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HamTalk Live. It's Henry Good evening, everyone.
It's time for ham talk live episode number 84.
It's 100 watts in a wire fallout two with K zero
STH recorded live on Thursday, October 5th, 2017.
I'm your host, Neil rap WB nine VPG. Thanks for
tuning in to this episode of ham talk live tonight.
We're joined by Christian Kudnick K zero S T
H. the host of 100 Watts at a Wire. We're going
to talk about an operating activity coming up
this weekend and we'll take your calls live in
just a few minutes. Last week Lucinda Moody AB8WF
was here from Handy Hams and talking about the
program that brings AMRADIO to people with disabilities
and all kinds of resources there so if you missed
that show make sure you check it out. just go
to HamTalkLive .com and you can listen to it
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anywhere. Well, We're going to talk to Christian
here in just a little bit, but let me give you
the phone number so you can have that ready.
And after we talk to him for a bit, you'll be
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That's 812 -638 -4261. Or you can Skype us. Just
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Christian a question about fallout coming up
this weekend or the hundred watts and a wire
podcast or anything, just just give us a call.
But we'll do that here in just a little bit.
But first, we're going to talk a little bit about
fallout. So Daring to come back on the show a
second time is Christian Kudnick K0STH. Christian
is originally from Baltimore, but now resides
in Metro St. Louis, Missouri, or as he calls
it on his show, New Seattle. from all the rain.
Well, he's a veteran broadcaster, two -time Emmy
award -winning producer, and he's also a regular
contributor to Amateur Radio Newsline, along
with myself. And he's the creator of the 100
Watts and a Wire podcast. So my friend, Christian
K0STH. Good evening, Christian. Hey, Neil. What's
going on with you? This is the best. You've got
the best music. All these podcasts are out there,
right? you've got all this great kind of rock
based music it's uh it's like call it it's like
being part of a sports rock and roll show yeah
i've got the best music because i think i've
got the only music isn't that how that goes music
everybody else is afraid to be sued what's going
on well not much you just got to keep keep that
uh you know Copyright stuff in check. You got
to make sure you use the the public domain stuff,
you know Or get somebody where you get a guy
to sing that ham talk. It's hey Yeah, yeah Yeah,
that was that was a that was not me That was
definitely not me. That was a that was a deal.
I got a deal on that Let me tell you that was
not That was not but a jam production from from
Dallas. That was that was some guy in his Bedroom,
but really really tight underwear. There's no
way that you did it. Your voice is too basic
It's this way up there yeah, now somebody said
that It must be the same guy that did the cars
for kids commercial Oh yeah, you know 877 cars
for kids, you know, you know, I said it must
been the same guy, but I don't know. You got
a, you got a good budget then because those voiceover
guys aren't cheap and you got a really great
sounding female, a YL. Yeah. Yeah. I got a deal.
And, and, and the one I just played a while ago,
if, if you're, if you're sitting there, I'm going,
wait a minute. I know that voice. I know that
voice from somewhere. It's from Madden 17 and
Madden 18. That's my former student, Brandon
Godden, and he sent me that this week and I thought
that was kind of a fun... fun thing. So if you're
recognizing the voice at the beginning of the
show tonight, that was Brandon. He's the voice
of the Madden series now of the video games.
So he's doing better than his mentor. He sounds
great. I'm sure he sounds great on the air and
doing the work he's doing. And that's really
cute with the touchdown and all the bands across
it. It's a good deal. You need to stop showing
off so much. CarlKD9HQT says, we should take
the theme song and do the Halloween version of
it. Oh, yeah. That's good. I like this interaction
with the audience, man. I remember when you first
started to put this thing together and we were
talking about it. And you were like, no, I'm
thinking of doing it live. And I was like, oh
my. And I was instantly wondering if you had
the dump button the the notorious dump button
that's in every radio station and you figured
it all out man you've got a lot of courage oh
yeah we figured it out we got it well hey let's
talk about this fallout 2 it's it's kind of like
rocky 2 or or Star Trek 2 the wrath of sea child
right Sounds, sounds more like a sci -fi movie.
So tell us about fallout. Well, it's hard to
believe it's been a year already because you
were, you participated last year and you know,
in theory, all we really want to do is set a
time in our schedule. I've got a young family,
so it becomes harder and harder to do things
on the fly. You know, I hear a lot of hams talk
about, I think I'm going to go out in the park
this weekend or Maybe I'll ride through the desert
and I'll set up you know or whatever it is. It's
kind of like spontaneous My life just isn't that
way at this point, but my life is great with
the children right, but they're just young so
You know I pick a date way in advance in this
weekend coming up the seventh and eighth It's
an opportunity for us as a community to just
put that date aside if you can and operate a
little bit knowing that there will be others
out there. You know, we have people with mic
fright and people just, you know, they get on
the air and they try to call CQ but may be hesitant
to do that. This is one of those opportunities
where you're gonna hear these stations over the
weekend and you can work them. It's not a contest.
It's just an activity. It's kind of a get on
the air, free for all. Any band, any mode you
wanna do. And last year, well actually, with
the tune -up. We've got a 100 watts and a wire
tune -up that happens a couple of weeks before
field day. And I ask my sponsors, look, will
you consider a door prize? That's kind of a common
thing for HamFest. Give something away. So although
it's not a contest, you can still win some prizes
just for participating. You don't have to work
1 ,000 stations or 500. Just a couple. And you
go to our website, 100WattsAndAWire .com, and
you go into activity days and you can click there
and then you can submit your totals and then
it's a random drawing. MFJ is giving us a great
portable tripod and a collapsible mast. They're
also giving a 40 through six meter telescopic
portable vertical. BioEno, which is a really
hot company right now, it took them a few years
to get traction, but BioEno Power is making these
great batteries. They're going to give away a
12 volt. I love them. You got one, right? Yeah,
I used one last year. I've got one too. They're
a sponsor. They're going to give away a 12 volt,
20 amp hour battery, which is great for 100 watts
portable or less. Radio Waves, Emmet, our friend,
is going to give away a 40 meter double bazooka.
And PowerFilm Solar, another young, hot company,
American made products. They're going to give
away a 35 watt. solar panel, and I'm not gonna
give everything to one person. We're gonna spread
it around and have multiple people get some stuff,
but it's a chance for us to get out before it
really gets cold, and many of us can't do it,
you know, in the wintertime. We try to. On the
other side of that, Neil, if you can't get out,
you're sick or you can't, you don't have a portable
station, that's okay. You can do it from your
shack where it's nice and warm or cool depending
where you are. We just are encouraging people
to get on the air as we enter into the fall season.
Alright, so what's the exchange? What do you
say when you do that and what are your goals
for this year? It's very simple. I think you
just call CQ 100 watts and a wire fallout. People
will be curious. We have a good strong fan base
for the show, but there's over 700 ,000 of us
out there, and many don't know about my show
and your show and all the shows, frankly. They
may, but they don't know. So I think it's an
opportunity to teach people about this community,
teach people about the show, and just really
get on the air and have fun. We just wanna work
some stations. It helps kinda raise some awareness
about what we're doing. this safe place that's
been created for people where it's okay not to
know everything and just get on in work and I
like to hear a true signal report when I when
I get involved I know you're a big contester
and Five -nine gets a lot of flack, you know
if you want to give five nines by all means But
you know if you got to dig one out and give them
a four by four Let them know. I kind of like
to know what my antenna's doing and what propagation's
doing. And that's it. If you've got a 100 watts
ID, you can exchange that. You can get those
at the website as well. That's 100WattsInAWire
.com. You click on the gathering page, and you'll
be sequentially issued a number, a 100 watt ID.
You can share that. I know you have one. I have
one. And just give that signal report. If you're
curious to know what state they're in, whatever.
Start a conversation. It's all very simple. No
rules. All bands, all mode, all weekend. Do what
you like. It doesn't have to be 100 watts of
power, even. And last year, I don't know if you
were gonna mention this, but I set up in my field,
I was just putting together my portable station,
and I know you had a portable station you were
gonna try out too. And you and I connected during
the fallout, and we ended up working some stations
together. We just sort of would pass. It was
fun. It's just out there with 100 watts. So the
intention is to get on the air in the end and
maybe win some cool prizes too. And I was commenting
that that was one time when you were outstanding
in your field. Yeah, that was not your best joke.
But, you know, maybe because I didn't get it
right away and I was like, yes, I am just outstanding.
Oh, damn Neil. Got me again. You're like the
Bob Hope. Well, I had fun. Now, last year I kind
of double dipped. I went down to my hometown,
Vincennes, Indiana and Went down to the George
Rogers Clark Memorial, which I'd been wanting
to do the national parks on the air thing down
there because I figured oh no one else will do
that one well, I get there and there's already
somebody there and So I stopped in, you know,
I had my my 50 and my my bio inno battery and
Some hamsticks from tower electronics and and
had all that stuff and I couldn't get the mounts
to work I couldn't get anything to work, but
I stopped in said hi We took some pictures and
talked for a while and it was a Patrick twig
in 9o QT and his wife Mary was actually on the
air at that point W9 MAP and they're from Champaign,
Illinois and they were going all over the Midwest
activating national parks. So here I thought
you know, nobody going to activate George Rogers
Clark I better go down there and sure enough
there's somebody there the same day but they
were nice enough to loan me their antenna so
I could get you know some contacts so I drove
over to the other side of the parking lot and
and got on and found you and got on and made
made my minimum for national parks on the air
and did the the fallout thing at the same time.
So that was pretty cool. It was fun and I ran
into those two at Dayton this year. They were
at Dayton and got a chance to talk to them again
and thank them again and kind of catch up with
what they were doing. Isn't that sweet? That
really is the spirit of Ham Radio is that another
guy comes in who's struggling who's a ham and
they put you on the air and I remember that we
took our sweet time. We were working stations
all across the country together, and they didn't
once come over to you and was like, hey, buddy,
hey, we saw the park. I sat on a rock. You've
been out here for 45 minutes. That's a good point,
though. You can go up on a summit. You can double
dip like Neil did. You can go into a state or
national park if you're doing the Parks on the
Air. The National Parks on the Air program is
finished, but Parks on the air is another great
opportunity. So you can, you can go up there
and go to a park, state park, whatever, do whatever
you like. Just get on the air this weekend and,
uh, and participate. It'll be a lot of fun. All
right. So make sure you, uh, you get on there
this weekend. I'm going to try to, uh, to carve
out some time. I've got, uh, got some things
that I've got to take care of with, uh, with
dad's estate and all that kind of thing. But
I'm going to try to. carve out some time, probably
from the shack this year. Um, but, uh, we might
try to get that battery hooked up and do something
portable on Sunday. You never know. What are
you going to do? What are you going to do? My
plan is I know you listen to the show. Sometimes
I've got an old wooden shed, um, because of the
scheduling with family, I've got an old shed
that I kind of it's on the edge of the woods
and I used it for field day this year. and a
couple other random things. I think I'm gonna
split my time between the old wooden shed doing
100 watts and then maybe coming in in the evening
because there's some family things that are happening
in our life. You know, we're much more than ham
radio operators. We're fathers and sons and brothers
and everything. So there's things happening at
certain times over the weekend that I need to
participate in at home. So I think I'll split
my time up. maybe come inside, work 80 meters
in the evening time. That's what I do. I thought
about putting that small team together and activating
the arch again, but there's still a lot of construction
down there, and then with the scheduling, it
didn't really work out. It's one of those kind
of places that's really cool to activate, but
it's not necessarily the easiest thing, especially
with additional... You know things I talked to
Emmett he wanted to bring the MCOM vehicle and
so you're you need to be at certain places in
other words You can't go exactly where you may
want to go with that vehicle. So I said let's
wait We'll do it when it gets much colder and
we'll go down and activate that but I think I'll
split I'll split some time Okay, very good. Well,
it sounds like a fun time on the air so get on
this weekend and hopefully the sunspots will
cooperate and get on the air and call for CQ
100 watts of the wire fallout and exchange those
numbers if you have those. But get on the air
and get out outside and portable if you can.
Here in the Midwest we've still got some pretty
good pretty good weather. Um, should be a good
time. Well, we're going to go to the phone soon
and we're, we're getting some, some tweets and
some activity in the, in the chat here. Uh, but
we're going to go to the phone soon and, and
pick up some of those. But this week you, you've
been, you've been pushing this show pretty, pretty
hard. And, and one of the things that you were
joking about was that you're, you're the Regis
Philbin to this show. Right. Tell the truth.
Regis was always the one on standby. So Dave
Letterman could just call him up and say, Regis,
we had a cancellation. I need you to come on
the show. And so you're, you're joking around
that, you know, the only reason I had you on
the show was somebody canceled, you know. Oh,
I'm sure some answer not canceled or some wonderful
person. And it's like, oh, what's happening in
the world? Oh, dang. Oh, what the heck. So I
decided that we're going to do something special.
We're going to do something that I've only done
once before. It's one of my favorite things that
I've done on the show. And the only other person
that's been asked to do this is Don Wilbanks,
AE5DW. And it was one of the, you never heard
of it. It was one of the things that we did very
early on in the history of HamTalk Live. So yes,
ladies and gentlemen, that music is back. If
you've been a long time listener and first time
caller of the show. Ladies and gentlemen, boys
and girls and other various life forms, it's
time once again. So here's how this works. I
give Christian a choice between two things and
he asked to pick the one that he would rather
do. So we're going to do that, but wait, there's
more. because on Twitter here in just a minute,
we're gonna post one of the questions that we're
gonna ask Christian and everybody that's listening
is gonna have a chance to vote. We'll leave it
open for a few days for your people who aren't
listening live and you'll be able to vote and
you'll be able to pick which one you would rather.
You would rather choose so oh, yeah. Oh, oh We
got we got we got all kinds of stuff going on
the chat Do I get to ask you questions Neil?
No, no, no. No, I'm the host see I'm the host
so so alright, so so we'll post one of those
up here on the on the Twitter thing here in just
a minute, but okay, so here you go Ham talk live
Would you rather would you rather have your antenna
blown over by a tornado or? straight line wins
oh I've got experience in straight line wins
So I think I would go with that one straight
line wins Okay, you're going with straight line
wins because it seems like there was that show
where every week it was okay this antenna fell
down okay it did that antenna fell down and it
did they didn't actually fall down but they were
breaking and snapping yeah you know what i tied
them like guitar strings to the trees and that
that's not good because trees move and that's
a hard lesson for a newer ham yeah but tornadoes
man they're no joke they can take everything
out yeah okay All right, here's the next question
and this one's going up on Twitter. So this one
just just went up on Twitter So if you had to
listen to a conversation if you had to listen
to a Q So, which would you rather listen to a
colonoscopy or a root canal? Oh Well, this is
a 75 meters right is it's kind of a different
flavor probably You know, when you're on 40 meters,
it's a little different. 80 will get you some
deep discussion on a colonoscopy. I'm going to
take the colonoscopy because I'm getting to that
time where we need them more frequently. And
I've actually had some, if you would like to
talk about that. When I say some, I should say
a couple. Oh, my goodness. Now you talk, Neal.
Let's talk about the course. No, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, haven't had the
root canal and I haven't had the colonoscopy
either because I've still got like two years
left so oh before you get the regular yeah all
right here's number three number three put up
an antenna in the rain or take down an antenna
in the snow oh and I've done both What kind of
rain is it a soft misty rain or like a storm?
No, it's a storm. Oh No, no. Yep. I'll go with
the snow on that one just for safety purposes
All right, all right This one may get you Go
without the hex beam for a month or go without
dipoles for a month Well And this is just my
situation now. I'd probably go without the hex
even though. It's a beam My dipoles are up a
little higher. Oh But that does mean though.
I know this is our time limit on this that means
without the hex I would I would lose 17 15 10
6 so I would actually lose a lot However, I would
lose 40 80 and 160 without the dipoles Seventeen
is sexy, Neil. Why do you do this to people?
It is. I guess I'd have to deal... I think I
want to keep the dipoles because I enjoy listening
to 80 and 160 and 40 is kind of becoming that
desirable band with all the Sun stuff. So I'll
go with the dipoles. Sorry, Hex. All right. Okay.
Here we go. Here's the last one. And then we're
going to take a break and then we'll start taking
calls here. We've already had people calling
in and chats going chats off the screen. I can't
even scroll down far enough right now. So if
you're on the chat, sorry, I'm trying. Okay.
So here we go. Last question. If you had to be
stuck on one of these frequencies for the entire
night, which one would you pick? 14313, 7200,
or 3898? I don't think I have any experience
on the 3898. Is that what you said? I have to
look at that one? Yeah. Oh, that's 75, man. Ah,
man. If I could get 20 meters to sound great,
I would probably in the nighttime. That would
be a trick to do 14313. 7200 is... is kind of
getting old to me. I'm curious about this 80
meter frequency you've given. So maybe I would
pick that just because it's unknown. The other
two, I kind of know what I'm getting. That started
before the 7200 thing. Really? Is it the same
cast of characters? I don't know if it's the
exact same cast, but it's similar. Yeah, you
know what man? It would be kind of brutal because
you know just the way or what they're talking
about if it's so Against what you believe in
that's hard man. The 7200 guys are just kind
of you know Drunken and loud and obnoxious and
it sounds like a mental institution. So I don't
think I could hang out there for very long I'm
curious to the about this 80 meter thing though.
I'd go with that. Okay, so you're going with
with 38 98 All right. Yeah. And I wrote that
down because I need to kind of swing by there
and just see what's happening. Oh, there you
go. I'll meet you there after the show. Yeah,
that's one of those when you're spinning the
knob, you just spin a little bit faster when
you go by that one. All right. Let's have the
after party at 38 .98. Let's all go there afterwards
after the show. That'll fix them. Oh my goodness.
Well, thank you, Christian for playing ham talk
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and I finally figured out how to scroll down
and and Got this Carl says would you rather get?
Defecated on by a bird sitting on a yaggy or
stick your tongue in the tower like the scene
from Christmas story good Lord Wow, okay. What
do you say? I? Don't know I don't know I've been
pooped on by a bird Yeah, that's happened to
me, too. I think I guess I'll take that one big
deal. I guess Well speaking of birds, there's
a little bird yes Crimp or solder? Crimp or solder?
Oh, solder. I don't trust crimp. I don't trust
crimp. You can do both. Yeah, I don't trust crimp.
I'm a solder kind of guy. I am. Well, the phones
have been lighting up, and this little bird told
me, speaking of a little bird, that Paul Brown
WD9GCO is on the line. So Paul, are you there?
I am. Thanks for calling in. Pretty much at this
point, we're a will bank short of getting you
kicked off a speaker. Yeah, pretty much. Good
evening, gentlemen. Good evening. I just wanted
to check in and say that I'm looking forward
to trying to get on. as much as possible unfortunately
this weekend has turned out to be insane and
unfortunately my evening hf time is uh until
halloween is over is pretty much shut because
i have a 16 foot illuminated spark gap transmitter
across the street yeah i've seen the pictures
of that spark gap transmitter that's a pretty
cool transmitter it's disguised disguised as
a giant jack skellington Yeah, I hate that guy
Christian it's it's it's some one of these inflatable
Halloween decoration things you get Unfortunately
the electronics inside that make the LEDs flash
broadcast broadband noise Across everything from
the AM broadcast band on up through 30 megahertz
Have you noticed it? That it may be on a timer.
Do you think it's on a timer that goes out at
like, you know 11 or something like that? It
goes off around midnight 1 a .m Yeah, it's and
I've spoken with him before but he he's not all
that willing to let me take it apart and try
to fix it right Naturally his favorite holiday.
Yeah, absolutely Well, hopefully we'll hear you
deep into the morning. Maybe you stay up late
with a little extra coffee some coffee I'll do
my best. We'll meet you on 38 98 Yeah, now a
pulse got an antenna for 38 98 now, so Cable
or something yet though. It's not quite working.
Yeah, I know Let's take it back everybody. All
right. Oh My goodness well And in rumor has it,
Christian likes his coffee. I love coffee. That's
what I understand. That's what I'm hearing. I
don't love it like that. Well, Paul, thanks for
calling in. Uh -oh. Looks like I just got a tweet
from Karen. Uh -oh. Katie to GT, uh, just to
fall out observation, I can't go portable outdoors.
Um, hang on here. Uh, but I will leave the window
open in the shack. Does that count? Totally anywhere
you want to, you can operate anywhere, any power,
any mode at any time, just get on the air and
have some fun. That's our community is, uh, you're,
you're hearing voices of people in our community.
They will be on the air. So, uh, Just don't jump
out that window. Well, you know that if Karen
leaves the window open to the shack that she
will have squirrels working CW with her. I think
she lives in a tree house. Yep, I think so. They'll
be out there. Hopefully they don't start chewing
on the wires and get a little shock. All right,
Paul. Thank you for calling. Appreciate it. You're
very welcome. All right. Thanks, man. Good night,
Christian. Bye. 812 -638 -4261 is the phone number
and we've had some other people trying to call
in as well. So go ahead and give us a call in
the chat rooms trying to figure out how big the
bird is on the bird droppings. So I don't know.
Hey, Neil. Where's the show gone? Yes. I didn't
even know you were recording this part, but listen,
Hey, why is it that you don't like split operation?
Why don't you like working split? I don't like
transmitting somewhere that I'm not paying attention
to what's on that frequency. I see. So I never
have really liked that split thing. I know why
they do it, but it just, I don't know. I just.
I don't like that. And it's kind of weird if
you're just spinning down the band and all of
a sudden you hear all these people calling, but
there's no one there. So, I don't know. All right,
we got another call, Vance. Vance has been on
Twitter tonight, N3VEM, and he's calling in.
Good evening, Vance. Good evening Neil and Christian.
It's nice to actually be able to listen to you
live I usually have to catch you on the podcast
later, but Worked out tonight and I figured I'd
just jump in so that Christian didn't have to
be stuck there alone with you Yeah, okay, I thought
you did got you got We just took it down hang
on hang on we we we got We didn't get it in the
group call here. So hang on a second here. We'll
get that figured out. All right. Vance, you still
there? Yep, I'm still here. OK, we're going to
punch the wrong button. So we're going to have
to call Christian back here and get this done
correctly. Or maybe he can call. Let's see hang
on I gotta get the right Get the right buttons
going here. I need add there we go No Okay Add
why are we not adding? Ah I hit the wrong button
and switched over instead of added to group So,
let's see maybe we can do can we do this? Nothing
like live radio Yeah, well Christian was saying
that he needed to to be rescued So I'll just
I'll just tell him that yeah, I got him the ultimate
rescue. You got you got it Wow Okay, yeah, he's
gonna call him He's gonna call in and then I
think we'll have it fixed so Nope, it's We'll
put your active call on hold Okay, it's not cooperating
so All right Vance actually, let me let me Let
me get Christian back on the line and then give
us a call back here real quick. Okay? Sounds
like a plan. All right. Thanks right now, let's
see if we can get this to work. All right, Christian,
you're back. All right. This is live radio, man.
This is what happens in live radio. No nets.
We couldn't get everybody in a group call and
it dumped the group call is what happened. So
Vance is going to call us back and we're going
to try this again. I thought that OOs got us
because we were getting into some territory.
You're kind of a scientist, so we can talk about
weird stuff. Well, Vance was calling to save
you. He was trying to call in and he got the
ultimate save. He got you kicked off the air.
Yeah, that's one way to do it. It should have
kept running. So we got a couple of minutes left,
so hopefully he'll... It'll give us a call here
shortly and we can we can finish up out and Out
it's saying again. It will put your call on hold
I can't I can't add it to the group call. So
Skype is once again Once again causing problems
vape is tricky in 3 V E M let's see if we can
now it's it's not working so all right sorry
Vance we got you on the show anyway but that's
that's live radio that's that's the way it goes
I guess so well we're just about out of time
I knew we I knew we'd be looking at a bunch of
calls but Sorry, we didn't get you in here, Vance,
with all of us, but that's live radio. So, Christian,
one last time, the information on fallout this
weekend? Well, join us all weekend. You can operate
any band, any mode, at any time, all weekend.
You can even start on Friday if you like. Listen
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you need to be. But by all means, just get on
the air and try to have fun this weekend. That's
what it's all about. That it is so hope hope
to be on the air and hope to get on the air Hope
you can get on the air that is and Participate
in fallout to the wrath of sea child Do you like
that title is that that does that work? I I do
like it I feel that there should be a video to
accompany me there Maybe there should be a promo
running out in the field by myself Standing out
there. Yep. Outstanding in your field. All right.
Well, thanks. May the great Dx be yours. Say
it, Neil. Right now. Yep. Yep. Nope. Nope. Right
now. Right now. Yes. Right now. Yep. Right now.
Wait, wait a minute. Where's Shandy? Shandy!
Shandy? Look up Shandy, you'll know who we're
talking about. All right. All right. Well, that's
going to be it. Thank you for coming on the show,
Christian and putting up with all this nonsense
and and hopefully we'll hear you on the air this
weekend. That is a wrap for this week's edition
of HamTalk Live. Thanks to Christian K0STH and
everybody out there for calling in and chiming
in and invite you back next Thursday night at
9 p .m. Ken Goodwin K5RG is going to be here
from the Johnson Space Center Amateur Radio Club.
They've got a big anniversary and special event
station coming up and you can check out all of
our upcoming guests at HamTalkLive .com. For
now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying seven
three, seven five, and may the good DX be yours.