Wired and Fired: When Fuses Blow But Your Radio Doesn't

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is our weekly show where we discuss tonight,
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh, and one OG the grouch and Todd W1STJ.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
The general the general the general.

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, end up trashing those designsaltogether.
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But whatever, I was a little upset because I was
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Maybe we'll have to do two in August.
Oh God, yeah.

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Yes, we will, yes, we will, yes,we will.
So with that, let's just diveright into our usual here I got
to get the button on.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
We're way ahead of the script here, so we're going
to go into.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's everyone's favorite segment.
And now a little somethingextra with Todd W1STJ.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Still a general?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yes, you are, but as we always do in every episode,
we pick three questions to helpTodd study for his extra class
license, and we do that usingham studyorg, which we all know
is an awesome tool to help youprepare for your test.
I have run into many peoplethat have used this tool and
have been super successful withgetting their license initially

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or, you know, going through theupgrade to general and into
extra, and it's been verysupportive.
I know Kimmy because I was justtalking to her last week there.
Todd, you know, is about 40%proficient, so she's slowly
knocking up the ladder there.
I did mention to her that wewould be interested in doing a
say, jeopardy style head-to-headcontest against you and her

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when she's ready with theattention that maybe you might
be there too as well, and shegraciously said, sure, and so we
will just have to wait when wehear from her to get the thumbs
up.
You better be ready, my friend.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
The ham radio game show where the points are made
up and nobody really cares.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
It cares Exactly, and so, with that, I handed over to
our quiz master, paul.
Take it away.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
All right, todd.
So question number one comesfrom sub-element number seven
tonight.
The question is what type ofdigital signal processing filter
is used to generate a singlesideband signal?
Is it A a Hilbert transformfilter, b an adaptive filter, c

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a notch filter or D anelliptical filter?

Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'm going to go with D.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Did you say D as in Delta?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yes, okay, I guess that's wrong, huh.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, definitely, adaptive filters doesn't sound
right.
Notch filter is definitely notthe case for digital DSP signal.
I'm going to go with the mostcomplex one there that is
hyphenated.
We'll do a Hilbert transformfilter, which, now that I'm
saying out loud, doesn't soundright.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
You don't really know , you're just guessing.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
I'm just guessing.
This is a deduction, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
That's called deductive reasoning.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
I don't trust those big words.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
All right.
Todd said D an ellipticalfilter, and D is incorrect.
Ooh okay, eric said A theHilbert transform filter, and A
is correct.
There you go, so your hinttransforms.

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So single sideband modulationis an efficient form of
amplitude modulation AM thatuses half the bandwidth used by
AM.
This technique is most popularin applications such as
telephony, ham radio and HFcommunications, ie voice-based

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communications.
This example shows how toimplement single sideband
modulation using a Hilberttransformer.
So the Hilbert transformessentially shifts the phase of
each frequency component in asignal.
Specifically, it shiftsnegative frequencies by plus 90

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degrees and positive frequenciesby negative 90 degrees.
One common method for singlesideband generation using the
Hilbert transform is the phasingmethod.
So this involves creating twoversions of the modulating
signal, one original and onewith its Hilbert transform.

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These are then combined withthe carrier signal and balanced
modulators and the outputs areadded or subtracted to the to
select the desired sideband.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
There you go, because you're lonely.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yes, After reading that I feel very lonely.
I'm so lonely I'm so lonely.
I'm so lonely.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
All right, all right.
Question number two comes fromthe beginning.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Sub-element number one which of the following
additional rules apply if youare erecting Erecting An amateur
station antenna Erecting thatbig, hard, stiff black mast.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Sorry, fucking love it.
Okay, starting over, which ofthe following additional rules
apply when you are erecting anamateur station antenna
structure at a site or near apublic use airport?
Is the answer A you must filean environmental impact

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statement with the EPA beforeconstruction begins.
B you may have to notify theFederal Aviation Administration
and register it with the FCC asrequired by Part 17 of the FCC
rules.
C you must obtain aconstruction permit from the

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Airport Zoning Authority perPart 119 of the FAA regulations.
Authority per part 119 of theFAA regulations, or is it?
D you may have to enter theheight above ground in meters
and the latitude and longitudein degrees, minutes and seconds

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on the FAA website.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Degrees, minutes and seconds.
You're putting up a fuckingantenna.
All right website.
Degrees, minutes, seconds.
You're putting up a fuckingantenna.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Alright, I'm going to be.
I'm going to say B.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, definitely being by an airport.
Yeah, you need to notify theairport.
For sure, I'm going with B.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Look at that.
I didn't even need to hit themusic.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
I know he's getting better.
There we go.
I'm two for two.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
And B is the correct answer.
You may have to notify theFederal Aviation Administration
and register it with the FCC asrequired by Part 17 of the FCC
rules.
The explanation this is anoverlapping jurisdiction
question.
The FAA regulates airspace thatmight endanger aircraft and so

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their regulations need to beconsulted and it would need to
be registered with the FCC asrequired by part 17.
And so your hint to thequestion deals with aviation and
radio.
So the correct answerreferences both the Fa and the
fc very cool.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Well, I, I have to back the train up.
I can't leave kevin out of thislist either when it comes to
erecting antennas, so we'regoing to shove as much as we can
up in there.
Oh yeah, I love kevin, but I Ilove that one I couldn't pass up
.
Oh yeah, harder.

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I was like, oh, I just can'tput Kevin's a great friend, but
he's also a fatherly,grandfatherly figure to me.
It just seems wrong, but I hadto do it.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
But it's fantastic it is.
It is All right.
Enough of this, All right.
So so far, Eric is two for twoand Todd is 50%.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm going to throw the next one, just so the song.
Just so I can play the song.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
All right For the third and final question of the
evening, which comes fromsub-element number six which of
the following digital logicfamilies has the lowest power
consumption?
Shotkey TTL, b, ecl, c, nmos orD CMOS?

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And I'll give you the music forthis one, because I know you're
going to need it.
I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
God, I can't remember this one.
I haven't seen this one in awhile.
Well think relatively new dudethat to me I don't recognize.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
I don't even know what that means, any of it well,
you should know at least one ofthem, because it's in your 510
radio.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
So yeah, I have no idea.
Okay, I'm going to go with theShotKey TTL.
Okay, that's wrong.
It looks kind of it's thelongest one up there.
It's CMOS, it's CMOS.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yep, go ahead, hit the button.
Okay, but I'm not picking D,it's CMOS, yep.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Go ahead, hit the button.
Okay, but I'm not.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm not picking D, so I want, I want to hear the song
he's picking.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
D.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
I want to hear the song.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Todd said it's a shot K T T L.
The correct answer is CMOS.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
So your explanation.
Cmos stands for ComplementaryMetal Oxide Semiconductor, is a
digital logic family known forits very low power consumption
compared to other logic families.
This is because CMOS circuitsonly draw significant power
during switching, when thetransistors are changing states

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from on to off or vice versa,and have negligible power
consumption when in a steadystate, either on or off.
In contrast, other logicfamilies like the Schottky TTL
transistor-transistor logic, theECL emitter-coupled logic and

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NMOS, the N-type metal oxidesemiconductor, consume more
power because they draw constantcurrent even when not switching
.
This makes CMOS the preferredchoice for battery-operated and
efficient devices.
Fully understanding these typeswould require a lot of reading,
so this one you'll most likelyjust need to remember.

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But for many people who arefamiliar with computers, the
term CMOS may be a familiar termbecause it's used to store the
BIOS settings on computermotherboard.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yep Roger roger.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Now, I'm not a computer person, but I knew that
because of computers.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
I don't know the computer.
Just put the computer in.
It's in all the computers.
Just do it.
So play that funky music, myfriend, I want to hear it.
White boy, you got three out ofthree.
No, I told you I voted wrong onthe last one.
That means you should havegotten it right and therefore
you still would have had thesong either way.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
You want to go for a fourth one.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
A bonus question how much are you willing to wager
there, todd?
All right.
Well, so if you're on thejourney to studying for your
technician general or extraclass license, then hamstudyorg
again is an awesome resource forgetting that ticket.
And so if you've maybe recentlyupgraded or maybe you got your

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license just recently, then wewant to know Send us a quick
email at livefreeandham atgmailcom and we will be glad to
announce your, you know, level,upgrade, brand new ticket,
whatever be the case, and shareto the world that, hey, you're
on the air and in the hobby andwe want to just welcome you to
hang out, because it is.
It's it's not a tough road, butit's a long road sometimes

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depending on where you come from, but it's not that it can't be
achievable.
And, like I say to everybody,once you kind of get past that
first stage, then you know itgets a little easier, because
then get more hands on and andwhatnot, and yeah, so we'll
mention you on the next show.
And again, you know, thanks forhanging out with us and playing
along as Todd continues to workon his extra.
And Kimmy, come on, hurry up,go.

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And Kimmy, come on, hurry up,go faster.
Anyway, all right, just asidebar, like I was thinking we
should do.
We'll have to workshop this one.
I'm going to put the pin inthis one, but I want to.
You know, I want to talk aboutmaybe doing some online, you
know, kind of bootcamp stuff,which I think would be kind of
cool for new hams that, like alot of YouTubers, could do sort

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of like how they did theYouTubers bunch.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
But I think we should have you and Eric and Tim
against me and Kim Him and I area team.
No on this thing on no on theextra test.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Oh right, so you're going to just let Kimmy make all
the choices?
No, we'll consult and then doit together.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
She's at 40%, I'm like at 55%.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Kimmy, you're doing a great job.
The last answer you guessed,right.
So, yeah, we'll go withwhatever you present to us.
Yeah, just, manager, right?
Is that what you're going to do?
No, I don't think she's goingto.
No, no, no.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Never All right.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
See how well Tim has retained all the vital
information to be an extra to dothat, because tim will very
much.
You know he'll step up to theplate wholeheartedly.
I know he will take you on,he'll sit you down, sir.
He might feel bad, though, if hebeats his wife well yeah but
that's okay, she'll let him dothat just because all right,
what I meant, paul, that's notwhat I meant yeah, yeah, all

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right.
Well, I don't think it wasgoing there either, but we're
all in that same way, oh no Iwas definitely there.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
I was, I was in my head, I was like, well, you know
, you know, I mean you come home, you throw on a wife beater,
because you got to do it beforeyou beat the wife.
I did not come down here justto get your.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
No, I did not All right Well with that in our
usual format.
Let me ask Paul and one OG, thegrouch How's your hammer?

Speaker 2 (20:45):
ham radio week been my friend um, oh, ham radio, ham
radio, ham radio, ham radio.
What did I do ham radio thisweek?
Um, well, I put out some videos.
You did um, I got, I got somecool new swag yes, very good.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
I, yes, very good.
I love that hat.
That is it For those that can'tsee it because the light's
hitting it.
That is the Hillbilly Ham Radioofficial swag.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
And do you see what that says?
Yes, that says honorary clubmember.
Yes, you are.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Just like us.
Todd's even got his.
You still have it right, I gaveit to you.
Yeah, he gave it to me.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
I'll wear it next show.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
No problem, just wear it on 24-hour photo too.
That'll be golden, yeah, andyou got the strip to boot.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, I got a package in the mail here at the drop
zone.
Um, I got, I got some stickersto hand out at Huntsville.
Uh, I got, uh, the reliance oneof a kind uh 56 to one with an
SO 239 connector, 56 to 1 withan SO239 connector, and he also

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put some kind of choke thing onthe wire.
Dude, I'm pumped to freaking.
Try that out.
He did tell me that I may haveto shorten the wire a little bit
to tune it, but I'll figurethat out.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Same with mine.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
So, yeah, thanks for that, matt.
Um, thank you, hillbilly handsuh for for all the the cool
stuff.
Um, I put uh jabber jaws'ssticker on my fridge with the
collection nice job.
And um, yeah, basically, I Imean really, I mean ham radio
wise i've've I've been uhplanning and prep for planning

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and preparing uh for parachutemold, um so kind of uh going
over things with Carlos and uh,you know the the best practices
so that I can do it in in a safemanner where it's not going to
be distracting and I'm not goingto have anything in the way of
my flight and my ability to flyand land.

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So I'm excited for that.
Here we are, t-minus 7 days toheading to Huntsville so you
didn't mention it?

Speaker 1 (23:22):
did they survive the trip in the box?

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Okay, good.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Dude, I would hope you would bless those who you
feel are honorable enough tohave one in their possession.
So he is equipped with what didI send you?
Six of them, eight of them foryeah, yeah, three or four,
whatever.
Six, yeah, so, so one of thethings.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
All right.
So, um, I I wanted to show mymy appreciation for all of the
support that I've gotten here atthe drop zone.
Um, and so what I did was Iordered four of my coffee mugs
with the Grouch skydiving andthe Live Free and Ham logo, and

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so I gave one to Doug, the ownerof the Drop Zone, I gave one to
Stockdale, who was one of my,uh, my aff instructors when I
was going through, I gave one tocarlos and I gave the the other
one to, uh, herman, who wasanother aff instructor.
That was really kind ofcritical in my development.

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But, um, the guy that runs theAFF program, his name is Omar
and he's absolutely an amazingmentor and wonderful, wonderful
person, and I was trying tothink, like what can I give him?
That's like something specialfrom me to him, to him.

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And I do believe that there wasa glass that I had in my
possession back in Nearfest thatended up being given to
Tortoise Overland, and so I'mgoing to commandeer one of these
glasses as recompense for myglass that got given to Tortoise

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, and I'm going to give it toOmar because Omar deserves to
have one of these.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
They are good glasses , my friend.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, and the rest of them will be for sale in
Huntsville.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, do how you see fit, and if you can get somebody
to produce you a good qualityviral video for earning that
glass, then I would say go forit, because that's going to be
way better than the co-ed nakedbackseat driving stuff that you
guys keep teasing me about.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
If you want a glass, you have to get as near naked as
possible.
Jump around and talk about howgreat Liffrey and Ham is and how
you want to be co-ed naked, soEric can relive his high school
days.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Eric is doing nothing with this content whatsoever.
This is all Paul's content.
I'm just giving him ideas.
I'm just the idea man.
I don't want to see any of thatvideo whatsoever.
Better, not grace my inbox atall.
Yeah, cool, all right.
Well, cool, all right.
Well, yeah, good deal.
I'm glad they made the ridebecause I was like, hmm, I was
debating whether to individuallywrap them or just try them in

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the box.
But I've had pretty good luckso far where you know they've
stayed, you know, consistent,you know, and haven't broken one
yet.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
You did a great job bubble wrapping the shit out of
everything Cool.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Good, all right.
Well, that's awesome.
The only thing obviously, Imade the faux pas because I
forgot to throw in yourone-to-one transformer.
So that's up this way when youcome up for the 24-hour put,
I'll give it to you, then I'llbe home in three weeks.
In the meantime, I'll use itbecause I'm like, why not?
And then, yeah, that was ohyeah.

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And the only thing that didn'tget in your possession was the
pigs.
I was like, so mad, they'restill sitting in customs.
I ordered a thousand because weneeded a bunch more, and so I
ordered a thousand, a thousandpigs.
They're cheap enough at athousand than they are if I
order them in 20.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
How much does a?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
thousand pigs cost A little shy of like 80 bucks.
Yeah, dude, they're, they'rethey.
They charge you more on theimport duties now on smaller
quantities.
So like I'll order more andI'll pay a little bit more, but
I'm not going to pay.
Like you know the gobs amountof money that I was paying on.

(27:41):
When I was getting them off ofAmazon, knock on wood, they were
still sitting on the dock orsomewhere in customs and I don't
know why they're being held up.
I couldn't get them to Paul.
There are a bunch of peoplethat want to order a bunch, but
they're like oh, when they comein, I'm like, well, when they
come in, I'll let you know.
I'm even low.
No hammies for you?

Speaker 3 (27:58):
What about the wooden pieces, john?
No hammies for you.
What about?
What about the?
Uh, the metal, the woodenpieces?

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Oh, I have John printed me like 500 of them.
I have those in.
You know, those things are likeone half of a third of a cent
he gave me because he was like,how many do you need?
And I'm like, well, I needprobably 500.
You can print 500.
He's like sure, how much do Iowe you?
And he's like 20 bucks.
You do the math?
Well, all good there.

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So, yeah, those are coming insoon.
So if you're looking to grabyour hammies, then yeah, they'll
put your orders in now and thenthat way you'll be locked in
and I'll be able to send you thebatches going forward.
But yeah, paul, they'll becoming your way, but probably by
the time you so we'll have themfor the 24 hour poda, if
anything.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
I did.
I did find four in my truck, soI have four to give out at
Huntsville.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Sweet, okay, and Todd , you weren't here for the
discussion.
I was watching digital ranchersvideo where they went to
Colorado.
They did the park run withJason and all the other guys.
Lo and behold, one of ourhammies was sitting on Jason's
dash.
I heard that, oh, you did.
Oh, okay, that's awesome.
Yeah, that's awesome.
They're making their way.
They're making their way.

(29:07):
They're becoming a littlepopular.
In five years, they may be thebest popular thing on the planet
.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
I saw a car and I had my hammies.
I had my hammies in this box,but I was I forget what I was
doing, but I took that box outand I didn't have it with me and
I saw this car in a parking lot.
Dude, I don't know what it was.
I think it might have been likea weather chaser car, like it
was a shit box car, but it hadlike 50 different antennas on it
, little dishes on it, roundthings spinning things.

(29:39):
I was like what the?
I was like could there be a hamradio in that mess?

Speaker 2 (29:44):
yep, probably got a full weather station, yeah,
anemometer and everything.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
It was like uh, it was like a old hatchback, like
yeah, I want to say it was likeum, what kind of car was it?
It was like it was like one ofthose, it was like one of those,
like um, it was like what ofthose?
Like um, it was like what werethose Volkswagen hatchbacks that
you used to get the golf?
The golf, the Jetta, gti, stuff?
No, the golf, which was like itwas.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
it was like an old Volkswagen golf but, man, it had
I don't know if I'd want tochase the storms in that.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
I know I was like what the hell is that?

Speaker 1 (30:16):
I had a golf at one point.
I did too, and I know I wouldnot want to go headwind in with
that thing, because you go by atruck at the wrong way, you get
blown over.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, but I was really bummed because I wanted
to.
I was going to throw a hammy onit, but I was like, oh shit, I
went to go get it.
I'm like, oh, I left thefreaking box.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Actually I had an interesting story.
I was talking to another ham ona repeater and and I can't
remember who the call sign was,but he was just like dude, are
you the guys to do the get hamstuff, like the hammy stuff?
I'm like, yeah, actually, andwe do.
And he's like I'm like why.
He's like do I give you one?
He's like, no, no, no, I had abuddy of mine and he rattled off

(30:58):
his call sign.
He's like he got one.
I'm like, yeah, dude, we dothem all the time.
They're like dude, that's africking awesome thing.
You know, he started going on.
I was like I got to get my own.
I'm like, well, put your orderin nude because I got to wait
for them to come customs.
But yeah, no real hands-on hamradio, but still ham radio.
Altogether Adjacent is good,cool, all right, well with that.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Todd, I know you've had some ham radio this week.
Yeah, I finally got my radioinstalled in the Jeep Very cool.
A few issues had to look somethings up, a little help from
Ryan and, yeah, it's all up andrunning and good.
I'm just glad to be back on theair.
I like the setup a lot.
I like it better than the oldone I had.
I did it cleaner, I got it setup so I can, and we'll talk more

(31:51):
about this.
But that was basically what Idid, ham radio wise.
And I'm planning a poda.
I do juvenile probation, if youguys forgot, and and I got a
kid that's going intoindependent living.
He's going to be 18.
And on Thursday I had told himyou know, one of my hobbies was

(32:13):
ham radio and he thought it waskind of cool.
So we're going to go out toNewcastle and do an activation,
yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Hopefully, knock on wood the band propagation.
Yeah, I hope, yeah, hopefully,Well, I'm hoping.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
I mean, and he's, this kid's very smart and he's,
um, yeah, he's, he's alreadytaking college classes and he's,
he's got a good.
Uh taught me a few things andI've spent a little bit of time
with him and I think ham radiois going to intrigue him.
So might be a good way to get ayoung kid into uh, into the

(32:48):
hobby and uh, who knows, he'sthe type of kid that'll, when he
does things he goes to extremes.
So he might become like like,yeah, the yeah, exactly, we'll
see.
Hopefully it'll be fun.
So, yeah, so that's coming up.
I'm looking forward to thatbecause I haven't been out in a
podo in a long time.
You remember how to do one?
Yeah, I know how to do one.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Come on might I suggest, if it's early enough in
the day, right try like 12, 15,17 yeah see if you can get some
really good DX, because, likethat kind of stuff, like I don't
know about 17.
Yeah, See if you can get somereally good DX, Because, like
that kind of stuff, like I don'tknow about what you've dealt
with.
You know bringing new people in, but like when I brought new

(33:31):
people in and you can getsomebody, you know, even just
the middle of Europe, like Imean, it doesn't have to be that
far.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Right.
Well, we're going to be righton the water, so I'm hoping that
that'll help.
Put the antenna in the water,like we did when we did.
Eric and I had one.
We literally had the antenna inthe water On the tripod.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
We didn't realize the tide was coming in.
We had put it out on the shoreand then we turned around and we
were like holy crap, theantenna is halfway in the water.
It was like okay, that ain'tgoing to work.
It worked.
It worked great because we werelike, wow, we're getting like
contacts halfway across the DX.
It's like this is just likeawesome.
And then we turned around andthe antenna is, like you know,
swimming RF in the ocean.

(34:15):
Yeah, really a true sense ofsalt water.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
When I was.
I've been taking my son out,We've been going on the kayak
and I was like this would bekind of cool if I had a little
bit of a bigger boat and set upan antenna and just go float out
in one of those bays.
It'd probably work.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
It'd be like being on a boat, Although isn't salt
water kayaks, aren't they alittle bit longer for more
balance?

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, I wouldn't go out in my 10 meter Cause anytime
like a jet skier came by italmost flips me over Like I have
to like literally turn thekayak to like face into it,
Cause if I'm sideways it's like.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, so you guys toppled over.
Yeah, it's the same thing withthe paddle boards.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, my son Cody's realizing that he can't uh, you
know, take on any.
You know.
Well, I'll tell you, likebaboosic lake in amherst
merrimack border, it is like amecca of assholes, because
everyone's got these big asspontoon boats and they're flying
around either and they're jetskiers doing like 90 miles an

(35:19):
hour.
And you know, I'm just trying tofish in a cove and all of a
sudden, like a freaking tidalwave comes.
I'm like what the yeah?
And I got my 12-year-old kidout there.
And I'm like Zach, here comesone.
He hangs on Trying to make surehe doesn't tip over, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
So all of those boats are owned by people who live on
the lake, because there is nopublic boat access.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Oh yeah, there is Amherst Town Beach.
How do you think I get in there?

Speaker 1 (35:49):
For Babusik no yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Not for a boat, boat.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Oh, yeah, yeah, no, yeah, you can bring kayaks and
stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah, no, I know.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
It's a nasty.
There's no public boat access.
Right, right, you're right.
So all of those boats arepeople who live there.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Who are assholes?

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Yeah, they're assholes.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Who don't care why you're on their boat.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
They all know, this is our fucking lake.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Yeah, well, it's true , they all know each other.
They're all like jet skiersgoing out to the boats.
They, they tie all the pontoonboats together and but the lake
is disgusting, it's got thisgreen algae floating in it.
So the pool, the water, likefor swimming, has been like
banned, banned like for the lasttwo weeks, but it's like this
fluorescent just a hint, ofe-coli, you know yeah it's just

(36:42):
a.
But people are out there,they're water skiing.
I'm like ugh.
I mean, it's literally likefluorescent green algae floating
along the shores.
It's nasty?

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, it couldn't be from the fact that they run
motorcycles on the lake duringthe ice time and gasoline and
oil pour into that lake, and ithas no way to be able to drain
from the lake.
They got good bass in it,though, and it has no way to be
able to drain from the lake.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
They got good bass in it, though Gas and oil don't
cause E coli, no, but you mix itwith a bunch of other stuff,
which it does, and you know whatI know.
So when we were kayaking around, there's some really really
nice houses and there's somereally shit boxes on that lake.
There's some really really nicehouses on that lake, like
there's.
There's some really really nicehouses on that lake, like one
guy's got.
He's got, I'm gonna assume it'slike a double-sided garage, so

(37:29):
it's like got like a.
It's either two or three wideand he must have one on the
other side because it's like adriveway that goes right into
the lake.
So I'm guessing he's got a boatand a trailer and he's just
kind of back sitting and thenpulls it up into his garage.
But it's like this it's up aboat and a trailer and he just
kind of backs it in and thenpulls it up into his garage, but
it's up on a hill a little bit.
It's a huge house, yeah, butthere's some real houses that

(37:50):
I'm like.
I would think that they'reprobably.
They look like cottages, likethey would be something that you
would rent for like a weekendor something.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
I don't know if I'd be renting a cottage.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Well, I'm just saying but that's what I said.
But yeah, but I'm saying likeyou know, like when you get
those like lake houses, they'relike little summer cottages,
they got no heat or whatever.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
It's there.
Yeah, it's probably where itstarted that way, and then they
all of a sudden became theselike rich houses where because
they you know, put $400,000house on, you know, quarter acre
.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Yeah, but I wouldn't at all the lakes in New
Hampshire, like that's not theone I would pick.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
You'd be surprised, dude.
My aunt grew up in Chumpsfordand there was a lake on there
and it sounds exactly the sameway.
You know this lake is Babusikis, and it's like the house is
now there, like their houselooks run down in comparison to
the $400,000 McMansion that's onlike a small little postage
stamp and it's like four floorsbecause they can't build out.
They can only build up.

(38:43):
It's kind of crazy.
Silver.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Lake's the same kind of deal.
There's no public boat accessbut the people that live there
all have their boats.
That lake, always every year,has E coli issues.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
It's probably because it's probably because they have
the town beaches there, all thefucking People shitting and
pissing in it.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Washing their ass In the fucking lake.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
I go to that POTA man .
I don't Stop ruining my, youknow my good image.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Have you been to Silver Lake Like in the summer,
like you need to be Freakingarmed?

Speaker 1 (39:22):
No, you do.
All my been to Silver Lake likein the summer, like you need to
be freaking armed.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
No, you do, maybe you , but I have to be from the
parking lot.
All my kids are there.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
I'm fine.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
I go there and I'm like, oh yeah, they all are
freaking playing their rap crap.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
I go like at like 12, 1 o'clock in the afternoon, so
most of the time they're not inthe middle of the day when you
know it's super busy, but yeah Idon't go to the evening, go
there on a weekend, god like sixo'clock saturday night.
At six o'clock, yeah, yep, oh, Iknow.
Our first introduction tosilver lake was when my wife
went in the kids and she was outthere in the pond when they

(39:58):
actually allowed people to swimin it and she's like a turd just
floated by.
We're out of the water.
Time to go home.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
No, thanks.
Have you ever fished there,paul In Silver?

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Lake no.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
It's disgusting.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Not worth my time.
There's so many fucking greatlakes in Hampshire I cannot be
bothered with E coli infestedfucking shit lakes.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
The thing is, babusik is literally a mile, maybe two
miles, from my house, so it's soeasy to get to.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Sure, but if you drove a little bit further and
you went to Patanapo andBrookline, that's an absolutely
beautiful lake.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Is that the one?
With the park there's a parkthere, right?
Yeah, zach and I were going togo to that one.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
You know where we went and there's hiking trails
that go all the way around thelake we didn't have.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
We went to the Wilton reservoir and it's really clean
and we walked around the wholething.
It's not very big but it'sreally clean.
And we walked around the wholething.
It's not, yeah, it's not verybig but it's pretty clean.
And, uh, you're not reallycatching shit offshore.
But guys in the middle werecatching fish and he's like,
yeah, you gotta get out in aboat and there's a public access

(41:15):
.
So he wanted to go to that onetoo.
So we'll try to hit that one up.
But yeah, I think I might dothat brookline one.
That's a cool lake.
I like that one.
I like I did that park one daybefore I picked up my parents in
, uh, boston.
I like I'll go pick up this, dothis park before I pick them up
and I was having such a goodactivation I almost forgot to
pick them up.

(41:35):
It's like, oh shit, I gotta goto logan.
Oh, dude, I'm stuck inbrookline at this park, the
sun's going down and I'm lookingat their flight and they're
like the plane is like I look onflight, uh, flight aware or
flight, whatever it is and it'slike they're over new york and
I'm like I'm sitting inbrookline, I got all my gears
set up oh, dude, yeah, you'rehustling ass yeah yep yeah, that

(41:59):
was bad.
I did make it.
I made it pretty much on time.
They called and I was justgetting out of the tunnel.
I'm like, oh, I'll be rightthere, just sit in the parking
lot.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
I'm stuck in the Logan Tunnel.
I'll get there when I get there.
Cool, all right.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Oh Eric, how was your day?

Speaker 1 (42:24):
My day was great, todd, but my ham radio week was
even better.
Let me see where to start.
So I finally, after mymiserable first attempt of live
streams thank you Mother Nature,for being such an asshole and
causing it to rain veryintensely.
So I decided I was going to tryto and causing it to rain, you
know, very intensely.
So I decided I was going to tryto.

(42:45):
I was going to originallyactivate or do my antenna review
at Silver Lake and I figuredokay, based off the cloud cover,
I probably get the crap lake,we'll call it.
I was going to do it there andI was like no, I'm going to go.
I look into the weather pattern.
There was a big enough gap inthe weather pattern that it was

(43:06):
clear that if I got it, wentover to Robert Frost's park,
historic park, that I'd be okay.
Well, I got there early, gotset up, I was out, die outside.
I brought umbrellas just toplay it safe.
And then, like 10 minutesbefore I have to go live, and
I've tested all the equipment,I'm like, all right, cool, it's
going, it's like spitty.
And then, all of a sudden, fiveminutes before I go live, the

(43:28):
skies fricking open up and I'mscrambling to grab all the gear,
throw it in the truck and setup all the cameras again.
Finally get it set up and, ofcourse, being in the truck, and
maybe just the weatherconditions in San Raul, the cell
service sucked.
I could not continue.
You would get, I would stutterand the whole nine yards.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
I'm like this is, it was lagging bad.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
It was bad.
You were honest.
So you know, paul, I bailed onthat one.
I felt bad.
I had to go out to Salem againto do another customer install.
From that I was like I'm goingto give another shot.
So I kind of scoured the parksand I forgot like I'm literally
about 25, 30 minutes away fromwhere I'm at at Maud's sleigh.

(44:13):
Maud's sleigh is the first parkI ever did a activation on when
I finally got really into POTAand that park's great.
I mean wide open, everybodyelse like that Good, you know
good flat ground, you know a lotof shade.
So I headed out that way andand basically scheduled a live
stream for two 30.
And so I got everything kind ofset up and you know, two 30
rolled around and it went offlike a hitch.
The antenna is okay.

(44:35):
I mean the biscuit antenna thata N zero APX creates.
I built it myself but theinstructions that he sent with
it were for the 20 meter versionand I had the 40 meter version,
so I had extra parts thatdidn't really like work, like I
should have incorporated intothe build of the antenna, like
winding, double toroids, and soI knew I my antenna was going to

(44:55):
be off.
Um, overall it wasn't bad.
I mean, I literally, you know,we had about a two, two hour
stream and got the antenna upand I felt bad because I had
anchored on a picnic bench thatyou could see out of like it was
out of camera view but a couple, a dad and his two girls,
decided to sit on the picnicbench and they didn't realize my

(45:15):
antenna was anchored to thatpicnic bench and I'm in the
middle of you know.
That's when I had said toeveryone like hey, you want me
to just stop doing thisactivation?
And like, uh, you know, I'velike four more contacts to make
because I saw the corner of myeye, those people over there,
and they're like no, no, keepgoing.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
I'm like.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
I'm like, oh no.
And of course the dad caughtout of the corner of the eye the
antenna there because it waskind of moving.
He's like, and I, I kind oflike, looked over him and nodded
because it's like, oh yeah,don't touch.
And I'm like, yeah, don't touch, you know kind of thing.
And so you know, overall it wasfine.
They just kind of sat away fromit for a little bit.
I'm like you know, I'm onlyputting a hundred watts out
there, I'm not baking you toomuch.

(45:52):
So all in all that that turnedout to be a super great antenna.
I mean, I think overall myfeelings on it would have been
like, if I had a choice of thator the spool antenna, I'd pay a
little bit more for the spoolantenna just because it's a
little better construction andfor what it's worth.

(46:14):
I would trade both of thosespool antennas for Reliance any
day because I got man hands, man, those spools are too small and
trying to make them work and itwas just too much frustration
for the.
You know the benefit of havingsomething so small and light.
But I got that with a reliancein tennis, I don't have to worry
about it.
So all in all, good review wasfun to get back there and

(46:35):
activate and definitely good tohave everybody on the live
stream.
And then Saturday, yeah, Ididn't really do a much ham
radio stuff.
I know a couple of folks wereactivating camera, what it was I
was trying to hunt, oh, I don'tremember what that one was.
But then Sunday I did a livestream for a brew and activate
and we talked batteries and thatwas actually pretty cool.
A lot of folks you know hadsome very insightful information

(46:58):
in terms of batteries and andhow they use it in activation
activation.
So that was a good live streamand looking forward to picking
some more of that stuff up andand talking in that sense.
And then, you know, I spent therest of the day today making uh
burnt ends.
So yeah, that turned out reallygood and I was kind of happy
with that.
The family was quite happy tohave uh burnt ends.
They're, you know, one of thosefolks that you know they they

(47:21):
want them badly.
When they do, you know we'll goout and get them, and so I was
able to bring it to the table.
And you know, make uh, you know, some family members happy.
So outside of that, yeah, thatwas pretty much my uh weekend in
ham radio.
And what is another thing?
Uh, yeah, well, I'll you know,I won't talk about that now.
I guess I, I you can see it inthe background there I've got to

(47:41):
finish up the review for theLazy Dog, which I you know.
Dude, I'm going to create aspecific bag for this thing
because this is a freakingawesome antenna.
So yeah, and so yeah.
That was my ham radio shortweek, I guess, for what it's
worth.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
What day were you out when you got rained?
On Friday.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Thursday no, wednesday, wednesday was a rain
day.
Was that the rainy day?
Oh my gosh, it was hard Like itwould.
It did not let up.
It was like I was like sittingthere when we were just barely
getting.
You know, there was spitty.
I was like man, I really wish Ibrought the 10 by 10 tent.
It was like, yeah, that wasreally good.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Oh, yeahnesday was yeah, that was a day it was like
downpour, like heavy.
Oh it was bad.
I was sitting in my office andI heard I'm like it sounds like
like thunder or a train comingthrough.
I look outside, it's just likeyep, yeah, everything was soaked
.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
I like I had so much I had put on the back of my
hitch, the hitch mount, and thenI put my dx commander antenna
and I forgot to put the cap backon.
When I got in the truck, whenit started to rain, when I took
it out, I had like a cup and ahalf of water I poured out of it
that basically fallen in theinside of that mass and I was
like, oh no, so I I taken it allapart and just like let all the

(48:53):
sections dry, because, you know, problem with fiberglass, you
get a little wet.
It never, uh, really, uh, youknow, keeps its shape and falls
apart quicker just because itdisintegrates.
So hopefully, knock on wood.
That continues to.
You know, keeps its shape andfalls apart quicker just because
it disintegrates, so hopefully,knock on wood.
That continues to.
You know, perform so far, okay.
Well, yeah, so that was myhammery week, but yeah, so we're
going to kind of shift gears alittle bit.

(49:14):
Last week I know we talked aboutour 24 hour photo, which turned
out really good.
A lot of folks were superexcited and you know that should
air this Monday, so, or thepast Monday for you, you guys,
because this is where you'reafter it.
Yeah, it was a good talk.
I mean, we got some good plans.
I think we definitely got somestuff to work on and we're
gearing up for that.
So we've got the time and we'removing forward.

(49:38):
So I'm looking September's goingto be here what in four.
September is going to be herewhat, and for you know pretty
much what four weeks.
You know less.
So, yeah, if you haven'talready started planning and
you're looking to come to the 24hour pod, definitely sign up
and we'll love to have you comehang out with us.
So, whether it's for the day orthe weekend, we're encouraging
you to come hang out for theweekend, because that's where
all the fun is really going tohappen.
So, yeah, so, on a sidebar, weknow Todd's been planning.

(50:02):
We'll say the weather hasdistracted him, life has
distracted him.
He is, uh, struggled to findthe time to put his five 10 in
his truck.
You probably heard on previousepisodes all of his uh, you know
ham radio minutes that we'vetalked about, with programming
that turned into 30 minutesessions.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Uh, he's got all that it's your fault, Eric, because
you didn't show up to help him.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Yeah, fucking guy.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Dude, please, you did it yourself, you bastard.
You could don't give me thatcrap.
You're like this helplesslittle child.
You did fine.
So we're going to share Todd'sgoing to share so his woes and
setting this thing up because,uh, we know how, we sort of know
how it went and the phone callsI got at 9 30 at night for tech
support, uh, which I haven'tsent you the bill on yet, but uh
, yeah, uh I've already.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
I got your bill right here you know what that is read
it.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
No, I can't see it at all.
What's that middle finger?

Speaker 3 (51:00):
on.
Yeah, this is bad.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Well, Todd's reviewing my bill now.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Because of all the tech support that Eric's got, I
felt like I had to get himsomething.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
So if he ever comes, by and sees me he's got a nice
gift card to his favoritebrewery.
I'll be over tomorrow then,yeah.
I know Now it'll be over, yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
I've been holding this thing for weeks.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
I'm like God when's he ever going to come over?
Well, I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
There was a, you know yeah, now I'd be like boom.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
So anyway, without you know, without that little
segue there, you know, do tellTodd months you've been off the
air for who knows god how long.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Yeah, so for starters I just gotta say I love this
radio.
I mean, out of the three mobileradios that I've played with,
this one is by far my favorite.
I just love everything about it.
The what is the asp thing isfreaking amazing.
Like I went on the net and Iwas where I live.
It's kind of when I use it andwhen I'm mobile where I live
it's always staticky and getskind of choppy and stuff.

(52:07):
I hit that button, the signalbumps up and everyone is like
crystal clear.
There's no noise, it's like itjust it's the magic button,
awesome.
So the radio very simple to way, easier than the old on the 400
and the 300 to get to where youneed to go.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
I did say it was an old man's upgrade.
So yeah, it makes sense.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
What does that mean?
Old man's upgrade.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Well, so when the 500 came out, all of a sudden all
these old guys started comingout on Facebook and other places
going this is such a greatradio.
I can see it now.
I don't have to put my glasseson.
The buttons are easy to touch,Like I mean, it was like,
basically, like you know, the TVremote when you went and you
had the standard remote thatcame from the cable company, and
then the remote that like, wasthe size of a microwave.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
It's just it's very easy, like, if you have like,
for an example, I, I fricking,wasn't paying attention and I
put in the Epson repeater and Ihad the wrong tone Right, like
it was like two buttons, boom,boom done.
Like it was easy, like itwasn't like I had to scroll
through and find in which menuand then a sub menu, it was just
.
Everything is right where itneeds to be.
So I love the radio.

(53:13):
So, anyway, I've beenprocrastinating, not having time
either, too tired, knowing thatit's going to take me a long
time.
So what I did first is I lastweek or the week before I
installed the antenna.
So I bought a for my JeepWrangler.
I bought this kind of metalback side windshield mount that

(53:35):
kind of connects to it, connectsto the top, top of the um molly
panel, the top of the roof andunderneath, um, oh, like a lip
mount.
Yeah, it's like a lip mount.
It attaches to the top and thenunderneath the um, the hard top
, and it just it kind of screwsin.

(53:57):
So put that on first and, uh,it looks pretty good.
Um, it's solid metal, it's'sactually.
I saw it, this at near fest.
I took a picture of it and umon a Jeep and I said, oh, that's
how I'm going to do it, it'sawesome.
And I went down to the candystore, hro Um, and I bought a uh
, an antenna mount and a newantenna Um, I forget the size of

(54:22):
it I don't.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Well, you got another quarter wave halfway.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
It's like yeah, but the the mount is like maybe like
that round, it's not huge butit's it's, but it's it's easy to
screw on and off.
So my other one, you know, Iliterally had to like it was
hard to take on and off.
So like when I go to the carwash or throw the car in the uh,
in the garage or whatever, um,it would just be easy to just
unscrew it and that's it was itanother mmo mount or was it like

(54:49):
an so239?
Thread.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
I think it's an mmo mount but the mmo mounts that
gold one.
That like has a like a coupleof threads on it.
You know what I'm talking about, right, like SO-239 looks like
an actual SO-239 thread.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
I think it's an SO-239.
I don't know, I had a cap,someone had given me a cap, but
it was too big, oh, too big.
Yeah, it was round, so I have asmaller cap for it.
Like I said, it's like onlythat round.
Can you see my SO-239.
Can you see mine?
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (55:22):
All right.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
Whatever I don't know the names.
They should just make auniversal freaking size.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Make things easy For Todd, everything's going to be
universal for Todd.
Yeah, all these picking.
It looks like this, so let mejust quick share this stuff.
So, screen wise.
I know I don't care about mysound, just share it, come on.
Oh, you get that too.
Every wise, I know I don't careabout my sound, just share it,
come on.
Oh, you get that too every oncein a while.
Yeah well, it's because itthinks it's their sound, or

(55:46):
something like that.
What the heck?
Just share.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Window share it was shared oh, there we go.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
Yeah, just I was impatient, so like yeah, it
looks like those threads.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
Okay, so that's so 239.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
All right, good, that's what I got.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
So the first thing I did is I put the antenna.
I ran the antenna wire, mountedthe antenna to that MOLLE cage
thing on the window and tooktime, ran the antenna, got it to
where I wanted it to be madesure everything was clean, taped
.
It, got it under everything.
So that was the first step andI suggest, if you're doing this,

(56:23):
especially for the first time,do it in stages, because it it
can take a long time and it canget frustrating, because trying
to figure out how to geteverything hidden and clean and
under things and pulling panelsoff and all that kind of stuff
can can really be frustrating.
But anyway, I got that done.
So then I said, all right, I'mgonna'm going to run the wires
from the engine to theunderneath my front seat.

(56:49):
So what I did to start off withis I just took a long.
I took wire off a spool and Iran it through the car and
around so it got to the engineand ran it to the back of the
seat, gave me some extra spaceand then so that was.
That took a while becausethat's hard to do, because you

(57:12):
got to take off all these panelsto get them all underneath and
pop them back in.
And those whoever puts carpanels in, they like those
plastic car panels.
They just they're not easy.
Like you're afraid, you're goingto break them you know there's
a tool called a panel popper andthat'll keep it from breaking
it oh, I don't have a panelpopper, so I have one, yeah,

(57:33):
which is why you should havebeen over here so anyway, just
asked to borrow it, but well, Ididn't know there was one that
existed.
So anyway, I I got it throughand it was all clean.
And then I was like, wow, thatwas good, it looks good.
Um, the jeep has, my jeep hasauxiliary buttons.
So I, uh, it was really hard onthe on the directions.

(57:54):
It was like they said there wasone in the underneath the dad,
like underneath the computerpanel or the the radio, but
you'd have to like take off halfthe dash to get to it.
And so I called the dealership.
I said, hey, I'm going to addsome to my auxiliary panels.
What's the best way to do it?

(58:15):
And the guy's like, oh, just goon there.
If you know, if you're facing,if you're in the car, on the
right side of the battery,there's four wires, they're all
covered in black, this likeblack tape and stuff.
He goes, you'll see it, there'sa bunch of just undo that tape.
You'll see the four wires andthen look in the manual,
different wires will show whichauxiliary.
So sure enough, they were rightthere and did all the tape and

(58:39):
all the casing of it and there'swas four wires.
I'm like, oh, that's awesome.
So me being not the genius withelectrical shit, I'm like, well,
there's only one wire and I'vegot a red and a black wire.
What the fuck do I do now?
Because normally I just run thered wire to the red side of the
battery and the black one tothe.
So I called ryan, I said, hey,I go, you've done this.

(59:01):
I said, which one?
Where do I put the black wire?
And he goes, well, you have toground it somewhere.
So I was like, yeah, I'm liketo the battery, probably, but
I'm not connecting the other one.
So, no, no, what you do, groundto go Well you do ground it
metal yeah, so I just groundedit to the ground on the battery

(59:22):
right, so you don't.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
You didn't have to go that far, but yeah, you could
have been like yeah, I don't,but my bad, but this is why I
did it.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
So I'm trying to be clean and simple.
So I connect the red wire, Iconnect the red wire using the
um, the wago connector right,and I I cover it with cover it
with um.
I got it in there, I sealed itup, I put some shrink wrap on it
, so it's all good, um, so nowif I for some reason need to

(59:50):
take that wire out or something,it's, it's a clean connection,
yeah.
And then I use my crimpers andI put one of those battery
connector rings on the end ofthe black wire and, uh, the
battery actually had a like agrounding thread, like like a
screw, but like an upside downscrew, like mounted to the

(01:00:12):
battery.
So I just put it on that.
It was like outside theconnectors, it was just like an
extra piece and I bolted it downand it worked.
So I was psyched.
I was like sweet, okay.
So I get it all set up, I'mtesting it.
I don't have the radioinstalled, but I got the radio
in my front seat and I'm testingit and sounds good.

(01:00:34):
No one's answering me on ourrepeater, but of course you know
what'd he say.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
No, he's posting something in discord.
Give me a middle finger discordanyway, so.
I paused.
Is that why?
Yeah, I go to.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
I call the Epson repeater.
Of course Anthony's running hisnet.
And so I chime in.
And I call the Epson repeater.
Of course Anthony's running hisnet.
And so I chime in and I say,hey, how do I sound?
He's all excited Cause hehasn't heard me in like two
months.
Oh, Todd, it's great to hear.
I'm like, hey, what's up, howdo I sound?
I just got my radio justtesting it out.
Oh yeah, you sound good.
So I'm psyched.
I'm like all right, Awesome.
So now I'm like all right,awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
So now I'm like, Okay , fine, got it.
Yep, moving on.
Sorry, todd, continue.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
So I set up my radio, I mount it all up, I'm all
ready to go, and nothing nopower, nothing.
I'm like ready to go andnothing, no power, nothing.
I'm like what the fuck did I do?
Like I literally just pluggedeverything in.
It just worked.
I didn't do anything different.
Okay, so now I go to the powerpoles, because I power pulled

(01:01:58):
the two ends for the radio andthe wire coming from the engine
block power pole so I can justconnect them in and out if I
need to take the radio out orwhatever.
So I'm looking like well, maybethe power pole connectors are
fucked up, because I hate thosefucking things.
To get them to click in is apain in the ass, and if you
don't, if you have too much wire, they bend.
So I'm like you know what Fuckit?

(01:02:19):
I'm like you know what I'mfucking, I'm just going to redo
the power poles.
So I redo the power poles.
Still doesn't work.
And I did them really clean thistime.
I made sure they were perfect.
Didn't work.
So then I'm like all right,well, let me see if I fucked up
the radio or something.
So I take the whole radio,bring it back to the shack, plug

(01:02:40):
it into the shack and it works.
So I was like, oh, it's not theradio.
So then I call Eric.
I'm like what the fuck is wrongwith this thing?

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
What did I do?
You didn't call me.
I get a call at oh sorry, itwasn't Saturday.
It was Friday night at 9 PM.
Can you take a call?
That's it All right?
You respond like my dad sendsme texts, it's like hey, I said
can you take a call?

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
I was trying to be respectful, I didn't want to
wake you up.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
It's Friday night.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
Maybe you were on a date with your wife, or
something I would have told youit was balls deep yeah.
I was, just he was naked in theback.
I can't take a call right now,I'm naked in the back of the car
with the wife.
Anyway, he calls me back and hesays, yeah, let's uh what's

(01:03:28):
going on.
And then he tells me well, it'sprobably like you probably blew
a fuse.
Now I checked the fuse in theuh on the radio cord, cause
there's two fuses in there.
So I looked at them.
They were good.
So then he says well, maybe youblew the fuse on the auxiliary
switch.
Well, the auxiliary switch wasstill lit up.
So in my mind it couldn't bethe auxiliary switch, because

(01:03:50):
it's still lit, like if the fuseblew it wouldn't turn on.
So sure enough eric was rightand uh, found the fuse, which I
can't fucking see for the lifeof me and the fucking fuse box
chart is so freaking small, likeI almost had to go get a

(01:04:11):
magnifying glass.
But I found it and sure enough,it was blown.
So got a new fuse, or not.
So it was 15.
It was on the 15 amp one andRyan had told me that the radio
draws 11 amps.
So he says, yeah, just put onthe 15 and save the 40 if you
need something bigger.
So that's two 40s and two 15s.
So I was like, well, fuck that,I'm not putting on another 15.

(01:04:34):
So I just took the thing apartwith the with the connector and
plugged it into the um amp oneand voila, it worked.
It's been working since allweekend.
Good deal.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Applause.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
Now, boy that escalated quickly.
Now that I've done it once, Ibet you it would be a lot easier
doing it the second time If Ihad to do another card.
Probably go a lot quicker,because now I know where all the
fucking parts are and I okay,so let's back up the train here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
First and foremost, based off the applause, I am
100% in agreeance.
Like good job, like you didn'tlike call me every step of the
way you said fuck it, I'm goingto figure this out.
And you figured it out, becausethat's what paul and I do is we
fucking figure it out and ithappens and magically we don't
blow shit up.
Then we're like woohoo, verygood well I did, I did okay.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
So I I did like you helped me run the wire because I
had no idea how to do it thefirst time.
So being there watching uphelped, you know, because I had
an idea of what I was actuallydoing.
But yeah, it was.
Um, it just seems like everylittle thing is like going wrong
, like the fucking blown fuse.
Like I, I backtracked andchecked everything except that

(01:05:54):
freaking fuse, because I didn'tthink the fuse would have blown
if the freaking light was on theswitch, like you know what I
mean.
Like why is the light when Ihit the on button comes on?
I would think that the switchwas getting the power.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
That's why I thought it was like the radio or the
connector was loose or now Iwould imagine that, because this
is a very, that all of theillumination in the dash is its
own circuit, yeah, and and sojust because you you blow the

(01:06:30):
fuse that puts power that'scoming out of that circuit, the
illumination circuit still haspower yeah, well, I didn't think
of that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
And again, how would I?
I don't know anything aboutcars or electricity for shit.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
So I was like my simpleton mind was saying well,
it's got the lights on, it mustbe working you, that would be
the normal, like you know everyday, like okay, but the fact
that you took like it it helpedme feel a little more confident
when you said, hey, I took theradio out all the way, put it in
the shack and tested it and itworked.

(01:07:08):
So at that point, like it madelike in my mind, oh, he's got
some troubleshooting steps thathe's already done and most
people would never have none andit'd be like it's not fucking
working.
And I see the light is on andon and you know, not spend any
time tearing into what they'vealready kind of assembled I
thought I, I thought I checkedeverything and I was like what?

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
that's why I called.
I said you, I was like whatcould it be?

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
and then it was the fuse and that was like I'm like,
all right, cool yeah, ninetimes out of ten it's, it's if
you've checked everything inthat that chain.
So it's very much like you know, following the wire all the way
to the very end and if there'sa few somewhere in that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
Yeah, I mean, I even redid.
You know, I did.
Yeah, I did everything over.
I said, all right, maybe Ifucked something up, maybe it's
not connected the right way, Idon't know, but this took me.
It wasn't all in one, it wasnwasn't like I said.
All right, here I am, I'm goingto do this.
This was like run the wiresFirst.
It was like drop Zach off atbasketball camp, come back, run

(01:08:09):
the wires.
Oh, I'm halfway through.
Can you go get Zach?
It's one o'clock.
Sure, I love those projects.
Put everything away so he canget back in the car, so I can at
least drive the thing Right,the car, so I can at least drive
the thing right, drive to pickthem up, come back, start
playing with it.
Dad, can you do this?
Dad, I need help with this.
So, back and forth doing allthis.
So finally everything's working, the sun's going down, I'm all

(01:08:33):
happy.
Putting the radio in, it's acouple screwed, no big deal.
And then the shit happens itdoesn't work.
And now it's pitch blackoutside.
So I got my headlamp on, I gotflashlights.
I'm like what the fuck am Idoing it?
Because I said I'm not going tobed until this thing is working
, because I probably wouldn'thave slept.
I would have been like freaking, thinking about it the whole
time, like what the fuck couldit be?
So it was getting late and Isaid I better call eric, know

(01:08:58):
what to do.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
To do a mobile install correctly is a giant
pain in the ass.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
I think, I did it correctly.
What?

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
you did is fine.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
I wasn't saying you didn't, I'm just saying it is a
fact that to do it correctly isa giant pain in the ass.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Yeah, yep, so just clarification.
You ran a red and a black wirefrom the battery in the engine
compartment all the way throughthe firewall into the interior,
or no?
No?

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
So I ran it underneath the hood and then
through the cavity between thedoor and the thing and then into
the oh.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
So Kind of like we did the last.
Well, the last one, we wentthrough your firewall, I thought
.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
No, we did the same way.
Oh, it was through the thing.
It was the easiest way becausethere's a, the way the Jeep is
and the hood and stuff.
It's all in a tunnel almost andit just comes out a little bit
and then it goes back into the.
So right where the hood comesup there's a connector and it
goes in there and then it runsthrough the uh, so in the
footwell inside the interior youwent up through there and then

(01:10:15):
kind of back underneath thefootwell right into the back
under the passenger seat butdidn't you say that there's two
wires underneath your dash,though, or was that under the
engine compartment?
no, they're in the enginecompartment.
I thought they were because itsays there's.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
They're in underneath the yeah, I looked at the
pictures you sent me and I'mright that looks like it's all
inside the car right.

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
So I looked and it's not there and I asked the guy.
I said how do I get to theguy's?
Like dude, don't do it that way.
He goes.
You have to take the wholeinterior out to get to it.
He goes.
There's wires set up, it's soeasy.
He goes.
It's right next to the battery,they're wrapped in black, and
he goes just undo the tapethat's in the sleeve, that's on

(01:11:01):
it, the black sleeve, and you'llsee all the wires just
connected there he goes.
It's so much easier.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
So that's why I did it so let me ask the question
for paul how many installs,mobile installs, radio wise,
have you done for yourself?
All of them that you okay, andall of those equate to how many
numbers?
How many have you done?

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
I mean, so I've, I've had, I've had cbs in every
truck I've ever owned.
Okay, um, you know, the, the,the stereo, the car stereo.
I I always have to upgrade andchange the car stereo.
So I've done numerous of thoseI did some radios, but yeah,

(01:11:48):
okay Now with ham radio.
I've only ever owned this trucksince.
I've been a ham, okay, been aham, um.

(01:12:10):
Now I'll tell you, because Ihave terror, I I've torn the
interior out of my trucknumerous times already.
When it came to putting the hamradio in my truck, I did not do
it the correct way.
I said fuck this shit, I wantto be able to take the radio out
of the truck when I want totake the radio out.
And so, at at, at first it was,um, it was on a Lido mount that

(01:12:31):
was, uh, attached to this, thepassenger seat bolt, um, and
then you know, everything waspower pulled, and so I could
just disconnect it, pull theradio off, bring it in the house
.
Power pulled, and so I couldjust disconnect it, pull the
radio off, bring it in the house.
Um, then, a couple years ago,we were going to florida for a
vacation and obviously that typeof setup isn't going to work

(01:12:52):
for my wife driving to florida,um, so what I did was I I got
rid of that mount and I justscrewed it to the side of the
center console.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
There we go.
There's an aesthetics.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Yeah.
So trust me, like I mean, ifyou sit in the passenger seat of
my truck, you're like what thefuck is this radio that's
hitting my knee Like it's?
It's in the stupidest fuckingplace possible, but, um, I
didn't have time to tear thetruck apart when I did it.
So eventually, someday, the CBand the ham radio will both get

(01:13:39):
remounted and everything willget rewired.
You know better.
But one thing that I'm astickler on is vehicle wiring.
Like I had, I had the, theweller the, the battery powered
weller that that frank fuckingdid all this stupid solder roids

(01:14:01):
with, oh God, yeah, okay, yeah.
And I'm out there with it, withthat thing trying to trying to
solder these, these electricalconnections because I want it
done, right, right, I meananything electrical like I don't
want, I don't want the truck tocatch on fire, right, um, um,
getting the Kyweets though, thisthing is fucking awesome.

(01:14:25):
All I gotta do is bring out alittle USB battery box and plug
it in and I can solder fullpower fucking anywhere anytime.
And then you heat, shrink itand you're golden.
But I don't.
I guess I'm really confusedwith Todd's.

(01:14:46):
And then you heat, shrink itand you're golden.
I guess I'm really confusedwith Todd's.
If you've got auxiliaryswitches that have power coming
from the battery and they'refused, why wouldn't you just tie
into the switch instead ofrunning the wire all the way

(01:15:06):
through under the hood and allthat?

Speaker 3 (01:15:09):
Because that's where the wires to the switch are,
next to the battery.
They're in the engine.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
You just have to connect them to the battery.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
No no, no.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
It's already pre-wired, so the switches are
pre-wired to the battery andthere's four different wires
coming out the switches are inthe interior of your Jeep.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
So if you took your instrument panel, your dashboard
, whatever apart to accessbehind the switches, the wires
are there so you could have justpulled off of the switch and
fed the radio right there with afour inch fucking wire true,
but the factory already gave himwires under the engine
compartment yeah, and the guy,and the guy said no, I, I see

(01:16:02):
where you're going

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
it would look.
It would have been more workfor me to do it, to pull the
whole front of my Jeep apart toget to those wires.
And he says they put them underthe engine compartment because
it's easy access.
You lift the hood, it's rightthere, so that wire is not that
long from the batteries in theright.

(01:16:24):
So if I'm sitting in the Jeep,the right side, the passenger
side in the back, and the wiresare right there, so it's just
from the right in front of thewindshield to the passenger seat
, it's not that far.
I guess I'd have to look at itso the radio is underneath the
passenger seat.
A look at it.

(01:16:47):
So the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
The radio is underneath the passenger seat
and then the wire runs, connectsto the head, runs underneath
the passenger seat, underneaththe center console, up and
connects to the radio so thiswill offer clarification for you
, paul, why they're they did itthat way is because a lot of the
jeepers have off-road lightsthat they put on the front of
the vehicle, and there's no wayto feed a switch wire in for you
to be able to control it insidethe cab.

(01:17:09):
So they created those switchpanels and then just dropped a
you know a bunch of four wires,for you know different amperes,
uh, for right, few stamps.

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
So what?
What I would have done was Iwould have.
I would have gone to the backof this, the switch panel, which
you can't get access to withoutI would have done, was I would
have.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
I would have gone to the back of this, the switch
panel, which you can't getaccess to.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
Without I would have pulled off Right, but I would
have pulled off the positiveright and then and then run it
down and so that it comes outunder the seat, and then I would
have grounded it to the seatbolt.
Yeah, and just I.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
I mean, you got positive and negative both fused
on the radio, so the hard partwould be that, more than likely,
that switch harness, becauseit's a Chrysler product, would
probably have been taped to hellbecause it's all modular when
they slam those things in thefactory, that you'd probably be
spending a half a day, a day anda half, trying to tear the dash
out and then find that, youknow, it would have been fucking

(01:18:05):
easier to go up through thefirewall.
But yeah, no, I get it, I wouldhave, I would have done Apple
products.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Like you guys, buy the most difficult shit.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Oh, don't give me, don't give you that, mr Toyota.
I saw how long it took you.
Great job there.
Engineers.
Put the alternator down belowunderneath the you know pretty
much right where the flywheel is.
Yeah, that's a smart design.
That's about as smart as aCadillac.
Putting the starter motorinside the cavity of the block

(01:18:35):
for a starter motor Like that'sbrilliant.
Yeah, okay, what engineersthinking that?
Yeah, I, I.
Funny, when you did youralternator install I was
laughing because I was like youwere on the.
I'm like why is he on thefricking ground?
And then I did a little look uponline.
You know where Toyota putstheir alternators.
I'm like no wonder why they gobad, because literally it's like
salt and everything just likegoes up into that part of the

(01:18:55):
motor and it's like you'reguaranteed to fry an alternator
after a while.
You know.
But you know I get it Justabout funny.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
I was going to do what Paul was going to do
because I said, oh, this wouldbe sweet, but if it was right
there, like I thought the way itlooked if I took the glove box
off, it looked like if I tookthe glove box off it'd be right
like behind it on the side.
It just wasn't.
So I was like all like allright, well, you know what I

(01:19:27):
called them up?
The guy's like listen, youdon't want to do it that way.
They put the wires there.
You know, it's just, everythinggets attached right there and
it's easy yeah, and there'snothing wrong with it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
I just like, uh, you know, I get you know in, if
you're using something factory,it's just best to use what the
factory gives you, versus tryingto reinvent it like where my
truck doesn't have thoseauxiliary switches.
I could have bought anaftermarket replacement to
replace this small little paneldown there to add additional
factory, but again, to getaccess to the dash I'd have to

(01:19:59):
remove the whole entire radioassembly, I'd have to remove the
wires, and then the wires thatI need to get access to splice
those switches in, to get powerto them, are like so far tucked
to you know inside of thedriver's panel that I was like
screw this, I'm just buyingsomething separate and I put in
a separate switch panel and thenI don't have to run anything,
um, except one wire to you knowwhere I'm gonna have a switch

(01:20:21):
control for underneath the dash.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
It's pretty cool because on the radio there's a
place for the auxiliary switchesand you can decide whether you
want it to be on the ignition orthe battery, so you can pick.

Speaker 1 (01:20:38):
On the radio does it?
Or the switch does.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
Well, on the radio you can go into settings.
It'll say auxiliary switchesand then you can customize the
switch to be battery only orignition.

Speaker 1 (01:20:49):
Oh, on the Jeep.
I thought you meant on thelighter hand radio.
No, no.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
Yeah, so you don't have to be key in the accessory
position, you can be key off andstill have power to those
switches, right, and it works.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
Awesome, because now the radio itself is on.
But I hit that auxiliary switch, it turns it off, it turns it
on.
So if the Jeep is off and Iwant to use the radio, it's
still on.
Cool, it was cool.
It's a good install.
I like it.
And the other excellent thingabout this radio when I had the

(01:21:22):
300, I had this arm that wentoff the back of my headrest,
kind of went to the passengerside, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
How is the audio now?

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Awesome.
It bounces right off thewindshield, so it sounds perfect
, like it's like.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
It just sounds like it's volume, Like you run it at
half volume now, or you run itlike like what's it like when
the windows are down?
I guess the better questionprobably like three quarters.
Yeah, okay because that'salways cruising on the highway
truck, because I always havethat cranked and the speaker
does a decent job.
But yeah, it definitely like ifI put an external speaker I
definitely have no problemshearing it.
But I just, you know, I alwaysroll up the windows anyway

(01:22:00):
because I'm sure people hatehearing the yeah, the wind
blowing on the radio while I'mtalking, so I'm like, all right,
I'll just be a little bit morepolite.

Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
You know, consider it I mean, and it was, you know it
was a um, you know it was acool.
I mean, I didn't.
I thought that's a good upgradeto have a speaker either on,
you know, on the, the radioitself, or on the um, the
headset and then the head, and Iput in the headset, also has

(01:22:28):
the mic connector so you canconnect the mic to either the
headset or the, the base radioor the base.

Speaker 1 (01:22:35):
Okay, all right.
So I got a couple of fire aspitfire questions, or throw it,
yeah, if Paul doesn't haveanything you want, he wants to
throw it, yeah.
So in in terms of the firstinstall that you did with your
300 to this install, rateyourself on it, do you feel like
you actually understand itbetter or do you feel like

(01:22:55):
you're still okay?
So you could probably easily do, like if your wife decided to
want to get into ham radio,which would be probably a move
of a mountain, you know that,you could, I'd feel, decided one
to get into ham radio, whichwould be probably a move of a
mountain.
Uh, you know that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
Uh, you could, I'd feel I'd feel pretty confident
that I could install.
If someone asked me hey, couldyou help me install the radio?
I feel pretty confident that Iwould know how to do it.
I mean I?
I mean, every car is going tobe different.
I mean on the.
On the old jeep, we mounted itright to the battery.
This one I mounted to theauxiliary switches, which I like
better.
The old Jeep, we mounted itright to the battery.

(01:23:25):
This one I mounted to theauxiliary switches, which I like
better.
The old Jeep had problemsbecause every time if I forget
to push the button to do the,you know like when the car shuts
off and then start, you knowwhat do they call that stupid
thing.
Like it goes, you'll be at astoplight and it'll just shut
off.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
It'll shut off.
I've experienced that firsthandseveral times when talking to
you.
Yeah, where did Todd go?
Where did he forget?

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
his radio shut off but it, you know, and to fix
that you know they want like a Idon't know, it was like a
hundred dollar fricking thing.
I was like screw that, I'lljust push the button and turn it
off.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
But you so well, here's now.
Now you have a differentdilemma with button pushing.
Is that now you have to shut?

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
the radio off.
No, no, no, no, because I as Iset the radio to turn off in
like three hours, so oh, the fitlike in the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
In the radio, uh, well, smart man.
Okay, so it doesn't, thoughalzheimer's will not.

Speaker 3 (01:24:22):
Uh, you know, kick your ass yeah this, this car has
so many freaking batteries andI think it's got like well,
that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
It's like the likelihood you'll drain all your
batteries by the time thatradio happens.
But you know, you never know.
Todd you, you've done someamazing things in life.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
I don't know well I mean I can I.
I mean I was running the.
You know it was hot.
So I've run like full AC justblaring, because you know I get
out of work.
It'd be like my car would belike 100 degrees blaring and it
really maybe I lose like a mileon the electric.

(01:24:59):
Like it uses full AC uses threekilowatts, normal like one or
two.
Like auto mode it uses one.
So you're not really using alot of energy to run the AC.
And on the dash there's a thingwhere you can see what you're
using.
So it'll say like what do theycall it?
Like climate, it'll show youhow much you're using, and then

(01:25:22):
for the power climate, it'llshow you how much you're using
and then for the power.
So I tell you that watching the, the screen and how it the car
works is pretty.
It's pretty cool.
You know like it'll run amixture of of gas.
If you put it in hybrid modeit'll run a mixture of gas and

(01:25:43):
battery.
At a certain point where it'llrun like 50% battery and 50% gas
, which is giving you about 32miles per gallon, because you
can then look at the mileagething, and then what happens is
when it gets down to zero it'lljust go to pure gas.

(01:26:05):
But as you're doing pure gas,it's charging by the engine and
then every time you let off thebrakes or every time you put on
the brakes or you take your footoff the gas, it charges even
more.
So there's a button on there.
So you got to get used todriving that way, because you
don't coast like you do.
It's almost like a slow breakwhen you're coming in.

(01:26:27):
It's kind of like the wayelectric cars work, like if
you've ever driven a Tesla orwhatever.
But once you get used to that,it's easy because I'm saving
breaks too, because I'm notbreaking as much.
You know I'm coming to a light,I let my foot off the brake,
the thing will slow down and asit's slowing down it's charging
the battery.
Once that thing gets to 1%,it'll then use that 1%, all

(01:26:50):
electric and then it switchesback to gas.
So I'm averaging when I do thelong trips.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
I'm averaging about 24 miles a gallon versus like 16
to 18 before I like my gasUntil you have a computer
problem.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
Well, until something computer wise goes flaky.

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
but oh, yeah, well, yeah, the whole thing is a
fricking community, but thebattery and the electrical part
is guaranteed for 10 years.

Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
So he's on the ninth and nine and one day left.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
Yeah, I'll be getting a new car.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
I never keep cars more than 10 years.
Okay, so a couple other things.
Um, if you uh have you runningthe radio when the engine's
running.
No home issues nothing no, andI was.

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
I was worried about that.
So I was worried about what itwould sound like like with the
being on just electric mode,being on hybrid mode, just gas
mode, nothing wow, that's good,okay, and then, uh, antenna you
mounted in a different spot.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
You find it any different?

Speaker 3 (01:27:55):
better, worse I haven't really used it as much
to know.
Uh, let me show you your sparetire.
But yeah, let me show you.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
Hold on, all right uh I'm just gonna say that all
this talk about new vehicles andall the computers and all this
shit, like I, honestly, god, I'mgonna drive my truck until it
will not fucking go anymore andthen I'll put a new, I'll put a

(01:28:22):
new fucking engine in orwhatever it needs so this is,
this is the mount.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
This is what it looks like in the car.
Okay, so where it says 67,that's where my that's a
magnetic mount for my phone, andthen the radio's there.
Um, I haven't figured out aplace to put the mic, but it it
sits really nice in that littlehandlebar, so I might just leave
it there.

Speaker 1 (01:28:48):
I'm just going to put a little caveat on here.
I hate mics that are attachedto faceplates.
I, just, I.
It just aggravates me to no end.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
Well, I'm going to see how that works and if not, I
can run it like I did the otherone, go back to the body, right
?
So I'm going to try it this wayand see.
All right, so let me go.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
let me end this and then find the other other one
photograph.
So, paul I, I firmly agree withyou.
You know, ride it till it diesand then resuscitate it and then
ride it some more.
You know there's nothing wrongwith that.
I kind of grew up like my dadhad a 60, no 89 jimmy and that
thing, the panels were freaking,falling off the side of that

(01:29:28):
thing and it was a rust bucketand he replaced the engine three
times on it and finally mymother threatened him like if he
didn't get rid of it and youknow, get something different
that uh, you know she'd divorcehim.
So you know he finally got ridof it.
But my brother was the same way.
He had, you know, an 85 bla, an85 Blazer, and every panel on
it was replaced four times over.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Even my truck is too computerized for my liking,
because when my alternator diedI should have been able to keep
driving because the fuckingmotor was running.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
Yeah, oh, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
Everything's tied to it.
The old school freaking.
As long as the motor wasrunning, it didn't matter yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
How come it's not sharing?

Speaker 1 (01:30:14):
I haven't done it yet .
I'm letting Paul finish hiscomment.
Oh, you, let it go through.
You have controls, dude, downbelow you can say add to scene,
but it would cover paul up.
I wasn't making that shit outyet okay, all right, so you
mounted it there.
That's actually probably a goodspot.

Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
There's my canoe with my little bucket zoom in on the
antenna.

Speaker 1 (01:30:39):
Can you do that?
Can I?
Yeah, use the thumb wheel andgo in closer.
Well, put your pointer whereyou wanted to zoom and it will
zoom in probably using justApple photos.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
Right, I was making it bigger for him go ahead, make
it bigger.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
I don't think he can zoom.
You can only zoom.
I can zoom because you have thephoto.
I don't know, it's not zoominghold on, that's good, we're
getting close.
So diamond mount is it diamondor yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
it's a.
No, it's a diamond.
Okay, you can see how.
You see how it mounts to thelip yeah and then it mounts
underneath the, the hard top,because that hard top can come
off, and then that's just alittle diamond mount.

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
Yeah, I see what you're talking about now and so
the antenna just goes in throughthe hard top, or are you
pulling it from the back it goes.

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
So the antenna shoots out the back and it goes
Through the tailgate.
Yeah, just there's a little bitof wire.
It goes right into the backdoor through the tailgate and
then around.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
Like the micro wire or whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (01:31:47):
Yeah, real thin, Thin wire 316.
Here's another picture of ithead on.
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:31:57):
That's nice.
You didn't want it to go taller.

Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
Yeah, I did.
I thought that was a good spotfor it.
It kind of, if it got too tall,I was like I don't know, I
could always go taller, but ithasn't really.
I mean it's a lot taller thanit was before, so and I think
it's going to be fine.

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
I mean, I could have put it up, you're not shielded
by the back of the tailgate orthe tire.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
So right better and really the guy you know this is.
This is like where the antennastarts, sorry, like right right
at the top thing, so it's almostcovered all the way up that
looks good yeah, dude, step up,it's nice.
Yeah, and that molly cage ispretty awesome yeah, it looks
pretty like armor lockish.

(01:32:41):
Yeah, looks, yeah, it lookslike badass like a tank so you
can put I can put other shit onthere too.

Speaker 1 (01:32:46):
You know like put one on the other side and the only
thing that you can put the ATASon there, and it'll probably
hold it well.

Speaker 3 (01:32:53):
Well, the only the only thing.
That kind of sucks about it andI guess it's not that bad, but
if you put too much shit on it,you won't be able to see out
that window, like if you'relooking back who's?
Yeah, I look back.
I'm not.
I don't trust the frickingcameras all the time and I'm
always looking back there.

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
Okay, but I'll, I'll give you credit, you old school.

Speaker 3 (01:33:14):
I know I'm getting good.
I'm getting good with thebackup camera, though.

Speaker 1 (01:33:20):
It takes a little while, for sure, yeah, so, uh,
yeah, the end dong, for surethat one would definitely clear
the roof.
Um, all right, and the lastquestion I guess I have for you
is uh, will we ever see you onan APRS, or have you banned that
from the radio?

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
No, I'm going to put it on there.
I haven't programmed it in yet,I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Oh, I haven't programmed it in yet, I don't
know.
Oh, don't give me the shake ofthe head, bullshit.
You just had yours on to andfrom your travels.

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
I mean, I still don't get the.
I don't get it Like why?
What is it for?
Who's tracking me?

Speaker 1 (01:33:58):
Why do I want people to track me?
Well, first and foremost, timis tracking you.
That's just an utmost, you knowobvious.

Speaker 3 (01:34:08):
You know he's always telling everybody hey, I see you
wherever you are, and so, yeah,just for the benefit of laugh,
I know.
But like I mean, if I was, like, if I was going like down the
east coast and I was a youtuberand I was like, all right, you
guys can track me on aprs andsee where I'm at, and then I
would put it on.

Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
But why would I somebody want to tell todd he is
a youtuber?
You know, know, we do this showcalled Live Free.
Yeah, I know, but like aprivate YouTuber, this is the
group YouTuber.
Oh, asmr, got it Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
You know, what I mean you guys like live in YouTube
world.
I have to stop talking about it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
I live in the space called reality.

Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
I step into.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
YouTube they don't know what I step into.

Speaker 1 (01:34:42):
YouTube Exactly True that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:44):
I'm just not in that click.
You know I'm not in that ohwhatever.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
YouTube Whatever my first video I put out is
clickbait.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
That was it.
You want to talk about notbeing in the click.
All right, out of the three ofus, I'm the one going to
Huntsville.

Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
I know Right.

Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
I've got 4,300 subscribers.
I've got 40-some-odd channelmembers.
Right, did I make the YouTuberslist?
Nope, no, I did not.

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
Which I don't understand why.
Okay, now wait a minute.
See, this is how, like I didn'teven know there was a list,
what's the list?

Speaker 1 (01:35:22):
Well, that's just the Huntsville list there probably
is a list somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
What's the YouTuber Huntsville?
What does that mean?
What list is it?

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
Well, so there's the four days in August, right, is
that what it's called?
Yeah, yeah, and so, yeah, therewas a bunch of YouTubers that
were supposed to be stayingthere all week, and Paul is
staying there all week and he'son.
Well, you sort of are, I meanyou're jumping, so you're
technically on Carlos's ticket,but, yeah, you're not a YouTuber

(01:35:52):
in the YouTuber section by anystretch, which I thought was
hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Alright, you want the list.

Speaker 3 (01:35:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
Alright, you got Jason 2.0, k Murder Digital
Rancher.
All right, you got Jason 2.0.
K Murder Digital Rancher.
Tom Ham.

Speaker 1 (01:36:13):
Radio A to Z John, which is from the Ham Shack,
radio, ham Shack, radio, hamShack.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
TV no From the Ham Shack Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
I've never heard no From the Hamshack Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
I've never heard of him.
I don't even know.
Steve KO4AFL, kyle AA0Z.
Jim WT1W.
Josh Naz Chuck, dave KB5.
Uty, carlos josh naz chuck.
Uh, dave kb5.
Uh, uty carlos.

(01:36:50):
Um, he's the one that, um, hedoes all the mesh, tastic stuff
oh okay, yeah, he's got that.
He's got that company that doesall the mesh tasks oh spec five
that's no.
It's not spec five.

Speaker 1 (01:37:07):
Spec 5 is Daniel and somebody else.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
What's his call?
Sign again KB5UTY.
Then you've got Carlos, hamRadio Duo, mike and Becky, smart
, jason and Hyken and Ham andLou.
Those are the HamTubers thatare listed with links to their

(01:37:32):
channels.

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
Wait a minute, it's KB5UTY, right?
Is that what you gave me?
Dude, you have 4,300subscribers.
You know how many freakingsubscribers he has.
How many?
41.
41.
41?
, 41.

Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
What is wrong?
We have more than that on thefree hand don't we, we do.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
If we're just going solely on the list that Paul
just rattled off to havesubscribe bases, 41 is not even
at 100 yet.
You're not even like able tolive stream quite yet.
50 is the number you have to beat the live stream.
Wow, I'd sue him Well what doyou?

Speaker 3 (01:38:18):
He's jumping off a sky man.
No, but did you have to likesign up for it, or is it who
created the list?

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
TO Steve TO and Jim did.
And why didn't?

Speaker 3 (01:38:32):
they put you on it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:33):
And it's a combination list of people who
are staying there for the weekbecause they have a list of
who's coming in on what day, ifI remember looking at it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
Why didn't you ask them?
Maybe they'll add you to it,although you are on it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:42):
I do remember seeing it, because why didn't you ask
them?
Maybe they'll add you to it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
Although you are on it, I do remember seeing it,
because they didn't mention yourname there.
Yeah, I'm on the people cominglist.
Right Monday K-Murder, me andGrayman are showing up.

Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
Alright, but they didn't mention Grayman in that
list either.
You didn't say his name in thatlist.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
That's true.
Grayman didn't make the listeither.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
Huh, maybe next year we'll have to make our own list.

Speaker 1 (01:39:10):
Yeah, sure, this is my sandbox.

Speaker 3 (01:39:13):
We're just the northeast guys.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
We're like the red-headed stepchildren of.
Ham Radio it all brings youback to originally, when we
talked about this.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
Joe Brett's channel didn't get listed either Okay,
who knows why or how people goton that list or not got on that
list.
Maybe you had to put money into secure your subscription, I
don't know.
Either way, dan, make up a bigstink.
Come on, I want to heareverybody leave their place

(01:39:46):
going.
Did you hear about that grouchguy?

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
I met him.
He's really cool.
I'm like fuck.

Speaker 1 (01:39:52):
He's a little insane.
He's great.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
That motherfucker was really irate that he didn't
make the ham tubers list.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
We better put him on the list next year.

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
Yeah, true, I don't know, Although, going to put
them on the list next year?
Uh, yeah, true, yeah, so Idon't know, although, if we're
going to segue there, I thinkyou know, dude, that's going to
be a blast.
I am, I truly am going to bemad, like I'm mad at myself for
not like planning for that andbecause that's kind of been on
my bucket list.
But I think, you know, now Iget in my third or fourth year
of the channel and you knowthat'll start to pick up more.
You know, but, yeah, that'skind of where it's at Like once

(01:40:25):
you get to that place and youstart to become a little bit
more like people see you andyou're known and you know
whatever else, not that you knowwe aren't already.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
Yeah, I mean I've never been to Dayton, I've never
been to Huntsville, I've neverbeen to any of the Texas cruise
fucking meetups, so I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:40:45):
Maybe that's the prerequisite.
Dude, did you know that Amtrakoffers a service where you can
park your vehicle on their trainas is fully loaded, whatever,
and they will take you to likethere's like 25 different
destinations across the UnitedStates, so like you can get to a
location.
So like people go to Dayton toHamvention and they, like they
come out from North Carolina,they load their you know, their

(01:41:06):
their car on the train Amtrak,sit in the Amtrak ride and it's
a four and a half five hour rideto wherever it is, don't waste
gas, don't have to worry aboutlike stopping, and then they
unload their vehicle and driveto Dayton to go whatever, and
I'm like I wonder how much thatis.
That that's actually a prettycool service.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
Dude, that would be super cool Because like I could
just put my truck on a trainhere in fucking Illinois Yep, Go
to Dayton.
I know I could not have todrive.

Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
I could sleep the whole way.
I know, literally you'd be like.
You know you probably have foodservice.
You know you could just listento podcasts, watch YouTube.
Never have to, like you know,worry about the assholes cutting
you off and you know badweather.

Speaker 3 (01:41:47):
I wonder, I wonder, if they have it, Do they have it
like leave in Boston Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:41:51):
they out of everywhere as far as I know.

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
Like I wonder, I wonder how cheap it is to like
go down South Cause like drivingin tolls alone to like North
Carolina is like 150 bucks orsomething.

Speaker 1 (01:42:08):
I mean, uh, could I take the truck and the rv and
put that on a train?
Uh, you probably could actuallylet me see here.
So I'm like fuck, driving toflorida like I'm just gonna am
track it so it's roughly betweenstarts at 95 if you want a
coach room or like a generalseating area, but they charge
you.
That's it well, that the ratesfor the vehicles start at like

(01:42:32):
400 bucks and go as high as 800.
But you think about what youspend in gas and all of the
other stuff and tolls that's waycheaper than you know.
So they have spots in virginiadc, florida, um, and the list.
I can't see the rest of thelist as to other spots, but yeah

(01:42:54):
, florida to boston.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
There you go, buddy, yeah right, well, it'd be boston
to florida, but yeah oh yeah,because you're coming up here
first, right, that's right?
Yeah, I'll be home in threeweeks, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
Yeah, so you just have to One week.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
I leave for Huntsville, then I'm in
Huntsville for a week, and thenI'll be home.

Speaker 3 (01:43:14):
And you're driving all the way up from Huntsville.
For how long?
You think A month.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
I'm still working out details with the drop zone in
Florida.
So you can.
Yeah, you probably could.
If you called them up and saidyou wanted to bring your trailer
with them, they might be ableto accommodate an extended
vehicle, like they'll doextended vehicles which would be
your truck.
And then, because they have amax limit for those vehicles and
then you can, they haveoversized vehicles, require
special arrangements, kind ofthing.

(01:43:46):
So you could.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
So truck and trailer together is 50 feet long.

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
Yeah, so it doesn't give you size here, but you'd
have to call them and seewhether or not they allow it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
I'd be like let me fucking hang out in the RV
instead of giving me a coach andthe fucking train.
I'll just, I'll just hang outin the RV.

Speaker 1 (01:44:06):
I don't know.
There must be some laws againstthat one.
But yeah, I could be a Watsonjust riding the train in the
fucking RV.
Yeah, true, yeah Well, I mean,but, yeah, dude, that might be,
you know, especially if youstart going, like you know, on
many places to you know.
Break things up and not have tokill yourself to drive every
four hours and then find one ofthose harvest places.

(01:44:29):
Harvest hosts and then kick itback in After a while.
That'll wear on you for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
I probably should have broken Huntsville up into
three days.
I'm going to do it in two.
The first day is going to befour and a half hours.
I'm going to stay at a HarvestHost and then it'll be five and
a half hours on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:44:54):
That's not too bad.
I mean, most of it's the firstleg of it's still in the same
state you're in, so which, yeah,that's a little daunting, but
when you go down to Florida youshould just work it out in.

Speaker 3 (01:45:04):
That's a little daunting.
When you go down to Florida,you should just work it out and
just freaking hit every statethat you haven't worked.
I'm sure he's going to do thatonce.
Have you done Connecticut yet?

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
Yep, I did Connecticut with Izzo.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
All right, new York.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
I did New York with Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
New Jersey Fuck Jersey.
Get the state JerseyPennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (01:45:32):
Pennsylvania.

Speaker 3 (01:45:35):
Then you get Delaware .
That's a small state.
Delaware, maryland, maryland,pennsylvania I've already got
Virginia.
I've already got Ball State.
Delaware, maryland, marylandI've already got Virginia.

Speaker 2 (01:45:48):
I've already got South Carolina and Georgia.

Speaker 3 (01:45:51):
North Carolina?
I don't think I have NorthCarolina yet that's what you do.
You just get the whole EastCoast.
That's what I would do.
Then you can break it up alittle bit and go down and take
three or four days.

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
At some point in the spring I'm going to have to do a
super fucking weird detour andgo from Florida to Texas and
then back up to Illinois.

Speaker 1 (01:46:20):
What's in Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:46:22):
What's in Texas?
Well, if I'm no longer livingin my house, then I can't use
that as my residence, and sothere's three states in the
country that you can have aresidence that is not actually
your residence and be on themove.

(01:46:43):
So that's Florida, texas andSouth Dakota Got it.
And so the Sixes, bernard andRenee.
They just started a business afew months back.
It's called Circle Six MailDrop and it's a service for

(01:47:04):
people who are on the road,where you set up mail forwarding
, all of your mail andeverything goes to them and that
becomes your legal address.
I'll have to transfer over mydriver's license and my
registrations and all of that toTexas driver's license and my

(01:47:25):
registrations and all of that toTexas.
But then anywhere I am in thecountry they're going to,
they're going to send me anemail and they're going to go.
Here's all the mail that you'vegot.
What do you want us to send you?

Speaker 1 (01:47:41):
And I could pick and choose what I want, and they'll
send it wherever I am.
Just tell them to digitize itScan, it Get all the crap in and
give it to you electronically.
It's like it'll be mostly junk.
Yeah, no.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
It'll be in an email with a PDF of scans of all of my
mail.

Speaker 1 (01:47:56):
yeah, Right, yeah, Only when Bob Barker's going to
send you the million-dollarcheck.
Do you want to have ithand-delivered to you?
It's probably you know BobBarker's going to send you the
million dollar check, do?

Speaker 3 (01:48:05):
you want to like have it hand delivered to you.
But yeah, it's probably.
I mean, texas is probably agood state to.
It's kind of like a NewHampshire right, like probably
cheaper to register your car andstuff.

Speaker 2 (01:48:15):
So I looked into it because I was concerned about
that right, because, like NewHampshire, because I'm a
disabled veteran, my truckregistration is covered.
I don't ever pay for my truckregistration because I have the
disabled veteran plates, but Ihave to pay registration on all
my trailers and the boat and theATV and all of the other shit

(01:48:39):
that I own.
He's selling your boat.
I'm going to give the boat backto my father-in-law own.
He's selling your boat.
I'm going to give the boat backto my father-in-law.
He sold it to me for a dollar.
I put a couple grand into itand I finished the boat.
It was his originally, I feellike the right thing to do is to

(01:49:00):
give it to him, and then I meanhe can sell it whatever.
I don't give a shit.
But no, I just, you know, Iwanted to make sure that you
know, registering my truck inTexas wasn't going to cost me a
fucking arm and a leg.
And they actually they've got avery, very similar program to

(01:49:22):
New Hampshire where if you're adisabled veteran, you can get a
disabled veteran Texas plate andI think it's $11 or something
the first year which covers thecost of the plates, and then it
doesn't cost anything.
So, yeah, it would be a gooddeal Cool.

(01:49:48):
So, yeah, it would be a gooddeal cool changes.
And if you're looking for an onthe road mail service, live
free at ham, you know, supportsthe circle six mail drop just in
you.

Speaker 1 (01:50:03):
They don't even know.
It's kind of.
It's kind of like know.

Speaker 3 (01:50:05):
It's kind of like the way they do the QSL cards.
It's like you give them somemoney Probably way faster.
Every month they send you astack of mail.

Speaker 2 (01:50:19):
Yeah, it's my mail bureau.

Speaker 3 (01:50:23):
How much mail are you going to get?
Most of it's going to be shitanyway, right?

Speaker 2 (01:50:27):
Most of it is junk, yeah, I mean, but but you get
the addresses.
I can't imagine how much mail Ihave piled up at my house from
May.

Speaker 1 (01:50:39):
Yeah, it's probably quite a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
So your wife's not going through it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:45):
I would imagine she's just probably putting it in a
pile.

Speaker 3 (01:50:54):
Is some of it like bills and stuff, or is it?

Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
just like I do all my bills electronically.

Speaker 3 (01:50:59):
Right, so what would you be getting?

Speaker 2 (01:51:03):
Well, so, like I got a new, my credit card expired.
One of my cards expired so Igot a new card sitting at home
waiting to be activated.
My ham radio clubhouse hat issitting at home.
There's a couple other packagesand different things that, like
I don't know, they're justsitting there waiting.

(01:51:25):
Cool, okay, christmas in July.

Speaker 1 (01:51:34):
If you want to call it Christmas, but whatever, cool
, all right.
Well, I think all in a nutshell, I guess.
One last question you know, uh,what if?
Um, I actually kind of alreadyanswered this one.
I was just say, um, from astandpoint of the 300, to this
five, 10, you know, if you couldonly choose one, which one
would have been?

Speaker 3 (01:51:56):
well I'm I'm going more towards the five, 10, but I
still love the 300.
It's in my shack now that radio.
They don't make it.
I can't even believe they don'teven make it anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:52:09):
Gone Yep.
They haven't quite phased itout, but they're working on it,
I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (01:52:12):
Yeah, but the 300, it's just a good radio all
around.
The 510, some of the benefits,like the speaker on the head
makes it just a little bit more,gives it a little boost.
And I'm telling you that ASPthing, it's amazing.
It takes all that.
If you get like those weaksignals or those guys on those

(01:52:38):
what do they call Baofengs andKuanshengs, and you get all that
.
You hit that button, it justgoes away.
Now it changes the tone of yourvoice a little bit, like it's.
It's not as bad as like digital, like when we go to digital you
sound totally different, butit's definitely um, it's just
easy on the ears.
You're not listening to allthat static and shit because,
like everyone on the epsonrepeater has a kwan shang or a

(01:53:01):
Bao Fang handheld.
That's all they use.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
It sounds like so because Ralph is their dealer.

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
Well, I know what I'm just saying, which you know,
great, but I'm just sometimes Imean, you can, I can almost tell
, like if you're on a, like areal radio that someone actually
paid money for, or you got iton Amazon for 20 bucks, you can
tell the quality of the sound byfar todd is turning into an old
man.

Speaker 1 (01:53:26):
I'm just saying you could tell the quality of real
radio versus not real radiolisten.

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
If we're ever together, we're on that repeater
and someone calls in, I'll tellyou that's a shit radio or
that's a good radio.
You can tell.
Like ryan says right, he saysbuy once, choir once.

Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
Yeah, I understand that and I fully embrace that in
most cases, but you justsounded like an old man.
Old man, I am old.

Speaker 3 (01:53:53):
The oldest one here.

Speaker 1 (01:53:55):
True.

Speaker 2 (01:53:56):
But you're the best operator of any extra there is
Exactly and I've got the YouTubeshort to prove it extra there
to rip Exactly, and I've got theYouTube short to prove it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:07):
Hey, listen, I can operate poda, probably better
than most extras.

Speaker 1 (01:54:12):
True, true that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:15):
I'm not saying I'm the best.
I'm just saying that I've heardsome extras that don't know how
to operate.

Speaker 1 (01:54:20):
That is true, man, that is true.

Speaker 2 (01:54:22):
I've heard all sorts of license classes that don't
know how to operate.

Speaker 3 (01:54:24):
Yeah, I know Right, I know Well, I think that's the
biggest downfall of ham radio isthat we need to get people
operating more.

Speaker 1 (01:54:31):
Another old man covet , another downfall.

Speaker 3 (01:54:34):
Well, bring back Scott.
You know what's killing hamradio you know what.

Speaker 1 (01:54:40):
It's exactly like Mike was doing on the live
stream.
Everything was killing hamradio.

Speaker 3 (01:54:44):
I was like dude do you know how many people I've
met Like doing park, like doingPOTA and being in parks?
And people come up to me like,oh, you're doing ham radio.
And then they look at my eight91 and they're like, holy crap,
he goes that's an HF radio.
I'm like, yeah, an old one.
He goes, oh, my god, he goes,that is so small.
And he goes, yeah, I haven't.

(01:55:04):
I haven't.
You know, I still have mylicense, but I haven't used it
in 30 years.
I was like, dude, you should.
And he like looks at theantenna, he's like that's all
you need.
I'm like, yep, yeah well so it'slike getting all those people
that are getting all thosepeople back into it or just
curious about it well, likepoda's gonna turn into what
Shacks used to be for the hamradios 30 years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:55:27):
Everybody had the shack and everybody invited you
in and that's kind of the way itworked.
But POTA now is like heck, wego outside and do it, it'll be.

Speaker 3 (01:55:36):
Get out in nature, support your parks.

Speaker 2 (01:55:38):
Don't touch grass.

Speaker 1 (01:55:40):
Be natural.

Speaker 3 (01:55:42):
Get eaten by mosquitoes.
Ham radio.

Speaker 1 (01:55:46):
It's bringing it back Anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:55:48):
We need more females.
We need more female operators.
Dude, yeah, we're getting there.
We're meeting some right.

Speaker 1 (01:55:55):
Well, yeah, well, christine, not Christine.
Why did I say Shannon?
Well, shannon, k-l-y Shannon,but Shannon we had on for
Women's Day.
Why can't I think of her callsign now at the moment?
Ah, escaping me, she's on theDiscord.
A lot, help me out here.
What was her name?
Age?
Age Eric, you're getting thereyeah well, I know, dude, trust

(01:56:15):
me.
Well, call signs are like.
That's why I rely on my loggingKC1OHT.
Yeah, uh, casey, one oh HT,yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:56:26):
So, shannon, think of this in three months I'm going
to be 54.
That means my memory is shot,my eyes are shot, my back is
shot, my bones are shot, mymuscles are shot.

Speaker 1 (01:56:38):
Well, fuck.
Let's just put him out of hismisery.
Now, Paul, 10 more years, 10more years.

Speaker 3 (01:56:42):
I'm going to be one of those guys.

Speaker 1 (01:56:45):
Well, we said 15 for this show man, so you know
you're going to have to takesome pills.

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
Your birthday is in November.

Speaker 1 (01:56:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
Okay, mine's the end of October and apparently that
makes me ten years younger thanyou.

Speaker 3 (01:56:58):
I know, I'm telling you, dude, I can't believe it
because you get to be my.
You don't think you don't.
Your body feels you're that old, but your mind doesn't think
you're that old Like I stillthink you weren't in the
military Right.

Speaker 1 (01:57:16):
Paul's just been on an accelerated plan.

Speaker 3 (01:57:20):
But like you look at, like I see, like, like I look
at like some of the guys I workwith, like they're like in their
late twenties, early thirties,like it just seems like the
other day I was that age, butnow they're like, oh, let's go
get this kid.
I'm like, yeah, you guys go getthem.
Like I ain't running after kidsanymore.

Speaker 1 (01:57:37):
I'm not tackling kids , I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:57:50):
I got to create a stinger called the 80 meter.

Speaker 1 (01:57:51):
You know the 80 meter club.
I'm just gonna kick that offevery time because it's gonna
keep happening more and more.
You know it's todd on 80 meters, the 80 meter club?

Speaker 3 (01:57:55):
damn it, get off my lawn.
But my frequency.
The eyes kill you, though, paul, when you start needing.
It's just the worst.
Like I literally couldn't readthe goddamn the fuse box, I'm
like what I got the light on.

Speaker 2 (01:58:08):
Let's see, all right.
So I I do have glasses.
I don't wear them for this,because the computer's two feet
from my face.
I can see it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:17):
Yeah, I my closest like I can have my watch or my
phone this close.
I can't see it dude.

Speaker 1 (01:58:25):
But you will get to a certain point that these will
become so fucking like you needthem to like.
Just sit on the couch and seewho the fuck just texted me.

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
I can't see it anymore.
I never take them off unless Igo to sleep.

Speaker 1 (01:58:36):
I had 20-20 vision when I was you know.
Oh my gosh, here we go.
When I was your age, I had20-20 vision.
Now it's like I have a littlebit you know less, but it's like
I have to have the glasses andI put them on.
It's like, oh my gosh, I cansee again.
This is great.

Speaker 2 (01:58:49):
Like you're in full color.
Six years ago you didn't needyour glasses.

Speaker 1 (01:58:53):
Nope Trust me.
And the more.

Speaker 3 (01:58:59):
YouTube shit I've been doing the less my eyes have
gotten.
I'm friends with my eye doctorand his wife so we met them
through my daughter andgymnastics.
So he's out in Peterborough,he's got his own practice so
I've been going to see him.
So I saw his wife the other dayat Staples and I was telling
her.
I said, yeah, I've been meetingthe column because the computer
, my glasses, suck at thecomputer because I'm always

(01:59:20):
looking like up like thisbecause they're progressive, and
I'm always looking like up likethis because they're
progressive.
And I said I he was telling methat I might need just computer
glasses when I'm just sitting infront of the computer that has
a wider range.
And he goes, we'll just try itout.
And you know I've been, I've hadthese glasses for a few months
and I'm like, yeah, I definitelyneed the computer glasses,
cause when I'm on for a longtime it starts getting blurred.

(01:59:41):
Like I have to look up to see,like hitting, how beautiful Paul
looks.
Yeah, right, yeah, like to read, to read, like to read like the
like on your, like your N1 OG,paul the grouch, like to see
that clear.
I have to look up like that toget it in focus.

Speaker 1 (01:59:57):
Yeah, so I know if I take it off.
I can't.

Speaker 3 (02:00:00):
I can't see the radio in my car without my glasses on
.
Honestly, thank God I don'thave that problem.
Like it's that bad and like Iand I never noticed until I take
off my fricking glasses and I'mlike holy shit, I can't see
anything.

Speaker 1 (02:00:15):
Even when I get it like this close.
This is like what can Todd seewithout his glasses?
I'm going blind deaf that wouldreplace our once he gets his
extra.

Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
What frequency are we really on thank?

Speaker 1 (02:00:27):
god for Zach.
He keeps me what are those?
Those are my hearing aids ohreally, he's halfway there, man
well that's probably going next.

Speaker 2 (02:00:41):
I can't see far away, so like when, when I'm trying
to track the plane in the sky,yeah, I can't see far away, so
when I'm trying to track theplane in the sky.
I can't fucking see it.
People will be like oh, you seethe jumpers, you see them, you
see them, you see them no.

Speaker 1 (02:00:56):
They're blurry, it's nothing.

Speaker 3 (02:01:00):
You know, zach's keeping me young.
He's getting me out kayakfishing, baseball, snowboarding
he's just looking for locationsto bury your body.
I'm 54 years old.
I'm getting back intosnowboarding, the frick is that
it doesn't stop dude.

Speaker 2 (02:01:16):
Trust me alright, before we get too far, into 80
meters, let's put a bow on ityeah let's put a bow on this,
for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:01:24):
Listen, we should have.
That's a good suggestion.

Speaker 1 (02:01:27):
We could just do 80 meter, 80 meter talk we're only
like what, three years into thispodcast, let's like like, get
more people and then, like, hitthem with that after.
So they've already comeaccustomed to us.
Yeah, well, we'll put a pit inthat one and hold off on
decision making.
But all right, well, with that.

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I've done it.

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I know how to do it now, free for now.
We'll charge later.

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I'm going to pass it forward.
You know, eric helped me in thefirst one, so I feel like I
have to help someone else.

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Once you figure it out, pay itforward.
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So we're not into like 200shows and you have to do it
through all those 200 shows sowe can't say, yeah, we've never
talked about this and we've hadlike four prior shows.
You know that we've talkedabout the same thing.
Yeah, we face this a lot withTodd right now.

(02:04:08):
So you know, we just want tomake sure we have it all in a
row and all documented.

Speaker 3 (02:04:12):
But anyway, I can't remember what last show was
about.

Speaker 1 (02:04:15):
That's exactly what we were faced with now, so help
is warranted and neededimmensely.
So you can learn about our show, check out all of our links and
find all of our contact info,and, as always, we appreciate
you guys, and thanks again forlistening from all of us here at
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