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You're 00:04:43.300 --> 00:04:58.259 listening to HamTalk Live with Neil Rapp. Thanks 00:04:58.259 --> 00:05:01.040 to Scott and Jill at Tower Electronics for sponsoring 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.360 the show tonight to help bring you HamTalk Live. 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:08.800 Coming up this weekend, they'll be at Dalton, 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:13.339 Florida on the 24th. That would be Saturday. 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:18.300 And then March 3rd, they're getting closer to 00:05:18.300 --> 00:05:21.180 here. They're getting up to Cave City, Kentucky. 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.579 And then March 18th, they'll be in Toledo, Ohio. 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.790 And they did mention online today. They have 00:05:29.790 --> 00:05:33.449 their Hamvention reservations done so you can 00:05:33.449 --> 00:05:36.269 visit them at Hamvention as well or give them 00:05:36.269 --> 00:05:43.370 a call at 920 -435 -2973 or online at PL -259 00:05:43.370 --> 00:05:47.290 .com and tell them you heard it on HamTalk Live. 00:05:47.990 --> 00:05:52.069 My guest tonight is Michael Coulter, W8CI. He 00:05:52.069 --> 00:05:55.689 is the official spokesperson for the Dayton Hamvention. 00:05:56.610 --> 00:06:01.949 And Mike resides in Xenia, Ohio, and is a past 00:06:01.949 --> 00:06:04.810 president of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association 00:06:04.810 --> 00:06:09.569 and a former Hamvention general chairman. He's 00:06:09.569 --> 00:06:12.389 currently the treasurer and a board member of 00:06:12.389 --> 00:06:15.990 DARA and the finance chair for Hamvention. And 00:06:15.990 --> 00:06:18.550 he is an active musician, a Skywarn net control 00:06:18.550 --> 00:06:22.709 and HF operator. Had the opportunity to travel 00:06:22.709 --> 00:06:26.370 quite a bit around the world including Tunisia 00:06:26.370 --> 00:06:29.290 and the Peace Corps and the speaker about ham 00:06:29.290 --> 00:06:34.509 radio in Germany cutter and India so We've had 00:06:34.509 --> 00:06:36.889 Michael on several times talking about hamvention. 00:06:36.889 --> 00:06:39.370 We're glad to have him back with us tonight. 00:06:39.430 --> 00:06:43.509 Good evening Michael and welcome back Hey Neil, 00:06:43.529 --> 00:06:46.250 it's you've got a great show and I like the way 00:06:46.250 --> 00:06:48.250 you run your show you're doing a great thing 00:06:48.250 --> 00:06:51.410 for amateur radio and it's always a pleasure 00:06:51.410 --> 00:06:55.170 to get to talk to you especially about one of 00:06:55.170 --> 00:06:58.149 my favorite events and that's the Hamvention. 00:06:58.949 --> 00:07:01.029 So thanks and thanks for everybody who's out 00:07:01.029 --> 00:07:03.769 there tuned in and if you do have a question 00:07:03.769 --> 00:07:06.009 I'll do my very best to answer them and I know 00:07:06.009 --> 00:07:07.850 that we're going to get to a period of time here 00:07:07.850 --> 00:07:12.029 where you can call it in. Yep, absolutely, and 00:07:12.029 --> 00:07:14.889 we thank you for coming on and all your work 00:07:14.889 --> 00:07:18.649 with Hamvention and all your volunteer staff 00:07:18.649 --> 00:07:22.970 and your volunteer hours to make all that happen. 00:07:23.029 --> 00:07:26.910 Well, we're about three months out and we knew, 00:07:26.930 --> 00:07:29.930 you know, the first year was a little bit of 00:07:29.930 --> 00:07:32.370 a learning curve and there were some changes 00:07:32.370 --> 00:07:35.850 that needed to be made and we had you on in July 00:07:35.850 --> 00:07:39.680 to talk about that a little bit. Bring us up 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.160 to date on how some of those projects are coming 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:46.019 along for some of the improvements for this year. 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:51.019 Okay, we'll talk about the new building because 00:07:51.019 --> 00:07:53.980 we worked hard with the county commissioners 00:07:53.980 --> 00:07:57.899 and the expo center folks and it looked like 00:07:57.899 --> 00:07:59.579 you know everything was going through with the 00:07:59.579 --> 00:08:01.939 new building and we'd have it in time for hand 00:08:01.939 --> 00:08:07.350 -vention. And we heard that from everybody. And 00:08:07.350 --> 00:08:10.970 when it came down to it, when they got the bids 00:08:10.970 --> 00:08:13.689 out and everything, they were not going to be 00:08:13.689 --> 00:08:15.689 able to get the building done before Hamvention 00:08:15.689 --> 00:08:22.230 18, but it will be done for Hamvention 19. So 00:08:22.230 --> 00:08:26.009 we still are going to have some tents, or maybe 00:08:26.009 --> 00:08:31.110 just one big tent. We're really, really, really 00:08:31.110 --> 00:08:33.289 sorry about that. I mean, we have every intention 00:08:33.289 --> 00:08:35.750 to have that done, so this will be our last year 00:08:35.750 --> 00:08:39.049 of that. Plus, we also got the Fairgrounds Furniture 00:08:39.049 --> 00:08:42.029 Building, which is another, I think, 7 ,500 square 00:08:42.029 --> 00:08:46.470 feet, which is very significant. But that was 00:08:46.470 --> 00:08:49.549 probably one of the negatives. And the other 00:08:49.549 --> 00:08:53.370 one was, got a lot of comments about mud, and 00:08:53.370 --> 00:08:56.659 even from people that weren't there, say, are 00:08:56.659 --> 00:08:58.620 saying, you know, I don't wanna go there because 00:08:58.620 --> 00:09:01.100 it's so muddy, you know, and that's what my friends 00:09:01.100 --> 00:09:07.000 told me. But you know, we had a monstrous rain 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.679 the night before that, I mean, monstrous, and 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:13.940 I think we had two to three inches of rain, and 00:09:13.940 --> 00:09:17.120 that was hard to get all that drained out, and 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.659 even though the flea market area is drained, 00:09:21.259 --> 00:09:25.399 we think we can improve it, so. I'll take a pause 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:27.639 a minute. Then if you want me to talk about that, 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:31.519 I'll be glad to. Yeah, sure. And I'd also like 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.100 to hear a little bit more about the new building, 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:40.279 like where it would be situated and how much 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:43.000 space it'll be and kind of the style of the building. 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:45.460 Because a lot of the buildings I've noticed are 00:09:45.460 --> 00:09:49.720 kind of long and narrow and very segmented. Is 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:52.870 this going to be more of an open? concept kind 00:09:52.870 --> 00:09:57.990 of building? Well, I'm surprised that the three 00:09:57.990 --> 00:10:00.850 very large buildings are all open. I don't know 00:10:00.850 --> 00:10:04.029 if you recall that, but they're also on the sides 00:10:04.029 --> 00:10:05.750 there are halls and there's different things 00:10:05.750 --> 00:10:08.389 there, but huge areas inside each one of those 00:10:08.389 --> 00:10:12.730 buildings. The Fairgrounds Furniture appears 00:10:12.730 --> 00:10:15.250 that it will be all, you know, an open building 00:10:15.250 --> 00:10:19.019 much like It'll be bigger than if you remember 00:10:19.019 --> 00:10:22.960 where Bob Hiles area was in that real nice building 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:28.519 It's going to be right next to that In the same 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:32.679 complex and it will be a nice open building The 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:35.960 new building will be actually a u -shaped building 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:40.330 and it'll be located right out So those of you 00:10:40.330 --> 00:10:43.090 have been there and give you a little bit of 00:10:43.090 --> 00:10:46.169 a visual It'll be directly across from where 00:10:46.169 --> 00:10:48.850 the three main buildings are you'll have in the 00:10:48.850 --> 00:10:52.330 center point There's a is a flagpole Then you 00:10:52.330 --> 00:10:54.850 had a lot of delicious vendor spaces and then 00:10:54.850 --> 00:10:58.889 you had a little road that went by But it's right 00:10:58.889 --> 00:11:02.389 in that complex and it's gonna be right right 00:11:02.389 --> 00:11:05.450 in the whole complex area across from basically 00:11:05.450 --> 00:11:08.850 where the beer truck was. For those of you there, 00:11:09.129 --> 00:11:10.950 you probably know where that is. Does that help 00:11:10.950 --> 00:11:16.309 you at all? And the total square footage, I can't 00:11:16.309 --> 00:11:18.129 recall it off the top of my head, I should have 00:11:18.129 --> 00:11:21.649 that number, but it matches if not a little bit 00:11:21.649 --> 00:11:23.970 more than the tent space that we had to use, 00:11:24.370 --> 00:11:27.899 the total tent space last year. And so by getting 00:11:27.899 --> 00:11:31.299 that fairgrounds furniture building, which is 00:11:31.299 --> 00:11:34.860 part of, you know, owned by the fair complex, 00:11:34.860 --> 00:11:39.220 the Expo Center, that significantly cut down 00:11:39.220 --> 00:11:43.379 on the amount of tent space that we need. So 00:11:43.379 --> 00:11:47.120 once again, you know, I really regret, I mean, 00:11:47.289 --> 00:11:49.190 I got on and announced that, yeah, we're gonna 00:11:49.190 --> 00:11:51.730 have the building. But I will say that as soon 00:11:51.730 --> 00:11:53.649 as we found out we couldn't get building supplies, 00:11:53.690 --> 00:11:56.769 we wanted to make it clearly known that, hey, 00:11:56.830 --> 00:12:02.210 we can't get this building before Hamvention 00:12:02.210 --> 00:12:05.529 this year. Now, we're not paying for the building. 00:12:05.990 --> 00:12:08.230 So we're a little bit more at the mercy of the 00:12:08.230 --> 00:12:10.950 county. And the county and the city people and 00:12:10.950 --> 00:12:14.309 township people are really behind us in trying 00:12:14.309 --> 00:12:17.230 to make this stuff happen. Does that help you 00:12:17.230 --> 00:12:19.169 a little bit? Oh, the new building will have 00:12:19.169 --> 00:12:21.950 heating, it'll have air conditioning, it'll have 00:12:21.950 --> 00:12:25.809 restrooms, running water in there, and it'll 00:12:25.809 --> 00:12:28.730 be a very nice building. They're upping their 00:12:28.730 --> 00:12:32.389 game there to have what they call a world -class 00:12:32.389 --> 00:12:35.769 expo center. And they've left a room that maybe 00:12:35.769 --> 00:12:38.409 a few years from now, they put a second and a 00:12:38.409 --> 00:12:45.009 third building in there. gratifying to work in 00:12:45.009 --> 00:12:48.289 it within a community that loves us and supports 00:12:48.289 --> 00:12:55.610 us and wants to help so Yeah, and then The other 00:12:55.610 --> 00:13:00.850 question came came up was will that construction 00:13:00.850 --> 00:13:05.129 start before Hamvention or do you think that'll 00:13:05.129 --> 00:13:09.629 be after I? Can tell you right now. We do not 00:13:09.629 --> 00:13:14.330 want it to start until after Hamvention and, 00:13:14.509 --> 00:13:18.230 um, we don't want all that, you know, possibility 00:13:18.230 --> 00:13:19.909 of all that equipment and everything. You take 00:13:19.909 --> 00:13:22.549 up a lot of space and, and it'd be a distraction. 00:13:22.590 --> 00:13:25.570 No, we're going to get that done. Start. Um, 00:13:25.990 --> 00:13:28.049 Oh, I don't know exactly when they'll start. 00:13:28.090 --> 00:13:30.049 They have a county fair that'll come up sometime 00:13:30.049 --> 00:13:32.590 after that. And they'll start right after that. 00:13:32.590 --> 00:13:36.230 So we'll, it will not interfere at all with Hamvention. 00:13:36.789 --> 00:13:39.370 Okay. So you're thinking probably after the fair, 00:13:39.590 --> 00:13:42.379 then after their too big events. Right, right. 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:44.779 There's still plenty of time then to get things 00:13:44.779 --> 00:13:49.340 going. So that's our plan and that's their plan. 00:13:49.419 --> 00:13:52.840 And we totally like the idea. We don't want that 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.639 construction going on the same time as, um, as, 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:00.200 uh, Hamvention. Okay. Now you mentioned the, 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:02.399 uh, the fairgrounds furniture building that, 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:05.580 uh, was there and they had cleared out some space 00:14:05.580 --> 00:14:08.360 for us to use, uh, that was kind of storage. 00:14:09.069 --> 00:14:11.710 uh... last year and now uh... that buildings 00:14:11.710 --> 00:14:14.190 going to be available and and i know some people 00:14:14.190 --> 00:14:17.730 have been kind of concerned of about uh... you 00:14:17.730 --> 00:14:20.490 know uh... are we the reason that they're leaving 00:14:20.490 --> 00:14:22.850 and and you know we hate to see you know uh... 00:14:22.850 --> 00:14:26.789 a long -time business uh... go away uh... because 00:14:26.789 --> 00:14:30.230 you know we get together once a year so uh... 00:14:30.230 --> 00:14:33.309 can you can you tell us a little bit about that 00:14:33.309 --> 00:14:36.750 well here's what i can tell you is that uh... 00:14:36.750 --> 00:14:39.789 we had him mention Never pressed to get that 00:14:39.789 --> 00:14:42.549 building. Are we glad to get it? Oh my god. Yes 00:14:42.549 --> 00:14:46.669 We're thrilled to get it. But did we go to the 00:14:46.669 --> 00:14:50.309 expo center people and The powers to be there 00:14:50.309 --> 00:14:53.029 and say you need you need to evict them, you 00:14:53.029 --> 00:14:57.149 know, that's not our intention There were other 00:14:57.149 --> 00:14:59.870 Circumstances that I'm not even privy to that. 00:14:59.870 --> 00:15:02.450 I don't even want to know but I will tell you 00:15:02.490 --> 00:15:04.970 that the date amateur radio association and he 00:15:04.970 --> 00:15:07.230 mentioned had absolutely nothing to do with trying 00:15:07.230 --> 00:15:10.570 to get this uh... building you don't get them 00:15:10.570 --> 00:15:14.570 to leave you know i i live uh... just out by 00:15:14.570 --> 00:15:17.110 having a mailing address but i live out the countryside 00:15:17.110 --> 00:15:20.590 south of zinnias and and it's hard when you know 00:15:20.590 --> 00:15:22.250 we're getting blamed for something to really 00:15:22.250 --> 00:15:25.529 have a part of however you know we we do get 00:15:25.529 --> 00:15:28.309 the benefit of it and uh... i'm sorry to see 00:15:28.309 --> 00:15:32.220 them lose the business and or get get evicted, 00:15:32.419 --> 00:15:34.460 but at the same time, I guess I'm very happy 00:15:34.460 --> 00:15:37.919 for us. Um, but we had absolutely nothing to 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:40.700 do with that happening. Thanks for asking that 00:15:40.700 --> 00:15:44.120 question. Yeah. And, and then, yeah, let's go 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:46.720 back to the, to the mud. I know you said that 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:50.059 you've got some, some plans to improve on that. 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:52.519 And we kind of skipped back to the, to the new 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:55.379 building for a minute. So let's go back to, uh, 00:15:55.419 --> 00:15:59.120 the plans there on some of the drainage for some 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.299 of the parking areas and flea market and that 00:16:01.299 --> 00:16:06.419 kind of thing, how that is coming along. Okay, 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.399 I'm sorry I skipped ahead a little bit before 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:14.220 giving you an opportunity to ask me a question. 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:19.000 So I'll be a little bit brief. The county engineer 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:24.409 is really a big supporter of He even has told 00:16:24.409 --> 00:16:26.490 me personally, whatever you guys need, just let 00:16:26.490 --> 00:16:29.429 me know. So we told him, and we really need help 00:16:29.429 --> 00:16:32.070 with this mud. And so the county engineer and 00:16:32.070 --> 00:16:34.629 his people are designing or have finished the 00:16:34.629 --> 00:16:37.429 design of, I don't think it's hard to do, but 00:16:37.429 --> 00:16:40.990 where the vehicles came down through, they're 00:16:40.990 --> 00:16:46.029 going to take up about three inches of the earth 00:16:46.029 --> 00:16:48.529 and they're going to put these, I guess called 00:16:48.529 --> 00:16:50.929 grindings, asphalt grindings down, roll them 00:16:50.929 --> 00:16:55.220 in. And my understanding is that it doesn't take 00:16:55.220 --> 00:16:59.480 long for that to really be a nice, decent surface. 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:05.559 It won't be, I don't know if you can skateboard 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:07.920 on it, but it'll be definitely a nicer surface 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.640 for vehicles to travel on. And we're gonna start 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:15.740 with the worst areas first, and we're hoping 00:17:15.740 --> 00:17:18.200 to get 100 % done with it, but we might not, 00:17:18.220 --> 00:17:20.279 depending on the timing and the weather here. 00:17:20.859 --> 00:17:26.460 That is all gonna happen soon, and whenever they 00:17:26.460 --> 00:17:28.799 start that, I'll be going up there and taking 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.579 pictures so I can prove to people, hey, this 00:17:31.579 --> 00:17:34.859 is really happening. So the other idea we had, 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:37.960 it would have been, we thought maybe we could 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:40.059 sell boots or something, right, if everybody 00:17:40.059 --> 00:17:47.059 went in and pre -marked it. Get a little extra 00:17:47.059 --> 00:17:50.759 money there to pay for that. to pay for the expo 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:53.359 center, right? Yeah, there could be. We were 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:57.339 thinking about hand -vention commemorative boots. 00:17:57.859 --> 00:18:00.819 And we were also thinking about selling some 00:18:00.819 --> 00:18:06.480 2017 commemorative flea market mud at maybe $20 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:10.359 .95 a jar. And we even thought, man, if people 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:13.359 even act now, they could get free shipping in, 00:18:13.420 --> 00:18:16.819 too, for the price of one. But we act that idea. 00:18:18.450 --> 00:18:21.230 You know, I like the boots idea. You can even 00:18:21.230 --> 00:18:24.509 put the little logo on there, you know the whole 00:18:24.509 --> 00:18:28.930 thing Yeah, well You know, it was a tough year 00:18:28.930 --> 00:18:32.750 and you got what we you know what we in our club. 00:18:32.809 --> 00:18:37.210 I mean we Kind of look at it. Well So we take 00:18:37.210 --> 00:18:39.890 a slam and we're gonna keep on hammond and that's 00:18:39.890 --> 00:18:42.490 sort of our our slogan of what we do with our 00:18:42.730 --> 00:18:45.049 six hundred i hope i get it right six hundred 00:18:45.049 --> 00:18:48.490 fifty seven volunteers i think that we have to 00:18:48.490 --> 00:18:51.910 work with us and uh... it's amazing to have that 00:18:51.910 --> 00:18:56.029 much dedication and passion for an event and 00:18:56.029 --> 00:18:58.410 you know my job i have a little of a little bit 00:18:58.410 --> 00:19:02.490 of a job in in in producing all of this but um... 00:19:02.490 --> 00:19:05.390 i have to thank all of our volunteers and i want 00:19:05.390 --> 00:19:10.750 to say something about hamcation and uh... folks 00:19:10.750 --> 00:19:13.950 up in michigan are put that on huntsville people 00:19:13.950 --> 00:19:18.089 uh... so many of these ham fest around the country 00:19:18.089 --> 00:19:20.750 that i think it's really important that we all 00:19:20.750 --> 00:19:23.430 say thank you to whatever volunteers are just 00:19:23.430 --> 00:19:26.569 thank you because i'm not getting paid and they're 00:19:26.569 --> 00:19:29.069 really doing it be the passion and love for for 00:19:29.069 --> 00:19:32.650 amateur radio and they're giving back. And if 00:19:32.650 --> 00:19:34.730 you've ever stood out there in that hot sun and 00:19:34.730 --> 00:19:37.349 directed traffic or whatever it is that you're 00:19:37.349 --> 00:19:40.769 doing for it and taking a lot of grief about 00:19:40.769 --> 00:19:43.509 things, thank a volunteer. I wouldn't get that 00:19:43.509 --> 00:19:47.369 in. Go ahead, Neil. It takes a lot of volunteers 00:19:47.369 --> 00:19:51.210 to pull everything off, and we sure appreciate 00:19:51.210 --> 00:19:56.029 every last one of them. Well, we are going to 00:19:56.029 --> 00:19:59.369 take a break here in just a minute, but first 00:19:59.369 --> 00:20:04.990 I do want to tell you about some changes that 00:20:04.990 --> 00:20:09.069 Will be coming to ham talk live and our hamvention 00:20:09.069 --> 00:20:14.809 coverage We again will preview many of the activities 00:20:14.809 --> 00:20:18.809 that will be going on in and around hamvention 00:20:18.809 --> 00:20:23.609 during that weekend during about six weeks leading 00:20:23.609 --> 00:20:27.410 up to the big event. And we will broadcast live 00:20:27.410 --> 00:20:31.089 again from the hotel there at Spring Hill Suites, 00:20:31.150 --> 00:20:33.269 Dayton South, Miamisburg, just down the road 00:20:33.269 --> 00:20:37.549 from the Dayton Mall on Hamvention Eve as we 00:20:37.549 --> 00:20:39.970 have the last two years. But this year we're 00:20:39.970 --> 00:20:43.210 changing the theme a little bit. We've been taking 00:20:43.210 --> 00:20:46.970 your calls and visits at the conference room 00:20:46.970 --> 00:20:49.990 there at Spring Hill Suites and kind of getting 00:20:49.990 --> 00:20:52.660 a feel for what liked and what you were looking 00:20:52.660 --> 00:20:55.839 forward to at Hamvention, but we're going to 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:58.660 change it up a little bit this year. We're going 00:20:58.660 --> 00:21:02.200 to give you all the information you need to make 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:06.690 your Hamvention experience even better. So, HamTalk 00:21:06.690 --> 00:21:09.490 Live will have an exclusive Hamvention weather 00:21:09.490 --> 00:21:12.829 forecast and that's going to come from Eric Elwell, 00:21:13.089 --> 00:21:17.390 KD4BNT, and he is the chief meteorologist at 00:21:17.390 --> 00:21:20.710 Storm Center 7 WHIO -TV right there in Dayton. 00:21:21.349 --> 00:21:23.769 And we're going to have a Dayton and surrounding 00:21:23.769 --> 00:21:27.089 area traffic report. We'll have up -to -the -minute 00:21:27.089 --> 00:21:31.109 information on parking, on -site parking, remote 00:21:31.109 --> 00:21:34.390 parking, and busing. And Michael's going to connect 00:21:34.390 --> 00:21:36.660 us up with some people on that so we'll have 00:21:36.660 --> 00:21:41.019 the official word on parking right up to the 00:21:41.019 --> 00:21:44.140 last minute and you'll be able to tune into that 00:21:44.140 --> 00:21:47.380 the night before Hamvention and so you'll be 00:21:47.380 --> 00:21:52.099 well prepared for everything that we can possibly 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:55.700 Tell you ahead of time. We're gonna do that right 00:21:55.700 --> 00:21:59.000 here on hamtalklive .com and it'll be on the 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:01.339 podcast too So if you can't catch it right at 00:22:01.339 --> 00:22:03.700 nine o 'clock that night you can you can catch 00:22:03.700 --> 00:22:08.420 it after that and and thanks for for taking the 00:22:08.420 --> 00:22:12.299 time to to set us up with with some of the parking 00:22:12.299 --> 00:22:15.720 and traffic people so that we can Get all of 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:20.470 that going Michael Well, yeah, I think it's a 00:22:20.470 --> 00:22:22.390 you know a great service that you're going to 00:22:22.390 --> 00:22:26.130 offer and It's going to be our first year of 00:22:26.130 --> 00:22:28.849 attempting that with you, but I do want to remind 00:22:28.849 --> 00:22:32.069 people that we will have a talk in frequencies 00:22:32.069 --> 00:22:36.529 and We will have be able to you will be able 00:22:36.529 --> 00:22:39.930 to do some off -site parking And if I could speak 00:22:39.930 --> 00:22:43.079 a second about off -site parking sure Exciting 00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:45.019 that you know you'll be able to see all that 00:22:45.019 --> 00:22:47.619 on the website as it all continued to unfold 00:22:47.619 --> 00:22:52.619 to continues to unfold But these bus drivers 00:22:52.619 --> 00:22:55.200 that bring people in they know all the backgrounds 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:59.740 too and It's it's interesting a lot of these 00:22:59.740 --> 00:23:02.660 bus drivers Just I guess that I don't know if 00:23:02.660 --> 00:23:05.299 they're actors or musicians or what but I've 00:23:05.299 --> 00:23:07.700 been hearing stories of people singing on the 00:23:07.700 --> 00:23:09.900 buses and having a really great time on the buses 00:23:09.900 --> 00:23:13.769 and then Even though the traffic jam occurred 00:23:13.769 --> 00:23:17.869 on the Friday of hand -vention, I did hear there 00:23:17.869 --> 00:23:20.950 was a lot of fun of people that were on, you 00:23:20.950 --> 00:23:23.890 know, talking frequencies or whatever frequency 00:23:23.890 --> 00:23:25.529 they jumped on, and they actually had a pretty 00:23:25.529 --> 00:23:28.950 good time. I don't think everybody had a good 00:23:28.950 --> 00:23:32.009 time being in a traffic jam. And speaking of 00:23:32.009 --> 00:23:35.069 traffic jams, if you were there last year, you 00:23:35.069 --> 00:23:38.349 recognized that on a Friday morning, it was pretty 00:23:38.349 --> 00:23:43.099 tough. We got with our sheriff and said, you 00:23:43.099 --> 00:23:46.960 know, is there anything you could do to make 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:52.099 this better? And so he and his deputies got together 00:23:52.099 --> 00:23:54.480 and Saturday morning, there was as many, if not 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:57.900 more people that came and didn't hear any complaints 00:23:57.900 --> 00:24:00.259 about traffic. They've really modified the flow 00:24:00.259 --> 00:24:03.299 on it. Plus, in the meantime, the Green County 00:24:03.299 --> 00:24:07.720 Sheriff got his amateur radio license. He's one 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:09.680 of us now, so we're really excited. Hey, there 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:12.940 we go. And there's two or three more of the county 00:24:12.940 --> 00:24:15.200 people that are, you know, kind of twisting, 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:18.099 I'm twisting their arms. You know, you know, 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:20.539 it's just gotta be a big thing for the area. 00:24:20.660 --> 00:24:22.900 You better get your license and you'll, you know, 00:24:23.059 --> 00:24:26.299 you'll be, you'll really be part of it. So, so 00:24:26.299 --> 00:24:30.059 with that traffic control and working on that, 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:32.819 we think we got that one lit. Now, will there 00:24:32.819 --> 00:24:34.740 be problems? Yeah, of course there could be. 00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:39.339 You know, any big ham fest has some traffic problems. 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:44.019 But I don't think that we're going to experience 00:24:44.019 --> 00:24:47.420 the traffic jam -ups we had last year. And I 00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:50.140 do want to thank the City of Xenia. Again, they 00:24:50.140 --> 00:24:53.799 have closed their schools in Xenia on the Friday 00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:57.599 of Ham Bench, just to cut down on the traffic 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:00.720 in the area. So we're very excited about that, 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:05.339 too. How many ham fest have you been to? where 00:25:05.339 --> 00:25:07.859 they close the schools down for it. And we're 00:25:07.859 --> 00:25:10.059 also trying to work with a lot of those students 00:25:10.059 --> 00:25:13.579 to bring them in to the event and continue working 00:25:13.579 --> 00:25:16.230 with youth there. Go back to you for a minute 00:25:16.230 --> 00:25:19.329 there, Neil. Yeah, that's all great stuff. And 00:25:19.329 --> 00:25:21.710 in fact, I had just looked that up again to see 00:25:21.710 --> 00:25:24.970 if they were doing that again, because I'm still 00:25:24.970 --> 00:25:28.349 looking for somebody to do the hammy costume. 00:25:28.890 --> 00:25:31.329 And so I was looking to see. And sure enough, 00:25:31.430 --> 00:25:33.089 they're having a professional development day 00:25:33.089 --> 00:25:38.049 that day. So that'll cut down on a lot of the... 00:25:37.980 --> 00:25:40.359 the school traffic. Well let's go ahead and take 00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:43.940 a break here and when we come back we can start 00:25:43.940 --> 00:25:46.660 taking some calls. We've got some tweets already 00:25:46.660 --> 00:25:49.980 as well so we will do that right after this word 00:25:49.980 --> 00:25:52.420 from the National Voice of America Museum of 00:25:52.420 --> 00:25:55.579 Broadcasting right here on HamTalk Live. 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We're HamTalk Live on Skype and also on Twitter. 00:28:32.819 --> 00:28:36.099 And we do have a tweet to talk about and a couple 00:28:36.099 --> 00:28:39.779 of comments here, but we do have our first call 00:28:39.779 --> 00:28:43.059 on the line. So good evening, Mark. Welcome to 00:28:43.059 --> 00:28:48.400 HamTalk Live. Good evening, Neil. Yeah, this 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:55.079 is Mark in for BCN. A BCD, binary coded decimal. 00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:57.400 And I'm the chairman of the Huntsville HamFest. 00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:00.599 Yeah. And I had a chance to talk to Mark here. 00:29:01.019 --> 00:29:03.640 few weeks ago, and we're looking forward to Mark 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.059 being on the show. But Mark had some things to 00:29:07.059 --> 00:29:10.559 throw in here about Hamvention. So go ahead, 00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:14.779 Mark. Well, OK. Thanks, Neil. And good evening, 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:18.460 Michael. It was great to run into you and spend 00:29:18.460 --> 00:29:20.839 some time with you and the contingent down there 00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:24.460 in Orlando, you and Ron Kramer and Jack and the 00:29:24.460 --> 00:29:26.359 rest of the crew that were down there. Learned 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:29.109 a lot from you guys. And I heard you talking 00:29:29.109 --> 00:29:31.369 here on Neil's program about what you're going 00:29:31.369 --> 00:29:34.410 to do to address some of the issues from last 00:29:34.410 --> 00:29:36.829 year. But I wanted to call in to suggest there's 00:29:36.829 --> 00:29:39.970 one thing you don't change, and that's the food 00:29:39.970 --> 00:29:43.730 service. Those vendors were absolutely great. 00:29:44.190 --> 00:29:45.750 You know, the chicken noodle soup that I had 00:29:45.750 --> 00:29:48.730 one day for lunch, as good as grandma's, that 00:29:48.730 --> 00:29:51.950 Ohio beef hamburger I had the next day was equally 00:29:51.950 --> 00:29:54.950 good. And so that's one thing you guys are really 00:29:54.950 --> 00:29:57.710 doing right up there. And, oh, I guess one more 00:29:57.710 --> 00:30:00.930 thing. You mentioned moving the beer truck. I 00:30:00.930 --> 00:30:03.029 hope you don't move it too far. Over to you, 00:30:03.150 --> 00:30:07.730 Michael. Hey, Mark. It's a pleasure to get to 00:30:07.730 --> 00:30:10.369 talk to you. And I'm going to take this opportunity, 00:30:10.650 --> 00:30:13.190 Neil, and tell you that, you know, people are 00:30:13.190 --> 00:30:16.589 always comparing, you know, Hamcation, Hamvention, 00:30:17.130 --> 00:30:20.829 Huntsville, you know, Tokyo, Pre -Bridge Toffin. 00:30:21.029 --> 00:30:23.180 But, you know, we all know each other. And we're 00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:26.559 all good friends and we really work hard. If 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.180 whatever Mark needs, he gives us advice. He asked 00:30:30.180 --> 00:30:33.460 us for advice and same with the gang down in 00:30:33.460 --> 00:30:38.259 Orlando or Germany. And I'm telling you, it's 00:30:38.259 --> 00:30:42.680 a, it's a, he might have, you know, DX groups 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:45.539 and contest groups, but we run these big ham 00:30:45.539 --> 00:30:48.400 fest and we have to work together because if 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.460 we're, if they're successful and we're success. 00:30:51.710 --> 00:30:54.369 every every we want everybody to be successful 00:30:54.369 --> 00:30:57.750 because it helps all the vendors and never once 00:30:57.750 --> 00:31:01.029 is it us versus them it is i mean we support 00:31:01.029 --> 00:31:04.650 huntsville we support hamcation great events 00:31:04.650 --> 00:31:07.769 wonderful events and we each provide something 00:31:07.769 --> 00:31:10.049 different so i really want to make that clear 00:31:10.049 --> 00:31:12.230 it's there's no like you're not going to get 00:31:12.230 --> 00:31:15.269 me upset or get me going about which is best 00:31:15.269 --> 00:31:18.049 hamcation or hamvention or huntsville or any 00:31:18.049 --> 00:31:21.789 of them because they're all great, and even the 00:31:21.789 --> 00:31:23.730 General Chairman, I wish I could recall his name, 00:31:23.849 --> 00:31:27.230 from the Michigan Speedway. We got to talk to 00:31:27.230 --> 00:31:29.990 him a little bit too, but we share a lot of ideas 00:31:29.990 --> 00:31:32.029 and we learn from each other. Wouldn't you say 00:31:32.029 --> 00:31:35.710 that's true, Mark? Absolutely, that's very well 00:31:35.710 --> 00:31:38.630 put, Michael. I don't think I could embellish 00:31:38.630 --> 00:31:42.869 on that at all. Go ahead. Well, I appreciate 00:31:42.869 --> 00:31:46.099 you calling in with your support. Those of you 00:31:46.099 --> 00:31:47.599 who haven't been to Huntsville, it's a great 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:50.480 event, it's growing and it's now under, and Mark 00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:55.299 is working so hard to make this, you know, we 00:31:55.299 --> 00:31:58.519 all love Charlie. I knew Charlie for years and 00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:01.640 we'd share information and then Mark came on 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:04.140 and he comes sheepishly up and says, hey, I'm 00:32:04.140 --> 00:32:07.309 Mark from. I'm the new guy down there at Huntsville 00:32:07.309 --> 00:32:09.829 and he's totally accepted and we're really glad 00:32:09.829 --> 00:32:12.329 to be glad that he's in there. He's a very smart 00:32:12.329 --> 00:32:15.769 guy and pulling his team together. So anyway, 00:32:16.369 --> 00:32:19.029 great Mark. I'm looking forward to seeing you 00:32:19.029 --> 00:32:21.809 guys up in Dayton and got a couple of other ham 00:32:21.809 --> 00:32:24.670 fest to visit around here. A couple of smaller 00:32:24.670 --> 00:32:28.430 events, Chattanooga, Dalton, names probably not 00:32:28.430 --> 00:32:31.170 familiar to you, but you probably have a bunch 00:32:31.170 --> 00:32:35.240 of stuff. similar ham fest around your area throughout 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:37.000 the year to visit i'll be doing that in the next 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.599 couple weeks uh... tola homma uh... tennessee 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:42.140 we've got uh... several in the area and it's 00:32:42.140 --> 00:32:44.200 always good to network and meet with these folks 00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.500 but uh... michael like i said it's uh... it's 00:32:46.500 --> 00:32:49.319 great to to be a part of this uh... this organization 00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:51.839 down here in the uh... the uh... the working 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.440 uh... relationship that we all have is is extremely 00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:57.220 good but like i said your food up there absolutely 00:32:57.220 --> 00:32:59.400 wonderful looking forward to another bowl of 00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:01.900 chicken noodle soup in uh... uh... late in may 00:33:02.109 --> 00:33:04.130 So, uh, I'll, uh, I don't want to steal your 00:33:04.130 --> 00:33:06.490 thunder tonight. Uh, so I just say, uh, good 00:33:06.490 --> 00:33:08.690 evening and, uh, 73 we'll see you in a couple 00:33:08.690 --> 00:33:12.150 of months. 73 there, Mark. Thank you, man, for 00:33:12.150 --> 00:33:15.329 calling in and now we'll see you soon. 73 Mark. 00:33:15.809 --> 00:33:18.789 Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Now, now, now Mark's 00:33:18.789 --> 00:33:23.630 speaking of food here. Um, the tweet that we 00:33:23.630 --> 00:33:26.210 were just talking about, I don't know if Mark 00:33:26.210 --> 00:33:28.630 was listening at that point or not. Uh, maybe 00:33:28.630 --> 00:33:30.509 he was eavesdropping on us and we didn't know 00:33:30.509 --> 00:33:34.869 it, but. Brian Love, KC9KUH, tweeted us earlier 00:33:34.869 --> 00:33:38.910 in the week and wants to know, Michael, are the 00:33:38.910 --> 00:33:41.849 pork chops coming back again this year? He said 00:33:41.849 --> 00:33:45.150 he'd love to have another Hamvention pork chop. 00:33:46.130 --> 00:33:51.190 So, the answer is? The answer is of course. And 00:33:51.190 --> 00:33:55.369 not only that, the Cattlemen's Association will 00:33:55.369 --> 00:33:58.049 be there. And a lot of this stuff comes right 00:33:58.049 --> 00:34:01.880 from the farm in Greene County. Right to you 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:04.420 know to the butcher shop and then right there 00:34:04.420 --> 00:34:07.359 So I've heard a lot of great things about the 00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:11.079 food and and he's right, you know that I can't 00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:14.079 remember name of the company that does the Homemade 00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:17.000 noodles and real mashed potatoes. I mean that 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:20.760 is so good. I ate really well when I was there 00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:24.920 and But I want to add something else is that 00:34:25.570 --> 00:34:29.409 we think we can improve this. And so we are bringing 00:34:29.409 --> 00:34:35.809 in, and we work with the people there, the fair 00:34:35.809 --> 00:34:39.030 people, the expo center. And we actually get 00:34:39.030 --> 00:34:41.150 last final say on who they're bringing in. And 00:34:41.150 --> 00:34:42.969 we told them, yeah, we need some more different 00:34:42.969 --> 00:34:45.449 kinds of food to come in there. So we're bringing 00:34:45.449 --> 00:34:49.550 in even more. We feel there are really gonna 00:34:49.550 --> 00:34:52.570 be great choices for food. And then we are working 00:34:52.570 --> 00:34:58.539 on possibly, Getting the picnic tables that we 00:34:58.539 --> 00:35:01.239 have placed a little bit better with a little 00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:07.579 bit more of them Excuse me around that Bending 00:35:07.579 --> 00:35:10.280 bending areas so people will be able to sit more 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:13.139 and we I think that's an important thing at any 00:35:13.139 --> 00:35:16.440 big ham fest or it is for us is that people need 00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:19.360 a place to sit down and talk to their friends 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.239 for a little bit take a rest take a break and 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:24.949 and It made me enjoy some of that good food. 00:35:25.449 --> 00:35:27.369 And so we're going to try to have more shade 00:35:27.369 --> 00:35:31.570 and more picnic tables. And we're working hard 00:35:31.570 --> 00:35:34.469 on just improving that whole center layout. Does 00:35:34.469 --> 00:35:36.429 that help you, Andy? Neal, does that make you 00:35:36.429 --> 00:35:39.670 hungry? Yep. Yep. It does. It does. And I remember 00:35:39.670 --> 00:35:43.969 the bourbon chicken and the grilled chicken wrap 00:35:43.969 --> 00:35:48.590 that I got. And they were both excellent. But 00:35:48.590 --> 00:35:52.110 Michael, the one thing that I asked you about 00:35:53.460 --> 00:35:56.880 And you know, I don't know where the disconnect 00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:59.679 was, but the, the, the cheesecake on a stick 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:03.380 thing. And here's, and here's Jill combs. I already 00:36:03.380 --> 00:36:07.199 had this in the script, Jill. It wasn't she's 00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:09.840 chatting in here in the, in the chat room and 00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:12.460 saying, Oh, I see how it is. The pork chops are 00:36:12.460 --> 00:36:15.000 more important than cheesecake on a stick. So, 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:17.920 so, so Jill and I kind of teamed up on this and 00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:20.619 ham talk live. We, we, we go the extra mile. 00:36:21.019 --> 00:36:24.079 to investigate this cheesecake on a stick thing. 00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:27.300 So I found out what happened with the cheesecake 00:36:27.300 --> 00:36:31.480 on a stick. Now, the cheesecake on a stick was 00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:36.139 kind of a Dayton Hamvention tradition, but it 00:36:36.139 --> 00:36:39.579 kind of disappeared all of a sudden. And so I 00:36:39.579 --> 00:36:42.980 tracked it down and it said Libby's Gourmet Desserts 00:36:42.980 --> 00:36:44.900 in Cincinnati. They're the ones who made them. 00:36:45.099 --> 00:36:48.780 But what they did was they sold those to someone 00:36:48.780 --> 00:36:51.889 and they got a a couple of freezers and they 00:36:51.889 --> 00:36:56.130 went up and sold those. So it wasn't them directly 00:36:56.130 --> 00:36:59.389 selling them, but I was able to pick up a couple 00:36:59.389 --> 00:37:03.789 of those and they are the right ones and everything. 00:37:04.010 --> 00:37:06.150 It's Libby's Gourmet Desserts. And I said, can 00:37:06.150 --> 00:37:09.429 you come back and sell these? And he said, well, 00:37:09.469 --> 00:37:11.750 if we can find someone to sell them, we will 00:37:11.750 --> 00:37:15.590 be happy to provide them and sell them and work 00:37:15.590 --> 00:37:20.300 with them and deliver. Get all of that going 00:37:20.300 --> 00:37:23.679 and so if we can find somebody to sell those 00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:27.800 we can bring the cheesecake on a stick back but 00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:34.460 but Jill and by the way Jill's KD8 QGA had that 00:37:34.460 --> 00:37:39.800 written down here She found out that the person 00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:44.800 who was selling it was a distant family member 00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:50.389 of the Wampler family that owned Hararena. So 00:37:50.389 --> 00:37:55.289 that's how it got there was that, you know, they 00:37:55.289 --> 00:37:57.570 were selling it. So now since it's moved, you 00:37:57.570 --> 00:38:00.550 know, they didn't have, you know, the inside 00:38:00.550 --> 00:38:03.349 connection. So, so can we, can we do something 00:38:03.349 --> 00:38:07.070 on this cheesecake on a stick thing? You know, 00:38:07.110 --> 00:38:10.050 Neil, I am really moved and very impressed the 00:38:10.050 --> 00:38:13.070 fact that you could take the time to do this 00:38:13.070 --> 00:38:19.039 extremely deep dive into the history and Um, 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:22.960 basically the journey, it's like the silk road 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:28.360 of, um, cheesecake on a stick. So then you've 00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:30.900 left me totally speechless and you've left me 00:38:30.900 --> 00:38:33.940 with no way out other than to try to figure something 00:38:33.940 --> 00:38:37.519 out for you. So, well, I guess if you have somebody 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.099 that you want wanting to make some money at Hamvention 00:38:40.099 --> 00:38:43.659 and wants to sell some just, well, all we gotta 00:38:43.659 --> 00:38:45.960 do is give them the phone number and they'll. 00:38:46.460 --> 00:38:50.260 I even invited the guy on the show. He didn't 00:38:50.260 --> 00:38:52.880 want to come on the show, but I invited him on 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:56.420 the show. Wow. Wow. That's pretty impressive. 00:38:56.980 --> 00:39:00.300 So I didn't know you loved it that much. I mean, 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.880 you know, you must be a very much, you know, 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:08.539 the funny thing is I only got it one time, but 00:39:08.539 --> 00:39:12.179 I always went by it always wanted it, but I'd 00:39:12.179 --> 00:39:15.059 always go buy it. And then One year, I finally 00:39:15.059 --> 00:39:19.380 said, okay, I gotta try this. And it's pretty 00:39:19.380 --> 00:39:25.420 good stuff. There we go, we got it. Burning up 00:39:25.420 --> 00:39:29.380 a lot of time on them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we are. 00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:34.519 Honestly, I'll take a look. Got a lot of things 00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:37.639 cooking, but I don't have that cheesecake cooking 00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:42.130 yet. And since you have somebody was at jail, 00:39:42.150 --> 00:39:47.130 it's interested in it too. I'll ask. I'll ask. 00:39:47.150 --> 00:39:49.789 I will do that much. I want somebody that wants 00:39:49.789 --> 00:39:52.949 to sell it. They will, they will, uh, they will 00:39:52.949 --> 00:39:55.010 do it. And by the way, Jill will be out there 00:39:55.010 --> 00:39:59.460 on her golf cart all day Sunday. She says, volunteer 00:39:59.460 --> 00:40:02.460 to shuttle. We've got another question here from 00:40:02.460 --> 00:40:06.320 Dr. Scott Wright, KZeroMD, any new vendors or 00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:10.219 forum ideas for this year? Maybe something for 00:40:10.219 --> 00:40:14.059 Mac users on ham radio? Maybe that would be something. 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:21.320 Any ideas there? Was that called KZeroMD? Yes, 00:40:21.860 --> 00:40:27.039 KZeroMD. Okay. And what was his first name again? 00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:31.579 Scott. Dr. Scott, right. Okay. Hey, Dr. Scott. 00:40:32.099 --> 00:40:36.000 And, um, thanks for calling in on this, or I 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:38.320 don't know how you got to maybe you, uh, Twitter 00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:40.960 chat room did it. Twitter did. Okay. Twitter 00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:45.000 don't have tweeted. Anyway, um, we are working 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.000 on forums right now. We don't have it, uh, finalized, 00:40:49.179 --> 00:40:53.119 but, um, uh, I just got, uh, we are actually 00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:56.340 going to have, um, a fifth forum area. Instead 00:40:56.340 --> 00:40:59.420 of just four, we're going to have five. And one 00:40:59.420 --> 00:41:01.719 of the things that we're really looking at is 00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:05.639 our theme this year is based around emergency 00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:10.260 communications, you know, amateur radio serving 00:41:10.260 --> 00:41:13.679 the community. And we thought that was very appropriate, 00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:17.280 you know, due to the fact that we've had so many 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:21.179 bad storms, fires, floods, typhoons, all kind 00:41:21.179 --> 00:41:24.559 of You know in hurricanes all over the world 00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:28.440 So we're going to be focusing on some of those 00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:31.719 things a lot more than we have in the past I 00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:36.059 do like his the idea for his topic and Neil if 00:41:36.059 --> 00:41:39.039 you could Somehow send that to me in the end 00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:42.139 I can take a look at that, but we haven't got 00:41:42.139 --> 00:41:45.320 everything finalized yet. We we are looking for 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:50.079 very good forums You know interesting people 00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:53.199 have interesting things to say and by the way 00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:59.639 my my friend Fred Lloyd Who started QRZ is coming 00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:03.500 this year, and I think it's his 20 or 25th anniversary 00:42:03.500 --> 00:42:08.280 of QRZ and no We're going to try to do some kind 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:11.460 of a forum around what he's doing He's a very 00:42:11.460 --> 00:42:14.960 delightful individual if you've never had a chance 00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:19.329 to listen to him Yeah, I've been trying to get 00:42:19.329 --> 00:42:22.829 him to come on here, so we'll keep trying. Well, 00:42:22.969 --> 00:42:25.730 we've got like one minute left. We've got one 00:42:25.730 --> 00:42:28.610 minute left. Is that one minute? One minute. 00:42:28.969 --> 00:42:34.269 One minute. So the awards deadline, you extended 00:42:34.269 --> 00:42:37.840 that. When's the new? Deadline for that if somebody 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.940 wants to nominate today, it's over today today. 00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:44.260 Okay. All right. They got all be at, I want to 00:42:44.260 --> 00:42:47.019 say something really quickly. Sure. If you're 00:42:47.019 --> 00:42:52.099 one stay on a hamvention .org, um, check that 00:42:52.099 --> 00:42:54.880 website out regularly. If you have any personal 00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:57.460 questions, uh, in terms of, uh, questions you 00:42:57.460 --> 00:43:00.079 can't get answered anywhere else. I am good on 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:05.599 QRZ. I tell my friend, but, um, You can email 00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:09.920 that to me, but we certainly take the input. 00:43:10.980 --> 00:43:14.199 We take a lot of grief too, but we feel it's 00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:16.579 very important to be an important pillar for 00:43:16.579 --> 00:43:21.219 amateur radio. None of us get paid for it. Neil, 00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:23.099 I want to thank you again for having me on your 00:43:23.099 --> 00:43:25.980 program. All right. Well, thank you for coming 00:43:25.980 --> 00:43:28.920 on. We look forward to talking to you again in 00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:32.860 a few weeks as Hamvention draws near but we thank 00:43:32.860 --> 00:43:36.239 you for the update of how things are coming along 00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:40.539 so far. But that is a wrap for this week's edition 00:43:40.539 --> 00:43:43.699 of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guest Michael Coulter, 00:43:43.900 --> 00:43:46.800 W8CI and everyone out there in cyberspace for 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:49.420 listening and calling and typing in and invite 00:43:49.420 --> 00:43:52.840 you all back next Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern 00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:57.280 Time. When Andy Malusi, KK4LWR, will be here 00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:01.039 to talk about the Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative, 00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:05.199 or CARI, and for a list of all of our upcoming 00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:08.280 guests, you can find that over at HamTalkLive 00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:12.280 .com. Just click on the show schedule link. So 00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:16.159 for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:22.260 -3, 7 -5, and may the good DX be yours. Thanks 00:44:22.260 --> 00:44:41.039 for watching!