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Get your new radio 00:01:15.579 --> 00:01:21.719 or antenna by calling 800. 729 -4373 or go to 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:56.269 hamstation .com. everyone this is ham talk live 00:01:56.269 --> 00:02:00.049 episode number 27 it's the huntsville ham fest 00:02:00.049 --> 00:02:04.829 preview recorded live on thursday august 18th 00:02:04.829 --> 00:02:09.930 or 18th 2016 i'm your host neil wrapp wb9 vpg 00:02:09.930 --> 00:02:12.830 thanks for tuning into this episode of ham talk 00:02:12.830 --> 00:02:16.669 live tonight we'll be joined by charlie emerson 00:02:16.669 --> 00:02:19.550 in for okl the chairman of the huntsville ham 00:02:19.550 --> 00:02:22.960 fest We'll preview all the exciting things happening 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:26.860 in Huntsville this weekend and take your calls 00:02:26.860 --> 00:02:30.180 to live. Last week on the show, it was our first 00:02:30.180 --> 00:02:35.159 DMR show and went over big. 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As you 00:04:52.910 --> 00:04:55.930 covered for both new and used equipment, give 00:04:55.930 --> 00:05:00.810 Dan or Jeff a call at 800 -729. 4373 or go to 00:05:00.810 --> 00:05:03.910 hamstation .com. Be sure to listen to the show 00:05:03.910 --> 00:05:07.389 every Thursday night at 9 p .m eastern time right 00:05:07.389 --> 00:05:10.470 here on hamtalklive .com. Also be sure to check 00:05:10.470 --> 00:05:13.209 out our Facebook page and our Twitter feed to 00:05:13.209 --> 00:05:16.829 search for Ham Talk Live. Charlie Emerson in 00:05:16.829 --> 00:05:20.310 for OKL is the chairman of the Huntsville Alabama 00:05:20.310 --> 00:05:23.670 Ham Fest. The Huntsville Ham Fest slogan is the 00:05:23.670 --> 00:05:28.029 world's friendliest ham fest. And I can vouch 00:05:28.029 --> 00:05:30.649 for that personally. The ham fest is held on 00:05:30.649 --> 00:05:32.629 the third weekend of August each year in the 00:05:32.629 --> 00:05:36.089 Von Braun center. The Huntsville ham fest features 00:05:36.089 --> 00:05:39.389 several commercial vendors, a flea market, a 00:05:39.389 --> 00:05:42.389 youth lounge, top name speakers and the amateur 00:05:42.389 --> 00:05:45.250 radio news line young ham of the year award presentation 00:05:45.250 --> 00:05:49.009 all under one roof with air conditioning ample 00:05:49.009 --> 00:05:52.389 parking directly below the von braun center embassy 00:05:52.389 --> 00:05:54.889 suites connected by skyway next door and plenty 00:05:54.889 --> 00:05:57.910 of elevators and good food and vendors it's no 00:05:57.910 --> 00:06:00.750 wonder it's one of the favorite ham fest in the 00:06:00.750 --> 00:06:05.550 world their ham fest uh website is ham fest dot 00:06:05.550 --> 00:06:10.399 org charlie welcome to ham talk live Well, thank 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:13.120 you very much man and good evening to all of 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:17.800 your ham fest ham ham talk live audience there 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:21.519 and and would encourage everybody to To listen 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:24.939 in there may be there may be some people Broadcasting 00:06:24.939 --> 00:06:27.740 from from the Huntsville ham fest if you need 00:06:27.740 --> 00:06:31.680 any other information you might go to www .hamfest 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:35.339 .org like Neil said there a while ago and Prowl 00:06:35.339 --> 00:06:38.120 around on there. We got our prizes and all of 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.879 that stuff uh... going in it looks like uh... 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:43.180 this year man we're gonna have a a really big 00:06:43.180 --> 00:06:45.620 show or a bigger one than we normally have one 00:06:45.620 --> 00:06:48.519 of the biggest uh... events for us at the uh... 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.600 ham fest is uh... is the uh... the professor 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:55.240 uh... is going to be with us uh... he's uh... 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:58.800 uh... and and i think he he he wears that uh... 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:02.339 that big hat oh i know and uh... and all of them 00:07:02.339 --> 00:07:05.139 robed in the whole bit oh yeah man and i'll tell 00:07:05.139 --> 00:07:07.740 you what i am really looking forward to to seeing 00:07:07.740 --> 00:07:10.410 him here it's uh... It's his first time to come 00:07:10.410 --> 00:07:14.529 to Huntsville as his profession. He's visited 00:07:14.529 --> 00:07:20.069 Huntsville, but Gordon hadn't been and worked 00:07:20.069 --> 00:07:21.850 the way that he's doing here. So he's going to 00:07:21.850 --> 00:07:25.170 put on a seminar that is really interesting. 00:07:25.389 --> 00:07:27.350 I don't believe I've ever seen one. It's called 00:07:27.350 --> 00:07:30.800 Teaching the Teachers. And he's going to tell 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:34.759 everybody or show everybody his methods for people 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:36.759 that want to be Elmers, people that want to teach 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:41.040 ham radio, want to get people into the hobby 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.439 and all of that stuff. Gordon West will have 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.540 a great show down here for us this coming up 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:49.139 weekend there, Neil. We're lucky to have him. 00:07:49.310 --> 00:07:52.250 Oh yeah, Gordon's always very entertaining. Of 00:07:52.250 --> 00:07:54.870 course, we're talking about Gordon West, WB6NOA, 00:07:55.069 --> 00:07:57.990 the Gordon West radio school, and I'm sure he 00:07:57.990 --> 00:08:02.189 will have all kinds of silly antics and all kinds 00:08:02.189 --> 00:08:06.769 of good information down there at Huntsville. 00:08:07.149 --> 00:08:09.509 So just go ahead and fill us in on what's happening 00:08:09.509 --> 00:08:12.709 this weekend at the Amfest, what other big things 00:08:12.709 --> 00:08:16.129 are happening there at the Vaughan Braun Center. 00:08:18.170 --> 00:08:22.610 Well, we've got three young hams. We've got the 00:08:22.610 --> 00:08:26.290 Hiram Maxim Young Ham of the Year and we've got 00:08:26.290 --> 00:08:28.949 the Alabama Young Ham of the Year. I don't have 00:08:28.949 --> 00:08:31.550 their names up here at the moment, but you can 00:08:31.550 --> 00:08:34.669 catch them on our website and get the names there. 00:08:36.210 --> 00:08:38.110 That event right there is going to be pretty 00:08:38.110 --> 00:08:41.370 good, no doubt about it. It's just all kinds 00:08:41.370 --> 00:08:44.070 of things going on. We've got a really big slate, 00:08:44.830 --> 00:08:50.990 just a good line up of ham radio related stuff 00:08:50.990 --> 00:08:54.470 here with the forums. And I'll tell you what, 00:08:54.549 --> 00:08:56.889 one of the most interesting ones to me that's 00:08:56.889 --> 00:08:58.809 gonna be, of course all of them are and they're 00:08:58.809 --> 00:09:02.029 great and everything, but Dr. Monty Bateman who 00:09:02.029 --> 00:09:04.850 is a real good friend of mine and somebody that 00:09:04.850 --> 00:09:09.100 I... eat lunch with every Tuesday as he's our 00:09:09.100 --> 00:09:12.299 youth director. uh... youth lounge director and 00:09:12.299 --> 00:09:14.759 uh... and he's also going to do he's a lightning 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.860 expert and uh... he can tell you what the real 00:09:17.860 --> 00:09:21.399 deal is uh... as far as uh... what what's what's 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:23.980 good and all of that stuff to try to keep the 00:09:23.980 --> 00:09:26.460 uh... uh... lightning out of the shack and and 00:09:26.460 --> 00:09:28.700 what what uh... he knows the difference between 00:09:28.700 --> 00:09:32.279 the real stuff in the snake oil so uh... you'll 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:33.960 be you'll be letting everybody know about that 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.559 but there's there's just uh... an awful lot i'd 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:39.220 i'd encourage anybody that uh... wants to see 00:09:39.220 --> 00:09:41.080 what's going on on in the forums to go to our 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:44.320 website, hamfest .org. Look on the left -hand 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.500 side and come on down to forums and click on 00:09:46.500 --> 00:09:48.720 there. And you can get all the information. You 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:52.259 can download and print the schedules and all 00:09:52.259 --> 00:09:54.360 that stuff where you can make your plans for 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:59.740 where you want to be at any time. And our forums 00:09:59.740 --> 00:10:03.889 lead is Tom Duncan. And Tom has done just a great 00:10:03.889 --> 00:10:09.330 job of lining everything up and doing that. We've 00:10:09.330 --> 00:10:13.929 had one of the guys retire, Johnny Warner, that 00:10:13.929 --> 00:10:17.929 he had done this. Gosh, I don't even, I think 00:10:17.929 --> 00:10:21.990 since the Huntsville Ham Fist got started in 00:10:21.990 --> 00:10:25.399 Huntsville. as the Huntsville Hamfest in 1980, 00:10:25.500 --> 00:10:28.879 but it was going before that, and the Hamfest 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:32.139 was going from Huntsville to Muscle Shoals to 00:10:32.139 --> 00:10:34.879 Florence, and that may not be right, but it was 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.360 going to three different places, and so anyway, 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.559 it finally wound up over here in Huntsville, 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:46.120 and Don Tunstall, just a brilliant guy, him and 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.220 Johnny. set up the idea to have the Huntsville 00:10:50.220 --> 00:10:54.559 Hamfest and so Johnny retired and Tom Duncan 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.340 has taken his place but I always want to try 00:10:57.340 --> 00:11:00.000 to remember Johnny and all those and another 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.200 one that's retired a little bit from us is Dave 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:06.139 Givens who does the flea market and he, Dave 00:11:06.139 --> 00:11:11.840 had done it for 30 -something years, man. And 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.080 them other guys Johnny and all them other guys 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:16.340 man, they've been doing it all at time now There's 00:11:16.340 --> 00:11:18.639 one other guy that's come in to take Dave's place, 00:11:18.659 --> 00:11:23.759 which is Jim spikes But other than Jim, I'm the 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:27.259 young guy man. I'm the new kid on the block I 00:11:27.259 --> 00:11:28.879 mean, I've been doing it a little while now and 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.379 all that but all the other guys to Dave Givens 00:11:32.379 --> 00:11:37.779 and Art Davis is Art Davis is just a brilliant 00:11:37.779 --> 00:11:43.580 genius man i i'll be listening but uh... i'll 00:11:43.580 --> 00:11:45.519 tell you man again really knows how to how to 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:47.539 do a layout and uh... and he's been doing it 00:11:47.539 --> 00:11:49.879 for years and years and years and he's just a 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.360 he's always a man i'm not kidding you so i don't 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:55.399 know what we do that'll or and uh... and and 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:59.039 david jim and and therese uh... frost is uh... 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.899 the uh... secretary treasurer and uh... so i 00:12:01.899 --> 00:12:03.879 mean you know that we get we got other people 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:06.639 to do other things and all we got uh... warn 00:12:07.690 --> 00:12:10.409 Alfred and his wife Karen that take care of all 00:12:10.409 --> 00:12:13.190 of our food and everything. We feed everybody 00:12:13.190 --> 00:12:16.690 honey -baked ham sandwiches and turkey. And boy, 00:12:16.690 --> 00:12:18.470 some of the best cookies you ever put in your 00:12:18.470 --> 00:12:21.549 mouth, man. I mean, they're really good. And 00:12:21.549 --> 00:12:24.350 so we feed everybody and do that. But that's 00:12:24.350 --> 00:12:26.909 some of the people that do that. And I don't 00:12:26.909 --> 00:12:30.009 want to leave anybody out or anything. But we've 00:12:30.009 --> 00:12:35.840 got a good, tight, dedicated you know, group 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:39.100 of folks that put on or make the decision for 00:12:39.100 --> 00:12:41.299 the ham fest. And we're just fortunate to have 00:12:41.299 --> 00:12:44.360 that situation to where we don't have to reinvent 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.200 the wheel every year. And I'll tell you another 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:51.019 thing too, is we don't have the constraint of 00:12:51.019 --> 00:12:55.539 showing a big profit to anybody, so. We give 00:12:55.539 --> 00:12:59.320 money away to different organizations and clubs 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:04.759 and even individuals at times. So if we get back 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:07.360 down, if we spend the money, I tell people all 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.960 the time, man, that if we make money... I spend 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:13.980 that stuff like a drunk sailor, man. I mean, 00:13:13.980 --> 00:13:18.240 I give everybody money, man, for that. And we 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.240 try to spread the stuff around there a little 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:23.159 bit and all that. And it works out real well 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:25.299 to our benefit, man. No kidding. We're just glad 00:13:25.299 --> 00:13:28.980 to do it. And so anyway, that's basically the 00:13:28.980 --> 00:13:32.320 way the Huntsville Hamfest works. We don't have 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:34.460 a whole lot of people breathing down our neck 00:13:34.460 --> 00:13:36.879 about how much profit we make, you know, because 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.539 if we do make some, we get back down to what 00:13:39.539 --> 00:13:42.899 we call our comfort zone or our level of comfort 00:13:42.899 --> 00:13:45.460 with the money and all of that. And then we just 00:13:45.460 --> 00:13:48.840 start all over again. So, you know, we, you know, 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:53.340 luckily and fortunate and blessed that the Huntsville 00:13:53.340 --> 00:13:55.860 Hamfest has done as well as it has and even through 00:13:55.860 --> 00:13:59.159 some trying times with the economy. All of that 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:01.879 kind of stuff we've grown a little bit every 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:04.620 year. We get new dealers in, we get people in. 00:14:05.220 --> 00:14:09.600 We're up to over 5 ,000 people in two days. And 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:12.960 so we're just very blessed indeed to have that. 00:14:13.539 --> 00:14:15.580 And it's people that like yourself and others 00:14:15.580 --> 00:14:18.620 that get the word around. So thanks a lot for 00:14:18.620 --> 00:14:20.720 what you do here, Neil. I tell you, I'll start 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:23.240 tuning in. I didn't, I didn't, I've never heard 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:26.600 of it, you know, but I'll start tuning in and 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.940 seeing what's going on. So man, we really appreciate 00:14:28.940 --> 00:14:32.470 you doing this. Oh, no problem. We're glad to 00:14:32.470 --> 00:14:35.629 do it. And yeah, we are kind of new on the scene. 00:14:35.690 --> 00:14:40.250 We started the show in mid -February. And so 00:14:40.250 --> 00:14:44.409 we are kind of new out there. So we're glad that 00:14:44.409 --> 00:14:47.929 you were agreeable to doing this here. I know 00:14:47.929 --> 00:14:51.350 that you've got a lot going on right now, just 00:14:51.350 --> 00:14:57.299 a day before the setup. two days of of nothing 00:14:57.299 --> 00:15:01.480 but hamfest and and it does take a crew to make 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:05.100 all that work you can't do it all by yourself 00:15:05.100 --> 00:15:08.399 although I tried to do a small one almost by 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:12.539 myself for many years and I understand the efforts 00:15:12.539 --> 00:15:15.080 that it takes and you were telling me that before 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:20.580 the show that you've got a whole bunch of volunteers 00:15:20.580 --> 00:15:22.919 this year you named off a bunch of them but how 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:25.629 many How many volunteers do you have to run the 00:15:25.629 --> 00:15:28.909 ham fest this year? Well, I don't know exactly. 00:15:29.129 --> 00:15:31.269 I hadn't counted them. Uh, but, but it looks 00:15:31.269 --> 00:15:33.769 like to me that it's, uh, it, you know, it's 00:15:33.769 --> 00:15:37.309 north of 60, uh, you know, that we, of the, of 00:15:37.309 --> 00:15:41.480 the folks that we call hospitality. And that's 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.720 the ones that, you know, one of the things that 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.240 Huntsville Hamfest has got in its favor and not 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.700 very many places have, is that you can actually 00:15:48.700 --> 00:15:52.480 drive into the Von Braun Center and we got people 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.360 and enough people that... that they'll help you 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:58.419 unload your stuff. They'll help you get it onto 00:15:58.419 --> 00:16:01.840 a cart. We got carts that we haul the equipment 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:04.039 on and then take you back to your table and help 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:07.820 you get set up. So we got that going for us. 00:16:08.419 --> 00:16:12.279 And right now, it seems to be very popular. And 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:14.460 I can understand that because there's still a 00:16:14.460 --> 00:16:18.080 lot of old boat anchor stuff that shows up and 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:19.879 all of that. And as you know, man, that stuff 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:24.690 ain't... light and so we we've got a we've got 00:16:24.690 --> 00:16:28.490 a big crew and and and and we got a lot of People 00:16:28.490 --> 00:16:32.830 that are really dedicated one of the guys I can't 00:16:32.830 --> 00:16:34.950 let me spoil can't think of his name right now, 00:16:35.009 --> 00:16:37.490 but I got I'm having you know, I have trouble 00:16:37.490 --> 00:16:40.269 I'm older I get worse my memory is but anyway, 00:16:40.289 --> 00:16:42.809 we got one guy's got his own car. He brings his 00:16:42.809 --> 00:16:48.769 own car He is a dedicated troop, man, I'm telling 00:16:48.769 --> 00:16:53.169 you. Gosh, what's his name? I can't think of 00:16:53.169 --> 00:16:55.429 his name right now, but anyway, we got a lot 00:16:55.429 --> 00:16:57.769 of dedicated troops that know what they're doing 00:16:57.769 --> 00:17:01.669 and they're eager and determined to get it done 00:17:01.669 --> 00:17:05.410 and get it done right. Anybody that needs anything, 00:17:05.609 --> 00:17:08.809 we try to help them with it any way we can. Well, 00:17:08.829 --> 00:17:11.430 I first started coming about three years ago 00:17:11.430 --> 00:17:14.630 for the young ham of the year award ceremony 00:17:14.630 --> 00:17:16.890 because one of my students was being recognized 00:17:16.890 --> 00:17:21.710 and so I'd checked up on everything and I was 00:17:21.710 --> 00:17:26.369 just just amazed and envious because of all the 00:17:26.369 --> 00:17:30.049 years that I ran a ham fest and tried to get 00:17:30.049 --> 00:17:33.339 a facility and tried to find one that was that 00:17:33.339 --> 00:17:36.819 was good for you know what we were doing and 00:17:36.819 --> 00:17:41.000 everything and I walked in and um stayed in embassy 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:44.660 suites so I went on the on the skywalk and just 00:17:44.660 --> 00:17:49.000 walked right into the ham fest uh parked there 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:51.400 you know I could take my stuff back to my room 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.940 lock it up run back you know get some more stuff 00:17:54.940 --> 00:17:59.700 over there um and you know go go sit down hang 00:17:59.700 --> 00:18:02.710 out for lunch for a little bit come back uh, 00:18:02.730 --> 00:18:06.710 go to the ceremony and it really was just the 00:18:06.710 --> 00:18:10.329 easiest ham fest to go to because you've got 00:18:10.329 --> 00:18:12.990 the embassy suites connected by skywalk right 00:18:12.990 --> 00:18:16.609 there. The parking is right underneath the von 00:18:16.609 --> 00:18:21.029 Braun center and it was just so easy to, to come 00:18:21.029 --> 00:18:27.009 in and enjoy and relax and see people and, um, 00:18:27.150 --> 00:18:31.460 hang out and do some shopping and, um, the Youth 00:18:31.460 --> 00:18:34.339 Lounge. I still haven't seen a Youth Lounge like 00:18:34.339 --> 00:18:37.539 that one, and I can't tell you the impact that 00:18:37.539 --> 00:18:41.380 it had on some of my students that have come 00:18:41.380 --> 00:18:44.960 there over the years that, you know, it really 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:49.680 helped get them going. And so the Youth Lounge 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:54.960 is just fabulous. So I am very glad that you've 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:59.539 done all that. And you mentioned the carts and 00:18:59.539 --> 00:19:03.420 everything. and helping the vendors load and 00:19:03.420 --> 00:19:08.759 unload. But you phrase it, the world's friendliest 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:12.720 ham fest. So tell us some other ways that you're 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:17.279 the world's friendliest ham fest. Well, that's 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:20.599 probably the main reason that we do that is that 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:23.900 we help everybody that we can. uh, to, uh, to 00:19:23.900 --> 00:19:25.579 do what they're, they're going to do when they 00:19:25.579 --> 00:19:28.059 come to Huntsville. And so if there's anything 00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:30.559 that anybody needs, we try to try to do our best 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:33.839 to, uh, make that happen. And, uh, and there's 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.200 a lot of things that we do that, that I don't 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:38.180 know. I don't know if everybody else does it 00:19:38.180 --> 00:19:40.000 or not, but it's just stuff that we've always, 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.140 uh, done and, uh, and the move in and all of 00:19:43.140 --> 00:19:46.440 that stuff is, is one of them. And, uh, but even 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:49.700 your ticket takers are friendly. Yes, we get 00:19:49.700 --> 00:19:54.640 well. Yeah, those ladies are absolutely magnificent, 00:19:54.859 --> 00:19:58.640 man. They are the ones that really, that really, 00:19:58.740 --> 00:20:00.819 if we didn't have them, they're, they're called 00:20:00.819 --> 00:20:03.000 the Haylarks and, and they, you know, there are 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:04.920 some of them that's got, got a little age on 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:07.779 them and, uh, we get, they got a few young folks 00:20:07.779 --> 00:20:09.700 sprinkled out in there and all of that stuff. 00:20:09.819 --> 00:20:12.160 But, but they're, uh, they've been around a long 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:14.099 time and, and they, they know what they're doing 00:20:14.099 --> 00:20:16.640 and, uh, and, and they know what they do. They, 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:18.779 they know how to make, make people smile when 00:20:18.779 --> 00:20:21.180 they come in. And, uh, so we're, you know, we're, 00:20:21.180 --> 00:20:23.039 we're thankful for the Haylarks. I'll tell you 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:25.740 that. You walk, you walk in and. They're, they're 00:20:25.740 --> 00:20:29.200 right there, you know, trying to, to make sure, 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:31.359 you know, where you're going and what's going 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:35.619 on and get you through and space everybody out. 00:20:35.859 --> 00:20:38.039 So you can fill out your tickets and get your 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:41.660 button and, and get through there and just, just 00:20:41.660 --> 00:20:44.680 the friendliest folks. And so from, from the 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.900 beginning to the end, it's, it really is the, 00:20:47.900 --> 00:20:51.039 the friendliest ham fest I've ever seen. And, 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:54.039 um, you know, it may not be the biggest, but. 00:20:54.250 --> 00:20:58.150 Boy, it is the friendliest and like I said, it's, 00:20:58.150 --> 00:21:02.890 it's the most enjoyable, I think, because it 00:21:02.890 --> 00:21:08.470 is just, um, just so easy to navigate around 00:21:08.470 --> 00:21:12.539 and get to everything. Well, another thing, and 00:21:12.539 --> 00:21:15.519 we do catch a little grief about it from time 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:18.920 to time, the tailgate boys. There's people that 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:21.180 really do like tailgates, and they like them 00:21:21.180 --> 00:21:24.980 outside. But we're fortunate to be able to have 00:21:24.980 --> 00:21:28.039 our flea market inside. We got almost 400 flea 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:30.900 market tables. And, and we don't have to worry 00:21:30.900 --> 00:21:33.299 about what's going on outside with the, uh, the 00:21:33.299 --> 00:21:35.640 temperature or the, any kind of inclement weather 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:40.099 or, or, you know, anything. And if I'm not mistaken, 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:43.059 it, it's a little hot in Alabama every once in 00:21:43.059 --> 00:21:46.279 a while. Yeah. Yeah. They, they tell me it is, 00:21:46.279 --> 00:21:49.079 uh, but boy, I'll tell you right now it is. And 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:53.250 then boys down there at the, uh, BBC, they crank 00:21:53.250 --> 00:21:56.589 that air conditioning down, and I've heard people 00:21:56.589 --> 00:21:59.230 say that you'd be well advised to bring a light 00:21:59.230 --> 00:22:03.230 jacket. So, man, I'll tell you, it's nice to 00:22:03.230 --> 00:22:06.309 have that kind of condition. It's not that big 00:22:06.309 --> 00:22:09.809 and all of that, but we don't have the outside, 00:22:09.990 --> 00:22:13.500 but man, we're expecting rain. Uh, this weekend. 00:22:13.859 --> 00:22:17.380 So I mean, if, uh, if it was outside or whatever, 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:19.660 I've, I've seen the weather and all of that stuff 00:22:19.660 --> 00:22:24.359 just tear other places up, man, that, uh, that, 00:22:24.359 --> 00:22:26.819 that didn't have a big, you know, a place to 00:22:26.819 --> 00:22:29.440 put everybody, you know, and, and, and, well, 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:31.500 Dayton, for instance, man, you know, what happens 00:22:31.500 --> 00:22:33.319 up there when the weather gets bad, man, boy, 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:36.039 everybody gets in. Everybody's inside. Yeah. 00:22:36.180 --> 00:22:38.559 Everybody's inside. And, uh, you know, that's, 00:22:39.140 --> 00:22:42.900 uh, you know, speaking of Dayton, I never have 00:22:42.900 --> 00:22:49.019 seen, excuse me, I never have had them to request 00:22:49.019 --> 00:22:51.519 this before, but they're gonna have a booth here 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:56.180 at Huntsville. The Dayton Hamvention folks are 00:22:56.180 --> 00:22:58.099 gonna have a booth here in Huntsville so that 00:22:58.099 --> 00:23:00.799 people can ask their questions and get a picture 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:04.359 of the map of where they're going and they just 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:07.200 wanna try to... Clear up some of the confusion 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:09.460 and, and, uh, answer some questions and show 00:23:09.460 --> 00:23:11.019 you some pictures and all that stuff. And I think 00:23:11.019 --> 00:23:13.500 it's great, man. I really do. We're, we're tickled 00:23:13.500 --> 00:23:17.240 to death man. Oh, sure. Yeah. I, I've been, uh, 00:23:17.500 --> 00:23:20.480 communicating with them some as well. And of 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:22.200 course, they're just kind of overloaded right 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.400 now with all the changes coming up. And I had 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:28.720 planned on doing a virtual tour over there. And 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:31.819 then they said, well, somebody already beat you 00:23:31.819 --> 00:23:34.140 to it and it's going to be on ham nation. And 00:23:34.140 --> 00:23:40.579 it was on last night. But you know, They've got 00:23:40.579 --> 00:23:43.720 a lot to to clear up and I know one of the things 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:45.779 that they mentioned was that there's just a lot 00:23:45.779 --> 00:23:48.240 of wrong information running around right now 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:52.599 and so I Wholeheartedly agree with you that we 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:56.299 just need to be a little patient and wait and 00:23:56.299 --> 00:24:00.140 let them figure out things and and then we're 00:24:00.140 --> 00:24:03.980 gonna also do some preview of that on this show 00:24:03.980 --> 00:24:07.500 and We've already talked to them about doing 00:24:07.500 --> 00:24:11.940 something This winter after they've had a chance 00:24:11.940 --> 00:24:14.819 to to put some things together. So that's great 00:24:14.819 --> 00:24:19.000 that they're coming down there to To hopefully 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:23.160 clear up some of that Right, right. So what one 00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:26.380 last thing I got to do before we take our break 00:24:26.380 --> 00:24:31.640 is me being a former broadcast radio guy and 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:35.440 a guy that announces sports and stuff and and 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:40.410 now I'm doing the the radio show here. I always 00:24:40.410 --> 00:24:45.150 notice your PA announcer because I'm a PA announcer. 00:24:45.230 --> 00:24:48.930 That's kind of how I got all my start into broadcasting. 00:24:49.529 --> 00:24:52.109 And you've even got the world's best Hamfest 00:24:52.109 --> 00:24:55.690 PA announcer down there. Tell us a little bit 00:24:55.690 --> 00:24:59.230 about him. Well, you know, I really, to be honest 00:24:59.230 --> 00:25:00.890 with you, I don't know a whole lot about him. 00:25:01.009 --> 00:25:04.509 I mean, you know, he shows up and you know, he's 00:25:04.509 --> 00:25:08.170 one of them that we don't have to Do any coercing 00:25:08.170 --> 00:25:12.430 or anything like that, but Doug Childs is his 00:25:12.430 --> 00:25:15.769 name, and I can't remember his call, but Doug 00:25:15.769 --> 00:25:19.569 Childs, and boy, he does. He does a good job. 00:25:19.589 --> 00:25:22.089 He's got that situation there. He's been doing 00:25:22.089 --> 00:25:26.529 it a long time, you know, and our prize director, 00:25:27.450 --> 00:25:30.589 Jordan Townsend and him worked together. Of course, 00:25:30.630 --> 00:25:33.769 they got another helper up there as well. Craig 00:25:33.769 --> 00:25:36.450 Simmons, I believe, and I think Craig's gonna 00:25:36.450 --> 00:25:38.170 help them this year. But anyway, those two work 00:25:38.170 --> 00:25:42.509 together and they run the prizes and he makes 00:25:42.509 --> 00:25:45.650 the announcements and Doug is real good about 00:25:45.650 --> 00:25:50.849 being very aware that when the PA comes on, if 00:25:50.849 --> 00:25:52.650 somebody's trying to sell something to somebody, 00:25:52.829 --> 00:25:54.609 man, they can't hear it. I mean, they have got 00:25:54.609 --> 00:25:58.730 a fantastic sound system down there and sometimes 00:25:58.730 --> 00:26:00.750 it's overwhelming. We try to cut it back and 00:26:00.750 --> 00:26:04.259 all that, but Doug... Doug really is very careful 00:26:04.259 --> 00:26:07.559 about what he announces and how long that he 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:11.599 announces those things. We're just tickled to 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:14.619 death, man, and proud of old Doug. He does a 00:26:14.619 --> 00:26:17.559 good job. He's got a good personality. You're 00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:21.200 right, man. He's the best I've ever heard, man. 00:26:21.579 --> 00:26:25.210 He honestly is. I'm not trying to... you know, 00:26:25.210 --> 00:26:27.829 uh, say, you know, anything or anybody's bad 00:26:27.829 --> 00:26:29.750 or whatever, but man, I'll tell you what, I'm 00:26:29.750 --> 00:26:31.609 like, you know, Doug's bet about the best I ever 00:26:31.609 --> 00:26:35.470 seen. Oh, he is. And we'd always laugh at that. 00:26:35.470 --> 00:26:38.589 You know, the, the, uh, young ham of the year 00:26:38.589 --> 00:26:40.829 award, which was one of the main reasons that, 00:26:40.829 --> 00:26:44.549 that I'm coming down there. Uh, and you know, 00:26:44.549 --> 00:26:47.210 it's going on while the ham fest is going on. 00:26:47.230 --> 00:26:50.650 And so he, you know, he would try to get everybody's 00:26:50.650 --> 00:26:54.900 attention and everything. And then somebody come 00:26:54.900 --> 00:26:57.480 up to him and say, well, you know. Why you got 00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:00.640 that thing turned up so loud for? We're trying 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:02.460 to have a ham fest here. And it's like, well, 00:27:02.460 --> 00:27:05.799 we're trying to honor this kid here. That's done, 00:27:05.799 --> 00:27:10.440 you know, all this amazing stuff. So he, he, 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:12.839 he always handled it very well though. He is 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:14.980 easy. He's man. He's a good one. No doubt about 00:27:14.980 --> 00:27:17.420 it. I don't know what we'd do without him. You 00:27:17.420 --> 00:27:19.660 know, there's a whole bunch of people that I 00:27:19.660 --> 00:27:21.559 don't know what we'd do without, man. I'm not 00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:24.279 kidding you. I mean, we, we, we got some dedicated, 00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:27.940 uh, folks that are, uh, that know what they're 00:27:27.940 --> 00:27:29.980 doing and they're willing to do it and all of 00:27:29.980 --> 00:27:33.339 that stuff. I don't have to tell nobody nothing. 00:27:33.619 --> 00:27:36.559 I'll just be honest with you, man. I mean, all 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:38.940 of the movement, the people and all of that kind 00:27:38.940 --> 00:27:43.140 of thing, Ralph Blinn. is our move -in director 00:27:43.140 --> 00:27:45.920 and our lead or whatever you want to call it. 00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:51.140 And so him and Joe Henderson and John Hilliard 00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:54.339 and a couple more people, they make sure that 00:27:54.339 --> 00:27:57.900 everybody gets in. And those boys do a heck of 00:27:57.900 --> 00:28:00.359 a job. They really do. That was the job that 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:02.500 I started out with, with the Huntsville Hamfest. 00:28:02.579 --> 00:28:06.039 I was a move -in director and all of that stuff. 00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:09.289 And then things happened on Tunstall. uh, was 00:28:09.289 --> 00:28:11.890 what silent key with us. And, uh, so then that, 00:28:11.890 --> 00:28:14.970 that pushed me up to the, uh, the president slot 00:28:14.970 --> 00:28:18.789 there and, and, uh, and also, I mean, we, uh, 00:28:18.849 --> 00:28:20.880 you know, we always get. Cut this thing, of course, 00:28:20.980 --> 00:28:23.700 it's not actually true. If you're part of the 00:28:23.700 --> 00:28:26.980 Huntsville -Hamfest organizing committee or workers 00:28:26.980 --> 00:28:29.420 and all that stuff, kind of like Hotel California, 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:31.839 man, you can check out any time you want to, 00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:38.759 but you can't really leave, man. Dave Givens, 00:28:38.940 --> 00:28:43.599 man, he's a prime example. He did the flea market 00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:45.500 for all those years. It's 30 -something years, 00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:48.849 man, that he did that, but he still ... Uh, you 00:28:48.849 --> 00:28:51.250 know, he's a vice president as well, along with, 00:28:51.250 --> 00:28:56.190 uh, uh, uh, our Davis and, uh, uh, Teresa, uh, 00:28:56.190 --> 00:28:58.690 Frost is our secretary of trade. She's board 00:28:58.690 --> 00:29:01.529 board member as well. And, uh, but anyway, old 00:29:01.529 --> 00:29:03.609 Dave, he's just as active right now as he ever 00:29:03.609 --> 00:29:06.069 was. And then he's not, he's not getting away 00:29:06.069 --> 00:29:08.349 from the ham fest. He just, he just letting somebody 00:29:08.349 --> 00:29:10.769 else do the job that he had, but, uh, Dave did 00:29:10.769 --> 00:29:13.410 a swell job for a, for a long number of years. 00:29:13.410 --> 00:29:16.740 So did art and, uh, and Johnny and. 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I joined this evening 00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:25.059 with Charlie Emerson in for OKL taking some time 00:32:25.059 --> 00:32:28.759 out of his busy schedule trying to get the HamFest 00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:31.579 put together. uh... to uh... join us tonight 00:32:31.579 --> 00:32:34.240 and we do have a call here so let's go ahead 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:37.779 and take that hello you're on ham talk live who's 00:32:37.779 --> 00:32:41.259 this hi my name is scott i just want to call 00:32:41.259 --> 00:32:45.240 and say uh... yeah i've been uh... doing carly 00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:47.440 for quite a while and he does quite a good job 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:51.720 at the uh... ham fest and i figure another year 00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:54.799 or two we may take his training wheels off yeah 00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:58.680 now now now scott i You must have been listening 00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.339 during the break because Charlie and I were talking 00:33:01.339 --> 00:33:05.619 about you during the break. Charlie's lightsaber. 00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:08.420 Him and his crew are fantastic. They will bend 00:33:08.420 --> 00:33:11.259 over backwards for you. Yeah, Charlie was telling 00:33:11.259 --> 00:33:17.759 me about your most recent bailout. Yeah, that 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:20.059 happens from time to time, but it's good to know 00:33:20.059 --> 00:33:21.960 that you have friends in the cities when you 00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:24.420 travel. And there's nobody like a ham that can 00:33:24.420 --> 00:33:27.000 help you out and Linda helping him, especially 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:29.799 when you need it. So, especially when you have 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:33.759 some, some vehicle problems I'm hearing. Absolutely. 00:33:33.779 --> 00:33:36.259 And that happens a lot when you travel. It happens 00:33:36.259 --> 00:33:40.900 a lot. Yeah, it does. Well, thanks so much for 00:33:40.900 --> 00:33:44.799 calling in Scott. And I'm looking forward to 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:46.519 seeing everybody this weekend. I'm looking forward 00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:48.700 to seeing you too, Neil, this weekend. And if 00:33:48.700 --> 00:33:50.720 you haven't been to the Huntsville Hamfest, you're 00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:53.140 missing one of the great ones. Trust me, I've 00:33:53.140 --> 00:33:55.220 been to a lot of them. And this is one of the 00:33:55.220 --> 00:33:57.759 best ones in the country. Thank you, Scott. We 00:33:57.759 --> 00:34:00.519 appreciate it. All right, you got it, guys. Take 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:02.759 care. Have fun. We'll see you tomorrow. All right, 00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:06.819 Scott. All right, take care now. 812 Net Ham 00:34:06.819 --> 00:34:12.420 1 is the phone number 812 -638 -4261 or chat 00:34:12.420 --> 00:34:15.960 or tweet or whatever if you have a comment or 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:20.239 question for Charlie and for OKL from the Huntsville 00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:25.539 Hamfest. And we mentioned the youth lounge a 00:34:25.539 --> 00:34:27.840 little bit and some of the things that you've 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:31.599 got going on there. Tell us a little bit more 00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:34.679 about how that came about and what's available 00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:38.880 for kids that may be visiting the Huntsville 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:43.739 Hamfest. Well, again, Neil, that's a good website 00:34:43.739 --> 00:34:48.019 item to go and look and see. Monty does a lot 00:34:48.019 --> 00:34:50.079 of things. He wears several hats there. He's 00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:53.219 also our webmaster. But Dr. Monty Bateman is 00:34:53.219 --> 00:34:55.639 the Youth Lounge director, him and his wife, 00:34:56.039 --> 00:34:59.699 and two sons. And Monty is, of course, he's a 00:34:59.699 --> 00:35:01.719 PhD and he's a lightning expert. He's going to 00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:04.079 do a forum for us and all of that kind of stuff. 00:35:04.099 --> 00:35:05.719 One of the most interesting things you've ever 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:09.940 seen. But Monty is just a really swell guy. He's 00:35:09.940 --> 00:35:13.840 an Eagle Scout, and so is his two sons. And they're 00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:18.440 into robotics, just pretty heavy. And they've 00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:21.440 had some teams that scored fairly high nationally. 00:35:22.099 --> 00:35:25.579 And what they do is they do robotics. And the 00:35:25.579 --> 00:35:28.440 main thing that they do, I think, is this time, 00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:31.780 Monty has bought a bunch of new soldering irons. 00:35:31.900 --> 00:35:35.239 And so Monty... teaches the kids how to solder 00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:40.019 safely and teaches them a lot about radio in 00:35:40.019 --> 00:35:44.250 general. But he gets down to the basics. And 00:35:44.250 --> 00:35:46.670 I'll tell you what, our youth lounge is one of 00:35:46.670 --> 00:35:51.929 the really more popular spots in the ham fest. 00:35:52.150 --> 00:35:54.230 Man, you know, we got a lot of different, we 00:35:54.230 --> 00:35:57.190 got a really diverse ham fest. We've got a lot 00:35:57.190 --> 00:35:59.730 of people in the ham fest there that doesn't 00:35:59.730 --> 00:36:03.409 have ham equipment. But we know that these guys 00:36:03.409 --> 00:36:05.889 bring their wives and their kids and everything 00:36:05.889 --> 00:36:09.030 to ham fest now. And you gotta have stuff that 00:36:09.030 --> 00:36:11.010 appeals to them as well. And I'll tell you what, 00:36:11.309 --> 00:36:16.250 Old Monty has made the Huntsville HamFest Youth 00:36:16.250 --> 00:36:20.199 Lounge something that... It's something to behold, 00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:22.420 like you say. I mean, he's really doing a good 00:36:22.420 --> 00:36:24.320 job with it. And the kids come out of there, 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.300 they have a good time, they do fox hunts, they 00:36:26.300 --> 00:36:31.760 do all of those things that you see kids do around 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:34.420 Hamfest and all that stuff. So we're very fortunate 00:36:34.420 --> 00:36:37.019 to have him and his wife and his two sons. They're 00:36:37.019 --> 00:36:39.619 all brilliant people and they know what they're 00:36:39.619 --> 00:36:43.960 doing. So the youth lounge is probably next to 00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:47.369 none, to be honest with you. I don't know, but 00:36:47.369 --> 00:36:50.590 it looks like it's one of the best that I can 00:36:50.590 --> 00:36:54.090 see. Well, one of my students, she learned how 00:36:54.090 --> 00:36:58.389 to solder at the youth lounge down there. And 00:36:58.389 --> 00:37:00.389 that's something that she's mentioned that, you 00:37:00.389 --> 00:37:04.210 know, that was, you know, part of what got her 00:37:04.210 --> 00:37:08.070 interested in the ham radio and science. And 00:37:08.070 --> 00:37:11.750 so, you know, we were really, really impressed 00:37:11.750 --> 00:37:14.920 with what they do down there. But, but I'm guessing 00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:17.659 from what you said earlier that, uh, that he 00:37:17.659 --> 00:37:19.900 might have something to say about one of our 00:37:19.900 --> 00:37:22.840 products that we sell here on ham talk live, 00:37:22.980 --> 00:37:27.099 wink, wink is zap free. It's this stuff that 00:37:27.099 --> 00:37:29.619 you spray on your antennas and it keeps them 00:37:29.619 --> 00:37:36.559 from getting hit by lightning. He might, he might 00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:43.739 not believe that maybe. Don't know we you know, 00:37:43.820 --> 00:37:46.599 I don't know whether he would or not But I know 00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:49.119 what I know he knows the real he knows the real 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.980 deal. I don't know that Yeah, so we mentioned 00:37:52.980 --> 00:37:57.099 him and we mentioned Gordon do you have any other 00:37:57.099 --> 00:37:59.800 any other forum speakers that you want to mention? 00:38:00.059 --> 00:38:02.559 Oh, yeah. Well, Bob Enderbitzen is going to be 00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:06.159 here. He's going to be doing a marketing manager. 00:38:06.500 --> 00:38:09.039 And we've got Joe Fairclaw. I know you know him. 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:12.860 And he'll be doing an interview with us. Doug 00:38:12.860 --> 00:38:16.159 Raymond, who's the Southeastern Division Director. 00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:19.920 We've got Larry Price. We've got Ed Tyler. And 00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:22.500 using electronic media to communicate with the 00:38:22.500 --> 00:38:25.980 Ham community, to communicate with the Ham community 00:38:25.980 --> 00:38:30.079 in general public. It looks like Bob Enderbitzen 00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:33.599 is doing a couple of forums for us, and Joel, 00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:36.059 let me just kind of turn the page here. Man, 00:38:36.260 --> 00:38:38.340 we've got a bunch of them. We've got a Skyward 00:38:38.340 --> 00:38:42.320 forum with Robert Boyd. We've got lightning research 00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:45.079 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center with Dr. 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:50.719 Monty Bateman. forums there. We got a YL forum, 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:56.460 Ms. Katherine Andrews, AC4YL. And we got public 00:38:56.460 --> 00:39:00.139 service. We got tri -service Mars with Bob Glasgow. 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:04.900 Lightning protection. You know, Monty does two 00:39:04.900 --> 00:39:07.840 of them. One of them, he talks just about lightning 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:10.539 in general and how and what and all of that stuff. 00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:12.519 And then the other one that he does at a different 00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:17.730 time is how to protect your shack. And so that's 00:39:17.730 --> 00:39:21.389 the one thing that all of us dread is a lightning 00:39:21.389 --> 00:39:24.670 strike. Man, I'll tell you the truth, that is 00:39:24.670 --> 00:39:28.909 nothing to one big deal with. We got AMSAT, we 00:39:28.909 --> 00:39:33.050 got D -Star Innovations with Ron Schaefer, W4VM, 00:39:33.170 --> 00:39:37.469 we got amateur radio ballooning with Bill Brown. 00:39:37.659 --> 00:39:41.940 Receiver audio Bob de Pierre and Bob is just 00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:44.739 a man. He is a genius on radios I'm telling you 00:39:44.739 --> 00:39:47.420 the truth. He can he can build and fix a matter 00:39:47.420 --> 00:39:50.280 of fact. He's got his own RF Engineering company. 00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:52.619 We got Ben Lowe who is also a good friend of 00:39:52.619 --> 00:39:55.440 mine that will be doing a one -day polar mount 00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:59.139 for space tracking tracking and So Ben Lowe has 00:39:59.139 --> 00:40:02.219 also got his own RF engineering company. I mean 00:40:02.219 --> 00:40:05.739 these guys are are top -notch. They really are 00:40:05.739 --> 00:40:10.230 Steven Hicks is gonna be doing Flex 6000 per 00:40:10.230 --> 00:40:15.309 DX contesting. And we got the technology behind 00:40:15.309 --> 00:40:19.269 the K3S and our other new products with David 00:40:19.269 --> 00:40:22.170 Shulff. And I guess that's how you say his name, 00:40:22.190 --> 00:40:25.789 not real sure. Got Mr. Joe Eisenberg that comes 00:40:25.789 --> 00:40:27.309 here every year. Boy, and I'll tell you what, 00:40:27.849 --> 00:40:30.710 old Joe, he leaves out of here with a bunch of 00:40:30.710 --> 00:40:33.789 prizes. He buys a bunch of tickets and he wins. 00:40:33.789 --> 00:40:36.070 He wins a lot. He really does. Yeah, he does. 00:40:36.349 --> 00:40:40.989 Good guy. And here's probably one of the main 00:40:40.989 --> 00:40:44.929 events. Gordon West, the Instructor Academy, 00:40:45.710 --> 00:40:50.690 and getting started with Amateur Radio with Sholto 00:40:50.690 --> 00:40:52.650 Fisher. I guess that's how you say his name. 00:40:53.050 --> 00:41:00.309 And then we got Craig Barron's QRP seminar there 00:41:00.309 --> 00:41:04.380 in the Shocking Stores. from the heart stores, 00:41:04.460 --> 00:41:07.699 there's that stores with Jerry Brown. And then 00:41:07.699 --> 00:41:10.940 we got a contesting multi -forum. It's a three 00:41:10.940 --> 00:41:14.119 hour Tim Winnegar and he's president of the Alabama 00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:17.619 Contest Group. And he'll be talking about multi 00:41:17.619 --> 00:41:21.460 -forum contesting. So that's a little bit of 00:41:21.460 --> 00:41:23.800 rundown right there. And you know, it's just 00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:27.820 a real fast thing, but go to our website hamfest 00:41:27.820 --> 00:41:31.360 .org. look on the left -hand side and click on 00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:35.039 forums and you can get the full story. So, there 00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:37.480 you go. Very good, Charlie. Well, we're just 00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:39.440 about out of time, but I do want to mention, 00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:43.099 of course, that at 2 o 'clock on Saturday, there 00:41:43.099 --> 00:41:45.539 will be the amateur radio news line Young Ham 00:41:45.539 --> 00:41:48.980 of the Year Award presentation with our friend 00:41:48.980 --> 00:41:52.940 Don Wilbanks, AE5DW. And this year's winner is 00:41:52.940 --> 00:41:58.639 Skyler Fennell from Denver. I know he's looking 00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:00.699 forward to the trip, been talking to him a little 00:42:00.699 --> 00:42:06.599 bit this week and that's always a highlight to 00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:11.079 see the young people recognized and that's been 00:42:11.079 --> 00:42:15.780 the home of that award down there at Huntsville 00:42:15.780 --> 00:42:21.420 for quite some time. Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. 00:42:21.579 --> 00:42:25.239 Well, I tell you, we're very fortunate to have 00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:26.760 that. I don't know why they don't do it at Dayton, 00:42:27.380 --> 00:42:30.340 but we're very fortunate to do it here, man, 00:42:30.420 --> 00:42:33.639 and glad to do it. We try to make sure that we 00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:36.440 leave some space available for the winter at 00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:41.010 the embassy there next door and get them... squared 00:42:41.010 --> 00:42:43.150 away with a room and all of that kind of thing. 00:42:43.489 --> 00:42:46.590 So we're very, very fortunate to have that activity 00:42:46.590 --> 00:42:49.349 here. Also the Alabama Young Ham of the Year. 00:42:49.449 --> 00:42:51.349 I don't have the names. Like I say, man, I tell 00:42:51.349 --> 00:42:53.150 you what, I'd have been a lot more prepared for 00:42:53.150 --> 00:42:56.329 this if, man, if we wasn't so busy. Man, I'm 00:42:56.329 --> 00:42:58.610 telling you, I've been, I don't know what, I 00:42:58.610 --> 00:43:00.369 think everybody's kind of waited a little bit 00:43:00.369 --> 00:43:02.489 or something, but boy, you talk about here in 00:43:02.489 --> 00:43:05.300 the last little bit. Uh, I've been, I've been, 00:43:05.300 --> 00:43:07.500 I've been running in circles, man. And I ain't 00:43:07.500 --> 00:43:09.460 kidding you. That's the truth. I guess we, I 00:43:09.460 --> 00:43:12.139 think I've got everything done, but that I would, 00:43:12.139 --> 00:43:14.599 uh, you know, I'd like to talk a little bit sometime 00:43:14.599 --> 00:43:17.300 about, uh, the people that, that do those things 00:43:17.300 --> 00:43:20.679 and all of that. Uh, Alabama and, uh, young ham 00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:22.980 of the year and, uh, and the national young ham 00:43:22.980 --> 00:43:25.019 of the year. So, I mean, I really appreciate 00:43:25.019 --> 00:43:27.800 them guys doing that here. And, uh, and also, 00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:30.480 uh, the gentleman that got the higher maximum. 00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:34.550 That's Chris brawl. And you'll see him in the 00:43:34.550 --> 00:43:38.849 top hat, I'm sure. He likes his hat. And so he'll 00:43:38.849 --> 00:43:42.329 be around there. And we're going to have Skyler 00:43:42.329 --> 00:43:46.130 on the show here in a couple of weeks. So you 00:43:46.130 --> 00:43:48.769 can tune in for that. And Charlie, we're out 00:43:48.769 --> 00:43:51.050 of time. But thank you so much for coming on. 00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:53.900 Well, thank you. And we really appreciate it, 00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:56.880 man. It's been my pleasure. And I say good evening 00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:58.659 to all the listeners there that may be listening 00:43:58.659 --> 00:44:03.599 in. And y 'all remember w5kub .com. You may be 00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:06.860 able to see some of the critters running around 00:44:06.860 --> 00:44:10.360 there. So anyway, Neil, thank you so much, my 00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:11.739 friend. And I'm looking forward to you coming. 00:44:12.590 --> 00:44:16.130 I had to cancel at the last second. I had something 00:44:16.130 --> 00:44:19.289 come up. I just canceled my room today. As a 00:44:19.289 --> 00:44:22.949 matter of fact, I really wish I was coming, but 00:44:22.949 --> 00:44:26.510 unfortunately had to change that. Well, sorry 00:44:26.510 --> 00:44:28.409 about that, but man, I really am looking forward 00:44:28.409 --> 00:44:31.030 to getting an eyeball wig as we say. Oh yeah, 00:44:31.170 --> 00:44:33.699 we will next time. Yeah, okay. Well, thanks a 00:44:33.699 --> 00:44:36.039 lot, Neil. And man, good luck with all of your 00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:38.440 adventures here and all of that stuff. And again, 00:44:38.579 --> 00:44:42.460 go to www .hamfest .org, prowl around, see what 00:44:42.460 --> 00:44:45.739 you see, and come on to Huntsville. All right. 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:48.579 And next week, Ward Silver in Zero AX with the 00:44:48.579 --> 00:44:51.539 Yasme Foundation and the Smurry submissions band. 00:44:51.579 --> 00:44:54.099 So make sure you tune in next Thursday. For now, 00:44:54.179 --> 00:44:56.599 I'll say seven, three, seven, five. May the good 00:44:56.599 --> 00:44:58.280 DX be yours.