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our guest is Michael Colley, W4MCA. He's the
new chairman of the Orlando Hamcation. Michael's
served for seven years as Hamcation's tailgate
chairman and for six years the IT chairman and
one year as finance chairman and he's taken over
the reins and hamcation is sponsored by the Orlando
amateur radio club so Michael it's good to have
you back and you've already been rubbing it in
where it's supposed to be seven degrees tonight
and you're saying there's a cold front coming
through and it's gonna be like down to 50 tomorrow
Yeah 50 is gonna be our high tomorrow down here
in sunny Orlando, Florida And I've already got
the call from school. We're on a two -hour delay
in the morning. So Yeah, he's just got to rub
it in that you know, it's all the way down to
50 but it's Such a shame. Well, that sounds like
a good place to go for a ham fest. So We're two
weeks and a day away from Opening and you've
had a lot of major things to announce some big
improvements Some of those were even made on
this show. So fill everybody in on hamcation
All right, y 'all hamcation is February 8th 9th
and 10th at the Central Florida Fairgrounds and
Expo Expo Park in Orlando, Florida We are the
second largest ham fest in the country just behind
Dayton last year. We draw them 22 ,300 visitors
over the three days so yeah hamcation is growing
and We're doing good at it All right, and now
fill everybody in where that Fairgrounds is and
in the scheme of things there in Orlando It's
actually going to be west Orlando, west of I
-4 on State Road 50. It's probably about a 10
minute drive from downtown Orlando. Okay, very
good. Well, you've got all kinds of things going
on and there's some last minute things that have
that have popped up here and we want to talk
about some of those, some visitors that you have
coming in and some new amenities. So let's talk
about the prizes a little bit. You've got some
big announcements on prizes and tickets for those.
So tell us about that. Alright this year we did
change it up a little bit on the last announcement.
We announced our Saturday and Sunday grand prizes
We've actually added a Friday grand prize to
that also. It's a icon 7300 This year also we
will have over 25 ,000 in prizes Yeah, you heard
me right $25 ,000 in prizes We will be selling
tickets just for the prizes. So if you want an
extra chance of winning it Prize you can buy
those tickets and we will be selling them at
a pretty good deal For $2, you'll get one ticket
for $20. You'll get 25 tickets for $35. You'll
get 50 tickets for $60 You'll get a hundred tickets
and for $100. You'll get 200 tickets. That's
200 chances to win one of the prizes and their
prizes range from there's a total of 22 radios
being handed out during hamcation this year from
handhelds to HFs to mobile radios but most of
them are HF radios being given out. All right
and we've already got a question from Jill KD8
QGA and wants to know if anyone is going to sell
tickets on Thursday evening. Is there a chance
to purchase those in advance? Currently not on
Thursday evening. We are having a meeting at
the fairgrounds, our local Orlando amateur radio
club. Club meeting is Wednesday night. We will
be having it at the fairgrounds. We will be selling
tickets then. Um, but as of right now, that's
the only time other than during the show from
the prize and info booth that you'll be able
to buy the tickets. Okay. So, so Jill saying
I'm talking 200. tickets, that's going to take
a while to write all that. One of the things
I tell people that I've learned from Huntsville
going there and they do that there are people
who bring stamps so they can just stamp their
name and all that on them. And address labels
too. Yeah. All right. Well, let's see. We are
at parking. You've got some new parking to tell
us about too. We do. Last year, one of the things
that happened that we didn't like, we ran out
of parking, which is a good and bad thing. Good
thing, we're busy. Bad thing is, everybody starts
talking about we ran out of parking. So this
year, we've rented four soccer fields out front
and the flea market out front. Then there's actually
two more acres across from the flea market that
we've got access to this year So this year we
should not run out of parking. So and it's all
free parking Okay, very good and You've got some
visitors coming from the league. I know so tell
us about that Yeah, right now there's a total
I think about 12 people coming from the league
but the main ones are going to be the ARL CEO
Howard Michael will be here and the president
of ARL Rick Rodrik will be here also and then
of course Bob the marketing manager which goes
to most of the bigger shows he'll be here and
There's a couple more of them also from the league
headquarters that would be here also this year
Okay, and then you already mentioned the club
meeting because Jill wanted to know about the
the ticket so You're gonna have your regular
club meeting for the Orlando ARC and You've got
a special presentation and an invitation for
people to come to that Yes, this year actually
for the last two years now our club meeting has
failed the fall the week of hamcation So this
year we're going to be having it actually in
one of the ClearSpan tents. And this year we
have actually been contacted by Flex Radio. They
will be flying in a day early to do a presentation
at the club meeting. for a new flex digital protocol
thing that they're supposed to be having. They're
gonna announce it at the show, but you'll hear
about it first there if you come to the meeting.
There's a couple other things that are gonna
go on. Those are surprises that people will enjoy,
and we'll have lots of door prizes and stuff
like that. It is open to the public. uh... if
you do want to go to it or you will have to enter
off of uh... bmx lane which is the west gate
if you go to the uh... website there's a map
there which shows the west gate off of bmx lane
is how you'll have to enter that meeting that
starts at seven p m on wednesday okay so all
kinds of uh... cool stuff that's uh... been added
And we talked about the forums quite a bit on
the last show that you were on but you've Confirmed
some of those so talk a little bit about the
forums that will be taking place Yeah, there's
a total of I believe right now 34 forums over
two days Friday and Saturday some of the people
that will be doing Forms this year will be Tim
Duffy from DX engineering will be doing one on
his special event or his Radio stations ham radio
station that they use for contesting Carol Perry
will be doing a youth presentation this year
again Tapper will be here for the first time
this year. They're doing five or six forms on
Friday all technical related Gordon West will
be back this year. He'll be doing a forum also
Okay, and many others That's the bigger ones
that I know about I think there's a D star form
a couple of I think Yezu is doing a form on fusion
So that's about it right now All right, so all
kinds of all kinds of good things going on there
and of course you've got opportunities to enjoy
some of the normal things around Orlando and
maybe even get the family to some of the parks
and all that kind of thing. And oh yep, Jill
reminds me that Joe KZeroNEB is doing a kit build.
So you can see Joe down there. I know he's excited
to get down there. So that will be happening
as well. But you've got all kinds of of entertainment
down there, so it shouldn't be any shortage of
fun Yeah, you definitely if if you can't find
nothing to do in Orlando There's the issue yeah
Exactly so is a great time to go down there and
Get to a ham fest and make a little vacation
out of it and get out of this seven degree weather
and negative wind chills if you're in the Midwest
up here or north. It's a good chance to get away,
so I would love to be there. I just can't get
it in my schedule this year, but we're working
on it. We're working on making some changes,
so we'll see how that goes, but I'd love to get
away. You know, you've got the Space Center not
too far away as well. You've got all kinds of
stuff going on at the beach and, you know, just
an hour away. So all kinds of great things to
do in the Orlando area and hamcation is definitely
one of them. Let's see, did we miss anything
here? We've got, I know we're gonna talk about
some traffic stuff when we come back from break,
but we have anything else here? One thing I did
forget to mention, we will have the Boy Scouts
in the North Hall this year again, and you can
go see them to get your ticket laminated. And
for $5, they'll laminate the ticket and give
you a 2019 lanyard. So you can keep your ticket
visible at all times as you walk around the fairgrounds.
All right. Very good. That's always popular at
several events. So that's a good thing. All right.
Well, we're going to take a break. We're going
to come back. We'll talk about... traffic a little
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to Michael. First of all, the AM Rally is next
weekend, so I want to remind everybody of that.
It's amrally .com and that's February 2nd through
4th, so fire up the AM rig and and get on the
air. I also want to mention the National Voice
of America Museum of Broadcasting in Westchester,
Ohio is celebrating 75 years of their facility,
the Voice of America Bethany Relay Station. And
they're going to have a dozen free events this
year. And I'm going to be Sorry, got a text here
and got me sidetracked. We're going to be doing
a show about some of these, but some of these
are going to take place before we get to that,
right before Dayton actually. So I want to mention
they have an event coming up on February 17th
on Sunday with Nick Parisi. It's the imagination
of Rod Serling. And they also have a VOA White
House bureau chief coming. Steve Herman will
be talking about covering the White House and
the world on Wednesday, March the 6th. And then
there's also some talks at the library that they're
doing in Westchester, April 3rd. be a presentation
there about the history of the VOA Bethany station.
And also April 9th, Theater of the Mind, some
sound effects during radio's golden age with
Mike Martini, the president of the museum's Media
Heritage Collection. We'll be talking more about
some of these events, but I wanted to mention
those tonight just to... to get them out there
and we'll be talking more about those in a couple
of months here on the show with some of the Voice
of America Museum people. So just wanted to mention
that. So it's time for your calls now about hamcations.
So if you have a question for Michael, give us
a call. And again, we've got the different phone
number tonight. It's 812 -650 -9556. Again, it's
812 -650 -9556. 650 -9556 to join in the conversation
tonight. You can also tweet us at HamTalk Live.
If you're listening to us on the podcast edition
or on WTWW, you won't reach anybody if you call
him because it's a live show on Thursday. So
if you call, you won't get anybody. So just letting
you know about that. So Michael, let me check
the messages. and while I'm doing that, why don't
you tell us a little bit about some construction
and traffic information that's gonna be available.
We already talked, you know, it wouldn't be normal
unless I -4 was under construction. So talk a
little bit about that and how people can get
some of the traffic information. Oh, that is
true, Neil. It is under construction. It seems
like it's always under construction here in Florida.
But there's a lot of lane closures, a lot of
exits being closed all the time on it. So the
best way to keep up to date, if you go to hamcation
.com and sign up for either Facebook or Twitter.
our talk -in chairman, Bitten, sends out updates
during the show and before the show of people
coming in, of info of closures and stuff like
that. Or you can also tune into the talk -in
on 146 .760 and there have all the information
there too if you need directions or maybe bypass
I -4 if you don't feel like sitting in traffic,
especially on Friday. Friday's rush hour up there
is hectic so Okay, so we've got got some information
out there and if you if you run out of parking
I for works, right? Yeah, that's what we call
it local parking lot Yeah, it has a reputation
for that so You can you can check that out, but
should be Should be a good time down there. So
again the phone number for tonight is eight one
two six five zero nine five five six again eight
one two six five zero nine five five six to participate
in the show tonight, so Give us a call on the
phone there at that number eight one two six
five zero nine five five six and hopefully uh...
before long we'll have all this uh... new phone
system stuff working out so let's see here uh...
we needed to where did we need to go we needed
to talk a little bit about uh... the where are
we we're getting a call here so let me Let me
do that. Hello, you're on HamTalk Live. I think
I know who this is. Yeah, I thought I saw you
trying to call in on the other line a little
earlier. Michael Coulter, W8CI. Good evening.
My good friend Michael and all the other folks
down there in Orlando. A great hamcation. It's
a wonderful event. I really, I love going down.
I'm looking forward to going down there. And
we got a big team from Dayton going down there.
And despite what a lot of people might think,
between us, Huntsville, Germany, Tokyo, we're
all pretty close friends and work really hard
to help each other to be very successful. So
good to hear Michael on there. He's doing a great
job and so are you, Neil. That's all I got to
say. I just want to wish everybody the best.
Looking forward to going down there. Now, Michael,
while we've got you on the air here with Michael,
he was telling me that his local sheriff is going
to be coming by. And so now we've got the sheriff
in Dayton and we've got the sheriff in Orlando
both showing up. And now I hear Yours is going
down to Hamcation. Yeah, he's coming down there.
Gene Fisher. And he's a great guy. Loves Amateur
Radio. He's getting more and more involved in
it. And he's excited. He's coming down with his
wife, who is also a ham. And so we're really
fortunate to have, you know, people in our county
up here in Greene County and to participate.
And I'll tell you what, we can't wait to get
down there, because it is cold up here. It's
been below zero a while. We just had another
snow come in last night, and I got my lane plowed
out. But yeah, we've got a great group. We have
some of our members are down there in Florida
already, and they live down there. But we all
want to support each other. So wish Michael and
his team all the best. Thank you. All right,
Michael, thanks for calling in and we look forward
to talking to you in a few months Yeah, all righty.
Thanks. See you Michael All right, thanks eight
one two six five zero nine five five six is the
phone number to call to join us tonight 812 -650
-9556, or you can tweet us at HamTalkLive. If
you have any questions about hamcation, let us
know. Michael, any last things here that we need
to bring in? I think we pretty much covered everything,
Neil. The biggest thing is... Please come and
one thing I do want to say that just like Michael
says they're in there and even Mark in Huntsville,
please when you see volunteers, thank them for
what they do without the volunteers to show what
happened. We don't have as quite as much as Dayton
does. They have over 600 volunteers. We'll ride
around the two to 250 250 volunteer mark for
us. But please, if you see them, thank them for
what they do. All right, very good. And I think
we were talking about Mark and I think he was
trying to call and something happened here. So
we'll see if he calls back in a minute, but I
think he was, I think that was him. So we'll,
we'll stand by here for a minute. Oh, here we
go. Maybe that'll work. Hello. Is this Mark?
Good evening. Neil. Yeah. Use the sound here.
Got it. Yeah, that sounds like Mark in for BCD
Yes from Huntsville, Huntsville Hamfest I just
I've been listening to Michael down there talking
about the new stuff for for Orlando and I don't
know what I'm more excited about Seeing the new
stuff and seeing old friends meeting new ones
Florida weather I'm counting the days and Michael
it sounds like you got a lot of new stuff flex
radio given it Talking about a new product. That's
pretty pretty earth -shaking Yeah, and at our
club meetings start off with so anybody that
comes in early can actually get it before anybody
else so which is nice That's great I remember
a couple years ago 10 tech unveiled something
pre Dayton and Sounds like flex is going to be
doing something similar down there in Orlando
Just adds to the excitement for the whole weekend.
I'll be driving down, but I won't arrive in time.
And I just heard Michael Calder, WHCI, calling
in. So I wanted to add my voice to say good luck
and we'll all meet up down there. I'm staying
with the Dayton guys at the same hotel. So we'll
be able to compare notes and chat with you guys.
And I'm sure we'll run into each other many times
during the weekend. Yeah, we will mark And I'm
not bringing I'm not bringing the Madison County,
Alabama sheriff with me Michael Michael's bringing
the Green County sheriff I don't know how fast
he plans to drive But if he's gonna have an Ohio
County sheriff tail him all the way to Florida.
He must have done something pretty serious Or
wants to get there fast one of the other Well,
we can cut up like that because we, like Michael
Calder said, we know each other very well and
we help each other immeasurably throughout the
year in planning these massive events and it
shows all these events are really, really a lot
of fun to be part of and to attend. But Neil,
thanks for having us on the show tonight. And
I'll let you get back to Michael and the rest
of your guests. OK. And don't take the weather
with you, by the way. Don't take that either.
Absolutely. Looking forward to that. 73, Michael.
Enjoy the warmth. 73, Neil. 73, Mark. Take care.
Talk to you in a couple weeks. See you in a few.
Bye bye. All right. Thanks, Mark. 812 -650 -9556
is the phone number so if you have a question
you need to get that in because we're going to
finish things up here very shortly so 812 -650
-9556 is the number again for tonight. Okay well
let's go back through here and check on the tweets
and the messages and everything, see if we have
anything else going, but I think we're pretty
well done. CarlKD9HQT says he wants a thousand
tickets, so maybe you can sell some of those.
But that's a good thing, and one thing I noticed,
and Jill actually mentioned this a while ago,
that She and Joe KZeroNEB kind of getting a little
competition on on buying tickets. So We'll see
how that goes. Well, we've got another call on
the line. So let's see who we have here. Good
evening. Welcome to HamTalk Live. Hey Neil, Joe
K7JOE here. How are you? I am good. How are you?
So I'm doing great. Hey, I just wanted to let
you know that we appreciate everybody's effort
and help putting on hamcation it's the second
year that I'm going it was so good last year
that I'm heading down there again it's super
cold here in Bloomington and Bloomington Indiana
and it's a great break great way to get away
for just a quick weekend play ham radio I've
got some family down there so it's a great chance
to see family and you're right there's just a
ton of stuff to do it's just a terrific venue
it's really well organized the volunteers are
super friendly. I had a blast last year. There's
guys that I've been talking to for years on 40
meters and we always get together down there
and have a little social event and sort of get
together, have a dinner, something like that.
It's just a great time. So what I would encourage
folks to do is if they've never been to one of
those big shows and they're thinking about it,
take advantage of the opportunity and give it
a try. It's really worth your time. Like I said,
it's a terrific show. It's actually Probably
more fun to me than Dayton simply because the
weather is so nice down there compared to the
cold up here And of course in Dayton, you just
never know what the weather is going to be like
in May So anyway, just another vote for Orlando
hamcation. I think it's a great show Michael
anything to say there Just thank you When you
get to the show ask somebody for me and I'll
come and shake your hand Awesome. Very good.
Well, I look forward to meeting you and look
for the guys that are on the hole in the wall,
Matt, which meets every evening at, let's see,
at 9 p .m. or was it 10 p .m., I guess, 10 p
.m. Eastern Time on 7188. We're out there every
night, and it's a whole bunch of good guys, and
they're going to all be down there, and so I'm
looking forward to seeing them. So thanks again,
and hope you guys have a great turnout, and I
look forward to seeing everyone. All right. Thanks,
Joe. And congratulations to you on the national
or North America collegiate championship. We'll
be talking here in a couple of weeks about that
with Joe and, and Craig Thompson, canine CT,
but congratulations for the meantime. Very good.
Well, thanks Neil. And it's all about getting
young people on the air. That's super important.
So that's one of our missions here and look forward
to chatting in a few weeks. All right, thanks
a lot Joe. K7JOE from across town here and Carl
mentions KD9HQT that simplex frequencies will
probably be tied up during hamcation. That's
kind of a kind of a no -brainer there, right?
Yeah, it's very busy on the air. It's very hard
to find a frequency without somebody on it. Yep,
they all get tied up. So I'm sure there'll be
a lot of activity. Okay, well, I think we're
gonna finish things up here tonight Michael,
but you've got two weeks to go. So good luck
with everything and hope everything goes well.
And I know the weather is going to be better
than it is here. Sounds like a great plan and
great time, great prizes, great forums and wish
you the best of success. All right, thank you
Neil for having me on and thank everybody for
listening and coming to Hamcation. All right,
that's Michael Colley, W4MCA, the chairman of
the Orlando Hamcation. That is a wrap for this
week's edition of HamTalk Live and thanks to
Michael and everybody out there in cyberspace
for listening and for those calling in tonight
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now this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 -3, 7
-5, and may the good DX be yours. And as we close
tonight, one of our callers from a few weeks
ago and one of the t -shirts, Denny WB9MSM from
Wisconsin asked to say a few words about a medical
condition that he had. And I'm not a doctor,
nor do I play one on TV. And this is a ham radio
show, not a health show. So we don't want to
get too far off topic most of the time. But I
talked to Denny earlier this week and I'm going
to play a real short version. version of... Talk
that we had as we sign off tonight. This was
a life -changing event for him So I told him
I'd I'd let him have a couple of minutes So if
you'd like to hear more about Denny and his story
check out QSO today podcast episode 2 23rd Eric
4z1ug did an extensive interview with him recently
and you can hear more over on QSO today So here's
Denny and good night from Chilly Bloomington
Well, okay Neil first of all, I want to say thank
you very much for giving me the opportunity back
in July of last year 2018 I went through what
they call a coronary CT scan for calcium and
Basically what that revealed Neil was that I
had a very high score 2500 on that score which
is basically telling me that I'm gonna have a
heart attack. Now, just a little background information
on that, this test that I had done, the coronary
CT scan for calcium, was something that I did
basically because my wife asked me to do it.
Initially I said, no, there's no reason for me
to go through this because I'm in pretty good
health, I'm not having any real issues, I'm doing
fine. With my score of 2 ,500, the gal gave me
that score and said that test results and said,
hey, I'd like you to take this to your doctor
immediately. And I did so. My doctor in turn,
Neil, looked at the results and said, well, he
wanted me to come in and we're going to do a
test on you. And it more or less revealed that
I was doing pretty good. However, I would like
you to see a cardiologist, which I did very promptly.
Cardiologist looked at my score and said, you
know something? I actually want you to go through
a nuclear stress test. And I thought, oh my gosh,
what's this all gonna be about? So I went through
the nuclear stress test in turn and the doctor
more or less said to me then, he said, well,
you got a problem. I said, oh my gosh, what is
the problem? He said, well, it looks like you
got some calcium and some deposit there in your
arteries. Well, I didn't. You don't know too
much about this. I've never had anything like
this before, Neil. So to me, it was a wall factor,
if you will. They went in and they said they
wanted to do an exploratory on me where they
go in with a catheter into your arteries. And
they wanted to check to see if I had blockage.
Anyway, I went into the hospital, had this test
done and covered that I had in my LAD. commonly
referred to as the Widowmaker, it was 80 % blocked.
So the doctor, at the time he went in and looked
at this, decided, oh my gosh, we got a problem
with this guy. We're gonna take care of him right
away. So they put three stents into my LAD. That's
the left aortic descending artery. And said to
me that he saw another one that was blocked.
Then two weeks later, I had the other one done
and that one was 90 % blocked. I am just so grateful.
Coronary CT scan for calcium, which I had done
at the insistence of my wife, more or less, that
turned out to save my life. And I look at it
today, Neal, and I'm so grateful. I finished
up both of those procedures and I'm doing fine.
I didn't have any problem. That's why I said
I was reluctant to do it. I said, I don't need
that. And sure enough, I had it done and it ended
up saving my life. So I look at it and I paid
a hundred bucks for it. That was a very little
hundred dollars when I think back on it now,
but for some reason it's not covered by insurance
so that I can stick around here yet and do some
more hamming. Well, we're glad that you found
this and shared it with us and we're able to
pull that off and get things taken care of and
hear you on the air some more. So thanks for
sharing with us, Denny. Well, like I said, Neil,
I am so grateful to you. I feel like I'm an ambassador
to this kind of thing now that I want to really
try to help people. I'm so grateful that you
gave me this opportunity to share this with my
fellow hams, because it's a big deal. I want
people to stick around for a while if they can.
Well you came right back to my CQ call Your readability
five and strength nine You never once mentioned
your weather at all And I didn't mention mine
We talked and talked for hours and hours I completely
forgot you're a ham I don't know your power or
the height of your tower Frankly I don't give
a damn So 73s, to you and your family, I'll be
seeing you further down the log. Yeah, 73s, to
you and your family, I'll be seeing you further
down the log. It's hard to believe that you're
empty indeed, because you sound just like a local
up here. But why don't those whistling Mediterranean's
check if your frequency's clear?