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175 in the Huntsville HamFest preview. 2019 recorded
live on Thursday, August 1st, 2019. I'm your
host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in
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Hamfest. Mark works at one of the many high -tech
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Alabama DX Club, the Huntsville Amateur Radio
Club, and a member of both the Tennessee and
Alabama contest groups. Mark started out as a
novice class ham in high school and got back
into the service at age 50 in full force. Mark
has been working hard all year on preparing for
his second year as the chairman of the Huntsville
Ham Fest. And that's What we'll be talking about
tonight. So Mark, welcome back. Thank you, Neil.
It's great to be here. All right. Well, we got
off to a rough start here. Technically Murphy
decided to show up, but hopefully we can, we
can keep him away for the next 40 minutes or
so. So You've been through a year now and and
you've got this new ham fest coming up. We'll
talk a little bit about You know some of the
things that you learned from your first year
But first of all, let's just tell everybody about
the Huntsville ham fest. What can guests expect
to see? When they walk into the Vaughn Braun
Center Well Neil the the von Braun Center is
is of course a downtown Civic Center with with
underground parking and a parking garage across
the street It's it's it's a great venue. We we
absolutely love the the venue here and our and
our visitors do too We're going to have plenty
of great vendors here the major radio manufacturers
including Ella craft flex icon Yesu Kenwood.
They'll all be here step IR is is coming to visit
Huntsville this year. I don't know if it's their
first visit, but they haven't been here in the
past couple, but we're looking forward to having
them back. A lot of great vendors, a lot of radio
-focused vendors. We've got a great, vibrant
flea market. 384 plus tables. We're actually
squeezing a few more in because the waiting list
this year is bigger than it has been in the past.
So we're trying to fit a few more in. And a lot
of radio related stuff. We hear there's a good
focus on the equipment and parts that folks are
able to find here that they don't see in other
hamfests. So we're proud of that. It's a nice
mix of commercial vendors and good flea market
quality. That's all indoors and it's all under
80 ,000 square feet of air conditioned floor
space. It's just clean and comfortable and we
hope you can visit. We got that great youth lounge.
I think it's their 17th or 18th year. We expanded
it by about 50 % last year in space. It's very
popular. Solder schools, Fox hunts, Arduino classes,
robots. We have a go -to station where we can
talk a young him into actually getting on the
air and making a phone or digital contact. And
so, uh, of course we got the outstanding youth,
uh, uh, forums, uh, great form lineup. I'll get
into that some more in a bit, but, uh, yeah,
it's, it's, uh, that's what folks can expect
at the Huntsville Hampest this year. More great
stuff. It's always a pleasure to come down there
and I always say it's the. It's the most comfortable,
easiest ham fest to go to because everything
is in one great big room. And, uh, you know,
and when you say one great big room, it is one
great big room. It's a lot of square footage.
Uh, you've got all the vendors and everything.
Yeah, that one great big room. Of course, we're
talking about the commercial and the flea market.
But off to the sides, and not part of that square
footage calculation, we have the forum rooms.
Some of those are in the Von Braun Center, and
then some are connected via the crosswalk that
goes over to the embassy suites. We get a few
more rooms over there. And again, those are all
air conditioned, quiet rooms. you know, good,
good form presentations. And we're actually,
we have the exam area that's out in the hallway.
Uh, we, we are pressing that that's going to
do double duty this year. Uh, after the exams
are concluded, we will have additional forum,
uh, uh, topics, uh, covered in, uh, in that room,
what we're calling room six, uh, the, uh, the
exam area. Oh, very good. Well, uh, yeah, you,
you do use some of the. the hotel space and of
course the sky bridge there makes it easy to
walk back and forth from the hotel if you're
lucky enough to have landed one of the rooms
at the embassy suites and you can you can walk
back and forth and take your stuff that you buy
and lock it up and it's just a great great facility
and so I I applaud you keeping it there and keep
going with it because it really is a fine facility.
Everything is all right together and it makes
life so much easier. And then, you know, if you
take off to one of the forums, it's very easy
access to get there, to all of those forum rooms.
So great job on that. Yeah. This is, this is
the second year now, uh, that you've been in
charge of this. So, so what are some of the things
that you learned from doing this the first time?
Well, it's, uh, first of all, it's truly a team
effort. Uh, I, I, I was asked to, uh, uh, to
be the chairman, but there are guys, uh, that
I work with on the committee that had been doing
this for man decades and, uh, Without their experience,
their insight, their knowledge, we couldn't do
it. No one person could do this alone. One of
the things I learned in the first year that if
a question comes up, if a person doesn't have
the answer, it comes to me. Some of it I'm making
it up as I go, but it's always a learning experience,
and you never know what the next day brings.
I have a regular daytime job, but every once
in a while I'll get an email saying, okay, can
you give me the details about the embassy shuttle?
I'm flying in on such and such. And confirming
the details and getting back to questions like
that, it takes time, but that's what it takes
to answer those kind of questions. But like I
said, it's a team effort. It's a lot of volunteers
rowing the same way. Yeah, you got to have those
those volunteers that know those all those different
areas and knows what time the shuttle is Well,
you've got a lot of pretty high -profile forums
this year and you've already mentioned you've
had to expand the forum areas Tell us about some
of these forums that are going to be happening
Well, okay, just going down the schedule, I'm
pleased to mention that Carol Perry, after having
a wonderful first -year visit, is coming back.
Carol will be doing an instructor's forum in
one of the rooms. And following that then, the
league, the ARRL, has a two -hour block, and
we're pleased to announce that Rick Roderick,
the ARRL president, and howard michael uh...
the a double l c e o uh... will be here in addition
to the southeastern director uh... greg sorat
j vann martin the alabama section manager frank
butler is retired division uh... director he
uh... he's a regular at uh... at datin and uh...
and huntsville he's uh... he's a wonderful guy
he's uh... he's part of the crew bob ender bitson
will be here i think he's doing a forum on on
sunday on uh... on what is it basically introducing
or recruiting new hands. He's got a Facebook
video that are recorded up in Oshkosh and I encourage
everybody to search out that video. Bob has done
a great job in encouraging all of us to be ambassadors
for the hobby, to promote the hobby in basically
an elevator speech. Don't basically turn somebody
off by by launching into a long -winded technical
explanation, but give them enough to get them
intrigued and want to learn more. So Bob's got
a great video there, and he'll be doing a forum,
like I said, on Monday. We've got the Repeater
Council, the Ares Forum from Alabama. Oh, in
one of the other rooms, I mentioned We have a
very good relationship with Orlando and Dayton.
Both of those organizations will be here and
they will be presenting a combined forum talking
about their respective Orlando hamcation and
Dayton hamvention. These guys are wonderful.
I spend time with them at their respective...
events, and we have truly a close working relationship.
We're not in competition. These events, we have
to work together. We have to make them good for
the vendors and the visitors alike. And I'm looking
forward to sharing a bottle of whiskey with Jack
Gerbs from Dayton. We will kick back some night
and just share good information. And so they're
doing a forum in one of the rooms. We have John
Stensby. He's a retired professor from University
of Alabama Huntsville, using equations and measurements
to determine coax loss from the shack end. And
these are more accurate than metered instrument
measurements. So I've seen this program at a
DX club meeting, and it's truly, truly amazing.
The Joint Service Mars Group, Army and Air Force
Mars, will be doing a two -hour presentation.
My former boss, Bob Depeer, KHKI, is going to
be doing a talk about extending the match of
your low band antennas. Low band antennas are
notoriously narrow band, and so if I have time,
I'd like to see Bob's presentation. Bob Heil
will be here doing a program on understanding
speech articulation. He's got a Receive parametric
EQ, I think that's part of the talk, but Bob's
always interesting and we're looking forward
to hosting Bob there. The contest forums, they've
got a three -hour group, Bryant Rascal, last
year's Young Ham winner. He did a talk in Dallas,
he's doing it again here, talking about New Blood
drafting the next generation of contesters. It's
a very good program that Brian does. He's a great
young man and we're glad to have him again. And
Remote Station Contesting, Fred Dennon, Whiskey
Whiskey 4 Lima Limas coming over from Georgia.
He's got this Be Loud remote ham station that's
up in the New England area that he can remote
in or other folks can remote in to work contests.
NCJ, this is a late edition, National Contest
Journal deputy editor will be here to talk about
the future of contesting. Carl, KL9A. We'll be
doing a talk on cycle 24 and 25 and propagation
during this solar minimum. I think Carl did this
program up in Dayton, but I missed it. We've
got an AMSAT program formed by the AMSAT board
of directors, John, K4, SQC, Personal Space Weather
Station, Bob, AB4EJ. He was in Dayton also. Our
own Dr. Monty Bateman. Dr. Bateman does, he wears
several hats at the Huntsville Hamfest. He's
been doing the Youth Lounge now for I mentioned
17 or 18 years. Well, he takes a break from the
Youth Lounge and talks about what he does at
work. He is a NASA solar physicist who studies
lightning. He's got two different programs, Lightning
Research at Marshall Space Flight Center and
the second one, Lightning Protection for the
radio amateur. Both of those will be absolutely
wonderful programs. The different radio manufacturers
are basically talking about their, in different
forums, will be talking about their radio architectures.
The Software Defined Radio Introduction, Steve
from SDR Play. SDR technology that changes how
we operate by Steve Hicks at Flex Radio. Yesu
Fusion is going to be talked about by John N9
UPC from Yesu. Joe Fairclaw will be talking about
education through communication. Let's see, the
next generation of direct sampling transceivers
by Ed Schwartz of Ellicraft. Pico balloons, that's
turned into a really popular topic, and our Huntsville
-owned Bill Brown, WB8ELK, Bill has launched
a number of these small Mylar balloons carrying
a circuit board that's really small and really
light, and these things will circumnavigate the
globe, sometimes many times. And following his
forum, he'll be launching balloons outside, weather
permitting. So, we're looking forward to bringing
up ham radio pico balloons around the world.
Let's see, we got Ben Lowe, another DX club member,
K4QF talking about a Rambo rover station. Ben
does a lot of VHF and ultra -high frequency work.
He's involved in contesting in that range, so
certainly some interesting stuff. Rob Suggs,
Dr. Rob Suggs, the president of Marshall Space
Flight Center, Marshall Radio Club, How We Talked
from the Moon. Rob always does interesting programs.
I've not seen that one yet, but it should be
interesting. Ray Novak, ICOM sales manager, will
be hosting a two -hour D -Star forum. So we got
a lot of things covered, but we've got more.
Joe Eisenberg, kit building techniques. Let's
see, what else? Like I mentioned, Bob Inderbitzen
is doing a program, Summits on the Air. We have
a couple of programs, a couple of different presenters
on talking about Summits on the Air and advances
in severe weather detection, Tornado Alert, a
very popular product in... in areas where we're
prone to tornadoes, these standalone weather
radios do more than just beep when there's a
National Weather Service warning. I've heard
they do a lot more, but I don't have many more
details. But that's a sampling of the forums
we've got, Neil. Just a tremendous great lineup.
And it's partly because we have such a great
pool of talent here in the rocket city to draw
on. to be able to have and host these kinds of
forums. We're, we're very proud of those and
we hope folks visit and, uh, and, uh, and take
advantage of these forums. Yeah, that's an all
star lineup there. You've, you've got some, uh,
amazing titles and amazing people delivering
those. And many of those people, um, have even
been on this show. So, um, I know, um, uh, Steve
is going to be on, uh, just that Thursday before
Huntsville while he's down there he's going to
be on this show talking about building a modest
from Be Loud. Um, and he'll be talking about
building a, a more modest contest station. He's
been on before talking about, you know, the,
the big one that they've got up in Maine, but
he's going to be here talking a little bit about,
uh, building a more modest contest station. So
you've got a great lineup there and, and lots
of opportunities to learn from some of the best
experts. And you really do have quite the talent
pool down there. Dr. Bateman, Dr. Suggs, uh,
You know, those guys just, just, you know, bring
this each and every year and, uh, you really
do have a great talent pool down there. Yep.
Well, we're going to take a break. When we come
back, we're going to talk more about Huntsville.
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bit about a couple of awards that are going to
be taking place during the ham fest Yeah, Neil,
we have two Young Ham of the Year awards. Alabama
Section Young Ham of the Year should be announced
shortly. And that award will take place around
1230 on the main stage. And then following that
around two o 'clock, the nationwide Bill Pasternak
Memorial Young Ham of the Year. award. Don Wilbanks
from Amateur Radio Newsline will be here and
I think CQ Magazine will also join him on the
stage in the presentation of that award. Yes,
they certainly will as well as the many sponsors
for that. So we can look forward to all of that.
Yep. So they will all be up there to make those
presentations. Make sure you check out those
presentations on the main stage. Well that's
coming up and then for people who can't make
it or just want to tune in you've got a couple
of folks doing some live coverage of Huntsville
Yes Tom Medlin w5kub is a regular. He loves coming
to Huntsville Hamfest. He will be live streaming
both Saturday and Sunday from the floor of the
Hamfest. He has awards and prizes for folks listening
or in the chat room or watching the program.
So Tom is a wonderful proponent and promoter
of the Huntsville Hamfest. We also have Ted Randall
that does... his shortwave broadcast in the evening
from the lobby of the embassy suites and that's
uh that's kind of an eclectic uh almost uh an
evening like the johnny carson uh couch uh whoever
is around will come uh come over from the bar
and sit down and basically rag chew on the air
about ham radio bob hile It has been over there,
uh, several other, uh, uh, equipment distributors
and, and, and manufacturers that happened to
be staying at the embassy, uh, folks, uh, uh,
visiting, uh, just anyone and everyone, uh, can,
uh, can stop by and either listen or join, uh,
join Ted on the, uh, on the radio. Well, we do
have a tweet that's come in and yeah, that's
always, uh, some great coverage. of the events
taking place. Uh, but we do have a tweet that's
come in from Carl KD9HQT and he says, well, Hamvention
is, is known for the cheesecake on a stick, at
least on this program it is. And, and Gen Con
now has the waffle burger. So he wants to know
what's the staple food at Huntsville. Oh He would
he would ask about our weak point We are beholden
we are beholden to the von Braun Center to use
their concession service and I gotta say it's
a it will look it will get you through the day
But it's nothing like the incredible offerings
of the food trucks that they have at Xenia The
Green County Fairgrounds for the Dayton Hamvention
and also the Orlando hamcation very good food
food Options down there. So I've got to say I
wish we could do more but we're hamstrung by
by the rules of the von Braun Center Well, you
know that happens but but I will I will say the
grilled chicken sandwiches is not bad at all
I will say that Yeah, and well also to I've got
to say the embassy suites if you're if you're
looking for for for better fare and have the
time the embassy suites a restaurant that will
be hosting the the contest groups informal luncheon
Has excellent fare. It's it's it's a good solid.
It's a solid three -star restaurant Very good.
Well, we've got some options there. So that's
the answer, Carl. That's what we have here. I
noticed Don Wilbanks was trying to call in and
Skype's doing its usual things. We're trying
to get him on here and talk a little bit about
Young Ham of the Year, I'm sure. So that's what
he wanted to talk about. We're trying to get
a hold of him here. if the technology will cooperate
with us. Otherwise, give us a call 812 -638 -4261.
And we'll try to get your questions on here.
And again, Twitter seems to be a little more
reliable. So give us a call on Twitter, or a
tweet on Twitter if you'd like. And it looks
like we've got Don online. So Don? Well, good
evening gentlemen, yeah, I've been listening.
It's a it's a good show mark I'm looking forward
to seeing you again here in Just a couple of
weeks man. Hey likewise Don get you out of that
humidity of Louisiana Yeah, exactly. It's it
hasn't been too bad here of late But it was I've
been on the muggy side today and just want to
thank you for a all that that You've done with
your leadership uh... beginning last year and
then taking over and filling some uh... awfully
big shoes uh... that mister charlie left there
but you know what amitrader news lines proud
to be associated with the huntsville ham fest
we've been uh... we've had a home there since
nineteen ninety three and just uh... just thrilled
as we can possibly be and uh... we're really
looking forward to uh... introducing the world
to drew forever casey nine is that j x the two
thousand nineteen young him of the year recipient
and his package. Nomination package was thirty
five pages long so we may go well i was gonna
say we may go over the a lot of time that we're
given and we certainly would if we were if we
had to mention everything that he has done but
that will pair that down to the highlights as
we can. But he's just an amazing young man and
I'm looking forward to meeting him and presenting
him with Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF Memorial Amateur
Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award there,
as we always do right there at two o 'clock in
the afternoon on the floor of the Hamfest. Yeah,
we're looking forward to meeting him too. These
kids are just amazing and they're the future
of the hobby. Absolutely, and it's interesting,
I've been noting since I got involved with Young
Ham of the Year back in 95, Back then it seems
like the way to be presented the award, the way
to win the award, I hate to say win, but the
way to be honored with this award was through
public service. And it seems like that has morphed
into... more technical and operating here lately
uh... which uh... again is not a bad thing but
i'm kind of looking forward to uh... maybe getting
back into the public service aspect and seeing
uh... uh... young people get more into that of
course there's nothing wrong with that raising
very technically savvy kids but it's just uh...
it's a blessing in my life to be involved with
the young ham of the year and with news line
into you know i have known bill pasternak uh...
Just such a great guy. And in fact, I can announce
here live for the first time that we now have
the Amateur Radio Newsline Amateur Radio Club
and we are in the process of getting Mr. Pasternak's
call for our club call. So hopefully very soon
we'll have WA6ITF back on the air under the under
the tutelage or the sponsorship of the Amateur
Radio Newsline. Amateur Radio Club, and hopefully
we can start doing some operating with that so
we're excited about that We're very excited about
that well, so I'm gonna let you guys take some
more calls Neil Thanks for getting me on but
I love to ring the bell for Huntsville because
it is literally my favorite ham fest I've only
missed one year since 1995 and that was oddly
enough the year that we did not present an award
So I'm always looking forward to the short six
or seven hour drive up there And I'm looking
forward to seeing you, Mark, and everybody else
here at Huntsville. So we love you guys, and
we certainly appreciate it. We love being part
of the Hamfest family up there. We'll kick back
over a beer at two weeks from tomorrow night.
In fact, I'll keep a spot warm for you on the
WTWWC couch. Awesome. Great. All right, gentlemen.
Thanks a lot for getting me on. And we'll see
everybody at Huntsville. All right, Don. Thanks
a lot. Thanks. It's Don Wilbanks AE5DW from Amateur
Radio Newsline and as we like to call him, it's
Ham Radio's Don Wilbanks. Whenever you're on
so many shows, you get to be owned by Ham Radio,
I guess. 812 -638 -4261 is the telephone number
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crew Michael Colley wishing Huntsville Amvest
a successful show this year and says see you
soon Michael and John not and several others
from the Orlando hamcation are coming up looking
forward to seeing those guys again Yeah, certainly
are and there's always great time so if you can
make Huntsville that's Definitely one to keep
on the list. So if you can make it Get on down
to Huntsville and you can you can drive by and
see all the Rockets and and and you know It's
a big year for space. There's a lot of space
going on. Of course, there's a lot of space out
there in space, too. Yeah, we're hosting the
U .S. Space and Rocket Center with a booth. They're
bringing nine representatives from the Space
and Rocket Center. This is their banner year,
the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Just a few short weeks ago, uh... weekend we
celebrated the the of course the uh... the landing
and man's first uh... first steps on the moon
uh... the huntsville radio club activated uh...
uh... four stations out of the space and rocket
center made about four thousand contacts as did
uh... other uh... space centers around the country
houston johnson uh... martial club uh... over
over the hill marshals plate space flight center
i was just a great uh... weekend of on the air
events But, uh, we're looking forward and glad
to host and help the U S space and rocket center
promote their, uh, their venue. Well, that's
cool that you're, uh, going to have a booth there
too, but, uh, it's always kind of nice to drive
by there and, uh, spend a few trips, uh, over
there with field trips from school. It's a great
time. So if you can work that into your schedule
while you're coming to the ham fest, uh, it's
a great experience to the, uh, the SR 71 Blackbird.
It's, uh, it's, it's hard to miss that, of course,
but you might, because you're looking up at the
360 some foot tall, uh, uh, full size model of
the Saturn five. To be underneath that thing
is just awe -inspiring. And there's another one
inside the building that's suspended from a ceiling,
one of the three that did not go to space. Just
tremendous things. I want to bounce back to Orlando
and just mention, give a shout out that... Peter
Meyer and his wife Liddy. They are retired chair
persons for, he's the retired chairman. She was
the hospitality lady from Orlando hamcation for
over a dozen years. They're back in America from
their home in the Netherlands and they will be
coming up to Huntsville on their first visit.
So we're excited and I'm looking forward to seeing
Peter and Liddy and the rest of the Orlando and
Dayton crews, of course. Yeah, sounds like a
an all -star lineup and a great time So make
sure you check out the Huntsville ham fest and
and the web address is and I noticed the website's
been redone too But the web address is the easiest
one to remember Ham fest org So it's just ham
fest dot org. That's it. And saw some some nice
improvements to the website as I was getting
graphics and things to for the show tonight.
So good job on getting that squared away too.
And just just a great time. So Mark, we're going
to finish things up here. But any last things
that we need to talk about that we missed? Just
get in your car in two weeks. Come on over. We're
going to host the world's friendliest Amfest
and we guarantee you a great time. Yeah, I would
totally agree with that. So I look forward to
seeing a whole bunch of those people you mentioned.
Down there in a couple of weeks. So thanks so
much for coming on the show again mark And I'm
sure we'll have you back here soon I know we
usually kind of try to get you and and Michael
Colley and Michael Coulter all on the same time
to talk about some of the things that you guys
do and so well, I'm sure we'll do that again
and We always look forward to Huntsville. So
Thank you so much for coming on and telling us
about it It's been my pleasure Neil and thank
you. Thank you for the invitation to be on the
show to promote the Huntsville ham fest and We'll
see you in two short weeks All right, we will
see you then and that is a wrap for this week's
edition of ham talk live And I'd like to thank
my guest mark Brown in for BCD and everybody
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