Four flip-flops walk into a divider…

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SPEAKER_04 (00:00):
What the heck is this world coming to?
Newfest and more.
Next on Live Free in Hand.
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This is our weekly show where wediscuss ham radio topics in New
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I'm your host, N1OG, the Grouchfrom New Hampshire.
And I'm with my co-host here towatch us move.
Todd W1STJ.

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Uh Eric, N1J U R.

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Wow, that sounds very different.

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Or are we beyond 500subscribers?

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But we haven't done the giveaway, so yeah.

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I am gonna throw that in.
We did.
We did.
Yeah.
Are you sure?
That's yeah, 100%.
I know that one's a good deal.

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Where it's six something last time I checked.

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SPEAKER_08 (03:13):
He's here.

SPEAKER_05 (03:15):
Man, he responds fast.
He's faster than UPS and FedEx.
No shit.

SPEAKER_03 (03:21):
Dude, I'm sitting here just twiddle my thumbs, and
I see a little thing pop up inDiscord.
I'm like, the fuck is that?
Clicked on it.
Oh hey!

SPEAKER_05 (03:30):
We offered Mike, but Mike turned us down.
He's busy.

SPEAKER_02 (03:34):
Oh, so I'm the villain for the biggest.

SPEAKER_05 (03:36):
You're second best.

SPEAKER_04 (03:37):
All right.
Well, thanks for joining us,Michael.
Now sit there and shut the fuckup while I finish my spiel.
Alright?
Alright.
Eric, what do we got in the inthe mailbag?

SPEAKER_05 (03:51):
Absolutely nothing, my friend.
There is zero.
Do we have any win links at all?
We have zero win links.
Wow, we're shooting two for two.

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Come on, Peter.
Okay.
Well, listen, just because we'vegot nothing in the mailbag this
week doesn't mean that you can'tsend us something for next week.
Because we all aspire to do goodin ham radio, whether it's
existing during a disaster,providing communications for a
local road race, hosting a photomeetup, or doing whatever fun

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thing you like to do in hamradio, like the Hillbilly Hams
do, right?
Sometimes we allow negativevoices to overshadow our
enjoyment.
So let us know what good thingsthat you're doing.
And if you want to be on theshow, send a win link message to

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me, N10G, and we will bring youon an episode.
Yep.
Um, okay.
So with that, let's go toeverybody's favorite segment.

SPEAKER_05 (05:02):
Oh, you want me to hit the button?
Yeah, it is everyone's favoritesegment.
And now a little something extrawith taught W1STJ.

SPEAKER_07 (05:20):
Still in general.
All right.
Well, I haven't studied at allfor a whole week.
So I haven't even noticed it'sdifferent from any of that.
Yeah, you're right.
So I know this one.

unknown (05:37):
Bam!

SPEAKER_05 (05:38):
All right, there we go.
So you heard it here.
This is where we have Todd studyfor his extra class license.
Um, and so each episode we loveto pick three questions from the
extra class question pool.
And a lot of them are becomingrepeat questions.
So we are just reinforcing.
Because Todd keeps getting themwrong.
Yes.
Well, that's the other reason.

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So yeah, we picked those threequestions, tested knowledge,
hope he gets an upgrade, andhope you get your upgrade
because apparently this is thereverse osmosis process that you
know, through Todd's failures,you actually get your, you know,
general or even extra classlicense.
It's kind of just weird how thathappens.
So, you know, if you want tofollow along, head over to
hamstudy.org, which is anawesome resource to help you

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prepare for your test.
And is recommended by four outof four VE quizmasters.
Paul, take it away.

SPEAKER_04 (06:28):
All right, uh B 19.
Tonight's question.
Tonight's first question comesfrom sub-element number seven.
And the question is, how manyflip-flops, not the kind you
wear to the beach, but how manyflip-flops are required to

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divide a signal frequency bysixteen?
Is it A?
Is it B?
Sixteen?
Is it C?
Four?
Or is it D?
Eight.

unknown (07:08):
No.

SPEAKER_07 (07:10):
Anyone go different?
Mike?

SPEAKER_05 (07:13):
Do you want to go different?

SPEAKER_03 (07:14):
Like where are you to let Mike throw it?

SPEAKER_05 (07:21):
They're more mandals.

SPEAKER_06 (07:28):
All right, throw it in Todd.

SPEAKER_07 (07:31):
I say B.

SPEAKER_05 (07:31):
What do you say?
B, sixteen.
I I always thought it was C, butfour final answer, Todd?

SPEAKER_04 (07:42):
Yep.
You were wrong.

SPEAKER_06 (07:50):
Once again.

SPEAKER_05 (07:59):
It's my all-star.
Oh, it's probably Jason's node.
Mine's I hear it the same.
I hear it too.
Shut off.
I'm only connected.
How'd I get that?
That's Jason.
Somebody else's node.
They're basically uh breakingthe squelch.

SPEAKER_07 (08:19):
Well, why is Jason connected to our node?
Uh you're connected to Jason'snode.

SPEAKER_05 (08:24):
No, I'm not.
Nope.
Oh, then you're already learnedLif Free and Ham.
Now that we're trying to changein conversation.
You connected to Liffree andHam?
Well, Liff Free and Ham's alsoconnected to Jason's node.
Why?
Move on.
Because that's because it'sconnected to my node.
So yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (08:38):
Turn Jason off on your node.
Fucking guy.
Jesus, you're breaking all therules.

SPEAKER_04 (08:45):
But you're breaking the rules.
I'm trying to run a freakinggame show.

SPEAKER_05 (08:50):
Disconnected.
Done.
All right.
It was Eric's fault you heardall that.

SPEAKER_07 (08:57):
You know, it's my bad antenna.
Move along.
All right.
Listen.
Fuck.
I can't believe I swore it was16.
No, the correct answer is four.

SPEAKER_04 (09:09):
Because inserting a flip-flop into a circuit will
divide the input signal by two.
Therefore, to divide a frequencyby 16, you need four flip-flops.
Four divided by four is sixteen.
Four times four is sixteen.

SPEAKER_07 (09:28):
A pair in your bag and a pair of your wearing.
All right.
Next question.
Let's go.

SPEAKER_04 (09:35):
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (09:35):
Speed round my hair.
Speed round.

SPEAKER_04 (09:39):
So question number two for the impatient shot.
A single one of you knows my assisn't hairy.

SPEAKER_05 (09:47):
Move along.

SPEAKER_04 (09:51):
Yes.
Question number two for theimpatient.
Oh, symbols.

SPEAKER_05 (09:55):
Todd's favorite.

SPEAKER_04 (09:56):
This question comes from sub-element number six.
In figure E6-2, which is theschematic symbol for a shotkey
diode.
Is it A number three?
B number one.

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C number six.
Or D number two.

SPEAKER_07 (10:26):
Yeah, scroll up a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 (10:28):
It's either three or six.

SPEAKER_07 (10:30):
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
My first gut said six, but Ithink it's three.
I'm gonna go with three.

SPEAKER_05 (10:39):
Yeah, I like six.
You like six?
I like six.
Not that I even think it'sclose, but yeah.
I know five is a emitting diodebecause of the the arrows, but
that's about the only one Iknow.

SPEAKER_04 (10:53):
Well, I will tell you that three is incorrect.
Because yes, that was my point.
It is C six.
The little dude.
If you look at it, it looks likea backwards S.

SPEAKER_05 (11:08):
The walk the walk like Egyptian.
Reserve it that way.

SPEAKER_04 (11:12):
Literally, it looks like a backwards S.

SPEAKER_05 (11:15):
So does the three.
Well, three sort of looks likethis.
Really?
You gotta put a curve in yourhand.

SPEAKER_07 (11:22):
It's more curved than that.
All right.
Stupid.
Never gonna use it ever, ever,ever in my life.

SPEAKER_04 (11:32):
Yep, just because you won't doesn't mean that some
other ham might not.
Yeah.
Well, because you know what?
I have to know this to get theextra frequencies.
I know.
And and you might someday haveto look at a wiring diagram and
go, what the fuck is this?

SPEAKER_05 (11:48):
No, because Paul, let me clarify that statement.
He's gonna call me.
What does this diagram say?

SPEAKER_04 (11:55):
Exactly.
It's exactly what I'm gonna do.
I'm just glad he doesn't callme.

SPEAKER_07 (12:02):
Well, listen, you guys and your let me just go on
in this before we go on.
The all-star shit.
The fucking system sucks.
It does not work in my car, itwill not stay connected.
And Eric was supposed to, oh,I'll catch you on in the before
the thing.
We can check, I can go throughyour app.
Something's not working.

SPEAKER_04 (12:24):
You can you can go on your 80-meter rant about
All-Star, just like you fuckingbitched about the VE testing
later on.
Right now, we're running a gameshow and you're losing.
Oh, I know.
So, number one is a VeraCap, avoltage-controlled capacitor.
Number two is a distractor, it'snot actually anything, but it

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might be a transient voltagesuppression diode.
Number three is a senior diode.

SPEAKER_05 (12:57):
Nor do I.

SPEAKER_04 (12:58):
Yeah.
Okay.
Number four is a regular diode.
Number five is a light emittingdiode.
Number six is a shot key.
Number seven is a siliconecontrolled rectifier.
And number eight is a triad.

SPEAKER_07 (13:15):
So let me ask you, Mike, are you an extra two?
No.
No, all right.
So let me ask the two entrants.
Tell me what the differencebetween a shot key and the
number three.
What's the difference betweenthose two, except that little
squiggly line?

SPEAKER_04 (13:30):
What's the difference between a shot key
and a zener?

SPEAKER_07 (13:32):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (13:34):
There's a big difference, but I couldn't tell
you off the top line.

SPEAKER_07 (13:37):
Of course there is.
Exactly.
Prove my point.
Next one.

SPEAKER_03 (13:42):
Hey, Todd, I I I am a master Jedi radio technician
because I work in the commercialfield.

SPEAKER_07 (13:50):
Yeah.
What's the difference betweenthose two?
It's above an extra.

SPEAKER_04 (14:00):
All right.
For the third and final questionof this evening, Todd, which you
were striking out, don't getthis one wrong.
This question comes fromsub-element number five.
And the question is, what is therelationship between the AC

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current through a capacitor andthe voltage across a capacitor?
Is it A, voltage and current are180 degrees out of phase?
B, voltage leads the current byninety degrees.
C current leads the voltage byninety degrees.

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Or is it D, voltage and currentare in phase?

SPEAKER_05 (15:01):
Actually, no C.
Oh, you'd have to be different,wouldn't you?

SPEAKER_04 (15:05):
He's probably right.
Alright, well, Todd said D.

SPEAKER_05 (15:14):
Eric, what'd you say?
C.
I can't remember if it's leadsor voltage.
Yeah.
There we go.
Alright.

SPEAKER_04 (15:22):
The correct answer is C.
The current leads the voltage by90 degrees.
So to help to help youunderstand Eli the Iceman, in a
capacitor, symbol C, current Ileads voltage E by 90 degrees.

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In an inductor, symbol L,voltage E leads the current I by
90 degrees.
Which another helpful way toremember this is capacitor and
current both start with C.
And the in for an inductor it'sthe opposite from the capacitor.

SPEAKER_05 (16:04):
See, in that definition, the problem that I
have, like people read that, andthe last part is what they
remember that voltage leadscurrent.
And they don't remember theactual real answer because they
threw in that little zinger atthe very end.
So your brain goes, Oh, Iremember voltage leads, blah
blah blah.

SPEAKER_07 (16:21):
It's just a way to yeah, it's just a way to make
the test harder.

SPEAKER_05 (16:25):
If anything, the answers or the descriptors, you
know, that's helping support,you know, the answer, you know,
should be written simply inplain.
So anyway.

SPEAKER_07 (16:36):
All right.
Next.
Emotional.

SPEAKER_05 (16:42):
Oh, do we want a bonus question?
I was gonna say you want tobonus?
I did three.
I got all three right.

SPEAKER_07 (16:49):
No special.
Let me see the next question.
I'll tell you if I want it ornot.

SPEAKER_05 (16:56):
ARQ?
Oh no, I have no idea.
Uh isn't that accomplished errorcorrection?
Um, isn't that uh special buy?
No, wait a minute.
I think it's A.
Or B.
It's either A or B.
I'm curious.
I'm gonna definitely know thatone.

SPEAKER_03 (17:19):
Fuck.

SPEAKER_05 (17:20):
Well, there you go.
All right.
Well Todd was faithful andhonest at the very beginning,
saying that you know, he didn'tstudy and he hasn't studied for
a week.
So, you know, hey, that'stotally fine.
You know what happened?
Weeks, okay, weeks.
Yeah, at the S at the end.
I gotta get out on it.

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So yeah, and maybe you mightnot, maybe you just might be a
general the whole entire time.
And dude, that is totally fine.
You know, there are YouTube hamtuber sensations that are, you
know, with 300,000 plussubscribers who are only still
generals and probably will neverbe extras whatsoever.
We won't know.

SPEAKER_03 (17:58):
And there's 12-year-olds that are extras.

SPEAKER_05 (18:01):
Yes, exactly.
That have no uh no moreunderstanding of uh any of that
uh electronic theory than us.
So, you know, yeah, maybe you'reon the journey to study for
technician general extra class.
In that case, hamstudy.org.
And again, people, hamstudy.orgis the better resource out
there, no matter how much youhear from the other resources,
you know, no matter how muchthey promote you, or they give

(18:23):
you freebies, or they tell youthat their tool is better.
Hamstudy.org is the one that'stied to the VE, you know, tools
that help you take the sametest.
So makes sense.
And it's free.
Yeah, totally.
You don't have to pay for it.
So why waste your money?
You know, the the pool is outthere.
Thank God we're not, like as Ifound out from Shannon, you
know, we are not over in the UKwhere they don't publicize the

(18:45):
question pool.
So, Todd, if they didn'tpublicize the question pool,
we'd be really screwed with thisepisode.
But also, you know, hey, maybeyou've received your license or
upgrade, you know, and we wantto know.
So if you have, uh email us atlivefreedingham.com or head us
over to our Discord and postover in uh our chat, and uh

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we'll love to recognize you onthe next episode.
Paul, you got any uh that yourun into in the oh actually, no,
we do.
We have two, although um one atleast I know, and I'm thinking
Annie.
Annie, you may not listen tothis episode, but you know,
Annie has uh worked tirelesslyand effort, you know, put 120%
effort into studying for hertechnician exam.

(19:28):
Um, and she uh basically passedover uh Ham Fest weekend.
So uh although she didn't testwith our club, you know, that's
a bummer, but she did test atNearfest and she passed her test
technician again.
So congratulations, Andy.
We're glad to have you.
Uh sorry that the FCC is shutdown at this point and you can't
get your call sign.

SPEAKER_07 (19:47):
She would have gotten a free membership to our
club if she tested with ourclub.

SPEAKER_05 (19:52):
But that yeah, but well, and I think as the
membership coordinator, I amgoing to grant that anyway.
Come on.
Oh, dude, she put she paid forher membership club membership
anyway at the beginning.
So she even before she wasactually licensed.

SPEAKER_03 (20:07):
So what do you send to do, Zach?
I haven't heard this.
What you send it to me.
Everything goes to Eric.
Hey, if my buddy Tim went up andhe passed his uh he passed his
uh technician.
Oh, and he played it off realgood because yeah, I come up and
I said, dude, did you pass?
And he just looked at me withthis shiting like uh face and he

(20:30):
goes, Oh yeah, I got it.
I was like, Oh, you asshole.

SPEAKER_07 (20:34):
Good for him.
Way to play the video.
He made some he made some gooduh, I don't even know what you
call that stuff, but that wassloppy joke.

SPEAKER_03 (20:42):
Um I don't know.
I forgot what the hell.
Firecracker, that's what hecalled it.
Is that what he called it?
I've never heard it called that.
Yeah, firecracker.
Good either way, man.
It's got it it's it's it comesfrom wherever the hell he's
from.
Blackstone, that area.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 (21:03):
No, uh diarrhea.
No, uh dynamite.
Dynamite, with a D.

SPEAKER_05 (21:08):
I called it diarrhea.
That would not be a good seller.

SPEAKER_04 (21:14):
Yeah, I knew it was short of a D.
Did did you have diarrhea afteryou ate it?

SPEAKER_05 (21:20):
No, actually, no.
No problems here whatsoever,man.
It was good.
Didn't tell you.
Yeah, awesome.
Well, yeah, so if you've uh youknow gotten your uh license,
please let us know.
We will definitely uh celebratewith you next episode.
And so with that, I hand it backto our lovely host.
Go ahead.
Um step back.

SPEAKER_04 (21:39):
All right.
Well, thanks so much, Eric, foruh for helping me out with the
uh the the highlight of theshow, which is testing Todd.
But uh in our usual show format,let's uh let's go around and see
how everybody's ham radio weekwas.
And let's start with Eric,because Eric always goes last.
Eric, how was your ham radioweek?

SPEAKER_05 (22:02):
I'm ill prepared.
So uh yeah, I'm gonna go off thecuff here tonight.
Uh yeah, this weekend uh pastwas uh near fest, and I have to
say I'm recovering, but uh stillan awesome Friday.
I mean, literally I packed awhole entire probably what a
three-day event into a 24 hoursand uh or a little shy of 24

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hours, and uh yeah, it was fun.
I I got to uh live stream uhwith Shannon very early on for
our reboot of uh Brew andActivate.
So I'm super excited about that.
Everyone uh that jumped onthere.
I appreciate all you guyssupporting it and being part of
it.
It was good conversation anddefinitely uh thank you for Matt
for letting us you know invadeyour booth because you know it

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was kind of funny because uhthere are a few older guys that
walked by and didn't realizethat we were on the live stream.
So Shannon and I are justconversing and they thought they
were we were talking to them, sothey would respond back in the
conversation going, Excuse me,what's your question?
And I'm like, No, I'm on thelive stream.
And then one guy literally, likein the middle of our live
stream, was like, What is thiscontraption you're recording

(23:07):
from?
You know, what TV channel areyou from?
And and you know, he wasobviously old school, so he had
no idea that we were justYouTube live streaming, and it
was just kind of comical becauseShannon, like, you know, was
like, what do we do?
Like, I how do you deal withthis?
And I'm like, I fine, noproblem.
We've had this happen before.
And so, yeah, it was it wascomical.
And then uh yeah, after wewrapped that up, I did a live

(23:27):
stream of uh the thefairgrounds, and yeah, I I went
back and uh you know re-watchedit our little uh segment where I
just kind of let the camera runand that you know that was a
blast to watch and it was gooduh thank you for the uh live uh
you know excitement andcommentary from all you guys.

SPEAKER_04 (23:44):
So where I I contributed to the detriment of
your channel.
You're well.

SPEAKER_05 (23:49):
Maybe I don't know.
I mean between you and Tortoise,you know, you definitely bump
the ratings up, you know, foranything.
I'm gonna have to now step it upin terms of you know the volume
of swears and the volume of likeprofanity and you know, really
weird stuff.
I mean, I I don't know if I'llbe uh toe-to-toe with the
Grouch's channel, but uh we'llbe close.

SPEAKER_03 (24:06):
Oh what oh geez.
I'm fine.
I I always thought I brought itrelief.

SPEAKER_05 (24:12):
You did, you know, dude, it was totally fine.
It was Grouch that just addedthe the flavor and the you know
the the the the you know the thecolor.

SPEAKER_01 (24:20):
Flavor, that's that that that's a good word for it.

SPEAKER_05 (24:23):
Yep, yeah.
So yeah, that was my kind of hamradio week, and you know, uh I
didn't get a chance to get outand activate much.
I was uh gonna try to do acouple of antenna reviews, but
just never got around to it.
So yeah, all that leading up toit.
Uh uh now that's all done.
I think hopefully I'll get thoseantenna reviews done next week.

SPEAKER_04 (24:42):
All right.
Sounds like a plan.
Thanks.
Well, I appreciate you sharing.
We'll go we'll go next toMichael, 103 MFL.
How was your ham radio week?
Thanks for joining us on theshow.

SPEAKER_03 (24:56):
Dude, thank you for letting me uh tag along.
And um, you know, even though Iwas 50 minutes late.
No, you weren't.
You're totally on time.
Um it was uh everything was uhdude, I've just been busy.
We're we're down two tacks um atwork, so we've been filling

(25:17):
gaps, and it's been the lastthree weeks has been the
hardest, but this past weekendwas a blast.
Did lots and lots of uh lots andlots of moving equipment radio
wise and others.
Um Shannon or yeah, or not, no,not Shannon.
Um Annie got a uh nice uh 706Mark IIG.

(25:41):
Um she got she got a nice shegot one of Paul's favorite
antennas.
Um Paul Paul was begging to getfor me to give it to him, but I
said no, I've gotta give it toAnnie.

SPEAKER_05 (25:53):
So wait, wait, wait, let's antenna, what are you
talking about?
The one the four.
Yes, the buddy pulled a lot.
That's Todd's favorite antenna,not Paul's favorite.
Paul.
I thought it was I thought itwas Paul's favorite antenna.

SPEAKER_07 (26:06):
No, Paul, Paul, Paul, and exactly.
It's number one.
So Annie's got the good antenna,the one that works.

SPEAKER_06 (26:12):
Yeah, the buddy's got the shit.
The one that takes 45 minutes tofucking get set up.

SPEAKER_07 (26:17):
Only for fucking idiots like you.
Take me five minutes.

SPEAKER_00 (26:21):
Fucking what are you calling me an idiot?
No, him.

SPEAKER_07 (26:29):
Oh not you.
He says it takes 45 minutes toget it to get it up.
I'm like, it takes five minutesto do the whole thing.
And he's like, oh, he he canthrow a wire in it.

SPEAKER_04 (26:47):
I'm sorry, it takes 40 extra minutes to freaking get
it tuned.

SPEAKER_07 (26:50):
See, this is where this is where my point is,
right?
So I am a doer and not a tester.
So I can get that thing tunedand ready to go in five minutes.
You, on the other hand, are thetester, and what do testers do?
They're like, they're likethey're like union members.
They're like union leaders,right?
People in the union that run theunion are people that can't do

(27:14):
their work, right?
That's the way I see it.
So they can't do their work,they become the union.
So you can't tune radio, so youjust test it on me.
That's how it goes.

SPEAKER_03 (27:25):
Anyway, so I was an idiot, and um, I tried to set up
a Rybakov uh of uh RelianceAntenna uh and through VAN, and
I didn't realize the uh biggreen block big green mask that
I bought was carbon fiber.

(27:47):
So yeah, that didn't yeah, thatain't gonna happen.

SPEAKER_05 (27:50):
Well, it tuned up on a sec pause.

SPEAKER_03 (28:02):
All right, it only takes me 30 seconds, anyways.
Um yeah, the uh so um it tunedperfectly on um on uh 40.
It wouldn't tune on two, itwouldn't tune on 20, and I'm
sitting here liter literally andfiguratively beating my head
against the table.

(28:22):
Um Matt sent out a string, so Iextended it out and I put it on
an angle, and I I it the damnthing still wouldn't tune up on
20, and I was just I just gaveup and threw up his uh uh NFE.

SPEAKER_04 (28:35):
Yeah, it's he even gave you a uh an extra
transformer to try.

SPEAKER_03 (28:39):
Yeah, he did.
And the damn thing, the the NFE,it was touching the ground, it
was it was almost on the groundby that much, and it tuned up on
all the bands.
So we need to uh we uh uh Mattneeds to go back to the drawing
board on the Rabikov.

SPEAKER_05 (28:55):
So I have not I have not taken it now.
This is the first time comingout of the bag, so yeah, uh now
that I know you've had uh toughtime uh setting it up, I will uh
have to uh see how it goes formyself.

SPEAKER_03 (29:07):
See, in and you know, every even Israel's like,
oh, you gotta spread out theradials.
And Eric and I are like, no, wejust run them out and you're
good.

SPEAKER_05 (29:15):
Throw them.
Ah, there we go.
There's another one.
Mike, where's yours?
Uh it's in my truck.
Not the other mic.
Into M AK, I know he's got one.

SPEAKER_03 (29:25):
It's in my drawer.
I have tried mine yet or haven'ttried mine yet.
Proper English, please.
Uh, he was tied up.
Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_04 (29:41):
Yep, there is antenna, you got one too?
Yeah, why wouldn't I get one?

SPEAKER_05 (29:48):
Oh, I don't know.
Like, I I didn't know you wereon the antenna bandwagon.
You know, ever like I neverknow.

SPEAKER_07 (29:54):
I'm always telling, I'm always telling everyone to
buy the Reliance antennas.

SPEAKER_05 (29:59):
Uh I'm not.
Knocking that side of things,but like I like the only time I
ever thought you would might doa Reliance antenna would be like
if my if uh Matt did a verticaland it was like an elevator
radio.

SPEAKER_07 (30:12):
Listen, you have nothing to talk about because
your hex beam never works.
And we always go to the BuddyPole Pro top.
Oh yeah.
It worked great at the workedgreat at the 24-hour podi.
It worked great at the time.
The first time we set it up andwe couldn't work, we had to
bring out after like four hoursof trying to set the damn thing

(30:34):
up for the first time.
We had to just bring out thebuddy pole pro to get the park
activated.
Okay.
When all else fails, go to thebuddy pro.

SPEAKER_05 (30:44):
So I'm gonna throw this little challenge out to
you.
So when we finally get to 975,Todd, and we're able to do our
25, you know, main contacts forour kilo, we're gonna set the
buddy pole up front, you know,on one switch, and I'm gonna put
Matt's reliance and fed on theother one.
And then we're just gonna bouncebetween both and see which one
does better.

SPEAKER_07 (31:03):
I don't, I don't, I'm not going against the
reliance.
No.
Let's go against your wolf,let's go against your wolf river
coil.
The wolf river coil that thatalways falls over every time a
little breeze comes by, it's onthe ground where the buddy pole
just stays there, no problem.

SPEAKER_05 (31:20):
We'll do vertical, we'll do vertical to vertical.
I'll put out the mad dog andwe'll do the mad dog 80 and
we'll do all setup and we'll seewhich one stacks up better.

SPEAKER_03 (31:27):
Hey, I'll bring a super end then if you want me
to.

SPEAKER_05 (31:30):
Ah, well, you know, you're a little bit, you're
about 935 contacts off the railtrail, so if you can catch up.
We're all trying to shoot forthe key.
Are we not worth it?
Dude, I thought we were friends.

SPEAKER_03 (31:46):
Are you talking about drive two hours?
You drove two will drive twohours.

SPEAKER_07 (31:49):
You drove two hours in a 24-hour potent.
That was one park.

SPEAKER_03 (31:53):
Yeah, but that was for 24 hours.
That wasn't going up there forhalf an hour and coming back
because you're all shit sucks.

SPEAKER_05 (32:00):
I'll come down anytime, man.
Anytime.
I'll come down and we'llactivate for 20 minutes if that
wood boils down to, but I willdrive.
Anyway, so enough of me.

SPEAKER_04 (32:09):
So it sounds like it sounds like Michael, you had a
good ham radio week.
You got to go to Nearfest, youget to sell some stuff, you get
to buy some stuff.

SPEAKER_03 (32:17):
I made about three grand.

SPEAKER_05 (32:19):
I was gonna say how much did you actually make?
Because I know like midday youwere kind of complaining that
you were in the hole at thatpoint, but you I I I made about
three grand, and like I said, Iset spent about a grand.

SPEAKER_03 (32:31):
Okay.
So that's about I took homeabout two grand.
That's a good uh that's a goodday.
That's a very good day.
And Paul left me on the freakingcamp camping site all to myself
and just left me a treat ofdonuts on a table.

SPEAKER_05 (32:52):
Okay, you gotta expand on that one.
You can't leave that one outthere.

SPEAKER_03 (32:57):
No, dude, dude, dude, there was one dude left
that was breaking down a tentwith his daughter or something,
and me.
We're the only two up there.
I'm like, geez, I haven't beengone for more than an hour.
Paul was out of there.
He must have just throwneverything in his door and just
left.
I was like, holy shit.

SPEAKER_04 (33:15):
No, um, I I went, I I went back to the campground at
uh quarter to two and I startedpacking, and I started getting
ready to move.
It it took me at least an hourto get everything ready to get

(33:39):
hooked up and move.
Like it was it was not a quickthing.
I I literally said to Chris, uhW A C J L, I I don't know how
people go from campground tocampground, day after day, uh,
you know, living the RV life.

(34:00):
Because it just it takes me along time to set up and it takes
me a long time to break down.

SPEAKER_07 (34:04):
Just like tuning antennas, I get it.

SPEAKER_04 (34:11):
Love you, Todd.
Speaking of Todd, how is yourham radio week, brother?

SPEAKER_07 (34:17):
Well, let's see.
I made it to I made it to NearFest uh within the only six
hours late minutes before thelive stream started.
Literally.
Yeah, only six hours late.
But I made it.
And then um I've been playingwith All Star, and for some
reason it doesn't want to stayconnected in my in my Jeep.

(34:39):
It uh doesn't want to stayconnected.

SPEAKER_03 (34:41):
We're driving that hybrid Jeep and it just rejects
it.

SPEAKER_07 (34:44):
Yeah, well it won't it won't stay on the it won't
stay on the uh uh won't stayconnected to the node.
The node won't stay connected tothe hotspot.
I have no idea why.
It it stays connected to myWi-Fi at the house, it stays
connected obviously when I plugit in.
So I've been playing with that,and then um I received today my

(35:05):
first even though I said I'dnever buy one, my first Bao
Fang, and I got for$7.99 on Timubecause I don't know, they gave
it all this shit for me forfree.

SPEAKER_01 (35:17):
Now I get$40 anymore.

SPEAKER_07 (35:19):
It was eight bucks and it is the mini.
Oh, we got the Brilliantversion.
And this is this is the sizedifference.
Uh oh, is that your mini?
Yeah.
So it's pretty cool.
It it uh you know it's got a sit's got a uh an app program

(35:42):
that's kind of weird, though itdoesn't connect like normal
Bluetooth, like you gotta uhturn the app on, turn the thing
on, and then it connects, andthen it if you don't do anything
for a while, it disconnects, butthere's no like Bluetooth on
your phone, it says you'reconnected to the radio.
It's one of those weird things.
But anyway, it's pretty simpleto program.
And uh I just basically boughtit because when I go to work, if

(36:04):
I ever get the all-star workingand I'm driving in my work car,
I'll be able to use that to uhconnect to the node.
So that's the plan for that.
So yeah, but yeah, it's prettycool.
It's I mean it's wicked small.
Yep.
Yeah.

(36:25):
Definitely could sneak one inout there.
Step up your bum.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (36:29):
Well, I mean, it's clear he has the he has the
prison uh prison derivative ofuh is huge.

unknown (36:35):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (36:36):
But you know, I look it, I I everyone started buying,
you know, you know, on our club,like we got a bunch of guys that
as soon as the new Quan Chang orthe Bao Fang comes out, like
they all buy them.
And it becomes a I don't know.
But I saw this one, I was like,well, damn, that thing is
freaking nice and tiny.
I could just like throw that inmy bag, throw it in the car, and
leave it in there.

(36:57):
And then I looked it up andthey're like, oh, it's like 30
bucks.
And I went on, I think it was isit Timu?
Timu TMU?
Yeah, T Mu.
Oh wow.
Wow.
$7.99.
$7 free shipping.
I was like, all right.

SPEAKER_05 (37:14):
Mike's throwing the shade there.
Mike's throwing the shade.
That's a joke.
Yeah, great.

SPEAKER_03 (37:20):
I mean, it's just one step above uh what Annie
calls for Raspberry.

SPEAKER_05 (37:24):
So we're gonna go, let's not bring that into there.

SPEAKER_04 (37:28):
All right, so the Balfang mini is 30 bucks.
Yeah, yeah, I got it for eight.

SPEAKER_07 (37:33):
How'd you get it for eight?
Don't ask me.
I found it.
I went, okay.
I don't know, I've never boughtanything off this TMU or this
Chinese site, right?
I go and I I put one in and Iput it in the cart, and then a
whole bunch of other ones comeup.
And then I found one for like 25bucks.
So I put that in the cart and Idelete the other one.

(37:55):
Then all of a sudden, this thingpops up on my phone, it says,
You're new.
Um, take whatever, and when Iput it in it, I put the code in
and it came out to$7.99.
So it was like eight bucks.
So I it took about it took abouttwo weeks to get here.
But it's here, it works.

(38:16):
So that's a steal.
Yeah, eight bucks.
I mean, they're normally I thinkyou can find them for like 25
bucks.

SPEAKER_05 (38:22):
Yeah, that's what Ralph paid for the ones he
bought each for.

SPEAKER_07 (38:25):
See, this one was no one knew.
See, uh so when I looked it up,I guess this clear version is
like new.
So they're like green, they'reblack, gray.
So I saw the clear version.
I was like, oh maybe I'll getthe clear one, it'll be a little
different.

SPEAKER_05 (38:40):
Hey Mike, who are you gonna talk to once you have
the GMRS version?

SPEAKER_03 (38:46):
He's gonna he's gonna do POTA, GMRS.

SPEAKER_05 (38:50):
It's not even a drop down in the options.

SPEAKER_07 (38:56):
I mean, it I don't know how it's gonna I don't know
how it's gonna sound.
I mean it the cool thing is it'sgot a flashlight.

SPEAKER_05 (39:01):
Put it this way, I've all Bayofangs have
flashlights.

SPEAKER_07 (39:04):
I've never bought one before.

SPEAKER_05 (39:08):
You can write it.
Audio on it, Todd.
You're gonna be the same peoplethat you constantly make fun of
when you're on the four-mounterrepeater when they're on their
BaleFangs.

SPEAKER_07 (39:18):
Well, right, but I figured I'm I'm only connected
to the node, which is right nextto me.
Like, how bad can it be?
Is the audio gonna be that bad?
It doesn't have to travelanywhere.

SPEAKER_05 (39:28):
I uh from what I've heard from when Ralph uses his,
I can tell the difference.
And actually, I'll have to saythe Quancheng's been better
audio than the the Baofeng has,but that's just fine.

SPEAKER_03 (39:37):
Can I put it on my service monitor and look for
spurious emissions?

SPEAKER_05 (39:41):
It probably barely classifies it.

SPEAKER_07 (39:44):
Okay, I could go and sell this for 15 bucks right now
and double my money.
16 bucks.
Guaranteed you will make moneyno matter what since you bought
it for eight bucks.
Oh, okay.
It's the first one.
I'm gonna give it a shot.
I'll give you ten dollars forit.
Eight bucks is eight bucks.
I can't even I can't even get afreaking like a bagel and a

(40:06):
coffee around here for eightbucks.
Yeah, that's true.
It's so expensive.
Accept our dudes at our club fora mere fifteen dollars, which is
a breakfast at which is morewhich is less than a breakfast.

(40:28):
You can be you can be a memberof our club.
So you should everyone shouldjust donate their$15 and uh save
a puppy at Grand State RadioAssociation for$15 a month.

SPEAKER_05 (40:38):
That's less than 10 cents a day.

SPEAKER_03 (40:41):
Anyway.
I sold a 7200.

unknown (40:46):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (40:47):
Oh, finally for what I paid for it.
That's it.
Um uh the kid I know who's aham, his name is Jack, he bought
it.
He remembered that big freak.
Paul was there.
He had that big giant Ye Suethat was like like 400.
He bought it for it was a bigson of a bitch.

(41:07):
The 200 water.
He bought it for 500 bucks andturned around and sold it for
950.

SPEAKER_05 (41:13):
Wow.

SPEAKER_07 (41:16):
All in the same day.
So wait, what did he he boughtyour radio and then sold it for
more?

SPEAKER_03 (41:22):
No, no, no.
He he bought my radio um towardsthe end of the day, pretty much
after everybody was leaving.
But um, he bought this monstrous200 watt uh Yesu.
I mean he could barely carry thething.
And um he um he said he put iton his table and turned around
and sold it for 950.
How much did he pay for?

(41:43):
500.

SPEAKER_07 (41:45):
Good for him.

SPEAKER_03 (41:46):
Yeah, I uh he's like, dude, I sold that radio
for 950.
I was like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_07 (41:51):
Well, that's well, that's what one of the uh
dentists in our club, that'swhat he used to do.
He would go go to Nearfest, buysomething he wanted, and buy a
whole bunch of crap that hethinks we he could sell and set
up his own blanket or table orwhatever, and then make enough
money to do what he what hewanted to get for free.

SPEAKER_03 (42:08):
Well, that's that well, my my thought process is
my money that I put into it, youknow, I whatever money I get out
of it, I spend on other radiojunk that I that I don't want or
don't need.
But like I sold Andy the 706, Iturned around and bought a 7000,

(42:29):
the radio I wanted.
But I told myself, if I can'tfind a 7000, I'll buy the 7200.
And I found a 7200.
Then somebody said, Oh, there'sa there's a there's a 7000 over
there, and they're like, now I'mout 500 bucks of a radio that I
really don't want, but I wantthe seven.
Dude, it was it was a monotonousweekend, but I I I did good.

(42:50):
And we got a guy coming to pickup those spools of cable, too.

SPEAKER_05 (42:54):
Holy crap, finally.
Yeah, they were great chairs,but dude, I would not want to
have to haul them home.

SPEAKER_04 (42:59):
Well, they're on the trailer mediocre chairs at best.

SPEAKER_05 (43:02):
Yeah.
Well, just your chair.
You enjoyed sitting on thosescrews, but anyway.

SPEAKER_03 (43:06):
Yeah, those faults were not forgiving.

SPEAKER_05 (43:10):
No, they were not.
It definitely got you preppedfor uh that colonoscopy later in
life.

unknown (43:16):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (43:17):
All right, so Todd, anything else with your ham
radio week?

SPEAKER_07 (43:20):
No, that's about it.
Uh, so Paul, what'd you do foryour ham radio week?

SPEAKER_04 (43:26):
Oh, well, thanks for asking, Todd.
So my ham radio week was uh wasall near fest, and so uh I'm
sure we'll we'll get into thatas this show is going to be all
about Nairfest.
But uh I I just gotta say Iabsolutely 100% love the

(43:46):
MeshTastic T1000.
This thing is so freaking great.
Um I uh I I did uh I did somemeshastic programming at the
beginning of Nearfest because umChris and Parker both were
having issues with their theirmeshastic devices.

(44:06):
So I I acted as meshastic uhdevice support and uh you know
perks of perks of having a f afull computer station.

SPEAKER_05 (44:16):
If I knew you were doing that shit, I would have
just sent Tortoise your way.
Oh yeah, mine was all screwedup, dude.
Oh my gosh.
I don't know how you did it.
I ended up just re reformattingand resetting it back to the
factory and built it back upfrom there.

SPEAKER_03 (44:30):
Yeah, I don't know what I did.
I I fucked it up.

SPEAKER_05 (44:36):
Dude, Mesh Task was pretty good though.

SPEAKER_04 (44:39):
Yeah, no, the Mesh Task was fantastic.
It was great to see so muchactivity.
Um and then uh, you know, notnot exactly ham radio related,
but um because you know the theRV is the the Grouch Mobile
Command and it's my ham radioand my life right now.

(44:59):
Um it was it was kind of cool.
Uh I spent about a little overtwo hours on the phone with uh
Kv5 UTY uh talking about the RVand you know being a full-time
RVer and and having ham radio inthe RV and the the ability to do
all the YouTube and uh and alsoa project space, you know,

(45:22):
right?
Having a project space.
Um and uh we we might haveanother new uh ham radio
operator that is gonnatransition to full-time RV life.
So it'll be uh somebody otherthan uh TO and myself.
The real TO.
Yeah, Dave, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (45:44):
Oh wow, okay, nice.

SPEAKER_04 (45:47):
Yep, so he uh he got himself a camper, but uh he's
already looking upgrade.
So uh literally was a week.
No, it's great.
Uh he uh he he got his he gothis his mom's old camper and and
he he he was showing me some ofthe the upgrades that he did.

(46:09):
The pass-through.
He did the pass-through that hedid.
I'm gonna copy that idea frommine because it's absolutely
fantastic.

SPEAKER_05 (46:17):
Check out uh uh Good Games pass-through.
That was actually pretty slickhow he did his too.
He posted it up on Instagram, Ithink, so that might be another
option for you.

SPEAKER_04 (46:26):
Alright, yeah, because I I saw the way that uh
Tio uh Temporary Offline did it.
And I I didn't I didn't fullylove the way that he did it.
Um but looking at looking at uhwhat uh what Dave sent me, um I
I really like that idea.
It's a it's a much smaller holethat you're drilling, and it's a

(46:49):
much cleaner into interface.
Um and and you can have multipleports so that you can have one
that's dedicated for VHF, UHF,one that's dedicated for HF.
Um so I'm definitely lookinginto that uh as uh future
upgrades as uh as I go forward.
And uh yeah.

(47:11):
So that was my ham radio week,which was fantastic.

SPEAKER_05 (47:14):
Two questions for you.
Did uh you get the inverterdone?
I did not get the inverter done.

SPEAKER_04 (47:21):
Okay, so I know that was on your bucket list to get
done beforehand, so I assume uhyeah, it was either done or and
I was thinking it would be acool like ham fest project,
right?
But uh we end we ended up justyou know, I mean there was like
so much going on with withAirfest, uh yeah, it it just
wasn't uh in the in the realm ofpossibility.

SPEAKER_03 (47:44):
Paul, if you need some help with that inverter,
let me know.

SPEAKER_04 (47:48):
Yeah, listen, uh Michael, I have extended the off
offer numerous times.
Feel free to come up this waywith your trailer, and you can
go through my shed, anything andeverything that you find that is
gonna be useful to you in thefuture.
You can put it in your trailer,you can take it with you, and I

(48:11):
will gladly take yourassistance, and we can do the
interviewer install.
Seeing how he already sold allthe good stuff.

SPEAKER_05 (48:20):
He's still got a couple more things, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (48:22):
Yeah, but the thing is, is like, listen, so I have a
lot of things that would beuseful to the right person in
the right situation.
I've got you know, fasteners andplumbing and electrical, and
like I mean, anything andeverything that that that goes
along with having a house or aranch.

(48:44):
Dude, I've I've got a westernsaddle that I gotta figure out
like what the hell am I gonna dowith my western saddle?
Because I'm I'm not clearly nottaking a fucking uh horse
trailer behind my RV, you know?
I mean, if you really want towear the western saddle, I will

(49:04):
I will strap it on your back andI will ride you around like a
fucking pony.

SPEAKER_05 (49:08):
Oh boy.
Call him trigger.
Just call him trigger.
Call him trigger.

SPEAKER_02 (49:19):
Hoy Oh God's America.

SPEAKER_01 (49:32):
Don't ever do that again.
Yes, don't ever do that again.

SPEAKER_05 (49:38):
Perfect.
So my other question is is youknow, I I appreciate all the
folks that on the live stream uhsaid that we need to turn MQTT
on for the Lifray and Hamchannel.
So that is on my bucket listcoming probably in the next
couple of days.
So we'll start to feed that outto the folks that uh obviously
aren't localized enough to geton the mesh task stuff.

(49:59):
But yeah, I didn't see muchactivity, and you know, again,
we I I I don't blame anybody forit, but in essence, I I was much
to blame for the fact notposting a lot out there.
But yeah, we we we didn't playup the Lif Ringham channel
enough, I don't think.

SPEAKER_04 (50:14):
No, definitely not.
Uh but it was it was really nicethat it was a it was a quiet
channel for for those of us inthe know, right?
So like uh Matt was on it,N3VAN, um I was on it, Chris was
on it.
Um I was on it yeah, and and soit was it was wonderful for us

(50:38):
to have a quiet channel where wecould just message back and
forth.

unknown (50:42):
Yep.

SPEAKER_03 (50:43):
After Eric fixed my match task.

SPEAKER_05 (50:48):
And you know, you you're not the only one because
I know like uh Chris uh uhwhiskey eight CJL, he set it up
for the ham bands too, and youknow, we all kind of go through
that like, oh, well it's hamradio, so we'd be able to get
all the benefits of being a hamradio on the ham radio
frequency, and it's like themost quietest frequency in the
world, like in terms of thefunctionality.

SPEAKER_04 (51:07):
So yeah, wah wah wah.
All right, so now let's get intothe actual show, right?
Now that we're we're into thisfor a while, because that's the
way that it goes.
So Nearfest.
It it is the Northeast, or I'msorry, the New England uh

(51:29):
amateur radio festival.
The New England Amateur RadioFestival, yeah.
Um and it's held uh biannuallyat the now Hillsborough County 4
H Fairgrounds in New Boston.
Uh absolutely wonderful time.
Let's uh all right.

(51:50):
The the deal of the weekend.
What is what is it that you saw?
What is it that you thought?
What is it that you thought wasthe absolute deal of the
weekend?
Todd, go.

SPEAKER_07 (52:04):
Tim's uh sloppy joes.
That's all I saw.

SPEAKER_05 (52:08):
That'll work.
True.

SPEAKER_04 (52:12):
That's what happens when you show up three hours
late.

SPEAKER_03 (52:14):
Yeah, we're two minutes to spare before the live
stream.

SPEAKER_04 (52:17):
I made it though.

SPEAKER_05 (52:18):
He made it though.
Yeah, I'll give him thatpunctuality.

SPEAKER_04 (52:22):
Yeah, it was it was just a 24-hour POTA fucking uh
you know, repeat.
That's all.

unknown (52:28):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (52:28):
Well, I'll be back in a couple hours, no worries.

SPEAKER_05 (52:32):
I was six hours later.
You know, his butt head wasworking.
You'll get it.
I'm just giving you shit.
All right, Michael.
Um, I got um you made a lot ofdeals this weekend.

SPEAKER_03 (52:50):
Yeah, I I I I I I'm not the biggest wheeler dealer.
Um I pushed out a lot of stuffthat I didn't what was that?
Way more than me.
Well, yeah, you didn't bringanything.

SPEAKER_05 (53:03):
I I brought myself.
That was good enough.

SPEAKER_03 (53:05):
That was exactly perfect.
Um uh Matt Matt put me togetheran antenna.
He put me together a randomwire.
Oh, nice.
He goes, dude, I got youcovered.
I said, I want a random wirelike we ran at PODA.
He I said, I got the perfectspot, the trees, it's got it,
I've got a nice.

SPEAKER_05 (53:23):
80-meter random wire or 160-meter random wire or just
an 80-meter?

SPEAKER_03 (53:28):
The 148-foot random wire that he put together.
I've got the room for it.
Nice.
I just gotta go put it up.
Yeah, no case.
And uh what was the counterpoisewas what, 126 feet?
So yeah, I gotta I I gotta runfor that too.
So, but yeah, um that that Ithink was the deal of the

(53:49):
century.
He I've I I I couldn't even tellyou or remember what he charged
me for it, but um, he goes, Igot you.
And this was like two daysbefore he got up there, and he
just he wrapped that son of abitch up on a spinner and had
everything together.
He goes, Here you go, you justneed to get the um counterpoise
on it.
And I said, I've got that wire.
So, but yeah, that I've it therewas just so much stuff that that

(54:12):
that that was being bought andsold.
One dude had an electricwheelchair, brand new batteries
for 600 bucks.
One of those little one of thoselittle uh um four-wheel uh uh
and I was gonna buy it.

SPEAKER_05 (54:25):
Mobility scolders, right?
Yeah, mobility score.

SPEAKER_03 (54:27):
Yeah, I was gonna buy it for Paul.
Oh no, this had the big seat onit, man.
It was like it was like the ElCamino seat on this thing.
You know, like the old 70s ElCamino highback seat, and I was
like, yeah, I was gonna get itfor Paul.
And I said, you know what, Idon't know if I can just risk
600 bucks because you know thethe horn, you can send more his
code on the horn, but I I youknow we're laughing at Mike.

SPEAKER_05 (54:52):
Sorry, how do you question?
Um so deals, uh yeah, I I haveto say, not so much per se ham
fest specific, but Izo was quiteblown away by uh, you know, I
had to literally like force himto accept said Michael and uh

(55:13):
Matt uh you know, long wireantenna from 24 Hour Poda
because he was like, no, no, Idon't want it.
I'm like, I can't take thisback, Izzo.
They are giving it to you.
I do not want to take it home.
And so I finally was able togive him his our infamous you
know wire that saved uh you knowthe 24 hour poda.
Uh you know, that whole antenna,you know, Izzo has finally got

(55:34):
in his uh you know uh safe uhkeeping.
So I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 (55:37):
It's gonna come back next year now that I've got it.

SPEAKER_05 (55:40):
He's gonna have to because it like the way he was
saying is like I don't knowwhere I'm gonna put this because
I don't have enough space to putup that much wire.
And I'm like, I dude, I can'ttell you where to put it.

SPEAKER_07 (55:52):
He gave him his coax back too, right?
Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (55:54):
Yeah, I the reason why he gave us his coax is
because he's got three otherrolls of like the same amount of
like he literally went on a firesale and bought them because
like I'm hanging out, Izo musthave broke away for a little
while, and he went back up tohis truck after kind of going
out, and he was just doing youknow, an activation.
Uh he was actually just kind ofspinning the dial, and he had
his big giant you know masked upin the middle of his truck, and

(56:15):
we were just chit-chat.
And I'm just like, Man, I'mlike, I'm glad I'm gonna be able
to give you back your coax.
And he was like, Oh yeah,thanks.
And I'm like, I kind of look atit, I'm like, wow, you didn't
miss it that much.
And then I looked over, and thethe coax that he has connected
to his radio is the same exactcoax, and then he's got another
spool sitting on top of his youknow toolbox.
I'm like, oh, so you didn'treally miss it much then, did

(56:35):
you?
And he's like, Nah, don't worry,I'm glad you guys used it.
I'm like, thanks.
So concerned to get it to you.
But I I'd say that that wasprobably the deal of the century
when it came to uh gear.
Um I love the fact that uh youknow, and I appreciate Matt you
know supporting the channel andyou know, him and I partner with
uh you know antennas.
So usually when I go to him, I'mlike, hey Matt, I got a person

(56:58):
I'd like to be able to get anantenna to.
It's funny because I when Annie,who was uh the new ham that we
made mention to earlier, um, shewas looking to put together the
radio and tortoise was throwinglike power supplies at her and
the 706, and she I mean thePearl Girl's head was like
spinning in 360 degrees, likeOh, she never paid me for that
power supply either.

(57:19):
And and then and then the radiookay, so now you owe her, you
know, she owes you 20 bucksversus the five bucks she was
kept saying over and over againshe owes you.
Okay, more than whatever.
You figure that one out.
I'm not your baker.
Um, and so like she was justlike her head was spinning, and
so I ran over.
I'm like, she's like, I don'thave an antenna.
So I ran over to Matt.
I'm like, I tapped Matt on theback.

(57:40):
I'm like, hey dad, can I get anuh uh you know an advance in my
allowance?
And he kind of laughed off, andI'm like, stood there and I'm
like, no, can I get an advancein my allowance?
I need another antenna to giveto another man.
He's like, Oh, you really meanwhat?
Like, yeah, dude, just you know,can you give me this?
He's like, Yeah, sure, noproblem.
What does she need?
I'm like, yeah, so he he he hehe filled the the gap there for
that, and so I gave it to Annie,and so she was pretty psyched

(58:01):
about you know not having to payfor that one.
Um, so yeah, definitely you cancollect your money though.

SPEAKER_03 (58:06):
Speaking about Annie, Paul, some some Yehoo ran
down to me with a cable with afreaking Anderson's on one end
and loops on the other, and I'mlike, what the hell am I gonna
do with this?
Oh, this is for Annie.
I said, I'm not gonna see her.
Why the hell are you giving itto me?
I said, Paul will give it toShannon, Shannon will give it to
Annie, or give it to me, andI'll give it to Annie.

(58:27):
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm like, I why the hell areyou giving it to me?

SPEAKER_04 (58:31):
All right, so listen, so I gave it, I gave it
to Chris because he was headingback down, and I figured he
would see Annie at your fuckingplace, and I said, here you go,
this is for Annie.
Now, had had I known that Anniewasn't down there, I would have
just kept it and I would havegiven it to her because she's in

(58:54):
Manchester and we're aMerrimack.

SPEAKER_05 (58:56):
Like now it's all the way down in mass now at this
point.

SPEAKER_04 (58:59):
So I'll just make a new one.
I'll just make a new one.
It's no big deal.

SPEAKER_03 (59:06):
I I was just I kind of was like, what am I gonna do
with this damn thing?

SPEAKER_02 (59:10):
What why?

SPEAKER_03 (59:11):
Why do I have this?
Now you now you get an extracable for a power supply.
And I'm like, why?
Why give it to me?

SPEAKER_05 (59:21):
You were the one in charge of getting her fit out
for all of the gear that you ohgod bless America.
You know, you've got uh, youknow, deep pockets in the saint,
uh, you know, heart of a saint,yeah, man.
Like, all you do is get a powersupply, but literally, like, she
she's now got a radio, and she'slike, Don't take my bafang away

(59:42):
from me while I've got this newradio.
I wanted to smash that damnthing.

SPEAKER_03 (59:46):
I wanted to smash it on the live stream.
I wanted to run it over with mytruck.
I wanted your camera right nextto my tire while I'm like,
you'll get you'll get the time,sir.

SPEAKER_05 (59:54):
You'll get the time.
We'll we'll get you your ownlittle bale fang because I don't
think she's gonna let that onego.
That's the official.
First radio that she has neveryou know pressed the PTT on.

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:03):
I had an ICOM 2 SAT for my first radio, and you know
what?
I have no idea where it's at.

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:12):
Listen, Michael, Michael, when you come up here
to raid my shed and my backroom, okay?
In your back room?

SPEAKER_06 (01:00:20):
What we're gonna do.

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:21):
My shed and my back room.
Okay.
That's I'm gonna verify that.
Alright.
Okay, so listen.
Come up early in the day.
And what we're gonna do is we'regonna go to my secret range, and
we're gonna put bullet holes inBao Fang.
We're gonna put bullet holes inBao Fangs, and then we'll come

(01:00:44):
back to my house and you cantake whatever the fuck you want,
and you can go home.

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:49):
There you go.
Get it out of your system.
I'll be up Saturday morning,bright and early.
Your call sign's still good onQRZ, right?

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:56):
Address is good.
Address is good.
You got it.
Yep.
I'll come up with a littlefailure trailer.
I've been I've been wanting todo that video for over a year.
Dude, I want to put bullet holesin Falfax.

SPEAKER_07 (01:01:16):
Should call Ralph.
He's probably got like five ofeach one, each model.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:20):
He will never let him shoot bullet holes in his
radio, dude.
But he's got so many action.

SPEAKER_07 (01:01:26):
He's got like five of the same radio.
He can give one up.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:30):
Dude, he will not.
This is Ralph we're talkingabout here.
This man like loves those kidslike they're you know, loves
those radios like they're hiskids, you know, kind of thing.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:39):
He sounded like the Bofang whisperer when we were
sitting there talking.

SPEAKER_07 (01:01:42):
Well, listen, I I feel bad for him because you
know he's the president of ourclub, and he has to bring his
own laptop, which is old, to toprogram everyone's bao fang and
quant.
So I go, you need any helptoday?
He goes, uh maybe you couldstart help me um program some
quanchang.

(01:02:04):
Hell no.
Copy paste, copy paste.

SPEAKER_05 (01:02:09):
Yeah.
Do you know chirp?
Can you spell it?
Uh yeah, so I I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 (01:02:16):
I like I would say I'm just gonna say I think you
know, since I didn't actually godown and look at the the stuff,
uh Mike, your brother, uh I meanyour friend Tim, he got a good
deal on that NoCo jump startercharger.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:34):
Oh, yeah, that little jump starter box.

SPEAKER_07 (01:02:36):
Oh 20 bucks.
I mean, that was a steal.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:39):
Oh, he bought that freaking thousand watt um he
bought that thousand watt dummyload for 40 bucks.

SPEAKER_03 (01:02:47):
Oh, oh, that big thing?
Yeah, the big dummy load, thethousand-watt dummy.
Oh, the one that I thought itwas a buddy heater.

SPEAKER_05 (01:02:53):
Yeah, yeah, that it was holding up.

SPEAKER_04 (01:03:00):
Oh, we have a bigger one.
If you put a thousand watts intoit for long enough, it will be
like a buddy heater.

SPEAKER_03 (01:03:05):
Oh, it will be guaranteed.
That's gonna warm up your shack.
Um, but we've got a bigger one.
It's a it's 1,500 or 2,000watts, and that thing must be
that long, probably about thattall.
It looks like a freakingradiator in a 1816 house.
Like the good old wall ones,yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:03:26):
The one that went, isn't it warmed up?

SPEAKER_03 (01:03:29):
Well, you but this if you put enough juice in this
thing, I guarantee it'll soundthe same.

SPEAKER_05 (01:03:35):
I don't know.
How about you, Paul?
What what's your uh you know onedeal of the uh the century there
for the weekend?

SPEAKER_04 (01:03:43):
So I went I went into the airfest with not
wanting to buy anything.
You didn't buy another iPad?
I did not.
Although, although I did I didsee several, I did see several
for sale.
Um yeah, no, because that thatthat one that I bought last last
year.

SPEAKER_05 (01:04:03):
You gotta shoot that one too, man.
That one's another one throw inthe trash.
Oh man, that would have beenawesome.

SPEAKER_07 (01:04:09):
Generation one iPad.
I'm telling you, you're gonnathere's plenty of them out
there.
Yeah, there's not.
20 years from now, there won'tbe.

SPEAKER_04 (01:04:17):
And he'll be like now that you mention it.
I've got a stack of old cellphones and tablets.
And so, yeah, we might as welladd that to the list of things
to shoot.

SPEAKER_05 (01:04:30):
And uh, yeah, we'll the ammo it's gonna be a long uh
you know, outdoor adventurethere.

SPEAKER_03 (01:04:36):
Dude, this is gonna turn it for a couple hours into
almost the day.

SPEAKER_04 (01:04:41):
That that'll that'll be an amazing video.
Uh just yeah, just shootingstuff.
Um, but so the I bought twothings.
Um I bought a uh a Heilmicrophone stand that uh I
picked up for 15 bucks.
And and then today I realizedthat I didn't actually need it.

(01:05:05):
Because all I really had to doto get my microphone out of this
area was to clip it to the shelfabove my head.
So now the now the microphone isup in front of me, but it's
behind the camera, so it's notin my way at all.

(01:05:28):
Um so yeah, 15 bucks wasted,whatever.
Um but the the deal of of theham fest I found an original US
military gas mask bag for my gasmask, and so uh now I have a bag

(01:05:50):
to put my gas mask in.
Yes.
Ah, okay.
Yeah.
I'm so uh I I I am I am uh aprepper through and through,
okay?
And when it when it when it's acase of emergency no no listen,
okay, when it came to COVID, allright, now in February, uh, or

(01:06:15):
the end of yeah, the end ofFebruary of 2020, when the the
details of COVID were so ununsure, right?
It was we don't know how itspreads, we don't know how it's
transmitted, but it's deadlyvirus, deadly virus.
Like lockdowns and all thatbullshit.

(01:06:37):
Dude, I pulled out the full mopfour suit.
And and I went to the grocerystore in full mop four.

SPEAKER_05 (01:06:50):
It's like 18 all over again at the grocery store.

SPEAKER_04 (01:06:53):
With with the 1911 strapped to my thigh.
You're one of you were one ofthose guys.
Oh, I was that guy, 100%.
Because I I said, I said to mywife, I said, listen, I said,
this is nobody knows how this isbeing spread.
Nobody knows like if if it'sbiological or or or what what it

(01:07:17):
is that is causing the this thisvirus to spread.
So I said the safest and mostsecure way is with an NBC suit,
right?
Nuclear biological chemical.
The safest way to protectyourself is to go out in public
in a full MBC suit, op more, andso that's what I did.

SPEAKER_03 (01:07:37):
Paul, yeah, I love you, but if I saw you in a
grocery store, I would beimmediately calling the VA and
saying, dude, the fuckingawesome.

SPEAKER_07 (01:07:47):
We need to get him committed.
Oh my god.
Go get the suit for the othersuit uh so Mike, there's a
there's a a gun shop inMerrimack.
It used to be a uh 7-Eleven andnow it's a gun shop.

SPEAKER_04 (01:08:01):
Oh 619 DW.

SPEAKER_07 (01:08:04):
Yeah, it's awesome because during COVID, he
wouldn't they had a whole bunchof old guys in there.
He said, No mask.
If you come in here with a mask,I'm not serving you, you need to
leave my store.
So after COVID, I I went inthere.
I think I was I I don't knowwhat I was doing, buying ammo or
something.
And he I asked the guy, I go,hey, I go to uh how many of you

(01:08:25):
guys got COVID?
He goes, Not one, not one, notone of us got COVID and we
didn't wear a fucking mask.
The guy's awesome, but yeah, hewouldn't, he would not, if you
walked in there with a mask,he'd tell you to leave.
Like I was in there one time andthe guy walked in with a mask.
He goes, Oh, we don't serve yourtype.
Go.
I was like, that's awesome.

(01:08:47):
Yeah, Keith, Keith is a gooddude.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:08:52):
This was just recently.
I walked out of a bathroom in umat what about at a job site, and
this dude walked in there with amask on, and I heard him go,
holy crap! Well, I was just inthere.
And I was like, I opened it, Ipushed the door.

SPEAKER_04 (01:09:12):
Like, no, that's just regular crap.

SPEAKER_03 (01:09:15):
Wait, I went I pushed the door up and I said,
Well, if you can smell that, themask ain't working, and I just
kept going.

SPEAKER_00 (01:09:23):
Have you seen my wiener?

SPEAKER_04 (01:09:26):
What?
But so, alright, so I I gottasay, one of the big things that
I love about AirFest is thatit's not all ham radio stuff.
Like, I mean, you find like alittle bit of everything on
these people's tables.
And and, you know, case inpoint, right, was my gas mask

(01:09:47):
bag.
But what what type of odditiesdid you guys see that uh like
really struck you as like, oh mygod, like this person's really
selling that at AirFest?

SPEAKER_05 (01:10:02):
Uh was there's two of them.
Uh trying to think of whichtable it was, I don't know where
it was.
Oh man.
Crap.
There was a lot of like itwasn't in short supply, I'll put
it that way.
There was definitely a fewtables there that I was like,
what like where like where didyou find out about this

(01:10:22):
festival?
Like, and you brought this crap?
It's like I couldn't like I justI was walking through, I was
doing our live stream, and Ilike I had done a double take,
and oh man, I'm trying toremember the point in the video
that it was.
Shoot.
Um I gotta think about that.
Come back to me on that one.
I know where it was.

unknown (01:10:40):
It's gonna drive me nuts.

SPEAKER_04 (01:10:41):
You look like you had something on your mind.
What what what type of odditydid you find?

SPEAKER_03 (01:10:46):
D104 warmers.
This this lady, the sweetestlady in the world, had a D104
sitting there with a crochetedcover on the damn thing.
I looked at it and I'm like,okay, she she's a ham's wife,
but I'm looking at this damnthing going, hmm, what the I've

(01:11:09):
never seen such a thing.
It was a cute little gray cover.

SPEAKER_04 (01:11:14):
I I remember that table because not only did she
have uh crocheted uh radiowarmers, but she had crocheted
microphone covers, and she hadyeah, she had a whole bunch of
different like crocheted thingsthat was like, okay, I mean,
well okay.

SPEAKER_05 (01:11:33):
Now I remember where it was.
So there was a guy, and Ithought like they actually
planned a fox hunt or somethinglike that.
So I was walking up and I wasdoing a live stream, and all of
a sudden you hear like thetypical fox hunt tones, like you
know, you're hunting for atransmitter.
And I'm walking by and I'mseeing this guy like going under
vehicles and like I mean, he'sliterally in a confined space,
and he's got the antenna out,the the the old uh you know,

(01:11:55):
tape measure Yagi.
And I'm like, I'm on the video,and I say in the video, I'm
like, oh hey, it looks likesomeone's trying to you know
kind of get prepared for a foxhunt.
And I hear in the backgroundsome guy going, No, he lost his
keys.
He's trying to figure out wherethe fuck they are and he can't
find them.
And I'm like, put him on a radiotransmitter.
What is wrong with this idiot?
He's like, I mean, he lookedlike like the guy uh in uh you

(01:12:17):
know the house with the clock inthose walls is losing his you
know his candles, you know,trying to find his clock.
Okay, I'll steer clear aroundthis one.
But yeah, there were some crazypeople.

SPEAKER_03 (01:12:30):
Um, what did you see that was interesting at the ham
fest?

SPEAKER_07 (01:12:36):
Well, actually, um I'm gonna show you something
that I saw at the ham fest.
I just gotta figure out how toshare my screen.
So just give me a second.
I'm new to it.

SPEAKER_05 (01:12:44):
The little uh share item down at the bottom.

SPEAKER_07 (01:12:46):
Yeah, it's the little computer screen with an
arrow.
Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 (01:12:52):
All right, so how do I just press it and find
whatever, you know.
You got the app open.

SPEAKER_07 (01:12:58):
What app?

SPEAKER_05 (01:12:59):
Well, is it a photo or is it a video?

SPEAKER_07 (01:13:01):
Yeah, it's a photo.
I gotta get the photo app openfirst.

SPEAKER_05 (01:13:04):
So open the yeah, double click on the photo so you
have it open, and then when yougo to the share app, go to
window and select whatever thatyou know name of that window is.
Alright, okay.

SPEAKER_07 (01:13:19):
Alright, let's see what I got here.
Exactly.

unknown (01:13:24):
God bless.

SPEAKER_03 (01:13:26):
Got that VCR program, Grandpa.

SPEAKER_04 (01:13:33):
Todd needs somebody to come and uh make his VCR stop
blinking.

SPEAKER_05 (01:13:37):
The one thing I thought was odd, but not like
odd in a weird way, was thatapparently ARL's got a now uh uh
their own car that they drivearound that's like ARL branded.
Did you see that little smalllittle yeah?
I saw that.
I was like, I literally waswalking by it going, when did
they get the budget to create asmall little car with like ARL?
Like is it's the ARL radiovehicle, is what they call it.

(01:13:59):
Oh, I did see that small littlelike uh you know, yeah, it's
just it was like the size of amembership dues hard at work.
Exactly.
Yeah, my point exactly.
Yeah.
Okay.
There we go.

SPEAKER_08 (01:14:14):
All right, let's uh bring that no freaking way.

SPEAKER_05 (01:14:23):
Yeah, that would be strange and weird.

SPEAKER_03 (01:14:25):
That is a very strange dog.
I I've I've I've just kind oflooks like a mini move.
I don't know.
Look at those two dogs playing.

SPEAKER_05 (01:14:38):
For those on our podcast, you will have to go
over to the YouTube stream tocatch this photo because we're
not posting it anywhere else.

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:45):
Oh god.
I love that.

SPEAKER_05 (01:14:49):
Yep.
That was towards the the thirdhour, I think, at that point.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (01:14:53):
Yeah.
I mean, I'm just I'm justsitting there and I look up, I'm
like, what the hell is he doing?
And I just had to take apicture.

SPEAKER_03 (01:14:59):
We're we're a few in then.
Yeah.

unknown (01:15:01):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:15:03):
I slept really good.
And he said I was snoring reallybadly when she came up.

SPEAKER_05 (01:15:08):
Oh yeah.
Oh, she came up.

SPEAKER_03 (01:15:10):
I got woken up by five by Tim and some idiot
hammering.
And I literally, out of a deadsleep, I was awake.
And I'm like, what the hell?
What are you doing, dude?
What's going on?
And I went out, took a leak,smoked a cigarette, went back to
bed, and immediately like fellhard.
And then all of a sudden I hearAnnie's melodious voice by my

(01:15:31):
head next to the tent.
I was like, oh god, it's eighto'clock.

SPEAKER_05 (01:15:34):
I'd be scared to go in that trailer.
So here's a weird one.
She brought donuts.
Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_03 (01:15:44):
And she bit for Mount Wai Bacon.

SPEAKER_05 (01:15:47):
Nice.
So here's the trooper, uh uh aweird one.
Like, uh, remember how we heardjust the random play, you know,
audio stream of uh Songs of theValkyrie?

SPEAKER_02 (01:15:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:16:01):
Apparently it's a tradition in at Nearfest that
you know the military guys thatdrive all the military vehicles
to hit Nearfest and stuff likethat, they literally drive
around the loop in one of thearmored carrier vehicle
personnel carrier vehiclesplaying Song of the Valkyrie,
and then they do one full loopand then they go park for the
evening.

SPEAKER_03 (01:16:21):
Oh, there was a 10- Hey Paul, there was a 1078
there.
I got it on video.
Yeah, there was a 1078 there, atan one.
Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_04 (01:16:33):
Yeah, yeah.
Uh I had to I had to get it onvideo because uh they had a they
had a big flag erected off thetop of it.

SPEAKER_00 (01:16:42):
On their big green mast.
That was super cool.
Erecting that big, hard, stiffblack mast.
Oh, I thought that was my cue.

SPEAKER_04 (01:16:57):
So I got I gotta say, one of the one of the
things that I absolutely loveabout Airfest is seeing the
growth.
Like, so uh, you know, I I neverwent when it was in Deerfield,
uh, you know, at the Deerfieldfairgrounds.
Um yeah, no, I never I neverwent.

(01:17:18):
So the only experience that I'vegot is is with it being at the
new Boston fairgrounds.
Um but like from from spring tofall and spring to fall and
spring to fall, it has justgrown each and every time.
Oh yeah.
And I swear to Christ, it waslike the half the crew that was

(01:17:42):
there on Friday vanishedSaturday morning and was
replaced by a whole new crew,and so it was like seeing the
ham fest all over again brandnew Saturday morning.

SPEAKER_03 (01:17:57):
Well, what that is is the uh the the non-working
old hams come up on Friday andset up all their stuff, and then
they break down and leave, andall the working hams that don't
work on Saturday were there, andit it literally is almost like
uh probably 50% of the peoplecompletely recycled.

(01:18:18):
And I I've never seen that at aham fest except for this one.
And it's interesting because yousee so much new stuff, you know.
People go, and it's awesome.
I like that recycling.

SPEAKER_05 (01:18:31):
The only thing that I think I would change about it,
and it maybe it can't, and and Iknow it's because it's past
years and several years of long,you know, kind of longevity, is
that the camping aspect, like Iwould love to see more people up
like in the camping areas wherelike you know, you could have
more camaraderie and kind oflike you know more of the

(01:18:51):
activities, but like all of itstill was kind of down in the
main area.
So if you were actually likecamping where we were, like you
didn't know half of the stuffthat was going on down, you
know, in that general area uhwith all of the people and stuff
like that.
So there's like a lot of extrastuff that goes on, but unless
you're selling, you're not gonnaset your camper up there.
Well, some people do.
I just think it's kind of likeweird that you know there's a

(01:19:13):
whole bunch of like randomcampers in the middle of
nowhere.

SPEAKER_03 (01:19:16):
I did that for the first one.
Paul, I remember the first onethat Paul came to.
Um, he parked the camper up ontop, and we did the live live
stream up there in April.
There was barely anybody campingup there.
This time it was full-ish.
It was a little bit better.

SPEAKER_05 (01:19:34):
Yeah, definitely this year.

SPEAKER_03 (01:19:35):
And um, they also had rental campers down there
because they rented out.
There was that that line ofcampers that was uh uh along
that one little road by the uhby the toilet barn.

SPEAKER_05 (01:19:48):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:19:48):
There was this the the campers are kind of like
what what Paul has, they're allthink, ding, ding, ding, dink.
They were um though those wererental campers.
Oh, I didn't know that.
I didn't know I I I walked byand they had a um they had a uh
the uh uh like a rental banneron the side of one of them, and
I was like, oh, these wererented?
He's like, oh yeah, they rentedthem and brought them up.

(01:20:10):
So they had rental like campercabins for people coming up
there.
So I thought that wasinteresting.

SPEAKER_05 (01:20:16):
Yeah, I mean we we rented one for you know 24-hour
POTA and I basically towed itmyself.
So it's kind of the same thing,I'm sure.

SPEAKER_03 (01:20:22):
Um, but uh every time I've been to New Boston or
Deerfield, I've always campedright there.
And the only thing that botheredme was they didn't have like a
designated camping area, exceptthe RV area, way the hell off in
the back.
And I was like, I'm not goingover there, I want to be near my
stuff.
But at like eight o'clock in themorning, I'm cooking breakfast
and people are coming by to buyshit.

(01:20:44):
And I'm like, no, leave mealone.
I'm trying to cook breakfast.
Yeah, that's it.
So being up there and keep anddoing what we did, Paul, and
just hanging out in our pajamas,literally, um, it was so much
nicer.
And then we just went in and gotchanged and went and and drove
on down, you know?
And I I I like that better thanwhat we had.

unknown (01:21:06):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:21:07):
Yeah, I I think you know, obviously they, you know,
they could definitely you knowbenefit by having more of the
campers up on the hill and theycould do more activities for
those guys that are you knowstaying overnight and you know
the weekend, and that would makethings like that much cooler.
But I get it.
I mean it's hard to breakproduce hard to break tradition
from how they used to do it whenthey were at Deerfield, because
Deerfield, you know, everybodywas freaking spread out, or like

(01:21:30):
even before Thursday roll round,they'd all camp out in the main
parking lot for one night beforethey allowed them in on Friday
morning.
So you know, it was kind of thatthing.

SPEAKER_04 (01:21:41):
Apparently, there's a there's a dance party every
Friday.

SPEAKER_03 (01:21:44):
Well, it's like four people.

SPEAKER_05 (01:21:46):
Yeah, four people, which you know, I otherwise.
Did you go, Mike?

SPEAKER_03 (01:21:52):
No, but I I heard the same song like three times.
They had a full set and thenthey go back and play that full
set and they go back.

SPEAKER_07 (01:22:00):
Is it every Friday or is it just the same Friday of
Near?
Is it the Nearfest band?

SPEAKER_03 (01:22:05):
Yeah, it's literally people just bring up their
instruments and go and spam.
But it's the same freaking setsevery year.
I'm like, y'all need to learnsome new songs.
You guys got these masters.

SPEAKER_05 (01:22:16):
They're never like it's you know, hey, we're
getting the band back together.
Hey, we're getting the band backtogether.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:22:22):
And then there was Matt with his little brown turd
teepee.

unknown (01:22:26):
Oh god.

SPEAKER_03 (01:22:27):
We're on a mission from God.
I told him to come up to thehill and camp up there.
I I you know, I said, dude,bring your tent up, tear it
down, bring it up.
We'll set it up right so itdoesn't look like some brown
toil paper up there.

SPEAKER_05 (01:22:43):
We gotta get we gotta get him a small little
like mini camper, like uh hikeror something like that that he
could tow behind that smalllittle SUV.

SPEAKER_03 (01:22:50):
Yeah, and he can put all his stuff in it and then
pull his stuff out and sleep.
Yeah.

unknown (01:22:53):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (01:22:55):
I know where there's uh uh there's a teardrop for
sale in Texas.

SPEAKER_05 (01:22:59):
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Who?
The Sixes.
Oh, Sixes are selling theirs?
Yeah.
Well, see if we can get Matt toget all the way out there to get
it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:23:06):
Yeah, I don't think Matt's gonna drive to Texas by a
camper.

SPEAKER_05 (01:23:10):
I'm sure there's probably a couple of teardrops
around here.
I've seen a few on FacebookMarketplace that uh folks uh in
this uh circle here have beenposting uh frequently.

SPEAKER_02 (01:23:20):
I don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_05 (01:23:22):
Yeah, yeah.
I know.
That in military tents.
You enchanted.
Uh so yeah, you know, it it'sit's funny.
It's like like I used to railagainst the fact that I didn't
like Near Fest because it was solike anti like you know fun in
activity.
Like it was just kind of like aregular fest, but now like I

(01:23:42):
guess maybe I'm getting older,but like uh yeah, I'm loving the
fact, but maybe it's because I'mhanging around with you
knuckleheads, that you know,we're all just like, hey, let's
just have some fun and you knowsit around and drink.
And I mean we're short of acampfire, but you know, uh uh,
you know, if we'd ever get one,fine, you know.

SPEAKER_04 (01:23:57):
I really think I really think they should allow
solo stove.
Like just make the exception fora solo stove.
Because I mean, that is like thesafest fire that you can get.

SPEAKER_03 (01:24:08):
I mean, I've got I've got that I've got the one
that's got the firebagunderneath it.
Yeah, how much more safer couldyou get?
You know, but yeah, they that'sthe one that that Todd bitched
about because nobody used his.

SPEAKER_07 (01:24:20):
I didn't bitch about it.
I just brought it.
Eric's like, bring it, and thenyou brought yours out.
I was like, all right.

SPEAKER_05 (01:24:26):
Well, I didn't expect I didn't know Matt had uh
Mike had one.
Yeah, that didn't matter.
We bring it to Field Day.

SPEAKER_03 (01:24:33):
Field day.

SPEAKER_05 (01:24:35):
It's a use.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (01:24:37):
Well, we did burn all that wet ass wood.
It wasn't wet.
It was only wet on the outsidefrom the storm.
That shit's been sitting in myear for five years.
It was gray.

SPEAKER_05 (01:24:48):
It was dry, and then the bucket had no holes in it,
so it literally sat in water.

SPEAKER_02 (01:24:52):
But it only was so dry, it stoked it up.

SPEAKER_05 (01:24:57):
Nobody tucked it under the trailer, it was just
enough so that all the waterfrom the awning rolled into the
barbecue.

SPEAKER_07 (01:25:02):
It seemed to have been missing during that hell
storm.

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:07):
I drove through it.
I could have warned you guysthat it was fucking coming.
You guys love the barbecue.
I slid, you know, I drovethrough freaking storm and four
day go to get that depth.

SPEAKER_07 (01:25:19):
Pizza in the boxes was just sorry.

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:22):
That was pre pre-drench, you know, you know,
that was so gross.

SPEAKER_03 (01:25:29):
That was so gross.
But how was breakfast on Sundaymorning?

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:35):
Barbecue tastes good breakfast.
I've never like I'm not a bigfan of it, but I'd have to say,
good job with it, my friend.

SPEAKER_03 (01:25:39):
You're welcome, sir.
And uh Todd's beef tips, secondround.
Yeah, goddamn we had too muchsteak.

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:47):
That's where I would love to become vegetarian after
the vegetables.

SPEAKER_07 (01:25:50):
I told you, I said I'm bringing steak tips, and
then you go to cot Costco orwhatever and bought away.

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:55):
I love Bob.
I love Bob, but like I mean, noone's complaining.

SPEAKER_07 (01:25:59):
You can never have too much steak.
Well no, you can't.
You can never have too muchsteak.

SPEAKER_03 (01:26:03):
You can never have too much steak, but if that was
all there was, we would havebeen really hungry Saturday.

SPEAKER_05 (01:26:10):
Um definitely between Bob and I we got a lot
of sides.
So yeah, breakfast was killer.

SPEAKER_00 (01:26:14):
You're welcome, Mike.

SPEAKER_05 (01:26:16):
Thank you for stepping in and cooking, Mike.
Appreciate it.
But yeah, that's not what NearFish is about.

SPEAKER_03 (01:26:24):
It's tan it's co it's coefficient tangents.

SPEAKER_04 (01:26:29):
Well, I I I do believe um when we were doing
the live stream on Friday night,and I said, you know what, I
will I will host the the theLive Free and Ham podcast on
Sunday, and we'll we'll discussabout Nearfest and we will talk
a whole bunch of shit.
Those were my exact words.

(01:26:50):
So here we are, we're discussingNearFest and a whole bunch of
shit.

SPEAKER_03 (01:26:55):
So we won't go into the pre-conversations that we
had ones that will not get intouh you know the mainstream uh
live uh media.
Oh, it's always like, is thison?
Is it on?

SPEAKER_05 (01:27:11):
Always prefacing, will this be recorded?
No.
Go ahead.
Now, uh one thing I think we'llwe should do next year because
Paul and I were chit-chatting uhon Discord uh you know, off
offline a bit, and I think oneof the things we're like, you
know, because Paul hadmentioned, oh no, it was on
Grouch your Grouch's channelthat you mentioned about
alternate frequency.
And I was like, I kind of like Imean the 446 one was more of our

(01:27:35):
club frequency, and that's theone I kind of gave out.
So we didn't have one as alifreying ham group.
So we were talking, maybe weshould come up with an alternate
frequency, which is totallycool.
I'm fine for that.
But um, when we had uh FreddieMack on, he mentioned that when
they go to the overland stuff,he sets up a small little, like
he bought one off of uh one ofthe all-star sites that he gave

(01:27:56):
us, uh a small little all-starrepeater that literally he ran
in his truck, and they wererunning an all-star repeater at
the the ham fest for literallyanybody who knew the frequency.
So, you know, uh that may beworthwhile depending on you know
thinking about that next year.

SPEAKER_03 (01:28:10):
And it'd be on the hill.

unknown (01:28:11):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (01:28:12):
So yeah, that would work.

SPEAKER_04 (01:28:15):
Yeah, no, I think that I think that's that's a
great idea.
Because uh the thing was, right,is so I'm sure most people like
me um had 146.52 um on on theirradio.
And and I I made a comment uhSaturday morning, right?

(01:28:36):
When we were sitting havingbreakfast, and I said, This this
freaking guy, um RZO was thelast the last of his his the
last of his call sign, right?
Kilo Charlie won RZO or whateverthe fuck it was, but it was RZO.
Um this guy like needed somefriends in a very, very bad way.

(01:29:01):
This is so funny.
And so like on on 5-2, he's justevery two minutes, every two
minutes, like almost to thefreaking second, he's like
throwing his call sign outthere, throwing his call sign
out there, throwing his callsign out there.
But when somebody would respondto him, he'd be like, Yeah, all

(01:29:24):
right, so I'm down here in thein the air fest, blah blah blah,
and this is where I'm at, andbye, and and then that would be
it, and that'd be the end of theconversation.

SPEAKER_05 (01:29:36):
Well, he must have been there.

SPEAKER_04 (01:29:37):
And then two minutes later, two minutes later, RZO.
Two minutes later, RZO.
Wait a game.
And then somebody somebody wouldfucking come back to him, and
he'd be like, Yeah, oh, I'm downhere selling stuff.
Bye.
And so, dude, I got so sick.

(01:30:00):
of listening to this guy and isjust throwing his fucking call
sign out there to try and getpeople to go to his table.
Saturday morning we're sittingthere and we're having breakfast
and Parker goes down to the tothe the throng of things and I
hear Parker do a radio test.

(01:30:21):
He wanted to test whateverfucking radio he was looking at
buying and so I answered hiscall and I said hey listen uh
casey1 ye this is N1OG I saidyou need to find RZO because he
really needs a friend right now.
Like he keeps throwing his callsign out there like he really

(01:30:45):
needs a friend.
He needs somebody to go visithis table and be like buddy you
could be my friend and sure thanshit who answers in the mix but
RZO and he's like yeah and thisis where I am and it's like oh

(01:31:06):
my god you motherfucker like youdidn't realize that I was making
fun of you on the frequency thatyou're calling on because you're
being a jack wagon.

SPEAKER_02 (01:31:17):
Dude's sarcasm was so deep with Paul and I said
this is Paul Paul.

SPEAKER_05 (01:31:27):
Well he didn't get his 7.200 fill the night before
so that's not surprising.
We were dying we're just sittingthere just labbing our heads off
well you know i i I I blamefolks like HR20 for saying hey
we need to have more uh you knowtraffic on uh 146.52 and making

(01:31:49):
it a 30 days on 14652 simplex sopeople are just following suit
listen yes be on 14652 100% butyou don't have to throw your
call sign out every fucking twominutes unless you actually want
to have a conversation withsomebody and then once you start

(01:32:12):
engaging in that conversationyou go hey let's QSY to this
frequency and we'll continue theconversation and then when the
conversation's over then you goback to 5-2 and you call out
again no this motherfucker justwanted people to go visit his

(01:32:34):
stupid fucking table and seewhatever the garbage was he was
selling the question then is isdid you go to his freaking table
just to see the crap he wasselling I couldn't find him he
was hiding from Paul well thenwe'll never know and then until
next year or until next uh youknow uh spring hey what is the

(01:33:00):
next Nairfest when is it Aprilright April 26th usually April
and October right the two weeksyeah it's uh yes I think it's
the like the last weekend inApril no it's May 1st and 2nd
right it's always the first weekof every you know October day so
that's right May 1st and 2026yeah I'll I'll be back up for

(01:33:24):
the October one because we'regonna do the 24 hour pod again
and I'm gonna come up for thatand I'll stay for Nearfest.

SPEAKER_04 (01:33:33):
But yeah I'll be I'll be in Texas next year for
April.

SPEAKER_05 (01:33:37):
Maybe I'll be at Belton You should be a Belton
I'm curious to see your thoughtson what the heck Belton looks
like because I saw Jason'svideos and I was like I'm so
glad Nearfest is what it isbecause I could it just loses
its life it's like literallygoing to ham X.
Like we all go to the hotel kindof thing and we're like yeah
this is boring and we want to goelsewhere to go eat food and you

(01:33:58):
know whatever else.
And that I think that's whatBelton's gonna be for you it may
very well be you know it's goodto experience New Ham Fest
because heck we don't know whatthe Texans do versus us up here
in New England.
Yeah and and just like I learnedthis year Huntsville is not

(01:34:19):
about the ham fest no like theham fest is literally a quarter
the size of Nearfest yeah whatit's about is it's about hanging
out at Montesano better get abetter internet that's all I
have to say solve that problemand the rest of the world will

(01:34:40):
enjoy you know Huntsville justas much as you guys get to
Huntsville.

SPEAKER_04 (01:34:45):
Starlink is getting better and better every year.

SPEAKER_03 (01:34:48):
Everybody links their Starlings together big
giant mesh Starlink network wemight have to schedule some time
uh Todd you and I just go downthere and uh you know have
someone uh rent a cabin for usnot this year obviously because
at that point everything'sbooked up but hey by the way if

(01:35:08):
you don't book a cabin whenHuntsville ends you're not
getting I I already like I Iregret it I should have booked
my my RV slot before I left andI was like no no no no it'll be

(01:35:29):
fine like I booked my RV slotfor this year in January it'll
be fine and you know sure thanshit every site is sold out sold
out the whole camp round is soldout but you know what through
all the videos that all of youguys did um this last round well

(01:35:51):
not me because I didn't filmshit well okay so like uh two
point uh Jason and Mike a lot ofthem they did the little walk
around and I noticed a lot ofthe sites were empty well that
was early in the week thoughyeah um no but there but there
was though like uh so theclamping sites I think were

(01:36:14):
completely empty through thewhole time that I was down there
um water and electric hookupsites those are not those are
just like tent ground that thoseare primitive stuff right yeah
you guys are RV right so yeah Iwas I was I was at an RV slot
that uh only only had water andelectric but I mean that's fine

(01:36:37):
like water and electric's allyou need you know right but like
I like most of the primitivestuff like where Mike was
camping was a little bit off thebeach path and didn't have a
whole lot of people based offhis videos.

SPEAKER_04 (01:36:49):
Right yeah um and and that's where so because you
know like um Mike and and JoeBrett had their like little
electric bikes and electricscooters and those things I I I
got so excited when I saw alittle a little electric scooter
for sale for 200 bucks at atNairfest and then I asked the

(01:37:13):
guy I said so does this folddown at all does it like get
smaller no no it does not dudeyou need to get a one wheel you
need to get a one wheel like Iwas right I've got I've got one
it's like run escape it's likethe snowboarding you have a one
wheel Todd awesome I you knowwhat I I I you would probably

(01:37:36):
have been the last person Ithought of that had a one wheel
all right Todd I I need to playwith your one wheel yeah yeah if
if I can figure if I can figureit out on yours and and not
break my neck then yeah I'llI'll find one I'll the hard the
hardest thing is getting off itnot just roll it off just roll

(01:37:59):
off it's just weird because yougotta like you know you start
and then it levels off and thenit balances you and then you
just kind of I mean you justlean forward a little bit or you
just think to go forward and itjust starts going.

SPEAKER_07 (01:38:13):
You know how to skateboard you can skateboard
you can do a one wheel exceptyou don't have to push you just
go I ride it in the grass yardPaul grew up in the woods he
didn't have skateboards no i ihad a I had a a bicycle did you
ever snowboard I think twiceyeah you you probably want to

(01:38:34):
get a scooter or something letme let me play with your one
wheel yeah let me play with itall right yeah it takes a little
balance but it's pretty coolI've been on a couple you know
you know you know you know youknow what you have to get Paul
is like the unicycle um like theelectric unicycle and it's like

(01:38:57):
the thing you like you you it'slike the wheels between your
legs and you sit on it like dudethose guys are in like Nashville
they're hauling ass like they goso freaking fast they go right
off the curves like keeping upwith traffic and all you see is
just like dude with the wheelbehind underneath him and he's
just hauling it works the sameway it's probably that's

(01:39:20):
probably more like skiing thatwould scare the shit out of me
they're called in motion that'swhat they are but have you ever
done have you ever done um uhremember when all the kids had
the uh uh what do they call themthe hoverboards they were like
the two wheel boards that thatis the that is exactly like
skiing like I so when the kidswere little they all got one and

(01:39:43):
then my wife got me an adult oneso I would be able to go out and
ride with them.
I'm like great so I'm trying tolearn how to do this like
Christmas morning and my andZach was tiny he could crunch
down and like literally grab onit and be scrunched down and
ride underneath the tables andwe'd play tag and try to I try
to catch him through the throughthe house.
So but I couldn't figure out howto at first I said how do you

(01:40:06):
I'm like how how do you do thisand then I was just like I just
started like pretending I was onskis and it just was I'm like
holy shit this is so easy.

SPEAKER_03 (01:40:16):
Yeah you just freaking you just yeah it's just
like skiing and I was you knowchasing him but that little
fucker would go underneath thetable and I couldn't get him
because I couldn't crack Ithought these guys were gonna
die because dude came up on aone wheel and said oh man can I
ride your one wheel he's like ohyeah it took me three seconds I
had I had uh an XR plus back inthe day and I got on it took me

(01:40:38):
about three seconds to get getmy orientation I was like doo
doo doo doo doo doo and they'reall looking at me like oh no fat
guy down no it's not that hard Imean if you like I if you've
never you might want to just geton a skateboard and just see if
you can feel comfortable on itbecause if you don't feel
comfortable on a skateboard youmay not feel comfortable on the
yeah you're gonna die.

SPEAKER_04 (01:40:59):
Yeah no so listen let just let me let me play with
your one wheel because uh yeah Isee them at drop zones all the
time like dude so many peopleuse those to ride around the
drop zone like so if I can if Ican figure it out then I'll get
one it'd be nice and convenientto just throw in the RV and I

(01:41:19):
can just scoot around.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:21):
Yeah cool.

SPEAKER_07 (01:41:23):
And if I could get the scooter company that wants
to give me a scooter to give meit for like half price then I'd
say sure no problem but I'm notpaying eight hundred dollars for
a hundred dollars off of ninehundred dollars you know so Zach
wants like he puts his Christmaslist he wants a$4,000 electric
dirt bike a$300 pair of fuckingAirPods and some and some things

(01:41:48):
and he goes that's all I wantthat's all I want I want
anything else I'm like oh you'renot getting any of that buy him
the cheapest dude that's that'slight that's light caden caden
was talking about what he wantsfor his for his Christmas gifts
and yeah he wants this like$1500electric dirt bike and and then

(01:42:12):
and then another like$3,000worth of computer components
because you know he's outgrownhis motherboard and so the whole
thing needs to be replaced and Iwas like dude like I built my
computer from scrap parts andand a couple new components like

(01:42:33):
all I need for my computer is anew motherboard.

SPEAKER_04 (01:42:37):
Like that's it.
Like I guarantee you you don'tneed all that fancy shit that
you've got in your cart.

SPEAKER_07 (01:42:44):
But Dad's way I saw I saw a computer that had like a
waterfall inside it.
Oh yeah those are cool did yousee that I was like the gaming
thing it was like you know sothe computer looks like as cool
as the game you're playing Iguess I don't know but yeah I
you know I'm telling you I soZach started getting in this so

(01:43:06):
I started looking at scootersright like I said well why don't
you just get a scooter you knowsome of them go like 40 miles an
hour so I'm like going throughthe YouTube looking up all these
different scooters and there'sso many of them I mean I you
don't even know where to startbut this one dude I think he's
from Austria he made a freakingscooter$25,000 it goes over a
hundred miles an hour.

(01:43:28):
The thing is like built like itit's all it's like it's some
kind of I don't know if it'schrome or or what but it's like
um it's all circles right tomake it strong like the whole
deck is just rounds of likecircles like boot or welded
together.
So this guy who's like aprofessional electric scooter

(01:43:49):
rider freaking gets on it andhe's just like alright I've been
waiting forever this guy hepersonally sent it to me I'm
gonna he gets on the thing andhe's in like a neighborhood as
soon as he gives it just alittle bit of throttle that's
like we're like oh he goes Igotta turn this down a little
bit.
So once he gets used to it thisdude is like dressed in a full
leather motorcycle suit withlike one of those like the whole

(01:44:13):
like you know the guys that runthe race rockets in the racing
that's what he's wearing and hecomes down the street like so it
seems like gone I was like holycrap yeah it sounds like Colin
Furs.

SPEAKER_05 (01:44:28):
I mean dude the thing probably goes faster than
most cars that the tires on itwere like that big it was sick
I'm like I'm like and then theguy's like oh for a mere 25
grand if I get anything dude Ijust want the big wheel Colin
Furs big you ever see that hisvideo check Colin Furs out he
converted a big wheel to adultand that thing does 65 miles an

(01:44:51):
hour.

SPEAKER_07 (01:44:51):
Oh that's awesome is that the drifting one wheel the
drift yeah the drift trike thathe built that thing is
phenomenal yeah that wasphenomenal like man if anything
I could have that'd be it youknow if I if I thought I could
get down that low and sit in itand and be comfortable riding it

(01:45:12):
dude he's like that might be funhe's the same height as you know
I mean he's like six foot fiveor six foot three for I can ask
the the the the uh Volk techschool in Manchester they had a
they made a hoverboard like ahover craft it was like a little
boat kind of hover craft andthey were trying to get rid of
it I don't know if they stillhave it they're like dude we

(01:45:33):
can't we got to get rid of thisthing it's taking up too much
room but the thing they thething went out to what's that um
pond that lake the reservoir outin um in Manchester going out
towards Candia that big lake outthere Mastodesic massabisic oh
yeah master so when masterbisicfroze right they had this thing

(01:45:54):
out there and you you see thesekids just hauling ass on this
cover thing and then they turnthe wheel and the thing would
just be like just whipping likeon air and then they drive right
up under the it was awesome.
I'm like how much you sellingthat thing for like oh we're
trying to get rid of it thatwould be freaking awesome you
could just hover it it's likethe land the land uh speed

(01:46:15):
cruiser from Star Wars I'll justI'll just throw it on the roof
of the RV and trap it down.

SPEAKER_05 (01:46:21):
Yeah it's not that big it can hold like I think it
holds like two people in it thenyou that'd be cool but you ever
see go to Colin Fur Google ColinFur's hover hover bike and he
literally turned that thing isfucking phenomenal that's scary
as all hell too but because it'sliterally two giant props

(01:46:42):
encaged you know at in the wheelwells and he can literally fly
it around like you know like aregular hover you know bike but
uh yeah it's scary as hell likeI would they're selling out
they're selling like you can getinto quadcopters.

SPEAKER_07 (01:46:57):
Yeah but these he can ride it that's the
difference the same thingthey're no like they've got
quadcopters for people yeah theydo yeah it's got it's got two
blades like on each side they'rethey're in a like you said a
cage one's on the top one's onthe bottom on the four and you
sit in the middle and it'll flyyou like 20 miles.

SPEAKER_05 (01:47:17):
Yeah yeah watch this hey Paul by the way as he gets
that up there's a whole bunch ofones that's it's yeah watch him
I'll I'll I won't put the audioon but literally look at it's
twin prop.
It's only got oh my god oh he'sgot one up one down well yeah

(01:47:50):
for balance for you knowbasically for you know how does
he steer it I basically thehandlebars uh yeah balance yeah
lean forward lean back that'sfreaking phenomenal how do you
get it up and down well so likewhen you crash you don't want

(01:48:13):
any legs or arms or anything whois this guy dude you gotta check
call it first out he's afreaking phenomenal British guy
like he he decided to break theworld record in the number of
fireworks in like a van and likeit some apparently there's a
record that's broken and he litoff like the most fireworks like
go to his channel Google call itfirst but yeah he's got some

(01:48:35):
freaking crazy stuff dude if ifthat thing if that thing would
go like uh you know say evenlike a thousand feet up in the
air I'll be all about it allabout it he did the like a a
full trike wall you ever seethis like he wanted to do like a
palindrome where you just likeyou know this guy's phenomenal I
love his fact like you ever seehis house he wants to put his

(01:48:57):
DeLorean in his house so hecreated this whole entire
basement and everything wherelike he he he tried to be like
um what's the movie uh uh whereuh uh the prison where he digs
basically through the tunnelsand everything uh I can't think
of the name of the movie yeah hestarted that during COVID uh
Shawshank Redemption he did awhole entire tunnel system where

(01:49:19):
he dig dug under his house andyou know basically created this
whole tunnel system that yeahhe's dude the guy's awesome I
can sit there watch hours of hisshow but he's an engineer that
may is making a boatload ofmoney on YouTube three channels
with like three millionsubscribers on each of them no
problem making some money if hecan take the dirt if he can take

(01:49:45):
the dirt out of the tunnel thathe's digging put it in little
jars and people will buy themthat he sells out of them all
the time then you've got youknow you've made it well that's
what he he did that people werebuying his dirt he sold it as
tunnel dirt and people bought itup in the droves like he kept
running out of it all the timewell he had a big problem with
um sending it overseas becauseobviously microorganisms and

(01:50:09):
weird shit so yeah but he hethey've got that figured out and
I literally he was he sold outthese little tiny jars of dirt
mason jars pretty much what theywere yep I can't imagine how
many mason jars he had to buy tosell all that dirt no problem if
people literally buying themfrom yeah I mean it doesn't

(01:50:31):
matter how many jars you can getthem in like you know quantities
of a thousand we should weshould start selling your your
empty beer cans and and whiskeybottles I don't know if that's a
seller yet and I'll just fill itwith dirt no just leave it just
like the crouch drank the bottleinside it the crouch and then

(01:50:51):
just someone will buy it.
Yeah well maybe we can get itlike that's what I was trying to
tell Annie was like you know youknow it takes a little bit of a
following to get people to towant to buy that stuff but I'll
maybe yeah it's gonna be worthsome money this is gonna be this
is what's gonna put us over thego there's there's the first one

(01:51:12):
there's the first one he'sdrinking it now hey do you have
any of those IPAs left what'dyou say does does Paul have any
of the IPAs left this last oneoh with his signature on it we
should do an auction well therewas three left that morning and

(01:51:32):
I'm like alright I'm gonna grabthe last three and then Paul
left already and he scooped themup they were sitting on my table
I I thought Eric brought themand so I was like oh well Eric
le Eric left me some beer and Ithrew them in the fridge.

SPEAKER_03 (01:51:52):
Nice they didn't go to waste no you gotta start
thinking of things like beeryour beer and whiskey bottles
you can sign and sell and thenyou gotta start selling shit
that you can uh jump with ohthere you go you know grouch
jump and then you could put thejump you could sign it and then
the jump date jump number blahblah blah this date yeah yeah

(01:52:16):
get little grouches get littleOscar the grouches and with a
little tag like they did uhPaddington Bear and put a little
tag on it your altitude you knowall the stuff write it down and
sign it and sell the littlegrouch uh yeah show it in your
pocket when you go and then whenyou land you have your camera

(01:52:37):
being like yeah oh boy that's agreat idea it's a great idea you
have to number them so that whenyou take the video of the of the
grouch that you just carriedlike while you're in the plane
just you know take a picture ofit make it fly and get a picture
of it and then you know when youland make sure you get a picture
of it and it has the number andwhoever buys it that's a great

(01:53:02):
idea.
That's a freaking awesome idea.

SPEAKER_05 (01:53:05):
Damn it Todd you're a freaking genius yep just
trying to help out friend crouchnumber one goes to Todd Grouch
number two goes to MichaelGrouch number three goes to Eric
see what I really want Paul todo is to jump out of a plane and
have a buddy pull and a relianceantenna in two hands and see

(01:53:25):
which one falls faster.

SPEAKER_07 (01:53:28):
Yeah recovering unnecessary whoever ends up with
it on their roof is the luckywinner of the new antenna from
the drop zone does it actuallylike you know get which way you
drop it are you are you gonnadrop it like like mass down or
like you know thin side tripoddown like oh you're gonna or

(01:53:53):
better yet how quickly can yousub a bubble a buddy pole in the
air while you're jumping whilewhile I'm in free fall it takes
45 minutes on the ground.

SPEAKER_04 (01:54:05):
That might be able to unzipper the bag nope never
let's try to be cool hold on uhyep oh 4000 feet I gotta deploy
the antenna's not built yet ohwell we gotta try it he's free
fought he's trying to screw thelittle knob in like the little
and all of a sudden he drops youtune it yeah he's just gonna

(01:54:30):
dive down to go get it he'strying to chase after chase
after the little knob right yeahI could only that would go over
well you'd probably hear fromBuddy poll for sure at that
point and it won't be the foranother antenna listen I think I
obviously what Mike said youshould do it ahead of time get
people to sponsor and they couldpay for your jumps seriously

(01:54:52):
like I don't know what'd you sayhow much is a jump cost for you
right now uh so right nowbecause I'm I'm not on my own
gear yet yeah uh it's about$70 ajump.
All right and how much is yourown gear when you get your own
gear?
Yeah right once so once I'm ableto fly with my own gear it'll be
about$35 a jump.

SPEAKER_07 (01:55:12):
There you go$35.
$35 get a personal sign grouchwith the grouch thing and with
the information of the jump andthat'd be cool.

SPEAKER_04 (01:55:24):
People sponsor you ahead of time little grouch
plushies.

SPEAKER_05 (01:55:27):
Yeah send the money send the money ahead of time buy
your jumps and ship them out beawesome everyone will have
grouches around then you justneed to put little mesh tastic
devices in your grouch plushiesand then I'll pay you an extra
five bucks to just let it goloose in the middle of the air
and see where it lands and thenyou gotta go find it tracking

(01:55:51):
yeah exactly right just turn thetracker on Paul let's see where
it goes or or put or put alittle uh or put a little
parachute on them little Amazonparachutes yeah or more so like
the G.I.
Joe parachutes oh that was whatI was thinking of I couldn't
remember the the most weirdestthing I saw at Nearfest was

(01:56:13):
somebody had a bucket full ofG.I.
Joe um uh uh Batman Robin likeremember those full-size
figurines we used to have askids or like in the 70s early
60s and 70s had a bucket full ofthem that he was all selling
them and he was asking like 200bucks for them I'm like oh yeah
no I'm not buying those thingsfor the all cobra it cobra yeah

(01:56:36):
pretty much cobra destroy I'mtrying to think it had uh GI
Jane was it the other one inthere yeah it had all of them it
was like in remember rememberthe G.I.

SPEAKER_04 (01:56:45):
Joe figure the guy had the beard like that dude
told me dude told me 40 I couldhave the whole box they're
probably oh yeah I saw that yeahyeah yeah yeah yep like because
because I was looking at the GIJoe's because I was like fuck
man I uh I literally had thisG.I.

(01:57:06):
Joe as a kid and I almost boughtit and he goes man 40 bucks I'll
sell you the whole box I'm likefuck like what am I gonna do
with a box full of G.I.

SPEAKER_05 (01:57:17):
Joe's and Batman and whatever other the other
figurines that were in there youcould have you could have made a
whole that's all content that'scontent right there man you can
have them talk to each other Icould have I could have jumped
with them pulled them out of mypocket and had it like fucking
floating just jump with it putit on a tether with the little

(01:57:41):
fishing wire so they're justkind of floating out there.

SPEAKER_04 (01:57:44):
So listen there there are videos that I've seen
of people that that skydive witha Mr.
Potato head right and so likeeach person in the group has
like uh one person's got theears one person's got the lips
one person's got the eye oneperson's got the other eye and

(01:58:05):
they they fly into the personholding the Mr.
Potato head and stick thefucking things in as they're in
free fall like yeah I totallymissed the opportunity I should
have I should have paid the 40bucks for the box and I could
have jumped with each eachindividual figurine and been

(01:58:27):
like ah this figurine fuckingmade a skydive dude I I just
posted a link oh wow yes yeslook at how to quickly assemble
a Mr.

SPEAKER_03 (01:58:41):
Potato Head lost an earlier oop oop yeah you you
know somebody's car is drivingby and all of a sudden it's like
bam right on the windshield andcracks it's a little piece of
plastic we got the eyes there'sthe eyes dude I'd hate to be the
guy that loses grip on thatthing after all that extra

(01:59:04):
effort that's it time to deployand we're missing we're missing
pieces like freaking uh wetterminal velocity as soon as it

(01:59:26):
popped out hey I just I foundsome plushies on Amazon for you
look like grouchas yeah in thetrash can it says go away I
posted it in the chat there wego and these aren't the the
terrible looking ones it thislooks authentic I totally missed

(01:59:51):
Mike's comment at least theradials would be elevated with
the buddy pull right

SPEAKER_04 (02:00:00):
Just throw the wire winder out.
Just throw the wire winder outand like have the tripod.
You wouldn't even have to extendthe whip.

SPEAKER_05 (02:00:09):
That'd be the funny thing.
If the whip would just staycollapsed the whole entire time.

SPEAKER_07 (02:00:16):
Oh, you gotta get them cheaper than that.
20 bucks?

SPEAKER_03 (02:00:20):
Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_07 (02:00:21):
He needs to get them, like, he's gotta sell them
for 30.
35.

SPEAKER_05 (02:00:27):
You could probably find them on like TV or Alibaba
or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 (02:00:33):
So the funny thing is, Mike, Mike just said, right,
so uh Carlos was supposed to putan ID 50 on it, but he dropped
it.
Um and and yes, like when whenCarlos lost his back, right, at
the Huntsville Hamfast lastyear, and it and it fell, it
landed on somebody's roof.

(02:00:54):
Did it really?
Um, was it or wasn't it?

SPEAKER_05 (02:00:58):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (02:00:59):
No, it was on their roof.

SPEAKER_05 (02:01:00):
Oh, was it?

SPEAKER_04 (02:01:02):
Yep.
The only thing damaged was hisiPhone.
That was the only that was theonly thing to the roof?
Nope.
There was no damage to the roof,there was no damage to the ID50,
uh, there was no damage to the705.
The only damage was was his hisiPhone.

(02:01:23):
His iPhone took it all.

unknown (02:01:25):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (02:01:26):
Absorbed the shock.

SPEAKER_04 (02:01:28):
Holy shit.
But I mean, you gotta figure,like, I mean, that bag coming
loose, like, it's it's fallingterminal velocity.
Like, it's just gonna it's justgonna go.
Oh, it's nine point eight metersper second squared.

SPEAKER_07 (02:01:44):
Like it's falling ass.
What is uh what happens if youlike if you're skydiving and
like like you said, somethingfalls out of your pocket and
lands and kills someone?
Are you up for homicide?

SPEAKER_04 (02:02:00):
You're liable, yeah.
Literally, I mean, like, but youyou have to make sure that
everything that's in yourpockets is secured.
Like that's why theyspecifically say remove
everything from your pocketsbefore you go skydiving.
Right.

SPEAKER_03 (02:02:19):
Because a penny or a quarter or something, that would
kill somebody.

SPEAKER_07 (02:02:24):
Yeah.
Or shoe.
Shoe comes flying off.
Oh fuck, I forgot to tie him.
That whole bag and the radiocame terminal velocity on some
dude's roof.
You imagine being in the houseand you hear that, you'd be
like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_04 (02:02:44):
What the hell?
Well, fortunately for thosepeople, I think it was the it
was the roof of their barn or itwas the roof of their garage or
something.
Yeah.
How did he find it?
Uh the uh yeah, find my phonewith uh iPhone.
Oh, I thought the phone wasbusted though.

SPEAKER_05 (02:03:03):
Well, it still wouldn't have been a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 (02:03:04):
It was busted, but it's it was still working.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, it was just the screen wasbroke.

SPEAKER_03 (02:03:11):
Did you guys see the guy?
Did you guys see the guy who wjumped out of the airplane
without a parachute and landedin uh that in the net?
In the net.
Oh yeah, that was insane, dude.
Insane.
Absolutely insane.
Or the other guy who wing suitedinto the boxes.
Yeah.
I saw those boxes had to hurt.

(02:03:32):
I don't care who we are.

SPEAKER_07 (02:03:33):
I saw that I saw one the guy wingsuited into a lake.
He like came down, he came down,and then he was like he was over
the lake and he just flared andthen just freaking dropped.
Like it was like he almost cameto a stop, but he went up and
then he just freefalled straightdown.
It was crazy.

SPEAKER_03 (02:03:52):
Because of Paul, my freaking Facebook algorithm is
now just skydiving shit.
So I'm like, I'm scaring it allwith them.
Uh and I'm like, oh my god.
I was like, hey, this is a coolvideo.
Now now that's all I get isn't.

SPEAKER_07 (02:04:11):
So those um those uh skydiving, like those wingsuit
guy things that you know, thevideos that the guys do, I've
seen some where I saw one, itwas um the Red Bull where they
freaking bailed out of theirplane and then jumped back in.
So like the plane, like theyhave the Red Bull.

(02:04:32):
And the plane goes down likethis, and they come down and
then they get back in.
It was freaking awesome.
And and then the plane went backup so that he could jump out of
there.

SPEAKER_03 (02:04:42):
They Mike Paney did a video um where he put he he
took uh he took uh uh Draco, hishis uh Welga plane, and put it
in this uh this dive, and theywere like just touching the
wings.
They were hanging out on thewings of his airplane as they
were going down too.

(02:05:03):
That was a cool video.

SPEAKER_07 (02:05:05):
Yeah, he also landed on one of those helicopter ports
like in Dubai.

SPEAKER_03 (02:05:09):
No, that was a kid.
He was involved with that, butthat was a Red Bull kid.
He landed him he landed acarbon.
No, he landed a carbon on top ofthe uh the big uh Dubai hotel
that has the helicopter pad.

SPEAKER_07 (02:05:23):
That was Red Bull.
Red Bull the Red Bull team doessome amazing shit.
So, you know those guys thatthat did the air races?
They have one where the guyflies through a mountain in a
tunnel.
That was fucking crazy.
I mean, you know how steady youhave to be?
I mean, he didn't have any roomfor mistake.
Like that guy was I mean, whatwas he like a two a foot off the

(02:05:44):
ground or the top, and he onlyhad maybe a couple feet on each
side and maybe a foot above, andhe just freaking goes through
this tunnel.
I was like, holy shit.
It's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 (02:05:55):
Wow, we went from near fest to this.

SPEAKER_04 (02:06:00):
We don't it's a it's the show that the Grouch is
hosting.

SPEAKER_07 (02:06:06):
Hey, listen, our our what our viewers have said they
wanted to change, talk aboutother topics.
We're just doing what they want.

unknown (02:06:15):
Right?

SPEAKER_05 (02:06:17):
I think they wanted more hosts, but yeah.
We got Mike.
That that that's like our bar'slow.
We have to start low and thenbuild up.
Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_04 (02:06:25):
Is is Michael hosting?

SPEAKER_05 (02:06:32):
You Mike, you were setting the bar low.
I'm just saying, as is the showas a whole, we can't start so
high and bring like you know,really crazy content.

SPEAKER_02 (02:06:40):
I play, I play, I'm done.
Bye.

SPEAKER_04 (02:06:45):
We always we always start the show at 14,000 feet,
and then wherever the fuck weend up is wherever the fuck we
end up.
Is that how it works?

SPEAKER_02 (02:06:54):
Is it a foot show?

SPEAKER_04 (02:06:57):
All right, so seeing as how we're we're coming up on
the three-hour mark, I don't Idon't know where we actually
started the show.

SPEAKER_05 (02:07:04):
About two and 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_04 (02:07:07):
All right, let's let's try and put a bow on this.
Uh I'm I'm running the show.
Michael, what do you got comingup uh on your channel?
What do you got coming up inyour life?
What's going on for you, man?

SPEAKER_03 (02:07:22):
Um before I start, make sure you get your hammies.

SPEAKER_04 (02:07:28):
And and you can get your hammies by going to our
website.

SPEAKER_03 (02:07:32):
Get your ham.
Live free and ham orthoseguysupnorth.com.

SPEAKER_07 (02:07:39):
That's what you gotta do.
You gotta get instead ofhammies, you gotta get little
grouches.
That's what you're gonna sell.
Oh, that would be awesome.
And then you just put the outlike the jump, the date, you
know, there you go.
Altitude, and then you just sendthose things.
Those things are cheap.
You can buy them in bulk.
35 bucks, get you your freejumps.

SPEAKER_03 (02:07:56):
Little grouches and trash cans.
Well, that's pretty that'spretty much what he's living in
right now, is a tin can, so youknow.

SPEAKER_07 (02:08:05):
He's gonna go, he's gonna go like do some jumping,
and we're gonna sneak down andwe're gonna paint the fucking
thing green.
Grouch will be a grouch.

SPEAKER_03 (02:08:12):
Oh no, it has to be commands.
It has to be it have to be uhsilver.
What the hell is that silver?
Um oh where they put uh uh Ican't that Illumicote shit.
That Illumicote shit.
So it looks like it looks like atin, like a trash can.

SPEAKER_05 (02:08:30):
There you go.
Is that small enough there,Grouch?

SPEAKER_03 (02:08:33):
The RV's already silver.
Anyway, so back to back to thequestion.
Um I got two in a can.
I just when I've been gettinghome for the last three weeks or
so, I've been just fried.
I've we what uh we did 15 hoursone day, 12 hours the day before
at an Amazon facility, and thenI had to go back on this past

(02:08:55):
Tuesday to finish it up.
Um but you know, it's it's justit's been balls of the wall at
work.
Um I've been getting home 6, 7o'clock at night.
My feet hurt, I want to go tobed.
So I got two in the can.
I still gotta get out.
Um I I just need motivation inorder to get it out.

(02:09:15):
Um, but um gonna chill out, andI'm probably gonna go visit Paul
this weekend.
Uh I'll be knocking at his dooruh on his trailer at six uh uh
six or seven a.m.
on uh Saturday morning.
Exactly.
Or he walks by naked with acoffee mug and saying, fuck you,
and closes the door.

SPEAKER_05 (02:09:38):
He's like uh Uncle Eddie, uh cousin Eddie.
He just outside his bathroomcoffee cup and the you know the
moose ears going uh shittersfull, filling out the shitter's
full.

SPEAKER_03 (02:09:49):
But other than that, um I'm going to play with my new
radio, which is right here.
Oh she pretty at a yeah, that'sa 7000.
Oh, wow, okay.
I I think this is the prettiestsmall radio, uh small form
factor, uh uh VHF UHF HF radioout.

(02:10:13):
I really like it.
Yeah, I I like this radio a lot.
And you know, I'm I'm gonna tryto give the Rybakov another
chance this uh this week, maybe,and um hang it from a tree.
I've got plenty of trees thatare high enough and um spread
the radios out and see if it'lltune.

(02:10:34):
I got that stupid little tunerthat came that literally it was
designed by the people who madethe G90.
So, you know, that tuner shouldtune anything, and it just did
not like that Rybakov.
So I might throw that up andgive it another try.
And and on that note, Matt wasMatt was kind of depressed
because I said Paul wanted tothrow one of his inflatable, one

(02:10:55):
of your inflatable antennas onyour can on his camper, and he
said, uh, dude, all theCanadians bought them.
I was like, what?
He goes, the Canadians love thestupid things.
I was like, what do you mean?
He goes, I don't know.
He goes, they bought them all.
I was like, well, that sayssomething about the Canadians.

(02:11:16):
I don't know.

unknown (02:11:17):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (02:11:21):
Well, you're not gonna be able to ship their
strike.

SPEAKER_01 (02:11:24):
Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_07 (02:11:25):
Todd, Todd, what do you got coming up?
Uh I'm gonna play with my newradio, the Bao Fang.
Ba Bow Bao Fang.
Um, I'm gonna do uh I'm gonnawork on, I'm gonna make sure I
get out and do a uh uh railtrail activation, get caught up
with Eric.

SPEAKER_05 (02:11:45):
46, my friend.
That's all you need.
Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_07 (02:11:48):
You know what would be awesome, Todd?
What right?

SPEAKER_04 (02:11:50):
I'm gonna pick up my extra.
No, no, no.
I'm just throwing this outthere.
But so listen, if you catch upto Eric, right, and we
coordinate where the two of youare going for your kilo as I'm
going for my kilo, and we make aQSO from Parkinson's time to get

(02:12:12):
the thousands.

SPEAKER_07 (02:12:14):
Oh, that would be sweet.

SPEAKER_05 (02:12:16):
That would be freaking challenging.
That that would have todefinitely be uh quite more.

SPEAKER_07 (02:12:21):
We could do we could do it on 10 meters.

SPEAKER_05 (02:12:23):
I'm sorry, I can't take this call.
I'm sorry, I can't take thiscall.
Look, Robert, where the hell areyou?
No contact for you.
No contact for you.

SPEAKER_07 (02:12:36):
Live free and live free and ham.

SPEAKER_05 (02:12:39):
Yeah, that one we're gonna have to set up a couple of
like uh ground antennas, youknow, Envis, so I guess, you
know, or pick a band that likewe get lucky on.

SPEAKER_07 (02:12:51):
Yeah.
Can you do you can't do youcan't do a park on a repeater,
huh?

unknown (02:12:55):
No.

SPEAKER_05 (02:12:57):
We we we will probably do like a two-meter
park to park.
That'd be kind of cool.
Actually, that'd be interestingif we could get the distance.
I mean, you're higher than us.

SPEAKER_07 (02:13:05):
Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 (02:13:07):
I'll bring the thong out.
Yeah, I was gonna say that'd bethe only way to bring the thong
out, and we'd have to bring uharrow antenna with us just to
point at him and see if we coulduh we'd have to test it.

SPEAKER_03 (02:13:17):
At least it won't be an ed dong.
Uh yeah, exactly.
We know how that one's gonnamake.

SPEAKER_05 (02:13:22):
That actually might be a good uh end visit, if
anything.

SPEAKER_07 (02:13:25):
Hey, how how have the how I haven't been on this
weekend?
How have the bands been?
Anyone know?
Because all I keep gettingalerts is oh, you might be able
to see the northern lights.
I'm like, fuck.
My whole family's all excited.
I'm like, oh man.

SPEAKER_03 (02:13:39):
20 meters was hopping today, and then I yelled
at Eric uh on a text message getoff of FD8 and make some real
contacts.

SPEAKER_05 (02:13:46):
I was busy working on the computer.

SPEAKER_07 (02:13:50):
Yeah, 20 says good 20 2030, 15 and 17 good, 4080
fair, 1210.
Put it this way.

SPEAKER_05 (02:13:58):
Saturday, it was a little noisy on 20, but uh while
Becky was in the stores while Iwas up in Maine, I made like
three, you know, uh contactswith a couple of parks that were
on 20.
So and they were giving me likefive sevens, five sixes from my
ATAS.

SPEAKER_04 (02:14:11):
So Paul, all right, so any anything anything other
than the uh you know get gettingcaught up to Eric that you're
doing, Todd.

SPEAKER_07 (02:14:24):
Ham radio wise, no, no, and I'm working on my uh
trying to figure out what thehell is wrong with my uh
all-star node, why I can't getit to stay connected.
I've gotten it connected, it'sjust not some days it won't
connect, some days it will, andit won't stay connected.
It'll just like mobile, yeah.
Well well it's I think it's theelectron behind the wheel.

unknown (02:14:45):
Shut up.

SPEAKER_05 (02:14:48):
That could be a couple of things.
All right.
Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_08 (02:14:50):
What about you are?

SPEAKER_05 (02:14:52):
Uh let me see.
I've got uh brew and activateFriday.
That's our normal time slot now.
So uh if you uh were looking forus on Sunday, uh we moved to
Friday.
So uh Shannon will be a normalfixture, uh, which will be fun.

SPEAKER_04 (02:15:06):
Make sure you subscribe to N1J UR's channel
and click the bell so that youknow when he goes live.
Get in there.
That doesn't always work.

SPEAKER_05 (02:15:16):
I gotta load up, I gotta backfill and make it
exciting enough for them want tosubscribe.
So yeah, I got that.
I've got the Ryberkoff antennathat uh Mike was uh teasing on
his own that Matt sent me why uhsent to me.
And then Matt uh gave me acouple of new rings, uh what I
call the Nuva rings for the uhinflate antenna uh for uh that

(02:15:38):
and the um uh extra you know uhitems to add to my current
inflated tenna.
So I'm gonna go do anotherreview on that hopefully this
week.
Um so that'll be coming out.
Um and yeah, so like Paul said,go check out my channel, uh, you
know, subscribe, like, share.
Um and uh yeah, we're addingmore uh stuff.
I'm actually uh putting togetheruh if you're paying to brew it,

(02:16:02):
if you're paying attention tobrew and activate, I've been
alluding to putting together akind of field guide for
everything PODA, like all thestuff that we talk about, or
like when we talk to somebody,we share like a little bit of
tidbit of uh, you know, uh a tipor a trick or something like
that.
But there's like no resourcesout there to like, you know,
that you can just go to outsideof like scouring YouTube and

(02:16:22):
watching 20 minutes of a videoto get like a small little
sliver or something.

SPEAKER_03 (02:16:25):
So don't forget your antenna, don't forget your
battery.

SPEAKER_05 (02:16:28):
Simple things like that, or more like you know,
hey, what what do you do uh whenyou're you know uh doing uh uh
dual park activation and youknow other things uh around
that.
So we've been doing that, and uhyeah, that'll hopefully be out
on my website uh for folks tojust download and the whole
thing is kind of be computercommunity driven.
So uh it's not gonna be owned byme per se, but it'll be added to

(02:16:51):
and and whatnot.
So all of new, old, and uheverybody in between will have a
resource that uh they can youknow contribute and add to,
which would be kind of cool.
So we'll see how that grows.
And uh yeah, Mike, definitelythank you again for the hammies.
Appreciate that.
I'll uh let me know when thatcomes through and we'll get that
going.
Over to you.
So yeah.
Outside of that, Paul, whatabout you?

(02:17:11):
How can they get a hold of you?

SPEAKER_04 (02:17:13):
Alright, well, um, I just want to say I appreciate uh
being able to host this week.
I appreciate Randam.
Um for those that are fans ofthe Grouch's channel, uh, we
will be doing a weekend warriorlive stream uh Friday the 10th,
which uh will be after this showairs.

(02:17:35):
So hopefully uh you you wereable to catch that.
If uh if you don't know whatweekend warriors are, check out
uh my show or my channel, um TheGrouch from New Hampshire, uh
where we uh we gather bi-weeklyuh as veterans and military
members to discuss whatever's onour mind and whatever's going on

(02:17:58):
in society, the things, thethings that bother us.
And occasionally we we we mightmention some things like gay
chicken.
Um start to crack our back.

SPEAKER_03 (02:18:10):
Thank you, Secretary of War.

SPEAKER_04 (02:18:12):
Anyways, yeah, um, so I uh I'm gonna be uh I'm
gonna be up in New England untilthe end of the month.
Uh October 27th is when I startheading south.
And so uh stay tuned for morevideos coming up on on that
journey.
Uh there's gonna be uh a coupleuh FODA meetups happening on the

(02:18:35):
way down to uh Florida.
And so I I want to say thank youfor joining the Live for Rain
Ham podcast community.
We truly appreciate everyone whosupports the show, and we cannot
thank you enough.
Um if you want to connect withus, you can head over to our
Discord server.
It's absolutely fantastic.
And uh Eric has uh so graciouslyallowed myself and Porto to uh

(02:19:02):
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there's not an additional hamradio discord server out there
for you to join.
No, we don't.
Uh so head over to the Discordserver, join the conversation.
The link is in the show notes.
Subscribe to the YouTube channelso that you don't miss all of

(02:19:25):
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All the links are in the shownotes.
Please leave us a review byvisiting uh our SMS link, which

(02:19:49):
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SPEAKER_03 (02:21:01):
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