And good evening, everyone. This is HamTalk Live,
episode number two. Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, recorded
live on Thursday, February 25th, 2016. I'm your
host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. And thanks for tuning
in to this episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight on
the show, my friend Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, will
join us. Don will be talking about some of his
work in media, especially ham radio media, and
during the last part of the show we will, as
always, be taking your calls live. So sit back,
relax, and enjoy tonight's episode of HamTalk
Live. Last week on the big show, Dr. Scott Wright
KZeroMD was here. And I want to thank him for
being here and all those who listened. If you
missed that show or any future show, you can
listen to the replay on HamTalkLive .com. And
that's also on Spreaker, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud,
or YouTube. And I think I could have gone another
three or four hours with Scott. I had a lot more
that I'd hoped to talk about, so we'll be asking
him back in the future for sure. One of the nice
things about doing your own show is that you
get to choose what happens for the most part
so one thing you'll notice is a little variety
and there are those warm fuzzy remember when
shows like last week and Shows where we will
dig deeper into one particular topic some will
be informative some will be light -hearted some
will be serious and Then what are two will be
like tonight? Tonight we're having fun the best
guy I could think of to have some fun with on
the show is our next guest You know him from
amateur radio newsline the news line young ham
of the year award Some stuff like gigaparts TV
and a little show they call ham nation He's formerly
one half of the famed commercial radio duo Blair
and the fat man and his name's not Blair ladies
gentlemen boys and girls children of all ages
Please welcome to the show the Harry's man himself
from pick at you in Mississippi. Mr. Don well
banks Thank you, thank you, thank you, please
please throw money hold your applause and let
loose of the cash Had to get the, uh, basketball
announcer voice going there. Mr. Dawn. All right.
Hey, great to have you on here. Dawn been looking
forward to this. Uh, I, I, I just in coming up
with the show for tonight, I, I just couldn't
wait to do it because we got some kind of crazy
stuff to do, but we're going to start off with
the serious. You started off well with, with
Scott, right? I got to say, I mean, for, uh,
for a premiere show to have, to have, have Dr.
Scott right on there. And then went right in
the dumper with me. So you're batting 500 Neil.
Well, you know, we'll kind of, we'll kind of
split the difference there and we'll figure it
out. But yeah, Scott, uh, Scott and I go way
back and then, and it was just, it was just great
to, to be able to do that. So a good guy. Yeah.
Yes. Well, Let's, let's talk about some of your
stuff because you have been one busy man, especially
this week, man. You, you did a ham club talk
and you did, uh, about got ran over by water
spouts and ham nation and, and the 2000th edition
of newsline coming out tomorrow. Yeah. Was, uh,
was supposed to be on, um, uh, the QSO show with
Ted Randall on WTWW. Tuesday night, but we sat
for an hour trying to get. Freaking Skype to
work. So we'll put that off until next Tuesday.
So yeah, it's been, I saw, I saw you were supposed
to do that. I meant to mention that too. Technical
difficulties. Yeah, they happen. They happen.
I'm sure I'll get my share of them eventually.
So, um, You, you've been a busy guy. You've been,
you've been doing all this, the ham nation stuff
and the newsline stuff. And even from Huntsville,
you did some gig aparts TV. And so tell us just
a little bit about, um, about some of the stuff
you've been doing and, and what you're doing
at work. Well, this at work, um, what I do at
work is I am, I'm, I'm what you call production
director, which basically means I, I write radio
commercials. I. produce radio commercials, both
myself and I record clients or other voice talent
who will come in. I coordinate with sales in
helping to create new commercials and new advertising
ideas. And so essentially what I do is I move
mountains, I perform the impossible, and I herd
cats. That is essentially what I do. I got off
the air a long time ago. You mentioned the old
Blair and the Fat Man days. That was doing an
oldies morning show in New Orleans and we were
fairly popular. But I got into broadcasting in
1978 right out of high school when I was 10.
I told my parents I was going to be the voice
on the radio and I've been lucky enough to have
done that pretty much continuously since then.
So I've transitioned off the air. a number of
years ago, and I'm now sitting in the production
chair. And it's an entirely different creative
muscle, Neil, as you know, being a broadcaster
yourself or former broadcaster. And I'm sure
it's lengthened my career considerably, but I
really enjoy the production director aspect and
doing commercials. And it's been very busy at
work as well because my assistant is on vacation,
so I'm handling all eight radio stations by myself.
Yeah. This must be, uh, this must be some week.
It is all that stuff going on now. Um, I understand
that, uh, that, uh, I heart media, the company
you work for. Clear Channel, um, recently bought
WWV in Boulder, Colorado. Yeah, they're constantly,
they're constantly horse train radio stations.
Yeah. They're making, they're making some changes.
And before the show, you were telling me about
some, um, repeater IDs that you did for a friend.
Yeah. And Knoxville. Yeah. We used to do some,
some of those kind of off the wall. repeater
IDs and some people liked them and some people
didn't, but that was one of the things that I
found out about repeaters. And it's kind of like
with this show too, that if you do it and you
can, you can do it yourself and then you can
do whatever you want to do. And then if everybody
follows along, you know. Right. So, so give us
a couple of those. Those those repeater IDs that
oh on on on on yeah, Kevin Duplantis w4 kev he
has Well, his sense of humor is sicker than mine
Which is is saying something one of them was
because Kevin is bald so And you know in my in
my best Gary Owens Don Pardo voice with more
coverage than the repeater trustees hair This
is the w4 kev repeater You're listening to the
W four K E V repeater, but why my wife asked
me what's on TV. I told her dust. And that's
how the fight started. You're listening to the
W four K. I mean, you know, that kind of stuff.
Well, we've got this clip here that, that is,
is what we think would happen or what happened
with WWV. If clear channel took over so here
commercial is the commercialization of time exactly
exactly WWV all the time all the time Same time
same station every time WWV One two three four
every second counts at WWV For a good time call
555 for WWV WWV for the time of your life We'll
be back with the time on WWV in just a minute,
but first here's another minute All right. Well,
okay. No, they didn't really take over WWV, but
this recording, which by the way, thanks to Doug
Grant, Katie one TJ for letting me use that is
actually former WWV voice. John Doyle. That's
the real deal. Yep. That's been around forever.
Yeah. I just, I just ran into it the other day.
Oh, that was great. Yeah. All the time. All the
time. Oh yeah. We'll talk to us about news line.
Now you just literally minutes ago, uh, finished
up, uh, episode number 2000 of amateur radio
news line. And I remember running news line off
of satellite dishes and recording it on VHS tape
and then dubbing it over to cassette and then
playing it on the repeater and Wow times have
changed but Newsline is still there so tell us
about Newsline and talk about how Bill Pasternak
at OEA6ITF got you into that and what Bill has
meant and where things are headed now with Karen
and everything happening with Newsline. Yeah
newsline marches on you know bill passed away.
It's it's almost been a year now In a couple
of months. It will be a year. It was May or June.
I believe when he passed away, so and you know
just like when Someone who's really really close
to you like if a parent dies or a favorite uncle
or something that you're really really close
to Doesn't matter how long it's been since they
passed away It's like every day you think of
something to ask them and you think I got a call
Whoever it is and of course you can't because
The phone doesn't reach that far but um So there's
always something I need to ask him about how
he did things and how things should be done And
what he thinks of this, but yeah newsline is
pretty amazing. I said episode number 2 ,000
And it actually went for 37 years uninterrupted
never missed a week until Last year when or year
before last I guess when when bill got sick like
on a on a Wednesday night and Could not finish
writing the script. He went into the hospital
and so we did not have newsline that week and
it was off for a couple of weeks and then he
got to where he brought his laptop into the hospital
with him and was able to write scripts and we
went back into production and then he got ill
again and And and then of course when he passed
away And we took about a month off, I think,
something like that, just to regroup. But we're
back now. And Karen Eve Murray, KD2GUT in New
York, has taken over the writing, because that's
the hardest part. It's easy to sit here in front
of a microphone and read words off of a script.
It's the writing of the script. That's the whole
heart and soul of it. I'm just a guy yakking
into a yakker. Yeah, we're the guys that, you
know, well, I can read out loud. Yeah. I've got
this really deep voice thing going. Yeah. Yeah.
And that's what we do. And it's, and it sounds
really good in my headphones. I don't care if
you like it, but man, I'm digging this. So, but,
but so, and she jumped right in and it was, it
was, um, it's very funny. She, she basically,
we, we put up on the Facebook page, um, that
we were looking for, for help. And she's one
of the ones who. went to Skeeter Nash because
I was I was taking night classes during the time
and there was about for about two or three months
that I wasn't even on Newsline and it was right
around the time that Bill was sick unfortunately
so Skeeter took over the N5ASH and I remember
vividly it was a Sunday night my phone rang I'm
sitting in here in the radio room I was just
on 40 meters earlier in fact checking into something
but I'm sitting in here in the phone rings and
I see it's you know it's Topeka Kansas so I pick
up the phone at Skeeter he goes hey I've got
Bill on the phone I'm like Bill who he goes Pasternak
really so the three of us are sitting there talking
and Bill's voice was so frail and None of the
usual joking it was that we were all we were
talking about newsline and I could tell Just
from the the way the conversation was going that
that we were talking about the continuation we
were talking about life after bill and Skeeter
said well, we've got someone who I think is is
going to be able to to write the copy for us
every week. Her name is Karen and she's a New
Ham and she lives in New York and he's rattling
off her resume essentially. She wrote for New
York Newsday, she did some broadcasting as well,
I do believe, and all I can hear Bill saying
in the background is hire her, hire her, hire
her, hire her, hire her, and so we did and it
is, it's amazing the life that that I so I so
look forward to anchoring news line and and reading
her stories because her sense of humor, which
is considerable just Leaps right off the page
or the screen depending on whether or not you've
killed a tree and printed it but it's just I
love I love reading her words she has been an
absolute godsend and and So it's it's kind of
the three of us. I guess me Skeeter and Karen
kind of spearheading everything tend to get a
lot of the attention and I think that's only
because my face is on Ham nation every week and
I'm probably the most visible part of the team
for amateur radio news line But believe me it
ain't me And it's not just skater and it's not
just Karen. It's everybody and it's it's you
now as well Neil as we've we've We've we've conned
you into I mean we've we brought you into the
fold And by the way, we're going to double your
pay next year from nothing to twice nothing.
Got that looking forward. Got that looking forward
to you. But it's an entire team and it could
not exist without the teamwork. And that was
something that Bill, that was his talent. He
didn't have the best voice. He had a particular
New York accent and a bit of a speech impediment.
uh... and could be very verbose so you didn't
hear a whole lot of bill reading but his his
talent was in putting people together and i said
we just put the wraps are getting a uh... report
number two thousand will actually be posted tomorrow
sometime I've got about a 13 -minute segment
at the end of it talking about the beginnings
of Newsline and some of the history of Newsline
and how it began and how it was put together
back in Los Angeles in the early days. And we've
got some audio of Roy Neal from 1999 anchoring
a newscast. Of course, Roy Neal, the voice of
the space program on NBC back for Apollo 11 and
Apollo 13 and Skylab and all that other stuff.
And the man who basically But ham radio in space
spearheaded the the heiress program for for ham
radio in space and it's just it's an amazing
history of how it began from very very humble
beginnings is something that has lasted 40 years
and. Is something that I don't think I'm I don't
think I'm being facetious when I say that it's
it's something that that a lot of other ham radio
newscasts or. Bulletin programs are kind of are
kind of based on or judged against it's um It's
it's it's an amazing thing and and to have been
involved with this From almost day one of me
me becoming a ham back in 1995 Is just an absolute
honor and I miss bill every day Absolutely, and
I've noticed it seems like I don't know if you've
noticed this but in just my short time Working
and kind of taking a look at the script Before
before it airs We refer to this we refer to this
as your indentured servitude. Yes. Yes, exactly
It seems like Karen's writing style has some
hints of bill in it Yeah, and you know, she never
met bill and has never never spoken with bill
and and she's she's really She's not happy about
that. She would have loved to have gotten to
know him ... and he her because their kindred
spirits are both ... from from from New York.
But yeah she has she has gone back and I mean
she went ... back and looked at a and listen
to a bunch of previous ... news lines and yeah
she I she kind of channels ... Mr. passion act
but she has her own style she's very verbose
... and and she just has these little twists
that she ... does and and I did I just love it
she's. She's amazing. I hope we have her forever.
Yeah. She, she does a, an excellent job and,
uh, I look forward to, uh, doing my part, uh,
my little part in the, in the scheme of things
and, uh, getting things, uh, back up on some
of the repeaters around here too, was, was digging
around earlier. I'm not going to play it, but
found, uh, uh, an ID clip from 1998. What it
would do was like, Every week you know was recording
the thing to To put it on the repeater and so
whenever our repeater came up for the ID cycle
and and you know You know you're on the years
-wide area repeater network listening to news
line. You know I'd save that and so we would
always play those during the ID break So that
way, you know, it was, you know, well, you know,
you're listening to news line on this repeater
and now it's time, you know, to identify your
station. And so we'd cover up the tones with,
you know, one of you guys saying. This is news
line heard on bulletin stations around the world,
including the W nine EAR repeaters serving Indiana,
Illinois and Kentucky. And, and we always look
forward to that, that, you know, we would, we
would hear our. repeater on there. And, and so
that was, uh, that was a lot of fun. And we're
going to try to try to get that back. Um, and
speaking of the talent on echo link, speaking
of the tones, the mystery of why those tones
are there will be revealed. You'll have to listen
to the very end of newsline report. Number 2000,
um, Robert Sudock, WB six FDF who, who first
met bill. was one of what bill was one of bob's
first contacts is a new hand back in nineteen
seventy three and westlake which was the predecessor
of of news what newsline morphed from started
nineteen seventy six so robert was there from
literally day zero from before day one and and
he was very instrumental in and helping me was
one of the voice early voices of news line and
and uh... help put it all together but he explains
why there are tones and it's not what you think
Pretty funny sounds like a good funny. We reveal
some secrets. Yeah, we reveal some secrets some
Easter eggs Yes, we'll have to we'll have to
tune in and find those so Newsline number two
thousand posting tomorrow. So be sure to check
that out And it's time right now to pay a few
bills But we'll be back with more from Don Wilbanks
AE5DW right after this word from one of our sponsors,
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the winner. the March 10th show. Don Wilbanks
AE5DW is our guest this evening and the other
big thing that you're involved with is is Ham
Nation and tell us a little bit about how Ham
Nation got started how you got into that and
all the fun you have on there. Well I found out
about Ham Nation a friend of mine actually told
me he's a ham in Oklahoma who I went to high
school with and he said yeah there's this new
Internet TV show called ham nation that's that's
going to ... start up he's a he's a big Leo Laporte
twit fanatic and so I ... have to check that
out so I started watching it around ... episode
two or three I got hooked on it because I mean
... Gordon West is a friend and Bob Hile is a
friend and and ... you know it's a it's it was
cool to watch my friends on ... Internet TV and
it is really good show and then. Bill Pasternak
told me said. This this would have been around.
Oh, I don't know Week number 10 or 12, maybe
he said um you know Bob asked me to ask us to
to do something a news thing a new segment for
ham nation and and so we're gonna do that and
That's gonna be coming up like next week, and
I'm like oh, that's cool, and so I watched it
and and There was no new segment And so the watch
the following week and there was no news ...
segment. And I watched the following week and
there was no news ... segment so I talked to
Bill I said I thought we were going ... to be
on ham nation he said well yeah we are but Robert
... Sudock WV6 FDF he's. He's all set up to do
the video thing and but he's he's ... fallen
ill and I said well. I mean I don't know how
long he's going to be sick but ... if you want
me to try it I mean you know all. I've got Skype.
I'll jump on there and do it. I don't know how
good it'll be but I'll you know, okay great.
So that's how the ham nation news segment started.
I was the first one to do it filling in for Sudok
and there was no video production. It was me
reading a script just my talking head on the
camera and you know, it's even even professionals
have a hard time getting through a five -minute
news script. All at once Especially with you
know I mean I've never done TV before and they
added pressure of being on camera and everything
else But so it worked out okay, and then and
then Bob came back He got better and so Bob took
it over, and I was just amazed at his video production
It was really really good, and I loved watching
it plus He's got this this deep resonant voice,
and he's a been a broadcaster since the 60s out
in California So well he he fell ill again Bob
Bob has had cancer, but his main thing is his
back. And in fact, right now he's still in a
rehab facility for his back. But anyway, he had
to step down. So I stepped back into it and I've
been doing it ever since. And it's been several
years now. I mean, you know, however long pretty
much Ham Nation's been on. So that's how that's
how I got started with Ham Nation and doing the
the video news segment. And like I told like
I told Sudok, Which you'll hear in the In the
in the newsline thing. I'm I'm just keeping his
chair warm. I mean, I'm you know, he's he's the
guy he's he's the man But so that's that's that's
how that happens. So that's that's how newsline
got to be on on ham nation So and then they gave
you the pressure of being the spokesperson Well,
I kind of you know, I kind of adopted that because
it's what I do and so I asked Bob I said I mean
if you guys are comfortable reading commercials
... hell I do that for a living I mean I'm perfectly
and ... he's like yeah go ahead so that's kind
of how I kind of I ... kind of I kind of jumped
into that not because I ... necessarily wanted
to just thought that you know I mean ... it's
what I do it's probably the most logical person
... there to do it so absolutely and all the
ad lib and. Crazy yeah, it adds a lot to the
show and so thank you really really I get I get
I get a lot of emails from about ham nation and
most of them are literally Hey, I tried the Harry's
razor out. I got another one today. As a matter
of fact guy even sent me a picture So that's
awesome, so yeah, it's you know, it's pretty
cool and And yeah, the Harry stuff is good. So
There's a There's an unpaid plug for Harry's
yeah well well we've got another one here coming
up in a minute you don't know about but yeah
yeah. So what's what's probably your favorite
thing to do on on ham nation. I you know I really
enjoy I enjoy the news I really do I enjoy the
and I enjoy. I enjoy when Tamitha scov. Is part
of of my news segment I kind of discovered her.
There was a story about big sunspots and I had
been ... actually paying a little bit of attention
to her. And I saw one of her videos and I'm like
my God this is ... great so I I I emailed her
and I said hey I'd like to I'd ... like to use
some of your video in this. An audio in news
line and in this. In this in this ham nation
video thing and I ... explained to her you know
what it was and she ... email me right back so
yes please I know about ham ... radio because
the guy that does my website is a ham. He lives
in Norman, Oklahoma like why I'm from Oklahoma.
So really so anyway, so that's yes, please Anything
you need just let me know and feel free to use
anything and so I said well great what I made
may start doing is is using these videos or at
least part of them in the news segment every
week and it became wildly popular and then the
next thing, you know, she's invited by Tim Duffy
and DX engineering in the as me group to attend
Dayton to present her her To present a talk on
solar weather at the Dayton antenna forum last
year and If you've not seen that on YouTube you
definitely need to go and look for it because
it's absolutely amazing. She is She is one of
the smartest people I know and just just as sweet
as as Just as sweet as she can be and brilliant
and has has a lot of fun with this and Her plans
are to become a ham, but she has a she has a
young child and a and a very very heavy workload
So it's it's all coming, but that's that's probably
my the coolest thing is is just doing the new
segment and being able to Introduce Tammoth a
skove to the ham radio community because they
have Just they have fallen in love with her.
Yeah. She came by the instructors forum at Dayton
too. And I was able to meet her out in the lobby
for a few minutes. And she was in New Orleans.
She was in New Orleans last, last month. Actually
she came down for a meteorological symposium.
They invited her to come down and talk about
solar weather. So I got to have lunch with her,
her husband and her and her little eight year
old daughter. just awesome. As it turned out,
the New Orleans Convention Center is like a mile
from my work, so we kind of walked and met in
the middle at a really nice little restaurant
there in the Central Business District and just
had the best visit. Yeah, she's a sweetheart.
Yeah, I talked to her about talking to some of
the kids at school about some of the solar weather
and they're excited about it, so hopefully we'll
make that happen at some point. But my favorite
thing to do in ham radio, period, has nothing
to do with operating. It's as a volunteer examiner.
I love, love, love being part of test sessions.
I love being able to sign someone's CSCE. I think
that is just, to me that's like one of the coolest
things that I can do because everyone probably
still has. their CSCE somewhere from when, you
know, when they got their first ticket or whatever.
And you'd look back on that and see these signatures
and, and, you know, to be part of someone's,
uh, ham radio history, either in the very beginning
or when they upgraded, they finally get that
extra and have your signature on that piece of
paper signifying, um, that milestone of that
achievement to me is just a huge honor. I love
being a VE. Oh, absolutely. I've done a lot of
that too. And it's, it's great. So, um, we have
this other thing planned here. So, um, I think
we're going to do this and this is something
I've been looking forward to all week. So right
now, ladies and gentlemen, for the first time
in ham radio media history, at least that I know
of, we're going to play a game show. You are
so star for entertainment. Since Don is so much
fun when he doesn't have to be serious and he's
probably the only guest. That I'll ever have
that's crazy enough to do anything this silly.
It's time to play the am talk live version of
would you rather. Oh Lord. All right. Let me
strap in. I don't think I'm ready. Strap in,
strap in and here we go. Okay. So, so here's
the, the first one. And by the way, uh, if you
play along at home, you can do this on Twitter
or my, my My assistant Nick is standing by on
Twitter to post this on Twitter so you can vote
and talk live and you can you can vote on some
of these. So would you rather get an RF burn
or an electrical shock? I have had both. And
the RF burn lasts longer, so I would rather have
the jolt than the burn. Yeah, that's. I ran this
by some of the kids and they said the same ...
thing so yeah would you rather be locked up in
a room ... for an entire day with Bob Heil or
Gordon West. Wow see now that's. As much as I
love Gordon I think it would probably ... probably
be Bob because. Some of some of the coolest moments
or or periods of ... time I've spent one of them
was in in Huntsville ... Alabama last year. Went
out to dinner with Bob. It was me Bob and Joe
Eisenberg k0neb and when you get Bob by himself
I mean you can see yeah, you see Bob at ham fest
and it's cool and everything But you're in the
middle of a human pileup when you can get Bob
just by himself School is in session all the
stories from his rock and roll days and his and
talking about You know clips His mentor, um,
and just everything, just, oh my God. Now taking
nothing, nothing away from Gordon because, um,
back in, uh, was it 99, 2000, something like
that. One of, I think it may have been 2000,
my second trip to Dayton. Um, I'm talking to
Gordon and he's like, well, I'm going to be in
New Orleans, like in a couple of months. Um,
if you want, I'll, um, I'll do one of my, one
of my, uh, my stage shows. If you want to put
that together and find a venue. I'll do it for
free since I'm going to be there for business
and I said sure so I put together the the Gordon
West appearance in New Orleans and so I got to
spend some good quality time with Gordon to actually
drove around in my pickup truck with a cassette
recorder and I interviewed him for Newsline just
driving around. in the truck. Gordon came to
my house and met Don and Tyler. Tyler was not
quite a year old. And then we took Gordon, myself
and two or three, four people from the Ham radio
club, we took Gordon out on a swamp tour where
Gordon fed Marshmallows to alligators. So I've
had I've had some cool one -on -one time with
both of those guys But I got to tell you it's
so special to just sit alone with Hile and just
listen Especially for an audio guy and you know
a rock and roll guy like myself. It's just it's
it's golden All right, we're running out of time.
So we're gonna have to go rapid fire here. So
I know I'm long Okay, here's the next one hit
by a live turkey dropped from a helicopter or
your city attacked by a monster lizard As God
is my witness. Exactly WK RP OK drop by a turkey
or my city attack you know I could. I would probably
be mesmerized by the side of this turkey falling
on me that I wouldn't be able to to to avoid
it but but having grown up in Oklahoma and spent
lots of time down here I know how to run away
from both tornadoes and hurricanes so I think
I'll take the lizard. All right, go without internet
for a week or radio waves for a week now radio
waves includes Wi -Fi Well Wi -Fi internet would
be the same thing so well, yeah, oh man do I
have to I Don't know I'd probably just have to
sleep Okay, get cut by a Harry's razor or take
the wrong person's pill pack. Oh I've never been
cut by Harry's razor So probably take the wrong
person's pill pack because that would Well, you
know, I mean you don't want to you don't want
to mix It's just like being pulled over by the
by the policeman and and he says sir Have you
been drinking and your friend over in the shotgun
seat says are you insane? Do you think this man
is dumb enough to mix alcohol and drugs? You
know take a sledgehammer to a TS 2000 or an IC
7100 The 2000 would be a bigger target and I
had a 2000 get hit by lightning. So I've kind
of done that already. So I'll say take the sledgehammer
to the 2000 because I never did like that radio.
Oh no. Okay. Tell your wife that you, how much
you really paid for your radio gear or climb
your tower in a rainstorm to replace, replace
the feed line. Climb the tower. Oh, wow. Work
the sewage pumper truck at the Hamvention or
the complaint desk. The complaint desk. No one
wants to be a Rubkey Ranger. Program all the
channels in your handheld manually or take the
extra class test over. As I'm looking at my bofang,
I believe I'd rather take the extra test over.
Yeah, I think so. Spend an entire evening on
14313 or 3898. Oh, God. Um, does the radio have
to be on? Yes. Um, how much can I drink? And
what, what time of the day it is because I want
to pick the one with the least least propagation.
There you go. There you go. Well, there you have
it folks. It's the ham talk live version. Would
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All right. Got it. Got it. Got to go. Coming
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-NET -HAM -1. If you have a question for Don,
we will try to get that in. And we're running
short on time as usual this evening. So. We get
45 minutes on on Spreaker without breaking the
bank. So We're gonna have to do this quickly.
So If you want to call in now's your chance,
we're gonna have to do this pretty quick and
then we'll have Nick tell us the results of our
poll here real quick, but Yeah, the I don't know
the the the the pill pack thing. I don't know
That was scary No, it's pretty cool No, but if
you get the wrong person spill well, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the idea is great Yeah,
the idea is great, but great for travel too.
Oh, yeah Yeah, you know what one thing we haven't
talked about yet is ... Youngham of the year
and we do we do that every year and ... we're
looking forward to doing it again and we should
be ... opening up the nominating period probably
in the next a ... few weeks or so for Youngham
of the year so we ... definitely get get that
information in there. Okay very good and we will
talk about that before that ... happens and Nick
says that electrical shock is running ahead.
And it's pretty even split on internet versus
radio. And the extra and the handheld programming
is pretty split evenly too. So I'll leave those
up for a few days. RF burns hurt, man. I'd much
rather take the jolt than the RF burn. Those
things hurt for a long time. They do. Well, Don,
I want to thank you for coming on. And we've
had a blast here tonight. And as usual, ran out
of time. We hope we'll get you conned into coming
back here at some point. Anytime. This is fun.
Yeah, I'm enjoying this. And we'll get back and
talk about Young Ham of the Year. We've got tons
to talk about with that, so we'll ... Oh yeah.
Always something new. Tie in another show and
take you away from production for a little while
on Thursday night, your Newsline night. And get
you back here on the show. So thanks again for
doing any time. Thank you Neil. I appreciate
the invite All right. Well, thanks to Don well
banks a you five DW and all the callers listeners
out there in cyberspace and We invite you all
back next Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern time
when my guest will be Gary Pierce KN4 aq the
host of ham radio now And for a list of all of
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so for now with Don will banks This is Neil rap
WB9VPG saying seven three seven five and may
the good DX be yours