Finding POTA Legends

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, today we're going to dive into some
positivity, as the 80 meter lidsneed to cool down a bit.
Next, on live free and ham Allright, hello and welcome to live
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(00:22):
tonight, and I think I saw Tedas well.
Welcome guys.
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As always, we appreciate youguys, and hopefully you enjoyed
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I'm your host, eric, call signN1JUR, and I'm with my co-hosts,
n one OG Paul the Grout W1SDJTodd.

(00:50):
Looking a little furry gettingit back.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
I haven't shaved since Thursday.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I can only imagine what you look like.
Actual skin shave, paul.
It was like a clone of me andit was too weird.
I was like you know, I can'thave this.
Go back to where you were.
You defined yourself that way.
Stay there, all right.
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Everyone's favorite segment.
Oh no, no, no, no, what theheck, it got reordered.
It's not everyone's favoritesegment because, well, it is
sort of, but we'll get to thateventually.
Let's go to the mailbag.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your
attention?
I've just been handed an urgentand horrifying news story.
Everybody, we got some news.
Slow down, boog, let me handlethis.
We got some news Slow down,boog, let me handle this.
We've got some news.
I've got bad news and bad news.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
I have reviewed ship's personnel Captain.
Congratulations, You've got.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, we got mail and we got a lot of it.
I mean, it's coming ineverywhere.
So we thank you guys forstepping up, but, like my God,
come on, it's feast or famine.
Sometimes I don't know what youmeant.
So with that, todd, pleaseanswer their cries.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
All right.
So we got a review on thewhiskey glasses.
Aaron left us a review and hegave us a five out of five stars
Says the glass arrived quicklyand did not need any assembly.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's good because we needed assembly.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
It means it probably broke, and it's only downside is
I'm drinking more, and for thatalone I'd give it six stars
Excellent.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
We will happily honor that six stars for you anyway
and appreciate you picking up awhiskey glass, yeah, and on a
sidebar note, go ahead.
So now we're contributing toexcessive drinking here at Live
Free and Not at Hand.
It's in our mission statement,my friend.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
All right.
And then we've got anothermessage from Bob, our fearless
Patreon listener.
He said hey guys, I just gotfinished listening to the eight
17 podcast.
Todd, congrats on getting threeout of three on your extra quiz
.
And no, don't change anythingabout your podcast participation

(05:34):
.
I enjoy your rants and, Ibelieve it or not, I actually
agree with you more often thannot.
I like that, bob, this is good.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I almost didn't recognize Paul.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
He's clean-shaven.
I'm wondering how Watsonreacted to Paul after with no
beard.
See you all in a few weeks, bob.
Well, bob, I am definitelylooking forward to hanging out
with you in a few weeks, andthanks for that little message
there.
I think Watson's seen you cleanshaven before.
Right, you've been.

(06:06):
I've seen you a few times cleanshaven.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Well, I mean not clean, clean, but yeah, I mean
Watson's with me, and I think hejudges by smell rather than
look.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, thank God, because if my dog saw me every
day and he had gauged on how Ilooked, I'd probably divorce me
as an owner.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
All right, so that's that.
And then I did hear that wehave a voicemail from our dear
friend Carlos, and he had somethings to say about me and my
rant here we go.
This is what I have to do toget mail.
I mean I'll just keep it going.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
You did say that a long time ago and we need a
chief summarizer in chief,because I do remember you
calling just bring it on.
I don't bring the hate mail, solet's play it.

Speaker 7 (06:56):
We've been trying to reach you.
How about your car's extendedwarranty?
Please call us back at877-EAT-SHIT.
It's 877-EAT-SHIT.
Hey guys, this is Carlos K9OL.

(07:17):
I'm driving to Huntsville andI'm listening and catching up to
the podcast and I can't helpbut feel that someone needs to
schedule Todd for a colonoscopyand a full, proper rectal exam.
He's starting to sound likehe's 95.
And you know, at that age weknow that the brain is not quite
, you know, as sharp as it usedto be, and I'm afraid he's

(07:39):
missing out on some certainrequired doctor's visits.
So, you know, let's start withthe most faithful one, let's get
them a little tickle from thedoc and make sure you book it
with a doc with really, reallybig hands.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Okay, I thought it was three fingers.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
All right, thanks for that, carlos.
Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
The three finger salute.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Yeah, so.
So that's basically the mailfor right now.
I think we had some wind links.
Yeah, did we?
Paul?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
we should do.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, a whole bunch of wind links really well, I
know we probably pissed off afew people.
I sure I threw down thegauntlet to Mike and to MAK to
say that you know we missed hiswind link Wednesday, so I don't
know if those are in that mixthere.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Hey, what did I missed?
I missed your live stream thismorning.
Eric, you apologized on.
What were you apologizing for?
Did you go off like I did?

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Well, yeah, we'll talk about it.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
If I offended anyone, I'm like, oh boy, What'd I miss
?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, you know we'll talk about that when we get into
our week there.
But yeah, remind me if I don'tGo ahead.
Paul.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
All right.
So we got a couple of win linksthat are just, you know,
updates and mail, and then we'vegot one that's one or two that
do good, all right, so just themail, right?
Kd9, ysw.
Chris, he writes the week ofAugust 10th.

(09:21):
Well, this week was the week ofthe boat races here in
Sheboygan, wisconsin.
Sheboygan Rain happened overthe weekend and the races were
canceled.
But the Aries slash Races wereactivated in Milwaukee and
Waukesha counties because offlash floods.

(09:43):
Waukesha counties because offlash floods, our local areas.
Racy's is not as well-structuredlike it was when I was a new
ham, but ham radio-wise, I'vejust been working on a radio
program for all 2-meter70-centimeters to program into
radios via chirp.
I am back learning how to makekitchen sinks look pretty and

(10:07):
well.
The humidity and heat is nothelping much here, but I'm
drinking water and electrolytesdaily.
Maybe this coming weekend Iwill sit back and enjoy
something else.
Ham on, guys and keep up withpodcasts.
Todd, do not feel bad, I'mhaving issues with my extra
studies also.
7-3, chris Radio and Life.

(10:29):
Chris, 89ysw.
Thanks, chris.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
I'm not alone, it's good.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
We're always there with you, man.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Now, all right, so the week of the 10th then flowed
to the week of the 11th,exactly, thanks, to me.
The next email is titled week ofthe 11th.
Happy WinLink Wednesday Will.

(11:01):
I'm back to making cast ironsinks colorful.
I'm improving but still makingmistakes.
Have to keep training no kidsthis weekend and since I will
not be at Huntsville, I will godo a poda.
Might even do a couple Otherthan that.
Ham radio has just been my windlink emails and two meters 70

(11:23):
centimeters.
I really need to do anothervideo soon.
I've just been so busy with thewhole adult thing.
So we definitely we understandthe adult thing there, chris,
yeah Right.
73-89-ysw Chris Radio.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Cool, awesome, all right.
Well, we're going to over those.
Uh, doing goods for the doinggood segment, right, yep yeah,
hold on, we got one, we got onemore.
Yep, um, all right, so this oneis also from chris k89ysw for
the week after august 20th yes,I know it's my fault, move on

(12:05):
all right.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Uh well, all still working and learning on the new
job, not getting a suntan fromthe furnace, just sweating a lot
, even with heat humidity nowbeing a little bit lower than
last week in the ham radio world.
I will be trying to send a windlink next week via VHF.
I found a gateway close and nowI just need to make sure it

(12:29):
works for me and the 733 Alpha.
Other than that, pota has takena back burner because of work
hours, but we will see whathappens.
The county fair here is comingup and I'll be going to that and
maybe, maybe doing a poda.
That's not far from there.
I hope everyone is well and Iwill catch you all soon on the

(12:53):
air.
7389 ysw chris, chris radionice, wow well it seems like our
a lot of mail.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Our magic formula is we just delay, delay, delay,
delay, and then, you know, showup the last minute, we get a ton
of stuff.
So, you know, maybe it's thatthat's what we have to do from
going forward like I really havetime on my schedule to keep
pushing stuff off.
Uh, cool, man.
Well, that is awesome.
Thank you guys for sending allthat stuff in.
And, as always, like uh, wealways say you know, you can

(13:27):
send us a voicemail, you cansend us an email, and all of
those numbers and links are inour description below.
So please, send it our way, letus know what's going on.
Or, if you want to be such oneof the win link elite, send it
to N1 OG, and only N1 OG, please, because it's just going to go
into mailbox.
Hell.
If you send it to Todd or I, soyeah, send it to those guys,

(13:49):
send it to him.
I should say Ignore us, thoseguys.
And yeah, we're looking forwardto reading it in our next
episode.
All right, now I can maybe, youknow, guide ourselves to hit
the next right button here,although all the orders all
screwed up.

Speaker 7 (14:10):
So we're going to try this again doing good, good
doing, good you do that's good.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Do good, do good.

Speaker 7 (14:14):
You're doing good absolutely I do good, good, I do
it good, bob doing real good.
Right now my only outlet is myham radio doing good.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
No, we're not going to repeat this anyway.
All right, now I know why I Itechnical difficulties yes,
right, well that, and I just Imade all of these changes early
in the day and then I went awayto the fox hunt and when I did
that I forgot and my browsertimed out and so all my changes
went down the crapper.
So, yeah, this is awesome.
Good, hey, so much forpre-planning.

(14:43):
And you know, getting ahead ofthe curve, just stick me back
underwater, all right.
Well, so this is the doing goodsegment, which I'm like.
We haven't done one of these in, like eons, I feel like, and so
you know maybe you haven't beenaround and you haven't heard to
do good.
So you know we all try toaspire to do good.
In ham radio at least I know us, we do.
I mean, heck, we're doing the24-hour poda camp out and we're

(15:04):
doing fundraisers.
We're doing some cool stuff.
You know we might.
Maybe, if you're with your club, you might want to do a assist
during a disaster.
Maybe do some communicationsfor a road race, like chris did
um or meal.
Maybe you're one of the luckyfew, like to do poda and you
want to do a meet up in yourclub.
We want to know about thoseactivities and we want to share
them with others to be able tomaybe inspire folks to be able
to get out and start doing somethings like that.

(15:24):
I heard that can all right.
So I raise my fist and I saybring on the good deeds, my
friend.
And so we want you to shareyour story with us.
And we actually got a couple ofstories today uh, two obviously
via winlink and I got one uhfrom an email sent by our
illustrious uh tim um.
So you know, it doesn't have tobe anything related to your

(15:46):
club, it can be just you goingout and doing something and
showing and uh representing uhas an ambassador of ham radio.
We want to hear about it, wewant to share with others so we
can inspire uh all of us hereand get psyched to get out and
do uh the things we do to loveand ham radio.
So with this one um, we havegot, I've got mine.
I don't know if we got aduplicate, because tim may have

(16:06):
sent something with your winlike, did tim send you something
win link or no?
Okay, cool, totally separate.
So tim sent me uh his um.
You know uh win link for thisweek and you know his new call
sign.
If you remember, tim is an oldfriend of the, the show.
He's been with us from very on.
He came on very early on.
His call sign used to be KC1QDK, but his new call sign that I

(16:28):
refer to him as is White man,one Horse, I go silver Hooray.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Don't ever do that again.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
And with that Tim he writes in, I'm putting together
a kit so folks in my club canset up a learn your name in
morse code, which is going tobecome super handy with our 4-h
fair, um and in many of thestation and at his community
outreach events.
So doing this with young folksis a lot of fun and a great way
to induce younger people thehobby.

(17:02):
Totally agree with him.
I mean, in essence you've beendoing our most court station for
pretty much every event.
I think we've done publicphasing and it's been a freaking
big hit.
There have been kids walkingaround with their my name is and
they've got Morse code andyou're like you know most people
like what's wrong with the wise?
He have lines and dashes anddots in his name and you he can

(17:22):
say he now knows his name or sheknows his name in Morse code
and they have a blast.
And so we're going to continueto pick that up with the 4-H
event this, you know, coming inSeptember.
So looking forward to do thatwith a whole bunch of other cool
stuff and so, yeah, that's oneway you can do it.
So if you're a great Morse codeperson, yeah, do that.
Come up with a great idea to beable to just kind of share ham

(17:43):
radio in some form or fashion.
So, yeah, that is an awesomeway and thank you again for
sharing that tim, as always.
Um, and so we got a coupleothers.
So what do you?
Got there in your wind linkbucket there?

Speaker 3 (17:53):
all right, uh.
So this one comes from kilo,quebec, for alfa lima, kilo, uh,
and the subject is possibledoing good.
I'd like to correct that andsay that, 100%, this is a doing
good.
So he does.
He writes, guys.
Since Eric wants more POTAcontent for the doing good

(18:16):
segment, I thought I'd put thisout there For the fall support
your parks weekend.
October 18th and 19th, weWhiskey X-Ray 4, bravo, charlie
Alpha are hosting a POTA eventat Indian Springs State Park
here in Georgia.
Awesome, we have the pavilionalready reserved, a large field

(18:40):
beside it for setting upantennas and hopefully, some
good food field beside it forsetting up antennas and,
hopefully, some good food.
We plan on signing the event,posting to the book of faces yes
, the book of faces and gettingthe info out in any way we can.
We would love to have morepeople from out of the area show

(19:02):
up and we plan on representingthe hobby in as many ways as
possible.
Awesome, we have members of afew different clubs showing up
already, but more can't hurt.
Thanks and 73 KQ or ALK, derek.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Awesome, awesome.
Keep it up, derek Want to hearmore.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
All right.
And the second one also comesfrom a first-time Windlinker to
us.
His call sign isWhiskey2JulietSierraPapa and he
just puts LFH in the subjectline.
But he writes hey gents, I hopethis finds you well.

(19:43):
Brand spanking new to Windlink.
So I hope this finds you well.
Uh, brand spanking new to winlength.
So I hope this goes to theright place and it works Well.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
I'm reading it.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
So you got it to the right person.
Uh, he, he continues.
Uh, I love the podcast,probably my new go-to.
It's usually no agenda, but youall really resonate.
Todd, thanks for your quizzes.
It was just the push I neededto go and pass my extra class.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
Cheers all, keep up the fabulous work.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Whiskey to Juliet's hero Papa.
His name is Patrick and he'sfrom Missouri, and so congrats
on your extra and thanks so muchfor the wind like that.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Nice, very cool, that's awesome.
So give me his call sign again.
We'll make sure we mentionedhim in the next segment.
So it's whiskey to to JulietSierra Papa.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
Patrick, send the message of where, in Missouri,
you're from, because I'm goingto be going out there for work,
probably either next month orthe month after.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
According to his QRZ, he lives in Lee's Summit,
Missouri.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
That's where my uncle's from.
Oh shit, my cousins, you couldbe related yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
What's his name?
Uh, patrick drilling.
I'm sure I'm butchering that,but uh, yeah, d-r-e-i-l-i-n-g.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
The second wow, that's pretty funny.
Like like that, literallythat's where my uh, my cousins
grew up and live, or I don'tknow if they still.
I don't know, I don't know ifthey still live in Lee's Summit,
but yeah, I've been there, cool.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Nice, alright.
Well, dude, that is what doinggood's all about, and the fact
that you know you guys are helpcontributing and sharing your
stories just makes my heart warmand gets us excited, because
this is really, you know, why welove Ham Radio and why we get
involved.
So when we get to hear thesestories, we get you guys get to
hear these stories, and it justmakes everybody much happier and

(21:49):
we don't have to.
You know, create like side.
You know.
You know uh, theme, uh bumpersthat you know talk about 80
meter rants and stuff like that.
So we'll, we'll, we'll all beglad.
Uh, you know, when we have ahappier day, so all right with
that.
I know Groucho stepped away.
I don't know if he's getting incostume or something we're
going to roll into our usualhere.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
I had to.
I had to put the fan on.
Oh, there we go.
It's everyone's favoritesegment.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
And now a little something extra with Todd W1STJ.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
Still a general.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
All right.
Well, this is our little thing,called something extra, with
Todd.
You know, you've heard it here.
This is where we help Toddstudy for his extra test.
But in essence, in essence,we're helping you study for your
extra tests and helping youpass.
That's how much Todd is a giver.
So we are super excited to seeyou know that, just continuing

(22:55):
moving forward.
But, like I said, we test eachepisode three questions and we
pull those from the extra classpool.
And I have to say, todd, you'vebeen on a run.
So far I mean I think it's beentwo episodes.
So far You've been at least twofor three or dead on 100%.
So keep plugging away, man.
I think you know the algorithmis going to be in your favor.
So, if you may be, you know,working on this, you can follow

(23:18):
along.
You can head over tohamstudyorg, which is the
preferred, you know, ham studytool.
Nothing else, you know, comeseven close or can't even put a
flame to a candle, you know, andit's a great resource to help
you prepare for your test andit's recommended by all of the
VE examiners, including thesetwo guys here.
So I'm going to, without anyfurther delay, hand it over to
our VE quiz master.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Take it away, paul.
All right, todd, here we go.
Question number one comes fromsub-element number seven, and
the question is how manyflip-flops are required to
divide a signal frequency by 16?
A 4, B 8, c 6, or D 16.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
All right, I know this one.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
Yeah, because I know we had it before.
I think it's D Good, naughty B.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Bb b all right.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
I think I said b last time and it was wrong.
Okay, I think it's d all rightokay, todd says, todd says D.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
D is incorrect.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Eric said B it's 4.
Also incorrect.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
The correct answer is A 4.
Wah, wah, wah wah.
Oh well, if you insert aflip-flop into a circuit, it
will divide the input signal bytwo.
Therefore, to divide afrequency by 16, you simply need

(25:15):
four flip-flops in series.
And then there's your formula.
I'll save everybody theaggravation.
I just won't read the formula.
Please watch the video.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Or go to hamstudyorg, pull up that question and read
it yourself.
All right Well.
Oh the shot key diode, damn it.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
Question number two has a figure which is Todd's
favorite thing.
So in figure E six, dash two,which is the schematic symbol or
a shot key diode, is it anumber one, b number six, c

(26:08):
number two or D number three?

Speaker 1 (26:15):
That's one two.
What are the other two choices?

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Six and three.
One, two, three and six.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
I don't know what the hell 6 is doing.
I haven't even seen that.
That's like a Led Zeppelinsymbol for their latest album.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Move it up a little bit so I can see the 1, 2, and
3's I know what are you goingfor, todd.
Well, I'm thinking I know whatare you going for, Todd.
Well, I'm thinking diode wouldbe two, because there's two
triangles there.
It's either two or three, butI'm going to go with two.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
So C, I'm going with A, which is A.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Which is which is one is number one.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
Speaker 4 Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Speaker 3 you just wait until the end of the music.
Speaker 4 he just buildattention.
My friend, what are you tryingto raise the stats around here,
or something?

Speaker 3 (27:26):
all right.
So, todd, what was your finalanswer?
Again two hey, he's baiting youtwo is incorrect yeah and eric,
would you say.
You said one one.
Okay, that is also incorrect,it's three.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
I spoke too soon.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
It's three it is not three, it is six.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
The one that we thought, oh my gosh, I hate
electronic symbols sometimes.
What the heck is wrong withthem?
Alright, never gonna use thisever never gonna get it, so let
me explain right.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
So the correct answer is six Never going to use this,
ever, ever in my whole life,never going to get it, never
going to get it.
So let me explain, right.
So the correct answer is six.
The symbols number one is aVeriCap, a voltage-controlled
capacitor.
Number two is unknown.
It could be a distractor basedon the symbol for a transient
voltage suppression diode Ha haha.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Distractor based on the symbol for a transient
voltage suppression diodeAh-ha-ha distractor.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Number three is a Zener diode, number four is just
a regular diode, number five isa light-emitting diode, number
six is the Schottky, numberseven is silicone-controlled
rectifier and number eight is atriac.

(28:50):
Yeah, we're never going to usethis Never.
Well, your hint is the line infront of the Schky diode looks
like a backwards s.
Additionally, the last part ofthe name, shotky, is similar to

(29:11):
key, and the line in front ofthe shotky diode also kind of
resembles the key what key arethey using?

Speaker 5 (29:22):
old keys like the old , Like a skeleton key.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh my gosh, Okay All right.
That'll go with it.
Ah another dagger Come on.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
It's going to keep giving you these until you start
getting them right.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, exactly, all right.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Question number three , the final question of the
evening.
In figure E6-1, which is theschematic symbol for an
N-channel dual gate MOSFET, isit A number six, b, number four,

(30:09):
b, number four, c, number five?

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Or D, number two.
What is six?
What are the numbers?
Again, six, four.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
Okay, you know this one, todd, I think it's five.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Let's see, don't give me any hints.
It's four for me, my friend,and I'll give you your
remembering, you know.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
The triangle's going, which.
It's one of those two Fuckingtriangle going the wrong way.
It's always in.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Alright, I think we got it.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Alright, so Todd says C, which is number five.
Yes, yeah.
That is incorrect.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Remember the triangle's in it's four.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
It is number four, which is B, and so all right.
So number one is your P-JFET,Number two is an N-channel
MOSFET.
Number three is a P-channelMOSFET.
Number four is the one you werelooking for, the dual-gate

(31:24):
N-channel MOSFET.
Number four is the one you werelooking for, the dual-gate
N-channel MOSFET.
Number five is the dual-gateP-channel MOSFET.
And six is an N-JFET.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Where is Boba Fett?

Speaker 3 (31:43):
In Mandalore.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
I know, right, all right.
Well, that was a rough one, Ihave to say.
We we bombed that one hard,didn't we?
I spoke too soon, my friend andI.
I apologize up front forbasically sabotaging our, our
somewhat good streak.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
I will never use any of those diagrams for the rest
of my life.
Ever, never, ever ever.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
But that's not to say that it's completely irrelevant
for everyone taking the test,because there are people like
myself who are dummies, but I I,if I can look at a wiring
diagram right, and I can look atthe schematic, I can figure it
out right.
So even though I'm a freakingretard and a half like, if you

(32:33):
give me a wiring diagram, I canfigure it out guys, he's not
even a full retard.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
Come on, you never go full retard yeah, exactly what
section was those in Seven?

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Six and seven.
Yes, sub-element six and seven.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, that's a tough one.
You struggle on those a littlebit, all right.
Well, you know, hey, I'm withyou, buddy, like I bombed those
big time and you know I probablymuddled through them just as
much as I did.
I probably failed them on myown.
You know extra exam.
So, uh, I understand.
So with that, you know, ifyou're on the journey of
studying for your technician,general or extra class license,
then hemp stateorg is an awesomeresource.

(33:17):
It's definitely helping.
Todd Sounds home.
It says you're going to learnthe damn schematics, kid, if you
have to pay the Piper.
But you know, at the same timeyou know he's blown through a
bunch of them and scored youknow a hundred percent every
time.
So you know, maybe you'vereceived your license or maybe
you just got upgraded and wewant to let you know, or you, we

(33:38):
want to let, we want you to letus know and we want to
recognize you on the nextepisode for all that hard work,
just like a whiskey to JulietSierra Papa.
He learned and was able to gethis own extra through us.
So we appreciate that here andall that.
That's always great news anddefinitely a positive, for sure.
And you know if you get yourextra or you get your license

(34:00):
the first time.
You know.
Email us at live free and hamat gmailcom, and we're going to
mention it on the next showbecause we want to celebrate
with you.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
Positive news the next three days of work, they're
sending me to a training on howto deescalate kids with someone
who has a high school diplomaand someone that has three years
working with kids and I have tolisten to them for three days
because they took a course for aweek.
So I've been doing this for 30years.

(34:29):
I think I know how tode-escalate kids, so I will be
spending my three days studyingfor my extra on my phone.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Good use of time section six and seven well
before we dive in our ham radioweek.
It looks like Bob had aquestion.
I don't know if you caught thatin the chat.
He's asking where in Missouriyou're going to be Todd.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
I think the place is somewhere down by the Ozarks, so
it's a little it's farther away.
I don't think I'm going to beable to get to see my cousins
because I'm only there for likethey've been doing it in a day.
So I'm only there for like athey've been doing it in a day,
so I'm only there for a day ortwo.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
You know well, I think it was more personal, like
is, if he was near you, youguys go do a poter or something,
but yeah, yeah st louis is likeeast and I'm going to be like
south west, I think, at theother end of the state.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
Cool, but yeah, I don't know.
I'll find out when I get there,I guess yeah, yeah, totally,
and you know we'll.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
We'll find out soon enough, obviously, bob,
hopefully you've been, uh, youknow hammering away your
technician license there andyou'll be ready to test with us
at, uh, live free and hams,24-hour poda and you know we'll
be able to celebrate and rejoicewith you.
Um, I don't think we can pullany fast strings to be able to
get your call sign issued, likethat day.
But you know, hey, miracleshave been known, all right.

(35:50):
Well, with that, I'm going topause and say, hey, what's been
your hammer a week like and Iknow Paul has been crazy,
besides driving like lunaticbetween you know, a very far
land that we all wish we were atto uh, you know good old, uh,

(36:11):
new hampshire, how's your hammer?

Speaker 3 (36:12):
you wake, mr?
Uh og, well, all right, Iactually I gotta go back a
little bit further than a weektime, because I've got, I've got
some big news.
Not only did I do parachutemobile, I did, I did parachute
mobile twice I learned.
I learned twice I learned a lotof mistakes.

(36:35):
The first round um the, the bowfang is not the radio for
parachute mobile now why, though?

Speaker 1 (36:42):
I'm curious.
We all know why.
Oh shit Sherlock.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
So what ended up happening with the Baofeng was
very poor receive quality, verypoor transmit quality and, for
whatever reason, nobody couldreally hear me until I was
almost at 3 feet.
Oh, wow, that's weird.

(37:09):
So, yeah, so it was.
It was really bad, um.
So the next day, saturday, uh,I, I jumped with the, the Yesu
RT3D.
Uh, just cause that's the,that's the one nice ht that I
have um, the, the configurationwith the headset was a little

(37:32):
bit different.
Um, it was certainly not ascomfortable as the, the
connection that I had for thebow fang, but, um, I made it
work.
The um, the microphone ended upbeing the wrong way facing my
mouth.
So, no, no, no, listen right.

(37:55):
So I got, I got, uh, I got somereally great uh videos from
kr5six, miss renee um, and k5yvy, mr joe brett.
Uh, they were both kind enoughto send me some video clips that
they had taken um, and and joebrett's videos especially, like
I could really kind of hear howI sounded on the other end, and

(38:17):
it was just um, it was just kindof muffled, like the microphone
was right up against my facebecause it was.
Yeah, I mean, the microphone wasliterally touching my lips in
the helmet, but it was facingthe wrong way so it wasn't as

(38:38):
clear as it could have been.
But wow, what a freaking coolthing.
So what Carlos and I did was webasically treated it like a
dual op.
Uh, you know photo activationfrom from the sky, and so, um.
So we got set up.
We, we called each other on aon a on a 70 centimeter simplex
frequency make sure that, likewe were communicating with each

(39:00):
other.
Then we switched over to thefrequency that we had agreed to
use and, yeah, I called CQParachute Mobile, and then, once
I got the person, I would saystand by for second operator,
and Carlos would pick it up.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Carlos, pick up the phone.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
And then, when Carlos was done, he would call QRZ, he
would make the next contact andgo stand by for second operator
, and then I would pick it upand you'd throw the microphone
halfway across.
Well.
So what ended up being reallycool about it was I, so I
downsized my canopy, so I wasflying a 190 and Carlos was

(39:41):
flying a 170.
And our wing loading wasrelatively similar, uh, similar.
It was much closer than it hadbeen previously, uh, but I still
, I I hung out like above him,you know, and so like I would
finish the QSO and I'd give mymy altitude, and then he'd pick

(40:02):
it up and and his altitude was,like you know, a good thousand
feet or so lower than me andhe's like Paul's above me, but
it's okay.
So that was, that was supercool.
Uh, parachute to parachute,right.
So it was a first for him, itwas a first for me.
Um, it just, it was so awesome.

(40:25):
I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
The real question is did you give him a good signal
report Like, did you actuallygive him like a 5.9?

Speaker 3 (40:31):
finally, Well, yeah, because he was, he was perfectly
5.9.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Only Carlos did you give a 5.9.
I understand man.
I see the connection.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Listen, at Parachute Mobile, everybody was getting a
five nine because we were justtrying to hammer it through, um,
but so, all right, so that waslast weekend, right, I got to do
that.
And then, uh, monday morning, Iwas on my way, headed back home
, and so I put aprs on in thetruck so that those who wanted

(41:02):
to track me could track me.
Um and I, I called out on onfive to a whole bunch of times
on the trip and I, I, I wasn'table to make a cue so with
anybody, until I got to New Yorkand, as I'm crossing the
Delaware river, I get this guyand he goes oh, oh yeah, you

(41:23):
literally just drove by my house, okay, so he knew, he knew
exactly where I was on thehighway and I was like, okay, uh
, um, you know, yep, just crossthe delaware and now many are
jersey delaware, isn't?
no, the.
The delaware river crosses inbetween New York, new Jersey and

(41:46):
Pennsylvania.
It also I was going between NewJersey and Delaware.
That's not where I was, though.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Different spot, but yes, okay.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
So I was going from Pennsylvania to New York and so
you're a little across acrossthe river, um, but yeah, so the
guy told me he's little acrossacross the river, um, but yeah,
so the guy told me he's like,his name is Michael, uh, kilo to
Charlie Delta, I believe, ishis call sign, um, but yeah,
super nice guy, and he was like,yeah, you're, you're going to

(42:18):
lose me as as you come up overthe Hill there.
But uh, it was, it was good, we, we, we had a short, short
little conversation, um, so allin all, like my my trip to
hansville I had one q.
So my trip, my trip home, I hadone q, so uh, but it's still
ham radio, it still counts, anduh, and now I'm home and I was

(42:44):
playing for the last few daysbanging my head against the wall
, watching Freddie Mac videosover and over and over again.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
All-star.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
All-star, yes, Sweet.
So I'm trying to take myformerly WPSD PyStar node and
switch it over to All-Star.
And I had to send Freddie Macsome messages today the PyStar
node and switch it over toAll-Star.
And I had to send Freddie backsome messages today because I
was like dude, I set it up, itall seems like it's working, but

(43:13):
never once in your videos doyou explain how you're
connecting the radio to the pie.
And so it was like dude, I,I've got the MMDVM board on the
pie, Like I don't understand,Like, and he goes oh well, you
can't use an MMDVM board becauseit has to be yeah.

(43:35):
So he sent me a link to thething that I need to buy.
It's a hundred bucks, but yeah,I'll get that and then I'll,
I'll, I'll get the all-star notegoing, oh yeah.
Lots of ham radio this week, butthat that was.
That was my ham radio week.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Oh, nice dude.
I have to say I already had anote here.
Obviously you talk aboutall-star, but it I already had a
note here.
Obviously talk about all-star,but sounds like you're working
towards that, because I know yousaid you were cracking on it
down in Huntsville and so I waslike, oh, maybe he'll be on,
because I don't have to tell youlike I was surprised as to how
much freaking activity was onJason's you know cloud node.

(44:16):
You know I talked to K murderliterally four times, like from
the comfort of my desk on my HT,you know, while he my HT, you
know, while he was cruisingthrough you know whatever state
he was, and to chat with him, Itold him, you know, hey, you
know, pay attention when you getthere, cause you're getting
there early, grouch will bethere.
And he's like okay, and he waslike I'll have to go check out
and say hello to him.
And so I was like okay, so wejust, you know, kind of just

(44:38):
have them back and forth andJason would jump in.
And I have to say most of theguys that are on the HR2O's node
pretty friendly, I mean,they're guys I like to listen to
.
So, yeah, definitely glad tosee you're moving towards
All-Star.
I love that mode.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Well, I guess the big bonus to All-Star is it's FM
analog.
So it doesn't matter what radioyou use to communicate into the
node, because, yep, you knowwhat you do not, it's not using
a digital mode yep, yeah, I gotone.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
I got my node set up in the truck and literally I
just, you know, the only problemis I haven't gotten, I haven't
ordered the uh epic power gatethat I need to be able to manage
the battery and whatnot, so Ikeep forgetting the batteries
and back and then it just justdrains.
You know, because I've got ahotspot and, uh, you know,
everything all on it and itdrains.
I was like, oh crap, I got torecharge the battery.
So, all that being said, I, youknow, I'm really like loving

(45:32):
all-star.
It's been, you know, it's likefor those long runs, like I,
where I nothing happens on arepeater, like here's an example
like today I was literally at,like the bedford high school and
I called four times with in aspan of 45 minutes on our club
repeater.
Nobody came back and I'm justlike that's boring, that's

(45:52):
annoying, and like I'm like youguys know, I'm here doing a fox
hunt, like at least you can do,like entertain me and keep me
busy or say hello, and you knowit didn't happen.
So but I know, if I fired upall-star which I didn't have
because I had my truck I couldhave, you know, easily jumped on
, you know some node and had hadsome conversation with somebody
, so it's always better for mebut maybe they're just avoiding
you.

Speaker 5 (46:11):
Maybe I called out.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
I called out on on the n1qc repeater on wednesday
and and I figured for sure likesomebody would be there and be
like oh my god, paul, I haven'theard you in forever.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
No cricket no, yeah it's.
It's very crazy like everybodywho's like been super busy is
literally just not been on therepeater and if they, those that
are on the repeater are on theford mountain repeater, so you
know.
But I tried to get in aconversation between joe and and
, uh, paul, ass, pa Paul.
And you know I couldn't get inedgewise to even jump in because

(46:46):
they were just kind of, youknow, they didn't leave a gap at
all and I'm like, why aren'tyou following the N1 OG
etiquette?
Let's go, come on, give me agap here so I can at least say
hello.
But yeah, oh, good, all right,well, cool man Dude, that's
awesome.
Looking forward, all right,well, cool man dude, that's
awesome.
Uh, yeah, looking forward toseeing, uh, more parachute

(47:06):
mobile, for sure.
And uh, yeah, with that.
Uh, I'm actually waiting.
Is carlos gonna be putting hisvideo on on that?
I guess?
I know he saw the one with jim.
That was pretty cool, todd, yousee the jim jump no uh go watch
carlos's channel.
He'd uh posted uh his uh tandemwith jeem.
He'd posted his tandem with JimWT one W he I don't know like

(47:28):
he obviously lost a lot ofweight, but the clothing he had
on I'm like dude, that's toobaggy.
I don't know Like I would haveworn that just because the fear
would have like flown off mybody or something, because it
was like he'd look really likeit was really baggy.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
but so baggy clothes don't really matter, but uh, the
the thing that that that got meand I I chuckle, I.
I watched that video a fewtimes when, when the canopy
opens right and you look atjim's face and he goes I know
it's like I bug out, it'severything like he's just like

(48:00):
and like the wind.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
like it's like a like bug out everything Like he's
just like, and like the wit,like it's like a like his face
is just like, everything's likepulled back.
Like you know, it's a T Speaker3 and 0, but yeah, so I don't.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
I don't know when Carlos is going to put his out.
I honestly I I haven't evengotten started on on my video
yet, but it'll, it'll be comingsoon Very cool, very cool, all
right, well, with that over toyou, todd.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
How is your Henry week, sir?
What's been going on?

Speaker 5 (48:30):
Nothing much.
I uh I was really bummedbecause I wanted to get out and
do a photo this week but workgot in the way, unfortunately.
Damn that work, um.
But I did meet a new ham.
So on saturday I uh I did thisthing with with my wife that
she's really into.
It's called sleep in heavenlypeace, and they build beds for

(48:51):
kids that need beds, um, and abunch of guys that run it are
all aeronautical engineers andthey've got this thing down to a
science and then from about 9to 11, we cranked out 20 beds.
That's fast, yeah, it's prettyawesome.
Like so everyone gets a stationand they, you prep them, so

(49:13):
everyone has something to startwith.
So at the end you make piecesfor the next final assembly,
yeah, right, assembly line, yeah, so there's always.
So you basically you make like20, you know one or two beds
because there's extra piecesthat other people will start.
Like they start sanding thepieces already done.

(49:33):
So, anyway, I was at the startI had to cut, um, all these
different boards at differentlanes, but they have it all on
jigs.
So it's like oh, two white, youneed this and that you can't
add an inch.
You can't subtract an inch, it'slike it's, it's.
And the only thing I had aproblem was I had a kid that,
like, had the attention span ofa net and I said, dude, you
gotta get these quicker, I'mcutting them too fast, and

(49:55):
they're, they're piling up on me.
And then they take all thescrap wood, which is really cool
, and then they burn it in oneof those um, what are those fire
pit things?
I have solar stove and they havea brand and they brand the wood
on the on the headboard, uh,sleeping the shp, it's like

(50:16):
their own brand and this was aeagle scout project, so he was
basically running it.
Oh nice, yeah.
So I've helped my wife prep thebeds.
So what happens is they go intothis barn all the pieces and
then there'll be a delivery andthere's guys that will just come
and they'll bring their traileror their pickup truck and

(50:36):
they'll pick up the wood andthey deliver and they go to the
house and put it together.
And there's different kinds.
There's like singles bunks, twobunks, high bunks, high, low, I
don't know.
There's all different kinds.
And you just crank them out and, uh, I've always gone to help
her, you know prep the bed.
So basically you know they situp there in the barn.
We re-drill the holes, makesure it's sand, make sure,

(50:58):
that's all.
You know.
Everything works, the pegs fitin and then when the guys get it
, they can just easily get intothe house, put it together.
They get mattresses, beddingthe whole nine yards.
So it's a really cool program.
So I'm in there and of course mywife is like oh uh, I was
talking to to this guy and he'sa ham.
He wants to meet you.

(51:18):
So his name's Marty N1MP and wewere talking a lot about ham
radio and stuff and he told meabout the podcast.
So, marty, if you're listening,shout out.
Really enjoyed meeting him.
He's part of I think he said hewas part of NARS, I don't know
if he still is or not.

(51:38):
I told him about our club.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
You said N1NP M.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
Mary oh.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
M.
Okay, so it's like the guy youjust talked to is from Virginia.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Yeah, yeah, N1 Military Police.
That's how I and I think I toldhim.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
I said I think I've worked you before because I know
that I that car call signsounds familiar and that's what
I thought of military police.
Call sign sounds familiar andthat's what I thought of
military police, but his name isuh martin pesca, I think, or
pesla anyway he um pesca, right,yeah, so he's um.
Yeah, so he was really cool.
He was, uh, he doesn't do muchpoda.

(52:14):
I told him we were going to dothe 24-hour poda and he should
stop by, but he's going to beaway.
He did go um up to canada andhe was making contacts and stuff
, uh, doing like nova scotia andthat whole thing.
So it was really cool to get to.
You know, meet another guy outthere who was doing the same
thing I was doing.
But you know, talk ham radio.
And then it was funny becausethey were trying we get to the

(52:34):
barn afterwards and you have todrop all the stuff off so
they're backing up the thing andthe guy's like yelling at the
other guy and the other guys onthat.
I'm like, oh, this would be aperfect time for ham radio, but
it was funny, I mean.
So it was.
It was kind of cool.
But you know, spreading the word, he said that a lot of clubs

(52:55):
that he was in he said that likeNARS was, you know they.
It was like they went, he wentto the meetings and stuff and
then they were going to dothings and I said, well, our
club is, we try to do ham radiostuff.
And that's why I told him wehad the 24-hour poda.
We do the support your parksclub things.
We do field day we do.
I said, oh, and we're doing afox hunt on Sunday.

(53:19):
So so he was like I'm like,yeah, you should join, but he
lives.
I think he said he lives in helived in Nashua I forget where
he said he lived.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Anyway, uh, Nashua.

Speaker 5 (53:30):
Yeah, nashua, so it was good.
It was good to meet him and I'msure Ia is all about, but all
about man yeah, so it was uh,that was good.
So that was basically my hamradio week.
I uh was supposed to go fishingtoday.
Coast guard canceled that.

(53:51):
Yeah, fast, yeah salisbury hatzach was getting nerfed because
salisbury some asshole went out,flipped his boat and one guy is
missing and the other guy andthen another guy in maine
decided to go out on his fuckingsailboat and dumped that thing
and into the rocks and got it toget rescued.

(54:12):
So I guess the coast guard, uh,canceled it all weekend.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
So no, yeah, they uh the boats were a big thing and
they had double red flags on thecoast and nobody was like even
allowed to like we were drivingup on just saturday to maine and
my becky's just getting liketext messages like that you know
.
Oh, they've rescued four peoplenow at hampton.
Oh, they've rescued six peoplenow at hampton because they
don't read the stupid signs andthe riptides are strong, like

(54:38):
they were just pulling you out,so you know.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
So we didn't get to go.
And then, uh, so what I didtoday is the reason I wasn't on
your live stream is I was like,you know, I'm gonna go flying,
so I get flying today and, uh,get up in the end.
I haven't flown since thewinter, so it's been a long time
.
So I get up there and of course, it's like I get to the field,
it's fucking hurricane going onout there and I brought a plane
that is super light and so, uh,shut up so I went out a story

(55:06):
time in a while so, uh, I wentout there and the plane decided
the the wind fucking blew myplane into litchfield and what?
oh yeah, did you get it back?
Well, yeah, so I'm flying andmy distance sight is going.
So now all I see is this likeblack dot and I can't tell which
way.
So I'm flying it back and I'mflying it.

(55:29):
I thought I was right set up.
I was actually flying it upsidedown.
Unfortunately, this plane has alot of it's a 3d plane, so it's
got a lot of movement like Ican flip it like on itself real
quick.
And then the wind was blowingand I it didn't have enough
power to like break through thewind and I was like what the
fuck?
I'm like my buddy, yeah, I'mlike yes, yes, he goes, what,

(55:51):
what, what?
He goes what?
You need a buddy box Idirection.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
So he, he verbally guided me back, uh to the, to
the uh the field, and I was ableto bring it back, the good deed
to the old elderly got it.

Speaker 5 (56:11):
Yeah, dude, I was like because that plane I never
fly, but the wind just blew.
I mean it went fast and it waslike over the merrimack, it was
like into litchfield and it wassmall and it was getting small.
So got to do some flying andthen I spent the afternoon
trying to get a motorcycle tireoff Zach's bike and that is a.
I don't know if you guys everdone that, but that is a fucking

(56:33):
nightmare.
Well, it helps if you got theright tools.
Well, I went to Harbor Freightand I got some tools to do it
and fuck it.
I'm not doing it again, it'sgoing to the shop because I got
the thing in.
I got it all off, put the newtube in and then I think when I
was putting it in I must havecut the tube, because when I
pumped it up I could feel theair coming through it.

(56:53):
Oh god, that's worse.
So I'm like fuck.
So fortunately I got two tubesand his tire was bald, it was
like a knobby tire and he's gotit down to like a slick.
I said, screw it, we're justgetting another tire.
So, like amazon was like 50bucks and I said we get this,
you can bring it to themotorcycle shop and they'll do
it, yeah, but what a fucking.

(57:13):
I was like, oh my god, I meanliterally probably three and a
half hours working on that thingand it didn't even work, so
that was my day today.
Oh, and then I watched a littleleague world series and I
watched the U?
S get their asses kicked byChina.
They did seven.
The kid was pitching 75, 76miles an hour.

(57:36):
It's like a hundred.
And what did they say?
109.
Yeah, he pitched one pitch 82.
It's 109?
.
Yeah, he pitched one pitch 82.
It's 109 miles an hour.
That would be like in a MLB.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
You got to remember, though, he is Paul Froese.

Speaker 4 (57:55):
Yeah, he is Screenshot.
That Get it.
Where's my tool Get?

Speaker 1 (57:57):
it Tool go't get it where it's supposed to go All
right Get it, get it get itwhere it's supposed to go there
it is Okay, he's definitelyfrozen.
Yeah, he's hard frozen.

Speaker 5 (58:09):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Anyway, grouch is still there, grouch 5'9" right
5'9, anyway 5'9".

Speaker 5 (58:18):
You are frozen, you are frozen.
So that was my ham radio slashweekend.
So did a little bit ofcommunity service and helped a
kid on his Eagle Scout projectNice kid, nice job.
And met a ham and talked hamradio and that was it.
So, eric, what was your Sweet?

(58:41):
What was your what?

Speaker 1 (58:42):
was your um, wow, uh, let's see, trying to remember
what the heck happened.
The problem with these pastthree weeks, everything's been a
shit storm.
I uh, oh yeah, because we'vehad so many, yeah, so yeah, I
did a video over sort of my newfavorite park that I'm kind of
hanging out in over in dunstable.

(59:03):
Um, it's a new, um, uh,wildlife management park, really
easy to get access to off of.
You know where flint's corneris, paul right, well, you don't
like going to mass, so don'teven bother.
It's a great park, you know,really cool.
And so I uh was there filming avideo on doing a comparison
against the 49 to one and a 56to one and fed, and tortoise,

(59:26):
like, was calling me.
And he was just like dude, youknow, I'm up here in a sugar
loaf, I think it was for work.
And he's like I was going to doa poda.
But then I realized I forgot mytuner and I'm like okay, dude,
you forgot your tuna, what bigdeal.
He's like I'm like what do youhave for an antenna?
He's like oh, I got a 56 to 1.
I'm like well, that should beperfectly fine, it's resident

(59:46):
antenna, it should be.
He's like okay, no problem, he'slike he's like, but I already
left the site.
Anyway, I'm heading down yourway, you doing a poter right now
, and I'm like, yeah, I'm doingone right now.
I'll be here for a little whilebecause I well, all right, the
timer says I should be at yourlocation in 90 minutes or
whatever, and I'm like, allright, well, I'll be here.
I'll let you know if I leave.
I don't think I will.
So he shows up and of course,you know we're hanging out and

(01:00:08):
you know talking and he'sfilming and you know I'm doing
my thing and they don't knowwhat the fuck they're doing
they're doing.
Exactly, that's exactly what wewere doing, and so so the funny
part was is he throws his bagdown on the back of my tailgate
and he starts to go through hisbag and then he realizes he's
like well, I have the antenna,but I don't have coax, I don't
even have my battery.

(01:00:29):
I'm like dude, you literallyare going to the site, You're
worried about your tuner and youdon't have the other two
components to make a completecircle here.
And he's like well, yeah,apparently I don't like, well,
okay, you're, you're a hopeless,uh mess there.
But you know.
So we went over and activated,and that was a tough activation
because that was like kind of Idon't know what the.
It wasn't a solar storm, it wassomething else going on.

(01:00:50):
Uh, aurora, not aurora, whatthe heck was it called?
Ah, there's that hole thatthey've been talking about for a
while that you know has beengiving us problems.
So, yeah, we were struggling tomake 10 contacts and of course,
uh, you know, he in, uh, put outhis own video.
Awesome job toward us, Good jobwith putting your own video out
.
But uh, you know, he, hechallenged because we were chit,

(01:01:13):
chatting about uh, talkingabout uh, how, um, Jules, uh, or
Julie from Podopower, you know,always gets all the contacts
because her voice is so high andI'm like she's female dude.
He's like, yeah, but he's likeI wonder if, like you know, my
voice is that high, would youknow, people make contacts with?
And I'm just like I dare you goahead?

(01:01:33):
And of course I didn't grab mycamera in time enough, but I
didn't.
He filmed his part in it.
So you know.
You know how I am withcollecting, you know, little
clips of certain things.
So you know we've got ourofficial, you know, Mr Bill,
here, which is liquid gold inand of its own.
So I'm quite happy to, you know, pick him up and add that to my

(01:01:54):
collection.
But it was always a blast to,you know, hang out with him and,
just you know, make contacts.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Almost sounds asked to.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Uh, you know hang out with him and, just you know,
make contacts and so almostalmost sounds like mr hanky.
Yeah, that was the other one.
I was like you said.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
You said you gotta check this out.
He goes, that's his real voice.
So I'm like that's his realvoice, like thinking, like
that's how he talks, like thatwas my first thing.
I was like what's?

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
wrong with this guy?
I know right, exactly how is hejust basking his deep voice
when he talks on a year?

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
So I'm thinking like that's his real voice and he had
to do some kind of a computerenhancement, that when he
normally talks, I'm like whatthe hell?

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
So you know he was, he was, you know, hanging out
and so it was fun.
And then we had our usualwednesday breakfast and at the
club at pressed and I actuallygot to meet, uh, two people and
actually curious to see if shereached out to you, paul her
name's annie.
She has no call sign yet, um,but she is, uh, works for the va

(01:02:57):
crisis center and wants to.
Yeah, she's studying for aticket and she's like I really
wish there was like this groupof vets that could get together
and talk about ham.
Right, I'm like center andwants to.
You know she's studying for aticket and she's like I really
wish there was like this groupof vets that could get together
and talk about him.
Right, I'm like, well, funny,you mentioned that.
I know a person who's perfectlyin charge of you know an area
like that.
I'm like, have you ever heardof flag and torch?
She's like, no, I haven't.
I'm like I thought you guyswere a close knit group of
people.
You know, well, go check outhis channel, first and foremost

(01:03:21):
because you know you need tocheck out his weekend warrior
stuff, because it's a lot ofgreat, you know.
You know military kind of likefocus about just having
conversations, real life stories, and, you know, from a military
perspective, because all thoseguys are, you know, uh, either
in active duty or they're a mixof both, and they get together
and I'm like, talk to Paul,reach out to him, but at the
same time check out Flag andTorch.

(01:03:42):
She's like, oh my God, her eyesjust went.
She's like, oh my gosh, this isawesome.
I have this resource here andso you know.
So hopefully she has reachedout to you.
If she's not, I'll send you heremail and you know she can
connect up with you guys there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
But yeah, she hasn't reached out, but I I assume if
you told her to watch a weekendwarriors episode, she was
probably like oh my god no, no,no, she's.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
She's pretty edgy, I think, at this point.
So I I don't she's not straightlaced like to that level, like
if I can handle you guys, shecan handle them.
I wouldn't, you know, throwanybody in under the bus if I
didn't expect them to know whatthey were getting into.
So, yeah, so we talked there.
And then there's this motherand her two kids and Todd.
Do you remember when we hadthat two years ago or three

(01:04:30):
years, paul?
You probably remember two,three years ago?
We or we had that field daywhere we had that black family
of 11 people all following Wayneout in the in the field doing
fox hunts.
Well, we never heard back fromthem.
And of course, I show up onWednesday and Ralph's like hey,
you're going to go over and talkto and I can't remember her
name.
I'm always forgetting.
She's like she's studying forher you know her technician and

(01:04:53):
her son, who's like 11, who'sstudying for hers, and their
younger, his younger sister,who's like eight, is studying,
you know, trying to understandthe concepts.
Sister, who's like eight, isstudying, you know, trying to
understand the concepts.
And so she was just like like asuper absorbent sponge, asking
like six million questions abouteverything and anything about
ham radio and was like, allright, dude, let's try this, and
you know, giving hersuggestions and tips and and all
other stuff.
And so she kind of went off.

(01:05:14):
But I like I invited her tocome down to the 24-hour pod.
I said, you know, come, if youwant to play radio, you can come
hang out with us.
You know, you do all that stuff.
Um, you know, and just you know, invited her to a whole bunch
of other things.
So she was like totally likecrazy.
So like I guess a couple dayslater she calls um.
Or I talked to ralph and ralphwas like, hey, uh, you know that
, remember, that lady you talkedto on wednesday.

(01:05:35):
I'm like, well, she wants tocome to my house because she
lives in new boston, which isliterally down the street from
him, and she just bought allthese, these Quan Shang radios
you know that she needs to helpprogrammed.
And I'm like, well, ralph,you're the right person to have
them programmed, because I'm notprogramming them and I, you
know I didn't steer her towardsthose radios but at the same
time, yeah, why not?
Did you know the cheap, easyhands?

(01:05:57):
So yeah, outside of that, youknow, we did a Fox hunt, but
I'll share that next weekbecause, uh, you know there was
a lot of work and and, uh, youknow, it was still good.
It was still cool to uh to dothe Fox on Chris, uh, uh, keeler
Charlie, one whiskey X-ray Papa, which we all know, he's the,
uh, a blind ham and awesome kid,uh, totally, uh, you know, all

(01:06:20):
head over heels for Fox hunting.
He went out, I hooked him upwith my arrow antenna and he's
driving down the street with hismom and he's in the passenger
seat and mom's driving and he'sholding my three arrow antenna
out the window while they'redriving down the road.
And I'm like, oh my gosh, thisis going to end up as a major
problem, if you know, he losesthat antenna or whatever.
But, uh, yeah, they had a blastso it was fun to see that stuff

(01:06:42):
.
Go on and and good stuff.
But, uh, yeah, my daughter isstill undefeated.
She has not been found yet.
So, um, she will continue herreign as, uh, you know, the the
unfound fox in our club and andhopefully, maybe sometime in
september, you know, maybe earlyoctober we'll have another fox
hunt for folks to be able to getanother crack at it.
So, yeah, that, yeah, that'senough hammer radio for me and

(01:07:03):
you know I got a bunch of othervideos coming.
But you know, if you payattention to brew and activate,
like Todd says, you know, yeah,I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I
POTA perspective.
And I knew I was going to bekind of treading on some thin
ice with, you know, a fewpurists and whatnot, and you

(01:07:25):
know, I hopefully framed it in away that would be like a cool
way and I, chris Berger, jumpedon.
He's like dude, that's a reallyawesome way to think about it
and you know, kind of playaround with it.
So, yeah, we have a couple ofpeople hop on our discord and
ask and put in comments aroundit, but I didn't offend too many
people.
I just kind of said, hey, youknow, think about this.
I'm not, you know, destroyingour world of poda.
I love poda.

(01:07:46):
I'm not gonna wreck it and Idon't want, uh, you know,
anything to change.
I just want to make it better.
So, yeah, if you're interestedin that video and you want to,
you know, see what I'm talkingabout head over to my channel
and check it out.
It was this aired this sundayand so, yeah, I'm done.
I'm done with this one, so allright, okay.

(01:08:07):
Well, that was a lot.
How dare you?
Oh, and then I added this onetoo.

Speaker 4 (01:08:11):
I forgot about this video you have challenges
getting it up in a park?
I've got the solution just foryou so I'm just completing my
collection.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
You just have to erect that big, hard, stiff
black mask Erecting that big,hard, stiff black mask.
Oh man, it's awesome, this isglorious.
I swear I'm going to get intosome serious trouble one day
With all of these extra people.
I'm going to just really offendsomebody and not intend to, and
so it's going to be one ofthose things that's going to
blow up my face.
But hey, all good, who gives ashit?
I know, I know, but thosethings gonna blow up my face but

(01:08:42):
hey, oh good, who gives a shit?
I know, I know.
But these guys three out ofthose three on those four videos
I respect those people becauseI know them personally which is
all the reason why it's so muchfunnier.
True, true, I know, I know, Iknow all right.
Well, so with that, you know,hey, you're here.
You know, bob, hopefully youhaven't fallen asleep there.
I haven't seen you in thecomments in a while.

(01:09:02):
But you know, feel free to justsend us a little heartbeat, let
us know you're still alive andwe don't have to call 911 or
anything.
We, you know if you've been.
You know, hanging around for alittle bit.
You know, ham radio is kind ofgetting a little testy.
There are a few people thathave just been like you know,
grinding people's gears and justbeing, you know, negative in
some form fashions, and so I'mthinking, you know, hey, I

(01:09:25):
wanted to turn something alittle different because I like
ham radio, I like to keep itpositive, I don't mind razzing
my next buddy next to me and,and you know, doing the stuff
that we just talked about twoseconds ago.
But at the same time, you know,we all come, meet in the middle
, share a beer our favorite, youknow well, libation, whatever
be the case, and then we bothwalk away being friends and
we're all better for it.

(01:09:46):
But there's been a lot ofpeople just kind of button heads
and making noise and beingbitchy and stuff like that.
So I want to talk uh, you knowa little bit positivity and so
I'll frame a question that theykind of end, which I'll leave
with you guys to kind of thinkwhile we're thinking through,
because we've got another piecethat I want to go through video
and we're going to do a littlevideo play by play, cause I want
to get your input on this andsee what people think about it.

(01:10:08):
But if you haven't paidattention and you don't know
what we're talking about, wd forD a N, which we all know, as a
great POTA guy is got a greatchannel which is WD for D a N
overload, I think it issomething like that.
I screened up the channel.
I'll leave a link in thedescription either way, but with

(01:10:29):
it he's got a.
He put a video from Huntsvillewhere one of the POTA guys from
the administration team kind ofdid a quick interview with four
of kind of the top guys who'vebeen doing POTA, like I mean
they rival all of us like beyondlike the level.
So the video I'm talking aboutis over on his channel.
But we're going to kind of do alittle play by play a little
bit of it which I thought waskind of cool to try out.

(01:10:51):
Um, and the one thing that Iwant people to kind of pick out
of it that I thought was reallycool was like, dude, we, we
drive hard with uh, like, oh, wegot to have this type of radio
or we got to have, like, uh, youknow, this type of setup or
this configuration of antennaand stuff like that.
And I listened to these guysand these the girl, to the both
of them, and like I was blownaway when they told me, when

(01:11:15):
they shared what they use to getthe level of contacts and then
multiple park activations thatthey do on a daily basis.
Like the numbers were like waslike through the roof in terms
of how the you know how they goout, like you know, we were just
all sharing like, hey, we wantto do a photo park this one week
.
They're like doing four, five,12, 15 a day, like that, like as

(01:11:38):
insane amount of parks, parks,and they consistently do this
all the time, like it's athey're you know fitness routine
and it's insane what they getinto.
But the radio stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:11:48):
They don't work.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
Well, I that wasn't mentioned in how the process,
but you know we're slackers.
We have a YouTube channel, wedo this.
What's our?

Speaker 5 (01:11:58):
excuse, yeah, but come on 15 parks in a day.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
That's a whole day event.
That's well.
Yeah, I mean, there are twopeople and you probably
recognize, uh, you know one ofthem specifically which is, uh,
um, uh, why did I forget, uh,james k8 pzn.
He's a ham radio, uh, adventureguy, so he's, you know, we know
him.
Just, you know, because he'scrazy with all of his attack,
all of his photo.
You know events and stuff likethat.
But let's, uh, let's slide overhere.

(01:12:27):
I'm gonna see if we can try todo this here.
Oh, let me share my screen outreal quick and grab it entire
screen.
So this is the quick video here.
Oh, why is it not sharing sound?
What the frick, oh, did I?
Oh, because I have to do thisand, no, it should play.
So let me see if you guys hearthe sound first.
You guys hear the audio.
No, audio, we're waiting for Ishould hit.

(01:12:50):
Oh, come on, just sitting on myscreen, you get the spinny
wheel.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
Yeah, I see it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
Come on.
Yeah, I see it.
Come on Buffering.
Yeah, I don't know why it'sbuffering.
There we go.
All right, you guys hear theaudio?
No, no audio.

Speaker 5 (01:13:17):
I'm hearing AOL.
Yeah, let me stop this.
Aol, aol, you've got mail.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
Mail.
Yeah, where the heck did thatcome from?
You've got mail.
Oh, there we go, I know whereit's coming from.
Alright, let me go back to whyis this not screen sharing audio
?
It should.
I just tested this.
Damn it, alright.
Screen share, entire screen.
There we go.
I thought I checked the damnbox.
Check the box.
I hear it now nope, nope whatis wrong with you?

(01:14:02):
okay, this is going to be one ofthose.
Why is it not sharing?
Let's go back here um we'regonna have to edit this crap out
in post.
Uh, all right, so stop there,let's bring this back in one

(01:14:23):
more time here, just so we cantry to.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
We're sort of live I mean I'm sharing first case you
could give me the link and I'll.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
Yeah, well, let me do that.
I'll throw this in the chat youguys can watch along while I
know at least it's playing audio.
So let's's go here.
Private chat group, there we goPlay, all right, so that's the
link there.
So why is this not playing?
That's not coming through.

Speaker 5 (01:14:54):
Nothing.
It's moving, but it's no audios.
And it keeps it's in, like theit's no longer saying audio okay
.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
So you don't hear any of those audios, right?
Damn damn.
Why is it not playing through?

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
um, okay you want me to try it?

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
Yeah, go ahead, why not?
Let's just go back to here.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
Add to scene All right, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
Work for you, Work for you Work for you Audio.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
No, no, yeah, you have the same problem.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
I did.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
Why am I echoing?

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
Hello, hello, there we go, there we go.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
Still no audio.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
No, still not audio.

Speaker 5 (01:16:02):
Still not audio, not audio but you're doubling,
doubling yeah yeah and I'm done,I'm doubling okay, nope what'd
you do?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
I'm hearing myself talk I'm hearing myself several
times.
How about now?

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
Still the same, this guy.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Wow, okay, let's just go back to the other view here.
All right, are we doubling now?
No, okay, good, screw the videoat this point.
Anyway, one of the parts in thevideo which is, you know, go
back and look was they asked thethree people in the group, and
so if you want to pull it upyourself and play it in the
background, it'll help.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
And I hear a tiny Juso person in person Go Pota.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
It's really choppy.
So now you're getting the audioor no?

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
We're getting the audio now.
Yeah, Were you feeding itthrough OBS?

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Yeah, I was just re-piping it.
Pipey pipey.

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
Let's see how this works.
Technical difficulties pleasehold Corporate accounts
available.
Nina, speaking just a moment.
All right, let's see how thisgoes.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
So person in person.
Okay, so KB3WAV, how long haveyou been doing POTA?

Speaker 8 (01:17:49):
I've been doing POTA since 2016 February of 2016 to
be exact Okay, and here's thesituation.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
We're not sure who's in first, tom or Carrie.
He is, he's still tom's infirst, okay, he hasn't uploaded
her last long.
He hasn't uploaded her lastlong so we know, tony is in
third.
Okay, so what's your equipment?
What's your standard?
Equipment.
I use my 70 okay.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
So just to kind of reframe this a little bit um, I
dropped that, so let me reframethis out.
So, basically, she is the topleaderboard right now in terms
of activations and number ofcontacts in the whole entire pod
organization.
So she's been, I mean, 2016,.
You kind of look at it andyou're probably thinking the
same thing.
I'm thinking like, oh yeah,she'd been in the program

(01:18:38):
forever.
Of course she's going to havethe number one you know listed
contacts are close to you knowbeing at the top leaderboard.
The one thing I find freakingphenomenal is, once we kick this
back in, listen to what sheuses for gear so, and I also
want to point out too, that,like first place and third place
, are both wearing black swan ohyeah, that's.

(01:19:00):
You know we're gonna lead intothat one.
They know that's, uh, that thatis like a dead giveaway at this
point.
So so, yeah, go ahead, play.
Play this little what's yourequipment what's your standard
equipment?

Speaker 8 (01:19:12):
I use my 7300 and a weight of eagle one slash four
wave antenna okay, a newproduction.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
We'll talk about that later on in the show.
Okay, tom yes Brother,apparently number one, until she
uploads her logs.

Speaker 9 (01:19:31):
How long have you been doing it?
I think around the end of 2018.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Okay, and what's your equipment that you use?

Speaker 9 (01:19:38):
7300.
And typically hamsticks on themag mount on top of my truck.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
Pass for a second.
Thank you, okay.
Hamsticks the second topactivator in all of POTA, making
the most contacts, usesfreaking hamsticks.
I hate hamsticks and it's likehe puts me to shame.
It's like, well, I'm just goingto use a wet noodle and make
the most contacts, like, butyou're looking at that.
You're like, dude, what am Idoing wrong?

(01:20:06):
Hamsticks You're not like,amaze me.
It's I don't know, like I, Ilistening to that, like okay, no
, no, no, nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
Whatever works man.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
Yeah, but like that's like, I feel like that's like a
tagline sometimes, like do like, whatever works.
It's like, hey, I've got myshoestring and you know a little
banana clips, let's go out andmake contacts, which is awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
But he's been doing it.
Speaker 4 and 2 Look at howmany times does Mike.
And to make a say that, like he, he'll just throw a hamstick on
the roof of his car sure, but Ifeel like mike uses a lot more
of his.

Speaker 1 (01:20:48):
like he always usually has a go-to or one or
two that he uses like a ribocoffor he'll use uh, you know, the
only time he ever uses ahamstick is when you know he's
compromised in a certain area,which in that case, like I buy
into that, like that's being hamgenuity.
That's like, oh okay, well, Irealized I can't use a wire
antenna here or whatever, butlike these guys don't change
their antenna systems, theydon't change their setups.

(01:21:09):
Like I don't know about you,but like I struggle with ham
sticks.
Have you ever been able to geta stupid ham stick to tune up?
Right, I've never.
After I bought them at a hamfest once, I don't think I ever
recommended to, even to paul totodd about, you know, buying a

(01:21:29):
hamster.

Speaker 5 (01:21:30):
you bought like a couple one time, right, and then
never used them again well,yeah, because the mag mount
doesn't stick to my car becausemy car is not magnetic.
So there you go.
They don't use metal anymore.
I don't know what they use, butnothing's stuck.
So yeah, but there was a guy atum, our field day like two
years ago, and he had, uh, somekind of hamstick contraption

(01:21:52):
antenna.
Do you remember that guy whowas?

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
these guys are making buku contacts like this is like
my thing it's, we can use thoseantennas, but they must be Okay
.

Speaker 5 (01:22:02):
If you go out every day and just do POTA all day
long for eight hours, 10 hours aday, you're going to make buku
contacts too.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
Yeah, but like to some extent.
Yes, but like these arehamsticks.
Like you know, the reach for ahamstick is not going to be
super far.

Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
How many?
If you look at all yourcontacts that you've ever made
in POTA, where are most of them?
Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
Well, yes and no, they're all on the East Coast
and they're all DX in most cases.
But I don't ever expect I'd getDX with a hamstick.

Speaker 5 (01:22:42):
Well, maybe they're not getting DX.
Maybe they're all dx in mostcases, but I don't ever expect
I'd get dx with a hamstick.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
Well, maybe they're not getting dx maybe they're
just getting local, like eastcoast, I will say.
I will say that I I didcontemplate the hamsticks
because what I was thinking wasbecause so I mean, a hamstick is
essentially a fire stick, cbantenna right, I've already got
one of those on the back rack.
So if I, if I put an array of,like, different bands and an

(01:23:09):
antenna switch right and I couldjust switch to whichever
freaking, yeah, then you'd bethat'd be kind of cool, as
people do we make fun of yeah,well you, we have to get you to
the van.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
We'll have to talk to Chris and get you.
That's more applicable for that, like we all made fun of the
guy who had like 99 antennas onthe back of his car.
That would look like exactly.
It would be like how many?

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
antennas can I fit?

Speaker 5 (01:23:38):
in the back rack, oh gosh.
You can make it like a teepee,like a shorter one rather than a
long one a big, long one in themiddle.

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
Yeah, the higher the band's in the middle and the
lower band's on the out.
Yeah, wow, for me it's like Iwas blown away by the fact that
you know 7300, it's like this isa formula, not that like the
formula, but I just find thatlike this eagle antenna.
So do you ever see this eagleantenna?
It's huge.
It's like a giant, 11, 10 metermast and it's got like a super

(01:24:12):
sub extension.
It's just basically a wireantenna.
It's pretty slick and it's notcheap either, but, um, it's just
funny to see that that's theirgo-to antenna for everything.
Let's go back to the other twoguys, cause I want to just dive
into the third guy, which isyou're going to get a little bit
miffed about this, but God.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
Tony Good, did you notice that two of the top three
are wearing black swamp Imageof radio club shirts?
There's some sort ofcorrelation there.
Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:24:47):
Uh, I started poda uh march of 22.
They got a little bit of a headstart on me, but I'm keeping
them honest and keeping themmoving.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
You're definitely keeping them moving, for sure,
for hurting your gas car, uhequipment.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
Um, I run a ic7100 dx10.
Uh, now I'm doing a 710 as wellokay, how often do you activate
door week?
What's your normal park?
I only usually do a late shifton phone, but I usually do

(01:25:27):
digital.
On the weekend I normally row.
I usually try to do about 15 aday when I'm out.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
You all heard that right 15 parks a day.

Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
Holy shit, 15 parks a day.

Speaker 5 (01:25:42):
I know dude and dude.
There's no way that dude ismarried With kids.

Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
No, he is like he's got daughters.
How old Dude, I don't know, Ihaven't dove that deep into
their lives yet.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
Which means he does it after work, right?
So he's out all fucking night.

Speaker 3 (01:26:01):
He's got hardly any gray hair, so you know he's
probably sub 40 yep, look at himand he's definitely got.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
You know he's fed well.
So we know he definitely still.
You know he has a place to gohome that's the ham belly yeah,
oh my gosh, that is so true.

Speaker 5 (01:26:20):
You cannot, you cannot do 15 parks a day.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
He's more so.
He's only been in the programthree years.

Speaker 5 (01:26:31):
There's no way he cannot be married with kids If
you never showed up.
If you never showed up and yourkids are gone, you wouldn't be
married.
If you were like honey, I'mdoing a rove tonight, I'll be
back, see you in the morning.
Oh, I got to go to work.
I mean, come on, it took us allday to do seven.

Speaker 1 (01:26:53):
Trust me, dude, I know, I know.
Let's get these guys on thepodcast.

Speaker 5 (01:26:58):
I want to ask some real good questions.
Come on, I'm going to pull upthe photo 15 late shifts.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
Yep, tony Baldwin's his name.
He has over 39,396 CUSOs.
He has 1,530 parks, of whichhe's only failed one park.
That's how crazy that is.
He's only not activated onepark out of that 1530.

Speaker 5 (01:27:30):
That's 1500 parks.
Yep, he's activated 1500, 1500parks and has diverse different
parks are the same.

Speaker 1 (01:27:39):
Those are all unique.
Those are all unique, those areall different, no so.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
No, those are all no so different, no so no, so yeah,
so you're right.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
So basically he would be a 1531 or your total park.
So they, they aren't all unique.

Speaker 5 (01:27:53):
So so does he have a park like literally across the
street from his house?

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
Oh well, even that, if he had a little across the
street, you can't activate that1500 times, my God.

Speaker 5 (01:28:03):
he lives in Ohio dinner but he says, he just says
he does a rove, so that meanshe's moving.
Anyway, look at his 15 parks.

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
Pull up his, pull up his photo.
Look up Kilo Echo 8, sierraZulu Lima, on the park poda dot
app and you'll see his truck hasliterally got antennas strapped
to the roof and it's thatporcupine kind of look there, I
wonder if the rove counts aslike two furs or three furs or
four.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
If he's got a park that's like a five fur like he
can go in there and activate it.
There's like five right there,Not in Ohio.

Speaker 1 (01:28:41):
No, I'd say some space there, for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
Yeah ohio, I think you're you're.

Speaker 5 (01:28:46):
Maybe you could find a reefer, but like where are you
getting 15 parks in ohio closeenough to activate them for late
shift?
So just I'm gonna call bullshitI don't think I want to know
what, what parks he's doing?

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
15 in ohio okay, so here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:29:11):
You want to know yeah , I gotta say.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
I'm looking at his recent activations.
This alone is just on the 15thof august.
He went to one 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
And he literally he's on pointevery time, and they're all data
.

Speaker 5 (01:29:30):
So like he's just doing digital most of those, so
he's doing what?

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
FT8?
Yeah, ft8.
And he's literally like do 11,go to the next one.
Maybe do 14, go to the next one.
I mean, nothing goes overanything above 15, 15, and
that's just in one day.
That's nine parks in one day.
It's probably a breeze for himto do that yeah he's done 15.
But yeah, curious to see youknow what the map would look

(01:29:52):
like, for that's crazy yeah,that guy, he's like a legend.

Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
I mean I mean, come on, mean, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
These guys, man, these are, these are the top
guys and gals of POTA that theygo out daily.
They go out and, you know,activate these parks and like.
When I saw those stats, I waslike what the hell am I like?

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
I mean I thought I was doing pretty good, even the
driving.
I mean he's got to do like atleast three hours of driving to
get 15 parks in well, you'd haveto look at the distance between
all of these late shifts startseven.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
Well and so yeah, so he started.
Well, this doesn't tell me whenI'd have to look at the actual
park detail, so when he does hisshift.

Speaker 5 (01:30:40):
But yeah, it could be so he's like out until like
four in the morning probably, soa vampire doesn't sleep.
If I gotta do a poet, I don'tneed sleep so here.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
so to get back to your original question, because
you said do they ever work?
So go ahead, let's play the thevideo, because she tells you
what she does on the weekendsand we can look her up real
quick 12 hours, 12 hours, yeah,and Tom what's your average in a
week?

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
It could be zero.

Speaker 9 (01:31:17):
It could be zero.
Typically minor, multi-dayroads, a couple thousand miles,
five, six nights.
I try to do one a month.
It hasn't always worked outthis year, but that's usually
the plan.

Speaker 5 (01:31:31):
Thousands of miles.

Speaker 8 (01:31:33):
And Carrie.
So most of mine are weekends,because anything new right now
is at least three hours away,400 miles, and that's uh.
That's where, when you allow meto go out and play at parks and
don't want to get up, we'recamping, and I get up and go in
the morning before you get outof bed.

(01:31:54):
That's usually what happenswhen I get my unique parts done
and so very good, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
Let's pause real quick there.
So you want to know how manycontacts kuso's total in her log
alone yeah, she has 214 000 outof 6124 activations and she's
driving thousands.
She said a thousand miles ofdriving no, the other guy said a

(01:32:21):
thousand miles, but she'll.
She'll do, like you know,chunks of parks on the weekends,
because that's when she can dothem.
So she must work.
So back to your question dothey work?

Speaker 5 (01:32:29):
Yeah, some of them do Anything new.
She said she's got like a.
What'd?
She say Like a three or fourhour drive?

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
To get to a park that she hasn't activated.

Speaker 5 (01:32:43):
Right which is what she's trying to do, so they go
once a month.

Speaker 1 (01:32:46):
They do like a road trip.
They must have a camper orsomething they must.
It's a lot of gas mileage.
Man, oh man, don't lease yourcar with those stats, damn that
is like some serious dedication.
Well, so kick it off again.
There's a couple other thingsthat have just blown my mind on
these guys and what they do.

Speaker 2 (01:33:04):
Yesterday we're in the middle of town and this car
speeds by us and this guy's gotan orange shirt.
This is how much these peopleknow each other.
And my wife says, oh look,there goes, james.
I'm like what?
So, james, what's your averageparks?

Speaker 9 (01:33:24):
uh, this year it's around 3.5 a day.
Okay, and your equipment?
Uh, use a yezu dxn or the asuftx one, and either an eagle one
or a telegon centenna he'sgoing to be swapping out that
eagle one in the future, but hedoesn't know that yet.

(01:33:46):
Okay, all right, well, and theseguys have way too much money to
get this many parks.
I'm just going to tell you theygot way too much money.
There you go.
I've said it once, I've said itagain.
I told this young lady overhere, my big sis, that I was

(01:34:06):
going to catch her on Cusos, andI did so now because her
husband's making a big dealabout this unique park thing.
What the heck, get your gas.
Start ready, baby, I'm comingat you Now.
He paid me for that.

(01:34:27):
How close are you to having all50?

Speaker 1 (01:34:32):
Not close, that's just all 50 states.

Speaker 4 (01:34:35):
Close now, but I'm close on about five states.

Speaker 9 (01:34:38):
Okay, so States, states.
I've got 38, and all of them inthree of those states.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
Okay, okay and oh, he's got three success three
total states.
How many total states?
Oh?

Speaker 9 (01:34:51):
I probably got 40 or plus states.
Yeah, the whole state done.
How many of the whole state?
I got one so far, but I'mreally close okay and carry, so
hit pause for a second.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
So he's saying he's nailed complete parks Off of
like entire state and he's gotlike three of them alone.
Like you ever look up how manyfreaking Parks are alone in New
Hampshire, it's like 490something.

Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
Is it that much?

Speaker 1 (01:35:19):
I think it's close.
It's pretty close, like I wasLooking at earlier Parks here.
Park list New Hampshire.
Is it that much?
I think it's close, it's prettyclose.
I was looking at earlier parkshere Parkless, new Hampshire.

Speaker 5 (01:35:30):
I mean, you'd have to do that with that many parks,
unless you do the same park overand over again.

Speaker 1 (01:35:37):
Well, yeah, I mean, they could definitely do those
in a day.
So there are.
Why can't I see the full amounthere?
That's not telling me.

Speaker 5 (01:35:46):
I guess I would be too tired.

Speaker 3 (01:35:49):
So if you go to your page and your awards I think
it's listed there It'll say howmany parks there are in the
state.
All right, let me go there realquick.

Speaker 1 (01:36:03):
Awards parks here we go.
Parks there are in the state.
All right, go there real quick.
No awards parks here we go.
So New Hampshire has oh, allright, not four 90, 195.
I was off by 300.
Sorry, okay.
Yeah, don't ask me to do yourbooks.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
I was going to say I thought it was a hundred and
some?

Speaker 1 (01:36:17):
Definitely probably.
But like you look at stateslike Florida 500, you know where
they're like shooting for someof theirs.

Speaker 5 (01:36:27):
What's Texas?

Speaker 1 (01:36:31):
Texas is let's see here I don't have, it's not
going to show me all of it,because I don't have Texas in
here, but Rhode Island, let'ssee here, texas, texas, texas,
come on, nope to to, to rhodeisland, let's see here texas,
texas texas come on.

Speaker 5 (01:36:50):
Uh, nope, I don't see texas in the list.
Why not arizona, california?

Speaker 1 (01:36:51):
maybe.
That probably has a lot.
Yeah, well, so california we'relooking at.
California has 400 that's itnew york has 848 parks, which is
like, oh my god, like that's alot of land.
Um yeah, what are the big ones?

Speaker 5 (01:37:10):
so if they're gonna go for every park, like, imagine
, like that's like well, everypark in like poda, they're gonna
have to get on the spacestation.
That's's a park, it is, is ityeah?

Speaker 1 (01:37:23):
Who said it was that Go look it up.

Speaker 5 (01:37:26):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
What's the park number?

Speaker 5 (01:37:28):
I don't know, but it's.
It's the international spacestation.

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
And what's?
What's the two digit entity?
I'm curious.
It's not us.

Speaker 5 (01:37:38):
It's definitely not SST or something, something like
that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:46):
Speaker 3.
And I thought, like I was likehey, you know, I've got some
credit here.
And I looked at my stats andit's like almost like I was
starting all over again, likeit's like, oh, it was painful,
but at the same time it wasreally cool to see you know more
.
So, like just the gear alone,like I.
I don't mind, I call them 300nights.
Speaker 0 5.
Speaker 3 0 5.
Speaker 0 6, it's like, oh, itwas painful, but at the same
time it was really cool to seeyou know more.
So, like just the gear alone,like I.

Speaker 5 (01:38:05):
I don't mind icons.
Speaker 3, 5th.
They're definitely not coachingbaseball.

Speaker 1 (01:38:09):
That's for sure they're not doing much of
anything Like all their familyare hams and that's all they do,
yeah.
Speaker 4 5th yeah, that'scrazy.
But you can imagine, like whathappens, like, so here's the
thing.
Like you get into paper chasingand then what happens?
Like after you're done, likenow that you've achieved all of

(01:38:31):
those, like where's, where's theroom to go?
I mean you can't grow any for Imean you can, they'll add a few
more parks here and there.

Speaker 5 (01:38:38):
But then you just keep getting fricking every park
in every state.
They'll never do it in alifetime.

Speaker 1 (01:38:45):
True, yeah, you might .
Every state they'll never do itin a lifetime.
Uh, true, yeah, you might beright.

Speaker 5 (01:38:47):
I mean, I would remember those guys from alaska
that went to that park that theyhad to like snowmobile for five
days.
You think those guys aregetting on a snowmobile for five
days to go crank out a park inthe middle of the wilderness?
Come on.

Speaker 1 (01:39:00):
Yeah, you're right yeah, it's a little insane, but
yeah, it's just like it justkind of blew me away with some
of the stats, so it's good tosee it's great, I mean it's
awesome for the, for parks, andthat's just.

Speaker 5 (01:39:13):
I mean that's some dedication.
I mean he said he went out like12 hours, like that's a
religion.
It's not dedication when we didour rove, we did seven parks
and we were exhausted.
This guy's going out after workcranking out 12 parks now,
granted, he's not talking, he'sjust sitting there pushing

(01:39:34):
buttons.
So it's not even like it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
I don't even count it as real somebody should confirm
whether he's a wsjtxz user ornot.
But you know, yeah, that's myonly uh question that you know,
kind of scenario I mean good forthem.

Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
I mean, that's yeah but it just let the mod run in
between parts okay yeah, yeah,you pull up.

Speaker 1 (01:39:57):
Hit the button, sip your coffee?
Hit the button, drive away.
Oh man, it's.
It's like I just, you know, Imean looking at these folks and
like I'm, I'm almost intriguedto like kind of just go hang out
with the black swamp guys for alittle while, just so like, and
they can like a week bleed overon me just for this figure out
what's going on 24 hour pod islike nothing to them.

Speaker 5 (01:40:18):
They're like we do that every weekend where you
guys are rookies.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
I know, I know it puts us to shame man, it'll be
good with whatever we get and Iknow we'll do well, but like, at
the same time, I don't want tolike even remember this
conversation because it'll belike so we're gonna get.

Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
Whatever we get this one, we're gonna have to beat it
every year after that's gonnabe the goal so if we get like
500 contacts, we need to get atleast 501 yeah, well, come on.

Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
One more than 500 is kind of lame, but like, yeah, I
won't leave, you're gonna bustthe goals.
I'll be there for a week thatis not a 24 hour photo, but yeah
, just you know kind of put thatout there.

Speaker 5 (01:41:03):
That, uh, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:41:03):
But hey, I have a just, you know, kind of putting
that out there, staying here,that, uh, you know.
But hey, I have a feeling, youknow, because I was.
I was thinking about likelooking at the roster and
everybody's going to be therethat weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
It's literally going to be like we'll have enough to
cover the shifts that we thinkwe need dude, you guys are going
to be so wasted by like 11o'clock that I'm going to be up
all night because no one's goingto be up freaking able to do
the radio.
All right, Paul don't even saythat's not going to be you.

(01:41:35):
You are not going to be at 3 amor on the radio, and if you are
, you're going to be extremelylet's, let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:41:45):
Let's.
Let's go through the guest listhere in terms of the folks that
are going to be extremely let's.
Let's go through.
Let's.
Let's go through the guest listhere in terms of the folks that
are going to be there theweekend.
So we got chris ledger that's awhiskey eight.
Charlie and your papa and hisson, parker.
So I know parker's not going tobe one of those kids that go to
the bed on time.
There we go.
We've got some time to fill inthere.
Mike uh, tortoise is bringing afriend, adam, and I think he's a

(01:42:06):
younger guy too.
So, heck, we get Adam on there.
He'll fill in those gaps thatwe can't do.
But that's just two youngerkids, but we have over 15 people
.
So we got Chris, mike, matt,which is Reliance Matt, we got
Mike N2MAK Bob Shannon should bethere during the day.

(01:42:27):
Sean Butler, chris Bricker'scoming with his son Ian, and so
we got a third younger guy thatwe could stick in front of the
radio and we don't have to havethem talk on the radio, they can
do digital.
So in essence, that all thatkind of you know works together.
And then Keith, and Keith'sbringing his amp.
Actually, I forgot to say thathe texted me today saying his

(01:42:48):
600 watt amp will last six hourson 100 amp hour battery.
So if we need the power, justbring the extra todd, bring your
100 amp hour battery with you,so we have a backup true, but yo
I'm gonna having the

Speaker 5 (01:43:01):
cables but if I bring the jeep I just plug it in I
won't use, I'll drive in gas tothe thing and we'll have the
whole jeep dude, that thing okayI don't know how big that
battery is, but it put it thisway it drives a 5 000 pound
vehicle for 22 miles okay, well,does that equate to in watt

(01:43:22):
hours?
I have no idea, but it's got tobe a.
It's got a 600 watt amp.

Speaker 1 (01:43:27):
is going to be nothing for that and so, yeah,
we'll have Keith and we'll haveDerek, and those two guys just
jumped on, and so we've gotplenty of people that are going
to be able to fill in the gapsalong the way, and we'll just
have to let everybody know.
Like, hey, if you see anybodyfalling asleep in front of the
radio, just push them aside, letthem fall asleep, step in and

(01:43:52):
you know, take the take commandand just keep going yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:43:57):
I mean we could always do like I did at Monsanto
, right when I had I had, I hadthe empaths 2.0 in the ground in
the in the spike, uh, in theground, in the in the spike, and
I, just, I, just I came backfrom uh hr 2.0's campsite and a
lot of whiskey I I?

Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
I heard how steve did not like I saw the photos of
dude.
Did you see any of thosepictures?

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
oh man, there was a lot of whiskey going around I've
gotta pull it up.

Speaker 1 (01:44:30):
Uh, while you're talking about it, go ahead yeah,
I definitely I.

Speaker 3 (01:44:33):
I sat here and I ran wsjtx and and I just yep, click
another one, click another one,click another one, click another
one.
Exactly because, like dude Iwas, I was way too hammered to
do voice.
But you know, I mean, when allelse fails, you've got to have
the aid.

Speaker 1 (01:44:52):
Yeah, it's always a go-to.
There's no shame in thatwhatsoever.
So let me show you Steve'spicture here.
This is what Tortoise did.
This was awesome, so that's whySteve had fallen asleep in the
chair, and so they literally,like Tortoise, did an AI image
of putting Teddy and Blankettogether because he was passed

(01:45:13):
out, like I mean, there was thatmuch whiskey, as Paul was
talking about.
So, yeah, they did some others.
I don't think I have any of hisother creations.

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
That was the gentle, kind one, I mean, like we were
running long days.

Speaker 9 (01:45:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
Long days.
You're up at 5.30, 6 o'clockand you're not going to bed
until 2.

Speaker 1 (01:45:37):
Wow, man, that sounds pretty cool, but at the same
time my body just goes what thehell man, I gotta go.
I mean, that's hell, man, I gotto go.
Like I mean, that's definitelyone year that I want to be there
for sure, because it soundslike it's only going to get
better as they start adding moreLike.
My fear is like it's going tobe the flip, that the Huntsville
, like camp fest, is going to belike nothing.

(01:45:59):
By the time, I'm honest, it'llbecome so big that they can't
handle you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:46:10):
Well, so that's the thing, and and I didn't realize
this until I got there and I wasable to experience it but the
Huntsville ham fest is reallyfucking small.
Like you take, you takeeverything that's inside the
room in the Vaughn Braun centerand you put it in the Boston
fairgrounds and it's maybe threequarters of the size.

Speaker 1 (01:46:29):
Really.

Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
Wow yeah, the only difference is like here we don't
have the big vendors, we don'thave the forums and those things
right.
But I'm just talking size wise.
The thing was is it was allabout Montesano, it's all about
hanging out at the park andgetting to know everybody and

(01:46:51):
meet everybody, and so, like,the huntsville ham fest isn't
really about the ham fest, it'sit's just about playing parks on
the air and hanging out at thepark nice, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:47:03):
Well, that's the the life I want to like see up this
way.
That'd be really cool to do,like being able to just like
find a place that like is thatbig and has the capabilities to
have that many hams all in onespace and be able to do
something freaking cool likethat.
I don't know anybody know of aplace somewhere in new hampshire
that's like you know, that bigand offers, uh, you know,

(01:47:24):
something like that.
I don't know I haven't seenmany state parks like you know
able to accommodate somethinglike that, although we could do
a rage against the beach orsomething like that and do
everything down on salisbury,but that's a mess greenfield
could cover that many peoplewell how many people huge yeah
true I.

Speaker 3 (01:47:43):
I think at one point there was probably 80 or 80 or
so people up at just Jason'scampsite wow that's crazy, yeah,
yeah oh, man, sounds like funfor sure.

Speaker 1 (01:48:00):
So I don't know, outside of that, I know, like
you know we, I'm gonna hold thepositivity question till you
know some other time, because Iknow, like you know we, I'm
going to hold the positivityquestion until you know some
other timings.
I think there's some cool stuffwe can talk about on that, but
I think, you know, I thought itwas just really cool to watch
that video and just see.
You know, hey, that parks onthe air is a pretty cool program
that we're all a part of andyou know, it's kind of crazy.

(01:48:21):
My backyard, yeah, I don't knowabout that.
Who was that?
Bob?

Speaker 3 (01:48:26):
Eric's backyard.

Speaker 1 (01:48:28):
Yeah, you don't want my backyard.
It's about the size of apostage stamp.
Trust me, it's not even apostage stamp.
It's smaller than that.
So forget it.
My HOA would have a fit.
My backyard's not much bigger.
No, todd's the only one that's.
Maybe, you know, with somecampers your driveway will fit

(01:48:50):
fine, just line them across thestreet stack them in the front
yard what you need.

Speaker 5 (01:49:01):
You need like a farm field.
Yeah, just have them.
Just like you said, stack themmore in a row, like rows of them
yeah, that'd be cool.

Speaker 3 (01:49:10):
I mean, yeah, you know although I mean at
montesano, like.
So.
There's some people that youknow book the cabins.
There's some people that youknow have rv slots not all the
rv slots have full hookups, youknow.
So like mine, mine had powerwater, which is great like, but
like I had no sewer right.

(01:49:31):
So you know, I mean it'smontesano is definitely like, it
caters to a lot of differenttypes of people because of the.
You know the versatility withprimitive camping sites and RV
sites and the and the cabins,and you know I just, yeah, I

(01:49:51):
don't, I don't think we haveanything like that up here.

Speaker 1 (01:49:54):
Although, todd, you might be right.
I know Greenfield does have allof those different hookup
styles and primitive camping andthat type of stuff.
So the the camping areas arepretty good, but I don't know
how, like if we could know,carve out a huge chunk, that
would be speed like for all theham guys to be able to kind of
be in the general vicinity.
But there's probably a lot ofspace for that, but I don't know

(01:50:15):
.
Yeah, it'd be interesting tosee.
You know, we'll see how the24-hour photo goes first and
then we'll decide from there,because this, this could be one
of those things that just goesdown under the fire.

Speaker 5 (01:50:24):
It crashed like the plane in the middle of new
hampshire that no one, uh, youknow, no survivors you know,
when I was in college I went tothe reggae fest up in vermont
and that was literally just farmfield after farm field after
farm field after farm field,like as far as you could see.
It was like I'm guessing thatthe reggae fest that I went to

(01:50:45):
was like the closest thing towoodstock, because without being
woodstock.
Yeah, without being wood, I meanit was like literally yeah,
field after field, no fights.
It was the best thing ever.
It was just unfreaking and likethey had like one stone people
don't fight.
Yeah, that's what I said.
I said the way you solve worldpeace is just like push fucking

(01:51:06):
weed smoke.
Just like right over I ran,boom.

Speaker 1 (01:51:11):
They'll be like yo, what's up it's just flooded into
the you know dc area metro area.

Speaker 5 (01:51:15):
Yeah, I'll cry about everyone be good, no, but that's
what you need.
Like, if you want to do likesomething like that, just have a
huge, but you know you saidlike the facilities and stuff.
Like you gotta find acampground that can manage that
yeah it's something to thinkabout.

Speaker 1 (01:51:32):
Let's uh, let's take baby steps first, because I
don't think I'm ready to committo a full-time job of uh
planning and organizing yet was.

Speaker 5 (01:51:42):
You think huntsville at one point was just real small
and kind of like Marlboro andthen it just kind of picked up
because of the campground yeah,that'd be my guess right.

Speaker 1 (01:51:55):
I think the YouTuber community kind of blew that up
fast and when they realized thatyou know that, that they became
a secondary kind of thing, likeI was like oh, oh, yeah, we'll
go and hang out how many vendorswere there.

Speaker 5 (01:52:09):
Were all the vendors there.

Speaker 3 (01:52:13):
All the big ones.
You know, hro had a reallysmall area, gigaparts had a big
area Was.

Speaker 5 (01:52:23):
Yaesu there.
They were all there, was Flexthere?

Speaker 3 (01:52:26):
Yep it was flex there uh, yep, there was a flex booth
see you went to gigaparts.

Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
I have to ask like was it a big drool fest?

Speaker 3 (01:52:38):
so honestly, um the the whole thing with gigaparts,
it really it really surprised mebecause I, looking at the
outside of the building, it'slike, uh, yeah circuit city
right yeah.
Circuit city, yeah right likeand and when you walk in, like
that's just kind of how it isright, there's computers and

(01:52:59):
telescopes and photography andall sorts of things.
That's not even remotely hamradio.
And then there was like theselittle sections of ham radios it
was a small, tiny section.

Speaker 1 (01:53:11):
That's what I thought it was.

Speaker 3 (01:53:12):
Yeah okay, yeah, real small, like little little.
You know, I think the the iconsection was maybe, um, you know,
like a 15 foot wall display andone row of shelf, and then you
know, same thing for the ASUsection, like, yeah, it really

(01:53:33):
wasn't a, you know, ham focus.

Speaker 1 (01:53:37):
Yeah, totally store.
Yeah, I figured.
So what?

Speaker 5 (01:53:39):
about DX engineering?
Do they have?
They don't have a store,they're just all online.

Speaker 1 (01:53:44):
Yeah, yeah, ham radio outlets the only place that's
actually a physical store,retail storefront, and even then
, most Ham Radio Outlet storesaren't huge.
I mean, I think our… yeah, lookat Salem.
Yeah, salem is, in terms ofstorage, from what I understand,
is like a big hub outside ofCaliforniaia where most of the

(01:54:06):
stuff kind of comes in fromchina and stuff.
But you know the east coastside hub, it's what.
It's one of the places that mostof the product kind of comes in
and then gets dispersed on theeast coast.
So you know, I think, uh, youknow california takes the cake,
because you know, we all knowthat like josh got all of his fx
, you know ftx one, you knowright from the, the uh retail

(01:54:27):
store that's down the streetfrom him, and you know all that
type of stuff, all that, allthat goes into freaking the los
angeles port yeah, the portthere, and then disperse out
long beach yep, that's.
The sad part is that we'll neverget.
Uh, we'll get.
I mean, I have to give hrocredit because it's like, well,
usually when you order somethingonline, like I'm always
surprised that I get it two days, usually faster than you know

(01:54:50):
where I could get anywhere else,and so, and I get it shipped to
the store and I don't have topay anything shipping wise,
which is even better.
But I haven't ordered anythingin a long time either, but
interesting, huh.
So yeah, do you think it'sgoing to be much bigger?
Like how did did the wholebreakout sessions go?
Like, were they big?
Because it didn't see a lot ofstuff on it?

Speaker 3 (01:55:09):
Speaker 3.
So, to be honest, I missed allof that.
I I I missed all of the forums.
I missed all of the anti forumsI chose to go to sleep the
whole entire week I went to thedrop zone all day Friday, all
day Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:55:28):
Right, but weren't the forums like from Monday
through Thursday?

Speaker 3 (01:55:33):
Yeah, there was.
There was a bunch of stuff thathappened on like Wednesday,
thursday, and I was just I washeading to clouds hanging out
having fun.
It's totally fine man being abeing a terrible fricking
YouTuber.
I I didn't take pictures, Ididn't take video Like well,

(01:55:56):
what is this?

Speaker 1 (01:55:57):
Wasn't Las Vegas right?

Speaker 5 (01:55:58):
Next, next year, you got to just put a GoPro on
Watson.
Yeah, that should have beenwhat you should have done, and
then, just wherever you're going, he'll just see everything, and
then you'll have all yourfootage.

Speaker 3 (01:56:09):
Yeah Well, so I I tried to in in in the gig apart
store right.
I put the GoPro on on my myhead mount and I was reviewing
my footage.
The GoPro was aimed too far outto the ceiling.

Speaker 1 (01:56:28):
You get the tops of all the shelves in the ceiling
well, it's not like you cancheck that view like the
confirmed camera mount.
But yeah, dude, that sucks.
Uh, I've been down those roadsbefore but I did meet.

Speaker 3 (01:56:42):
Uh, the the hillbilly hamsams found me at Gigaparts
and I won't fuck up their namesthis time Doug and Amy.
Yeah, super cool people.
We actually got to hang outbreakfast Saturday morning as
well, before I took off to thedrop zone.

(01:57:02):
But yeah, I mean, the thing isright is because I'm doing the
skydiving thing like that takesme away from everything else
that's going on.
So, yeah, it's a trade-off, Iguess.

Speaker 1 (01:57:19):
It is, it is.
But now you know what to donext year anyway, when you're
building up to that, you can atleast get in one or two things
and pick and cherry pick stuff.
So, yeah, cool, next year,anyway, when you're, you know,
building up to that, you can atleast get one or two things and
pick and cherry pick stuff.
So, yeah, cool.
Well, you know, it sounds likeit was a blast that what I saw
from videos.
I was kind of like, oh okay,and I was like, sadly, I was
always just kind of like, okay,where do I see grouch in any of

(01:57:39):
these videos?
So, like you were getting textmessages from me and like, hey,
look, there's grouch's trailer.
Right, this is, this is, thisis like, okay, I'm like I gotta
stop, I'm being stockish.

Speaker 3 (01:57:50):
That's all right, cause you know I mean the thing
is right.
I was.
I was trying to put as muchinformation out as I could for,
like Patreon channel members tosay hey look, this is what's
going on this is what I'm doing,um, but yeah, it just.
It becomes tough for me because, like you know, I'm trying to

(01:58:12):
take it all in, but I also needto document it yeah, so I I saw
something that jason did.

Speaker 5 (01:58:21):
There was like a.
He was like interviewing likeeveryone at the.

Speaker 1 (01:58:24):
They were like it almost looked like they were at
a cafeteria or something oh yeah, it was live stream at the very
end of the yeah and I waswaiting for you and I'm like
they got everyone showing upthere and then no, paul.

Speaker 5 (01:58:36):
I'm like where's the grouch?

Speaker 1 (01:58:38):
like were you gone uh , I don't know when that was so
it was probably, I think, whenyou left because I think he was
on the way out that they did one.
It was at the what the heck wasit?

Speaker 5 (01:58:51):
It was breakfast time , I think.
Yeah, it looked like a bigcafeteria there at this huge
table and he just was sittingdown and they just came up and
he just basically interviewedOne by one.

Speaker 3 (01:59:01):
Yeah, real quick, okay, well, quick, okay.
Well, I did have, I did have anidea and I'm gonna do this next
year um like, so you remembermtv cribs yep.
So I want to group on it, I wantto, I want to do mtv cribs, but
it's camper.
Show me your, your mobile hamshack.

(01:59:21):
Oh gosh, right, because so uh,ham Radio Tectonics.
He had a really cool trailer.
It almost looked like an icefishing hut that you would tow
out on the ice.
It was bright green, it wassuper cool.
He had a whole bunch ofantennas on it.
You know, jason obviously hadhis trailer.

(01:59:43):
You know, mike didn't bring atrailer K8MRD, but he had his
trailer.
And you know Mike didn't bringa trailer K to Marty, but he had
his, his exploder.
And you know all that wholesetup.

Speaker 1 (01:59:53):
So, yeah, I just want to go around and just be like
look show me, show me whatyou're working with, right yeah,
yeah, I mean it was cool to see, like for the first time, like
I don't know how long, I'd likewhen k-murder did the whole
thing on his scooter which waspretty cool scooter and that's
funny like he was reviewing thescooter as his you know branch

(02:00:17):
off to like some of his products.
And I was like because I I justlike when he did that video, I
got this random weird email, youknow, from a vendor saying, hey
, we would love to have youreview our scooter and I'm like,
well, okay, and they're like,well, we'll discount it for like
300 bucks and I'm like it'sregularly six.
I'm like I'm not gonna spend300 on your scooter, like, give

(02:00:37):
it to me for free and I'llconsider it.
And then I never heard backfrom them again.
But you know, his uh, his uh,driving around montesano was
really cool to kind of see thewhole layout and stuff like that
.
So it kind of made more sense.

Speaker 5 (02:00:48):
Some of those scooters that you pay high end
they do like 50 miles an hour.
Can you imagine doing 50 milesan hour a scooter?
Uh, yeah, like that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (02:00:59):
It's insane.
Joe brad had an e-bike.
Um, that was pretty cool.
I think Tim Grandman Pota, Ithink he also had an e-bike or a
scooter.

Speaker 1 (02:01:10):
Grandman Pota didn't have a camper.
He did ground camping, didn'the?
I thought he saw him camping.
Yeah, he had a tent.
I thought he would have had arooftop or something like that
for that Bronco.
That's weird.
Yeah, no, he had a couple of10s now, did jason have a
trailer or did he just do his uhrooftop?

(02:01:33):
no, uh, you're talking 2.0,right yeah, 2.0 yeah yeah, so he
had uh, he had his new uh nobooh right, that's right's right,
with his rooftop temp on the topof his truck too, right?
I think he yeah, yeah, like youhave this camper trailer, but

(02:01:53):
then you have, yeah, and youdon't use it.
Every event that I've seen yougo to you're either in a ground
tent or you're in your trailer.
It's like, well, you just yeah,why.

Speaker 3 (02:02:03):
Alright, so you'll love this, right.
So I had four hammies left thatI had on my person, right, yep.
And so I think it was Thursdaynight, we all went to the Casual
Pint in downtown HuntsvilleCool little place.

(02:02:26):
But so I pulled the hammies out, so I gave one to Dave KB5 UTY
and I gave one to Bill HammerRadio Tectonics and I gave one

(02:02:47):
to, I think, rene, and then Ileft one on Jason 2.0's truck,
but like he had had an issuewith his wipers you know the
Colorado trip his wipers likestopped working or something.
So like the whole front of hislike thing was all torn apart.
The wiper mechanism was allexposed and everything.

(02:03:10):
There was no place to put itwhere he could easily see it.
So me not thinking like well,he's a short motherfucker and
he's not going to see it unlessit's right in front of his face.
I put it on his roof so thatlike when he opened his door it
would hopefully like fall off.

(02:03:31):
Well, it didn't fall off and hedrove off.
I watched him drive away with ahammy on the roof.
I was like damn it hell, thatone's gone he has one.
You should have seen one on hisdash though yeah, but he didn't
have one that said n1og on it oh, okay, fine, okay, I'll give

(02:03:51):
you that it would have had two,but wouldn't you know?

Speaker 1 (02:03:54):
uh, yeah, I usually like when I put them on cars, I
don't put them anywhere except,um, because my experience in the
same place where you werethinking, put them on the
windshield a lot of times people, like the cars that I've done
it to, the automatic wipersdetect something on them and
then they whip the pig right offthe windshield automatically so
they never get a chance to seeit or, worse off, it gets caught

(02:04:15):
trapped in the cowl and theynever see this pink thing there
forever and you can see himdrive away with this thing.
So now I just put them on thehandle of like the door and like
just kind of wedge it in likethe little like gap there, so
like they have to grab for thehandle to open the door, and at
that point you know they, theytouch this thing and then or
they see it first and then theyget panicked to like if they're
like oh my gosh, am I gonna get,you know, kidnapped kind of

(02:04:37):
thing, like you know we need toget like a 2.0 pig and uh, have
a suction cup on it and justleave it'll just stick it right
to the window.
It'll be the pig dog.

Speaker 3 (02:04:49):
Well, so KBody there, dave KB5UTY I put his on the
mirror of his truck and I toldhim that it was there and he
walked by, went to go get in histruck and I was like, dude,
don't forget your hammy.
He's like, oh shit, I totallyforgot Two down.

(02:05:10):
So no, he did grab it, he didgrab it.

Speaker 5 (02:05:15):
Fucking hammies would be like floating around I'm
like you, come back next year,it'll be in like the mud, all
dirted up, I know.

Speaker 1 (02:05:21):
It'd be like this plastic pig that'll never
biodegrade.
Yeah, I finally got all of themin.

Speaker 5 (02:05:29):
They'll find an archaeologist dig pink pig with
N1OG.
Wonder what that meant.

Speaker 3 (02:05:37):
I did get a T1000.

Speaker 1 (02:05:40):
T1000.
Refresh my memory.
What that is the Mesh-tastic?
Oh, from Seed, yes.
Refresh my memory.
What that is the mesh tastic oh, from seed, yes, oh, and you
don't have it with you right nowno, it's in the truck oh nice.
Yeah, dude, I I saw some of hisstuff.
I was pretty impressed with it.
We definitely have to have himon, for sure because that thing

(02:06:01):
is so cool will this be enoughfor the weekend?
there we go, we'll have a wholebunch of them and I've got like
six other boxes.
They finally showed up fromcustoms.
My god, what a nightmare.
But anyway, go on yeah, well, souh, dave, dave, uh did talk to
me a couple days later and saidhe ordered himself a 25 pack

(02:06:25):
yeah, that's, I was waiting forthem to show up and I'm like
it's shortly after, like I thinkI remember when I was talking,
all of a sudden I got like threeorders for like 25 packs.
I'm like, dude, where are thesecoming from?
And I'm like, maybe coming fromso, yeah, I've been like
waiting for them to show up.
Finally can now pack them upand send them off and we'll have
them for, uh, the 24-hour podor two as well.

(02:06:48):
But, yeah, cool, all right.
Well, now I'm gonna have toorder another thousand, because
it takes six months for them tofreaking show up.

Speaker 3 (02:06:58):
We have enough just yeah, we need, we need, we need
more, uh, lfh stickers, lfhstickers too, and I will say,
the state stickers.
People tend to not like thestate stickers as much as they
like these ones.

Speaker 1 (02:07:14):
Yeah, well, the state stickers don't have anything on
them, so we have to redesignthat.
So, yes, we have these.

Speaker 3 (02:07:20):
finally, I think these are the winners.
We need to have a lot of these.

Speaker 1 (02:07:26):
Okay, well, we do.
I have four left.
I think these are the winners.
We need to have a lot of these.
Okay, well, we do.
I have four left.
Yeah well, I ordered 200, 250of them, so maybe we should have
more than enough.
I'll bring all those for 24hours and restock what you got.
And, todd, I need more of yours.
I ran out of yours.

Speaker 3 (02:07:42):
I'm running out of crouch stickers too.
Yeah, I gave out all the todds.
Uh, I got a few of yourstickers left, eric I got plenty
of those too.

Speaker 1 (02:07:51):
I refreshed those, so we'll do a full refresh.
Yeah, I got like five, five orsix of yours left okay, well, I
got 150 of these for this year,so these will be in short supply
.
So I'll give a couple of youguys for your own stashes, and
then we'll give away the restand a whole bunch of um spool.

(02:08:13):
Tenna sent me a brand new spoolwith a bunch of stickers and,
um, a couple of pens and stufflike that icon stuff.
That whole box in the back isfilled with icon stuff and then,
uh, waiting for wolfer recoilsand marty to uh to send a bunch
of stuff to as well.

Speaker 3 (02:08:30):
So it'd be good I got a bunch of stuff that I could
throw in for, like, uh, mysteryboxes too.

Speaker 5 (02:08:36):
Yeah, that'd be awesome I got my uh mystery, my
old two meter and my dual bandantenna yeah, dude, throw it in.

Speaker 1 (02:08:44):
Why not?
We'll throw in the mystery box.
That's what a mystery box isall about some of it's new I'm
like I'm not, I mean it's, it's.

Speaker 5 (02:08:51):
I'm like I'm not gonna use.
I kept it.
I'm like I'm not gonna use thisthough no, mine's over in the
corner too.

Speaker 1 (02:08:56):
So yeah, totally with you.
So yeah, we'll.
We'll be shooting more of thatstuff together.
I'll be updating the pages sothose that are listening don't
panic the 24 hour POTA page andour website.
We'll have all the details.
So just keep an eye out forthat stuff and we'll make sure
you know we give everybodyplenty of time.

Speaker 5 (02:09:14):
Are we going to be able to do like?
If, let's say, like me and youare operating at the same time,
are we going to be able to dolike a twofer, like two
operators, operators standby forsecond operator, or you can
like when we have more than onecomputer there to log in.

Speaker 1 (02:09:29):
We'll have two computers.
I'll have both computers tiedtogether so the logging will all
be centralized.
We'll use n3fjp.

Speaker 5 (02:09:36):
But I'm saying but if someone's doing, what I'm
saying is like, let's say, oneperson's doing, how many
stations are we running?

Speaker 1 (02:09:43):
two two digital and then sideband.

Speaker 5 (02:09:46):
So we might want to have a second computer for
sideband.

Speaker 1 (02:09:50):
Yeah, we will.
We'll have sideband computer,sideband radio, we'll have its
own computer and then thedigital.

Speaker 5 (02:09:55):
But if you're going to do two, you need to log in
two operators.

Speaker 1 (02:10:00):
Yeah, the software allows you to do that.

Speaker 5 (02:10:02):
Oh, it does yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:10:04):
Yeah, both computers it's awesome, do that oh it does
.

Speaker 5 (02:10:06):
Yeah, yeah, both computers is awesome.
It'll allow you to put likeyour call sign, my call sign as
operating at this yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:10:12):
So what we'll have to do is I'll just have to make a
note, like if both of us areplaying the radio at the same
time, you know, then sure, we'lljust have to make sure we note
it in the field, and then when Isplit the logs out and send
them off to people or post themup on poda, that you'll get the
credit for it and w1 lfh has itsvery first yeah, I haven't

(02:10:33):
uploaded that one yet.

Speaker 5 (02:10:34):
I gotta do that as its what has, its first what?

Speaker 3 (02:10:38):
park activation oh nice yeah, I keep uh.

Speaker 1 (02:10:44):
I told chris, uh, and if you're listening, chris, you
got to remember when you go outwith parker you can use the
whiskey one, the free and hamyou know, down there in the cape
.
So, yeah, activate a park withthat.
Let parker get on it.
He can play them all the bandshe wants, or at least you know.
I think he's chris's extrageneral.
But yeah, play within yourconfines.

Speaker 5 (02:11:03):
But yeah, I'll see, you know, everyone listening to
this will be using it.

Speaker 1 (02:11:05):
Yeah you got to be an official club member, and if
you want to reach out to us hereat liftfreedham at gmailcom,
We'll be like this W1 of age islike taking over Funny story.

Speaker 5 (02:11:21):
They activated 20 parks at the same time.

Speaker 1 (02:11:24):
I was out running out grabbing food one one night and
Tim was running the net I thinkit was Wednesday and I decided
just to be a, you know, to throwhim a curve ball instead of,
you know, announcing.
You know N one J U R mobile.
I was like whiskey one leftfree and ham mobile and he was
just like there was like thispause and like I know this call
sign and he kind of kind of likedouble took, and then he's like

(02:11:44):
oh, hey, eric, he realized thatit was like that voice didn't
sound right and the call signdidn't sound right, what the
hell happened.
And so you know, and andeverybody on the net had no idea
, like obviously for a while,like cause they haven't heard
that?

Speaker 3 (02:11:56):
again.

Speaker 1 (02:11:58):
That's exactly what I was thinking.
They were thinking they're likeyou know, idiot, what'd you do
that?
And screw it up again.
I'm like, no, no, we're good,it's all good.
Oh, cool, all right.
Well, I'm expiring here.
My friends and I still haven'teven had dinner yet.
That's how bad I'm at todaywith being so backlogged.
But yeah, it was fun.
I I you know I'm glad we just,you know, kind of shot the

(02:12:18):
breeze and I shared that video.
I think it was pretty cool, um,and I think we should get those
guys on we will.
It's actually probably a goodidea, I mean I, I honestly want
to.

Speaker 5 (02:12:28):
I want to drill, like how do you do it?
Like, tell me your secret.
Yeah, like, like just I mean,even if we can't do as well as
they do, at least like 12 parks,12 hours, 12 hours of
activating, like my braindoesn't work that hard, like I
couldn't do that.

Speaker 1 (02:12:50):
Well, you have to first work on the first problem
you have, which is letting goevery time we say QRT.
But once you get over that humpthen I think it might be a
little easier and smooth sailing.

Speaker 5 (02:13:02):
Yeah, but I don't think I like we did seven parks
and I was mush, like I was likecq, you know I know, dude,
you're gonna have to start goingback to the gym.

Speaker 1 (02:13:14):
If we're gonna like get beyond seven parks this year
, we gotta get like the nextjump is 10.
It's 5, 10, 25 and somethingelse, or 15 and 25.
So those are the.
Those are the numbers 25 in aday for rover, so rover awards
are broken.
Now, instead of by park, it's 5, 50, 5, 10, 15, 25.

(02:13:37):
So yeah, the the incrementaljumps are crazy.
How can you do 25 parts?

Speaker 5 (02:13:41):
in a day we'll have them on, we'll ask that question
, I mean can you start at like1201 am and go until because
that's not, that's, that's ugcso it doesn't matter if it's
late shift or no it's just youhave to be within the 24 hours.

Speaker 1 (02:14:02):
That's how you have to do it.
You gotta just freaking start atlike midnight well, but you
think about, like, a lot ofthese people are in central time
too, so they already have thatlittle like you know advantage
to play with.
You know, even though you're inutc, you're still following
your you know.
That kind of makes no sense,but whatever, it just makes me
feel good that you know.
Hey, they have one more hour,but they really don't when it

(02:14:23):
comes to utc, it's all the same.
Yeah, damn time, farmersscrewed us over, all right.
Well, I'm gonna put the lastnail in this coffin tonight,
guys, it was fun hanging out andwith that, uh, I need to go eat
because I'm running on fumes.
But, uh, yeah, it's like 10, 30now, almost 11.

(02:14:45):
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