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58. Ham Nation number 300 and the 2017 Young
Ham of the Year nominations. With our friend
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Brave enough to return to the show! For the third
time, you're setting another record. You set,
you set a record last time. Stupid enough to
come back. Well, you know, I mean, neither of
us have anything better to do. Oh my goodness.
Well, it's Don Willbeck's AE5DW. You know him
from amateur radio news line and ham nation.
And his day job is working at the. or at least
they say he works at the I Heart Media radio
stations in New Orleans producing commercials
and formerly an on -air personality. He's a native
of Shawnee, Oklahoma and first licensed in 1995
and he's an extra class license holder, an active
volunteer examiner. He loves his Harry's razor
and I'm not sure which he loves more that or
his new DX 160 from radio waves. Well, I've been
using them both about the same lately, which
is not much. Unfortunately. So now almost live
from picky you Mississippi. It's it's Don Will
Banks. Thanks for coming on the show. You're
always welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Have you
ever been in the mobile ham fest? Speaking of
that, I have not. It's a good little ham fest.
I have not feels fun. That's too far south for
me most of the time. That's true. You're way
up there. The Huntsville thing. I forget how
many hours it is even to Huntsville. It's about
five for me. It's a late night. Yeah, it's a
late night for me. Five or six, yeah. Yeah, it's
about six. Because Huntsville, to Dayton for
me, Huntsville's halfway. Yeah. It's funny. It's
funny. Dayton is 12 hours from me. Orlando is
about 12 -13 hours from me. And Shawnee, Oklahoma
is about 12 -13 hours from me. So it's just like,
you know, three of my favorite places is 12 -13
hours away from me. And if I was to, if I'm to
stay in my chosen profession of broadcasting
from where I live here in Picayune, New Orleans
is 63 miles away from me. Uh, golf port, Mississippi
is 63 miles away from me and Huntsville. I mean,
uh, Hattiesburg, Mississippi is 63 miles away
from me. Those are the three closest radio markets.
So it's like, I'm right in the middle of freaking
nowhere. Well, the next, the next big one on
my list is Orlando. I haven't been to hamcation
and, and I don't know how in the world I'm going
to pull it off because of the time of year that
is I'm right in the middle of. My teaching schedule
and everything but Somehow some way I want it.
I want to make it down there at least once and
Orlando and Dallas are both on my bucket list
one of these days Yeah, yeah some good good shows
out there and Look forward to to seeing what
all happens at Dayton. And we've got a bunch
of, uh, preview shows coming up about that here
real soon. I'm excited about Dayton because it's
the first year at the new place. Yeah. So, you
know, Hara had such, Hara had such a mystique
and, uh, and a, um, uh, uh, je ne sais quoi,
which I think is, is French for funkiness. Um,
but it had, it had, it had just such a, I don't
know that Hara arena was I think as big a part
of ham nation is of ham of hamvention as ham
radio was it's just it was you know you couldn't
say you couldn't say Dayton without Saying Hara
and to have it now in Xenia in the new place
It's the beginning of a new tradition, and I
think that it's I think it's gonna be something
great I'm excited to be going for the first year
at Xenia. I really am Yeah, yeah, I'm glad, glad
that you're gonna get there. And it's, it's gonna
be better. I mean, it has to be better, right?
Another thing is, you know, I mean, as you know,
if you've gone to Dayton, For a number of years.
It takes you about three years to figure out
where everything. Oh, yeah I know, you know,
I remember I remember I was doing a interview
for for Newsline and yeah, there's this girl
that was coming out from New York State I think
it was that had done a video blog and she'd never
been to Dayton and so, you know, she was like
so so How do I, you know, what's my plan? What
do I do? You know, what, what do I have to go
see first? Where do I go? And it's like, you
know, I have that, that hair arena layout, which
was, not easy because yeah yeah you had to know
where all the secret hallways were and and everything
and so I always had my plan and so I'd go in
I go to this forum I go to this forum then I
go you know oh well I'm over here on this side
so I can go here you know and I knew where everything
was do oh yeah if you need that this you go over
to this room the room with the wood floor on
it and you go in there the one with the gold
curtains Yeah, right the one the one you go up
audio alley and then you take a right and you
go in there Don't go straight Don't go through
the food court area you got to go through that
hall and you got it You can go these little stairs
are up the ramp and then from there you can get
over to the hallway to go to the fight Oh my
god, it was and and right pointing out where
the good bathrooms were it's gonna be so it's
gonna be so cool to to to you know think fondly
about all the mess that Hera was but you know,
it was such a such a tradition and the venue
had had The venue was a good bit of what Hamvention
was. It was the thing you love to hate. And so
to be in this new venue is just, and a lot of
it would be outside. I think it's going to be
great as long as the weather holds. Yeah. Now,
okay. Now you brought up the bathrooms. Yes.
I had my favorite bathroom picked out. Where
was your favorite bathroom? Probably the ones
over by the forum rooms. Ah, you got it. Now,
there was another one that was off in a little
hallway that was over, I think, on the other
side of the forum rooms that was behind, I think
there was a little, almost like a little food
area on the wall of one of those, and you could
go to that one back there, and that one was probably
the road less traveled, so to speak. Yeah, and
last year, that was where Emmett did the superstation.
They had it back there in that little... a little
entrance there. You know, I started going to
Dayton in 99 and not once have I ever been able
to find the special event station. I've always
wanted to work it. So that's going to be one
of my goals at Xenia is to try to find the special
event station and actually operate. Yeah, one
of my goals is to help him out with that a little
bit more. I ended up doing it a little bit last
year, just kind of by default. So I'm going to
try to get some time blocked out to do that.
The whole one sees that Radio Waves antennas
are just the best people. Oh, yeah. They've become
such dear friends of... of us, of my family and,
uh, you know, both Dawn and Tyler and they're
just, just, I don't know, just class, class people
love them to death. Yeah. And, and Emmett just
told me he's coming on the show next week to
do some spring antenna stuff. So we're looking
forward to, uh, to having him on. Well, tell
us about the, tell us about this big thing. Ham
nation 300. You've been sending out the memes
on the Twitter. I don't know if you saw QRZ .com
today, but somebody had clicked on the link just
because it had less Nessman on it. And so this
guy says, this guy says, you know, I had to click
on it because it had had less Nessman on it,
you know. And so he said his favorite line was
WKRP in Cincinnati where we have more music and
less. Nessman, yes. One of my favorite scenes
is where he's reading the news and he's doing
the PGA report and he calls Chichi Rodriguez,
Chai Chai Rodwick Weez. And of course Johnny
Fever is standing behind him and he reaches over
and he puts his hand over the mic and he goes...
Chi Chi Rodriguez unless goes what he says his
name is Chi Chi Rodriguez unless goes back and
says Mr.. Rodriguez was just freaking hilarious
You've been seeing maybe if you follow social
media these hashtag ham nation 300 memes and
yes, I'm the guilty party I've been putting those
out. Well. We're actually making We're making
the official announcement on ham nation next
week as to what that's all about what i can tell
you is that uh... without spilling all of the
beans is that uh... as events go this one will
be special and there you have it ladies and gentlemen
don will banks and and thanks for your good night
now you know we've we've done those before we
did what i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i
i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i
i i i i i i i i i Kick up the you know kick it
up a notch and and we're doing that again this
year so there's gonna be a lot of new twists
as to what the the The Soiree will be so We'll
be we'll be talking about that and actually the
the number 300th episode will be the week of
Dayton Oh my planning on doing this without without
giving away too much the week after so because
it's you know what with us all going to be in
Dayton are going to be a bit of us in Dayton
you can't really do something like that and try
to do any kind of an operating event which is
what it'll be so it's scheduled for the week
after so but anyway a lot more information is
forthcoming we're actually having a planning
meeting another planning meeting by skype with
uh... the principles uh... saturday so i'll have
to take a break from the uh... a m rally and
uh... not probably not go to the car show that
that uh... my spring car show uh... and i'm gonna
hang out and play a m and uh... talk about uh...
ham nation three hundred so yeah i'm glad you
mentioned a m rally because i meant to mention
that Yeah, I've got more memes coming up that
I haven't quite figured out what I'm gonna do
yet. I've got a I'm trying to figure out what
I'm gonna do with Starsky and Hutch. I'm trying
to find a Starsky and Hutch picture of them in
the car on the radio because my first thing was
trying to find pictures of everybody on some
kind of a microphone and I have not found a Starsky
and Hutch image of them on the microphone yet.
So that's like the holy grail for me right now.
Very interesting. Sure, there'll be some smoke
in the band. I'm sure some. Oh, yeah. I think
I've already done one, but there'll be another
so yeah, I was somebody had picked up starski
and hutch again Can't remember his antenna TV
or probably a cozy you want one of those that
I watch all the time They had my show it back
up. Yeah, yeah So yeah, you may have some luck
there. So that's what that's what the ham nation
300 thing is all about it's going to be an operating
event and Above and beyond that. I really can't
tell you more, but you can tune into ham nation
next week There you go, so we'll have to check
that out and Yeah, the the meme thing is It's
been pretty entertaining. So yeah, good job on
that. Yeah It's funny how something will I'll
be making or doing something about something
entirely different and I'll look at I'll go oh
wait a minute I can I can mess with that ham
nation 300 wise and that's how the one about
the dog and the cone of shame Came about yesterday.
I was making a comment to somebody else about
something and it just the light bulb It was a
light bulb moment. So all the good all the good
stuff comes, you know looking for it, you know
with this show It happens when I'm driving. I'll
be driving and I'll be thinking about, now what
can we do on the show that'd be fun? And all
of a sudden it just, it's there. And by the time
you get home, you've forgotten it. Exactly. Exactly.
I was, I was, I was working on the, uh, on the,
on the April fool's ads. That's exactly what
happened two months ago. I had thought of this
and I thought, Oh, we're going to do, you know,
we're going to do the magic smoke. We're going
to put the magic smoke back in the, in the components.
And, um, I went, Oh, I better get that produced.
I better get right in that up. So I'm writing
and I'm gonna like, Welcome to my world. What
was it that we were going to do? Yeah. Oh, and
I did the Photoshop thing. I made a print ad
for that. And that's now on our Facebook and
Twitter and Instagram. So you have to check out
the magic smoke picture. And we may or may not
have. OK, we will have. Another one coming up
here in a little bit. So they're good. They're
gonna be on there too. All right. Well, let's
talk about the 2017 Bill Pasternak amateur radio
news line young ham of the year award or as I
like to call it You hody. Yep. Why? Yes We want
to talk about that. I know you said the first
nomination came in today. So remind us all about
who needs to be nominated how you nominate all
that stuff well everything everything you need
to know and the nominating form can be found
in one central place and that is the amateur
radio newsline web page which is ar newsline
dot org and uh... right up on top there is a
uh... a button labeled y h o t y and if you if
you click on that it tells you what the award
is uh... more poorly who's eligible and uh...
most importantly the nomination form and you
know it's uh... we set a pretty high standard
because well you know we've been doing this for
what for thirty years now i think we've had i
think last year was the thirtieth the thirtieth
award that we've given out there was one year
we didn't do one so it would have been thirty
one but anyway so what we've been there for a
long time and we've had some extremely extremely
impressive young people who have won this award.
So it's not like you can just write a letter
and go, hey, my eight -year -old's an extra and
calls the net. Can you give him a radio? That
ain't how it works. I mean, it's... You look
back at some of our previous winners. We've got,
well, your student, Patrick Lassendreux. KC9UUS,
I believe is his call. He's now working for SpaceX.
We had Aaron King. I can't remember her call
off top my head, but she is She was doing some
things with the Google Loon project which if
you remember about that that was a that was an
experimental thing to try to bring Wi -Fi internet
or high -speed internet to the continent of Australia
Including the outback all done by high -altitude
balloons. I mean, it's just it's amazing that
the things that some of these these young kids
are doing and you know i always kind of half
halfway jokingly you know compare myself to them
and say well you know and here i am in my mid
-fifties sitting in the in the corner eating
my crayons and it's not that far from the truth
i gotta tell you no it's it's absolutely amazing
so the bar is set high and the bar is not set
high by us the bar is set high by the caliber
of our previous recipients and uh... so go online
uh... look at the uh... You know go ahead and
pull down the the nominating form. It's in a
Word document and and look at it and you'll see
just exactly what kind of information we need
and Do a little bit of research and go back and
look at and see what some of these previous young
hams have been doing and If you know someone
who fits the bill by all means nominate them
and there is no such thing as too much information
we don't want a blank spot on those on those
nominating forms. The more you can tell us, the
better off it'll be for us to narrow down a winner
and the better off it'll be for your nominee
to be noticed by our judging committee. And it's
not who you know. We've had a couple of winners
over the years that have been Newsline staffers
and it has absolutely nothing to do with who
you know, who you are. It's all on the merit
of the of the young person that's nominated and
it's it's something that was near and dear to
To the late great Bill Pasternak w a6 itf's heart
his big thing in life was was education and making
sure that that this hobby continues this hobby
in this service continues and like anything else,
you know If you've got a club and suddenly, you
know, you don't work to bring new members into
your club. Well People are going to leave by
attrition. People are going to die. And before
you know it, it's going to be you and that other
goofball that you don't particularly care for.
It's just going to be you two in the club. And
nobody wants that. So you got to bring new people
into the club. And there's new things going on
in the hobby and the service all the time anyway.
So share that with the youth. And then sit back.
you become a seasoned ham or whatever you want
to call yourself and watch the fun because that's
the that's the coolest part about getting to
know these young hams is looking at the things
a that they've done and be the things that they're
doing and see think about the things they're
gonna do I mean it's just absolutely amazing
and you know that from from you know knowing
and his two sisters and his family and and all
those other great kids that you have in your
in your ham radio club there at the school so
you know exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah
I sure do and I've been able to get to know many
of the winners that weren't at school and we
may talk about some of them here after the break.
W0ANT, we'll talk about Anna Veal coming up later.
Anna's doing something really cool as we speak.
So yeah, we'll have to talk about that. But yeah,
we've had a lot of great kids come through our
program and others around the country. And so
a lot of those show up at the Hamvention Youth
Forum and speak there. And so I've been able
to get to know most of those kids. And they're
really something and they do not disappoint.
Nope. All right. Well, we're going to take a
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but I didn't see anything. Yeah, it's like you
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that. Let's go ahead and talk about Anna for
a second I've got some tweets here, but let's
let's talk about Anna because Anna's out in Las
Vegas right now the IWCE and she just got a few
hours ago a Presentation there and an award Radio
Club of America 2017, and I can't remember the
exact complete name of the award, but they honor
another young person, Carol Perry, and her Radio
Club of America, and that bunch and everything,
and just, yeah, I was so proud of Anna. Anna
is just, Anna is funny, and she's witty, and
she's amazing, and yeah, I just, I just, I just,
I'm so fond of her and that whole family, so
yeah, very cool. Yeah, really cool stuff and
so we we Posted that video from that from her
dad on our Facebook page so you can check that
out over at the ham talk live Facebook page and
I was gonna try you know the last two times you
were on Don we did the game show things. And
it was a lot of fun, but I know it was kind of
silly. And I thought, you know, this time we're
going to try to make it like, you know, we're
going to try to make it, you know, a little,
a little toned down, a little calmer and everything.
And, and so then I look and see what week it
is and I'm like, Oh, April fools week. Oh no.
You see where that's gotten us. There goes, there
goes the plan. So in the spirit of that, Yeah,
dr. Scott right k0md I do too, but question number
one came in from Twitter just now In the spirit
of that Question number one is Neil still young
enough to be nominated for young ham of the year
Not just no, but no Let me repeat that in Spanish,
yeah When I was young enough to be nominated
for young ham of the year there wasn't such a
thing young ham That's right Neil I'm not saying
Neil is old and that he was a really young ham,
but his first radio was gas -powered Yeah, Cole.
Exactly. Yeah coal fired. Yep. That was it And
he also smoked signals. Yeah, exactly Exactly.
It was it was hard to keep those blankets from
burning He thought tubes were hot. Yeah, exactly.
Well, he also says, please share with Don that
we all appreciate his work to promote amateur
radio and also let me chime in. I was on a net
earlier at eight o 'clock on the crossroads reflector.
We've got a wide area net starting here in the
Midwest and KC9ZAR. Jerry was on there and Andy,
K9AWM and some others and they also said, be
sure to tell Don that they appreciate all the
work that he does with Newsline and Ham Nation
and Young Ham of the Year and all that. Well,
thank you. Kudos to you. There's no I in team
and I just happen to be the most visible member
because of my association with Ham Nation and
the fact that I've been with Newsline for 20...
22 years now. So I just happen to be, I guess,
kind of the face of it now since Bill has passed
away. But it is a total and complete team effort.
It's people like Neil, who now is a correspondent
for us. It's people like Paul Brown, WD9GCO.
It's people who have been with us for a long
time, people who are just coming in with us.
And especially Karen Eve Murray Katie to GUT
who took over the writing and the editing duties
for bill When he passed away, and I have got
to tell you that she has been an absolute godsend
and an answer to our prayers She has been no
doubt about it. Oh, and she even held on it.
Oh, yeah She even helped me with the writing
those scripts for Andy to record for those ads.
She She even helped out on the Scott right he
he came to New Orleans and And and took me out
to lunch. So again doc. Thanks a lot for that
That was a great afternoon and the next time
you come down. I hope we can do it again yeah
and it's uh and we've got uh national physicians
day coming up so so thanks to scott for good
i'll have to send him a picture of uh i'll just
send him a picture of the middle finger and ask
him if he's if this looks infected yeah well
here does this look infected to you oh my well
speaking of scott the second question here also
in in the spirit of of whatever Reflecting back
to the last time or no the first time you were
on the show actually Would you rather Use an
OCF dipole or a resonant dipole. Would you rather
use low power or high power am or SSB? Well,
I'm kind of a big fan of the whole shack -in
-a -box thing. So, you know, one of my favorite
radios, well, several of my favorite radios have
been like the ICOM 746, which is, you know, HF
through 6 meters. I had a couple of ICOM 706s.
HF through 440 and an ICOM 7000 HF through 440.
So I'm a big fan of the shack -in -a -box thing
and hence I'm a big fan of multi -band antennas.
I like off -center fed dipoles. I have two of
them hanging up. I've got both of them from Emmett
and Radio Waves. I've got an 80 meter DX80 and
I just put up in the last couple of weeks a 160
meter. DX 160 both from Emmet and I got to say
I really like being able to just jump over there
and hit that that antenna selector on my 7600
icon and go from one antenna to the other so
I'm a big fan of of off -center fed so yeah one
of those rather than a you know a whole bunch
of antennas falling is I just don't have the
space for here where I am what were the other
two questions oh is a him or SSB Doesn't matter.
I like AM because I'm gonna run the gonna try
to do the AM rally this weekend. Really excited
about that. You know, I mean, I cut my teeth
on on on CB radio, which was AM, you know, before
I saved up and got a sideband radio. So, no,
AM is fun. AM is fun because nobody does it anymore.
That's what I like about. Well, I take that back.
A lot of people do it, but not a lot of people
do it. So it's not the mainstream anymore. And,
uh, and this weekend's a good weekend for that
because it's that AM rally and I, and I totally
meant to have that information in front of me,
but I know it's on, it's on news line. So it
is. And also just go to, I think it's AM rally
.com or just, just search AM rally and you'll
find everything you need to know. Yeah. So, so
check that out. And third question, what was
the third question? Oh, a QRP or a couple of
thousand. Don't even well. I don't own an amplifier.
I never have so I'm a hundred watt guy, but you
know I'll turn it down when I you know just to
just see so How to watch this plenty for me all
right very good. Well. Thanks Scott for sending
in the questions, and we do have time for one
more so give us a call or a tweet or a skype
at 812 net ham one or at ham talk live and get
your questions or comments in for don will banks
hey e5 dw uh while we're waiting here uh i know
you've been doing some reflections on some of
the past winners on uh on newsline and so let's
let's talk about a few of those those past winners
we talked about anna that's out in Vegas right
now and got another award and we talked about
Patrick. He's out at JPL right now doing some
stuff and he's gonna be working for Blue Origin
this summer. Cool. So he's gonna be working there.
Skyler is in his freshman year out in New Mexico.
And he put together a repeater, I know, and I
was going to send him some repeater stuff. I
saw the video that they did with it. That was
a really, really good piece. So how about some
of these others? I can tell you, and this immediately
comes to mind for two reasons. A, it's the person
who introduced me to Bill Pasternak. uh... a
young ham of the year from new orleans he was
in ninety three i got license in ninety five
so he introduced me to bill in ninety five and
also the fact that i just found out that he will
be at the huntsville ham fest this year and it's
been a long time since i've seen him i mean like
probably fifteen years maybe uh... that since
i've seen him so it'll be really good to see
kevin as kevin budrow in five x m h he was the
ninety three young ham of the year winner and
uh... what brought him to our attention was uh...
during a hurricane that came through i think
it was Gilbert's known for South Florida, but
it also came through New Orleans. And he was
in a shelter with his handheld radio as a 16
-year -old kid, I think, 15, 16 -year -old kid.
And there was nobody else there. There was no
one from the Red Cross. There wasn't any law
enforcement or anyone there. And they lost the
roof. Well, he was able to keep everybody safe
and get the word out and get all those people
rescued. There was no injury. There was no loss
of life. And so that is what got him to be the
young ham of the year winner and so uh... again
he uh... he conned me into riding along with
me to Huntsville. He hit me on the repeater one
day and said, I want to go to the Huntsville
Hamfest. Do you go? And I said, well, I didn't
give it any thought. I didn't know what was at
the Huntsville Hamfest. He said, well, that's
where they do the Young Ham of the Year Award.
And I had been listening to Newsline anyway since
before I got licensed when I was studying. And
so I said, you know what? Yeah. He said, I'll
be happy to split the gas in the hotel. And I
said, well, yeah, let's go. And he said, great.
I'll introduce you to Bill. And you know, that
got me started in this, you know, to where I
am now, essentially. That was that was that was
what got me to the point that I am right now
on my ham radio career and then you you drag
people like Paul and me and yeah Everybody else
in and I think what you called it what you called
it last time you were on was indentured servitude
Well, that was what? You guys have all your teeth
Yeah, actually and you're not indentured I guess
I guess I'm not It was funny it was I have to
remind my students every once in a while my chemistry
jokes are funny they yeah They they have to be
reminded every once in a while stand by humor
on the way. Yes coming up next It's in organic
chemistry. It's another organic chemistry joke.
I told one today is it takes all kinds to make
a world and they they just sat there they they
didn't we were talking about all kinds and Yeah,
they didn't get it. I think I worked with him
out al -qaeda al -qaeda. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
he was in a radio. Yeah. Yeah Well, once again
the 45 minutes has flown by and we are out of
time. So Don, thank you for coming back on again.
Well, thanks for having me. You're always welcome.
The scam continues, so. Yep, it does. It's a
slow day. We'll have Don on. Yeah, we'll have
Don on. Thanks for letting me talk about Bill
and everything else. I really appreciate it.
Get your Y -H -O -T -Y nominations in. Yep, get
them in. We've got to get those in so we can...
pick those out. I'm not picking them out, but
the committee is. So that is a wrap for this
week's edition of HamTalk Live. Thanks to Don
Wilbanks, AE5DW, and everybody out there in cyberspace
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