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Good evening, everyone. It's time for HamTalk
Live. It's episode number 192, Youth of the Year
Month, recorded live on Thursday, December 5th,
2019. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks
for tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live
tonight. We're joined by Bryant Rascal, KG5HVO,
and we'll take your calls live in just a few
minutes. Last week, I took the week off for Thanksgiving.
I hope you enjoyed the holiday. And the week
before that, though, we did have Youth on the
Air on the Air again. It was the Youth on the
Air camp. We had Jocelyn Broad, KDA VRX, and
Sam Rose, KC2 LRC here to talk about the Youth
on the Air camp. Tonight we'll be talking about
the Youth on the Air month, the special event.
And if you missed the show on the camp, you can
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Saturday evenings at about 630 p .m. Eastern
Time. So get your questions ready to go about
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Yoda y o ta calm for More about that and my apologies.
I know the microphones Acting funny it started
about a half hour ago. We're trying to track
it down, but Not having much luck, so I apologize
for the microphone here tonight something happened
with the sound interface a little bit ago and
I can't find it I've tried everything so we'll
try to make the most of it here and And then
keep going and I think it's understandable at
least so my apologies for that will keep We'll
keep troubleshooting that and figure out what's
going on here. Well, tonight my guest is Bryant
Rascal, KG5HVO. He's a 16 year old ham that's
a past winner of the Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial
Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year
Award. And Bryant's a member of the Montgomery
Alabama Amateur Radio Club, the Alabama Contest
Group, the Georgia Contest Group, and CW Ops,
just to name a few. He was a participant in the
Radio Sport Team Championships last summer in
Germany, and he was also a member of the 2017
Dave Coulter Youth DX Adventure to Costa Rica
and 2019 to Carousel, and he is the Yoda Month
Coordinator for Youth on the Air's participation
in the Americas. So, Bryant, welcome to the show.
Thank you, Neil. It's great to be here with you
on HamTalk Live. Well, I'm gonna let you talk
since my mics Not being the best tonight, but
let's talk a little bit and first of all We do
want to make sure that everybody knows that there
are two separate Yoda events going on right now
We announced the camp Uh, that's going to happen
in June over in Ohio. Uh, we've talked about
that, but what we want to talk about tonight
is this thing called December Yoda month. It's
a special event. So tell everybody about December
Yoda month. Okay. Well, uh, December Yoda month
is an operating event. It's a last all December.
And the goal of this event is to promote Ham
Radio to youth and to just get youth on the air
and having fun. It was started in 2013 by the
Youngsters on the Air crew in Europe and has
been very popular in Region 1 as well as Region
3. So with the introduction of Youth on the Air
Region 2, which we are very excited about, we
decided to join forces with Region 1 and have
a joint special event operation involving youth
from Region 1, Region 2, and Region 3. So that's
just a quick overview of Yoda Month. The goal
is just to get on and work the youth special
event stations, which we can talk about throughout
the show. And we have a great team of operators
here in Region 2, and Region 1 has a lot of different
stations from a lot of different countries. So
there's definitely a lot of youth enthusiasm
for Yoda Month this December. And then in Region
3 we've got Xenia and her crew over there. Oh
yes, at the great ZM4T contest station. So we've
got people all over the world, and they're all
25 or under. So talk a little bit about the youth
operators that are in the Americas over here
that are going to be on the air this month. Okay,
so here in the United States we have a team of
about 14 youth operators. I'll just talk a little
about them individually. So first we have Chris
Kady8YVJ. He is 16 years old and many know about
him. He went on the 2017 Youth DX adventure to
Costa Rica. We have Marty NN1C from Massachusetts.
He is 17 years old and a very talented contestor
and station builder. We have Levi K6JO from California.
He is 19 years old and has done a lot of contesting
from the Cayman Islands at the ZF1A station and
has been putting up some great scores from there.
We have Bruce KN8U from the Atlanta area. He
is a student at Georgia Tech and does a lot of
operating from their club station W4AQL. We also
have Charles AA4LS from North Carolina. He is
13 years old but is an amazing SO2R operator
on CW and SSB. We also have Jack and Audrey,
KM4BUN and KM4ZIA. They are 16 and 12 years old
and recently they went down to the PJ2T contestation
for the 2019 Youth DX Adventure in Curaçao. And
we have Eden. N4ETC from North Carolina. He is
13 years old and also a very talented SO2R operator.
We also are very fortunate to have the Lee family.
Everybody knows about them. They are a good group
of operators from the Florida area and Faith
Hannah, KD3Z, went to the 2018 Yoda summer camp
in South Africa. We have Ruth, KM4LAO, who lives
in Michigan right now, and she will be doing
some HF operation, but a lot of satellite work
using the Kilo8 Yankee callsign. We also have
Case, W0AAE, a contestor from Minnesota. as well
as Mason KM4SII who is 16 years old and lives
in North Carolina and he is a very accomplished
DXer with over 200 DXCCs in his log. And then
there's myself and we will be in the United States
we will be using four one -by -one call signs
to celebrate Yoda Month. Those call signs are
Kilo8Yankee, Kilo8Oscar, Kilo8Tango and Kilo8Alpha.
Or if you put them all together, the suffix is
kind of like Y -O -T -A, which is similar to
what a lot of other countries are doing for Yoda
month. For example, in Europe, there are a lot
of call signs that have the suffix Y -O -T -A.
But since we can't do that here in the U .S.,
the four one -by -one call signs prove to be
our best option. Also, in Region 2, we have Matias
CE2LR, a very awesome contestor and WRTC 2018
competitor, and he will be active as X -Ray Radio
2 YOTA for Yoda Month. And David, VE7DZO from
British Columbia will be picking up VE7YOTA to
celebrate Yoda Month from Canada. So we will
have three countries from Region 2 on the air
and looking to contact you. All right. So all
kinds of opportunities to work young people this
month. So we hope you can get on there and do
that. I was able to get on one night this week.
Get a few contacts. I was I was trying really
hard to get Matthias and it just didn't work.
But Hopefully that will work on later on but
the numbers are already rolling in. I mean You've
got the statistics there. I'm sure I know you
had them last night as you were on ham nation
talking about this and just Four days in so now
we're five days in so where are we just five
days in? So overall, for the entire international
Yoda month QSO totals, 15 ,619 QSOs have been
logged by young operators all over the world.
Here in the United States, our totals are looking
like we have about 1 ,500 QSOs in the log in
just under five days of operation. And we have
been on the air on all bands HF. We've been on
CW, SSB, FT8, FT4, all of the digital modes.
And again, if you're a satellite operator and
are looking to contact one of the one -by -one
call signs, look for Kilo 8 Yankee. That will
be a Roos KM4 LAO at the mic. Okay, so lots of
contacts, and the goal is 100 ,000. Yes, 100
,000 is a total goal for 2019. So we need. We
need contact. We need to work everybody on every
band, every mode possible. So where can people
find these stations? How do people find them?
So I would suggest looking on DX clusters. I
prefer DX Summit .fi and there you can filter
out different call signs whether you're hunting
for a specific station or you just want to get
a general overview of who's on the radio and
on what frequencies. There you just again look
for stations that have Y -O -T -A in the suffix.
or keep an eye out for K8Y, K8O, K8T, and K8A,
as those will be the U .S. use hams that will
be operating those call signs. And again, we'll
be on all bands, HF, and all modes. In fact,
we'll even be on in some contest. Levi, K6JO,
will be using the Kilo8 Oscar call sign in the
digital contest this weekend, so be sure to give
him a cue. Okay, and you know we've got The the
filter there on DX summit I forget who it was
posted that in the in one of the telegram chat
over in region one but they had it all there
and so what I did was I put a a link to DX Summit
with that filter and everything on the website
and on our Twitter feed and on Facebook and then
when I want to check up on things I go to the
website and click on the link so that way I don't
have to figure out all the filters but what you
do is you put percent and then YOTA in the search
and then you have to add those us call signs
because we're different we've got the one by
one so then you have to add all of those into
so to make it easy all you got to do is click
on the link on the youth on the air website at
youth on the air dot org or on our twitter feed
yoda region 2 and and you can also find it under
Youth on the Air and just click on that and that
will send you to DX Summit and give you the list
of where everybody is. So that's kind of helpful
too. Now let's talk about the awards and QSLs.
I know that people are going to want to collect
these and get points and get the wallpaper. So
tell us about the wallpaper. So if you're an
awards chaser and are looking to get a cool certificate
for working the youth the Yoda month special
event stations this December I would highly recommend
going to the Yoda month website that is events
.ham -yota .com and that will give you a full
page with information about QSLs and awards and
an online log book to confirm it whether you're
in the log or not. And at the U .S. stations
we will be updating our log system about every
two days. It really just depends on the operator's
schedule, but again we are doing our best there.
Now as far as the award system goes, the way
you can achieve your score Again, this is not
a contest, but an operating event, but there
is a little bit of a competitive aspect to it,
if you will. So the score is calculated by the
number of points, and the way you achieve points
is if you work, it's the number of stations worked,
so the number of Yoda stations worked, multiplied
by 2, and then added. against the number of band
slots you've worked those stations on. So for
example, if you worked five stations and you've
worked them on seven band slots, so that could
be, maybe you worked them on 80 meter sideband
and 80 meter CW and then 40 sideband and 40 CW,
I'm just going to use the example here. If you've
worked five stations, and work them on seven
band slots. That would be five times two plus
seven. That would give you seventeen points.
And that would qualify you for the Bronze Award.
And there are four levels that you can aim for.
The Bronze is fifteen points. Silver is thirty
-five. The gold is 65 and the platinum is 105.
So all of them are doable. Lots of people have
achieved the platinum before. Again, the goal
of the special event is to promote youth and
amateur radio and to just get youth on the air
and having fun. Chance to get on the air talk
to some young people give them some pileups and
I know there's been a lot of pileups on A lot
of these stations and this chance to get some
some countries if you need some help on DXCC
It's a chance to get some of those. So definitely
people can yeah can get on there and And find
those and then you know if you like the wallpaper
why you know you can collect those and and you
know collect all four of the US calls You know
why OTA yes, please do we're listening for you
It's it's like it's kind of like those, you know
the cereal boxes where you you know They put
something different in each one and you got to
collect all four, you know, it's it You collect
all four of the y o t and a so that's what's
going on the the folks over in Europe and in
region one they are doing all the QSL -ing and
everything, so you can find all that on QRZ .com
too, as well as events .ham -yotayota .com. So,
I'll tell you what, we'll take a break, we'll
come back with Bryant, we'll take your calls,
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calls and we have one on the line right now so
welcome to HamTalk Live Hi, Neil. This is John,
November 0, Julie at Sierra Delta. I'm in Virginia.
Hi, John. How you doing? I'm doing good, man.
Tell you what. I joined the Young Amateur Communication
Ham team a few months ago. I think it was back
in September I got an offer from Ed. And I've
been trying to get involved in the Young Yucksters
on the air because I'm a big contester. I've
done multiple contests. A manly CW works all
Europe and all that jazz. I was just wondering,
how can someone get involved with Toyota if they've
never heard of it before? Bruce, go ahead. Or
whatever your name is, sorry. Brian. Brian, go
ahead. Okay, so yeah, John, it's great to talk
to you. I think we've talked on 40m CW before.
Again, you're a very talented CW operator and
it's been fun working you and listening to you
work the world. Right now, if you're interested
in operating, I can get in touch with you about
using one of the special event call signs. So,
yeah, I'll get in touch with you, and we'll go
from there. Does that sound good? That sounds
great, and you can look up my everything on QRZ
.com. And also, yeah, so thank you very much,
and keep that out of what you're doing. You're
doing a really great job. I'm going to start
working stations tomorrow once Y antenna gets
back up and operating. So we'll start working
stations here soon. 73 all. All right. Thanks
for calling in. I appreciate it. Yep. I see John
on Instagram. That's where I see him. So we have
Instagram users. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Neil,
bye. 73 all and I'll catch you next Thursday.
All right, John, thanks a lot for calling in
and yeah, we'll try to get you worked in Brian's
had a bit of a challenge trying to To get enough
spots for everybody, which is a good problem
to have we had a little bit of a plan to get
more people involved and with a little different
call sign thing and it just didn't work out with
everything globally so we kind of changed our
plan a little bit so he's trying to get some
people worked into the schedule so letting you
know get a hold of you and we'll see if we can
work you into the the schedule there because
I'm sure you'd be a great add to the team Well,
I'm going to let you continue with your calls.
I bet you got to pile up on the calls there.
So we'll let you go for 73 and zero JST. All
right. Thanks, John. Take care. All right. 812
-638 -4261 is the phone number. And I do have
a message if I can navigate to the right place.
Let's see. Dr. Scott Wright, KZeroMD says, my
best wishes to Bryant with the Yodi activity.
How is he balancing the need for a few thousand
QSOS with schoolwork? Let's see, the need for
it. So right now, a lot of other kids are working
the one by one call signs. So I can take it sort
of easy. All I have to do is just, you know,
kind of upload the logs here and there, keep
up to date. with the whole activity, but Marty,
Bruce, Charles, and Levi are doing a great job
operating the One by Ones this week. Again, they've
put over 1 ,500 cues in the log, but I am excited
to operate. I'll be operating a little bit later
in the month, and I look forward to using the
One by Ones and promoting youth and amateur radio
through the special event. So thank you for the
question, Mr. Wright. I appreciate it. Okay,
and he's not done. He says I just watched him
tonight on ham nation. Who is his press agent?
That's a good question I Am I'm not able to reveal
that information right now I Was going to spoil
it no press information or no press agent here
I'm just having fun in the hobby and I I'm trying
to do my part to promote it to youth and get
it out there. Again, Mr. Wright, I hope to work
you in a few contests. Maybe if you're on in
the 160 contest, I'll hear you there. I actually
just put up a 160L a few weeks ago, so maybe
I'll hear you there. The host of this show might
have had something to do with that appearance
on him That's a you know, that's a really good
point now. Thank you. Maybe Let's see and John
Scott says he gave a venture paddle to him never
heard his voice before so that's kind of cool.
So Thanks Scott for writing in K zero MD All
right eight one two six three eight four two
six one is the phone number if you'd like to
call in and ask a question Now's the time to
do that eight one two net ham one is the phone
number and we'll check the tweets here as We
go and we've already talked a little bit about
how the how the Q so's are going so far in the
Americas And I may put you on the spot here.
Do you know, is there anybody on right now? I
haven't looked at the spots. I can look actually
right now. QRX for a moment, will you? Yes, QRX.
This is the live radio portion of the show. So,
you know, we've been able to work over a thousand.
The goal is 100 ,000. I believe last year the
totals were somewhere around 80 ,000. So with
adding the US stations, which there was a US
station last year, by the way, the Lee family
did have a station. So we're expanding on that
this year. but with the addition of that and
Canada and Chile and Zina down in New Zealand
and and some more stations active over in Region
one in Europe and Africa in the Middle East I
Think this hundred thousand thing is doable,
but it's gonna take some some work. So Definitely
get on there and every band every mode Give us
a give us a call. So, all right. Did I stall
long enough? Let's see, so latest spot is for
Charles AA4LS operating as Kilo -8 Yankee, and
I think that was about 45 minutes ago. He was
on 7 .035 CW, so maybe he's still on. Next spotting
site I'll check is the Reverse Beacon Network,
so that might give a more up -to -date spot analysis.
Yeah, now, you know, I've noticed in watching
the spot that Almost all of you guys this week
have been on CW most of the time. That is a great
observation, yes. Marty has been doing a lot
of CW. Bruce KNAU has been doing a lot of CW.
LeviK6JO isn't so much of a CW operator yet.
He is taking some coaching from some very good
mentors from the Southern California Contesting
Club, as well as MartyNN1C is helping him out.
But he has been doing a great job on phone, making
lots of contacts. He even operated the little
phone fray contest that's on Tuesday nights,
so it was cool to hear Kilo8Oscar in that small
contest. But yes, lots of CW. In fact, I worked
at Kilo8 Yankee last night in the 0300 CWT contest,
so that was unique. And the call signs will be
on in lots of contests, so keep an ear out for
the US one -by -ones as well as all of the other
call signs that have Y -O -T -A in the suffix.
Now, I got Marty the other night and I got him
on CW. I pulled out. Nice. uh... you know you
know i i work you and see delhi and then you're
you're one of the few that i've worked on and
see delhi here lately but uh... uh... i actually
got it out because i was trying to get matthias
and then he he could The code was just coming
through way better than his voice and I tried
and tried and tried and he never did hear me
But but I'm trying to get back on the CW a little
bit. I'm not promised That's awesome to get on
CW a ton But I'm I'm trying to get back on a
little bit and add to the queue. So a little
practice takes yeah, it takes some practice and
I have I've had a few other things going on so
I haven't been practicing but but I'm getting
in there and trying to make a few cues at least
so We'll give that a shot. So Let's see. I'm
trying to think what else we need to talk about
here We've talked about the totals really don't
have any good good stories yet. We're only five
days in but You know we've got until the 31st.
Actually, I do know a good story I just didn't
think about tell us about this Special operator
that's gonna be on December 25th. Oh Yes, so
the leaf family are going to have they're going
to have a special guest in town for Christmas
I believe and their special guest went to a Yoda
camp in South Africa in 2018. I don't know exactly
his call sign so I don't know where he's from
but it does sound like he's from Europe or Africa
and so they're going to be using the Kilo8 Alpha
call sign while he's in town so their guests
can participate in Yoda Month from the United
States so I think that's really awesome. So December
25th we'll give him a chance to be on the air
and there's some There's some cool stuff out
there if you want to keep up with What's going
on youth on the air dot o RG Is the website for
all the stuff going on on the America's side
of things and we have links to the main page
over it I are you region one and we also tweet
out some stuff. We today put up the video from
your uh... appearance on ham nation last night
so uh... that's there and also here here is a
tweet that uh... uh... retweeted today uh...
from the u k uh... the r s g b youth team uh...
they were able to give forty very excited seven
and eight -year -olds the chance to speak to
santa yesterday using GB19YOTA. They gave him
their name using the phonetic alphabet and chatted
with them about what they wanted for Christmas.
How about that? That is just great. You know,
I think there's a similar program here in the
United States on the 39, 16, 75 meter get together.
Yep, the Santa Net. That's what I was trying
to... There's actually a couple of Santa Nets,
but yeah, the 3916 one, we've had them here on
the show before and remind you that they're there
again. But yeah, they got a chance to use the
Yoda call sign and got 40 kids on to talk to
Santa. Wow, 40, that's a lot. Hopefully it sparked
a fire and some interest in some of them. That'd
be really cool. eight one two six three eight
four two six one is the phone number if you would
like to chime in now's the Time to do that because
we're gonna finish things up here pretty soon
So give us a call eight one two six three eight
four two six one or a tweet over at ham talk
live on Twitter and So there's all kinds of good
stories a lot of these Stations over in Europe
are some of the they're using some of the big
gun stations and kind of meeting there and that
kind of thing we're here we're kind of scattered
out all over the place but there's just a lot
of good activity on right now with this and it's
been a lot of fun to watch it and we're only
five days in. Yes, I'm very excited to see the
youth operators as they continue. I'm very excited
to listen to them operate as they're doing a
great job and just be sure to get fire up your
HF radio or if you're a satellite operator turn
on your radio and work some of the youth this
December. They're really working hard for those
QSOs. Now before we go let's preview just a little
bit of you know the camp that's coming up which
that's part of you know the the yoda month is
to kind of make people aware of yoda and and
the camp that's coming up in june and you're
going to be talking about one of your favorite
topics so uh give people a little bit of an idea
of what you're going to be doing at the camp
So yes, I'm very excited to be talking Contesting
at the Yoda region to summer camp in Ohio this
summer all I get to share my love for Contesting
with the other youth that will be attending the
camp And I've heard rumors that there will be
an FMQSO party and a little mini contest at an
amusement park. So I'm really excited to participate
in those events and hang out with other youth
at the camp. It's going to be a great week. Yeah.
You know, when's the last time you had a chance
to work a contest at Kings Island? That never
yeah So, you know, there's all kinds of cool
stuff so check out the site if you know of a
Young ham that's light already licensed ages
15 to 25 Send them over to youth on the air org
have them sign up there for more information
and in February we'll open up the registration
period and get all that fun paperwork stuff going
and get things figured out for camp this summer.
And also, you know, we still need some funding.
Our donate button is there on youthontheair .org.
You can do that by PayPal or you can do the GoFundMe
thing. We've got another about four thousand
to raise before spring. And then if we can raise
another 10 total. We can add some more spots
for some more campers we can go up to 30 campers
instead of 20 so If you can help out with that
financially we could use that as well Okay, John
in zero JSD is riding back in says By the way,
you can never go wrong with contesting He's operated
w4 RN And that was his first taste of CW contesting
and he's at 40 words a minute now. Wow, that's
very impressive, John. Keep up the good work.
Yeah, I remember last night I was hanging out
in the chat room for Ham Nation and somebody
said, I wish I had half the CW speed Bryant has.
so we've got some talented operators out there
and talented CW operators as well and Take this
opportunity to to get on the air this month and
give them some cues and Help them out to reach
this goal of a hundred thousand. So Brian anything
else you want to share before we go? I just want
to encourage everybody to, again, turn on your
radios and work some of the Yoda month special
event stations. Again, the youth operators all
under the age of 25 are working very hard to
reach that 100 ,000 QSO goal. All right. Well,
thanks for coming on the show. I'm glad we could
get you on here and talk about it. Thank you
for having me. And thank you so much for taking
the lead on. Getting all this organized, getting
all the ops scheduled and get everybody together
and on the same page here as to what's going
on and getting those call signs set up and getting
everything on QRZ situated and running with this
thing and I think this will be a good program
for many years to come. Yes, it will. I'm very
excited for the future. All right, well we're
gonna say 7 -3 for tonight that is a wrap for
this week's edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to
Brian Rascal KG5HVO for being on and thanks to
everybody for calling in and typing in tonight
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Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 -3, 7 -5, and may the
good DX be yours.