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everyone. It's HamTalk Live. It's episode number
125, Vacationing in Florida with Dears, recorded
live on Thursday, July 26, 2018. I'm your host,
Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to another
episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight, we're joined
by Sean Wall, KV4WV, and Andy Malusi, KK4WV.
or LWR and he's becoming a regular on the show
here. We've had him on for a couple of things
and it's going to be on again here before long
but I'm actually sitting here with them live
tonight from Disney World so we'll talk about
that here in just a little bit. And last week
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guests are Sean Walke. KV4WV. He's the president
of the Disney Emergency Amateur Radio Service,
or DEERS as it's better known. He's an employee
here at Disney World. He works in IT. He's been
here for three years in web development and been
a ham for four years. And he's been kind enough
to join us tonight. And our good friend Andy
Malusi, KK4LWR, is the past president of the
Gator Amateur Radio Club at the University of
Florida in Gainesville. He's currently a systems
engineer for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts here
in Florida. And Andy's a key leader in the ARRL
Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative, a group
that's been formed to share ideas and promote
and rejuvenate amateur radio clubs and colleges.
in universities in North America. And he's been
with us before and we'll be talking about a new
Collegiate QSO party coming up here soon. But
Sean and Andy, thanks for coming on tonight.
Yeah, thanks a lot, Neil. Thanks for having us.
Yeah, thanks, Neil. Thanks for letting us join
you tonight. Yeah, so I'm on vacation and so
I didn't say anything about being on vacation
and I had planned on a show and didn't get any
confirmation of everything and so I was literally
on the drive. And all of a sudden I'm like, okay,
we got to come up with a backup plan. So I get
on Facebook Messenger and say, Andy, hey, if
I can work this out, can we do a show on deers
on Thursday night? And he's like, oh yeah, we
can do that. So they were kind enough to come
out here to the ham shack, which is actually
behind one of the fire stations here at Walt
Disney World Resort and open up the shack and
get on the air a little bit beforehand. and allow
me to come in and host the show and talk a little
bit about it. So we're talking a little bit about
vacations and what you can do with ham radio
on vacations and on the drive down here I was
making satellite contacts on AO 91 and 92 and
did some of that and I'd hoped to do that. from
the hotel room, but I've been running around
everywhere and haven't had a chance. So here
at the WD -4WDW ham shack, we've got some rigs
set up here. We've got a nice hex beam up here
that I've seen. So Sean, why don't you tell us
about Deers and its role here at Disney World?
Okay, yeah, sure thing. So basically, Neil, we,
the Disney group Deers has been around since
1996. A ham by the name of Randy Hansen, whiskey
for Alpha Tango Foxtrot. And at that time, six
other members got together and they created Deers
here at the Walt Disney World Resort. This was
actually after the Deers group was founded in
the Los Angeles area at the Disney offices there
in California, they started in 1990. So the Deers
Group here in Walt Disney World, they had their
first field day in June, and they operated a
special event station in the Magic Kingdom during
the 25th anniversary there. What happened was
that we had a very good relationship with the
Disney security folks. and that we were added
to the company's emergency operating plan as
a resource of last resort. They were able to
provide us with some facilities, with some funds
for equipment, and that relationship actually
still exists to this day. Our original equipment
was set up over by the solid waste management
building. It has been moved around quite a bit
since then. Our first repeater antenna was moved
from that to actually the top of the contemporary
hotel near the Magic Kingdom, which of course
gave us much better coverage from up there. Unfortunately,
the management at the hotel did not like the
looks of our equipment up there, so we actually
ended up replacing the equipment, the antenna,
with a better -looking antenna, and it stayed
up there for quite a while. In 1999, we were
given an operating position within the Emergency
Operating Center here at Disney, and we had equipment
set up there at the EOC. One of the things that
the club participated in was during the white
UK Event we had about 20 volunteers stationed
around the property with HT's And we were just
there to make sure if anything did actually happen
not that we were thinking anything was going
to happen But if it did we had ham stationed
around the property to be able to report it back
in to the EOC We What happened was later that
year, in fact in 2000, as often happens in these
industries, we had a large company turnover and
the gentleman in the Disney security, he left
the company and at that point we did not have
anyone in the security organization who was sort
of our backer. Due to that fact, we stopped doing
kind of like on property events so much, just
because we didn't have the upper management support.
These days we do a lot of the community events.
We participate and provide communications for
bike rides, for the cancer walk every year here,
events like that. We would like to get back to
do more on property events. We'd love to run
a special event station during certain Disney
events. We're working on that. So hopefully in
the not too near future. you will be able to
hear us broadcasting from actually inside one
of the parks. That's something that we really
want to do. The only other thing I wanted to
say was that, so these days our equipment is
no longer at the contemporary. So if you try
to look up there on the roof, you're not going
to see any antennas. We now have our main repeater
is on top of a 300 foot tower. over at one of
our distribution centers, which is just north
of the Magic Kingdom. So if you do come here,
you'll get pretty good coverage over most of
the properties here. Maybe some of the outlying
ones, like Animal Kingdom, you may not get a
great signal, but you should be able to get reach
the repeater for pretty much anywhere in the
Walt Disney World Resort. So, and as of today,
we have about a hundred, a little over a hundred
members in Deers. We're always looking to expand
and Yeah, so I guess that's a little rundown
of who we are and what we're doing these days.
You mentioned some of the antennas and things
that are up and the repeaters, and you've actually
got several repeaters, some on two meters, some
on 440, some are linked. into where people can
actually access those from wherever uh... but
then they can also access these as as you said
right here on uh... on disney world property
so why don't you run down uh... the repeaters
and tones and and the capabilities of those uh...
for us so that way we've we've got uh... an idea
of of what's uh... available to you people who
are visiting here Yeah, sure. No problem. So
we basically operate three primary repeaters
here on property. We have our analog repeater,
which is on 147 .3 megahertz with PL tone of
103 .5. That's our main analog FM. We also operate
a D star repeater on 444 megahertz with a PL
again with PL tone of 103 .5. And we also operate
a DMR Repeater here, which is at 442 I believe
oh 444 even okay, sorry Plus five yes, so that's
our DMR repeater. That's our most recent installation
here in fact And so those are the three that
we primarily operate here. I believe we do have
another repeater out by Animal Kingdom, and I
think it's slaved to the main analog repeater
to help expand coverage out. I don't remember
the frequency off the top of my head, but if
you look in one of the repeater guides, you should
be able to see it there. In addition to that,
our analog repeater is also linked to the ABC
affiliate up in New York. club there is called
Bears. That's the broadcasters emergency amateur
radio service. They're kind of our sister club.
And so if you tune into our repeater, the 147
three machine here in Orlando, you could very
well be hearing people up in the New York City,
Long Island area checking in. And that's due
to this, what we call the diary network or Disney
amateur radio interconnect. So and also finally,
our FM repeater is also on echo link. I'm not
sure I don't remember the 632 -802, that's the
node number. So if you want to check in on there,
you're welcome to do so. Our repeaters are open
to the public. They're open to guests of the
parks. So yeah, the equipment's there and we
encourage people to use it. Okay, now another
thing that we talked about is, you know, people
can get in here on EchoLink or... with some of
the technology on the repeaters but you have
this HF station over here and Andy was just on
a little bit ago so you can you can get on here
and talk to them and get a QSL card so Andy why
don't you you tell us a little bit about the
HF setup here and then if somebody wants to come
visit the station now we kind of did this all
you know ahead of time so I don't know if you're
always prepared for visitors or not so tell people
about if you're able to you know visit the station
would it be possible to do that if so you know
how would they how would they go about doing
that or is that just not really feasible right
now So I guess we'll first talk about the station
itself, and then I'll answer those questions.
So we have a hex beam here up at about 80 or
so feet above our shack. We're behind a fire
station. I believe it's number four, Ritty Creek
Fire Station number four, which is located by
Disney Springs. So if you hop on Google Earth,
you can actually see the fire station quite clearly.
We're one of the little buildings behind it.
And we're running here just to Kenwood TS570D
into our hex beam. So just 100 watts barefoot.
We got road. on it our hex beam will do you know
10 through 80 meters so it's quite quite nice
for us to work here. As far as coming over to
the station we haven't had many visitors but
we have had a few guests join us on field day
we had a few guests come over who are just staying
on property and knew that you know the club existed
and they wandered over because we did publish
it on our website so usually that's the best
way to come visit our station but you can totally
come and visit our club meetings though we do
the second Wednesday of every month and currently
it's at the All -Star Cast Resources building,
but that may change and that may move around
property as availability works. But that gets
posted on our website, wd4wdw .org, and that's
a great place to go. And we have guests from
all over the world come and join us at our meetings,
which is really quite fantastic to get to say
hi to people and hear all sorts of different
amateur radio experiences in one location. It's
great for me, so I don't have to travel all over
to get those stories. So yeah, so that's the
best way for guests to get involved, and obviously
making contacts with us when we're on the air.
I will probably be operating here more and more
and more as my schedule permits. I know I'll
be doing the QSO party from here that we mentioned
earlier. So we'll definitely be on the air. But
it's a quite nice station. It's kind of underutilized,
but that's changing pretty quickly though. We're
getting a pretty good active group of hams here.
Very good, Andy. And you mentioned the website
there. We wanted to make sure that we give that
out so that way you could find all the... repeater
frequencies and PL tones and all that kind of
thing. And Sean's got something else here to
throw in on that. Yeah, I just wanted to add
to what Andy mentioned. In addition to our monthly
meetings, we also hold a monthly net, which is
going to be the fourth Wednesday of each month.
And that's on our analog FM, the 147 .3 machine.
If you're not in the Orlando area, again, you
can join us via Echolink. And we welcome everyone
to come and join us on our monthly net. We call
it the FunNet. We have one of our club members,
Bruce Keller, K4BAK. He's our net master and
he's a great guy, lots of fun. So yeah, just
wanted to mention that as well. All right, very
good. And we'll mention that if you heard some
pops in the background a little bit ago. That
was actually the fireworks going off at the parks.
We heard some pops here and Andy slipped me a
note and said, hey, that's the fireworks going
off at the parks because it was getting about
closing time for a few of those. If you heard
that, that's what it was. We're really right
here in the middle of everything at Walt Disney
World. Well, there's several other things, of
course, that you can do with ham radio here in
Florida. I know Val in V9L has done some things
on Ham Nation and mentioned them again on this
show about cruise ships and which cruise ships
you can operate on and which ones don't allow
it and then some of them you have to check and
you know so always make sure you check that out
before you go because you may not be able to
operate but last week here on the show we were
talking about NASA on the air and uh... kevin's
area uh... over at the kindy space center uh...
was not on the show to answer the question and
somebody asked hey can i go to the ham shack
and can the space center i was down there visiting
can i get in there to see that well i have the
answer and and the short answer is no you can't
The ham shack is actually in one of the lab buildings.
Kevin was telling me it's actually one of the
very first buildings that was put up there when
they built the space center. And you have to
have NASA credentials to get in there. So unless
you have NASA credentials... you're not going
to be able to visit you can go down you know
to the visitor center and all that kind of thing
but the ham station isn't there it's behind the
gate and so you'll have to get credentials in
order to do that and that's just not ordinarily
possible i won't say that it's Totally impossible
because I did it and so now I'll probably get
in trouble because well I You know that neo -rap
guy he got to go. Why can't I why can't I go
well? We had some some technical meetings on
on a few things for the station there and so
we were able to work that out but it wasn't easy
even though we had some things to discuss and
put together for the shack there but I was grateful
that Kevin was able to arrange a meeting with
a couple of other club members while I was there
and get on and work a pile up for a little bit
and have some fun with it here while I'm on vacation.
So unfortunately, at Kennedy Space Center at
least, the answer is no, you can't. And I thought
we'd throw that out there. Kevin's done a great
job with the station over there and those guys,
they've put together a real nice facility and
they are on the air quite a bit and I know they're
getting ready to upgrade some of their satellite
stuff. That was some of the stuff we were talking
about, upgrading some of their satellite capabilities.
maybe trying to do some telebridge stuff at some
point. So we'll see how that progresses, but
they've got a nice setup and I want to thank
them for hosting me for an hour or two the other
day. And yeah, sorry, but. But not everybody's
going to get to do that. Well, we're going to
take a break. And when I come back, we'll take
your questions and your calls with Sean and Andy
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hearing from some of you. Now, Andy, I had something
that I wanted to ask, too. Again, we're talking
about vacationing in Florida and operating some
radio while you're here. That salt water on the
beaches is great for doing some operating. And
you've got a lot of flat land and low elevation.
How do you notice the propagation being different
here than it was up in Ohio and Indiana where
you're from and where you've been going to school?
How do you notice it being better down here for
people who are trying to operate on the beach
or from their hotel or wherever? So saltwater
makes a great ground plane. So I mean, that's
always helpful. And the fact that Florida is
the flattest state in the union means that you
can pretty much stick a relatively low tower
up there and work some pretty impressive DX.
You know, when I was up at a UF, it was really
nice because we were on top of a building and
we were like the tallest object for miles. And
even though here we're only at 80 feet, we're
above the trees by and large and there's not
much tall around us. There's not much shade.
You know, there's the skyscrapers of Orlando,
but that's about it. So we get a really nice
low takeoff angle. Actually, you can hear some
fireworks in the background there. It's Epcot
going right now. But yeah, I mean, it's really
quite nice to be able to sit down here and, you
know, pretty much work wherever without requiring
a ridiculously tall tower and a beam. I've had
success myself, just working, you know, from
a... from a ham stick on top of my car, or a
small vertical thrown up into a tree while I'm
hiking. So it's really quite different. At my
parents' house up in Ohio, my brother and I put
in an antenna there, and there's definitely some
dead spots, and it's not quite as strong. It's
a vertical, so not the best antenna, but not
quite the same as down here. That's a lot of
fun being able to be down here and just sort
of throw up. We don't have as many trees down
here, which kind of makes it harder, but if you
can figure out a way to get it up in the air,
you got a pretty good signal going out. Well,
that's some cool stuff and I've seen some...
some tripods for beaches, you know, you can put
the flat tripods down and try to get use of some
of that salt water. I haven't tried that one
yet, but maybe we'll do that. Well, speaking
of unexpected things, like fireworks going off
in the middle of the show, when we got here,
Sean, we had a little surprise out here in the...
in the parking lot and and and yes it's it happens
in Florida a lot but it happened right under
the Deere's communication vehicle so tell us
what happened yeah welcome to Florida yeah so
when I arrived here at the shack before the show
as I pulled up I noticed that the front of our
van was lower than the rear and I'm pretty sure
that we didn't like put a lift kit in the van.
So I walked around the van and found out that
the front of our Ecom van was sunk down into
a sinkhole about probably about six feet from
the door of the shack. Not sure they do sometimes
just pop up here especially with the heavy rains
that we get and Yeah, so that was a bit of a
surprise, as Andy mentioned, a uniquely Florida
surprise here. So yeah, that was that was an
interesting little thing. Like, well, we're just
going to have to get this towed out. I briefly
considered trying to drive it out. And then I
realized that the chassis was actually laying
on the ground in the front. And I knew that wasn't
going to happen. So, oh, well, it happens. Oh,
boy. Well, yeah, that was that was something
we just saw this big hole right underneath. the
bumper laying up on the railroad tie for the
parking marker. I hope things get worked out
there. We may talk about the van here in just
a little bit. Carl, KD9HQT, does have a question
though. He wants to know if there was any involvement
with the ham station or the repeaters with weather
and especially hurricane Irma if there is any
connection and assistance provided by you all.
So hurricanes are also another sort of, I wouldn't
say uniquely Florida, but definitely a Floridian
thing. And fortunately we're built with standom.
So the Walt Disney World Resort never actually
lost power during Irma. We did batten down the
hatches. We closed the parks, which is a big
deal to shut down our parks for safety, of course.
But we hadn't done that in about 10 years prior.
It was a big deal. But we did not actually need
to activate or do anything for that. I know I
lost power for 38 hours. about 10 miles south
of Disney property. And I lost power for 38 hours,
but I actually had my portable rig that I take
when I go hiking. So I just got out my solar
panel and my deep cycle battery and I was back
on the air. But in addition to, you know, the
regular sort of IT infrastructure that you would
expect on the Disney property, Disney also runs
a very expansive DMR network for radio communication.
And that's all on, you know, emergency power
as well. Sean said before amateur radio is recognized
as a last resort, you know, emergency communication
on resort property and there are significant.
There's a significant list of items that need
to happen before they get to us. Disney tries
to make sure that, you know, regardless of when
you come down to the property, to any Disney
property, that safety is not something a guest
needs to worry about. We worry about that for
you from taking care of our attractions to your
safety due to weather here on property. So, you
know, fortunately in this case, you know, we
had to close some parks, the monorails didn't
run, the buses didn't run, but guests were safe
in their resorts and, you know, communications
never went down and no one was ever in any trouble.
Okay, now you said the word monorail So Andy
you've got this this great idea for how to get
ham radio inside of Disney World But let the
world know Yeah, so you are totally allowed to
bring your HTs to the park and use them. We've
actually worked with security to make sure that
they know what an amateur radio HT looks like.
And that means that you can do something uniquely
Disney. You can be monorail mobile and check
into our repeater. One of the few places in the
world that has a relatively expensive monorail
system. And if you decide to, you know, power
up your HT while in the cars of the monorail
trains, you can totally hit the repeater and
you can operate monorail mobile, which is I think
probably the coolest thing I've ever done here
on property. There's a lot of really, you know,
nifty experiences begin to do that. And when
someone, you know, hears you say, oh, you're
call sign stroke monorail mobile, they go, huh?
And it's a nice little way to say, yeah, I'm
at Disney World. Yeah. And just to add onto what
Andy was mentioning about bringing HTs into the
parks. Yeah. So we actually, we get asked that
a lot, honestly. And And as Andy said, yes, you
can bring an HT into the park. As he said, we
have recently provided Disney Security with photos
and descriptions of what they are and about our
repeaters. So Disney Security should be well
versed in what the equipment is. A couple of
guidelines. We do recommend that you bring probably
a copy of your license would not be a bad idea.
Also, security has also asked us to mention that
if you bring it please use a short antenna like
they want us to use a rubber duck I know I've
got a better higher gain you know longer antenna
on my HD but for some reason I'm sure they have
good reasons they actually prefer us to tell
people to bring these short rubber antennas when
you come to the park and you should be able to
get in All right, very good. I had the Baofeng
button on standby here in case he said you could
you could bring your Baofeng but we didn't hit
the button here, but Sean, one other thing that
I thought of as I was listening to the repeater
a little bit driving around today is can we get
a repeater ID with Mickey Mouse on it? Can we
do that? Oh man, wouldn't that be great? That's
an excellent idea. We'll have to talk to Mickey.
I don't know if you've ever actually, if you've
ever actually been asked to do that for us. We
do have our QSL card. pretty uniquely Disney.
We're fortunate that as dear as as an officially
sanctioned Disney club, we do have access to
Disney, you know, properties, pictures and things
like that. So, but yeah, it would be awesome
if we could get Mickey to do our one of our announcements
here. Thanks a lot. We'll have to ask them. So
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tonight we're just hanging out in the ham shack
and We'd love to hear from you or tweet us at
ham talk live so Something we were talking about
before the show Is you know? How many Mickey
Mickey Mouses Mickey mice Mickey Mises How many
Mickey's are there in the park one? There's only
one Mickey Mouse. There's only one so Yeah, he's
a very busy guy and we got a and we got to get
him to to record an ID for you So that would
be great 812 -638 -4261 is the phone number.
We're just a few minutes away from the end of
the show, but we'd love to hear from you. If
you have something to ask or a comment here,
give us a call 812 -638 -4261 or you can send
in a tweet or comment here on Spreaker. We were
on the air a little bit on 20 meters before the
show and a lot of interesting uh... disney stories
but everybody was uh... was one uh... qsl card
and uh... and we're excited to to hear the the
uh... park uh... and uh... just just had a an
idea here you know we've got the wal -mart parking
lots on the air and we've got the pubs on the
air and the NASA on the air and mines on the
air and we're going to be doing craters on the
air soon and some stuff. What about Disney parks?
Do you think there's any possibility of getting
Disneyland and Tokyo and Euro and maybe do a
special event? So I think Depoda should totally
be a thing, but there's a few hurdles to get
through. The other one I've also thought is Florida
has no summits on the air, if you're familiar
with that, but we do have a few mountains here
at Walt Disney World, so maybe we can get Space
Mountain recognized or Big Thunder Mountain or
Expedition Everest recognized as mountains and
have summits and see if we can make that happen
too. It's one of those things where Disney is
a big company and obviously providing an excellent
guest experience. comes first, so something like
that. While it'd be fun, it definitely takes
a little bit more planning to make sure that
we don't impact operations, and that we do it
in a very, very safe way. At Disney, we're taught
that we have four keys, and the first key is
always safety. So doing either a parks on the
air or something like that, we need to make sure
that whatever setup we do would need to be structurally
sound and safe, not just for us, but for our
guests as well that join us in the parks. So
while that is a great idea, there's quite a bit
of planning, and I would love to make it happen.
a fair bit with my job but uh so i mean i can
totally do with my ht but um yeah we'll see if
we can make that happen a little long term i
know we have operated in the parks before um
i think sean can go into that a little more yeah
so uh yeah as i mentioned earlier during some
of the club's history um we did in fact operate
from magic kingdom during the 25th anniversary
there um And I can tell you that doing events,
especially events from the parks, is definitely
on our to do list. As Andy mentioned, there's
quite a few hoops we have to go through. And
but yeah, it's definitely definitely high on
our we really want to do this list to get kind
of get back into that. So hopefully, yeah, in
the not too distant future, we'll be able to
operate from one of the parks here. Now I had
another question for you and I'm gonna ask Shawn
since he's been around a little bit longer There
there were some rumors going around about antennas
on Space Mountain or was the repeater ever Located
there at one point not that I'm aware of Antennas
and Space Mountain, you know I can't say that
I can't say for a certainty that that hasn't
been the case. But as far as I know, the only
antennas that we've had actually physically in
the parks have been on the contemporary resort
where we had our repeater. And then but as of
now, they're not they're actually over at our
one of our distribution centers on top of the
300 foot tower. But yeah, no, I had not heard
that before. But, you know, I don't know. I mean,
there's all sorts of stuff going on here that,
you know, Disney's a big... Well, Disney World's
a big resort. Lots of people here. Could be some
sort of secret Mickey experiment going on that
I don't know about. So, we'll have to see. Well,
there are several antennas up there, I will say
that. N1TYH says good info regarding bringing
the HT to Disney. So, thanks for that and thanks,
Stephen, for listening. tweeting into us tonight.
Well we're going to finish up here shortly but
I want to thank you all for having me in here
and it's been been a good experience and glad
to show off some of the things that you all are
working hard on here at Disney World and look
forward to maybe being back here before too long.
was a challenge to get away from the classroom
for for long enough but uh... enjoy getting down
here and uh... and so want to say thank you for
that and uh... andy will be uh... will be talking
to you about the uh... collegiate queso party
coming up soon so any final comments Say thanks
for coming down, Neil. It's unusual for us to
talk this much in a year, you know, in person.
Like we usually see each other at Dayton. That's
about it. So it's nice to see an extra time and
get to come down here. And yeah, I'm looking
forward to us chatting in about a month for the
collegiate QSO party. It's probably the first
time it's really been even mentioned outside
of the Facebook group. So watch your national
contest journals and your QSTs coming out here
in September for more details on that with rules
and all that. And we actually have some stuff
posted on the gatoradio .org website. UF is hosting
some of those details and that'll be out in those
issues as well. And I will be operating that
contest right here from Dears. So I will be on
the air as Disney World, getting to talk to some
of my favorite schools and hopefully my alma
mater's and making some contacts. So looking
forward to that and always looking forward to
getting on the radio. There seems to be always
a good excuse to get over here. So have some
fun. So thanks again, Neil. All right, thanks
Andy and yeah, we'll we'll be looking for that
and you you got my plug in there for the National
Contest Journal And he's gonna be the guest author
of the article on that coming up in the September
issue So make sure you you check that out and
Sean saying for you any any final words before
we go? Yeah, just a second what Andy said I wanted
to thank you, Neil, for having us on your show.
It was great having you here. It's been a lot
of fun. And just to remind folks, again, if you
go to our website, wd4wdw .org, we post about
our monthly meeting. So if you're going to be
here at the resort around the second Wednesday
of the month, you are more than welcome to attend
our monthly meeting. They're typically held at
6 p .m. at the All -Star Resort area. And again,
our monthly nets are the fourth Wednesday of
every month at 7 p .m. And that's going to be
on our 147 .3 machine and also on EchoLink. So
if you care to join in, we more than welcome
you for that, too. All right. Very good. Well,
it's time for the call of the day. And today's
winner will receive an autographed Heil Ham Radio
Handbook second edition courtesy of Heil Sound.
And that goes to Carl KD9HQT. So Carl, we'll
get that handbook off to you and thanks for chiming
in on the show tonight and we hope that others
will do the same. But that is a wrap for this
week's HamTalk Live. Thanks to Sean and Andy
for being here from Dears. and everybody out
there in cyberspace for uh... chiming in online
tonight and uh... will invite you back next thursday
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