WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.060 This episode of HamTalk Live is brought to you 00:00:03.060 --> 00:00:06.259 by Tower Electronics. For cables, connectors, 00:00:06.379 --> 00:00:13.380 and more, call 920 -435 -2973 or visit pl -259 00:00:13.380 --> 00:00:17.440 .com and by the HamStation. Get your new radio 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:23.480 or antenna by calling 800 -729 -4373 or go to 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:55.780 hamstation .com. Hey, good evening everyone! 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:01.780 This is HamTalk Live, episode number 39, Open 00:01:01.780 --> 00:01:05.750 Lines Thursday! recorded live on Thursday, November 00:01:05.750 --> 00:01:11.569 10th, 2016. I'm your host Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. 00:01:11.689 --> 00:01:14.849 Thanks for tuning into this episode of HamTalk 00:01:14.849 --> 00:01:17.849 Live. Tonight, we're going to open up the phone 00:01:17.849 --> 00:01:20.329 lines to talk about whatever you want to talk 00:01:20.329 --> 00:01:23.609 about related to ham radio. 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Hey, we'd like to thank Scott and Jill at 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:16.399 Tower Electronics for sponsoring the show again 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.560 tonight to help bring you ham talk live. They're 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:21.860 going to be in Fort Wayne, Indiana this weekend, 00:04:21.860 --> 00:04:25.019 the 12th and the 13th, and then they'll be in 00:04:25.019 --> 00:04:27.620 Montgomery, Alabama for the ham fest there on 00:04:27.620 --> 00:04:31.310 November 19th. and Okeechobee Florida on November 00:04:31.310 --> 00:04:36.069 26th or you can give them a call at 920 -435 00:04:36.069 --> 00:04:42.089 -2973 or visit their website at pl -259 .com 00:04:42.089 --> 00:04:46.029 and of course mention HamTalk live when you do. 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.620 HamTalk Live is on the air every Thursday night 00:04:49.620 --> 00:04:53.560 at 9 p .m. Eastern time right here on HamTalkLive 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.339 .com and if you missed the show you can listen 00:04:56.339 --> 00:04:58.959 to the archive that's on the website or you can 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:02.740 download it from most popular podcasting websites. 00:05:03.660 --> 00:05:06.420 Well, I've been trying to get some people on 00:05:06.420 --> 00:05:08.040 and we're going to talk a little bit about some 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:11.240 of the people that are coming up, um, soon on 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:14.180 the show. And, uh, we were having all kinds of 00:05:14.180 --> 00:05:16.879 scheduling issues, uh, for tonight. I don't know 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:20.000 what's going on tonight, but it seems like, uh, 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.540 um, it just wasn't working out. And, uh, one, 00:05:24.579 --> 00:05:27.639 one guy had an excuse that he was in Russia even, 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:33.439 uh, so I can't blame Frank for, uh, for that, 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:36.980 uh, being over in Russia, but, uh, uh, we're 00:05:36.980 --> 00:05:40.839 going to have him on, um, soon as well. But, 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:43.199 uh, there's, uh, there's just been a lot going 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.600 on and, and, and the interview thing, it was 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.139 always kind of something to build up the audience 00:05:49.139 --> 00:05:51.740 a little bit and get started and get some themes 00:05:51.740 --> 00:05:56.300 going. And, um, always wanted to really, you 00:05:56.300 --> 00:05:58.259 know, have some nights where we just open it 00:05:58.259 --> 00:06:03.860 up. So, um, I decided that. With the way scheduling 00:06:03.860 --> 00:06:07.540 was going and everything tonight was the night 00:06:07.540 --> 00:06:10.199 to give it a shot. So I don't know how this is 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.779 going to go. Uh, some nights we get a lot of 00:06:12.779 --> 00:06:17.019 calls. Other nights we don't get any. So I have 00:06:17.019 --> 00:06:19.920 no idea what's going to happen, but, uh, but 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:23.160 we're going to give it a shot. So, uh, we're 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.620 going to open up the lines here in just a moment. 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:32.899 And, um, We'll see what happens. It's open line 00:06:32.899 --> 00:06:35.779 Thursday and you can call in and talk about any 00:06:35.779 --> 00:06:38.660 ham radio topic you want. I thought one thing 00:06:38.660 --> 00:06:41.980 we might talk about since the year is coming 00:06:41.980 --> 00:06:46.040 to an end here before long is the National Park 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:51.810 on the Air event. those activations are coming 00:06:51.810 --> 00:06:55.149 to a close. There's still plenty of those out 00:06:55.149 --> 00:06:57.930 there for another month and a half or so, but 00:06:57.930 --> 00:07:00.529 then that's going to be ending. So I thought 00:07:00.529 --> 00:07:03.189 maybe we could talk about some of your favorite 00:07:03.189 --> 00:07:06.350 National Park on the Air activations and tell 00:07:06.350 --> 00:07:09.709 us what you've done with National Parks on the 00:07:09.709 --> 00:07:13.329 Air. So if you have a story to share, why give 00:07:13.329 --> 00:07:18.430 us a call. Maybe some other things, uh, some 00:07:18.430 --> 00:07:21.050 guests that you'd like to see, uh, on the show 00:07:21.050 --> 00:07:23.970 in the future. Uh, maybe your favorite moments 00:07:23.970 --> 00:07:26.290 from the show thus far, or things you'd like 00:07:26.290 --> 00:07:29.790 to see, uh, at the new location for Hamvention. 00:07:30.050 --> 00:07:33.230 So, uh, those are some ideas I have, but, uh, 00:07:33.230 --> 00:07:35.750 you can, you can call with any ham radio related 00:07:35.750 --> 00:07:40.149 topic. Uh, and, uh, yeah, the politics will, 00:07:40.170 --> 00:07:43.209 we'll try to stay away from that one. Uh, yeah, 00:07:43.209 --> 00:07:45.959 that one's, uh, getting enough attention right 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:49.120 now uh... but anyway give us a call uh... we'll 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:51.480 go ahead and open it up here uh... the number 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:55.139 again is eight one two net ham one that's eight 00:07:55.139 --> 00:07:59.319 one two six three eight four two six one you 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:02.199 can also tweet us on skype uh... that twitter 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:07.500 handle is at ham talk live and you can uh... 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:10.180 You can tweet us there. So go ahead and give 00:08:10.180 --> 00:08:13.579 us call I've got some stuff I can talk about 00:08:13.579 --> 00:08:16.959 here while we're waiting on some calls But go 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.180 ahead and give us call at 812 net ham one or 00:08:20.180 --> 00:08:23.000 give us a tweet if there's a Something you'd 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:26.240 like to throw in here Why just go ahead and do 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:29.980 that. I'd like to get some good Discussions going 00:08:29.980 --> 00:08:35.720 tonight if we can So again eight one two net 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.480 him one is the phone number I do want to mention 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:42.080 some of the upcoming guests while we're waiting, 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.200 you know, go ahead and give us a call don't Don't 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:50.039 worry about interrupting here Next week actually 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:53.279 we have another great guest John Amadeo in in 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:57.480 6ja He's the producer of last man standing and 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:59.220 they're gonna take a couple of weeks off for 00:08:59.220 --> 00:09:02.470 the holidays here So he's going to be able to 00:09:02.470 --> 00:09:05.629 join us next Thursday night. So you'll be able 00:09:05.629 --> 00:09:08.750 to call in and ask your questions about the Last 00:09:08.750 --> 00:09:12.149 Man Standing set and their operations. They're 00:09:12.149 --> 00:09:16.409 on about every Tuesday evening during the dinner 00:09:16.409 --> 00:09:19.289 break there. So you can talk to them a little 00:09:19.289 --> 00:09:22.350 bit about that. Then we are going to go ahead 00:09:22.350 --> 00:09:25.129 and take Thanksgiving off. So there won't be 00:09:25.129 --> 00:09:29.679 a show on Thanksgiving night. We will pass on 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:33.240 that one. And then Thursday, December 1st, we'll 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:38.700 be back. Harold Kramer, WJ1B, who is the now 00:09:38.700 --> 00:09:45.120 retired COO at ARRL. He is a key collector and 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:47.500 he's going to be on to talk about his key collection 00:09:47.500 --> 00:09:51.259 and also some of the things that he was able 00:09:51.259 --> 00:09:55.440 to experience during his long tenure at ARRL. 00:09:56.699 --> 00:10:00.919 December 8th we have Bobby Graves KB5HAV coming 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:04.080 on the show. We want to try to work some EMCOM 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.440 stuff in. Some of the listeners have been requesting 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:11.870 that and so... Bobby's going to be here to talk 00:10:11.870 --> 00:10:14.570 about the Hurricane Watch Net. And again, you'll 00:10:14.570 --> 00:10:19.669 be able to call in and ask your questions. And 00:10:19.669 --> 00:10:22.009 on Thursday, December 15th, there's something 00:10:22.009 --> 00:10:25.269 that we've been working on for a little while. 00:10:25.750 --> 00:10:28.950 And we're going to give it a shot. We'll see 00:10:28.950 --> 00:10:36.809 how it goes. Rick Garrett in nine. GSU is a stand 00:10:36.809 --> 00:10:40.429 up comedian and he's a ham and an active ham. 00:10:40.929 --> 00:10:43.570 And so we're going to try some ham radio comedy 00:10:43.570 --> 00:10:46.929 on that night. So that'll be something fun. Uh, 00:10:46.929 --> 00:10:50.929 just before, um, the holiday season and Christmas, 00:10:50.929 --> 00:10:55.230 uh, at the end of December. So, uh, looking forward 00:10:55.230 --> 00:10:59.840 to, uh, to seeing what Rick has for us. on December 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:03.720 15th. So those are some of the upcoming shows. 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:07.820 If there's somebody that you would like to have 00:11:07.820 --> 00:11:13.419 on, why make a suggestion. I'm scheduling out 00:11:13.419 --> 00:11:16.179 the rest of the year and working on some others. 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:20.899 I do have a list that I'm working from and we've 00:11:20.899 --> 00:11:25.220 got a few more to contact on that list. But let 00:11:25.220 --> 00:11:29.120 us know if you've got somebody that you'd like 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:32.480 to hear. Again, the phone number is 812 -NET 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:39.220 -HAM -1. That's 812 -638 -4261. And we do have 00:11:39.220 --> 00:11:43.080 a call here. And I believe this is Pete. Am I 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:48.940 right? You get free tickets to the 1984 Dayton 00:11:48.940 --> 00:11:56.500 Hamvention. Well, this is Pete Thompson ke5 GG 00:11:56.500 --> 00:12:02.039 why and he's with the Santa net and That's going 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:06.500 to be starting soon so Pete, uh, thanks for, 00:12:06.500 --> 00:12:09.799 uh, calling in on short notice here. Uh, but 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.559 tell us a little bit about the Santa net and 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:16.000 how we get people, uh, participating in that. 00:12:16.019 --> 00:12:17.779 And if there's anything that, that you could 00:12:17.779 --> 00:12:20.539 use a hand with, it goes back, uh, like I said, 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.419 11 years, um, I had a, I had a young boy at home, 00:12:23.419 --> 00:12:26.580 uh, my son back 11 years ago, and a number of 00:12:26.580 --> 00:12:30.019 us were on the freewheelers net one night on 00:12:30.019 --> 00:12:32.679 39 16, 11 years ago. And we were trying to figure 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:36.279 out, um, a way to you know have our kids talk 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:39.860 to santa and so one thing led to another and 00:12:39.860 --> 00:12:42.019 somebody came up with the idea of doing a relay 00:12:42.019 --> 00:12:44.679 to the north pole and that's really how it started 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:47.080 that year i think my son and maybe two or three 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:50.639 other young kids got to talk to santa at the 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:53.240 north pole thanks to relay stations that were 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:56.179 strategically positioned around the country And 00:12:56.179 --> 00:12:59.740 then it's just grown, you know, organically each 00:12:59.740 --> 00:13:02.480 year. You know, we get a little bit better every 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.659 year in the execution. And now this year, in 00:13:05.659 --> 00:13:09.120 2016, we start the day after Thanksgiving. So 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:11.960 that's Friday night, November 25th. And the Santa 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.899 Net will be on every night at 730 p .m. Central, 00:13:16.460 --> 00:13:18.740 every night through and including Christmas Eve. 00:13:18.899 --> 00:13:22.440 And the way it works is if you have a kiddo that 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:25.960 you can get into your shack, We will arrange 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:29.299 to have a relay with the North Pole and you can 00:13:29.299 --> 00:13:32.139 check in either right at 730 p .m. Central or 00:13:32.139 --> 00:13:35.039 we have a pre -net check -in that you can do 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:39.559 via email. And all that information is at 3916nets 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:45.299 .com. That's 3916nets .com, which is our 3916 00:13:45.299 --> 00:13:48.299 website. We also have a Facebook page and there's 00:13:48.299 --> 00:13:51.299 a lot of chatter going on on the Facebook page. 00:13:51.299 --> 00:13:54.580 We have both a 3916 Facebook page, which you 00:13:54.580 --> 00:13:58.080 can find by searching 3916 on Facebook, or we 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.220 have a Santanet Facebook page and a lot of good 00:14:01.220 --> 00:14:05.419 information on that. As far as help, really just 00:14:05.419 --> 00:14:08.639 tell your friends that you talk to on various 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:12.879 bands what we're doing and come on in and be 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.980 part of it. We do every year use the services 00:14:15.980 --> 00:14:20.950 of people on 3916 to both be a relay station, 00:14:21.029 --> 00:14:23.950 but to also coordinate. And this year, I think 00:14:23.950 --> 00:14:27.009 we're going to work NetLogger into it, which 00:14:27.009 --> 00:14:30.009 is a great tool, as you know. So that's been 00:14:30.009 --> 00:14:33.169 the primary challenge as it's gotten bigger. 00:14:33.190 --> 00:14:37.350 I think last year, we had 350 kids on the air 00:14:37.350 --> 00:14:42.909 in just under 30 days. So what is that? Is it 00:14:42.909 --> 00:14:47.549 10 kids a night or something like that? Yeah, 00:14:47.649 --> 00:14:50.649 it's a lot of kids. So, you know, just the management 00:14:50.649 --> 00:14:53.370 of all those names and getting the kids on has 00:14:53.370 --> 00:14:56.350 been the biggest challenge. You know, we're hoping 00:14:56.350 --> 00:14:58.309 the band conditions continue to be good. We've 00:14:58.309 --> 00:14:59.970 gone through this period here for the last two 00:14:59.970 --> 00:15:02.669 weeks where the band has gotten really wacky 00:15:02.669 --> 00:15:04.870 long, which can present challenges, but hopefully 00:15:04.870 --> 00:15:08.240 we'll be okay and we're excited. Oh, it sounds 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:11.179 like a very cool thing and my apologies. I didn't 00:15:11.179 --> 00:15:14.320 get your audio turned on the way I should have, 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:17.720 but I think we got to, we got it in the nick 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:21.019 of time to, uh, to get the pertinent information 00:15:21.019 --> 00:15:24.419 there. Uh, but yeah, it sounds like a great activity. 00:15:24.419 --> 00:15:29.259 Uh, again, it's the 39 16 and starts on November 00:15:29.259 --> 00:15:32.360 25th and that's seven 30 central. Right? You 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.500 were a little muffled there for a second. Yes, 00:15:35.539 --> 00:15:38.379 730 central every night and prenet check -ins 00:15:38.379 --> 00:15:42.460 can be done either on email or you can you know, 00:15:42.500 --> 00:15:45.159 you can check in over the air and It's it's a 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.059 lot of fun We have some people that will you 00:15:48.059 --> 00:15:49.720 know have their kids come on a couple of different 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:52.220 times through the holiday season We also have 00:15:52.220 --> 00:15:54.399 people that that seem to be you know They just 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:56.799 love to get kids in their shack and they'll they'll 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.159 get different Kids involved in the neighborhood. 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.820 We have a several groups out there that are trying 00:16:02.820 --> 00:16:09.120 to arrange a I think a home of kids that are 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.600 at an orphanage are going to be checking in this 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:13.779 year and it's just a lot of fun. It's a great 00:16:13.779 --> 00:16:17.269 way to end the year. Yeah, sounds great. So if 00:16:17.269 --> 00:16:21.309 you have some kids around get them on the radio 00:16:21.309 --> 00:16:24.289 get them on the air again that starts November 00:16:24.289 --> 00:16:29.830 25th 730 Central 3916 so Pete thanks for taking 00:16:29.830 --> 00:16:33.649 time out to give us a call here tonight We appreciate 00:16:33.649 --> 00:16:36.490 it and hopefully we'll send some people your 00:16:36.490 --> 00:16:39.230 way All right. Well seven three. Thanks for having 00:16:39.230 --> 00:16:42.070 a son. All right, seven three Pete. Take care 00:16:43.940 --> 00:16:47.620 All right, 812 -NET -HAM -1 is the phone number, 00:16:47.700 --> 00:16:53.559 812 -638 -4261. Or you can Skype us at HamTalk 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:57.019 Live, or you can Tweet us at HamTalk Live if 00:16:57.019 --> 00:17:00.820 you've got a National Park on the Air story to 00:17:00.820 --> 00:17:05.220 tell, or anything else. Why, give us a call at 00:17:05.220 --> 00:17:13.039 812 -NET -HAM -1, 812 -638 -4261. We'll talk 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:17.180 about it. I do have some other things we can 00:17:17.180 --> 00:17:21.119 do here, but let's see if we've got any other 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:27.539 phone calls and thank Pete for stopping in. One 00:17:27.539 --> 00:17:33.920 thing that I've found here lately, Pete was talking 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.339 about some of the problems with propagation and 00:17:37.339 --> 00:17:41.700 all that kind of thing. Is that boy at school 00:17:41.700 --> 00:17:44.380 we just had a terrible time with our antenna 00:17:44.380 --> 00:17:47.640 system and and we were taking our antenna down 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:50.819 just to do some updates and one thing after another. 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.680 Just just kept breaking all the time and Murphy 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:59.460 is moved into the school. One thing wouldn't 00:17:59.460 --> 00:18:01.980 fit and then you know and then that messed up 00:18:01.980 --> 00:18:04.279 something else and it just went on and on and 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:09.029 on. So we found this new product out there. that 00:18:09.029 --> 00:18:14.390 might take care of all of this. So we've got 00:18:14.390 --> 00:18:17.869 a new sponsor on the show and we'll let you hear 00:18:17.869 --> 00:18:22.190 about that. It's from a product called the Murphy 00:18:22.190 --> 00:18:25.450 Repeller. 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Well, we're 00:22:03.140 --> 00:22:04.880 going to take some more of your phone calls. 00:22:05.059 --> 00:22:10.500 It's 812 -NAT -HAM -1, 812 -638 -4261. Or you 00:22:10.500 --> 00:22:14.259 can Skype us at HamTalk Live or tweet us at HamTalk 00:22:14.259 --> 00:22:18.339 Live. And we do have a call on the line. It's 00:22:18.339 --> 00:22:21.539 Sterling Coffee in Zero SSC. Good evening, Sterling. 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.440 Evening, Neil. How are you? Doing great. What's 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:30.460 going on out in Missouri tonight? Not much it's 00:22:30.460 --> 00:22:33.259 a very nice kind of a chilly evening just called 00:22:33.259 --> 00:22:36.000 in to ask how much for that Murphy repellent 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:39.799 Yeah, let's see the Murphy repeller was I think 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:45.380 that was 1995 Plus shipping and handling Perfect 00:22:45.380 --> 00:22:49.319 that comes with two right? It's just it's one 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:51.559 of those but wait. There's more so yeah Yeah, 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:53.980 but wait. There's more we can we can pray play 00:22:53.980 --> 00:22:57.440 the spray away ad again if you heard the spray 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:01.690 away That takes away your SWR. Yeah, in fact, 00:23:01.730 --> 00:23:05.829 let's do that. We'll run the Spray Away ad again. 00:23:05.990 --> 00:23:09.369 I think that was April 1st when we ran that. 00:23:09.509 --> 00:23:12.569 But yeah, here's another product. It's called 00:23:12.569 --> 00:23:16.089 Spray Away. Hello, Willie Mays here for Spray 00:23:16.089 --> 00:23:20.009 Away, the SWR reducer in a can. Are you annoyed 00:23:20.009 --> 00:23:23.369 by that pesky SWR that keeps getting in your 00:23:23.369 --> 00:23:26.210 antennas? Well, you can get rid of that in one 00:23:26.210 --> 00:23:29.410 easy step. Just spray some spray away on your 00:23:29.410 --> 00:23:33.509 antenna and the SWR disappears like magic. 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Call now, 985 -655 -2500. Yeah, 00:24:21.180 --> 00:24:23.579 so so we got the spray away thing and I don't 00:24:23.579 --> 00:24:25.740 know if you could hear that since you're you're 00:24:25.740 --> 00:24:27.740 calling in you may have to hear it on the replay 00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:31.640 but But yeah, all you got to do is spray it and 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:35.000 forget it And then your SWR goes away what all 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:38.279 the hams are gonna want. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:40.400 know, it's just easy It's right there in the 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:43.299 can you just spray it and forget it It's it's 00:24:43.299 --> 00:24:46.559 it's gone and and they throw in the zap free 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:49.599 to to keep you from getting hit by lightning 00:24:50.620 --> 00:24:53.420 So we've got the greatest products we really 00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:57.420 do What I really actually called you I wanted 00:24:57.420 --> 00:25:00.539 to talk about is um What's the one thing that 00:25:00.539 --> 00:25:04.160 everybody loves? has ham radio that kids love 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:07.619 all the schools are doing it and Now everybody's 00:25:07.619 --> 00:25:10.619 doing it around the world. Can you uh? Think 00:25:10.619 --> 00:25:14.880 of what it what that is? Let's see that would 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:20.470 be eating lunch That would that would fit No, 00:25:20.470 --> 00:25:22.970 I'm talking about high -altitude ballooning. 00:25:23.589 --> 00:25:25.829 Oh, yes. The high -altitude balloon launches 00:25:25.829 --> 00:25:28.349 are cool. I think you've done some high -altitude 00:25:28.349 --> 00:25:31.369 ballooning. A lot of people have. A lot of schools 00:25:31.369 --> 00:25:33.750 have. And it's really cool. And I say this just 00:25:33.750 --> 00:25:37.490 because I got back from this sort of startup 00:25:37.490 --> 00:25:40.670 scene called Venture Cafe in St. Louis, Missouri. 00:25:41.349 --> 00:25:43.930 And I met this guy named Dustin. He's part of 00:25:43.930 --> 00:25:48.009 the hab .education, I guess. ballooning team 00:25:48.009 --> 00:25:50.450 and they send up balloons and do all sorts of 00:25:50.450 --> 00:25:52.470 things like take pictures and do some tracking 00:25:52.470 --> 00:25:54.970 and eventually recover the balloon that hits 00:25:54.970 --> 00:25:57.789 the top of the atmosphere at a hundred thousand 00:25:57.789 --> 00:26:02.190 feet up and this is really interesting because 00:26:02.190 --> 00:26:06.269 he's one of like dozens of other different ballooners 00:26:06.269 --> 00:26:09.089 all over the place and it seems to me like there's 00:26:09.089 --> 00:26:13.279 been a really big, like, I guess, but a really 00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:16.160 large interest in ballooning, but also it's very 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:17.900 striated, everybody's kind of doing in their 00:26:17.900 --> 00:26:21.299 own little pockets. So I also figured out how 00:26:21.299 --> 00:26:22.960 to make a cloning machine, because in the middle 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:26.680 of making a podcast, doing some reviews for various 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:28.579 things, having YouTube video, I'm also going 00:26:28.579 --> 00:26:31.779 to start doing high altitude ballooning. And 00:26:31.779 --> 00:26:34.640 hopefully, if I can ever have find the time for 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:37.420 it. start to build a project that I like to call 00:26:37.420 --> 00:26:40.119 Echo Loom, where we have a crossband repeater 00:26:40.119 --> 00:26:43.339 that everybody can use to enable something like 00:26:43.339 --> 00:26:45.779 ham radio contests on a balloon or ham radio 00:26:45.779 --> 00:26:48.759 contacts on a balloon by a floating repeater. 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:50.519 A lot of people have done this, but it's not 00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:52.539 really standardized. And it's not, you know, 00:26:52.539 --> 00:26:55.279 I don't know of any open source or pop the shell 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:57.599 things you can buy. Everybody just made their 00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:00.059 own kit. So I don't know. I thought that would 00:27:00.059 --> 00:27:02.559 be really cool to share and also to share the 00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:05.970 HAB education. They have a website. h a b hotel 00:27:05.970 --> 00:27:08.990 afro bravo dot education just like dot com dot 00:27:08.990 --> 00:27:12.730 dot education h a b dot education um that i thought 00:27:12.730 --> 00:27:14.309 would be really interesting they do a lot of 00:27:14.309 --> 00:27:16.349 stuff with schools they track it with ham radio 00:27:16.349 --> 00:27:19.190 they teach kids soldering and uh it's all all 00:27:19.190 --> 00:27:21.930 in all really really cool yeah there's some really 00:27:21.930 --> 00:27:24.289 cool stuff and a lot of the a lot of the kids 00:27:24.289 --> 00:27:26.769 that have been speaking at the youth forums and 00:27:26.769 --> 00:27:28.670 the young ham of the year and that kind of thing 00:27:28.670 --> 00:27:32.450 it's been a Kind of a common theme amongst a 00:27:32.450 --> 00:27:36.170 lot of them. And I just, I like sitting back 00:27:36.170 --> 00:27:39.470 and watching it on APRS and it's watching the 00:27:39.470 --> 00:27:42.390 altitude go up and up and up. And then all of 00:27:42.390 --> 00:27:47.049 a sudden it just pops and that way it goes. Uh, 00:27:47.269 --> 00:27:49.970 but it's just really cool to watch it. Yeah. 00:27:50.029 --> 00:27:51.670 And a few times I've had it come over, like, 00:27:51.670 --> 00:27:54.289 uh, these guys on California will send up a balloon. 00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:56.880 That is, it circumnavigates the world. And that's 00:27:56.880 --> 00:27:58.720 what I said earlier about it. They've been doing 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:01.500 it around the world, literally. A balloon they 00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:04.140 launched with a, like a plain old Mylar happy 00:28:04.140 --> 00:28:06.700 birthday balloon. You get a Schnucks or a Walmart. 00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:10.460 You put a little tracker on it that has a whisper 00:28:10.460 --> 00:28:15.420 beacon. It's a HF, really slow speed, high robustness, 00:28:15.420 --> 00:28:17.359 like that could be heard all around the world. 00:28:17.660 --> 00:28:20.000 And you can see this balloon just going around 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:22.420 the world, around the world, around the world. 00:28:22.809 --> 00:28:25.230 Maybe two or three times before it pops and ends 00:28:25.230 --> 00:28:27.829 up in the ocean or in you know Some country on 00:28:27.829 --> 00:28:29.789 the opposite side of the world and that's really 00:28:29.789 --> 00:28:36.730 cool Some of the video that comes back from that 00:28:36.730 --> 00:28:41.569 is just fabulous. I remember watching Aaron King's 00:28:41.569 --> 00:28:47.029 video at Dayton where she took her acceptance 00:28:47.029 --> 00:28:51.849 tube from MIT and launched it, and got up almost 00:28:51.849 --> 00:28:56.950 100 ,000 feet. And just the video itself was 00:28:56.950 --> 00:29:00.710 just fabulous, and then showed all the APRS stuff. 00:29:01.230 --> 00:29:05.150 Yeah, so it's pretty cool. I've seen several 00:29:05.150 --> 00:29:10.740 of them around. It's just cool to watch. So it 00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:14.500 sounds like a good resource there. Thanks for 00:29:14.500 --> 00:29:17.160 calling in with that resource and some things 00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:21.140 and maybe that'll spark some ideas. Maybe that's 00:29:21.140 --> 00:29:24.859 a way to interest some young people into amateur 00:29:24.859 --> 00:29:28.160 radio is by doing one of these balloon launches. 00:29:28.180 --> 00:29:28.700 It's definitely a lot of things a lot of schools 00:29:28.700 --> 00:29:32.119 should do to help teach electronics and promote 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:36.970 the STEM atmosphere, I think. Yeah. Yeah. It's 00:29:36.970 --> 00:29:40.869 a great, great project. So, uh, if you get a 00:29:40.869 --> 00:29:44.809 chance, that was H a B dot edu. Is that right? 00:29:44.950 --> 00:29:48.009 Uh, H a B dot education, the whole word education. 00:29:48.230 --> 00:29:49.890 Oh, it's the whole word. Yeah. It's one of those 00:29:49.890 --> 00:29:53.130 new, uh, T L B that, um, you know, that are words 00:29:53.130 --> 00:29:55.849 like dot pizza, dot IO and that sort of stuff. 00:29:56.190 --> 00:29:58.970 I wish there was a dot ham. Yeah, we need a dot 00:29:58.970 --> 00:30:01.829 ham. That would work. There isn't even a dot 00:30:01.829 --> 00:30:05.559 radio can have ham dot radio. There you go. That'd 00:30:05.559 --> 00:30:10.319 be an expensive website, I bet. Well, thanks 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:13.339 for calling in, Sterling. Appreciate it always. 00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:19.400 And sounds like a good resource there, hab .education. 00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:23.119 And there's a lot of these groups around here. 00:30:23.220 --> 00:30:27.339 I know here some of the Challenger centers are 00:30:27.339 --> 00:30:31.259 doing some of that. And then they use the hams 00:30:31.259 --> 00:30:35.660 to do the tracking with the with the APRS. So 00:30:35.660 --> 00:30:39.079 there's a lot of these groups around doing that. 00:30:39.859 --> 00:30:44.440 And I tell you, one of the most fun field days 00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:47.579 I think we ever had was my college group, which 00:30:47.579 --> 00:30:51.039 I know you're a big college ham radio club guy. 00:30:52.430 --> 00:30:55.410 Our group at University of Southern Indiana, 00:30:55.869 --> 00:31:01.009 we did a helium balloon. We tied a piece of wire 00:31:01.009 --> 00:31:04.410 onto it and let her go. And it's up there floating 00:31:04.410 --> 00:31:07.730 around, you know, several hundred feet. And, 00:31:07.730 --> 00:31:10.430 you know, a couple of people were driving by 00:31:10.430 --> 00:31:14.589 on the expressway and pulled over and came in 00:31:14.589 --> 00:31:16.210 and said, yeah, I saw the balloon up, figured 00:31:16.210 --> 00:31:22.990 it must be field day. We had a blast with that 00:31:22.990 --> 00:31:27.289 vertical, just an in -fed vertical on that thing. 00:31:27.670 --> 00:31:31.930 We did our own field day out on campus at one 00:31:31.930 --> 00:31:36.809 of the houses that they had set up for groups. 00:31:38.029 --> 00:31:44.079 It was a lot of fun. Thanks for calling in. Thanks 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:45.779 for taking the time. All right. Sterling, take 00:31:45.779 --> 00:31:50.400 care. Appreciate you calling in. 812 -NET -HAM 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:55.099 -1 is the phone number, 812 -638 -4261. It's 00:31:55.099 --> 00:31:58.539 Open Line Thursday, so we've got time to take 00:31:58.539 --> 00:32:00.640 another call or two. If you want to give us a 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:06.660 call, 812 -NET -HAM -1 or 812 -638 -4261, or 00:32:06.660 --> 00:32:10.220 you can call us on Skype at HamTalk Live, or 00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:14.930 you can tweet us at HamTalk Live as well. Again, 00:32:15.069 --> 00:32:18.269 I want to remind you next week, John Amadeo is 00:32:18.269 --> 00:32:21.490 going to be here in N6JA. He's the producer of 00:32:21.490 --> 00:32:26.210 Last Man Standing. And they have their operation 00:32:26.210 --> 00:32:29.450 going there during their dinner break out there 00:32:29.450 --> 00:32:33.690 in Studio City. So hopefully you can get a chance 00:32:33.690 --> 00:32:36.289 to work them on a Tuesday evening. I was able 00:32:36.289 --> 00:32:41.000 to do that a few weeks ago. John's going to be 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:43.359 off for a couple of weeks, so he's going to join 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:50.940 us. So if you get a chance, why, you know, join 00:32:50.940 --> 00:32:55.259 us next week and call in with with some questions. 00:32:55.660 --> 00:33:04.400 And let's see, we've got some. Yeah, sure. Got 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:09.609 somebody here on Skype. And trying to see if 00:33:09.609 --> 00:33:14.490 this is, is this Chris? Maybe this is Chris calling 00:33:14.490 --> 00:33:18.150 in. We'll see here momentarily. Yeah, here we 00:33:18.150 --> 00:33:23.130 go. Yeah, there we go. Who's this? Hello? Yeah, 00:33:23.210 --> 00:33:26.599 is this Chris? Yes, Chris, KDYVJ. How's it going? 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:30.720 Hey, Chris. This is Chris Sprault, and he's the 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.359 reigning Hiram Perksey Maxim Young Ham of the 00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:38.700 Year. And he's over in the Westchester, Ohio 00:33:38.700 --> 00:33:42.380 area. So good to finally get you on the show, 00:33:42.380 --> 00:33:44.819 Chris. And congratulations. We congratulated 00:33:44.819 --> 00:33:48.460 you online. I don't know if you saw it, but congratulations 00:33:48.460 --> 00:33:51.220 on the award. And how are things going over there 00:33:51.220 --> 00:33:55.130 in Ohio? Well, thank you, Neil. And yeah, things 00:33:55.130 --> 00:33:58.650 are going pretty good here. Let's see, not much 00:33:58.650 --> 00:34:01.210 going on. I am getting the award this Saturday 00:34:01.210 --> 00:34:03.930 at the Voice of America, which is pretty exciting. 00:34:04.450 --> 00:34:07.309 And I should be on the air on 20 or 40 if you 00:34:07.309 --> 00:34:11.070 guys want to try and contact me. Oh, so they're 00:34:11.070 --> 00:34:15.210 going to give it to you over at WC8VOA. That 00:34:15.210 --> 00:34:18.710 is correct. Oh, that's cool. I wish I could be 00:34:18.710 --> 00:34:22.989 over there for that. Haven't been over there 00:34:22.989 --> 00:34:28.050 since Dayton, I guess it was. I stopped in for 00:34:28.050 --> 00:34:31.090 a few minutes, but I always enjoy a trip over 00:34:31.090 --> 00:34:34.369 there to the Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting. 00:34:35.750 --> 00:34:39.630 No, that's actually how we ended up meeting was 00:34:39.630 --> 00:34:45.690 because of that and talking to your dad. We had 00:34:45.690 --> 00:34:49.210 a good time over at Dayton on W8D. That was a 00:34:49.210 --> 00:34:54.679 lot of fun. Yeah, w8d the superstation was amazing 00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:59.039 pretty awesome with the hex beam and stuff and 00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:03.599 Yeah, I think it was the IC 7851. Yeah, which 00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:07.920 was really nice rig. Oh Let's see. There's the 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:11.780 hex beam by radio waves in a 1 .5. KW amp which 00:35:11.780 --> 00:35:17.559 was amazing so and and We won't tell anybody 00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:21.099 Occasionally, if you talked a little loud, it 00:35:21.099 --> 00:35:25.539 might have sneaked a little bit over 1 .5 kilowatts. 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:34.460 Maybe just a watt or two. Well, I got to try 00:35:34.460 --> 00:35:38.920 out my dream rig, my TS990 over there too, after 00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:44.039 you finished up. That was a lot of fun. I know 00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:47.429 that they're planning on Uh, given that a shot 00:35:47.429 --> 00:35:49.309 again, of course, we don't know what the new 00:35:49.309 --> 00:35:53.230 setup is going to be just yet, but, uh, but I 00:35:53.230 --> 00:35:56.550 think that was a good addition, uh, to, to where 00:35:56.550 --> 00:35:59.389 you get to use all the latest and greatest stuff 00:35:59.389 --> 00:36:02.429 and, uh, and get on the air. So that was a lot 00:36:02.429 --> 00:36:06.440 of fun. Yeah, I thought it was pretty pretty 00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.300 cool, and I just heard a sterling there I caught 00:36:09.300 --> 00:36:13.019 the last little bit there and Yeah, I I want 00:36:13.019 --> 00:36:15.380 to try the high -altitude ballooning. I don't 00:36:15.380 --> 00:36:18.619 know exactly how to do it or what to get, but 00:36:18.619 --> 00:36:21.159 I'm assuming maybe there's a way with a raspberry 00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:24.059 pi or something to make it take pictures every 00:36:24.059 --> 00:36:25.960 few seconds and then you could probably put an 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:28.780 APRS unit, I would think. Yeah, you put a little 00:36:28.780 --> 00:36:31.460 APRS in it and a lot of people have been doing 00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:35.739 is just putting a GoPro on and, you know, get 00:36:35.739 --> 00:36:39.340 the video later. It's a little hard to get the 00:36:39.340 --> 00:36:43.610 whole stream of it. and carry the signal the 00:36:43.610 --> 00:36:47.670 whole way. But you can set up something to take 00:36:47.670 --> 00:36:52.570 pictures. A lot of them do some atmospheric sampling. 00:36:53.470 --> 00:36:57.210 So they'll do some measurements on the atmosphere 00:36:57.210 --> 00:37:01.090 as it goes up and down. And then the recovery 00:37:01.090 --> 00:37:05.289 is all by APRS. So you just put one of those 00:37:05.289 --> 00:37:09.969 little trackers in it and let it go. And boy, 00:37:10.010 --> 00:37:12.769 the range is fabulous. He was talking about doing 00:37:12.769 --> 00:37:15.170 a repeater up there. Boy, imagine if you could 00:37:15.170 --> 00:37:17.650 keep a repeater up there that high. That'd be 00:37:17.650 --> 00:37:21.309 cool. Yeah, that'd be pretty awesome. Just talk. 00:37:22.210 --> 00:37:24.550 Oh, you could probably go over the Atlantic or 00:37:24.550 --> 00:37:26.909 Pacific depending on which coast you live on 00:37:26.909 --> 00:37:29.630 and probably talk to someone in a different continent. 00:37:30.789 --> 00:37:34.469 Yeah. So what's happening over at Voice of America 00:37:34.469 --> 00:37:42.170 besides the big award coming this Saturday? Are 00:37:42.170 --> 00:37:45.469 you there, Chris? Yeah, sorry about that. Let's 00:37:45.469 --> 00:37:49.769 see. So VOA, not too much. We got a few other 00:37:49.769 --> 00:37:56.369 antennas up. And some vintage radios in. And 00:37:56.369 --> 00:37:59.949 I'm trying to think what else is new. Oh, we 00:37:59.949 --> 00:38:03.730 recently had an ARIS contact with VOA and an 00:38:03.730 --> 00:38:07.269 organization known as iSpace in the Cincinnati 00:38:07.269 --> 00:38:10.530 area. And we talked to Kate Rubins. She's now 00:38:10.530 --> 00:38:13.489 back on Earth. But we had an opportunity to talk 00:38:13.489 --> 00:38:17.769 to her via amateur radio. Yeah, I saw some of 00:38:17.769 --> 00:38:21.550 your pictures from that so that's that's exciting 00:38:21.550 --> 00:38:24.869 too that you were able to do the space station 00:38:24.869 --> 00:38:29.829 contact and of course Right now their radio is 00:38:29.829 --> 00:38:32.989 out of commission. So they've had to go with 00:38:32.989 --> 00:38:37.489 a backup radio down the hall so to speak over 00:38:37.489 --> 00:38:40.170 in the other module and hopefully they'll be 00:38:40.170 --> 00:38:43.210 able to raise the money to get all the testing 00:38:43.210 --> 00:38:46.070 done on these other radios and get them accepted 00:38:46.070 --> 00:38:48.849 and get them up there soon and actually that 00:38:48.849 --> 00:38:51.070 was another person we were going to try to have 00:38:51.070 --> 00:38:54.909 on was Frank Bauer from the he's the chairman 00:38:54.909 --> 00:38:59.429 of the ISS project and he's over in Russia right 00:38:59.429 --> 00:39:04.260 now so I guess that didn't work out. Yeah, QSL 00:39:04.260 --> 00:39:06.860 QSL. Yeah. Well, I know you have a little bit 00:39:06.860 --> 00:39:08.920 more time left and I know you like to get another 00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:12.659 call in here So I'm gonna say 73 and thanks for 00:39:12.659 --> 00:39:15.920 having me on. All right, Chris. Thanks for calling 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:22.019 congratulations on the award again and I'll be 00:39:22.019 --> 00:39:26.710 looking for some pictures from Saturday and If 00:39:26.710 --> 00:39:29.789 there's any way I can switch my schedule around, 00:39:29.969 --> 00:39:33.409 I'll get over there and see that. But if not, 00:39:33.610 --> 00:39:37.550 I'll be looking for it online. And thanks for 00:39:37.550 --> 00:39:39.989 giving us a call and say hi to your folks for 00:39:39.989 --> 00:39:43.989 me. All right. Thanks again. And have a great 00:39:43.989 --> 00:39:46.650 evening, Neil. All right. Thanks, Chris. We'll 00:39:46.650 --> 00:39:52.739 see you. All right. There's Chris Brault. from 00:39:52.739 --> 00:39:55.579 Westchester, Ohio, the Hiram Percy Maxim Award 00:39:55.579 --> 00:39:59.380 winner and sounds like he's excited to be getting 00:39:59.380 --> 00:40:04.630 that and he's a really really good ham and a 00:40:04.630 --> 00:40:07.869 cool kid. I think you're going to see a lot more 00:40:07.869 --> 00:40:11.710 out of him in the future. Well, yeah, we are 00:40:11.710 --> 00:40:14.269 starting to run out of time here. We're getting 00:40:14.269 --> 00:40:19.090 close, so we can try to squeeze one more in. 00:40:19.110 --> 00:40:22.880 It's going to have to be a quick one. We'll stand 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:26.320 by here for just a few seconds here and see if 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:29.980 we get another call. Again, the number, 812 -NET 00:40:29.980 --> 00:40:35.860 -HAM -1, 812 -638 -4261. Or you can Skype us 00:40:35.860 --> 00:40:39.460 at HamTalk Live. Or you can tweet us. In fact, 00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:44.119 let me run over and check out the tweets here 00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:48.549 and see if we've got anything over there. okay 00:40:48.549 --> 00:40:51.670 and so give us a call here real quick otherwise 00:40:51.670 --> 00:40:56.010 we are going to wrap things up for another week 00:40:56.010 --> 00:41:01.469 and then next week We'll have John Amadeo from 00:41:01.469 --> 00:41:05.349 Last Man Standing on. So looking forward to that. 00:41:05.510 --> 00:41:07.090 And we've got some really good guests coming 00:41:07.090 --> 00:41:11.570 up. So make sure you check out hamtalklive .com 00:41:11.570 --> 00:41:15.329 for those upcoming guests and the schedule. It's 00:41:15.329 --> 00:41:17.650 all there. If you just click on the link for 00:41:17.650 --> 00:41:21.710 the schedule. And also we'll get the t -shirt 00:41:21.710 --> 00:41:26.000 order going again soon. We'll have... I have 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:29.039 a chance to get those ordered here before too 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:33.510 long. Okay, well looks like the lines are clear 00:41:33.510 --> 00:41:36.969 so we're gonna go ahead and say 7 -3 for tonight. 00:41:37.010 --> 00:41:40.349 I want to thank everybody for listening and for 00:41:40.349 --> 00:41:43.909 calling in and again invite you back next Thursday 00:41:43.909 --> 00:41:47.409 night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time when the producer 00:41:47.409 --> 00:41:50.469 of the ABC television show Last Man Standing 00:41:50.469 --> 00:41:54.150 John Amadeo in N6JA will be here to talk about 00:41:54.150 --> 00:41:57.230 their ham operations from the set of the show 00:41:57.230 --> 00:41:59.809 and for a list of all of our upcoming guests 00:41:59.809 --> 00:42:03.909 again and go to HamTalkLive .com. So for now, 00:42:04.010 --> 00:42:08.070 this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying seven three, 00:42:08.269 --> 00:42:13.769 seven five, and may the good DX be yours. Thanks 00:42:13.769 --> 00:43:15.340 for watching! you 73, and good luck from HamTalk 00:43:15.340 --> 00:43:15.940 Live.