October 10, 2025 • 47 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, sorry, let me start that again. What is going on?
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Tank Commanders for the month
of June. This is the podcast where I sit down
with all my Tank commander level supporters and we hang
out and and just talk about whatever comes up. I
(00:28):
think we're going to be talking about Phield Day coming up,
and kind of talk about little of my other YouTube channel,
it's called tank I'm sorry. The other YouTube channels to
be Frank Radio. That's the easiest way to find it.
Searchs for to be Frank Radio and it's actually named
to be Frank, but there's a lot of to b
Franks out there, so I had to tag it with
(00:48):
something and we'll talk a little bit about that. Currently,
we just got Jeff. What's going on, man? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's very good.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Where are you at today, because I know you roam
around a bit.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I'm for the most part the summer going to be
in Montana, so I'm camping in the mountains of Montana.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I am very jealous because it's going to be ninety
six today and my AC units are working overtime to
get it cool up here for me.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, it's been rainy the last two days. So today
it's I think if we get out of the fifties working,
it's gonna be warm nice.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well, I have I moved all my office to like
this upper loft area I have, and I did it
so I could have more space move around and I
kind of want to reclaim the other bedroom and use
it kind of as a day room slash kind of
a crafts area, and so I moved everything out here. However,
(01:57):
before I just used to close that door, and that
room used to get much cooler than what here is.
So during the summer months I could be sweating a
bit in this little loft area. That's it is what
it is. I might try to put a fan underneath
the desk to help cool me a bit. But talking
(02:20):
about cooling in Texas and summers, summer, field Day's coming
up of the a double RL Summer phild Day, and
it's gonna be Jason has bowed out this year, Mike
has bowed out this year, so it's just gonna be Prepham,
Paul and Digital Rancher and me where we made plans
(02:43):
to go to a state park and we got a
cabin that has a seat, yes, and it has its
own bathroom WS and we're gonna be doing field day
up there. Probably inside Texas is probably just gonna be
nineties plus and that that's kind of our plans. We're
gonna be running some verticals, We're gonna be running a
(03:05):
couple of slopers. We're gonna be running three stations. All
of us are gonna set up our HF radios. We're
gonna have banfast filters and all that fun stuff, and
I'm kind of looking forward to it. I started my
placking already, because yeah, it takes me a while to pack.
I just don't like packing all on one day. I
(03:27):
feel like I miss stuff. I feel like I don't
have time to kind of stage nicely. And of course,
being eighty d and I do talk about that a lot.
I can't do repetitive or tedious tasks for long because
I get bored with it.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
M m hmm.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Are you gonna be hanging out and going to a club?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I am not Which park have you decided to to
go to this year?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
This year, we're gonna be going to Cooper Lake State Park.
It's northeast of the Dallas, Okay. And that's just because
they had a cabin available when we were still booked.
Trying to find a place to book. We spied a
couple others around Texas, Central Texas.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
But.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
They were all kind of booked up before we got there.
We we booked it a little late. We talked about
this a couple months ago and we're like, yes, and
we had like four five of Park's eyeballd, but time
we got around to booking, a lot of them were
gone and this one was left. We got We got
a Pacific cabin because this cabin has a lot of
(04:36):
open area around it and I think it kind of
backups to the lake a little bit, and we have
our own little trail we can also use to run
slopers down, so no one would be messing with them.
Nice are you? You can't just set up in your
nice little Montana area and just do one yourself. I
forgot what that rule is station designation and just kind
(04:59):
of half.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I could. The one problem with hand radio is I
have two well, I have two pieces of fifty ft
co acts. I have not found them this year yet.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oops.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I don't know where they are. I've looked through stuff
here and I haven't found them yet. And I'm wondering
if somehow, I for some reason I bought them into
into my put them in my storage unit. So I
need to know I need to I need to remember
to check my storage unit to see if they're in there. Yeah,
(05:37):
I do. I do have a radio. I do have
at Winterfield Day, Mike helped me get tune my infed
halfway so I could I could be running that, but
I don't know where I know where my radio is,
I don't know where my co corrects. So it's like
(06:00):
that is that is the current problem. Once I find coacts,
then I have to figure out I have a bunch
of I have nice tall trees, but the pine trees,
so trying to get uh get a line up into
them is another going to be another task. But there's
no point in trying to figure that out if I
don't have if I don't have any coacts, well.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Right right, I am going to be bringing a brand
new antenna by Alpha Antenna. And if you why I
think I have. I have an affiliate code in my description.
If you want to purchase an Alpha antenna, go ahead
and use that affiliate code is in the description and
(06:42):
affiliate link. It's not a code, it's a link and
then anything you buy is credited towards TAKE radio and
it helps out the channel. I got a new Alpha antenna,
the one of their nfeds. I think I got the
forty meter one. Yeah, I think it's forty and also
(07:04):
fifty foot of co x cable. I'm gonna be busting
that out at field day and use it in the
park there, and I want to use it at a park.
I might try to get to a park before this
just to test run it and see how that does.
This tenant is gonna be one of my permanent installations
at the house. I am thinking about good ways of
(07:27):
doing that, but I am starting getting worried of putting
thirty feet aay of fence topping straight up in the
air and just having the I can guide it. That's
gonna be the easy part. But the lightning is kind
of starting to concern me now since we had some
big Texas thunderstorms the last month and the lightning's been ridiculous.
(07:48):
If that's sticking up above my house and I'm going
to do another ten foot pole on top of the
house at some point, I'm starting to get worried about lightning.
So I am probably gonna look to ground that better,
do about three, probably three eight foot sections of ground rods,
(08:09):
all linked to the hole itself. And I'm probably going
to double that or do that again at the point
where the infit comes off, so the light the pull
itself would have three ground rods into the ground and
then running braided wire to them and then do the
(08:32):
same point to the intena feed point with a lightning
arrestor and just run that to the ground. I'll probably
do two on the intenna because that stuff is kind
of expensive. Plus I get to rent the demolition hammer again.
Come on, that's gonna be fun and run that into
the ground. I'm probably gonna do the just one big
(08:56):
green box, dig that up in the yard, put that
in the yard, and then that would be my grounding
system will go into the green box, and then then
the mower can go right over it. Yeah, And I'm
just I know what I got to do. I just
(09:17):
got to buy the braid of the wire, and I
just don't know how to con cut that and reliably
clamp that, and I need to figure out how to
do that. And that's what's stopping me right now, because
I don't want that intended to be up or that
poll to be up while the storms are coming. I
could buy a full down, masked mount and that I
(09:41):
just laid on the ground when I'm not using it.
But that's not fun. That's not fun at all.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
No, I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, I gotta figure figure that out. And I got
an idea how to do it. I just need to
how to research on how to cut the flat that
braided wire and connect it properly to the grounding rods
so that it has enough ground surface area to dissipate
(10:13):
that lightning into the ground without coming into the house.
And I know it's gonna probably be struck sometime. My
stepdad has a antenna tower. I think it's thirty feet
in the air.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The tower is a lean down tower, so undo a
couple of bolts and you can walk it down and
lay it on the ground. And that tower got struck
by lightning and fried his lightning arrestor. But he dissipated
all the lightning pretty good, so and it didn't come
into the house. I am going to have to figure
I might go look at that. Oh, that's a good idea.
(10:52):
Next time at his house. I'm gonna look at that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I've been in an old farmhouse I had done
by like me, you do not want it. Did go
into it, did go into the house, and several things
were fired, like light switches and stuff like that because
of so it was it was a mess to say
(11:19):
the least. Or so yeah, if you can't and I
would say even I don't depend if it depends on
how how bad. I don't know enough about Like talk
to your talk to you said, your dad has one
(11:40):
has lightning arrestors, and see if a single lightning arrestor works,
then good, it may be a thing of uh, possibly
get two in that way, put up, put them both
in line in that way.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, he only had one, and you only need one
lightning arrestor per intena line. So so when when your
intenna comes off of your tower and before you put
it into the feed line that comes into the house,
usually it should be at the base of the antenna,
that's where you connect your lightning arrestor. And then one
(12:16):
end goes to your antenna with a short run, and
then the next part goes into the house. So then
you have your house feed line, and then you run
that all the way through. Then I have the common
ground system I did, and that is also going to
be a we need to drill in a couple more
(12:37):
lightning or lightning ground rods, and that is going to
be connected to the tower antenna at the top. I
might skip that the additional ones at the base because
I have all those others going around connected to that
fat solid copper line.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Okay, your your lightning investor isn't going to be attached
to the same ground grounding rods that your ground system is. Correct.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
See here that is the common ground system. The first
point into the common ground system is gonna be the
lightning arrestor. Also, because the lightning arrestors will on the
copper plate or the aluminum plate that I have for
the lightning arrestor box, not the one we're talking about
with the flat line or the infant that's probably just
(13:34):
gonna be outside, but the junction boxes I have. The
enlightening arrestors will be screwed into the junction box and
then that has the flat copper plate. Af that flat
copper plate is going to run to the common ground
and lightning I'm going to use it as the same
thing because it has a lot of additional ground rods
spread out throughout the house.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, No, it's just to that copper plate. Sure, that's
your grounding point, sure, but nothing. The point of what
I'm trying to say is that does not come into
the house.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
No, No, that's not so. For that that line, there's
going to be a junction box at the roof for
the UHF v HF feed lines and then that is
and the antenna is going to be on top of
the house. Then it's going to go into the junction
box where I'm going to have the feed line from
the antenna go to the lightning arrestor and that then
(14:34):
for the then the lightning arrestor out is going to
be the feed line into the house. That lightning arrest
is going to be connected to the copper plate. And
then that copper plate somehow is going to be if
I can find enough braided line to make it lightning resistant,
then that copper plate is going to connect it to
the braid line. Then that's going to go all the
way down to the the the the the copper wire
(14:56):
I ran all the way around the house.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Okay, yeah, I'm just trying to say, you don't want
anything anything.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's not going to flow through the house. No, that
that that from the antenna to the grounding system is
all going to be outside that. Once the feed line
comes off, the lightning arrestor from that junction box is
going to go then into the house.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, yeah, you don't. You don't want anything anything that
touches that grounding system that is connected to the to
the lightning investors to go into that to be connected
to anything into the house. Yep, yep, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(15:42):
I didn't know if part of your if you had
a ham shack inside the house grounding system that you
were those are connected to that.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
The common ground inside the shack is going to be
going out the same way I run all the wires
and if and that's going to run all the way
out through to the first junction box and then that's
going to be connected to the ground. So the radios
(16:18):
could be on the same ground without plugging it. So
the radio has a ground out right.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So if you so that ground is going to connect
to the copper plate in the juncture.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Box, you don't want that, no, because that copper plate
is connected to your lightning inrestors. Then it can the
lightning arrestor. Can we'll go to that copper plate and
instead of going to the ground, instead of all of
(16:50):
it going down into the grounding rods, some of it
can backfeed into your to the ground on your radios.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, I'll research it more. We're there. It's just kind
of fuzzy.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, you want to you want to have a separate
grounding system from for your radios or anything that's in
your house, Separate from anything that's going to get uh,
have current from a lightning strike.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yep, we're on the same page. I think we're just
fuzzy on that last part.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Okay, yep.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Other than that, my other channel we were talking about
earlier on the two B Frank Radio I started doing
right now, it's kind of weekly. I want to bump
it up. We'll see if I am in the mood
for that next week to twice a week CO challenges
and Jeff is also a coder, and we were talking
(17:59):
a little bit of free stream about the last couple
of challenges that I've done, and we were just comparing
answers and things. If you're interested in that, there is
head over to to be Frank Radio and that those
co challenges are fun. I've been enjoying them. There's one
(18:22):
Jeff has shared with me. I haven't submitted my solution yet.
That's taking morse code he DIDs and does and then
you're converting them to to be the words and the letters.
I have a solution for that, but I'm going to
clean it up, make it faster, because of course I
could clean up and make it faster. If you want
(18:45):
to see us talk about that, head over to the
to B Frank Radio and I'm going to put a
link in description. I'm typing that out now and watch
us do that.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Do you have a you put a referral link in
the in the description for your for code words for
people to sign up?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I can, I can. I put my profile code wars
Frank's profile. It's going to be in the description. It's
just going to take you to my profile and you
click follow and then you see anytime I submit a
solution to a problem, and you can also tackle that
(19:30):
problem and see how you compare to me that that's
kind of been fun. I did it once, kind of
failed the we couldn't find a nice quick one. They
were all kind of ones that that were a little
bit more in depth I could cover in the hour.
I wanted to We've eventually found one, and I did
it kind of fast, but I didn't really complete the
(19:51):
big one I was trying to do the the harder
codes were codes they have there. They're that it might
take you an hour or so to do, but it's fun.
I enjoy it. Also that to B Frank Radio is
just me talking about trying to find another job. Got
(20:12):
laid off a couple months ago, and that is just
me tackling life and setting out weekly goals and things
for me to do so I can hold myself a
cannibal at the end of the week. And I'm always
moving forward. So also a kind of note on moving forward.
I'm six pounds down this month. Oh I'm so happy.
(20:34):
I'm so happy. And I've just kind of been eating
right at home. I haven't been eating out as far
as just eating out. I'm only eating out like once
a week when I meet up with my friends and
that's about it. Cooking, though I used to I still
(20:55):
love cooking, but it's getting to be a routine and
I'm cooking everything for us, cooking each meal, and I
know every A couple of comments I've seen on those
videos is like, do weekly cooking so you just warm
stuff up. I'm like, yeah, I can just warm things up,
but I really enjoy the act of cooking and making
(21:16):
things fresh, and I kind of do like that. I
do have a couple leftovers, so if I do leftovers,
it's leftovers for a single meal and not like a
whole week, because then I'll get bored, specially since I'm
here all the time. I used to kind of cook
like that when I had a job on Sundays. I
(21:37):
might cook a big meal and then I have three
meals or four meals worth, and then I can eat
that for dinner when I come home and it doesn't
get that old. Plus I just want something now because
I'm hungry. Yeah, of course, how do you cook, man,
I know you work remotely, so you got that daily
grind too of cooking every meal.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I am off grid here, so I I typically cook up.
I'm relatively simple in what I eat, so I'll cook
up like a bunch of chicken and then I'll have
it for and then a lot of my dinners I
just have wraps. One reason I have raps is just
(22:22):
because it gets me to eat some greens and some
salad greens. I'm just not big and eating salad by itself,
so so with a wrap, I put some greens in it.
So that way, that's one of the reasons I switched
to doing green or doing raps, is just encourages that.
(22:44):
But yeah, I'll I'll cook some chicken up and then
I'll have that the chicken for my wraps for three
or four days, and then I'll and actually today's I'm
out the last my chicken yesterday, so I'm cooking up
some more chicken, another batch of chicken breasts today. So yeah,
(23:07):
that's pretty much what my cooking currently is. And then
heavyan once in a while I'll have like burger, cook
up some burgers or cook up I'd had a pork
carl pork collared steak last week, so I cooked I
(23:28):
cooked up a couple of those, so yeah, good. Yeah,
It's nothing, nothing too fancy out here, just pretty simple.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah. I've I've been using mission tortilla, so when I'm
at home, I try to cook all keto so I
have mission car balance. And I actually found new when
I last time I went to a store zero carb tortilla,
so the car balance can't really tell can't really tell
the difference between those and normal tortillas. And to be honest,
(24:06):
when I bring tortillas out anywhere, I just buy the
car Balance and I make everyone eat them. They're not
not that much more expensive than the regular tortillas. And
even the guys Jason's like, this is car Balance. I
was like, yeah, He's like, I can't tell the difference.
I said, exactly, That's why I just buy all of
them so I don't have to worry about Hey, that's
(24:28):
one of mine. Don't don't do that. No, we all
eat the same. And also at home, I buy the
zero or the Keto breads. There is a difference in
Keto bread it's a little bit more two eiar and
can be a little bit of annoying. But other than that,
(24:51):
just just I try to stay away from rices because
rice is all calories. If I want to do like
a Friday rice dish or dirty rice dish, because that's
just easy. Whatever meat I have left over, salte up
some peppers and things and just throw it on top
of a better rice. I go to cauliflower rice. Yes,
(25:13):
there's a little bit of a difference, but it's kind
of hard to tell. The texture is different. That's mostly it.
Then other than that, I just cook normally. I've been
doing a lot of lately, I'm trying to switch it up.
I go to a lot of Asian dishes because I
(25:36):
like cooking, like fried rice and ramen. I have a
I found Keto Ramen on Amazon and I'm gonna put
a link to that. And when I do the Keto ramen,
I do like an Asian style egg, so I soft
boiled egg cracket and marinate in terioki for about two
(25:59):
to four hours. And that's where you get those black
colored eggs you get over at the ramin shops and
they are amazing. Cut it in half, put it on
top of the ramen along with everything else, and I
do kind of gourmet my robin. I saltay some onions,
a little bit of garlic and mushrooms, and every now
(26:24):
and then call it fly broccoli. Broccoli is not really
goes on Robin, but I do broccoli for stir fry
and then put that in these broth. I let that
boil in the broth for a little bit to break
out those flavors, bring bring out the caramelization taste into
the ramen. Then I throw the noodles in. Cook the
(26:45):
noodles and cut the egg and put it on top
and call it a day, and it looks amazing. I
also do chicken thighs, the chicken thighs with like cut
the thighs up to cube marinaateum overnight in taraokee sauce
and saracha, and if I am feeling fancy, onions and
(27:06):
garlic and jilapenos because it's got to be spicy, and
cook that and then I just have like that. And
then that tarioki chicken thighs I can throw on top
of salads, which is an easy quick meal, or I
put on top of the rabin when it's done. I
(27:28):
put that in the ramen broth a couple of times
so that flavor kind of can leach out. But that
kind of like took away the flavor of the chicken.
So I'm eating it and I'm not tasting the chicken.
I'm like, oh, that's chicken, but I lost the karaoke
punch of it. So now I just warm it up
in the toaster of it and put it on top
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so it's still kind of crispy and you have that
caramelization of cooking it.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I've sort of wanted to get into doing more of
the merit marinates, but I haven't. I haven't gotten around
to it yet just tried it to add. I've been
thinking about it, to add some flavor to like the
chicken and the pork and stuff that I cook, But
I yeah, I haven't. It's something I've sort of thought about,
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I haven't gotten around to actually try.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I really really do love doing mayonnates. There's so much
fun and they're really good. They are really good marinate
chicken sometimes just the chicken breast in Italians Italian dressing
and that's good. And I think, and a couple other
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stuff I'm just not coming to mind right now. So
what else? What else is going on? Man?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Not much, just trying to get things. So I closed
down my my camp here for the winter this past
winter and went to Texas and met you guys. We
win the field day and prepping things for uh for
the National Park trip mm hmm for being away that time,
(29:24):
and then we then uh Tia was talking about Huntsville
Hamfast and I think, well.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yep, that's around the corner too now.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Since I'm already a third of the way there, It's like,
do I want to just keep driving once the National
Park trip's done and just drop out there then for it.
So so it's like, if that's the case, then I
need to figure out how to get things set up here,
get things positioned here so it can be away for
(29:56):
h five or six weeks. So currently he is figuring
out is how to prep things so that it can
be away without going in the full packing everything away
like I did in the winter.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Nice. I'm kind of looking forward to Huntsville. Huntsville will
be fun. I love hanging out that Friday before the
hand Fast or the hand Fest and just hanging out
at the pavilion having fun, smoking a number of cigars,
and of course we have a number of people that
(30:36):
are just operating radios and having fun. And I'm going
to reach out to Kyle and see if i can
help him again with the able r L fundraiser that
he's doing.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah. Yeah, the if you look on Toad's discord, he
has a channel talking about trying to plan things for
that week. I don't know, off the top of my head,
I don't remember who. I know they were talking about
someone donating like ten to twenty pounds of grass fed beef.
(31:14):
I don't know if that's for Friday, or if that's
for eating and like Thursday beforehand. Yeah, so are you
driving in with with Jason or you find.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You right now? We haven't talked about it. I'm probably
gonna drive in with Jason if I'm still not employed
by then, because it keeps down the costs.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
But we'll see. I might have a job. I got
a second interview coming up and I'm looking forward to it,
and we'll see.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
We'll see what this.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Coming week spring.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
The only thing I'm trying to getting ready for is
field Day and then the the July National Park trip
because that's gonna be fun. I'm looking forward to doing
all the videos for that and we always have a blast.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yep. Yeah, that's especially with getting a job at Yeah,
you can't get a job. And then yeah, in two weeks,
I want to take a week off, three weeks, I
want to take another week off. Yeah, that's sort of
gonna spoil. That's gonna be a little tough for the
first year.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I just tell him straight up, there there's these times
I'm gonna be away and here's the times. We'll figure
it out. And the other hard thing is I'm probably
I'm hoping I'll come at in at a level that
I am somewhat senior, so I can get like the
(32:55):
senior level four weeks off the bat and not where
I come in and I am like only three weeks
because that that's rough, especially that and that and doing
families and I like to do a family trip once
(33:16):
a year and do a trip with my friends once
a year, and just getting those times is hard because
all my friends are not burning their vacation time going
to Hamfest, and when they schedule a trip, oh, let's
do this week thing or a two week thing, and
I'm like, can't really do that. We could do long,
(33:38):
long weekends, but not not really a two week thing.
So hopefully I come in at a level where I
can swing that a bit more. We'll see. I talk
to one company and I kind of noted that and
they're like started hymming and holland I don't know. I'm like,
(34:01):
all right, I got a not a good feeling on that, PA,
But next we'll see what this next week brings.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah, it sounds sounds like the second this this other,
this other company is when it went a little bit better,
and and especially with the fact that you got a
second interview already, so yeah, there are.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I'm hopeful for you that this this other job is
going to be doing mid level embedded programming with some
low level in programming. I'm not that great with C
so yay, you have to give the lessons from down Yeah, right,
(34:50):
I can. I'm just going to C plus plus. I
can make low level C plus plus look good. That's
kind of about it. With the channel coming up, they've
got the field day videos coming up. I got a
alpha antenna video. I have a solar panel video I
(35:11):
want to do. I want to start hiking. It means
I need to get up and now the house at
a decent time and go play radio before it gets
too hot. Where I was thinking about doing the hiking
and setting out the radio doesn't have a lot of trees,
so it gonna be out in the sun the whole time.
(35:32):
So I gotta get out there and do that before
it gets too hot. And that's kind of all that's
on my radar right now. I do have a couple
of bills to do, but I want to get my
new build bench up. That means I gotta get rid
of all the stuff to my left here and get
(35:54):
that sorted and figure out how I'm gonna mount cameras
because I want to do the top down camera to
the build bench and the camera looking at me, a
nicer setup than I have now back in that office.
And I got to buy stuff to do it. And
right now I am being super stingy with money, and
(36:18):
I wonder.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Why, well, I don't I understand.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
That, yep. But right now Tank Radio is completely funded
and going by y'all supporters listening, and Jeff, you are
an amazing supported also, thank you, And and there's there's
enough money right now in the war chest if I
(36:45):
just kind of keep my head low to run. So
right now we're doing good. We're doing good.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's good, yep.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I really need to focus on getting that together. I
might have to. I made it a goal a couple
of weeks to clean out the wiring closet, and once
I do that a lot of these boxes will go away.
That wiring closet is just full of decades worth of
old video cables, TV coax cables and other things that
(37:19):
I just can't bring myself to get rid of. I
did find a recycling place to take electronics. They take
old towers, they take old monitors and a bunch of wiring,
and you do have to pay for printers and CRTs
to be disposed, but everything else is pretty free. So
(37:41):
I am going to go through that. I have a box.
That's that box right there, I just brought upstairs and
I'm just going to start filling it with old crap.
So once that's done, I can move some of the
boxes I do want to keep in there, and we'll
free up a lot of the space. So there's some
old wire this Mike pack. I want to keep some
(38:02):
other electronics that I just don't want to part with
right now. The box for the Asier ft X ten.
Don't know why I still have it. I still have
it because I don't want to get rid of it.
That's why I still have it. With big electronics, it's
just hard for me to throw away the boxes. The
smaller stuff I can take out, and once I'm happy
(38:24):
that it has a spot and it lives there, I
could get rid of it. But boxes for me are
hard to get rid of.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, what to coming back if they if you need
to move them and stuff. So yeah, I can understand that.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Mm hmm. I have an old inkjet printer that no
one wants. I'm just probably going to put that to
the curb next Friday. I try to give away to friends,
and I think it just needs ink and it's good
to go. But no one really wanted an inkjet printer
(39:04):
for a tank radio. I did buy a laser printer
because I got tired of replating, replacing ink cartridges every
time I was ready to print, some ink cartridge is out,
so that's stupid. And it's not black. It's always one
of the color ones, which you got to buy the
color pack for. So I got an ink jet so
(39:27):
that I don't have that issue anymore. It's just ready
to go whenever I want it. Then, yeah, I'm just
gonna put that on the curve. If I put that
on a curve on a Friday, I'm hoping by like
Sundays picked up.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, I mean someone's going to try to get us
out of it. Other than that, it's just some old
boxes I just need to get rid of. Do you
keep I'm weird like this. If I have a small box,
I'm like, oh, I could probably reuse that to ship
something day. And I have a bunch of odd small
boxes around.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, I have a bunch of box more boxes than
I should m hm.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
So I need to break that habit. So I'm going
to keep a couple of the small ones and get
rid of them. I used to have a lot of
boxes that I was holding on it for helping shipping,
and one day I just got tired over and I
broke them all down and I recycled them all and
I don't have any more of those boxes.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeah, I get that area cleaned up, and then I
can get the the future build bench going and I
start building antennas again. And I really like doing antenna projects.
I am I am weak soldering direct wires together. I
think that's where I'm having a lot of some of
the issues with my intennas is where I started direct
(40:58):
wires together to the being sea connector. And that's always
the weak point. That's always the point. I'm happening to
res order, disorder and resorder again. And on the chart antenna,
I'm having one of those issues. And Robert said he's
going to help me look at it, and I just
need to figure out to understand how to solder those
(41:20):
twisted wires together, and then started that to the B
and C connector better.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Okay. One of the projects always talking about is doing
a bunch of us doing a day of builds and stuff.
So it may be and doing like a lesson, doing
some class lessons on like instruction on how to solder
and stuff, so that may be something. I'm in Huntsville.
(41:46):
You can sit down with some people and they can
help you, help you look learn some learn some tips
on how to do that better. M h m hmm.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Would be nice. That would be nice. I know we
started a little late here, but I think we're coming
up on the hour and I got everything I kind
of wanted to talk about out. Do you have anything
about the channel? Do you want to discuss or bring up?
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Nope, I just I I am sad that I missed
your live stream and to be franked about the coding challenge, Yeah,
I thought.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
You were going to be there.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Hopefully I'll be able to make it this upcoming week.
When you do them, you sortady got me hooked on
doing the code during the Code Wars code challenges. It's fun.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah, yeah, the the quick easy ones you can just
spend like thirty minutes on and knock out a solution.
But when I go live, all the you know level
four and threes, and they on code challenges they ranked
the lower level it is the harder it is. Yeah,
the fours and three is kept coming up for me.
(43:02):
I was like, give me an easy one, and that
was kind of annoying. So I was trying to go
in blind. But I think before the next stream, I'm
just gonna parse through and find a one that we
can code on that I don't have to spend that
time clicking through because I did not like that, just like,
(43:25):
oh nope, not this one, not this one, not this one.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
I noticed. I think we're both getting up into the
higher honors, in the higher rank where most of the
suggested ones are all going to be the more in depth.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
And I know you can tune it for practice practice.
We can go in there and say short by blah
blah blah blah. We might just put easiest. My language
is C plus plus. I might need to start doing
some c's. Yeah, right off the bat, there's a eight
I think is one of the easiest ones.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Yeah, a bunch of eights popped up now.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yeah, so you might want just for your for the
two B frank channel, you might want to do like
and I can go. I think I'll look into this
on tomorrow and I can uh show you what to do,
but make your make a clan so that any anyone
who watches and wants to join it can we can
(44:32):
all be in the same plan with you.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Okay, that seems like fun off the bat. Maybe Wednesday,
because Monday I could do. Monday, I could do Monday.
Tuesday is the interview, so I kind of want to
focus that on Tuesday. I was tooin the idea of
(44:56):
going up to see my girl Monday and that will
kill the right the afternoon. So maybe Wednesday, just to
keep an eye out. Once I decide, I'll try to
put the stream up twenty four hours so that everyone
can see and come and joint. I need to create
a new channel intro, so I don't use the tank radio.
(45:18):
I use the tank radio last time. So something for it.
There's always things.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
To do, right yep, yeah, yeah, if you can do it,
If you can post it twelve to twenty four hours
ahead of time, that way I can see it and
make sure that I'm online for it. Yeah, though, that'd
be appreciated.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
All right, we'll do all right, man, Well take it
easy and have a good month. See you next time.
Oh also next time, I forgot to say this. It's
gonna be the all Hands Christmas in July all hands meeting,
So any level supporter is going to be able to
join the Tank Radio Tank Commanders and we're just gonna
(45:59):
hang out with for everybody. So I'm hoping to have
a large room and we're going to have some fun.
I might light a cigar. That's how all fun I
like these.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
It depending on when you get to I don't know,
it's it's one thought would be we get to the
park Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
Maybe if we have internet there, it may be a
thing of just doing uh doing a call in with
all the people at the National and the National Park
thing where you can where you have the people call
in and then there's a handful of people there in
(46:45):
person as well. Hm.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
That's a good idea. I'll look into that.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
But I don't know if we'll know how well how
good of an internet internet signal we have until we
actually get there.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah, yeah, that might be fun. Man. Well all right, Jeff,
look take it easy, have a good one and everyone
listening out there. Thank you to all my supporters who
support me through Patreon and YouTube memberships, and thank y'all
for listening and hanging out with us. Go forth and conquer.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Say bye seventy three and I'll see you on tonight's stream.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Thank you to all my Patreon supporters. You can support
me on Patreon there's a link in the description below.
And to all my tankers out there, go forth and conquer.
Well, sorry, let me start that again. What is going on?
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Tank Commanders for the month
of June. This is the podcast where I sit down
with all my Tank commander level supporters and we hang
out and and just talk about whatever comes up. I
(00:28):
think we're going to be talking about Phield Day coming up,
and kind of talk about little of my other YouTube channel,
it's called tank I'm sorry. The other YouTube channels to
be Frank Radio. That's the easiest way to find it.
Searchs for to be Frank Radio and it's actually named
to be Frank, but there's a lot of to b
Franks out there, so I had to tag it with
(00:48):
something and we'll talk a little bit about that. Currently,
we just got Jeff. What's going on, man? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
That's very good.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Where are you at today, because I know you roam
around a bit.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I'm for the most part the summer going to be
in Montana, so I'm camping in the mountains of Montana.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I am very jealous because it's going to be ninety
six today and my AC units are working overtime to
get it cool up here for me.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, it's been rainy the last two days. So today
it's I think if we get out of the fifties working,
it's gonna be warm nice.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well, I have I moved all my office to like
this upper loft area I have, and I did it
so I could have more space move around and I
kind of want to reclaim the other bedroom and use
it kind of as a day room slash kind of
a crafts area, and so I moved everything out here. However,
(01:57):
before I just used to close that door, and that
room used to get much cooler than what here is.
So during the summer months I could be sweating a
bit in this little loft area. That's it is what
it is. I might try to put a fan underneath
the desk to help cool me a bit. But talking
(02:20):
about cooling in Texas and summers, summer, field Day's coming
up of the a double RL Summer phild Day, and
it's gonna be Jason has bowed out this year, Mike
has bowed out this year, so it's just gonna be Prepham,
Paul and Digital Rancher and me where we made plans
(02:43):
to go to a state park and we got a
cabin that has a seat, yes, and it has its
own bathroom WS and we're gonna be doing field day
up there. Probably inside Texas is probably just gonna be
nineties plus and that that's kind of our plans. We're
gonna be running some verticals, We're gonna be running a
(03:05):
couple of slopers. We're gonna be running three stations. All
of us are gonna set up our HF radios. We're
gonna have banfast filters and all that fun stuff, and
I'm kind of looking forward to it. I started my
placking already, because yeah, it takes me a while to pack.
I just don't like packing all on one day. I
(03:27):
feel like I miss stuff. I feel like I don't
have time to kind of stage nicely. And of course,
being eighty d and I do talk about that a lot.
I can't do repetitive or tedious tasks for long because
I get bored with it.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
M m hmm.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Are you gonna be hanging out and going to a club?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I am not Which park have you decided to to
go to this year?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
This year, we're gonna be going to Cooper Lake State Park.
It's northeast of the Dallas, Okay. And that's just because
they had a cabin available when we were still booked.
Trying to find a place to book. We spied a
couple others around Texas, Central Texas.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
But.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
They were all kind of booked up before we got there.
We we booked it a little late. We talked about
this a couple months ago and we're like, yes, and
we had like four five of Park's eyeballd, but time
we got around to booking, a lot of them were
gone and this one was left. We got We got
a Pacific cabin because this cabin has a lot of
(04:36):
open area around it and I think it kind of
backups to the lake a little bit, and we have
our own little trail we can also use to run
slopers down, so no one would be messing with them.
Nice are you? You can't just set up in your
nice little Montana area and just do one yourself. I
forgot what that rule is station designation and just kind
(04:59):
of half.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I could. The one problem with hand radio is I
have two well, I have two pieces of fifty ft
co acts. I have not found them this year yet.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oops.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I don't know where they are. I've looked through stuff
here and I haven't found them yet. And I'm wondering
if somehow, I for some reason I bought them into
into my put them in my storage unit. So I
need to know I need to I need to remember
to check my storage unit to see if they're in there. Yeah,
(05:37):
I do. I do have a radio. I do have
at Winterfield Day, Mike helped me get tune my infed
halfway so I could I could be running that, but
I don't know where I know where my radio is,
I don't know where my co corrects. So it's like
(06:00):
that is that is the current problem. Once I find coacts,
then I have to figure out I have a bunch
of I have nice tall trees, but the pine trees,
so trying to get uh get a line up into
them is another going to be another task. But there's
no point in trying to figure that out if I
don't have if I don't have any coacts, well.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Right right, I am going to be bringing a brand
new antenna by Alpha Antenna. And if you why I
think I have. I have an affiliate code in my description.
If you want to purchase an Alpha antenna, go ahead
and use that affiliate code is in the description and
(06:42):
affiliate link. It's not a code, it's a link and
then anything you buy is credited towards TAKE radio and
it helps out the channel. I got a new Alpha antenna,
the one of their nfeds. I think I got the
forty meter one. Yeah, I think it's forty and also
(07:04):
fifty foot of co x cable. I'm gonna be busting
that out at field day and use it in the
park there, and I want to use it at a park.
I might try to get to a park before this
just to test run it and see how that does.
This tenant is gonna be one of my permanent installations
at the house. I am thinking about good ways of
(07:27):
doing that, but I am starting getting worried of putting
thirty feet aay of fence topping straight up in the
air and just having the I can guide it. That's
gonna be the easy part. But the lightning is kind
of starting to concern me now since we had some
big Texas thunderstorms the last month and the lightning's been ridiculous.
(07:48):
If that's sticking up above my house and I'm going
to do another ten foot pole on top of the
house at some point, I'm starting to get worried about lightning.
So I am probably gonna look to ground that better,
do about three, probably three eight foot sections of ground rods,
(08:09):
all linked to the hole itself. And I'm probably going
to double that or do that again at the point
where the infit comes off, so the light the pull
itself would have three ground rods into the ground and
then running braided wire to them and then do the
(08:32):
same point to the intena feed point with a lightning
arrestor and just run that to the ground. I'll probably
do two on the intenna because that stuff is kind
of expensive. Plus I get to rent the demolition hammer again.
Come on, that's gonna be fun and run that into
the ground. I'm probably gonna do the just one big
(08:56):
green box, dig that up in the yard, put that
in the yard, and then that would be my grounding
system will go into the green box, and then then
the mower can go right over it. Yeah, And I'm
just I know what I got to do. I just
(09:17):
got to buy the braid of the wire, and I
just don't know how to con cut that and reliably
clamp that, and I need to figure out how to
do that. And that's what's stopping me right now, because
I don't want that intended to be up or that
poll to be up while the storms are coming. I
could buy a full down, masked mount and that I
(09:41):
just laid on the ground when I'm not using it.
But that's not fun. That's not fun at all.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
No, I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, I gotta figure figure that out. And I got
an idea how to do it. I just need to
how to research on how to cut the flat that
braided wire and connect it properly to the grounding rods
so that it has enough ground surface area to dissipate
(10:13):
that lightning into the ground without coming into the house.
And I know it's gonna probably be struck sometime. My
stepdad has a antenna tower. I think it's thirty feet
in the air.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The tower is a lean down tower, so undo a
couple of bolts and you can walk it down and
lay it on the ground. And that tower got struck
by lightning and fried his lightning arrestor. But he dissipated
all the lightning pretty good, so and it didn't come
into the house. I am going to have to figure
I might go look at that. Oh, that's a good idea.
(10:52):
Next time at his house. I'm gonna look at that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I've been in an old farmhouse I had done
by like me, you do not want it. Did go
into it, did go into the house, and several things
were fired, like light switches and stuff like that because
of so it was it was a mess to say
(11:19):
the least. Or so yeah, if you can't and I
would say even I don't depend if it depends on
how how bad. I don't know enough about Like talk
to your talk to you said, your dad has one
(11:40):
has lightning arrestors, and see if a single lightning arrestor works,
then good, it may be a thing of uh, possibly
get two in that way, put up, put them both
in line in that way.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, he only had one, and you only need one
lightning arrestor per intena line. So so when when your
intenna comes off of your tower and before you put
it into the feed line that comes into the house,
usually it should be at the base of the antenna,
that's where you connect your lightning arrestor. And then one
(12:16):
end goes to your antenna with a short run, and
then the next part goes into the house. So then
you have your house feed line, and then you run
that all the way through. Then I have the common
ground system I did, and that is also going to
be a we need to drill in a couple more
(12:37):
lightning or lightning ground rods, and that is going to
be connected to the tower antenna at the top. I
might skip that the additional ones at the base because
I have all those others going around connected to that
fat solid copper line.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Okay, your your lightning investor isn't going to be attached
to the same ground grounding rods that your ground system is. Correct.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
See here that is the common ground system. The first
point into the common ground system is gonna be the
lightning arrestor. Also, because the lightning arrestors will on the
copper plate or the aluminum plate that I have for
the lightning arrestor box, not the one we're talking about
with the flat line or the infant that's probably just
(13:34):
gonna be outside, but the junction boxes I have. The
enlightening arrestors will be screwed into the junction box and
then that has the flat copper plate. Af that flat
copper plate is going to run to the common ground
and lightning I'm going to use it as the same
thing because it has a lot of additional ground rods
spread out throughout the house.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, No, it's just to that copper plate. Sure, that's
your grounding point, sure, but nothing. The point of what
I'm trying to say is that does not come into
the house.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
No, No, that's not so. For that that line, there's
going to be a junction box at the roof for
the UHF v HF feed lines and then that is
and the antenna is going to be on top of
the house. Then it's going to go into the junction
box where I'm going to have the feed line from
the antenna go to the lightning arrestor and that then
(14:34):
for the then the lightning arrestor out is going to
be the feed line into the house. That lightning arrest
is going to be connected to the copper plate. And
then that copper plate somehow is going to be if
I can find enough braided line to make it lightning resistant,
then that copper plate is going to connect it to
the braid line. Then that's going to go all the
way down to the the the the the copper wire
(14:56):
I ran all the way around the house.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Okay, yeah, I'm just trying to say, you don't want
anything anything.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It's not going to flow through the house. No, that
that that from the antenna to the grounding system is
all going to be outside that. Once the feed line
comes off, the lightning arrestor from that junction box is
going to go then into the house.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, yeah, you don't. You don't want anything anything that
touches that grounding system that is connected to the to
the lightning investors to go into that to be connected
to anything into the house. Yep, yep, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(15:42):
I didn't know if part of your if you had
a ham shack inside the house grounding system that you
were those are connected to that.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
The common ground inside the shack is going to be
going out the same way I run all the wires
and if and that's going to run all the way
out through to the first junction box and then that's
going to be connected to the ground. So the radios
(16:18):
could be on the same ground without plugging it. So
the radio has a ground out right.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So if you so that ground is going to connect
to the copper plate in the juncture.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Box, you don't want that, no, because that copper plate
is connected to your lightning inrestors. Then it can the
lightning arrestor. Can we'll go to that copper plate and
instead of going to the ground, instead of all of
(16:50):
it going down into the grounding rods, some of it
can backfeed into your to the ground on your radios.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, I'll research it more. We're there. It's just kind
of fuzzy.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, you want to you want to have a separate
grounding system from for your radios or anything that's in
your house, Separate from anything that's going to get uh,
have current from a lightning strike.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yep, we're on the same page. I think we're just
fuzzy on that last part.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Okay, yep.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Other than that, my other channel we were talking about
earlier on the two B Frank Radio I started doing
right now, it's kind of weekly. I want to bump
it up. We'll see if I am in the mood
for that next week to twice a week CO challenges
and Jeff is also a coder, and we were talking
(17:59):
a little bit of free stream about the last couple
of challenges that I've done, and we were just comparing
answers and things. If you're interested in that, there is
head over to to be Frank Radio and that those
co challenges are fun. I've been enjoying them. There's one
(18:22):
Jeff has shared with me. I haven't submitted my solution yet.
That's taking morse code he DIDs and does and then
you're converting them to to be the words and the letters.
I have a solution for that, but I'm going to
clean it up, make it faster, because of course I
could clean up and make it faster. If you want
(18:45):
to see us talk about that, head over to the
to B Frank Radio and I'm going to put a
link in description. I'm typing that out now and watch
us do that.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Do you have a you put a referral link in
the in the description for your for code words for
people to sign up?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I can, I can. I put my profile code wars
Frank's profile. It's going to be in the description. It's
just going to take you to my profile and you
click follow and then you see anytime I submit a
solution to a problem, and you can also tackle that
(19:30):
problem and see how you compare to me that that's
kind of been fun. I did it once, kind of
failed the we couldn't find a nice quick one. They
were all kind of ones that that were a little
bit more in depth I could cover in the hour.
I wanted to We've eventually found one, and I did
it kind of fast, but I didn't really complete the
(19:51):
big one I was trying to do the the harder
codes were codes they have there. They're that it might
take you an hour or so to do, but it's fun.
I enjoy it. Also that to B Frank Radio is
just me talking about trying to find another job. Got
(20:12):
laid off a couple months ago, and that is just
me tackling life and setting out weekly goals and things
for me to do so I can hold myself a
cannibal at the end of the week. And I'm always
moving forward. So also a kind of note on moving forward.
I'm six pounds down this month. Oh I'm so happy.
(20:34):
I'm so happy. And I've just kind of been eating
right at home. I haven't been eating out as far
as just eating out. I'm only eating out like once
a week when I meet up with my friends and
that's about it. Cooking, though I used to I still
(20:55):
love cooking, but it's getting to be a routine and
I'm cooking everything for us, cooking each meal, and I
know every A couple of comments I've seen on those
videos is like, do weekly cooking so you just warm
stuff up. I'm like, yeah, I can just warm things up,
but I really enjoy the act of cooking and making
(21:16):
things fresh, and I kind of do like that. I
do have a couple leftovers, so if I do leftovers,
it's leftovers for a single meal and not like a
whole week, because then I'll get bored, specially since I'm
here all the time. I used to kind of cook
like that when I had a job on Sundays. I
(21:37):
might cook a big meal and then I have three
meals or four meals worth, and then I can eat
that for dinner when I come home and it doesn't
get that old. Plus I just want something now because
I'm hungry. Yeah, of course, how do you cook, man,
I know you work remotely, so you got that daily
grind too of cooking every meal.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I am off grid here, so I I typically cook up.
I'm relatively simple in what I eat, so I'll cook
up like a bunch of chicken and then I'll have
it for and then a lot of my dinners I
just have wraps. One reason I have raps is just
(22:22):
because it gets me to eat some greens and some
salad greens. I'm just not big and eating salad by itself,
so so with a wrap, I put some greens in it.
So that way, that's one of the reasons I switched
to doing green or doing raps, is just encourages that.
(22:44):
But yeah, I'll I'll cook some chicken up and then
I'll have that the chicken for my wraps for three
or four days, and then I'll and actually today's I'm
out the last my chicken yesterday, so I'm cooking up
some more chicken, another batch of chicken breasts today. So yeah,
(23:07):
that's pretty much what my cooking currently is. And then
heavyan once in a while I'll have like burger, cook
up some burgers or cook up I'd had a pork
carl pork collared steak last week, so I cooked I
(23:28):
cooked up a couple of those, so yeah, good. Yeah,
It's nothing, nothing too fancy out here, just pretty simple.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah. I've I've been using mission tortilla, so when I'm
at home, I try to cook all keto so I
have mission car balance. And I actually found new when
I last time I went to a store zero carb tortilla,
so the car balance can't really tell can't really tell
the difference between those and normal tortillas. And to be honest,
(24:06):
when I bring tortillas out anywhere, I just buy the
car Balance and I make everyone eat them. They're not
not that much more expensive than the regular tortillas. And
even the guys Jason's like, this is car Balance. I
was like, yeah, He's like, I can't tell the difference.
I said, exactly, That's why I just buy all of
them so I don't have to worry about Hey, that's
(24:28):
one of mine. Don't don't do that. No, we all
eat the same. And also at home, I buy the
zero or the Keto breads. There is a difference in
Keto bread it's a little bit more two eiar and
can be a little bit of annoying. But other than that,
(24:51):
just just I try to stay away from rices because
rice is all calories. If I want to do like
a Friday rice dish or dirty rice dish, because that's
just easy. Whatever meat I have left over, salte up
some peppers and things and just throw it on top
of a better rice. I go to cauliflower rice. Yes,
(25:13):
there's a little bit of a difference, but it's kind
of hard to tell. The texture is different. That's mostly it.
Then other than that, I just cook normally. I've been
doing a lot of lately, I'm trying to switch it up.
I go to a lot of Asian dishes because I
(25:36):
like cooking, like fried rice and ramen. I have a
I found Keto Ramen on Amazon and I'm gonna put
a link to that. And when I do the Keto ramen,
I do like an Asian style egg, so I soft
boiled egg cracket and marinate in terioki for about two
(25:59):
to four hours. And that's where you get those black
colored eggs you get over at the ramin shops and
they are amazing. Cut it in half, put it on
top of the ramen along with everything else, and I
do kind of gourmet my robin. I saltay some onions,
a little bit of garlic and mushrooms, and every now
(26:24):
and then call it fly broccoli. Broccoli is not really
goes on Robin, but I do broccoli for stir fry
and then put that in these broth. I let that
boil in the broth for a little bit to break
out those flavors, bring bring out the caramelization taste into
the ramen. Then I throw the noodles in. Cook the
(26:45):
noodles and cut the egg and put it on top
and call it a day, and it looks amazing. I
also do chicken thighs, the chicken thighs with like cut
the thighs up to cube marinaateum overnight in taraokee sauce
and saracha, and if I am feeling fancy, onions and
(27:06):
garlic and jilapenos because it's got to be spicy, and
cook that and then I just have like that. And
then that tarioki chicken thighs I can throw on top
of salads, which is an easy quick meal, or I
put on top of the rabin when it's done. I
(27:28):
put that in the ramen broth a couple of times
so that flavor kind of can leach out. But that
kind of like took away the flavor of the chicken.
So I'm eating it and I'm not tasting the chicken.
I'm like, oh, that's chicken, but I lost the karaoke
punch of it. So now I just warm it up
in the toaster of it and put it on top
(27:50):
so it's still kind of crispy and you have that
caramelization of cooking it.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I've sort of wanted to get into doing more of
the merit marinates, but I haven't. I haven't gotten around
to it yet just tried it to add. I've been
thinking about it, to add some flavor to like the
chicken and the pork and stuff that I cook, But
I yeah, I haven't. It's something I've sort of thought about,
(28:20):
I haven't gotten around to actually try.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I really really do love doing mayonnates. There's so much
fun and they're really good. They are really good marinate
chicken sometimes just the chicken breast in Italians Italian dressing
and that's good. And I think, and a couple other
(28:47):
stuff I'm just not coming to mind right now. So
what else? What else is going on? Man?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Not much, just trying to get things. So I closed
down my my camp here for the winter this past
winter and went to Texas and met you guys. We
win the field day and prepping things for uh for
the National Park trip mm hmm for being away that time,
(29:24):
and then we then uh Tia was talking about Huntsville
Hamfast and I think, well.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yep, that's around the corner too now.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Since I'm already a third of the way there, It's like,
do I want to just keep driving once the National
Park trip's done and just drop out there then for it.
So so it's like, if that's the case, then I
need to figure out how to get things set up here,
get things positioned here so it can be away for
(29:56):
h five or six weeks. So currently he is figuring
out is how to prep things so that it can
be away without going in the full packing everything away
like I did in the winter.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Nice. I'm kind of looking forward to Huntsville. Huntsville will
be fun. I love hanging out that Friday before the
hand Fast or the hand Fest and just hanging out
at the pavilion having fun, smoking a number of cigars,
and of course we have a number of people that
(30:36):
are just operating radios and having fun. And I'm going
to reach out to Kyle and see if i can
help him again with the able r L fundraiser that
he's doing.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah. Yeah, the if you look on Toad's discord, he
has a channel talking about trying to plan things for
that week. I don't know, off the top of my head,
I don't remember who. I know they were talking about
someone donating like ten to twenty pounds of grass fed beef.
(31:14):
I don't know if that's for Friday, or if that's
for eating and like Thursday beforehand. Yeah, so are you
driving in with with Jason or you find.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You right now? We haven't talked about it. I'm probably
gonna drive in with Jason if I'm still not employed
by then, because it keeps down the costs.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
But we'll see. I might have a job. I got
a second interview coming up and I'm looking forward to it,
and we'll see.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
We'll see what this.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Coming week spring.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
The only thing I'm trying to getting ready for is
field Day and then the the July National Park trip
because that's gonna be fun. I'm looking forward to doing
all the videos for that and we always have a blast.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yep. Yeah, that's especially with getting a job at Yeah,
you can't get a job. And then yeah, in two weeks,
I want to take a week off, three weeks, I
want to take another week off. Yeah, that's sort of
gonna spoil. That's gonna be a little tough for the
first year.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I just tell him straight up, there there's these times
I'm gonna be away and here's the times. We'll figure
it out. And the other hard thing is I'm probably
I'm hoping I'll come at in at a level that
I am somewhat senior, so I can get like the
(32:55):
senior level four weeks off the bat and not where
I come in and I am like only three weeks
because that that's rough, especially that and that and doing
families and I like to do a family trip once
(33:16):
a year and do a trip with my friends once
a year, and just getting those times is hard because
all my friends are not burning their vacation time going
to Hamfest, and when they schedule a trip, oh, let's
do this week thing or a two week thing, and
I'm like, can't really do that. We could do long,
(33:38):
long weekends, but not not really a two week thing.
So hopefully I come in at a level where I
can swing that a bit more. We'll see. I talk
to one company and I kind of noted that and
they're like started hymming and holland I don't know. I'm like,
(34:01):
all right, I got a not a good feeling on that, PA,
But next we'll see what this next week brings.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah, it sounds sounds like the second this this other,
this other company is when it went a little bit better,
and and especially with the fact that you got a
second interview already, so yeah, there are.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I'm hopeful for you that this this other job is
going to be doing mid level embedded programming with some
low level in programming. I'm not that great with C
so yay, you have to give the lessons from down Yeah, right,
(34:50):
I can. I'm just going to C plus plus. I
can make low level C plus plus look good. That's
kind of about it. With the channel coming up, they've
got the field day videos coming up. I got a
alpha antenna video. I have a solar panel video I
(35:11):
want to do. I want to start hiking. It means
I need to get up and now the house at
a decent time and go play radio before it gets
too hot. Where I was thinking about doing the hiking
and setting out the radio doesn't have a lot of trees,
so it gonna be out in the sun the whole time.
(35:32):
So I gotta get out there and do that before
it gets too hot. And that's kind of all that's
on my radar right now. I do have a couple
of bills to do, but I want to get my
new build bench up. That means I gotta get rid
of all the stuff to my left here and get
(35:54):
that sorted and figure out how I'm gonna mount cameras
because I want to do the top down camera to
the build bench and the camera looking at me, a
nicer setup than I have now back in that office.
And I got to buy stuff to do it. And
right now I am being super stingy with money, and
(36:18):
I wonder.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Why, well, I don't I understand.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
That, yep. But right now Tank Radio is completely funded
and going by y'all supporters listening, and Jeff, you are
an amazing supported also, thank you, And and there's there's
enough money right now in the war chest if I
(36:45):
just kind of keep my head low to run. So
right now we're doing good. We're doing good.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's good, yep.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I really need to focus on getting that together. I
might have to. I made it a goal a couple
of weeks to clean out the wiring closet, and once
I do that a lot of these boxes will go away.
That wiring closet is just full of decades worth of
old video cables, TV coax cables and other things that
(37:19):
I just can't bring myself to get rid of. I
did find a recycling place to take electronics. They take
old towers, they take old monitors and a bunch of wiring,
and you do have to pay for printers and CRTs
to be disposed, but everything else is pretty free. So
(37:41):
I am going to go through that. I have a box.
That's that box right there, I just brought upstairs and
I'm just going to start filling it with old crap.
So once that's done, I can move some of the
boxes I do want to keep in there, and we'll
free up a lot of the space. So there's some
old wire this Mike pack. I want to keep some
(38:02):
other electronics that I just don't want to part with
right now. The box for the Asier ft X ten.
Don't know why I still have it. I still have
it because I don't want to get rid of it.
That's why I still have it. With big electronics, it's
just hard for me to throw away the boxes. The
smaller stuff I can take out, and once I'm happy
(38:24):
that it has a spot and it lives there, I
could get rid of it. But boxes for me are
hard to get rid of.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, what to coming back if they if you need
to move them and stuff. So yeah, I can understand that.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Mm hmm. I have an old inkjet printer that no
one wants. I'm just probably going to put that to
the curb next Friday. I try to give away to friends,
and I think it just needs ink and it's good
to go. But no one really wanted an inkjet printer
(39:04):
for a tank radio. I did buy a laser printer
because I got tired of replating, replacing ink cartridges every
time I was ready to print, some ink cartridge is out,
so that's stupid. And it's not black. It's always one
of the color ones, which you got to buy the
color pack for. So I got an ink jet so
(39:27):
that I don't have that issue anymore. It's just ready
to go whenever I want it. Then, yeah, I'm just
gonna put that on the curve. If I put that
on a curve on a Friday, I'm hoping by like
Sundays picked up.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, I mean someone's going to try to get us
out of it. Other than that, it's just some old
boxes I just need to get rid of. Do you
keep I'm weird like this. If I have a small box,
I'm like, oh, I could probably reuse that to ship
something day. And I have a bunch of odd small
boxes around.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, I have a bunch of box more boxes than
I should m hm.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
So I need to break that habit. So I'm going
to keep a couple of the small ones and get
rid of them. I used to have a lot of
boxes that I was holding on it for helping shipping,
and one day I just got tired over and I
broke them all down and I recycled them all and
I don't have any more of those boxes.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Yeah, I get that area cleaned up, and then I
can get the the future build bench going and I
start building antennas again. And I really like doing antenna projects.
I am I am weak soldering direct wires together. I
think that's where I'm having a lot of some of
the issues with my intennas is where I started direct
(40:58):
wires together to the being sea connector. And that's always
the weak point. That's always the point. I'm happening to
res order, disorder and resorder again. And on the chart antenna,
I'm having one of those issues. And Robert said he's
going to help me look at it, and I just
need to figure out to understand how to solder those
(41:20):
twisted wires together, and then started that to the B
and C connector better.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Okay. One of the projects always talking about is doing
a bunch of us doing a day of builds and stuff.
So it may be and doing like a lesson, doing
some class lessons on like instruction on how to solder
and stuff, so that may be something. I'm in Huntsville.
(41:46):
You can sit down with some people and they can
help you, help you look learn some learn some tips
on how to do that better. M h m hmm.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Would be nice. That would be nice. I know we
started a little late here, but I think we're coming
up on the hour and I got everything I kind
of wanted to talk about out. Do you have anything
about the channel? Do you want to discuss or bring up?
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Nope, I just I I am sad that I missed
your live stream and to be franked about the coding challenge, Yeah,
I thought.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
You were going to be there.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Hopefully I'll be able to make it this upcoming week.
When you do them, you sortady got me hooked on
doing the code during the Code Wars code challenges. It's fun.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah, yeah, the the quick easy ones you can just
spend like thirty minutes on and knock out a solution.
But when I go live, all the you know level
four and threes, and they on code challenges they ranked
the lower level it is the harder it is. Yeah,
the fours and three is kept coming up for me.
(43:02):
I was like, give me an easy one, and that
was kind of annoying. So I was trying to go
in blind. But I think before the next stream, I'm
just gonna parse through and find a one that we
can code on that I don't have to spend that
time clicking through because I did not like that, just like,
(43:25):
oh nope, not this one, not this one, not this one.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
I noticed. I think we're both getting up into the
higher honors, in the higher rank where most of the
suggested ones are all going to be the more in depth.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
And I know you can tune it for practice practice.
We can go in there and say short by blah
blah blah blah. We might just put easiest. My language
is C plus plus. I might need to start doing
some c's. Yeah, right off the bat, there's a eight
I think is one of the easiest ones.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Yeah, a bunch of eights popped up now.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yeah, so you might want just for your for the
two B frank channel, you might want to do like
and I can go. I think I'll look into this
on tomorrow and I can uh show you what to do,
but make your make a clan so that any anyone
who watches and wants to join it can we can
(44:32):
all be in the same plan with you.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Okay, that seems like fun off the bat. Maybe Wednesday,
because Monday I could do. Monday, I could do Monday.
Tuesday is the interview, so I kind of want to
focus that on Tuesday. I was tooin the idea of
(44:56):
going up to see my girl Monday and that will
kill the right the afternoon. So maybe Wednesday, just to
keep an eye out. Once I decide, I'll try to
put the stream up twenty four hours so that everyone
can see and come and joint. I need to create
a new channel intro, so I don't use the tank radio.
(45:18):
I use the tank radio last time. So something for it.
There's always things.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
To do, right yep, yeah, yeah, if you can do it,
If you can post it twelve to twenty four hours
ahead of time, that way I can see it and
make sure that I'm online for it. Yeah, though, that'd
be appreciated.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
All right, we'll do all right, man, Well take it
easy and have a good month. See you next time.
Oh also next time, I forgot to say this. It's
gonna be the all Hands Christmas in July all hands meeting,
So any level supporter is going to be able to
join the Tank Radio Tank Commanders and we're just gonna
(45:59):
hang out with for everybody. So I'm hoping to have
a large room and we're going to have some fun.
I might light a cigar. That's how all fun I
like these.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
It depending on when you get to I don't know,
it's it's one thought would be we get to the
park Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
Maybe if we have internet there, it may be a
thing of just doing uh doing a call in with
all the people at the National and the National Park
thing where you can where you have the people call
in and then there's a handful of people there in
(46:45):
person as well. Hm.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
That's a good idea. I'll look into that.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
But I don't know if we'll know how well how
good of an internet internet signal we have until we
actually get there.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah, yeah, that might be fun. Man. Well all right, Jeff,
look take it easy, have a good one and everyone
listening out there. Thank you to all my supporters who
support me through Patreon and YouTube memberships, and thank y'all
for listening and hanging out with us. Go forth and conquer.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Say bye seventy three and I'll see you on tonight's stream.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Thank you to all my Patreon supporters. You can support
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And to all my tankers out there, go forth and conquer.
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