WEBVTT 00:00:10.189 --> 00:00:12.910 Thanks for tuning in. HamTalk Live will be on 00:00:12.910 --> 00:00:29.350 the air shortly. Please stand by. This episode 00:00:29.350 --> 00:00:32.929 of HamTalk Live is brought to you by Tower Electronics. 00:00:33.369 --> 00:00:37.630 For connectors, cables, and more, call 920 -435 00:00:37.630 --> 00:00:44.369 -2973 or visit pl -259 .com. And by ICOM, heard 00:00:44.369 --> 00:00:49.570 it, worked it, logged it. Visit www .icomamerica 00:00:49.570 --> 00:00:53.310 .com slash amateur for more information about 00:00:53.310 --> 00:01:05.659 ICOM radios. Welcome to Amtok Live, call in, 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:28.099 let's talk, Neil's your go - So welcome and good 00:01:28.099 --> 00:01:31.459 evening, everyone. It's time for HamTalk Live 00:01:31.459 --> 00:01:36.480 episode number 257. The Bradley University Amateur 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:40.719 Radio Club recorded live on Thursday, April 29th, 00:01:40.819 --> 00:01:45.900 2021. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks 00:01:45.900 --> 00:01:48.340 for tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live. 00:01:48.500 --> 00:01:53.120 Tonight we're joined by Connor Dickey, KD9LSV, 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:55.790 and we're going to be talking about... Bradley 00:01:55.790 --> 00:01:58.450 University amateur radio club, but also just 00:01:58.450 --> 00:02:02.430 college radio clubs in general and school radio 00:02:02.430 --> 00:02:06.689 clubs But Bradley's been doing some cool stuff 00:02:06.689 --> 00:02:11.050 and Connors been the motivation behind a lot 00:02:11.050 --> 00:02:14.889 of that and so we'll be talking to him About 00:02:14.889 --> 00:02:19.009 all the stuff going on in the college world here 00:02:19.009 --> 00:02:23.699 in just a little bit last week Michael Coulter, 00:02:23.699 --> 00:02:27.300 W8CI, was here from Hamvention to talk about 00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:30.520 the virtual and on -air activities for this year. 00:02:30.939 --> 00:02:33.000 If you missed that show, you can listen anytime. 00:02:33.099 --> 00:02:36.500 Just go to HamTalkLive .com or on your favorite 00:02:36.500 --> 00:02:40.159 podcast app or on YouTube. 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He is involved 00:07:35.069 --> 00:07:37.709 as a volunteer examiner with the Greater Los 00:07:37.709 --> 00:07:41.709 Angeles Amateur Radio Group, VEC, and Connor 00:07:41.709 --> 00:07:44.509 can usually be found contesting, experimenting 00:07:44.509 --> 00:07:47.589 with digital modes and practicing. from what 00:07:47.589 --> 00:07:51.949 he learned at CW Academy. Licensed since 2018, 00:07:52.310 --> 00:07:56.050 Connor's received awards for W9JWC, operated 00:07:56.050 --> 00:08:00.029 down the road at Superstation K9CT, given multiple 00:08:00.029 --> 00:08:03.389 presentations, and inspires others to take up 00:08:03.389 --> 00:08:07.089 AMRADIO. So Connor, good to talk to you again. 00:08:08.310 --> 00:08:10.149 Good evening, Neil. How are you doing this evening? 00:08:11.290 --> 00:08:16.399 Doing just great. Like everyone, life is... crazy 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:20.500 busy. I know you're getting really close to finals 00:08:20.500 --> 00:08:23.720 and I'm getting close to the end of the school 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:27.879 year and there's just a lot of stuff going on 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:32.179 and this year especially has been kind of a strange 00:08:32.179 --> 00:08:35.379 year because you know sometimes you're on campus 00:08:35.379 --> 00:08:40.610 sometimes you're not and it's just A little crazy. 00:08:40.870 --> 00:08:42.529 So we're going to talk a little bit about that 00:08:42.529 --> 00:08:45.730 tonight, but, uh, let's just talk about what 00:08:45.730 --> 00:08:50.429 you've been doing at Bradley to promote the amateur 00:08:50.429 --> 00:08:53.809 radio club on campus and recruit some new members. 00:08:55.210 --> 00:08:57.789 Well, thank you Neil for having me tonight. Uh, 00:08:57.789 --> 00:09:00.309 we've done a lot of things on campus, myself 00:09:00.309 --> 00:09:03.350 included. Um, I will first off say that we have 00:09:03.350 --> 00:09:05.970 a strong executive board as well as camp on campus 00:09:05.970 --> 00:09:11.519 at Bradley. Currently, I'm at my home location 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:15.259 where I grew up, being about an hour and a half 00:09:15.259 --> 00:09:17.480 away from Bradley. It's not just a hop, skip, 00:09:17.539 --> 00:09:19.559 and a jump. It's kind of a hop, skip, and jump, 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:23.179 but not as big. It's still far enough away that 00:09:23.179 --> 00:09:25.980 you can't make the trip all the time there. So 00:09:25.980 --> 00:09:29.940 this semester, I've kind of been at home. I've 00:09:29.940 --> 00:09:32.879 had the other two of our exec members be on campus. 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:35.389 They've really kind of been I should say the 00:09:35.389 --> 00:09:37.389 face and the scene, especially with all the members 00:09:37.389 --> 00:09:41.029 on campus. I'm kind of taking some of the stuff 00:09:41.029 --> 00:09:44.990 off campus that some people that are not currently 00:09:44.990 --> 00:09:47.210 also not on campus and kind of kind of divvied 00:09:47.210 --> 00:09:48.830 up the roles a bit to try to make sure that we 00:09:48.830 --> 00:09:52.490 can be communicating forward with all that. And 00:09:52.490 --> 00:09:56.110 since I'm not on campus, it allows for us to 00:09:56.110 --> 00:09:58.450 keep in mind the design of all of our various 00:09:58.450 --> 00:10:03.320 activities. So. that we're not losing those aspects, 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:06.580 that aspect of people that are not on campus 00:10:06.580 --> 00:10:09.500 than normally we would have on campus. So to 00:10:09.500 --> 00:10:13.340 start off, one thing that we've done on campus 00:10:13.340 --> 00:10:18.379 and virtually, more this is kind of on campus, 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:24.720 to help promote on campus and get some new members. 00:10:24.990 --> 00:10:28.789 is we've started to build some tape measure yagis. 00:10:28.950 --> 00:10:31.970 So those kind of things with the PVC pipe and 00:10:31.970 --> 00:10:34.710 the tape measure you normally get from Harbor 00:10:34.710 --> 00:10:39.009 Freight. Build the antennas and just allowing 00:10:39.009 --> 00:10:43.029 them to build everything. We're right now currently 00:10:43.029 --> 00:10:45.590 in the distribution phase, kind of with COVID, 00:10:45.889 --> 00:10:48.789 kind of can't have a lot of together type thing 00:10:48.789 --> 00:10:52.049 still up on campus. So it's kind of we've got 00:10:52.049 --> 00:10:54.850 the kits separated, built together. they can 00:10:54.850 --> 00:10:58.129 work on them, they can ask for help, come back 00:10:58.129 --> 00:11:01.730 and then if they need some equipment or something 00:11:01.730 --> 00:11:04.909 they can always, they're always glad to contact 00:11:04.909 --> 00:11:07.330 us and help out and we'll be glad to help them 00:11:07.330 --> 00:11:11.750 out. Hopefully as finals kind of slow down and 00:11:11.750 --> 00:11:13.230 get to the end of it, we kind of want to see 00:11:13.230 --> 00:11:15.049 those projects coming back and see what people, 00:11:15.409 --> 00:11:17.990 how they've done, what they've done, did it work 00:11:17.990 --> 00:11:20.830 well, did it not work well, what was their thought 00:11:20.830 --> 00:11:24.309 on the process. Besides of our activities. It's 00:11:24.309 --> 00:11:25.889 kind of one of those take -home things that you 00:11:25.889 --> 00:11:31.789 can do and come on back with We've done a lot 00:11:31.789 --> 00:11:34.710 of that at school with the tape measure and you 00:11:34.710 --> 00:11:38.570 know getting them all the PVC parts and and Then 00:11:38.570 --> 00:11:41.049 going out and trying them out with a fox hunt. 00:11:41.269 --> 00:11:45.490 So that's a that's a cool thing and If you had 00:11:45.490 --> 00:11:47.830 everybody in town, you could do a fox hunt and 00:11:47.830 --> 00:11:52.110 keep Plenty of distance, but it's kind of hard 00:11:52.110 --> 00:11:57.190 when you're scattered around right So yeah, one 00:11:57.190 --> 00:11:59.090 thing that we've always thought about is that 00:11:59.090 --> 00:12:03.370 with doing that is You can always listen as much 00:12:03.370 --> 00:12:05.570 as you want See, it's one of those kind of the 00:12:05.570 --> 00:12:08.669 DF thing is kind of our thought is to it as well 00:12:08.669 --> 00:12:13.190 as just listening various Satellite stuff. Maybe 00:12:13.190 --> 00:12:15.519 here's some stuff Normally when you have your 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:17.419 like your ISS slow scan and that kind of stuff, 00:12:17.419 --> 00:12:19.019 it's kind of one of those interesting things 00:12:19.019 --> 00:12:21.940 they can hear about and listen to it. And we 00:12:21.940 --> 00:12:27.139 also do have a bunch of SDRs that we were graciously 00:12:27.139 --> 00:12:31.320 funded on part of the university to have as kind 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.019 of a loaner program. So if say a student isn't 00:12:35.019 --> 00:12:38.620 licensed quite yet, but is interested in listening 00:12:38.620 --> 00:12:41.299 and having a bunch of stuff, you can always have 00:12:41.299 --> 00:12:44.639 one of those little RTL SDRs listen on just listen 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.360 to the repeater, listen to weather, listen to 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:50.700 whatever and figure out what's going on and it 00:12:50.700 --> 00:12:53.580 kind of allows them to hear what's going on and 00:12:53.580 --> 00:12:57.399 understand what you're able to do and kind of 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:01.899 this part of amateur radio. And you can also 00:13:01.899 --> 00:13:04.340 pair that with that antenna that you build and 00:13:04.340 --> 00:13:07.539 then you could say okay here's your SDR, here's 00:13:07.539 --> 00:13:09.259 your antenna, well you have your receiver now 00:13:09.259 --> 00:13:11.840 with the computer that of course most students 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:16.330 have nowadays. Yeah, listening ahead of time 00:13:16.330 --> 00:13:20.409 is always a good thing because you get used to 00:13:20.409 --> 00:13:23.450 you know what an exchange is and you get used 00:13:23.450 --> 00:13:29.129 to you know hearing what happens and and It definitely 00:13:29.129 --> 00:13:34.409 helps it gets people more Accustomed to what 00:13:34.409 --> 00:13:40.299 happens on the radio and It's always a way to 00:13:40.299 --> 00:13:43.419 get them a little more comfortable before you 00:13:43.419 --> 00:13:47.419 hand them the mic so I like that because they're 00:13:47.419 --> 00:13:50.000 getting to hear what's happening and hopefully 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.299 they're hearing what's supposed to happen but 00:13:52.299 --> 00:13:57.019 we won't get into that too much but it's always 00:13:57.019 --> 00:14:03.169 good to listen and I know even You know all this 00:14:03.169 --> 00:14:06.070 time that i've been a ham and just got into satellites 00:14:06.070 --> 00:14:08.809 a few years ago you know the first thing was 00:14:08.809 --> 00:14:12.470 okay i'm gonna listen to some few passes. And 00:14:12.470 --> 00:14:16.389 see how this goes because the pace of that is 00:14:16.389 --> 00:14:20.289 just totally different from anything i had experience 00:14:20.289 --> 00:14:23.759 in ham radio so. Always a great thing to listen 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:28.740 and and I like the concept of building your own 00:14:28.740 --> 00:14:31.600 Antenna to do that with so that that's a that's 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:35.200 a cool project. That's one that Would be great 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:40.220 for any school Yeah, and you know, that's glad 00:14:40.220 --> 00:14:43.440 And kind of one thing that I haven't done as 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:45.600 much this semester with kind of recruitment in 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:47.580 general is that you want to make sure that you're 00:14:47.580 --> 00:14:51.590 recruiting a wide variety of majors So most people 00:14:51.590 --> 00:14:54.429 think of kind of amateur radio being that technical 00:14:54.429 --> 00:14:58.350 type group of people, but you need kind of all 00:14:58.350 --> 00:15:03.429 different facets of skills and traits to put 00:15:03.429 --> 00:15:05.169 everything together. So you have all the people 00:15:05.169 --> 00:15:09.409 that might be the communications people to the 00:15:09.409 --> 00:15:13.029 people that need to make business decisions or 00:15:13.029 --> 00:15:15.769 need to talk with, need to get stuff done and 00:15:15.769 --> 00:15:18.009 have effective communication skills. And then 00:15:18.009 --> 00:15:19.529 you also, of course, have those people that are 00:15:19.529 --> 00:15:22.190 technical. Based and then are your more your 00:15:22.190 --> 00:15:23.970 engineers your computer science your math majors 00:15:23.970 --> 00:15:26.070 all that kind of stuff But everybody together 00:15:26.070 --> 00:15:28.990 you kind of need to get that whole group to make 00:15:28.990 --> 00:15:32.210 the whole sit make the make a club actually work 00:15:32.210 --> 00:15:34.570 out Well, especially when you only have most 00:15:34.570 --> 00:15:38.110 of time for maybe five years with this specific 00:15:38.110 --> 00:15:44.129 student in the in the college cycle You kind 00:15:44.129 --> 00:15:46.450 of it's always creating the innovation, but it's 00:15:46.450 --> 00:15:48.629 always you or you're always actively recruiting 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.940 Now, how do you go about getting recruits? I 00:15:53.940 --> 00:15:56.000 mean you're obviously going to run into some 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:00.720 of the double ease In class and talk to them. 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:06.440 How do you approach? finding people in You know 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:11.960 underwater basket weaving Right, so some of the 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:14.259 things that I would did when I was especially 00:16:14.259 --> 00:16:17.200 a couple years ago back when it was pre -COVID 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:20.080 and everything is that I was in a gen ed class 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:23.179 and one of my professors was just interested 00:16:23.179 --> 00:16:25.899 in talking about various different things about 00:16:25.899 --> 00:16:29.379 what I was doing with amateur radio and so I 00:16:29.379 --> 00:16:32.100 ended up talking to a few of his classes and 00:16:32.100 --> 00:16:35.740 trying to get talk about what's going on on doing 00:16:35.740 --> 00:16:40.639 various kind of skills and traits because a lot 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:42.580 of it was not they were all like an education 00:16:42.580 --> 00:16:47.539 class so we did a lot of non -technical stuff, 00:16:47.820 --> 00:16:49.759 so it was a lot of the contesting, and not really, 00:16:49.899 --> 00:16:52.539 just a lot of communication. I showed them a 00:16:52.539 --> 00:16:57.019 bunch of the QSL cards from the DX binder that 00:16:57.019 --> 00:17:01.360 we have, and so that just kind of allowed for 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:04.200 us to show stuff that's not, I would say, what 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:07.079 people think of traditional amateur radio. We 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:10.240 kind of do, because we're in it, but... The people 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.359 that just think it's all it's a technical skill. 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:14.940 No, there's other stuff that you can do with 00:17:14.940 --> 00:17:18.819 amateur radio There's really no better teacher 00:17:18.819 --> 00:17:26.559 I think of Geography Than ham radio because You 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:29.660 know you hear a station on you got to know where 00:17:29.660 --> 00:17:32.000 to point that antenna You got to look that up 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.740 on a map. You got to find where that is or know 00:17:34.740 --> 00:17:40.130 where that is and so it continually runs through 00:17:40.130 --> 00:17:44.309 your brain, uh, which is the whole repetition 00:17:44.309 --> 00:17:48.069 thing, which, which is important to all that 00:17:48.069 --> 00:17:50.690 cognitive stuff. I'm getting into all my edu 00:17:50.690 --> 00:17:54.450 babble here, but, but, you know, getting the 00:17:54.509 --> 00:17:59.369 The countries and their locations over and over 00:17:59.369 --> 00:18:02.190 and over again over a long period of time helps 00:18:02.190 --> 00:18:06.210 you learn that so much better. And you know you 00:18:06.210 --> 00:18:08.630 can do the same thing with qsl cards you know 00:18:08.630 --> 00:18:12.490 here's your qsl card where is this country. And 00:18:12.490 --> 00:18:16.589 you know you get our outer mongolia well where's 00:18:16.589 --> 00:18:20.559 outer mongolia. You look it up and it's a great 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:23.519 teacher. So I've always said that, you know, 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:27.660 if there's ever a cross curricular educational 00:18:27.660 --> 00:18:32.640 tool, it's ham radio. Yeah, I definitely agree 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:40.759 with that meal. So with the pandemic that changes 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:44.980 the whole dynamic here. So let's, let's talk 00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:47.980 a little bit about some of those challenges that 00:18:47.980 --> 00:18:53.480 you've had to adapt some things to make it work. 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:56.819 So talk a little bit about how you've been handling 00:18:56.819 --> 00:19:01.259 the whole pandemic situation. So, yeah, Neil, 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:03.980 we've had a lot of stuff occur since of course, 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:07.630 March kind of went down. last year and just said 00:19:07.630 --> 00:19:10.529 okay everybody go home and so kind of the first 00:19:10.529 --> 00:19:12.950 thing that I did and kind of outside of I should 00:19:12.950 --> 00:19:15.130 say the Bradley club is I got actually involved 00:19:15.130 --> 00:19:18.250 in the eating and helping do remote exams and 00:19:18.250 --> 00:19:20.869 I know you had Marcel on your podcast a couple 00:19:20.869 --> 00:19:23.589 months ago but me and him are now really good 00:19:23.589 --> 00:19:25.829 friends and so I've helped out with all that 00:19:25.829 --> 00:19:28.650 stuff and that was kind of my first bit in there 00:19:28.650 --> 00:19:30.910 until kind of the fall and getting back into 00:19:30.910 --> 00:19:35.210 school spectrum. Once we got into the fall, it 00:19:35.210 --> 00:19:38.390 just kind of worked out. We had our rule on campus 00:19:38.390 --> 00:19:40.990 was for the space that we have, we could have 00:19:40.990 --> 00:19:43.690 no more than two people in our club room, our 00:19:43.690 --> 00:19:46.450 shack at a time. So that kind of cuts a lot of 00:19:46.450 --> 00:19:48.710 what we normally do. You normally have a couple 00:19:48.710 --> 00:19:51.289 people in just listening and just, and then you 00:19:51.289 --> 00:19:53.190 have normally one person operating and all that 00:19:53.190 --> 00:19:56.849 fun stuff. So a lot of the station situation 00:19:56.849 --> 00:19:59.509 kind of with the shack and everything kind of 00:19:59.509 --> 00:20:03.359 went a little bit inverted or flipped in a sense 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:08.240 that we had our you'd run kind of a smaller group 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:12.220 and which and learning and a lot of stuff outdoors 00:20:12.220 --> 00:20:14.819 had fun with satellite work listening to satellite 00:20:14.819 --> 00:20:20.519 work and all kind of helped in that physical 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:23.200 spectrum of meeting with everybody one thing 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:27.579 that kind of worked to get other in the overall 00:20:27.579 --> 00:20:32.009 thing that we Haven't really done as much and 00:20:32.009 --> 00:20:34.410 I think it's just because it we've done a lot 00:20:34.410 --> 00:20:38.690 more a different with different groups is creating 00:20:38.690 --> 00:20:42.190 the study groups and creating those various connections 00:20:42.190 --> 00:20:46.869 with Just your friend the classmates and people 00:20:46.869 --> 00:20:50.190 that you're around so that you can work through 00:20:50.190 --> 00:20:54.349 stuff and We've really done that a lot over the 00:20:54.349 --> 00:20:57.369 past year, especially since I'm remote and a 00:20:57.369 --> 00:20:59.789 couple others of our members are remote It's 00:20:59.789 --> 00:21:02.809 just we kind of are using our group as a backbone. 00:21:03.029 --> 00:21:05.369 Most of the time you get that class and you would 00:21:05.369 --> 00:21:07.390 be able to talk to the person during class and 00:21:07.390 --> 00:21:09.150 you might know a couple and then you kind of 00:21:09.150 --> 00:21:11.910 get that six or seven people you really know 00:21:11.910 --> 00:21:14.430 during your class. But now sometimes when you're 00:21:14.430 --> 00:21:18.230 just all over the place and you're not seeing 00:21:18.230 --> 00:21:20.990 everybody and talking to everybody face to face, 00:21:21.170 --> 00:21:24.440 it kind of cuts a little bit of that. group thing 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:28.400 out. So really connecting with your strong groups 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:30.779 and meeting them and connecting with them, we've 00:21:30.779 --> 00:21:35.319 really done really good over this, I should say 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:40.440 the past year in general. Well, when you were 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:44.579 on campus, I know that you put a lot of time 00:21:44.579 --> 00:21:48.900 and effort into kind of reorganizing things in 00:21:48.900 --> 00:21:54.630 the shack and placing things a little bit differently. 00:21:54.630 --> 00:21:58.390 And in fact, you wrote an article in my column 00:21:58.390 --> 00:22:02.930 in the national contest journal about the national 00:22:02.930 --> 00:22:05.730 or the North American collegiate championships. 00:22:05.730 --> 00:22:10.529 And part of that was moving things around in 00:22:10.529 --> 00:22:12.829 the shack. So tell us a little bit about that 00:22:12.829 --> 00:22:18.990 project. So that was back in January of 2020, 00:22:19.230 --> 00:22:22.410 February, 2020, right there, beginning of the 00:22:23.389 --> 00:22:27.230 Right before the NACC time frame, which is sponsored, 00:22:27.309 --> 00:22:29.410 of course, by the Society Midwest Contesters, 00:22:29.430 --> 00:22:32.009 which kind of also helps our club and with various 00:22:32.009 --> 00:22:35.349 stuff as well. And when we kind of got all that 00:22:35.349 --> 00:22:37.809 equipment together, we're like, well, okay, the 00:22:37.809 --> 00:22:39.849 spacing of where the chairs were and everything 00:22:39.849 --> 00:22:41.789 didn't work out, wasn't working out well. So 00:22:41.789 --> 00:22:45.109 we moved a lot of our HF equipment to one side 00:22:45.109 --> 00:22:47.670 of the desk and just put a lot of it in a rack 00:22:47.670 --> 00:22:50.450 so that the desk space was really cleaned off 00:22:50.450 --> 00:22:53.980 and you just had kind of that clean desk space 00:22:53.980 --> 00:22:57.859 there on the, for the HF side. And we basically 00:22:57.859 --> 00:23:01.660 moved a lot of the hardware that we've collected 00:23:01.660 --> 00:23:05.019 and technical stuff and all your, the tinkering, 00:23:05.180 --> 00:23:07.319 vertical tinker stuff, all your soldering iron 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:11.200 and all that kind of equipment. And we actually 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:14.099 got able to be able to have different spaces 00:23:14.099 --> 00:23:16.220 so that actually we could actually theoretically 00:23:16.220 --> 00:23:19.220 have three people sitting in three different 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:23.720 Desks three different tables and and then just 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:26.440 making everything work and then we're able with 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:30.480 that to add some extra shelving and So it makes 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:34.559 her stuff work out a really nice as you can see 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:37.740 probably some people might be on Twitter or Wherever 00:23:37.740 --> 00:23:42.339 pictures are sent nowadays that Neil post That 00:23:42.339 --> 00:23:45.119 was the HF desk and that's pretty much the same 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:50.549 same way it is now from the past year or so it's 00:23:50.549 --> 00:23:52.829 of course with COVID really hasn't moved much 00:23:52.829 --> 00:23:55.490 but we all like we've liking it the way it is 00:23:55.490 --> 00:23:59.029 now and it makes a lot of space and gives a little 00:23:59.029 --> 00:24:01.849 more floor room and allows us to get a few more 00:24:01.849 --> 00:24:04.430 people or when back everything happens we can 00:24:04.430 --> 00:24:06.710 get a couple more seats in there and just have 00:24:06.710 --> 00:24:10.759 a lot of fun and have maybe a pair at the HF 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:13.960 desk or a pair working at the we have a VHF UHF 00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:16.460 and an extra computer there for people that want 00:24:16.460 --> 00:24:18.960 to do some side projects and then the soldering 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.460 station and if somebody want to mentor uh getting 00:24:22.460 --> 00:24:24.319 good with that intendability we were talking 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:27.259 earlier that's able to work with uh nice and 00:24:27.259 --> 00:24:31.519 easy so the the picture that he's talking about 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:34.400 is a picture of him if you want to see that uh 00:24:34.430 --> 00:24:39.009 At the HF desk that we're talking about go to 00:24:39.009 --> 00:24:42.869 Facebook Twitter or Instagram find ham talk alive 00:24:42.869 --> 00:24:47.230 and you'll see the the photo there of of Connor 00:24:47.230 --> 00:24:53.049 operating at the Rearranged HF station and I 00:24:53.049 --> 00:24:56.309 found that anytime you can stack things vertically 00:24:56.309 --> 00:25:00.009 the shelving It just makes a world of difference. 00:25:00.009 --> 00:25:08.289 I ended up getting at our school Some just modular 00:25:08.289 --> 00:25:12.329 wire racks like from you know that would go in 00:25:12.329 --> 00:25:17.670 the cafeteria and and stacks up a couple of those 00:25:17.670 --> 00:25:22.789 on the table that we had and It just made a world 00:25:22.789 --> 00:25:25.730 of difference you you can access more stuff You 00:25:25.730 --> 00:25:29.390 can see what's going on and you can get things 00:25:29.390 --> 00:25:34.119 in a place where you know It's not in the way 00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:37.400 and It just makes a world of difference, especially 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:42.480 when you're into contesting as much as you are 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:47.880 You know every little bit helps and and every 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:52.059 second Is you know another second somebody else 00:25:52.059 --> 00:25:57.519 has to make a cue? Right And that's the goal 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:00.779 is it kind of allows people when they're operating 00:26:00.779 --> 00:26:04.779 and looking at stuff, it helps clean up some 00:26:04.779 --> 00:26:07.740 things and versus having everything and everything 00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:11.660 now on the side and a rack makes it really easy. 00:26:11.819 --> 00:26:14.160 Plus then you can get behind everything really 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:17.619 nice and easy and you can shove the table mostly 00:26:17.619 --> 00:26:19.180 against the wall and then everything's on the 00:26:19.180 --> 00:26:21.420 side. So you can just pull slide it out a couple 00:26:21.420 --> 00:26:23.500 inches and be able to connect or disconnect anything 00:26:23.500 --> 00:26:27.779 that you need. All right. Well, it's time for 00:26:27.779 --> 00:26:30.579 a break. So we're gonna do that and then we're 00:26:30.579 --> 00:26:33.519 gonna come back and we'll take your phone calls 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:38.099 and Questions on Twitter. It's at ham talk live. 00:26:38.099 --> 00:26:42.319 And again, the phone number is eight five nine 00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:45.559 Nine eight two seventy three seventy three if 00:26:45.559 --> 00:26:48.119 you want to call in we'll open up the phone lines 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:52.410 here in just a moment And we'll be back to talk 00:26:52.410 --> 00:26:55.970 more with Connor right after this word from ICOM 00:26:55.970 --> 00:26:59.470 America right here on HamTalk Live. The great 00:26:59.470 --> 00:27:02.369 outdoors is calling. Get outside and under the 00:27:02.369 --> 00:27:06.849 stars with one of ICOM's ultimate SDR transceivers. 00:27:07.109 --> 00:27:11.019 Stay connected while off the grid. 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Now it's time 00:30:44.630 --> 00:30:48.109 for the HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of the Week, 00:30:48.309 --> 00:30:50.730 the part of the show where Rick tells us a ham 00:30:50.730 --> 00:30:53.950 radio joke. The HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of 00:30:53.950 --> 00:30:57.410 the Week is brought to you by QRM Labs. Now, 00:30:57.470 --> 00:31:01.480 here's Rick Garrett. N9GSU with today's HamTalk 00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:09.940 Live Joke of the Week. There was a Buddhist pizza 00:31:09.940 --> 00:31:12.779 vendor at the local ham fest last weekend. I 00:31:12.779 --> 00:31:16.779 asked him to make me one with everything. This 00:31:16.779 --> 00:31:20.079 has been the HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke of the 00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:23.839 Week with Rick Garrett, N9GSU. Tune in again 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:30.769 next week for another joke from Rick. Oh my goodness. 00:31:33.569 --> 00:31:36.250 Well, we're going to have to get some more ham 00:31:36.250 --> 00:31:39.750 fest so we can go get a pizza. All right. Well, 00:31:39.750 --> 00:31:45.150 we're back with Connor KD9 LSV from Bradley University 00:31:45.150 --> 00:31:47.569 Amateur Radio Club. And if you have a question 00:31:47.569 --> 00:31:52.009 or a comment, give us a call right now at 859 00:31:52.009 --> 00:31:57.769 -982 -7373 or you can tweet us at HamTalk Live. 00:31:57.980 --> 00:32:01.500 And if you're listening to us on WTWW or on the 00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:05.099 podcast edition, we won't be able to answer the 00:32:05.099 --> 00:32:07.740 phones because we're doing this live on Thursday. 00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:12.839 So let's see. I did see there's a tweet here 00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:18.200 from WZ1L. Connor is a very busy guy, not only 00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:20.359 a full -time student, he also volunteers as a 00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:23.630 remote volunteer examiner. And is very busy coordinating 00:32:23.630 --> 00:32:26.250 activities with the Bradley Club in Illinois. 00:32:26.589 --> 00:32:31.029 So kudos to Connor. So that just came in on Twitter. 00:32:31.150 --> 00:32:35.170 So thank you for listening and chiming in. And 00:32:35.170 --> 00:32:37.829 if you'd like to do that, just get on Twitter 00:32:37.829 --> 00:32:41.349 at Amtok Live. If you're on Spreaker, type in 00:32:41.349 --> 00:32:50.150 the comments or give us a call at 859 -982 -7373. 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:53.119 Well, Connor, one of the things I know you want 00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:56.819 to talk about was some networking. We were talking 00:32:56.819 --> 00:33:00.660 recruitment earlier and talking a little bit 00:33:00.660 --> 00:33:04.660 about some networking stuff. So let's talk about 00:33:04.660 --> 00:33:09.579 that. So thanks Neil, once again. One thing to 00:33:09.579 --> 00:33:11.900 kind of go back to the first part, we were talking 00:33:11.900 --> 00:33:17.259 about how do we try to recruit students and how 00:33:17.259 --> 00:33:20.170 do we Invite all those students from various 00:33:20.170 --> 00:33:22.289 different locations. I mean various different 00:33:22.289 --> 00:33:25.069 majors knowledge various or various parts of 00:33:25.069 --> 00:33:29.670 campus is With the wide variety that amateur 00:33:29.670 --> 00:33:33.049 radio has I mean you can always think of Bob 00:33:33.049 --> 00:33:37.609 Hile that with Hile sound or you can think of 00:33:37.609 --> 00:33:40.950 the kind of the traditional stuff like your Motorola 00:33:40.950 --> 00:33:44.900 and your your RF communications, but and you 00:33:44.900 --> 00:33:47.579 have the various business people that are entrepreneurs 00:33:47.579 --> 00:33:50.880 or whatever. I mean, there's just a wide variety 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:54.319 of people that are connected with everybody. 00:33:55.019 --> 00:33:57.980 And so, especially as you start networking with 00:33:57.980 --> 00:33:59.519 these people and you start talking to them and 00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:03.460 you get to know them, who knows, they might be 00:34:03.460 --> 00:34:06.420 a person that you look towards down the road, 00:34:07.220 --> 00:34:09.539 either. a couple years down the road when you're 00:34:09.539 --> 00:34:13.199 looking at a full -time job, or even a couple 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:14.880 months when you're looking at an internship over 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.480 the summer, or even 10 or 15 years when you're 00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:20.099 wanting to maybe change careers. I mean, there's 00:34:20.099 --> 00:34:23.940 so many people that I've met over the past year, 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:27.940 especially during COVID, that I probably would 00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:30.679 have never met otherwise. And so for me, that's 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:32.800 one of the positives that came out the past year, 00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:35.940 2020, is just meeting so many other amateur radio 00:34:35.940 --> 00:34:40.639 operators. that I did not know already and so 00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:44.260 just connecting with them and just able to ask 00:34:44.260 --> 00:34:48.500 them questions even I mean it could be technical 00:34:48.500 --> 00:34:53.539 or even just operations of skills during classes 00:34:53.539 --> 00:34:59.340 or even other students or just other various 00:34:59.340 --> 00:35:02.960 things and so the one thing that we kind of try 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.699 to do with that is we had We had a presenter 00:35:06.699 --> 00:35:09.619 over the fall and just we're trying to get more 00:35:09.619 --> 00:35:14.019 of that because we think that that's our way 00:35:14.019 --> 00:35:15.880 in to get students. Students want to network 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:19.500 with people because when you network with more 00:35:19.500 --> 00:35:24.659 various people, you're able to create those connections 00:35:24.659 --> 00:35:29.679 that other people might not have or just allows 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:35.650 us to make uh, name or put our name in the door, 00:35:35.650 --> 00:35:39.969 uh, when you're looking at a company. So, yeah, 00:35:40.110 --> 00:35:42.530 it always helps. You never know. And when you 00:35:42.530 --> 00:35:45.989 might be interviewed by ham for a job, you just 00:35:45.989 --> 00:35:50.949 never know. So, uh, let's see, uh, what's, uh, 00:35:50.949 --> 00:35:54.750 you you've got, uh, a special summer coming up. 00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:58.739 Speaking of networking and doing some some things 00:35:58.739 --> 00:36:01.900 you've got a special summer coming up. So talk 00:36:01.900 --> 00:36:06.800 a little bit about your summer. So Neil, yeah, 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:10.440 thanks for that. Kind of the success stories 00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:14.400 of that networking type thing is I am over the 00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:16.000 summer going to the University of Arizona in 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:21.019 Tucson and I'm operating at a research experience 00:36:21.019 --> 00:36:26.070 for undergrads program. And we're just going 00:36:26.070 --> 00:36:28.389 to have kind of do what a grad student would 00:36:28.389 --> 00:36:30.809 do over the summer, over regular time. And it's 00:36:30.809 --> 00:36:35.050 kind of only the summer. And the topic is cognitive 00:36:35.050 --> 00:36:37.469 and high frequency long range communications. 00:36:37.889 --> 00:36:42.449 And so it can kind of depends on what, who I 00:36:42.449 --> 00:36:45.570 get with what faculty and staff or faculty and 00:36:45.570 --> 00:36:48.070 advisor and mentor out there is to kind of where 00:36:48.070 --> 00:36:53.659 my well it'll narrow into, but one of the prerequirements 00:36:53.659 --> 00:36:59.000 to either before you get there or like once you 00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:00.619 get there is be ready to take your technician 00:37:00.619 --> 00:37:03.960 exam. And so that was kind of one of those fun 00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:06.219 things and we're just all talking back and forth 00:37:06.219 --> 00:37:09.099 and we're getting to have a lot of fun over that 00:37:09.099 --> 00:37:11.940 over the summer. And another successful story 00:37:11.940 --> 00:37:16.159 about networking is that one of our other executive 00:37:16.159 --> 00:37:20.480 members ended up talking, his interview was with 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:26.579 another ham. And they went back and forth, and 00:37:26.579 --> 00:37:28.780 he successfully got an internship over the summer 00:37:28.780 --> 00:37:34.480 with that person. So, I mean, it's just, you 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:36.480 have that common relationship that you can ice 00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:39.079 break, and then you can just go from there. And 00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:44.500 it just makes it easier on you, because you already 00:37:44.500 --> 00:37:50.019 have a common bond. And it makes them... Remember 00:37:50.019 --> 00:37:52.099 you and more because hey that person's a hand 00:37:52.099 --> 00:37:58.179 that person knows Stuff that I know and then 00:37:58.179 --> 00:38:00.800 and they know with it being an amateur radio 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:03.179 operator they know some skills that they'll bring 00:38:03.179 --> 00:38:07.239 forward to an internship or a full -time position 00:38:08.650 --> 00:38:12.329 Eight five nine nine eight two seventy three 00:38:12.329 --> 00:38:14.289 seventy three is the phone number We're gonna 00:38:14.289 --> 00:38:17.309 wrap things up here in just a couple of minutes. 00:38:17.309 --> 00:38:20.750 So here's your last chance to call. It's eight 00:38:20.750 --> 00:38:25.769 five nine nine eight two seventy three seventy 00:38:25.769 --> 00:38:31.469 three and Checking the twit that the twits that 00:38:31.469 --> 00:38:36.570 the tweets And the comments here tonight were 00:38:36.570 --> 00:38:40.670 with con Connor Dickey, KD9 LSV from Bradley 00:38:40.670 --> 00:38:44.150 University Amateur Radio Club. So, so Connor, 00:38:44.150 --> 00:38:51.110 you've got one year left at Bradley for undergrad. 00:38:51.670 --> 00:38:56.429 Um, and we've talked about this, this four year, 00:38:56.789 --> 00:39:01.130 maybe five year, maybe six or seven for a few 00:39:01.130 --> 00:39:07.110 people, uh, year cycle, uh, that All of us, you 00:39:07.110 --> 00:39:10.150 know, at, at schools, because I've got a four 00:39:10.150 --> 00:39:14.329 year rotation at high school too. Um, so in high 00:39:14.329 --> 00:39:17.429 schools and university clubs that there's this 00:39:17.429 --> 00:39:22.269 turnover. Uh, and so what's going to be your 00:39:22.269 --> 00:39:28.150 plan for, you know, after you leave. Oh, I've 00:39:28.150 --> 00:39:30.849 got, we're working on getting, uh, some of the 00:39:30.849 --> 00:39:35.110 other lower or some of the, uh, younger students 00:39:35.110 --> 00:39:39.690 and. hopefully will between the past year and 00:39:39.690 --> 00:39:41.929 the last couple years we learned helping them 00:39:41.929 --> 00:39:45.369 learn various skills that i was taught my freshman 00:39:45.369 --> 00:39:49.429 year because basically i was kind of that on 00:39:49.429 --> 00:39:51.289 the other end of the spectrum back when i was 00:39:51.289 --> 00:39:54.630 a freshman um i was really the one that joined 00:39:54.630 --> 00:39:57.309 the club and i learned a lot of stuff to see 00:39:57.309 --> 00:40:00.969 my their senior years my freshman year and just 00:40:00.969 --> 00:40:03.820 that's kind of helped bring the club to where 00:40:03.820 --> 00:40:06.780 it is now. And so I'm hoping over the next year 00:40:06.780 --> 00:40:11.159 that we can get some new freshmen and some sophomores 00:40:11.159 --> 00:40:15.179 and some juniors even to help bring the club 00:40:15.179 --> 00:40:19.739 even forward and just keep it growing, keep it 00:40:19.739 --> 00:40:24.719 evolving. And as we say, that turnover helps 00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:28.059 with innovation as well. So people will do stuff 00:40:28.059 --> 00:40:30.900 and they'll like it. And then by four years, 00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:36.250 you're You have a whole new group. So yeah, yeah, 00:40:36.250 --> 00:40:39.829 it's a challenge, but there are some good aspects 00:40:39.829 --> 00:40:43.889 to it. And, uh, it does change the scene. You 00:40:43.889 --> 00:40:47.030 know, I've had groups that were really into digital 00:40:47.030 --> 00:40:49.989 and then here lately it's been, no, give me that 00:40:49.989 --> 00:40:54.429 microphone and, you know, and it changes. And, 00:40:54.429 --> 00:40:57.469 and so it does keep things interesting. It keeps 00:40:57.469 --> 00:41:02.469 some variety going. And it is a challenge to 00:41:02.469 --> 00:41:06.889 keep it running and we're getting ready to tackle 00:41:06.889 --> 00:41:13.849 another challenge as I'm leaving. And so we don't 00:41:13.849 --> 00:41:19.690 know what's going to happen. We've got some... 00:41:19.420 --> 00:41:22.679 tentative plans to try to keep things moving 00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:27.760 but We just don't know and and that's and that's 00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:31.539 one of the things that every club Faces or at 00:41:31.539 --> 00:41:37.460 least I keep reminding myself of that So I like 00:41:37.460 --> 00:41:41.960 it and I think that Thank you. You've got a good 00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:45.630 good start there on on keeping things going. 00:41:45.869 --> 00:41:49.210 Well, Connor, we're going to wrap things up here 00:41:49.210 --> 00:41:51.070 tonight, but thank you for coming on, giving 00:41:51.070 --> 00:41:55.070 us some ideas of some projects and some ways 00:41:55.070 --> 00:42:01.210 to recruit and trying to get more university 00:42:01.210 --> 00:42:05.429 students into the amateur radio clubs and beyond 00:42:05.429 --> 00:42:08.750 the air. So, Connor, thank you so much for everything 00:42:08.750 --> 00:42:15.050 you've done. a great ham and a great mentor to 00:42:15.050 --> 00:42:19.510 the other colleges and universities and I just 00:42:19.510 --> 00:42:21.730 congratulate you on everything you've accomplished 00:42:21.730 --> 00:42:25.570 so far and wish you good luck on finals and and 00:42:25.570 --> 00:42:30.210 one more year. Well thanks for that and thank 00:42:30.210 --> 00:42:33.440 you Neil once again for having me tonight. And 00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:36.559 hope you are doing well and have fun with all 00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:38.559 your adventures, especially coming up over the 00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:42.079 summer and heading into the next one, especially 00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:45.619 with the camp over the summer. Yep. Yoda camp 00:42:45.619 --> 00:42:51.579 is starting to consume just about every spare 00:42:51.579 --> 00:42:55.460 moment I have right now. So it's getting about 00:42:55.460 --> 00:42:58.849 that time. We're really looking forward to it 00:42:58.849 --> 00:43:02.969 and we hope that we can get you over there in 00:43:02.969 --> 00:43:10.030 years to come and work with the kids and participate 00:43:10.030 --> 00:43:14.269 and maybe even start taking some lead on that. 00:43:14.630 --> 00:43:17.929 So we look forward to seeing you in the future. 00:43:18.530 --> 00:43:22.210 I think, jeez, I think last time I saw you was 00:43:22.210 --> 00:43:27.469 St. Louis. Yeah, I think that's the last time 00:43:27.469 --> 00:43:28.269 I've seen you. Yeah, that would be about right. 00:43:28.690 --> 00:43:31.329 It's been a while. So, but you know, there's 00:43:31.329 --> 00:43:37.570 this little pandemic thing going on. Right. All 00:43:37.570 --> 00:43:39.889 right. Well, Connor, thank you so much for being 00:43:39.889 --> 00:43:43.269 here and we'll be talking to you again soon. 00:43:45.130 --> 00:43:49.179 Take care, Neil. All right. Well, that is a wrap 00:43:49.179 --> 00:43:51.880 for this week's edition of ham talk live Thanks 00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:55.900 to my guest Connor Dickey KD9 LSV and everybody 00:43:55.900 --> 00:43:58.619 out there in cyberspace for listening and typing 00:43:58.619 --> 00:44:01.909 in tonight and invite you back next Thursday 00:44:01.909 --> 00:44:06.090 night at 9 p .m. when it's hurricane time. Bobby 00:44:06.090 --> 00:44:12.070 Graves, KB5HAV, Julio Regali, WD4R, Rob Macito, 00:44:12.309 --> 00:44:16.909 KD1CY, and Lloyd Colston, KC5FM will all be here 00:44:16.909 --> 00:44:21.110 to talk about the hurricane nets and the upcoming 00:44:21.110 --> 00:44:24.550 hurricane season. For a list of all of our upcoming 00:44:24.550 --> 00:44:28.429 guests, visit HamTalkLive .com And if you like 00:44:28.429 --> 00:44:30.909 the show, please leave us a review. That'll help 00:44:30.909 --> 00:44:36.010 others find us. We'd like to let others know 00:44:36.010 --> 00:44:39.070 about the show. So if you could leave us a review, 00:44:39.170 --> 00:44:42.349 that would be a big help. So for now, this is 00:44:42.349 --> 00:44:46.110 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying seven three, seven 00:44:46.110 --> 00:44:58.519 five, and may the good DX be yours. Well you 00:44:58.519 --> 00:45:02.840 came right back to my secure call Your readability 00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:07.460 five and strength nine You never once mentioned 00:45:07.460 --> 00:45:12.099 your weather at all And I didn't mention mine 00:45:12.099 --> 00:45:17.559 We talked and talked for hours and hours I completely 00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:22.659 forgot you're a ham I don't know your power or 00:45:22.659 --> 00:45:23.619 the height of your