WEBVTT 00:00:08.699 --> 00:00:12.500 And good evening, everyone. This is HamTalk Live, 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:17.519 episode number two. Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, recorded 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:22.820 live on Thursday, February 25th, 2016. I'm your 00:00:22.820 --> 00:00:26.879 host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. And thanks for tuning 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.859 in to this episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight on 00:00:30.859 --> 00:00:34.700 the show, my friend Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, will 00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:38.039 join us. Don will be talking about some of his 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:41.600 work in media, especially ham radio media, and 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.799 during the last part of the show we will, as 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:47.039 always, be taking your calls live. So sit back, 00:00:47.060 --> 00:00:49.920 relax, and enjoy tonight's episode of HamTalk 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.240 Live. Last week on the big show, Dr. Scott Wright 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:59.140 KZeroMD was here. And I want to thank him for 00:00:59.140 --> 00:01:01.740 being here and all those who listened. If you 00:01:01.740 --> 00:01:04.239 missed that show or any future show, you can 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:07.739 listen to the replay on HamTalkLive .com. And 00:01:07.739 --> 00:01:11.620 that's also on Spreaker, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.459 or YouTube. And I think I could have gone another 00:01:15.459 --> 00:01:18.680 three or four hours with Scott. I had a lot more 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.280 that I'd hoped to talk about, so we'll be asking 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:25.900 him back in the future for sure. One of the nice 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:28.659 things about doing your own show is that you 00:01:28.659 --> 00:01:30.879 get to choose what happens for the most part 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:34.560 so one thing you'll notice is a little variety 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.239 and there are those warm fuzzy remember when 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.760 shows like last week and Shows where we will 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.019 dig deeper into one particular topic some will 00:01:45.019 --> 00:01:47.260 be informative some will be light -hearted some 00:01:47.260 --> 00:01:52.159 will be serious and Then what are two will be 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:56.620 like tonight? Tonight we're having fun the best 00:01:56.620 --> 00:01:59.180 guy I could think of to have some fun with on 00:01:59.180 --> 00:02:01.859 the show is our next guest You know him from 00:02:01.859 --> 00:02:04.480 amateur radio newsline the news line young ham 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.319 of the year award Some stuff like gigaparts TV 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:12.069 and a little show they call ham nation He's formerly 00:02:12.069 --> 00:02:15.530 one half of the famed commercial radio duo Blair 00:02:15.530 --> 00:02:17.710 and the fat man and his name's not Blair ladies 00:02:17.710 --> 00:02:20.509 gentlemen boys and girls children of all ages 00:02:20.509 --> 00:02:24.509 Please welcome to the show the Harry's man himself 00:02:24.509 --> 00:02:29.030 from pick at you in Mississippi. Mr. Don well 00:02:29.030 --> 00:02:34.650 banks Thank you, thank you, thank you, please 00:02:34.650 --> 00:02:38.310 please throw money hold your applause and let 00:02:38.310 --> 00:02:41.650 loose of the cash Had to get the, uh, basketball 00:02:41.650 --> 00:02:46.469 announcer voice going there. Mr. Dawn. All right. 00:02:48.009 --> 00:02:50.550 Hey, great to have you on here. Dawn been looking 00:02:50.550 --> 00:02:54.610 forward to this. Uh, I, I, I just in coming up 00:02:54.610 --> 00:02:57.210 with the show for tonight, I, I just couldn't 00:02:57.210 --> 00:03:00.069 wait to do it because we got some kind of crazy 00:03:00.069 --> 00:03:02.650 stuff to do, but we're going to start off with 00:03:02.650 --> 00:03:05.729 the serious. You started off well with, with 00:03:05.729 --> 00:03:09.069 Scott, right? I got to say, I mean, for, uh, 00:03:09.069 --> 00:03:11.430 for a premiere show to have, to have, have Dr. 00:03:11.590 --> 00:03:13.710 Scott right on there. And then went right in 00:03:13.710 --> 00:03:17.770 the dumper with me. So you're batting 500 Neil. 00:03:18.469 --> 00:03:20.110 Well, you know, we'll kind of, we'll kind of 00:03:20.110 --> 00:03:22.550 split the difference there and we'll figure it 00:03:22.550 --> 00:03:26.810 out. But yeah, Scott, uh, Scott and I go way 00:03:26.810 --> 00:03:29.210 back and then, and it was just, it was just great 00:03:29.210 --> 00:03:32.530 to, to be able to do that. So a good guy. Yeah. 00:03:32.750 --> 00:03:35.379 Yes. Well, Let's, let's talk about some of your 00:03:35.379 --> 00:03:37.900 stuff because you have been one busy man, especially 00:03:37.900 --> 00:03:41.159 this week, man. You, you did a ham club talk 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:45.580 and you did, uh, about got ran over by water 00:03:45.580 --> 00:03:51.759 spouts and ham nation and, and the 2000th edition 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:55.080 of newsline coming out tomorrow. Yeah. Was, uh, 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:58.819 was supposed to be on, um, uh, the QSO show with 00:03:58.819 --> 00:04:01.520 Ted Randall on WTWW. Tuesday night, but we sat 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.229 for an hour trying to get. Freaking Skype to 00:04:04.229 --> 00:04:07.210 work. So we'll put that off until next Tuesday. 00:04:07.449 --> 00:04:09.449 So yeah, it's been, I saw, I saw you were supposed 00:04:09.449 --> 00:04:12.729 to do that. I meant to mention that too. Technical 00:04:12.729 --> 00:04:16.069 difficulties. Yeah, they happen. They happen. 00:04:16.089 --> 00:04:18.610 I'm sure I'll get my share of them eventually. 00:04:19.629 --> 00:04:24.019 So, um, You, you've been a busy guy. You've been, 00:04:24.019 --> 00:04:26.120 you've been doing all this, the ham nation stuff 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.279 and the newsline stuff. And even from Huntsville, 00:04:29.420 --> 00:04:33.100 you did some gig aparts TV. And so tell us just 00:04:33.100 --> 00:04:35.939 a little bit about, um, about some of the stuff 00:04:35.939 --> 00:04:38.399 you've been doing and, and what you're doing 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:42.379 at work. Well, this at work, um, what I do at 00:04:42.379 --> 00:04:44.939 work is I am, I'm, I'm what you call production 00:04:44.939 --> 00:04:47.939 director, which basically means I, I write radio 00:04:47.939 --> 00:04:51.689 commercials. I. produce radio commercials, both 00:04:51.689 --> 00:04:57.069 myself and I record clients or other voice talent 00:04:57.069 --> 00:05:03.170 who will come in. I coordinate with sales in 00:05:03.170 --> 00:05:07.029 helping to create new commercials and new advertising 00:05:07.029 --> 00:05:14.769 ideas. And so essentially what I do is I move 00:05:14.769 --> 00:05:17.170 mountains, I perform the impossible, and I herd 00:05:17.170 --> 00:05:20.459 cats. That is essentially what I do. I got off 00:05:20.459 --> 00:05:22.680 the air a long time ago. You mentioned the old 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:26.740 Blair and the Fat Man days. That was doing an 00:05:26.740 --> 00:05:30.000 oldies morning show in New Orleans and we were 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.620 fairly popular. But I got into broadcasting in 00:05:33.620 --> 00:05:36.480 1978 right out of high school when I was 10. 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:37.959 I told my parents I was going to be the voice 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:40.279 on the radio and I've been lucky enough to have 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:43.660 done that pretty much continuously since then. 00:05:44.379 --> 00:05:47.379 So I've transitioned off the air. a number of 00:05:47.379 --> 00:05:50.639 years ago, and I'm now sitting in the production 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:53.579 chair. And it's an entirely different creative 00:05:53.579 --> 00:05:56.480 muscle, Neil, as you know, being a broadcaster 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:58.899 yourself or former broadcaster. And I'm sure 00:05:58.899 --> 00:06:03.100 it's lengthened my career considerably, but I 00:06:03.100 --> 00:06:07.399 really enjoy the production director aspect and 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:09.620 doing commercials. And it's been very busy at 00:06:09.620 --> 00:06:12.279 work as well because my assistant is on vacation, 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:14.560 so I'm handling all eight radio stations by myself. 00:06:15.769 --> 00:06:19.389 Yeah. This must be, uh, this must be some week. 00:06:19.389 --> 00:06:25.910 It is all that stuff going on now. Um, I understand 00:06:25.910 --> 00:06:29.250 that, uh, that, uh, I heart media, the company 00:06:29.250 --> 00:06:33.680 you work for. Clear Channel, um, recently bought 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.540 WWV in Boulder, Colorado. Yeah, they're constantly, 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:39.819 they're constantly horse train radio stations. 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:42.220 Yeah. They're making, they're making some changes. 00:06:42.620 --> 00:06:44.980 And before the show, you were telling me about 00:06:44.980 --> 00:06:49.000 some, um, repeater IDs that you did for a friend. 00:06:49.300 --> 00:06:52.379 Yeah. And Knoxville. Yeah. We used to do some, 00:06:52.500 --> 00:06:55.089 some of those kind of off the wall. repeater 00:06:55.089 --> 00:06:58.410 IDs and some people liked them and some people 00:06:58.410 --> 00:07:00.629 didn't, but that was one of the things that I 00:07:00.629 --> 00:07:02.850 found out about repeaters. And it's kind of like 00:07:02.850 --> 00:07:05.930 with this show too, that if you do it and you 00:07:05.930 --> 00:07:08.670 can, you can do it yourself and then you can 00:07:08.670 --> 00:07:10.430 do whatever you want to do. And then if everybody 00:07:10.430 --> 00:07:15.529 follows along, you know. Right. So, so give us 00:07:15.529 --> 00:07:19.230 a couple of those. Those those repeater IDs that 00:07:19.230 --> 00:07:24.509 oh on on on on yeah, Kevin Duplantis w4 kev he 00:07:24.509 --> 00:07:28.009 has Well, his sense of humor is sicker than mine 00:07:28.009 --> 00:07:32.389 Which is is saying something one of them was 00:07:32.389 --> 00:07:37.509 because Kevin is bald so And you know in my in 00:07:37.509 --> 00:07:40.290 my best Gary Owens Don Pardo voice with more 00:07:40.290 --> 00:07:42.589 coverage than the repeater trustees hair This 00:07:42.589 --> 00:07:45.709 is the w4 kev repeater You're listening to the 00:07:45.709 --> 00:07:50.250 W four K E V repeater, but why my wife asked 00:07:50.250 --> 00:07:53.949 me what's on TV. I told her dust. And that's 00:07:53.949 --> 00:07:55.850 how the fight started. You're listening to the 00:07:55.850 --> 00:07:58.129 W four K. I mean, you know, that kind of stuff. 00:07:58.990 --> 00:08:02.629 Well, we've got this clip here that, that is, 00:08:02.670 --> 00:08:06.350 is what we think would happen or what happened 00:08:06.350 --> 00:08:11.279 with WWV. If clear channel took over so here 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.620 commercial is the commercialization of time exactly 00:08:14.620 --> 00:08:24.339 exactly WWV all the time all the time Same time 00:08:24.339 --> 00:08:33.419 same station every time WWV One two three four 00:08:33.419 --> 00:08:40.629 every second counts at WWV For a good time call 00:08:40.629 --> 00:08:53.289 555 for WWV WWV for the time of your life We'll 00:08:53.289 --> 00:08:56.110 be back with the time on WWV in just a minute, 00:08:56.350 --> 00:09:01.769 but first here's another minute All right. Well, 00:09:01.769 --> 00:09:05.409 okay. No, they didn't really take over WWV, but 00:09:05.409 --> 00:09:07.789 this recording, which by the way, thanks to Doug 00:09:07.789 --> 00:09:11.970 Grant, Katie one TJ for letting me use that is 00:09:11.970 --> 00:09:15.690 actually former WWV voice. John Doyle. That's 00:09:15.690 --> 00:09:19.330 the real deal. Yep. That's been around forever. 00:09:20.610 --> 00:09:23.470 Yeah. I just, I just ran into it the other day. 00:09:24.009 --> 00:09:27.870 Oh, that was great. Yeah. All the time. All the 00:09:27.870 --> 00:09:32.350 time. Oh yeah. We'll talk to us about news line. 00:09:32.470 --> 00:09:36.049 Now you just literally minutes ago, uh, finished 00:09:36.049 --> 00:09:40.309 up, uh, episode number 2000 of amateur radio 00:09:40.309 --> 00:09:43.490 news line. And I remember running news line off 00:09:43.490 --> 00:09:47.889 of satellite dishes and recording it on VHS tape 00:09:47.889 --> 00:09:50.350 and then dubbing it over to cassette and then 00:09:50.350 --> 00:09:55.080 playing it on the repeater and Wow times have 00:09:55.080 --> 00:10:00.720 changed but Newsline is still there so tell us 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:05.639 about Newsline and talk about how Bill Pasternak 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.340 at OEA6ITF got you into that and what Bill has 00:10:09.340 --> 00:10:14.080 meant and where things are headed now with Karen 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:17.820 and everything happening with Newsline. Yeah 00:10:17.820 --> 00:10:20.019 newsline marches on you know bill passed away. 00:10:20.100 --> 00:10:23.659 It's it's almost been a year now In a couple 00:10:23.659 --> 00:10:26.240 of months. It will be a year. It was May or June. 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:30.320 I believe when he passed away, so and you know 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:33.120 just like when Someone who's really really close 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:36.019 to you like if a parent dies or a favorite uncle 00:10:36.019 --> 00:10:37.460 or something that you're really really close 00:10:37.460 --> 00:10:40.659 to Doesn't matter how long it's been since they 00:10:40.659 --> 00:10:42.480 passed away It's like every day you think of 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.659 something to ask them and you think I got a call 00:10:44.659 --> 00:10:48.299 Whoever it is and of course you can't because 00:10:48.299 --> 00:10:51.940 The phone doesn't reach that far but um So there's 00:10:51.940 --> 00:10:53.940 always something I need to ask him about how 00:10:53.940 --> 00:10:56.759 he did things and how things should be done And 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.840 what he thinks of this, but yeah newsline is 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:02.679 pretty amazing. I said episode number 2 ,000 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:08.460 And it actually went for 37 years uninterrupted 00:11:08.460 --> 00:11:14.399 never missed a week until Last year when or year 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:17.059 before last I guess when when bill got sick like 00:11:17.059 --> 00:11:20.700 on a on a Wednesday night and Could not finish 00:11:20.700 --> 00:11:22.720 writing the script. He went into the hospital 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:25.940 and so we did not have newsline that week and 00:11:25.940 --> 00:11:27.779 it was off for a couple of weeks and then he 00:11:27.779 --> 00:11:30.259 got to where he brought his laptop into the hospital 00:11:30.259 --> 00:11:31.820 with him and was able to write scripts and we 00:11:31.820 --> 00:11:33.899 went back into production and then he got ill 00:11:33.899 --> 00:11:37.600 again and And and then of course when he passed 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.120 away And we took about a month off, I think, 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:44.299 something like that, just to regroup. But we're 00:11:44.299 --> 00:11:49.820 back now. And Karen Eve Murray, KD2GUT in New 00:11:49.820 --> 00:11:52.779 York, has taken over the writing, because that's 00:11:52.779 --> 00:11:55.240 the hardest part. It's easy to sit here in front 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:59.580 of a microphone and read words off of a script. 00:12:00.659 --> 00:12:03.240 It's the writing of the script. That's the whole 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:06.259 heart and soul of it. I'm just a guy yakking 00:12:06.259 --> 00:12:09.360 into a yakker. Yeah, we're the guys that, you 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:13.159 know, well, I can read out loud. Yeah. I've got 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.220 this really deep voice thing going. Yeah. Yeah. 00:12:16.220 --> 00:12:18.860 And that's what we do. And it's, and it sounds 00:12:18.860 --> 00:12:20.659 really good in my headphones. I don't care if 00:12:20.659 --> 00:12:24.399 you like it, but man, I'm digging this. So, but, 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:26.659 but so, and she jumped right in and it was, it 00:12:26.659 --> 00:12:30.720 was, um, it's very funny. She, she basically, 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.360 we, we put up on the Facebook page, um, that 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:36.000 we were looking for, for help. And she's one 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.450 of the ones who. went to Skeeter Nash because 00:12:38.450 --> 00:12:41.649 I was I was taking night classes during the time 00:12:41.649 --> 00:12:43.450 and there was about for about two or three months 00:12:43.450 --> 00:12:45.629 that I wasn't even on Newsline and it was right 00:12:45.629 --> 00:12:47.269 around the time that Bill was sick unfortunately 00:12:47.269 --> 00:12:51.009 so Skeeter took over the N5ASH and I remember 00:12:51.009 --> 00:12:53.789 vividly it was a Sunday night my phone rang I'm 00:12:53.789 --> 00:12:56.169 sitting in here in the radio room I was just 00:12:56.169 --> 00:12:58.370 on 40 meters earlier in fact checking into something 00:12:58.370 --> 00:13:00.509 but I'm sitting in here in the phone rings and 00:13:00.509 --> 00:13:02.330 I see it's you know it's Topeka Kansas so I pick 00:13:02.330 --> 00:13:04.409 up the phone at Skeeter he goes hey I've got 00:13:04.409 --> 00:13:07.509 Bill on the phone I'm like Bill who he goes Pasternak 00:13:07.509 --> 00:13:10.629 really so the three of us are sitting there talking 00:13:10.629 --> 00:13:14.509 and Bill's voice was so frail and None of the 00:13:14.509 --> 00:13:16.169 usual joking it was that we were all we were 00:13:16.169 --> 00:13:21.250 talking about newsline and I could tell Just 00:13:21.250 --> 00:13:24.070 from the the way the conversation was going that 00:13:24.070 --> 00:13:26.370 that we were talking about the continuation we 00:13:26.370 --> 00:13:31.330 were talking about life after bill and Skeeter 00:13:31.330 --> 00:13:34.029 said well, we've got someone who I think is is 00:13:34.029 --> 00:13:36.820 going to be able to to write the copy for us 00:13:36.820 --> 00:13:39.460 every week. Her name is Karen and she's a New 00:13:39.460 --> 00:13:42.399 Ham and she lives in New York and he's rattling 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.820 off her resume essentially. She wrote for New 00:13:45.820 --> 00:13:48.139 York Newsday, she did some broadcasting as well, 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:51.200 I do believe, and all I can hear Bill saying 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:54.840 in the background is hire her, hire her, hire 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:59.820 her, hire her, hire her, and so we did and it 00:13:59.820 --> 00:14:06.690 is, it's amazing the life that that I so I so 00:14:06.690 --> 00:14:09.210 look forward to anchoring news line and and reading 00:14:09.210 --> 00:14:12.929 her stories because her sense of humor, which 00:14:12.929 --> 00:14:16.970 is considerable just Leaps right off the page 00:14:16.970 --> 00:14:19.470 or the screen depending on whether or not you've 00:14:19.470 --> 00:14:22.330 killed a tree and printed it but it's just I 00:14:22.330 --> 00:14:24.730 love I love reading her words she has been an 00:14:24.730 --> 00:14:28.210 absolute godsend and and So it's it's kind of 00:14:28.210 --> 00:14:31.409 the three of us. I guess me Skeeter and Karen 00:14:31.409 --> 00:14:35.820 kind of spearheading everything tend to get a 00:14:35.820 --> 00:14:38.320 lot of the attention and I think that's only 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:42.980 because my face is on Ham nation every week and 00:14:42.980 --> 00:14:45.519 I'm probably the most visible part of the team 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:47.940 for amateur radio news line But believe me it 00:14:47.940 --> 00:14:50.580 ain't me And it's not just skater and it's not 00:14:50.580 --> 00:14:52.679 just Karen. It's everybody and it's it's you 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:56.179 now as well Neil as we've we've We've we've conned 00:14:56.179 --> 00:14:58.200 you into I mean we've we brought you into the 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:02.220 fold And by the way, we're going to double your 00:15:02.220 --> 00:15:04.940 pay next year from nothing to twice nothing. 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:08.259 Got that looking forward. Got that looking forward 00:15:08.259 --> 00:15:15.399 to you. But it's an entire team and it could 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.440 not exist without the teamwork. And that was 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:23.480 something that Bill, that was his talent. He 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:27.019 didn't have the best voice. He had a particular 00:15:27.019 --> 00:15:30.460 New York accent and a bit of a speech impediment. 00:15:31.700 --> 00:15:34.480 uh... and could be very verbose so you didn't 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:36.960 hear a whole lot of bill reading but his his 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:39.620 talent was in putting people together and i said 00:15:39.620 --> 00:15:42.220 we just put the wraps are getting a uh... report 00:15:42.220 --> 00:15:45.419 number two thousand will actually be posted tomorrow 00:15:45.419 --> 00:15:49.480 sometime I've got about a 13 -minute segment 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:52.059 at the end of it talking about the beginnings 00:15:52.059 --> 00:15:54.200 of Newsline and some of the history of Newsline 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:55.960 and how it began and how it was put together 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:59.240 back in Los Angeles in the early days. And we've 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:03.720 got some audio of Roy Neal from 1999 anchoring 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:08.159 a newscast. Of course, Roy Neal, the voice of 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.960 the space program on NBC back for Apollo 11 and 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:14.820 Apollo 13 and Skylab and all that other stuff. 00:16:15.220 --> 00:16:18.059 And the man who basically But ham radio in space 00:16:18.059 --> 00:16:22.100 spearheaded the the heiress program for for ham 00:16:22.100 --> 00:16:24.159 radio in space and it's just it's an amazing 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:27.340 history of how it began from very very humble 00:16:27.340 --> 00:16:29.840 beginnings is something that has lasted 40 years 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:36.100 and. Is something that I don't think I'm I don't 00:16:36.100 --> 00:16:38.879 think I'm being facetious when I say that it's 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:44.080 it's something that that a lot of other ham radio 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:48.820 newscasts or. Bulletin programs are kind of are 00:16:48.820 --> 00:16:53.639 kind of based on or judged against it's um It's 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:56.500 it's it's an amazing thing and and to have been 00:16:56.500 --> 00:17:01.480 involved with this From almost day one of me 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:05.579 me becoming a ham back in 1995 Is just an absolute 00:17:05.579 --> 00:17:10.200 honor and I miss bill every day Absolutely, and 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.700 I've noticed it seems like I don't know if you've 00:17:12.700 --> 00:17:17.250 noticed this but in just my short time Working 00:17:17.250 --> 00:17:21.289 and kind of taking a look at the script Before 00:17:21.289 --> 00:17:25.690 before it airs We refer to this we refer to this 00:17:25.690 --> 00:17:29.150 as your indentured servitude. Yes. Yes, exactly 00:17:29.150 --> 00:17:33.750 It seems like Karen's writing style has some 00:17:33.750 --> 00:17:37.089 hints of bill in it Yeah, and you know, she never 00:17:37.089 --> 00:17:39.890 met bill and has never never spoken with bill 00:17:39.890 --> 00:17:44.799 and and she's she's really She's not happy about 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:47.460 that. She would have loved to have gotten to 00:17:47.460 --> 00:17:49.359 know him ... and he her because their kindred 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:51.720 spirits are both ... from from from New York. 00:17:53.180 --> 00:17:56.880 But yeah she has she has gone back and I mean 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:58.759 she went ... back and looked at a and listen 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:01.500 to a bunch of previous ... news lines and yeah 00:18:01.500 --> 00:18:03.700 she I she kind of channels ... Mr. passion act 00:18:03.700 --> 00:18:06.759 but she has her own style she's very verbose 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:09.519 ... and and she just has these little twists 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:11.980 that she ... does and and I did I just love it 00:18:11.980 --> 00:18:14.700 she's. She's amazing. I hope we have her forever. 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.259 Yeah. She, she does a, an excellent job and, 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.160 uh, I look forward to, uh, doing my part, uh, 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:24.799 my little part in the, in the scheme of things 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:28.240 and, uh, getting things, uh, back up on some 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:30.880 of the repeaters around here too, was, was digging 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.240 around earlier. I'm not going to play it, but 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:37.259 found, uh, uh, an ID clip from 1998. What it 00:18:37.259 --> 00:18:41.779 would do was like, Every week you know was recording 00:18:41.779 --> 00:18:45.720 the thing to To put it on the repeater and so 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:49.740 whenever our repeater came up for the ID cycle 00:18:49.740 --> 00:18:52.980 and and you know You know you're on the years 00:18:52.980 --> 00:18:55.019 -wide area repeater network listening to news 00:18:55.019 --> 00:18:58.759 line. You know I'd save that and so we would 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:04.880 always play those during the ID break So that 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:07.539 way, you know, it was, you know, well, you know, 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:09.940 you're listening to news line on this repeater 00:19:09.940 --> 00:19:13.180 and now it's time, you know, to identify your 00:19:13.180 --> 00:19:16.480 station. And so we'd cover up the tones with, 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:20.519 you know, one of you guys saying. This is news 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:22.440 line heard on bulletin stations around the world, 00:19:22.660 --> 00:19:25.099 including the W nine EAR repeaters serving Indiana, 00:19:25.140 --> 00:19:28.059 Illinois and Kentucky. And, and we always look 00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:30.200 forward to that, that, you know, we would, we 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:33.589 would hear our. repeater on there. And, and so 00:19:33.589 --> 00:19:36.549 that was, uh, that was a lot of fun. And we're 00:19:36.549 --> 00:19:39.410 going to try to try to get that back. Um, and 00:19:39.410 --> 00:19:42.309 speaking of the talent on echo link, speaking 00:19:42.309 --> 00:19:45.910 of the tones, the mystery of why those tones 00:19:45.910 --> 00:19:48.970 are there will be revealed. You'll have to listen 00:19:48.970 --> 00:19:53.029 to the very end of newsline report. Number 2000, 00:19:53.029 --> 00:19:56.470 um, Robert Sudock, WB six FDF who, who first 00:19:56.470 --> 00:19:59.559 met bill. was one of what bill was one of bob's 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:01.539 first contacts is a new hand back in nineteen 00:20:01.539 --> 00:20:04.579 seventy three and westlake which was the predecessor 00:20:04.579 --> 00:20:07.859 of of news what newsline morphed from started 00:20:07.859 --> 00:20:10.859 nineteen seventy six so robert was there from 00:20:10.859 --> 00:20:14.500 literally day zero from before day one and and 00:20:14.500 --> 00:20:17.000 he was very instrumental in and helping me was 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:19.420 one of the voice early voices of news line and 00:20:19.420 --> 00:20:22.440 and uh... help put it all together but he explains 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:25.900 why there are tones and it's not what you think 00:20:26.600 --> 00:20:30.099 Pretty funny sounds like a good funny. We reveal 00:20:30.099 --> 00:20:32.799 some secrets. Yeah, we reveal some secrets some 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:35.519 Easter eggs Yes, we'll have to we'll have to 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:38.339 tune in and find those so Newsline number two 00:20:38.339 --> 00:20:41.359 thousand posting tomorrow. So be sure to check 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:45.539 that out And it's time right now to pay a few 00:20:45.539 --> 00:20:50.089 bills But we'll be back with more from Don Wilbanks 00:20:50.089 --> 00:20:53.730 AE5DW right after this word from one of our sponsors, 00:20:54.309 --> 00:20:57.130 The Ham Station, right here on Ham Talk Live. 00:20:57.990 --> 00:21:00.470 This episode of Ham Talk Live is brought to you 00:21:00.470 --> 00:21:03.930 by The Ham Station. 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Well I found out 00:23:50.029 --> 00:23:52.430 about Ham Nation a friend of mine actually told 00:23:52.430 --> 00:23:54.509 me he's a ham in Oklahoma who I went to high 00:23:54.509 --> 00:23:56.329 school with and he said yeah there's this new 00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:59.099 Internet TV show called ham nation that's that's 00:23:59.099 --> 00:24:01.420 going to ... start up he's a he's a big Leo Laporte 00:24:01.420 --> 00:24:02.960 twit fanatic and so I ... have to check that 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:05.519 out so I started watching it around ... episode 00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:08.220 two or three I got hooked on it because I mean 00:24:08.220 --> 00:24:11.400 ... Gordon West is a friend and Bob Hile is a 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.279 friend and and ... you know it's a it's it was 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:18.779 cool to watch my friends on ... Internet TV and 00:24:18.779 --> 00:24:23.059 it is really good show and then. Bill Pasternak 00:24:23.059 --> 00:24:26.930 told me said. This this would have been around. 00:24:26.930 --> 00:24:30.809 Oh, I don't know Week number 10 or 12, maybe 00:24:30.809 --> 00:24:36.250 he said um you know Bob asked me to ask us to 00:24:36.250 --> 00:24:39.609 to do something a news thing a new segment for 00:24:39.609 --> 00:24:43.630 ham nation and and so we're gonna do that and 00:24:43.630 --> 00:24:46.430 That's gonna be coming up like next week, and 00:24:46.430 --> 00:24:49.329 I'm like oh, that's cool, and so I watched it 00:24:49.329 --> 00:24:54.680 and and There was no new segment And so the watch 00:24:54.680 --> 00:24:56.579 the following week and there was no news ... 00:24:56.579 --> 00:24:58.880 segment. And I watched the following week and 00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:01.000 there was no news ... segment so I talked to 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:02.160 Bill I said I thought we were going ... to be 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:05.019 on ham nation he said well yeah we are but Robert 00:25:05.019 --> 00:25:09.700 ... Sudock WV6 FDF he's. He's all set up to do 00:25:09.700 --> 00:25:12.559 the video thing and but he's he's ... fallen 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:15.700 ill and I said well. I mean I don't know how 00:25:15.700 --> 00:25:17.119 long he's going to be sick but ... if you want 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:21.160 me to try it I mean you know all. I've got Skype. 00:25:21.420 --> 00:25:23.480 I'll jump on there and do it. I don't know how 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:25.740 good it'll be but I'll you know, okay great. 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:29.339 So that's how the ham nation news segment started. 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:34.779 I was the first one to do it filling in for Sudok 00:25:34.779 --> 00:25:38.039 and there was no video production. It was me 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:40.880 reading a script just my talking head on the 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:45.619 camera and you know, it's even even professionals 00:25:45.619 --> 00:25:47.940 have a hard time getting through a five -minute 00:25:47.940 --> 00:25:52.450 news script. All at once Especially with you 00:25:52.450 --> 00:25:54.349 know I mean I've never done TV before and they 00:25:54.349 --> 00:25:56.109 added pressure of being on camera and everything 00:25:56.109 --> 00:25:58.670 else But so it worked out okay, and then and 00:25:58.670 --> 00:26:02.170 then Bob came back He got better and so Bob took 00:26:02.170 --> 00:26:05.710 it over, and I was just amazed at his video production 00:26:05.710 --> 00:26:07.910 It was really really good, and I loved watching 00:26:07.910 --> 00:26:10.490 it plus He's got this this deep resonant voice, 00:26:10.529 --> 00:26:13.630 and he's a been a broadcaster since the 60s out 00:26:13.630 --> 00:26:18.109 in California So well he he fell ill again Bob 00:26:19.750 --> 00:26:23.329 Bob has had cancer, but his main thing is his 00:26:23.329 --> 00:26:25.269 back. And in fact, right now he's still in a 00:26:25.269 --> 00:26:28.809 rehab facility for his back. But anyway, he had 00:26:28.809 --> 00:26:31.769 to step down. So I stepped back into it and I've 00:26:31.769 --> 00:26:34.069 been doing it ever since. And it's been several 00:26:34.069 --> 00:26:36.410 years now. I mean, you know, however long pretty 00:26:36.410 --> 00:26:39.950 much Ham Nation's been on. So that's how that's 00:26:39.950 --> 00:26:43.130 how I got started with Ham Nation and doing the 00:26:43.130 --> 00:26:46.809 the video news segment. And like I told like 00:26:46.809 --> 00:26:52.269 I told Sudok, Which you'll hear in the In the 00:26:52.269 --> 00:26:54.589 in the newsline thing. I'm I'm just keeping his 00:26:54.589 --> 00:26:57.269 chair warm. I mean, I'm you know, he's he's the 00:26:57.269 --> 00:27:01.250 guy he's he's the man But so that's that's that's 00:27:01.250 --> 00:27:03.130 how that happens. So that's that's how newsline 00:27:03.130 --> 00:27:06.349 got to be on on ham nation So and then they gave 00:27:06.349 --> 00:27:10.410 you the pressure of being the spokesperson Well, 00:27:10.410 --> 00:27:13.349 I kind of you know, I kind of adopted that because 00:27:13.349 --> 00:27:19.539 it's what I do and so I asked Bob I said I mean 00:27:19.539 --> 00:27:22.140 if you guys are comfortable reading commercials 00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:24.740 ... hell I do that for a living I mean I'm perfectly 00:27:24.740 --> 00:27:27.819 and ... he's like yeah go ahead so that's kind 00:27:27.819 --> 00:27:30.839 of how I kind of I ... kind of I kind of jumped 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:32.980 into that not because I ... necessarily wanted 00:27:32.980 --> 00:27:34.640 to just thought that you know I mean ... it's 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:38.119 what I do it's probably the most logical person 00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:42.119 ... there to do it so absolutely and all the 00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:47.980 ad lib and. Crazy yeah, it adds a lot to the 00:27:47.980 --> 00:27:50.759 show and so thank you really really I get I get 00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:54.039 I get a lot of emails from about ham nation and 00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:57.420 most of them are literally Hey, I tried the Harry's 00:27:57.420 --> 00:27:59.140 razor out. I got another one today. As a matter 00:27:59.140 --> 00:28:04.319 of fact guy even sent me a picture So that's 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:07.019 awesome, so yeah, it's you know, it's pretty 00:28:07.019 --> 00:28:11.519 cool and And yeah, the Harry stuff is good. So 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:14.480 There's a There's an unpaid plug for Harry's 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:17.059 yeah well well we've got another one here coming 00:28:17.059 --> 00:28:19.700 up in a minute you don't know about but yeah 00:28:19.700 --> 00:28:24.660 yeah. So what's what's probably your favorite 00:28:24.660 --> 00:28:30.440 thing to do on on ham nation. I you know I really 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:33.220 enjoy I enjoy the news I really do I enjoy the 00:28:33.220 --> 00:28:39.579 and I enjoy. I enjoy when Tamitha scov. Is part 00:28:39.579 --> 00:28:42.319 of of my news segment I kind of discovered her. 00:28:43.390 --> 00:28:46.210 There was a story about big sunspots and I had 00:28:46.210 --> 00:28:47.589 been ... actually paying a little bit of attention 00:28:47.589 --> 00:28:50.269 to her. And I saw one of her videos and I'm like 00:28:50.269 --> 00:28:52.890 my God this is ... great so I I I emailed her 00:28:52.890 --> 00:28:55.150 and I said hey I'd like to I'd ... like to use 00:28:55.150 --> 00:28:59.250 some of your video in this. An audio in news 00:28:59.250 --> 00:29:02.170 line and in this. In this in this ham nation 00:29:02.170 --> 00:29:03.950 video thing and I ... explained to her you know 00:29:03.950 --> 00:29:05.769 what it was and she ... email me right back so 00:29:05.769 --> 00:29:07.710 yes please I know about ham ... radio because 00:29:07.710 --> 00:29:10.000 the guy that does my website is a ham. He lives 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:12.039 in Norman, Oklahoma like why I'm from Oklahoma. 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:14.960 So really so anyway, so that's yes, please Anything 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:16.880 you need just let me know and feel free to use 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:19.480 anything and so I said well great what I made 00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:22.180 may start doing is is using these videos or at 00:29:22.180 --> 00:29:24.380 least part of them in the news segment every 00:29:24.380 --> 00:29:27.059 week and it became wildly popular and then the 00:29:27.059 --> 00:29:30.039 next thing, you know, she's invited by Tim Duffy 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:33.440 and DX engineering in the as me group to attend 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:39.250 Dayton to present her her To present a talk on 00:29:39.250 --> 00:29:44.049 solar weather at the Dayton antenna forum last 00:29:44.049 --> 00:29:47.529 year and If you've not seen that on YouTube you 00:29:47.529 --> 00:29:49.670 definitely need to go and look for it because 00:29:49.670 --> 00:29:54.009 it's absolutely amazing. She is She is one of 00:29:54.009 --> 00:29:57.750 the smartest people I know and just just as sweet 00:29:57.750 --> 00:30:04.119 as as Just as sweet as she can be and brilliant 00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:08.059 and has has a lot of fun with this and Her plans 00:30:08.059 --> 00:30:10.880 are to become a ham, but she has a she has a 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.319 young child and a and a very very heavy workload 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:18.140 So it's it's all coming, but that's that's probably 00:30:18.140 --> 00:30:21.319 my the coolest thing is is just doing the new 00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:24.519 segment and being able to Introduce Tammoth a 00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:27.200 skove to the ham radio community because they 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:29.970 have Just they have fallen in love with her. 00:30:30.130 --> 00:30:32.630 Yeah. She came by the instructors forum at Dayton 00:30:32.630 --> 00:30:35.589 too. And I was able to meet her out in the lobby 00:30:35.589 --> 00:30:38.589 for a few minutes. And she was in New Orleans. 00:30:38.589 --> 00:30:41.049 She was in New Orleans last, last month. Actually 00:30:41.049 --> 00:30:44.809 she came down for a meteorological symposium. 00:30:44.950 --> 00:30:46.890 They invited her to come down and talk about 00:30:46.890 --> 00:30:50.470 solar weather. So I got to have lunch with her, 00:30:50.549 --> 00:30:52.670 her husband and her and her little eight year 00:30:52.670 --> 00:30:57.250 old daughter. just awesome. As it turned out, 00:30:57.390 --> 00:30:59.029 the New Orleans Convention Center is like a mile 00:30:59.029 --> 00:31:02.869 from my work, so we kind of walked and met in 00:31:02.869 --> 00:31:05.069 the middle at a really nice little restaurant 00:31:05.069 --> 00:31:07.849 there in the Central Business District and just 00:31:07.849 --> 00:31:09.849 had the best visit. Yeah, she's a sweetheart. 00:31:10.329 --> 00:31:14.009 Yeah, I talked to her about talking to some of 00:31:14.009 --> 00:31:17.509 the kids at school about some of the solar weather 00:31:17.509 --> 00:31:20.349 and they're excited about it, so hopefully we'll 00:31:20.349 --> 00:31:23.650 make that happen at some point. But my favorite 00:31:23.650 --> 00:31:28.309 thing to do in ham radio, period, has nothing 00:31:28.309 --> 00:31:33.650 to do with operating. It's as a volunteer examiner. 00:31:33.950 --> 00:31:37.849 I love, love, love being part of test sessions. 00:31:38.009 --> 00:31:41.269 I love being able to sign someone's CSCE. I think 00:31:41.269 --> 00:31:44.049 that is just, to me that's like one of the coolest 00:31:44.049 --> 00:31:47.009 things that I can do because everyone probably 00:31:47.009 --> 00:31:51.420 still has. their CSCE somewhere from when, you 00:31:51.420 --> 00:31:53.019 know, when they got their first ticket or whatever. 00:31:53.019 --> 00:31:55.240 And you'd look back on that and see these signatures 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:58.619 and, and, you know, to be part of someone's, 00:31:58.619 --> 00:32:01.700 uh, ham radio history, either in the very beginning 00:32:01.700 --> 00:32:03.779 or when they upgraded, they finally get that 00:32:03.779 --> 00:32:06.400 extra and have your signature on that piece of 00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:09.420 paper signifying, um, that milestone of that 00:32:09.420 --> 00:32:11.500 achievement to me is just a huge honor. I love 00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:15.000 being a VE. Oh, absolutely. I've done a lot of 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:20.019 that too. And it's, it's great. So, um, we have 00:32:20.019 --> 00:32:25.519 this other thing planned here. So, um, I think 00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:28.180 we're going to do this and this is something 00:32:28.180 --> 00:32:31.539 I've been looking forward to all week. So right 00:32:31.539 --> 00:32:33.720 now, ladies and gentlemen, for the first time 00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:36.859 in ham radio media history, at least that I know 00:32:36.859 --> 00:32:39.980 of, we're going to play a game show. You are 00:32:39.980 --> 00:32:43.259 so star for entertainment. Since Don is so much 00:32:43.259 --> 00:32:45.339 fun when he doesn't have to be serious and he's 00:32:45.339 --> 00:32:47.869 probably the only guest. That I'll ever have 00:32:47.869 --> 00:32:50.230 that's crazy enough to do anything this silly. 00:32:50.450 --> 00:32:53.910 It's time to play the am talk live version of 00:32:53.910 --> 00:32:57.990 would you rather. Oh Lord. All right. Let me 00:32:57.990 --> 00:33:00.930 strap in. I don't think I'm ready. Strap in, 00:33:00.930 --> 00:33:04.869 strap in and here we go. Okay. So, so here's 00:33:04.869 --> 00:33:09.549 the, the first one. And by the way, uh, if you 00:33:09.549 --> 00:33:11.789 play along at home, you can do this on Twitter 00:33:11.789 --> 00:33:15.970 or my, my My assistant Nick is standing by on 00:33:15.970 --> 00:33:18.809 Twitter to post this on Twitter so you can vote 00:33:18.809 --> 00:33:21.869 and talk live and you can you can vote on some 00:33:21.869 --> 00:33:25.490 of these. So would you rather get an RF burn 00:33:25.490 --> 00:33:31.990 or an electrical shock? I have had both. And 00:33:31.990 --> 00:33:35.269 the RF burn lasts longer, so I would rather have 00:33:35.269 --> 00:33:38.920 the jolt than the burn. Yeah, that's. I ran this 00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:40.960 by some of the kids and they said the same ... 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:43.859 thing so yeah would you rather be locked up in 00:33:43.859 --> 00:33:46.660 a room ... for an entire day with Bob Heil or 00:33:46.660 --> 00:33:53.480 Gordon West. Wow see now that's. As much as I 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:55.700 love Gordon I think it would probably ... probably 00:33:55.700 --> 00:34:00.680 be Bob because. Some of some of the coolest moments 00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:03.119 or or periods of ... time I've spent one of them 00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:07.980 was in in Huntsville ... Alabama last year. Went 00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:10.300 out to dinner with Bob. It was me Bob and Joe 00:34:10.300 --> 00:34:14.179 Eisenberg k0neb and when you get Bob by himself 00:34:14.179 --> 00:34:16.539 I mean you can see yeah, you see Bob at ham fest 00:34:16.539 --> 00:34:18.820 and it's cool and everything But you're in the 00:34:18.820 --> 00:34:22.659 middle of a human pileup when you can get Bob 00:34:22.659 --> 00:34:30.360 just by himself School is in session all the 00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:33.920 stories from his rock and roll days and his and 00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:38.610 talking about You know clips His mentor, um, 00:34:39.150 --> 00:34:43.650 and just everything, just, oh my God. Now taking 00:34:43.650 --> 00:34:46.630 nothing, nothing away from Gordon because, um, 00:34:46.809 --> 00:34:49.570 back in, uh, was it 99, 2000, something like 00:34:49.570 --> 00:34:51.949 that. One of, I think it may have been 2000, 00:34:52.289 --> 00:34:56.030 my second trip to Dayton. Um, I'm talking to 00:34:56.030 --> 00:34:57.510 Gordon and he's like, well, I'm going to be in 00:34:57.510 --> 00:35:00.349 New Orleans, like in a couple of months. Um, 00:35:00.369 --> 00:35:03.289 if you want, I'll, um, I'll do one of my, one 00:35:03.289 --> 00:35:05.369 of my, uh, my stage shows. If you want to put 00:35:05.369 --> 00:35:07.829 that together and find a venue. I'll do it for 00:35:07.829 --> 00:35:09.170 free since I'm going to be there for business 00:35:09.170 --> 00:35:13.050 and I said sure so I put together the the Gordon 00:35:13.050 --> 00:35:16.469 West appearance in New Orleans and so I got to 00:35:16.469 --> 00:35:19.010 spend some good quality time with Gordon to actually 00:35:19.010 --> 00:35:21.670 drove around in my pickup truck with a cassette 00:35:21.670 --> 00:35:24.369 recorder and I interviewed him for Newsline just 00:35:24.369 --> 00:35:27.030 driving around. in the truck. Gordon came to 00:35:27.030 --> 00:35:29.469 my house and met Don and Tyler. Tyler was not 00:35:29.469 --> 00:35:32.849 quite a year old. And then we took Gordon, myself 00:35:32.849 --> 00:35:35.570 and two or three, four people from the Ham radio 00:35:35.570 --> 00:35:39.289 club, we took Gordon out on a swamp tour where 00:35:39.289 --> 00:35:42.750 Gordon fed Marshmallows to alligators. So I've 00:35:42.750 --> 00:35:44.630 had I've had some cool one -on -one time with 00:35:44.630 --> 00:35:47.050 both of those guys But I got to tell you it's 00:35:47.050 --> 00:35:49.889 so special to just sit alone with Hile and just 00:35:49.889 --> 00:35:53.230 listen Especially for an audio guy and you know 00:35:53.230 --> 00:35:55.630 a rock and roll guy like myself. It's just it's 00:35:55.630 --> 00:35:58.929 it's golden All right, we're running out of time. 00:35:58.929 --> 00:36:00.929 So we're gonna have to go rapid fire here. So 00:36:00.929 --> 00:36:02.949 I know I'm long Okay, here's the next one hit 00:36:02.949 --> 00:36:06.110 by a live turkey dropped from a helicopter or 00:36:06.110 --> 00:36:09.780 your city attacked by a monster lizard As God 00:36:09.780 --> 00:36:17.039 is my witness. Exactly WK RP OK drop by a turkey 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:21.440 or my city attack you know I could. I would probably 00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:23.699 be mesmerized by the side of this turkey falling 00:36:23.699 --> 00:36:25.960 on me that I wouldn't be able to to to avoid 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:29.239 it but but having grown up in Oklahoma and spent 00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:31.579 lots of time down here I know how to run away 00:36:31.579 --> 00:36:34.400 from both tornadoes and hurricanes so I think 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.050 I'll take the lizard. All right, go without internet 00:36:37.050 --> 00:36:39.969 for a week or radio waves for a week now radio 00:36:39.969 --> 00:36:46.030 waves includes Wi -Fi Well Wi -Fi internet would 00:36:46.030 --> 00:36:49.590 be the same thing so well, yeah, oh man do I 00:36:49.590 --> 00:36:54.630 have to I Don't know I'd probably just have to 00:36:54.630 --> 00:36:58.969 sleep Okay, get cut by a Harry's razor or take 00:36:58.969 --> 00:37:03.269 the wrong person's pill pack. Oh I've never been 00:37:03.269 --> 00:37:07.389 cut by Harry's razor So probably take the wrong 00:37:07.389 --> 00:37:10.929 person's pill pack because that would Well, you 00:37:10.929 --> 00:37:12.130 know, I mean you don't want to you don't want 00:37:12.130 --> 00:37:15.010 to mix It's just like being pulled over by the 00:37:15.010 --> 00:37:17.869 by the policeman and and he says sir Have you 00:37:17.869 --> 00:37:19.550 been drinking and your friend over in the shotgun 00:37:19.550 --> 00:37:22.750 seat says are you insane? Do you think this man 00:37:22.750 --> 00:37:25.570 is dumb enough to mix alcohol and drugs? You 00:37:25.570 --> 00:37:29.469 know take a sledgehammer to a TS 2000 or an IC 00:37:29.469 --> 00:37:37.000 7100 The 2000 would be a bigger target and I 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:39.239 had a 2000 get hit by lightning. So I've kind 00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:41.699 of done that already. So I'll say take the sledgehammer 00:37:41.699 --> 00:37:45.199 to the 2000 because I never did like that radio. 00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:49.360 Oh no. Okay. Tell your wife that you, how much 00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:52.119 you really paid for your radio gear or climb 00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.000 your tower in a rainstorm to replace, replace 00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:00.610 the feed line. Climb the tower. Oh, wow. Work 00:38:00.610 --> 00:38:03.489 the sewage pumper truck at the Hamvention or 00:38:03.489 --> 00:38:08.570 the complaint desk. The complaint desk. No one 00:38:08.570 --> 00:38:12.230 wants to be a Rubkey Ranger. Program all the 00:38:12.230 --> 00:38:14.829 channels in your handheld manually or take the 00:38:14.829 --> 00:38:18.269 extra class test over. As I'm looking at my bofang, 00:38:18.309 --> 00:38:20.230 I believe I'd rather take the extra test over. 00:38:20.469 --> 00:38:23.550 Yeah, I think so. Spend an entire evening on 00:38:23.550 --> 00:38:30.809 14313 or 3898. Oh, God. Um, does the radio have 00:38:30.809 --> 00:38:39.809 to be on? Yes. Um, how much can I drink? And 00:38:39.809 --> 00:38:42.929 what, what time of the day it is because I want 00:38:42.929 --> 00:38:44.909 to pick the one with the least least propagation. 00:38:45.530 --> 00:38:47.670 There you go. There you go. Well, there you have 00:38:47.670 --> 00:38:52.789 it folks. It's the ham talk live version. Would 00:38:52.789 --> 00:38:55.670 you rather? Would you rather? And thank you, 00:38:55.730 --> 00:38:58.429 but I'd rather not. Dodd Wilbanks. All contestants 00:38:58.429 --> 00:39:00.389 on HamTalk Live. Would you rather do not win 00:39:00.389 --> 00:39:03.110 a new car? Do not win a home version of the game 00:39:03.110 --> 00:39:05.530 and do not even win a measly box of Rice Aroney, 00:39:05.630 --> 00:39:08.610 the San Francisco tree. Be sure to tune in next 00:39:08.610 --> 00:39:10.949 time to HamTalk Live. 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So call us 00:41:08.909 --> 00:41:13.809 on Skype at HamTalk Live or by telephone at 812 00:41:13.809 --> 00:41:17.250 -NET -HAM -1. If you have a question for Don, 00:41:17.449 --> 00:41:20.909 we will try to get that in. And we're running 00:41:20.909 --> 00:41:25.800 short on time as usual this evening. So. We get 00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:29.280 45 minutes on on Spreaker without breaking the 00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:33.519 bank. So We're gonna have to do this quickly. 00:41:33.940 --> 00:41:37.039 So If you want to call in now's your chance, 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:41.239 we're gonna have to do this pretty quick and 00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:44.400 then we'll have Nick tell us the results of our 00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:50.000 poll here real quick, but Yeah, the I don't know 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:53.139 the the the the pill pack thing. I don't know 00:41:53.139 --> 00:41:57.659 That was scary No, it's pretty cool No, but if 00:41:57.659 --> 00:42:00.039 you get the wrong person spill well, yeah. Yeah. 00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:03.400 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the idea is great Yeah, 00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:06.039 the idea is great, but great for travel too. 00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:09.269 Oh, yeah Yeah, you know what one thing we haven't 00:42:09.269 --> 00:42:10.829 talked about yet is ... Youngham of the year 00:42:10.829 --> 00:42:13.269 and we do we do that every year and ... we're 00:42:13.269 --> 00:42:15.349 looking forward to doing it again and we should 00:42:15.349 --> 00:42:18.389 be ... opening up the nominating period probably 00:42:18.389 --> 00:42:21.849 in the next a ... few weeks or so for Youngham 00:42:21.849 --> 00:42:23.769 of the year so we ... definitely get get that 00:42:23.769 --> 00:42:27.550 information in there. Okay very good and we will 00:42:27.550 --> 00:42:30.530 talk about that before that ... happens and Nick 00:42:30.530 --> 00:42:33.789 says that electrical shock is running ahead. 00:42:34.269 --> 00:42:37.110 And it's pretty even split on internet versus 00:42:37.110 --> 00:42:41.449 radio. And the extra and the handheld programming 00:42:41.449 --> 00:42:46.150 is pretty split evenly too. So I'll leave those 00:42:46.150 --> 00:42:49.389 up for a few days. RF burns hurt, man. I'd much 00:42:49.389 --> 00:42:51.070 rather take the jolt than the RF burn. Those 00:42:51.070 --> 00:42:55.809 things hurt for a long time. They do. Well, Don, 00:42:55.869 --> 00:42:57.869 I want to thank you for coming on. And we've 00:42:57.869 --> 00:43:01.230 had a blast here tonight. And as usual, ran out 00:43:01.230 --> 00:43:06.679 of time. We hope we'll get you conned into coming 00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:09.179 back here at some point. Anytime. This is fun. 00:43:09.539 --> 00:43:11.000 Yeah, I'm enjoying this. And we'll get back and 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:12.940 talk about Young Ham of the Year. We've got tons 00:43:12.940 --> 00:43:15.179 to talk about with that, so we'll ... Oh yeah. 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:21.059 Always something new. Tie in another show and 00:43:21.059 --> 00:43:24.719 take you away from production for a little while 00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:29.219 on Thursday night, your Newsline night. And get 00:43:29.219 --> 00:43:31.460 you back here on the show. So thanks again for 00:43:31.460 --> 00:43:33.340 doing any time. Thank you Neil. I appreciate 00:43:33.340 --> 00:43:35.900 the invite All right. Well, thanks to Don well 00:43:35.900 --> 00:43:38.280 banks a you five DW and all the callers listeners 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:41.079 out there in cyberspace and We invite you all 00:43:41.079 --> 00:43:43.420 back next Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern time 00:43:43.420 --> 00:43:46.940 when my guest will be Gary Pierce KN4 aq the 00:43:46.940 --> 00:43:51.300 host of ham radio now And for a list of all of 00:43:51.300 --> 00:43:53.840 our upcoming guests visit ham talk live comm 00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:56.440 so for now with Don will banks This is Neil rap 00:43:57.420 --> 00:44:00.300 WB9VPG saying seven three seven five and may 00:44:00.300 --> 00:44:03.199 the good DX be yours