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Good evening, everyone. It's time for HamTalk
Live. It's episode number 127. 2018 Newsline
Young Ham of the Year Award winner, Brian Terrasco,
KG5HVO, recorded live on Thursday, August 9th,
2018. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks
for tuning in. to another episode of HamTalk
Live. Tonight we're joined by Brian Traskill,
KG5HVO, and Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, and we'll take
your calls live in a few minutes. Last week we
were talking about the Huntsville HamFest, which
we'll be talking about some again tonight with
the... Young Ham Awards taking place, but Mark
Brown in 4BCD, the new chairman, was here to
preview that. So if you missed that, you can
listen anytime at HamTalkLive .com or on the
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or on YouTube. And we do have an announcement
here to make. I got a an email from the staff
at the Great Lakes Ham Con and they sadly had
to cancel this year's event at the Michigan Speedway
in October and they wanted to get the word out
on that so sadly the Great Lakes Ham Con will
not have its second go around. Their website
has refund information. If you already purchased
tickets for that go to the Great Lakes HamCon
website for more information about that. So we're
going to talk Young Ham of the Year tonight and
so maybe you have a question for Bryant, the
winner, or Don coordinating everything from Amateur
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after we talk to Don and Bryant. And we also
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this evening, Bryant Rascal KG5HVO, is a 14 year
old ham that will be the 2018 recipient of the
Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio
Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award next weekend
at Huntsville. Brian is a member of the Montgomery
Alabama amateur radio club and has numerous accomplishments
that we'll be talking about here in just a little
bit. And the pride of Picayune, Mississippi,
Don Wilbanks. Hey, E5DW joins us once again tonight.
You know him from amateur radio news line and
from ham nation. His day job is working at I
heart media in new Orleans, producing commercials
and formerly an on air personality. He's a native
of Shawnee, Oklahoma and first licensed in 1995.
He's now an extra class license holder and an
active volunteer examiners. And he's the most
censored personality on the twit network, even
though usually it's not deserved good evening
Don good evening Bryant some people beg to differ
oh my goodness well we're here to talk about
the young ham of the year award so Don once you
start us off just remind everyone a little of
the history of the award and what it's all about
Okay, well it was the brainchild of Bill Pasternak,
WA6ITF, the late founder of Amateur Radio Newsline.
Newsline started in 76 and in 1986, or 85 actually
I believe it was, Bill had the idea to do something
to try to honor and promote youth in amateur
radio. He was hugely into into kids and education
and anything to further the cause of amateur
radio. So the very first Young Hem of the Year
award was presented to Sean Allen Wakefield WK5P
of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, my home state. That
was in 1986. And we've done it every year since
1986, except for 2014. when we we had just a
very few very few nominees for young ham of the
year award and there really wasn't anything that
set any of them apart so rather than You know
tape these names up to a wall Close your eyes
turn around ten times and throw a dart and say
okay. There's your winner We decided not to do
that because nobody really stood out so there
was no uh... award presented in twenty fourteen
but beginning in nineteen eighty six until uh...
this year uh... again with the exception of twenty
fourteen we have honored a young ham uh... with
the young ham of the year award bill passed away
three years ago we named it in his honor the
bill pasternak w a six i t f memorial young ham
of the year award and since nineteen ninety three
it is had a home at the huntsville ham fest so
this will be the twenty fifth year Newsline and
the young ham of the year at the Huntsville ham
fest and it's just been a great partnership And
and what are we doing for the 25th anniversary?
Do you get a free soft drink with that or there's
a paddle line so Bryant get ready. Oh Wow, okay.
All right You know, it's we haven't really haven't
really planned anything Anything out of the ordinary
we're just gonna it's gonna be business as usual
where we're gonna get up on stage at two o 'clock
in the afternoon and we're gonna tell people
a little bit about Bryant and we're gonna honor
him and present him with some lovely parting
gifts and And send him on his merry little way
to enjoy his year as the young hem of the year
So that's what we're gonna do as as as always
with the exception of 2014 Yeah well Let's talk
about Bryant a little bit. Tell us all the good
stuff here. Now he's been on, he's, for some
reason, both of you keep coming back to the show.
And Bryant's been on here maybe as many times
as you have, Don, because he's doing this and
doing that. And so... Tell everybody about Brian.
He's deserving to be on here. I'm on here just
because you're bored and can't find anybody else.
I've got a page and a half of bullet points of
things that Brian has done. I'm not going to
go through all of them. I'll go through all of
them at the HamFest. I'm not going to go through
all of them here. Just some of the high points.
He's 14. His mother is now a ham as well. KG5TQO.
She got licensed. After the Dayton Hamvention
a couple of years ago. He was first licensed
as a tech in May of 2015 got his general in August
of 2015 and his extra in November of 2015 I've
got 27 to be you got your extra in 2015. Didn't
you Bryant? It was actually in 2017. I finally
2017. Okay. All right. I thought I had a typo.
All right Let's see you learned about ham radio
after joining the Boy Scouts in New Orleans and
they go in for the radio merit badge When he
was 11, a counselor's chat with a station in
the Netherlands during the AWRL DX contest snagged
him. When he was living in New Orleans, he joined
the Jefferson amateur radio club where he did
a contesting field day, CW, special events, public
service, ham fest and conventions, basically
just, just in it to win it. And he did in 2017
where he won the Dave Coulter Youth DX essay
contest. And, uh, got to travel with the team,
the adventure team in August of 17 to Costa Rica,
uh, just did a WRTC and, uh, Wittenberg, uh,
or I guess it's Vittenberg Germany. Yes. Ed will,
will, will correct you if you don't say it right.
We don't want to get on, uh, the bad side of
Mr. Durant DD five LP. So Vittenberg Germany,
uh, let's see, AWRL national contest journal,
uh, identifies him as one of the next generation
of contesters. Pretty famous contact Bryant made
with Tim Duffy during a contest, I think, where
he was using a push to talk handheld microphone
as a CW key. That's kind of cool. It's really
fun to hear Tim tell that story. He copied CW
at 40 to 50 words a minute. I can barely spell
CW myself. But it just goes on and on and on
and on and on and on. American Youth Baseball
Hall of Fame. He's played baseball for eight
years. And I mean, it just goes on and on and
on. He's, he's just, he's an amazing young, young,
uh, radio amateur. Well, he certainly is. And,
um, Bryant out of all this stuff that, that Dawn's
got in front of him there and talked about, is
there any one thing that kind of stands out as
a favorite? Well, first of all, uh, Dawn and
Neil, uh, thank you for the kind words. I really
appreciate it. This award is really about all
of those who have helped me, assisted me, and
mentored me throughout this ham radio journey.
I want to emphasize on this. They have gone out
of their way to provide endless opportunities
for me and many other youth operators. I have
dozens of mentors that I can contact very easily
if I have a problem with anything, whether it
be a computer problem or a radio problem or advice
on different contesting strategies. So it's really
just a reflection on them and the great work
that they've done with me. I have lots of memorable
experiences that I could share with you, but
my most memorable are probably my first HF QSO.
My first HF QSO was with Puerto Rico. It was
with Puerto Rico on 20 meters, and that was at
the Jefferson Amateur Radio Clubhouse on a Thursday
night, and I was just a tech then. I had really
no experience with HF, so that was really, really
cool. As Don mentioned, I got to operate DX from
Costa Rica with the Dave Kalter Memorial Youth
DX Adventure crew, with my friends Chris KD8YVJ
and Austin WA8CCS. That was just a blast operating
from TI5 land. In my first trip to Dayton, I
had the opportunity to attend a dinner with Tim
Duffy K3LR and during the dinner, uh, Tim called
me up onto the stage and introduced me as his
friend. And that really meant a lot to me. And,
uh, it was a very special moment that I will
never forget. All right. Well, lots of cool things,
uh, that you've been able to experience in just
a short time. We're so glad that you've done
all those things and we're thankful to everyone
who's helped him along the way and I've got some
comments here from from some people in your past
to talk about here in a little bit that are cheering
you on for this. And so we're so proud to have
you as the young ham of the year this year. You
just got back though from Wittenberg and WRTC.
So now that you've been through one, what are
your thoughts? Did it live up to what you expected?
Was it more? What what are your thoughts now
that you're back from WRTC? So let me be honest
it was humbling very humbling and it was so thrilling
I've never had so much fun being soundly defeated
in my entire life There you go I've learned so
much from the preparation and the competition
itself than I've ever learned in my three years
of being a licensed ham. The German hospitality
and organization was very, very good, Neil. There
were no problems whatsoever. What really surprised
me was the temperature, though. I being from
the deep south in Alabama and I just moved from
New Orleans, I have become very accustomed to
high humidity levels. So when I was operating
in the contest, it was about 80, maybe upper
80s during the day inside the tent where we were
operating. But during the night the it was so
cold and I had I didn't have the appropriate
of clothing To properly guard against hypothermia.
I'm just joking. It wasn't that bad But yeah,
the temperature caught me off guard there, but
it was so it was just a great experience that
once again I'll never forget Well, I still remember
the the quote that you gave me in one of your
interviews for the National Contest Journal article,
I think it was, it said that if you look up the
word underdog in the dictionary, your picture
was there. And yeah, it's quite the competition,
but the youth teams made a big splash this time.
So, you know, I think you're to be congratulated.
for doing that. I think that's wonderful. You
know, Neil, I want to make a quick observation
here real quick. I've been involved with Young
Ham of the Year since 1995, since I first got
licensed. And one thing about all of these kids
that I think is different from a lot of the youth
of the world who just youth in general, the first
thing you hear out of Bryant's mouth is it's
not I mean my it's I'd like to thank all of those
who helped me get where I am here he puts all
of the praise on on on on his mentors and the
people who have helped him and I think. His humility
is so refreshing in a day and age where you know
this generation is all me me me I mean my I mean
my and I've now I've known Bryant. For three
years ever since right after he got his technician.
I think it was, and just the most humble, appreciative
person. Uh, I think that I know, and, and Bryant,
I hope you never lose that. And I'm, I'm sure
you won't, uh, because it's refreshing and it's,
it's one of the things that make you the special
person that you are. Well, thank you, Don. You're
really sweet. No one's ever said that. No one.
See that that's the first chink in your armor.
You, you clearly have, I'm kidding, but no, it's,
but it's true. It's, it's, it's just the humility
is so refreshing in this day and age. And, and
I know that that's, that's just you and it comes
from your heart. And, uh, I really appreciate
that about you. So just want to let you know.
You know, this, this is a, this is a young person
who in order to, to finances his trip to WRTC
made. Holiday cards with a ham radio theme and
sold them and they were great and they were Very
cool. They were and I still have Like I think
four or five left for next year. So we'll have
to We may have to talk Bryant after the show
Well, there's one other thing we want to talk
about here before we go to break, Brian, and
that is that you have your own forum at Huntsville
this year? Yes, Neil. I'll be in Huntsville sharing
WRTC 2018 through the eyes of a youth contestor.
The forum will be at 10 o 'clock. I forget which
room it is, but it's in the room where all the
contest presentations are. Hope everybody that
is able to attend enjoys the presentation. I
think that's the first forum of the day for Saturday
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm planning on being there.
I'm gonna be there if Unless something happens,
I'm gonna be in your forum because I want to
hear this. Yeah, it is the first one of the day
But there's four going on at the same time so
you'll have to have to get the right room But
yep, it is the first one of the day. So I think
it's Bob Ohio So no pressure, no pressure there.
No pressure on Bob, right? No pressure on Bob.
You know, maybe, maybe, maybe he'll get a couple
of people show up, you know, little, little pressure
on Bob, maybe. Yeah. So well, if you're interested
in that, make sure you get there early at Huntsville.
And I believe that is 10 o 'clock for that forum.
So make sure you get there and check that out.
Well, I'm going to come back here with Bryant
and Don and we'll take your calls and see what
you all have to say here. about the Newsline
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you have to do is call in to win. I do have a
couple of things here. Mark Brown, in for BCD,
the chairman of the Huntsville Hamfest, just
sent me a text and says yes. Bryant's talk does
conflict with with Bob Hiles, but Bryant is in
the Redstone room at 10 a .m. That's in the embassy
suite. So that's where you'll find Bryant's forum
at 10 a .m. and embassy suites on that side of
the sky bridge in the Redstone room. So that
is there and KG5GJT Brian Karcher said, be sure
you tell Bryant that Mrs. Liz and I will be there
to see him and they wanted all the times and
everything. So we'll run that down here in just
a little bit. So Bryant wanted to pass that along
to you and Don, let's talk about the presentation
time and where you need to be and what's going
to happen and if you can't make it, how you can
watch that. Yeah, you can watch it online if
you can't be there in person Tom Medlin streams
the the entire Huntsville Hamfest from the time
he leaves his driveway In Memphis, I believe
is where he lives to the depth almost to where
he pulls back in after the weekend so he will
stream the whole thing and he always streams
the Streams the award presentation live and you'll
be actually able to hear it because I'll be I'll
have his microphone So you'll have stage sound
but we convene at 2 o 'clock Right up on the
main stage where they make all of the announcements
and where you go up and pick up your prizes right
there Right when you walk in yeah the main stage
right there with their bunch of chairs always
set up there right and typically it's right in
front of where the icon booth and Yezu booth
and and everything is there gigaparts is all
right there too in that area, so that's that's
where we do it at two o 'clock and typically
takes about fifteen minutes and we're done so
we don't take up a whole lot of time but uh...
it's it's great because it's a everybody at the
ham fest can hear it and uh... typically have
a really good crowd to come in and watch that
and they're very appreciative and of course we're
very appreciative of uh... huntsville ham fest
for having us and of course w five k u b dot
com for streaming it and that is of course how
you can watch it live if you can't be there in
huntsville alabama Okay. So several people have
been asking, uh, you know, when is it, where,
where do you need to be? And they're like, Oh,
you can't miss it. You'll hear it on the PA system.
And right there, uh, when you walk in, there's
a huge stage there, uh, with, uh, all the chairs
again, like Don said, and, uh, we'll be there
at two o 'clock. Make sure you check that out
if you're at Huntsville next weekend and visit
and congratulate Bryant in person but you can
congratulate him on the phone at 812 -NET -HAM
-1 812 -638 -4261 or you can tweet us too. And
one thing I wanted to talk about too while we're
talking about some Huntsville HamFest stuff is
Bryant, one of your club members is actually
the Alabama Young Ham of the Year, so tell us
a little bit about Warren. Yes, this year's Alabama
Outstanding Youth Ham Award goes to Warren W4RN
of Prattville, Alabama. He has done some outstanding
things in this hobby in the short time he's been
licensed, so I look forward to seeing him in
Huntsville and congratulating him. Yeah, congratulations
to him now so w4r are in Warren Whitby and I
talked to Mark earlier and Mark said That they
told him that the ceremony would be at one o
'clock plus or minus an hour It was whatever
they could get everybody back for lunch So they
were kind of shooting for one, but they might
do it before they might do it after so so somewhere
around one o 'clock be Be around the main stage
there and you'll figure it out. But, uh, I would
just like exact plans there. Yeah, go ahead.
I would just like to add if any of those folks
are listening, if they want to come up on stage
with us and, uh, we can present, uh, the, uh,
the news line young ham of the year to Bryant
and they can present the Alabama. outstanding
youth to their winner up there on stage with
us. We would be more than happy to share the
stage with them and that way they'll get streamed
on W5KUB and right after the presentation we
always take our winner over to talk to Ted Randall
on WTWW Shortwave. The big a hundred, 150 ,000
watt blowtorch. And, uh, you know, we can, we
can bring, uh, their winter over there with us
as well. So if they would like to dovetail with
us and do it all up there with us and get a,
perhaps a little bit larger audience, uh, we
would be more than, than honored to have them
join us up on the stage. So, uh, just wanted
to put that out there officially. Okay. Well,
I know, I know Mark's listening, so maybe he'll
pass that along. Um, so. Yeah, the Alabama Young
Ham of the year is in the same club as Bryant.
And then Marissa W4AQT is going to do a satellite
talk at the youth forum at Dayton next year.
And she's in the same club. So what's going on
down there? Yeah, what's going on down there,
Bryant? Something in the water. We do have some
outstanding youth hands in our club. I think
it's really cool that Marissa and Warren have
done some very, very interesting things in the
time they've been licensed. Both have only been
licensed for I think less than two years. You
know, Marissa's always tearing up those satellites
and Warren is just killing it on FT8. It's really
cool to see. All right late one two six three
eight four two six one is the phone number if
you'd like to Call in and ask a question or congratulate
Bryant here as we're wrapping things up a little
bit but we hope to see you at the Huntsville
hamfest next weekend if you can and again tune
in w5kub .com for the for the stream on that
so Don let's let's talk about Huntsville a little
bit and the venue and everything and I know you
gave a call last week when Mark was on and talked
a little bit about this but talk a little bit
about your experiences at Huntsville. I think
Huntsville is a great ham fest. Huntsville was
probably the first big ham fest I ever went to
in 95 after I got licensed. In fact the The young
ham of the year from nineteen ninety three was
uh... was from new orleans and he had me up on
the repeater one afternoon and said hey have
you ever given any thought to go to the huntsville
alabama ham fest so like uh... no i didn't know
they had one i mean i was a brand new ham you
know what do i know i'm an idiot in the best
of times and i was a brand new idiot back then
so uh... shiny new idiot uh... and he said well
you know i'm looking for someone to You know
so I can hitch a ride you know they do the young
ham of the year for news line there and and I'm
like you know what yeah yeah let's go he said
great you know I'll split gas and hotel I said
cool let's go so 1995 was when I first went to
the Huntsville ham fest and I have gone every
year with the exception of the aforementioned
2014 when we did not present an award so it is
the highlight of my year I mean I've been going
to Dayton since 99 almost every year Except for
the last few we've kind of gotten on a and every
other year irregular schedule, but I did Dayton
every year for a long time and I Seriously as
much as I love Dayton I Really really I think
I love Huntsville more the great thing about
Huntsville is the venue. It's the von Braun Center,
which is right downtown The flea market is huge
for one thing. I mean, it's not Dayton huge It's
not 10 acres huge, but it's a large flea market
and the vendors and Manufacturers are all under
the same roof with the flea market. It's all
indoors in the same large hall Which means it's
all air -conditioned and if you've ever been
in North, Alabama for the third weekend in August
You will appreciate that fact above all else.
The fact that it is air -conditioned and another
great thing is the host hotel is the embassy
suites and it is connected to the Von Braun Center
via a sky bridge, which is also air -conditioned.
So if you can drive in, you can park your car,
go inside to your hotel room. They have great
restaurants in the embassy. You can get up walk
across that sky bridge Oh, there's a Starbucks
in there too, which is vitally important. It's
right there by the elevators Grab your Starbucks
to go right across the sky bridge and into the
ham fest spend the whole day in the ham fest
Go back and forth between that if you buy something
big you can go back to the hotel Drop it off
in your room. And again, you never have to go
outside until you get in your car to go back
home. If that is what you want to do. So it's,
it's a, it's a great location. It's a great venue.
Um, and it's just, it's probably one of the,
one of the better venues of any ham fest that
I've ever been to. I totally second that it's,
it's just so easy to. Run the stuff back to your
hotel room and lock it up and come back and go
go shop some more and and we've got somebody
else here on the on the line That has been on
here before that wants to chime in Austin. Good
evening Hi, good evening. Hey Austin good to
hear from you. Hello here from you, too Yeah,
what do you have for us tonight Austin? I just
wanted to congratulate Brian and see if he still
remembers me I Think about a trip to Costa Rica
every day, you know, thank you for the kind words.
I appreciate it. Yeah Austin are you coming to
Huntsville this year? Sadly, I cannot make the
Huntsville this year, but hopefully next year
I'll be able to go man, you know cuz Chris is
gonna be there and I was hoping we get the band
back together Yeah, Austin and Chris and Bryant
were going around with the video camera Yeah
They were having a little time. We had the three
of them on we had the three of them on ham nation
They're right after the Costa Rica trip. That
was that was a good. That was a good night Yeah,
it was it was All right. Let me make sure I get
your call. Right. Do you eight CCS? Yep, that's
correct. Okay. I remembered it. Wow. Okay Well,
thank you Austin for calling in appreciate it
and good to hear you and and I guess I'll see
you at Dayton But hopefully we'll we'll see you
in Huntsville before long Yep, definitely Thanks
for calling in on Austin. Good to hear your voice
again. Yeah, no problem. You guys too. Take care.
Yeah, thanks for calling Austin a 1 2 6 3 8 4
2 6 1 is the phone number and we do have a A
tweet here from Patrick Moyer, W3RGA, says, congratulations,
Bryant, and great job in Germany, and wants to
know what your goals are for the upcoming contest
season. Well, thank you for the tweet, Patrick,
and thank you for the kind words. I have many
goals for this upcoming contest season. The first
goal in my mind is I need to get some good antennas
on my small lot here. Last weekend in the North
American QSO party, I missed out on a few multipliers
on 160 meters. So I definitely don't want to
miss out on those multipliers again. So I'm definitely
going to get a 160 meter antenna up in the air.
Another goal of mine is to improve my SO2R single
op two radio skills. So I can be maybe not as
proficient, but be somewhat similar to M6MJ and
KL9A who are always winning the competitions
out there. So I hope that answers your question,
Patrick. Hey, regarding one 60 Bryant, Emmett,
Ho and C W zero Q H who owns radio waves antennas.
He's a, one of our corporate sponsors and he'll
be up on stage with us at Huntsville. Talk to
him about one 60. He's got some really nice shortened
one 60 wire antennas that I think you'll enjoy.
I'll have to look into that. Cause that sounds
like a pretty good option for my situation right
now. Yeah. Bend his ear. He'll be able to point
you in the right direction. Yep. Absolutely.
That's a very good comment and Carl KD9HQT writes
in and says congratulations to Bryant so thank
you for listening Carl and thank you for the
comments there and yeah Don why don't you talk
a little bit about the sponsors and some of the
goodies. Yeah it's something that you know we
couldn't do this without them we have CQ public
Publicing a publishing which of course is a CQ
magazine rich Moses and w2v you who is the editor
of CQ? He's also one of the judges On the judging
committee for young him of the year. We have
Yezu USA John and crack in nine UPC I believe
will be up on stage with a gift for for Bryant
Bob Hile k9e ID of Hile sound this will be a
day of a Huntsville year for him. He will be
Upon a stage with this as well as well as Emmett
from radio waves and all will have some really
nice gifts For our young him. I don't want to
I don't want to you know pop the balloon just
quite yet this should be a little bit of anticipation
here, but it's Just what a just what a growing
DXer needs I do believe so anyway lots of thanks
to CQ and Yezu CQ's been there from day one from
back in 86 when it all started and Yezu just
a few years after that and Bob has been with
us for a long time and Emmett probably for the
last five or six years I believe. Some great
corporate sponsors and we certainly appreciate
everything that they do for us. 812 -638 -4261
is the phone number. We're just about out of
time. So this is your last chance to call in
if you'd like to chime in on the Newsline Young
Ham of the Year award going to Bryant Rascal
KG5HVO and we'll be packing up and getting ready
to to go to Huntsville for the big celebration
and hope you can make it there or at least watch
online if you if you can't make it down there.
So Bryant any any final words here before we
go? I just like to again thank my mentors for
all their guidance throughout my ham radio journey
and again I thank you for having me on Neil in
it. It's good to hear you again, Don, and I can't
wait to see you all in Huntsville. Don? Yeah,
I second that as well. You're a very gracious
young man, a very humble young man, and I appreciate
that. You are exactly the type of person that
this award was created for, and Bill Pasternak
would be— Extremely pleased with the choice this
year, which was a unanimous choice, which happens
so rarely, so rarely that we have a unanimous
choice for Young Ham of the Year. But this year,
it's you, Brian, KG5HVO. So congratulations and
look forward to spending some good quality time
with you in front of a whole bunch of people.
Sounds good. We'll see you there. Absolutely.
All right. And don't forget the youth lounge,
the youth lounge down at Huntsville is fabulous.
And we'll all be kind of diving in and out of
that. They've made some improvements added some
new things to that this year from what I understand.
So yeah, definitely check out the youth lounge.
Yep. Absolutely. All right. Well, we're going
to finish things up here, but, uh, Brian, congratulations
again. Look forward to seeing you, uh, next week
and Dawn, uh, I look forward to. To seeing you
and your new shirt next week. Yes. The I am Will
Banks shirt. Yes, I am. Will banks. So I'll have
it on at some point. All right. Sounds good.
Well, it's time for the call of the day. Today's
winner will get a canvas tote bag courtesy of
Hile sound. And that will go to. WA8CCS of course,
so thank you for calling in Austin. We'll get
that to you. Well, that is a wrap for this week's
edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to Bryant, KG5HVO
and DonAE5DW and everybody out there in cyberspace
for listening and calling in and invite you back
next Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern time.
Val, NV9L will be here and we're going to talk
about logging. some requests from some listeners
to talk about some of the logging options that
are out there. So we're going to talk to her
about logging and you can find out. all of our
upcoming guests over at HamTalkLive .com. Just
click on the show schedule link. Also coming
up on Sunday night, I'm going to be a guest on
the 100 Watts and a Wire Sunday Night Net. So
join us if you can that Sunday night at 8 Eastern,
7 Central. Check your local listings. but i'll
check the 100 watts to wire facebook group for
the frequency but i'm imagine we'll be on the
general class phone portion of 40 somewhere so
tune into that and jump into the net there sunday
night with christian and the gang and if you
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Thanks for watching!