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Hey, good evening, everyone. It's time for HamTalk
Live, episode number 212, Missing Hamvention
2020, recorded live on Thursday, May 14th, 2020.
I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for
tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live tonight.
It's mostly open lines. I do have some updates
from Xenia as we commiserate this evening of
missing out on Hamvention. Last week on the show
our Skywarn Hurricane expert panel was here to
talk about Hurricane Preparedness Week. If you
missed that you can listen anytime at HamTalkLive
.com or on your favorite podcast app or on YouTube
and also don't forget the show is rebroadcast.
over the airwaves at 5085 a .m. WTWW Saturday
evenings at about 630 p .m. Eastern Time. Before
we go to our open lines we do have some updates
from Xenia. So if you want to know what we're
missing we have a little bit of that information.
So we're joined once again as we are each year
by Spectrum News 1 Chief Meteorologist Eric Elwell,
who is KD4BNT, with the exclusive Hamvention
Weather Forecast. And Eric, this year you get
theme music. I get theme music. Fantastic. You
know, it's very sad that Hamvention's not going
to happen this year, but I know a lot of folks
will be there in spirit. The weather finally
did turn here in Ohio after a very chilly May
with temperatures way below normal. Now we're
back into the 70s where we should be this time
of year and go figure as soon as we turn the
heat on the storms rolled through. We had one
round of storms earlier in the day that went
severe from Dayton all the way to Columbus and
then marched over to Zanesville, Ohio. And we're
going to keep an eye on another round of storms
for tomorrow, with temperatures still back into
the 70s. So all in all, the weather is improving,
but we still can't seem to get rid of the rain.
That's the only concern. I know area farmers
have been hoping for a dry spell to get out into
the fields and get things done. We just haven't
had much of that this year, Neil. Yeah, it's
been an up and down year. So, all right. Well,
let's go with the theme music here and then we'll
give you a chance to tell us exactly what the
weather is going to be in beautiful Xenia, Ohio.
So here we go. There you go, Eric. All right.
Fantastic. Well, the forecast for Xenia is not
too bad. We're looking for partly cloudy skies
all the way into the weekend. We're going to
have to deal with some scattered showers and
thunderstorms. Temperatures, though, stay warm.
We'll make a run toward 80 degrees before the
weekend is over with. Cold front will come through
on Sunday. That'll bring an end briefly to some
showers and storms. knock the temperatures down
a little bit maybe back down to about 68 to 70
as we head into Monday but still unsettled into
the first part of next week with on and off rain.
Finally looks like by the second half of next
week we'll dry things out but we'd have to dodge
some showers and storms for hand -vention if
it was still going on. So we may have had some
mud in the flea market is what you're saying.
Well, I mean, we're used to that now, aren't
we? So, yeah, probably a little more money. Well,
how have things been going with the whole quarantine
thing? How's that going? You know, it's a challenge
to do weather. One of the things the quarantine
has done is it's allowed us to to be very innovative
and learn new new techniques of communicating
and you know in some ways going more old school
and still uh you know our ham radio operators
have been in the field they with skywarn they
haven't had a whole lot to track but the last
couple of days we've seen much more active weather
and so Luckily, we still get that information
and we could still get it on the air, but a lot
of the meteorologists, you know, doing weather
from home and, you know, the iPhone, the cell
phone, the Android, it's all been working rather
well to get us on TV, but occasionally, you know,
we have some cats and dogs that show up in the
shots, but that's the life of quarantine, you
know. Yeah, my friend Jeff Lyons, KC9GMH down
in Evansville is famous now for co -hosting the
weather with his cat that gets in the shot all
the time. Yeah, you get some cats, you'll have
some kids that show up too every once in a while.
But that's all right, that's part of it. I think
viewers like it. I think they like it. Oh yeah,
it's fun. Sure, it's fun. We get to we get to
see a little bit of the the meteorologist at
home, so Yeah, I know I'm always looking you
know when I watch other meteorologists what their
backgrounds are and how they get decorating ideas
You know, I like how they did their office. Maybe
I'll be mine now Well Eric, thank you so much
for Coming on the show once again, I'm sure we'll
be in touch again and hopefully next year we'll
do this for real. Yeah, let's hope so. Let's
hope this this virus is gone. And, you know,
obviously I hope everyone stays healthy, stays
safe. And I appreciate you inviting me and be
so glad to have a convention back going again.
Let's hope for next year. So seven three, everyone.
Have a fantastic May. Alright Eric, thanks so
much. You're welcome. That's Eric Elwell, KD4BNT
from Spectrum Cable's Spectrum News 1. You can
catch Eric on Spectrum News 1 across Ohio on
Channel 1. And the next time you're in Ohio,
make sure you check the weather with Eric. Again,
that's on Spectrum News 1. Well, now we're going
to turn to our live report from the Fairgrounds
and the traffic we sent our on the street correspondent,
Paul Brown, WD9GCO, all the way from Valparaiso,
Indiana, over to Xenia, Ohio, just for this special
live report from the Green County Fairgrounds.
So, Paul, take it away. Well, Neil, right now
in Xenia, it's dark. Traffic is normal. Reporting
live, I'm Paul Brown, WD9 GCO for AmToc Live.
Thank you so much for that... ...installment,
Paul. That was very informative. You may just
win an Emmy for that. Or maybe at least a Fred.
Well, we're going to take a break but we'll be
back with Hamvention spokesperson Michael Coulter,
W8CI, and we'll take your calls and your comments.
Be sure to give us a call at 859 -982 -7373.
Again, the number is 859 -982 -7373. We'll talk
to Michael and then... We'll start taking your
calls and we're gonna commiserate together about
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to missing ham vincen here on ham talk live joining
us now is ham vincen spokesperson Michael Coulter
w8ci It's good to see you this morning at Contest
University, at least online. I know that Hamvention
Chairman Jack Gerbs has made a statement about
some refunds. Can you tell us a little bit about
how that's going? Well, I think it's going pretty
good. The thing about the refunds, it's a huge
amount of work. It's more than just clicking
the switch. We are, I think with inside exhibits,
we pretty much have that one complete, advanced
registration, there may be a few more to go and
we are beginning to really hone in on the flea
market group as well. If you can imagine, there
are thousands of refunds that we have to do.
And a lot of them are done by hand, well all
of them are done basically by hand and calculate
them up and then we have to double check everything
and when checks go out, pretty much I'm the guy,
I sign every single check and review it. But
we're working pretty hard on that and when we
originally announced that we were gonna get refunds,
We announced that it could be July 1st before
we got them all completed. Maybe, I think we
said either July 1st or August 1st. But we are
working diligently. We will get everybody. If
you haven't got paid back, you will. And a lot
of you who paid by credit card, please check
your credit card statements. And like I say,
we are just trying to get the flea market stuff
all backed out, taken care of now. Yeah, and
I know you've got some options if you want to
donate you can donate or If you want to hold
over till next year, that's that's an option
too, right? Well, you know, I want to thank everybody
who It really helps us to the folks that held
over till next year and even more so there were
quite a few people just Donated the the money,
you know to hand bench. We're a not -for -profit.
We're not a big corporate entity just group of
volunteers and we're trying hard to be very professional
and get this done. However, we have to do it
in a very set process and we appreciate people's
patience on that but it's coming back pretty
quick. So, there. Alright, well it was great
to see you. Over 3 ,000 at Contest University
today and you welcomed everyone and It's good
to see you on the screen. And I know a lot of
people here listening tonight said they were
there as well. We'll get to those comments here
in a bit. But the online festivities got off
to a good start. There's a few more things. But
then the QSO party on Saturday is the big thing.
So any other comments or updates on that? Yeah,
first, once again, I really appreciated the opportunity
to welcome everybody. I do that every year at
Contest University live and in person and welcome
people to the invention. And this year I welcomed
them to the Contest University in sort of a virtual
way. But I thought the event just today when
I got to watch, it was just absolutely fabulous.
And my hats off to Tim Duffy and his team and
the astonishing professors that put this thing
on. Oh my gosh, I just thought it was truly an
amazing event. A lot of stuff, a lot of great
information. And I got calls all day long about
it too and comments and text and things that
how great everybody thought it was, and I actually
didn't need to deal with it, but it was just
a wonderful piece. And then I also want to thank
Tim Duffy for helping us get the, actually leading
us, getting the QSO party going for Saturday.
And that's gonna be from 8 a .m. to 8 p .m. And
just simply get online, or get on the air. CQ
Hamvention. Yeah, it's a contest and all the
rules and things can be found, but take the time
to have a little Q -Sail with someone and talk
about your favorite times or whatever you want
to talk about with Hamvention and all the years
that we've had Hamvention. This is really hard
for everybody, not just our volunteers, and I
represent our 750 volunteers, but for all the
people that would go there, and tonight being
Thursday night, I was thinking of the activities
I would be involved in tonight, and as you would,
Neil, different things that you would be doing,
and I will let you know, I live just south of
Zinni in the countryside, and I have a Zinni
mailing address, and there was a big storm went
through here, although right now the weather's
beautiful, but we're expecting kind of that off
and on. rainstorm to come through. But yeah,
we also have, I'll turn it back to you in a second,
but we also have a special event station that's
going to be going on starting tomorrow. You know,
basically runs the hours that we run Hamvention,
except it will not be on Saturday during our
QSO party, but we will have it on Sunday and
they are going to He's sending out some very
nice special hand -pinching cards, QSL cards.
So that's kind of some of the things that we're
doing. Neil, back to you. Okay, so that'll be
the club call, W8BI, for the special event as
well? Yes. Yes, that's correct. Yeah, that's
correct. Okay, very good. Well... hope to hear
a lot of people on uh... on saturday i i know
today and contest university like you said it
was fabulous there's all kinds of stuff going
on but but i missed seeing everybody you know
i meant missing all my all my friends and and
you know kind of hanging out with each other
while that was going on and we got the information
but we missed out on that social part so hopefully
saturday we can get a little bit of that at least
on the air and uh... So we'll be listening for
that. And we've got DX Engineering's new product
showcase. We'll talk about that here in a while.
But that's coming up tomorrow. So there's still
a few things that you can do here this weekend
in place of Hamvention. So anything else you
want to share about the weekend plans? Well,
I want to thank The YouTuber group, they decided
they were going to have a kind of a virtual ham
fest on Saturday and they decided to move off
of that day and not have that in honor of a convention
and let us go through with our activities, our
QSO party. And I just want to thank all the support
from everybody, not just to me, but to our whole
team. And I want to tell you that we're already
planning for next year. And it will be bigger
and better than ever. We are financially okay.
We're gonna make it fine. Although, you know,
it's a pretty good hit, but still, we manage
our money, I think, very wisely. And we're gonna
come back stronger than ever. And I wanna send
out my sympathy to my friends in Germany. They
had to cancel Freerichshof and... I was actually
planning to go to that event and unfortunately
they've had to cancel as well. So at least Huntsville
out there is our big opportunity that maybe we
can gather again there. But Neil, I appreciate
your support and everybody else out there. We're
gonna be bigger than ever next year. You know,
we're hands. And like I mentioned earlier, We
take a slammin and we keep on him it That's the
catchphrase. So next year May 21st through 23rd
May 21st through 23rd, so put it on your calendars
now and and we're looking forward to it Thank
you Michael so much for being here and You're
welcome to stay as long as you want, but we're
going to move along here. So thank you so much.
Okay. I'll hang in there just in case there'd
be a question for me. Okay. Okay. Very good.
All right. So if you're. Oh, okay. So if you're
missing being a Dayton, give us a call at 859
-982 -7373. We're going to. We're going to kind
of commiserate together and tell us what you
miss, what you'd be doing right now, and what
you were looking forward to at this year's Hamvention.
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Live. The longer you listen, the later it gets.
Welcome back to HamTalk Live, not coming to you
live from the Spring Hill Suites, dating South
Miamisburg as usual, but coming to you from home
tonight. And we're all just kind of missing out
on Hamvention, but ICOM was sponsoring the contest
university today, and they got all kinds of good
stuff over at ICOM America. dot com slash amateur
so be sure to check that out okay well we've
got a couple of things in in the works here first
of all I see a lot of a lot of comments here
about having Dayton withdrawals and contest University
and everything but if you have a question for
Michael w8 CI go ahead and give us a call right
now and we'll We'll let Michael take off here
in just a minute if he would like anyway. So
give us a call. 859 -982 -7373. He's agreed to
hang around for just a minute or two and take
questions here. So let me run through some of
the comments here that we've got so far on the
show. Jill KD8QGA is in the shack and posted
some Photos, I saw those earlier actually, of
Hera Arena and the Green County Fairgrounds today.
Took a drive up there just to just to reminisce.
So it was good to see some of those pictures.
Troy W9KVR says he made his first contest university
today multitasking between staff meetings and
presentations. That's exactly what I was doing.
Chris, AA4CB says, he had Dayton withdrawals
today, went to Skycraft Electronic Supply just
to walk around and look at stuff. And then contest
university online. And Jill says, Hera Arena
still hasn't been cleaned up from the tornado
last year. Let's see, and Troy says putting next
year's Hamvention on the calendar. He's hoping
the Illinois girls state track meet doesn't conflict.
So, uh, so he can get there. So, uh, those are
some of the comments we have so far tonight.
Um, so let me ask, uh, one last time here, if
you have a question for Michael, um, about any
of the events this weekend or refunds or whatever,
uh, give us a call 859 -982 -7373. Um, that's
the phone number to call here and we'll, uh,
We'll check up on that so I Michael I don't know
if you've been over over by Hera anytime lately
Now I don't head over to here very much anymore
I it's a long way long drive from my house. I
live south of Zina So there's no reason for me
to go in that direction and unfortunately I have
not Yeah, sounds like it's it's still a mess.
I haven't Haven't heard anything lately about
Future plans for that property Well, I've heard
some rumblings and I've read things and I and
I believe that they want to they had been talking
about Reworking part of the hair arena building
and then making it some kind of industrial complex,
but you know after the COVID -19 disasters, I
don't know where the money's coming from or what's
gonna happen. I think we're gonna all have to
recover from that first. Yeah, yeah, very true.
Okay, well, I think we're in good shape here,
Michael. If you wanna hang on, you're more than
welcome to, but we're gonna keep moving along
here, but appreciate you being here, and you're
welcome to stay however long you like. Well,
I appreciate that. I am going to go ahead. It's
been a long day for me and Neil keep up the good
work and to everyone out there the very best
73 and Hanvention is going to be Alive and strong
next year. Thanks for having me Neil. All right.
We look forward to it All right eight five nine
nine eight two seventy three seventy three or
tweet us at ham talk live if you're listening
to us on WTWW or on the podcast edition by the
way We're live on Thursday night. So you won't
be able to to call in but really enjoyed attending
contest University today and and I've got my
my cheesecake on a stick ready for Saturday It
was over that way last weekend and actually went
to jungle gyms and they have the Libby's, the
original Cheesecake on a Stick that they used
to sell at Hera Arena. And so I've got one in
the fridge ready for Saturday to celebrate. And
I know another person that's really looking forward
to the Cheesecake on a Stick. and some Skyline
is our on the street reporter, Paul Brown, WD9GCO.
So Paul, you're online with us tonight. How are
things going? Hey, Neil. I'm a little confused
because I was going through the hotel trying
to find you. Maybe you're doing this from your
room. So I did the thing we did last year. I
went down to the parking lot and I'm walking
around right now. and i'm i'm looking for all
the ham plates from other states you know because
it's always fun and interesting to see where
everybody's coming from and uh... maybe it's
because of the weather and so people are just
getting here late and they're not getting until
like later tonight or maybe tomorrow cuz the
only car i see right now with ham plates is mine
from indiana So I'm hoping that tomorrow I see
some more, because that's always the fun part
about this weekend. And let me know where you
are so we can... What? What? Paul, they had to
cancel Hamvention. What? They what? They had
to cancel Hamvention. It's because of the pandemic.
I drove all the way out here from Indiana for
nothing. Oh, you drove out to do our report a
while ago. You told us it was dark. Well, yeah,
but... Crap. So we can't play Let's Find Ham's
From Texas. We can't play that tonight because
Hamvention's been cancelled. Fine, I'm just going
to go back to my room and watch TV. I guess I
drive home in the morning. Well at least stop
and get some skyline Yeah, then I could do that
And maybe tell me where that you take out of
stick places too. I guess maybe it won't be a
total loss Yeah, I just call it. It's called
Libby's gourmet desserts But it's it's in Cincinnati,
but you can get you can get them at jungle gyms
and in Fairfield All right fine All right. Well
have a fine evening All right, Paul really They
canceled it? Really? Thanks for telling me. Thanks
for telling me. Oh, sorry. I guess I forgot.
Paul Brown, WD9GCO, our live on the spot reporter
in Miamisburg, Ohio. Or actually he's not, but
I told him he might win an Emmy. And Jill, oh
my goodness, KD8QGA says, she knew she forgot
something when she went to jungle gyms a couple
of hours ago. Oh my goodness. Yeah, we went last
weekend and mine's in the refrigerator. So, you
know, you got to have the cheesecake on a stick.
So it's ready for Saturday. All right, well,
it's open lines 859 -982 -7373. Give us a call
and tell us what you are missing about Hamvention
this weekend. 859 -982 -7373. Troy says, hmm,
Skyline just discovered Kroger has it in frozen
meals. Yes, they do. It's not the same. Yeah.
And he says that. It's not the same, but you
know, that's what you got to do. So, um, that's
one way to make it happen. 859 -982 -7373. Give
us a call. You know, I'm just kind of thinking,
you know, normally Thursday, you know, I go to
contest university or run out to the fairgrounds,
get, get a few things dropped off. then come
back and get ready for the show and do the show
on Thursday night like we're doing right now
and then then Friday it's up to get there, you
know as they open and get to the youth forum
and then Usually get a little break and then
maybe go or the instructors forum on Friday actually
Go to the instructors forum hang out the booth
for a while Get a few things and then Saturday
get there in time, you know for the youth forum
first thing and Try to get around and see everybody
and of course hammies Wandering around and so
we try to keep up with hammy and Carl kd9 hqt
says that he was Looking forward to to looking
for hammy and trying to find him and look at
some new radios for some digital modes and and
then He was also trying to go to anime central
up in Rosemont, Illinois, and he's gonna listen
to Everybody on the satellites over at Dayton,
but There there won't be much activity if any
from from Dayton on the satellites, I'm afraid
this weekend, so That's it's disappointing but
we're doing best we can eight five nine nine
eight two seventy three seventy three is the
number Tomorrow there is the new product showcase
that DX Engineering is putting on. That's starting
at 9 a .m. Eastern. That's date and time. 1300
UTC. Some of the DX Engineering crew will be
on Facebook Live in the morning, and they will
be talking about some new gear that they would
have been showing off. Some ballons, surge protectors,
ballon mounting plates, some stealth antenna
wire, some turnbuckles for guy lines, an AM band
filter. The geocron digital atlas and all kinds
of stuff so You can check that out tomorrow on
Facebook live on the DX engineering page And
you'll be able to see some of the new products
that they would have been showing off you can
see that tomorrow and then as Michael said there
will be the w8bi special event station going
on during normal Hamvention hours with the exception
of that 12 -hour period when the QSO party is
going on 8 a .m. to 8 p .m. on Saturday and hope
to hear many of you on. I know I'm planning on
being on for part of that time as well as activating
the amateur radio newsline club called WA6ITF.
There'll be several of us doing that during the
QSO party as well. And we'll be listening for
W8BI on all bands, all modes. Well, not all modes,
but they'll be on sideband and CW, but all modes
will be active, I'm sure. Um, it's a good weekend
to get on the air and you know, it was time that
was set aside to go to Dayton, but now we've
got some, some time to get on the air. So hope
to, uh, to hear a lot of people on, um, on Saturday.
So like I said, you know, there are a few things
going on and, um, I know the, uh, The conglomerate
of YouTube ham radio creators had planned on
doing a virtual ham fest this weekend and they
moved to next weekend, so that's next Saturday.
So if you want to get in on some forums and that
kind of thing, you can watch those next weekend.
Sterling in Zero SSC asked me to be on his. I
think it's 1030 to 1130 a .m. Eastern next Saturday.
I'll be on there talking about Yoda and some
of the youth initiatives next weekend. So you
can catch the YouTube conglomerate over there
and get some forums and some information that
way since we're not able to get to all those
forums over at Hamvention. Okay, well, that's
pretty much all I have here, so let's take one
more standby for calls at 859 -982 -7373. Tell
us what you would be doing if you were at Hamvention
and missing out on things here. Sounds like we're
gonna miss a little bit of mud, maybe not a ton
of mud, but we're gonna miss out on some of that.
uh... but uh... you know there's just so many
so many things that happen and so many get -togethers
and we usually get together over the voice of
america museum on saturday evening and uh...
take a tour there and get on the air from WC8VOA
and yeah we're not going to be able to do that
Troy W9KVR says, I do miss hearing all the stories
from those that go telling the great deals they
got the flea market and fortunately bring him
some good swag. So I did see, I think it's DX
Engineering has given away some swag with orders.
And I saw Hile Sound as a 10 % discount. uh...
on orders this weekend and so check out uh...
you know some of those places that you would
have stopped by at hamvention they may have a
hamvention deal uh... this weekend uh... just
because they miss hamvention too so well i guess
that's that's going to finish it up for tonight
but uh... Thanks so much for tuning in and look
forward to next year. Again, the dates for next
year, May 21st through 23rd, and hopefully things
will clear out here and we can get to Huntsville
in August without any issues, so we're keeping
our fingers crossed for that. Still not seeing
a whole lot of HamFest scheduled for right now.
So keep an eye on that. Remember, there is a
website for that over at AWRL .org for HamFest
cancellations. So you can check up on that. But
hopefully some of those events will be popping
up here before long. Well, that's a wrap for
this special Hamvention episode of HamTalk Live.
Thanks to my guests, Spectrum News 1 Chief Meteorologist
Eric Elwell, KD4BNT, Michael Coulter, W8CI, Paul
Brown, WD9GCO, and everybody out there in cyberspace
for listening and for everybody typing in tonight.
And let's see, it looks like chat's going again.
Oh, okay. Yep. Seven threes to all of you and
hope to hear you on the air. So, We invite you
back next Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern Time,
and our guest list is at HamTalkLive .com. If
you want to see who's coming up on the show,
you can check it out there, and if you like the
show, please leave us a review. That'll help
others find us faster, and hopefully next year
we can be back live from Dayton doing this show
and telling you about all the cool stuff. uh...
that's gonna happen so for now this is Neil Rapp
WB9 VPG saying seven three seven five and may
the good DX be yours Mr. Carlson I'm so glad
I caught you before you left I wanted to wish
you a safe and successful mission to Dayton well
thank you Les Dayton is where mother lives I
know Les Thanks for watching