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226, The Collegiate QSo Party and the changes
for COVID -19 recorded live on Thursday, September
the 10th, 2020. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9
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and some changes that are coming to this year's
event because of the pandemic and ways that you
can catch up with your alma mater. We'll be back
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Neil Rapp with more HamTalk Live. Welcome back
to HamTalk Live thanks to Icom America. For sponsoring
tonight's show, as they always do, check them
out at icomamerica .com slash amateur. And tonight,
our guests are some familiar folks to the show,
Andy Malusi, KK4LWR. He is the past president
of the Gator Amateur Radio Club at the University
of Florida in Gainesville and the current president
of the Disney Emergency Amateur Radio Service.
He is currently a systems engineer for Walt Disney
Parks and Resorts in Florida. He is a key leader
in the ARRL Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative,
or CARI as they like to call it. groups that's
been formed to share and promote ideas to rejuvenate
amateur radio clubs in colleges and universities
in North America. Andy came into Ham Radio thanks
to his brother Tony KD8RTT. Tony just went back
to school and finished his master's in electrical
engineering from Ohio University. where he was
the amateur radio club president. And during
undergrad, he was the president of the Rose Tech
amateur radio club, W9NAA at Rose -Hulman in
Terre Haute, Indiana. Tony is a pilot and also
a key leader in the ARRL collegiate amateur radio
initiative. You can find him on the satellites
or operating CW or portable on HF. So guys, thanks
for coming back on the show. Thanks again for
having us Neil Always good to talk to you and
we've Had a chance to talk quite a bit and Troy
W9KVR says good evening to both of you and good
to hear you guys once again, so COVID you know
This is a real shocker here, you know COVID actually
messed up plans I mean, right? Who would have
thought? I mean, you know, surely not. Yeah.
So it's your third year. Now you've got COVID
to deal with. Yeah. Uh, it's a curve ball, but
I think it's a curve ball that we can actually
use to make the QSO party even more accessible.
Well, that's what we're going to talk about.
Yeah, we kind of revamped we we revamped the
rules a little bit to kind of accommodate this
and then encourage Clubs, you know, no matter
their situation to participate So, you know if
you if you looked at this in the past again the
accused of parties open to all hams You don't
have to be associated with a college But we've
changed some of the entry categories a little
bit on the collegiate side so that if a club
is operating from their club shack like they
would typically, that's fine. If your students
are distributed across the country or the area
or whatever, they can also participate separately.
And we've also introduced an aggregate club score
that kind of ties those together. So really trying
to kind of encourage people no matter the situation
to get on the air, make contacts and participate.
Well, we'll address all the changes here specifically
in a little bit but first it is the third year
for this event refresh everybody's memory about
The collegiate QSO party and and who participates
and how it scored under under normal circumstances
So this event is really open to everyone although
it tries to focus on New Ham, specifically those
in college and universities or technical schools.
But it is open to anyone. And the idea is to
celebrate either where you went to school, connecting
with the club at the school you might have attended,
or just sharing your favorite college experiences,
as well as giving those students something immediate
to start off their year. When Tony and I both
were working with our clubs back in college and
at you know, in grad school, one of the big challenges
is, you know, getting people on the radio quickly
and getting them engaged. I think once you get
someone on the air, it's very easy to get them
excited about the hobby. But you got to get them
on the air. And this, you know, the timing of
this event is really time to be that sort of,
OK, school's back in session, or in some cases,
school's going to start in the next week or so.
Let's get everyone together at an activities
fair and say, hey, this coming weekend, there
is something that you can do. Yeah, that's always
rule number one getting youth into ham radio.
Just get them on the air. Don't start with the
test. That's always rule number one. Learned
that one a long time ago. So let's talk a little
bit about the plans for this year. You've already
mentioned an overview of some of those changes.
So let's dig into that a little bit and how things
are going to be a little different this year.
Yeah, sure. So like I said, we've kind of reorganized
the categories of entry on the operating classes.
So like we said, anyone can participate. You
don't have to be associated with the school,
but we have some operating classes that are for
alumni or employee, faculty, or staff of a college
and then the college stations. And like I said,
you've got kind of two classes depending on how
your club might be operating. whether you know
the club can operate kind of as normal out of
the shack or people could take turns during the
period from the club shack or if people want
to operate separately they have their own home
stations and they want their points to count
towards the club. We have an aggregate way to
do that also so there's really all the different
situations we try to cover in some way and just
encourage operation to make it easy and not get
too caught up in you know a lot of the details
that could make it difficult for people to figure
out a way to get on the air. So, what do people
need to know to operate this thing if they're
not involved with a college or maybe they're
just an alumnus and they're just getting on the
air just for fun through this. What do they need
to know? So we've really gone for a simple exchange
to give new folks a way not to feel overwhelmed.
You're going to exchange your call signs, of
course, your signal report, and then you're going
to exchange the class that you are in the event.
So if you're just wanting to get on the air,
you might want to be an alumni representing the
club you used to be part of, or you might want
to identify yourself as just an individual, a
non... you know, affiliate sort of thing. And
then you would pass along a school identifier.
So if you are, you know, like for me, you know,
I'll be involved, you know, probably as an alumni
member of the Gator Amateur Radio Club. So I'd
identify as an alumni class. And then I'd say
my school affiliation is the University of Florida.
Go Gators. And, you know, make sure to exchange.
that with someone else and hopefully hear from
them the same or different category or class.
I like to think of it, since it's a QSo party,
it's not supposed to be super duper competitive.
Maybe there's more to the QSo exchange than that.
I love talking to schools, and when you get that
chance saying, oh, tell me about your club, or
I've talked to a number of other gators on the
radio doing stuff like this. So there might be
some talking about Kentucky or whatever. You
know their football program when I when I talked
to another gator and how the gators are better,
you know And that sort of thing for a little
bit Yeah, I was just getting ready to say yeah,
I was planning my next thing here This is usually
the part of the program where andy and I start
trash talking um florida versus kentucky football
and Yeah, I saw it in your facebook story today
a little tough But but did you notice did you
notice that the promotions for this show? We
used a picture of a you know college campus.
Did you did you notice that picture? I did pick
up on that picture. I did pick up on it The Willy
tea as they call it at the University of Kentucky,
that's the new Well, I guess it's not real new
now, but new to me. I'll provide you a wonderful
picture of the, uh, the UF, uh, antenna farm
that you can use for next year. There we go.
Okay. All right. Not the Odom. No, no, no, not
the Ocon. I'll show you the radio club. Yeah.
Well, it was usually about time to, uh, to be
doing that, but You know, COVID messed up everything.
So I know, I know, but Hey, we got the QSO party
to sort of keep that college spirit alive. There
we go. So we'll, we'll, uh, we'll, we'll just
fight it out on the airwaves on the score. So,
um, how has the participation been? This is,
this is year three. And I know, you know, I was
talking with you guys, um, when you were putting
this thing together and, and looking for. um,
some ways to keep it interesting and keep it
going. How have things gone now that you're up
to year three? So it's very dear to year. Um,
and you know, we've the other kind of thing we've
been participating in and kind of leading are
these monthly calls, um, of with college clubs
and that sort of thing. Just kind of keep interest
participation discussion going in between and,
you know, is probably most people would expect
college or collegiate radio, you know, it goes
up and down year to year, and you can kind of
sense some of these trends coming. So, um, you
know, the first year was pretty good, pretty
strong number of entries. Um, last year, you
know, it was a little bit quieter, didn't have
as many, but this year we've seen a lot more
participation from college clubs in general,
um, despite the challenges. So I think, you know,
it's looking good for this year to be a probably
the biggest year yet with, um, terms of entries
and kind of people knowing about it. So, you
know, it's a constant thing. We're trying to
push, um, kind of understanding how it, it varies
with college clubs and just doing the best we
can to, you know, keep it moving along and get
people, uh, the support they need and events
like this to get excited about. Now I read something
about some even remote operating possibilities
on this. What, what, what you got going there?
So we decided this year, with COVID, being in
a shack might be difficult. At UF, with social
distancing, we could maybe fit two people in
the shack there total. And a lot of clubs are
similar size or even smaller. So we wanted to
be cognizant of that and accommodating. So this
year, we're allowing remote operation. in a couple
of different ways. You can do a actual remote
station where your club members can log into
your amateur radio shack, if you have it set
up as that, and operate remotely from there.
And we actually heard a great talk from Cal Poly
on our calls a couple of months ago, how they
set up this summer a remote shack so that their
members, even with COVID, because some are stuck
out of state, some are stuck in other cities,
that they can participate and be active. So they
have a really cool way that they can call in
and get on the air. for this year, the first
time that that's allowed as regular operation
for the QSO party. And then the other one is
actually sort of a distributed club. As Tony
mentioned earlier with our classes, your club
might say all of our individual members are going
to get on the air. We're going to loan them HTs
or we're going to loan them HF rigs. And they
might go to a park and throw a wire up in a tree
sort of thing. And they can all operate under
their own call sign. count that credit towards
their club which is sort of a distributed remote
way that they can all participate as well. So
a couple of different ways that we've tried to
be really accommodating and embrace the challenges
of COVID and hopefully allow that to get more
students on the air and make it a lot more accessible.
You know we aren't allowing you know college
clubs to go like rent a big remote station and
have a five element beam on 160 meters and down
for the QSO party. It's still gotta be like their
club station and that sort of thing. But it does
open it up to where maybe they can't access their
station after hours, but because they're remote,
they can enjoy the party into the evening. You
know stuff like that. So really trying to Connect
everyone and try something different. So we'll
see how this goes This is going to be a really
new and exciting rule change this year All right,
so remind everybody of the dates on this and
where they can find all the rules and information
Yeah, so it takes place Saturday September 19th
At midnight UTC basically to Sunday September
20th until 1159. So that whole period, you can
find all the detailed rules and everything, log
submissions at collegiateqsoparty .com. Okay,
there you go. So coming up in nine days. Yep,
and there will also be a packet on there as well
right now We have everything list on the website
But we will have a packet that will post up there
that will have all the content there plus some
sample You know exchange scripts And all that
sort of stuff that you can download Because that
might be easier if you're operating remotely
or something like that Yeah, and those scripts
are always good for forgetting newbies on the
air that Always a big help. So if you have a
little script there to Have the exchange in front
of the operator. That's that's always a good
thing. All right Well, we're going to take a
break and we'll come back and talk some more
with Tony and Andy and take your calls and your
questions Right after this word from tower electronics
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live, we can at 859. 9827373. So the trash talking
continued during the break with the Go Gators
thing. So this may be the time. I haven't mentioned
this yet on the show. If you noticed, if you're
a long time listener of the show and maybe a
first time caller, but if you're a long time
listener of the show, you know, we used to have
a different phone number. We had 812 Net Ham
1, which we actually still have as a backup.
But the new phone number is 859 -982 -7373. And
that was a little bit because I'm planning on
moving to 859 soon. But also, Andy, do you know
what 859 spells out on the telephone? Need to
get my phone out and look at that, but something
tells me it's not gators. It's not gators. Yeah,
three five two is FLA And then you know, and
then you've got the three two one For three two
one liftoff over there to your east but eight
five nine is is the area code in Central and
northern Kentucky and it spells UK why? Oh, I
see what you did there It's okay. Well, we'll
get you a three five two number you can So call
UK why 9827373 we Seemed like the perfect night
to bring that little tidbit out. So there we
go So give us a call if you have a question You
know, we're talking about the pandemic. We're
talking about college clubs. How has this impacted
the college clubs? Have you heard from various
clubs and you know, how is this messed up? I
can tell you it's brought my high school club
to a grinding halt. I can tell you that. What
are you hearing from others? Yeah. I mean, as
you'd expect, it's been a big adjustment, I think,
for a lot of clubs. I'll say that I've been kind
of surprised by how active clubs have tried or
have been despite this and tried to be even over
the summer. You know, they're doing regular online,
you know, Zoom type meetings. That's kind of
expected, but they're trying to do some other
events too. If they can do a social distance
box hunt, they've always been talking about that,
or organizing, you know, maybe like a two meter
contest local. that people don't get together
and do. So I think they're finding a way. The
remote shack project, I mean, this is a good
excuse to get that set up and working. So, you
know, it's a big challenge for some or for everyone,
really. I know some will probably have a much
harder time than others, but. Um, I think a lot
of the clubs are really finding a way to still
be active, get things done. Although the situation
is unique for everyone. You know, some schools,
they can't have anybody in the shack. Some they're
limited to how many they can go in the shack.
Um, they're, they're finding a way from, from
what, from what we've heard. Okay. Well, there's,
yeah, like you said, every situation is, uh,
its own case. And, uh, We were in the middle
of antenna repairs with all of this hit so we've
we've got some rebuilding to do well We've got
a few comments here on Spreaker so Troy W9 KVR
says we need to get Sean KX 9x to get his alma
mater University of Illinois on the air and I
Remember working them at some point uh... let's
see uh... john w four u s f says go hoosiers
he's in florida but but he was a member of the
canine i u radio club back in the early seventies
and uh... there's a great tri -band beam still
in operation on the uh... memorial union uh...
up at the top have been up there many times and
uh... It is going strong over there. So Good
to hear you John in here tonight and so we've
got some some Big Ten stuff going here with Illinois
and Indiana and we've got SEC with the Gators
and and and the Kentucky Wildcats, so Eight five
nine nine eight two seventy three seventy three.
Yes You know activating your club is definitely
something that this QSO party is great for. We've
actually gotten a couple of emails from folks
saying, hey, the club isn't currently active,
but I know the trustee, I'm an alumni, I'm still
involved with campus and all that, can I activate
the club? And there will be a few clubs on the
air for the QSO party that don't have active
student clubs right now, but they're alumni that
want to participate and use it as a way to sort
of encourage students to get on the air and get
active. So might not result in an active club
this year, it's definitely something that you
know they can share their experience and you
know share a little bit of the the promotion
and all that of you know the college club and
it's kind of fun to go back and activate your
alma mater. Now Troy is at Glen Raymond middle
school and he says that since his classroom is
the shack he's got room to social distance so
you may hear W9GRS on the air. We can get some
other schools involved as well. 859 -982 -7373
is the phone number if you'd like to call in
and chime in or ask a question here. We have
Andy Melusi, KK4LWR and Tony Melusi, KD8RTT with
us tonight. Let's talk a little bit about Cary
while we're here too. What are some of the other
collegiate ham radio events that will be coming
up here in the fall and in the winter. Well,
I think the most recurring one, and the one we'd
love to see folks get involved with, is our monthly
calls. So the ARRL has been really gracious and
provided the use of their GoToWebinar platform.
so that we can have our monthly calls. So we
meet the second Tuesday of every month at 8 p
.m. Eastern, 7 p .m. Central and we share topics
or just discuss things as a group. So the last
couple have focused a lot on COVID and the Collegiate
QSO party, but we had a case talk about a really
cool project where the civil engineers helped
plan out their optimal antenna locations for
their field day site, given the structures in
the area. We heard about Cal Poly in there. What
you call it there remote shack. We've heard a
little bit about a ham sign involvement from
a few different schools So a lot of really great
content shared On those calls and I think that
that's probably the best way besides the Facebook
group to regularly be involved We're getting
about 20 to 30 folks from all over the nation
and even you know Canada joining in so it's a
really cool way to You know to sort of network
with the different schools and sort of hear what's
going on So that's the big carry regular meetings
and then obviously we get together in person
at Dayton and at Orlando and try and have that
month in person and you know put some eyeballs
on those faces that we've only you know talked
to on the radio. Yeah and the other the other
kind of events coming up of course School Club
Roundup which is in October and February. every
year. So of course, college stations will participate
in that. The other one is the North American
Collegiate Championship, which runs with North
American QSO party in January, February for phone
and ready. So there's a collegiate aspect to
that too. So there's events spread out throughout
the year. And like Andy said, with the calls
we do every month, we're kind of bridging things,
keeping things going and trying to support the
best we can in between everything. All right,
sounds like some good stuff and yeah school club
roundup is a little over a month away believe
it or not, so Look forward to hearing some schools
on as as they can I'm not sure if K9SOU is gonna
be on there for this this time. We'll see That'd
be first in a very long time if we're not, but
we'll see how that goes. 859 -982 -7373 is the
phone number. We're going to finish things up
here with Tony and Andy, so if you want to call
in, now's the time to do it. We're going to wrap
things up here pretty shortly, so give us a call.
859 -982 -7373 or We've got at HamTalk Live on
Twitter and also the comments on Spreaker where
Troy W9KVR says if we don't get shut down, we'll
be there. So there you go. You know, it's fun,
Neil, looking back at that because that's how
you, me and Troy first met with School Club Roundup.
That is true. Seven, eight years ago, something
like that. It's really amazing what the different,
uh, you know, uh, events can lead to some great
friendships. I get an email from you saying,
Hey, can we put a, put an article together and,
and Troy, and now here we are eight years later
and we're all still, uh, working with school
clubs. So, um, It's been great. Troy's stopped
in over here. I haven't been over there yet.
I need to do that. And of course, I was able
to visit you at the Disney station. So and you've
got some we'll go ahead and mention it here since
we've got some time. You got some exciting news
for the Disney Club station. Yeah, we're going
to have a new beam put up on the shack here with
lead times and, you know, contractors and all
that. Looks like it'll be November, but yeah,
pretty pumped about that. But we are on the air
right now. We got a vertical up and it's set
up and working well. So I'll be working most
likely the QSO party from the Disney station
with the Disney call sign, having some fun doing
that. And my goal is we have some new QSL cards
this year and I want to work every, you know,
every college club I can during the QSO party
and send them one of the cool new Disney QSL
cards. Hopefully that'll be a new student's first
contact or something. They get a cool memento
out of that. So I'm looking forward to that for
the QSO party. Now, are you going to wear your
ears? I'd have to find where they are. I think
they're actually in my office at work and We're
work from home unless absolutely necessary So
I'm not sure I can justify to my director that
it's necessary that I go into the office to pick
them up for the party But I'll wear a gator shirt
though, I'll make sure I wear a gator shirt just
so you can you know Sure Well, Troy says he enjoyed
his visit to the famed K -9 SOU shack. I'm not
sure where it's famed, but well, yeah. And watched
Padraig rack up the cues, yeah, and Padraig's
been working quite a bit at SpaceX. He's been
running around trying to get some satellites
going and some rockets up there and all that
kind of good stuff, so. Those those were the
days Yeah, that reminds me though at the QSO
party satellite contacts are totally allowed,
you know VHF and up is totally allowed for it
So if you you know, if you don't have access
to a big HF station, you can you know work the
contest locally and There's some bonus point
kind of ideas. Some of them is kind of similar
to field day in some ways. I encourage you to
do some formal message handling if you want and
public operation type stuff. So yeah, there's,
like you said, not just a HF Superstation. You
can get involved and earn points doing a lot
of different things. And you never know where
those contacts go, you know. Amateur radio has
come up in job interviews for me and I know it's
come up for Tony So, you know, you never know
the person you might be talking to on the radio
might be your next employer So for the students
out there that might be listening, you know It's
another reason to get on the air with the Q so
party is you can build up your network Yeah now
speaking of Speaking of the satellites Tony what?
What grid square are we going to be hearing you
from on? the collegiate QSO party. Yep, I'll
be Echo Mike 28 here. So Kansas City area is
where I'm at and I'm planning to be on, should
be on Satellates and HF for that is what I'm
thinking right now. All right, sounds good. Troy
says maybe we need to collaborate on yet another
QST article. I think that'd be great. I'd be
all for that. That was fun last time. We should
do it again. Yeah, yeah, it was we'll see that
was using simplex during school club roundup.
I remember correctly. Yeah Yep, and working,
uh, you know alumni and those in the local community
And that's something we still do we we still
do that Monday night after the local net We go
over to simplex and we take all the calls we
can get as long as we have an antenna we couldn't
do it last time because we didn't have an antenna
because they took it down to put a new roof on
but normally we still do that after after that
article so that's I mean that's a great thing
too for the collegiate QSO party you know if
you want to email all the alumni in your community
or like when I was at UF we didn't you know,
do amateur radio on a vacuum at UF, we had the
Gainesville Amateur Radio Society, which was
a great, you know, local community group. And
when we were on the air working something, we
made sure we let them know we'd send an email
to their secretary so it could get out and get
announced at their meetings. And we get a whole
bunch of, you know, just community members, some,
you know, alumni, some folks just big Gator fans
and others just, you know, lived in Gainesville,
one to connect with us. And that's, that's totally
an acceptable way to get on the air with the
collegiate QSO party. If you are working the
QSO party and you talk to a school club, definitely
spot them out there and help others to find them.
I know the clubs would appreciate that because
they'll appreciate the queues, but also it's
fun to see your club call sign scrolling through
on dxsummit .fi or any of the other spotting
networks as you're browsing for the next queue.
Yeah, that's always always good to see and it
always helps Bring in some pileups. So that's
excellent excellent idea Okay. Well, I think
we are through all of the comments tonight that
have been typed in and phone lines are open but
Looks like everybody's typing tonight. So we're
going to close things down here for the night
so just a quick recap guys of of the dates the
exchange the website all that uh must know information
and now he's tweeting go caters so remind us
of all that need to know information guys Yep,
so again, it'll take place September 19th and
20th, Saturday, Sunday. collegiatecusoparty .com
has all the information. And again, doesn't matter,
you know, if you're, you don't have to be associated
with a college club at all. We're encouraging
that, of course, but if you're just an individual
or an alumni or faculty, staff, whatever, definitely
we want you to participate. There's different
classes for those different things, those different
groups of people. We hope to see you on the air.
Logs are due. about 30 days after the event.
We make it nice and flexible there. And there
are award plaques given out for the top folks
in each of the categories. So definitely a cool
way to get some recognition, especially for some
of these clubs that maybe don't have the best
station and aren't competitive in other events.
It's a cool way to get a plaque and sort of help
motivate the club move forward. So yeah, definitely.
Give us a shout if you're a student that doesn't
have a club at your school. You can still participate
as a school club and as a collegiate station.
So check out the rules. There's lots of ways
to get involved with this. And even if, like
I said, you're not involved at all, in nine days,
if you're just browsing the airwaves and you
hear some school clubs, give them a shout. Feel
free to submit a log and just have some fun with
it. Um, you know, the goal is to be fun and sort
of, uh, enjoy the hobby and promote it among
some of our newest, uh, our newest members. All
right. There you go. Collegiate Q so party collegiate
Q so party .com and guys always great to talk
to you. Thanks for coming back and hope to hear
you on the air soon. Yeah, looking forward to
it. I need to get you in the logbook. I haven't
gotten RF contact from you in a little bit, so
we'll need to work on that Yeah, I think thanks
Neil satellite Yeah, it's been a while though.
We've done more eyeball quesos and voice quesos
than This is an RF so this is true All right,
and Tony yes, thanks for for being on and we
look forward to what was that echo Mike 23 28
28. Okay. Yep, and you too far Too far south.
Yeah, okay Yeah, something like that. Yeah, that's
why I use a man the Twitter wars beginning the
Twitter wars beginning. Yes it is We got we got
to get our we got to get our Collegiate rivalry
fired up here for the collegiate Q. So party
so If you're on Twitter, you can you can check
that out. So Alright guys, we'll say seven three.
Thanks so much and Thanks for for putting in
all of the effort on this because I know you
you all have spent a lot of time thinking this
through and coming up with all the plans. And
John W for USF also says thanks for your service
to ham radio growth and especially among the
ham. So I echo that completely. And thanks for
being here to talk about it. Thanks for having
us. Yeah. All right. That is a wrap. for this
week's edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my
guests, Andy Malusi, KK4LWR, and Tony Malusi,
KD8RTT, and everyone out there in cyberspace
for typing in tonight and invite you back next
Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern Time. And this
is hot off the press here. Next week's topic,
we're going to be talking about that new radio
on the International Space Station. Um, so we'll
be, uh, we'll get all the details on that and,
uh, no, that's a big thing right now. And I'm
chomping at the bit to try it out. So, uh, we'll
be talking about that next week. So make sure
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