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Live! Good evening everyone, it's time for HamTalk
Live, episode number 241, Hamcation Special Edition,
recorded live on Thursday, January 7th, 2021.
I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for
tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight
we're joined by Orlando Hamcation Chairman Michael
Cawley, W4MCA. And we'll take your calls live
a little later in the show. It's been a couple
of weeks since I've hosted a live show. Hope
you had time to enjoy the holidays. Our last
episode featured John Portun, W6NBC, who, by
the way, is going to be on an upcoming AWRL podcast
or learning. learning venue, whatever they're
calling it. But anyway, he's going to be on talking
about actually this same helical antenna that
he was on with us a few weeks ago. So if you
missed hearing about the story of how he came
up with that, tune in to HamTalkLive .com. If
you missed that on your favorite podcast app
or on YouTube, any of those will work. And remember,
you can catch the rebroadcast of HamTalk Live
on WTWW. That's 5085 a .m. Saturday afternoons
at about 330 p .m. Eastern Time. So get your
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HamTalk Live. Welcome back to HamTalk Live. Tonight
Michael Colley, W4MCA, joins us on the Orlando
Amateur Radio Club and Hamcation Zoom line. Michael
is the chairman of Orlando Hamcation for the
fourth year and he served seven years as the
tailgate chairman, six years as the IT chairman,
and a year as the finance. Chairman and hamcation
is sponsored by the Orlando amateur radio club
and Michael Welcome back as always and and that's
that's the new thing the the Orlando amateur
radio club and hamcation zoom line So thanks
for the thanks for that and thank you John For
making that possible You're welcome. They'll
just trying to help out best we can with the
great program that you have here and trying to
keep it running into the 21st century. Yeah.
Off of Skype and on to Zoom. We're getting into
the 21st century here. So yeah, appreciate you
letting us use the Zoom account here for. The
show and we'll be transitioning things over to
zoom a lot more here in the next few weeks well
speaking of transitioning things online That's
that's what's happening with hamcation special
edition or as I like to call it hamcation se
last time you were on the show you brought us
the sad news that hamcation wasn't going to be
in person this year but you told us about hamcation
se and now that you're about a month out let's
preview what's gonna be taking place online at
hamcation special edition Yeah, no everything's
coming together very well for a hamcation special
edition this year Like you said everything will
be online Well, let me rephrase that not everything's
gonna be online 90 % of it's gonna be online
But our biggest thing that we are doing this
year. We have set up some very good webinars
They're actually gonna be four tracks of webinars
one of them is gonna be contesting technology
Uh, one for all the vendors and one for youth.
Um, so, um, you pretty much, you have to register,
um, to sign up for it. So if you go to hamcation
.com and then just go to the tab that says webinars,
there's a full schedule of webinars. Webinars
will run from 10 AM until 4 PM, uh, both days,
Saturday and Sunday, which is February. 13th
and 14th. There's some very good ones on there.
For each category, I believe also, Neil, you're
doing one for the youth category on Yoda 2021.
I am. So please check it out. I know for contesters,
I know Tim Duffy is actually doing one on his
K3LR station and a huge antenna farm he has there.
Um, uh, I don't know if you've ever driven by,
I don't know if you've ever driven by there,
but it's just, it's a sight to see. I have not.
I I've seen photos, uh, of it and then on the
inside, but I have never been by there, but I
can only imagine, uh, what it looks like. So,
but, uh, you do have to register, uh, to, uh,
attend a webinar. Um, To register, you just go
to hamcation .com, go under webinars, pick the
one that you wanna watch, you register for it.
You will have to register for each one of them.
So if you wanna watch four of them, you would
have to register four times. What happens once
you register, you'll get an email stating all
the information and how to join the webinar.
on the day of the webinar. You will also get
email reminders to remind you about the webinars
you signed up for, just in case you forget, and
you'll get an email reminder a week before, and
I believe the day before also, just to remind
you what webinars you signed up for. So if you
sign up today, and then all of a sudden come
February 13th, you're like, okay, which ones
did I sign up for? It will send you a reminder,
so you don't forget. Uh, one thing that we are
able to offer this year, we are giving away prizes,
um, by donations from our vendors that we have.
Um, there's two ways you can get a prize ticket.
One is when you sign up and attend a webinar,
you'll get one free entry into the prize drawing
or You can actually, for a donation of $5, you
can purchase additional tickets for the prize
drawing. And each ticket is a donation to OARC.
We are collecting the money, which will be given
back to local clubs. A lot of people doesn't
realize that a lot of the big ham fest do give
back to their local clubs. Last year we gave
over $15 ,000 back after hamcation to the local
area clubs, which helps fund them throughout
the year for repeater repairs, programs they
do, helps fund their field day, different activities.
And since we did cancel for, I don't like saying
cancel, postponed for 2020. One, we realized
this was going to put a hurting on a lot of our
local clubs. So this is one reason why we decided
to sell the or make a donation for the tickets.
And the proceeds will actually go to donations
to the clubs locally. Yeah, I am proud to be
representing the youth on the air camp and talking
about. um you know what's going on because uh
we're getting ready to kind of ramp that up again
now that uh we're hoping we can pull that off
uh this summer um with uh the covid situation
we've got everything ready from last year but
uh we had to postpone as well. And so that's
kind of getting ready to gear up. So we'll be
giving some the latest information on that. And
I believe Jocelyn KD8VRX and Sterling N0SSC and
maybe Sam KC2LRC will be along with me on that.
uh... but uh... some of the some of the other
committee members will be there as well to uh...
to discuss that and and you know one of the things
that that you've supported is the yoda camp and
and uh... uh... appreciate that your uh... support
in in making that uh... funding happen so that
we can be ready to go hopefully this summer yes
uh... The biggest thing is for people don't realize,
I mean, a lot of us are getting old. The youth
is the future of amateur radio. We have to get
them more involved. And hopefully by events like
the Yoda 2021 and other Yodas around the country
or around the world, actually, this will help
get youth more involved in amateur radio and
understanding what amateur radio is. Hopefully
there'll be the futures of the engineers and
stuff making radios in 20 years Yeah, I know
one of them is is making Satellites for for SpaceX
and Pretty proud of proud of that one. He's he's
out there doing all kinds of stuff and then there's
a long list of those kind of students that have
gone on to use their ham radio skills in some
very fabulous jobs out there and it's great.
So we appreciate all the support of the youth
and having the youth track and having a spot
for us to talk a little bit about Yoda Camp,
which is just one thing that takes place. And
Joe, KZeroNEB here in the chat mentions he's
doing two. So he had to one up me here. So he's
going to be doing two. So talk about Joe. Yeah,
Joe will be doing two. I do know one of them
is a kit building webinar. And the other one
is actually 3D printing with amateur radio, which
sounds very interesting. what that presentation's
gonna be. He has done some really cool 3D printing
stuff. He sent me one for my birthday. I really
appreciated that. And so yeah, that sounds like
a really interesting topic. So we'll be looking
forward to that. And ChrisAA4CB says, and don't
forget, there's free parking. Lots of it, actually.
You won't have any parking worries at a hamcation
special edition. True, true. All right. Well,
I know ICOM has stepped up to be a principal
sponsor of your online event this year, and you've
got all these prizes planned. So tell us a little
bit about these prizes. And I know Joe, he has
to... you know he always goes into those buying
the prize tickets you know he's got to have a
bunch of those so i know he will be doing that
so so tell us what what joe and and everybody
else can win yeah with the help of the um ICOM
Platinum sponsor, they've donated several prizes
to Hamcation, along with a lot of our vendors.
Some of them will be doing webinars during the
event. A lot of them are just vendors that weren't
able to do a webinar, but are vendors of Hamcation.
But I can let you know right now, Saturday's
grand prize is gonna be a Yezu 991A. It was actually
donated by Ham Radio Outlet. And then Sunday's
grand prize is gonna be actually the new ICOM
IC705. And it was donated by ICOM America. We
do have other radios that was donated. ICOM also
donated the 9700, which is gonna be one of the
prizes. There's lots of prizes actually on the
website. You can go to hamcation .com. and look
for the hamcation prizes. Everything is Kurt,
not everything. I got a few to add that we haven't
added yet. But there's a long list of prizes
on there donated from Ham Radio Outlet, Gold
Medal Ideas, some stuff that we had, Orlando
Amateur Radio Club, ARL has donated stuff. A
lot of the vendors are starting to donate. Usually
a couple times a week, people are donating and
we are putting them up there as people are donating
the prizes. So by the time the event gets here,
we should have a really good list of prizes.
And I do know there's still a couple more companies
thinking about actually becoming sponsors, which
should really help out with the prizes also for
it. Let's talk a little bit about how people
can access all this. You mentioned already, you
know, go to hamcation .com and click on the tab
there and register for each of the sessions that
you want to attend. Is this going to be on Zoom?
Is this going to be YouTube? What's the platform
for all of this and how will people... uh...
go there i know you said you're you're gonna
send out the directions but uh... what can people
expect from uh... that and and do we get virtual
sunshine as well uh... yes virtual sunshine uh...
no rain and uh... uh... let's make it seventy
degrees uh... hey there we go uh... but uh...
it will actually be done with zooms webinar platform
so it will be done most of it over Zoom, but
each webinar will actually be broadcast live
also via YouTube. We will be putting up the YouTube
channels for people to watch them. They will
be saved there. So after the event, you can go
back and watch it. Or if you want to watch two
of them at one time, you can watch one of them
live. Then later on, go back and watch the second
one that you want to watch. Also, what we're
going to do, we're actually going to have live
hamcation prize drawings. We're actually setting
up the prize booth that everybody knows about
that's usually in the North Hall in the back
of the building. We're actually going to be at
the fairgrounds. We're going to set it up and
actually do real live prize drawings every hour
during the webinars. So when one webinar ends,
we're going to do a prize drawing before the
next one begins. That will actually be live via
our hamcation Facebook page. So you can actually
go on there. We're gonna draw a ticket, ticket
stubs are identical to the ones that people drop
in there. And. What happens is once you register,
we fill your information out on a ticket stub
and we actually toss it into the prize barrel.
And same way, if you purchase tickets, extra
chance tickets by a donation, we fill all of
them out. and put them in the prize barrel too.
So the good part, you don't have to stand out
and fill out all your tickets or have a stamp
ready to fill them all out. We do it for you
this year. And then we email everybody that does
donate their ticket numbers. So if you purchase
10 tickets, we email you all 10 ticket numbers,
whatever weight you purchase. For that part.
Also, let me just say we are gonna actually have
a QSO party also during hamcation. We are working
with Florida Contest Group. They are actually
going to be one of the sponsors of the QSO party.
They're getting the rules together. So hopefully
by next week, we'll have this all finalized and
up on our website. And ICOM is also a sponsor
of the QSO party. And I do know that everybody
that participates will get a certificate and
the top winners will actually get a plaque. Very
good. Very good. And all of this is going to
cost the participants. How much? Nothing. It
is free. The only thing that you would have to
purchase if you do want extra chances into the
prize drawing is the $5 for the tickets. That
is it to register for webinars. They are free.
And then Each person that registers for at least
one webinar will get one entry into the prize
drawing. Just to make it clear though, if you
register for 10 webinars, you don't get 10 drawings.
You only get one. People's kinda getting that
confused. So all you have to do is register for
one and you will get one drawing into the prize
drawing for that. The other thing we have did
also it should be up on the website within the
next couple days is we have hamcation special
edition 2021 lanyards for a eight dollar donation
which also includes shipping and that you can
purchase your very own hamcation special edition
lanyard we have a limited number of lanyards
made so they will be once they sell out that's
it on those so please if you want those keep
eye on www .hamcation .com and once we get it
posted within the next couple days, it will be
on the front page so people can click it and
Order them All right, very good. So Check that
out hamcation .com and make sure you sign up
that just you know, so that everything works
properly in getting everybody signed up and in
the right place for those webinars and the capacity
and all that kind of thing. Go to hamcation .com,
sign up for those and some cool prizes and all
kinds of stuff going on. Karen Eve Murray, Katie2GUT,
says she's going to work on her virtual tan.
with the virtual sunshine there. So cool stuff.
So check that out and sign up for those webinars.
Sounds like a great time and it's free. And you
can donate. And I saw the lanyard on Twitter,
I think it was. Is it Twitter or Instagram? I
think it's Twitter. There was a good picture
of the lanyard there, so you can check that out
as well. All right. Well, it's time to take a
break and when we come back, we'll talk a little
more about hamcation and the future of everything
and and John mentioned to you I should throw
this in that that the Q so party is is this year
only and and as a coincidence and shout out to
the Dayton folks I got my My QSL card today actually
from the from the Dayton one from the QSO party
that took place during the canceled Hamvention.
So shout out to them and I'm sure yours will
be equally as enjoyable and look forward to it.
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and if you're listening to us on WTWW or on the
podcast edition you won't be able to call in
because we're doing this live on Thursday night
and and John clarified by the way in the comments
that that it's only this year that they're filling
out the tickets for you and they they actually
have a label maker to do that And as a former
Hamfest chair, I will say this. Here's a Hamfest
life hack. Is take some address labels with you.
And a few people would do that. They'd just take
an address label, you know, return address label
and stick it on there. And so, as long as you're
not trying to decode it all, it works just fine.
So there's a little life hack from HamTalk Live.
But John says they'll be printing those labels
out and then sticking them on there, and that'll
take care of it. So this year, you don't have
to fill out the tickets. So let's see. You also
mentioned during the break, you mentioned testing.
So let's talk a little bit about the testing,
the license testing that's going to be taking
place. Yeah, two more things to cover real quick.
One of them is going to be the testing. We are
going to be doing live testing at the fairgrounds
on February 14th, Sunday. from 10 a .m. until
4 p .m. We have had a lot of requests throughout
central Florida for test sessions. Almost all
the local clubs has not did any test sessions
since March of last year here locally. So there's
lots of people that, one, want to get their amateur
radio. license and two that wants to upgrade.
So we have decided to do testing at hamcation
at the fairgrounds in the North Hall. The North
Hall is the building that usually had the prize
bear on the back of it. So we can actually host
up to 32 people. Everybody will be almost within
eight foot apart social distance in there. You
will have to abide by the local restrictions
of wearing a mask, stuff like that. We have plenty
of sanitizer to sanitize everything in between
the testes. But if you do want to do this, I
know it's more for people within central Florida
that's within driving distance, you do have to
preregister. To preregister, if you go to the
hamcation .com website, you can actually go on
there and preregister. And the fee is free. We
are not charging you to take your test. And what
we have come to learn, I know everybody's talking
about the $35 fee that FCC just put out there.
It should not be in effect before hamcation special
edition. So this might be one of your last times
you can actually take a test or upgrade for free
anywhere. So if you like to upgrade, please go
on the website and register to do it. We'll have
plenty of space. And that's one reason why we're
running it 10 to four. You don't have to get
there right at 10 o 'clock. You can come in at
noon, one o 'clock, two o 'clock, take your test
and leave. So that's one of the things I had.
And the second one I have to actually cover is
Everybody knows that we do do awards every year.
The one award that we do do is the Hamcation
Carol Perry Educator of the Year award. Just
to let everybody know a little background on
it, this award is bestowed upon an individual
who has made an outstanding contribution educating
and advancing youth in amateur radio. It was
first awarded in 2018 to its namesake, Carol
Perry WB2MGP, in honor of her work as an educator
teaching students about ham radio. We have picked
a winner. The winner knows who it is. everybody
listening will know who this person is. Hamcation
has decided to announce Neil Rapp WB9 VPG as
the 2021 recipient of the Carol Perry Educator
of the Year Award. Congratulations, Neil. Oh,
thank you so much, Michael. That's quite an honor
and And it's even more special when, you know,
it's the Carol Perry Educator of the Year Award
because Carol and I go way, way, way, way, way
back. She loves to tell the story of my QSL card
being hung up in her classroom as an inspiration.
And then as I ended up going into teaching, She
was the inspiration and the leader and imparted
a lot of knowledge to me to do what I've done
for the last 20 some years in high schools and
so it's very special that it's It's her award
To receive that since we go so far back. So Thank
you so much for that I look forward to to getting
that in person next year and I appreciate getting
it virtually this year. So so thank you so much
All right. Well, the phones are starting to ring
here. So we'll get to the phones and then we'll
talk a little more about hamcation, but we have
a caller on the line. So good evening. Welcome
to ham talk live. Well, thank you. This is Carol
Perry. Hi, Carol. Oh, it's so good to hear you.
This is so strange. Well, thank you so much.
Oh, you need probably I'll turn your speakers
down there. Let's go to Slow you down here a
little bit. But but yeah Thank you for the big
virtual hug And it's great to talk to you last
week When we found out about all of this so Thank
you for being here and oh, I don't know if we
dropped the call. Hello. Welcome to ham talk
live Hi, Neil. This is Jill. Oh, hi, Jill. Hey,
congratulations Oh, thank you so much. I Think
I think we lost Carol the phone just rang through
so Carol We'll get you get back in the line here
and we'll get you back on here. But but thank
you, Jill welcome. It was honor and approval.
It's to nominate you for this. Well, thank you
so much for doing that. It is through our educators,
getting the kids involved in the hand radio,
is one of the best things that could ever happen.
I'm getting a little teary -eyed. Because, because
if it wasn't for my electronics teacher in high
school in 1904 I would have never gotten my novice
license and his name is Richard Brown and his
old call was Kelo Alpha 8 Tangle Tangle Yankee
and uh if it was for him I wouldn't be back here
and I know that That is the students that make
it. The teachers who dedicate their time like
you do to them. So congratulations again. Thank
you very much and you know my dad had a very
similar story. uh... study electronics in high
school and and went into electronics and and
his teacher introduced him to ham radio and it
was very late much later on in life before he
got licensed and and got involved and that's
when i did uh... we did it together but uh...
the the inspiration from from teachers is uh...
is what uh... you know, contributes to that time
and time again. And so I remember, you know,
Max Pemberton, K4HAX, I still remember, you know,
I met him probably twice, but it was dad's high
school electronics teacher and it made a world
of difference. So thank you so much for calling
in. I appreciate it. Thank you for the nomination
and look forward to seeing you at some point
here. Hopefully some point. Yes. Very soon. Hopefully.
Thank you for being a spark to your students.
Thank you. You have a good night meal. All right.
All right. Thank you, Jill. All right. There's
Jill KDQJK. Thank you for calling in and we'll
see if we can pick up care. Maybe this is Carol.
Hello. Welcome to Amtok Live. Welcome to me and
congratulations to you Neil, KD2GUT! Hello Karen,
thank you very much. Are you ready to work on
that virtual tan at Hamcation SE? I'm ready.
I do not want a virtual sunburn, though I burn
easily. So I think this is the way to do Orlando,
to do it virtually. I am really happy about one
thing in particular. Even though this event is
virtual, your award is very, very real. And God
knows you have... how many kids you've inspired
and over the years you've given five thousand
percent so this is it's time has come we're really
happy for you so that's not virtual that's real
all right well thank you so much Karen appreciate
the kind words and Michael I think Karen as she
usually does inspires inspires creative ideas
as the editor at Amateur Radio Newsline. I think
we've got something to go along with the lanyard.
I think you might put some hamcation sunscreen
out there on the market. You know that's a great
idea. Not the greasy kind though. That'll stick
to my virtual clothing. Okay. But I would like
that. How about cheesecake on a stick? I think
Dayton's got a copyright on that one, but You
guys I'm telling you you you have the best the
best time I'm looking forward to this too. I
really am but most especially this year because
This is the year you get the award and I couldn't
be happier for you Thank you so much Karen and
and enjoy that that Christmas present now that
you've actually got it a month later. Oh, yes,
we need to very quickly mention that my car is
now the recipient of some lovely air freshener.
Not that my car needed air freshener, my car
is clean, but this air freshener inspired by
the lovely Mrs. Rapp, Julie, and yourself to
have a squirrel in underpants And he's going
to really jazz up jazz up my vehicle So I'll
hop in my car and protect... Karen is the protector
of all squirrels in New York State, so we got
her an air freshener with squirrels. I'll be
driving to hamcation in it, at least in my heart.
So have a great celebration and we'll see you
soon. All right, Karen virtually. Oh, yeah now
we'll do by Neil. All right. Bye. Bye. Thanks
so much. Bye now. Sure. Bye. Bye Okay, Carol
has informed me that she is on hold. So let's
We'll keep going through the line here till we
get to her All right. Hello. Welcome to am talk
live Hello, this is Carol again. Ah, there we
go. Carol. Okay, we got you. We got disconnected
there. So But yes, thank you so much for calling
in and thank you for all of the inspiration over
the years. We've been able to work together on
a few things and you know, the passion and the
knowledge of working with these kids and introducing
them to Ham Radio is just unlike anything else.
Thank you. Well Neil not only are you an inspiration
in your adult life Still more Not I was saying
not only are you a super inspiration to thousands
of kids in your adult life but as a young person
as the youngest ham That's when you sent me your
QSL card, and that's what hung up in my classroom
for many years, inspiring the youngsters every
time they saw your QSL card. So you've been an
inspiration for a real long time, Neil, and always
have sent me quality, high -caliber youngsters
to speak at the Youth Forum. Well, it's been
a pleasure and I thank you for all of your support
over the years and everything from getting some
funding going for equipment to making presentations
and offering opportunities for these kids to
speak at the youth forums. fabulous thing and
I'm very honored to to receive an award with
especially with your name on it so thank you
so much. You are welcome. Well Carol is great
to talk to you thank you so much for taking the
time to call in and calling the other day as
well and look forward to the time when we can
we can catch up in person once again. Yeah, I
know you you said you you've been home a lot
and you're not used to that so It'll be good
to get out so thanks again Carol All right, take
care 73 Carol All right eight five nine nine
eight two seventy three seventy three is the
number and and Michael you you've You started
something here and John Okay in for JTK says
fried Snickers bar Not not the the cheesecake
on a stick. So that's the That's the Dayton thing
so So What do you think the sunscreen an idea
Yeah, considering today we hit almost 80 here
so But we gotta be back down in the mid 50s over
the weekend. Oh Oh, oh my goodness, I'm so sorry
Which I know in Florida, you're like, oh, it's
so cold. You know, I'm sitting up here and it's
like 35 right now. So yeah. And that's on a good
day. Well, all right. So thank you so much for
talking about the award and my thanks to the
nominating committee and everybody involved.
It was just good to hear and Alton and John says
free air conditioning too. It is just a great
thing. So let's talk a little bit again about,
you know, hamcation SE and then the plans for
resuming on Joe says it's 26 there in Nebraska.
resuming things in 2022. Let's talk about that
a little bit and then we're gonna wrap things
up here. So anything else on 2021 and then what's
the plan for when we can get back together again
in person? For 2021, I think that's pretty much
it. Please go register for the webinars. We have
some good ones. We like to see lots of people
in the webinars to support everybody, all the
presenters that's gonna be presenting them. So
here's your chance to, one, if you've never been
to a HamFest before, sort of what type of forums
are at HamFest to check out. Or two, if you're
not able to make it to HamFest for some reason,
here's your chance to actually be able to have
forums. webinars live so you can participate
with them for this year. For next year, Hamcation
2022 is already in full swing also because we
did postpone this year in 2022. It will be our
75th anniversary and it will be the ARRL National
Convention. They've actually moved it from 2021
since we are not doing a live show to 2022. It's
all set to go. Probably about two weeks after
our special edition, our hamcation website will
be live with everything for 2022 already. All
the information and you can start purchasing
your tickets at that point. So we're actually
going live with the website earlier than normal
for 2022 to give everybody more of a chance to
purchase tickets and stuff like that for it.
Um, I can tell you, uh, two things. One of the
things that was actually kind of, um, uh, leaked,
uh, about two weeks are actually right before
Christmas myself. Michael Coulter, Mark Brown,
and John was on Tim Duffy's DX Engineering radio
show, just to talk about how we all work together
with each other for ideas and stuff like that
for the HamFest. But Tim did announce that in
2022, he will be bringing Contest University
to Orlando. So that's one of the big announcements
that's going to be coming out for 2022. And the
other big announcements, since we're on the idea
of awards, we will be starting our second award
in 2022 to go along with the Carol Perry Educator
of the Year. The new award will be... amateur
radio volunteer of the year award to go to a
volunteer that does stuff for ham radio we'll
be putting more information on the website once
we get the criteria together of what we're looking
for but it will be volunteer of the year award
all right very good well that's some some exciting
news another award and the addition of Contest
University at Orlando. It's a fabulous time and
that's a nice thing to add in. So that's very
cool. So the plans for 2022 are already underway
and they'll be live just shortly after Hamcation
SE. Okay, so... I have one more question, Michael,
before we sign off for tonight. Has anyone else
called it hamcation SE? I'm tempted to say somebody
did. I don't remember who it was. But somebody
did. I think it was somebody actually on my committee.
There you go. See, I'm trying here. I'm trying
to get it to catch on. It's Hamcation SE. Hopefully
this will be the only special edition of Hamcation.
Yes, yes. We certainly hope so. We hope we've
got everybody back together again. Get the band
back together again very, very soon. Hopefully
that is the case. Well, Michael... You did a
fine job here tonight. Thanks for coming on,
talking about it. And we wanted to get the word
out on Hamcation SE and get people to sign up
for that. And just really appreciate all of your
time here on the show to talk about it. And thanks
for... Throwing the award in here tonight Little
off guard I kind of suspected maybe but but but
Didn't know that for sure. So that was, yeah,
when I contacted Neil, I just asked him to talk
about hamcation. So, uh, when I decided the press
release will actually go out tomorrow. So everybody
would be hitting everybody's mailboxes and everything
tomorrow. So, uh, when he said this one was available,
I was like, okay, I'll actually present it to
him live and kind of shock him. Cause he didn't
know about it yet, but he just didn't know when
we were going to make it official. So. I figure
what better way to do it than on HamTalk Live.
Yeah, now Karen was teasing me a while ago and
said, you know, are you going to interview yourself?
And I'm like, no, no, no, no, we don't do that.
Well, thank you so much for doing that and I
look forward to it. Being it down there and and
the banquet and everything once we can get everybody
back together again in 2022 and I'm looking forward
to spending some time at hamcation se and and
giving a talk about youth on the air camp, so
Looking forward to all of it. And if you have
anything else that comes up big news between
now and then let us know we'll We'll definitely
get that on there and everybody go to hamcation
.com and check it out. Sounds good, Neil. Thank
you for having me on the show and thank everybody
that's in the chat room for all the support for
hamcation and the show and congrats again on
winning the award. All right, thank you so much
and and yes, thank you to everybody that's been
leaving comments here I've been trying to get
through them here John the president of the Orlando
amateur radio club in for JTK's been throwing
stuff in here and and Made it a lot of fun here
and Jill saying deep -fried Oreos. So we're getting
we're getting all kinds of ideas here for you
guys so you don't know but We may have to have
to trademark that or something, but Anyway, thank
you Michael and we'll we'll finish things up
here tonight and talk to you soon Sounds good.
Thank you All right. That is a wrap for this
week's am talk live. Thanks to my guest Michael
Colley W4MCA and everybody out there in cyberspace
for calling in, typing in, and I invite you all
back next Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time
when Joe Eisenberg, K0NEB, for live from the
comments here online tonight, he's going to be
here to talk about rebuilding his ham shack.
It actually landed on the front cover of CQ Magazine
this month. So he's going to be here to talk
about what he did to revitalize his ham shack
and I can tell you from from working him a couple
of times during yoda month last month uh... and
the twelve days of christmas special event uh...
he hasn't sounded better and uh... so we look
forward to talking about that next week so be
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