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time for HamTalk Live. It's episode number 65.
It's Road Trip Live from Dayton 2017, recorded
before a studio audience on Thursday, May 18th,
2017. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks
for tuning into this episode of HamTalk Live.
Tonight, we continue our Dayton Hamvention preview.
It's our final chapter. as we celebrate the event
that is the Dayton Hamvention. We're taking your
calls and your stories live here at Spring Hill
Suites, Miamisburg on the south side of Dayton.
And last week, we featured all the Dayton Hamvention
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allowed us to give away one last DX80 off center
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show, I'll tell you how you can win this week
and congratulations to last week's winner. It
was Eric in 9KDB and he'll be receiving his DX80
from Radio Waves. So tonight we're coming to
you from the meeting room A of Spring Hill Suites
in Miami's Berg near the Dayton Mall at 417 North
Springboro Pike. So if you're in the area stop
by and if not give us a call. We'll be interviewing
some of the audience members who are here and
we're giving a few things away and we have some
surprise appearances hopefully coming up. and
we'll be taking calls from listeners and interviewing
people here about your favorite part of Hamvention.
And if you're on the road, we'd love for you
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just a little bit. And again, we want to mention
the open house at the Voice of America Museum
of Broadcasting. That's going on tomorrow and
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So we're sharing our Hamvention stories and last
year I shared one of my favorite Hamvention stories.
We talked about the rhythm of the code song and
we played the rhythm of the code song then and
I remember what back Phil Kawa who wrote the
song was playing that over and over and over
and over again and It's kind of driving everybody
crazy, but we had to get one just for the sheer
novelty of it And so we talked about that. So
This year I was thinking okay. We got to come
up with another favorite Hamvention story, so
I went through a couple, but the one that kind
of stuck out in my mind to tell was one time
I took a friend of mine, Tom, KE9ZV from Evansville
over here to Dayton -Hanvich. Now, Tom was blind.
And so Tom couldn't see. And so we decided...
uh to get on the repeater the local repeater
as we were leaving town and so he had his handheld
and i had my mobile rig and so we started talking
to each other through the repeater and of course
you know i'm driving because he obviously can't
but so he calls me on the repeater and so i start
talking to him back and forth on the repeater
oh hey neil where are you uh uh well you know
well i'm i'm here on the highway where are you
you know oh i'm just going down the highway you
know and so you know everybody you know so everybody
could hear you know what why wait a minute what's
going on here tom can't drive and you know and
so we were actually in the same car just uh on
the way to Dayton so that was that was a that
was a good Hamvention story so anyway Tom if
you're listening uh hope you hope you're doing
well and uh and can get back to Hamvention at
some point so that was uh KE9ZV Well, I hope
you'll call and share your Hamvention stories
and we have some people lined up here in the
interview chair and we'll take your calls also.
And that number call is 812 -NET -HAM -1. 812
-638 -4261. So we're going to take a quick break
and then we'll be back with your Hamvention stories
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tonight's show is all about celebrating the event
that is the Dayton Hamvention. We'd like to get
as many of you on the air as possible. And we've
got folks on the way to Dayton and some folks
that can't make it. So regardless, we want to
hear from you. So tell us what your favorite
thing is during Hamvention. What you absolutely
positively can't leave without buying or your
favorite story from past Hamventions. So we don't
have a scheduled guest this evening. You are
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And each night of our Hamvention previews, we've
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Hope you can you can do that and that's the the
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to Emmett over at radio waves for doing that.
So yesterday on the way in I Did a little bit
of Facebook live so you can you can check that
out on Facebook if you want to and I took a little
shortcut through and went out by hair arena and
I thought you know Certainly somebody is going
to show up at Harrow Arena thinking. It's Hamvention
Weekend. It's always at Harrow Arena. Somebody's
going to show up. So I thought, well, we'll go
by there and see. And there wasn't anybody there.
But I did get a little video of everything outside.
And it was kind of fun to be able to drive through
the flea market, because normally you can't drive
through there. It was kind of fun. It was kind
of fulfilling, in a way. But I did open up the
window and yelled, um, Hey, it's in Xenia this
year. It's not here. So maybe that worked, but,
but, you know, it sounds like something that
Dawn Wilbanks would do. And as it would have
it, Dawn Wilbanks, the person who's been on ham
talk live more than any other person on the planet,
AE five DW is sitting right here. laughing at
me. So Don, how was the trip and why are you
laughing? Well, as far as the trip, the best
thing you can say about a 14 -hour drive that
begins at 2 o 'clock in the morning after three
hours of sleep is that it was uneventful. So,
and we're all laughing at you, Neil. We always
all laugh at you. As I'm sitting here listening
to your preamble about Hamvention stories, It's
not a story that happened to me, but it happened
to a friend of mine who is a broadcast engineer
at I Heart Media in New Orleans where I work,
and he's a ham. I can never remember for the
life of me his call because he's really not active
in ham radio. He's too busy working on broadcast
transmitters. But several years when they would
make regular trips to Dayton, they would set
up a two -meter repeater in the trunk of the
car. an operating two meter repeater in the trunk
of the car and invariably somebody would find
it and They would be talking on it. So they're
driving along listening to other people talk
on their repeater. And so People are just marveling
about My god, we've been talking on this thing
for two hours. I wonder where this repeater is
Can you imagine this the the the pattern? I mean
the footprint this repeater must have so Tom
would you know pull over for an hour and eat
and not think anything of it, and get back in
the car, and of course the repeater's dead. They'd
be driving down the road, those two guys would
pop back up, son of a gun, this thing's back,
this is up, this must be like the world's biggest
mega repeater or something, just laughing about
that. So funny stuff, the fun you can have up
here with things in and around Hamvention. Just...
The thing I always look forward to is the camaraderie
and people that that you get to meet up here
This may be the only the only time you'll ever
get to see them Ever especially if it's someone
who lives on the other side of the planet like
my friend Simon from New Zealand who was who
was over here You know the only time I get to
see him unless he comes to New Orleans like he
did we had lunch last week, which was a heck
of a time, is at Hamvention. And that's the beauty
of this place, in that it is the biggest gathering
of amateur radio operators on the planet, and
therefore we all get to see people that we may
have only talked to or only hoped to talk to.
So that's the beauty of Hamvention. I'm looking
forward to the first year in Xenia. I think it's
gonna be great, Neil, I really do. Yeah, it's
been it's been kind of fun because a bunch of
us newsline people Decided to show up. In fact,
we've got quite a few of us here in the room
right now and and Karen was just texting She's
she's still on the way. And so she's saying oh,
I wish I could be there right now but she's gonna
try to stream it in the car and and call in but
We've got a bunch of us and while you and I have
met and seen each other a few times here and
there, but a lot of us have been working on Newsline
and haven't really met each other in person before.
So it's going to be an interesting time and going
to have a booth again out at Hamvention. So tell
us about the Newsline booth that's going to be
out there. The beauty of this is you know we've
always had a nice relationship with the rain
report and so anytime that that Bill Pasternak
or any of us wanted to go and have a little booth
space we could always go hang out with HAP Holley
in the rain report. Well this year we're going
to be through the generosity of a certain microphone
manufacturer, Mr. Bob Heil, K9EID and through
you know our association with ham nation we are
part of the ham nation booth right there in um
i suppose what will be the new audio alley um
they're in building five uh what's the booth
uh 5305 uh paul brown w89 gco uh from newsline
tells us that so and uh it's it's a little bit
smaller area that that bob has this year but
there's a great big open double door like a big,
huge garage door, load in door that's right there.
So there's plenty of room for people to come
up and, and hang out and meet the, uh, the ham
nation crew and the, and the newsline crew. So
that's going to be a lot of fun. And thanks to,
uh, to Bob and Sarah Hile and Hile sound, uh,
for, for that great opportunity. We've got a
banner that Bob made for us. And so it's, uh,
yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun. So it's
a new beginning. Yeah. It should be, uh, should
be good and we'll get a chance to spread the
word a little bit about Newsline and should be
good. So Don mentioned Paul Brown, WD9GCO. He's
also here this evening and been making some plans
for the Newsline booth. So speak up here, Paul.
Hey Neil, nice to be here. Yeah, I've been to
Dayton several times in the past, but this is
gonna be the first time, because I've been with
Newsline just a little over a year now, so this
will be the first time officially as somebody,
other than just, you know, wandering around.
And Kevin and I were just over there checking
it out a little while ago. So, yeah, there's
space to mingle, and we'd love to meet the listeners,
because, you know, you and I, and those of us
that... produce the on -air stuff we sit in our
basements and we record this stuff and you never
actually see who's listening to it. So this is
a this is a good opportunity for us to actually
realize that people actually listen and it's
fun to meet them and listen to them tell you
know how long they've been listening to Newsline
and what they like about it and it's really it
brings faces to it. So that's what I'm looking
forward to. Other than just sitting in front
of a microphone and my computer recording stuff,
or talking to somebody on the phone, actually
meeting people in person is what I'm looking
forward to. Now you've got some flyers to give
out, some little information on Newsline to do
that, and a few other things that we'll let people
find out about when they get there. Yeah. At
least until they you know last My I didn't have
time to make it make enough, but it's gonna be
30 ,000 people here this weekend So but if you
get there while we still have some we have little
you know little little flyers that list all of
our website and the Facebook page and and some
information about us and We'd love to have you
share that with your friends if you If you have
a local repeater that doesn't carry Newsline,
talk to the repeater owners and talk to them
about carrying it once a week. I did that with
a friend of mine that owns a repeater in our
area, and we started a Thursday evening information
net where we start out by playing Newsline and
then we just take casual check -ins to just talk
about whatever. So it's already on a lot of repeaters,
but if it's not on your repeater, talk to the
repeater. the club or the repeater owners and
see about getting it. It doesn't cost them anything
and it's a good service for the listeners and
it gives them a nice source for news stories
that they may not have heard about our hobby.
Very good. Well, before we go to break here,
any favorite Hamvention stories from the past
and or what are you looking for this weekend
to buy? No particularly crazy stories from the
past. It's always just been fun. And it's always
a good time to get to see and drool over the
equipment that costs about the same as my car.
So, but I kind of already picked out what I'm
getting. I've made arrangements ahead of time.
I'm getting a, cause you and I are Kenwood guys.
And I've made contact with somebody I'm getting
a piece of equipment that I've always wanted.
And that's the SM220 station monitor, which will
look really nice between my 520 and my 820. So
and I need a dual band antenna. So that's what
I'm going to be picking up. But mostly it's it's
all about, you know, meeting the news line listeners.
So that's I'm going to be spending most of my
time, I think, around the booth. So. All right,
very good. Well, if you get out there, make sure
you, uh, you check out the booth against 5305.
Yeah. 5305. So, um, stop by there and, uh, and
visit us. And we've got some more of us. Uh,
we've got Jim Dameron here. We've got Kevin Trotman
here, uh, from news line. So, uh, they're all
here with us tonight. So We may hear more from
them, but we'd like to hear from you. So give
us a call. 812 -NAT -HAM -1 is the phone number.
812 -638 -4261 or you can Skype us or you can
tweet us. Tell us what your favorite Hamvention
story is, what you're looking for at Hamvention
or what you wish you could be looking for at
Hamvention. Give us a call and and chime in here
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It's the new squirrel herself Karen Eve Murray
Katie to GT. I Karen Hello Neil, hello from westbound
route 70. I am en route to Hamvention and wanted
to check in with you guys. All right, well have
you been able to listen here? I know you said
you were going to try to. Yep, the connections
are a little sporadic but I've been able to listen
and I will be listening till the end of the broadcast.
All right, very good. Well, what are you looking
for at Dayton this year? I am looking for eyeball
quesos I'm looking to connect with as many of
our friends and listeners as possible during
the two days at the fairgrounds Getting to meet
as many folks as I can getting a sneak peek at
some of the new technology some of the new radios
and exercising extreme restraint in going home.
Yes, that's that's going to be hard to do. So
yeah, good luck with that one. So all right.
Well, be careful on on the road and and we're
looking forward to seeing you. Yes, absolutely.
Great show, Neil. Take care. See you soon. Alright
Karen, thanks for calling. That's Karen Eve Murray
KD2GUT on the road and you can give us a call
too at 812 -638 -4261 or Skype us at HamTalk
Live and we'd love to hear from you and see what
what your plans are for Hamvention. We had a
couple of calls lined up. We haven't heard from
them yet, but we had our man on the street reporter
we were going to check in with out there and
a couple of celebrities, but we haven't heard
from them yet. So hopefully they'll give us a
call here. It's 812 -638 -4261. Everybody seems
to have mic fright here in the room, but we're
gonna convince Kevin here, N5PRE, to say a little
something. He drove up from South Carolina today
and he's our Newsline website administrator.
So Kevin, what do you think? How was the drive
and what are you looking forward to this weekend?
Hey, Neil, thanks for asking me to be on. It
was a longer drive than I expected. According
to Waze, it was supposed to be nine hours, but
talking with Don, his... He always adds a couple
of hours every time he goes on a long journey
like this. And that's pretty wise because you
got to make stops every now and then because
it's so long. You have to have to get something
to eat. And then, of course, if you drink too
much water, then you have to take care of that
as well. But the thing that got me the most was
how much construction there was between where
I live and here. And that's what caused most
of the delay. But talk about beautiful scenery.
I just had a wonderful time looking at all the
countryside, seeing the mountains, the Smoky
Mountains, everything, you know, it was just
great. So I enjoyed that part. But I'm a little
tired now, you know, but I'm so excited about
being here. This is my first time at Ham Finch
and I'm looking forward to, like Karen, doing
a lot of eyeball QSOs. There's a lot of people
I've talked to and a lot of people I know. I've
been doing the podcast for amateur radio newsline
for about 11 years now. I recently dug up the
email that I sent to Bill Pasternak and asked
him after the fact if it was okay for me to do
the podcast because I noticed that it stopped.
They had one at one time and it stopped and then
I took it upon myself just so I could listen
to it on my iPhone. I took it upon myself to
go ahead and do it. And he says, I'm glad you
did. So he was really happy. So that's how I
got to be part of that family. And I just realized
it was 11 years the other day that I've been
doing it. So he also invited me to help with
the website. So that's what I'm also doing. And
that's how I can contribute to the amateur radio
newsline community. But I am so looking forward
to taking a lot of pictures and seeing as much
as I can the next few days. But thank you. Very
good, Kevin. Thanks for coming up and chiming
in here on this. And thanks for all you do to
make Newsline out there on the internet and podcast
forum and online as well for downloading and
all that with the EchoLink and everything. We
we just want to remind everybody AR newsline
org is the place to get all of that and we've
got Got a new look. Thanks to Kevin and and Moved
some things around there. So make sure you you
check that out. Well 812 638 4261 is the phone
number if you'd like to call in. We've got a
few more minutes that we're going to hang out
here and talk about Hamvention. We've been listening
to the talk in a little bit and heard them say
that the parking lots are opening up at 7 a .m.
in the morning and if you haven't heard in the
last week or two they've got some remote parking
facilities and some shuttle bus service from
those and they're really encouraging carpooling
and that kind of thing but you really need to
go to the official website hamvention .org and
check out the maps and check out the the parking
situation and some of the traffic information
beforehand if you possibly can. They've got some
maps up there now. They also have the forums
that will be streamed, so if you're not able
to make it to Hamvention, you want to see some
of those. forums, those will be streamed on Ustream
on DeraLive is the username on there. And you'll
be able to catch several of those forums and
both the ones that I'm going to be with tomorrow,
the instructors forum and then the youth forum
on Saturday. Both of those are on the list there.
So make sure you check that out over at hamvention
.org. I got to talk to Michael Coulter. briefly
today and was able to do some streaming over
at Contest University. So I've kind of been going
at it since early this morning with all the broadcast
stuff today. I'm getting worn out and we haven't
even started yet. Traffic was a little ugly coming
back from Contest University today too, so I
guess there was a wreck on 75. and kind of mess
things up so make sure you check out those plans
ahead of time so that you know and where you're
going and especially if you're going to forums
and meetings and things give yourself a little
extra time because everybody's gonna have to
learn where everything is and how to get there
and and what's going on and and the the talking
frequency has already been busy so make sure
you you check that out and And get on the air
and and and if you get on a repeater there is
this thing called an offset That was one of the
things I heard on the way back was somebody was
calling on one four six nine four simplex and
didn't understand why the Talk -in guy wasn't
coming back to them because he was on simplex,
but I happened to be where I could hear the guy
apparently so Anyway, make sure you get the PL
tone in there and the negative offset and get
that going. And you can get some talk in assistance.
There are some alternate talk ins as well, as
well as the bulletin that's going to be sent
out repeatedly. So make sure you check out hamvention
.org for all the official information. So check
that out. Again, the phone number is 812 -638
-4261. We have just a few minutes remaining,
so we'd love for you to call in and tell us one
of your Hamvention stories or something about
Hamvention. Or if you have something you want
to ask about, we'll do our best to help you out
with that. But we'd love to hear from you. We
had hoped to have our man on the street report
to start going through some of the parking lots
and figuring out how many ham call signs There
were so I don't know where where they're at.
They must have got got sidetracked in our Associate
producer had to go on a canine search and rescue
Right before we went to air. So Nick, hope you're
you're doing well with that and We miss having
you here So Don, you had that big long drive.
How many ham radio license plates did you see
on the drive? I didn't see all that many. I wasn't
really paying close attention to the license
plates. I was paying more attention to what the
drivers were doing with the cars that the license
plates were mounted on. and nursing a 17 year
old car with 191 ,000 miles on it on a 1600 mile
round trip road trip. So I wasn't really doing
much sightseeing outside of the car. I did see
a few. I suspect we'll see a whole lot in the
parking lot tomorrow and that's going to be a
lot of fun. Invariably I'll drive my car around
and someone will see mine and they'll honk at
me or wave or something if they recognize it.
Oh, it's the way I drive. Thanks. Thanks, Kevin.
Yeah. Yeah, another country heard from Trotman
that chimes in. So that's yeah, I'm looking forward
to seeing just you could probably work all states
just visually with the license plates that are
going to be here and probably get your DXCC as
well. Getting back to Newsline. Don't forget
if you're going to go on ARNewsline .org, check
out the Young Ham of the Year section, Y -H -O
-T -Y. tab at the top you have until the end
of this month end of May 31st to get your nominations
in for Young Ham of the Year which we will present
three months from this weekend at the Huntsville
Alabama Ham Fest Neil. Very good now I should
say a couple of things one is that the worked
all states thing That's one of the things Julie
did last year was she had to get her steps in.
She's got the Fitbit thing going. And so she
had to try to get all 50 states in the parking
lot at Harrah Arena. And so she got pretty close.
She got quite a few of those. The other thing
that brought to mind is Jim Dameron in ATMW's
coming up to the chair here, was now that we're
moved to Xenia, we're not going to have the issue.
Going down Main Street of Dayton with those electric
trolley lines because invariably somebody would
have one of those Texas bug catcher antennas
and they'd be driving down Main Street of Dayton
and and here come these electric trolley lines
overhead and They're driving down Main Street
With this great big antenna on the back And,
yeah, it acts just like a trolley pole. It does.
So that, yeah, we're not going to have to worry
about that in Xenia. So I guess that's another
good thing about the move. Well, Jim Dameron
is going to get the last word in tonight. He
drove in and is staying here as well, hanging
out with this rowdy newsline crew. By the way,
I want it to be noted that it is 9 .38 p .m.
and the Newsline crew is still awake. We were
accused of, you know, being a rowdy bunch that
would, you know, be asleep by 8 o 'clock. So
just want to note that it's 9 .40 and we're still
awake. So, yeah, sort of. Some of us anyway,
so Jim How are you and and tell us about the
trip and what you're looking forward to this
weekend? And who says we didn't get a nap before
the show started, you know Well, I tell you what
I'm just so excited to be here when Karen told
me That hey, we wanted to get together in Dayton
and meet all the crew Boy, I thought well, this
is great because you know, as you said earlier,
none of us most of us have never met And it's
just an honor for me to be here with all of you
folks and looking forward to the next couple
of days. And I enjoy doing news live and just,
you know, it's it's amazing how the program is
listened to and the people who hear it. And I
hear him talking about on our West Virginia phone
net from time to time. Our local I'm a member
of the Kanawha Amateur Radio Club in Charleston,
West Virginia, and Bill Hunter, K8BS for I don't
know how many years, decades, as long as Newsline
has been on, has been providing that program
on the net. In the early days, it recorded it
from the phone. Now, of course, downloads it.
And we appreciate Bill doing that. It used to
be carried on another repeater in the area. It's
not now, but hopefully they'll get back to that.
But I was eating tonight when I got in about
530 and some folks across the table from me,
across the room from me, came over and the gentleman
said, you're Dameron, aren't you Jim Dameron?
And he said, K8MW. I said, N8MW. He said, yeah.
He said, I used to be in Charleston, but I used
to listen to Newsline. And he lives in Columbus
now. So I was honored that he even knew who I
was. like here I am in Dayton thought I was hiding.
He said what are you doing here in Dayton? I
said well I heard that actually this area was
a great vacation spot so I thought I'd come over
for the weekend but anyway I have no particular
plans of things I want to buy tomorrow but mainly
I just want to meet listeners and of course meet
all of you folks and I've been I met this is
sad I know I'm only like three and a half four
hours away. I live in Charleston. But this is
the first time I've been to Dayton since 2000.
So it's been quite a while. So it's great to
be back and of course I met Bill Pasternak here
and it was an honor to meet him and to have worked
with him over the years. But it's a joy for me
to be a part of this esteemed group. This steamy
group. And by the way, I like that steamy voice
you did earlier. Was that you? Thank you very
much. Yeah, no, that was not me. That was Lee
Morgan. But yeah, that was not me. Well, Jim,
thanks for coming and thanks for being on the
show. And again, just want to remind everybody
to check out those. frequencies and directions
and everything tomorrow and we'll see how this
all goes and hopefully the weather will cooperate
with us and we'll just have a great time out
at Hamvention so hope you can Enjoy it, whether
you're here in person or if you watch some of
the streaming video from several different places
that will be on, we hope you can join in and
enjoy the event that is the Dayton Hamvention.
So we're going to wrap things up for tonight.
I got that in. Yeah. Paul says. He sees why he
is there. Yeah, and Hammy's in the house. So
Hammy's here. So we got to get Hammy ready to
go. So we'll look for those pictures online.
Don't forget about that. Tweet your picture with
Hammy to HamTalk Live. And we're going to pick
a winner for that DX80 dipole from Radio Waves.
So thanks to everybody for coming. participating
in the show tonight and listening and just hanging
out in here. We've got several people in here
tonight. So thank you all for, for making the
trip over here and coming and showing up. We
invite you back next Thursday night at 9 p .m
Tom Vinson NY0V is going to be back on the show
but this time he's talking about something that
I never thought I'd be doing a show about. He
did a search for Amelia Earhart. and it has a
ham radio connection so next week tune in for
that and and we'll get the connection between
ham radio and his search for Amelia Earhart and
for a list of all of our upcoming guests visit
hamtalklive .com so for now this is Neil Rapp
WB9VPG saying 7375 from Dayton and may the good
DX be yours Bye!