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KJ4UDO. And we will take your calls live a little
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Tonight Michael Colley W4ORL and Mike Banigan
KJ4UDO join us on the Orlando amateur radio club
and hamcation zoom line and Michael is the chairman
of the Orlando Hamcation. He's served seven years
as a tailgate chairman, six years as IT chairman,
and a year in finance. And of course, Hamcation
is sponsored by the Orlando Amateur Radio Club.
And also with us tonight, Mike Banigan, KJ4UDO.
He is the awards chairman of the Orlando Hamcation.
He's an engineer and program manager at Lockheed
Martin. So We're glad to have Mike and Mike back
with us, even though it's not ESPN. So, uh, good
evening guys. Good evening. Evening. Well, it's,
it's almost here. I know, uh, I've been busy,
uh, trying to get things ready to go. Got my,
got my flight scheduled, got the hotel room scheduled,
got the tickets ordered and, and just trying
to get ready for the big, uh, the big celebration
down at Orlando here next month. And really excited
to finally get there. So, Michael, what's the
latest about hamcation? A lot of stuff's going
on right now. And there you have it. There's
a lot of stuff going on right now. No, sorry,
I got a Feedback of myself. Oh, oh hang on. Let
me take care of that. There you go Alright, yeah,
that's better. It's kind of weird hearing myself
two seconds after I said something. Alright,
so yeah Handication has a lot going on. It's
been really busy. So I'm gonna new things this
year ICom has actually become a platinum sponsor
again, like they did for our virtual event. They
are actually sponsoring picnic tables and umbrellas.
So we'll have some picnic tables set around hamcation
in the food area with a nice bright red ICom
umbrellas on them for people to sit under, stay
out the direct sun's light and have a place to
eat at. So also this year, we did this in 2020
and it was a real huge hit. A kit build by Joe
Eisenberg, N0NEB. We're gonna do that Wednesday
night, February 9th at 6 p .m. in the Swaps building.
And we'll have more info will be published soon
about what type of kit it is and more information
about that. And of course, it is the ARL National
Convention this year and our 75th anniversary
also. And ARL will be doing training tracks at
DoubleTree at SeaWorld on the 10th. So more information
you can find at arrl .org slash expo in reference
to that. And one of the big things also is RV.
We had announced that we've added more 50 -amp
RV connections for this year for the RVs, and
we are filling up quick. I can let everybody
know right now we have over 190 RVs pre -registered
already, which is getting very close to our record
that we've ever had before, and we had that back
in 2015, actually at our last national convention
we did. And the other big thing I want to talk
about is volunteers. We've opened it up that
we'll take volunteers from anywhere. You do not
have to be local. There is a benefit to volunteering.
If you volunteer for four hours, you do get a
free hamcation ticket. And if you have already
purchased your hamcation ticket, you can use
it as just an extra ticket and a prize barrel.
And we do start taking volunteers on Tuesday
through Sunday. So you can volunteer Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday. If you're in town already
before hamcation, get a free ticket and still
enjoy the show Friday, Saturday, Sunday. All
right. Well, that's a lot of, a lot of cool stuff
there. And I know a lot of people like to come
and volunteer and spend some time giving back
while they're enjoying. hamcation so that's a
that's a good opportunity for them and and i
have i have to do this because because i know
joe's going to listen to this it you busted his
call it's k zero neb but anyway um So Joe always
has a great kit builds and great information.
So that sounds like a very, very good thing.
Um, let's talk a little bit about travel arrangements
because we are kind of getting down to crunch
time here, um, for reserving rooms and getting
the, uh, airline tickets if you're doing that
and all that kind of thing and driving in. And
like you said, the RV reservations are filling
up. So let's fill everybody in on all the stuff
associated with travel. All right. And, um, biggest
thing right now with COVID, uh, if you are planning
to fly, uh, make sure you book in advance, give
yourself plenty of travel time, um, at the airports,
make sure you don't miss your flight. A lot of
airports are running two to three hours before
your flight actually leaves to make sure you're
there on time. As far as the hotels, we do have
special rates at all the hotels listed on our
website. But to get that special rate, you have
to book your room by 1 -8. Each hotel has a different
date. Most of them are this week coming up. one
eight, one nine, one 10. There's a couple of
them a little later in the month, but to guarantee
the room rate that we've worked out, you must
book your hotel by these dates that are listed
on the website. So hurry up and get them booked.
They do still have rooms. All of them have rooms.
Even after this date, you can still book your
room. If they do have rooms available, they will
give you the price. for it, but it is not guaranteed.
Uh, so definitely, uh, check out the website
and get your rooms booked. All right. And then,
uh, you said the RV reservations are filling
up and, and so are there any of the 50 amps,
uh, still left or are those all gone? Uh, there
is still some left, uh, not many of those. So
if you do want 50 amps, make sure you go on the
website and, uh, order 50 amps in the drop down
menu. Uh, we do still have some left, but they
are filling up also. Okay. Very good. Well, uh,
we, we can talk a little bit, uh, later about,
uh, some of the license exam stuff. I know you've
got a cool setup, uh, ready to go for that. and
some other things, but we also want to talk to
Mike Banigan, KJ4UDO, the awards chairman for
Orlando Hamcation, and you have an announcement
to make. So Mike, I'll give the mic to you. Well,
Dale, thank you for having us this evening. So,
yeah, we're here to turn around and announce
this year's award winner for the Carol Perry
Educator of the Year Award. This award was established
four years ago. Our namesake is for Carol Perry,
but the highlight of the award is to turn around
and recognize an individual that has been very
active in promoting amateur radio or communications
with our youth and just kind of to recap some
of the selection criteria with it, we utilize
is kind of, are they using creative approaches
to encourage youth to pursue interest in STEM
with a focus in radio, you know, provide youth
with information on varieties of activities and
operating modes that are available within amateur
radio and, you know, instruct creative instructional
approaches, hands -on activities. We want them
to almost be a model, you know, mentor for the
youth, too, that they have high standards and
values in educating our youth and demonstrate
a personal commitment to educating youth. And
I should note that this award is not primarily
for teachers themselves. So it's open to anybody
that is working with youth. And we have received
nominations over the years. of people that are
both teachers and people that are not directly
in the professional educators, but they've been
involved with youth programs and promoting the
radio communications or ham radio with that.
So, and just all around strong personal, you
know, enthusiasm and try to invigorate the youth.
And Neil, it's kind of neat to actually be doing
this on your show this evening because you were
the award winner for last year. Just remind folks
that you were the award winner for that. So looking
forward to having it down this year and actually
presenting you with the award for that. So, but
for this year we ended up, we had a number of
candidates and we got some very strong candidates
in there, which is great. And the encouraging
thing about that is seeing that we do have a
number of people involved with trying to get
youth energized and excited about amateur radio.
So that's outstanding to see that. So for this
year, the award winner ended up being Dick Agilstra,
P -A -O -D -N -F. He's from the Netherlands.
So we ended up this year with an international
award winner. Dick is a Dutch native currently
living in the Netherlands. He's an extra class
licensee for over 40 years. He is a retired school
principal, but even though he's retired, based
on what I've learned about Dick, he hasn't slowed
down one bit. He continues to organize exhibits
in elementary schools and high schools and vocational
schools over in Europe, promoting radio, the
radio hobby and inspiring students to get into
the technical universities. One of the tools
that's kind of neat that Dick is using to encourage
youth and actually introduce radio to other organizations
is through fox hunting over in Europe. And it
sounds like with the fox hunting, it's quite
an event over there. And of course, it's timed
events. So in some cases, it sounds like they're
running through woods and having challenges to
turn around. find that fox. So he's kind of with
some creative ways with that. He's continued
in other activities. He's the organizer of the
International School Project, Communications
Helps International Progress, CHIPS. So this
is a program that involves schools in the Netherlands,
Belgium, France, Portugal, Hungary, Lativa, Sweden,
Denmark, England and Ukraine. And then he's also
got activities where he's the Dutch representative
for Vernon, the national organization for ham
operators. So he's still very, very active and
we're looking forward to having Dick attend a
hamcation here and being able to present the
award to him as the Carol Perry Educator of the
Year award. So I'm excited when we saw his, uh,
his nomination, um, it sounds like he's, uh,
extremely active in the state, you know, even
with the restrictions over the last couple of
years that have, uh, locked a number of activities
down. Uh, he has found ways to doing outdoor
Fox hunting to turn around and help, uh, get
youth interested in radio and continuing to promote
the hobby. No, it's very cool very cool and I
I Will say that you know as a as a teacher and
as a former high school club sponsor Direction
finding is always a lot of fun and it's one of
their favorite activities to do and so I'm not
surprised to hear that and Also principles are
immensely important to amateur radio because
that's usually who decides whether the antennas
go up on the roof or not. So those principles
are very, very instrumental. And I know a few
other principles that have done kind of similar
things, you know, and at least set up a station
in their school. And often they can pull some
strings that us teachers can't. I'm sure he's
done fabulously there and I know all the great
things with youth that are coming out of the
Netherlands with Yoda and other things. Not at
all surprised to hear about Dick and want to
congratulate him and look forward to the big
party here next month. I'm looking forward to
getting you and Dick together and I'm sure he's
got some outstanding ideas for you to potentially
incorporate into your Yoda program too. That'll
be great. That'll be a great discussion. Well,
thanks Mike for letting us know about the Carol
Perry Educator of the Year award winner again
this year and best of luck with all the presentation.
Thank you very much again. Thank you for the
opportunity for making the announcement on your
show here All right, well that's uh, that's our
interview portion but we want to take some phone
calls and I believe we've got somebody trying
to call in now, so we'll we'll get to that and
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And it is time for your calls. And we have a
caller on the line ready to go. So we will go
to that right after this week's Joke of the Week.
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for another joke from Rick. Well, there is one
way to get a cheap radio and that's win one at
hamcation. Right, Michael? That is true, yes.
Well, it is time for your calls now. So if you
have a question for Michael or Mike, give us
a call. The number 859 -982 -7373. One more time.
859 -982 -7373. Or you can tweet us at HamTalk
Live. And if you're listening to us on WTWW or
on the podcast edition, you won't be able to
reach us live because we're doing this on on
Thursday night, but joining us on the Hamcation
Zoom line, we have a very special and familiar
guest. Good evening. Welcome to HamTalk Live,
Carol. Well, thank you so much. Two of my favorite
people and three of my favorite people, actually.
I am so excited about Hamcation 2022 for all
the usual reasons. But in addition, this year's
winner of the Educator of the Year Award is just
somebody I am so looking forward to seeing and
meeting and speaking with as a retired principal.
I love the fact that he continued with his passion
of working with young people in radio. and he
even involves the youth with ham radio as it
relates to their own communities. I love that
idea and I am just so excited to meet with him
and it's such a pleasure dealing with the hamcation
people, Michael and Mike and John and everybody
who's been involved with it. I cannot wait for
hamcation this year and to see you of course,
Neil. Yes, it's been way too long. We keep seeing
each other on these virtual things and that's
it. And so it's been way too long. So I'm looking
forward to it as well. And hopefully, you know,
things will die down on the COVID front too.
And you know, and everything will be great. So
I'm really looking forward to it. What was your
reaction when you heard that we had someone outside
of the U .S. this time? Well, I am thrilled.
Anything that honors and showcases and rewards
an educator but especially an educator in technology
and radio just is exciting and I just cannot
wait to, as I said, to meet him in person and
to know that this is going on and that these
people, these educators that we are showcasing
have the passion and the desire to inspire our
young people to bring new technology, to be creative.
It's just so exciting and I cannot wait to meet
somebody who shares that passion and such gratitude
I have for all the people who made this award
possible so we can meet these individuals and
hopefully inspire other educators to get involved
with young people. Yeah, we need them. That's
for sure. There's no no doubt Mike you have anything
for Carol a lot while we've got both of you together
here And I look Carol look forward to seeing
you and in February at hamcation there so I Have
my fingers and eyes that this is all going to
happen for real. So, you know, the virtual hugs
go just so far. But, Neil, I wanted to go back
to your question about an international nomination.
Yeah. I know that even when we received the nomination,
a couple of people had come around and says,
are we open to international nominations? And
it's kind of going, I looked back at it and said,
amateur radio doesn't stop at any border. I mean,
our hobby turns around and is international.
And half the challenge for the operators out
there is to get their international contacts.
So it's kind of going, why should this award
have any boundaries? So it was actually thrilled
to see that. And even with hamcation, we have
a fair number of international attendees. So
it's kind of like why not have them, you know,
why should we limit it? So and you know one of
the things that I'll tell this the story, you
know, one of the things that that I learned from
Carol very early on Was not Putting the license
test first and Then I get involved in Yoda and
I start talking to the people over in Europe
And one of the first discussions we had was,
wow, we figured out that, you know, you really
shouldn't put the license test first. And I'm
like, yeah, Carol figured that out 30 years ago.
And, you know, and so we kind of talked about
that, that, you know, now with all this online
technology, we have a better. ability to share
those things and so you know educators and youth
leaders you know like myself and carol and and
dick and you know we all have this ability now
to share a lot of that information and that you
know we didn't always have a chance to do that
you know over hf and and so uh... i i i totally
agree that you know there are no no borders.
You know, the radio waves do not stop at the
border. So I think it's a great decision. And
if I may say, one of the basic tenets of amateur
radio is outreach and international goodwill.
So this makes it even more exciting that we have
this outreach. and the commonality of working
with the young people and sharing ideas. It's
just a little very, very exciting. Absolutely.
Well, Carol, thank you so much for calling in
and joining us tonight. Michael, I guess I should
see if you have anything for Carol here before
we let her go. No, I'm good. This is good hearing
from you. And one thing I did have to say about
the nomination when I... was reading it when
it first come in and Mike sent it out to us to
take a look at it. One thing was funny, I was
reading through it and I'm like, I thought I
was reading Carol's bio basically, because it
was very similar for Dick of the stuff that he
does over there that Carol does over here. Yes.
And in retirement, we're both doing the same
things we used to do. Only now we don't get paid
for it. We do it as volunteers and we love it.
Absolutely. Well, thank you, Carol, for, for
coming on the show and talking about this award.
And, um, and, and, you know, it's, uh, it's great
to talk to you and hope to see you real soon.
Thanks so much My pleasure 73 and 88 so all of
you seven three and 88 Carol Perry WB2MGP, the
namesake of the Educator of the Year award. So
if you'd like to call in, we've got time for
a couple more calls. It's 859 -982 -7373 or you
can tweet us over at hamtalklive and we'll actually
check the check the tweet machine here and see
if we've got anything. All right. Oh, and we've
got chat going on. I'm just now opening up the
chat. So we've got John in 4JTK in there, and
Scott Cole is in here talking about, oh yeah,
the Super Bowl is going to be that weekend as
well, and after everything is over. Oh, and John
says he heard Scott was grilling steaks on Sunday
night for Super Bowl. So, wow, I didn't know
that and I don't think he did either. I think
he just got voluntold. Voluntold, yes, I think
that's what it was. So, all right, well, if you
have a question, give us a call. We'll open up
the phone lines here at 859 -985 -985. to seventy
three seventy three and you can uh... can jump
in here uh... let's see uh... we wanted to talk
a little bit about the license exams which uh...
we were just talking about that you don't start
with that with you but once they get to that
point and they're energized and they're ready
to go then it's time to get that license and
so you've got a cool setup for license testing
at hamcation this year. So remind everybody how
that works. Right. This year we've actually partnered
with hamstudy .org and we are actually doing
a all electronic exams. So there's actually no
paper involved. You come in, first you register
on. hamstudy .org, you get a PIN number basically,
you come in, you tell us that PIN, you show us
the ID, we hand you a tablet, you key it in,
and you start your test. Once you're done with
your test, you click finish, the system automatically
grades it instantly, lets you know if you passed
or failed. If you did pass, it will ask you if
you wanna go ahead and do your next element.
Let's say if you're a tech, you can go ahead
and do your general right there. You just click
next, take your general, same thing again. When
it's all done, three VEs basically sign off on
it electronically. And then we send you an email
with your CSCE in it and you're done. It's that
easy. We actually implemented this. for the first
time at our OARC meeting. Our monthly meeting
was last night and we decided to give it a test
run before hamcation to see how it does with
a little less people. Usually we have six or
eight people test at our meetings. Well, that
didn't go too well as we thought. We had 23 people
show up last night for testing. Uh, to implement
the new system, um, it worked great. Uh, it was
a lot easier than we thought. We started at five
30 and within about an hour and 15 minutes to
an hour and 20 minutes, we had 23 people out
the door with their license. Yeah. It's amazing
how much faster this, this makes it because there's,
you know, everything has to be graded three times
and signed three times and this and that. And
there's so much paper shuffling going on, because
I've done that way too many times to count. And
it's just a lot easier when it's automatic like
this. And I remember the first time I did one
of those for a test session back in the day.
And it was just so cool. You're always afraid
to hit that submit button at the end, because
it's like, oh. Do I change anything? But it's
really nice to get the instant feedback and it
just speeds things up tremendously and then you've
got more time to do other things. Pretty, pretty
cool. Uh, let's talk about ticket sales. I know
you've got a deadline, uh, coming up on that,
or maybe we just passed it. I can't remember
which, but, um, talk a little bit about, uh,
ticket sales here. Uh, ticket sales are actually
up, uh, kind of shocking with everything going
on with COVID. Uh, people are still buying tickets.
Uh, we are up right now currently with pre -sales
over 2020 show at this time. Um, The deadline
did pass December 31st was the deadline to actually
mail tickets out. So now everything will be held
in will call. We will have a will call booth
set up. You can actually come starting Thursday.
We're gonna have the will call booth set up all
day Thursday. So you can come early to get your
tickets if you like before the show on Friday.
So you have them in hand also. But yeah, with
USPS right now is running, we're starting to
notice they are running about three weeks from
the time we mail something for somebody to receive
it. With their COVID going on, lack of employees
they have, winter storms up north right now.
So yeah, three weeks is what we're realizing
has taken. So we've just pretty much cut it off
to make sure tickets get to the people. before
they leave to come down here. A lot of our people
start traveling way beforehand, taking their
time coming down, so we wanna make sure everybody
got tickets. So as of right now, if you order
your tickets online, it will be held and we'll
call. All right, good to know. And then, you
know, one other thing to talk about here, prices.
You've got... Some some pretty cool prizes and
and like I said a while ago talk talk is cheap
if you can get one for free. So Tell us a little
bit about that It is and Right now, we're still
working on the prizes, but we do have DX Engineering
come on as a sponsor, and Nashtrant came on as
a sponsor, and I do know right now their prizes
are listed on the website. I think both of them
are doing gift certificates, but they are listed
on the website already. If you just go to the
prize. spot on the website. Uh, as we get prizes
in, we are putting them up there. And also again,
this year you can actually buy extra prize tickets
for a donation, $5 donation, and, uh, to give
you extra chance at prizes, uh, during the show.
All right. Very good. Well, let me, uh, let me
check the tweets once again. Comments and everything
make sure we haven't missed anything, but I think
we're I think we're pretty well Caught up here
and we've got Got all the talking points done.
So we'll Do some final comments and and be on
our way. So Mike I'll let you go first any other
Stuff you want to tell us about the awards? Congratulations
to the dick on this year's award winner for the
Carol Perry Educator of the Year award and look
forward to next year. We're going to be rolling
out an additional award coming out here shortly.
So we'll get through hamcation and then we'll
turn around and have to see if I can get our
website updated and get the start looking for
nominations for next year's Carol Perry Educator
of the Year award and looking to actually add
another award to hamcation for next year. Oh,
very good. And again, Neil, thank you for having
us on. Yeah. Oh, no problem. Glad to, glad to
have you here. And, uh, Michael, same for you.
Any, any final comments here before we go? Yeah,
I just got, uh, two things. One real quick, just
touch on, uh, our forums. We're going to have
some very good forums on Friday and Saturday.
Uh, we have four, uh, clear space tents set up.
Each one will hold. roughly around 100 to 120
people in them. Some of our forms that we do
have this year, Tim Duffy is going to be doing
a grounding and bonding form. Of course, check
out Carol Perry's youth form. One of the big
forms that we're gonna have this year, since
it is the National Convention, is an ARL membership
form. And it will be actually hosted by the president
of ARRL, Rick Rodrik, and the CEO of ARL, Dave
Minster. So this is your chance to go to a forum,
ask questions to the two main men of ARL. concerns,
questions, anything like that. There'll be open
forum for people to ask questions at the end
of it. And of course, Neil, you're doing your
Yoda form this year to talk about Yoda for 2022
also. And the final thing I have that people
keep asking about is COVID. COVID in Florida.
Everybody's concerned with it. It is something
to be concerned with. I think a lot of people
are starting to learn now. COVID isn't gonna
go away. It's something we got to live with.
We have to learn to adapt to it, figure out ways
around it. Currently in the state of Florida,
there is no mandates. There is no local mandates
here in Orange County where the show will be
going on. So at hamcation, we will not require
masks, but hamcation will strongly recommend
masks to be worn while in the buildings. And
we will have masks on hand. We have plenty of
them. We'll have them at the entrances to the
doors. If you would like a mask and don't have
one, we can provide you one. We will have lots
of hand sanitizing stations around also. But
at the same time, this is what we currently recommend.
As it gets closer to the show, if anything changes
that, let's say if there is, we're gonna mandate
mask or anything like that, or any other items
that's changed, we will keep up with CDC and
follow all the local and state. mandates if anything
comes out, but currently there is not nothing.
And the best way to keep up on this, if you watch
our website, www .hamcation .com, join our social
media feeds. It's a hamcation on Facebook, Twitter,
and Instagram. And the biggest thing is if you
sign up for our newsletter, if you go to hamcation
.com and scroll all the way down to the bottom,
there's a spot. put in your email address. And
we do send out usually about monthly, but here
closer any updates for anything with the show,
we will be sending out a newsletter to inform
people also. So that's the best way to get information
from us is by signing up there. And if anything
important comes out, that's where we'll send
it out to first, including putting it on the
front page of the website and Twitter and Facebook.
And last two things I have, one, congratulate
Dick for winning the Carol Perry Educator of
the Year Award for 2022. Like Mike said, we do
have a new award coming out for 2023. It's going
to also be a huge award that's going to draw
a lot of people for it. And the final thing,
Neil, thank you for having us on the show. And
I look forward to seeing you in a little over
a month. Absolutely. Really looking forward to
it. One last thing, Mark in 4 BCD wanted the
call sign of the winner again, of Dick Fagilstra.
And Mike, let's make sure we've got it here.
P -A -0 -D -F -N, Papa Alpha Zero Delta Fox November.
Is that right? Correct. You do have it correct.
Okay, very good. Well, there you go mark pa zero
DF in is our award winner for 2022 well guys,
thanks so much for being on the show. Thanks
for all of your support and everything that you
do for You know having this this big celebration
and testing and trade show and, and all, all
the things that are hamcation. Um, and, um, look
forward to seeing you soon. Yeah, same here.
Uh, be safe and, um, definitely, uh, look forward
to seeing everybody at hamcation in 2022. All
right. Okay. All right. Well, that's a wrap for
this week's edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to
my guests, Michael Colley, W4ORL, and Mike Banigan,
KJ4UDO, and everybody out there in cyberspace
for listening and calling in and invite you back
next Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time when
Keith Schlottman, KR7RK, will be here to talk
about the 1010 International Net and some of
the 10 meter band openings we've been having
lately. For a list of all of our upcoming guests,
you can find that at HamTalkLive .com. So for
now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying seven
to three, seven to five, and may the good DX
be yours. You never once mentioned your weather
at all and I didn't mention mine We talked and
talked