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I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:54.540 for tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live 00:01:54.540 --> 00:01:59.680 tonight. We're joined by Bryant Rascal, KG5HVO, 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.159 and we'll take your calls live in just a few 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:06.629 minutes. Last week, I took the week off for Thanksgiving. 00:02:06.969 --> 00:02:10.770 I hope you enjoyed the holiday. And the week 00:02:10.770 --> 00:02:14.629 before that, though, we did have Youth on the 00:02:14.629 --> 00:02:17.449 Air on the Air again. It was the Youth on the 00:02:17.449 --> 00:02:23.069 Air camp. We had Jocelyn Broad, KDA VRX, and 00:02:23.069 --> 00:02:27.310 Sam Rose, KC2 LRC here to talk about the Youth 00:02:27.310 --> 00:02:30.090 on the Air camp. Tonight we'll be talking about 00:02:30.090 --> 00:02:32.810 the Youth on the Air month, the special event. 00:02:33.210 --> 00:02:36.530 And if you missed the show on the camp, you can 00:02:36.530 --> 00:02:40.069 listen anytime to HamTalkLive .com or on your 00:02:40.069 --> 00:02:42.969 favorite podcast app or YouTube where you can 00:02:42.969 --> 00:02:48.770 catch the rebroadcast on WTW. That's 5085 a .m. 00:02:48.969 --> 00:02:51.870 Saturday evenings at about 630 p .m. Eastern 00:02:51.870 --> 00:02:54.310 Time. So get your questions ready to go about 00:02:54.310 --> 00:02:56.909 the special event that's December Yoda Month. 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:59.620 If you're listening to us live on Thursday night, 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:02.199 you can give us a call after the interview on 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:07.800 the telephone by calling 812 -638 -4261. You 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:11.360 can also send a question via Twitter. 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ICOM is a proud supporter of youngsters 00:05:45.829 --> 00:05:49.689 on the air or Yoda. December's region one, two, 00:05:49.730 --> 00:05:53.730 actually and three Yoda activation. Work one 00:05:53.730 --> 00:05:57.209 or all of the Yoda stations in region one and 00:05:57.209 --> 00:06:00.689 two and three and help create excitement about 00:06:00.689 --> 00:06:05.889 our wonderful hobby, go to events. dot ham dash 00:06:05.889 --> 00:06:12.009 Yoda y o ta calm for More about that and my apologies. 00:06:12.009 --> 00:06:15.449 I know the microphones Acting funny it started 00:06:15.449 --> 00:06:18.290 about a half hour ago. We're trying to track 00:06:18.290 --> 00:06:22.550 it down, but Not having much luck, so I apologize 00:06:22.550 --> 00:06:26.990 for the microphone here tonight something happened 00:06:26.990 --> 00:06:29.410 with the sound interface a little bit ago and 00:06:30.129 --> 00:06:33.490 I can't find it I've tried everything so we'll 00:06:33.490 --> 00:06:37.870 try to make the most of it here and And then 00:06:37.870 --> 00:06:40.350 keep going and I think it's understandable at 00:06:40.350 --> 00:06:44.160 least so my apologies for that will keep We'll 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.759 keep troubleshooting that and figure out what's 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.560 going on here. Well, tonight my guest is Bryant 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:54.339 Rascal, KG5HVO. He's a 16 year old ham that's 00:06:54.339 --> 00:06:58.019 a past winner of the Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial 00:06:58.019 --> 00:07:01.579 Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year 00:07:01.579 --> 00:07:04.120 Award. And Bryant's a member of the Montgomery 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:07.259 Alabama Amateur Radio Club, the Alabama Contest 00:07:07.259 --> 00:07:10.459 Group, the Georgia Contest Group, and CW Ops, 00:07:10.500 --> 00:07:13.160 just to name a few. He was a participant in the 00:07:13.100 --> 00:07:16.300 Radio Sport Team Championships last summer in 00:07:16.300 --> 00:07:19.939 Germany, and he was also a member of the 2017 00:07:19.939 --> 00:07:23.639 Dave Coulter Youth DX Adventure to Costa Rica 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:28.660 and 2019 to Carousel, and he is the Yoda Month 00:07:28.660 --> 00:07:32.279 Coordinator for Youth on the Air's participation 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:36.600 in the Americas. So, Bryant, welcome to the show. 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:39.660 Thank you, Neil. It's great to be here with you 00:07:39.660 --> 00:07:44.029 on HamTalk Live. Well, I'm gonna let you talk 00:07:44.029 --> 00:07:49.129 since my mics Not being the best tonight, but 00:07:49.129 --> 00:07:52.449 let's talk a little bit and first of all We do 00:07:52.449 --> 00:07:55.189 want to make sure that everybody knows that there 00:07:55.189 --> 00:07:58.509 are two separate Yoda events going on right now 00:07:58.509 --> 00:08:01.980 We announced the camp Uh, that's going to happen 00:08:01.980 --> 00:08:05.639 in June over in Ohio. Uh, we've talked about 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:07.600 that, but what we want to talk about tonight 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.699 is this thing called December Yoda month. It's 00:08:10.699 --> 00:08:15.220 a special event. So tell everybody about December 00:08:15.220 --> 00:08:20.540 Yoda month. Okay. Well, uh, December Yoda month 00:08:20.540 --> 00:08:24.420 is an operating event. It's a last all December. 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.339 And the goal of this event is to promote Ham 00:08:28.339 --> 00:08:31.639 Radio to youth and to just get youth on the air 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:37.179 and having fun. It was started in 2013 by the 00:08:37.179 --> 00:08:40.159 Youngsters on the Air crew in Europe and has 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:43.940 been very popular in Region 1 as well as Region 00:08:43.940 --> 00:08:48.559 3. So with the introduction of Youth on the Air 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:51.889 Region 2, which we are very excited about, we 00:08:51.889 --> 00:08:55.549 decided to join forces with Region 1 and have 00:08:55.549 --> 00:09:00.370 a joint special event operation involving youth 00:09:00.370 --> 00:09:05.909 from Region 1, Region 2, and Region 3. So that's 00:09:05.909 --> 00:09:08.509 just a quick overview of Yoda Month. The goal 00:09:08.509 --> 00:09:11.830 is just to get on and work the youth special 00:09:11.830 --> 00:09:15.129 event stations, which we can talk about throughout 00:09:15.129 --> 00:09:18.259 the show. And we have a great team of operators 00:09:18.259 --> 00:09:22.460 here in Region 2, and Region 1 has a lot of different 00:09:22.460 --> 00:09:25.080 stations from a lot of different countries. So 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.879 there's definitely a lot of youth enthusiasm 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:31.919 for Yoda Month this December. And then in Region 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.840 3 we've got Xenia and her crew over there. Oh 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:40.700 yes, at the great ZM4T contest station. So we've 00:09:40.700 --> 00:09:44.840 got people all over the world, and they're all 00:09:45.049 --> 00:09:49.330 25 or under. So talk a little bit about the youth 00:09:49.330 --> 00:09:53.129 operators that are in the Americas over here 00:09:53.129 --> 00:09:57.809 that are going to be on the air this month. Okay, 00:09:58.350 --> 00:10:01.710 so here in the United States we have a team of 00:10:01.710 --> 00:10:06.149 about 14 youth operators. I'll just talk a little 00:10:06.149 --> 00:10:09.809 about them individually. So first we have Chris 00:10:09.809 --> 00:10:14.620 Kady8YVJ. He is 16 years old and many know about 00:10:14.620 --> 00:10:19.220 him. He went on the 2017 Youth DX adventure to 00:10:19.220 --> 00:10:23.899 Costa Rica. We have Marty NN1C from Massachusetts. 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:27.980 He is 17 years old and a very talented contestor 00:10:27.980 --> 00:10:32.779 and station builder. We have Levi K6JO from California. 00:10:32.899 --> 00:10:36.600 He is 19 years old and has done a lot of contesting 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:39.539 from the Cayman Islands at the ZF1A station and 00:10:39.539 --> 00:10:41.740 has been putting up some great scores from there. 00:10:42.299 --> 00:10:46.600 We have Bruce KN8U from the Atlanta area. He 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:49.440 is a student at Georgia Tech and does a lot of 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:55.179 operating from their club station W4AQL. We also 00:10:55.179 --> 00:10:59.820 have Charles AA4LS from North Carolina. He is 00:10:59.820 --> 00:11:03.659 13 years old but is an amazing SO2R operator 00:11:03.659 --> 00:11:09.059 on CW and SSB. We also have Jack and Audrey, 00:11:09.340 --> 00:11:17.019 KM4BUN and KM4ZIA. They are 16 and 12 years old 00:11:17.019 --> 00:11:21.740 and recently they went down to the PJ2T contestation 00:11:21.740 --> 00:11:27.019 for the 2019 Youth DX Adventure in Curaçao. And 00:11:27.019 --> 00:11:31.669 we have Eden. N4ETC from North Carolina. He is 00:11:31.669 --> 00:11:36.769 13 years old and also a very talented SO2R operator. 00:11:38.190 --> 00:11:41.750 We also are very fortunate to have the Lee family. 00:11:42.429 --> 00:11:45.129 Everybody knows about them. They are a good group 00:11:45.129 --> 00:11:48.029 of operators from the Florida area and Faith 00:11:48.029 --> 00:11:55.269 Hannah, KD3Z, went to the 2018 Yoda summer camp 00:11:55.269 --> 00:12:00.669 in South Africa. We have Ruth, KM4LAO, who lives 00:12:00.669 --> 00:12:02.950 in Michigan right now, and she will be doing 00:12:02.950 --> 00:12:06.070 some HF operation, but a lot of satellite work 00:12:06.070 --> 00:12:11.529 using the Kilo8 Yankee callsign. We also have 00:12:11.529 --> 00:12:17.820 Case, W0AAE, a contestor from Minnesota. as well 00:12:17.820 --> 00:12:22.000 as Mason KM4SII who is 16 years old and lives 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.679 in North Carolina and he is a very accomplished 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:29.080 DXer with over 200 DXCCs in his log. And then 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:33.000 there's myself and we will be in the United States 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:36.799 we will be using four one -by -one call signs 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:40.759 to celebrate Yoda Month. Those call signs are 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:46.320 Kilo8Yankee, Kilo8Oscar, Kilo8Tango and Kilo8Alpha. 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.200 Or if you put them all together, the suffix is 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.159 kind of like Y -O -T -A, which is similar to 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:55.840 what a lot of other countries are doing for Yoda 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:00.019 month. For example, in Europe, there are a lot 00:13:00.019 --> 00:13:03.659 of call signs that have the suffix Y -O -T -A. 00:13:04.179 --> 00:13:06.899 But since we can't do that here in the U .S., 00:13:06.899 --> 00:13:09.320 the four one -by -one call signs prove to be 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:14.399 our best option. Also, in Region 2, we have Matias 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:20.480 CE2LR, a very awesome contestor and WRTC 2018 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:25.220 competitor, and he will be active as X -Ray Radio 00:13:25.220 --> 00:13:31.450 2 YOTA for Yoda Month. And David, VE7DZO from 00:13:31.450 --> 00:13:36.889 British Columbia will be picking up VE7YOTA to 00:13:36.889 --> 00:13:39.110 celebrate Yoda Month from Canada. So we will 00:13:39.110 --> 00:13:42.289 have three countries from Region 2 on the air 00:13:42.289 --> 00:13:46.750 and looking to contact you. All right. So all 00:13:46.750 --> 00:13:50.549 kinds of opportunities to work young people this 00:13:50.549 --> 00:13:53.750 month. So we hope you can get on there and do 00:13:53.750 --> 00:13:56.230 that. I was able to get on one night this week. 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.399 Get a few contacts. I was I was trying really 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:02.659 hard to get Matthias and it just didn't work. 00:14:02.980 --> 00:14:06.799 But Hopefully that will work on later on but 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:11.100 the numbers are already rolling in. I mean You've 00:14:11.100 --> 00:14:15.659 got the statistics there. I'm sure I know you 00:14:15.659 --> 00:14:18.179 had them last night as you were on ham nation 00:14:18.179 --> 00:14:21.399 talking about this and just Four days in so now 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:23.840 we're five days in so where are we just five 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:28.320 days in? So overall, for the entire international 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:35.860 Yoda month QSO totals, 15 ,619 QSOs have been 00:14:35.860 --> 00:14:39.000 logged by young operators all over the world. 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.039 Here in the United States, our totals are looking 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:47.019 like we have about 1 ,500 QSOs in the log in 00:14:47.019 --> 00:14:50.179 just under five days of operation. And we have 00:14:50.179 --> 00:14:54.879 been on the air on all bands HF. We've been on 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:59.960 CW, SSB, FT8, FT4, all of the digital modes. 00:15:00.580 --> 00:15:02.820 And again, if you're a satellite operator and 00:15:02.820 --> 00:15:05.639 are looking to contact one of the one -by -one 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:09.019 call signs, look for Kilo 8 Yankee. That will 00:15:09.019 --> 00:15:15.580 be a Roos KM4 LAO at the mic. Okay, so lots of 00:15:15.580 --> 00:15:21.779 contacts, and the goal is 100 ,000. Yes, 100 00:15:21.779 --> 00:15:30.679 ,000 is a total goal for 2019. So we need. We 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:34.940 need contact. We need to work everybody on every 00:15:34.940 --> 00:15:38.840 band, every mode possible. So where can people 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:41.919 find these stations? How do people find them? 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:46.960 So I would suggest looking on DX clusters. I 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:51.120 prefer DX Summit .fi and there you can filter 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:53.799 out different call signs whether you're hunting 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:57.820 for a specific station or you just want to get 00:15:57.820 --> 00:16:00.360 a general overview of who's on the radio and 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:03.820 on what frequencies. There you just again look 00:16:03.820 --> 00:16:07.779 for stations that have Y -O -T -A in the suffix. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:13.539 or keep an eye out for K8Y, K8O, K8T, and K8A, 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:17.100 as those will be the U .S. use hams that will 00:16:17.100 --> 00:16:21.179 be operating those call signs. And again, we'll 00:16:21.179 --> 00:16:25.019 be on all bands, HF, and all modes. In fact, 00:16:25.179 --> 00:16:28.679 we'll even be on in some contest. Levi, K6JO, 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:32.039 will be using the Kilo8 Oscar call sign in the 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:34.500 digital contest this weekend, so be sure to give 00:16:34.500 --> 00:16:41.429 him a cue. Okay, and you know we've got The the 00:16:41.429 --> 00:16:44.350 filter there on DX summit I forget who it was 00:16:44.350 --> 00:16:48.289 posted that in the in one of the telegram chat 00:16:48.289 --> 00:16:52.769 over in region one but they had it all there 00:16:52.769 --> 00:16:57.940 and so what I did was I put a a link to DX Summit 00:16:57.940 --> 00:17:01.879 with that filter and everything on the website 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:05.839 and on our Twitter feed and on Facebook and then 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:08.559 when I want to check up on things I go to the 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:10.880 website and click on the link so that way I don't 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:13.660 have to figure out all the filters but what you 00:17:13.660 --> 00:17:17.359 do is you put percent and then YOTA in the search 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:21.500 and then you have to add those us call signs 00:17:21.500 --> 00:17:23.500 because we're different we've got the one by 00:17:23.500 --> 00:17:25.960 one so then you have to add all of those into 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:30.480 so to make it easy all you got to do is click 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.900 on the link on the youth on the air website at 00:17:33.900 --> 00:17:38.339 youth on the air dot org or on our twitter feed 00:17:38.339 --> 00:17:44.140 yoda region 2 and and you can also find it under 00:17:44.140 --> 00:17:47.559 Youth on the Air and just click on that and that 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:50.680 will send you to DX Summit and give you the list 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:55.440 of where everybody is. So that's kind of helpful 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:59.160 too. Now let's talk about the awards and QSLs. 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.140 I know that people are going to want to collect 00:18:02.140 --> 00:18:06.660 these and get points and get the wallpaper. So 00:18:06.660 --> 00:18:09.990 tell us about the wallpaper. So if you're an 00:18:09.990 --> 00:18:13.150 awards chaser and are looking to get a cool certificate 00:18:13.150 --> 00:18:15.769 for working the youth the Yoda month special 00:18:15.769 --> 00:18:18.950 event stations this December I would highly recommend 00:18:18.950 --> 00:18:23.430 going to the Yoda month website that is events 00:18:23.430 --> 00:18:30.640 .ham -yota .com and that will give you a full 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:34.740 page with information about QSLs and awards and 00:18:34.740 --> 00:18:37.619 an online log book to confirm it whether you're 00:18:37.619 --> 00:18:39.839 in the log or not. And at the U .S. stations 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:43.039 we will be updating our log system about every 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:46.799 two days. It really just depends on the operator's 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:49.200 schedule, but again we are doing our best there. 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:53.880 Now as far as the award system goes, the way 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:57.339 you can achieve your score Again, this is not 00:18:57.339 --> 00:18:59.759 a contest, but an operating event, but there 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:02.819 is a little bit of a competitive aspect to it, 00:19:02.819 --> 00:19:07.640 if you will. So the score is calculated by the 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:11.319 number of points, and the way you achieve points 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:17.900 is if you work, it's the number of stations worked, 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:21.640 so the number of Yoda stations worked, multiplied 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:27.940 by 2, and then added. against the number of band 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:31.200 slots you've worked those stations on. So for 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:35.880 example, if you worked five stations and you've 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:39.299 worked them on seven band slots, so that could 00:19:39.299 --> 00:19:42.720 be, maybe you worked them on 80 meter sideband 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:47.599 and 80 meter CW and then 40 sideband and 40 CW, 00:19:49.259 --> 00:19:52.920 I'm just going to use the example here. If you've 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.549 worked five stations, and work them on seven 00:19:56.549 --> 00:20:00.049 band slots. That would be five times two plus 00:20:00.049 --> 00:20:02.369 seven. That would give you seventeen points. 00:20:02.970 --> 00:20:06.009 And that would qualify you for the Bronze Award. 00:20:06.589 --> 00:20:10.529 And there are four levels that you can aim for. 00:20:10.789 --> 00:20:14.529 The Bronze is fifteen points. Silver is thirty 00:20:14.529 --> 00:20:19.099 -five. The gold is 65 and the platinum is 105. 00:20:19.380 --> 00:20:22.319 So all of them are doable. Lots of people have 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:26.519 achieved the platinum before. Again, the goal 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:29.700 of the special event is to promote youth and 00:20:29.700 --> 00:20:32.000 amateur radio and to just get youth on the air 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:38.569 and having fun. Chance to get on the air talk 00:20:38.569 --> 00:20:40.890 to some young people give them some pileups and 00:20:40.890 --> 00:20:44.630 I know there's been a lot of pileups on A lot 00:20:44.630 --> 00:20:46.730 of these stations and this chance to get some 00:20:46.730 --> 00:20:50.269 some countries if you need some help on DXCC 00:20:50.269 --> 00:20:54.430 It's a chance to get some of those. So definitely 00:20:54.430 --> 00:20:59.259 people can yeah can get on there and And find 00:20:59.259 --> 00:21:02.200 those and then you know if you like the wallpaper 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:05.900 why you know you can collect those and and you 00:21:05.900 --> 00:21:09.420 know collect all four of the US calls You know 00:21:09.420 --> 00:21:12.440 why OTA yes, please do we're listening for you 00:21:14.809 --> 00:21:17.730 It's it's like it's kind of like those, you know 00:21:17.730 --> 00:21:20.190 the cereal boxes where you you know They put 00:21:20.190 --> 00:21:22.269 something different in each one and you got to 00:21:22.269 --> 00:21:25.650 collect all four, you know, it's it You collect 00:21:25.650 --> 00:21:31.410 all four of the y o t and a so that's what's 00:21:31.410 --> 00:21:36.410 going on the the folks over in Europe and in 00:21:36.410 --> 00:21:40.980 region one they are doing all the QSL -ing and 00:21:40.980 --> 00:21:44.259 everything, so you can find all that on QRZ .com 00:21:44.259 --> 00:21:52.779 too, as well as events .ham -yotayota .com. So, 00:21:52.859 --> 00:21:54.799 I'll tell you what, we'll take a break, we'll 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:57.619 come back with Bryant, we'll take your calls, 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:00.259 we'll take your questions, right after this word 00:22:00.259 --> 00:22:03.140 from Tower Electronics right here on HamTalk 00:22:03.140 --> 00:22:07.700 Live. I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm having 00:22:07.700 --> 00:22:11.079 an antenna party and I ran out of PL259s. Oh, 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:15.319 come in. Thank you. Would silver -plated PL259s 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:18.400 from Tower Electronics be too good for your guests? 00:22:18.819 --> 00:22:22.339 Those will be fine. Thank you. You saved my life 00:22:22.339 --> 00:22:25.980 the other night. Oh, the PL -259s from Tower 00:22:25.980 --> 00:22:28.859 Electronics? Yes, they were very successful at 00:22:28.859 --> 00:22:31.799 the antenna party. My antenna works like a charm. 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:35.299 Then how can you ever thank me? 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Eastern Time right 00:24:00.900 --> 00:24:03.339 here at HamTalkLive .com Be sure to check us 00:24:03.339 --> 00:24:06.460 out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and it's 00:24:06.460 --> 00:24:08.559 time for your call so if you have a question 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:13.779 for Bryant give us a call at 812 -638 -4261 or 00:24:13.779 --> 00:24:18.359 you can tweet us at HamTalk Live if you're listening 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:22.680 to us on WTWW or on the podcast edition you won't 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:25.180 be able to reach us live tonight since the show 00:24:25.180 --> 00:24:29.519 was on Thursday but we'll be happy to take your 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:31.960 calls and we have one on the line right now so 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:36.259 welcome to HamTalk Live Hi, Neil. This is John, 00:24:36.660 --> 00:24:39.599 November 0, Julie at Sierra Delta. I'm in Virginia. 00:24:40.900 --> 00:24:44.440 Hi, John. How you doing? I'm doing good, man. 00:24:44.819 --> 00:24:48.480 Tell you what. I joined the Young Amateur Communication 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:51.519 Ham team a few months ago. I think it was back 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:55.039 in September I got an offer from Ed. And I've 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:57.920 been trying to get involved in the Young Yucksters 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:00.779 on the air because I'm a big contester. I've 00:25:00.779 --> 00:25:05.819 done multiple contests. A manly CW works all 00:25:05.819 --> 00:25:09.319 Europe and all that jazz. I was just wondering, 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:13.779 how can someone get involved with Toyota if they've 00:25:13.779 --> 00:25:15.779 never heard of it before? Bruce, go ahead. Or 00:25:15.779 --> 00:25:19.640 whatever your name is, sorry. Brian. Brian, go 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:23.200 ahead. Okay, so yeah, John, it's great to talk 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:25.900 to you. I think we've talked on 40m CW before. 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:28.240 Again, you're a very talented CW operator and 00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:31.119 it's been fun working you and listening to you 00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:35.269 work the world. Right now, if you're interested 00:25:35.269 --> 00:25:38.009 in operating, I can get in touch with you about 00:25:38.009 --> 00:25:41.849 using one of the special event call signs. So, 00:25:41.930 --> 00:25:43.950 yeah, I'll get in touch with you, and we'll go 00:25:43.950 --> 00:25:46.549 from there. Does that sound good? That sounds 00:25:46.549 --> 00:25:48.769 great, and you can look up my everything on QRZ 00:25:48.769 --> 00:25:54.750 .com. And also, yeah, so thank you very much, 00:25:54.930 --> 00:25:56.769 and keep that out of what you're doing. You're 00:25:56.769 --> 00:25:59.630 doing a really great job. I'm going to start 00:25:59.630 --> 00:26:01.990 working stations tomorrow once Y antenna gets 00:26:01.990 --> 00:26:04.549 back up and operating. So we'll start working 00:26:04.549 --> 00:26:07.250 stations here soon. 73 all. All right. Thanks 00:26:07.250 --> 00:26:10.289 for calling in. I appreciate it. Yep. I see John 00:26:10.289 --> 00:26:14.410 on Instagram. That's where I see him. So we have 00:26:14.410 --> 00:26:18.630 Instagram users. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Neil, 00:26:19.369 --> 00:26:23.829 bye. 73 all and I'll catch you next Thursday. 00:26:24.299 --> 00:26:26.819 All right, John, thanks a lot for calling in 00:26:26.819 --> 00:26:29.299 and yeah, we'll try to get you worked in Brian's 00:26:29.299 --> 00:26:33.359 had a bit of a challenge trying to To get enough 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:36.099 spots for everybody, which is a good problem 00:26:36.099 --> 00:26:40.500 to have we had a little bit of a plan to get 00:26:40.500 --> 00:26:44.819 more people involved and with a little different 00:26:44.819 --> 00:26:48.000 call sign thing and it just didn't work out with 00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:52.779 everything globally so we kind of changed our 00:26:52.779 --> 00:26:55.339 plan a little bit so he's trying to get some 00:26:55.339 --> 00:26:58.859 people worked into the schedule so letting you 00:26:58.859 --> 00:27:02.480 know get a hold of you and we'll see if we can 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:05.220 work you into the the schedule there because 00:27:05.220 --> 00:27:12.470 I'm sure you'd be a great add to the team Well, 00:27:12.470 --> 00:27:13.750 I'm going to let you continue with your calls. 00:27:13.890 --> 00:27:15.650 I bet you got to pile up on the calls there. 00:27:16.190 --> 00:27:20.769 So we'll let you go for 73 and zero JST. All 00:27:20.769 --> 00:27:24.690 right. Thanks, John. Take care. All right. 812 00:27:24.690 --> 00:27:29.369 -638 -4261 is the phone number. And I do have 00:27:29.369 --> 00:27:33.190 a message if I can navigate to the right place. 00:27:35.490 --> 00:27:40.200 Let's see. Dr. Scott Wright, KZeroMD says, my 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:42.420 best wishes to Bryant with the Yodi activity. 00:27:42.539 --> 00:27:45.180 How is he balancing the need for a few thousand 00:27:45.180 --> 00:27:51.579 QSOS with schoolwork? Let's see, the need for 00:27:51.579 --> 00:27:56.039 it. So right now, a lot of other kids are working 00:27:56.039 --> 00:28:00.019 the one by one call signs. So I can take it sort 00:28:00.019 --> 00:28:01.720 of easy. All I have to do is just, you know, 00:28:01.819 --> 00:28:04.599 kind of upload the logs here and there, keep 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:08.589 up to date. with the whole activity, but Marty, 00:28:09.349 --> 00:28:16.109 Bruce, Charles, and Levi are doing a great job 00:28:16.109 --> 00:28:18.269 operating the One by Ones this week. Again, they've 00:28:18.269 --> 00:28:22.210 put over 1 ,500 cues in the log, but I am excited 00:28:22.210 --> 00:28:24.589 to operate. I'll be operating a little bit later 00:28:24.589 --> 00:28:28.410 in the month, and I look forward to using the 00:28:28.410 --> 00:28:31.490 One by Ones and promoting youth and amateur radio 00:28:31.490 --> 00:28:33.490 through the special event. So thank you for the 00:28:33.490 --> 00:28:36.220 question, Mr. Wright. I appreciate it. Okay, 00:28:36.220 --> 00:28:39.039 and he's not done. He says I just watched him 00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:42.680 tonight on ham nation. Who is his press agent? 00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:50.180 That's a good question I Am I'm not able to reveal 00:28:50.180 --> 00:28:55.079 that information right now I Was going to spoil 00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:59.400 it no press information or no press agent here 00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:03.640 I'm just having fun in the hobby and I I'm trying 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.660 to do my part to promote it to youth and get 00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:10.759 it out there. Again, Mr. Wright, I hope to work 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:12.839 you in a few contests. Maybe if you're on in 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:14.960 the 160 contest, I'll hear you there. I actually 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:19.799 just put up a 160L a few weeks ago, so maybe 00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:29.829 I'll hear you there. The host of this show might 00:29:29.829 --> 00:29:31.769 have had something to do with that appearance 00:29:31.769 --> 00:29:34.210 on him That's a you know, that's a really good 00:29:34.210 --> 00:29:39.750 point now. Thank you. Maybe Let's see and John 00:29:39.750 --> 00:29:44.210 Scott says he gave a venture paddle to him never 00:29:44.210 --> 00:29:46.250 heard his voice before so that's kind of cool. 00:29:46.430 --> 00:29:51.920 So Thanks Scott for writing in K zero MD All 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:53.880 right eight one two six three eight four two 00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:56.119 six one is the phone number if you'd like to 00:29:56.119 --> 00:29:58.920 call in and ask a question Now's the time to 00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:04.000 do that eight one two net ham one is the phone 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:07.440 number and we'll check the tweets here as We 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:09.680 go and we've already talked a little bit about 00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:15.460 how the how the Q so's are going so far in the 00:30:15.460 --> 00:30:19.700 Americas And I may put you on the spot here. 00:30:19.900 --> 00:30:23.240 Do you know, is there anybody on right now? I 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:26.380 haven't looked at the spots. I can look actually 00:30:26.380 --> 00:30:31.339 right now. QRX for a moment, will you? Yes, QRX. 00:30:31.740 --> 00:30:36.119 This is the live radio portion of the show. So, 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:39.660 you know, we've been able to work over a thousand. 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:44.940 The goal is 100 ,000. I believe last year the 00:30:44.940 --> 00:30:50.359 totals were somewhere around 80 ,000. So with 00:30:50.359 --> 00:30:54.619 adding the US stations, which there was a US 00:30:54.619 --> 00:30:56.720 station last year, by the way, the Lee family 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.299 did have a station. So we're expanding on that 00:31:00.299 --> 00:31:04.779 this year. but with the addition of that and 00:31:04.779 --> 00:31:08.700 Canada and Chile and Zina down in New Zealand 00:31:08.700 --> 00:31:13.619 and and some more stations active over in Region 00:31:13.619 --> 00:31:17.579 one in Europe and Africa in the Middle East I 00:31:17.579 --> 00:31:19.920 Think this hundred thousand thing is doable, 00:31:19.980 --> 00:31:23.839 but it's gonna take some some work. So Definitely 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:27.680 get on there and every band every mode Give us 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:30.759 a give us a call. So, all right. Did I stall 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:35.900 long enough? Let's see, so latest spot is for 00:31:35.900 --> 00:31:39.859 Charles AA4LS operating as Kilo -8 Yankee, and 00:31:39.859 --> 00:31:42.339 I think that was about 45 minutes ago. He was 00:31:42.339 --> 00:31:50.079 on 7 .035 CW, so maybe he's still on. Next spotting 00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:51.819 site I'll check is the Reverse Beacon Network, 00:31:51.859 --> 00:31:54.720 so that might give a more up -to -date spot analysis. 00:31:55.980 --> 00:31:59.140 Yeah, now, you know, I've noticed in watching 00:31:59.140 --> 00:32:04.579 the spot that Almost all of you guys this week 00:32:04.579 --> 00:32:09.039 have been on CW most of the time. That is a great 00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:11.579 observation, yes. Marty has been doing a lot 00:32:11.579 --> 00:32:16.099 of CW. Bruce KNAU has been doing a lot of CW. 00:32:17.029 --> 00:32:20.130 LeviK6JO isn't so much of a CW operator yet. 00:32:20.210 --> 00:32:24.609 He is taking some coaching from some very good 00:32:24.609 --> 00:32:27.210 mentors from the Southern California Contesting 00:32:27.210 --> 00:32:30.210 Club, as well as MartyNN1C is helping him out. 00:32:30.769 --> 00:32:33.769 But he has been doing a great job on phone, making 00:32:33.769 --> 00:32:36.789 lots of contacts. He even operated the little 00:32:36.789 --> 00:32:39.890 phone fray contest that's on Tuesday nights, 00:32:40.089 --> 00:32:43.490 so it was cool to hear Kilo8Oscar in that small 00:32:43.490 --> 00:32:47.089 contest. But yes, lots of CW. In fact, I worked 00:32:47.089 --> 00:32:51.369 at Kilo8 Yankee last night in the 0300 CWT contest, 00:32:51.410 --> 00:32:54.930 so that was unique. And the call signs will be 00:32:54.930 --> 00:32:59.390 on in lots of contests, so keep an ear out for 00:32:59.390 --> 00:33:02.450 the US one -by -ones as well as all of the other 00:33:02.450 --> 00:33:05.430 call signs that have Y -O -T -A in the suffix. 00:33:06.450 --> 00:33:09.849 Now, I got Marty the other night and I got him 00:33:09.849 --> 00:33:14.430 on CW. I pulled out. Nice. uh... you know you 00:33:14.430 --> 00:33:16.750 know i i work you and see delhi and then you're 00:33:16.750 --> 00:33:18.690 you're one of the few that i've worked on and 00:33:18.690 --> 00:33:22.150 see delhi here lately but uh... uh... i actually 00:33:22.150 --> 00:33:24.289 got it out because i was trying to get matthias 00:33:24.289 --> 00:33:28.529 and then he he could The code was just coming 00:33:28.529 --> 00:33:31.769 through way better than his voice and I tried 00:33:31.769 --> 00:33:33.950 and tried and tried and he never did hear me 00:33:33.950 --> 00:33:39.170 But but I'm trying to get back on the CW a little 00:33:39.170 --> 00:33:41.630 bit. I'm not promised That's awesome to get on 00:33:41.630 --> 00:33:44.890 CW a ton But I'm I'm trying to get back on a 00:33:44.890 --> 00:33:48.049 little bit and add to the queue. So a little 00:33:48.049 --> 00:33:51.250 practice takes yeah, it takes some practice and 00:33:51.250 --> 00:33:54.660 I have I've had a few other things going on so 00:33:54.660 --> 00:33:57.440 I haven't been practicing but but I'm getting 00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:59.960 in there and trying to make a few cues at least 00:33:59.960 --> 00:34:06.500 so We'll give that a shot. So Let's see. I'm 00:34:06.500 --> 00:34:08.599 trying to think what else we need to talk about 00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:12.739 here We've talked about the totals really don't 00:34:12.739 --> 00:34:16.719 have any good good stories yet. We're only five 00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:20.530 days in but You know we've got until the 31st. 00:34:20.530 --> 00:34:24.170 Actually, I do know a good story I just didn't 00:34:24.170 --> 00:34:28.369 think about tell us about this Special operator 00:34:28.369 --> 00:34:33.789 that's gonna be on December 25th. Oh Yes, so 00:34:33.789 --> 00:34:36.969 the leaf family are going to have they're going 00:34:36.969 --> 00:34:39.269 to have a special guest in town for Christmas 00:34:39.269 --> 00:34:43.690 I believe and their special guest went to a Yoda 00:34:43.690 --> 00:34:47.760 camp in South Africa in 2018. I don't know exactly 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:50.679 his call sign so I don't know where he's from 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:54.099 but it does sound like he's from Europe or Africa 00:34:54.099 --> 00:34:58.760 and so they're going to be using the Kilo8 Alpha 00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:01.920 call sign while he's in town so their guests 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:04.400 can participate in Yoda Month from the United 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.900 States so I think that's really awesome. So December 00:35:07.900 --> 00:35:11.360 25th we'll give him a chance to be on the air 00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:15.900 and there's some There's some cool stuff out 00:35:15.900 --> 00:35:21.440 there if you want to keep up with What's going 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:27.019 on youth on the air dot o RG Is the website for 00:35:27.019 --> 00:35:30.239 all the stuff going on on the America's side 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:34.099 of things and we have links to the main page 00:35:34.099 --> 00:35:38.380 over it I are you region one and we also tweet 00:35:38.380 --> 00:35:42.179 out some stuff. We today put up the video from 00:35:42.179 --> 00:35:45.679 your uh... appearance on ham nation last night 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:49.079 so uh... that's there and also here here is a 00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:53.059 tweet that uh... uh... retweeted today uh... 00:35:53.059 --> 00:35:59.139 from the u k uh... the r s g b youth team uh... 00:35:59.139 --> 00:36:03.059 they were able to give forty very excited seven 00:36:03.059 --> 00:36:07.019 and eight -year -olds the chance to speak to 00:36:07.019 --> 00:36:14.489 santa yesterday using GB19YOTA. They gave him 00:36:14.489 --> 00:36:18.690 their name using the phonetic alphabet and chatted 00:36:18.690 --> 00:36:22.110 with them about what they wanted for Christmas. 00:36:22.389 --> 00:36:26.869 How about that? That is just great. You know, 00:36:27.070 --> 00:36:29.250 I think there's a similar program here in the 00:36:29.250 --> 00:36:34.449 United States on the 39, 16, 75 meter get together. 00:36:35.710 --> 00:36:37.349 Yep, the Santa Net. That's what I was trying 00:36:37.349 --> 00:36:42.570 to... There's actually a couple of Santa Nets, 00:36:42.849 --> 00:36:45.809 but yeah, the 3916 one, we've had them here on 00:36:45.809 --> 00:36:48.690 the show before and remind you that they're there 00:36:48.690 --> 00:36:53.190 again. But yeah, they got a chance to use the 00:36:53.190 --> 00:36:57.309 Yoda call sign and got 40 kids on to talk to 00:36:57.309 --> 00:37:02.269 Santa. Wow, 40, that's a lot. Hopefully it sparked 00:37:02.269 --> 00:37:04.789 a fire and some interest in some of them. That'd 00:37:04.789 --> 00:37:08.690 be really cool. eight one two six three eight 00:37:08.690 --> 00:37:11.230 four two six one is the phone number if you would 00:37:11.230 --> 00:37:13.909 like to chime in now's the Time to do that because 00:37:13.909 --> 00:37:16.190 we're gonna finish things up here pretty soon 00:37:16.190 --> 00:37:19.849 So give us a call eight one two six three eight 00:37:19.849 --> 00:37:24.530 four two six one or a tweet over at ham talk 00:37:24.530 --> 00:37:29.730 live on Twitter and So there's all kinds of good 00:37:29.730 --> 00:37:33.989 stories a lot of these Stations over in Europe 00:37:33.989 --> 00:37:36.369 are some of the they're using some of the big 00:37:36.369 --> 00:37:39.869 gun stations and kind of meeting there and that 00:37:39.869 --> 00:37:42.829 kind of thing we're here we're kind of scattered 00:37:42.829 --> 00:37:47.550 out all over the place but there's just a lot 00:37:47.550 --> 00:37:52.670 of good activity on right now with this and it's 00:37:52.670 --> 00:37:54.570 been a lot of fun to watch it and we're only 00:37:54.570 --> 00:38:00.670 five days in. Yes, I'm very excited to see the 00:38:00.670 --> 00:38:03.889 youth operators as they continue. I'm very excited 00:38:03.889 --> 00:38:05.909 to listen to them operate as they're doing a 00:38:05.909 --> 00:38:09.489 great job and just be sure to get fire up your 00:38:09.489 --> 00:38:11.750 HF radio or if you're a satellite operator turn 00:38:11.750 --> 00:38:14.949 on your radio and work some of the youth this 00:38:14.949 --> 00:38:17.530 December. They're really working hard for those 00:38:17.530 --> 00:38:23.769 QSOs. Now before we go let's preview just a little 00:38:23.769 --> 00:38:27.269 bit of you know the camp that's coming up which 00:38:27.269 --> 00:38:30.829 that's part of you know the the yoda month is 00:38:30.829 --> 00:38:35.309 to kind of make people aware of yoda and and 00:38:35.309 --> 00:38:39.070 the camp that's coming up in june and you're 00:38:39.070 --> 00:38:42.429 going to be talking about one of your favorite 00:38:42.429 --> 00:38:46.809 topics so uh give people a little bit of an idea 00:38:46.809 --> 00:38:48.909 of what you're going to be doing at the camp 00:38:50.190 --> 00:38:55.070 So yes, I'm very excited to be talking Contesting 00:38:55.070 --> 00:38:58.489 at the Yoda region to summer camp in Ohio this 00:38:58.489 --> 00:39:02.869 summer all I get to share my love for Contesting 00:39:02.869 --> 00:39:05.369 with the other youth that will be attending the 00:39:05.369 --> 00:39:08.510 camp And I've heard rumors that there will be 00:39:08.510 --> 00:39:13.090 an FMQSO party and a little mini contest at an 00:39:13.090 --> 00:39:15.909 amusement park. So I'm really excited to participate 00:39:15.909 --> 00:39:18.989 in those events and hang out with other youth 00:39:18.989 --> 00:39:23.010 at the camp. It's going to be a great week. Yeah. 00:39:23.349 --> 00:39:25.409 You know, when's the last time you had a chance 00:39:25.409 --> 00:39:30.539 to work a contest at Kings Island? That never 00:39:30.539 --> 00:39:36.900 yeah So, you know, there's all kinds of cool 00:39:36.900 --> 00:39:42.800 stuff so check out the site if you know of a 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:46.659 Young ham that's light already licensed ages 00:39:46.659 --> 00:39:51.059 15 to 25 Send them over to youth on the air org 00:39:51.059 --> 00:39:54.280 have them sign up there for more information 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:57.019 and in February we'll open up the registration 00:39:57.019 --> 00:40:01.250 period and get all that fun paperwork stuff going 00:40:01.250 --> 00:40:05.849 and get things figured out for camp this summer. 00:40:06.190 --> 00:40:09.769 And also, you know, we still need some funding. 00:40:10.809 --> 00:40:14.230 Our donate button is there on youthontheair .org. 00:40:15.030 --> 00:40:18.469 You can do that by PayPal or you can do the GoFundMe 00:40:18.469 --> 00:40:22.010 thing. We've got another about four thousand 00:40:22.010 --> 00:40:27.139 to raise before spring. And then if we can raise 00:40:27.139 --> 00:40:32.320 another 10 total. We can add some more spots 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:35.860 for some more campers we can go up to 30 campers 00:40:35.860 --> 00:40:39.539 instead of 20 so If you can help out with that 00:40:39.539 --> 00:40:43.960 financially we could use that as well Okay, John 00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:49.440 in zero JSD is riding back in says By the way, 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:53.340 you can never go wrong with contesting He's operated 00:40:53.340 --> 00:40:59.030 w4 RN And that was his first taste of CW contesting 00:40:59.030 --> 00:41:04.170 and he's at 40 words a minute now. Wow, that's 00:41:04.170 --> 00:41:08.469 very impressive, John. Keep up the good work. 00:41:09.030 --> 00:41:11.650 Yeah, I remember last night I was hanging out 00:41:11.650 --> 00:41:15.730 in the chat room for Ham Nation and somebody 00:41:15.730 --> 00:41:19.809 said, I wish I had half the CW speed Bryant has. 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:27.619 so we've got some talented operators out there 00:41:27.619 --> 00:41:33.039 and talented CW operators as well and Take this 00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:36.420 opportunity to to get on the air this month and 00:41:36.420 --> 00:41:40.800 give them some cues and Help them out to reach 00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:44.820 this goal of a hundred thousand. So Brian anything 00:41:44.820 --> 00:41:48.670 else you want to share before we go? I just want 00:41:48.670 --> 00:41:50.849 to encourage everybody to, again, turn on your 00:41:50.849 --> 00:41:53.829 radios and work some of the Yoda month special 00:41:53.829 --> 00:41:57.449 event stations. Again, the youth operators all 00:41:57.449 --> 00:42:00.289 under the age of 25 are working very hard to 00:42:00.289 --> 00:42:05.170 reach that 100 ,000 QSO goal. All right. Well, 00:42:05.170 --> 00:42:08.030 thanks for coming on the show. I'm glad we could 00:42:08.030 --> 00:42:10.070 get you on here and talk about it. Thank you 00:42:10.070 --> 00:42:13.429 for having me. And thank you so much for taking 00:42:13.429 --> 00:42:17.269 the lead on. Getting all this organized, getting 00:42:17.269 --> 00:42:20.849 all the ops scheduled and get everybody together 00:42:20.849 --> 00:42:24.110 and on the same page here as to what's going 00:42:24.110 --> 00:42:28.469 on and getting those call signs set up and getting 00:42:28.469 --> 00:42:33.949 everything on QRZ situated and running with this 00:42:33.949 --> 00:42:37.190 thing and I think this will be a good program 00:42:37.190 --> 00:42:41.309 for many years to come. Yes, it will. I'm very 00:42:41.309 --> 00:42:46.409 excited for the future. All right, well we're 00:42:46.409 --> 00:42:50.570 gonna say 7 -3 for tonight that is a wrap for 00:42:50.570 --> 00:42:53.900 this week's edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to 00:42:53.900 --> 00:42:57.980 Brian Rascal KG5HVO for being on and thanks to 00:42:57.980 --> 00:43:00.820 everybody for calling in and typing in tonight 00:43:00.820 --> 00:43:04.199 and come back next Thursday night at 9 p .m. 00:43:04.539 --> 00:43:07.380 Eastern Time. For a list of our upcoming guests 00:43:07.380 --> 00:43:11.159 visit HamTalkLive .com and if you like the show 00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:14.599 please give us a review on iTunes that helps 00:43:14.599 --> 00:43:18.070 people find us faster so For now this is Neil 00:43:18.070 --> 00:43:23.769 Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 -3, 7 -5, and may the 00:43:23.769 --> 00:43:25.909 good DX be yours.