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Good evening everybody, this is the demo episode

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of HamTalk Live. entitled Getting to Know Your

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Host, and that's recorded on Monday, February

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1st, 2016. I am the aforementioned host Neil

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Rapp. My call sign is WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning

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in to the demo episode of HamTalk Live. HamTalk

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Live is a live call -in talk radio show on the

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internet every Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern

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Time. starting on February 18th. For 30 minutes

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we hope to entertain and educate people with

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ham radio. What makes this show a little different

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from other shows is that we broadcast live, which

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can be a scary thing sometimes. You can't go

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back and fix the mistakes, but we're going to

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give it a try. The other thing that's a little

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different from a lot of podcasts is we're going

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to take calls from you the listener. To get the

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show started, the first few weeks we're going

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to take a special guest each week to interview,

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and then at the end of the show you'll be able

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to Skype in or call in and ask questions. Now

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again, this is live radio, so we don't know what's

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going to happen. I'm a little nervous about taking

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a chance with some QRM, but at least we don't

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have to worry about the FCC revoking our license

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or anything on the internet, right? So I hope

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the callers will be courteous and supportive

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of the show and if we run into trouble we'll

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try to find a way to fix that. But as the show

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grows we hope to have some nights where we just

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take some calls and talk about whatever's happening

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in Ham Radio. We've got some fabulous guests

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lined up for the next few weeks and as we get

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closer to Dayton, Hamvention... We're going to

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do a little preview of some of the activities

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there. Our first guest is going to be Dr. Scott

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Wright, K0MD. Scott is a cardiologist with the

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Mayo Clinic and, like me, has been a ham since

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childhood. He's a well -known contester, DXer,

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and he's been on several DXpeditions, so I'm

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excited to have him on as my very first guest.

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After that, Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, has agreed to

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come on the show. Don's a professional broadcaster

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and the fearless leader at Amateur Radio Newsline

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and co -host of the popular video podcast Ham

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Nation on Twitch TV. Don will be joining us before

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too long. We have a list of other people that

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we're working on. but I wanted to do a little

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demo here first so that people can kind of get

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an idea of the show and let you get to know me

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in case you don't already. I became a ham when

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I was five years old and at the time was the

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youngest one in the world. That record doesn't

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hold up anymore but at the time it was the record

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and it all started when my dad got a code oscillator

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out of the closet and decided that he would give

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ham radio a try. His high school electronics

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teacher in Mount Vernon, Illinois, Max Pemberton,

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K4HAX, introduced him to ham radio in high school

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and he never did get his license, but it planted

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a seed and he went to work for Thordes and Meisner

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in Mount Carmel, Illinois and then as a TV repairman

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in Vincennes, Indiana and then went to work at

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Good Samaritan Hospital as a biomedical electronic

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technician and when he saw a flyer for a non

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-credit course at the local junior college of

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Vincennes University he decided that he was going

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to give it a shot and he was going to get his

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license so Max had planted a seed in him that

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ended up growing and he decided well you know

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I'll take my son along. He's only five years

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old and there was a restriction on the class.

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He had to be at least 13 and there was a girl

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that was there that was right around 13 or so

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and a little bit on the younger side and she

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was just coming along and so dad asked, well,

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you know, can I bring my son along? He'll sit

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here and be quiet. he won't cause any disruption

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and they said well yeah as long as he doesn't

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cause any any disruptions you know doesn't interfere

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with the class it'll it'll be fine but if he

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causes any kind of you know disruption to the

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class then then no you're not going to be able

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to do that so um so anyway he took me and i was

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i was a pretty good kid and i you know dad sat

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there with his notebook copying morse code and

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So I took my notebook along and I started copying

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Morris code and uh, people kind of looked around

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and was like, wait a sec. This five year old

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is copying Morris code. Uh, maybe this kid could

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actually do it. And so I went with him every

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week and, um, Finally they they came time to

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give the five words per minute code test and

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I went ahead and took it and You had to get 25

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characters solid copy 25 characters in a row

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without any Mistakes and I got 23 So I didn't

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pass the first time around so that was a little

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Little disappointed but came back the next time

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and copied a hundred and four in a row. So They

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said oh well, I guess a five -year -old can do

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this so they mailed off for for my test and Took

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the test It was delayed a little bit because

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I didn't know how to write in cursive. I didn't

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know how to sign my name and I printed my name

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and the 610, the Form 610 which now it's a 605

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but the Form 610 from the FCC never did come

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back and you know it said well you know it's

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not properly filled out so we filled it out again

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and dad helped me write in cursive to sign my

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name and The test arrived, so I took it in the

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basement of a guy down the street who was teaching

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the theory part, Howard Hazelman, K9SLV, and

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sent it off. Bill Sage, K9IHU, was my code instructor.

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He was a lifelong Elmer and mentor and someone

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very, very near to my heart. but they helped

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me through and The license came so It came on

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a Saturday morning and my dad had been called

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to the hospital to work overtime and When the

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when the license came I turned on the radio and

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got on the air I didn't wait for dad to get home

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and mom was just think in total shock because

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I had gone ahead and got on the radio and lo

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and behold my first contact was Jim Cobb K3DIF

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who worked at the Associated Press in Washington

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DC and so I you know sent age five you know during

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the the exchange and he said oh wait a second

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you're you're a ham and you're five years old

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and so he investigated that a little bit and

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started doing a little digging and and decided

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that this was a news story and so word spread

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from there and So I ended up on TV and in a lot

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of magazines and things like that Upgraded to

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technician at age six General at 7, advanced

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at 9, and then that 20 words a minute code. I

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just didn't want to do it and along came the

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volunteer examining program and I wanted to help

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out with that and so at 18 I took the 20 words

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per minute. I had to take it several times. It

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wasn't so much copying the code as much as it

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was writing at 20 words a minute. I just didn't

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do well with that, but I finally got it and passed

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it and got my extra at age 18. So Ham Radio's

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been a part of most of my life. In fact, it'll

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be 40 years this coming July. I became interested

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in repeaters. I've spent a lot of time playing

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around with repeaters and new bells and whistles

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and trying out things that... interested me.

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That was a lot of fun and helped start operating

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the years wide area repeater network and one

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of the things I've been involved with most especially

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in recent years is teaching young people. Max

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planted that seed and Dad, Dad planted that seed

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in me and now I'm planting that seed at Bloomington

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High School South here in Bloomington, Indiana

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where I teach chemistry. but I also sponsor the

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ham radio club and you'll be hearing some more

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about that and I've been on ham nation recently

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about that so great club they're great students

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great parents many donors and sponsors have helped

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and it's just great that we can do that we do

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some contesting we do fox hunting little project

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building Personally, I enjoy FM. I still like

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FM and APRS and of course some HF, some DXing

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and PSK -31. I haven't branched out too much

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into a lot of digital modes. I used to do a lot

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of Ritty and ASCII and even some Amtor back when

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I was a kid, but PSK -31 seems to be about the

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only one that I That I do on a regular basis

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I can do some CW, but I haven't done it in a

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long time. It's usually in the classroom to show

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the kids I haven't made a live CW contact in

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a long time But if you have any questions about

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any of those things along the way, I'll do my

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best to answer those But maybe the best thing

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I can do is point you to the right person to

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ask. I've been very blessed to meet many knowledgeable

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and helpful hams over the years and we're going

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to invite those people on and we can point you

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in the right direction. So that's my story and

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hopefully as the show gets going we'll learn

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some of your stories. But right now it's time

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to take a quick break but I'll be back to take

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a call and then We'll wrap things up for the

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Live. Oh yeah, you're talking ham radio, baby.

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You're listening to Ham Talk Live with Neil Rapp.

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And welcome back to the demo episode of Ham Talk

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Live. I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, and we'd

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HamTalk Live every week. Be sure to listen every

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on February 18th right here on HamTalkLive .com.

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podcasts will have to get going a little bit

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before we get into those but you can definitely

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find us online. So the idea of the show is to

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take your calls so we're going to take one right

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now and once the show is going the best way to

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join us is on Skype at HamTalk Live so if you

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just get on Skype and add HamTalk Live. You can

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give us a call that way. And if you can't Skype

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us, you can call us. We have a phone number that's

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tied in Skype. It's 812 -NET -HAM -1. Again,

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that's 812 -NET -HAM -1. So you'll be able to

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give us a call. So right now we're going to take

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a call. And joining us this evening... Eric Bonham

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in 9KDB. He's one of the net controls with Central

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Indiana Skywarn and he's my best friend and helps

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out with the Ears Repeater organization. So Eric,

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welcome to the show. Well, thanks for having

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me. So one of the things that I wanted to talk

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about a little bit on this demo episode, so we

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have something to talk about. is the repeater

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network. We've done some work with the ears system

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and trying to get linked into Indianapolis and

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that was a little far to be linking from Vincennes

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to Indianapolis and so we were able to work out

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a system through Terre Haute. So why don't you

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explain how the Central Indiana Skywarn link

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system works and what that's used for and what

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needs to be on that system and what shouldn't

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be on that system. Okay, well the linking originates

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from up here in Indianapolis. The W9IC group,

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they allow us to use their system. They have

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a network of different repeaters that they link

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in. They've got an complex repeater of Freetown.

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Yeah, I believe they're linking into us Lafayette

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there's a repeater up there UHF another UHF machine

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I believe in northern Boone County There's also

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a two meter machine up there That's new this

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year or this past year. I should say There's

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some talk about Muncie, I believe down the road

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or somewhere around area and we link into Terre

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Haute. Over there the 44435 machine which in

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turns passed the traffic from VINCEMS on the

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Pierce repeater down there through Terre Haute

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then up to us. Okay, so during those nets what

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is the purpose of linking all these systems together?

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Well, to pass traffic as quickly as we can from

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especially farther out through the system to

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the National Weather Service in Indianapolis.

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We have a radio at the warning coordinators desk

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there and they monitor it. Whenever there's a

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net up, a few of those guys are hands out there

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or one of us will go out there. And we just pass

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traffic on and If we do have ham out there, we

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write down reports on these little forms that

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the Weather Service has and that gets passed

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along to their person taking those and then they

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log them and get them in the system for various

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reasons. Confirm warnings or pass along damage

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reports to local media and law enforcement, stuff

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like that. Okay, so you're collecting all this

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information from all the severe weather that's

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happening in the area. Does anybody call in on

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this network or is that restricted to certain

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people? Well, what we like for it to be is it's

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called it's in the incident command structure

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of reporting. So there's a net control And what

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ideally happens is each county or area of counties

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will have a separate weather net locally that

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they're doing. And what they would do is have

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liaisons from their particular local net calling

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reports to us rather than just have 100 hams

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on trying to call in stuff at the same time.

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We'll just do it in an orderly fashion by just

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one liaison from one net. So all the nets are

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basically checking into a bigger net Exactly

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to get everything accomplished. Okay. Yes. Yeah

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That seems like a a good system and Thank you

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for all that you do and mark and John and all

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the guys up there to to make all that work It

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can be fun. We get a lot going on sometimes.

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It can be in the middle of the night, too. We

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do our best to try to be there for everybody.

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Yeah, I know you've had a lot of late nights

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with that, so thanks for helping keep us safe.

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My pleasure. Okay, that's Eric Bonham, N9KDB

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of Indianapolis, Indiana, talking a little bit

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about Central Indiana Skywar, and since this

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is a demo version, we're gonna go ahead and cut

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this off tonight. But I want to thank Eric for

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being my guest, and that wraps up episode number

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zero of HamTalk Live. Thanks to all you listeners

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out there in cyberspace. and we invite you all

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back for the first real episode. It's going to

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be Thursday night, February 18th at 9 p .m. Eastern

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Time. So for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG,

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saying 73, 75, and may the good DX be yours.