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live in a few minutes. I apologize for being
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And fortunately it was nothing major and things
checked out and were treatable. And so things
worked out, but I didn't have time to get the
show prepared. I canceled, and then once we figured
out that we had the all clear, we decided, okay,
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Space Coast down in Florida, and almost got to
see that Starliner launch, but they had to delay
that. But it was good to be down there and visit
the Space Center and some other things down there.
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If you're up at Oshkosh, they're they're up at
Oshkosh this week. So I'm taking in the the big
air show up there Well, welcome back tonight
Karen Eve Murray Katie to GUT joins us on the
Orlando amateur radio club and hamcation hotline
the Editor at amateur radio news line amateur
radios first independent news and bulletin service
Karen Began an interest in ham radio at age 12,
but waited until years later to take the test
and become a ham in 2014. She quickly earned
her general class license and took over the editing
duties at Newsline after the passing of its founder,
Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. Karen has spent most
of her career working in print media, mostly
for Newsday, but also a brief stint and radio.
She's a member of the Great South Bay Amateur
Radio Club, where she's one of the editors for
the monthly newsletter and besides news and ham
radio. Her other passion is wildlife rehabilitation
or specialty is squirrels. And she also has a
horse and prairie dogs and all kinds of critters.
So, so good evening, Karen. Welcome back to the
show. It's great to be back Neil. I was looking
forward to this and I want to thank you You you
correct my interest in ham radio began when I
was 12 Thanks for not saying how many years it
took And I left that part waiting Well tonight
we want to talk a little bit about some news
now coincidentally I This was my week to anchor
and I've been out of the anchor chair for a couple
of months because of Yoda camp and moving and
all that kind of thing and so got back in the
anchor chair today So so I've already read the
news uh... that will be on amateur radio news
line uh... either later tonight or or early tomorrow
morning uh... but let's let's talk about some
of the things that's been happening and maybe
not yet all you know give away everything for
this week but but some of the things have been
happening the last uh... couple weeks uh... i
know one thing uh... you were uh... you're waiting
on this morning was uh... a story from the fcc
Yeah, this is a real interesting story because
a lot of us this is not really ham radio related
But yes, it is because a lot of us have our roots
in CB good buddy breaker one nine The the FCC
decided it was time to Give FM to the CB world,
which is kind of neat. So 11 meters here in the
United States is getting the option of FM. They're
keeping AM, of course. Always had AM, but 40
channels now will be permitted on FM and this
means the manufacturers of the radios, folks
like Cobra. I had a Cobra in my... in my Dodge
Aspen. Oh God, how many years ago was that? But
that means the newer radios now will be able
to get on FM and go for it. It's just a nice
option to have, and I think the FCC saw that
it did no harm to AM to add it, and I believe
this kind of brings CB in line with a couple
other countries. Yeah, and it also gives people
a reason to Make more radios to sell Well, you
gotta have more videos, you know, you gotta have
What are radios for if not to be purchased now
now I had a tea berry that I won on my bicycle
When I was growing up because I got started off
in CB just a few months before I got into ham
But I had it in a basket had a little gel cell
battery underneath the banana seat had a bag
mount on the back So that way mom could keep
track of me on the bicycle. That is very very
neat. That is neat I had I had a Cobra in my
Dodge Aspen I had a tri -band antenna Which would
fold away because I didn't want folks to know
there was a CB in the car Now goodness knows
the Dodge Aspen was such a popular vehicle Such
a high -end popular vehicle people would just
be breaking the window all the time to get in
and get my CB radio so I have the the AM FM CB
antenna and at the time I was living in the Catskill
Mountains of New York State and going up and
down the mountains and that CB actually saved
Saved my well, I'm vegetarian so I can't say
saved my bacon, but the equivalent of it and
There was a gasoline crisis that year and I foolishly
never looked at the gas gauge so there I was
late at night in a Very rural area up in the
mountains and I was able to get on the CB and
call the cops and they brought me some gasoline
for the car So CB is very cool. I'm happy that
these guys are getting FM Yeah, so it'll be interesting
to see how how well that goes over, you know
and the big craze back in the 70s, you know as
this kind of gone away, but We'll see what happens
with the FM. Well, what are some ham stories
here that have been happening here in the last
couple of weeks that are of interest? Well, you
know what's neat, Neil? You mentioned your bicycle,
of course, with CB Radio. But we have a story
this week about a father and daughter who have
gone for a very, very long bike ride in the UK.
And they brought along their HTs. And they're
doing it to call attention to the Royal National
Lifeboat Association. They're trying to raise
some money for them. But they're also taking
a father -daughter bike ride, which I think is
very cool. That's a Kev G0PEK and Lauren2E0HLR.
And they're calling attention to the fact that
UHF and VHF are very much alive and I think as
they travel they're hitting repeaters and at
night they're camping out and they're using their
club call sign when they camp out. But during
the day when they're operating mobile they're
using their personal call signs and building
goodwill along the way and probably building
some muscle because they have a long way to go
yet. That's another one that's on this week's
Newsline. So make sure you check that out at
ARNewsline .org or on a repeater near you or
on a podcast near you. And we'll talk a little
bit more about Newsline itself here after the
break. But what else is happening out there?
Well, in the realm of sad news. The CW world
lost the designer of the fabulous software that
so many of us are learning CW on and helped us
get our CW game on, G4FON. Ray Burlingham -Goff,
that's his call sign, it's also the name of the
software he designed. When I was going originally
for my novice at age 12, there was no such thing
as this kind of software, but it sure would have
been helpful. I learned CW back then, but of
course forgot most of it. And this software certainly
helped me a great deal. I was learning with the
LICW club. So a lot of folks are very sad, not
just in the UK, but all over, all over because
He was a nice guy, and he did so much for folks
trying to learn. CW may be easy for kids, but
for the rest of us, it's a little tougher. You
know, I fully expect I will be QRS for quite
some time. Maybe forever. But that's okay. That's
okay. So that was a big loss. That was a really
sad bit of news. I got to tell you, you know,
you do Newsline. You don't want to make a news
report too much in the happy news and too much
in the sad news, but you kind of take it as it
comes, and every week brings you such a range
of things. You think there's no news out there
in amateur radio, but my God, we have a busy
little universe at hand. We're always up to something.
Yes, we do. Well, you were talking about code
and, and you know, learning it. I had records
and I found some of those the other day after,
you know, the move opened up this box and here
are these big albums. Um, what was the Farnsworth
Morse code? Um, records. And so you put it on,
you know, 33 and a third, and you got, you know,
five words a minute, and then you put it on 45
and it sped it up, and you put it on 78 and it
sped it, you know. So you could increase your
speed, but it was the same record over and over
and over again. So after a while, you got to
memorizing it. Oh, that's funny. That's, of course,
try that now. Well, people have turntables again,
though. The records may come back. They've made
a comeback. They have made a comeback, so I'm
hanging on to them just in case. Keep those records.
Absolutely. Now you can get one of those USB
turntables. You can convert it to an MP3. How
about radical? Exactly. I know some people who
have those and decide to take their whole album
collection and just rip it. That's pretty cool.
Well, uh, you know some other stuff going on
That I that I noticed it and and this may be
a news for you This may be something that didn't
hit yet AO 92 has been turned back on Temporarily
the battery life is really really really really
literally bad But the usual warning of, you know,
don't use it while it's in eclipse and all that
kind of thing. But AO92 is back on and saw a
few people making some contacts on it today.
So we'll see if it holds up. Wow. Neil, have
you ever made a contact with AO92? Oh, yes. 91
and my 92 are my go -to Satellites. Okay. Okay.
Oh Yeah, back back and better than ever. It's
back back. Anyway, I wouldn't say better than
ever because it's a pretty bad shape We pretty
much wrote it off and so Turn that back on. We'll
see what it does So why not? So that is that
is kind of nice. It reminds me of Monty Python?
I'm not quite dead yet. Yep, I'm not dead yet.
I'm not quite dead yet. Oh, he's looking a bit
peaked, but he's not quite dead yet. Well, we
have any other big stories here from the last
couple of weeks? Oh, well, may we talk teapots.
Yes, now that we've had a silent key and you
know we need we need to loosen up a little here
and have a little fun and running for a couple
of days right up through the weekend is the world's
largest teapot special event. And full disclosure,
I'm one of the operators. I got some folks from
my home club, Great South Bay, operating. We've
got folks operating really across the country.
The teapot is in West Virginia, and this was
a local event for the past 17 years. And this
year, the organizers said, hey, let's go coast
to coast. So, we've got Whiskey One Tango, Whiskey
Two Tango, Whiskey Three Tango. You can kind
of figure the pattern here. Plus, we got a special
bonus station, Whiskey Victor Eight, Hotel Alpha
Tango, Stroke Two, in the case of New York, Stroke
Three, so on and so forth. And, wow! We got pile
-ups! We got pile -ups! Pile -ups, this tea is
hot. People love the teapot. Love the teapot.
A lot of the operators, Neil, are folks who really
enjoyed the last man standing operation when
we did that special event. And the 13, not the,
yeah, some from the 13 colonies and some from
12 days of Christmas. We're like a repertory
company, I'm telling you. All kinds of special
events out there. It's great. So if it's the
world's largest teapot, then I guess the song
doesn't really apply then. I'm a little teapot.
It's the world's largest teapot. The world's
largest. We have to do the world's smallest teapot
next, but that... activation will probably last
a minute and a half. Not a very big activation.
Okay, so this is going on through the weekend?
Yep, yep, right into the weekend. Folks can look
on the QRZ page, Whiskey Victor 8, Hotel Alpha
Tango, and any of the other Special event call
signs in my case the operators in New York. You
can look under whiskey to tango has all the details
It's it's really cool. I spoke with one guy the
other night up in Massachusetts a guy outside
Boston and he said After we had finished, you
know, I locked him and he goes, you know, I've
seen that teapot It's like, oh my God. It's like,
I've seen that teapot. Yes, yes. I drove down
there and I went right past it. The teapot is
located in a part of West Virginia that is bordered
by Ohio and Pennsylvania. So it's somewhat visible
and accessible, even if you don't stop. But it
has a history. It was originally a barrel. for
a hires root beer commercial back in the earlier
part of the last century. And then somebody added
a spout and a handle and it became, it's so big,
it became a gift shop, a souvenir shop. It's
all kind of - So there's a souvenir shop inside
the teapot? There was, I think at one point.
Oh, there was. Wow. Yeah, there was. It's had
a number of different jobs in life. It's been
repurposed. It just keeps going and going and
going. It's the Energizer teapot. It just can't
be stopped. And people are really into this.
It's like they love the teapot. It is the coolest
thing. And, you know, we direct people to the
website to read about it. There's a big festival
in West Virginia on Saturday, the Teapot Festival,
and everybody All the operators want to be on
the air during that. And this is from around
the country, not just locally at the festival.
So we're trying to put in a big showing for this.
And I can't, I mean, all of these special events
are really fun, Neil, but this one is just, this
is just, it's for a big teapot. It's just the
coolest thing. We're having the best time. I
saw, I saw not long ago, actually, Andy K9AWM
filed a story about my hometown, Vincennes, and
they revived a special event my mother actually
started, which was the the Red Skelton special
event. Oh, yes. That I, I worked, I worked K...
K. What was it? K8? K9R? I worked them twice.
Your mom was involved in that. My mom actually
started that, which I don't even know if they
they realized it. I think they think, you know,
they thought it was the first time it had been
done. But yeah, we had certificates. We had them
printed up and I had a whole bunch of them around
here somewhere. I don't know where they are.
where they all ended up. But yeah, it's the birthplace
of Red Skelton. And so we had the Red Skelton
special event. So they brought it back, got a
one by one call sign for it, which we didn't
have back then. But yeah, it's kind of cool to
see that back in my own home. I love that event.
Gee, I wish I'd known you had a connection to
that. But that was amazing too, because people
were telling stories about Red Skelton. Yeah,
it's the kind of event where you don't just exchange
your signal reports and move on. You want to
have a little rag chew about Red Skelton. And
a lot of folks had great stories. They've got
they've got a whole performing arts center and
his name now and and you can see the house where
he was born, you know and all that kind of thing
I Liked him so much. I liked him so much. I had
the pleasure of meeting him one time He was at
the high school and he was sitting in the office
signing autographs and I happened to get my picture
taken with him for the newspaper at that point.
So I still have that picture around, I know.
I gotta see that. I think I've got the certificate
somewhere too. I have to dig that out. I'd love
to see that. Did you watch the show? I only the
show was actually off by the time I was watching
TV So I have seen it, but it's always been in
reruns and the TV station there and Vincennes
started running a bunch of the reruns so I saw
some of them on there, but But yeah, I didn't
see any of them live so Just all kinds of cool
special events out there I love special events.
I thought, I mean, I love DXing most of all,
but I'll tell you something, special events are
a close second. They're gaining on, I mean, DXing
to me is the biggest kick. But the special events,
they really encompass everything, their history,
they're about so much. Plus, they're about team
building. We learn to work with the team. We
make friends. You can't ask for more than that.
Been a pretty good run of those here lately,
which I guess that's what happens too when the
bands aren't all that great for the DX. You can't
get all these DXpeditions going, which that's
another story, but we'll take a break here. But
the bouvet thing may be back on again. But the
DXpeditions have been shut down, so now we've
got all these special events to kind of fill
the gap. Well it's time to take a break, so we're
going to do that and we'll come back and talk
some more with Karen Eve Murray, KD2GUT from
Amateur Radio Newsline, talk a little bit about
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joke from Rick. Oh, there you go guys. It's terminal.
I want to just say, Neil, you made me listen
to this twice. I know. I had to hear it before
the show, and now I hear it. And now, and now,
and it hasn't gotten any better since, has it?
Well, no, and probably I will tell it to people
now. This is now I have to lick pain on other
people. Exactly. All right, we're going to go
to the phone lines. The phone number again, 859
-982 -7373. We're going to the phone lines. Good
evening. Welcome to HamTalk Live. Well, good
evening to you as well. Good evening, Miss Paul.
the week what i love most about the joke of the
week is the fact that the intro and the outro
is about eight times longer than the actual joke
yes exactly yeah funnier no that's not true yes
yes the the uh... Production side of our brain
says, you know Okay, we built all this up for
a you know, a ten second joke. Okay, sure. Why
not? Yep Well, what do you have tonight for us
Paul? Well, I thought I would call in first I
would like to say that I too had the Amiko code
records. That's how I learned Back when when
I was getting my novice in the late 70s One of
the, some guy in town who was an old retired
EE had heard that I was into radio and electronics
and asked me to come over to his house and he
gave me a bunch of stuff. Old books and parts
and things. And in that pile of stuff that he
gave me was a set of the Amico code records.
And that's what I used to learn Morse code. In
addition to some instruction from my Elmer, but
in between sessions at Steve's house. I was learning
on those records. That's what I did. That was
the between the classes method. Yeah. My Elmer
was sneaky though because you know I'd go over
to his house once a week and we'd go over theory
and we'd practice code back and forth and one
night He just sent me the normal things. He was
just sending me stuff and I copied it all down.
He said, let me see that. He said, all right,
you passed. So he snuck my novice code exam in
without me knowing about it, which was pretty
smart because there was no stress. I was just
copying like normal. So that's a good I have
done that before Elmer to be able to do that
I wish I I wish I had a Morse code Elmer but
I have the Long Island CW Club and That's it's
you can't ask for better hand holding than that
But they have to hold my left hand because my
right hand is on the straight key. It doesn't
work exactly Yeah, oh you then you use the straight
key. I use the paddle that's I mean, I learned
on a straight key because it's the way to do
it, but my Elmer had a Brown Brothers paddle.
So as soon as I, you know, I would practice on
that when I was over there just to get the hang
of using a paddle. And so when I got my first
station, when I got my license, that was my Christmas
present from my parents. They bought me. That's
really nice. Yeah, that's I still I still have
it and When I see it for sale on eBay or at at
ham fest I'm like, ooh I'm glad mine's in really
nice shape and I kept it because they're very
desirable now Yes, they are well Paul while we
have you on the line we were going to talk a
little bit about Some of the things that is happening
with news line lately and you and Karen team
up on Saturday mornings over on 100 watts and
a wire and do the two stories thing. So tell
everybody a little bit about the two stories.
Well, that actually was a short run. That was
a six -month run that we were fortunate to be
able to have, and the show is moving in a different
direction, but that was a really fun six months
and a good opportunity to be able to explain
our stories to folks and give a little added
dimension, which was really, really neat. So,
kind of taking radio into the video realm. Yeah,
and for those who missed the ones that we did,
they're all up on YouTube. You can go back to
the 100 Watts and a Wire YouTube channel and
you can catch the two stories that we did do.
Yeah, we had a lot of fun. It's just that Christian
was kind of wanting to move in a slightly different
direction. The show was getting very long, too.
We're still all family. We're still all friends,
and we really enjoyed what we did. The story
getting long, I should add, the segment getting
long, doesn't have anything to do whatsoever
with the fact that we like to talk a lot. That
has nothing whatsoever to do with it. We're succinct.
We're brief. We're to the point. We are, uh,
economical in our, um, we keep our conversation
short. Can I go on? Should I go on? Well, it
was really cool, you know, to be able to, you
know, kind of take a deeper dive into just two
of the stories from Newsline, uh, that week.
And, uh, so I really enjoyed that and I'm glad
you Two were able to do that on Saturday mornings
for a while and we're doing something kind of
like that here. We're not, we're not getting,
you know, limiting it to two and getting super
deep into these, but you get a little more perspective.
And if you want to hear more, go to arnewsline
.org or listen to the podcast or Uh, listen on
a repeater near you. Uh, it's, it's about a 20
minute newscast each week. And, um, you know,
uh, you, if you watch ham nation, you get the,
you know, two or three of the headlines and,
and that's, that's pretty much it. But, uh, you
know, there's a 20 minutes of ham radio news
that comes your way each and every week, um,
at amateur radio news line. So. Make sure you
check it out. Yeah, you can listen to it directly
off the website. If you have a podcast app, you
can subscribe to it. So it automatically shows
up every Friday morning. And if you go to our
website, we have a list of all of the repeaters
that we know of so far that carry it. So there
may be one in your area. And if there's not,
have the repeater owner contact us, and as long
as they have an internet -connected repeater
controller, we can explain to them how to carry
it. Plus, doesn't WTWW Shortwave carry it big
on Saturday evenings? Yes, and we are on shortwave
.de out of Germany. We are part of the CQ Serenade
program that is played every week on that station
in Europe. If you're on the Hamshack Hotline
VoIP network, there is an extension you can dial
that plays the week's news line as well. We're
everywhere. Let's face it. You can run, but you
cannot hide. We are going to find you and make
you listen to us. That's right. We sit down here
in our little studios in our underwear and record
this thing and you guys have to listen to it.
No, wait a minute. I didn't do that. Underwear.
Wait a minute. Underwear? Yeah. You get underwear.
That wasn't the plan today. What? The underwear?
Sorry, oh wait wait those are called news briefs.
I'm sorry yes I'm sorry May I make a shameless
pitch To ask people also if you like what you
hear when you're listening we are now Able to
ask for a little bit of support From our listeners.
We are a nonprofit We are all volunteers and
The cost that we incur to bring this to you can
greatly benefit from a little love And there
is a PayPal button on our website. So arnewsline
.org is where we would We'd like to have more
of a presence at some of the larger ham fest
throughout the year as well So there's the expenses
for that. And so I mean We do what we do because
we love what we do, but it wouldn't hurt They
have a little assistance as well. So but you
can keep listening to it as long as you want.
There's And I do have to say that I mean while
we are We really are family we we all for the
most part we all like each other and You know
we we realize that if we could share an office
with a bunch of people it would be us and But
I do have to say since she is the special guest
tonight Karen is the one who is the den mother
and rides herd on the rest of us because if it
weren't for her We wouldn't even be able to do
news line. So I have to give her credit for,
uh, for keeping, keeping, keeping us idiots in
line and for making sure that good news is gathered
in written and produced every week. Yep. Absolutely.
Wow. I'm glad I'm the news squirrel to get that
check to you in time for the show. No, we definitely
I we're a good team. We're all really a good
team You know, what was the coolest was the first
year we all met at Dayton I know you guys remember
that and and many of us did turn up in Dayton
that year and I think the question was asked
gee What if we finally meet? And we don't like
each other. There was always that possibility.
And Paul, I think you said, well, I already don't
like Will Banks. I think you already said that.
Well, that's pretty much, I mean, we pretty much
all agree on that. I mean, you know, but we tolerate
him because he's useful. He's useful. And he
did wear the unicorn suit. We got him. Yes, he
did. He did. He did. If you remember watching
on ham nation that that first year we we got
him a Pink or no blue blue unicorn onesie and
we snuck it into his room and then he wore it
on on him He wore it. He did. He looked good.
He looked good. He wears it well Well, Paul,
thank you so much for calling in. We're gonna
see if we have anybody else that wants to call.
We're actually out of time, so... You are quite
welcome. We'll open up the lines here for a few
minutes, and good talking to you, and I'll be
seeing you on Messenger. Absolutely. Have a good
night, 73. All right. Good night, Paul. Paul
Brown WD9 GCO from amateur radio newsline and
let's try one more time as Ali Ali got on ham
nation the other night We're not gonna let Ali
on the show again tonight She just about crawled
over the laptop and shut everything down. So
859 -982 -7373 is the phone number if you'd like
to call in. I did see something here on Twitter,
so let me make sure we got this in. Brett to
wi7bg wants to know, will the extension of CB
modes to FM lead the FCC to impose greater restrictions
on RF amplifiers? or maintain the unfortunate
15 dB gain limit on amateur amplifiers, which
hams have to clutch around. So you see any other
indications of changing some of the restrictions
and enforcement? Well, I looked at the document
that the FCC released, which was a released actually
a day yesterday it was released. The decision
was made on the third. There was nothing in there
to indicate that they were even thinking along
those lines. I think this particular decision
that the FCC made was in response to a petition
from one of the manufacturers. Obviously they
want to make and sell more radios and they certainly
would welcome the addition of FM. But I don't
think the FCC is thinking beyond that right now,
that narrow scope of the question. So I think
for quite a while, don't put ideas in their head.
And I think you'll be just fine. I really do.
Yeah, whenever they open up spectrum for just
anybody to use they get really really touchy
about how much power you have and So I imagine
that will continue to be the case so They let
us have a little bit more because we're we're
a little more educated and trained but But yeah,
it's it's pretty much QRP for those wide open
bands. At least for now, that's what I would
expect. For now, yeah. I think the FCC's got
its hands full with quite a few other things.
It would be nice if they could take care of spam
phone calls, but that's for another day. And
an actual wireless microphone. Spectrum would
be nice, too. That's a whole nother story. Well,
Karen, we're out of time here, but Brett, thank
you for typing in tonight. Appreciate that. And
Karen, we're going to wrap things up here. So
we mentioned the Newsline support fund. Go to
arnewsline .org and click on the PayPal donate
button. You know make sure you check that out
and thanks for being here. Oh This has been great
really Good good to sit down and chat again Neil.
It's been a couple of years. I think I was on
the first year with Newsline when I had just
assumed the editors role and it's great to be
back with a couple of years and a few stories
under under my belt and Being part of the team.
So thanks for the invite Oh, you're most welcome.
Thank you for being here, and we'll do it again
sooner rather than later. Absolutely. We'll get
some more news in here as well. All right, well,
that is a wrap for this week's edition of Hammer
Talk Live. Thanks to my guest, Carradine Murray,
KD2GUT. And everybody out there in cyberspace
for listening and typing in and invite you back
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