The excitement, skills and sweat

The excitement, skills and sweat

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is you know him questions right, Yeah, Ham Colleges.
We finished the extra exams. We've got well two graduates
in right here tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
You are one of them.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
You know, uh the uh our friend across the pond. Oh,
LARRD Nigel, who's in the chat room tonight throughout or
throw down George. He threw down a challenge KG zero
pl LARRD Nigel or r G zero m E J
who we've talked to on the show before live and

(00:40):
he uh, he threw down a challenge for me, saying, okay,
you're going to do this before this question pooled changes, right.
I tried to ignore him. I tried and it didn't work.
So when I saw the club had a testing session
going on during field day, I said, all right, I'm
jumping in there. I've been studying on the cures h

(01:03):
pages and him studying all sorts of places and with
him college of course. So I wiped up the drool
from sleeping in class and got it done.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, you know, the faculties is everything. We know that
Nigel and you both slept through class a few times now.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I think you Yeah, at this three o'clock in the
morning for Nigel, he's got it true.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, but congratulations to both of you, yes, for stepping
it up to extra and.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Hats off to Nigel for pushing him over the brink
because we've been telling me and he's going to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yep, hats off Nigel. It's your fault.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh, you'll enjoy the new privileges that I have not yet,
but I know I will. Had a little bit of
extra spectrum during a contest weekend or Phil Day is handy.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
As a matter of fact, there's enough extras now that
I was able to get on the extra portions of
the band there and call CQ and people actually answered.
Years past they wouldn't there wasn't much going on there,
but this year, yeah, there was a lot going on there.
So nice to have that. But anyway, Ham College is

(02:21):
now back circled around. We're doing the Amateur Radio Technician
exam pool.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
If you've got.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
People you'd like to get into amateur radio, suggest to
them Ham College and we'll be going over all the
technician stuff. We've got new questions. We've got some old
stuff too, because some things didn't change, just a whole
variety In trying to make the hobby a little interesting

(02:49):
to newcomers as well.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Technition pools pretty fun. It is some cool stuff in there.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
And I'm going to tell you, just because we're all
extras here now, don't think that you're going to get
all those correct. In the chat room, there were more
people missing technician questions, and it typically missed extra questions.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
That is true.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, it was unusual. It was because everybody I got this.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
Um No, it's always good to go backwards and check
it out and review it again.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
You just might learn you something.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
What do you say We get on into some of
the field day videos. Now, this first one up is
a stuff you shot outdoors.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah. Oh, that's the brick and mortar tent we did
fill day in this year.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
It was a little more comfortable. We didn't have to
install air conditioning it. It was already there. But there
were no antennas there, yeah, there were not, so we
did put those all up. You may have noticed a
pine tree lay on the ground back there. That was
because of pine beetles. My brother sought it down. I
brought my saltwater in ten to launcher again.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeap.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
It took a couple of trials on that tree. I
had to get my sea legs under me first. I
can tell you're leaning real bad.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
You're leaning into it. Well, it's kind of it was windy,
it was. That's a real wide angle it actually it
was a three sixty camera.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I cropped that out of it. Yeah, so I could
see the tree and well, I was saying about the
pine tree. My brother cut it down on Friday while
we were what right before we shot this right here?

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I actually was going to get some drune shit out
of that, but he got ten before I got drown out. Yeah,
my brother's not a ham. I need to get him
to get his technician clamps. Did I sing you the
one without the words on it? What words? I guess?

Speaker 5 (04:55):
No?

Speaker 1 (04:56):
There was talking Yeah, yeah, I was talking in the
background on the No.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, the text I had you when I cast it,
I miss and you like I had it saying I'm
gonna go hide under here or something that I sent
you the wrong clip. Man. I put a lot of
time in it.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, track those text and everything you've made at that time,
because I'm walking over there with the trot line.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, the third cast, I made it fine. Yeah, Actually
there was a good cast all the way over the
tree too. Yeah it was. It got up high on
that tree. Now here's the other end. This was a
little higher. Look at this technique, man, you go down

(05:42):
to the beach and go fishing, you might get look effortless.
It is effortless. I don't have that much luck with
the sling shot. I ain't gonna lie about that.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, this was much much better. Don't foe with the
sling shot. If you've got a bass master here a lot, Tommy,
that's no bass rod man, that's saltwater surf fishing.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, you squirrel fishing. You can't pool me.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I know squirrel good for squirrels too.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
And of course we had tied off. It took a
lot of string to pull all this stuff together.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
How bought that ride in real Virginia Beach, Virginia?

Speaker 7 (06:25):
M F J.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Cobweb Well tried trusty, Oh sidekick, I guess you call it.
I don't know what you call it.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, we didn't get it up quite aside this year
is well, we had.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
We had a malfunctioned last time taking it down, so true,
we lost about two inches of the of the math,
so we said not to extended up in the real
the super flexible part of the tripod. Yeah, so that's it.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
This is the other antenna. This is what do you
call it, Tommy, the glen U. Yeah, that's the one
you and Glenn used.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh yeah, look at that, but it is I don't.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Know which fiel it is. MFJ would also, but I
call it the glen Tanna.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Check it out, Glenn.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
It worked.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
We used it on on digital.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
It worked.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
There was not resin. I should have tuned it ahead
of time, but it didn't have time. Uh, it tuned, okay,
and it I think it worked good.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Made a lot of contacts with it.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
There's a there's a lot of uh set screws on
that thing. So yeah, all right, take them dog.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
This uh you know, off center fed. This is the
product of the two fish uh two casts you saw
yeah minutes ago.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
There's a rope being used as a messenger cable and
the dipoles hanging right behind it.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
I didn't bring my other drone for this one, so
a little bit more difficult for me to you.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
You'd get you did caption this one right here though, Yeah,
you sent the right video on it, I guess.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah. And that's the old four to one battot I built,
and that's time crime scene tape from our Dayton. We

(08:29):
did the live showing Dayton. They I come, had some
of that tape made. They did this made. As a
matter of fact.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
I remember that episode.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
You know.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
We we have our own personalized crime scene tape here
thanks to all common This is several years old now,
I don't remember what year that was. We we streamed
life from there twice. Glenn says, that's an MFJ twenty
three eighty nine eight band antenda, but I call it
the Glenn Tent and better. Yeah, and it just kind

(09:02):
of has a ring to it, rolls off it does.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
We got emails take on Phil Day from just a
little further south here.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
The country of Louisiana. Yeah, he had he had a
bigger team with him.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
You want to set us up, sure, yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
So yeah it was nice and hot in the field,
but that didn't stop us.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
We really did focus this year on the field literally,
even though we had a station in the club and
we operated as four Fox Trot.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Louisiana at the ECC as we call it the ab RL.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Let's us operate as the Fox Trot and we had
a great time like I said, we shared all sorts
of things between the people there. We had some food,
we had some presentations out in the field and check
it out.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
Welcome to forty forty four fields are by and we
always stick being exhausts by h sider gonna have toss
it saying athletics be all blind, athletic sennen all ronan.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
All the world wars orders work.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
So this year instead of doing that presentations, we're actually
gonna build walk in the field and check out some
of the cool stops that people will first to gather
out there over the years from when we've come to
add to our stations there slewly climt existing employment, improved situations,

(10:36):
better use of it, and stuff we don't going to
work all well, deal with it, but we're not figured
it out today these things. So let's just take a
look out in the field and we'll let see the
propriety to each stations talks through or spotless through. It
is my field station here with my go kit that
is made to go from h uh in the forty

(10:59):
meters pretty s merrily all the way up to UHM
full forty pia is the yasu ft.

Speaker 8 (11:08):
One from a Jeff all the way up to U
A just different attendant.

Speaker 9 (11:12):
Obviously, I don't have it hooked up yet, Beleeting not.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
It did powered by one hundred empower UH lithium ion
battery the mike Tho for as they call.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
UH lifting on phosphates.

Speaker 9 (11:30):
And I've literally run this rig just like this, transmitting.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Every hour on wind Lake fifty watts or thirty watts.
And it's run this rig for three days.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Now.

Speaker 9 (11:45):
What I've had is this year Grinn did solot.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Panel from Hartor f eight hundred watch solar panels coming
into the back of this box.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (11:57):
Inside of this box, I can't really show you that,
but inside of this box.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Is a set of EC Distribution twelve bolt panels.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
There's a commercial power they see UH based power, so
I can have commercial power, battery power, and the solar panel.
It's all going into a West Mountain Radio Power Epic
power gate they calls, so no matter which one is available,
it'll to use it as a twelve boat source. If

(12:27):
they're all available, it'll charge the battery. So it's automatic
control there. There's a certain level you got to get within. Well,
the sixty bolts, I think it is why don't you
stay within that you're okay, they can try the power gate.

Speaker 9 (12:40):
The control room is a flood convler it also, I said, yeah,
it'll yes, yes, In fact, that's what I was looking
for when I first took it up this morning.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
There's a little blue light.

Speaker 8 (12:50):
That's what it was telling you.

Speaker 9 (12:52):
The trickle charge to matter it yep, and there's the
jumpers on the inside. You gotta tell it.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
It's a life stoat battery because the bolt the dropped
in and then your talent has to be with thing
a certain range. So that'll keep this scne as long
as there's fun, and that battery will win this rig
for three days. I was totally surprised that that as
compared to the cycling, which is what I started using initially,
there's no.

Speaker 9 (13:19):
Comparison these keel Sive Mike, Mike, Lina Matt, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
Check this out.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
About we we use the software and mod C and
CS and stuff like that, but we put we'll putting
magic to do one on the digital move so I
can use a it's.

Speaker 8 (13:35):
A mobile link T and C four.

Speaker 10 (13:39):
Pluged in the FT three, so my full will bluetooth
with the mobile link M and instead of using the
wood Link on my on a regular compooter.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
I used the Radio.

Speaker 10 (13:54):
Mail app it's a iOS app and work on an
iPad or an iPhone, and that's how I do my
windley and majority of the time it has all the ones,
all the wind length forms, that's position reports, everything you
can do with probably ninety percent of which you can
do with the Windlink PC.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Program you can do with the.

Speaker 10 (14:15):
So I use that primarily for my my wind licomes
and to try to tie it in to some other radios.
But that was my initial one set up and the
reason for wanting to do it was to be able
to have something with me. I throw it in the
backpack and if I'm out or work or with an

(14:36):
off I normally have this with me somewhere. I can
run everything off my battery box and I also have
a tol Pandel the charge in this fair battery up
one DA. So it's kind of a missmashup stuff, but
it works for me in my weird use cases at

(14:56):
a DMRs sixt over here as well. If I got
everything covered for NAP, we'll see that up and break
tell us about your battery box to the battery box itself.
That's one of the bigger parts battery boxes inside of it.
I had a thirty two lamp hour by four UH

(15:16):
battery and that's I've been able to use that for
a day or two without charging it. I take it
out for poda. Haven't had any problems with it. It's
it's manageable and powers everything I've wanted to do so far.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (15:33):
I may move to a secondary battery box for like
a under damp hour and then I'll I'll call it
quiz after that. But I've powered up twenty nine eighty
with this for listen, two meter stuff right might eight
ninety one have power pools and everything. It's got powerful
plubs and all your various connections on there. I've been

(15:55):
happy with it.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
Yes, seven passed the Wolf Pavid boiled Spirit, the forty
six just where it sets.

Speaker 11 (16:07):
I got it, you know, just down Uh spared it
bloss so he's radials. But do you sparity blot to
see out words?

Speaker 2 (16:20):
That's cool?

Speaker 6 (16:21):
Diet utters in teeth like tin sids. Okay, well the
wifely hed chickd hallway it. I've seen it, got it,
I beat.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Some other seven.

Speaker 9 (16:37):
I'm spared with it. They all at the oul h.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
Already down the sledge n did blap all the way blatch.

Speaker 9 (16:47):
Everybody understands what you're doing here, say again, please rip the.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
Bottom flow for her compete with the bottom Floss is
acting as a ground plant.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
He's trying on steam.

Speaker 9 (16:56):
At like radials his sparadi claw here they sat qua
Sindo's now on to the desk.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Copy or alert. But let's just think either.

Speaker 9 (17:07):
It's critically used to watching will I.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
I'm using it for county four.

Speaker 9 (17:16):
I've remember going stepway and I'll for foe out of
It's enough off here cheer wall were down, Let pepe
up feet right.

Speaker 10 (17:24):
The purpose of this set up is where if I
have to evacuate or leave or do anything, I have eighty.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Through six meters on you, and it's set up for
inves and for vertical. So I've got the delta loop
that'll give me twenty for six. I have an in
set up there that'll go eighty.

Speaker 9 (17:41):
Through ten and then coming off the side.

Speaker 8 (17:44):
I hear about day.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Pole from my two meters seventy centimeter through about are
three incent thats up to there's runs for another one.
If I need to come off to the other side,
I can still do some other things for Wi Fi
or whatever.

Speaker 8 (17:56):
I have that going over too much stage it over here.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
I have the nine ninety one looked up to the
delta loops so little it requires a tuner in fact
is residant.

Speaker 8 (18:05):
So I have that looks at ninety one, and then
I have the day ball looked up to the the
ninety one so we can do two.

Speaker 9 (18:14):
Meters simplex and sideband for field day.

Speaker 8 (18:17):
So we're supposed to have every band covered. We have mrs.
The only thing we don't have covered with this setup
is two twenty.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
And what's the rig on on top of the vehicle
also has a cost one twenty on the truck the
alpha and we have Badhok tune that's going to a
radio yet, but both of those radios will radios will
tune that intella.

Speaker 8 (18:38):
Then that will go from forty meters all the.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
Way to seventy seven meters if I use then to
ninety one in the eight ninety one will tune it
from forty to.

Speaker 8 (18:47):
Ten A six if it has to HI.

Speaker 9 (18:50):
So I have these recon from resident telling. I have
a recon forty.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
Well, the reecond forty is a loaded foil with no
movie cartry excep this w in all slid if I
disengage little coil.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Basically I need shooting twenty meters if I engage.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
Tree forty three red bad ex top to ten the
inner darling, because that's the only even part I.

Speaker 10 (19:13):
Have within that antenna. After that you turn them from
the whip at chouse you neither do. That's randy other
bad you print here breaks down I real portability on
youre the bottom.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
My use of DET I wanted floridable.

Speaker 8 (19:25):
And easy to gary what I have over here.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Seven eight ninety one that I use from a radio.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
Next, Plus i'd build for external batteries fly a battery
box here to worthy fluids in and I can do
uh from my powers fly. I carry twenty mp on
light blow battery within here like four battery with in here.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
And uh. I have my ID to double to wad
anything under your log.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
Plus I have my gm rs and my UH seventy
century shoot twin seventy seventy raiders as well.

Speaker 9 (19:56):
When I don't have up there with my roll up
J four, which I don't I didn't put up today.
What do you have a first line?

Speaker 6 (20:02):
By fot, I said young radio and we're trying to
figure out how to t win. They had a right
free to get succistly and needed as soon as we get.

Speaker 9 (20:11):
That side letting his thought called harpe and not.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (20:18):
Decided to give a body pole and I suggested did some.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
Time before what your brothers the wall then pulled off
the areas whip foot mom and no quarter with.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Good add call out numbering up for showing ball with
the ball six stronger and he sent up. But the
fat side one defended one quarter?

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Is the really need howk on Watson, we're trying okay,
this is a year's eight trifty seven h pick poplas
huntsb last year they're.

Speaker 9 (20:58):
Calling a shack and the black listen the first song.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
We're actually hiding.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
The years ship shutting the butt, throw the cloth whiskey
five cr of myuthum.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Looks like you might be operating as full.

Speaker 9 (21:15):
Box trot.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
God.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
But anyway, the plus W five s l A has
their tower here and the parental he is a mostly
being at the top alted band which we can rotate
around thanks to h mix trolley, some fixing ratchet tables
and being right aboveet. He's a two meter beam and

(21:41):
on the top the very top. He is a vertical
and dual band intend and I go to the station inside,
so let's go lost. So this is the father Sway
operating position that we use for multis sands, multi modes renae.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
On the LAP year, we have a set up.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
For fun packet station so that we can hit all
of our stuff off of our beach. In the middle,
we have the GS two thousand, which we have booked
to the g fop D that's off the power outside edge.

Speaker 9 (22:17):
Rotor control here booked to the seventy forty six PROL
three that we usually used to twenty in ire band.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
And we also have a VHF radio year that we
use to arc of the fudges of Peter as well
as gmrs that's plumbing things of GMRS or Peter as well,
and so we can talk.

Speaker 8 (22:37):
To people in that band until ivan relay.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
There's about sixty apps of power supply available to this
station and pretty nice DC perstation they have set up
here and we just keep it going her field day
and make sure it all works so that.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Seven five La nice and meal.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know, tell me I didn't RECOGNI some of those
Louisiana accents they sounded a little different than I remember
in the past.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
An explanation, Yeah, that was that was.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
A little bit of me and Glenn's fault.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
I used some Adobe audio enhancement in that video, so
it might have AI might have got a hold of
our accents a little bit.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
But we did, we did.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
We did manage to pull it off. But uh, we're
still learning some of our equipment as well. But you know,
the the station did pretty good. They I'm still receiving
some logs from people.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
We took part in some of the digital challenges that
are out there, whin Link Challenges. We were visited by
our section staff and leadership, which is awesome to see
them making the rounds from our.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Leadership here. So uh, we just had a great time
and ate and we were we were married that thing.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah that It looks like a pretty nice set up. Yeah,
and you got a good a good turnout too, And
it looks like everybody was really into it.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yeah. Yeah, they definitely want to be there and make
it work, and that's what we do every year. We
just try to make it.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Work, yep.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
And it is really work down in the South, setting
up that many stations in the heat.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Ten hundred and five heat indexes and it's humid and
it's usually always raining, but we lucked out this time.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
The propagation was good and the uh the solar panels.
The boy, did we have some sun?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, and that's one thing we should have done Tommy
that we didn't. Yeah, threatened to, but yeah, next time
it will. Last year, the battery lasted the whole time,
but this year you're running.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Well, I don't want it. Yeah, O dranger battery. Yeah,
you drained a battery, ye, but it.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Could have been with a charger though it might not
have might not have got it down because we had
a lot of sun, good propagation. Like you said, Emil,
I didn't hear hardly any static crashes at all, even
on eighty meters. It was a good weekend.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
And then you know, the ABRL is still allowing people
who operated. We only stayed Saturday, but you know it
goes through Sunday the next day to one o'clock, so
the uh we you can still contribute when you work
from home to your clubs station.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
They're still allowing that loge. Ever since you know the
COVID thing, the same class under.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
I know they just take those points and they sent
You can attribute your contacts you made from home to
the club's efforts. So yeah, I mean I my logs,
for instance, that I did here. I did a whole
bunch of FT eight when I on the second day,
I'm putting them under there. You know, it's under my
name which I operated one uh delta is it or

(26:06):
one out?

Speaker 3 (26:07):
I forget what commercial power is anyway, delta I did. Yeah,
I did one Delta Louisiana here on FT eight. But
it'll still apply those points over there.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Still. Yeah, you can pick your club basically and say
I apply my stuff over there.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Wow, that was Nate, very Nate. Y'all always do a
great job down there. Mike's Tommy and I, uh, you
know our little two three man teams and a half
two and a half. Yeah, the half guy he was
kind of invisible. Yeah, we operated as a W five

(26:45):
AXC and thanks mister and missus Z E three m
I C. I don't know shirt works or what you
want to call it. They made these nice shirts, very
nice shirts. Yes, should have warmine. I don't know you
were going to wear it tonight, a little warmine. Well
I took it to wear it on field day, and

(27:05):
then I ended up wearing a Los Paulos or Meadows
shirt when we shot the video. Yeah I'm I'm breaking
bad shirt. So yeah, there was that We're going to
be right back. Don't go away because we've got a
lot more to go yet.

Speaker 7 (27:23):
Whiskey five Alpha X Ray Charlie, Whiskey five Alpha X
Ray Charlie Alpha x Ray Charlie. QSL we are three

(27:46):
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kind of Hamfests usually comes on Bixpo. I bought a
two thousand foot spool of it at the slight al

(30:03):
Ham Past a few years back.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Maybe it's tenth cord.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
I don't know what it is. It's kind of like
parachute cord, except a little smaller highs soon well, I
want to say nyland, but I don't know what it's
made out of. It's much better than trotline. This stuff
has been great. I've got some I put up at
my house about three years ago, just to use to

(30:28):
support some coacs. It is not stretched or deteriorated.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
It all.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
This stuff is great for a hanging wire. Antennis highly recommended.
This is some of the native wildlife of the area.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yeah, oh, that called me on guard.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah this is that rope man, you bought. You bought
two thousand feet of this too, didn't you. It's an elhems.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
I saw the vender.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
I don't know that.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
I know I bought it what it was Wayne, That's
who bought it. Yeah, yeah, twenty dollars for two thousand feet. Man,
this is some great stuff right here. But let me
give you a clue. If you're gonna roll it off.
You need to spend that reel and roll it off
like that. Don't pull it off the end like this,

(31:25):
or you're gonna end up with a knotted mess. It's
gonna take you half an hour or an hour down
tang after you buddy leaves and you sitting the sun
by yourself exactly like that. So, uh yeah, that's great stuff, man.
Really say, guys, is that guy there every year come in?

Speaker 5 (31:48):
I don't know who it was, to be honest, I
had a table last time, and I didn't get to
walk around as much as the last time I was there.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
I wouldn't coming down and getting some of that myself.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
I think I've seen it in Jackson before. The people
sell those poles aluminum poles.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, they quit coming a few years ago. Well, I
guess that answers your question because that's who it was.
I think it was then. Yeah, I don't know. You
might might see it again.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
In September.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
By the way, September, okay, check it out.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Thought the flyers are starting to pop up on w
fisl A dot met So.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Okay, there's another event coming up.

Speaker 5 (32:28):
You know.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Tommy likes to keep on top of the ute scene
and the pluck. Everybody run, they get the cup micros
of Annie refference.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
This is hot off the press. This just came off
Female just moments ago.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
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(33:04):
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(33:26):
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Speaker 1 (33:39):
You did a little project a while back. It's been
quite a while back.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's been quite a while back, but you actually got
some video. Yeah, I've killed him out project. Do you
want to study up? Yeah, it's my five stack. I
did one video when I first set it up, and
I mentioned there's a voice gear app in there at
that you can do your CQUS so forth recording the radio.

(34:05):
Didn't like you play it back? If you remember back
in November of twenty three, I think it was I
show you the M five stack device with the M
five hand Radio Project running on it. I've been running
the d X tracker on the since I used it.
I haven't used my seven O five a whole lot
since then, but I do want to get it ready

(34:26):
for field day. Field Day will be coming up in
about a month and a half from the time I
video of this, but it may be about two weeks
from when you actually see it. But nevertheless, I'm going
to change this over to use the voice gear and
promote it from using this device. It's part of the
functionality of the M five hand Radio Project. So if

(34:50):
you want to see how to get to this point,
go watch episode eighty seven. Watch my segment on there.
It's a I thought it's a really good one myself.
It shows you how to set this up, how to
pair with your the bluetooth on your seven O five. Uh.
Several of the more modern Icon brigs have functionality for
this built in, so anyway check that secondly out. It's

(35:11):
kind of a prerequisite for this one. Uh. But today
I'm gonna grow ahead and reboot this, go into the
kere uh functionality of it, and set it up. It's
already paired to my radio last time, so you should
see it pair when I change it over. So let's
go ahead and do that. So I'll reboot it. When

(35:33):
it's coming up, I'll hit the middle button and go
down to I see kar and it'll load up. Try
to keep some of this glare off for you, and
it should pair up with my radio once it comes up.

(36:05):
So first of all, we're gonna need to record something
in our memory here and our voice heures rather, so
let's hit menu voice and we can see we've got
eight here that we can use that corresponds to the
eight buttons that are on this this device. So let's
go ahead and hit record and record. We're gonna go

(36:30):
ahead do the first one. I'll go ahead, and if
you have a bluetooth mic set up, you can hit
mike select and record through that one, or you record
through the hand mic. Now on the hand mike, you
don't have to hit the push to talk for it
to uh to record. It activates the elements and here
UH for it by itself. Let's go ahead and then

(36:55):
we'll record one CQ CQ. This is in five Z
and o s QCQ, and we can give it a name.
Let's play it back SEQCQ. This is N five z
and o SEQCQ. That's good enough, so let's uh save it.

(37:20):
We'll go back. It's five seconds long. We'll hold the
hold down on it it edit name. We'll just call
it CQ whatever. Oops, I guess spell see Q.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
And enter.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
And we can put Like I said, we can put
up the eight in there. You can. I Just so
you know, I've got a dummy load set up on
my rig here, so we're not actually transmitting over the
air while we're testing here I did. I have played
around with this before and it d it keeps up
the rig. You'll hear it. You should hear it. Click.

(37:59):
But let's go ahead and come out of this to
play 'em. If you hit just tap T one, take
you si Q is it inn fop zen no secuc Q.
You see light up the transmit. But right here, let's
see lights up to TRANSMITQ. But we can also do

(38:25):
the same thing here. We can hit T one. So
if we hit T one, you can see there's a
one right there. If you hit it again, oops, there's
a little infinity sign beside it, like a sideways eight,
and that'll play it over and over. But let's go

(38:46):
back to the one. It's kind of hard for me
to see that way it's on camera. But we'll hit start,
take your se Q. Is it in pop zeno secc
q pretty cool? Just the same as that. If we
hit the infinity sign, it start take care secure is

(39:08):
hipop's the you know, take care q ta it plays
it over and over soon here secure its secure SEQ.
Then would hit stop to stop it and but this

(39:31):
is all find it good. It's easy to touch the
buttons on the rig right, so why would you wanna
do that? Well, this is a SDR receiver and on
a field days, it's really nice to see the waterfall,
see the strong signals, so you can pounce on 'em.
UH search and pounce modes actually, so you can pounce
on 'em and and go make contacts. So what we

(39:51):
can do here is gonna menu scope. We can put
the scope back on the screen and look here. Uh
our care still works, so you have more functionality like that,
and now I don't have to go back and forth
between those, going back to one single mode. But likewise,

(40:16):
if you want to do uh, the third one, you
can hit that and they'll do the same works the
same way. We only just set up one for this demonstration,
but I'll I'll have several in there. I'll probably put
some with my call sign and then some with our
club call sign that we normally run field day under
UH Whisky five Alpha X ray Charlie. So uh, anyway,

(40:39):
it's really cool. Yeah, you've got time probably to get
your device and get it set up if you wanna
use one of the rigs that are supported by it. Uh. Again,
there's uh Amateur Logic one eighty seven. Uh, it's the
November of two thousand twenty three episode where I actually
put this together, put the software on it, show how

(40:59):
to configure the radio and everything. So you might want
to go back and look at that, but this is
really nice. It works off a Wi Fi or Bluetooth,
and I've got it paired up on Bluetooth right now
so you can see when I turned them on that
just paired itself back up. So anyway, it's pretty cool. Well,
I'm definitely going to be using on field day. Definitely

(41:20):
will If the battery runs low on it. You can
operate it by plugging the external battery into the USBC
and power it that way, so battery life shouldn't be
a problem either, and I'll always have extra batteries with me.
Thanks to Armel. I hope I'm pronouncing his name right

(41:41):
at four HWN so he's from France anyway, specially thanks
to him for providing the software. It's really awesome, extends
the functionality of an already great rig and looking forward
to field Day. So anyway, I hope to catch you
guys on seventy three and good luck in the contest
practicing my son off. I saw you over there using it. Yeah,

(42:04):
use it a lot. I did run the battery down
one time. The battery lasted about five or six hours maybe,
but I had my little USB battery. So I plugged
it in, played the USBC cable into it, church up
a little bit, and just went right back to working.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah, that's very handy. That's such a neat little device man,
that m fire stack. I bought one after seeing you
use it. Unfortunately, they won't connect to my I see
seven thousand.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Or any Greg. If you can send it home with
me because it'll connect to my mother rig, that's okay.
I'll do something with it. I just don't know what yet,
but yeah, it's the cooler device, and that software on
is really amazing. If you haven't seen that episode one
eighty seven, you ought to go watch it if you
got especially together an icon rig one of the newer ones.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
See you had a Facebook post you wanted to share
with us tonight.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah, I did. It's uh it's from my friend Mark Garrett.
It's about the balloons, you know. He and uh Bill
down Yeah, do the hot air balloons a lot? Well
they let off too, let out too at Dayton they
sent these too balloons off. There they go.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
We m.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
He put a link in here where you can track them. Well,
I clicked it. I already did it. Just save some
time and I showed seven days of the tracking and
I found I thought one of them was kind of interesting. Actually,
both of the once already been around the world and
coming back over there, and the other one, I thought
it was interesting where it died. It died at the

(43:51):
right on top of the Beirut airport. Wow. See there, Yeah,
so shot down. I don't know, it's kind of interesting
where it ended up. Well, that's and I'd confirm that's
it right there where it was. But anyway, it's it's
not much in the post, but these had their balloons.

(44:13):
I find them really amazing that they can just go
around the world around and it's really cool. I need
to get with Bill. I'm actually going over there this
weekend near where he lives. I need to get with
him about getting one of those boards stuff and seeing
about doing one that's on my bucket list one day.
Almost send up one of them at least. Okay, I'll

(44:34):
take pictures. Okay, how about video video? Not really a
photo show here, true.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
Yeah, you could get your drone and followed around the world.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
A bigger battery.

Speaker 5 (44:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Anyway, I thought it was kind of cool. Like it's
not a lot of text in the post, but I
thought it was interesting where the balloon ended up directly
above the Bavery Airport, so it kind of makes you
wonder what happened it. It's pretty wild.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Well, we always like to show what we used for
a station at field age year. Here's yours, here's what
she use is I'm.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Dying to see what I used. Field Day twenty twenty four.
It's been a good one. We came out a little
bit early, set up on Friday night, got the antennas up,
so Saturday was a pretty nice day. We didn't have
to sweat outside and get all that stuff put together,
which was a huge plus for us. We usually do
everything until last minute. I'm all withhold on saying anything

(45:37):
about points yet until they all talied up and verified.
But unless George wants to say something about him. But
they've got my station here, let me kind of show
you what I've got. It's mostly the same. It's a
few little changes. This year. We ran off a battery
power for the whole the whole thing pretty much. I
used my little a MP hower meatie battery on my

(46:00):
seven oh five this year, and uh it ran out
on me. So I noticed that I wasn't making very
many contacts late yesterday afternoon, and I did not realize
that my battery died and I was running off of
five watts. It still showed that it was charging because
I have the USB cable plugged in, so the INN

(46:21):
one mm s logging software that we used could get
data from the radio. But it's also trickle charges the
battery the built in battery, so it looked like it
was still connected and powered, but in fact it wasn't.
So had a few problems making some contacts till I
figured that out and it did better. I switched over
to my blue dy eb three A to power my

(46:45):
rig this time. It helped a lot, but five watts
doesn't cut it. Ten watts is much much better, but
one hundred wats is still the way to go, I guess,
so I may look at bringing my seventy one hundred,
or I may get the seventy three hundred for next year.
But we'll see about that same computer. Got it hooked up.

(47:08):
I've actually brought a monitor this time, so I can
keep qr Z running over here and look up call
signs and things like that while I'm operating and not
have to deal with multiple computers. Got my same tuner,
my little lot Colm tuner that goes with my seven
o five you've seen before. Same filters, we still use those.
I think we need to invest in a few more

(47:30):
because we tried some other bands this year. I think
we did ten meters and I was having a little
bit of trouble from that. So we need a eighty
meter which Wayne had he didn't come this year, and
the need a ten meter filter, so we may have
to invest in that for next year. I do have
my kear which you may or you may not have

(47:52):
seen my segment on yet. I made it a few
months ago, but we had other things come up and
we had to run it, so you'll need to see
it show or the next one. Probably cool. Yeah, and
you have seen my segment. By the way, I didn't
know where we be able to play it.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Yeah, we can't say that no more.

Speaker 6 (48:09):
We saw it.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Yeah, yeah, I thought I would do like a Quentin
Tarantino movie and play the modest sequence for Oh yeah,
you know what, least you built it before you used it.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Oh yeah. The seven o five did really good, and
last year I was pretty close with you on contact
with the the ten watch, but we didn't get the
Cowboy up as high this year as I'm thinking that
hurt me some too.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
That probably hurts you a little bit. Yeah, but me
running ten times as much power probably waited a little bit.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
To my advantage. Yeah, but it's a seven o five.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Yeah, well it is, which would be a really nice
PoTA or more hordable rig. But yeah, I'm gonna twist
your arm. Gets she's bringing Hunter Watts next year. I'd
probably bring my seventy one hundred. I've got an email,
bonafide email here I wanted to read. You know, over
on Ham College we always give away ICOM swag package

(49:17):
each episode. Usually it's a T shirt and whatever else
Jesse ca and stuff in the box. Our winner this
past month, well actually it was this month a couple
of weeks ago. We did Ham College and he sent
an email here he said, because we notify he won.

(49:38):
Thanks George, looking forward to your Field Day show on Amateurlogic.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Oh he's in the chat room tonight.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
I was with KK one pm A and Rhode Island
again this year. Oh nice, two fri lots of fun.
I'm the one in the Greenfield Day shirt seventy three.
Mike Dipoles, n Y won you.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
That's a great name for him too, that is. I
don't think that's his real last name though. That's a
good one though. Could be French maybe, No, I'm not sure.
I'm not sure dipoles if that's any particular nationality, I
don't know. As they had a pretty nice setup there, Yeah,

(50:29):
they did very nice, nice location operate from too. Incidentally,
talking back about the Facebook post mark is in the
chat room, he says that the wb I twelve one
was taking it down by storm on Monday, I guess
Monday of this week. Yeah, Arnie said, the seventy great rig, Tommy, Yeah, yeah,

(50:53):
it is just a very nice rig.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
The only thing it doesn't have the SDR the waterfall
display on it, and that's really nice when you're like looking.
I do have a way around it, though, I'll save
that for another time. Yeah, you got everything you need
for that already, I really do.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Yeah, I still want to saving I want to seventy
six ten. But yep, well I went primitive.

Speaker 10 (51:21):
I use.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Not well.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
I was going to say non SDR radios, but I
actually did use an SDR receiver only as a tuning aid,
though I didn't really use the audio from it. Here's
my field day setup. Well, my new station is the
same as the old station pretty much, not much has changed.
I did use these hyper x hadsets again, gaming headsets

(51:50):
that I bought last year and interfaced into the rig.
It worked good, comfortable. I used FOX. I didn't call
or shout out or anything much that falsely keyed it,

(52:11):
but of course it did happen. I've got the IC
seven thousand I used again as my main rig, particularly
for side ben. I've got one of these in my
truck as well. I've got two of those. I like
those rigs. Unfortunately I don't really have a nice new
bandscope in them, so I brought the SDR Huno RSP

(52:34):
duo again software to find the radio. You can see
the signals have really dropped off now in fifteen meters,
but this is connected with the radio, just like last year.
So I can click on anything or tune anything here
and it does the radio. Or I can spend the
VFO on the radio and it does it here. So
it gives me a nice band scope to work with

(52:56):
that older radio. I did buy a new tuner this year.
I needed an additional tuner and I had been thinking
about getting a larger auto tuner.

Speaker 6 (53:06):
For a while.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
I might have bought the legal M and MFJ auto tuner,
except they're out of those and they're not going to
be building anymore. So I've got another LDG tenor. This
is at one hundred pro two. It's an auto tuner.
It worked well. It's got built in a bar graph

(53:29):
for power and SWR. It's one thousand watt tuner. I
think actually it could take twelve hundred watts, but don't
want to push it. You can manually tune it the
capacitors and the inductors. It's got a number of features
in it. Nice laptop here. The only thing I ran
on it was the SDR UN software to control the

(53:53):
SDR and the rig, and I ran a copy of
the N one MM software, which is what we use
for our logging. And yeah, that's basically the same thing
that I did last year. I did bring another laptop
over here.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Last year, I just.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Ran one copy of in one MMALM and I ran
it on this older laptop. This year, I ran it
on two because I used two rigs. I did single
operator to transmitters, and I brought the old FT eight

(54:33):
fifty seven D out of the closet that has been
sitting there and not used for several years. I don't
know if you can see the display on it, but
it has had it. I left this in the one
of the mobiles for a year or two and it
got the dreaded FT eight fifty seven D lines in

(54:56):
the display, so it's very hard to read.

Speaker 6 (54:58):
Now.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
You can't see what's on it. You can kind of
guess at what some of the stuff is. I'm working
on a solution for that, but yeah, that's a known
problem with these rigs. I'm running Ham Radio Deluxe on
a second monitor to this computer. Just got a serial
connection for cat control to the rig Ham Radio Deluxe

(55:26):
over here so that I can tell what frequency I'm
on and the just power. I've got my old ldg
Z one autoteener on here that I've used for years.
I just trapped it to the top of this and
this is my FT eight station. I've never worked FT
eight before. It is a new mode for me. I
set it up a couple of weeks ago and started
playing with it, so I kind of know how it worked.

(55:49):
I just used this rig at thirty watts. I've got
WSJ tx on here. I ran FT eight with it.
I've got also on this is running as I said,
Hammer Radio Deluxe, which I have on that monitor, and
I'm running than one mm. And the reason I have

(56:12):
two copies.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
When you make a contact and wsjt X at the
end of it, when it completes, it'll pop up a
wonder that allows you to dump it right into in
one mm through an IP connection. So it's sitting on
the laptop, it's already there and it automatically sends the
frequency and logs it as being an FT eight contact.

(56:37):
The problem is if you try to manually enter contact
after that, even if it's slideband over here on this
other side, doesn't matter. It's going to log it is
an FT eight contact. So that's the reason I'm running
two copies of our N one mm logging software here
and I run off Tommy's battery is sixty m per

(56:57):
hour fifty am pier hour battery and it worked good.
But I ran it all the way on the ground
this year. Didn't do it last year, but I was
running two rigs off of it, so it held up admirably.
I wish he had two of them.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
I may have to.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Yeah, I may have to give me one like that.
We didn't bring the solar panels out.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
We should have.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
That would have been nice. Anyway, That's that's my setup.
The only thing really different is I added FT eight
so I'm working this and doing sideband at the same time,
two different rigs, so I make more contacts. And my
evil plan worked. I did make more contacts, yea, even

(57:49):
if it was using FT eight.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
Yeah, and you did something new, that's what counts.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
That's what counts. Yep.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
And it was cheap because I didn't buy anything to
make it happen software buddy, good job.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
Well, I don't think I spent any money on the
field day this year. Anything new stone and I mean
other food and water. Yeah, I don't buy that anyway.
Well I made up for it.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
I bought that auto tuner, but I you know, I've
been wanting one of those anyway. There's our Phil Day
coverage for twenty twenty four. Because glamorous Phil Day is
there's always a bad point to it.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
What would you say.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
Is the probably the negative point of Phil Day out
of all the activities.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
What's the worst job, Emil?

Speaker 3 (58:50):
You know, sometimes when you're out there sitting in that
heat and you realizing you got to pick this stuff up.
I'm thinking that that is not the most fun part
to me.

Speaker 4 (59:03):
For sure. You got one, you don't want to leave.

Speaker 6 (59:06):
Two.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
You know, you got to do it.

Speaker 5 (59:08):
And there's a lot of stuff we go through in
the morning from nine o'clock until one to make it work.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
So you got to go backwards.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
It's a lot hotter. It's a lot hotter generally when
you tear down and it is. We were all over it.
We were ready to get out of them, so you
can tell we were kinda a lot Yep. We used
the Benny Hill method.

Speaker 4 (59:35):
Yeah, yeah, it's Benny Hill music.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
That's a Cowbob coming down. Came down the same way,
went up this time, pretty much came down sunways last year.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
And look all the macros left.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Yeah, that's that didn't take long at all. Tommy left
for all those reps for picked up. Those were short ruts.
That was on my four hundred foot there. Now here's
the Glen Tenne coming down. It was fairly effortless. Just

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one person put their foot at the bottom of it,
another one walk it up or down.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
The old Glen Tenner. We're gonna get that thing tuned
up for next year.

Speaker 6 (01:00:36):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
All those that screws and those widths can be adjusted
to get it right in the range you wanted in.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
Yeah, which here was on the opposite end of the
band from where I wanted to be for digital. Let
the thing worked. I probably could have done better on
a different antenna, but that was easy to set up
and and have both fifteen and forty meters which I
worked fifty eight on and twenty meters. So yeah, that's

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mainly on these because must of been antenna and it
was didn't take a lot of extra effort to put
it up. Tommy left around four o'clock, yeah, and I
stayed to wind up all the rope. You wouldn't ever
think that winding up the rope would be the worst
part of it. That took hours, man, because I told

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you say, yeah, it wouldn't help untwisted not remember my trick,
don't pull it off the end of the spool.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Roll the spool, roll it off of it. We did
roll it off because I had a screwdriver. You did
it like that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
Well, I don't know what made it not up so bad,
but it was. It hadn't done that in years past,
something something different. Maybe we stretched it too tight.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
But whatever you did, you're not gonna do it again,
right exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
I'm not wanting to do it that way again. Well
that's on the field, Dare though, good time.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
It's really nice using the brick and mortar tent too.
Having a shower that made a big difference. And built
in air conditioning yeah, you know, because the wonder unit
and the visca in tent just doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
A bed was nice too, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Refrigerator that was handy, but it was not a ham station.
There were no ham stations set up there previously, so yeah,
oh yeah, this is brought in and set up. We
actually set up the intentions. We didn't get any set
up a video of the intends because the time we
got the lines casted up there, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Getting kind of dark. So so long what was done? Yeah,
it's pretty late.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Yeah, beving that cobweb up was after dark. Yeah, we
had flashlights out there, so hey, but we wanted to
finish all this set up on Friday evening so we
didn't have to get up early Saturday morning and do it.
We haven't telled our score yet.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
It didn't occur to me that I need to do
that until just a few minutes ago. So we'll have
to maybe let you know next episode there again, just
the two of us, we talked slow, so yeah, I
guarantee our score would.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Not be in the top ten.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
But yeah, well we had top fun. We had top
fun exactly. So before we get out of here tonight, Tommy,
any any final thoughts on Phiel Day or anything.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
No, it was fun that this is maybe the only
one that I've been to that I haven't gotten sunburned.
I did neither. Yeah, so you know, it's a good time.
And appreciate your hosting this out there for that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Oh, I was my pleasure. I'm glad that we were
able to do it from there again this year.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Email.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
Well, let's see. You know, I remember making a contact
with a certain W five A x C over the air.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
We made more than one contact.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
It's in the log multi bands this time.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Yeah, we tried one hundred and sixty, but uh yeah,
that wuldn't go work for us.

Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
On another note, let's check with the Let's check with
the Enterprise and see what they did for the field days.

Speaker 11 (01:04:49):
Less.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
You can see we have another problem.

Speaker 4 (01:04:54):
Wait, wait, let's see spock, Spock, what did you do your.

Speaker 6 (01:05:03):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
We were talking a moment ago about dipoles. Last name
of dipoles?

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
What where would that be? You know what language email?
You pulled out the AI on it? What did you
find out?

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
Yeah, CHATCHYPT says it's Greek and it also whipped out
the physics.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
I let's see here, let me guy. The word dipole
originates from Greek. It combines die meaning too and pole
meaning pole, and physics, A dipole prefers to a pair of.

Speaker 5 (01:05:37):
Equal and opposite electrical charges or magnetic poles, separated by
a small distance.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
So there you go. It's Greek. It's all Greek to me.

Speaker 10 (01:05:44):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
Wow, So I was way off, well, not that far
French and Greece. I'm not that fall part.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
I don't guess.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
But anyway, okay, good to know. I don't often trust
what I read on chat GPT. I've thrown several programming
questions out. I wanted to write me some code, and
I haven't ever got it to produce any that would

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actually run. Yet it looked good when you looked at
the code, but it was calling functions that didn't exist
and things like that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
But I know people are having some luck with it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
Yep, that's going to do it. We'll be back with
the next time college.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
That will be that's going to be the end of
July sometime.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
Yeah, the next time of your logic will probably be sooner.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
Two weeks, two weeks, two or three weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Let's hope we have segments by then.

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
If we don't have segments instead of the twelfth, it'll
be the nineteenth. Maybe we'll have something by then. But
fourth of July is coming up here in the US.
Happy fourth everyone, Independence Day. Happy fourth yep, go barbecue
a whinny or hamburger or even if you're felling rich steaks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Just don't telling me.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
Mm hmmm. La la la la la la.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
La seven three seven three. Everybody can seven three

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
Compan