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Tonight we're 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:24.840 joined by Ham Radio's Don Wilbanks AE5DW and 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:28.379 we'll take your calls live. in just a few minutes. 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:32.079 Last week here on the show Jerry Buxton in Zero 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:36.010 JY was here from AMSAT. talking about some of 00:01:36.010 --> 00:01:39.150 the latest news in satellite engineering. And 00:01:39.150 --> 00:01:41.209 if you missed that show, you can listen anytime 00:01:41.209 --> 00:01:44.569 at HamTalkLive .com or on your favorite podcast 00:01:44.569 --> 00:01:48.849 app or on YouTube. And remember you can catch 00:01:48.849 --> 00:01:54.450 the rebroadcast of HamTalk Live on WTWW that's 00:01:54.450 --> 00:01:59.780 5085 AM. And that's Saturday afternoons at about 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:03.359 3 .30 p .m. Eastern time. So get your questions 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:06.420 ready to go. We'll talk to Don here in just a 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:08.259 little bit. 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Tonight Don Wilbanks AE5VW joins 00:05:26.170 --> 00:05:30.089 us on the Orlando Amateur Radio Club and Hamcation 00:05:30.089 --> 00:05:35.750 Zoom line. Ham Radio's Don Wilbanks AE5VW is 00:05:35.750 --> 00:05:38.730 from Picayune, Mississippi. You know him from 00:05:38.730 --> 00:05:42.990 Amateur Radio Newsline and Ham Nation. He's a 00:05:42.990 --> 00:05:45.810 native of Shawnee, Oklahoma and first licensed 00:05:45.810 --> 00:05:49.189 in 1995 and he's an extra class license holder. 00:05:49.610 --> 00:05:55.790 and an active volunteer examiner and a good friend 00:05:55.790 --> 00:05:59.029 of the show and a good friend of mine, Don, welcome 00:05:59.029 --> 00:06:03.350 back. Well, thank you, Neil. It's lovely to be 00:06:03.350 --> 00:06:06.829 on the show tonight. It's been a while and I'm 00:06:06.829 --> 00:06:09.069 thrilled that you asked me to come on and talk 00:06:09.069 --> 00:06:11.629 about something that is near and dear to all 00:06:11.629 --> 00:06:13.769 of our hearts. That, of course, being the Bill 00:06:13.769 --> 00:06:18.370 Pasternak WA6 ITF. Amateur radio news line young 00:06:18.370 --> 00:06:21.110 him of the year award. Thanks for having me. 00:06:21.730 --> 00:06:23.829 Absolutely. And, and if nothing else, it was 00:06:23.829 --> 00:06:26.930 an excuse to have you on the show. So anyway, 00:06:28.970 --> 00:06:34.050 we do have like I need an excuse. Exactly. Uh, 00:06:34.209 --> 00:06:38.410 so we do have, you know, uh, another, uh, award 00:06:38.410 --> 00:06:42.250 coming up and, uh, you know, it looks like we'll, 00:06:42.250 --> 00:06:43.850 we'll talk about it here in a little bit. It 00:06:43.850 --> 00:06:47.100 looks like, uh, Good chance Huntsville is going 00:06:47.100 --> 00:06:50.819 to happen this year. So, uh, presentation is 00:06:50.819 --> 00:06:54.519 traditionally at Huntsville. So, uh, we'll talk 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:57.259 about that a little bit, but let's, let's bring 00:06:57.259 --> 00:07:01.379 everybody up to speed here on the background 00:07:01.379 --> 00:07:06.860 on the award and what it sets out to do. Well 00:07:06.860 --> 00:07:09.240 news line as you know is in its fourth decade 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.680 and the young hem of the year award was The idea 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:16.279 of Bill Pasternak wa6 ITF who we lost six years 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:22.720 ago sadly it was his idea to honor youth and 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:27.120 ham radio and to promote amateur radio amongst 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.959 the youth and Because I mean, you know once once 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.779 I mean the youth is the lifeblood of any hobby 00:07:34.779 --> 00:07:38.589 or Vocation or avocation or whatever you constantly 00:07:38.589 --> 00:07:42.069 have to have new blood to replace those that 00:07:42.069 --> 00:07:46.949 that that fall away for various reasons whether 00:07:46.949 --> 00:07:49.850 Silent key or just getting out of the hobby or 00:07:49.850 --> 00:07:51.730 whatever it doesn't matter what doesn't matter 00:07:51.730 --> 00:07:55.230 what? What we're talking about you have to have 00:07:55.230 --> 00:07:58.329 New people come in constantly just to keep the 00:07:58.329 --> 00:08:00.790 churn going and that was one of the things and 00:08:00.790 --> 00:08:04.790 plus bill was just really really big On education 00:08:04.790 --> 00:08:09.889 huge huge on education and so he decided to come 00:08:09.889 --> 00:08:14.149 up with this award to honor an outstanding radio 00:08:14.149 --> 00:08:21.449 amateur. And the first award was 1986 I'm happy 00:08:21.449 --> 00:08:27.610 to say. The winner was Sean Allen Wakefield WK 00:08:27.610 --> 00:08:30.949 5 P of Bartlesville Oklahoma my home state so 00:08:30.949 --> 00:08:34.480 he was the 1986. Youngham of the year award and 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.440 we've given the award every year with the exception 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:42.960 of 2014 when we did not present the award that 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:47.600 year and As you may recall, I believe 2014 was 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:51.320 also the year that the Dayton amateur radio association 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:59.899 did not award a Dayton Amateur of the year. Yeah 00:08:59.899 --> 00:09:05.480 amateur they had They had some kind of a discrepancy 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.679 with the person who was originally named and 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.059 they pulled that award back and therefore did 00:09:12.059 --> 00:09:16.320 not give that award and so Bill decided that 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:20.960 we were not going to do an award that year only 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:26.539 for the reason that the two or three finalists 00:09:26.539 --> 00:09:32.210 were so close in qualifications that literally 00:09:32.210 --> 00:09:36.730 you could not pick between them. It would have 00:09:36.730 --> 00:09:40.450 been, okay, put three pieces of paper up on the 00:09:40.450 --> 00:09:45.149 wall, put a blindfold on yourself, spin around 00:09:45.149 --> 00:09:47.809 10 times and throw a dart. And whichever one 00:09:47.809 --> 00:09:51.210 it hits, that's the winner. And we decided that 00:09:51.210 --> 00:09:55.309 rather than give the award away, just for the 00:09:55.309 --> 00:09:59.529 sake of giving the award away, Bill felt that 00:09:59.529 --> 00:10:06.909 that might lessen the, might lessen the award 00:10:06.909 --> 00:10:09.470 in some way, cheapen it or whatever. And so we 00:10:09.470 --> 00:10:10.990 didn't want to give the award away just for the 00:10:10.990 --> 00:10:13.669 sake of giving the award away. So we didn't that 00:10:13.669 --> 00:10:16.669 year, but we have, and of course Christopher 00:10:16.669 --> 00:10:23.039 Bro, KD8YVJ of Ohio, a good friend of ours. and 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:25.539 yours and everybody else's. Chris is such a cool 00:10:25.539 --> 00:10:29.759 kid. Was the 2020 winner and very proud that 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:32.879 even though we did not have a Huntsville Hamfest 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:39.179 in the 2020 COVID year that we were thrilled 00:10:39.179 --> 00:10:41.779 and honored to be able to present that award 00:10:41.779 --> 00:10:44.980 to him at yours and Julie's wedding. So thank 00:10:44.980 --> 00:10:47.279 you for allowing us to do that. But that's kind 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:50.259 of in a nutshell what the award is it it it seeks 00:10:50.259 --> 00:10:53.200 to honor youth and excellence in amateur radio 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:56.940 and it celebrates a young person who has done 00:10:56.940 --> 00:11:00.980 something amazing with amateur radio to either 00:11:00.980 --> 00:11:03.659 Further the state of the art of amateur radio 00:11:03.659 --> 00:11:08.399 or do something really cool For mankind with 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:10.379 amateur radio and that's that's the whole idea 00:11:10.379 --> 00:11:15.059 of the award It's an award that's near and dear 00:11:15.059 --> 00:11:19.539 to my heart. I remember hearing about it on Newsline 00:11:19.539 --> 00:11:22.700 and thinking, gee, wish they would have had that 00:11:22.700 --> 00:11:30.159 when I was a kid. Now I've nominated some people 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.440 for this and had a couple of former students 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:41.740 involved and winning the award. been more and 00:11:41.740 --> 00:11:47.679 more connected with the award, I'll say, I won't 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:51.580 say involved because I'm not on the award committee 00:11:51.580 --> 00:11:55.440 and do that kind of intentionally because I have 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:59.340 students who, you know, from time to time are 00:11:59.340 --> 00:12:02.779 nominated. So I want to keep keep the distance 00:12:02.779 --> 00:12:07.950 out of that for now. But, you know, we had Patrick 00:12:07.950 --> 00:12:12.210 Lassondrew here KC9 UUS a few years ago when 00:12:12.210 --> 00:12:15.570 it from Bloomington High School South and yeah, 00:12:15.789 --> 00:12:19.850 and now he's off Shooting off rockets for this 00:12:19.850 --> 00:12:24.009 little startup called SpaceX Boy, he's gone a 00:12:24.009 --> 00:12:28.110 long way hasn't I'm so proud of him He said he's 00:12:28.110 --> 00:12:30.889 amazing Patrick it pattern and the whole Lassondrew 00:12:30.889 --> 00:12:33.309 family just amazing and I've gotten to know a 00:12:33.309 --> 00:12:37.149 lot of the families Of course, the bros, you 00:12:37.149 --> 00:12:39.070 know, Chris's mom and dad, I've gotten to know 00:12:39.070 --> 00:12:41.870 them really, really well. The Rascals, Bryant 00:12:41.870 --> 00:12:46.750 Rascal, KG5HVO, 2018 winner. I've gotten to know 00:12:46.750 --> 00:12:49.570 that family really well. The Lissandreus, really 00:12:49.570 --> 00:12:52.549 well. And they've just become really, really 00:12:52.549 --> 00:12:57.409 good friends. And it's amazing. You know, my 00:12:57.409 --> 00:13:02.970 wife has constantly said... I'm in my 25th year 00:13:02.970 --> 00:13:06.950 I guess now 26th I guess of being a licensed 00:13:06.950 --> 00:13:10.250 ham now and she said you know when you when you 00:13:10.250 --> 00:13:12.490 got into this she said this many times when you 00:13:12.490 --> 00:13:15.090 got into this back in 94 when you took your test 00:13:15.090 --> 00:13:17.129 I thought okay well this will be the the hobby 00:13:17.129 --> 00:13:19.730 of the week or the hobby of the month and and 00:13:19.730 --> 00:13:22.649 you know a couple of months he'll be off on some 00:13:22.649 --> 00:13:27.070 other some other quest to to fill his free time 00:13:27.070 --> 00:13:31.519 and and now you know 25 26 years later It's amazing 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:37.440 how much amateur radio has enriched my life. 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:42.120 My son is now licensed. Dawn was working on hers 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:45.659 back when Tyler was born 21 years ago, but she 00:13:45.659 --> 00:13:48.720 never did complete it and probably won't now. 00:13:50.100 --> 00:13:52.620 But Huntsville Hamfest is one of the highlights 00:13:52.620 --> 00:13:56.500 of her years. I mean, she loves going to the 00:13:56.500 --> 00:14:00.679 Huntsville Hamfest. It's become a big part of 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:04.220 her life as well. Uh, and, and so, yeah, it's, 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:08.200 it's, this is the best, uh, avocation I think 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:10.840 that, that a person could have in the world as 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:13.259 amateur radio. There's so many different ways 00:14:13.259 --> 00:14:15.679 you can go and different avenues you can, you 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.360 can go down and follow and different niches that 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:21.340 you can get into, uh, that if, if you're ever 00:14:21.340 --> 00:14:23.019 bored in this hobby, then you're doing something 00:14:23.019 --> 00:14:27.669 wrong. Yeah, absolutely. And you know, you could 00:14:27.669 --> 00:14:33.809 have gone for ham radios in green cars. Yeah, 00:14:33.809 --> 00:14:36.309 I do have a green car fetish, that's true. Green 00:14:36.309 --> 00:14:40.889 cars and red guitars. Oh, there we go. That sounds 00:14:40.889 --> 00:14:44.230 like a country song. Yeah, yeah, it was. Green 00:14:44.230 --> 00:14:47.289 cars and red guitars. Red neck, white socks and 00:14:47.289 --> 00:14:49.210 blue ribbon beer or whatever it is, yeah. Yeah, 00:14:49.210 --> 00:14:54.509 there you go. Well, it was so cool, you know, 00:14:54.509 --> 00:14:57.850 to, you know, make the trip down to Huntsville, 00:14:58.309 --> 00:15:01.789 you know, pretty much every year. I've had to 00:15:01.789 --> 00:15:07.490 miss a few for this or that reason. But, you 00:15:07.490 --> 00:15:10.409 know, I try to go down there every year and it's, 00:15:10.409 --> 00:15:14.070 you know, mainly for this event, the presentation 00:15:14.070 --> 00:15:18.070 of the Young Ham of the Year Award. And so last 00:15:18.070 --> 00:15:23.039 year when we... Couldn't do it and and all of 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:25.259 a sudden I get this phone call from you saying 00:15:25.259 --> 00:15:28.159 hey Can we do this at the wedding because everybody's 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.679 gonna be there. I'm like, wait a minute. You're 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:36.720 coming and it's like Yeah, so It's pretty great 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:39.100 to have it at your own wedding, you know, you're 00:15:39.100 --> 00:15:42.720 you're the backup option, I guess but you know 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:48.200 Yeah, and yeah, so thank you so much for letting 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.299 us do that You know, we don't and I work we're 00:15:52.299 --> 00:15:54.179 sitting out on the back deck and we were talking 00:15:54.179 --> 00:15:55.879 about how much we're gonna miss Huntsville this 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:57.919 year and and how much that we would you know 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:00.820 I said I would really like to go up to to Neil 00:16:00.820 --> 00:16:04.019 and Julie's wedding and she's like well You know, 00:16:04.019 --> 00:16:05.759 we've got a little bit of money on the side. 00:16:05.779 --> 00:16:11.019 We could easily do that You've got vacation time, 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:14.389 why don't we just go and it's like Okay, we're 00:16:14.389 --> 00:16:17.149 going and so that's kind of how that how that 00:16:17.149 --> 00:16:18.690 went and then once we realized we were going 00:16:18.690 --> 00:16:21.370 it's like, okay Well, uh, well, you know, the 00:16:21.370 --> 00:16:22.970 the bros are gonna be there and what was really 00:16:22.970 --> 00:16:25.750 cool was Christopher did not tell his mom and 00:16:25.750 --> 00:16:29.509 dad that he had won and so they found out When 00:16:29.509 --> 00:16:32.009 I presented the award when I when I actually 00:16:32.009 --> 00:16:35.570 when I handed it to him across the table That's 00:16:35.570 --> 00:16:37.690 when they found out that that he had won. So 00:16:37.690 --> 00:16:39.730 that was that was a really cool It was a really 00:16:39.730 --> 00:16:42.669 unique way to present an award It really was. 00:16:43.629 --> 00:16:47.750 At a wedding with face masks on and wearing a 00:16:47.750 --> 00:16:53.909 kilt. Yes, it was. It was a lot of fun. And I 00:16:53.909 --> 00:17:00.649 will admit that no, I was not present for the 00:17:00.649 --> 00:17:04.410 award ceremony itself because I had other things 00:17:04.410 --> 00:17:08.470 that were a little more important that day. You 00:17:08.470 --> 00:17:12.609 know, we did get a picture or two afterwards, 00:17:13.029 --> 00:17:16.829 and it was just really cool because, like you 00:17:16.829 --> 00:17:19.630 said, everybody was there that needed to be there, 00:17:19.829 --> 00:17:24.329 and so we made it work. uh... this year we really 00:17:24.329 --> 00:17:27.369 didn't have a a formal ceremony because i a i 00:17:27.369 --> 00:17:29.670 mean obviously the the main attraction was your 00:17:29.670 --> 00:17:32.690 wedding and i wasn't gonna go up in and do anything 00:17:32.690 --> 00:17:34.730 to take away from your wedding so just whatever 00:17:34.730 --> 00:17:38.309 we had at the table was our ceremony and it was 00:17:38.309 --> 00:17:40.349 you know friends and family and that's that's 00:17:40.349 --> 00:17:44.029 kinda it was it it worked out perfectly that's 00:17:44.029 --> 00:17:47.960 that's the way that It was perfect for 2020 now 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:50.000 in 2021 We're gonna be back on the main stage 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.119 at Huntsville and three o 'clock in the afternoon 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:53.900 or two o 'clock whatever time it is I don't remember 00:17:53.900 --> 00:17:58.059 now and we will present the award and of course 00:17:58.059 --> 00:18:00.339 Chris will be there and we'll bring him up as 00:18:00.339 --> 00:18:03.339 well. And so we'll kind of have a two -for -one 00:18:03.339 --> 00:18:06.680 deal yeah looking forward to it and and Mark 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:09.160 Brown in for BCD the chairman of huntsville's 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.359 already texted me. In fact, if you heard the 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:13.799 The text because I forgot to silence my phone 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:17.339 while ago that was that was Mark saying yes Huntsville 00:18:17.339 --> 00:18:21.980 will happen. So yes. So yes, we're looking forward 00:18:21.980 --> 00:18:24.579 to it. Appreciate you and everybody in Huntsville 00:18:24.579 --> 00:18:26.700 Mark. We love you. We love being there. Love 00:18:26.700 --> 00:18:30.480 being part of the family. So we're we're excited 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:35.779 to have that back in action and be able to do 00:18:35.779 --> 00:18:40.619 the award ceremony again for whoever is is. awarded 00:18:40.619 --> 00:18:47.119 them that honor this year. So how do people get 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:50.720 nominated for this and what should they be doing? 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.420 It's very, very simple. What you need to do is 00:18:54.420 --> 00:19:00.200 have a young amateur in mind who you think deserves 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:06.220 this honor. And it is not the easiest award to 00:19:06.220 --> 00:19:11.259 win. There is A form a nominating form that you 00:19:11.259 --> 00:19:14.259 fill out and it is many pages long. This is not 00:19:14.259 --> 00:19:17.700 a hey my My kids an eight -year -old extra give 00:19:17.700 --> 00:19:21.440 them a radio kind of an award This is this you 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:24.420 earn this award Which is why we did not give 00:19:24.420 --> 00:19:26.420 one away in 2014. We didn't want to cheapen it 00:19:26.420 --> 00:19:30.559 So you go to our website a our newsline dot o 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:33.430 RG And they're right under the big amateur radio 00:19:33.430 --> 00:19:36.150 news line banner you'll see a row of buttons 00:19:36.150 --> 00:19:40.329 news extra staff awards. That's the one you want 00:19:40.329 --> 00:19:42.990 to click on when you click on awards it will 00:19:42.990 --> 00:19:45.369 bring you to a drop down menu and it says twenty 00:19:45.369 --> 00:19:49.670 twenty one y h o t y form you click on that and 00:19:49.670 --> 00:19:54.039 it says the young ham of the year. For 2021 nomination 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:57.039 form, please download and submit via email for 00:19:57.039 --> 00:19:59.839 your choice for the 2021 Young Ham of the Year 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:02.700 Award. Download the form here. You click on that 00:20:02.700 --> 00:20:06.180 and it downloads a Microsoft Word document, a 00:20:06.180 --> 00:20:10.960 DocX file, and you fill that in with all of your 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:16.619 supporting information and you mail that back 00:20:16.619 --> 00:20:20.039 to us. And all the information that you need 00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:21.859 to know is right there on the form. I'm pulling 00:20:21.859 --> 00:20:25.960 it up right now. There are like I said several 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:27.960 pages and if you need to add more, you know, 00:20:27.980 --> 00:20:30.400 of course you make it as comprehensive as you 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:36.420 possibly can. Newsline at arnewsline .org is 00:20:36.420 --> 00:20:39.460 the is the submission. That's the only way we're 00:20:39.460 --> 00:20:42.339 accepting. We are not accepting mail ends only 00:20:42.339 --> 00:20:46.400 email submissions. Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:51.980 format or Scan paper documents in JPEG form as 00:20:51.980 --> 00:20:55.839 long as we can see them before May 31st 2021 00:20:55.839 --> 00:21:00.200 That is the deadline midnight Eastern time because 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:03.700 we are based in New York May 31st 2021 is the 00:21:03.700 --> 00:21:06.220 deadline midnight Eastern time get those back 00:21:06.220 --> 00:21:11.039 to us and we will Email you back saying that 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:16.710 we got it and From there the judging committee 00:21:16.710 --> 00:21:20.829 goes behind closed doors and sequesters themselves 00:21:20.829 --> 00:21:23.630 and they synchronize their watches and do whatever 00:21:23.630 --> 00:21:27.109 it is that they need to do and they come up with 00:21:27.109 --> 00:21:31.789 an award winner and then we all meet in Huntsville 00:21:31.789 --> 00:21:37.150 to present the award. Looking forward to it and 00:21:37.150 --> 00:21:43.119 you know, like you said, it's got to be... Someone 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:47.059 who's really contributed to amateur radio. It's 00:21:47.059 --> 00:21:50.000 not you know, well, I run a net, you know, well, 00:21:50.039 --> 00:21:52.299 you know, that's that's good. That's important, 00:21:52.299 --> 00:21:57.940 right but You know this this award is a little 00:21:57.940 --> 00:22:02.099 more than that actually Yeah, you know Running 00:22:02.099 --> 00:22:04.500 the Thursday night rag chew net is not gonna 00:22:04.500 --> 00:22:08.970 get you the award. However Being a net control 00:22:08.970 --> 00:22:12.690 operator for the Florida wildfires several years 00:22:12.690 --> 00:22:17.829 ago, that got someone the award. A young person 00:22:17.829 --> 00:22:22.430 was actually net control for the Florida wildfires. 00:22:23.069 --> 00:22:24.630 Oh, I can't even remember what year it was. It 00:22:24.630 --> 00:22:29.049 was some time, some time ago, but that got them 00:22:29.049 --> 00:22:32.349 the award. The first young hem of the year that 00:22:32.349 --> 00:22:37.259 I met was Kevin Boudreau, N5XMH. He was the 1993 00:22:37.259 --> 00:22:40.900 winner and what what got him the award? He's 00:22:40.900 --> 00:22:45.200 from New Orleans Hurricane Andrew, I believe 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:49.420 it was came through back in 90 93 and as a brand 00:22:49.420 --> 00:22:53.740 new technician Kevin was at a Red Cross shelter 00:22:53.740 --> 00:22:58.920 and There was nobody from the Red Cross really 00:22:58.920 --> 00:23:03.460 there in charge. It was just He was one of those 00:23:03.460 --> 00:23:05.990 people who were there trying to shelter from 00:23:05.990 --> 00:23:10.950 the storm. Well the wind blew the roof off and 00:23:10.950 --> 00:23:15.049 he got the word out via his two meter handheld 00:23:15.049 --> 00:23:19.150 and made sure that kept everybody safe and got 00:23:19.150 --> 00:23:22.029 the word out and got the emergency response people 00:23:22.029 --> 00:23:25.789 in to get everybody out of harm's way. That's 00:23:25.789 --> 00:23:29.009 the kind of public service that gets you the 00:23:29.009 --> 00:23:34.470 award. Let's see. I'm looking over the over the 00:23:34.470 --> 00:23:39.170 winners I'm trying to think who did what there's 00:23:39.170 --> 00:23:43.609 it seems like every year. It's so hard to pick 00:23:43.609 --> 00:23:46.970 a winner because Every year it's like the bar 00:23:46.970 --> 00:23:51.190 is raised every year Well, let's see. We had 00:23:51.190 --> 00:23:55.150 one winner remember who loved a space yeah, right 00:23:55.150 --> 00:24:03.920 exactly and Andrew Koenig Ke5 GDB in 2009 as 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:07.420 a young ham in Houston I believe his dad worked 00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:09.420 for NASA and Andrew was always hanging out down 00:24:09.420 --> 00:24:14.039 there and Andrew was training astronauts in How 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:16.480 to operate amateur radio and helping get them 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:21.960 licensed We had another another young young young 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:27.670 ham winner Who Toby Metz? I believe it was KB7 00:24:27.670 --> 00:24:34.150 UIM of Boise, Idaho 1996 Toby was teaching amateur 00:24:34.150 --> 00:24:41.230 radio to deaf people and You think well now how 00:24:41.230 --> 00:24:44.549 does that work? Well packet radio, obviously, 00:24:44.589 --> 00:24:47.069 you know keyboard to keyboard doing it on a computer, 00:24:47.589 --> 00:24:52.440 but he He was able to put such a sense of of 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:55.480 excitement into one of one particular person 00:24:55.480 --> 00:25:00.299 who got licensed that This person actually put 00:25:00.299 --> 00:25:05.740 again a deaf person could not hear anything I 00:25:05.740 --> 00:25:08.660 believe had been had been deaf since birth, but 00:25:08.660 --> 00:25:13.220 this this this ham put a two meter radio in his 00:25:13.220 --> 00:25:17.779 car and It would be on and he would watch the 00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:21.720 s meter he would watch the activity and occasionally 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:24.980 when activity dropped down he would pick up his 00:25:24.980 --> 00:25:27.880 microphone and he would say as best he could 00:25:27.880 --> 00:25:32.460 his call sign into the microphone the only way 00:25:32.460 --> 00:25:34.680 he knew if anyone was coming back was watching 00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:38.220 the action on that s -meter but he was so in 00:25:38.220 --> 00:25:41.200 love with with amateur radio through toby metz 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.279 who was was teaching these deaf people Uh, about, 00:25:45.339 --> 00:25:48.140 uh, about amateur radio, Brian Milschowski and 00:25:48.140 --> 00:25:51.759 five, uh, ZGT of Albuquerque now, uh, very high 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:55.119 up in the, uh, in the ARRL. Um, there are just 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:58.359 some, some just amazing young people that, uh, 00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:01.539 we've crossed paths with, uh, over the years. 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:05.539 Uh, just, uh, one more amazing than the other, 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:08.920 it seems like. Yeah. Some, some amazing talent 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:12.700 out there. And so if you. know of someone of 00:26:12.700 --> 00:26:16.799 that caliber, then get a hold of that person 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:22.779 and nominate on the form. Again, it's arnewsline 00:26:22.779 --> 00:26:27.220 .org. Go to the awards, and there are two awards 00:26:27.220 --> 00:26:31.099 now from Newsline, so you have to look for the 00:26:31.099 --> 00:26:35.400 Young Ham of the Year Y -H -O -T -Y button there, 00:26:35.539 --> 00:26:42.359 and we'll get that done. Looking forward to Huntsville 00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:46.279 and maybe a trip to the barbecue place again. 00:26:47.619 --> 00:26:52.000 That'd be fun. That'd be fun. I like that. I 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:54.579 have so many cool memories of these winners. 00:26:55.420 --> 00:26:58.559 I can remember one of the winners, and I'll not 00:26:58.559 --> 00:27:01.900 mention his name. I don't even think he's an 00:27:01.900 --> 00:27:05.299 active ham anymore, but back when we were, one 00:27:05.299 --> 00:27:08.819 of the prizes was a week at Space Camp Huntsville. 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:17.519 and he almost got kicked out of space camp because 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:22.500 he how can I put this delicately he had he attempted 00:27:22.500 --> 00:27:26.119 an unauthorized docking maneuver with a female 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:32.240 camper oh yeah yeah consensual but nonetheless 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:36.259 they frown on that type of fraternization and 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:47.119 I can also remember a really cool memory of... 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:54.319 Let me see, I'm looking for the name here. Allison 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:58.900 Zetwock, KD4CKP of Louisville, Kentucky, was 00:27:58.900 --> 00:28:07.220 the winner in 1994. Her dad became the young 00:28:07.220 --> 00:28:12.200 ham of the year chairman Anyway, Allison had 00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:17.900 a little brother Named Evan and Evan Evan was 00:28:17.900 --> 00:28:19.420 just a little guy probably I don't know six or 00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:22.640 seven back then and Evan was adopted so he and 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:25.140 I shared that and so we bonded immediately and 00:28:25.140 --> 00:28:31.099 Evan I was teaching Evan how to How to do cannonballs 00:28:31.099 --> 00:28:34.279 in the in the pool behind the behind the hotel 00:28:35.879 --> 00:28:41.160 Just just had the best time well sadly We lost 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:46.940 Evan this year Way way way too young so our hearts 00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:51.240 go out to the set walk family Evan was just the 00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:54.539 coolest guy a really cool kid and became just 00:28:54.539 --> 00:28:59.180 an amazing young man husband and father and Sadly 00:28:59.180 --> 00:29:03.960 lost his life Way too young. So we're we're thinking 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:07.460 of the set box tonight as we as we relive some 00:29:07.460 --> 00:29:10.359 of the memories of the young ham of the year. 00:29:11.460 --> 00:29:14.680 Very good. Well, we're going to take a break 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:16.980 here. And when we come back, we're going to open 00:29:16.980 --> 00:29:19.539 up the phone lines and take a look at the tweets 00:29:19.539 --> 00:29:22.500 and the comments and all that kind of thing and 00:29:22.500 --> 00:29:26.019 see what else we we can talk about tonight here. 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:33.710 So Give us a call at 859 -982 -7373 and I'll 00:29:33.710 --> 00:29:37.069 be back with Don right after this word from Tower 00:29:37.069 --> 00:29:42.809 Electronics right here on HamTalk Live. Jerry, 00:29:43.029 --> 00:29:45.769 what's up man? I haven't seen you at Sunbucks 00:29:45.769 --> 00:29:48.529 in a while. I used to see you every morning getting 00:29:48.529 --> 00:29:52.309 coffee. What's up? Well, I can't afford Sunbucks 00:29:52.309 --> 00:29:55.369 five days a week anymore. I had to spend my money 00:29:55.369 --> 00:29:59.309 on PL259s. You know, those antenna projects I've 00:29:59.309 --> 00:30:02.210 been meaning to do. I had to do them before my 00:30:02.210 --> 00:30:05.809 HOA finds out I have antennas. That's too bad, 00:30:06.069 --> 00:30:08.430 Jerry. I miss seeing you and catching up over 00:30:08.430 --> 00:30:11.869 coffee. You should get your PL259s from Tower 00:30:11.869 --> 00:30:18.930 Electronics. They have great stuff. Jerry, you're 00:30:18.930 --> 00:30:23.339 back! Oh, QRM Heterodyne Frappuccino. That's 00:30:23.339 --> 00:30:26.079 a good choice. How's it going? Did you get all 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:28.859 those antennas up before the HOA police showed 00:30:28.859 --> 00:30:32.420 up? Yeah, I got them all done. Thanks for telling 00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:35.259 me about Tower Electronics. Now I can have my 00:30:35.259 --> 00:30:39.109 coffee. I just saved a bunch of money on my PL259s 00:30:39.109 --> 00:30:41.990 by switching to Tower Electronics. Don't get 00:30:41.990 --> 00:30:45.269 caught without PL259s. Visit Tower Electronics 00:30:45.269 --> 00:30:49.789 online at pl -259 .com or at a ham fest near 00:30:49.789 --> 00:30:55.289 you. Or give them a call at 920 -435 -2973 and 00:30:55.289 --> 00:30:57.549 be sure to pick up some power poles, adapters, 00:30:57.809 --> 00:31:02.079 and cables too. Join the conversation. Give us 00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:08.259 a call at 859 -982 -7373. Again, the number to 00:31:08.259 --> 00:31:14.759 call is 859 -982 -7373. Or, if you'd rather type 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:18.519 than talk, tweet us at HamTalk Live. Now, here's 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:23.390 Neil Rapp with more HamTalk Live. You are listening 00:31:23.390 --> 00:31:26.890 to Ham Talk Live, the number one podcast amongst 00:31:26.890 --> 00:31:30.349 all podcasts with the words ham, talk, and live 00:31:30.349 --> 00:31:33.630 in the title. And now, here's your host, Amateur 00:31:33.630 --> 00:31:54.569 Radio's own, Neil Rapp. Welcome back to HamTalk 00:31:54.569 --> 00:31:58.569 Live! Thanks to Tower Electronics for sponsoring 00:31:58.569 --> 00:32:03.710 the show. They do that every week. And they have 00:32:03.710 --> 00:32:07.529 a few HamFests scheduled. But of course you can 00:32:07.529 --> 00:32:13.230 find them online at PL -259 .com. Coming up, 00:32:13.309 --> 00:32:16.349 they've got Sandwich, Illinois on May 2nd. And 00:32:16.349 --> 00:32:19.170 then up in Michigan, they have Newberry, Michigan 00:32:19.170 --> 00:32:23.220 June 12th and Monroe, Michigan. 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Eastern Time at HamTalkLive .com and 00:32:38.619 --> 00:32:42.220 be sure to check us out on Facebook Twitter and 00:32:42.220 --> 00:32:44.680 Instagram and before we go back to dawn it's 00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:49.440 time Once again for the ham talk live ham radio 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:53.279 joke of the week within nine GSU Now it's time 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:56.779 for the ham talk live ham radio Joke of the week 00:32:56.779 --> 00:32:59.380 the part of the show where Rick tells us a ham 00:32:59.380 --> 00:33:02.599 radio Joke the ham talk live ham radio Joke of 00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:06.420 the week is brought to you by QRM labs now Here's 00:33:06.420 --> 00:33:10.160 Rick Garrett in nine GSU with today's ham talk 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:18.119 live joke of the week Bought a new shortwave 00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:21.259 receiver and on the box that says built -in antenna 00:33:21.259 --> 00:33:24.279 I've been looking all over the globe and I cannot 00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:28.680 figure out where antenna is This has been the 00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:31.759 ham talk live ham radio joke of the week with 00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:35.460 Rick Garrett in nine GSU Tune in again next week 00:33:35.460 --> 00:33:40.400 for another joke from Rick. Oh My goodness, I 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:50.640 should have had your mic turned up Is an antenna 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:54.720 on the DXCC list? It ought to be. How do you 00:33:54.720 --> 00:34:01.240 spell DXCC? That's just the worst I've ever heard. 00:34:05.700 --> 00:34:10.719 Oh my goodness. He's done it again. All right. 00:34:10.780 --> 00:34:13.820 Well, thanks Rick. And yes, there'll be another. 00:34:14.670 --> 00:34:17.769 Dad joke next week probably but anyway, thanks 00:34:17.769 --> 00:34:21.630 Rick for doing that Can't stop him now. Yeah, 00:34:21.630 --> 00:34:27.050 we can't can't can't do that Yeah, it's too late. 00:34:27.590 --> 00:34:29.869 All right, well give us a call eight five nine 00:34:29.869 --> 00:34:32.710 nine eight two seventy three seventy three now 00:34:32.710 --> 00:34:36.769 is the time to call if You would like to chime 00:34:36.769 --> 00:34:40.090 in tonight or you can tweet us. It's at ham talk 00:34:40.090 --> 00:34:44.260 live and if you're listening to us On WTWW or 00:34:44.260 --> 00:34:46.860 on the podcast edition, you won't be able to 00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:51.019 reach us since we're doing this on a Thursday 00:34:51.019 --> 00:34:54.320 night. So it's probably not Thursday night when 00:34:54.320 --> 00:35:00.019 you're listening. So anyway, let's, uh, let's 00:35:00.019 --> 00:35:03.500 see if we get anything here in the comments also 00:35:03.500 --> 00:35:09.139 on Spreaker and, uh, uh, the tweets and, uh, 00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:12.969 you've, we haven't. Had you on the show in a 00:35:12.969 --> 00:35:18.449 while. We've talked about the award, but you're 00:35:18.449 --> 00:35:25.409 in the middle of some intensive studies. So how 00:35:25.409 --> 00:35:28.730 are the studies going? I'm in the midst of a 00:35:28.730 --> 00:35:32.449 career change at age 60, which is quite frankly 00:35:32.449 --> 00:35:36.429 frightening as it can possibly be. You're 60? 00:35:36.769 --> 00:35:42.170 I thought you were 40. Well, my career was 40, 00:35:43.329 --> 00:35:53.829 slightly over. I'll be 61 in September. My broadcasting 00:35:53.829 --> 00:35:58.469 career came to an end and there is nothing in 00:35:58.469 --> 00:36:04.110 my career path, period. A lot of it due to COVID. 00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:11.280 advertising revenue down, a lot of good people 00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:16.760 in broadcasting lost their jobs. In fact, COVID 00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:20.699 is one reason why Ham Nation is no longer on 00:36:20.699 --> 00:36:23.699 the twit network. We're now on the Ham Radio 00:36:23.699 --> 00:36:27.460 Crash Course channel on YouTube because the twit 00:36:27.460 --> 00:36:31.659 network dropped several shows. and had to lay 00:36:31.659 --> 00:36:33.300 off a bunch of people. They just didn't have 00:36:33.300 --> 00:36:37.639 the ad revenue coming in. So COVID has really 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:40.019 just knocked a lot of people for a loop, not 00:36:40.019 --> 00:36:44.360 only personally and health wise, but professionally 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:47.619 as well. And I'm one of those. But, you know, 00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:51.300 life goes on. So I'm studying for my second career 00:36:51.300 --> 00:36:55.019 at 60 and we're looking at a career in real estate. 00:36:55.380 --> 00:37:00.210 So it seems like that that seems to be the. Common 00:37:00.210 --> 00:37:02.869 career path after broadcasting is real estate 00:37:02.869 --> 00:37:06.730 So we're working on that should be taking the 00:37:06.730 --> 00:37:09.949 license test here before too much longer I wanted 00:37:09.949 --> 00:37:12.590 to mention before we go too farther along before 00:37:12.590 --> 00:37:17.690 I forgot I forget about it All of us at ham nation 00:37:17.690 --> 00:37:22.329 or at at newsliner are available To zoom in to 00:37:22.329 --> 00:37:24.389 your club meeting and in fact, I'm doing one 00:37:24.389 --> 00:37:27.530 on Saturday morning with the Stillwater, Minnesota 00:37:28.049 --> 00:37:30.750 amateur radio club up there. So if you'd like 00:37:30.750 --> 00:37:33.849 any of the news line or ham nation, uh, people 00:37:33.849 --> 00:37:36.610 to zoom into, uh, to your club meeting, including 00:37:36.610 --> 00:37:40.369 Bob Hile or George or, or any of, uh, any of 00:37:40.369 --> 00:37:42.670 the rest of us who are still around, uh, just 00:37:42.670 --> 00:37:44.630 send us an email and we'll be more than happy 00:37:44.630 --> 00:37:47.550 to do that for, uh, for any club anywhere, anytime. 00:37:48.710 --> 00:37:51.829 Yep. I've done a couple of those as well. And 00:37:51.829 --> 00:37:55.659 it's always a lot of fun to see. How some other 00:37:55.659 --> 00:37:58.480 clubs do things. Everybody has their own little 00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:02.559 take on how things go and it's always interesting 00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:09.260 to see those. Well, let's see. We talked about 00:38:09.260 --> 00:38:13.820 the real estate thing. So if you're in Mississippi 00:38:13.820 --> 00:38:17.400 and you need some real estate now. Well, Louisiana. 00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:19.679 I live in Mississippi and I'm going to be licensed 00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:23.860 in Louisiana. Ah, okay. All right. There you 00:38:23.860 --> 00:38:26.519 go, if you need something that dons your man, 00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:33.159 all right. Well, Don, before we go, the clock 00:38:33.159 --> 00:38:37.179 here is ticking, but let me reach out again here 00:38:37.179 --> 00:38:44.679 for the phone number, 859 -982 -7373 is the phone 00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:47.380 number. We have just a couple of minutes left, 00:38:47.380 --> 00:38:50.780 so. If you want to give us a call, now is the 00:38:50.780 --> 00:38:54.659 time to do that. There was one other thing that 00:38:54.659 --> 00:38:58.519 I wanted to throw out here, and this is a new 00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:04.340 award that I hadn't heard of. Even in the email 00:39:04.340 --> 00:39:05.960 it said, if you haven't heard of this award, 00:39:06.179 --> 00:39:08.599 it's new. That's why you haven't heard about 00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:13.079 it. There's a new amateur radio software award, 00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:17.360 and the 2021 winner has been named, it's Jordan 00:39:17.469 --> 00:39:25.449 Shear KN4CRD. He wrote the JS8 Call application 00:39:25.449 --> 00:39:29.289 and the award aims to promote amateur radio software 00:39:29.289 --> 00:39:32.690 development which adheres to the same spirit 00:39:32.690 --> 00:39:35.909 as amateur radio itself, innovative, free, and 00:39:35.909 --> 00:39:41.039 open. And if you're interested in the award or 00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:44.480 submitting nominations for the award next year, 00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:50.639 you can go to ARSAward .com and that's from Rich 00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:54.599 K0EB. So Rich, thanks for letting us know about 00:39:54.599 --> 00:39:57.639 that. And I think that's on Newsline this week 00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:03.159 as well, which I think I just saw. Congratulations, 00:40:03.539 --> 00:40:06.980 Jordan. Yeah, I think I saw on my phone here 00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:09.719 that that that it's just been released. So there's 00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:14.960 a new news line out now Not very good So yeah, 00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:17.420 congratulations to Jordan. I know Jordan's done 00:40:17.420 --> 00:40:22.480 a lot with that That's a cool award Yeah, there's 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:29.579 uh, you know, there's There's so much that Worked 00:40:29.579 --> 00:40:33.369 its way in from the computer world into ham radio. 00:40:34.010 --> 00:40:38.329 I can remember a world without computers, but 00:40:38.329 --> 00:40:43.570 you know, that was one of the very first things 00:40:43.570 --> 00:40:54.469 that kind of interfaced ham radio into the digital 00:40:54.469 --> 00:40:59.030 world. And I had one of those, you know, Commodore 00:40:59.030 --> 00:41:03.179 Vic -20s. Yeah, and put that thing on on ready 00:41:03.179 --> 00:41:06.519 and and you know, that was my second computer 00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:11.300 It was pretty early on that You know the computer 00:41:11.300 --> 00:41:14.579 got hooked up to the ham radio and it it hasn't 00:41:14.579 --> 00:41:17.280 been the same sense There's just so many and 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:21.260 now I can do now now look where we are Neil Now 00:41:21.260 --> 00:41:24.360 with software -defined radios the radio is the 00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:31.170 computer. Yeah and it just it's seamlessly you 00:41:31.170 --> 00:41:34.809 know a USB cable from the back of your rig to 00:41:34.809 --> 00:41:38.869 the back of your desktop or laptop computer or 00:41:38.869 --> 00:41:45.969 Raspberry Pi or whatever and you know or even 00:41:45.969 --> 00:41:49.869 Bluetooth connected via your Android or your 00:41:49.869 --> 00:41:53.860 iOS device for some things It's just absolutely 00:41:53.860 --> 00:41:55.800 amazing and now you know you look at the icon 00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:58.880 705 it has built -in Wi -Fi it has its own Wi 00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:03.400 -Fi connection to connect a computer to so It's 00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:05.760 just it's a brave new world. I mean it is ham 00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:09.139 radio is no longer and I it hasn't been this 00:42:09.139 --> 00:42:12.679 for a long time, but I think it Kind of had the 00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:15.360 perception to people who are not in the know 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.690 who? hear the word ham radio, I think Wow is 00:42:19.690 --> 00:42:21.989 that still around you know the first thing they 00:42:21.989 --> 00:42:26.809 think of is maybe you know an old Munsters episode. 00:42:27.670 --> 00:42:31.550 Or they think of they think of the old stereotype 00:42:31.550 --> 00:42:35.130 of an old guy pounding out Morse code in his 00:42:35.130 --> 00:42:38.030 basement you know or you know with with goofy 00:42:38.030 --> 00:42:40.289 looking headphones on or whatever and it ain't 00:42:40.289 --> 00:42:43.590 that way. This is not your grandfather's amateur 00:42:43.590 --> 00:42:46.570 radio anymore. This is a brave new world and 00:42:46.570 --> 00:42:49.010 it's bleeding edge technology amateur radio has 00:42:49.010 --> 00:42:51.570 always been Bleeding edge technology when you 00:42:51.570 --> 00:42:53.550 look at some of the things that have come from 00:42:53.550 --> 00:42:58.130 amateur radio Cell phones for one thing that 00:42:58.130 --> 00:43:00.329 cell phone technology came directly from amateur 00:43:00.329 --> 00:43:03.570 radio But it's always been bleeding edge technology 00:43:03.570 --> 00:43:06.269 and even more so now that everything has gone 00:43:06.269 --> 00:43:13.670 digital I remember that I hated logging so much. 00:43:14.710 --> 00:43:18.210 It was all on paper. Yeah, I still don't exactly 00:43:18.210 --> 00:43:21.590 like it, but oh my gosh, it's so much easier 00:43:21.590 --> 00:43:25.110 now that you just type it in and it fills in 00:43:25.110 --> 00:43:30.079 half the stuff for you. Finally got the frequency 00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:33.119 thing hooked up the other day To where it drops 00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:36.519 the frequency into the log right before the last 00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:39.719 man standing thing I got that actually is in 00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:42.980 the middle of that. I got it working and It's 00:43:42.980 --> 00:43:46.119 just so much better Yeah, it's still logging 00:43:46.119 --> 00:43:49.179 but you know and if you if you work an FTA or 00:43:49.179 --> 00:43:50.880 something like that You just double click on 00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:53.179 the call sign and it fills in everything on the 00:43:53.179 --> 00:43:56.179 log Yeah, so, you know, it's it's great. Yeah, 00:43:56.179 --> 00:44:00.099 it's it's it's Yeah back the days of paper logs 00:44:00.099 --> 00:44:03.519 When I do do a log I tend to do still do a paper 00:44:03.519 --> 00:44:06.480 log like if I'm doing a special event or or chasing 00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:08.739 some DX or something I still tend to just write 00:44:08.739 --> 00:44:11.679 things down and then later on if I have to I'll 00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:15.699 fill in some form to get a You know some wallpaper 00:44:15.699 --> 00:44:18.280 or something if I'm going for that, but I'm yeah, 00:44:18.280 --> 00:44:21.539 I've never been a big logger But it's a lot easier 00:44:21.539 --> 00:44:25.260 now with a digital age. Oh, yeah Yep. So congratulations 00:44:25.260 --> 00:44:32.099 to Jordan on the software award. And as we wrap 00:44:32.099 --> 00:44:37.159 things up here, remind everyone about the Newsline 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:41.300 Young Ham of the Year award. Yep. Nominations 00:44:41.300 --> 00:44:44.780 are now open through May 31st arnewsline .org. 00:44:44.780 --> 00:44:46.579 Click on that awards tab and it's the first thing 00:44:46.579 --> 00:44:51.079 you see. Young Ham of the Year 2021. And that 00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:53.239 is the nominating form. Fill that out and email 00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:55.510 it. Email it back to us at the address on the 00:44:55.510 --> 00:44:58.809 form newsline at AR newsline .org and hopefully 00:44:58.809 --> 00:45:02.650 we'll be honoring your young ham coming up in 00:45:02.650 --> 00:45:04.929 August and Huntsville, Alabama and Neil. We're 00:45:04.929 --> 00:45:07.789 so good that we've answered everyone's questions. 00:45:08.110 --> 00:45:10.610 Nobody needed to call in. Nobody needed to tweet. 00:45:10.769 --> 00:45:14.550 We're just that good. We're that good. Exactly. 00:45:17.740 --> 00:45:20.460 You know, I could say that probably every day 00:45:20.460 --> 00:45:22.880 in class. It's like, okay any questions? And 00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:27.900 everybody just sits there. My work here is done. 00:45:28.860 --> 00:45:32.559 Can somebody make one up at least? You're as 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:34.840 smart as you're gonna get, so my work here is 00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:40.300 done. Well next week here on the show we are 00:45:40.300 --> 00:45:48.159 going to have some some young people. Quite as 00:45:48.159 --> 00:45:50.119 young as the young ham of the year award winners 00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:54.679 because that cuts off at age 18 But we have some 00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:58.079 20 somethings that are going to be here from 00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:02.800 From the the other side of the world Philip Springer 00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:12.400 DK 6 SP Marcus Grober DL8GM and TommyVaroHA8RT 00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:17.780 will be up at midnight or one o 'clock or whenever 00:46:17.780 --> 00:46:21.639 it is over there next week here on HamTalk Live 00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:24.440 to talk about this new Youngsters on the Air 00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:28.059 contest that was just announced. It's going to 00:46:28.059 --> 00:46:32.719 be three times a year, so more Young Ham stuff 00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:38.039 next week. Be sure to tune in for that. So Don, 00:46:38.219 --> 00:46:42.219 thank you for being here and talking about a 00:46:42.219 --> 00:46:45.380 variety of things tonight, but especially the 00:46:45.380 --> 00:46:50.300 award and got about a month and a half left to 00:46:50.300 --> 00:46:53.099 nominate somebody. So hopefully we'll get some 00:46:53.099 --> 00:46:56.239 good nominations. Yeah, looking forward to it 00:46:56.239 --> 00:46:58.199 always do we always get a really good really 00:46:58.199 --> 00:47:00.360 good crop of young people every year Neil Thank 00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:03.340 you so much for the invite to really appreciate 00:47:03.340 --> 00:47:06.639 you Your friendship and what you've done for 00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:08.880 amateur radio since you were five years old and 00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:12.199 the youngest licensed ham back then and Really 00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:15.460 appreciate your yours and Julie's friendship 00:47:15.460 --> 00:47:21.300 Well, we appreciate yours as well and And and 00:47:21.300 --> 00:47:24.800 say hello to your lovely bride as well I shall. 00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:31.900 And Mr. TMW. Yep. And we'll be talking to you 00:47:31.900 --> 00:47:36.139 soon. Sounds good. Thanks, Neil. All right. That 00:47:36.139 --> 00:47:40.019 is a wrap for this week's HamTalk Live. Thanks 00:47:40.019 --> 00:47:44.000 to my guest Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, and everybody 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:47.760 out there in cyberspace for listening. and invite 00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:49.900 you back next Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern 00:47:49.900 --> 00:47:53.619 time, when Philip, Marcus and Tommy will be here 00:47:53.619 --> 00:47:58.380 to talk about that new Yoda contest. And for 00:47:58.380 --> 00:48:02.099 a list of our upcoming guests, visit HamTalkLive 00:48:02.099 --> 00:48:04.940 .com. And if you like the show, please leave 00:48:04.940 --> 00:48:07.440 us a review. That helps others find us faster. 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:11.199 So for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:16.320 7 -3. 7 -5 and may the good DX be yours.