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Dayton Hamvention 2017 00:01:58.689 --> 00:02:02.969 update with Michael Coulter, W8CI, recorded live 00:02:02.969 --> 00:02:07.030 on Thursday, March 2nd, 2017. I'm your host, 00:02:07.150 --> 00:02:10.870 Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this 00:02:10.870 --> 00:02:14.599 episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight we'll be joined 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:18.280 by Michael Coulter, W8CI, the official spokesperson 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:21.659 for the Dayton Hamvention. Tonight we'll be taking 00:02:21.659 --> 00:02:26.280 your calls and talking about the new location 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:29.419 of Hamvention and how plans are coming along. 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:32.699 So we'll take your calls in just a few minutes. 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:36.699 Last week we were on a day and an hour early 00:02:36.699 --> 00:02:39.300 because I had to announce the last home basketball 00:02:39.300 --> 00:02:42.939 game of the season where I teach. And Dr. Bill 00:02:42.939 --> 00:02:46.960 Mitchell, A -E -0 -E -E, was my guest who talked 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:50.099 about the scientific research he performed while 00:02:50.099 --> 00:02:53.300 on the recent Heard Island De -Expedition. So 00:02:53.300 --> 00:02:55.560 if you missed that show, you can listen anytime. 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:00.379 That's over at HamTalkLive .com or on iTunes, 00:03:00.659 --> 00:03:03.419 Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, SoundCloud, or 00:03:03.419 --> 00:03:07.900 over on our YouTube channel and other podcasting 00:03:07.900 --> 00:03:11.069 applications. On Tuesday night I was a guest 00:03:11.069 --> 00:03:14.250 pundit on Ham Radio Now. We talked about the 00:03:14.250 --> 00:03:18.090 ARRL survey, about considering a change in the 00:03:18.090 --> 00:03:21.819 entry -level licensing. 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Eastern time 00:06:28.129 --> 00:06:31.050 right here at HamTalkLive .com and if you missed 00:06:31.050 --> 00:06:33.990 the live show you can listen to the archive on 00:06:33.990 --> 00:06:37.329 the website or download it from most popular 00:06:37.329 --> 00:06:41.389 podcasting websites. Michael Coulter, W8CI, is 00:06:41.389 --> 00:06:44.370 the official spokesperson for the Dayton Hamvention. 00:06:45.170 --> 00:06:48.810 Mike lives in the area and is a past president 00:06:48.810 --> 00:06:52.170 of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association and Hamvention 00:06:52.170 --> 00:06:56.790 general chairman for 2011 and 2012. He's currently 00:06:56.790 --> 00:06:59.189 a treasurer and board member of DARA and a finance 00:06:59.189 --> 00:07:01.930 chair for Hamvention and he's an active musician, 00:07:02.529 --> 00:07:06.399 Skywarn net control, and HF operator. He's traveled 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:08.560 the world including Tunisia and the Peace Corps 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:11.839 and as a speaker about ham radio in Germany, 00:07:11.980 --> 00:07:15.120 Qatar and India. So Michael, thank you for coming 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:21.160 on HamTalk Live tonight. Michael? Hey, well, 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:24.399 Neil, I'm honored to be here. It's yeah. Can 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.000 you hear me? Yeah, I hear you now. Yep. Hello. 00:07:27.339 --> 00:07:31.160 Good. Yep. We're good. Okay. Okay. Hey, Neil, 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:36.670 I'm happy to be here and Yeah, it Times getting 00:07:36.670 --> 00:07:40.829 closer and you had most of my bio there and pretty 00:07:40.829 --> 00:07:43.329 simple stuff But anyway, we'll we're glad to 00:07:43.329 --> 00:07:45.550 be here and ready to talk a little bit about 00:07:45.550 --> 00:07:48.569 him mentioned So what I'm sure you probably have 00:07:48.569 --> 00:07:51.430 some questions and so let's start off with your 00:07:51.430 --> 00:07:53.470 questions first And then I'll probably add a 00:07:53.470 --> 00:07:56.569 few things toward the end and then we can take 00:07:56.569 --> 00:07:59.990 some calls Sure, sounds great. And we do want 00:07:59.990 --> 00:08:01.990 to try to get some calls in here a little later. 00:08:02.470 --> 00:08:06.149 So We'll let you know when that's ready to go. 00:08:06.670 --> 00:08:13.050 I guess first thing that's been Going around 00:08:13.050 --> 00:08:17.810 online lately has been things about the online 00:08:17.810 --> 00:08:20.430 ticket ordering and the vendors and the flea 00:08:20.430 --> 00:08:23.790 market. And you guys just put out an announcement 00:08:23.790 --> 00:08:26.889 on the official Hamvention website at hamvention 00:08:26.889 --> 00:08:31.069 .org and on your social media outlets that online 00:08:31.069 --> 00:08:34.110 ticket ordering has started. And the returning 00:08:34.110 --> 00:08:36.250 vendors and flea market people were going to 00:08:36.250 --> 00:08:38.610 be contacted directly because there were some 00:08:38.610 --> 00:08:40.950 complications going on. So why don't you tell 00:08:40.950 --> 00:08:44.009 us what that process is and how that process 00:08:43.950 --> 00:08:47.330 is going to get all the reservations made this 00:08:47.330 --> 00:08:53.730 year? Well, I think the inside vendor thing is 00:08:53.730 --> 00:08:56.789 really moving along. And I want to let everybody 00:08:56.789 --> 00:09:00.350 know the same with flea market. And I'll talk 00:09:00.350 --> 00:09:02.570 a little bit more in specifics. But I really 00:09:02.570 --> 00:09:05.929 appreciate we at Ham prevention really appreciate 00:09:05.929 --> 00:09:10.659 everybody's patience. You know an event this 00:09:10.659 --> 00:09:13.080 size and it's an all -volunteer none of us get 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:16.799 any money doing it but we do it out of just sheer 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.899 love and we recognize the importance of excuse 00:09:20.899 --> 00:09:25.519 me of hand -vention and we've had to take this 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:28.379 site and completely measure everything inside 00:09:28.379 --> 00:09:32.299 all the buildings and split it up into how are 00:09:32.299 --> 00:09:34.299 we going to lay it out in booths. And that also 00:09:34.299 --> 00:09:36.779 includes all the outside areas that we're going 00:09:36.779 --> 00:09:40.799 to use, flea market. And then after we got that 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:45.580 done, we had to upload it into our carrier that 00:09:45.580 --> 00:09:48.139 we use, the company that we use to help us sell 00:09:48.139 --> 00:09:50.960 tickets and inside booths. And that turned out 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:53.779 to be a little bit more tedious than we had expected. 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:59.860 However, it is working now and the inside exhibits, 00:10:00.899 --> 00:10:03.899 if you received, if you had applied earlier and 00:10:03.899 --> 00:10:08.820 you received an email giving you the steps of 00:10:08.820 --> 00:10:12.659 how that's gonna be done, you can actually, you 00:10:12.659 --> 00:10:17.179 know, Brian will work his best to get you the 00:10:17.179 --> 00:10:21.480 spots that you want. And that is working, if 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:23.259 you look, I think there's a section in there, 00:10:23.340 --> 00:10:25.759 it's called PC Board, and you can see where so 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:28.340 many vendors are already signed up for this. 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:33.840 And as for the flea market, if you go to the 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:38.360 flea market webpage, it has a set of instructions, 00:10:38.580 --> 00:10:41.980 they're basically five steps, and it'll explain 00:10:41.980 --> 00:10:46.299 to you how to make your... and get your spot. 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:50.340 And so what you do, there's a floor plan, a PDF 00:10:50.340 --> 00:10:56.000 floor plan, and you make notes of your first 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.759 and second, third choice, and you make sure that 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:02.340 gets to the flea market using the email address, 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.299 fleamarketathamvention .org, and you want to 00:11:05.299 --> 00:11:07.460 be sure to have a phone number where we can reach 00:11:07.460 --> 00:11:11.179 you. And in the subject line of the email, put 00:11:11.179 --> 00:11:13.860 reservation and that's all listed and how to 00:11:13.860 --> 00:11:17.639 do that. And then we are taking those one by 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:20.639 one. We have a pretty good size committee, but 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:24.419 we are, we'll call you back shortly and see if 00:11:24.419 --> 00:11:26.620 we can't get everything taken care of and we'll 00:11:26.620 --> 00:11:29.779 guide you through the rest of it. So that, that's 00:11:29.779 --> 00:11:31.500 kind of what's happening on the flea market and 00:11:31.500 --> 00:11:34.080 the indoor, the indoor vendors, that all seems 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.759 to be going pretty good right now. And yeah, 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:41.059 there's a few hiccups and just, If you have a 00:11:41.059 --> 00:11:44.179 concern, you know, be sure you send your concern 00:11:44.179 --> 00:11:48.940 to the inside exhibits chairman. Go ahead, Neil. 00:11:49.460 --> 00:11:53.799 Yeah. Okay. Very good. Um, and online tickets 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:56.840 are just, just running, right? And that's, that's 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:02.389 all going just fine. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe 00:12:02.389 --> 00:12:06.250 how fast that's. I mean, I think we're selling 00:12:06.250 --> 00:12:09.490 a lot of tickets right now. And as we talk about 00:12:09.490 --> 00:12:13.970 tickets, let me mention that we had one of our 00:12:13.970 --> 00:12:16.090 big county meetings and I'm kind of excited to 00:12:16.090 --> 00:12:18.490 talk about some of the items that came out of 00:12:18.490 --> 00:12:22.509 that, how well the county and the city of Xenia 00:12:22.509 --> 00:12:24.590 and the surrounding areas are working with us. 00:12:25.070 --> 00:12:28.330 But the Convention Visitors Bureau for Green 00:12:28.330 --> 00:12:33.179 County, said that most of the hotels and motels 00:12:33.179 --> 00:12:35.539 are sold out right now. I mean, there's bed and 00:12:35.539 --> 00:12:39.360 breakfast places left. But if you're staying 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:42.779 in Dayton, which is Montgomery County, there 00:12:42.779 --> 00:12:46.480 are still spaces there. And if you are trying 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:49.019 to get a space and you don't have one yet, be 00:12:49.019 --> 00:12:51.320 sure to call the Green County Convention Visitors 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:54.480 Bureau and they can help you tremendously find 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.179 a place, as will the Montgomery County Convention 00:12:58.179 --> 00:13:04.470 Visitors Bureau. So that's I think that that's 00:13:04.470 --> 00:13:07.009 some pretty interesting news that already this 00:13:07.009 --> 00:13:10.909 was actually some time in the middle of February 00:13:10.909 --> 00:13:14.090 when we got the word that all the hotels and 00:13:14.090 --> 00:13:16.750 motels were in Greene County were booked out. 00:13:17.009 --> 00:13:21.210 Go ahead, Neil. Well, I saw some pictures online 00:13:21.210 --> 00:13:24.690 this afternoon from some of the ticket sales 00:13:24.690 --> 00:13:29.679 at some of your stores that are providing the 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:31.980 ticket sales for you as well. They have radio 00:13:31.980 --> 00:13:37.159 stores and so it looks like that is well underway. 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:39.679 So that's great. Well, we know there's going 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:42.240 to be a lot of upgrades this year just because 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:47.929 we've got a new facility to use. Anything else 00:13:47.929 --> 00:13:52.549 that's new, not necessarily tied to the fairgrounds? 00:13:52.570 --> 00:13:55.850 Anything new that we should be looking for happening 00:13:55.850 --> 00:13:59.470 at Hamvention this year in the plane so far? 00:14:02.029 --> 00:14:04.889 Yeah, I think that, let me go over a couple of 00:14:04.889 --> 00:14:07.750 things. This is, you know, everybody calls it 00:14:07.750 --> 00:14:10.330 fairgrounds. It's actually an expo center as 00:14:10.330 --> 00:14:13.769 well. They have a lot of things, a lot of different 00:14:13.769 --> 00:14:17.690 events there. Um, so it's actually at expo center 00:14:17.690 --> 00:14:20.990 and fairgrounds. Um, the things that we have 00:14:20.990 --> 00:14:23.629 planned there, um, there's going to be, you know, 00:14:23.769 --> 00:14:26.809 normally every year we hear complaints about 00:14:26.809 --> 00:14:32.250 food. And so we have, I think at least 19 food 00:14:32.250 --> 00:14:37.049 trucks coming in, if not more. And we have, um, 00:14:37.289 --> 00:14:40.309 a lot of people who, um, you know, we've sort 00:14:40.309 --> 00:14:44.519 of handpicked most of them. For example, our 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:49.759 local cattlemen's association, how good would 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:52.519 it be to get a nice ribeye or a real fresh hamburger 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:55.620 when they cook it right in front of you fairly 00:14:55.620 --> 00:15:01.720 quickly? So the food and places to sit will have 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.559 lots of picnic tables and some extra bleachers 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:12.659 and things like that. like a beer garden, and 00:15:12.659 --> 00:15:15.440 we'll probably even have a specially brewed hand 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:19.200 -benching beer. I hear that's happening as well. 00:15:20.059 --> 00:15:22.580 So in as far as food goes, that's going to be 00:15:22.580 --> 00:15:26.919 a new improvement. And we got to get this in. 00:15:27.379 --> 00:15:30.519 We have to put this in because I've already heard 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:36.320 this is there, but cheesecake on a stick. It's 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:39.200 back, right? I I don't know where you heard that, 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:42.919 but it it could be there. I don't know I These 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:46.379 we're putting together a great plan of food And 00:15:46.379 --> 00:15:48.879 I know some of them, but I don't know all the 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:56.659 ins and outs, but if you want Very often, but 00:15:56.659 --> 00:15:59.340 it's it's like a tradition. It's just one of 00:15:59.340 --> 00:16:02.980 those Hamvention traditions that they have the 00:16:02.980 --> 00:16:06.179 cheesecake on a stick. So I heard it was back, 00:16:06.179 --> 00:16:13.120 but I hope I'm right. OK, good. You may be. In 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:15.679 the not too distant future, we'll have the information 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:17.919 about all the trucks. And I don't have all of 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:22.259 that yet. And the expo people are going to be 00:16:22.259 --> 00:16:25.720 giving that to me. Next time you're on, we're 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:30.480 going to verify that. OK, let me move on with 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:31.860 a couple other things. Sure, go right ahead. 00:16:34.029 --> 00:16:36.049 I know you're talking about food, I get you all 00:16:36.049 --> 00:16:38.549 excited, but you know, amateur radio operators 00:16:38.549 --> 00:16:42.830 love their food. And also, another exciting thing 00:16:42.830 --> 00:16:46.970 that's happened, and I actually read, you know, 00:16:46.990 --> 00:16:51.490 there was some conversation about that on probably 00:16:51.490 --> 00:16:57.850 your site. It was about Xenia City Schools, Xenia 00:16:57.850 --> 00:17:00.009 Community Schools, which covers a lot of the 00:17:00.009 --> 00:17:03.370 area outside of Xenia. They closed for that Friday. 00:17:03.690 --> 00:17:07.849 they shut down, and I've never heard of that 00:17:07.849 --> 00:17:11.210 happening, a school system, I mean an entire 00:17:11.210 --> 00:17:15.009 school system closing down because of a ham fest 00:17:15.009 --> 00:17:19.829 event. That's pretty huge. So that really frees 00:17:19.829 --> 00:17:23.930 up and helps, well that helps us with traffic, 00:17:24.230 --> 00:17:28.289 but it gets even better than that. We are asking 00:17:28.289 --> 00:17:32.539 the school superintendent to let us know how 00:17:32.539 --> 00:17:36.720 many tickets that we can give for the kids to 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:41.259 come and enjoy the day. And that's gonna be on 00:17:41.259 --> 00:17:44.000 us, because what a great opportunity for us to 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:49.000 have a lot of youth come in and learn a little 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:53.799 bit more about the technology. And so we're excited 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:56.019 about that. We're really glad that that happened. 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:01.740 And not only that, even more exciting too, is 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:05.920 that we are going to have some off -site parking 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:09.500 as well. So people coming in from maybe Beaver 00:18:09.500 --> 00:18:13.099 Creek area or Dayton, if you don't wanna navigate 00:18:13.099 --> 00:18:17.299 the rest of the way in, we're gonna have a parking 00:18:17.299 --> 00:18:20.200 lot in a very safe area, and we'll still have 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:22.559 security there, and we'll have buses bringing 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:26.619 people in pretty quickly. don't wanna come on 00:18:26.619 --> 00:18:29.000 the grounds and park, and actually that's not 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.140 a bad idea. The way everything's going, this'll 00:18:33.140 --> 00:18:36.440 be a huge year for us. We're expecting over 30 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:40.059 ,000 people, but we'll be able to handle it. 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:43.700 We've got 104 acres there, and we have plenty 00:18:43.700 --> 00:18:46.579 of parking, not only that location, across the 00:18:46.579 --> 00:18:48.500 street, and we're gonna have the off -site parking, 00:18:49.299 --> 00:18:55.200 and the county is... of helping us pay for buses 00:18:55.200 --> 00:19:00.140 that we'll be using to bus people in. So those 00:19:00.140 --> 00:19:03.079 are just a couple of big things. We are getting 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:08.000 a really great internet system really solidly 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.539 in place throughout the whole grounds. It was 00:19:11.539 --> 00:19:14.299 interesting. One of our local television stations 00:19:14.299 --> 00:19:17.799 was in there, and they were taking, they were 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:20.980 talking to some of the Fairgrounds people. None 00:19:20.980 --> 00:19:23.319 of us were there from hand -vention, but there 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:27.069 was an electrician who was up. Working in one 00:19:27.069 --> 00:19:29.730 of the buildings and they so what are you doing? 00:19:29.950 --> 00:19:32.309 Is this all for hand -vention? They said oh, 00:19:32.349 --> 00:19:34.690 yeah, we're running at least five miles of wire 00:19:34.690 --> 00:19:38.650 will be run. So Wow, that's it improve electric 00:19:38.650 --> 00:19:41.849 service prove the electric service in there and 00:19:41.849 --> 00:19:45.410 improve on Making sure that internet lines is 00:19:45.410 --> 00:19:48.089 best we can everybody has that then the other 00:19:48.089 --> 00:19:52.930 thing that I saw last week the Expo board took 00:19:52.930 --> 00:19:55.839 me over and they showed me this Restroom and 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:57.799 they said look at this restroom because I told 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:01.640 them, you know, I we can't have we have to have 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:05.079 very clean Excellent restrooms. So what they 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:07.660 did they took all the fixtures out completely 00:20:07.660 --> 00:20:11.319 out of that restroom Wash it top to the bottom 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:16.519 painted it put this new coating on the floor 00:20:18.620 --> 00:20:21.859 in the process of putting all the fixtures back 00:20:21.859 --> 00:20:24.460 in and there's even showers in some of these 00:20:24.460 --> 00:20:28.400 areas. So they took us to hurt when we told them 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:32.220 the restroom's gotta be perfect. So that's another 00:20:32.220 --> 00:20:34.619 big thing that's happening. So I'll give it back 00:20:34.619 --> 00:20:37.240 to you if you have a question. Very, very good. 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:40.000 Well, that's some great stuff. And yeah, I just 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:43.900 happened to run into the thing about... the school 00:20:43.900 --> 00:20:46.680 district announcing that they were taking off 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:50.380 for hamvention and boy that created created a 00:20:50.380 --> 00:20:55.140 stir so hopefully that'll that'll pay off and 00:20:55.140 --> 00:20:59.390 we'll get some more young hams in in the fold 00:20:59.390 --> 00:21:03.710 and get them at least interested in it and see 00:21:03.710 --> 00:21:06.549 what it is. Well I know you guys have been working 00:21:06.549 --> 00:21:11.630 hard since all this took place last year to get 00:21:11.630 --> 00:21:15.130 everything ready to go and it's really just reinventing 00:21:15.130 --> 00:21:18.609 the whole thing just about. But what are some 00:21:18.609 --> 00:21:21.930 of the things that you think visitors are going 00:21:21.930 --> 00:21:25.829 to notice the most right away when they get to 00:21:25.829 --> 00:21:30.460 the new facility? You walk in the door, what 00:21:30.460 --> 00:21:35.359 do you think they're going to notice? I think 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:37.940 they're going to appreciate how clean and nice 00:21:37.940 --> 00:21:41.619 and well organized these buildings are when they 00:21:41.619 --> 00:21:46.359 walk in. I think that people that use scoot arounds 00:21:46.359 --> 00:21:51.069 are going to... I appreciate the way we have 00:21:51.069 --> 00:21:55.349 to scoot around people away from the main, that 00:21:55.349 --> 00:21:56.829 would be not too far away from the main entrance, 00:21:56.990 --> 00:21:59.829 but you won't have to stand there with crowded 00:21:59.829 --> 00:22:02.089 around like when you have the flea market, people 00:22:02.089 --> 00:22:03.549 would come in and you're trying to get in to 00:22:03.549 --> 00:22:06.309 get your unit and get out. We've thought that 00:22:06.309 --> 00:22:10.049 out a lot better. They'll appreciate that. In 00:22:10.049 --> 00:22:13.650 the buildings, I think it's going to be all business 00:22:13.650 --> 00:22:18.230 in the buildings inside of where all the vendors 00:22:18.230 --> 00:22:22.750 will be. We won't have food areas inside of there 00:22:22.750 --> 00:22:25.829 because we're getting such a huge demand for 00:22:25.829 --> 00:22:27.809 people. As a matter of fact, we even have some 00:22:27.809 --> 00:22:34.230 huge tents that people will be having their booths 00:22:34.230 --> 00:22:39.029 in and they're very nice. We've got a lot of 00:22:39.029 --> 00:22:40.630 room there and that will be right next to the 00:22:40.630 --> 00:22:43.569 buildings. In the forums, I think they're going 00:22:43.569 --> 00:22:47.079 to really appreciate the forum rooms. They'll 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:51.380 be very nice. Some of them are carpeted, I think 00:22:51.380 --> 00:22:55.079 most of them are, and it'll be a big switch and 00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:58.259 a big change for them when folks go to the forums. 00:22:59.940 --> 00:23:03.019 You know in the walkways between the buildings 00:23:03.019 --> 00:23:07.000 most of them have covered walkways the vendors 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:09.079 will really like it because they'll be able to 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:11.059 park their trucks right behind the buildings 00:23:11.059 --> 00:23:14.539 and You know, they'll have their spots and they'll 00:23:14.539 --> 00:23:16.619 be and they'll have their own entrance in and 00:23:16.619 --> 00:23:18.819 out So they'll be able to get to their equipment 00:23:18.819 --> 00:23:22.619 to load and unload So we are we're looking at 00:23:22.619 --> 00:23:25.500 things like that to really make a difference. 00:23:25.700 --> 00:23:31.630 So I think it's going to be bright inside. But 00:23:31.630 --> 00:23:35.950 will we have problems? We might. We're really 00:23:35.950 --> 00:23:41.769 working on a five -star event. What a five -star 00:23:41.769 --> 00:23:46.990 event means is that we really want to have a 00:23:46.990 --> 00:23:51.390 place for hams to come that is a great place 00:23:51.390 --> 00:23:56.170 to come and really a lot of fun and well -organized. 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.519 So that's the goal and that's the plan and now 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:02.960 everybody's working so hard towards it. Another 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:05.859 big question would be that we get is parking 00:24:05.859 --> 00:24:10.839 or driving into the place. I hear a lot about 00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:16.880 that, but just shortly after we signed on to 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:22.099 go to the Green County Expo Center, we engaged 00:24:22.099 --> 00:24:25.240 with a a private engineering firm that does this 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:27.660 kind of work traffic flow. And we've been meeting 00:24:27.660 --> 00:24:31.799 with them in conjunction with the police departments 00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:37.940 to fire EMS. And so we really get a good traffic 00:24:37.940 --> 00:24:39.920 flow. And that's one of the reasons why we're 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:42.400 not charging anything for for parking, because 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:45.259 we don't want to stop people on the street, take 00:24:45.259 --> 00:24:47.519 money, make change, let them go in. We're just 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:50.900 going to bring them right in. And so that's free 00:24:50.900 --> 00:24:53.059 with the ticket. And that's a That's another 00:24:53.059 --> 00:24:57.500 big change this year. Sure. Go ahead. Yeah, that's 00:24:57.500 --> 00:25:01.799 great. That'll speed things up tremendously to 00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:05.500 get everybody in and out of there. So good job 00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:08.859 on working on that. And hopefully it'll all go 00:25:08.859 --> 00:25:12.039 OK. But it's the first time. It's the first time 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:15.240 at a new place. And so there's going to be a 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.359 few things that get overlooked. You try not to. 00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:21.900 You try to cover everything. but I'm sure there'll 00:25:21.900 --> 00:25:23.759 be a few things that will come up, but those 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:27.779 can be fixed and, you know, always looking at 00:25:27.779 --> 00:25:31.180 ways to get better and I think it'll be great. 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:36.500 Yeah, one of the things that I want to mention 00:25:36.500 --> 00:25:39.359 too is that the money and the proceeds that we 00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:43.980 get off of hand -bent, we really shared that 00:25:43.980 --> 00:25:46.359 money very generously with the rest of the amateur 00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:49.720 radio community in terms of a lot of scholarships, 00:25:50.019 --> 00:25:54.799 a lot of support to some of the activities that 00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:58.940 are going on in amateur radio world. And we consider, 00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:02.339 we really do give back a considerable amount 00:26:02.339 --> 00:26:06.460 of money. So it isn't just something that we 00:26:06.460 --> 00:26:08.200 just, oh boy, are we getting a lot of money for 00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:12.140 our club. I can tell you as treasurer, finance 00:26:12.140 --> 00:26:14.940 man, we give a lot of money away, and rightfully 00:26:14.940 --> 00:26:20.369 so. And once again, nobody gets paid for this. 00:26:21.089 --> 00:26:25.430 Not anybody at all. We're all volunteers. Now 00:26:25.430 --> 00:26:29.970 we may pay, donate for fire and EMS and some 00:26:29.970 --> 00:26:32.809 of those things, or we'll have some outside portage 00:26:32.809 --> 00:26:37.500 ons that we will... We pay those kind of bills. 00:26:37.859 --> 00:26:39.839 As far as all the management and the running 00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:42.779 of it, it's all volunteer. I do want to mention 00:26:42.779 --> 00:26:45.240 that there is camping on site and I know that 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.259 it was closing up. I don't know if it's completely 00:26:48.259 --> 00:26:52.079 full yet. You can contact the Green County Expo 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:55.380 Fairgrounds Center and ask them about that because 00:26:55.380 --> 00:26:57.779 they're handling it. But there are a lot of sites 00:26:57.779 --> 00:27:01.279 there. But if you are camping, there's a beautiful 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:04.599 campground about six miles south of there. And 00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:07.200 it's at Caesars Creek State Park and it's a beautiful 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:16.220 park and has, I don't know, 278 camping spots, 00:27:16.220 --> 00:27:20.039 I think. It's a beautiful lake there, just easy 00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:23.619 drive into Xenia. So that's something that a 00:27:23.619 --> 00:27:26.220 lot of people don't know about. But when you 00:27:26.220 --> 00:27:34.430 go to our page, the... dot hand bench and dot 00:27:34.430 --> 00:27:36.890 org there's a lot of information there and a 00:27:36.890 --> 00:27:39.750 lot of links and I really encourage you even 00:27:39.750 --> 00:27:42.369 to look at that before you come like and I do 00:27:42.369 --> 00:27:46.349 want to say that The once again the whole community 00:27:46.349 --> 00:27:48.829 is completely behind this as a matter of fact 00:27:48.829 --> 00:27:51.450 I share something interesting when you get into 00:27:51.450 --> 00:27:56.109 Xenia There'll be Flags on all these flagpoles 00:27:56.109 --> 00:27:59.910 and right up the whole route almost to the front 00:27:59.910 --> 00:28:02.650 of the fairgrounds. It will be loaded with these 00:28:02.650 --> 00:28:07.170 beautiful flags, welcoming people to Hamvention. 00:28:08.390 --> 00:28:14.650 To me, yeah, I mean, when you have a city and 00:28:14.650 --> 00:28:18.130 a county that is working that hard hand in hand 00:28:18.130 --> 00:28:21.609 with us, because they see the benefit too, but 00:28:21.609 --> 00:28:25.170 to support an amateur radio event, that is really 00:28:25.170 --> 00:28:27.869 big. I don't know that I've ever heard of that 00:28:27.869 --> 00:28:32.119 happening, actually. Yeah, that's all great news 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:35.480 and glad to hear it. And personally, next year, 00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:40.880 I think you need to get paid double. I've doubled 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:44.299 my pay for every year I've been doing this for 00:28:44.299 --> 00:28:52.500 25 plus years. So anyway, multiplying by zero 00:28:52.500 --> 00:28:56.220 just, you know, that's the way it goes. Right. 00:28:57.230 --> 00:28:59.690 Yeah, but you know, it's for us is a labor of 00:28:59.690 --> 00:29:02.390 love. It's like you don't get paid if you do 00:29:02.390 --> 00:29:06.329 I'm sorry, I'll make much but but you know, this 00:29:06.329 --> 00:29:10.910 is all even Websites everything. Oh my god, it's 00:29:10.910 --> 00:29:15.269 it's it's a lot of work. So But we're trying 00:29:15.269 --> 00:29:19.329 to keep up with the All the things on our website 00:29:19.329 --> 00:29:23.390 to so that it all works and occasionally there 00:29:23.390 --> 00:29:28.240 are glitches. So let me give them The dates of 00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:31.039 when this is going to happen is May 19th 20th 00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:33.640 and 21st I don't know that I need to tell everybody 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:38.380 that but I'm going to so in the advanced admission 00:29:38.380 --> 00:29:42.539 advanced admission tickets are $22 which is a 00:29:42.539 --> 00:29:46.720 pretty good deal day of the events 27 and That's 00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:50.920 tickets are good for all three days. So Anyway, 00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:55.150 yeah any other questions Well, I think we need 00:29:55.150 --> 00:29:58.730 to take a quick break here. But then we'll come 00:29:58.730 --> 00:30:02.069 back and we'll take some questions from our listeners, 00:30:02.109 --> 00:30:06.009 hopefully. 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You can find us there 00:32:08.369 --> 00:32:12.029 and Right now it's time for your call So if you 00:32:12.029 --> 00:32:14.430 have a question for Michael, you can give us 00:32:14.430 --> 00:32:17.589 a call right now That number is eight one two 00:32:17.589 --> 00:32:22.569 net ham one eight one two six three eight four 00:32:22.569 --> 00:32:28.390 two So give us a call or you can Skype us. The 00:32:28.390 --> 00:32:32.670 Skype name is HamTalk Live or you can tweet HamTalk 00:32:32.670 --> 00:32:35.789 Live and we'll get as many calls in as we can. 00:32:36.289 --> 00:32:39.289 And our first caller is here from a familiar 00:32:39.289 --> 00:32:43.650 area code. Who we have on the line here? Hello, 00:32:43.690 --> 00:32:46.990 this is Jeremy, KF7IJZ from the Ham Radio 360 00:32:46.990 --> 00:32:51.390 podcast. Very good. Well, what's your question 00:32:51.390 --> 00:32:55.819 for? uh... michael tonight so my quick question 00:32:55.819 --> 00:32:59.299 was about inside uh... boot space because we've 00:32:59.299 --> 00:33:03.220 we've seen the news uh... one of my co -producers 00:33:03.220 --> 00:33:05.940 has been a long -time exhibitor hand bench and 00:33:05.940 --> 00:33:09.220 that has not received any contact from uh... 00:33:09.220 --> 00:33:11.380 the organizing committee whatsoever which we 00:33:11.380 --> 00:33:13.220 were under the impression we would and then i 00:33:13.220 --> 00:33:15.539 have filled out the online for that was provided 00:33:16.089 --> 00:33:18.230 about a week ago and have not heard anything 00:33:18.230 --> 00:33:20.710 back. And so I was curious to know if there's 00:33:20.710 --> 00:33:23.029 just a long backlog or if we should try again 00:33:23.029 --> 00:33:27.849 or maybe get a little more information. Well, 00:33:27.849 --> 00:33:31.210 Jeremy, I don't know why we probably haven't 00:33:31.210 --> 00:33:34.410 got back to everyone yet. And but yeah, please 00:33:34.410 --> 00:33:43.799 feel free to reach out back to inside, I think 00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:46.440 it's inside exhibits, wherever you sent it before. 00:33:46.859 --> 00:33:50.440 Did they send you back the information of how 00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:52.019 to apply and everything? Did they send that to 00:33:52.019 --> 00:33:55.660 you? No, they haven't. Like I said, I was surprised 00:33:55.660 --> 00:33:59.200 that George had not heard anything and then you 00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:01.000 guys had a form on your website where you could 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:03.240 go and put your top three spots in and add some 00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:05.400 comments and I showed that out but got nothing 00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:12.170 back. Okay, do this. You can, you can also copy 00:34:12.170 --> 00:34:15.050 me on email and I will personally take a look 00:34:15.050 --> 00:34:18.789 at it for you too. And my email is really easy. 00:34:18.909 --> 00:34:21.969 It's Michael. You can actually, I'm good on QRZ. 00:34:22.070 --> 00:34:24.230 So you can look me up on QRZ whiskey at Charlie 00:34:24.230 --> 00:34:30.190 Indy. Yeah. Wonderful. Thank you. Give it a shot. 00:34:31.630 --> 00:34:34.150 Thanks for calling in Jeremy. Appreciate it. 00:34:34.510 --> 00:34:36.489 Thanks for having the show and having me on. 00:34:36.630 --> 00:34:39.260 Have a great night gentlemen. 73. All right, 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:41.880 thanks a lot. Yeah, and then that's something 00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:44.199 that we have to do, you know, this is patience 00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:47.159 with things and it's gonna take a while to get 00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:51.280 everything going. So, appreciate you looking 00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.429 into that. Okay, so give us a call eight one 00:34:54.429 --> 00:34:57.230 two net ham one is the number eight one two six 00:34:57.230 --> 00:35:01.150 three eight four two six one is The telephone 00:35:01.150 --> 00:35:04.630 number you can give us a call and ask your question 00:35:04.630 --> 00:35:08.429 our guest tonight is Michael Coulter w8ci He 00:35:08.429 --> 00:35:12.889 is the official spokesperson for the Dayton hamvention 00:35:12.889 --> 00:35:16.230 So we have time for a call or two give us a call 00:35:16.230 --> 00:35:22.610 eight one two net ham one We'll wait here and 00:35:22.610 --> 00:35:25.889 see if we have any other callers. One thing I 00:35:25.889 --> 00:35:29.969 wanted to ask was about cell phone service. I 00:35:29.969 --> 00:35:34.190 know at a lot of big events, cell phone companies 00:35:34.190 --> 00:35:41.369 will come in and add some portable networks to 00:35:41.369 --> 00:35:44.960 kind of fill in whenever. events have happened. 00:35:45.099 --> 00:35:50.320 Have you heard anything about if any of the cellular 00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:54.599 services are going to beef up their networks 00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:59.739 a little bit better? Actually, we are on that 00:35:59.739 --> 00:36:02.739 right now, and I can't give you definitive answers 00:36:02.739 --> 00:36:05.179 of who's going to be there and what, but we are 00:36:05.179 --> 00:36:08.260 definitely, that's been a concern since the day 00:36:08.260 --> 00:36:12.440 one. good cell phone service generally. When 00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:14.059 you get that many people, we're going to need 00:36:14.059 --> 00:36:18.380 some help on it. So we have reached out to major 00:36:18.380 --> 00:36:21.360 carriers and I can't give you the answer just 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:24.280 yet, but it's definitely, I mean, we need to 00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:27.539 be able to get out with our phones too. So. Yeah, 00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:31.719 I think what we learned in the ARRL Teachers 00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:35.380 Institute when we were learning things to promote, 00:36:35.460 --> 00:36:37.980 you know, ham radio in schools and everything 00:36:37.980 --> 00:36:41.199 is that cellular carriers have to provide enough 00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:45.920 service for 3 % of their customer base at a time. 00:36:46.579 --> 00:36:48.760 And so when you bring something like Hamvention 00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:54.739 in, 3 % is just not going to cut it. Yeah, you 00:36:54.739 --> 00:36:58.679 got that right. I appreciate that. But generally, 00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:01.900 it's been pretty good service here. You know, 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:04.280 another interesting thing that, you know, you 00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:08.960 mentioned earlier that I am one of our primary 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:11.719 net control operators actually at the Weather 00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:14.639 Bureau in Wilmington, Ohio, and we cover most 00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:17.860 of Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Eastern 00:37:17.860 --> 00:37:21.679 Indiana. And so I work right down there with 00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:29.019 the Forecasters and we have different area Leads 00:37:29.019 --> 00:37:30.960 out there and that control operators and you 00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:34.480 know handle five or ten counties and so I've 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.320 gotten another folks at the Weather Bureau and 00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:40.659 they are going to watch the weather specifically 00:37:40.659 --> 00:37:44.480 right over that area and They're going to give 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:46.880 us a warning not just if it's a tornado, but 00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:49.980 They'll give us a good heads up warning if we 00:37:49.980 --> 00:37:53.719 get significant higher winds or dangerous lightning 00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:56.260 coming and even heavy rain. So we'll all have 00:37:56.260 --> 00:37:59.199 a pretty good idea. That's generally going to 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:04.059 go to our emergency management people that will 00:38:04.059 --> 00:38:06.260 be there. But also, I'll put a quick plug in 00:38:06.260 --> 00:38:09.980 for that one. There's going to be a great forum, 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:12.460 there's a young man there, he's one of these, 00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:15.099 our chief forecaster, and he puts on a really 00:38:15.099 --> 00:38:19.809 amazing forum about what happened. in the weather 00:38:19.809 --> 00:38:22.150 station when severe weather comes. What do they 00:38:22.150 --> 00:38:24.150 go through? How do they look at? What do they 00:38:24.150 --> 00:38:27.610 look at? So that's going to be a real exciting 00:38:27.610 --> 00:38:31.690 forum. So look for that one to come up. Great. 00:38:32.030 --> 00:38:35.889 Sounds like a good one. 812 -NATAM -1 is the 00:38:35.889 --> 00:38:40.070 number 812 -638 -4261. If you want to get a call 00:38:40.070 --> 00:38:43.210 in, we have time for just another call here. 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:46.539 Stopped you. I think we've got a little delay 00:38:46.539 --> 00:38:49.679 going here tonight. So so let me let me go ahead 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:55.519 and let you finish No, I did finish we're just 00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:59.619 fine, okay just fine so back to you, okay Getting 00:38:59.619 --> 00:39:04.860 another question via Twitter here about traffic 00:39:04.860 --> 00:39:10.119 routing from Dayton will there be Any kind of 00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:17.699 police presence? for traffic coming out of Dayton? 00:39:18.579 --> 00:39:23.159 Do we know anything about that yet? We will have, 00:39:23.340 --> 00:39:26.840 because people will be coming from Dayton, from 00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:28.679 Cincinnati, from a lot of different directions, 00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:32.000 and there's a lot of ways into Zinnia, and we 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:34.920 have been studying all of them. We've worked 00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:39.300 even with the county engineer as well, State 00:39:39.300 --> 00:39:44.989 Highway Patrol, and They will be in Green County 00:39:44.989 --> 00:39:47.010 actually goes right up to the edge of Dayton 00:39:47.010 --> 00:39:50.510 there. It's very, very close. So as you get closer 00:39:50.510 --> 00:39:53.090 in, there'll be signs, there'll be police officers. 00:39:54.389 --> 00:39:57.809 We've already picked the stoplights that could 00:39:57.809 --> 00:40:00.829 be a problem. So we'll have somebody there actually 00:40:00.829 --> 00:40:03.409 working the stoplights. If you have to make a 00:40:03.409 --> 00:40:05.250 left turn in one of the places against traffic, 00:40:05.409 --> 00:40:08.750 we'll have extended turn time. We'll have police 00:40:08.750 --> 00:40:14.329 all along the way. Worried about not worried, 00:40:14.329 --> 00:40:17.250 but we want people to have a good experience 00:40:17.250 --> 00:40:19.150 getting there. We're going to have you know, 00:40:19.329 --> 00:40:23.449 talk in is really going to be a beefed up and 00:40:23.449 --> 00:40:27.989 As we get closer to the date we I can give you 00:40:27.989 --> 00:40:30.730 all the plans what talking is going to be doing 00:40:30.730 --> 00:40:34.110 and Usually it's on one frequency They may have 00:40:34.110 --> 00:40:36.610 more than one frequency going just so they can 00:40:36.610 --> 00:40:39.309 handle everything and we'll post all of that 00:40:39.309 --> 00:40:43.760 information as well so I hope that that Whoever's 00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:47.059 tweeting in there Hope that it gives them some 00:40:47.059 --> 00:40:50.639 comfort that we definitely want a good traffic 00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:55.320 flow Yeah, very good. That's that's some good 00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.400 information and dr Scott right k0md is asking 00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:04.519 about traffic flow a little bit and also about 00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:08.539 coming back to events in the evening that are 00:41:09.579 --> 00:41:19.519 downtown. Same thing goes for that? Yes. Same 00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:22.280 thing goes. But most of the traffic will really 00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:26.820 take place. My history with prevention is not 00:41:26.820 --> 00:41:28.699 so much when people are leaving, but we will 00:41:28.699 --> 00:41:31.889 have police presence there. Absolutely to get 00:41:31.889 --> 00:41:35.349 people out and especially toward the very end 00:41:35.349 --> 00:41:38.550 of the show and getting back into Dayton But 00:41:38.550 --> 00:41:40.690 getting back heading back into Dayton is four 00:41:40.690 --> 00:41:44.409 lane four lane And that generally flows pretty 00:41:44.409 --> 00:41:47.250 good. There's I think a few traffic lights, but 00:41:47.250 --> 00:41:51.710 not many and It'll be an easy flow same same 00:41:51.710 --> 00:41:53.769 of the people staying in Beaver Creek should 00:41:53.769 --> 00:41:57.769 be a nice flow going back there as well All right, 00:41:57.809 --> 00:42:00.469 very good. Well, we're just about out of time, 00:42:00.469 --> 00:42:03.489 so let me give you the last word here. We've 00:42:03.489 --> 00:42:06.050 got about a minute. If there's anything that 00:42:06.050 --> 00:42:08.489 was on your list of things you wanted to talk 00:42:08.489 --> 00:42:11.789 about, go ahead and throw them out there, and 00:42:11.789 --> 00:42:17.030 then we'll wrap things up. Well, Neil, first 00:42:17.030 --> 00:42:19.269 of all, thank you for supporting us at Ham Bench, 00:42:19.630 --> 00:42:22.070 and we'd like to thank everyone. Everybody's 00:42:22.070 --> 00:42:24.489 listening out there, or maybe listening later. 00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:30.960 please realize that this is not a WHCI show, 00:42:31.019 --> 00:42:34.460 this is a show, we have 600 volunteers and we 00:42:34.460 --> 00:42:38.320 have like 80 different, we have 40 plus committees 00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:42.300 and we have a chair and co -chair with each of 00:42:42.300 --> 00:42:45.079 these committees. And so there's meetings going 00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:50.340 on continuously all over Green County as well 00:42:50.340 --> 00:42:55.309 as at our clubhouse. So we're really the whole 00:42:55.309 --> 00:42:58.030 team is really working hard. This is not our 00:42:58.030 --> 00:43:02.409 first -hand invention, but it is the first one, 00:43:02.510 --> 00:43:05.969 excuse me, the first one in Xenia, Ohio, but 00:43:05.969 --> 00:43:07.929 we really want to take all the things that we 00:43:07.929 --> 00:43:10.469 learned that we wish we could have changed before, 00:43:10.889 --> 00:43:14.510 where we have an opportunity now to change it, 00:43:14.530 --> 00:43:18.150 so. I look forward to being back on your program 00:43:18.150 --> 00:43:20.409 later as we get more and more news. It's always 00:43:20.409 --> 00:43:22.349 a pleasure to work with you, Neil. You've got 00:43:22.349 --> 00:43:25.550 a great program, and I thank everybody once again. 00:43:25.769 --> 00:43:29.150 This is Whiskey H. Charlie, India. All right. 00:43:29.150 --> 00:43:31.170 Thank you very much, Michael. Thanks for coming 00:43:31.170 --> 00:43:33.889 on the show, answering the questions. And we 00:43:33.889 --> 00:43:36.889 do look forward to having you back on in a few 00:43:36.889 --> 00:43:40.690 weeks before Hamvention to give us the latest 00:43:40.690 --> 00:43:44.309 news as those final plans come together and another 00:43:44.309 --> 00:43:47.869 chance for our listeners to ask some questions 00:43:47.869 --> 00:43:52.010 directly from the source. So we appreciate that. 00:43:52.130 --> 00:43:55.250 HamTalk Live will have five weeks of Hamvention 00:43:55.250 --> 00:43:57.829 preview shows leading up to our live show on 00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.860 Hamvention Eve will be featuring various activities 00:44:00.860 --> 00:44:04.139 such as forums and Contest University which also 00:44:04.139 --> 00:44:07.039 takes place on Hamvention Eve. So be sure to 00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:11.440 tune in the weeks prior to Dayton and if you 00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:14.400 arrive in time join us for their live audience 00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:18.119 show that's on Thursday May 18th at Spring Hill 00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:22.219 Suites in Miamisburg at our usual broadcast time 00:44:22.219 --> 00:44:26.239 of 9 p .m. Eastern. So that's a wrap for this 00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:28.989 week's edition. of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my 00:44:28.989 --> 00:44:31.670 guest, Michael Coulter, W8CI, and everyone out 00:44:31.670 --> 00:44:33.750 there in cyberspace for listening and calling 00:44:33.750 --> 00:44:36.610 in, and invite you all back next Thursday night 00:44:36.610 --> 00:44:39.829 at 9 p .m. Eastern Time. And for a list of all 00:44:39.829 --> 00:44:42.650 of our upcoming guests, just visit hamtalklive 00:44:42.650 --> 00:44:46.949 .com. So for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, 00:44:47.130 --> 00:44:52.909 saying 7375, and may the good DX be yours. Bye 00:44:52.909 --> 00:44:53.130 bye.