WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.779 This episode of HamTalk Live is brought to you 00:00:02.779 --> 00:00:05.960 by Tower Electronics. For cables, connectors 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:13.099 and more, call 920 -435 -2973 or visit pl -259 00:00:13.099 --> 00:00:17.179 .com and by the HamStation. Get your new radio 00:00:17.179 --> 00:00:23.199 or antenna by calling 800 -729 -4373 or go to 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:34.109 hamstation .com. Here we go. Welcome to Hamtop 00:00:34.109 --> 00:00:38.810 Live. Calling Let's Talk. Neil's your guy. Hamtop 00:00:38.810 --> 00:00:46.909 Live. Here we go on Hamtop Radio. We're the Ham 00:00:46.909 --> 00:01:28.629 Band. Hey, good evening everyone! It's HamTalk 00:01:28.629 --> 00:01:34.189 Live episode number 75 with The Ham Band. Recorded 00:01:34.189 --> 00:01:38.469 live on Thursday, August 3rd, 2017. I'm your 00:01:38.469 --> 00:01:42.569 host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in 00:01:42.569 --> 00:01:45.930 to this episode of HamTalk Live. And tonight 00:01:45.930 --> 00:01:52.129 we're joined by Andrew, OZ5E, and Lisa from The 00:01:52.129 --> 00:01:55.799 Ham Band in Denmark. and we'll take your calls 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:59.420 live as we always do in just a few minutes. And 00:01:59.420 --> 00:02:03.319 last week here on HamTalk Live, Sam Rose, KC2LRC, 00:02:03.859 --> 00:02:08.060 and Dr. Nathaniel Frisell, W2NAF, were here to 00:02:08.060 --> 00:02:10.500 talk about the Solar Eclipse QSO party coming 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:13.699 up. So if you missed that or any other show, 00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:16.500 all you have to do is go to HamTalkLive .com 00:02:16.500 --> 00:02:20.360 and you can listen to us on demand. And we're 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:23.800 also on the podcast things, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.689 Google Play. Tune in on SoundCloud and we're 00:02:26.689 --> 00:02:29.509 over on YouTube so just check us out wherever 00:02:29.509 --> 00:02:34.250 is most convenient for you. Well I just rolled 00:02:34.250 --> 00:02:39.949 in from taking a few days of vacation down in 00:02:39.949 --> 00:02:43.509 Myrtle Beach and it was a good getaway but wow 00:02:43.509 --> 00:02:46.469 I'm overwhelmed with all the stuff that I have 00:02:46.469 --> 00:02:49.389 to catch up on because there's been a lot going 00:02:49.389 --> 00:02:52.960 on. And I haven't quite caught up with it all, 00:02:52.979 --> 00:02:55.180 but there were a few things that were going to 00:02:55.180 --> 00:02:57.860 happen right away that I did want to mention 00:02:57.860 --> 00:03:02.180 just briefly. First of all, a very hearty congratulations 00:03:02.180 --> 00:03:07.740 to our friend Marty Sulaway, KC1CWF. uh for being 00:03:07.740 --> 00:03:10.879 named this year's amateur radio news line bill 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:14.520 pasternak young ham of the year award winner 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:17.879 so congratulations marty he's going to be formally 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:20.520 receiving that in huntsville at the ham fest 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.909 in just a couple of weeks So congratulations 00:03:23.909 --> 00:03:27.689 to him. Also, there's a FEMA exercise that started 00:03:27.689 --> 00:03:31.289 today called Vigilant Guard, and that continues 00:03:31.289 --> 00:03:34.990 today through August 6th. And Lloyd Colston, 00:03:35.069 --> 00:03:37.710 KC5FM, sent us some information on that, and 00:03:37.710 --> 00:03:39.889 honestly, I haven't had time to read it all. 00:03:40.349 --> 00:03:43.590 But I wanted to mention that, so if you are interested 00:03:43.590 --> 00:03:47.569 in that FEMA exercise, make sure you get ahold 00:03:47.569 --> 00:03:50.750 of Lloyd or look up Vigilant Guard and you can 00:03:50.750 --> 00:03:55.750 find something. about that, and also we'll have 00:03:55.750 --> 00:03:58.810 something over on amateur radio newsline about 00:03:58.810 --> 00:04:02.389 that real soon, but that'll be after the fact. 00:04:03.310 --> 00:04:06.449 And one last thing, a shout out to Ryan Geiser, 00:04:06.710 --> 00:04:12.530 N8VBQ from Lexington KY. Thanks for listening 00:04:12.530 --> 00:04:16.810 and appreciate hearing about you listening to 00:04:16.810 --> 00:04:19.769 the show. So thanks Ryan, appreciate it. So, 00:04:19.769 --> 00:04:23.399 uh, guys, gals. 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Andrew has many call signs, 00:07:00.980 --> 00:07:04.560 but is perhaps best known for his contest station 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:09.819 in Denmark, OZ5E. His personal call signs are 00:07:09.819 --> 00:07:15.540 OZ1XJ and G3WZZ. He and his wife Lisa make up 00:07:15.540 --> 00:07:19.939 the Andrew John and Lisa duo. They are very well 00:07:19.939 --> 00:07:23.379 known musicians, especially in Denmark and are 00:07:23.379 --> 00:07:26.740 members of the Darkford Folk Club Hall of Fame. 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:30.279 But tonight we're talking about another band 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.500 they formed and that's the Ham Band. Yes, it's 00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:36.899 the people who made that video from Atop that 00:07:36.899 --> 00:07:39.100 hundred foot tower, they're here to talk with 00:07:39.100 --> 00:07:42.939 you this evening. And actually it's three o 'clock 00:07:42.939 --> 00:07:46.720 in the morning in Denmark and I gave them a chance 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.720 to do this pre -recorded and they said, no, no, 00:07:49.740 --> 00:07:53.459 no, we want to do it live. And they may be regretting 00:07:53.459 --> 00:07:56.740 that decision right now as they're, uh, they're 00:07:56.740 --> 00:08:00.259 loading up on coffee. So Andrew and Lisa, thank 00:08:00.259 --> 00:08:03.699 you so much for coming on the show anyway. Yeah, 00:08:03.740 --> 00:08:07.060 but it's it's it's nice to be here and a lot 00:08:07.060 --> 00:08:10.420 of coffee and we'll be okay Lisa's here, too 00:08:10.420 --> 00:08:13.699 Yes, and it's pitch -dark outside and our dog 00:08:13.699 --> 00:08:16.600 refused to come over to the radio room. So he's 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:23.120 still asleep Yeah, I'd say it's sensible so thank 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:26.399 you so much for being up at 3 a .m. For the show 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:31.319 well It's a pleasure to have you here. And a 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:34.559 few years ago, this music video that you guys 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:38.120 made, come and join us on the airwaves. It went 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:42.360 viral over here, at least. It was playing on 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.679 a big screen TV at Dayton a few years ago. And 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:49.639 it's been a big topic of discussion in the ham 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:53.740 radio club that I do at my school. That we always 00:08:53.740 --> 00:08:57.419 play that video and they always sing, they're 00:08:57.419 --> 00:09:02.320 singing it. you know, half the time. And so I 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.279 thought, you know, we, we ought to reach out 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:06.919 and see if, uh, if you'd come on the show and 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.419 talk a little bit about how you made that video. 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.519 But before we do that, you were kind enough to 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:19.139 send me a copy of your whole CD called seek you 00:09:19.139 --> 00:09:24.419 of course, which that's a play on CQ. Um, And 00:09:24.419 --> 00:09:27.320 I had a chance to listen to it on a drive home 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:31.279 one night last week and I was I was really really 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.419 impressed and I've been looking forward to doing 00:09:33.419 --> 00:09:38.019 the show because the wit of some of these lyrics 00:09:38.019 --> 00:09:45.120 and and the quality of this CD was just so impressive 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:48.700 and I know you guys are fans of the Spurry Submissions 00:09:48.700 --> 00:09:51.179 band we've had them on and they do some rock 00:09:51.179 --> 00:09:54.059 and roll parodies but but this is some original 00:09:54.059 --> 00:09:57.000 country songs about ham radio and some of the 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:00.639 real struggles in hams live so tell us about 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:05.539 the CD and the musicians that you used for making 00:10:05.539 --> 00:10:09.389 that recording well the we were in the middle 00:10:09.389 --> 00:10:12.210 of doing a recording in Nashville and which is 00:10:12.210 --> 00:10:15.409 where we do all our recording and I had this 00:10:15.409 --> 00:10:19.190 idea let's see whether we can we can write a 00:10:19.190 --> 00:10:21.789 lot of songs that really do tell the whole story 00:10:21.789 --> 00:10:25.950 of about amateur radio and I was so lucky at 00:10:25.950 --> 00:10:29.970 the time I decided to write the songs it was 00:10:29.970 --> 00:10:33.110 you know nothing it's not recently but there's 00:10:33.110 --> 00:10:36.830 not a lot new happened in amateur radio since 00:10:36.830 --> 00:10:39.350 we did the album. So it was very, very lucky 00:10:39.350 --> 00:10:42.110 that we chose the right time and we got the best 00:10:42.110 --> 00:10:44.730 musicians in the world playing the music. So 00:10:44.730 --> 00:10:48.990 it turned out quite nice and I think more than 00:10:48.990 --> 00:10:53.149 a million people have seen the video and a few 00:10:53.149 --> 00:10:56.710 people have bought the album, not enough. And 00:10:56.710 --> 00:11:02.370 amateur radio is not an expensive hobby at all 00:11:02.370 --> 00:11:06.379 in my opinion. but the way we do it at OscarZulu5Echo. 00:11:06.620 --> 00:11:12.419 in Denmark. We're quite an advanced station. 00:11:12.620 --> 00:11:16.840 We've got a lot of nice antennas. And you know, 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.799 the music side of things, it keeps us happy. 00:11:22.659 --> 00:11:25.720 Because every time we do a contest or work DX, 00:11:26.460 --> 00:11:31.059 the people say, hey, isn't that Andrew from the 00:11:31.059 --> 00:11:32.980 hand band? So I think we've made a couple of 00:11:32.980 --> 00:11:37.580 people happy going. Yeah, and and these musicians 00:11:37.580 --> 00:11:42.700 from Nashville Tell us some of the people they 00:11:42.700 --> 00:11:47.159 play with They well with in the past. Well, the 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:51.019 the owner of the studio is is Wayne Moss and 00:11:51.019 --> 00:11:54.620 he everybody knows that the the Roy Orbison song 00:11:54.620 --> 00:11:57.080 pretty woman and it goes dong dong dong dong 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:01.870 and the guy who played that riff was was Wayne 00:12:01.870 --> 00:12:04.210 Moss who owns the studio he didn't even play 00:12:04.210 --> 00:12:08.009 on the record and then the bass player I don't 00:12:08.009 --> 00:12:11.190 know if anybody remembers that the Buddy Holly 00:12:11.190 --> 00:12:15.830 when his plane crashed there was a Waylon Jennings 00:12:15.830 --> 00:12:22.149 and a gentleman called Just a moment. My mind 00:12:22.149 --> 00:12:25.490 is this the middle of the night, but Tommy also 00:12:25.490 --> 00:12:28.830 Yeah, Tommy also now Tommy also played the bass 00:12:28.830 --> 00:12:32.269 on this record and he was the guy who flipped 00:12:32.269 --> 00:12:36.470 a coin with the big bopper and the big bopper 00:12:36.470 --> 00:12:38.990 got the seat on the plane and he died in the 00:12:38.990 --> 00:12:43.769 crash and Tommy also Lived to play the bass on 00:12:43.769 --> 00:12:50.000 the handband go ahead Well, that's a deal there. 00:12:50.539 --> 00:12:54.759 That's a deal to play for the hand band. That's 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:56.720 a good thing. And then some other people. We've 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:00.799 got a lot of really good musicians. So the strange 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:03.360 thing about the record is that it is far better 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:09.679 than you might imagine. It sounds like a parody 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:12.399 and it sounds like we are not a serious bunch 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:14.840 of musicians. But I can tell you, we really are. 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.440 and we've got mixed reception few people think 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.360 that it's ridiculous to sing songs about amateur 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:23.279 radio and to be honest they're absolutely right 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:30.639 and sometimes that's a good thing yeah it is 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:36.919 exactly well i admit um country music isn't usually 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:41.259 my style even though it ironically when I worked 00:13:41.259 --> 00:13:44.679 in radio I was a DJ at a country music station 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:47.879 for about three years but when I listened to 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:52.419 this CD It was just so entertaining and I just 00:13:52.419 --> 00:13:54.980 kept listening over and over again. And the last 00:13:54.980 --> 00:13:57.100 song that we're going to play tonight, I don't 00:13:57.100 --> 00:13:59.440 know how many times I've listened to that song 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.860 in the last week, but one of the jokes I always 00:14:02.860 --> 00:14:07.000 heard about country music and Rascal Flatts even 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.360 made a song about it is what happens when you 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:15.519 play a country song backwards? Do you know? I 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:19.210 have no idea. Tell us. You get your wife back. 00:14:19.350 --> 00:14:21.970 You get your dog back. Your truck starts running 00:14:21.970 --> 00:14:25.649 again. Now, I didn't hear anything about dogs 00:14:25.649 --> 00:14:28.629 or trucks, but Lisa, I did notice there were 00:14:28.629 --> 00:14:34.789 several songs that had to do with hams that didn't 00:14:34.789 --> 00:14:37.330 keep their wives happy because they were on the 00:14:37.330 --> 00:14:40.610 radio all the time. So is that a real struggle? 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.759 Well, in our little family, it's actually not 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:48.679 a struggle because Andrew never goes off to work 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:52.299 and leaves me at home. Because we work together, 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.080 we've been professional musicians together for... 00:14:55.980 --> 00:15:01.120 over 40 years. So we're together 24 hours a day. 00:15:02.100 --> 00:15:04.159 So I think it's actually quite relaxing when 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:08.820 he goes to his radio room and gives me and the 00:15:08.820 --> 00:15:11.559 dog a little bit of peace and quiet. So we're 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:15.220 probably not a very typical ham radio family. 00:15:17.380 --> 00:15:20.360 Andrew was telling me about another one of the 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:24.299 songs that was called Always On The Air, and 00:15:24.299 --> 00:15:27.259 there was an interesting story behind that where 00:15:27.259 --> 00:15:30.840 it was a struggle. So, Andrew, I think you've 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:35.460 got your guitar there. You want to play a little 00:15:35.460 --> 00:15:38.600 bit of that one? Yeah, what I'm going to do, 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:40.759 what Lisa and I are going to do, we're going 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:44.019 to sing the first verse, just a short bit of 00:15:44.019 --> 00:15:47.360 it because we're not really up to scratch at 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:50.039 three in the morning to play a whole song. But 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:53.139 we'll play this one and try and concentrate on 00:15:53.139 --> 00:15:55.639 the words because I'm going to tell the story 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:59.120 afterwards. So this is a little bit of the song 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:12.440 called Always On The Air. In 1989, a good old 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:18.919 friend of mine got married to a radio ham like 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:26.159 I did. They were happy at the start, when they 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:31.259 began to drift apart. Because he's always on 00:16:31.259 --> 00:16:38.259 the air, my friend confided. Cause he was always 00:16:38.259 --> 00:16:45.759 on the air It really wasn't fair More sing to 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:53.240 some man who wasn't there Just like a crazy love 00:16:53.240 --> 00:17:00.100 affair It drove her to despair It seemed like 00:17:00.100 --> 00:17:07.470 he was always on the air There's supposed to 00:17:07.470 --> 00:17:11.130 be a real big roar of applause. Oh, we have that 00:17:11.130 --> 00:17:17.990 we have there it is So yeah, tell us the story 00:17:17.990 --> 00:17:21.410 about it's just an amazing story and it's absolutely 00:17:21.410 --> 00:17:23.710 true and this is one of the strange things that 00:17:23.710 --> 00:17:26.289 not a lot of people have picked up on this but 00:17:27.230 --> 00:17:30.390 Morse code is very very interesting because it 00:17:30.390 --> 00:17:33.269 is there are some psychologists that say that 00:17:33.269 --> 00:17:37.950 it's the shortest way for two human brains to 00:17:37.950 --> 00:17:40.150 contact each other because once you're up to 00:17:40.150 --> 00:17:44.349 speed really fast it's just almost it's so fast 00:17:44.349 --> 00:17:47.569 that you can't think about it and what happened 00:17:47.569 --> 00:17:51.509 it's absolutely true story in our city in in 00:17:51.509 --> 00:17:54.710 Denmark the second largest city is Aarhus that's 00:17:54.710 --> 00:17:58.630 alpha radio hotel uniform sugar and there was 00:17:58.630 --> 00:18:02.569 a gentleman who was a very very fanatical morse 00:18:02.569 --> 00:18:05.109 operator and he had a very good friend in in 00:18:05.109 --> 00:18:07.150 switzerland and they used he used to come home 00:18:07.150 --> 00:18:09.710 from work and go straight into the shack and 00:18:09.710 --> 00:18:13.410 operate the radio and this went on for a number 00:18:13.410 --> 00:18:17.390 of years and then the wife finally decided all 00:18:17.390 --> 00:18:20.430 right if you can't beat them join them so she 00:18:20.430 --> 00:18:23.839 got her license learnt Morse code, got up to 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:27.180 speed and started using another radio in the 00:18:27.180 --> 00:18:32.359 same house and they went on for a while and then 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:37.279 she actually fell in love with this Swiss guy 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:40.079 who and they'd never met, they'd never seen each 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:44.460 other before and at some point she asked her 00:18:44.460 --> 00:18:46.640 husband if they could invite the guy to visit 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:51.829 and the guy came and visited and the love proved 00:18:51.829 --> 00:18:55.549 to be true and she moved away. So that was the 00:18:55.549 --> 00:18:57.890 story always on the air and it is absolutely 00:18:57.890 --> 00:19:00.369 true. And if anybody wants documentation, I have 00:19:00.369 --> 00:19:09.190 it. Okay. Wow. So, so Morse may have some closer 00:19:09.190 --> 00:19:13.470 connections than we actually thought. Well, uh, 00:19:13.609 --> 00:19:17.269 let's, let's get back to the, um, Join us on 00:19:17.269 --> 00:19:19.190 the airwaves and we're gonna play a little clip 00:19:19.190 --> 00:19:22.109 of that and just in case people haven't heard 00:19:22.109 --> 00:19:26.349 that But tell us how you were able to video that 00:19:26.349 --> 00:19:29.619 while you were up on the tower and that's not 00:19:29.619 --> 00:19:32.940 a small tower that's a hundred foot tower and 00:19:32.940 --> 00:19:36.759 i guess some people said wrote in and said they 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:39.740 were worried about you not being properly secured 00:19:39.740 --> 00:19:42.319 to the tower when you did that and i know you 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:45.279 were so so tell us how you were able to pull 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:49.710 off that video shoot Well, the real reason we 00:19:49.710 --> 00:19:55.170 had a cherry picker or a crane, we were installing 00:19:55.170 --> 00:19:59.309 the top tower. We have terrible storms here. 00:20:00.049 --> 00:20:02.230 And by the way, I don't think I mentioned it, 00:20:02.230 --> 00:20:04.910 or you mentioned it, that I'm the chief engineer 00:20:04.910 --> 00:20:07.690 of the contest station, so I'm responsible for 00:20:07.690 --> 00:20:11.069 all the technical stuff. So when we did the music 00:20:11.069 --> 00:20:13.519 video, it was actually... we'd got the cherry 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:16.480 picker to put up this huge antenna. At that time 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:20.819 it was a Sommar 13 element log periodic sort 00:20:20.819 --> 00:20:23.359 of antenna, very very good multi -band antenna. 00:20:23.789 --> 00:20:26.730 we've grown up now, we use mono -banders nowadays, 00:20:27.069 --> 00:20:30.769 but back then it was multi -band antennas, and 00:20:30.769 --> 00:20:34.470 so when I actually changed from my working clothes 00:20:34.470 --> 00:20:37.450 into the tuxedo that I wore, for some stupid 00:20:37.450 --> 00:20:42.690 reason, I was already quite tired, and this is 00:20:42.690 --> 00:20:45.210 why I don't have a big smile on my face, which 00:20:45.210 --> 00:20:49.089 I rarely do, as my wife will tell you, but the 00:20:49.089 --> 00:20:53.769 idea was that we would film the the thing, and 00:20:53.769 --> 00:20:57.269 the crane was big enough to go above the 100 00:20:57.269 --> 00:21:00.349 -foot tower, so it's actually fairly impressive. 00:21:00.890 --> 00:21:02.809 Nowadays, people would say we've all done it 00:21:02.809 --> 00:21:05.369 using computer, whatever it's called, but this 00:21:05.369 --> 00:21:09.970 was done absolutely... that we were really up 00:21:09.970 --> 00:21:12.970 there. And the strangest thing of all is that 00:21:12.970 --> 00:21:16.630 our little puppy... He had he was down on the 00:21:16.630 --> 00:21:21.150 ground. He was only 12 or 13 weeks old and We 00:21:21.150 --> 00:21:24.410 played the song probably 25 times to get all 00:21:24.410 --> 00:21:27.789 the shots in and of course He probably could 00:21:27.789 --> 00:21:30.150 hear this thing and we're not the kind of people 00:21:30.150 --> 00:21:33.730 who listen to our own music But for the 15 years 00:21:33.730 --> 00:21:37.190 that that dog lived he absolutely howled and 00:21:37.190 --> 00:21:44.140 screamed every time we played that song It amazes 00:21:44.140 --> 00:21:48.119 me that a 13 year old Dog could remember it was 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:50.559 a traumatic experience for that poor little puppy 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:53.700 And it was only when we when we got to the chorus 00:21:53.700 --> 00:22:00.380 in the song. Yeah. Yeah And another thing was 00:22:00.380 --> 00:22:04.339 that was even more of a problem for us because 00:22:04.339 --> 00:22:07.839 I had to open champagne up there I was on on 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:11.170 20 meters and I had about Six bottles of champagne 00:22:11.170 --> 00:22:14.950 to open and every time he saw us pick up a bottle 00:22:14.950 --> 00:22:22.009 of champagne He was he would freak out completely 00:22:22.009 --> 00:22:26.130 Champagne we had to go into another room a different 00:22:26.130 --> 00:22:32.250 room while we opened it Now Lisa you were up 00:22:32.250 --> 00:22:35.029 there with with that champagne I remember that 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:39.460 Do you climb regularly, or was that something 00:22:39.460 --> 00:22:42.819 that you just got talked into for that? No, I 00:22:42.819 --> 00:22:49.759 don't. Yeah, I practiced a bit in the weeks before 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:52.500 the filming. I practiced climbing up to about 00:22:52.500 --> 00:22:55.440 10 meters with my mountaineering gear and stuff. 00:22:56.099 --> 00:22:58.779 But on the day we did the filming, I went up 00:22:58.779 --> 00:23:02.400 with a photographer in the lift. and then climbed 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:05.599 over from the lift to the mast. So that was fine. 00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:08.920 And I actually enjoyed it up there. Before then 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:13.240 I had a bit of a scare about heights. But once 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:15.960 I was up there on 20 meters and the sun was shining. 00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:19.839 And tied on. And of course I was tied on. We're 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:22.539 all tied on when we're up there. I thought it 00:23:22.539 --> 00:23:26.980 was wonderful. So pretty view as well. Yeah, 00:23:26.980 --> 00:23:29.440 it was great. And it's just because when you 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:34.319 see professional tower climbers, they often have 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:39.359 fairly severely large equipment to keep them 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:43.180 safe. But when you think about it, when rock 00:23:43.180 --> 00:23:46.480 climbers, mountaineers, they have very lightweight 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:49.220 stuff, but it's strong enough to save your life. 00:23:49.259 --> 00:23:51.680 And that's what we wear. We wear very, very discreet, 00:23:51.940 --> 00:23:55.799 but very, very strong stuff. Right? Yeah. Yeah. 00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:58.180 I want to make sure that you You mentioned that 00:23:58.180 --> 00:24:00.019 because I know there are some people concerned 00:24:00.019 --> 00:24:05.160 about that. So. All right. Well, let's listen 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:08.880 to just a little clip of that song. And again, 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:12.779 you can catch that over on, uh, on YouTube. It's, 00:24:12.819 --> 00:24:16.180 uh, join us on the airwaves by the ham band. 00:24:27.409 --> 00:24:34.210 Let the world unfurl before you. You'll be the 00:24:34.210 --> 00:24:40.569 one who sets the trends. All right, so there 00:24:40.569 --> 00:24:43.809 you have it. There's the story of doing that 00:24:43.809 --> 00:24:50.150 song up on the tower. Now, one of my favorite 00:24:50.150 --> 00:24:54.490 songs on the CD is I'm not climbing up the tower 00:24:54.490 --> 00:24:58.329 anymore. And Andrew, you're 70 years old, you 00:24:58.329 --> 00:25:02.250 told me, and you're still climbing. So was that 00:25:02.250 --> 00:25:06.009 song out of frustration after being on the tower 00:25:06.009 --> 00:25:09.069 so long to make the video? Or what was the story 00:25:09.069 --> 00:25:13.369 behind that? I think the big problem, as many 00:25:13.369 --> 00:25:16.509 people realize, is that when the wind blows, 00:25:16.970 --> 00:25:21.230 The you check the the weather forecast and you 00:25:21.230 --> 00:25:24.910 think well it says this kind of speed of wind 00:25:24.910 --> 00:25:30.450 but for some reason our station is is Incredibly 00:25:30.450 --> 00:25:32.750 windy and even though they tell us it's going 00:25:32.750 --> 00:25:35.730 to be this kind of speed It's always more and 00:25:35.730 --> 00:25:40.690 we lose towers. In fact our summer antenna which 00:25:40.690 --> 00:25:45.470 has survived all sorts of stuff in Florida. It's 00:25:45.470 --> 00:25:48.630 a very, very sturdy antenna. And I remember talking 00:25:48.630 --> 00:25:52.089 to Mr. Sommer in Florida, and he said after the 00:25:52.089 --> 00:25:55.750 second Sommer antenna died a death in the wind, 00:25:56.130 --> 00:26:00.450 he said, you may want to try another kind of 00:26:00.450 --> 00:26:05.470 antenna. So we did. But the problem is that nobody 00:26:05.470 --> 00:26:08.619 except me at the station climbs the tower. So 00:26:08.619 --> 00:26:13.640 I've been doing that for the last 35 years and 00:26:13.640 --> 00:26:19.240 I don't mind it too much. The biggest problem 00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:23.579 was getting past the tick ring halfway up the 00:26:23.579 --> 00:26:26.259 tower. If anybody's done tower climbing, the 00:26:26.259 --> 00:26:30.500 worst thing is climbing past a tick ring. That's 00:26:30.500 --> 00:26:33.640 really unpleasant. But apart from that, as Lisa 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:35.740 says, once you're up there and you're tied on, 00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:38.799 it's a beautiful view and you can work with both 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:41.660 hands. And the height doesn't bother me at all. 00:26:42.579 --> 00:26:46.180 And I was up the tower just two or three days 00:26:46.180 --> 00:26:49.259 ago and fixing something which I hope I will 00:26:49.259 --> 00:26:51.900 never have to climb up and fix again. But I guess 00:26:51.900 --> 00:26:55.619 I will. I'll be up there quite soon. And, you 00:26:55.619 --> 00:26:59.119 know, it's just part of the hobby. Part of the 00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:01.140 most, I think it's the most fascinating thing 00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:04.559 about it is the antenna work. And so, you know, 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.140 I'm a rag chewer, even though we have a contest 00:27:07.140 --> 00:27:11.519 station, I'm a rag chewer and I enjoy any kind 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:14.519 of proper conversation with somebody. But a lot 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:17.579 of the other guys at the station are fanatical 00:27:17.579 --> 00:27:20.980 DXers and fanatical contest people. And there's 00:27:20.980 --> 00:27:24.359 room for everything in this hobby. I think the 00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:27.240 most unpleasant thing about the hobby is where 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:31.039 people say, I'm a contestor, you're spoiling 00:27:31.039 --> 00:27:33.779 my ability to be a contestor, or I'm a DXer, 00:27:33.940 --> 00:27:41.279 you're spoiling my ability to be a DXer. be more 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:43.599 tolerant and if there's one thing that radio 00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:46.119 amateurs aren't is tolerant. Don't you agree 00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:51.220 Neil? I think it depends on the situation. I 00:27:51.220 --> 00:27:54.460 think some people have a little better tolerance 00:27:54.460 --> 00:27:59.390 than others maybe. Yeah, but it's you know, it's 00:27:59.390 --> 00:28:02.170 but it's it's a wonderful hobby and it's it's 00:28:02.170 --> 00:28:04.109 it's really really strange the only thing you 00:28:04.109 --> 00:28:08.150 know I was talking about the the recently you 00:28:08.150 --> 00:28:11.470 have the big Boy Scout Jamboree in the States 00:28:11.470 --> 00:28:14.450 and there was also a similar thing in in Europe 00:28:14.450 --> 00:28:17.069 and that happened to be in Denmark and You know, 00:28:17.069 --> 00:28:19.549 it's a strange thing that in the old days you 00:28:19.549 --> 00:28:23.220 could really at the Scout Jamborees you could 00:28:23.220 --> 00:28:25.539 really impress people by saying you know you 00:28:25.539 --> 00:28:29.599 you come from from Japan now come into the radio 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:33.359 tent you can talk to your your folks back home 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:35.680 in Japan or you can talk to somebody back home 00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:39.380 in Japan and nowadays the nobody in of the younger 00:28:39.380 --> 00:28:42.920 generation is impressed by that and I think that's 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:46.740 a shame because it's it's so much different from 00:28:46.740 --> 00:28:50.539 using the the internet and Skype and Facebook 00:28:50.539 --> 00:28:54.279 and all that but You know times have changed 00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:57.660 and I'm still impressed when when I get visitors 00:28:57.660 --> 00:29:01.329 to the station and you can always see a potential 00:29:01.329 --> 00:29:04.009 radio ham and that's somebody who looks up with 00:29:04.009 --> 00:29:07.369 love at the big antenna and looks at the sky 00:29:07.369 --> 00:29:10.089 and you can see them imagining the ionosphere 00:29:10.089 --> 00:29:16.349 and in one of my songs I wrote a glass of beer 00:29:16.349 --> 00:29:19.349 and a friendly ionosphere and I think that's 00:29:19.349 --> 00:29:23.609 the way we radio hams look at the propagation 00:29:23.609 --> 00:29:27.920 of the waves. Go ahead. Now, you mentioned identifying 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:31.220 ham radio operators. You've told me that Lisa 00:29:31.220 --> 00:29:39.599 has a very unique ability. Yeah, I can spot them. 00:29:41.099 --> 00:29:44.819 I've been traveling and been to parties and all 00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:47.400 of a sudden I can turn to the guy sitting next 00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:50.960 to me and say... You are a radio ham and they 00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:54.480 look very frightened and they'll see how did 00:29:54.480 --> 00:30:03.859 you know? Well, hey we're good we're gonna we're 00:30:03.859 --> 00:30:07.119 gonna stop here and we're gonna listen to just 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.990 a couple of minutes of I'm not climbing up the 00:30:10.990 --> 00:30:13.990 tower anymore and then and then after that we're 00:30:13.990 --> 00:30:17.470 going to we're going to take some calls so here 00:30:17.470 --> 00:30:21.230 is I'm not climbing up the tower anymore from 00:30:21.230 --> 00:30:41.490 the ham band Big antennas on a hundred foot tower 00:30:41.490 --> 00:30:46.390 A brand new radio and maximum power I never thought 00:30:46.390 --> 00:30:52.089 I'd ever get to realise that Now Yen and me have 00:30:52.089 --> 00:30:57.750 got the lot But I'm never on the air at all Every 00:30:57.750 --> 00:31:01.670 time I want to chat for an hour Something sends 00:31:01.670 --> 00:31:05.549 me to the top of the tower From today I'm gonna 00:31:05.549 --> 00:31:11.079 put a stop to all that Cause I'm not climbing 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:14.640 up the tower anymore I told you once, I told 00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:17.839 you twice a hundred times before The exercise 00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:21.839 may do me good, the view may overaw But I'm not 00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:25.000 climbing up the tower anymore That was the seventh 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:27.819 time I climbed today, my fingers are all raw 00:31:27.819 --> 00:31:30.920 My nose and toes are frozen and my skinny legs 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:33.740 are sore You can beg and you can bribe me on 00:31:33.740 --> 00:31:37.140 your knees you may implore But I'm not climbing 00:31:37.140 --> 00:31:42.660 up the tower anymore I'll just relax and chat 00:31:42.829 --> 00:31:45.250 Okay, well there you have it Andrew's not climbing 00:31:45.250 --> 00:31:47.789 up the tower anymore at least until tomorrow 00:31:47.789 --> 00:31:51.630 so It's time for your calls now. So if you have 00:31:51.630 --> 00:31:55.220 a question for Andrew or Lisa that phone number 00:31:55.220 --> 00:32:01.220 to call is area code 812 and then net ham1 that's 00:32:01.220 --> 00:32:10.680 812 -638 -4261 in numbers 812 -638 -4261 or you 00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:13.299 can skype us our skype name is ham talk live 00:32:13.299 --> 00:32:15.940 or you can send us a tweet we'll check the tweets 00:32:15.940 --> 00:32:18.990 here in a little bit And that's at ham talk live 00:32:18.990 --> 00:32:21.009 as well. So if you've got a question about the 00:32:21.009 --> 00:32:24.250 video or the contest station or, or any of the 00:32:24.250 --> 00:32:28.630 music on the CD, just give us a call. And the 00:32:28.630 --> 00:32:31.789 time to do that is now. So we'll, we'll take 00:32:31.789 --> 00:32:37.089 those calls, um, as soon as you can make them. 00:32:37.690 --> 00:32:42.470 Um, now while we're waiting on that, uh, we've 00:32:42.470 --> 00:32:44.930 been talking about the contest station a bit. 00:32:45.009 --> 00:32:48.819 So I see that there's some, songs on the CD about 00:32:48.819 --> 00:32:52.720 contesting as well. And so tell us a little bit 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:56.259 more about your contest station there at OZ5E. 00:32:57.140 --> 00:33:01.480 Okay, but OZ5E is the shortest possible CW call 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:03.900 from Denmark. It's still a bit long with the 00:33:03.900 --> 00:33:08.019 O and the Z, but the E keeps it a bit short. 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:12.940 And we have probably the best contest station 00:33:12.940 --> 00:33:17.190 in Denmark and possibly four of the best operators. 00:33:17.650 --> 00:33:20.130 We do have the disadvantage that we're a little 00:33:20.130 --> 00:33:23.589 bit too far to the north, which means that things 00:33:23.589 --> 00:33:26.869 tend to end a little bit earlier than they do 00:33:26.869 --> 00:33:29.349 further south, which means we have a handicap, 00:33:29.849 --> 00:33:35.349 but we really have aimed to go for mono band 00:33:35.349 --> 00:33:39.230 antennas, so we've got a really nice setup and 00:33:39.230 --> 00:33:45.339 with mono bands on 160 all the way up to six 00:33:45.339 --> 00:33:51.980 meters and it works very well and with just to 00:33:51.980 --> 00:33:54.599 give you an idea our our operators they went 00:33:54.599 --> 00:34:00.720 to Qatar I think it was Alpha 73 Alpha I'm not 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:03.660 absolutely certain I'm not a person who remembers 00:34:03.660 --> 00:34:06.579 call signs very well but Alpha 73 Alpha were 00:34:06.579 --> 00:34:11.110 number two in the world cq worldwide ssb and 00:34:11.110 --> 00:34:13.909 that was three or four of the operators from 00:34:13.909 --> 00:34:18.269 our station who won that title and if anybody's 00:34:18.269 --> 00:34:20.469 interested in contesting the same team will be 00:34:20.469 --> 00:34:25.809 on oscar zulu 5 echo the cq worldwide cw and 00:34:25.809 --> 00:34:29.769 ssb contest because they don't imagine they could 00:34:29.900 --> 00:34:32.619 possibly do better than number two in the world 00:34:32.619 --> 00:34:35.380 because the competition is of course over in 00:34:35.380 --> 00:34:38.519 the Caribbean. So they decided to stay home. 00:34:38.780 --> 00:34:41.880 So we look forward to that. Is there anything 00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:43.480 else you want to know about the station, Neil? 00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:47.320 Yeah, so how many how many antennas do you have 00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:52.880 on that tower right now? Well, as it changed 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.929 since the video? It has we've got two we've got 00:34:55.929 --> 00:34:59.630 three towers now, so it's a mono band of five 00:34:59.630 --> 00:35:04.030 elements on 20 meters six elements on 15 six 00:35:04.030 --> 00:35:08.789 elements on 10 and then a four square on 80 and 00:35:08.789 --> 00:35:11.929 Vertical on 160 and a couple of things on six 00:35:11.929 --> 00:35:15.269 meters six meters is getting really really popular 00:35:15.269 --> 00:35:20.909 not in my particular experience, but this new 00:35:20.909 --> 00:35:24.449 digital mode which I I can't remember what it's 00:35:24.449 --> 00:35:27.030 called, maybe you know what it's called, but 00:35:27.030 --> 00:35:30.789 very, very, very high degree of activity on six 00:35:30.789 --> 00:35:32.750 meters at the moment. I wonder if you do that, 00:35:32.869 --> 00:35:37.389 Neil. Is that FT8? I'm not sure. It's a brand 00:35:37.389 --> 00:35:41.670 new one. Yeah, and you know, it's never interested 00:35:41.670 --> 00:35:44.949 me. I don't know if you are aware of the fact 00:35:44.949 --> 00:35:48.150 that the difference between amateur radio in 00:35:48.150 --> 00:35:51.150 in the States and in the UK and a lot of the 00:35:51.150 --> 00:35:53.789 other countries in certainly in Europe is that 00:35:53.789 --> 00:35:57.769 a lot of the people don't really like rag chewing 00:35:57.769 --> 00:36:00.530 because English is a second language for them 00:36:00.530 --> 00:36:03.269 and the rag chewing if it's not within their 00:36:03.269 --> 00:36:07.550 own country tends to be a little difficult, whereas 00:36:07.550 --> 00:36:11.150 in the UK and in America, we all write to you 00:36:11.150 --> 00:36:13.130 as we bore each other to death. Don't you agree, 00:36:13.369 --> 00:36:17.750 Neil? And in fact, you talk about that in one 00:36:17.750 --> 00:36:23.190 of your songs that's coming up. And I really 00:36:23.190 --> 00:36:25.989 appreciated that, because one of the things that 00:36:25.989 --> 00:36:31.090 I've always said in ham radio is that there's 00:36:31.090 --> 00:36:35.300 three things you always talk about. The weather 00:36:35.300 --> 00:36:41.500 your garden and your ambulance Those are the 00:36:41.500 --> 00:36:44.159 three things that you always have to talk about 00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:46.719 Yeah, but under the one you're thinking about 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:51.760 is I I think I said I don't know your power or 00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.260 the height of your tower and frankly, I don't 00:36:54.260 --> 00:37:01.179 give a That is the one, and we will play that 00:37:01.179 --> 00:37:03.739 here in just a little bit. In fact, we're going 00:37:03.739 --> 00:37:06.539 to play another little clip about contesting. 00:37:06.659 --> 00:37:10.039 This one's a fairly short one. But again, the 00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:16.059 phone number to call is 812 -638 -4261. So give 00:37:16.059 --> 00:37:20.139 us a call, 812 -NET -M1. And if you have a question 00:37:20.139 --> 00:37:23.579 for Andrew and Lisa, and we'll be back here in 00:37:23.579 --> 00:37:29.980 just a minute. can beat a weekend contest and 00:37:29.980 --> 00:37:33.340 no one in the world can beat us we're busy getting 00:37:33.340 --> 00:37:36.199 ready for the final conquest a lot of little 00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:39.800 plans to discuss just an hour to go before we 00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:43.239 start the show and then it's 48 hours of hell 00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.539 although it's hard to explain why we split up 00:37:45.539 --> 00:37:48.940 with this pain well we do it again and again 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:11.179 I'm sorry, I'm losing you a little bit. We've 00:38:11.179 --> 00:38:14.019 got a, I think we've got a slight ionospheric 00:38:14.019 --> 00:38:19.000 disturbance here. I think there's a little bit. 00:38:19.260 --> 00:38:22.659 Yeah. It's on my end. I noticed the internet 00:38:22.659 --> 00:38:26.699 just cut out on me. So yeah. that was on my end 00:38:26.699 --> 00:38:29.719 so my apologies there and and we'll uh we'll 00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:33.179 get the recording uploaded so uh so people can 00:38:33.179 --> 00:38:36.059 can hear what was happening there so my apologies 00:38:36.059 --> 00:38:39.860 but uh we were we're talking about the um contest 00:38:39.860 --> 00:38:42.659 uh song we were playing some of that and and 00:38:42.659 --> 00:38:45.340 you could really get pumped up listening to that 00:38:45.340 --> 00:38:49.360 song um before a contest that could give you 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:54.309 some energy couldn't it yeah use about it. It's 00:38:54.309 --> 00:38:56.769 because it's a fairly tempo thing. I didn't mention 00:38:56.769 --> 00:39:01.269 that the drummer on this is, is absolutely the 00:39:01.269 --> 00:39:03.650 most renowned drummer in the world. He's called 00:39:03.650 --> 00:39:08.550 Kenny. And you all know from Youngsburg and just 00:39:08.550 --> 00:39:16.409 about every in the 70s, 80s, 90s. Andrew, are 00:39:16.409 --> 00:39:19.449 you back with us? Yeah, I've been here all the 00:39:19.449 --> 00:39:24.329 time. The internet here has been cutting out. 00:39:24.550 --> 00:39:30.050 I can see that it's cutting out. So yeah, well, 00:39:30.050 --> 00:39:33.409 we've lost a little bit of this, but we've got 00:39:33.409 --> 00:39:35.789 it on the recording. We should have done it on 00:39:35.789 --> 00:39:41.849 HF instead, you know. Yeah. And the way the ionosphere 00:39:41.849 --> 00:39:46.280 is these days. Wow. If I just point the the five 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:48.219 element I've got four element I didn't mention 00:39:48.219 --> 00:39:54.059 this four elements monoband on on 40 so It's 00:39:54.059 --> 00:39:58.760 that's pretty good 40 meters for me is a little 00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:01.820 bit like 20 meters at the moment So if anybody's 00:40:01.820 --> 00:40:04.820 on 40, I can just point the antenna to the America 00:40:04.820 --> 00:40:08.400 and I'll fry you up. Go ahead Yeah, there you 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:12.909 go. All right Well, I appreciate you coming on 00:40:12.909 --> 00:40:16.730 here and we're just about out of time here. But 00:40:16.730 --> 00:40:19.409 I know you wanted to talk a little bit about 00:40:19.409 --> 00:40:21.969 one of your passions, getting people interested 00:40:21.969 --> 00:40:26.389 in ham radio. So let's talk just a little bit 00:40:26.389 --> 00:40:29.150 about that and then we're going to have to go. 00:40:29.659 --> 00:40:34.800 Okay, but my Inspiration is I would really like 00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:38.099 people to appreciate why I love amateur radio 00:40:38.099 --> 00:40:41.679 And I've tried to do it and a number of people 00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:49.579 You mentioned Bill Pasternak and the the other 00:40:49.579 --> 00:40:53.679 guy was Dave Bell and Dave Bell actually wanted 00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:58.079 us to do a video about about amateur radio to 00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:01.360 inspire young people and that is partly why we 00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:04.639 did the silly one where we're up the tower but 00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:07.400 I know that it doesn't really work and in the 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:09.900 same way that I'm saying that talking to the 00:41:09.900 --> 00:41:14.739 Boy Scouts and Girl Guides and I think you call 00:41:14.739 --> 00:41:17.260 them Girl Scouts actually but in England we call 00:41:17.260 --> 00:41:22.059 them Girl Guides it just doesn't seem to appeal 00:41:22.059 --> 00:41:24.989 to young people that much because they've got 00:41:24.989 --> 00:41:28.550 their iPhones and all that. What I tend to point 00:41:28.550 --> 00:41:32.090 out is that it's easy enough to pick up the phone 00:41:32.090 --> 00:41:34.630 and call somebody but you have to know a number 00:41:34.630 --> 00:41:36.550 and you have to know somebody in order to be 00:41:36.550 --> 00:41:38.969 able to call them and the beauty of ham radio 00:41:38.969 --> 00:41:44.909 has always been the strange unknown quality about 00:41:44.909 --> 00:41:48.010 who's going to come back to your CQ call and 00:41:48.010 --> 00:41:51.949 that's what I'm trying to explain to people. 00:41:52.329 --> 00:41:58.610 It's just a different world and it's very very 00:41:58.610 --> 00:42:03.510 difficult to communicate the concept and at the 00:42:03.510 --> 00:42:08.670 end of the day we all discovered this for ham 00:42:08.670 --> 00:42:12.230 radio for different reasons and I have not found 00:42:12.230 --> 00:42:15.989 a common factor yet but I'm working on it and 00:42:15.989 --> 00:42:20.369 I'm going to do a proper video that doesn't bore 00:42:20.369 --> 00:42:24.210 people to death because the problem is they show 00:42:24.210 --> 00:42:28.030 you with your Handheld radio and who cares it's 00:42:28.030 --> 00:42:30.869 just like a mobile phone and they show people 00:42:30.869 --> 00:42:34.050 with like us with five elements on 20 and four 00:42:34.050 --> 00:42:37.449 elements on 40 and This makes it frightening, 00:42:37.449 --> 00:42:42.610 but I want to show people with the station on 00:42:42.610 --> 00:42:46.090 Pitcairn Island or Santolina Island with the 00:42:46.090 --> 00:42:49.719 piece of wet string and a 10 watt transmitter, 00:42:50.059 --> 00:42:52.699 and that's what it's all about. You don't need 00:42:52.699 --> 00:42:55.480 a fortune to get into this hobby, I don't think. 00:42:56.099 --> 00:42:58.639 Well, we're going to have to end it there, Andrew, 00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:05.139 but check out OZ5E .com for the Seek You songs 00:43:05.139 --> 00:43:08.860 and about the contest station and tune in next 00:43:08.860 --> 00:43:10.559 week. We hope to have something about Huntsville 00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:13.440 next week, but that's a wrap for this week's 00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:15.860 edition of HamTalk Live. So thanks to Andrew 00:43:15.860 --> 00:43:20.260 and Lisa and I'll say 7375 and may the good DX 00:43:20.260 --> 00:43:32.539 be yours. Well you came right back to my secure 00:43:32.539 --> 00:43:36.300 call Your readability five and strength nine 00:43:36.300 --> 00:43:40.940 You never once mentioned your weather at all 00:43:40.940 --> 00:43:46.179 And I didn't mention mine We talked and talked 00:43:46.179 --> 00:43:50.280 for hours and hours I completely forgot you're 00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:54.960 a ham I don't know your power or the height of 00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:59.389 your tower And frankly I don't give a damn So 00:43:59.389 --> 00:44:04.610 73s, to you and your family, I'll be seeing you 00:44:04.610 --> 00:44:08.969 further down the loch. You're 73s, to you and 00:44:08.969 --> 00:44:12.670 your family, I'll be seeing you further down 00:44:12.670 --> 00:44:16.969 the loch. It's hard to believe that you're empty 00:44:16.969 --> 00:44:20.110 indeed, cause you sound just like a local up 00:44:20.110 --> 00:44:25.869 here. But why don't those whistling Mediterranean's 00:44:25.869 --> 00:44:34.090 check it with green? So we have talked about 00:44:34.090 --> 00:44:38.269 thousands of things About shoes, about ships, 00:44:38.610 --> 00:44:43.269 about ceiling wax About cabbages and kings