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Hey good evening everyone! HamTalk Live episode
number 220. The QSO Today virtual Ham Expo recorded
live on Thursday, July 23rd, 2020. I'm your host,
Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this
episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight we're joined
by Eric Guth for Z1UG. And we'll take your calls
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Right now, you could be taking a de -expedition
to North Korea and work the pileup of the century.
But instead, you've decided to listen to HamTalk
Live. We thank you. And now, here's Neil Rapp
with more of the show. Welcome back to HamTalk
Live. Thanks to Scott and Jill at Tower Electronics
for sponsoring the show tonight to help bring
HamTalk Live your way. And yeah, they actually
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the HamFest tour a little bit. They'll be at
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in Winchester, Indiana on August 15th. They don't
have their full Ham Fest schedule back yet, of
course, because most of those are still postponed
or are canceled for this year, but you can visit
them anytime at PL -259 .com. My guest tonight
is Eric Guth for Z1UG's, the creator and host
of the QSO Today podcast. which profiles Elmer's
and mentors in amateur radio. Eric was first
licensed in 1973 in Southern California. He was
the founder and service manager of Advanced Communication
Services, a pager repair and two -way radio depot
in Denver, Colorado, and the founder of PageTap,
Incorporated, a radio remote control systems
manufacturer. And since moving to Israel in 2000,
he founded Efrat networks and now has a new business
precision solutions also in Israel and tonight
he's here to talk about the virtual ham expo
which will take place online on August 8th and
9th so Eric welcome to ham talk live I've listened
to your podcast for some time and thanks especially
for being awake at 4 a .m. to be here, uh, live
from Israel. Well, good morning, Neil. It seems
like it's the best time to, uh, to be up. There's
nobody bothering me, no phones ringing. So yes,
that's great. Yeah. You can actually get a little
peace and quiet to get on, on the show a little
bit, but, uh, we, we appreciate you, uh, you
being up so early to do this live, uh, instead
of by, by recording. uh... what this virtual
ham expo is a pretty big undertaking and i've
i've had the opportunity to go through some of
that with you because the youth on the air uh...
booth is uh... is going to be there and so i've
been able to see a little bit behind the scenes
of of what's taking place and it Just it's a
groundbreaking change in the way we do things.
So what made you decide to take on this this
virtual ham expo? Well, I think every year I
look at the the Dayton, you know, when the Dayton
dates are and whether or not that works for my
schedule. So this year I was actually planning
on going to Dayton. I'd rented my hotel room
near the four days in May. And as I was getting
ready to start buying my airline ticket, I discovered
that things were starting to close up with COVID.
So as a result of the COVID lockdown, I canceled
my plans and I started watching the ARO Hamfest
calendar to see if there was anything that I'd
be able to go to this year. It's a big deal for
me to go because I've got to fly from Israel
to America to attend a Hamfest. As things started
closing up, you know, one after the other, I
started thinking, well, what are people going
to do? And as a result of that, I started thinking,
well, you know what, maybe someone should do
a virtual... convention not just a zoom convention
but something that really looks like a convention
so that people could attend it without you know
leaving the safety and social distancing of their
home so that's actually how this all started
it started as an idea it's now snowballed into
there's six full -time people including me working
on this in order to put this together it's it's
a an amazingly huge project, mostly because I
think that we didn't put any limits on it. So
there's over 60 speakers on our platform. That's
a huge amount of work that's being done by three
people right now. And in addition to all the
speakers who are amazing, I mean, the response
from speakers was great. So, you know, that's
a lot of work. And then building the booths.
So we actually have what looks like trade show
booths on our exhibit floor. There's Emanuella
working on that with all of the vendors and sponsors.
So yeah, it's turned into an amazingly large
project, but hopefully the outcome will be really
nice. Well, let's explain a little bit, because
not everybody has had a chance to see this. So
let's explain a little bit how people will attend
this. And then kind of what to expect when they
get there. I mean, are they going to, you know,
they're used to walking in and, you know, here's
a map and here's all these buildings that you
got to go to and places and schedules. What should
people expect to see when they show up? Sure,
Neil. When they first log into the into the expo
and all they need is their email address. They
don't need a password. When they first log in,
they'll actually be outside of the exposition
hall. The exposition hall is set in the Arizona
Painted Desert. So it looks like a very futuristic
convention center. And when they click on the
entrance, they'll actually kind of zoom into
the entrance and they'll be in the lobby. And
the lobby has doors for an auditorium for the
exposition hall. There will be there's a navigation
bar at the top of the screen so that you can
go to, you know, shortcut to the to the auditorium
and the auditorium is where all the speakers
are. The speakers are set in five simultaneous
tracks. So we four or five simultaneous tracks
so that you can choose the speakers that you
want. When the speakers first go out, the speakers
are are kind of semi live, meaning that we've
pre -recorded all of the presentations so that
we are assured of actually having a good presentation.
One of our concerns was that if someone's internet
fails during their presentation, then we would
lose the presentation. But the speaker is there,
and as soon as the presentation is over, the
speaker will be able to talk in a live Q &A.
So those Q &As will be moderated. So there'll
be somebody there that will take their questions
and ask the question of the speaker verbally,
you know, on video, and the speaker will be able
to reply. So and then after that, then all of
those presentations are on demand. For the remaining
of the weekend, the weekend runs 48 hours, and
then 30 days after that. So that's kind of what
people will see. The exhibition hall is a...
When you enter the exhibition hall you're kind
of overlooking it and you can go down a length
of booths. The first booth will be the ICOM booth
or the platinum sponsor and then followed by
the other gold sponsors and all the other exhibitors.
So I think we've got 45 booths in our exhibit
hall at this point. The exhibit hall is now closed
in terms of taking more booths. Speakers is now
closed in terms of taking more speakers. And
we're at the point now where we're onboarding
the system and auditing all the links. And let's
talk a little bit about signing up, because you
have some special prizes and things for people
signing up to attend early. And then you've got
people who haven't signed up early but will still.
be able to sign up for this uh... up until a
point so so tell us about all of that how they
can go sign up for this and and take part yeah
sure neil the uh... the system is uh... is gamified
so uh... will start at sign up if you sign up
before uh... the end of the twenty fourth which
is uh... today my time and tomorrow your time
then you get early bird tickets. All tickets
are free. You can go to the QSOtodayhamExpo .com
website and push the button to get free early
bird tickets. Once you have that ticket, you'll
receive a message in your email that tells you
how to get to the convention on the day of the
convention. And then, as I said, the system is
kind of gamified for prizes. So the way that
that whole prize system works is that you're
encouraged to really exercise the platform. Go
to speakers, go to visitor booths, go to visit
the platinum sponsor, which is ICOM, go visit
the gold sponsors, chat with them. The system
has a live chat system. on it for one -to -one
voice video or text chat with representatives
in the booths during the live hours. So as you
spend more and more time on the platform, then
you gain leaderboard points and the person that
has or the persons that have the most points
on the system win the prizes. And right now the
big prize is a Flex 6400, followed by an ICOM
IC7300 and an Ellicraft KX2. So there's a whole
bunch of prizes. There's almost 200 prizes on
the system. So if you're in the top 200, then
the chances of winning a prize are actually pretty
good. So that's actually how, yeah, that's how
you navigate. Yeah, so so there's some incentive
there to you know participate and check it out
and and helps your chances to win and everybody
likes to win so That's a great thing. Well, let's
talk a little bit about these speak. Oh, go ahead
I was going to say, it's not a raffle. So people
are saying, well, is it a raffle? Is it? It's
not raffle. Raffle lies. It's not random at all.
You actually, the people who win the prizes are
the people who spend the most time engaging with
the content on the platform. Oh, very good. Very
good to know. Well, let's, let's talk a little
bit about some of these speakers and your keynote
is a dear friend of mine. You've, you've got
some other top -notch speakers throughout the
entire weekend. So tell us a little bit about
your speakers. Sure. As you just said, Dr. Scott
Wright, KZeroMD will be our keynote speaker.
Now what we've done is we're starting this whole
convention at 0100 hours, or actually at 45 minutes
after midnight. on the 8th of August, that's
Zulu time, which is 5 .45 p .m. Pacific time
on August 7th, or was it 8 .45 Pacific time,
not Pacific time, Eastern time on August 7th.
So that's when the platform opens up, and then
15 minutes later... Scott's keynote address will
go out. Now, most likely what will happen is
in order for loading, I will actually send him
out on all four of our speaker tracks, and I
may actually delay them just by like about 10
minutes each so that if there's a problem with
people getting into the first auditorium, they've
got three more to choose from. So they won't
miss Scott's speech. And then the platform at
that point is open for the next 48 hours, meaning
anybody has the opportunity to go through and
visit exhibitor booths, even though the exhibitors
may not be there yet. They can engage on any
of the content that's there. And then the next
morning, the speaker tracks start. So at 8 a
.m. Pacific time, then the first speech will
go out or presentation that will be Scott Johnson
WDADAS on how to solder. Now each of the speaker
tracks are actually, they're actually offset
by 15 minutes. So track one will start at the
top of the hour, track two will start at a quarter
past the hour. Track three at a half past the
hour and then track four at quarter to the hour.
And that's kind of a load balancing thing we're
doing, but it also gives people a chance if they
want to end one speaker and then go to another
or take a break and go to another. And then once
those... speakers go out, then all those speakers
will be on demand. So then over the next 32 days,
you can actually pull them down again or listen
to any of the ones that you want. So there's
an opportunity to listen to every single speaker
on the platform, which is something usually you
can't do at a live in -person event. I think
that's what we've got. Other speakers include,
we've got Citizen Science, HamSci and the Personal
Space Weather Station Project by KE8HPA, Contesting
on 10 GHz and up by Wayne Yoshida, KH6WZ. So
there's a whole bunch of stuff. There's a lot
of different varieties. I'm being reminded by
email that there are some subjects I didn't do,
but those subjects will just have to wait until
the March. 2021 QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo. Well,
you've got some top notch people lined up and
one of the things that I have a tough time with
when I go to, you know, the big ones like Dayton,
Hamvention and Huntsville, and hopefully I can
start getting to Orlando soon, is I've got so
many forums to go to. That's pretty much what
I do all day. I go to this one and then I go
to that one and then run over here to this other
one. And this way, you don't have to miss one
of them. I mean, it's great because you can just
hop from one to the next. You can catch the other
ones on demand if you can't catch it live. There's
a lot of options there to catch all this stuff
so Where can they find the schedule of what's
live and then? How long everything is going to
be online Sure probably I would think by the
beginning of next week will I have the final
lineup in order with the times posted to them.
And so you can actually put together your program
for Saturday and Sunday, 8th and 9th of August.
So at this point we're still onboarding all of
the speaker presentations on our system. And
by that time I'll be able to put up on the...
the actual order and times of each of the speeches.
Okay. Very good. So just take a look at the website
and you can find all that information. All right.
Well, we're going to take a break right now.
And when we come back, we're going to talk some
more with Eric and we're going to take all of
your calls and tweets and messages and all your
questions about the QSO Today podcast, Virtual
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Okay, so let's take a look at a little bit of
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on this event. Eric? They are a platinum sponsor.
They were the first to come to our aid when we
said we were going to do it. So yeah, we're very
grateful to ICOM. for being our platinum sponsor.
Well let's talk a little bit about The podcast
we haven't addressed that and then we'll get
to some of these comments and again eight five
nine nine eight two seventy three seventy three
is the phone number to call or at ham talk live
on Twitter the QSO today podcast is something
that you started long before I Started this program
And you've been profiling the Who's Who of Amateur
Radio. So tell us a little bit about it. Sure.
The QSO did a podcast I started in July of 2014.
And it was, I think, just after Ham Nation started
their podcast, I thought that what was missing
was an interview podcast with the Elmers, or
at least the people who were in the generation
of Elmers that I had when I started. So, yeah,
I started in 2014. I've done 311 episodes. The
last episode I did was with Riley Hollingsworth,
K4ZDH. But, yeah, I've pretty much had the notables
of Ham Radio. But you know what? There's, what,
three million hams in the world. So I think that
I've only kind of scratched the surface in terms
of the number of potential interviews that I
could do. But I love talking about ham radio
and I love talking about ham radio with people
that like to contribute to ham radio, either
through their publishing or their websites or
blogs or things like that. So, yeah, it's been
a great time. I've learned more about ham radio
in the last, I don't know, six years than I did
in the previous 40 plus years. Yeah, it helps
keep you on top of what's going on. That's for
sure. Well, let's see what comments we have here.
ChrisAA4CB says, welcome back. And he says, same
here. Too many forums, so little time. And we
have, and I know I'm not going to pronounce this
right, Zenati Mopoli, maybe? Listening live from
South Africa this evening. So we... appreciate
you listening tonight and we have a caller on
the line so let's turn on the phone here and
we will answer that if I can get that to come
up here no it didn't come up right there it is
hello welcome to ham talk live hi Neil this is
Jim Wilson K5 Indy hi Jim good to hear ya Good
to hear you. I just thought I'd call in and ask
Eric a question and compliment him on his efforts.
Yeah, Jim, can I get you to turn your speaker
down there? Yeah, I didn't realize... Sorry about
that. No problem. But I just wanted to... first
compliment Eric on taking on this incredible
effort and just ask him how he's holding up because
I'm getting emails all the time and I know he's
working all over the place on this thing. Eric,
how are you holding up, sir? Well, you know,
thanks, Jim. Thanks for calling in. I'm actually
not used to being up till 2 in the morning, but
fortunately the way that my life is now, I actually
can sleep a little bit later in the morning in
order to be able to accommodate the schedule.
But I'm doing something for the first time I've
never done before as an entrepreneur. And that's
because I'm not really a very good entrepreneur.
But this time I'm delegating a lot of it to the
team. So I've hired a great team, amazing people.
They're going to continue when we do the March
2021. We already actually even have a date, March
13th and 14th. And I have this amazing team,
so my job is really just to kind of make sure
that they're all doing what they're supposed
to do, and they're doing it, and that's kind
of amazing. So I'm holding up pretty well. I
think that the hardest part is the sleep deprivation,
but you know, I think there's plenty of time
to sleep after August 11th. There you go, at
least until sometime in February when you really
start packing up for the next one. Well, yeah,
I know you'd invited me to speak and I had to
decline because I had a family reunion planned
and that has now gone away. But I will be doing
booth duty in the K2BSA amateur radio and scouting
booth, so I will be participating in that way.
We're looking forward to it, Jim, and we're glad
to have you inside the exhibit hall with us.
Yeah, and I'm looking forward to experiencing
the whole thing. As you pointed out, I'm delighted
that all the presentations are going to be available
for 30 days, because that's a favorite of mine
when I go to these things in person. But I know
I've I think in talking to you before, your favorite
thing is talking to all the people that you see
there. And so it looks like that's going to be
able to happen as well. And I'm I'm looking forward
to trying that out. Well, the chat system should
be pretty cool. There's a couple of exhibitors
where we're actually going to try doing things
like with a mumble, use a mumble room for audio.
I think I might do that for half -holy. who's
KC9RP, who's also going to have a booth there
in our exhibit hall. And then Hap's been kind
of working with me on advising blindhams. So
there actually will be a navigation button at
the top because it was brought to my attention
that I needed to make this available and I'm
absolutely happy to. So that button will actually
go to a secret site where all of the speaker
The speaker presentations will be listed and
available to blind hams. And then the exhibitor
list along with the chat buttons so that blind
hams can engage with the exhibitors on the exhibit
floor. And then at some point about the week
before, I'm going to actually open it up to him
and allow him to see how he can navigate the
platform. And so we're learning a lot of things.
And one of those things is we're actually writing
the book on actually how to put this kind of
exposition together and how to make it accessible
to everybody. So that's kind of what we're doing
right now. That's extraordinary. The thing that
I appreciate, that's not quite the word. I want
to say awesome or something like that is all
of the stuff like that that has been tossed to
you and you need to scramble and figure it out
on the fly in a completely different kind of
an environment and system. My hats off to you
and and to the team that you've you've hired
to do this so Great job, and we're and what is
it now 13 or thousand that are looking forward
to seeing how it comes out No, no, we're almost
to 16 ,000 now It's almost going up a thousand
a day Wow, so yeah, it's it's pretty a It's pretty
awesome. Now my partner in this project is Brad
Grob. Brad Grob was my roommate here in Israel
40 years ago and he's a marketing guru and largely
responsible for, I would say, for driving the
numbers with the relationships that he's helped
to create between us and the AWRL, for example,
and all of the people that we're sending press
to. He's calling me and telling me, you know,
Eric, maybe we're going to have to cap the numbers
because we have no idea whether or not we'll
be actually able to handle the loading if everybody
showed up at once. So I'm telling everybody they
don't have to show up at once, they can show
up at their convenience and if they show up at
their convenience, that should work really well.
But all of the speakers, by the way, I just wanted
to let people know is that they'll be on the
platform until about September 9th and then we'll
put them all up on our YouTube channel so that
if they even miss the 30 -day on -demand period,
all those speakers will still be available. Oh,
that's fantastic. Very good. Well, good for you.
And I just wanted to call and applaud you and
cheer you on. And we're all peering out of the
windows of our homes, looking into our computers,
ready for this to happen. So thank you. Thank
you, Jim. Thank you so much, Jim, for calling.
Good to hear from you as always. Yeah, great.
Thanks for having Eric on it. This is this is
fascinating and fantastic Alright guys, we'll
say 73 73 Jerry Jim take care 8 5 9 9 8 2 73
73 is the phone number if you'd like to call
in give us a call 8 5 9 9 8 2 73 73 Let's see
here. We have actually text here from Jocelyn
KD8VRX says, welcome back to me and thanks to
Eric for making this happen. So once again, people
are grateful to have something to go to in this
time that we're all just kind of hanging out
at home. Well, you know, Neil, I have one more
thing I wanted to say and that is that along
with A .W .R .L., who has been a great help to
us in promoting the event, we've kind of come
to the conclusion that this virtual ham expo
is not a replacement for the in -person live
events. like the hamcations and the weekend ham
fest and things like this, because I think that
this is going to appeal to maybe the younger
generation that is more used to being on electronic
platforms for their entertainment, and that there's
a large number of hams who have licenses that
have never been to a ham fest or never been to
a ham radio event, and this might be a way for
them to get in. You know, I think that this is
the QSO Today virtual ham expo will have a permanent
place twice a year at this point from this point
on, but that it will be in addition to that hopefully
all the other events will come back and will
no longer be social distancing, will be at those
events. So that's kind of the last thing there.
Yeah, and that's exactly what I was getting ready
to ask was, you know, I know you You have already
announced the dates in March and so you're planning
on keeping this going twice a year as long as
it'll work. Yeah, I think there's a place for
it now. I think our world has changed. COVID
-19 has changed the way that we do everything.
I think a lot of people will be working from
home even after the vaccine is available because
it just seems to me that people are now valuing
their time, especially with their family and
friends, more than they do sitting in traffic
for two to four hours a day. Yeah. It's really
changed things. And some people have kind of
experimented with working from home, but I think
this pandemic has really forced some people to
jump in, you know, all in and now it's the reality
of a lot of jobs and I think, you know, we can
minimize, you know, a lot of our traffic and
travel times and some people can be more productive
this way. I think it is something that's going
to last from this. I think we're going to see
more of this. Events like this, again, it's not
going to take the place of hanging out at Dayton
and getting cheesecake on a stick, but it's still
going to provide a lot of the information and
still provide a vital communication between the
ham radio operators in the community and I just
think that this definitely does have a place
and I applaud you for tackling this project because
in just what little time we've dealt with this
I know that this is a huge project and I know
that your team has been working very hard on
this and So I applaud the efforts in making all
this work. Oh, thank you, Neil. Yeah, it's been
fun for me. I'm learning a lot of new, I love
learning new things and there's a lot of new
things about this technology and then supporting
this technology and supporting even like for
the blind hams, for example. coming up with ways
to be able to integrate the environment for them
as well. So, yeah, it's fun. I love learning
this way. You know, you and I were talking before
we started about, you know, my wife's a high
school teacher and as you are a high school teacher
and all of the new skills that she's had to learn,
even though she's almost close to retirement,
this whole idea of being able to distance learn
and teach her students. and give them the same
user experience that she does as a classroom
teacher. So I think all of us are being challenged
and we're all learning new skills in order to
be able to kind of readapt for the environment
that we're in right now. Yeah, totally agree.
It's been a challenge and we're still learning
and that's a part of it. we're figuring out a
lot more things because we have to do it and
Necessity is is often the cause of figuring things
out so I think there are definitely some good
things that come out of this and And one of the
things that I want to mention here before we
go We're just about out of time, but I do want
to mention that You know, one of the things that
we push a lot and I'm involved with and have
been for decades is getting youth on the air
and getting youth into amateur radio. And you
have committed a track for that in the speaker
line and Carol Perry, WB2MGP, one of my role
models from way back is doing her usual thing
with with guest youth speakers and and you've
Provided the youth on the air and youngsters
on the air groups that I'm involved with a booth
to so that we can come in and Display, you know
what's going on in the youth community. And so
I also want to thank you for that and thanks
for providing that booth space to us so that
we can spread the word on our program. Well I
would be wrong if I didn't say that I have my
favorites and Youth on the Air is one of my favorites.
Boy Scouts is one of my favorites. So yeah, it's
great to have them in the exhibit hall and to
have you guys in the exhibit hall with your booth.
And I hope that a lot of people come visit you
guys there in your booth. And the nice thing
about, I think, the exhibit hall being open 48
straight hours is that hopefully the Region 1
and Region 3 kids will also be in the booth to
be able to greet people even in the middle of
the night. Yeah, we've talked about that a little
bit I've been working with Otava over in Finland
I believe it is he's kind of putting things together
for the youngsters on the air community and He
said, you know, thank goodness we don't have
to be there all 48 hours because when it comes
nighttime over here, you all are going to take
over and when you guys are done, you know, region
three will take over. So it does work out well
that, you know, we're able to address all of
those, you know, overnight hours and everything.
by just shifting parts of the earth, which your
attendees will probably be doing that same shift.
So it works out well. So again, thank you for
providing the booth space for us to do that.
And I look forward to meeting some people there
in the booth. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it
as well. I'll actually be in two booths. I'll
be in the QSO today. booth and I'll also be in
the QSO Today Ham Expo booth that I hope people
will visit us. We'll actually be there in the
Expo booth to actually talk about March. So if
people have questions about March, and by the
way, I'm already taking speaker applications
for March, so I'll put a button on the website
in the speakers page for people who might want
to be speakers in the March Ham Expo. Very good.
Well, if you're interested in that, make sure
you check out the website and give us that website
one last time here before we go. Sure. It's QSOtodayhamExpo
.com. QSOtodayhamExpo .com. Okay. Very good.
Well, Eric, thank you so much for being up at
4 a .m. Well, almost 5 now. over in Israel to
be on the show live and take the phone calls
and messages and everybody seems to Be excited
about this opportunity. So thanks for pulling
it all together Thanks for being here and I look
forward to hearing from you again soon Thanks,
Neil. Thanks for having me All right. Well, that
is a wrap for this week's episode of ham talk
live I'd like to thank my guest, Eric Aguth,
4Z1UG, and everyone out there in cyberspace for
listening and calling in, and invite you back
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Alright, well so for now this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG,
saying 7 -3, 7 -5, and may the good DX be yours.