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Tonight our guest is Sean Kutsko, KX9X, the former
contest branch manager and currently the media
and public relations manager at ARRL, the National
Association for Amateur Radio. Sean enjoys portable
operations, satellites, and QRP the most right
now. He's an avid DXer and has had a chance to
be the DX several times. Sean's been licensed
since 1982 and is originally from Central Illinois
and attended the nearby University of Illinois.
And Sean's been on the ARRL staff since 2007.
And he's also the drummer for the world famous
Spurious Emissions band. So Sean, welcome once
again to HamTalk Live. Hey Neil, what's going
on? How are you? Oh, doing fine here and you're
racking up the shows. Now you did the field day
show last year and we talked about some national
parks on the air and then with the band. An industry
submissions show back in April, so yeah. Yeah,
so we're glad you're back again. I'm getting
to be a frequent flyer. Yeah, exactly. You're
racking up the frequent flyer mall. As one of
the radio shows has this fake caller that's on,
you know, the long time caller, first time listener.
So yeah, they kind of turned it around the other
way there. But anyway, we're going to talk field
day tonight. We're going to get everybody all
pumped up for field day. Field day is just a
couple of days away and we've been working on
a new plan. I'm excited this year because I'm
actually For the first time in, I don't know
how long, I'm actually going to be able to operate.
Cause I've been a go -to coach for so many years
that it's like, I don't get to operate and I'm
the contestor guy, you know? So I'm excited.
We're going to try something a little different
with another school. We're going to put our schools
together and do kind of a school themed. field
day and we're going to give it a try this year
and see how it goes. So we're putting the high
school club together with the university here
and we're going to give it a try. I sense a whole
lot of mentoring opportunities that could occur
right there. Yeah, so we're excited about giving
it a try. So we're going to have a couple of
different field days here in the area and we're
excited about giving it a shot and doing something
a little different and going after some points.
And already, before we even start, already the
debate has started. Is field day a contest or
is field day not a contest? And we've talked
about that before. Yes, is it a floor is it a
floor wax or a dessert topping the old Saturday
Night Live question exactly Great. So so, you
know field day is all of those things It is you
know, it's a competitive event if you want to
make it one. It is an emergency preparedness
exercise It is a public relations It is actually,
it's the largest public relations event in North
America. Most of the rest of the world, the IARU
regions one and three, their big PR event of
the year is World Amateur Radio Day on April
18th. But here in the United States, World Amateur
Radio Day gets some activity, but not nearly
as much as field day does. So for us here in
the U .S., field day. is the big PR push that
lets us showcase amateur radio to our communities
and our served agencies and our elected folks.
So field day is the big PR event. It can also
be the simple club gathering. It can be the potluck
dinner Saturday night. So there's no real wrong
way to do field day. If you want to make it a
contest, You try to get as many points as you
possibly can. If you want to make it a big PR
event and showcase Ham Radio to your community,
you can do that too. Most people combine several
different facets of it. If you get a good club
involved or a good group of friends, you've got
one or two people who are really into the emergency
preparedness aspect of it. You've got a couple
of good contest operators in there, somebody
who really enjoys interacting and mingling with
the public. There's no real one way to do field
day and most clubs take on several different
facets at the same time. So everybody gets to
be happy during field day. All right, so get
out there and give it a give it a shot what and
you know, try to support your your local clubs
that are Out there and if not, you can operate
from home or you can go portable or there's all
kinds of Options and we're going to talk about
a couple of those specific options here momentarily
But first and we were already getting calls so
hang on for hang on folks. We're gonna get there.
We're gonna get to the goal but You know, we
want to first talk about the changes Well, there
there really aren't any changes this year It's
okay the same same as it ever was and then ever
was and there you have it ladies and gentlemen
That was Sean Cutsco, and we'll see you next
week. I'm not no No. So yeah, the only change
was just some updates on some information, right?
That was pretty much it. Yeah, that's pretty
much it there are no major rules changes from
last year if you know and something that we can
talk about in a little bit too if you want is
For those who are interested in trying to operate
satellites and get the satellite bonus points
for making a satellite QSO There are a few new
satellites this year that weren't up in the air
in 2016 So you've got a few more choices that
you can make but really there are no there are
no major rules changes from 2016 so have at it
Okay, so we'll get into that a little bit here
later, too. But last year, right after the show,
I checked my email and I had this question from
this guy, Dan from Connecticut. And it took me
a second and then I realized, oh, wait a minute,
it's that Dan from Connecticut, N1ND, the former
field day guru. And he was trying... Think he
was trying to trick me up is what he was trying
to do. Yes, and so he says I'll be one person
operating on battery power Would I be class 1b?
The answer is yes, he would be class 1b. There's
a confusion that the B in the classes stands
for battery and that's not what the B stands
for. The B is just a sub -designator of how you
can approach field day. Class A is a lot of people,
club or a non -club. Class B simply means that
it's a one or a two person operation and the
power source does not come into consideration
in determining what letter uh... you operate
uh... under as your operating class clad in class
be just means it's a one or two person operation
real small so it would be something else well
uh... there under the on air exchanges always
going to be the number of transmitters followed
by a letter followed by your a r l section and
uh... one of the other questions that week that
we commonly get is do i need to set am i am i
if i'm operating with a battery do i am i a class
1A battery or 3A battery, and you don't have
to say the word battery on the air. What we do
is we subdivide some of the power categories
in the printed results. But what you say on the
air as part of your field day exchange is simply
the number of transmitters, the letter that designates
your entry class, and your ARRL section. And
that's all you have to say. But you could be
1E. You could be if you're a home station operating
with emergency power and you could use a battery
as emergency power So yeah, so I think that was
kind of what he was getting at was it wouldn't
have to be 1b because it depends on Depends on
your operating yeah, if you're operating from
your home Or a or what we call a fixed a fixed
station Then yeah, that would be a class 1e if
you're operating away from a place where amateur
radio normally takes place That would be a class
B with one operator We got into that discussion
earlier and and the the other Setup question
here that we had. Okay, you've got a club That
has one permanent station, but at that permanent
station, they set up portable stations and run
on battery power. So what class would you give
them? Well, the kicker in that one is the fact
that they're operating from a permanent station
location. I found this out the hard way in 1997,
long before I was working for the lead. When
I was operating in Elkhart, Indiana and I set
up in my garage and I borrowed a little Honda
generator and I threw a dipole in the tree and
I was all set to be a 1b station and I found
out after the fact that Nope, that's not the
case because I was operating from my own from
my own house and that is a location where amateur
radio normally takes place every other day of
the year. So because I was on my own property,
I had to get reclassified to a one -echo station
because I was using an emergency power source,
but I was operating field day from my permanent
location, even though I was using an external
power source and I was using a completely different
antenna. So that's how a home station or a permanent
station is determined. Okay, so we've got some
of that class stuff out of the way. So if you
have a question like that, why here in just a
few minutes, you'll be able to give us a call
at 812 net ham one or on Skype at ham talk live
or tweet us and we're going to take just as many
questions as we can tonight. And we've got some
some other things here that we want to get into
a little bit about the two newer rules, the social
media bonus and the safety officer bonus. And
we talked about those last year on the show.
So if you need some of that information, you
can punch up last year's show, but we will try
to get to some of that depending on how many
calls we have and that kind of thing. So I think
what we'll do is go ahead and take a break here
and get that out of the way and then we'll be
back to take your calls live right here with
Shawn and we'll get to that and take our final
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They were pretty funny. We still haven't figured
out what band that tent tunes up on. It depends
on the physical size of the tent. I mean, it
could easily load up on 80 or 160, depending
on how large the tent is. But the whole issue
of what kind of degree you need in order to get
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tuner. Yes. We'll leave that to Chip. Maybe Chip
can figure that out. Well, it's time for your
calls. Now if you have a question for Sean, call
812 -NET -HAM -1. That's 812 -638 - 4261 or you
can Skype your question at ham talk live or you
can tweet us at ham talk live and So now is the
time to call so give us a call and we already
have one. So I see that Ryan is on here. Is that
right? Yeah, my name is Ryan kc0 qmb Casey zero
Q &B. Thank you for calling in and go ahead with
your field day question well The field day I'm
going to coming up is going to be in a city park
The question is they'll have commercial power
there. However, it's not a permanent location
for any of the hams What classification would
that be? If how many people are operating? I
don't know yet, I'm guessing probably six. Okay,
so the Class A entry category for a larger group,
there is a sub category that we list the scores
under that allows the use of commercial power
for Class A stations. So you would simply say
the number of transmitters and A class if you've
got six people involved. uh... and uh... and
uh... your uh... your a double r l section and
that would be your exchange and when the final
results come out uh... you would be uh... scored
with the other uh... with the other folks in
class a who are using commercial power so it's
okay for class a stations to use commercial power
you simply have to declare it and will put you
uh... lumped in with the results along with all
the other class a stations that are using commercial
power okay thank you you're welcome ryan good
luck have fun Thanks for calling, Ryan. Appreciate
it. All right, 812. NetTam 1 is the phone number,
812 -638 -4261. And yeah, Sean, go ahead and
follow up on that. Oh, no. We get a fair number
of questions about that, that there are folks
that are not aware that you can use commercial
power as a Class A station. A lot of folks think
that if you're using commercial power, you have
to be a class D, a home station with commercial
power. But there are plenty of stations every
year who are Class A that use a commercial power.
You go to a campground or you rent a cabin or
some sort of event location, like in a park like
this gentleman just was talking about, and you
have access to commercial power, you're perfectly
able to use it. And we'll make sure that in the
final results when we print it in QST that you'll
be listed along with all the other stations that
can use commercial power. or Class A stations
that are using commercial power. So it's a perfectly
valid way to enjoy field day. All right. Well,
if you have a question, give us a call 812 -638
-4261 or you can call us on Skype. We're HamTalk
Live on Skype and you can also tweet us. At ham
talk live with your field day questions with
Sean cuts go KX 9x from a RRL While we're waiting
on those calls to come in we kind of teased a
little bit about a couple of the newer rules
one of which is the safety officer and We did
talk about that some last year on the show, but
remind us a little bit about the role of the
safety officer and I know the checklist has been
cleaned up a little bit. Right, so the safety
officer bonus was added recently and the whole
purpose of the safety officer is to, it's available
for class A stations and we provided a safety
checklist in the 2017 field day packet and the
safety officer is simply somebody that goes around
the field day site and makes sure that those
items on the safety checklist in the field day
packet are met, and you have to sign a waiver
stating that all those safety conditions were
met, and you need to include that in your field
day summary, and you get 100 bonus points for
that. So if you're a Class A station and you're
really concerned about safety, and you certainly
should be, it's a nice way to pick up an extra
100 points and make sure that your field day
site is safe, not only for the operators, but
for any public that comes to visit as well. And
the other newer rule that went into effect last
year is the social media bonus. And since you're
the PR guy now, that's your thing. So tell us
again about the social media bonus. Well, for
a long, long time, there's been ways that you
can earn bonus points for public relations, outreach,
getting word about your field day effort in the
local media, reaching out to your community and
making sure that you can get some folks invited.
So 2017, social media is a reality for a lot
of... a lot of amateur radio operators and a
lot of clubs. And it's been a long time coming
that we had an extra bonus available for social
media outreach. And you get 100 points by promoting
your field day activation to the general public
via an active social media platform. So we're
talking Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram,
stuff like that. The idea of this is to give
your club the ability to create a social media
presence and use that social media presence to
establish connections with your elected officials,
members of the media in your community, and give
you a way to start plugging into your local community.
And by being able to promote your field day activity
on social media, that gives you a real -time
way to post videos and photos and status updates
about what's going on at your site. If you are
fortunate enough to get an elected official to
show up at your site, you can post a photo of
them visiting your site and have an immediate
response within your local community, assuming
that you've friended and started following some
of your community leaders or your police fire,
your served agencies, and stuff like that. It's
a real simple way for you to pick up an extra
100 bonus points for field day. But the long
-term implication is that you start making you
start connecting with other folks in your community
and that raises your visibility Long -term, so
that's the real goal of the social media bonus
Okay, so get out there on social media Facebook
Twitter Instagram snapchat Google you name it
Google plus counts sure YouTube Sure, stuff like
that, it all counts. Is there anybody on there?
On Google Plus? Yes. There are some. I've been
posting some stuff on Google Plus. I've been
trying it out, but I don't know, I still can't
get into it. I make sure that I try to do as
much as I possibly can, but I'm finding that
Even with help in the PR department now, I've
got my hands full with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
and we're starting to check out Snapchat just
a little bit. So that's plenty. Yeah, I agree.
812 -638 -4261 is the telephone number or Skype
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Live and we've got a couple more things we can
talk about here but we would like to get your
questions answered. So if you have a question
for Sean, please give us a call or a tweet and
let us know what your question is and we'll try
to answer that. Now, you talked a little bit
about the satellites here. So again, while we're
waiting on people to chime in with their questions,
I know you've been a very active satellite person,
and I was reading on our Twitter account. Some
people saying well, you know, it's field day
and we get all these people on the satellite
and then we never hear from them again until
the following field day and so it gets a little
overloaded. So talk a little bit about going
out and finding a satellite. Well, satellite
operation, as you just mentioned, that's pretty
much been my main focus of how I'm enjoying amateur
radio lately is getting on the satellites and
operating portable and activating different grid
squares when I'm traveling doing satellite stuff.
It's a lot of fun to get involved with satellite
operating, but as with So many other things,
you know, if you wait until the last minute to
try something out for the first time, and you
try to get involved with an event as large as
field day for the very first time, it can lead
to some frustration. And one of the biggest concerns
with satellites is there are two different main
types of satellites. There are FM satellites,
which basically function like an orbiting repeater.
And then there are sideband and CW satellites,
which have a transponder in them, which actually
gives you real bandwidth. So it's kind of like
tuning across 20 meters. You've got a fair amount
of frequency spectrum that you can tune across.
Sideband and CW satellites. uh... multiple q
s those can occur on those satellites simultaneously
but the f m satellites because they're like an
orbiting repeater the capture effect takes uh...
kicks in and so only one station can use the
uh... f m satellite at a time and when you get
uh... a lot of people uh... trying to access
an f m satellite on field day weekend, you get
a lot of people who are trying to talk at the
same time and it can get very congested very
quickly and not a lot of QSOs can be made that
way. So there are some tricks to the trade of
how you can have a successful field day QSO.
during field day. FM satellites are by far the
easiest to get involved with because all you
need is a dual band HT and a directional antenna
on 2 meters and 70 centimeters. There's two FM
satellites right now. SO50 is the main one and
then there's another one called AO85 and we've
got in the field day packet we've got frequency
up uplink and downlink frequencies for each one
of those satellites available in the field day
packet so you know where to tune uh... uh...
during the past uh... but um... if if you're
trying to just make one q s o on one of the f
m satellites uh... there are some tricks to uh...
to have uh... a little bit more success uh...
one trick is uh... try operating uh... satellite
pass in the middle of the night because there
will be fewer people that are on for that for
those particular passes uh... and so your your
your chances of success will go up a little bit
uh... another uh... strategy that you can consider
is if you're uh... if you live near either the
uh... the east coast of the west coast What you
can do is you can pick a satellite pass where
the satellite is tracking mainly over water and
only a little bit of the satellite's footprint
comes into contact with the land, whether it's
the East Coast or the West Coast, either one,
it doesn't matter. If you've got only a sliver
of land that's available in the footprint, you
will reduce the number of stations that have
access to the satellite. And again, that will
increase your chances for a successful QSO during
a very busy weekend on the FM satellites. I personally
would like to see everybody be able to make a
satellite QSO. I personally think that it's one
of the most exciting ways to enjoy amateur radio.
But if you've got a finite resource like an FM
satellite, only one person can talk at a time
and a satellite passes a maximum of say 15 minutes
or so, you know, that's a real short window of
opportunity for folks to get into the FM satellite.
If you have the ability to move up to the analog
satellites using Sideband or CW, I would recommend
that you give that a try because there's just
more spectrum for you to have success. There's
a little bit more, you know, there's a little
bit more tuning involved, and it's a little bit
trickier because you have to find your downlink
audio in the spectrum and the transponder, so
that takes a little getting used to to be able
to find how your transmitted signal on the uplink
corresponds to the downlink frequency, and you
have to have two radios to do that. But if you
can get past that hurdle, making QSOs on the
sideband satellites like FO29 and some of the
Chinese satellites that were launched recently,
the XW series of satellites, it's much easier
to actually complete a QSO on a sideband satellite
during periods of heavy usage than it is on an
FM satellite. So if all you have is FM, Go for
it, try some of those tips that I just talked
about. If you have the ability to do sideband,
I think that you will have a higher rate of success.
But you could even just do FM with a simple little
dual band handheld. I often go out with a simple
dual band handheld and I use a directional antenna
called an arrow antenna. It's a handheld Yagi.
It's three elements on two meters, seven elements
on 70 centimeters. Just using a five watt HT
and that antenna and I can make FMQSOs through
the SO50 satellite on a regular basis. And you
can even use one of those real cheap handheld
radios, couldn't you? If you get one of those
dual band Balfangs, I think you could do it Okay,
I finally talking me to say if you don't know
anytime somebody says the word Balfang we've
got the the Balfang clip from the spree submissions
band which Shawn's the drummer for and and so
that doesn't enter the billboard top 10 ,000
any day now any day now absolutely Have you got
that royalty check yet from? From yeah, yeah
three -tenths of a penny. I don't know where
I'm gonna spend it Wow there you go so Yeah,
anyway, that's the Balfang story. So Get out
there. Give it a give it a shot We've got a few
minutes left if you want to call in eight one
two six three eight four two six one which spells
eight one two net ham one or You can Skype us
or tweet us at ham talk live So get your calls
in we're running out of time here. We have about
six minutes left. So Now it's time to call if
you're gonna call Remind us a little bit about
the field day locator of the field day locator
is a Really great tool. You can you can post
your feel your clubs field day sites on the field
day locator so that people who are looking for
a place to operate can search by state. They
can look it up on the map. It's a Google Map
interface. So it's a way for your club to promote
your field day effort on Google Maps. It gives
you an area to provide your address where you're
going to be set up, your talk -in frequency,
your website address or phone number if people
need to, so people can contact you and get more
information. And if you are an operator that
is looking for a field day site to join, then
all you got to do is look up on the field day
locator site and type in your location and you
can find any number of field day sites that are
close to you. So it's a it's a wonderful tool
and you can find that on the field You can find
a link to that on the field day website, which
is www .arrl .org slash field day all one word
Okay, there we go. So you can find a location
nearest you so 812 -638 -4261 is the phone number
or Skype or tweet We've got time for one call
if you can get that in or tweet. What are some
of the most common scoring mistakes that people
make that they should watch for? I would say
one of the biggest scoring mistakes is simply
computing the bonus points incorrectly. There
are a lot of bonus points options out there.
Everything from the social media and the safety
officer that we just talked about. the number
of youth operators that you can have. You get
a bonus if you have a person on your team that
is 18 years or younger. The go to station points
can be a little confusing to some folks. So anytime
you're dealing with issues of bonus points, make
sure you read the rules and make sure that you're
computing your bonus points correctly. And of
course, if you ever have a question about that,
if you're trying to fill out your score summary
sheet so you can submit into us so we can print
your results. If something's a little confusing
to you, by all means, just give us a call. We
have operators standing by for your call. And
you can also drop us an email too, fieldday at
a double rl dot org. We'd be happy to answer
your question. We'd rather answer your question
and clarify things for you before you submit
your score to us rather than have to tell you
that there's an error in your score. rather than
tell you that there's an error in your score
after you've already submitted it. So if you
got a question, just let us know. There's another
common one is the multiplier factor between low
power and QRP power. It's a common misconception
that... that if you're running QRP, you automatically
get a multiplier score of five. And that's not
true. In order to get the five times multiplier,
you not only need to be running five watts or
less, but your power source cannot be commercial
mains and it cannot be a motor driven generator.
So that means that you're usually talking batteries
as your power source. or one of the alternative
power sources, such as solar or wind power, something
like that. So the five times multiplier is a
very, very common issue that we see. Just because
you're running QRP does not mean that you automatically
qualify for the multiplier factor of five. All
right, good stuff. And the other thing you mentioned
that we might talk about is the VHF UHF station.
Oh, yeah. That is a freebie for class A and F
stations. The VHF station is a great way to get
more exposure to the VHF portion of the band.
Six meters, two meters, all the way up to 440
if you're living in a population center. Six
meters has been really, really good this year
and if sporadic E propagation opens up on six
meters, then that would be a great way to get
a whole bunch of free points because the VHF
transmitter doesn't count against your main transmitter
category. So if you're, say, for example, 3 alpha,
you can set up a dedicated VHF station on 6 meters
and 2 meters and still stay in the 3 alpha category.
It doesn't count against your transmitter class.
So if Sporadiki opens up on 6 meters, that's
a great way to earn a bunch of free points. All
right. Well there we have it folks. It's Sean
Kutsko KX9X from ARRL the public relations manager
and formerly the contest branch manager and and
so we'd like to thank you for coming on the show
and talking to us and Letting us know about all
those tricky scoring questions and everything
and look forward to hearing you on this weekend
and you will be operating as I will be a one
Bravo station this year. Actually I'm I have
a wedding party that I have to attend but I'm
not involved in all of it So I'll be bringing
some QRP gear and some satellite gear with me
And I'll be setting up in a there's a nice little
park right across from the hotel where though
the wedding party I'm going to be at in. So listen
for KX9X 1 Bravo Connecticut. Alright, very good,
and I'll be operating with my high schoolers
and we're joining up with the Indiana University
group, so we'll be under K9IU. So if you hear
K9IU, it may be me, we'll see. So Sean, thanks
so much for coming on the show and thanks to
everybody out there for listening and calling
in and we invite you back next Thursday night
at 9. PM Eastern Time when Jim Wilson K5ND will
be here and he's going to talk about this year's
Boy Scout Jamboree on the air and Jamboree on
the internet and for a list of all of our upcoming
guests you can find that over at HamTalkLive
.com as well as a picture of Flat Hammy. Don't
forget take pictures with Flat Hammy this summer
from your field day or from a ham fest or vacation,
wherever. We'd love to see your pictures with
Flat Hammy, so you can get that on our social
media sites or on the schedule page over at HamTalkLive
.com. So for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG,
saying 7375, and may the good DX be yours. Thanks
for watching!