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Again, PL -259 .com 00:05:57.029 --> 00:06:01.100 is the best way to visit Tower Electronics. while 00:06:01.100 --> 00:06:04.639 all this social distancing stuff is going on, 00:06:04.699 --> 00:06:07.779 which is what we're talking about tonight. And 00:06:07.779 --> 00:06:14.000 my guest tonight is Matt Bonadies, KB9YOJ. He 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.939 lives in Ellitsville, Indiana and is a wireless 00:06:16.939 --> 00:06:20.980 network engineer. for Indiana University. He 00:06:20.980 --> 00:06:23.680 is the president and founder of the Southern 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:27.839 Indiana Amateur Radio Association. Matt's interests 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:33.319 include DX, APRS, PSK 31, Arden Mesh Networks, 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:36.699 VHF Digital Modes and Rag Chewing. He is the 00:06:36.699 --> 00:06:41.100 proud father of two harmonics and an avid fisherman. 00:06:41.540 --> 00:06:45.980 So Matt, welcome to HamTalk Live. Hi, Neil. Glad 00:06:45.980 --> 00:06:51.790 to be here tonight. Well, this whole social distancing 00:06:51.790 --> 00:06:58.310 thing is something that's created a lot of changes 00:06:58.310 --> 00:07:02.370 and a lot of chaos out there and I think we're 00:07:02.370 --> 00:07:06.310 all sick of hearing about it, but every day there's 00:07:06.310 --> 00:07:10.670 more and more restrictions that are put on everyday 00:07:10.670 --> 00:07:15.910 life and it's important that we find a way to 00:07:15.949 --> 00:07:18.730 Connect with each other without spreading this 00:07:18.730 --> 00:07:22.930 virus and ham radio is one way to do that because 00:07:22.930 --> 00:07:28.790 The virus doesn't go through The ionosphere so 00:07:28.790 --> 00:07:32.129 right so at least that we know of now if that 00:07:32.129 --> 00:07:37.069 happens we're in big trouble but There's some 00:07:37.069 --> 00:07:40.829 ways to kind of connect with each other and still 00:07:40.829 --> 00:07:44.410 have some social interaction without the, you 00:07:44.410 --> 00:07:50.610 know, physical connection. And that's what we're 00:07:50.610 --> 00:07:54.810 going to talk about tonight. And you were one 00:07:54.810 --> 00:07:58.769 of the first. I know there are many others that 00:07:58.769 --> 00:08:02.410 are doing the same thing now. And we'll talk 00:08:02.410 --> 00:08:04.790 about a couple of those here in a little bit, 00:08:05.389 --> 00:08:10.529 but with the Southern Indiana Amateur Radio Association 00:08:10.529 --> 00:08:17.889 or Sierra. You made a call to cancel all club 00:08:17.889 --> 00:08:21.750 activities and all the get togethers and everything. 00:08:22.230 --> 00:08:25.589 And then you came up with an idea of what could 00:08:25.589 --> 00:08:28.709 take the place of some of that. So tell us a 00:08:28.709 --> 00:08:32.909 little bit about that decision to cancel the 00:08:32.909 --> 00:08:37.830 in -person meetings and doing a virtual club 00:08:37.830 --> 00:08:43.730 meeting. Sure. Well, you know, along with everyone, 00:08:43.889 --> 00:08:49.909 we were paying attention to what was going around 00:08:49.909 --> 00:08:54.509 in the world and just trying to keep abreast 00:08:54.509 --> 00:08:59.909 of the situation locally. And I get I get a lot 00:08:59.909 --> 00:09:04.139 of feedback and information updates. through 00:09:04.139 --> 00:09:09.379 work, you know, we're always being prompted from 00:09:09.379 --> 00:09:13.179 emergency coordinators on the situation. And 00:09:13.179 --> 00:09:16.779 I just felt like it was kind of escalating to 00:09:16.779 --> 00:09:22.120 a point where I felt it was necessary to, you 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:28.019 know, stop the meetings face to face. But, you 00:09:28.019 --> 00:09:32.139 know, I didn't want to just completely end the 00:09:32.139 --> 00:09:37.230 meetings When we have powerful technology like 00:09:37.230 --> 00:09:45.490 like Skype or what we use is zoom and You know 00:09:45.490 --> 00:09:47.830 and try to provide a face -to -face meeting option 00:09:47.830 --> 00:09:51.309 for members and local hams But still give it 00:09:51.309 --> 00:09:55.269 kind of a ham radio twist In Bloomington, you 00:09:55.269 --> 00:09:58.389 know for the last 40 years We've been able to 00:09:58.389 --> 00:10:04.090 utilize a really great VHF Ares repeater that's 00:10:04.090 --> 00:10:06.110 owned and operated by the Monroe County Repeater 00:10:06.110 --> 00:10:09.830 Association. It's really the main frequency that 00:10:09.830 --> 00:10:14.309 everyone uses around here. And my thought was 00:10:14.309 --> 00:10:21.009 to do a Zoom meeting and give people an opportunity 00:10:21.009 --> 00:10:26.669 to see each other, but use the repeater just 00:10:26.669 --> 00:10:31.629 for audio and then kind of format it as a... 00:10:31.789 --> 00:10:40.549 as a net. So this gathering online and on the 00:10:40.549 --> 00:10:42.850 repeater is going to take the place of some of 00:10:42.850 --> 00:10:50.490 the club meeting stuff. And so why, why did you 00:10:50.490 --> 00:10:57.289 go to the video conferencing along with the local 00:10:57.289 --> 00:10:59.350 repeater? Why are you, why are you tying the 00:10:59.350 --> 00:11:06.139 video with the repeater audio. Well, you know, 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:10.580 it it's kind of a psychological thing as well 00:11:10.580 --> 00:11:13.059 as being able to play with radio at the same 00:11:13.059 --> 00:11:16.440 time. You know, so we'll be able to see each 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:18.840 other. However, we won't be able to be in the 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.139 same room together, but we'll still be able to 00:11:22.139 --> 00:11:25.620 see each other on the screen, see what we look 00:11:25.620 --> 00:11:29.830 like. Make sure you get that. Almost it's a closer 00:11:29.830 --> 00:11:33.090 connection than just two -way radio. So we'll 00:11:33.090 --> 00:11:38.029 have Just an opportunity to see each other when 00:11:38.029 --> 00:11:45.450 we all feel isolated And you know Sierra in the 00:11:45.450 --> 00:11:48.289 past we've only been a club for just under two 00:11:48.289 --> 00:11:51.669 years now But you know since the beginning of 00:11:51.669 --> 00:11:56.769 our club we've used this method for just regular 00:11:56.769 --> 00:12:01.549 club meetings. We hosted Bob Heil and Ward Silver 00:12:01.549 --> 00:12:07.529 online. It was a lot easier for those guys to 00:12:07.529 --> 00:12:11.110 call in from wherever they were to our meetings 00:12:11.110 --> 00:12:14.470 and then present to us. Nobody had to travel 00:12:14.470 --> 00:12:18.730 anyway, so there was a little bit of cost savings 00:12:18.730 --> 00:12:23.129 in it. Plus, we got a chance to talk to you. 00:12:23.100 --> 00:12:28.159 these really great guys in the hobby, influential 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.580 guys. Plus it kind of dawned on me, I was like, 00:12:31.659 --> 00:12:35.519 hey, this is like fast scan TV, but without the 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:41.159 video equipment. So put all that together, we'll 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:44.200 get to do something different. It'll get the 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:47.620 members a bit of a challenge to navigate the 00:12:47.620 --> 00:12:51.860 technology online by using the video. along with 00:12:51.860 --> 00:12:55.840 throwing in a VHF radio net in the mix. So just 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:59.480 something a little different. So what gave you 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:03.679 the idea of doing this? How did that happen? 00:13:05.580 --> 00:13:10.120 Necessity. You know, I didn't want to quit. I 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:12.840 really didn't want to quit the meetings completely. 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:16.919 I felt bad about the situation. And I said, you 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:21.320 know, we can be flexible here. We're going to 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:25.759 adjust. We're going to write it out and do this 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:32.039 for the next few months until people do what 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:37.480 we need to do to take care of the COVID -19 outbreak. 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:41.279 We're still going to be able to be social. So 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.879 that's the main part is still getting on the 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:47.679 radio to use our frequencies, which are always 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:52.259 under threat. and utilize the technology that 00:13:52.259 --> 00:13:55.259 we have at our fingertips. I mean, we can do 00:13:55.259 --> 00:13:59.600 this on our iPhone if we want to. The app is 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.019 free. You just need an internet connection to 00:14:02.019 --> 00:14:09.120 download it and boom, you're on. So, you know, 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.379 the flexibility, doing something useful, helping 00:14:13.379 --> 00:14:17.490 each other out if we can. and just taking our 00:14:17.490 --> 00:14:21.230 mind off of the incredible situation that's unfolding 00:14:21.230 --> 00:14:26.649 right now. The social distance thing is no stranger 00:14:26.649 --> 00:14:30.370 to AM radio operators because a lot of times 00:14:30.370 --> 00:14:33.190 we're talking to people around the world that 00:14:33.190 --> 00:14:38.330 we'll never meet and never see and so the zoom 00:14:38.330 --> 00:14:43.870 video kind of adds that visual component. It's 00:14:43.870 --> 00:14:48.710 not the same as in person, but it does make a 00:14:48.710 --> 00:14:56.389 closer connection. I agree. It should just help 00:14:56.389 --> 00:15:01.870 to do something different. That's really what 00:15:01.870 --> 00:15:04.470 I want to stress. Doing something different, 00:15:04.590 --> 00:15:08.049 something that hasn't been done yet in this area 00:15:08.049 --> 00:15:12.549 at least. And maybe this is how we do ham radio 00:15:12.549 --> 00:15:15.350 meetings from now on. I don't know. We'll see. 00:15:15.429 --> 00:15:18.330 This is kind of an experiment for us right now, 00:15:18.330 --> 00:15:23.429 just to try it for fun, see how we like it, make 00:15:23.429 --> 00:15:26.330 adjustments, and do something a little bit different 00:15:26.330 --> 00:15:30.590 than, you know, rather than the classic ham radio 00:15:30.590 --> 00:15:38.740 meeting. So this is an idea that any ham radio 00:15:38.740 --> 00:15:43.419 club out there, any local club, any, or, or regional 00:15:43.419 --> 00:15:47.200 or national for that matter, uh, can, can do. 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:50.620 So any, I know the first one is actually tomorrow. 00:15:51.340 --> 00:15:54.960 So, uh, we'll give it a shot tomorrow, but, but 00:15:54.960 --> 00:16:00.200 any advice for, for setting this up, um, and 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.220 having other clubs around the country or the 00:16:03.220 --> 00:16:09.039 world do this? Uh, I guess, um, I guess the advice 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:12.259 I could give, however I haven't done the net 00:16:12.259 --> 00:16:18.419 yet, is to just give it a shot. See what you 00:16:18.419 --> 00:16:20.299 like about it, what you don't like about it. 00:16:20.539 --> 00:16:25.500 If it's not what the club wants to do, let them 00:16:25.500 --> 00:16:31.659 decide on the format. Or just do it totally online 00:16:31.659 --> 00:16:34.960 or just take your meeting to a VHF repeater. 00:16:35.539 --> 00:16:39.919 It can be a simplex net, you know Meeting in 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:43.679 person is is part of the fun of ham radio, but 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:48.879 using the radio is why we do the hobby so You 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:52.799 know just give it a shot try it out and see if 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.440 See if it works for you if it doesn't Adjust 00:16:56.440 --> 00:17:01.399 and make it so it's fun I think anything that 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:06.660 we can do to Not feel quite so isolated while 00:17:06.660 --> 00:17:14.559 we're in isolation is a good thing and I think 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:16.319 that's something that a lot of clubs are gonna 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:19.940 have to look at and and You know you work at 00:17:19.940 --> 00:17:22.859 Indiana University. I'm a high school teacher. 00:17:22.859 --> 00:17:27.599 We both know that you know, suddenly the education 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:33.029 world has had to be totally online and online 00:17:33.029 --> 00:17:36.650 education is not something that's new but it's 00:17:36.650 --> 00:17:42.789 new for a majority of full -time teachers and 00:17:42.789 --> 00:17:50.049 professors and it's really upended the way classes 00:17:50.049 --> 00:17:54.210 are held and and there's even discussion you 00:17:54.210 --> 00:17:57.420 know within the ham radio world of of testing 00:17:57.420 --> 00:18:00.880 and will there be remote testing opportunities 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:03.759 and you know how are we going to deal with that 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.359 and that's a whole other subject for a whole 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:12.519 other night but there's all of a sudden this 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:17.859 big switch over to having to do things virtually 00:18:17.859 --> 00:18:21.779 or not at all and like you said it was out of 00:18:21.779 --> 00:18:27.339 necessity. Necessity often inspires all kinds 00:18:27.339 --> 00:18:31.900 of creative solutions, and this is one of them. 00:18:34.819 --> 00:18:41.220 Necessity, trying to be positive about it. I 00:18:41.220 --> 00:18:44.119 keep saying, when life gives you lemons, make 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:47.519 lemonade. So this is our lemonade moment, I guess, 00:18:47.700 --> 00:18:50.960 for the Ham Radio Club leadership. around the 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:53.759 country and the world. This is a world issue 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:59.619 right now. So, you know, and we can take advice 00:18:59.619 --> 00:19:07.000 as ham radio club leaders from educators, you 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.099 know, who have been doing this, maybe more practiced 00:19:09.099 --> 00:19:15.500 at it, how to get groups together to pay attention, 00:19:15.700 --> 00:19:22.990 to be interactive. and try to continue on with 00:19:22.990 --> 00:19:29.450 a club that is all of a sudden virtual. Now, 00:19:29.690 --> 00:19:35.950 Zoom has a is a free membership. You can you 00:19:35.950 --> 00:19:39.289 can sign up for free to host. You do have to 00:19:39.289 --> 00:19:41.849 have a paid account if you have more than three 00:19:41.849 --> 00:19:46.079 people and it goes over 40 minutes. So There 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:51.079 is that time limit there that is imposed, but 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:54.900 you can still do a typical net is supposed to 00:19:54.900 --> 00:19:59.079 be 15 minutes. This will probably be longer than 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:02.660 that because it's more of a meeting than an official 00:20:02.660 --> 00:20:08.599 net, but you can do that if you don't have the... 00:20:08.650 --> 00:20:12.470 the facilities do that. I had hoped to have a 00:20:12.470 --> 00:20:15.750 little more information tonight, but in the news 00:20:15.750 --> 00:20:21.250 line chat today, Karen Eve Murray, our editor, 00:20:21.329 --> 00:20:24.890 Katie to GT was talking about her club at Gray 00:20:24.890 --> 00:20:29.630 South Bay amateur radio club in New York was 00:20:29.630 --> 00:20:34.250 having their club meetings totally on zoom. and 00:20:34.250 --> 00:20:40.150 that ARRL had some kind of provision for affiliated 00:20:40.150 --> 00:20:45.000 clubs to to get the zoom membership so i did 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:48.740 not have a chance yeah i didn't either and i 00:20:48.740 --> 00:20:51.740 have not had a chance and let me let me totally 00:20:51.740 --> 00:20:54.400 emphasize this before thousands of people start 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:56.700 calling up a double rl headquarters and saying 00:20:56.700 --> 00:21:00.799 hey can we get the uh i have not had a chance 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:04.579 to uh get all the details on that and verify 00:21:04.579 --> 00:21:08.670 everything Um, so, you know, you may want to 00:21:08.670 --> 00:21:11.309 be on the lookout for that. Uh, please don't, 00:21:11.309 --> 00:21:14.670 don't flood a double RL with phone calls and 00:21:14.670 --> 00:21:16.890 emails saying, Hey, I heard that you have this. 00:21:17.130 --> 00:21:20.289 Cause I haven't been able to verify it, but, 00:21:20.309 --> 00:21:25.730 um, but, um, she was mentioning that, that, um, 00:21:25.730 --> 00:21:27.990 you know, she thought that, that they had some 00:21:27.990 --> 00:21:32.319 kind of. uh, zoom account that was being able 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:34.400 to be used for some club meetings or at least 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:40.579 for theirs. So, um, again, again, please don't 00:21:40.579 --> 00:21:43.299 take that and run with it and go, Oh my gosh, 00:21:43.299 --> 00:21:47.460 this is, this is absolutely true because I have 00:21:47.460 --> 00:21:50.859 not verified that. And normally before I would 00:21:50.859 --> 00:21:53.339 introduce something like that, I would want to 00:21:53.339 --> 00:21:56.339 go out and verify it and make sure that everything 00:21:56.339 --> 00:21:59.450 is there. So please don't, uh, don't take that 00:21:59.450 --> 00:22:01.910 as absolute truth. But if that's the case, I 00:22:01.910 --> 00:22:03.950 mean, that that's another way that you can do 00:22:03.950 --> 00:22:07.349 this and and get past the the 40 minutes, but 00:22:07.349 --> 00:22:11.690 you can get 40 minutes for free. So sure. That 00:22:11.690 --> 00:22:15.289 is that's another option. Yeah. And, you know, 00:22:15.309 --> 00:22:18.470 Zoom is just one option. There's there's other 00:22:18.470 --> 00:22:21.670 there's other ways to you could you could do 00:22:21.670 --> 00:22:26.109 a podcast of a meeting sort of like the old news 00:22:26.109 --> 00:22:30.369 line, which It's still going, but I remember 00:22:30.369 --> 00:22:33.910 you listening to Newsline on repeaters 20 years 00:22:33.910 --> 00:22:36.569 ago. You know, there's ways that you could do 00:22:36.569 --> 00:22:41.829 a pre -recorded meeting. You could just keep 00:22:41.829 --> 00:22:45.829 the meetings to the board, and then the members 00:22:45.829 --> 00:22:50.930 can tune in online or get an email about it. 00:22:50.970 --> 00:22:54.369 So there's many, many ways to do this. This is 00:22:54.369 --> 00:22:58.980 just my... version of trying to adjust as we 00:22:58.980 --> 00:23:00.880 start navigating through what we need to do in 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:05.140 the next couple months. And I've actually heard 00:23:05.140 --> 00:23:08.500 from a couple of people who have already participated 00:23:08.500 --> 00:23:11.259 in a couple of these kinds of things. I don't 00:23:11.259 --> 00:23:14.579 know that it was quite the way that Sierra is 00:23:14.579 --> 00:23:18.059 doing it. But they said, oh, you know, we didn't, 00:23:18.099 --> 00:23:20.400 we didn't have some of these problems that we 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:22.920 normally have in our in -person meetings. And 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:25.500 so they were all on board. They kind of liked 00:23:25.500 --> 00:23:31.099 the, the change up and felt like that they were 00:23:31.099 --> 00:23:34.980 a little more efficient and didn't have some 00:23:34.980 --> 00:23:38.720 of the issues that they normally do. So There 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:41.400 are pros and cons to this. Obviously, you know, 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:46.680 it's not going to have the connection that an 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:50.599 in -person meeting would have, but for the time 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:55.460 being, you know, when we're supposed to maintain 00:23:55.460 --> 00:24:00.779 our social distance, which by the way, Julie 00:24:00.779 --> 00:24:02.799 and I have decided that that's probably going 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:07.039 to be the the phrase of the year for 2020 social 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.839 distancing course. Um, but when you have to do 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:18.259 that, um, it, you know, it creates a way to try 00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:20.680 something new and try something different and, 00:24:21.019 --> 00:24:24.019 and, and give it a shot. And so, you know, I 00:24:24.019 --> 00:24:25.980 would encourage clubs out there to give this 00:24:25.980 --> 00:24:30.160 a try because, um, this is a way that you can 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:33.119 do it. And the way Sierra is doing it is, you 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:35.380 know, you're still using ham radio. It's just, 00:24:35.539 --> 00:24:38.440 you're adding a video component to it that maybe, 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:42.359 you know, not everyone has fast scan television. 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:48.380 Uh, but more people have a webcam. So, um, it 00:24:48.380 --> 00:24:55.039 will facilitate it. Right. So that's, that's 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:57.869 some, um, some good stuff. And one other thing 00:24:57.869 --> 00:25:01.569 I want to mention is because of all this virus 00:25:01.569 --> 00:25:07.529 and social distancing stuff, the HamSci workshop 00:25:07.529 --> 00:25:09.650 that was supposed to be at the University of 00:25:09.650 --> 00:25:13.690 Scranton this weekend, in fact tomorrow and Saturday, 00:25:14.950 --> 00:25:18.609 had to be cancelled because of all of this. And 00:25:18.609 --> 00:25:22.710 quickly Nathaniel and his bunch came up with 00:25:22.710 --> 00:25:28.119 a virtual option. So you can register and you 00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:33.319 can actually attend this conference on zoom Tomorrow 00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:37.539 Friday and Saturday and you can you can attend 00:25:37.539 --> 00:25:41.740 virtually to the hamsai conference and that's 00:25:41.740 --> 00:25:45.700 Kind of the cross between ham radio and citizen 00:25:45.700 --> 00:25:49.180 science So there will be a lot of scientific 00:25:49.180 --> 00:25:53.319 talks uh... that involve ham radio so if you 00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:57.200 want to check that out go over to hamsai that's 00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:03.720 h -a -m -s -c -i dot o -r -g hamsai dot org and 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:06.819 uh... you can register you do need to to register 00:26:06.819 --> 00:26:10.680 still but it's free and uh... you can participate 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:14.460 in that uh... from the university of scranton 00:26:14.460 --> 00:26:20.579 and dr nathaniel forsell w two n -a -f is hosting 00:26:20.579 --> 00:26:25.500 that. So another way that you can get some interaction 00:26:25.500 --> 00:26:30.740 with some hams while you're cooped up at home. 00:26:31.900 --> 00:26:36.240 So just another way to do that. So what we want 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:40.200 to do is we want to get your input and your questions 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:43.509 and comments. So we're going to open up the phone 00:26:43.509 --> 00:26:46.809 lines here in just a couple of minutes at 859 00:26:46.809 --> 00:26:51.750 -982 -7373. We'll check the tweets and the chat 00:26:51.750 --> 00:26:54.529 and all that kind of stuff. And I'll be back 00:26:54.529 --> 00:26:57.569 with Matt right after this word from ICOM America 00:26:57.569 --> 00:27:02.589 right here on HamTalk Live. Get out and be active 00:27:02.589 --> 00:27:06.950 with ICOM's new IC705 and its optional multi 00:27:06.950 --> 00:27:10.400 -function backpack. 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Well, 00:30:11.700 --> 00:30:15.180 Matt, um, while we're waiting to see if we have 00:30:15.180 --> 00:30:18.000 some, some questions and comments here from the 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.400 peanut gallery, uh, let's let's, uh, Let's talk 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:25.220 about the role of ham radio clubs a little bit 00:30:25.220 --> 00:30:29.319 and I know that in you know in founding the Southern 00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:33.319 Indiana amateur radio association There were 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:36.980 some some real goals that you had and and the 00:30:36.980 --> 00:30:45.880 group had to really improve the club member experience 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:49.900 Can you talk a little bit about? about the role 00:30:49.900 --> 00:30:52.640 of Ham Radio Clubs and ways that we can make 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:59.259 those better? Sure. Boy. Yeah, well, when we 00:30:59.259 --> 00:31:05.740 were founding the club, we really wanted to try 00:31:05.740 --> 00:31:11.619 to bring back the old hands -on feel to the Ham 00:31:11.619 --> 00:31:16.140 Radio Club, where, you know, there are hands 00:31:16.140 --> 00:31:21.589 -on projects, getting out and putting up antennas, 00:31:22.509 --> 00:31:26.730 the classic sense of the Elmer, the person who 00:31:26.730 --> 00:31:31.809 guides you through the hobby. If you've got questions 00:31:31.809 --> 00:31:35.509 or a specific challenge that we might be able 00:31:35.509 --> 00:31:41.910 to help you out with, to try to be less of a 00:31:41.910 --> 00:31:46.160 social group and more of a techie nerdy group. 00:31:46.660 --> 00:31:49.500 You know, Hammer Radio was the original king 00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:54.960 of hobbies, right? And they were back in the 00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:59.500 early 1900s figuring all this stuff out. I wasn't 00:31:59.500 --> 00:32:02.819 trying to get that nostalgic about it, but we 00:32:02.819 --> 00:32:08.779 really felt that it was important to try to do 00:32:08.779 --> 00:32:16.900 more hands -on activities. And then link them 00:32:16.900 --> 00:32:22.000 in with all the newer stuff today like Raspberry 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:28.039 Pis, lots of computer programming and newer applications 00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:34.019 that are online or something that you wouldn't 00:32:34.019 --> 00:32:40.960 have seen 30 years ago. And there's ARIs and 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:45.670 emergency communications as well. And then, you 00:32:45.670 --> 00:32:49.109 know, bringing in computer networking along with 00:32:49.109 --> 00:32:52.109 some of the interests that I have. Of course, 00:32:52.150 --> 00:32:55.329 I'm a, you know, my profession is networking. 00:32:56.569 --> 00:32:59.950 But, you know, with one of the things that really 00:32:59.950 --> 00:33:03.329 kind of got me excited was Arden and mesh networking 00:33:03.329 --> 00:33:06.630 and being able to bring computer applications 00:33:06.630 --> 00:33:11.650 to a network that's on ham radio allocations. 00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:16.279 and the 2 .4 gigahertz band that we can just 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:20.720 play with and have fun with. So that was one 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:25.299 of the main goals. And then how do we attract 00:33:25.299 --> 00:33:30.960 younger members? And we're still trying to figure 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:35.859 that stuff out. Like I say to the guys, well, 00:33:35.859 --> 00:33:39.279 we're still new. We're a new club. We're only 00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:41.900 almost two years old. And we had a lot of lofty 00:33:41.900 --> 00:33:44.839 goals. We've got a pretty long list and I think 00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:49.099 we're doing pretty good. We started out with 00:33:49.099 --> 00:33:54.839 Field Day. That was our first official kind of 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:59.440 club get together in 2018. Yeah. And boy, it 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:01.779 was a lot of fun and we just all had a great 00:34:01.779 --> 00:34:08.110 time. So, you know, to try to bring the all the 00:34:08.110 --> 00:34:11.030 activities together with getting people together 00:34:11.030 --> 00:34:17.050 who are techie and nerdy rather than just You 00:34:17.050 --> 00:34:19.409 know cooking out on the grill or whatever and 00:34:19.409 --> 00:34:21.230 all that stuff has its place You know, we like 00:34:21.230 --> 00:34:23.309 to do that too. We like to be social too, but 00:34:23.309 --> 00:34:26.889 we wanted to be more technical than anything 00:34:26.889 --> 00:34:31.849 Yeah, I think that you know, there's a competitive 00:34:31.849 --> 00:34:35.920 aspect and I know Um, you know, I'll get slammed 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:40.019 for saying it's not a contest. Um, but you know, 00:34:40.099 --> 00:34:42.760 there is a competitive nature to it just because 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:46.380 there's a score. And so, um, you know, making 00:34:46.380 --> 00:34:50.139 sure that, you know, the technical side is functioning 00:34:50.139 --> 00:34:54.239 and working well and, and that you're able to, 00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:57.179 you know, try to run the score up a little bit, 00:34:57.179 --> 00:35:01.099 you know, is a good option there. It definitely 00:35:01.099 --> 00:35:05.119 is. is a bit of an open house and a social thing 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:11.119 as the good folks at ARRL will tell you and we 00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:14.820 are planning by the way our annual field day 00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:19.860 question and answer session with Paul Bork and 00:35:19.860 --> 00:35:23.940 the crew at ARRL. It's going to be a week earlier 00:35:23.940 --> 00:35:28.360 this year because we have something else planned 00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:31.699 for the Thursday before field day, hopefully, 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.559 if the virus thing settles down. But we will 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:38.960 have that here on HamTalk Live so you can ask 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:43.579 your questions about it. But, you know, it was 00:35:43.579 --> 00:35:50.239 a chance to emphasize a little more about you 00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:52.780 know the technical side of things and putting 00:35:52.780 --> 00:35:56.059 those antennas up in the event of an emergency 00:35:56.059 --> 00:35:59.139 and and how to get them not interfering with 00:35:59.139 --> 00:36:03.199 each other and and how you can link the the logging 00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:05.599 computers together so that you can communicate 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:10.699 between the different stations and all of those 00:36:10.699 --> 00:36:15.440 things. It was a different take on that and it 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:19.440 was also a shared thing with the local school 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:23.780 radio clubs and just turned out to be a great 00:36:23.780 --> 00:36:26.739 event. Well, if you have a question or a comment, 00:36:26.920 --> 00:36:32.079 give us a call at 859 -982 -7373. We do have 00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:35.079 a tweet. You can tweet us as well. It's at HamTalk 00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:41.659 Live on Twitter. And Jacob KG7EQN has been a 00:36:41.659 --> 00:36:45.199 frequent tweeter of late and he has some questions 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:49.519 for you, Matt. He says, have your meeting times 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:54.380 changed? How did you determine virtual meetings? 00:36:55.619 --> 00:36:59.659 Are you using the existing in -person time that 00:36:59.659 --> 00:37:01.980 you would normally have, you know, for your meeting 00:37:01.980 --> 00:37:06.320 time? And wondered that with more people working 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:10.940 from home, would it be better to change the time 00:37:10.940 --> 00:37:14.380 up a little bit? So can you address Jacob here? 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:21.460 Yeah. Okay, Jacob. Thanks for the question. You 00:37:21.460 --> 00:37:25.760 know normally we we would meet the third Friday 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:33.219 in person at 6 p .m. Right after work and I got 00:37:33.219 --> 00:37:35.360 to thinking about that. I'm like, you know, we're 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:38.559 all gonna be at home relaxing It's probably a 00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:41.300 little bit better to push it out a couple more 00:37:41.300 --> 00:37:44.480 hours. So yeah, we did I did change the time 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:49.079 to 8 o 'clock in the evening when everybody's 00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.880 relaxed and maybe done with dinner and got off 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:57.659 the air with another scheduled QSO or something. 00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:04.219 So we did change the meeting times. It was more 00:38:04.219 --> 00:38:06.840 my decision than anyone else's. I just thought 00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:10.000 8 o 'clock was a better time to do an evening 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.130 net. And you know the other nets in our local 00:38:14.130 --> 00:38:18.429 area here they they they go Anywhere from 7 to 00:38:18.429 --> 00:38:20.849 8 o 'clock in the evening when we do them here 00:38:20.849 --> 00:38:23.590 So it it's about the same time for other nets. 00:38:23.889 --> 00:38:27.650 So, you know I'll trying to keep trying to gather 00:38:27.650 --> 00:38:29.369 other people's attention when they might be on 00:38:29.369 --> 00:38:34.250 the air and You know after dinner, so I Hope 00:38:34.250 --> 00:38:37.230 that answers your question. Yeah, so, you know, 00:38:37.230 --> 00:38:40.559 I'm sure there's advantages to keeping it at 00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:43.699 the same time to keep people remembering you 00:38:43.699 --> 00:38:47.340 know and on the on the schedule but you know 00:38:47.340 --> 00:38:51.340 I do think you know that that later is probably 00:38:51.340 --> 00:38:57.320 better you know given the circumstances so I 00:38:57.320 --> 00:38:59.280 think that's just something you may have to pull 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:03.900 your your members and pull your officers and 00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:07.519 see what you think would work and And part of 00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:11.039 this is adjusting and trying something new and, 00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:14.340 and, and, you know, make some adjustments, um, 00:39:14.699 --> 00:39:17.800 to the norm. Cause, uh, we are definitely not 00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:22.420 in the norm right now. I've got, uh, two or three, 00:39:22.420 --> 00:39:25.880 uh, major events that are, that are hanging by 00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:28.099 a thread right now, because we don't know if 00:39:28.099 --> 00:39:30.440 we're going to be able to have those in May and 00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:37.610 in June. And it's, it's scary to be quite honest. 00:39:38.710 --> 00:39:44.010 There's some major stuff going on and Hamvention 00:39:44.010 --> 00:39:47.269 just, you know, announced this week finally that, 00:39:47.269 --> 00:39:50.170 that they're not going to be able to meet. And, 00:39:50.170 --> 00:39:53.269 and that's, you know, that's something I've looked 00:39:53.269 --> 00:39:58.190 forward to and attended for. Oh my goodness 25 00:39:58.190 --> 00:40:01.010 years straight now, I think and probably 30 or 00:40:01.010 --> 00:40:05.250 35 total and and you know It's it's a shame because 00:40:05.250 --> 00:40:08.190 that's where you you get to see a lot of the 00:40:08.190 --> 00:40:12.329 people that you talk to and work with In ham 00:40:12.329 --> 00:40:15.130 radio and it's not going to be there and and 00:40:15.130 --> 00:40:17.349 some people have mentioned, you know Maybe we 00:40:17.349 --> 00:40:21.010 ought to you know, get Dayton the Dayton bunch, 00:40:21.010 --> 00:40:27.820 you know the idea of doing these virtual things 00:40:27.820 --> 00:40:30.280 some of the forums and that kind of thing that 00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:34.719 we could we could still do that weekend or whenever 00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:41.159 you know To kind of get people together Yeah, 00:40:41.179 --> 00:40:47.219 and you know with the role of eBay and other 00:40:47.219 --> 00:40:50.460 the sites that allow you to sell things online, 00:40:50.460 --> 00:40:55.309 maybe they could Maybe they could spin up a special 00:40:55.309 --> 00:41:00.789 hamvention site for all the people that like 00:41:00.789 --> 00:41:04.469 to scrounge around in the piles of stuff outside. 00:41:07.650 --> 00:41:12.190 There's got to be a way to do it. The time is 00:41:12.190 --> 00:41:15.550 now to think about what we can do to keep going, 00:41:17.110 --> 00:41:22.679 but yet still stay safe. Yeah, and Troy w9kvr 00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.420 says for the first time I didn't have a track 00:41:25.420 --> 00:41:31.719 meet that weekend and Yeah, Troy we're gonna 00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:35.119 get you there one of these days I'm telling you 00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:37.559 well eight five nine nine eight two seven three 00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:40.579 seven three is the number go ahead Matt I I was 00:41:40.579 --> 00:41:43.019 just gonna mention I had the same sort of experience 00:41:43.019 --> 00:41:47.260 with a cancellation I was scheduled to go to 00:41:47.260 --> 00:41:49.559 the largest one of the largest international 00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:53.320 wireless network engineer conventions In Las 00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:56.480 Vegas at the end of next week, and I've been 00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:59.159 wanting to go ever since I started wireless engineering 00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:02.000 It's been like seven years and I had I finally 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:06.219 had the opportunity and then I got canceled Yeah 00:42:06.219 --> 00:42:14.530 So maybe maybe next year Lot up in the air right 00:42:14.530 --> 00:42:19.449 now, and I heard, you know, being the chemist, 00:42:20.409 --> 00:42:24.389 as soon as I heard about chloroquine today, I 00:42:24.389 --> 00:42:29.530 was like, oh, I know that. That could work. So 00:42:29.530 --> 00:42:32.989 I'm holding out some hope that maybe that's going 00:42:32.989 --> 00:42:36.860 to be a big game changer. we will see before 00:42:36.860 --> 00:42:40.559 too long but that could could turn things around 00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:44.539 here so hopefully this this won't keep going 00:42:44.539 --> 00:42:51.460 on and on so 859 -982 -7373 we're gonna make 00:42:51.460 --> 00:42:54.880 this the final call so if you want to give us 00:42:54.880 --> 00:43:01.440 a call now is the time 859 -982 -7373 let me 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:07.940 check the tweet machine here again and see if 00:43:07.940 --> 00:43:12.639 we have anything else and and I Guess we'll go 00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:15.320 ahead and go through some of these and Matt's 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:18.860 probably already groaning that When I was when 00:43:18.860 --> 00:43:21.000 I was on Twitter a while ago getting ready for 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:26.650 the show. I saw one of the the trending Hashtags 00:43:26.650 --> 00:43:30.789 on Twitter was about social distancing and it 00:43:30.789 --> 00:43:35.369 was with social distancing pickup lines. So here's 00:43:35.369 --> 00:43:39.190 your, here's your social distancing humor for 00:43:39.190 --> 00:43:42.070 the day. If you're tired about hearing about 00:43:42.070 --> 00:43:46.380 all the. closures and cancellations and everything. 00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:49.900 Maybe this will bring a smile to you. So here's 00:43:49.900 --> 00:43:54.199 some social distancing pickup lines I saw. I 00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:57.739 wash my hands even when there's no pandemic. 00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:07.079 That might work. Baby, do you need toilet paper? 00:44:07.139 --> 00:44:16.780 Because I can be your Prince Charmin. Want to 00:44:16.780 --> 00:44:23.559 make plans we have to cancel? You smell so good, 00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:29.820 is that Purell you're wearing? Alright, I want 00:44:29.820 --> 00:44:33.460 one more. Without you in my life is as empty 00:44:33.460 --> 00:44:36.599 as the toilet paper shelf at the supermarket. 00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:45.380 There you go, social distancing. Pick up lines. 00:44:45.380 --> 00:44:48.280 I'm not sure those will work on the local repeater 00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:52.320 though. Yeah. Maybe we'll probably not. Yeah. 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:54.960 We won't get those on the air. We'll keep those 00:44:54.960 --> 00:45:00.059 over here on the internet and then WTWW. So well, 00:45:00.219 --> 00:45:02.719 Matt, thank you so much for coming on and talking 00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:05.179 about this because I'm sure there's a lot of 00:45:05.179 --> 00:45:11.090 clubs out there that really, uh, you know, they've 00:45:11.090 --> 00:45:15.150 had to suddenly cancel everything and, and really 00:45:15.150 --> 00:45:19.329 looking for a way to keep their members connected 00:45:19.329 --> 00:45:24.130 and, and offering some, some things about radio. 00:45:24.530 --> 00:45:29.130 And again, radio, you know, is, is, um, social 00:45:29.130 --> 00:45:36.250 distancing, um, 24 seven. And it's a way to connect 00:45:36.250 --> 00:45:40.519 people and Without the risk and so i thank you 00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:42.559 for coming on and talking about it and sharing 00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:45.579 a problem and good luck with with the net tomorrow 00:45:45.579 --> 00:45:49.480 night yeah thank you and will keep you up to 00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:54.559 date. Okay well thank you so much that is a wrap. 00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:58.179 for this week's edition of HamTalk Live. I'd 00:45:58.179 --> 00:46:02.019 like to thank my guest, Matt Bonadies, KB9YOJ 00:46:02.019 --> 00:46:04.699 from the Southern Indiana Amateur Radio Association, 00:46:05.179 --> 00:46:07.739 and everybody out there in cyberspace for listening 00:46:07.739 --> 00:46:11.099 and typing in and invite you back next Thursday 00:46:11.099 --> 00:46:14.320 night, 9 p .m. Eastern Time. We'll still be here, 00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:18.039 so be sure to tune in. And for a list of all 00:46:18.039 --> 00:46:22.530 of our upcoming guests. go to HamTalkLive .com. 00:46:22.590 --> 00:46:25.030 And if you like the show, please leave us a review. 00:46:25.489 --> 00:46:28.429 We'd really like to see some some good reviews 00:46:28.429 --> 00:46:31.769 on iTunes or wherever you listen, because that 00:46:31.769 --> 00:46:35.250 just helps others find the show. 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