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I am your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. 00:02:00.299 --> 00:02:03.500 Thanks for tuning in to this episode of HamTalk 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:06.939 Live. Tonight we're joined once again by Michael 00:02:06.939 --> 00:02:10.340 Coulter, W8CI, the official spokesperson for 00:02:10.340 --> 00:02:13.270 the Dayton Hamvention. to talk about how the 00:02:13.270 --> 00:02:16.669 first year went at the new location and the changes 00:02:16.669 --> 00:02:19.370 being made for next year. And we'll take your 00:02:19.370 --> 00:02:23.129 calls live in just a few minutes. Well, last 00:02:23.129 --> 00:02:27.129 week on the show, Bryant Rascal, KG5HVO was here 00:02:27.129 --> 00:02:30.430 to talk about his CW operations. And if you missed 00:02:30.430 --> 00:02:32.849 that or any other show, you can always go to 00:02:32.849 --> 00:02:36.590 HamTalkLive .com and pull it up there or on any 00:02:36.590 --> 00:02:39.789 of the podcast outlets like Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, 00:02:39.830 --> 00:02:44.219 I Heart Radio. Google Play, TuneIn, or SoundCloud, 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.699 and we're also over on YouTube. But I have an 00:02:47.699 --> 00:02:52.379 update. Speaking of last week's show, I had asked 00:02:52.379 --> 00:02:55.439 Bryant on the show if his parents were going 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:59.629 to get licensed. And Bryant said, well, there's 00:02:59.629 --> 00:03:02.469 a one day class coming up soon and mom's talking 00:03:02.469 --> 00:03:06.810 about maybe going. Well, very pleased to report 00:03:06.810 --> 00:03:10.270 that Bryant's mom, Lauren Rascal, did indeed 00:03:10.270 --> 00:03:14.530 attend that class. And yes, she passed her technician 00:03:14.530 --> 00:03:18.430 exam. So congratulations to Lauren. Better known 00:03:18.430 --> 00:03:22.449 to us at the moment, at least, as Bryant's mom. 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.659 Congratulations on becoming a Ham. Her new call 00:03:27.659 --> 00:03:34.120 sign is KG5TQO. And she mentioned to me in an 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:37.599 email that the Hamvention experience is what 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:43.159 put her on board trying for her license. So great 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:47.770 story there. Uh, that, uh, she got her license 00:03:47.770 --> 00:03:52.349 and, um, Brian's already scheming, um, multi 00:03:52.349 --> 00:03:56.729 multi -contesting with mom. So we'll, uh, look 00:03:56.729 --> 00:04:00.210 forward to, uh, seeing how that turns out. Uh, 00:04:00.370 --> 00:04:03.849 also this week, um, just for fun, I picked, posted 00:04:03.849 --> 00:04:08.509 a picture of flat. Hammy. So we've got a cutout 00:04:08.509 --> 00:04:12.189 version of Hammy the mascot. 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And if you missed them at Hamvention, 00:07:02.740 --> 00:07:07.439 you can see them this weekend in Monroe, Michigan 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:12.800 on June 18th and July 8th will be in Oak Creek, 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:19.759 Wisconsin. or you can call them at 920 -435 -2973 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.160 or visit their website at pl -259 .com. Tell 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:27.699 them you heard it on HamTalk Live. HamTalk Live 00:07:27.699 --> 00:07:30.879 is on the air every Thursday at 9 p .m. Eastern 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:34.639 Time right here at hamtalklive .com or you can 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:38.620 catch us later on the podcasting outlets and 00:07:38.620 --> 00:07:41.860 on the website. Michael Coulter, WHCI, is the 00:07:41.860 --> 00:07:44.060 official spokesperson of the Dayton Hamvention 00:07:44.060 --> 00:07:45.899 and the treasurer of the Dayton Amateur Radio 00:07:45.899 --> 00:07:48.500 Association. He's been kind enough to be on the 00:07:48.500 --> 00:07:52.339 show several times lately and so he is back to 00:07:52.339 --> 00:07:55.199 tell us how everything went. So Michael, welcome 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:58.819 to HamTalk Live. Hey, it's good to be back here, 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:01.819 Neil. Appreciate what you're doing for Amateur 00:08:01.819 --> 00:08:05.180 Radio and appreciate to get yet another opportunity 00:08:05.180 --> 00:08:09.589 to discuss Hamvention. Yeah, so we're going to 00:08:09.589 --> 00:08:12.029 wrap things up here a little bit pardon the pun 00:08:12.029 --> 00:08:16.790 and I know that you've got Some traveling coming 00:08:16.790 --> 00:08:20.129 up. You're going to be heading off to Germany 00:08:20.129 --> 00:08:24.129 here soon And talk about hand -vention there 00:08:24.129 --> 00:08:26.870 and some others So before we dive into the questions 00:08:26.870 --> 00:08:28.910 here, why don't you you tell us what you've got 00:08:28.910 --> 00:08:32.870 coming up there in the travel plans? Well, there's 00:08:32.870 --> 00:08:35.929 a team of us that are going to go to free week 00:08:35.929 --> 00:08:40.620 shopping and middle of July looking forward to 00:08:40.620 --> 00:08:44.340 that and yeah, I get to be a speaker there and 00:08:44.340 --> 00:08:47.100 We'll be talking about convention and things 00:08:47.100 --> 00:08:50.159 are going on with with our club Dayton amateur 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:52.559 radio association So that's always an honor. 00:08:52.580 --> 00:08:55.559 That is a great great event free reach often 00:08:55.559 --> 00:09:00.139 and we simply Enjoy hanging out with our friends 00:09:00.139 --> 00:09:03.340 there from the DARC and if you've never been 00:09:03.340 --> 00:09:06.379 to free reach often, it's an absolutely beautiful 00:09:06.549 --> 00:09:10.649 a location, a beautiful place. Then shortly after 00:09:10.649 --> 00:09:15.929 that, we'll be heading to Huntsville and see 00:09:15.929 --> 00:09:20.070 our friends down in Huntsville. I think that's 00:09:20.070 --> 00:09:22.009 sometime in August. I can't remember the dates. 00:09:22.830 --> 00:09:25.990 Then after that, we're packing our bags and we're 00:09:25.990 --> 00:09:30.259 headed to Japan. on the Japan radio event and 00:09:30.259 --> 00:09:33.299 talk about Hamvention over there. And people 00:09:33.299 --> 00:09:37.460 are always fascinated to hear about amateur radio 00:09:37.460 --> 00:09:41.580 in this country and Hamvention. So we're marketing 00:09:41.580 --> 00:09:44.039 all that. It's important. We're an international 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:48.919 event being Hamvention. And we like to talk about 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.950 it all over the world. Very good. Well, first 00:09:52.950 --> 00:09:56.950 let me congratulate you, Dara, the Green County 00:09:56.950 --> 00:10:00.629 Fairgrounds staff, the public safety officers, 00:10:00.990 --> 00:10:05.929 and the over 600 volunteers that pulled off Hamvention 00:10:05.929 --> 00:10:08.950 in just under nine months at a totally new facility. 00:10:09.800 --> 00:10:13.200 It's just a monumental task and I congratulate 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:18.059 you totally on the event and appreciate all the 00:10:18.059 --> 00:10:21.779 work that went into it and we're looking forward 00:10:21.779 --> 00:10:25.399 to some attendance numbers here in a little bit. 00:10:25.460 --> 00:10:29.919 Is that right? Yeah, I have the attendance numbers 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:33.679 but that's not important but we can get to it 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:36.269 toward the end of the program. If you're interested, 00:10:36.389 --> 00:10:40.129 I am definitely interested. So we'll talk about 00:10:40.129 --> 00:10:45.070 that here in a little bit so Well, there were 00:10:45.070 --> 00:10:49.169 some issues that that came up but you know, I 00:10:49.169 --> 00:10:51.830 think things went pretty well and your volunteers 00:10:51.830 --> 00:10:56.309 they They were everywhere. They were they were 00:10:56.309 --> 00:10:59.649 In the parking lots. In fact, I didn't I didn't 00:10:59.649 --> 00:11:03.679 mention this one We can talk about the parking 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:05.639 thing in here in a little bit, but there was 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:10.820 a guy on a megaphone Said you know with instructions 00:11:10.820 --> 00:11:14.059 There was a volunteer sitting out there with 00:11:14.059 --> 00:11:18.179 a megaphone Trying to help people get around 00:11:18.179 --> 00:11:22.879 and you know you guys did a fabulous job Yeah, 00:11:22.899 --> 00:11:28.500 I can't really I can't really convey to I can't 00:11:28.500 --> 00:11:32.220 hardly convey the gratitude that we all have 00:11:32.220 --> 00:11:37.919 for 657 volunteers, you know, that put on hand 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:40.940 benches. Nobody got paid anything. I mean, we 00:11:40.940 --> 00:11:44.820 had to give donations to, or not had to, but 00:11:44.820 --> 00:11:49.480 we did. People helped park and we had to, you 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:51.519 know, make sure that we had good fire and EMS. 00:11:51.700 --> 00:11:55.980 Beyond that, our club members from all over the 00:11:55.980 --> 00:11:59.960 world came and volunteered and with good attitudes. 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:02.879 trying their heart out to make it a really good 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:06.159 event and And I'll tell you why they do that 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:09.919 why we do that Because it's not my event. It's 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:12.860 not Ron Kramer who is our general chairman or 00:12:12.860 --> 00:12:15.580 Jack Gerbs our assistant or any of the committee 00:12:15.580 --> 00:12:18.279 chairs. Everybody's working to make this happen 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:22.419 Because we love amateur radio and we do see amateur 00:12:22.419 --> 00:12:26.820 radio. I mentioned as an important And I want 00:12:26.820 --> 00:12:30.259 to mention this, I get a lot of emails of information 00:12:30.259 --> 00:12:34.539 and people are welcome to email me their ideas 00:12:34.539 --> 00:12:37.820 and concerns or whatever they want to send because 00:12:37.820 --> 00:12:40.639 I pass it on to the correct people. But I received 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:44.500 one email that particularly moved me and it was 00:12:44.500 --> 00:12:47.899 the fact that they really so appreciated that 00:12:47.899 --> 00:12:51.230 Han mentioned continued on and that it was at 00:12:51.230 --> 00:12:54.690 a better location in their mind that it even 00:12:54.690 --> 00:12:57.529 got them much more excited about the hobby than 00:12:57.529 --> 00:13:00.970 they had been for a long time. And so with that 00:13:00.970 --> 00:13:04.129 we've begun to do our job a little bit in Hamvention 00:13:04.129 --> 00:13:07.649 because we want that to happen, we want more 00:13:07.649 --> 00:13:10.909 interest and then we want to give back to the 00:13:10.909 --> 00:13:13.850 amateur radio community which I think people 00:13:13.850 --> 00:13:17.629 see that we do that. Absolutely. And then we've 00:13:17.629 --> 00:13:21.769 got success stories like, like Lauren that, you 00:13:21.769 --> 00:13:24.850 know, that was what put her over the top to encourage 00:13:24.850 --> 00:13:27.250 her to, Hey, maybe I better give this a try. 00:13:28.669 --> 00:13:31.730 Yeah, that's just great. I, I quickly got a chance 00:13:31.730 --> 00:13:35.389 to, uh, well, when I was at the contest university, 00:13:35.389 --> 00:13:39.289 I was a speaker in the morning and when it started 00:13:39.289 --> 00:13:43.330 and, and Welcome people to the event, but Bryant 00:13:43.330 --> 00:13:45.370 was up there with me and I thought that that 00:13:45.370 --> 00:13:48.389 was pretty pretty great and I believe he's going 00:13:48.389 --> 00:13:52.750 to be attending the the Dave Coulter Memorial 00:13:52.750 --> 00:13:56.750 the expedition for youth at my brother with my 00:13:56.750 --> 00:14:01.210 brother and Don Dubon N6JRL Started some years 00:14:01.210 --> 00:14:04.529 back and you know my brother passed on of cancer 00:14:04.529 --> 00:14:08.070 and I sure miss him And if he's listening, I 00:14:08.070 --> 00:14:13.759 hey brother David so Go ahead. Yeah, I know how 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:18.799 that's going. In fact, today again, last two 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:22.000 shows, I've been running back from my dad's. 00:14:22.179 --> 00:14:25.580 He's just been diagnosed with leukemia here recently 00:14:25.580 --> 00:14:30.019 and so we're trying to trying to make all those 00:14:30.019 --> 00:14:32.899 preparations for nursing homes and all that kind 00:14:32.899 --> 00:14:35.460 of thing and so been kind of running around. 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:39.610 So we appreciate the the remembrance of your 00:14:39.610 --> 00:14:42.309 brother and that youth de -expedition to where 00:14:42.309 --> 00:14:46.529 these kids like Bryant can go and like Ruth did 00:14:46.529 --> 00:14:51.970 and some of the Lee girls were able to go on 00:14:51.970 --> 00:14:55.070 a real de -expedition. It's just a pretty cool 00:14:55.070 --> 00:14:59.429 thing. Right. Yeah, it is. Wonderful thing. But 00:14:59.429 --> 00:15:02.799 once again, I can't tell you how much I appreciate 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:07.039 all of our volunteers and you know Ron, Ron Kramer 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:10.480 and Jack Irv's their leadership and our board. 00:15:11.460 --> 00:15:14.539 Everybody's working as a team. And yet one other 00:15:14.539 --> 00:15:16.059 thing I just want to mention before we get too 00:15:16.059 --> 00:15:20.700 far along is that we all, all the people that 00:15:20.700 --> 00:15:25.620 run these big radio events, the group down in 00:15:25.620 --> 00:15:30.450 Huntsville, the group in Germany, Orlando team 00:15:30.450 --> 00:15:34.429 and almost any other ham fest big hand vest event 00:15:34.429 --> 00:15:37.009 or even a smaller one we all are partners in 00:15:37.009 --> 00:15:40.389 this and there's no we don't consider it competition 00:15:40.389 --> 00:15:44.289 we want to see everybody succeed because if we're 00:15:44.289 --> 00:15:46.909 such a small community right now that if we all 00:15:46.909 --> 00:15:49.090 work together in the spirit of amateur radio 00:15:49.090 --> 00:15:52.750 it's uh it's really going to be it's It's just 00:15:52.750 --> 00:15:55.990 going to do nothing but get greater. And just 00:15:55.990 --> 00:15:59.850 to further on top of that is the spirit, the 00:15:59.850 --> 00:16:02.750 real spirit of amateur radio and Hamvention or 00:16:02.750 --> 00:16:04.769 any of these events, these belong to all of us. 00:16:04.830 --> 00:16:07.350 When you're at Hamvention, you're really a member 00:16:07.350 --> 00:16:11.769 of it. So we appreciate the feedback, we appreciate 00:16:11.769 --> 00:16:17.039 the help and hope that everybody enjoys it. Oh, 00:16:17.860 --> 00:16:21.740 yeah, I totally enjoyed it and you know, there 00:16:21.740 --> 00:16:25.039 there were some trade -offs we were talking before 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:28.559 the show, you know a lot of things were considerably 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:35.259 better than Hara Arena was and and I don't know 00:16:35.259 --> 00:16:37.860 if you've heard the Hara Arena song yet, but 00:16:37.860 --> 00:16:42.980 if you haven't oh, yeah boy she She would absolutely 00:16:42.980 --> 00:16:49.720 nailed that song. And I drove by Hera on Wednesday 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:52.639 night on my way in and just kind of, you know, 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:55.960 looked around the outside a little bit for old 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:58.019 time's sake. But, you know, just look at the 00:16:58.019 --> 00:17:03.840 place. It's like, wow, you know, it's such much 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:10.259 better, you know, facilities, you know, at Green 00:17:10.259 --> 00:17:14.539 County. You know, yeah, there were some things 00:17:14.539 --> 00:17:17.839 that we're going to talk about a little bit that, 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:21.019 you know, did come up that weren't issues at 00:17:21.019 --> 00:17:24.539 HERA, but there were so many positive things 00:17:24.539 --> 00:17:28.519 that, you know, it was a great time. It was just 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:32.240 different. Yeah, let me hit a couple of things 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:37.579 right away. You know, the mud, you know, we're 00:17:37.579 --> 00:17:41.480 definitely aware of the mud situation. We are 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:43.960 already taking steps actually with the affair 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:46.900 and expo board. They're working together with 00:17:46.900 --> 00:17:49.220 an engineering group. We're going to get we are 00:17:49.220 --> 00:17:52.259 going to improve that. But the tent situation, 00:17:52.259 --> 00:17:55.339 you know, with poor lighting and we had heavy 00:17:55.339 --> 00:17:59.380 winds at times in the rain. And so that we've 00:17:59.380 --> 00:18:02.039 already had several discussions about the possibility. 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:05.940 It's not a done deal, but the possibility of 00:18:05.940 --> 00:18:09.529 having a having them build another large building 00:18:09.529 --> 00:18:13.690 for our event next year so we can eliminate most 00:18:13.690 --> 00:18:16.750 all of the all the tents and then you know we've 00:18:16.750 --> 00:18:19.069 already are trying to get more food vendors and 00:18:19.069 --> 00:18:23.910 I'm sure we will and more places more picnic 00:18:23.910 --> 00:18:26.630 tables will be staged in the kind of the courtyard 00:18:26.630 --> 00:18:30.369 area so people have better places to sit and 00:18:30.369 --> 00:18:32.910 of course we had the bleachers there as well 00:18:32.910 --> 00:18:35.609 but we still seem to fill everything all the 00:18:35.609 --> 00:18:46.029 time It was a bigger number than we've seen in 00:18:46.029 --> 00:18:53.890 a while. The sound in the forum rooms, we are 00:18:53.890 --> 00:18:56.730 really aware of all these things. For example, 00:18:57.029 --> 00:18:59.029 we talk to them a lot about the noisy fans in 00:18:59.029 --> 00:19:01.029 some of the buildings. We've got to get those 00:19:01.029 --> 00:19:03.309 things taken care of, and they're already working 00:19:03.309 --> 00:19:05.789 on it. They're already getting that done now. 00:19:06.990 --> 00:19:09.509 And believe me, we've already had a wrap -up 00:19:09.509 --> 00:19:12.309 meeting with all the committee members, and the 00:19:12.309 --> 00:19:15.430 wrap -up meeting was basically the critique meeting. 00:19:15.990 --> 00:19:18.170 And so the critique meeting is over, and then 00:19:18.170 --> 00:19:19.910 we're going to move from that. And then we're 00:19:19.910 --> 00:19:22.130 already doing planning for next year, but get 00:19:22.130 --> 00:19:26.089 into it even heavier. Ordering online should 00:19:26.089 --> 00:19:28.470 be easier because we'll have things already laid 00:19:28.470 --> 00:19:32.049 out and we'll be able to learn from our issues. 00:19:32.470 --> 00:19:36.970 We had to download so many things into our computerized, 00:19:37.109 --> 00:19:40.549 into our computer system so we could sell the 00:19:40.549 --> 00:19:43.190 boost and that meant having kind of CAD CAM layouts 00:19:43.190 --> 00:19:48.130 of the flea market areas as well as inside exhibit 00:19:48.130 --> 00:19:51.569 areas. All that being said, it should be, it 00:19:51.569 --> 00:19:54.809 will be, not should be, it will be much smoother 00:19:54.809 --> 00:19:57.710 next year. And committee leaders are already 00:19:57.710 --> 00:20:00.769 working on that. Everybody is. So hitting some 00:20:00.769 --> 00:20:03.730 of those things just right the square away. So 00:20:03.730 --> 00:20:06.690 we're very excited about it. I appreciate you 00:20:06.690 --> 00:20:09.690 looking into those things and doing what you 00:20:09.690 --> 00:20:11.450 can. And I know some of those things you can 00:20:11.450 --> 00:20:15.710 do something about and some of them you can't. 00:20:16.150 --> 00:20:18.109 The National Weather Service didn't do their 00:20:18.109 --> 00:20:22.509 part. you gave them a direct order to hold the 00:20:22.509 --> 00:20:27.890 rain off, and they didn't come through. What 00:20:27.890 --> 00:20:31.349 was up with that? Well, I have to tell you that 00:20:31.349 --> 00:20:34.930 I live near the Weather Bureau for the lower 00:20:34.930 --> 00:20:38.089 half of Ohio, northern Kentucky, and eastern 00:20:38.089 --> 00:20:40.450 Indiana, and I'm a net control operator there 00:20:40.450 --> 00:20:43.029 for events, and so I'm pretty good terms with 00:20:43.029 --> 00:20:48.369 them. And yeah, I was disappointed that Didn't 00:20:48.369 --> 00:20:50.490 happen and of course I've gotten comments. Well, 00:20:50.569 --> 00:20:53.049 you know Statistically, it always rains that 00:20:53.049 --> 00:20:57.750 weekend, but not the weekend And move it back 00:20:57.750 --> 00:21:00.630 to April and as people remember, oh, wait a minute 00:21:00.630 --> 00:21:04.470 didn't wait Yeah, didn't we move it from April 00:21:04.470 --> 00:21:08.490 because of the rain? Well because of snow and 00:21:08.490 --> 00:21:11.490 rain so right now we're pretty much set on that 00:21:11.490 --> 00:21:15.589 that week but but the Weather Bureau I will tell 00:21:15.589 --> 00:21:19.430 you how they really cooperated. If you were there 00:21:19.430 --> 00:21:24.549 Saturday when that big storm hit, we gave everybody 00:21:24.549 --> 00:21:26.589 warning. We knew when it was going to hit because 00:21:26.589 --> 00:21:29.190 the Weather Bureau was tracking that for us. 00:21:29.369 --> 00:21:31.769 If any weather was going to hit, that event, 00:21:32.089 --> 00:21:33.710 we were going to know about it and we were able 00:21:33.710 --> 00:21:36.710 to announce it well in advance that it would 00:21:36.710 --> 00:21:38.789 be a severe thunderstorm that was coming through 00:21:38.789 --> 00:21:41.900 and it would even... We're able to say what's 00:21:41.900 --> 00:21:44.440 gonna last about 20 minutes. I mean it was that 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:48.220 was a major help and I'm glad that you know kudos 00:21:48.220 --> 00:21:50.700 to the weather station for working with us and 00:21:50.700 --> 00:21:54.019 they had a booth there and Tremendous people 00:21:54.019 --> 00:21:56.920 and I hope people got to see their forum I don't 00:21:56.920 --> 00:21:59.359 think everybody did but what a great forum they 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:03.819 had but yeah a lot of things went wrong But, 00:22:03.819 --> 00:22:06.240 uh, we learned from those things, but, you know, 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:08.680 the traffic the first day, I know that what it 00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:11.319 took you what eight hours to get there. Well, 00:22:11.460 --> 00:22:14.359 not quite eight, but it was about two and a half 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:16.839 on the first day and we left an hour and a half 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:22.599 early. So, you know, that one was, um, but, but 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:26.559 we met with the, um, sheriff's department at 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:28.759 different police departments and, and then they 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:33.069 went off on their own with, uh, some of the traffic 00:22:33.069 --> 00:22:36.069 engineers and they fixed it. Because next day, 00:22:36.309 --> 00:22:39.589 Saturday, really the traffic flow went a whole 00:22:39.589 --> 00:22:45.670 lot better and we had as many people if not more 00:22:45.670 --> 00:22:47.329 on Saturday. Saturday is generally our biggest 00:22:47.329 --> 00:22:53.930 day. So we got that one taken care of and we've 00:22:53.930 --> 00:22:57.259 already been talking to the sheriffs and for 00:22:57.259 --> 00:23:00.539 next year and all that went I think very well 00:23:00.539 --> 00:23:03.619 and we learned a lot got it all under our belt 00:23:03.619 --> 00:23:06.319 and even leaving the event should have been a 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:09.779 lot better and because I ended up having to leave 00:23:09.779 --> 00:23:12.670 to rush to something and Right after the event 00:23:12.670 --> 00:23:14.829 was over and I thought oh man, I might be caught 00:23:14.829 --> 00:23:17.289 in horrible traffic They moved that traffic so 00:23:17.289 --> 00:23:19.890 well. I was very thankful and impressed. I was 00:23:19.890 --> 00:23:24.170 not late for my event Yeah, now, you know, you've 00:23:24.170 --> 00:23:26.089 talked about some of these things on other shows 00:23:26.089 --> 00:23:28.509 So we're gonna try to go kind of quickly through 00:23:28.509 --> 00:23:30.930 a lot of these things rather than rehash a lot 00:23:30.930 --> 00:23:33.730 of that But one other one thing I did want to 00:23:33.730 --> 00:23:37.829 bring up on the traffic was what was the solution? 00:23:38.509 --> 00:23:43.930 to the problem on Friday. What was done differently 00:23:43.930 --> 00:23:47.569 by those public safety officers on Saturday? 00:23:49.250 --> 00:23:53.589 Well, I think that basically they were much more 00:23:53.589 --> 00:23:57.569 aggressive in making things happen. And I don't 00:23:57.569 --> 00:24:00.509 think that I think there was a lot of people 00:24:00.509 --> 00:24:05.509 even coming into the event, parking people, confusion 00:24:05.509 --> 00:24:08.440 from people. Where do I go the first time? stop 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:10.420 here is if this gate or that gate, what do I 00:24:10.420 --> 00:24:13.720 need to do? People had to drill down by the second 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:18.160 day. Plus, we had more aggressive on the traffic 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:20.799 lights and the stop signs and things like that. 00:24:21.099 --> 00:24:23.319 And I think even the second day, a lot more people 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:27.079 used the off -site parking. And I had a lot of 00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:29.940 comments like, boy, those guys knew some kind 00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:33.259 of back way we didn't know. And I thought to 00:24:33.259 --> 00:24:36.460 myself, well, yeah. They're bus drivers. That's 00:24:36.460 --> 00:24:38.619 what they do for a living and they know the area 00:24:38.619 --> 00:24:42.819 really well. So, so they know it better than, 00:24:42.819 --> 00:24:46.059 yeah. So that was pretty much it on the traffic 00:24:46.059 --> 00:24:48.440 and it doesn't take a lot to pay attention to 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:50.660 it. Just getting that flow a little bit better 00:24:50.660 --> 00:24:54.099 and keeping people moving. So, okay. Now, speaking 00:24:54.099 --> 00:24:57.259 of officers where we needed them. Yeah. Okay. 00:24:57.319 --> 00:25:01.200 Now, speaking of flowing, uh, airflow on Friday 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:05.480 was, was a bit of a, uh, issue, and it was just 00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:10.500 hot. I mean, it was just hot. But I believe I'm 00:25:10.500 --> 00:25:12.880 seeing something that that's being addressed, 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:16.079 too. So you do you want to speak to the to that? 00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:21.119 Yeah, the county commissioners have already promised 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:23.680 us that they're going to put this is truly the 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:26.480 name of the company. It's the big ass fan company 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:31.529 in Lexington, Kentucky. I have been by there. 00:25:31.609 --> 00:25:35.450 I have been by there many times. We'll be installing 00:25:35.450 --> 00:25:39.390 those as well. They run very quietly and they 00:25:39.390 --> 00:25:43.130 push an amazing amount of air and all the air 00:25:43.130 --> 00:25:46.069 handling units. I guess when we were checking 00:25:46.069 --> 00:25:48.750 the place out, we made sure that they went through 00:25:48.750 --> 00:25:50.930 and fixed all the leaks and everything, but I 00:25:50.930 --> 00:25:54.410 never really noticed the noise from a few of 00:25:54.410 --> 00:25:58.740 the blowers and air handlers. We'll take care 00:25:58.740 --> 00:26:01.180 of that as well because certainly want to have 00:26:01.180 --> 00:26:05.380 better airflow. And once you get, you know, a 00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:08.400 lot of the boosts in there and some of the boosts 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:12.660 really built up well and some of them can cause 00:26:12.660 --> 00:26:18.539 a little bit of an airflow restriction. So. But 00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:22.339 I will say another on a positive note. I think 00:26:22.339 --> 00:26:24.880 the internet was very, very good there. I don't 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:27.220 know if you used it, but it was, we had a lot 00:26:27.220 --> 00:26:29.460 of kudos on how well the internet works. And 00:26:29.460 --> 00:26:33.019 that was a lot of throwing things together at 00:26:33.019 --> 00:26:35.420 the last minute. I mean, you can't believe, you 00:26:35.420 --> 00:26:37.359 know, there was a lot of questions. Well, what's 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:38.839 this going to be like and what's that going to 00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:40.980 be like? And we couldn't answer some of the questions 00:26:40.980 --> 00:26:43.539 because, you know, we pretty much wanted to speak 00:26:43.539 --> 00:26:47.119 with real data, real answers. And, and once we 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:50.319 got that internet in and really working. Plus 00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:52.799 we even had a backup. We were thrilled at that. 00:26:53.339 --> 00:26:58.700 Yeah, I was able to get on and do live updates 00:26:58.700 --> 00:27:04.599 on my phone with only one time that I had any 00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:08.220 issue at all and I couldn't get on at all. And 00:27:08.220 --> 00:27:10.539 I waited a few minutes and then all of a sudden 00:27:10.539 --> 00:27:13.519 I was right back on again. So I was able to do 00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:17.279 live streaming video, which takes you know, quite 00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:22.599 a bit of bandwidth without any hands. Yeah. Yeah. 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:24.839 Let me talk a little bit about that is that, 00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:28.380 um, Tim Duffy, um, who's been a real supporter 00:27:28.380 --> 00:27:31.099 of hand -vention, as you know, as you are, he 00:27:31.099 --> 00:27:32.900 told me, he said, you know what? I used to work 00:27:32.900 --> 00:27:34.940 in that business. I know these engineers, I'm 00:27:34.940 --> 00:27:36.539 going to call and let them know to come out and 00:27:36.539 --> 00:27:39.359 check it. And evidently they did. And whatever 00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:42.000 they did, we didn't get cell phone complaints. 00:27:42.180 --> 00:27:45.359 I mean, It depends on who your carrier was, but 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:48.500 generally the major carriers were fine. No problem 00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:51.480 at all. I was very impressed with that. I was 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:56.079 very worried about it. It ended up being great. 00:27:57.819 --> 00:28:00.039 I'm telling you, Neil, the food will be better. 00:28:00.460 --> 00:28:02.319 The food was great this year, but it will be 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:04.720 better. We want to have more of them. Shorter 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:14.009 lines. I love the mom and pop family. farm food 00:28:14.009 --> 00:28:17.269 that we were able to gather this year, and we'll 00:28:17.269 --> 00:28:19.890 be more of that next year as well. Yeah, I had 00:28:19.890 --> 00:28:22.849 the bourbon chicken, like Tim Duffy said, I had 00:28:22.849 --> 00:28:27.289 the bourbon chicken, and had a grilled chicken 00:28:27.289 --> 00:28:29.309 wrap from one of the other places on the other 00:28:29.309 --> 00:28:32.930 day, and it was great. The only thing I said, 00:28:32.930 --> 00:28:35.210 you know, were the lines, but like you said, 00:28:35.289 --> 00:28:38.759 you know, you're getting some more. hopefully 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:41.880 to come in, and I think it was well worth the 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:47.660 wait because it was pretty good stuff and a lot 00:28:47.660 --> 00:28:52.259 of choices that weren't there previously. But 00:28:52.259 --> 00:28:56.059 here's my one nitpicky thing, and you know what 00:28:56.059 --> 00:29:03.059 I'm going to say. The Hamfest tradition was missing. 00:29:04.809 --> 00:29:08.849 The cheesecake on a stick it never found the 00:29:08.849 --> 00:29:11.789 cheesecake on a stick now. You've got this you've 00:29:11.789 --> 00:29:17.069 got this whole What's the word I'm looking for 00:29:17.069 --> 00:29:23.150 this whole group of fans of Cheesecake on a stick 00:29:23.150 --> 00:29:26.009 at Dayton and and and they weren't there. So 00:29:26.009 --> 00:29:35.049 can we can we work on that one? I'm not going 00:29:35.049 --> 00:29:42.490 to promise that. I'll take a look at it. I mean, 00:29:42.670 --> 00:29:45.190 that was, you know, the only thing, you know, 00:29:45.309 --> 00:29:47.730 the cheat, you know, you, every time you walk 00:29:47.730 --> 00:29:51.190 by cheesecake on a stick and you're like, what 00:29:51.190 --> 00:29:54.730 cheesecake on a stick? I only got it once, but 00:29:54.730 --> 00:29:56.869 you know, it was just a tradition. You always 00:29:56.869 --> 00:30:00.410 went by the cheesecake on a stick. And I know, 00:30:00.430 --> 00:30:03.119 I know there there's this there's a group of 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:05.900 people out there i've talked to many of them 00:30:05.900 --> 00:30:07.980 that are like okay but we gotta have our cheesecake 00:30:07.980 --> 00:30:10.940 on the stick back so i don't know we may have 00:30:10.940 --> 00:30:13.940 to check into that one you're the so you're the 00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:16.299 first one you're the first person that told me 00:30:16.299 --> 00:30:19.740 that okay i mean absolutely okay so well i know 00:30:19.740 --> 00:30:23.539 well i know i know jill i know jill combs and 00:30:23.539 --> 00:30:26.279 joe isenberg will chime in on that one but but 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.599 uh there's some others but uh... now by the way 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:33.039 by the way did you like joe joe did a really 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:37.980 good yes he did too to very good videos so far 00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:40.680 and uh... we posted those on our social media 00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:45.059 too uh... very good very good shows uh... okay 00:30:45.059 --> 00:30:47.940 or uh... finish up with just a couple of things 00:30:47.940 --> 00:30:53.509 here uh... you know, parking. I read a news story 00:30:53.509 --> 00:30:57.190 from WHO television that, you know, those were 00:30:57.190 --> 00:31:00.309 soccer fields and we kind of left the soccer 00:31:00.309 --> 00:31:03.730 fields in a mess. But you know, that's typical 00:31:03.730 --> 00:31:06.910 for some big event that that parks on the grass. 00:31:06.910 --> 00:31:09.329 And I remember you saying that that Dara had 00:31:09.329 --> 00:31:14.009 already purchased a roller before all of that. 00:31:14.410 --> 00:31:22.509 So how bad how bad was What condition are they 00:31:22.509 --> 00:31:26.509 in now, or have they been able to get things 00:31:26.509 --> 00:31:30.109 kind of back the way they were and or better? 00:31:32.450 --> 00:31:34.630 Of course, they jumped on it nearly right away 00:31:34.630 --> 00:31:37.759 and county commissioners taking care of it. you 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:40.119 know, we did buy him a big roller for the, for 00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:43.059 them in the eventualities, something like that 00:31:43.059 --> 00:31:46.500 might happen and actually roll the fields prior 00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:50.059 to the event. And, and now they'll, they'll continue 00:31:50.059 --> 00:31:52.079 to roll the fields, but they're going to also 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:57.279 look at ways to prevent some of the ruts. But 00:31:57.279 --> 00:31:59.940 I'll tell you, I, I have a really nice fifth 00:31:59.940 --> 00:32:03.460 wheeler that I was able to have, have out there 00:32:03.460 --> 00:32:07.349 and it became kind of a a center of where things 00:32:07.349 --> 00:32:09.410 were happening, you know, one of our little hidden 00:32:09.410 --> 00:32:13.109 away offices. But man, I was laying there sleeping 00:32:13.109 --> 00:32:18.509 on Saturday morning thinking, oh man, this rain 00:32:18.509 --> 00:32:21.890 is unreal. I mean, it just kept coming and coming 00:32:21.890 --> 00:32:27.390 and coming. So, but we, you know, went through 00:32:27.390 --> 00:32:31.650 it anyway. So. Are you still there? Yeah, yeah, 00:32:31.849 --> 00:32:34.190 and one last one last thing and then we're gonna 00:32:34.190 --> 00:32:37.539 get into the call so get Get ready to call in. 00:32:37.579 --> 00:32:40.099 I know we've already had one person try. Uh, 00:32:40.099 --> 00:32:42.160 so get ready to call in here in just a minute. 00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:44.160 We're getting ready to, uh, to go to the call 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:47.119 in segment, but, uh, give us a little report 00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:50.859 on the offsite, uh, parking. Uh, I know that 00:32:50.859 --> 00:32:55.799 was a bit of a later ad, um, to the plans, but 00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:00.720 how did that go? And are you looking at any modifications 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:05.900 to the offsite parking next time? Yeah, absolutely. 00:33:06.019 --> 00:33:07.900 We're looking at modifications of how we would 00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:10.900 do that You know you have to remember that all 00:33:10.900 --> 00:33:13.579 these things happened in a very short period 00:33:13.579 --> 00:33:16.680 of time and Along with that, you know, then you 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:18.819 have to get certificates of insurance You have 00:33:18.819 --> 00:33:21.019 to make sure everything's approved a lot of people 00:33:21.019 --> 00:33:25.079 don't realize what goes on but on an event like 00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:27.500 this and make sure that we had busing set up 00:33:27.500 --> 00:33:29.940 and how that busing was going to work where the 00:33:29.940 --> 00:33:31.960 buses would go how we would communicate with 00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:35.930 that but I had reports that all of them went 00:33:35.930 --> 00:33:39.869 well. There was one that wasn't used much and 00:33:39.869 --> 00:33:45.289 that was actually at Young's Dairy up north of 00:33:45.289 --> 00:33:50.750 Zena, just up 68, and had more people use that 00:33:50.750 --> 00:33:53.470 and those people got in very quickly for the 00:33:53.470 --> 00:33:57.849 most part from what I heard, but I'll take any 00:33:57.849 --> 00:34:00.150 feedback people have on how the busing went for 00:34:00.150 --> 00:34:03.109 them. But most of what I heard was, yeah, we 00:34:03.109 --> 00:34:06.009 jumped on a bus and it worked out great. So we're 00:34:06.009 --> 00:34:11.429 also looking at possibly a more a better, like 00:34:11.429 --> 00:34:14.289 a will call area. Say if you're riding a bus, 00:34:14.610 --> 00:34:17.510 but you bought something big old piece and you 00:34:17.510 --> 00:34:20.610 want to hold it somewhere until you're ready 00:34:20.610 --> 00:34:24.030 to leave and how we could help with that a little 00:34:24.030 --> 00:34:27.289 bit more. I heard that and we're looking at ways 00:34:27.289 --> 00:34:30.469 to do that. You know, the refinements, I think. 00:34:30.619 --> 00:34:35.280 to make it better. Sure. Very good. Well, again, 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:39.440 congratulations to the whole staff, the volunteers, 00:34:39.820 --> 00:34:45.139 all the groups that helped out with this and 00:34:45.139 --> 00:34:47.960 make it a great event. And everybody's been asking, 00:34:48.900 --> 00:34:51.159 OK, do you have an official count? Do you have 00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:56.300 an official count? So do you have an official 00:34:56.300 --> 00:35:00.429 count? Yeah, I do, but let's kind of take the 00:35:00.429 --> 00:35:02.530 phone calls first and I'll kind of wrap up with 00:35:02.530 --> 00:35:06.050 that official Okay, all right. Okay. We'll do 00:35:06.050 --> 00:35:08.510 that. Well, here's the phone number eight one 00:35:08.510 --> 00:35:12.829 two net ham one eight one two six three eight 00:35:12.829 --> 00:35:18.880 four two 6 1 to call in or you can tweet us again. 00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:22.099 Skype is not cooperating tonight. So use the 00:35:22.099 --> 00:35:25.539 phone. Don't use Skype just for tonight. Hopefully 00:35:25.539 --> 00:35:29.230 by next week, Skype will will have us fixed. 00:35:30.190 --> 00:35:37.690 But until then, if I can talk, 812 -638 -4261. 00:35:37.769 --> 00:35:45.730 812 -638 -4261. Or you can tweet us at HamTalkLive. 00:35:46.349 --> 00:35:49.449 So I know we've got a couple of tweets. We had 00:35:49.449 --> 00:35:52.769 somebody trying to call. So let's see what we 00:35:52.769 --> 00:35:58.230 got. K to H a T says gravel will help the roads 00:35:58.230 --> 00:36:01.130 make them roads and cheesecake on a stick never 00:36:01.130 --> 00:36:05.050 tried it at her arena, so I Guess my cheesecake 00:36:05.050 --> 00:36:13.829 on a stick thing didn't go anywhere We've got 00:36:13.829 --> 00:36:17.210 a we've got a call here, so let's go ahead and 00:36:17.210 --> 00:36:27.199 do that hello. Who's this? Oh, turn your sound 00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:31.039 down, please. You're getting the delay there. 00:36:31.139 --> 00:36:35.440 All right. Who's this? My name's Jim and my call 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:39.679 is WA8SDF. All right, Jim, thanks for calling 00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:44.559 in. What's your question for Michael or your 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:46.679 comment? Well, I got a question about the flea 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:48.960 market. Are you guys going to try to do something 00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:51.300 about since they now know where people are going 00:36:51.300 --> 00:36:55.380 to drive their cars. put gravel or some crushed 00:36:55.380 --> 00:36:58.420 stone at some sort down so it doesn't turn into 00:36:58.420 --> 00:37:02.519 a mud pit? Well, we're going to put so much water 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:05.900 on it so that we'll keep it muddy so we can wear 00:37:05.900 --> 00:37:09.820 it down completely to the clay. Now seriously, 00:37:11.059 --> 00:37:12.880 I was kind of kidding, but we are going to work 00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:16.079 on that. We were very disappointed. I was personally 00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:23.420 very disappointed because That infield has actually 00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:26.739 a very good drainage system. However, it could 00:37:26.739 --> 00:37:28.699 not cope with the amount of rain, the inches 00:37:28.699 --> 00:37:31.579 of rain that we actually got. We have a roller 00:37:31.579 --> 00:37:36.340 in there and the fair board, an expo board, they're 00:37:36.340 --> 00:37:39.099 already on top of this with an engineering group 00:37:39.099 --> 00:37:45.119 trying to figure out the best ways to... make 00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:47.179 those roads stronger so we don't have all that 00:37:47.179 --> 00:37:50.199 mud. Definitely we're on it. I don't have a definitive 00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:52.239 answer right now, but they're definitely working 00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:55.159 on it. We don't want that to happen again. Well, 00:37:55.179 --> 00:37:57.519 I mean, where people weren't driving their vehicles 00:37:57.519 --> 00:38:03.039 in the motorized wheelchair stuff, the grass 00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:05.280 where people were just standing, it was nice. 00:38:05.300 --> 00:38:07.539 I mean, it drained away quite well. You're right 00:38:07.539 --> 00:38:10.619 about that. But it's just the mud got to the 00:38:10.619 --> 00:38:12.800 point or the grass got chewed up to the point 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:15.880 where You know, it drained, but it drained into 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:19.940 the mud, you know. Right, so we're going to fix 00:38:19.940 --> 00:38:22.820 it. Go ahead, I'm sorry. Well, yeah, I mean, 00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:25.880 I was going to make a comment about the school 00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:28.039 buses and the fact that if you're trying to haul 00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:31.460 like a DX100 or, you know, an Apache or something 00:38:31.460 --> 00:38:34.280 really big out of the flea market back to a remote 00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:37.260 parking site, that could be a problem. I mean, 00:38:37.300 --> 00:38:40.809 it's not like the old... the buses that here 00:38:40.809 --> 00:38:43.090 of where where they were city transit buses with 00:38:43.090 --> 00:38:46.050 big wide doors and places that you inside the 00:38:46.050 --> 00:38:48.730 bus where you can actually put stuff these are 00:38:48.730 --> 00:38:53.769 school buses for little kids and you know so 00:38:53.769 --> 00:38:57.750 my thought would well you have yeah to I mean 00:38:57.750 --> 00:39:00.829 you got tickets with barcodes on them scan the 00:39:00.829 --> 00:39:03.949 barcode print a ticket slap it on the whatever 00:39:03.949 --> 00:39:06.389 the piece of equipment you're going to have and 00:39:06.389 --> 00:39:10.360 route it out on a truck to the remote site and 00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:13.179 put someone out there in a tent and park the 00:39:13.179 --> 00:39:15.900 stuff there and then, you know, match up your 00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:19.159 ticket with the equipment when you get there 00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:24.559 to take it home. I like the idea. We are definitely 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.760 aware of that. In a short period of time, we 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.699 couldn't get to that level of refinement on moving 00:39:30.699 --> 00:39:33.199 that kind of equipment. But it's been one of 00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:43.260 the top things. It was a class act putting all 00:39:43.260 --> 00:39:45.179 those carts out in the flea market to haul stuff 00:39:45.179 --> 00:39:49.119 back to your car. That was a brilliant idea. 00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:56.780 We utilized that a few times. I used to flag 00:39:56.780 --> 00:39:58.679 somebody down that was driving up and down the 00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:00.860 flea market and say, hey, I've got to come over 00:40:00.860 --> 00:40:03.159 here and I've got to put this stuff back in the 00:40:03.159 --> 00:40:06.219 car. and you drive out and they help you dump 00:40:06.219 --> 00:40:09.500 it in the car and you know you're you're free 00:40:09.500 --> 00:40:12.179 to go again you know that was a great idea we 00:40:12.179 --> 00:40:14.280 need to work on that we need to work on how to 00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:17.480 do it on the bus is better I agree or have you 00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:19.820 know like if you're taking a bus how we can even 00:40:19.820 --> 00:40:23.420 have a holding area for that I we are looking 00:40:23.420 --> 00:40:26.820 at all of those things Jim but overall let me 00:40:26.820 --> 00:40:29.099 ask you a question did you enjoy the hand bench 00:40:29.099 --> 00:40:32.320 and at all was it oh absolutely My first hand 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:36.139 -vention was in 1966, the morning after my senior 00:40:36.139 --> 00:40:41.679 prom. Oh, wow. You just verbally carbon -dated 00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:45.159 yourself, I think. Yeah, well, okay. I'm not 00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:49.320 worried about that anymore. No, me neither. Okay, 00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:53.780 one other suggestion just came to my mind. Obviously 00:40:53.780 --> 00:40:56.059 you can't open the thing at 8 o 'clock because 00:40:56.059 --> 00:40:58.619 people have horses out there and for whatever 00:40:58.619 --> 00:41:03.059 reason. And you may want to comment on the situation 00:41:03.059 --> 00:41:05.820 with that. But while people were standing out 00:41:05.820 --> 00:41:08.539 there in the cold, especially on Saturday morning, 00:41:09.739 --> 00:41:11.519 what would have been great would have been a 00:41:11.519 --> 00:41:14.320 bunch of food trucks serving hot coffee. Not 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:16.280 to mention the fact that it's another profit 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:21.500 center for Dara or the group or whatever. But 00:41:21.500 --> 00:41:24.460 it was freezing cold out there Saturday morning. 00:41:25.940 --> 00:41:28.400 You know you guys could have sold out a billion 00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:31.400 gallons of hot coffee and while people were waiting 00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:35.280 to get in Well, that's it. You know we thought 00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:38.119 about that. You know what can we do to make the 00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:41.579 whole experience better? And this is the first 00:41:41.579 --> 00:41:43.739 time as you know I'm not trying to make excuses, 00:41:43.900 --> 00:41:46.980 but actually say this was the issue I really 00:41:46.980 --> 00:41:49.880 appreciate that and feel free to drop me an email 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.820 too with these points, so I'll pass them on there 00:41:52.820 --> 00:41:58.840 the team so Yeah, well it was a really really 00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:01.539 really good invention and anyone who's thinking 00:42:01.539 --> 00:42:06.960 about going next year go Thank you, it was it 00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:10.780 was funny to see some of the videos on YouTube 00:42:10.780 --> 00:42:14.260 for people who've never been there before and 00:42:14.260 --> 00:42:16.960 Prior to the invention they're you know worried 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:20.550 about this and worried about that and You have 00:42:20.550 --> 00:42:27.269 no clue what you're going to get. And then they 00:42:27.269 --> 00:42:30.070 got, you know, then the video afterwards is the 00:42:30.070 --> 00:42:35.289 guy standing on. I'm so overwhelmed. Thank you 00:42:35.289 --> 00:42:37.130 so much for calling in, Jim. We're going to have 00:42:37.130 --> 00:42:39.829 to move along here. We're just about out of time, 00:42:39.829 --> 00:42:42.630 but thanks a lot. We appreciate it. Great work. 00:42:42.750 --> 00:42:46.170 Great work. All right, Michael, we're down to 00:42:46.170 --> 00:42:51.289 the final minute here. So. We're gonna give out 00:42:51.289 --> 00:42:55.329 those We're out of time We're out of time. I've 00:42:55.329 --> 00:42:59.110 got more I've got tweets like crazy here So we'll 00:42:59.110 --> 00:43:01.369 have to try to address the tweets here in a little 00:43:01.369 --> 00:43:05.110 bit, but we are out of time So I want to get 00:43:05.110 --> 00:43:13.010 that number in so Maybe I need a 29 ,000 Okay, 00:43:13.489 --> 00:43:23.400 no no, I don't have one so go ahead 29 ,296. 00:43:24.380 --> 00:43:27.820 So, we were shooting for 30 ,000, didn't quite 00:43:27.820 --> 00:43:33.719 make it. Well, that's very close, very good. 00:43:34.460 --> 00:43:38.639 You put on and the volunteers put on a show for 00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:43.280 those 29 ,000 plus and we really appreciate all 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:46.179 that you've done and thanks for coming on the 00:43:46.179 --> 00:43:48.539 show and sharing with us and taking calls and 00:43:48.539 --> 00:43:52.199 taking these questions tonight. Really appreciate 00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:56.519 it, Michael, and we'll have you back. Yeah, thanks, 00:43:56.519 --> 00:44:00.800 Neil. We appreciate, um, we at Dara and Hamvention 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:03.280 certainly appreciate your support, your support 00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:06.960 for us, plus for Amateur Radio altogether. So 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:09.119 once again, that number that everybody's been 00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:17.110 asking about, 29 ,296. All right. There you have 00:44:17.110 --> 00:44:20.510 it. So thanks again, Michael. And that is a wrap 00:44:20.510 --> 00:44:24.449 for this week's episode of HamTalk Live. Thanks 00:44:24.449 --> 00:44:27.110 to Michael Coulter, WHCI, and everyone out there 00:44:27.110 --> 00:44:29.889 in cyberspace for listening and calling in. And 00:44:29.889 --> 00:44:33.269 next Thursday night at 9 p .m., Sean Kutsko, 00:44:33.409 --> 00:44:36.849 KX9x, will be here to take your field day questions. 00:44:37.309 --> 00:44:40.829 So he's the former contest branch manager and 00:44:40.829 --> 00:44:44.980 currently the public relations person at He's 00:44:44.980 --> 00:44:47.539 going to take your field day, rule questions 00:44:47.539 --> 00:44:50.219 and other questions. So if you have any last 00:44:50.219 --> 00:44:52.400 second questions, make sure you tune in next 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.820 Thursday night and HamTalkLive .com has a list 00:44:55.820 --> 00:44:59.539 of all of those. So 7375 and may the good DX 00:44:59.539 --> 00:45:00.159 be yours.