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Visit www .icomamerica .com slash 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:05.620 amateur for more information about ICOM radios. 00:01:38.090 --> 00:01:41.129 And a good evening to everyone it's time for 00:01:41.129 --> 00:01:46.810 ham talk live episode number 169 the youth contesting 00:01:46.810 --> 00:01:50.769 program and youth on the air region to recorded 00:01:50.769 --> 00:01:56.650 live on Thursday June 13th 2019 I'm your host 00:01:56.650 --> 00:02:00.650 Neil rap WB 9 VPG. Thanks for tuning into this 00:02:00.650 --> 00:02:03.909 episode of ham talk live tonight. We're joined 00:02:03.909 --> 00:02:08.819 by sterling man in zero s s c and we'll take 00:02:08.819 --> 00:02:12.680 your calls live in just a few minutes last week 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:16.939 here on the show was joe mel k zero o v and he 00:02:16.939 --> 00:02:19.139 was here to talk about transmitter hunting and 00:02:19.139 --> 00:02:21.639 if you missed that show you can listen anytime 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.340 at ham talk live dot com or on your favorite 00:02:24.340 --> 00:02:28.500 podcast app or youtube or you can catch the rebroadcast 00:02:28.500 --> 00:02:35.819 on WTWW 5085 AM Saturday evenings at about 630 00:02:35.819 --> 00:02:39.039 PM Eastern Time. A few announcements tonight. 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:42.939 Our annual field day question and answer session 00:02:42.939 --> 00:02:47.030 is coming up next week, June 20th. Bart Jahnke 00:02:47.030 --> 00:02:52.289 W9JJ the radio sport manager from ARRL will be 00:02:52.289 --> 00:02:56.389 here as well as the brand new just just announced 00:02:56.389 --> 00:03:03.199 today contest manager Paul Bork. and they will 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:07.099 be here to take all of your field day questions. 00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:11.139 So if you have a last minute field day question 00:03:11.139 --> 00:03:12.900 and you're like, oh no, we're not going to be 00:03:12.900 --> 00:03:14.759 able to get ahold of anybody, it's too late. 00:03:15.099 --> 00:03:17.620 Well, here's your chance next Thursday night 00:03:17.620 --> 00:03:21.759 9 p .m. right here at HamTalkLive .com and they 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:25.340 will do their best to answer all of those questions. 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.939 Also, busy month at the National Voice of America 00:03:28.939 --> 00:03:33.300 Museum of Broadcasting on Saturday, June 15th. 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:36.099 They're rolling out the new logger. It's the 00:03:36.099 --> 00:03:40.219 Cincinnati Liars Logger in celebration of the 00:03:40.219 --> 00:03:43.479 75th anniversary of the VOA Bethany Station. 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.810 If you haven't heard the whole story... Hitler 00:03:46.810 --> 00:03:49.729 called the people in Cincinnati a bunch of liars 00:03:49.729 --> 00:03:53.689 whenever he heard Voice of America broadcasting 00:03:53.689 --> 00:03:58.569 all the truth. So they've named a beer. It's 00:03:58.569 --> 00:04:02.550 the Cincinnati Liars Lager Beer. And there'll 00:04:02.550 --> 00:04:04.590 be a short program. They're going to tap the 00:04:04.590 --> 00:04:08.770 keg and then offer those Cincinnati Liars t -shirts 00:04:08.770 --> 00:04:13.889 for sale during the all -day event. And a portion 00:04:13.889 --> 00:04:17.689 of the proceeds will go to the museum. The logger 00:04:17.689 --> 00:04:23.189 will be on tap through September 21st at Grainworks 00:04:23.189 --> 00:04:26.110 where they're making that and will benefit the 00:04:26.110 --> 00:04:29.230 museum as well. And they have 400 numbered and 00:04:29.230 --> 00:04:33.029 bottled beer bottles available at the museum 00:04:33.029 --> 00:04:36.860 fundraiser that will be on September 21st. And 00:04:36.860 --> 00:04:39.480 of course, they'll be on the air from field day 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.300 there at WC8VOA on the front lawn. So if you're 00:04:42.300 --> 00:04:46.660 in town, be sure to come by and visit. And a 00:04:46.660 --> 00:04:50.819 note from Kevin, KK4YEL, the NASA on the air 00:04:50.819 --> 00:04:53.579 people that had all those anniversaries. Well, 00:04:53.579 --> 00:04:56.699 there was one anniversary that didn't fall into 00:04:56.699 --> 00:05:01.300 last year, and that's the 50th anniversary of 00:05:01.300 --> 00:05:04.319 the Apollo 11 moon landing. And so many of those 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:08.560 same NASA clubs are going to be on the air July 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:13.899 16th through 24th to celebrate that event so 00:05:13.899 --> 00:05:17.019 check out the NASA on the air page that's nasaontheair 00:05:17.019 --> 00:05:20.480 .wordpress .com for details and be sure to check 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.060 the clusters and the NASA on the air Twitter 00:05:23.060 --> 00:05:27.439 and Facebook sites for spots but again NASA on 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:31.199 the air once again July 16th through 24th they're 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:36.879 going to use the same confirmation program that 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.839 they used for the NASA on -the -air year -long 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:42.100 event. So I want to let you know about that. 00:05:42.339 --> 00:05:46.519 We'll get more details as that gets closer. 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You're listening 00:07:29.579 --> 00:07:51.009 to Ham Talk Live with Neil Rapp. Thanks to Scott 00:07:51.009 --> 00:07:53.110 and Jill at Tower Electronics for sponsoring 00:07:53.110 --> 00:07:56.269 the show tonight to help bring you HamTalk Live. 00:07:57.089 --> 00:08:00.649 This weekend, June 16th, they'll be in Monroe, 00:08:00.689 --> 00:08:04.449 Michigan at the Father's Day Fest. July 6th, 00:08:04.470 --> 00:08:06.769 they'll be in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, or you can 00:08:06.769 --> 00:08:13.430 visit anytime at PL -259 .com. Sterling Manning 00:08:13.430 --> 00:08:17.069 Zero SSC is from St. Louis, Missouri and Sterling 00:08:17.069 --> 00:08:19.790 is currently an avionics and communication systems 00:08:19.790 --> 00:08:22.850 design, test, and integration engineer in St. 00:08:22.970 --> 00:08:26.110 Louis. Sterling became a ham at age 16 and is 00:08:26.110 --> 00:08:29.370 one of the former youth editors at ARRL and has 00:08:29.370 --> 00:08:31.730 his own YouTube channel about ham radio and is 00:08:31.730 --> 00:08:36.190 co -host of The Phasing Line. He's a 2014 graduate 00:08:36.190 --> 00:08:39.250 of Missouri University of Science and Technology. 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:42.840 and he was the president of the W -0 -triple 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:46.019 -E amateur radio club there and his degree is 00:08:46.019 --> 00:08:48.259 in electrical engineering with an emphasis in 00:08:48.259 --> 00:08:51.279 electromagnetics. He does a lot of listening, 00:08:51.580 --> 00:08:54.879 contesting remote operating from home and his 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:58.419 employer's emergency operations center and even 00:08:58.419 --> 00:09:00.740 some gas stations and he's one of the leaders 00:09:00.740 --> 00:09:03.399 of the Young Amateurs Radio Club better known 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:08.440 as YARC. So Sterling, welcome back. Thanks for 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:10.940 having me. I feel like I've been on your show 00:09:10.940 --> 00:09:13.779 so many times now that I'm practically a co -host 00:09:13.779 --> 00:09:17.059 at this point. Yeah, you're a regular. Yeah, 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:19.779 it's fun. I love it. Well, it wasn't that long 00:09:19.779 --> 00:09:23.840 ago that we were on this program talking about 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.879 the youth contesting program and some of those 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:28.740 things. So we wanted to do a little bit of a 00:09:28.740 --> 00:09:31.539 follow -up as to how things went and then... 00:09:31.500 --> 00:09:35.940 We've got round two coming up, so we'll talk 00:09:35.940 --> 00:09:39.519 about that in a minute, and then some new stuff 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.639 that's associated with all of this. So first 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:47.879 of all, let's talk about how the youth contesting 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:52.379 program went with the CQ Worldwide WPX contest 00:09:52.379 --> 00:09:56.299 a few months ago. Yeah, so that was the end of 00:09:56.299 --> 00:10:00.860 March for the worldwide WPX March 30 31st and 00:10:00.860 --> 00:10:03.820 It went well. I mean it didn't go terribly it 00:10:03.820 --> 00:10:06.559 didn't fail in our faces, but we learned a lot 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:10.899 it was our first time and There was a lot of 00:10:10.899 --> 00:10:13.679 just emailing back and forth and coordinating 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:17.379 with with groups to see if they can match up 00:10:17.379 --> 00:10:21.519 we had a total, we had pretty small numbers and 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:25.379 there was, I think last time or maybe this podcast 00:10:25.379 --> 00:10:28.500 or another I mentioned we had 27 total signups 00:10:28.500 --> 00:10:31.620 with 17 young operators and 10 stations. So you 00:10:31.620 --> 00:10:34.200 can already imagine that it's pretty low. Of 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:37.659 those we had 10 pairings. So that was surprising. 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:40.600 But then we had a few dropouts. We had a few 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:42.500 people who didn't want to drive more than two 00:10:42.500 --> 00:10:44.840 hours away. They decided to go do something else 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.620 the weekend or whatever. And we ended up with 00:10:47.769 --> 00:10:50.970 pretty much one successful pairing out of the 00:10:50.970 --> 00:10:54.769 whole thing and that was Patrick K8 KLC at the 00:10:54.769 --> 00:10:58.909 WCA VOA at the VOA museum and I know you were 00:10:58.909 --> 00:11:00.909 there and you had, I know he had a lot of fun 00:11:00.909 --> 00:11:04.049 because we met up with him at Hamvention and 00:11:04.049 --> 00:11:05.990 we talked up what we learned and what we can 00:11:05.990 --> 00:11:10.899 do better for the next future rounds. Yeah, I 00:11:10.899 --> 00:11:13.500 was able to get Patrick started on things and 00:11:13.500 --> 00:11:15.519 then I took off for a while and came back the 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:19.019 next night and he was rolling on his own. He 00:11:19.019 --> 00:11:25.460 and Chris KD8YVJ were just rolling when I got 00:11:25.460 --> 00:11:29.320 there. So I just jumped in and And ran another 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:32.259 band, kind of kept an eye on them, but they were 00:11:32.259 --> 00:11:35.799 doing just fine. So it was great to see Patrick 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:39.639 develop and took a lot of our instruction and 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.600 tips to heart and became a better contest or 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:47.700 just in that weekend. So, you know, that was 00:11:47.700 --> 00:11:50.159 a success story and we're going to hopefully 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.730 see more of these. So. What changes have you 00:11:54.730 --> 00:12:00.110 made after that first round of YCP to improve 00:12:00.110 --> 00:12:02.350 on the next one, which we'll talk about here 00:12:02.350 --> 00:12:05.529 in a minute. I think the most important thing 00:12:05.529 --> 00:12:08.429 or I guess our biggest pitfall was I didn't have 00:12:08.429 --> 00:12:11.950 like a much time to really put down a lot of 00:12:11.950 --> 00:12:14.230 marketing and a lot of like talking about it. 00:12:14.230 --> 00:12:17.389 So my first thing I'm trying to do more of is 00:12:17.389 --> 00:12:20.330 more talking about it, more marketing, more website. 00:12:20.590 --> 00:12:23.169 you know, more social media, more just getting 00:12:23.169 --> 00:12:26.309 out there. And I think we did that with the Hamvention. 00:12:26.690 --> 00:12:29.850 We had our own booth at the Ham Radio 2 .0 Lounge. 00:12:30.889 --> 00:12:33.330 A lot of us were at the contest. One of us was 00:12:33.330 --> 00:12:34.990 at the contest dinner and we were always at a 00:12:34.990 --> 00:12:38.090 contest super sweet. We were begging all and 00:12:38.090 --> 00:12:41.610 bugging mostly all of the head haunches in Ham 00:12:41.610 --> 00:12:45.210 Radio contesting, if you will, to try and look 00:12:45.210 --> 00:12:48.269 at our idea of getting young people into their 00:12:48.269 --> 00:12:51.210 stations more. So I think we have a lot more 00:12:51.210 --> 00:12:53.769 signups. We're also going to look at the people 00:12:53.769 --> 00:12:56.350 who signed up last for the last one and ping 00:12:56.350 --> 00:12:57.970 on them to see if they're still interested in 00:12:57.970 --> 00:13:01.470 this one for the IRA you HF championship coming 00:13:01.470 --> 00:13:05.070 up in late June or July. I don't have the date 00:13:05.070 --> 00:13:08.509 written down. Oh, the July 13th, 14th. If I read 00:13:08.509 --> 00:13:10.669 the script, I would know what I'm talking about. 00:13:11.610 --> 00:13:14.990 There's a reason that I write the script. So 00:13:14.990 --> 00:13:19.259 that way, whenever I go. Uh, what is that again? 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.139 Exactly. So yeah. And the other thing is like 00:13:23.139 --> 00:13:25.820 my, my work life is kind of dwindling down a 00:13:25.820 --> 00:13:27.840 little bit. We had a lot of like a lot of busyness 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:30.639 going on and, uh, as well as life life, you know, 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:33.919 just living, uh, you, you might've heard the 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:36.000 St. Louis blues won the Stanley world cup. And 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.379 for the last month or so we've been inundated 00:13:38.379 --> 00:13:41.639 with every game. So we're excited about that 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:45.019 for sure. So now, now you've got the trophy and 00:13:45.019 --> 00:13:46.940 now you've got more time. You're not watching 00:13:46.940 --> 00:13:50.240 hockey. Yeah, there's more time. I got a few 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.460 house things I wanna do that are on my head, 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:56.399 but we'll just get this done. I think the IRAUHF 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.399 is a big contest, so you have a lot of bigger 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:00.019 contesters that are kinda like, well, I wanna 00:14:00.019 --> 00:14:03.980 focus on a score and maybe qualify for WRTC or 00:14:03.980 --> 00:14:06.059 beat my score from last year, but I think there's 00:14:06.059 --> 00:14:07.740 a lot of operators out there who can open their 00:14:07.740 --> 00:14:09.600 shack up, at least one of their stations, if 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:13.220 they have more than one, two youngsters. All 00:14:13.220 --> 00:14:15.519 right. Well, yeah, let's let's talk about this. 00:14:15.539 --> 00:14:19.940 What is the plan here? And again, it's the IARUHF 00:14:19.940 --> 00:14:24.700 Championships July 13th and 14th. So talk about 00:14:24.700 --> 00:14:28.700 how to sign up and how the pairings are going 00:14:28.700 --> 00:14:32.200 to work this time. I think all of the logistics 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:34.000 are going to be pretty much the same. You sign 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.789 up, you go to the website. yark .world slash 00:14:37.789 --> 00:14:41.269 ycp and right there front and center is a Google 00:14:41.269 --> 00:14:43.250 form which you can sign up with all the information 00:14:43.250 --> 00:14:46.250 and stuff. Once you finish that, it goes into 00:14:46.250 --> 00:14:50.590 our thing and about, let's see, probably in a 00:14:50.590 --> 00:14:53.289 few weeks now I'm going to start emailing out. 00:14:54.319 --> 00:14:56.879 uh... the applicants to start pairing them up 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:58.779 and i'll probably close the deadline make the 00:14:58.779 --> 00:15:00.980 deadline something like a week prior to the contest 00:15:00.980 --> 00:15:04.679 like july the fifth or sixth or seventh or something 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:07.019 so that people can have time to plan and stuff 00:15:08.390 --> 00:15:11.070 And so yeah, just go to the website, sign up, 00:15:11.129 --> 00:15:13.809 and then we'll have it. I have an open line for 00:15:13.809 --> 00:15:15.490 the emails if there's any questions. Last time 00:15:15.490 --> 00:15:17.570 we got a lot of questions about things like liability 00:15:17.570 --> 00:15:20.710 and generally like we don't have this, but we 00:15:20.710 --> 00:15:23.750 can do this and some cross coordination. But 00:15:23.750 --> 00:15:28.610 in a nutshell, YARC is sort of a matchmaker. 00:15:28.669 --> 00:15:30.850 We don't do any of the logistics. We just say 00:15:30.850 --> 00:15:33.399 here's you and here's the station. It should 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:35.759 be within a day's drive, like three hours at 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:40.179 most, to get to the station and then you guys 00:15:40.179 --> 00:15:42.940 can talk back and forth and we can help facilitate 00:15:42.940 --> 00:15:46.659 a conversation of like expectations, requirements, 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:50.419 things like allergies even, to make it a fun 00:15:50.419 --> 00:15:53.379 event and a very, you know, learning event as 00:15:53.379 --> 00:15:57.720 well. Now, one of the things that we did over 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:05.379 at VOA and Jocelyn Chris's father, he's KD8YVX, 00:16:08.460 --> 00:16:13.179 set up the times for Patrick to come over. So 00:16:13.179 --> 00:16:18.460 we were not on the air 24 -7 for the entire, 00:16:18.460 --> 00:16:23.629 I think it was 36 hours of the contest. we stopped 00:16:23.629 --> 00:16:27.210 at like 11 o 'clock or 12 o 'clock at night and, 00:16:27.210 --> 00:16:29.870 you know, and then came back, you know, the next 00:16:29.870 --> 00:16:33.750 morning with some other operators. And so, you 00:16:33.750 --> 00:16:36.409 know, we're not going to run all night, you know, 00:16:36.409 --> 00:16:38.629 and so they could talk about that first. And 00:16:38.629 --> 00:16:41.950 so if, if you don't want to do that, that's okay. 00:16:42.350 --> 00:16:45.549 You can, you can just communicate that clearly 00:16:45.549 --> 00:16:49.870 between, you know, the two people who are matched 00:16:49.870 --> 00:16:53.450 and and you can make it work yeah it doesn't 00:16:53.450 --> 00:16:55.730 have to be a full -blown like weekend commitment 00:16:55.730 --> 00:16:58.330 especially in Packter's case he he was what 15 00:16:58.330 --> 00:17:01.370 minutes away i think he lived in cincinnati And 00:17:01.370 --> 00:17:03.309 so it was very easy for him to get there and 00:17:03.309 --> 00:17:05.490 even like stay, you know, go back home for the 00:17:05.490 --> 00:17:07.069 night. But there's other cases where you might 00:17:07.069 --> 00:17:08.690 have a two hour drive and it might be worthwhile 00:17:08.690 --> 00:17:11.369 to stay on site if possible or stay at a hotel 00:17:11.369 --> 00:17:15.049 or whatever. So it's a super flexible thing. 00:17:15.150 --> 00:17:17.430 It's not rigid for a reason. We want it to be 00:17:17.430 --> 00:17:19.730 flexible so that, you know, that it makes it 00:17:19.730 --> 00:17:23.009 easier on me and you guys as well to, you know, 00:17:23.150 --> 00:17:25.970 to be able to contest and deal with all those 00:17:25.970 --> 00:17:28.690 little idiosyncrasies of every little pairing. 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.680 So, you know, there are some options there. You 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:36.000 just need to communicate those clearly and and 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.200 make those pairings happen. So the website to 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:44.480 go to to sign up if you are a youth contest or 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:48.640 that wants to operate or if you have a station 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:53.059 that you would like to host someone is Yark Y 00:17:53.059 --> 00:18:04.640 a RC Yankee alpha radio Charlie Okay, so if you 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:06.740 have a station, it could be a big gun, it could 00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:09.880 be a medium station, contest -grade station, 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.039 maybe even a small station, but just something 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:19.960 reliable. Sign up and let's get some of these... 00:18:19.630 --> 00:18:23.049 pairings made so that we can get some more youth 00:18:23.049 --> 00:18:26.450 on the air, and contesting, as I've said many 00:18:26.450 --> 00:18:30.069 times before, is one of the great ways to get 00:18:30.069 --> 00:18:32.970 youth on the air, because you can script everything, 00:18:33.089 --> 00:18:36.029 there's not a whole lot of having to make conversation, 00:18:36.789 --> 00:18:42.009 you teach the RST, you teach the exchange, so 00:18:42.009 --> 00:18:44.450 that they understand those things, and that's 00:18:44.450 --> 00:18:47.289 all they have to worry about to start with. Yeah, 00:18:47.509 --> 00:18:49.710 definitely. Definitely sign up. Doesn't matter 00:18:49.710 --> 00:18:51.569 if you're a big gun or small gun. I thought a 00:18:51.569 --> 00:18:52.950 lot of complaints were like, well, I'm not a 00:18:52.950 --> 00:18:54.829 big gun, so I won't be able to do it. But you 00:18:54.829 --> 00:18:57.009 sure can. If you got, you know, wires in the 00:18:57.009 --> 00:18:58.670 trees and a nice, quiet operating station, if 00:18:58.670 --> 00:19:00.549 you got two stations, if you got a tri -bander 00:19:00.549 --> 00:19:02.589 in the backyard, like anything, anything goes. 00:19:02.650 --> 00:19:05.609 You don't have to be a big gun. We'll take all 00:19:05.609 --> 00:19:09.750 takers and see what we got. Now, speaking of 00:19:09.750 --> 00:19:13.519 the marketing and the, you know. Getting the 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.079 word out and everything on this. We've got a 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:19.819 new thing that that we've been working on Actually, 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:21.799 there's a committee of us that have been working 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:25.259 on some projects and and one of them is ready 00:19:25.259 --> 00:19:29.359 to go and it's out there now We opened it up 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.480 here in the last couple of weeks. It's the Yoda 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:39.200 region to social media sites and the website 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:44.200 and so uh... yes there is such a thing now as 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:49.039 youth on the air yoda in region two and of course 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:51.819 youngsters on the air started off in in region 00:19:51.819 --> 00:19:55.420 one we decided youth probably translated a little 00:19:55.420 --> 00:19:58.099 bit better over here so we kind of switched it 00:19:58.099 --> 00:20:01.119 to youth on the air but there is a youth on the 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:06.059 air in region two now and The youth contesting 00:20:06.059 --> 00:20:10.000 program is one of those activities kind of within 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:14.460 that umbrella You know, it's sponsored by arc 00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:18.619 But the Yoda region to site is going to help 00:20:18.619 --> 00:20:21.259 promote all of this. So tell us a little bit 00:20:21.259 --> 00:20:23.799 about what's going on Yeah, it gives me chills 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:25.680 to say that it's really happening because this 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:27.779 has been like three years in the making So youngsters 00:20:27.779 --> 00:20:30.289 are youth on the air uh... youngsters on the 00:20:30.289 --> 00:20:32.930 air and in region one is is is just a conglomeration 00:20:32.930 --> 00:20:35.650 of young hands who are all wanting to just be 00:20:35.650 --> 00:20:40.630 together promote and and enjoy ham radio as you 00:20:40.630 --> 00:20:44.130 know a as a as a age group basically there's 00:20:44.130 --> 00:20:46.009 there's a lot of older people in ham radio and 00:20:46.009 --> 00:20:48.950 try to find people of your own age And they always 00:20:48.950 --> 00:20:50.789 thought, where's the rest of us? Where's our 00:20:50.789 --> 00:20:52.829 friends? Where's our peers? I don't want to hang 00:20:52.829 --> 00:20:56.349 out with this radio club of people who are one 00:20:56.349 --> 00:20:58.230 or two generations ahead of me. I want to see 00:20:58.230 --> 00:21:02.430 if I can get people in my own age group, which 00:21:02.430 --> 00:21:06.529 would really help me, and I'm speaking on their 00:21:06.529 --> 00:21:09.869 behalf, as a ham radio person to enjoy my hobby 00:21:09.869 --> 00:21:13.750 even better. So yeah, it's live right now. Yoda's 00:21:13.750 --> 00:21:15.730 kind of this umbrella sort of thing that says, 00:21:15.769 --> 00:21:19.269 here's all of these young ham radio operator 00:21:19.269 --> 00:21:21.630 oriented activities that we're going to try to 00:21:21.630 --> 00:21:24.809 use as kind of a central hosting ground so that 00:21:24.809 --> 00:21:28.930 we can kind of defragment all of the young radio 00:21:28.930 --> 00:21:32.529 things that are going on. Not to... Take over. 00:21:32.710 --> 00:21:34.309 I'm not we're not we're not trying to hostile 00:21:34.309 --> 00:21:36.789 like do a hostile takeover of any You know youth 00:21:36.789 --> 00:21:39.529 radio club or whatever. We want to develop a 00:21:39.529 --> 00:21:42.450 central repository that can tell you Oh, there's 00:21:42.450 --> 00:21:44.369 a club in your area or there's a club online. 00:21:44.410 --> 00:21:47.130 There's you know yacht. There's yark There's 00:21:47.130 --> 00:21:49.569 the kids day rookie roundup. Well, we're trying 00:21:49.569 --> 00:21:51.990 to get all of this stuff together So we can form 00:21:51.990 --> 00:21:55.230 basically a common picture an easy picture of 00:21:55.230 --> 00:21:57.410 like what's going on in the ham radio? World 00:21:57.410 --> 00:22:00.490 that is focused to younger people Does that make 00:22:00.490 --> 00:22:04.970 sense? Yep. Yep. So the idea is, you know, we 00:22:04.970 --> 00:22:09.210 just collect all of these links basically to 00:22:09.210 --> 00:22:12.029 all these different youth -related activities 00:22:12.029 --> 00:22:15.069 and put them all in one place. So that way you 00:22:15.069 --> 00:22:18.130 can always go to the same place. And if you're 00:22:18.130 --> 00:22:20.450 interested in scholarships, you click on the 00:22:20.450 --> 00:22:22.950 link and you go to scholarships. We're not trying 00:22:22.950 --> 00:22:25.579 to... create scholarships. We're just trying 00:22:25.579 --> 00:22:30.900 to help you find those scholarships. And, you 00:22:30.900 --> 00:22:36.799 know, the YARC group, and ARIS, and School Club 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:40.779 Roundup, and Youngsters on the Air Region 1, 00:22:40.859 --> 00:22:44.019 and all these different things that are going 00:22:44.019 --> 00:22:46.779 on, they're all going to be promoted in the same 00:22:46.779 --> 00:22:48.680 place. So yeah, you're going to see a lot of 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:51.660 retweets. You're going to see a lot of reposts. 00:22:51.710 --> 00:22:55.430 You're going to see a lot of shared posts from 00:22:55.430 --> 00:22:57.589 social media, and then you're going to see a 00:22:57.589 --> 00:23:01.789 lot of links to all of these different places 00:23:01.789 --> 00:23:05.670 as we're able to compile these. And the Youth 00:23:05.670 --> 00:23:10.329 Nets database that ARRL has is on there. We're 00:23:10.329 --> 00:23:14.789 just trying to get a central place to where it's 00:23:14.789 --> 00:23:18.190 one -stop shopping. You can go look for all the 00:23:18.190 --> 00:23:22.109 youth -related stuff in one place. You can get 00:23:22.109 --> 00:23:25.170 there on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by 00:23:25.170 --> 00:23:29.869 just searching for YOTA Region and the number 00:23:29.869 --> 00:23:34.529 2. So it's Yoda, YOTA, Region, R -E -G -I -O 00:23:34.529 --> 00:23:38.589 -N, and the number 2. And on Facebook, Twitter, 00:23:38.670 --> 00:23:41.269 and Instagram, it'll get you there. If you search 00:23:41.269 --> 00:23:43.710 for Yoda Region 2 on YouTube, it will get you 00:23:43.710 --> 00:23:46.890 there. So we hope to have some videos on there. 00:23:47.190 --> 00:23:51.559 And as we come up with more activities, Those 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:54.359 will get announced on there and they'll have 00:23:54.359 --> 00:23:57.960 links on there and there's a website Out there 00:23:57.960 --> 00:24:00.859 for yoda region 2 right now. It's yoda region 00:24:00.859 --> 00:24:06.859 2 .org. So yota region number 2 .org but right 00:24:06.859 --> 00:24:10.359 now it's it's still under development and Whenever 00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:20.259 I hear that word development this website is 00:24:20.259 --> 00:24:22.619 under construction it's definitely in that but 00:24:22.619 --> 00:24:25.380 on that note this definitely won't be your regular 00:24:25.380 --> 00:24:27.799 old 90s website we're trying to try to make it 00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:30.799 as modern and as you know as you would expect 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:35.579 the website to be in 2019 so yeah and that and 00:24:35.579 --> 00:24:39.440 that's why I said Okay, I'll feed you the information 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:41.680 you guys do this because I still do do all the 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:46.539 old -school stuff Okay WordPress, okay go for 00:24:46.539 --> 00:24:50.400 it So make it look good. But but whenever I hear, 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:52.480 you know, it's under development immediately 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:56.000 I think Steve Ballmer and the developer song 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:59.180 so we had to play that in there but but anyway 00:24:59.180 --> 00:25:03.519 It's under development. So yeah, there's a lot 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:09.079 of things that says more stuff here Coming soon. 00:25:09.079 --> 00:25:14.019 Yes, coming soon. And even more stuff goes here. 00:25:14.779 --> 00:25:18.339 But the information on YCP is there, the links 00:25:18.339 --> 00:25:23.099 are there, the links to all of our social media 00:25:23.099 --> 00:25:25.980 accounts are there, all those kinds of things. 00:25:26.619 --> 00:25:29.819 So over the next month or so, you're going to 00:25:29.819 --> 00:25:34.829 see... that get developed into a more user -friendly, 00:25:35.690 --> 00:25:40.470 flashy kind of site, but it is there. So go to 00:25:40.470 --> 00:25:44.970 region2 on social media and go to region2 .org 00:25:44.970 --> 00:25:49.769 online. So be sure to check that stuff out and 00:25:49.769 --> 00:25:54.549 you can find, again, the goal is to try to get 00:25:54.549 --> 00:25:57.769 everything in there. So whether it's the, you 00:25:57.769 --> 00:26:01.329 know, the, the youth, the X adventure or, you 00:26:01.329 --> 00:26:05.690 know, the, um, you contesting program, Yark, 00:26:05.910 --> 00:26:11.849 whatever. Um, it's all there. So exciting stuff. 00:26:12.029 --> 00:26:14.750 And we've got more that's going to be, be coming 00:26:14.750 --> 00:26:18.440 down the road here soon. So. Stay tuned for that. 00:26:18.779 --> 00:26:22.339 So, okay. Let's, uh, let's take a break. And 00:26:22.339 --> 00:26:25.420 when we come back, uh, we'll take your calls 00:26:25.420 --> 00:26:28.259 and the comments on Twitter, uh, the phone number 00:26:28.259 --> 00:26:37.059 eight one two. 650 -9556, again 812 -650 -9556. 00:26:37.140 --> 00:26:40.079 Give us a call or give us a tweet or if you're 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:42.240 on Spreaker you can type to us on the chat if 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:44.920 you're listening here on Thursday night and I'll 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:47.119 be back with Sterling right after this word from 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:51.440 ICOM right here on HamTalk Live. Contest from 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:56.440 home or remotely, ICOM's IC9700 is now available 00:26:56.440 --> 00:26:59.960 and shipping. Create your own band opening with 00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:04.839 ICOM's newest SDR transceiver, the IC9700. This 00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:07.660 new radio is bringing direct sampling to the 00:27:07.660 --> 00:27:12.099 UHF and VHF week signal world. 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That number is 812 -650 -9556. 00:29:29.859 --> 00:29:32.740 Or you can tweet us. It's at HamTalk Live on 00:29:32.740 --> 00:29:35.940 Twitter. And if you're listening to us on WTWW 00:29:35.940 --> 00:29:38.819 or the podcast edition, you won't be able to 00:29:38.819 --> 00:29:41.859 reach us live since it's Thursday night right 00:29:41.859 --> 00:29:45.519 now when we're recording the show. And it sounds 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:49.000 like there's a little back chat going on in the 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:53.519 Yark world there, Sterling. Yeah. Yeah, on our 00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:56.059 Yark Discord, we have, well, I just tried to 00:29:56.059 --> 00:29:58.359 update Discord and it closed out, but it looks 00:29:58.359 --> 00:30:00.599 like Patrick said he was going to be able to, 00:30:00.819 --> 00:30:02.359 he might have a window of opportunity before 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:05.460 he leaves for summer camp to enjoy it. I think 00:30:05.460 --> 00:30:07.279 a few people over there are listening, but I 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:09.599 don't got any more comments than that on my end. 00:30:09.799 --> 00:30:11.680 If Discord would come back, that'd be great. 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:14.759 Well, that'd be wonderful, wouldn't it? Well, 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.779 we'll... This is not Skype. Yeah, exactly. We've 00:30:18.779 --> 00:30:22.240 been having our... connection difficulties here 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:25.539 tonight for some reason. It's been a while since 00:30:25.539 --> 00:30:29.400 we've had some so I guess we were due. So anyway, 00:30:29.579 --> 00:30:34.859 give us a call 812 -650 -9556 and you'll get 00:30:34.859 --> 00:30:37.079 a bunch of music. That's just the whole music. 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.299 Hang on there and we'll get to you. But let's 00:30:41.299 --> 00:30:43.759 keep going here as we're waiting for the calls 00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:46.180 to come in and we'll check the tweets here again 00:30:46.180 --> 00:30:50.220 in a minute. Are there some more contests that 00:30:50.220 --> 00:30:55.279 you're considering for YCP beyond the IARUHF 00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:58.119 Championships in July? Well, I'd like to think 00:30:58.119 --> 00:31:01.000 that we could basically apply this to every contest. 00:31:01.779 --> 00:31:03.420 I don't think that's, you know, gonna happen 00:31:03.420 --> 00:31:06.000 right now, but I'm almost thinking of some kind 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:09.960 of category or add -on sort of contest, similar 00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:11.779 to how the Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative, 00:31:12.059 --> 00:31:14.359 they have like the, for the NAQP, they have a 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:17.970 sub -contest. as well for sweepstakes. If you 00:31:17.970 --> 00:31:19.710 open up that to youth, we can have basically 00:31:19.710 --> 00:31:24.349 every contest covered. If this kind of program 00:31:24.349 --> 00:31:26.089 has momentum, it should just be able to work 00:31:26.089 --> 00:31:27.829 for any contest, but we really want to focus 00:31:27.829 --> 00:31:29.769 on the big ones, like the big weekend ones, so 00:31:29.769 --> 00:31:32.970 that you have a lot of time to come in and out, 00:31:32.990 --> 00:31:34.789 go through a revolving door, or be able to commit 00:31:34.789 --> 00:31:39.130 a whole weekend for a contest at a contest superstation, 00:31:39.150 --> 00:31:42.940 if you will. I don't know what's, I need to check 00:31:42.940 --> 00:31:45.200 the calendar, but what's up after HF? You've 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:51.359 got a couple CW contests and what else? And also, 00:31:51.700 --> 00:31:53.900 I guess we really need to focus on phone contests 00:31:53.900 --> 00:31:57.079 because not too many people know CW, but we take 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:02.740 all takers, you know? Okay. Well, we'll see what's 00:32:02.740 --> 00:32:05.650 ahead here. But give us a call if you have a 00:32:05.650 --> 00:32:08.670 question now is the time it's eight one two six 00:32:08.670 --> 00:32:12.210 five zero nine five five six or you can tweet 00:32:12.210 --> 00:32:15.769 us or If we can get discord back up, you can 00:32:15.769 --> 00:32:19.250 even get on the on the arc discord there now 00:32:19.250 --> 00:32:22.309 one other thing that actually both of us were 00:32:22.309 --> 00:32:26.549 able to take in during hand -vention was contest 00:32:26.549 --> 00:32:31.490 University and our friend Bryant kg5 hvo gave 00:32:31.490 --> 00:32:36.119 a talk about getting young people into contesting. 00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:41.000 So what did you take away from that? Oh man, 00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:44.920 it's like, there's part of me that's like, I 00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:46.900 hear, it's the same thing I've been hearing at 00:32:46.900 --> 00:32:49.119 Hamvention for years. We're just, and it's like, 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:52.640 we're trying to drill it into all of these people's 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.559 heads, if you will, the older generation, the 00:32:55.559 --> 00:32:58.519 more experienced operators. Same kind of stuff. 00:32:58.940 --> 00:33:02.359 Educate, inspire, train, these sorts of things. 00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:06.279 And seeing it from his perspective, he's unique. 00:33:06.539 --> 00:33:08.480 I'll give him that. He's very, very special, 00:33:08.579 --> 00:33:12.240 and he has a talent for CW and ham radio in general, 00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:15.210 and he's got a great, great support group. But 00:33:15.210 --> 00:33:19.930 I took away basically the ingredients to cultivating 00:33:19.930 --> 00:33:24.670 a mass of young, what's the opposite of an exodus, 00:33:25.069 --> 00:33:30.529 an insidus, like an input. It's inflow. Influx, 00:33:30.670 --> 00:33:31.910 there we go. Influx, there we go. I'm really 00:33:31.910 --> 00:33:34.029 bad at thinking words if you've heard me before 00:33:34.029 --> 00:33:39.000 on this show. of young people and I think it 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:41.740 was recorded in the Hammer Radio 2 .0, if not 00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:44.339 the contest corral and I think everyone should 00:33:44.339 --> 00:33:47.240 watch it. It was super good and the way he presents 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:52.160 it and using his experiences in Team Exuberance 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:55.380 and his de -expeditions and things like that 00:33:55.380 --> 00:33:57.980 is extremely powerful and I think if more people 00:33:57.980 --> 00:34:01.160 see it, the light will click on their head and 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:03.619 the gears will start turning like, oh, my hobby's 00:34:03.619 --> 00:34:06.579 gonna die out if I don't inspire a younger generation, 00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:10.420 so maybe I should do that. Well, it was great 00:34:10.420 --> 00:34:14.079 to see his presentation at Contest University, 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:18.920 and then he spoke over at the Ham Radio 2 .0 00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:25.039 area, not the podcast, but the area, and Marty 00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:30.000 and N1C, and then we had a little bit there. 00:34:30.329 --> 00:34:33.130 talking about the youth contest program and some 00:34:33.130 --> 00:34:36.250 of those things. So there was a lot of opportunities 00:34:36.250 --> 00:34:39.849 as always at Hamvention, probably more than you 00:34:39.849 --> 00:34:43.469 can possibly take in in three days, but there 00:34:43.469 --> 00:34:45.369 were some opportunities there and there were 00:34:45.369 --> 00:34:52.440 some really good takeaways. So as this Rose You'll 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:54.500 be hearing more and more about it, but we wanted 00:34:54.500 --> 00:34:58.760 to get the word out here That yeah round two 00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:02.699 is starting. We've got about a month until these 00:35:02.940 --> 00:35:08.039 HF championships and so pairings happening now. 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:12.880 So get over to yark .world slash ycp and get 00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:17.320 signed up and and be sure to follow the Yoda 00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:22.639 region 2 on social media and again under development 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:30.190 the yoda region 2 .org website and And there's 00:35:30.190 --> 00:35:35.030 more coming, so be sure to check that out. 812 00:35:35.030 --> 00:35:40.170 -650 -9556 is the number. And Sterling, we have 00:35:40.170 --> 00:35:42.090 anything else that we need to hit here before 00:35:42.090 --> 00:35:45.369 we wrap things up tonight? No, I'm all quiet 00:35:45.369 --> 00:35:48.190 on the Discord front. Also checking the tweets 00:35:48.190 --> 00:35:51.150 and not seeing anything coming. It's a thing 00:35:51.150 --> 00:35:54.349 I noticed. Oh, wait, I got a question from Patrick. 00:35:54.550 --> 00:35:57.969 In a perfect world, how many stations would you 00:35:57.969 --> 00:36:01.219 have? available to pair through YCP. Well, you 00:36:01.219 --> 00:36:03.760 say perfect, and I would say all of them. Yeah, 00:36:03.900 --> 00:36:07.340 every one of them. But ideally, a geographic 00:36:07.340 --> 00:36:10.239 distribution, like a nice peppering all over 00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:12.280 the United States makes it really easy. Like 00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:15.519 if you have a station within three hours of each 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:18.139 other all throughout the US, I'd say that's about, 00:36:18.139 --> 00:36:21.940 I don't know, 20, 30, 40 stations, maybe 60. 00:36:22.139 --> 00:36:23.880 I haven't done the real math. But like say one 00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:28.239 in every metropolitan area. then we'd be able 00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:32.800 to cover the entire United States for as many 00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:35.500 young ops that would like to apply, well, to 00:36:35.500 --> 00:36:37.739 a certain limit, but I imagine there could be, 00:36:37.860 --> 00:36:40.519 like, for example, Atlanta had the, like, the 00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:43.059 whole Southeast had multiple pairings within, 00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.000 or multiple stations within a couple, within 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.380 an hour of each other, and so we could, like, 00:36:47.500 --> 00:36:49.539 be able to have flexibility and say, you can 00:36:49.539 --> 00:36:53.099 go here or here or here. The other place, like, 00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:57.119 up in the, Like the Mojave Desert and the Rockies, 00:36:57.139 --> 00:36:59.960 it's very sparse and, you know, the Upper Great 00:36:59.960 --> 00:37:02.019 Plains. Like there's very, very few people there. 00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:04.960 But we still had a few signups, but they were 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.619 like six or seven or eight hours apart. So just 00:37:07.619 --> 00:37:12.380 need more for sure. OK, well, we do have a tweet 00:37:12.380 --> 00:37:18.059 here from Matthew KB1YFN, and Matthew says, do 00:37:18.059 --> 00:37:22.400 you have anyone in Region 1 or Maine? So I'm 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:27.679 going to go out on a limb here and and say, I 00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:30.719 think maybe we've got Region 1 and Call District 00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:34.280 1 confused. Oh yeah, Call District 1, I'm assuming. 00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.539 Yeah, we're assuming that it's Call District 00:37:37.539 --> 00:37:42.159 1 or Main. Now, let's take a moment. This is 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:44.940 in the teaching world, what we call a teachable 00:37:44.940 --> 00:37:50.699 moment. So, the numbers that are in US call signs 00:37:50.699 --> 00:37:54.800 and other call signs give a region of that country 00:37:54.800 --> 00:38:00.139 where IARU region two is North America, Central 00:38:00.139 --> 00:38:03.579 America, and South America. So IARU region one 00:38:03.579 --> 00:38:07.190 is where actually all these ideas we're stolen 00:38:07.190 --> 00:38:12.150 from. IRU Region 1 has been doing this since 00:38:12.150 --> 00:38:16.889 2011. So yes, there are people in Region 1, but 00:38:16.889 --> 00:38:21.469 I think we're looking at Call District 1. So 00:38:21.469 --> 00:38:24.400 do you have anybody up there? Yeah, ironically, 00:38:24.460 --> 00:38:26.619 we did have a Region 1 applicant, but they were 00:38:26.619 --> 00:38:28.840 a bit too far away from their station. The closest 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:33.679 station to Maine is K1TTT. Dave signed up his 00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:36.239 station, the big, huge superstation in Peru, 00:38:36.780 --> 00:38:40.260 Massachusetts, like a megastation that rivals 00:38:40.260 --> 00:38:47.550 K3LR and K9CT, et cetera. He signed up, and I 00:38:47.550 --> 00:38:50.530 think we had KB6NU as one of the pairings that 00:38:50.530 --> 00:38:53.150 could have gone there, but I think she had to 00:38:53.150 --> 00:38:58.389 do something else. So that would be the closest 00:38:58.389 --> 00:39:00.550 one. And if we get more, I think there was some 00:39:00.550 --> 00:39:05.210 interest with the, what's his W1VE? I think he's 00:39:05.210 --> 00:39:09.869 in Maine. Gary? No, he's in New Hampshire. There 00:39:09.869 --> 00:39:11.730 is a station in Maine. I can't remember the call 00:39:11.730 --> 00:39:16.239 sign. But we're trying to persuade them to open 00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:19.539 up. Okay, and Matthew did clarify, call District 00:39:19.539 --> 00:39:25.019 1, not Region 1. So our advice, Matthew, would 00:39:25.019 --> 00:39:29.699 be, hey, sign up. And hopefully we'll get somebody 00:39:29.699 --> 00:39:33.739 from Maine that we can pair you up with. So if 00:39:33.739 --> 00:39:38.159 you're looking for someplace, sign up and Sterling 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:40.500 will work his magic and see what he can come 00:39:40.500 --> 00:39:45.440 up with. Bruce K 98 or Kate and ate you. He, 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:47.659 he, he corrected me. I some, for some reason 00:39:47.659 --> 00:39:50.099 said KB six and you not damn Roman check. I meant, 00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:54.820 yeah, I was watching the tweets and I thought 00:39:54.820 --> 00:39:58.719 you said Dan's call and I was like, okay, I'll 00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:03.039 let that go. Um, yeah. Okay. All right. Well, 00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:10.010 we got it fixed. Sorry, Dan. Now, Dan will get 00:40:10.010 --> 00:40:13.309 out there and teach everybody how to get the 00:40:13.309 --> 00:40:18.489 license in one day. So that'll work too. So, 00:40:18.929 --> 00:40:23.650 okay. 812 -650 -9556 last call for the phone 00:40:23.650 --> 00:40:27.030 calls and we'll check Twitter here one more time. 00:40:27.309 --> 00:40:29.530 And if you've got Discord back, you can check 00:40:29.530 --> 00:40:32.230 there and see if we have anything else. But we're 00:40:32.230 --> 00:40:36.579 going to wrap things up here pretty soon. Again, 00:40:37.019 --> 00:40:45.960 the website yarc .world slash ycp, yarc .world 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:49.699 slash ycp. And you can go sign up if you want 00:40:49.699 --> 00:40:52.059 to host a station or if you want to work at a 00:40:52.059 --> 00:40:56.940 station. Sign up and we'll see what happens. 00:40:57.300 --> 00:40:59.380 Yeah. And best of all, it's free. No cost to 00:40:59.380 --> 00:41:01.659 you. No, you do have to drive there or get a 00:41:01.659 --> 00:41:06.199 ride there, but it's mostly free. And everybody 00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:09.760 loves free. Yes. Everybody loves free stuff. 00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:13.280 So there's probably a political comment there 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:17.639 somewhere, but we'll not go there. Well, again, 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:21.579 yark .world slash YCP and Yoda region two youth 00:41:21.579 --> 00:41:28.360 on the air. It's here. Yota region two .org and 00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:32.679 Yota region two on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, 00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:37.000 and YouTube. Well, Instagram is down apparently. 00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:43.860 Instagram totally is down. Saw that a while ago 00:41:43.860 --> 00:41:47.360 on a hashtag on Twitter. I think it said that 00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:50.960 Instagram was down. So you'll have to wait a 00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:52.800 little while until they get Instagram fixed. 00:41:52.940 --> 00:41:56.139 Somebody broke the internet. So we'll have to 00:41:56.139 --> 00:42:00.460 get that fixed. So Sterling, I think we're done. 00:42:00.539 --> 00:42:03.659 Anything else? No, that's it. All quiet on the 00:42:03.659 --> 00:42:07.170 Discord front. It was a pleasure to speak again. 00:42:07.409 --> 00:42:08.650 Hopefully we'll get more sign -ups this year 00:42:08.650 --> 00:42:10.730 and if not, we'll just keep trying because I 00:42:10.730 --> 00:42:13.130 mean everybody at Hamvention was saying this 00:42:13.130 --> 00:42:16.389 is a great idea and we should keep pushing it. 00:42:16.829 --> 00:42:22.309 So, yeah. All right, very good. Well That's that's 00:42:22.309 --> 00:42:25.050 gonna do it for the youth contesting program 00:42:25.050 --> 00:42:28.610 and Yoda region 2 for tonight But let me remind 00:42:28.610 --> 00:42:31.769 you next week Send in your questions. You can 00:42:31.769 --> 00:42:35.690 start sending them in now we're gonna have Bart 00:42:35.690 --> 00:42:42.090 Yankee on from ARRL as well as Paul Bork the 00:42:42.090 --> 00:42:44.329 new contest manager and they're gonna be here 00:42:44.329 --> 00:42:47.980 to answer all those field day, rule questions 00:42:47.980 --> 00:42:50.219 and clarifications and all that. And we'll talk 00:42:50.219 --> 00:42:53.119 a little bit about, you know, some ideas of what 00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:55.099 to do at field day and that kind of thing as 00:42:55.099 --> 00:42:58.739 well. But the intent is to give as much time 00:42:58.739 --> 00:43:02.400 next week as we can to people who have last minute 00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:05.900 questions. So send those in and we'll get as 00:43:05.900 --> 00:43:09.800 many of those answered as we can next week when 00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:13.980 those guys are here. So that is a wrap for this 00:43:13.980 --> 00:43:17.360 week's edition of Talk Live thanks to my guest 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:21.159 Sterling Mann in Zero SSC and everybody out there 00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:24.760 in cyberspace for listening and typing in tonight 00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:27.219 and invite you back next Thursday night at 9 00:43:27.219 --> 00:43:31.460 p .m. for Field Day Q &A and a list of all of 00:43:31.460 --> 00:43:35.900 our upcoming guests is over at HamTalkLive .com 00:43:35.900 --> 00:43:38.079 and if you like the show please leave us a review 00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:42.050 on iTunes that helps other people find us faster. 00:43:42.289 --> 00:43:45.610 So for now this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 00:43:45.610 --> 00:43:50.969 7 -3, 7 -5, and may the good DX be yours.