049 --> 00:27:10.150 but yeah, he had actually taken, I think it was... 00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:15.519 Like roasting forks from campaign and maybe a 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.859 wooden doll and drill and some drill belts and 00:27:18.859 --> 00:27:22.380 actually fabricated his own yay antenna probably 00:27:22.380 --> 00:27:26.299 only brought along a coax and some alligator 00:27:26.299 --> 00:27:32.140 clips and Actually made a qso. So so In my memory 00:27:32.140 --> 00:27:37.380 that was 2018 and yeah MacGyver Certainly my 00:27:37.380 --> 00:27:40.440 so that's you got to get at least one Q. So with 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:43.700 the antenna that you built with stuff you buy 00:27:43.700 --> 00:27:48.539 at the Walmart, so That's that's a good yeah, 00:27:48.539 --> 00:27:51.000 that's one of the awards so while we're talking 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:55.480 about Awards, let's talk about some of the awards 00:27:55.480 --> 00:28:00.839 you you get an award for Making at least one 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:05.059 Q. So two to four Q. So's five Q. So's you're 00:28:05.059 --> 00:28:07.829 a greeter You know, if you do the overnight stuff, 00:28:07.970 --> 00:28:10.809 you've got overnight stocker. Then we get into 00:28:10.809 --> 00:28:14.990 the extra credit awards and these are some of 00:28:14.990 --> 00:28:19.069 my favorites. So, uh, we'll get into those a 00:28:19.069 --> 00:28:21.890 little bit. Uh, but Andrew, what was your favorite 00:28:21.890 --> 00:28:25.029 one on the list here? Oh, my favorite one is 00:28:25.029 --> 00:28:27.869 definitely the early bird award. That's, you 00:28:27.869 --> 00:28:30.130 know, there's always a good fight for that one. 00:28:30.430 --> 00:28:35.349 Uh, early bird award is The first confirmed contact, 00:28:35.390 --> 00:28:38.630 you know, after one plot of starts. So depending 00:28:38.630 --> 00:28:42.049 on where the satellites fall, you know, usually 00:28:42.049 --> 00:28:44.069 people are trying to make that contact in the 00:28:44.069 --> 00:28:48.170 first couple of minutes. And then in a couple 00:28:48.170 --> 00:28:50.769 of years, we've had satellites directly overhead 00:28:50.769 --> 00:28:55.890 right at zero UTC. So people made the contacts 00:28:55.890 --> 00:28:59.589 right at zero UTC and then to break the tie you've 00:28:59.589 --> 00:29:02.890 got to do your upload and the time of confirming 00:29:02.890 --> 00:29:07.089 the contact on Logbook of the World is the tiebreaker 00:29:07.089 --> 00:29:09.910 for that. So there's been some pretty good races 00:29:09.910 --> 00:29:12.710 for that one in the past. Yeah, remember that 00:29:12.710 --> 00:29:17.589 was quite the competition there trying to get 00:29:17.589 --> 00:29:20.829 the first one. So then the extra credit is where 00:29:20.829 --> 00:29:26.740 it gets really Really strange. So we have Ol' 00:29:26.740 --> 00:29:30.039 Roy, the activator with the most Twitter posts 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:36.079 of their dog from an activated parking lot. Then 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:40.200 we have Ol' Roy with Roy. If your name is Roy 00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:43.220 and you have the most Twitter posts of your dog 00:29:43.220 --> 00:29:46.480 activated from the parking lot. You know, and 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.720 then Special Kitty, the same as Ol' Roy but with 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:53.589 your cat. It's really oh, yeah, really fun things 00:29:53.589 --> 00:29:57.289 and then oh and then there's the Mitch one of 00:29:57.289 --> 00:29:59.990 your favorites ought to be the buy one get one 00:29:59.990 --> 00:30:04.809 free 80 squared award Absolutely, I don't know 00:30:04.809 --> 00:30:08.630 if anyone's ever Earned that I did participate 00:30:08.630 --> 00:30:14.069 in 2019 and don't remember working Ron 80 DX 00:30:14.069 --> 00:30:18.529 on on any of those passes so that should actually 00:30:18.529 --> 00:30:22.789 be a really really special award but yeah these 00:30:22.789 --> 00:30:27.029 were all submitted by people and got kind of 00:30:27.029 --> 00:30:29.869 crazy as you said old Roy with Roy I mean that's 00:30:29.869 --> 00:30:34.069 very specific that your name is Roy and you have 00:30:34.069 --> 00:30:37.029 a dog so I suppose someone out there was named 00:30:37.029 --> 00:30:41.170 Roy and brought that one up but some of them 00:30:41.170 --> 00:30:45.619 are a lot easier Twitter a photo of the operation 00:30:45.619 --> 00:30:48.359 with the US flag in the background or Canadian 00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:51.880 or Mexican. Most Walmart branded stores will 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:56.259 have that. One of my favorites to see on Twitter 00:30:56.259 --> 00:31:00.720 is the one with the shopping cart. It's called 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.539 Mobility. QSL from a motorized shopping cart 00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:06.680 or regular shopping cart. So you might need two 00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:10.059 people for that. One person to jump in the shopping 00:31:10.059 --> 00:31:13.960 cart. Another person take the picture. And, well, 00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:16.480 if you're like me, pull you back out of the shopping 00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:21.920 cart. I seem to remember a couple of those pictures. 00:31:22.700 --> 00:31:26.400 I think Sean was involved in one of those. One 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:32.920 spray. And then, you know, here's the safety 00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:35.440 officer, you know, wear your high vis vest and 00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:40.779 a tin foil hat. There's all kinds of good stuff. 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:43.400 One of the ones I like is, you know, I usually 00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:46.700 end up doing the lunchtime passes because I pretty 00:31:46.700 --> 00:31:51.299 much do FM with my mobile setup or portable setup. 00:31:51.980 --> 00:31:55.619 So great value is a QSO while eating chicken 00:31:55.619 --> 00:32:00.319 from the deli. Yeah, I mean, that's just insane. 00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:03.279 Whoever thought of that one, I could have never 00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:06.039 imagined making a satellite QSO while eating 00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:11.079 chicken. Do it. You get a little extra credit 00:32:11.079 --> 00:32:14.839 points for that. Yep. That's one of my favorite 00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:18.039 ones. I've participated in that one a few times. 00:32:18.079 --> 00:32:21.640 I usually send my wife inside while I'm doing 00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:24.839 the passes outside to pick me up a fresh bucket 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:27.940 of their little popcorn chicken. There you go. 00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:31.000 And then you get the cupcake and you get the 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:35.890 birthday cake covered. You know, definitely and 00:32:35.890 --> 00:32:40.950 get lunch at the same time Well, you know we 00:32:40.950 --> 00:32:42.869 talked a little bit about this buy one get one 00:32:42.869 --> 00:32:47.089 free 80 zero squared award Mitch For people who 00:32:47.089 --> 00:32:50.349 don't know talk a little bit about the the usual 00:32:50.349 --> 00:32:55.769 80 zero squared award Okay Ron 80 zero DX and 00:32:55.769 --> 00:33:00.890 I started that maybe back in 2019, we found ourselves 00:33:00.890 --> 00:33:04.930 on a lot of satellite passes at the same time. 00:33:05.349 --> 00:33:09.769 And just talking back and forth. No, it was actually 00:33:09.769 --> 00:33:13.349 Ruth, it was Ruth KM4 LAO that that suggested 00:33:13.349 --> 00:33:17.289 that and said, hey, you need an award for that. 00:33:17.910 --> 00:33:21.470 And after considering for a month or so, I think 00:33:21.470 --> 00:33:24.250 we said, yeah, we do need an award. So we started 00:33:24.250 --> 00:33:28.670 with the 80 zero squared award, which is a special 00:33:28.670 --> 00:33:34.089 qso card filled out by myself and ron serialized 00:33:34.089 --> 00:33:36.490 uh sent to you we haven't sent those out for 00:33:36.490 --> 00:33:40.410 for quite a while ron hasn't been quite as active 00:33:40.410 --> 00:33:46.690 but uh it inspired a lot of knockoffs which we 00:33:46.690 --> 00:33:51.910 fully approve of so uh i remember there being 00:33:51.910 --> 00:33:56.190 maybe seven or eight different variations of 00:33:56.190 --> 00:34:00.279 that award that you could earn. So a lot of fun 00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:05.759 and created a lot of chaos whenever Ron and myself 00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:08.159 were on the same satellite, especially AFM satellite. 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:12.139 Yeah. Well, so you can get your 80 zero squared 00:34:12.139 --> 00:34:16.599 award and then you can get the BOGO 80 zero squared 00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:20.739 award, buy one, get one free during July 2nd 00:34:20.739 --> 00:34:23.719 if both of them are on. So give that a shot. 00:34:24.250 --> 00:34:26.449 All right. Well, we're going to finish things 00:34:26.449 --> 00:34:30.070 up here. But guys, I want to ask you about your 00:34:30.070 --> 00:34:34.630 favorite Wimploda contact or memory, because 00:34:34.630 --> 00:34:37.369 there were quite a few pictures out there that 00:34:37.369 --> 00:34:41.090 I think would count as a memory. So I want to 00:34:41.090 --> 00:34:44.449 ask you, what's your favorite Wimploda moment? 00:34:44.869 --> 00:34:48.510 One of my favorite moments was during my role 00:34:48.510 --> 00:34:53.590 back in 2018. I was up in Tawas. and I was standing 00:34:53.590 --> 00:34:55.809 on the side of a parking lot doing a satellite 00:34:55.809 --> 00:35:00.829 pass and a guy drives by in a big pickup truck 00:35:00.829 --> 00:35:04.929 and he looks over at me and he goes are you doing 00:35:04.929 --> 00:35:08.449 a satellite and I kind of nod at him you know 00:35:08.449 --> 00:35:10.550 and I had my headphones on so I'm in the middle 00:35:10.550 --> 00:35:14.710 of the pass and then he looks and he says Wim 00:35:14.710 --> 00:35:16.869 Plata are you doing Walmart's parking lot in 00:35:16.869 --> 00:35:22.480 the air and I I about dropped the arrow and pulled 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:27.320 my antenna off and I'm like, what, uh, how do 00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:30.239 you know about that? He goes, Oh, I'm, I'm on 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:32.980 one of the, you know, satellite mailing lists. 00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:37.320 And I heard about it. I'm like, wow. Like it's, 00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:43.480 it's spread that far. You just never know. Oh, 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:47.440 Mitch, what, what do you got here? Well, I'm 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:51.199 trying to think back 2019 was really the only 00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:55.219 year that I did it and That year I purchased 00:35:55.219 --> 00:35:58.400 a you know, the Walmart t -shirt the blue that 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:02.699 says with the Walmart logo on there Saying the 00:36:02.699 --> 00:36:05.940 parking lot someone asked me for some help with 00:36:05.940 --> 00:36:09.559 something I'm I'm guessing thinking that that 00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:12.340 I worked at the store which I would have helped 00:36:12.340 --> 00:36:16.159 them if they needed something carried or or whatever 00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:20.340 but I said you know give me 15 minutes I'll be 00:36:20.340 --> 00:36:24.420 with you and I think they gave up on me moved 00:36:24.420 --> 00:36:29.619 on but certainly making FM passes on a you know 00:36:29.619 --> 00:36:33.159 Saturday noontime oh that was that was crazy 00:36:33.159 --> 00:36:37.300 back that year and I have to imagine people that 00:36:37.300 --> 00:36:40.159 maybe weren't clued into it just wondering what 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:43.849 all the Walmart store numbers were My favorite 00:36:43.849 --> 00:36:48.949 contact being with the captain, Brian KG5GJT 00:36:48.949 --> 00:36:54.409 at that time, but many others. The captain. He's 00:36:54.409 --> 00:36:59.989 there. Well, it's a great time. So satellite 00:36:59.989 --> 00:37:04.110 operators encourage you to put on your PJs and 00:37:04.110 --> 00:37:06.550 aluminum foil hat, head to a parking lot nearest 00:37:06.550 --> 00:37:12.079 you and get on the air. Anything else here to 00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:15.639 bring up before we go and get ready for WMPLOTA? 00:37:16.699 --> 00:37:21.460 Make sure you follow us on Twitter. We're at 00:37:21.460 --> 00:37:29.340 WMPLOTA and I know Andrew and I both have activations 00:37:29.340 --> 00:37:32.139 that we're currently planning, but we're going 00:37:32.139 --> 00:37:35.489 to try and keep up with it the best we can. And 00:37:35.489 --> 00:37:38.090 this is kind of our first year we're feeling 00:37:38.090 --> 00:37:40.690 it out, but hopefully we can add some more stuff 00:37:40.690 --> 00:37:46.070 to the Wimplota site as kind of overview in the 00:37:46.070 --> 00:37:49.670 coming weeks. Yeah. Keep an eye on our Twitter 00:37:49.670 --> 00:37:52.170 page. You know, lots of updates there and we'll 00:37:52.170 --> 00:37:55.590 look for tweets from everyone else with hashtag 00:37:55.590 --> 00:38:03.239 Wimplota as the fun begins Friday night. Okay. 00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:06.179 So we've, you know, we've got mines on the air. 00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:08.780 We've got parks on the air. We've, you know, 00:38:08.780 --> 00:38:12.440 this is Walmart parking lots on the air. So why 00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:14.820 not? And I think if I remember right, there was 00:38:14.820 --> 00:38:18.199 even a special consideration for like other countries 00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:20.619 that if you hadn't like an equivalent store, 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.980 you could, you could go ahead and do that too. 00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:28.340 So check the rules. That's fine. Yep. Yep. check 00:38:28.340 --> 00:38:34.380 the rules again, w m p l o t a dot org. And, 00:38:34.380 --> 00:38:37.639 uh, the Wiki has all the rules and awards and 00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:41.019 spreadsheet there to fill out and, uh, and send 00:38:41.019 --> 00:38:44.340 it in and tweet out those pictures. Uh, we love 00:38:44.340 --> 00:38:48.059 to hear the stories and see the pictures from 00:38:48.059 --> 00:38:52.460 all these Wimploda activation. So, uh, be sure 00:38:52.460 --> 00:38:54.840 to do that. Well guys, thanks so much for being 00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:57.139 on the show, taking time out to talk about it 00:38:57.139 --> 00:39:01.159 and, uh, I will hear you on the air this weekend 00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:06.280 on the third Walmart parking lots on the air. 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:10.760 Okay, thank you, Neil. Thanks, Neil. Hope to 00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:14.860 catch you on the birds. That is a wrap for this 00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:17.599 edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guest, 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:23.489 Mitch Erinstorf. AD0HJ and Andrew Northam, KE8FCT, 00:39:23.650 --> 00:39:26.090 and everybody out there in cyberspace for listening. 00:39:26.610 --> 00:39:29.610 And I invite you back next time for a list of 00:39:29.610 --> 00:39:32.769 all of our upcoming guests, visit HamTalkLive 00:39:32.769 --> 00:39:37.070 .com. So for now, this is Neil Rapp, the WB9VPG, 00:39:37.190 --> 00:39:42.469 saying 7 -3, 7 -5, and may the good DX be yours. 00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:51.400 I'll be seeing you further down the loch Your 00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:56.719 73's To you and your family I'll be seeing you 00:39:56.719 --> 00:40:00.980 further down the loch It's hard to believe that 00:40:00.980 --> 00:40:03.719 you're empty indeed Cause you sound just like 00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:08.500 a local up here But why don't those whistling 00:40:08.500 --> 00:40:12.800 Mediterranean's check if your frequency's clear? 00:40:13.980 --> 00:40:17.940 We're warm and cozy in our shacks of realtor 00:40:18.409 --> 00:40:22.869 thousands of things. About shoes, about ships, 00:40:23.250 --> 00:40:28.469 about ceiling wax, about cabbages and keys. So 00:40:28.469 --> 00:40:33.309 73's, to you and your family, I'll be seeing 00:40:33.309 --> 00:40:37.849 you further down the line. Your 73's, to you 00:40:37.849 --> 00:40:41.750 and your family, I'll be seeing you further down 00:40:41.750 --> 00:40:41.829 the line.