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Team at K3LR, better known as Team Exuberance,
recorded live on Thursday, March 21st, 2019.
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Well, our guest tonight, Marty NN1C, rather.
He's a 17 -year -old ham that started out at
age 12 back in November 2014. Four months later,
he upgraded to General and now has his extra
class. He enjoys tinkering, rag chewing, and
contesting, builds antennas, and likes to get
people on HF and mentor other new hams, and Marty's
the current and founding president of the Eastern
Mass Contesting Club, and the club's goal is
to promote radio sport contesting among kids
in Eastern Massachusetts. He's a past speaker
at the Dayton Hamvention Youth Forum and often
contributes to various ham radio podcasts, as
well as co -hosting the Phasing Line podcast.
And our other guest is Bryant Rascal, KG5HVO.
He's 15 years old now and he's the reigning winner
of the Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur
Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award. Brian
is a member of the Montgomery Alabama Amateur
Radio Club, the Alabama Contest Group, the Georgia
Contest Group, and CW Ops, just to name a few.
And he's a participant in the World Radio Sport
Team Championships held last summer in Germany.
And he was also a member of the 2017 Dave Coulter
Youth DX Adventure to Costa Rica. And both of
these young hams... are members of Team Exuberance.
It's a youth contesting team that will participate
in the upcoming CQ Worldwide WPX contest in just
a couple of weeks. So guys, welcome back. Thank
you, Neil. It's great to be on. Always a pleasure
to be on with you, Neil. We always have a lot
of fun. Yeah, we do. We have a lot of fun and
we're going to have some fun here tonight and
let's talk about this team that sounds like a
whole lot of fun and I was digging around the
picture archive to try to find some pictures
to post to promote the show tonight and just
took a look at those antennas and that station
that you guys are going to be operating and just
was like, oh wow, that looks like a whole lot
of fun. Who came up with the idea for this team
and who came up with this name Team Exuberance?
Well, I believe the idea started on the 2018
Youth DX Adventure that went to Curacao and that
was with Violetta KM4ATT, David VE7DZO, Mason
KM4SII, and Drew KC9ZJX. had a great time in
Curacao and she wanted to have a youth contest
team here in North America. So she talked to
Tim Duffy at K3LR about the opportunity to use
his world -class station and Mr. Duffy was very
nice and he gave her the green light to use his
station. We began, or she began looking for operators
and we have the team we currently have and that's
six operators. Marty, do you want to, do you
have any comments? Yeah, sure. I mean, I think
Bryant knows more about this than I do. Bryant's
the real expert. I'm just here as the backup
singer. I'm not sure if we're missing anything
there. I was just going to say that we are really
privileged to put together what I would define
as Really superb team and you know, whatever
you're doing multi -operator contesting The team
is really important right because you can have
a terrific station like Tim Duffy station, which
is the biggest radio sport contest station in
North America with terrific ICOM radios big tall
towers stacked with OWA Yagi antennas, but if
you don't have a terrific team of operators,
you know, you really just have Fancy station
and we've been really fortunate to put together
A terrific team just to name, just to go down
the list. We have Tommy, HA9T, who was an operator
at WRTC 2018 along with Bryant. He's operated
from HG8DX, LX79A1A to name a few. A really great
operator. Bryant, obviously. Bryant's world -class.
He needs no introduction. David, who went to
Curaçao with Violetta, V7DZO. A fantastic op.
Levi k6jo who has made quite a name for himself
operating from the zf1 a superstition down in
the Caymans, which is where Dan, N6MJ, has been
operating a ZF1A and ZF2MJ in recent years, making
some amazing CW scores. So obviously, Levi has
great experience. Violetta, obviously, is our
team leader, and she's been an operator at the
W3 at Lima Papa Lima in recent contests, and
myself. So we've really been fortunate to put
together a terrific team, and I'm really, really
grateful for that. Yeah, it's quite a feat to
pull that off that you can get all of these operators
and that you have this group of young operators
with so much experience like, you know, the WRTC
experience and the Dave Coulter Youth DX adventure
experience and lots and lots of contests and
guest operating at these big stations. So you
guys have quite a resume for for young people,
especially. Um, and it's just incredible that
you were able to, uh, assemble this team. So,
um, let's talk about the contest itself. Let's
talk about CQ worldwide, WPX a little bit, and,
uh, let's talk a little bit about the K3LR station.
Sure. Brian, you want to take this one? Sure,
so the K3LR station again is one of the biggest
stations in the world. Tim Duffy K3LR has done
a great job engineering his station. And again,
as Marty said, we're just really privileged to
be operating from such a great station. We'll
be again competing in the CQWPX contest. It starts
March 30th at 00Zulu and goes until March 31st
at 2359Zulu. It's an SSB contest and it's basically
anybody can work anybody in the world. It's a
lot of fun Marty you got anything? Yeah, I was
just gonna add that The WPX is a really cool
contest for a couple of reasons, and it's different
than some of the other traditional kind of main
DX contests. Normally when people talk about
kind of the big ones, they talk about ARL DX
CW and Sideband and CQ Worldwide CW and Sideband,
which the K3LR station traditionally operates.
But I believe, and I may be incorrect, this is
the first time the K3LR station has entered as
a multi -operator in the CQWPX SSB contest. And
what makes the WPX cool is unlike other contests
where you have a fixed exchange, a fixed information
that you communicate when you work at other stations,
the WPX does not. The exchange for each contact
with another station, but the report that you
exchange is your signal report, a signal report
of the other station. Normally that's a five
and nine. and the serial number. In other words,
what number contact this is for you in this contest.
So the first contact is number one, and the second
contact is number two, and the third is number
three, and so on. And what makes this really
cool is it means that you actually have to work
to copy the exchange and really try as an operator,
right? So there's lots of focus and... getting
the call sign correct, and also getting the exchange
correct. In a lot of these contests, one can
kind of predict the exchange, but not in this
context, obviously. So there's an extra level
of challenge introduced. It's also a contest
where the US could work the US. Everybody could
work everybody, which adds lots of fun, especially
for operators who maybe just want to get on and
work down the band. They could call anybody,
and we would be deeply grateful to work everybody
and anybody. That's very true. We're super stoked
deal. So not everybody is gonna be Bob and a
5 -9 You got us Who picked Bob anyway Why is
everybody Bob Quick and short quick and most
likely Well, why not like Fred we're Bob we're
Marty and Bryant, so don't be asking us Now I
want you to contest and you said your name was
Bob That's true. Marty. I worked you last Tuesday
and you said your name was Bob. Is this an interrogation
on the air? This is an on -air interrogation.
It is cross -examination. I plead the fifth So
this will this will be good This will be interesting
and and the prefixes of the call signs are your
are your molt so I've been around long enough
that my prefix is actually one that's needed
a little more. Yes sir, it is. There'll be a
lot of interesting prefixes on, especially from
Europe. I know there's a lot of special stations
that get prefixes just for this contest. Sometimes
the prefixes will have maybe like five characters.
I know there was a station in Slovenia that actually
had four, it was S5. One hundred L I O N S. So
don't be into it. Don't be freaked out if, if
there are some weird call signs coming across.
Does that even fit in in a one M M who knows?
I mean, I guess if you had the entry window squeezed
out, you know, I gotta add Neil, your WB nine
is important, but everybody's. Every single contact
matters. That's how you make a big score. It's
the big hours and the small hours, the weak guys
and the loud guys. You got to work everybody.
We want to work everybody. And we want to work
you. So I think it's, yes, your call sign is
important and everybody's call sign is important.
We want to work everybody. All right. Well, let's
talk about the team a little bit more. How is
this being sponsored? You know, you got to get
everybody there. So how is that being funded
and how our team members? Getting to the station
Well, that's a terrific question deal there is
significant expense of trying to put an operation
like this together both from a transportation
point of view and a logistics point of view.
We have operators coming from three countries,
two in North America and one in Europe, and people
are flying in and staying in hotels. So there
is a significant expense to this. And as much
as possible, we are trying to... cover costs
that we can, and we've been extremely, extremely
grateful. We launched a GoFundMe this fall to
cover the costs, and you can check that out if
you're interested. It's teamexuberance .org is
the website, teamexuberance .org. And we've successfully
raised over $5 ,000 to make this project happen,
so it's not a financial burden for the operators,
because I don't know about others, but not a
lot of youth have hundreds, if not over $1 ,000,
around to fly. themselves and possibly a family
member or an adult guardian with them to West
Middlesex, Pennsylvania. So we launched a GoFundMe,
again, teams exuberance .org, and we're raising
funds to make this happen and we are extremely
grateful for everybody who's supported us in
doing that. Yes, thanks to all the individual
donors as well as a lot of the contesting clubs
for all their generous support Financially, but
also just for giving us kind words of encouragement
Certainly, I think we would not be able to do
this We may be young operators, but that doesn't
mean we haven't consulted not young operators
and without all of our Elmer's and people Advising
us. There's a lot of things that go into planning
a multi -operator contest Entry like this one.
I mean I could go on for days but Just simple
things like scheduling an operator schedule for
the team and logistics and hotels and all those
things take a lot of time and a lot of expertise
and we've been really fortunate to really have
a great team of Elmer's and mentors. I'd be remiss
again without thanking Tim K3LR and Carrie, excuse
me, Terry, Kate, M &J who has worked tirelessly
to make this happen. So it really, it takes a
village deal. It really does. And I'm proud to
say that Nearly all of the major DXing contest
clubs in the US have contributed to doing this
and we're extremely grateful for those donations.
All right, sounds like a fun time and some great
experience and I look forward to seeing how the
score goes too because I think you guys can can
run the score up here a little bit. So we'll
we'll see how that turns out. Well, we're gonna
Take a break here and we'll come back with Marty
and Bryant and we'll give you a chance to ask
your questions and give us a call here at 812
-650 -9556 and we'll be back right after this
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now it's time for your calls. So if you have
a question for Marty or Bryant or both, give
us a call. The number 812 -650 -9556. Again,
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Live. If you're listening to us on WTWW or on
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us live since this is Thursday night right now
when we're recording this. So Marty, let's actually
we're going to take a call here. So let's do
that and then we'll talk a little bit about some
of the preparation. Good evening. Welcome to
HamTalk Live. Hey, good evening, Neil. It's Scott,
KZeroMD. You have two superstars on tonight.
Yeah, Scott. I've got the two superstars here
with me. Good to hear your voice and what's your
question here for these two? I have several things,
if that's okay. Number one, Neil, I know you've
been distracted, but I have been told that the
University of Kentucky won its first round game
tonight, so you can relax a little bit now. I
will admit that the TV is still on mute in the
background, so yes, I saw that, so I can relax
now. Yeah, we're all happy at that one, at least
those of us who are big Blue Nation fans. I have
had a number of discussions with John, K6AM,
and the young man that Marty talked about who
has been operating at ZF1Alpha is supposedly
going to develop into an even better contestor
than N6MJ. So with him, Marty, and Bryant, and
some of the others, the future of contesting
looks bright with all of these young operators.
I have two questions tonight. One for Marty and
Bryant. Tell us a little bit about your strategy
and can we get you to commit to submit maybe
a story about the experience to Neil or a picture
so we can put it in the National Contest Journal?
And then my question specifically to Marty is
that you only pick the stations that have ICOM
radios, Marty. I seem to see you operating at
a lot of ICOM stations, but nothing else. Does
that identify a preference for you perhaps? The
first question was strategy. How about I speak
to that a little bit and then Bryant can. So
certainly there's a lot of strategy that goes
into contesting and preparing for this effort,
we worked hard to kind of analyze a lot of previous
scores and look at how other people have entered
this category. The multi -two category is a pretty
strategic category, right? Because we have six
bands to cover and two run signals to do that
with. So we certainly have done a lot of studying,
and the WPX contest is particularly interesting
in the way it handles scoring and what contacts
matter for how many points. So it's based off
of in -country, out -of -country, in -content,
out -of -content, high bands versus low bands.
In short, you get more points for working guys
on the low bands than you do on the high bands.
Within your country, it's one point either way,
but outside of the country, from 40, 80, and
160, there's a 2x point advantage over working
guys on the high bands, 10, 15, and 20. So we've
spent a lot of time analyzing how we can make
sure we get the, we can optimize our six point
cues, our six point contacts on 40, 80, and 160,
and also our contacts during the day on 40 and
15 when there aren't terrific contact rates to
make. And certainly making sure that we don't
miss openings and looking at where we think there
will be rate, where we can find it, what to look
out for. And really just being aware, right?
Because contesting is, ooh, what's next? What
opening do I have to be looking for? What's going
to happen? What do we think? Let's look at conditions.
One of the great training tools for the CQWPX
contest is actually, believe it or not, the ARRLDX
contest, which is a 28 day cycle before, roughly
28 days before CQWPXSSB. So it's a great way
to judge what conditions might be like for WPXSSB.
And we also had the ability to look at, while
not a complete story, how the K3LR station performed
during WPX SSB, where I can proudly say that
it looks like they won the category from the
US, which is a terrific feat. And they've done
that many years in a row, and that's just a great
testament to the station and its operators. But
certainly, we've thought long and hard about
what we expect, what we don't expect, what we
hope to do, how we hope to do it. And then, you
know... As the contest goes on, we will adapt
our strategy based on what we hear in the headphones
because one can be as theoretical as one wants,
but in the heat of the battle, it's important
to adapt to the conditions. Yes, I agree with
Marty that you just never know what propagation
will be like, and that's one interesting facet
of contesting that always keeps the operator
on his or her toes. Again, for our strategy,
I believe that we're going to make a big strive
on running the six -point contacts on the low
bands, mainly from the European amateur radio
communities. Now that doesn't mean that U .S.
stations aren't important. U .S. stations, we
need you a lot. We really need the high rates
in the prefixes that the U .S. stations contain.
So I really think we're going to try and emphasize
our QSO point total. as well as maximizing our
multiplier count by pushing our second in -band
radio, which is a radio just dedicated to tuning
around or clicking on spots on the DX cluster.
I think we're going to try and push the in -band
radio as hard as we can, but also if propagation
is just... slow at some times, maybe during the
middle of the night, then we may try and do quick
band changes using the second radios to maybe
get just a few more contacts. So Mario did a
really cool math formula about pushing the second
in -band radio on other bands just to grab a
few contacts. And we're really hoping, again,
that conditions are good, but we know that this
is going to be a great experience regardless.
Brian said it better than anybody could and you
know the cool thing about contesting for the
most part especially when you're competing with
people In a local region is that you know when
conditions are bad for you. They're also bad
for them So that means taking the most advantage
of those bad conditions and Bryant said it better
than we can the k3lr station is equipped with
Two radios on all of 80 40 20 15 and 10 meters
So all the contest bands with the exception of
160 Which is a tremendous advantage and keeping
those second radios tuning keeping the primary
radio always calling CQ and taking advantage
of those extra band We get a fixed number of
band changes every hour and taking best advantage
of those will really optimize our score Okay,
and then the the radio preference thing in fact
Scott should have heard our discussion before
the show, but I Think tongue -in -cheek question
for Marty I know he's an icon, aficionado, and
Bryant's an LA craftsman, so they sort of typify
that. Will you have a special call sign? WPX,
or will you use K3LR? And that'll be my last
question, Neil. Nice program. Oh, see if you
can pin them down to give you an article for
NCJA, Neil. This would be a great story. Oh,
I agree. So call sign? We'll be using the K3LR
callsign as we'll be operating at the K3LR station.
And yeah, we'll have to talk about the article.
That'd be a really interesting thing to do. And
thanks for all you do with the NCJ, Mr. Wright.
Thank you, Scott. So you're not using the callsign
L1D? No, no, no, sir, we're not. And we're very
fortunate to use the very famous and well -known
K3LR callsign. All right, thanks Scott so much
for calling in. Appreciate it and go Cats. Thanks,
Bill. 73, good night everyone. All right, 73.
And by the way, I'm gonna give you guys a little
strategy here. Scott asked you about strategy.
I'm gonna share with you a strategy that I think
will work in this case, and it's one that I used
to use back when I was coaching basketball. The
whole strategy to winning is to have more points
at the end than the other team. That's a really
good strategy. We appreciate your input on that.
Talking amongst ourselves about that. That's
really good. Thank you so much I think we'll
be working to implement that one, you know We've
had lots of great Elmer's and setting up for
this, but nobody's told us about that one yet
So we'll take so there you go. You're very welcome.
I'm glad I could could share that and give you
some insight on that. 812 -650 -9556 is the phone
number to call. If you have a question for Marty
or Bryant or both, give us a call. 812 -650 -9556
or you can tweet us at HamTalk Live. we were
getting ready to talk about a lot of the preparation
a lot of the the paperwork and Logistics and
everything that went into making this happen
and it's still going on travel plans and manuals
and all this kind of thing and Yeah, you're using
some some adult Support but you guys are doing
this from The bottom all the way to the top you're
covering the whole thing You got it Ted and it's
it's really it's a big undertaking and we've
been really fortunate to everybody who's helped
us in taking this along just a fun fact I'm looking
at our my master logistical planning spreadsheet,
which is an Excel spreadsheet with 12 tabs in
it. So yes, there are a lot of different things
that must be organized To put a big multi -operator
operation together like this on the air You asked
about a handbook and that's something that we
did do for this operation. We believe it's very
important to do We created a handbook with everything
such as band expectations What conditions we
expect and what band how the station works how
the software works how the antenna switching
works? How the rotators at kthblr which has over
26 rotators really just a huge stations there's
a lot of technical skills we have to learn and
we put that in a big manual with the radios and
the amplifiers and things like that and we sent
that out to the team and the team was able to
read that to kind of get a little bit of familiarity
because one thing that a lot of multi -operator
teams have as an advantage is familiarity with
the station to familiarity with each other. I
may be incorrect, but I believe that none of
the operators have operated together before So
we are all being thrown together and then quickly
operating a contest So lots of pre planning and
pre coordination and pre strategy and phone a
conference call We had one in preparation things
like that really make sure that things go as
well as they possibly can And even even booking
flights and Yep flights, hotels, you know, all
those things have to be taken care of in order
for an operation like this to come together.
And we've been able to do that. So that's been,
you know, a lot of work, but it's very important
that we get those logistics taken care of so
we can focus on the contest. And the teacher
in me is going to say, this is valuable life
experience stuff. Because, you know, these are
things that our life skills, and you're not going
to get this in a normal classroom. And these
are things that you're getting as a matter of
planning for this opportunity. Well, you know,
Neil, and Brian can add on, but we're certainly
very fortunate to be able to take part in this,
and it's a great privilege and a great honor,
and I've definitely learned a bunch of skills
along the way. And I'm sure you'll learn a lot
about contesting and ham radio, but the life
skills, too. So it's a great thing. Well, let's
talk a little bit about the exchange a little
bit more. And for people, let's see if we can
get you some more contacts. Maybe some people
that are listening aren't. contesters or serious
contesters and They want to get on the air and
and just you know work a couple of stations work
you Maybe work some of the yard team and and
you know a few here and there Just explain to
them exactly how they would go about Doing the
exchange and working you and making sure that
you get credit for the contact Well, again, the
way it works is the exchange is the signal report,
generally a 5 -9, as that's been tradition for
contesting for a good number of years now, and
a serial number. And what a serial number basically
is, it's how many contacts you've made in a contest.
So if I were to work you, Neil, in a contest,
and you'd be my first contact, I would say your
5 -9, number 001. And then if I worked Marty,
I would give him number two. And then the number
would keep climbing every time I talked to somebody,
basically. And you do not have to submit a log
for this contest, although it is appreciated
by the contest sponsor, CQ Worldwide. It's a
really fun contest. There should be no stress,
whatever. Marty, do you have anything? No. I'm
what we look forward to working you. Hopefully
we should have a very loud presence on the band
and a frequent presence on the band. So if you
hear us, no matter how fast or slow we're going,
we want to talk to you. We want to get you in
our logs. And that's the special part about.
radio sport contesting is getting to talk to
all of our friends and all of our fellow radio
hams over HF radio and it's really exciting every
time if we knew who was going to call in it wouldn't
be nearly as fun so turn on on that radio and
work us and then stay on and work all the other
guys because radio contesting is for what more
fun when more people do it sure All right eight
one two six five zero nine five five six is the
phone number if you'd like to call in now It's
time to do that. So we're going to finish things
up here in just a few minutes So give us a call
eight one two six five zero nine five Five six
or you can tweet us at ham talk live or you can
if you're on Spreaker you can even get into the
chat Jill kd8 QG a is in the house tonight and
Says good to hear you Marty and and I'm not even
going to try to pronounce everything else She
said here, but I didn't I didn't get it. So Let's
see here, let's see what else we have on the
screen All right, so I think we're caught up
here so eight one two six five zero nine five
five six is the number now Two weeks ago we had
sterling in zero SSC on talking about Yark and
the youth Contesting program that is also going
on during this time. So Marty, did you want to
say something about that? I'll throw it to Brian.
I know he knows a lot about it. Yes, well We
really hope that this initiative through Team
Exuberance and the YARC Contesting Program, I'll
give you the website, it's yarkyarc .world. Again,
that's yarkyarc .world. And we're really excited
about these two initiatives going on in North
America, and we hope to keep the momentum going.
large station owners to possibly consider opening
up their stations to some youth and as well as
to other young contesters that are eager to learn
from others to not be afraid to go and approach
these larger station owners and just have an
open mind and yearn to learn. So again, we're
really hoping that this momentum continues here
in North America. Europe has a really steady
program going with their Youngsters on the Year
Young Contesting Program. So again, we're hoping
that this initiative keeps going in North America.
Exactly. Well, we hope this is just the start
of something a lot bigger. And I know both myself
and Bryant are really dedicated to making that
happen. So, you know, the place to go obviously
is Yark. And also, if you have any questions,
shoot us an email. Bryant and I are both good
at our at ARRL .net email addresses. So KG5HVL
at ARRL .net or NN1C at the. ARRL .net and we'd
be glad to talk ham radio. We love talking ham
radio. We talk ham radio all the time. We live
it, we breathe it and we want to talk to you.
So I think certainly getting more youth involved
with contesting, which I think is just a fantastic
part of this hobby and getting more youth involved
in radio in general and attracting them to ham
radio and contesting because ham radio just opens
up so many terrific doors. It's a great place
to learn terrific skills and Look what we're
doing. Look at all the skills we've learned along
the way. Uh, so I am certainly a strong component
of what's going on here. All right. You couldn't
have said it any better. The experiences that
you get from this are just, uh, just unbelievable.
And I had a chance to hear, um, some, some speakers
here in the last week or two, and all of them
were talking about all these things that would
happen. uh... in you know as youngsters but only
because of ham radio and it's just uh... a magnif
this magnificent way uh... to learn a lot of
these life skills as well as radio skills and
science and and all kinds of things so uh...
i'm hoping that this really takes off i know
uh... I'm going to be over at WCHVOA for a little
bit during this contest so hopefully I can work
you from there and they're going to be one of
the host stations for a youngster or two coming
up for this contest in the YARC program. If you
want to learn a little more about that, a couple
episodes ago, I think it was two weeks ago, when
Sterling was on talking about YARC and the youth
contesting program, so you can find that at HamTalkLive
.com or on your podcasting app or YouTube and
you can find out more about that. Okay, well,
we're just about out of time here, so let me
check the tweets here just one last time. And
then we'll just take some final comments and
we'll wrap things up. So, Marty, go ahead. Well,
you know, we're deeply excited to do this. We're
deeply fortunate that we're able to make this
happen. If you have any questions, again, shoot
us an email. We're both good at arl .net. We
hope to work you on the air from K -3 Lima Radio.
What is closely a closely a crawling up on us
is just a little bit over a week away at this
time next week At 9 44 probably about this time.
I will be in a rental car with brian's and levi
and tommy h a9t And brian's mother driving from
the pittsburgh airport to west metals x where
the k3 lr superstation is located So we're very
excited. We hope to work you on the air as k3
lr And uh, we hope that you continue whatever
you you're doing in your communities about amateur
radio and news and contesting. If you're not,
now's a good time to start and bring this, you
know, bring, bring radio to your clubs, try and
get some youth in your club. Clubs are an extremely
important part of a ham radio. So we want to
talk to you. We want to work with you. If we
can be helpful to you, let us know. And we hope
to see you on the air next weekend. All right.
And Bryant, you get the last word. Alrighty,
yes. Thanks to everybody for listening. We hope
to again work you from K3LR and just keep the
momentum going in North America. All right. Well,
thanks guys for coming on. Appreciate it. You've
got some definite energy and it's not called
team exuberance for nothing and I think that
you guys will do very well and I'll be Be looking
to see how well you do. Oh one question. Are
you gonna run any of the live contest? Scoring
to where we could watch Your progress don't believe
so, but don't hold me to it. Certainly will be
on 38 30 kilohertz at the end of the contest
and announce our score there Okay, very good.
Well, we'll keep an eye on that and good luck
to you all. And as I say at school, even though
luck has nothing to do with it, it's skill. So,
good luck and have a great time. Thank you. Thank
you, Neil. Alright, that is a wrap for this week's
edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guests,
Marty Sulaway, NN1C, and Bryant Rascal, KG5,
HVO, and everybody out there in cyberspace for
listening. and calling in and writing in and
invite you back next Thursday night at 9 p .m.
Eastern Time when Corey Shields KB9GHU will be
here to talk about the new SatNogs Dashboard
and for a list of all of our upcoming guests
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