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HamTalk Live episode number 260. Ham radio for
dummies, recorded live on Thursday, June 10th,
2021. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WP9VPG. Thanks
for tuning into this episode of HamTalk Live.
Tonight, we're joined by Ward Silver in Zero
AX, and we'll take your calls live. later on
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Welcome back to AM Talk Live. Tonight Ward Silver
in Zero AX joins us on the Orlando Amateur Radio
Club and Hamcation Hotline. Ward was first licensed
at age 16 in 1972 and worked professionally in
broadcasting and product development engineering.
Ward is an avid contester and DXers and one of
the founders of the World Radio Sport Team Championships.
He is currently the president of the Yasme Foundation
and the lead editor of the ARRL Handbook and
Antenna Books. He's authored many others such
as a RL license study guides ham radio for dummies
Which is now in its fourth edition and a book
on station grounding and many many many articles
He was a 2008 Dayton amateur of the year and
in 2015 was inducted into the CQ contest Hall
of Fame And he's also a longtime instructor at
contest University in Dayton so Ward welcome
back to the show Hi Neil, it's great to be back.
Thanks for the opportunity to talk to folks Yeah,
now I got a copy of the the book the fourth edition
of ham radio for dummies that you gave me to
do a review for amateur radio news line and I
Just have to record that I wrote it last night
and got it. We're gonna do a little review on
Newsline about it, but tonight we get the long
version here We can we can spend quite a bit
of time talking about the new book and and this
You know, the Dummies books have been out for
a good while now and it really targets people
who are thinking about getting started in something
or are kind of a beginner and Ham Radio is no
exception. So let's talk a little bit about the
target audience for the book and the purpose
of doing the For Dummies book for Ham Radio.
Right. Everybody is a dummy about something and
ham radio being so big, there are a lot of areas
where we don't know what's going on and want
to find out stuff. A lot of new things being
introduced all the time and the dummies format
lends itself well to an easy read where you can
just scan through the book, pick out what you're
interested in and then go on your way. And so
the idea behind the book is a desktop Elmer.
And it's for hams who just got licensed and are
now wondering, well, now what? And unless you've
got somebody to take you under their wing and
answer every question, you really need that help
or you have to go searching for it online. And
so I tried to pull the most common and most widely
used and experienced aspects of ham radio into
one volume and then there's a lot of people out
there that have heard about ham radio, but they
don't really know what it is and of course you
ask Anybody in the hobby you'll get their particular
view and so This is a good introduction to what
is this ham radio business and what do people
get out of it? How does it work? Do I have to
get a license? That kind of stuff. So it helps
introduce people to ham radio. And then once
they take the plunge and get that ticket, it'll
help them, uh, find out how to do stuff. Um,
what's out there and have more fun. So they'll
be more willing to stick with it. That seems
to be working meal. Yeah, it does. I mean, you
know, you're in the fourth edition now, so you
must be doing something right. Or there wouldn't
wouldn't have been a second and a third and a
fourth. So Yeah, there's very few fourth editions
of dummies books. So I must be doing something
right there you go Well as I was reading it a
lot of things came to mind and and there were
a couple of things in there that I hadn't heard
about They were kind of small but you know, there
were a couple of things in there that I didn't
know about but it made me think of Just how much
stuff You really need to learn I mean there's
there's so much stuff in this book and and you've
done a great job of putting it into Digestible
chunks small pieces of information, but I got
the thinking Oh my gosh all these terms that
I use all the time and and and as a teacher and
and you know teaching ham radio in the schools,
it's been You know, oh my gosh. No wonder this
is you know Consuming my energy because there's
a lot there There's a lot to learn. K1ZZ, the
longtime leader, CEO of the ARRL, used the phrase
a lot. I don't know if it was his originally,
but a ham radio license is really a license to
learn. Yes, there's a lot to learn. You don't
have to learn at all. You can specialize if you
want and some people do that and they are perfectly
happy and successful hams without doing a whole
lot of different things. Pretty much, I think
most of us tend to do several things. And once
we get started, we look around and we see different
stuff out there. Plus, there's new technology
coming around all the time. And yes, you're right
about jargon, especially older hams, more experienced
hams, even young ones who've been a ham for a
few years, you tend to throw around a lot of
jargon. Q -signals. What are Q -signals? We just
use them as if everybody knew what they were.
And that's something that a new ham has to learn.
I remember being mystified by CW prosigns, like
ES. What is this ES business? And then finally,
after several weeks, somebody explained to me
that it meant and, and it was just an abbreviation,
but I had no idea. It's a book where you can
find little bits of stuff to answer your questions.
And I have to tip my cap to the dummies designer
people at Wiley. They have set this up so that
all the dummies books have that bite size. approach
to things and they're very readable. I have a
whole stack of dummies books on my shelf for
different topics. I wanted to learn about geocaching
so I got the geocaching book and you can just
scan it in a couple of nights and hey by golly
you have a sense of what the jargon is and what
it's about and then you can dig in deeper if
you want. So the book is not a detailed how to
step -by -step. It tells you what's going on,
it explains some of the jargon, the basic concept,
and it says, here's where you can find out all
that you need to know, and points the reader
in the direction. And hopefully that results
in them going and having a good experience. I
also was trying to wrap my brain around how many
web links went into this book. Because you've
got a link for just about everything and and
that's got to be a monumental task Well, and
they change to There are a few that between the
the draft of the book going to the editors and
then checking the final layout some of them changed
I think the key to that is to use the highest
level URL on the website that you can hopefully
the website doesn't change, but if it does, you
can find the top level and search for the topic.
Anyway, there are many dozen ham URLs in the
book, links, and I tried to have a link for almost
every topic because you can't explain everything
completely and keep the book manageable. Yeah,
absolutely. You did a great job with that. And
I really like to the, you know, the terminology
is always, you know, highlighted and, you know,
the bold face for the terms and just makes it
really easy to to allow people to learn what's
going on. Well, let's talk about some of these
big changes that you made to the fourth edition.
Well, pretty much every portion of the book was
updated to some degree. And this was a big set
of changes. The last edition was written before
FT8 and before DMR and other big changes like
the pandemic. And so there was an awful lot to
incorporate into the new edition. So every portion
got touched to some degree. I made the biggest
changes in the sections on how to tune radio
and how to make it contact those sections because
SDR, software defined radio technology, has changed
many radios and their user interfaces and it's
no longer just a knob and numbers anymore for
most radios. So that has to be worked in. At
the same time, there's a tremendous amount of
legacy technology out there, all the analog stuff.
So a new ham will be confronted with radically
different types of technology. So I had to rework
all of that. And then, like I said, FT8 was introduced
in 2017, I think, and then started taking the
world by storm. That was right after the previous
edition. So by the time this edition got started,
FT8 was the dominant method of making QSOs. And
it's wildly different than previous technologies.
And DMR has come on as one of the big digital
voice modes. So you have repeaters with System
Fusion, D -Star, DMR, and P25 and others are
out there. And that's becoming one of the most
common technologies for repeaters. So I can't
just say repeaters and talk about regular old
analog FM. They are sharing the bands with this
new digital stuff. And then because of the pandemic
really accelerated it, but the exam process has
been updated. So you can take an exam using a
remote session. LA area radio group GLARG is
the leading organization doing remote sessions.
So we had to incorporate that into what is the
process of getting a license. There are new topics
in the exam question pool and operating practices.
They are updated to popular techniques and specialties
like parks on the air and summits on the air
and youngsters on the air. I love the on the
air part. That's really what amateur radio is
about. But you've got all these new communities
within amateur radio, and it's important to introduce
those. And then you've got all the technical
changes. So there's technical guidance about
radios and antennas and tools, all sorts of stuff.
So as you might imagine, a lot of the book has
been changed. It's about 20 % thicker than the
previous edition. And that indicates the scope
of the hobby is getting broader every day, every
week. So it's a moving target. And I really,
really did touch a lot of it this time, Neil.
Well, you sure did. I mean, there's just so many
changes and so much new stuff out there. And
you did a fabulous job of trying to catch a little
bit of all of it in this book. Now, if somebody
picks up this book that's interested in ham radio
or just getting started in ham radio, is this
going to help them with the license exam? Well,
it will help them with the license exam. It is
not a traditional study guide where the questions
are listed. And then there's a discussion of
why the correct answer is what it is. There are
plenty of really good exam study guides out there.
There's the ARRL guide. There's the W5YI, Gordo,
KB6NU, just quite a few. If you type in radio
amateur exam study guide, you'll get a whole
handful of really good books. websites, flashcards,
videos that will help you with specific questions.
That said, in the book, the dummies All the books
have these things called icons over at the left
margin of each page. And one of them is tip,
T -I -P. This is a tip, something you need to
know. So if the topic is covered on the exam,
I put a tip icon on the page and I say, you know,
you might want to study this because it's a topic
that's on the exam. but I don't get into the
exact questions. So it's not a traditional study
guide, but it does point you in the right direction.
I hope that answers your question. Thank you.
Yep. Just want to make sure people realize that,
you know, it's not necessarily a licensed study
guide, although there's a lot of information
in there that will definitely help and help understand.
What's going on? All right. Well, it's time for
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So if you have a question for Ward, now's the
time to call us. It's 859 -982. 73 73 we'll give
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73 Well, one of our commenters is our friend,
Michael Coulter, W8CI from the Dayton Hamvention.
And Michael says, Ward is an incredible powerhouse
for amateur radio as an author and credible leader
of YASME. uh... low -key but yet uh... a wonderful
contribution uh... also as an astonishing supporter
of youth in fact we may talk a little bit about
youth here in a little bit uh... but uh... also
mentions that your book is coming out on audible
so uh... give us the information on the audio
version of the book well the audio version uh...
is uh... converted directly from the text using
the audible process that Wiley has. So it's a
direct text to audio and there's also an electronic
e -book version of it. So whatever platform you
care to consume Ham Radio for Dummies in, you
will be able to get it. Okay, so you can you
can catch it there as well and I did put the
link to the fourth edition on the description
in the show Description so you can check that
out as well if you need a direct link To the
new book. All right. Well eight five nine nine
eight two seventy three seventy three is the
number the phone lines are open And we have a
tweet from Brett W Y seven B G that says, Neil,
glad to see your podcast resume. You keep moving
closer and closer to Dayton. Is that a coincidence?
Well, maybe. I don't know. It's convenient. That's
for sure. But now we're in 20 minutes away now.
You'll have to, you'll have to move right into
the parking lot. You'll have one of those coveted
parking spots. Well, my good friend. Dr. Scott,
right? KZ or MD keeps telling me that I need
to, I need to just move to Xenia so that way
I can rent out parking spots. I don't know. We
were trying to get into this house, let alone
another one, but, uh, we're going to, we're going
to have to move again soon because, because we've
got this HOA thing going on here. So we're going
to figure out some antennas for the meantime,
but, uh, Yeah. I don't want to think about moving
again. We haven't even got this one done yet.
All right. Eight, five, nine, nine, eight, two,
73, 73. Go ahead. We, uh, you're going to have
to, uh, uh, evaluate the remote station, um,
possibilities. I talk about that in the book
too. That's incredibly popular and there's a
lot of technology for that now. Yes, there is
and and that's something that we've tried to
make available to Some of the youth in Yoda and
we'll talk about that here in just a minute But
there's also the remote ham radio youth program
that provides that to youth but another way to
To do remote work. So there's there's several
options there And I may have to do that. I'm
going to, I'm going to try to string up a dipole
though, at least until I can, until a week move
again and I can get a good tower up, but we'll
see how that goes. Well, let's talk about the
book again. Let's, let's get back to the topic
here. Is this only for beginners? Is that it?
No, not at all. Um, it certainly addresses questions
that beginners have. But ham radio is really
enormous. It's so broad that nobody knows everything
about ham radio anymore. There used to be years
and years ago, if you read QSD cover to cover,
you pretty much touched everything going on in
ham radio, but that's no longer the case. So
especially if you've specialized in one area
for a while. Other things have grown up. There's
other options and you might want to what is this
business about FTA or What is this about remote?
Stations, how do you do that? So you can flip
through the book get a sense of what that is
find some resources to dive deep if you want
and It's a quick window into a lot of different
areas of the hobby Eight five nine nine eight
two seventy three seventy three is the phone
number if you have a question or a comment for
Ward silver in zero a X the author of ham radio
for dummies and fourth edition Well, yeah, let's
talk a little bit about the youth because you've
been working on this Yoda thing too and we're
very grateful for you asked me support of The
youth on the air camp which I was just looking
at the calendar is a month and a day away And
that may have caused my blood pressure to just
go up because that means I only have a month
left to finish it up But you've been doing some
really cool things with the youth on the air
group Internationally and so let's talk a little
bit about some of the things that are going on
within the Americas, region two, with Yoda. Well,
we'll back up a second now, let folks know what
Yoda is and where it comes from. Yoda stands
for youngsters on the air in region one, which
is ITU breaks the world up into three regions.
And region one is Europe and Africa. Region two
is the Americas and region three is Oceania and
Asia. So they use the term youngsters like we
use the term youth. It's basically anybody under
the age of 25. So Yoda region one got its start
oh maybe a dozen years or so ago and it was a
organic kind of thing. It grew from individual
groups of youngsters getting together young hams
students interested in ham radio. Florian Y09
I think his call is YGF I can never remember
it Sorry about that, Florian. And then later
Lisa Lenders, PA2LS, acted as, they didn't manage
the group, but they sort of administered it and
helped get going. And it's taken off. There are
hundreds of young amateurs in Region 1 that are
engaged in Yoda activities, they have camps,
they have on -the -air events, et cetera, et
cetera. The next question was, well, why don't
we have Yoda over here in Region 2 in the Americas?
And we have been banging around with that for
a little while. And with Zoom taking off and
making it possible for people to meet all over
the world, we had... Zoom and GoToMeeting and
Skype and Teams and all this kind of stuff. We
had a platform. So IARU region two leadership
responded favorably to the idea of creating a
Yoda liaison, not necessarily a manager, but
somebody who could act as a visible. person to
contact and ask questions and help connect people.
That was Sterling Coffee, N0 Sugar Sugar Charlie.
Sterling is an ARL youth editor in the past and
is a familiar face in the under 25 ham radio
scene. So he became the liaison and I helped
Sterling with administrative things. We started
out with the proposal that we would ask if anybody
was out there in region two who was working with
youth and what were they doing and how does it
work and can you tell us about it? We don't want
to manage their program, we just want to know
about it. And things started to accelerate and
now we have a group of well over 30 youth leaders
around South America, the Caribbean, Central
America, and Canada. who meet every couple weeks
and maybe we have a topic or maybe somebody has
done something or maybe somebody has an idea
and we discuss it for 90 minutes to two hours
and it's been very useful in discovering who's
out there doing what, what are they finding works,
what kind of interesting programs do they have.
The challenges have been that we have of the
mix of languages. Spanish is the predominant
language in Central America and South America,
but it's by no means the only language. The Brazilians
use Portuguese, and in the Caribbean, English
is very popular. And so we've had to have Spanish
meetings and English meetings and that kind of
thing. So we're trying to help people reach across
their cultural and country lines to help each
other. We have some hams in Argentina who started
working with hams in Peru, and we're finding
out about STEM programs in Panama and Mexico,
and they're making those visible to the other
groups. The Brazilians have a big challenge right
now with COVID. But when they come back, they're
going to resume working with hams in contest
stations. And then in the Caribbean, the driving
force there was the hurricanes and the damage
that the hurricanes caused. And people were very
interested in this ham radio thing. So that's
starting to open up some youth opportunities,
particularly in Puerto Rico and Dominica. and
other Iowans. So we're getting that started.
It's basically a meet and greet, but the idea
is to share ideas and Yasme, a foundation of
which I'm the president. It's a very old ham
radio foundation. We funded a couple of programs
for youth within that group. So it's starting
to catch a fire, as they say, and I'm hopeful
that we'll have Yoda events, a lot like your
Youth on the Air camp coming up here in a month
and a day. And there's also activity burgeoning
in region three, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand.
So this is starting to take off around the world.
And I'm just really pleased to help in any way
I can, Neil. Well, you've been a fabulous help
in getting the camp going and getting that ball
rolling and now getting people talking to each
other. And it's been a lot of fun to sit in on
those and offer some things, but also just to
kind of sit back and hear what other countries
are doing and try to share some ideas. Gained
some knowledge from the collective of all of
us and So it's been a been a great thing Well,
we're just about out of time here ward But I
want to give you a chance to make any closing
comments that you'd like to do and remind everybody
where they can find the book Okay, thanks. Well
the book is sold online. All you have to do is
type in Ham Radio for Dummies and you'll find
the various editions. It's sold in Amazon obviously.
You'll find the eBook there. The audible version
is available. Ham Radio distributors like DX
Engineering and Ham Radio Outlet are selling
it and so it's available. It's not very expensive.
I think the going price is just a little over
20 bucks. And if you've got a young ham or a
relative or an acquaintance that wants to know
about ham radio, this would be a good way to
introduce them at a pretty low cost, I think,
compared to most big technical reference books
for sure. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing
the youth camp do real well this year. We should
have some more Yoda events. And once we're meeting
in person. Again, I expect to see some really
great pictures and reports and videos from the
Younger Hams get together and doing their own
thing. And I think that's really important. They
need to get together and do their own thing and
what makes sense to them in the way that works
for them and addresses their needs. And the rest
of us who've been around for a while, we need
to help facilitate that. and help make that happen.
I think it's a great opportunity for us all,
Neil. I totally agree. And that is one of the
things that we're really trying to do with the
camp is get that infrastructure set up so that
the young people can take that over for the most
part. And that's really important when students
get ownership of things. They tend to put a lot
more into it. They tend to to do Much better
and so this is a great chance to to do that.
So again Thank you for all of your support and
in making that happen and and we'll talk with
you next time Thanks a lot Neil. I look forward
to it Okay, and again, there'll be a review coming
up on amateur radio news line. So make sure you
Check that out, but for tonight, that is a wrap
for this week's edition of HamTalk Live. I'd
like to thank my guest Ward Silver, N0AX, and
everybody out there in cyberspace for listening
and typing in tonight and invite you back next
Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time. Also
coming up in two weeks, two weeks from tonight,
we're going to have the annual field day last
second question and answer show. with ARRL contest
manager Paul Bork, N1SFE. And if you have a last
second question about field day, this is your
chance to get that answered. So that's June 24th,
right here on HamTalk Live. And for a list of
all of our upcoming guests, be sure to check
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find the show faster. So for now, this is Neil
Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7375 and may the good DX
be yours. Well you came right back to my secure
call Your readability five and strength nine
You never once mentioned your weather at all
And I didn't mention mine We talked and talked
for hours and hours I completely forgot you're
a ham I don't know your power or the height of
your tower Frankly I don't give a damn So 73,
to you and your family, I'll be seeing you further
down the law. 73, to you and your family, I'll
be seeing you further down the law.