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ham talk live episode number 169 the youth contesting
program and youth on the air region to recorded
live on Thursday June 13th 2019 I'm your host
Neil rap WB 9 VPG. Thanks for tuning into this
episode of ham talk live tonight. We're joined
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your calls live in just a few minutes last week
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is coming up next week, June 20th. Bart Jahnke
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So if you have a last minute field day question
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Also, busy month at the National Voice of America
Museum of Broadcasting on Saturday, June 15th.
They're rolling out the new logger. It's the
Cincinnati Liars Logger in celebration of the
75th anniversary of the VOA Bethany Station.
If you haven't heard the whole story... Hitler
called the people in Cincinnati a bunch of liars
whenever he heard Voice of America broadcasting
all the truth. So they've named a beer. It's
the Cincinnati Liars Lager Beer. And there'll
be a short program. They're going to tap the
keg and then offer those Cincinnati Liars t -shirts
for sale during the all -day event. And a portion
of the proceeds will go to the museum. The logger
will be on tap through September 21st at Grainworks
where they're making that and will benefit the
museum as well. And they have 400 numbered and
bottled beer bottles available at the museum
fundraiser that will be on September 21st. And
of course, they'll be on the air from field day
there at WC8VOA on the front lawn. So if you're
in town, be sure to come by and visit. And a
note from Kevin, KK4YEL, the NASA on the air
people that had all those anniversaries. Well,
there was one anniversary that didn't fall into
last year, and that's the 50th anniversary of
the Apollo 11 moon landing. And so many of those
same NASA clubs are going to be on the air July
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going to use the same confirmation program that
they used for the NASA on -the -air year -long
event. So I want to let you know about that.
We'll get more details as that gets closer. But
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This weekend, June 16th, they'll be in Monroe,
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visit anytime at PL -259 .com. Sterling Manning
Zero SSC is from St. Louis, Missouri and Sterling
is currently an avionics and communication systems
design, test, and integration engineer in St.
Louis. Sterling became a ham at age 16 and is
one of the former youth editors at ARRL and has
his own YouTube channel about ham radio and is
co -host of The Phasing Line. He's a 2014 graduate
of Missouri University of Science and Technology.
and he was the president of the W -0 -triple
-E amateur radio club there and his degree is
in electrical engineering with an emphasis in
electromagnetics. He does a lot of listening,
contesting remote operating from home and his
employer's emergency operations center and even
some gas stations and he's one of the leaders
of the Young Amateurs Radio Club better known
as YARC. So Sterling, welcome back. Thanks for
having me. I feel like I've been on your show
so many times now that I'm practically a co -host
at this point. Yeah, you're a regular. Yeah,
it's fun. I love it. Well, it wasn't that long
ago that we were on this program talking about
the youth contesting program and some of those
things. So we wanted to do a little bit of a
follow -up as to how things went and then...
We've got round two coming up, so we'll talk
about that in a minute, and then some new stuff
that's associated with all of this. So first
of all, let's talk about how the youth contesting
program went with the CQ Worldwide WPX contest
a few months ago. Yeah, so that was the end of
March for the worldwide WPX March 30 31st and
It went well. I mean it didn't go terribly it
didn't fail in our faces, but we learned a lot
it was our first time and There was a lot of
just emailing back and forth and coordinating
with with groups to see if they can match up
we had a total, we had pretty small numbers and
there was, I think last time or maybe this podcast
or another I mentioned we had 27 total signups
with 17 young operators and 10 stations. So you
can already imagine that it's pretty low. Of
those we had 10 pairings. So that was surprising.
But then we had a few dropouts. We had a few
people who didn't want to drive more than two
hours away. They decided to go do something else
the weekend or whatever. And we ended up with
pretty much one successful pairing out of the
whole thing and that was Patrick K8 KLC at the
WCA VOA at the VOA museum and I know you were
there and you had, I know he had a lot of fun
because we met up with him at Hamvention and
we talked up what we learned and what we can
do better for the next future rounds. Yeah, I
was able to get Patrick started on things and
then I took off for a while and came back the
next night and he was rolling on his own. He
and Chris KD8YVJ were just rolling when I got
there. So I just jumped in and And ran another
band, kind of kept an eye on them, but they were
doing just fine. So it was great to see Patrick
develop and took a lot of our instruction and
tips to heart and became a better contest or
just in that weekend. So, you know, that was
a success story and we're going to hopefully
see more of these. So. What changes have you
made after that first round of YCP to improve
on the next one, which we'll talk about here
in a minute. I think the most important thing
or I guess our biggest pitfall was I didn't have
like a much time to really put down a lot of
marketing and a lot of like talking about it.
So my first thing I'm trying to do more of is
more talking about it, more marketing, more website.
you know, more social media, more just getting
out there. And I think we did that with the Hamvention.
We had our own booth at the Ham Radio 2 .0 Lounge.
A lot of us were at the contest. One of us was
at the contest dinner and we were always at a
contest super sweet. We were begging all and
bugging mostly all of the head haunches in Ham
Radio contesting, if you will, to try and look
at our idea of getting young people into their
stations more. So I think we have a lot more
signups. We're also going to look at the people
who signed up last for the last one and ping
on them to see if they're still interested in
this one for the IRA you HF championship coming
up in late June or July. I don't have the date
written down. Oh, the July 13th, 14th. If I read
the script, I would know what I'm talking about.
There's a reason that I write the script. So
that way, whenever I go. Uh, what is that again?
Exactly. So yeah. And the other thing is like
my, my work life is kind of dwindling down a
little bit. We had a lot of like a lot of busyness
going on and, uh, as well as life life, you know,
just living, uh, you, you might've heard the
St. Louis blues won the Stanley world cup. And
for the last month or so we've been inundated
with every game. So we're excited about that
for sure. So now, now you've got the trophy and
now you've got more time. You're not watching
hockey. Yeah, there's more time. I got a few
house things I wanna do that are on my head,
but we'll just get this done. I think the IRAUHF
is a big contest, so you have a lot of bigger
contesters that are kinda like, well, I wanna
focus on a score and maybe qualify for WRTC or
beat my score from last year, but I think there's
a lot of operators out there who can open their
shack up, at least one of their stations, if
they have more than one, two youngsters. All
right. Well, yeah, let's let's talk about this.
What is the plan here? And again, it's the IARUHF
Championships July 13th and 14th. So talk about
how to sign up and how the pairings are going
to work this time. I think all of the logistics
are going to be pretty much the same. You sign
up, you go to the website. yark .world slash
ycp and right there front and center is a Google
form which you can sign up with all the information
and stuff. Once you finish that, it goes into
our thing and about, let's see, probably in a
few weeks now I'm going to start emailing out.
uh... the applicants to start pairing them up
and i'll probably close the deadline make the
deadline something like a week prior to the contest
like july the fifth or sixth or seventh or something
so that people can have time to plan and stuff
And so yeah, just go to the website, sign up,
and then we'll have it. I have an open line for
the emails if there's any questions. Last time
we got a lot of questions about things like liability
and generally like we don't have this, but we
can do this and some cross coordination. But
in a nutshell, YARC is sort of a matchmaker.
We don't do any of the logistics. We just say
here's you and here's the station. It should
be within a day's drive, like three hours at
most, to get to the station and then you guys
can talk back and forth and we can help facilitate
a conversation of like expectations, requirements,
things like allergies even, to make it a fun
event and a very, you know, learning event as
well. Now, one of the things that we did over
at VOA and Jocelyn Chris's father, he's KD8YVX,
set up the times for Patrick to come over. So
we were not on the air 24 -7 for the entire,
I think it was 36 hours of the contest. we stopped
at like 11 o 'clock or 12 o 'clock at night and,
you know, and then came back, you know, the next
morning with some other operators. And so, you
know, we're not going to run all night, you know,
and so they could talk about that first. And
so if, if you don't want to do that, that's okay.
You can, you can just communicate that clearly
between, you know, the two people who are matched
and and you can make it work yeah it doesn't
have to be a full -blown like weekend commitment
especially in Packter's case he he was what 15
minutes away i think he lived in cincinnati And
so it was very easy for him to get there and
even like stay, you know, go back home for the
night. But there's other cases where you might
have a two hour drive and it might be worthwhile
to stay on site if possible or stay at a hotel
or whatever. So it's a super flexible thing.
It's not rigid for a reason. We want it to be
flexible so that, you know, that it makes it
easier on me and you guys as well to, you know,
to be able to contest and deal with all those
little idiosyncrasies of every little pairing.
So, you know, there are some options there. You
just need to communicate those clearly and and
make those pairings happen. So the website to
go to to sign up if you are a youth contest or
that wants to operate or if you have a station
that you would like to host someone is Yark Y
a RC Yankee alpha radio Charlie Okay, so if you
have a station, it could be a big gun, it could
be a medium station, contest -grade station,
maybe even a small station, but just something
reliable. Sign up and let's get some of these...
pairings made so that we can get some more youth
on the air, and contesting, as I've said many
times before, is one of the great ways to get
youth on the air, because you can script everything,
there's not a whole lot of having to make conversation,
you teach the RST, you teach the exchange, so
that they understand those things, and that's
all they have to worry about to start with. Yeah,
definitely. Definitely sign up. Doesn't matter
if you're a big gun or small gun. I thought a
lot of complaints were like, well, I'm not a
big gun, so I won't be able to do it. But you
sure can. If you got, you know, wires in the
trees and a nice, quiet operating station, if
you got two stations, if you got a tri -bander
in the backyard, like anything, anything goes.
You don't have to be a big gun. We'll take all
takers and see what we got. Now, speaking of
the marketing and the, you know. Getting the
word out and everything on this. We've got a
new thing that that we've been working on Actually,
there's a committee of us that have been working
on some projects and and one of them is ready
to go and it's out there now We opened it up
here in the last couple of weeks. It's the Yoda
region to social media sites and the website
and so uh... yes there is such a thing now as
youth on the air yoda in region two and of course
youngsters on the air started off in in region
one we decided youth probably translated a little
bit better over here so we kind of switched it
to youth on the air but there is a youth on the
air in region two now and The youth contesting
program is one of those activities kind of within
that umbrella You know, it's sponsored by arc
But the Yoda region to site is going to help
promote all of this. So tell us a little bit
about what's going on Yeah, it gives me chills
to say that it's really happening because this
has been like three years in the making So youngsters
are youth on the air uh... youngsters on the
air and in region one is is is just a conglomeration
of young hands who are all wanting to just be
together promote and and enjoy ham radio as you
know a as a as a age group basically there's
there's a lot of older people in ham radio and
try to find people of your own age And they always
thought, where's the rest of us? Where's our
friends? Where's our peers? I don't want to hang
out with this radio club of people who are one
or two generations ahead of me. I want to see
if I can get people in my own age group, which
would really help me, and I'm speaking on their
behalf, as a ham radio person to enjoy my hobby
even better. So yeah, it's live right now. Yoda's
kind of this umbrella sort of thing that says,
here's all of these young ham radio operator
oriented activities that we're going to try to
use as kind of a central hosting ground so that
we can kind of defragment all of the young radio
things that are going on. Not to... Take over.
I'm not we're not we're not trying to hostile
like do a hostile takeover of any You know youth
radio club or whatever. We want to develop a
central repository that can tell you Oh, there's
a club in your area or there's a club online.
There's you know yacht. There's yark There's
the kids day rookie roundup. Well, we're trying
to get all of this stuff together So we can form
basically a common picture an easy picture of
like what's going on in the ham radio? World
that is focused to younger people Does that make
sense? Yep. Yep. So the idea is, you know, we
just collect all of these links basically to
all these different youth -related activities
and put them all in one place. So that way you
can always go to the same place. And if you're
interested in scholarships, you click on the
link and you go to scholarships. We're not trying
to... create scholarships. We're just trying
to help you find those scholarships. And, you
know, the YARC group, and ARIS, and School Club
Roundup, and Youngsters on the Air Region 1,
and all these different things that are going
on, they're all going to be promoted in the same
place. So yeah, you're going to see a lot of
retweets. You're going to see a lot of reposts.
You're going to see a lot of shared posts from
social media, and then you're going to see a
lot of links to all of these different places
as we're able to compile these. And the Youth
Nets database that ARRL has is on there. We're
just trying to get a central place to where it's
one -stop shopping. You can go look for all the
youth -related stuff in one place. You can get
there on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by
just searching for YOTA Region and the number
2. So it's Yoda, YOTA, Region, R -E -G -I -O
-N, and the number 2. And on Facebook, Twitter,
and Instagram, it'll get you there. If you search
for Yoda Region 2 on YouTube, it will get you
there. So we hope to have some videos on there.
And as we come up with more activities, Those
will get announced on there and they'll have
links on there and there's a website Out there
for yoda region 2 right now. It's yoda region
2 .org. So yota region number 2 .org but right
now it's it's still under development and Whenever
I hear that word development this website is
under construction it's definitely in that but
on that note this definitely won't be your regular
old 90s website we're trying to try to make it
as modern and as you know as you would expect
the website to be in 2019 so yeah and that and
that's why I said Okay, I'll feed you the information
you guys do this because I still do do all the
old -school stuff Okay WordPress, okay go for
it So make it look good. But but whenever I hear,
you know, it's under development immediately
I think Steve Ballmer and the developer song
so we had to play that in there but but anyway
It's under development. So yeah, there's a lot
of things that says more stuff here Coming soon.
Yes, coming soon. And even more stuff goes here.
But the information on YCP is there, the links
are there, the links to all of our social media
accounts are there, all those kinds of things.
So over the next month or so, you're going to
see... that get developed into a more user -friendly,
flashy kind of site, but it is there. So go to
region2 on social media and go to region2 .org
online. So be sure to check that stuff out and
you can find, again, the goal is to try to get
everything in there. So whether it's the, you
know, the, the youth, the X adventure or, you
know, the, um, you contesting program, Yark,
whatever. Um, it's all there. So exciting stuff.
And we've got more that's going to be, be coming
down the road here soon. So. Stay tuned for that.
So, okay. Let's, uh, let's take a break. And
when we come back, uh, we'll take your calls
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reach us live since it's Thursday night right
now when we're recording the show. And it sounds
like there's a little back chat going on in the
Yark world there, Sterling. Yeah. Yeah, on our
Yark Discord, we have, well, I just tried to
update Discord and it closed out, but it looks
like Patrick said he was going to be able to,
he might have a window of opportunity before
he leaves for summer camp to enjoy it. I think
a few people over there are listening, but I
don't got any more comments than that on my end.
If Discord would come back, that'd be great.
Well, that'd be wonderful, wouldn't it? Well,
we'll... This is not Skype. Yeah, exactly. We've
been having our... connection difficulties here
tonight for some reason. It's been a while since
we've had some so I guess we were due. So anyway,
give us a call 812 -650 -9556 and you'll get
a bunch of music. That's just the whole music.
Hang on there and we'll get to you. But let's
keep going here as we're waiting for the calls
to come in and we'll check the tweets here again
in a minute. Are there some more contests that
you're considering for YCP beyond the IARUHF
Championships in July? Well, I'd like to think
that we could basically apply this to every contest.
I don't think that's, you know, gonna happen
right now, but I'm almost thinking of some kind
of category or add -on sort of contest, similar
to how the Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative,
they have like the, for the NAQP, they have a
sub -contest. as well for sweepstakes. If you
open up that to youth, we can have basically
every contest covered. If this kind of program
has momentum, it should just be able to work
for any contest, but we really want to focus
on the big ones, like the big weekend ones, so
that you have a lot of time to come in and out,
go through a revolving door, or be able to commit
a whole weekend for a contest at a contest superstation,
if you will. I don't know what's, I need to check
the calendar, but what's up after HF? You've
got a couple CW contests and what else? And also,
I guess we really need to focus on phone contests
because not too many people know CW, but we take
all takers, you know? Okay. Well, we'll see what's
ahead here. But give us a call if you have a
question now is the time it's eight one two six
five zero nine five five six or you can tweet
us or If we can get discord back up, you can
even get on the on the arc discord there now
one other thing that actually both of us were
able to take in during hand -vention was contest
University and our friend Bryant kg5 hvo gave
a talk about getting young people into contesting.
So what did you take away from that? Oh man,
it's like, there's part of me that's like, I
hear, it's the same thing I've been hearing at
Hamvention for years. We're just, and it's like,
we're trying to drill it into all of these people's
heads, if you will, the older generation, the
more experienced operators. Same kind of stuff.
Educate, inspire, train, these sorts of things.
And seeing it from his perspective, he's unique.
I'll give him that. He's very, very special,
and he has a talent for CW and ham radio in general,
and he's got a great, great support group. But
I took away basically the ingredients to cultivating
a mass of young, what's the opposite of an exodus,
an insidus, like an input. It's inflow. Influx,
there we go. Influx, there we go. I'm really
bad at thinking words if you've heard me before
on this show. of young people and I think it
was recorded in the Hammer Radio 2 .0, if not
the contest corral and I think everyone should
watch it. It was super good and the way he presents
it and using his experiences in Team Exuberance
and his de -expeditions and things like that
is extremely powerful and I think if more people
see it, the light will click on their head and
the gears will start turning like, oh, my hobby's
gonna die out if I don't inspire a younger generation,
so maybe I should do that. Well, it was great
to see his presentation at Contest University,
and then he spoke over at the Ham Radio 2 .0
area, not the podcast, but the area, and Marty
and N1C, and then we had a little bit there.
talking about the youth contest program and some
of those things. So there was a lot of opportunities
as always at Hamvention, probably more than you
can possibly take in in three days, but there
were some opportunities there and there were
some really good takeaways. So as this Rose You'll
be hearing more and more about it, but we wanted
to get the word out here That yeah round two
is starting. We've got about a month until these
HF championships and so pairings happening now.
So get over to yark .world slash ycp and get
signed up and and be sure to follow the Yoda
region 2 on social media and again under development
the yoda region 2 .org website and And there's
more coming, so be sure to check that out. 812
-650 -9556 is the number. And Sterling, we have
anything else that we need to hit here before
we wrap things up tonight? No, I'm all quiet
on the Discord front. Also checking the tweets
and not seeing anything coming. It's a thing
I noticed. Oh, wait, I got a question from Patrick.
In a perfect world, how many stations would you
have? available to pair through YCP. Well, you
say perfect, and I would say all of them. Yeah,
every one of them. But ideally, a geographic
distribution, like a nice peppering all over
the United States makes it really easy. Like
if you have a station within three hours of each
other all throughout the US, I'd say that's about,
I don't know, 20, 30, 40 stations, maybe 60.
I haven't done the real math. But like say one
in every metropolitan area. then we'd be able
to cover the entire United States for as many
young ops that would like to apply, well, to
a certain limit, but I imagine there could be,
like, for example, Atlanta had the, like, the
whole Southeast had multiple pairings within,
or multiple stations within a couple, within
an hour of each other, and so we could, like,
be able to have flexibility and say, you can
go here or here or here. The other place, like,
up in the, Like the Mojave Desert and the Rockies,
it's very sparse and, you know, the Upper Great
Plains. Like there's very, very few people there.
But we still had a few signups, but they were
like six or seven or eight hours apart. So just
need more for sure. OK, well, we do have a tweet
here from Matthew KB1YFN, and Matthew says, do
you have anyone in Region 1 or Maine? So I'm
going to go out on a limb here and and say, I
think maybe we've got Region 1 and Call District
1 confused. Oh yeah, Call District 1, I'm assuming.
Yeah, we're assuming that it's Call District
1 or Main. Now, let's take a moment. This is
in the teaching world, what we call a teachable
moment. So, the numbers that are in US call signs
and other call signs give a region of that country
where IARU region two is North America, Central
America, and South America. So IARU region one
is where actually all these ideas we're stolen
from. IRU Region 1 has been doing this since
2011. So yes, there are people in Region 1, but
I think we're looking at Call District 1. So
do you have anybody up there? Yeah, ironically,
we did have a Region 1 applicant, but they were
a bit too far away from their station. The closest
station to Maine is K1TTT. Dave signed up his
station, the big, huge superstation in Peru,
Massachusetts, like a megastation that rivals
K3LR and K9CT, et cetera. He signed up, and I
think we had KB6NU as one of the pairings that
could have gone there, but I think she had to
do something else. So that would be the closest
one. And if we get more, I think there was some
interest with the, what's his W1VE? I think he's
in Maine. Gary? No, he's in New Hampshire. There
is a station in Maine. I can't remember the call
sign. But we're trying to persuade them to open
up. Okay, and Matthew did clarify, call District
1, not Region 1. So our advice, Matthew, would
be, hey, sign up. And hopefully we'll get somebody
from Maine that we can pair you up with. So if
you're looking for someplace, sign up and Sterling
will work his magic and see what he can come
up with. Bruce K 98 or Kate and ate you. He,
he, he corrected me. I some, for some reason
said KB six and you not damn Roman check. I meant,
yeah, I was watching the tweets and I thought
you said Dan's call and I was like, okay, I'll
let that go. Um, yeah. Okay. All right. Well,
we got it fixed. Sorry, Dan. Now, Dan will get
out there and teach everybody how to get the
license in one day. So that'll work too. So,
okay. 812 -650 -9556 last call for the phone
calls and we'll check Twitter here one more time.
And if you've got Discord back, you can check
there and see if we have anything else. But we're
going to wrap things up here pretty soon. Again,
the website yarc .world slash ycp, yarc .world
slash ycp. And you can go sign up if you want
to host a station or if you want to work at a
station. Sign up and we'll see what happens.
Yeah. And best of all, it's free. No cost to
you. No, you do have to drive there or get a
ride there, but it's mostly free. And everybody
loves free. Yes. Everybody loves free stuff.
So there's probably a political comment there
somewhere, but we'll not go there. Well, again,
yark .world slash YCP and Yoda region two youth
on the air. It's here. Yota region two .org and
Yota region two on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
and YouTube. Well, Instagram is down apparently.
Instagram totally is down. Saw that a while ago
on a hashtag on Twitter. I think it said that
Instagram was down. So you'll have to wait a
little while until they get Instagram fixed.
Somebody broke the internet. So we'll have to
get that fixed. So Sterling, I think we're done.
Anything else? No, that's it. All quiet on the
Discord front. It was a pleasure to speak again.
Hopefully we'll get more sign -ups this year
and if not, we'll just keep trying because I
mean everybody at Hamvention was saying this
is a great idea and we should keep pushing it.
So, yeah. All right, very good. Well That's that's
gonna do it for the youth contesting program
and Yoda region 2 for tonight But let me remind
you next week Send in your questions. You can
start sending them in now we're gonna have Bart
Yankee on from ARRL as well as Paul Bork the
new contest manager and they're gonna be here
to answer all those field day, rule questions
and clarifications and all that. And we'll talk
a little bit about, you know, some ideas of what
to do at field day and that kind of thing as
well. But the intent is to give as much time
next week as we can to people who have last minute
questions. So send those in and we'll get as
many of those answered as we can next week when
those guys are here. So that is a wrap for this
week's edition of Talk Live thanks to my guest
Sterling Mann in Zero SSC and everybody out there
in cyberspace for listening and typing in tonight
and invite you back next Thursday night at 9
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So for now this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying
7 -3, 7 -5, and may the good DX be yours.