WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.680 This episode of HamTalk Live is brought to you 00:00:02.680 --> 00:00:06.080 by Tower Electronics. For connectors, cables, 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:13.000 and more, call 920 -435 -2973 or visit pl -259 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:17.699 .com. And by ICOM, heard it, worked it, logged 00:00:17.699 --> 00:00:22.940 it. Visit www .icomamerica .com slash amateur 00:00:22.940 --> 00:00:31.879 for more information about ICOM radios. Here 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:37.700 we go, welcome to Hamtop Live Call in, let's 00:00:37.700 --> 00:00:41.799 talk, Neil's your guy Hamtop Live, here we go 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:02.119 Hey, good evening, everyone. It's time for Ham 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:08.079 Talk Live. It's episode number 153. Ham radio 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:11.519 dating stories for Valentine's Day recorded live 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:17.180 on Thursday, February 14th, 2019. I'm your host, 00:01:17.500 --> 00:01:21.480 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:25.280 episode of Ham Talk Live. Tonight, it's open 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:30.500 lines. We're going to take your ham radio dating 00:01:30.500 --> 00:01:33.900 stories and we've got a bunch of them lined up 00:01:33.900 --> 00:01:37.659 here so uh we're gonna try to work them in we've 00:01:37.659 --> 00:01:40.540 got a lot of schedules to play with so i don't 00:01:40.540 --> 00:01:43.120 know what order we're going in but we're gonna 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:46.480 figure this out uh but we've got several and 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:51.819 um We're gonna we're gonna see what we get here 00:01:51.819 --> 00:01:55.040 tonight and my phone's kind of going crazy here, 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:57.159 too We're trying to figure out the order of things. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.079 So If you have a ham radio dating story, give 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.060 us a call here. Here's the way it's going to 00:02:03.060 --> 00:02:06.180 work tonight We actually have a call screener 00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:08.520 tonight. We have this new phone system we've 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:10.500 been talking about that we're still kind of working 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:20.139 out the bugs but Marty in 1C is our call screener 00:02:20.139 --> 00:02:24.099 tonight. He's set up all this phone stuff and 00:02:24.099 --> 00:02:27.560 so he will take your calls and then he'll put 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.800 you on hold and then we'll get a line going. 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.300 So you can go ahead and call right now and that 00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:42.139 number to call is 812 -650 -9556. Again, it's 00:02:42.139 --> 00:02:50.360 our temporary number. tonight 812 -650 -9556. 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:54.259 Give that number a call. Marty in N1C will answer 00:02:54.259 --> 00:02:57.879 and he will talk to you and get you in the list 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:02.159 and let you know what's going on and then we'll 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.400 get to as many of these calls as we can tonight. 00:03:05.460 --> 00:03:12.639 So again the phone number to call 812 -650 -9556 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:18.490 and Marty will Get everybody in line Last week 00:03:18.490 --> 00:03:21.289 here on the show Craig Thompson canine CT and 00:03:21.289 --> 00:03:25.090 Joe fitter k7joe We're here to talk about the 00:03:25.090 --> 00:03:27.629 North American collegiate Championships if you 00:03:27.629 --> 00:03:30.129 missed that show you can listen anytime and ham 00:03:30.129 --> 00:03:32.990 talk live comm or on your favorite podcast app 00:03:32.990 --> 00:03:36.729 or YouTube or you can catch the rebroadcast on 00:03:36.729 --> 00:03:43.580 WTWW 508 5 a .m Saturday evenings about 6 30 00:03:43.580 --> 00:03:47.199 p .m. 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You're listening to HamTalk 00:05:31.500 --> 00:05:52.829 Live with Neil Rapp. Your QTH or mine? Thanks 00:05:52.829 --> 00:05:55.509 to Scott and Jill at Tower Electronics for sponsoring 00:05:55.509 --> 00:05:59.670 the show tonight to help bring you HamTalk Live. 00:06:01.189 --> 00:06:07.410 They will be at Dalton, Georgia on February 23rd 00:06:07.410 --> 00:06:11.069 and March 2nd, Cave City, Kentucky, March 16th, 00:06:11.110 --> 00:06:15.750 Toledo, Ohio, and March 30th, Sevierville, Tennessee. 00:06:15.889 --> 00:06:21.649 Or you can catch them any time online at PL -259. 00:06:22.859 --> 00:06:26.779 Well, we've got some calls lined up here tonight, 00:06:27.540 --> 00:06:33.000 and our first caller tonight is Amanda, K1DDN. 00:06:33.019 --> 00:06:37.660 Good evening, Amanda. Good evening. You have 00:06:37.660 --> 00:06:40.339 me and Jeff here on the line. Say hello, Jeff. 00:06:40.500 --> 00:06:45.160 Hello. Hello, Jeff. So nice to join you tonight. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.779 Jeff was just mentioning... Sorry, somebody wanted 00:06:48.779 --> 00:06:54.360 to call me. Apologies. listening and Jeff said 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:57.060 that sounds like all -star that Neil's got or 00:06:57.060 --> 00:07:00.439 asterisk excuse me that you have on your PBX 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.779 is that true oh I have no idea you'll have to 00:07:03.779 --> 00:07:09.000 ask Marty he did all that very very familiar 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:12.019 to Jeff so it sounds like our system a lot in 00:07:12.019 --> 00:07:17.279 our phone yeah it probably is so well yeah tell 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.240 us about tell us about you and Jeff some ham 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:26.699 radio Dating stories. Well, let's see. Are they 00:07:26.699 --> 00:07:29.160 nightmares or are they happy endings? Oh, either 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:33.379 one. Either one. Sometimes it's pretty hard to 00:07:33.379 --> 00:07:37.279 share a shack. You know, during a contest, if 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:40.040 I want to be serious about it or if Jeff wants 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:43.139 to be, it's hard to share the radio a little 00:07:43.139 --> 00:07:46.660 bit. But we tend to make it work and have fun. 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:51.220 Also, another thing is it's hard to find logging 00:07:51.220 --> 00:07:55.240 software where you can have multiple call signs 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:58.079 running at the same time and log. I don't know 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:02.120 what you use. What do you use? I use DXKeeper 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:06.540 as my main log. I actually do the same thing 00:08:06.540 --> 00:08:11.800 Val does. I have this convoluted system of... 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:15.879 I put my satellite contacts in TQSL and then 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:20.839 move them over into DXKeeper and N1MM and then 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:25.240 move it into DXKeeper. It's kind of the same 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:30.980 system she does actually. Some of the other things, 00:08:31.139 --> 00:08:34.279 I think Jeff could tell this story best about 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:38.149 irritation. of a YL making a contact before a 00:08:38.149 --> 00:08:42.250 guy? What do you think, Jeff? Did you always 00:08:42.250 --> 00:08:44.850 get through first? Yeah, that might be the one. 00:08:45.570 --> 00:08:48.990 It's pretty rare when I win a pilot before Amanda, 00:08:49.070 --> 00:08:51.169 I'll tell you that. It happens every now and 00:08:51.169 --> 00:08:54.590 then, but it's rare. Yeah, I've always heard 00:08:54.590 --> 00:08:59.340 that YL voice is an extra 3DB at least, so. I 00:08:59.340 --> 00:09:01.519 think so. I think it works. I know, because I 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.799 try to turn the amp up an extra 3 dB and it doesn't 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:09.759 help. It's funny how he's like, hey, don't be 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:11.539 pushing the amp. Don't push the amp, sweetheart. 00:09:11.860 --> 00:09:14.460 Just keep it down. Keep it down. And then all 00:09:14.460 --> 00:09:16.120 of a sudden, when he can't make a contact, he's 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.340 in the back of it adjusting the ALC and turning 00:09:18.340 --> 00:09:22.440 that sucker up. I mean, really? I can't deny 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:25.340 that. I guess you do what you have to do. One 00:09:25.340 --> 00:09:29.019 of our sweetest stories was kind of being invited 00:09:29.019 --> 00:09:32.639 on Ham Nation for the first time, which was on 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.559 Valentine's Day back in 2010. I think that was 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:38.480 pretty fun. And I'll tell you a funny story. 00:09:39.460 --> 00:09:42.360 We all know Bob Hile. Well, guess what? I didn't 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:47.220 at the time. And he sent me an email and I told 00:09:47.220 --> 00:09:50.059 Jeff, I said, Jeff, I don't know, this Bob Hile 00:09:50.059 --> 00:09:52.299 guy just sent me an email and asked me to be 00:09:52.299 --> 00:09:56.299 on a show with him. Who is he? And Jeff fell 00:09:56.299 --> 00:10:02.019 out of his chair. He couldn't believe it. I didn't 00:10:02.019 --> 00:10:04.179 believe it. I had to see the email and then I 00:10:04.179 --> 00:10:06.200 didn't believe it until she called him. But yeah, 00:10:06.259 --> 00:10:10.279 it was amazing. But, you know, otherwise we usually, 00:10:10.899 --> 00:10:15.220 we typically get along. There's things that I 00:10:15.220 --> 00:10:17.399 know. Like, we just did this event last weekend, 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:23.509 the Snow Queen. And we bring out the QRV. the 00:10:23.509 --> 00:10:29.590 quick response van or vehicle. And it's our com 00:10:29.590 --> 00:10:32.490 van basically. And so, there's a lot of cuss 00:10:32.490 --> 00:10:34.789 words thrown when Jeff's setting it up and getting 00:10:34.789 --> 00:10:38.509 everything connected. And I know to just stay 00:10:38.509 --> 00:10:41.110 out. I just give them a half an hour, let them 00:10:41.110 --> 00:10:44.070 set it up, and then I can start bugging him about, 00:10:44.350 --> 00:10:45.929 are we ready? Are we ready to rock and roll? 00:10:45.970 --> 00:10:49.669 We've got to support this. Let's go. But there's 00:10:49.669 --> 00:10:53.120 what we actually manage to work pretty good together. 00:10:53.460 --> 00:10:56.740 Don't you think, Jeff? I think so. We do. Yeah, 00:10:56.980 --> 00:11:02.000 it's just a lot of fun. And I think that we influence 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.940 a lot of other people to get involved. I would 00:11:05.940 --> 00:11:08.360 hope so. Yeah, it's great. In fact, we're about 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:10.759 to go down to Walsh, Colorado, which is about 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:15.620 four hours away, and get a bunch of Hams, or 00:11:15.620 --> 00:11:17.860 soon to be Hams, licensed. We're teaching a class 00:11:17.860 --> 00:11:20.639 over there. Nobody's ever heard of Walsh, Colorado 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:27.360 because it's very, very small. Well, I got a 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:30.799 couple of questions for you, but how did you 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:36.960 and Jeff meet? How did that work? So we used 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:41.360 to all be roommates back in the day. Boy, when 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:47.440 was that? Maybe 2001, 2002. There was three of 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:50.120 us that were roommates. together. And that's 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:53.919 where we first met. And then I moved out and 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:59.179 moved to a different town and about four years 00:11:59.179 --> 00:12:02.139 later he ended up in my same town and I needed 00:12:02.139 --> 00:12:08.700 IT help. When I heard he was in town he was the 00:12:08.700 --> 00:12:12.399 guy that I called. And he came over to the print 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:14.919 shop and he got our network together and set 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:18.529 up our server and our email server. and all of 00:12:18.529 --> 00:12:20.870 that good stuff. And, you know, just your typical, 00:12:21.269 --> 00:12:24.210 we were just hanging out a lot. So one thing 00:12:24.210 --> 00:12:27.490 became to another. And he had always been interested 00:12:27.490 --> 00:12:30.230 in getting his ham license. He got licensed in 00:12:30.230 --> 00:12:35.549 2007. And another funny thing is him and one 00:12:35.549 --> 00:12:37.830 of our good friends were studying together in 00:12:37.830 --> 00:12:42.730 our very, very tiny apartment. And so I couldn't 00:12:42.730 --> 00:12:45.909 help but always catch all of their study sessions. 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:48.840 And Jeff was like, well, I'd like you to get 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:50.879 licensed as well. And I said, I'm not really 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.399 interested. You guys are too geeky for me. And 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.279 he said, yeah, you know, you probably wouldn't 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:00.159 be able to pass it anyways. So that was it. That 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:06.200 was it. OK, now my other question, and I didn't 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.440 do this and I'm not going to incriminate anybody 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:12.360 because I know this story, but. What what would 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:15.299 you have done if if you and Jeff went out to 00:13:15.299 --> 00:13:21.159 a movie and Jeff brought his HT along I Think 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:30.279 he has Yeah, I'm pretty sure so that's okay Um 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:33.019 as long as it's turned off. Oh, okay as long 00:13:33.019 --> 00:13:35.600 as it's turned off. Yeah. Yeah, he can bring 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:38.399 it long as it's turned off. So that way if you 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.179 have like a weather emergency you're prepared 00:13:41.179 --> 00:13:43.919 right? That's absolutely right or you know whatever 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.940 kind of emergency the electricity goes out and 00:13:46.940 --> 00:13:50.440 we need to get out quickly he's gonna be on the 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:52.500 he's gonna be on the radio listening to the traffic 00:13:52.500 --> 00:13:55.779 so I guarantee it. I'm pretty I'm pretty flexible 00:13:55.779 --> 00:13:58.600 on that actually. She's actually worse than she's 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:02.710 actually worse than me she's a She's an assistant 00:14:02.710 --> 00:14:05.029 to our local emergency manager. So he gave her 00:14:05.029 --> 00:14:07.190 this radio and in our we're wearing one of those 00:14:07.190 --> 00:14:18.230 counties where Oh We've lost you there for a 00:14:18.230 --> 00:14:29.070 second Jeff Okay, I think we've we've lost Jeff 00:14:29.070 --> 00:14:33.179 here so we'll We'll have to try it again Jeff 00:14:33.179 --> 00:14:40.500 you there Okay, I think we lost lost the signal 00:14:40.500 --> 00:14:45.240 on Jeff here so we will move along here, but 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.340 Amanda and Jeff thanks for calling in and sharing 00:14:49.340 --> 00:14:53.860 those stories with us and Note for Marty here 00:14:53.860 --> 00:14:58.279 is if you called in He lost some people along 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:00.460 the way so if you called in and you're not in 00:15:00.460 --> 00:15:04.840 line Go ahead and give us a call at 812 -650 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:09.120 -9556. Sorry about the bug in the system there, 00:15:09.139 --> 00:15:13.639 but if you If you didn't get picked up to you 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:17.159 know, just call back. We'll get you in line here 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:22.440 as soon as we can and Let's see if we can get 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:27.779 another call in here and it looks like Okay, 00:15:27.779 --> 00:15:34.299 we've got a call on Skype so let's see what we've 00:15:34.299 --> 00:15:40.799 got here Hello welcome to ham talk live oh Hey, 00:15:40.899 --> 00:15:43.240 I just wanted to call in I saw your topic on 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.340 Twitter earlier, and I want to pass along our 00:15:45.340 --> 00:15:50.639 story my wife before she was my wife is I guess 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:52.700 we were dating and talking on the phone a lot 00:15:52.700 --> 00:15:55.379 back in the early 90s when cell phones are fine 00:15:55.379 --> 00:15:58.340 a minute and She saw I always had this radio 00:15:58.340 --> 00:15:59.899 around and thought maybe it'd be a good idea 00:15:59.899 --> 00:16:03.500 for her to get her ham license So she studied, 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.440 took her test, got a ham license, and then I 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:09.980 was out of college before she was, and then we 00:16:09.980 --> 00:16:13.179 used ham radio to spend a lot of hours talking 00:16:13.179 --> 00:16:15.799 with one another instead of using cell phones. 00:16:16.299 --> 00:16:18.000 So it was kind of an interesting thing as a part 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.519 of our relationship. So when we got married, 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:22.820 the pastor made a comment that he knew that she 00:16:22.820 --> 00:16:24.580 was getting pretty serious when she started talking 00:16:24.580 --> 00:16:26.919 about radios. So she was the English major and 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:28.850 I was the engineer. But it's worked out real 00:16:28.850 --> 00:16:33.870 well. Oh, that's great. Who do we have here, 00:16:33.870 --> 00:16:37.750 by the way? Yeah, this is Tom in 4 -H and ZX. 00:16:38.570 --> 00:16:41.269 All right, Tom. Thanks for calling in. Appreciate 00:16:41.269 --> 00:16:45.429 it. And yeah, you know, there's just all kinds 00:16:45.429 --> 00:16:47.769 of stories out there. And that's what we're after 00:16:47.769 --> 00:16:51.470 tonight. So thanks for giving us a call. Yeah, 00:16:51.549 --> 00:16:54.129 she still does. She still carries a radio with 00:16:54.129 --> 00:16:57.720 her, more for just emergency purposes. gets the 00:16:57.720 --> 00:16:59.559 fun out of talking that she used to but she's 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:02.059 all current and still enjoys it and I'm still 00:17:02.059 --> 00:17:04.359 very active in the hobby but I thought that was 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:06.660 an interesting story and got us off to a good 00:17:06.660 --> 00:17:09.559 start and ham radio played a very major role 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:12.559 in that. I find a nice simplex frequency and 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:17.359 unlimited talk time. Yeah oh yeah I would have 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:21.059 would really like to have that because it was 00:17:21.059 --> 00:17:26.039 just You know, unlimited, like you said, free 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:29.140 talking, where you don't have to pay long distance. 00:17:29.180 --> 00:17:32.000 And I've done that long distance thing quite 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.700 a bit. So yeah, that would have been great. Well, 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:39.359 thanks for calling in. Appreciate it. Okay. Good 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:41.720 show. Thanks a lot. You take care. All right. 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:46.630 You too. Bye. Okay. Bye bye. All right eight 00:17:46.630 --> 00:17:49.950 one two six five zero nine five five six is the 00:17:49.950 --> 00:17:53.069 phone number and apparently the phone system 00:17:53.069 --> 00:18:01.430 crashed so Sorry but if you would call back and 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:04.779 Get in on the number here. We're going to try 00:18:04.779 --> 00:18:10.079 to get this set up again. 812 -650 -9556 is the 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:15.960 number. 812 -650 -9556. And I think we've got 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.839 the phone system back up and running now, but 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:22.059 we need people to call back. So sorry about the 00:18:22.059 --> 00:18:24.259 technical problems here tonight, but give us 00:18:24.259 --> 00:18:29.259 a call and we'll get that going on. Okay, let's 00:18:29.259 --> 00:18:32.339 see. Oh, Troy W9KVR says, true love is having 00:18:32.339 --> 00:18:34.859 a wife who understands that you need to operate 00:18:34.859 --> 00:18:38.079 at the school on Valentine's Day during school 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:41.000 club roundup every year. And it also doesn't 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.160 hurt that his father -in -law operates as well. 00:18:46.089 --> 00:18:49.950 Yeah, I get that. The school club roundup is 00:18:49.950 --> 00:18:53.069 always the week of Valentine's Day and so you 00:18:53.069 --> 00:18:56.470 always have to kind of juggle the system around 00:18:56.470 --> 00:19:01.690 a little bit to make that work out. Okay, well, 00:19:01.710 --> 00:19:03.609 I'll tell you what. We're going to take a break 00:19:03.609 --> 00:19:06.710 here and we're going to get everybody lined back 00:19:06.710 --> 00:19:12.569 up here in the queue and get things going here 00:19:12.569 --> 00:19:16.339 and we've got some more stories that who were 00:19:16.339 --> 00:19:19.079 sent in earlier that we can go to as well. So 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:22.160 let's do that. Let's take a break. And when we 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:25.500 come back, we'll get the phones all running again. 00:19:26.180 --> 00:19:29.940 So we'll be back after this word from iCall America 00:19:29.940 --> 00:19:34.299 right here on HamTalk Live. Create your own band 00:19:34.299 --> 00:19:38.019 opening! ICOM's newest SDR transceiver, the IC 00:19:38.019 --> 00:19:41.920 -9700, is coming soon. 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Is it getting hot in here or is that 00:20:27.470 --> 00:20:31.829 just your amplifier? You're listening to HamTalk 00:20:31.829 --> 00:21:06.319 Live with Neil Rapp. Alright, thanks to ICOM 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:10.200 America for bringing the show to you every Thursday 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:13.839 night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time right here at HamTalkLive 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:17.059 .com and be sure to check us out on Facebook, 00:21:17.579 --> 00:21:21.359 Twitter and Instagram and I think we've got our 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:25.119 call system set back up again so that phone number 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:32.660 again 812 -650 -9556 or tweet us at HamTalkLive 00:21:32.660 --> 00:21:36.329 and if you're listening to us on WTWW or the 00:21:36.329 --> 00:21:39.230 podcast edition. You won't be able to reach us 00:21:39.230 --> 00:21:43.410 live since the show was on Thursday. So next 00:21:43.410 --> 00:21:49.170 on our list here we have Val in V9L and Jerry 00:21:49.170 --> 00:21:53.130 WB9Z. Good evening Val and good evening Jerry. 00:21:54.609 --> 00:21:57.089 Hello, Val's got the phone right now. Hey, I 00:21:57.089 --> 00:21:59.390 wanted to let Amanda know we have that same trouble 00:21:59.390 --> 00:22:02.130 too with the logging software. I have to keep 00:22:02.130 --> 00:22:04.769 my DX Lab Suite on two different computers, but 00:22:04.769 --> 00:22:07.589 anyway. Yeah, so everybody probably already heard 00:22:07.589 --> 00:22:10.470 the story of me and Jerry, you know, how I met 00:22:10.470 --> 00:22:16.470 him at W9DXCC. I just started DXing and he gave 00:22:16.470 --> 00:22:18.269 a presentation. He had just come back from South 00:22:18.269 --> 00:22:21.789 Orkney. And so I met him at the Hospitality Suite. 00:22:22.029 --> 00:22:24.930 I got to talk to him a little bit, but a couple 00:22:24.930 --> 00:22:28.119 months later I was doing CQ Worldwide. sideband 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:30.079 and i was doing ten meters only low -power he 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:33.059 was ten meters only high -power and i bumped 00:22:33.059 --> 00:22:35.640 into a month frequency and so then we started 00:22:35.640 --> 00:22:39.079 talking and texting and emailing uh... but it 00:22:39.079 --> 00:22:43.759 wasn't so probably February that he asked me 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:48.359 if i would be his date at the uh... DX dinner 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:51.000 at Dayton like three months later he asked me 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:53.819 in February to be a date in May on Friday night 00:22:53.819 --> 00:22:59.410 so i accepted And the same day, another ham, 00:22:59.549 --> 00:23:02.390 who will remain nameless, asked me if I would 00:23:02.390 --> 00:23:05.450 be his date in Dayton three months later, Saturday 00:23:05.450 --> 00:23:10.150 night. So the second guy, I was like, all right, 00:23:10.250 --> 00:23:12.230 who is this guy? So I knew him a little bit from 00:23:12.230 --> 00:23:15.430 Facebook, so I Googled him, and the first picture 00:23:15.430 --> 00:23:19.089 that pops up is him and Jerry. Sitting at a bar 00:23:19.089 --> 00:23:21.170 in a foreign country having a beer. They had 00:23:21.170 --> 00:23:23.369 been on a de -expedition together and I'm like, 00:23:23.369 --> 00:23:26.549 okay These two guys have a bet on me. Don't say 00:23:26.549 --> 00:23:33.390 and I wish But anyway, so I ended up dating Jerry 00:23:33.390 --> 00:23:37.150 St. Patty's date so we ended up going out earlier 00:23:37.150 --> 00:23:40.130 than that May, you know date and thing and then 00:23:40.130 --> 00:23:41.930 it started getting serious so I had to cancel 00:23:41.930 --> 00:23:44.200 the It's like a date, that Saturday night date. 00:23:44.420 --> 00:23:45.819 But anyway, I thought that was kind of funny 00:23:45.819 --> 00:23:47.660 that another ham had asked me out and they both 00:23:47.660 --> 00:23:50.119 knew each other, but they swear it wasn't a bet. 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:52.839 And then I have one other thing. Before I met 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:56.759 Jerry, when I was still separated, I wasn't quite 00:23:56.759 --> 00:23:59.019 divorced yet, so I was checking out that match 00:23:59.019 --> 00:24:01.799 .com thing and being the cheap ham that I am, 00:24:02.140 --> 00:24:05.970 AKA single mom. I thought, well, you have to, 00:24:05.970 --> 00:24:07.450 you know, they kind of give you a brief, they 00:24:07.450 --> 00:24:09.190 give you a picture and a little bit about the 00:24:09.190 --> 00:24:11.289 guy, but if you want to, you know, email them 00:24:11.289 --> 00:24:14.849 or chat with them, you have to pay the fee. Well, 00:24:14.849 --> 00:24:18.049 I was looking at this one guy and it said that 00:24:18.049 --> 00:24:21.509 he liked, I did a search for ham radio men. So 00:24:21.509 --> 00:24:23.190 I was living in Wisconsin at the time and I found 00:24:23.190 --> 00:24:26.230 this one guy in Michigan who will remain nameless. 00:24:26.769 --> 00:24:28.630 And it said he was into ham radio and it gave 00:24:28.630 --> 00:24:32.549 his first name and his town. So I went into QRZ. 00:24:33.220 --> 00:24:39.819 looked up his first name and his town and there's 00:24:39.819 --> 00:24:42.059 like a few of them so I checked them all out 00:24:42.059 --> 00:24:44.299 and they're blown to hold he had a picture of 00:24:44.299 --> 00:24:45.980 himself on there and it matched the picture on 00:24:45.980 --> 00:24:48.019 the thing so I emailed him and I was able to 00:24:48.019 --> 00:24:50.180 communicate with them and we started calling 00:24:50.180 --> 00:24:52.400 each other we never actually went on a date but 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:55.019 i was able to get around the paying the fianna 00:24:55.019 --> 00:24:56.700 i can't remember the match dot com or one of 00:24:56.700 --> 00:24:59.180 those services but uh... but i don't know if 00:24:59.180 --> 00:25:05.039 you want to get on and add anything to a jerry 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:09.880 jerry's kind of chicken he's got a horror story 00:25:09.880 --> 00:25:12.039 from his ex -wife of when she's like cut his 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:15.740 beverages when she was mad at him oh no but i 00:25:15.740 --> 00:25:18.440 think that you've ever to see that kind of but 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:22.359 uh... yet so but No, we're very happy and thank 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:24.400 God for ham radio or I never would have met him. 00:25:24.420 --> 00:25:28.700 So I'm very happy for him radio. So Love is in 00:25:28.700 --> 00:25:33.700 the air. It sounds like so more Ham ham stories 00:25:33.700 --> 00:25:38.880 come on and I'll let you go All right, well, 00:25:39.180 --> 00:25:41.819 thanks Val and thanks Jerry appreciate you calling 00:25:41.819 --> 00:25:49.380 it All right, Jerry You can get a word in edgewise 00:25:49.380 --> 00:25:56.380 Jerry Hey, it's impossible to do that. Hey, I 00:25:56.380 --> 00:26:00.599 just want to say hi to our good friend, Dr. Scott 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:02.819 Wright, down on Turks and Caicos right now. I 00:26:02.819 --> 00:26:06.160 bet he's listening. Somehow or another, he's 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:11.200 listening. Yeah, I talked to him earlier. He 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:15.740 actually is in Kentucky at the moment. Oh, he 00:26:15.740 --> 00:26:19.660 is? He hasn't made it down to a Turks and Caicos 00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:22.640 check? Cause he put you on for the contest. We'll 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:27.140 have to talk about that off the air. Okay. Roger 00:26:27.140 --> 00:26:32.380 that. Roger that. Wow. You're having a great 00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:35.180 show tonight. You're having a great show tonight. 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:38.420 So continue on Neil. Always good to say hello 00:26:38.420 --> 00:26:42.180 to you. Okay. Thanks, Jerry. Appreciate it. 73s. 00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:47.279 Okay, well, we've got several calls here and 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:51.720 I believe we've got Liz coming up next here if 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:55.819 I Remember correctly. So let's see if we've got 00:26:55.819 --> 00:27:02.119 that. Okay, I think we've got it. Hello Welcome 00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:17.019 to ham talk live on the NASA steamboat. All right, 00:27:17.180 --> 00:27:20.660 Liz. Yeah, Liz and Brian are on a on a little 00:27:20.660 --> 00:27:24.500 jazz dinner cruise kind of thing going on calling 00:27:24.500 --> 00:27:29.319 in from the Mississippi River. So, so let's let's 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:32.880 hear your story, Liz. You've got, you know, your 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:37.339 license, KG5ONB and Brian and and Brian likes 00:27:37.339 --> 00:27:39.799 to stir up trouble on the satellites, I know. 00:27:40.329 --> 00:27:44.349 so so let's hear some of these uh some of the 00:27:44.349 --> 00:27:50.210 dating stories well the we've been married 23 00:27:50.210 --> 00:27:54.269 years and we've been together 26 years and we 00:27:54.269 --> 00:27:56.650 just got licensed like the crime just got licensed 00:27:56.650 --> 00:27:59.869 four years ago and i was licensed around three 00:27:59.869 --> 00:28:05.769 years ago and um i guess the bad it's been like 00:28:05.769 --> 00:28:08.750 when we went on the anniversary trip He needed 00:28:08.750 --> 00:28:12.690 to do a grid for people that needed matches Mississippi 00:28:12.690 --> 00:28:14.950 and he was like, you know mine don't show I'm 00:28:14.950 --> 00:28:17.289 like, I know that's fine. Whatever we have it, 00:28:17.309 --> 00:28:19.769 you know a fair minute you can go do that and 00:28:19.769 --> 00:28:22.490 Then he did it like immediately when we got there 00:28:22.490 --> 00:28:26.470 and then when we finished our our dinner He he 00:28:26.470 --> 00:28:29.730 he was like, okay, I'm gonna go do a pass at 00:28:29.730 --> 00:28:36.900 11 o 'clock and I'm like, oh my gosh what? The 00:28:36.900 --> 00:28:39.599 good part is like, things like this where we, 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:42.480 you know, like we're calling into the show and 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:45.180 it's fun. We're on our little adventure here 00:28:45.180 --> 00:28:49.779 on the Natchez, but we're still having fun. So 00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:53.680 yeah, everything's going good. Thanks for calling. 00:28:54.339 --> 00:28:57.670 I again apologize for all the... phone difficulties 00:28:57.670 --> 00:28:59.789 here tonight. I know you guys are on tight schedule 00:28:59.789 --> 00:29:02.390 because you want to enjoy your cruise there. 00:29:03.089 --> 00:29:07.329 Well, one question I have to ask here is that 00:29:07.329 --> 00:29:10.390 Brian on Twitter is always saying that he's the 00:29:10.390 --> 00:29:17.009 captain. So is he really the captain? Yeah, he's 00:29:17.009 --> 00:29:21.119 the captain. He's the captain. Okay. All right, 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:23.279 we just want we just wondered about that cuz 00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:26.700 we were thinking maybe Liz was was in charge 00:29:26.700 --> 00:29:34.660 but All right, he's gonna be the captain all 00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:37.799 right Brian, you know, yeah get word in here 00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:46.019 Brian. Yep Hello, okay, so Brian it's okay to 00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:48.869 do those Those 11 o 'clock satellite passes. 00:29:49.130 --> 00:29:52.210 That's, that's okay. That's approved because 00:29:52.210 --> 00:30:00.309 I'm the captain, Neil. I tell you, we're having 00:30:00.309 --> 00:30:02.630 a good time on this cruise though, Neil. It's 00:30:02.630 --> 00:30:05.450 a lot of fun and a lot of place to see on the 00:30:05.450 --> 00:30:08.970 river. Well, that's really cool. Well, enjoy 00:30:08.970 --> 00:30:12.289 your Valentine's Day. Thanks for calling in. 00:30:12.369 --> 00:30:14.849 I'll let you get back to the dinner and music 00:30:14.849 --> 00:30:19.029 and all that stuff going down the river. Great 00:30:19.029 --> 00:30:23.509 choice, by the way. That was a good choice there. 00:30:24.009 --> 00:30:27.190 So, thanks for calling in. Well, look, I have 00:30:27.190 --> 00:30:28.730 to say. All right. Yeah, go ahead. I have to 00:30:28.730 --> 00:30:32.069 say one thing. Liz, I couldn't do it without 00:30:32.069 --> 00:30:34.920 her. And I love her very much and we've been 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:37.720 together a long time and I'm lucky to have her. 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:41.240 Well, there you go. Can't ask for much more than 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:45.299 that. All right, Neil. Thanks for calling, Brian. 00:30:46.619 --> 00:30:49.900 All right. Okay, you too. And Liz, thanks a lot 00:30:49.900 --> 00:30:58.059 for calling in. KG5GJT and Liz. KG5ONB, thanks 00:30:58.059 --> 00:31:01.559 for calling in. And I think we've got some more 00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:05.460 on the line here. So let's see, uh, see what 00:31:05.460 --> 00:31:09.079 we have here. And, uh, Carl KD9 HQT says he's 00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:12.420 ready for, for love on the ionosphere. So let's 00:31:12.420 --> 00:31:16.700 see what we get here. And I believe we have Carol. 00:31:16.859 --> 00:31:21.299 Is this Carol? This is Amanda. Oh, this is Amanda. 00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:25.140 Oh, Amanda's back. Okay. Yeah. If you, if you 00:31:25.140 --> 00:31:27.380 need to take Carol though, go ahead. No, no, 00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:31.640 no. Go ahead. Yeah, we lost Jeff there. He was 00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:36.700 talking about the handheld you had. Oh, yeah, 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:38.740 the one that she's addicted to. That was it. 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:41.500 It's kind of funny. I'm addicted to police bands. 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:45.619 That's all I can say. Other than that, I just 00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:48.859 thought that Liz and Brian were so cute. Brian 00:31:48.859 --> 00:31:52.900 is so sweet. And while we were muted on hold, 00:31:53.309 --> 00:31:56.069 And I can't cuss on the show, because it's a 00:31:56.069 --> 00:31:59.109 show. I said, how come you don't say bleep like 00:31:59.109 --> 00:32:06.529 that to me? So they were so sweet. I guess that's 00:32:06.529 --> 00:32:09.809 just not us. I thought that was neat that they 00:32:09.809 --> 00:32:13.490 joined in during their cruise. I would like to 00:32:13.490 --> 00:32:18.230 say there was one time the scariest part of ham 00:32:18.230 --> 00:32:22.849 radio was one time when Jeff went to one of his 00:32:22.849 --> 00:32:27.329 repeater sites and they had a break -in and There 00:32:27.329 --> 00:32:30.150 was two criminals inside, you know stealing copper 00:32:30.150 --> 00:32:31.890 or whatever. They're stripping wires out of the 00:32:31.890 --> 00:32:38.950 building and I don't know Ben to some of those 00:32:38.950 --> 00:32:45.549 and huge huge concrete buildings very vast and 00:32:45.549 --> 00:32:48.069 Scary in the dark. Let's put it that way, but 00:32:48.069 --> 00:32:53.109 these guys were there And Jeff and his crew show 00:32:53.109 --> 00:32:55.869 up there to do some work and to secure it a little 00:32:55.869 --> 00:32:59.210 bit better. And they called the cops, and the 00:32:59.210 --> 00:33:02.109 cops took these two criminals down. Well, in 00:33:02.109 --> 00:33:05.849 fact, they didn't secure everything. And they 00:33:05.849 --> 00:33:07.809 all went inside the building. And I could see 00:33:07.809 --> 00:33:10.130 it on the security camera. So I'm watching live. 00:33:10.170 --> 00:33:14.369 I'm watching them. And one more guy comes out 00:33:14.369 --> 00:33:17.700 of the woods. and jumps in a car that was there 00:33:17.700 --> 00:33:20.519 and drives off but everybody is in this blind 00:33:20.519 --> 00:33:23.880 spot including the deputy that was there and 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:27.259 I didn't know if he had if they had all been 00:33:27.259 --> 00:33:31.599 mowed down by this guy or what and scariest moment 00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:34.240 in my life and there's no cell coverage out there 00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.259 there is DTR there because the self that site 00:33:37.259 --> 00:33:42.740 is right next door but I was screaming on ham 00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:45.859 radio and nobody answered me. The one time you 00:33:45.859 --> 00:33:48.880 didn't have your HT, Jeff. No, because the repeater 00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:51.380 that I needed to hear her was there and they 00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:55.819 shut it off because they were stealing. Oh. So 00:33:55.819 --> 00:33:57.380 she was screaming on the radio and we couldn't 00:33:57.380 --> 00:34:01.079 hear her and we were fine, but I get it. It was 00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:06.299 a, it was a, yeah. It was a scary moment. Yeah, 00:34:06.299 --> 00:34:09.599 I had a feed line pulled off of one of my repeater 00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:16.420 sites. They stole it. Yeah, but the But it was 00:34:16.420 --> 00:34:20.159 on them because it was an aluminum feed line 00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:30.659 So the joke was on them Yeah Well, I did I just 00:34:30.659 --> 00:34:33.460 got out of the repeater business here about a 00:34:33.460 --> 00:34:37.300 year ago just Not enough time to take care of 00:34:37.300 --> 00:34:39.159 them and they were scattered all over the place. 00:34:39.780 --> 00:34:43.519 So But I did that for about 20 years, so, yep. 00:34:43.820 --> 00:34:46.559 Money, money, money. Exactly. It's not even the 00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:50.579 money part. It's mostly the technical side anymore 00:34:50.579 --> 00:34:56.039 and finding people that know IT stuff, networking 00:34:56.039 --> 00:34:58.639 in, et cetera, anymore to go out and work on 00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:02.519 them. That's usually the problem, not anything 00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:11.550 easy to fix. I'm used to asking the questions. 00:35:11.750 --> 00:35:18.289 Yeah, yeah, the tables have turned. Well, thanks 00:35:18.289 --> 00:35:22.050 for calling back, Jeff and Amanda. Appreciate 00:35:22.050 --> 00:35:26.550 it, and have a great Valentine's Day. Thank you, 00:35:26.750 --> 00:35:28.769 Neil. It was so great to be here tonight, and 00:35:28.769 --> 00:35:31.030 hello to all of your viewers. And then after 00:35:31.030 --> 00:35:33.409 listening to Liz again, I realized I screwed 00:35:33.409 --> 00:35:35.570 this all up. I'm just used to being on camera. 00:35:36.190 --> 00:35:40.300 So hello, my name's Amanda. Call us, P1DN, I'm 00:35:40.300 --> 00:35:45.360 in Spanien City, Colorado. Jeff? K0JSC, yeah, 00:35:45.739 --> 00:35:49.340 we get it. Okay, so goodnight everyone and happy 00:35:49.340 --> 00:35:51.360 Valentine's Day. Yeah, we don't have lower thirds 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:57.719 on radio, so. I know, don't get that. All right, 00:35:57.780 --> 00:36:00.460 thanks YouTube, appreciate it. Have a great Valentine's 00:36:00.460 --> 00:36:04.400 Day. Thanks, sir. Thank you, 73 everyone. All 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:08.980 right, 73. All right. Well, I think we've got 00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:13.860 another call here. So let's let's see if we can 00:36:13.860 --> 00:36:18.559 Get that switched over and from the area code, 00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:22.900 I'm guessing this is Carol Yes, it is. This is 00:36:22.900 --> 00:36:26.739 Carol. I'm in Moorhead, Kentucky And my call 00:36:26.739 --> 00:36:33.110 is kilo four Sierra Alpha Foxtrot Well, Carol, 00:36:33.250 --> 00:36:35.230 thank you so much for calling in. And by the 00:36:35.230 --> 00:36:39.750 way, Carolyn KC9URR says hello. She came into 00:36:39.750 --> 00:36:42.130 school to relieve me a little earlier tonight, 00:36:42.130 --> 00:36:46.469 along with her husband, Plato. And she said, 00:36:46.550 --> 00:36:50.570 oh, you have to talk to Carol because Carol has 00:36:50.570 --> 00:36:57.329 a great ham radio dating story. So tell us your 00:36:57.329 --> 00:37:06.210 story about CW. Yes, yes. This happened a long 00:37:06.210 --> 00:37:12.869 time ago, but a 53 -year -old marriage resulted 00:37:12.869 --> 00:37:18.030 from it. But I got my license when I was 15, 00:37:19.150 --> 00:37:26.409 September 28, 1957. And my first day on the air, 00:37:26.650 --> 00:37:29.050 of course I was very excited to get on the air. 00:37:29.340 --> 00:37:34.920 And I was a novice, so it was CW. And my second 00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:41.880 contact was K4GFY, Kilo Ford Golf Foxtrot Yankee, 00:37:42.219 --> 00:37:46.900 and he was from Kentucky. He was in the Air Force. 00:37:47.500 --> 00:37:51.300 His name's Don. He was in the Air Force, and 00:37:51.300 --> 00:37:54.639 he was home on leave at his parents' home, and 00:37:54.639 --> 00:37:58.449 he had a radio, a radio set up there. So he was 00:37:58.449 --> 00:38:02.670 my second contact and I still have my log book 00:38:02.670 --> 00:38:06.309 and I looked in it in anticipation of talking 00:38:06.309 --> 00:38:14.269 to you and I even I talked to him at 4 46 p .m. 00:38:14.989 --> 00:38:23.829 on 3725 in the 80 80 meter band and this was 00:38:23.829 --> 00:38:31.389 all CW It was CW because I was a novice. He had 00:38:31.389 --> 00:38:34.349 had his license about three years and of course 00:38:34.349 --> 00:38:37.329 I was a novice so I had to be on CW there for 00:38:37.329 --> 00:38:41.769 a whole year before I finally got my general 00:38:41.769 --> 00:38:48.090 license. So we didn't talk too long and there 00:38:48.090 --> 00:38:52.050 was nothing, you know, spectacular about it. 00:38:52.150 --> 00:38:56.159 I asked him later after we were married. I asked 00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:59.559 him how my CW was on that first contact, and 00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:02.659 he said, well, you know, it wasn't all that great. 00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:09.460 Of course, I felt it was great, you know, but 00:39:09.460 --> 00:39:13.079 I wasn't nervous. I was nervous with my first 00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:21.679 contacts. So, I turned 16 two days later. I got 00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:24.539 my license at 15 but two days later I turned 00:39:24.539 --> 00:39:29.260 16. So he was in the Air Force and we didn't 00:39:29.260 --> 00:39:33.639 see each other very much or talk very much until 00:39:33.639 --> 00:39:37.980 I was a senior in high school and then of course 00:39:37.980 --> 00:39:41.920 he was stationed in different places and I was 00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:45.760 in college then for two years. So I knew him 00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:50.519 and talked to him and saw him some. Over a period 00:39:50.519 --> 00:39:54.480 of five years and five years after we met with 00:39:54.480 --> 00:40:00.400 that first contact. We did get married and We 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:03.800 he was an Air Force career person. So we lived 00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:08.860 all over the USA and He always set up a ham station 00:40:08.860 --> 00:40:12.199 in base housing Put up antennas. I don't know 00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:17.630 how he got away with all that He did. He always 00:40:17.630 --> 00:40:20.750 managed to have some sort of an antenna. But 00:40:20.750 --> 00:40:24.949 I was busy with three children and just taking 00:40:24.949 --> 00:40:28.929 care of a family. So I wasn't very active for 00:40:28.929 --> 00:40:33.409 many years. So he retired and we moved here to 00:40:33.409 --> 00:40:39.250 Kentucky. And we had more or less his and hers 00:40:39.250 --> 00:40:44.650 stations in the last few years. His was much 00:40:44.650 --> 00:40:48.989 more sophisticated than mine. But he took care 00:40:48.989 --> 00:40:51.849 of all the antennas and any time I had a problem 00:40:51.849 --> 00:40:56.969 he was right there to fix it. And so that worked 00:40:56.969 --> 00:41:00.389 out well for us. It's kind of like couples now 00:41:00.389 --> 00:41:03.750 each having their own computer I think. I think 00:41:03.750 --> 00:41:07.889 that works out better. But we have three children. 00:41:08.489 --> 00:41:13.389 Now my husband Don, K4GFY, he's a silent key. 00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:20.159 He passed away August 2015. So just short of 00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:26.000 our 53rd wedding anniversary. Well that's just 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:28.659 such a neat story that you guys actually met 00:41:28.659 --> 00:41:31.980 on CW. So you didn't even have a voice to go 00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:36.960 on and you started talking and one thing led 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:44.320 to another and here you are now and had 53 years 00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:48.719 of marriage Right, right and it was it was a 00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:52.199 couple years before I met him Like I like to 00:41:52.199 --> 00:42:03.699 say it really wasn't love at first dog It was 00:42:03.699 --> 00:42:07.219 a couple of years before I actually met him because 00:42:07.219 --> 00:42:11.510 I was quite young and My father and my brother, 00:42:11.510 --> 00:42:14.130 they were both hams, and they pretty much got 00:42:14.130 --> 00:42:17.889 me into it. So we were a ham family. And one 00:42:17.889 --> 00:42:21.210 thing, I was just thinking about the CW back 00:42:21.210 --> 00:42:26.530 in those days. This was 57 when I got on. We 00:42:26.530 --> 00:42:30.889 had crystals. We were crystal controlled. And 00:42:30.889 --> 00:42:33.809 I remember we'd have one crystal down in the 00:42:33.809 --> 00:42:37.619 CW band. and maybe one crystal up in the phone 00:42:37.619 --> 00:42:42.360 band on 80 and 40 and I think I remember working 00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:47.219 15. So you know I was probably on the air for 00:42:47.219 --> 00:42:51.059 a couple of years just crystal controlled and 00:42:51.059 --> 00:42:55.519 then we did get a better rig and a VFO and so 00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:59.719 forth. Now he didn't use a quartz crystal for 00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:05.980 the ring did he? No, I think it's real. Oh, okay. 00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:10.280 Yeah, I believe it's real. You know, you just 00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:12.760 rip one of those crystals open and get a little 00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:17.039 piece of quartz out of there and... Well, I hadn't 00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:20.360 thought about that. I hadn't thought about that. 00:43:20.699 --> 00:43:25.500 But now our oldest son, who lives in Wisconsin, 00:43:26.059 --> 00:43:30.719 he has his dad's call now. I pretty much... He 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:34.239 had a general call, so I pretty much insisted 00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:37.420 that he go ahead and apply for his dad's call. 00:43:37.860 --> 00:43:43.400 So he's now K4GFY, and I do have a daughter in 00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:47.960 Arizona. She is not a ham, but I've been trying 00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:52.159 to encourage her to get her technician so that 00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:56.519 someday when my key goes silent, hopefully she 00:43:56.519 --> 00:43:58.619 could get my call, but I don't know if that's 00:43:58.619 --> 00:44:02.849 going to work out. Well, you just never know. 00:44:02.989 --> 00:44:07.190 I mean, you know, you never know. You work somebody 00:44:07.190 --> 00:44:11.309 in CW and then you end up married. So anything 00:44:11.309 --> 00:44:16.289 can happen. Well, we had a long, long happy marriage. 00:44:17.250 --> 00:44:20.809 And so it's kind of like nowadays, I guess with 00:44:20.809 --> 00:44:25.550 the Internet in a way, you know, you never know 00:44:25.550 --> 00:44:29.559 what can happen when. different kinds of communication 00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:33.559 bring people together. Well that's a great story 00:44:33.559 --> 00:44:36.619 Carol. Thanks so much for coming on and telling 00:44:36.619 --> 00:44:42.659 us all about it and enjoy the rest of your Valentine's 00:44:42.659 --> 00:44:46.539 Day and we really appreciate you taking the time 00:44:46.539 --> 00:44:50.320 to tell your story. Yeah, and I'm still active. 00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:55.679 I'm still on CW. That's my mode of being on Hammer 00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:59.619 Radio. I'm still on CW. Yeah, your mode of choice. 00:44:59.860 --> 00:45:03.280 Very good. It is. It really is. I really like 00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:06.079 it. All right, Neil. Well, it's so great to talk 00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:09.119 to you, and thank you very much. All right, Carol. 00:45:09.219 --> 00:45:14.000 Take care. 73. All right. 73 to you and everybody 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:19.480 else. All right. Bye -bye. Okay, wow, we've had 00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:23.179 a busy we've had a busy show here tonight and 00:45:23.179 --> 00:45:29.699 I've still got some more here on on email so 00:45:31.570 --> 00:45:34.710 Wow, there's a there's a lot going on here on 00:45:34.710 --> 00:45:38.210 Twitter too here. So Let's see. Let's finish 00:45:38.210 --> 00:45:41.590 off with a couple of these Stories here. We'll 00:45:41.590 --> 00:45:46.150 finish it off tonight First of all, Scott KB9 00:45:46.150 --> 00:45:51.210 AMM and Jill KB9 PZF from Tower Electronics had 00:45:51.210 --> 00:45:55.590 a cool story. Scott writes, Jill and I met on 00:45:55.590 --> 00:45:59.550 the CB radio back in 1976. She lived on the east 00:45:59.550 --> 00:46:02.230 side of town. I lived on the west side. And I 00:46:02.230 --> 00:46:06.349 drove across town in my 1962 Ford Falcon. It 00:46:06.349 --> 00:46:09.630 overheated on the way across town, a thing it 00:46:09.630 --> 00:46:14.289 did quite often. He met her at Dairy Queen down 00:46:14.289 --> 00:46:16.530 by the river spent many nights talking to her 00:46:16.530 --> 00:46:19.469 on the radio after that and had a wonderful time 00:46:19.469 --> 00:46:23.329 and and they got married in April of 1980 because 00:46:23.329 --> 00:46:27.010 Her mother would not let them leave town together 00:46:27.010 --> 00:46:29.750 without being married and they wanted to go. 00:46:30.050 --> 00:46:36.500 Yes to Dayton And so that was back when the Hamvention 00:46:36.500 --> 00:46:41.840 was in April. And so they got married and took 00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:46.480 off to Dayton. They honeymooned in a Pontiac 00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:51.460 Phoenix in the parking lot of Hera Arena. And 00:46:51.460 --> 00:46:54.739 their big meal, it was at the Denny's located 00:46:54.739 --> 00:47:01.079 across the street from Hera Arena. Wow, how about 00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:08.639 that story? And then JW5WHN writes in, my wife 00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:15.099 WB5LYJ and I met via amateur radio about 45 years 00:47:15.099 --> 00:47:19.340 ago at a 1973 Christmas party hosted by another 00:47:19.340 --> 00:47:25.539 ham WB5EGD in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And they've 00:47:25.539 --> 00:47:30.900 been married for over 40 years and Jay says his 00:47:30.900 --> 00:47:34.519 most memorable field day was in 1974. He was 00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:38.820 a young Navy radio man who was waiting discharge 00:47:38.820 --> 00:47:42.619 and had met up with several other U .S. Navy 00:47:42.619 --> 00:47:47.420 personnel at K6NCG and that's Treasure Island 00:47:47.420 --> 00:47:50.659 California Amateur Radio Club in the same situation. 00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:55.699 All of us at the Treasure Island ARC were licensed 00:47:55.699 --> 00:47:58.139 amateur radio operators and we decided to go 00:47:58.139 --> 00:48:02.079 operate field day from a location that included 00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:05.900 an abandoned lookout station near Sacramento. 00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:10.800 And on June 23rd, 1974, field day, early in the 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:14.059 morning on 75 meters, he was sleeping on a cot 00:48:14.059 --> 00:48:18.179 near the sideband station and got a slight tap 00:48:18.179 --> 00:48:22.820 on his shoulder and was informed turned to sailor 00:48:22.820 --> 00:48:25.840 someone would like to talk to you in New Mexico 00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:28.559 and the person using the distant microphone was 00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:33.760 a young lady that he'd met at that 1973 Christmas 00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:41.619 party of WB5 EGDs and it was WN5LYJ at the time 00:48:41.619 --> 00:48:44.719 operating with a field day group set up at K5 00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:48.800 CQH's QTH on the east side in the woods and all 00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:54.030 I heard was Jay and I had replied yes, and they 00:48:54.030 --> 00:48:57.489 proceeded to chat for 15 minutes. The signals 00:48:57.489 --> 00:49:00.929 were excellent and after they talked he had a 00:49:00.929 --> 00:49:03.489 big smile on his face knowing that he would be 00:49:03.489 --> 00:49:05.809 home in a few months and be able to participate 00:49:05.809 --> 00:49:11.769 in field day 75 from New Mexico. So now WN5LYJ 00:49:11.769 --> 00:49:20.619 is WB5LYJ and they were married in 1977. So Just 00:49:20.619 --> 00:49:28.079 all kinds of stories here and... Wow. Okay, now 00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:32.579 I was going to end here and now Julie's giving 00:49:32.579 --> 00:49:36.920 me a hard time. Julie, I was trying to get her 00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:39.480 to come on the show and she's always saying, 00:49:40.039 --> 00:49:43.800 you know... you know, you should have me on the 00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:47.300 show. You can fill in, you know, and if I have 00:49:47.300 --> 00:49:49.739 somebody cancel last minute or something, I say, 00:49:49.860 --> 00:49:52.840 you know, okay, Julie, you're going on the air. 00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:55.840 And then then I was planning on this tonight 00:49:55.840 --> 00:49:59.019 to have Julie end the show here and come on. 00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:02.760 And, and she was like, Oh, I don't know if I 00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:06.019 want to want to, you know, get on the radio and 00:50:06.019 --> 00:50:10.940 everything. And so, well, So she's at this meeting 00:50:10.940 --> 00:50:14.800 and says she can't call in, but she sends her 00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:19.239 regards to everyone. And we'll end with a little 00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:25.880 bit of a story. Saturday night, this past Saturday, 00:50:27.139 --> 00:50:30.300 Julie and I went down to Lexington, Kentucky 00:50:30.300 --> 00:50:34.059 and went to a place called the Kentucky Castle. 00:50:34.300 --> 00:50:38.190 So shout out to the Kentucky Castle, folks. and 00:50:38.190 --> 00:50:40.809 we went down there for dinner and we got there 00:50:40.809 --> 00:50:43.550 a little early and walked around a little bit 00:50:43.550 --> 00:50:48.130 and went up to the rooftop and I asked her to 00:50:48.130 --> 00:50:53.289 marry me and she said yes so Julie and I are 00:50:53.289 --> 00:50:55.630 engaged now we've been kind of keeping it low 00:50:55.630 --> 00:51:00.050 -key here for a few days but but Julie's been 00:51:00.050 --> 00:51:02.750 to Huntsville a couple of times to Dayton a couple 00:51:02.750 --> 00:51:06.130 of times so You know and she gets these road 00:51:06.130 --> 00:51:08.969 trips where I have to you know, okay, there's 00:51:08.969 --> 00:51:11.309 a satellite pass in five minutes I have to you 00:51:11.309 --> 00:51:14.230 know, I got to get my satellite pass in so so 00:51:14.230 --> 00:51:19.289 she puts up with that and and and my visits to 00:51:19.289 --> 00:51:23.550 Disney amateur radio club and Kennedy Space Center 00:51:23.550 --> 00:51:26.849 and all this stuff. So so Julie thank you for 00:51:26.849 --> 00:51:32.719 putting up with my ham radio habit and And so 00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:37.300 we're engaged now. So we'll see how that works 00:51:37.300 --> 00:51:44.679 out on timing, because we don't have a plan yet. 00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:48.099 But we'll figure that out. And we're supposed 00:51:48.099 --> 00:51:50.900 to get some pictures here over the weekend, maybe, 00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:53.619 from that. So we may post a couple of those. 00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:56.920 But anyway, wanted to share that news with you 00:51:56.920 --> 00:51:59.659 today. Being Valentine's Day and all, we wanted 00:51:59.659 --> 00:52:04.019 to to get that out there. So thank you all. And 00:52:04.019 --> 00:52:06.539 some of you have been keep asking, you know, 00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:08.940 where's that ring? Well, well, she's got one 00:52:08.940 --> 00:52:13.860 now. So we took care of that. So anyway, we will 00:52:13.860 --> 00:52:16.980 finish things up here tonight with that. And 00:52:16.980 --> 00:52:22.579 that is going to be a wrap. And so is Julie, 00:52:22.900 --> 00:52:27.650 actually, I guess. But that's a wrap. For this 00:52:27.650 --> 00:52:30.050 week's am talk live. Thanks to everybody out 00:52:30.050 --> 00:52:32.429 there in cyberspace for listening and calling 00:52:32.429 --> 00:52:36.590 in next week We don't have a show next week. 00:52:36.769 --> 00:52:38.909 Sorry. I've got a basketball game to announce 00:52:38.909 --> 00:52:42.309 it happens once a year on a Thursday and So I'm 00:52:42.309 --> 00:52:44.329 not gonna be around next week, but in two weeks 00:52:44.329 --> 00:52:47.780 we'll be back So I invite you back on Thursday, 00:52:47.780 --> 00:52:52.119 February 28th at 9 p .m. Eastern Time. Sean Kutsko, 00:52:52.260 --> 00:52:55.239 KX9X, will be here to talk about several portable 00:52:55.239 --> 00:52:58.920 operations. The Canadian National Parks on the 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:02.519 air, the U .S. Islands, a thing called CT90. 00:53:02.579 --> 00:53:04.380 You'll have to tune in to find out what that 00:53:04.380 --> 00:53:09.019 is and a whole lot more. And so next week on 00:53:09.019 --> 00:53:12.699 WTWW, we'll replay episode 99 with Rob Sherwood 00:53:12.699 --> 00:53:16.530 in C0B. talking about receiver comparisons because 00:53:16.530 --> 00:53:20.710 we won't have a new show to play. Make sure to 00:53:20.710 --> 00:53:23.449 listen for us in two weeks, so we'll miss you 00:53:23.449 --> 00:53:26.889 next week, but we'll be back on the 28th with 00:53:26.889 --> 00:53:30.969 a brand new episode with Sean Cutsco KX9X. And 00:53:30.969 --> 00:53:33.389 for a list of all of our upcoming guests, visit 00:53:33.389 --> 00:53:36.949 HamTalkLive .com. 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