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It's time for HamTalk Live. It's episode number
187. The Amateur Radio Newsline, Amateur Radio
Club, WA6ITF Memorial recorded live on Thursday,
October 24th, 2019. I'm your host, Neil Rapp,
WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this episode
of HamTalk Live. Tonight, we're joined by Don
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is Don Wilbanks, a E5DW. He joins us once again
from Picayune, Mississippi. you know i'm from
amateur radio news line and ham nation and his
day job is working at the i heart media radio
stations in new orleans producing commercials
and his formerly an on -air personality don is
a native of shawnee oklahoma first license in
nineteen ninety five he's an extra class license
holder in an active volunteer examiner and he
has a green car fetish what's not going to happen
is that he's already got a reddish And a red
guitar finish. Something about green cars and
red guitars. And I just want to say that following
Jerry Ellsworth and Amy Herndon, that's a pretty
tall order. We had them on Ham Nation, as you
know, last week, the day before you had them
on Ham Talk Live. Man, that's a tough act to
follow, Jerry and Amy. Those girls got big brains.
Don, you know I love you like a brother. No,
they're smart. They're bright. I'm not sure you
can follow them. They get no one. No, I'd guide
this what I'm saying I can't That's what I said
on ham nation the Don you want to say anything
to Jerry and Amy? So I'm just sitting here feeling
so inadequate I mean, you know, I'm still sitting
in the corner eating my crayons and these girls
are doing this augmented reality 3d stuff I'm
like what the heck and making their own chips
in the garage Oh, yeah, yeah that that's another
thing. Yeah. Yeah Jerry in her spare time makes
chips makes integrated circuits from scratch.
It's like cheese That's not that's not why they
call tonight, but yeah, just yeah just Jerry
and Amy just got amazing. So how are you doing?
I'm doing good. I'm doing good. How are you?
Well, it's a slow night. So obviously I'm back
on exactly And how are the cray and how do the
crayons taste? Well that I'm very disappointed
because the purple ones don't taste like grape
at all. Oh, man. Yeah You gotta do something
about that. We need flavored crayons Well, you
know, I'm getting them from the dollar store.
So it's me. That's all I can afford but Well,
it's been way too long I wanted to get you back
here on the show and then we say that about this
Yeah, I say that now Which you know we were talking
about if the wine glass was gonna be full or
empty at the beginning of the show or the end
But it was full before it's empty now. It will
be full again. Yeah, there you go. Yeah Well,
we've been talking about you know news line getting
Bill Pasternak wa6 ITF's call sign for quite
a while, and that finally happened. You are the
trustee of WA6ITF now. I am. Could not be more
proud. Yeah, it was a long, it was something
that, I don't remember who originally of the
Newsline staff had the idea. Might have been
Paul. Paul seems to be the idea guy, good or
bad. Might have been Paul. Yeah, good or bad.
Paul Brown, W9GCO. But anyway, it was kind of
a consensus like, why don't we do a amateur radio
news line, amateur radio club? And man, it wouldn't
be cool if we could get Bill's call. Look, well,
yeah, that would be cool. Let's see if we can
do that. And long story short, we did. Thanks
to Bill's daughter and Bill's wife, who is unfortunately
in the throws, the deep, deep throws of Alzheimer's.
But his daughter aided us in that, in getting
Bill's call, which was still active. I mean,
he had not been gone all that long, you know,
three, four years. So his call was still active.
We had to get his call canceled and have, you
know, a letter from the family stating that,
you know, what we were doing is what they wanted.
So, yeah, we now have WA6ITF as the as the the
the duly assigned call sign for the Amateur radio
newsline amateur radio club and we just could
not be more thrilled about it Well, tell us a
little bit about bill for those who don't know
bill because it's kind of hard to believe that
there are people who don't remember bill because
They are newly licensed and so right exactly
they may not know so remind everybody about bill
Well, Bill Pasternak is the one of the founders
along with Jim Hendershot of amateur radio newsline
Which has been going on for 40 years now. It's
hard to believe but over 40 years It started
as just a couple of guys on top of a mountaintop
in Southern, California on a net for the Westlink
linked repeater system Who were giving basically
a state of the system report and it was called
the Westlink report and then they started adding
other news items to it related to ham radio and
it just got bigger and bigger and bigger and
eventually it morphed into amateur radio news
line which was back in the in the early days
before the internet was cut on tape and was fedexed
by across the country back to bill whoever anchored
the newscast and it went out actually on dedicated
telephone lines all around the country that's
how you got amateur radio news line was you called
a telephone to listen to it or to record it or
to play it over your net well now you know 40
years later it's all done digitally over the
internet via you know we share files back and
forth via Dropbox which is a heck of a lot cheaper
and easier than you know FedExing tape you know
back when I got into it when I got licensed in
1995 but yeah Bill Pashnick founded that And
he also founded and began the Young Ham of the
Year Award back 30 some odd years ago. And his
passion was to spread the word about amateur
radio and education and kids and just lumping
all that together. And that's kind of Bill's
legacy. He passed away about four years ago and
we are carrying on. I've said many times, we
cannot fill his shoes. No one can, but we can
take the next step and continue the footsteps
that ended when he passed away. We can continue
the walk and leave our own footsteps, but no
one is filling his shoes. So that's kind of the
legacy of Bill Pasternak and doing the Amateur
Radio Newsline Amateur Radio Club with WA6ITF
as the call sign. Just a way to remember him
and memorialize him and and and keep that call
on the air and we're going to We have plans for
the cost and we haven't done any activations
yet But we're gonna be doing some activations
and maybe some special events and I can I can
probably see I Could I could foresee? Doing it
doing something for maybe his birthday or something
like that I'd say what I would really like to
do and this just popped into my head is Bill
always did the town hall meeting at Hamvention.
And of course, Hamvention has their special event.
I would very much like to sit there at the controls
of the special event station at Ham Nation and
do that under the as WA6ITF. And I think that
may be something that we'll try to do in upcoming
years. Just a thought, something to do. Well,
and I know you know when you contacted Bill's
daughter about this I think her her response
was like an hour later No, it was less than that.
It was like an almost. Yeah, I was via email
So as soon as she saw the email, she's like,
oh my god. Tell me what I need to do. Yes. Yes
Yes, just and oh, yes, this is this is great
bill would love this and so would Sharon if she
could comprehend it unfortunately But you know
Alzheimer's being what it is. So yeah, and and
when I You know when I want to we emailed her
back and said well, okay the First off because
because his call was still an active call Bill
himself had to be a member of the club. Well
since since his death predated the forming of
the club He was a member emeritus, which is not
good enough for the FCC. So the original request
for that call got turned down. So we had to go
back and get something from the executor of his
estate and the death certificate and everything
saying, you know, here's what we need. And then
it was granted. But when I sent her the screenshot
of the FCC website showing that we were now WA6ITF,
she's like, Oh my God, I'm typing through tears
of joy. Yeah, she's just, she's thrilled. She's
just absolutely thrilled. And we'll try to get
her on and activate that call as well one of
these days. Yeah. So, you know, we've talked
a little bit about plans. You know, are there
any other plans that you're thinking of to, you
know, maybe an annual thing to remember Bill
or? You know, what's the idea? Yeah, I've got
several things kicking around in my head. And,
you know, of course, it's going to be a group
event with everyone in Newsline. It's not just
me, anybody who is my answering machine going
off, anyone who, you know, is a is a current
or former staff member of Amateur Radio Newsline.
is basically a member of the club. I mean, that's
just that's how you get in the club. If you've
recorded audio for amateur radio news line, you're
you're basically in the club, you know, where
you've been drafted with you want to or not.
So you're eligible to act. So you're eligible.
I mean, you can activate that call if you would
like. And and anybody at any time, any of us
could, you know, you could go on one Saturday
afternoon if you want to do W6ITF. I've actually
thought about it. I haven't had time and I've
got some antenna issues with my my HF station
now. But, um, I'm seriously thinking about doing
it for field day. Oh, yeah. Just, yeah. I mean,
just, yeah, there's no, there's, there's no,
there doesn't have to be a special event to put
that call sign on the air is like, if one day
you want to get on there and you want to say,
Hey, this is a W a six ITF, the amateur radio
news line, amateur radio club, um, activating
and, uh, You know if you want to make some contacts
and put some calls in the log and sling a few
QSL cards out There's nothing wrong with that.
So doesn't have to be a special event to put
it on the air, but we We will plan Hopefully
some annual things. So maybe his birthday or
something like that. Yeah Well, we talked about
flying these cassettes by FedEx across the country
And that's no longer the case. So remind everyone
how they can listen to Newsline and if they want
to put Newsline on their local repeater or even
Simplex for that matter, how they can go and
find that information and find out where all
these audio files are and get that done. Yeah,
super easy a are newsline dot o RG for amateur
radio newsline a are Alfa Romeo newsline org
is the website and every week you will see a
synopsis of what's in the right at the top of
the page you'll see a synopsis of what's in the
report and then you'll see click here for the
script and click here for the audio and You can
right -click save as that audio and you can play
it on on your own net It dovetails really nicely
with Echo Producer for EchoLink. There are a
lot of nets that run it that way that actually
schedule it to where it comes on at a particular
time. And you don't necessarily need our permission
to run it, just let us know that you're doing
it because of course in the 10 minute ID break
every week for the 20 minute newscast, we try
to highlight a repeater or a bulletin station
who is airing Newsline and of course if... You
have one of those stations by all means let us
know Newsline today our newsline org is our email
address and let us know. Hey, I'm So -and -so
and this is my net on such -and -such night at
8 p .m. Or whatever and we run amateur radio
newsline or we run it as a simplex we run it
just however just let us know and We'll put you
with our thanks and gratitude in with the ID
break in the in the middle of the show It's pretty
easy, arsline .org. And the listing's on the
website, and we can put it on there, and there's
the, we call it the Hi -Fi and Lo -Fi. I'm not
sure we're Lo -Fi. Well, if there's Hi -Fi, there's
got to be Lo -Fi, but there's the Hi -Fi version
that sounds a lot better, but the Lo -Fi works
on Echo Producer. Right. And if you do use Echo
Producer, just give us an email and we'll send
you that. It's like a buried link basically is
what that is. And then it's also available in
podcast format. So you can go to any podcast
player and it's pretty much there. Yeah, it's
right there. There's a million different ways
to get us. We're in so many places you trip over
us. Probably. Quite often even But that would
be right now because because yeah, you know it
it's fall And it's a labor of love for all of
us. None of us get paid There's not been a single
person in the 40 year history of amateur radio
newsline who has ever made a penny off of this
You know, everything is volunteer we do it for
the love of the hobby and to give back and a
lot of us just Because of bill Bill was one of
those guys who I'm kind of like the godfather
he Made you an offer. You couldn't refuse. You
know, I just you could not you could not say
no to bill and on the very few occasions since
1995 When I first got involved with Newsline
that I actually had to say I'm sorry. I can't
do it this week it Killed me inside every time.
So he was just one of those guys that you just
could not say no to and I've never heard a bad
word about Bill plaster neck ever In fact, he's
the only person that's ever been honored twice
by the Dayton amateur radio association with
awards from Hamvention the only ham ever to have
been awarded twice by By the Dayton Hamvention
pretty cool. That's that's pretty cool. Pretty
impressive. Yep Well, we're going to take a break
and when we come back, we're going to talk about
some other things that that news line is doing
and who knows what else when Don's on the show,
you know, you never know where this is going
to go. Settle down now, Neil. Yeah. So so strap
in, grab a beverage and we'll be back. with Todd
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us a call. 812 -638 -4261. Now, let's talk a
little bit about some other things Newsline is
doing. And we've put together this new presentation
that we can do over Skype or in person for club
so talk about this uh... this club presentation
thing yeah in fact uh... uh... i'd say who who
spearheaded that was paul brown w d nine g c
l he put it more or less put that together i
believe and uh... uh... he joined me at uh...
the peoria superfest in september which also
was my birthday party which just happened to
be the same you know within a couple days of
my birthday so it was the uh... peoria illinois
superfest and ons fifty ninth birthday party
which is very cool and they worked out very well
they invite me i think it was listed that way
in q street too go good that's funny well you
know any excuse for a party right but uh... web
we went up there but i was invited up there to
speak to do a forum and uh... we use the powerpoint
uh... for the first time and uh... yeah it worked
out great Drew Vreba, our current young ham of
the year, was there as well because he only lives
about 45 minutes away. He lives in normal Illinois,
just about 30 -45 minutes away from Peoria. And
that was probably the high point of the trip,
that and the fact that they did birthday cake
for me the Friday night before, before the ham
fest. The low point of the trip, unfortunately,
was sharing a hotel room with Paul Brown, WD9GCO.
But, you know, it didn't... It's a it's a balance.
No Paul was Paul was actually Paul was actually
a really Just a lot of fun to be around and first
as the longest I'd really time I'd really spent
with him other than at at hamvention, but no
Paul's good guy and I got to see his amazing
install If you if you saw ham nation last night,
we had about a four and a half minute video of
Paul's radio install in his Subaru Impreza Which
is a manual shift, but he added the paddle shifters
behind the steering wheel and he has turned those
into push -to -talk buttons for his two VHF UHF
radios in his car just I'd have never thought
about that, but it's a pretty cool project So
check out check out the latest ham nation from
last night the 23rd depending on when you're
listening to this and you'll see a little Little
video of that about four and a half minutes or
so of Paul's install. So yeah, we're the The
PowerPoint worked really great at Peoria and
just a big thanks to the to the folks there for
having us up there just really good host and
a great little ham fest and I certainly hope
to be back up there at some point in the near
future and and this is also available to clubs
for for club meetings during Or over Skype we
can we can do that that way if you're you're
not Close by I actually did one up in Franklin,
Indiana But you know it was close enough I could
run up there and and and do it myself and got
to see one of our correspondents Jack Parker
w8ish and We had him try out reading the world
of DX or as I like to call it the world of unpronounceable
names Yes, exactly bill used to give me those
and I would email him back and go what in the
heck is this and He would like well, I know you're
always and he always told me he said I give the
hard ones to you because you never mess them
up I'm like, wow, that's high praise but yeah,
I'd like some people do with Placer County Placer
Placer Placer County Placer County. That's all
right. But yeah, I, well, I spent a lot of time
in central California. I've got relatives there.
So when I heard Placer County, I immediately
knew, no, that's supposed to be Placer County.
That's what happens when you're trying to produce
news line two minutes before HamTalk Live. Right.
And you don't always have time to do the things
and yeah, you know, when I, when I, when I do
the anchoring, I try to take time to go through
and And if there's something that I can't pronounce,
I'll Google it and do the Google pronunciation
and have like, you can, it's very cool, you can
have like a native speaker in that language,
pronounce it for you, which really, really helps
a lot. Yeah, it does. I use that a lot. You gotta
go by and, yeah, and check, you know, recheck
call signs when you're doing the news line anchoring.
That was another thing. Bill, if you ever, for
those of you who knew Bill, he wrote exactly
the way he spoke. which made for some interesting
scripts sometimes. It would take me an hour and
a half to put together a 30 minute newscast when
Bill would send me a script. It's a lot faster
now that Karen Eve Murray is writing it because
she writes for news and Bill kind of wrote. The
way he spoke a lot of times and so it's a it's
a lot easier and that's let me tell you something
If you're a club and you want to have one of
us from Newsline Come in and like do a Skype
thing or whatever. We're all available But I'd
say who would be very interesting would be Karen
Eve Murray Katie to GUT She's kind of the unsung
hero. She's the one who basically puts words
in our mouths She is the editor in chief for
amateur radio news line and is responsible for
putting those words Down so that those of us
who anchor or read the stories can have that
so she has taken over bills Place as editor and
I just want to put a plug out if you if you want
get somebody from from Newsline to come and do
a Skype meeting or by all means Karen Eve Murray
is Fascinating just her hobbies and some of the
things that she's involved with outside of amateur
radio with Emma animal rescue And she's got a
thing for squirrels, which could explain why
she is a member of the Newsline staff, because,
well, we're all nuts. We're all nuts, exactly.
But no, we're all available. Just send an email
to newsline .org and inquire, and we'd be more
than happy to do that. And if you want to, much
in the same way that Peoria did for me, if you
want to fly one of us to, if you want to have
one of us at your event, in person you know it's
just get us there and put us up in a hotel room
and then there's there's no charge other than
just the travel expenses of getting us there
and getting us back and you know we don't we
don't charge anything extra for that so it's
a lot easier with Skype and a heck of a lot cheaper
now so we're available whatever you you know
whatever you need for us we're out there we love
to spread the word about amateur radio news line
and keep keep Bill's legacy alive now, you know
you mentioned Karen and Now that we've established
that Karen is the one writing the words we can
put she's our blame for puns Yes, she's our mama
Karen is our mama That that is true And I mean
that in the best possible way she is she she's
like I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
who who hosted romper room like in your TV market
when you were a kid But in New Orleans it was
miss Fran and so she is she is our miss Fran
She's the one who's in charge of the news line
romper room Keep this in line Yeah, and really
I don't know rise. I don't know what we do without
her. I really don't she's amazing. Oh, I know.
Yes, and God's in She can write and and and the
the puns are just unbelievable. Oh, she's hilarious,
but it's it's it's amazing how How she came to
us when bill was ill? We had actually we had
missed a couple of weeks of newsline for like
the first time in like 35 years Had never missed
a deadline missed a week and when bill went in
the hospital suddenly It just things stopped
You know, well, Bill had been in and out of the
hospital. And I remember one night Skeeter Nash,
N5ASH. I had something going on behind the scenes
to where my evenings were taken. So I actually
took about two months off of doing pretty much
anything for Amateur Radio Newsline. And Skeeter
stepped in to do a lot of the anchoring and stuff
when Bill was ill. And I remember while I'm sitting
here one night in this chair and my phone rings
and it's Skeeter. And I pick up the phone and
he goes, hey, I have Bill on the phone. I'm like,
really? So we're talking and we're talking about
Newsline and. And Skeeter is like, you know,
well, we've we got an email from this lady, Karen
Eve Murray, Katie to GT, and she writes for she's
to write for New York Newsday, and she's done
some broadcast writing and she's really interested
in helping us out. And we think that. She could
be a good person to you know help with the scripts
and Bill Just is sitting there going hire her
hire her hire her hire her get her on the staff
Just just tell her she's in just hire her hire
her hire 24 hours later Bill Pasternak had passed
away So that was the last thing that Bill told
us to do was to hire Karen Eve Murray K -2 -G
-U -T, and it's the best thing we've ever done.
Yeah, she's done a fabulous job. Well, we have
a call on the HamTalk Live hotline 812 -638 -4261.
So let's see who we have here. Good evening.
Welcome to HamTalk Live. Good evening, Neil and
Don. Denny here with a new call sign, K -5 -D
-C -C. Oh my goodness, you got a new call sign.
Yeah, to go with the did you come cafe theme?
But anyway, I heard Don was talking about Doing
some promo spots on the AR news like and I know
Don's all about young people Don you probably
have already met? Ed captain ed of the yacht
and the echo link conference server with all
these fantastic young hams I'll tell you what
they just blow my mind from like seven years
old and their teens so we've got such an amazing
crop of kids there and we have two nets a week
Tuesday night and Saturday night at 7 p .m. Central
we're looking for more young people and these
people are really setting the example for the
rest of the amateur radio world I'll tell you
what so if you get a chance if you can put a
plug in for them and our nets we're combining
some resources and stuff to help expand their
reach And as well listened to as the AR news
line is, it would be great to have you kind of
promote them too. I think you already know some
of these young people. Yeah, absolutely. I missed
part of the question because my Bluetooth disconnected
for some reason I'm like all of a sudden I quit
talking in there silence I'm like wait a minute.
Let me turn my Bluetooth on and back off and
back on So anyway, I'm off the Bluetooth now
and I yeah No, we're more than happy to support
anything Youth oriented and yacht especially
and no we're we're all about that. So yeah, absolutely
Wonderful. Thanks for all you do. Anyway, just
had to let you know my new call sign. That was
a big thing for me stumbled across this call
sign that just fits so perfectly and nobody was
fighting over it, which was surprising. But anyway,
now I've had two days of trying to straighten
out all of my places where I use this call sign,
email addresses, websites, digital platforms
and everything. I don't know if you guys have
ever had to go through that before, but it's
a lot of work. Yeah, it's it's always traumatic
to change your call sign Which is why when I
finally got my extra my extra class call sign
I tattooed it on my arm So I don't think I'll
ever change it, but no it's it's like changing
an email address. It's nuts. It's absolutely
nuts Yeah, I I'm listening to your show Neil
on Twitter I've got it in my tweet nest here,
and I was just going down the list on my website,
and I saw live Ham talk live is on and right
below that was another post with the phone number
and everything so it works out pretty slick and
I see What's at well at one done? Will banks
is that something different wasn't it? Just done.
Will banks. No, that's my Twitter handle at one
done. Will banks Okay, I thought maybe you had
make some changes to at some point in time no
anyway, thank there There's only one and that's
all we could stand so Well, thank you guys for
all you do for the hobby. Thanks, Denny. All
right. Thanks, Denny. Yeah, I got to spend some
time with him in Huntsville. Great guy. He does
a lot of things with the stuff that he does.
Just a great guy. Yep. Yep, sure does. The Digicom
Cafe with Denny. And now I'm going to have to
get used to that new call. Yeah. 812 -638 -4261
is the phone number if you'd like to join us
812 -638 -4261 is the number so give us call
we'll finish things up here in just a few minutes,
but Don you've been You've been doing the ham
fest rounds lately Peoria and Huntsville Dayton,
Oklahoma City not long ago Yeah, that was about
I was a few years ago, and that was a lot of
fun enjoyed that Dayton I go when I can I don't
always get to make that every year unfortunately
Huntsville got to make that because that's young
hem of the year and you know got invited up to
Peoria and that was just a Really cool thing.
So yeah, thanks to the Peoria folks and the Oklahoma
City folks for inviting me and making it possible
for me to come up and do those. Just humbled
and honored to be able to even be asked to do
that. So yeah, it's very cool. Well, we've got
another call on the line, so we'll see who we
have now. Good evening, welcome to HamTalk Live.
Good evening, Neil, and to you, Mr. Will Banks.
This is Bill WZ1L in Amesbury, Massachusetts.
and I am calling because I have been a faithful
listener to the broadcast of Amateur Radio Newsline
for many years. I was licensed in 1981 and keep
up with what's going on and even hear the snippets
that are put out on Wednesday evening on Ham
Nation. I was pleased to learn that The WA -6
ITF call sign will continue to be heard on the
airways. I believe I met, yeah, I met him once,
I think in Dayton, and because he was mobbed
like you guys there when you go to Dayton and
hang around the library. It was really interesting
to at least meet him and shake hands with him
when he was there. I look forward to future reports
and I just wanted to let the AR Newsline staff
know that they're appreciated. That's all. All
I wanted to do was make a comment. Well, thank
you so much. That means a lot to us. Yeah, I
mean, you know, we do it because we share the
enthusiasm and the calling that Bill had for
A, letting people know what's going on in this
hobby and B, promoting youth and education. in
amateur radio and incorporating that and Because
you know the kids that the next generation Is
the lifeblood of this hobby of any hobby? you
know whether it's old cars or You know basket
weaving or baseball card collecting or whatever
it is if you don't get the youth involved It's
gonna end. It's just gonna die off Because you
know we all have a limited shelf life unfortunately,
but we all share that passion that bill had for
youth and kids and in ham radio and so we're
trying to trying to keep the torch lit and I
really appreciate the kind words we We truly
do and thank you very much for that. I Appreciate
that and thank you Neil for letting me call in
And we'll try again pretty soon on another Hamptack
Live. All right. Well, thank you so much for
calling. We appreciate it and appreciate all
the kind words. Thanks a lot for calling. All
right. We have another call on the line. And
so it's Jocelyn, KD8VRX, who I heard on HF this
afternoon. Hi, Jocelyn. Hey, good evening Neil,
and good evening to Don. It's nice to have Don
back on. I know it's a slow night, but I'm glad
he could make it. Hey man! Listen, Jocelyn and
his whole family, they're just some of my favorite
people and I love you guys to death. It's so
cool that you call in. It must be a real slow
night up there where you are. Don, you're not
wrong. I am almost in an empty out, but anyways
I know I was going to say I think the fact that
you got the Bill Pasternak's call sign for the
amateur radio news line club is quite exciting
and I'm looking forward to work you guys as a
special event for whatever you do. I'm sure there'll
be plenty of youth activities that maybe you
can use that call sign for. You know anything
you can come up with anything we can do to help
would be happy to help you out. I think it's
a great thing and I saw you were talking about
Paul Brown's Battleship thing yesterday. Yeah,
he's a lot clever than you and me combined. Yeah,
he really is. He's too clever for his own good.
Yeah, it's very cool. Very cool. Anyway, I know
you've got more people that want to chime in.
So, Don, I just want to say a quick hello. Hope
everything's fine, and we'll see you soon. And
Neil, I will maybe talk to you on 20 tomorrow.
We'll see what happens. So anyways, good night,
guys, and thank you for being there tonight.
Well, thank you. Tell the boys I said hi, and
my love to Kim, and I just love you guys to death.
Thanks for calling in. No problem. Same from
here. And yeah, well, we can try 20. I don't
know. We're so close. We'll try it. We'll try
it. One more day of school club roundup. So we'll
give it a shot. Yeah, you guys do that. I'm always
driving home from work. When the school club
roundup is on, I always miss it. No, we're on
until 8 o 'clock. Oh, are you? Okay. Well, yeah,
we go three to eight at our school. So, you know,
you can catch some of the universities on at
night, too. Yeah. Cool. Yep. One more night.
So we'll... It makes for some long days from
7 a .m. To 8 p .m. But but yeah, it's a whole
lot of fun and we've got it we've got a new guy
this year that Hadn't been in ham radio before
he went to a summer camp for Boy Scouts and Got
his license he got his radio merit badge got
his license came back and came in one day and
said you know hey I wanted to find out about
the Ham Radio Club. I've got my license, but
I've never been on the radio before. And so we
got him on. It took a while to get him kind of
used to the mic and everything, but tonight he's
just been rattling off contacts two and three
a minute. So very cool. You know, it's a pretty
cool time. So if you get a chance to get on the
air, if you're listening, you know, get on. There's
a lot of people warming up for CQ Worldwide out
there, too. We talked to Croatia and Serbia today
and St. Lucia and I forget where all. They're
out there warming up. So it's a fabulous time
to be on the air because we just had Jamboree
on the air. We've got people warming up for CQ
Worldwide this weekend. We've got School Club
Roundup all week. And as soon as School Club
Roundup ends, CQ Worldwide starts. So there is
no lack. of people out there to contact on the
air right now. So, if you get a chance, give
some schools a call. It ends at 2359 tomorrow.
And then, you know, get on CQ Worldwide. Cool
stuff. Well, Don, it looks like our time has
gone away here, but oh, we've got a note here
from Troy Simpson, W9KVR, just got back from
parent -teacher conferences, so. I wish you could
have put those hours in for School Club Roundup.
Yeah, so we've talked to Troy this week as well
and hopefully you can get a little more airtime
before 2359 tomorrow. Don, it's been a pleasure
as always. Thank you for coming on and talking
about this new... call or new old call sign and
all the plans for the future. My pleasure. I
mean, I'm always happy to spread the word and
always happy to be on with you. And you're one
of my favorite people to you and Julie. And of
course, give my love to your lovely, your lovely
Julie. And thanks for having me on. All right.
Well, thank you. And, and have you found any
green cars lately? We didn't talk about that.
No, well, I've maybe that'll be something we
can talk about the next time you have a slow
night green cars and red guitars and what that
means and red guitars Yeah, we go and hillbilly
music. No, that's a whole different thing. That's
a dry I said I just went to a Dwight Yoakam concert
last week. So now I've got Guitars Cadillacs
and hillbilly music that was green cars red guitars
and hillbilly music. That's what I meant to you
right there. There you go With a ball. Thanks
for right. Yeah All right, we'll go fill that
wine glass back up and we'll uh, I'll do it.
We'll be talking to you. Thank you, sir. Thanks
so much All right. Well, that's a wrap for this
week's edition of ham talk lives. Thanks to my
guest Don will banks 85 DW and everybody out
there in cyberspace for listening and calling
in and I invite you back next Thursday night
at 9 p .m. Eastern Time. For a list of our upcoming
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others find us faster. So for now, this is Neil
Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 -3, 7 -5, and may the
good DX be yours. Bye bye.