WEBVTT 00:00:09.990 --> 00:00:12.789 Thanks for tuning in. HamTalk Live will be on 00:00:12.789 --> 00:00:29.859 the air shortly. Please stand by. This episode 00:00:29.859 --> 00:00:33.439 of HamTalk Live is brought to you by Tower Electronics. 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:38.140 For connectors, cables, and more, call 920 -435 00:00:38.140 --> 00:00:44.880 -2973 or visit pl -259 .com. And by ICOM, heard 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:50.100 it, worked it, logged it. Visit www .icomamerica 00:00:50.100 --> 00:00:53.840 .com slash amateur for more information about 00:00:53.840 --> 00:01:30.200 ICOM radios. Hey, good evening, everyone. It's 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:34.219 time for HamTalk Live. It's episode number 222. 00:01:35.459 --> 00:01:39.340 The Orlando Hamcation plans and award nominations 00:01:39.340 --> 00:01:44.159 recorded live on Thursday, August 6th, 2020. 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:48.640 I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.799 tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight, 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:56.609 we're joined by Michael Cawley. W4MCA and Mike 00:01:56.609 --> 00:02:01.290 Banagan, KJ4UDO. And we will take your calls 00:02:01.290 --> 00:02:04.269 live as we always do a little later in the show. 00:02:04.650 --> 00:02:07.769 Last week here on HamTalk Live, Chris Breaux, 00:02:07.810 --> 00:02:12.509 KD8YVJ and Don Wilbanks, hey E5DW, we're here 00:02:12.509 --> 00:02:16.389 to talk about the Newsline Young Ham of the Year 00:02:16.389 --> 00:02:20.389 Award 2020. Chris was the winner of that. So 00:02:20.389 --> 00:02:22.650 congratulations once again to Chris. 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Thanks 00:07:09.290 --> 00:07:13.209 to Scott and Jill at Tower Electronics for sponsoring 00:07:13.209 --> 00:07:15.350 the show tonight to help bring you HamTalk Live. 00:07:15.389 --> 00:07:18.610 They'll be at the Angola Indiana HamFest this 00:07:18.610 --> 00:07:22.410 weekend. That's on Saturday, August 8th. They'll 00:07:22.410 --> 00:07:26.529 also be in Winchester, Indiana on August 15th, 00:07:26.529 --> 00:07:29.750 but you can visit them anywhere, anytime from 00:07:29.750 --> 00:07:37.550 PL -259 .com. Well, my guests tonight are Michael 00:07:37.550 --> 00:07:42.329 Colley, W4MCA. He is the chairman of the Orlando 00:07:42.329 --> 00:07:46.149 Hamcation for the fourth year now, and he served 00:07:46.149 --> 00:07:49.089 seven years as the tailgate chairman and six 00:07:49.089 --> 00:07:52.629 years as the IT chairman previously, and a year 00:07:52.629 --> 00:07:55.930 as the finance chair. Hamcation is sponsored 00:07:55.930 --> 00:07:59.069 by the Orlando Amateur Radio Club, and joining 00:07:59.069 --> 00:08:04.269 him tonight is Mike Banigan, KJ4UDO, the awards 00:08:04.350 --> 00:08:08.670 chairman of the Orlando hamcation. Mike is an 00:08:08.670 --> 00:08:12.529 engineer and program manager at Lockheed Martin. 00:08:12.810 --> 00:08:15.250 So thanks guys for being on the show tonight 00:08:15.250 --> 00:08:20.149 and welcome to ham talk live. Thank you for having 00:08:20.149 --> 00:08:27.110 us tonight, Neil. And I think we may have to 00:08:27.110 --> 00:08:31.279 get John not in here on the. in the background. 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:35.600 He's hiding back there apparently, so. And I 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.580 almost thought I was on ESPN because I've got 00:08:38.580 --> 00:08:41.500 Mike and Mike, but it's not in the morning, so 00:08:41.500 --> 00:08:46.320 I don't know. So, well, let's talk a little bit 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:48.379 about hamcation. I know you've got a lot of things 00:08:48.379 --> 00:08:51.700 going on and you're, what, six months out here? 00:08:55.460 --> 00:09:00.019 Yes, a little over six months, yes. Yeah. So, 00:09:00.059 --> 00:09:03.159 you know, it's a little early, but there's a 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:06.840 lot of planning that goes into making this work. 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:11.419 And there's a lot to do ahead of time and things 00:09:11.419 --> 00:09:14.820 are kind of ramping up this week. So tell us 00:09:14.820 --> 00:09:19.539 a little bit about, um, the plans for hamcation 00:09:19.539 --> 00:09:22.279 that started up this week and how things are 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:29.190 going for 2021. Um, everything is, uh, Move along 00:09:29.190 --> 00:09:33.230 quickly actually this week our website is now 00:09:33.230 --> 00:09:36.009 live You can go on there buy your tickets. You 00:09:36.009 --> 00:09:39.929 can buy your tailgate spots your RV nights Commercial 00:09:39.929 --> 00:09:44.490 tables is open the swaps tables are open So you 00:09:44.490 --> 00:09:46.049 can actually go on there do everything you need 00:09:46.049 --> 00:09:51.299 to do Uh, we had our first, uh, actual hamcation 00:09:51.299 --> 00:09:54.480 committee meeting, uh, on the first of the month. 00:09:55.019 --> 00:09:58.139 And, uh, hamcation is in full swing, uh, ready 00:09:58.139 --> 00:10:03.019 to go for 2021. Now already everybody's saying, 00:10:03.019 --> 00:10:08.179 okay, you gotta have backup plan. And I know 00:10:08.179 --> 00:10:11.480 you guys, because you've, you're totally organized 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:16.279 and you plan and plan and plan. And so, you know, 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:22.779 There there is a backup plan But six months out 00:10:22.779 --> 00:10:26.899 Who knows what it's gonna look like so so talk 00:10:26.899 --> 00:10:31.320 a little bit about that Yeah, actually today 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:33.279 we started getting some emails from people concerned 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:37.580 about it and like we're telling everybody It 00:10:37.580 --> 00:10:40.120 six months out. It's hard to say currently hearing 00:10:40.690 --> 00:10:43.110 Orlando or Orange County that we live in. We 00:10:43.110 --> 00:10:46.830 do have a mass mandate. If you go out in public 00:10:46.830 --> 00:10:49.210 inside stores, anything like that, you have to 00:10:49.210 --> 00:10:51.830 wear a mask. You got a social distance, six foot. 00:10:52.690 --> 00:10:56.710 Um, but then, um, six months out, we really don't 00:10:56.710 --> 00:10:59.549 want to give anybody any ideas of what they have 00:10:59.549 --> 00:11:01.889 to do when they come to the show because we really 00:11:01.889 --> 00:11:03.629 don't know what it's going to be like in six 00:11:03.629 --> 00:11:08.100 months. Um, How the this virus has been it's 00:11:08.100 --> 00:11:11.440 hit or miss if it's good or bad For the area. 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.980 So some areas are doing very well right now. 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:18.700 We're Last couple days. We've actually been on 00:11:18.700 --> 00:11:23.679 a downward slide a little bit or downward Positive 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:27.720 rate here locally, which is good. We'll see if 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:33.320 it lasts But there is plans and work if for something 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:36.460 Um, if for some reason we can't have the show, 00:11:36.460 --> 00:11:39.860 uh, we will contact everybody in enough time 00:11:39.860 --> 00:11:42.419 to, so everybody can cancel their plans at the 00:11:42.419 --> 00:11:47.220 time. Um, but, um, so that's what's going on 00:11:47.220 --> 00:11:51.879 right now. Yeah. Six months out. It's, it's hard 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:53.860 to say what things are going to look like, and 00:11:53.860 --> 00:11:57.240 we're going to be optimistic and, and, uh, go 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:01.720 forward and be ready to go. and hopefully things 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:06.960 will get back closer to normal in the next few 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:12.299 months. So we're very hopeful for that. Well, 00:12:12.620 --> 00:12:17.240 you know, this is a big deal and you guys kind 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:21.179 of ducked the beginning of this because you were 00:12:21.179 --> 00:12:24.860 able to have the event right before everything 00:12:24.860 --> 00:12:30.259 started going really haywire. And a double RL 00:12:30.259 --> 00:12:35.220 has, has given you the, um, honor of, of hosting 00:12:35.220 --> 00:12:38.700 the national convention for the year. So talk 00:12:38.700 --> 00:12:42.039 a little bit about that and what that means to 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:46.100 hamcation. Yeah. Just to let everybody know that, 00:12:46.100 --> 00:12:48.960 uh, this coming to 2021 will actually be our 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:51.399 75th anniversary. So we were thinking, what can 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:56.740 we do to, um, make the 75th a. Big deal for us 00:12:56.740 --> 00:12:59.240 and we decided to host the National Convention 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:02.820 again for ARL. So we put in the paperwork, everything 00:13:02.820 --> 00:13:07.460 that was approved. Actually about four weeks 00:13:07.460 --> 00:13:11.840 ago, press release went out from ARL about the 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:15.299 National Convention. Some things that will be 00:13:15.299 --> 00:13:19.980 happening during the show. The actual show at 00:13:19.980 --> 00:13:24.580 hamcation is February 12th, 13th and 14th. But 00:13:24.580 --> 00:13:28.559 on February 11th, ARL is going to be doing, uh, 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:32.120 what they call the ARL training tracks. Um, it 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:35.519 will be four different, uh, courses. Basically, 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:38.700 if you want to say that, uh, it is being done 00:13:38.700 --> 00:13:43.419 at double tree at sea world hotel. You're going 00:13:43.419 --> 00:13:45.500 to go in there. You're going to pick register 00:13:45.500 --> 00:13:48.330 with them. Um, You're going to pick one of the 00:13:48.330 --> 00:13:50.409 training tracks. You're going to go in there 00:13:50.409 --> 00:13:52.889 half the day. You're going to be in it. Uh, then 00:13:52.889 --> 00:13:55.850 they're going to do a lunching where all four 00:13:55.850 --> 00:13:58.169 of, um, everybody in all four training tracks 00:13:58.169 --> 00:14:02.309 will go to a lunch lunching. They will be a keynote 00:14:02.309 --> 00:14:04.590 speaker. Then you'll go back to that training 00:14:04.590 --> 00:14:09.549 track for the rest of the day. Um, for, uh, February 00:14:09.549 --> 00:14:12.470 11th, all that information will be coming out, 00:14:12.470 --> 00:14:14.429 uh, should be within probably the next couple 00:14:14.429 --> 00:14:16.919 of weeks of that. what the actual training tracks 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:19.980 are. They've already been planned. Uh, there's 00:14:19.980 --> 00:14:22.559 going to be some good ones. Everybody will, uh, 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.340 really enjoy it, uh, this year. Also with, uh, 00:14:26.340 --> 00:14:29.559 the national convention, uh, there'll be more, 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:34.460 um, ARL forms, uh, during the hamcation also. 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:38.360 Um, so I know that's, uh, in the plans also. 00:14:41.059 --> 00:14:43.679 Sounds good. And there's a lot of things going 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.340 on and, and you've got some things going on on, 00:14:46.340 --> 00:14:52.940 you know, early too. Yeah. Yeah. With the, um, 00:14:53.259 --> 00:14:55.419 the training tracks. So that's going to bring 00:14:55.419 --> 00:14:58.279 people in on, uh, probably starting on Wednesday 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.580 so they can attend that on Thursday. Uh, which 00:15:01.580 --> 00:15:09.200 is really good. Um, so. Well, let's also talk 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:12.879 a little bit about the awards because that's 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:16.539 something that that's you know leading up to 00:15:16.539 --> 00:15:22.159 Hamcation and let's turn to Mike here You've 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:25.340 got the award nominations opening up. So tell 00:15:25.340 --> 00:15:29.419 us all about the awards and how the nominations 00:15:29.419 --> 00:15:34.080 work Yep, as Michael mentioned the website is 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:36.480 open and with the website opening up, we're now 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.000 starting to accept nominations for the Carroll 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:43.039 Educator of the Year Award. So we just go out 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:48.879 to the website www .hamcation .com and once you 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.059 get to that website there you can turn around 00:15:51.059 --> 00:15:54.879 and there's a pull down under event info and 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.919 under there there's an awards tab and with some 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:02.340 of the details of the award and the nomination 00:16:02.340 --> 00:16:07.419 form that can be placed in. But the award was 00:16:07.419 --> 00:16:14.759 established after Carol Perry, WB2MGP, back in 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:20.240 2018. So this will be coming up on the third 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:23.860 year for the award. But Carol's been working 00:16:23.860 --> 00:16:29.080 with youth her whole career. You know, both in 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:31.899 the education world and then, you know, wherever 00:16:31.899 --> 00:16:34.919 she can round up children, you know, kids, she's 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.860 off working with them. And in fact, she will 00:16:37.860 --> 00:16:43.179 be, you know, you had commented on the QSO Virtual 00:16:43.179 --> 00:16:47.840 Expo. She will be doing a presentation for Youth 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.480 and Ham Radio. That'll be Sunday, one of the, 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:55.120 in Track 3 on the first forum of the day there 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:59.980 at 1130 Eastern. So even though she's a retired 00:16:59.980 --> 00:17:02.139 teacher, she's still pushing strong and hard 00:17:02.139 --> 00:17:07.200 on promoting amateur radio within youth. So the 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:10.099 award was initially established to recognize 00:17:10.099 --> 00:17:13.000 an individual that's been making strong contributions 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.019 to educating, advancing youth in amateur radio. 00:17:17.019 --> 00:17:20.920 So we established the award based on that. So 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:23.660 it kind of carols the namesake for us for that 00:17:23.660 --> 00:17:34.009 award. This last year we had Melissa Poor, KM4CZN, 00:17:34.390 --> 00:17:39.269 that received the award and she was an educator 00:17:39.269 --> 00:17:42.190 also, but she's been working with youth, she's 00:17:42.190 --> 00:17:47.349 been promoting teaching methods with her colleagues, 00:17:47.349 --> 00:17:50.890 and she is also the ambassador for the U .S. 00:17:51.029 --> 00:17:54.690 education team for the amateur radio of the International 00:17:54.690 --> 00:17:59.910 Space Station, ARIS. So she's a real go -getter. 00:17:59.970 --> 00:18:02.910 In fact, I was just chatting with her or exchanging 00:18:02.910 --> 00:18:04.869 emails the other day, and she was doing a virtual 00:18:04.869 --> 00:18:11.349 Morse code class. So she's finding ways every 00:18:11.349 --> 00:18:14.309 time we turn around on helping to get youth involved 00:18:14.309 --> 00:18:17.369 in amateur radio. So we're going to be looking 00:18:17.369 --> 00:18:22.930 for nominees this year. And I want to highlight 00:18:22.930 --> 00:18:28.759 that probably that could be a potential misnomer 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:33.400 is the award is not limited to just teachers. 00:18:33.819 --> 00:18:36.460 I know we've got educator of the year, but we 00:18:36.460 --> 00:18:40.099 want to use that in a very broad term. So if 00:18:40.099 --> 00:18:43.740 we've got an Elmer, if you've got a merit badge 00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:48.079 counselor, anybody that's involved with youth 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.480 that's promoting amateur radio is an excellent 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:58.619 candidate for this award. As we mentioned, with 00:18:58.619 --> 00:19:01.319 the website going up, we're now accepting nominations, 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:04.880 and we will accept those nominations till November 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:09.799 1st. And then we'll collect all those nominations, 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.059 and we'll have the tough challenge of selecting 00:19:14.059 --> 00:19:17.960 a winner for the award, and get that announced 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:21.440 probably in early December, and hopefully have 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:28.019 the awardee. Hamcation 2021 in February. All 00:19:28.019 --> 00:19:32.480 right, so get your nominations in and you couldn't 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:37.920 have have a better namesake for that award. Carol 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:43.700 is one of my mentors and she's been working with 00:19:43.700 --> 00:19:49.700 youth in schools for a very long time and you 00:19:49.700 --> 00:19:54.849 couldn't have a better Namesake and first recipient 00:19:54.849 --> 00:19:58.829 of the award so get your nominations in that 00:19:58.829 --> 00:20:02.250 It's time to do that and you said until November 00:20:02.250 --> 00:20:07.670 1st, right? Correct. Yes So you got a couple 00:20:07.670 --> 00:20:10.589 of months here to three months to get to get 00:20:10.589 --> 00:20:15.109 those in so That's something else that hamcation 00:20:15.109 --> 00:20:18.480 is is doing and we're going to talk More about 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.539 hamcation and what they're doing when we come 00:20:21.539 --> 00:20:25.319 back right after this word from ICOM America 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:29.779 right here on HamTalk Live. Get out and be active 00:20:29.779 --> 00:20:34.680 with ICOM's new IC705 and its optional multifunction 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:39.319 backpack. 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Again, thanks 00:24:14.440 --> 00:24:18.740 to Tanner Jones, W9TWJ for donating the shirt 00:24:18.740 --> 00:24:21.500 to give away tonight. And we do have a couple 00:24:21.500 --> 00:24:26.099 of questions up here. So let's go ahead and take 00:24:26.099 --> 00:24:33.160 those. First of all, for Michael Brett, wy7bg 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:37.400 says, if there's no COVID -19 vaccine by then, 00:24:37.660 --> 00:24:41.900 will hamcation go virtual? So Michael, you want 00:24:41.900 --> 00:24:46.119 to? address that one? Yeah. Um, unfortunately 00:24:46.119 --> 00:24:49.220 we will not be going virtual if there is no vaccine 00:24:49.220 --> 00:24:54.400 by then. Um, a lot of people, I mean, here locally, 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:58.400 um, there is shows starting to start up already 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:00.980 at the fairgrounds and other areas of Orlando. 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:04.880 Um, personally, I don't think we would need a 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:07.180 vaccine to be able to have the show. A lot of 00:25:07.180 --> 00:25:11.369 people do want to see a vaccine happening. But, 00:25:11.369 --> 00:25:14.490 um, just because there is not a vaccine is not 00:25:14.490 --> 00:25:17.450 a reason why we would cancel the show, uh, for 00:25:17.450 --> 00:25:21.029 that purpose. Uh, so no, we will not be going 00:25:21.029 --> 00:25:24.509 virtual. Uh, it'd be very hard to plan a virtual 00:25:24.509 --> 00:25:26.910 hand fest and a regular hand fest at the same 00:25:26.910 --> 00:25:30.609 time. Uh, so right now we're full on board of, 00:25:30.670 --> 00:25:35.890 um, doing it in person. And of course, you know, 00:25:35.930 --> 00:25:39.039 you're, you're following all the. Appropriate 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:42.660 guidelines. So, you know, we'll just have to 00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:45.319 wait and see what it looks like when we get closer 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:49.599 to time. Correct. Uh, we will follow all, uh, 00:25:49.700 --> 00:25:52.079 federal state and local guidelines at the time, 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.720 uh, of the show, what they are. Um, once we find 00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:58.960 out what they are, we will let everybody know 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.220 what needs to be done for them to attend the 00:26:01.220 --> 00:26:03.700 show. If it's to wear a mask, if it's, uh, we 00:26:03.700 --> 00:26:06.430 have to do temperature checks. Uh, ever what 00:26:06.430 --> 00:26:09.349 it is, once we're a hundred percent sure, uh, 00:26:09.349 --> 00:26:12.049 what they are, we will release a press release 00:26:12.049 --> 00:26:15.009 of, uh, what people should expect, uh, coming 00:26:15.009 --> 00:26:20.509 to the show. Okay. Very good. Uh, well this one's 00:26:20.509 --> 00:26:24.410 for Mike. Um, so let's switch over to him. Uh, 00:26:24.490 --> 00:26:30.609 John in for JTK, uh, wants to know how the, um, 00:26:31.009 --> 00:26:36.900 award became named after Carol Perry. OK, I'd 00:26:36.900 --> 00:26:41.259 be glad to take that question. When the Amcation 00:26:41.259 --> 00:26:43.359 Committee turned around and said they wanted 00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:46.759 to get an award together, we kept looking and 00:26:46.759 --> 00:26:51.299 saying, OK, how do you turn around, promote amateur 00:26:51.299 --> 00:26:54.819 radio? And when you really look at it, people 00:26:54.819 --> 00:26:59.400 educating our youth are some of our best ambassadors 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:03.059 for the hobby. And also, it's bringing youth 00:27:03.059 --> 00:27:07.150 into the hobby. And that seems to always be a 00:27:07.150 --> 00:27:11.230 challenge. A lot of amateur radio clubs and groups 00:27:11.230 --> 00:27:14.390 are working on is how do you turn around and 00:27:14.390 --> 00:27:16.809 bring new people in? And it's going to be the 00:27:16.809 --> 00:27:19.630 youth that we need to get the youth to get interested 00:27:19.630 --> 00:27:23.589 in it. So I came up with the educator of the 00:27:23.589 --> 00:27:27.150 year award. And then committee turned around 00:27:27.150 --> 00:27:30.069 and said, well, who would we potentially go pick 00:27:30.069 --> 00:27:33.410 for that? And it was almost hands down, Carol 00:27:33.410 --> 00:27:36.119 Perry. Carol Perry has been coming to Hamcation 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:39.259 for years, doing youth forums. She's doing youth 00:27:39.259 --> 00:27:42.720 forums almost nonstop, it seems, every time you 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:46.819 turn around and take a look at another forum 00:27:46.819 --> 00:27:50.819 at a ham -ben -tion, ham -cation or ham -ben 00:27:50.819 --> 00:27:54.900 -tion. Carol's there. Carol's always, whenever 00:27:54.900 --> 00:27:56.839 it comes to youth, she's there. She's helping 00:27:56.839 --> 00:27:59.759 other people on how to bring youth into radio. 00:28:00.140 --> 00:28:03.939 So it was almost a natural fit for that. And 00:28:03.939 --> 00:28:06.640 I wasn't present for when Carol received the 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:10.880 award, but she was totally caught off guard when 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:13.559 the award was presented to her. And she's been 00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:16.940 beaming about it ever since and continuing to 00:28:16.940 --> 00:28:21.799 promote amateur radio, great ambassador and great 00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:24.140 bringing youth back into, you know, pulling youth 00:28:24.140 --> 00:28:30.539 into our into our hobby. So. Okay, I can actually 00:28:30.539 --> 00:28:32.720 probably go a little further on it real quick 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:39.339 of how it actually became her award Actually 00:28:39.339 --> 00:28:43.019 when you're at Hamvention Myself John actually 00:28:43.019 --> 00:28:47.660 Mark Brown from Huntsville was there and then 00:28:47.660 --> 00:28:53.619 at the time Michael Coulter outside of his little 00:28:53.950 --> 00:28:56.490 RV trailer that he has we're sitting out there 00:28:56.490 --> 00:29:00.309 talking and he brought up the idea that Hamcation 00:29:00.309 --> 00:29:04.069 should do some type of award like they do Just 00:29:04.069 --> 00:29:08.369 something to get Help us out Get our name on 00:29:08.369 --> 00:29:11.130 on the map a little more with some type of award 00:29:11.130 --> 00:29:14.029 So we left her thinking about it and I've come 00:29:14.029 --> 00:29:17.359 up with the idea of an educator award Um, at 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:20.059 the time, Hamvention didn't do it. No other real 00:29:20.059 --> 00:29:23.539 Hamfest does an educator award. Uh, so I actually 00:29:23.539 --> 00:29:26.079 got with, uh, Carol Perry and she actually helped 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.200 create the award, um, at the time, uh, helped 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:32.740 create some of the rules for the nominations 00:29:32.740 --> 00:29:35.480 and all that. But at the time she didn't know 00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:39.019 that, um, one we're going to name the ward after 00:29:39.019 --> 00:29:41.900 her and two, she was the first recipient of the 00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:45.079 ward. Uh, so actually the fault that year at 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:48.329 Huntsville. We asked her if she would be willing 00:29:48.329 --> 00:29:51.529 for us to actually put her name on the ward to 00:29:51.529 --> 00:29:53.650 make it the Carol Perry Educator of the Year 00:29:53.650 --> 00:29:58.730 award. And she was tickled to death and was this 00:29:58.730 --> 00:30:01.190 blown away with the idea that we would come to 00:30:01.190 --> 00:30:05.329 her with that. And she loved it. And then that 00:30:05.329 --> 00:30:09.410 following hamcation, we actually give it to her 00:30:09.410 --> 00:30:13.670 at the award ceremony that we did. uh did and 00:30:13.670 --> 00:30:15.710 she was even more blown away at that point so 00:30:15.710 --> 00:30:18.630 that's a little more detail of actually how um 00:30:18.630 --> 00:30:22.829 the war had actually come about all right good 00:30:22.829 --> 00:30:26.490 good story there of of how that happened so if 00:30:26.490 --> 00:30:29.970 you have a question now is the time to call eight 00:30:29.970 --> 00:30:33.609 five nine nine eight two seventy three seventy 00:30:33.609 --> 00:30:37.329 three and uh Michael and Mike will try to answer 00:30:37.329 --> 00:30:39.710 all of your questions this evening again eight 00:30:39.710 --> 00:30:42.230 five nine nine eight two seventy three seventy 00:30:42.230 --> 00:30:45.410 three give us a call or Tweet us at ham talk 00:30:45.410 --> 00:30:51.569 live and Joe K zero neb on Spreaker on the comments 00:30:51.569 --> 00:30:55.990 has a couple of questions for you Michael How 00:30:55.990 --> 00:30:59.849 soon do we speakers register our forums and when 00:30:59.849 --> 00:31:03.509 is the deadline for any announcement if the event? 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:10.880 Is postponed or canceled or whatever? Um, the 00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:13.740 first question is it's open now. Uh, so please 00:31:13.740 --> 00:31:18.839 go up there, register, uh, for a form. Um, right 00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.519 now nobody's registered. Uh, so it's kind of 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:25.720 more open if you want a certain time slot. Uh, 00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:27.759 so please go up there and register any time. 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:30.640 Uh, James is still our forums chairman. He'll 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:33.890 be receiving the email and, uh, would be in contact 00:31:33.890 --> 00:31:38.170 with you soon. If for some reason the deadline 00:31:38.170 --> 00:31:41.950 for any announcement, pretty much we would have 00:31:41.950 --> 00:31:45.730 to let anybody know by December 1st. That would 00:31:45.730 --> 00:31:49.089 give everybody enough time for vendors and stuff 00:31:49.089 --> 00:31:51.910 like that to cancel any type of plans they made 00:31:51.910 --> 00:31:55.970 to come here. So if for some reason if we did 00:31:55.970 --> 00:31:59.329 have to postpone or cancel, we're looking at 00:31:59.329 --> 00:32:05.690 a December 1st timeline. Okay, that's good to 00:32:05.690 --> 00:32:08.509 know as well. So thanks, Joe, for your question. 00:32:09.250 --> 00:32:13.430 859 -982 -7373 is the phone number at HamTalk 00:32:13.430 --> 00:32:16.009 Live on Twitter. And if you're on Spreaker, you 00:32:16.009 --> 00:32:19.369 can type into the comments and we'll take a few 00:32:19.369 --> 00:32:21.769 more questions here tonight about the Orlando 00:32:21.769 --> 00:32:25.789 hamcation. So Michael, let's talk a little bit 00:32:25.789 --> 00:32:29.690 about this 75th anniversary. This is a milestone 00:32:29.690 --> 00:32:33.299 for you all. Um, or, well, I guess you're in 00:32:33.299 --> 00:32:37.039 the South. So it's y 'all, right? Y 'all. Yeah. 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:41.799 So talk a little bit about the, the anniversary 00:32:41.799 --> 00:32:48.400 and what, what you have planned. Okay. Um, for 00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:52.079 the 75th, uh, let everybody know, uh, a little 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:56.460 bit about hamcation. Our first ham fest was actually 00:32:56.460 --> 00:33:01.029 back in 1946. Um, If anybody's from Florida, 00:33:01.210 --> 00:33:03.410 I'm pretty sure they've heard of Rock Springs. 00:33:04.130 --> 00:33:08.130 It's a spring here locally up in the Popca area. 00:33:08.690 --> 00:33:12.730 Our first ham fest was there outside at the Springs, 00:33:13.130 --> 00:33:17.190 apparently in 1946. So over the years we've moved 00:33:17.190 --> 00:33:20.269 around, but we've been at the fairgrounds now 00:33:20.269 --> 00:33:23.849 for almost 30 years, a little over 30 years at 00:33:23.849 --> 00:33:27.509 the fairgrounds. So for the 75th, it's going 00:33:27.509 --> 00:33:32.490 to be big for us. We're trying to, um, of course, 00:33:32.769 --> 00:33:36.609 COVID doesn't help, but, um, just plan some, 00:33:36.609 --> 00:33:40.569 uh, good forums this year. Uh, our theme actually 00:33:40.569 --> 00:33:44.049 this year with, uh, ARL, we're doing a joint 00:33:44.049 --> 00:33:46.549 theme this year for the 75th. It's going to be 00:33:46.549 --> 00:33:50.599 rediscover radio. If you go on the website, we 00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:54.740 have the logos up there and what rediscover means 00:33:54.740 --> 00:33:59.160 it's two parts to it The first one is the RE 00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:03.319 part of it for the rediscover is for hands that 00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:05.779 are active anymore in amateur radio trying to 00:34:05.779 --> 00:34:10.260 get them more active Active in the current technology 00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:13.800 digital stuff of amateur radio stuff like that 00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:16.820 Then if you just go with the discover amateur 00:34:16.820 --> 00:34:20.500 radio is for the new hams teaching them about 00:34:20.500 --> 00:34:26.159 amateur radio and What they can do with amateur 00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:29.380 radio the digital aspects of amateur radio So 00:34:29.380 --> 00:34:32.280 that's actually our joint theme with a RL this 00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:36.099 year about that I was actually just informed 00:34:36.099 --> 00:34:40.000 I made a mistake about the forms the forums page 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:45.179 is not live yet on the website It should be up 00:34:45.179 --> 00:34:50.960 by the end of the week. Okay, so Joe, you gotta 00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:55.480 wait a few more days. So, all right, well, you 00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:57.960 know, it sounds like some good stuff, and I'm 00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:02.059 sure knowing you, you'll have some surprises 00:35:02.059 --> 00:35:06.690 that you're holding back. uh... and and come 00:35:06.690 --> 00:35:10.150 up with some ideas uh... to add to that as you 00:35:10.150 --> 00:35:12.710 go because you're you're always coming up with 00:35:12.710 --> 00:35:15.889 ideas so uh... we'll we'll have to talk about 00:35:15.889 --> 00:35:18.789 those next time you're on with uh... when we're 00:35:18.789 --> 00:35:23.789 closer to uh... the hamcation taking place so 00:35:23.789 --> 00:35:26.789 let's uh... give one last chance here for uh... 00:35:26.789 --> 00:35:29.369 phone calls and questions eight five nine nine 00:35:29.369 --> 00:35:32.210 eight two seventy three seventy three at ham 00:35:32.210 --> 00:35:35.769 talk live on twitter Um, and let's see if we 00:35:35.769 --> 00:35:39.329 have any other questions or comments before we 00:35:39.329 --> 00:35:42.989 go. Um, guys, anything, anything else that, that 00:35:42.989 --> 00:35:48.150 we needed to, uh, to address that we, we didn't 00:35:48.150 --> 00:35:51.730 hit? This is Mike. If we do have any, um, anyone 00:35:51.730 --> 00:35:55.269 that does have questions or comments about the 00:35:55.269 --> 00:35:59.449 awards, they can always email, email me at awards 00:35:59.449 --> 00:36:03.679 at hamcation .com and be able to Take care of 00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:08.119 any questions that pop up along the way and be 00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:10.340 looking forward to hearing and seeing everybody 00:36:10.340 --> 00:36:15.659 at hamcation here. After the first of the year. 00:36:16.179 --> 00:36:20.739 Only thing I got to add is. Is for anybody for 00:36:20.739 --> 00:36:23.760 the form side, if somebody nominated somebody 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:28.900 last year. Please re nominate them. We had some 00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:33.269 very good. People that was nominated it was very 00:36:33.269 --> 00:36:36.929 hard to make a decision of who won it It come 00:36:36.929 --> 00:36:41.409 down to actually between three people Out of 00:36:41.409 --> 00:36:44.150 all the nominations we got and it was very hard 00:36:44.150 --> 00:36:47.750 to pick the person So, please if you nominated 00:36:47.750 --> 00:36:51.590 somebody last year, please also Don't give up 00:36:51.590 --> 00:36:53.670 renominate them. They could be a good chance 00:36:53.670 --> 00:36:58.699 that they could be picked this year Okay. And, 00:36:58.699 --> 00:37:01.760 uh, John W four U S F wants to know when tickets 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:05.579 go on sale. They are on sale now. You can go 00:37:05.579 --> 00:37:09.780 to a www .hamcation .com and on the top tab, 00:37:09.900 --> 00:37:12.619 you can click tickets and you can buy them right 00:37:12.619 --> 00:37:18.900 now. Okay. There you go. All right. Well, I think 00:37:18.900 --> 00:37:22.000 we have, uh, we have covered everything that 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:28.909 we needed to. So, um, let's, uh, Let's see here. 00:37:29.170 --> 00:37:33.170 Actually, uh, Michael, if you don't mind, um, 00:37:33.389 --> 00:37:36.409 well, I'll let you pick the winner of the t -shirt 00:37:36.409 --> 00:37:42.829 tonight. Okay. So you want to, you want to pick 00:37:42.829 --> 00:37:51.230 one of the questions from tonight? Um, Oh yeah. 00:37:51.230 --> 00:37:56.150 Let's go with, um, let's go with the last gentleman, 00:37:56.389 --> 00:38:00.119 John. W four USF with the question about tickets 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:02.659 on sale about tickets. There we go. Okay. We 00:38:02.659 --> 00:38:04.960 got to sell the tickets. All right. All right. 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:08.480 So John, congratulations. I'll get with you and 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:10.880 we'll figure out the size of shirt and we'll 00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:13.480 get that sent out to you. And again, thanks to 00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:16.840 Tanner W nine TWJ for, for donating that and 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:20.679 we'll, we'll get that shirt out to you. So you 00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:24.760 listen and you win a shirt. So we will do that. 00:38:24.780 --> 00:38:27.360 And Michael, we'll have you back. when we get 00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:30.880 closer to time and talk about some more details 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:35.420 as things get even more nailed down and ready 00:38:35.420 --> 00:38:39.539 to go for hamcation. But I'm telling you right 00:38:39.539 --> 00:38:43.940 now, after being back at work for all of two 00:38:43.940 --> 00:38:47.260 days, I think Orlando is sounding pretty good 00:38:47.260 --> 00:38:55.550 right now. I think I think I think a vacation 00:38:55.550 --> 00:39:00.969 is well in order. So there we go Well guys, any 00:39:00.969 --> 00:39:05.389 any final comments here before we go? Just want 00:39:05.389 --> 00:39:08.190 to thank you. Thank him talk live for having 00:39:08.190 --> 00:39:12.309 us on here Also, I haven't told you officially 00:39:12.309 --> 00:39:16.150 but congratulations on the wedding Thank you 00:39:16.150 --> 00:39:21.420 and just thank all the viewers for Hopping in 00:39:21.420 --> 00:39:24.280 and listening live and being in the chat room 00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:28.719 and Hopefully we'll pull this off with or without 00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:31.940 the Kovac issue and it'd be one of the best ham 00:39:31.940 --> 00:39:36.460 hamcations. We've had yet Yes, and Neil thanks 00:39:36.460 --> 00:39:38.440 for having us on tonight much appreciated to 00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:42.340 give us the opportunity to speak about hamcation 00:39:42.340 --> 00:39:46.110 and Carol Perry award Well, thank you guys so 00:39:46.110 --> 00:39:48.769 much for being here and and thank you to all 00:39:48.769 --> 00:39:51.409 the people that were chiming in tonight We've 00:39:51.409 --> 00:39:55.369 got a lot of our our usual crew here Jill Katie 00:39:55.369 --> 00:40:00.429 8 QG a is in the shack as she always says and 00:40:00.429 --> 00:40:04.820 Chris a for CB and All kinds of people are your 00:40:04.820 --> 00:40:08.559 usual group here. So thanks for being in there 00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:11.719 and John and Joe and another John. I think we've 00:40:11.719 --> 00:40:15.860 had two or three Johns and a bill and two or 00:40:15.860 --> 00:40:22.340 three mics in here. So it's like a lot of people 00:40:22.340 --> 00:40:26.039 in here tonight. So so thanks a lot for for being 00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:29.340 there and chiming in tonight and we'll do it 00:40:29.340 --> 00:40:33.599 again next week. So that is a wrap. for this 00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:36.800 week's episode of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:40.539 guests, Michael Colley, W4MCA and Mike Vanigan 00:40:40.539 --> 00:40:45.019 to KJ4UDO and everybody out there in cyberspace 00:40:45.019 --> 00:40:48.800 for listening and typing in and invite you back 00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:52.260 next Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern Time. And 00:40:52.260 --> 00:40:54.739 for a list of all of our upcoming guests, visit 00:40:54.739 --> 00:40:58.179 HamTalkLive .com. And if you like the show, please 00:40:58.179 --> 00:41:01.599 leave us a review. That helps us. So please do 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:05.570 that and helps other people. Find the show! So 00:41:05.570 --> 00:41:09.610 for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG saying 7 -3, 00:41:10.150 --> 00:41:14.289 7 -5, and may the good DX be yours!