Planning for Propagation Challenges at the 24-Hour POTA Event

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I was like, well, spraying a sealant over the rust
is a fucking giant waste.
So they did it twice, oh God.
But of course, like dude, Imean everything under the.
I'm hearing myself Okay, therewe go.
So, yeah, so everything'srusting out right and I just I

(00:26):
replace things as they need tobe replaced.
I stopped, I stopped for gasand, uh, I thought that the, the
backing plate was rubbing onthe rotor, because you know,
like I could kind of hear it it,it sounded like the backing
plate was rubbing on the rotor.
Yeah, like, oh well, that's awell, that's a bitch, but I'll

(00:46):
deal with it when I get toMontana, yeah right.
And then a guy pulls up at thepump next to me and he goes
excuse me, sir, you've gotsomething hanging underneath
your truck.
And I was like, oh well, thankyou, like I really appreciate
that.
Yeah, so it wasn't the backingplate for my rotor or the

(01:08):
backing plate rubbing on therotor, it was the rear strap had
broke and rusted off.
Uh, that holds the gas tank upoh no and so the the strap and a
piece of plastic were hangingonto the ground.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
And so I was like all right.
Unfortunately, the the the gasstation had a big like gravel
lot next to it, so I just pulledinto the gravel lot and, uh,
fricking ratchet, strap for thewind, like my, my bed right,
like literally I've been, I'vebeen putting off having to get a

(01:48):
new bed right because when Ibought the truck where the bed
mounts are was was rotting outokay, oh boy.
So you're way beyond that nowlike, uh, yeah, I mean you're
talking what it was 10 years agoyeah, that's 11 years ago like
I bought the truck in 14.

(02:08):
Wow, so I've got, uh, I've gota ratchet strap that goes around
the back rack and down to theframe and that holds the bed
secure, and now and now I've gota ratchet strap holding the gas
tank up.
It'll be fine.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
I'll fix it when I get home for now it's grip, spit
and duct tape.
Hey, todd, hey, look at theshave boy.
I know it's like literally likeif I do this I'll put my hat
back on, but it's like it's.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
It's fucking hotter than hell in here.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Uh yeah, that's right .
You can't run the EC right Withthe battery without killing the
batteries.
Oh dude, that sucks.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Where are you right now?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Uh, I'm in Salem Illinois.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
And why are you on battery power?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Um, illinois, and why young battery power?
So this is a harvest host siteand when I booked this back in
June okay, I sent the, the owner, a message through harvest host
.
I said hey, listen, you know it.
It says that my RV and truckcombination is too long for your
site.
Is it going to be a problem?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Trying to balance things out here, my friend.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Did they respond?
No response, nothing, all right, well, okay, so I get here just
before 5 o'clock.
Now, on their Harvest Hostlisting it says that you have to
arrive before 7.30 pm.
Okay, all right.
Yeah, plenty good there.

(04:02):
Well, there's nobody fuckinghere.
Wow, like the.
The doors are all locked, theopen signs on, but the doors are
all locked.
There's nobody here.
So I called the number on thebuilding.
I called the number and theharvest host.
Nobody answered.
So I left the message like youknow what I fuck it, I booked it

(04:24):
.
I.
If the message Like you knowwhat I fuck it, I booked it.
I.
If the cops show up and say,hey, what the fuck are you doing
here?
Like I'll show them the booking.
Yeah, I booked the, I bookedthe fucking site.
Wow.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
So they don't have like that, one doesn't have any.
Yeah, oh shit.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I just lost my audio oh, did you.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
You good, you can hear me todd right yeah, I can
hear you all.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Right, there we go okay, um, yeah, so we'll see
what happens, but I'm, I'm, I'mparked the very far side of
their lot.
Uh, there's a shit ton of spacehere, right next to the fucking
highway.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Hopefully you don't hear too much highway noise so
you like in a paved parking lotor something like that, or is it
like a gravel barrier or what?

Speaker 1 (05:18):
yeah, no, it's just, it's a giant gravel lot.
So on the other side of thebuilding there's like horse
paddocks and a horse barn, um,and then directly behind the
building there's a rodeo arenaand then there's just a big
giant gravel lot on on the sidethat I'm on.

(05:40):
So I was like, well, I'll justfucking try and stay out of the
way, and it's Sunday night, Idon't see anybody fucking
bothering me.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, you probably won't.
Yeah, maybe who shows up forwork the following day might
come over and be like, hey, whatare you doing here?
But at that point you know,water to the bridge.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, right, like yeah well you know, nobody
answers the fucking phone.
Nobody responds to the fuckingharvest host messages.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I don't know why you're a harvest host, fucking
place I was gonna say isn't likethe trade-off you're supposed
to like spend some time withthem, or like you're supposed to
like part of their restaurant,like is that like a restaurant
thing, like all of them, mostlyrestaurants, or what's the deal
with that?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
well, so they're all different, uh, but yeah, like
you know restaurants, there's arestaurant here, uh, you know,
and a fucking tack shop or giftshop, fucking whatever.
Yeah, uh, you know the when Istayed at the vineyard, like
they had local wines and, uh,honey, and you know different.

(06:41):
You know things from the localarea.
It just depends on where you'restaying.
They expect you to patronize atthe establishment.
I was like this would be great,I'll show up, I'll go get
dinner, I'll fucking get set up.
The fucking restaurant's closed.

(07:01):
Nobody fucking here.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I guess it's good there's nobody fucking here.
I guess it's good, you don'thave to worry about holding up
your end of the bargain.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, well, and that's just it.
So come tomorrow morning I'mjust going to fucking pull out.
I'll fill up and off on my wayI go.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Wow.
And then we got another fourand a half hour ride, or like
how much more left of the leg,the last leg or a couple of legs
?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Five and a half.
Five and a half.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Nice.
How many hours, how many hoursyou drive to get to this place?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Five hours.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
And you're still in Illinois, yep.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Holy shit, I know right, exactly.
I said the same thing when hetold me that how big is the
state?

Speaker 1 (07:48):
apparently big enough , that you know, because I mean
I was, I was at the verynorthern part of the state, yeah
, in Rochelle, and so, yeah, Idrove and I drove, I drove five
hours south and I'm still inIllinois.
Jesus can't get out of thestate.
I drove five hours south andI'm still in Illinois.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Jesus Can't get out of the state.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh man, wow, Trust me , I'm itching to get to Alabama
to buy cigarettes because Ithink, I have two packs left.
Dude, they're fucking.
$14 a pack here, $14 a packhere, yeah, $14 a pack.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, how much do they normally cost Ten?

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Jesus.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, dude, we should stop smoking.
I don't know if that's going tohappen.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
You could have some more.
You could probably save somejumps, I don't know if that's
going to happen.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
You could probably save some jumps.
Usually I'll buy a cart.
It'll be $100.
And that'll last me for thewhole month.
But Bob was actually sayingthat the brand that he smokes is
$40 a carton.
Oh boy, and so yeah.
So he's gonna, he's gonna.
He said he's gonna bring acarton up for me 24-hour poda.

(09:12):
I'll just give him 40 bucks.
That's fucking great Like.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Oh man, Alright, let's 24-hour poda.
Here's a weird one.
I was uh killing time thisafternoon just watching, you
know, YouTube here and there,while the wife was on Instagram
or social surfing or what is it,what's they call it, Doom
scrolling and uh, I uh ended upuh coming across Podopower and

(09:42):
they were doing their like livestream for their one year
anniversary kind of thing, and Iwas like, oh, this is cool.
And then all of a sudden I waslistening and you'll never guess
, you ever hear N1PRG on the air.
Like he's got that radio voice.
I mean, you've heard him on the, probably the repeater when
you're up this way, right, Joe?
Probably Okay.
So he's got like he's got agood setup, but he's got a good

(10:03):
radio voice too as well, and itcomes across.
So I'm like, well, listen toPodopower.
I'm like, wait a minute.
Like that's Joe, I can hear him.
Like he's making contact withhim.
I'm sure he has no idea who theheck they are.
You know, didn't even reallyknow they have like a YouTube
channel, that whole ordeal.
And so I'm like I'm on the, youknow hitting poda, power up.
I'm like, dude, tell Joe, Ericsays hi, just to throw him a

(10:24):
curve because he has no idea,like, how we're any connected.
And of course, like theyfinally see that in the message
scroll and, uh, you know, I, I,all of a sudden he goes and and
you know, Joe, before we let yougo, you know Eric wants to say
hi, N1J, you are.
And he's just like what N1Jwants to say, hi, Joe's like
what?
Like he's like totally thrownoff his whole entire game, Like

(10:45):
he was just like, oh, what theheck, who's watching me?
She's like, oh, we're livestreaming.
And he's like, oh, I didn'tknow you were live streaming and
you know, so he's just likekind of just surprised.
So I said to my little, how didEric get to Florida so quick?
I know, Right.
So I was like, oh, sweet, butyeah, it was kind of fun to hit
that up, but wow, so we got alot to talk about tonight.

(11:14):
Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean, youmissed near last night, Todd.
Yeah, I know I missed here.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
I saw it afterwards.
Why did we do it?
So we just did one.
Well, the little scheduling, Ithink.
Yeah, I saw it afterwards, why,why did we do it?
So we just did one.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Well, the little scheduling.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
I think, yeah, it was either we.
We had to do it at thebeginning of the month or we had
to do it at the end of themonth and, like there wasn't a
lot of people that were actuallygiving any input, they were
saying, well, I don't care, itdoesn't matter, it doesn't
matter, it doesn't matter.
So I was like, well, it doesn'tmatter, to me, it's much easier
for me to have done it lastnight when I was still at CSC,

(11:52):
than to do it at the end of themonth, where I don't know
exactly what my situation'sgoing to be.
I know the RV's going to be inthe driveway, but like yeah,
once, I don't know, let's fixthis.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
There we go now.
I look better, I look so smallbecause I spoke up.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
We did it last night and that was fine.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
I knew I wasn't gonna be there.
I was like you're gonna be likea vague, like I possibly might
jump in.
But I knew like once we got upto like the main area and, yes,
poland, main, not main, poland,whatever.
Yeah, I caught the joke, I justignored it.
But I knew like once we got upto like the main area and yes,
poland, maine, not Maine, poland, whatever.
Yeah, I caught the joke, I justignored it.
Um, yeah, it was like, okay, uh,I'm going to try this from the
beach here and, of course, likeI had like two bars, I look like
kind of like the, the, theidiots kind of, you know, with

(12:37):
their phones up in the airtrying to get the extra bar.
But yeah, it was like, okay,I'm going to say hello and
that's it.
And then I couldn't.
The live stream was gone,couldn't get it again, couldn't
see it again.
It was like frozen spinning.
I was like, okay, they're goingto just see this one post for
me and I'm probably going to getcrap for it, which I didn't
actually get a chance to watchthe whole video.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
But who was on?
That's all right, Cause Waltkept saying he couldn't hear me.
Like everybody else could hearme, just fine, but Walt couldn't
hear me.
And then, at the very end ofthe show, he realized that he
had never connected to his Wi-Fi, he was using his phone and he
was on 4G fucking mobile, oh boy.
So he kept freezing Like wewould still be able to hear him,

(13:22):
but for whatever reason hecouldn't hear me and you know
everything else.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, it was 100, him was not okay I was gonna say
it's really every year, I mean,we know when elon's playing
games with you, but it's veryrare that it's ever like totally
dead, you know.
And then, and then on top of it, my god was God.
Was it four hours or six hoursthat you live streamed?
Four hours, yeah, your JerryLewis telethon.

(13:48):
My God, I was like watchingthat.
I had to fast forward a coupleof things just to get the
highlights, because it gotinteresting after a while.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Oh, it sure did.
It sure did.
Especially I mean Zig, justlike kind of dropped off, like
turned off, his cameradisappeared, like I assume he
passed out.
Uh, tortoise, I I sent, I sentbill, the.
The link bill was hammered,tortoise was hammered wait, wait

(14:19):
.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
You gotta clarify.
Did you see it, todd?
No, okay, when he who?
What Bill do you think he'stalking about?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
W-1 WRA.
Yeah yeah, he was hammered.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
He was on the live stream hammered.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh, dude, I got to watch that.
Then what time?
Four hours.
You have a timeframe Like whathour he went.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
You can fast forward to it.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
It was towards the end.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, it was like somewhere like half hour to 45
minutes, yeah, but so thebackstory to that is that I
don't know how how he found outthat paul was live streaming,
but all of a sudden I'm on thelive stream on the chat.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
I posted it oh, that's right, you did on g,
sarah.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Ah, okay, that's what I was trying to figure out,
where that connection was.
We all know, obviously he wasat the club meeting and everyone
kind of said to him like he'slike, oh, I'm already starting
to celebrate my birthday, I'minto my first beer, and that's
like when everyone was like, ohwell, you're not driving, thank
God, you know kind of joking.
And then it was all done.
And then all of a sudden I seehim in the live stream and you
know, he's like I threw a littlebit of money back at Paul after

(15:23):
I had already thrown in earlier, and I'm like, cool, I'm number
one, I'm in the top, you knowranking here.
And then I like literally stepaway to go get something else
and come back and like he's upthere and I'm like, okay, how
much did he really throw at it?
And then I realized that likeokay, it's way beyond what I'm
thinking in terms of money.
So I you know he's.

(15:44):
And then all of a sudden like,as he started to get more chatty
in the discussion, um, uh, inthe live stream he hits me up on
discord directly and he startstalking about like hey, he
really, he really misses theidea of being on one of our
shows and I'm like, are you okay?
And he's like this might be thewhiskey talking, but in essence
, you know, I'd like to be onyour show sometime in the future

(16:07):
.
Is that, are you okay with that?
I'm like yeah, dude, you'realways welcome to be on there.
I know you had work relatedissues.
He's like, ah, you know, hekind of went into the whole
details.
He was gonna do it with us hewas, but at work basically
stopped him from doing it, right, you know, because the labs
didn't want, you know, they wantto vet everything for him.
So, long story short, hestarted to get into that whole
detail, which I'll leave off tothe side, and then at the very

(16:28):
end I said I'm like, yeah, we'dlove to have you on.
I mean, you want to do a livestream or do you want to, you
know, be on record sessions?
Like I don't care either way.
I'm like, all right, well, talkto the guys, we'll figure it
out.
And then that kind of where itended and he still continued, I
mean he was getting a littleslurry, like his words were
starting to be a little slurry.
In the chat, you can kind oflike there was no comma, it was
all one run on sentence kind ofthing.

(16:48):
So you knew something washappening.
And then I like I fell offbecause I got tired.
And uh, you know, of courseTaurus is texting me like at one
in the morning.
Hey, dude, you're going to hopon.
Paul's going to tapping myphone.
I whacked it off the deskbecause Discord was going off,
because he DM'd me.
He's like I'll get it in themorning.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
How the Discord your thing went for.
What time did it end Like 1 inthe morning, 2 in the morning.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
I started at 8 Central, 9, 10, 11.
I finished at 12 central.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
so it's been 1, 1.30 our time, yeah, yeah.
And then I go back to watch thereplay and I'm like, holy crap,
that's Bill.
Like I was fast forwarding,fast through and I'm just like
you know, ziggy fell off and I'mlike, oh, I'll have to go back
and check that one out.
And then all of a sudden I seeBill on there and dude, he was.
He was not a hundred percent,because it was like he's like

(17:50):
and I'm drinking, and like he'sholding, like he's trying to
like steady his hand whiletrying to show the bottle and
the bottle's going everywhere inthe picture.
And it was.
It was awesome that's cool.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Hey, did you see on um discord that ted said we
should do qsl cards?
I like that idea I was curious.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
I didn't quite catch on that.
So do tell he's in the chat.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
So yeah, I don't think we have time to order them
at that point.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
No, yeah, well, we could, we could send them out
later.
I mean, we could order them andthen send them out.
I mean, I get QSL cards like ayear later.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'm not against printing them and figuring one.
You want to design it, youdesign it.
I've got so much on my fuckingplate.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, I'll mess around with it this week at work
.
But yeah, it's a great idea.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't mind doing it .

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, ted, and I talked on the repeater today.
I was running errands and, yeah, yeah, he wanted me.
He goes, oh, he goes.
You're not afraid to.
Uh, you know, say what you want, or speak your mind like I'm
thinking, as I'm driving, as I'mlike done, I'm like maybe you
should tone it back a little bit.
And then I wanted to ask him isit a good thing or is it a bad

(18:58):
thing, you want me to keep going, or should I reel it in a
little bit?

Speaker 1 (19:03):
so well I think.
I think the big thing because Igot some feedback from a couple
people on it too right is, ifyou're going to be grouchy,
right, make sure it's oversomething worthy of being
grouchy.
A lot of your gripes with thefucking testing.

(19:24):
It's completely irrelevant and,and, like your, your bitch is
is is an internal bitch, it's.
It's not anything to do withthe fucking process, it's just
you.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, I've had a rough couple of weeks.
I think I just let it out.
I think I just let it out onthe podcast Cause it's happening
across the board everywhere.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
So yeah, as long as you contain it here like fucking
, my work is just out of control.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
And then I get here and I'm like trying to let that
shit go fired up.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, no, I get it, I totally get it.
It could be a one of thosethings that you know, just the
little, uh, little, small littlethings will just set you off.
But that's what I'm here for.
I'm the referee.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'll keep you guys from really like getting into
some serious trouble with it.
I mean, honestly I hate.
I just hate tests and I don'tdisagree with that.
We shouldn't have tests andstuff and, like I said, some of
the questions I think are stupid, but I think a lot of people
think they are, so well, we gotat least one listener, and I'm
not real and I'm not really.
I'm not pissed at you, paul, oreven the ve's that volunteer

(20:29):
their time.
I just thought it was kind oflike stupid that you fucking
guys gave the guy the wrong test.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
I mean, that's just dumb well, ted was at that ve
session, so he knows what wentdown.
And you know, like I said, it'sall volunteers so I wasn't, you
know, gonna definitely pointall fingers at you know anybody
or anything.
And you know, hey, we've gotwhat?
Maybe one more opportunity tomake that work successfully.
If that's, uh, you know you'regoing full remote for the next

(20:55):
one, are you?

Speaker 2 (20:56):
gonna still one more.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
They said oh well, I said that, but I would.
I didn't know if paul hadsomething different I will.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
I will be there in person for the October one.
I'm wearing the.
It'll be after October.
We'll transition to fullyremote.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah Well, there's definitely a lot of VEs there,
Ted, that's for sure.
But I think that was just tomake sure that at least
something went smooth.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
It did pretty well.
All the VEs were there and theystill gave the guy the wrong
test.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Oh, blah, blah blah, it's just you know.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
It could be a joke.
How many VEs does it take togive out?

Speaker 3 (21:35):
to pass out the right exam.
You can see where this one'sgoing.
What was it?

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Paul wasn't there, I mean you can't.
I mean if he was there, none ofthat crap would have happened.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Who were we talking to?
I can't remember where I was,what environment was it?
So we were talking abouttesting and someone made comment
about how Todd's been testingfor a year on live free and ham,
you know.
So you shouldn't sweat it, you.
You you're way ahead of thecurve, or something like that.
I was, I think it was on.

(22:05):
It was Wednesday.
Yes, right, it was Wednesday.
At Preston Somebody had broughtit out Like I didn't mention it
at all.
Someone's like oh, you shouldlisten to the leafy and ham
Todd's been testing for a wholeyear for his extra.
We don't ever think he's nevergoing to take it, but you know
he's never going to take it, I'mjust going to test it.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
So I don't see your legacy man, I'll get there.
I have to really start book.
I got to.
I think what I got to do ispick a date and then I like like
I did with the general and justyeah, panic, work backwards.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Panic work.
Yep, nothing wrong with that,my friend.
You know, eventually, uh,you'll go from there.
So you know, hopefully, with atleast uh, uh coming up calendar
, we're literally at the 30 daymark till, um, you know, 24 hour
podo, that's freaking crazy 30days like.
So I'm going out to uhpeterborough on thursday, so I'm

(22:51):
way back hold up on that we'llcircle back on some of that and
the actual talk, because I wantto talk a little 24 hour podo
again, because it seems to bepopular with a bunch of folks
and it's starting to generateinterest.
So yeah, we've added a few yeah, the other thing.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Um, I got my my back where it used to be on my truck,
so if you guys need any ofthese, they're like, but they
have six things.
You need six for the mic, notfour, right?

Speaker 3 (23:22):
yeah, it's a rj12, not an rj11.
Right, why did you get asplitter?

Speaker 2 (23:28):
because I have a core , I have a wire from my radio to
the cord, so like yeah, but theright isn't that that's a two
to one, though, right well, no,I just plugged it in.
You could put two.
You could fit two.
I just used one hole.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Oh, that's one space I was gonna say if you just want
a barrel, I have a rj12 barrel.
You're more than welcome to.
I just didn't know you were.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
That'll keep it together the one I had, the one
I had.
I couldn't find I don't knowwhere I put it, so I just
ordered these online.
They're like five bucks.
Yeah, cheap insurance yeah soit works.
Um, I talked to ted with thenew setup, so it was all good.
Cool says you talked to me too.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Man, what the hell am I chop lever I?

Speaker 2 (24:12):
don't know what it was.
I couldn't hear you though.
Yeah, I don't understand whyyou couldn't hear me I was in
downtown nashua yeah, all thebuildings and you know on,
daniel.
You know when you got we shouldhave just gone digital, that's
what.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
I should have just gone digital.
We should have just gone toFord Mountain, it would have
been easier.
Yeah, exactly, didn't thinkabout it.
The reason why I put my callout was I was out with friends
yesterday and we were up at abrewery up in Scarborough and we
were just talking and I had,obviously my ham radio hat, I
had my Liffrey ham, I ham waslike what's lip free and ham,
and so we just startedchit-chatting and of course he's

(24:46):
like, oh, it's really cool.
And I'm like, oh well, ournet's coming up soon.
You know, let's like I'm gonnapull up the, the broadcastify
stream, and of course, like 701rolls around, it's silent, 702
rolls around, silent.
You know, we're getting intothree minutes.
And I'm looking foolish becausethe guy is like, um, is the net
gonna start soon?
And I'm like, uh, yeah, I wouldhave thought, because I would

(25:08):
have thought I've beenbroadcasting.
Apparently frank's node didn'treconnect back to the repeater
or whatever, so it was offline,but it wasn't telling the feed
that was offline.
So I said, oh, bummer, he'llhear, just you know.
And gave him the link again andhe you know, hopefully we'll
check it out.
But then I tested it this today.
I was like, oh, I'll, I'm backin the territory.
So I keyed up the repeater tosee if I could hear myself while
listening and I didn't hearanything.

(25:28):
I was like, oh, that's broken.
So the reason why I was like,oh man, because I know ralph and
tim and everybody in the club'slike, oh, just listen to our
repeater, you can hear it 24 7online.
Okay, well, it's chirp, chirp,chirp.
Because it's not beingbroadcast.
It's like, okay, that'll do it,so anyway.

(25:50):
So, uh, yeah, well, do you wantto talk about your parachute
stuff?
Uh, when we get into the freeand hammocks, I know you're
finally an official owner, right?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
yeah, yeah, let me go get it.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
He got the whole thing, including the chute, or
just the pack.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
I think he got the whole thing.
I would hope he got the wholething.
The pack's really not going tohelp him jumping out of a plane.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Well, he was talking about just getting the pack.
And then he was like he neededto get a chute.
Oh nice.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Oh nice.
Oh nice.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
There it is Sweet, Sweet and the shoot's in it
right.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
So the main canopy down below is 170 square feet,
so I need to replace it with abigger one, but I'm going to
keep the 170 because at somepoint I'll get down to that.
And then the reserve up top isa 176.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
The way you're handling it looks like you sleep
with it in bed.
You're like, oh, this is sonice.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Now who'd you?

Speaker 3 (27:02):
get that.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Can you see all the fucking dog hair on it already?
Hey you know Watson's got atarget.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Fucking dog hair.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
already It'll be gone by the time you jump out of the
plane.
So don't worry, Let me see thefull handle.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, don't let Todd touch that when he comes up this
way, that's one of thoseparacord wind around.
You know the sailor knots.
That's one of those paracordwind around.
You know the sailor knots.
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, that's easy.
I think, I think they call it amonkey's fist.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah, that's what it was.
I remember having a couple as akid.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
So you just so, you just yank that and the chute
comes out.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, so the the pilot chute is in in this little
bag on the bottom of thecontainer, and so when I pull
the hacky out, it pulls thepilot out and then the pilot
inflates and it's got a bridlestrap that runs along this flap

(27:57):
and then it goes here.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
And then pulls.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Right, and so then, there's the, there's the closing
pin.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, I would laugh at that.
They came loose and all of asudden the battery goes.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
That's awesome Dude.
That is how much is the new,the bigger shoot cost.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Um, so, new ones, how much is the bigger shoot cost?
So new ones are like $2,500 to$2,800.
Used ones it depends on thecondition, but anywhere from
like $400 to $800.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
So the shoots are less than the actual like bag
and everything that.
Why like it's just more putinto the bag in terms of like
safety stuff yeah, there's a,there's a lot that goes into
this um and and it.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
It all has to be certified by a master rigger.
You know, like I can't sewanything onto this, sure, you
know, or make any type ofalterations to it in any way
there goes the advertisingopportunities.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
But that's fine.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Well, so you see how it's got, like this little
Mexican jalapeno thing.
Yeah, I'm just gonna throwvelcro uh, no, it's, that's
embroidered oh, oh, geez okayyeah, no, that's embroidered.
Uh, the brand?
Um, no, it's, it's whoever theoriginal owner, mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Almondina O'Reilly so question how many?
Like, how far does thehand-me-downs go, unlike a lot
of these on the used market likeis it like maybe two people
safe?
Or is, like is there a numberthat they usually tell you don't
go, like after four people haveused it and they're selling it
after that, you know?

Speaker 1 (30:04):
no, it's, it's all based on the data manufacturer
and and how many jumps it's got.
Um, and then you know it arethere.
Are there patches?
You know like, was therefucking holes, same drip that
had to be patched, and how manypatches are there?
You know those kind of things.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
So for every jump then you have to have a log with
your parachute, then that stayswith it, or how do you know how
many jumps it has on it?

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Well, so yeah, so that's that's on me to keep that
in my log, uh, in in my logbook.
There there's a space where youyou put your equipment.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
And so, uh, you know like, because I've been doing
rentals, I put storm two, 10.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
And my equipment.
That's what I've been flying,okay.
So so when you bought that offof this person, like, did they
give you the total number andsay this is?

Speaker 1 (31:05):
what I had in my log, or they just give you a copy of
their log.
I just I didn't care, it's notlike well, you said there's a
max limit.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
So it's sort of like battery cycles.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
You know, after so many battery cycles the
battery's just garbage like apack maybe get used, but
parachute I don't know okay butthen on the other, but then on
the other hand, when it, butthen, on the other hand, when
you get a brand new parachute,it's never been tried before so
that's, true I did, I did run itby by carlos.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Um, where's the fucking?
He must have some extraparachutes for you.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
How many packs does he have?
Like 10, didn't he say he hadlike different packs for I?

Speaker 3 (31:49):
think he said he had what?

Speaker 1 (31:50):
4 he's got a couple different ones.
Yeah, I'm not sure how many,but like one of the things that
he was planning to do if I, if I, wasn't able to rent in Alabama
is he's got.
He's got a container that wouldfit me and he was going to get
a demo canopy from PD and thenlet me fly that.

(32:16):
But Alabama's got Reynolds, soI'm good.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
What did you think of my RC parachute dude?

Speaker 3 (32:26):
I was going to say what?
Are you going to start jumpingthere, todd, with your little RC
guy?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Dude, I that came up.
So I, paul, I got to send you avideo.
So my brother, my niece, justwent to college and I think my
brother I don't know if it wasfor her birthday or graduation
or something, I think my brother, I don't know if it was for a
birthday or graduation orsomething got her a tandem jump.
And then she's like come on,dad, you got to go with me.
And like he didn't want to go,and he went and he said he goes,

(32:51):
dude, he goes.
It's like he said it wasawesome, but he was like I
thought I was going to die, likehe like, yeah, I guess he was
life insurance plan.
Yeah, like everything was allset and uh, I guess the guy was

(33:13):
doing like like spins, like justkind of around, and he goes.
He goes.
You know, like when you'reyou're doing that bat thing and
you're running around yourheadstands, he goes.
That's what it felt like, hegoes.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
I thought I was going to puke if you watch any of the
tandem videos, like CSC putsthem out all the time, videos of
people doing tandem, and a lotof times the instructor will

(33:40):
spin them around in a circleduring free fall and then when
they're when they're undercanopy, like the, the way that
they'll freaking, they'll spin.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah, that's what he was doing, but totally sideways
but he but he was doing likesomething where he was just kind
of like their head was like thepivot and they were just kind
of going around.
So he's like.
I was just like.
I don't know how we describedit circling the drain yeah, and
he's like he goes.
I thought I was gonna puke, hegoes.
But it's pretty awesome, hegoes.

(34:12):
You don't even feel like you'refalling.
He's like, yeah, you jump outof the plane and it's like he
goes.
You're like you're flying, hegoes.
It's freaking crazy.
I was like I was free fallingfor like a minute or something.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
He said Yep, 60 seconds of free fall?
Yeah, and it doesn't feel likeyou're falling.
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
I wonder if those base jumpers feel like they're
falling because they have theperspective of the cliff.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
You know what I mean.
All right, I will give you thisinsight, because I was going to
do it anyway.
But so, base jumping andjumping out of like a helicopter
, or jumping out of a balloon,any of those types, you get that
falling feeling.
You get that roller coasterfeeling because you're exiting

(35:01):
wherever you are and then youhave to get to terminal velocity
, right, and so, like that'swhere you get that feeling.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
When you jump out of a plane, like I mean, you're
already traveling, you know, atalmost 100 miles an hour, right,
and then you go out like thespeed change is negligible, so
you don't feel like you'refalling, yeah, so okay, well,
let's get into this, because Ithink we should talk a little

(35:32):
parachutes, because it kind ofdovetails into 24-hour podo too
as well, a little bit, and butwell, so now that you get the
parachute and everything, you'repretty much ready to rock and
roll for montesano jumping ordown in, uh, huntsville, right
I'll, I'll still, I'll still beusing a rental because I don't
have.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
I don't have the main .

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Oh, got it yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
I mean, could I jump with it?
I could, would it?
Would it be terrible?
Probably not terrible, um, youknow, but like to go from a 210
to a 170 is a big jump so it'snot like the same sensation you
have with the new ham radio.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
You just, you know, rip it out of the box or, you
know, take it out of the backand like, let's go, let's start
a lot of other like thingsyou're going to get around to it
before you start playing withit yeah, I would imagine that I
would have to have a rigger putit in for me yeah, they're

(36:32):
trying to do that.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
I don't know necessarily that the risers are
the correct length and all ofthat.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
So yeah, just so.
Adjustments is basically whatit's going to be for a while,
right.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah, until I, just I , yeah, I just I need to get a
main.
Um, I want to get to, I want toget a longer chest strap.
The chest strap is fairly short.
Um, and then, yeah, other thanthat, it should be good to go.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Now, is there a difference between, like, a
female and a male parachutes orno Like, is it just they all
kind of unisex size?

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yeah, I mean, unless it's specifically designed for,
you know, a female body likethat's there, they're, they're,
basically they're.
They're fit for your physicalproportions, right, they're fit
for your physical proportions,right.
And so, like when I first triedthis on, you know, granted,
it's coming from a girl who'sconsiderably shorter than I am,

(37:35):
yeah, but it was short on me,you know, like the hip ring was
like the bottom of my rib cage,that's like a jab in your gut,
yeah, but so you know, I don'tknow that she had it adjusted or
anything, but she changedsomething with it, because when

(37:58):
I tried it on again two monthslater, like it fit perfect.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Perfect.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah, months later, like it fit perfect, oh, perfect
.
Yeah, well, she might havetaken something off that was
like reducing the size or makeit a tighter or something, but
that's cool, all right.
Well, let's kick this pig off.
So, uh, we're just going totalk a little bit more 24 hour
photo because I wanted to do.
Once.
We had that discussion about 24hour photo, we ended up getting
a lot more people asking aboutwhat was going on and interested
, and a few people actually evensigned up again that weren't

(38:31):
originally going, that are nowgoing.
So I figured we'd talk.
Um, as I said in the chat, justin case you didn't read it uh,
todd, uh, primarily around.
Uh, you know talking, because Iwas re-watching the replay from
near and you guys were talkingpropagation and I was thinking
to me I'm like, well, it'sdefinitely right about the.

(38:51):
It doesn't get better untillike mid-September, and so we're
going to be the first week ofSeptember and we're still
possibly going to maybe have todeal with some solar cycle
issues and and so we probablyshould just talk a little more
about you know what's our plan Bfor that type of stuff, because
I don't think we, you know,obviously we alluded to FT8 and
having another station and oneof the things that came back to

(39:13):
me.
It wasn't clear enough as tohow we're kind of doing it in
terms of the station setup, butwe'll go into more on that a
little bit.
But I wanted to talk about someof the cool stuff that was
coming up.
Um, I did a huge mail blast to abunch of different uh vendors,
as I posted in discord.
If you didn't see that, todd,um, you know, uh, ray Novak got
back to me, said, yeah, he's allon board.

(39:33):
So then, a whole bunch of stuff.
So we'll get a bunch of iconstuff.
Um, off, uh, spool tenna.
Um, uh, I'm trying to think, uh, wolf of a coil something.
Uh, they're gonna send tosomething I'm not quite sure
what.
Um, who else?
Matt's got a whole bunch ofstuff he's bringing and giving
away.
Bob's doing a special, you know, mystery box that we'll talk

(39:57):
more about.
So, you know, just wanted totalk more about those things and
you know we can then talkpropagation and get into uh,
that and the circle mail drop.
You know, is it your uhaffiliate now?

Speaker 1 (40:12):
uh, yeah, that's so.
That's what I'm using for formy on the road shit.
Um, I didn't mean to put itover my face.
I.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
I was going to say like, wow, you really must be
getting kickbacks for this ifyou're willing to cover yourself
up.
I'm like, yeah, you are frontand center, you are part of this
, you're getting better, you'rereally covering yourself up now.
But cool, so, yeah, any winlinks at all.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Let me check.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
We did get one post from Bob Paul, todd.
Sorry, let me grab that.
I start it.
I don't think I sent it to you,though Bob said this is from
last week.
I'll just post it the chatthere and you can read it there.
Chat chat chat private chatgroup.
That's what bob said, todd, uh,but nothing else on me, just no

(41:18):
, that is uh.
Heat events, sorry so we doindeed have a win link oh, I
assume chris would probably beone right, since he's trying to
do every week yep.
Did he use proper punctuation,this time with commas?
So it is actually I sent an hfwin link comma.
Who sent that?
Uh, bob kd9 ysw oh no, that waschris's.

(41:43):
Yeah, he's talking about thestuff I posted in the chat.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Bob who what's called the only Bob he?

Speaker 3 (41:49):
doesn't have a call sign yet.
Hopefully he'll test at a 24hour photo.
So we got to remember to planfor that.
And then I emailed a good gametelling him that we were doing
the TI giveaway, and he said hewould get back to me.
I didn't hear from him and thenI hit him up on direct message

(42:10):
on Instagram and he said, oh,get back to me, he got my email
so he may come up and you knowhe's all good for us to do a,
not a giveaway, a fundraisingdrive, so that'd be cool.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Yeah, and we can set it up through coffee.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah, that came out really good we can?
Yeah, we can progress bar yeah,yeah, that was really cool.
When you had that above yourhead I was like oh.
And then oh, yeah, if it wentfrom like 10, 15, 40 and like a
look but 40, like okay, what'sleft?

Speaker 1 (42:41):
yeah, so.
So at the beginning of thestream it was at four percent,
at the end of the stream is at70 and, and the following day I
got an additional 500 donor froman anonymous source.
Now I know who it is and Ithanked the person you know, but
dude they.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
They put it anonymously, so I'll respect
that is that cool, yeah, um, andtortoise even gave, uh, oh, it
was given a uh, our finder away.
I think bill was the yeah, billwas the one who scooped it up.
Yeah, yeah, tortoise man, I waslike he's even, you know, in
his first uh, you know glass ofhis uh, jamaican rum there and

(43:22):
he's already given away anR-Finder.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Which was funny because Bill had contributed
$500 prior to Tortoise put thatup and he said, alright, the
next person that throws up $500gets the R-Finder, and I don't
know, I guess Bill took it as achallenge.
He was like alright.
So he was like, yeah, all right, and so he threw down another
five and got himself an eyefinder.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Wait a minute.
Yes, bill bill.
Yes, ra put down five hundreddollars.
And then he said whoever, putsanother.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
No, he already put in 500 on his own.
Yeah, mike tortoise.
Yeah was said.
Hey, I've got this.
Our finder next person that's,you know I'll.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yeah, if you want to buy it, you know, donate 500 and
it's your radio so bill put inanother 500, yep, put in a
thousand bucks while he washammered, while he was hammered.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
I'm sure he's like what did I do?
Is that legal?
The funny thing is, though,right is PayPal actually put a
hold on the money because it waslike this might be.
You know, fraud, fraud, wow.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Well, speaking of PayPal, I told you guys like I
got screwed with.
They were taking like 99 outand I was like where the fuck's
all this money going?
And then I looked at it out andso they it was like fifth, I
don't know it was like 1700 overlike a couple months it was
like 99 and it was like 149 and90 and it was going to this bank
that I don't have Cause.

(45:05):
When I tried to get on myPayPal account, I had to reset
my password and then there was a.
There was like an extra um,there's a new bank on it.
And then there was a no, andthere was also a new phone
number that was the primary,like that, to get the code or
whatever.
So I called up PayPal and Isaid what's going on and within
like two days they just sent mythe money back.

(45:27):
Wow, that's cool.
They said yeah, you just got tochange your shit on on PayPal.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
So delete your accounts If they haven't already
tried to.
You know, establish.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Someone got into it and they, they changed the phone
number, so they left my phonenumber in there, but they put
theirs because when I, when itsaid what's a two-factor account
, it showed up this differentnumber and I was like no, and
I'm like what the fuck's goingon?
Yeah, that's a little scarythese fucking, you know, and
they're all, they're allforeigners, they're all like
from india, pakistan, yeah well,it's a big thing over there,

(45:59):
it's a big giant, you know.
System like you want.
You want me to get going.
I think we just send the SEALteam in there and take them out
one by one.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
You don't have to dude.
There's YouTubers that makethat their mission and they
target them and hack them whilethey're getting hacking other
people.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
I mean think of all the people that it affects.
I got my bank hacked.
It was such a pain in the ass.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Yeah, my mother-in-law called me up two
days ago and it's like you havethree minutes.
I'm like fine, yeah, sure,what's up.
And she's like let me read youthis.
On my phone it's the typicalscam message that shows up.
Yeah, pretty much that's what Idid, and she was like she
starts to read three quarters.
It's like you know, uh, yourregistration from new hampshire

(46:41):
is blah, blah, blah, and if youdon't get this filled in, you're
gonna owe fees and then we'llsue you.
Blah, blah and I'm like I'mlike trying to yell at him yeah,
exactly.
Well, no, this one was actuallya registration for the state.
I'm like, I'm like whoa, mom,stop, where do you live?
Massachusetts?
Why would you in your mindthink that you'd be getting a
new hampshire registration queryon your phone and you think

(47:03):
it's legit?
Like, just like, like, justdelete it.
She's like, should I delete itbecause I don't want to be in
jail?
Like it will tell me that I,you know, I'm like, just delete
it.
Like they don't send you thatstuff via text, trust me, I
would you know.
If that was the case, then I'dbe, uh, you know, responding
quicker to a lot of uh, you knowinquiries like that.

(47:26):
But yeah, well, there's yourthree minutes.
I'm done.
I gotta go back to work.
Thanks, oh, all right, so yougot a win.
Link two.
You said two, right, no, justthe one.
Okay, cool, all right, let mestill get salty waltz in this
stuff.
I gotta delete this script andfix it, all right, okay, man,
we're in trouble.
We haven't done a live streamfor live free and ham for july,

(47:46):
so we'll have to figure that oneout oh well, just be true in
august yeah, well, we might haveto count, uh, you know, or two
in september, friday, and thenthe live stream for, you know,
the 24-hour photo.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
All right, I mean we could, we could probably sneak
one yeah, we could.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
I mean, well, once you get settled in Montesano and
whatever you know, we can tryto do something there.
Or you know something betweenI'm just you know it's crazy and
whatnot trying to geteverything done before the end
of August, all right, well,let's kick this pig off then,
okay, and five, four, three, two, one.

(48:33):
All right, we're gonna talk 24hour podo because we got some
updates and we're gonna betalking about our friend mr
propagation because we thinkhe's gonna be a sneaky bastard
and try to mess things up for us.
But more of that on.
Next.
To Live Free in Ham.
Hello and welcome to Live Freein Ham podcast.
This is our weekly show, asalways, where we discuss ham

(48:53):
radio topics in New Hampshire,new England and beyond.
I'm thrilled and we're thrilledto have you here.
Whether you are a regularlistener or you know, you're
tuning in for your first time.
Thanks again for joining us,appreciate you.
And thanks again for joining us.
Appreciate you.
And thanks again fordownloading the podcast.
All right, so let's get intothe show.
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Speaker 1 (49:14):
And I'm with my co-hosts.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Paul N1OJ WNSTJ.
Todd the General.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
The General there he is.
The General.
I couldn't believe you wantedme to take that off the back of
that shirt.
I thought that was perfect.
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Nope, no, it isn't.
And Bob knows for sure.
He knows so well that he hashis own T-shirt to remind all
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So keep it coming, all right.
So with that we're gonna rollinto our usual um ladies and
gentlemen, can I please haveyour attention?

Speaker 1 (52:55):
I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news
story.
Everybody, we got some news.
Slow down, boog, let me handlethis.
We've got some news, I've gotbad news, and bad news.
I have reviewed ship'spersonnel.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Captain congratulations all right, cool.
Well, we've got a bunch ofthings in the mailbag today.
Um, I know we've got uh stufffor you, todd, someone loves you
all right, this is uh from bobcough.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Hey guys, after watching the last week of july
podcast, it looks like toddneeds a vacation.
True, I do need one.
Uh, he's really getting prettytesty.
I'm wondering if I should bringthe cattle prod to the 24-hour
poter just to keep Todd and Paulseparated.
Or, on another thought that thismay be, todd is just developing

(53:46):
the pre-retirement grumpy oldman syndrome.
Well, yes, I am in thepre-retirement mode because, uh,
I've got about six years to go,so I am uh wishing six years
goes by real quick.
But anyway, yeah, it's beenrough.
Uh, I think I was venting alittle bit on the uh on the
podcast and, uh, I don't know,let us know if you like that

(54:09):
side of me or you want me torein it in a little bit, because
I can get going if you let me,but uh, well you know, what
might happen is we have tochange your youtube channel from
wns tga to grouch in newhampshire, because grouch is no
longer per se in new hampshire,so I mean grouch in the usa
would have to be his new channelname we just changed the whole

(54:30):
podcast to the grouches oh no, Ido not want to be loved in that
one.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Sorry you guys, you're cornered in the market.
I've got my own stuff, yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Anyway, thanks for that, bob.
It's always good to get mailand I'm looking forward to
meeting you in person at the24-hour photo.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Yeah, cool, all right .

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Well, with that we also have some win links, as
always.
So over to you, mr grouch.
What do we got?
Uh, kilo delta nine yankeesierra whiskey.
Uh, writes to us.
He says uh, subject is week ofaugust the fourth.
Uh, he says well, start ofaugust was hot for us here in
east central wisconsin.
Yeah, working as a manualenameler is is hot next to 1700

(55:20):
degree furnace, other than thatkids are getting ready for
school.
Uh, I will try sending a windlink via fm next week if I can
find a close enough gate.
I have a hot hotspot set up nowto get DMR or C4FM, but I need
a radio to use in the house.
Might take it mobile to chatwith some of you.

(55:44):
Other than that, dropped thevideo of N1OG and myself
activating US 1458, of N1OG andmyself activating US1458.
And he says, yes, I got N1JURon the CO2.
Other than that, just waitingfor the personal stuff to get

(56:05):
done with and waiting to see mydiabetes doctor.
Stay safe and do not leave anybands behind.
Signed Chris KD9YSW.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Very cool, chris.
Any bands behind signed chris89, ysw.
Very cool, chris.
Well, hopefully the diabetes hedied to be dies a beat diabetes
is what I was thinking in myhead before I said it.
Hopefully the test comes back,good, but more so if you're, you
know, maybe hooking up with her.
You know that's always a goodthing too, man, don't overlook
that.
If she's hot, whatever, uh, allright, cool.
Well, and you know, the onething I was thinking of that I'm

(56:35):
missing a lot, you know, wasn'tmike and to mak doing win link
wednesdays, like that was likehis thing they was doing all the
time.
So, mike, I don't know, likechris is gonna eventually
dethrone you of that spot.
I don't know.
Uh, you know, what do you say?
You know, are you gonna comeback in in full force?
You know I'll just throw it outthere and leave it, but you
know, hey, let me know.
So, yeah, cool, thanks, chris.

(56:57):
And I have to say he isobviously with a 1700 degree
blast furnace.
When I saw him on your livestream on Friday he did look a
little bit more tan.
You know, there was, that was asure.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
So all good yeah, I've talked to him a couple of
times, like as he's going intowork and like I mean you could
just, you could just almost seethe heat as he entered the
building.
Wow, dude, yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
I'm already sweating just hearing you talk about that
.
Yeah, that's, that's a lot, man,but I give you a credit, man,
that man, but I give you credit,man, that that that takes a lot
of uh, you know a lot of effortto do that every day.
But, uh, more power to you,buddy, and keep it up.
Work towards a goal, sweet, allright.
Well, hey, if you, you know,are so inclined and you want to
send us something and you wantto be one of our type a's, uh,
you can always send us a winlink.

(57:47):
Uh, as well, send that only andI'm going to repeat this once
and only once to n1og at winlink, because anything you send
n1jur is just going to repeatthis once and only once to N1OG
at WinLink, because anything yousend to N1JUR is just going to
be returned to you unpleasantly,as is the way it goes.
So if you want yours to be readonline, or our next episode,
then definitely send it toGrouch.
He'll definitely put some verygood attention to it and treat

(58:10):
it with the utmost kindness andrespect, more than I ever will.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Yeah, I actually check my WinLink.
Yeah than I ever will.
Yeah, I actually check my windlink.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Yeah, I don't, yeah, I can't.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
It might be, you know , five minutes before the show,
but I check it.

Speaker 3 (58:23):
That's five minutes more than I do at all.
So, and Todd, combined, I meanthat, you know, can't put myself
in my own bucket, all right.
Well, good deal on that.
We have no do goods.
And so, hey, just in caseyou're new to this show, if your
club is doing something uh, youknow fun, or maybe you're
getting together at a PO to meetup or whatever.

(58:44):
We've got a section called dogood.
We haven't done it in a longtime, I know.
Um, our club, once we startdoing some more community type
events, I'll be bringing thoseback a bit, um, but yeah, hey,
we'd love to hear it, we'd loveto share, we want to spread the
joy of clubs that are actuallydoing some really cool stuff,
you know, and that cool stuffcan be just being the community,
can be within your club.
Whatever would be the case isspreading the ham radio.
Love is what we're looking for,um, and you know, if you're

(59:12):
like me and way of you know,having the three-letter word
that we all like to call fun,then yeah, send us a do good, we
want to hear it.
So with that, let's get into.
It's everyone's favoritesegment.
And now a little somethingextra with Todd.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
W1STJ.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
Still a general.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
All right, wow, I'm on the ball tonight.
I don't know what it is that's.
This is crazy.
This is like unheard of.
So who knows where this isgoing to lead tonight?
So, yep, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Todd, you had to say something I thought we always,
when did we like move this tolike the right away?
I thought we used to do likehow your ham radio week and then
we oh we're doing this againI'm just wondering why?

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
hey, paul how long you've been on the show.
What's the order of uh, youknow, operations.
Has it always been this order?

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
it has always been this way, all right I love, I
love you man, I love you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
I'm gonna be 54.
My my memory is shot, but allright, I got it.
No okay.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
so I'm gonna side on you, your side, a little bit,
because I had that same seniormoment too, like two shows ago,
where I like, did we go, did we,did we do his before?
And I sit like I press at thatwhole thing in my mind while you
guys were talking and then Ifinally came to the conclusion
hey, my script tells me whatorder we do it.
So I just followed the script.
So you know, if you had thescript there, you'd be all good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Yeah, we always.
We always do the segments andthen we do the show.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
Yep, yeah, because remember that, like that's what
you guys said, on near, likeit's 45 minutes of just Todd in
the extra.
That's where I heard it from.
All the Todd testing was onnear and Todd wasn't there.
That's why I was like, okay,I'm like I know I heard this
from where they were allcommenting on how Todd is always
going to constantly be testingforever and our is, or maybe it
was on pause.
It was on what there's too manylive streams going on this

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entire weekend.
I don't know, it's all blendingtogether.
Uh.
So, yeah, help me out here.
I mean, you might have talkedabout that, probably.
I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
I was probably on your show yeah, we did, we
definitely did, because, uh, Ibelieve, I believe I said uh, if
you want to actually get to theshow, you just got to skip like
the first 45 minutes fiveminutes.
Yeah, I laughed because I knowit's true.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
And at the same time I'm also thinking inside like
man.
We got to shorten this up fast,all right.
Well, we're with that.
You heard it here.
This is where we help Toddstudy for his extra class.
So we pick three questions asalways, test them on it and
hopefully he is.
Knowledge gets him to a pointwhere he gets to get to upgrade.
So if you want to follow along,check out hamstudyorg and it's
always a place for all.

(01:01:59):
The VEs recommend everybody togo.
Don't go to that other you knowtesting site.
This one's way better anyway,so we won't mention them.
But yeah, hamstudyorg is aplace to go and we recommend it
and that's what we use here onthe show to test todd again.
So with that, over to our vequiz master.
Take it away, mr og all right,todd.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
Well, you're gonna love question number one, which
comes from some elements.
Number one.
It's a smith chart, no whatmust the ve team do if an
examinee scores a passing gradeon all?
Examination elements needed foran upgrade or a new license?

(01:02:38):
Is it?
A issue the examinee a new orupgraded license.
B three VEs must certify theexaminee is qualified for the
license grant and that they havecomplied with the administering
the requirement.
C photocopy all examinationdocuments and forward them to

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the FCC for processing.
Or.
D all of these choices arecorrect.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
Do us proud, Todd, do us proud.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
All right, I'm going to go with B.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Mm-hmm, I would agree it is B sir.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
And clearly Todd is learning because, yes, the
answer is B.
Incredible incredible so whatmust the VE team do?
If an examinee scores a passinggrade on all examination
elements needed for an upgradeor new license, the three VEs

(01:03:43):
must certify the examinee isqualified for the license grant
and they have complied with theadministering VE requirement.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
See we don't think we need any more explanation than
that just a quote, because oneof the other things that they
have to do is don't they have toforward it to the ARL to afford
it to the FCC?

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
so you're dear but you're right, but you're wrong.
Okay, so the V, the VE team,has a team lead.
The team lead submits thepaperwork to the VEC Right and
the VC sends it to the FC.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Yeah, I know we had that whole conversation We'll
eventually be doing KP if theyrefuse to yeah.
All right, that's one.
Let's go to number two.
Oh, yes, he loves this.
Let's go to number two.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
Oh, yes, he loves this Sweet.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
Blue, you're my boy, Thank you sir, come on, buddy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
All right, todd.
Question number two has afigure In figure E6-3, which is
the schematic symbol for the NOToperation.
Okay, which one is the NOT?

(01:05:03):
Is it A number 5?
, b number 4?
C number 2?
Or D number two or D number six?

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
No music.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Scroll up again so I can see the trying to think of
the one that we had with thestupid thing going the wrong way
, but it's not the same one, notthe gate, it's not a gate.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
I know this is just the schematic for the not
operation I'm gonna go with a5 Ithink you're right, man.
Final answer Final.
You are right.
Yeah, dude, look at that.

(01:06:06):
Thank you, sir.
All right, see, todd, you'relearning, I am learning, it can
be done.
This is the coolest thing Ihave ever seen.
So for those that didn't catchthe previous time that this
appeared, number one is an ANDgate, number two is an AND gate,

(01:06:27):
number three is an OR gate,number four is an OR gate,
number five is the not gate andfigure six is most similar to an
amplifier roger roger that toddtwo for two there we go.
Dude, now don't crash ready forthe third and final question of

(01:06:53):
the evening which of thefollowing is most frequently
used as a bandpass or notchfilter in VHF and UHF
transceivers?
Is it A a saline key filter, ba swinging choke filter, c a

(01:07:19):
finite impulse response filter,or is it D a helical filter?

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Are you looking it up , Eric Loser?
He's Googling it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
I can hear him typing Damn it I forgot that filter.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
Oh man, it's either A or D yeah, that's what kind of
remembers.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
I didn't find it fast enough um um helical filter
helical filter helical helical.
I'm going to go with thehelical filter yeah, man, like

(01:08:10):
my gut tells me A for somereason.
But the helical filter soundsmore right, but I'm going to go
with A just to split thedifference.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
All right.
Well, Todd said D oh yeah,there we go, dude, and I like
the song.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
Play me my song, mister.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
DJ Give me my song, mr DJ.
So to give an explanation, themost frequently used filter as a
bandpass or notch filter in theVHF and UHF transceivers is a
helical filter.
Helical filters are commonlyused in radio frequency
applications for their abilityto pass a range of frequencies

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while rejecting frequenciesoutside of the desired band.
They are particularly useful inVHF and UHF transceivers which
operate at very high frequencies.
Go figure.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Hmm, well, that hint's pretty good too, that
makes sense.
Helical HF.
Yeah, there we go.
All right, dude, wow, play methat song.
Go, dude, wow, play me thatsong, my DJ why.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
You didn't get it, I got two, I got two.

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
I got two.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Cause, even though he Googled the answer, he no, no,
I think the last one.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
I got the first two right there, my friend, and so
much we kicked Paul off.
There we go.
Let's go back to the dynamicone.
There we go, oh yeah, that's itI clicked the wrong one.
I know Somehow we've got acouple extra scenes that need to
go away.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
I'm pumped Three out of three.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
I'm going to have to just go back to my fellow nerds
and I will retire to the nerderywith our calculators.
That's where I'm going.
Uh, dude, that's awesome and,like a lot of us, are really
smart, I'm really smart yeah,totally.
Oh, man, dude, that's awesome,all right.
Well, like todd, you know, ifyou're hitting three out of

(01:10:04):
three and hitting it on theballpark every week, then there
should be no freaking reason whyyou don't, you know, take that
test or schedule yourself to gotake that test soon.
But you know, if you're stillstudying for that technician
general or that extra class,then hand studyorg is always a
great resource for all of yourtest taking and ham radio
licensing learning.
So, as we always like to say,if you recently received your

(01:10:28):
ticket or maybe you got upgraded, you know, we want to know.
Did we have anything recently,paul, todd, I'm sorry, pod there
, there we go.
The blend, the bolt together,go ahead, paul Paul, exactly
Paul Paul.
Pod and tall.
There we go, paul.

(01:10:48):
Do we have any that we know thebest is this test recently.
None that I've seen that we knowthe best is this test recently?
Uh, none that I've seen now.
Okay, all right.
Well, hey, you know, and thatgoes for all of our folks out
there.
Heck, if you uh have recentlyupgraded, we have a channel.
You can post it in our discord.
So head over there, leave thatin there and we'll make sure we
mention you on the next uhepisode.
Um, or feel free to email us atlivefreeandham at gmailcom and

(01:11:11):
we'll mention you on the nextshow.
So now, with the next step inour script that we do every week
to week, I'm going to ask hey,todd, and hey, paul, how's your
Ham Radio week?
And we'll start with Paul there.
How was your Ham Radio week, myfriend?

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
Well, I, actually I made a Ham Radio contact today
on my drive.
So, for those that don't know,I am currently on my way to
Huntsville for the Huntsvillehand fest.
Uh made the first, uh firstalmost half of the journey.
Uh still didn't get out ofIndiana, or I mean Illinois.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
It's all a blend.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Yeah, I'm still in Illinois.
But yeah, every time you knowlike I would come into any type
of you know town or anything youknow, throw my call out right.
I'd throw my call out right.
N1og, November 1, oscar golf,in the mobile on, you know, at
the time I was on 51 South rightand I'd give it, I'd give it,

(01:12:13):
I'd give it, give it, give it,give it.
You just don't hear anythingback.
And then, uh, just before I gotto odin, illinois, uh, there was
, there was another town that Idon't remember the name of it,
um, but I, I heard, uh, I hearda guy on 14652.

(01:12:34):
And so I waited and he gotclearer and clearer and clearer
as I got closer and so hewrapped up his conversation.
He said, okay, I'll let you go.
And so I was like, well, now'smy opportunity, I want Oscar
Golf mobile I-52 cell phone.

(01:12:55):
And a guy came back.
His call sign is whiskey delta,9 november.
Uh, look him up on qr's ad.
He's got a really, really coolpage, uh.
But uh, yes, and david, uh sentme an email as well, uh, which
I I got you know a little bitago.
And he said, hey, listen, uh, I, I put you in the log.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
Uh, you know not that it was like great dx or
anything but they got it, soit's whiskey delta 9 november,
right, yep, that was wow okaywhiskey 9.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
What whiskey 9?

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
whiskey delta 9 november wait a minute, wasn't
he on, uh?

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
yeah, the clubhouse, it was ramsey.
It was ramsey, illinois.
Yeah, he's been on theClubhouse.
It was Ramsey, illinois.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
Okay, well, he's been on the Clubhouse.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Oh really.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
Yeah, this is I can't remember what episode he's got
like a radio voice that, likeyou know, like a really really
good radio voice, but his shackand everything he was on.
Yeah, he's been on theClubhouse.
Cool, that's awesome awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
Yeah, so, uh, I did, uh, I did point him in the
direction of the podcast sohopefully he hears this, uh,
this episode when it, when itdrops next week.
And uh, it was, it was reallycool.
You know, I mean, it was theone and only uh contact that I
made in the five hours that Ispent the truck today.
Um, but uh, it was really cool.
You know what I mean.
It was the one and only uhcontact that I made in the five

(01:14:19):
hours that I spent in the trucktoday.
Um, but uh, it was, it was goodto get them and uh, you know,
we, we, we chatted for maybeabout five minutes or so before
I started to lose them.
Um dude that's awesome reasonthat I was losing him was more a
me thing than a him thing.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
you know it couldn't have been that big giant tin can
reflector that you were toldbehind you.
But you know right yeah, itjust.
It just blocks the, uh, theantenna a little bit, you know,
just a bit yeah you might haveto put a second one on the back,
and then you know, toggle,switch it to be able to keep
your conversations going.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
But yeah, yeah, right , or I'll figure out a way to
just, you know, connect, connectto coax, you know to the
trailer and have have theantenna on the trailer.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
You could do that.
Yeah, you make the whole.
You know the will it antenna.
You know, just tune it up, seeif it tunes up in two meters.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
Will the Grouch Mobile Command tune?

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
I know right, Don't touch the trailer.
Kids, stop touching the trailer.
I'm busy trying to have aconversation here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
You know what, honestly so K Murder Mike, he's
getting into Huntsville tomorrowas well.
I may have to just be like dude, let's do a quick little video.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
You bring out your G90 and you know, we'll just
we'll try and tune up thetrailer and see Might as well.
Dude, that'd be awesome.
Yeah, I'll game for that.
I'm sure he'll be all over that.
I mean, that's the only thing.
I don't think he's tuned up yet.
Sweet, all right.
Well, dude, that's awesome.
It sounds like you're off to agood start and you know you'll

(01:15:59):
be what in what?
Eight hours More than eighthours, probably a little longer
You'll be hanging out with thebest of the best of the best of
the best of the YouTubers and awhole bunch of other folks.
So, you know, give K5YVY a bighug.
For me, k5yvy, make sure youtake a picture of the Ed Dong,

(01:16:20):
because I want to see it in.
You know all of its glory.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
Yes, absolutely yeah, I plan to, I don't know, just
either wear the GoPro on mychest or on my head, Just try
and catch as much footage as Ican.
And, um, I, uh, I got a newphone.
It, it, uh, it, it actuallyit's funny, right.
So it it takes me back becauseit's a flip.

(01:16:47):
It's smart, but it's a flipphone.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
And, dude, I tell you it is so satisfying, like when
you finish a call and you closethat flip you like the click
because it reminds you when youactually hung it up.
Yeah, kids will neverunderstand that like that was a
very uh you know, slamming thephone down on the ringer all the
time.
You'd hear the bell go ding andyou're like, okay, that was

(01:17:14):
satisfying enough and you'd walkaway.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Those days of strangling yourcat or dog or fellow family
member with the long cord to thecloset, yeah, those don't recur
any longer yeah, you stretchthe kitchen cord out and around
down the hall yeah, exactlyright, and by the time you get

(01:17:36):
it, it would look like, you know, like over this, like after a
while, it wouldn't actually everget its shape back again.
Oh dude, those days, I miss them.
They were simpler.
They were simpler.
Uh, cool, all right, well,awesome.
Uh, we are gonna be lookingforward to seeing, uh, you know,
the grouch popping up and andall of the events, and so I

(01:17:57):
guess you're on the hook forjumping right down there.
Is that what you're gonna do onfriday?

Speaker 1 (01:18:02):
yeah, so, um, so, carlos and I, we, uh, we've kind
of been tossing around likelogistical things, uh, and one
of the things I will say, like Igreatly appreciate that.
You know he said this, that hedoesn't want to gatekeep,
parachute, mobile, right, hewants to encourage people to do

(01:18:24):
it.
But you know, obviously youhave to do it safely, right?
And you're adding, you'readding other extra things on
yourself, on your person, thatcould potentially interfere with
your gear.
And so what I did was I found aheadset that would go in my

(01:18:48):
helmet with a connector for thebow.
I tried to find one that wouldplug into my FT3D but, for
whatever reason, that single3.5mm jack pales in comparison
to the Kenwood fuckingconnectors that are out there,
which is what a Baofeng uses.

(01:19:09):
So I got two little flatspeakers that sit in the audible
altimeter pockets on eitherside, so right by my ear, and
then, uh, it's, it's got alittle boom mic that it'll sit
right in front of my mouth, um,and, and it does have a a
disconnect.
So if something was to go wrong, like I can, I can disconnect

(01:19:32):
it from the helmet and lose,lose the hd and yeah, now you're
gonna run it on vox or you'regonna run it just like with the
little ptt button so the theheadset actually came with a uh,
a ptt button that I could strapto my hand oh, wow and yeah so,
uh, so I'll be able like alittle soft button on my hand.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
Nice, yeah, carlos has one like that right, sort of
like that.
Or I remember him kind of likegripping or doing something
weird.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
Yeah, he holds his in his hand.
But yeah, ah, okay, the onethat I got it's got a Velcro
attachment, so you just put theVelcro around your hand and then
you stick the PTP buttonwherever you want Nice.

Speaker 3 (01:20:16):
So, yeah, you're going to have to work on the
recording aspect of it, becauseyou can't log up there, right?

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
Right, and so we actually did discuss the
logistics of that as well,because I can't record, I don't
have that ability.
So what we're going to do iswe're just going to alternate
CUSOs and so when he makescontact with somebody, I'll make
contact and then I'll call QRZ,and then I'll make the next

(01:20:45):
contact and he'll make the samecontact and he'll call QRZ, and
we'll just go back and forththat way.
So that way he'll capture allof the audio and video and I can
just do a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:20:58):
Nice.
Well, when you come back thisway, remind me and I'll give you
the.
I've like the small littledigital recorders or whatever
that have the inline, you knowkind of feed, pass through tooth
, so you could do a like a Yconnector.
You're more than welcome tothat.
It's a digital recorder and Iwas doing it for satellite, but
I I am never going to get to mysatellite gear anytime soon, and
so I'd rather just have a finda home, because it's like one of

(01:21:19):
those things that you know willjust sit there otherwise.
So yeah, if you're ready torecord or you want to kind of
play around that, let me knowand when you get back I'll throw
it at you yeah, I mean it woulddefinitely be cool to be able
to at the very least record theaudio of Parachute Mobile and
several.

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
Hopefully people will be close enough to the live
stream cam.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
You could probably use your phone for that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Up at that elevation I don't think he wants his flip
phone.

Speaker 1 (01:21:49):
You want me to just be like?

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
alright, hold on.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Let me hold my phone out.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
Strap it to your strap there.

Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
I don't know, dude, all you hear is get in the phone
because it's not going to beable to pick up any of his voice
.
But it'd be interesting audio.
I think I hear a K one in there.
Really bad, but yeah, no, cool,all right.
Well, dude, that's awesome.
That is a pretty cool to youknow.
See, hopefully, you know, Iwish I was somewhere in that

(01:22:18):
vicinity.
Now you know, it's making merethink a lot of my scheduling
and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
So yeah, you will get .
You will get your chance tomake a parachute.
Oh, I know up this way.

Speaker 3 (01:22:30):
We'll talk about that for sure that that I'm not
worried about.
I'm just thinking, like all ofthe other events that you know,
todd and I've been like, oh weshould go to Dayton, oh, we
should go to Huntsville.
So, todd, you're going to beretiring soon, earlier, and I'm
going to figure out how to, youknow, offset some of my income
to be able to do that.
But anyway, yeah, well, uh,chicagoland, and, and I'll just

(01:23:03):
take the truck to dayton with atent yeah and and I'll, and I'll
do it that way, and then, um,you know, I'll do, I'll do
huntsville the same way well, ifwe're doing dayton, you know,
one of the things that we didobviously for the 24-hour pod is
we just rented a camper and,like we do what um jason does,
he'll just rent one out in thatarea and then pick it up on the

(01:23:23):
way in, and then you know, yousplit it four ways and it's
pretty cheap yeah, I mean, if wecould do that too.
Yeah, that works yeah, that wayyou're not dragging something
like that big and killing gasand whatever, and then we can
get out there faster and hitpoda parks along the way and
it's.
I don't know how long it is todrive this way.
It's probably 15 hour drive orsomething like that from there

(01:23:45):
to you know, dayton, but yeahmore to come on that wasn't ryan
gonna fly us?
well, yeah, but then we've gottalike, rent a car and then we've
got to fly, you know, or ahotel and all that stuff and
that like I can only imaginewhat that would run to well, I
might be able to get some freehotel rooms, okay, well around
dayton.
I hear it's almost impossible.
You should be booking now fornext year.

(01:24:06):
So yeah, I'd rather rent atrailer.
You know that way we could beat a campground and not like
have to like we won't be atDayton because it's almost
impossible to get a site there,but, you know, because the
waiting list is so freaking long.
But you know we might be ableto find an outside campsite and
you know Mike probably wouldjoin us because he drives out
there and you know we could getfour or five guys to.

Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
You know, easily get on on that yeah, I'm sure
somebody's going a state parkthat they recommend, you know
yeah that wouldn't be too faraway stay at a photo and uh, I
want to say I think, uh, I thinkcarlos jumps out of uh skydive
cincinnati for a date so, oh,cool, sweet yeah, that'd be fun.

Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
Very cool, all right, man.
Well, looking forward to uhseeing what's coming up in the
horizon, I mean, what thehuntsville is, what next week is
that it?

Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
yeah, next weekend yeah, cool.

Speaker 3 (01:24:59):
So yeah, all the the shenanigans and fun will start,
uh early next week and then theactual huntsville is that
weekend, uh, at the end of thetail end of it, right?
Yep, so very cool, all right,well with that.
Uh, todd, how was your hamradio week sir?

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
very disappointing.
Um thursday I was heading downto uh see one of my kids and I
was going to show him parks onthe air and had a park all
worked out and uh, well, I meanunfortunately for me, but
positive for him uh, he landedhimself at his first job and he
had worked that day.

(01:25:35):
Oh well, no one told me.
The staff at the program he'sthat never told me, so I had
like 15 minutes with him.
So I was like so didn't get todo the poda.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
But you didn't go do the poda anyway and like chuck
it up as a job thing, yeah, butI had some.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
Last week was a bad week.
I I went, you know, I tookfriday off like I take every
friday off in the summer and uh,I came in on monday and all
shit broke loose on three of mycases.
It was just a nightmare.
So I had to finish up because Iwas taking this past friday off
, so I only had that day tofinish it.
So yeah, it was kind of like ifI can do it with him, you know

(01:26:18):
I'll do it.
If not, but he wants me to goback.
So I said, well, when you getyour work schedule, let me know
and I will come back down andwe'll do it again.
So still good to do it.
And then the only other thing Idid was I moved my mic from the
radio head back to the base ofthe radio and wired it up to

(01:26:41):
where it used to be, next to theside.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
So you removed the convenience.
Oh shit handle.
That was on the front of thedash where the mic lie.
To now to a lower kick plate.
Is that where it now sits?

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
the dash where the mic lie.
To uh now, to a lower kickplate, is that word now?
So it's, yeah, it's, it's nowlike on the side of, it's like
up front in the side of the umcenter console where it was on
my other jeep.
So it's kind of out of the wayand uh, yeah, it was just
because you don't have to reachacross.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
Yeah, yeah I could just get my mic.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
Yeah, I could just kind of fucking told you yeah I
know you guys were right.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
I.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
I thought it was kind of it's okay, but you know it
was.
You know, if I had the old Jeepand I had it set up like that,
they have a mount that goes intothe screw of the old shit bar,
but there's no screws on thisone.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
So I couldn't.
This will be the first timethat you listen to us but we
didn't spend any of your money.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
Yeah, it cost me five bucks.
There we go.
I had to buy, uh, these badboys, these little connectors.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
I just paid my own cable true?

Speaker 3 (01:27:48):
yeah, well, we know, I had the cable, I just did I
don't know what I did with theother one I had.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
I couldn't it.
I was like five bucks for three.
So, yeah, I put it in and Italked to Ted who's watching.
He was on the W one, t E D.
I talked to him on the repeatof this afternoon and the mic is
in the new spot and it allsounds good.
So thanks, ted for testing.
Ted's one of our Patreonmembers and got to listen to our

(01:28:19):
shenanigans pre-show.
So they weren't too bad.
They weren't too bad today.

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
No rants no rants no rants, but anyway, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
So that was my ham radio week.
You know it was what it was.
I was kind of disappointedbecause I was really looking
forward to doing the polo butwork got in the way.
But you know, now that I thinkabout it I should have just said
screw work, it just kind ofdone it anyway.
Yeah, you would have beenhappier guy, for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
Yeah yeah, you got some rail trail to do right,
yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
Does he have a lot?

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
of rail trail to do.

Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
The rail trail.
I was like, oh, this weekshould be easy because I dealt
with all the shit last week, butit's going to be like 90
fucking hundred degrees out.

Speaker 3 (01:28:59):
Tough it out, my friend.
Get out there, make 10 contactsin one hour and be done with it
.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
Move on, although the solar cycle, I hear, is in the
shitter yeah of course it is soanyway, and my other ham radio
is as I promised I'm wearing myHillbilly Hams gear.

Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
There we go.
I wore mine on the live streamFriday.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Thank you guys.
Awesome.
Love the shirt, love the hat.
That's awesome.
I'm going to wear it more andmore on this show.

Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
Wear it at the 24-hour podo.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
I'll have it at the 24-hour podo.
It's pretty awesome that we'rehonorary members and, like I
said, next time I'm in NorthCarolina we're we're making it
happen and even though everytime I go to North Carolina I'm
on the coast and they're all theway inland, maybe we can meet
like midway or something, or Imight just take a day and say

(01:29:52):
I'm leaving for the day.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
Dude, they, you know, they, uh, they.
They've done a row, so it's notlike they can't plan the road
towards you and you can worktowards them.

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
I actually could end up being a full-time member in
retirement if I moved down there.

Speaker 1 (01:30:09):
You know?
Actually, speaking, speaking ofthe hillbilly hams, uh, I'm
going to have to reach out tothem because I need to plan my
route home and where I'mstopping and plan my overnight,
but I'm going to go throughNorth Carolina.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
So I believe they're on the west side of it, kind of
like in the southwest corner.

Speaker 1 (01:30:37):
So you might actually be pretty close to them.
I mean I'll be probably comingup 95.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
That would be my guess.
Yeah, but that's the other way.
You might have to take a detour, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:30:49):
Hey, if everything holds together, go ahead, make
the detour.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Take your time coming back.
That's what I'd do.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
Well, you can't take that much time.
We got shit to do up this way,yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
And uh, yeah, we we gotta, we gotta sell some shit
too.

Speaker 1 (01:31:06):
Yeah, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta make a quicker
trip home than than I would like.

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
Are you um?
Am I still in good for thetrailer?
What yeah All right.
And I cleared out some spot forsome of your stuff that we
talked about, so we're good togo.
Just don't tell Diane.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
We're just not going to tell Diane.

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
It's going to be a stealth mission.

Speaker 3 (01:31:31):
Hey Todd, why is that little shit over the corner
busting at the seams?

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
Now listen, it'll be two totes.
And then, if you want to hangon, to my ice fishing, stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Yeah, the two totes and the ice fishing.
I cleared it out and plenty ofroom up there, so we're good,
thank you, anyway.
So, eric, how was your hamradio week?
Sounds like the bands arepretty crappy for you.

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
Uh, well, to be honest, I didn't play much ham
radio, sadly, so I couldn't tellyou how, whether the bands were
happy or not, sorry.
Um, I had high aspirations alllast week to actually get some
activities done.
I still have to do that 56 to 1antenna review, uh, for the
reliance and all those things.

(01:32:15):
And I was all super psyched tolike, uh, go out and I found a
park, um, a new park intingsborough, uh, that uh is a
wildlife management or a prettysweet park, um, in the middle of
nowhere, and I was like, oh man, I'll go check it out.
And I was on my radar somewherein the middle of the week to
tackle and just work.
You once again got in the wayand never really got a chance to
do a whole lot of things.

(01:32:36):
So I figured I'd try my hand at, you know, playing radio with
my flex that I have here underthe desk every once in a while.
You know, most of the time I Ijust don't have time to do that
and uh, yeah, lo and behold, uh,mother nature, apparently in
one of the last storms thatrolled through, whatever ripped
my antenna down, so I didn'tbother to go out and I'm like,
I'm like, wow, my swrs are alittle high so I tuned it and

(01:32:57):
couldn't tune.
Couldn't tune.
I'm like, do I have like?
Because I know we had alightning storm so I unplugged
it, thinking you know, well,great, I'm now transmitting into
the dummy load, kind of thing.
And I'm like, no, that's notworking.
And I said, all right, I'llcall sideband.
So I I found a couple photo,parks, of parks, and I'm like
I'm calling CQ, calling CQ, andall the SWRs climbing constantly
, like it's, it's banging up.

(01:33:17):
I'm like, oh, this is not good.
So I go outside and I look andthe antenna is literally like
the, the guy lines that werewrapped around the tree at like
40, 45 feet had, you know, sometree branch from upper part,
came down on top of that, snapthat and brought everything
crashing down.
So you of that snap that andbrought everything crashing down
.
So you know, I've got to shootit back up there.
And of course, you know, I'mlike, oh, I'll just go grab my

(01:33:37):
air cannon, I'll do it now.
Well, I forgot, I gave my aircannon to tim and tim's wife,
kimmy, was going to do a wholenice paint job on it and fix it
up.
And they've had it for a whileand it's totally fine, because I
didn't need it and it wasn'tbeing used and and so I had.
Now I do and he's like yeah, itdoesn't really hold air.
Well, I haven't had a chance tofix it.
I've been super busy, likeeverybody else has been, and I'm

(01:33:57):
like, oh yeah, as long as I,you know, I get it enough to be
able to get up there, but I'llget it back to you and and so,
uh, yeah, long story short is,uh, I'll hopefully get that
intent up this week.
I gotta get it on my listbecause if I don't, it's gonna
become, you know, buried in thewoods, woods, and then I'll be
in really you know, biggerissues.
So all that, uh, yeah, so thatdidn't work in my favor at all.

(01:34:17):
And then, um, you know I waslike, all right, I'll, uh, you
know, tackle, you know, throw mygear in the truck and, you know
, maybe go do a couple of otherpod activations.
And yeah, every time Iliterally was walking out the
door, you know, god forbid acustomer have a problem and
interrupt my day, you know they,uh, you know, were very, quite
nicely like they literally knewto the moment, I was like, all
right, I'm gonna go and do aphoto, I'm gonna just like, do

(01:34:38):
something simple, like go to therail trail or whatever and get
a couple contacts, just so Ifeel like a normal person.
Yeah, no, it didn't happen, um,but you know, on the sidebar of
it we had some really coolstuff.
Uh, go on, i've've been in thebackground and I haven't told
you guys much, but in thebackground, trying to work on
reaching out to, you know, theVE folks that actually well, not

(01:35:02):
the VE coast, but theorganization that, excuse me,
creates the testing questionsand stuff like that, because I
want to invite them on and havea conversation with them and
have them talk to us about thatsaid test and why they do the
things they do.
So we're brokering that backand forth.
But in some of my stuff I wasresearching I found that the

(01:35:24):
structure of the testing, theircategories they create.
There's a specific category foreach level of the testing,
called distractors, todd, andthose distractors are the ones
you get caught up on all thetime, because I went back on a
couple of random spots and everyone of those questions that I
looked in their category is adistractor, and so it's intended
to throw you off the trail orcause, you know, frustration,

(01:35:44):
because that's how tests aredone.
I mean, they throw indistractors.
They don't want it that simple.
So you know that's a question.
I was like, oh, I'm going tojot this down and we're going to
ask them when we have them,come on.
So you know, hopefully, knockon wood, in sometime September
timeframe, after we get past 24hour photo, we'll have them on
and chit chat.
So, yeah, it's coming.
It'll be good to you know, getthe bird's eye view of you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
I'll call my doctor, I'll get some Ativan, yeah well,
I'll hold you back.
Or out of in, yeah well, I'llhave to hold you back, or I'll
just, or I'll just go to Pauland, uh, hang out with him heavy
drink well, I'll be good, orothers, so I'll hook you up.

Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
Yeah, exactly right, that'll be a fun show.
That'll be.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
That'll be wonderful, everyone will tune in for that
one that will go viral we'llgive Todd a couple of gummies.
Yeah, give Todd a couple ofgummies.

Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
Yeah, I love the test man, the questions are great.

Speaker 3 (01:36:34):
We were like what has gone wrong with Todd?
I don't get it.
So with that, you know.
The only other thing I wantedto throw in there that I was
quite happy to see, I don't knowif you, you guys, aren't on
like a HR two O's uh groups.
I all this right.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
I think I am.

Speaker 3 (01:36:52):
I don't know Ham Radio Dude and I'm surprised he
didn't send it out to morepeople like you, paul.
But Ham Radio Dude is bringingback FT8 off.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
Oh really.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37:03):
He probably posted it in his Discord.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
He might have.
He's been testing it, but atthis point I can't remember when
the.
I mean, I have to go up to hishis page and maybe, paul, while
I'm talking about it, you canhead up to his page and figure
out when that live stream is,but, uh, he's looking for folks
to participate.
He threw it out to um, uh, onham radio 20's io groups list
and I said back sure, you know,put me in, I'm game for it and I

(01:37:28):
can't remember the day.
I think it was the eighth orsomething like that, and now
that I'm thinking, or I can'tremember when the date was, but
he put it out there.
All that being said, yeah, hedeveloped the front end
interface for it and a coupleother things based off his
screenshots, um, so, yeah, wemight.
We might see the ft8 off comeback around again, which would
be kind of cool ft8 battlecomyes, oh, that is so he's got a

(01:37:52):
full website and everything forit interesting yeah.
So, uh, I'm just looking in hisin his discord, and he's got uh
ft8 battle royale as one of theshadow royal and uh, yeah,
there's a, uh, there's a link atthe top to ft8 battlecom oh,
yeah, yep yeah, ft8 battlecomand that goes right to a

(01:38:13):
leaderboard kind of page andeverything else like that.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
I don't see much more after that, but um, yeah, so,
and it it all gets cross-postedin in this board as well.

Speaker 3 (01:38:22):
That's cool that's really cool.
That'll be fun to see that comeback.
I know it was definitely uh,every I think a lot of us like
to do and be part of.
Before it uh went south fast.
So you know, maybe uh, thiswill uh inspire some of the
things like world radio leagueto get you know, into more of
the e-gaming stuff.
But we'll see.
But yeah, all the better, it'sat least there to play and have

(01:38:42):
fun.
So, looking forward to that, um, and then, outside of that, I
don't think I had oh, um, yeah,we can talk about that when we
get into 24-hour potter stuff.
But outside of, yeah, I hadsome good conversations with
some vendors, um, and uh, youknow, a lot of our subscriber
base is doing some really coolstuff with us, so they want to
get involved in and help out.

(01:39:03):
But yeah, we'll dive into thatin a second.
So, yeah, outside of that, thatwas my ham radio week.

Speaker 1 (01:39:09):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:39:11):
All right.
Well, so I know, right, exactly, dude, I can't tell you how,
like this, like from friday totoday, it's been just like a
whirlwind and I feel like I'malways missing or I'm behind
something or forgettingsomething, and in terms of just
trying to stay ahead of, like,all of the ham radio stuff on
top of it.
And you know, of course, in myclub or our club, I should say,

(01:39:32):
you know, we're getting into,you know, uh, renewal season.
So that's just when my you know, of course, in my club or our
club, I should say you know,we're getting into, you know, uh
, renewal season.
So that's just when my you know, everything's going to start
piling on me and my email inboxgoing to be, you know,
constantly, uh, over flooding.
So, yeah, for three months, I'll, you know, just don't talk to
me, or, you know, bother me andI'll be okay.
So will you?

(01:39:54):
Will you tell me when I have torenew, because I think I bought
like, yeah, you're way out.
Dude, if you go up to that linkthat went out and just click,
you know where you stand, it'lltell you.
You know, you're covered forthis year my expiration date no,
well, I didn't.
I didn't want to do that becauseI felt like everybody's like,
well, how far does that reallygo out?
I said you know, so I made itlike you're covered for 2026, so
don't worry about anything morethan a year ahead.
You know, and I'll let you knowwhen you're coming close.

(01:40:15):
Do we have?

Speaker 2 (01:40:16):
uh, do we have a?
Um, what do you call it?
Uh, like a lifetime membership?
Do we ever do?

Speaker 3 (01:40:22):
no, uh, we, we should talk about that, but yeah, that
, that that uh has a few, havehad a few, folks have asked that
, but we go out seven years, soseven years is enough, at least
for a while I don't think I did.
I don't think I did seven maybeyou were one of the like.
I think we have like threepeople that went out that far
and I think you were one of themjust so I mean I'll let you

(01:40:43):
know, it was just easier thanthe 15 bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:40:45):
I was like what a pain in the ass.

Speaker 3 (01:40:46):
I'm gonna become your worst nightmare for that 15.
If you owe 15, that's the worstpart.
I hate this is like I owe 50.
I'm treating people down for$15.
Oh, anyway, you want me to geton this.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
You know how funny it feels, like you think 15 bucks
is.
So Zach likes to get like alike a big Mac meal every once
in a while and Diane doesn't lethim go to McDonald's, so I'll
let him go to McDonald's everyonce in a while.
Diane doesn't let him go toMcDonald's, so I'll let him go
to McDonald's every once in awhile.
Like if I get a Big Mac mealand like I get a drink like an
iced tea or something, it's like15 fricking dollars, yep, for a

(01:41:23):
fricking meal.
A burger fries and a drink 15bucks.
I was like.

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
I mean not to like get way off fucking topic here,
but so I I detest fast food.
Going out to restaurants, rightLike to me.
It just the cost never seemsworth it to me.
But, um, I don't know, three,four weeks ago, um, I was, I was
in a situation where I was justI was running errands and it

(01:41:53):
was it was dinner time and I waslike I don't want to fucking
cook when I get back to the RV,so I'm just going to stop at
McDonald's and that's what I'llgrab.
Right, dude, I paid $20 fuckingdollars for a goddamn Big Mac
meal and the patties were paperthin.
Yep, like paper fucking thin.

(01:42:14):
Yeah, like paper fucking thin.
Yeah, like this is, this isliterally fucking abuse of
customers.
Like I was so disappointed andlike you'll never get some
fucking burgers, man, like, makeit like it used to be when it
was, you know, an actual, likeeighth inch thick fucking patty.
Yeah, you get less and pay more.

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
I mean, everything's like that, though I mean, look
at like, like the deodorant,right like they have the whole
stick still putting it on.
You get like a quarter of itlike you're like I'm all right,
I just bought this, it's alreadydone you sweat too much todd.
Yeah, that I do, but you know,yeah, things, things are getting
.
Uh, yeah, it's, I agree withyou like like we go to this

(01:42:58):
butcher and it's expensive,right, but it's like top quality
stuff and like when you look atlike this seasoned steak tips
and it's like 23 a pound, you'relike what the?
But then when I cook it, it'slike better than any restaurant
and I'm like I buy a couplepounds of that stuff.
It feeds my family for like twomeals.
So if I spent a hundred bucksat the butcher, I'd spend more

(01:43:22):
than that going out to, you know, out to dinner.
But going out to dinner for meis more like um, it's more like
a social thing.
It's like you're going out withfriends, you go out to dinner,
you chit chat, it's like thewhole thing.
It's not so much like oh, Ijust don't feel like eating, I
gotta go out to dinner, but itis getting.

Speaker 3 (01:43:41):
I mean, things are just getting outrageous dude, we
were just costco today pickingup some steaks, like you know, a
package of five, like there wasthe, the, the um t-bone kind of
style or no, uh, more of thethe, uh, what the heck am I
thinking of?
Uh, the sirloin.
And then there was the actualuh, filet mignon.
And the filet mignon weresmaller but they were the same

(01:44:03):
price for five of the regularsirloin and that was like 53
bucks and I was like holy crap,that's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
I like there's something going on with beef,
because they say beef is goingto.

Speaker 3 (01:44:16):
Yeah, the tariffs went up, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:20):
Why is?

Speaker 1 (01:44:21):
Beef comes from America.

Speaker 3 (01:44:23):
Some of it does but most of it doesn't.
You'd be surprised.
It's funny because I did a lotof research into that.
Like half of the beef thatAmerica has gets exported, not
kept here.
So I don't know why we keepthat shit in the country.
Well, I hear it's not thatgreat.
That's why we export it well,we, we got this.

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
Uh, I think it's called butcher block, butcher
box, butcher.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yep, and thatmeat is phenomenal and it's
really not.
It's better meat than it's,cheaper than the butcher, more
expensive than like Shaw's, butit's way better than Shaw's.
So well, I um, I mean, I get, Iget.
Every time I order, I get freeburgers.
Free burgers for life.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
Well, if you've got a freezer, that's perfect.
You can throw that shit inthere and you're good.
But yeah, I just got a freezer.
So I'm thinking like, oh, I'mgonna start like going back and
there's a place called patentroad that a lot of my barbecue
guys that I watch on youtube useand that I'm surprised that
their prices haven't gone up.
But when I was last looking atit was like, oh wow, for a
hundred bucks you're getting, uh, you know, you know, chuck,

(01:45:28):
you're getting ground hamburger.
You're getting like four orfive different items and I'm
just like, dude, that's a steal.
You know now that I can stickit in a freezer and not, like
you know, worry about it goingbad, but yeah, all these steaks
aren't bad no, no, they're allgood, the, the.
We might have to go to aldi, ifyou know, because when we, yeah,
on friday, and I was looking atthat price 53 bucks I was like

(01:45:49):
wow, but although five, you know, you know good sirloin steaks,
that not bad price, especiallyyou know where you probably pay,
like you know, eight or tendollars at aldi per steak.
So you're already, you know, atthe 40 or 50 level and you're
getting a little bit more, youknow it's all marbling or
whatever is all the like cheapgroceries.
Yeah, it's like, uh, like amarket building yeah, it's like
a building 19 of supermarketsI've never, never been in one

(01:46:13):
Might have to go there.
Well, they don't have, like any, like any brand names that we
know.

Speaker 1 (01:46:19):
Oh, so I I had never been to an Aldi, even though
there's one right in Nashua.
Yeah, like I, I had.
I had never been, but it justhappened to be the closest
grocery store to the drop zone,and so now, I keep a quarter in
my pocket at all times.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
For the cart you have to pay a quarter for the cart,
yep.

Speaker 1 (01:46:43):
You get your quarter back when you return the cart.

Speaker 3 (01:46:48):
You do understand that you don't actually have to
put the quarter in.
There are people out there thatare making little plastic 3D
printed things to just slide inthere with your keys, so you
don't actually have to put thequarter in there.
People out there they're makinglittle plastic 3D printed
things to just slide in therewith your keys so you don't even
have to, like, you just pullthe card out.
You don't have to put a realquarter in there.
But whatever, that's cheap itis.
But, like you know, people arelike why do I have to pay a
quarter for a cart?
But you know, go on.

Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
But yeah, so I was really impressed.
And then I don't know if you,if you watch the fat electrician
, but he did.
He did a video on on Holly andhow it started and everything
and like it's a really coolstory, you know yeah.
It was literally designed that,like you, it is more efficiency

(01:47:28):
.
You go down one aisle, up theother, one down and back up and
you're at the register andthat's it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:35):
And a lot of their products aren't like many
manufacturers.
It's probably most of theirstuff that they either rebrand
or branded or not branded at allfrom the main distributors or
manufacturers that produce stuffthat resell and rebrand stuff
for Cheerios and whatever else.
But yeah, it's good stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:47:53):
Yeah, there certainly isn't a hundred different
cereals.
You get maybe like five or six.
But there are some brand names.
I got Dr Pepper there.
They do have Coke, but I getthe off-brand because it's
cheaper.
It's the made with the realstuff, and I'm not talking about

(01:48:15):
cane sugar so now that, nowthat we're uh talking grocery
stores and stuff, let's get backyeah, we're getting back on
track.

Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
why not?
You know, heck rabbit holes.
So, yeah, so, 24-hour photo wedid have I can't remember if it
was last episode of the episodebefore we were chit-chatting
about some of that stuff because, uh, as we're getting closer,
it's literally.
Here's a you know a fun fact.
Uh, it's 30 days away, so, youknow, mark that on your calendar
.
Um, I am holding out.
If you really want to still goand you want to camp or you want

(01:48:47):
to have part of the, the uh,you know, be part of the
catering stuff, please justemail me, like you know, as
quickly as you can, cause I'mthis week getting the numbers
into the catering company forall the barbecue stuff and I'm
starting to, uh, you know, tryto keep everything together in
terms of getting, you know,checks paid for the campsites
and everything else like that.
So, yeah, we, we definitelywant you to come if you can, but

(01:49:08):
I've already reached out tothose that were already put in
uh, for the pre.
Um, you know, camp, uh form anduh to have gotten back to me
that they can't, because I gotuh alternative schedules and I
think uh misha has had truckvehicle problems, which is a
bummer, but he wanted to comebadly and so he's uh hopeful in
the future.
So, yeah, we'll definitely, uh,you know, if this is as success

(01:49:31):
as we think it's going to be,um, then yeah, we'll definitely
have to think about aboutpicking this up again the year
after or whatever we do, andwe'll keep everybody updated on
that.
But yeah, so yeah, we talkedobviously in a very high level
about what we were thinking forthe stations and, excuse me, a
few folks got back to us, youknow, a little still confused,

(01:49:52):
so let me kind of you know alittle still confused, so let me
kind of um.
You know, I'll touch upon thata little bit, but I also want to
share with you some new um orthings that are going on in the
background that we haven't quiteput out there yet, that I just
want all you guys in the livefree and ham community to know
about Um and, you know,hopefully it'll get you more
excited.
And, uh, you know, if you can'tattend, totally fine, you know,
if you can't attend, totallyfine, you know we are going to,

(01:50:13):
like we said, stream this 24hours.
It'll be probably the onlystream live stream, one that I'm
aware of, right, I mean, peoplehave done 24-hour podas at
parks and stuff like that, butthey've never done a live stream
.
So I'm hoping we're the first.
Yeah, so you know, if we arethe first, great, if we're not,

(01:50:37):
heck.
We'll do it better than thefirst persons who did it.
And uh, you know we're gonnahave a whole bunch of stuff
going on.
So I want to kind of share thatwith you guys tonight.
Let you know, uh, what's beengoing on, um, and all of the
cool things and and we're gonnatalk a little about, uh, because
sadly, the guys at at northeastham radio on saturday all got
together.
I wasn't there.
I was tied up, you know, withsome family and friends and
drinking, but I was watchingthem and they were chit chatting
about, you know, propagationand how horrible it is during

(01:51:00):
August and, you know, beginningof September that it starts to
get better as towards you gettowards the end of September,
which, when I was thinking aboutat the time, I was like, oh
okay, something that we have tothink about, and so it kind of
got me, you know, spinning thewheels there a little bit,
thinking okay, well, you know,how do we really want to
configure the station?
What do we have?
A plan B's, just in case, youknow.

(01:51:21):
You know, really, the bands getbad.
You know, how are we going tohandle that, because I'd hate to
have everybody get there andhave a, you know a couple of
hours at the radio and they'rejust calling CQ for the 55th
time and nobody's coming back orthey can't hear anything or
it's static or whatever.
So you know we're going toobviously, you know um, circle
back on that and talk about, youknow, what we think can help in
that area.
Um, but I wanted to share andso I'll start there.

(01:51:43):
First, is that some of the coolthings that we got planned for
the 24 hour podo.
So obviously we've talked aboutthe catering stuff.
So you big barbecue fan willhave, you know, food for most of
Saturday, sunday and and uh,for breakfast and stuff like
that.
So if you want to see grouchand, uh, you know Todd there, uh
, cook or taste their cooking,um, you know, definitely that's
one way to get in there.

(01:52:04):
They'll, they'll be cooking onSunday morning for breakfast, um
, but we'll be catering it, uh,via barbecue for Friday,
saturday nights meals and Sundaywe'll be ordering pizzas and a
bunch of stuff and there'll be awhole bunch of folks, snacks
and everything else like that?

Speaker 2 (01:52:16):
What do you mean?
Sunday?

Speaker 3 (01:52:18):
Sunday morning breakfast.
We're ordering pizza.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
That's what you just said.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
No, I said Saturday afternoon we're ordering pizza.
Did I screw that up?
Yeah you did.
Okay, well, thanks for you knowfixing that I'm just keeping
them honest.
I hate to have more emailsgoing, what so back to train up
here let's clarify we are notordering pizza breakfast and
then we're breaking up camp.

(01:52:44):
I'm going home Saturdayafternoon when most people are
starting to arrive a littleshort of us starting the live
stream, we'll order pizzas froma local pizza place and so
there'll be food there.
So if you come hungry, great,you know, that'll be there and
available.
But, uh, that kind of sums upthe menu there for catering.
So if you're coming and you'respending the weekend there, you
know, bring your own.

(01:53:04):
You know, uh, you knowlibations, whatever you want to
call it, because we're all shareand hang out and and do that,
stuff, stuff, um, but we'lldefinitely have soda and water
and whatever else, so you don'thave to feel like you have to
haul your own water.
That'll be ready, available and, um, you know, there for
everybody, uh, to come and hangout.
So if you're coming to spendthe day, that's awesome.
Uh, if you could come for likean hour or two, totally fine.

(01:53:26):
Uh, you know, if you want tooperate the station, I encourage
you to come, do it.
We always need operators.
It's going to be actually 1 pm 2, 3, 4, 5 in the morning it
might be me, because I mightwake up in a panic attack,
having to like get up and gooperate the station because I,
you know, I I don't hear anybodymaking noises, um, but you know

(01:53:48):
, and you didn't hear from me,if I can run well, that's that,
thank you.
Oh, dude, you're on the samepage as me.
I was like, if I get reallythat point, we're just gonna let
wsjtx run and uh, you knowwe'll be making contacts, no
problem, but you didn't hearthat here.
Um, I don't know what you'retalking about.
I might delete that in post,but, um, all that being said is

(01:54:09):
that, yeah, we're, we're gonnabe setting up a station, and so
we kind of shared that a littlebit.
But, uh, we'll start therebecause I we keep going back to
that we're going to be runningour buddy, or my buddy hex, as
the main antenna.
We're going to be splittingthat into a triplexer and we'll
have two output feeds to twoseparate radios and those two
separate radios will all be inthe radio tent and really all

(01:54:31):
we'll have.
Uh, in addition to those tworadios will both be dx10s.
So if you're not familiar withthem, we'll walk you through a
real quick primer.
But, um, you know, if you areall the better.
The main station that todd'sbringing in will be his radio.
That will be a dx10, but thatwill be our sideband only
station.
So that's going to be going, oravailable to go, the full 24

(01:54:54):
hours.
I would love to see oursideband station fully manned
that's going to be going, oravailable to go, the full 24
hours.
I would love to see oursideband station fully manned
the full 24 hours.
But if we don't, or if you'resaying more of a digital guy,
the dx10, that'll probably besitting just close enough to you
.
You could spin your chair overand you can run ft8 or jsa call
or any of those other modes uh,on any of the bands.
And so where our antennacurrently the, the um, the buddy

(01:55:20):
hex only does 20 through 6,we're gonna probably have to
have matt throw or we'll throwup a couple of end feds to cover
the 15, you know all the workbands, that kind of stuff.
So we have flexibility to beable to be on all the bands,
because that's what we haveavailable to us and it'd be kind
of cool to have, you know,multiple people work with some
multiple bands, um.

(01:55:41):
So that'll uh be set up and allconfigured in the main tent and
that'll have a webcam on it forthe full 24 hours.
So outside of that, that'spretty much what we're going to
be run.
So if you want to come and dotwo meter FM, you know simplex
or you want to come do satellitework or you want to do if

(01:56:02):
gigahertz stuff, whatever, feelfree to bring that stuff.
You can also bring your owngear.
But you know, if you want tooperate if gigahertz stuff,
whatever, feel free to bringthat stuff.
You can also bring your owngear.
But you know, if you want tooperate and activate the park
yourself, we're encouraging youto do it at our station.
You don't have to be on thelive stream to do it.
You know you can definitelywork us.
You know work parks there toget the park credit yourself.
But yeah, just to kind ofsimplify some of the extra noise

(01:56:22):
, and you know issues you mighthave with other stations popping
up.
You know that's what we'retrying to do to simplify that.
And you know we want everybodyto kind of stay, you know,
within the general area of youknow the campsite so we can all
have some fun and hang out and,you know, make new friends and
all the like.
So that's kind of where I'mgoing.
That kind of makes sense to youguys.

Speaker 1 (01:56:41):
Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, yeah.
And just just so that peopleknow, right, even though we're
using the club call, like youcan still submit your log for
the contacts that you've madeunder the club call because
you're the operator you can.
You can also get credit forthose right yeah, yeah, we'll.

Speaker 3 (01:57:00):
We'll do is, once uh you're, we'll run an n3fjp.
I I've got two club laptopsthat will install N3FJP and
they'll just be networkedtogether so the log will all be
centralized between those twomachines and then you're just in
the operator section, enteryour call, if you're gonna sit
down, and then I'll when I getthe log out, after I'll just
chop out the sections and I'llsend you the log to yourself so

(01:57:21):
you don't have to worry abouttrying to figure out how to get
those contacts to submit ityourself.
Make it simple and easy andthen that way you know you can
just do what you need to do Logthe contacts, have some fun,
fantastic.
So that's the station set up.
So if you've got someinteresting stuff you want to do
, satellite work or whatever,reach out to me, let me know and
we'll make sure we get thatincorporated in, because it'd be

(01:57:42):
kind of cool to do somesatellite contacts and credit in
that area.
But again, that's primarily whatwe'll be doing, mostly for uh
that and then for staying on theradio train side of it.
Um, todd's gonna still do hisrecon uh at the park to see
whether or not we can hit therepeater up, um, and if that is
the case and we can getsomething up there and amassed

(01:58:03):
and we can put some good powerout there, the Grouch will
happily take the NCO command, atleast for I don't know,
saturday.
Do you want to do Saturdaynight?
Is, I think, what you wanted todo, or was that Friday?

Speaker 1 (01:58:15):
No, it would be either Friday night or Sunday
night.

Speaker 3 (01:58:18):
Okay, all right, so then probably not Sunday night,
because we'll all be done withthat.
I don't think we're going to bethere anything after one or a
little after one.

Speaker 2 (01:58:25):
Friday night's the club meeting, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:58:29):
No, first or second, it's always the second Friday,
never mind.
Yeah, no, the club meeting'sthe 12th on that one.
So we're good there.
Or actually not the 12th, thatwas a Sunday, it's the 15th.
No, it is the 12th.
The 12th, the 12th, yeah, okay,so we'll go right there.
So, yeah, we won't have a clubto worry about that.

(01:58:50):
Um, so, yeah, we'll do our, youknow, do our, uh, annual, we'll
call this an annual thing.
Why not?
Because you know we do at leastonce a year at this point, uh,
grouch will be the nco forfriday and then saturday we can
spend focused on the 24-hourphoto.
So you know, if you you want tobe part of that, uh, you know,
we'll stay tuned for that.
Um, and uh, I think, if I canmake sure our all-star node

(01:59:11):
that's hooked up if you want tolisten to that net, if you're
obviously not on the live streamlistening to that, because
friday night we we're gonna thelyfreen ham crew, us and a few
others are going to be thereearly on friday to do setup and
prep and all that stuff.
So we don't have have to do thaton Saturday and scramble,
because my Saturday schedule isgoing to be a little interesting
either way, but yeah well, wejust want to get stuff set up,

(01:59:32):
we want to have fun.
So you know again, if youdecided that you weren't going
to be there Friday and you wantto be there Friday, you know,
let me know.
And you can definitely come andbe there Friday and stay over.
But if you can't, then yourSaturday is your thing.
That's fine too, um, buthowever, friday night we're
going to be doing another livestream, live free, and ham.
Um, but that's just going to beus hanging out and having fun
and just kind of blowing somesteam off after getting

(01:59:54):
everything set up and, and youknow, doing a little uh pre-prep
for the Saturday, uh main event.
Yep.
So it should be fun and, uh,you know we've got some
listeners coming out.
Mike and bob and a few othersare gonna be there on friday, so
we're super excited to meetthose guys and finally have, uh,

(02:00:14):
eyeball cusos and chit chat andso, yeah, that's gonna be a fun
event and you know you're morethan welcome to come by friday
night and hang out with us tooas well, if you just want to
just stop by and say hello, um,but you definitely, you know,
kind of just be cognizant of thepark rules, because I assume I
don't want to overstep ourbounds and you know, have people
there stuck when the gatesclose?
If they close the gates, whichI highly doubt they will, but

(02:00:35):
whatever, we'll sort all thatquestions out.
So if you do want to comeFriday, I guess I'll throw that
out there, let us know.

Speaker 1 (02:00:55):
And then we'll just guest list kind of thing, uh, to
come hang out.
But uh, ultimately, uh, that'swhat we're doing for friday.
And so another another thing onfriday, uh is I'll, I'll, I'll
keep it updated on the on thediscord, uh, but if the, if the
weather's good on friday, thenI'm going to do parachute mobile
on friday now you know, that'swhere I was dovetailing to.

Speaker 3 (02:01:04):
Okay, go ahead.
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:01:06):
Yeah, I, just I.
So, uh, I, I want to make surethat you know like one of us,
fucking alpha is going to bethere on Saturday.
Um, and so, yeah, if theweather's good Friday, I'll do
parachute bubble on Friday.
Obviously, you know, it'd begreat to get people to come out
to the park, uh, or or just bein the general vicinity freaking

(02:01:29):
listening okay, I'm gonna throwthis out to you, buddy, because
I know you well, the weather'sgonna determine all of this.

Speaker 3 (02:01:36):
I know friday would be really cool to do, but I'm
gonna be a little selfishbecause in essence we're gonna
be over doing our 4-h communityoutreach and doing a lot of ham
radio demos that I was thinkingthat if you could jump Saturday
a parachute will be really coolwith some young kids who would
be on the HTs picking that up.
But you know no pressure onthere because I know, obviously

(02:01:57):
we you know, todd, hopefullywe'll be there on Saturday to
kind of, you know, be theresponsible one for all of the
live free and ham stuff whileI'm running off, know, running
off, and I'll be back or, youknow, before, like you know,
noontime.

Speaker 1 (02:02:10):
So I'll I'll put it this way If the weather is good
on both days, then I'll jump onboth days, Especially if you can
get the kids together at thefour H thing.
No problem there Really kind ofmake it a special thing.
100%, really kind of make it aspecial thing.

Speaker 3 (02:02:27):
Um, 100%, like I would love to do that for the
kids.
Okay, cool, yeah, well, sowe'll, we'll work offline to get
that coordinated.
But if, uh, you know, weatherchanges or whatever, that's all
dependent on all that stuff.
So yeah, we'll, we'll makethose details happen.
And uh, yeah, if you are in thearea and you want to be part of
that, if you're part of ourlocal club, you can always, uh,
you know, head over to the 4-hfair event.
That's an agricultural fair.

(02:02:47):
But we're doing some ham radiocool stuff there on the sidebar.
We we just let peopleexperience ham radio, uh, have
talks on repeaters, show themequipment.
We're doing a wind link demo.
Um, we'll have an hf stationthere where people can make hf
contacts and, you know, paulwill be the icing on the cake
with the parachute mobile stuffif that happens.
So a lot of cool stuff.
All of that leading up to, youknow, our well, that'll be

(02:03:10):
independent of, you know, saidyou know, 24 hour potter.
So if you're heading upSaturday, you know, we'll have
you all the details out therehow to get there, what times
kind of come in, where and whatand how to check in.
But you know, just geteverything set up.
We're shooting probably forlike between 11 and before one
o'clock, because one o'clockwill be our official 24 hour

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start kickoff for the poda tobegin, and then we'll plow
through that for a full 24 hourstill 1 PM the next day.
So, you know, people can comeand get set up.
There's no rush because inessence, you know, we'll
hopefully have that stationmanned for a couple hours while

(02:03:51):
we're getting people situatedand and food's arriving and all
that other stuff.
So, yeah, it'll be a fun, crazy, uh you know event with a lot
of stuff all going on at once.
But uh, yeah, it should be realfun and and hopefully we'll all
survive and we'll have somereally cool stories to tell
after that.
Oh okay, so I think that iswhere we are right now.
So that clarifies a lot ofquestions for folks.
That's awesome.

(02:04:12):
If you still have questions,email me, hit us up on the
Discord in the 24-hour poda,that way we can all answer it
and pick that stuff up and havemore conversations around that.
But some of the cooler thingsthat are happening through many
conversations that we've hadoffline, that we've talked a
little bit about back and forthUm, we're going to do some
really cool stuff.
You know we're, as we've maybeshared, and we've, uh, you know,

(02:04:35):
definitely try to um, you know,instill in the community that
we do we want to be able to giveback.
We always want to do somethingin that, you know, in that
mindset, and so you know, wealways encourage, obviously,
everybody to go out and dothings with POTA and getting new
people involved.
One of the things that we werethinking and we were talking
offline that you know we wantedto do something to be able to
give back is that you know,previous ham tubers have done,

(02:04:57):
you know, fundraising eventsK-Murder and HRCC and several
times have done fundraisingevents for the Teachers
Institute with Good Game game,you know, and so we figured, you
know why not we should be ableto do that.
We have a great group ofcommunity of people that are all
support our channel, help us,so they support us and I'm sure
they would love to be able tostep up and do that same thing.

(02:05:18):
And then, coupled with that, wewere like, well, how can we
give back to them?
You know, what can we do to getthem more involved?
If they can't be there?
That you know, how can we keepthem to them?
You know what can we do to getthem more involved.
If they can't be there, thatyou know.
How can we keep them supportingus, and obviously with good
game, but more so helpingsupporting us channel?
So we're going to be doing abutt ton of giveaways, so let me
break that down first.
So the the be our tool ofchoice for fundraising.

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If you were on grouch's livestream on Friday, he used that
tool and several other tubershave used it.
A hundred percent of that.
That everybody gives to thatfor that full 24 hours is all
going to go to TI, I'm hoping,keeping you know my fingers
crossed.
I've been talking a good gameon and off to see if he can come
up this way and come hang outwith us and talk more TI and

(02:06:08):
just, you know, have fun with it.
But that aside, we're going tobe fundraising all full 24 hours
for you know, teachersInstitute with the intention to
you know, whatever we raise atthe end of the 24 hours to give
to the Teachers Institute andsupport them.
So, yeah, I would love to haveLive Free and Ham and our
community just be like, blow thenumber out of the water.
I think we had quoted roughly,we were looking, you know, we

(02:06:30):
became some insane number.
It was like five thousanddollars, I think it was.
What is that?
That's wrong.
Ring a bell somewhere aroundthere.
You know, I would say anythingyou can give, anything we can
raise, would be awesome If fivethousand dollar goal would be
even better for you know.
Know, be able to just show howawesome our community is and and
how, uh, you know we're able topay it forward and we'll
support something like steve andwhat he does, because they do

(02:06:53):
everything.
A hundred percent of ti stuffis all uh, donations and, uh,
their own, uh, you know,fundraising and stuff like that.
So if we can, we can do andsupport that.
That's awesome.
But how we're gonna give backto you.
So for that 24 hours, I was like, well, let's step the game up
here, and so I reached out to abunch of the vendors that we
have awesome relationships with,that we bring on and talk about

(02:07:15):
antennas and you knoweverything in between and
everybody so far has come backand resounding yes, I want, you
know, to give, I want to be ableto donate this, I want to be
part of this.
So just to list a few off thatwe're finishing, wrapping up and
working some of the details outthat in during the line stream.
You know, for that 24 hours,and maybe even because I think
we're getting so much stuff, wemight actually do a little bit

(02:07:37):
of that giveaway on Friday nighttoo as well, because you know
there's just a lot of cool stuff.
So, like thing, people, vendors, like spool, teta, mad dog
coils, wolf river coils.
Um, icom is stepping up to, youknow, give us a bunch of
awesome, cool stuff to give awayshag swag and a whole bunch of
other things.
Sorry, I couldn't get them togive out a 77 60, but you know,

(02:07:57):
hey, we're just starting thatrelationship with Ray We'll,
we'll see how it goes down theroad.
Um, we've got some awesomemembers uh who are stepping up,
uh, who all remain anonymousright now but uh, some really
cool, big you know mystery boxkind of surprise stuff.
So all of that is all going tobe given away.
We're going to be giving awaylive free and ham stuff uh,
schwags and t-shirts andeverything in between.

(02:08:19):
Um, so it'll be just, uh, youknow, an Oprah uh on you know
steroids a weekend, a weekendfor that 24 hours is just doing
stuff, giving away stuff.
And we're hoping, as we have afew folks like Matt from
Reliance Intended will be there.
He's got a bunch of cool thingsthat he's throwing in the hat.
We're gonna have like just tokind of break things up along
the way.
We're just gonna have likesmall little mini interviews in

(02:08:40):
our side tent.
So, as part of the action wewanna bring you guys in.
I find a lot of times whenYouTubers do these camp out
events, they you get to see theYouTuber and that's it Like,
we're not, like that, we don'tall want to just like, have you
stare at us.
So we're going to have camera,a camera or two in a main tent
where you're just going to beable to have the fun action and

(02:09:01):
the banter and the conversation,um, and we're going to do a
bunch of interviews with Mattand I've got uh, um, uh, my gosh
Lucas from W1BTR, uh, to comeup and talk about his antenna,
um, and a whole bunch of otherfolks.
Uh, ray, we're sort of workingit out.
I won't say that you know he,he'll be coming this way, but,
uh, you know he, he was excitedto hear that this was going on.
So you know he's, uh, yeah, itwould be really cool if we could

(02:09:25):
get him.
I'm like, hey, ray, I know youhaven't got a big van.
You know big, uh, rv, you candrive it on in no problem.
So you know that might requirea little bit more convincing,
but, uh, all the better.
Yeah, we've got a butt ton ofstuff, guys.
So you know, there won't be, uh, any one period of time that I
don't think we'll be doingsomething fun or giving
something away, or you, you know, having a bowl uh, you know, a

(02:09:46):
bowl full of laughs and justmaking some fricking awesome
contacts.
So, yeah, that's kind of whatwe got in a nutshell.
Um, so, to catch everybody up towhere we're at right now yeah,
that's that's where we're at.
So this is pretty much it andset in stone, um, you know.
So, uh, hopefully that helpsanswers a lot of the questions
that folks have had, and we'llcontinue to fill in more of the
details as we get closer because, like I said, it's only

(02:10:08):
freaking four weeks away.
So, yeah, if you want in, youknow, email me as soon as
possible, I can try to fit youin, but at that, probably after
the middle of this week, I'mgoing to have to do a cut off
and you can feel free to stop byduring the day, but ultimately,
you know, for over the nightsand stuff like that, I got to
lock in all that stuff and getthose paid.
So I appreciate everybody'salready stepped up and and, yeah

(02:10:29):
, we've got about 15 peoplegoing so far that I'm going to
be standing most of the weekthere a weekend.
So that that's really cool andI'm sure there's a bunch more
people that are coming for theday on and off.
You know, I know Bill will bethere and so who knows where
that One will lead if we givehim a little more whiskey or rum
or whatever his favorite youknow, drink of choices.

Speaker 1 (02:10:53):
So yeah, Bill likes a good scotch as well.

Speaker 3 (02:10:56):
Okay, well then, there you go.
So we know where to go withthat one.
So, yeah, there'll be a lot Ofscotch this weekend, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (02:11:02):
I have a feeling I might be the only One not.

Speaker 3 (02:11:05):
yeah, you might have to be, because who knows where
it all stands.

Speaker 2 (02:11:10):
These, freaking guys are wasted.
Cq 24-hour photo Parks on theAir.
This is.

Speaker 3 (02:11:17):
Whiskey One.
Whiskey One LFH yeah, so, asTodd says, yeah, we are using
our club calls.
So you know, keep an eye outfor that, put that in Hammer
Alert and when we start the ball, rolling.

Speaker 2 (02:11:29):
What is that?
Whiskey One Lima Foxtrot Hotel.

Speaker 3 (02:11:35):
Hotel or just live free in Ham man.

Speaker 1 (02:11:39):
I'll be on 7200 and I'll be going CQ, cq, cq, cq.
Whisq CQ If you want to CQleave a Foxtrot hotel.
Call and CQ on 7200.

Speaker 3 (02:11:54):
That may be.
I don't know if that'll beSaturday, that might be Friday.
I think we're going to startearly.
Yeah, we will emphasis.
There we go, Ted.
Emphasis on whiskey, for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:12:08):
I think we should have the.
We should have.
I bring the 891 and set it upfor the part of the hangout tent
, just to listen you should beable to hear the tent from right
behind you.

Speaker 3 (02:12:20):
I don't think the the radio tent would be that far
away.
So yeah, all you'd need is likea county comp.
The radio 10 would be that faraway.

Speaker 1 (02:12:26):
So you don't have to worry about that.
All you'd need is a county comp.

Speaker 3 (02:12:30):
Yeah, or just an extension speaker if you really
wanted to go that far.
Okay so that leads me to oursecond problem here.
We obviously know the bands areshit and they've been up and
down for quite a while.

Speaker 1 (02:12:47):
The bands aren't shit , it's just some fucking angry
bitch.

Speaker 2 (02:12:51):
Yeah Well, in her angry bitchiness, 40 Meters, has
been dead as a doornail Listeneven when the bands are at their
worst I've ever seen it there'sstill contacts to be made.
We will find people.
There will be people out there.
So you know it may not be a lot, but I mean we'll activate the

(02:13:15):
park.
We got 24 hours.

Speaker 3 (02:13:17):
It's only 10 contacts .
Of course, in 24 hours weshould activate the park, so
don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (02:13:23):
I'll find a band, we'll find a band and get them,
you know.
And then we just tell people,say hey, listen, if you're out
there talking to other people,have them come here.
We're doing a 24-hour pod, youknow.

Speaker 3 (02:13:32):
We want everyone, so because I'm dealing with a
grouch who's Mr Prepared, andyou know I'm an M plus one.
You know what's our backup plan.
So, obviously, if HS is likereally, really bad, like we're
getting a G five, you know, onour weekend, which, god forbid,
I hope doesn't happen, you know,I'm not those folks that like

(02:13:52):
pray for the rain gods, tohappen on field day, you know.
But I'm thinking, you know,what should we prepare for or
plan for?
Like you know, should I betalking to, uh, you know, wra to
bring all of his vhf?

Speaker 2 (02:14:05):
uh, you know beams and stuff.
We need an amp.

Speaker 1 (02:14:10):
An amp one kilo, 1k all right, well, I mean I've,
I've got an amp that I need toget rid of okay, but it's, it
takes 220 oh, 50 amps, still 50amps, sort of 220.

Speaker 3 (02:14:26):
I mean, I don't think the park is equipped for that
much power, although we'reboondocking, and so that's a
very long cord and a biggenerator.

Speaker 1 (02:14:35):
My thought on it is you know, if you know one of us
gets in front of the camera,right, and we sit there and we
go, all right's, uh, let's try.
Uh, you know hellscriber, right, like everybody on the stream,
jump on hellscriber and we'regonna, you know, do you know 15

(02:14:55):
meters hellscriber?
You know we'll.
Do you know olivia, or you knowsomething just different, right
, and but you know it's adigital mode, so so you know
it'll, it'll work better, evenif the conditions suck.

Speaker 3 (02:15:10):
Okay, so we'll, we'll divert to I know you will.
I'll work it until it's like Ineed a bottle of water.
I can't stop.

Speaker 2 (02:15:20):
All I wanted to do was get Huntington beach state
park and the band sucked and Igot the same fr freaking guy on
10 meters and 20 meters and hewas having the same problem.
I was like where the hell iseveryone?

Speaker 3 (02:15:32):
I know, I know, I know that's what.
I'm trying to.

Speaker 2 (02:15:36):
I know, but you just got to push through and you'll
get the 10, you'll get the 20.
I mean, I don't think.
I think we're worrying about it, I think it's gonna be fine.

Speaker 3 (02:15:44):
I'm not worrying about it, I'm just thinking,
preparing in ahead, because it'sjust how I'm thinking in terms
of the whole flow of things.
So like, what's the backupplans to other stuff?
And so I just want everybodyand not to say that everyone's
gonna have a shitty experience Ijust want every aspect of this
to be just as best as you canand plan for as much as we can
and then let it ride.
The day of.
You know, if the day of ifthrows us a curveball, great,

(02:16:04):
we'll all deal with it I'mgetting a kilo there.

Speaker 2 (02:16:07):
That's my goal.

Speaker 1 (02:16:08):
I mean you should get a kilo somewhere realistically,
um, you know, by the firstweekend of september, 10 meters
should be starting to open.
Okay, no, like we, we shouldn't, we shouldn't have a lot of
problems look at 20 meters.

Speaker 2 (02:16:22):
At two and three in the morning we're going to be
hitting australia true, but likewhat do we do from the one in
the morning?

Speaker 3 (02:16:28):
We're going to be hitting Australia?
True, but like what do we dofrom the?

Speaker 2 (02:16:31):
one in the afternoon till up until like 1am.
20 meters Okay, I worked 20meters and all I could get was
new England.
Remember that day I was like Icould only get like New York
Like I got Rhode Island.
I thought I was like hittingthe jackpot.
I was like oh yeah, pod.

Speaker 3 (02:16:47):
I was like oh, I, I like I said I am not worried
that we will make contacts andI'm not worried that envis will
become one of our best friendsfor a while.
Uh, but you know, I'm just, youknow, thinking like okay, there
are other scenarios or otherthings that we should be
considering that would be fun toplay with, like satellite stuff
and everything else, like thatwe, we can try.
I wish I should email him seeif he's gonna trip back up here.

Speaker 2 (02:17:08):
What about Chris From Vermont?

Speaker 3 (02:17:11):
Oh, have him bring his van yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:17:17):
Chris, if you're watching this, mark your
calendar, get your ass up hereand bring the van.

Speaker 3 (02:17:23):
I didn't even think of that.

Speaker 1 (02:17:25):
Kilo India, one Papa right.

Speaker 2 (02:17:28):
I believe he told me he was going to leave us a van
here in New Hampshire, so we'dhave one in each state.

Speaker 3 (02:17:34):
He was going to give us an opportunity to get a said
van for an underclosed amountwhich is still on the radar.
I haven't talked to Chris in awhile, but I'm sure he's been
pretty busy.

Speaker 2 (02:17:45):
Don't worry, we're going to get one in New
Hampshire too.
I'm like all right.

Speaker 1 (02:17:50):
Could you imagine if the news van could pull my RV?

Speaker 3 (02:17:56):
It probably could dude.
They are one-ton chassis, sothose things can pull.
You know, he's like they arebuilt with.
If you ever saw the underneathof Chris's videos, if you watch
it, he does a couple of videoson his existing one and I think
that was a three-quarter ton andthat was still built way over.

(02:18:16):
You know, a three-quarter tonregular chassis.
So, yeah, you could probablyget away with it.
It has pulling power.
You might want to get a dieselbecause it'll be a little bit
better, especially where youhave to fill up a lot of gas
stations to accommodate trailers30-foot trailers it might be
another upgrade there.

(02:18:37):
That'd be freaking weird,though.

Speaker 1 (02:18:40):
That'd be so cool.

Speaker 3 (02:18:41):
You driving around with this 33-foot trailer we
could paint on the side N1 OGyou driving around with this 30
foot.

Speaker 2 (02:18:47):
you know 33 foot trailer we could paint.
We could paint on the side, andone OG with Oscar on it.
I'm a little annoyed.
And then he just road trip thewhole country Like people, be
like, be like people, befollowing you.
Man, it'd be awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:19:01):
How did you speaking of the grouch?
How did you get in polo thelittle grouch?

Speaker 1 (02:19:07):
the trash can icon sebastian he put it in there.

Speaker 3 (02:19:10):
Okay, because I was doing bruise and activate this
morning and we were talkingabout polo and and some of the
advanced stuff in it and Ilooked, I was looking at my old
log and it was a log.
I worked you and chris in andI'm like trying to explain to
people like oh, you should seethe youtube tv icon.
And then then I like wait aminute, grouch has got a trash.
Can what the it's like?
I got to fix that one, you know.

(02:19:32):
So I'm like, and then I'mthinking like okay, what would I
use for my icon?
There's not many that I coulduse for my call sign, but
whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:19:39):
Yeah Cause reached out to Sebastian, um, you know,
and I was like, hey, listen, youknow, I got a YouTube channel.
It's kind of picking up inpopularity and you know.
So like if if I could getincluded in the YouTube list,
like I'd really appreciate it.
And so he was like what's yourYouTube channel?
So I sent him the link and, uh,but like half an hour goes back

(02:20:08):
and he goes hey, um, I I pickeda little rubbish can for you.

Speaker 3 (02:20:10):
Is that cool, am I fuck?
Yeah, too easy, too easy, yeah.
So they were all laughing atthat.
I was like, oh man, he gets allthe dumb luck.
So, ah, cool.
So I'll circle back around withchris and see if we can get him
to come down I'm sure he'llhave no problem and if we have
to to, you know, divert back tositting putting up a 30 foot
mast with a.
You know a full.
You know what's what's he goton the end of that one, a signal

(02:20:32):
what's the step IR?
Yeah, he's got a big step IR onthe top of his.

Speaker 1 (02:20:47):
So, yeah, we'll just have to move all the cameras in
there, but we'll come up with anoption We'll be erecting that
big, hard, stiff black pass.

Speaker 3 (02:20:51):
Oh, I missed my cue and it's frozen.
What the heck?

Speaker 2 (02:20:57):
Was he joking on that ?

Speaker 3 (02:20:59):
No, he wasn't, that's .
If he was in one of his videos,did that even come through?

Speaker 2 (02:21:04):
That wasn't a joke, that was a.
He wasn't come through likethat wasn't a.
That wasn't a joke, that was alike he wasn't just like.

Speaker 3 (02:21:12):
He wasn't like over exaggerating, like that's what
he was.
That's cut right from his video.
Oh my god, just the same withkevin, dude, you should.
We're gonna shove as much as wecan up in there.
Oh yeah, that one, I love thatone.
Feel bad because it's Kevin.
I love that guy does?

Speaker 2 (02:21:32):
does Kate murder?
Does Mike?
Does he know that we keepplaying?

Speaker 3 (02:21:36):
it a couple of times does he think he knows?
Oh yeah, he does he's been on acouple of live free ham live
streams, even on near, and Iplayed it a couple times that
paul said big, hard, stiff blackmass and I'm like, okay, that's
my cue I'm, I'm really I'mlooking forward to meeting him.

Speaker 1 (02:21:55):
Uh, you know, we've we've had a couple like short
interactions, like discord anddifferent live streams and stuff
.
Uh, we seem very like-minded ina lot of ways, so I think we'll
get along just fine.

Speaker 3 (02:22:09):
Yeah, dude, I would hope you take advantage of the
fact that meeting all the guysthat we talked to and everybody
there, especially when the bigpavilion thing for the weekend,
I mean, you'll finally get tomeet Six and everybody.
I mean, if you haven't metthose guys, you haven't met Rene
.

Speaker 1 (02:22:30):
No six and everybody.
I mean, if you haven't knownthose guys, you haven't met
renee, and oh no, you haven't.
You're mostly on live stream.
So yeah, it'd be cool.
Yeah, I've been good name toface.
Um, I've, I've talked a lotwith uh, with renee especially,
you know, because she, shestarted getting her skydiving
license a couple years ago, uh,so you know, like the whole time
I was at csc, like she.
She was keeping in touch with me, uh.
And then I found out that Bernand Renee had started the Circle

(02:22:50):
6 Mail Drop, which is perfectfor people who are skydiving or
just RVers or traveling nursesor whatever it may be.
If you're out on the road, youget a Texas address that you use
for your registration, yourlicense, and then all of your

(02:23:12):
mail goes to them and they justthey scan it, they send it to
you and you go yeah, all right,send me this, this, this and
this, and jump the rest and then, wherever you are in the
country, Now you're going tohave to go back to Texas in
November to vote in the country.
Now you're going to have to goback to Texas in November to
vote.
Well, they must do ballot.

(02:23:32):
Mail-by-file.

Speaker 3 (02:23:36):
Have you been paying attention to the news, my friend
?
It ain't happening anytime soon?

Speaker 2 (02:23:40):
I don't think.

Speaker 3 (02:23:41):
Redistricting, among the fact that they're trying to
get rid of mail-in voting, butwhatever.
But yeah, we won't go there.

Speaker 1 (02:23:51):
Sorry, I suppose if I have to road trip to fucking
Texas, I can do it.

Speaker 3 (02:23:55):
Yeah, I know to go out there and meet Shane and
hang out with all those guys.
Sure, you got to penetrate thatmarket.
We've got to infect them withgrouch.
It's my plan.
The grouch is gonna penetratetexas there we go.
You really are not.
Now I've got a segment cliphere penetrating texas.
Although there were some, yeah,I gotta go back to the your,

(02:24:19):
your live stream.
There was some good stuff inthere too, but yeah oh, there's
a lot of.

Speaker 1 (02:24:23):
There was a lot of good jumps there yeah, yeah, too
much.

Speaker 3 (02:24:27):
I couldn't you know.
I was like already writing downand I'm like, oh, I just have
to go back later and do it insmall segments it was.

Speaker 1 (02:24:33):
It was actually.

Speaker 3 (02:24:34):
It was really cool that shane shane jumped in yeah,
dude, I was like it, almostlike I was almost convinced to
like jump on and hang out, and Iwas just like my wife was like
or he got me doing somethingelse and I was like I'm going to
be able to make like a fiveminute.
You know, segue, and I knowbecause I've been told that if
you're the first to leave, youknow, therefore, you become the

(02:24:55):
one with the dick on the face.
So I'm being very cautious nowwhere.

Speaker 1 (02:24:59):
I go trust me, ziggy.
Ziggy took the front of itbecause he was.

Speaker 3 (02:25:02):
He was the first to go down yeah, but yeah, all good
stuff, man, yeah, all fun.
So yeah, I mean, outside of allthat stuff going on, yeah, I
mean it's coming up as soon aswe possibly uh can imagine and
all that planning and everythingelse like that will finally all
come to fruition.
And you know, I'm lookingforward to obviously meeting bob

(02:25:24):
, because bob uh is uh obviouslya good friend and we've
connected up a lot and I'm just,you know, hearing from more
people and I was talking toshannon and um shane and they're
uh super excited to work us onthe air several times, so
they'll, they'll be a support.
They said, you know, thismorning they were like, yeah,
you know, if we, you know, ifwe're out in a park, we'll work
your to park, we'll do a bunchof quick rows for you guys so

(02:25:46):
you can just bang out the parkto parks over and over again.

Speaker 2 (02:25:49):
You know, I think too , even if the bands are bad, if
we make some contacts and weadvertise like, hey, we're doing
this 24-hour part, we're livestreaming it, multiple live
streams going on, you know, gocheck us out and spread the word
, I think then we'll startgetting.
I think that'll help too.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:26:10):
And we'll do a, we'll do a testing session Sunday
morning after breakfast.

Speaker 3 (02:26:14):
Oh yeah, like testing .
What are we testing again?
I thought we would already havetested it for 24 hours.
I realized that yes.

Speaker 1 (02:26:22):
Bob, and whoever, whoever else.
Yeah, Once the you know eithertest for their technician.

Speaker 3 (02:26:27):
You don't want to do it on Friday night, like when
we're going to be half in thebag.

Speaker 1 (02:26:31):
No, I need to be coherent.

Speaker 3 (02:26:35):
And you think Sunday morning we're going to be
coherent.
Excellent, looks like I'll bedoing the testing too, I know
right.

Speaker 1 (02:26:45):
That's why I said after breakfast.

Speaker 2 (02:26:47):
It'll be like weekend at Bernie's.
I'll have to prop you fuckersup and you'll have to be like
here.
I'm going to pass you out theright test.
Bob, this is actually thetechnician test, not the extra
test.
Here you go.

Speaker 1 (02:27:02):
Well, you will know, Todd, because all of my folders
are color-coded.
They've got the element writtenin large letters.
Boy, that escalated quickly.
I killed a man with a trident.

Speaker 3 (02:27:21):
I forgot that was another one.

Speaker 1 (02:27:22):
I had to grab this one's my favorite, mr Burton,
you have a massive erectionReally.
Oh yes, burton, you have amassive erection Really, oh yes,
all right.

Speaker 3 (02:27:30):
Well, yeah, so that's kind of it in a nutshell, guys.
I mean obviously we're notsuper worried.
I just wanted to kind of put itout there because it was posed
to me.

Speaker 2 (02:27:39):
Really, if the bands are going to be crappy, someone
send us an amp.
How powerful, how many watts?
Someone send us an amp howpowerful.

Speaker 3 (02:27:46):
How many, how many?
Uh, don't get bob cough going,he might drop one in the mail
how many uh watts can your canyour antenna hold?
500.
I can put up to 1500 watts anddo it no problem there you go.

Speaker 2 (02:27:59):
1500 watt amp, that's the max.
Greenfield State Park let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:28:06):
You heard Todd here first Boom, more power.

Speaker 2 (02:28:09):
Bring it, getting all those guys in Brazil.
I'd be like, yeah, I'm killing.
What are you on?
Are you on a kilo?
I'm a kilo and a half.
What are you guys?

Speaker 3 (02:28:17):
Rookies, we'll do ASMR At 1500 watts.
Can't hear me Tough shit, ohman.
So yeah, we'll.
Uh, oh, that's what I forgot.
Shannon actually emailed me andsaid yeah, they wanted to throw
in as a a prize, so there'll bean official hillbilly hat and

(02:28:40):
t-shirt that they're going tothrow in the mix.

Speaker 1 (02:28:41):
So you want to get your one and only one, and only
like todd's wearing that'll bethere too as well.

Speaker 3 (02:28:46):
So, yeah, the prizes are coming in the love showing,
so there's awesome stuff goingon.
Um, I'm super excited to seeall this great stuff.
Yeah, that is a great hat.
I mean I've got mine over herethat I wear as an alternate, uh,
when I'm not wearing live freeand ham, so can't go wrong with
that hat.
It's worth, uh, easily five db,if not, uh, you know 500 more
contacts in the in the bucketthere.
So, cool, well, I mean, that'skind of all I got for tonight,

(02:29:10):
guys.
I mean, I think, uh, we'llobviously get into the finalized
details.
We're gonna probably puttogether a little marketing
stuff.
We might, um, you know, if wegot some time in the thing, I
was thinking about putting maybea funny video together that we
can kind of use for promotionstuff.
But you know, if you guys, youguys are thinking about that,
maybe Grouch and his creativejuices, if he's bored and wants
to get away from the fray andwants to put something together

(02:29:32):
plant a little seed there.
But maybe we'll put somethingtogether ourselves here.
I'll put together some moreflyers so we'll be able to throw
it out on all the discords andget people interested, because
it's starting to get out there.
People are starting to hearabout it and I'm constantly
hearing what's the 24-hour poda?
And I was like, oh okay, wedidn't do a good enough job
advertising and way back, what.
But that's all right, it'll be.
Practice your elevator pitch,you'll be fine.

(02:29:54):
Yeah, I suck at that.
If you can't tell, I'm justlike dude, it's fun, just come
there, we go.
There's my elevator pitch.
So, uh, all right.
Well, hey, ted, thank you againfor hanging out with us in the
chat.

Speaker 2 (02:30:05):
He's still here, huh, the whole time.
Oh yeah, he listens.
Two and a half hours, ted.

Speaker 3 (02:30:10):
That's dedication, my friend that that's a half a
grouch live stream.
Yeah, that's the measurement.
Now, guys, how many grouchescan we fit in?
Yeah, oh, man, well, we'llbreak that in the live stream
there for 24 hour putter.
But yeah, so I'm lookingforward to it.
Yeah, see, good night man goodseeing there.
Thank you again, ted.

(02:30:30):
Yeah, ted is uh awesome.
He's a great supporter and oneof our awesome moderators for uh
the discord there.
He is uh definitely um an assetand we love having ted so all
good, and he's on our ve team ah, yes, he club ve team.
And you know, if we ever decideto get, get our butts out of our
heads out of our butts, we'lldo a live free and ham VE team
someday One of the othermillions of other things we've

(02:30:53):
got planned.
So cool, all right.
Well, you guys got any more youwant to throw in there or
anything I might have missed?
Or we should chitchat, or arewe?

Speaker 1 (02:31:01):
good no, it's way past my bedtime.
Put it in your calendar rightnow, set an alarm for a week
prior so that you don't forget,and then set a couple more for
you know a couple days prior.
No, no excuses, show up, havefun yep, yeah, totally.

Speaker 3 (02:31:20):
And if you're going to be a part of that whole live
stream, we will blast our youknow our socials and all the
other stuff.
But more so, pay attention tolive free ham's um youtube
channel and we'll have posts upthere reminding you and keep
reminding you and keep remindingyou.
So you know you don't forgetand you know it'll be a blast.
Like paul said, I I expectnothing less so awesome.

(02:31:41):
All right, well, with that, ifwe got nothing else here, I'm
gonna going to put a littleclose to this.
So, as always, guys, appreciateeverybody who's part of our
Live Free and Hand Podcastcommunity.
You guys make these thingshappen because you know, without
it, we'd all be just hangingaround the fire.
You know, talking kumbaya andhoping for the great days, you

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So, you know, as always, thereare awesome ways.
If you're new to this communityand you're just plugging in,
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Again, thank you for being partof that.
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There's a ton of conversationsgoing on on there all the time
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(02:33:51):
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