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Hey, good evening, everyone. It's time for HamTalk

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Live, episode number 212, Missing Hamvention

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2020, recorded live on Thursday, May 14th, 2020.

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I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for

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tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live tonight.

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It's mostly open lines. I do have some updates

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from Xenia as we commiserate this evening of

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missing out on Hamvention. Last week on the show

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our Skywarn Hurricane expert panel was here to

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talk about Hurricane Preparedness Week. If you

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missed that 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 also don't forget the show is rebroadcast.

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over the airwaves at 5085 a .m. WTWW Saturday

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evenings at about 630 p .m. Eastern Time. Before

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we go to our open lines we do have some updates

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from Xenia. So if you want to know what we're

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missing we have a little bit of that information.

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So we're joined once again as we are each year

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by Spectrum News 1 Chief Meteorologist Eric Elwell,

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who is KD4BNT, with the exclusive Hamvention

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Weather Forecast. And Eric, this year you get

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theme music. I get theme music. Fantastic. You

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know, it's very sad that Hamvention's not going

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to happen this year, but I know a lot of folks

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will be there in spirit. The weather finally

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did turn here in Ohio after a very chilly May

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with temperatures way below normal. Now we're

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back into the 70s where we should be this time

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of year and go figure as soon as we turn the

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heat on the storms rolled through. We had one

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round of storms earlier in the day that went

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severe from Dayton all the way to Columbus and

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then marched over to Zanesville, Ohio. And we're

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going to keep an eye on another round of storms

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for tomorrow, with temperatures still back into

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the 70s. So all in all, the weather is improving,

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but we still can't seem to get rid of the rain.

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That's the only concern. I know area farmers

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have been hoping for a dry spell to get out into

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the fields and get things done. We just haven't

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had much of that this year, Neil. Yeah, it's

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been an up and down year. So, all right. Well,

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let's go with the theme music here and then we'll

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give you a chance to tell us exactly what the

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weather is going to be in beautiful Xenia, Ohio.

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So here we go. There you go, Eric. All right.

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Fantastic. Well, the forecast for Xenia is not

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too bad. We're looking for partly cloudy skies

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all the way into the weekend. We're going to

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have to deal with some scattered showers and

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thunderstorms. Temperatures, though, stay warm.

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We'll make a run toward 80 degrees before the

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weekend is over with. Cold front will come through

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on Sunday. That'll bring an end briefly to some

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showers and storms. knock the temperatures down

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a little bit maybe back down to about 68 to 70

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as we head into Monday but still unsettled into

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the first part of next week with on and off rain.

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Finally looks like by the second half of next

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week we'll dry things out but we'd have to dodge

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some showers and storms for hand -vention if

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it was still going on. So we may have had some

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mud in the flea market is what you're saying.

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Well, I mean, we're used to that now, aren't

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we? So, yeah, probably a little more money. Well,

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how have things been going with the whole quarantine

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thing? How's that going? You know, it's a challenge

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to do weather. One of the things the quarantine

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has done is it's allowed us to to be very innovative

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and learn new new techniques of communicating

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and you know in some ways going more old school

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and still uh you know our ham radio operators

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have been in the field they with skywarn they

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haven't had a whole lot to track but the last

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couple of days we've seen much more active weather

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and so Luckily, we still get that information

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and we could still get it on the air, but a lot

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of the meteorologists, you know, doing weather

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from home and, you know, the iPhone, the cell

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phone, the Android, it's all been working rather

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well to get us on TV, but occasionally, you know,

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we have some cats and dogs that show up in the

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shots, but that's the life of quarantine, you

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know. Yeah, my friend Jeff Lyons, KC9GMH down

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in Evansville is famous now for co -hosting the

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weather with his cat that gets in the shot all

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the time. Yeah, you get some cats, you'll have

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some kids that show up too every once in a while.

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But that's all right, that's part of it. I think

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viewers like it. I think they like it. Oh yeah,

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it's fun. Sure, it's fun. We get to we get to

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see a little bit of the the meteorologist at

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home, so Yeah, I know I'm always looking you

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know when I watch other meteorologists what their

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backgrounds are and how they get decorating ideas

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You know, I like how they did their office. Maybe

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I'll be mine now Well Eric, thank you so much

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for Coming on the show once again, I'm sure we'll

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be in touch again and hopefully next year we'll

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do this for real. Yeah, let's hope so. Let's

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hope this this virus is gone. And, you know,

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obviously I hope everyone stays healthy, stays

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safe. And I appreciate you inviting me and be

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so glad to have a convention back going again.

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Let's hope for next year. So seven three, everyone.

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Have a fantastic May. Alright Eric, thanks so

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much. You're welcome. That's Eric Elwell, KD4BNT

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from Spectrum Cable's Spectrum News 1. You can

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catch Eric on Spectrum News 1 across Ohio on

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Channel 1. And the next time you're in Ohio,

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make sure you check the weather with Eric. Again,

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that's on Spectrum News 1. Well, now we're going

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to turn to our live report from the Fairgrounds

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and the traffic we sent our on the street correspondent,

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Paul Brown, WD9GCO, all the way from Valparaiso,

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Indiana, over to Xenia, Ohio, just for this special

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live report from the Green County Fairgrounds.

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So, Paul, take it away. Well, Neil, right now

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in Xenia, it's dark. Traffic is normal. Reporting

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live, I'm Paul Brown, WD9 GCO for AmToc Live.

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Thank you so much for that... ...installment,

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Paul. That was very informative. You may just

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win an Emmy for that. Or maybe at least a Fred.

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Well, we're going to take a break but we'll be

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back with Hamvention spokesperson Michael Coulter,

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W8CI, and we'll take your calls and your comments.

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Be sure to give us a call at 859 -982 -7373.

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Again, the number is 859 -982 -7373. We'll talk

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to Michael and then... We'll start taking your

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calls and we're gonna commiserate together about

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missing Hamvention right here after this word

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need for your trip to Dayton. It's Hamvention

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Preview here on HamTalk Live. Thanks to Scott

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on the HamFest trail right now, but normally

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they would be all set up, ready to go at the

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Greene County Fairgrounds for hamvention, but

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they're not there. As Paul found out there's

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nothing there right in the moment. So Give him

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a call nine two zero four three five twenty nine

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seventy three or pl -259 .com Well, welcome back

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to missing ham vincen here on ham talk live joining

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us now is ham vincen spokesperson Michael Coulter

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w8ci It's good to see you this morning at Contest

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University, at least online. I know that Hamvention

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Chairman Jack Gerbs has made a statement about

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some refunds. Can you tell us a little bit about

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how that's going? Well, I think it's going pretty

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good. The thing about the refunds, it's a huge

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amount of work. It's more than just clicking

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the switch. We are, I think with inside exhibits,

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we pretty much have that one complete, advanced

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registration, there may be a few more to go and

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we are beginning to really hone in on the flea

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market group as well. If you can imagine, there

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are thousands of refunds that we have to do.

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And a lot of them are done by hand, well all

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of them are done basically by hand and calculate

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them up and then we have to double check everything

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and when checks go out, pretty much I'm the guy,

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I sign every single check and review it. But

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we're working pretty hard on that and when we

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originally announced that we were gonna get refunds,

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We announced that it could be July 1st before

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we got them all completed. Maybe, I think we

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said either July 1st or August 1st. But we are

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working diligently. We will get everybody. If

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you haven't got paid back, you will. And a lot

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of you who paid by credit card, please check

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your credit card statements. And like I say,

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we are just trying to get the flea market stuff

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all backed out, taken care of now. Yeah, and

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I know you've got some options if you want to

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donate you can donate or If you want to hold

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over till next year, that's that's an option

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too, right? Well, you know, I want to thank everybody

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who It really helps us to the folks that held

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over till next year and even more so there were

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quite a few people just Donated the the money,

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you know to hand bench. We're a not -for -profit.

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We're not a big corporate entity just group of

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volunteers and we're trying hard to be very professional

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and get this done. However, we have to do it

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in a very set process and we appreciate people's

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patience on that but it's coming back pretty

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quick. So, there. Alright, well it was great

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to see you. Over 3 ,000 at Contest University

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today and you welcomed everyone and It's good

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to see you on the screen. And I know a lot of

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people here listening tonight said they were

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there as well. We'll get to those comments here

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in a bit. But the online festivities got off

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to a good start. There's a few more things. But

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then the QSO party on Saturday is the big thing.

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So any other comments or updates on that? Yeah,

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first, once again, I really appreciated the opportunity

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to welcome everybody. I do that every year at

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Contest University live and in person and welcome

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people to the invention. And this year I welcomed

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them to the Contest University in sort of a virtual

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way. But I thought the event just today when

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I got to watch, it was just absolutely fabulous.

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And my hats off to Tim Duffy and his team and

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the astonishing professors that put this thing

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on. Oh my gosh, I just thought it was truly an

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amazing event. A lot of stuff, a lot of great

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information. And I got calls all day long about

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it too and comments and text and things that

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how great everybody thought it was, and I actually

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didn't need to deal with it, but it was just

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a wonderful piece. And then I also want to thank

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Tim Duffy for helping us get the, actually leading

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us, getting the QSO party going for Saturday.

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And that's gonna be from 8 a .m. to 8 p .m. And

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just simply get online, or get on the air. CQ

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Hamvention. Yeah, it's a contest and all the

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rules and things can be found, but take the time

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to have a little Q -Sail with someone and talk

00:18:46.390 --> 00:18:50.289
about your favorite times or whatever you want

00:18:50.289 --> 00:18:54.710
to talk about with Hamvention and all the years

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that we've had Hamvention. This is really hard

00:18:59.869 --> 00:19:03.789
for everybody, not just our volunteers, and I

00:19:03.789 --> 00:19:08.640
represent our 750 volunteers, but for all the

00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:12.400
people that would go there, and tonight being

00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:14.940
Thursday night, I was thinking of the activities

00:19:14.940 --> 00:19:17.920
I would be involved in tonight, and as you would,

00:19:18.500 --> 00:19:20.200
Neil, different things that you would be doing,

00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:22.779
and I will let you know, I live just south of

00:19:22.779 --> 00:19:24.460
Zinni in the countryside, and I have a Zinni

00:19:24.460 --> 00:19:28.059
mailing address, and there was a big storm went

00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:30.299
through here, although right now the weather's

00:19:30.299 --> 00:19:32.759
beautiful, but we're expecting kind of that off

00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:37.710
and on. rainstorm to come through. But yeah,

00:19:37.890 --> 00:19:40.809
we also have, I'll turn it back to you in a second,

00:19:40.950 --> 00:19:45.230
but we also have a special event station that's

00:19:45.230 --> 00:19:48.930
going to be going on starting tomorrow. You know,

00:19:49.089 --> 00:19:51.549
basically runs the hours that we run Hamvention,

00:19:52.049 --> 00:19:57.490
except it will not be on Saturday during our

00:19:57.490 --> 00:20:00.609
QSO party, but we will have it on Sunday and

00:20:00.609 --> 00:20:02.910
they are going to He's sending out some very

00:20:02.910 --> 00:20:06.890
nice special hand -pinching cards, QSL cards.

00:20:08.130 --> 00:20:11.390
So that's kind of some of the things that we're

00:20:11.390 --> 00:20:14.049
doing. Neil, back to you. Okay, so that'll be

00:20:14.049 --> 00:20:18.829
the club call, W8BI, for the special event as

00:20:18.829 --> 00:20:22.609
well? Yes. Yes, that's correct. Yeah, that's

00:20:22.609 --> 00:20:26.329
correct. Okay, very good. Well... hope to hear

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a lot of people on uh... on saturday i i know

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today and contest university like you said it

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was fabulous there's all kinds of stuff going

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on but but i missed seeing everybody you know

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i meant missing all my all my friends and and

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you know kind of hanging out with each other

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while that was going on and we got the information

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but we missed out on that social part so hopefully

00:20:49.730 --> 00:20:52.769
saturday we can get a little bit of that at least

00:20:52.769 --> 00:20:56.680
on the air and uh... So we'll be listening for

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that. And we've got DX Engineering's new product

00:21:02.460 --> 00:21:04.680
showcase. We'll talk about that here in a while.

00:21:05.539 --> 00:21:08.259
But that's coming up tomorrow. So there's still

00:21:08.259 --> 00:21:11.680
a few things that you can do here this weekend

00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:16.000
in place of Hamvention. So anything else you

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want to share about the weekend plans? Well,

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I want to thank The YouTuber group, they decided

00:21:25.170 --> 00:21:27.329
they were going to have a kind of a virtual ham

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fest on Saturday and they decided to move off

00:21:30.950 --> 00:21:34.730
of that day and not have that in honor of a convention

00:21:34.730 --> 00:21:40.769
and let us go through with our activities, our

00:21:40.769 --> 00:21:45.230
QSO party. And I just want to thank all the support

00:21:45.230 --> 00:21:49.190
from everybody, not just to me, but to our whole

00:21:49.190 --> 00:21:51.569
team. And I want to tell you that we're already

00:21:51.569 --> 00:21:55.900
planning for next year. And it will be bigger

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and better than ever. We are financially okay.

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We're gonna make it fine. Although, you know,

00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:06.200
it's a pretty good hit, but still, we manage

00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:09.200
our money, I think, very wisely. And we're gonna

00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:12.519
come back stronger than ever. And I wanna send

00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:16.660
out my sympathy to my friends in Germany. They

00:22:16.660 --> 00:22:20.779
had to cancel Freerichshof and... I was actually

00:22:20.779 --> 00:22:24.140
planning to go to that event and unfortunately

00:22:24.140 --> 00:22:27.579
they've had to cancel as well. So at least Huntsville

00:22:27.579 --> 00:22:30.380
out there is our big opportunity that maybe we

00:22:30.380 --> 00:22:34.819
can gather again there. But Neil, I appreciate

00:22:34.819 --> 00:22:40.720
your support and everybody else out there. We're

00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:43.259
gonna be bigger than ever next year. You know,

00:22:43.339 --> 00:22:46.710
we're hands. And like I mentioned earlier, We

00:22:46.710 --> 00:22:52.509
take a slammin and we keep on him it That's the

00:22:52.509 --> 00:22:59.650
catchphrase. So next year May 21st through 23rd

00:22:59.650 --> 00:23:04.509
May 21st through 23rd, so put it on your calendars

00:23:04.509 --> 00:23:12.970
now and and we're looking forward to it Thank

00:23:12.970 --> 00:23:16.059
you Michael so much for being here and You're

00:23:16.059 --> 00:23:19.539
welcome to stay as long as you want, but we're

00:23:19.539 --> 00:23:23.000
going to move along here. So thank you so much.

00:23:24.539 --> 00:23:26.460
Okay. I'll hang in there just in case there'd

00:23:26.460 --> 00:23:30.039
be a question for me. Okay. Okay. Very good.

00:23:31.099 --> 00:23:35.980
All right. So if you're. Oh, okay. So if you're

00:23:35.980 --> 00:23:39.619
missing being a Dayton, give us a call at 859

00:23:39.619 --> 00:23:45.680
-982 -7373. We're going to. We're going to kind

00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.880
of commiserate together and tell us what you

00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:54.119
miss, what you'd be doing right now, and what

00:23:54.119 --> 00:23:56.880
you were looking forward to at this year's Hamvention.

00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:00.240
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Live. The longer you listen, the later it gets.

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Welcome back to HamTalk Live, not coming to you

00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:19.240
live from the Spring Hill Suites, dating South

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Miamisburg as usual, but coming to you from home

00:26:25.339 --> 00:26:29.460
tonight. And we're all just kind of missing out

00:26:29.460 --> 00:26:34.680
on Hamvention, but ICOM was sponsoring the contest

00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:38.359
university today, and they got all kinds of good

00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:43.160
stuff over at ICOM America. dot com slash amateur

00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:47.519
so be sure to check that out okay well we've

00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:51.880
got a couple of things in in the works here first

00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:55.680
of all I see a lot of a lot of comments here

00:26:55.680 --> 00:27:00.960
about having Dayton withdrawals and contest University

00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:04.700
and everything but if you have a question for

00:27:04.700 --> 00:27:08.140
Michael w8 CI go ahead and give us a call right

00:27:08.140 --> 00:27:11.470
now and we'll We'll let Michael take off here

00:27:11.470 --> 00:27:17.750
in just a minute if he would like anyway. So

00:27:17.750 --> 00:27:22.769
give us a call. 859 -982 -7373. He's agreed to

00:27:22.769 --> 00:27:26.690
hang around for just a minute or two and take

00:27:26.690 --> 00:27:30.470
questions here. So let me run through some of

00:27:30.470 --> 00:27:34.089
the comments here that we've got so far on the

00:27:34.089 --> 00:27:38.549
show. Jill KD8QGA is in the shack and posted

00:27:38.549 --> 00:27:43.490
some Photos, I saw those earlier actually, of

00:27:43.490 --> 00:27:49.190
Hera Arena and the Green County Fairgrounds today.

00:27:49.250 --> 00:27:53.349
Took a drive up there just to just to reminisce.

00:27:54.069 --> 00:27:56.529
So it was good to see some of those pictures.

00:27:57.349 --> 00:28:01.589
Troy W9KVR says he made his first contest university

00:28:01.589 --> 00:28:04.509
today multitasking between staff meetings and

00:28:04.509 --> 00:28:09.200
presentations. That's exactly what I was doing.

00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:13.900
Chris, AA4CB says, he had Dayton withdrawals

00:28:13.900 --> 00:28:16.960
today, went to Skycraft Electronic Supply just

00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:21.019
to walk around and look at stuff. And then contest

00:28:21.019 --> 00:28:27.420
university online. And Jill says, Hera Arena

00:28:27.420 --> 00:28:29.539
still hasn't been cleaned up from the tornado

00:28:29.539 --> 00:28:35.319
last year. Let's see, and Troy says putting next

00:28:35.319 --> 00:28:39.059
year's Hamvention on the calendar. He's hoping

00:28:39.059 --> 00:28:44.019
the Illinois girls state track meet doesn't conflict.

00:28:44.789 --> 00:28:48.450
So, uh, so he can get there. So, uh, those are

00:28:48.450 --> 00:28:51.509
some of the comments we have so far tonight.

00:28:52.150 --> 00:28:55.029
Um, so let me ask, uh, one last time here, if

00:28:55.029 --> 00:28:58.569
you have a question for Michael, um, about any

00:28:58.569 --> 00:29:01.230
of the events this weekend or refunds or whatever,

00:29:01.230 --> 00:29:08.029
uh, give us a call 859 -982 -7373. Um, that's

00:29:08.029 --> 00:29:10.509
the phone number to call here and we'll, uh,

00:29:11.070 --> 00:29:14.369
We'll check up on that so I Michael I don't know

00:29:14.369 --> 00:29:18.890
if you've been over over by Hera anytime lately

00:29:18.890 --> 00:29:24.230
Now I don't head over to here very much anymore

00:29:24.230 --> 00:29:27.410
I it's a long way long drive from my house. I

00:29:27.410 --> 00:29:30.170
live south of Zina So there's no reason for me

00:29:30.170 --> 00:29:32.849
to go in that direction and unfortunately I have

00:29:32.849 --> 00:29:37.170
not Yeah, sounds like it's it's still a mess.

00:29:37.170 --> 00:29:41.289
I haven't Haven't heard anything lately about

00:29:41.289 --> 00:29:49.509
Future plans for that property Well, I've heard

00:29:49.509 --> 00:29:51.950
some rumblings and I've read things and I and

00:29:51.950 --> 00:29:54.609
I believe that they want to they had been talking

00:29:54.609 --> 00:29:57.509
about Reworking part of the hair arena building

00:29:57.509 --> 00:30:00.509
and then making it some kind of industrial complex,

00:30:00.509 --> 00:30:06.059
but you know after the COVID -19 disasters, I

00:30:06.059 --> 00:30:09.480
don't know where the money's coming from or what's

00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:11.259
gonna happen. I think we're gonna all have to

00:30:11.259 --> 00:30:15.980
recover from that first. Yeah, yeah, very true.

00:30:17.259 --> 00:30:20.200
Okay, well, I think we're in good shape here,

00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:23.500
Michael. If you wanna hang on, you're more than

00:30:23.500 --> 00:30:27.799
welcome to, but we're gonna keep moving along

00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:30.420
here, but appreciate you being here, and you're

00:30:30.420 --> 00:30:34.029
welcome to stay however long you like. Well,

00:30:34.029 --> 00:30:35.809
I appreciate that. I am going to go ahead. It's

00:30:35.809 --> 00:30:40.369
been a long day for me and Neil keep up the good

00:30:40.369 --> 00:30:44.250
work and to everyone out there the very best

00:30:44.250 --> 00:30:50.549
73 and Hanvention is going to be Alive and strong

00:30:50.549 --> 00:30:53.829
next year. Thanks for having me Neil. All right.

00:30:53.829 --> 00:30:59.480
We look forward to it All right eight five nine

00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.000
nine eight two seventy three seventy three or

00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.200
tweet us at ham talk live if you're listening

00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:07.500
to us on WTWW or on the podcast edition by the

00:31:07.500 --> 00:31:11.539
way We're live on Thursday night. So you won't

00:31:11.539 --> 00:31:15.880
be able to to call in but really enjoyed attending

00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:19.420
contest University today and and I've got my

00:31:19.420 --> 00:31:23.220
my cheesecake on a stick ready for Saturday It

00:31:23.220 --> 00:31:27.599
was over that way last weekend and actually went

00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:31.500
to jungle gyms and they have the Libby's, the

00:31:31.500 --> 00:31:34.140
original Cheesecake on a Stick that they used

00:31:34.140 --> 00:31:38.319
to sell at Hera Arena. And so I've got one in

00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.859
the fridge ready for Saturday to celebrate. And

00:31:41.859 --> 00:31:44.839
I know another person that's really looking forward

00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:49.069
to the Cheesecake on a Stick. and some Skyline

00:31:49.069 --> 00:31:52.990
is our on the street reporter, Paul Brown, WD9GCO.

00:31:54.049 --> 00:31:57.690
So Paul, you're online with us tonight. How are

00:31:57.690 --> 00:32:04.390
things going? Hey, Neil. I'm a little confused

00:32:04.390 --> 00:32:07.289
because I was going through the hotel trying

00:32:07.289 --> 00:32:09.490
to find you. Maybe you're doing this from your

00:32:09.490 --> 00:32:12.529
room. So I did the thing we did last year. I

00:32:12.529 --> 00:32:14.410
went down to the parking lot and I'm walking

00:32:14.410 --> 00:32:17.119
around right now. and i'm i'm looking for all

00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:19.740
the ham plates from other states you know because

00:32:19.740 --> 00:32:21.940
it's always fun and interesting to see where

00:32:21.940 --> 00:32:25.920
everybody's coming from and uh... maybe it's

00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:28.019
because of the weather and so people are just

00:32:28.019 --> 00:32:30.039
getting here late and they're not getting until

00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.720
like later tonight or maybe tomorrow cuz the

00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:36.140
only car i see right now with ham plates is mine

00:32:36.140 --> 00:32:41.119
from indiana So I'm hoping that tomorrow I see

00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:43.140
some more, because that's always the fun part

00:32:43.140 --> 00:32:45.779
about this weekend. And let me know where you

00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:51.059
are so we can... What? What? Paul, they had to

00:32:51.059 --> 00:32:56.660
cancel Hamvention. What? They what? They had

00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:59.680
to cancel Hamvention. It's because of the pandemic.

00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:05.200
I drove all the way out here from Indiana for

00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:10.190
nothing. Oh, you drove out to do our report a

00:33:10.190 --> 00:33:14.430
while ago. You told us it was dark. Well, yeah,

00:33:15.230 --> 00:33:21.269
but... Crap. So we can't play Let's Find Ham's

00:33:21.269 --> 00:33:25.309
From Texas. We can't play that tonight because

00:33:25.309 --> 00:33:29.450
Hamvention's been cancelled. Fine, I'm just going

00:33:29.450 --> 00:33:31.430
to go back to my room and watch TV. I guess I

00:33:31.430 --> 00:33:35.019
drive home in the morning. Well at least stop

00:33:35.019 --> 00:33:40.940
and get some skyline Yeah, then I could do that

00:33:40.940 --> 00:33:43.539
And maybe tell me where that you take out of

00:33:43.539 --> 00:33:45.680
stick places too. I guess maybe it won't be a

00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:47.900
total loss Yeah, I just call it. It's called

00:33:47.900 --> 00:33:52.240
Libby's gourmet desserts But it's it's in Cincinnati,

00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:54.640
but you can get you can get them at jungle gyms

00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:59.640
and in Fairfield All right fine All right. Well

00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:03.799
have a fine evening All right, Paul really They

00:34:03.799 --> 00:34:09.900
canceled it? Really? Thanks for telling me. Thanks

00:34:09.900 --> 00:34:14.059
for telling me. Oh, sorry. I guess I forgot.

00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:20.320
Paul Brown, WD9GCO, our live on the spot reporter

00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:27.480
in Miamisburg, Ohio. Or actually he's not, but

00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:32.610
I told him he might win an Emmy. And Jill, oh

00:34:32.610 --> 00:34:38.030
my goodness, KD8QGA says, she knew she forgot

00:34:38.030 --> 00:34:40.289
something when she went to jungle gyms a couple

00:34:40.289 --> 00:34:44.510
of hours ago. Oh my goodness. Yeah, we went last

00:34:44.510 --> 00:34:49.250
weekend and mine's in the refrigerator. So, you

00:34:49.250 --> 00:34:51.710
know, you got to have the cheesecake on a stick.

00:34:52.150 --> 00:34:55.550
So it's ready for Saturday. All right, well,

00:34:55.550 --> 00:35:00.949
it's open lines 859 -982 -7373. Give us a call

00:35:00.949 --> 00:35:06.570
and tell us what you are missing about Hamvention

00:35:06.570 --> 00:35:15.250
this weekend. 859 -982 -7373. Troy says, hmm,

00:35:15.429 --> 00:35:18.170
Skyline just discovered Kroger has it in frozen

00:35:18.170 --> 00:35:22.530
meals. Yes, they do. It's not the same. Yeah.

00:35:22.530 --> 00:35:26.099
And he says that. It's not the same, but you

00:35:26.099 --> 00:35:31.900
know, that's what you got to do. So, um, that's

00:35:31.900 --> 00:35:36.179
one way to make it happen. 859 -982 -7373. Give

00:35:36.179 --> 00:35:39.480
us a call. You know, I'm just kind of thinking,

00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:44.599
you know, normally Thursday, you know, I go to

00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:47.280
contest university or run out to the fairgrounds,

00:35:47.300 --> 00:35:50.420
get, get a few things dropped off. then come

00:35:50.420 --> 00:35:52.900
back and get ready for the show and do the show

00:35:52.900 --> 00:35:55.139
on Thursday night like we're doing right now

00:35:55.139 --> 00:35:59.199
and then then Friday it's up to get there, you

00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:02.219
know as they open and get to the youth forum

00:36:02.219 --> 00:36:06.380
and then Usually get a little break and then

00:36:06.380 --> 00:36:09.900
maybe go or the instructors forum on Friday actually

00:36:09.900 --> 00:36:12.840
Go to the instructors forum hang out the booth

00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:16.519
for a while Get a few things and then Saturday

00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:19.179
get there in time, you know for the youth forum

00:36:19.179 --> 00:36:25.840
first thing and Try to get around and see everybody

00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:29.059
and of course hammies Wandering around and so

00:36:29.059 --> 00:36:33.619
we try to keep up with hammy and Carl kd9 hqt

00:36:33.619 --> 00:36:37.760
says that he was Looking forward to to looking

00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.019
for hammy and trying to find him and look at

00:36:40.019 --> 00:36:43.800
some new radios for some digital modes and and

00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:46.639
then He was also trying to go to anime central

00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:49.019
up in Rosemont, Illinois, and he's gonna listen

00:36:49.019 --> 00:36:52.610
to Everybody on the satellites over at Dayton,

00:36:52.909 --> 00:36:57.630
but There there won't be much activity if any

00:36:57.630 --> 00:37:00.130
from from Dayton on the satellites, I'm afraid

00:37:00.130 --> 00:37:06.409
this weekend, so That's it's disappointing but

00:37:06.409 --> 00:37:09.809
we're doing best we can eight five nine nine

00:37:09.809 --> 00:37:12.230
eight two seventy three seventy three is the

00:37:12.230 --> 00:37:18.809
number Tomorrow there is the new product showcase

00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:24.179
that DX Engineering is putting on. That's starting

00:37:24.179 --> 00:37:29.059
at 9 a .m. Eastern. That's date and time. 1300

00:37:29.059 --> 00:37:32.599
UTC. Some of the DX Engineering crew will be

00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:38.820
on Facebook Live in the morning, and they will

00:37:38.820 --> 00:37:41.420
be talking about some new gear that they would

00:37:41.420 --> 00:37:49.519
have been showing off. Some ballons, surge protectors,

00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:55.019
ballon mounting plates, some stealth antenna

00:37:55.019 --> 00:38:01.840
wire, some turnbuckles for guy lines, an AM band

00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:07.800
filter. The geocron digital atlas and all kinds

00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:11.519
of stuff so You can check that out tomorrow on

00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:14.860
Facebook live on the DX engineering page And

00:38:14.860 --> 00:38:16.699
you'll be able to see some of the new products

00:38:16.699 --> 00:38:19.599
that they would have been showing off you can

00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:25.639
see that tomorrow and then as Michael said there

00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:28.760
will be the w8bi special event station going

00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:34.030
on during normal Hamvention hours with the exception

00:38:34.030 --> 00:38:38.550
of that 12 -hour period when the QSO party is

00:38:38.550 --> 00:38:44.750
going on 8 a .m. to 8 p .m. on Saturday and hope

00:38:44.750 --> 00:38:48.070
to hear many of you on. I know I'm planning on

00:38:48.070 --> 00:38:52.110
being on for part of that time as well as activating

00:38:52.110 --> 00:38:57.210
the amateur radio newsline club called WA6ITF.

00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.760
There'll be several of us doing that during the

00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:04.559
QSO party as well. And we'll be listening for

00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:09.800
W8BI on all bands, all modes. Well, not all modes,

00:39:10.099 --> 00:39:13.940
but they'll be on sideband and CW, but all modes

00:39:13.940 --> 00:39:19.230
will be active, I'm sure. Um, it's a good weekend

00:39:19.230 --> 00:39:22.070
to get on the air and you know, it was time that

00:39:22.070 --> 00:39:24.510
was set aside to go to Dayton, but now we've

00:39:24.510 --> 00:39:27.570
got some, some time to get on the air. So hope

00:39:27.570 --> 00:39:31.869
to, uh, to hear a lot of people on, um, on Saturday.

00:39:32.730 --> 00:39:36.090
So like I said, you know, there are a few things

00:39:36.090 --> 00:39:40.599
going on and, um, I know the, uh, The conglomerate

00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:46.079
of YouTube ham radio creators had planned on

00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:50.500
doing a virtual ham fest this weekend and they

00:39:50.500 --> 00:39:53.599
moved to next weekend, so that's next Saturday.

00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:58.159
So if you want to get in on some forums and that

00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:02.300
kind of thing, you can watch those next weekend.

00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:06.760
Sterling in Zero SSC asked me to be on his. I

00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:10.480
think it's 1030 to 1130 a .m. Eastern next Saturday.

00:40:11.460 --> 00:40:14.659
I'll be on there talking about Yoda and some

00:40:14.659 --> 00:40:18.480
of the youth initiatives next weekend. So you

00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:23.119
can catch the YouTube conglomerate over there

00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:27.280
and get some forums and some information that

00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:30.960
way since we're not able to get to all those

00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:35.980
forums over at Hamvention. Okay, well, that's

00:40:35.980 --> 00:40:38.920
pretty much all I have here, so let's take one

00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:45.099
more standby for calls at 859 -982 -7373. Tell

00:40:45.099 --> 00:40:49.119
us what you would be doing if you were at Hamvention

00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:56.619
and missing out on things here. Sounds like we're

00:40:56.619 --> 00:40:59.460
gonna miss a little bit of mud, maybe not a ton

00:40:59.460 --> 00:41:02.219
of mud, but we're gonna miss out on some of that.

00:41:02.860 --> 00:41:07.739
uh... but uh... you know there's just so many

00:41:07.739 --> 00:41:11.260
so many things that happen and so many get -togethers

00:41:11.260 --> 00:41:13.500
and we usually get together over the voice of

00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:17.119
america museum on saturday evening and uh...

00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:20.599
take a tour there and get on the air from WC8VOA

00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:25.300
and yeah we're not going to be able to do that

00:41:25.420 --> 00:41:28.719
Troy W9KVR says, I do miss hearing all the stories

00:41:28.719 --> 00:41:31.079
from those that go telling the great deals they

00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:35.659
got the flea market and fortunately bring him

00:41:35.659 --> 00:41:41.139
some good swag. So I did see, I think it's DX

00:41:41.139 --> 00:41:44.099
Engineering has given away some swag with orders.

00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:51.489
And I saw Hile Sound as a 10 % discount. uh...

00:41:51.489 --> 00:41:55.250
on orders this weekend and so check out uh...

00:41:55.250 --> 00:41:57.789
you know some of those places that you would

00:41:57.789 --> 00:42:00.409
have stopped by at hamvention they may have a

00:42:00.409 --> 00:42:04.750
hamvention deal uh... this weekend uh... just

00:42:04.750 --> 00:42:09.489
because they miss hamvention too so well i guess

00:42:09.489 --> 00:42:11.869
that's that's going to finish it up for tonight

00:42:11.869 --> 00:42:17.280
but uh... Thanks so much for tuning in and look

00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:20.860
forward to next year. Again, the dates for next

00:42:20.860 --> 00:42:26.900
year, May 21st through 23rd, and hopefully things

00:42:26.900 --> 00:42:32.860
will clear out here and we can get to Huntsville

00:42:32.860 --> 00:42:37.300
in August without any issues, so we're keeping

00:42:37.300 --> 00:42:42.210
our fingers crossed for that. Still not seeing

00:42:42.210 --> 00:42:46.329
a whole lot of HamFest scheduled for right now.

00:42:47.389 --> 00:42:51.429
So keep an eye on that. Remember, there is a

00:42:51.429 --> 00:42:56.190
website for that over at AWRL .org for HamFest

00:42:56.190 --> 00:43:00.030
cancellations. So you can check up on that. But

00:43:00.030 --> 00:43:02.630
hopefully some of those events will be popping

00:43:02.630 --> 00:43:06.489
up here before long. Well, that's a wrap for

00:43:06.489 --> 00:43:10.130
this special Hamvention episode of HamTalk Live.

00:43:10.590 --> 00:43:14.610
Thanks to my guests, Spectrum News 1 Chief Meteorologist

00:43:14.610 --> 00:43:19.829
Eric Elwell, KD4BNT, Michael Coulter, W8CI, Paul

00:43:19.829 --> 00:43:24.469
Brown, WD9GCO, and everybody out there in cyberspace

00:43:24.469 --> 00:43:29.289
for listening and for everybody typing in tonight.

00:43:29.769 --> 00:43:32.170
And let's see, it looks like chat's going again.

00:43:32.530 --> 00:43:35.590
Oh, okay. Yep. Seven threes to all of you and

00:43:35.590 --> 00:43:39.530
hope to hear you on the air. So, We invite you

00:43:39.530 --> 00:43:42.269
back next Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern Time,

00:43:43.070 --> 00:43:46.889
and our guest list is at HamTalkLive .com. If

00:43:46.889 --> 00:43:49.510
you want to see who's coming up on the show,

00:43:49.630 --> 00:43:51.369
you can check it out there, and if you like the

00:43:51.369 --> 00:43:54.989
show, please leave us a review. That'll help

00:43:54.989 --> 00:43:57.849
others find us faster, and hopefully next year

00:43:57.849 --> 00:44:02.570
we can be back live from Dayton doing this show

00:44:02.570 --> 00:44:06.280
and telling you about all the cool stuff. uh...

00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:08.820
that's gonna happen so for now this is Neil Rapp

00:44:08.820 --> 00:44:14.219
WB9 VPG saying seven three seven five and may

00:44:14.219 --> 00:44:20.280
the good DX be yours Mr. Carlson I'm so glad

00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:22.360
I caught you before you left I wanted to wish

00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:25.000
you a safe and successful mission to Dayton well

00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:29.579
thank you Les Dayton is where mother lives I

00:44:29.579 --> 00:44:44.159
know Les Thanks for watching