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Good evening everyone. It's time for ham talk
live number 134 fallout 3 with Christian k0 sth
recorded live on Thursday September 27th 2018
I am your host Neil rap WB 9 VPG. Thanks for
tuning in to another episode of ham talk live
tonight. We're joined by Christian Kudnick K0STH
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Baltimore, Maryland. Now a resident of st. Louis,
Missouri or New Seattle depending on what season
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Save the Harambe Harambe! This is gonna be great!
Harambe! That was my Regis. I did a Regis for
ya. Oh, you did a Regis, yes. Yeah, who did it,
uh, you know, you just start off, well, then
you get real excited! I can't really do it. I
miss Regis. But, uh, who bailed out on you this
week? Nobody bailed out on me this week. We scheduled
this weeks ahead. I showered, I shaved, and I
forgot this was not a TV show. I thought the
ladies who listen and view your program would
enjoy this. Sadly, we're audio guys. I have the
face for radio, so. I do too. How have you been?
Well, I've been good. I've been busy. You're
always so busy. I've spent some time traveling
this summer. Then the old the old job thing came
back it's like, you know, they they want These
kids to be taught things, you know, so you have
to go back to work and teach and Trying to take
care of some family Stuff so the yeah, you are
Hey Neil is when you learn the periodic table
Is that sort of like the code? I mean, once you
have it, you have it, or do you have to kind
of freshen up? Or you just, you know what I'm
saying? Because it seems to me like you look
at that and you're like, ugh, that chart, this
thing, and zinc, you know? Is it something that
just stays with you or because you do it all
the time like code? Yeah, it's something that
I use every day and so I've got to the point
where, you know, I've got half the numbers memorized
by now. It's kind of the point where I don't
even look at a periodic table anymore. I just
do it in my head, but that's after 25 years of
doing that. Do you have a favorite? Do I have
a favorite element? Yeah. Oh, geez. What excites
you to talk about when there's a... When that
comes up in the next chapter, you're like, yeah,
this is going to be cool. Let me show you why
this is cool. I kind of like relating it to real
life stuff. So talking about talking about cars,
like why is your battery dead? Or, um, the other
day I was talking about electron orbitals and
how electrons were not evenly distributed and
it was kind of like a tire that wasn't balanced.
That it just wobbles back and forth and so I
kind of like tying in everyday stuff and that's
something that comes with time because when I
got out of school I knew nothing about that.
I knew the equations, I knew the math. But I
didn't really tie it to everyday life. And then,
you know, after I go through this, it's like,
oh, this is chemistry. I think it's smart because
especially at that age, these kids that you're
teaching, they haven't really done much with
their lives yet. You know, they have their whole
lives ahead of them. So breaking it and tying
it into something else is that's important. That's
just good. I hate that. I hate that you're so
smart. Well... Well, what else is going on with
you? Well... See, this is what we did for 45
minutes before the show. Exactly, exactly. That's
what we were doing. Well, we were talking about
radios and... In fact, I didn't tell you this
part. I ordered a new antenna set up for school
today. We're trying to find a way to get our
dipoles to actually work up on the roof. The
penthouse is made out of metal. And so when we
tie them off from even hanging from the tower
and try to bring the legs down, the metal in
the roof of the penthouse and the metal walls
on the side of the penthouse just mess everything
up. Today I ordered a new tripod that we're going
to try to put on the roof without screwing it
down, which is going to be interesting. But just
to support the dipole, but get it far enough
away from the building. So maybe that'll cure
it. We've tried like two or three different things
and all of them didn't work. So it's fine as
long as the stepper works. Yeah, I mean this
ever that goes down I need a backup and we've
had to use the backup once or twice before and
we also have to have something for 75 meters
because The the stepper will handle 40, but it
won't handle 75 or 80 and So we got to have something
for that. So We're gonna we're gonna try to throw
something together here in the next couple of
weeks before school club roundup gets going and
doing that so the other thing and here comes
the segue okay the other reason we went with
this tripod idea is so that if we wanted to take
our station out in the middle of nowhere and
do a special event or do the Indiana Q So party
or or do a demonstration station that you know
during lunch or something out front where we
couldn't do it up in the ham shack. We'd have
a way to do that. Which brings us to fallout
three. It sounds like a, it sounds like a video
game. It's fallout three. Yeah. All the crap
we didn't get right in the first two editions.
Try it now. So tell us about Fallout 3, it's
a chance to do what we were just talking about.
Take your antenna and set it up and get out there
and enjoy the weather. Tell us about it. Yeah,
man. You know, a lot of people, and I first,
you know, it's not an original idea. Getting
out and getting portable is just a great thing.
I remember when I first got on HF and I put together
a portable station and I put it together and
I went out on field day. And I got clobbered
and I love field day. I think it's a wonderful
thing. It's a really important and probably the
biggest Special event each year and I think winter
field day is really cool too. I mean for the
die -hard so for new hams Getting out there and
working on field day is a blast but I I could
tell right away I couldn't hold a frequency and
I was thinking what what could we do because
I was running low power my I'm sure my antenna
was not efficient Probably putting out 80 88
or 89 watts or something and you just couldn't
compete with the big guns Who were you know set
up you could work then but as for holding a frequency
I had a hard time that particular weekend and
so I was thinking what could we do and To level
the playing field somewhat you can't completely
level it But it just kind of grew out of that
another opportunity away from field day to get
out and be portable and now we've got park programs
that are really popular and successful. And I
think this sort of dovetails into those things
where you can get out there. If you have a portable
station, great. Let's get out there before it
gets ice cold. Some places are already very cold.
The Pacific Northwest, you know, they're seeing
really cold temperatures in other places. So
it's a chance for us to take that antenna we've
been working on. And on field day, another thing
about field day is if you're part of a club,
You may be the guy running code from noon to
two o 'clock and you know, or maybe you're getting
the potato gun and zoom You're gonna hang the
antenna and then you're cool for the rest of
the day, you know But maybe you've been working
on something on your own This is one of those
opportunities to kind of get out there and try
some things and then listen for a community Well
of which you're part of and I'm proud of that
I can get out there and get on the air and listen
for other people who are doing it as well. So
For me, it's kind of that last hurrah before
things get really cold and I can put it on my
schedule and I'll do it anytime, any band, any
mode you want to work on and there's really no
rules. Just get on the air and have fun and it's
one of those deals and as an incentive, you know,
we've got some sponsored prizes to give away.
I see that does well for HamFest. When people
go to a HamFest, they throw their ticket in the
barrel and it's It's an incentive to come and
hang out and do some stuff. So I put together
a group of prizes too, but it's not a contest.
I know you like the contesting element, but this
is a little bit more casual, but we can put it,
put it in a space where you schedule it in and
get on when you can. So October 12th through
the 14th. That's when we're going to hit it again,
Neil. Okay. Well, you know, there's, there's
a lot of opportunities there. like you said,
to get on the air yourself, try some things out
and, and you know, the, the speaking of field
day, there's one question that, that doesn't
always work during field day. Do you know what
that question is? I would say is the frequency
in use. Yes, that's it. That is it. Is the frequency
in use? Of course it is. It's so exciting. Everything
is so close together. It's really exciting. You
know, it's almost one of those things if you
don't, you know, you can turn the dial. I go
up and down, you know, 20 or 40 meters during
the day and I want to hit the end of the band.
I'll flip it to the other one and go back down
and I'll work stations or usually I'll pick states.
And I work with my oldest daughter, and I'll
start doing it with my youngest now, too. I'll
print out a map and kind of color in the state.
So I don't go around trying to work anybody I
can. I'll listen for Ohio, Indiana, and try to
work the ones that I don't have just to fill
up the map. So I'll turn it into a geography
lesson, if you will, too. Sure. But I should
give out the website, if it's OK with you. The
100WattsOnWire .com is where you can learn more.
About the the activity itself and just click
on the activity days page and it'll walk you
through it and and I'm still getting used to
UTC time So that Thursday night at seven o 'clock
central time that's actually the 12th, you know
in UTC So Thursday night seven o 'clock you can
actually begin running and you know, just call
CQ 100 watts and wire fallout and we've done
this Together you and I did it. I don't think
it was in 17 But maybe but it could have been
16 and you and I were both on the air talking
to each other and then we took calls You remember
that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm 16. I was over at
the George Rogers Clark Memorial down in my hometown
Vincennes when national parks on the air was
going and and did a twofer we did the the fallout
and the Napoda thing at the same time and then
last year I think I just ran here from the house
for a little bit. I think we did talk but We
didn't take a bunch of calls like I do it Did
down there in Vincennes? Well, you also had a
lot going on with your family not to bring up
your personal life But your last year has been
pretty pretty rough. So yeah, I Hopefully this
year, I know you're doing some other things with
the house and the sale and all that sort of stuff.
But anytime you can get on, you can just tell
me and we'll get on and do it again. That's the
beauty of it. There's really no rules. You can
just do it as you want to and know that there's
a community of people out there. And a lot of
them are more inclined to chase, I've found.
The parking and the barking, it comes some...
those who aren't a little nervous to kind of
park and call CQ. And then there seems to be
a little bit more that like to pounce. So it's
cool to encourage everybody. Even if you've got
a little mic fright, you can find somebody friendly
in the community or a friendly voice or somebody
that you've maybe run into on the Facebook page,
that kind of thing. So it's more of a feel -good
piece. And at some point, I should tell you what
we're giving away. It's ridiculous. It's really
I heard the list and and on your show and it
it was it was it was extremely Massive, so you've
got a chance to win a ton of stuff So that'll
be cool, too. So yeah, hopefully I'll do that
I just realized that that's gonna be a busy time
on the air we're gonna have the fallout which
leads into school club roundup, which is one
of My busy times because we're on the air after
school every single day for five hours You know
all week long and then jamboree on the air the
next weekend So there's gonna be a lot of activity
on there. So people need to get out there and
get on There's also a worldwide flora and fauna
event. I don't know if you've seen this one They're
calling it get your park on now There was a there
was kind of a separation between the worldwide
flora and fauna and parks on the air But they're
basically, you know compliment each other if
you will but it's called get your park on and
It's October 14th through the 20th. So that's
kind of going along as well I just learned about
that one and I think it ties in with Earth Science
Week or something like that. Look it up if you're
interested in the park programs. They're long
-going programs in international worldwide flora
and fauna and the parks on the air that you mentioned
before. They're just cool programs for people
who like to get out and get portable and some
of those guys are the ones and girls are the
ones that are die -hards that'll go out operating
their truck in February in Wisconsin. You know
guys like me or guys with a tighter schedule
or younger family. We got to kind of pick our
spots. We were talking a little bit before the
show about just getting enough time to sit in
the chair is hard right now for both of us. So
scheduling things for me right now is better
than just like, I think I'll drive today to X
park. You know what I mean? But I support all
our brothers and sisters out there doing it.
It's cool to go portable. I've found that most
of my activity lately has been in the car and
I've been doing satellites, which is, you know,
a 10 minute window usually and I do it in the
car and I bought this new antenna and I've barely
used it because I'm never home. I'm out in the
car, but I go out and, you know, sit on some
grid lines and and get a lot of activity. So,
you know, here's a chance to get on HF, get out
in the car, get out and set up somewhere or whatever
you have and get on there and make some contacts.
I think the parks folks, like the Parks on the
Air program, they like this because it's like
double dipping. You know, they can also they
pass out their 100 watt IDs. It's not mandatory
that you have one of those. But, you know, many
are out there now. and so they exchange their
park information and they also do the 100 watts
and a wire fallout or the tune up whichever you
know we're doing in that particular season so
they like to double dip too it's kind of a it
helps them because they need a certain amount
of contacts to make the activation official so
you know having another kind of set of uh you
know in that double dip it helps them out too
Okay, so remind us again when it is where to
find the information Any changes from from before
or is it just kind of wide open? Well, you're
really bossy, but I will give you this information
yet again nails a sure thing Yep, go to 100 watts
in a wire comm That's 100 watts in a wire comm
click the activities page and it'll show you
there October 12 through the 14th And, uh, again,
with the UT, uh, UTC time, it's zero hundred
UTC, uh, on Friday, which is actually seven o
'clock central time on Thursday evening. This
is what throws me off. And you end up running
all the way up until 2359 UTC, which is one minute
before seven PM central. See, I've confused everyone.
I actually can hear them turning this off right
now. And the only difference your WWV goes out.
then you can't even see what time it is. The
world is ending, Neil. Let's not bring up the
other conversation. We had good grief. Yeah,
it'll tell you everything there. You know, you
can go and you can spot yourself on the Facebook
group or whatever you like to do anytime, any
band, just a simple exchange, call sign, state,
100 watt ID if you have them. If you need one.
You just click the gathering page on the website.
It'll be sequentially issued to you in a couple
of days. And again, it's not a contest. What
you do though, if you go back to the website,
you can submit your totals. And when you submit
your totals, you just give your call sign and
your email address and that sort of thing and
tell me the countries you've worked. Let us know
what you've worked. And then you get into the
random drawing. And I'm going to take a week
this time because it's growing a little bit.
each time we seem to get a little bit more. And
I used to just pick the winners right away. It'd
be like Sunday night. Let's pick them and announce
them on the show. And then I would notice that
results were trickling in during the week. So
this time I'm gonna take a full week after the
activity on the 14th, collect all the entries,
and then we'll pick a winner and put them on
the next week's show. But it would be cool. I
don't have a minimum. But you know some people
just put one station and you could have worked
somebody sitting there parking and barking and
that's fine You could still win a prize but try
to work ten, you know challenge yourself. Give
yourself a goal of Something, you know get a
little bit more than one I think but that's basically
it all the information is on the website 100
watts and a wire com All right. Well, we made
it through the first question and it's time for
a break a first question Yeah, we're through
the first point. No, we got through the first
point. It's already time for a break. You need
a longer show, man. I guess so. I guess so. We're
going to take a break. Yeah, maybe. Well, we'll
see. We're going to take a break. We'll come
back. We'll talk about a couple other things
and then we'll do. Some call -ins tonight. Hopefully
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Oh, Lord. We're going to talk about the net a
little bit and talk about the prizes. Give us
the quick rundown of the Yeah, I got to give
you a quick rundown because in the break y 'all
he told me just say yes or no from now on or
you can't come back You can't come back home.
I said just like that Alright, so we're gonna
give away LDG is a new sponsor of our show. They're
gonna give away I wanted their balance I didn't
even know they were in the ballon and onion type
of game But they're they're gonna give away a
four to one onion and a four to one voltage balance
CQ magazine I just donated three years of digital
subscription uh... for the fallout chameleon
antennas going to give away their uh... cha mcom3
it's a portable antenna which is awesome and
expensive bioeno power twenty amp hour battery
and charger we're also going to give away a foldable
solar panel i'm gonna give those two separate
things i think mfj is going to give away this
big stick it's this antenna like a vertical and
a tripod It's the MFJ2286 and the 1918EX. Radio
Waves, our friend Emmett's going to give away
a 40 -meter double bazooka. Everybody loves a
double bazooka or a coaxial dipole. And PowerFilm
Solar is going to give away a ham radio bundle,
a 30 -watt foldable panel that you can kind of
take in your backpack with you with the Anderson
PowerPole connection. So this is sort of the
biggest prize list. So I'm hoping. And you look
at the prizes and you see, wow, this is very
much a portable, apart from the magazine subscription,
which is actually portable too. You take it on
your computer and read it or whatever. It's a
very portable -based set of gear that you can
win there. I should say also, if you can't, you
don't have a portable station put together. And
I get it, man. We all don't have that kind of...
the money or the time or whatever it is always
put together a second station you can work the
fallout from the comfort of your own shack you
can run any amount of power that you want any
time any band all that do it from inside your
house whatever it's all fine everybody's welcome
okay there you go so the uh... one hundred watts
wire fallout three coming up Soon and let's talk
just a couple of minutes about the net. I know
You've got the net back up in full force and
that's kind of been a thing that's come and gone
with time constraints and that kind of thing
and You had me as a guest on the net a few weeks
ago So so talk a little bit about the net here
and then we're gonna take some calls All right,
on Sunday evening, seven o 'clock central time,
so it's zero hundred UTC, we get on 40 meters.
It's been a 40 meter net. We've had issues in
the past with consistency. So I've kind of, I
push it out there and we'll do it for a while
and it'll run great and then something will come
up and it's like, oh, Thursday's just tough.
And I'm finding that on Sundays we can get second,
third shift operators who didn't get a chance
to check in when we were doing it on Thursday.
They can come. And every once in a while, I'll
invite a guest like Neil and we'll probably have
old Don Wilbank stop by one and we just take
calls. It's a casual net and we can spread the
calls out, get people checked in, encourage people
to get on and test things out. So Sunday night,
7 o 'clock central time on 40, usually 71 .92
ballpark, just to keep it in that. in that area
there so more people can join us there. So it's
fun. We'll be on the air right after the fallout
too. So once the fallout is over, we'll go right
into our net and kind of wrap it up. It's casual.
What we do is we take and put myself usually
here in the middle of America. So you've got
me in the heartland and then we'll have a station
in Maine. We'll have a station in Maine and then
we'll have a station in the Pacific Northwest.
So we're kind of covering the map. the US and
we'll run for 10 or 15 minutes each operator
and then we'll pass it off that way if Propagation
is just you know strange, which it is. We have
a better chance of casting a broader net It's
just crazy. We're in the toilet. Let's be honest.
This is kind of the bottom Have we hit the bottom
yet? I mean, I think we're at the bottom right
or or pretty close Yeah, we've been spinning
around the bowl here for a while, but yeah, I
think we're headed down It's got to be the bottom
But Sunday nights, check out the net. Sometimes
we'll have special guests and change up the format
a little bit. Very casual net. We don't do it
for the numbers, although we do fine with people
checking in. We want to see what's going on,
how people are doing, especially when the floods
went through, trying to make contacts and seeing
what's going on with the people. So that's our
net. Everybody's welcome to join us there, too.
It doesn't have to be 100 watts. If you run it
cool, we'll call for low -power stations, but
you can run 1 ,500 watts. you know it's all fine
everybody's welcome with everything okay there
you go so don't forget about that and it's time
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Live. Now, I said we had a fun call -in idea
tonight. And I've kind of been giving part of
it away. But last night, Christian, You know
some of our colleagues from amateur radio news
line like to get on Facebook messenger and and
and chat it up Yes, indeed. They do they I can't
keep up with that chat and so so last night The
topic was Pick your favorite phonetics for Christians
call sign Oh, no. Well, this could be fun. So
you've heard a couple of these. Most of these
people don't like me, Neil. You know that, right?
Did you read through these? Yeah. I read through
these. I haven't read through the ones that people
can call in with right now at 812 -638 -4261.
812. net ham one. So if you've got some phonetics
for K zero S T H, it's a call sign that just
with that T in the middle, it's just so easy.
I mean, you've used stairway to heaven, you've
used shake the house. Sweeter than honey is my
favorite, especially for the ladies. So there's
all these great phonetics. So Call in, ask a
question about Fallout, or call in with your
phonetics. Squeeze the hamster, Neil. Like, squeeze
the hamster. Like, K -Zero, smell the hamper.
I may have to call an attorney. K -Zero. I need
help. Where's my crew? Sadly taken hostage. Nice.
K zero skiing to hell See I told you these people
these people don't like me over there a zero
salt the ham Salt the ham all these have a lot
of innuendo. I know these people and Yeah K zero
shrapnel that hurts K zero spurious transmission
hero Okay Spurries more word. Oh, there's more
but we want your break Yep, we want yours. So
8 1 2 6 3 8 4 2 6 1 give us a call if you want
to talk about fallout or the 100 watts and wire
net or ask Christian about ballet or Come up
with some fanatics for K zero STH We're taking
calls in our right now We're taking calls right
now We got to get the right now in there, you
know That's your trademark. That's the trademark.
It's the go -to That's a trade little gotta can't
be inside now We got to tell them like when you
are the anchor for amateur radio newsline on
that particular episode When he kicks it off
and he says right now it amateur radio news wine
coming your way right now Right That's it. That's
it. And everybody else is just pales. I thought
about doing like Right now. Yeah. Yeah, that
would work. But you know, it doesn't really because
it just, you know No, that would work You mentioned
ballet. Are you coming around to it? It's probably
my favorite art form. I love music, but I married
a professional ballet dancer and I learned the
history of it. It's like moving sculpture, man.
It's crazy. I need to take you to the ballet.
I admit I'm not into ballet. You're not into
it? I don't know anything about it. I just knew
you were. Okay. Well, I mean, I offered you a
ticket to the ballet. Well, maybe I need to go
then. All right. We've got a call. So let's see,
see who we've got here on the line. And then
we've, we've actually got some tweets too. So
welcome to ham talk live. Who is this? Good evening
guys. It's Don KB two YSI. Hey Don, good to hear
you. Good to hear you guys again. Um, sorry,
I don't have any, uh, phonetics, uh, way too
short notice on that one. I'll spare you. I'll
spare you. The only thing I want to know was,
Christian, have you given thoughts to getting
on the satellites? I saw your tweet at one point
and then you went dark. I did. You know, life
got in the way and I am really interested in
it and I looked up and I actually contacted Aero
and I was curious when Neil said he took his
antenna or he just bought an antenna. which one
he got because i looked at the arrow line and
i didn't know anything about it and you know
so pricing i'm kind of budgeting to see that
you know i kind of need to get the things together
and my ht and make sure i've got everything that
i need i'm really interested in it but I did
pull back only because I wasn't ready to pop
on that antenna quite yet, and I was doing some
more research. So I am interested though, and
I've done an interview with, oh gosh, I forgot
the guy's call sign, and I think he's in Dallas,
Texas, and he worked like all the grid squares,
and it was back in the early days of 100, but
I am interested. Are you out there working him
too? I am, I'm actually... Standing outside right
now. Listen to a or 92 come over Okay Yeah, I've
talked it on on 92 and 91 few times Okay, it's
really fascinating to me I don't understand quite
the technology of it yet, but I'm really interested
in it and you know everybody was going out and
into the parking lots and I think I watched a
demonstration in Xenia, or maybe it was in Dayton,
the last year of Dayton. And it's really impressive.
It is really cool. Soon. Well, I hope I get the
shot. I started just after last, what would it
be, 2017 Dayton. Most fun I've had on ham radio
since I was first licensed back in the late 90s.
Think it's challenging too. You know you got
a you got to be pointing at the sky in the right
way you might have to you know change frequencies
on your Your HT and that kind of stuff so it
is and you got a like a window that you're working
in That you have to catch it. So that's exciting.
I think it is exciting Appreciate that All right.
Well, I hope I hope to catch you on the air at
some point. I'll let you go and hopefully The
tweets will give you some better, uh, phonetics
than, uh, what I can come up with. Yeah. No pressure.
No pressure. Thanks, Don. All right. Don say
hi to everybody on 92 for me. And I'll be on
from echo Mike seven nine this weekend. All right.
Seven three guys. All right. Take care. Don eight
one two six three eight four two six one is the
phone number and Karen, Eve, Murray, Katie to
G U T. Is tweeted in With a question and some
fanatics, so we'll take the question first When
you park and bark what's the one kind of operator
you hope won't answer your call The one that's
saying we got a net starting here in about 25
minutes We've been here since 1968 And I appreciate
it. If you move down just a few cases in about
25 minutes. Okay. Meanwhile, you're going to
Q. So, and they're running 1500 Watts, but probably
that guy. Yeah. I've had that happen with my
kids, especially, uh, especially on 40, they'll,
you know, and they don't know what's going on.
They're just starting out. they're basically
reading from a script trying to learn things
and then all of a sudden that exact conversation
happens and they don't know what to say. They
don't know what to do. It kind of, it jolts you
a little bit because you feel like, you know,
and in the early days you don't know if it's
a rule, it's a law, you know, what is it? Am
I, did I do something wrong? What, how do I answer
this? Do I have the right to be here? You know
what I mean? It's a, it's one of those little
things Our great hobby and service that it could
it could put a lot of people off and it is intimidating
but you know that far out to say 25 minutes from
now we're gonna have a and Yeah, you know what
I'm saying. Yeah We let we let them, you know,
we say okay, you know that they're gonna meet
here. We'll We'll find someplace else. We'll
go, you know up until a few minutes before and
And then we'll hand it over to them and go somewhere
else. But there's that awkward silence of, you
know, trying to explain that. Right. You want
to be a good neighbor. You know, you want to
move aside, be a good friendly person and go,
oh, you know, because I would gladly move. It's
just do you have enough tact to ask? And then
when they do it, I think a person who QRM is
a child or, you know, a student. But most of
the time in our you know this hobby we hear people
love to make the contacts with the kids They're
encouraging we beat each other over the head
sometimes not us, but you know Hams can be rough
on adults, but we all seem to gravitate to supporting
the kids When you hear a kid, and I know your
situation that you had because we talked about
it before They know that they're talking to a
high school kid and the person that's not really
Seasoned and how to deal with a lot of things
and I can imagine you trying to grab the headset
and get get in the chair to to You know send
back a little a little message on their behalf,
but Generally people are very kind to children
and very supportive to the next generation. If
not, you're probably in the wrong Just you're
just wrong, you know All right, so so she says
It's K0, we'll try these on, we've got three
here. K0 snort the holy water. Oh. Does that
work? Yeah, I guess it does. K0 slug the hedgehog.
Uh huh. And K0 submitting to hallucinations.
That's kinda cool. That's cool. Yeah. She's a
weird bird. I like her very much. She's very
talented, but that is one weird lady. Let's see.
What else do we get here last night? And you
know, this was like Paul and Karen and Kevin
last night here. Uh, K zero stinky toe hosiery.
See that's disgusting. That's all I can say about
that. K -0 sounding trumpet horns. Okay. Okay.
Now we have a call from call coming in from beautiful
Bloomington, Indiana, or maybe on his way back
from watching a movie for the second time in
two days. It's Carl KD9HQT. Good evening, Carl.
All right, great I'll actually listen to you
and I just got out here so I Heard Christian's
call. So here's something I came up with It's
on a zero three eight horrible It's okay Carl,
okay. Did you enjoy the movie the second time
around? That must be a good movie to watch it
two days in a row So on behalf of like the thousands
of people listening right now, what are you guys
talking about? What movie is this? Go ahead,
Carl. All right. He ran up to Indy to watch it
in IMAX. Interesting. Okay. I'll write that down.
Well, there we go. Thanks for those phonetics.
All right, Carl. Well, thanks for calling in.
Thanks for the, uh, the fanatics and have a safe
trip the rest of the way back. All right, Neil.
All right. Just to confirm, was the stinky tow
hose thing, was that Paul Brown? That may, that
may have been. It may have been Karen though.
It was one of the two that is just you know,
yeah, that's nasty. That's just nasty Okay, whoever
that was okay, so so so Okay, should we should
we? Like do a contest and give away like an icon
7610 for whoever comes up with the best Well,
I hear that you are now, you know, sponsored
by ICOM. Congratulations, by the way. I think
that's wonderful. Thank you. And if you have
that 7610, I say, let's do it, Neil. Let's give
it away. You were going to buy one to give away,
right? I thought you were going to buy one to
give away tonight. I thought this was a television
show. I dressed up for this. I dressed up. I
shaved. Last it's audio now. I'm giving away
a 7610 Why don't you give away the 7300 you got
that one too, right? Well, that's that's at school.
I can't give away I Thought you were buying with
the prize Right. I'm still buying mine mine's
here, but I'm still buying it Maybe you maybe
you need to listen more and when we talk and
I pour my heart out to you Also asked you for
some money to help me pay for this. Yeah now
You've been on my show three times now right
and How many times have I been on? Zero so we
got we got we got another call here. Let's see
we got here looks like we have John Hey, John
Hey guys Hey, it's John Amadeo, A6JA Studios.
Oh, that John. Hi, John. I'm calling in. I want
to be considered to win that 76 -10. There you
go. I appreciate you have it. Well, you can never
have too many. Man, you got it. This is star
power right here. Are you excited, John? I'm
telling you. Tell them who you are. Tell them,
tell them, Neil. Who is this guy? Oh, I'm just,
I'm just an anonymous ham enjoying my two favorite
ham podcasters on the air at the same time. And
how often does that happen? It is cool. I haven't
heard you for a while. You've been doing okay.
Yeah. Busy. Yeah. It's been just a little bit
busy. I think a little bit busy getting a show
coming out tomorrow. It's a, Oh, coming out tomorrow
night. I could actually, you know, I'm, I'm not
usually allowed to talk about. any of this because
on the radio of course no one's listening no
one's listening no i'm sure there's thousands
and thousands of people listening you know eight
o 'clock tomorrow night on fox seven central
and uh it's coming back it took a long time that's
why i haven't been on the air and i've been underground
for a while trying to rebuild all the things
we destroyed and rebuy all the things we sold
at pennies on the dollar and right We're ready
to do it and it's coming on and thank goodness
because, you know, we have to make money to buy
more ham radio stuff. Exactly. Is it exciting
on the lot right now, John? Oh, it's a buzz.
You know, we've been shooting for a couple of
months. We're finishing our sixth episode on
Tuesday night. And of course, we air our first
episode of the seventh season. So weird to say
seventh season on Friday, tomorrow night. And
we're just, you know, we're just waiting. It's
like we're waiting and watching the ratings.
Because that's really all that matters, I guess,
at this point. Well, I know Neil would love to
have you on his show, I can just say. And you
know you're welcome to come on 100 Watson Wire
anytime. When you're ready. Well, I hope I have
something to talk about. What are you doing up
there on the roof? I know the the propagation
so bad and you got like a tin roof up there You
know, it's be cool to find out what you're doing
that works Yeah, it's killing. Well, it's killed
it. You know, I know you everyone's having the
same trouble. It's not us. It's like we We made
a lot of hams and got them all excited and then
they get on the air and they're like Well, I
don't hear anything except static. We we went
on the air Tuesday and I said on our Facebook
page it was like Listening to bacon frying in
a pan because that's sort of what that's what
it sounds like right now. So We'll probably do
some kind of digital work before long just to
have some contacts but the fans do like to talk
to to us just like you know Christian you have
your net and I know the fans want to talk to
you and You know gets frustrating people can't
get through. So we're trying to resort to whatever
roots we have to get in and say hi and Whether
that's HF, which we of course enjoy so much,
and or if we have to resort to the digital modes,
we'll do whatever we have to do. I know this
whole ham radio community is so excited. I mean,
there's a buzz in the community as well to have
the show back on and I hope Fox treats you well
and that you can run a long, long time. Well,
thank you. I really appreciate that. We hope
to be on for a while to bring good, you know,
family content to television. And a little tiny
bit of ham radio to the world. So hopefully you
guys will tune in. Anyway, I don't want to take
up the rest of your slap, but it's rare that
I hear the two of you on the radio or on the
air at the same time. And I just wanted to say
hi. Let's do a three -way show. How about that?
Oh, yeah. We're glad that you've called in. And
congratulations on getting Last Man Standing
back on the air. KA -6 LMS station back on the
air and even though it may sound like a frying
pan, we're glad you're back. And so congratulations
and thanks for keeping us informed on all of
that. I know you're good about posting everything
on Facebook and we copied over on Twitter and
everything and did some of that tonight. So we
appreciate you keeping us informed and maybe
we can talk to to some of your crew out there
too, that you've got a whole, whole team of hams
out there now. I got a bunch. I, you know, I
lost a few because people had to make a living.
So they did have to move on a bit and I'm trying
to get a few new ones, but I'm, and I'm sure
that we will because there are people interested.
But, uh, you know, you guys are like 20 over
here on, on, uh, on speaker. So I'm really excited
about it. I'm not used to having this kind of
contact anymore. Yeah, fiber optics works amazingly
well. Absolutely. We have to think about that.
But anyway, you know, I don't want to get people
telling me it's not real ham radio, but it's
all about communicating. So I'll let you guys
go back to your thing. Thanks for taking my call.
I appreciate it. And I'll be listening and hopefully
you guys will be watching. Oh, we will. 73, John.
73, John. Thanks for calling. All right. Talk
to you all soon. Bye -bye. All right. Bye -bye.
John Amadeo, NN6JA, the producer of Last Man
Standing coming to Fox tomorrow night, 8, 7 Central.
Check your local listings. It's good just knowing
that he's there. You know, I know this show doesn't
put out so much ham radio stuff, and they give
him a hard time sometimes about that because
it's not all ham radio. It wouldn't work. It
wouldn't work. But having him there actually
makes it so. It's there. It's there. His station's
there, QSL card's on the wall, and it's because
of John. So it's a great thing. He's kind of
getting it there, and it's in Hollywood. It's
great. It is. It's great. And so glad that he
called in, because I was just getting ready to
shut things down for the night. But John, I saw
the name John come up on the screen. Oh, wait
a minute. That's that John. So you thought it
was the John you owe money. I didn't yeah exactly
or maybe it was the Robo collar John, I don't
know but Hey Neil, thanks for this man. I know
we're pushing up on your limits here But thank
you for this and I like your extended version.
You got a little bit more time Yeah, we ran a
little over tonight, but that's all right. We
didn't we didn't go we didn't go too far We're
about 15 minutes over and we can we can deal
with that. I think that I think we had some Entertainment
there. So before we go Yep. Do you have a favorite
out of the phonetics of? What was offered? Yeah
No No, I mean there was a couple interesting
ones, but the one really weirded me out with
the stinky toe hose thing that That's too real
is real and I got a story. I just can't get into
it But maybe maybe on my show next episode I'll
get into it. But yeah, you got to find out who
came up with that one and then Don't be their
friend on Facebook anymore. Tell me and you know,
that's nasty, but it's real. It's really real
and I Like that I like the creativity and I don't
like when we get you know We get busted on the
air when we try to be playful with our phonetics.
Of course, in an emergency, we wouldn't, we would
do the proper phonetics, but you know, let people
have fun when they're on the air. Let them come
up with fun things. Phonetics are fun, just not
during emergencies. Remember that? Right. Exactly.
Exactly. All right, Christian. Well, we're going
to finish things up. So, so, so when am I on
your show? Uh, we'll work it out. I promise we
will work it out. We will have fun. We will do
it. We'll get it figured out. All right. Well,
that is a wrap for this week's edition of HamTalk
Live. Thanks to Christian Kudnick K0 serve the
horseradish and everybody out there in cyberspace
for listening and calling in invite you back
next Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern time for
all of our upcoming guests. You can find those
at HamTalkLive .com So this is Neorapp, WB9VPG,
saying 7375, and may the good DX be yours. you