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I'm your host, Neil Rapp WB9VPG. 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:09.099 Thanks for tuning in to this episode of ham talk 00:02:09.099 --> 00:02:13.939 live tonight. We are joined by Jerry WB9Z and 00:02:13.930 --> 00:02:17.370 We'll take your calls live in just a few minutes. 00:02:17.770 --> 00:02:20.509 If the audio sounds a little different tonight, 00:02:20.550 --> 00:02:24.330 don't have all the usual processing and everything. 00:02:24.409 --> 00:02:30.110 I'm actually on a spur of the moment setup on 00:02:30.110 --> 00:02:33.150 Julie's kitchen table with the laptop and a microphone. 00:02:34.389 --> 00:02:40.909 We had an unexpected trip over to Cincinnati 00:02:40.909 --> 00:02:47.250 today. Julie's cat had to be put down from cancer 00:02:47.250 --> 00:02:52.250 and some intestinal blockage and So I wasn't 00:02:52.250 --> 00:02:55.610 expecting to not be home but threw everything 00:02:55.610 --> 00:02:58.569 in and I think we've got everything working and 00:02:58.569 --> 00:03:02.330 the internet seems to be holding up so My apologies 00:03:02.330 --> 00:03:05.969 if we have some technical problems tonight If 00:03:05.969 --> 00:03:08.550 that does happen, we'll get things rescheduled 00:03:08.550 --> 00:03:10.909 with Jerry, but so far everything's working great 00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:14.800 So we'll, uh, we'll keep on rolling here as long 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.139 as it does. Well, last week on the show, Tom 00:03:18.139 --> 00:03:21.460 Vinson, NY zero V was here to talk about the 00:03:21.460 --> 00:03:25.240 search for Amelia Earhart and the ties to ham 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.719 radio in that search. 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Jerry WB9Z is a well -known 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.879 contester, DXer, and a member of many of the 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.580 top 10 DXpedition teams. He's worked 315 countries 00:09:05.580 --> 00:09:10.000 on 160 meters from his home in central Illinois. 00:09:10.659 --> 00:09:13.740 Jerry has all countries confirmed across the 00:09:13.740 --> 00:09:17.259 other bands with 357 overall, including five 00:09:17.259 --> 00:09:21.289 band. Worked all zones on 80 through 10. Number 00:09:21.289 --> 00:09:26.990 five in the USA with all 40 zones on 160 Jerry 00:09:26.990 --> 00:09:31.629 has over 3080 banned countries confirmed with 00:09:31.629 --> 00:09:35.149 well over 300 countries confirmed on each of 00:09:35.149 --> 00:09:42.090 the nine bands 160 through 10 with 122 on six 00:09:42.090 --> 00:09:46.620 meters He works all bands between 160 and 70 00:09:46.620 --> 00:09:49.659 centimeters and has a pretty massive antenna 00:09:49.659 --> 00:09:56.740 farm with 10 towers Jerry's licensed Was earned 00:09:56.740 --> 00:10:01.340 back in 1971 at the age of 16 and His first call 00:10:01.340 --> 00:10:05.320 sign W in 9 HAD and then when they made the change 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:10.879 to Off of the end calls. It was WB 9 HAD And 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:15.919 then WB9Z since 1988. He's made the top 10 or 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:20.220 better in the U .S. on the CQ and ARRLDX contest, 00:10:20.500 --> 00:10:25.059 WPX, 160 meter and 10 meter contest, the IARU 00:10:25.059 --> 00:10:28.759 HF World Championship, and the VHF Plus contest, 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:31.759 and has won the Central Division several times 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:34.799 in the sideband sweepstakes. He's a member of 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:37.639 the Society of Midwest Contestors, as well as 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.259 many other organizations. And Jerry says he enjoys 00:10:41.259 --> 00:10:44.480 taking equipment coax and antennas overseas where 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:48.580 he operates, then leaves it with some of the 00:10:48.580 --> 00:10:52.460 local radio operators to use. And just two weeks 00:10:52.460 --> 00:10:57.539 ago at Dayton, he was inducted into the CQDX 00:10:57.539 --> 00:11:00.279 Hall of Fame. So Jerry, thanks for joining us 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:04.100 on HamTalk Live tonight. Yeah, hi Neil. Thanks 00:11:04.100 --> 00:11:06.220 for having me and it's my pleasure and honor 00:11:06.220 --> 00:11:09.700 to be here this evening Well at hand -vention 00:11:09.700 --> 00:11:13.840 this year and and I have to admit I got word 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:18.120 a little early that that was gonna happen actually 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:22.100 after I talked to you, but you were surprised 00:11:22.100 --> 00:11:26.120 to learn there at the the DX banquet that you 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:29.340 were inducted into the CQ DX hall of fame. So, 00:11:29.580 --> 00:11:32.159 so tell us how you found out about it and how 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:37.080 the ceremony went. Well, uh, I had kind of like 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:41.000 heard a rumor, uh, you know, before, but I really 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.220 didn't find out till the, uh, the ceremony or 00:11:43.220 --> 00:11:46.179 their DX dinner. So, you know, I was pretty shocked 00:11:46.179 --> 00:11:49.820 because there are so many deserving, uh, of this 00:11:49.820 --> 00:11:53.960 very prestigious award, you know, the DX Hall 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:56.519 of Fame. They only give two of those out every 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:02.820 year and there's only like 70 members on the 00:12:02.820 --> 00:12:08.450 DX Hall of Fame. So I was quite shocked. But, 00:12:08.450 --> 00:12:10.570 uh, everything went really well. I got up there 00:12:10.570 --> 00:12:12.809 and kind of stumbled through a few things and, 00:12:13.070 --> 00:12:16.710 uh, and my, my, my, my talk was pretty short 00:12:16.710 --> 00:12:19.509 and everybody was glad of that. So, uh, they 00:12:19.509 --> 00:12:21.570 didn't have to, uh, you know, hear me go on and 00:12:21.570 --> 00:12:25.450 on about a bunch of stuff. Okay. Now if you watch 00:12:25.450 --> 00:12:28.429 the big bang theory by chance, Jerry, I didn't 00:12:28.429 --> 00:12:31.620 ask you about this. Occasionally occasionally. 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:33.659 Okay. Well there was this one episode where, 00:12:33.779 --> 00:12:36.159 or the guy gets up to accept the award Sheldon 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:38.779 and, and, and start singing the periodic table 00:12:38.779 --> 00:12:41.759 song in front of everybody. So you didn't get 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:43.580 up there and sing in front of everybody. Did 00:12:43.580 --> 00:12:48.799 you? No, I know better than that. That would, 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:51.779 that would empty the place really quickly. Oh 00:12:51.779 --> 00:12:56.940 my. Well, yeah. You know, that may not have been 00:12:56.940 --> 00:12:59.679 the greatest thing. We'll leave the singing to 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:03.860 Ward. I know you've got some people that you 00:13:03.860 --> 00:13:07.659 want to thank. You mentioned that as we were 00:13:07.659 --> 00:13:11.360 getting ready for the show. So if you'd like 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.899 to thank some of those people who supported you 00:13:14.899 --> 00:13:18.059 for this, why go ahead and talk a little bit 00:13:18.059 --> 00:13:22.279 about that. Well, thanks Neil. I want to first 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.940 of all, I want to thank Dr. Ralph Fedor Casereau 00:13:24.940 --> 00:13:28.360 Italy radio He introduced me at the dinner and 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.539 he said a really lot of good things and about 00:13:31.539 --> 00:13:37.139 me and I was I was you know, very very Taken 00:13:37.139 --> 00:13:41.299 by all of that. I want to thank CQ magazine and 00:13:41.299 --> 00:13:45.620 N 2 o o Bob and then of course, I want to thank 00:13:45.620 --> 00:13:50.320 Scott Right or our friend K's role Mike Delta 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:54.659 I believe he was you know organized a campaign 00:13:54.659 --> 00:13:57.940 to get me inducted so I want to Thanks, Scott 00:13:57.940 --> 00:14:01.639 a lot and then and then my good friend Glenn 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:05.740 W zero GJ and Bob K for you EE who I've traveled 00:14:05.740 --> 00:14:08.419 with these guys You know on many expeditions 00:14:08.419 --> 00:14:11.940 or they're super guys. They also wrote some letters, 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:17.120 you know in my supporting me. And then I also 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:20.679 believe there are some clubs that wrote in letters 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:26.000 like the Rochester DX and Contest Club, the Missouri 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:31.159 DX and Contest Club, the Twin City DX Association. 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:36.759 The Southeast DX club the Metro DX club that's 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:40.120 in in Chicago and I belong to that and I also 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.139 belong to the Greater Milwaukee DX Association 00:14:43.139 --> 00:14:46.879 and they also Helped out with a letter. So I 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:49.460 just wanted to kind of include that in there 00:14:49.460 --> 00:14:54.860 early Yeah, there's a lot of a lot of nominations 00:14:54.860 --> 00:15:00.620 there and a lot of support And that chief instigator 00:15:00.620 --> 00:15:03.320 of that KZeroMD, you got to watch out for that 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:11.860 guy. I think he might be able to sell refrigerators 00:15:11.860 --> 00:15:17.639 to Eskimos. I'm not sure. But he can really promote 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:20.200 ham radio. And that is one of the things he's 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:25.799 good at. And so I'm glad he was. He was in support 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.600 of you because you've done an awful lot of great 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:33.159 things on the DX front and one of those things 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:39.120 is The expeditions and and your Contributions 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:42.080 to the X and you've got every DX CC entity except 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.659 North Korea on CW. Is that right? Yeah, that's 00:15:45.659 --> 00:15:48.620 that's right. I I've worked North Korea back 00:15:48.620 --> 00:15:51.919 in I believe it was 2001 on sideband. I actually 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:54.620 worked him twice, once on 10 meters and once 00:15:54.620 --> 00:15:58.600 on 15. But the North Koreans did not let him 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:05.919 operate CW. So there's only a few stations in 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:09.320 the world that have North Korea on CW. And I 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:11.820 think just about everybody in the United States 00:16:11.820 --> 00:16:16.389 needs it on CW. So I'm one of them. Yeah. Well 00:16:16.389 --> 00:16:19.350 now that you've talked to all these places, you, 00:16:19.350 --> 00:16:22.350 you go to these places and operate from them. 00:16:23.009 --> 00:16:25.730 So, um, you've been on several of the top 10 00:16:25.730 --> 00:16:29.309 ones. Uh, why don't we run down that list of, 00:16:29.309 --> 00:16:32.129 of the de -expeditions that you've been able 00:16:32.129 --> 00:16:36.230 to go on. Yeah, I've been on seven expeditions 00:16:36.230 --> 00:16:40.049 that were, um, voted de -expedition of the year. 00:16:40.629 --> 00:16:44.340 So the first one. I'm not going to mention the 00:16:44.340 --> 00:16:46.759 the ones in the Caribbean because those were 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:51.379 like contest expeditions and but the first one 00:16:51.379 --> 00:16:55.700 back in I believe it was 1999 was on Christmas 00:16:55.700 --> 00:17:00.360 Island in the Indian Ocean and also Cocos Keeling 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:05.519 in the Indian Ocean those were VK9XX and VK9YY 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:13.250 and then also in 2001 I operated from Spratly 00:17:13.250 --> 00:17:16.130 in the South China Sea and that was nine Mike 00:17:16.130 --> 00:17:19.809 zero Mike and Then I kind of took a break from 00:17:19.809 --> 00:17:23.049 traveling and made a whole bunch of trips down 00:17:23.049 --> 00:17:26.990 to PJ 2t Papa Japan to tango down on cura cell 00:17:26.990 --> 00:17:30.609 and did a lot of operating from down there Contesting 00:17:30.609 --> 00:17:33.150 and doing tower and antenna work and stuff. I 00:17:33.150 --> 00:17:35.970 believe I believe I made 16 trips down there 00:17:35.970 --> 00:17:44.339 and then got back into de -expeditioning in 2009, 00:17:46.259 --> 00:17:52.579 and I talked to K4UEE. Bob into letting me go 00:17:52.579 --> 00:17:56.039 along to Desaceo, and Desaceo was in the top 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:01.359 10, that was K5D, and then Dr. Ralph Fedor, K0IR, 00:18:01.539 --> 00:18:04.799 invited me to go to South Orkney, and that's 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:09.950 in the Antarctic region down there, VP80RK. And 00:18:09.950 --> 00:18:13.150 then after that, it was Malpelo, which was off 00:18:13.150 --> 00:18:15.490 of Columbia. That's that thousand foot rock that 00:18:15.490 --> 00:18:18.710 sticks out of the Pacific Ocean. That's really 00:18:18.710 --> 00:18:23.029 a rugged place. And it's super hot too. After 00:18:23.029 --> 00:18:26.109 that, it was Swain's Island in the Pacific. And 00:18:26.109 --> 00:18:29.309 that place was super hot, super humid. And I 00:18:29.309 --> 00:18:31.910 saw insects there that I didn't even know existed. 00:18:32.589 --> 00:18:36.230 And I was really glad after two weeks on that 00:18:36.230 --> 00:18:41.730 island to leave. And then after that, it was 00:18:41.730 --> 00:18:44.250 Wake Island. And I think a lot of us remember 00:18:44.250 --> 00:18:47.930 Wake Island, where the historic World War II 00:18:47.930 --> 00:18:52.369 Batagron was. We operated from there as K9W. 00:18:52.990 --> 00:18:58.109 And after that, in early 2014, was Amsterdam 00:18:58.109 --> 00:19:01.410 Island. And I was gone from home for seven weeks 00:19:01.410 --> 00:19:06.289 on that trip. That was nine days at sea from 00:19:06.289 --> 00:19:10.930 Western Australia. and of course nine days back 00:19:10.930 --> 00:19:13.869 from the island and that was that was a rough 00:19:13.869 --> 00:19:17.269 ride and after that it was nevassa down in the 00:19:17.269 --> 00:19:20.490 uh in the caribbean i was very fortunate to be 00:19:20.490 --> 00:19:22.930 on the first helicopter flight in and the last 00:19:22.930 --> 00:19:26.490 helicopter uh flight off of nevassa and at the 00:19:26.490 --> 00:19:30.619 time nevassa was uh Number one or number two 00:19:30.619 --> 00:19:32.759 on the most wanted list depending on what part 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:36.119 of the world you were You were filling out the 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.799 most wanted list So it was it was right up there 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.680 either number one or number two and then the 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:46.539 the last one is Was Paul Myra and that was in 00:19:46.539 --> 00:19:49.319 the Pacific also. So there's there's quite a 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:53.759 list there and I got one coming up soon, but 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:56.319 I think we'll mention that maybe a little bit 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.420 down the road there Yeah, well, we'll, we'll 00:19:59.420 --> 00:20:01.900 switch that up. Go ahead and talk about, uh, 00:20:01.900 --> 00:20:03.900 the one that you're, uh, you're working on right 00:20:03.900 --> 00:20:08.519 now. Well, the, the one coming up is a Buve and, 00:20:09.259 --> 00:20:13.319 uh, I think a lot of people, uh, need Buve. Um, 00:20:13.380 --> 00:20:16.680 it's number two on the most wanted list and Buve 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:22.799 is going to happen in early 2018. And, uh, that's 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:25.660 down in the, um, Antarctic region. It's about 00:20:25.660 --> 00:20:30.240 a thousand miles north of Antarctica, but it's 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:34.519 a really desolate rock. It's been many, many 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:37.859 years since it's been on the air. We're taking 00:20:37.859 --> 00:20:42.859 a big team down there, 20 operators and a pretty 00:20:42.859 --> 00:20:50.099 large ship, two helicopters. It's probably going 00:20:50.099 --> 00:20:52.339 to be one of the most expensive the expeditions 00:20:52.339 --> 00:20:54.599 of all time. Our budget is seven hundred and 00:20:54.599 --> 00:21:01.960 fifty thousand dollars So yeah, wow So some of 00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:03.980 the expeditions I've been on the path in the 00:21:03.980 --> 00:21:06.839 past were like three and four hundred thousand 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:08.980 and that was you know, obviously a lot but this 00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:12.740 one this one is very expensive because you know, 00:21:12.740 --> 00:21:17.519 we got we got a lot of danger involved and We 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:19.720 want to make sure nobody gets hurt. So that's 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:22.799 why we're taking two helicopters and a large 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:28.019 boat and it just It's a safety factor thing and 00:21:28.019 --> 00:21:31.240 I've been in a tower and antenna business for 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:33.960 over 40 years I'm all about safety and everybody 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:37.339 else is too and you know, we want to be able 00:21:37.339 --> 00:21:40.619 to To get everybody on and off the island safely 00:21:40.619 --> 00:21:43.579 and you know, we got a we got a pretty large 00:21:43.579 --> 00:21:46.329 ship that's going to be chartered to to get us 00:21:46.329 --> 00:21:50.250 down there stay with us and get us back so if 00:21:50.250 --> 00:21:53.230 anybody's interested our website is bouvet that's 00:21:53.230 --> 00:21:56.930 b -o -u -v -e -t -d -x all one word dot o -r 00:21:56.930 --> 00:22:00.990 -g and if anybody's interested in helping us 00:22:00.990 --> 00:22:02.990 out with a donation you can do that right on 00:22:02.990 --> 00:22:07.049 the website very good and we had ralph on talking 00:22:07.049 --> 00:22:10.750 about that trip on an earlier episode to you 00:22:10.750 --> 00:22:13.009 so if you want to know more about to the uh... 00:22:13.009 --> 00:22:16.250 bouvet trip you can uh... check out that episode 00:22:16.250 --> 00:22:19.630 uh... with ralph uh... right here on ham talk 00:22:19.630 --> 00:22:23.170 live uh... and we're hoping to uh... to do some 00:22:23.170 --> 00:22:25.769 updates from uh... from that trip once we get 00:22:25.769 --> 00:22:27.910 there will will talk more about that when we 00:22:27.910 --> 00:22:31.309 get uh... closer uh... the time but uh... we're 00:22:31.309 --> 00:22:34.799 hoping to so to kind of get uh... get a few updates 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:39.000 on how that is going and of course they can use 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:42.960 the donations so make sure you visit the site 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:49.460 and help them out if you can to do that. Now 00:22:49.460 --> 00:22:54.369 one of the things that I saw on the Bouvet the 00:22:54.369 --> 00:22:57.609 expedition Twitter account here just a few days 00:22:57.609 --> 00:23:02.069 ago. I think I think it was Ralph on there was 00:23:02.069 --> 00:23:06.329 was talking about the choice of helicopter that 00:23:06.329 --> 00:23:12.390 I guess a one engine helicopter is not the safest 00:23:12.390 --> 00:23:16.190 option. And so he was talking about having a 00:23:16.190 --> 00:23:19.690 two engine helicopter for the safety thing you 00:23:19.690 --> 00:23:22.730 were talking about. Yeah, yeah, I believe the 00:23:22.730 --> 00:23:26.210 original helicopter was just a single engine 00:23:26.210 --> 00:23:30.869 Chopper and you know, can you imagine being stuck 00:23:30.869 --> 00:23:34.970 on bouvet? The helicopter broke and can't take 00:23:34.970 --> 00:23:38.490 off and you got a team of 20 on the island ready 00:23:38.490 --> 00:23:44.119 to be extracted and and It's, uh, this is a lot, 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:48.039 uh, this is a lot, uh, more safe. Uh, I, I feel, 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:50.599 I feel a hundred percent better about the whole 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:53.180 thing now that we have two helicopters and actually 00:23:53.180 --> 00:23:56.980 four engines. Yeah, that's the way to go. Uh, 00:23:56.980 --> 00:24:00.240 always, always good to have a backup. And, um, 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:04.019 that's, that's, uh, kind of scary. Now I remember 00:24:04.019 --> 00:24:08.539 a similar to the expedition, uh, from, um, One 00:24:08.539 --> 00:24:11.140 that that's kind of close to my heart because 00:24:11.140 --> 00:24:15.319 one Gary Stouter canine SG was the uncle of one 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:18.140 of my students at school and we were able to 00:24:18.140 --> 00:24:20.680 talk to him while he was down there and also 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:24.359 the video that kind of inspired Padraig Lissandra 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:28.420 the young ham of the year and a bazillion other 00:24:28.420 --> 00:24:31.339 awards that was kind of what got him started 00:24:31.339 --> 00:24:36.599 on on that path was that they had to leave some 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:39.420 people behind on the island with that chopper. 00:24:39.619 --> 00:24:42.220 They couldn't get the chopper from the island 00:24:42.220 --> 00:24:45.740 back to the boat enough times and had to leave 00:24:45.740 --> 00:24:48.839 some people behind. That's pretty scary when 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:53.480 you're out there in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, 00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:59.440 I believe three, maybe four guys had to spend 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:04.240 an extra night on the island. The weather turned 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:09.160 bad and the helicopter couldn't fly safely. It 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:11.559 was getting late in the day kind of thing. So 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:14.619 I believe they were stuck on the island for an 00:25:14.619 --> 00:25:16.740 extra day. And I know Gary very well. As a matter 00:25:16.740 --> 00:25:18.779 of fact, I've done some contests with him down 00:25:18.779 --> 00:25:24.019 at PJ2T. And I've operated with Gary from Desacheo, 00:25:24.259 --> 00:25:28.279 Malpelo, and maybe somewhere else. But Gary's 00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:32.019 a good friend of mine also. K9 Sierra Golf. Yeah, 00:25:32.140 --> 00:25:35.299 and we always tease him about his ham -vincing 00:25:35.299 --> 00:25:37.920 parking story, but we'll save that for another 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:41.299 time. So one last thing here before we take a 00:25:41.299 --> 00:25:43.480 break, and then we do have some tweets that have 00:25:43.480 --> 00:25:47.019 already come in, and so we'll get to those and 00:25:47.019 --> 00:25:51.240 the phone calls. But before I go, what's your 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:55.200 strategy to get that North Korea checked off? 00:25:56.789 --> 00:25:59.750 Um, I have no strategy, just live long enough 00:25:59.750 --> 00:26:09.069 to do it. It may take a long time. It may never, 00:26:09.069 --> 00:26:11.890 it may never happen. I'm glad I'm, I'm glad I 00:26:11.890 --> 00:26:15.269 have it for the mixed, uh, DXCC award and the, 00:26:15.269 --> 00:26:18.670 and the side ban or phone DXCC award because, 00:26:19.369 --> 00:26:22.769 um, you know, CW it looks like is going to be 00:26:22.769 --> 00:26:27.019 a long, long time if ever. Now, I mean, I'm just 00:26:27.019 --> 00:26:29.420 trying to imagine the pileups. I mean, we just 00:26:29.420 --> 00:26:33.619 had, you know, I know Val mentioned that you 00:26:33.619 --> 00:26:36.599 had said that the pileups for this Hamnation 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:40.299 300 thing were probably as big as some of the 00:26:40.299 --> 00:26:42.539 pileups you've had on some of these de -expeditions. 00:26:42.900 --> 00:26:46.640 Can you imagine the pileup when North Korea goes 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:50.509 on the air? It's it's gonna be it's gonna be 00:26:50.509 --> 00:26:53.309 a wild time. There's no question about it And 00:26:53.309 --> 00:26:56.170 you know, that's why we like to take a big team 00:26:56.170 --> 00:26:59.589 to kind of you know Spread out the activity on 00:26:59.589 --> 00:27:02.630 multiple bands of multiple modes So, you know 00:27:02.630 --> 00:27:06.069 like one guy going there or two guys going there. 00:27:06.289 --> 00:27:10.190 It's it would be really really really a zoo or 00:27:10.190 --> 00:27:15.829 a mess Yeah Can't even imagine that, but maybe 00:27:15.829 --> 00:27:18.450 one of these days we'll, we'll get to find out. 00:27:18.589 --> 00:27:21.809 Well, it's a time to pay a couple of bills here, 00:27:21.809 --> 00:27:24.750 but we'll be back and we'll take your calls, 00:27:24.750 --> 00:27:27.809 uh, with Jerry WB nine said right after this 00:27:27.809 --> 00:27:30.589 message from the ham station right here on ham 00:27:30.589 --> 00:27:33.630 talk live. 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Just look 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:36.160 for HamTalk Live on Skype. You'll see the little 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:39.480 HamTalk Live logo there. And you can also tweet 00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:43.839 us at HamTalk Live. And we've got a couple of 00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:46.519 those. And the first one is from Troy Simpson. 00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:50.500 W9KVR says, Hi, Jerry and Neil. Just finished 00:29:50.500 --> 00:29:53.079 a track cookout and tuned in. Big thanks to Jerry 00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:56.440 for helping us out at the school, which Troy 00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:59.640 also teaches at a school and does ham radio. 00:29:59.819 --> 00:30:04.059 in Watsika, Illinois, is where he is, and helping 00:30:04.059 --> 00:30:08.559 get the de -expeditions in the log. K5D was their 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:11.660 first and quite memorable, so that's from Troy. 00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:19.900 Oh yeah, I remember that contact. I think I was 00:30:19.900 --> 00:30:25.160 operating, I forget what band it was, but yeah, 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:30.839 it was a memorable contact. And we also have 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:33.819 a tweet here from our friend, Dr. Scott Wright, 00:30:33.900 --> 00:30:37.039 KZeroMD, who says, first, congratulations on 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:41.059 being recognized for this outstanding honor. 00:30:41.180 --> 00:30:45.259 And the letter from Dr. Ralph Fedor really summarized 00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:48.319 how your character and integrity qualified you 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.960 uniquely for this honor. And he wants you to 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:57.680 share with us what got you interested in DXpeditions 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:01.440 and DXing. and then I've got a follow -up, but 00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:05.710 let's take that one first. Well, that's a good 00:31:05.710 --> 00:31:08.549 question Scott what got me interested probably 00:31:08.549 --> 00:31:11.430 has to go way back to the you know, the early 00:31:11.430 --> 00:31:17.890 70s and finding these old QST s and Going to 00:31:17.890 --> 00:31:21.450 the house DX, you know articles and looking at 00:31:21.450 --> 00:31:24.210 the pictures of these, you know exotic locations 00:31:24.210 --> 00:31:26.630 around the world and these guys got towers and 00:31:26.630 --> 00:31:30.009 antennas or Verticals, you know set up on the 00:31:30.009 --> 00:31:32.769 beach and you know, that was that was it man 00:31:32.769 --> 00:31:36.319 that that was even before I had a novice license, 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:40.599 I was intrigued intrigued by the expeditioning. 00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:45.039 And then like, probably after that, reading Don 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:50.559 Miller's book, and then following Don Miller 00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:54.339 when he was writing for for CQ at the time and 00:31:54.339 --> 00:31:58.019 writing about all of his travels and the expeditions 00:31:58.019 --> 00:32:02.319 and stuff. I think that was where You know, I 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:07.759 really got started and thinking at least thinking 00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:13.180 about traveling around and DXing and also after 00:32:13.180 --> 00:32:17.920 that contesting and working DX contest and you 00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:21.019 know a lot of these exotic places on during the 00:32:21.019 --> 00:32:24.640 DX contest and these guys having big pile ups 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:27.819 where I didn't have a big pile up at home and 00:32:27.819 --> 00:32:30.660 you know that's kind of that was kind of my early 00:32:30.660 --> 00:32:35.390 days thinking about DXpeditioning. All right, 00:32:35.390 --> 00:32:38.130 and then the other question here is what lessons 00:32:38.130 --> 00:32:42.289 would you share with new DXers about being successful 00:32:42.289 --> 00:32:50.609 working you on the D expeditions? That's a good 00:32:50.609 --> 00:32:54.390 good question to you know with the new technology 00:32:54.390 --> 00:32:59.250 if you got a an SDR radio or any any radio with 00:32:59.250 --> 00:33:05.369 a Band scope uh... if you're looking at the pile 00:33:05.369 --> 00:33:07.569 up you look look for holes where there's nobody 00:33:07.569 --> 00:33:12.289 calling or go to the top of a of the pile up 00:33:12.289 --> 00:33:15.730 uh... that sometimes you know when when we're 00:33:15.730 --> 00:33:19.230 tuning around and trying to get a call lots of 00:33:19.230 --> 00:33:22.809 times myself and others will maybe go to the 00:33:22.809 --> 00:33:25.470 top of the pileup. The top of the pileup isn't 00:33:25.470 --> 00:33:29.890 quite as, you know, intense. And you might be 00:33:29.890 --> 00:33:32.130 able to pull somebody's call or partial call 00:33:32.130 --> 00:33:35.470 out from the top of a pileup. And I've always 00:33:35.470 --> 00:33:39.509 had, you know, good luck with that. And it always 00:33:39.509 --> 00:33:44.710 helps to be loud. So, you know, whatever you 00:33:44.710 --> 00:33:49.910 can, you know, get it, get a big amplifier and 00:33:49.910 --> 00:33:54.690 get big antennas. Yeah. Bigger guns always seem 00:33:54.690 --> 00:33:58.410 to help get through the pile up. So, uh, that's 00:33:58.410 --> 00:34:01.670 some, uh, some good information there. 812 net 00:34:01.670 --> 00:34:06.150 ham one is the phone number. 812 -638 -4261. 00:34:06.150 --> 00:34:08.730 Or you can tweet us, uh, like these guys did 00:34:08.730 --> 00:34:12.570 at, uh, ham talk live. Um, or if you're on the 00:34:12.570 --> 00:34:15.269 website, actually you can, uh, even enter something 00:34:15.269 --> 00:34:19.400 on chat. That's what Troy did. So give us a call 00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:25.199 or a tweet here at 812 net ham one For your questions 00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:29.719 with Jerry WB 9 Zed recently inducted into the 00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:35.659 CQDX Hall of Fame While we're waiting on the 00:34:35.659 --> 00:34:38.300 calls here. Let's talk a little bit about your 00:34:38.300 --> 00:34:41.659 your station. You've got a pretty impressive 00:34:41.659 --> 00:34:45.260 antenna farm there and So tell us a little bit 00:34:45.260 --> 00:34:49.659 about your contest station and then what is the 00:34:49.659 --> 00:34:53.340 strategy to getting Val off the radio long enough 00:34:53.340 --> 00:34:59.659 to actually use it? Let me answer the last question 00:34:59.659 --> 00:35:03.980 first. We hardly ever fight over a radio because 00:35:03.980 --> 00:35:07.639 we got sometimes three rigs set up here and multiple 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:12.280 amplifiers and bandpass filters and antenna switching. 00:35:13.780 --> 00:35:17.579 We normally can't share an antenna, but we can, 00:35:17.579 --> 00:35:20.539 you know, share all the receiving antennas, which 00:35:20.539 --> 00:35:24.659 is nice. So, uh, you know, we, we, we normally 00:35:24.659 --> 00:35:27.960 don't have any issues, uh, um, you know, DXing, 00:35:28.059 --> 00:35:31.539 um, and fighting over, fighting over the radio, 00:35:31.539 --> 00:35:35.019 at least at least it hasn't happened recently 00:35:35.019 --> 00:35:38.000 that I remember Jerry, I want to tell you, that 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:43.329 was a very, very smart answer. Okay, that's for 00:35:43.329 --> 00:35:46.670 good. Okay, multiple radios and multiple amps 00:35:46.670 --> 00:35:53.360 with bandpass filters. Do you want me to mention 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:55.400 it? So yeah, just a little bit about your station, 00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:59.699 what you have. Well, the antenna farm, you know, 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:03.340 I've been out here since, this is my grandparents' 00:36:03.659 --> 00:36:07.280 farm. So I've been out here since like 1983. 00:36:08.739 --> 00:36:12.619 And so I just didn't build this overnight. All 00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:16.440 the towers here. are were used and you know I 00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:18.500 took them down and moved them put them up and 00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:21.340 stuff all the coax out here and I got some big 00:36:21.340 --> 00:36:25.239 coax to you know everything from half inch to 00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:27.980 inch and five eight celiacs I didn't buy any 00:36:27.980 --> 00:36:30.800 of that I I removed it from cell sites and stuff 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:33.920 because that's kind of my one of my businesses 00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:37.840 And so I got, you know, big, big coax all over 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:41.340 the place, but I've gone through several generations 00:36:41.340 --> 00:36:43.880 of antennas over the years because I started 00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:47.340 out with, you know, commercial antennas and they 00:36:47.340 --> 00:36:51.079 would only last so long because we seem to be 00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:55.369 in an ice. icing area here. We have plenty of 00:36:55.369 --> 00:36:58.630 ice. We're only, you know, 80 miles south of 00:36:58.630 --> 00:37:00.570 Lake Michigan and stuff. And when you get a low 00:37:00.570 --> 00:37:05.130 pressure system in sometimes in the wintertime 00:37:05.130 --> 00:37:08.510 and you get a lot of rain, it seems we get plenty 00:37:08.510 --> 00:37:11.570 of ice down here. So I'm on my third or fourth 00:37:11.570 --> 00:37:15.010 generation of Yagis. All the Yagis, or most of 00:37:15.010 --> 00:37:17.070 the Yagis now at least, are all custom built. 00:37:17.230 --> 00:37:22.730 They're very heavy. So, I'll start out with 80 00:37:22.730 --> 00:37:27.949 and 160. We got 160 foot vertical on 160 and 00:37:27.949 --> 00:37:32.489 also works on 80 meters. On 40, there's a four 00:37:32.489 --> 00:37:36.389 element full sized Yagi at 140 feet and we also 00:37:36.389 --> 00:37:41.309 have several wires on 40. On 20 meters, we can 00:37:41.309 --> 00:37:47.590 choose from five different 20 meter mono -banders. 00:37:48.510 --> 00:37:53.070 And on 15 we have six over six on 15, 10 meters. 00:37:53.849 --> 00:37:59.070 There's a seven -element mono -band yaggy. I 00:37:59.070 --> 00:38:03.869 have multiple big tri -banders. that can be used 00:38:03.869 --> 00:38:06.710 for, you know, in different directions during 00:38:06.710 --> 00:38:09.050 a contest. You just switch to it. You don't have 00:38:09.050 --> 00:38:12.849 to rotate, you know, the big array around. Also 00:38:12.849 --> 00:38:17.010 got the Yagis on 12, 17, and 30 meters. On six 00:38:17.010 --> 00:38:20.900 meters, we have a 10 element. a nine element 00:38:20.900 --> 00:38:24.460 and a six element yagi on six meters so we got 00:38:24.460 --> 00:38:28.239 three yagis which is nice during a VHF contest 00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:30.579 which we're actually getting ready for you know 00:38:30.579 --> 00:38:34.440 which is the weekend after this coming and then 00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:38.340 went on two meters 222 and 432 we got some pretty 00:38:38.340 --> 00:38:40.760 good size yagis way up in the high in the air 00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:44.400 also so and there's a lot of maintenance involved 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:49.329 with this but it's all worth it. And what rigs 00:38:49.329 --> 00:38:54.250 are you using? We got a little bit of everything. 00:38:54.949 --> 00:39:02.150 We got an ICOM 7851, a Flex 6700 with Maestro 00:39:02.150 --> 00:39:07.949 and a K3S that came back from Paul Myra and we 00:39:07.949 --> 00:39:10.630 use that also. So got a little bit of everything 00:39:10.630 --> 00:39:16.000 here. Very good. 812 Nat Ham 1 is the phone number 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:20.119 812 -638 -4261 or give us a tweet at HamTalk 00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:23.659 Live or you can comment in the chat as well. 00:39:23.659 --> 00:39:26.159 We've got just a couple of minutes left so we've 00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:30.599 got time for one more if you want to chime in 00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:36.920 here with Jerry WB9Z. So one question that I 00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:39.980 usually ask all the Dexponitioners that come 00:39:39.980 --> 00:39:43.650 on the show uh... you know it seems like these 00:39:43.650 --> 00:39:47.630 locations because they're so rare it's usually 00:39:47.630 --> 00:39:51.650 because it someplace really really hot or really 00:39:51.650 --> 00:39:57.849 really cold so which one would you pick uh... 00:39:57.849 --> 00:40:01.070 i thought about that uh... and uh... i think 00:40:01.070 --> 00:40:06.869 it's a toss -up because uh... the cold locations 00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:11.699 usually involve a long boat ride to get there. 00:40:12.139 --> 00:40:15.280 And those long boat rides involve, you know, 00:40:15.380 --> 00:40:19.280 some seasickness. So, and then the really hot 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:21.940 locations. And I've been in a couple of places 00:40:21.940 --> 00:40:29.139 where we measured temperatures approaching 120 00:40:29.139 --> 00:40:34.949 degrees. And I believe on Malpela, we might even 00:40:34.949 --> 00:40:39.389 have measured 126 degrees, but I'm not 100 % 00:40:39.389 --> 00:40:44.130 sure that. I know it was at least 120. And on 00:40:44.130 --> 00:40:51.550 Swains Island, it was 116 or so. And after 11 00:40:51.550 --> 00:40:54.449 o 'clock in the morning, you really didn't want 00:40:54.449 --> 00:40:56.570 to even go out in the sun. You just kind of. 00:40:56.599 --> 00:40:59.920 hung out underneath the trees, tried to stay 00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:04.820 in the shade, but it rained every afternoon, 00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:07.380 so the humidity was high, and then at night, 00:41:07.539 --> 00:41:09.940 the insects would just pretty much eat you alive. 00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:15.360 So it's kind of a toss -up, but this bouvet expedition 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:19.139 coming up, it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be 00:41:19.139 --> 00:41:25.980 extremely windy. Dr. Glenn W -0 -G -J says he's 00:41:25.980 --> 00:41:27.760 been kind of studying the weather down there. 00:41:27.820 --> 00:41:30.000 It looks like there's about a storm down there, 00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:34.840 a windstorm, like every 300 out of 365 days out 00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:37.380 of the year, the wind is screaming down there. 00:41:38.179 --> 00:41:40.940 And so we're gonna have to fight the wind and 00:41:40.940 --> 00:41:45.280 the ice and the cold. So Bouvet may probably 00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:51.670 be the roughest expedition I'll ever be on. And 00:41:51.670 --> 00:41:59.809 you're still going. I believe so. I just sent 00:41:59.809 --> 00:42:03.409 off another check, uh, um, a couple of days ago, 00:42:03.670 --> 00:42:07.190 uh, another payment checks. So I, I, I'm still 00:42:07.190 --> 00:42:10.030 serious. Yeah. Still, still in it. All right. 00:42:10.090 --> 00:42:13.929 Well, very good. That that's, uh, that's interesting 00:42:13.929 --> 00:42:16.710 stuff. And, uh, I know you you've gone around 00:42:16.710 --> 00:42:20.409 and talked to you a lot of, um, Clubs and a lot 00:42:20.409 --> 00:42:24.469 of hamfests about contesting We talked a little 00:42:24.469 --> 00:42:27.730 bit about you know what you would say to a beginning 00:42:27.730 --> 00:42:31.829 DX or anything different that you would go for 00:42:31.829 --> 00:42:37.980 the contest crowd Well, that's another good question. 00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:41.500 After you get your first radio, and you're happy 00:42:41.500 --> 00:42:44.719 with your first radio, and if you're on a limited 00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:47.820 budget and stuff, instead of buying an amplifier, 00:42:48.139 --> 00:42:54.420 put your money into the antennas. Increase your 00:42:54.420 --> 00:43:03.750 antenna arsenal first for your contesting. If 00:43:03.750 --> 00:43:06.090 you still got in some extra money left over by 00:43:06.090 --> 00:43:09.369 an amplifier so and then for experience wise 00:43:09.369 --> 00:43:15.050 I I like to say operate every contest that you 00:43:15.050 --> 00:43:17.369 can even if you only put in like put in and like 00:43:17.369 --> 00:43:22.630 a few hours and And and don't forget the state 00:43:22.630 --> 00:43:25.389 QSO parties Val just got a really nice plaque 00:43:25.389 --> 00:43:31.039 from the Pennsylvania QSO party, so There's a 00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:33.860 lot of plaques out there. I actually sponsor 00:43:33.860 --> 00:43:38.320 a plaque for the Indiana QSO party because a 00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:42.260 friend of mine who's now a silent key had some 00:43:42.260 --> 00:43:46.400 property down in Prairie County, Indiana and 00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:49.280 He him and his buddies went down there and did 00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.239 the Indiana QSO party every year. So to honor 00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:58.199 him I I Donate a plaque in his memory. So don't 00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.400 forget the you know don't forget the all the 00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:04.280 contests operate all of them you can and then 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:07.739 find a local contest club you know find somebody 00:44:07.739 --> 00:44:11.000 that wants to help you out and what better place 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:16.500 is a local contest club and then try and join 00:44:16.500 --> 00:44:20.000 a regional contest club like in our region here 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:25.019 it's the society of midwest contesters and we 00:44:25.019 --> 00:44:27.800 have a the society of midwest contesters has 00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:32.230 a you know, a yearly meeting as a whole weekend. 00:44:32.789 --> 00:44:37.349 And it's we have lots of presentations going 00:44:37.349 --> 00:44:41.010 on. And there's there's a lot of a lot of information 00:44:41.010 --> 00:44:43.449 gets exchanged. And then if you're gonna have 00:44:43.449 --> 00:44:46.409 to stop you Jerry, we're out of time here. But 00:44:46.409 --> 00:44:48.869 thanks for coming on the show. It's Jerry WB 00:44:48.869 --> 00:44:52.269 nine said thanks for tuning in next week. Bryant 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:57.739 rascal KG 5 HVO a 13 year old CW op and check 00:44:57.739 --> 00:44:59.820 out ham talk live .com 73.