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I am your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. 00:01:19.540 --> 00:01:22.060 Thanks for tuning in to this episode of Ham Talk 00:01:22.060 --> 00:01:26.159 Live. Tonight we're joined by Don Wilbanks, AE5DW 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:28.359 and we'll take your calls a little later in the 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:32.140 show. Last week here on HamTalk Live, we had 00:01:32.140 --> 00:01:37.040 Michael Coulter, W8CI from Hamvention and W4ORL, 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:41.599 Michael Colley and Mark Brown in 4BCD from Orlando 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:46.599 and Huntsville HamFest respectively. And they 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:49.120 were here to talk about the challenges of the 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.640 HamFest. Running in a pandemic. 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And then Stone 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:45.379 Mountain, Georgia, November 6th and 7th, Fort 00:05:45.379 --> 00:05:48.339 Wayne, Indiana, November 13th and 14th, Montgomery, 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:52.029 Alabama, November 19th and 20th. Ocala Florida 00:05:52.029 --> 00:05:55.110 December 4th and Plant City Florida December 00:05:55.110 --> 00:05:58.610 10th and 11th, but you can visit them anytime 00:05:58.610 --> 00:06:06.949 at pl -259 .com So welcome back to ham talk live 00:06:06.949 --> 00:06:11.389 tonight Don Wilbanks AE5DW joins us on the Orlando 00:06:11.389 --> 00:06:14.800 amateur radio club and hamcation hotline Ham 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:19.660 radio's Don Wilbanks joins us from Picayune, 00:06:19.660 --> 00:06:22.279 Mississippi. You know him from amateur radio 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:24.779 news line and from ham nation and we'll talk 00:06:24.779 --> 00:06:27.959 about that. And, and who knows what else tonight? 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.939 We didn't have a real strict plan for tonight. 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:34.639 So Don, welcome back. Great to talk to you again. 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:38.240 Yeah, clearly you hit rock bottom again and invited 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:40.399 me on. Here's what I want to know. Now, first 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:43.759 off, I don't, I do not want you to explain to 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:49.180 me molde because just the thought of a ham with 00:06:49.180 --> 00:06:52.899 a piece of wire a potato gun and an idea was 00:06:52.899 --> 00:06:55.019 enough to make my hair hurt so I don't want to 00:06:55.019 --> 00:06:57.639 hear about molde I don't want to know I thought 00:06:57.639 --> 00:06:59.980 it was I thought it was some weird thing with 00:07:00.250 --> 00:07:04.370 Maybe Groundhog Day some I don't know Alabama 00:07:04.370 --> 00:07:07.350 Chickasaw deal, but then you bring the whole 00:07:07.350 --> 00:07:09.430 chemistry thing and at that point I'm like, no, 00:07:09.449 --> 00:07:11.589 that's gonna make stuff smoke and it's probably 00:07:11.589 --> 00:07:13.149 gonna come out of my ears So I really don't want 00:07:13.149 --> 00:07:15.689 to hear about that. How you doing Neil? I'm doing 00:07:15.689 --> 00:07:18.790 good. I'm doing good Yeah, I'm excited because 00:07:18.790 --> 00:07:21.649 you know, I teach chemistry and so yeah, I'm 00:07:21.649 --> 00:07:24.569 excited for mole day It's kind of like Pi Day. 00:07:24.689 --> 00:07:27.290 You've heard of Pi Day, right? I know about that, 00:07:27.449 --> 00:07:31.689 yeah. On March 14th, because it's 3 .14. Well, 00:07:31.790 --> 00:07:36.089 Avogadro's number is 6 .02 times 10 to the 23rd 00:07:36.089 --> 00:07:40.670 power. So, it's 1023. So, it's not that complicated. 00:07:40.670 --> 00:07:42.550 I asked you specifically not to explain it. I 00:07:42.550 --> 00:07:45.970 know, I told you. What do you do? I explained 00:07:45.970 --> 00:07:47.889 it. This is why you can't get quality guests, 00:07:48.129 --> 00:07:52.350 Neil. This is it. This is why you have to resort 00:07:52.350 --> 00:07:58.060 to me. Oh my goodness. So there we go. Now the 00:07:58.060 --> 00:08:02.360 world knows. Moldy. Now the world knows. Not 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:04.800 M -O -L -E, not M -O -L -D as we have done here 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:08.560 in the South. Yes, not moldy. It rhymes with 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:14.040 moldy, but yeah. Well, Don, it's been a while. 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:18.360 It seems like every time we talk we have some... 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:26.740 Children with us and we have to behave so Yeah, 00:08:26.740 --> 00:08:30.060 I mean besides those listening are us the childish 00:08:30.060 --> 00:08:35.899 adults which is fine Yeah Always around the young 00:08:35.899 --> 00:08:38.139 ham of the year or something and we have to behave 00:08:38.139 --> 00:08:42.360 like upstanding, you know, exactly whatever we 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:46.649 tend to be So it's been a while since we've kind 00:08:46.649 --> 00:08:50.230 of gone outside of that realm. So Yeah, there's 00:08:50.230 --> 00:08:54.710 been a lot of changes in your life one of which 00:08:54.710 --> 00:09:00.750 Is a move? That happened at the beginning of 00:09:00.750 --> 00:09:06.549 the year with ham nation Over to the ham radio 00:09:06.549 --> 00:09:09.970 crash course channel with our friend Josh over 00:09:09.970 --> 00:09:13.570 there and yeah, so so tell us how that's How 00:09:13.570 --> 00:09:16.990 that's going with, uh, with the move from twit 00:09:16.990 --> 00:09:21.710 over to, um, YouTube. Yeah, it's been, it's been 00:09:21.710 --> 00:09:25.269 very interesting. First off, we found out, um, 00:09:25.909 --> 00:09:30.450 back probably around October of last year, October, 00:09:30.470 --> 00:09:32.929 November, something, something around that time. 00:09:33.330 --> 00:09:35.789 Um, it was about the same time I got fired from 00:09:35.789 --> 00:09:39.950 my heart, which oddly enough, um, uh, so forgive 00:09:39.950 --> 00:09:42.629 me if my brain is a little muddled from that. 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:45.299 at the end of, you know, having to make a career 00:09:45.299 --> 00:09:48.620 change at my age. But anyway, yeah, that was 00:09:48.620 --> 00:09:51.340 when, you know, the pandemic was, I mean, it 00:09:51.340 --> 00:09:54.440 was hitting everything really hard, especially 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:57.039 companies like broadcasters who lost all of a 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:00.200 sudden 50 to 70 percent of their advertisers 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.740 and therefore 50 to 70 percent of their income. 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:07.919 So, you know, Leo Laporte on Twitter was no different 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:11.149 and he being a Basically a small business, you 00:10:11.149 --> 00:10:12.710 know, he owns that it's not like he's a huge 00:10:12.710 --> 00:10:17.549 corporation like I heart was or is But yeah, 00:10:17.629 --> 00:10:20.350 so he had to get rid of some shows and unfortunately 00:10:20.350 --> 00:10:23.169 get rid of some people in order to keep the lights 00:10:23.169 --> 00:10:26.230 on over there and and ham talk or ham nation 00:10:26.230 --> 00:10:28.750 was one of those shows which was consistently 00:10:28.750 --> 00:10:33.289 in the top five or six of What they call landed 00:10:33.289 --> 00:10:35.830 shows which are shows that are not produced necessarily 00:10:35.830 --> 00:10:41.259 in -house Through twit and not hosted by Leo 00:10:41.259 --> 00:10:46.840 You know ham nation is was and is still owned 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:53.220 by Bob Hile he has he owns the show and So it 00:10:53.220 --> 00:10:55.759 was an outside outside show produced by twit 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:57.480 So anyway that you know that we were one of the 00:10:57.480 --> 00:11:00.179 ones that that fell by the wayside they they 00:11:00.179 --> 00:11:01.879 canceled a lot of shows in order to keep the 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:05.590 lights on over there and it was just And it's 00:11:05.590 --> 00:11:07.809 what happened with COVID. It's just like I said, 00:11:08.370 --> 00:11:11.250 it affected every company on the planet and broadcasting 00:11:11.250 --> 00:11:14.850 was no different. So we weren't sure what was 00:11:14.850 --> 00:11:19.830 going to happen. And then thankfully, Ray Novak 00:11:19.830 --> 00:11:23.570 said he sent me an email. I believe email or 00:11:23.570 --> 00:11:26.070 private message or something. And he said, what 00:11:26.070 --> 00:11:29.490 if I can find a way to keep Ham Nation on the 00:11:29.490 --> 00:11:32.769 air? Would you guys be willing to continue with 00:11:32.769 --> 00:11:35.669 that? And I'm like, well, let's find out what 00:11:35.669 --> 00:11:40.490 you're talking about. And he said, well, you 00:11:40.490 --> 00:11:44.649 know, Josh, with Ham Radio Crash Course, we're 00:11:44.649 --> 00:11:46.830 going to move it over there. I'm like, OK, that'll 00:11:46.830 --> 00:11:51.090 be cool. We decided since Josh already has quite 00:11:51.090 --> 00:11:53.669 a full plate with his his own YouTube stuff, 00:11:54.370 --> 00:11:58.769 plus his job, and he's an IT guy, we kind of 00:11:58.769 --> 00:12:01.110 all decided that we would do it every other week, 00:12:01.190 --> 00:12:03.850 at least for now. Because remember we were losing 00:12:03.850 --> 00:12:07.809 Bob Hile and we were losing George Thomas as 00:12:07.809 --> 00:12:11.250 well. So the show was going to have a completely 00:12:11.250 --> 00:12:16.350 different look and feel and everything else. 00:12:16.570 --> 00:12:19.049 So there was a major retooling not only going 00:12:19.049 --> 00:12:24.269 to a different platform but different production 00:12:24.269 --> 00:12:27.789 with you know Twit no longer handling it and 00:12:27.789 --> 00:12:30.649 Josh doing it all basically live on the fly. 00:12:31.070 --> 00:12:33.970 He had to learn how to do that because I mean, 00:12:34.029 --> 00:12:37.049 he has done his own live presentations, but it's 00:12:37.049 --> 00:12:38.909 just him. And all of a sudden he has an ensemble 00:12:38.909 --> 00:12:42.789 cast and video pieces to throw in there and live 00:12:42.789 --> 00:12:46.090 guests to bring in and this, that and 17 other 00:12:46.090 --> 00:12:49.190 things to juggle. So we all learned how to do 00:12:49.190 --> 00:12:51.210 the show a different way while Josh learned how 00:12:51.210 --> 00:12:55.309 to do the show. And we all together, we figured 00:12:55.309 --> 00:12:59.029 it out. And so it has a slightly, I mean, pretty 00:12:59.029 --> 00:13:01.620 much the same format. Slightly different look 00:13:01.620 --> 00:13:05.200 and feel it definitely skews younger Just with 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:10.039 with having Josh as the main host We miss Bob 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.480 tremendously Bob comes on has been on a few times 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:17.399 He was on for the 500th episode Which is amazing 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:19.740 that when you think about it ham nation's been 00:13:19.740 --> 00:13:23.179 going for over ten years the first show was I 00:13:23.179 --> 00:13:26.879 think like a week after Dayton in 2011 so to 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:30.600 have something like that that That was kind of 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:36.059 started by Leo's idea of Telling Bob When he 00:13:36.059 --> 00:13:38.279 came on one of his one of his shows like it you've 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:39.919 got to do a show about ham radio You've got to 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:41.980 you've got to you got to and Bob's like I don't 00:13:41.980 --> 00:13:43.440 have time to do that I don't know it. I don't 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.919 know how to do that since we know just You got 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:48.700 to do it and so Leo talked him into it now here. 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:52.259 We are ten years plus later five hundred and 00:13:52.259 --> 00:13:56.539 five six whatever it is You know shows later 00:13:56.539 --> 00:14:00.669 here. We are Is a is pretty amazing but yeah, 00:14:00.730 --> 00:14:03.509 so a lot of changes with ham nation a lot of 00:14:03.509 --> 00:14:05.370 a lot of stuff That's the same as well and what 00:14:05.370 --> 00:14:08.429 I like about it is we have brought in Joe Eisenberg 00:14:08.429 --> 00:14:11.450 k0 Neb Who has always been one of my favorite 00:14:11.450 --> 00:14:14.250 guests? He's the the kit building editor from 00:14:14.250 --> 00:14:17.110 CQ magazine. So with with losing George with 00:14:17.110 --> 00:14:24.230 smoke and solder we have We have Joe now in like 00:14:24.230 --> 00:14:27.340 every other show like once a month To do kit 00:14:27.340 --> 00:14:29.899 building and show us a bunch of techniques like 00:14:29.899 --> 00:14:32.940 that so yeah it's a. It's been interesting change 00:14:32.940 --> 00:14:35.980 the show is taking on a new life i think like 00:14:35.980 --> 00:14:39.639 like i said excuse younger and plus we have an 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:41.679 entirely new audience who may not have ever heard 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:45.820 of us. Now that we're on on josh's ham radio 00:14:45.820 --> 00:14:47.960 crash course youtube platform so it's been really 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:52.149 good i think. Yeah, I want one story that Bob 00:14:52.149 --> 00:14:55.149 has told me and I don't remember the exact number 00:14:55.149 --> 00:14:59.289 but one of the stories he told me about ham nation 00:14:59.289 --> 00:15:04.850 was that when it first came on and Somebody had 00:15:04.850 --> 00:15:07.490 commented to him. Well, what are you gonna do 00:15:07.490 --> 00:15:09.830 after the first 20 shows because you're gonna 00:15:09.830 --> 00:15:16.559 run out of material And now you're over 500 500 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.299 well listen as anybody knows if you've been around 00:15:20.299 --> 00:15:23.820 ham radio for any any length of time at all There 00:15:23.820 --> 00:15:28.840 are so many different facets and elements to 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:33.200 this hobby Service whatever it is that if you 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:36.870 get bored in amateur radio, it's your own fault 00:15:36.870 --> 00:15:41.070 because there's so many, I mean, you can do microwave 00:15:41.070 --> 00:15:43.789 stuff, you can do VHF, UHF, you can do weak signal, 00:15:43.970 --> 00:15:47.330 you can do meteor scatter, you can do moon bounce, 00:15:47.490 --> 00:15:50.169 you can do satellites, you can do slow scan TV, 00:15:50.450 --> 00:15:55.990 you can do amateur TV with fast scan full motion 00:15:55.990 --> 00:15:59.389 video, you can do DXing, you can do contests, 00:15:59.570 --> 00:16:04.299 you can... County hunt you can grid chase You 00:16:04.299 --> 00:16:06.360 can just hang out on your local repeater and 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:09.419 chat with your friends You can do nothing, but 00:16:09.419 --> 00:16:11.639 CW. You can do nothing, but AM I mean you can 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:13.960 now on and on and on and on if you get bored 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:16.000 in this hobby And so there's always gonna be 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.879 something new to talk about always and plus with 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:20.759 now I mean you have all these digital modes now 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:23.840 FTA and everything else which You know as i mean 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:26.100 a lot of people are divided by f t eight some 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:28.200 people love it some people think it's the death 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.740 knell of amateur radio much like a lot of people 00:16:30.740 --> 00:16:33.500 thought sideband would be back in the early days. 00:16:34.100 --> 00:16:36.620 You know so it's it's it's constantly evolving 00:16:36.620 --> 00:16:39.100 and constantly changing and there's always gonna 00:16:39.100 --> 00:16:40.960 be something new to talk about in this hobby 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:44.840 so the fact that that here we are ten years and 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:47.789 five hundred and change episodes now. We still 00:16:47.789 --> 00:16:50.490 have just barely scratched the surface of it 00:16:50.490 --> 00:16:55.230 gives you some idea of of You know the the well 00:16:55.230 --> 00:16:59.389 to go to as far as subject material And I don't 00:16:59.389 --> 00:17:04.250 know when I look back at you know 40 some years 00:17:04.250 --> 00:17:11.509 of 45 six it is Of ham radio it seems like I 00:17:11.509 --> 00:17:17.019 tend to go in cycles So I'll be on repeaters, 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:21.160 and I spent so many years working on repeaters 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:24.119 and trying to link repeaters and do all this 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:27.759 remote receiver stuff and do all of that kind 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.579 of thing. And then finally it came to the time 00:17:31.579 --> 00:17:35.700 where, okay, it's time to move on to something 00:17:35.700 --> 00:17:40.880 else. And so then all of a sudden... get fired 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:44.039 up about HF again and then I get on HF and do 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:47.640 a whole bunch. The one that I've added is the 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:51.779 satellite thing. I had to take some time off 00:17:51.779 --> 00:17:54.940 for the move and all the changes that happened 00:17:54.940 --> 00:17:57.720 this summer, but now I'm starting to get back 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:01.980 on maybe once a week or so at least to get on 00:18:01.980 --> 00:18:04.400 satellite. But it seems like I just kind of go 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:09.480 in spurts. For a while I'll be on VHF, UHF, and 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:12.440 then then I'll go to HF, then I'll go to, you 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:16.279 know, digital or, you know, and then, then it 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:19.059 come back around to all of it again. So there's, 00:18:19.099 --> 00:18:21.140 there's always something and yeah, these new 00:18:21.140 --> 00:18:25.299 digital modes are popping up all the time. It 00:18:25.299 --> 00:18:28.079 used to be, you had, you know, four or five and 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:31.019 that was it. And hardly anybody ran those. It 00:18:31.019 --> 00:18:35.109 was always you know 45 baud ready and that was 00:18:35.109 --> 00:18:38.569 it and and now there's there's a ton of them 00:18:38.569 --> 00:18:40.849 out there in fact sometimes it's kind of hard 00:18:40.849 --> 00:18:43.990 to tell which one's which yeah i don't have the 00:18:43.990 --> 00:18:46.549 years in amateur radio that you do i i would 00:18:46.549 --> 00:18:50.369 have if i had gotten licensed back in 1975 when 00:18:50.369 --> 00:18:55.130 i was 15 you know then then i would have um you 00:18:55.130 --> 00:18:59.220 know i would have uh i would have had uh A great 00:18:59.220 --> 00:19:02.200 deal more years in it than I do but I got licensed 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:06.460 in in 95 and I remember You know the on the local 00:19:06.460 --> 00:19:09.339 repeaters packet was the big deal. Oh, you know, 00:19:09.339 --> 00:19:12.140 you got to get a kpc3, man You got to do that, 00:19:12.220 --> 00:19:14.480 you know, and you got to get on packet Check 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:16.799 the bulletin board and you can get email off 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:18.799 packet and everything and that so that was the 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:22.440 big deal and then PSK 31 came along and I got 00:19:22.779 --> 00:19:26.539 I got involved in that a little bit, and I've 00:19:26.539 --> 00:19:28.420 played with Ritty a little bit in slow -scan 00:19:28.420 --> 00:19:35.339 TV, and I've made a few contacts on FTA. It's 00:19:35.339 --> 00:19:39.589 interesting. it's I see people complain that 00:19:39.589 --> 00:19:41.109 oh you just turn it on in the morning and you 00:19:41.109 --> 00:19:43.589 come back home after work and you've You've got 00:19:43.589 --> 00:19:46.009 your DX CC. Well, no, it's not exactly like there's 00:19:46.009 --> 00:19:49.029 a lot more It's a lot more I found unless I'm 00:19:49.029 --> 00:19:51.210 doing it wrong There's a lot more hands -on to 00:19:51.210 --> 00:19:53.069 ft8 than there is just turning on your computer 00:19:53.069 --> 00:19:57.250 and letting it fly But I have not I have not 00:19:57.250 --> 00:20:02.480 completely embraced that but I can see I can 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.400 see its usefulness and it's just another mode, 00:20:05.819 --> 00:20:08.779 much in the same way that people get all cranked 00:20:08.779 --> 00:20:15.599 up about D -Star and DMR and you know, Yezu system 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:19.279 fusion. I saw some post on one of the Facebook 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:23.740 amateur radio groups today is like, okay, if 00:20:23.740 --> 00:20:27.099 I connect to my hotspot using D -Star and make 00:20:27.099 --> 00:20:28.940 contact around the world, is that ham radio? 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:32.180 Well, yeah, it is because you're talking into 00:20:32.180 --> 00:20:34.900 a handy talkie and you're and you're accessing 00:20:34.900 --> 00:20:39.579 the internet via radio Then I think that you 00:20:39.579 --> 00:20:41.920 know and the person you're talking to is is very 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.119 likely listening Maybe on a local repeater or 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:47.259 is listening via their own hotspot or whatever 00:20:47.259 --> 00:20:50.819 on on a on a radio that That has an RF link to 00:20:50.819 --> 00:20:52.700 it. And so yeah, that's radio. It's like somebody 00:20:52.700 --> 00:20:55.079 else said, you know, everything is radio. Hell 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:59.680 your cell phones radio Um, you know, it's all 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:03.000 radio. So I, to me that stuff, that's just another 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.640 mode. And, um, you know, there's, there's a lot 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:08.619 of the vision in that, but you know what? Get 00:21:08.619 --> 00:21:12.000 on, you get on your radio, you do radio the way 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:14.660 you want to do it. And don't worry about what 00:21:14.660 --> 00:21:17.599 everybody else says. As long as you're out there 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:20.799 and you're having fun, you earned your license, 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:24.640 you are using your privileges. If that's ham 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:27.170 radio to you, then. Works for me. That's ham 00:21:27.170 --> 00:21:30.549 radio. That's that's where I stand You mentioned 00:21:30.549 --> 00:21:33.549 bulletin boards because the old packet bulletin 00:21:33.549 --> 00:21:39.630 boards and I remember I wasted many many many 00:21:39.630 --> 00:21:46.809 hours of my childhood on Teletype and boards 00:21:46.809 --> 00:21:51.650 Yeah, get on on on 40 meters and and these guys 00:21:51.650 --> 00:21:54.829 would have that I think it was w4 cn if I remember 00:21:54.829 --> 00:22:00.579 right and it had this huge bulletin board system 00:22:00.579 --> 00:22:03.140 so you could you know you could send messages 00:22:03.140 --> 00:22:05.920 and stuff but but the big thing that I really 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:10.059 got into with teletype is sending pictures so 00:22:10.059 --> 00:22:12.619 what they would do is they would use letters 00:22:12.619 --> 00:22:17.079 on the keyboard uh huh yeah and send it one line 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:21.400 at a time Yeah, and so like I got a picture of 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:23.299 what one of the ones I remember is there was 00:22:23.299 --> 00:22:29.259 a picture of Abraham Lincoln But it was all in 00:22:29.259 --> 00:22:34.980 ASCII characters and it was the oh My goodness, 00:22:34.980 --> 00:22:38.400 I can't the names escape me the four score and 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:42.359 seven years ago Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the Gettysburg 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:44.940 address. Yeah, it was the words of the Gettysburg 00:22:44.940 --> 00:22:50.059 address. Oh, that's shaped Shaped as as like 00:22:50.059 --> 00:22:56.579 in head And so I collected tons and tons and 00:22:56.579 --> 00:23:00.279 tons of stuff like that I mean pictures of Garfield 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:03.859 the cat and you know, right? It's just you know 00:23:03.859 --> 00:23:09.980 but I Don't know how many hundreds of hours My 00:23:09.980 --> 00:23:14.000 childhood got sunk into that but it was fun When 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:16.980 I speaking of totally totally apropos, I mean 00:23:16.980 --> 00:23:21.940 totally off off -subject Speaking of Abraham 00:23:21.940 --> 00:23:25.380 Lincoln in childhood. I can remember as a young 00:23:25.380 --> 00:23:30.140 kid. I'm talking like four three or four years 00:23:30.140 --> 00:23:32.779 old my mother had this big bucket full of pennies 00:23:32.779 --> 00:23:36.440 and we would go through it and I found a penny 00:23:36.440 --> 00:23:40.960 that had it was Abraham Lincoln, but there was 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:44.000 a Pipe that had been I don't know struck into 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:46.019 but it was Abraham Lincoln smoking a pipe I don't 00:23:46.019 --> 00:23:47.900 know if you've ever seen these pennies or heard 00:23:47.900 --> 00:23:50.619 of them, but I found one and I still have it 00:23:50.619 --> 00:23:53.180 it's around here somewhere and and I have the 00:23:53.180 --> 00:23:56.000 newspaper clipping that my mother sent to To 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:59.519 the to the local newspaper the Shawnee news star 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:02.480 in Shawnee, Oklahoma They had a little a little 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:06.650 a little blurb called star ology, which was Which 00:24:06.650 --> 00:24:08.829 is like you know local happenings and whatever 00:24:08.829 --> 00:24:13.069 it was like a three -year -old don will banks 00:24:13.069 --> 00:24:16.170 the son of archie and lorraine will banks. Over 00:24:16.170 --> 00:24:18.809 at you know that was when they would. Publish 00:24:18.809 --> 00:24:21.430 your address on the front page of the paper us 00:24:21.430 --> 00:24:24.569 nineteen sixty three sixty four crying out loud 00:24:24.569 --> 00:24:28.930 you know over on tucker street reports that their 00:24:28.930 --> 00:24:33.940 son don found that. a penny with Abraham Lincoln 00:24:33.940 --> 00:24:38.400 smoking a pipe. And so I have that newspaper 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:39.960 clipping around here somewhere. My mother cut 00:24:39.960 --> 00:24:43.079 it out with pinking shears so it has the jagged 00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:45.920 edges and I still have that. And here now it's 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:51.880 almost 60 years old and I scanned it and I scanned 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:54.839 it along with the penny so I have an image of 00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:58.039 that. But yeah, so you're talking about Abraham 00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:00.299 Lincoln in childhood. Just brought that back. 00:25:00.539 --> 00:25:02.880 So completely, completely off subject. It's a 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:06.339 cool memory. So thanks for triggering that. Yeah, 00:25:06.380 --> 00:25:09.640 it is cool stuff. Yeah. A trip down memory lane. 00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:12.480 So back when you had to walk to school uphill, 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:14.880 both ways through 10 feet of snow without any 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:17.220 shoes in the middle of a hurricane and a sharknado. 00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:20.539 So exactly. That's right. Yeah. there you go 00:25:20.539 --> 00:25:23.720 all right well it's it's break time here so we 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:25.740 need to take a break but when we come back we're 00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:28.759 going to talk a little more about uh young ham 00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:32.039 of the year and and and some other stuff uh and 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:36.039 who knows and and i see mike askens has even 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:40.200 left a comment here so so who knows what we're 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:43.819 in for so did he spell it all right yeah yeah 00:25:43.819 --> 00:25:48.849 you did I'll give you a sneak peek here. It's 00:25:48.849 --> 00:25:53.190 a Shawnee shoutout. There you go. Hey, Mikey, 00:25:54.109 --> 00:25:56.029 my closest friend, my brother from another mother. 00:25:56.109 --> 00:25:58.769 We met in first grade. Love that guy. Love you, 00:25:59.589 --> 00:26:05.390 Mike. Ke5 CXP and part of the Newsline family. 00:26:05.890 --> 00:26:07.950 So, all right. 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We'll 00:29:43.029 --> 00:29:45.750 get through all of those in just a moment, but 00:29:45.750 --> 00:29:51.470 first it is time once again And I've been saving 00:29:51.470 --> 00:29:55.150 this one because as I said, you know We had to 00:29:55.150 --> 00:29:58.309 behave, you know most of the time but I figured 00:29:58.779 --> 00:30:01.180 Figured this would be the night to bring this 00:30:01.180 --> 00:30:05.839 one out. So strap in, here we go. It's the N9GSU 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:09.059 Joke of the Week. Now it's time for the HamTalk 00:30:09.059 --> 00:30:12.160 Live Ham Radio Joke of the Week, the part of 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:14.980 the show where Rick tells us a ham radio joke. 00:30:15.259 --> 00:30:18.019 The HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of the Week is 00:30:18.019 --> 00:30:21.500 brought to you by QRM Labs. Now, here's Rick 00:30:21.500 --> 00:30:26.059 Garrett, N9GSU, with today's HamTalk Live Joke 00:30:26.059 --> 00:30:33.200 of the Week. So one of my hand buddies showed 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:35.940 up with a brand new HT and I asked him where'd 00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:38.480 you get that? He said it's the strangest story 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:41.099 I was walking down the street and this beautiful 00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:44.039 girl comes up carrying this radio takes all of 00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:46.559 her clothes off and says you can have anything 00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:50.740 you want So I took the radio. I said good thing 00:30:50.740 --> 00:30:52.940 because her clothes probably would not have fit 00:30:52.940 --> 00:30:57.569 you anyway This has been the ham talk live ham 00:30:57.569 --> 00:31:00.769 radio joke of the week with Rick Garrett in nine 00:31:00.769 --> 00:31:04.109 GSU Tune in again next week for another joke 00:31:04.109 --> 00:31:09.549 from Rick Okay, I take it back we had not quite 00:31:09.549 --> 00:31:13.309 hit rock bottom, but now yeah, but we have now 00:31:13.309 --> 00:31:19.980 Well, no not yet, we have it oh wait That's right 00:31:19.980 --> 00:31:24.019 Brown Paul Brown is on the line. Yes Co as I 00:31:24.019 --> 00:31:27.000 refer to him as qr Paul cuz I can never hear 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.319 him on the air Once he comes out we then we hit 00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:34.039 rock bottom Now we've hit rock bottom. Yeah, 00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:36.920 now we there we go. That's it No place to go, 00:31:37.220 --> 00:31:40.900 but mark mark this time down nine thirty two 00:31:40.900 --> 00:31:45.180 This is when the world ended Just what you thought 00:31:45.180 --> 00:31:49.900 the show couldn't suck more I'm here. We are. 00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:52.440 Well, good evening, Paul. Welcome to Hamtalk 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.720 Live. Yeah. Yeah. If we get Askins on here, that's 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.720 yeah, that'd be a lot of fun. Yeah. Askin says 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:04.160 Dawn's wasted youth on CB and then the Shawnee 00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:06.940 shout out and then says, love you, Dawn. And 00:32:06.940 --> 00:32:10.779 I really like you a lot, Neil. Yeah. So you really 00:32:10.779 --> 00:32:13.460 just could have stopped with Dawn's wasted. That 00:32:13.460 --> 00:32:15.640 would have been just, that would have said it 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:21.289 all anyway. well paul what do you have for us 00:32:21.289 --> 00:32:26.069 tonight? well you know don had mentioned uh... 00:32:26.069 --> 00:32:31.049 about ham nation being you know being on for 00:32:31.049 --> 00:32:34.549 you know now a little bit over ten years and 00:32:34.549 --> 00:32:40.069 uh... you know ham nation is actually responsible 00:32:40.069 --> 00:32:46.240 for me getting back into ham radio and unfortunately 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:48.880 for you guys, also responsible for me being on 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:55.319 Newsline. I got licensed in 77, and then college 00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:59.680 happened, and then condo and apartment life and 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.200 everything, and I always kept my license current, 00:33:02.259 --> 00:33:04.420 but I only played on two meters a little bit 00:33:04.420 --> 00:33:07.440 here and there. And then when I heard that Bob 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.880 was gonna have a Ham Radio podcast, I thought, 00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:14.049 hey, I know Bob. I'll listen and see what it's 00:33:14.049 --> 00:33:17.109 like. And I started listening right away and 00:33:17.109 --> 00:33:20.349 it got the interest going again. And I'm like, 00:33:20.349 --> 00:33:23.430 you know, I've still got my radios all set up 00:33:23.430 --> 00:33:28.109 over here. Maybe I'll just put up an antenna 00:33:28.109 --> 00:33:31.910 and see if I still like ham radio. And turned 00:33:31.910 --> 00:33:35.789 out that I did. I mean, I really, it woke everything 00:33:35.789 --> 00:33:38.490 back up. It's like, yeah, you know what? All 00:33:38.490 --> 00:33:40.940 the things I've tried over years. This is the 00:33:40.940 --> 00:33:43.400 one hobby that has stuck with me my whole life. 00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:49.079 And again, and then when I heard Don mention 00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:53.420 about Bill passing away, I thought, well, I wonder 00:33:53.420 --> 00:33:57.000 if they could use some help. And I got some experience 00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.940 doing this stuff. So I emailed Don and unfortunately 00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:04.119 he lost his brain temporarily and said, yes. 00:34:04.980 --> 00:34:10.079 But for me, the news line thing is just, has 00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:13.179 also been part of my life forever since back 00:34:13.179 --> 00:34:18.099 when I first started and I belonged to Bob's 00:34:18.099 --> 00:34:21.960 Club down in Marissa, Illinois. And we would 00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:25.940 carry the Westlink report on our repeater every 00:34:25.940 --> 00:34:28.539 week. Somebody would bring up the auto patch 00:34:28.539 --> 00:34:31.860 and dial in and we'd play Westlink. So I used 00:34:31.860 --> 00:34:35.880 to listen to the predecessor as a kid. And now 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:38.800 I get to be an anchor, which is just for me really 00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:42.150 cool. Well, you know the reason that the reason 00:34:42.150 --> 00:34:44.550 that that I said yes was because the salad your 00:34:44.550 --> 00:34:46.710 seller demands were just Exactly in line with 00:34:46.710 --> 00:34:48.530 what we were willing to pay which is nothing 00:34:48.530 --> 00:34:52.269 Which is good because you get 10 % of that is 00:34:52.269 --> 00:34:54.809 my agent. Yeah, and believe me we're getting 00:34:54.809 --> 00:35:06.039 every penny's worth Paul and I have this it seems 00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:08.679 like this adversarial relationship, but it's 00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:12.699 just because I I love to dig at people especially 00:35:12.699 --> 00:35:16.599 people who can take it and Dish it right back 00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:22.320 and so that's that's Paul seriously People listening 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:26.380 Probably think that oh my god. What in the hell 00:35:26.380 --> 00:35:30.289 will banks must hate Paul I don't dude. I think 00:35:30.289 --> 00:35:32.809 you're like you're like the coolest guy You really 00:35:32.809 --> 00:35:34.409 are and I just want to I just want to get that 00:35:34.409 --> 00:35:36.590 out on the record and no That's not necessarily 00:35:36.590 --> 00:35:40.130 the alcohol talking but just the fact that you 00:35:40.130 --> 00:35:44.250 and I just we have this this this this You you 00:35:44.250 --> 00:35:47.309 can you can give as well as get and that's I 00:35:47.309 --> 00:35:48.949 really appreciate that because I'm one of these 00:35:48.949 --> 00:35:51.809 kind of people that That if I'm leaving you alone, 00:35:51.809 --> 00:35:55.840 you probably want to find out why So yeah, I 00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:57.559 just I really appreciate you Paul. I just want 00:35:57.559 --> 00:35:59.300 to go out on the record and say that and again 00:35:59.300 --> 00:36:02.260 That's not necessarily the alcohol talking Yeah, 00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:05.860 I you know the same here You know I had a lot 00:36:05.860 --> 00:36:07.940 of respect for what you were doing before I emailed 00:36:07.940 --> 00:36:10.099 you to see if I could help and that's why I did 00:36:10.099 --> 00:36:13.719 that but you know Neil and you know do that the 00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:18.800 news line family we're all like a weird dysfunctional 00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:22.780 group that just We agreed that if we could all 00:36:22.780 --> 00:36:26.559 be in a physical office We are all the people 00:36:26.559 --> 00:36:29.619 we would want to work with Exactly, and you said 00:36:29.619 --> 00:36:33.360 it right? It is a family news I mean I got involved 00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:36.440 with it in 95 right after I became after I got 00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:40.619 licensed when when One our young ham of the year 00:36:40.619 --> 00:36:46.070 winner from from 93 introduced me to Bill, and 00:36:46.070 --> 00:36:47.889 Bill was like, oh, you're in radio? Oh, well, 00:36:47.909 --> 00:36:50.190 have I got a golden opportunity for you. And 00:36:50.190 --> 00:36:53.150 so the ink hadn't even dried on my license before 00:36:53.150 --> 00:36:55.150 I was involved with amateur radio newsline, which 00:36:55.150 --> 00:36:57.750 was cool to me because as soon as I bought that 00:36:57.750 --> 00:37:02.489 HTX 202 for myself for my birthday in 1994 in 00:37:02.489 --> 00:37:04.610 September when I was studying for my license, 00:37:05.070 --> 00:37:06.889 and then ended up, what, a couple months later 00:37:06.889 --> 00:37:10.030 taking the test, I discovered newsline on the 00:37:10.030 --> 00:37:11.489 local repeater, and I thought, well, this is 00:37:11.489 --> 00:37:14.809 the best thing since sliced bread. And, you know, 00:37:14.969 --> 00:37:18.969 to be involved in that and to have kind of grown 00:37:18.969 --> 00:37:24.050 up as a ham with having Bill Pasternak as the 00:37:24.050 --> 00:37:26.210 weird uncle mentor kind of a deal, you know, 00:37:26.309 --> 00:37:30.610 and I love that man. I mean, like a brother or 00:37:30.610 --> 00:37:32.469 an older brother or uncle or whatever. I mean, 00:37:33.150 --> 00:37:35.809 there's not a day goes by that. just like with 00:37:35.809 --> 00:37:39.090 my parents, you know, my mother, my dad died 00:37:39.090 --> 00:37:42.730 in 91, my mother in 95, and then Bill seven years 00:37:42.730 --> 00:37:45.230 ago, and those three people, there's not a day 00:37:45.230 --> 00:37:47.369 goes by that I don't need to pick up the phone 00:37:47.369 --> 00:37:49.349 and call them and ask them something, and Bill 00:37:49.349 --> 00:37:51.730 is right there, right there, right there in that 00:37:51.730 --> 00:37:56.449 group. Yep, I agree, and I really wish I had 00:37:56.449 --> 00:38:01.190 had the opportunity to meet Bill, but I have 00:38:01.190 --> 00:38:03.769 never in any of the public appearances we've 00:38:03.769 --> 00:38:07.900 done, Hurry anybody sick in but wonderful things 00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:10.400 about bill. Oh, you won't you won't hear it You 00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:13.139 won't hear a bad thing period. You just never 00:38:13.139 --> 00:38:17.960 well I haven't in 25 26 years or whatever of 00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:19.539 being in this hot. No, I've never heard a bad 00:38:19.539 --> 00:38:24.920 thing Yeah, just the best Yeah, well Paul, thanks 00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:28.119 so much for calling in and and and bringing the 00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:31.480 show to a new low Yeah, exactly. Oh, we appreciate 00:38:33.460 --> 00:38:36.039 You know, you got it got to go with your strength 00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:40.380 and yeah, you know, that's mine Yeah, there you 00:38:40.380 --> 00:38:43.619 go. So nowhere to go but up get Askins on the 00:38:43.619 --> 00:38:48.900 horn. Yeah, there you go Yeah, I appreciate you 00:38:48.900 --> 00:38:52.280 man, I really do I Brought it to a certain low, 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:55.179 but then you know Mike Mike's got the capacity 00:38:55.179 --> 00:38:59.780 to take it even lower. So yeah Well, Mike, Mike, 00:38:59.900 --> 00:39:02.019 listen, Mike was on QVC for a while and home 00:39:02.019 --> 00:39:05.519 shopping. So, yeah. I have to ask him about that. 00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:10.000 Oh, he was really? Yeah, yeah, he was a yeah, 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:13.199 he was they would he had a weekly a weekly deal 00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:15.039 where they would they would send him product 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:18.019 or whatever to to a review. And he had he would 00:39:18.019 --> 00:39:21.579 spend like an hour or two on camera from his 00:39:21.579 --> 00:39:24.480 studio there in Oklahoma. Talking about whatever 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:26.179 product it was that they sent him. Yeah, he's 00:39:26.179 --> 00:39:30.340 a he's a home shopping star that boy. Oh Well, 00:39:30.340 --> 00:39:34.079 no, we have a little no, we have a little income 00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:37.280 and then because my wife bought a lot of home 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:44.940 shopping My wife and I had a thing had a stained 00:39:44.940 --> 00:39:49.059 -glass studio at one point and when QVC did that 00:39:49.059 --> 00:39:50.860 50 and 50 thing where they traveled around the 00:39:50.860 --> 00:39:53.409 country and looked for you know, local people's 00:39:53.409 --> 00:39:56.610 stuff. When they came to Indiana, we were actually 00:39:56.610 --> 00:39:59.170 on and we had a stained glass piece we did that 00:39:59.170 --> 00:40:03.389 they sold. Well, that's neat. Yeah, I'll sign 00:40:03.389 --> 00:40:06.230 autographs for you if you want. Nah, that's fine. 00:40:07.670 --> 00:40:11.289 All right. I'm good. All right, guys. All right. 00:40:11.369 --> 00:40:17.090 Thanks, Paul. See ya. Paul Brown, OED9GCO from 00:40:17.090 --> 00:40:22.219 Valparaiso. But a moment too soon. Yeah. All 00:40:22.219 --> 00:40:24.659 right, let's see. Well, we've got another call 00:40:24.659 --> 00:40:30.199 on the line. Let's see Yeah, let's do it Good 00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:34.519 evening. Welcome to ham talk live Well, hello 00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:38.800 Neil, it's Skeeter in five a sh and Don how are 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:41.840 you? It's another one. There's another one radio 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:48.889 dude. Hey Skeeter Hey guys Listen, when I saw 00:40:48.889 --> 00:40:51.210 Don... Live from the old Disjockey's retirement 00:40:51.210 --> 00:40:56.769 home. Well, also known as the Kenworth T680 in 00:40:56.769 --> 00:41:02.369 my case. There you go. There you go. So, just 00:41:02.369 --> 00:41:05.409 when I saw that, Neil, when I saw that Don was 00:41:05.409 --> 00:41:07.010 going to be on tonight, I thought, well, maybe 00:41:07.010 --> 00:41:10.489 I better call in just to offer balance to the 00:41:10.489 --> 00:41:13.489 program. Yeah, exactly. Yes, a little touch of 00:41:13.489 --> 00:41:18.320 sanity. Well now I'm not gonna go that far but 00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:24.420 But you know we I heard you guys talking earlier 00:41:24.420 --> 00:41:27.800 about you know ham nation hitting over 500 episodes 00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.780 and and you know the what could have possibly 00:41:30.780 --> 00:41:33.340 Been the end of it, you know at the end of this 00:41:33.340 --> 00:41:37.599 last year and the rebirth Thanks to Josh and 00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:40.260 and the continuance of it and it just kind of 00:41:40.260 --> 00:41:42.659 the the word that came to my mind was commitment 00:41:42.659 --> 00:41:46.139 because again You know, just like amateur radio 00:41:46.139 --> 00:41:49.679 news line, it's it's a volunteer situation. It's 00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.199 people that love this hobby, love sharing this 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:56.119 hobby and through. Yeah, I was barely I mean, 00:41:56.139 --> 00:41:58.420 it was barely dry on my license when Ham Nation 00:41:58.420 --> 00:42:01.059 came on. I got licensed the end of November of 00:42:01.059 --> 00:42:04.659 2010. And so I'm just on fire for Ham Radio. 00:42:04.659 --> 00:42:06.960 I'm trying to absorb every absorb everything 00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:10.340 I can on the subject and learn as much as I can 00:42:10.340 --> 00:42:13.320 because. actually wanted to become a ham, kind 00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:16.219 of like Don when I was like 13 years old, but 00:42:16.219 --> 00:42:18.320 the circumstances just weren't right, there were 00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:20.460 family situations going on and stuff I won't 00:42:20.460 --> 00:42:23.980 go into, but it just was not the time for me 00:42:23.980 --> 00:42:26.019 to do it. I did not have the time to learn the 00:42:26.019 --> 00:42:29.460 code, nobody to study it with, so it just kind 00:42:29.460 --> 00:42:31.179 of went by the wayside and then I went off and 00:42:31.179 --> 00:42:32.980 got interested in other things when I was in 00:42:32.980 --> 00:42:38.349 junior high and then high school. So Ham Nation 00:42:38.349 --> 00:42:42.269 comes along and I knew about Bob Heil through 00:42:42.269 --> 00:42:45.409 his work with The Who and The Who is one of my 00:42:45.409 --> 00:42:47.869 favorite bands of all time and so I knew the 00:42:47.869 --> 00:42:51.039 name Heil Sound and I knew You know, I knew that 00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:54.920 Bob was involved with their sound and their productions 00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:57.960 back in the day. And so when I saw this show 00:42:57.960 --> 00:42:59.940 coming on, I thought, man, I got to watch this. 00:43:00.059 --> 00:43:02.260 It's another thing I can use to keep learning 00:43:02.260 --> 00:43:07.360 about ham radio. And lo and behold, it was everything 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:09.380 I'd hoped it would be. And then it grew and kept 00:43:09.380 --> 00:43:12.019 improving and growing. And the production values 00:43:12.019 --> 00:43:15.440 got even better. And the guests got cooler and 00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:18.630 more interesting. You know, and like you said, 00:43:18.869 --> 00:43:21.590 here it is, 500 episodes later. And I am even 00:43:21.590 --> 00:43:25.369 in one of the episodes of Ham Nation, briefly. 00:43:25.849 --> 00:43:27.650 I mean, I was sitting in Bob Shack. I just happened 00:43:27.650 --> 00:43:29.989 to be in the Springfield area when he was living 00:43:29.989 --> 00:43:32.329 in the Ozarks still. And I got a hold of him 00:43:32.329 --> 00:43:34.510 just to see, hey, can we go out to lunch or dinner? 00:43:34.670 --> 00:43:36.929 Are you in the area? And he told me he was. And 00:43:36.929 --> 00:43:39.579 so... We wound up going out to dinner, but then 00:43:39.579 --> 00:43:42.500 he invited me to come into the shack at his house 00:43:42.500 --> 00:43:45.639 there and Participate in the program that night, 00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:49.300 and it's the episode from from Dayton to Visalia 00:43:49.300 --> 00:43:51.239 I think is the title of it anyway. It's on my 00:43:51.239 --> 00:43:54.920 QRZ page. I've got a link there, but That was 00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:58.440 that was so great to actually see Bob's shack 00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:02.559 in person. I mean that's a Serious Radio Shack 00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:05.239 right there. Yeah, I think that I need to get 00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:06.920 there and shit I've never I've never been to 00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:08.980 Bob's place, but that's not that wasn't the first 00:44:08.980 --> 00:44:12.599 time you were on When we brought you in to amateur 00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.039 radio newsline you cut a little video piece on 00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:19.099 on how you produce Newsline and we've we played 00:44:19.099 --> 00:44:22.360 that on ham nation too. So That's right. That 00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:24.599 came before that that is true. I came before 00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:27.920 that right with that together. Yeah, yeah, but 00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:33.219 And just like, and linking them together, Newsline, 00:44:33.739 --> 00:44:36.380 again, all volunteers, all people who love the 00:44:36.380 --> 00:44:42.159 hobby, and again, we also hit a crossroads when 00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.179 Bill passed away and became a silent key. But 00:44:45.179 --> 00:44:47.239 there was a commitment there, we've got to keep 00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:49.739 this going. and we've got to find the people 00:44:49.739 --> 00:44:52.320 that we need because Bill, as you've said often 00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:55.239 Don, Bill was a one -man show as far as writing. 00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:59.420 He was. And submitting and soliciting the reporters 00:44:59.420 --> 00:45:03.159 to do their bits and the anchors to do their 00:45:03.159 --> 00:45:08.420 jobs. And so, you know, I didn't have a very 00:45:08.420 --> 00:45:10.480 long time to get to know Bill, but we did have 00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:14.139 several conversations. over the few years from 00:45:14.139 --> 00:45:16.659 the time I started with Newsline, which really 00:45:16.659 --> 00:45:19.199 started with me just filing an audio report regarding 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:21.840 a special event station that our club in northeast 00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:24.500 Arkansas, the Northeast Arkansas Radio Club, 00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:27.659 was putting on in honor of Johnny Cash's birthday. 00:45:28.179 --> 00:45:30.579 And when I sent him the press release and he 00:45:30.579 --> 00:45:32.260 got back to me and said, hey, you're a radio 00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:34.559 guy, you're an on -air guy, why don't you just, 00:45:34.619 --> 00:45:36.380 I'll write the script, you record it and send 00:45:36.380 --> 00:45:39.900 it. So, okay. And then we got on the subject 00:45:39.900 --> 00:45:43.010 of anchoring and... And as Donna said in the 00:45:43.010 --> 00:45:45.289 past many times, Bill was a guy you couldn't 00:45:45.289 --> 00:45:47.710 say no to. And I was thrilled. I wanted to anchor. 00:45:47.869 --> 00:45:49.809 I kind of offered my services and said, look, 00:45:49.809 --> 00:45:52.130 I'd like to dip my toe into this and see if I 00:45:52.130 --> 00:45:55.610 can anchor this newscast. And so from there it 00:45:55.610 --> 00:45:58.630 went on. And then we teamed up with Karen Eve 00:45:58.630 --> 00:46:02.409 Murray. God bless her. She picked up the mantle 00:46:02.409 --> 00:46:06.070 and ran with it. And we've had lots of conversations. 00:46:06.269 --> 00:46:09.099 I've kind of helped her because she wrote for 00:46:09.099 --> 00:46:12.159 so long for newspapers and magazines and writing 00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:15.260 for the eye to read is very different from writing 00:46:15.260 --> 00:46:17.880 for the ears to hear. Yeah, writing for radio 00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:19.179 and writing for print is completely different. 00:46:19.420 --> 00:46:22.500 And this bears repeating. We need to repeat this 00:46:22.500 --> 00:46:24.380 again because we've told this story, at least 00:46:24.380 --> 00:46:28.800 I have several times. Bill got sick and I had 00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:30.719 to take a break from anchoring because I was 00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:33.579 doing night classes for real estate back during 00:46:33.579 --> 00:46:37.809 that time and you had kind of taken over. running 00:46:37.809 --> 00:46:40.449 things while Bill was in the hospital and then 00:46:40.449 --> 00:46:42.989 I remember my phone rang one night and it was 00:46:42.989 --> 00:46:46.150 it was you and Bill and you brought me in together 00:46:46.150 --> 00:46:49.670 on a on a on a conference call and it was like 00:46:49.670 --> 00:46:52.710 we were talking about the people like we'd gotten 00:46:52.710 --> 00:46:54.789 these emails and I think you were the one I think 00:46:54.789 --> 00:46:57.190 who mentioned Karen Eve Murray and you were going 00:46:57.190 --> 00:46:59.650 down her resume and all I could hear was Bill 00:46:59.650 --> 00:47:01.690 and and his voice was kind of frail at the time 00:47:01.690 --> 00:47:06.269 all I heard was hire her hire her hire her hire 00:47:06.269 --> 00:47:10.519 her Okay, we'll do that and it was like it I 00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:13.019 I want to say it was the next day or the next 00:47:13.019 --> 00:47:17.059 day or two after that that bill had passed and 00:47:17.059 --> 00:47:19.659 It was like it was like a punch to the gut that 00:47:19.659 --> 00:47:23.280 that that that last time I talked to bill Was 00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:25.599 that night with the three of us on the phone 00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:29.079 and I will never forget that Never forget that 00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:32.380 was a that was a pretty amazing situation and 00:47:32.380 --> 00:47:35.019 and yeah she came with with great credentials 00:47:35.019 --> 00:47:38.570 and great experience and and and and a love of 00:47:38.570 --> 00:47:41.409 the hobby just like all the rest of us and so 00:47:41.409 --> 00:47:43.969 she uh... you know we we worked with her and 00:47:43.969 --> 00:47:45.829 showed her some of the past scripts and how they 00:47:45.829 --> 00:47:49.070 went the interesting thing was what the way that 00:47:49.070 --> 00:47:51.369 she came our way was i'd kind of put the word 00:47:51.369 --> 00:47:54.949 out in various uh... ham radio circles hey you 00:47:54.949 --> 00:47:57.429 know because we we knew i think we all pretty 00:47:57.429 --> 00:47:59.349 much knew that that bill was not going to be 00:47:59.349 --> 00:48:01.829 able to come back and and to do a job again i 00:48:01.829 --> 00:48:04.489 mean he he he made it pretty clear that he was 00:48:04.489 --> 00:48:07.380 not not at all going to be able to pick it up. 00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:10.579 So I knew we had to put the word out. And so 00:48:10.579 --> 00:48:12.960 we got several responses from people who, yeah, 00:48:13.059 --> 00:48:16.219 you know, I'd like to be part of Newsline and 00:48:16.219 --> 00:48:18.000 stuff. In fact, it was kind of overwhelming. 00:48:18.860 --> 00:48:22.420 And if anybody's listening that I did not get 00:48:22.420 --> 00:48:25.199 back to on that, please, a thousand pardons. 00:48:25.340 --> 00:48:27.679 I apologize. It was just a bit overwhelming. 00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:31.280 It was like putting a job. uh... listing out 00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:33.539 there and having a thousand resumes come in the 00:48:33.539 --> 00:48:35.679 also never wasn't quite that many but it was 00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:39.739 a lot and yellow there was was among those and 00:48:39.739 --> 00:48:43.460 uh... and so we did quote unquote hire her even 00:48:43.460 --> 00:48:47.079 though nobody's getting paid anything right but 00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:49.619 she can she is this is a little bit around i 00:48:49.619 --> 00:48:53.460 mean she she she went from being from from say 00:48:53.460 --> 00:48:55.340 okay well maybe i can help a little bit all the 00:48:55.340 --> 00:48:58.599 sudden bill dying they were like okay you're 00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:05.739 the new bill And it was overwhelming. Yeah, but 00:49:05.739 --> 00:49:09.099 she just she jumped right in the big middle of 00:49:09.099 --> 00:49:12.519 it and she I mean, it was like the ultimate on 00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:16.820 -the -job training. She learned how to you know, 00:49:17.300 --> 00:49:18.920 okay, you got to have these these blocks have 00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:22.880 to be Ten minutes long they can't go over and 00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:25.699 yeah, and and then I think it was my idea to 00:49:25.699 --> 00:49:28.639 shorten it from three segments to two just to 00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:32.099 make things a little bit easier and Streamline 00:49:32.099 --> 00:49:33.380 things a little bit because there were there 00:49:33.380 --> 00:49:35.579 were a lot of stories that bill had that that 00:49:35.579 --> 00:49:37.920 were radio related But not necessarily amateur 00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:40.739 radio related and I thought you know we could 00:49:40.739 --> 00:49:43.679 probably do some streamlining a little bit and 00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:45.900 And that's kind of what we did and so now we're 00:49:45.900 --> 00:49:48.980 a 20 minute ish show instead of a 30 minute ish 00:49:48.980 --> 00:49:52.619 show and and yeah, I just I just the people who 00:49:52.619 --> 00:49:55.440 came in after bill passed away just absolutely 00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:59.579 saved news line, oh, with the exception of Paul 00:49:59.579 --> 00:50:05.219 Brown. But. No, well, you know. But. Yeah. To 00:50:05.219 --> 00:50:09.239 that, to that, to that end, a lot of the people 00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:10.920 that did, you know, step up, raise their hand 00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:13.420 and say, hey, can I be part of it? Several of 00:50:13.420 --> 00:50:16.559 them, like you and I, had broadcast radio careers 00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:20.699 or television careers and were licensed hams. 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:24.340 And what what wound up doing, you know, when 00:50:24.340 --> 00:50:26.619 Bill wrote the scripts, they were very anchor. 00:50:26.829 --> 00:50:29.670 centric that anchor did carried the most of the 00:50:29.670 --> 00:50:31.889 heavy lifting of reading the stories and we'd 00:50:31.889 --> 00:50:34.789 have a few What we would call in the business 00:50:34.789 --> 00:50:38.110 actualities or reports from other voices mixed 00:50:38.110 --> 00:50:41.070 in from time to time But but Karen Ede Murray 00:50:41.070 --> 00:50:43.090 took over and you and I kind of started working 00:50:43.090 --> 00:50:45.570 with her and and working on the newscast itself 00:50:46.670 --> 00:50:49.349 we started to realize hey we've got a lot of 00:50:49.349 --> 00:50:51.449 voices out there and not just here in the US 00:50:51.449 --> 00:50:54.090 but around the world let's utilize them let's 00:50:54.090 --> 00:50:56.670 truly make this sound like from around the world 00:50:56.670 --> 00:51:00.289 which is the opening line of the of the newscast 00:51:00.289 --> 00:51:03.150 it truly does over the last you know however 00:51:03.150 --> 00:51:04.570 many years we've been doing this now without 00:51:04.570 --> 00:51:07.429 Bill it truly does sound like it's coming in 00:51:07.429 --> 00:51:09.429 from around the world and I think that is just 00:51:09.429 --> 00:51:14.119 the coolest thing And you know, Bill always patterned 00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:17.820 after spot radio news. That was how he patterned 00:51:17.820 --> 00:51:20.559 Newsline and everything else. And I think now 00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:24.019 it's more like 60 minutes where the story is 00:51:24.019 --> 00:51:27.800 the main thing and you have an anchor or whatever 00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:30.960 who just introduces the story and it's actually 00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:34.760 the story and the actuality that makes it. And 00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:38.179 so I think the flow is really good. I like how 00:51:38.179 --> 00:51:41.010 Newsline has changed, I really do. Yeah, and 00:51:41.010 --> 00:51:44.610 speaking of 60 minutes or something Yeah, yeah, 00:51:44.610 --> 00:51:48.969 I know we're way we're already over time so Skeeter 00:51:48.969 --> 00:51:54.010 It's great to hear from you, but but we're gonna 00:51:54.010 --> 00:51:56.510 have to move it along here We got a couple of 00:51:56.510 --> 00:51:58.449 other things we're gonna do real quick here before 00:51:58.449 --> 00:52:01.789 we sign off so seven three everybody seven three 00:52:01.789 --> 00:52:04.489 Seven three Skeeter. Take care. Be careful out 00:52:04.489 --> 00:52:09.760 there Another good one. Bye bye. Yep. Yep. Absolutely 00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:13.380 All right. Well wish we had time to to take more 00:52:13.380 --> 00:52:16.920 open and here's another call coming in I wish 00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:20.059 we had time to to take some more calls, but we're 00:52:20.059 --> 00:52:26.019 already over our 45 minutes here, so I did say 00:52:26.019 --> 00:52:28.860 one thing I had like two or three other things 00:52:28.860 --> 00:52:31.639 we were going to talk about but as usual throw 00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:37.489 the script out the window, but Just have you 00:52:37.489 --> 00:52:40.789 mentioned a couple of minutes here on the young 00:52:40.789 --> 00:52:43.610 ham of the year award ceremony that that kind 00:52:43.610 --> 00:52:47.530 of Changed due to kovat and yeah, and so so so 00:52:47.530 --> 00:52:49.849 tell us a little bit about how that went and 00:52:49.849 --> 00:52:53.829 and then we'll Read some comments and sign off 00:52:53.829 --> 00:52:57.590 Well, I thought it went well. I was like how 00:52:57.590 --> 00:52:59.969 can we do this since the board the young ham 00:52:59.969 --> 00:53:03.349 of the year? Awards committee decided not to 00:53:03.349 --> 00:53:07.280 do it live at Huntsville which I did not agree 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:09.679 with it first, but it actually yeah, you know 00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:12.280 it turned out to be it's and that was before 00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:15.619 the Delta variant really hit and then when that 00:53:15.619 --> 00:53:18.480 really got cranked up and You know, yeah, it 00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:20.300 was it was the right decision. It really was 00:53:20.300 --> 00:53:23.760 and they're much brighter people than I am or 00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:29.340 I'll ever be but We we took it over to Tom Medlin's 00:53:29.340 --> 00:53:32.119 Platform and he jumped at it. I figured that 00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:35.429 would be the easiest way to do it Tom's been 00:53:35.429 --> 00:53:38.170 a big friend of the amateur radio news line and 00:53:38.170 --> 00:53:41.369 always broadcast live from Huntsville, the Youngham 00:53:41.369 --> 00:53:43.230 of the Year Award. And so we did it there. We 00:53:43.230 --> 00:53:46.369 did it live on Tom Mellon's amateur radio roundtable 00:53:46.369 --> 00:53:50.389 and it just went really well. And I want to thank 00:53:50.389 --> 00:53:53.570 Tom again for giving us the platform and the 00:53:53.570 --> 00:53:57.570 time and the production value there to do that. 00:53:57.949 --> 00:54:02.400 But I cannot wait. to get back to a ham fest. 00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:05.260 It's been almost two years. It'll be two years 00:54:05.260 --> 00:54:07.000 in January that I've been to a ham fest. And 00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:11.400 I missed last week's show where you had the two 00:54:11.400 --> 00:54:17.179 Michaels and Mark from Dayton, from Orlando, 00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:19.000 and from Huntsville. I've got to go back and 00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:23.840 listen to that. I've met Michael Colley. I've 00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:27.360 not been to the Orlando hamcation. Michael Coulter, 00:54:27.480 --> 00:54:29.159 I think, is the greatest guy in the world, and 00:54:29.159 --> 00:54:32.039 I absolutely love Mark Brown. He's a huge, huge 00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:35.320 friend of Amateur Radio Newsline and helps us 00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:38.380 out tremendously with our presentation at the 00:54:38.380 --> 00:54:42.599 Huntsville Hamfest. So I want to thank Mark for 00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:45.139 everything that he's done for us, and we're going 00:54:45.139 --> 00:54:48.940 to call Huntsville home for as long as they'll 00:54:48.940 --> 00:54:52.389 have us. so uh... uh... i can't wait to go back 00:54:52.389 --> 00:54:54.670 and listen to that episode but yeah i can't wait 00:54:54.670 --> 00:54:56.730 to get back to him as that's where that's where 00:54:56.730 --> 00:54:58.510 this award needs to be presented as in front 00:54:58.510 --> 00:55:03.429 of people uh... i'm i'm i'm ready as well so 00:55:03.429 --> 00:55:06.429 all right well uh... let let's run down a few 00:55:06.429 --> 00:55:09.889 of the uh... The typers here, let's make sure 00:55:09.889 --> 00:55:13.750 we get them in. Uh, Troy W9KVR says, uh, just 00:55:13.750 --> 00:55:17.389 rolled in from, uh, from a park, put 16 in the 00:55:17.389 --> 00:55:20.710 log is W9GRS slash nine, which reminds me it's 00:55:20.710 --> 00:55:24.710 nice school club roundup week. So, um, that's 00:55:24.710 --> 00:55:28.110 going to end tomorrow. So if you haven't been 00:55:28.110 --> 00:55:31.590 on to talk to the kids, uh, and a lot of schools 00:55:31.590 --> 00:55:34.590 are not on because of COVID, but there are several 00:55:34.590 --> 00:55:40.360 that are on. So, uh, give them a. call and see 00:55:40.360 --> 00:55:45.739 how they're doing. Chris A4CB says hello everyone 00:55:45.739 --> 00:55:52.639 and Troy says missed K9SOU being around. Not 00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:59.440 at K9SOU this year. Kind of sad not to have them 00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:03.539 on, but COVID's kind of stopping that process. 00:56:04.300 --> 00:56:09.780 So hopefully they can get back on the air. And 00:56:09.780 --> 00:56:12.699 Askins says, the request line is hot tonight. 00:56:12.780 --> 00:56:15.280 Tried to call, but the screen kept telling him, 00:56:15.539 --> 00:56:20.280 no, not you. So that must have been the issue. 00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:24.179 We need to get Mike on sometime. Yeah, we do. 00:56:24.619 --> 00:56:26.519 We need to we could just do a whole show about 00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:28.000 amateur radio news line and have the anchor, 00:56:28.179 --> 00:56:30.179 you know, have our have the voice as a news line. 00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:31.739 I think that'd be a great idea. We have to do 00:56:31.739 --> 00:56:35.820 that sometime. Yeah, sounds like a plan. Well, 00:56:35.820 --> 00:56:37.880 we had some other things that we can talk about, 00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:40.340 but we'll just have to talk about them later. 00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:44.800 So I'm not going to keep everybody here too much 00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:49.380 longer. So thanks, Don, for coming on and we'll 00:56:49.380 --> 00:56:52.610 talk again soon. Well, I'm glad you hit I'm glad 00:56:52.610 --> 00:56:54.869 I'm glad that I was able to come on and that 00:56:54.869 --> 00:56:58.670 yeah you You're misfortune of not having a guest 00:56:58.670 --> 00:57:00.289 turned out to be a really good thing. So I'm 00:57:00.289 --> 00:57:03.329 glad that I'm glad I was your I'm glad I was 00:57:03.329 --> 00:57:06.110 your last chance to go to and it turned out good. 00:57:06.389 --> 00:57:12.269 So Thank you, sir. I appreciate that All right, 00:57:12.409 --> 00:57:16.139 Don well, thanks so much that is a wrap for this 00:57:16.139 --> 00:57:19.000 week's edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to John 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:22.019 Wilbanks, AE5DW, and everybody out there at Cyberspace 00:57:22.019 --> 00:57:25.420 for listening and calling in and typing in. And 00:57:25.420 --> 00:57:28.219 come back next Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern 00:57:28.219 --> 00:57:31.619 time, for a list of our upcoming guests, go to 00:57:31.619 --> 00:57:35.719 hamtalklive .com. So for now, this is Neil Rapp, 00:57:35.900 --> 00:57:41.199 WB9VPG, saying 7 -3, 7 -5, and may the good DX 00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:54.079 be yours. Well you came right back to my CQ call 00:57:54.079 --> 00:57:59.380 Your Readability 5 and Strength 9 You never once 00:57:59.380 --> 00:58:01.400 mentioned your weather at all