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Thanks for tuning into this episode 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:56.840 of ham talk live tonight We're joined by Adam 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:04.379 Whitney K0FFY and Josh Ward W3ARD from the Wmplota 00:02:04.379 --> 00:02:07.859 organizers and we'll take your calls live in 00:02:07.859 --> 00:02:10.580 a little bit. 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It's Oak Creek, Wisconsin 00:05:41.860 --> 00:05:46.139 Of course, you can visit them online at PL -259 00:05:46.139 --> 00:05:50.160 .com anytime Tell them you heard it on ham talk 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:54.279 live. Well tonight we have Two guests, Adam Whitney, 00:05:54.500 --> 00:05:58.839 K0FFY, is from Des Moines, Iowa and the webmaster 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:02.800 and chief organizer of Walmart parking lots on 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.899 the air. Adam became a ham in 1998 while he was 00:06:06.899 --> 00:06:11.579 working at a... hydrogen line telescope in college 00:06:11.579 --> 00:06:16.519 at Iowa State and after a 20 -year hiatus he's 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:18.819 back on the air after catching the satellite 00:06:18.819 --> 00:06:22.759 bug and also with us tonight is Josh Ward W3 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:27.759 ARD he's in Waco Texas and just gained a newborn 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:32.259 daughter and lost all the people he was following 00:06:32.259 --> 00:06:34.819 on Twitter. So we'll talk about that in a little 00:06:34.819 --> 00:06:38.339 bit. Josh enjoys working satellites and APRS 00:06:38.339 --> 00:06:42.800 high altitude balloons. And Josh is known as 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.680 the overnight stalker of the group. He's the 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:49.560 night owl. So Adam and Josh, welcome to the show. 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:54.079 Finally, we got you on. Hi, thanks. Hi, Neil. 00:06:54.220 --> 00:06:56.819 How's it going? It's going great. We're going 00:06:56.819 --> 00:07:00.149 to have Have a lot of fun here tonight and, and 00:07:00.149 --> 00:07:03.709 now, oh my goodness, Twitter's already already 00:07:03.709 --> 00:07:06.709 blowing up. I just hit the button over here and 00:07:06.709 --> 00:07:10.709 oh my goodness, 14 already. Uh, so yeah, this 00:07:10.709 --> 00:07:14.129 is going to be a fun episode, but you know, we've, 00:07:14.129 --> 00:07:17.250 we've, we've talked about Walmart parking lots 00:07:17.250 --> 00:07:19.850 on the air a little bit and, and it got me going. 00:07:19.990 --> 00:07:24.170 I I've been kind of. listening and trying to 00:07:24.170 --> 00:07:26.990 do some satellite stuff and then I was like okay 00:07:26.990 --> 00:07:29.970 I got to go do this and it was just a lot of 00:07:29.970 --> 00:07:36.889 fun and it was just some random conversations 00:07:36.889 --> 00:07:40.509 out there on Twitter and and all of a sudden 00:07:40.509 --> 00:07:43.970 this this came up so Josh has got a little bit 00:07:43.970 --> 00:07:50.930 of the history of how in the world Wimploda started 00:07:51.209 --> 00:07:56.790 So Josh Go right ahead. Sure So first of all, 00:07:56.870 --> 00:07:58.930 is that how we're officially calling this? I've 00:07:58.930 --> 00:08:01.389 never actually verbalized. I've never spoken 00:08:01.389 --> 00:08:08.170 the Akron I kind of ran with that. So I guess 00:08:08.170 --> 00:08:12.850 I'll tell you that works. Yeah, or whamplota 00:08:12.850 --> 00:08:17.519 Yeah, so Roughly the history, and I'm going to 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:21.399 kind of go with the pilot rule that all stories 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:25.980 have to be at least 10 % true. The best I can 00:08:25.980 --> 00:08:28.319 recall, the best I can find on Twitter was around 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:35.120 about April 12th. K7TAB Chris was on family trip 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:38.340 and he was headed to West Virginia and had advertised 00:08:38.340 --> 00:08:40.340 or announced that he was going to be working 00:08:40.340 --> 00:08:44.779 the Morgantown, West Virginia. Grid line, I believe 00:08:44.779 --> 00:08:50.580 it's echo Mike nine nine Fox Mike zero nine And 00:08:50.580 --> 00:08:52.899 I'm sure a lot of followers understand what grid 00:08:52.899 --> 00:08:55.080 lines are but whenever you're working satellites 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:57.320 that's one of the things that you know, we kind 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.360 of mark our progress and that's kind of the way 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.840 we Kind of what we enjoy doing is, you know checking 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:06.799 the box and collecting grid squares And so anytime 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:08.779 somebody's doing something kind of rare like 00:09:08.779 --> 00:09:11.669 a grid line we follow along and, you know, try 00:09:11.669 --> 00:09:14.750 to work that past. And I, you know, Chris in 00:09:14.750 --> 00:09:17.330 between whatever family obligation he had and 00:09:17.330 --> 00:09:19.429 said, you know, I'm going to work in Morgantown 00:09:19.429 --> 00:09:23.269 and I'll be operating from this particular Walmart 00:09:23.269 --> 00:09:27.210 parking lot. And I chuckled and Googled, mapped 00:09:27.210 --> 00:09:29.929 and noticed that, by goodness, there actually 00:09:29.929 --> 00:09:32.490 was a Walmart parking lot dead right in the middle 00:09:32.490 --> 00:09:35.250 of this grid line. And I commented to that fact. 00:09:35.549 --> 00:09:38.629 And then the conversation started from there. 00:09:38.809 --> 00:09:44.590 And I think Glenn, AA5PK, maybe Doug, N6UA, everybody 00:09:44.590 --> 00:09:47.690 kind of chimed in and realized at some point 00:09:47.690 --> 00:09:50.570 in time that they had activated a grid line also 00:09:50.570 --> 00:09:53.409 from a Walmart parking lot, some random Walmart 00:09:53.409 --> 00:09:56.149 parking lot. And then the conversation, you know, 00:09:56.230 --> 00:09:59.009 kind of being silly, kind of geeky, we all talked 00:09:59.009 --> 00:10:03.679 about, you know, With the sheer number of Walmart's 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:06.240 I wonder how many grid lines actually run through 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:09.340 a Walmart parking lot and the conversation, you 00:10:09.340 --> 00:10:14.240 know at 140 characters 150 characters at a time 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.759 people kept chiming in on you know They started 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.240 looking at maps and realizing that they actually 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:21.580 had a Walmart that had a grid line running through 00:10:21.580 --> 00:10:24.580 it And how fun would it be to activate? And there's 00:10:24.580 --> 00:10:27.379 a few other characters, you know, we also kind 00:10:27.379 --> 00:10:30.980 of chase special QSL cards. I've got one that 00:10:30.980 --> 00:10:33.700 my wife designed for me because I tend to be 00:10:33.700 --> 00:10:35.679 a bit of a night owl. I like to work late night 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:38.820 passes and so there was some conversations about 00:10:38.820 --> 00:10:41.840 you know if we if we work a Walmart grid line 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:45.100 maybe we should have some special QSL cards and 00:10:45.100 --> 00:10:49.019 before you knew it and I mean literally 36 hours 00:10:49.019 --> 00:10:52.080 it had gone from being a conversation to we should 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:55.840 do this sometime and you know Uh, it went from 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.200 the thing that didn't exist to all of a sudden 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.860 there was a date on a calendar and a URL registered 00:11:01.860 --> 00:11:04.980 in a website and a wiki up. And when people go, 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:06.720 are we really doing this? And the answer was, 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:10.559 I guess we are. That's sort of where it started. 00:11:13.340 --> 00:11:17.139 Well, uh, Adam has come up with, uh, with a lot 00:11:17.139 --> 00:11:20.399 of this, uh, this stuff and kind of put it, uh, 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:25.759 together on the website and managed that kind 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:29.039 of thing. And one thing before I let Adam talk 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:33.940 about how the first Wimploda went, we want to 00:11:33.940 --> 00:11:36.480 mention one thing that we were talking about 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:41.580 before the show, that this is longer than the 00:11:41.580 --> 00:11:45.360 two of you have ever talked before, because it's 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:49.750 always, you know, call sign grid square. QSL, 00:11:50.110 --> 00:11:53.889 and that's it. Yeah, the average satellite pass, 00:11:53.909 --> 00:11:57.029 if you get the right one going directly 90 degrees 00:11:57.029 --> 00:11:59.809 overhead, the average satellite pass might be 00:11:59.809 --> 00:12:02.870 11, 11 and a half minutes. And because it's a 00:12:02.870 --> 00:12:06.330 shared resource and it's not operating full duplex, 00:12:06.470 --> 00:12:08.929 you can only get in and talk if you're going 00:12:08.929 --> 00:12:12.690 to be fair to the rest of the community. It's 00:12:12.690 --> 00:12:14.850 call sign grid square, call sign grid square, 00:12:15.049 --> 00:12:18.899 done, move on to the next one. I actually, I 00:12:18.899 --> 00:12:20.899 kind of enjoy it. I don't really want to bash 00:12:20.899 --> 00:12:23.659 the HF guys. I just don't have a lot to sit around 00:12:23.659 --> 00:12:27.659 and talk about on HF radio. And I love being 00:12:27.659 --> 00:12:29.840 able to look at my phone and know there's a satellite 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.659 overhead in two hours. I can commit to like eight 00:12:32.659 --> 00:12:35.080 or 10 minutes, get a couple of QSOS, get out 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.860 and go about my life. And I looked at the log 00:12:37.860 --> 00:12:40.379 this morning and I realized that Adam and I have, 00:12:40.379 --> 00:12:44.350 we've traded two QSOS. If you average maybe six 00:12:44.350 --> 00:12:47.110 to eight seconds per cue, so we've probably spent, 00:12:47.110 --> 00:12:49.669 you know, about 12 seconds talking to each other. 00:12:49.970 --> 00:12:53.149 So tonight during the pre call, we like quadrupled 00:12:53.149 --> 00:12:55.389 the amount of time that we'd ever talked. So 00:12:55.389 --> 00:12:57.230 it's, it's been fun talking to Adam. I've never 00:12:57.230 --> 00:12:59.509 talked to him before except for communicating 00:12:59.509 --> 00:13:02.570 via Twitter, which is a great place to find us. 00:13:04.090 --> 00:13:06.929 Well, Adam, let's talk about how the first one 00:13:06.929 --> 00:13:08.970 went. And we've got some things that we definitely 00:13:08.970 --> 00:13:12.009 want to. throw in here we've talked about, but 00:13:12.009 --> 00:13:14.809 tell us how the first one went. Yeah, I mean, 00:13:14.929 --> 00:13:17.629 Josh did a great job kind of introducing it. 00:13:17.929 --> 00:13:20.389 I definitely was one who added a lot of fuel 00:13:20.389 --> 00:13:24.470 to the fire. And one of the things was, you know, 00:13:24.649 --> 00:13:27.590 hams are kind of natural experimenters. So I 00:13:27.590 --> 00:13:29.230 wasn't sure I was going to go. It was kind of 00:13:29.230 --> 00:13:32.710 an experiment, like Josh said. And I think all 00:13:32.710 --> 00:13:35.629 of us, especially the people who are just kind 00:13:35.629 --> 00:13:38.889 of you know, couldn't help but do it. We're pretty 00:13:38.889 --> 00:13:43.389 amazed at the participation and just the fun 00:13:43.389 --> 00:13:45.750 that was had. That was kind of when I really 00:13:45.750 --> 00:13:48.169 kind of, like I say, added fuel to the fire. 00:13:48.289 --> 00:13:50.809 I registered the web domain, you know, created 00:13:50.809 --> 00:13:53.429 a Twitter account, sent some QSL cards to the 00:13:53.429 --> 00:13:56.269 printer. My whole idea on the experiment, there 00:13:56.269 --> 00:13:59.669 was a couple things that I wanted to see if they 00:13:59.669 --> 00:14:02.750 would work and they definitely did work. One 00:14:02.750 --> 00:14:06.580 of the things was just How much fun and how much 00:14:06.580 --> 00:14:10.379 inclusiveness could we bring about with an event 00:14:10.379 --> 00:14:13.080 that just sprung out of nowhere? So with the 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:17.399 website, the rules, awards, scoring, it was a 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:19.659 wiki. And people just from the internet were 00:14:19.659 --> 00:14:22.899 just adding whatever crazy and fun and wacky 00:14:22.899 --> 00:14:26.019 awards they could. Anything to do with Walmart, 00:14:26.419 --> 00:14:31.240 really, there was an award for it. And that definitely 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:35.289 turned into a fun event during the event. The 00:14:35.289 --> 00:14:38.470 things that stand out in my head, so it was two 00:14:38.470 --> 00:14:42.710 days on a weekend. It actually started midnight 00:14:42.710 --> 00:14:46.169 UTC on Saturday, so for most of the U .S. that 00:14:46.169 --> 00:14:51.049 was late evening. So there was, like you mentioned, 00:14:51.169 --> 00:14:54.649 an overnight stocker award for late night QSOs. 00:14:54.690 --> 00:14:56.549 On that first night there was a Black Friday 00:14:56.549 --> 00:14:59.370 award, so just tie in the awards and bonuses 00:14:59.370 --> 00:15:03.789 to Walmart. That was definitely a fun aspect. 00:15:04.309 --> 00:15:07.690 But the other things were the things that I wanted 00:15:07.690 --> 00:15:10.350 to see and especially that the community kind 00:15:10.350 --> 00:15:13.990 of, you know, tries to get a strong interest 00:15:13.990 --> 00:15:18.710 in is operating portable. And so, you know, like 00:15:18.710 --> 00:15:20.690 Josh said, everyone had a Walmart, half of them 00:15:20.690 --> 00:15:24.370 were on grid lines out there. So it was really 00:15:24.370 --> 00:15:26.590 like, how many people can we get out? You know, 00:15:26.669 --> 00:15:29.169 people that there was a lot of people that had 00:15:29.169 --> 00:15:31.549 never operated portable before they'd been on 00:15:31.549 --> 00:15:35.990 satellites. But I counted at least a dozen people 00:15:35.990 --> 00:15:40.090 that cobbled together HTs and other antennas 00:15:40.090 --> 00:15:43.730 to go portable. So that was really cool to see. 00:15:45.490 --> 00:15:48.509 There was at least two that chimed in on Twitter 00:15:48.509 --> 00:15:50.929 that were first -time satellite operators. That 00:15:50.929 --> 00:15:53.250 blew me away. That was awesome. Yeah, that was 00:15:53.250 --> 00:15:56.610 awesome. There was one, Scott was his name. I'm 00:15:56.610 --> 00:16:01.259 trying to remember his call sign. It was W, here 00:16:01.259 --> 00:16:05.559 it is, W -Y -1 -L -I -E. He actually did a live, 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:08.500 you know, Periscope on Twitter of his very first 00:16:08.500 --> 00:16:11.759 ever satellite QSO. So that was just cool to 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.799 see, you know, just his excitement. That's one 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:17.980 where his kids, his kids were in the car? Yeah, 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.360 yep, that was, brought his kids in. And that 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:22.799 was the other thing, it's like I had a couple 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.509 bonuses that I threw in. The other thing is there's 00:16:26.509 --> 00:16:29.090 been a lot of talk in ham radio in general about 00:16:29.090 --> 00:16:32.889 encouraging youth to get involved in ham radio. 00:16:33.389 --> 00:16:35.769 I think it's perfect for encouraging the kind 00:16:35.769 --> 00:16:39.769 of STEM academic learning movement that's going 00:16:39.769 --> 00:16:43.250 on right now. So there was bonuses if you brought 00:16:43.250 --> 00:16:46.370 your kids along with you or if you were a student 00:16:46.370 --> 00:16:49.830 operator. I threw a huge bonus in for that and 00:16:49.830 --> 00:16:52.370 it was really cool to see. If you go onto Twitter 00:16:52.370 --> 00:16:57.340 and do a do a search for the hashtag WMPLOTA. 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:00.259 You'll see all the photos out there, and there's 00:17:00.259 --> 00:17:03.139 just a lot that had people bringing their kids 00:17:03.139 --> 00:17:06.500 and including them in the event. So I thought 00:17:06.500 --> 00:17:09.640 that was really cool. It was just silly enough 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:11.799 to really connect with some folks, but I mean, 00:17:11.859 --> 00:17:15.299 it was done. I mean, it was, for a first time, 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:19.859 completely organic grassroots thing. It just 00:17:19.859 --> 00:17:23.769 exploded, and it was awesome. I don't mean to 00:17:23.769 --> 00:17:28.490 step on Adam's story, but like a lot of people 00:17:28.490 --> 00:17:31.410 that host a lot of events, I only work two passes. 00:17:31.650 --> 00:17:34.609 I work two late night passes because that's kind 00:17:34.609 --> 00:17:37.250 of my identity. I work late night passes. It 00:17:37.250 --> 00:17:40.170 was more fun for me to actually follow Twitter 00:17:40.170 --> 00:17:43.269 all weekend, see all the photos, see all the 00:17:43.269 --> 00:17:47.890 videos, listen to people and watch people planning 00:17:47.890 --> 00:17:50.460 passes. You got people that are traveling, you 00:17:50.460 --> 00:17:52.339 know, in big metropolitan cities. There's like 00:17:52.339 --> 00:17:55.019 nine Walmarts in their city. And, you know, they're 00:17:55.019 --> 00:17:57.140 hitting like seven of the nine over the course 00:17:57.140 --> 00:18:00.200 of the weekend. And I'm like, it just, I don't 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:02.839 know, it blew me away that people really took 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.799 to it the way they did. And it made me proud. 00:18:05.980 --> 00:18:08.359 I mean, it's, and nobody even owned the event. 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:10.819 I mean, there's, it was, there's like six or 00:18:10.819 --> 00:18:12.559 eight of us that kind of got it started. And 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:14.460 then we just got to back away and just watch 00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:17.569 the community do it. And it was so much fun to 00:18:17.569 --> 00:18:20.589 just monitor the traffic. So thank everybody 00:18:20.589 --> 00:18:22.849 that participated. Thank you, everybody that 00:18:22.849 --> 00:18:25.170 participated, because you really made my weekend. 00:18:25.670 --> 00:18:28.549 Yeah, definitely. I had fun doing it. I had fun 00:18:28.549 --> 00:18:31.549 talking about it. But I got to admit, the most 00:18:31.549 --> 00:18:36.990 fun that I had with it was after I saw that Ol' 00:18:36.990 --> 00:18:43.059 Roy Award. And I went, wait a second. let's take 00:18:43.059 --> 00:18:48.099 every brand that Walmart has of their own and 00:18:48.099 --> 00:18:51.240 Let's make a bonus for it. And so you have me 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:56.960 to blame for special kitty and and all those 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:03.279 Ridiculous faded glory and I just kept going 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.579 Yeah, so I I'm guilty of that too Whenever Adam 00:19:07.579 --> 00:19:09.579 put to the wiki together, you know, there was 00:19:09.579 --> 00:19:13.380 a suggestion that was hey, go populate the award 00:19:13.380 --> 00:19:17.819 list. And I wasn't sleeping real great at the 00:19:17.819 --> 00:19:21.519 time. The daughter was a few days away from being 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.880 born, a little keyed up about that. So I just 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:25.720 hopped in and I decided I was gonna start kind 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:30.460 of seeding some ideas, fully expecting Adam or 00:19:30.460 --> 00:19:33.940 somebody to come and veto. So some of the working 00:19:33.940 --> 00:19:37.019 one store express lane, working five stores, 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:39.539 regional manager. I'm the one that put a lot 00:19:39.539 --> 00:19:43.259 of those numerical ones in, but I didn't know, 00:19:43.380 --> 00:19:45.420 I mean I just assumed that maybe somebody would 00:19:45.420 --> 00:19:47.420 work two or three passes and that would be it. 00:19:47.900 --> 00:19:50.099 So I put some big numbers out there, come to 00:19:50.099 --> 00:19:52.980 find out people were actually trying and chasing 00:19:52.980 --> 00:19:56.240 those numbers. But the whole award structure 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.480 was put together on a wiki page. and what was 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:01.460 fun was there were people that i think had some 00:20:01.460 --> 00:20:03.480 ideas of what they could accomplish that weekend 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:05.519 and they were basically like calling their own 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:08.160 shot they were calling their own award and it 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:11.200 was like i think i can hit five stores and do 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:13.460 it from the back of my truck so i'm going to 00:20:13.460 --> 00:20:16.980 create a four stores and a truck award and then 00:20:16.980 --> 00:20:19.880 none of the awards the wiki wasn't even locked 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:22.660 until about two hours before the event started 00:20:22.660 --> 00:20:25.319 so pretty much anybody could put anything down 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:28.109 they thought they could accomplish And it was 00:20:28.109 --> 00:20:32.289 awesome. And my favorite is still Olroy with 00:20:32.289 --> 00:20:35.829 Roy. Olroy with Roy. Yeah. And then we had the, 00:20:35.829 --> 00:20:39.490 uh, the two for two, which was the Doug and Chris 00:20:39.490 --> 00:20:41.529 Tabor. And I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing the 00:20:41.529 --> 00:20:43.890 last name. I don't, again, this is ham radio. 00:20:44.029 --> 00:20:45.910 I've never met you guys. It's all via Twitter. 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:48.819 but you know if you could work the same you know 00:20:48.819 --> 00:20:51.359 you could work this that both the tables in one 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:53.759 pass you know you got an award for that i think 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:56.299 we were just inventing anything that sounded 00:20:56.299 --> 00:20:59.440 fun and you know and then the macgyver award 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:01.099 i'm gonna shut up and let somebody else talk 00:21:01.099 --> 00:21:04.400 about that there's the macgyver award that was 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:07.900 awesome all right adam there you go yeah i know 00:21:07.900 --> 00:21:13.410 that was my favorite and that award Because if 00:21:13.410 --> 00:21:16.490 you were a homebrew ham, that was your award. 00:21:16.630 --> 00:21:20.809 It was basically, and I think it was KM6NJL came 00:21:20.809 --> 00:21:23.589 up with the idea, threw that on the page. But 00:21:23.589 --> 00:21:28.269 you had to buy all of your materials in the Walmart 00:21:28.269 --> 00:21:31.809 that day, take a picture of your receipt, and 00:21:31.809 --> 00:21:35.009 then walk out in the parking lot and build your 00:21:35.009 --> 00:21:37.759 satellite antenna. And there were people that 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:40.119 were just you know in that came out a few days 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:42.460 in advance of the event and people had their 00:21:42.460 --> 00:21:45.059 plans on oh I think I can buy this and I think 00:21:45.059 --> 00:21:47.400 I can make this and we got tons of questions 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:50.500 about Well, you know, can I bring my multi -tool? 00:21:50.539 --> 00:21:52.880 Can I can I bring a piece of coax? How's this 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:57.299 work? But the results of the people at what one 00:21:57.299 --> 00:22:01.900 person pulled it off soren Soren won the award 00:22:03.049 --> 00:22:05.369 But there was, you know, several attempts and 00:22:05.369 --> 00:22:07.869 just the plan that went into that was just awesome 00:22:07.869 --> 00:22:11.549 to see, you know, what kind of crazy, you know, 00:22:11.710 --> 00:22:13.710 spur of the moment things you can grab off a 00:22:13.710 --> 00:22:16.609 shelf on Walmart, walk into the parking lot in 00:22:16.609 --> 00:22:19.069 the sun and heat and build the antenna. And actually 00:22:19.069 --> 00:22:21.930 you had to make a QSO, a satellite QSO with it. 00:22:23.369 --> 00:22:25.410 Yeah, that was my favorite. And that was the 00:22:25.410 --> 00:22:26.769 favorite of a lot of people. And the pictures 00:22:26.769 --> 00:22:29.509 that are out there of the people that built antennas 00:22:29.509 --> 00:22:32.190 and the attempts that were made are pretty cool. 00:22:32.589 --> 00:22:36.769 In fact, on the leaderboard page, there was a 00:22:36.769 --> 00:22:40.490 couple of folks that made the antenna but didn't 00:22:40.490 --> 00:22:42.950 make the QSO. But they put so much effort and 00:22:42.950 --> 00:22:45.269 time and put pictures on Twitter. I had to award 00:22:45.269 --> 00:22:48.289 them an honorable mention because that was just 00:22:48.289 --> 00:22:51.910 awesome to see. See that come together and then 00:22:51.910 --> 00:22:54.630 see soren pull that off with just it the antenna 00:22:54.630 --> 00:22:57.210 look terrible It was like marshmallow toasting 00:22:57.210 --> 00:22:59.470 forks for the element. They were toaster They 00:22:59.470 --> 00:23:02.710 were like toaster forks like from a Coleman camp 00:23:02.710 --> 00:23:07.730 stove Toaster tongs. Yeah, so I look terrible, 00:23:07.730 --> 00:23:10.589 but yeah, he made like six QSOS with it some 00:23:10.589 --> 00:23:14.509 on linear some on FM Yeah, so I guess on that 00:23:14.509 --> 00:23:17.630 note sort of one of the fun parts to me was you 00:23:17.630 --> 00:23:21.480 know I'm the one that kind of threw out the, 00:23:21.740 --> 00:23:23.680 I don't even remember what we named it, but it 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.519 was like the first contact. So whenever you set 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:32.180 the time at 00 Zulu, we knew that it was gonna 00:23:32.180 --> 00:23:36.279 be somewhere between, I guess, like 6 p .m. and 00:23:36.279 --> 00:23:40.000 like 8 p .m. for most of the country. Everybody's 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:43.759 like, when you set that time of, you know, midnight 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:46.799 Zulu, I didn't even take the time to look and 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:49.099 see. Are there any satellites even overhead? 00:23:49.299 --> 00:23:52.599 And it just so happened that it was an SO -50. 00:23:52.700 --> 00:23:55.359 I don't remember. It was a linear bird, one of 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:59.779 the Chinese linears. Right, right. But the first 00:23:59.779 --> 00:24:03.359 FM satellite was like four minutes after the 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:06.299 event started. So there was going to be this 00:24:06.299 --> 00:24:09.720 clamor, like everybody was racing to make the 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:13.089 first contact on the first FM satellite. And 00:24:13.089 --> 00:24:15.970 my rule was you had to log. It wasn't just making 00:24:15.970 --> 00:24:19.329 the contact. I wanted official confirmation in 00:24:19.329 --> 00:24:22.269 LOTW. So there were all these people racing around 00:24:22.269 --> 00:24:24.150 trying to figure out, OK, if I make contact, 00:24:24.269 --> 00:24:27.769 can I log it in LOTW? And how quickly can I get 00:24:27.769 --> 00:24:29.690 it done? And then I got a private message. I 00:24:29.690 --> 00:24:32.430 got a DM on Twitter. And basically it was, hey, 00:24:32.609 --> 00:24:35.759 don't advertise this. but there's actually a 00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:39.279 linear bird that's gonna be like directly overhead 00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:43.599 at the exact moment the event goes live. And 00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:46.559 I think we can make contact on this linear bird 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:50.119 and we can beat everybody by like four minutes. 00:24:51.220 --> 00:24:53.819 And I was like, the fact that somebody wanted 00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:56.319 playing that out and two was so invested in winning 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:58.599 the award that they contacted me directly and 00:24:58.599 --> 00:25:01.640 said, will this count? I was like, okay, this 00:25:01.640 --> 00:25:04.910 event has turned into something. This event has 00:25:04.910 --> 00:25:07.049 turned into something that there's like this 00:25:07.049 --> 00:25:09.829 back door like hey everybody's going for the 00:25:09.829 --> 00:25:13.430 you know, the 004 satellite But I think we can 00:25:13.430 --> 00:25:16.490 make contact at exactly the moment the event 00:25:16.490 --> 00:25:18.890 goes live. Will that count? Yeah, sure. Okay, 00:25:19.910 --> 00:25:23.990 whatever Well as expected we're already running 00:25:23.990 --> 00:25:27.250 over time here So we're gonna have to take a 00:25:27.250 --> 00:25:32.130 break here soon. But first before we do Adam 00:25:32.130 --> 00:25:37.809 you got to talk about old Roy Yeah, so you that's 00:25:37.809 --> 00:25:40.009 the one of the pictures are the best thing on 00:25:40.009 --> 00:25:42.009 Twitter just to see the fun that people are having 00:25:42.009 --> 00:25:44.970 having with that But three people did get old 00:25:44.970 --> 00:25:48.529 Roy and in fact one of those got old Roy with 00:25:48.529 --> 00:25:54.009 Roy. It was Roy Dean K3 RLD who is named Roy 00:25:55.049 --> 00:25:58.670 But yeah, basically people took the time to bring 00:25:58.670 --> 00:26:01.329 their dog out operating with them in the Walmart 00:26:01.329 --> 00:26:04.410 parking lot and snap a photo of them and their 00:26:04.410 --> 00:26:06.829 dog while they're operating. You post it to Twitter 00:26:06.829 --> 00:26:10.329 with the hashtag and that was just great to see, 00:26:10.329 --> 00:26:12.210 you know, people bringing their dog. I don't 00:26:12.210 --> 00:26:14.670 know how, maybe that happens all the time. People 00:26:14.670 --> 00:26:16.690 bringing their dogs out with them while they're 00:26:16.690 --> 00:26:19.910 out operating portable, but. Yeah. So that was 00:26:19.910 --> 00:26:21.730 one of my favorites. And the fact that Roy Dean 00:26:21.730 --> 00:26:24.029 said, well, you know, I, I'm one of the few people 00:26:24.029 --> 00:26:26.730 that can get old Roy with Roy. In fact, who knows? 00:26:26.890 --> 00:26:30.430 I think maybe he even put the award in to the 00:26:30.430 --> 00:26:35.829 Wiki, but yeah, I love that because it's, you 00:26:35.829 --> 00:26:38.490 know, with, with Roy, well, you got to have somebody 00:26:38.490 --> 00:26:45.289 that named Roy and then I put in Sam Walton where, 00:26:45.609 --> 00:26:48.529 where it's, uh, It's got it. You got to get a 00:26:48.529 --> 00:26:52.829 contact with a somebody named Sam. Yeah Is that 00:26:52.829 --> 00:26:55.789 the photo where he's operating from inside the 00:26:55.789 --> 00:27:02.529 basket? I think that's the one We tweeted it 00:27:02.529 --> 00:27:07.230 out, right? Yeah There was also I like the fact 00:27:07.230 --> 00:27:09.410 that we were also trying to promote, you know 00:27:09.450 --> 00:27:12.410 putting the baskets back and, you know, try to 00:27:12.410 --> 00:27:15.490 be a good steward of the Walmart parking lots. 00:27:16.089 --> 00:27:19.990 It's just trying to give back a little bit. All 00:27:19.990 --> 00:27:23.329 right. Well, we're going to have to take a break, 00:27:23.529 --> 00:27:26.390 but when we come back, we're going to talk about. 00:27:26.670 --> 00:27:30.269 The next one, there is going to be a next one. 00:27:30.549 --> 00:27:33.730 So make sure you come back after the break and 00:27:33.730 --> 00:27:36.630 hear about that right here on HamTalk Live. The 00:27:36.630 --> 00:27:39.269 National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting 00:27:39.269 --> 00:27:42.970 located in Westchester, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati 00:27:42.970 --> 00:27:47.450 is only two minutes off I -75. 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It's July 2, which happens to be 00:30:14.990 --> 00:30:18.329 the birthday of Walmart. First store opened on 00:30:18.329 --> 00:30:22.619 July 2. And just Googling that date, we also 00:30:22.619 --> 00:30:25.599 noticed that that happens to be World UFO Day. 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:29.279 Not quite entirely sure what that is, but it 00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:32.460 sounds like we could have a lot of fun with that, 00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:36.819 so I threw that in the description as well. But 00:30:36.819 --> 00:30:40.960 yeah, so 00 UTC, July 2nd, so that'll be the 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:43.759 evening of July 1st. I'm imagining some of the 00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:47.740 popular... like the Black Friday bonus will do 00:30:47.740 --> 00:30:50.480 that again. The early bird, like Josh mentioned, 00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:54.880 the race for the first QSO. Definitely keeping 00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:58.720 all the fun awards and bonuses going through 00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:04.039 2359 Zulu on July 2nd. So just a one day encore 00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:10.140 this time. And I plan to very soon, there's been 00:31:10.140 --> 00:31:13.519 some scores trickling in from the April event. 00:31:13.710 --> 00:31:17.430 But I'm going to post the final standings here 00:31:17.430 --> 00:31:20.769 in a couple weeks in June and then very soon 00:31:20.769 --> 00:31:24.430 open the wiki up for ideas on awards and bonuses. 00:31:25.549 --> 00:31:28.490 I'm kind of expecting some to go with the theme 00:31:28.490 --> 00:31:32.390 of the birthday of Walmart and not quite sure 00:31:32.390 --> 00:31:35.150 how the world UFO day is going to come in but 00:31:35.150 --> 00:31:39.710 my imagination is kind of going wild. So it's 00:31:39.710 --> 00:31:42.630 coming up July 2nd. You get a bonus for working 00:31:42.630 --> 00:31:48.269 an alien. Is that the birthday thing? I'm thinking, 00:31:48.269 --> 00:31:50.069 you know, there was, there was actually an award 00:31:50.069 --> 00:31:52.190 and I, two, believe it or not, two people won 00:31:52.190 --> 00:31:54.829 this and Neil, you may have added this, uh, the 00:31:54.829 --> 00:31:58.490 great value award where you, if you, while eating 00:31:58.490 --> 00:32:02.109 chicken obtained from the Walmart deli, posted 00:32:02.109 --> 00:32:04.950 their photos of the chicken that they were eating. 00:32:05.150 --> 00:32:06.670 So I'm kind of imagining there's a bird, there's 00:32:06.670 --> 00:32:09.970 going to be a birthday cake variant. That's beautiful. 00:32:10.849 --> 00:32:13.430 Ah, yes. I don't know about the world. Yeah, 00:32:13.509 --> 00:32:17.430 the UFO thing. Yeah, well, you know, wait a minute. 00:32:18.130 --> 00:32:20.509 That's the wrong show. That's Art Bell's show. 00:32:21.069 --> 00:32:28.210 Right. All right. Well, yeah, go ahead. I was 00:32:28.210 --> 00:32:31.190 going to say, the one thing that I have to ask 00:32:31.190 --> 00:32:34.019 Adam, so I mean, What I need people to understand 00:32:34.019 --> 00:32:36.960 is it sounds like we're like really well organized 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:38.740 and well thought out you got to realize that 00:32:38.740 --> 00:32:41.119 This is so organic. I don't even know what Adams 00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:43.440 doing half the time at some point There was a 00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:45.640 question that was asked. Are we ever gonna open 00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:49.920 it up to HF contacts? HF portable and I don't 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:52.160 know that we ever restricted it to satellites 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.779 But that would be kind of interesting and then 00:32:54.779 --> 00:32:56.799 the other piece I would add is I did think it 00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:59.640 was interesting the question came up for like 00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:03.630 Mexico, Canada, Alaska you know, could people 00:33:03.630 --> 00:33:06.450 sub in, you know, sort of a Walmart equivalent? 00:33:07.470 --> 00:33:10.789 And that was a blast. Yeah, that question came 00:33:10.789 --> 00:33:13.630 up and we said, why not? You know, it's all about 00:33:13.630 --> 00:33:15.730 operating portable and, you know, just kind of 00:33:15.730 --> 00:33:18.369 having fun going to a store parking lot. So we 00:33:18.369 --> 00:33:22.269 did have, we didn't have a lot, but we had, you 00:33:22.269 --> 00:33:26.910 know, AL60 from Alaska kind of counted as a DX 00:33:26.910 --> 00:33:30.789 entity because, you know, we kind of that. But 00:33:30.789 --> 00:33:34.390 we did also have an operator from Brazil make 00:33:34.390 --> 00:33:37.529 one QSO on A07, but he won the long distance 00:33:37.529 --> 00:33:41.250 award, you know, with an operator in Rhode Island 00:33:41.250 --> 00:33:45.309 from Brazil. So that was, yeah, the international, 00:33:45.470 --> 00:33:47.390 it became an international, intercontinental 00:33:47.390 --> 00:33:52.349 event, I guess, by opening that up. And yeah, 00:33:52.410 --> 00:33:54.589 like Josh says, it kind of just, it's an organic 00:33:54.589 --> 00:33:59.160 thing. And I wasn't on the site, I didn't exclude 00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:02.640 HF. I just know so little about HF contests and 00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:06.740 I don't really operate HF. So people that ask, 00:34:06.859 --> 00:34:08.340 I kind of encourage them and I'm like, sure, 00:34:08.380 --> 00:34:13.139 why not? If you wanna help organize that, go 00:34:13.139 --> 00:34:16.320 right ahead. But yeah, it was mostly just sticking 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:18.619 with what we knew, which was the satellite QSOs. 00:34:19.780 --> 00:34:22.639 Yeah, I could totally see this going with HF 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:28.429 too. Bring it on. All right. Well, I'm gonna 00:34:28.429 --> 00:34:31.070 get to these tweets because because they're they're 00:34:31.070 --> 00:34:35.110 racking up here and I'm gonna Since I'm the host 00:34:35.110 --> 00:34:39.449 of the show I get to pick So my favorite one 00:34:39.449 --> 00:34:45.789 so far is from our friend Jim K5 ND Who says 00:34:45.789 --> 00:34:52.550 the awards needed adult supervision? Glad that 00:34:52.550 --> 00:34:57.409 never happened I think there should be a war 00:34:57.409 --> 00:35:00.409 too. It's sort of like, uh, you know, dialing 00:35:00.409 --> 00:35:03.449 after 2 AM. I think half the awards I put in 00:35:03.449 --> 00:35:06.150 there was somewhere between 3 and 4 AM one night. 00:35:06.469 --> 00:35:08.110 There probably needs to be a rule on what time 00:35:08.110 --> 00:35:13.070 of night you can add awards. Now, Ruth came for 00:35:13.070 --> 00:35:17.570 LAO says she's working on modern physics while 00:35:17.570 --> 00:35:22.980 listening to the show. And she also, let's find 00:35:22.980 --> 00:35:26.480 it, says the MacGyver was the greatest award 00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:29.960 that weekend hands down. She's still amazed how 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:33.780 he made an antenna that worked for multiple QSOs 00:35:33.780 --> 00:35:38.539 and well done. So that's from Ruth. I have to 00:35:38.539 --> 00:35:42.000 say hi to Ruth. Ruth and I have a fun relationship 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:44.900 on the satellites because She's kind of known 00:35:44.900 --> 00:35:48.039 as the unicorn. She's that rare young female 00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:51.179 who operates satellites. So she's the unicorn. 00:35:51.260 --> 00:35:53.320 And a lot of people know me as sort of the night 00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:55.320 owl, because I work so many late night passes. 00:35:55.860 --> 00:35:58.860 So there's actually sort of an unspoken award. 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:01.219 If you can work a pass and get the unicorn and 00:36:01.219 --> 00:36:03.920 the night owl in the same pass, it's a good night 00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:08.800 for you. So hi, Ruth. There we go. Yeah. Jim, 00:36:08.820 --> 00:36:14.550 I like you so much. If I have ND. Hi, Jim. And 00:36:14.550 --> 00:36:18.469 let's see, we've got more here. Oh, and Ruth 00:36:18.469 --> 00:36:21.349 says, I think we need a traveling alien seeker 00:36:21.349 --> 00:36:24.210 award wearing a tin foil hat while making QSOS 00:36:24.210 --> 00:36:27.110 from a shopping cart being pushed by an assistant. 00:36:28.070 --> 00:36:32.710 Done. Now there's a specific one. Okay, here's 00:36:32.710 --> 00:36:35.110 Jeff. Jeff chimed in. We said we were going to 00:36:35.110 --> 00:36:38.610 have to get him on here. Jeff WE4B says, will 00:36:38.610 --> 00:36:43.119 a cupcake with a candle work? as a birthday cake. 00:36:43.420 --> 00:36:48.059 Will that count? My birthday is July 4th. No, 00:36:48.099 --> 00:36:51.320 Walmart's birthday. My birthday is July 4th and 00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:54.239 we've got a tradition of a moon pie with a candle. 00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:57.320 I'm willing to recognize the Walmart birthday 00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:00.219 with a moon pie or cupcake and a candle. Any 00:37:00.219 --> 00:37:03.199 baked confection. We'll call it here on air. 00:37:03.539 --> 00:37:07.079 Done. All right. And Patrick WD9EWK says he's 00:37:07.260 --> 00:37:11.559 listening and enjoying that, and agrees on the 00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:14.820 MacGyver Award. Shout out to Patrick. Patrick 00:37:14.820 --> 00:37:19.860 is the top scorer and the most intense rover. 00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:23.000 Josh had mentioned hitting eight or nine stores. 00:37:23.179 --> 00:37:27.219 Patrick did eight stores in one day on the event, 00:37:27.219 --> 00:37:32.380 and that boosted his score a crazy amount. So 00:37:32.380 --> 00:37:35.940 yeah, Patrick did awesome on the event. And Jeff 00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:40.420 says, Moonpies rock. So we got this. Sean Kutsko, 00:37:40.619 --> 00:37:43.559 KX9X. I knew he'd chime in sooner or later here. 00:37:44.099 --> 00:37:46.380 He says, when PLOTA was the embodiment of True 00:37:46.380 --> 00:37:48.500 Ham spirit, the satellite community came together 00:37:48.500 --> 00:37:51.780 and made a great event succeed. The MacGyver 00:37:51.780 --> 00:37:55.639 Award, Roving, and Ham's new to satellites participate. 00:37:55.940 --> 00:38:00.219 Can't ask for more. Bravo to you two. Fantastic. 00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:04.539 Thanks, Sean. And let's see here, what else do 00:38:04.539 --> 00:38:10.679 we have? I know we had more. Oh, Dr. Scott Wright, 00:38:10.780 --> 00:38:13.800 KZeroMD, wants to know if we're offering a bonus 00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:19.000 for eating cheesecake on a stick. Now that was 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:23.019 probably directed at me because for Hamvention, 00:38:23.300 --> 00:38:25.739 I always had this thing that we had to bring 00:38:25.739 --> 00:38:29.190 back. cheesecake on a stick. It was missing, 00:38:29.230 --> 00:38:31.210 but it was back this year. In fact, two different 00:38:31.210 --> 00:38:34.929 places had it, so that was probably directed 00:38:34.929 --> 00:38:39.130 my way. I realize it's pretty customary to suck 00:38:39.130 --> 00:38:42.690 up to the host, but Neil, by the way, thank you. 00:38:42.730 --> 00:38:46.349 Thank you for actually doing this. This was a 00:38:46.349 --> 00:38:48.829 blast. We're not done yet, but this was a blast. 00:38:48.929 --> 00:38:52.130 I'm glad to get to participate, so thanks for 00:38:52.130 --> 00:38:54.730 mentioning this and bringing this back to the 00:38:54.730 --> 00:38:58.250 world. Oh, we had to. It was just, it was just 00:38:58.250 --> 00:39:01.130 too much fun and it grew and grew and grew. And 00:39:01.130 --> 00:39:04.170 then then I'm doing Newsline and I'm trying, 00:39:04.210 --> 00:39:07.349 I interviewed Adam for Newsline and was trying 00:39:07.349 --> 00:39:10.789 to get that going. And, and it was the worst 00:39:10.789 --> 00:39:13.289 thing ever because I had like four and a half 00:39:13.289 --> 00:39:16.809 minutes worth and my editor, Karen Katie to GT 00:39:16.809 --> 00:39:19.849 says, you have to stay under two minutes. And 00:39:19.849 --> 00:39:23.110 I'm just like, no, I can't do it. And so every 00:39:23.110 --> 00:39:27.159 time that I talk about, um, Karen having to cut 00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:29.780 down what I say I always bring up when ploda 00:39:29.780 --> 00:39:33.199 because it was I couldn't cram it into two minutes, 00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:36.840 but We were we were working on that and then 00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:41.599 the very next week They do over in the UK. They 00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:48.900 do the the pubs on the air. Oh Man So it's like 00:39:48.900 --> 00:39:52.219 oh no, and then and then last weekend I was out 00:39:52.219 --> 00:39:55.230 in the mobile and and and Julie needed to go 00:39:55.230 --> 00:39:58.690 to Kroger. So I'm like, okay, I'll drop you off 00:39:58.690 --> 00:40:01.690 in Kroger and then I'm gonna go down to the other 00:40:01.690 --> 00:40:03.590 end of the parking lot and I'm gonna get this 00:40:03.590 --> 00:40:08.489 satellite pass. So we had Kaplota and then somebody 00:40:08.489 --> 00:40:11.789 on Twitter said, no, wait a minute. Shouldn't 00:40:11.789 --> 00:40:18.440 it be Kaplota? Get the Klingon in there. So we're 00:40:18.440 --> 00:40:22.239 just getting really, really new. All kinds of 00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:26.119 silliness. Oh, Sean has a question. Sean KX9X 00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:30.219 says, did you ever hear from the Walmart PR team? 00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.019 Well, yeah, that that sort of implies that we're 00:40:37.019 --> 00:40:39.780 working sort of sanctioned at some point in time 00:40:39.780 --> 00:40:43.900 Probably need to check in with the mothership 00:40:43.900 --> 00:40:46.860 and let them know that this is happening Yeah, 00:40:46.860 --> 00:40:49.820 we made we made an effort to fly under the radar 00:40:49.820 --> 00:40:52.739 and just yeah I mean they like Josh mentioned 00:40:52.739 --> 00:40:54.480 before there were some bonuses that you know, 00:40:54.579 --> 00:40:57.639 put the cards back You know, you know you pick 00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:00.059 up litter in the parking lot. So try and you 00:41:00.059 --> 00:41:04.360 know be Be friendly with the store that is implicitly 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:07.739 hosting it with their parking lot. So no, we 00:41:07.739 --> 00:41:13.000 did not Okay. Well, I think i'm through most 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:17.360 of these and i'm looking at the clock And so 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:19.280 yeah, we're probably going to go a few minutes 00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:23.480 over tonight, but Adam What have we left out? 00:41:23.619 --> 00:41:27.920 What do we need to get in here? Oh, man, I think 00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:31.059 we hit most I mean The big ones, yeah, I wanted 00:41:31.059 --> 00:41:33.880 to call out and just reiterate it. The whole 00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:36.599 idea from my perspective and why I really fueled 00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:41.940 it was just pointing out the fun in amateur radio 00:41:41.940 --> 00:41:47.219 and trying to make it fun and make people try 00:41:47.219 --> 00:41:50.780 new things like building their own antenna, getting 00:41:50.780 --> 00:41:53.079 their kids involved, teaching them that ham radio 00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:57.940 is fun and you can learn a lot. So yeah, we hit 00:41:57.940 --> 00:42:00.780 on the awards, like people are mentioning, the 00:42:00.780 --> 00:42:04.340 MacGyver was just the best, because trying to 00:42:04.340 --> 00:42:08.480 build an antenna out of just random stuff and 00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:10.679 actually make it work, that actually takes a 00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.079 lot of understanding and skill to pull that off. 00:42:15.900 --> 00:42:18.860 So that definitely was a highlight. And just 00:42:18.860 --> 00:42:21.599 the portable operating, there was a lot of comments 00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:23.980 I saw outside the satellite community that people 00:42:23.980 --> 00:42:28.860 were applauding because it was encouraging people 00:42:28.860 --> 00:42:33.639 to get out, operate portable, and just get out 00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:37.219 of your comfort zone, get in new locations, and 00:42:37.219 --> 00:42:39.239 just really encourage that, which I know a lot 00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:41.900 of the other on -the -air events, I mean, that's 00:42:41.900 --> 00:42:44.380 a big part of what they're trying to encourage. 00:42:45.900 --> 00:42:48.400 So yeah, we hit on the things that stand out 00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:50.739 in my head, and that's why I think it's a success. 00:42:51.420 --> 00:42:55.039 Regardless of how many people did it, just the 00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:59.980 fun and just the idea of you can have a fun amateur 00:42:59.980 --> 00:43:03.139 radio event, it can be grassroots and just be 00:43:03.139 --> 00:43:05.880 a little bit wacky, but it can have really good 00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:10.340 benefits. Yeah, that's really what stands out 00:43:10.340 --> 00:43:13.480 for me. Yeah, and I'm and I'm not so sure you 00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:15.960 know it isn't an outreach because people are 00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:18.760 gonna see you out in the Walmart parking lots 00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:22.119 I Think it was at least one tweet. It was at 00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.199 least one tweet I remember that somebody said 00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:26.460 that they were out operating satellites and at 00:43:26.460 --> 00:43:28.820 least one other ham walk up in the parking lot 00:43:28.820 --> 00:43:31.639 like What are you doing? Are you working satellites 00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:33.739 and then sat around for the rest of the past? 00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:36.679 I mean, you know, they're definitely it raises 00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.360 some eyebrows, but you know, yeah, you're kind 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:43.079 of an ambassador so It's good stuff. All right. 00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:45.079 Well, we're going to have to, uh, to finish up. 00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:46.840 We've got a couple of things I need to get in 00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:51.519 here before, uh, we go. But one of them, Josh 00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:55.280 is, is, you know, I'm, I'm reading all these 00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:59.000 tweets here and there's all this Twitter activity 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:03.619 and you're not seeing a bit of it. Not a single 00:44:03.619 --> 00:44:08.760 thing because Your Twitter account's all messed 00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:13.599 up, and nobody wants to fix it. Yeah, yeah. About 00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:18.579 a week ago, I was following about 300 people, 00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:23.119 and I had about 360 followers. And all of a sudden, 00:44:23.340 --> 00:44:27.239 my feed went dry. I wasn't hearing anything. 00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:30.199 And somehow, for whatever reason, the database, 00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:33.800 something got corrupted. And I apparently am 00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:38.579 literally following No like null like I don't 00:44:38.579 --> 00:44:41.679 like it's impossible for me to follow anyone 00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:45.300 right now So I can tweet I can shout into the 00:44:45.300 --> 00:44:48.360 the void and people can can hear what I'm tweeting 00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:51.960 or see what I'm tweeting But yeah Twitter support 00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:55.940 has been absolutely no help I've tried official 00:44:55.940 --> 00:44:58.500 and unofficial channels. So if anybody's got 00:44:58.500 --> 00:45:01.820 any contacts with Twitter Please help me get 00:45:01.820 --> 00:45:04.900 that account back reinstated in a good standing 00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:10.159 And and we've been doing some some tweeting on 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:13.860 your behalf as well. Well, thank you very much 00:45:13.860 --> 00:45:19.400 If I have to if I have to start a new account 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:21.579 I will if I have to start from scratch I will 00:45:21.579 --> 00:45:25.019 it'll be fine But I really you know, I like I 00:45:25.019 --> 00:45:27.719 said about a year and a half Well, I guess it 00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:29.440 was probably nine months ago. I felt like I kind 00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:35.090 of found my tribe. I found K7TAB, AA5PK, Adam, 00:45:35.090 --> 00:45:41.269 I found all these guys, and Ruth. It's been a 00:45:41.269 --> 00:45:43.869 blast, and if you're not on Twitter, you don't 00:45:43.869 --> 00:45:46.190 have to be, but I tell you, it's a lot of fun, 00:45:46.329 --> 00:45:49.269 and it's a lot easier to find out, have some 00:45:49.269 --> 00:45:51.730 context for who's gonna be on a satellite, who's 00:45:51.730 --> 00:45:54.929 working rare grids, and there's been just a lot 00:45:54.929 --> 00:45:56.969 of camaraderie. I mean, this whole thing started 00:45:56.969 --> 00:45:59.090 because of those communications and because of 00:45:59.090 --> 00:46:03.050 those relationships. So if you want to, to tweet, 00:46:03.050 --> 00:46:08.670 uh, you know, Twitter support about W3 ARD stroke 00:46:08.670 --> 00:46:13.710 five. Yeah. Needing some help, you know, you 00:46:13.710 --> 00:46:17.690 might, you might want to do that. Okay. I can't 00:46:17.690 --> 00:46:21.369 pass this one up. We're already over, but I can't 00:46:21.369 --> 00:46:24.289 pass this one up. The tweet just came in from 00:46:24.289 --> 00:46:30.480 KG five GJT. What me an instigator and stirring 00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:35.380 the pot no way? Jeff we for me can vouch for 00:46:35.380 --> 00:46:38.639 me on that one as well. Hope shows great still 00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:42.380 at Walt Disney World Fantastic. Thanks Brian. 00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:46.320 Thanks Brian So he's he's still out there and 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:50.820 he's been That's Brian with some words to Brian 00:46:50.820 --> 00:46:53.920 Karcher with a K I would need to specify the 00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:56.340 first time I sent him a QSL card. I left the 00:46:56.340 --> 00:47:01.929 K off of his name So, he's got a Brian Archer 00:47:01.929 --> 00:47:09.889 QSL card and a Brian Karcher QSL card. Oh, my. 00:47:09.989 --> 00:47:14.909 Well, we had to get that in as that's going on. 00:47:15.449 --> 00:47:17.670 And one other thing that I need to get in that 00:47:17.670 --> 00:47:20.789 I promised I would get in, 100 watts of the wire 00:47:20.789 --> 00:47:23.889 is having their tune up June 8th through the 00:47:23.889 --> 00:47:30.300 10th. 0100 UTC on June 8th, Friday through 2359 00:47:30.300 --> 00:47:35.340 on Sunday. And it's a chance for you to tune 00:47:35.340 --> 00:47:40.000 up all your stuff for field day. If you can go 00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:42.420 portable, go portable. So again, this is one 00:47:42.420 --> 00:47:46.519 of those things where you can go. portable and 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:49.340 and get out there but this one's more concentrated 00:47:49.340 --> 00:47:53.559 on HF trade call sign state if you got a 100 00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:57.079 watts ID do that and a true signal report so 00:47:57.079 --> 00:48:00.739 wow everybody's not five nine oh my and there's 00:48:00.739 --> 00:48:06.099 some prizes and some stuff just for you know 00:48:06.099 --> 00:48:08.900 turning in your log or something it's just random 00:48:08.900 --> 00:48:12.380 drawings it's So anyway, a hundred watts to wire 00:48:12.380 --> 00:48:15.360 .com. Check that out. And, and, you know, we 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:17.840 keep talking about the, uh, the website and everything 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:20.679 for Wimploda. We haven't even mentioned the addresses. 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:23.940 So if you want to find out more about Walmart 00:48:23.940 --> 00:48:26.400 parking lots on the air, Adam, tell them how 00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:31.019 you do that. Yep. The main website, W M P L O 00:48:31.019 --> 00:48:36.159 T A .org. Okay. So go over there and you can 00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:38.659 check out the Wiki. And there's also the, uh, 00:48:38.699 --> 00:48:47.199 the WMPLOTA Twitter account, at WMPLOTA. Guys, 00:48:47.460 --> 00:48:50.719 it's been a total blast, as I knew it would be, 00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:54.139 and thank you so much for coming on. Thanks, 00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:56.579 Neil. This has been great. Thanks, Neil. Thanks, 00:48:56.719 --> 00:49:00.730 Adam. Had a fantastic evening. All right. Well, 00:49:00.730 --> 00:49:04.070 that is a wrap for this week's edition of ham 00:49:04.070 --> 00:49:06.590 talk live. Thanks to my guests Adam Whitney K 00:49:06.590 --> 00:49:11.670 zero FF why Josh Ward w3ard and everyone out 00:49:11.670 --> 00:49:16.789 there in Twitter land for chiming in And invite 00:49:16.789 --> 00:49:19.489 you back next Thursday night at 9 p .m Eastern 00:49:19.489 --> 00:49:22.269 time and to see who's on the show who's coming 00:49:22.269 --> 00:49:25.510 up visit ham talk live comm just click on the 00:49:26.309 --> 00:49:28.469 show schedule link. And if you like the show, 00:49:28.670 --> 00:49:31.210 please leave us a review on iTunes or wherever 00:49:31.210 --> 00:49:33.130 you listen. We'd like to build that up a little 00:49:33.130 --> 00:49:35.429 bit and make it easier for people to find us. 00:49:35.590 --> 00:49:39.409 So for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG saying 00:49:39.409 --> 00:49:43.570 seven three, seven five, and may the good DX 00:49:43.570 --> 00:50:01.090 be yours. Thanks for watching!