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now here's Neil Rapp with more of the show. Welcome
back to HamTalk Live. Tonight, Adam Johnson,
KD9KIS joins us on the Orlando Amateur Radio
Club and Hamcation Zoom line. Adam is a 21 -year
-old heavy equipment operator from Ellsworth,
Wisconsin. He is the assistant director for Youth
on the Air Camp 2022. here in the Americas, and
Adam was a camper at Yota Camp 2021. He's been
a ham since 2018, so we're glad to have Adam
with us today. All right, Adam, well, we're just
a few days away from doing this all again. It's
Youth on the Air Camp for the Americas. And this
is the 2022 edition, so this year we get to fix
everything that we weren't happy about last year.
But really, that list was pretty short. Right,
yeah. Well, at least for me as a camper last
year, I really didn't notice a whole lot of the
errors. So that's a good thing. And you guys,
part of that, if there weren't a lot of errors,
at least you're able to cover them up pretty
good. But no, from what I've heard, though, yeah,
I think... No, I'm definitely super pumped for
this year. Obviously coming in as more of a helper,
assistant director this year more than anything,
but it's no, it's going to be an awesome camp.
I'm really, really pumped for it again this year.
Now let's talk a little bit about this because
you were one of the campers last year and, and,
you know, you kept saying, um, you know, if there's
anything I can do to help, if there's anything
I can do to, you know, to, to keep this going.
Let me know and now you're the assistant director.
So talk a little bit about About your role in
in guiding the future of Yoda Yeah, so as you
know last year as I was at this camp I was super
excited for it and I had one of the best times
of my life at this camp and Yeah, I was telling
Neil hey anytime and they can do to help let
me know and he's like, all right I'll contact
you and pretty quiet and then come January, I'm
out plowing snow up here in Wisconsin and you're
like, hey, talking about Yoda here, what do you
think about being potential assistant director?
So long story short, I accepted that. So now
I'm more a part of the planning and getting things
together and kind of taking things, trying to
take things off of Neil's plate slash learn from
him. And yeah, now it's trying to kind of going
into the youth being in charge. which is where
I come in a little bit and trying to preserve
this camp and make it have more youth be involved
in ham radio and with these camps in the future.
So it's definitely a different perspective than
being a camper, but it's a different avenue,
but still super exciting. Well, we're going to
talk a little bit more about the camp and when
you can work us during the camp and more about
that in a little bit. But first, let's get into
your responsibilities. One of your first major
responsibilities was to start planning for 2023.
So tell us how things are going for next year.
Yeah, so my big thing that my task was started
getting ready for 2023. As some of you may know
or not well know that we're hoping to change
locations. every year every couple years for
where this camp is held at so I was put on responsibility
to come up with a plan of wrote down things of
what our main things that we absolutely kind
of necessity need bare minimum and then put them
together on a sheet so we were able to post that
and now we're we've been in the process of having
people respond back to us of either different
different clubs or whatnot of what their proposal
is for the future for a potential camp. So we
can start to look through those and see if they
meet our requirements or we might go look at
the actual location someday or just kind of going
along that. But our big thing for me so far has
just been trying to gather that information of
different people that are interested in hosting
this camp for 2023. Now this has got to be done
by What was the June 30th is that the deadline
is it right? Yes, I Actually good after double
-check to be be I do know that it was sometime
in June for the Yep, um for the deadline to at
least at least give it tell it send and the emails
on there my emails on there of Just at least
tell us you have an interest potential, you can
either send us the whole nine yards or at least
send me an email saying, Hey, we're potentially
interested. We'll give you more information here
coming up, but at least let us know so we can
keep you in our realm as we start to talk about
2023. All right. So let's talk about some, we
don't have to hit everything here, but let's
talk at least a little bit about what we're looking
for in a potential Yoda camp. site. What do they
have to do? What do they not have to do in order
to host one of these and who should be looking
to do this? Yeah, so for the future camps we
are looking, there are a lot of different things
to kind of look at and go through, but main thing
or some of the main points are is that we're
hoping to have, wherever this location is, that
area can hold at least 30 campers or so, and
I think we had it on there, about 15 adults,
give or take, at least minimum. A lot of the
big areas of just having the camp of how we can
hold this, and yeah, kind of lost my train of
thought there for a second, but no, we... North
Central and South America, right? It doesn't
have to be in the US Correct. Yeah. No, it doesn't
have to be in the US and it just the big thing
is I End up have it in region 2 is obviously
our biggest number one thing but uh Besides that
it's just having the space be able to have antennas
whether it can be on site or hotels nearby of
being able to house the campers and staff and
preferably any kind of attractions in the area
so if there is like for us we're doing it we're
going to Kings Island one day and different things
like that so just different we although we want
to keep this very radio -related there's also
if there's any other attractions that can kind
of show that that cool has its own kind of spin
to it that It kind of writes it to itself in
the same way. So that's a few of the things and
yeah, definitely allow radios in the area and
have space for antennas and some ham shacks and
just especially having a big room and even smaller
rooms that we can kind of break out into different
little sections or sessions and talk away like
that. Well, that's what we're looking for. So
if you have a group that's interested in doing
that, what should they do and how do they get
in touch with you? Yeah, so if you have a group
that is interested at all, by June 30th of this
year, so less than a month away, just give me
an email at adam at youthontheair .org. Again,
that's adam at youthontheair .org. And you can
either just send me a small little document,
email saying here is some of the two things that
we have, although just at least send me a bare
minimum just saying we're interested or working
on getting the information typed up here and
sent to you. But no, that's the big thing. And
then also at least have it possible that we can
have high speed internet access at these as a
location for a few of our different things and
also up there it's just another kind of potential
thing is that if there's any kind of good eating
restaurants that are kind of known to the area
like down in Ohio for this year and last year
we're having some Skyline Chili which is a big
chili deal down in the Ohio area Wisconsin not
at all so that was a cool thing for me so Any
kind of cool different food like that just attractions
and just different things we have a whole Packet
you can get at our on a website at youth on the
air org showing different things that we're looking
for Otherwise, like I said, just shoot me an
email at and that's that Adam at youth on the
air org and I'd be more than happy to Talk to
you and give you some more information Okay.
Well, yeah, let's go back to this year because
it's just a few days away from when This episode
is going to be released. And yeah, we get some
local flavors in there. The food, we do some
of the famous Cincinnati places. But you know,
you mentioned the Skyline chili, which everybody
seems to either love it or hate it. But on top
of that chili, there's that Wisconsin cheddar
cheese. And I know you're planning on supplying
a lot of our cheese for the week. So you can
tell everybody about the cheese curds. Yeah,
so you and I still have to finalize, talk about
some final numbers for what we're thinking for
cheese curds. But no, so where I'm from is Ellsworth,
Wisconsin. And we're known for making Ellsworth
cheese curds. You can usually find them in any
grocery store nationwide. But the big difference
is that these will be hot off the press. as in
the cow probably isn't even milked yet right
now, the cheese curds. But besides that, so yeah,
we have the store here in Ellsworth and last
year I brought some cheese curds just for the
trial, just a few bags and hanging out at the
hotel and stuff. Turns out that was a pretty
big hit because they were gone by the end of
the week for sure and everybody was asking me
to bring more cheese curds next year and I think
there were even a few different campers that
were friends of mine by the end that uh they
had me end up shipping them some cheese curds
by the end of the year so that was pretty cool
and uh yeah so uh this year there's definitely
gonna be some cheese curds there and uh yeah
like these will be fresh and then what's also
nice about these is that when they're in the
clear bags like these that means that there's
no preservatives and I'm like nitrogen and anything
like that you'd find in the store ones so these
will be fresh and uh everybody loved them last
year and But that also can be a thing of either
love cheese curds or you hate them or you think
they're dumb. So you might call it one of those
three categories. But yeah, no, that should be
good. We're looking forward to that. And that's
part of Yoda. You know, the youngsters on the
air is everybody's supposed to bring a dish,
which, you know, it's not as conducive for us
because people travel a lot further. But everybody's
supposed to bring a dish that's kind of representative
of your area. So we kind of took a spin on that
and did a lot of Cincinnati stuff. But the cheese
curds were a big hit. So we've got plenty of
cheese coming, however much Adam can get. in
a carry -on, we're good to go. So we'll have
some experiences, you know, of food as well.
And one of the big things about Yoda is Building
this youth community and getting people physically
together and do some team building. And yes,
we're going to be learning. Yes, we're going
to be on the air. Uh, you know, a lot of people
think, Oh, they're going to be on the air every
moment of every day, every week. And it's like,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no Social community among young
ham so that they don't feel alone and you know
I'm sure you've got some stories from last year
of of things that You know really really hit
home with that Yeah, no definitely that's where
I say especially when I came into this last year
like I've been into hand radio for a few years
But I've been a part of local local club here
down here, or back home here, but not really
much for you. So I was super excited for this
camp, but at the same time, I was also nervous
because I was going to Ohio that I've never been
to in my life to meet up with a bunch of people
that I absolutely didn't know any of them. So
I was excited, but also nervous at the same time,
wondering if I would fit in or do I not know
enough? Even though I'm a ham, am I not too into
it? kind of how it was going to go but by I mean
really by the end of the first day but even a
few days in everybody just felt like family and
you know you found who you really connected with
but you really kind of connect with everybody
I mean there was there was a variety of people
that have their technician license but didn't
really have much experience all the way to the
amateur extras that do a lot of contesting so
there was a big variety of who there were for
people and yeah just The radio learned a lot
radio -wise, and that was super awesome, but
just getting together as a whole youth community,
there's a whole different part of ham radio with
the whole youth as well. And kind of going back
to the food a little bit of how the youngsters,
they all bring a dish to pass or something. But
it was kind of cool, like we'd be sitting there
back in a hotel or something, or just kind of
hanging out for a few minutes. and we're just,
and you talk, and you just, we have kids from
all over the U .S., I mean, East Coast, West
Coast, down South, Northern Midwest here, and
you'd be talking, you know, you kind of joked
around about different, how everybody kind of
talks a little different, and then it was kind
of fun to sit there and talk about kind of different
things that are different, like what there is
for, like for restaurants, or this and that back
home, or how radio is different, or how some
might live in the cities and they have to deal
with HOAs in order to set up an antenna versus
being out in the country and stuff. So there
was a, just by making these friends that you
knew absolutely nobody on Sunday and were practically
family by Friday. It was just a really cool experience.
And to even still be in touch with them now and
still still talk to them. That was still a cool
thing. Now I know you couldn't make it to Hamvention
this year, but let me tell you, um, Seeing the
kids at Hamvention and there were many At Hamvention,
but seeing the kids You know walking around There
were you know a couple of groups of them and
they were Yoda people I mean it was like, you
know, it was like a family reunion at Hamvention
and it was just so good to see that that You
know, you've made friends and you get to see
them again at something like Hamvention. You
talk to each other online or on the radio and
kind of support each other's projects. And, you
know, you can, you know, toss ideas off of each
other. And it just really, really makes me happy
to see this community as it's growing. Yeah,
no, that, that. Yeah, although it wasn't Hamvention
this year, that really, really makes me excited
to see that. Even though I was just a camper
last year, I mean, just to hear that they're
reconnecting and even, you know, like that I
still stay in touch with quite a few of the campers
and talk on the radio here and there. But I mean,
just to make this connection of new friends,
but also because you also have something in common
of Ham radio is just really cool. But I think
this A lot of it wouldn't be possible with quite
a few people, but I know you and Neil, you put
a lot of this, put a lot of work and effort into
it. So I'm sure it is very awesome to see to
you that it's definitely paying off of, there's
a good chance of this working. No matter what,
there'll always be some youth together because
of this camp and the youth on the air camp. But
I think there's many more in the future and you
and everyone else who's been a part of it have
done a very awesome job. Well, thank you very
much and we're looking forward to seeing You
know as you all take over more of the responsibilities
uh... you know what you all have in mind because
i think that's uh... that's important that we
we keep that uh... camper focused mentality on
everything so that'll be uh... be great to see
all right well it's time for a break but uh...
when we come back we'll talk some more with adam
johnson k d nine k i s about youth on the air
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we get to the joke of the week and part two of
our interview with Adam Johnson, KD9KIS, I want
to give a shout out to the Spurious Emissions
Band. They were performing at Dayton Hamvention,
and I unfortunately could not be there in person,
but was watching the stream and did a little
dedication for a song that you may have heard
on this program. So I was glad to see the Baofeng
song came back into the. the set for, uh, Hamvention
2022. So shout out to the Spurry submissions.
Glad you got the band back together again. All
right. Well, before we get back to Adam, it's
time. for the joke of the week. I was having
issues with the computer in my shack so I took
it apart and there was a little man in overalls
living inside of it. Turns out I had a farmer
in the dell. This has been the Ham Talk Live,
ham radio joke of the week with Rick Garrett,
N9GSU. Tune in again next week for another joke
from Rick. And we're back here on HamTalk Live
with Adam Johnson, KD9KIS, the assistant director
of the Youth on the Air Camp for the Americas,
which is located within IARU Region 2. And, you
know, a lot of people out there listening are
not going to be able to come to camp. It's really
funny because I get all these adults saying...
Can I be a camper? I want to do all this stuff.
We're trying to stick to 15 to 25 year olds right
now and we are working on a program for younger
kids because we have a ton of younger hams. We
have a ton of hams less than 15 years old around.
And so we're working on a long weekend with a
parent kind of thing. As Adam takes over more
of the responsibilities for me, I'm going to
start kind of shifting toward those responsibilities
to get that running. But let's focus here on
the camp, which is just in a few days. Now, people
listen to this at different times, so we'll give
the dates and everything. The special event call
is Whiskey 8 Yankee W8Y and will be operating
from the National Voice of America Museum of
Broadcasting in Westchester, Ohio, which is the
northern suburbs of Cincinnati. And if you ever
drove down I -75... uh... years and years ago
uh... and saw the huge antenna farm uh... that's
where that's where we are uh... we're we're on
the grounds of the old voice of america relay
station there uh... the antennas are gone it's
all soccer parks now and stuff but but the building
is still there and that's uh... that's where
we will be so One of the things that we do need
for people to do that are listening is to call
us. Uh, part of the program is learning how to
deal with pileups. And so if we don't have pileups
to work, we're not going to be able to practice
very well. So Adam, tell people how they can
work W eight Y during the camp. Yeah, so as Neil
just said, we're going to be Whiskey 8 Yankee,
W8Y as our call sign for this camp. And I'm going
to give you a few of the times that we're for
sure going to be on the air, but I can guarantee
you that's not going to be the only times that
we're on the air. So as far as the for sure time
that on HF, we're going to be on Monday, June
13th between 1800 Zulu and 0300 Zulu. And that
is going to be on You're just going to have to
hunt and peck for us a little bit. But any of
the bands that are open, search away. I couldn't
tell you if it's going to be on 40 meters, 20
meters, or 6 meters. You never know what's going
to be open. We have access to, I think, just
about every band, at least below 80. So that's
going to be super fun there. And as Tuesday rolls
around, we're going to be on Earth Moon Earth
Bounce, or EME, between 01 Zulu and 03 Zulu.
So if you're into the Earth, Moon, Earth, or
not, maybe give it a shot and see if you can
find us on there. And for me, I've never done
EME, so I'm super excited to be a part of that
and learn that a little bit. And then we're also
going to be on the satellite. And when do we
say Tuesday? Let me clarify here, because we
get into this whole UTC versus Eastern Daylight
Time. By Tuesday, it's really Monday night. you
know it's UTC time so Monday night and it's 0100
Zulu to 0300 Zulu which technically is Tuesday
in UTC so just wanted to clarify that. Okay yeah
thanks for that clarification Neil and then and
satellites we dabbled in those a little bit last
year and we're going to be on that mostly FM
satellites on the Thursday, June 16th and Friday,
June 17th between 1400 Zulu and 1700 Zulu. So
if you're into satellites or not, like I said,
give it a shot and see if you can find us on
the FM satellites. Now outside of those times,
like you said, it could be anytime, anywhere,
but tell us a little bit about the two different
shacks that will be available at the camp. Yeah,
so these shacks are Definitely something different.
That's for sure. We are the main check Where
is it going to be at the VOA voice of America
Museum where we are having? these a lot of the
day activities at and that it's this huge room
and there it's a huge shack and there is I want
to say a minimum of three if not four plus radios
separate radios in that shack, so it is You'll
have to look at some of the pictures from last
year or even coming up here next week. And it's
just, it's a whole different scenario of shack.
We have antennas like you can imagine and a whole
different variety there. And we'll all be on
different bands for the different radios for
the people that are active on there. And then
for the other shack that we'll have going there
will be a shack back at the hotel there. Which
correct me if I'm wrong Neil, but I believe we
will have one active antenna for sure at the
hotel there and then so that's really cool to
be actually operating fully from a hotel room
and then also if I'm right there's a Gonna be
a remote station that is gonna be remote antenna
back to the VOA That is correct. Yeah, we'll
have an ICOM 7610 back at the museum That will
be hooked up so we can remote into that from
from wherever we are So we can we can always
get access to that and then and then we'll have
we've got another 7610 and then we've got some
ICOM 7300s that'll be Taking up all the other
spots. I'm not sure which one we're gonna put
at the hotel just yet, but But we'll have one
of the two there with an antenna on the roof.
So they're working on that. That's going up on
Saturday. Yeah. And that's super awesome. And
we have a lot of people that are very knowledgeable
about ham radio and these radios, but we're actually
so lucky that with our, these icon radios, we'll
have our own icon guy as well. So if we have
issues or questions, we have somebody to definitely
resort to to ask those questions. And I was working
on the QRZ .com page today and wanted to mention
because I keep getting all these QSL cards that
don't send QSL cards to the museum. or to me.
Our QSL manager is W0AAE and we've got that plastered
all over the Whiskey8Yankee QRZ page, but he
handles all of our QSLs. So make sure you send
those according to the instructions on the website
there. It's W0AAE. And we just got our QSL cards
not long ago, and I still haven't seen them yet,
but I hear they're pretty cool looking. Yeah,
I actually got my QSL card from the Whiskey at
Yankee here a month or two ago. And they are
definitely a really cool QSL card. So yeah, Neil,
you'll have to try and get your hands on one.
They are very cool. Yeah, they should be in my
mailbox any day. Case mailed them out to everybody
except me. So because I was getting like a whole
box of them. So mine was separate. So I haven't
seen them yet. But from the pictures, they look
really, really cool. So it's one of those. foldable
cards and shows a lot of things that we did at
camp. So you can do that. We will do that again
for this year. Now, besides working in the shack
at night, maybe early in the morning at the hotel
and then You know, any free time that is available
during the day at the museum, you know, people
can get on. But also we have parts of this live
stream. So talk a little bit about the live stream
on YouTube. Yeah. So as Neil was mentioning,
definitely I'll look up our YouTube channel for
Youth On The Air and you will be able to See
our opening at minimum that we will have the
opening ceremony which is this Sunday June 12th
at 5 p .m. Eastern time and Then we'll have the
closing ceremony on Friday at June 17th which
is a week from this Friday at 1 p .m. Eastern
time and those are those are some really cool
videos because those are live videos coming showing
our opening and closing ceremonies of as we're
bringing the campers in and closing down our
time with them, but then also we will, same as
last year, we're gonna have some daily highlight
videos of showing what we did that day before,
videos and pictures and some of the laughs, I'm
sure. So if you didn't see any of our highlight
videos last year, definitely check out our YouTube
channel and you can find those last year and
just see some of the fun and exciting and goofy
times we had last year. Yeah, the YouTube channel,
that is a pretty big deal for us, and we have
some people that put in a lot of time and effort
to really show some of the fun and eventful times
we're having at camp. All right, so be sure to
check that out. It's Youth on the Air on YouTube,
or there's a link off of the website youthontheair
.org. If you go to the social links there, there'll
be one for YouTube and we'll have Twitter and
Instagram go on and maybe a little Facebook who
knows But will be will be very visible next week.
So Make sure you check that out so that's how
you can you can help us is with all of the the
pileups and Getting on the air and and giving
these kids some some cues so Adam, it's been
a lot of fun to get you involved here and I'm
anxious to see your plans for the future with
this, but right now we've got this year to worry
about and so we're going to have a great time
next week. Any final thoughts here before we
go? No, not a whole lot. I just want to say thank
you, Neil, for having me on the show here. And
again, all the work you've put into this over
the last, well, one of you guys started six,
seven years ago and starting to plan the first
camp so that a lot of work has been done by you
and a lot of other people and all of our sponsors.
We really appreciate those. And no, I'm definitely
excited for this camp and future camps down the
road. As I said earlier, it doesn't feel like
this Camp is less than a week away, but it does
at the same time. So I'm definitely excited.
Got to get the pack in here and it's going to
be a fun one. That's for sure. Yeah. Well, yeah.
You mentioned packing. I haven't started packing
my stuff yet, but Julie took the SUV to Costco
today and totally filled it up with drinks and
food and all that. So I got to take that up to
the museum tomorrow as we're recording this on
Monday. And then I have like a dining room full
of boxes of soldering irons and flags and cookie
sheets and Everything so PVC pipe and and yeah,
it's a Bunch of stuff. So we've got got a lot
of packing to do but Adam mentioned our sponsors
We already mentioned ICOM. They're they're going
even above and beyond last year uh... with with
what they're providing uh... so uh... we're we're
looking forward to uh... all all the icon equipment
that will be using we also want to give a big
thanks to a rdc amateur radio digital communications
uh... for a grant for that from them uh... to
make this all possible as well as dx engineering
and the worldwide radio operators foundation
those are for titanium sponsors which means it's
$10 ,000 or more that they've given either in
equipment or in funding to make this camp happen.
And so we couldn't do it without our sponsors.
And then also our silver level sponsors, Heil
Sound sent me a case full of Pro 7s and so we're
looking forward to having those this year to
kind of cut down on some of the noise we were
getting because we were all crammed into that
shack so that should be a whole lot better this
year. The Dayton Amateur Radio Association is
helping us out again. Xtronic USA provided our
soldering irons so we have 30 temperature controlled
soldering stations for everybody and of course
R &L Electronics, R &L opens the door and says,
take whatever you need. If it's still good, bring
it back. And I did. I loaded up a bunch of stuff
last week from R &L. So thanks to R &L for doing
that. And then also our bronze sponsors, Radio
Club of America Youth Activities and Swodexa.
That's the Southwest Ohio DX Association. So
thanks to all those sponsors and thanks to the
individuals who bought stuff on our Amazon charity
list. or just gave us a donation, some of them
through podcasts and other things, but it all
adds up and it makes this affordable and it makes
this a great experience to keep ham radio going
into centuries to come. So we want to definitely
thank all of them. Well, Adam, it's been great,
but we have important things to do. We need to
get our cheese curd order ready to go. So I'll
say 7 -3 for now and I'll be picking you up at
the airport soon. 7 -3, sounds good. I look forward
to seeing you this Saturday. And that is a wrap
for this edition of HamTalk Live. I'd like to
thank my guest Adam Johnson, KD9KIS and everyone
out there in cyberspace for listening. and invite
you all back next time. We won't have a show
next week because of the camp, but we'll be back
soon. And you can check out all of our upcoming
guests at HamTalkLive .com. So for now, this
is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 -3, 7 -5, and
may the good DX be yours. I'll be seeing you
further down the law. Your 73's to you and your
family. I'll be seeing you further down the law.