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ham talk live episode number 79 the dave culture
memorial youth dx adventure to costa rica 2017
recorded live on thursday august 31st 2017 i'm
your host neil wrapp wb9 vpg thanks for tuning
in to this episode of ham talk live Tonight we're
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on the podcast edition. And I'd like to introduce
our guests this evening. First of all, Chris
Bro, KD8YVJ, is 14 years old from Mason, Ohio,
and he's the 2015 ARRL Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial
Award winner. Chris is actively involved with
the Westchester Amateur Radio Association, WC8VOA.
and a tour guide at their club station at the
Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting. Chris
has demonstrated ham radio at summer camps for
Boy Scouts and he's with us tonight and he's
also been on some other podcasts and had the
Noisy Key. I forgot about the Noisy Key, I need
to mention that, the Noisy Key podcast. And Bryant
Rascal, KG5HVO, has been on the show before.
He's a 13 year old contester that now lives in
Montgomery, Alabama. He enjoys operating CW and
got kind of famous for his start on CW using
his microphone button as the key. So he started
off doing it the hard way, but he's got that,
he's got that... nice, but golly going thing
now and He got into ham radio through the Boy
Scouts radio merit badge program and then Austin
Harris wa8 CCS is from Vandalia, Ohio Just up
the road from Chris and he was licensed in 2015
as ke8 bxh but has since taken his grandfather's
call sign Austin is active in Boy Scouts Where
he is a senior patrol leader and he's a member
of the w8 PR Contesting team So we've got all
three of you guys Chris Bryant Austin. Welcome
to ham talk live tonight Thank you Neil. It's
great to be on. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. No,
we appreciate being asked to do this Yeah, well
we want to talk a little bit about the trip now
that you're home and some of us got to hang out
in Huntsville, sorry Austin, we didn't get to
hang out in Huntsville, but you guys are all
back home, but as I was going through preparing
for the show, I noticed a connection that I hadn't
really caught onto with the three of you guys.
Not only are you all about the same age and have
a connection with Ham Radio and with contesting
in Ham Radio, but all of you are also And Boy
Scouts and Boy Scouts was part of your ham radio
experience so you guys must have had a blast
down there in Costa Rica together. We sure did.
Yes we did. Yeah I thought it was a pretty good
time. It was a pretty good time huh. Well we're
gonna talk a little bit about the Youth DX adventure
and the time down there in Costa Rica tonight
and hear a few stories I'm sure. So let's start
off with Chris. Tell us about the Youth DX Adventure
program and how young operators can find out
more information about that and the application
process that you went through to be selected
for that trip. Alright, well thank you, Neil.
And yeah, it looks like for the 2018 trip they're
going to be going to Curacao. It's going to be
for youth and for adults is what it looks like.
The website for the YDXA is www .qsl .net slash
N6JRL. And then if you Google YDXA or Youth DX
Adventure, it should pop up. Now the application
process isn't fairly hard. Basically, you just
have to make sure you have a valid amateur radio
license. You have to have a passport since you're
going out of the country. They would like if
you're in between 12 and 17, and they want you
to have HF experience for sure. Other than that,
it's not much harder than that to get involved.
The application's pretty easy, just your name,
call sign, class, that sort of thing, and what
your interests are in amateur radio, and some
of the contests you do, and stuff you're familiar
with. Okay, we're very good so carousel for next
year so if you're interested make sure you check
out that website and I'm sure they could use
some some financial help as well if you are an
older person and would like to to help out the
cause so Bryant why don't you tell us about the
trip down there and and the setup you guys had
down there in Costa Rica Thank you, Neil. This
was a phenomenal operating experience. The three
of us really meshed together very well as a team,
and we had an effective rotation going. Austin
pounded the 20 meter and 17 meter bands during
the day. Chris always managed the pile -ups efficiently.
This time, I opted to leave my microphone at
home and use my CWP instead. Our hosts, Byron
and Rose, were gracious and hospitable. They
were very nice hosts, and especially they coordinated
some tourism events. Jim and Ron, our team leaders,
let the team operate freely, but they were also
very professional at guiding us behind the pileups.
We learned a lot from them. DX Engineering donated
a hustler vertical for us to operate on, and
then we gifted it to our host. Thank you to DX
Engineering. The vertical performed very, very
well. Finally, we learned that Chris makes some
delicious grilled cheese. Now, on to our equipment
setup. For our SSB and digital setup, we used
an ICOM 7300 and an Ameritron ALS 500 MR mobile
amplifier that put out a good 400 watts. Thank
you to ICOM America for donating the ICOM 7300.
For our SSB and CW station, we used an ICOM 718
at 100 watts. And that was our CW station. For
our antennas, we had a long periodic. It ran
20 meters through 10 meters continuously and
it worked pretty well, especially in Europe,
which we had some pretty good take -off angles
into. We also had a Butternut HF6V vertical antenna
that was 75 meters through 10 meters. Fortunately,
there were no work bands installed. We also had
a Hustler 6BTV vertical donated by DX Engineering.
They ran 75 meters to 10 meters. We also had
a 40 meter inverted L. We had some pretty decent
propagation while we were there. 10 meters was
OK, especially into North America. We had some
poor propagation to South America. 15 meters
was an interesting band, because I expected it
to be good during the morning hours into Europe,
just on my past experience. But it turned out
to be a really good gray line and almost stayed
open for most of the time late into the dark
after sunset. 17 meters was okay throughout the
day. In the mornings we could work some Europeans
and in the afternoon we would normally get a
decent North American pile up. 20 meters was
our best band. It produced over 65 % of our contacts.
30 meters was the band that was open when no
other band was. We were able to get some Europeans
very late at night. So during the European sunrise,
it would be about 10 o 'clock local time. So
we would get some over the pole propagation.
40 meters was very good in the early evening.
which we were able to get some decent European
openings and North American openings. So that's
it for our propagation. So back to you, Neil.
All right. Very good. And you know what I'm going
to say, right? I was going after the clean sweep.
I was trying to get all three of you guys before
you left and I got Austin and then I got Chris
and then I'm like, Okay, I gotta get Bryant.
Where's Bryant? No, he's on 30 meters on CW So
I go over to 30 meters on CW and I'm like, okay
I've done a few CW contacts in the last year,
but that was the first time in like 20 years
and Okay, I'll give it a try and of course I
could not hear you at all So I missed out on
it. So I don't know It was the wrong time for
30, I guess, because I heard 20 and 17 just fabulous
from you guys. And I don't know. I don't know
what happened. But we gave it a try, anyway.
Well, Austin, you jump in here. Tell us about
the numbers. How many contacts did you make in
the team if you've got those? What was the best
part of the experience besides Chris's grilled
cheese? All right. Well, I personally made about
$500. I was kind of like the janitor. When they
needed a break, I just kind of swooped in because
I have a lot of experience contesting with WAPR.
Bryant had about 1 ,500 maybe a little more maybe
a little less and Chris had around 1 ,000 and
our that makes for our total contacts about 3
,100 and the best part about the trip was probably
being the DX working crazy pileups And just experiencing
the culture down there in Costa Rica was a really
fun experience. OK. Well, it sounds like it was
a great time for all of you. And it was a lot
of fun working you guys, too. Well, except for
Bryant. And I got to give him a hard time about
it. It's not his fault, but I can give him a
hard time about it, anyway. Well, sounds like
a great time. OK. So all right. So Chris? Yes.
Brian brought it up. Oh no. Can we have the grilled
cheese recipe? Sure, why not? I can give you
part of it. Some of the items were in Spanish.
My Spanish is chiquito, which is just a little
bit. I think that's it. We're going to go with
that's it. So the bread down there is known as...
Yeah. It's known as bimbo bread is what it's
called So you put some butter. I think it was
like it's the it's not butter or I can't believe
it's not butter You know that type of things
like a off off the market butter. It's right
weird, but it was good the yellowest butter We'll
go with that and Just put that on the bread,
you know butter it up put it on the griddle out
about 250 300 Let's sit there put a slice of
cheese on it do the same thing other slice of
bread butter it up and Just keep flipping it
till it gets about golden on both sides serve
that delicious Yeah, there you go. There you
go. It's it's the Chris bro grilled cheese special
ladies and gentlemen coming soon coming soon
to Coming soon to the Dayton Hamvention Food
court right is that right? Maybe I don't know
I tried doing it back up here and it didn't taste
the same so it might be a Costa Rican exclusive
I don't know well, I have to tell this story
on my mom because My mom used to like to get
on the local repeater and talk to a friend of
hers and they would start talking about recipes
and So everybody got irritated that they were
tying up the repeater with with this useless
recipe talk And how dare they tie up the repeater?
with this and and so you know this is back when
repeater time was was a little harder to get
a hold of because we didn't have cell phones
and everything and had to walk to school uphill
both ways through ten feet of snow and without
any shoes in the middle of a sharknado, but So
finally they decided that they'd start going
off on Simplex, which they were like 30 miles
apart. So, you know, we had to have a beam and
everything. And so they'd get over there on Simplex.
And secretly, everybody that was on the repeater
started turning the knob over to Simplex to listen
to Franny and Mom. talk about recipes. They didn't
want to admit it, but they did. They went over
and listened. So you never know who may be listening
to your recipe. It was mostly Brian's dad that
just like, here's what you should do. And then
I did it. So I'm not a chef. There you are. Now
I'm the grilled cheese chef. But before that,
I was not a chef. Chef bro. There we go. All
right. There you go. Well, we're going to take
a break. And when we come back, we're going to
talk about a few more stories from the trip.
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We've had some good ones coming in lately and
several from Costa Rica. And before we take our
caller here, there was a story about flat hammy
and a dog yes there was Austin you want to take
that one yeah I'll sure take this one all right
so we were just playing blackjack on the bed
and during the storm when we were not operating
and All of a sudden, you know, they let their
dog out. He has to use the restroom so, you know,
we're just minding our business and the dog just
comes running up to the glass and just you know
looking at us and barking and we had a flat hammy
and I thought of the great idea of showing him
flat hammy so so I grabbed him and I just Poked
him up to the window and the dog just started
flipping out his eyes went crazy It was it was
quite a scene and I got some of it on video But
yeah, it was it was quite funny actually It was
hilarious and that pretty much went on the rest
of the trip The first one was probably the best
one the first time Austin did it Yeah, that's
pretty funny it was the best one first that was
Well, you never know what you these guys are
up to and speaking of a Guy that you never know
what he's up to our first caller tonight is Marty
Solway KC one chicken with fries good evening
Marty Good evening Neil so great to be able to
call in to Hamtuck live So we've got the the
the teenage special here What's your what's your?
Comment or question for the group here So my
first comment is I got I got Bryant and I got
But anyways my question to them and maybe they
can't I'll go around and answer this I don't
know if one of you guys wants to take this was
there one special cue or one special contact
or one special moment from that trip on the radio
that You'll take that you take back from you
and you remember out of all the moments out of
the trip I assume you had a lot of fun one moment
one contact you made you took my question Marty.
Oh, yes We'll start off with Brian go ahead Let's
see. I was operating 20 meter sideband on Friday
night. I believe And I got a call from K3LR,
Portable Victor Echo 3. And Mr. Tim Duffy was
operating a portable while vacationing at Lake
Ontario. So that was a really cool contact. But
there's probably a lot of other cool contacts.
I think we worked with Vani Watu on CW. So Chris,
what was your cool contact? Definitely agree
with the K -3LR VE3. That was a cool contact.
I enjoyed some contacts from back home, people
that I knew from the club station. Kind of nice
to see how things were going. I don't know that
one contact. Probably it was the first night
we were operating. And I think I was on 20 meters,
Bryant was either on 30 or 40. And I'm just calling
CQ and a couple ZL stations and I think a couple
Australians too came back and I was just so surprised.
So those were probably some special moments.
Austin, we'll send it over to you for your special
contact. All right. I had one special contact
that I was amazed by. I didn't even know where
it was at at first. But I contacted A41NN from
Oman, and that was probably the furthest I got
probably ever. So that was quite exciting for
me. Cool. That was awesome. I've got a question
for Bryant, though. Now, last time you talked
to K3LR. You ended up with a key and a bagali
So if you asked him what you're gonna get this
time Maybe a QSL card Maybe a 7300 for me. Hey,
there we go. Oh, it's been Pretty radios, let
me say they work really well. Yeah, we had the
Rika in the Function of just recording the cq's
and stuff that saves your voice big time. Oh,
yeah Yeah, I like the pair of them for s a 2r.
They are sweet They're nice for Austin was all
over that like there was drool all over. I'm
just kidding Yeah, Austin's already been scheming
before the show of how he can get the hold of
a 7300 so Ever since he he's left. He's been
scheming on how to get one Yes Well, they are
nice rigs. I got one at school and I love it
and it's very, very tempting. I'm kind of looking
at the 7610 and that's a big move for me, Marty,
because, you know, I'm a Kenwood guy. Yep. That
is one sweet radio, I got to tell you. That's
a really good radio. Well, maybe if Kenwood...
Has it would have innovated in the last 10 years
we could talk. Oh Unfortunately, they haven't
Well at least at least we didn't talk about having
a bow thing so Is there a Baofeng button? Yeah,
the Baofeng button. So the clip of the Spurrie
Submissions band singing Baofeng. Anytime somebody
says the word Baofeng on the show. Baofeng! Guess
I need to buy me some Baofengs and we can do
the Baofeng show. Alright, I'll let you guys
do it. Alright Marty, thank you for calling.
Bye bye. Alright, we'll see ya. 812 -638 -4261
is the phone number that spells 812 -Netham1
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Team. Give us a call and we'd be happy to take
your questions and since Marty took my question
We'll go to my other backup question here for
waiting for people to call. So while we're waiting,
what was the biggest challenge of the trip? And
did you try any bodes or bands that you hadn't
tried before? Right? I think there weren't any
big challenges except for when We had this huge
thunderstorm system just sit on top of us for
about six hours on Saturday. That was not fun
because we could not get on the radio. But let's
see, we had a little bit of interstation interference.
We had to maneuver around that but it was easily
taken care of. Let's see, we had some static
electricity on the coax cable so whenever we
wanted to disconnect the antennas it would shock
us. That wasn't very pleasant, but oh well, we
just used a paper towel when we disconnected
the antennas and the problem went away. I think
it was one of the power supplies. When we turned
it off, it stopped, so we think the power supply
might have caused some of the cure. Austin? Yes?
Anything? Biggest challenge? Probably the band
conditions. Yeah when the storm was going that
was probably the biggest challenge Other than
that it went pretty smooth Okay, very good well
phone number is 812 Nat Tam 1 812 638 4261 give
us a call or a tweet or Skype And we'll ask these
guys a few more things about the Youth DX Adventure,
which was to Costa Rica this year, and it's to
Carousel next year. And one of the ways that
you can find out about this is the booth at Hamvention,
right? Oh, yes. The YDXA has a booth at Hamvention
mostly every year. It's a really good booth.
Last year we raffled off an ICOM 7300 along with
a Baofeng. You're welcome. Yep, there we go.
And Austin didn't get the 7300 there either?
No, sadly. I tried. We're going to have to figure
out a way. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't win it either.
All right. So Annie, so we heard about the dog
flipping out, and we heard about Chris's grilled
cheese. So any other stories from the trip? Oh,
we visited a Cuban restaurant. And that was our
Costa Rican excursion. It will. Go ahead, Chris.
Okay, sorry, I mean it was weird because it was
like He's originally the restaurant owner was
originally from Cuba moved to Miami and then
lives in Costa Rica So the food was like Costa
Rican, but kind of like a Cuban mix type thing
He made some really good Cuban pizzas a Medium
-sized pizza is about two feet long enough. So
we had to get to go boxes That was a really a
interesting dish And the owner has quite the
personality. I'm sure Chris remembers all of
it. I think we all remember them. Yes. It was
also cool because, yeah. And then at the end,
we got to put our call signs. Everybody signs
their name or something to show they were at
the restaurant. So we did our call signs. There's
a little beam toward the entrance. We just signed
that and it has YDXA 2017 and all our call signs
and then Bryant put his in CW. Uh, of course,
of course. Yeah, of course. Yep. So anything,
anything exciting on the way there or on the
way back? Um, I took some interesting photographs
just with my phone. Uh, just kind of, uh, they
had a little flight tracker. On the on the back
of the seat they had a little screen and you
could watch where you were so when we were going
over the Southern part of Florida right where
the peninsula ends or where it starts curving
back I got a little picture of that on the coast
so And that was pretty cool Let's see So the
location where we were operating We were actually
on top of a mountain and you could see the Pacific
Ocean from our operating QTH So that was pretty
cool since I hadn't seen the Pacific Ocean in
quite a while, right? Probably the weirdest thing
with the the fog since you're in the mountains.
You're right at cloud level and Sometimes you
could see you know 30 miles away. The area is
a putarinas and it's just like a little Ocean
Village type thing and It's about an hour and
a half two hours away from where we were But
you could see it and it was there and then sometimes
the clouds would roll in and you could barely
see like ten feet in front of you so it was weird
and just the car rides in general down to like
the store down to the Yeah, you want to explain
the driveway to get down and how steep it is
Yeah, the driveway. Yeah, the driveway is quite
steep. When we were walking down to go to the
Cuban restaurant, pretty much the majority of
us slipped one point or the other. It's pretty
steep, but it's crazy how steep it is. And on
the way back up. Our taxi driver whatever was
gonna take us to the top of you know where the
house was so I didn't have to walk up the the
steep driveway and so there's these two narrow
like little tire where you put your tires on
to go up because it was mainly gravel and then
to go up the go up the driveway there is these
two concrete strips basically and So you have
to get your tires on there to go up or else you'll
you basically won't get up it and so his back
two tires slid off of the of the path and I thought
we were gonna die so yeah we just we literally
he stopped the gas for a second try to start
it up and it just sat on the middle of the hill
and we're like oh no what do we do Because you
can't go up so you got to go down The laws of
physics That was an interesting moment especially
when he tried to Get back on the on the treads.
He actually slid down Maybe about 10 feet and
I thought that the whole van was just gonna go
downhill So that was that was scary, but we all
made it out. Okay? Especially because it's like
the the one side the right side if you're going
up the right side There's like a little wall,
you know because of the ground and on the left
side. It's just like a cliff I mean, it's not
super far down, but you know, it's far down enough.
You're like You're nervous be careful, please
Well guys it sounds like it was a great trip
a great experience for you and you learned some
things and And had a great time and I know there's
a lot of people to thank for all of this you
mentioned The X engineering with the vertical
and I know QCWA the president was on a couple
weeks ago and mentioned he donated to to make
this trip happen and lots of others that donated
to make all this work. And then there's also
three other people. that I think probably needs
some special thanks and also the host and the
pilot team, the team that puts it all together
and trains you guys while you're down there,
but also there were three other people that I'm
sure deserve some credit for making sure you
were safely Where you needed to be and we're
with you the whole time This is this is what
I say, thank you Austin no, I'm just kidding.
Yeah Yeah, I got this all right, so we want to
say thank you to youth DX adventure Dara icon
DX engineering and to Don Ron and Jim We want
to thank you. Thank you very much for, uh, uh,
yes. Uh, thank you very much for, uh, taking
us on this experience. Yeah. And, uh, thanks
to our parents that, you know, let us go out
of the country to this foreign place and do some
ham radio. So yeah. Yeah. And they got to go
too. Yeah. Now, did, did you guys get them on
the air? Any? a little bit Bryant your dad is
not licensed yet keyword being he's working on
it he's working right he's working on it right
now and then I know Austin's dad Austin didn't
your dad do a little bit he he had a whole whopping
five contacts yeah that's more than I have in
Costa Rica 20 year 50 or something something
like this somewhere in between there He made
he was basically like if us three were taking
a break he'd be on so yeah It was a great trip
for sure All right. Well, you've heard all about
it. It's the Dave Coltrane Memorial Youth DX
Adventure and coming back next year, 2018, in
Carousel. So make sure you check that out and
help them with their trip. And if you're a young
person, They are recommending ages about 12 to
17 to apply for that. Make sure you check that
out. And Chris, that website again. The website,
hold on here, is www .qsl .net slash n6jrl. Or
you can just Google the youth de -expedition
and it should pop up on Google. All right, very
good. Well guys, thanks for being on the show
tonight and I look forward to seeing you again
and It was great to see you down at Huntsville
Chris and and Bryant and and Austin We'll see
you at Dayton. I guess Yes, definitely For sure.
All right. Now, before we go, Chris, you were
running around Huntsville shooting all this video.
So you got the video highlights ready yet? Almost.
I've been a little busy, but I got some. I was
at DX Engineering last weekend. They had a sale.
So I got some video and some pictures of their
new tower there. And then I have, like I said,
like you said, the pictures from Huntsville.
Yeah, I should be able to get those together
and should be good. All right, very good. And
watch for some more pictures of these guys down
in Costa Rica with flat hammy. And if you have
some flat hammy pictures, be sure to send them.
our way as well. So that is a wrap for this week's
edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guests
Chris Bro, KD8YVJ, Bryant Rascal, KG5HVO, and
Austin Harris, WA8CCS, and everyone out there
in cyberspace for listening and calling in and
invite you back next Thursday night at 9 p .m.
Eastern Time. For a list of our upcoming guests
be sure to visit HamTalk Live dot com and just
click on the show schedule link. So for now this
is Neil Rapp WB9 VPG saying seven three seven
five and may the good DX be yours. Thanks for
watching.