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Good evening, everyone. It's HamTalk Live! It's
episode number 64. HamVenture Award winners 2017
recorded live on Thursday, May 11th, 2017. I'm
your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning
into this episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight, we're
gonna... on our Dayton Hamvention preview again,
as we will introduce this year's Hamvention award
winners to you. And we are joined once again
by Michael Coulter, WHCI, the official spokesperson
of the Dayton Hamvention. And we're also joined
by some of the award winners. So we'll take your
calls live in just a few minutes. And last week,
Michael was here to talk about the latest plans
for Hamvention. And he mentioned to me before
the show that if you still have some questions
about things going on at Hamvention, make sure
you drop him an email on he's good on qrz .com
at w eight. CI, Whiskey8CharlieIndia on QRZ if
you have some questions about logistics and things
over at Hamvention happening next weekend. So
if you still have something going on, let him
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So you can catch us there as well. So tonight
continues our official countdown to the Dayton
Hamvention with a series of previews of upcoming
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way to one lucky winner each week. So later in
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And congratulations to last week's winner. It
was Joe, K -Zero, N -E -B. so he'll be receiving
his DX80 from Radio Waves. So again, we want
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They will have a booth at Hamvention as well.
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Michael Coulter, W8CI, back with us tonight.
He's the official spokesperson of the Dayton
Hamvention, and he's here tonight on behalf of
Dara to recognize this year's award winners.
We also have Frank Bauer, KA3 HDO, who was on
the show just a few weeks ago. He's the winner
of Amateur of the Year this year, and we also
have Rob Moen, VU2MYH. the special achievement
award winner. So guys, thanks for coming on the
show and taking time out to do this tonight.
All right. This is Michael Whiskey, eight Charlie
India and Neil, it's it's wonderful to be on
on your program again. Thank you for your support
for amateur radio. And, you know, as a good communicator
and communicating about what's happened. being
at Hamvention, we're all very grateful for that.
And I think you run a very professional program,
and you take this so seriously. Anyway, I would
like to take the opportunity to introduce the
Amateur of the Year, Mr. Frank Bauer, Kilo Alpha
3 HDO, high definition. operator, and Frank currently
serves as the International Chairman of the International
Space Station Amateur Radio. Let me get it right.
It's amateur radio on the International Space
Station. A little bit about Frank. In the mid
-1990s, he proposed a GPS reception experiment
on the AMSAT phase 3D satellite, which you might
know as AO -40. experiment was to measure the
signal strength of the GPS satellite constellation
while phase 3D was in high Earth orbit. The AL
-40 experiment subsequently had been cited often
in aerospace literature and it remained the most
comprehensive above the constellation data source
for nearly a decade and led to changes in the
system specifications and applications. He holds
a bachelor's and master's degree in aeronautics
and astronautics from Purdue University. By the
way, it's a school where my daughter got her
engineering degree from. His career in aerospace
spans four decades within NASA. and in private
industry. He's been licensed since 1974 and in
83 in preparation for the space mission of Owen
Garriott W -5 LFL. He was responsible for setting
up and operating worldwide retransmission of
space shuttle air to ground communications from
Goddard Amateur Radio Club station WA3NAN. You
know, I remember driving around in my car listening
to that, and I'd tell my friends, I'd say, hey,
you want to hear? Let me turn this on for you.
And they were really very impressed. So thanks
for that, Frank. I'm still going to impress my
friends easily. Anyway, Frank's been up to a
whole lot of things, and I would like for him
to tell you about some of the things that he's
doing. And because we've always been impressed
and have our eye on Frank and he just rose to
the top this year of our list. And I'll tell
you the competition is very, very difficult,
very tough for amateur of the year. So Frank,
with that, tell us a little bit about what you're
up to now and go ahead and shamelessly plug Eris
and some of the other things that you're doing.
Sure thing, Michael, and thank you, and thank
you, Neil, for having this opportunity to talk
today. Yeah, ARIS is, I'll say, it's a really
phenomenal program. I am really impressed with
the volunteer team across the world. You know,
in the United States, both ARL and AMSAT do a
phenomenal job supporting the program, as well
as some of our sponsors, CASIS and the space
communications navigation organization in nasa
you know we are uh... it's hard to believe that
uh... two weeks after the first crew came on
board uh... we inaugurated the image radio station
and we've been operational ever since and so
that was that was back in november of two thousand
and uh... since then we've done over uh... uh...
a thousand contacts were almost up to eleven
hundred contacts at this point and uh... What
the team has accomplished has been phenomenal.
Being able to allow hams around the world to
talk to the astronauts on orbit, when we get
a crew member that's interested in talking to
hams on the ground, and all of the students and
getting students excited about amateur radio.
That's a very important thing, not only excited,
but actually getting licensed. The interesting
thing is, it's not just the students that get
interested in licensed, even the adults. Actually,
the head of the education group at CASIS used
to be a ham, and then he got relicensed from
his experiences with ARIS. I feel very strongly
that the program You know, its primary goal is
to interest, get students inspired and educated
on getting employed in STEM careers. In other
words, science, technology, engineering, math.
But a critical piece of, you know, one of the
important facets of ARIS is also getting the
general public aware of amateur radio and interested
enough to actually become part of our hobby.
Well, you know, Frank. We use examples of all
the time when we try to persuade people, getting
involved in amateur radio, the ability to be
able to talk to an astronaut. I mean, what a
great way to spend your time, you know, spending
around the Earth and talking to children all
over the Earth. And the work that you've done
there has been to make sure that happens. And
now you have some youth activities going on as
well, don't you? Youth activities from an Eris
perspective or other things? Yes, the Eris perspective.
Don't you make contacts with different schools?
Not you, but the astronauts as they orbit the
Earth? Yes, so that everybody understands Eris.
An important piece of it is that we have this
international team, and we are working with students
and allowing them to talk to the astronauts for
about 10 minutes when the space station goes
overhead in their area. As part of that, it's
a whole buildup of education. They learn about
amateur radio. wireless technologies, they learn
about space, they learn about orbits, and how
when the space station comes overhead, they learn
about what the astronauts are doing on board,
what kind of research they're doing, and that
excites them and gets them interested in the
fact that, you know, science and engineering
are actually very exciting activities to be involved
in, and they get this hands -on, the beauty of
ARIS. is that the students actually get hands
-on experience. They get to pick up the microphone,
talk to the astronauts, and as part of that,
every contact, which we're doing about 60 to
80 contacts a year, in other words, at least
one to two a week, every one of these contacts
for each school is a tremendous learning experience.
So in that regard, yes. And we do them in schools,
we do them in large activities like conferences,
and we do this moon day activity in Dallas, which
is celebrating the Apollo 11 moon landing. And
so we're doing these things many times a week,
and like I said, about 60, 80 times a year. That's,
that's the information that I wanted to hear
too, Frank. Thank you. We got just a couple of
minutes. Is that right? Uh, for before our first
break, Neil? Yeah, we got about five minutes
or so. Okay. Let me ask you, Frank, um, since
you've been, um, an amateur radio operator, I
know I'm going to catch off guard with this question,
but, but one of the most exciting things that,
that, that you have seen as an amateur radio
operator. Maybe working with the heiress or another
organization. Can you relay a little bit of that
in just a few minutes? Yeah, you know I want
to yeah, I want to say something about amateur
radio and you know the fact that What amateur
radio has done for my career if you will? And
and I think you you hit on it when you talked
about the GPS activities And and how that actually
affects amateur radio is affecting humans, you
know around the world so I got involved in ham
radio, and I would not have gotten involved in
GPS if I didn't have that ham radio experience.
My background is guidance, navigation, and control,
and GPS, of course, is navigation. But there's
a substantial amount, as you're aware, in GPS
of RF, and getting comfortable with that through
amateur radio allowed me, and I will say, in
multiple veins, my Work career and my image radio
career. I'll call it collided in a positive way
multiple times and So, you know, I can't say
anything, you know The image radio activities
and community is a tremendous capability that
has allowed things to happen. So relative to
GPS, what we are able to do is actually demonstrate
that you can use GPS at very high altitudes.
So one of the most important altitudes in space
is around the geostationary belt, where a lot
of communication satellites and Earth weather
satellites are. So we demonstrated through that
experiment on phase 3D, AO40, the ability that
you can actually use GPS at those altitudes and
even beyond that. And because of that now, the
most recent weather satellite, GOES weather satellite,
now is using GPS for navigation. And it's getting
tremendously better images from space and weather
predictions from space. amateur radio, through
amateur radio, through both the MSAT activity
on AO40, as well as that experience of amateur
radio, allowed that to happen to the point where
our weather satellite data, the actual forecasting,
is going to improve from a five -day forecast
to a seven -day forecast. And there's tremendously
better warnings that are going to happen for
tornadoes and things like that so this is so
you know this is that melding of amateur radio
into other activities scientific activities and
engineering activities where this hobby is just
phenomenal and I'm I'll say I'm forever forever
grateful for the fact that I got involved in
amateur radio because it has helped my career
and it has helped you know everyone on earth
from that perspective You know Frank you are
so humble In your accomplishments and you're
giving back to amateur radio I think that we're
all you know I know our club has been pretty
in awe of The things that you've accomplished
and I know and I know it isn't all you a lot
of it is your team but the ability to lead a
team around the world and to have an effect on
so many amateur radio operators around the world.
And not only that, to do things to prepare for
tornadoes. I know in Ohio we get a lot of tornadoes.
So at any rate, I really appreciate understanding
that a little bit more and understanding what
you're doing. So, Neil, let me turn it back to
you if you need to take a break. Yeah, we do,
but we need to get, tell you what, let's do it.
Let's go ahead and get Rom and then we'll save
Rob for after the break and the club we need
to do after the break and we kind of need to
move along so we have a little bit of time for
questions. So why don't you go ahead and talk
to Rom for a bit. Okay, really good. So thank
you again, Frank, and I think we'll be back to
you. All right, our special achievement winner
this year is Ram Mohan, Victor United II, Mike
Yankee Hotel. And Ram is the executive vice chairman
and director of the National Institute of Amateur
Radio in Hyderabad, India. And he was licensed
as a radio amateur grade one since 1988. and
he's conducted a number of experiments on HF
and VHF communication equipment and has carried
out a lot of propagation tests, organized training
programs. He's organized the expeditions, workshops,
and general amateur radio activities including
public service communication. He's done So many
things. You know, one of the things that he has
done is he's worked in a lot of emergency situations,
not just sitting there in Hyderabad at their
station there, but he actually, in the Nepal
earthquake, he led a group up there of Indian
amateurs that actually were on the ground setting
up communications and working to to help rescue
people and reestablish the communications in
that area. So he's done a lot for youth. He does
a lot for, he meets with lots of government officials
throughout India. He's traveling around there
all the time to be a real disciple for amateur
radio. And I know he's done a lot to streamline
their testing process. So with that, Ram, why
don't you talk just a little bit about what you
do. Yeah, very good. Good morning to all of you,
Michael, Frank and Neil. And thank you very much
for having me on the show today. And it's really
exciting to be here talking to all of you. And
thank you all for the kind words. Firstly, amateur
radio in India is also a very exciting activity
for the youth. Many young people in India want
to be in touch with the STEM activities and get
involved into amateur radio. Awareness of this
activity in India is still on the lower side,
I could say. We are just trying to introduce
and create awareness on the activities for the
youth to get involved. and enjoy and have fun
and interacting with people all over the world,
get to learn things about wireless communications
as they practice the art of amateur radio. And
interestingly, it has grown into leaps and bounds.
A lot of young people are getting involved into
the activity. They are all excited to get into
the world of amateur radio. do -it -yourself
concept helps in building a skill for them and
lot of technical institutes are coming forward
and they encourage the students to get involved
in amateur radio. It is our effort to take the
message across to all the young people who want
to get involved into amateur radio activity.
When we are in India, it requires a lot of support
from the government agencies and others also
because of the regulations and opening up the
things. Amateur radio licensing is not as easy
as you get in the United States. They go through
a lot of process. And sometimes it takes about
a year to get a license. But in the recent times,
and with all the effort that has been put in
over the years, now you could get a ham license
in about a month. So it attracts more and more
young people to get involved into the activity.
And depending on the individual interests, some
of them take up building their own radios from
the kids that are locally available in the market.
Some of them get involved in social service activities
or public service communication. So it's a good
support all around that we get in India. Ron,
would you mind talking a minute about your...
Ron, could you talk a minute about the Nepal
earthquake and your efforts to help people there?
Yes, Michael. When the incident happened in Nepal
in the month of May 2015, a team of operators
from India, we were given an opportunity to come
to Kathmandu and help the local amateur radio
operators. set up the amateur radio stations
and provide communications in the remote areas
which are very far and very badly affected after
the earthquake. and we teamed up with the local
Nepal amateur radio operators because they have
the license to operate the radio stations and
we had the experience of working in similar situations
back in India. So it helped us both ways and
we could go around different places, set up communications
for the groups which are working to help local
people and provide communications like the scouts
and guides working there and other organizations
providing health and medical support, the NGOs
which needed communications for conducting their
emergency operations and things like that. And
it really worked out. very well as a team we
worked along with the Nepal amateur radio operators
and it was a wonderful occasion and even I myself
went on to take a local amateur radio license
in Nepal at that point in time and it was a very
good support coming locally in Nepal and also
from us many hams from India traveling all the
way to Nepal. It's a different country, so we
took the effort to go there and help us. And
the government of India also provided us a little
support of transporting hams from India to Kathmandu
at that point in time did really help. Yeah,
that was amazing. I know that I had the very
good fortune of being in contact with you. And
just a quick story is I received an email from
a gentleman who knew I was in contact with Ram
in Nepal and his wife was stranded on a bus and
there were quite a few people on this bus and
they were going from Nepal to Kathmandu and we
got the GPS coordinates to Ram and then we found
out later that there were 19 people that were
rescued shortly after that by helicopters thanks
to the fact that he was there and had good communications.
It's funny how amateur radio works. Rom has also,
you've been involved in some other major disasters.
Can you just mention some of those that have
happened? Michael, we need to, I'm sorry, you'll
go ahead. We need to kind of hurry up. We're
running behind here, so. Okay. Rom, go ahead
and do that. We'll just do it quickly. Yeah.
In India, we have several kinds of natural calamities
hitting the region, really pretty bad ones. The
ones that happened in Gujarat in 2001, the earthquake
took a toll on a lot of people. and there was
a major disaster and hams could provide instant
communications at that point in time. The Orissa
super cyclone of 1999 was a major disaster here
in India and the tsunami of 2004 in the Andaman
Nicobar Islands where hams from India could go
on and help communications for the administration
from different islands. of this and I thank Michael
and Hamvention at that point in time recognized
the services and gave the special achievement
award for one of our team leader Mrs. Bharti
Prasad who handled all the communications and
we were all part of that particular team and
helped out the administration at that point in
time and And we are very fortunate that the award
comes back to our organization again after so
many years. And we thank the Hamvention and the
awards committee for selecting us. All right,
Ram, I'm going to... We're to help Neil out back
to you, Neil. All right. Thanks. Yeah. Thank
you, Rahman. And congratulations to all the winners.
Uh, indeed very deserving, uh, amateur radio
operators in their respective fields. And we'll
talk about the other two awards when we come
back, uh, the club of the year. And also, uh,
we'll, um, We'll catch up on the technical achievement
award quickly when we come back and then we'll
take your calls right after this right here on
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take your calls, Michael, we need to catch up
here just a minute with the Technical Achievement
Award and the Club of the Year. Okay, I'm going
to be real brief. There's plenty of detail on
our website at hamvention .org, but our technical
achievement winner is Rob Brownstein, K6RB, and
he has been very instrumental. He founded the
CW Operators Club, CW Ops, and then he's also
worked really hard with CW Academy. What Rob
is doing and why we're really excited about his
work is that using CW to communicate again and
to keep that alive, even though it's not a requirement,
he's getting so many people excited into using
that mode. So we're looking forward to finding
out more about Rob and looking forward to him
coming to Also, the Club of the Year, an amazing
club, the Clark County Amateur Radio Club, and
they serve the Southwest Washington and Northwest
Oregon area. And they have, I mean, they've just
knocked it out of the park with everything that
they do. You know, we think that Dara is a good
club, but I look at their website and find out
all the great things that they're doing. It's
really a very active club doing a lot of amazing
things. So we're looking forward to seeing them
come to Dayton and we hope that you take a little
bit of time and study a little bit more about
them. I would look at their website, the WS7
Alpha India Alpha website. It's a very nice club
website. You'll see for yourself. what they accomplished.
Anyway, so with that being said, I don't want
to take away from those two other winners, but
since we have Ram here from India and Frank from,
I'm not even sure where Frank is right now. He
could be in Washington. You never know where
Frank is. Where are you, Frank, anyway? Today
I'm in Maryland. Oh, right, he's in Maryland.
Okay. All right. So what do, what kind of questions
do we have? Yeah. So let's, uh, let's open up
the lines. Eight one two net ham one eight one
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that. Frank, what what? What's your plans for
next week? What's your plans for for Hamvention?
Well, we have Of course, the ARIS team is going
to be in the AMSAT booth. We're in building one
room, booth 1007. And so I've got a number of
individuals, Rosalie White, K1STO will be there,
my ops lead. Dave Taylor, W8AAS. So there's a
bunch of us will be at the booth and willing
to answer questions. Of course, you know, one
of the big things we're working on right now
is a big radio upgrade of the ARIS equipment
called the Interoperable Radio System. So you'll
get to see that firsthand as part of our booth
and that includes a power supply that can operate
across both the Russian side, the US side, the
European side, and the whole space station, if
you will. And then we're going to be using a
Kenwood D710 that will be in the Columbus module
and in the Russian service module. Sounds pretty
cool. I have to stop by and see that. Check it
out. 812 -NET -HAM -1 is the phone number 812
-638 -4261. If you want to win the dipole and
chime in here, give us a call. And Ram, what
about you? What's your plans for next week? Yeah,
finally, thanks to Hamvention and Michael again.
We have a forum coming up on Sunday around 1030.
We'll be talking about the emergency communications
in this part of the world. And we will share
our experience to the participants there, how
we get to do things for emergency communications
in India. The region where we come from in India,
we have cities of disasters that strike. the
region and some of them are really very serious
ones and pretty bad dot causing huge damage to
life property and everything that comes across
so uh... it's just needed for people in this
region to be prepared and get trained and be
hands that can help our local communities at
any point in time. So we do concentrate and take
this seriously to help people locally here. So
that's what we have been successful in doing,
and we continue to do that. And we'd like to
share our experiences with the people there.
probably learn something new what's coming up
as frank has said something new is coming up
and we'll try to pick up some things from there
and learn what's happening very good well guys
thanks so much for taking time out to to come
on the show and oh we do have a call so let me
take that we've got about 60 seconds here so
uh caller go ahead hi This is Eric in 9KDB. How's
it going, Neil? Hi. It would be the best friend,
Eric, in 9KDB. What's going on, Eric? Well, believe
it or not, I actually know the answer to your
question. OK. Well, let's take the answer. So
Frank here, A3 HDO, is the chairman of? The amateur
radio on the International Space Station, or
ARIS. Very good. We got that right. No, we got
it right here. Yeah, there we go. We got the
right music now. So congratulations. Thanks for
the win on that. And you have a question here
to throw in. We got just a few seconds. No, no
question this evening. Just been enjoying listening
to you guys on a good interview there. All right.
Well, thanks for calling in. Appreciate it. Thank
you. We'll see you later. All right. We'll see
you later 7 -3 to you, too Well, hey, that's
a great show and guys. Thanks so much for coming
on that is rap For this week's Ham Talk Live,
thanks to Michael Coulter, WHCI from Hamvention,
Frank Bauer, KA3 HDO, the winner of Amateur of
the Year, and Rob Mohan, VU2MYH, the Special
Achievement Award winner, and also Rob Brownstein,
K6RB, we didn't get much of a chance to talk
about him, the Technical Achievement Award winner,
and the Club of the Year. We thank you all for
all that you do for Amateur Radio, and invite
Everybody back next Thursday night will be live
from Dayton. So stop by the Spring Hill Suites,
Miamisburg, if you can, at our usual time, nine
o 'clock. And for a list of all of our upcoming
guests, visit hamptalklive .com. So for now,
this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying seven three,
seven five, and may the good DX be yours. Thanks
for watching.