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on Thursday, May 10th 2018 I'm your host Neil
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at PL -259 .com Michael Coulter, W8CI, is the
official spokesperson of the Dayton Hamvention
and he lives in Xenia, Ohio and is past president
of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association and Hamvention
general chairman in 2011 and 12 and he's currently
the treasurer and board member of DERA and finance
chair for Hamvention. So Michael, welcome back
again. You're getting to be a regular on the
show here, I'm telling you. Well, you've got
a good program Neil and I like it's very efficient
and I usually It has a good reach and I I enjoy
being on the show and getting the word out about
Hamvention So thank you for having me Well, it's
always one of my favorite times of the year because
I get we get all excited I get excited about
it and then the news line people kind of started
Coming again and getting going on that and we're
always saying is it may yet? Is it may yet? Is
it may yet? We get all excited about so I like
do it all these preview shows and get pumped
up for all the things going on and there's a
lot going on right now because Mother Nature
decided that Spring wasn't going to come until
May so Tell us how the works going out there
in the flea market Well, just to remind everybody,
it's 7 days, 11 hours, 51 minutes until Ham Bension
starts this year. We have gotten actually the
main travel path that we used in the flea market.
We put down grindings and we got it spread out
really well. It's like a little road and they
roll it. These are grindings when they take up
roads for repairs, and we're not completely done
yet, but we are in the froze of getting it done,
and I imagine the first couple days next week
we will be complete or close to it. And I noticed,
Neil, you had a picture actually I took. You're
very good at getting these things, but you saw
the picture of the guys working on it. Yeah,
and they've got many many truckloads out out
there. So that's a really big thing. We're really
pretty excited about that happening So that is
that's going really well You know was out there
of course. I'm out there almost every day tents
are going up and this year we have The expo centers
putting tents up extra tents up so we have more
shade for people and We also are having to put
up tents because we did not get a building yet,
but we have a higher quality of tent, much higher
quality. It already has lighting in it and some
windows, things like that. It's higher grade.
It costs us a lot more money, but after last
year, we don't want any issues or minimize any
issues that we would have. And so we switch companies
and we think we have a lot better line of tents.
So that's going really well. As a matter of fact,
we have the new building, the Mercantile building,
which was not available to us last year, which
is available this year. And that is, of course,
sold out as well as we have as much, we're using
as much tent space this year as we did last year
for exhibits and booths and things like that.
I'm very, very excited. I do want to take the
opportunity to thank Ron Kramer. He's our general
chairman and he's done a really nice job leading
the group, 600 plus volunteers. I'll tell you,
when you work with volunteers, we all know it's
a... It can be pretty difficult, but for one
club to pull it off, I am really proud of the
Dayton Amateur Radio Association volunteers.
So this is Ron's last year, and we'll be using
a new general chairman next year, and that person
will be named soon. But anyway, real exciting
there, and I did pull up the long -term weather
for Xenia. And it looks pretty good, uh, Thursday
and Friday, a slight chance of rain on, excuse
me. It looks good for Friday, Saturday. I didn't
haven't seen Sunday show up on my long range,
but, um, it looks like a little bit of rain possible
on Thursday, but we're going to see if we can't
get that erased, Neil. Well, you can put in a
call over there to your, to your friends at the
national weather service and tell them to, to
get that changed. Well, actually, I work with
our National Weather Service, not far from me.
We cover all of southern Ohio and eastern Indiana
and northern Kentucky. I am a net control operator
there when we have severe storms. There are three
of us that do that. We rotate it, but we've only
been activated once or twice this year so far.
So when I'm down there, I always talk to them
and that's actually an excellent forum is the
forum that our national weather service puts
on. It is really, really good. Um, Brandon puts
that on and I am, I really highly recommend it.
So very good. Well, we'll, we'll hope for the
best on that and hope we don't have another Kentucky
Derby episode. And they said, Oh, we'll just
be a little rain in the morning. It'll, it'll
go away. And then it. stalls right on top of
it. We don't want that. I think Mother Nature
decided to hit just south of us down there in
Louisville instead of up here in the Ziniere.
We'll hope for the best there. So let's see,
we've talked about the flea market, that you've
got the asphalt. grindings out there and then
we put those pictures up or one of those pictures
up on on our social media sites if you want to
take a look at that and then the tents so let's
talk about some of the the changes here you've
added a fifth forum area so tell us about that
where that is and some of the changes to all
of the forum areas Well I think that you know
there are changes to form areas and last year
we had some issues with noise from ventilation
systems and they have all been corrected, tested
out, checked and to be sure that even in the
in the buildings themselves the air movement
units are all working well and you know not blowing
people apart but still working efficiently and
we plan to run those earlier out maybe all night
if the temperature is going to be warmer so that
we can maintain a comfort level because the airflow
in there is pretty good. Yes, we do have a fifth
forum area. That's a big change. We just get
such a demand for forums and people enjoy forums.
And I really recommend people get online and
take a look at the forums. And a new forum that
they're starting this year is a forum for vendors,
you have new or specialized equipment. They're
going to come in and they're going to show people
and they get about five minutes to kind of showcase
sort of an infomercial, if you will, showcase
some of the new stuff they've got going on and
then invite you to come learn more at their booth.
So, you know, I think that's on, I want to say
Friday afternoon and that should be pretty exciting
if it works out well. and people can really see
a lot of the new things or you know maybe some
interesting things that they didn't know were
around. So that's a new experimentation for this
year and we're looking forward to that. And this
new forum area is where? Well, it'll be in one
of the tent areas right in the in the complex
there I don't have the picture to show you so
it probably doesn't do any good, but it'll be
it'll be easy to find so Yeah That's what we
decided that's where we decided to place it this
year and also the tent placement this year will
be Better because we want to make sure that if
it rains we do have good quick rain drainage
if that is a requirement so I want to let folks
know that as well. All right. And, and one more
thing before, um, we'd talk about the parking
and I need to slip in here that we were just
talking about is this new equipment pickup area.
Um, that kind of goes along with the parking
that we'll talk about here in a minute. Um, but
fill us in on how this, uh, equipment drop off
and pick up thing is going to work. Well, here's
what's going to happen is we have a space that
will be a place where you can bring, say if you're
out in the flea market and you decide to buy
two or three big boat anchors, but you don't
want to have them stacked on your lap and if
you're taking a bus to go back to your car. And
if you do that, you can check the things in that
you purchased, you get a claim check. and then
you can come and drive right in. There'll be
a special place. You'll get all the information
when you check this stuff in, but you'll be able
to drive right in, pick your stuff up and go.
So it makes it a little bit easier. We're gonna
try that this year to see if that helps. We had
some comments and some ideas on that from people
right off of some of the shows here that you
do and other folks do. So we listened and we're
gonna give that one a try. Okay. And then, uh,
do you have a location on, on that where that
it's going to take place? I would, I would just
say that, you know, it's kind of hard for me
to talk about exact locations, but, um, because
people are probably not quite as aware of the
place, but Be sure you get your program and map
and it'll be very clearly stated in there where
where to take your stuff and you can also ask
we'll have many many golf cart drivers that will
be helping people you know with purchases and
things like that and getting people around and
They'll know exactly where to take you so Yeah,
we can't say take take a left turn at the cheesecake
on a stick anymore. We can't We can't use that
landmark thing anymore. No more. No more. But
we do have new food vendors coming in. We have
even more coming in. So maybe, Neil. Maybe. Maybe
one of these days. I just have to find a new
tradition. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. You know,
I wanna, while we're talking, I just wanna make
one thing. I wanna again thank all of our many
volunteers, and I wanna ask people that when
you come to Hamvention, it's an exciting event,
and please realize it's all volunteers that do
this, and it'd be great if you'd just say thanks
to one or be patient with us. And the other thing
I really wanna thank, I wanna thank the volunteer,
or excuse me, the vendors as well. They go through
an awful lot to get there, bring all lots of
equipment, and they try really hard to please
all of our guests. Of course, they want to make
sales, but still, I have the greatest respect
for all the vendors. It's a lot of work to bring
all that in and coordinate the people that work
there. so a big thank you and then to all of
you coming all the visitors we we certainly hope
you have a grand time now one more thing if you're
still looking for a hotel room and you can look
on our website you know hamvention .org or you
can call the green county convention visitors
bureau you know i met with them yesterday they
can still find some rooms and they're in touch
with all the hotels because, you know, of course
there's people that are going to come and they
drop out at the last minute and it's hard to
coordinate where the available rooms are and
they have their fingers on the pulse of that.
So, um, that's the, uh, green county, uh, convention
visitors bureau. Very good. No, you're, you're
good with this is all stuff we need to talk about.
So excellent. Uh, Excellent stuff. Just jump
right in there. Um, last thing I've got on, on
the plate here, um, for the moment, at least,
um, until we take a break, um, is the, uh, the
offsite parking, um, know that you're, you're
kind of pushing that more now, uh, as you know,
the, the, the parking lot issues. If we get 10
inches of rain again or 20, uh, you know, It's
going to get muddy and and you know, hopefully
it won't but you've got this off -site parking
and the shuttle buses so Tell everybody about
that and and what that plan is for parking this
year Well, of course, you know you can come clear
to the site and and You know get a parking spot
there. Of course, it'll be limited if they if
we fill up we'll have to divert you but doing
the off -site parking is actually a really good
idea because you leave your car and the bus drivers
you know funny I've heard plenty of stories about
the bus drivers that you know get people singing
on the bus or having a good time and they do
know the back roads they know the ways to get
in there and they'll know how to get in and out
so please check the website out Take a look at
whatever direction you're coming in from and
consider offsite parking. I think that you'll
find that to be very, very useful. And then whenever
the, when the buses come in, wherever you're
at, we'll have a shuttle service immediately
to take you right to the entrance so you can
come in. But I, you know, I would price on those
shuttle rides is zero, zero. Yeah. So don't worry
about having to get a bus ticket or any of that
kind of thing. You can just hop on the bus and
go. Right. We were, I know when we were at Harrah,
we had to, you know, we charged them the bus
ticket, uh, money, but we've dropped out this,
uh, in, in green County. So very good. We hope
people enjoy that. Yeah. Any other light breaking
news here? on anything, anything's changed here
in the last week or two? Well, nothing's really
changed. It's just getting, or getting closer.
And I found it very interesting. You are saying,
is it May yet? Is it May yet? And when we're
working at Hamvention, we're going, oh my God,
it's May. So it's a little bit of a, a little
bit of a reversal. Yeah, just a little. out there
today looking at how nice everything looks. The
grass nice and green and we haven't had any monsoon.
We've had some rain but not the monsoon rains
lately and roads going in and you know people
are all seeming to have very good spirit working
together well and that's really critical and
critical for us and we're just so excited that
it's going to happen and we are really looking
forward to the amateur radio community coming
in. to be our guests and have a great time. All
right. Well, we're going to take a break and
we're going to come back and take some calls
and some questions and just want to remind you.
that we will have an update on the weather and
traffic and parking next Thursday night here
on HamTalk Live. We'll give you the most up -to
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you text hamvention18 to 888777 again that's
hamvention18 to 888777 you can get some text
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months now and of course hamvention .org and
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Live. So now's the time to call if you've got
some questions or comments. Now's your chance
and Carl KD9HQT just wrote in and says Hammy
is top ten so so we've got a new new person doing
Hammy this year, but Hammy's gonna be there,
so we're excited about that and we'll Have Hammy
running around taking pictures everywhere and
one of the places might be The Mcom display so
Michael why don't you tell us about This Mcom
display new right we are our our Team this year
is amateur radio serving the community and you
know the thing about The reason why we wanted
to go with that is as we look around them, you
know in the last year or so Look at everything
that's going on. We've got volcanoes. We've got
Earthquakes we've been having some You know,
flooding, bad weather, tornadoes. I know where
in Greene County, near where I live, we get these
really intense storms in and of course we've
had several tornadoes roll through and matter
of fact just a few weeks ago we had a tornado
touch ground just north of the fairgrounds and
took out some barns and did a fair amount of
damage, you know mostly in the rural area, but
still did damage. And if that would happen, like
I said, we do have the National Weather Service.
We'll be at our location. And they are focusing
on watching the weather and exactly what might
hit our region. The Weather Bureau is really
great about that. And working down there and
watching how they can really do a lot of pinpointing
of things, they can call and give us warnings.
Even give us some time estimates of things like
that if that sort of thing were to occur, but
I Think you know that it's the Mcom Trailers
we got many many many coming in I I was listening
the other night in our committee meeting It's
going to be quite a display of Mcom Trailers,
and we're very excited about that And a lot of
our forums are pretty much focused around how
do we set up emergency operations in our communities
and for different things. What should be our
protocol? And I know that's an evolving topic,
but that's going to be a big thing. But I really
suggest, especially those of you in your clubs
that are contemplating doing an Mcom or are in
the process, please check it out and look at
the forums that you're going to be focusing on.
And almost every forum will have some, will have
some part of it dedicated to emergency communication,
believe it or not. 812 -638 -4261 is the phone
number. If you have a question about Hamvention
coming up next week. Give us a call or send us
a tweet at ham talk live and you know, you've
got the Mcom one that's going to be there. You've
got the Dayton amateur radio association Mcom
trailer both very impressive pieces of equipment
and then you've got several more coming in so
You got a lot going on there and We were going
to mention camping, but I just happened to think,
too, you've got a clubhouse open house going
on, too. Right. We've got a couple more things
like that I should mention. We do have our open
house. And please consult the website for that.
But we have a very impressive clubhouse. And
that's for DERA, or Dayton Amateur Radio Association,
W -8 -B -I. So, please, if you get a chance,
take a look at maybe driving over and taking
a look at that. Of course, the Air Force Museum
will be open and that's always a great visit
if you get in early and you're looking for something
to do. It doesn't cost a thing and it's a very,
very, very impressive museum. It's hard to get
through it in a day, to be truthful with you.
Let's see, there was a few other things I wanted
to mention. We're going to have a balloon launch.
I don't know the exact times right now, but we
are going to have a balloon launch, so you might
want to check the website for that and get updates
of exactly when that's going to happen. It's
going to be depending on weather at times if
it's still a go, but that's always a lot of fun
to do that balloon launch. Let's see, there is
a group, I think it's called HamSci, and Ward
Silver has that group, and it's a group of young
hands, very... very uh... astute young people
that are going to be they're doing demonstrations
all day they're going to be doing uh... you know
presentations demonstrations that would be there
to talk and that's going to be in that uh...
mercantile building and uh... they've got a nice
location there and i please urge you to go to
that and support these young people they've got
you know a lot of them are you know engineers
out of uh... just out of college or just gotten
their phd's that are really making a difference
now and will make even more of a difference in
the future. Go ahead, Neil. I know Dr. Nathaniel
Frissell has been on the show. The Solar Eclipse
QSO party is big into that and he'll be there
and it's next to the ham radio 2 .0. Now there
was a little controversy there with the name
that there's a podcast named Ham Radio 2 .0.
That's not it. It's using the same name, but
that'll be around there. And we're going to talk
camping, but first I do have a tweet here from
Karen Eve Murray, KD2GUT from Amateur Radio Newsline,
and she wants to ask, will the smartphone text
alerts start heating up as of Thursday? So are
we going to see more of those texts? Well, I
would imagine so. Talking to, by the way, Gene
Fisher is a sheriff of Greene County and he is
a newly licensed P .M. Got his general class,
he and his wife both. He carries a, I was talking
to him the other day and he was showing me, come
here Michael, tell you what, I got my two meter
and my cruiser here. He has a very sophisticated
unmarked vehicle, but he was carrying his his
radio in there as well. And he was sort of the
one that spearheading that. So I'm sure this
is going to get used. If there's traffic alerts,
traffic updates, weather alerts, different things
like that, it'll, I would say now it's our first
year with it, but I believe it will heat up.
So, okay. Thanks for tweeting in. Yeah. Thank
you, Karen. And again, that's Hamvention 18 to
888 -777 is how you sign up for that. Just text
Hamvention 18 to 888 -777. It's right on the
website. Yep. It's right on the website, Neil.
Just look it right up. It's easy. The instructions
are right there. All right. 812 -638 -4261 is
the phone number, 812 -NET -HAM -1. We have some
time left with Michael here this evening. If
you want to give us a call or a tweet at HamTalk
Live, you can do that as well. and we'll try
to get all your questions answered that we can
this week and then again next week we've got
some exciting stuff coming up. We'll talk about
that again in a little bit. Let's go back to
the camping situation. You want to talk about
camping a little bit and you have some options
there so we'll talk about that. Well it's interesting
I was talking to Esther who works at the Expo
Center Fairgrounds and she handles the camping
and you know I know the demand to camp on site
there's huge and if you call her you can get
on a waiting list but the interesting thing is
she told me there were 10 people that had dropped
out or changed their mind or whatever in the
last couple of months so quickly those spots
got used. Now, I know the area really well, and
as I live, this is my neighborhood. It's my hood.
So I would suggest people take a look at, if
you're camping, take a look at Caesars Creek
State Park. That's Ohio State Park, and you can
make reservations there. I don't know where they're
at with their reservations now, but it's a beautiful,
beautiful area, and it's right on the lake, and
beautiful campgrounds. and the road that it's
on is off of State Route 380, which is south
of Xenia. So you take that road, beautiful road,
it won't be hardly any traffic at all, and it'll
take you right into Xenia, take you right there.
That is definitely a place that I would look
at getting. Now, talking to Brandon, our county
administrator, we are building, he is building,
me but his group is building and refurbishing
a new camping facility that will be available
at least the primitive camping part of it will
be available next year many many sites and that's
probably five miles from the venue so keep an
eye out for that one that won't be available
this year but it will be available soon there
are also spots that had been available at Central
State University. It's near Wilberforce, Ohio,
which is another four or five miles from the
fairgrounds. And they're going to have shuttle
service in. They have rooms there, and they've
got food there for their guests. So you might
want to take a look at that one, too. That may
still have some spaces and spots. I know it's
been a pretty hot place lately. people are finding
out about it and they're using it and uh but
it's a nice location and easy ride in and out
so take a look at those spaces and once again
take a look at the um uh the convention and convention
and visitors bureau you can call them Kathy and
Lisa are there and they are they told me the
other day hey we're ready to help out whatever
people need so there Okay, so there's plenty
of options and and again I'll throw in the plug
since they're since they're helping us out with
the meeting room and everything Spring Hill Suites
Dayton South, Miami's Berg has about five left
I believe is what Kevin told me the other day
so That's an option too. That's eight eight eight
five zero six three nine one if you want to check
on that one, so We're just about out of time,
but if you want to give us a last -second tweet
here It's at ham talk live or six three eight
or eight one two rather six three eight four
two six one is the phone number now we know that
the the new building project was was delayed
because of the bidding and that kind of thing
and and That's not going to start so that we're
not Having construction going on during ham vincen
What's the latest news on on the new building?
That'll be? Temptively going well right right
now looks like the start would be after they
have a county fair in August and then no excuse
me right after that They'll have a what they
call old -timers day. So it would probably take
place in the toward in a September October uh,
into the year timeframe. And, uh, but we haven't
heard any official start dates or anything like
that. So, um, keeping our fingers crossed and
we'll definitely let everybody know when that
happens. Okay. Very good. Well, we're just finishing
up here with, uh, with Michael's and let's, uh,
let's check in here to make sure we didn't miss
anybody. Um, looks like looks like we're pretty
good so want to tell everybody about what's going
on with us but yeah let let's uh... let's go
ahead and finish up michael uh... anything else
you need to get out there why go right ahead
yeah once again i just want to thank all of our
volunteers you know and um... there are so many
of them and i hope when you're there you thank
a volunteer and um... because this is a major
event for a club one singular club to put on,
as many of you know. Nobody gets paid in our
club to do this. From the top down. I also want
to mention, too, is if you do end up having a
question or you're listening to this later, I
am good on QRZ, Whiskey H, Charlie India, and
WHCI. I try to forward any emails that I may
not be able to answer to the proper people on
our committees. And I also want to thank all
of you that are going to come. I think it's going
to be a great time. We're going to have new food
this year. It's going to be really even over
the top better than last year. The fairgrounds
is last year. I think they didn't market it very
well, but they sold some great mugs, hand -vention
mugs. and for 2017. And this year they're selling
the same for 2018. And our Xenia club sells the
official shirts and logos for Hamvention. So
be sure to check those people out too. Anyway,
Neil, it's been a pleasure to be on your program
and get to talk more about Hamvention. And I
think it's something we all love. I do. You know,
I've been there I was cleaning out the file cabinet
the other day and I found some old programs from
The 80s and was looking through those and just
remember a lot of a lot of good times a lot of
good trips over there and and Some some pretty
cool stuff and some equipment that now I look
at and go Why would I want that? But back then,
it was super cool, you know? It was the greatest
thing, you know? I love it. You know, I like,
I actually sort of a collector of old equipment.
I have old shortwave equipment that predates
World War II. And some old Patterson and Brett
Lincoln, all my stuff works really well. So I
enjoy that. Anyway, Neil, what a pleasure. Thank
you for continuing to support Hamvention and
everybody out there, thank you for your support.
And I know you're gonna come out there and I
hope that you come away with a story because
there's a couple different kinds of people that
go to Hamvention. Those that go there, well,
it was okay. Or those that go there and, well,
all this was screwed up. Or those that go there
and look at it and go, man, do you remember the
Hamvention that da da da da da da happened? That's
the kind of thing it is about hand -vention.
It is, you come back with a story, you know,
and it's not always easy, it's not always hard,
but we always want it to be fun. Yeah, and that
it is. So thank you so much for coming on again
and next week we'll have a variety of people
and we're going to give you the week off because
you've got just a little bit of work to do. Neil,
it's always a pleasure. It's always a pleasure
to work with you. You run a really good show.
You have a good plan with it. And, um, you support
amateur radio in so many ways and, um, you just
keep doing it all the time. And I don't think
people realize how much work that it is that
you do because it's your passion to do it, but
you know, getting the communication out to keep
our hobby growing and alive. Thank you for what
you do. Well, thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Well, that is a wrap for this week's edition
of HamTalk Live. Thanks to Michael Coulter, W8CI,
and everybody out there in cyberspace for listening
and calling in and invite you back next Thursday
night, 9 p .m. I'm excited. 9 p .m. Eastern Time
when we're going to try this new live... Weather
and parking and traffic and all that kind of
stuff. We've got some some surprises in the works,
too But we're going to have the exclusive Hamvention
weather forecast from Eric Elwell who by the
way is KD for BNT He is the storm Center seven
WHIOTV chief meteorologist and we're going to
talk to him a little bit and and a lot of people
don't know that that he's a ham so we're actually
going to talk about that a little bit next week
and we'll also have a Dayton and surrounding
area traffic report and we're working on getting
that lined up with Michael and then we'll have
up to the minute information on the parking We'll
talk about the on -site parking. We'll run all
that down for you the remote parking and busing
And then we're going to talk to some people with
some events going on and and maybe a personality
or two I'll say that much. I'm not going to give
it all away here But make sure you tune in next
Thursday night 9 p .m. Eastern time live right
here at ham talk live .com or if you're out and
one of these dinners and everything on Thursday
night, listen to the podcast when you get back.
podcast will be up in just a few minutes after
the show, so you can get all the information
you need at HamTalkLive .com or your favorite
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That'll help us get in the listings better and
help people find us faster. So for now, this
is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7375, see you at
Ham... next week and may the good DX be yours!
I've 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 73s, to you and your family
I'll be seeing you further down the law Your
73s, to you and your family I'll be seeing you
further down the... Check it.