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Thanks to Emily, 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:31.379 the Harmonic of KE8FZT for writing our holiday 00:01:31.379 --> 00:01:36.200 version of the opening of Cam Talk Live. It's 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:40.620 episode number 283, the amateur radio newsline 00:01:40.620 --> 00:01:44.159 takeover. Recorded live on Thursday, December 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.239 9th, 2021. Good evening, everyone. I'm your host, 00:01:48.459 --> 00:01:52.439 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:56.140 episode of Ham Talk Live. Tonight we're joined 00:01:56.140 --> 00:02:01.420 by a whole bunch of people from amateur radio 00:02:01.420 --> 00:02:06.420 news line and we'll join in that conversation 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:10.259 here in just a little bit. Last week here on 00:02:10.259 --> 00:02:15.020 the show, Case Van Osprey, W0AAE was here to 00:02:15.020 --> 00:02:18.389 talk about December Yoda month. 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If a man says 00:05:34.810 --> 00:05:37.069 something in the woods and there are no women 00:05:37.069 --> 00:05:39.889 there, is he still wrong? You're listening to 00:05:39.889 --> 00:06:03.949 Ham Talk Live with Neil Rapp. Welcome back to 00:06:03.949 --> 00:06:10.689 HamTalk Live! Tower Electronics will be at Plant 00:06:10.689 --> 00:06:14.850 City Florida this weekend December 10th and 11th 00:06:14.850 --> 00:06:23.029 but you can visit them anytime at PL -259 .com 00:06:24.329 --> 00:06:26.569 Well, welcome back to HamTalk Live. Tonight, 00:06:26.870 --> 00:06:29.670 the Amateur Radio Newsline crew, Amateur Radio 00:06:29.670 --> 00:06:32.410 Newsline crew joins us on the Orlando Amateur 00:06:32.410 --> 00:06:35.850 Radio Club and Hamcation Zoom line. Amateur Radio 00:06:35.850 --> 00:06:39.129 Newsline produces a weekly newscast of interest 00:06:39.129 --> 00:06:43.149 to radio amateurs worldwide. Oprah Winfrey, Tom 00:06:43.149 --> 00:06:46.750 Brokaw, and Kevin Nealon are but a few of the 00:06:46.750 --> 00:06:49.189 people who are not correspondents for Amateur 00:06:49.189 --> 00:06:52.139 Radio Newsline. The bulletins conform to all 00:06:52.139 --> 00:06:54.879 sections and codes as outlined in part 97 of 00:06:54.879 --> 00:07:00.160 the FCC rules about legal means of issuing bulletins 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:04.120 of interest to all amateurs. And Newsline has 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:07.000 a more traditional radio spot news format as 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:09.660 it's completely independent. In addition to the 00:07:09.660 --> 00:07:14.240 20 minute newscast each week, we also have highlights 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.699 on Ham Nation with Don Wilbanks at E5DW. You 00:07:17.699 --> 00:07:21.379 can listen to the full report though on a repeater 00:07:21.379 --> 00:07:27.720 near you or online at arnewsline .org or your 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.160 favorite podcast app for that matter as well 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:35.600 as HamTalk Live. So here at HamTalk Live we have 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.399 some some really great informative shows from 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:44.639 time to time and I'm betting this is not one 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:52.819 of them. Yeah. So, so there we go. And guys, 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:56.319 I forgot, I forgot to tell you to kill the video 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:00.500 because it was the bandwidth here, but, uh, and 00:08:00.500 --> 00:08:03.939 yes, and, and bar the door, I think Skeeter just 00:08:03.939 --> 00:08:07.209 arrived. So I hope that was him. Uh, so anyway, 00:08:07.209 --> 00:08:09.889 welcome guys to ham talk live. I know some of 00:08:09.889 --> 00:08:11.709 you've been here before. Some of you haven't. 00:08:12.069 --> 00:08:14.829 So, uh, let's see. We've got it. We've got a 00:08:14.829 --> 00:08:18.569 whole, whole crew here tonight. In fact, let 00:08:18.569 --> 00:08:21.730 me pull this up here. We've got Dave WB nine 00:08:21.730 --> 00:08:27.350 or WB eight ODF Don AE five DW Paul WD nine GCO, 00:08:27.569 --> 00:08:34.450 Randy W four XJ Chris. WB5ITT, Jim, N8TNW, Kevin 00:08:34.450 --> 00:08:39.870 Trotman, N5PRE, Andy, K9AWM, and I'm assuming 00:08:39.870 --> 00:08:45.929 Zoom user is N5ASH, so. Is that you, Skeeter? 00:08:46.970 --> 00:08:51.690 Yeah, that's me. That's Zoom user, okay. I just 00:08:51.690 --> 00:08:56.090 got dialed in, you know, in a hurry here. All 00:08:56.090 --> 00:08:57.889 right. Well, guys, welcome to... Didn't want 00:08:57.889 --> 00:09:00.980 to miss out on the festivities. Exactly. So, 00:09:00.980 --> 00:09:05.419 so welcome to the show. And so I'm going to kind 00:09:05.419 --> 00:09:09.519 of try to, you know, throw in all the legal stuff 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:14.500 and all that kind of thing and kind of guide 00:09:14.500 --> 00:09:18.860 this. But we build this as the news line takeover 00:09:18.860 --> 00:09:22.179 and Don's already laughing about. Yeah. Right. 00:09:22.340 --> 00:09:25.539 Good luck with kind of kind of the operative 00:09:25.539 --> 00:09:28.899 word. Kind of hurting. Yeah. Yes, and I love 00:09:28.899 --> 00:09:30.940 that you say you throw in the legal stuff. You're 00:09:30.940 --> 00:09:33.200 just going to keep your sponsors happy. I mean, 00:09:33.580 --> 00:09:35.120 we've been watching you on the radio. We know 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:36.399 how that works. Yeah, we know how that works. 00:09:37.059 --> 00:09:41.820 Pay the bills, pay the bills, and legal ID at 00:09:41.820 --> 00:09:45.820 the top of the hour and we're good to go. All 00:09:45.820 --> 00:09:47.759 right, well, let's talk a little bit about what 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:51.620 Newsline is before we get into all the mischief 00:09:51.620 --> 00:09:57.460 here. And I'm gonna throw this to Don just because 00:09:57.460 --> 00:10:00.480 Don's kind of the the guy that's been around 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:06.539 for for forever Don you want to talk about that 00:10:06.539 --> 00:10:11.000 a little bit and then and maybe Jim as well Yeah, 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:15.539 now Chris Boone He predates me by a long shot 00:10:15.539 --> 00:10:18.139 he and bill go way back But since I have the 00:10:18.139 --> 00:10:20.779 floor you mentioned all these people in the preamble 00:10:20.779 --> 00:10:23.679 who were not? Reporters for amateur radio news 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:25.620 line you mentioned all these famous people But 00:10:25.620 --> 00:10:28.399 let me tell you one who was and that is the great 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:32.940 Roy Neal K6 DUI who was the voice of the space 00:10:32.940 --> 00:10:37.399 program for NBC back in the Apollo days So, yeah, 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.879 he was, in fact, part of the Newsline crew. And 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:43.360 he's a silent key now, of course. But yeah, Newsline 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.460 is a news and bulletin service, like you said, 00:10:46.500 --> 00:10:50.559 and we present a weekly magazine type format, 00:10:50.580 --> 00:10:53.940 loosely based on spot news, the spot news format, 00:10:53.940 --> 00:10:56.960 and also something like a magazine, like, say, 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.200 a 60 minutes or something like that. It's just 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:02.419 a short minute, minute and a half, maybe two 00:11:02.419 --> 00:11:04.820 minutes, sometimes stories, about 20 minutes 00:11:04.820 --> 00:11:08.720 worth. of just stories of interest to amateur 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:10.799 radio operators. They may or may not have anything 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:13.519 to do with ham radio, but they certainly have 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:20.860 something to do with people who are of that hobby, 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:23.740 more or less. So yeah, if it's of interest to 00:11:23.740 --> 00:11:27.120 an amateur radio operator, then we're more than 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:29.379 likely going to cover it. And that's kind of 00:11:29.379 --> 00:11:34.860 it. It's been going for over 40 years now. Started, 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:36.960 of course, by the late great Bill Pasternak, 00:11:37.139 --> 00:11:44.179 WA6ITF. And there you go. He also began the amateur 00:11:44.179 --> 00:11:46.759 radio news line, Young Ham of the Year Award, 00:11:48.059 --> 00:11:51.240 back about 30 years ago. And it is now named 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:56.039 posthumously in his honor as the WA6ITF amateur 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:57.639 radio news line, Young Ham of the Year Award. 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:59.279 So that's kind of a thumbnail sketch of what 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:03.980 news line is, Neil. Jim, uh, let's go to you 00:12:03.980 --> 00:12:08.279 in a TMW. Uh, Jim's our resident movie star here 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:10.320 too, which we can talk about that maybe in a 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:12.980 little bit, but, uh, but Jim, you you've been 00:12:12.980 --> 00:12:15.940 with newsline, uh, over the years. What, what 00:12:15.940 --> 00:12:19.899 kind of, uh, what kind of adjustments and changes 00:12:19.899 --> 00:12:22.879 have you, you seen since you started at newsline? 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:30.990 Well, uh, I, uh, proud to be part of this great 00:12:30.990 --> 00:12:33.110 team, by the way. You guys are just terrific. 00:12:33.889 --> 00:12:38.870 And I kind of fell into a news line with Jeff 00:12:38.870 --> 00:12:41.889 Clark, K -A -J -A -C, who used to co -anchor 00:12:41.889 --> 00:12:47.289 with Jim Davis, W -8. Oops, can't think of his 00:12:47.289 --> 00:12:49.610 call. Sorry about that. But they do a Huntley 00:12:49.610 --> 00:12:53.009 -Brinkley kind of a thing. And they were both 00:12:53.009 --> 00:12:57.059 here in Charleston, West Virginia. And At any 00:12:57.059 --> 00:13:00.159 rate, after Jim left the area to go elsewhere, 00:13:01.059 --> 00:13:04.120 why? Jeff asked me if I would be interested in 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:06.080 doing that. Of course, I was honored to do that. 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:10.860 That's how we got started. I guess the main changes 00:13:10.860 --> 00:13:14.179 I've seen, I think it's a little more streamlined 00:13:14.179 --> 00:13:20.299 now. When we did it, Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.000 would send us the script, just the anchor script. 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:26.700 we would record it doing the Huntley Brinkley 00:13:26.700 --> 00:13:33.220 thing back and forth, and then send him by FTP 00:13:33.220 --> 00:13:36.399 protocol, file transfer protocol, if you remember 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:41.179 that, and then Bill would then add all the actuality 00:13:41.179 --> 00:13:45.700 sound bites. So now, of course, that's changed 00:13:45.700 --> 00:13:52.159 and Karen sends the script to us and all the 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.419 correspondence. record their sound bites and 00:13:55.419 --> 00:13:59.740 we each anchor puts his show together of the 00:13:59.740 --> 00:14:03.460 week he's anchoring. So and I think it makes 00:14:03.460 --> 00:14:07.500 for a more streamlined show and but it's been 00:14:07.500 --> 00:14:10.000 very informational. I always love to listen to 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.039 it. We had a gentleman here a hand in our area 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.059 who we air news line here in Charleston on Sunday 00:14:16.059 --> 00:14:18.620 nights at eight thirty during our net our club 00:14:18.620 --> 00:14:22.809 net. Bill Hunter, K -8BS, who's a silent key 00:14:22.809 --> 00:14:26.590 now, he faithfully aired Newsline every week 00:14:26.590 --> 00:14:30.590 before it was Newsline, even when it was Westlink 00:14:30.590 --> 00:14:33.970 and all that. So I was very familiar with the 00:14:33.970 --> 00:14:36.210 program, loved it, and again, was so honored 00:14:36.210 --> 00:14:39.529 when I got to be a part of it. So that's it in 00:14:39.529 --> 00:14:43.370 a nutshell from changes that I've noticed. I 00:14:43.370 --> 00:14:47.389 love it how Jim talks about doing the FTP file 00:14:47.389 --> 00:14:50.169 transfer protocol thing. You had it easy, Dameron. 00:14:50.370 --> 00:14:52.909 I used to have to record mine and then FedEx 00:14:52.909 --> 00:14:56.830 the tape back to Basternak. You had it easy. 00:14:59.370 --> 00:15:02.429 I had a lot of trouble with FTP. I bet you did 00:15:02.429 --> 00:15:08.950 cooperate. I can't even spell FTP. Dropbox does 00:15:08.950 --> 00:15:13.490 make it easier. Yes, it does. Oh, yes, it does. 00:15:15.370 --> 00:15:18.370 Well, we're going to, we're going to get through 00:15:18.370 --> 00:15:21.389 a few more little things here. And I think I'll 00:15:21.389 --> 00:15:26.279 throw this one to Paul. Kind of try to get everybody 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:31.039 involved here Talk about how newsline is independent 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:37.019 and supported We are completely independent of 00:15:37.019 --> 00:15:41.539 any sort of corporate interest or sponsors and 00:15:41.539 --> 00:15:45.360 we We intend to keep it that way just so that 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:51.840 we can retain Journalistic independence So we're 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:56.980 all volunteers Nobody on staff gets paid. We 00:15:56.980 --> 00:16:00.840 all just do this because we love it. But we do 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:05.240 still have expenses. So whatever we don't cover 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:10.580 ourselves, we do accept outside donations. And 00:16:10.580 --> 00:16:13.659 there is a link on our website. So if you appreciate 00:16:13.659 --> 00:16:17.279 what it is we do, and you'd like to help support 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:19.759 us, there's a PayPal link and you can throw a 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:26.240 couple of shekels in the box. We don't take sponsorship 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:30.019 for that very reason so that we can retain editorial 00:16:30.019 --> 00:16:35.340 independence. It doesn't happen often, but if 00:16:35.340 --> 00:16:38.179 there's a story about something that reflects 00:16:38.179 --> 00:16:40.720 a little bit oddly on somebody who may at the 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:42.480 time be a sponsor, we don't have to worry about 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:48.220 that. It really keeps us independent and honest. 00:16:49.340 --> 00:16:52.500 We sleep better at night. Yes, and sleep better 00:16:52.500 --> 00:16:56.080 at night. There you go, Kevin. Well, let's talk 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:00.740 a little bit how it's produced. So, for somebody 00:17:00.740 --> 00:17:04.059 who doesn't have any idea of how this thing comes 00:17:04.059 --> 00:17:07.259 together every week, which I think it's like 00:17:07.259 --> 00:17:09.700 bubblegum, duct tape, and bailing wire sometimes, 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:15.339 but we have this wonderful script writer who 00:17:15.339 --> 00:17:18.119 collects all the news. We have these copy editors 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.869 like Ed who... It's 3 a .m., I think, over in 00:17:21.869 --> 00:17:26.589 Germany, so he's not with us tonight. But talk 00:17:26.589 --> 00:17:29.390 a little bit about how the program is produced 00:17:29.390 --> 00:17:33.150 each week. I can speak to that since I just got 00:17:33.150 --> 00:17:39.339 done minting this week's edition. Karen. Karen 00:17:39.339 --> 00:17:42.259 Eve Murray, who is our editor, and I speak for 00:17:42.259 --> 00:17:44.680 all of us that if we did not have Karen, there 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:50.700 would not be a news line. She does a lot of the 00:17:50.700 --> 00:17:52.839 behind the scenes stuff, assembling stories, 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.660 hunting them down. She hands out assignments. 00:17:55.740 --> 00:17:58.259 She'll send a story and a script or a story assignment 00:17:58.259 --> 00:18:00.339 if there needs to be an interview. I've done 00:18:00.339 --> 00:18:03.920 quite a few of those to all the correspondents. 00:18:04.190 --> 00:18:07.630 and then rides herd on the cats until all the 00:18:07.630 --> 00:18:09.549 audio comes in and then she writes the script, 00:18:09.750 --> 00:18:12.450 she writes the anchor script that wraps around 00:18:12.450 --> 00:18:16.410 all the stories. And then she controls the schedule. 00:18:17.250 --> 00:18:19.730 There's a group of us that are regular anchors 00:18:19.730 --> 00:18:22.589 and we rotate unless somebody's got something 00:18:22.589 --> 00:18:24.950 going on and then some will cover for somebody. 00:18:25.630 --> 00:18:28.609 But so Karen hands out that assignment and then... 00:18:28.589 --> 00:18:31.630 We go to the Dropbox folder where all the week's 00:18:31.630 --> 00:18:33.730 audio and script is, and we pull those files 00:18:33.730 --> 00:18:38.809 down. And then it's up to us to... Well, first, 00:18:39.049 --> 00:18:43.509 Kevin has taken on the responsibility of proof 00:18:43.509 --> 00:18:46.430 listening to the stories to make sure that they 00:18:46.430 --> 00:18:48.470 match up with the script. There's no major errors 00:18:48.470 --> 00:18:51.029 or omissions. And then once he's given it the 00:18:51.029 --> 00:18:55.029 thumbs up, then we're free to produce. And we 00:18:55.029 --> 00:18:56.970 pull all the audio files and the script down 00:18:56.970 --> 00:18:59.859 locally. And then we just bring it into our, 00:18:59.859 --> 00:19:02.700 you know, our audio editing software. And then 00:19:02.700 --> 00:19:06.500 we record our anchor vocals on top of that. And 00:19:06.500 --> 00:19:09.119 then we cut it up into pieces and glue it all 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:12.440 together and then render out the news line for 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.579 the week. And then we put it back in Dropbox. 00:19:16.420 --> 00:19:19.680 And then Kevin, we'll let Kevin explain what 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:23.519 happens to it from there. But so that's, I mean, 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:27.059 that's, and you know, the first time I did it, 00:19:26.859 --> 00:19:30.559 It was kind of scary because Don and Karen, I 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:33.880 mean, I had volunteered to be a correspondent 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:36.180 right after Bill passed away because it sounded 00:19:36.180 --> 00:19:37.819 like they could use some help and I had some 00:19:37.819 --> 00:19:40.960 experience and I had the equipment. And for whatever 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:43.500 reason, Don temporarily lost his mind and said, 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:49.859 sure, come on in. And then about a month or so 00:19:49.859 --> 00:19:52.039 later, they said, hey, you want to try being 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:56.670 an anchor? I'm like, oh crap. But you know, you 00:19:56.670 --> 00:19:59.750 get used to it. And you know, this last one here, 00:19:59.970 --> 00:20:02.549 I did some pre -production work last night. And 00:20:02.549 --> 00:20:04.430 then when I got home from work tonight, it went 00:20:04.430 --> 00:20:08.009 together pretty quickly. So we've got a pretty 00:20:08.009 --> 00:20:10.849 good system and it works really well. So Kevin, 00:20:11.049 --> 00:20:13.630 I will say though real quick, but while we interject, 00:20:13.730 --> 00:20:15.970 since you just finished the upcoming report. 00:20:16.410 --> 00:20:19.170 Karen does have to take one extra step when it's 00:20:19.170 --> 00:20:21.450 your turn to anchor. She makes sure that she 00:20:21.450 --> 00:20:24.549 types real slow because she knows you can't read 00:20:24.549 --> 00:20:29.309 real fast. And she uses really big type and tries 00:20:29.309 --> 00:20:34.960 to use really small words. And when I'm anchoring, 00:20:35.220 --> 00:20:41.099 it's the world of unpronounceable DX. Every crazy 00:20:41.099 --> 00:20:43.940 country that I've never heard of before. Yeah. 00:20:44.539 --> 00:20:48.400 All right. So then Kevin, once we put the finished 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:51.039 files up in Dropbox, what do you do from there? 00:20:51.059 --> 00:20:56.059 Because Kevin's our webmaster. Right. Well, once 00:20:56.059 --> 00:20:58.579 in a while I get thrown a bone as well, and I 00:20:58.579 --> 00:21:05.430 can read a story. Kevin is also one of our correspondents. 00:21:05.849 --> 00:21:11.029 Yes, I actually I kind of got it started. I put 00:21:11.029 --> 00:21:15.990 my foot in the door about 2009. I became official. 00:21:16.529 --> 00:21:18.849 But a couple of years before that, I was actually 00:21:18.849 --> 00:21:22.230 taking the go into the website, downloading the 00:21:22.230 --> 00:21:27.450 MP3 and reposting it as a podcast so I could. 00:21:27.819 --> 00:21:31.559 have it automatically be on my iPod at the time. 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:35.160 And I did that for a couple of years and I reached 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:42.319 out and I asked sheepishly if Bill Pasternak 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:46.940 minded if I did that and he was overjoyed that 00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:49.559 I took the initiative to do that and invited 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:53.140 me to actually come and make it official. So 00:21:53.140 --> 00:21:58.599 some of my duties are, like Paul said, We get 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:01.380 little bits of the script, each one of us, and 00:22:01.380 --> 00:22:03.619 read our stories, and we save them all on Dropbox, 00:22:04.099 --> 00:22:07.789 and then... On Wednesday afternoon, usually about 00:22:07.789 --> 00:22:10.529 four o 'clock or so, Karen is finished with the 00:22:10.529 --> 00:22:12.690 entire script, has it all together and she puts 00:22:12.690 --> 00:22:16.150 it on Dropbox. So I pull it down and I start 00:22:16.150 --> 00:22:19.029 listening to each of the audio files and I compare 00:22:19.029 --> 00:22:21.829 them to what is written in the script and we 00:22:21.829 --> 00:22:23.910 have to make a few adjustments once in a while 00:22:23.910 --> 00:22:25.930 and every once in a while somebody will get a 00:22:25.930 --> 00:22:28.970 call sign wrong or something. So we get them, 00:22:29.089 --> 00:22:32.150 hopefully there's something in there we can fix 00:22:32.150 --> 00:22:36.170 it. um, surgically, you know, uh, like if, if 00:22:36.170 --> 00:22:39.029 somebody says a letter and it was wrong, but 00:22:39.029 --> 00:22:42.329 they also say somewhere else in the story, we, 00:22:42.329 --> 00:22:46.470 we lift and insert, well, to make the correction 00:22:46.470 --> 00:22:49.410 or if we had, if the person is available, we'll 00:22:49.410 --> 00:22:52.609 have them just recut it. And, uh, sometimes though, 00:22:52.890 --> 00:22:54.869 some of those correspondents are on the other 00:22:54.869 --> 00:22:56.990 side of the world and they're asleep, you know, 00:22:56.990 --> 00:23:00.750 and it's, we gotta go produce. So we do the best 00:23:00.750 --> 00:23:03.599 we can with, uh, mistakes like that, but they 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:08.960 don't happen very often. Once I've listened to 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:12.240 the proof, listened to everything, I put my thumbs 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:15.799 up on the messenger, on Facebook Messenger, let 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:18.039 everybody know that whoever's producing this 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:20.299 week, you've got a green light to go ahead and 00:23:20.299 --> 00:23:23.700 produce. And they will put the files together 00:23:23.700 --> 00:23:29.480 along with the words in between and make sure 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:32.589 everything is all at the same levels. Make sure 00:23:32.589 --> 00:23:36.250 we don't have over 20 megabytes on the file size 00:23:36.250 --> 00:23:41.289 because there's a hard limit on our website for 00:23:41.289 --> 00:23:45.069 that and they post it and let us know and then 00:23:45.069 --> 00:23:48.569 that's when I go in and take the finished files 00:23:48.569 --> 00:23:54.430 and I prepare the web page for a new entry. It's 00:23:54.430 --> 00:23:58.660 basically like a blog. and you go to the news 00:23:58.660 --> 00:24:01.160 portion of the website and you'll see the most 00:24:01.160 --> 00:24:05.140 recent episode. And there's a title, and then 00:24:05.140 --> 00:24:07.700 there's bullets, and then there's a link for 00:24:07.700 --> 00:24:10.380 the script and the audio. There's several ways 00:24:10.380 --> 00:24:12.339 you can get the audio. You can get it directly 00:24:12.339 --> 00:24:16.519 with a download, right click, or you can, there 00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:19.619 is an actual download button in a little black 00:24:19.619 --> 00:24:23.779 box, or you can play it on the actual webpage. 00:24:26.220 --> 00:24:30.980 Also, we're listed as a podcast in Apple Podcasts 00:24:30.980 --> 00:24:37.180 or in Google Play, or you can just get the RSS 00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:39.180 feed at the top right -hand part of the page 00:24:39.180 --> 00:24:44.180 and put it in your favorite podcast. you know, 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:46.740 whatever you use, what software you use. And 00:24:46.740 --> 00:24:50.079 you could also ask what we call the magic genie, 00:24:50.220 --> 00:24:53.160 because if you say her name, it'll invoke her, 00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:57.039 A -L -E -X -A. You could ask A -L -E -X -A to 00:24:57.039 --> 00:24:59.299 play Amateur Radio Newsline, and it'll play the 00:24:59.299 --> 00:25:04.279 most recent episode for you. So here we go. We 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:08.829 got everything together. I get it prepared, and 00:25:08.829 --> 00:25:10.809 I put it on the website, and I just published 00:25:10.809 --> 00:25:13.369 it just prior to us going live here tonight. 00:25:14.609 --> 00:25:17.490 So Thursday night, usually around 7 .30, 8 .30, 00:25:17.569 --> 00:25:21.789 9 o 'clock, somewhere in that range. That's usually 00:25:21.789 --> 00:25:26.130 when we get it posted, and I put links on Facebook, 00:25:26.730 --> 00:25:30.569 on our newsline page on Facebook, and a couple 00:25:30.569 --> 00:25:34.160 other places, and people find it that way. And 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:38.119 it's been going great for the last 12 years or 00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:43.180 so. And most almost all of those shows are archived 00:25:43.180 --> 00:25:46.119 on our website. I think there are a few exceptions. 00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:50.720 But if you if you are searching for one, usually 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:52.740 you can reach out to our group and somebody will 00:25:52.740 --> 00:25:55.579 have it downloaded and saved and preserved because 00:25:55.579 --> 00:25:59.400 that's just the kind of fans we have. You know, 00:25:59.420 --> 00:26:03.220 they really are good. And then we've got Dave 00:26:03.220 --> 00:26:08.019 who who puts it out there for IR LP and all -star 00:26:08.019 --> 00:26:10.920 and all that kind of thing and that's right about 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:14.880 that, but It's already time to take our first 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:18.440 break. So we're gonna have to do that, but we'll 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:23.299 come back and we'll talk about the IR LP stuff 00:26:23.299 --> 00:26:28.960 with with Dave and and everything else Under 00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:33.250 the Sun most likely So I'll be back right after 00:26:33.250 --> 00:26:37.829 this word from ICOM America right here on HamTalk 00:26:37.829 --> 00:26:41.650 Live. Happy holidays from ICOM. This season spice 00:26:41.650 --> 00:26:45.369 up your ham shack with ICOM's IC -705 portable 00:26:45.369 --> 00:26:50.630 or the new ID -52A handheld now shipping. These 00:26:50.630 --> 00:26:53.170 radios are perfect for staying in or venturing 00:26:53.170 --> 00:26:55.750 out and working your favorite bands this winter 00:26:55.750 --> 00:26:59.150 season. The IC -705 is the perfect sidekick and 00:26:59.150 --> 00:27:02.509 QRP companion. 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Or if you'd 00:29:36.059 --> 00:29:39.299 rather type than talk, tweet us at HamTalk Live. 00:29:39.700 --> 00:29:43.099 Now here's Neil Rapp with more HamTalk Live. 00:29:43.950 --> 00:29:47.250 You're listening to HamTalk Live, the number 00:29:47.250 --> 00:29:50.250 one podcast amongst the podcasts with the words 00:29:50.250 --> 00:29:53.630 ham, talk, and live in the title. Here's your 00:29:53.630 --> 00:30:08.289 host, Neil Rapp. Welcome back to HamTalk Live. 00:30:08.470 --> 00:30:10.809 We're on the air every Thursday night at 9 p 00:30:10.809 --> 00:30:13.869 .m. Eastern Time, right here at HamTalkLive .com. 00:30:14.650 --> 00:30:17.509 And be sure to check us out on Facebook, Twitter, 00:30:18.029 --> 00:30:21.029 and Instagram. And we're going to talk about 00:30:21.029 --> 00:30:23.849 Amateur Radio Newsline a little bit more here 00:30:23.849 --> 00:30:29.130 in just a minute. But first... It is time for 00:30:29.130 --> 00:30:33.690 the N9GSU Joke of the Week. Now it's time for 00:30:33.690 --> 00:30:36.869 the HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of the Week, 00:30:37.069 --> 00:30:39.490 the part of the show where Rick tells us a ham 00:30:39.490 --> 00:30:42.730 radio joke. The HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of 00:30:42.730 --> 00:30:46.170 the Week is brought to you by QRM Labs. Now, 00:30:46.250 --> 00:30:50.230 here's Rick Garrett, N9GSU, with today's HamTalk 00:30:50.230 --> 00:30:58.109 Live Joke of the Week. At field day last year, 00:30:58.210 --> 00:31:00.230 I was surprised when one of the operators pulled 00:31:00.230 --> 00:31:03.089 up in an exterminator's van. I said, you told 00:31:03.089 --> 00:31:06.069 me you worked on computers. He said, no, I said 00:31:06.069 --> 00:31:10.029 I was a debugger. This has been the ham talk 00:31:10.029 --> 00:31:13.230 live ham radio joke of the week with Rick Garrett 00:31:13.230 --> 00:31:16.950 in nine GSU. Tune in again next week for another 00:31:16.950 --> 00:31:30.059 joke from Rick. All right. Well, Rick's got another, 00:31:30.140 --> 00:31:32.660 another day one for next week. So we'll, we'll, 00:31:32.660 --> 00:31:35.599 we'll get another one. Great. Thanks. Great. 00:31:36.059 --> 00:31:38.240 Yeah. Absolutely. I think you're at least not. 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:44.799 That's what makes me tuning in. Well, let's go 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:47.720 over to Dave Park. So you'd be at ODF and I ran 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:52.940 into Dave because there were some issues. uh... 00:31:52.940 --> 00:31:56.440 with playing newsline over i think it was echo 00:31:56.440 --> 00:31:59.960 link i was trying to get to work and so he jumped 00:31:59.960 --> 00:32:03.559 in and started helping and and help me with uh... 00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:06.380 getting my rlp node going and everything and 00:32:06.380 --> 00:32:09.839 then all of a sudden a few months later he shows 00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:12.819 up and and starts being a correspondent for amateur 00:32:12.819 --> 00:32:16.740 radio news line and and he has uh... taken his 00:32:16.740 --> 00:32:19.859 uh... i rlp and echo link and all -star talents 00:32:19.859 --> 00:32:23.339 and uh... and made some things happen. We had 00:32:23.339 --> 00:32:25.740 another situation, kind of like Kevin, where 00:32:25.740 --> 00:32:28.019 someone had just decided, oh, I'm going to put 00:32:28.019 --> 00:32:32.660 Newsline out on IRLP so that everybody can download 00:32:32.660 --> 00:32:35.640 it. And then it kind of, you know, it was just 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:38.640 kind of forgotten about. And so Dave came in 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:41.640 and has been doing some stuff. So tell us a little 00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:48.140 bit about that, Dave. Oh, hi, Neil and everybody. 00:32:49.569 --> 00:32:53.230 I want to start by saying that joke, it's just 00:32:53.230 --> 00:32:57.490 hard to follow. It really is. I first wrote, 00:32:59.150 --> 00:33:02.970 I see a hissing in the background there. I wrote 00:33:02.970 --> 00:33:08.309 the first IRLP script to download and play IRLP, 00:33:08.569 --> 00:33:12.809 I'm sorry, a news line. And just recently I've 00:33:12.809 --> 00:33:16.009 moved over to All -Star and I'm starting to... 00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:21.200 you know, support everybody as far as Newsline's 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:28.799 concerned on All -Star as well. And let me say 00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:31.440 we don't have time tonight, but I have a great 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:35.440 story of how I came into Newsline through Don 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:40.839 Wilbanks, and it's kind of a funny story. But 00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:47.200 anyways, back to IRLP Newsline. many, many, many 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:51.759 people wanted to move over to having Newsline 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:54.900 on their own machines instead of listening to 00:33:54.900 --> 00:33:58.140 the repeaters and whatnot. And I thought, well, 00:33:58.140 --> 00:34:02.539 let's talk more about the owners of the repeaters. 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:07.240 You know, can you guys play it? They started 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:11.519 playing it every week, almost every day of the 00:34:11.519 --> 00:34:15.530 week. Well, different repeaters for different 00:34:15.530 --> 00:34:19.630 days of the week. But man, I program. That's 00:34:19.630 --> 00:34:23.210 what I do. And I fell in love with amateur radio 00:34:23.210 --> 00:34:26.570 newsline early, early on. Been listening for 00:34:26.570 --> 00:34:29.150 years and years and years and wanted to become 00:34:29.150 --> 00:34:32.889 part of it. And I got to say, Neil, you mentioned 00:34:32.889 --> 00:34:35.230 that you and I got together. You are the reason 00:34:35.230 --> 00:34:39.590 I finally emailed Karen Eve Murray, KD2GUT, and 00:34:39.590 --> 00:34:42.400 said, hey, I really would love to be part of 00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:46.239 this group." And then she said, well, send a 00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:49.659 little something to Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, and 00:34:49.659 --> 00:34:52.820 see what he says. We're always looking for people. 00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:58.739 So I did. And here I am. But again, next time 00:34:58.739 --> 00:35:00.940 we all get together, I will tell you the Don 00:35:00.940 --> 00:35:08.719 Wilbanks. I'm a program manager, and I got a 00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:11.139 couple of things I want to say. I like the read 00:35:11.139 --> 00:35:15.079 and we'll do the rest later. I don't even remember 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:18.320 this, but OK, yeah, production production director. 00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:21.159 That's that's what I'm sorry. What did I say 00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:23.260 program? Yeah, I was production. Yeah, I'm sorry. 00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:26.679 That was me. Yeah, I was I was a production director 00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:29.159 and got you got you. I thought it was a funny 00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:31.159 story. We'll get to it later. I want to hear 00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:32.760 it because that's going to be new to me, too, 00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:35.900 because I can't remember that I did. I did the 00:35:35.900 --> 00:35:41.170 reading of space bees. All of the satellites 00:35:41.170 --> 00:35:43.590 out there ready to crash into each other. And 00:35:43.590 --> 00:35:45.610 I thought, Hey, that's a great read right there. 00:35:45.789 --> 00:35:48.070 But I'm going to hold it. Yeah. Hold it. This 00:35:48.070 --> 00:35:50.170 is great. Yeah. We'll, we'll do it next time 00:35:50.170 --> 00:35:53.670 we all get together. But, uh, Neil, it's been 00:35:53.670 --> 00:35:57.610 a pleasure doing a scripting for IRLP and all 00:35:57.610 --> 00:36:02.530 star as well. And, uh, above all, it's just great 00:36:02.530 --> 00:36:05.590 to be part of this group. It really is. You guys 00:36:05.590 --> 00:36:10.739 are fantastic way before I became. You know any 00:36:10.739 --> 00:36:13.019 part of this. It's just I've been listening since 00:36:13.019 --> 00:36:16.559 I was cheese I want to say in my teens, but jeez 00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:19.639 that would be like a hundred years ago. So That's 00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:23.619 my that's my story It's true. It's true. I have 00:36:23.619 --> 00:36:26.119 been fantastic for quite a long time. Yes, you 00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:32.510 have and I'm glad He's really humble. He's the 00:36:32.510 --> 00:36:35.210 most humble person he knows. Yeah, he's got the 00:36:35.210 --> 00:36:39.210 book out. I agree with him. Neil, that's my report 00:36:39.210 --> 00:36:42.409 for today and thanks for having me on here. Yeah, 00:36:42.409 --> 00:36:45.469 thanks for being here. Well, we'll open up the 00:36:45.469 --> 00:36:47.250 phone lines. If you have a question, give us 00:36:47.250 --> 00:36:53.590 a call 859 -982 -7373 or you can tweet us at 00:36:53.590 --> 00:36:55.887 HamTalk Live and if you're listening to us... 00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:59.260 On WTWW or the podcast edition, you won't be 00:36:59.260 --> 00:37:02.340 able to reach us because we're doing this live 00:37:02.340 --> 00:37:05.460 on Thursday. All right. Well, we've got a few 00:37:05.460 --> 00:37:09.519 other things, uh, to get to, but, but Andy Morris 00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:12.539 and K9AWM has just kind of been lurking around 00:37:12.539 --> 00:37:15.920 in the background here, but you hear his voice 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:20.639 on this show. Yeah, and Andy and I actually got 00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:24.099 started in radio about the same time. I think 00:37:24.099 --> 00:37:26.679 I was maybe one year ahead of him or something, 00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:30.840 but it was just about the same time, the same 00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:34.420 FM broadcast station. So you got smart and got 00:37:34.420 --> 00:37:37.699 out of it. Yeah. And I got out of it. Yeah. Everybody, 00:37:37.780 --> 00:37:40.019 I still remember everybody saying, well, wait 00:37:40.019 --> 00:37:42.780 a minute, you're training me on this radio station. 00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:46.360 Why haven't I seen you in any of the broadcast 00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:51.179 classes and it's like, well, I'm pre -med. I 00:37:51.179 --> 00:37:53.760 thought you were pre -logged. Same difference. 00:37:56.800 --> 00:37:59.940 Sorry, flashing back to Animal House there. There 00:37:59.940 --> 00:38:04.679 you go. So Andy, talk about, you're one of the 00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:07.300 newer news line people, but you've been doing 00:38:07.300 --> 00:38:09.800 this for a while. Talk about, you know, being 00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:13.300 a correspondent and what you've done here. Well, 00:38:13.340 --> 00:38:16.840 I kind of had a story similar to Dave's. I just 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:20.000 kind of fell into it. Obviously, I've known Neil 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:24.269 for a while, a long time. I heard amateur radio 00:38:24.269 --> 00:38:26.070 news line and I thought, well, that might be 00:38:26.070 --> 00:38:28.829 fun. I can volunteer for that. So got ahold of 00:38:28.829 --> 00:38:32.710 Neil who then sent me through Dawn and to Karen 00:38:32.710 --> 00:38:35.590 and around the horn we went and I've only been 00:38:35.590 --> 00:38:38.909 doing it for I think about two years now. I really 00:38:38.909 --> 00:38:41.670 enjoy it. I get a lot of feedback from the local 00:38:41.670 --> 00:38:45.150 hams here in Southwest Indiana and Southeast 00:38:45.150 --> 00:38:47.809 Illinois. You'll kind of get that look occasionally 00:38:47.809 --> 00:38:51.289 if they hear my call sign or recognize my voice 00:38:51.289 --> 00:38:53.860 and they'll say, I heard you do a news line the 00:38:53.860 --> 00:38:56.320 other day. Was that you? And I go, yeah, thanks 00:38:56.320 --> 00:39:00.019 for listening. So I enjoy it. I love it. I just 00:39:00.019 --> 00:39:03.000 get a text or a email every now and again from 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:05.900 Karen saying, hey, can you knock this out before 00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:09.139 Tuesday or Wednesday? And I'm happy to do so 00:39:09.139 --> 00:39:11.059 and looking forward to getting more involved. 00:39:12.380 --> 00:39:14.719 All right. Well, thank you for Andy for being 00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:17.840 here and let's go over to Chris because Trying 00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:20.659 to trying to get everybody in the list here a 00:39:20.659 --> 00:39:24.639 little bit at least before we have to go Chris 00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:26.920 talk a little bit about you know, your history 00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:30.699 with Newsline and some of the origins Don says 00:39:30.699 --> 00:39:35.039 even goes back before him. So yeah. Well, I I 00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:39.039 became involved after I met Bill Bill was writing 00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:44.250 for 73 magazine, the looking West column. And, 00:39:44.250 --> 00:39:47.670 uh, I think it was about 15 or 16 at the time. 00:39:47.809 --> 00:39:49.869 And I called bill on the phone one night. We 00:39:49.869 --> 00:39:52.949 chatted for about three hours. Uh, needless to 00:39:52.949 --> 00:39:55.570 say, my mom was not happy about the telephone 00:39:55.570 --> 00:40:00.769 bill the next month. Uh, 30 cents a minute adds 00:40:00.769 --> 00:40:05.280 up, you know, and, uh, We were discussing repeaters 00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:08.780 and VHF in Texas. I was active in the one. I 00:40:08.780 --> 00:40:11.579 still am a life member of the Texas VHFM society 00:40:11.579 --> 00:40:15.559 and served on the board of directors twice. And, 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:19.900 uh, but, uh, we were, we just got to shoot in 00:40:19.900 --> 00:40:22.320 the bowl. And of course it dragged on and finally 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.400 had to hang up. Well, uh, Bill and I kept in 00:40:25.400 --> 00:40:28.300 contact on a regular basis. And about that time, 00:40:28.780 --> 00:40:31.500 my neighbor across the street. uh... vehicle 00:40:31.500 --> 00:40:35.239 rock at the beginning five e f i he started getting 00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:38.440 the cassette tapes from jim hinder shot of the 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:44.400 old westlink radio news and uh... i started actually 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.699 taking them out on my motorcycle and i'd find 00:40:46.699 --> 00:40:49.900 the highest overpass in the area broadcasted 00:40:49.900 --> 00:40:54.159 on five two simple acts and then uh... the mobile 00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:57.550 or amateur radio club but Decided to start a 00:40:57.550 --> 00:41:00.130 net up on their two meter repeater. So I started 00:41:00.130 --> 00:41:02.610 doing it over there after every Monday night 00:41:02.610 --> 00:41:08.150 net and of course Jim and Bill got together and 00:41:08.150 --> 00:41:13.989 Bill took over the Westlake Operations and changed 00:41:13.989 --> 00:41:16.829 the name to news line. I think there was a trademark 00:41:16.829 --> 00:41:23.949 issue somewhere in that and I've been I'm probably 00:41:23.949 --> 00:41:33.170 the oldest well jim jim jim jim jim jim jim jim 00:41:33.170 --> 00:41:59.059 jim jim jim jim at least every week, sometimes 00:41:59.059 --> 00:42:01.820 two times a week on the phone. I'd call him late 00:42:01.820 --> 00:42:03.840 at night, and we'd shoot the bull for about 30 00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:10.880 minutes to an hour. And really got to know Bill 00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:15.320 real well over the years. And in fact, the night 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:19.440 before he passed, I called him at about 11 o 00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:21.340 'clock, and something in the back of my mind 00:42:21.340 --> 00:42:22.880 said I hadn't talked to Bill in a while, and 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:25.530 I picked the phone up and called him. And he 00:42:25.530 --> 00:42:28.769 answered, and he said it horrible. And he just 00:42:28.769 --> 00:42:31.690 said, Chris, he said, I'm going to bed. And this 00:42:31.690 --> 00:42:35.050 was early for Bill. And he said, I'm going straight 00:42:35.050 --> 00:42:37.750 to bed. Can you call me back tomorrow, the next 00:42:37.750 --> 00:42:39.829 day? And I went, yeah, sure. And then, unfortunately, 00:42:39.889 --> 00:42:41.670 the next day, I heard he was in the hospital 00:42:41.670 --> 00:42:46.590 and then passed away. And that just, it kind 00:42:46.590 --> 00:42:52.789 of shocked me and stoned me. But I made his... 00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:56.039 uh... made his memorial service out there in 00:42:56.039 --> 00:43:01.480 california uh... in fact i did well in fact uh... 00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:03.860 about there's six months to a year earlier just 00:43:03.860 --> 00:43:06.659 bought an a m radio station in the bullock texas 00:43:06.659 --> 00:43:10.780 area and uh... i started playing news line on 00:43:10.780 --> 00:43:14.059 sunday mornings there and uh... i know bill was 00:43:14.059 --> 00:43:18.780 happy to see that added to the list and uh... 00:43:18.780 --> 00:43:23.809 uh... his uh... adopted daughter uh... We were 00:43:23.809 --> 00:43:25.829 talking on the phone the night before I was flying 00:43:25.829 --> 00:43:28.769 out, and she went, now, Chris, you want dad would 00:43:28.769 --> 00:43:31.050 like you to come out here, dress casual, you 00:43:31.050 --> 00:43:33.929 know, no suit or anything. And I went, it's only 00:43:33.929 --> 00:43:36.190 80 degrees out there in California. Come on, 00:43:36.210 --> 00:43:41.159 you know, and, uh, made the trip don't ever fly 00:43:41.159 --> 00:43:47.940 spirit airlines by the way we were supposed to 00:43:47.940 --> 00:43:50.360 push away from intercontinental in houston at 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.360 two o 'clock and we didn't finally leave the 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:56.059 airport until 10 p .m. and it's like never again 00:43:56.059 --> 00:44:00.360 but uh... made the uh... made the memorial service 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:02.420 and we're standing outside the church richard 00:44:02.420 --> 00:44:05.059 rudman and a bunch of other broadcast engineers 00:44:05.059 --> 00:44:08.710 were all standing around shooting the bull Uh, 00:44:08.710 --> 00:44:10.929 Bill's daughter comes walking up and of course 00:44:10.929 --> 00:44:13.670 we're all in suits and she walks up and she goes, 00:44:14.250 --> 00:44:17.250 are you guys all hot? You know, it's a heat wave 00:44:17.250 --> 00:44:20.130 out here. And I looked over and I kind of smirked 00:44:20.130 --> 00:44:22.030 and I went, yeah, she's never been to Texas and 00:44:22.030 --> 00:44:27.389 seen a tree melt in the summer. So we had to 00:44:27.389 --> 00:44:30.210 throw a little humor in there. Uh, and everybody 00:44:30.210 --> 00:44:32.090 got a good laugh out of it. And she kind of looked 00:44:32.090 --> 00:44:34.190 at me and finally like, what is he talking about? 00:44:34.929 --> 00:44:38.780 But, uh, You know, it's been a proud association 00:44:38.780 --> 00:44:47.440 with Newsline. And I still remember the good 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:52.980 times with Bill. Well, there's been some not 00:44:52.980 --> 00:44:55.800 so good times, but not with Bill. It was with 00:44:55.800 --> 00:45:01.019 third parties. But he was kind of like a second 00:45:01.019 --> 00:45:05.280 father to me growing up. I lost my dad early 00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:09.699 before my 14th birthday and Bill and I really 00:45:09.699 --> 00:45:13.019 got to really bonded on the phone and became 00:45:13.019 --> 00:45:17.500 good friends. And all I can say is I'm very proud 00:45:17.500 --> 00:45:19.820 to still be associated with the group, even though 00:45:19.820 --> 00:45:23.059 I'm kind of inactive right now, but hopefully 00:45:23.059 --> 00:45:27.360 that'll be changing before too long. Very good. 00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:30.699 Well, I want to get Randy in here before we go 00:45:30.699 --> 00:45:36.469 back to Zoom user. um better known as skeeter 00:45:36.469 --> 00:45:43.349 why you i oughta so randy you've come on board 00:45:43.349 --> 00:45:46.929 uh recently so so talk a little bit about your 00:45:46.929 --> 00:45:50.829 uh your joining newsline yeah i'm the new kid 00:45:50.829 --> 00:45:52.989 on the block i've been around about a year now 00:45:52.989 --> 00:45:55.969 i think and uh even though i've been at ham radio 00:45:55.969 --> 00:45:59.389 about 57 years so i've been around ham radio 00:45:59.389 --> 00:46:03.030 a long time and just had a kind of a time in 00:46:03.030 --> 00:46:05.369 my life where I have a little bit more time to 00:46:05.369 --> 00:46:07.550 kind of give back and I thought this is a place 00:46:07.550 --> 00:46:11.170 for me I've got some gifts and skills that I 00:46:11.170 --> 00:46:16.070 can offer and just contacted Don and Karen and 00:46:16.070 --> 00:46:18.889 just kind of went to work and I love it it's 00:46:18.889 --> 00:46:22.309 really fun and working with Karen is great because 00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:25.360 I'll write a story and it's the first time in 00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:28.179 working with an editor, she'll send it back saying 00:46:28.179 --> 00:46:32.320 I made some gentle edits. You know, I've never 00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:34.980 had gentle edits before. I've had copy thrown 00:46:34.980 --> 00:46:38.780 back at me. So kind of kind of cool working with 00:46:38.780 --> 00:46:41.659 somebody that gives you gentle at it. Yeah, that 00:46:41.659 --> 00:46:44.460 doesn't exist in radio. No, it sure doesn't. 00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:50.420 So anyway, it's great. I've just been enjoying 00:46:50.420 --> 00:46:53.840 being a part of this this great group and look 00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:58.000 forward to many years doing it. All right. Well, 00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.980 thank you, Randy. And thank you for all you do 00:47:00.980 --> 00:47:05.519 to help us out here at Newsline. And all right. 00:47:05.619 --> 00:47:08.420 Well, I know Paul's chomping at the bit to talk 00:47:08.420 --> 00:47:11.840 about, you know. Here hearing news line from 00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:15.420 an early age. I remember being like, I don't 00:47:15.420 --> 00:47:20.219 know seven eight I actually found a tape of one 00:47:20.219 --> 00:47:26.480 of the the teleconferences that bill did And 00:47:26.480 --> 00:47:29.579 they'd call up on the auto patch and dial in 00:47:29.579 --> 00:47:32.219 and pay the long -distance phone bill to tie 00:47:32.219 --> 00:47:35.619 in and all that kind of stuff But but I haven't 00:47:35.619 --> 00:47:40.679 got Skeeter on here yet. So so zoom user Where 00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:43.920 where are you tonight and and and what's what's 00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:48.420 going on? Well, I'm actually eastbound on interstate 00:47:48.420 --> 00:47:52.699 24 driving my big semi truck enjoying the program 00:47:52.699 --> 00:47:59.679 and I'm headed back down to Get a live load in 00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:02.900 Murfreesboro and back all that to the place where 00:48:02.900 --> 00:48:06.019 I work out of in in Shelbyville, Tennessee so 00:48:06.019 --> 00:48:09.780 I am mobile and they have this is in five a SH 00:48:09.780 --> 00:48:14.519 mobile and Just glad to be a part of the show, 00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:17.179 really. Neil, thanks for hosting us tonight. 00:48:19.980 --> 00:48:23.480 Several of us have kind of hog -tied your show 00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:25.860 a time or two and had a great time doing it, 00:48:25.960 --> 00:48:28.360 but this is really nice that you've kind of let 00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:31.119 us all come on and tell a little bit about not 00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:33.239 only Newsline, but also the people behind it, 00:48:33.539 --> 00:48:37.800 because they are a solid group of folks. Honored 00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:41.519 and and and grateful to be a Associated with 00:48:41.519 --> 00:48:45.980 Newsline. It's it's it's a blast All right. Well, 00:48:46.059 --> 00:48:48.199 let's go to Paul here because I know he's got 00:48:48.199 --> 00:48:53.320 to take off To run Newsline actually on his local 00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:56.800 net so Paul, you know talk a little bit about 00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:59.119 about You know hearing this and you're back in 00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:02.260 your childhood Okay, yeah, I'm gonna have to 00:49:02.260 --> 00:49:04.440 go quick as news line is ending and then my net 00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.800 starts I grew up down in Southern, Illinois I 00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:11.039 was licensed in 77 and I belong to the Marissa, 00:49:11.139 --> 00:49:13.599 Illinois amateur radio club, which is Hiles Club 00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:17.440 and Our repeater carried Westlink once a week 00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:19.480 somebody would punch up the auto patch and dial 00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:21.380 into one of those answering machines and play 00:49:21.380 --> 00:49:24.059 it so I listened to it every week when I was 00:49:24.059 --> 00:49:28.159 a kid in high school and For me now to be one 00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:31.530 of the anchors on this thing after, you know, 00:49:31.550 --> 00:49:35.730 I've been licensed for 44 years. It's just really 00:49:35.730 --> 00:49:38.570 a thrill and an honor to me that it's kind of 00:49:38.570 --> 00:49:40.650 like a full circle thing that I get to be part 00:49:40.650 --> 00:49:48.969 of it now, so. Very good. Little external audio 00:49:48.969 --> 00:49:51.550 there, that's nice. I'm sorry, I was checking 00:49:51.550 --> 00:49:55.650 my repeater. Unfortunately, I have to do last 00:49:55.650 --> 00:49:58.849 call for one of our club members who passed away 00:49:58.849 --> 00:50:01.190 this past week, so I don't want to miss that. 00:50:01.550 --> 00:50:04.090 I'm sorry to hear that. Very good. I'm sorry 00:50:04.090 --> 00:50:10.210 to hear that. We'll let you get on your way and 00:50:10.210 --> 00:50:13.230 get that done because that's an important duty. 00:50:15.070 --> 00:50:17.789 We'll let you go, Paul, but thanks for being 00:50:17.789 --> 00:50:23.610 here. All right. Well, I think I've got, yeah, 00:50:23.670 --> 00:50:26.010 Andy's gone. And I think I've got everybody. 00:50:26.550 --> 00:50:29.429 I think we got everybody in tonight. So, so, 00:50:29.429 --> 00:50:34.369 and we're still running late, but, but I don't 00:50:34.369 --> 00:50:37.730 know. I think Skeeter, I'm thinking I want to 00:50:37.730 --> 00:50:43.809 hear this story from Dave. Me too. From Dave. 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:47.340 Oh, okay. I don't know the story from Dave. Are 00:50:47.340 --> 00:50:50.340 you sending it to me? Yes. I'm sending it to 00:50:50.340 --> 00:50:52.519 you, Dave. Yeah, because he doesn't want to hear 00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:57.719 any of my stories. No one does. Although I do 00:50:57.719 --> 00:51:02.920 appreciate Skeeter delivering the goods. Oh, 00:51:04.019 --> 00:51:06.380 being a truck driver. I mean, thanks. Thanks 00:51:06.380 --> 00:51:09.139 for doing that. I really appreciate it. Well, 00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:14.269 everybody's got to eat. It's the second joke 00:51:14.269 --> 00:51:17.550 of the week. That's job security for me, unlike 00:51:17.550 --> 00:51:21.110 what I had in broadcast radio. Right, Don? Yes, 00:51:21.349 --> 00:51:28.409 yes. Don and I have both been shown the door 00:51:28.409 --> 00:51:31.889 on our radio careers, basically, and it was fun. 00:51:32.190 --> 00:51:34.980 It hardly paid anything, but it was fun. Right 00:51:34.980 --> 00:51:38.320 and Chris was Chris was my chief engineer at 00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:40.699 I heart New Orleans for a number of years right 00:51:40.699 --> 00:51:42.980 there at the end so that was kind of cool alright 00:51:42.980 --> 00:51:46.139 so Dave Dave enlighten us with this story that 00:51:46.139 --> 00:51:50.179 involves me that I don't remember. Alright well 00:51:50.179 --> 00:51:55.980 I. I remember clearly that it was Neil. when 00:51:55.980 --> 00:51:59.340 I was helping him with IRLP that I said, okay, 00:51:59.440 --> 00:52:01.579 you know what? I've been listening to these guys 00:52:01.579 --> 00:52:03.840 for years and years and years. I'd like to be 00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:07.420 part of it. And Neil, you said, get in touch 00:52:07.420 --> 00:52:12.099 with Karen Eve Marie, KD2GUT. And I did. I said, 00:52:12.099 --> 00:52:15.280 I would really like to get in on this. I haven't 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:18.400 done anything radio wise in many years. And she 00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:22.820 said, grab a little audition tape. And actually, 00:52:22.820 --> 00:52:31.239 I know I said tape. It was an MP3. When you have 00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:35.059 gray hair like me, you have to say tape. So I 00:52:35.059 --> 00:52:41.739 sent my Space Bees reread to Don and Don wrote 00:52:41.739 --> 00:52:47.539 me back and said, I like the read, but as a production 00:52:47.539 --> 00:52:51.400 person, I'm probably the only person that will 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:55.920 say this. From the newsline crew and that's I 00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:58.039 don't know what microphone you're using but I 00:52:58.039 --> 00:53:03.019 can hear your entire room and I thought Kenny 00:53:03.019 --> 00:53:05.659 really I went back and listened to it and sure 00:53:05.659 --> 00:53:08.500 enough my condenser microphone was picking up 00:53:08.500 --> 00:53:14.039 everything. Yep and Don I changed microphones 00:53:14.039 --> 00:53:18.360 and I mean just to say nobody else is gonna say 00:53:18.360 --> 00:53:21.139 this to you Dave, but I just just word I can 00:53:21.139 --> 00:53:25.590 hear your own Well, that was that wasn't nearly 00:53:25.590 --> 00:53:28.489 as as asinine and nasty as as I thought I would 00:53:28.489 --> 00:53:34.909 say I'm known for being nasty and asinine. So 00:53:34.909 --> 00:53:37.869 let me let me right dress right. Let me finish 00:53:37.869 --> 00:53:42.769 by saying It was interesting. It was fun and 00:53:42.769 --> 00:53:45.309 got to be honest with you Don. You're just the 00:53:45.309 --> 00:53:50.710 team bit Intimidating and I think that I think 00:53:50.710 --> 00:53:53.369 that was part of my read I have i've heard that 00:53:53.369 --> 00:53:56.429 before and i don't understand it but i'm i'm 00:53:56.429 --> 00:53:58.349 the hugest teddy bear in the world it was so 00:53:58.349 --> 00:54:01.570 funny and i know we're running way over but my 00:54:01.570 --> 00:54:03.789 wife when when we first met she was working at 00:54:03.789 --> 00:54:06.210 a local auto parts place a western auto which 00:54:06.210 --> 00:54:08.769 of course doesn't exist anymore i would go in 00:54:08.769 --> 00:54:12.050 and all of the the guys that work there they 00:54:12.050 --> 00:54:14.039 were scared to death me they were like. He beat 00:54:14.039 --> 00:54:16.119 you, doesn't he? I know it is. He just looks 00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:18.579 mean. I don't see any bruises. He must hit you 00:54:18.579 --> 00:54:21.940 where, like, your, you know, doesn't show. And 00:54:21.940 --> 00:54:24.400 Don's like, no, he's the biggest pussycat in 00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:25.420 the world. I don't know where you're getting 00:54:25.420 --> 00:54:29.400 this. It's just a teeny tiniest bit, but it was 00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:32.539 enough for me to go, oh, I'd better go back and 00:54:32.539 --> 00:54:36.000 listen to that. Dave, this is this is Paul. Actually, 00:54:36.619 --> 00:54:39.480 I had a short check in tonight. Just poke him 00:54:39.480 --> 00:54:44.219 back. Yeah, exactly. Just poke him back and it'll 00:54:44.219 --> 00:54:47.119 be all right. Yeah. Well, I can do that now. 00:54:47.460 --> 00:54:50.780 Yeah. Well, you can do that then. I would I would 00:54:50.780 --> 00:54:52.760 just like to mention, I don't know if this was 00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:56.840 mentioned while I was running my thing. This 00:54:56.840 --> 00:55:02.519 group really is like family. Yeah. All of us, 00:55:02.539 --> 00:55:04.940 we've discovered actually, surprisingly, we all 00:55:04.940 --> 00:55:10.769 like each other and. And we've all agreed that 00:55:10.769 --> 00:55:13.730 if we had a physical office to work in, we would 00:55:13.730 --> 00:55:15.750 pretty much all be the people we would want to 00:55:15.750 --> 00:55:18.630 work with. Yep, pretty much. We all work very 00:55:18.630 --> 00:55:20.989 much together. We all cover each other. We've 00:55:20.989 --> 00:55:23.250 got each other's back. If somebody has an emergency 00:55:23.250 --> 00:55:25.530 and can't do something, somebody's always there 00:55:25.530 --> 00:55:28.050 to step in and take care of it. So and I've been 00:55:28.050 --> 00:55:31.570 there. I mean, this really is this really is. 00:55:31.590 --> 00:55:33.949 I mean, it's a weird, dysfunctional, twisted 00:55:33.949 --> 00:55:37.360 family, but we are all family. The biggest problem 00:55:37.360 --> 00:55:43.119 with this job is pronunciation. I have gone to 00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:48.219 Karen many, many times. Is that this or is it 00:55:48.219 --> 00:55:52.980 that? And she said, no, it's that. The great 00:55:52.980 --> 00:55:56.159 thing about Google is Google will You can Google 00:55:56.159 --> 00:55:58.400 something and you can actually hear a native 00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:00.440 speaker pronounce it. I have done that many times 00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:05.519 in the world. I went over there because Karen 00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:08.780 got tired of me going, how do you pronounce Bill? 00:56:12.139 --> 00:56:16.219 Bill Pasternak never did that with his scripts. 00:56:16.679 --> 00:56:19.059 It was all these names and of course people's 00:56:19.059 --> 00:56:22.059 names. can be pronounced anyway they wanted to 00:56:22.059 --> 00:56:24.380 be pronounced we never knew what we just took 00:56:24.380 --> 00:56:26.599 you know we take a gamble let's just say it this 00:56:26.599 --> 00:56:30.079 way and stab in the dark yeah at least now we 00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:33.280 can somewhat sound like you know something if 00:56:33.280 --> 00:56:35.820 you if you don't know how to pronounce it properly 00:56:36.030 --> 00:56:38.690 pronounce it, however, but make it sound authoritative. 00:56:38.869 --> 00:56:40.769 Exactly. Make it sound like you know what you're 00:56:40.769 --> 00:56:44.010 doing. That's right. Yeah. And speaking of being, 00:56:44.010 --> 00:56:46.190 um, if we were all together in a group, we would 00:56:46.190 --> 00:56:47.829 be the people that we would want to be all together 00:56:47.829 --> 00:56:49.989 in a group, um, in a room somewhere working. 00:56:50.829 --> 00:56:55.429 Um, I got to think that Pasternak would be so 00:56:55.429 --> 00:57:00.590 freaking proud of, um, of the group that has 00:57:00.590 --> 00:57:04.630 come together to continue, um, the walk that 00:57:04.630 --> 00:57:09.070 he started. I know I certainly am. Yeah, I can't 00:57:09.070 --> 00:57:11.510 be more proud to be part of this. And it was 00:57:11.510 --> 00:57:14.750 earlier tonight, but thank goodness for Karen. 00:57:15.909 --> 00:57:19.530 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, she's got the pace to 00:57:19.530 --> 00:57:21.989 keep us together. Well, you know, here's here's 00:57:21.989 --> 00:57:24.989 how Karen came on since the Zoom user is here 00:57:24.989 --> 00:57:34.099 with us tonight. I get no respect at all. My 00:57:34.099 --> 00:57:36.920 phone rings one night and it's like, hey, Don, 00:57:37.019 --> 00:57:38.960 I got I got Bill on the horn. I'm like, oh, great. 00:57:39.059 --> 00:57:41.800 So we're sitting there talking and and and we're 00:57:41.800 --> 00:57:44.679 talking about, OK, well, you know, Bill was sick 00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:46.940 and like, you know, we got to make sure that 00:57:46.940 --> 00:57:49.960 the newscast gets out. And and Skeeter, I was 00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:53.800 actually I had taken a brief break from producing 00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:56.769 because I was doing. night classes three nights 00:57:56.769 --> 00:57:59.869 a week for real estate school back then. And 00:57:59.869 --> 00:58:03.590 Skeeter was kind of taking over the helm for 00:58:03.590 --> 00:58:07.269 Bill. I just couldn't do it. I didn't have time. 00:58:08.110 --> 00:58:12.190 And he's like, OK, well, we've got someone who 00:58:12.190 --> 00:58:15.510 is who is written in who who would like to help 00:58:15.510 --> 00:58:18.269 in the interim, you know, until you get the feeling 00:58:18.269 --> 00:58:20.849 better, Bill. And her name is Karen Eve Murray. 00:58:20.869 --> 00:58:24.789 And she used to write for. New York Newsday and 00:58:24.789 --> 00:58:27.730 all you can hear and again like like Like Chris 00:58:27.730 --> 00:58:31.409 said man builds voice was so frail. This was 00:58:31.409 --> 00:58:33.070 probably the night after you talked to him Chris 00:58:33.070 --> 00:58:35.090 It really probably was because the next day he 00:58:35.090 --> 00:58:40.389 was gone It was he was like all he all Skeeter 00:58:40.389 --> 00:58:42.670 is is basically reading her resume and you can 00:58:42.670 --> 00:58:45.530 hear him in the background going hire her hire 00:58:45.530 --> 00:58:49.909 her Hire her hire her hire her and that's all 00:58:49.909 --> 00:58:53.269 he said was hire her hire and and we did and 00:58:53.269 --> 00:58:57.909 she has been the saving grace of Of what we were 00:58:57.909 --> 00:59:00.409 doing and unfortunately, she never got to meet 00:59:00.409 --> 00:59:03.630 bill or no bill but I know that those two would 00:59:03.630 --> 00:59:07.510 be just fast friends and Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. 00:59:07.590 --> 00:59:09.769 They would have been proud. He's he's looking 00:59:09.769 --> 00:59:14.369 down and in his in his in his Brooklyn Jewish 00:59:14.369 --> 00:59:20.800 accent he's going Such a fine thing. Don, I don't 00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:24.860 know if you mentioned, but we now have an amateur 00:59:24.860 --> 00:59:29.059 radio news line ham radio club. We do. We did 00:59:29.059 --> 00:59:31.380 you mention that? No, I did not. But yeah, and 00:59:31.380 --> 00:59:35.119 it our call sign, oddly enough, is W .A. 6 I 00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:38.380 .T .F. And it was it was Bill's daughter who 00:59:38.380 --> 00:59:41.340 helped us get that. She wrote the letter that 00:59:41.340 --> 00:59:45.460 we submitted to the FCC to to get that. that 00:59:45.460 --> 00:59:47.659 call sign released because it was still valid. 00:59:48.400 --> 00:59:50.480 And so, yeah, the amateur radio newsline amateur 00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:55.599 radio club are not is sorry. That's how I hear 00:59:55.599 --> 01:00:00.239 it in my head is is W .A. 6 I .T .F. And it's 01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:02.539 about time we activated that call sign. Absolutely. 01:00:03.159 --> 01:00:05.969 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Well, you know something 01:00:05.969 --> 01:00:09.469 that you guys were mentioning IR LP and and all 01:00:09.469 --> 01:00:12.289 that earlier something I came across I think 01:00:12.289 --> 01:00:15.349 totally by accident but found out there is a 01:00:15.349 --> 01:00:19.849 dedicated echo link node That if you dial into 01:00:19.849 --> 01:00:22.429 it if you if you pull it up, it's called newsline 01:00:22.429 --> 01:00:26.570 and it will start playing This the current week's 01:00:26.570 --> 01:00:29.090 newscast. So if for some reason you're not on 01:00:29.090 --> 01:00:31.840 the internet, you're not you know, you're You're 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:34.780 not able to hear it on a repeater or whatever. 01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:37.820 You've also got that as a resource for listeners 01:00:37.820 --> 01:00:40.380 that want to check it out. Just go to EchoLink 01:00:40.380 --> 01:00:44.300 and go look for the search the news line node. 01:00:44.539 --> 01:00:47.840 And it's just an automatic start. It starts playing 01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:51.380 and it stops every few minutes. The thing can 01:00:51.380 --> 01:00:55.820 reset, but it does play the whole newscast. So 01:00:55.820 --> 01:01:00.989 let me mention this, Skeeter. There's also an 01:01:00.989 --> 01:01:11.369 IRLP reflector, 0016. If you're on IRLP and your 01:01:11.369 --> 01:01:13.809 repeater or your node just doesn't play it, you 01:01:13.809 --> 01:01:18.050 can go to 0016, hear the entire thing, and I 01:01:18.050 --> 01:01:20.369 know it's up and working because they're getting 01:01:20.369 --> 01:01:23.690 the newscast off my servers and not off of... 01:01:24.329 --> 01:01:28.190 I shouldn't say this but what is square square 01:01:28.190 --> 01:01:31.690 whatever square space yeah thank you yeah also 01:01:31.690 --> 01:01:34.550 if you are part of the hamshack hotline network 01:01:34.550 --> 01:01:38.489 there is an extension you can dial into now to 01:01:38.489 --> 01:01:41.829 listen to newsline as well and the old -fashioned 01:01:41.829 --> 01:01:44.289 way over the phone you can't hide from us anymore 01:01:44.289 --> 01:01:46.230 can you well yeah the old -fashioned way well 01:01:46.230 --> 01:01:49.269 the new old -fashioned way over the phone goes 01:01:49.269 --> 01:01:55.440 around comes around That's right. Amen. Started 01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:56.980 with phones, and now you can listen to it on 01:01:56.980 --> 01:02:00.019 a phone again. Oh, by the way, we should probably 01:02:00.019 --> 01:02:02.059 mention, for those who don't know, the website 01:02:02.059 --> 01:02:07.880 addressed is arnewsline .org. Paul mentioned 01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:11.599 the PayPal link that's up there. We are a 501c3 01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:16.750 organization. Donations are accepted. Mr. or 01:02:16.750 --> 01:02:19.349 Ms. Ham radio operator that has a little bit 01:02:19.349 --> 01:02:20.789 of money laying around. It doesn't want to give 01:02:20.789 --> 01:02:23.369 it to Uncle Sam. It's that time of year you can 01:02:23.369 --> 01:02:26.650 still get that tax deductible donation to an 01:02:26.650 --> 01:02:29.570 amateur radio news line and knock that off the 01:02:29.570 --> 01:02:32.269 top of your taxes. So we got that going for us, 01:02:32.269 --> 01:02:36.389 which is nice. Yep. Yep. Absolutely. And any 01:02:36.389 --> 01:02:39.329 help would be appreciated. Neil, back to you. 01:02:39.789 --> 01:02:43.130 Yep. Thank you. How long is it until Speaker 01:02:43.130 --> 01:02:48.210 Jeter kicks us out? Yeah, actually, we've got 01:02:48.210 --> 01:02:52.389 an hour and 56 minutes before that happens, but 01:02:52.389 --> 01:02:56.329 plenty of time. Neil's going to wrap things up 01:02:56.329 --> 01:02:59.690 here pretty pretty soon here. But I do want to 01:02:59.690 --> 01:03:01.710 mention, you know, Karen couldn't be with us. 01:03:01.710 --> 01:03:06.530 She sent me a text a little bit earlier. She 01:03:06.530 --> 01:03:10.530 she I don't know something. It hasn't been a 01:03:10.530 --> 01:03:16.190 good day, apparently. So she had to respectfully, 01:03:16.570 --> 01:03:20.030 but sadly bail on us tonight, but our thoughts 01:03:20.030 --> 01:03:23.630 are with Karen and and we miss her and and you 01:03:23.630 --> 01:03:27.250 know, we've got I don't know what 30 some people 01:03:27.250 --> 01:03:32.210 on that email list of people in New Zealand and 01:03:32.210 --> 01:03:36.429 then in England and then Germany Germany and 01:03:36.429 --> 01:03:39.630 yeah all over the place that that are a part 01:03:39.630 --> 01:03:43.639 of the news line uh... family and uh... so uh... 01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:45.739 you know you you've got about a third of them 01:03:45.739 --> 01:03:49.519 tonight uh... gap but more or less really well 01:03:49.519 --> 01:03:52.039 as well what's what's really cool is and the 01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:54.179 the beginning of newsletters always starts with 01:03:54.179 --> 01:03:57.880 it from around the world's it literally is you 01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:00.400 know problem around the world so yeah we're real 01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:04.960 proud of that and the news that covered to it 01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:08.519 is is not just local now it's we carry national 01:04:08.519 --> 01:04:13.440 absolutely So and we have like international 01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:17.699 newsmaker awards and stuff. So it's It's really 01:04:17.699 --> 01:04:20.679 a thing that we're all kind of proud of Most 01:04:20.679 --> 01:04:24.820 recent winner is extraterrestrial Yeah, yes, 01:04:25.179 --> 01:04:31.380 that's right All right, well Paul give us a little 01:04:31.380 --> 01:04:34.920 preview here you just finished anchoring while 01:04:34.920 --> 01:04:38.480 ago Give us a little preview and then we're gonna 01:04:39.369 --> 01:04:42.949 Shut things down for the night. Well, like what? 01:04:42.969 --> 01:04:45.849 You want me to read some of it? No, just, just 01:04:45.849 --> 01:04:49.550 some of the topics. Oh, the bullet point. Oh, 01:04:49.730 --> 01:04:54.570 sure. Point. Um, the talking point. Yeah. Read 01:04:54.570 --> 01:04:57.110 the whole thing. If I had the script up handy, 01:04:57.289 --> 01:05:00.369 hang on, hang on. And you sign tracks. Amateur 01:05:00.369 --> 01:05:03.809 radio news line report number. No current week 01:05:03.809 --> 01:05:09.079 files and. There we go. Okay. Well, we we do 01:05:09.079 --> 01:05:15.380 mention the new FCC commissioner The first time 01:05:15.380 --> 01:05:17.940 that it's been a woman in charge of the FCC. 01:05:18.219 --> 01:05:23.219 I'm sorry Yeah, Jim Jim did that story so and 01:05:23.219 --> 01:05:28.039 we talked about How some hams have possibly used 01:05:28.039 --> 01:05:30.940 some data from whispernet to possibly locate 01:05:30.940 --> 01:05:34.969 a missing airliner that crashed Seven years ago. 01:05:35.090 --> 01:05:38.510 That's a cool story that that made international 01:05:38.510 --> 01:05:41.150 news everywhere with which is really cool for 01:05:41.150 --> 01:05:44.449 amateur. Yeah, absolutely Yeah, we talked about 01:05:44.449 --> 01:05:48.030 skywarn recognition and that was my story. Yep, 01:05:48.030 --> 01:05:51.570 and there's a there's a new chapter of the AMSAT 01:05:51.570 --> 01:05:58.130 group overseas now and We did talk about Bill 01:05:58.130 --> 01:06:02.510 Somerville the one of the the main developers 01:06:02.510 --> 01:06:08.409 in the WSJTX. And yeah, there's a variety of 01:06:08.409 --> 01:06:10.769 things. There's a story from India about a very 01:06:10.769 --> 01:06:13.989 early Indian radio engineer who kind of laid 01:06:13.989 --> 01:06:16.610 the ground for the work that Marconi later did. 01:06:18.230 --> 01:06:22.829 And it's all that, all kinds of stuff. So. It's 01:06:22.829 --> 01:06:25.889 a plethora, a virtual cornucopia, if you will. 01:06:26.039 --> 01:06:30.579 Yeah, it is, yeah. It's a typical thing. I mean, 01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:36.480 it's stories, news, slice of life. The ending 01:06:36.480 --> 01:06:38.659 story, the kicker is always usually something 01:06:38.659 --> 01:06:47.059 heartwarming or fun. So, yeah. So, listenanarnewsline 01:06:47.059 --> 01:06:51.360 .org or a repeater near you. Fire or subscribe 01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:55.699 to the podcast or subscribe you name it were 01:06:55.699 --> 01:07:01.320 there so. I'm gonna finish up here with the last 01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:05.940 word the last word just was texted to me from 01:07:05.940 --> 01:07:11.710 downstairs. Here we go from Julie. It says, Don 01:07:11.710 --> 01:07:16.230 doesn't intimidate me. You may be giving the 01:07:16.230 --> 01:07:18.170 last word, but this show has been done for a 01:07:18.170 --> 01:07:24.809 long time. Yeah. She says, Don doesn't intimidate 01:07:24.809 --> 01:07:29.289 me. I've traced his whole body. That's true. 01:07:29.829 --> 01:07:32.250 And printed it out on multiple sheets of paper 01:07:32.250 --> 01:07:37.070 and glued it to a foam board. So she has literally 01:07:37.070 --> 01:07:40.139 touched every square inch. of an image of my 01:07:40.139 --> 01:07:45.659 body. And it's a very small image. Well, yeah, 01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:48.860 I got the proportions off just a little bit. 01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:52.800 Yeah, not quite the scale. Flat Dawn ended up 01:07:52.800 --> 01:07:56.460 about a foot short. I still have that, by the 01:07:56.460 --> 01:07:59.239 way. That cardboard cutout is around here somewhere. 01:07:59.559 --> 01:08:03.159 The original Flat Dawn was such a success that 01:08:03.159 --> 01:08:05.280 I have a friend of mine who owns a sign shop. 01:08:05.710 --> 01:08:08.789 Had him print out a permanent flat down that 01:08:08.789 --> 01:08:11.869 we can take around to hamfests. And I love the 01:08:11.869 --> 01:08:16.649 kilt. The kilt really pops. Oh, the fans stopping 01:08:16.649 --> 01:08:19.850 by the booth love to pose with flat down. Let 01:08:19.850 --> 01:08:22.289 me tell you something. My wife and I went out 01:08:22.289 --> 01:08:27.329 to see some live music one night and I know the 01:08:27.329 --> 01:08:29.529 pain that women go through with perverts because 01:08:29.529 --> 01:08:32.189 there were some drunk chicks behind me with a 01:08:32.189 --> 01:08:33.829 cell phone camera and I got to tell you, it wasn't 01:08:33.829 --> 01:08:39.550 fun. Probably wasn't for them either, but be 01:08:39.550 --> 01:08:42.909 that as it may. Yeah, that was the weirdest experience 01:08:42.909 --> 01:08:45.310 I've ever had in my life. Are we still on the 01:08:45.310 --> 01:08:49.050 air? Over to you, Paul. Yeah. Thinking of weird 01:08:49.050 --> 01:08:53.810 experiences. Yeah. Played off. Hope the tape 01:08:53.810 --> 01:08:59.529 delays will be. Good night, everybody. That's 01:08:59.529 --> 01:09:01.470 a true story. That's a true story. I've spent 01:09:01.470 --> 01:09:04.729 a weekend in a hotel room with him. That was 01:09:04.729 --> 01:09:10.079 scarring. You too? Yeah. Too much information. 01:09:10.539 --> 01:09:13.539 By the way, before I forget, Jacob Lindsay did 01:09:13.539 --> 01:09:16.640 write in on Twitter and says, you know it's a 01:09:16.640 --> 01:09:20.520 party when Dawn shows up for ARN. Oh Lord, here 01:09:20.520 --> 01:09:22.899 we go. I was going to say, Neil, we didn't get 01:09:22.899 --> 01:09:25.020 any phone calls. I mean, I was expecting some 01:09:25.020 --> 01:09:27.680 requests, you know. You say it, we play it. That's 01:09:27.680 --> 01:09:30.779 how we do it. That's exactly. It's the million 01:09:30.779 --> 01:09:35.720 dollar request guarantee. That's right. People 01:09:35.720 --> 01:09:37.859 did ask me give us a million dollars and we'll 01:09:37.859 --> 01:09:39.560 talk about it. You're not how they asked for 01:09:39.560 --> 01:09:55.380 us. Well, never mind Yeah Several other letters 01:09:55.380 --> 01:09:58.000 you don't want to talk about yeah. All right, 01:09:58.119 --> 01:10:00.880 and Andy you want to get us out of this live? 01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:07.390 Are you there Andy? You're muted. Oh, I can do 01:10:07.390 --> 01:10:09.770 that. Sure. Thanks for listening to ham talk 01:10:09.770 --> 01:10:26.770 live There you go To do that as we do for news 01:10:26.770 --> 01:10:30.300 line Just remember it's the number one podcast 01:10:30.300 --> 01:10:32.779 with the words ham talk and live in the title. 01:10:32.899 --> 01:10:36.239 Yeah, that's right. I've heard that yeah All 01:10:36.239 --> 01:10:38.520 the podcasts you'll listen to this week. We're 01:10:38.520 --> 01:10:40.939 one of them. We're one of them. Exactly. You 01:10:40.939 --> 01:10:45.739 need to just We'll keep going till midnight I 01:10:45.739 --> 01:10:49.300 could do this. Oh, I know I know You want me 01:10:49.300 --> 01:10:52.159 to mention Icom? Icom's great. I love Icom. As 01:10:52.159 --> 01:10:55.699 a matter of fact, if anybody feels like gifting 01:10:55.699 --> 01:10:59.659 things to, you know, a certain hardworking truck 01:10:59.659 --> 01:11:02.760 driving amateur radio operator, send me a 7300. 01:11:03.340 --> 01:11:06.760 Santa, bring me a 7300. I love PL259. Send me 01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:12.000 PL259. You can mail that to amateur radio news 01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:16.069 line in care of Zoom user. Yes, that's right. 01:11:16.109 --> 01:11:18.390 Nothing said nothing says I love you like the 01:11:18.390 --> 01:11:21.449 gift of appeal 259. Yeah, that's right. That's 01:11:21.449 --> 01:11:26.930 right from a zoom user All right, well we're 01:11:26.930 --> 01:11:29.949 gonna end this thanks guys for being here thanks 01:11:29.949 --> 01:11:34.529 for for being your usual entertaining cells and 01:11:34.529 --> 01:11:38.510 as well as Unusual educating us about amateur 01:11:38.510 --> 01:11:41.300 radio news line Neil, it's been fun to be on 01:11:41.300 --> 01:11:43.819 the final episode of Ham Talk Live. That's right. 01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:49.260 Next week's news line includes an obituary on 01:11:49.260 --> 01:11:52.619 Ham Talk Live. Well, I'll get that story. Karen 01:11:52.619 --> 01:11:54.180 seems to give me all the silent key stories. 01:11:54.220 --> 01:11:57.859 Yeah, what is it with that, Dave? You always 01:11:57.859 --> 01:12:01.119 get the silent key stories. Well, you know, in 01:12:01.119 --> 01:12:04.060 her defense, she also gave me the poda scripts 01:12:04.060 --> 01:12:09.180 because I truly am the first Parks on the Air. 01:12:15.189 --> 01:12:19.590 We got three jokes this week. Yeah, that's in 01:12:19.590 --> 01:12:25.989 name only. All right. Well, that's a wrap for 01:12:25.989 --> 01:12:28.449 this week's edition of ham talk live. Thanks 01:12:28.449 --> 01:12:31.529 to my guests from amateur radio news line. and 01:12:31.529 --> 01:12:34.010 everybody out there in cyberspace for listening 01:12:34.010 --> 01:12:37.090 and typing in and invite you back next Thursday 01:12:37.090 --> 01:12:41.289 night, 9 p .m. Eastern Time when HamTalk Live 01:12:41.289 --> 01:12:46.829 may return. And for now, this is... Meanwhile, 01:12:46.829 --> 01:12:48.869 it's very difficult to have normal amateur use. 01:12:49.090 --> 01:12:56.350 Yes, exactly. So for now, this is Diorap, WB9VPG7375, 01:12:56.409 --> 01:13:06.390 and may the good DX be yours. And that's a wrap.