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from Baltimore, Maryland and now resides in Metro
St. Louis, Missouri. Christian began his broadcasting
career in Baltimore, Maryland. During the early
1990s, he worked for Heritage Rock Station WIYY
before moving to Philadelphia. In 1998, he joined
WMMR and Christian attained the number one ranked
radio program in Philadelphia and was nominated
for two air awards including best field reporting
and best evening program host. In 2003, he moved
to St. Louis where he became a host for St. Louis
Public Radio. He has received both Emmy and Telly
awards for his television work. His documentaries
have aired on PBS. In 2010, Christian co -founded
the nonprofit art organization Ballet Initiative,
which works to train dancers and raise the profile
of ballet. In August, 2013, he created the first
audio podcast devoted to the art of ballet. He
also served as host and executive producer of
National Blues Musi - radio. The show debuted
in St. Louis February 7th 2014 and became syndicated
to stations around the world. Christian was a
regular contributor of a new ham segment for
Ham Nation before launching 100 watts and a wire
in May of 2015, 100 Watts to the wire is a podcast
celebrating amateur radio through the eyes of
a new ham. The show features topical conversation
and interviews, news, and an entertaining look
at the adventures of a ham trying to figure it
all out. Christian, welcome to ham talk live.
Hey, good evening, Neil and happy birthday. Oh,
thank you. We had to throw that in there, didn't
we? Well, well look. What an accomplishment to
be the first ever in the history of this planet
at to be five year old and, and licensed amateurs.
And I know they've come a long sense, but you
were banging out the code and everything back
then. Oh yeah. Yeah. Did, did the code the whole
bit. So, Hey, thanks for having me. Yeah. Thanks
for, thanks for coming on. Well, we're going
to talk a little bit about, uh, about your show
and, and some of the things that you're doing,
but, um, one of the things that we want to talk
about right off the bat was this this thing called
fallout that's coming up that uh is an new operating
activity you you dreamed up here and and you're
starting that through uh your podcast 100 watts
and a wire so tell us all about fallout and how
we can participate well i think everybody was
bitten by the uh national parks on the air bug
i know i certainly was and getting a portable
station set up and you know falls a great time
the last couple weeks around here in missouri
i i joke about it being new seattle because it
rains so much this summer was ridiculous i'm
so glad to see fall now it's getting a little
cooler next weekend the weather will break here
and it's just an opportunity for us as the one
under what's in a wire community to get out get
active, test our gear, we can really exercise
our gear if we choose to go outside. It's not
mandatory, Neil, you can stay in. But what we
were thinking about is, you know, it would be
kind of cool to maybe try and level the playing
field, although you never really can. I mean,
field day is, you know, it's rough. It's hard
to get a spot. You know, you're doing 100 watts.
Good luck to you, you know. So I thought maybe
we could try something just as an activity. You
know, it's not a contest. It's not a special
event. It's just our community getting together
and getting on the air we do a thing where we
have 100 watts and a wire IDs and These are free.
The show is free just like your show is free,
but we have a website like you do it's 100 watts
and a wire comm and there's a tab called the
gathering and What listeners will do is they'll
give us their name their call sign and their
email address And they're sequentially issued
an ID. And I wanted to exercise this a little
bit, too, because we've got 1 ,800 people who
possess these IDs now. And I'd love to hear them
on the air. So people could make a game of it
if they choose, work different IDs, that sort
of deal. But at its core, it's an opportunity
to get us on the air and work each other. It
could be five watts, whatever. You know you could
run high power too. I'm just encouraging people
you know use 100 watts or less and get on the
air. It's really what we're doing. It's October
8th and 9th. Any band, any mode, any time. You
can work 100 watts and a wire IDs. You can work
anybody. There's really no rules to it. I just
would love to see people get out there and start
calling CQ. And you can work from anywhere, but
you're definitely encouraging people to get outside
and go, go enjoy the fresh air and the fresh
radio waves. Yeah, no bugs. And hopefully things
are going to be changing. It'll cool off a little
bit where people are, but you can, you can still
be a lot of people don't have a portable station.
I totally get it. It's not mandatory. That's
the beauty of this thing is it's not a rule.
There's no categories. You can get on the air
and do whatever you want. But with National Parks
on the Air, I can't believe, you know, it'll
be over soon and then maybe we'll get into the
worldwide flora and fauna thing, which is, that's
an interesting program as well, where people
are working around the world, you know. I definitely
encourage people who enjoy getting portable and
maybe getting a little bummed that National Parks
on the Air will be coming to an end at the end
of the year to look into the worldwide flora
and fauna. that's a program and it continues
it's it's ongoing and I found that and so maybe
I can parlay the end of December with you know
joining that one and learning all the rules so
yeah I heard your your show about about the flora
and fauna operating and then so that's that's
a good way to transition into that I know I'm
gonna Give it a shot. I'm still trying to figure
out my schedule that weekend for fallout, but
I've been meaning to activate the national park
back in my hometown of incense and and So I'm
gonna try to knock it all out at once I'm gonna
try to go portable and go down there and and
set up for a while and I just got one of these
new Lithium iron phosphate batteries, so I got
to go try it out So I thought I better get a
hold of one of these batteries. You know, you
never know what's going to happen. So true. It's
good to have one on hand. So we may take the
ham stick and a rig and run down there and see
what we can do and try to find some other friends,
too. I mean, one of the things I liked about
I've I've activated three parks. I think it's
three, maybe four all all in Missouri, except
for the one near Dayton. And that was the Buffalo
Soldiers. That was cool. Before Dayton started,
I met Kilo India 9 Whiskey on a Thursday afternoon.
Nobody was even around this national park. It
was amazing. But I think the camaraderie of it,
getting together with another ham, I probably
slowed him down. He's an activator that, you
know, he's doing this as much as he can, over
a hundred, whatever. And me I'm like talking
like we're talking now. I'm like, yeah So what
is that ladder line and but the point being is
you you have some fellowship you get together
with friends and you can you can do it together
Which is a great thing about the parks plus you
see all these beautiful things, but I may go
and just activate in a field and Test my equipment
you get outstanding in your field. Yeah outstanding.
Hey, man You got a great laugh. Let it out. Let
it out. You got to go stand in your own field.
I see what you did. And there you go. I see what
you did. I like getting out there. I like testing
antennas. I like to build them. And I was kind
of trained early in my ham radio career, I guess
you'd call it, about compromise and not really
compromising. And compromising was a bad thing.
And I got to thinking, Maybe this hobby isn't
for me. I really have to compromise. I don't
have all the money. I don't have all the land.
I may actually have to use a tuner at some point,
maybe on 80 meters or 160. So I was kind of programmed
against the compromise. So portable operations
early for me, I was like, ah, you may need a
tuner. I don't know. It's kind of... And all
of a sudden, you know, I got to thinking why
am I being told so much? you can only do it this
way. The spirit of ham radio is to try different
things. And if you're in an emergency situation,
who cares if you get a tuner involved or if your
G5 RV isn't resonant. You know, here at my home,
you know, I like my antennas to actually work
for me and that's just my preference. But out
in the field, it's a different game. And I think
anytime you can get your radio out, get an antenna
up, test it and do it, the more you do it, You
know, at least for me, I've gotten a little faster.
I'm really slow, Neil. These portable ops, you
know, I used to go, but I'm a tinkerer, too.
I'm going to put the antenna up and I'm going
to test it. You know, I'm checking it out. I'm
an antenna analyzer. Well, you know, it's working
on 20. Well, not so good on 40. And well, you
know, so I'm out there doing it like that. I'm
curious to see how the performance is going.
Some people are just out there to bang it out.
And so whatever your preference is this activity
day or weekend, indoor, outdoor, whatever you
want, just get on the air. I know there's 1800
people out there with these IDs and it would
be fun to hear them passed along, you know, over
that weekend. And if you're somewhere, just say
where you are, you know, give a true signal report.
No big, no big deal. Just kind of get out there
and have fun. And if you don't have an ID, do
it anyway. Oh yeah, absolutely because there's
more people, as you know, you and I have talked
about listeners before, right? I mean, we have
over 700 ,000 licensed amateurs in our country
alone. Japan has over a million. You know, the
UK, when you put everybody in one big pot, you
and I, quite frankly, Neil, aren't really, we're
scratching the surface. There's a big audience
out there and the point being is more people
don't know about us. then do. And I think what's
worked well with 100 watts and a wire is that
it's an inclusive sort of thing. I started it
because I felt that I was asking my Elmers or
anybody who's getting into ham radio and here's
that term, like a mentor, I was asking them so
many questions. I started to feel bad and I thought,
you know, I probably need to leave them alone.
I'm never going to learn all this right away.
And so up crops 100 watts in a wire where you're
just kind of following me along and then I asked
people who know things to kind of teach me. K3LR,
you know, came by and talked about tower safety.
Lots of other people about emergency communications
and that sort of thing. Teach me so and I can
kind of pass it along. And then the Facebook
community soon followed and it became a safe
place where people could ask questions of people.
And if anybody came along that was like, oh,
and they come from time to time. Oh, you should
know that that was on your test. And Neil, as
you know, I mean, you took your test 100 years
ago, 40 years ago for Pete's sake. The tests
don't give you all the practical things. You
know, you have to kind of pass the test and get
out there and learn a little bit. So the community
online, the digital community, is a way where
people can ask questions in a safe place. Even
if they go to the mundane and they come back
again and again with different people, it's okay.
The community is sort of accepting and the ones
who get frustrated, the guys who know a lot but
aren't interested in passing it along or think
it's a dumb question, they sort of weed themselves
out. You know, this really is a place where people
can come and and share the information and the
joy of it, really. So you get the podcast. That
happens in the early part of the week. You get
a couple days. On Thursday nights like this,
when you're on, you see gatherings crop up on
the air. People in the community are calling
CQ and trying to work and talk and meet other
people. So this activity day was a way to kind
of take it out more, organize it a little bit,
give some time to talk about it. Thank you for
letting me talk about it, by the way, You know,
it's hard. It's, it's hard to get people to come
together at any time, really. I mean, you know,
so. Well, we wanted to, uh, to get some promotion
out there on it and, and get things going. And,
and you did a perfect segue into my next question,
which was going to be about, um, the community
because, uh, you know, my day job is teaching
and, and, and even this week, I've heard some
questions. That I just want to go What? You know,
but if you do that you often discourage them
from asking those questions and if they don't
know they need to ask those questions and so
You've you've really worked hard at making especially
I see the Facebook community a lot You've worked
hard at making sure that that Facebook community
that that group of people have a safe place to
ask these questions so that they're not intimidated
and everybody jumps in and gives their two cents
worth, but it's a safe place where they're not
going to feel like, you know, oh my gosh, I shouldn't
ask this question. I should know this already
or somebody's going to jump down my throat because
You know, I'm supposed to know that, you know,
and so you've done a great job with that. And
I think that that's something that was very much
needed because Elmer's sometimes can be few and
far between. And think about the next generation
as a teacher, you know this and you and you,
you know, you've got a club there. You're teaching
the next generation. Think about the great knowledge
of the Elmer's that are here today. When they
pass there's a big gap between you and me and.
I will say people in their safe fifties and then
it goes seventies eighties you know what i mean
there's a interesting demographic when you look
at. The information being passed you know sure
i wanted a safe place i you know i started it
off because i knew i was asking a lot. And I
had joined some other groups. I don't even know
what they're called anymore. But, you know, it
was kind of like, wow, really, man, you're asking
that question. I knew that I didn't want 100
watts and a wire to be that, you know. So the
show follows my struggles. It follows my success.
And then I'll talk to somebody even like yourself,
who's got 40 years in the game that can kind
of open doors and go, oh. Ah, oh. So with Facebook
sort of feeds into the show, you know, it gives
some of that content is naturally being created.
The people can express happiness or unhappiness
with the show or raise questions or, hey, can
you talk about this idea? So moderating it has
become easy. I don't like the edit. As much you
know that was another thing. I didn't want to
really edit or censor anyone So kind of putting
the point out there quickly that look It's not
going to be tolerated if you you know you put
some weird thing up there We don't buy and sell
and show all that kind of stuff on You know on
the page that that kind of opens you up to a
new thing if you're buying and selling stuff
So we don't really do that, but you know Don't
know what I'm doing man, but the people seem
to like it which is cool and it's safe so you
can come there and and You feel that on the air
sometimes too. You know you when you do these
shows and the podcast It's not quite it is like
radio in some ways But you put this podcast up
here. You are you take a file and you're uploading
it And you know who knows where it's going and
who knows when they're listening exactly You
don't know if they're reacting to what's funny
or what you're trying to do or if they like it.
So things like the fallout, it's an opportunity
to get that feedback. Being on the air and having
a gathering on the air like that really gives
you a chance to hear the people. And that's really
important too. Again, same with the Facebook
page. You get to see the reaction and you can
gauge what they want, what they're interested
in. So it's a good resource for me too. keep
it safe and they keep me in, in content and topics.
And you've had a variety of things, even from,
you know, from, from ham radio things to even
health issues and personal struggles with people
that sometimes, you know, people reach out and,
and, and, and are helped through that group.
Yeah, we had one and I won't go too deep into
it but Jim he's in our group and he had it he
has some family issues at home and he just needed
a place to go and and not vent but I think he
just was looking for an outlet and I think it
was really humbling for me to see that he's dealing
with things Neil that were We don't you know,
we don't people don't talk about you know these
struggles in her inner family struggles and again
not the single amount but he of course he went
public with it and the outpouring of support
Was really touching, you know, it's keep your
chin up, you know and hang in there man And and
I've been there and you know, so it's it doesn't
always have to be so radio related We are other
things We're ham radio operators. Yes but you
know we love sports and we love other hobbies
and music whatever it may be it just became a
place where it's almost like a club but a friendly
place predominantly radio but sometimes when
you need to be held up oh another thing you know
is what i really like is when somebody gets an
upgrade somebody will get an upgrade from tech
to general or general to Extra class and the
outpouring of congratulations is oh, yeah, it's
great and you They take pictures of the CSC ease
and pop them up there and oh, yeah, I'm always
liking those That's that's a great way to support
people in their quest for an upgrade and you're
a member of the group, too We're so happy to
have you. We've got some a lot of support Don
Wilbanks AE five DW He's been supportive of my
work in general and so he's a member of the group.
So I think that there are some very notable prominent
hams also that are around and they're active.
We recently started a 100 watts and a wired D
star net, right? Not everybody has D star, not
everybody likes every mode, we get it, but...
we came into a generous offer from our friends
in Canada, there's a reflector, REF026B. And
on Tuesday night, Jeff, I'm sorry, I'm spacing
on his calls, I'm bad with that, touch of dyslexia
I have, but Jeff hosts it every night, or every
Tuesday night, seven o 'clock. And it's just
another way for people to reach out through another
mode and say, hey, and he usually does some sort
of... question like what was you know your first
big DX or you know these kinds of things that
engage the community so it really community became
sort of the word group was the beginning and
members you know and it evolved into you know
a sense of community yeah definitely a great
community for people to check out. So check that
out. A hundred Watts and a wire and remind us
again of the dates of the fallout and what we're
supposed to do real quick. And then, uh, then
we're going to take our break. You're going to
pay the bills. Is that what you're going to pay
some bills? A few of them rocking. I don't know
about all of them, but yeah, just, you know,
yeah. Right, you're gonna pay me. Pay the Skype
bill. Because I'm typing the invoice now. No,
October 8th and 9th, any band, any mode you'd
like, any time of day, indoors or outdoors, you
can get on the air, call 100 watts and a wire,
fall out. And simple exchange, you know, if you're
interested, you can share your 100 watts IDs.
If you're curious to what it's all about, ask
these people. They'll tell you what they dig
about the community and how you can get involved.
And I would visit 100WattsInAWire .com, click
on the gathering tab, and that way you can get
your ID. And if you want to play along, you want
to keep track of how many you made, all great.
Again, not a contest. It's not even a special
event. It's a it's a chance for the community
the people who are in it Elmer's and newbies
and everybody alike to get in get on the air
and try to make contacts Encouraged us to get
outside if you can enjoy this weather. It should
be breaking here before October 8th and 9th and
go low power I did hear a lot of struggle with
field day field day is great great purpose You
know, but That could be different power, different
batteries, generator power. I'm saying let's
get out 100 watts or less and just get on the
air. So that's it, Neil. That's really the crux
of the 100 watts in a wire fallout. All right.
Well, we hope everybody gets out there and gives
that a shot. We'll be back and we're going to
take your calls live with Christian right after
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Hello. Who's this? It is Jason whiskey, three
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Jason. Thanks for calling ham talk live. What's
your question here for Christian? Hey Christian.
I just want to know what's your, what you thought
the biggest challenge was when you do portable
operations and myself as being conditions and
I'll use the boy cat point to point prediction
on boy cat .com. to look at bands and conditions
and which antennas to use and what time, et cetera.
I just wanted to know what you thought. Well,
Mike, thanks for that question. Thanks for calling
me. That's great. I've got really limited experience
a handful of times, several times at my house,
right? So I can go out in the field and it's
easy. I took a trip. I've got family in Montana
and a couple different areas of Montana. Over
4th of July. I stayed in Livingston, Montana,
which I didn't know was so windy and I put my
My antenna up I set up It's a it's a ranch really
I mean there's cows and horses and everything
and so I'm right there in the middle of it and
I got set up and I was actually over top of a
cow fans electric fence and all I kept hearing
was And I was like, this stupid radio, you know,
and I was like, I was ready to, you know, throw
the radio. So, you know, I make some urgent calls
and I'm like, or text, you know, what is wrong?
And I explained and I was over top of, you know,
this deal. This electric fence was killing me.
And I ended up going out the next day. I totally
quit because I mentioned before, I'm really slow
setting up. I'm getting a little better, but
that was a big challenge for me. I decided to
work through it. I eventually moved probably
40 yards away from the fence in a bigger kind
of pasture. But the wind out there was tough.
And I think a challenge for me is I should probably
get myself more acclimated with what you mentioned,
learning about the conditions a little bit more.
I can look up and see the weather patterns there.
In big sky country, you could see a rain cloud
miles away and I had no idea if it was coming.
One time I took things down, you know, so I could
probably get better with, you know, solar understanding
what's happening beyond the basic weather forecast.
It's kind of for me with with a family, a young
family, I'll steal a little time here and whatever
is happening, as long as it's not lightning,
I'll go out and try to do it. You know, so my
planning is way out like this thing in October.
And anytime they go to a party, I'll run out
there in the rain. It doesn't matter. So I've
got some things to learn, certainly. And I need
to get over the hump of, you know, maybe your
antenna is not going to be resonant out there
just like it is at home. So that's kind of from
what's your problem? What are you trying to do
better? Well, like you said, it's tough on conditions.
Like sometimes I go to do a soda summit, for
example, the summit's on the air. And one time,
I remember I went to Pennsylvania and I was going
to a mountain that's never been activated before.
I was only a one -pointer, so everybody's not
trying to get there to do this. But I get up
there and I notice there's like two giant radio
towers that are used for the regional radio stations,
of course. But I didn't realize how much QRM,
how much interference I was going to get from
this because of power lines and other things
that were near as well. And the noise floor was
literally in the S7, S8. And I'm out there with
the QRP rig and KX3 and Alex loop, a small magnetic
loop antenna, trying to get out. And I'm lucky
if I get one QSO and it's a three, three both
ways kind of thing. So that's another challenge,
like you just said. Appreciate you taking my
question and I'll hope to see you on the fallout
on October 8th night. Hey, thanks so much Thanks
so much for calling All right seven three good
night eight one two net ham one is the phone
number eight one two net ham one or you can Skype
at ham talk live or you can tweet at ham talk
live and We'll see if we get some more calls
here. And we have another little activity planned
if we don't. Hey, Neil, you know what? Another
thing with the portable ops is that, you know,
you start to think so much. What do you need?
You know what I mean? And it seems like I needed
to take everything. And it's kind of ridiculous.
So one of the things I'm trying to work on is
really focusing. the essentials. I've got a bag
over here with antennas in it. I'm not going
to set up a 160 or an 80 die pole that I threw
together. So there's a lot of editing I need
to do. Oh yeah, you always want to take the kitchen
sink and everything. I did take the kitchen sink
because you need that. You're going to need that
and all the tools, all the connectors. Don't
want to rely just on battery power to the vehicle.
So you've got your batteries. You've got your
coax and the rule is though that whatever you
Don't take is what you will need, right? Exactly.
So I'm so in my infancy with the portable ops
that That's that's a big one. I'm still trying
to edit and figure out I don't need all this
stuff out there. Yeah. Well, we've got another
call on the line. Who's this? Cuba Bravo 2, Yankee
Sierra India, number 915. Alright, we got Don
here, go ahead. I don't really have a question,
I just wanted to say thank you to the both of
you for being good hams. I've pointed people
to both of your shows as the good ones to mentor
on instead of some of those that are not. So
I just wanted to say thank you very much and
keep up the great shows thanks man oh thank you
yeah we uh we appreciate that that's uh that's
the thing you know we christian i've talked a
lot about uh you know there's room for everybody
and would try to do things and you know christian's
got the community thing going i i couldn't handle
that i i don't have the time to put into that
but he's got the community and then i've got
the yeah and then i've got you know this thing
going on so What you have, though, is frightening
to guys like me. And I remember when you were
talking to me about this, and I was like, wow,
I bet you those conversations, if they were around,
they would have my nervousness about a call -in
show. I mean, holy cow. So it's very ambitious
what you do, and it's very much the now. So you've
got your own thing happening. You know what I
mean? I don't know when my team's listening,
I don't know. Uh, but you're, you're walking
a tight rope out there and I admire that. Well,
it's been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun.
Really haven't had any, any trouble or as, as
you like to say, the, the alpha hotels. Yes,
you will. You'll get them now. And you're going,
and, and on Twitter today, you said you were
going to list all the alpha hotels that were
out there. I've got a scroll. You got that list.
It's a scroll. I throw it and it rolls across
the floor. You don't have time, but maybe I'll
come back. You'll let me back and we'll do it.
Oh my goodness. 812 -NET -HAM -1 is the phone
number. Help. Get me out of this. 812 -NET -HAM
-1 or Skype HamTalk Live. We've got time for
one more. So we'll pause here for a moment. Call
812 -NET -HAM -1. I don't know how you do the
community. I just... Well, I don't know how you
did code at five years old. And what do you think
about the new five -year -olds who are out there?
Are you one of these, oh, you were a no -code
five -year -old. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I could
see you kind of tripping a five -year -old that
just got his license and thinking, you know,
you didn't even have to do code. When I got my
ham license and had to walk, you know, uphill
both ways through 10 feet of snow and a shark
NATO, you know, I stayed in code. Oh, we got
another call here. Welcome. Who's this? Hello,
my name is Jim. And actually my call is N3 RSC
number two 61. And, uh, I think me earlier and,
uh, I just wanted to kind of reach out and tell
everybody that I was just so amazed along with
Christian about the outreach that I've gotten.
There was a guy that said, don't go through this
alone. His name's Jeff. And he says, I'm 50 miles
away. He emails me his phone number. And he said,
not only will fix your antenna, You can do something,
it's just the coolest thing. Hey Jim, why don't
you just put it in context, just briefly, because
he's going to have to roll here, but why don't
you summarize what happened, if you're okay with
that. I am certainly okay with that. What happened
is my son overdosed on heroin, this was like
a month ago, and a little less than that, about
three weeks ago. And very tough times in the
hospital for two days. And when the doctor said
that they think he's gonna make a full recovery,
it was just amazing. And we were just so thankful.
However, the rest, as far as rehab, as far as
it's gonna happen again, all these things were
looming over me and it was just, it was kind
of making me crazy. And so I... throw them to
rehab and on the way back from rehab not on the
way well on the way back I went to the shipwrecked
tavern and I was eating a cheeseburger and I
was just starting to think and maybe they're
right about this ham radio thing that is obsolete
all this stuff and then I drive home and I see
my butternut which for about three or four weeks
It's a vertical. It was broken down. It fell
over in the wind. And I just didn't do anything
with it, just been sitting there. And I started
thinking, I was at this tavern thinking, ham
radio is probably obsolete. And then as soon
as I see that and kind of, I think, maybe I can
fix that. And it's almost like when you get bitten
by the bug, It doesn't want to release you that
easily. So anyway, I have ordered all these parts
and I have a few people from the group that are
going to help me work on it. So it's just really
an exciting thing. And as I said, I was a little
concerned about sharing that with the group because
it was kind of a personal thing, but I just felt
so much like they're my friends. And I just wanted
to say that I really appreciate that a lot. And
I appreciate you, Christian. And I think I remember
a guy on MMR, because I'm in the fringe, and
I've been listening to it, a guy named Chrisnick.
I think that might have been you. Is that correct?
Christian, I just used Christian there at MMR.
And I know Neil's got a rap here. Yeah, we got
to go. Listen, I think I'm so happy. that you
found some solace in the group. And I can't really
follow that up, Neil, man. You might as well
take it home. That's about as good as it gets.
Thank you so much. Thank you so much for calling.
And we're glad that you were able to find some
help on there. That's absolutely great. And thanks,
Christian, for providing a place for that to
happen. Well, that's a wrap for this week's edition
of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my guest, Christian
K0STH. Also thanks to our assistant producer,
Nick KC9GZY for being on standby. We ran out
of time tonight, but thanks for being there.
And we'll invite everybody back next Thursday
night at 9 PM Eastern time when Ralph Fedor K0IR
will be here to talk about the upcoming. DXpedition
to Bouvet Island and for a list of all of our
upcoming guests visit hamptalklive .com So for
now for Christian who reminds you to stay above
the noise This is Neil Raptow. Will you be dying
VPG saying seven three seven five and may the
good DX be yours?