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It's episode number 155 Yark youth contesting 00:01:41.909 --> 00:01:47.030 program recorded live on Thursday, March 7 2019 00:01:47.030 --> 00:01:51.010 I'm your host Neil rap WB nine VPG. Thanks for 00:01:51.010 --> 00:01:54.969 tuning in to another episode of ham talk live 00:01:54.969 --> 00:01:57.709 tonight We're joined by sterling man in zero 00:01:57.709 --> 00:02:01.750 SSC and we'll take your calls live in just a 00:02:01.750 --> 00:02:05.400 few minutes Last week, Sean Kutsko, KX9X was 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:08.000 here to talk about operating portable events. 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:10.659 And if you missed that, you can listen anytime 00:02:10.659 --> 00:02:14.860 at hamptalklive .com or on your favorite podcasting 00:02:14.860 --> 00:02:18.360 app or on YouTube. Or you can also catch the 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:24.840 rebroadcast on WTWW 5085 AM Saturday evenings 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:29.159 at about 630 PM Eastern time. 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He's a 2014 graduate. 00:06:29.069 --> 00:06:32.689 of Missouri University of Science and Technology 00:06:32.689 --> 00:06:36.129 where he was the president of the W -Zero Triple 00:06:36.129 --> 00:06:40.009 -E Amateur Radio Club and his degree is in electrical 00:06:40.009 --> 00:06:43.129 engineering with an emphasis in electromagnetics. 00:06:43.350 --> 00:06:46.410 He does a lot of listening, contesting, and remote 00:06:46.410 --> 00:06:49.110 operating from the W -Zero Triple -E shack as 00:06:49.110 --> 00:06:52.589 well as his parents and Sterling is one of the 00:06:52.589 --> 00:06:55.910 leaders at the Young Amateurs radio club, better 00:06:55.910 --> 00:06:58.649 known as YARC, that we're going to be talking 00:06:58.649 --> 00:07:00.829 about tonight. So Sterling, welcome back to the 00:07:00.829 --> 00:07:03.610 show. Thanks for having me. Good to be here again. 00:07:03.610 --> 00:07:05.810 And I'm excited to talk about, uh, youth in him 00:07:05.810 --> 00:07:07.750 radio. I think that was what we had. We talked 00:07:07.750 --> 00:07:10.949 about last time too. Yeah. Yeah. Sure was. And 00:07:10.949 --> 00:07:14.750 when we, uh, talk last time, uh, we were talking 00:07:14.750 --> 00:07:17.449 about the youngsters on the air, uh, trip that 00:07:17.449 --> 00:07:19.790 you and Sam Rose were able to take, uh, Casey 00:07:19.790 --> 00:07:24.480 to LRC. over to, excuse me, over into Europe 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:29.220 to kind of observe what was going on and see 00:07:29.220 --> 00:07:32.120 if maybe we could come up with something similar 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:36.660 here in the US. And the first step of that process 00:07:36.660 --> 00:07:42.139 is this youth contesting program. And so I called 00:07:42.139 --> 00:07:44.079 and said, hey, Sterling, we need to catch up 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:48.569 on what's going on here. Can we get these? programs 00:07:48.569 --> 00:07:51.230 rolling and some of you listeners have been writing 00:07:51.230 --> 00:07:53.850 in and saying, hey, I can help, you know, I can 00:07:53.850 --> 00:07:57.689 do this, I can do that. So where are things? 00:07:57.750 --> 00:08:02.209 And I'm like, well, I don't know. So Sterling's 00:08:02.209 --> 00:08:05.730 here to fill us in. So tell us a little bit about 00:08:05.730 --> 00:08:09.930 YARC first and then this youth contesting program 00:08:09.930 --> 00:08:14.730 that's taking shape within the YARC framework. 00:08:15.309 --> 00:08:17.870 Yeah, sure. So, Yark is the Young Amateurs Radio 00:08:17.870 --> 00:08:21.790 Club, and it was kind of started on a whim by 00:08:21.790 --> 00:08:24.810 K... Let me get his correct call sign in front 00:08:24.810 --> 00:08:30.889 of me real quick. By David K... What's his call 00:08:30.889 --> 00:08:35.110 sign? Let me look it up real quick. KF1SHY is 00:08:35.110 --> 00:08:37.629 his current call sign. He posted on Reddit, the 00:08:37.629 --> 00:08:39.029 Amateur Radio subreddit, that he was starting 00:08:39.029 --> 00:08:41.350 a Discord chat, and Discord's kind of like IRC. 00:08:41.669 --> 00:08:43.649 IRC, the internet relay chat, but for gamers. 00:08:44.169 --> 00:08:46.909 And it's really taken on a new lease of life 00:08:46.909 --> 00:08:52.029 as just a generic chat for various hobbies, vocations, 00:08:52.250 --> 00:08:55.710 also video gaming, but it's almost like the Reddit 00:08:55.710 --> 00:08:58.409 of chat, if you will. And he said, I'm starting 00:08:58.409 --> 00:09:00.990 a Discord for the young hams of Long Island in 00:09:00.990 --> 00:09:02.690 New York. And I was like, why not all young hams? 00:09:02.990 --> 00:09:05.669 And from that point on, it was yuck. And so now 00:09:05.669 --> 00:09:08.190 it's a Discord community, an online community, 00:09:08.730 --> 00:09:12.730 and we currently are up to... oh, somewhere in 00:09:12.730 --> 00:09:16.429 the neighborhood of 800, 900 almost, hams, young 00:09:16.429 --> 00:09:19.629 hams on there. Some are young and some are more 00:09:19.629 --> 00:09:22.450 my age. I'm currently 27, but anybody's young 00:09:22.450 --> 00:09:25.029 if they think they are. But this one is actually, 00:09:25.710 --> 00:09:27.509 like, the majority of the hams are under the 00:09:27.509 --> 00:09:32.639 age of 25. And so with that... I've kind of joined 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.899 on as a helper, as a person who's networked around 00:09:35.899 --> 00:09:37.940 like the ARRL, Yoda, et cetera. And so I know 00:09:37.940 --> 00:09:40.659 a little bit of background in how to get a radio 00:09:40.659 --> 00:09:43.159 club started and keep it moving along and pushing 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:45.159 forward, especially with my experience with Yoda. 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:49.220 So from my experience with Yoda, one of our objectives 00:09:49.220 --> 00:09:52.039 was to bring some of their ideas over to this 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:55.559 side of the pond, such as the Yoda Camp, which 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:57.419 is like a week -long event that we talked about 00:09:57.419 --> 00:10:02.179 last time. and the youth contesting program. 00:10:02.340 --> 00:10:04.940 Over there, they send contesters, young hams, 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:10.539 to very big contest stations like 403A and K3LR 00:10:10.539 --> 00:10:13.240 sized contests. I can name a few but I forget 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.940 them off the top of my head. for a contest weekend, 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:19.399 they operate, and they do a really competitive 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:22.320 job at contesting. Over here, we've never had 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:25.980 such a program, and we've noticed that Team Exuberance, 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.419 which we'll get to in a minute, is doing a similar 00:10:28.419 --> 00:10:30.539 program. So I thought, well, what if we try to 00:10:30.539 --> 00:10:33.820 connect young hams who aren't out there yet, 00:10:33.940 --> 00:10:36.240 you know, on the internet and looking for places 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.919 to contest. Maybe they don't have a station that 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:42.559 they really want. They don't have a beam or mini 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:44.639 watts of power. They might just have a little 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:48.919 wiring the tree at 100 watts, so to speak, like 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:51.360 kind of how I started. Now imagine if I was 16, 00:10:51.860 --> 00:10:54.679 I would really want to go to a contest station. 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:56.440 I actually got the opportunity to go to a few, 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:00.799 like N0AX, K0KL. I haven't been to any station 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:03.940 as big as K3LR yet, but that's what we were trying 00:11:03.940 --> 00:11:07.879 to do with this, is try to pair up contest stations 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.820 which can be, for all intents and purposes, competitive. 00:11:13.379 --> 00:11:17.220 Not like 100 watts in the wire and just in the 00:11:17.220 --> 00:11:18.740 corner of the room kind of thing. Something where 00:11:18.740 --> 00:11:20.779 it's like a real shack with maybe a few operating 00:11:20.779 --> 00:11:25.259 positions. Doesn't have to be as big as K1TTT 00:11:25.259 --> 00:11:28.799 or K9CT or K3LR, but we definitely would like 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:33.480 them to sign up for it. But stations like W0EEE 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:37.139 or W4AQL at Georgia Tech, or I have a few friends 00:11:37.139 --> 00:11:39.559 here in St. Louis who have one or two radios 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.850 with a tri -band beam. Bonus points if they can 00:11:43.850 --> 00:11:46.929 host the youth operators overnight or if there's 00:11:46.929 --> 00:11:50.509 hotels nearby for situations, et cetera. And 00:11:50.509 --> 00:11:52.649 so that's the idea. Trying to pair up young operators 00:11:52.649 --> 00:11:55.210 who are interested in going to a bigger station 00:11:55.210 --> 00:11:59.049 than their own if they have one to try to contest 00:11:59.049 --> 00:12:02.029 over the weekend. And we're shooting for the 00:12:02.029 --> 00:12:05.850 CQ Worldwide WPX Single Side Band on March 30th. 00:12:05.850 --> 00:12:09.769 So that's coming really soon. So this is going 00:12:09.769 --> 00:12:13.669 to be the first opportunity to do this Over here. 00:12:13.750 --> 00:12:20.309 So tell us the process if there's a Youth operator 00:12:20.309 --> 00:12:23.330 that wants to sign up to try to go to one of 00:12:23.330 --> 00:12:25.809 these what are they getting into? How do they 00:12:25.809 --> 00:12:28.710 sign up for that? And then if there are some 00:12:28.710 --> 00:12:33.029 You know modest to large contest stations out 00:12:33.029 --> 00:12:34.750 there, you know, you've got a tower. You got 00:12:34.750 --> 00:12:38.000 a beam You got an amp you got you know a little 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.779 more than just your, you know, dipole and 100 00:12:41.779 --> 00:12:45.820 watts. How can they sign up to get involved with 00:12:45.820 --> 00:12:48.820 this as well? It's really easy. All you have 00:12:48.820 --> 00:12:52.679 to go and do is go to yark .world slash ycp. 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:55.700 There we have information and a Google survey 00:12:55.700 --> 00:12:58.200 that you fill out too with a bunch of information 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:02.360 that lets you, you know, apply to the... Since 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:05.960 this is kind of the first run, we're experimenting. 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:10.259 And as we kind of expected, we don't have a huge 00:13:10.259 --> 00:13:13.159 influx of interest. Currently, we're only up 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:17.019 to 27 total entries, 10 of them being actual 00:13:17.019 --> 00:13:19.700 contestations, and then 17 being young hams. 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.120 And so right now, we're looking for more. Because 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.639 what we really want to try to do is get volunteers, 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:29.000 like as many contestations, able to host a Young 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.460 Ham. And this doesn't have to be like a fully 00:13:31.460 --> 00:13:33.539 -fledged, like you don't have to be on their 00:13:33.539 --> 00:13:36.720 shoulder for the full contest. You just need 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:41.080 to be there, be present as a host. And we want 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.100 to also try to get as many young hams so that 00:13:43.100 --> 00:13:45.679 we can have as many pairings as possible. And 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:47.120 this isn't something where you're going to fly 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:50.440 out to and it's going to be this big deal. It's 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:52.960 pretty low key. It's like a day's drive at most. 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:58.240 You meet the host and you start contesting and 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.799 that's pretty much it. You'll get advice if you 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.919 haven't been contesting before. Some of the hosts 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:08.320 are willing to... provide instruction and information, 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.940 and especially when it comes to specific station 00:14:13.940 --> 00:14:17.759 parameters and situations, things like, well, 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.200 when you use the amp, you gotta turn it up to, 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:23.080 turn this knob to that, this knob to here, but 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:24.679 if you're on that antenna, you turn off the amp 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:26.259 and use this one over here, you know, et cetera, 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:29.120 so things like that. So yeah, all you need to 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:33.659 do is go to yark .world slash ycp, sign up there. 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.559 We're looking for both operators and contesters, 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.860 or contest hosts, and the deadline to do this 00:14:39.860 --> 00:14:42.559 is March 14th, which is coming up, and it's kind 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:44.240 of a soft deadline. If we have any late entries, 00:14:44.299 --> 00:14:47.259 we'll try to accommodate, but at the moment, 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:51.360 we're looking to see, we currently probably will 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:55.740 have no more than... five or 10 at best, uh, 00:14:55.820 --> 00:14:57.899 pairings since it's so sparse, but hopefully 00:14:57.899 --> 00:15:01.159 after this and newsline, which just released, 00:15:01.179 --> 00:15:03.279 um, we'll probably get a few more, which would 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.360 be great. Yeah. I was just getting ready to mention, 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:08.799 uh, that, uh, you and I did a little piece on 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.659 amateur radio newsline this week that, uh, that 00:15:11.659 --> 00:15:14.720 just came out about an hour ago. So if you hear 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:16.799 this week's news line, you'll hear Sterling on 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:20.120 there as well talking about this. But tonight 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:23.639 we'll get into a little more of the detail. But, 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:27.580 you know, the idea here is to, you know, be within 00:15:27.580 --> 00:15:30.240 a few hours drive so that way, you know, you 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:32.500 can just drive over, drive back so that keep 00:15:32.500 --> 00:15:35.279 the expenses down and everything. And so while 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:41.779 you have Pretty good ratio of operators to stations 00:15:41.779 --> 00:15:46.779 Most of them or a lot of them. I guess I should 00:15:46.779 --> 00:15:50.320 say Aren't in the same place. So yeah, we still 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:57.179 need more. We need more stations to Geographically 00:15:57.179 --> 00:16:00.720 you know make some availability out there yeah 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:02.840 so the so the idea kind of down in the long term 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.179 maybe a few years for now is to have a list of 00:16:05.179 --> 00:16:08.360 stations who are just open like open door. And 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:11.960 then we can use that list to say to our, you 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:14.080 know, our 900 members of YARC and every other 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:15.659 Young Ham that we can find that, hey, there's 00:16:15.659 --> 00:16:18.299 this contest station that's open for business, 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.820 open for business, open for contesting for this 00:16:21.820 --> 00:16:23.980 particular contest. And hopefully we can like 00:16:23.980 --> 00:16:27.159 work out a system where we can have like kind 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.360 of a revolving door sort of set up where like... 00:16:30.110 --> 00:16:32.730 K3LR has a seat for Young Ham at any contest, 00:16:33.370 --> 00:16:37.470 or K9CT has on their QRZ page, like if you're 00:16:37.470 --> 00:16:40.009 a Young Ham, click here, and then it will give 00:16:40.009 --> 00:16:45.049 an information about accommodations and events 00:16:45.049 --> 00:16:47.889 coming up, et cetera. So trying to make contest 00:16:47.889 --> 00:16:50.269 stations a little more open. A lot of contesters 00:16:50.269 --> 00:16:52.649 are also going to remote stations, and so we're 00:16:52.649 --> 00:16:55.330 trying to promote a lot of remote operations 00:16:55.330 --> 00:16:58.750 for contesting and in operation in general. But 00:16:58.750 --> 00:17:00.610 this would be very interesting because it's kind 00:17:00.610 --> 00:17:03.590 of like an old school way of going to your neighbor's 00:17:03.590 --> 00:17:05.609 house who has a big antenna that you want to 00:17:05.609 --> 00:17:07.670 ask about. That's what I did when I grew up. 00:17:08.529 --> 00:17:12.490 K0KL, who's in SK now, Ed Carl, he had like a 00:17:12.490 --> 00:17:15.759 hundred foot station of 1 ,500 watts. Little 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:19.680 did I know through in zero AX word silver I found 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:22.200 out he had this station and it was no more than 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:24.900 three miles from my parents house in Warrenton, 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:27.240 Missouri So it was a small world and I had a 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:28.680 lot of fun there made a YouTube video out of 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:31.099 it It was a CW contest so I didn't do much operating, 00:17:31.180 --> 00:17:33.900 but I watched war do a lot We watched the curiosity 00:17:33.900 --> 00:17:37.799 Rover takeoff and I learned a lot like I learned 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:42.269 about propagation about contesting skills and 00:17:42.269 --> 00:17:44.950 that sort of thing that made me you know a better 00:17:44.950 --> 00:17:48.670 contester overall so and was just so much fun 00:17:48.670 --> 00:17:51.930 and that's the whole reason of doing this is 00:17:51.930 --> 00:17:58.869 to get some experience with the younger operators 00:17:58.869 --> 00:18:02.490 so that they know what's going on and and can 00:18:02.700 --> 00:18:06.420 Do better at contesting and contesting is great 00:18:06.420 --> 00:18:09.619 way to get young people into ham radio and and 00:18:09.619 --> 00:18:13.859 so this is This is a way to promote that and 00:18:13.859 --> 00:18:18.559 to Increase the skills of some young operators. 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.500 And so I think this is a great idea. Hope we 00:18:21.500 --> 00:18:25.240 can get some more stations out there signed up 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:29.240 because you know, I'd like to see everybody have 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:34.039 a chance to get paired up with a sign. But I 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.500 know one of the things you mentioned in the Newsline 00:18:36.500 --> 00:18:40.980 interview was, you know, it's the first run, 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:43.720 you know, you're just giving this a try. So don't 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.579 be disappointed if, you know, we can't get you 00:18:47.579 --> 00:18:52.420 a spot somewhere close this time. And I guess 00:18:52.420 --> 00:18:54.440 that's kind of up to them as to whether they 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:58.480 want to. Take a further spot or not. It's that 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.240 Yeah, is that gonna be up to them? Yeah, I think 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:05.119 so and and even if we don't have like all the 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:06.960 entries and all the pairings that we want we 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:09.380 know at least You know who is interested and 00:19:09.380 --> 00:19:11.099 we can say we have like, you know They put in 00:19:11.099 --> 00:19:12.980 their email address and we can send them like 00:19:12.980 --> 00:19:16.240 information on Nearby contestation. So what I 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:21.109 might do is look up. Hey Look at like some old 00:19:21.109 --> 00:19:24.690 previous logs and see if I can find in areas 00:19:24.690 --> 00:19:27.809 where there's interest of young from young hams 00:19:27.809 --> 00:19:29.529 Where there's contest stations and see if I can 00:19:29.529 --> 00:19:31.329 reach out to that contest station or that person 00:19:31.329 --> 00:19:33.509 who contests and see like hey Would you be interested 00:19:33.509 --> 00:19:36.289 in like, you know showing your shack off or opening 00:19:36.289 --> 00:19:38.589 your shack up to these young people in your area? 00:19:39.650 --> 00:19:42.089 Just to help kind of lubricate the process. But 00:19:42.089 --> 00:19:44.650 yeah, like you said we do are looking for more 00:19:46.889 --> 00:19:50.910 operators and hosts as well, to try to bump the 00:19:50.910 --> 00:19:53.569 numbers up. The United States is just so big, 00:19:53.730 --> 00:19:56.089 and so we thought, oh yeah, 10, 20, 30, no big 00:19:56.089 --> 00:19:58.069 deal, we'll get some pairings, but since the 00:19:58.069 --> 00:20:00.430 US is such a large place, you definitely need 00:20:00.430 --> 00:20:03.109 a lot, but the more you get, the more we can't 00:20:03.109 --> 00:20:06.029 pair, and the more disappointment, and I hopefully 00:20:06.029 --> 00:20:08.970 won't be causing too many disappointments, and 00:20:08.970 --> 00:20:11.930 we'll... make a public posting like here's all 00:20:11.930 --> 00:20:13.690 of the stations that are available, here's all 00:20:13.690 --> 00:20:16.089 the operators and see how like kind of hard it 00:20:16.089 --> 00:20:17.930 is to get from place to place but once we get 00:20:17.930 --> 00:20:20.269 more we can have more pairings and eventually 00:20:20.269 --> 00:20:23.309 make it a really good place for young operators 00:20:23.309 --> 00:20:26.950 to find like contesting resources in terms of 00:20:26.950 --> 00:20:30.690 like people and you know stations. Now I don't 00:20:30.690 --> 00:20:32.690 want to spend a whole lot of time on this because 00:20:32.690 --> 00:20:37.200 your your phasing line co -host Marty in A1C 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:39.380 will be on here in two weeks to talk about it. 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:42.460 But there's also the All -Star version here. 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:46.480 The Team Exuberance, which was on Newsline last 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:52.500 week actually, is an experienced youth team of 00:20:52.500 --> 00:20:56.880 contesters that are going over to K3LR and operating. 00:20:57.339 --> 00:20:59.400 So Marty's going to come on and talk about that 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:03.200 in a couple of weeks. But some of these experienced 00:21:03.289 --> 00:21:07.950 youth operators that are scoring big in a lot 00:21:07.950 --> 00:21:14.390 of the contests and even a couple of them in 00:21:14.390 --> 00:21:18.630 WRTC. I was watching the video that just came 00:21:18.630 --> 00:21:23.569 out on WRTC and saw Bryant and some of those 00:21:23.569 --> 00:21:30.190 guys in there, Phillip and some of them. They're 00:21:30.190 --> 00:21:33.529 putting together this big all -star team kind 00:21:33.529 --> 00:21:35.730 of thing. So we'll be talking more about that 00:21:35.730 --> 00:21:41.170 in a couple of weeks with Marty. So if you're 00:21:41.170 --> 00:21:44.630 just starting out or have a little bit of contest 00:21:44.630 --> 00:21:47.150 experience and you're not quite to the all -star 00:21:47.150 --> 00:21:52.369 level yet, here's an opportunity for you. So 00:21:52.369 --> 00:21:57.960 again, that website. yark .world, y -a -r -c 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:01.299 dot w -o -r -l -d, uh, slash y -c -p, Yankee 00:22:01.299 --> 00:22:04.319 Charlie Papa, youth contesting program. Um, yark 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:07.680 .world slash y -c -p. All right. So if you're 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:10.220 interested in hosting or you're interested in 00:22:10.220 --> 00:22:14.299 operating, um, go over there and check that out 00:22:14.299 --> 00:22:17.539 and, and hopefully we can, uh, hear you on the 00:22:17.539 --> 00:22:20.019 air and, and hopefully, um, Sterling and his 00:22:20.019 --> 00:22:23.660 crew can pair you up with somebody. Now we also 00:22:23.660 --> 00:22:27.660 talked a little bit about that camp for Yoda, 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:32.059 and that's being offered for young hams over 00:22:32.059 --> 00:22:36.180 in Europe. And so we still haven't got that rolling 00:22:36.180 --> 00:22:40.559 yet. That's more work. But bring us up to date 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:45.059 on what's been happening with getting that rolling. 00:22:46.019 --> 00:22:48.400 Yeah, so you and I actually talked about this 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:50.380 a while and kind of reminded me like, oh, yeah, 00:22:50.380 --> 00:22:53.140 that's the thing I should do. Since I've been 00:22:53.140 --> 00:22:56.220 to Yoda, and that was in 2016, I've gotten married, 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:58.839 got a few new jobs, moved around, did this and 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.240 that, and actually bought a house, so I've had 00:23:01.240 --> 00:23:03.200 a lot of life changes to get in the way, but... 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:08.660 And a car. And a car, yeah. And so, I mean, there's 00:23:08.660 --> 00:23:11.599 been talk, like you mentioned, in the, there's 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:14.339 been a lot of chatter about it. So it looks like 00:23:14.339 --> 00:23:17.359 I have, we have like a possible venue. We have 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:19.900 started kind of talking about it. A lot of people 00:23:19.900 --> 00:23:22.579 are starting to get riled up and interested. 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:25.160 I'm sure here coming in the, you know, Hamvention, 00:23:25.819 --> 00:23:27.880 we're gonna be talking about really solidifying 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:30.759 some plans and some lodging and some ideas, like 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:34.220 we can put it together. Probably not this summer, 00:23:34.259 --> 00:23:39.819 but maybe next summer, 2020. And yeah, it looks 00:23:39.819 --> 00:23:44.220 like we really want to have it at the VOA Museum 00:23:44.220 --> 00:23:47.579 in Ohio because it seems to be the perfect place 00:23:47.579 --> 00:23:50.559 with the radio station there, which sounds like 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:52.559 a really good idea. We'll have to think about 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.700 logistics, how to find young hams to join, if 00:23:56.700 --> 00:23:59.059 we need to do an application process, or if we 00:23:59.059 --> 00:24:01.779 can just say, open the floodgates, figure out 00:24:01.779 --> 00:24:05.019 how many people we can host up. Where would we 00:24:05.019 --> 00:24:07.000 put them for a hotel? Do we put a contest station 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:10.299 at the hotel? Probably. These sorts of things. 00:24:10.980 --> 00:24:13.700 Our club, YARC, is going to be at Hamvention 00:24:13.700 --> 00:24:16.000 and we're going to try to have a powwow on this 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:18.920 at some point in Hamvention. It's pretty similar 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.680 to how they did the HamSci, the ham radio science 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:25.720 initiative. I still remember peeping into a corner 00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:27.500 one day and seeing all these scientists and I'm 00:24:27.500 --> 00:24:29.680 like, what the heck's going on back here? And 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:33.019 lo and behold, HamSci was born. So hopefully 00:24:33.019 --> 00:24:36.839 we'll do the same thing for a United States Yoda 00:24:36.839 --> 00:24:41.809 type camp. Okay. So that's, that's the news is 00:24:41.809 --> 00:24:43.930 still being worked on. We haven't, we haven't 00:24:43.930 --> 00:24:46.650 forgotten about it, but, um, I've had several 00:24:46.650 --> 00:24:49.650 people ask, you know, how can I donate? How can 00:24:49.650 --> 00:24:53.690 I, you know, do this, do that? So, uh, we talked 00:24:53.690 --> 00:24:56.750 about it at length the other night and, um, I'll 00:24:56.750 --> 00:24:58.730 be getting with you and kind of update you on 00:24:58.730 --> 00:25:04.019 a few things, but, um, that's still being talked 00:25:04.019 --> 00:25:07.160 about. And so that we hope that that can become 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:11.700 a reality here before too long. So, all right, 00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:14.000 well, let's take a break here and then we'll 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:16.579 come back with Sterling and we'll take your calls 00:25:16.579 --> 00:25:19.519 and your questions right after this word from 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:23.640 ICOM America right here on HamTalk Live. Create 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:27.880 your own band opening. ICOM's newest SDR transceiver, 00:25:27.980 --> 00:25:32.140 the IC -9700 is coming soon. This new radio is 00:25:32.140 --> 00:25:35.980 bringing direct sampling to the UHF VHF week 00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:39.980 signal world. 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Bryant kg5 HVO will give 00:28:24.940 --> 00:28:29.200 him a few minutes to See if he can call in from 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:35.660 IWCE, but if not, we'll read those so how do 00:28:35.660 --> 00:28:40.259 you see the youth contesting program effort and 00:28:40.259 --> 00:28:44.240 This all -star team the team exuberance to work 00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:48.700 together to provide some insight in What YCP 00:28:48.700 --> 00:28:51.809 should be doing in the future? Yeah, sure. The 00:28:51.809 --> 00:28:54.069 team exuberance is like a really, really cool 00:28:54.069 --> 00:28:55.690 thing and I wish I could have been a part when 00:28:55.690 --> 00:28:59.230 I was younger, but we're kind of looking towards 00:28:59.230 --> 00:29:02.950 them from YCP as kind of like the role model. 00:29:03.190 --> 00:29:05.869 Like this is a big station with almost professional, 00:29:06.529 --> 00:29:08.750 like what would you call a professional amateur, 00:29:08.750 --> 00:29:13.670 right? really all -star young contesters and 00:29:13.670 --> 00:29:15.569 we kind of want to emulate that but we're also 00:29:15.569 --> 00:29:17.990 going to like try to learn about like what are 00:29:17.990 --> 00:29:20.849 kind of like arrangements for sleeping and eating 00:29:20.849 --> 00:29:22.690 and and that sort of thing are they going to 00:29:22.690 --> 00:29:24.609 be fully contesting or are they going to have 00:29:24.609 --> 00:29:27.349 like some other kind of you know rest or relax 00:29:27.349 --> 00:29:30.329 activity what are their shifts look like or is 00:29:30.329 --> 00:29:32.349 this like going to be a full -on contesting experience 00:29:32.349 --> 00:29:34.710 so hopefully they have like a some kind of report 00:29:34.710 --> 00:29:36.769 afterwards I definitely will be talking to Marty 00:29:36.769 --> 00:29:39.410 and probably Violetta and Bryant about it afterwards 00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:43.619 just to get some insight, as well as Tim, probably 00:29:43.619 --> 00:29:49.000 at the Hamvention, one of the dinners or so. 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:51.779 I think it's really cool and it'll help us give 00:29:51.779 --> 00:29:54.559 us insight on what we should do. As we're doing 00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:57.359 YCP and learning through all these kinks, we 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:00.980 haven't even gotten to the logistics yet of specific 00:30:00.980 --> 00:30:05.380 scenarios and trying to corral a bunch of young 00:30:05.380 --> 00:30:10.259 hams into a certain station. It's good for us 00:30:10.259 --> 00:30:13.079 that it's not 100 or 200 people. It's like only 00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:17.579 up to 27 entries each for, I said, 10 stations 00:30:17.579 --> 00:30:20.819 right now and 17 Young Ham. So it's a lot easier 00:30:20.819 --> 00:30:22.880 coordinate for me. There's one person who's already 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:25.380 doing a thousand other things and working overtime, 00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:29.259 et cetera. So I'd also like to see how it's like 00:30:29.259 --> 00:30:31.079 organized, like how many people are involved. 00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:33.940 It seems like Marty and Violetta and Bryant and 00:30:33.940 --> 00:30:36.059 forget the other guy's name. Um, they're all 00:30:36.059 --> 00:30:38.619 working together, um, and Tim as well, working 00:30:38.619 --> 00:30:40.880 together to bring everybody in and have a great 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:45.319 time. So, yeah, it'll be, uh, be interesting 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.220 to see how they stack up too. I look forward 00:30:48.220 --> 00:30:51.180 to, to watching that. Well, let's, uh, let's 00:30:51.180 --> 00:30:53.819 get to some of, uh, Bryant and speaking of Bryant 00:30:53.819 --> 00:30:58.119 KG five HVO he's out in, uh, Las Vegas, attending 00:30:58.119 --> 00:31:01.440 the International Wireless Communications Expo 00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:04.660 out there with Carol Perry, I'm sure. And he'll 00:31:04.660 --> 00:31:07.480 be receiving the RCA Young Achievers Award at 00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:10.279 breakfast tomorrow. So congratulations on yet 00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:14.200 another plaque to put on the wall there, Bryant. 00:31:15.420 --> 00:31:19.819 But he's gonna be... doing a presentation at 00:31:19.819 --> 00:31:23.299 Contest University at Hamvention this year. And 00:31:23.299 --> 00:31:25.759 he's already interviewed me. He said, hey, I 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.599 finally get to interview you instead of the other 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:32.680 way around. So I know he's talked to you some 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:38.240 and wants to get some answers to some questions. 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:43.259 So he sent me some here tonight. to ask, and 00:31:43.259 --> 00:31:46.880 we talked about how the idea originated and the 00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:51.440 current status and the interest from youth and 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.299 everything, so I think we answered a lot of these, 00:31:53.339 --> 00:31:57.779 but what are some of the challenges that you've 00:31:57.779 --> 00:32:01.140 run into getting this off and running? Yeah, 00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:03.140 definitely the first challenge, the one I've 00:32:03.140 --> 00:32:05.640 been alluding to all episode long, is that it's 00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:08.740 just hard to find young hams out there. Some 00:32:08.740 --> 00:32:11.829 young hams are almost like totally off the grid 00:32:11.829 --> 00:32:14.289 in terms of like the internet, trying to find 00:32:14.289 --> 00:32:17.009 where they all roost, if you will. I mean, we 00:32:17.009 --> 00:32:19.509 know from Discord, we have like 900 people there, 00:32:19.529 --> 00:32:21.869 but not all of them are online at the exact same 00:32:21.869 --> 00:32:23.750 moment. Not all of them get the emails and stuff. 00:32:24.470 --> 00:32:26.369 But we've done a good job there of trying to 00:32:26.369 --> 00:32:29.910 like figure out like what works for young hams 00:32:29.910 --> 00:32:32.130 and how we can keep them interested and bring 00:32:32.130 --> 00:32:36.789 them together as a community. And so also it's 00:32:36.789 --> 00:32:39.799 like, Contesting young hams, contesters are a 00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:41.980 subset of young hams, a very tiny apparently 00:32:41.980 --> 00:32:45.059 subset. And then even smaller of that, young 00:32:45.059 --> 00:32:47.539 hams who are contesting but also are willing 00:32:47.539 --> 00:32:52.240 to go visit a shack nearby. So we're continually 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:54.779 dwindling down into possible candidates for this 00:32:54.779 --> 00:32:58.279 but hopefully we can start to persuade and also 00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:02.420 just expand our capability of marketing it basically. 00:33:02.740 --> 00:33:04.680 I've not taken a single marketing class in my 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:06.400 life so I'm like the last person you should ask. 00:33:06.539 --> 00:33:09.160 about this, but we've been talking to Newsline 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:11.200 and you, and we've got featured in the ARRL news 00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:13.359 as well, but none of these really are things 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:16.700 that young people, I think, are participating 00:33:16.700 --> 00:33:18.779 in, like most of the time. They're participating 00:33:18.779 --> 00:33:21.859 in video games, and they're on Discord, and they're, 00:33:21.859 --> 00:33:24.039 you know, work dealing with school and homework 00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:26.519 and girls and boys and college and et cetera. 00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:31.920 So it's... I've talked about this before, but 00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:34.420 if we get into the schools and where they are, 00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:36.079 that's the easiest way to do it. And if we get 00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:38.880 down locally, people know people know people. 00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:42.140 I think a lot of hams in, say, the St. Louis 00:33:42.140 --> 00:33:44.559 region know a handful of young hams who might 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:46.980 be interested in this, but will never actually... 00:33:47.180 --> 00:33:51.299 have the opportunity or the chance to like see, 00:33:51.299 --> 00:33:53.859 come across a podcast or a news article saying 00:33:53.859 --> 00:33:56.619 there's this young ham thing. So I think over 00:33:56.619 --> 00:33:59.259 time, if it gets higher in popularity, it'll 00:33:59.259 --> 00:34:02.059 get a little more popular and we'll have more 00:34:02.059 --> 00:34:03.700 pairings and matchings and that sort of stuff 00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:07.259 in a database. But this first one is all totally 00:34:07.259 --> 00:34:10.820 experimental. So definitely a disclaimer to anyone 00:34:10.820 --> 00:34:12.420 out there, I don't mean to disappoint if you're 00:34:12.420 --> 00:34:15.130 not. If you're not paired up, we're just running 00:34:15.130 --> 00:34:19.739 through it for the very first time. All right, 00:34:19.739 --> 00:34:22.320 and we'll get to another question here from Bryant 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:24.300 in second But let me remind you of the phone 00:34:24.300 --> 00:34:26.719 number if you're listening live. It's eight one 00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:31.039 two six five zero nine five five six so if you'd 00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:34.539 like to get in here give us a call and We'll 00:34:34.539 --> 00:34:38.039 get you in here and take your question or comment 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:42.980 here for sterling in zero SSC so the other thing 00:34:42.980 --> 00:34:47.360 Bryant mentions is keeping the momentum going. 00:34:47.500 --> 00:34:51.920 So what is the next step? Where do we go after 00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:58.039 this pairing of the first run at this here at 00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:01.739 the end of the month? How do we keep this going? 00:35:01.900 --> 00:35:06.579 How do we keep on having opportunities like this? 00:35:06.860 --> 00:35:12.000 And by the way, these experienced All -Star Contesters, 00:35:12.909 --> 00:35:18.670 Guess how they got their experience Because they 00:35:18.670 --> 00:35:22.170 went out and found Contest stations and helmers 00:35:22.170 --> 00:35:24.969 at those contest stations and they go and do 00:35:24.969 --> 00:35:27.469 this So yes, they just took the initiative to 00:35:27.469 --> 00:35:30.250 go do it on their own. So yeah, so how do we 00:35:30.250 --> 00:35:35.389 keep that going? So I'm the worst person to ask 00:35:35.389 --> 00:35:37.929 about this because obviously like my mind's running 00:35:37.929 --> 00:35:39.789 a thousand miles a minute And I'm doing a new 00:35:39.789 --> 00:35:41.829 thing every other day like you know right now. 00:35:41.829 --> 00:35:44.150 I'm trying to work on my workbench in my basement 00:35:44.150 --> 00:35:48.840 but really In terms of in scope of the actual 00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:52.219 program, keeping that database alive and probably 00:35:52.219 --> 00:35:54.500 working on a newsletter for these entries to 00:35:54.500 --> 00:35:56.099 say like, hey, we're still alive, we're still 00:35:56.099 --> 00:35:57.719 active, here's the next contest we're looking 00:35:57.719 --> 00:35:59.719 for and then start to redo that. So like we're 00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:01.679 gonna pick maybe a few contests throughout the 00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:05.139 year, bigger contests that we can mass email 00:36:05.139 --> 00:36:08.320 a bunch of contest groups again saying like, 00:36:08.739 --> 00:36:12.079 hey, let's try this again and we will. We'll 00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:14.420 fall back on our first sign -ups and then ask 00:36:14.420 --> 00:36:17.179 for more sign -ups and more and just kind of 00:36:17.179 --> 00:36:19.480 iterate. I'm really used to the iterative design 00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:21.519 process as an electrical engineer. You start 00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:27.760 out with a glop of a Play -Doh mold and then 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:29.719 you go into Legos and then now you're working 00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:32.000 with metals and steel and eventually you get 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:35.019 to a robot somehow out of that building like 00:36:35.019 --> 00:36:40.829 Mars Rovers. And also finding the right people. 00:36:41.510 --> 00:36:43.869 I'm definitely not one of them because I'm like, 00:36:43.969 --> 00:36:45.690 it's been two years and we haven't even got a 00:36:45.690 --> 00:36:49.650 Yoda camp started up. But I do, hopefully, I 00:36:49.650 --> 00:36:52.829 do a lot of pushing. I try to push the initial 00:36:52.829 --> 00:36:56.110 momentum. So to fix that we need to find people 00:36:56.110 --> 00:36:59.690 who are really involved and capable of planning 00:36:59.690 --> 00:37:02.329 events and doing stuff like this, especially 00:37:02.329 --> 00:37:07.039 for the camp. This is also included. since I'm 00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:09.079 always thinking about the next thing, you know? 00:37:10.900 --> 00:37:13.900 There's a lot of venture capitalists or start 00:37:13.900 --> 00:37:15.780 -uppers out there in Silicon Valley who have 00:37:15.780 --> 00:37:17.159 the same sort of thing where they're like, oh, 00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:19.079 I'm really interested in doing this job thing, 00:37:19.099 --> 00:37:22.360 and then it starts to look like kind of lackluster, 00:37:22.380 --> 00:37:24.199 and then they go do another thing, and then they 00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:26.280 go do another thing, and that's kind of like 00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:28.119 how I am, but hopefully somebody's inspired out 00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:30.039 there who can say, this is a good idea and I 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:31.840 wanna keep rolling it, and then they inspire 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:34.320 the next and inspire the next. I'm naturally 00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:37.179 inclined to this because of college. Every four 00:37:37.179 --> 00:37:41.199 years there's a stoppage of interest because 00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:44.719 they all graduated and then one lucky young ham 00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:47.400 comes in and they completely revolutionize the 00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:49.760 radio club at their college or at their high 00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:53.460 school or whatever. So that's kind of like... 00:37:53.420 --> 00:37:56.440 It's a hard question to answer and my honest 00:37:56.440 --> 00:37:59.119 answer is like, need help out there. Definitely 00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:01.480 looking for assistance in terms of like, helping 00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:05.159 push this kind of thing, just asking me for like, 00:38:05.659 --> 00:38:07.440 regular emails even, like say, what's the status? 00:38:07.500 --> 00:38:09.559 And I'll be like, oh, oh, that's the thing I'm 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:12.860 doing, oops. And then yeah, going from there, 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:16.239 so. All right, well, we've got a caller on the 00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:18.300 line, so let's see who we have. Good evening, 00:38:18.460 --> 00:38:24.789 welcome to HamTalk Live. Thank you. Who do we 00:38:24.789 --> 00:38:30.070 have here? Ke8KLC, Patrick, out of Cincinnati, 00:38:30.409 --> 00:38:34.409 Ohio. Oh, very good. Actually, I think we mentioned 00:38:34.409 --> 00:38:38.769 you before the show, so very good. Well, Patrick, 00:38:38.829 --> 00:38:42.329 what's your question here for us tonight? Well, 00:38:42.389 --> 00:38:45.329 just more of a comment. I just want to thank 00:38:45.329 --> 00:38:48.670 Sterling. I really think it's a great project 00:38:48.670 --> 00:38:54.059 that he's doing. Like, I personally had my first 00:38:54.059 --> 00:38:58.380 HF experience in a contest at my local club, 00:38:58.380 --> 00:39:01.820 and if they didn't have that shack there, I probably 00:39:01.820 --> 00:39:06.059 wouldn't have done any HF up to this point. So 00:39:06.059 --> 00:39:10.199 it's a great project, I really think. If you 00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:12.559 can just find the people, it can go great places. 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:19.719 Yeah, cool. Thanks for the comment. I try. And 00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:23.360 honestly, you all can blame N0AX. He gave me 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:26.019 the initial idea that just one day we were chatting 00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:29.099 it up and I think he saw what Team Exuberance 00:39:29.099 --> 00:39:30.960 was doing and YCP was doing and thought, you 00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:33.139 know, what if we did this? And he knew I was 00:39:33.139 --> 00:39:35.280 in YARC and I was like, that is brilliant. And 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:40.039 so I'm, you know, trying to push it along. All 00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:41.860 right, Patrick. Well, thanks for calling in we 00:39:41.860 --> 00:39:45.019 appreciate it and glad you were able to get some 00:39:45.019 --> 00:39:48.619 Experience and hopefully we can we can get you 00:39:48.619 --> 00:39:52.039 paired up with somebody here in the contest soon 00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:59.440 All right, thanks a lot for calling Patrick Bye 00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:02.739 bye eight one two six five zero nine five five 00:40:02.739 --> 00:40:05.059 six is the number we're going to wrap things 00:40:05.059 --> 00:40:07.679 up here pretty shortly But if you want to give 00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:11.090 us a call You can do that. And let me run over 00:40:11.090 --> 00:40:13.650 here to Twitter and see if we have anything. 00:40:14.349 --> 00:40:18.469 More fan mail, but more likes. But don't see 00:40:18.469 --> 00:40:21.309 any questions here. So I think we've covered 00:40:21.309 --> 00:40:26.389 quite a bit of it. So any last words here? Anything 00:40:26.389 --> 00:40:30.130 we missed? Yeah, sure. So please look up, again, 00:40:30.250 --> 00:40:33.590 yark .world slash ycp if you want to sign up. 00:40:33.590 --> 00:40:36.409 And if you have any questions. After the show 00:40:36.409 --> 00:40:41.929 or in future land, you can email YCP, they have 00:40:41.929 --> 00:40:43.969 a contact form, or you can email me directly 00:40:43.969 --> 00:40:48.309 at n0ssc at yark .world. I also have like a thousand 00:40:48.309 --> 00:40:51.650 other emails. It's very easy to find me. Please 00:40:51.650 --> 00:40:54.369 feel free. I'm definitely out there. We're already 00:40:54.369 --> 00:40:57.929 answering questions for hosts in terms of like, 00:40:57.969 --> 00:41:00.369 what do we deal about liability and safety and 00:41:00.369 --> 00:41:02.230 parental concerns and that sort of thing. And 00:41:02.230 --> 00:41:05.969 so we're addressing those as we go too as well. 00:41:06.990 --> 00:41:09.989 Oh, yes, there's always the red tape and that 00:41:09.989 --> 00:41:13.409 has to be addressed these days. So yeah, we got 00:41:13.409 --> 00:41:17.010 to work on that as well. So, well, thanks a lot 00:41:17.010 --> 00:41:20.610 for coming on and we'll be in touch and try to 00:41:20.610 --> 00:41:25.679 help out with this as much as I can. also getting 00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:29.099 the word out on this. So hopefully we had some 00:41:29.099 --> 00:41:32.179 people out there tonight listening and some people 00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:35.760 listening to Newsline that maybe you can host 00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:38.320 a station or maybe you know a youth operator 00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:40.900 that would like to do this. So just send them 00:41:40.900 --> 00:41:48.219 over there to yark .world slash ycp and get them 00:41:48.219 --> 00:41:51.780 signed up and hopefully we can get a get a match. 00:41:52.369 --> 00:41:54.090 All right. Thank you very much, Neil, for having 00:41:54.090 --> 00:41:56.510 me on. It's been a big pleasure. And hopefully, 00:41:56.849 --> 00:41:59.250 yeah, we'll see a few more entries out of this. 00:41:59.269 --> 00:42:02.489 And we'll start doing pairings starting probably 00:42:02.489 --> 00:42:05.110 this week. I'll start emailing out. And I think 00:42:05.110 --> 00:42:08.949 by the 14th, I should be starting to wrap that 00:42:08.949 --> 00:42:12.849 up. All right. And we're also going to one more 00:42:12.849 --> 00:42:17.889 thing. We'll take any late check -ins, and we'll 00:42:17.889 --> 00:42:21.539 try to accommodate. As if we can and if not, 00:42:21.539 --> 00:42:24.639 I'll let you know, of course Yeah, and it's not 00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:27.380 just for the numbers. It's it's it's yeah. Yep 00:42:27.380 --> 00:42:30.099 Trying to reach out to as many many young hams 00:42:30.099 --> 00:42:33.360 as we can. Yep. Yeah. So alright, very good Well, 00:42:33.460 --> 00:42:35.719 thank you sterling for coming on the show and 00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:40.360 we wish you and yark the best of luck in this 00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:44.000 youth contesting program and and maybe maybe 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:48.119 the camp here in 2020 we'll see All right, you're 00:42:48.119 --> 00:42:53.159 holding me to it. It sounds like Put I keep pushing 00:42:53.159 --> 00:43:02.039 I keep calling back and say hey We're just you 00:43:02.039 --> 00:43:04.139 know, hanging out not doing too much right now 00:43:04.139 --> 00:43:06.119 So hopefully we'll be traveling or I hear this 00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:08.820 doing this and that and maybe we'll go on a honeymoon 00:43:08.820 --> 00:43:13.480 and then I'll plan So, all right. All right Well, 00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:16.880 enjoy that and that is a wrap for this week's 00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:19.519 edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guest, 00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.059 Sterling Mann in Zero SSC and everybody out there 00:43:22.059 --> 00:43:24.920 in cyberspace for listening and calling in. And 00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:27.639 I invite you back next Thursday night at 9 p 00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:30.880 .m. Eastern Time when Dan Henderson, N1ND, will 00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.420 be here to talk about traveling abroad with Ham 00:43:34.420 --> 00:43:38.179 Radio. So we'll be talking about licensing issues 00:43:38.179 --> 00:43:41.579 and transportation and that kind of thing. So 00:43:41.579 --> 00:43:43.920 be sure to tune in for that. And then the following 00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:46.639 week, Marty from Team Exuberance will be here. 00:43:46.860 --> 00:43:49.159 And for a list of all of our upcoming guests, 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:52.820 visit HamTalkLive .com. Before we go, I want 00:43:52.820 --> 00:43:56.340 to mention that Eris just put out a news release 00:43:56.340 --> 00:43:58.579 yesterday, the amateur radio on the International 00:43:58.579 --> 00:44:02.119 Space Station organization, that they are having 00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:06.679 an auction and they've got a rig that's signed 00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:11.860 by astronauts and a handbook set and all kinds 00:44:11.860 --> 00:44:13.460 of stuff that they're going to be auctioning 00:44:13.460 --> 00:44:16.500 off. It's their first ever auction. So if you're 00:44:16.500 --> 00:44:21.159 interested in helping out Eris and maybe landing 00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:24.699 some some cool stuff uh... go over to eris a 00:44:24.699 --> 00:44:29.019 r i s s dot org and check that out and uh... 00:44:29.019 --> 00:44:31.380 if you like ham talk live please consider leaving 00:44:31.380 --> 00:44:33.860 us a review on itunes or wherever you listen 00:44:33.860 --> 00:44:37.599 that helps others find us faster so for now this 00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:41.320 is neil rapp wb9vpg saying seven three seven 00:44:41.320 --> 00:44:49.679 five and may the good DX be yours Bye!