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everyone. It's HamTalk Live, episode number 62,
The Spurious Emissions Band, recorded live on
Thursday, April 27th, 2017. I'm your host, Neil
Rapp, WB9 VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this episode
of HamTalk Live. Tonight we continue our Dayton
Hamvention preview, as we'll be joined By the
spurious emissions band and we'll take your calls
live in just a few minutes. Last week on our
second preview show, Carol Perry, WB2MGP was
here to talk about the upcoming youth forum at
the Dayton Hamvention. And if you missed that
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continue our official countdown to Dayton as...
We have a series of previews of upcoming events
at Hamvention and around Hamvention. And Radio
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So congratulations JD, and thanks again for calling
in last week. Well, there's a lot going on on
Hamvention Weekend that we're not going to have
time to do shows about. may schedule some of
these next year but the QRP community has four
days in May prior to Hamvention and then there's
Contest University that you heard about two weeks
ago. that takes place the day beforehand, Vincent,
but let me do a couple of quick plugs here. First,
Carol Perry mentioned last week, and we ran out
of time to talk about it, that the forums, especially
hers, they have to start right on time. And since
it's a new venue, new buildings, and new traffic
patterns and everything, it may take a little
longer to get to things on time. So you want
to plan early and get there early so that you
can get there when they start because they will
have to start right on time. And there's so much
to do in such a little time, you know, that she's
got to do that. So make sure you leave a little
early. And also we want to mention again the
open house at the Voice of America Museum of
Broadcasting. on Friday night and Saturday afternoon
and evening. Check out voamuseum .org for that
information or wc8voa .org and they'll tell you
all about that. Also, we have that on our social
media site so that's a great evening activity
to go to as well as many others that are listed
over at contestsupersweet .com. There's some
contesting and DXing events going on. So you
can find all that information there. So make
sure you check that out. And one of the things
going on in the super suite is a concert. And
that's going to be given by our guests tonight,
the Spurious Emissions Band. So get your questions
ready to go. We're going to do the interview
with the entire band. And we actually pre -recorded
that. A few weeks ago when they were all together
rehearsing so a little different tonight part
of the show is pre -recorded but Couple of the
members are here live and I hear one of them
in the background high ward I haven't even had
time to say hi to you But anyway, they're they're
waiting here. So as soon as we finish playing
the interview and take our break We'll come back
and then we'll give you a chance to talk to Ward
silver and Kirk Pickering They're here tonight
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podcasting websites. Well, a few weeks ago, the
Spuri Submissions Band met for their annual rehearsal
in preparation for their concert at the Dayton
Hamvention. After the break, we'll be joined
by some of the band members to take your questions
live. But first, the interview segment tonight
was pre -recorded as the band was rehearsing,
so we could bring you all the band members at
once. So thanks to Sean Kutsko, KX9X, who is
the drummer in the band for taking care of the
Skype duties and making the recordings at the
rehearsal so we could get some better sound quality
for you and you'll have a chance to listen to
a song or two maybe. Pink Floyd, The Rolling
Stones, Peter Frampton, and The Eagles are all
but a few of the famous bands that haven't been
the opening act for the Spurious Emissions band.
So let's go ahead and get to that interview and
we'll be back in just a little bit. welcome back
to ham talk live tonight our guests are the spurious
emissions band members uh normally i read a bio
of everybody but it wouldn't be a true band interview
unless we weren't around let everybody introduce
themselves so guys uh let's let's find out who
the members of the spurious emissions band are
hi i'm inky I'm thinking. I'm not. Is this on?
Yeah. This award in 0AX. Hi, I'm Sean KX9X. Scott
W4PA. Kirk K4RO. Okay, now tell us a little bit
about the day jobs here a little bit so people
can associate those call signs with who you are.
OK, well, N0AX and editor for the ARL, handbook,
antenna book, ham radio for dummies, license
manuals, Mr. Guilty Party when it comes to information.
So that's what I do. That's my day job and I'm
glad to do it. Sean, KX9X, I'm the media and
public relations manager at ARRL, creator of
the National Parks on the Air program last year,
avid backpack QRP 'er, and satellite operator.
Hey, I'm Scott, W4PA, I'm the owner of VibroPlex
and International Radio and Venture and Vintage
Manuals Incorporated, and we distribute several
other lines of amateur radio equipment in the
United States, in addition to the ones we manufacture.
And I'm Kirk. I don't know what to say here.
I'm a 30 -year IT veteran and still do a lot
of Unix system administration for a day job.
And I'm a huge fan of old -time string band music.
I play fiddle and mandolin and banjo and other
things like that, pursuing that love. Very good.
Well, let's talk about the weekend job here.
The Spurry Submissions Band that you guys started
up back in... 2010, if I read correctly here.
Tell us how the band got started and how it came
about. Oh, this is Ward, N0AX. Kirk and I were
just playing around at the Dayton Hamvention.
Kirk brought his mandolin a couple times. I started
playing mandolin, and so we just started hacking
around together. And then Scott brought a...
guitar and we started playing in a hotel room
and we all like bluegrass, Grapefruit Dead, rock
and roll and at some point the idea of playing
some songs in the super suite hatched and nobody
stubbed it out quickly enough and so it sort
of got legs and I wrote a couple of songs, little
song lyrics, mangled some song lyrics for your
lion eyes by the Beatles and stuff like I mean
by the Eagles and Beatles tune or two and so
we just kind of wandered into the super suite
one time and banged on a beer bottle until we
cleared out enough sonic space had an audience
of about eight and and played away and that that
was the start of it and now we play once a year
Friday night Crowne Plaza Hotel we have our annual
rehearsal someplace. It's been at my house and
this year it's at Kirk's and we're having a good
time and when it stops being a good time we'll
probably stop doing it but for now it's fun.
All right, next question here for you guys. How
do you come up with the lyrics and who does that?
Well, mostly it's me, but Sean's done one or
two or five, and Kirk's done a couple, and people
contribute some. We've played songs by K1DG,
and Andy, N2NT was the guy who really gave me
the idea back in the 70s. He was... doing, he
was mangling songs like Feelings became Feel
Day and Simon Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence
became The Sound of DX, which we've done. But
the guys, you know, everybody pitches in and
I throw something out there and they help modify
it, actually get the chords right and that sort
of thing. I'm doing all the talking here, why
don't you jump in Sean? Well it's been a... I've
always had an interest in changing lyrics to
songs since I was a kid, and I think that that's
something that you're either predisposed to or
not. So the idea of coming up with new lyrics
for existing songs, I think a lot of us here
in the group have been doing that for quite some
time. The transition to doing it for ham radio
stuff, I didn't. pick up on that until I was
asked to play drums with this group. And after
that, it became pretty easy to hear songs that
I liked and changing the lyrics around to reflect
ham radio topics. It's pretty addictive. It is.
And it's fun. It's fun to take existing songs
and change the lyrics around to reflect this
community a little bit. It provides a way to
have some comedy and make some commentary on
some things that are going on that we may not
necessarily have the ability to do in other venues.
I .e. we'd be chased out of the room if we said
it seriously. And maybe also whether or not you're
a fan of Weird Al Yankovic or not. Oh yeah, Weird
Al. Does that figure into that? He's kind of
the godfather of all of that. Tom Lehrer. Tom
Lehrer. Tom Lehrer, yes. I have a fondness for
Tom Lehrer because of the element song. It's
just the names of the chemical elements. Yeah,
sounds great. Maybe we can get Weird Al to pick
up one of your songs? You think that would work?
I think his audience would find us kind of limiting.
Yeah, I think that would be detrimental to his
career. Alright, so can you tell me what, can
you give me a little sneak peek here on this
year, what new songs you're working on? Well,
normally, we like to keep that stuff kind of
close to the vest. We like to make sure that
we keep our audience guessing as much as possible.
But we're working on, I don't know, we're reviewing
about 14 or 15 new songs this weekend. Oh, we'll
see. We can say the group. So we have some little
feet numbers. We have Gordon Lightfoot in the
can, Jimi Hendrix, the band. Bob Dylan. This
is Scott, W4PA. Let me interject something about
how we do this. The formula that we've settled
on is to play half of stuff that we've done previously
and half new tunes. But the new tunes aren't
necessarily agreed on in advance. Like we have
a bunch of songs we've been playing. but only
a few of them will actually end up being the
ones we really play at the show because they
either work or they don't work. And we found
after having done this for several years in a
row that we don't know which those are until
we actually get together and play them as an
ensemble. I mean sometimes we have an idea that
sounds like it's hilarious and a great idea and
then we try to play it and can't do it or it
just doesn't work. So what we'll do is we'll
play these 14 or 15 songs. And then half of those,
perhaps, will be half of the set, and then the
rest of it will be ones that we thought were
really good from times past. So we don't play
the same thing over and over again. Keeps it
fresh for everybody. Like Kirk is fond of saying,
there ain't no money to be made above the first
fret. So we have to keep things simple. Because
we only play twice a year, once for a rehearsal
and once at Dayton. It's got to be simple. Kirk's
our sanity monitor here. And so, you know, we
keep things straightforward and, you know, they
sound good and everybody laughs, then we'll put
them in the book. This is rock and roll. I'm
only here for the money and the girls. All right.
Now, speaking of the girls. Are we getting some
guest vocalists again this year? We are. We have
several guest vocalists that sit in with us from
time to time. A couple years ago, Becky Schoenfeld,
W1BXY, the managing editor of QST joined us for
a couple of tunes and did background vocals and
she will be returning to Dayton this year and
she will be doing background vocals with us and
working on at least a couple of tunes that feature
her in the lead vocal spot. So you'll have to
come out and check that out. Katie Allen, WY7YL,
has joined us in the past. She's done a couple
of Jimmy Buffett things and some Neil Young stuff
on the background vocals. So there are guest
artists that join us from time to time. We have
two or three people that might show up. that
can't play with the band all the time, K -Zero
BJ and Five -O -T and his wife Cathy, Cookie
Scholl, Val Hodgfeld, NB9L. You know, it's sort
of a Sly and the Family Stone kind of thing.
Like, whoever shows up and can make the bus to
the venue, you know, is in the band, you know,
it's the kind of thing. So anyway, it's a bit
of a pick -up, but yeah, it should be fun and
everybody has a good time and then goes and eats
pizza. Life is good. So for people who haven't
been to one of your concerts, can we fill people
in on how they can attend this? Sure, it's free
to get in five dollars to get out. No, it's held
at the main ballroom at the Crown Plaza in downtown
Dayton. It's at 10 o 'clock Friday night at the
weekend at the Hamfest. And there is no admission
charge. Just walk through the door and into the
lobby and off to the left. Requests are taken
on $100 bills and we do ignore them. The request,
not the $100 bill. Right. Yes, I have one of
my liners on the show here is that at HamTalk
Live, we have the million dollar request guarantee
that if you give us a million dollars, we'll
take care of your request guaranteed. We'll try
to work it in. All right, very good. Well, free
admission, $5 to get out. May be worth the money.
I'm not sure and so We'll see how that goes if
you don't if you don't like what you hear your
money will be cheerfully refunded Well anything
else you want to tell us here before we take
a break? Just like to get in is we like to say
thanks to DX engineering for sponsoring the stage
they're responsible for the Providing the sound
equipment and the stage for making this happen.
I think this is the third year that they've done
this now? Yeah. For the sound equipment, so thank
you very much. Yeah, Tim Duffy has been a big
fan of the band and it's encouraged us to keep
coming back and really put in a lot of energy
into making all this happen, so thank you Tim.
All right. Well, we're gonna listen in to a song
or two from the practice session So it's the
spree submissions band right here on ham talk
live Guys this is going on ham talk live. This
is gonna be a big record contract for us on thriving
on the line. We got to make this good We're just
hoping for that big game one of these years where
we're going to have money to buy Scott new strings
for his bass. Guys, thanks so much for coming
on the show and sharing your talents with us
tonight and have a great time with the rest of
the practice. It sounds like it's off to a good
start and have a great show again at Dayton this
year. Seventy threes. Thanks, Neil. Appreciate
it. Bye -bye. All right, we'll be back to take
your calls live with some of the members of the
Sparee Submissions Band right after this on HamTalk
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Well... It's our game show music. Yes, it's time
for our giveaway and we've added a bonus to the
call -in segment We're giving away a radio waves
DX 80 off center fed dipole compliments of radio
waves this week We're giving away the DX 80 to
the first person to call into the show with the
correct answer to this question What song is
generally regarded as the spurious emissions
band's signature song? which was the song we
just played before the break. So now it's time
for your calls. If you have a question for the
Spurious Emissions Band, call 812 -NAT -HAM -1.
That's 812 -638 -4261. And if you know the name
of the song, you could win one of those dipoles.
Or you can Skype us at HamTalk Live. You can
do that as well. Or if you'd rather not play
along, but China in you can tweet us at HamTalk
Live and tonight we have with us live from the
band Ward Silver N0AX on mandolin and Kirk Pickering
K4RO on fiddle mandolin and banjo so guys thanks
for coming on and being with us live tonight.
Good evening. Glad to be here. Good evening.
So give us a call here. We've got another song
we may play here in a little bit but give us
a call and and ask some questions about the band
and their concert coming up at Hamvention and
Saturday I actually had a chance to drive over
and was on Facebook live and recorded the drive
from the south side of Dayton over to the Green
County fairgrounds and so if you want to see
what that looks like go over to Facebook and
get on the ham talk live page or put that over
on YouTube as well so you can you can see that
and we do have a caller so let's see who we have
on the line Well, good evening. This is W5 MRR
from Louisiana. All right, and what's your first
name? Marvin. Marvin. Okay, Marvin. W5 MRR from
Louisiana. Thanks for giving us a call. And do
you know the name of the signature tune of the
Spurious Emissions Band? I know. I would listen
to it, just tuned in to the podcast just a bit
ago. I just found your podcast about a week ago.
So I'm not a long time listener. I just thought
I'd call in and find out, you know, how long
the guy that has had their tickets, you know,
and if another thing is did being musicians,
help you get your tickets. I know it did mine
back in the CW days. Yeah, I've noticed a definite
correlation between that and the CW. So, Ward,
do you want to start off and then Kirk? Sure.
Well, I got my license in 72 and I think Scott
got licensed in the early 80s and Sean maybe
in the mid 70s. What about you, Kirk? I got my
ticket in 1976. So we're all about that same
period. Yeah, that same year I got mine. Well,
very good. Well, thanks, and you guys are doing
a great job. I'd love to be able to make it to
Dayton, but that's a long way from rural Louisiana.
Yeah, it is, but it's, it's well worth it. Go
ahead. I'll take the, I'll take the second part
of your question about music and radio, which
I think is kind of an interesting question. It
turns out there are quite a few musicians who
are also ham radio nuts, um, including a few,
including, including a few very well known ones
like Joe Walsh, for example. Um, I actually was
into the radio thing before music. Um, I really
didn't start playing music. I guess I really
started playing music probably within a year
or two of getting my ham license, but the radio
actually came first and has kind of been with
me the whole time. I think that the fact that
music is a form of waves, of course everything's
waves to me, but music and the fascination with
how it's made and how it sounds. how it's amplified
and everything about it has a lot of parallels
that dovetails nicely to the ham radio hobby.
And I've also heard from more than one decent
Morse code operator that being musically rhythmic
can be helpful for learning Morse code. Yeah,
a friend of mine, a mentor, he used to send CW
with a banjo. So anyway, I don't want to take
up all the time, but guys, thanks again. Thanks
for doing the podcast and 70 degrees to all from
Louisiana. See you, Marvin. Thanks, Marvin. Thanks
for calling in. Well, we've got the phones lighting
up again, so we're going to open up the line
now. So if you are trying to call, give us a
call right now. It's 812 -NATAM -1. 812 -638
-4261. And we will take the next call here as
soon as that comes up. 812 -638 -4261. There
we have our next call. So who do we have on the
line now? My name is Ruth and my call sign is
PAM4LAO. Hi Ruth! It's good to hear you. I'm
glad you called in. So did you catch the signature
tune of the band? Yes I did. I think it's the
cover of the NTJ. We have a winner. We have a
winner. That's it. Yes the cover of the NCJ so
They're going to buy some copies for their mothers.
So Congratulations, Ruth. Thanks for calling
in appreciate it and Do you have a question for
the guys here tonight? Not too much. I just wanted
to call in I enjoyed listening to the listening
to the interview and I can't wait to hear you
all at Dayton Yeah, and Ruth's gonna be speaking
at the the contest dinner, so That's gonna be
pretty cool. She's gonna talk about her trip
to Saba and I had a chance to interview her a
few weeks ago for Newsline, so Thanks for calling
in Ruth. Appreciate it and best of luck with
the with the talk at the dinner Thank you very
much We'll be looking for you there's Generally
a crowd that comes over from the collegiate dinner
and takes up a couple of tables up by stage Stage
right so plow in there. We'll see ya Alright
sounds good. I'll see you all then yep, and that's
and that's the DX dinner dr. Scott right straighten
me out It's the DX dinner not the contest dinner,
but it's the Southwest Ohio DX Association dinner,
so Got that right. All right. Well 812 Nat Ham
1 is the phone number 812 -638 -4261. If you
want to give us a call we will take it and we
have a note here from Greg Marcos as greetings
boys. So thanks for listening and we've got another
call. Oh here comes the chicken with fries. Good
evening Marty. Good evening Neil, it's Marty
KC1CWF. Good evening everybody. Hi Marty. Hi.
I have a question for y 'all. And my question
is, I might have missed this earlier, but I'll
ask it. How do you guys come up with your ideas
and lyrics for your songs? Alcohol. That always
works well. That was a joke. You'll have to ask
the songmaster himself, Ward. Well, I tell you,
it's just every once in a while a line just occurs
to me and when it occurs to me, I know I better
go get on it. So, sometimes I write them down
in a little notebook and I got one going today.
I was working on one with Jeff Stye, WK6I out
on the West Coast. He wanted me to do Dylan's
Don't Think Twice It's Alright and then he got
started. and took a whack at it, and I need to
sand it down a little bit, so we're gonna go
back and forth, and we got lots of stuff in the
book, Marty. Well, it's gonna be exciting to
see you perform in Dayton. Excellent. Have you
been to one of the shows before? Yeah, I was
there last year. You were there last year. Okay,
yeah. Well, you've been before, and you're actually
gonna come back? Yeah, it must have been... I
don't know what sort of 3D glasses or something
I was wearing, but. You have to pay your $5 to
get out again. Yeah, exactly. Free to get in
five bucks to get out. Best money move we ever
made. Probably more profitable. Yeah, we got
nine new songs this year, Marty, so you won't
have heard anything, any of them before. It's
good. All right. Well, thanks for taking my question.
Thanks for calling Marty. See you Neil. See you
later. All right. We've got a couple of tweets
here from, from Dr. Scott Wright. So we'll get
those. Um, already says you're making the rounds
on ham radio media this week. Who's your booking
agent and what's coming up next? Uh, gee, I don't
see, I should pay that guy more. I don't know.
Um, I think the next thing is actually Dayton.
I've got a little downtime here and work on my
practice stuff. I've got a brand new instrument
to play and we'll see you in Dayton with it.
And he also wants to know, for Kirk and for Ward,
what's your favorite contest? Go for it, Kirk.
Oh boy. You know, I'd probably have to say that
the one that's closest to my heart is sweepstakes.
I really love CQ worldwide code, especially.
But I tell you, my favorite these days is getting
on a couple of times a day on Wednesdays for
the CWOPS one -hour sessions. Those things are
pure fun. So highly recommended. Yeah, I'm going
to have to start. CWOPS .org. Uh -oh, there's
a plug. Oh, we do plugs. That's all right. They're
a good group, and they're really doing a lot
to promote CW. So I always like to give them
a plug. I'm going to give that a try as soon
as I get done with the handbook edition. And
I think I'm with Kirk. CW Sweepstakes has been
my favorite for, oh, geez, the first year I got
my license. I was active in that. But if you're
at a big station, there's nothing better than
CQ Worldwide CW. All right, thanks a lot for
for answering those dr. Scott right k0md. Thanks
for tweeting in Yeah Let me let me ask you here
too. We've got about two minutes left here so
after we recorded that you guys were going through
all the songs how did everything go did you got
everything ready and picked out and Brady great
role Well Kirk go ahead Well, there were no fights.
No hospitalization was required. So I Think it
actually was pretty productive. There's there's
a lot of new material particularly that I'm just
not really used to playing certain styles that
so I'm gonna have to Buckle down. I think it'll
be a good fun set and You know the fact that
we were able to crank out so many new songs in
such a short period of time Was was nice, you
know, we've been doing this a while. I don't
know how many years we've been doing it now But
I think we might dare I say starting to be able
to get I get the hang of it But it is important
I think that we get together in person to work
things out and see how they go because his ward
or someone mentioned in the interview initial
interview We don't know whether a tune is gonna
work until we try to play it together Something
sometimes things sound good on paper and then
we sit down and try to play it and it's a disaster
So and then oftentimes there are great surprises
that come out of nowhere to that when we get
together It's true. I found out that I cannot
sing anything ever done by Marvin Gaye But they
tolerated it, you know, maybe if I did the Barry
White version, you know Yeah, it's like, you
know, we get together and we've got a fistful
of lyrics and mostly the right chords and then
we all have to kind of know it. This will be,
I think, the 16th time we've played together.
It's eight years of concerts and we typically
only have one little session beforehand. actually
getting together rehearsed for a weekend and
that's a real hoot last few years and and then
we just kind of touch it up a little bit on Thursday
night and then Friday we jump into the blender
and see what comes out so it's So far everybody's
left at mostly the right places and we're happy
Well, we're we're laughing and we're enjoying
it here and I'd hope to play climber John but
we're out of time tonight so we may sneak in
just a little bit at the end here if we have
time but That's a wrap for this week's ham talk
live. Thanks guys for coming on the Spurry Submissions
Band, and everyone out there in cyberspace for
listening and calling in. And we'll invite you
back next Thursday night at 9 p .m. when Michael
Coulter, W8CI, the official spokesperson for
the Dayton Hamvention, and Ron Kramer, KD8ENJ,
will be here, the chairman, to talk about the
latest updates from the Dayton Hamvention. And
for a list of all of our upcoming guests, visit
HamTalkLive .com. So for now, this is Neil Rapp,
WB9VPG. saying seven three seven five and may
the good dx be yours and we'll send you out with
a little bit of climber john all right here we
go this one's dedicated to all of the tower climbers