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HamTalk Live, finally. It's episode number 102,
recognizing our young hams recorded live on Thursday,
February 15th, 2018. I'm your host, Neil Rapp,
WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning into another episode
of HamTalk Live. Tonight we're joined by Don
Wilbanks, HeyE5DW, and we'll take your calls
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you some entertainment and some information tonight.
Last week on the show we had a younger ham anyway.
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Ham radio operator in Pickayune, Mississippi
that's on amateur radio Newsline. It's Don Wilbanks,
AE5DW. You know him from Newsline and Ham Nation.
His day job is working at the I Heart Media radio
stations in New Orleans. producing commercials
and formerly an on -air personality. And he's
a native of Shawnee, Oklahoma, first licensed
in 1995. He's an extra class license holder and
an active volunteer examiner and at Hamvention
last year, you might've seen him standing beside
himself. In fact, we put a picture of that, thanks
to Kevin Trotman in 5PRE. A picture of Don totally
standing beside himself. Good evening, Don. Welcome
to the show. Well, it was until I got here. How
you doing? Oh, well, I'm doing better now that
windows 10 decided to load. Yeah. Well, you know,
what's fun is when we're doing ham nation, when
like five minutes before time for them to call
me, when Skype decides to do an update. Oh yeah.
Yeah, and of course they change everything the
last update they changed everything completely
And I don't use the Skype that's built into Windows
10 I use the standalone Skype and it changed
everything in itself So here I am trying to do
the show and you know, everything is different
all of a sudden. So yeah, I feel your pain Yeah,
I've fought the Skype battles before and Skype
finally settled down and now Now Windows 10 gets
me so, you know, yeah. Well, you know, what can
you do? You can't win. No, no you can't Yeah,
so so something about Skype was gonna have to
rebuild the whole app all the way up No, I always
use a classic version the Windows 10 version
night. There's a bunch of stuff. It doesn't do
right and It just didn't play. Well Well, what
can you do you were at the mercy of the technology
that we're handed? Yeah, we are well We're here
to talk about recognizing our young hams tonight.
And, um, so we wanted to kind of run down some
of those possibilities and you've got some of
those and then we want, we want to hit the big
one here in a little bit, but, um, speaking of
young hams, I'm in, I'm in the K nine S O U log
for school club roundup. I was off work for Tuesday
for Mardi Gras. And I said, well, you know, that's
what I'm going to do. So I think I, I think I
contacted three different schools. So you were
the first one that I, that I looked for. So there
you go. Yeah. And I think I was on a pizza run
at the moment. So I missed you. Oh no. Well,
there's the, there's the, what I saw you in the
log book, but yeah, I think I was, I think by
the time I get home from work, you guys are done.
So kind of makes it tough to pick that up. Well,
thanks to, uh, to Carolyn, uh, Lysandre KC9URR
for coming in and letting me go a couple hours
early to get this all ready. So that way we could
start on time. Yeah, she's a sweetheart. And
then, and then it didn't start on time, but yes
she is. And she had Play -Doh on tonight. She
got Play -Doh to get some contacts. So that seems
to be the way that we do it is we get a kid to
log and get him on there and we get him to make
a few. So he enjoys it once he gets on. We have
to twist his arm a little bit. Well, you know,
whatever works. So yeah, school club round up
one more day tomorrow. The big finish. So if
you haven't got on yet, please. Do that we will
take your calls as well as as all these other
schools that are on here Well, we've got a bunch
of things going on We're actually a little late
for the ARRL scholarships because those closed
on January 31st But I did put the links to a
lot of these things in the description so you
can catch that and we'll put those out on social
media as well, but arl .org scholarship dash
program has all the arl scholarships, but It's
not all over yet because the foundation for amateur
radio has their scholarships that they funnel
through there including QCWA among others and
those are due by April 30th, so if you go to
far web org You can click on the scholarship
information page there. And again, we put the
link in there. And then Carol Perry, WB2MGP has
the Young Ham Linza Hand Award. And she's collecting
nominations to recognize a young licensed person,
19 years of age or younger, who's gone above
and beyond to help others. And maybe it's helping
with an antenna install, showing Ham radio to
others. helping with emergency communications
or it doesn't even have to be ham radio related
but it has to be a licensed ham and the winner
receives that award at the Dayton Hamvention
Youth Forum from Radio Club of America Youth
Activities Initiative and $100 stipend provided
by the Quarter Century Wireless Association.
So if you know someone deserving of that send
that to Carol at WB2. mgp at gmail .com by April
1st. So that's another one. The ARRL has the
Hiram Percy Maxim Award that's for an ARRL member
under 21 that contributes to ham radio community
both locally and nationally. And those nominations
go to the section manager, your ARRL section
manager. And the section manager has to have
those in by March 31st. So get them to a little
earlier than that so they can send those in.
That's $1 ,500. And Don, you know, a couple of
people who've won that award. Yes, we've had
some, uh, some newsline winners that have won
that. So yeah, very exciting. Yeah. We had, uh,
Chris bro and, uh, Skyler Fennel recently. Yep,
that both won both of those so That's pretty
cool the Dave Coulter youth DX adventure now.
This one's not necessarily an award or scholarship,
but this is a chance to go somewhere and Curacao
what a great to go to operate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
where did you go to operate? I went to Curacao
Yeah, what a great place to go Yeah, last week
or last year last week last year. It was Costa
Rica Yeah, no slouch either. That was gorgeous
the pictures that I saw from Costa Rica was just
amazing So the deadline to apply for that is
February 28th and they're going to PJ to T. So
on top of carousel it's It's PJ2T they're going
to, for goodness sake. By February 28th, those
applications have to be in, and that's qsl .net
slash n6jrl. So if you want to go on a youth
de -expedition, there's your chance to go. And
again, we know some of those guys that have been
able to go on that, and girls. I think they had
the whole Lee family down there. One point it's
Sabah and Ruth Ruth. Well, it was down there.
It's a great opportunity I mean just it's amazing
what What the youth the X Association does? I
mean, it's it's life -changing I mean where you
know, it's just a handful of people that are
gonna get that opportunity and You know to do
that at a young age. I mean guys It's just it's
it's a memory that you'll you'll take to your
grave and it can be literally life -changing
to experience something like that Well, I know
it was life -changing for Chris bro. Yes, because
because Chris Learned how to make grilled cheese
Yeah with some kind of special bread down there
too, which was uh, yeah, which was amazing. Yeah.
Yeah Chris is such a cool kid. He keeps talking
about this grilled cheese, you know I think next
time we go over there. We're gonna have to You
have to import some of that bread, though, I
think, aren't we? Yeah, probably. You have to
import some of that bread, yeah. Probably so.
Well, so those are some other opportunities.
But the big one we want to talk about tonight,
as we commonly do, is the Amateur Radio Newsline
Young Ham of the Year Award, which is the Bill
Pasternak Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young
Ham of the Year Award. Talk about Newsline and
and the fine upstanding sponsors that take care
of that in August at the Huntsville ham fest
and talked to Mark Brown recently in for BCV
the new chairman of the ham fest and We're gonna
have him on ham talk live a couple of weeks before
the ham fest and Don the nominating period is
is coming up soon. So tell us what you can right
now It is. March 1st is when we are planning
on opening up nominations. Nominations go for
90 days, so the month of March, April, and May.
And then the months of June and July, we send
that to the nominating committee and they pour
over them and decide who the most deserving young
person is. And then we all meet together the
third weekend in August in Huntsville, Alabama.
It's exactly three months after Dayton. Dayton
is or zinnia whatever you want to call it ham
hamvention is the third weekend in May and Huntsville
is always the third weekend in August so it's
exactly 90 days or three months whatever you
however you want to gauge that to the Huntsville
ham fest in Huntsville, Alabama at a great venue
the von Braun Center and the young ham of the
year award started in 1986 it was the brainchild
of the late Bill Pasternak wa6 ITF to try to
promote education and uh... and the youth in
ham radio and it took off uh... cq communications
cq magazine is a corporate sponsor as well as
yezu is a corporate sponsor and we also have
how sound is a corporate sponsor and we have
our friends uh... the ho and sees uh... emits
and uh... rochelle from radio waves antennas
as corporate sponsors as well and we all meet
together uh... to celebrate Youth and ham radio
at the Huntsville ham fest the third weekend
in August at the ham fest and an honor a very
deserving and amazing young person Who has done
something very cool with amateur radio? And I've
been involved with it since I got involved with
newsline the same year I got licensed in 95 So
I've known every every one of these kids since
1995 and it seems like each one is As amazing
as each one is it's like the next one in line
Just steps it up just that much more and once
you think you've like hit the ceiling of of how
amazing these kids are the next one comes along
the following year and you think holy just wow
i'm i'm just i'm in awe of of these young people
they're just they're amazing and it is truly
a privilege to be involved with that and even
more of a privilege now that that i am the presenter
of the award it is It's something I look forward
to every year. I don't get to go to Dayton every
year. I've never been to Dallas ham fest. I've
never been to Orlando. And I've only missed one
Huntsville since 1995. And that was the year
that we decided not to give the award. If you've
not gone to the Huntsville ham fest, it is easily
one of the top five ham fests in the country
and one that you really should not miss. Yep
sure is and we'll be previewing that here on
this show Around the first of August or right
at the end of July I forget which one we have
mark coming on to do that But we'll we'll preview
that a little bit and and this last winner was
our friend chicken with fries Marty Sulaway KCWF
who who just on his way. Yeah to Israel. Yeah
Bon voyage or however you say that in Yiddish.
Yeah, I think you think you made it to Brussels
already and yeah And and I I commented on his
Facebook when he said he was in Brussels. I love
their sprouts Yeah, their sprouts are great So
I think he's planning on being on the air from
from over there for a little bit so good look
forward to hearing from him and and Before we
go to break here We've added to the amateur radio
family since you were on the show last yes, we
have we have Tyler Yeah, my son who if you went
to Huntsville last year last August or if you
went to Xenia last year you noticed someone running
around in a pink pig suit He was that the ham
talk live mascot hammy that was my son Tyler
Who got licensed? Just was he licensed that Yeah,
no he got licensed in june in july so he was
licensed He was licensed in huntsville, but not
right yeah, but not in zinia But his call is
november 7 tango mike whiskey Which the n7 is
something from a video game that he plays? And
the TMW are his initials, so it was like the
perfect call. He loves it. So he doesn't operate
much. In fact, the only person he's really talked
to is me on a handy talkie, but he's licensed
and he did it. And I'm so proud of him. And he's
a high school senior. With a lot of extracurricular
activities. So maybe, uh, once he gets into college
or if he goes into, uh, the military, maybe he'll
have a little more free time. Cause right now
he is just stacked up with stuff to do. But yeah,
he's a, my son Tyler is November seven, tango,
Mike whiskey. And I just, uh, could not be more
proud of him. Absolutely. Now in senior year,
yeah, there's always something that has to be
done right away. So. Yep. Hopefully we'll be
hearing him on the air some more, but he was
a great great addition to the to the cast there
at Xenia and Huntsville and I still I got the
priceless picture to me now now he's your son,
but yeah, but work in the room at Huntsville
in the Yes. Yes. Yes. And I just happened to
catch him and I got a picture of him, you know,
with these little kids sitting around building
their Morse code bracelets and, and, you know,
doing all their stuff. And, and here's this big
pink pig going around, you know, and he's kneeling
down, you know, uh, working with the kids and,
and, you know, saying hi to them. And, and he
loves kids anyway. He's, uh, His he is godfather
to a I think he's four now. I think Jack is four
and Anytime anytime we go over to their house
Jack is in his lap or his arms all the time and
Tyler just eats it up. So Yeah, he's gonna he's
gonna make a really cool dad. I think one of
these days so yeah, he loves kids so And he just
ate that up. I saw that picture as well and and
it just it melts me every time I see it but Knowing
that knowing that the kind -hearted soul that
he is it doesn't surprise me a bit And I wasn't
around no one was around to prompt him to do
that. It's just something It's just it's in him.
It's just it's it's who he is He's he's a very
very gentle and very caring young man, and I
just I could not be more proud of him Yep sure
is and and I'm still trying to to fill his shoes
for for this year to Bring hand me back. It's
just not gonna be the same without him No, we're
not going to Xenia this year, unfortunately.
So, yeah. So, so we're, maybe we'll have tryouts
or something. I don't know. Oh, there you go.
There you go. But yeah, you're right. It's going
to be a big shoes to follow. Tough act to follow.
Is this right? Yeah. Well, yeah, there you go.
Sure is. All right. Well, We've we've talked
long enough, so we're going to take a break.
And when we come back, we'll open up the phone
lines and give you a chance to call. We've had
some people already trying to call, so we'll
give you a chance to do that. and talk a little
more about recognizing the youth in amateur radio
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Now, here's more HamTalk Live. Oh yeah. You're
talking ham radio, baby. You're listening to
HamTalk Live with Neil Rapp. Well, speaking of
the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting,
they've got a special event coming up. Wayne
Martin on Saturday, March 3rd at 7 30 p .m. It's
in conjunction with one of the exhibits Larry
Smith Puppets the Works now on display at the
museum. Some of those Saturday morning kids shows
from Cincinnati broadcast history, so. If you're
into all that, check that out at voamuseum .org.
You can find all the information on that. And
it's time for your calls. So if you have a call
to make to Don or comment, you can call us now
at 812 -NET -HAM -1. That's 812 -638 -4261, or
you can Skype us, or you can tweet us. We're
at HamTalk Live on all of those. And Eric Budinger
says, one of the best guests ever and a hero
to all hams out there. And he's looking for tips
on teaching his nine year old daughter, Reagan.
Uh, she wants her ham ticket like her dad. So
any suggestion on some teaching guides from the
king of Jersey into KOJ? Yeah. Well, I can tell
you what I did, but first I want to just briefly
mentioned the, uh, the, um, the museum of, uh,
of broadcasting there in the, in Westchester,
the VOA museum. If you go there, well I should
say when you go there, make sure and see if the
WC8VOA station is up and operate that thing.
That is a monster station and we got a chance
to operate that a little bit during Hamvention
last year and it was cut short because of thunderstorms
coming through, but man, what a thrill to operate
that thing. Okay, so Eric, I'll tell you what
I did because I don't consider myself a very
good teacher. So I went to who I consider to
be one of the best ham radio teachers around
and that is Gordon West if you go on to his Website
it's radio school. I think just do a search for
Gordon West radio school and You can find he
has PowerPoint presentations that you can go
on there and download and that's what I use the
PowerPoint presentation along with his book that
I had Tyler study for. And over the course of
about two weeks, Tyler and I did about an hour
or two at night at the kitchen table. It was
a, it was a dad's big ham radio school there
on the kitchen table. And that's, that's what
we did. I remember, I remember doing the flash
card thing and matching those up. Tyler had the
flash card. But he's he doesn't do well with
those but he did really well with reading and
with me doing the Doing the the PowerPoint going
along with that and looking things up and and
I would go through and of course look at the
study plan beforehand like any you know proper
teacher should and if there was something that
I could find as show and tell or You know something
a website that would explain something uh, and
maybe illuminated a little bit more. We, I did
that and it worked. He passed. So, uh, on the
first try. So that's, uh, that's what I did and
it worked. Well, there you go, Eric. There's
a couple of ideas and, and I agree, Eric, I love
all my guests, but always love having Dawn on
the show. So I totally agree. Starved for entertainment,
obviously. Starved for entertainment, exactly.
And apparently there's somewhat else starved
for entertainment because we have a call on the
line, so let's see who we have here. Who is this?
It's Ben, K2CPU. Hey there, how are you? K2CPU,
how are you? Yeah. What do you have for us tonight?
Well, I was curious about the young ham award
thing I missed the first couple minutes of it
Karen told me listen and hello to dawn and thank
you to all you guys for helping publicize our
school club and Putting on him nation. Oh, you're
more than welcome. You're more than welcome Well,
I'll tell you what you do is go to the to the
newsline website It's a our news line org amateur
radio news line org a our news line org and you'll
see a button at the top y -h -o -t -y for young
ham of the year and Coming up on why hottie.
Yeah. Yeah, why hottie yahootie was another way
However, you feel like pronouncing it Whenever
nominations do open up that's where you'll find
the nominating form and it's everything is spelled
out on the nominating form and you just you have
three months to get that back to us either electronically
or via the mail but make sure that you you know
fill out everything that's on there it's all
important but it's it's all they're on the nominating
form which you will find beginning March 1st
they're on the y h o t y tab at arnewsline .org
okay i'll have to look out for that there you
go so Yep. Okay, Ben. Well, thanks for calling.
Appreciate it. Thanks, Ben. Good to talk to you.
And, and he's been, uh, been on school club roundup.
He's been texting me all week and, and, uh, got
his, uh, West Islips, uh, high school, uh, going
and, uh, good news line. Yeah. Covered that in
news line. And I also included that on the, uh,
on the ham nation headlines video that was on
ham nation last night. So good stuff. We haven't
been doing too great because we banked it, but
at least we will be ready for next term. Good.
Well, it's all in the effort. It's all in the
air. As long as you make the effort, it's all
good. You can't, you have no control over what
the bands or propagation to do, but, uh, you're
not going to make contacts unless you don't do
the effort. So the effort is everything. Absolutely.
All right, Ben. Well, thanks for calling. Appreciate
it. Thanks Ben. Good luck. Cool you too 812 -638
-4261 is the phone number 812 net ham one or
you can Skype us or Tweet us At ham talk live
and let's check the tweets here Oh and Eric says
he'll definitely do that and did flashcards with
his dad back When he was 12 and powerpoints are
big now. So yeah, yeah Yeah, well when I did
it when I was five and we had these little square
notepad things and I'd type them up and put them
on there but that was before we had all these
questions published and everything. I started
studying, I got licensed in 95 at the age of
35 but 20 years previous to that at the age of
15 is when I started studying ham radio in 1975.
And, you know, there was no computer aided anything
back then. So it was all books and, you know,
going to a local ham at his house at a class
every night. And I the reason that it took me
20 years to get it was not because I'm a particularly
slow learner, which may be debatable. But I was
I was I like to say I was overcome by fumes back
then. you know exhaust exhaust fumes and perfume
girls and cars at the age of 15, you know at
what one one must prioritize and so I did and
then you know started a career in broadcasting
and got married and Started career broadcasting
moved to New Orleans and then got married to
a girl from New Orleans and then We're going
somewhere with her uncle and he's got this little
handheld radio and I said those that for your
work He said no, that's ham radio. I said Wow.
I mean, they were, you know, the handhelds weren't,
weren't very small in 75 if you even, if you
even ever saw one. And, uh, pretty rare at that
point. Yeah. He said, you should, you should
think about getting your license. And I said,
well, you know, it was actually trying that 20
years ago. He says, well, no time like the present.
And so there you go. I know we have got involved
with. and got involved with amateur radio news
line immediately we had a with a young ham of
the year award from ninety three in new orleans
and i'm on the repeater one afternoon driving
home from work and he jumps on kevin boudreau
in five x m h he jumps on and says hey um if
you get any thought to go into the huntsville
ham fest i said well i didn't know they had a
ham fest in huntsville so he said well yeah that's
where they do the news line young ham of the
year award and and i'd like to go i'm looking
for a ride i was wondering if you were going
i'd be more than happy to you know split gas
and hotel or whatever with i said yeah you know
what let's go so uh he introduced me to bill
pasternak and i guess the rest is history i got
uh i jumped in I didn't, I didn't even, I didn't
even hit the frying pan. I just jumped right
into the fire. It seems like, yeah, you did.
You jumped right in and your voice was, uh, going
out on newsline, uh, via cassette tape and FedEx.
That's exactly right. I would, uh, he would email
me the, and when email was new for me, he would
email me a script. I would cut it at work on
a quarter inch, uh, reel to reel machine. then
edit it together with razor blade and splice
tape and then Record that over to cassette or
send him a small reel either way FedEx it back
to California where he would put it on via Telephone
lines and that's how that's how you got it back
in the day. Of course now it's all it's all dropbox
and mp3 and websites and It's a brave new world.
Yes, it is and Whole lot easier a Lot less expensive
no FedEx every week. Yeah telling you eight one
two six three eight four two six one is the teleo
phone number and We'll be here to take your calls
for a few more minutes here tonight or you can
tweet us at ham talk live We're with Don Wilbanks
tonight, AE5DW, talking about some youth recognitions
and awards and opportunities. And Don, you know,
there at Huntsville, you kind of got, you know,
drug into this with Bill. And so you come up
and you see this five foot tall cardboard Don
Wilbanks. Well, yeah, well that was it that was
in Xenia. Well, it was in both places. Well,
I know but I saw it first in Xenia and Yeah,
I walk up behind and we had a booth Newsline
had a booth that was shared with with Hile sound
so many thanks to Bob Hile for allowing us to
do that and so I Looked down and there's a there's
a trash bag and you know laying there and my
From my legs from the knee down are sticking
out of it. I'm like what in the heck is going
on here? so I pick it up and I realized what
it is it's a cardboard stand -up and I take the
I take it out of the trash bag and there is a
picture of me in Dayton several years ago standing
there in my kilt and And of course, you know,
I have you to blame for that and but there were
there were others That was just the beginning
of the fun because there were faces There was
flat dawn on a stick several versions which one
of which actually this the cardboard stand up
and when one of those one of those flat down
on a stick faces actually live in my in my production
room at work so people come in and and i'm standing
there it's funny because my my cardboard cutout
is is standing right next to one of jennifer
nettles Who if you don't know Jennifer nettles
is she's an extremely attractive very talented
country singer She was with sugar land and so
there's a cardboard cut out of her And so I'm
standing there next to Jennifer nettles up next
to my wall and people come in and they do a double
-take when they see that It's quite the conversation
starter And of course I have Mardi Gras beads
around its neck. So, you know, it's even oh,
of course even more fun Yeah, of course always
tell me that Jennifer should be the one with
the beads but yeah, yeah Well, yeah you have
me to blame for that and and I'll put some of
the blame on Julie cuz cuz she did a lot she
did the hard work I did all the digital work
and You mean hard work? Don't you mean st. Julie
for putting up with you? Yes, st. Julie. Exactly.
I love Julie. She's such a sweetheart. You guys
make like the cutest couple. She cut all that
stuff out and glue it all. Couple of what? I
have no idea. We don't know, but yeah, exactly.
We don't know, but, but you know, she, she keeps
getting on me about it. Well, you never have
me on the show. Yeah. Why don't you have Julie
on the show? And it's like, I can, I can talk
about stuff. I'm like, but, but. but the only
thing you know about ham radio is is what you've
learned from being around me well that's like
but i should be on the show subject in itself
that could be an interesting because she's not
licensed is she no she's no okay well there you
go that could be that could be a a view from
outside looking into the world of the world's
youngest ham when you were licensed and a person
who has grown up to be a chemistry teacher and
a person who has Started and takes care of the
Bloomington High School South amateur radio club
and has won school club roundup several times
And then started this podcast among many many
other things that would be an interesting show
Neil from the outside looking in to the world
of Neil rap Think that'd be an interesting show.
I'd listen to that. I'm not gonna listen to this
one because well, you know Well, yeah, you know,
I don't want to hear me. I don't want to hear
my own commercials That's why I don't listen
to my radio stations at work. It's like I'm sick
of hearing me, but exactly You know it's like,
you know, we got we got Jack Dominic the director
of the National Voice of American Museum of Broadcasting
To cut the ad for them. So that way I don't have
to listen to myself more Well, there you go.
So yeah, and and we hear enough of Don and I
talking back and forth. So, you know Yeah, which
is which is why i'm not even about to offer my
services to you because nobody wants to hear
more of me Lee You know, certainly not me. I
don't want to hear any more of me. So Well, I
couldn't resist putting the picture up that you
were you were Totally beside yourself to be on
the show tonight. So funny picture. That's a
funny picture. Yeah, that was good So thanks
again to Kevin for letting me get stuff me use
that and we had a picture there from Huntsville
last year from the end of the ward Young ham
of the year award ceremony and and a picture
of you and Tyler Terrorizing the hotel hallway
Tyler yeah in his pig suit yeah, and and his
and his little friend Simon from New Zealand
I get up one morning and and The hotel room is
empty. I'm in there alone, and I'm like what
where is it I get on the radio and I call him
No, that's right. He wouldn't he didn't he didn't
he wasn't licensed in May that's right So I get
on the I get on the cell phone, and I call him.
I'm like where are you? He says I'm down in the
in the lobby eating waffles with Simon. That's
how good I'm so glad you both found a little
friend Now Simon Simon's coming back You should
have Simon on the show Simon is an interesting
cat Simon is a very interesting guy from from
New Zealand I can't remember his call sign, but
no you should have Simon on the show Simon is
an interesting would be an interesting show He's
staying at the the hotel again with the with
some of the news line crew There you go in this
year. So yeah, he'll be around. I wish I could
go So school club roundup school club roundup.
It ends tomorrow. Is that what it is? It's right
tomorrow at 6 59 p .m. Eastern time. Okay, and
so we've got a few more hours to Get a bunch
of contacts tomorrow and I was off work on Tuesday
for Mardi Gras day So that was my day to make
school club roundup contacts, and I've got canine
so you in the log I've got Katie for TGR, which
is the McConnell amateur radio club I've got
that in and I've got the Schofield middle school
in for SMS and if I can if I can if I can get
home in time Early enough to make some contacts.
I need to work on getting my radio Remoted so
I can operate from work in New Orleans back to
my station here at home 65 miles away I don't
have that set up yet. But um, yeah Yeah, hopefully
I'll be able to make a contact or two before
it all shuts down tomorrow night if I get home
in time Well since we got the 7300 I can remote
to my classroom now because our ham shack is
actually up in the penthouse and I can't You
know, I got to go up there and we're in final
exam season right now. So right Luckily, I can
I can remote in. Oh, that's so nice to be able
to To do that. Well Don The time has passed again.
Well, that's that's both a curse and a blessing
sometimes Yeah Well, thanks for coming back on
the show and thanks for having me this is always
here you're you're welcome anytime and Well,
we'll do it again and Thank you for all the efforts
that you put out for for Newsline your voice
is Your voice is well appreciated on Newsline.
We appreciate you. Well, thank you very much
We appreciate all your video and representing
us. Well, so Great stuff. So tune in. We got
another new one in the can for tomorrow. So tomorrow
morning arnewsline .org. It'll be there. Yes,
it will. you can listen to the latest amateur
radio news. Well, that's a wrap for this week's
edition of HamTalk Live thanks to Don Wilbanks,
AE5DW, and everyone out there in cyberspace for
listening and calling in and invite you back
next Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern Time when
Michael Coulter, W8CI, will be here to talk about
the latest changes for the upcoming Dayton Hamvention.
And for a list of all of our upcoming guests,
visit HamTalk Live. and we also released the
information about our live show at Dayton. We're
going to have traffic, weather, parking, you
name it. It's get ready for your trip to Dayton.
So make sure you check that out. We'll be talking
more about that as it gets closer. So for now,
this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG saying 7375 and may
the good DX be yours.