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Thanks to Emily 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:41.140 Northam, the harmonic of KE8FZT once again for 00:01:41.140 --> 00:01:45.340 her rendition of that song and we had it professionally 00:01:45.340 --> 00:01:49.680 produced a few years ago. And so we play it right 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.980 here at HamTalk Live in December. So welcome. 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.969 Good evening everyone. It's HamTalk Ep. HamTalk 00:01:56.969 --> 00:02:00.930 Live, episode number 282, December Yoda Month 00:02:00.930 --> 00:02:05.730 2021, recorded live on Thursday, December 2nd, 00:02:05.730 --> 00:02:09.870 2021. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks 00:02:09.870 --> 00:02:13.650 for tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live, 00:02:13.650 --> 00:02:17.030 and we'll be joined in just a few minutes by 00:02:17.030 --> 00:02:21.909 Case Van Oespri, W0AAE, and we will take your 00:02:21.909 --> 00:02:27.219 calls. Live on the phone here later on in the 00:02:27.219 --> 00:02:30.080 show. Last week was Thanksgiving. I hope you 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:33.960 had a great one. Took the week off of the show, 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.560 but the Thursday before that we talked with some 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:41.819 straight key century club officers. uh... so 00:02:41.819 --> 00:02:46.020 if you missed that show listen anytime at hamtalklive 00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:49.599 dot com or just look on your favorite podcast 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:54.259 app or on youtube and you can catch the rebroadcast 00:02:54.259 --> 00:02:59.639 of ham talk live on w t w w shortwave that's 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:03.580 five zero eight five a m saturday afternoons 00:03:03.580 --> 00:03:06.919 at about three thirty p m eastern time so uh... 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.939 we're talking about uh... yoda month and so cases 00:03:10.939 --> 00:03:14.780 here. He is the the assistant coordinator this 00:03:14.780 --> 00:03:19.560 year. He's the coordinator in training. So we'll 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:22.400 ask some questions about Yoda month with him. 00:03:22.819 --> 00:03:25.539 If you're listening to us live on Thursday night, 00:03:25.539 --> 00:03:28.020 you can give us a call a little later on in the 00:03:28.020 --> 00:03:30.539 show and I'll go ahead and give you the phone 00:03:30.539 --> 00:03:32.979 number so you can write it down or punch it in 00:03:32.979 --> 00:03:35.759 and have it ready to go. That phone number to 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:40.680 call later on in the show will be 8 five nine 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:47.439 nine eight two seventy three seventy three again 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:53.560 the phone number eight five nine nine eight two 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.199 seventy three seventy three you can also tweet 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:59.319 us it's at ham talk live on twitter and i'll 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.319 be back with case right after this word from 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:07.330 icon america right here on ham talk live Happy 00:04:07.330 --> 00:04:10.610 holidays from ICOM. This season spice up your 00:04:10.610 --> 00:04:14.610 ham shack with ICOM's IC -705 Portable or the 00:04:14.610 --> 00:04:19.410 new ID -52A handheld now shipping. 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Tonight, Case Vinny, Spring W -0 -A -A 00:07:15.970 --> 00:07:19.610 -E joins us on the Orlando Amateur Radio Club 00:07:19.610 --> 00:07:24.629 at Hamcation's Zoom line. Case is the Assistant 00:07:24.629 --> 00:07:27.949 Yoda Month Coordinator for the Americas. He is 00:07:27.949 --> 00:07:31.610 17 years old, an active contestant, and also 00:07:31.610 --> 00:07:38.089 serves as the Yoda Americas Paper QSL Manager. 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:43.720 He's like I said the coordinator in training 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:47.779 our coordinator has been Bryant rascal kg5 HVO 00:07:47.779 --> 00:07:51.819 since We started this up three years ago over 00:07:51.819 --> 00:07:55.720 here in the Americas and so he's he's training 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.939 Case to carry the torch whenever Whenever he's 00:07:59.939 --> 00:08:03.279 not able to so case has been doing a lot of the 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:06.300 work this time around so case welcome to the 00:08:06.300 --> 00:08:09.629 show Thank you, Neil. It's great to be on tonight 00:08:09.629 --> 00:08:13.389 Well, we want to talk about Yoda month to make 00:08:13.389 --> 00:08:16.810 sure everybody knows what's going on and Knows 00:08:16.810 --> 00:08:20.589 to to work stations and and even if we have some 00:08:20.589 --> 00:08:24.189 young people who want to operate We still have 00:08:24.189 --> 00:08:26.310 some opportunities for them as well. So we'll 00:08:26.310 --> 00:08:29.129 be talking about all of that tonight So first 00:08:29.129 --> 00:08:32.590 of all explain just just what December Moda Yoda 00:08:32.590 --> 00:08:38.529 month is and Who can participate in it? Yeah, 00:08:38.570 --> 00:08:41.629 so December Yoda month is pretty much a bunch 00:08:41.629 --> 00:08:44.990 of youths getting on the air with a bunch of 00:08:44.990 --> 00:08:47.169 call signs there are four call signs in the Americas 00:08:47.169 --> 00:08:51.509 and then there are many in Europe South America 00:08:51.509 --> 00:08:56.679 Canada and even Africa I kill a yankee kill eight 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:00.059 oscar kilowatt eight tango and kilo eight alpha 00:09:00.059 --> 00:09:04.120 are for four American call signs that are on 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:08.259 the air during the entire December a month here 00:09:08.259 --> 00:09:11.720 all the way up until December 31st and Pretty 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:13.519 much. It's just a bunch of youth getting on the 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.580 air anyway anywhere from zero to 25 years of 00:09:16.580 --> 00:09:22.200 age and Yeah, any youth member can get on the 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.600 air with our call signs. You pretty much just 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:29.019 submit your call sign into an email to me or 00:09:29.019 --> 00:09:33.120 Bryant and we can put you on the list and it's 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.779 a bunch of fun. We have many stations going on 00:09:35.779 --> 00:09:42.500 right now for this event. You can actually look 00:09:42.500 --> 00:09:45.799 up the DX cluster and see a bunch of our stations 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.259 going. And pretty much what we're trying to do 00:09:48.259 --> 00:09:52.220 is just get out word to other hams around the 00:09:52.220 --> 00:09:54.879 world that youth are involved in ham radio and 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.559 that we enjoy this hobby a lot. So I will be 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:02.259 using the call sign tomorrow and Saturday for 00:10:02.259 --> 00:10:06.529 a little bit. I'll be using K8A. And then a few 00:10:06.529 --> 00:10:10.730 others, W3MLJ, who's another good friend of mine, 00:10:11.149 --> 00:10:13.370 has been operating a lot of FT8 and stuff like 00:10:13.370 --> 00:10:17.710 that. And if you hear him on voice, please give 00:10:17.710 --> 00:10:19.669 him a shout out on the DX cluster and everything. 00:10:19.769 --> 00:10:24.429 It's great to get us some popularity on the band. 00:10:24.529 --> 00:10:30.330 It's a lot of fun. Yeah, it's a great thing to 00:10:30.330 --> 00:10:35.929 make people aware of The youth contingent and 00:10:35.929 --> 00:10:38.830 amateur radio and and it's been two or three 00:10:38.830 --> 00:10:41.909 years now that it's been in excess of a hundred 00:10:41.909 --> 00:10:46.250 thousand contacts within a month so it's it's 00:10:46.250 --> 00:10:49.929 always a great time and we've got a new lot of 00:10:49.929 --> 00:10:52.549 new countries participating this year will talk 00:10:52.549 --> 00:10:58.889 about that. But if you're 25 or under, you can 00:10:58.889 --> 00:11:03.409 contact Case and Bryant at Yoda Month, Y -O -T 00:11:03.409 --> 00:11:07.090 -A -M -O -N -T -H, at youthontheair .org. And 00:11:07.090 --> 00:11:10.529 they can take a look at the schedule and put 00:11:10.529 --> 00:11:16.809 you into a slot or two, or a dozen, and operate 00:11:16.809 --> 00:11:21.190 throughout Yoda Month. And then for all those 00:11:21.190 --> 00:11:29.000 people who are over. 25 You can operate and contact 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:34.299 all of these Yoda stations and there's even an 00:11:34.299 --> 00:11:38.279 award system for that so You can check that out 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:46.179 at events dot ham dash Yoda dot com and All the 00:11:46.179 --> 00:11:48.480 rules are there there's there's like a bronze 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.940 and a silver and a gold and a platinum and depending 00:11:50.940 --> 00:11:54.070 on how many different Yoda stations you talk 00:11:54.070 --> 00:11:56.529 to and that kind of thing so you can look at 00:11:56.529 --> 00:12:01.049 all the all the rules there for for all the awards 00:12:01.049 --> 00:12:03.710 and then at the end you can you can download 00:12:03.710 --> 00:12:08.710 your award but you know we encourage people to 00:12:08.710 --> 00:12:12.149 get all four US call signs and and then all the 00:12:12.149 --> 00:12:15.970 Americas we have what else do we have we have 00:12:15.970 --> 00:12:21.419 we have Cuba we have Argentina Yeah, Argentina, 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:25.519 Canada, there are a few Canadians. Canada, hopefully 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:29.440 tomorrow. Canada's not on the list yet, but we 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.379 found out the call sign's approved. We just got 00:12:31.379 --> 00:12:34.840 to get it registered. So hopefully tomorrow Canada 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:39.120 will be on the list and we're working on El Salvador. 00:12:39.820 --> 00:12:43.620 We have a young lady 14 years old in El Salvador 00:12:43.620 --> 00:12:47.500 that's been operating satellite a lot and actually 00:12:47.500 --> 00:12:51.700 heard her operate a few times. She's going to 00:12:51.700 --> 00:12:54.360 get on. She's trying to get the Yoda call sign 00:12:54.360 --> 00:13:00.620 and I'm missing one more. Yeah, there's so many 00:13:00.620 --> 00:13:04.139 I can't keep track. I forgot. I'll have to cheat 00:13:04.139 --> 00:13:07.899 and look here. And the place that you can cheat 00:13:07.899 --> 00:13:12.500 and look is at youth on the air org and If you 00:13:12.500 --> 00:13:16.179 click on the Yoda month page It'll give you a 00:13:16.179 --> 00:13:20.779 list of all of these Oh Peru, I forgot Peru is 00:13:20.779 --> 00:13:25.960 is there this year. So in the u .s It's k8y k8o 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:29.820 k8t and k8a because we can't do those four letter 00:13:29.820 --> 00:13:33.820 suffixes Want to change that at some point if 00:13:33.820 --> 00:13:36.220 we can I know that it's going to take a rule 00:13:36.220 --> 00:13:41.580 change from the FCC to do that, but Yeah, maybe 00:13:41.580 --> 00:13:49.019 someday. We'll get that Argentina is Lr1 Yota 00:13:49.019 --> 00:13:59.799 Cuba is Co0 Yota and Peru is OA0 Yota and then 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:04.950 Canada VA7, I think, is coming online tomorrow, 00:14:05.049 --> 00:14:08.090 hopefully, if everything works out right. And 00:14:08.090 --> 00:14:12.090 we're working on a VE3. And then El Salvador, 00:14:12.490 --> 00:14:17.870 I think, is Yankee Sierra 0, maybe? It's either 00:14:17.870 --> 00:14:22.610 Yankee Sierra 0 or 1. So those are some of those. 00:14:23.450 --> 00:14:26.610 Like he said, you can go on the spotting networks 00:14:26.610 --> 00:14:29.950 and see all those Yoda stations. And if you go 00:14:29.950 --> 00:14:33.850 to that Yoda Month website, you can click on 00:14:33.850 --> 00:14:37.350 the link there and it will filter all the Yoda 00:14:37.350 --> 00:14:40.570 stations into your DX Summit. And that's kind 00:14:40.570 --> 00:14:45.730 of a cool little thing. So let's talk a little 00:14:45.730 --> 00:14:49.610 bit about the stations that are operating. You're 00:14:49.610 --> 00:14:54.919 very familiar with the US ones. So we even have 00:14:54.919 --> 00:15:00.159 some special guests operating at times. So talk 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:05.000 about some of the operators and stations that 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:10.269 will be used for Yoda month. Oh yeah, so we have 00:15:10.269 --> 00:15:12.370 satellite stations that are going to be in use. 00:15:12.570 --> 00:15:16.350 We have KE8RJU, which I've contacted a few times 00:15:16.350 --> 00:15:19.629 on satellite. And she will be operating a bunch 00:15:19.629 --> 00:15:23.350 of satellites, I think a Linears, FM, anything 00:15:23.350 --> 00:15:25.990 really. And that was her main priority to do 00:15:25.990 --> 00:15:28.909 that. And I was like, we need somebody to do 00:15:28.909 --> 00:15:31.870 that. So go ahead and do that. But the cool part. 00:15:32.110 --> 00:15:35.350 Is that three youth operators that I'm kind of 00:15:35.350 --> 00:15:37.370 familiar with, because I'm in a Discord chat 00:15:37.370 --> 00:15:39.769 with them, the Remote Ham Radio Discord chat. 00:15:40.309 --> 00:15:43.990 Three from Turkey that have U .S. call signs, 00:15:44.250 --> 00:15:47.370 they're generals and extras. are remoting into 00:15:47.370 --> 00:15:51.610 the U .S. Remote Ham Radio's youth program allows 00:15:51.610 --> 00:15:57.649 a bunch of us to use, including me, to operate 00:15:57.649 --> 00:16:01.490 huge stations that people put on the air just 00:16:01.490 --> 00:16:03.750 for us, and they're a lot of fun to work out. 00:16:04.169 --> 00:16:07.450 We use the Aggies amplifiers, 1500 watt amplifiers. 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:10.600 And pretty much what they're doing is remoting 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.379 into the U .S. on the East Coast and even in 00:16:14.379 --> 00:16:16.759 California there are a few stations. And they're 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:20.240 just working as many stations as they can without 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:25.379 the... U .S. call signs. So these Turkish operators, 00:16:26.340 --> 00:16:29.919 they used to have a Yoda call sign back a few 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.259 years ago, I think. I think it was before the 00:16:32.259 --> 00:16:34.620 Americas came online. And I think they lost it. 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:36.500 They couldn't get it back, so they decided to 00:16:36.500 --> 00:16:39.409 contact me. And since they already had... uh... 00:16:39.409 --> 00:16:42.210 u s call signs we can let them uh... operate 00:16:42.210 --> 00:16:44.909 and the america so i've been having uh... a blast 00:16:44.909 --> 00:16:47.769 with that i've uh... i know uh... i couldn't 00:16:47.769 --> 00:16:50.549 named uh... uv is out there and it he's really 00:16:50.549 --> 00:16:53.129 really uh... is a good that he's got a f t eight 00:16:53.129 --> 00:16:54.929 and uh... he enjoys it a lot i think his call 00:16:54.929 --> 00:16:57.269 signs w zero a p and i'm not a hundred percent 00:16:57.269 --> 00:16:59.389 sure on that but uh... he's having a ball with 00:16:59.389 --> 00:17:02.730 that and um... A few other stations that will 00:17:02.730 --> 00:17:06.410 be on the air, I think. I think that might be 00:17:06.410 --> 00:17:08.970 it for stations. But there are technicians that 00:17:08.970 --> 00:17:13.390 are operating on 10 meters. I know Graham, call 00:17:13.390 --> 00:17:16.289 sign doesn't come to me right now, but he will 00:17:16.289 --> 00:17:18.049 be operating a lot of 10 meters and everything 00:17:18.049 --> 00:17:21.849 like that. And yeah, it's just not, it's not 00:17:21.849 --> 00:17:24.369 just for generals and extras. Anybody can come 00:17:24.369 --> 00:17:27.829 in. any technicians can enjoy 10 meters since 00:17:27.829 --> 00:17:31.829 it's been opening here recently and Yeah, I've 00:17:31.829 --> 00:17:34.529 known a few other people that are operating FT8 00:17:34.529 --> 00:17:38.029 specifically, so I see the Logbook filling up 00:17:38.029 --> 00:17:41.970 with FT8, but I like to see more CW and SSB contacts 00:17:41.970 --> 00:17:44.990 And I'll be doing a lot of those modes tomorrow, 00:17:44.990 --> 00:17:48.309 so that'll be fun to to use but people using 00:17:48.309 --> 00:17:51.539 their own stations and Some people using remote 00:17:51.539 --> 00:17:55.000 ham radio, which we are grateful to Remote ham 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:58.779 radio for providing their stations for us to 00:17:58.779 --> 00:18:03.960 use Us used to use during this time. So yeah, 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:06.200 that's pretty much it for the stations. Just 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:10.440 satellite any digital mode you want Can even 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:12.880 contact me. I'm sure we can get a station on 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:16.839 a specific specific mode if you would like and 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:20.039 Yep, all bands all modes and satellite as well. 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:23.579 So it'll be a ball to To get all this going. 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:27.740 We've already started and two days in man. We've 00:18:27.740 --> 00:18:31.019 got 28 more day 29 more days to go, I guess, 00:18:31.220 --> 00:18:35.220 so it's going to be a lot more fun. Yeah, absolutely. 00:18:35.900 --> 00:18:38.440 And, you know, in addition to the remote stations, 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.359 which we are very, very thankful for because 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:45.460 that allows so many more people to get on the 00:18:45.460 --> 00:18:50.099 air. But we also have some that are just operating 00:18:50.099 --> 00:18:54.940 from home on their own HF station as well. I 00:18:54.940 --> 00:18:58.799 know Chris KD8YVJ when he gets home from college 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:01.900 is going to be operating from the Voice of America 00:19:01.900 --> 00:19:04.019 museum and that station and I'm going to run 00:19:04.019 --> 00:19:07.460 up there and log for him a little bit and work 00:19:07.460 --> 00:19:11.720 a few Yoda stations while I'm up there. So we're 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:13.940 playing in that a little later on in the month. 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:16.480 But there'll be people, you know, everywhere. 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:19.420 So they may be on a remote, they may be on their 00:19:19.420 --> 00:19:22.140 home station, they might be at a at a club or 00:19:22.140 --> 00:19:26.700 a museum station. It just rotates so you never 00:19:26.700 --> 00:19:29.480 know who you're going to get with which call 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:34.279 sign. So a lot of variety out there and be sure 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:38.799 to collect all four as I like to say. Let's talk 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.680 a little bit about the awards. Now, we should 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:44.740 say that this is a Youngsters on the Air program, 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:49.839 which is the original Yoda, which is primarily 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:54.059 in Europe, but it also includes Africa and part 00:19:54.059 --> 00:20:00.000 of Western Asia, I think it is. It's their program, 00:20:00.380 --> 00:20:05.720 but they're expanding that worldwide. And so 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:09.539 we have kind of copied what they have done in 00:20:09.539 --> 00:20:12.059 the last few years. And we had our camp this 00:20:12.059 --> 00:20:16.619 summer, which again, we tried to kind of copy 00:20:16.619 --> 00:20:19.660 what they're doing. They call them youngsters. 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:22.880 We call them youth. That's just a cultural difference, 00:20:23.700 --> 00:20:27.339 a language difference. We're all kind of the 00:20:27.339 --> 00:20:30.579 same program here. So they're the ones that are 00:20:30.579 --> 00:20:33.740 doing all the QSL -ing and managing the website 00:20:33.740 --> 00:20:37.799 and they've got everything set up for those awards. 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:40.740 So talk a little bit about the different award 00:20:40.740 --> 00:20:45.859 levels and how you can operate Yoda Month without 00:20:45.859 --> 00:20:50.220 being a youth. Yes, so there are four awards. 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:52.079 I just pulled it up on the website because I'm 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:54.119 not totally familiar with the award system But 00:20:54.119 --> 00:20:57.039 we have four words here. We have a bronze which 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:00.519 is 15 points silver which is 35 points gold which 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:03.619 is 65 points and platinum which is 105 points 00:21:03.619 --> 00:21:08.240 and pretty much you can keep track of your points 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:11.460 through Through QRZ comm so if you go to that 00:21:11.460 --> 00:21:13.740 QRZ comm you can look up your call sign. I believe 00:21:13.740 --> 00:21:17.980 it says You can type in your call sign on under 00:21:17.980 --> 00:21:24.900 Under the QRZ comm page In the contacts list 00:21:24.900 --> 00:21:27.700 in the bottom and I believe you can see how many 00:21:27.700 --> 00:21:30.799 points you have gained so far or how many contacts 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:34.339 you have and I'm not a hundred percent sure about 00:21:34.339 --> 00:21:37.059 the point system, but pretty much if you get 00:21:37.059 --> 00:21:40.359 that many as that many points for bronze, which 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:43.559 is 15 points, silver, which is 35 points, gold, 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:47.160 which is 65 points, and platinum, which is 105 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:52.849 points. You can request those awards and... I'm 00:21:52.849 --> 00:21:54.809 not a hundred percent sure on the awards system 00:21:54.809 --> 00:21:57.769 because I've been busy with the schedules, but 00:21:57.769 --> 00:22:01.329 we'll get you an award, I believe a little certificate 00:22:01.329 --> 00:22:05.309 in the email or something like that and enjoy 00:22:05.309 --> 00:22:06.769 it while it lasts because we're going to have 00:22:06.769 --> 00:22:10.430 it next year and you can try each year to get 00:22:10.430 --> 00:22:16.589 the awards. Yeah, the events .ham -yoda .com 00:22:16.589 --> 00:22:20.380 website. Has a search on it so you can search 00:22:20.380 --> 00:22:25.960 the logs and see what you've already been confirmed 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:30.460 for And I think it's like two points the first 00:22:30.460 --> 00:22:34.779 time you work as a call sign and Then one point 00:22:34.779 --> 00:22:37.240 each after that or something like that. I can't 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:40.539 remember But but anyway, that's the point system. 00:22:40.539 --> 00:22:43.279 So, you know, you can get the bronze one pretty 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:47.079 easily You know if you just work five or six 00:22:46.990 --> 00:22:50.069 uh... yoda stations i think it is uh... if i 00:22:50.069 --> 00:22:53.569 remember right uh... you know you and that's 00:22:53.569 --> 00:22:55.609 going to get you fifteen points so that'll get 00:22:55.609 --> 00:22:59.509 you on the board uh... but uh... you can at the 00:22:59.509 --> 00:23:02.410 end of of the yoda month you can uh... log in 00:23:02.410 --> 00:23:05.710 and and download uh... your certificate from 00:23:05.710 --> 00:23:12.069 that events dot ham dash yoda So we have a link 00:23:12.069 --> 00:23:15.069 to that on our youth on the air Yoda month page 00:23:15.069 --> 00:23:17.670 as well. So if you go to youth on the air org 00:23:17.670 --> 00:23:23.329 and Click on the Yoda month thing why the link 00:23:23.329 --> 00:23:27.910 to that will be there All right. Well, I think 00:23:27.910 --> 00:23:30.150 it's time to take a break here case So we'll 00:23:30.150 --> 00:23:32.089 take a break and when we come back, we'll talk 00:23:32.089 --> 00:23:35.589 some more about Yoda month and we'll take Our 00:23:35.589 --> 00:23:38.869 listeners calls right after this word from Tower 00:23:38.869 --> 00:23:41.970 Electronics right here on HamTalk Live. Thank 00:23:41.970 --> 00:23:44.609 you for a lovely dinner. Aren't you going to 00:23:44.609 --> 00:23:49.630 ask me in to solder some PL259s? Well, I do have 00:23:49.630 --> 00:23:52.690 some from Tower Electronics. How can I refuse? 00:23:53.049 --> 00:23:56.690 Consider the sophisticated quality of PL259s 00:23:56.690 --> 00:23:59.410 from Tower Electronics. 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Eastern Time 00:25:32.970 --> 00:25:35.849 right here at HamTalkLive .com and be sure to 00:25:35.849 --> 00:25:39.390 check us out on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 00:25:41.029 --> 00:25:44.009 And the HamFest schedule for Tower Electronics, 00:25:44.210 --> 00:25:47.170 they'll be in Ocala, Florida this weekend, December 00:25:47.170 --> 00:25:51.210 4th, Plant City, Florida next weekend, that's 00:25:51.210 --> 00:25:54.529 December 10th and 11th, but you can visit them 00:25:54.529 --> 00:26:03.960 anytime at PL - 259 .com Well, before we get 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:07.500 back to Case and our December Yoda month conversation, 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:11.220 it is time once again for the Joke of the Week. 00:26:11.420 --> 00:26:14.579 Now it's time for the HamTalk Live Ham Radio 00:26:14.579 --> 00:26:16.880 Joke of the Week, the part of the show where 00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:20.319 Rick tells us a ham radio joke. The HamTalk Live 00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:22.640 Ham Radio Joke of the Week is brought to you 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:27.400 by QRM Labs. Now, here's Rick Garrett in 9GSU 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:36.019 with today's HamTalk Live Joke of the Week. I 00:26:36.019 --> 00:26:38.519 decided I wanted to operate portable while skiing. 00:26:38.859 --> 00:26:43.720 Boy, that went downhill fast. This has been the 00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:46.720 HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of the Week with 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:50.460 Rick Garrett in 9GSU. Tune in again next week 00:26:50.460 --> 00:26:55.799 for another joke from Rick. Now, Case, before 00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:59.400 the show, you were saying that there's snow on 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:05.910 the way where you live? Oh, yes. We weren't going 00:27:05.910 --> 00:27:08.269 to have very much snow this December. I was listening 00:27:08.269 --> 00:27:11.390 to the meteorologist and they said, oh, we're 00:27:11.390 --> 00:27:12.950 not going to have snow for a while. Well, I just 00:27:12.950 --> 00:27:15.589 looked at my phone and overnight we're supposed 00:27:15.589 --> 00:27:17.769 to have a few inches. So that's not going to 00:27:17.769 --> 00:27:21.930 be fun. It's normally it snows like three feet, 00:27:22.069 --> 00:27:25.900 I swear up in the. On the ground this time of 00:27:25.900 --> 00:27:28.440 year, but not this year. It's been pretty warm 00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:31.079 in the 40s 50s That's usually in the 20s during 00:27:31.079 --> 00:27:34.779 this time. So I'm very shocked but I'm kind of 00:27:34.779 --> 00:27:38.000 anxious for the snow tomorrow, but I guess it 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:40.400 is what it is more reason to stay inside and 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:43.539 play on the radio I guess There you go. If you 00:27:43.539 --> 00:27:46.920 go skiing You know, they say it goes downhill 00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:51.680 fast, so yes, no kidding. It wouldn't be fun 00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:54.880 to do. Um, uh, what is it called? A poda or something 00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:57.799 like that. There you go. You can, yeah, you can 00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:01.779 do it. You can hold a Yoda or get, would it be 00:28:01.779 --> 00:28:05.960 Yoda poda? I don't know. Yeah, I think it'd be 00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:09.240 Yoda poda, but yeah, you could do skiing on the 00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:11.180 air. You could, you could put on the backpack 00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:13.960 like those guys do it. Hamvention, you know, 00:28:14.140 --> 00:28:16.839 the big backpack radio, you know, with the big 00:28:16.839 --> 00:28:20.440 antenna and go out and ski and make some cues. 00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:22.980 So there you go. All right. Well, thanks, Rick, 00:28:22.980 --> 00:28:26.299 for the joke. And we'll have him back again next 00:28:26.299 --> 00:28:29.759 week, as always. But right now it's time for 00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:32.900 your phone calls. So if you have a question for 00:28:32.900 --> 00:28:36.859 case, give us a call right now at eight five 00:28:36.859 --> 00:28:46.839 nine nine eight two. 73 73 again the number is 00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:56.460 8 5 9 9 8 2 73 73 or you can tweet us it's at 00:28:56.460 --> 00:28:59.680 ham talk live and if you're on speaker you can 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:02.529 type in the comments will get that But if you're 00:29:02.529 --> 00:29:05.190 listening to us on the podcast edition or over 00:29:05.190 --> 00:29:09.109 on WTWW Shortwave, you won't be able to reach 00:29:09.109 --> 00:29:13.930 us live. We're recorded on those. So we're doing 00:29:13.930 --> 00:29:18.990 this live here on Thursday evening. So, Case, 00:29:19.069 --> 00:29:23.430 first of all, before we check the tweets and 00:29:23.430 --> 00:29:27.509 everything, any other important information that 00:29:27.509 --> 00:29:32.289 we missed about Yoda Month? I don't believe so. 00:29:32.710 --> 00:29:36.470 I just suggest to all the older hams out there 00:29:36.470 --> 00:29:41.769 to try to get your youth on the air. Any amlers 00:29:41.769 --> 00:29:44.690 out there, anything that know of youths that 00:29:44.690 --> 00:29:47.109 are technicians or have never been on the air, 00:29:47.289 --> 00:29:49.869 try to get them on the air and maybe they can 00:29:49.869 --> 00:29:52.809 even grab a call sign from us or two during this 00:29:52.809 --> 00:29:56.630 month. So just get out there and find a youth 00:29:56.630 --> 00:30:02.690 to mentor. And I did look up the the rules during 00:30:02.690 --> 00:30:05.529 the break here and you get two points for every 00:30:05.529 --> 00:30:08.869 new Yoda station you work and then you get one 00:30:08.869 --> 00:30:12.930 point for working the same station on a different 00:30:12.930 --> 00:30:18.089 band or mode so So, you know if you do CW and 00:30:18.089 --> 00:30:20.829 then you do phone and then you do digi you can 00:30:20.829 --> 00:30:25.690 get up up to like seven points So it shows you 00:30:25.690 --> 00:30:29.470 here what you can do But it's two points the 00:30:29.470 --> 00:30:32.170 first time you work the station, one point for 00:30:32.170 --> 00:30:36.990 a different band or mode and just work them all. 00:30:36.990 --> 00:30:39.549 Work all of them that you can. And there's even 00:30:39.549 --> 00:30:42.509 some plaques available, so you can check that 00:30:42.509 --> 00:30:47.849 out. Again, events .ham -yoda .com is where you'll 00:30:47.849 --> 00:30:51.539 find all that information. Okay, well let me 00:30:51.539 --> 00:30:54.319 run over here. I'm not seeing anything in the 00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:57.819 tweet So we'll stand by for phone calls here 00:30:57.819 --> 00:31:01.619 for a little bit at eight five nine nine eight 00:31:01.619 --> 00:31:05.599 two seventy three seventy three and while we're 00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:09.000 waiting on on some calls and some questions Okay, 00:31:09.019 --> 00:31:12.160 so let's let's talk a little bit about the camp 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:16.240 that happened and we're actually Starting on 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:20.170 on the planning stages for next summer already 00:31:20.170 --> 00:31:24.730 and we'll be announcing a lot of that stuff soon 00:31:24.730 --> 00:31:28.569 as soon as I can figure out where we can go on 00:31:28.569 --> 00:31:33.130 what day. So we'll get that figured out but talk 00:31:33.130 --> 00:31:35.390 a little bit about your experience at camp this 00:31:35.390 --> 00:31:40.089 summer. You had a chance to even manage a contest. 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:45.519 Oh yes, so this summer, a bunch of us youth got 00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.920 to participate in the Youth on the Air Camp in 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.740 the Americas. Sadly, Canadians and South Americans 00:31:52.740 --> 00:31:55.299 cannot join us this year due to COVID -19, but 00:31:55.299 --> 00:31:59.220 we still had a lot of fun, just a few of us American 00:31:59.220 --> 00:32:03.740 youth here. And pretty much, we went to the Voice 00:32:03.740 --> 00:32:08.200 of America Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, and we 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:11.339 just... I had some kit building and everything 00:32:11.339 --> 00:32:14.740 like that, some radio direction finding, which 00:32:14.740 --> 00:32:17.039 was very fun. I've never done radio direction 00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:19.839 finding before that, so it was a lot of fun to 00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:24.839 learn about a very exercising event like that. 00:32:26.380 --> 00:32:29.740 And we got on the air with ICOM radios. We got 00:32:29.740 --> 00:32:34.000 to use 706s. We got a ton of 706s to play with. 00:32:34.339 --> 00:32:38.339 We got to do digital modes. We did a contesting 00:32:38.339 --> 00:32:48.470 area, which was really, really fun. Did an eyeball 00:32:48.470 --> 00:32:54.670 sprint? Which was very very fun? Neil has more 00:32:54.670 --> 00:32:57.890 information on that and I had a blast doing that 00:32:57.890 --> 00:33:02.230 and So yeah, it was just a lot of fun. I've never 00:33:02.230 --> 00:33:05.589 been at a huge museum like that. So it was a 00:33:05.589 --> 00:33:07.990 blast Well, we also did balloon launches, which 00:33:07.990 --> 00:33:10.450 I've never done before and pretty much we tracked 00:33:10.450 --> 00:33:15.839 our Our balloons so that we launched Throughout 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:18.000 the throughout the world actually I believe we 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:21.240 had some I go up into Canada and everything and 00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:24.460 stuff like that and some great stories to tell 00:33:24.460 --> 00:33:29.180 and Yeah, pretty much It was just a ball and 00:33:29.180 --> 00:33:32.500 it all went by so fast. I was a I was sad to 00:33:32.500 --> 00:33:34.779 leave on Friday That was a that was a very very 00:33:34.779 --> 00:33:39.210 sad time, but it was just a ball We made a lot 00:33:39.210 --> 00:33:41.869 of contacts at the station. They have a very, 00:33:41.869 --> 00:33:45.329 very nice station there. It was fun seeing the 00:33:45.329 --> 00:33:48.990 technician's faces light up when they got a Hawaiian 00:33:48.990 --> 00:33:54.849 contact. It was just a lot of fun. People learned 00:33:54.849 --> 00:33:58.369 a lot about contesting satellites, everything. 00:33:59.829 --> 00:34:02.450 We got to make an international space station 00:34:02.450 --> 00:34:06.720 contact with a Japanese astronaut. And later 00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:09.360 that day, we got to see the International Space 00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:12.659 Station pass overhead on like an 80 something 00:34:12.659 --> 00:34:16.000 degree pass, probably an 85 degree pass. And 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:20.099 we received digital data for it. So it was a 00:34:20.099 --> 00:34:24.380 lot of fun to see that and actually get to hear 00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:27.119 an astronaut. uh... that is actually on the space 00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:29.619 station that talk with them and we have some 00:34:29.619 --> 00:34:32.139 very very good questions uh... for him uh... 00:34:32.139 --> 00:34:35.460 so it was just a ball and uh... i i can't wait 00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:37.820 for the next one it'll be fun to uh... and see 00:34:37.820 --> 00:34:40.900 the planning for for the uh... the camps to come 00:34:40.900 --> 00:34:44.559 and everything like that so uh... uh... yes i 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:49.239 i did uh... some uh... some contesting uh... 00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:53.320 uh... the uh... the contesting event for that 00:34:53.929 --> 00:34:57.130 And pretty much, Brent and I, we did a sprint 00:34:57.130 --> 00:35:01.010 contest with the youths, and they learned a lot 00:35:01.010 --> 00:35:04.530 about contesting. Some had already done a lot 00:35:04.530 --> 00:35:08.449 of contesting beforehand, but I think a lot of 00:35:08.449 --> 00:35:10.809 people learned more, or they learned what it 00:35:10.809 --> 00:35:15.829 was. And we got a few on the air. and the eyeball 00:35:15.829 --> 00:35:17.909 sprint and everything like that. And then we 00:35:17.909 --> 00:35:20.050 had a few satellite operators that have never 00:35:20.050 --> 00:35:22.750 done satellite. And I believe Graham, another 00:35:22.750 --> 00:35:25.489 youth that I've gotten to know quite well from 00:35:25.489 --> 00:35:28.050 the camp, he's been getting into satellites and 00:35:28.050 --> 00:35:30.409 everything like that. So he's enjoying it a lot. 00:35:30.750 --> 00:35:33.590 And even with the technician license, he's been 00:35:33.590 --> 00:35:36.489 doing a lot in the air. So I hope he pursues 00:35:36.489 --> 00:35:39.329 a general to get on more HF bands like that. 00:35:39.809 --> 00:35:44.280 But pretty much the camp just opened areas. In 00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:48.219 our lives for ham radio like I've never done 00:35:48.219 --> 00:35:51.539 radio direction finding I've done satellites 00:35:51.539 --> 00:35:53.239 have done stuff like that. I've never done radio 00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:55.980 direction finding a balloon a lot lodging and 00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:57.920 those are the two most interesting things for 00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:02.920 me to be honest and And you didn't mention but 00:36:02.920 --> 00:36:07.760 you won the direction finding contest Oh, yeah. 00:36:07.820 --> 00:36:11.179 You've never done direction finding before and 00:36:11.179 --> 00:36:15.400 you ran away with the direction finding. Well, 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:18.739 I was trying to work my butt off for it and I've 00:36:18.739 --> 00:36:22.260 been wanting to get an RDF receiver, a better 00:36:22.260 --> 00:36:26.679 one, to test out some radio direction finding 00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:29.579 stuff. There's only like one contest near me 00:36:29.579 --> 00:36:33.030 for radio direction finding and that's... Not 00:36:33.030 --> 00:36:35.429 very many people participate in it, so I'm hoping 00:36:35.429 --> 00:36:39.329 there are more. I may even get one started, you 00:36:39.329 --> 00:36:45.610 never know. Yeah, it's very fun because it's 00:36:45.610 --> 00:36:47.789 very fun because it's a lot of running and I 00:36:47.789 --> 00:36:52.070 enjoy running a lot. It just opened my eyes to 00:36:52.070 --> 00:36:55.869 a new aspect of the hobby, a sporting event that's 00:36:55.869 --> 00:37:00.889 unlike contesting. You're cross -country running. 00:37:01.579 --> 00:37:05.960 Paid off that day, I would say. And it was like 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:09.519 97 degrees outside. Yeah, it was very hot out. 00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:15.079 It was crazy hot. place to do it at. The Voice 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:16.900 of America has a very, very nice lawn, so you 00:37:16.900 --> 00:37:19.880 can hide different things in the area. We had 00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:23.280 a few kite flyers that came by and were wondering 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:28.139 what we were doing. It was pretty fun. And then 00:37:28.139 --> 00:37:30.780 balloon launching was another fun aspect. We 00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:33.139 were listening to digital data, the CW Beacon 00:37:33.139 --> 00:37:37.119 and the Voice Beacon coming from the bigger balloon. 00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:42.389 It was fun because we We posted on Twitter and 00:37:42.389 --> 00:37:45.650 Facebook about our launch and for the frequency 00:37:45.650 --> 00:37:47.190 to listen on, I think it was a two meter band 00:37:47.190 --> 00:37:49.130 and people actually turned on the radios listening 00:37:49.130 --> 00:37:51.050 for it and they heard it and they sent a video 00:37:51.050 --> 00:37:55.889 in to us from the balloons beaconing. And it 00:37:55.889 --> 00:37:59.690 was just so cool to watch the PSK Reporter cluster 00:37:59.690 --> 00:38:03.090 update every few minutes to see where our balloon 00:38:03.090 --> 00:38:08.309 was headed each time. each of that time and some 00:38:08.309 --> 00:38:11.590 popped and came down but we found them and there 00:38:11.590 --> 00:38:16.110 was actually a cool story behind that of the 00:38:16.110 --> 00:38:20.110 recovery team going out and finding some ham 00:38:20.110 --> 00:38:24.050 radio, some other ham radio guys where the farm 00:38:24.429 --> 00:38:27.190 where there was a farm and balloons that happened 00:38:27.190 --> 00:38:31.969 to land near the farm. It was fun listening to 00:38:31.969 --> 00:38:35.230 that story and connecting others throughout the 00:38:35.230 --> 00:38:39.769 country. It was just a blast and I can't wait 00:38:39.769 --> 00:38:42.670 for the next one to maybe run it. I don't know. 00:38:43.389 --> 00:38:46.789 I think Neil's having some youth to run the next 00:38:46.789 --> 00:38:50.630 one or the next two. I don't know. It'll be great 00:38:50.630 --> 00:38:56.139 to find out the upcoming ones. Yeah, and I should 00:38:56.139 --> 00:38:59.019 we should mention the eyeball sprint is some 00:38:59.019 --> 00:39:02.420 is a good activity. It's a good practice because 00:39:02.420 --> 00:39:05.440 You know you're practicing that and you can have 00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:07.780 unlicensed people even do that because you're 00:39:07.780 --> 00:39:10.099 in a room You're not on the radio, but you're 00:39:10.099 --> 00:39:13.260 practicing giving your your call sign exchange 00:39:13.260 --> 00:39:17.480 and logging those and then you move on to somebody 00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:20.559 else. And so if you've never done one of those, 00:39:20.860 --> 00:39:23.940 it's a really good practice. It's actually a 00:39:23.940 --> 00:39:27.860 good club activity. If you get a small group 00:39:27.860 --> 00:39:30.760 of people together and give everybody a log sheet 00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:34.039 and give them 10, 15 minutes and you got to make 00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:39.579 as many contacts as you can. And the reason I 00:39:39.579 --> 00:39:42.760 had a blast was because on the second one, I 00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:45.329 cranked up a bunch of pile -ups all over the 00:39:45.329 --> 00:39:52.929 PA system and and went around doing the all the 00:39:52.929 --> 00:39:57.269 time and oh that was a blast will will was back 00:39:57.269 --> 00:40:01.510 there banging on on like The pans that were there 00:40:01.510 --> 00:40:05.469 from dinner and yeah, it was, it was a fun time. 00:40:05.829 --> 00:40:08.090 So, and it sounded just like, uh, a contest. 00:40:08.329 --> 00:40:10.389 It sounded that bad. That's why I do CW not, 00:40:10.389 --> 00:40:14.969 not side. Cause it's not that bad on CW, but 00:40:14.969 --> 00:40:19.150 it's pretty bad. Yeah. It's a whole lot easier 00:40:19.150 --> 00:40:22.449 to filter out all that stuff on, on CW. That's 00:40:22.449 --> 00:40:25.940 for sure. Well Case, let's kind of summarize 00:40:25.940 --> 00:40:29.699 here the websites that people need to check out 00:40:29.699 --> 00:40:34.460 and QRZ pages and all that kind of thing and 00:40:34.460 --> 00:40:38.380 tell people how they can participate in December 00:40:38.380 --> 00:40:44.139 Yoda month both as an operator and as someone 00:40:44.139 --> 00:40:48.320 working the Yoda stations. Those are an operator 00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:52.059 if you're a youth zero to 25 just shoot me an 00:40:52.059 --> 00:40:55.719 email shoot shoot Brian an email and you can 00:40:55.719 --> 00:41:01.619 find our our emails on our QR Zed pages They're 00:41:01.619 --> 00:41:03.519 listed right up there. Just send us an email 00:41:03.519 --> 00:41:07.059 and I always forget the email to actually send 00:41:07.059 --> 00:41:11.260 to actually a Contact us. It's Yoda. I think 00:41:11.260 --> 00:41:14.039 it's region two ads. What is it? What is it Yoda 00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:18.670 month? Yoda month youth on the air org thank 00:41:18.670 --> 00:41:23.449 you yeah I just get the emails but and if you're 00:41:23.449 --> 00:41:25.909 an operator yeah just contact me and I'll send 00:41:25.909 --> 00:41:28.369 out the schedule to you and you can just add 00:41:28.369 --> 00:41:32.980 your your your call sign on the list And yeah, 00:41:33.219 --> 00:41:35.639 I pretty much just get on the air that day from 00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:39.239 zero Zulu on whatever day to zero Zulu on the 00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:44.940 next day. So it's a blast. And if you're not 00:41:44.940 --> 00:41:48.199 an operator or if you're not a youth, pretty 00:41:48.199 --> 00:41:51.219 much just look at our Q or Z page if you hear 00:41:51.219 --> 00:41:54.519 us on the air. Yeah, just look us up, and if 00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:59.019 you contact us, look on the last QSOs by the 00:41:59.019 --> 00:42:01.539 call sign at the bottom of the QRZ page. Just 00:42:01.539 --> 00:42:03.059 type your call sign in there. It might take a 00:42:03.059 --> 00:42:09.360 day or two to upload to the QRZ page, but just 00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:11.739 type your call in there, hit enter, and you should 00:42:11.739 --> 00:42:16.099 see your call in the logbook. And we'll be uploading 00:42:16.099 --> 00:42:19.300 all the logs to LOTW, and we're still configuring 00:42:19.300 --> 00:42:22.059 LOTW for everything, so that will get worked 00:42:22.059 --> 00:42:26.690 out. And look on DX Summit, or your favorite 00:42:26.690 --> 00:42:30.909 DX spotting network, and type in our calls in 00:42:30.909 --> 00:42:36.630 there. K8Y, K8O, K8T, and K8A. And yeah, you 00:42:36.630 --> 00:42:38.670 can find us anywhere. People have been spotting 00:42:38.670 --> 00:42:42.889 us like crazy, thanking us for the QSOs and the 00:42:42.889 --> 00:42:46.309 special event call signs. And especially DX stations 00:42:46.309 --> 00:42:49.960 like to see these American. um... uh... special 00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:52.199 event call signs one by one call signs on the 00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.219 air so uh... you get a crazy pile up sometimes 00:42:55.219 --> 00:42:58.239 i was using a station in uh... in uh... maine 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:00.760 last year and uh... i had some crazy pileups 00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:03.380 in the EU on CW and everything like that so it 00:43:03.380 --> 00:43:06.800 was uh... fun to pull out some calls but um... 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:11.980 Yeah, it gets crazy, and it's great to see the 00:43:11.980 --> 00:43:14.639 DX spotting networks go crazy over your call. 00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:18.300 So you can just have a lot of fun, and it's fun 00:43:18.300 --> 00:43:21.880 getting the pile -ups on yourself for a change. 00:43:22.619 --> 00:43:25.539 It's not the best using your own call sometimes, 00:43:25.619 --> 00:43:28.900 because it's not very rare, but a one by one 00:43:28.900 --> 00:43:33.780 is especially rare for people. And especially 00:43:33.780 --> 00:43:36.840 the Europeans that are trying to go after these 00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:38.960 Yoda call signs. It may be easy for them to get 00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:42.900 their European Yoda call signs, but not the US 00:43:42.900 --> 00:43:48.860 sometimes. So, yep, any station, any youth station 00:43:48.860 --> 00:43:51.679 can operate, technician general or extra. And 00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:55.659 the people that are trying to find us, the OMs 00:43:55.659 --> 00:43:59.829 or the other. The other older hands that like 00:43:59.829 --> 00:44:03.050 to participate in these events can find us on 00:44:03.050 --> 00:44:08.530 DXSpottingOutWorks, qrza .com, and at our Yodamantha 00:44:08.530 --> 00:44:13.429 website. So yeah, that's pretty much it. Just 00:44:13.429 --> 00:44:15.969 have a blast with it, especially the youth, and 00:44:15.969 --> 00:44:19.190 it's great. Uh, it's great talking to us youth. 00:44:19.349 --> 00:44:21.809 Um, but they, uh, the older guys talking to us 00:44:21.809 --> 00:44:23.650 and they, they realized that we're the younger 00:44:23.650 --> 00:44:25.869 generation. So they tried to mentor us in the, 00:44:26.010 --> 00:44:28.130 in those ways and they really appreciate it. 00:44:28.269 --> 00:44:30.690 So, um, uh, that's pretty much it for the, for 00:44:30.690 --> 00:44:33.750 Yoda month. Um, uh, yeah, just get on the air 00:44:33.750 --> 00:44:37.730 and, uh, make a few contacts. All right. That's, 00:44:37.730 --> 00:44:40.909 that says it very well. So thank you for being 00:44:40.909 --> 00:44:44.409 here on the show. And also thank you for, for 00:44:44.409 --> 00:44:48.550 taking on. this new responsibility of helping 00:44:48.550 --> 00:44:53.329 Bryant get things going and for the Yoda month 00:44:53.329 --> 00:44:57.389 here in the Americas and getting all the operator 00:44:57.389 --> 00:45:00.769 schedules figured out and all the logging and 00:45:00.769 --> 00:45:04.590 QSL -ing and all that kind of thing. It's a lot 00:45:04.590 --> 00:45:07.989 of work and I'm glad that you're helping Bryant 00:45:07.989 --> 00:45:12.909 out with it and getting some training and I have 00:45:12.909 --> 00:45:15.250 a feeling it won't be long. You're going to be 00:45:15.230 --> 00:45:18.429 dropping that assistant part off of your title. 00:45:19.550 --> 00:45:24.110 So thanks for doing that. And also my hidden 00:45:24.110 --> 00:45:30.750 sources have told me what wonderful things you're 00:45:30.750 --> 00:45:36.449 doing with your local contesting club and clubs 00:45:36.449 --> 00:45:41.869 and doing some great things there. So congratulations 00:45:41.869 --> 00:45:46.260 on that and thanks for uh... being an inspiring 00:45:46.260 --> 00:45:49.880 young am oh no problem thank you yeah i i just 00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:52.840 uh... The guys at the Minnesota Wireless Association 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:56.480 here in Minnesota, they appreciate seeing my 00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:59.000 scores on 3830 and they're like, whoa, that's 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:02.579 a youth doing that. And it's fun getting some 00:46:02.579 --> 00:46:05.579 mentors out to my shack and helping me put up 00:46:05.579 --> 00:46:09.519 antennas every once in a while and some great 00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:14.820 CW operators up here and SSB operators for contesting. 00:46:14.940 --> 00:46:18.880 So it's great to have the older folks helping 00:46:18.880 --> 00:46:22.670 me out a lot. I appreciate all their hard work 00:46:22.670 --> 00:46:26.389 and everything like that up here in Minnesota, 00:46:26.650 --> 00:46:28.969 even though we're not the closest to Europe and 00:46:28.969 --> 00:46:31.050 everything like that for contesting, but it's 00:46:31.050 --> 00:46:34.869 still a lot of fun to get to know these older 00:46:34.869 --> 00:46:37.289 guys and learn what they've learned over the 00:46:37.289 --> 00:46:39.789 past few years. So yeah, thank you very much. 00:46:40.889 --> 00:46:44.670 All right. Well, that is a wrap for this week's 00:46:44.670 --> 00:46:47.699 edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guest, 00:46:47.940 --> 00:46:51.280 Case Van Osprey, W -0 -A -A -E, and everybody 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:53.539 out there in cyberspace for listening tonight 00:46:53.539 --> 00:46:56.940 and invite you back next Thursday night, 9 p 00:46:56.940 --> 00:47:00.659 .m. Eastern Time. And it's going to be the amateur 00:47:00.659 --> 00:47:04.280 radio newsline takeover show. So it's going to 00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:07.739 be all news line all the time next week. We'll 00:47:07.739 --> 00:47:09.860 talk a little bit about the behind the scenes 00:47:09.860 --> 00:47:15.519 stuff and some of the reminiscing of. amateur 00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:19.260 radio news line over the years So make sure you 00:47:19.260 --> 00:47:22.579 tune in for that next Thursday night at 9 p .m. 00:47:23.139 --> 00:47:25.820 And for a list of our upcoming guests you can 00:47:25.820 --> 00:47:30.639 find that at ham talk live dot -com And tonight 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:34.199 also with the holiday theme we're going to play 00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:38.239 a special holiday selection instead of our usual 00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:43.280 closing music, so So you get happy holidays from 00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:48.739 Noah the Automated Weather Voice. So, for now, 00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:53.900 this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 -3, 7 -5, 00:47:54.159 --> 00:48:10.619 and may the good DX be yours. Fa la la la la 00:48:10.619 --> 00:48:17.099 la la la la Don we know our gay apparel Fa la 00:48:17.099 --> 00:48:22.400 la la la la la la la Throw the ancient yuletide 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:28.679 carol Fa la la la la la la la la See the blazing 00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:35.159 yule before us Fa la la la la la la la la Strike 00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:40.119 the harp and join the chorus Fa la la la la, 00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:46.599 la la la la. Follow me in merry measure. Fa la 00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:51.019 la, la la la, la la la. While I tell of yuletide 00:48:51.019 --> 00:48:57.539 treasure. Fa la la la la, la la la la. Fast away 00:48:57.539 --> 00:49:03.400 the old year passes. Fa la la la la, la la la 00:49:03.400 --> 00:49:08.920 la. Hail the new ye lads and lasses. Fa la la 00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:13.500 la la, la la la la. Sing we joyous all together. 00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:21.300 Fa la la, la la la, la la la. Heatless of the 00:49:21.300 --> 00:49:25.860 wind and weather. Fa la la la la, la la la la.