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we go, welcome to Hamtok Live Call in, let's

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talk, Neil's your guide Hamtok Live Here we go

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on Hamtok Radio Hey, good evening, everyone.

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It's time for Hamptalk Live. It's episode number

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213. Do not reveal today. Recorded live on May

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21st, 2020. Let me get this microphone thing

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going here. Let's try that again. There we go.

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So if you didn't understand that, good evening,

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everyone. It's Hamptalk Live episode number 213.

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Tued up for field day, recorded live on Thursday,

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May 21st, 2020. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.

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Thanks for tuning into this episode of HamTalk

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Live. Tonight we're joined by Christian Kudnick,

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K0STH. And we'll take your calls live in just

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a few minutes. This is what happens when I move

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my laptop and take it with me and disconnect.

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microphone settings get changed. That's not good.

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All right. Well, last week we had open lines

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and we were joined also by Eric Elwell, KD4BNT,

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and Michael Coulter, W8CI, and Paul Brown, WD9GCO.

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And we were just missing Hamvention last weekend.

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And so we had a little fun with that and talked

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a little bit about what we were missing out on.

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And if you want to catch that show and you didn't

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get it last week, You can listen anytime at HamTalkLive

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.com or on your favorite podcast app or on YouTube.

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And of course you can catch the rebroadcast over

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on WTWW 5085 a .m. Saturday evenings at about

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630 p .m. Eastern Time. Just a couple of quick

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things before we get to Christian here. I want

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to make an announcement from Dustin Thomas, N8RMA.

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He dropped me an email to say that the annual

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State of the Hobby survey is now online. So the

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more people we get to take this survey, the better

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the results are going to be. So we'd really like

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for people to take this. And we talked about

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this on an earlier show about, you know, it does

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have some limitations because of the sample size

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and that kind of thing. We'd really like to get

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the sample size up. So if you can take the survey

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and just answer some questions about your ham

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radio experience in the last year, that would

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be really helpful. There's about three weeks

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left to participate and there's just a lot of

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things, you know, if you need statistics to prove

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things or back things up or figure out. audiences

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and that kind of thing. This is really the only

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source we have at this point. So please take

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the survey and spread the word about it if you

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want to hear more about the survey and how it's

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used and how it's developed and all that. Tune

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in to episode 199. Number 199 is about that and

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I put the link to the survey in this show description

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here on episode 213. that you're listening to

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right now so you can get the URL because it is

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kinda long. But if you just look up State of

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the Hobby Survey you'll find it but that link

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is there and it's also on our Twitter and Instagram

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and Facebook pages so you can get the link direct

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to the State of the Hobby Survey from there.

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And also want to mention that John Amadeo A6JA

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dropped me a note and said that Last Man Standing

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has officially been renewed for the third season

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on Fox and I think that's the ninth overall.

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And that should start showing up on your TV screen

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probably around January or so. So congratulations

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to the Last Man Standing. team and the Last Man

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Standing Amateur Radio Club and we'll be hearing

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them on the air for yet another TV season. So

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congratulations to them. You'll be hearing more

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about that as we go. So we're going to talk to

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Christian tonight. Get your questions ready to

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go about the Tune Up event. We talk about that

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on this show every year. So we're going to talk

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with Christian about it tonight. If you're listening

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to us live on Thursday night. You can call us,

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the phone number to call in when we get to that

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point is 859 -982 -7373 and I'll give out that

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number again several times. Before we get to

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the call -in segment of the show, but if you

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want to write that down and have it ready, it's

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859 -982 -7373. You can also tweet us. It's at

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HamTalkLive on Twitter. If you're on Spreaker,

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you can type in the comments and we'll get to

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those. And I see Troy W9KVR is already online.

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So that's great. And we appreciate all those

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people who've been Checking in with us live on

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Thursday night pretty regularly lately. So it's

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been a great thing. All right. Well, I'll be

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back with Christian and we'll do that right after

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.com. And tonight, daring to come back to the

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show once again, is Christian Kudnick, KZero

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STH. Christian is originally, if I can talk,

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from Baltimore, Maryland, and now resides in

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Metro St. Louis, Missouri. He's a veteran broadcaster,

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a two -time Emmy -winning producer, a regular

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contributor to Amateur Radio Newsline. In fact,

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he has the lead story on the one coming out in

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the morning. Just finished that up a while ago.

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And the creator of the 100 watts and wire podcast.

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And he's got a new one now. He has a second one

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called our 73 and it's about some of the Mcom

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things with ham radio. And we're going to talk

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about that a little later on tonight as well.

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So, so welcome back. We're good evening. I was

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just going to say You know you have so many smart

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people, I mean they're incredibly bright and

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insightful and I get the call and I'm like, somebody

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backed out. Who backed out? It has to be. So

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the inside joke is that Neil will call me when

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someone backs out and it's like Regis was to

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David Letterman. But let me say... Neil, if people

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don't know, you've got a ton of friends, right?

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But they probably know this already. You're one

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of the most genuine hams and people that I've

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met in this whole thing, this whole thing. We

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joke and we tease a lot. You've been one of the

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most consistent friends since I got into the

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hobby, and I appreciate you. How about that?

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Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that,

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Regis. can't follow that but really yeah i don't

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know okay okay i guess that's it good night everybody

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oh wait no i guess we got a show to do i think

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i'm mixing up my uh that was uh carson that was

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carson's ending yeah i'm getting married this

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week right but uh the covet damn covet yeah next

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next saturday was supposed to be but uh we actually

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got some good news today there we were actually

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uh Actually just got word a little bit ago. We're

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headed to a drive -in concert Really next Saturday

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the day with that we were supposed to be Getting

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married Michael W Smith is putting on a concert

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at a fairgrounds down into south of Nashville

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and We got tickets. So we're going Cool. I'm

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glad things are starting to back up a little

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bit and people are you know? starting to get

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out of the house we really needed that it was

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oh yeah we get so we're going to a drive -in

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concert which has got to be you know one of the

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first drive -in concerts that's that's just and

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you're gonna go you're gonna get a speaker sit

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next to you and uh some minutes take some breath

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no no it's it's on fm they're doing the fm transmitter

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thing so you turn your radio on That is our instead

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of the little speaker thing There you go. I like

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that. Well good for you. I'm glad you'll be here

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and you guys took it to adjust and So you're

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getting closer still though. You're getting closer.

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We're gonna get there out there, but I'm I'm

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happy for you guys We got the the paperwork done

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yesterday, so we'll be we'll be ready to go and

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Does it feel different when you get the paper,

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right? I mean, I'm married and all, it's been

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a long time. Yeah. I mean, it's different because

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it's like you got a paper, you know, and it still

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needs a signature on it, but at least you got

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a paper that says you're going to. Signature

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do you need on it? The officiant has to sign

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it. You didn't need, you know, your bra to sign

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it. Yeah. What's hard to like, you know, by the

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state of Missouri, in my case, and the eyes of

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God. But how have you been going throughout this

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COVID? You're not doing the school. Did you move

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online? Yeah, we went online. So I've been teaching

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that. I'm actually still on the clock during

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the day. for another two days, I guess, for tomorrow

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and Tuesday to get grades done, late work and

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meetings and that kind of thing. But it's pretty

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well, pretty well wound down. I had a staff meeting

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yesterday, but it was kind of cool. I was actually

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in the staff meeting while Julie was driving

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me down the road. It was kind of cool. That is

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cool. And then you're so attentive. They're business

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on the top. You've got your Malibu shorts on,

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on the bottom, tie, blazer on top. Right. Exactly.

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So fake. It's great. But those poor kids, they

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can't walk this year. That's, that's a bit of

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a bummer for them. They've worked really hard.

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Yeah. Yeah. We did a video for them and they're

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going to have a video graduation here. Next Saturday

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and that kind of thing and I had to laugh one

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of my former students graduated from college

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and they did the walk through so he set up the

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TV in his in his living room and put on his cap

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and gown and had somebody record him walk across

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the front of the TV as they read his name That's

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great. I feel for But they're taking it, you

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know, this is a weird time. We don't know. Our

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parents knew of, and our grandparents knew of

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troubled times like this, but you know, you and

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I don't know anything about this. We know about

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different things, but a pandemic? Good grief.

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Yeah. Yeah. It's just, it's just a whole different

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game and we don't know what the fall is going

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to look like either. That's kind of been the

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topic of discussion lately is, okay, now what

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are we going to do in August? And so. We will

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see. Well one thing that we're gonna do in June

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How's that for segue? I love that was a Professional

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that was a good one that it was a segue probably

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not as much but So one of the things we are gonna

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do in June June 12 through 14th is Tune up now

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you've been doing this for a while. Tell everybody

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about tune up and and how it's gone in the past

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and are you changing anything for this year?

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What's going on with TuneUp? I appreciate that

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and I know you're busy but I would love to have

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you on the team this year and I mentioned team.

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It's a little bit different this year. It's our

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fourth year of doing the TuneUp. We do an activity

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in the spring and then we do one in the fall

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and the one in October is called the fallout

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and it's just an effort to get outside, try to...

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activate and it's the same for the tune -up it

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happens a couple of weeks before field day i

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love field day it's probably the most popular

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activity or event and the league does such a

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great job with it but it you know if you're running

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a 100 watt station it's not insurmountable but

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it's tough to hold a frequency down and if you're

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operating with your club on field day you know

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you may be assigned to do a shift you're going

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to be on 20 meters but you've built this really

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great antenna you know so you want to you'd like

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to hang it and try it out well the tune -up gives

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everyone an opportunity to you know test their

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own gear go out there a little bit away from

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field day but you know get your antennas get

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your radios get your power if you're adding some

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solar energy or something to your you know kit

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for either like the parks or your MCOM work.

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It's a good opportunity to just get out there

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yourself. Now of course with the COVID -19 we've

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been talking about how it's changed everything

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in the world and you know how we're doing things

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and there was a question about what's the league

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going to do? Are they going to change? And Steve

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W7 UDI he's our net control and manager for the

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100 watts and a wire Sunday evening net. He was

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like you know we could do we could we could do

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teams and and people could get together wherever

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they are get on a team and um you know just get

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on the air and have fun in a team setting so

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i know you're busy but the door is open for you

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neil if you're there that weekend any time any

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band any mode jump on and you know you've done

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this before as a solo op and uh we we've taken

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time and just work some stations together but

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this year we'll come up from different places

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we're going to keep going Set up your antenna,

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any band, any mode, any time that weekend. This

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time if you've put a team together, you get on

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the air, it's not a contest, but at the end you

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can submit your information, team name, how many

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contacts you made, that sort of thing, and a

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random drawing. And Neil, in the past, I've done

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these, you know, this person wins the battery

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from BioNO, this one will win a solar panel,

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this one's gonna win an antenna or you know and

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we'd have like 14 prizes and I was like you know

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we should do this time winner takes all you know

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so if you've got a three person four person team

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and your name comes out of the random drawing

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and you win there you go you guys can decide

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who's going to get what or you share it pass

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it around but it's mostly an opportunity for

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us to get outside in the spring where it's great

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you don't have to go out portable But I encourage

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you to. We can exercise our equipment. Every

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time I set up Neil, I figure something new out.

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And it's just like that for me, you know, whether

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it's if I am into emergency communication. So

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if I get my rig out, get my batteries, there's

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always something when I do it that I learn and

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I can kind of put in my pocket and go, OK, I'll

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change that. Maybe this didn't work out or this

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antenna is singing, you know, so the more you

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get out there and do it. you know the more you

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learn that's that's really the basis for it so

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hopefully in June there's no fee you know we're

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on an honor system you know and we basically

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start you know UTC goes from Friday at 0100 UTC

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through Sunday it's 2359 so that's Thursday evening

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at seven o 'clock you can start and get on the

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air and run all the way up into the net on Sunday

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at seven o 'clock central time and submit your

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totals have fun get on the air and it may be

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a good way around the whole you know clubs are

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going to change my club here in the city well

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I can't speak for the club but the what my understanding

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is now they're waiting to see if the parks are

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going to let people gather you know usually they'll

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go out to a local park and set up they'll get

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the pavilion they've got the permit whatever

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they need so right now it's kind of in question

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how many people wherever you are who can get

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together and I know there's a lot of people out

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there like I'm gonna get together with my buddies

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I don't care but you know there's a lot of other

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aspects at play depending where you are in the

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country of course and what the rules of the parks

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and the cities and St. Louis is still doing quite

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well on the COVID count so some areas of Missouri

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are doing better I think we have the The brunt

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of the cases, but you'd expect that in a big

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metropolis. Now I'm starting to go off, Neil.

00:21:05.869 --> 00:21:09.990
Go ahead, fire another question. Well, you know,

00:21:10.829 --> 00:21:14.109
it is a waiting game. I mean, we're playing this

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with the wedding. We just found out today, Ohio

00:21:16.470 --> 00:21:21.990
is going to allow 300 at a reception. So we're

00:21:21.990 --> 00:21:26.269
like, okay, then we're covered. We're good. Every

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place is, like you said, a little different.

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And from what I've been reading from the league

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and we're going to have our, our annual field

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day question and answer show coming up soon.

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So we'll get the official word on everything

00:21:39.349 --> 00:21:43.450
a week ahead of time. But, um, you know, the

00:21:43.450 --> 00:21:45.089
league's kind of saying, we're not going to,

00:21:45.089 --> 00:21:47.529
we're not really going to change anything other

00:21:47.529 --> 00:21:51.690
than tell you be safe and, and follow the guidelines

00:21:51.690 --> 00:21:55.650
for your area and. You know, you may want to

00:21:55.650 --> 00:21:57.829
be thinking about something different this year.

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And so kind of goes back to what you're talking

00:22:01.950 --> 00:22:05.230
about with, you know, every time you set up,

00:22:05.630 --> 00:22:08.349
you learn something new, you get something different.

00:22:09.210 --> 00:22:12.289
And so this time is going to be a bit of a waiting

00:22:12.289 --> 00:22:15.250
game. You know, a lot of times we've got a plan

00:22:15.250 --> 00:22:17.430
set up months ahead of time. We know what we're

00:22:17.430 --> 00:22:19.670
going to do. Well, we did this last year. So,

00:22:19.670 --> 00:22:21.230
you know, here's what we're going to do this

00:22:21.230 --> 00:22:26.859
year. You know, this year, it may be kind of

00:22:26.859 --> 00:22:31.240
a last minute call and, you know, it does prepare

00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:33.960
you for emergencies a little bit better, I think.

00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:37.960
I totally believe. I think the league is saying

00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:39.640
the right things and doing the right things.

00:22:39.740 --> 00:22:43.599
We talked to Rhea N2RJ. She's a director with

00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:45.980
the league and they do feel that this is an actual

00:22:45.980 --> 00:22:50.329
emergency situation. So that is true. Now I don't

00:22:50.329 --> 00:22:53.470
know how they'll keep score but seeing this coming

00:22:53.470 --> 00:22:57.829
down the lane here we realized with the tune

00:22:57.829 --> 00:23:00.130
-up that all right let's be flexible enough to

00:23:00.130 --> 00:23:02.329
let people you could do the tune -up alone if

00:23:02.329 --> 00:23:05.589
you wanted to but what if you couldn't do field

00:23:05.589 --> 00:23:08.470
day with your team and like you said field day

00:23:08.470 --> 00:23:11.549
and your clubs they are anticipating okay Neil

00:23:11.549 --> 00:23:12.730
you're going to go over there and you're going

00:23:12.730 --> 00:23:14.589
to pick up the tower you're going to take it

00:23:14.589 --> 00:23:17.039
out to the park. christian you're gonna do this

00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:19.059
and and there's different roles and people have

00:23:19.059 --> 00:23:22.000
different jobs and duties and and all this may

00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.460
just not be you know you may only be able to

00:23:25.460 --> 00:23:29.359
get together so we just anticipated and it was

00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:32.799
really steve's idea to introduce of team play

00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:36.660
and i love that anyway i think it's cool to uh...

00:23:36.660 --> 00:23:39.119
you know more people in the air is really the

00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:42.119
goal of the tune -up and if you can get out there

00:23:42.609 --> 00:23:44.849
Maybe it's your first time out there in the spring.

00:23:45.029 --> 00:23:48.309
You know for me this COVID You know, I've got

00:23:48.309 --> 00:23:50.410
like once or twice a week because I'm working

00:23:50.410 --> 00:23:52.450
at home. I take a break I'll go out there and

00:23:52.450 --> 00:23:55.630
set up the the mast at 25 feet and I'm tinkering

00:23:55.630 --> 00:23:59.170
around Fiddling around come back and work really

00:23:59.170 --> 00:24:02.650
hard for the company and and and then try it

00:24:02.650 --> 00:24:06.089
again on Thursday So I've I've got that but the

00:24:06.089 --> 00:24:10.710
camaraderie of field day This year is is absolutely

00:24:10.710 --> 00:24:13.599
going to look so much different and I'm hoping

00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:15.500
that with the tune -up maybe it'll get you used

00:24:15.500 --> 00:24:18.059
to it if if you can't get out there I mean imagine

00:24:18.059 --> 00:24:20.619
if you're in you know New York City a club in

00:24:20.619 --> 00:24:24.500
New York or New Jersey or you know in those places

00:24:24.500 --> 00:24:27.079
you know you're not gonna be you know you're

00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:31.559
not just gonna be you know so it is a it's a

00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:33.720
hope that you get on the air have a good time

00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:37.279
and maybe leading into field day it'll be a buffer

00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:41.299
in you know what the rules will be and how they'll

00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:43.940
keep score and how will this this all pan out

00:24:43.940 --> 00:24:46.460
we just don't know but the tune -up is going

00:24:46.460 --> 00:24:48.839
to happen June 12th through the 14th you can

00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:51.759
mark your calendars get whatever job you want

00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:53.619
pick your team put them together and say hey

00:24:53.619 --> 00:24:55.299
we're gonna get on the air you can do it any

00:24:55.299 --> 00:25:00.180
time any mode even the the FT8 I don't care it's

00:25:00.180 --> 00:25:04.369
all good not a contest All right. Well, I know

00:25:04.369 --> 00:25:06.970
we've already got a question about FT8 coming

00:25:06.970 --> 00:25:11.869
up. So we'll do that during the question time.

00:25:13.410 --> 00:25:16.710
So we'll deal with that. And then field day,

00:25:17.490 --> 00:25:21.809
our annual field day Q &A show is usually that

00:25:21.809 --> 00:25:25.109
Thursday right before field day. And we had planned

00:25:25.109 --> 00:25:29.099
on being live from Yoda camp that day. So we

00:25:29.099 --> 00:25:31.680
scheduled it a week earlier. So it's probably

00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:35.400
good because it is going to look a lot different

00:25:35.400 --> 00:25:41.039
this year than past year. So June 18th is our

00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:43.559
field day question and answer show here on HamTalk

00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:47.440
Live and Paul Bork will be here from the league.

00:25:47.740 --> 00:25:51.299
He's in charge of putting together the rules

00:25:51.299 --> 00:25:54.259
and everything for field day and and and collecting

00:25:54.259 --> 00:25:58.859
the results and everything and and Scores and

00:25:58.859 --> 00:26:03.559
yeah, it's not a contest but it keeps right so,

00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:09.160
you know But anyway June 18 field he will be

00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:13.119
here I Think it's safe. You say it's not a contest

00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:16.339
because if you made it a contest because you're

00:26:16.339 --> 00:26:19.619
more tuned to contest that's a whole different

00:26:19.619 --> 00:26:22.440
log submission thing it's a whole different beast

00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:26.299
when it becomes a contest so and i know that

00:26:26.299 --> 00:26:28.720
field day is you know that's a whole that goes

00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:33.059
back before the uh you know uh is it a contest

00:26:33.059 --> 00:26:35.460
is not a contest and some you know has a lot

00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:37.619
of different opinions but uh for us we keep it

00:26:37.619 --> 00:26:40.299
a not a contest thing because you know there's

00:26:40.299 --> 00:26:43.740
a lot more paperwork with filing you know Logs

00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:46.480
and going through that whole process. So random

00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:50.660
drawing it is and if you're interested You can

00:26:50.660 --> 00:26:53.660
visit the website 100 watts and a wire comm click

00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:56.160
the activities tab It'll let you know all about

00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:59.440
that You can bookmark it that way when you you

00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:02.519
do your gig that weekend and you can submit your

00:27:02.519 --> 00:27:06.900
totals right there on the site Okay. Well, we

00:27:06.900 --> 00:27:10.099
are going to take a break But we also want to

00:27:10.099 --> 00:27:15.059
talk about your new podcast, Hour 73, which is

00:27:15.059 --> 00:27:18.539
based on some of this EMCOM stuff that we're

00:27:18.539 --> 00:27:21.500
talking about, so it ties right in. But let's

00:27:21.500 --> 00:27:23.680
do that after the break. Let's go ahead and do

00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:25.539
that and then we'll come back. We'll talk about

00:27:25.539 --> 00:27:29.700
Hour 73 and we'll take all the questions that

00:27:29.700 --> 00:27:31.779
have come in so far and we'll take your phone

00:27:31.779 --> 00:27:34.920
calls right after this word from Tower Electronics

00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:40.220
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00:27:40.420 --> 00:27:43.119
man? I haven't seen you at Sunbucks in a while.

00:27:43.619 --> 00:27:45.640
I used to see you every morning getting coffee.

00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:49.440
What's up? Well, I can't afford Sunbucks five

00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:52.140
days a week anymore. I had to spend my money

00:27:52.140 --> 00:27:55.799
on PL -259s. You know, those antenna projects

00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:58.579
I've been meaning to do. I had to do them before

00:27:58.579 --> 00:28:02.400
my HOA finds out I have antennas. That's too

00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:04.900
bad, Jerry. I miss seeing you and catching up

00:28:04.900 --> 00:28:08.210
over coffee. You should get your PL -259s from

00:28:08.210 --> 00:28:15.190
Tower Electronics. They have great stuff. Jerry,

00:28:15.369 --> 00:28:19.509
you're back. Oh, QRM Heterodyne Frappuccino.

00:28:19.809 --> 00:28:22.490
That's a good choice. How's it going? Did you

00:28:22.490 --> 00:28:25.309
get all those antennas up before the HOA police

00:28:25.309 --> 00:28:28.789
showed up? Yeah, I got them all done. Thanks

00:28:28.789 --> 00:28:31.329
for telling me about Tower Electronics. Now I

00:28:31.329 --> 00:28:34.210
can have my coffee. I just saved a bunch of money

00:28:34.210 --> 00:28:37.910
on my PL259s by switching to Tower Electronics.

00:28:38.269 --> 00:28:41.410
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00:28:41.410 --> 00:28:46.130
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00:28:46.130 --> 00:28:50.150
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00:28:50.150 --> 00:28:53.710
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00:28:53.930 --> 00:28:57.799
adapters and cables too. Join the conversation.

00:28:58.140 --> 00:29:04.359
Give us a call at 859 -982 -7373. Again, the

00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:10.559
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00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:13.819
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00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:17.740
Now, here's Neil Rapp with more HamTalk Live.

00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:57.519
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00:30:16.259 --> 00:30:20.980
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00:30:20.980 --> 00:30:23.640
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00:30:24.420 --> 00:30:27.519
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00:30:27.539 --> 00:30:31.160
So if you have a question for Christian, give

00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:42.799
us a call at 859 -982 -7373. Again, 859 -982

00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:48.599
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00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:51.420
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00:30:51.420 --> 00:30:55.559
listening to us on WTWW or on the podcast edition

00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:58.559
you won't be able to reach us. It's Thursday

00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:02.559
night right now and we're recording this. So

00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:06.519
Christian K0STH is with us. He's the host of

00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:10.059
100 watts to wire and hour 73 and we're going

00:31:10.059 --> 00:31:14.319
to talk about that in just a moment but first

00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:18.230
we do have a caller on the line. So we're going

00:31:18.230 --> 00:31:22.170
to go to the phone. So Valparaiso, Indiana. Hello.

00:31:23.069 --> 00:31:30.410
Hello. How are you? Hello. Hi, Christian. Um,

00:31:31.930 --> 00:31:34.549
actually, I mean, we, we, we should, we should

00:31:34.549 --> 00:31:38.849
introduce Paul. Call in meant to call your cell

00:31:38.849 --> 00:31:41.230
phone. This is Paul Brown. Oh, is that what that

00:31:41.230 --> 00:31:45.869
is? This is Paul Brown, WD9GCO, and we were doing

00:31:45.869 --> 00:31:47.970
the Larry King thing earlier, so that's why I

00:31:47.970 --> 00:31:51.869
did the... Valparaiso, Indiana, hello. I made

00:31:51.869 --> 00:31:55.470
it back from Xenia. You made it back from Xenia

00:31:55.470 --> 00:31:58.069
last week. Yeah, that was a quick trip. Yeah,

00:31:58.069 --> 00:32:05.390
I know. Anyhow, yeah, our club was originally

00:32:05.390 --> 00:32:09.410
planning on... a neighboring club was going to

00:32:09.410 --> 00:32:13.380
do the full... Set up overnight field day thing

00:32:13.380 --> 00:32:16.579
and we were going to participate with them And

00:32:16.579 --> 00:32:19.920
then this all happened And I just found out that

00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.819
that club is still intending on trying to set

00:32:23.819 --> 00:32:28.359
things up to be safe and do it but There is still

00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:32.900
a very real concern Especially I don't know how

00:32:32.900 --> 00:32:35.259
you know other clubs. I assume that a lot of

00:32:35.259 --> 00:32:40.900
other clubs are fairly similar to ours where

00:32:40.900 --> 00:32:46.460
the membership tends to skew older and I'm you

00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:48.680
know I would be concerned about a lot of the

00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:53.279
members of my club realizing that it's completely

00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:55.140
up to them but I would be worried about their

00:32:55.140 --> 00:33:00.599
health so I'm planning on doing the tune -up

00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:07.089
from home it's perfect I think that's You know,

00:33:07.250 --> 00:33:09.809
we were just anticipating this could be the way

00:33:09.809 --> 00:33:12.369
for field day, although field day, I mean, I

00:33:12.369 --> 00:33:15.130
think you raise a great point. When we were talking

00:33:15.130 --> 00:33:17.269
about, back on, I don't know what episode it

00:33:17.269 --> 00:33:19.309
was on 100 Watts and a Wire, we were talking

00:33:19.309 --> 00:33:21.789
about, I predict it. I'm not trying to be a hero.

00:33:22.869 --> 00:33:25.710
These people who are attending HamFest, who are

00:33:25.710 --> 00:33:28.630
doing field day, they're in the, you know, they're

00:33:28.630 --> 00:33:30.829
advanced age. I mean, I'm going to say that politely.

00:33:31.049 --> 00:33:34.500
They're our elders in our community. at the time

00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:36.940
it did not feel safe and I still don't really

00:33:36.940 --> 00:33:39.299
think it's safe to get so many people together

00:33:39.299 --> 00:33:44.559
as for this and you know it's I don't know it's

00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:47.359
a tough thing I get it I totally get the wanting

00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:50.220
to open things up and something that's happening

00:33:50.220 --> 00:33:53.799
in smaller towns it makes sense it makes sense

00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:57.059
to open it up but in st. Louis grabbing all these

00:33:57.059 --> 00:33:58.920
folks and bringing them out and dealing with

00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:01.900
that it's You know, it's a little scary right

00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:04.079
now. For TuneUp, you can be anywhere you want

00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.279
to be and select your team. I wonder if you're

00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:09.320
going to get together with any members of Amateur

00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:14.920
Radio Newsline. We haven't discussed it. I'm

00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:18.260
not sure we like each other that much. That part's

00:34:18.260 --> 00:34:23.019
true. We're going to send Paul back to Xenia

00:34:23.019 --> 00:34:26.480
again. You went down there to file a report,

00:34:26.539 --> 00:34:30.559
right? It's a great gig. Yeah. It was a great

00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:34.820
report. Five words. They didn't cancel Hampton.

00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:42.480
But yeah, because for your average field day,

00:34:42.619 --> 00:34:46.980
it's almost impossible to realistically maintain

00:34:46.980 --> 00:34:51.139
the six -foot distance. You're setting stuff

00:34:51.139 --> 00:34:55.510
up. By its very nature you're going to need like

00:34:55.510 --> 00:34:58.389
two people holding up a mast or something while

00:34:58.389 --> 00:35:00.630
somebody's pulling down guy wires or while you're

00:35:00.630 --> 00:35:03.530
operating You got one guy operating one guy logging

00:35:03.530 --> 00:35:09.909
It's really difficult to You know work in do

00:35:09.909 --> 00:35:12.369
entries when you're sitting six feet away from

00:35:12.369 --> 00:35:15.550
the guy who's operating So I'm not sure how it's

00:35:15.550 --> 00:35:19.449
going to work and for personal reasons for family

00:35:19.449 --> 00:35:22.889
health issues I can't risk it. I can't risk,

00:35:22.989 --> 00:35:25.670
I mean, I'm okay, but I can't risk being that

00:35:25.670 --> 00:35:28.329
guy who picks something up and brings it home.

00:35:30.849 --> 00:35:34.269
I think that's a... What happens? It's okay.

00:35:34.510 --> 00:35:36.429
You can't wear a, I mean, you're gonna wear a

00:35:36.429 --> 00:35:38.949
mask? I mean, you have to wear a mask, and you're

00:35:38.949 --> 00:35:42.610
gonna take calls in a mask? You know, I get both

00:35:42.610 --> 00:35:44.550
sides of the argument of we gotta, we're gonna,

00:35:44.690 --> 00:35:47.789
we're gonna, we're gonna do it. But, you know,

00:35:47.789 --> 00:35:49.880
you gotta really... Play smart and it really

00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:53.119
ties into where you are. I mean, it just, it

00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:56.440
really does. And I care for my in -laws as well

00:35:56.440 --> 00:36:00.579
with a compromised immune systems. They won't,

00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:02.980
don't want to at this point head back to church.

00:36:03.179 --> 00:36:06.880
They don't want to go to the market. And so my

00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:08.980
wife and I are taking care of those things for

00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:12.179
them now and they're relatively healthy. Not

00:36:12.179 --> 00:36:14.360
super old at all. I mean, they're in their mid

00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:17.199
seventies, but they've got conditions that, you

00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:21.360
know, you get this thing and that's it. So, you

00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:25.579
know, it's an individual's thing, but it will

00:36:25.579 --> 00:36:31.280
undoubtedly look different this year. Yep. I

00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:34.739
think, you know, it is a chance to practice,

00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:37.099
well, what if we get called up in a pandemic?

00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:40.639
I mean, what if we have to deal with this? And

00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:45.070
so maybe you're not putting up a mast. How are

00:36:45.070 --> 00:36:47.690
you going to do that? And so I can see that.

00:36:48.610 --> 00:36:51.869
But it's going to take a lot more thought and

00:36:51.869 --> 00:36:55.090
a lot more planning. And I think a lot of people

00:36:55.090 --> 00:36:59.670
will just opt for the home station, which is

00:36:59.670 --> 00:37:03.610
kind of what I'm thinking right now. But we'll

00:37:03.610 --> 00:37:06.730
just wait and see, you know, what's going on

00:37:06.730 --> 00:37:10.329
at that point. Try with the team and see how

00:37:10.329 --> 00:37:12.670
you feel. Put a team together and check your

00:37:12.670 --> 00:37:16.070
results and see how you've done and you know

00:37:16.070 --> 00:37:18.010
a couple weeks later you'll see how field day

00:37:18.010 --> 00:37:20.750
pans out but in case your town doesn't do a field

00:37:20.750 --> 00:37:22.750
day like you're accustomed to the sharing of

00:37:22.750 --> 00:37:24.909
the food and the meals and the camaraderie and

00:37:24.909 --> 00:37:27.449
those working with your friends you know that's

00:37:27.449 --> 00:37:30.170
the hardest thing for Xenia was that you couldn't

00:37:30.170 --> 00:37:32.769
go see your friends it's a it's a change it feels

00:37:32.769 --> 00:37:36.570
like you've been robbed and it sucks I get it

00:37:36.510 --> 00:37:40.150
I know it but you know we have to really think

00:37:40.150 --> 00:37:42.570
this through and time will tell what it'll look

00:37:42.570 --> 00:37:44.849
like and so that's why we shaped TuneUp this

00:37:44.849 --> 00:37:48.789
year to be a team thing although you're not physically

00:37:48.789 --> 00:37:52.250
together you can keep your own scores and and

00:37:52.250 --> 00:37:54.030
you know if you're pulled in the drawing and

00:37:54.030 --> 00:37:56.429
you win something cool you guys can share the

00:37:56.429 --> 00:37:59.949
the prize but that's the thought. I think it's

00:37:59.949 --> 00:38:03.690
a very good idea for a number of us news line

00:38:03.690 --> 00:38:09.780
folks to Because we've started doing the Zoom

00:38:09.780 --> 00:38:13.340
meetings just because all of a sudden I've realized,

00:38:13.340 --> 00:38:17.340
hey, we've got this tool. Why don't we use it?

00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:21.039
And I think it would also help bring us together

00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:25.159
as a family to do this. So I think it's a very

00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:28.960
good idea there. Well, thank you, sir. I'm proud

00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:35.969
of you. I like it. You have a nice voice. Thanks,

00:38:36.050 --> 00:38:38.869
Paul, for calling in. Appreciate it. All right,

00:38:38.929 --> 00:38:42.269
Neil and Christian. Thanks. Good night. Good

00:38:42.269 --> 00:38:48.309
night, Paul. 859 -982 -7373 is the phone number.

00:38:48.329 --> 00:38:54.429
If you'd like to chime in, please do at 859 -982

00:38:54.429 --> 00:39:00.030
-7373. We also go over to the Twitter machine

00:39:00.030 --> 00:39:06.219
here. Brett WI7BG has a question for you, Christian.

00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:10.239
He says, this year will the tune -up use an exchange

00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:17.400
that's possible to do on FT4 and FT8? Well, thank

00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:21.739
you for that question. As it turns out, with

00:39:21.739 --> 00:39:25.960
those modes... The exchange is just suggested.

00:39:26.119 --> 00:39:27.820
Let me put it to you that way. We're talking

00:39:27.820 --> 00:39:31.280
a call sign. If people have a 100 watt ID, cool

00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:35.380
your state. A true signal report would be nice.

00:39:35.659 --> 00:39:38.000
Now I know the 100 watt ID would be difficult.

00:39:38.099 --> 00:39:40.960
Couldn't do it. So don't do that part. Just move

00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:43.579
on. It's not so strict that you can't do that.

00:39:43.940 --> 00:39:46.039
Just get on the air and have fun. You know, call

00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:48.019
out that you're working the tune up. I know you

00:39:48.019 --> 00:39:50.039
wouldn't be calling out on that mode, but just

00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:52.639
do what you can within the mode and that's fine.

00:39:52.699 --> 00:39:54.940
It's not a rule. I don't think there is a rule.

00:39:55.260 --> 00:39:57.960
And it's an honor system with your contacts.

00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:00.900
So it's, you know, that's all. The answer is

00:40:00.900 --> 00:40:03.159
go ahead and change it to fit whatever mode you

00:40:03.159 --> 00:40:07.840
need to. Okay. There you go, Brett. So yes, you

00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:12.960
can do FT4 and FT8. You can just drop the part

00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:16.179
of the exchange that doesn't work. Now for field

00:40:16.179 --> 00:40:20.579
A, that's a whole different answer. So we better

00:40:20.579 --> 00:40:24.329
point that out. But for field day, yes, you have

00:40:24.329 --> 00:40:28.449
to do the exchange because we've had that conversation.

00:40:28.650 --> 00:40:32.449
But actually FT8, I believe, has that capability

00:40:32.449 --> 00:40:35.289
now. You have to run it in a special field day

00:40:35.289 --> 00:40:39.170
mode kind of thing. I'm not sure about four.

00:40:39.349 --> 00:40:43.949
I haven't done four, so I don't know. But you've

00:40:43.949 --> 00:40:47.190
got to be able to do that exchange. So that's

00:40:47.190 --> 00:40:51.659
for field day. For TuneUp, go for it. Yeah, go

00:40:51.659 --> 00:40:55.960
for it. Okay. Yeah, okay. Yeah and Troy W9KBR

00:40:55.960 --> 00:40:58.900
says you can set up a customized macro in FT8

00:40:58.900 --> 00:41:00.900
and manually add what you want. So you could

00:41:00.900 --> 00:41:05.820
you could put the 100 ID on FT8. Thanks for that

00:41:05.820 --> 00:41:11.719
Troy. And Chris, AA4CB is in the house tonight.

00:41:11.860 --> 00:41:16.079
So Chris, good evening to you. As well as Troy

00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:21.659
over in Illinois. He just finished up his school

00:41:21.659 --> 00:41:28.079
stuff today so very good and yeah he says in

00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:31.659
WSJT Chris says in WSJT you can just add your

00:41:31.659 --> 00:41:36.539
your 100 ID number there so we will do that so

00:41:36.539 --> 00:41:42.119
okay we've got another call on the line so except

00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:47.760
I just hung up on him oops oh he's back Okay,

00:41:47.900 --> 00:41:50.320
so so here we go. We're going to do the Larry

00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:55.960
King thing again, so Liberty Township, Ohio hello

00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.199
Good evening Neil good evening Christian, and

00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:03.380
thank you Neil for nothing Cincinnati. I'm north

00:42:03.380 --> 00:42:07.099
so I appreciate that Quick question for Christian.

00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:10.320
You know first. I think the team's idea is a

00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:14.699
fantastic idea Is there any limit on how many

00:42:14.699 --> 00:42:18.510
10 minutes? team members you should be recruiting

00:42:18.510 --> 00:42:21.889
I don't think so you know I don't think so I

00:42:21.889 --> 00:42:24.510
think and hello and thank you for that I just

00:42:24.510 --> 00:42:27.369
think that you know if you can get a bunch of

00:42:27.369 --> 00:42:29.409
people together by all means go ahead and do

00:42:29.409 --> 00:42:31.909
that now there's limited prizes so everybody

00:42:31.909 --> 00:42:34.210
may not get a prize on your team but you know

00:42:34.210 --> 00:42:36.489
that's up to you guys you could share it but

00:42:36.489 --> 00:42:39.750
no I I don't think so I think rules are for this

00:42:39.750 --> 00:42:43.530
is just you know it's it's off -putting you know

00:42:43.530 --> 00:42:46.559
so If you can put a couple of people together,

00:42:46.699 --> 00:42:48.800
a few people or more, by all means, go ahead

00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:50.860
and have fun. I hope to hear you on the air.

00:42:52.780 --> 00:42:55.159
Well, I will certainly do my best to be on the

00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:58.059
air that weekend. I should be able to get at

00:42:58.059 --> 00:43:03.239
least one day in. And yeah, I appreciate the

00:43:03.239 --> 00:43:06.739
tune -up. I think it's a great idea. I've been

00:43:06.739 --> 00:43:09.500
participating in it for a few years now. Also,

00:43:09.579 --> 00:43:13.590
the fallout. I did one year win that Chameleon

00:43:13.590 --> 00:43:16.110
MCOM 3, which is a fantastic antenna. By the

00:43:16.110 --> 00:43:18.949
way, I've used it for parks on the air with some

00:43:18.949 --> 00:43:21.250
of our club members, and they were always impressed

00:43:21.250 --> 00:43:24.730
with, oh, location's not going to be great. We're

00:43:24.730 --> 00:43:28.250
not going to get tons of contacts. And we're

00:43:28.250 --> 00:43:30.809
there for four hours, and there's 100 QSOs on

00:43:30.809 --> 00:43:33.699
the log. So it works really well. All right,

00:43:33.820 --> 00:43:35.480
Christian. Well, thank you very much for taking

00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:37.840
the call and answering the question. And, uh,

00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:40.139
we will talk to you guys on the air. And if,

00:43:40.139 --> 00:43:42.400
uh, if Paul Brown's all by himself, maybe I'll

00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:44.320
team him up with them. If he'll have me, I mean,

00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:45.940
he was an engineer. It was right up the road.

00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:47.539
We could have done this right. You know, we could

00:43:47.539 --> 00:43:53.599
practice. By the way, I waved at you yesterday

00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:56.820
as I drove through Liberty township. I went back.

00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:02.739
You didn't see me. I didn't see you. No. And

00:44:02.739 --> 00:44:05.480
that's the other thing, too, I was going to say.

00:44:07.539 --> 00:44:10.760
I think every club's having the same conversation

00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:13.179
of, are we going to be able to do field day?

00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:17.960
I know some of our club wants to do it. A lot

00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:21.059
of the club members want to do it. I'm also with

00:44:21.059 --> 00:44:24.699
Christian and Paul, where I have my youngest

00:44:24.699 --> 00:44:27.980
son, Nicholas, as asthma. We're also thinking

00:44:27.980 --> 00:44:31.000
care of my in -laws. So we are making you know,

00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:33.320
we're being very prudent So I think everything

00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:36.480
will be done from here for this year and then

00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:38.800
and we'll see how things go from there But anyways,

00:44:38.820 --> 00:44:41.539
I will let you get back to the show and thank

00:44:41.539 --> 00:44:44.159
you very much for picking me up and we'll talk

00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:49.039
you soon enough Thanks, Jocelyn for calling in

00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:54.820
no problem. Bye. Bye Eight five nine nine eight

00:44:54.820 --> 00:44:57.199
two seventy three seventy three is the number

00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.960
if you'd like to join in we've got a few minutes

00:44:59.960 --> 00:45:03.340
here That you can do that eight five nine nine

00:45:03.340 --> 00:45:05.280
eight two seventy three seventy three. We've

00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:09.480
got another tweet here from Jacob I like this

00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:17.300
kg7 EQ in Christian this is purely for you if

00:45:17.300 --> 00:45:21.840
the late musician Prince was still alive How

00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:24.659
high could he hang a wire antenna in a tree by

00:45:24.659 --> 00:45:28.320
throwing his guitar? He could hang six of them

00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:31.739
at a time. And this is a this is a little inside

00:45:31.739 --> 00:45:34.699
joke, but I would encourage everybody. And on

00:45:34.699 --> 00:45:38.159
the anniversary of Prince's death, I just I love

00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:40.440
Prince's music. He was he was there as I was

00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:43.559
kind of growing up and stuff. But he played the

00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:46.099
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a tribute to George

00:45:46.099 --> 00:45:48.639
Harrison. And you can find this at the Rock and

00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:51.630
Roll Hall of Fame YouTube page. and he plays

00:45:51.630 --> 00:45:56.070
on, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, a great George

00:45:56.070 --> 00:45:58.809
Harrison song, and he plays with Danny Harrison,

00:45:59.349 --> 00:46:02.650
Tom Petty, many others are there as well, and

00:46:02.650 --> 00:46:04.650
at the end of the performance, which he kills

00:46:04.650 --> 00:46:06.590
by the way, you gotta see this, this is amazing,

00:46:07.150 --> 00:46:09.789
he takes his guitar off and throws it up in the

00:46:09.789 --> 00:46:12.489
air, and it doesn't land, it doesn't come back

00:46:12.489 --> 00:46:14.730
down, and I just, you know, it's like, where

00:46:14.730 --> 00:46:18.380
did it go? It's the craziest bit. Some may feel

00:46:18.380 --> 00:46:20.280
that's a little bit over the top showmanship,

00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:24.300
but that's the the Genesis of that question.

00:46:24.300 --> 00:46:27.280
He just tosses it up there and it's a it disappears.

00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:31.000
He walks off so you can do like a 5 ,000 foot

00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:33.559
in fed vertical and just tie it to the guitar

00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:40.059
and Rest in peace Prince. There you go. All right,

00:46:40.139 --> 00:46:44.380
Jacob. Well, thank you for that and get on get

00:46:44.380 --> 00:46:49.960
on the Field day stuff and get on the tune -up

00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:57.539
and let's go crazy nice very nice if You say

00:46:57.539 --> 00:46:59.900
where I have raspberry beret. Don't look up more

00:46:59.900 --> 00:47:06.719
songs. Don't do that I Didn't have to look that

00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:09.199
one up now. They're in a little red Corvette.

00:47:09.199 --> 00:47:12.719
I know yeah, and you know the oldie station you

00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:17.730
can't do that If that's oldies, then wow, I'm

00:47:17.730 --> 00:47:23.869
really old. I heard U2, with or without you,

00:47:24.190 --> 00:47:27.889
from Joshua Tree from 1987, and it's like, classic

00:47:27.889 --> 00:47:31.309
oldies, and it was U2. Oh, no, no, no, no, no,

00:47:31.309 --> 00:47:33.670
no, no, no, that is not classic oldies. It hurt

00:47:33.670 --> 00:47:38.110
me. It hurt me. And then it's under the boardwalk.

00:47:38.409 --> 00:47:41.030
And then Bono. I'm like, no, that's not working.

00:47:41.510 --> 00:47:46.780
No. Not an oldie. It's great. But not oldie.

00:47:47.739 --> 00:47:50.960
BrettWY7BG says that was an epic guitar solo.

00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:54.659
So there. That's right. There we go. All right.

00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:57.360
Well, Christian, we're going to talk about hour

00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:02.480
73 and we're already over time. So let me divert

00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:06.340
here and tell us a little bit about hour 73.

00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:09.420
Real quick and thank you for that. I appreciate

00:48:09.420 --> 00:48:11.599
that You know when we hit they I've been thinking

00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:13.940
about doing other things I joined the Aries team

00:48:13.940 --> 00:48:17.139
here in st Louis in October a part of my passion

00:48:17.139 --> 00:48:19.880
for amateur radio is emergency communications

00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:23.420
and It's so much to learn but as we got later

00:48:23.420 --> 00:48:26.159
in the year, I started to develop a new show

00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:29.440
You know some where I could talk about broader

00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:34.900
topics and then enter the pandemic and so our

00:48:34.900 --> 00:48:40.329
73 podcast that focuses on long -term sustainability.

00:48:40.610 --> 00:48:43.670
We're taught to prepare for the first 72 and

00:48:43.670 --> 00:48:47.070
usually that's the first 72 hours could be a

00:48:47.070 --> 00:48:50.329
power outage and if you're not prepared at the

00:48:50.329 --> 00:48:52.909
end of 72 hours you may be looking at a FEMA

00:48:52.909 --> 00:48:59.769
camp. So hour 73 it does encompass a communications

00:48:59.769 --> 00:49:02.909
element but essentially it's everyday people

00:49:02.909 --> 00:49:07.550
looking for ways To be more self -reliant and

00:49:07.550 --> 00:49:10.750
we use history. We share ideas and solutions

00:49:10.750 --> 00:49:14.250
The Facebook page is growing. It's active now

00:49:14.250 --> 00:49:16.590
a lot of gardening stuff people planning their

00:49:16.590 --> 00:49:19.449
victory gardens and sharing things like that

00:49:19.449 --> 00:49:23.289
But it's getting back to some of that plain simple

00:49:23.289 --> 00:49:27.869
living That our ancestors Native Americans early

00:49:27.869 --> 00:49:30.710
pioneers they lived a much simpler and happy

00:49:30.710 --> 00:49:33.400
life and you know one thing about kovat it's

00:49:33.400 --> 00:49:35.719
really slowed us down. We can inventory things

00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:38.780
in our house. We can kind of edit the way we're

00:49:38.780 --> 00:49:40.920
living. We may not like everything about it,

00:49:41.159 --> 00:49:44.840
but COVID really sped this up for me and so I've

00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:48.099
put a team together. I love building teams of

00:49:48.099 --> 00:49:52.039
just talented smart people and so we're looking

00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:56.860
to build our capabilities. for long -term sustainability

00:49:56.860 --> 00:50:00.019
in the 21st century. So we're about three episodes

00:50:00.019 --> 00:50:02.420
in. It's evolving and it's changing a little

00:50:02.420 --> 00:50:05.039
bit. It gets a little better each time. You can

00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:09.619
find it on Facebook, Our, H -O -U -R 73. And

00:50:09.619 --> 00:50:13.139
it's less doom and gloom. We are sharing ideas

00:50:13.139 --> 00:50:16.659
together where normal people can become, you

00:50:16.659 --> 00:50:19.139
know, preppers get a weird word and I respect

00:50:19.139 --> 00:50:21.800
preppers who are preparing three months out.

00:50:22.420 --> 00:50:25.780
But the show we talk about, you know, assessing

00:50:25.780 --> 00:50:28.019
your needs, you know, where did you fall short?

00:50:28.059 --> 00:50:29.840
We're talking to preppers. Where did you fall

00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:33.340
short? Where are some of the aspects of prepping?

00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:36.639
Was it your pantry? Was it hard to get? So these

00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:39.019
are the conversations, but it's more about everyday

00:50:39.019 --> 00:50:42.539
people and not necessarily those who are super

00:50:42.539 --> 00:50:45.960
hardcore, buried in the bunker type stuff. We

00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:48.679
want to have everybody included, just like 100

00:50:48.679 --> 00:50:51.239
watts and a wire. Everybody's welcome. Let's

00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:53.889
just talk. So that's that. Thank you for letting

00:50:53.889 --> 00:50:55.929
me get that out. I hope you'll check it out.

00:50:55.929 --> 00:51:01.309
You can find it on your iTunes or your Stitcher.

00:51:01.349 --> 00:51:03.449
Wherever you get your podcast, take a look for

00:51:03.449 --> 00:51:07.269
it. And if you dig it, cool. I hope you do. Thanks

00:51:07.269 --> 00:51:09.730
for that, Neil. Were you prepared? Have you found?

00:51:10.409 --> 00:51:12.389
I mean, not toilet paper now. Everybody's got

00:51:12.389 --> 00:51:15.949
enough toilet paper for the non -digestive problem

00:51:15.949 --> 00:51:20.650
pandemic thing. Yeah. Do you have any shortages?

00:51:20.929 --> 00:51:23.489
Did you find yourself having a hard time getting

00:51:23.489 --> 00:51:25.989
supplies? You know, what was it? That's a common

00:51:25.989 --> 00:51:30.909
theme here. Where did you struggle? Well, I had

00:51:30.909 --> 00:51:34.750
enough toilet paper, but I was starting to worry

00:51:34.750 --> 00:51:36.849
a little bit. It was starting to get a little

00:51:36.849 --> 00:51:40.809
low. And about that time, you know, it started

00:51:40.809 --> 00:51:43.889
to show up if you got to the store, you know,

00:51:43.989 --> 00:51:46.849
in the mornings or, you know, if you went it.

00:51:46.889 --> 00:51:49.329
Eight o 'clock at night, which is my usual shopping

00:51:49.329 --> 00:51:52.730
time. Forget it. Did you change any way of how

00:51:52.730 --> 00:51:55.130
you were getting your supplies? Did you go online?

00:51:56.449 --> 00:52:01.570
I actually wasn't finding stuff online. So I

00:52:01.570 --> 00:52:05.070
actually started going to the store more than

00:52:05.070 --> 00:52:08.150
online because it was just hard to see what the

00:52:08.150 --> 00:52:11.909
supplies were. Yeah, everybody started going

00:52:11.909 --> 00:52:15.380
earlier in the day, too. Yeah, that helps. And

00:52:15.380 --> 00:52:17.719
you're getting to that age now where it's acceptable.

00:52:17.980 --> 00:52:20.579
And you know what? Put the mask on. You put your

00:52:20.579 --> 00:52:24.099
mask on, nobody knows that you're as old as you

00:52:24.099 --> 00:52:27.219
are. There you go. You're looking much older,

00:52:27.380 --> 00:52:29.780
Neil, and I'm saying that with love, but we're

00:52:29.780 --> 00:52:32.699
old. We're the O .M. We're the official. We're

00:52:32.699 --> 00:52:35.940
all older than we were when this show started.

00:52:36.519 --> 00:52:38.880
And I can get to that toilet paper and those

00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:42.519
vegetables faster than a lot of those other older

00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:51.219
folks. So you know found that and sanitizer I

00:52:51.219 --> 00:52:57.500
had some luckily Julie had had a stash so You

00:52:57.500 --> 00:52:59.360
know, I know you'll do to get that but you know,

00:52:59.420 --> 00:53:01.699
that's still tough But I kept saying I should

00:53:01.699 --> 00:53:03.820
probably go in the chemistry lab and just make

00:53:03.820 --> 00:53:07.519
something Well with it nice and seal it up. And

00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:10.219
yeah, sure you could do that a lot of people

00:53:10.219 --> 00:53:12.199
are doing that I had holes in my pantry. I was

00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:14.300
having a hard thing, you know, it's Things are

00:53:14.300 --> 00:53:16.000
different to get. I think we've settled in a

00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:18.519
little bit now. It's a little easier to get some

00:53:18.519 --> 00:53:20.239
of the things, but some of the stores that I

00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:23.960
never frequented before have become staples.

00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:27.460
And, um, you know, so now I go to Walmart. I

00:53:27.460 --> 00:53:29.780
didn't go to Walmart all the time, but now they're,

00:53:29.780 --> 00:53:31.679
they've got what I need. They can get what I

00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:35.980
need and it's all about my family now. So our

00:53:35.980 --> 00:53:38.960
73 .com check it out. I appreciate Neil, you,

00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:42.099
uh, given a chance and But these are the conversations

00:53:42.099 --> 00:53:44.300
we have, and we take a look at history and how

00:53:44.300 --> 00:53:47.460
we've got through some pandemic type things as

00:53:47.460 --> 00:53:50.960
a country and throughout the world. And just

00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:53.000
trying to simplify things a little bit to be

00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:54.960
a little more independent, a little more self

00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:58.679
-reliant, because we don't know for sure that

00:53:58.679 --> 00:54:01.980
the system is coming to help us. We don't know

00:54:01.980 --> 00:54:05.500
this for sure. And for me, it's not anti -government

00:54:05.500 --> 00:54:09.570
now. It's pro... building our own capabilities

00:54:09.570 --> 00:54:11.789
so we have enough to kind of get through like

00:54:11.789 --> 00:54:17.769
those early peoples. Now we had a kind of a prepper

00:54:17.769 --> 00:54:21.730
themed club meeting at Southern Indiana Amateur

00:54:21.730 --> 00:54:25.369
Radio Association a few months ago before the

00:54:25.369 --> 00:54:29.409
whole pandemic thing and he talked about you

00:54:29.409 --> 00:54:32.030
know a lot of the supplies that you can get and

00:54:32.030 --> 00:54:34.769
how to you know prepare for that and tied it

00:54:34.769 --> 00:54:37.599
into to ham radio a little bit but the one thing

00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:40.320
that he really really pushed was this life straw

00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:43.079
thing and i didn't even know those things existed

00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:47.519
but but this thing actually filters out pretty

00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:50.559
much anything and everything yeah it's like 99

00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:53.460
there's different companies that make them and

00:54:53.460 --> 00:54:56.179
uh like a life straw i mean you can go to a pond

00:54:56.179 --> 00:54:59.639
or a lake you just don't know and a lot of people

00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:01.820
don't think that way but now we are starting

00:55:01.820 --> 00:55:05.219
to see You know, we've lived through a bit of

00:55:05.219 --> 00:55:07.559
this in several weeks, whether it's 65 days,

00:55:07.579 --> 00:55:10.559
whatever it is. And, uh, we're just, we're just

00:55:10.559 --> 00:55:13.300
starting to see, you know, where, what needs

00:55:13.300 --> 00:55:16.440
do we need? How would we create a plan? And it's

00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:18.500
not just me. It's a little different than your

00:55:18.500 --> 00:55:21.840
100 Watts and a wire format. I've got a, uh,

00:55:21.840 --> 00:55:26.420
over 20 year, uh, police force veteran, an NRA

00:55:26.420 --> 00:55:29.059
specialist rifle, you know, all, all these guys

00:55:29.059 --> 00:55:32.260
like. I'm surrounding myself with smart people.

00:55:32.420 --> 00:55:35.059
We've got historians, people who study and research.

00:55:36.559 --> 00:55:39.719
So my role is to be the seeker and to be the

00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:43.099
everyday person and ask these questions that,

00:55:43.099 --> 00:55:45.139
you know, how do we start? Where do we begin?

00:55:45.219 --> 00:55:48.099
Okay, this can happen. This is a serious thing.

00:55:48.219 --> 00:55:51.840
How will I get my next, you know, grocery bump?

00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:54.320
How do I make it through two weeks? You know,

00:55:54.320 --> 00:55:57.920
and it's hard when... A lot of our people, we're

00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.340
telling them, you know, not the show specifically,

00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:03.079
but they say, get three days, get the first 72

00:56:03.079 --> 00:56:05.380
ready. If you can stock up two weeks of food,

00:56:05.420 --> 00:56:08.039
I think we'll be okay. Try to get two. And, you

00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:10.599
know, some people have trouble putting a meal

00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:13.940
on their plate, let alone a week's worth of food,

00:56:14.059 --> 00:56:17.159
two weeks of food in the pantry. So I want to

00:56:17.159 --> 00:56:19.639
keep it inclusive to a lot of people and we'll

00:56:19.639 --> 00:56:22.539
learn and kind of grow together by using people

00:56:22.539 --> 00:56:25.769
who are out there experiencing it. Real -time

00:56:25.769 --> 00:56:29.650
preppers, real professionals, emergency. And

00:56:29.650 --> 00:56:33.329
every preparedness plan should have a radio.

00:56:33.489 --> 00:56:37.710
So there is radio involved in that too. So we

00:56:37.710 --> 00:56:41.389
got your amateur radio needs there as well. So

00:56:41.389 --> 00:56:43.429
I appreciate that Neil. That's nice. I'm having

00:56:43.429 --> 00:56:46.210
a good time with it. We can really open up the

00:56:46.210 --> 00:56:50.369
topics. And go toward water and supplies and

00:56:50.369 --> 00:56:52.909
you know if you have to stick a straw in the

00:56:52.909 --> 00:56:55.889
water in the pond I hope you're hiking I hope

00:56:55.889 --> 00:56:58.070
you're camping and you just you've walked so

00:56:58.070 --> 00:57:00.610
far that you need a drink and how you pull it

00:57:00.610 --> 00:57:03.530
and You're not in a situation where you absolutely

00:57:03.530 --> 00:57:06.250
have to depend on that. And what do you do? What

00:57:06.250 --> 00:57:09.070
do you do? What do I do to purify my water? We'll

00:57:09.070 --> 00:57:13.570
talk about it. Oh Lord Neil me rant and I think

00:57:13.570 --> 00:57:17.989
I'm sweating. I got you going and Carl KD9HQT

00:57:17.989 --> 00:57:20.769
has chimed in here and wants to know if you've

00:57:20.769 --> 00:57:24.110
ever tried the food from a box like HelloFresh

00:57:24.110 --> 00:57:26.889
and that's probably an excuse for not going to

00:57:26.889 --> 00:57:30.949
the grocery store. I have not tried it. I have

00:57:30.949 --> 00:57:33.949
a different diet than many others so if it's

00:57:33.949 --> 00:57:37.619
a vegetarian I used to eat fish. So I have a

00:57:37.619 --> 00:57:39.599
hard time. This is a great question, by the way.

00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:42.480
The MREs, right? So you can you can store them

00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:44.920
away and you add water to them. A lot of people

00:57:44.920 --> 00:57:49.860
who camp get them. And I have tried. There was

00:57:49.860 --> 00:57:52.519
a noodle one I've tried one time. I have to look

00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:56.940
deeper at vegetarian options for me and my family.

00:57:57.000 --> 00:57:59.239
It's just my needs. If I ate meat now, it would

00:57:59.239 --> 00:58:03.500
really tear me up. But that's my my need. So

00:58:03.500 --> 00:58:06.800
yeah, but They are selling like hotcakes. They're

00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:09.059
selling like a lot of different things. Technology,

00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:11.579
certain technology selling now because the world

00:58:11.579 --> 00:58:13.599
has moved online. They want to look good. They

00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:16.800
want to sound good. People who are selling food

00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:20.420
that you can store away for a long time. They're

00:58:20.420 --> 00:58:23.059
selling a lot of those too. I have bought like

00:58:23.059 --> 00:58:26.380
a cache of seeds. You know, I like to garden.

00:58:26.460 --> 00:58:30.239
I grow a lot. So I've I've stocked up in that

00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:32.760
capacity to my gardens growing and we're eating

00:58:32.760 --> 00:58:35.940
vegetables now from it. So, yeah, but that all

00:58:35.940 --> 00:58:39.920
factors into it. A lot of people love those things

00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:42.099
and they're selling. That's a big market right

00:58:42.099 --> 00:58:45.960
now, Neil. They used to think that for astronauts,

00:58:46.139 --> 00:58:48.000
you know, or people that were just going camping,

00:58:48.159 --> 00:58:50.159
people are stocking their pantry up with these

00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:53.460
meals and they're looking for high calorie, you

00:58:53.460 --> 00:58:55.059
know, because you need a certain amount of calories

00:58:55.059 --> 00:58:57.300
each day and you can get it, you know, if that's

00:58:57.300 --> 00:58:58.659
the way you want to start. Free striped ice cream.

00:58:59.539 --> 00:59:01.539
Is that something? Is that in there? That's the

00:59:01.539 --> 00:59:03.840
astronaut thing, yeah. Free striped ice cream.

00:59:04.579 --> 00:59:08.719
So that's good stuff It's good stuff. I learned

00:59:08.719 --> 00:59:11.639
something by listening to your show today. That

00:59:11.639 --> 00:59:15.699
was one of the very first Astronaut things that

00:59:15.699 --> 00:59:18.840
you could buy you just get it off of the shelf

00:59:18.840 --> 00:59:20.760
It used to be kind of hard to find you had to

00:59:20.760 --> 00:59:23.739
get it like a museum or something But you have

00:59:23.739 --> 00:59:27.400
to mix it now. It's out there what? You mix it

00:59:27.400 --> 00:59:29.840
with anything. No, no, you just pull it out and

00:59:29.840 --> 00:59:33.739
it's just a little like cube And when the moisture

00:59:33.739 --> 00:59:36.860
on your tongue hits it, it turns into ice cream.

00:59:37.500 --> 00:59:40.440
Sounds delicious. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's

00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:44.380
in a little pouch thing and it works. Troy W9KBR

00:59:44.380 --> 00:59:48.820
says he's using MREs for caving trips, so it

00:59:48.820 --> 00:59:51.659
works. Many of you just, you know, if you can

00:59:51.659 --> 00:59:53.719
boil water, a lot of you see this in camping

00:59:53.719 --> 00:59:56.760
more than, you know, in other places, I'm sure.

00:59:56.880 --> 00:59:58.800
But do you see people with camping that go up

00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:01.579
and they'll boil water? Just add the water to

01:00:01.579 --> 01:00:04.199
the meal and you know gives you what you need.

01:00:04.260 --> 01:00:07.000
You see it's like the pack You know, you don't

01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:09.719
have to cook every aspect you just if you can

01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:12.260
heat up your water build a fire There you go.

01:00:12.300 --> 01:00:16.940
There's your meal Well there there you have it

01:00:16.940 --> 01:00:21.860
and check out our 73 for some more of those conversations

01:00:21.860 --> 01:00:27.679
about preparing for That 73rd hour, which it's

01:00:27.679 --> 01:00:32.420
kind of cool. It's a It does have 73. It's got

01:00:32.420 --> 01:00:35.719
the ham connection there. It's for long -term

01:00:35.719 --> 01:00:37.739
sustainability. That's where we're looking past

01:00:37.739 --> 01:00:40.400
that first one. FEMA is going to do okay by you.

01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:42.199
If you don't start thinking about it, you'll

01:00:42.199 --> 01:00:44.980
have a place to go. For the first 72, you run

01:00:44.980 --> 01:00:47.340
out of whatever, you might be headed to a FEMA

01:00:47.340 --> 01:00:50.659
camp. If you're thinking long -term, you're thinking

01:00:50.659 --> 01:00:53.219
beyond that period, and that's what it's about.

01:00:54.420 --> 01:00:58.440
All right, well. We're gonna wrap things up here,

01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:00.619
but Christian thanks so much for being on the

01:01:00.619 --> 01:01:04.659
show again and talking about tune up and our

01:01:04.659 --> 01:01:09.019
73 and everything and and we'll catch you again

01:01:09.019 --> 01:01:12.480
soon Thank you, Neil. Thank you. Take care. Stay

01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:16.940
safe Alright, that's a wrap for this week's edition

01:01:16.940 --> 01:01:20.079
of ham talk live Thanks to my guest Christian

01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:24.039
Kudnick K0STH and everyone out there in cyberspace

01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:26.900
for listening and calling in and typing in and

01:01:26.900 --> 01:01:29.420
invite you all back next Thursday night at 9

01:01:29.420 --> 01:01:32.179
p .m. Eastern Time. For a list of our upcoming

01:01:32.179 --> 01:01:35.360
guests go to HamTalkLive .com and if you like

01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:37.880
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help others find us faster. So for now, this

01:01:40.559 --> 01:01:46.760
is Neil Rapp, WB9 VPG, saying 7375, and may the

01:01:46.760 --> 01:01:48.840
good DX be yours.