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I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VBG. 00:02:10.189 --> 00:02:12.430 Thanks for tuning into this episode of HamTalk 00:02:12.430 --> 00:02:17.590 Live. And yes, tonight, Bryant Rascal, KG5HVO 00:02:17.590 --> 00:02:21.680 is with us. And we'll talk about some of his 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:26.580 CW operations and some pretty cool things that 00:02:26.580 --> 00:02:29.759 he's done. So we'll talk about that in just a 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.439 few minutes. And we'll, of course, take your 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:37.759 calls, tweets, and comments live as we go. Last 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:42.919 week, Jerry Rosilius WB9Z was on the show and 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:47.780 he just was... inducted into the CQDX Hall of 00:02:47.780 --> 00:02:50.919 Fame and so he was here to talk about that and 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:54.919 some of his DXpeditioning. 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HamTalk Live is on the air every 00:05:36.769 --> 00:05:41.040 Thursday night, 9 p .m. Eastern Time. Well tonight 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:45.800 our guest is Bryant Rascal KG5 HVO. He's 13 years 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:49.680 old He's an avid CW operator and contest or and 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:53.379 recently won the SA contest for the Dave Coulter 00:05:53.379 --> 00:05:57.300 Memorial youth DX adventure He'll be going to 00:05:57.300 --> 00:06:01.100 Costa Rica in August on that DX adventure trip 00:06:01.100 --> 00:06:03.939 Bryant's been a ham for about two years and found 00:06:03.939 --> 00:06:07.420 out about ham radio through the Boy Scouts And 00:06:07.420 --> 00:06:11.329 he is the only ham in his family That was his 00:06:11.329 --> 00:06:16.810 sole journey into Ham Radio. Bryant's been in 00:06:16.810 --> 00:06:19.529 several of the big contests like CQ Worldwide, 00:06:20.110 --> 00:06:22.569 Strait Key Night, North American Q So Party, 00:06:23.389 --> 00:06:26.750 ARRL DXCW, and CQ Worldwide CW, just to name 00:06:26.750 --> 00:06:30.889 a few. And he is a member of ARRL and Yacht, 00:06:30.990 --> 00:06:33.670 which is the Young Amateurs Communications Ham 00:06:33.670 --> 00:06:37.870 Team, the Jefferson ARC, and the Crescent City 00:06:37.870 --> 00:06:42.800 ARG. So we'd like to thank them for their support 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:47.120 of Bryant, and he lives in the greater New Orleans 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.879 area. So Bryant, welcome to HamTalk Live tonight. 00:06:51.180 --> 00:06:54.699 Thank you, Mr. Neal. It's great to be here. Well, 00:06:54.740 --> 00:07:00.699 I was very happy to run into you at Hamvention 00:07:00.699 --> 00:07:03.519 because it gave us a chance to chat a little 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:09.379 bit and talk. So I wanted to make sure to get 00:07:09.379 --> 00:07:12.779 you on the show and share some of the stories 00:07:12.779 --> 00:07:16.480 from Hamvention. But before we get into that, 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:20.019 I've got to introduce a new feature on the show. 00:07:21.379 --> 00:07:23.620 And I apologize you won't be able to hear it 00:07:23.620 --> 00:07:26.300 because the sound effects and stuff doesn't go 00:07:26.300 --> 00:07:29.000 through the skype line here. But we've got a 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:32.860 new feature on the show. I don't know if you 00:07:32.860 --> 00:07:36.300 heard the Spurious Admissions Band episode, but 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:39.399 we talked to the Spurious Admissions Band and 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:45.000 I kind of jokingly said, hey, we've got this 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:49.000 idea for a song. And in fact, when I saw you 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:51.779 at Hamvention, you were talking to Ward Silver, 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:56.480 the lead guy in the band. And so he was saying, 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:58.980 yeah, you got to listen to this song that we 00:07:58.980 --> 00:08:03.120 did. And it's about... Bow thing and instead 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:07.620 of wild thing, it's it's bow thing So I decided 00:08:07.620 --> 00:08:10.459 that we're gonna have a new feature on the show 00:08:10.459 --> 00:08:14.379 and every time somebody says the word bow thing 00:08:14.379 --> 00:08:18.319 we're gonna play a little clip of The bow thing 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:22.339 song. So so here we go. So if some this is somebody 00:08:22.339 --> 00:08:36.250 says bow thing So we're gonna play that whenever 00:08:36.250 --> 00:08:40.110 somebody says bow thing so that's just the usual 00:08:40.110 --> 00:08:45.490 craziness here on ham talk live so It's kind 00:08:45.490 --> 00:08:47.250 of like some of those other shows, you know, 00:08:47.269 --> 00:08:50.769 whenever somebody says a word like bow thing 00:09:00.460 --> 00:09:02.840 They'll play a little clip of it. So anyway, 00:09:02.899 --> 00:09:05.940 so that so we'll throw that in so be aware if 00:09:05.940 --> 00:09:09.899 you if you say that word We're gonna play it 00:09:09.899 --> 00:09:13.940 again, so anyway, hey, let's get into the the 00:09:13.940 --> 00:09:19.059 CW bit now at Contest University Tim Duffy K3LR 00:09:19.059 --> 00:09:27.179 was talking about a contact that he had made 00:09:27.179 --> 00:09:31.000 with you and kind of gave some of the the history 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:36.019 of that and Thanks to Tim K3LR for providing 00:09:36.019 --> 00:09:38.379 some audio of this we're gonna listen to it here 00:09:38.379 --> 00:09:41.820 in a minute, but but tell us about About your 00:09:41.820 --> 00:09:46.139 contact with with K3LR Well, my contact with 00:09:46.139 --> 00:09:49.940 K3LR was very special to me. I was in the CQ 00:09:49.940 --> 00:09:54.980 worldwide 2016 CW contest in late November And 00:09:54.980 --> 00:09:56.659 the special thing about it was I was using the 00:09:56.659 --> 00:10:02.460 hand mic of my Yesu FT900, and it was very challenging 00:10:02.460 --> 00:10:04.559 to be able to use the hand mic. I used it in 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.100 the form of a straight key, if you could imagine 00:10:07.100 --> 00:10:10.820 that, using a push -to -talk key to key the CW. 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.039 And I stumbled onto K3LR's frequency and gave 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:17.899 him a call. And it took him a couple tries to 00:10:17.899 --> 00:10:21.570 get the call down. Uh, and he eventually, at 00:10:21.570 --> 00:10:24.029 least I think he eventually got it. My copying 00:10:24.029 --> 00:10:27.490 wasn't so up to date yet, although I could recognize 00:10:27.490 --> 00:10:34.570 the K3LR and the 5995 was the exchange. Oh, and 00:10:34.570 --> 00:10:37.330 I was, I was able to make the contact and I sent 00:10:37.330 --> 00:10:39.450 him a QSL card afterwards, which gave me a new 00:10:39.450 --> 00:10:42.590 state, Pennsylvania. And so you're operating 00:10:42.590 --> 00:10:48.830 this big CW contest without a key. You're just 00:10:48.830 --> 00:10:53.399 using. the button on your microphone Pretty much 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:56.100 people most people think of a microphone for 00:10:56.100 --> 00:10:59.019 a phone contest, which is a good generalization 00:10:59.019 --> 00:11:02.379 But I figured out how to use the hand mic to 00:11:02.379 --> 00:11:04.399 just use as like a straight key since I didn't 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:07.559 have a straight key at the time Nothing was good. 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:09.580 Nothing was gonna stop me from participating 00:11:09.580 --> 00:11:13.620 in the CQ worldwide contest. So yeah, and I remember 00:11:13.620 --> 00:11:19.159 when we were standing there and Talking to you 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:23.259 and your mom and your mom says, I don't, I don't 00:11:23.259 --> 00:11:26.860 get this. What, what's the big deal about using 00:11:26.860 --> 00:11:30.740 your microphone as a Morse code key? And so, 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:34.299 you know, like, well, you know, most people don't 00:11:34.299 --> 00:11:37.139 actually do it that way. It's that's kind of 00:11:37.139 --> 00:11:39.860 a hard way to do it because, you know, it's just 00:11:39.860 --> 00:11:44.250 a little bit. Switch and while yes, it does do 00:11:44.250 --> 00:11:50.389 the same function That's just not a That's not 00:11:50.389 --> 00:11:52.769 one of the easier ways to do it. And so most 00:11:52.769 --> 00:11:57.370 people don't don't do it that way. So She was 00:11:57.370 --> 00:12:00.549 kind of like, you know, well, you know, what's 00:12:00.549 --> 00:12:05.090 the big deal? So that was that was kind of fun 00:12:05.090 --> 00:12:10.460 that that was we explained it to her but so So 00:12:10.460 --> 00:12:13.659 I'm going to I'm going to mute you here for a 00:12:13.659 --> 00:12:17.259 second and we're going to play the audio of this 00:12:17.259 --> 00:12:21.500 that K3LR sent me. He was able to get this on 00:12:21.500 --> 00:12:27.399 one of the remote SDRs. He was able to find a 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:29.720 copy of this contact. So let's listen to that 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:33.460 now. And you can listen and see how good Brian 00:12:33.460 --> 00:13:55.750 is with this hand mic sending the CW. you All 00:13:55.750 --> 00:13:58.730 right, so there you've got it. Hey, right, that's 00:13:58.730 --> 00:14:04.990 a pretty good job on that hand mic now. It was 00:14:04.990 --> 00:14:08.289 very difficult to use it. I'd never heard the 00:14:08.289 --> 00:14:11.070 recording until contest university, and I was 00:14:11.070 --> 00:14:14.690 blown away, blown away, especially by being able 00:14:14.690 --> 00:14:17.389 to hear the side tone, because I didn't have 00:14:17.389 --> 00:14:21.309 a side tone to hear basically the da da da da 00:14:21.309 --> 00:14:25.309 da. So it was basically all just transmitting 00:14:25.309 --> 00:14:29.210 and I had to judge it on the time intervals But 00:14:29.210 --> 00:14:33.529 it was a fun contact. That's for sure Yeah, and 00:14:33.529 --> 00:14:36.789 and getting K3LR. That's a you know, they don't 00:14:36.789 --> 00:14:40.190 get much bigger than that. So Thanks again to 00:14:40.190 --> 00:14:44.710 K3LR for for sending that audio along and I was 00:14:44.710 --> 00:14:49.379 telling you also dating about you know As hams 00:14:49.379 --> 00:14:52.360 we have to improvise and so that this is what 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.179 you did you? You took the mic that you had and 00:14:56.179 --> 00:14:58.840 and you you know put the tone on as you said 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.919 you couldn't even hear You know what you were 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:05.059 really sending and and improvise and made it 00:15:05.059 --> 00:15:08.570 so I was telling you about this recording that 00:15:08.570 --> 00:15:12.409 I had found on YouTube and it was this guy using 00:15:12.409 --> 00:15:16.250 his mic but he didn't use the mic as the the 00:15:16.250 --> 00:15:20.730 CW key he just keyed down and used his used his 00:15:20.730 --> 00:15:25.110 mouth used his voice as the CW so take a listen 00:15:25.110 --> 00:15:29.649 to this this is Mouth Morse on on YouTube I took 00:15:29.649 --> 00:16:00.230 a little little clip of it That's another way 00:16:00.230 --> 00:16:03.070 to improvise. I'm not sure how legal that would 00:16:03.070 --> 00:16:09.070 be, but it didn't sound too bad. You heard it. 00:16:09.350 --> 00:16:12.450 What did you think? I thought it was amazing. 00:16:12.669 --> 00:16:16.730 I mean, I've never thought about using your voice 00:16:16.730 --> 00:16:19.169 to make side tones. And I saw that he had switched 00:16:19.169 --> 00:16:22.370 his radio onto upper sideband. So I guess the 00:16:22.370 --> 00:16:25.370 science just worked out. And when you're talking 00:16:25.370 --> 00:16:27.909 about hams improvising, I met, I met a gentleman 00:16:27.909 --> 00:16:31.029 at contest university, uh, that used a piece 00:16:31.029 --> 00:16:34.809 of wire as a CW key. And I don't know how he 00:16:34.809 --> 00:16:38.110 did it, but he saw it. He just made a pigtail 00:16:38.110 --> 00:16:40.389 with some wire and used it as a CW key. And he 00:16:40.389 --> 00:16:43.210 said he made three contacts in about three hours. 00:16:45.769 --> 00:16:48.570 Well, again, I'm not sure of the legality of 00:16:48.570 --> 00:16:50.929 going up or side band and using your mouth, but 00:16:50.929 --> 00:16:54.909 it was. pretty funny, whatever. I actually found 00:16:54.909 --> 00:17:01.389 that looking for some YouTube recordings of some 00:17:01.389 --> 00:17:04.170 Morse code kusos for the kids at school to listen 00:17:04.170 --> 00:17:10.089 to and to practice with. And we ran across that 00:17:10.089 --> 00:17:14.609 and we just died laughing because it was just 00:17:14.609 --> 00:17:19.200 so funny to hear this guy doing that. So as a 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:23.500 result of this and Tim finding out about you 00:17:23.500 --> 00:17:27.059 know you're using your your hand mic on this 00:17:27.059 --> 00:17:32.140 he and some of the guys uh got together and presented 00:17:32.140 --> 00:17:36.099 you with a bencher straight key so that way you 00:17:36.099 --> 00:17:38.700 didn't have to do that anymore so tell us a little 00:17:38.700 --> 00:17:43.049 bit about that Yes, the people at DX Engineering 00:17:43.049 --> 00:17:46.970 generously presented me with a straight key, 00:17:48.170 --> 00:17:55.930 and it arrived on Christmas Eve. I had no idea 00:17:55.930 --> 00:17:58.849 that it came, she just got a weird email saying 00:17:58.849 --> 00:18:01.710 that some products from DX Engineering had been 00:18:01.710 --> 00:18:03.390 shipped to our house. I didn't know it at the 00:18:03.390 --> 00:18:06.130 time. So when this package arrived, she wrapped 00:18:06.130 --> 00:18:09.920 it up and put it under the Christmas tree. And 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:11.960 on Christmas morning, when I opened up, she was 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.339 like, this is from the people at DX Engineering. 00:18:15.660 --> 00:18:19.440 Look inside. And I was like, wow. Wow. I was 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:22.819 not expecting this. Very generous. Very generous. 00:18:24.099 --> 00:18:29.220 So you get your straight key, and so you're doing... 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:32.700 A lot of these contests with it and, and we're 00:18:32.700 --> 00:18:34.920 now, I know, you know, did straight key night. 00:18:34.980 --> 00:18:37.859 Did you have the straight key, the bencher, uh, 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:40.680 straight key by then, or were you still using 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:44.339 your mic? I was using the straight key on straight 00:18:44.339 --> 00:18:47.960 key night. Uh, I made about 10 contacts. Uh, 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:50.819 I had a blast doing it. Uh, I had some very good 00:18:50.819 --> 00:18:53.420 rag shoes with hams across the Southeast and, 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:58.349 uh, even one QSO to Arizona on 40 meters. I had 00:18:58.349 --> 00:19:01.089 a lot of fun, I'm sure a lot of other people 00:19:01.089 --> 00:19:04.829 did. I was just glad to have 10 QSOs in the log. 00:19:05.309 --> 00:19:07.309 And my first contact with the straight key was 00:19:07.309 --> 00:19:11.549 with KP4JRS in Puerto Rico on 17 meters. So that 00:19:11.549 --> 00:19:15.470 was very special. Getting a new band country, 00:19:15.509 --> 00:19:17.750 that was a new band country to me, with a new 00:19:17.750 --> 00:19:21.509 key. Yeah, well that's pretty cool. And then, 00:19:22.430 --> 00:19:28.470 at Contest University, you get surprised again. 00:19:31.670 --> 00:19:34.690 Tim calls you up in the front of everybody, about 00:19:34.690 --> 00:19:39.630 300 people, and goes through and plays the audio 00:19:39.630 --> 00:19:44.809 that you just heard here on the show, and starts 00:19:44.809 --> 00:19:48.930 talking about Bryant and presented you with something 00:19:48.930 --> 00:19:52.150 pretty special. So why don't you tell everybody 00:19:52.150 --> 00:19:57.369 about that? Yes, sir. So when Tim Duffy, Mr. 00:19:57.529 --> 00:20:00.029 Duffy called me up to the stage, I was very nervous. 00:20:00.089 --> 00:20:03.349 I didn't know what was going on. He played the 00:20:03.349 --> 00:20:06.650 recording of the CW contact, and I was holding 00:20:06.650 --> 00:20:09.430 up the hand mic so everybody in the room could 00:20:09.430 --> 00:20:15.809 see what I was using as a key. And I'm trying 00:20:15.809 --> 00:20:19.230 to remember all this. So then he pulls out a 00:20:19.230 --> 00:20:22.309 white box, and in the box is a Bagali vertical 00:20:22.309 --> 00:20:26.029 type paddle. I'm not sure the exact name of it. 00:20:27.690 --> 00:20:29.930 And now he's like, and there's another surprise, 00:20:31.049 --> 00:20:34.769 and he gives me this Bagali. I'm like, wow, did 00:20:34.769 --> 00:20:37.569 this seriously just happen? I mean, not every 00:20:37.569 --> 00:20:40.430 13 -year -old gets to have a Bagali. It was very 00:20:40.430 --> 00:20:46.619 special, very special. And there was yet another 00:20:46.619 --> 00:20:51.819 surprise to it Yes, and it even been autographed 00:20:51.819 --> 00:20:57.779 by mr. Bagali I to TRF And I really appreciate 00:20:57.779 --> 00:20:59.660 that that's really special that means a lot to 00:20:59.660 --> 00:21:04.019 me Yeah, so not only do you have a Bagali which 00:21:04.019 --> 00:21:10.410 I don't even have but an autographed You can 00:21:10.410 --> 00:21:14.089 see the pictures of that. We put them up on our 00:21:14.089 --> 00:21:16.809 Facebook and Twitter just a few minutes ago and 00:21:16.809 --> 00:21:18.869 we'll get them on Instagram a little bit after 00:21:18.869 --> 00:21:23.130 the show. You can check those out at HamTalkLive 00:21:23.130 --> 00:21:27.210 .com on our social media sites and see the autograph 00:21:27.210 --> 00:21:32.109 and the presentation there. You can see his three 00:21:32.109 --> 00:21:37.430 keys, which is the hand mic and then the Bencher 00:21:37.430 --> 00:21:40.670 street key. and then the Begali. So, you can 00:21:40.670 --> 00:21:43.130 get over there and check those out when you get 00:21:43.130 --> 00:21:50.269 a chance and see those. What made you interested 00:21:50.269 --> 00:21:55.009 in getting on CW as a 13 -year -old? What inspired 00:21:55.009 --> 00:21:59.369 you to do that? What got me interested in CW? 00:21:59.630 --> 00:22:02.140 Well, I have these little snap circuit kits. 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:06.140 It's an electronics kit, mainly aimed at kids. 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:10.019 And one of the projects was a Morse code oscillator. 00:22:10.859 --> 00:22:13.519 And so I made this oscillator in about an afternoon. 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:17.440 And I learned how to call CQ using a Morse code 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.579 legend that you can get off of Google. And I 00:22:20.579 --> 00:22:22.619 learned how to call CQ. I think it was like CQ, 00:22:22.660 --> 00:22:26.980 CQ, D, E, K, G, 5, H, V, O, K. And I started 00:22:26.980 --> 00:22:30.319 talking about my project to some of the members 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:32.880 of the Jefferson Amateur Radio Club. And one 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:35.680 of the members said, here, how about you just 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:39.339 borrow this? And it was a iambic paddle with 00:22:39.339 --> 00:22:42.000 a side -tone speaker in it. So I started using 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:44.859 this paddle, trying to get the hang of how to 00:22:44.859 --> 00:22:48.279 use a paddle, trying to figure out when you squeeze 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:51.200 the two together, it makes da -da -da -da -da. 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:55.740 And I just kept increasing my speed about two 00:22:55.740 --> 00:22:59.599 words a minute every day. And so in about a month, 00:23:00.299 --> 00:23:02.559 I was, I'm not going to say I was at 60 words 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:06.000 a minute, but I was pretty proficient at around 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:09.640 20 words a minute. And that was some high speed 00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:13.259 to me at the time. And so I would call CQ test, 00:23:13.579 --> 00:23:18.480 CQTEST, as you'll hear contesters do. Uh, and 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:20.500 so that was, it just basically took off from 00:23:20.500 --> 00:23:25.579 there and I got my receiving skills up and I 00:23:25.579 --> 00:23:29.200 started having rag shoes with myself. So that's 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:33.440 how I got into CW. That's a great, great way 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:38.279 to practice. That's a great idea. Um, so what's 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:41.980 been your favorite contest to work so far? My 00:23:41.980 --> 00:23:44.799 favorite contest to work, I really like working 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:47.460 the CQ Worldwide Contest, because you're allowed 00:23:47.460 --> 00:23:51.220 to work domestic stations, unlike ARL DX, where 00:23:51.220 --> 00:23:54.640 it's just DX. But I also like how you're allowed 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:57.200 to work, it's a DX -oriented contest, so there's 00:23:57.200 --> 00:23:59.259 a lot of DX stations pointing their antennas 00:23:59.259 --> 00:24:02.680 at North America, which makes getting DX a little 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:06.140 easier for smaller stations. I also really like 00:24:06.140 --> 00:24:09.039 the North American QSO Party, because it's a 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:14.130 more relaxed contest. And with this contest, 00:24:14.349 --> 00:24:16.509 you can get worked all states in about one day 00:24:16.509 --> 00:24:22.049 if you stick with it. Very cool. Well, I'm glad 00:24:22.049 --> 00:24:26.369 that we ran into you at Hamvention and and heard 00:24:26.369 --> 00:24:30.710 about all this and You got a chance to to go 00:24:30.710 --> 00:24:34.309 on this big trip here in August to Costa Rica 00:24:34.309 --> 00:24:38.069 and and just glad to hear that you're interested 00:24:38.069 --> 00:24:42.009 in all of this and Keeping with it and making 00:24:42.009 --> 00:24:47.619 things work even when you don't have necessarily 00:24:47.619 --> 00:24:50.660 all the best equipment, but now you're covered 00:24:50.660 --> 00:24:55.000 on the CW keys for sure. Alright, well we're 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:57.819 going to take a break and when we come back you'll 00:24:57.819 --> 00:25:02.359 have a chance to call in and talk to Bryant and 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:05.200 ask some questions. You can do that at 812 .net 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:09.400 .am1 or you can Skype us. 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Okay, so it's time for your calls now. 00:27:44.930 --> 00:27:48.690 So if you have a question or comment for Bryant, 00:27:48.809 --> 00:27:53.210 give us a call. The phone number 812 -NET -HAM 00:27:53.210 --> 00:28:00.319 -1. that's 812 -638 -4261 or you can Skype us. 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:05.059 The Skype name is hamtalklive or you can tweet 00:28:05.059 --> 00:28:10.440 to us at hamtalklive as well. And I will mention 00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:14.259 Skype as being particular again and so we were 00:28:14.259 --> 00:28:17.140 having some issues with the phone earlier. I 00:28:17.140 --> 00:28:21.380 got the phone working but We didn't get quite 00:28:21.380 --> 00:28:24.819 a chance to test it fully and get it all running, 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:28.740 so Skype and Twitter may be the better ways to 00:28:28.740 --> 00:28:32.960 get a hold of us tonight because of the technical 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:36.839 things, but we'll give it a try at 812 -NET -HAM 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:42.740 -1, 812 -638 -4261. Okay, so while we're waiting 00:28:42.740 --> 00:28:46.940 on the tweets and the calls and the Skype and 00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:50.160 all that, let's talk a little bit about DXCC. 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:54.720 Where are you with DXCC so far and how's that 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:59.319 going for you? Well, DXCC, for me at least, it's 00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:02.259 going particularly well for my situation, a very 00:29:02.259 --> 00:29:04.440 small station, although on Saturday mornings 00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:07.339 the very generous people at the Jefferson Amateur 00:29:07.339 --> 00:29:10.000 Radio Club have allowed me to use their equipment. 00:29:10.349 --> 00:29:14.170 to get some new entities in. Currently, my account 00:29:14.170 --> 00:29:18.150 for DXCC is 83 entities confirmed. I have about 00:29:18.150 --> 00:29:22.849 125 total entities. Not all have been confirmed. 00:29:23.869 --> 00:29:26.789 I'm using QSL cards for my confirmation method, 00:29:27.269 --> 00:29:30.589 so it's not as easy as LOTW. I'm still working 00:29:30.589 --> 00:29:33.690 on getting some of those cards back. I don't 00:29:33.690 --> 00:29:35.690 even have Italy confirmed yet, so I'm hoping 00:29:35.690 --> 00:29:40.000 to get an Italian card soon. I'm using the contest 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:45.079 as a way to get the DXCC at least started. I 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:47.460 think contests are a great way to just score 00:29:47.460 --> 00:29:50.779 a lot of new entities in just one weekend. Yeah, 00:29:50.779 --> 00:29:53.839 great. Okay. We're going to stop here and see 00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:57.099 if our audio is working here. So we've got a 00:29:57.099 --> 00:30:04.720 phone call on the line. Are you there? Hello? 00:30:09.629 --> 00:30:13.529 hello yeah it sounds like our our audio problem 00:30:13.529 --> 00:30:16.309 is still there yeah and they're calling back 00:30:16.309 --> 00:30:19.970 again let's we'll try it one more time and see 00:30:19.970 --> 00:30:24.210 if we can get anything but I think we've got 00:30:24.210 --> 00:30:31.829 audio problems on the phone line here hello yeah 00:30:31.829 --> 00:30:35.369 sounds like our phone line issues with Skype 00:30:35.369 --> 00:30:41.059 are still in play so uh... give us a tweet or 00:30:41.059 --> 00:30:44.619 call us on skype if you call us on skype that'll 00:30:44.619 --> 00:30:49.299 that'll come through just fine and uh... or tweet 00:30:49.299 --> 00:30:52.140 us but sounds like phone line is out of commission 00:30:52.140 --> 00:30:55.599 for tonight so sorry about that will work on 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:58.700 that and Skype put out another update and still 00:30:58.700 --> 00:31:01.900 has the same bug in it and so we didn't get that 00:31:01.900 --> 00:31:04.299 fixed. So if you can give us a call on Skype 00:31:04.299 --> 00:31:09.500 it's HamTalk Live or tweet us over at HamTalk 00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:12.599 Live. Okay sorry I cut you off there but I wanted 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:18.740 to try to get the call in so yeah DXCC is one 00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:20.859 of the things that we're working on at school. 00:31:21.660 --> 00:31:26.000 We've got you know like you we've got about 120, 00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:32.119 130 countries confirmed or worked, but trying 00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:34.799 to get all the confirmations has been a real 00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:39.200 challenge. Yes. That's the frustrating thing 00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:42.059 is when you work a DXCC and then you see they 00:31:42.059 --> 00:31:45.900 only do EQSL. That's the frustrating thing for 00:31:45.900 --> 00:31:49.910 me. See, I've gotten a few of the de -expeditions. 00:31:50.190 --> 00:31:53.109 There was a de -expedition back in August to 00:31:53.109 --> 00:31:57.109 Pitcairn Island, VP6AH. I got that card and so 00:31:57.109 --> 00:32:00.690 I was very happy. And then in February, I think 00:32:00.690 --> 00:32:05.509 the TX5T de -expedition wrapped up, so I was 00:32:05.509 --> 00:32:08.230 able to actually get them on CW and Sideband. 00:32:09.170 --> 00:32:13.230 We had a good solar sun spot. during that de 00:32:13.230 --> 00:32:15.170 -expedition. So I was able to work them on the 00:32:15.170 --> 00:32:17.069 high bands, which was quite a surprise to me 00:32:17.069 --> 00:32:19.509 because I don't have very good antennas for the 00:32:19.509 --> 00:32:23.670 high bands. So y 'all used the two element step 00:32:23.670 --> 00:32:27.049 IR at club. How does it work out? Yeah, oh yeah, 00:32:27.250 --> 00:32:32.589 we love that. At school we've got the two element 00:32:32.589 --> 00:32:40.640 with the dipole loop and it really, really Makes 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:43.640 a difference we can bust through the pileups 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:50.700 a lot easier and Just it's a great antenna So, 00:32:50.700 --> 00:32:56.380 let's see here. We've got some messages Coming 00:32:56.380 --> 00:33:02.279 in and looks like Dr. Scott right case your MD 00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:06.119 was person that was trying to call so he's over 00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:11.779 here on Twitter here and let's see Does Bryant 00:33:11.779 --> 00:33:16.059 have advice on how to make contesting more appealing 00:33:16.059 --> 00:33:20.940 to young hams How to make contesting appealing 00:33:20.940 --> 00:33:23.940 to young hams well out first and foremost I would 00:33:23.940 --> 00:33:26.279 say make it fun Don't make it where you have 00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:29.400 to sit in the chair for 48 hours You have to 00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:38.339 make it fun. There's an article written by a 00:33:38.339 --> 00:33:41.259 ham in the New Orleans area and he said that 00:33:41.259 --> 00:33:44.559 contesting in kids' eyes was like gaming on the 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:48.019 radio because you have to get certain points 00:33:48.019 --> 00:33:53.259 like multipliers. There's running, which I really 00:33:53.259 --> 00:33:58.440 like running. So I it's kind of gaming on the 00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:03.380 radio but except with gaming There's there's 00:34:03.380 --> 00:34:05.859 not that unpredictability of the ionosphere, 00:34:05.940 --> 00:34:08.880 which I really like it's just so unpredictable 00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:19.960 And we've got a tweet here from Chris Bro, KD8YVJ. 00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:22.800 It says he's excited to go to Costa Rica with 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:28.980 you this summer on the Youth DX petition. And 00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:31.980 Chris is a cool guy, spent some time with him 00:34:31.980 --> 00:34:36.320 and his dad and some of the gang from Voice of 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:39.840 America over Hamvention Weekend, too. And so 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:41.760 it sounds like you guys are going to have a ton 00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:46.489 of fun down there. Oh yes, hello Chris, it's 00:34:46.489 --> 00:34:50.530 good to hear you at least. Yeah, so I'm looking 00:34:50.530 --> 00:34:52.769 forward to going to Costa Rica with Chris and 00:34:52.769 --> 00:34:58.210 Austin, WA8CCS. He'll be going with us as well 00:34:58.210 --> 00:35:01.550 for the Dave Calter Memorial Youth DX adventure. 00:35:02.550 --> 00:35:07.170 We'll be on HF, not sure what bands, maybe we'll 00:35:07.170 --> 00:35:09.710 be able to work a little bit at 160 meters, but 00:35:09.710 --> 00:35:12.679 not sure yet. We have, it looks like the station 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:14.179 is going to be really nice. We're gonna have 00:35:14.179 --> 00:35:18.199 a long periodic, a six meter beam and some very 00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:20.519 nice radios to operate. So I'm really looking 00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:24.079 forward to it. And I'm sure Chris is too. Yep. 00:35:24.260 --> 00:35:27.780 Sounds like a good team going again on that. 00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:31.059 And, uh, that's a, that's a pretty cool thing. 00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:33.980 I wish, uh, wish I'd been able to go on those 00:35:33.980 --> 00:35:36.300 things when I was a kid, that would have been, 00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:41.059 that would have been a ton of fun, but, um, You've 00:35:41.059 --> 00:35:45.659 actually, I know in reading some of your stuff, 00:35:46.820 --> 00:35:51.039 you actually have tried doing the SO2R thing. 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:56.760 So how did you get roped into that and how's 00:35:56.760 --> 00:36:00.849 the SO2R thing coming along? Well, I got into 00:36:00.849 --> 00:36:04.030 SO2R at one of the big contest stations in the 00:36:04.030 --> 00:36:07.849 southeast Louisiana area. The station was KN50. 00:36:07.929 --> 00:36:11.989 This was during the ARRLDXCW contest, and he 00:36:11.989 --> 00:36:15.769 has two operating positions, and each operating 00:36:15.769 --> 00:36:20.590 position has two FT1000Ds. And so that's a basic 00:36:20.590 --> 00:36:24.409 SO2R setup, and he runs multi -multi. And we 00:36:24.409 --> 00:36:28.449 had one radio on 20, one radio on 10. And so 00:36:28.449 --> 00:36:31.769 we could balance between 20 and 10 meters, and 00:36:31.769 --> 00:36:33.769 so we would grab multipliers in 10 meters, so 00:36:33.769 --> 00:36:36.510 the conditions were not that great from what 00:36:36.510 --> 00:36:39.590 I hear. But 20 meters was a great running band, 00:36:39.809 --> 00:36:43.909 lots of Europe, very good European conditions. 00:36:44.210 --> 00:36:49.230 We had a few islands call us, EA6, which is the 00:36:49.230 --> 00:36:53.690 Balearic Islands off of the coast of Spain. I 00:36:53.690 --> 00:36:56.170 think we even made a contact to Jersey, which 00:36:56.170 --> 00:36:59.079 is... island off of the coast of France and the 00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:02.239 English Channel. So it was really fun running 00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:06.000 SO2R at KN50, and I'm trying to set it up at 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:10.599 my own station. I'll be using a Yesu FT900 and 00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:15.840 a Lincoln DXSR8T, each one radio going into a 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:19.460 vertical and one into a dipole. And SO2R is a 00:37:19.460 --> 00:37:22.630 very tricky technique. Uh, cause you have to 00:37:22.630 --> 00:37:26.329 balance out to, uh, audio to audio channels if 00:37:26.329 --> 00:37:29.829 you use a headphones, but I'm going to try it, 00:37:29.829 --> 00:37:32.710 uh, in, I'm going to try doing it in the IARU 00:37:32.710 --> 00:37:36.269 contest, which is in July. And I hope it all 00:37:36.269 --> 00:37:41.210 goes well. Yeah. It's a challenge to keep up 00:37:41.210 --> 00:37:44.429 with one sometimes let alone two, but, uh, at 00:37:44.429 --> 00:37:46.309 least you're not going to be doing that with. 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:53.320 your hand mic on CWs. That would be really, really 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:58.539 tough to pull that off with SO2R. So now your 00:37:58.539 --> 00:38:02.079 mom got to come with you to all this stuff. She 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:05.460 got to go to that Dayton Hamvention. She got 00:38:05.460 --> 00:38:08.139 to go to contest university and all this stuff. 00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:13.980 So the big question out there is Are your parents 00:38:13.980 --> 00:38:16.059 going to get licensed? Are your parents going 00:38:16.059 --> 00:38:20.019 to become hams? I think my mom is leaning towards 00:38:20.019 --> 00:38:22.599 getting her license after going to Dayton. She 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:26.239 learned a lot of things. I learned a lot. My 00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:30.780 club is putting on a one -day license class and 00:38:30.780 --> 00:38:33.440 she may go to the license class. She just received 00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:36.659 a few emails today with the study guides and 00:38:36.659 --> 00:38:39.139 some other material for the class and so I'm 00:38:39.139 --> 00:38:42.119 hoping she decides to go because I think it'll 00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.030 be great for her to get involved in ham radio 00:38:45.030 --> 00:38:48.730 um and my dad too my dad's a pilot in the navy 00:38:48.730 --> 00:38:51.869 and so he's very familiar with uh hf communications 00:38:51.869 --> 00:38:57.909 and radio technology so i think he may get his 00:38:57.909 --> 00:39:00.769 license although i'm not sure yet but i think 00:39:00.769 --> 00:39:05.579 my mom is gonna get her license well We're going 00:39:05.579 --> 00:39:09.519 to finish up here, but I'll tell you a little 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:15.559 story of mine when I was five and got my license. 00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:21.980 My dad and I did it together, but my mom could 00:39:21.980 --> 00:39:29.659 not stand to hear us talking in Morse code and 00:39:29.659 --> 00:39:35.909 not have a clue what we were saying. And so that 00:39:35.909 --> 00:39:39.989 got her into ham radio because she had, she said, 00:39:40.389 --> 00:39:42.789 Oh no, I'm not going to get into ham radio. I'm 00:39:42.789 --> 00:39:45.510 just going to learn the code so I can know what 00:39:45.510 --> 00:39:49.300 you guys are saying. And so. That was her thing 00:39:49.300 --> 00:39:51.639 was the code and she got the code and then she 00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:54.440 was, Oh, okay. I'll go ahead and take that. You 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:56.039 know, I'll go ahead and take the test. And so 00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:59.920 we, we all ended up, uh, doing it, uh, about 00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:03.800 the same time. Mom was a year later, so, um, 00:40:04.099 --> 00:40:07.380 it all worked out. So maybe ham vision was, was 00:40:07.380 --> 00:40:11.590 the push that needed to happen. So. So yeah, 00:40:11.710 --> 00:40:15.989 we hope that both of your parents end up becoming 00:40:15.989 --> 00:40:19.210 hams and studying for that. But it was an absolute 00:40:19.210 --> 00:40:22.289 pleasure to meet you and your mom at Hamvention 00:40:22.289 --> 00:40:27.210 and just happened to run into you talking to 00:40:27.210 --> 00:40:32.619 Ward Silver and wanted to jump in there. and 00:40:32.619 --> 00:40:36.539 say hi since I didn't get a chance to at Contest 00:40:36.539 --> 00:40:39.139 University. And thanks so much for coming on 00:40:39.139 --> 00:40:41.119 the show and sharing the stories. I hope it's 00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:44.699 been fun and it's been a lot of fun to talk about 00:40:44.699 --> 00:40:48.059 all this stuff and hope it was fun for our listeners 00:40:48.059 --> 00:40:53.500 as well. So thanks a lot for coming on. Thank 00:40:53.500 --> 00:40:55.860 you for having me on Mr. Rapp. It was great being 00:40:55.860 --> 00:41:00.150 here. I had a lot of fun. All right. Well, That's 00:41:00.150 --> 00:41:04.610 Bryant Rascal, KG5HVO, and so you'll hear him 00:41:04.610 --> 00:41:07.610 on the air. Give him a call and hopefully you 00:41:07.610 --> 00:41:11.630 can give him a call from Costa Rica coming up 00:41:11.630 --> 00:41:15.030 in August along with Chris and a bunch of those 00:41:15.030 --> 00:41:18.369 guys down there. So looking forward to that. 00:41:18.730 --> 00:41:23.500 Well, that is a wrap. For this week's ham talk 00:41:23.500 --> 00:41:27.179 live thanks to my guest Bryant rascal kg5 HVO 00:41:27.179 --> 00:41:30.159 and everyone out there in cyberspace for listening 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:33.300 and For those of you tweeting in again. Sorry 00:41:33.300 --> 00:41:35.559 about the phone line problems. We'll try to get 00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:39.059 those Solved unless Skype throws us another curveball 00:41:39.059 --> 00:41:43.900 next week at 9 p .m. Eastern time and Speaking 00:41:43.900 --> 00:41:47.019 of hamvention Michael Coulter w8 ci is going 00:41:47.019 --> 00:41:52.869 to be here to talk about what happened at Hamvention 00:41:52.869 --> 00:41:55.309 and what changes they're going to be making so 00:41:55.309 --> 00:41:59.510 if you have any questions or anything that you 00:41:59.510 --> 00:42:02.969 want to follow up on with Hamvention why jump 00:42:02.969 --> 00:42:07.889 in here next week and we'll have the official 00:42:07.889 --> 00:42:10.409 spokesperson of the Dayton Hamvention here to 00:42:10.409 --> 00:42:13.130 talk about the adjustments that they're going 00:42:13.130 --> 00:42:15.610 to make and how things went this year. So don't 00:42:15.610 --> 00:42:17.829 miss out on that. And also don't forget, Sean 00:42:17.829 --> 00:42:22.829 Kutzko, KX9X, will be here the following week, 00:42:22.849 --> 00:42:25.670 I believe it is. That's the Thursday before field 00:42:25.670 --> 00:42:30.429 day for your field day questions. And he spent 00:42:30.429 --> 00:42:34.030 many years as the contest branch manager at ARRL. 00:42:34.210 --> 00:42:37.440 He's now in public relations. But he's going 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:41.199 to be around to answer your field day rules questions 00:42:41.199 --> 00:42:44.320 and talk about field day. So if you have any 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:47.039 last -minute questions or concerns about field 00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:50.260 day, be sure to give Sean a call here on the 00:42:50.260 --> 00:42:54.119 show the Thursday before field day at our regular 00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:57.480 time. And for a list of all of our upcoming guests, 00:42:57.659 --> 00:43:01.780 you can find those at HamTalkLive .com. So for 00:43:01.780 --> 00:43:05.880 now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 -3, 00:43:06.219 --> 00:43:26.280 7 -5, and may the good DX be yours. Thanks for 00:43:26.280 --> 00:43:26.300 watching!