July 26, 2025 • 40 mins
PreHam Paul joins me at ARRL Fieldday at Cooper Lake State Park. We talk about things and smoke cigars.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is going on, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Frank Cage
five HJ and we're just hanging out pre field day.
We just got off of the bands playing and setting
up all the attendants. We'll go through what we have
here in the second. So far, I've been out here
(00:24):
since Thursday night. I think I see a firefly. I'm
seeing some light lights like sporadic LEDs. Yes, that's a firefly.
We got fireflies, so cool. Prep fan Paul's joining me. Hey, guys,
and we got fireflies. I swear I saw him last night.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
But that was a bright one right over here.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, it's been a long time since I seen fireflies,
so that's cool. You came up today, Paul, I did.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I drove up today, and what's a good It was
a pretty good drive. Mostly it seems like it was
mostly back roads, but everything stayed pretty much above fifty five,
So I did with it.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I left my house Thursday morning, then I had lunch
with my girl, spent some time for her. Then I
headed up here for another hour and a half. It
was mostly on thirty and it wasn't that bad. Wasn't
that bad at all. The traffic not a lot of
traffic and then just got here and it was beautiful.
(01:33):
Robert was supposed to join.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Us, sad face.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, unfortunately he is not gonna be able to make
it with some family things going on. However, I think
we set up as many as antennas that we talked
about pre planning. I have an alpha antenna and fed
halfwave six through one sixty. I really need to look
up that name of it. Is that the one right
(01:57):
there is.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The I just pulled it up. Oh that oop ten
there's a six through eighty and a ten through one sixty.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I got the e comm.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, so HFM com Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Maybe that's why I can't get six meters. It's a
ten through one sixty. I've been saying it right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Think that the other is a junior it's six through eighty.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay, I'm just saying that wrong, So Steve, I'm sorry, Steve,
forgive me, Steve. Yeah, okay, Well col coo cool, I'm
havn't we've been using that. I used that all Thursday.
Then Paul got here and then we went ahead and
(02:37):
threw up a chameleion.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Chamelion, Yeah, the chameleon. Basically, it's the m pass system
with both verticals. So there's the millwhip extension and the millwhip.
I've got them both with four radios and all the
bands are under you know, around two or better.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Nice. Nice. Then close to the house I set up
a vertical the Apollo by Coffee at Ham Radio, got
the radios out. It is on a carbon fiber mast.
I'm sorry, but that's the only one I had that
goes up all that way. I wanted to leave out
(03:14):
all night. Then in front of the cabin, we have
a the the hex the alpha hex tenna alpha hex antenna.
It's not a hex beam, it's a hex base yep.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And you can do vertical or yagi. So right now
we have yagi because we wanted something just on six
tuned to six. So it's set up as a yagi
which was four point four feet eight inches each whip,
and we got it tuned to one point two or
something like that. So that'll be a six meter, just
(03:49):
a tune six meter. We'll probably try it off and on.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You mm hmmm hmm. I tried to get MIC on
it earlier, but I couldn't hear any stations. Now you
got some stations are like thirty fourty minutes later.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, I got I was able to cue SO one,
but I did see like two three stations.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I was only able to que so Cuba or no
Puerto Rico. I forgot. No Cuba.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Cuba is like my first contact on eighty. I did
tune up one sixty last night, and I didn't hear
anyone doing FT eight over there.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We're gonna try tonight, yeah, because I've never tried one sixty.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I don't think I'll give you the antenna. We'll see
if you can hear it also, and then we have
the ladder line two four forty and I think that's it.
Five antennas, two radios, two operators, one awesome call sign.
(04:46):
It was Whiskey two. Yes, Whiskey two HRC. We're gonna
be operating as hand Radio Clubhouse. I don't know when
this is gonna come out, probably after Field date because
Phil Day is tomorrow and I already released my video
this week. That's how it happens.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
M h.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now I think we're all set.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
We got our networking done, which is usually the issue
that most people have.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, we've got three computers networked. One is the it's
gonna we both like the map of in three f jps.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh yeah, that map is nice. It's just fun to
see the states pop in as we get to them,
and then we're just running off the hot spots. Hot
spots was able to nicely allow networking. So we're running
f J two N three f j P as TCP
I P linked to the all the radios or to
(05:39):
all the computers, and that's what we're gonna use for logging.
I am wanted to do next year. I forgot his name. Sebastian.
Sebastian with Polo said he is working on getting a
Polo update so for for networking and and and uh,
you have to have the internet so clubs can That
(06:02):
would be great. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That's all I use for for field or for podus
so far as is M two case Polo.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, Polo is amazing. Unfortunately, Polo is not on the
computer yet on Windows. There is a workaround on Mac.
It is the only time Mac is one up Windows. Doo.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Mike Wild probably say that it's not the only time.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The The only thing we don't have kind of licked
is solar.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, and I didn't bring any I didn't bring anything.
I just thought we have power, so I didn't need
to bring it. I have two sets of solar panels.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I brought both of my sets, but they both
have ten foot runs.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah we're on the wrong side.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And yeah, the sun's coming out of the east as always,
but to our west is all trees. I was hoping
to get the afternoon sun, but there's too many trees
on a back patio. The front door is kind of
a little bit too far from the table.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah. So you got your mosquito torch light charged.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Up though, Yeah, well I left that on the front
porch all morning.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I need this as like the just do a still
video for your for your your main video, and just
have this a still with the cicadas in the background
and whatever, and just have this flickering as a relaxing
tank radio.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, man, this cicada time. Oh you hear them, And
when I hear that sound, I just immediately think just hot, Yeah,
just hot.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
When you hear the cicadas, it sounds cool though.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's one thing I like when I camp is you
hear all the bugs and it's just kind of cool.
M I mean, this is the stuff people pay for.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We did pay for well you paid to stay here,
but I.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Mean, you know they pay for white noise and they
do that one thing.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
There's that app you pay like thirty bucks a month
to hear Matthew McConney talk.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Slowly and so you go to sleep. But they get
they pay for stuff like this. People pay for recordings
of bugs children.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Anyway, I actually thought about doing that as a YouTube channel. Well,
every time I go to the beach, just get like
the waves, the waves and do hours work for waves
and then just loop that, yeah, like for twenty four
hours or something.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
There's a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean I've gone to some of them, the ones
that there's a lot of them now that do frequencies
like four hundred and.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Thirty two megahurts the healing wave frequency and it has
some humming or what and they're kind of soothing. But
then there's rain sounds of course, lots of those.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't know if those guys are successful at it,
but I've listened to them, and they'll run them. There's
something that are live, they'll run for twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
There's no fireply popping around over bit.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I'm hearing some frogs now.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I forgot my fishing pole again.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, we could have fished a dangerfield.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I forgot it there too.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I'm only thinking radio, and it's funny because I used
to always fish everywhere I went it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Now, that's why I on my feed line coming into
the house from the alpha antenna. My cord that I'm
holding in tidy it to a tree is yellow, and
I wrapped the cord around the feed line, so you
see the yellow cord all the way around it. It's
doing nothing as as far as importing it there, however,
(09:25):
I was trying to make it very bright. I guess
I'll observe it so no one walks into it with
a fishing pole. But I seen people walk into my
lines and fishing pool before. Literally, the guy's walking down
the path and I had the lion and it was
fairly high up over the path and there was a
(09:46):
couple of flagging tapes on it. He kind of stops,
looks at me, then obviously with his eyes traced the
wire over the path, handing his fishing pole straight up.
He's like huh and just walking and his figeple catches
it brings everything down and he's like, whoa whoa, whoa,
what happened? What happened?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I didn't know?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, come on, I hate it. I hate it when
they do that. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay, let's talk about your infed.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
So it's an infed, but it says in fed dipole,
so is there only it's not die. It says vhf
u hf hf in fed dipole. Oh, antenna's it's the
category that's not okay.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Never okay. Yeah, it has two wires built into it
because it's kind.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Of like a J pole, so it's infed J pole.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And that's how they're getting so many bands out of it,
because there's two separate antennas.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
One of the wires I noticed terminated about halfway, which
is kind of cool. So there's there's two wires going
the same direction and then one's just terminated half halfway.
So it's like a fan dipole in a way, but
only one direction, just infed.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And I've really been liking this antenna, however, the one
kind of there's two criticisms I have on it. The
first one is why is the feedline at the top.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, that's weird, that's weird to me. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
The second one is however he secures the end of
the line. I had to pull off once and I
had a little bit bad and especially if you need
to get this thing really taught. How he says how
he wants it ran. It need to be tighter because
I was trying to pull it really tight and I
end up just pulling it right through and I had
(11:30):
to re zip tie it down.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So what I'm wondering is, I wonder if these are
made for towers, and you got it connected to the top,
and they expect you to run the koax up the
connection across the bar that holds it away from the tower.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
And then down the tower. I wonder if that's why
the feeds on.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
The top could be. Do they have the picture?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
There is something here how they expect.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
To deploy it. There is a big nut at the
tops of the balan.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, look the koax is literally on top and bent
and coming down.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So I really don't get it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
So I'm thinking about putting a ninety degree band on there. Yeah,
and cold a day. So the the nut at the top,
but the bolt at the top, it's also support supposed
to go to the insulator on the antenna, so you're
not straining the two wires below. At first, I just
(12:25):
kind of pulled it tight like that. I was like whoa,
And then I was like, oh, this makes much more
sense running and like that.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
That's what the that's what my chameleon in fed does
as well. I think that was a spider.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I haven't heard anything gets shocked yet.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah. I haven't really noticed mosquitoes. Well maybe there's one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But mosquitoes usually don't bother me there. I only eat
my ankles and I got my ankles covered.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, I'm here, don't worry. They'll usually well.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I think it's going to be good, man. I just
hope the conditions are good. There's no lightning anywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I did pull my feed line down last night because
it was supposed to rain overnight, and the balance itself
is rated to be outside. So I just I capped
the PL two fifty six or PL two twenty what
is it the adaptor that's it PL two fifty nine
(13:23):
with a plastic cap so water doesn't get down through it.
But other than that, I just left it in the tree.
I was like, this is rady to be outside. It's
going to be outside. Since I didn't have any waterproof tape.
That's why I brought the feed line in.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
They didn't bring it that either. I didn't even look
at the weather before we left.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
So well, today was supposed to be like raining around eleven.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Nothing happened.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
They show their configurations too, Sorry, I'm back on your antenna.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
They got six different configurations, A half square inverted V
of course, horizontal, inverted out, and then an upright L.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm doing kind of the horizontal. Yeah, so I'm running
it kind of horizontal right now. There is a little
bit of a I do want to run the up B,
so they have it anchored on the bottom like a
inverted B, but the feed line is still in the balance,
(14:24):
still up in the air, and the other termination points
up in the air in the middle. Somehow you just
droop or secure.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I just wonder why you'd do that instead of like
this or this the.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
L or the or the horizontal, unless the trees are
a distance that you can't do either on.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm one of different radiation panns who get I should
have Steve come and talk about that.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Well, I keep wanting to have Hollywood and I just
keep putting it off. Hollywood said he would come on
and show me like you did it with Ziggy. Showed
him how to use that managal antenna. You can see
the radiation pattern of an antenna. I don't know how
to do it though. I can't very up at the element.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It is a simulator program.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, it's that little program that you see the three
D images of propagation, okay, patterns. And he says he'd
be happy to come on and show me. So I
just got to schedule.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It with him.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And that'd be fun because I.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Want to learn how to do that. I love seeing
how antenna's you know, the three D that three D image.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
All right, So the rest of the weekend we got
Son's son and more. Son High is going to be
ninety three, oh man, ninety three for a field day.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That's not bad.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's not breaking one hundred.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And we're in ac so is this Texas?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I know?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Okay? Yeah? This we need one more.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Where's Robert? We do need Roberts put Mike is in Michigan. Yeah,
And we talked to Jason and his wife this are today.
They were both in New Mexico activating and I got
him in my logs, Mike and Mike Mike. So this
(16:06):
just the crew fell apart this time. But that's fine.
We're still out here. We're gonna have fun enoy it.
And this this size of the cabin, I think it
kind of worked out for the better. If we had
another two activators. We need to bring in another table.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I think three. I think three max.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Definitely here it was three because the cow is the
sleeper sofa or whatever and the table space. But yeah,
another activator unless they want to activate outside.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Maybe Mike would want to activate outside. He loves the heat.
But yeah, we know it's a nice cabin.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You've got a great view here, lots of space for
antennas and coax and everything.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
So this this is cabin ten over here now. When
I pulled up, okay, let's set back a bit. When
me and Robert was looking at this cabin and what
cabins were available on the satellite view, we saw a
giant cut area to the left and a path area
(17:07):
running to the lake to in front of us, and
a big parking lot area kind of out in front too.
So we're like, there's going to be a lot of
opportunities there are a lot of space over here, not
a lot of people walking around. We should definitely have
enough space to put up all our antennas. So Frank
(17:28):
gets here. I walk around the building trying to see
the area and figure out what's going on, and I
spot three transformers on the ground, painted green under a tree.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
So I put my alpha antenna in line with those,
and I could barely hear it. There is some home
on eighty. Other than that, I'm not seeing it. And
even on the vertical that is only fifty feet away
from them, I'm not getting a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I don't notice any noise. I mean mine's further away,
but I don't notice it on yours either.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So it makes me wonder are they really transforms? That's
a green transform box.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I mean there's a hum.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
There is a hum, all right, So there is doing something.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But maybe it's just not as powerful as we.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Think m or they're not using a lot of power
around here right now.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
That could be two. I mean the cabins are you know,
there's really not a lot of power coming out, so
maybe that's it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But we're running the AC that's true, yea running the ac.
When I got here, it was set to seventy. Inside
I walked in, it was a cooler. I was like, oh,
this is nice. We are not going to worry about
the heat whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It's nice now. Temperature is great.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
It just still feels that humidity, you know, you still
get a little stickiness.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's it's a little and it's been that light way
this year here in north Town, and it's usually not
like that. And I'm it's kind of been annoying me
because I've been wanting to get out and walking in
the heat and sweating, but I don't like to sweat
due to humidity. Makes it feel awful.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yep, me neither. But I'm just trying to grin and
Barrett mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I'm hearing some people walk around in these other cabins.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I saw a flashlight over here.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I don't know if they were walking down here, but
they don't trip on the antenna.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oh yeah, yours is in the kind of in the
middle of the path.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
They are ish or if they were just walking down there,
I don't see it now. I think they were maybe
up on the street and shine.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
But down to our right it was just green grass.
There was no path, not really know, and looks like
there was remains of another cabin that might have burnt down.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We got we gotta take the geniney and try to
tune it.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That is a video. You need to do that video.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
There's a metal cage around it too. I guarantee that, yep.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And then you can get to the big bean. I
want to see those beams too.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
It's two feet off three feet off the ground.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
It's like an I beam yep.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And then to connect it do I just need to
cut a coax and then take the shielding off, have
something connect on the middle.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So I looked at the mics. So you got those
banana clips, yeah, the BNC bananas. Yeah. So just put
like a little like four inch wire off of that,
maybe a little longer. And then I saw you have
just like wire clamps. Yeah, that's all he has.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Is it on the center conductor or the insulation?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
He was doing it on the red so the the
the black one is just it's kind of running like
an infant.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Okay, all right, so just connect the center conductor.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right, yeah, and there's just tune it.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I'll have to offer look again and see see.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What the hell happens because because.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I grabbed two alligator a couple of Alligator clips for that,
just just in case.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And if you hit tune and the radio will look
at it and see if it can't tune, it'll just
bail out.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It'll be fun though, if I get it to use
on it. Yeah, I do hear somebody, but I don't
see any lights.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Now. Yeah, this is nice.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It sounds I wish that that tree wasn't here, the
small one right in front of me, So then you
have trees and trees and it'll be a perfect frame.
But there's a tree in the middle that just ruins
it ruins it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
But this is really good, good coverage from the sun.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
What's my My deck had a lot of coverage, but
I had to thin it out several times and now
it's just almost direct sun now, and I'm like, this
is gross. In this summer, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
We lost two maples that kept there kept our driveway
shaded until like two o'clock. Now the driveway gets so
now that my trunck gets the sun starting at about
ten a m.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Until five. I wish I could do a carport, but
I don't think we can mm hmm. So yeah, I
missed the tree. It gives some good.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Shade, like died, I had A and M guys come out.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Oh remember those arbor arbor arburst arbust.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, yeah, that's a fund If he's from A he was.
He was telling me to go to an M for
the tests. But he looked at it and said, yeah,
this is cracking and the limbs weren't even growing anything.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Rain.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
He's like, yeah, you're gonna have to take this down.
We can't say that. Oh that's one thousand dollars later.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Mm hmm. I have a tree that fell down on
my back part of the lot and I need to
start trimming it up and get it and that's my
gold gone to beach. Start next week going out there
for a weed whacker and then start getting some of
the easy limbs, and I'm gonna try to tackle it
a little bit each day so I can at least
trim back to the main trunks. And then I'm planning
(22:50):
to say pizza party at Franks, bring your chainsaws, and
we're gonnack. And I just need to trim it the
tree back enough so it's on my prop pretty and
not in the city's easement because the city's been back
there before issuing fines, and I'm trying to get ahead
of that. So I'll be like, look, you know, I
don't have the money for people to haul it away.
(23:12):
And I asked someone fifteen hundred ridiculous, geez.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I was like, no, I have six hawthorn bushes, not huge,
but I just I'm tired of trimming them because they're
always growing. So they're lower than my my aunting or eaves,
whatever you call it, so less than eight feet high,
maybe seven feet six feet high, and they need to.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Be trimmed again.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And so this guy was going door to door with
his business card. So I took him around and I said, hey,
you know how much to get rid of? He said,
take him to the dump and everything, and and.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
He said yeah. I said, or I can cut them
and if you just want to take them, or you.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
To five hundred bucks five hundred to cut six bushes
and then take them to the dump, which maybe that's not.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
A lot, but five hundred that's a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It seems like a lot to me. So I'm going
to probably end up doing it myself.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, I could get out there with a small chainsaw
if you want to just get rid of them, just
change all the base gloves, throw them in the trunk
that's doing, and just drive to the dump and push
them out because.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I could literally leave them like they are and probably
take two loads three at a time because they're three
bushy or wait, wait till they aren't growing or something.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I don't know, because I'm so tired of trimming them,
and then maybe put like some holly bushes in there.
It's a little easier to maintain.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But yeah, I have two bush three. My side of
my house is just bushes. I haven't trend them in
two years, and they're just monster looking now, and I
gotta trim them back because it's finally killing the grass
underneath and it's pissing me off. So I gotta trim
that make it look nice. And it's it's blocking one
(24:48):
of the AC unit accesses, so I need to pull
that back. I spray down my AC units the other week.
I need to do that and got all the dirt out.
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Just gotta just gotta. There's a cleaner you can spray
this stuff. It floams up and then you spray with
the water, and.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Suppose I just hit it with I have a water
pressure nozzle A nozzle that and I just knocked that
and it's I just keep hitting it until the vent
water's clear. When I first started it, it was brown
brown brown.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
They say you can get up to like twenty degrees cool.
Oh yeah, like you know me keeping that.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Clean so mm hmm, especially in the summer. So I
did that and it's just and it eases the system.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Well. I put a split a C in my garage
and I love it. I was. I was kind of
nervous drilling three inch holes in the brick of the
wall and i'll you know, connecting to the So.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
You do have a garage, but you made it a room.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I made it.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I literally during the day, the garage door is open
into the house because it's as cold or colder than
the house.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
With a split a C. I love it. I can do.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I can use my garage now year round. I'm out
there cleaning it, organizing like in three D print. I
can do other things for pewpews, but I can. I
can reload things for certain pupews.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I can.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I got my work table, I got a camera set
up so I could start making things and making videos
of it out there instead of bringing everything inside, making
it taking it back outside.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
See, I thought about that doing it for so I
have money set aside. Hopefully I could get a job
before I have to touch this. I have money set
aside that I pulled from the house a couple of
years ago for a Remodel's Oh cool. So one of
the remodel was the master bathe. That's complete. I have
another third of it set beside. It's either gonna be
(26:41):
covering the patio. That's that's a complete cover. My wife
just paid for that with.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Her her own hard earned money.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, ten feet by thirty foot patio she had poured
and covered, and I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I could actually use my path or I'd.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Take the money pull up the carpet, hardwood floor or
cedar walls, and a separate ac unit for a room
I turned into a cigar room. Either both of them
are cigar worthy. I would think I'll enjoy the covered
deck more because I love sitting outside when it's raining
(27:18):
and just hearing the rain and seeing the lightning as
I'm smoking a cigar. Oh I just I missed that.
I haven't had that since I left the apartment.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I never used our patio. It was only a ten
light ten from the builders, no cover.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
But it was pointless. It had no space really a
ten foot by ten. So now I.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Literally we have a lawn chair like a patio chair
out there with a cushion.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You can go down. We got a hammock between two
of the posts. Oh, three fans. We don't do any lights.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
We have three fans in there. I can pip all
the fans on and it's not I can actually enjoy
sitting and looking at my backyard. And we got a
green belt behind there, so river ponds, you know whatever,
ducks and stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So do you have a fence.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
We have a four foot you know the little wrod
iron four foot fences.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, black, that's.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
What's such a green belt.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
So everyone walking on the path because see it literally
looks in and sees everything in our yard.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
So that's why my flagpole, my Hustler six, is a flagpole.
No one can say any about it. I would like
to get chickens, and I'm trying to figure out how
to hide them underground chicken layer.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
My belly will hide them pretty good. My backyard goes out,
two thirds of it kind of goes out, slopes down
and then I have a retaining wall that drops about
five to six feet.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
And then after that, I have a six foot fence. Okay,
my whole yard surrounded by fences, but from that drop
and the other side of the city easement, it's the
same thing. Everyone has, this this retaining wall, and it
feels tremendously open that I just fell in love. So
I'm sitting in my backyard and I'm not staring at
(28:58):
fence to my left, fix to my right, fence in
front of me.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I'm just enclosed trees and you can you know.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, So now my fence line drops away and I
just overlook. And when all the trees are in bloom,
especially the summer before I had them thinned out majorly,
I couldn't see the neighbors. It just felt like I
was sitting in this little forest. And then the plane
takes off from DFW shatters the whole illusion.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
No.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I Now I do live in an ha and I've
got houses twenty feet on either side of me, So
they're they're not like real crammed in there like five
to eight feet.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
They're about twenty feet away. But that's not what I
look at.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
The only time I see that is like, if I'm
at the kitchen and sink, I'll see my neighbor twenty feet,
but I don't really look at that. I'm sitting in
the living room or in the back patio, up in
the office. My view is houses five hundred four hundred
yards away with the river between us.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Nice, I would love that. How I picked. It's a
good spot.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I wanted a different one because I wanted a three
car garage, but.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, now you got the garage and closed anyway.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
So this this is a good house.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That's beautiful, and uh, I love my house. We'll see,
we'll see my new where my new job pops up. Yeah,
if it's in Richeson Plano area. Again, I'll probably be moving.
I don't want to move moving, but I I just
I gotta move for the drive.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, you don't want to come that far again.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I did it for six years. I'm over it. I'm
over it. And we'll see who. I had a interview
that was I felt positive. Nice, So we'll see what happens.
And I got a couple other irons in the fire.
We'll see what turns out. But I really do like
(30:50):
my house. I put money into it. I'm about to
get this alpha antenna installed, the e common antenna.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Are you gonna put this one up the house from it?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
That's good, I'm thinking, and this is the part that
I'm holding off on. I'm gonna get fence fence rail,
three ten foot pieces. I'm just trying to figure out
how to anchor them nicely so that they're not blowing around.
And I'm going to lightening you. So I need to
(31:21):
get braid.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
That will.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I need to drill into the the post itself, put
the braid on there, then put the braid onto I'm
going to do two grounding rods at the base of it,
with the braid attached to each one. Good and then
because that would just be the mass thirty foot masks
because I'm still thinking about doing a slopeer with it
(31:45):
down where the antennae itself comes out, needs to be
lightning arrestors because that's where the ballot.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Is, is, where your house is, where it sounds.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
You could have a very short run of coax and
just run the ballot from the house to a tree
or something in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Couldn't you something like that and have a very.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Short coax and you can just do an arrestor right
there before it goes.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
In the house.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Lightning arrestor from the right off the balloon and put
that onto the antenna base or the the base where
the ballon is. Two more grounding rods and then just
feed line right into the house.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, I think this would be a good antenna for that.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So it'd be ten through one sixty. I think that's
a good spread. Yeah, that's an awesome spread.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, I'd like to see one sixty.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
We'll get it tuned up here, we'll.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
See if there's any activity. Maybe tomorrow, maybe field day,
maybe tomorre night. I'm assuming that's a night band, right,
if eighty is or is it in any time band,
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I don't know. I don't have a lot of experience
with it. That's why I'm like I was excited at
one sixty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, one sixty. I
do feel that it's slight compromise in nintenno, so after
you tune it, you only have a couple of megahurts
up or down before you really need to tune it again.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh so I think it's a how long was it again?
I forgot it's eighty.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
No, that that's it feels like thirty forty feet. We
are looking it up now the old Oh also something else.
I reinstalled my mess tastic, so we got mesh going here,
which means pretty much nothing because no one's going to
be out here doing mesh.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
It's sixty feet sixty feet.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
So there's that quarterwave, so it would be is that
an eighth wave one sixty?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
No, I can't do my asss.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Let's see here, I need to reset the eighth wave.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
That's an eighth wave one sixty okay, approximately, I think
for one sixty just looking at three feet per meter.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, so the quarterwave eighty halfway forty.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Right, so yeah, it'd probably just fine compromise, but you
still get on.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yep yep. Well all right man, we're about fifteen minutes now,
so we're going to go ahead and call it. Thanks
for joining, Paul, I appreciate it. Well, let's your channel
and what's coming up?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I'm looking forward to field Day tomorrow with you coming
up Field Day of course, and then Sunday night I'll
probably do a live stream just recap and field Day.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I think we can do one together.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
I don't know's we'll not take a look at that.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
So Sunday Jason is not streaming. If he does stream,
he'll be short for me. After Jason, he'll probably just
if he does stream, pick up this phone and do
it from the phone. I was going to take the
night off and probably work through the rest of the
video and get that going because I'm shooting for the
(35:16):
field Day video release Monday.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
There you go. Yeah, see, I don't do as many videos,
so I just kind of do.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
The stream, get get in, get in the rhythm and
the thing. One thing that's helped me is I got
this from Josh. Thanks Joss HRCC. Shoot kind of shoot
your video as you edit or shoot your video of
editing in mind, if you kind of like mess up
and you're like in the middle of a three three
(35:43):
minute talking point and still kind of at the beginning
of it, stop and just restart, delete it and restart.
Don't don't leave that little clip there. So when you
go through and edit, you can just drag him all
into the window bay and then just start and they're
already pieced together right, and do your J cuts and
(36:04):
L cuts nicely so you get the cuts there. I
like to do. If you watch my videos, you probably
feel it because it's the feel of Tank Radio. Now
it's Frank's face, cut to something as I'm talking. Frank's
face cut to something as I'm talking Frank's face, and
that alternation between them is a good thing. Sometimes that's
(36:27):
just b roll and I'm still talking to the camera.
I just splice be roll over it. But I do
like that alternating. Plus, it gives you a nice point
to kind of do the soft cuts or hard cuts,
but it gives you a point to stop and start,
and it's not that long of If you just talk
to the camera for five minutes and flub something, you're like,
(36:47):
oh man, I don't want to do all that again,
and we start in the middle. Then you have this
awkward splice. Sometimes.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, I've done that a lot, just filming at the
at the computer at home. I'll start filming some with
obs and if I mess it up, I'm like.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Now I go delete it.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I start over because I am thinking about the edit
and I don't want to edit.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I just want to put the clothes together and make
it work. So I do that a lot.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Actually, I think on these videos' I'm editing for about
be honest, forty minutes. Yeah, and then I run run
it through twice, so I edit the past once the comeback,
lay the audio track down for the music, and I
watch it and I clean it up and at that
point render. There's not a third of you at that
(37:33):
point who cares. We're doing so many videos that each
one doesn't have to be perfect. If there's a little
bit of flood in there, whatever, it gives you some
authenticity to it.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
I just gotta get the end. I got so many things,
and I just different antennas. I probably got five antennas
or four antennas.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
That I wanted to do a review on.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
But oh this, this is the other thing I give
new channels as a vice. They asked me, what do
you advice you have a new for a new amateur
radio operator, or you new YouTube channel, go and shoot
a full month's work for video before you start posting,
editing them all, edit them all. So when you want
(38:11):
to go start your video drop, you have four or
five video drops already done. Get ahead of it, and
then you can start filming and seeing what's working and tweaking.
And so you already have some Because I got one
video filmed and this for the Alpha antenna. I got
that filmed. However, field Day's gonna take precedent, so that
(38:36):
will drop. So I have what in my video release
two videos. That's four weeks.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Where videos already you always have videos like ready yeah
or almost ready backed up, ready to go.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
It is so so I can. I'm not feeling rushed.
I'm feeling ready to go every now and then. I'm
like we all get to that point sometimes. But thanks
Paul for coming, no, and I appreciate it. Thanks y'all
for watching or sorry, thanks y'all for listening. Well, I'm
just going to keep that in there. Authenticity smoked smelling there. Yeah,
(39:13):
this this is a good mile cigar. This is the
allegiance by Omaha.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
And I think cigar smoke. It doesn't bother me like
cigarette smoke irritates my nose. Cigar smoke pipe smoked, No,
that bothers me.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
I almost brought my pipe.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah. My grandpa used to smoke a pipe, the one
who was named after Grappa Paul, and it was always
kind of like that was his smell.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
That's why I knew I did lose the pipe over
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If not, hang out have fun now listen to me
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y'all go forth and conquer. Thank you to all my
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out there, go forth and conquer.
What is going on, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Frank Cage
five HJ and we're just hanging out pre field day.
We just got off of the bands playing and setting
up all the attendants. We'll go through what we have
here in the second. So far, I've been out here
(00:24):
since Thursday night. I think I see a firefly. I'm
seeing some light lights like sporadic LEDs. Yes, that's a firefly.
We got fireflies, so cool. Prep fan Paul's joining me. Hey, guys,
and we got fireflies. I swear I saw him last night.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
But that was a bright one right over here.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, it's been a long time since I seen fireflies,
so that's cool. You came up today, Paul, I did.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I drove up today, and what's a good It was
a pretty good drive. Mostly it seems like it was
mostly back roads, but everything stayed pretty much above fifty five,
So I did with it.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I left my house Thursday morning, then I had lunch
with my girl, spent some time for her. Then I
headed up here for another hour and a half. It
was mostly on thirty and it wasn't that bad. Wasn't
that bad at all. The traffic not a lot of
traffic and then just got here and it was beautiful.
(01:33):
Robert was supposed to join.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Us, sad face.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, unfortunately he is not gonna be able to make
it with some family things going on. However, I think
we set up as many as antennas that we talked
about pre planning. I have an alpha antenna and fed
halfwave six through one sixty. I really need to look
up that name of it. Is that the one right
(01:57):
there is.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The I just pulled it up. Oh that oop ten
there's a six through eighty and a ten through one sixty.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I got the e comm.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, so HFM com Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Maybe that's why I can't get six meters. It's a
ten through one sixty. I've been saying it right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Think that the other is a junior it's six through eighty.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay, I'm just saying that wrong, So Steve, I'm sorry, Steve,
forgive me, Steve. Yeah, okay, Well col coo cool, I'm
havn't we've been using that. I used that all Thursday.
Then Paul got here and then we went ahead and
(02:37):
threw up a chameleion.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Chamelion, Yeah, the chameleon. Basically, it's the m pass system
with both verticals. So there's the millwhip extension and the millwhip.
I've got them both with four radios and all the
bands are under you know, around two or better.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Nice. Nice. Then close to the house I set up
a vertical the Apollo by Coffee at Ham Radio, got
the radios out. It is on a carbon fiber mast.
I'm sorry, but that's the only one I had that
goes up all that way. I wanted to leave out
(03:14):
all night. Then in front of the cabin, we have
a the the hex the alpha hex tenna alpha hex antenna.
It's not a hex beam, it's a hex base yep.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And you can do vertical or yagi. So right now
we have yagi because we wanted something just on six
tuned to six. So it's set up as a yagi
which was four point four feet eight inches each whip,
and we got it tuned to one point two or
something like that. So that'll be a six meter, just
(03:49):
a tune six meter. We'll probably try it off and on.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You mm hmmm hmm. I tried to get MIC on
it earlier, but I couldn't hear any stations. Now you
got some stations are like thirty fourty minutes later.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, I got I was able to cue SO one,
but I did see like two three stations.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I was only able to que so Cuba or no
Puerto Rico. I forgot. No Cuba.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Cuba is like my first contact on eighty. I did
tune up one sixty last night, and I didn't hear
anyone doing FT eight over there.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We're gonna try tonight, yeah, because I've never tried one sixty.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I don't think I'll give you the antenna. We'll see
if you can hear it also, and then we have
the ladder line two four forty and I think that's it.
Five antennas, two radios, two operators, one awesome call sign.
(04:46):
It was Whiskey two. Yes, Whiskey two HRC. We're gonna
be operating as hand Radio Clubhouse. I don't know when
this is gonna come out, probably after Field date because
Phil Day is tomorrow and I already released my video
this week. That's how it happens.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
M h.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now I think we're all set.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
We got our networking done, which is usually the issue
that most people have.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, we've got three computers networked. One is the it's
gonna we both like the map of in three f jps.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh yeah, that map is nice. It's just fun to
see the states pop in as we get to them,
and then we're just running off the hot spots. Hot
spots was able to nicely allow networking. So we're running
f J two N three f j P as TCP
I P linked to the all the radios or to
(05:39):
all the computers, and that's what we're gonna use for logging.
I am wanted to do next year. I forgot his name. Sebastian.
Sebastian with Polo said he is working on getting a
Polo update so for for networking and and and uh,
you have to have the internet so clubs can That
(06:02):
would be great. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That's all I use for for field or for podus
so far as is M two case Polo.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, Polo is amazing. Unfortunately, Polo is not on the
computer yet on Windows. There is a workaround on Mac.
It is the only time Mac is one up Windows. Doo.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Mike Wild probably say that it's not the only time.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The The only thing we don't have kind of licked
is solar.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, and I didn't bring any I didn't bring anything.
I just thought we have power, so I didn't need
to bring it. I have two sets of solar panels.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I brought both of my sets, but they both
have ten foot runs.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah we're on the wrong side.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And yeah, the sun's coming out of the east as always,
but to our west is all trees. I was hoping
to get the afternoon sun, but there's too many trees
on a back patio. The front door is kind of
a little bit too far from the table.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah. So you got your mosquito torch light charged.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Up though, Yeah, well I left that on the front
porch all morning.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I need this as like the just do a still
video for your for your your main video, and just
have this a still with the cicadas in the background
and whatever, and just have this flickering as a relaxing
tank radio.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, man, this cicada time. Oh you hear them, And
when I hear that sound, I just immediately think just hot, Yeah,
just hot.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
When you hear the cicadas, it sounds cool though.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's one thing I like when I camp is you
hear all the bugs and it's just kind of cool.
M I mean, this is the stuff people pay for.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We did pay for well you paid to stay here,
but I.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Mean, you know they pay for white noise and they
do that one thing.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
There's that app you pay like thirty bucks a month
to hear Matthew McConney talk.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Slowly and so you go to sleep. But they get
they pay for stuff like this. People pay for recordings
of bugs children.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Anyway, I actually thought about doing that as a YouTube channel. Well,
every time I go to the beach, just get like
the waves, the waves and do hours work for waves
and then just loop that, yeah, like for twenty four
hours or something.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
There's a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean I've gone to some of them, the ones
that there's a lot of them now that do frequencies
like four hundred and.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Thirty two megahurts the healing wave frequency and it has
some humming or what and they're kind of soothing. But
then there's rain sounds of course, lots of those.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't know if those guys are successful at it,
but I've listened to them, and they'll run them. There's
something that are live, they'll run for twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
There's no fireply popping around over bit.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I'm hearing some frogs now.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I forgot my fishing pole again.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, we could have fished a dangerfield.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I forgot it there too.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I'm only thinking radio, and it's funny because I used
to always fish everywhere I went it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Now, that's why I on my feed line coming into
the house from the alpha antenna. My cord that I'm
holding in tidy it to a tree is yellow, and
I wrapped the cord around the feed line, so you
see the yellow cord all the way around it. It's
doing nothing as as far as importing it there, however,
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I was trying to make it very bright. I guess
I'll observe it so no one walks into it with
a fishing pole. But I seen people walk into my
lines and fishing pool before. Literally, the guy's walking down
the path and I had the lion and it was
fairly high up over the path and there was a
(09:46):
couple of flagging tapes on it. He kind of stops,
looks at me, then obviously with his eyes traced the
wire over the path, handing his fishing pole straight up.
He's like huh and just walking and his figeple catches
it brings everything down and he's like, whoa whoa, whoa,
what happened? What happened?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I didn't know?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, come on, I hate it. I hate it when
they do that. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay, let's talk about your infed.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
So it's an infed, but it says in fed dipole,
so is there only it's not die. It says vhf
u hf hf in fed dipole. Oh, antenna's it's the
category that's not okay.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Never okay. Yeah, it has two wires built into it
because it's kind.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Of like a J pole, so it's infed J pole.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And that's how they're getting so many bands out of it,
because there's two separate antennas.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
One of the wires I noticed terminated about halfway, which
is kind of cool. So there's there's two wires going
the same direction and then one's just terminated half halfway.
So it's like a fan dipole in a way, but
only one direction, just infed.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And I've really been liking this antenna, however, the one
kind of there's two criticisms I have on it. The
first one is why is the feedline at the top.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, that's weird, that's weird to me. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
The second one is however he secures the end of
the line. I had to pull off once and I
had a little bit bad and especially if you need
to get this thing really taught. How he says how
he wants it ran. It need to be tighter because
I was trying to pull it really tight and I
end up just pulling it right through and I had
(11:30):
to re zip tie it down.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So what I'm wondering is, I wonder if these are
made for towers, and you got it connected to the top,
and they expect you to run the koax up the
connection across the bar that holds it away from the tower.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
And then down the tower. I wonder if that's why
the feeds on.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
The top could be. Do they have the picture?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
There is something here how they expect.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
To deploy it. There is a big nut at the
tops of the balan.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, look the koax is literally on top and bent
and coming down.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
So I really don't get it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
So I'm thinking about putting a ninety degree band on there. Yeah,
and cold a day. So the the nut at the top,
but the bolt at the top, it's also support supposed
to go to the insulator on the antenna, so you're
not straining the two wires below. At first, I just
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kind of pulled it tight like that. I was like whoa,
And then I was like, oh, this makes much more
sense running and like that.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
That's what the that's what my chameleon in fed does
as well. I think that was a spider.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I haven't heard anything gets shocked yet.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah. I haven't really noticed mosquitoes. Well maybe there's one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But mosquitoes usually don't bother me there. I only eat
my ankles and I got my ankles covered.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, I'm here, don't worry. They'll usually well.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I think it's going to be good, man. I just
hope the conditions are good. There's no lightning anywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I did pull my feed line down last night because
it was supposed to rain overnight, and the balance itself
is rated to be outside. So I just I capped
the PL two fifty six or PL two twenty what
is it the adaptor that's it PL two fifty nine
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with a plastic cap so water doesn't get down through it.
But other than that, I just left it in the tree.
I was like, this is rady to be outside. It's
going to be outside. Since I didn't have any waterproof tape.
That's why I brought the feed line in.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
They didn't bring it that either. I didn't even look
at the weather before we left.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
So well, today was supposed to be like raining around eleven.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Nothing happened.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
They show their configurations too, Sorry, I'm back on your antenna.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
They got six different configurations, A half square inverted V
of course, horizontal, inverted out, and then an upright L.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I'm doing kind of the horizontal. Yeah, so I'm running
it kind of horizontal right now. There is a little
bit of a I do want to run the up B,
so they have it anchored on the bottom like a
inverted B, but the feed line is still in the balance,
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still up in the air, and the other termination points
up in the air in the middle. Somehow you just
droop or secure.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I just wonder why you'd do that instead of like
this or this the.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
L or the or the horizontal, unless the trees are
a distance that you can't do either on.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm one of different radiation panns who get I should
have Steve come and talk about that.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Well, I keep wanting to have Hollywood and I just
keep putting it off. Hollywood said he would come on
and show me like you did it with Ziggy. Showed
him how to use that managal antenna. You can see
the radiation pattern of an antenna. I don't know how
to do it though. I can't very up at the element.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It is a simulator program.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, it's that little program that you see the three
D images of propagation, okay, patterns. And he says he'd
be happy to come on and show me. So I
just got to schedule.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It with him.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And that'd be fun because I.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Want to learn how to do that. I love seeing
how antenna's you know, the three D that three D image.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
All right, So the rest of the weekend we got
Son's son and more. Son High is going to be
ninety three, oh man, ninety three for a field day.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That's not bad.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's not breaking one hundred.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
And we're in ac so is this Texas?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I know?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Okay? Yeah? This we need one more.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Where's Robert? We do need Roberts put Mike is in Michigan. Yeah,
And we talked to Jason and his wife this are today.
They were both in New Mexico activating and I got
him in my logs, Mike and Mike Mike. So this
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just the crew fell apart this time. But that's fine.
We're still out here. We're gonna have fun enoy it.
And this this size of the cabin, I think it
kind of worked out for the better. If we had
another two activators. We need to bring in another table.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I think three. I think three max.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Definitely here it was three because the cow is the
sleeper sofa or whatever and the table space. But yeah,
another activator unless they want to activate outside.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Maybe Mike would want to activate outside. He loves the heat.
But yeah, we know it's a nice cabin.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You've got a great view here, lots of space for
antennas and coax and everything.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
So this this is cabin ten over here now. When
I pulled up, okay, let's set back a bit. When
me and Robert was looking at this cabin and what
cabins were available on the satellite view, we saw a
giant cut area to the left and a path area
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running to the lake to in front of us, and
a big parking lot area kind of out in front too.
So we're like, there's going to be a lot of
opportunities there are a lot of space over here, not
a lot of people walking around. We should definitely have
enough space to put up all our antennas. So Frank
(17:28):
gets here. I walk around the building trying to see
the area and figure out what's going on, and I
spot three transformers on the ground, painted green under a tree.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
So I put my alpha antenna in line with those,
and I could barely hear it. There is some home
on eighty. Other than that, I'm not seeing it. And
even on the vertical that is only fifty feet away
from them, I'm not getting a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I don't notice any noise. I mean mine's further away,
but I don't notice it on yours either.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So it makes me wonder are they really transforms? That's
a green transform box.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I mean there's a hum.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
There is a hum, all right, So there is doing something.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But maybe it's just not as powerful as we.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Think m or they're not using a lot of power
around here right now.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
That could be two. I mean the cabins are you know,
there's really not a lot of power coming out, so
maybe that's it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But we're running the AC that's true, yea running the ac.
When I got here, it was set to seventy. Inside
I walked in, it was a cooler. I was like, oh,
this is nice. We are not going to worry about
the heat whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It's nice now. Temperature is great.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
It just still feels that humidity, you know, you still
get a little stickiness.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's it's a little and it's been that light way
this year here in north Town, and it's usually not
like that. And I'm it's kind of been annoying me
because I've been wanting to get out and walking in
the heat and sweating, but I don't like to sweat
due to humidity. Makes it feel awful.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yep, me neither. But I'm just trying to grin and
Barrett mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I'm hearing some people walk around in these other cabins.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I saw a flashlight over here.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I don't know if they were walking down here, but
they don't trip on the antenna.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oh yeah, yours is in the kind of in the
middle of the path.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
They are ish or if they were just walking down there,
I don't see it now. I think they were maybe
up on the street and shine.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
But down to our right it was just green grass.
There was no path, not really know, and looks like
there was remains of another cabin that might have burnt down.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We got we gotta take the geniney and try to
tune it.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That is a video. You need to do that video.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
There's a metal cage around it too. I guarantee that, yep.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And then you can get to the big bean. I
want to see those beams too.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
It's two feet off three feet off the ground.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
It's like an I beam yep.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And then to connect it do I just need to
cut a coax and then take the shielding off, have
something connect on the middle.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So I looked at the mics. So you got those
banana clips, yeah, the BNC bananas. Yeah. So just put
like a little like four inch wire off of that,
maybe a little longer. And then I saw you have
just like wire clamps. Yeah, that's all he has.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Is it on the center conductor or the insulation?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
He was doing it on the red so the the
the black one is just it's kind of running like
an infant.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Okay, all right, so just connect the center conductor.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right, yeah, and there's just tune it.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I'll have to offer look again and see see.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What the hell happens because because.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I grabbed two alligator a couple of Alligator clips for that,
just just in case.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And if you hit tune and the radio will look
at it and see if it can't tune, it'll just
bail out.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It'll be fun though, if I get it to use
on it. Yeah, I do hear somebody, but I don't
see any lights.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Now. Yeah, this is nice.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It sounds I wish that that tree wasn't here, the
small one right in front of me, So then you
have trees and trees and it'll be a perfect frame.
But there's a tree in the middle that just ruins
it ruins it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
But this is really good, good coverage from the sun.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
What's my My deck had a lot of coverage, but
I had to thin it out several times and now
it's just almost direct sun now, and I'm like, this
is gross. In this summer, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
We lost two maples that kept there kept our driveway
shaded until like two o'clock. Now the driveway gets so
now that my trunck gets the sun starting at about
ten a m.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Until five. I wish I could do a carport, but
I don't think we can mm hmm. So yeah, I
missed the tree. It gives some good.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Shade, like died, I had A and M guys come out.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Oh remember those arbor arbor arburst arbust.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, yeah, that's a fund If he's from A he was.
He was telling me to go to an M for
the tests. But he looked at it and said, yeah,
this is cracking and the limbs weren't even growing anything.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Rain.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
He's like, yeah, you're gonna have to take this down.
We can't say that. Oh that's one thousand dollars later.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Mm hmm. I have a tree that fell down on
my back part of the lot and I need to
start trimming it up and get it and that's my
gold gone to beach. Start next week going out there
for a weed whacker and then start getting some of
the easy limbs, and I'm gonna try to tackle it
a little bit each day so I can at least
trim back to the main trunks. And then I'm planning
(22:50):
to say pizza party at Franks, bring your chainsaws, and
we're gonnack. And I just need to trim it the
tree back enough so it's on my prop pretty and
not in the city's easement because the city's been back
there before issuing fines, and I'm trying to get ahead
of that. So I'll be like, look, you know, I
don't have the money for people to haul it away.
(23:12):
And I asked someone fifteen hundred ridiculous, geez.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I was like, no, I have six hawthorn bushes, not huge,
but I just I'm tired of trimming them because they're
always growing. So they're lower than my my aunting or eaves,
whatever you call it, so less than eight feet high,
maybe seven feet six feet high, and they need to.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Be trimmed again.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And so this guy was going door to door with
his business card. So I took him around and I said, hey,
you know how much to get rid of? He said,
take him to the dump and everything, and and.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
He said yeah. I said, or I can cut them
and if you just want to take them, or you.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
To five hundred bucks five hundred to cut six bushes
and then take them to the dump, which maybe that's not.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
A lot, but five hundred that's a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It seems like a lot to me. So I'm going
to probably end up doing it myself.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, I could get out there with a small chainsaw
if you want to just get rid of them, just
change all the base gloves, throw them in the trunk
that's doing, and just drive to the dump and push
them out because.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I could literally leave them like they are and probably
take two loads three at a time because they're three
bushy or wait, wait till they aren't growing or something.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I don't know, because I'm so tired of trimming them,
and then maybe put like some holly bushes in there.
It's a little easier to maintain.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But yeah, I have two bush three. My side of
my house is just bushes. I haven't trend them in
two years, and they're just monster looking now, and I
gotta trim them back because it's finally killing the grass
underneath and it's pissing me off. So I gotta trim
that make it look nice. And it's it's blocking one
(24:48):
of the AC unit accesses, so I need to pull
that back. I spray down my AC units the other week.
I need to do that and got all the dirt out.
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Just gotta just gotta. There's a cleaner you can spray
this stuff. It floams up and then you spray with
the water, and.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Suppose I just hit it with I have a water
pressure nozzle A nozzle that and I just knocked that
and it's I just keep hitting it until the vent
water's clear. When I first started it, it was brown
brown brown.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
They say you can get up to like twenty degrees cool.
Oh yeah, like you know me keeping that.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Clean so mm hmm, especially in the summer. So I
did that and it's just and it eases the system.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Well. I put a split a C in my garage
and I love it. I was. I was kind of
nervous drilling three inch holes in the brick of the
wall and i'll you know, connecting to the So.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
You do have a garage, but you made it a room.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I made it.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I literally during the day, the garage door is open
into the house because it's as cold or colder than
the house.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
With a split a C. I love it. I can do.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I can use my garage now year round. I'm out
there cleaning it, organizing like in three D print. I
can do other things for pewpews, but I can. I
can reload things for certain pupews.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I can.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I got my work table, I got a camera set
up so I could start making things and making videos
of it out there instead of bringing everything inside, making
it taking it back outside.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
See, I thought about that doing it for so I
have money set aside. Hopefully I could get a job
before I have to touch this. I have money set
aside that I pulled from the house a couple of
years ago for a Remodel's Oh cool. So one of
the remodel was the master bathe. That's complete. I have
another third of it set beside. It's either gonna be
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covering the patio. That's that's a complete cover. My wife
just paid for that with.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Her her own hard earned money.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, ten feet by thirty foot patio she had poured
and covered, and I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I could actually use my path or I'd.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Take the money pull up the carpet, hardwood floor or
cedar walls, and a separate ac unit for a room
I turned into a cigar room. Either both of them
are cigar worthy. I would think I'll enjoy the covered
deck more because I love sitting outside when it's raining
(27:18):
and just hearing the rain and seeing the lightning as
I'm smoking a cigar. Oh I just I missed that.
I haven't had that since I left the apartment.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I never used our patio. It was only a ten
light ten from the builders, no cover.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
But it was pointless. It had no space really a
ten foot by ten. So now I.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Literally we have a lawn chair like a patio chair
out there with a cushion.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You can go down. We got a hammock between two
of the posts. Oh, three fans. We don't do any lights.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
We have three fans in there. I can pip all
the fans on and it's not I can actually enjoy
sitting and looking at my backyard. And we got a
green belt behind there, so river ponds, you know whatever,
ducks and stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So do you have a fence.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
We have a four foot you know the little wrod
iron four foot fences.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, black, that's.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
What's such a green belt.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
So everyone walking on the path because see it literally
looks in and sees everything in our yard.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
So that's why my flagpole, my Hustler six, is a flagpole.
No one can say any about it. I would like
to get chickens, and I'm trying to figure out how
to hide them underground chicken layer.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
My belly will hide them pretty good. My backyard goes out,
two thirds of it kind of goes out, slopes down
and then I have a retaining wall that drops about
five to six feet.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
And then after that, I have a six foot fence. Okay,
my whole yard surrounded by fences, but from that drop
and the other side of the city easement, it's the
same thing. Everyone has, this this retaining wall, and it
feels tremendously open that I just fell in love. So
I'm sitting in my backyard and I'm not staring at
(28:58):
fence to my left, fix to my right, fence in
front of me.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I'm just enclosed trees and you can you know.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, So now my fence line drops away and I
just overlook. And when all the trees are in bloom,
especially the summer before I had them thinned out majorly,
I couldn't see the neighbors. It just felt like I
was sitting in this little forest. And then the plane
takes off from DFW shatters the whole illusion.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
No.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I Now I do live in an ha and I've
got houses twenty feet on either side of me, So
they're they're not like real crammed in there like five
to eight feet.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
They're about twenty feet away. But that's not what I
look at.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
The only time I see that is like, if I'm
at the kitchen and sink, I'll see my neighbor twenty feet,
but I don't really look at that. I'm sitting in
the living room or in the back patio, up in
the office. My view is houses five hundred four hundred
yards away with the river between us.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Nice, I would love that. How I picked. It's a
good spot.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I wanted a different one because I wanted a three
car garage, but.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, now you got the garage and closed anyway.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
So this this is a good house.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That's beautiful, and uh, I love my house. We'll see,
we'll see my new where my new job pops up. Yeah,
if it's in Richeson Plano area. Again, I'll probably be moving.
I don't want to move moving, but I I just
I gotta move for the drive.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, you don't want to come that far again.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I did it for six years. I'm over it. I'm
over it. And we'll see who. I had a interview
that was I felt positive. Nice, So we'll see what happens.
And I got a couple other irons in the fire.
We'll see what turns out. But I really do like
(30:50):
my house. I put money into it. I'm about to
get this alpha antenna installed, the e common antenna.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Are you gonna put this one up the house from it?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
That's good, I'm thinking, and this is the part that
I'm holding off on. I'm gonna get fence fence rail,
three ten foot pieces. I'm just trying to figure out
how to anchor them nicely so that they're not blowing around.
And I'm going to lightening you. So I need to
(31:21):
get braid.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
That will.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I need to drill into the the post itself, put
the braid on there, then put the braid onto I'm
going to do two grounding rods at the base of it,
with the braid attached to each one. Good and then
because that would just be the mass thirty foot masks
because I'm still thinking about doing a slopeer with it
(31:45):
down where the antennae itself comes out, needs to be
lightning arrestors because that's where the ballot.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Is, is, where your house is, where it sounds.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
You could have a very short run of coax and
just run the ballot from the house to a tree
or something in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Couldn't you something like that and have a very.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Short coax and you can just do an arrestor right
there before it goes.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
In the house.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Lightning arrestor from the right off the balloon and put
that onto the antenna base or the the base where
the ballon is. Two more grounding rods and then just
feed line right into the house.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, I think this would be a good antenna for that.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So it'd be ten through one sixty. I think that's
a good spread. Yeah, that's an awesome spread.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, I'd like to see one sixty.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
We'll get it tuned up here, we'll.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
See if there's any activity. Maybe tomorrow, maybe field day,
maybe tomorre night. I'm assuming that's a night band, right,
if eighty is or is it in any time band,
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I don't know. I don't have a lot of experience
with it. That's why I'm like I was excited at
one sixty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, one sixty. I
do feel that it's slight compromise in nintenno, so after
you tune it, you only have a couple of megahurts
up or down before you really need to tune it again.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh so I think it's a how long was it again?
I forgot it's eighty.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
No, that that's it feels like thirty forty feet. We
are looking it up now the old Oh also something else.
I reinstalled my mess tastic, so we got mesh going here,
which means pretty much nothing because no one's going to
be out here doing mesh.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
It's sixty feet sixty feet.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
So there's that quarterwave, so it would be is that
an eighth wave one sixty?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
No, I can't do my asss.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Let's see here, I need to reset the eighth wave.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
That's an eighth wave one sixty okay, approximately, I think
for one sixty just looking at three feet per meter.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Yeah, so the quarterwave eighty halfway forty.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Right, so yeah, it'd probably just fine compromise, but you
still get on.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yep yep. Well all right man, we're about fifteen minutes now,
so we're going to go ahead and call it. Thanks
for joining, Paul, I appreciate it. Well, let's your channel
and what's coming up?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I'm looking forward to field Day tomorrow with you coming
up Field Day of course, and then Sunday night I'll
probably do a live stream just recap and field Day.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I think we can do one together.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
I don't know's we'll not take a look at that.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
So Sunday Jason is not streaming. If he does stream,
he'll be short for me. After Jason, he'll probably just
if he does stream, pick up this phone and do
it from the phone. I was going to take the
night off and probably work through the rest of the
video and get that going because I'm shooting for the
(35:16):
field Day video release Monday.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
There you go. Yeah, see, I don't do as many videos,
so I just kind of do.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
The stream, get get in, get in the rhythm and
the thing. One thing that's helped me is I got
this from Josh. Thanks Joss HRCC. Shoot kind of shoot
your video as you edit or shoot your video of
editing in mind, if you kind of like mess up
and you're like in the middle of a three three
(35:43):
minute talking point and still kind of at the beginning
of it, stop and just restart, delete it and restart.
Don't don't leave that little clip there. So when you
go through and edit, you can just drag him all
into the window bay and then just start and they're
already pieced together right, and do your J cuts and
(36:04):
L cuts nicely so you get the cuts there. I
like to do. If you watch my videos, you probably
feel it because it's the feel of Tank Radio. Now
it's Frank's face, cut to something as I'm talking. Frank's
face cut to something as I'm talking Frank's face, and
that alternation between them is a good thing. Sometimes that's
(36:27):
just b roll and I'm still talking to the camera.
I just splice be roll over it. But I do
like that alternating. Plus, it gives you a nice point
to kind of do the soft cuts or hard cuts,
but it gives you a point to stop and start,
and it's not that long of If you just talk
to the camera for five minutes and flub something, you're like,
(36:47):
oh man, I don't want to do all that again,
and we start in the middle. Then you have this
awkward splice. Sometimes.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, I've done that a lot, just filming at the
at the computer at home. I'll start filming some with
obs and if I mess it up, I'm like.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Now I go delete it.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I start over because I am thinking about the edit
and I don't want to edit.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I just want to put the clothes together and make
it work. So I do that a lot.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Actually, I think on these videos' I'm editing for about
be honest, forty minutes. Yeah, and then I run run
it through twice, so I edit the past once the comeback,
lay the audio track down for the music, and I
watch it and I clean it up and at that
point render. There's not a third of you at that
(37:33):
point who cares. We're doing so many videos that each
one doesn't have to be perfect. If there's a little
bit of flood in there, whatever, it gives you some
authenticity to it.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
I just gotta get the end. I got so many things,
and I just different antennas. I probably got five antennas
or four antennas.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
That I wanted to do a review on.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
But oh this, this is the other thing I give
new channels as a vice. They asked me, what do
you advice you have a new for a new amateur
radio operator, or you new YouTube channel, go and shoot
a full month's work for video before you start posting,
editing them all, edit them all. So when you want
(38:11):
to go start your video drop, you have four or
five video drops already done. Get ahead of it, and
then you can start filming and seeing what's working and tweaking.
And so you already have some Because I got one
video filmed and this for the Alpha antenna. I got
that filmed. However, field Day's gonna take precedent, so that
(38:36):
will drop. So I have what in my video release
two videos. That's four weeks.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Where videos already you always have videos like ready yeah
or almost ready backed up, ready to go.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
It is so so I can. I'm not feeling rushed.
I'm feeling ready to go every now and then. I'm
like we all get to that point sometimes. But thanks
Paul for coming, no, and I appreciate it. Thanks y'all
for watching or sorry, thanks y'all for listening. Well, I'm
just going to keep that in there. Authenticity smoked smelling there. Yeah,
(39:13):
this this is a good mile cigar. This is the
allegiance by Omaha.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
And I think cigar smoke. It doesn't bother me like
cigarette smoke irritates my nose. Cigar smoke pipe smoked, No,
that bothers me.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
I almost brought my pipe.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah. My grandpa used to smoke a pipe, the one
who was named after Grappa Paul, and it was always
kind of like that was his smell.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
That's why I knew I did lose the pipe over
at more expos. Thank y'all for listening. I appreciate thank
you to everyone supporting me over there on Patreon, but
Patreon link is the below, and right now, due to
I have already said a couple of times, don't have
a job, y'all support it completely funding tank Radio now
(39:58):
and if there's no money in the bank that I
don't go out on these trips and have fun with y'all.
So if you're able to support it, thank you very much.
If not, hang out have fun now listen to me
because that means a lot to me too. As always,
y'all go forth and conquer. Thank you to all my
(40:18):
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.
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