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So 00:06:06.029 --> 00:06:09.350 we thank you, and now here's Neil Rapp with more 00:06:09.350 --> 00:06:31.430 of the show. Thanks to Scott and Jill at Tower 00:06:31.430 --> 00:06:33.949 Electronics for sponsoring the show tonight to 00:06:33.949 --> 00:06:37.790 help bring you HamTalk Live. They'll be back 00:06:37.790 --> 00:06:40.490 out on the HamFest trail soon, but you can reach 00:06:40.490 --> 00:06:49.870 them right now at PL -259 .com. My guest tonight, 00:06:50.230 --> 00:06:52.990 Sterling Mann in Zero SSE is from St. Louis, 00:06:53.209 --> 00:06:56.490 Missouri. He is an antenna design engineer in 00:06:56.490 --> 00:06:59.939 St. Louis. He became a ham at age 16, one of 00:06:59.939 --> 00:07:02.939 the former youth editors at ARRL, and has his 00:07:02.939 --> 00:07:06.399 own YouTube channel about ham radio. And he is 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:08.939 president of the Young Amateurs Radio Club, better 00:07:08.939 --> 00:07:15.379 known as YARC. And Jocelyn Bro, KD8VRX and VA2VRX 00:07:15.379 --> 00:07:17.699 first became interested in ham radio as a Boy 00:07:17.699 --> 00:07:21.850 Scout. He became licensed in 2013 and now holds 00:07:21.850 --> 00:07:25.949 an extra class license. He is a technical analyst 00:07:25.949 --> 00:07:28.569 and systems administrator with Vertical Solutions 00:07:28.569 --> 00:07:32.670 in Cincinnati. So guys, welcome back to the show. 00:07:34.230 --> 00:07:36.970 Hey. Good evening, Neil. Thank you for having 00:07:36.970 --> 00:07:41.110 us on. Yeah, I thank you for coming on because 00:07:41.110 --> 00:07:43.329 I was like, wait a minute, we need to do a show. 00:07:46.940 --> 00:07:50.339 Thank you for coming on to the show. Well, we've 00:07:50.339 --> 00:07:53.980 got a bunch of, oh, go ahead. I was going to 00:07:53.980 --> 00:07:56.819 say normally Christian, you know, obviously he's 00:07:56.819 --> 00:07:58.639 busy with his tune -up, but normally he would 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:00.459 be the one like you didn't have anybody else, 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:04.079 did you? Yeah, right, exactly. Regis? He thought 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:08.240 he was the low - it, yeah. You know where I was 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:11.040 headed, go ahead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Regis. 00:08:12.379 --> 00:08:15.589 Yeah, he's, in fact, I just saw him. Spotted 00:08:15.589 --> 00:08:18.250 wall ago, so I know he's on the air right now, 00:08:18.250 --> 00:08:21.769 but We'll have to get him to listen to the replay. 00:08:22.550 --> 00:08:27.129 Well, we've got a bunch of Summer at -home activities 00:08:27.129 --> 00:08:30.509 for youth on the air this summer. We couldn't 00:08:30.509 --> 00:08:33.269 Do the camp. We're still kind of bummed about 00:08:33.269 --> 00:08:37.149 that normally about this time, you know, we would 00:08:37.149 --> 00:08:40.980 have been scrambling to put the last few things 00:08:40.980 --> 00:08:45.419 together and going shopping for food and All 00:08:45.419 --> 00:08:49.120 that kind of thing and just putting the final 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:55.419 wraps on the on the plan and intended yes pun 00:08:55.419 --> 00:09:02.330 intended and We're not so We're going to take 00:09:02.330 --> 00:09:07.169 that week and we're going to do some special 00:09:07.169 --> 00:09:10.610 stuff but stuff you can do at home just to kind 00:09:10.610 --> 00:09:13.889 of give everybody a chance to get to know each 00:09:13.889 --> 00:09:19.110 other a little bit and To give people some things 00:09:19.110 --> 00:09:22.769 that they can do from home that that are Involve 00:09:22.769 --> 00:09:26.110 ham radio and and get them ready to go to camp 00:09:26.110 --> 00:09:28.590 and now other people can can watch long So that's 00:09:28.590 --> 00:09:32.210 what we're going to talk about tonight First 00:09:32.210 --> 00:09:36.259 of all The biggest event out of these I guess 00:09:36.259 --> 00:09:39.059 would be the virtual Yoda day and that's going 00:09:39.059 --> 00:09:42.399 to be on Wednesday June 24th It's going to be 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:46.860 six hours two to eight in the eastern time zone 00:09:46.860 --> 00:09:55.289 and Again, it's the Yoda principles, I guess 00:09:55.289 --> 00:09:58.649 would be the way to say it, that the presenters 00:09:58.649 --> 00:10:01.990 are going to be young people. Now, some of the 00:10:01.990 --> 00:10:04.909 competitions we're going to have are going to 00:10:04.909 --> 00:10:08.789 be run by old users like me and Jocelyn, but 00:10:08.789 --> 00:10:16.950 the forums are going to be youth -led, so they're 00:10:16.950 --> 00:10:19.970 going to be conducting everything, and we'll 00:10:19.970 --> 00:10:22.149 be there to kind of help them out and structure 00:10:22.149 --> 00:10:26.570 everything. and it's stuff that you can do even 00:10:26.570 --> 00:10:29.909 if you don't have a radio. So we're going to 00:10:29.909 --> 00:10:33.269 get everybody on zoom and we're going to have 00:10:33.269 --> 00:10:35.870 like a forum and then we're going to have a competition 00:10:35.870 --> 00:10:37.509 and then we're going to have a forum and then 00:10:37.509 --> 00:10:40.009 we're going to have a different competition and 00:10:40.009 --> 00:10:44.450 we'll have a chance for them to win prizes and 00:10:44.450 --> 00:10:48.090 and if you're not one of those campers that's 00:10:48.090 --> 00:10:50.690 okay you can still watch and you can play along. 00:10:51.259 --> 00:10:54.539 at home and we're even going to have a prize 00:10:54.539 --> 00:10:59.539 for watching. So you can get a $100 gift certificate 00:10:59.539 --> 00:11:04.340 to DX Engineering just for watching. So that's 00:11:04.340 --> 00:11:07.720 one of the $200 gift certificates that DX Engineering 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:11.259 is... Graciously provided for us to give away 00:11:11.259 --> 00:11:15.039 and Hile sound Talked to Bob actually again today, 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:18.220 and he's getting ready to ship me a box of stuff 00:11:18.220 --> 00:11:21.500 I'm still not sure quite what's in that box, 00:11:21.500 --> 00:11:24.919 but he was talking about some some pretty neat 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:29.500 stuff, so We'll give those away for the winners 00:11:29.500 --> 00:11:33.000 of the competition Then we're going to give away 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.179 one of the DX engineering gift certificates as 00:11:35.179 --> 00:11:38.679 a door prize and then at the end we have a grand 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:44.600 prize which we're keeping a surprise But it's 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:49.639 a good one and R &L electronics Has very graciously 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:53.799 donated our grand prize, so we're really looking 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:58.899 forward to that so you can watch on YouTube and 00:11:58.899 --> 00:12:04.320 that drawing is going to be at 745 on Wednesday 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.899 June 24th. So if you want to watch that and see 00:12:07.899 --> 00:12:12.820 see who wins that'd be a great time to show up. 00:12:13.179 --> 00:12:16.279 So Sterling let me go to you first because you 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:19.519 have one of these activities. Tell us a little 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:22.720 bit about the activity that you're going to be 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.460 running for this. Yeah, so throughout the whole 00:12:26.460 --> 00:12:29.659 day there's, like you said, just this variety 00:12:29.659 --> 00:12:34.860 of, basically a variety show of different workshops 00:12:34.860 --> 00:12:37.820 and lectures and activities. I'm going to be 00:12:37.820 --> 00:12:41.720 doing one where we're going to use the online 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:45.940 WebSDR, KiwiSDR system. This one is specific 00:12:45.940 --> 00:12:48.559 to KiwiSDR because it has some really nifty tools. 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:51.259 And if any of you are a fan of the Hammer Radio 00:12:51.259 --> 00:12:56.279 Crash Course, you gotta sneak peek into the hows, 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:58.840 the nuts and bolts of it. But basically, what 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:03.159 do you do when you have some QRM, or intentional 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:10.419 QRM, if you will, on HF? Do you... Spin your 00:13:10.419 --> 00:13:13.159 beam. Well, what if you don't have a beam? Do 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:14.980 you get a triangulation from all your friends 00:13:14.980 --> 00:13:16.820 with beam antennas? Well, what if they don't 00:13:16.820 --> 00:13:18.460 have a beam antenna? Well, you could use a loop 00:13:18.460 --> 00:13:21.220 antenna. That's not too expensive. But what if 00:13:21.220 --> 00:13:23.519 you don't have an HF radio? Well, I don't know. 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.240 What can you do? So there is one option. KiwiSDR 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:31.639 has the system. Called time delay of arrival 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:35.259 tdoa and that in all within your browser all 00:13:35.259 --> 00:13:38.320 within the the kiwi str kind of framework and 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:39.919 there's lots and lots of receivers out there 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.240 that are GPS discipline and they're very accurate 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:44.879 and we'll get into why that's important in a 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:48.440 minute they let let you pick a set of receivers 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:51.659 and They will focus on a specific signal that 00:13:51.659 --> 00:13:56.230 you choose and it will do its to find the location 00:13:56.230 --> 00:13:59.250 of that signal using multilateration, and that's 00:13:59.250 --> 00:14:03.149 just math meaning it detects the time delay of 00:14:03.149 --> 00:14:05.669 arrival of that signal at each of these stations, 00:14:06.009 --> 00:14:08.450 and the time is very important. That's why they're 00:14:08.450 --> 00:14:12.149 GPS disciplined. They're GPS timed so that you 00:14:12.149 --> 00:14:15.830 can get a very accurate time of when each part 00:14:15.830 --> 00:14:18.190 of that signal, almost like a photon of all of 00:14:18.190 --> 00:14:19.649 the signals, arrive at each of those stations, 00:14:19.710 --> 00:14:21.990 which gives you an idea of where that station 00:14:21.990 --> 00:14:25.460 lies or that interference. And this comes in 00:14:25.460 --> 00:14:27.960 handy for a lot of things, not just finding intentional 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:30.480 or unintentional interference, but also search 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:34.799 and rescue. SOSs, if you will. So it'll be a 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:38.299 real -time activity. Everyone gets on. KiwiSDR, 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:39.940 there's plenty of stations for everybody. We 00:14:39.940 --> 00:14:42.139 might do it in like a couple minutes. It only 00:14:42.139 --> 00:14:44.100 takes about 30 seconds to do the whole run and 00:14:44.100 --> 00:14:46.700 get a location. And the location, the problem 00:14:46.700 --> 00:14:49.940 is the competition we're gonna have is that it's 00:14:49.940 --> 00:14:52.980 not exact. It gets you close but not perfectly 00:14:52.980 --> 00:14:56.360 close. And so whoever of the groups of people 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:00.220 or individuals rather, I guess, we can probably 00:15:00.220 --> 00:15:02.679 do groups or do individuals up to them or up 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:05.120 to us. I don't know, we'll figure it out. Whoever 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:09.899 gets closest wins the prize. And you'll be surprised 00:15:09.899 --> 00:15:12.779 at how far apart it's like. I'll bet you it's 00:15:12.779 --> 00:15:14.220 going to be something like closing your eyes 00:15:14.220 --> 00:15:16.820 and throwing a dart, a fistful of darts at a 00:15:16.820 --> 00:15:18.840 dartboard and whoever gets closest to the bullseye 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:22.700 wins because sometimes the algorithm is so fiddly. 00:15:23.500 --> 00:15:25.919 We're going to try to have a station out in the 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:28.419 center of the United States so that you can... 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:30.860 because one of the caveats is you can only do 00:15:30.860 --> 00:15:36.080 TDOA or multilateration if the signal is basically 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:38.340 being enveloped by these stations. So you can 00:15:38.340 --> 00:15:41.019 draw a circle around that signal of these stations 00:15:41.019 --> 00:15:43.440 that are listening to that signal, that interference 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:46.720 or whatever. It says somewhere in the middle 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:48.539 of the U .S. So if there's any volunteers out 00:15:48.539 --> 00:15:51.419 there who want to do like a 30 -minute long news 00:15:51.419 --> 00:15:53.480 line broadcast, for example, would be the perfect 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:57.220 opportunity over single sideband or even an AM 00:15:57.220 --> 00:16:01.019 broadcast would work even better if there isn't 00:16:01.019 --> 00:16:03.320 a contest or a sprint going on, but it's Wednesday, 00:16:03.379 --> 00:16:05.940 so it should be fine. Otherwise, we'll have to 00:16:05.940 --> 00:16:08.639 find a broadcast station or a long rag chew or 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:11.340 something like that to find and locate, but I'm 00:16:11.340 --> 00:16:14.830 not sure if... that hams down the street with 00:16:14.830 --> 00:16:17.649 their location published on the internet. So 00:16:17.649 --> 00:16:20.629 it'd also be really nice to have that secret 00:16:20.629 --> 00:16:23.110 operator so we know behind the scenes, oh yeah, 00:16:23.110 --> 00:16:25.009 he's exactly at this place and whoever gets close 00:16:25.009 --> 00:16:28.110 to there versus trying to find a call sign and 00:16:28.110 --> 00:16:31.250 going by QRZ. So there's a shout out to volunteers 00:16:31.250 --> 00:16:33.269 there, but hopefully we'll find somebody out 00:16:33.269 --> 00:16:34.830 there. So that's it in a nutshell. Does that 00:16:34.830 --> 00:16:39.029 make sense? Yeah, I love the idea. And again, 00:16:39.730 --> 00:16:43.320 you can do it from home with a computer. Yeah, 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.860 you don't need anything. It's free. You don't 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:47.500 need you don't even need a fast processor all 00:16:47.500 --> 00:16:50.360 of the processing the math is done on the cloud, 00:16:50.740 --> 00:16:53.159 on somebody else's computer. It's just like a 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:54.879 Fox Hunt, too. This is, because we were going 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:58.580 to have a Fox Hunt, an ARDF competition at the 00:16:58.580 --> 00:17:01.899 real event in 2021, but this kind of, I think 00:17:01.899 --> 00:17:05.180 it meets, it's the next generation of Fox Hunting, 00:17:05.220 --> 00:17:08.059 if you will. More stations out there means more 00:17:08.059 --> 00:17:11.579 accurate multilateration on the HF bands. This 00:17:11.579 --> 00:17:13.920 won't work too well for VHF or UHF just because 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.240 there's not. Enough stations out in the world 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:20.700 to you know get a couple miles You know distance 00:17:20.700 --> 00:17:22.180 because you're going to need to be a lot closer 00:17:22.180 --> 00:17:25.119 in for that for for VHF UHF line -of -sight signals 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.680 But since HF goes across the atmosphere and across 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:31.140 the world It lets us do that. So it'll be fun. 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:35.420 I think Yeah, and if only we had that back in 00:17:35.420 --> 00:17:38.740 the days of the Russian woodpecker Well, you 00:17:38.740 --> 00:17:41.759 know, it was this big radar and it would just 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:45.279 Suddenly appears somewhere and you'd be talking 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.240 and all of a sudden you let go and of the mic 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:53.099 and it's like And nobody ever knew where it was 00:17:53.099 --> 00:17:56.819 coming from and so if we only had that back then 00:17:56.819 --> 00:18:01.059 we'd find out where Chernobyl was but but anyway 00:18:01.059 --> 00:18:05.819 So if you're interested in that again that the 00:18:05.819 --> 00:18:08.619 campers are going to be interacting on zoom and 00:18:08.619 --> 00:18:11.839 then you know and figuring this out and there's 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:13.880 going to be a competition and they can win prizes 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:18.220 but you can watch okay so just go to the youth 00:18:18.220 --> 00:18:21.839 on the air youtube channel and you can watch 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:24.759 so if you're interested in this you can watch 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:28.079 you can follow along just like you were in in 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:32.559 the zoom chat and you can try to compete you 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:36.200 just won't win a prize but If you're interested 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:38.480 in this, you can watch it too. And you don't 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:42.240 have to be 25 or under like our Yoda people. 00:18:43.220 --> 00:18:46.539 So you'll have a chance to do that. And you get 00:18:46.539 --> 00:18:49.900 a prize if one random person watching is going 00:18:49.900 --> 00:18:52.599 to get a $100 gift certificate. Well, that's 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:56.519 true. Yeah, you have to show up now. And you 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:58.099 can always practice too. You can do it right 00:18:58.099 --> 00:19:01.519 now if you go to if you go to KiwiSDR or if you 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:03.579 look up the Hammery of Cracks course's most recent 00:19:03.579 --> 00:19:08.099 video on TD -OA. A really good station to test 00:19:08.099 --> 00:19:13.519 that with is the WWV time signal since we all 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.359 know where that is. There's also several broadcast 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:19.980 stations on 40 meters around the US, the southern 00:19:19.980 --> 00:19:21.839 part of the United States and I think there's 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:25.380 a couple in North Carolina or South Carolina, 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:28.299 one of the Carolinas, maybe Virginia over there, 00:19:29.579 --> 00:19:32.700 that will serve as, and plenty in Europe too. 00:19:32.740 --> 00:19:35.700 There's a lot of European QESTR stations. So 00:19:35.700 --> 00:19:38.180 you can always practice and honing your skills 00:19:38.180 --> 00:19:43.119 before prime time comes. I know another event 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:44.980 that we're going to have. I was just talking 00:19:44.980 --> 00:19:50.029 with Audrey K and 4BUN last night about a doing 00:19:50.029 --> 00:19:53.369 a balloon launch and she's got some stuff about 00:19:53.369 --> 00:19:57.170 that and tracking it on APRS and we have some 00:19:57.170 --> 00:19:58.930 other things we don't want to give everything 00:19:58.930 --> 00:20:01.509 away here but these are the kinds of things that 00:20:01.509 --> 00:20:06.630 we're having the kids have a chance to do and 00:20:06.630 --> 00:20:13.369 again the kids are doing a lot of the presentation 00:20:13.369 --> 00:20:18.809 of all of this stuff as we develop this program 00:20:19.650 --> 00:20:23.289 And the camp, we want them involved even more 00:20:23.289 --> 00:20:26.829 in the planning of this. That's coming later, 00:20:27.609 --> 00:20:30.950 but a lot of that presentation is being done 00:20:30.950 --> 00:20:35.170 by them. Well, we have some other things going 00:20:35.170 --> 00:20:38.349 on. We also have a special event. We were going 00:20:38.349 --> 00:20:42.990 to run W8Y all throughout the week of camp. We 00:20:42.990 --> 00:20:46.950 are still going to do that. So you can work w8y 00:20:46.950 --> 00:20:52.630 anytime between June 21st and June 26th which 00:20:52.630 --> 00:20:57.329 is when we were supposed to be at camp and the 00:20:57.589 --> 00:21:01.950 Young people who want to do this will take turns 00:21:01.950 --> 00:21:07.190 operating as w8y from wherever they are So w8y 00:21:07.190 --> 00:21:10.630 is going to be in many different locations. Just 00:21:10.630 --> 00:21:14.490 not all at the same time So we will break up 00:21:14.490 --> 00:21:20.029 that week into sections and different people 00:21:20.029 --> 00:21:24.529 will be operating from different places and those 00:21:24.529 --> 00:21:27.869 campers have the option to sign up for that and 00:21:27.869 --> 00:21:31.450 then we'll make a schedule out. Marty in N1C 00:21:31.450 --> 00:21:34.049 is actually going to make that schedule out and 00:21:34.049 --> 00:21:36.990 figure that out. So we will have a special event 00:21:36.990 --> 00:21:40.150 on and we'll have a QSL card that you can get. 00:21:40.329 --> 00:21:43.579 We'll get QSLs printed up after the fact. and 00:21:43.579 --> 00:21:47.339 get those sent out. So you can work our special 00:21:47.339 --> 00:21:51.779 event station and again the campers get to operate 00:21:51.779 --> 00:21:54.839 the special event station. Then we have a couple 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:59.480 of things for field day and we have the field 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:02.900 day club entry which is pretty easy and this 00:22:02.900 --> 00:22:07.720 is for anyone who's 25 or under. We're giving 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:12.920 you the option of putting in youth on the air 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:17.720 as the club entry on your field day score. Now, 00:22:17.980 --> 00:22:21.000 we'll talk more about this next week when Paul 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:24.160 Bork is here, but this year there's a couple 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:28.099 of rule changes for field day. Home stations, 00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:31.759 Class D stations, can work other Class D stations. 00:22:31.859 --> 00:22:34.119 Normally you couldn't do that, but because of 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.200 the pandemic that was a rule change. and then 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.140 also there's going to be a club entry so a lot 00:22:41.140 --> 00:22:44.279 of clubs aren't going to have their you know 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:47.000 club gatherings so what you do is you work as 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:49.599 a home station and and everybody in the club 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:52.819 works as a home station and then you put in what 00:22:52.819 --> 00:22:55.779 club you're with and there will be a combined 00:22:55.779 --> 00:22:59.000 score for that club so what we're going to do 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:01.339 is we're going to combine all the youth scores 00:23:01.339 --> 00:23:05.250 so you know You don't have to do this if you're 00:23:05.250 --> 00:23:07.690 already working, if you're youth and you're already 00:23:07.690 --> 00:23:09.829 working with another club and you want to put 00:23:09.829 --> 00:23:13.069 yours into your local club, that's great. Not 00:23:13.069 --> 00:23:16.930 a problem. But we are going to offer that option 00:23:16.930 --> 00:23:21.869 of putting youth on the air in as your club option. 00:23:22.269 --> 00:23:25.430 And we kind of just want to see, you know, you 00:23:25.430 --> 00:23:28.359 know, how how many points we can get with all 00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:31.400 the youth around the country. So we're going 00:23:31.400 --> 00:23:34.660 to do that. Now, one thing about the special 00:23:34.660 --> 00:23:38.920 event and the field day events is that you do 00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:42.809 have to have a U .S. license. And so we've got 00:23:42.809 --> 00:23:44.950 two or three of our people who aren't going to 00:23:44.950 --> 00:23:47.829 be able to do this. We do have one in Mexico, 00:23:47.890 --> 00:23:51.430 but he has a U .S. license, so he's okay. But 00:23:51.430 --> 00:23:56.410 we do have, I think, three others that won't 00:23:56.410 --> 00:24:02.400 be able to participate in these. Anyway, we'll 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:04.799 have that field day entry. So again, if you're 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:08.720 25 or under, put youth on the air in on your 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:12.480 club if you don't have another club. Or you just 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:14.880 want to do that if that's your preference and 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:18.099 put that into the club score. But then we're 00:24:18.099 --> 00:24:22.299 also going to have a remote station available 00:24:22.299 --> 00:24:27.720 for field day itself. We're going to run W8Y. 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:33.480 but from a remote and Jocelyn is the guy that 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:36.299 has set all this up. We were playing with it 00:24:36.299 --> 00:24:39.220 here a couple of days ago and it's a really slick 00:24:39.220 --> 00:24:43.019 setup. So Jocelyn tell us about operating field 00:24:43.019 --> 00:24:49.799 day from a remote. Well thank you Neil and yeah 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:54.049 first going back so we decided We looked into 00:24:54.049 --> 00:24:56.650 getting the remote or a remote possibility because 00:24:56.650 --> 00:25:00.049 we understand that not all campers may have an 00:25:00.049 --> 00:25:04.069 HF rig available to them. So as you said before, 00:25:04.470 --> 00:25:06.470 if they want to run their own field day and they 00:25:06.470 --> 00:25:09.109 want to use Youth on the Air as the club call, 00:25:09.369 --> 00:25:13.190 perfect. We love it. It helps us out. But if 00:25:13.190 --> 00:25:15.589 you do not have HF capabilities and you would 00:25:15.589 --> 00:25:18.740 love to take part in field day, then we've got 00:25:18.740 --> 00:25:21.740 this remote that was graciously provided by Jay, 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:27.839 it's Cosines K4 ZLE and he has a decent, well 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:29.579 it's better than my station, put it that way, 00:25:30.059 --> 00:25:32.400 I believe this is the station, the remote we're 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:36.599 going to be using as a tri -bender beam, so 10, 00:25:36.980 --> 00:25:40.579 15 and 20 at 70 feet, a 40 meter 2 element beam 00:25:40.579 --> 00:25:44.779 and an 80 meter sloper. So those are not too 00:25:44.779 --> 00:25:47.299 bad, you know, not bad for a remote station, 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:52.480 put it that way. So yeah, we install the software 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:55.880 and just to make things easy for everybody, we 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:58.259 all know that sometimes installing software on 00:25:58.259 --> 00:26:00.480 different computers and things can get a little 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:04.740 quirky. Do you have a logging program? So to 00:26:04.740 --> 00:26:08.180 alleviate a lot of the logistics, what we've 00:26:08.180 --> 00:26:10.299 done is we're going to do a remote desktop. So 00:26:10.299 --> 00:26:12.900 we've got a virtual server running all the software. 00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:16.900 and what the campers that want to operate for 00:26:16.900 --> 00:26:20.119 field days and field day remote will do is basically 00:26:20.119 --> 00:26:23.640 log in at their scheduled time and then they'll 00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:26.819 be able to pull up the interface and be able 00:26:26.819 --> 00:26:29.519 to control the radio, control the rotator so 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:32.559 they can spin the beams around as needed and 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:35.200 make some QSOs. The logging software is already 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:38.539 there so they'll be able to log that and take 00:26:38.539 --> 00:26:41.160 part in field day that way. I know it's going 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:46.180 to be a little bit more you know, hoops to jump 00:26:46.180 --> 00:26:48.319 through in terms of you're trying to manage a 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:51.420 software radio and the logging software, so there 00:26:51.420 --> 00:26:54.500 may be some switching between applications, but 00:26:54.500 --> 00:26:56.539 it still gives you the possibility of getting 00:26:56.539 --> 00:27:02.359 on field A and doing it, you know, with the special 00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:06.119 call sign, Whiskey 8 Yankee. So that'll be interesting. 00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:09.799 So we're looking forward to testing it out a 00:27:09.799 --> 00:27:12.339 little further. I think the prelims that Neil 00:27:12.339 --> 00:27:14.799 and I have done are pretty good. Looks like it's 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:17.940 promising and we'll just iron out all the small 00:27:17.940 --> 00:27:22.680 details as they come along. Yeah, I'm really 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:26.160 excited about this and Jay is an accomplished 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:31.759 the expeditioner and he's got quite a set up 00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:35.680 there. It may not be the the biggest contest 00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:39.259 station on the planet, but he's got a nice setup 00:27:39.259 --> 00:27:42.380 there, and we're very thankful for his support. 00:27:42.619 --> 00:27:45.220 He was going to take care of our antennas at 00:27:45.220 --> 00:27:51.839 the hotel for the physical camp, and so we'll 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:55.759 have him get that going next year, and we appreciate 00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:58.579 his support with this remote. So we will have 00:27:58.579 --> 00:28:04.779 W8Y on the air. for field day so that's another 00:28:04.779 --> 00:28:07.099 thing that's coming up and then the other thing 00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:12.099 is Yoda online and this is not we're not doing 00:28:12.099 --> 00:28:14.700 this this is youngsters on the air which is the 00:28:14.700 --> 00:28:17.099 original the one we're copying everything from 00:28:17.099 --> 00:28:22.000 over in Europe and they have a monthly get -together 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.420 for an hour online and the next one is actually 00:28:25.420 --> 00:28:28.380 going to be the day after our virtual Yoda day 00:28:28.380 --> 00:28:32.589 so that's going to be on Thursday June 25th and 00:28:32.589 --> 00:28:36.630 that's at 1800 UTC and you can check out ham 00:28:36.630 --> 00:28:43.529 -yoda .com to check out Yoda online. So those 00:28:43.529 --> 00:28:46.670 are the things that we have. 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Well, that's a rundown of what's 00:32:24.380 --> 00:32:27.940 going on here, and so we've got a lot of stuff 00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:31.180 going on here in a couple of weeks. But we're 00:32:31.180 --> 00:32:36.220 also working on finalizing the dates for Yoda 00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:39.819 Camp 2021, and we're really looking forward to 00:32:39.819 --> 00:32:44.019 that. So Sterling, what are your thoughts here 00:32:44.019 --> 00:32:49.779 on the camp next year? I'm excited. I can't wait 00:32:49.779 --> 00:32:55.339 even though I'm an old man relatively It's it's 00:32:55.339 --> 00:32:58.920 given us a little bit more time to think think 00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:01.440 everything through and get make it perfect and 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:03.799 it looks like most of our People are going to 00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:07.079 come in and I think we have just another 365 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:10.900 days to to hype it up and get people more excited. 00:33:10.900 --> 00:33:14.500 I have noticed like We've taken a breather because 00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:17.940 I mean you've Like many people know I've been 00:33:17.940 --> 00:33:21.079 going through a lot and and so it's it's been 00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:24.940 pretty fortunate in one way But then you know 00:33:24.940 --> 00:33:27.660 in another way, we're still really sad. It's 00:33:27.660 --> 00:33:31.640 not happening right now, but I I can't wait for 00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:33.380 it. I think it's gonna be a game -changer for 00:33:33.380 --> 00:33:37.839 youth and ham radio for sure And it's gonna especially 00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:40.319 on this side of the on this side of the pond 00:33:42.100 --> 00:33:45.680 Yeah, I had a chance to to actually record a 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:50.839 little bit for Youngsters on the air they have 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:54.339 a presentation that's going to be on the virtual 00:33:54.339 --> 00:33:57.940 version of ham radio Friedrichshafen and we talked 00:33:57.940 --> 00:34:00.940 a little bit about that and So if you get a chance 00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:03.380 you can you can check that out and watch it. 00:34:03.460 --> 00:34:08.800 They're going to have a virtual event as well 00:34:09.690 --> 00:34:11.750 since Friedrichshafen had to be cancelled, so 00:34:11.750 --> 00:34:14.130 you can check that out. Jocelyn, your thoughts 00:34:14.130 --> 00:34:19.110 on next year? Well, I think Sterling summarized 00:34:19.110 --> 00:34:21.190 it pretty well. I think we're all excited for 00:34:21.190 --> 00:34:23.389 next year. We're all kind of disappointed that, 00:34:23.389 --> 00:34:27.349 you know, it's not in a few weeks. We're going 00:34:27.349 --> 00:34:30.139 to have to wait a little longer. But as sterling 00:34:30.139 --> 00:34:32.119 also mentioned, I think you're juggling a bunch 00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:34.519 of stuff right now So I think you'll appreciate 00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:37.920 the breather and it gives us more It gives us 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:41.219 more time to get everything set properly and 00:34:41.219 --> 00:34:44.139 be ready to go for next year But yeah a little 00:34:44.139 --> 00:34:47.400 bit of a letdown like a lot of people around 00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:51.059 the country you know feed there are some unforeseen 00:34:51.059 --> 00:34:54.219 events and we're gonna make best out of it and 00:34:54.219 --> 00:34:56.880 Just gives us more time to get ready and and 00:34:56.880 --> 00:35:01.079 knock it out of the park next year Yeah, there's 00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:05.199 been a lot going on. The pandemic has caused 00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:10.219 a lot of changes and a lot of roadblocks on things 00:35:10.219 --> 00:35:12.440 that shouldn't have been that difficult. And 00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:17.000 so, yeah, I actually am appreciative of a little 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:22.639 more time to spend on other things like moving 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:26.360 and getting married and that kind of thing. finding 00:35:26.360 --> 00:35:33.119 a job, all that fun stuff. And we've had to move 00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:34.980 the wedding, we've had to move the rehearsal, 00:35:35.340 --> 00:35:39.159 it's just one thing after another. And so it 00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:42.940 is kind of nice to have a little less going on 00:35:42.940 --> 00:35:47.110 here in a couple of weeks. can spend some time 00:35:47.110 --> 00:35:50.590 getting all of that put together. But really, 00:35:51.250 --> 00:35:54.210 everything is in place. It's just a matter of 00:35:54.210 --> 00:35:57.510 holding onto everything that we had planned and 00:35:57.510 --> 00:36:01.369 holding onto all the stuff and making it work. 00:36:03.389 --> 00:36:09.309 It is what it is. I'm so disappointed that we're 00:36:09.309 --> 00:36:13.070 not doing this because it's something that... 00:36:13.019 --> 00:36:17.059 we've all put tons and tons and tons of time 00:36:17.059 --> 00:36:21.119 and effort into and a lot of people have graciously 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:25.300 donated to the cause and and we were just all 00:36:25.300 --> 00:36:28.599 all excited and ready to go but but we'll we'll 00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:34.619 make it and and it'll be a great event yep sterling 00:36:34.619 --> 00:36:38.619 go ahead if i Cut you off. No, I was just gonna 00:36:38.619 --> 00:36:40.780 say like there's there's it doesn't seem like 00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:43.019 there's any we don't have any changes Everything 00:36:43.019 --> 00:36:45.619 that was on schedule is still on the schedule 00:36:45.619 --> 00:36:49.380 same hotel. The dates are in flux I think they're 00:36:49.380 --> 00:36:52.500 those are gonna change from from year to year 00:36:52.500 --> 00:36:58.239 I believe but in terms of you know Kings Island 00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:01.599 and Dave and Buster's and the ARDF and all the 00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:03.500 other activities the voice of American Museum 00:37:03.500 --> 00:37:07.920 all of that still is in place. So just just in 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:12.139 a holding pattern. You're right. It is just a 00:37:12.139 --> 00:37:15.420 just a holding pattern. Well if you have a question 00:37:15.420 --> 00:37:19.000 about any of this or comment give us a call 859 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:28.099 -982 -7373 859 -982 -7373 or tweet us it's at 00:37:28.099 --> 00:37:31.610 HamTalk Live. or if you're on Spreaker, leave 00:37:31.610 --> 00:37:34.329 us a comment and we'll say good evening to Chris, 00:37:34.329 --> 00:37:39.170 AA4CB, who is listening in live tonight, and 00:37:39.170 --> 00:37:44.630 also Andy, good to... see you in here as well. 00:37:45.369 --> 00:37:48.969 And we'll say hello to Philip. I noticed Philip 00:37:48.969 --> 00:37:53.429 sent me a message on Telegram here over in Germany. 00:37:53.530 --> 00:37:57.190 He is the public relations coordinator for youngsters 00:37:57.190 --> 00:38:01.289 on the air. And so I couldn't respond to his 00:38:01.289 --> 00:38:03.530 message. But hi, Philip, and thanks for listening. 00:38:04.550 --> 00:38:07.369 And he said, great stuff. We're planning. So 00:38:07.369 --> 00:38:11.409 that's good to hear from the people who started 00:38:11.409 --> 00:38:16.130 this whole thing in the first place. So, Sterling, 00:38:16.389 --> 00:38:19.570 you experienced that. You went over to Austria 00:38:19.570 --> 00:38:26.130 along with Sam in 2016. I think there's a lot 00:38:26.130 --> 00:38:28.530 of comparisons between that event and what we're 00:38:28.530 --> 00:38:32.849 doing. Yeah, essentially the event over there 00:38:32.849 --> 00:38:36.610 is a yearly summer camp. Lasts for seven days, 00:38:36.789 --> 00:38:38.710 I think it's like six days when you're actually 00:38:38.710 --> 00:38:42.230 on site. Everyone in each member society sends 00:38:42.230 --> 00:38:44.690 their contingent. Ours is a little different 00:38:44.690 --> 00:38:48.449 because our member societies are fewer. They 00:38:48.449 --> 00:38:50.789 have many more smaller countries like we have 00:38:50.789 --> 00:38:53.090 states, but we're also bringing in people from 00:38:53.090 --> 00:38:55.389 South America, Central America, Mexico, Canada, 00:38:56.449 --> 00:39:01.550 and inviting everyone to join in IRA region too. 00:39:03.510 --> 00:39:06.110 But yeah, it's almost the same thing. I think 00:39:06.110 --> 00:39:08.960 over in the... At least when I went in Austria, 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:11.260 there's this youth culture, there's this different 00:39:11.260 --> 00:39:15.139 kind of mentality, I guess. We were at a youth 00:39:15.139 --> 00:39:17.639 hostel. It was a really nice place, really like 00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:22.500 extravagant almost. But we got to do a ton of 00:39:22.500 --> 00:39:24.840 events and bringing radios everywhere we went. 00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:30.380 Hike a mountain, soda. Go into an ice cave. ICOTA, 00:39:30.699 --> 00:39:33.460 ice caves on the air, and do some like tunnel, 00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:38.059 see how radio waves are affected inside caves. 00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:42.980 They have ham mesh or ham net, which is they're 00:39:42.980 --> 00:39:46.099 almost like completely envelops the whole country 00:39:46.099 --> 00:39:48.719 of Austria and Germany and France, like the centroid 00:39:48.719 --> 00:39:51.159 of Europe in mesh networking, got to play with 00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:54.079 that. But over here in America, things are a 00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:56.400 little different, but I think we're, like you 00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:59.139 said, stealing their ideas and we're gonna try 00:39:59.139 --> 00:40:02.159 to grow that kind of culture over here and create 00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:05.880 this, you know, international sort of, what would 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:10.619 you say, fever for ham radio from the young people. 00:40:11.860 --> 00:40:14.500 Yeah, you know, I know one of the concerns that 00:40:14.500 --> 00:40:16.559 you and Sam brought up first was, you know, well, 00:40:16.619 --> 00:40:21.059 we don't, you know, how do you stay at the museum? 00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:26.710 Well, you can't. How do you do that? Well, we 00:40:26.710 --> 00:40:29.929 got a hotel right across the street. Not too 00:40:29.929 --> 00:40:35.329 far away. We had a little bit of changes that 00:40:35.329 --> 00:40:41.949 we had to make. It was just a lot of the legalities 00:40:41.949 --> 00:40:46.949 and insurance and all that kind of stuff. When 00:40:46.949 --> 00:40:49.829 we asked about it, it was like, what? You have 00:40:49.829 --> 00:40:51.570 to do all that? It was like, yeah, we have to 00:40:51.570 --> 00:40:55.969 do all of that over here. So it was a lot more 00:40:55.969 --> 00:41:00.309 red tape to go through. But we were finally able 00:41:00.309 --> 00:41:03.789 to bust through it and make it go. Now, another 00:41:03.789 --> 00:41:07.030 thing that we have accomplished is we worked 00:41:07.030 --> 00:41:09.909 with the Youngsters on the Air program over in 00:41:09.909 --> 00:41:13.650 Region 1, as well as in IARU Region 3, which 00:41:13.650 --> 00:41:19.829 is Oceania. So that's New Zealand and Thailand, 00:41:19.969 --> 00:41:24.570 Japan. Those are kind of the three big areas 00:41:24.570 --> 00:41:29.769 of Yoda activity in Region 3 right now. But we 00:41:29.769 --> 00:41:34.349 were able to do this December Yoda month. Jocelyn, 00:41:34.449 --> 00:41:37.130 I know you were able to kind of see what was 00:41:37.130 --> 00:41:40.510 going on with that, and I think there was some 00:41:40.510 --> 00:41:43.030 activity in your basement from that. Do you want 00:41:43.030 --> 00:41:47.829 to tell us a little bit about that? Yeah, yeah. 00:41:48.969 --> 00:41:52.969 We had a bunch of youth around the U .S. that 00:41:52.969 --> 00:41:55.869 signed up to basically move the call sign around 00:41:55.869 --> 00:42:00.400 for Yoda Month, and my son, Chris, was one of 00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:03.699 the operators, and I know he did it for a little 00:42:03.699 --> 00:42:05.579 while, and I think all the operators basically 00:42:05.579 --> 00:42:09.019 did as best as they could, and it was pretty 00:42:09.019 --> 00:42:14.280 interesting. I think when people hear there's 00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:16.679 a youth on the air, I think they gravitate. It's 00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:20.079 kind of the, what is it, the plus 10 dB effect 00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:23.840 that normally the ladies have. Same thing with 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:25.739 some of the younger kids. Now as he's growing 00:42:25.739 --> 00:42:29.150 older, obviously his voice is changing, I remember 00:42:29.150 --> 00:42:33.650 telling him a while back to enjoy that high -pitched 00:42:33.650 --> 00:42:36.690 voice while he could, because he was like, I 00:42:36.690 --> 00:42:38.150 don't know what your problem is not breaking 00:42:38.150 --> 00:42:47.090 pile -up, it's easy. Now he's one of us. I think 00:42:47.090 --> 00:42:50.909 it was a good success. I can't remember how many 00:42:50.909 --> 00:42:54.010 operators we had, but we had a fair amount. I 00:42:54.010 --> 00:42:57.150 think it was fun and everybody had a good time 00:42:57.150 --> 00:43:01.099 doing it. Yeah, I think we had I want to say 00:43:01.099 --> 00:43:05.440 a little over 20 operators maybe and Worldwide 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:09.719 it was over a hundred thousand cues. So it was 00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:14.480 pretty impressive Yeah So those are some of the 00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:17.679 things that are going on with youth on the air 00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:21.360 and if you want to see more about that and read 00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:25.199 up on that see some of the video and some of 00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:33.530 the information, go to youthontheair .org and 00:43:33.530 --> 00:43:36.230 that's where you'll find all that information. 00:43:36.489 --> 00:43:41.550 We also try to keep a list of on -air activities 00:43:41.550 --> 00:43:45.849 of anything that's going on in the Americas. 00:43:46.170 --> 00:43:49.070 So in North, Central, South America, we're starting 00:43:49.070 --> 00:43:53.440 to build that, getting information from from 00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:56.900 all around the Western Hemisphere is a little 00:43:56.900 --> 00:43:59.719 challenging, so we're a little slow in getting 00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:02.820 that, but we're trying, and we're working away 00:44:02.820 --> 00:44:05.840 at it, trying to add all of that. So if you're 00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:09.860 aware of a youth program that's not listed there, 00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:14.960 let us know, and we can get that added in. We're 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:18.159 not adding nets, because AWRL already has that, 00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:24.360 so we have a link to them. any on -the -air activities 00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:27.900 that has a youth component, we want to list that 00:44:27.900 --> 00:44:31.460 so people can find it. And, you know, it's not 00:44:31.460 --> 00:44:34.579 just about what we're doing with the camp and 00:44:34.579 --> 00:44:38.199 with Yoda Month and with YARC and the youth contest 00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:43.800 program, but it's also about making everyone 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:46.579 aware of other youth activities that are out 00:44:46.579 --> 00:44:50.480 there. And so we want to get those listed as 00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:56.110 well. Well, the clock is quickly turning and 00:44:56.110 --> 00:45:00.829 we're just about out of time. So I will give 00:45:00.829 --> 00:45:04.670 it out to four final thoughts here. So Sterling, 00:45:04.670 --> 00:45:10.090 you want to go first? Sure. I have to give my 00:45:10.090 --> 00:45:12.309 always shout out to the Young Amateurs Radio 00:45:12.309 --> 00:45:14.869 Club. If they're listening, I sent a link in 00:45:14.869 --> 00:45:19.639 there mentioning other you know, youth groups 00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:21.920 out there. One of the largest ones right now 00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:24.460 that I know about besides youngsters on the air 00:45:24.460 --> 00:45:27.659 over in the EU is YARC, Young Amateurs Radio 00:45:27.659 --> 00:45:30.079 Club. They have a Discord server and a couple 00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:32.579 thousand people, you know, chilling and hanging 00:45:32.579 --> 00:45:36.599 out. They occasionally create activities, had 00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:38.659 a big rift in the community and then got all 00:45:38.659 --> 00:45:41.480 settled back out again. And so eventually we'll 00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:46.579 be seeing a lot more like... activities and contests 00:45:46.579 --> 00:45:50.139 like we really want to do some more contest adjacent 00:45:50.139 --> 00:45:52.260 like not create our own contest but have like 00:45:52.260 --> 00:45:55.059 different categories and sub contests and ways 00:45:55.059 --> 00:45:57.400 to get people who don't have HF radio that seems 00:45:57.400 --> 00:45:59.840 to be like one of the biggest issues in youth 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:02.139 and ham radio is like HF radio is where it's 00:46:02.139 --> 00:46:04.960 at so what if you don't have an HF radio well 00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:08.309 you know get some options out there so But yeah, 00:46:08.409 --> 00:46:11.590 I'm excited for 2021, and I'm excited for this 00:46:11.590 --> 00:46:15.030 next couple of weeks from now, getting this online. 00:46:15.489 --> 00:46:17.670 Everything's coming online. It's kind of like 00:46:17.670 --> 00:46:19.929 the thing you say, like, we did all this work, 00:46:19.989 --> 00:46:21.710 everything's coming online, but now it's like 00:46:21.710 --> 00:46:26.170 literally, literally online. Yeah, I'm excited 00:46:26.170 --> 00:46:28.389 to sit from the comfort of my cold office with 00:46:28.389 --> 00:46:31.429 my air conditioner and instead of walking out 00:46:31.429 --> 00:46:37.050 in the hot heat of the Ohio summer. Yeah, absolutely. 00:46:38.170 --> 00:46:41.750 It is nice to be able to do that. Well, Jocelyn, 00:46:41.949 --> 00:46:46.170 your final comments for tonight? Well, I think 00:46:46.170 --> 00:46:49.269 as everybody has said, we're really looking forward 00:46:49.269 --> 00:46:53.789 to all this effort for the online and seeing 00:46:53.789 --> 00:46:56.710 it happen here very shortly. I think it'll be 00:46:56.710 --> 00:46:59.489 fun for everybody. If anybody out there knows 00:46:59.489 --> 00:47:02.090 of any youth that might be interested, please 00:47:02.090 --> 00:47:06.599 pass the website along. turn them into this show 00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:09.900 even as a podcast so they can kind of hear what 00:47:09.900 --> 00:47:12.260 we're going to do. There's prizes that's usually 00:47:12.260 --> 00:47:16.300 a good thing for kids and like I said it should 00:47:16.300 --> 00:47:19.059 be good and getting ready for field day like 00:47:19.059 --> 00:47:21.039 everybody I think this year we're going to run 00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:24.139 it out of the house so anyways that Neil I'll 00:47:24.139 --> 00:47:28.219 turn it back to you. All right, and we do want 00:47:28.219 --> 00:47:31.659 to thank Heil Sound and DX engineering for donating 00:47:31.659 --> 00:47:34.739 the prizes for our competition and our door prizes 00:47:34.739 --> 00:47:40.340 and and a big thank you to R &L electronics for 00:47:40.340 --> 00:47:42.940 Donating the grand prize, which is still a mystery. 00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:46.519 I'm still not letting it out It's actually sitting 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:49.679 in my sight at the moment, but I'm not I'm not 00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:53.480 telling anybody so it's here, so we're gonna 00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:58.739 give that away and Again, tune in 7 45 p .m. 00:47:58.860 --> 00:48:02.840 On Wednesday June 24th over on our YouTube channel 00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:07.059 youth on the air and you will be able to Watch 00:48:07.059 --> 00:48:10.019 that giveaway and and somebody's gonna be really 00:48:10.019 --> 00:48:14.039 excited. I'll just say that so That's gonna be 00:48:14.039 --> 00:48:18.300 a wrap For this week's edition of ham talk live. 00:48:18.300 --> 00:48:21.639 Thanks to my guest sterling man in zero SSC and 00:48:21.639 --> 00:48:25.329 Jocelyn broke 88 VRX and everybody out there 00:48:25.329 --> 00:48:28.130 in cyberspace for listening and calling in and 00:48:28.130 --> 00:48:30.650 we invite you back next thursday night 9 p .m 00:48:30.650 --> 00:48:34.869 eastern time when paul bork in one sfe will be 00:48:34.869 --> 00:48:39.849 here to take your questions about field day 2020 00:48:39.849 --> 00:48:42.909 for a list of all of our upcoming guests you 00:48:42.909 --> 00:48:46.349 can find that at hamptalklive .com and if you 00:48:46.349 --> 00:48:49.010 like the show please leave us a review That's 00:48:49.010 --> 00:48:51.510 the best thing you can do. That way other people 00:48:51.510 --> 00:48:56.090 can find this program faster. So for now, this 00:48:56.090 --> 00:49:02.329 is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7375, and may the 00:49:02.329 --> 00:49:04.250 good DX be yours.