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Connor Dickey, KD9 LSV joins us on the Orlando
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Connor is an avid amateur extra class licensed
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Amateur Radio Club, W9GWC. Currently, he is a
junior electrical engineering major at Bradley
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down the road at Superstation K9CT, given multiple
presentations, and inspires others to take up
AMRADIO. So Connor, good to talk to you again.
Good evening, Neil. How are you doing this evening?
Doing just great. Like everyone, life is... crazy
busy. I know you're getting really close to finals
and I'm getting close to the end of the school
year and there's just a lot of stuff going on
and this year especially has been kind of a strange
year because you know sometimes you're on campus
sometimes you're not and it's just A little crazy.
So we're going to talk a little bit about that
tonight, but, uh, let's just talk about what
you've been doing at Bradley to promote the amateur
radio club on campus and recruit some new members.
Well, thank you Neil for having me tonight. Uh,
we've done a lot of things on campus, myself
included. Um, I will first off say that we have
a strong executive board as well as camp on campus
at Bradley. Currently, I'm at my home location
where I grew up, being about an hour and a half
away from Bradley. It's not just a hop, skip,
and a jump. It's kind of a hop, skip, and jump,
but not as big. It's still far enough away that
you can't make the trip all the time there. So
this semester, I've kind of been at home. I've
had the other two of our exec members be on campus.
They've really kind of been I should say the
face and the scene, especially with all the members
on campus. I'm kind of taking some of the stuff
off campus that some people that are not currently
also not on campus and kind of kind of divvied
up the roles a bit to try to make sure that we
can be communicating forward with all that. And
since I'm not on campus, it allows for us to
keep in mind the design of all of our various
activities. So. that we're not losing those aspects,
that aspect of people that are not on campus
than normally we would have on campus. So to
start off, one thing that we've done on campus
and virtually, more this is kind of on campus,
to help promote on campus and get some new members.
is we've started to build some tape measure yagis.
So those kind of things with the PVC pipe and
the tape measure you normally get from Harbor
Freight. Build the antennas and just allowing
them to build everything. We're right now currently
in the distribution phase, kind of with COVID,
kind of can't have a lot of together type thing
still up on campus. So it's kind of we've got
the kits separated, built together. they can
work on them, they can ask for help, come back
and then if they need some equipment or something
they can always, they're always glad to contact
us and help out and we'll be glad to help them
out. Hopefully as finals kind of slow down and
get to the end of it, we kind of want to see
those projects coming back and see what people,
how they've done, what they've done, did it work
well, did it not work well, what was their thought
on the process. Besides of our activities. It's
kind of one of those take -home things that you
can do and come on back with We've done a lot
of that at school with the tape measure and you
know getting them all the PVC parts and and Then
going out and trying them out with a fox hunt.
So that's a that's a cool thing and If you had
everybody in town, you could do a fox hunt and
keep Plenty of distance, but it's kind of hard
when you're scattered around right So yeah, one
thing that we've always thought about is that
with doing that is You can always listen as much
as you want See, it's one of those kind of the
DF thing is kind of our thought is to it as well
as just listening various Satellite stuff. Maybe
here's some stuff Normally when you have your
like your ISS slow scan and that kind of stuff,
it's kind of one of those interesting things
they can hear about and listen to it. And we
also do have a bunch of SDRs that we were graciously
funded on part of the university to have as kind
of a loaner program. So if say a student isn't
licensed quite yet, but is interested in listening
and having a bunch of stuff, you can always have
one of those little RTL SDRs listen on just listen
to the repeater, listen to weather, listen to
whatever and figure out what's going on and it
kind of allows them to hear what's going on and
understand what you're able to do and kind of
this part of amateur radio. And you can also
pair that with that antenna that you build and
then you could say okay here's your SDR, here's
your antenna, well you have your receiver now
with the computer that of course most students
have nowadays. Yeah, listening ahead of time
is always a good thing because you get used to
you know what an exchange is and you get used
to you know hearing what happens and and It definitely
helps it gets people more Accustomed to what
happens on the radio and It's always a way to
get them a little more comfortable before you
hand them the mic so I like that because they're
getting to hear what's happening and hopefully
they're hearing what's supposed to happen but
we won't get into that too much but it's always
good to listen and I know even You know all this
time that i've been a ham and just got into satellites
a few years ago you know the first thing was
okay i'm gonna listen to some few passes. And
see how this goes because the pace of that is
just totally different from anything i had experience
in ham radio so. Always a great thing to listen
and and I like the concept of building your own
Antenna to do that with so that that's a that's
a cool project. That's one that Would be great
for any school Yeah, and you know, that's glad
And kind of one thing that I haven't done as
much this semester with kind of recruitment in
general is that you want to make sure that you're
recruiting a wide variety of majors So most people
think of kind of amateur radio being that technical
type group of people, but you need kind of all
different facets of skills and traits to put
everything together. So you have all the people
that might be the communications people to the
people that need to make business decisions or
need to talk with, need to get stuff done and
have effective communication skills. And then
you also, of course, have those people that are
technical. Based and then are your more your
engineers your computer science your math majors
all that kind of stuff But everybody together
you kind of need to get that whole group to make
the whole sit make the make a club actually work
out Well, especially when you only have most
of time for maybe five years with this specific
student in the in the college cycle You kind
of it's always creating the innovation, but it's
always you or you're always actively recruiting
Now, how do you go about getting recruits? I
mean you're obviously going to run into some
of the double ease In class and talk to them.
How do you approach? finding people in You know
underwater basket weaving Right, so some of the
things that I would did when I was especially
a couple years ago back when it was pre -COVID
and everything is that I was in a gen ed class
and one of my professors was just interested
in talking about various different things about
what I was doing with amateur radio and so I
ended up talking to a few of his classes and
trying to get talk about what's going on on doing
various kind of skills and traits because a lot
of it was not they were all like an education
class so we did a lot of non -technical stuff,
so it was a lot of the contesting, and not really,
just a lot of communication. I showed them a
bunch of the QSL cards from the DX binder that
we have, and so that just kind of allowed for
us to show stuff that's not, I would say, what
people think of traditional amateur radio. We
kind of do, because we're in it, but... The people
that just think it's all it's a technical skill.
No, there's other stuff that you can do with
amateur radio There's really no better teacher
I think of Geography Than ham radio because You
know you hear a station on you got to know where
to point that antenna You got to look that up
on a map. You got to find where that is or know
where that is and so it continually runs through
your brain, uh, which is the whole repetition
thing, which, which is important to all that
cognitive stuff. I'm getting into all my edu
babble here, but, but, you know, getting the
The countries and their locations over and over
and over again over a long period of time helps
you learn that so much better. And you know you
can do the same thing with qsl cards you know
here's your qsl card where is this country. And
you know you get our outer mongolia well where's
outer mongolia. You look it up and it's a great
teacher. So I've always said that, you know,
if there's ever a cross curricular educational
tool, it's ham radio. Yeah, I definitely agree
with that meal. So with the pandemic that changes
the whole dynamic here. So let's, let's talk
a little bit about some of those challenges that
you've had to adapt some things to make it work.
So talk a little bit about how you've been handling
the whole pandemic situation. So, yeah, Neil,
we've had a lot of stuff occur since of course,
March kind of went down. last year and just said
okay everybody go home and so kind of the first
thing that I did and kind of outside of I should
say the Bradley club is I got actually involved
in the eating and helping do remote exams and
I know you had Marcel on your podcast a couple
months ago but me and him are now really good
friends and so I've helped out with all that
stuff and that was kind of my first bit in there
until kind of the fall and getting back into
school spectrum. Once we got into the fall, it
just kind of worked out. We had our rule on campus
was for the space that we have, we could have
no more than two people in our club room, our
shack at a time. So that kind of cuts a lot of
what we normally do. You normally have a couple
people in just listening and just, and then you
have normally one person operating and all that
fun stuff. So a lot of the station situation
kind of with the shack and everything kind of
went a little bit inverted or flipped in a sense
that we had our you'd run kind of a smaller group
and which and learning and a lot of stuff outdoors
had fun with satellite work listening to satellite
work and all kind of helped in that physical
spectrum of meeting with everybody one thing
that kind of worked to get other in the overall
thing that we Haven't really done as much and
I think it's just because it we've done a lot
more a different with different groups is creating
the study groups and creating those various connections
with Just your friend the classmates and people
that you're around so that you can work through
stuff and We've really done that a lot over the
past year, especially since I'm remote and a
couple others of our members are remote It's
just we kind of are using our group as a backbone.
Most of the time you get that class and you would
be able to talk to the person during class and
you might know a couple and then you kind of
get that six or seven people you really know
during your class. But now sometimes when you're
just all over the place and you're not seeing
everybody and talking to everybody face to face,
it kind of cuts a little bit of that. group thing
out. So really connecting with your strong groups
and meeting them and connecting with them, we've
really done really good over this, I should say
the past year in general. Well, when you were
on campus, I know that you put a lot of time
and effort into kind of reorganizing things in
the shack and placing things a little bit differently.
And in fact, you wrote an article in my column
in the national contest journal about the national
or the North American collegiate championships.
And part of that was moving things around in
the shack. So tell us a little bit about that
project. So that was back in January of 2020,
February, 2020, right there, beginning of the
Right before the NACC time frame, which is sponsored,
of course, by the Society Midwest Contesters,
which kind of also helps our club and with various
stuff as well. And when we kind of got all that
equipment together, we're like, well, okay, the
spacing of where the chairs were and everything
didn't work out, wasn't working out well. So
we moved a lot of our HF equipment to one side
of the desk and just put a lot of it in a rack
so that the desk space was really cleaned off
and you just had kind of that clean desk space
there on the, for the HF side. And we basically
moved a lot of the hardware that we've collected
and technical stuff and all your, the tinkering,
vertical tinker stuff, all your soldering iron
and all that kind of equipment. And we actually
got able to be able to have different spaces
so that actually we could actually theoretically
have three people sitting in three different
Desks three different tables and and then just
making everything work and then we're able with
that to add some extra shelving and So it makes
her stuff work out a really nice as you can see
probably some people might be on Twitter or Wherever
pictures are sent nowadays that Neil post That
was the HF desk and that's pretty much the same
same way it is now from the past year or so it's
of course with COVID really hasn't moved much
but we all like we've liking it the way it is
now and it makes a lot of space and gives a little
more floor room and allows us to get a few more
people or when back everything happens we can
get a couple more seats in there and just have
a lot of fun and have maybe a pair at the HF
desk or a pair working at the we have a VHF UHF
and an extra computer there for people that want
to do some side projects and then the soldering
station and if somebody want to mentor uh getting
good with that intendability we were talking
earlier that's able to work with uh nice and
easy so the the picture that he's talking about
is a picture of him if you want to see that uh
At the HF desk that we're talking about go to
Facebook Twitter or Instagram find ham talk alive
and you'll see the the photo there of of Connor
operating at the Rearranged HF station and I
found that anytime you can stack things vertically
the shelving It just makes a world of difference.
I ended up getting at our school Some just modular
wire racks like from you know that would go in
the cafeteria and and stacks up a couple of those
on the table that we had and It just made a world
of difference you you can access more stuff You
can see what's going on and you can get things
in a place where you know It's not in the way
and It just makes a world of difference, especially
when you're into contesting as much as you are
You know every little bit helps and and every
second Is you know another second somebody else
has to make a cue? Right And that's the goal
is it kind of allows people when they're operating
and looking at stuff, it helps clean up some
things and versus having everything and everything
now on the side and a rack makes it really easy.
Plus then you can get behind everything really
nice and easy and you can shove the table mostly
against the wall and then everything's on the
side. So you can just pull slide it out a couple
inches and be able to connect or disconnect anything
that you need. All right. Well, it's time for
a break. So we're gonna do that and then we're
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we're back with Connor KD9 LSV from Bradley University
Amateur Radio Club. And if you have a question
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So let's see. I did see there's a tweet here
from WZ1L. Connor is a very busy guy, not only
a full -time student, he also volunteers as a
remote volunteer examiner. And is very busy coordinating
activities with the Bradley Club in Illinois.
So kudos to Connor. So that just came in on Twitter.
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Well, Connor, one of the things I know you want
to talk about was some networking. We were talking
recruitment earlier and talking a little bit
about some networking stuff. So let's talk about
that. So thanks Neil, once again. One thing to
kind of go back to the first part, we were talking
about how do we try to recruit students and how
do we Invite all those students from various
different locations. I mean various different
majors knowledge various or various parts of
campus is With the wide variety that amateur
radio has I mean you can always think of Bob
Hile that with Hile sound or you can think of
the kind of the traditional stuff like your Motorola
and your your RF communications, but and you
have the various business people that are entrepreneurs
or whatever. I mean, there's just a wide variety
of people that are connected with everybody.
And so, especially as you start networking with
these people and you start talking to them and
you get to know them, who knows, they might be
a person that you look towards down the road,
either. a couple years down the road when you're
looking at a full -time job, or even a couple
months when you're looking at an internship over
the summer, or even 10 or 15 years when you're
wanting to maybe change careers. I mean, there's
so many people that I've met over the past year,
especially during COVID, that I probably would
have never met otherwise. And so for me, that's
one of the positives that came out the past year,
2020, is just meeting so many other amateur radio
operators. that I did not know already and so
just connecting with them and just able to ask
them questions even I mean it could be technical
or even just operations of skills during classes
or even other students or just other various
things and so the one thing that we kind of try
to do with that is we had We had a presenter
over the fall and just we're trying to get more
of that because we think that that's our way
in to get students. Students want to network
with people because when you network with more
various people, you're able to create those connections
that other people might not have or just allows
us to make uh, name or put our name in the door,
uh, when you're looking at a company. So, yeah,
it always helps. You never know. And when you
might be interviewed by ham for a job, you just
never know. So, uh, let's see, uh, what's, uh,
you you've got, uh, a special summer coming up.
Speaking of networking and doing some some things
you've got a special summer coming up. So talk
a little bit about your summer. So Neil, yeah,
thanks for that. Kind of the success stories
of that networking type thing is I am over the
summer going to the University of Arizona in
Tucson and I'm operating at a research experience
for undergrads program. And we're just going
to have kind of do what a grad student would
do over the summer, over regular time. And it's
kind of only the summer. And the topic is cognitive
and high frequency long range communications.
And so it can kind of depends on what, who I
get with what faculty and staff or faculty and
advisor and mentor out there is to kind of where
my well it'll narrow into, but one of the prerequirements
to either before you get there or like once you
get there is be ready to take your technician
exam. And so that was kind of one of those fun
things and we're just all talking back and forth
and we're getting to have a lot of fun over that
over the summer. And another successful story
about networking is that one of our other executive
members ended up talking, his interview was with
another ham. And they went back and forth, and
he successfully got an internship over the summer
with that person. So, I mean, it's just, you
have that common relationship that you can ice
break, and then you can just go from there. And
it just makes it easier on you, because you already
have a common bond. And it makes them... Remember
you and more because hey that person's a hand
that person knows Stuff that I know and then
and they know with it being an amateur radio
operator they know some skills that they'll bring
forward to an internship or a full -time position
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with con Connor Dickey, KD9 LSV from Bradley
University Amateur Radio Club. So, so Connor,
you've got one year left at Bradley for undergrad.
Um, and we've talked about this, this four year,
maybe five year, maybe six or seven for a few
people, uh, year cycle, uh, that All of us, you
know, at, at schools, because I've got a four
year rotation at high school too. Um, so in high
schools and university clubs that there's this
turnover. Uh, and so what's going to be your
plan for, you know, after you leave. Oh, I've
got, we're working on getting, uh, some of the
other lower or some of the, uh, younger students
and. hopefully will between the past year and
the last couple years we learned helping them
learn various skills that i was taught my freshman
year because basically i was kind of that on
the other end of the spectrum back when i was
a freshman um i was really the one that joined
the club and i learned a lot of stuff to see
my their senior years my freshman year and just
that's kind of helped bring the club to where
it is now. And so I'm hoping over the next year
that we can get some new freshmen and some sophomores
and some juniors even to help bring the club
even forward and just keep it growing, keep it
evolving. And as we say, that turnover helps
with innovation as well. So people will do stuff
and they'll like it. And then by four years,
you're You have a whole new group. So yeah, yeah,
it's a challenge, but there are some good aspects
to it. And, uh, it does change the scene. You
know, I've had groups that were really into digital
and then here lately it's been, no, give me that
microphone and, you know, and it changes. And,
and so it does keep things interesting. It keeps
some variety going. And it is a challenge to
keep it running and we're getting ready to tackle
another challenge as I'm leaving. And so we don't
know what's going to happen. We've got some...
tentative plans to try to keep things moving
but We just don't know and and that's and that's
one of the things that every club Faces or at
least I keep reminding myself of that So I like
it and I think that Thank you. You've got a good
good start there on on keeping things going.
Well, Connor, we're going to wrap things up here
tonight, but thank you for coming on, giving
us some ideas of some projects and some ways
to recruit and trying to get more university
students into the amateur radio clubs and beyond
the air. So, Connor, thank you so much for everything
you've done. a great ham and a great mentor to
the other colleges and universities and I just
congratulate you on everything you've accomplished
so far and wish you good luck on finals and and
one more year. Well thanks for that and thank
you Neil once again for having me tonight. And
hope you are doing well and have fun with all
your adventures, especially coming up over the
summer and heading into the next one, especially
with the camp over the summer. Yep. Yoda camp
is starting to consume just about every spare
moment I have right now. So it's getting about
that time. We're really looking forward to it
and we hope that we can get you over there in
years to come and work with the kids and participate
and maybe even start taking some lead on that.
So we look forward to seeing you in the future.
I think, jeez, I think last time I saw you was
St. Louis. Yeah, I think that's the last time
I've seen you. Yeah, that would be about right.
It's been a while. So, but you know, there's
this little pandemic thing going on. Right. All
right. Well, Connor, thank you so much for being
here and we'll be talking to you again soon.
Take care, Neil. All right. Well, that is a wrap
for this week's edition of ham talk live Thanks
to my guest Connor Dickey KD9 LSV and everybody
out there in cyberspace for listening and typing
in tonight and invite you back next Thursday
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Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying seven three, seven
five, 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