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Hey, good evening everybody. We're live from
the sold out Spring Hill Suites, Dayton, South
Miamisburg. This is HamTalk Live, episode number
115, live from Dayton 2018, recorded live on
Thursday, May 17th, 2018. I'm your host, Neil
Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this episode
of HamTalk Live. Tonight we won't be doing our
usual call -in show. We'll be doing something
new tonight. Tonight we're going to give you
all the latest information you need for your
trip to Dayton. And if you missed something on
the show tonight and need to hear it again, HamTalk
Live will be on HamTalkLive .com. and all the
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the show, like Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and
Stitcher, and we'll also be on YouTube. And don't
forget our mascot, Hammy. We'll be wandering
around Hamvention on Friday and Saturday. We'd
love to see your photos with Hammy, so post them
online. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, use the
hashtag HamTalkLive. And if you stop by the Ham
Nation and Newsline booth next to Heil Sound,
you can get an I'm Not Will Banks button while
supplies last and get your picture taken with
Flat Dawn and post those with the hashtag. I'm
not Will Banks. So tonight we have weather, traffic,
parking news, and all the information we could
find about some other activities going on this
weekend related to Hamvention for you. So we're
going to start off with the weather and with
the exclusive Storm Setter 7 WHIOTV Hamvention
weather forecast. Here is Chief Meteorologist
Eric Elwell, KD4 BNT. Well, the forecast is going
to be a little iffy, but I do think we'll get
some dry time in there. We will have to dodge
some showers and thunderstorms. It seems to always
be the case every year. But the better chances
for showers and thundershowers will be early
in the day on Friday. We'll keep that chance
into the afternoon before tapering off as we
get into the evening. But more scattered showers
and a few thunderstorms Saturday, not expecting
to be anything severe. Does look like we get
most of the day in Sunday drive. before some
showers and storms return in the evening. Temperatures
should be comfortable, a little bit cool on Friday
as we top out in the lower 70s. We will climb
up to near 80 again by Saturday and maybe a bit
warm on Sunday as we top out in the middle 80s.
From the Storm Center on News Center 7, Chief
Meteorologist Eric Elwell for HamTalk Live for
the Dayton -Hamm -Vincent 2018. Hey, thanks Eric
and you've been here in Dayton for a little while
on TV doing weather, but not everyone knows That
you're a ham. So tell us a little bit about your
ham radio experience Well, I've been a ham radio
operator really since the late 1990s My father
was very much into it and I remember in high
school listening to him talk all across the world
with the different Rigs that he had and I just
found it fascinating uh... with my interest in
whether i've also found that uh... uh... amateur
radio worked very well for storm -chasing you
know we're talking about times with cell phones
obviously weren't very popular uh... there were
very few and uh... very expensive so uh... i
had my first two meter radio as i was going to
college and started storm -chasing uh... in between
classes at mississippi state university and i
was lucky enough to get my uh... my first job
in Wichita, Kansas, and that was in 1995, and
I got to go out there, was out there for three
years, and we did a lot of storm chasing there,
and that's really where I got the most use from
my ham radio license, and it was always fantastic,
always met great people, and a lot of help that
the amateur radio helped me. in storm chasing,
because out in parts of Kansas, if anybody's
ever been out there, there's not much coverage
of anything else out there. And so you had to
have a ham radio if you were going to do any
storm chasing at all. Now, do you still get on
the air or do you listen to Skywarn there for
your job? Personally, I don't use it as much
anymore. I still have a handy talkie that I have
in my house that I'll listen to every once in
a while. I don't talk as much as I used to, but
I did just recently update my license because
it was about to expire and I wanted to keep it
because I wanted to probably get back into it
more. But we do, we actually have Skywarn here,
the Dayton Skywarn is headquartered here at WHO
TV. They've got their office here in the building
just down the hall really from the weather center.
So it's a fantastic operation. The folks there
are very good and I'll go in there and listen
to them. or somebody on our team will go in there
and listen to them, especially if we have severe
weather. So we are actually making more of an
effort to help them out and appreciate what they
do here in our building as they cover severe
weather coming in out of Indiana into Ohio. So
I do stay involved with it and listen to it and
have certainly communicate with the storm chaser
events. And most of those guys are amateur radio
operators. Well, Eric, that's pretty cool. Thanks
for, uh, coming on and doing this. Any last words
for the people going to invention this weekend?
I've always appreciated amateur radio operators.
We have several here in the building. Most of
those guys are engineers and they actually help
us with our radar systems and everything else.
So I've always appreciated those guys. I know
you guys are tech savvy and, uh, and it's a lot
of fun. So I wish everyone the best weekend and
hopefully no one gets stuck in the mud out there.
All right, thanks again, Eric. That's Eric Elwell,
KD4BNT. And you can catch Eric and his team on
WHIOTV Channel 7 while you're here in Dayton
area for continuing weather coverage. In fact,
it's coverage you can count on. That's what they
say. Well, it's time for some traffic and we're
expecting a call here soon. But first let's look
at some of the regular traffic around the Dayton
area So for once The traffic isn't all that bad
in the Dayton area most of the construction on
I -75 has been finished So there's not a whole
lot going on, but there's still some at the US
35 West ramp to I -75. There's a closure there
on the ramp and you can go around that north
and go to the US -35 East ramp. And then Stewart
Street to US -35, there's a ramp closure there
as well. And also, if you go through northern
Kentucky, if you're coming in from the south
and going through Cincinnati, I -71 and 75, there's
some nightly lane closures and weekend lane closures
for some construction there, so watch out for
that. Be careful out there on the roads and enjoy
your trip into Hamvention. Talking frequencies
here, 146 .94 is the main repeater with its appeal
of 123. The alternate is 146 .985. and that's
a 123PL also. The traffic bulletin station is
on 145 -525. 145 -525. They'll have some repeating
bulletins on there about traffic. You can also
get the text alerts from Hamvention. Hamvention
18 at 888 -777. Dayton hams also monitor 223
.94 and 442 .1 mid cars is available on seven
dot two five eight and Also, they announced they're
doing One of those a .m. Information stations
The normal one is on 1660 a .m. But they're doing
a special one on 1620 a .m. Listen to that a
little bit today so you can get some information
there and They're trying out a 20 meter net,
but I'm not sure if that's going to be going
all weekend, but they're going to try around
14 .325. And if you're doing DMR, there is a
DMR code plug at arrl -ohio .org. If you want
to download all those, you can do that as well.
When you're coming into Hamvention, if you...
Following the ADA parking make sure you enter
at gates three or four Flea market enters gate
two and exit inside exhibitors have their own
little map so Make sure you know where you're
going here Traffic in Green County actually looks
pretty good, and hopefully we'll have a call
here To fill you in on that a little bit more
As far as gas prices go, I was going to tell
you that you ought to wait and get your gas a
datin', and then all of a sudden today the gas
prices went up. So if you can find anything under
$2 .99, you probably ought to take it, because
just about everything in the region is at $2
.99, but we did find some. Sam's Club seems to
be the good one. Beaver Creek was 274. Washington
Township 265. Costco in Centerville was 265.
The BP in Fairborn was 267 earlier. In Xenia,
most were 299. The BP and the Shell were at 271
and 274 respectively, but pretty much if you
find anything under 299. you probably better
take it. All right, we're gonna take a break,
but we'll be back with the parking information,
shuttle bus information, and some event information
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back to our Hamvention Prep episode coming to
you live from the Spring Hill Suites Dayton South,
Miamisburg. We're just down the street from the
Dayton Mall and they are sold out. If you're
looking for rooms, you're not going to find them
here. But thanks for tuning in tonight. We hope
that we're helping your trip to Hamvention be
more enjoyable. So one of the things we want
to talk about is parking. And last year they
tried to do a lot of the parking on site and
it just wasn't working out real well and with
all the rain and so they've decided to go back
to what they had done a lot at HERA which was
the remote parking and free shuttle service.
So there is parking still available there at
the fairgrounds but it is kind of weather dependent
so you can get some parking there. But they really
suggest that you take one of the remote lots
now the remote lot list is on the website Hamvention
org we're going to run it down for you Just a
little bit, but you can find the GPS coordinates
there and the actual Full address on there so
you can put it in your GPS and find it easily.
But the remote lot number one is a closed car
dealership and a closed grocery store on CJ Drive
in Beaver Creek. That's in the 33 and 3400 block
of CJ Drive. You can go with 3401 CJ. That's
S -E -A -J -A -Y Drive in Beaver Creek. and you
can park there and ride the free shuttle bus
in. Lot two is at Xenia High School, which is
303 Kinsey Road in Xenia. Lot number three is
Youngs Jersey Dairy, and that's on Springfield
Xenia Road in Yellow Springs, and from what I
hear, that's worth a stop whether you want to
park there or not. I hear it's some pretty good
ice cream. Lot four is the Green County Government
Campus. That's 667 Dayton Xenia Road in Xenia.
And then lot 6 is the old Kmart lot in Xenia.
84 Xenia Town Square so if you take one of those
parking lots you can get a free shuttle bus ride
and they'll run you through all the back roads
and everything and and get you in there and get
you out and they do have don't forget the equipment
drop -off so if you have equipment that's too
big to take back on the bus you can just leave
that there and pick it up and You can Come back
and pick that equipment up Whenever you want
so okay, we've got a phone call here, so let's
see who's on the line ah There there he is Gary
can you hold on for just a couple of minutes
Okay, we were joined now by The Greene County
Sheriff and with the call we were expecting to
talk about some traffic in Greene County and
because of some of the work with Hamvention,
we're proud to say that the Greene County Sheriff,
Gene Fisher, is KX8GCS. So he's one of us now.
So Gene, thanks for calling in. And tell us a
little bit about the traffic flow in and out
of Hamvention this weekend. Well, everybody that's
here last year knows that Friday was a heavy
traffic day and there were a lot of backups.
So we are encouraging people to use offsite parking
and jump on the bus and come to the Hamvention
on the bus. There is parking at the fairgrounds
and you know so if you come in expect to back
up a little bit. Hopefully we made some changes
that will facilitate a smoother entrance into
the fairground parking area, but if you can take
advantage of the offsite parking and bus into
the site, that would be our recommendation. Okay,
very good. Now any construction or road closures
that people need to be aware of? There's some
construction in downtown Zena. They've got some
new Asphalt down and new markings on the road,
but you know it shouldn't shouldn't change the
traffic flow that you guys had last year, so
it's um That's not going to be an issue at all
There is one if you're coming if you're coming
in from the north on 235 235 Coming into 68 which
takes you in the Xenia Has a small detour and
it probably just adds three or four minutes to
your drive time Other than that, we're good to
go. Okay, now when I was looking through some
of the information, I saw that is it Traben Road
where a lot of people turn coming from Dayton
proper. There's going to be construction there,
but was that held up or just? That construction
has been completed. What they did there was as
you're leaving now, that was a one -lane road.
they created a right turn lane off of Traybine
onto westbound 35 to go back to Dayton. So that
should be a benefit. That's over with, so that's
even better. I had no problems today, but of
course there weren't a whole lot of people going
in today, so it was nice to meet you today and
appreciate you coming on. Any advice? first for
people coming in? Well, first of all, we got
something else restarted this year, and it's
the text alerts from my office for just Hamvention
attendees. People can, if they would text Hamvention
with a capital H, Hamvention 18 with no space,
to, you text that to 888 -777. It will automatically
sign you up to receive text alerts from the sheriff's
office. And we plan to use that if there are
traffic issues on the roadway. And I know that
we got the DARA talking group going. But we can
text to your cell phone certain things like this
road's blocked. We recommend using this outlaw
to park or if the Xenia High School off -site
parking is full. We'll send a text alert out
for that. So it's a good way for us to keep in
communication with everybody coming to the Hanvention.
It also is automatically going to send National
Weather Service alerts if we get any thunderstorm
or tornado activity in the area. So hopefully
it keeps our fingers crossed so we don't get
too much rain or definitely no severe weather.
That's a good thing to have and hopefully just
another way that we can use technology to keep
everybody informed of what's going on. I signed
up for those some time ago and been seeing a
lot of those. Got one a while ago about the lightning
so we appreciate you taking the time to make
that happen and we'll be watching those. Our
goal is to have everybody make everybody's experience
here in Green County and the entire Miami Valley
a pleasant one and you know just make sure everybody
has a nice safe time. Okay again that's Hamvention
18 with a capital H no space. Hamvention 18 and
just text that all one word to 888. 777 and that'll
sign you up for those. So Gene, before we let
you go, why don't you tell us a little bit about
how this call sign thing happened? Well, first
of all, my, you know, this is not my Green County's
foray into the Hamventions, not my first time
at the Hamventions. My father -in -law was a
ham radio operator and he would come up from
southern Ohio and we would get in the car and
go to hair arena every year. My wife and I, my
wife had her license for 30 years, let it expire.
Last year after the hand venture we took the
classes and both of us are now got our tech and
then afterwards I went to the general classes
and now I'm a general. But my call sign KX, X
stands for Xenia or it's also the 24th letter
of the alphabet which was a badge number I carried
as a senior police officer several years ago.
Eight, the region we're in in Ohio, and then
GCS, Green County Sheriff. So KX8, GCS. Very
good. Well, we're glad to have you officially
along and licensed, and we appreciate all your
efforts to make everybody's trip to Ham Radio
Mecca a little better. It is a yeah, it had so
much fun last year, you know being an official
I on Saturday I was standing at the gate I'll
be there tomorrow morning probably every morning
greeting people when they come in so Yep, any
of your listeners want to just come up shake
my hand say hi. Did they heard me? That'd be
great We surely appreciate that and I appreciate
that you talking to me earlier this morning.
So Gene, thank you so much for calling and thanks
to you and all of your staff for all the work
this weekend. We'll be out there to make sure
everybody has a safe time and if you need anything
and see one of the guys in uniform, just ask
him. He'll be there to help. All right, Gene,
thanks so much. 73. Yep, have a good one. Take
care All right, that's the Green County Sheriff
And that's I'm losing my notes because this is
all out of order It's live radio at its best
Green County Sheriff Jean Fisher KX 8 GCS so
thanks for joining us and We were getting ready
to go to Gary on the line here. We're going to
switch from parking over to some the events that
are going on. And joining me tonight is my friend
Gary West, K8DEV, from the National Voice of
America Museum of Broadcasting. And they're having
an open house down there in Westchester, Ohio,
which is just south of Dayton off of I -75. And
Gary's going to tell us a little bit about that.
So, Gary, good evening. Good evening, Neil. Happy
Hamvention Eve. Yes! Yeah, we got off to an early
start today and had a great time. Had a good
crowd come through, people from as far away as
California and actually one gentleman from Sydney,
Australia stopped in. And this is the first year
that we've been open on Thursday of Amp Mansion
Weekend. We have had several requests and it
turned out that there was quite a demand for
that so I'm sure we'll want to do that in the
future. But for your listeners who may not be
aware of it, we are located at the former Voice
of America Bethany Relay Station in Westchester,
which is between Cincinnati and Dayton, just
off I -75, Tyler'sville Road exit. And those
of you that are old timers like me will remember
coming up 75 to Hamvention and seeing all those
towers. Well, the towers are gone, but we've
still got a lot of radio stuff here. and we hope
that people that are looking for something to
do over the next three or four days will take
advantage of the expanded hours that we have
here. Just a little background, the Bethany station
was operational from 1944 to 1994 and had six
of the most powerful shortwave transmitters in
the world which were enhanced by some very sophisticated
high -gain antennas. radiated, effective radiated
power in the 10 to 20 megawatt range on HF and
broadcast to listeners seeking proof in Europe,
Africa and South America during World War II
and the Cold War and broadcast in over 50 different
languages. So we got a lot of stuff to look at
here and about the least here I've got my feed
up at station 2 and WC8 VOA which is the Westchester
Amateur Radio Association club station which
is located here at the museum and the radio club
is the division of the museum and the resident
radio club here at the museum. And we are open
and we hope that some folks will come along and
bring their licenses and get on the air. Although
we had an awful lot of QRN today, I'm afraid.
Hopefully that'll get better as the weekend progresses
here. But we've got some real unique exhibits.
One of the things that is of particular interest
to most people coming to Hamvention is we have
a very comprehensive collection of very amateur
radio gear. This was R .L. Drake's personal collection
that was housed at the R .L. Drake company until
that building was repurposed and we were fortunate
enough that we were allowed to display those
rigs here and I think we've got just about every
piece or at least about every piece I can remember.
The only thing to me that's real obvious that
we don't have is an L4B linear and we're gonna
have to get the work on that. You may have to
wrestle some people away for that one. Yeah,
well that's right. We'll hit around and maybe
we'll do some good, you know. The other thing
that's of a lot of interest to the RF -oriented
people is we do have one of the remaining Collins
250 ,000 watt transmitters here to look at and
we also have the 1960s VOA master control room.
WC8 VOA is actually Hal's recreation of the original
1940s era control room, so you get a chance to
see how that is situated also. And something
new, a couple things new that weren't here last
year at Amvention Time, we have a new display
about powell crossley junior and uh... some folks
may play well that that's how crossley junior
power crossley junior started crossley broadcast
they can probably broadcasting is responsible
for the voice of america about any station was
actually constructed by his engineers uh... he
was not an engineer and better himself but he
was a very skilled guy yet that that taking ideas
and commercializing there's a lot of things here
the shelved or refrigerator and stuff like that
that he created so i think you'll find that uh...
very interesting not to mention the crawly car
by the way we do have one of those two well to
look at uh... and uh... we have a traveling exhibit
currently at the museum the u .s. coast guard
carter courier with a cold war era floating radio
transmission facility that uh... was permanently
anchored in the uh... mediterranean off the coast
of Rhodes, and it relayed VOA Bethany broadcast
to the Middle East and Soviet Union. And it also
relayed some of the other VOA stations. And it's
just real interesting, the story there. And actually,
we had somebody at the museum today whose dad
was involved in that process. In the early 60s,
they constructed a local land -based VOA station
in Greece itself but his dad was over working
on that and was there of course while they were
constructing the station they still had to use
the courier to broadcast from there so he was
a very young man and has a lot of memories but
he was really thrilled to see the display because
he was not aware the display was here. We also
have a couple of things where there's work in
progress, Neil, and, you know, I don't think
you've seen some of this stuff, but we're in
the process of creating a Bethany Station site
model, and we were gonna make it a scale model,
but, you know, this whole site was so large that
the model would fit in the room. The biggest
feature that was gonna be on the model was the
towers, and they were gonna be about two inches
tall. So what we decided to do so you could see
more detail is some of the main structures like
the transmitter building and some of the antennas
and transmission lines are going to kind of pop
out of display so you can see more detail. I
think people will find that interesting. It's
not finished, but there's enough there that you're
going to really get a good idea of what it's
going to look like. And then also we have some
information to share about an exciting new antenna
project that we're in. beginning stages up. So
that's a couple of new things that are going
on here at the museum. Now what we've done to
accommodate Hamvention is we're going to be open
tomorrow evening, Friday from four to nine, Saturday
and Sunday. I think you know, Neil, that the
museum has begun opening every weekend, each
Saturday and Sunday from one to four. So this
weekend on Saturday and Sunday we're going to
extend the Saturday hours from 1 to 9 and then
we will be open Sunday from 1 to 4 and I did
get a couple phone calls from people concerned
that they might not be able to see everything
they want to see by 4 o 'clock. So you know we'll
tell you if you can get here by 4 or a little
bit before 4 we'll make sure that you get to
see the place and we won't shut the lights out
right at 4 o 'clock to give you a chance to see
the museum. I'd love to have people come and
join us. So a little bit of information there.
And if you want additional information, we do
have a booth at Hamvention. It's booth number
1910. That's in E1, Maxim Hall. And stop by and
see some of the guys there. I'm going to be there
for a little bit tomorrow myself, right after
noontime. and just really enjoy the chance to
get together with everybody. Of course the website
is www .voamuseum .org or wcavoa .org, whiskycharlie8voiceofamerica
.org. Gary, we look forward to seeing you again.
this weekend. Some of the Newsline crew is going
to be down there and be on the air from WC -8VOA,
hopefully, if we don't have any thunderstorms
this year. And we sure look forward to seeing
all that and invite everybody down. We're looking
forward to it. And come on down I -75 or Route
42. You can't miss it. All right. This is Gary
West, K -8DEV. Thanks for calling in and we look
forward to seeing you here in a couple of days.
Okay, thanks very much Neil and everybody have
a good Hamvention. All right, 7 -3. All right,
we're going to take a break and we're going to
come back and talk about a few more activities
and wrap things up after this from Amateur Radio
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the information you need for your trip to Dayton.
It's Hamvention Preview here on HamTalk Live.
4 to 9 p .m. Tomorrow, that's Friday and then
Saturday 1 to 9 and Sunday 1 to 4 and they'll
stay around a little while longer if you need
them to and again voamuseum .org Well, there's
a lot of other stuff going on besides what's
going on out there at Hamvention the contest
super sweet is available from 7 p .m. to 2 a
.m. each night at the Crowne Plaza, downtown
Dayton. On the second floor, that's the Harding,
McKinley, Garfield, and Harrison rooms, and they
have pizza parties all four nights. And a cash
bar is available. On Thursday night, tonight,
it's wings and pizza, and then tomorrow night,
the pizza party's at 11, but at 10, it's... Working
by the numbers, it's the band live in the presidential
ballroom, second floor of the Crown Plaza. I
think the way Tim Duffy, K3LR, put it was, you
know, there were great bands like the Beatles,
and then they broke up. Well, the Spurry Submissions
band, they broke up. But some of the same people
made a new band. It's working by the numbers,
and you will hear... Some familiar music from
the spurious emissions band like maybe something
about a possible Handheld like a bow thing Possibly
so I'm told so Be sure you check that out tomorrow
night, 10 o 'clock, Presidential Ballroom, Crowne
Plaza, and then another pizza party at 11 o 'clock
on Saturday night. Some other stuff going on
tomorrow after Hamvention. The Darragh Clubhouse
is going to have an open house from 6 to 8 p
.m. That's at 6619 Belafonte Road in Huber Heights.
The Southwest Ohio DX Association DX Dinner is
at the University of Dayton Marriott at 7 p .m.
And the guest speaker is Gary Dixon, K4MQG. And
if you want more information, SWODXAevents .org.
AMSAT and Tapper will have their banquet. There's
a D -Star gathering at 630 at the Drury Inn on
Miller Lane in Dayton in the ballroom. And then
the D -Star InfoCon will be at 8 p .m. there
in the Drury Inn ballroom. Flex Radio and the
DX banquet is 7 to 10 tomorrow night. That's
at the Hilton Garden Inn, Dayton South, Austin
Landing. I come here the latest from Flex Radio
and special guests. Advanced registration is
required. That's at flexradio .com. The Top Band
dinner is at 7 p .m. and social hour at 6 p .m.
at the Crowne Plaza in downtown Dayton. The featured
speaker, Top Band DXer Jerry Rosilius, WB9Z.
Got to see Jerry today and it was good to see
him. And he hit three deer at their pre -Dayton
barbecue the other night. can't believe that
Val said that he doesn't operate single he always
operates multi so he had to hit three deer I
only hit one deer this year but he hit three
but he's fine I saw him today and the collegiate
ham radio dinner is 6 30 to 9 p .m. at caddy's
tap house of Beaver Creek so if you are in the
collegiate ranks I'm sure Sam Rose would appreciate
seeing you and all those guys in the collegiate
rank. So again, that's 630 to 9 at Caddy's Tap
House in Beaver Creek. On Saturday, Darryl will
again have an open house at their clubhouse,
6 to 8 p .m. You need to check that out. It's
pretty impressive. The Dayton contest dinner
is at 630. The social hour starts at 530. That's
at the Crowne Plaza. Those tickets are available
exclusively on the Contest Dinner website. And
the QRP Grand Banquet is 730 to 10 o 'clock at
the Holiday Inn Fairborn. So we're going to wrap
things up here. Some news. Well, some people
have been looking at, OK, are there any big announcements
from all the manufacturers? coming and Paul Brown
sitting here in front of me and fellow Kenwood
fan and We're waiting to see what they unveil
tomorrow, but Some rumors are going around I
heard some today But we'll see what they have
to say, but haven't heard anything yet. Did hear
Contest University that Flex said that they did
not have anything big to announce yet. So don't
have a whole lot of information. It's tight -lipped.
It's almost like an Apple iPhone event. It's
like nobody's saying anything. They're creating
all the buzz by not saying a word. So I don't
know. Hammy is going to be wandering around Friday
and Saturday Again, we'd love to see your pictures
from that So be sure you post those on Facebook
Twitter Instagram hashtag ham talk live and again
the I'm not Wilbanks buttons from amateur radio
news line while supplies last stop by the ham
nation and Newsline booth next to Heil sound
that's in hertz hall building five and then you
get your i'm not will banks button and uh...
you can come get your picture taken with flat
dawn so flat dawn will be back and you can get
your picture and uh... post those photos with
the hash tag i'm not will banks so we we miss
our buddy don will banks eighty five b w that
can't make it but His son Tyler is graduating
and so we'll let that be a good reason to not
be here. So congratulations to Tyler. Tyler was
here last year. Tyler served as Hammy the mascot
too. So we miss Tyler too. Tyler, congratulations.
So let's take one last look at the weather with
Storm Team 7's Eric Elwell, KD4BNT. We'll be
tracking scattered showers and thundershowers
through the weekend, but there will be some dry
time right now. The best bet of dry weather looks
to be later in the day on Saturday and into early
Sunday. More showers and storms are expected
to arrive Sunday night. Hopefully everything
goes just smoothly. From the Storm Center on
News Center 7, Chief Meteorologist Eric Elwell
for HamTalk Live for the Dayton Hamvention 2018.
Okay, and just a reminder, the hours this weekend,
Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 9 to 5, Sunday 9 to 1,
and then they raffle off all the stuff that people
didn't pick up. So make sure you get your ticket
in there and enjoy Hamvention. So that's a wrap.
For this special Hamvention episode of HamTalk
Live, thanks to my guests Storm Center 7 WHIOTV
Chief Meteorologist Eric Elwell, Katie Forbnt,
Green County Sheriff Gene Fisher, KX8GCS, Gary
West, K8DEV from the National Voice of America
Museum of Broadcasting, and everyone out there
in cyberspace for listening. And invite you back
next Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time when
Matt Thomas, W1MST, will be here to talk about
his blog, amateurradio .com. And for a list of
all of our upcoming guests, visit HamTalk Live.
And if you like Hab and Talk Live, please consider
leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you
listen. It helps others find us faster. So for
now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7375.
Have a great time at Hamvention, and may the
good DX be yours. Right back to my security call
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once mentioned your weather at all And I didn't
mention mine We talked and talked for hours and
hours I completely forgot you're a ham I don't
know your power or the height of your tower Frankly
I don't give a damn So 73 We're local up here
But why don't those whistling Mediterranean's
check it with frequencies clear? We're warm and
cozy in our shacks And we have talked about thousands
of things About shoes, about ships, about ceiling
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