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Sterling Mann, formerly Sterling Coffee, N0SSC.
He's from St. Louis, Missouri, and he's currently
an avionics and communication systems design,
test and integration engineer in St. Louis. And
he became a ham at age 16 and is one of the former
youth editors at ARRL and has his own YouTube
channel about ham radio and is the co -host of
the Phasing Line podcast. He's a 2014 graduate.
of Missouri University of Science and Technology
where he was the president of the W -Zero Triple
-E Amateur Radio Club and his degree is in electrical
engineering with an emphasis in electromagnetics.
He does a lot of listening, contesting, and remote
operating from the W -Zero Triple -E shack as
well as his parents and Sterling is one of the
leaders at the Young Amateurs radio club, better
known as YARC, that we're going to be talking
about tonight. So Sterling, welcome back to the
show. Thanks for having me. Good to be here again.
And I'm excited to talk about, uh, youth in him
radio. I think that was what we had. We talked
about last time too. Yeah. Yeah. Sure was. And
when we, uh, talk last time, uh, we were talking
about the youngsters on the air, uh, trip that
you and Sam Rose were able to take, uh, Casey
to LRC. over to, excuse me, over into Europe
to kind of observe what was going on and see
if maybe we could come up with something similar
here in the US. And the first step of that process
is this youth contesting program. And so I called
and said, hey, Sterling, we need to catch up
on what's going on here. Can we get these? programs
rolling and some of you listeners have been writing
in and saying, hey, I can help, you know, I can
do this, I can do that. So where are things?
And I'm like, well, I don't know. So Sterling's
here to fill us in. So tell us a little bit about
YARC first and then this youth contesting program
that's taking shape within the YARC framework.
Yeah, sure. So, Yark is the Young Amateurs Radio
Club, and it was kind of started on a whim by
K... Let me get his correct call sign in front
of me real quick. By David K... What's his call
sign? Let me look it up real quick. KF1SHY is
his current call sign. He posted on Reddit, the
Amateur Radio subreddit, that he was starting
a Discord chat, and Discord's kind of like IRC.
IRC, the internet relay chat, but for gamers.
And it's really taken on a new lease of life
as just a generic chat for various hobbies, vocations,
also video gaming, but it's almost like the Reddit
of chat, if you will. And he said, I'm starting
a Discord for the young hams of Long Island in
New York. And I was like, why not all young hams?
And from that point on, it was yuck. And so now
it's a Discord community, an online community,
and we currently are up to... oh, somewhere in
the neighborhood of 800, 900 almost, hams, young
hams on there. Some are young and some are more
my age. I'm currently 27, but anybody's young
if they think they are. But this one is actually,
like, the majority of the hams are under the
age of 25. And so with that... I've kind of joined
on as a helper, as a person who's networked around
like the ARRL, Yoda, et cetera. And so I know
a little bit of background in how to get a radio
club started and keep it moving along and pushing
forward, especially with my experience with Yoda.
So from my experience with Yoda, one of our objectives
was to bring some of their ideas over to this
side of the pond, such as the Yoda Camp, which
is like a week -long event that we talked about
last time. and the youth contesting program.
Over there, they send contesters, young hams,
to very big contest stations like 403A and K3LR
sized contests. I can name a few but I forget
them off the top of my head. for a contest weekend,
they operate, and they do a really competitive
job at contesting. Over here, we've never had
such a program, and we've noticed that Team Exuberance,
which we'll get to in a minute, is doing a similar
program. So I thought, well, what if we try to
connect young hams who aren't out there yet,
you know, on the internet and looking for places
to contest. Maybe they don't have a station that
they really want. They don't have a beam or mini
watts of power. They might just have a little
wiring the tree at 100 watts, so to speak, like
kind of how I started. Now imagine if I was 16,
I would really want to go to a contest station.
I actually got the opportunity to go to a few,
like N0AX, K0KL. I haven't been to any station
as big as K3LR yet, but that's what we were trying
to do with this, is try to pair up contest stations
which can be, for all intents and purposes, competitive.
Not like 100 watts in the wire and just in the
corner of the room kind of thing. Something where
it's like a real shack with maybe a few operating
positions. Doesn't have to be as big as K1TTT
or K9CT or K3LR, but we definitely would like
them to sign up for it. But stations like W0EEE
or W4AQL at Georgia Tech, or I have a few friends
here in St. Louis who have one or two radios
with a tri -band beam. Bonus points if they can
host the youth operators overnight or if there's
hotels nearby for situations, et cetera. And
so that's the idea. Trying to pair up young operators
who are interested in going to a bigger station
than their own if they have one to try to contest
over the weekend. And we're shooting for the
CQ Worldwide WPX Single Side Band on March 30th.
So that's coming really soon. So this is going
to be the first opportunity to do this Over here.
So tell us the process if there's a Youth operator
that wants to sign up to try to go to one of
these what are they getting into? How do they
sign up for that? And then if there are some
You know modest to large contest stations out
there, you know, you've got a tower. You got
a beam You got an amp you got you know a little
more than just your, you know, dipole and 100
watts. How can they sign up to get involved with
this as well? It's really easy. All you have
to go and do is go to yark .world slash ycp.
There we have information and a Google survey
that you fill out too with a bunch of information
that lets you, you know, apply to the... Since
this is kind of the first run, we're experimenting.
And as we kind of expected, we don't have a huge
influx of interest. Currently, we're only up
to 27 total entries, 10 of them being actual
contestations, and then 17 being young hams.
And so right now, we're looking for more. Because
what we really want to try to do is get volunteers,
like as many contestations, able to host a Young
Ham. And this doesn't have to be like a fully
-fledged, like you don't have to be on their
shoulder for the full contest. You just need
to be there, be present as a host. And we want
to also try to get as many young hams so that
we can have as many pairings as possible. And
this isn't something where you're going to fly
out to and it's going to be this big deal. It's
pretty low key. It's like a day's drive at most.
You meet the host and you start contesting and
that's pretty much it. You'll get advice if you
haven't been contesting before. Some of the hosts
are willing to... provide instruction and information,
and especially when it comes to specific station
parameters and situations, things like, well,
when you use the amp, you gotta turn it up to,
turn this knob to that, this knob to here, but
if you're on that antenna, you turn off the amp
and use this one over here, you know, et cetera,
so things like that. So yeah, all you need to
do is go to yark .world slash ycp, sign up there.
We're looking for both operators and contesters,
or contest hosts, and the deadline to do this
is March 14th, which is coming up, and it's kind
of a soft deadline. If we have any late entries,
we'll try to accommodate, but at the moment,
we're looking to see, we currently probably will
have no more than... five or 10 at best, uh,
pairings since it's so sparse, but hopefully
after this and newsline, which just released,
um, we'll probably get a few more, which would
be great. Yeah. I was just getting ready to mention,
uh, that, uh, you and I did a little piece on
amateur radio newsline this week that, uh, that
just came out about an hour ago. So if you hear
this week's news line, you'll hear Sterling on
there as well talking about this. But tonight
we'll get into a little more of the detail. But,
you know, the idea here is to, you know, be within
a few hours drive so that way, you know, you
can just drive over, drive back so that keep
the expenses down and everything. And so while
you have Pretty good ratio of operators to stations
Most of them or a lot of them. I guess I should
say Aren't in the same place. So yeah, we still
need more. We need more stations to Geographically
you know make some availability out there yeah
so the so the idea kind of down in the long term
maybe a few years for now is to have a list of
stations who are just open like open door. And
then we can use that list to say to our, you
know, our 900 members of YARC and every other
Young Ham that we can find that, hey, there's
this contest station that's open for business,
open for business, open for contesting for this
particular contest. And hopefully we can like
work out a system where we can have like kind
of a revolving door sort of set up where like...
K3LR has a seat for Young Ham at any contest,
or K9CT has on their QRZ page, like if you're
a Young Ham, click here, and then it will give
an information about accommodations and events
coming up, et cetera. So trying to make contest
stations a little more open. A lot of contesters
are also going to remote stations, and so we're
trying to promote a lot of remote operations
for contesting and in operation in general. But
this would be very interesting because it's kind
of like an old school way of going to your neighbor's
house who has a big antenna that you want to
ask about. That's what I did when I grew up.
K0KL, who's in SK now, Ed Carl, he had like a
hundred foot station of 1 ,500 watts. Little
did I know through in zero AX word silver I found
out he had this station and it was no more than
three miles from my parents house in Warrenton,
Missouri So it was a small world and I had a
lot of fun there made a YouTube video out of
it It was a CW contest so I didn't do much operating,
but I watched war do a lot We watched the curiosity
Rover takeoff and I learned a lot like I learned
about propagation about contesting skills and
that sort of thing that made me you know a better
contester overall so and was just so much fun
and that's the whole reason of doing this is
to get some experience with the younger operators
so that they know what's going on and and can
Do better at contesting and contesting is great
way to get young people into ham radio and and
so this is This is a way to promote that and
to Increase the skills of some young operators.
And so I think this is a great idea. Hope we
can get some more stations out there signed up
because you know, I'd like to see everybody have
a chance to get paired up with a sign. But I
know one of the things you mentioned in the Newsline
interview was, you know, it's the first run,
you know, you're just giving this a try. So don't
be disappointed if, you know, we can't get you
a spot somewhere close this time. And I guess
that's kind of up to them as to whether they
want to. Take a further spot or not. It's that
Yeah, is that gonna be up to them? Yeah, I think
so and and even if we don't have like all the
entries and all the pairings that we want we
know at least You know who is interested and
we can say we have like, you know They put in
their email address and we can send them like
information on Nearby contestation. So what I
might do is look up. Hey Look at like some old
previous logs and see if I can find in areas
where there's interest of young from young hams
Where there's contest stations and see if I can
reach out to that contest station or that person
who contests and see like hey Would you be interested
in like, you know showing your shack off or opening
your shack up to these young people in your area?
Just to help kind of lubricate the process. But
yeah, like you said we do are looking for more
operators and hosts as well, to try to bump the
numbers up. The United States is just so big,
and so we thought, oh yeah, 10, 20, 30, no big
deal, we'll get some pairings, but since the
US is such a large place, you definitely need
a lot, but the more you get, the more we can't
pair, and the more disappointment, and I hopefully
won't be causing too many disappointments, and
we'll... make a public posting like here's all
of the stations that are available, here's all
the operators and see how like kind of hard it
is to get from place to place but once we get
more we can have more pairings and eventually
make it a really good place for young operators
to find like contesting resources in terms of
like people and you know stations. Now I don't
want to spend a whole lot of time on this because
your your phasing line co -host Marty in A1C
will be on here in two weeks to talk about it.
But there's also the All -Star version here.
The Team Exuberance, which was on Newsline last
week actually, is an experienced youth team of
contesters that are going over to K3LR and operating.
So Marty's going to come on and talk about that
in a couple of weeks. But some of these experienced
youth operators that are scoring big in a lot
of the contests and even a couple of them in
WRTC. I was watching the video that just came
out on WRTC and saw Bryant and some of those
guys in there, Phillip and some of them. They're
putting together this big all -star team kind
of thing. So we'll be talking more about that
in a couple of weeks with Marty. So if you're
just starting out or have a little bit of contest
experience and you're not quite to the all -star
level yet, here's an opportunity for you. So
again, that website. yark .world, y -a -r -c
dot w -o -r -l -d, uh, slash y -c -p, Yankee
Charlie Papa, youth contesting program. Um, yark
.world slash y -c -p. All right. So if you're
interested in hosting or you're interested in
operating, um, go over there and check that out
and, and hopefully we can, uh, hear you on the
air and, and hopefully, um, Sterling and his
crew can pair you up with somebody. Now we also
talked a little bit about that camp for Yoda,
and that's being offered for young hams over
in Europe. And so we still haven't got that rolling
yet. That's more work. But bring us up to date
on what's been happening with getting that rolling.
Yeah, so you and I actually talked about this
a while and kind of reminded me like, oh, yeah,
that's the thing I should do. Since I've been
to Yoda, and that was in 2016, I've gotten married,
got a few new jobs, moved around, did this and
that, and actually bought a house, so I've had
a lot of life changes to get in the way, but...
And a car. And a car, yeah. And so, I mean, there's
been talk, like you mentioned, in the, there's
been a lot of chatter about it. So it looks like
I have, we have like a possible venue. We have
started kind of talking about it. A lot of people
are starting to get riled up and interested.
I'm sure here coming in the, you know, Hamvention,
we're gonna be talking about really solidifying
some plans and some lodging and some ideas, like
we can put it together. Probably not this summer,
but maybe next summer, 2020. And yeah, it looks
like we really want to have it at the VOA Museum
in Ohio because it seems to be the perfect place
with the radio station there, which sounds like
a really good idea. We'll have to think about
logistics, how to find young hams to join, if
we need to do an application process, or if we
can just say, open the floodgates, figure out
how many people we can host up. Where would we
put them for a hotel? Do we put a contest station
at the hotel? Probably. These sorts of things.
Our club, YARC, is going to be at Hamvention
and we're going to try to have a powwow on this
at some point in Hamvention. It's pretty similar
to how they did the HamSci, the ham radio science
initiative. I still remember peeping into a corner
one day and seeing all these scientists and I'm
like, what the heck's going on back here? And
lo and behold, HamSci was born. So hopefully
we'll do the same thing for a United States Yoda
type camp. Okay. So that's, that's the news is
still being worked on. We haven't, we haven't
forgotten about it, but, um, I've had several
people ask, you know, how can I donate? How can
I, you know, do this, do that? So, uh, we talked
about it at length the other night and, um, I'll
be getting with you and kind of update you on
a few things, but, um, that's still being talked
about. And so that we hope that that can become
a reality here before too long. So, all right,
well, let's take a break here and then we'll
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see what we have here looks like we have a lot
of a lot of fan mail here But I don't see any
questions on Twitter just yet But do you have
some that came in from? Bryant kg5 HVO will give
him a few minutes to See if he can call in from
IWCE, but if not, we'll read those so how do
you see the youth contesting program effort and
This all -star team the team exuberance to work
together to provide some insight in What YCP
should be doing in the future? Yeah, sure. The
team exuberance is like a really, really cool
thing and I wish I could have been a part when
I was younger, but we're kind of looking towards
them from YCP as kind of like the role model.
Like this is a big station with almost professional,
like what would you call a professional amateur,
right? really all -star young contesters and
we kind of want to emulate that but we're also
going to like try to learn about like what are
kind of like arrangements for sleeping and eating
and and that sort of thing are they going to
be fully contesting or are they going to have
like some other kind of you know rest or relax
activity what are their shifts look like or is
this like going to be a full -on contesting experience
so hopefully they have like a some kind of report
afterwards I definitely will be talking to Marty
and probably Violetta and Bryant about it afterwards
just to get some insight, as well as Tim, probably
at the Hamvention, one of the dinners or so.
I think it's really cool and it'll help us give
us insight on what we should do. As we're doing
YCP and learning through all these kinks, we
haven't even gotten to the logistics yet of specific
scenarios and trying to corral a bunch of young
hams into a certain station. It's good for us
that it's not 100 or 200 people. It's like only
up to 27 entries each for, I said, 10 stations
right now and 17 Young Ham. So it's a lot easier
coordinate for me. There's one person who's already
doing a thousand other things and working overtime,
et cetera. So I'd also like to see how it's like
organized, like how many people are involved.
It seems like Marty and Violetta and Bryant and
forget the other guy's name. Um, they're all
working together, um, and Tim as well, working
together to bring everybody in and have a great
time. So, yeah, it'll be, uh, be interesting
to see how they stack up too. I look forward
to, to watching that. Well, let's, uh, let's
get to some of, uh, Bryant and speaking of Bryant
KG five HVO he's out in, uh, Las Vegas, attending
the International Wireless Communications Expo
out there with Carol Perry, I'm sure. And he'll
be receiving the RCA Young Achievers Award at
breakfast tomorrow. So congratulations on yet
another plaque to put on the wall there, Bryant.
But he's gonna be... doing a presentation at
Contest University at Hamvention this year. And
he's already interviewed me. He said, hey, I
finally get to interview you instead of the other
way around. So I know he's talked to you some
and wants to get some answers to some questions.
So he sent me some here tonight. to ask, and
we talked about how the idea originated and the
current status and the interest from youth and
everything, so I think we answered a lot of these,
but what are some of the challenges that you've
run into getting this off and running? Yeah,
definitely the first challenge, the one I've
been alluding to all episode long, is that it's
just hard to find young hams out there. Some
young hams are almost like totally off the grid
in terms of like the internet, trying to find
where they all roost, if you will. I mean, we
know from Discord, we have like 900 people there,
but not all of them are online at the exact same
moment. Not all of them get the emails and stuff.
But we've done a good job there of trying to
like figure out like what works for young hams
and how we can keep them interested and bring
them together as a community. And so also it's
like, Contesting young hams, contesters are a
subset of young hams, a very tiny apparently
subset. And then even smaller of that, young
hams who are contesting but also are willing
to go visit a shack nearby. So we're continually
dwindling down into possible candidates for this
but hopefully we can start to persuade and also
just expand our capability of marketing it basically.
I've not taken a single marketing class in my
life so I'm like the last person you should ask.
about this, but we've been talking to Newsline
and you, and we've got featured in the ARRL news
as well, but none of these really are things
that young people, I think, are participating
in, like most of the time. They're participating
in video games, and they're on Discord, and they're,
you know, work dealing with school and homework
and girls and boys and college and et cetera.
So it's... I've talked about this before, but
if we get into the schools and where they are,
that's the easiest way to do it. And if we get
down locally, people know people know people.
I think a lot of hams in, say, the St. Louis
region know a handful of young hams who might
be interested in this, but will never actually...
have the opportunity or the chance to like see,
come across a podcast or a news article saying
there's this young ham thing. So I think over
time, if it gets higher in popularity, it'll
get a little more popular and we'll have more
pairings and matchings and that sort of stuff
in a database. But this first one is all totally
experimental. So definitely a disclaimer to anyone
out there, I don't mean to disappoint if you're
not. If you're not paired up, we're just running
through it for the very first time. All right,
and we'll get to another question here from Bryant
in second But let me remind you of the phone
number if you're listening live. It's eight one
two six five zero nine five five six so if you'd
like to get in here give us a call and We'll
get you in here and take your question or comment
here for sterling in zero SSC so the other thing
Bryant mentions is keeping the momentum going.
So what is the next step? Where do we go after
this pairing of the first run at this here at
the end of the month? How do we keep this going?
How do we keep on having opportunities like this?
And by the way, these experienced All -Star Contesters,
Guess how they got their experience Because they
went out and found Contest stations and helmers
at those contest stations and they go and do
this So yes, they just took the initiative to
go do it on their own. So yeah, so how do we
keep that going? So I'm the worst person to ask
about this because obviously like my mind's running
a thousand miles a minute And I'm doing a new
thing every other day like you know right now.
I'm trying to work on my workbench in my basement
but really In terms of in scope of the actual
program, keeping that database alive and probably
working on a newsletter for these entries to
say like, hey, we're still alive, we're still
active, here's the next contest we're looking
for and then start to redo that. So like we're
gonna pick maybe a few contests throughout the
year, bigger contests that we can mass email
a bunch of contest groups again saying like,
hey, let's try this again and we will. We'll
fall back on our first sign -ups and then ask
for more sign -ups and more and just kind of
iterate. I'm really used to the iterative design
process as an electrical engineer. You start
out with a glop of a Play -Doh mold and then
you go into Legos and then now you're working
with metals and steel and eventually you get
to a robot somehow out of that building like
Mars Rovers. And also finding the right people.
I'm definitely not one of them because I'm like,
it's been two years and we haven't even got a
Yoda camp started up. But I do, hopefully, I
do a lot of pushing. I try to push the initial
momentum. So to fix that we need to find people
who are really involved and capable of planning
events and doing stuff like this, especially
for the camp. This is also included. since I'm
always thinking about the next thing, you know?
There's a lot of venture capitalists or start
-uppers out there in Silicon Valley who have
the same sort of thing where they're like, oh,
I'm really interested in doing this job thing,
and then it starts to look like kind of lackluster,
and then they go do another thing, and then they
go do another thing, and that's kind of like
how I am, but hopefully somebody's inspired out
there who can say, this is a good idea and I
wanna keep rolling it, and then they inspire
the next and inspire the next. I'm naturally
inclined to this because of college. Every four
years there's a stoppage of interest because
they all graduated and then one lucky young ham
comes in and they completely revolutionize the
radio club at their college or at their high
school or whatever. So that's kind of like...
It's a hard question to answer and my honest
answer is like, need help out there. Definitely
looking for assistance in terms of like, helping
push this kind of thing, just asking me for like,
regular emails even, like say, what's the status?
And I'll be like, oh, oh, that's the thing I'm
doing, oops. And then yeah, going from there,
so. All right, well, we've got a caller on the
line, so let's see who we have. Good evening,
welcome to HamTalk Live. Thank you. Who do we
have here? Ke8KLC, Patrick, out of Cincinnati,
Ohio. Oh, very good. Actually, I think we mentioned
you before the show, so very good. Well, Patrick,
what's your question here for us tonight? Well,
just more of a comment. I just want to thank
Sterling. I really think it's a great project
that he's doing. Like, I personally had my first
HF experience in a contest at my local club,
and if they didn't have that shack there, I probably
wouldn't have done any HF up to this point. So
it's a great project, I really think. If you
can just find the people, it can go great places.
Yeah, cool. Thanks for the comment. I try. And
honestly, you all can blame N0AX. He gave me
the initial idea that just one day we were chatting
it up and I think he saw what Team Exuberance
was doing and YCP was doing and thought, you
know, what if we did this? And he knew I was
in YARC and I was like, that is brilliant. And
so I'm, you know, trying to push it along. All
right, Patrick. Well, thanks for calling in we
appreciate it and glad you were able to get some
Experience and hopefully we can we can get you
paired up with somebody here in the contest soon
All right, thanks a lot for calling Patrick Bye
bye eight one two six five zero nine five five
six is the number we're going to wrap things
up here pretty shortly But if you want to give
us a call You can do that. And let me run over
here to Twitter and see if we have anything.
More fan mail, but more likes. But don't see
any questions here. So I think we've covered
quite a bit of it. So any last words here? Anything
we missed? Yeah, sure. So please look up, again,
yark .world slash ycp if you want to sign up.
And if you have any questions. After the show
or in future land, you can email YCP, they have
a contact form, or you can email me directly
at n0ssc at yark .world. I also have like a thousand
other emails. It's very easy to find me. Please
feel free. I'm definitely out there. We're already
answering questions for hosts in terms of like,
what do we deal about liability and safety and
parental concerns and that sort of thing. And
so we're addressing those as we go too as well.
Oh, yes, there's always the red tape and that
has to be addressed these days. So yeah, we got
to work on that as well. So, well, thanks a lot
for coming on and we'll be in touch and try to
help out with this as much as I can. also getting
the word out on this. So hopefully we had some
people out there tonight listening and some people
listening to Newsline that maybe you can host
a station or maybe you know a youth operator
that would like to do this. So just send them
over there to yark .world slash ycp and get them
signed up and hopefully we can get a get a match.
All right. Thank you very much, Neil, for having
me on. It's been a big pleasure. And hopefully,
yeah, we'll see a few more entries out of this.
And we'll start doing pairings starting probably
this week. I'll start emailing out. And I think
by the 14th, I should be starting to wrap that
up. All right. And we're also going to one more
thing. We'll take any late check -ins, and we'll
try to accommodate. As if we can and if not,
I'll let you know, of course Yeah, and it's not
just for the numbers. It's it's it's yeah. Yep
Trying to reach out to as many many young hams
as we can. Yep. Yeah. So alright, very good Well,
thank you sterling for coming on the show and
we wish you and yark the best of luck in this
youth contesting program and and maybe maybe
the camp here in 2020 we'll see All right, you're
holding me to it. It sounds like Put I keep pushing
I keep calling back and say hey We're just you
know, hanging out not doing too much right now
So hopefully we'll be traveling or I hear this
doing this and that and maybe we'll go on a honeymoon
and then I'll plan So, all right. All right Well,
enjoy that and that is a wrap for this week's
edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guest,
Sterling Mann in Zero SSC and everybody out there
in cyberspace for listening and calling in. And
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.m. Eastern Time when Dan Henderson, N1ND, will
be here to talk about traveling abroad with Ham
Radio. So we'll be talking about licensing issues
and transportation and that kind of thing. So
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week, Marty from Team Exuberance will be here.
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