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Live episode number 90 tonight. Remote Hams,
recorded live on Thursday, November 16th, 2017.
I am your host, Neil Rapp, WB9 VPG. Thanks for
tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight
we're joined by Scott Avery, W -A -6 -L -I -E,
the founder of RemoteHams .com, and we'll take
your calls live in a few minutes. Last week here
on the show, Valerie Hotsfeld, NV9L, was here
to talk about the Puerto Rico disaster communications
deployment. And if you missed that, be sure to
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us a call. We're going to talk to Scott for a
little bit first, but let me give you the phone
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ready for your questions just yet. We'll do a
little intro first so everybody's familiar with
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a little bit. Again, that's at HamTalk Live on
Twitter. I do have one other announcement before
we get going here. It's a 13 year old ham that's
been on the program before. He was on a few months
ago about working CW with his mic button and
he's come a long way since then. Um, he received
a, uh, autographed the golly at contest university,
uh, which we talked about a little bit on the
show. Well, he just passed his extra class on
Saturday. So congratulations to Bryant on that.
And he's been selected to go to WRTC. So next
summer. he'll be participating in the World Radio
Team Championship 2018 in Wittenberg, Germany.
He'll be representing one of the youth teams.
He will be the youngest ham in the competition
and the only youth ham from North America, but
takes some money to travel all that way. So he's
raising some money by selling humorous ham holiday
postcards. You can use those for QSL. cards or
just some holiday greetings. So we've posted
that information on our Facebook page and our
Twitter feed and Instagram. And I'll actually
be interviewing him tomorrow in preparation for
next week's amateur radio news line. So you can
hear a little bit more about it over that news
line. But if you're interested in helping them
out, check out the flyer on our social media
sites, and we'll be talking more about WRTC 2018
in future episodes. So again, congratulations
to Bryant, and we'll try to help him out by spreading
the word on this fundraising. HamTalk Live, we're
on the air every Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern
time at hamtalklive .com. And again, check us
out on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We do
post some stuff there throughout the week, so
make sure you see that. Well, our guest tonight
is Scott Avery, W -A -6 -L -I -E. He's from Salinas,
California, and has been a ham since age 15.
He's been very active on VHF, where he operates
a lot of six meters and a lot... formerly with
contacts in outer space on the Mir space station
and the space shuttle, and now with the International
Space Station. He operates several satellites
and also supports the Loma Pioneer Repeater Club
and its repeaters. Scott has been setting up
remote stations since the 80s, back before the
internet. Before Al Gore invented it and you
may remember him also from a cruise he took for
his anniversary where the staff knew nothing
about ham radio and Kind of gave him the riot
act because he had his HF rig with him on the
ship and and Had a little a little unfortunate
episode there But Scott is the founder of remote
hams a service that provides remote access via
the internet for HF operators. So Scott, thank
you so much for coming on tonight. Oh, thanks,
Neil. Good evening and thanks for having me.
Yeah, we've been trying to to get you guys on
here for a while. One of our listeners, Lloyd
Casey 5 FM has been talking a lot about remotehams
.com and one of the nets that he is in that I'm
also a member of is Christian Amich Radio Fellowship
and they use it a lot of times to try to cut
through some of the propagation issues and everything.
So we're glad that you could be on tonight. So
tell us all about Remote Hams and how it all
got started. All right. Well, it's goes back
a ways back in the Mid 80s. I had a guy I used
to talk to all the time on 7250 and his name
was Mike Mike Flanagan KH6 Victor Tango and We
used to get up on 7250 and BS a lot and Eveningtime
band and great propagation of Hawaiian. I Found
out that he was running a remote and that consisted
of a Nikon 701 And he had a three element wire
Yagi up at 100 foot. Here's a kicker. It was
at the old WWVH site in Kihei, Maui. And he remoted
on using his full tempo S2 radios, UHF audio
link, and a simple controller with a VIC -20
computer. And that was pretty high tech back
then. Of course, this was way before the internet.
Anyhow, I'd always been interested in running
remotes and I had recently moved and I couldn't
really operate. I could receive, I just couldn't
transmit. I used an old mom's garage and set
up an HF station. There was a little TS520S and
a couple UHF handhelds and a remote receiver.
I was about maybe three miles away line of sight.
Get that way, it's kind of crude but... It was
also great because I had diversity receive and
I could also have full duplex because my transmitted
signal wasn't necessarily stronger than everybody
else I was talking to so I wasn't that strong
on the remote receiver but everybody else was
so it was easy to pull duplex but at any rate
that was just all fun messing around you know
when I could get on the air and so at any rate
I ended up taking a cruise, which you mentioned
earlier, and that wasn't too fun. You can do
a Google search on W -A -6 -L -I -E, suspected
terrorist, and you can get a little bit more.
It was in QST, by the way. So yeah, it wasn't
a fun experience, and that just made me say,
you know what, I need to take this more serious.
together with Brandon, KG6YPI. He's a computer
guru, self -taught, just he's a genius, a great
friend. And I said, look, here's my idea. This
is what I want to do. And so he started writing
the software. We started out with HRD and Skype
and TeamViewer and it all worked okay. But you
know, it just, it wasn't real enough. So at any
rate, Brandon started writing software. We were
web -based HTML for a while, and then he eventually
wrote the client and the server software. And
he did all that. I mean, that's all Brown. He's
a smart kid, and it was many, many years of us
getting together and talking about what we wanted
to do and all that. So at any rate, I chose Brown
because he was great in security. He liked to...
you know, for pun hacking websites. So I figured,
you know, great guy, because I want security,
you know, because we're talking about ham radios
and licenses and all that. So he built us a great
secure site. And we love it. A lot of people
like using it. It's primarily there for, you
know, just using but I kind of designed it. Mind
for well one of these days, you know, I'm gonna
get old and I might bring the retirement home
But I was thinking about the new hams, you know
the guys that just don't money They're getting
in the hobby and they just want to listen on
a receiver or see what things are like or whatnot
And you know old hams alike and those in the
CC and ours if you're vacationing like New Mexico
Another good time to do it you know a lot of
people like how many times have you heard hey
what's my audio sound like and you know there
might be five guys on frequency and you'll get
five different answers and so I just say hey
you know you can listen on my remote receiver
you can record it whatever but you know at least
hear what it sounds like. So, anyway, it's a
free service. It's always going to be free. It's
open to everybody. We encourage clubs. N6IJ is
a club that I'm a member of, and we have a nice
HF station at 599 DX Drive in Marina. Great address.
Thanks to Pat A6EG. But we have that remote.
So, you know, members out of the area can still
get on the air. You know, if they're going on
vacation, they can at least use a good antenna
or whatnot. So anyway, it's out there for everybody
to use and, um, just, uh, glad it's there. And,
um, glad that, uh, Brandon's getting a little
bit wrecked, a little bit more recognition for
all the work he does out there, Neil. All right.
Very good. Well, uh, this sounds like a great
way for hams that can't put up antennas, you
know, to get on the air. Like you said, the,
the, uh, neighborhood covenants or they're in
a nursing home or rehab facility. you know and
they're not able to get the antennas up and then
we've got this horrible sunspot cycle going on
right now or propagation is bad and so you might
be able to to get somewhere that normally you
could get to but right now you can't or or just
check and make sure you're getting out i mean
that's like you said you know well how do you
hear me you know well you can you can check yourself
and see uh if you're being heard and if your
antennas are working right. Sounds like a great
thing. So for somebody who hasn't done remotes
before, how do they get signed up with Remote
Hams and how do they get started using the client?
It's actually pretty simple. All you have to
do is go to www .remothams .com. and create a
new account and doing so use your call sign as
your username and choose your password and basically
we have one, two, three steps we try to make
it easy we have installers and all that so basically
what you'll do is you'll download the client
and you'll log in and you'll use that client
software to connect to the different radios so
it's actually pretty easy to use They set up,
if you're doing a server, if you're hosting a
radio, that's a little bit more difficult, but
it's not too bad. I just, I'd mention also that
this is Windows only. We are looking for a developer
for the Apple iOS system. So if you're an Apple
guy, you get some time. We're, like I said, not
for profit. you know, we could really definitely
use it to ball for, you know, I got an iPad,
I got an iPhone, but no remote hand. So, um,
anyway, if you have a windows or Android device,
you're good. We also have a, um, um, software
for the Android. So if you go to, uh, the Google
store and look up RCF, and by the way, RCF or
stands for remote controlled framework and Orb
is online. remote based so at any rate uh to
try to keep it simple uh if you just uh go ahead
and do the one two three on the website and start
using radios and you can even you should upload
your license if you want to transmit but for
listening purposes like if you're running a net
for example and conditions are lousy and you
know you know somebody that has a receiver remote
receiver or transceiver Another part of the country
that you're having a hard time hearing that now
it's a good opportunity to use a remote Neil.
Yeah, it sure is. And I know it's a. come in
handy a couple of times and I actually I remember
last time I used one was uh I was doing that
13 colonies thing and and we got all the 13 colonies
over here and then the bonus on the bonus stations
was over in Great Britain and it seemed like
no one could get them and I was just like are
they even on the air I keep seeing them spotted
but are they even on the air and I pulled up
a remote over in England and I was able to hear
them over there. I couldn't hear them anywhere
else, but I was able to actually tell, okay,
they really are on the air. So that's a great
thing to have around, and I'm glad you're able
to. offer this to hams out there. So tell us
a little bit about the the setup of the infrastructure
to make all this go and some of the stations
that are available for people to use on remotehams
.com. All right well first of all we have our
main server in Fremont in a nice big building
and we have a backup server in the United Kingdom
and so we We basically have that server -client
relationship working right now. So if you're
hosting a radio, you're going to be set up as
a server. And of course, if you're just a user,
you have the client side. So we have the user
-client operation. We used to have the web base
using HTML. But because of security issues and
other things, it just wasn't a very good idea.
So we keep it this way. It seems to work well.
Like I mentioned earlier, it can be used on the
Android device. I want to also recommend the
Orb device if you go onto remotehams .com and
look under products. The Orb device is a nice
interface box. In fact, I'm using it right now.
What it does is it interfaces to your computer
where you can actually hook up your favorite
key. to this box, your CW key, and or a Kenwood
or Ellacraft microphone to the 8 -pin connector,
and or if you have another computer mic or studio
mic, you can plug that in. Also, it has this
built -in sound card, and it works great for
also using the digital modes, and it gives you
more of a radio feel, and if you have the...
KX3 or a KX0 mini or a K3 you can also use those
in a terminal mode to control another K3 so it's
pretty cool in other words I can use my K3 to
emulate the K3 at N6IJ because we also have a
K3 there so Basically, I spin the dial and I
push the buttons and it's emulated on the other
radio. The only thing that will not do is microphone
and audio. Those are set. So every other button
is active. I could go into the config menu and
all that sort of stuff. But you have to be an
admin. So again, security. Thank you, Brandon.
He's really good about that, all about security.
And basically, it's a pretty easy system to use.
It's a lot of fun. It's a remote -based community.
You have a lot of stations out there that have
a lot of members that just like, it's almost
like a hangout or like a coffee room or a chat
room like on Skype here, for example. And a bunch
of guys just kind of hang out there and they
might be working in that or in some cases taking
turns at working DX. Some radios are more popular
than others. Of course, every radio is unique.
In other words, I host the radio and I have my
certain rules because I might have certain antennas
or I just might be limited. Every radio owner
has their own set of rules, so everyone is different.
Every radio is different and everybody makes
their own rules. They're just your basic courtesy
rules we like you to ask before you. you know
go ahead and take control somebody's radio and
decide to uh you know tune it off somewhere you
know just uh the common courtesy type of thing
but other than that like i said it's free for
all we we like clubs to we encourage clubs to
uh use remote hands to host the radio um we're
we're working on the santa cruz club they kind
of got it going but they're still kind of working
on it but Nonetheless, there are a lot of other
clubs, and the members really enjoy it because
a lot of them, again, they might live far away
from the club, or they aren't as portable as
they used to be, or they might be in a retirement
community. And we're seeing a lot more of that.
And I'm getting closer there myself, but I know
I'm going to be there one day. That way, I'm
already setting myself up. If I can't use radio
anymore, then at least I got the remote stuff.
Even if I can't use my K3, if I can't hook it
up to an antenna, at least I can use the remote
K3s in the same fashion. I use the same microphone
and everything about it. It's just emulating
your radio. to the remote radio and it's pretty
cool stuff and a lot of fun. Alright, well tell
us a little bit about the stations that are available
on the system. Well again, like I said, we have
a lot of shortwave listening stations, just receiving
stations. We got the club stations, you know,
where you have to be a club member of, but again
we just have a variety of other stations that
just want to, you know, donate their time and
their radio so others can enjoy it. You know,
those that can't get on the air, like the New
Hams, for example, that are interested in HF
and, you know, they just got their general and
they don't really want to get a radio yet. They
just want to kind of check it out and see what
it's like. So, like I said, there are all kinds
of stations out there all around the world. uh...
we got many united states we we got an australia
still trying to get one set up in what way ike
i keep paying my buddy up loy kate six l c he's
got great dex location the big island but he
hasn't given in yet he he's got he's got some
properties like maybe stick a bird clock where
you're something or you know i'd really like
to Take a wire and rent between all the towers
and you know, be it with 400 ladder line over
in that shack over there in the corner. You won't
even know it's there. So the more the merrier.
So that may be a good excuse to sneak over there
and, uh, you know, for a few days and, uh, and
do that, you know, it might be a good, good excuse
to go to Hawaii. Well, Neil, I was over there
this past April house sitting for two weeks.
So, uh, It was a lot of fun. Those four squares,
um, really worked great too, by the way, he's
got one heck of a QTH, uh, it's a contest station.
So, uh, it's, it's well, well maintained and
a lot of fun. Sounds like it. And, uh, so how
many, uh, do you have a count on what's on like
at the moment? Oh, let's see. Right now we have,
uh, 190 radios online. Out of those, 114 of them
are actually club stations. And out of that total
number, 135 of them are TX capable. In other
words, if you have a valid ham radio license
that you've uploaded and you've been approved
by the radio owner, in other words, he's validated
that, okay, you've got a good license store,
accept approved license for those foreign amateurs.
primarily in Europe, then it'll allow you to
use the station. There are 135 of them out there
right now that you can transmit on all around
the world. All right. Well, there you go. It's
remotehams .com and some good opportunities there
if you need a station to operate. one way to
get the job done. So what we're going to do now
is take a break and we'll come back and we'll
take your questions. Again, that phone number
is 812 -NATAM1. You can give us a call or give
us a tweet or give us a call on Skype and we'll
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-4261. Or you can Skype your question at HamTalk
Live or tweet us at HamTalk Live. And I know
Scott mentioned he wanted to keep this informational
tonight regarding the service and not get into
all the server configuration networking stuff.
So we'll try to kind of steer away from those
tonight. There are some resources available we'll
talk about. So we'll we'll try to keep it away
from the configuration issues tonight And I know
we just had somebody try to call and I was in
the middle of reading all that and didn't get
it So hopefully we'll get him up. Yep, actually
Oh, we gotta get Scott Bicknell is trying to
call and If you would try it again, because we
got to get the contact request in to get the
group call. So give us a call right back here
and we'll get you in here. But yeah, why don't
you go ahead, Scott, and talk a little bit about
where you do get help if you need help with the
configuration and networking and all that. All
righty well it quite simple just go to remote
hams calm and click on the forms and You will
see all kinds of Different threads that are going
on and one of them might fit your problem We
do have set up instructions and whatnot in the
forum. So if you have any questions on the configurations,
just go into the forums and 99 % of the time
you'll have an answer already there. But if not,
then you can always start a new thread or reply
to one and hopefully you get one of the remote
gurus out there to answer the question for you.
All right, very good. And yes, we do have Scott
Bicknell in here So why don't you go ahead and
ask Scott ask Scott your question? Yeah, we're
losing you a little bit there, but thank you
saying just wanted to put in a good word for
remote hams Yep, we've had a remote ham station
in northern Michigan loves sharing our station
the call is W1 BIC and Remote hams Well, that's
great. Thanks a lot Scott. I really appreciate
it and I'm glad that you guys are able to use
it to your advantage and find out that it works
great and Thank you so much. Appreciate that
and the let me just tell you that Roger here
Yeah, Roger W ARJ he's One of the developers
with Brandon and he does a good job and he's
usually all over the forums. Him and Brandon
seem to answer the majority of the questions.
But yeah, we got a lot of good team members out
there and that's what it's all about. Like I
said, it's an online remote based community and
we all kind of work together and we got a problem.
We'll solve it. So that's great. Thanks again,
Scott. I appreciate it. Thanks for calling Scott.
Appreciate. All right. Take care. Have a great
night. All right, you too. All right. Thanks
for giving us a call. It's 812 -638 -4261 if
you'd like to give us a call. 812 -638 -4261
or you can Skype us or tweet us over here. We're
at HamTalk Live is where you'll find us and we
do have time for a few more questions and We'll
talk about that and if you do have a station
like these guys That you want to put on remote
hams. How do you go about getting that accomplished?
Well, you gotta do a little bit of a research
and well personally got to download the software
and be somewhat literate and being able to Set
things up in other words You got to set up your
your audio and you got people adjust your audio
you need to also make sure that your radio is
talking to your computer and Then you have the
the router issues Port forwarding we're starting
to work around port forwarding back. We do have
a Function in the in the orb server software
where it looks for a UPnP type of Routers which
will come automatically open ports for you So
you don't have to go in there and do that, but
that can be a little bit of a problem, but I
Like I have a name for for for P &P It's supposed
to be plug -and -play, but I always called it
plug -and -pray Exactly plug -and -pray Like
I said, you know that the forms are out there
too, you know when you have that that little
roadblock and there will be a roadblock I'm sure
because of routers, but Yeah, once you get all
up and going then You know you kind of figure
out, you know, what kind of rules you want to
make for your radio? Can I go from there because
you just might be limited to maybe 40 and 80
meters? So yeah might have to get in there and
configure your radio So nobody can transmit on
any other pan except for 40 and 80 meters, which
is nice about the software We have so many options.
It's not even funny and again security is great,
but you know every most every button that you
have on the radio you can do remotely. And again,
if you're an Ellicraft fan, you got Ellicraft
equipment, you're good, you're golden. Brandon
is an employee of Ellicraft and he's the engineer
in charge of doing all the remote stuff for Ellicraft.
So I guess you could say the software is kind
of tailored for Ellicraft stuff. So if you have
an Ellicraft radio, you can call Brandon and
get great Ellicraft remote support. by the uh
by the creator of the software which is uh pretty
cool all right well sounds like uh you're good
to go on on that and uh we've got others as well
but that's uh kind of the way it's gone so uh
if you're an alacrf fan that's uh another thing
you can you can do so again if you have a question
uh Tweet us at HamTalkLive or Skype at HamTalkLive
or you can do it the old -fashioned way. It's
812 -638 -4261. Just dial the phone number and
we can get you in here. We have a few minutes
left with Scott. So if you have some questions
about getting into remote hands, either putting
your station on or operating stations through
that, give us a call. It's 812 -638 -4261. Now
you've done a lot of VHF and UHF stuff, especially
I know satellites and space and that kind of
thing. So have you done any any remote stuff
with that? Not really. I did back in the 80s.
I had put up a packet J .J. Peter. On the International
or the mirror space station frequency and it
was a nice elevation and like 30 watts and a
perfect antenna for for working satellites and
it was out in the clear so I did a little packet
thing through that but other than that I haven't
done any remote stuff about working satellites.
I haven't worked too many satellites here recently.
I've primarily been down the lower HF bands and
thinking on VHF and UHF but up there I'm usually
on the side band or the digital modes and I really
like FT8, that's a great mode by the way. So
getting very popular for those that are again
in a limited situation where maybe they can only
run a magnetic loop and 20 watts in their apartment
but they got the radio there and they can use
it so the digital modes are really starting to
shine on those CC and hard guys that, uh, you
know, can run an inside antenna, just, uh, can't
get out much of a signal. Yeah. And FT eight
is just taken off, uh, like a rocket. And so
we're going to have to do a show or two on, on
some of those newer, uh, digital modes like FT
eight and, uh, uh, we're had, um, Don on N1DG
a couple of weeks ago said that they're actually
working on a de -expedition version of FT8. So
they're hoping to take it on Baker Island and
do some of that. So all kinds of stuff going
on in the digital world right now. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, like I said, you know, back when I started
Remote Hams, we didn't have a computer and just
used VHF, UHF and Whatever we had available.
The products that they have out today is just
mind boggling. I remember building TR relays
and building my antennas and using Coke bottles
for vertical base supports. I don't know, old
school MacGyver stuff. Now you can go out and
buy all the stuff, and it's all pre -made, pre
-tuned, and put it together, and you're on the
air, which is great if you can do that, but if
you can't, then again, the remote's a great option,
especially if you're traveling, and there's one
guy I heard on the air the other day, and he
was saying, he's taking a little vacation and
whatnot, and his wife says, no radio, you aren't.
taking a radio with you. But if you have your
Android phone, for example, um, yeah, maybe you
could, uh, you know, get on the air occasionally,
you know, go to the men's room for a while. Get
on the air, speak in a contact or two. Yeah,
exactly. In fact, uh, one of our, uh, loan pioneer
repeater club, uh, or president Runs a net a
lot and he travels a lot He's an insurance guy
and so he spends a little bit time on the road
going to different areas that have been been
hit by disasters or whatnot, so One night he
had to run the net and he was Sitting in the
the local cafe in the airport has the Android
phone and he ran our whole net, which generally
lasts about 45 minutes. So it'd be like doing
your broadcast now remotely. And, uh, he did
a bang up job and it sounded great. I was, I
was really surprised. Yeah. There's no end to
the possibilities. And, uh, you know, I can,
actually now this broadcast I can do with an
iPhone app. So it's just amazing how all this
technology has come along and the remotes are
just so much more commonplace now than they used
to be. I remember wanting so much to set up a
remote base on the repeater so that we could
control it that way. And now it's like, you know,
there's remotehams .com so we don't have to go
through all that process. Well yeah and you know
it's an all -in -one situation solution whereas
you don't need TeamBeer, you don't need Skype,
you know it's all in one software suite. Your
audio and control and everything else is right
there so it makes it a lot easier being on the
go and there are a lot of radios to choose from
out there so you know it'd be a lot of fun. Yeah,
well I appreciate you doing that I'm sorry for
the Reason that you were drove to doing this
And yeah the cruise line not being too cooperative
but Glad that that you've done it and very useful
and hopefully people will know about that technology
more and get some use out of it. So Scott, thanks
for coming on and filling us in on RemoteHams
.com. Right, well thanks for having me and you
know, it's out there to use. Again, it's free,
you know, build it and they will come. I said
to Brandon, I said, you know, it'll get popular
and you know, slowly during time, you know, it
gets bigger and bigger and bigger. So, you know,
it's great and thanks to everybody out there
that donates their time and radios. We really
appreciate it. A lot of other guys appreciate
it. I just want to make one last comment that
this is just a fantastic hobby. I've been a ham
since 15. It's just been a great hobby. A lot
of great guys out there. Technology is a great
way of learning and a lot of fun. Thanks for
having me, Neil. You and everybody have a great
evening and hope to see you on Remote Hams. All
right. Also too, Scott, before you go, if you
want to support Remote Hams, how do you do that?
Well, you have you know, there was a donate button
on the on the home page remotehamms .com so if
you go up there you can click on the donate button
and pay via PayPal or credit card or whatever,
but we accept donations and we went off at donations
All right. Very good one to get that in there.
So thank you so much for coming on we appreciate
it and appreciate your service and We look forward
to hearing more people from remotehams .com.
Well, thank you very much, Neil. You have a great
evening. Happy holidays to you. And thanks for
having me on and hope to talk to you on there
soon. Very good. Yes, absolutely. Well, that's
a wrap for this week's edition of HamTalk Live.
Thanks to my guest, Scott Avery, WA6LIE, and
everyone out there in cyberspace for listening
and calling in. Next week is Thanksgiving, so
we're going to take the week off and give thanks
next week, and I've got to watch the annual traditional
WKRP Cincinnati turkey giveaway episode Between
now and then that's one of my favorites and always
watch that during Thanksgiving. So we may post
that our social media sites next week but the
following Thursday we'll be back at nine o 'clock
Eastern Time and Ralph Fedor K0IR will be here
to talk about the Buffet Island De -Expedition.
He's going to give us an update since last time
we talked to him about the De -Expedition so
be sure to tune in for that. So for a list of
all of our upcoming guests you can get that at
HamTalkLive .com. Just click on the schedule
link. So for now this is Neorap WB9VPG saying
seven three seven five and as Les Nessman says
this is Les Nessman saying good day and may the
good DX be yours. As God is my witness I thought
turkeys could fly.