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Good evening everyone. It's HamTalk Ep. HamTalk
Live, episode number 282, December Yoda Month
2021, recorded live on Thursday, December 2nd,
2021. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks
for tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live,
and we'll be joined in just a few minutes by
Case Van Oespri, W0AAE, and we will take your
calls. Live on the phone here later on in the
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It's not the amount of power, it's the size of
our tower. HamTalk Live. Welcome back to HamTalk
Live. Tonight, Case Vinny, Spring W -0 -A -A
-E joins us on the Orlando Amateur Radio Club
at Hamcation's Zoom line. Case is the Assistant
Yoda Month Coordinator for the Americas. He is
17 years old, an active contestant, and also
serves as the Yoda Americas Paper QSL Manager.
He's like I said the coordinator in training
our coordinator has been Bryant rascal kg5 HVO
since We started this up three years ago over
here in the Americas and so he's he's training
Case to carry the torch whenever Whenever he's
not able to so case has been doing a lot of the
work this time around so case welcome to the
show Thank you, Neil. It's great to be on tonight
Well, we want to talk about Yoda month to make
sure everybody knows what's going on and Knows
to to work stations and and even if we have some
young people who want to operate We still have
some opportunities for them as well. So we'll
be talking about all of that tonight So first
of all explain just just what December Moda Yoda
month is and Who can participate in it? Yeah,
so December Yoda month is pretty much a bunch
of youths getting on the air with a bunch of
call signs there are four call signs in the Americas
and then there are many in Europe South America
Canada and even Africa I kill a yankee kill eight
oscar kilowatt eight tango and kilo eight alpha
are for four American call signs that are on
the air during the entire December a month here
all the way up until December 31st and Pretty
much. It's just a bunch of youth getting on the
air anyway anywhere from zero to 25 years of
age and Yeah, any youth member can get on the
air with our call signs. You pretty much just
submit your call sign into an email to me or
Bryant and we can put you on the list and it's
a bunch of fun. We have many stations going on
right now for this event. You can actually look
up the DX cluster and see a bunch of our stations
going. And pretty much what we're trying to do
is just get out word to other hams around the
world that youth are involved in ham radio and
that we enjoy this hobby a lot. So I will be
using the call sign tomorrow and Saturday for
a little bit. I'll be using K8A. And then a few
others, W3MLJ, who's another good friend of mine,
has been operating a lot of FT8 and stuff like
that. And if you hear him on voice, please give
him a shout out on the DX cluster and everything.
It's great to get us some popularity on the band.
It's a lot of fun. Yeah, it's a great thing to
make people aware of The youth contingent and
amateur radio and and it's been two or three
years now that it's been in excess of a hundred
thousand contacts within a month so it's it's
always a great time and we've got a new lot of
new countries participating this year will talk
about that. But if you're 25 or under, you can
contact Case and Bryant at Yoda Month, Y -O -T
-A -M -O -N -T -H, at youthontheair .org. And
they can take a look at the schedule and put
you into a slot or two, or a dozen, and operate
throughout Yoda Month. And then for all those
people who are over. 25 You can operate and contact
all of these Yoda stations and there's even an
award system for that so You can check that out
at events dot ham dash Yoda dot com and All the
rules are there there's there's like a bronze
and a silver and a gold and a platinum and depending
on how many different Yoda stations you talk
to and that kind of thing so you can look at
all the all the rules there for for all the awards
and then at the end you can you can download
your award but you know we encourage people to
get all four US call signs and and then all the
Americas we have what else do we have we have
we have Cuba we have Argentina Yeah, Argentina,
Canada, there are a few Canadians. Canada, hopefully
tomorrow. Canada's not on the list yet, but we
found out the call sign's approved. We just got
to get it registered. So hopefully tomorrow Canada
will be on the list and we're working on El Salvador.
We have a young lady 14 years old in El Salvador
that's been operating satellite a lot and actually
heard her operate a few times. She's going to
get on. She's trying to get the Yoda call sign
and I'm missing one more. Yeah, there's so many
I can't keep track. I forgot. I'll have to cheat
and look here. And the place that you can cheat
and look is at youth on the air org and If you
click on the Yoda month page It'll give you a
list of all of these Oh Peru, I forgot Peru is
is there this year. So in the u .s It's k8y k8o
k8t and k8a because we can't do those four letter
suffixes Want to change that at some point if
we can I know that it's going to take a rule
change from the FCC to do that, but Yeah, maybe
someday. We'll get that Argentina is Lr1 Yota
Cuba is Co0 Yota and Peru is OA0 Yota and then
Canada VA7, I think, is coming online tomorrow,
hopefully, if everything works out right. And
we're working on a VE3. And then El Salvador,
I think, is Yankee Sierra 0, maybe? It's either
Yankee Sierra 0 or 1. So those are some of those.
Like he said, you can go on the spotting networks
and see all those Yoda stations. And if you go
to that Yoda Month website, you can click on
the link there and it will filter all the Yoda
stations into your DX Summit. And that's kind
of a cool little thing. So let's talk a little
bit about the stations that are operating. You're
very familiar with the US ones. So we even have
some special guests operating at times. So talk
about some of the operators and stations that
will be used for Yoda month. Oh yeah, so we have
satellite stations that are going to be in use.
We have KE8RJU, which I've contacted a few times
on satellite. And she will be operating a bunch
of satellites, I think a Linears, FM, anything
really. And that was her main priority to do
that. And I was like, we need somebody to do
that. So go ahead and do that. But the cool part.
Is that three youth operators that I'm kind of
familiar with, because I'm in a Discord chat
with them, the Remote Ham Radio Discord chat.
Three from Turkey that have U .S. call signs,
they're generals and extras. are remoting into
the U .S. Remote Ham Radio's youth program allows
a bunch of us to use, including me, to operate
huge stations that people put on the air just
for us, and they're a lot of fun to work out.
We use the Aggies amplifiers, 1500 watt amplifiers.
And pretty much what they're doing is remoting
into the U .S. on the East Coast and even in
California there are a few stations. And they're
just working as many stations as they can without
the... U .S. call signs. So these Turkish operators,
they used to have a Yoda call sign back a few
years ago, I think. I think it was before the
Americas came online. And I think they lost it.
They couldn't get it back, so they decided to
contact me. And since they already had... uh...
u s call signs we can let them uh... operate
and the america so i've been having uh... a blast
with that i've uh... i know uh... i couldn't
named uh... uv is out there and it he's really
really uh... is a good that he's got a f t eight
and uh... he enjoys it a lot i think his call
signs w zero a p and i'm not a hundred percent
sure on that but uh... he's having a ball with
that and um... A few other stations that will
be on the air, I think. I think that might be
it for stations. But there are technicians that
are operating on 10 meters. I know Graham, call
sign doesn't come to me right now, but he will
be operating a lot of 10 meters and everything
like that. And yeah, it's just not, it's not
just for generals and extras. Anybody can come
in. any technicians can enjoy 10 meters since
it's been opening here recently and Yeah, I've
known a few other people that are operating FT8
specifically, so I see the Logbook filling up
with FT8, but I like to see more CW and SSB contacts
And I'll be doing a lot of those modes tomorrow,
so that'll be fun to to use but people using
their own stations and Some people using remote
ham radio, which we are grateful to Remote ham
radio for providing their stations for us to
use Us used to use during this time. So yeah,
that's pretty much it for the stations. Just
satellite any digital mode you want Can even
contact me. I'm sure we can get a station on
a specific specific mode if you would like and
Yep, all bands all modes and satellite as well.
So it'll be a ball to To get all this going.
We've already started and two days in man. We've
got 28 more day 29 more days to go, I guess,
so it's going to be a lot more fun. Yeah, absolutely.
And, you know, in addition to the remote stations,
which we are very, very thankful for because
that allows so many more people to get on the
air. But we also have some that are just operating
from home on their own HF station as well. I
know Chris KD8YVJ when he gets home from college
is going to be operating from the Voice of America
museum and that station and I'm going to run
up there and log for him a little bit and work
a few Yoda stations while I'm up there. So we're
playing in that a little later on in the month.
But there'll be people, you know, everywhere.
So they may be on a remote, they may be on their
home station, they might be at a at a club or
a museum station. It just rotates so you never
know who you're going to get with which call
sign. So a lot of variety out there and be sure
to collect all four as I like to say. Let's talk
a little bit about the awards. Now, we should
say that this is a Youngsters on the Air program,
which is the original Yoda, which is primarily
in Europe, but it also includes Africa and part
of Western Asia, I think it is. It's their program,
but they're expanding that worldwide. And so
we have kind of copied what they have done in
the last few years. And we had our camp this
summer, which again, we tried to kind of copy
what they're doing. They call them youngsters.
We call them youth. That's just a cultural difference,
a language difference. We're all kind of the
same program here. So they're the ones that are
doing all the QSL -ing and managing the website
and they've got everything set up for those awards.
So talk a little bit about the different award
levels and how you can operate Yoda Month without
being a youth. Yes, so there are four awards.
I just pulled it up on the website because I'm
not totally familiar with the award system But
we have four words here. We have a bronze which
is 15 points silver which is 35 points gold which
is 65 points and platinum which is 105 points
and pretty much you can keep track of your points
through Through QRZ comm so if you go to that
QRZ comm you can look up your call sign. I believe
it says You can type in your call sign on under
Under the QRZ comm page In the contacts list
in the bottom and I believe you can see how many
points you have gained so far or how many contacts
you have and I'm not a hundred percent sure about
the point system, but pretty much if you get
that many as that many points for bronze, which
is 15 points, silver, which is 35 points, gold,
which is 65 points, and platinum, which is 105
points. You can request those awards and... I'm
not a hundred percent sure on the awards system
because I've been busy with the schedules, but
we'll get you an award, I believe a little certificate
in the email or something like that and enjoy
it while it lasts because we're going to have
it next year and you can try each year to get
the awards. Yeah, the events .ham -yoda .com
website. Has a search on it so you can search
the logs and see what you've already been confirmed
for And I think it's like two points the first
time you work as a call sign and Then one point
each after that or something like that. I can't
remember But but anyway, that's the point system.
So, you know, you can get the bronze one pretty
easily You know if you just work five or six
uh... yoda stations i think it is uh... if i
remember right uh... you know you and that's
going to get you fifteen points so that'll get
you on the board uh... but uh... you can at the
end of of the yoda month you can uh... log in
and and download uh... your certificate from
that events dot ham dash yoda So we have a link
to that on our youth on the air Yoda month page
as well. So if you go to youth on the air org
and Click on the Yoda month thing why the link
to that will be there All right. Well, I think
it's time to take a break here case So we'll
take a break and when we come back, we'll talk
some more about Yoda month and we'll take Our
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it is time once again for the Joke of the Week.
Now it's time for the HamTalk Live Ham Radio
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decided I wanted to operate portable while skiing.
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for another joke from Rick. Now, Case, before
the show, you were saying that there's snow on
the way where you live? Oh, yes. We weren't going
to have very much snow this December. I was listening
to the meteorologist and they said, oh, we're
not going to have snow for a while. Well, I just
looked at my phone and overnight we're supposed
to have a few inches. So that's not going to
be fun. It's normally it snows like three feet,
I swear up in the. On the ground this time of
year, but not this year. It's been pretty warm
in the 40s 50s That's usually in the 20s during
this time. So I'm very shocked but I'm kind of
anxious for the snow tomorrow, but I guess it
is what it is more reason to stay inside and
play on the radio I guess There you go. If you
go skiing You know, they say it goes downhill
fast, so yes, no kidding. It wouldn't be fun
to do. Um, uh, what is it called? A poda or something
like that. There you go. You can, yeah, you can
do it. You can hold a Yoda or get, would it be
Yoda poda? I don't know. Yeah, I think it'd be
Yoda poda, but yeah, you could do skiing on the
air. You could, you could put on the backpack
like those guys do it. Hamvention, you know,
the big backpack radio, you know, with the big
antenna and go out and ski and make some cues.
So there you go. All right. Well, thanks, Rick,
for the joke. And we'll have him back again next
week, as always. But right now it's time for
your phone calls. So if you have a question for
case, give us a call right now at eight five
nine nine eight two. 73 73 again the number is
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on WTWW Shortwave, you won't be able to reach
us live. We're recorded on those. So we're doing
this live here on Thursday evening. So, Case,
first of all, before we check the tweets and
everything, any other important information that
we missed about Yoda Month? I don't believe so.
I just suggest to all the older hams out there
to try to get your youth on the air. Any amlers
out there, anything that know of youths that
are technicians or have never been on the air,
try to get them on the air and maybe they can
even grab a call sign from us or two during this
month. So just get out there and find a youth
to mentor. And I did look up the the rules during
the break here and you get two points for every
new Yoda station you work and then you get one
point for working the same station on a different
band or mode so So, you know if you do CW and
then you do phone and then you do digi you can
get up up to like seven points So it shows you
here what you can do But it's two points the
first time you work the station, one point for
a different band or mode and just work them all.
Work all of them that you can. And there's even
some plaques available, so you can check that
out. Again, events .ham -yoda .com is where you'll
find all that information. Okay, well let me
run over here. I'm not seeing anything in the
tweet So we'll stand by for phone calls here
for a little bit at eight five nine nine eight
two seventy three seventy three and while we're
waiting on on some calls and some questions Okay,
so let's let's talk a little bit about the camp
that happened and we're actually Starting on
on the planning stages for next summer already
and we'll be announcing a lot of that stuff soon
as soon as I can figure out where we can go on
what day. So we'll get that figured out but talk
a little bit about your experience at camp this
summer. You had a chance to even manage a contest.
Oh yes, so this summer, a bunch of us youth got
to participate in the Youth on the Air Camp in
the Americas. Sadly, Canadians and South Americans
cannot join us this year due to COVID -19, but
we still had a lot of fun, just a few of us American
youth here. And pretty much, we went to the Voice
of America Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, and we
just... I had some kit building and everything
like that, some radio direction finding, which
was very fun. I've never done radio direction
finding before that, so it was a lot of fun to
learn about a very exercising event like that.
And we got on the air with ICOM radios. We got
to use 706s. We got a ton of 706s to play with.
We got to do digital modes. We did a contesting
area, which was really, really fun. Did an eyeball
sprint? Which was very very fun? Neil has more
information on that and I had a blast doing that
and So yeah, it was just a lot of fun. I've never
been at a huge museum like that. So it was a
blast Well, we also did balloon launches, which
I've never done before and pretty much we tracked
our Our balloons so that we launched Throughout
the throughout the world actually I believe we
had some I go up into Canada and everything and
stuff like that and some great stories to tell
and Yeah, pretty much It was just a ball and
it all went by so fast. I was a I was sad to
leave on Friday That was a that was a very very
sad time, but it was just a ball We made a lot
of contacts at the station. They have a very,
very nice station there. It was fun seeing the
technician's faces light up when they got a Hawaiian
contact. It was just a lot of fun. People learned
a lot about contesting satellites, everything.
We got to make an international space station
contact with a Japanese astronaut. And later
that day, we got to see the International Space
Station pass overhead on like an 80 something
degree pass, probably an 85 degree pass. And
we received digital data for it. So it was a
lot of fun to see that and actually get to hear
an astronaut. uh... that is actually on the space
station that talk with them and we have some
very very good questions uh... for him uh...
so it was just a ball and uh... i i can't wait
for the next one it'll be fun to uh... and see
the planning for for the uh... the camps to come
and everything like that so uh... uh... yes i
i did uh... some uh... some contesting uh...
uh... the uh... the contesting event for that
And pretty much, Brent and I, we did a sprint
contest with the youths, and they learned a lot
about contesting. Some had already done a lot
of contesting beforehand, but I think a lot of
people learned more, or they learned what it
was. And we got a few on the air. and the eyeball
sprint and everything like that. And then we
had a few satellite operators that have never
done satellite. And I believe Graham, another
youth that I've gotten to know quite well from
the camp, he's been getting into satellites and
everything like that. So he's enjoying it a lot.
And even with the technician license, he's been
doing a lot in the air. So I hope he pursues
a general to get on more HF bands like that.
But pretty much the camp just opened areas. In
our lives for ham radio like I've never done
radio direction finding I've done satellites
have done stuff like that. I've never done radio
direction finding a balloon a lot lodging and
those are the two most interesting things for
me to be honest and And you didn't mention but
you won the direction finding contest Oh, yeah.
You've never done direction finding before and
you ran away with the direction finding. Well,
I was trying to work my butt off for it and I've
been wanting to get an RDF receiver, a better
one, to test out some radio direction finding
stuff. There's only like one contest near me
for radio direction finding and that's... Not
very many people participate in it, so I'm hoping
there are more. I may even get one started, you
never know. Yeah, it's very fun because it's
very fun because it's a lot of running and I
enjoy running a lot. It just opened my eyes to
a new aspect of the hobby, a sporting event that's
unlike contesting. You're cross -country running.
Paid off that day, I would say. And it was like
97 degrees outside. Yeah, it was very hot out.
It was crazy hot. place to do it at. The Voice
of America has a very, very nice lawn, so you
can hide different things in the area. We had
a few kite flyers that came by and were wondering
what we were doing. It was pretty fun. And then
balloon launching was another fun aspect. We
were listening to digital data, the CW Beacon
and the Voice Beacon coming from the bigger balloon.
It was fun because we We posted on Twitter and
Facebook about our launch and for the frequency
to listen on, I think it was a two meter band
and people actually turned on the radios listening
for it and they heard it and they sent a video
in to us from the balloons beaconing. And it
was just so cool to watch the PSK Reporter cluster
update every few minutes to see where our balloon
was headed each time. each of that time and some
popped and came down but we found them and there
was actually a cool story behind that of the
recovery team going out and finding some ham
radio, some other ham radio guys where the farm
where there was a farm and balloons that happened
to land near the farm. It was fun listening to
that story and connecting others throughout the
country. It was just a blast and I can't wait
for the next one to maybe run it. I don't know.
I think Neil's having some youth to run the next
one or the next two. I don't know. It'll be great
to find out the upcoming ones. Yeah, and I should
we should mention the eyeball sprint is some
is a good activity. It's a good practice because
You know you're practicing that and you can have
unlicensed people even do that because you're
in a room You're not on the radio, but you're
practicing giving your your call sign exchange
and logging those and then you move on to somebody
else. And so if you've never done one of those,
it's a really good practice. It's actually a
good club activity. If you get a small group
of people together and give everybody a log sheet
and give them 10, 15 minutes and you got to make
as many contacts as you can. And the reason I
had a blast was because on the second one, I
cranked up a bunch of pile -ups all over the
PA system and and went around doing the all the
time and oh that was a blast will will was back
there banging on on like The pans that were there
from dinner and yeah, it was, it was a fun time.
So, and it sounded just like, uh, a contest.
It sounded that bad. That's why I do CW not,
not side. Cause it's not that bad on CW, but
it's pretty bad. Yeah. It's a whole lot easier
to filter out all that stuff on, on CW. That's
for sure. Well Case, let's kind of summarize
here the websites that people need to check out
and QRZ pages and all that kind of thing and
tell people how they can participate in December
Yoda month both as an operator and as someone
working the Yoda stations. Those are an operator
if you're a youth zero to 25 just shoot me an
email shoot shoot Brian an email and you can
find our our emails on our QR Zed pages They're
listed right up there. Just send us an email
and I always forget the email to actually send
to actually a Contact us. It's Yoda. I think
it's region two ads. What is it? What is it Yoda
month? Yoda month youth on the air org thank
you yeah I just get the emails but and if you're
an operator yeah just contact me and I'll send
out the schedule to you and you can just add
your your your call sign on the list And yeah,
I pretty much just get on the air that day from
zero Zulu on whatever day to zero Zulu on the
next day. So it's a blast. And if you're not
an operator or if you're not a youth, pretty
much just look at our Q or Z page if you hear
us on the air. Yeah, just look us up, and if
you contact us, look on the last QSOs by the
call sign at the bottom of the QRZ page. Just
type your call sign in there. It might take a
day or two to upload to the QRZ page, but just
type your call in there, hit enter, and you should
see your call in the logbook. And we'll be uploading
all the logs to LOTW, and we're still configuring
LOTW for everything, so that will get worked
out. And look on DX Summit, or your favorite
DX spotting network, and type in our calls in
there. K8Y, K8O, K8T, and K8A. And yeah, you
can find us anywhere. People have been spotting
us like crazy, thanking us for the QSOs and the
special event call signs. And especially DX stations
like to see these American. um... uh... special
event call signs one by one call signs on the
air so uh... you get a crazy pile up sometimes
i was using a station in uh... in uh... maine
last year and uh... i had some crazy pileups
in the EU on CW and everything like that so it
was uh... fun to pull out some calls but um...
Yeah, it gets crazy, and it's great to see the
DX spotting networks go crazy over your call.
So you can just have a lot of fun, and it's fun
getting the pile -ups on yourself for a change.
It's not the best using your own call sometimes,
because it's not very rare, but a one by one
is especially rare for people. And especially
the Europeans that are trying to go after these
Yoda call signs. It may be easy for them to get
their European Yoda call signs, but not the US
sometimes. So, yep, any station, any youth station
can operate, technician general or extra. And
the people that are trying to find us, the OMs
or the other. The other older hands that like
to participate in these events can find us on
DXSpottingOutWorks, qrza .com, and at our Yodamantha
website. So yeah, that's pretty much it. Just
have a blast with it, especially the youth, and
it's great. Uh, it's great talking to us youth.
Um, but they, uh, the older guys talking to us
and they, they realized that we're the younger
generation. So they tried to mentor us in the,
in those ways and they really appreciate it.
So, um, uh, that's pretty much it for the, for
Yoda month. Um, uh, yeah, just get on the air
and, uh, make a few contacts. All right. That's,
that says it very well. So thank you for being
here on the show. And also thank you for, for
taking on. this new responsibility of helping
Bryant get things going and for the Yoda month
here in the Americas and getting all the operator
schedules figured out and all the logging and
QSL -ing and all that kind of thing. It's a lot
of work and I'm glad that you're helping Bryant
out with it and getting some training and I have
a feeling it won't be long. You're going to be
dropping that assistant part off of your title.
So thanks for doing that. And also my hidden
sources have told me what wonderful things you're
doing with your local contesting club and clubs
and doing some great things there. So congratulations
on that and thanks for uh... being an inspiring
young am oh no problem thank you yeah i i just
uh... The guys at the Minnesota Wireless Association
here in Minnesota, they appreciate seeing my
scores on 3830 and they're like, whoa, that's
a youth doing that. And it's fun getting some
mentors out to my shack and helping me put up
antennas every once in a while and some great
CW operators up here and SSB operators for contesting.
So it's great to have the older folks helping
me out a lot. I appreciate all their hard work
and everything like that up here in Minnesota,
even though we're not the closest to Europe and
everything like that for contesting, but it's
still a lot of fun to get to know these older
guys and learn what they've learned over the
past few years. So yeah, thank you very much.
All right. Well, that is a wrap for this week's
edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guest,
Case Van Osprey, W -0 -A -A -E, and everybody
out there in cyberspace for listening tonight
and invite you back next Thursday night, 9 p
.m. Eastern Time. And it's going to be the amateur
radio newsline takeover show. So it's going to
be all news line all the time next week. We'll
talk a little bit about the behind the scenes
stuff and some of the reminiscing of. amateur
radio news line over the years So make sure you
tune in for that next Thursday night at 9 p .m.
And for a list of our upcoming guests you can
find that at ham talk live dot -com And tonight
also with the holiday theme we're going to play
a special holiday selection instead of our usual
closing music, so So you get happy holidays from
Noah the Automated Weather Voice. So, for now,
this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 -3, 7 -5,
and may the good DX be yours. Fa la la la la
la la la la Don we know our gay apparel Fa la
la la la la la la la Throw the ancient yuletide
carol Fa la la la la la la la la See the blazing
yule before us Fa la la la la la la la la Strike
the harp and join the chorus Fa la la la la,
la la la la. Follow me in merry measure. Fa la
la, la la la, la la la. While I tell of yuletide
treasure. Fa la la la la, la la la la. Fast away
the old year passes. Fa la la la la, la la la
la. Hail the new ye lads and lasses. Fa la la
la la, la la la la. Sing we joyous all together.
Fa la la, la la la, la la la. Heatless of the
wind and weather. Fa la la la la, la la la la.