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call in, let's talk, Neil's your guy Hello everyone,

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it's time for HamTalk Live episode number 291,

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Dayton Contest University 2022, a new chapter.

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Recorded on March 3rd, 2022. I'm your host, Neil

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Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this episode

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of HamTalk Live. Tonight we're joined by Tim

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Duffy, K3LR. and we'll get to that conversation

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in just a little bit. Last episode, Mark Smith

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you need for your trip to Dayton. It's Hamvention

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Preview here on HamTalk Live. Welcome back to

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Ham Talk Live. Tonight, Tim Duffy, K3LR joins

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us on the Orlando Amateur Radio Club and Hamcation

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Zoom line. Tim Duffy is the founder and chairman

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of Contest University. In addition to being the

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director of Contest University, Tim is also the

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chief executive officer of DX Engineering, among

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many other things. and Tim is a member of the

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CQ Contest Hall of Fame and has been Team USA

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for the World Radio Sport Team Championship five

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times. He's a graduate of the Pennsylvania State

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University and he is the recipient of the 2015

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Amateur of the Year Award presented by the Dayton

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Hamvention Awards Committee. Tim, welcome back

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to the show once again to talk about Contest

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University. And you know, it's just been so exciting

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to start making plans for Hamvention and actually

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be in person. So, you know, it's time time of

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year to start thinking about Contest University.

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So tell us a little bit about what's going to

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happen. Give us a little preview of what's going

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to take place at this year's Hamvention Contest

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University. You know, this is the time of year

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that we start thinking about Hamvention and we

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start thinking about Contest University at Well,

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almost senior. Yeah, almost senior. Yeah. Yeah.

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And we'll talk about that here in just a little

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bit, but, uh, give us a little bit of a, an idea,

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a preview of, of what's to come at CTU. I know

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every year it's, it's a different lineup, um,

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some similar themes, but, but a different lineup.

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So, uh, give us a little bit of a preview of

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what's going to happen this year. And, um, and

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we're just excited to have. people in person

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again? Oh, I mean, that is the thing. I mean,

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you know, we had two good years of online Zoom

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contest universities, Neil. And what I tried

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to do was make sure that we had, you know, contributions

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from people that would never attend Hamvention.

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They just couldn't. distance, cost, whatever.

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But this year, it's going to be great because

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we're going to be in person. And we will have

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some of the sessions online. So we will have

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kind of a hybrid thing, but not all of the sessions

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will be there. And we have over 20 different

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talks that are given at Contest University. World

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-class guys like Frank Donovan W3 LPL Neil you

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you've listened to Frank he is just fabulous

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and So he's gonna give at least three talks and

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of course Ward silver I mean this guy is the

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editor of the handbook the the antenna book and

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also has this great book grounding and bonding

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which is just spectacular. Doug Grant is coming

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back, K1DG, and he wrote a recent book on contesting

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as well. And you know, the ever -popular Rob

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Sherwood, NC0B, he's gonna be going over the

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latest radios that have come out, and W0YK, Ed

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is a really good digital guy. I mean, he's involved

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with the CQ Contest on the RTTYN and also does

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the worldwide Digi Contest for the WWROF. And

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at Orlando, I secured Joel W5ZM. And he's going

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to give a great talk as well. So we have just

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a A really good mix for contest university this

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year and at the hope hotel. Yeah. So yeah, let's

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talk a little bit about the hope hotel and. Some

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of the changes, you know, ever since I can remember,

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it seems like, you know, all the events, all

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the big events were downtown Dayton at, you know,

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one of the downtown hotels and now that's changing.

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So talk a little bit about this new venue and

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what that's going to bring to Contest University.

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You know, it's going to be really good, Neil.

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You know, the Hope Hotel is right there at the

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Air Force Base. And I think it's, you know, it

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is definitely closer to Xenia. And, you know,

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we're going to have bus service from the Hope

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Hotel right to Convention. So you don't have

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to even mess with your car. And the Hope Hotel,

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It is a very, very nice venue. I think everybody

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is going to enjoy it. They have very large meeting

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spaces, which is important for us. And I just

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think it's a better deal for us. So with the

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two years that we weren't able to go, we were

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able to make this change. And I think it's really

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good. within a few hours, it sold out when we

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announced it. So obviously it's going to be good,

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Neil. It really is. So I was taking a look. It's

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actually like on the Wright -Patterson Air Force

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Base grounds and the hotel there, like you said,

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sold out immediately. But I'm just thinking that

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You know, you've got the bus service to that's

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gonna that's gonna really help. But also, you

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know, parking, I would think would be a whole

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lot easier there instead of having to fight everything

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downtown and try to figure out which way to get

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in the parking garage and all that kind of thing.

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Can't can't help but think that this is this

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is going to be a whole lot more accessible. And,

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you know, I always take a panoramic picture of

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the room. And, you know, it's to get the concept

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of the size of this event. And it's just amazing

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how many people you have. So if you've got some

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bigger spaces, that's going to help too. Oh,

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yeah. The parking at the Hope is really, really

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good. uh neil i mean you know it's not a parking

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garage it's it's right there uh it's a huge area

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and so uh that that is one of the area one of

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the things that i you know i always got complaints

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about was parking so i think we got that fixed

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Yeah, I think so. And, uh, you know, if you had,

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if you had a room there at the hotel and you

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were already there, it was kind of nice. But,

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uh, if you're like me and had to drive in and

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out, uh, just didn't work and yeah, I, I, I tried

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to book a room and they're like, yeah, no, we're

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sold out. So, but, but you've got space and contest

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university though. Right. Oh yeah. Yeah, we've

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got lots of space at Contest University. And

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just go to contestuniversity .com and all the

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information is there about Contest University

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and about the Hope Hotel. And we'll have the

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topics up there in a few weeks, you know, of

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what we're going to be covering. But Neil, it's

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going to be fabulous. Oh yeah can't can't wait

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and it's always great and and I always make mention

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too that you know even if you are not a contest

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or which i'm a very casual contest or but it

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even if you're not a contest or there's there's

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so many talks that you can select out of the

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lineup that you're going to learn something whether

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it's you know how to build your station how to

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put on appeal to fifty nine how to keep track

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of your usb ports for everything uh... there's

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a lot more there than just pure Hardcore contesting

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and so it's well worth the time and the effort

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and and the little bit of money to go It is and

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you know, and the food's good, too You know between

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the breakfast at the Hope Hotel and the lunch

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It's really good. And you know, we have not changed

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the price for to attend Contest University ever.

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It's always been the same. And thankfully, we

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have some really good organizations that help

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us so that we can keep the costs down low. YASME,

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ICOM America. I mean, Ray Novak has just been

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tremendous. And of course, DX Engineering, we're

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all in. We're all in and you know and you and

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you're very right Neil. It is a it's a great

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opportunity to learn things about amateur radio

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that can really help your station and And help

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you have more fun. I mean, that's what it's all

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about Yeah, now we're doing we're doing Audio

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only here right now, but we've got our webcams

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on so you can probably see in the background

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I've been building a station now that I've moved

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and and so we're trying to Get it all straightened

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out and right now the dipole is hanging up in

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the room unfortunately and not outside, but we're

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working on that so hopefully that'll that'll

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pay off but I don't know how many lessons from

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Contest University that I learned that went into,

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you know, this new shack behind me and hoping

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that it'll make a huge difference once we do

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get the authority to have an antenna. So thank

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you for that because, you know, coming several

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years now, you know, picked up a lot of good

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ideas. Well, and that that that's really what

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it's all about Neil and I want to to applaud

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you and the students that you brought with you

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and the mentoring that you've done and certainly

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with what you did last year for the The Yoda

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camp and it was just spectacular and it really

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it does dovetail with Contest University Yeah,

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and I know youth has always been you know a part

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of that you've had some of your young contesters

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come in and talk about youth and contesting and

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and support them and and support team exuberance

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and those kinds of things so You know, you've

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done some some incredible stuff there too. And

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and so I'm I'm very appreciative of that Well,

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you know We're working together and you're doing

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great things. So thank you so much, Neil, for

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your support. And also, you know, there's there's

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more to do. There's always always more. Absolutely.

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Always more. Never ends. All right. Well, we're

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going to take a break. And when we come back,

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we're going to talk about some of the associated

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activities, we'll call them. They are related

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to contesting, but some other activities that

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are going to be taking place during Hamvention

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Weekend that you don't want to miss. So I'll

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date and preview shows coming up as things get

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closer. We've been spending some time actually

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today preparing some Hamvention things so we'll

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be talking more about those and have some more

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guests on the show. to get you ready for that.

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But right now, before we get back to Tim Duffy,

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K3LR from Contest University, it's time once

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again for the HamTalk Live Joke of the Week.

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Now it's time for the HamTalk Live Ham Radio

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Joke of the Week, the part of the show where

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Rick tells us a ham radio joke. The HamTalk Live

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Ham Radio Joke of the Week is brought to you

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by QRM Labs. Now, here's Rick Garrett in 9GSU

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with today's HamTalk Live Joke of the Week. It's

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really hard to find ham radio programs for Mac

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computers So I loaded up my Mac computer and

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my MacBook and my iPad and took them all and

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traded them in on Windows computers I guess you

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could say it was a Apple turnover This has been

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the ham talk live ham radio joke of the week

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with Rick Garrett in nine GSU Tune in again next

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week for another joke from Rick And we're back

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here on HamTalk Live with Tim Duffy K3LR the

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CEO of DX Engineering and the founder and chairman

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of Contest University and and Hamvention is coming

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around the corner and You know, one thing I didn't

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mention was, you know, just a couple of weeks

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ago, we were at Hamcation and you had a little

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contest university action going on there. So

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I didn't put this in the script here, but talk

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a little bit about Orlando. You know, any time

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the ARRL asks me to do something, I step up.

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I mean, it's just I think the ARRL is, I mean,

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it is the foundation of our hobby here in the

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US. And so I was very happy to work with Bob

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Ingebrigtsen and Bob Nauman and all of the rest

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of the ARRL team. And we had about 60 attendees

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at Contest University in Orlando. And we had

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All the presentations were done by the Florida

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Contest Group, primarily, along with the section

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manager of the Virgin Islands. I mean, that's

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really cool. Fred, MP2X. So it was a great event,

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Neil, but none of those talks will be given at

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Contest University in Dayton. you know, that

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this it's a whole different thing. So if you

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came to Orlando, you need to come to Dayton as

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well. And and we've got other great events to

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Neil. Oh, yes, we do. So yeah, let's talk about

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the these events. Now, you know, you've got the

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new facility. So, you know, it's going to be

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something new. But, you know, kind of like You

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know, Hamvention moving to Xenia, you know, there

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were a lot of improvements. So it was a good

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thing. So talk a little bit about these dinners

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and the Contest Super Suite and how that's all

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going to work in the new facility. Yeah, you

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know, the Contest Super Suite is a very special

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place because, you know, we have it for four

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nights. So it's on Wednesday night, Thursday

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night, Friday night and Saturday night. four

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nights and We have we have free pizza you can't

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beat free pizza, you know every night and all

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the details all the details are on the contest

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super sweet comm and then on Friday night, you

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know, we have the top band dinner so these are

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160 meter enthusiasts and We're gonna have a

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great speaker Uh, for the top band dinner on

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Friday night, that's top band dinner .com. And,

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uh, also on, on Saturday night, it's the contest

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dinner and that's contest dinner .com. And, uh,

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that's the, the induction into the CQ contest

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hall of fame. Um, and the, the prizes are unbelievable.

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We're going to have an IC 7610, uh, as the main

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prize, but you know, many years we've had almost

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a hundred different prizes. So if you attend,

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you got a really good shot at getting a prize.

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And so it's just a really good time. Peak attendance

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was almost 600 people. So we're really proud

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of the contest dinner. So lots to do, you know,

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surrounding Hamvention. Yeah, I always laugh

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at some of the pictures of the empty pizza boxes

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that are stacked up a mile high from Right from

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all the nights of pizza. So, you know, it's a

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great chance to come by, you know meet some people

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Get on the rig check things out Of course the

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the inductions on Saturday night and everything

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just a great time So so as we finish up here,

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let's remind everyone How do they find this stuff

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online? And what do they have to do to register?

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What do they have to do if they want to go? yeah,

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the best place to go is contest super sweet calm

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and That you There are links to the other websites

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but contestuniversity .com, contestdinner .com,

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and topbandinner .com. So there's all these websites.

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They have all the information. You can get your

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registration, get set up, and it's going to be

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a fabulous weekend. Close to Xenia. Yes, close

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to Xenia, absolutely. A little easier drive.

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You have spots available in everything except

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for the hotel correct? Yeah the hotel is completely

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sold out but there are nearby hotels I think

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that still have rooms but you know you need to

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check. Yeah I was starting to check on mine and

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they were they were starting to fill up in the

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area so uh... make sure you check online and

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and figure out uh... where you can stay but uh...

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there are plenty of options there you might have

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to drive a little more but uh... uh... this is

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going to help out uh... with the people at the

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Hope Hotel a little closer to Hamvention bus

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service even so now how does the bus service

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work or do you have those details? We don't have

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those details just yet but uh... when we have

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the details they'll be on the websites Neil Okay,

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very good. All right, Tim. Well, anything else

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here before we go? No, it's it's it's great to

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be on with you again. And thanks so much for

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all you do for ham radio. Well, the same goes

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to you. And thanks for being here. It's it's

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just exciting to be, you know, thinking and planning

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for a trip to hamvention. Again, it's we had

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some great virtual events, like you said, but

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Nothing beats being there in person and just

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really excited to get back there. So I will I

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will see you there See you there Neil. Thanks

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so much All right, that is a wrap for this edition

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of ham talk live Thanks to my guest Tim Duffy

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K3LR and everybody out there in cyberspace for

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listening in and invite you back next week when

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we have another episode. And for a list of all

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of our upcoming guests, visit HamTalkLive .com.

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So for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying

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seven three, seven five, and may the good DX

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be yours. Well you came right back to my secure

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call The readability five and strength nine You

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never once mentioned your weather at all And

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I didn't mention mine We talked and talked for

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hours and hours I completely forgot you're a

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ham I don't know your power or the height of

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your talent Frankly I don't give a damn Your

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73's to you and your family I'll be seeing you

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further down the line Your 73's to you and your

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family I'll be seeing you further down the line