WEBVTT 00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:11.779 Good evening, everyone. It's time for another 00:00:11.779 --> 00:00:14.800 edition of HamTalk Live. It's episode number 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:20.379 34, School Club Roundup with Lou Malchik. Into 00:00:20.379 --> 00:00:24.579 our queue. Recorded live on Thursday, October 00:00:24.579 --> 00:00:29.420 6th, 2016. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. 00:00:29.460 --> 00:00:32.259 Thanks for tuning in to this episode of HamTalk 00:00:32.259 --> 00:00:35.719 Live. Tonight we'll be joined by School Club 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:38.579 Roundup leader, Lou Malchik. Into our queue. 00:00:38.859 --> 00:00:42.100 and how you can talk to schools during a very 00:00:42.100 --> 00:00:45.380 special week. And we'll take your calls live 00:00:45.380 --> 00:00:49.159 in just a few minutes. Last week, Ralph Fedor 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:52.539 K0IR was here to talk about the upcoming Bouvier 00:00:52.539 --> 00:00:55.219 Island De -Expedition. If you missed the show, 00:00:55.700 --> 00:00:58.600 you can listen anytime. Just go to HamTalkLive 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:03.820 .com. You can also download it on a podcasting 00:01:03.820 --> 00:01:07.030 app. through a service like iTunes, Stitcher, 00:01:07.090 --> 00:01:10.629 Google Play, TuneIn, SoundCloud, or you can even 00:01:10.629 --> 00:01:13.989 catch us over on YouTube. Tonight we're talking 00:01:13.989 --> 00:01:17.310 about some operating activities that are open 00:01:17.310 --> 00:01:22.409 to everyone. We have several, so first a few 00:01:22.409 --> 00:01:25.390 quick reminders. Coming up this weekend on the 00:01:25.390 --> 00:01:29.209 air it's the 100 watts and a wire fallout. Get 00:01:29.209 --> 00:01:32.269 outside if you can with 100 watts or less and 00:01:32.269 --> 00:01:35.700 get on the air. Details are at 100WattsInAWire 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:40.519 .com and on HamTalk Live episode number 32. And 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:43.819 we've posted a list of all of the frequencies 00:01:43.819 --> 00:01:47.280 that are being used for the hurricane nets on 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:49.739 our Facebook page and Twitter feed this afternoon. 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:52.760 Make sure you stay away from those frequencies 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:56.120 during the fallout or any other operating. Of 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:00.340 course, the main ones are 14 .325 and 7 .268. 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:05.819 But the complete list is up there. The AWRL compiled 00:02:05.819 --> 00:02:09.080 that and we retweeted that and sent that out 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.120 on Facebook. So be sure to check that out and 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:16.699 try to stay away from those locations. Also, 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.620 before we go to break, I want to remind you that 00:02:19.620 --> 00:02:24.400 JOTA is coming up, the Jamboree on the Air. That's 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:29.240 coming up here. next weekend, so don't forget 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:32.099 about that. And also, don't forget you have a 00:02:32.099 --> 00:02:35.520 chance to work the set of Last Man Standing on 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:40.400 Tuesday. Special guests Amy and Ed Woodrick. 00:02:40.740 --> 00:02:45.240 That's K -E -4 -I -K -F and W -A -4 -Y -I -H. 00:02:45.659 --> 00:02:47.580 They'll be visiting the Last Man Standing show. 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:51.360 They'll be on D -Star Reflector 30 Charlie from 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:56.020 the Mike Baxter office set. on the last man standing 00:02:56.020 --> 00:02:59.819 stage in Studio City, California. The show usually 00:02:59.819 --> 00:03:02.319 operates from the set. They shoot every Tuesday 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:04.539 night, and so during the dinner break, they get 00:03:04.539 --> 00:03:09.879 on the air. 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Lou Malchik, N2RQ, is the amateur radio 00:06:47.610 --> 00:06:50.810 club advisor and former chemistry teacher at 00:06:50.810 --> 00:06:53.529 Brooklyn Technical High School. Lou was first 00:06:53.529 --> 00:06:59.209 licensed in 1959 as WV2FBX while in eighth grade. 00:06:59.769 --> 00:07:02.370 He's a past president of the Erasmus Hall High 00:07:02.370 --> 00:07:04.870 School Amateur Radio Club and the Brooklyn College 00:07:04.870 --> 00:07:09.060 Amateur Radio Society. He was the faculty advisor 00:07:09.060 --> 00:07:15.199 at Brooklyn Tech W2CXN from 1977 through 2003. 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.220 He has administered the school club roundup since 00:07:18.220 --> 00:07:22.060 its inception more than 30 years ago. Lou is 00:07:22.060 --> 00:07:24.699 a VE, has taught classes and mentored students 00:07:24.699 --> 00:07:29.100 mostly at Brooklyn Tech. He's a life member of 00:07:29.100 --> 00:07:33.600 ARRL and QCWA. He's active in Aries, He's a Hudson 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:37.660 Division Assistant Director and also served more 00:07:37.660 --> 00:07:41.180 than 30 years in Army Mars. He's the co -chairman 00:07:41.180 --> 00:07:43.660 of the Education Committee and a director of 00:07:43.660 --> 00:07:45.939 the Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club or 00:07:45.939 --> 00:07:49.360 LIMARC, which sponsors the event in cooperation 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:53.870 with the ARRL. In 2005, He was awarded the Grand 00:07:53.870 --> 00:07:56.769 Ole Ham Award from the ARRL Hudson Division, 00:07:57.350 --> 00:07:59.529 and Lou has also received an award from the American 00:07:59.529 --> 00:08:01.769 Chemical Society chapter in his area for his 00:08:01.769 --> 00:08:04.750 many years of work at Brooklyn Tech with chemical 00:08:04.750 --> 00:08:08.490 education and safety. And since Lou and I both 00:08:08.490 --> 00:08:13.009 have teaching chemistry and sponsoring high school 00:08:13.009 --> 00:08:16.550 ham radio clubs in common, I cannot be responsible 00:08:16.550 --> 00:08:19.009 for any bad chemistry jokes that may occur throughout 00:08:19.009 --> 00:08:23.160 this broadcast. Because all the good ones are 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:31.800 gone Right Lou, right? We were swapping chemistry 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:34.580 jokes before the show. So here we go Lou. Welcome 00:08:34.580 --> 00:08:37.600 to ham talk live. Thanks for coming on Well, 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:40.299 it's pleasure to be here. Well, tell us a little 00:08:40.299 --> 00:08:43.720 bit about school club roundup Tell us when it 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:48.500 is and how that got started Okay. Well, I'll 00:08:48.500 --> 00:08:54.440 start with how it got started, really. The upcoming 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:58.679 session this month will be the 41st session of 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:03.580 the School Club Roundup. It did not start quite 00:09:03.580 --> 00:09:08.600 that long ago. It started in either 1985 or 86. 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:14.799 And if you think about it, our late colleague, 00:09:14.860 --> 00:09:22.059 Marty Smith, K2NRR, came up with this idea and 00:09:22.059 --> 00:09:28.580 It really fit We constantly tell our children 00:09:28.580 --> 00:09:33.019 do not talk to strangers and Then we put them 00:09:33.019 --> 00:09:37.639 on the radio and say now talk to strangers there's 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:42.779 a basic conflict there and Marty came up with 00:09:42.779 --> 00:09:46.299 the idea of having a straightforward exchange 00:09:46.750 --> 00:09:51.289 It was inspired by the old Novice Roundup, and 00:09:51.289 --> 00:09:55.950 we made it so that it runs from Monday morning 00:09:55.950 --> 00:10:01.490 through Friday evening for an entire week, so 00:10:01.490 --> 00:10:07.509 that it's running during a school week. And the 00:10:07.509 --> 00:10:11.590 next session begins Monday morning, the 17th 00:10:11.590 --> 00:10:16.610 of October, and runs through the 23rd. No, it's 00:10:16.610 --> 00:10:23.649 the 21st, right? 21st, yes, 21st. And one of 00:10:23.649 --> 00:10:27.809 the things that we found is that, well, we used 00:10:27.809 --> 00:10:32.129 to run it in February only. And by popular demand 00:10:32.129 --> 00:10:35.850 and a great deal of resistance that had to be 00:10:35.850 --> 00:10:41.330 overcome from me, we added a second one. It's 00:10:41.330 --> 00:10:45.070 rather time consuming to take care of the The 00:10:45.070 --> 00:10:48.889 logs and checking and stuff like that But we 00:10:48.889 --> 00:10:51.970 added the October session and now they are both 00:10:51.970 --> 00:11:02.429 popular And So we're looking forward to it Well 00:11:02.429 --> 00:11:08.190 having everyone come on yeah, we've we've participated 00:11:08.190 --> 00:11:11.970 in it for quite a while now and we've done both 00:11:11.970 --> 00:11:16.000 the October roundup and the February roundup 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:18.360 and it's always one of the highlights of our 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:22.480 year So it's always great to have a way to get 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.559 the kids on the air where everything is It's 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:28.679 kind of scripted. It's kind of a contest format. 00:11:28.740 --> 00:11:32.059 Although we'll talk a little bit about that whether 00:11:32.059 --> 00:11:36.360 Truly a contest or or not and I know what your 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:40.480 answer is already, but we'll talk about it but 00:11:41.959 --> 00:11:46.799 It's a scripted predictable way to get kids on 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:49.559 the air and get them over some of that mic fright 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:55.620 and So it's worked out really well for us And 00:11:55.620 --> 00:11:58.159 I know that there's a lot of other schools out 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:02.320 there that that feel the same way so We want 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:05.460 to get more schools involved in this of course, 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.539 but we realize that most of the people listening 00:12:08.539 --> 00:12:12.590 tonight Probably aren't associated with the school. 00:12:12.590 --> 00:12:16.470 So tell the folks out there listening how they 00:12:16.470 --> 00:12:20.009 can get involved with school club roundup and 00:12:20.009 --> 00:12:23.490 support what these kids are doing. Even if they're 00:12:23.490 --> 00:12:26.710 not a part of a school club or sponsoring one 00:12:26.710 --> 00:12:31.230 of those. Okay. The first of all, I just want 00:12:31.230 --> 00:12:35.330 to correct something in the intro. Although I 00:12:35.330 --> 00:12:38.919 retired in 2003 from Brooklyn tech. I have still 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:42.240 been the advisor and or trustee there to this 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:48.799 day And so we're getting ready now but the whole 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:51.860 idea is there aren't that many school stations 00:12:51.860 --> 00:12:55.259 out there and For the kids to get on the air 00:12:55.259 --> 00:12:58.539 and make contacts during the week there have 00:12:58.539 --> 00:13:02.820 to be other stations that they can work and So 00:13:02.820 --> 00:13:07.659 that's where individual stations other non -school 00:13:07.659 --> 00:13:11.720 clubs, stations, anyone can make contacts. As 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:14.480 a matter of fact, anyone can make contacts with 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:17.519 anyone. It's just that the scoring is different. 00:13:18.620 --> 00:13:21.440 If you're familiar with contest -style scoring, 00:13:22.179 --> 00:13:26.620 you have points for each contact. Phone is one 00:13:26.620 --> 00:13:30.860 point, and CW and digital modes are two points 00:13:30.860 --> 00:13:35.399 each. And then there are multipliers. Multiplier 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:39.539 for a school contact is five. The multiplier 00:13:39.539 --> 00:13:44.440 for a non -school club is two. And then there 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:50.440 are multipliers for states and Canadian provinces 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:55.940 and territories and for DX entities. And so it 00:13:55.940 --> 00:14:01.840 gets to be rather fun competing. And I know Neil 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:06.940 finds that it's more of a competitive piece. 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:12.679 And what I have to tone people down on is you 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:16.220 don't have to be competitive. If you want to 00:14:16.220 --> 00:14:18.220 be, you don't have to be competitive with anyone 00:14:18.220 --> 00:14:25.039 but yourself. I have, I'm fond of saying, you 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:28.019 know, there's only one station that has been 00:14:28.019 --> 00:14:31.549 in every one of the previous 40 sessions of the 00:14:31.549 --> 00:14:36.169 School Club Roundup, and that is W2CXN at Brooklyn 00:14:36.169 --> 00:14:40.029 Tech. And there's only one operator who has been 00:14:40.029 --> 00:14:46.950 in all of the sessions, and that's me. Not that 00:14:46.950 --> 00:14:50.149 I have been competitive most of the time, nor 00:14:50.149 --> 00:14:52.549 has Brooklyn Tech been competitive most of the 00:14:52.549 --> 00:14:56.509 time. We operate with a very modest station. 00:14:56.860 --> 00:15:00.419 We once had a very good station, but because 00:15:00.419 --> 00:15:02.799 of changes in the building and things like that, 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.899 we are now running a hundred watt radio into 00:15:07.899 --> 00:15:13.659 a mobile whip and whatever resonance we can get 00:15:13.659 --> 00:15:22.320 out of that system, that's it. And it's sometimes 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:25.299 quite challenging, but we get the kids on the 00:15:25.299 --> 00:15:31.070 air. and they have fun. And talking about mic 00:15:31.070 --> 00:15:37.750 fright, I actually had a kid operating, not in 00:15:37.750 --> 00:15:41.990 the roundup, but just operating, with an old 00:15:41.990 --> 00:15:47.950 grip, I'm trying to remember, the G -stand, that's 00:15:47.950 --> 00:15:54.330 what it is, the oldest static D104. And he made 00:15:54.330 --> 00:15:58.909 a contact, and got so excited that he could not 00:15:58.909 --> 00:16:04.169 release the push to talk. I literally had to 00:16:04.169 --> 00:16:10.269 pry his fingers loose. And so this is something 00:16:10.269 --> 00:16:13.029 that I have not seen happen in the Roundup. It 00:16:13.029 --> 00:16:17.809 really makes it very easy to do. We have different 00:16:17.809 --> 00:16:21.750 levels of categories for the different schools 00:16:21.750 --> 00:16:25.399 so they're not mismatched. We have elementary, 00:16:25.700 --> 00:16:28.720 middle school, high school, and college university. 00:16:29.259 --> 00:16:34.779 We also separate DX from domestic stations. But 00:16:34.779 --> 00:16:38.519 again, anyone may participate. We have had entries 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:49.399 from six continents and really interesting experiences. 00:16:51.470 --> 00:16:54.649 And, you know, getting back to the contest thing 00:16:54.649 --> 00:16:57.169 and whether it's a contest and whether it's not. 00:16:58.090 --> 00:17:00.570 And I always kind of chuckled whenever you'd 00:17:00.570 --> 00:17:03.490 say, well, it's like field day. You know, it's 00:17:03.490 --> 00:17:05.430 not a contest. And I'm sitting here thinking, 00:17:05.650 --> 00:17:09.009 wait a minute, field day is a contest. And so 00:17:09.009 --> 00:17:13.309 it's really both. It's a chance that you can 00:17:13.309 --> 00:17:16.950 contest if you're competitive, which my high 00:17:16.950 --> 00:17:20.170 schoolers, they're all about it. I mean, they 00:17:20.170 --> 00:17:24.049 formed a rivalry against another school that 00:17:24.049 --> 00:17:27.630 I won't mention on the air, but they're always 00:17:27.630 --> 00:17:31.029 gunning for them and they want to beat them and 00:17:31.029 --> 00:17:33.230 they want to get in there and they want to, you 00:17:33.230 --> 00:17:36.089 know, rack up the score and that's what they 00:17:36.089 --> 00:17:37.890 want to do. They want to see how many they can 00:17:37.890 --> 00:17:41.769 get and how well they can do. But there's other 00:17:41.769 --> 00:17:46.069 schools that are out there just to get kids on 00:17:46.069 --> 00:17:50.220 the air and get them talking. And so it's really 00:17:50.220 --> 00:17:54.099 great that it's both. It's competitive if you 00:17:54.099 --> 00:17:56.759 want it to be, and it's not competitive if you 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:01.759 don't want it to be. Absolutely. And I've seen 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:05.000 plenty of field day operations that are not competitive. 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:10.180 Oh, yeah. Awful lot of fun. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:15.559 That's always kind of a... The thing you know 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:18.839 is it or isn't it and and I guess the answer 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:22.160 to field day early is it's both I mean it can 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:26.099 be and some people do that and some people you 00:18:26.099 --> 00:18:28.619 know tend to just you know, hey Let's have a 00:18:28.619 --> 00:18:31.519 good time and let's set up and operate and see 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:35.500 what we get one of the things that I've been 00:18:35.500 --> 00:18:40.200 asked recently is From new people, you know, 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:43.480 how do we what do we have to do to enter? Just 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:47.160 this week I had an email from somebody from a 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:50.740 home school. And the question was, are you going 00:18:50.740 --> 00:18:53.819 to have a category for home schools? I don't 00:18:53.819 --> 00:18:56.119 foresee a category for home schools, but we've 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:59.039 accepted entries from home schools for decades. 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:04.599 All we ask is put yourself in the category that 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:08.879 corresponds to one of the school levels. And 00:19:08.879 --> 00:19:13.640 usually if you have multiple grade level equivalents, 00:19:14.339 --> 00:19:16.480 you pick the highest grade level of the operators. 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:21.900 So if somebody's equivalent to eighth grade, 00:19:23.259 --> 00:19:26.519 so you know, they'd maybe be, or seventh grade 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:28.319 or something like that, maybe it'd be at middle 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:31.880 school level. Somebody a little higher, high 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:36.779 school level, it all works. And what we've seen 00:19:36.779 --> 00:19:42.000 an upsurge in the last couple of years is colleges 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:45.259 and universities coming in in greater numbers 00:19:45.259 --> 00:19:48.839 than they used to. And from what I understand, 00:19:50.339 --> 00:19:55.940 the ARRL is now involved in sponsoring a push 00:19:55.940 --> 00:20:03.700 to revitalize college radio clubs. Absolutely. 00:20:08.310 --> 00:20:12.609 I love having it. I use it, by the way, having 00:20:12.609 --> 00:20:16.670 the colleges on there. I use it to try and point 00:20:16.670 --> 00:20:20.569 out to the school administration that it's a 00:20:20.569 --> 00:20:23.410 worthwhile activity. Otherwise, why would all 00:20:23.410 --> 00:20:27.490 these big name schools that we want our students 00:20:27.490 --> 00:20:32.890 to aspire to be sponsoring them? I use that as 00:20:32.890 --> 00:20:39.539 a selling point. I also have at least one student 00:20:39.539 --> 00:20:48.940 who I refer to as my mentor. And he got an ARRL 00:20:48.940 --> 00:20:55.579 scholarship and he's doing very well. So there 00:20:55.579 --> 00:21:00.630 you go. Well, you know, we've had a lot of kids 00:21:00.630 --> 00:21:03.609 from here get scholarships too and they've done 00:21:03.609 --> 00:21:06.730 really well and the school club roundup has been 00:21:06.730 --> 00:21:10.130 an important part of that and so we can't thank 00:21:10.130 --> 00:21:14.829 you and your crew enough and of course Marty 00:21:14.829 --> 00:21:19.089 when he was around to start it and help out with 00:21:19.089 --> 00:21:22.250 it. We worked him several times in the roundup 00:21:22.250 --> 00:21:26.430 and Just can't thank you all enough for providing 00:21:26.430 --> 00:21:30.970 that opportunity And let me tell you as a high 00:21:30.970 --> 00:21:34.190 school teacher I'm I'm glad that I'm in the high 00:21:34.190 --> 00:21:36.410 school division because that middle school division 00:21:36.410 --> 00:21:44.130 is fierce I mean Who? It just it just blows my 00:21:44.130 --> 00:21:47.589 mind now in the world these middle schools. Oh 00:21:47.589 --> 00:21:52.450 the competition is Up at the top is just is totally 00:21:52.450 --> 00:21:55.859 fierce You're right. It's it's amazing. But you 00:21:55.859 --> 00:21:58.640 know, there's one thing that you bring to mind 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:04.319 We have seen a problem Not just with radio clubs, 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:08.119 but just in general but the radio clubs in particular 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:14.039 almost always a school club is tied to an individual 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:17.880 operator who is the advisor or sponsor of the 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:24.160 club and Year after year, we hear of teachers 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:27.539 or other staff people who were sponsoring the 00:22:27.539 --> 00:22:33.200 club, retiring, and not being able to find someone 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:36.339 to pick it up afterward. And I'd like to put 00:22:36.339 --> 00:22:40.140 this out here. You don't have to be a staff person 00:22:40.140 --> 00:22:44.599 at a school to operate in the roundup from a 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:48.660 school. I've been telling people this for a long 00:22:48.660 --> 00:22:55.990 time. If you are a parent or even a friend of 00:22:55.990 --> 00:22:58.349 somebody who works in the school and you can 00:22:58.349 --> 00:23:01.569 develop some kind of a relationship, it doesn't 00:23:01.569 --> 00:23:04.750 matter what kind of an operation you have. You 00:23:04.750 --> 00:23:08.930 can set up a temporary station in the school 00:23:08.930 --> 00:23:12.170 parking lot, operate from the mobile or something 00:23:12.170 --> 00:23:19.990 like that, anything to get on the air. You may 00:23:19.990 --> 00:23:27.390 have seen, oh boy, Jay, who's the trustee for 00:23:27.390 --> 00:23:31.750 K -3 FBI. There was an email from him today. 00:23:31.869 --> 00:23:35.230 It was posted that he's fully retired now. But 00:23:35.230 --> 00:23:38.630 I remember the first time he entered the school 00:23:38.630 --> 00:23:41.509 club roundup from Virginia, and it wasn't from 00:23:41.509 --> 00:23:45.690 K -3 FBI. It was from his own station. I can't 00:23:45.690 --> 00:23:50.210 remember the call sign now. But he was operating 00:23:50.210 --> 00:23:54.549 as a parent at his daughter's school. And he 00:23:54.549 --> 00:24:00.490 did that for a few years. Nobody says you have 00:24:00.490 --> 00:24:03.890 to be on from Monday through Friday. Some people 00:24:03.890 --> 00:24:07.829 just get on one day. And there is a limit, by 00:24:07.829 --> 00:24:12.109 the way, of 24 hours maximum operation and also 00:24:12.109 --> 00:24:18.940 a maximum of six hours per day. It's not a super 00:24:18.940 --> 00:24:23.440 marathon. Well, that's some great ideas on how 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:26.099 schools can get on the air, and we do need to 00:24:26.099 --> 00:24:29.799 take a break. But real quick, some comments about 00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:32.740 how schools should go about getting involved 00:24:32.740 --> 00:24:36.519 if they want to participate in this coming up 00:24:36.519 --> 00:24:42.500 here in just a couple of weeks. Well, the ARRL 00:24:42.500 --> 00:24:45.579 website is featuring School Club Roundup on the 00:24:45.579 --> 00:24:48.900 home page. I think that's probably the best place 00:24:48.900 --> 00:24:54.279 to look. If you want to contact us at Limark, 00:24:54.859 --> 00:25:00.500 we have an email address that is scr at limark 00:25:00.500 --> 00:25:04.960 .org. Limark is Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:10.799 Club. It's just the initials. And that comes 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:14.640 to me and to at least one other member of our 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:20.900 committee. We also have a Yahoo group that is 00:25:20.900 --> 00:25:29.299 SCR -L SierraCharlieRomeo -Lima at yahoogroups 00:25:29.299 --> 00:25:36.299 .com and both of those are excellent ways of, 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:41.160 especially the Yahoo group, for getting in touch 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:44.650 with the other people. Yep, very good. We do 00:25:44.650 --> 00:25:49.470 that quite a bit and always some lively conversation 00:25:49.470 --> 00:25:53.650 on there around this time of year, so check those 00:25:53.650 --> 00:25:58.289 out. Again, that's SCR at Limark .org and SCR 00:25:58.289 --> 00:26:02.589 -L on Yahoo Groups. Well, we're going to take 00:26:02.589 --> 00:26:04.849 a break. We'll be back and we're going to take 00:26:04.849 --> 00:26:08.950 your calls live with Lou right after this word 00:26:08.950 --> 00:26:11.650 from the ham station right here on HamTalk Live. 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:14.279 This episode of HamTalk Live is brought to you 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:17.740 by the HamStation. 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Make sure you check out our Facebook page 00:27:51.900 --> 00:27:55.079 and our Twitter feed to search for HamTalk Live. 00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:57.630 Well, it's time for your calls. If you have a 00:27:57.630 --> 00:28:00.730 question for Lou about school clubs or school 00:28:00.730 --> 00:28:04.490 club roundup, give him a call. It's 812 -NET 00:28:04.490 --> 00:28:12.230 -HAM -1. It's 812 -638 -4261. If you're a Skype 00:28:12.230 --> 00:28:14.910 person, you can call us on Skype at HamTalk Live. 00:28:15.410 --> 00:28:18.450 You can also tweet any questions that you have 00:28:18.450 --> 00:28:22.430 at HamTalk Live, or you can post in the comments. 00:28:22.470 --> 00:28:26.589 Again, the phone number is 812 -NET -HAM -1. 00:28:28.900 --> 00:28:34.779 So Lou, welcome back and want to talk a little 00:28:34.779 --> 00:28:37.940 bit about Lymark and their support while we're 00:28:37.940 --> 00:28:40.900 waiting for some calls. Again that number 812 00:28:40.900 --> 00:28:45.119 -NET -HAM -1. Give us a call and we'll talk here 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:48.839 while we're waiting on people to do that. Talk 00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:51.700 a little bit about Lymark and how Lymark has 00:28:51.700 --> 00:28:57.880 supported this event. Marty and I were doing 00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:03.059 this for a long time I was doing it with the 00:29:03.059 --> 00:29:05.920 kids at Brooklyn Tech helping to do the scoring 00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:10.519 and This is all almost all before computer logging 00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:18.759 People would send in stacks of paper and After 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:25.019 I retired I realized that and especially after 00:29:25.019 --> 00:29:29.049 Marty passed We weren't going to go on forever 00:29:29.049 --> 00:29:35.490 and I wanted to try to get the event to continue 00:29:35.490 --> 00:29:39.730 and I brought it to the Limark Board of Directors 00:29:39.730 --> 00:29:43.089 and proposed that they pick it up as sponsoring 00:29:43.089 --> 00:29:46.630 and so we formed a committee. They adopted it 00:29:46.630 --> 00:29:51.589 and we formed a committee. Mainly I have a friend 00:29:51.589 --> 00:29:57.259 who's a computer person. Ken, WB2KWC, who helps 00:29:57.259 --> 00:30:02.259 a great deal with the anomalies in the logs and 00:30:02.259 --> 00:30:05.799 things like that. We're looking to expand the 00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:09.380 committee within the club, but Limark just celebrated 00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:15.759 its 50th year. Right now we're somewhere around 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:20.480 400 members on Long Island. Wow, we're good. 00:30:22.009 --> 00:30:26.670 Very good. Well, we do have a couple of questions 00:30:26.670 --> 00:30:34.849 coming in here on Twitter first of all Kg0ufo 00:30:34.849 --> 00:30:39.990 wants to know how many schools are involved I've 00:30:39.990 --> 00:30:43.970 talked it says I've talked with some SCR schools 00:30:43.970 --> 00:30:46.769 Whenever I hear them on the air and got QSL cards 00:30:46.769 --> 00:30:49.950 from some so about how many schools are involved 00:30:49.950 --> 00:30:53.230 and I'm going to go ahead and answer this call 00:30:53.230 --> 00:30:58.130 to so on the phone stand by there and Go ahead 00:30:58.130 --> 00:31:00.269 and answer that one and then we'll we'll move 00:31:00.269 --> 00:31:03.289 on to the call It's actually a little bit hard 00:31:03.289 --> 00:31:14.470 to say Typically We will see 60 70 clubs but 00:31:14.470 --> 00:31:18.490 What I know is that there are definitely more 00:31:18.490 --> 00:31:22.450 of them out there Just like in any other operating 00:31:22.450 --> 00:31:25.690 event, there are people who will make contacts 00:31:25.690 --> 00:31:31.849 and will not send in a log. And I make a point 00:31:31.849 --> 00:31:35.049 of asking for every log. I don't care if you 00:31:35.049 --> 00:31:37.769 made a single contact, we'd like to hear from 00:31:37.769 --> 00:31:44.349 you. And we've had a few of those. And one thing 00:31:44.349 --> 00:31:47.009 I wanted to mention about logging, if I may, 00:31:47.569 --> 00:31:52.440 Neil, There's been a tremendous transition to 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:58.420 computer logging. And we have two logging programs 00:31:58.420 --> 00:32:01.559 that have been created specially for School Club 00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:08.380 Roundup. One is by Scott N3FJP, and I believe 00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:12.700 it's Windows only. And then we have from Dave 00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:18.730 AD8B SCR log. And he's been supporting us for 00:32:18.730 --> 00:32:23.130 quite a few years. And SCR log is available for 00:32:23.130 --> 00:32:28.670 both Windows and Mac OS. But anything will work. 00:32:28.950 --> 00:32:32.750 Whatever logging program or paper is welcome. 00:32:34.450 --> 00:32:38.589 Generally, if it's paper, we like it to be not 00:32:38.589 --> 00:32:43.509 more than 100 contacts. But your choice. Yeah, 00:32:43.549 --> 00:32:47.890 SCR log is bailed us out many many times. So 00:32:47.890 --> 00:32:52.349 thanks Dave and Sterling coffee in zero SSC is 00:32:52.349 --> 00:32:55.329 on the line. Good evening Sterling. Thank you 00:32:55.329 --> 00:32:58.490 for waiting so patiently. No problem evening, 00:32:58.490 --> 00:33:02.009 Neil I just want to call in and say just give 00:33:02.009 --> 00:33:04.930 Lou a big. Thanks I'm the former president of 00:33:04.930 --> 00:33:07.269 a college club at the University of Missouri 00:33:07.269 --> 00:33:10.319 Arala or it's now called Missouri S &T As some 00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:12.740 might know, their call sign is Whiskey Zero Triple 00:33:12.740 --> 00:33:15.559 Echo. And School Club Roundup was always a big 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:18.180 staple for us and a lot of college clubs and 00:33:18.180 --> 00:33:22.460 always helped us get huge numbers interested 00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:25.000 and involved and participating and doing all 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:26.779 this on the air thing. At the same time, we did 00:33:26.779 --> 00:33:30.299 things like little mini field days and took the 00:33:30.299 --> 00:33:33.640 whole week out of the semester to really promote 00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:36.259 Ham Radio in college and colleges and schools 00:33:36.259 --> 00:33:39.180 around the area. So it was always a lot of fun. 00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:42.180 Lately I've been trying to work on since I graduated. 00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:44.079 I'm you know, no longer in college obviously, 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:46.799 so I have a little more time to kind of devote 00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:51.400 to promoting ham radio in educate like colleges 00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:54.680 and schools and youth in general so lately I've 00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:58.039 been working on a big database of Colleges like 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:00.519 a mailing list so to speak so that we can go 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:03.019 out and distribute this You know big school club 00:34:03.019 --> 00:34:05.920 roundup go do this or no sweepstakes has a school 00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:08.400 club category the November sweepstakes as well, 00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:11.920 so I don't know, if you guys want any help, because 00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:16.159 we have a few ideas maybe to improve the contest, 00:34:16.420 --> 00:34:19.079 or not contest, improve School Club Roundup, 00:34:19.260 --> 00:34:21.960 and help promote it too, because I always see 00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:24.360 after the fact, sometimes there's somebody like, 00:34:24.500 --> 00:34:26.280 oh, School Club Roundup was last week? Dang, 00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:29.880 missed it. So anything you guys need to help, 00:34:29.940 --> 00:34:36.380 I'm willing. Well, thank you. Thank you for your 00:34:36.380 --> 00:34:39.039 comments, and appreciate it. It's always nice 00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:47.559 to have positive feedback. Yeah, it really has 00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:51.260 surprised me how much publicity and promotion 00:34:51.260 --> 00:34:54.360 it has received, especially in recent years. 00:34:55.199 --> 00:35:04.079 ARRL has really featured it. Ward, I'm blanking 00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:06.889 out on his call sign. Thank you. Ward Silver 00:35:06.889 --> 00:35:14.550 has put together a plan or a goal of having a 00:35:14.550 --> 00:35:19.710 school -related activity each month. And School 00:35:19.710 --> 00:35:24.369 Club Roundup is two of those. And of course, 00:35:24.530 --> 00:35:28.590 the school category in the November sweepstakes, 00:35:28.789 --> 00:35:31.349 which has always been before school club round 00:35:31.349 --> 00:35:34.250 up, that was always my favorite activity. Yeah, 00:35:34.309 --> 00:35:36.590 same. It was a big capstone for us for the year. 00:35:37.329 --> 00:35:40.789 He actually helped us get, one year we participated 00:35:40.789 --> 00:35:44.550 in CW sweepstakes and Ward Silver, Enzo AX was 00:35:44.550 --> 00:35:49.710 his call. He won us first place. So it was a 00:35:49.710 --> 00:35:53.949 big help to the triple E, the dit dit dit. But 00:35:53.949 --> 00:35:55.710 man, he was a huge help. So that's really good 00:35:55.710 --> 00:36:00.440 to hear that he's on it. Thanks so much Sterling 00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:02.699 for giving us a call appreciate it my pleasure. 00:36:02.699 --> 00:36:06.500 Thank you All right, take care eight one two 00:36:06.500 --> 00:36:09.980 net ham one is the phone number or you can Skype 00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:16.320 at hand talk live Let's go to our other Tweet 00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:21.480 here Dr. Scott right key zero MD says great show 00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:25.519 and Wants to know what the best way to have students 00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:30.219 work in pairs is during SCR, and what's the best 00:36:30.219 --> 00:36:34.360 thing that adults can do working in schools in 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:37.639 SCR to encourage the students to be more active? 00:36:38.619 --> 00:36:40.599 I'll take the easy one first. They're working 00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:45.960 in pairs. One operates, one logs. That's sort 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:51.019 of an obvious one to me. Very often I'll have 00:36:51.019 --> 00:36:57.199 more kids in the shack than two. And the additional 00:36:57.199 --> 00:37:01.760 thing I do is I hand out paper logs and I ask 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:06.519 everyone to practice logging because the listening 00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:12.679 skills are most important whether on phone or 00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:16.960 CW. Of course the digital modes, most of us are 00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:24.380 not listening, but all three work out. What I 00:37:24.380 --> 00:37:29.840 have found in terms of getting kids excited or 00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:35.639 within school and stuff like that is to be an 00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:39.559 example. When I was actively teaching it was 00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:42.840 easier for me to get the kids going because I 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:47.780 would talk about it when I could in class and 00:37:47.780 --> 00:37:51.119 many of my students would come. disproportionately 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:56.340 to the overall school. So if you're not directly 00:37:56.340 --> 00:37:59.440 in school and you have a friend who's teaching 00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:03.000 or something like that, we've had building custodians 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:06.360 who are advisors to clubs, that sort of thing, 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:12.559 anything works. And one thing that we found years 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:20.099 ago, I happen to like digital and We got feedback 00:38:20.099 --> 00:38:23.940 that said Digital is too much like texting they 00:38:23.940 --> 00:38:28.360 like phone Other places say hey the CW is great 00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:31.880 Others prefer the digital Everybody's got their 00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:34.340 own thing and that's one of the greatest things 00:38:34.340 --> 00:38:37.559 about ham radio anyway And that's one of the 00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:43.130 things that I've noticed is that some years My 00:38:43.130 --> 00:38:45.929 group is all about doing digital they want to 00:38:45.929 --> 00:38:49.469 get on PSK 31 they want to run the macros they 00:38:49.469 --> 00:38:52.809 want to do everything on there and then I have 00:38:52.809 --> 00:38:56.070 other groups that They don't want to do that. 00:38:56.070 --> 00:38:58.010 They want to get on the microphone They want 00:38:58.010 --> 00:39:01.869 to get on there and talk and so we we vary a 00:39:01.869 --> 00:39:05.090 lot on that from year to year Just depending 00:39:05.090 --> 00:39:08.789 on the group of kids we have You know, I think 00:39:08.789 --> 00:39:16.590 it's a great chance to offer both and That's 00:39:16.590 --> 00:39:19.469 definitely a possibility with school club roundup 00:39:19.469 --> 00:39:23.530 Well, why don't we just got a couple of minutes 00:39:23.530 --> 00:39:26.869 left so Lou why don't you remind everybody again 00:39:26.869 --> 00:39:32.789 about the the times and the dates and get everybody 00:39:32.789 --> 00:39:37.329 making contacts that week with schools and then 00:39:37.329 --> 00:39:40.869 the addresses again in case There's a school 00:39:40.869 --> 00:39:43.170 out there that wants to sign up and get going, 00:39:43.429 --> 00:39:47.369 how they can do that. OK. I'll repeat, first 00:39:47.369 --> 00:39:54.170 of all, the scr -l at yahoogroups .com. That's 00:39:54.170 --> 00:39:57.210 the longest running and most active discussion 00:39:57.210 --> 00:40:01.730 group for this. And if you want a direct question 00:40:01.730 --> 00:40:08.860 here, it's scr at limark .org. The and of course 00:40:08.860 --> 00:40:13.639 the a double RL website has full listing of the 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:19.599 rules and times and all of that this This October 00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:24.000 session is going to run from Monday the 17th 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:28.320 of October through Friday the 21st and it starts 00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:31.380 Off the top of my head. I really don't have it 00:40:31.380 --> 00:40:34.860 in front of me I think in daylight saving time. 00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:43.159 It's 8 o 'clock Eastern and goes through 8 o 00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:55.420 'clock p .m. on Friday 2359 Friday UTC and It 00:40:55.420 --> 00:41:04.360 is about 1300 UTC on Monday morning And you do 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:06.500 not have to sign up in advance. You don't have 00:41:06.500 --> 00:41:08.719 to do anything like that. Just get on the air 00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:12.360 and have some fun. Okay, and there are recommended 00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:15.019 frequencies. Those are posted up there too, so 00:41:15.019 --> 00:41:17.980 you can know where the schools are more likely 00:41:17.980 --> 00:41:20.179 to be. It doesn't guarantee they'll be within 00:41:20.179 --> 00:41:23.559 those regions, but they're more likely to be 00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:26.099 there. So get on the air and work some of these 00:41:26.099 --> 00:41:30.000 schools and give them some contacts during school 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.610 club roundup. Great way to Show off amateur radio 00:41:34.610 --> 00:41:38.150 in a school and then maybe you take it further 00:41:38.150 --> 00:41:42.269 and, you know, do some more work with the kids 00:41:42.269 --> 00:41:46.829 and get them going into a club and maybe even 00:41:46.829 --> 00:41:50.010 do a little contesting. So, Lou, thanks so much 00:41:50.010 --> 00:41:52.190 for coming on the show. Appreciate it and look 00:41:52.190 --> 00:41:54.610 forward to talking to you on School Club Roundup 00:41:54.610 --> 00:41:57.329 here in a couple of weeks. My pleasure. Thank 00:41:57.329 --> 00:42:00.889 you. Alright, that is a wrap for this week's 00:42:00.889 --> 00:42:03.030 edition of HamTalk Live. I'd like to thank my 00:42:03.030 --> 00:42:06.110 guest Lou Malchik into our queue and everyone 00:42:06.110 --> 00:42:08.110 out there in cyberspace for listening and calling 00:42:08.110 --> 00:42:10.849 in and invite you back next Thursday night at 00:42:10.849 --> 00:42:15.590 9 p .m. Eastern Time when Marty Solaway, KC1CWF, 00:42:15.710 --> 00:42:18.369 Chicken with Fries will be here to talk about 00:42:18.369 --> 00:42:22.309 setting up a remote station. So for a list of 00:42:22.309 --> 00:42:24.449 all of our upcoming guests, be sure to visit 00:42:24.449 --> 00:42:28.309 HamTalkLive .com. So for now, this is Neil Rapp, 00:42:28.449 --> 00:42:33.949 WB9VPG, saying 7375, and may the good DX be yours! 00:42:34.699 --> 00:42:50.400 Thanks for watching