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Good evening, everyone. It's time for HamTalk
Live. It's episode number 162. It's the Hamvention
Award winners on our Hamvention preview recorded
live on Thursday, April 25th, 2019. I'm your
host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in
to this episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight, we're
joined by Michael Kalter, W8CI. and Dr. Nathaniel
Fercell, W -2 -N -A -F, and we'll take your calls
live in just a few minutes. Last week, Paul Stetzer
in 8HM was here to talk about the AMSAT Academy.
And if you missed the show, you can listen anytime
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app or YouTube, or you can catch the rebroadcast
on WTWW. That's 5085 AM Saturday evenings at
about 630 PM Eastern time. The Hamvention preview
continues tonight with Michael Coulter, WHCI,
who will fill us in on all the Hamvention award
winners, including Dr. Nathaniel Frisell, W2NAF,
who is this year's amateur of the year. And next
week we'll preview the WWV forum that we'll talk
about the 100th anniversary this year for WWV.
And then on May 9th, Michael will be back again
to give us all the latest news and changes. any
breaking news that might happen for this year's
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several weeks and tonight Michael Coulter, W8CI,
the official spokesperson and one of the chairs
of the awards committee for the Dayton Hamvention
is here and he's here tonight on behalf of DERA
to recognize this year's award winners and so
we'll talk about some of the awards here, but
we have one with us live, so we'll spend most
of our time talking with Dr. Frisell here. But
Michael, welcome to the show, welcome back, and
let's talk about some of these award winners.
All right, Neil. First off, thank you very much
for your support of Image Radio and of Hamvention.
And I want to thank all of our 700 and plus volunteers
that put on Hamvention. And I am very fortunate
to be here to speak on behalf of our awards team.
And I guess that most people know we have four
big awards. And our technical achievement award
this year goes to Pietro Bagagli, I2RTF. And
many of you know he is the inventor and designer
and builder of the Bagali keys. But he's also
an author and he is very avid supporter of amateur
radio actually throughout the world. And he does
what he can for amateur radio. But his keys are
just works of art. We consider them to be very
elegant works of art for amateur radio. So for
that, we have given him the Technical Achievement
Award for this year. Our Special Achievement
Award goes to Chris Janssen, DL -1 MGB, and he
was the president for four years of the WRTC
2018 in Germany. And that is a huge, huge undertaking.
And Chris is a very modest man and he was the
leader of a very successful team that put this
whole event on. I know I got to go to Germany
to Friedrich Schaffen and watch him push that.
Friedrich Schaffen, he's pushed it in Tokyo,
he's pushed it in other parts of the world and
in the United States. just a tireless worker,
a great attitude, and really very, very deserving
of the award. The WRTC, I think, makes a big
difference in the skills and in the amateur radio
world. And, you know, it's likened to the Olympics
held once every four years. And we want to recognize
that special achievement that Chris Jansen made
for amateur radio. The club of the year, the
Nashua Area Radio Society of southern New Hampshire,
they work a lot on mentoring, youth outreach
and have brought many, many new amateurs into
the hobby and not only help them get into the
hobby, they make sure they get on the air, which
in my mind and a lot of our minds is that's a
big thing. You go out and you get a license and
then you think, okay, I know I got to get on
the air, so they make sure that happens. They
have more than 200 club members that are regular
contributors to the activities that they have.
They work a lot with youth and emergency communications.
We found them to be an extremely well -rounded
club, and we were happy to give them the Club
of the Year award. And Neil, if I could take
a moment to mention that Our committee really
wrestles with these awards every year, and we
pretty much have a matrix and a way that we go
about finding and determining the winners. the
organizations or the people who have really made
a difference to a large segment of the amateur
radio community. You know, it's not necessarily
the person with the biggest antenna or whatever.
It is the person or the group who makes a difference
to the wider audience, the wider membership of
our amateur radio community. And that's very
difficult to choose. We have also, I guess in
recent years, I don't know if it's been 10 years
now or not yet, but the club of the year has
become a very competitive classification of award
to win. And there are so many great clubs out
there, but we also feel that a club makes a great
contribution to the amateur radio community as
well. So with that, Neil I'm going to send it
back to you here and why don't you go ahead and
introduce our amateur of the year. All right
well thanks for all the information and yeah
we would sure want to recognize all of the award
winners but joining us tonight live via Skype
we have Dr. Nathaniel Frisell W2NAF and he has
all kinds of scientific interests and so that's
always nice being the the scientist that I am
too. So love to hear about his work with ham
radio and science and connecting all of that
with uh, Ham -Sci and the solar eclipse, uh,
QSO party and everything, um, and, uh, the NGIT
amateur radio club and, and some, some new ventures
even. So, um, Nathaniel, welcome back to the
show. Thank you very much, Neil. I appreciate
it. It's very nice to be here this evening and,
um, I'm very grateful to be selected as amateur
of the year. So thank you. Well, you've certainly
done a lot to advance the science of ham radio
and also I know from from some of the NCJ articles
we've done You've also made connections with
a lot of students at NGIT and some of your research
students. And so it's not only the science, but
also some of those ham radio relationships that
you've made. And so Michael, why don't you talk
a little bit about your committee and selecting
him and go through all the vital information
here about the award? Well the amateur of the
year is you know it's it's pretty much given
to a ham that's made a long -term commitment
to the advancement of amateur radio and the individual
usually has a history of ham radio contributions
and has had a dedication to service professionalism
and the advancement of its avocation of amateur
radio and Nathaniel just really stood out with
all the different things that he accomplished
and if I could just mention a few things about
him and because I want this to be I want him
to talk as well but he's been licensed since
1998 and he was the founder principal founder
and leader of the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation,
AMSI. And it's a collective designed to join
professional scientific researchers and the amateur
radio community together to help each other.
And he first learned about ham radio while in
middle school from his Elmer. And he was at a
Jamboree on the air event. and he decided when
he was listening in this little small cabin in
the woods I think probably like all of us he
went whoa this is pretty interesting I like this
you mean these people are from other parts of
the world and they can talk to me and I'm just
a scout and then then from there, I believe,
if I get it wrong, you can correct me later,
Nathaniel, but I think that, you know, it triggered
his mind into a very, much more of a scientific
career and looking at amateur radio not only
as the importance of communication, which he
is, you know, very adept at, as well as the social
side of it, bringing people together, bringing
like -minded people together, especially in his
age group and And we just felt that with his
contribution, even at a young age, you know,
to win this award, he may be the youngest that's
ever won the amateur of the year award. But nevertheless,
his contribution, especially with youth and amateur
radio and other scientists and amateur radio
is just been over the top. So I want to let him
finish. But I'll mention one more thing. He does
have a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Music
Education and I thought that was a very interesting
combination and we'll have to talk about music
someday on Nathaniel because that's a great combination.
But he went on to Virginia, he joined the Virginia
Tech Amateur Radio Club and then from there he
got his PhD from Virginia Tech. So anyway, It
was, uh, that was, and I wouldn't say an easy
pick, but it was, he just rose to the top with
all the great things that he's doing. And I've
left a lot of things out and some of the research
that he's doing, but I'd like for him, I like
for Nathaniel to talk a little bit about it is
I've given a brief introduction. So Neil, let
me give it back to you. All right. Well, uh,
you know, there's just so much going on there.
There's a lot of physics in music, too. So we
may have to talk about that if we ever get some
time here. But Nathaniel, you've got a lot of
things going on. And you're going to have a lot
of things going on there at Hamvention. So tell
us some of the things that you've got going on
that people can participate in. Well, let's see.
So the Hamsay Group. Thank you, Michael, for
that nice introduction. I think that was all
correct. The HamSci group really does try to
bring together both the professional research
community and the amateur radio community because
both groups have so much to give to each other.
So at the Hamvention, we're going to have a HamSci
booth where you can come and talk to the different
people who are participating in the HamSci. collective.
And so this includes people like myself, the
Dr. Philip Erickson, W1PJE from the MIT Haystack
Observatory. He's going to be there. Dr. Gareth
Perry, who has worked, he wrote a science paper
using data from field day where a satellite passed
overhead. He'll be there as well. So there's
going to be quite an interesting group of people
there. We will be located in the Ham Radio 2
.0 area, which is a booth 4304. And we're going
to have booth talks there. So there will be people
who will actually be giving short presentations,
some demonstrations, people who've been working
on different... measurement devices or instrument
devices. They'll be giving live demos in the
HamSci booth. Then we also have the HamSci Forum,
which is going to be on Saturday morning starting
at 9 .15 AM. Main themes that we are looking
at this year is ionospheric variability. So you'll
hear a number of talks One from Steve Sirwin
about ionospheric disturbances at dawn dusk and
during the 2017 Eclipse and he's a good example
of someone who came from the ham radio community
Did a great experiment wrote it up into a QEX
and he'll be presenting that Phil Erickson will
be talking about that listening to the differences
in the amount of time between the time ticks
from WWV and using that to observe how the atmosphere
is changing. We'll have a... a younger person
and his grandfather, so Ethan Grayson, his grandfather
George Lamaster will talk about sudden atmospheric
disturbances. And finally, Scotty Cowling for
Tapper will talk about one of the current Hampside
projects, the Personal Space Weather Station,
and how we're trying to develop a software -defined
radio that is specifically usable for scientific
purposes. So I think that's pretty much it. It's
the Booth Talks. the booth itself, the demonstrations
and the forum. And that's plenty to plan for.
It sure is. And we're in the planning stages
right now. So I mean, if you go to hamsai .org,
there's a little page about the hamsai team where
we're filling out all of the presentations and
the demonstrations. So we're getting our team
together. Very good and I think I'm actually
supposed to be over there for a little bit as
well. So we'll Be talking about the youth contesting
program a little bit. So that's great forward
to that and Looking forward to hamvention. Well,
we're gonna take a break here and we'll come
back and We'll talk some more with Michael and
Nathaniel and we'll take a look at the tweets
and the comments on Spreaker here and any questions
that you have send those our way and we'll try
to get those answered tonight. We'll be back
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lines are down this evening, but we've got some
chatter on the chat here on Spreaker and on Twitter.
So we will. Get to those comments here in just
a second and if you're listening to us on the
podcast edition or on WTWW You you won't be able
to chime in because it's a live show on Thursday
night. So You're listening to a replay right
now. So Let's get to some of the comments here
first Scott Dunn, KM4 PMP, is a first -time listener,
so thank you, Scott, for tuning in. And Dan Romanchuk,
KB6NU, is here listening tonight. says that he's
excited about Dayton coming up again, and he'll
be teaching a one -day tech class there, and
there's some space available in that. So if you
know somebody that wants to do the one -day crash
course, Dan is the expert on that, so he'll be
doing that at Hamvention as well. And Michael
Colley, W4MCA from Orlando, Hamcation says congratulations
to... all of the winners tonight and uh... over
here on uh... twitter we have uh... the orlando
amateur radio club say uh... they say congrats
to all of uh... the award winners and uh... they
were the two thousand fifteen club of the year
award winner so congratulations uh... from them
as well so uh... our guest tonight uh... is dr
nathaniel frisell w two n a f along with the
spokesperson of Hamvention and the co -chair
of the awards committee, Michael Coulter, W8CI.
So Nathaniel, we were talking a little bit, or
you and Michael actually were talking during
the break a little bit about, you know, sometimes
a scientist, we kind of, you know, think everybody
Is scientific and maybe kind of scared off of
some of those? Conversations, but really this
this hams I thing is really geared toward Being
accessible to the the common citizen. So talk
a little bit about that right so At HamSci, we
really want to bring together both ham radio
operators and the professional research community.
When we talk together, we really do try to make
it so that you can understand what's going on
and the things that you've learned about propagation
from studying for your ham radio license. Those
are the same sorts of things that are going to
help you to understand this. When you come to
the HamSci forum or you come to the HamSci booth
talks, going to be presented in a way that should
be accessible to most ham radio operators. And
if there's something you don't understand, one
of the nice things is that you can come up and
you can ask a question, and that's absolutely
fine. And we'll do our best to answer it. But
we've had people from all ages and backgrounds
participating. We've had, even at the HamSci
workshop, this just a few weeks ago, we even
had some high school students participate. So
we really try to be very accessible. Well, that's
great. You've got some ways that you can get
some science in here, but it's not, as I like
to call it, rocket surgery. That's that's the
combination of rocket science and brain surgery.
So right We've got that covered so You know come
by check it out It's it's a great opportunity
to get some of that at Hamvention and then you
know, you've been putting on a couple of these
forums nationwide on things. You just had the
Case Western Reserve edition of the HamSci conference.
That's right. That was just this past March 22nd
and March 23rd. And we had it at Case Western
Reserve University and their club, W8EDU, hosted
the workshop. And I led the organization of all
of the talks. And we had a wide variety of people.
talking on everything from traveling ionospheric
disturbances to sporadic e -research to using,
even just using ham radio on either balloons
or, you know, new DMR repeaters to help track,
you know, scientific experiments and provide
the backend communications for that. So it was
quite an interesting conference. Yeah, I'm always
intrigued by all the the topics and love to get
to one of those. We're hoping within the next
few weeks, I'm hoping by Hamvention to have the
videos of those talks from the HamSci Workshop
up on the website. So we're hoping to get those
out there. And hopefully by the time Hamvention
rolls around, we'll have that wrapped up. Well,
that sounds great. Well, Michael, You have anything
else you want to throw in here about the awards?
Yeah. Thank you for asking a couple of things
to mention. I want to say hello to, uh, my friends
in Orlando who were the club of the year award
winner a few years back. What a great club, what
a great event they have down in Orlando. I also
want to mention I was in Visalia recently. What
a wonderful event that is out in California.
I learned a lot, met a lot of great people, and
I want to congratulate again on Nathaniel. A
few years ago, I had the opportunity to give
the amateur of the year award to Dr. Joe Taylor
and get to meet him. It was kind of funny trying
to contact him and say, Dr. Taylor, you won this
award. Do you know who I am? It was interesting
how getting a hold of him was. The reason I bring
his name up is because Nathaniel reminds me so
much of a young Joe Taylor, and I think I've
mentioned that before, but Nathaniel's really
making a difference, a difference for youth,
a difference for amateur radio. So I'm really
excited that he is the amateur of the year, and
to us, it's a great honor, and I think to most
of amateur radio, it is a great honor. And we
are all pleased that he's won that award and
that, you know, he's not resting. Matter of fact,
he's ramping it up. And I know that he's, he
might mention he's on a new tenure track coming
up. So Nathaniel, congratulations. And I just
couldn't, we couldn't think of a more deserving
amateur for this year's winner. So. And also,
Neal, thank you so much for having the program,
for allowing us to have more communication together,
where we could present Nathaniel and the award
winners. Sure, I'm looking forward to hand Benchen,
and I know a lot of people are, and I'll say
hello to anybody who might be listening to on
WTWW. And if they have questions, they can...
Context me. I'm good on QRZ. Anyway back to you
Neil. Thank you All right. Well if you have a
question or comment Give us a tweet here. It's
at ham talk live on Twitter. We'll be finishing
things up here before too long, but If you want
to get a question in here or comment at HamTalk
Live on Twitter, or if you're listening on Spreaker,
you can type into the comments here. And Scott
says congratulations to Nathaniel as well. So
we appreciate the chatter here tonight. We apologize
for the phone lines being down, but it looks
like we're getting some... Alternative methods
and that's what ham radio is about is finding
a way to get the communications through. So we
had a little unexpected practice at that tonight.
So Nathaniel, you've talked about, you know,
all the things that you've got going with the
ham side booth and the forum and all that kind
of thing. You know, we all are looking at our
schedules for Hamvention going, OK, how am I
going to get all this stuff done? But there's
always, you know, you always have to carve out
a little time to just kind of enjoy it. So I'm
just curious, what are your must do things when
you go to Hamvention? I think for me, just kind
of walking around and taking it all in, that's
And just seeing people that I know because, you
know, I've gone to the Hamvention now for, you
know, a number of years, I guess four or five
years in a row. And I know lots of people, like,
for instance, the K2BSA group working over at
the National Scout Jamboree. They always have
a booth up and I've been a part of that group
for a number of years. So it'll be good to see
some of them. So yeah, just, just seeing, uh,
seeing friends and taking it all in, I think.
And then Michael, you just, you just live there.
So actually, actually, that's true. I do live
there. I have a, I have a fifth wheeler and,
uh, I pull it in there and my friend, uh, Jack
Gurds stays in one section of the camper or the
fifth wheel and I stay in the other and we actually
are there all the time except for there's a few
outside events and and one I failed to mention
that I will reiterate is that Contest University
and I know Neil mentioned it earlier and Tim
Duffy, K3LR, puts on a spectacular program there,
and it is, you need to get your reservation in,
even if you aren't a contestor. It is so interesting
to go to it. You find out so much stuff, and
it helps you refine your amateur radio abilities,
and that's what I think. And the books are tremendous,
but the teachers there are just, astonishing
to me and even though what do I do there the
people that you the people you meet in contest
university are really interesting too like the
audience members you are you're right on that
Nathaniel I and just just briefly to mention
about you know what I do during hand -vention
I hardly ever get a chance to shop I mean most
of our volunteers don't get a chance to walk
around and shop they are so dedicated they realize
that it's an important pillar of amateur radio
in what they're trying to do, and they really
try to put their best foot forward. And I'll
put a plug in for those volunteers. If you're
there and you see a volunteer, thank them, because
nobody gets paid for this. And we're trying our
day gone hardest to put on a great event. But,
Neil, your work there and the night before. the
Thursday night program and I think you're gonna
have the sheriff on who is a ham now who took
care of all of our traffic program. Exciting.
But this shows more about Nathaniel and I hope
that everybody takes an opportunity to visit,
to go to his forum or to go to his booth and
go to the section that his events are going to
take place. Go ahead, Neil. All right. Now, Nathaniel,
I don't want to put you on the spot here, but
was, was there something you were going to announce
tonight or is that not? Oh, I mean, I can mention
it. Nathaniel needs congratulations yet again.
So we'll, we'll let him do that. Right. So, um,
one of the things, so for the past two years,
I've been working at the New Jersey Institute
of Technology and I'm extremely grateful to them
because they've really enabled HamSci to get
started here because they've provided me with
a lot of the funding and the support that has
allowed me to travel to Hamvention and put on
these HamSci workshops. But I was in a soft money
position there. And so this year I have won a
tenure track position. as a professor of physics
and electrical engineering at the University
of Scranton. So I'll be starting there in the
fall and I will be working hard to try and keep
Hamside going from that new position. Well, congratulations.
A tenure -track position is always a good thing
because you don't have to to wonder when that,
you know, grant money is going to dry up. Congratulations
on that. And that's a great move. And we look
forward to hearing more from Scranton. And NGIT
isn't going away. You're still collaborating.
That's right. They're not going away. Yeah. In
fact, I think I'm leaving NGIT in pretty good
shape in terms of Ham Radio. The Ham Radio Club
is still going strong there, K2MFF. and there's
a couple new professors over in the Center for
Solar Trusture Research, some of whom will be
coming to Hamvention as well. And so they're
going to work with me as collaborators on this
in the future. So I think it's strong for both
that university and for the others that are involved.
Well, again, congratulations on the new job and
congratulations on the award. It's well -deserved
and we appreciate you taking the time to come
on and talk to us again here and I look forward
to seeing you again in a few weeks. Thank you
so much. I really appreciate it. And Michael,
we'll have you back in two weeks to give us all
the latest news and everything. So we'll look
forward to having you back in a couple of weeks
and fill us in on all the latest from Hamvention
right before we get ready to go. And then like
you mentioned the night before, we'll... We'll
have weather and traffic and parking and all
that good stuff and hopefully the sheriff can
join us again and tell us a little bit about
some of the traffic patterns and those kinds
of things and his experiences as a ham now. Yeah,
he was with us in Orlando. We went to Orlando
this year and it worked a booth and He was there
and I also want to say hello to my friends in
Huntsville, Mark Brown and his team down there
at Huntsville that do such a wonderful job down
there too. Neil, thanks for having us on your
program and we couldn't be more delighted to
have Nathaniel win this award. It's a thrill
for us and I think it's a great thing for Amateur
Radio. And Nathaniel, uh, we'll be seeing you
in a few weeks and, and I'll be talking to you
in a couple of weeks, Neil. This is WHCI. All
right, Michael, thank you so much. But, uh, that
is going to be a wrap for tonight. Oh, hang on.
We got, no, it's not. Oh, Michael says it was
great seeing, uh, him in Orlando in February
as well. So we'll let Michael get the last word
in tonight. But, uh, thanks for listening and
that's going to be a wrap for this week's ham
talk live. Thanks to Michael Coulter, WHCI and
Dr. Nathaniel Frisell, W2NAF and everybody out
there in cyberspace for listening and typing
in tonight. And, uh, and I invite you back next
Thursday night at 9 PM Eastern time when Matt
Deutsch, N0RGT and Dave Swartz, W0DAS We'll be
here to talk a little bit about the WWV forum
that will be taking place at Hamvention this
year celebrating the 100th anniversary. of WWV
and for a list of all of our upcoming guests
just go over to HamTalkLive .com and if you like
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others find us faster. So for now this is Neil
Rapp WB9VPG saying seven three seven five and
may the good DX be yours. Thanks for watching!