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Well, I've been trying to get some people on
and we're going to talk a little bit about some
of the people that are coming up, um, soon on
the show. And, uh, we were having all kinds of
scheduling issues, uh, for tonight. I don't know
what's going on tonight, but it seems like, uh,
um, it just wasn't working out. And, uh, one,
one guy had an excuse that he was in Russia even,
uh, so I can't blame Frank for, uh, for that,
uh, being over in Russia, but, uh, uh, we're
going to have him on, um, soon as well. But,
uh, there's, uh, there's just been a lot going
on and, and, and the interview thing, it was
always kind of something to build up the audience
a little bit and get started and get some themes
going. And, um, always wanted to really, you
know, have some nights where we just open it
up. So, um, I decided that. With the way scheduling
was going and everything tonight was the night
to give it a shot. So I don't know how this is
going to go. Uh, some nights we get a lot of
calls. Other nights we don't get any. So I have
no idea what's going to happen, but, uh, but
we're going to give it a shot. So, uh, we're
going to open up the lines here in just a moment.
And, um, We'll see what happens. It's open line
Thursday and you can call in and talk about any
ham radio topic you want. I thought one thing
we might talk about since the year is coming
to an end here before long is the National Park
on the Air event. those activations are coming
to a close. There's still plenty of those out
there for another month and a half or so, but
then that's going to be ending. So I thought
maybe we could talk about some of your favorite
National Park on the Air activations and tell
us what you've done with National Parks on the
Air. So if you have a story to share, why give
us a call. Maybe some other things, uh, some
guests that you'd like to see, uh, on the show
in the future. Uh, maybe your favorite moments
from the show thus far, or things you'd like
to see, uh, at the new location for Hamvention.
So, uh, those are some ideas I have, but, uh,
you can, you can call with any ham radio related
topic. Uh, and, uh, yeah, the politics will,
we'll try to stay away from that one. Uh, yeah,
that one's, uh, getting enough attention right
now uh... but anyway give us a call uh... we'll
go ahead and open it up here uh... the number
again is eight one two net ham one that's eight
one two six three eight four two six one you
can also tweet us on skype uh... that twitter
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You can tweet us there. So go ahead and give
us call I've got some stuff I can talk about
here while we're waiting on some calls But go
ahead and give us call at 812 net ham one or
give us a tweet if there's a Something you'd
like to throw in here Why just go ahead and do
that. I'd like to get some good Discussions going
tonight if we can So again eight one two net
him one is the phone number I do want to mention
some of the upcoming guests while we're waiting,
you know, go ahead and give us a call don't Don't
worry about interrupting here Next week actually
we have another great guest John Amadeo in in
6ja He's the producer of last man standing and
they're gonna take a couple of weeks off for
the holidays here So he's going to be able to
join us next Thursday night. So you'll be able
to call in and ask your questions about the Last
Man Standing set and their operations. They're
on about every Tuesday evening during the dinner
break there. So you can talk to them a little
bit about that. Then we are going to go ahead
and take Thanksgiving off. So there won't be
a show on Thanksgiving night. We will pass on
that one. And then Thursday, December 1st, we'll
be back. Harold Kramer, WJ1B, who is the now
retired COO at ARRL. He is a key collector and
he's going to be on to talk about his key collection
and also some of the things that he was able
to experience during his long tenure at ARRL.
December 8th we have Bobby Graves KB5HAV coming
on the show. We want to try to work some EMCOM
stuff in. Some of the listeners have been requesting
that and so... Bobby's going to be here to talk
about the Hurricane Watch Net. And again, you'll
be able to call in and ask your questions. And
on Thursday, December 15th, there's something
that we've been working on for a little while.
And we're going to give it a shot. We'll see
how it goes. Rick Garrett in nine. GSU is a stand
up comedian and he's a ham and an active ham.
And so we're going to try some ham radio comedy
on that night. So that'll be something fun. Uh,
just before, um, the holiday season and Christmas,
uh, at the end of December. So, uh, looking forward
to, uh, to seeing what Rick has for us. on December
15th. So those are some of the upcoming shows.
If there's somebody that you would like to have
on, why make a suggestion. I'm scheduling out
the rest of the year and working on some others.
I do have a list that I'm working from and we've
got a few more to contact on that list. But let
us know if you've got somebody that you'd like
to hear. Again, the phone number is 812 -NET
-HAM -1. That's 812 -638 -4261. And we do have
a call here. And I believe this is Pete. Am I
right? You get free tickets to the 1984 Dayton
Hamvention. Well, this is Pete Thompson ke5 GG
why and he's with the Santa net and That's going
to be starting soon so Pete, uh, thanks for,
uh, calling in on short notice here. Uh, but
tell us a little bit about the Santa net and
how we get people, uh, participating in that.
And if there's anything that, that you could
use a hand with, it goes back, uh, like I said,
11 years, um, I had a, I had a young boy at home,
uh, my son back 11 years ago, and a number of
us were on the freewheelers net one night on
39 16, 11 years ago. And we were trying to figure
out, um, a way to you know have our kids talk
to santa and so one thing led to another and
somebody came up with the idea of doing a relay
to the north pole and that's really how it started
that year i think my son and maybe two or three
other young kids got to talk to santa at the
north pole thanks to relay stations that were
strategically positioned around the country And
then it's just grown, you know, organically each
year. You know, we get a little bit better every
year in the execution. And now this year, in
2016, we start the day after Thanksgiving. So
that's Friday night, November 25th. And the Santa
Net will be on every night at 730 p .m. Central,
every night through and including Christmas Eve.
And the way it works is if you have a kiddo that
you can get into your shack, We will arrange
to have a relay with the North Pole and you can
check in either right at 730 p .m. Central or
we have a pre -net check -in that you can do
via email. And all that information is at 3916nets
.com. That's 3916nets .com, which is our 3916
website. We also have a Facebook page and there's
a lot of chatter going on on the Facebook page.
We have both a 3916 Facebook page, which you
can find by searching 3916 on Facebook, or we
have a Santanet Facebook page and a lot of good
information on that. As far as help, really just
tell your friends that you talk to on various
bands what we're doing and come on in and be
part of it. We do every year use the services
of people on 3916 to both be a relay station,
but to also coordinate. And this year, I think
we're going to work NetLogger into it, which
is a great tool, as you know. So that's been
the primary challenge as it's gotten bigger.
I think last year, we had 350 kids on the air
in just under 30 days. So what is that? Is it
10 kids a night or something like that? Yeah,
it's a lot of kids. So, you know, just the management
of all those names and getting the kids on has
been the biggest challenge. You know, we're hoping
the band conditions continue to be good. We've
gone through this period here for the last two
weeks where the band has gotten really wacky
long, which can present challenges, but hopefully
we'll be okay and we're excited. Oh, it sounds
like a very cool thing and my apologies. I didn't
get your audio turned on the way I should have,
but I think we got to, we got it in the nick
of time to, uh, to get the pertinent information
there. Uh, but yeah, it sounds like a great activity.
Uh, again, it's the 39 16 and starts on November
25th and that's seven 30 central. Right? You
were a little muffled there for a second. Yes,
730 central every night and prenet check -ins
can be done either on email or you can you know,
you can check in over the air and It's it's a
lot of fun We have some people that will you
know have their kids come on a couple of different
times through the holiday season We also have
people that that seem to be you know They just
love to get kids in their shack and they'll they'll
get different Kids involved in the neighborhood.
We have a several groups out there that are trying
to arrange a I think a home of kids that are
at an orphanage are going to be checking in this
year and it's just a lot of fun. It's a great
way to end the year. Yeah, sounds great. So if
you have some kids around get them on the radio
get them on the air again that starts November
25th 730 Central 3916 so Pete thanks for taking
time out to give us a call here tonight We appreciate
it and hopefully we'll send some people your
way All right. Well seven three. Thanks for having
a son. All right, seven three Pete. Take care
All right, 812 -NET -HAM -1 is the phone number,
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phone calls and thank Pete for stopping in. One
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Sterling Coffee in Zero SSC. Good evening, Sterling.
Evening, Neil. How are you? Doing great. What's
going on out in Missouri tonight? Not much it's
a very nice kind of a chilly evening just called
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to talk about is um What's the one thing that
everybody loves? has ham radio that kids love
all the schools are doing it and Now everybody's
doing it around the world. Can you uh? Think
of what it what that is? Let's see that would
be eating lunch That would that would fit No,
I'm talking about high -altitude ballooning.
Oh, yes. The high -altitude balloon launches
are cool. I think you've done some high -altitude
ballooning. A lot of people have. A lot of schools
have. And it's really cool. And I say this just
because I got back from this sort of startup
scene called Venture Cafe in St. Louis, Missouri.
And I met this guy named Dustin. He's part of
the hab .education, I guess. ballooning team
and they send up balloons and do all sorts of
things like take pictures and do some tracking
and eventually recover the balloon that hits
the top of the atmosphere at a hundred thousand
feet up and this is really interesting because
he's one of like dozens of other different ballooners
all over the place and it seems to me like there's
been a really big, like, I guess, but a really
large interest in ballooning, but also it's very
striated, everybody's kind of doing in their
own little pockets. So I also figured out how
to make a cloning machine, because in the middle
of making a podcast, doing some reviews for various
things, having YouTube video, I'm also going
to start doing high altitude ballooning. And
hopefully, if I can ever have find the time for
it. start to build a project that I like to call
Echo Loom, where we have a crossband repeater
that everybody can use to enable something like
ham radio contests on a balloon or ham radio
contacts on a balloon by a floating repeater.
A lot of people have done this, but it's not
really standardized. And it's not, you know,
I don't know of any open source or pop the shell
things you can buy. Everybody just made their
own kit. So I don't know. I thought that would
be really cool to share and also to share the
HAB education. They have a website. h a b hotel
afro bravo dot education just like dot com dot
dot education h a b dot education um that i thought
would be really interesting they do a lot of
stuff with schools they track it with ham radio
they teach kids soldering and uh it's all all
in all really really cool yeah there's some really
cool stuff and a lot of the a lot of the kids
that have been speaking at the youth forums and
the young ham of the year and that kind of thing
it's been a Kind of a common theme amongst a
lot of them. And I just, I like sitting back
and watching it on APRS and it's watching the
altitude go up and up and up. And then all of
a sudden it just pops and that way it goes. Uh,
but it's just really cool to watch it. Yeah.
And a few times I've had it come over, like,
uh, these guys on California will send up a balloon.
That is, it circumnavigates the world. And that's
what I said earlier about it. They've been doing
it around the world, literally. A balloon they
launched with a, like a plain old Mylar happy
birthday balloon. You get a Schnucks or a Walmart.
You put a little tracker on it that has a whisper
beacon. It's a HF, really slow speed, high robustness,
like that could be heard all around the world.
And you can see this balloon just going around
the world, around the world, around the world.
Maybe two or three times before it pops and ends
up in the ocean or in you know Some country on
the opposite side of the world and that's really
cool Some of the video that comes back from that
is just fabulous. I remember watching Aaron King's
video at Dayton where she took her acceptance
tube from MIT and launched it, and got up almost
100 ,000 feet. And just the video itself was
just fabulous, and then showed all the APRS stuff.
Yeah, so it's pretty cool. I've seen several
of them around. It's just cool to watch. So it
sounds like a good resource there. Thanks for
calling in with that resource and some things
and maybe that'll spark some ideas. Maybe that's
a way to interest some young people into amateur
radio is by doing one of these balloon launches.
It's definitely a lot of things a lot of schools
should do to help teach electronics and promote
the STEM atmosphere, I think. Yeah. Yeah. It's
a great, great project. So, uh, if you get a
chance, that was H a B dot edu. Is that right?
Uh, H a B dot education, the whole word education.
Oh, it's the whole word. Yeah. It's one of those
new, uh, T L B that, um, you know, that are words
like dot pizza, dot IO and that sort of stuff.
I wish there was a dot ham. Yeah, we need a dot
ham. That would work. There isn't even a dot
radio can have ham dot radio. There you go. That'd
be an expensive website, I bet. Well, thanks
for calling in, Sterling. Appreciate it always.
And sounds like a good resource there, hab .education.
And there's a lot of these groups around here.
I know here some of the Challenger centers are
doing some of that. And then they use the hams
to do the tracking with the with the APRS. So
there's a lot of these groups around doing that.
And I tell you, one of the most fun field days
I think we ever had was my college group, which
I know you're a big college ham radio club guy.
Our group at University of Southern Indiana,
we did a helium balloon. We tied a piece of wire
onto it and let her go. And it's up there floating
around, you know, several hundred feet. And,
you know, a couple of people were driving by
on the expressway and pulled over and came in
and said, yeah, I saw the balloon up, figured
it must be field day. We had a blast with that
vertical, just an in -fed vertical on that thing.
We did our own field day out on campus at one
of the houses that they had set up for groups.
It was a lot of fun. Thanks for calling in. Thanks
for taking the time. All right. Sterling, take
care. Appreciate you calling in. 812 -NET -HAM
-1 is the phone number, 812 -638 -4261. It's
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I want to remind you next week, John Amadeo is
going to be here in N6JA. He's the producer of
Last Man Standing. And they have their operation
going there during their dinner break out there
in Studio City. So hopefully you can get a chance
to work them on a Tuesday evening. I was able
to do that a few weeks ago. John's going to be
off for a couple of weeks, so he's going to join
us. So if you get a chance, why, you know, join
us next week and call in with with some questions.
And let's see, we've got some. Yeah, sure. Got
somebody here on Skype. And trying to see if
this is, is this Chris? Maybe this is Chris calling
in. We'll see here momentarily. Yeah, here we
go. Yeah, there we go. Who's this? Hello? Yeah,
is this Chris? Yes, Chris, KDYVJ. How's it going?
Hey, Chris. This is Chris Sprault, and he's the
reigning Hiram Perksey Maxim Young Ham of the
Year. And he's over in the Westchester, Ohio
area. So good to finally get you on the show,
Chris. And congratulations. We congratulated
you online. I don't know if you saw it, but congratulations
on the award. And how are things going over there
in Ohio? Well, thank you, Neil. And yeah, things
are going pretty good here. Let's see, not much
going on. I am getting the award this Saturday
at the Voice of America, which is pretty exciting.
And I should be on the air on 20 or 40 if you
guys want to try and contact me. Oh, so they're
going to give it to you over at WC8VOA. That
is correct. Oh, that's cool. I wish I could be
over there for that. Haven't been over there
since Dayton, I guess it was. I stopped in for
a few minutes, but I always enjoy a trip over
there to the Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting.
No, that's actually how we ended up meeting was
because of that and talking to your dad. We had
a good time over at Dayton on W8D. That was a
lot of fun. Yeah, w8d the superstation was amazing
pretty awesome with the hex beam and stuff and
Yeah, I think it was the IC 7851. Yeah, which
was really nice rig. Oh Let's see. There's the
hex beam by radio waves in a 1 .5. KW amp which
was amazing so and and We won't tell anybody
Occasionally, if you talked a little loud, it
might have sneaked a little bit over 1 .5 kilowatts.
Maybe just a watt or two. Well, I got to try
out my dream rig, my TS990 over there too, after
you finished up. That was a lot of fun. I know
that they're planning on Uh, given that a shot
again, of course, we don't know what the new
setup is going to be just yet, but, uh, but I
think that was a good addition, uh, to, to where
you get to use all the latest and greatest stuff
and, uh, and get on the air. So that was a lot
of fun. Yeah, I thought it was pretty pretty
cool, and I just heard a sterling there I caught
the last little bit there and Yeah, I I want
to try the high -altitude ballooning. I don't
know exactly how to do it or what to get, but
I'm assuming maybe there's a way with a raspberry
pi or something to make it take pictures every
few seconds and then you could probably put an
APRS unit, I would think. Yeah, you put a little
APRS in it and a lot of people have been doing
is just putting a GoPro on and, you know, get
the video later. It's a little hard to get the
whole stream of it. and carry the signal the
whole way. But you can set up something to take
pictures. A lot of them do some atmospheric sampling.
So they'll do some measurements on the atmosphere
as it goes up and down. And then the recovery
is all by APRS. So you just put one of those
little trackers in it and let it go. And boy,
the range is fabulous. He was talking about doing
a repeater up there. Boy, imagine if you could
keep a repeater up there that high. That'd be
cool. Yeah, that'd be pretty awesome. Just talk.
Oh, you could probably go over the Atlantic or
Pacific depending on which coast you live on
and probably talk to someone in a different continent.
Yeah. So what's happening over at Voice of America
besides the big award coming this Saturday? Are
you there, Chris? Yeah, sorry about that. Let's
see. So VOA, not too much. We got a few other
antennas up. And some vintage radios in. And
I'm trying to think what else is new. Oh, we
recently had an ARIS contact with VOA and an
organization known as iSpace in the Cincinnati
area. And we talked to Kate Rubins. She's now
back on Earth. But we had an opportunity to talk
to her via amateur radio. Yeah, I saw some of
your pictures from that so that's that's exciting
too that you were able to do the space station
contact and of course Right now their radio is
out of commission. So they've had to go with
a backup radio down the hall so to speak over
in the other module and hopefully they'll be
able to raise the money to get all the testing
done on these other radios and get them accepted
and get them up there soon and actually that
was another person we were going to try to have
on was Frank Bauer from the he's the chairman
of the ISS project and he's over in Russia right
now so I guess that didn't work out. Yeah, QSL
QSL. Yeah. Well, I know you have a little bit
more time left and I know you like to get another
call in here So I'm gonna say 73 and thanks for
having me on. All right, Chris. Thanks for calling
congratulations on the award again and I'll be
looking for some pictures from Saturday and If
there's any way I can switch my schedule around,
I'll get over there and see that. But if not,
I'll be looking for it online. And thanks for
giving us a call and say hi to your folks for
me. All right. Thanks again. And have a great
evening, Neil. All right. Thanks, Chris. We'll
see you. All right. There's Chris Brault. from
Westchester, Ohio, the Hiram Percy Maxim Award
winner and sounds like he's excited to be getting
that and he's a really really good ham and a
cool kid. I think you're going to see a lot more
out of him in the future. Well, yeah, we are
starting to run out of time here. We're getting
close, so we can try to squeeze one more in.
It's going to have to be a quick one. We'll stand
by here for just a few seconds here and see if
we get another call. Again, the number, 812 -NET
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and see if we've got anything over there. okay
and so give us a call here real quick otherwise
we are going to wrap things up for another week
and then next week We'll have John Amadeo from
Last Man Standing on. So looking forward to that.
And we've got some really good guests coming
up. So make sure you check out hamtalklive .com
for those upcoming guests and the schedule. It's
all there. If you just click on the link for
the schedule. And also we'll get the t -shirt
order going again soon. We'll have... I have
a chance to get those ordered here before too
long. Okay, well looks like the lines are clear
so we're gonna go ahead and say 7 -3 for tonight.
I want to thank everybody for listening and for
calling in and again invite you back next Thursday
night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time when the producer
of the ABC television show Last Man Standing
John Amadeo in N6JA will be here to talk about
their ham operations from the set of the show
and for a list of all of our upcoming guests
again and go to HamTalkLive .com. So for now,
this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying seven three,
seven five, and may the good DX be yours. Thanks
for watching! you 73, and good luck from HamTalk
Live.