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our guests Carol Perry WB2MGP is back with us
yet once again this evening. Carol taught ham
radio at intermediate school 72 in Staten Island,
New York for 30 years. She travels across the
globe to speak to hams and about involving young
people in ham radio and using it as a teaching
tool carol perry is the recipient of the 1987
datan amateur of the year award the 1987 arrl
instructor of the year award the 1991 marconi
wireless memorial award the 1993 qcwa president's
award and the 1996 rca barry goldwater amateur
radio award and she's also won the radio club
of america president's awards in 2009 and 2012.
Carol is a RCA fellow, and in 2007 she was elected
to the board of directors, a position she still
holds, and created the Youth Activities Committee,
which she now chairs. Under Carol's leadership,
the RCA Youth Activities Committee donates equipment,
cash grants, books, and supplies to chosen schools
or youth groups. She also created the Young Achievers
Award, also from RCA, and that's given to students
in grade 12 and below. who have demonstrated
excellence and creativity in wireless communications.
Carol's moderated the Dayton Hamvention Youth
Forum and Instructors Forum for 30 years, and
she's a member of QCWA, RCA, ARRL, and a host
of others, and a friend of mine since my early
days in ham radio. It's so good to have you on
the show once again. Carol, welcome. Oh, thank
you so much, Neil. Always a pleasure to speak
with you. And last year at the forum I I was
I was sitting there just hoping to win one of
those arrow antenna packages because I Wanted
to get started in satellites and this weekend
I was we were talking earlier about the Walmart
parking lots on the air thing and and I was hoping
hoping to do that and Then something happened
that was even better I won one of those code
oscillators and I had you had you autograph it
and it's sitting right here and it's very special
because you've known me since I was five years
old and to get that at the forum and and you
know have you sign it and and Attend the forums
for many years. It was it was just a very special
thing. Oh I am just so delighted to hear that
because you've you've always had Your your presence
in my classroom before I retired I always had
a picture of you and I believe at age eight at
your radio station as a motivator in my classroom
Yeah, that's uh, that's been a long long time
ago, but we're still here doing all this Yes,
we are Well, our other guest tonight, speaking
of all these young people, is one of the speakers
that will be at the Youth Forum this year, Mason
Matrezzo, KM4SII from Clemens, North Carolina.
And Mason had a DX adventure of his own and another
one coming up this summer. And I don't want to
steal all his material. So I'm not going to tell
you about all of that, even though I've talked
to him a few times before. So Mason, we'll talk
about that in a few minutes, but welcome. Thank
you. Very happy to be here tonight. And we're
glad that you're not in court anymore. No, I'm
back home now so I could call in here on Skype
and that way everybody can hear me a little bit
better. Now I should explain that we were kind
of joking around before the show that Mason was
in court. Well it was a mock trial for some kids
and he was there before last year and he went
to observe this year. So no Mason wasn't in any
trouble or anything. Just wanted to clear that
up. Yes, we wanted to clear that up. Well, Carol,
let's start off first with just a few minutes
about the instructors forum before we get to
the youth forum and Mason here. So the instructors
forum, who should be in that? What do you have
planned for this year? And where do people go
to find that? Okay, well it's going to be in
Forum Room 4, and that would be Friday, 10 .30
a .m. to 11 .30. And who should attend the forum?
My answer to that would be anybody who is already
working with a youth group or in a classroom
or a scouting group, anything with young people.
or somebody who is thinking about starting such
a program with youngsters and ham radio and is
looking for ideas. This is a sharing forum with
a very dynamic speaker that I have this year,
but it's for anybody who's interested in getting
inspired to work with young people and radio
or somebody who's already doing it and is just
looking for a couple more creative ideas. Now,
the speaker this year that I have is a dear friend
of mine, a former RCA director and a member of
my RCA Youth Activities Committee. That would
be Charles Kermis, W0CBK, and he is going to
provide details on how search and rescue is becoming
very popular as an extracurricular activity,
even more so with all the recent catastrophes
that we've had globally. And just a few of the
topics that he'll be covering will be suburban
search, first aid, weather watching, helicopter
seat. safety tracking, search techniques, environmental
observations, and so on, and relating it all
to a classroom setting for young hams. So that
should be really great and hopefully inspire
some more creative ideas if you're already working
with a young group. And the networking opportunities
will be, as always, really wonderful at the Instructors
Forum. And again, that's Friday 1030 to 1130
in forum room for and You don't want to miss
that if you're looking at teaching any ham radio
to like like she said youth groups or in the
classroom or even Just you know the usual technician
class or the general class why? Come on down
and get some ideas and get inspired. Well the
big forum is the youth forum and that's on Saturday
and Tell us all about The youth forum and who
should be there and and and how that's sponsored
Well, okay, I will reduce my three -hour response
Which I could easily do Just to get everybody
aware of exactly if they're not already what
to expect from the youth forum This will be the
31st Yes, 3 -1, the 31st youth forum that I've
moderated and had the privilege of doing for
all these years and it is just the jewel in the
crown of all the venues that I do during the
year with Young Hams. Who should attend the forum?
My response to that is simple, everybody. If
you are interested in particularly supporting
the young people, our talented young hands who
will be up there with fabulous presentations,
that's a major reason to come. If you are interested
in hearing some of the most interesting of topics,
I always make sure everybody's got something
different to present so that you're going to
get a wide variety. I've got eight speakers this
year, including Mason, who we'll be hearing from
soon, all with different presentations. And we
encourage everybody to come for the support.
and really to get inspired and to feel real good.
It's a feel -good forum. You can't leave there
without a smile on your face. And part of the
forum is we've got fabulous sponsors. I've got
13 major sponsors. And there will be prizes,
certainly, for all the presenters. Then specifically
for the youngsters, 18 or below, 19 or below
in the audience. And then for my special audience
that I love so much, we have an ICOM IC7200 that
is going to be part of the door prizes for adults.
And we have a lot of things to announce about
different venues that the children can be nominated
for. And we will be announcing the Young Ham
Linza Hand Award. That's a contest that we run,
as you know. And it's just going to be one of
the forums. It is three hours in length. And
it goes so fast, the last whole hour is devoted
to the giving out of the prizes to the presenters
they get a special table full of of things that
have been donated to them for being presenters
and then for the audience separate drawing for
the youngsters and for the adults so it really
goes quickly you have to be present to win and
uh... we just want everybody to show up and so
you can see the best and the brightest that ham
radio has to offer and they really are and again
that saturday 9 15 a .m till noon in forum room
two and um You mentioned the Young Ham Wins a
Hand Award. I had a student that was fortunate
to win that last time around. So we look forward
to hearing about that at the forum as well. And
go ahead and give us the lineup of your young
speakers that will be presenting this year and
what they'll be talking about. OK, well, we've
got Matthew Spiker. I'm going to skip the reading
of the have the call signs at this point. But
they range in age from 11, which would be Sujay,
who's going to be speaking about school, scouts,
and service. Age 11 up to 17 this year we've
got. Matthew Spiker will be speaking about building
an inexpensive APRS tracking device with a Raspberry
Pi. Seamus Bonte will be speaking about mesh
networking for emergency communications. Mason,
who you will be hearing from soon, is going to
be speaking about his DX expedition to Iceland.
Bryant Raskol will be speaking about the 2017
Dave Coulter Memorial DX adventure to Costa Rica.
And you'll be hearing more about how to participate
in that. That's a fabulous adventure for youngsters
who come for free if they're chosen on that adventure.
You'll be hearing more about that at the Youth
Forum. I have Violetta Latham who will be speaking
about how I do ham radio without internet. And
then I have 12 -year -old Thomas Cholikov who
in fact was one of my Youth Forum speakers at
Hamcation in Orlando in February, who did a wonderful
presentation and will again on electronics projects
for young hams. Good ideas. If you're in the
audience, he's got some really interesting projects.
And then I have Tucker. Dunham, age 17, whose
topic is working with solar powered DigiPeters.
And that is this year's very impressive lineup.
That is a very impressive lineup. That would
be a pretty impressive lineup if adults were
doing it. Exactly. And you've got 11 through
17 year olds doing it. So, this proves that these
young people have a lot of talent and a lot of
know -how. Oh, and it's such a privilege to showcase
them and, Neil, what I love best about, well,
there's so many things I love about it, but the
ripple effect after they have given a presentation
at Dayton is just amazing. It gives me the opportunity
of plugging them into the different venues that
I have going all year, such as showcasing them
at the RCA Technical Symposium that takes place
once a year. And the networking opportunities
for these young people is just phenomenal. And
as you saw in that video last year, where are
they now? They really go back and attribute as
adults, go back to the support and the encouragement
that they got by being presenters at the Dayton
Youth Forum. It led to career choices. It led
to technical school choices. So it's kind of
that you become part of something that's bigger
than any one of us, and it's just such a privilege
to be part of it. Yeah, it's an amazing group
of young people and we want to talk to one of
those young people here tonight So we're gonna
throw the things over to Mason here Mason Matraz.
Oh KM4SII is here and I had the pleasure of interviewing
him for Amateur Radio Newsline last year about
a de -expedition he took and so he's going to
talk about that at the Youth Forum so we don't
want to give away too much here because we want
you to come to the Youth Forum and hear about
it and typically that's streamed online. I don't
have all the details on that just yet but typically
there's a stream available for that so hopefully
that'll happen. happened again this year. Carol,
do you happen to know about that yet? Usually
we talk about that and we. Yes, there are plans
underway with the people from Dower themselves
to get to get something done with that. OK, alright,
so. Probably we'll have that available. You can
check out hamvention .org and find that. But
we're going to let Mason give us a little bit
of a preview. And Carol, you're the Youth Forum
host, so I'm going to hand it over to you and
let you talk to Mason. Oh, OK. Alright Mason,
let's consider this a dress rehearsal. As I was
telling Mason before, and it's certainly my pleasure
to say it again so that everybody knows it, certainly
how I feel and how all the youngsters who participate
in this forum feel, they never have a reason
to be nervous in front of the audience at the
youth forum. Because for years, I have dubbed
them the love audience. And when you're up at
that podium, the kids will tell you and I will
tell you, you can feel the support and all the
good wishes and the warmth that come out of that
audience. It's the most special audience that
I encounter all year. So that being said, Mason,
you will now be totally relaxed. And why don't
you tell us about the very exciting adventure
you had when you were on a de -expedition to
Iceland? All right, yes, of course. Don't want
to give away too much, of course, since that's,
like we mentioned earlier, that's what you're
coming to the presentation for. But, yes, I went
to visit the lovely country of Iceland, which
has just recently kind of exploded with tourism.
For us, kind of, you know, little island off
in the middle of up in the Arctic that nobody
really knew much about but it's becoming a very
popular tourist destination right now and if
anybody's ever considering it I would definitely
say go to Iceland it's a great place but yes
my grandmother went with a tour group from her
church to Iceland and she invited myself and
my mom to come along and I got to thinking you
know I'm a ham radio operator that's totally
obsessed with DXing and contesting and all that
kind of stuff so What better opportunity to play
radio than from another country? Iceland's not
really that common of a country. It's nothing
as rare as stuff like, you know, North Korea
or some of the little islands in the middle of
nowhere. But it's not super common either. There
are some operators there, but it's just one of
the smart places that aren't on the air as much.
So I figured, you know, I might as well see what
the licensing was and see if I could get to be
able to operate from there. And most countries,
you actually have to be an extra to operate from.
And I'm still a general, so that's the plan for
the summers to become an extra. We'll see how
that works out when that school wraps up. But
it turns out Iceland is one of the couple of
European countries that lets general operators
operate from there. So I decided, all right,
well, I've got to get some radio equipment and
head to Iceland and see what could be done there.
And as you'll see in the presentation, like I
said, I don't want to say too much about it right
now. It was definitely an interesting experience.
There was innumerable challenges that were presented
by Mother Nature and the electrical system at
the hotel. So you can hear all about that at
the Youth Forum next month here at Hanvention.
Oh, well, that's excellent, Mason. And I can
tell how excited you still are to speak about
all of that and share all of that. So we will
certainly be looking forward to your presentation
along with the others. And I've already seen
the gist of what you're going to be sharing with
us. And to say the least, it's going to be very
inspiring to many of the young people in the
audience, as well as informative to the rest
of us. So I am thanking you in advance, and I
look forward to meeting with you in person next
month. Oh, yes, I'm definitely looking forward
to it. I got the opportunity to do the presentation
in front of our local amateur radio club here
in Forsyth County, North Carolina. And it went
really well. So I need to whittle it down so
it meets the time requirements. But I'm definitely
very excited about giving the presentation. Excellent.
Sorry. Now, Mason, you had this opportunity to
do this de -expedition. And now... You've got
an opportunity to do another one. So tell us
about that Yes, the QSO number was relatively
low from Iceland due to a number of challenges
that You can hear all about that stuff and hand
-vention like I said, but this one's bound to
be much more successful I'm I got selected to
be part of the youth DX adventure, which is a
fantastic organization that takes youth operators
a team of youth operators to operate from some
of the world's best stations down in the Caribbean
and Central America. They went to Costa Rica
last year and this year they're going down to
a station that probably some of the people that
are listening, if you've done any kind of HF
activity, you've probably worked this station.
It's the probably I would say the biggest station
in the Caribbean and probably one of the biggest
in the world. It's Papa Japan to Tango on Curacao
Island and it's a very big contest station and
I got the opportunity to go down there along
with two other operators. And we will be down
there in the middle of July, playing around on
all of the HF bands. And they have some gigantic
antennas down there. So if you're in the US or
in Europe, or pretty much anywhere in the world,
you will most certainly be able to hear us. So
I'm looking forward to getting a lot of people
in the logbook from down there. It's going to
be a fantastic experience, thanks to the UCX
Adventure. Yeah, the guys that went last year
learned a lot and had an absolute blast in Costa
Rica and and have become pretty close friends
But but one of the unexpected things that that
Christopher learned and I always have to bring
this up is Christopher learned how to make grilled
cheese Famous grilled cheese sandwich, so so
Chris bro we got we got you in here again but
uh so so we should take them for a cook this
year yeah yeah yeah so so so do you have any
plans on any any recipes for for carousel you
know i really don't have uh that very good in
the culinary department i'll have very good skills
in that department so not not sure if what i
make would be edible but it's worth a shot well
maybe you can talk to Chris before you go and
and he can Yes, you can give me some advice.
All right. Well, hey, we're going to take a break.
And when we come back, we're going to talk more
to Carol and to Mason and give you a chance to
call in, tweet in whatever you want to do and
jump in here into the conversation. So we'll
be back with Carol and Mason right after this
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it and uh can't tell you how much joy it gives
me to see the overwhelmingly positive impact
the forum has on the young presenters and the
audience. So there's another ad from Sterling
to go to this thing. And Carol, while we were
on the break there, you mentioned the Young Ham
Lends a Hand Award. Why don't you elaborate a
little more on that and some of the nominations
this year? Oh, please, yes. Anybody listening,
you can informally nominate a youngster who meets
the criteria. The Young Ham Linza Hand Contest
was begun six years ago with a friend, Evan Rolek,
canine SQG. He and I began this contest wanting
to honor and showcase Any licensed young ham,
again 18 or younger, who exemplifies amateur
radio's basic tenant of service. And we ask hams
to recommend and nominate a youngster. Any young
ham who participates in volunteerism for community
events, helping with senior citizens, that could
be military personnel. It could be school events,
recruitment, and or training of other youngsters,
or any other valid give back project. And that
person would be eligible for consideration for
this award. The winner gets announced at the
Hamvention Youth Forum and receives the $100
stipend check, along with all of our admiration.
And, Neil, as I was telling you before, this
year, Evan and I have received more nominations,
and a nomination is simply writing me in your
own words why you believe this particular youngster
would be a worthy candidate for this award. We've
received more than in all the years before, and
the caliber is just something that puts a smile
right on your ham heart because it's such a pleasure
to support and showcase these youngsters who
are giving back to the communities in some of
the ways that I just described. So by all means,
if you run across such a youngster, let me know.
Email me directly, my call letters, wb2mgpmightygoodprofessor
at gmail .com and tell me why you believe that
youngster deserves this award. All right, very
good and a very deserving award for a young person
So get those nominations in and if you have a
question about anything we've talked about tonight
or a comment Please give us a call at eight one
two six three eight four two six one eight one
two net ham one or Tweet us or you can if you're
on speaker you can put a comment in there and
we'll get that in the chat here, so Please do
that if you'd like to chime in. Now, Hamvention
moved last year and had new facilities and I
know that there's some changes coming to that.
Carol, what do you know about some changes to
the facility this time? Well, first of all, kudos
to all the fabulous people at NARA who just pulled
off an event last year that deserves nothing
but praise and admiration. They are just terrific,
and the fact that that venue was so fabulous.
It was just awesome last year. I had the biggest
forum room that I've ever had. As you know, if
you have followed me through the past 30 years,
I went from a really teeny tiny room uh... to
the uh... one of the largest rooms at hand pension
last year uh... that big room too uh... where
we have air conditioning and yes there was a
little snafu the noise of the air conditioning
uh... we had a shot at some point uh... so that
we could better hear the young speakers uh...
but we overcame that and uh... i've been assured
that that problem has been uh... taken care of
as well It's just, it's remarkable, I think,
what they have managed to do and clearly they
worked so hard all during the year to make sure
that it turns out to be so fabulous at the end.
Yeah, and and looking forward to that and it
really was nice to have some some room because
usually There's not much room And it was so nice
to to be able to to accommodate so many people
Last year, so that was great Well, tell us a
little bit about some of the the prizes you mentioned
the icon Rig mentioned some of the the prizes
that people will be getting in and the youngsters
Yeah, well, all of my young presenters will be
getting an HT radio from ICOM, certainly one
of our biggest, biggest supporters. For the past
27 years, Neil, ICOM has been supporting my youth
forums. Each of my youngsters will get a personalized
jacket from them with their name and call sign,
and they also receive a backpack. from ICOM that's
personalized, along with a patch that I created,
the RCA Young Achiever Patch, that gets on the
backpack as well. And AMSAT has donated books
that we're going to stuff in the book bags for
them. And of course I did tell you about the
big prize, the IC -7200 for the adults. RCA,
of course, Radio Club of America that literally
sponsors my being there, is going to be giving
a $100 stipend check to each of my young presenters,
and that is being donated and has been for the
past five years by, again, Charles Kermis, who
is going to be speaking at the Instructors Forum.
He has been just so impressed by the caliber
of the youngsters at that youth forum that he
picks up the $100 stipend checks for each of
the kids through RCA so that it doesn't have
to come directly out of my budget. And RCA also
donates my Carol's Monitors, people. The gentleman
with the yellow ribbon necklaces with the bronze
medallion at the end that says Carol's Monitors
on it. These are the guys without whom I would
have a really hard time doing that three -hour
forum. They take care of everything that needs
to be done there. as well as helping giving out
the prizes. Kenwood is donating radios. MFJ is
getting matching mobile antennas for the ICOM
radios and chest harness pouches. Heil Sound
is donating a new product, a BM -17 air phone.
And then we have, in addition, Lance Cruz is
the radio club. uh... that almost since the beginning
for the past twenty eight years that's the group
that print up those beautiful uh... price tickets
for us for the youth forum the adults get one
color and the uh... the youngsters get another
they take care of all those beautifully done
private tickets and they donate prizes adore
prizes for the kids and they've been tremendous
supporters of ours QCWA, of which I am the chairperson
of their youth activities as well, donates money
to support the Young Ham Lens A Hand contest.
ARRL is going to be donating $50 gift certificates.
DX Engineering, my good friend and president
of RCA, Tim Duffy has, through DX Engineering,
donated 10 $100 gift certificates to be given
out. The Delaware Lehigh Valley Amateur Radio
Club is donating money for the Young Hamlands
Hand Contest. And amateur call sign, which is...
founded by a friend of mine, Pete Varonis, who
is an excellent historian, is also a sponsor
of the Youth Forum. And as I mentioned, AMSAT
is donating those Getting Started books for each
presenter to have in a book bag. So once again,
we're going to have an hour's worth of giving
out prizes. And, and when they learn about all
the stuff from AMSAT, they can go do Walmart
parking lots on the air. Oh my, this is just
so much fun. It just fits right in. So, all right,
we're going to finish things up here, but, uh,
what, one last word with, with Mason here, are
you ready to go? Or are you just like, okay,
is it here yet? Is it here yet? Oh, yes, I'm
getting very excited for it not too much longer
now Now I will tell you from past experience
That you might want to bring a wheelbarrow To
take all that stuff home because it's a job I'm
telling you, it's, it's a job to get all that
stuff out of there. It's amazing. The car is
going to be weighed down on the way home. Drag
in the ground. Oh my goodness. Well, well, best
of luck. Look forward to, uh, to seeing you there,
uh, Mason and, uh, and, um, talk to you and,
um, thanks for coming on the show tonight and,
um, get ready for, uh, for the love audience.
Oh, yeah, we'll see you guys then All right,
Mason. We'll see you and Carol. Thanks as always
You are most welcome always a pleasure speaking
with you always glad to have you on and appreciate
all that you do to to showcase these young hams.
So get to the Youth Forum and the Instructor's
Forum. Again, the Instructor's Forum is Friday
of Hamvention from 10 30 a .m. to 11 30 a .m.
in room four and the Youth Forum Saturday morning
at opening 9 15 until noon in forum room. too.
So don't miss those. And thanks again to Carol
and Mason for coming on the show. But that is
a wrap for this week's edition of Ham Talk Live.
Thanks to everybody out there in cyberspace for
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