Tank Radio Takesover Ham Radio 2.0

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh right, then I am going ahead and turn myself
down and hops were still because she's gonna smash me.
And here we go. Oh what is going on? Ladies
and gentlemen. I'm Frank cagg five eh J and we're
gonna have some fun today. We got Jason in the

(00:20):
background already shaking his head at me. Windows is ducking.
We're gonna have some fun, but we're gonna start as
always and see if this works this time because I
had to make it up last time. Play that also
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What is up? Thank y'all for joining at my new

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well for this month only time slot. This is the
seven o'clock relaxing hour. Robert was did a live stream
before us and he was having fun at my normal
every other Sunday six o'clock slot. So Robertson's gonna hold
that time for me. Light off the bat here. Don

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You're amazing. We were talking about you the other day.
I hope your ears were burning. Let me go ahead
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me Tank Radio. All right, I think that's it. I
think we're done. I need to find the right transition.
I'm un muting Jason. I checked it all already. Can

(03:55):
we hear you? Jason? How are you doing? Oh? Come
on doing? Be like that?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Had you for a second though, right?

Speaker 1 (04:07):
I loved it. I loved it because I hear it
right before I transition. I'm meeting you. You were doing
something in your hand. I'm hearing the clicking, so I
know that your audio is good. Yep. Oh that was greatness.
That was greatness. I loved it.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Man.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
How are you doing, man, You're back in town, back.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
In town, yep, back from a two week hiatus and
uh two weeks in Galveston and Arkansas last weekend and
got back yesterday about dinner time yesterday, nice and back
for about a day.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Did you take Electro with you to Arkansas?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, yep, sure.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Did own fun fun man. She loves the trips. I
think she really does that does Yeah, I love going
out and doing all the ham radio stuff. For first,
She's amazing and she's an awesome dog. Yeah, awesome dog.
But this this, this topic for this week is the

(05:07):
the transition, the handoff. I am taking over this seven
o'clock time slot because this month you're doing thirty days
of hand radio.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Right, Yeah, to be fair, to be fair, I asked,
I asked Frank to take the time slot.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
I'm taking it over. That's how I'm branding it. I'm
taking it.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I know it. It's not technically correct. I mean I
asked you to hold He's actually doing me a favor
by asking by holding it for me, holding the seven
o'clock time slot that I've been live streaming at for
like six and a half years.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I started with you. I think, I think you did
one or two live streams by yourself, and then I
hit you, hit you up like we're smoking cigars. I'm like, dude,
I love you as a friend here, but you need
a second person, you need a straight man, you need
a dumb person, you need someone to play off of you.
Do you need someone else on the yeah? On there?

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And I eventually worked my way in.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
It worked worked great for a while. Yeah, No, I
mean it did. It worked great for a while, and
it's it was a fun live stream. Yeah. We started
somewhere in late twenty eighteen, early twenty nineteen, and I
don't think we went every Sunday. In fact, I think
a couple of times live stream on like Saturday morning.
We did from the Hurst EC once or twice, and

(06:25):
and I think at a Friday night a few times,
and then once I found Sunday sometime in early twenty nineteen,
I think I've been with it ever since. So, yeah,
six and a half.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Do you remember the times we were trying to live
stream from the convention centers and it was just.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
The yeah, we learned quickly that all Hamfests have crummy
Wi Fi, so, at least as far as streaming goes
streaming Wi Fi, I'm going to have a specific type
of Wi Fi, specific type of Internet connections stream from.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
So Don is already asking, thank you, sir, what are
we drinking tonight? What do you drink at Jason?

Speaker 2 (07:04):
It's bourbon. I'm trying to remember the name of it.
It's one of those bottles I got at Huntsville. I
can't remember which one it is right now. Nice, it'll
come to me in a second.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
I'm finishing up the half bottle of Angels Envy. When
I started drinking bourbon, this was low on my list
because it was I think at that time I liked
the higher alcohol proofs. And this this is a good Uh,
it's a it's a good it's a good bourbon. It's smooth.
It's a smooth bourbon. And that's probably why I didn't
like it at the beginning. But now I'm I'm fairly

(07:36):
enjoying it. It's a good one.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's a good one. Yeah, Angels in Me is a
good one.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
I like.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I like that one pretty well.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Mm hmm. So what how did the idea of thirty
days in September kind of come about of Ham Radio.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
I was, uh, that's a good question. It was a
culmination of like three or four different things. I saw
another YouTuber do completely someone totally not in Ham Radio,
probably someone you never heard of, do something similar, and

(08:13):
I said, Okay, I wonder if I could do something
like that, you know, for hamd Radio, for the Ham
Radio world. And it kind of spawned from there, kind
of kind of took on a life of its own
from there. So, you know, I spent about two to
three months planning it and thinking about whether it would

(08:34):
even be a good idea or how to do it,
what to do here, that kind of thing. So yeah, so,
but it's basically a way to I wanted to try
something different. I've never done anything like this before, and
I've never seen another Ham Radio YouTuber do anything like
this before, and so I want to do something different.

(08:55):
I wanted to do a different style. It's it's done
more of like a vlog style, like a daily life
in the day in the life of vlog style, and
you know it, and it comes from a lot of comments. Also,
a lot of comments are like well, repeaters are dead,
So why get your license or you can't. You know,

(09:18):
Ham radios all about HF nothing else counts, or CW
only nothing else counts this kind of thing. So I'm like,
you know, none of that is true. And I wanted
to do a different hamm radioactivity inside of Ham Radio
for thirty days just to kind of showcase things that
I like, but things that also a little bit challenged me.
So I've done four or five different things over the

(09:39):
last ten or eleven days that I've never done before.
So so, and I've got several more things planned. But
where do you get the Texas flag patch that's amazon down?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
I was trying to note that for later, but yeah,
get a question.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah I saw him.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, so so far starting the the week week of
Ham Radio to this point, you activated the beach. You've
talked about uh top radios, revealed best techniques for a
simplex FM. I'm reading off your page. If you can't
tell ft A a p RS lighthouse the activation that

(10:20):
was a good one, and the.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Biggest was today's video.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, how how did that one come about? It's just
like I need to go to the house and get
that activated.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
I've been driving by that lighthouse for like five years,
you know, I mean it's been you know, it's it's
in all of our point, ball of our peninsula. Just
you gotta you gotta drive on. Well you could. You
can walk onto the ferry. There's a ferry on the
north east end what what would be called the east
end of Galveston Island, Galvison is and if you look
at a map, it runs Okay, as you're looking at me,

(10:53):
it runs this way. I'm looking at the map, it
runs this way, but you're looking at it like this.
So Galvezon nine is like that. So the west end
is actually southwest and the east end is actually northeast,
but they call it the east end and the west end.
That's just what they call it. Okay, fine, So on
the east end of Galveston, there is a ferry that
takes you from Galveston Island to ball of Oar Point.

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And that's part of the mainland. It's a peninsula off
the mainland, and I've been up there several times. In fact,
that's a really good way if you're in Galveson. That's
a really good way to go to the Orange Hamfest.
Outside of in Orange, Texas, outside of Beaumont, which I've
been to three or four times. It's usually the last
weekend in February, so I've gone that way before for that,

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and I've driven by that lighthouse probably a half dozen times.
And I'm like, and I know, Lighthouses on the Air
is a thing because we we sort of kind of
a little bit thought about activating a lighthouse when we
were at Outer Banks a few years back.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Didn't we most do that from the parking lot?

Speaker 2 (11:52):
We did. Yeah, we were all just on ht's talking
to one another. And I don't know that anyone ever
submitted logs for it. So, but Lighthouses on the Air
and Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society is all a thing. It's
been a thing for a long long time. So I
so I knew I wanted to do that. I wanted
to do Islands on the Air. The US Islands on
the Air QUSO party just happened to be that weekend

(12:13):
that I was in Galveston, So I went and did that,
you know, and I just kind of looked up the
Texas q SO party is two weeks too. Yeah, two
weeks from yesterday. So I'm gonna do the Texas QUSO party.
I might go back out to the hunting lease. I
don't know, but you know, just kind of looked at
the calendar and saw what things were happening already happening

(12:35):
during the month of September and added those to the list.
I've got a list of like forty different things I
could do, so but I never I knew I wanted
to do lighthouses on the air, just because it's you know,
very unique. And everybody I talked to that day that
I said, Hey, I'm at a lighthouse, they were like, oh, really,
Oh that's kind of cool. So it's not something you
hear on HF very often, at least not not that
I've ever heard. So, yeah, that's kind of where it

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came from.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
And you're partnering up with the A Double RL for
this thirty days to raise money for the teacher Institute.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah. So so another YouTuber I watched that did a
big fundraiser for Saint Jude. They did this huge, much
much larger YouTuber than me, did a huge fundraiser for
Saint Jude over like the course of like a month
earlier this year, and and that's part of the reason
where I got the donation thing. So I hit up

(13:28):
the ABRL and I hit up Steve K five at
A and I'm like, look, this is what I'm thinking
about doing. This was like three months ago to maybe
maybe two to three months ago, So this is what
I'm thinking about doing. Here's how I see it going.
I want to do a fundraiser for a double RL
Teachers Institute. And he's like, man, that that sounds great,
and he was all in, and he put me in

(13:48):
contact with Kevin. Kevin is the guy in charge of
nonprofit fundraisers at Adarel. He's he's in charge of finding
where to raise money from fundraiser guy, and he loved it.
He loved the idea too. He was like, well, how
do you do this and how do you do this?
And we worked this out and I was like, give
me a page and that kind of thing. So and

(14:09):
I came up with thirty thousand dollars because and I
said this in my very first video. Two years ago,
Mike did like a nine hour live stream and raised
fifteen thousand dollars in one night. And then last year
Josh did a live stream. They both call it a telethon,
and I think they were working with Steve on that
and Josh raised about twenty thousand dollars in one night,

(14:31):
and I'm like, Okay, if these guys can do fifteen
and twenty grand in one night, why can't I do
thirty grand in thirty days? So we're in fact I
was hoping to have. I haven't gotten an email from
Kevin today. He's sending me daily emails because at the
end of all the videos, I say, Okay, here's where
we're at so far for the donations, and here we

(14:52):
go the one from yesterday. So at let me see.
Let me think today's Sunday. So this was as of Friday,
not so he hopefully I'll get an email from him
here in the next couple hours. That'll be as of
last night, Saturday night. He's he's not in the office
on the weekends, obviously, but he's still sending me to emails.
As of Friday night, we had raised three hundred and

(15:15):
fifty dollars from forty five donors. Oh wow, So and
we're seven and that's that's five days into it. Five
days into it, we'd raised two three hundred and fifty dollars.
So that's that's our goal. And I set a goal,
you know, and I kind of, and I told Kevin,
I was like, okay, like this part here is a
little self serving, but I'm going to issue a challenge

(15:37):
to my audience that says, if I, however many subscriber
new subscribers I get during this time, I will donate
ten cents per subscriber. Now, the hope it's probably not
gonna work because we're seven days into it and the
numbers just aren't there, which is okay, it's okay, it's
just kind of fun to talk about. The hope is

(15:57):
to get ten thousand new subscribers over the course of
the month, which would mean I donate one thousand dollars
ten thousand times a dime is one thousand dollars. And then,
more importantly, quite frankly, more importantly is I'm issuing a
challenge everybody to watch my video and get ten thousand
views per video, and I'll donate one hundred dollars for
every video that reaches ten thousand views. So thirty videos

(16:21):
times ten thousand views times one hundred dollars per video
would be three thousand dollars. So there's a potential of
my of me giving four thousand dollars to the Teachers
Institute if I can make these numbers happen on my website.
And I pitched that, Yeah, I pitched that to Kevin.
He's like, no, man, that's a great idea. Yeah, that's
that's awesome. I'm like, okay, all right, the longs Longs

(16:41):
are on the same page. They have been incredibly supportive.
Both Steve and Kevin have been incredibly supportive. Awarl is
great to work with and couldn't couldn't be happier with
that relationship over there. So yeah, you guys, and you
guys who have stepped up, thank you very much for
doing so. We are pushing towards a goal, so I'm
going to keep keep asking for more until we reach

(17:03):
the goal. But you know, that's where we're at right now.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Awesome, And I can't wait to see where you're going
to be ending up because you're only one week. He
got another three weeks to go, right, And any hints
on what videos we could probably see in the next
couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Here, well tomorrow the one the one that posted today
was the lighthouse, the one that posts tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Also, if you're a YouTube channel member or a patron,
you're getting these videos early. Now. I didn't post today's. No,
I didn't post yesterday's video early because I got it
back from the editor and it was screwed up. It
was messed up, so I had to send it back
to him for redo, and he sent it to me
early yesterday morning, and I previewed it just to make

(17:51):
sure it was right, and it was the second time,
and I posted it and it went live. So other
than that, all of the videos have been posted early
to my YouTube channel members. And I slacked off on
Patreon the last two days because the because I was
in Arkansas, out of state park and the internet up
there kind of sucked. But I'm back now, so so
it happens. Yeah, patrons and YouTube channel members are getting

(18:12):
the videos about a day early, about roughly about a
day early. But but yeah, I'm I'm like four days
of head so I'm I just fit. Today was I
recorded day eleven? Today? I posted day seven, but I
recorded day eleven or day twelve, day eleven. I recorded
day eleven today. So I've got eight, nine, ten, eight,

(18:36):
and nine are ready to go. Ten I'll get back
from the editor sometime tonight. Eleven I'll get back sometime
tomorrow tomorrow, and I'll record day twelve. So I'm trying
to stay ahead, you know, to give the editor time
and you know, kind of do it that way because
I'm not I wouldn't want to edit everything same day
and everything and post it the same day, and I'm
not gonna ask him to do that.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yes, right, says what if he's a channel member and
Patreon member.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
And he probably is, no, and don he probably is,
then you'll get it twice, dude.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
I was gonna say, you can come out and watch
your live or you can come out and be the
camera guy. Right, Yeah, I always see the camera guy.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
So yes, I like Jeff's idea you have to donate
twice as much. It's a fantastic idea. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
So you knocked out ft A, knocked out a p
r S all Star. Are we going to expect to
see you? Probably something from all.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
My second My second video was all Star. It was
the second that was day two, Day two. It's it's
and sometimes I get asked, what what's with these titles?
So I use it. I use a plug in called
vid i Q for YouTube. It's a chrome plug in. Okay,
so I purchased a plug in that plugs in Chrome

(19:55):
and it's called vid iq and it and its and
it's for YouTube channel growth, and it goes through and
it will tell you, it will do thumbnail comparisons for you,
it'll do descriptions, it'll write your descriptions, it'll write your titles.
It'll do a whole list of stuff. And I don't
use probably eighty percent of it. But the parts that
I do use, I have been using the title generator.

(20:16):
So some of the time people say, well, what's that,
what's up with that title that? Well, it's what vi
iq told me to.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
I was kind of confused. I see the sherry note
now and the other node right, so I was like, oh, obvious,
this is all Star.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
But yese yeah, and it says and and the title
the video was something like, you know, I took I
took a radio to the beach and this is what happened.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, what is it?

Speaker 2 (20:38):
I tried him radio with the beach and this happened
day two. That's that's what it's called. I'm literally standing
on the sea wall of Galveston talking into All Star. Now.
It's just it's just a cool background. It had nothing
to do with the beach. Tomorrow's video has to do
with the actual beach, but yeah, it's just it was
just a cool background to be there on the sea
wall and Galveston. So I just just kind of like,
you know, for the for the rest of the starting today,

(21:01):
for the all the rest of the videos, I'm either
going to be at home. I got a couple of
road trips planned, but you know, I won't be back
in Galveston for the rest of this series. So I
was trying to take advantage of Galveston as much as
I could because just beauty. I love it down there.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
It's just I totally agree. I was down there. But yeah,
quietly about four four weeks ago. Yeah, what's with the
what was in the two meter simplex calling frequency? Because
that's something I've been talking about anytime I'm in parks
or at a hand fest. Well, don't need it at
the handfest, it's loud over on half thest But what's

(21:37):
you discussing that?

Speaker 2 (21:39):
So what I have? What I have learned, unexpected consequence,
unexpected advantage I have learned. Okay, out of all the
videos I posted so far, the simplex one has got
the most views. In fact, the Simplex one is over
twelve thousand views now, so the Simplex one, I will

(22:02):
I will donate one hundred dollars because the Simplex video,
which is day three, has gotten over ten thousand views.
That's my most popular video so far. The apr OS
APRS one is catching up to it very quickly. It's
at seventy three hundred views right now. Okay, but Simplex
I basically said, so, there's a there's a frequency around

(22:24):
Texas City, Lamark League City down towards Galveston, that one
five dot five two simplex. There's a group of guys
that hang out on one forty five five to two
Simplex down it. They used to hang out on six
top five to two, and some curmudgeon dude got on
there and like, oh, you're all on the calling frequency,
use it every day, So they moved frequencies. Okay, I

(22:46):
can kind of see that. I can kind of see that.
But we've had this, so this is gonna be another
video that I make because I've had a lot of
comments on that topic. So I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna give my opinion on that right now. Okay, But
regardless of that, five, if you ever drive south of
Houston on Interstate forty five, get on one forty five,

(23:09):
got five to two Simplex and talk to those guys.
They're pretty active down there. And so I just drove
the truck up. You know, I talked about what Simplex was,
and I drove the truck up from Galveston up forty
five and talked and until I got into those guys
and talked to him. In fact, one guy said, oh,
I could hear you when you were crossing the causeway,
but you couldn't hear me. I was like, no, I
couldn't hear you. He's at a home base station with

(23:30):
a Nintenda pro high so he could hear me, but
I couldn't hear him quite yet. But you know, once
I got closer, it was it was easy. So we
had a conversation that's part of the video. And I
issued a challenge to everybody, and this is and I've
had a lot of emails and a lot of comments
and a lot of discord messages from people after I
issued this challenge, and everybody's pretty much in agreeance with
me that we need to be on six top five

(23:52):
to two more often, just at this period every day. Yeah,
I specifically I said during road trips. If you go
on a road trip, you should be on six top
five to two the whole time exactly, and you should
be calling out. And this is my fault, this is
this is where I fall short. You should be actually
throwing your call sign out every now and then. Now

(24:14):
I do beacon APRS and say I'm onnitring six five two,
but I should be throwing my call sign out verbally also.
So I did that during driving to Arkansas, yes on Friday,
and I dodn' kid anybody. No.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, I throw my call sign out when I'm driving
out of Dallas because when I when I leave the Metroplex,
that's when I switch over the five too. And uh,
and I just call out anytime I go through one
of those small cities. I'm like, this is cage five
HD on five to two, see qc Q any station anywhere,
and usually get nothing. Every now and then I find

(24:46):
a station, but we're always going the opposite directions, and
it's like broken, broken and broken, real clear, real clear,
broke any bike.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
And that's okay, yeah, okay, that's activity. So that's what
we need to do. That's what we need to do.
And I'm talking to myself here as well. I'm not
trying to look down my nose at anybody. I'm like, we,
we as a community need to light up that frequency. Okay,
if you're at home, if you're in the car just
running errands around town, especially if you're on a road trip. Okay,

(25:16):
someone comes, someone drives through the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex
on a road trip and calls out on six top
five to two. I want to be able to answer
them and talk to them myself, you know, if I'm
at home obviously, yep. So we need to be more
active and more proactive on that frequency. And I just
can you imagine how fun it would be to take

(25:37):
a six or eight or ten hour road trip and
just talk to half a dozen a dozen people during
the course of that trip, because oh, oh yeah, that
guy's listening. That guy's listen. Oh we're entering here's news
and you know, oh, and there's two people talking to
talk to a per so and if.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
You have pastors in the cars, they'll be like, oh,
I guess that ham radio is a thing. They don't
just see you calling out of the ether or just
doing the HF. They're like, oh, who's that. Yeah, some
guy that we're just talking to passing by, like, where's
a good place to eat there? Boom, we're gonna eat there. Done?

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, so forty five auto. I see his comment you
put on the screen.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I'll call it on five two every time, every every town.
When drugged to Colorado didn't get anyone, I've had a
lot of comments like that. I've had a lot of
comments and I'm the same guess when I did when
I drove to Arkansas on Friday. Yes, that's true. Let's
change that. That's my challenge. Let's change it. It's up
to you, it's up to me to change that.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
It's up to us being on the road. But also,
I guess on the flip side, because we're bad at
this too. Inside the Metroplex or inside wherever we finally
get to where we're going, turned off the radio or yeah,
and then I get off of that simplex five two.
So yeah, I need to moderate more, to be honest.

(26:56):
Our friend who came into town the other day and
I was driving to pick him up. I thought he
might have a radio, so I call down on five
to two, and a gentleman the Metroplex answered me. He goes,
I hear you good, must be on the road. I'm like, yeah,
I'm actually see if my friend has a radio on.
And because I'm thinking him up from the airport. And
the guy laughed and I said, well, since it's only

(27:17):
me and you, I guess he don't.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Well, shame on you, Bill. Bill. Usually Bill usually has
a radio one. In Bill's defense, he usually does have
a radio on. So I'm kind of surprise.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
I wasn't trying to call him out directly on that
one you're talking.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
About that I around the Metroplex. If you call out
on six top five two, you will you will get
someone more times than not. I have found it's yeah,
there's okay, so DFW. You may not know this, Frank,
there's a I'm gonna get the frequency wrong. I think
it's one forty five seven to okay. There's a very

(27:51):
active simplex frequency around here, but it's not six five
to two. And I monitor that a lot of times.
There's also a simplex net every Friday night on one
forty six top five eight. And I think the net
control guys somewhere up near Robert, up near Springtown or
over there in that that neck of the woods somewhere,

(28:11):
and I've never checked Well, no, that's not true. I've
checked into that one time. I'm generally not home on
Friday night, but I'd like to. I'd really like to
do that. But I have found that if I get
on sixty five two and actually call out, I will,
I will. I will more times than not fifty one
percent or more of the time I will, I will
reach somewhere.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
In fact, when I was leaving, I'm sorry, when I
was leaving, when I was driving to where was I going? Oh?
Where was I Where did I drive to? Recently? Oh?
I guess you know Huntsville? And yeah, yeah, well yeah,
before before Galveston I was driving to. I was I
was pulling my trailer. I was. I left at about

(28:53):
five o'clock in the morning and drove to Huntsville for
the ham Fest. And when I got out to Irving
six thirty five in Luna, I heard a station call me.
It was it was my friend Kevin K five O
r N and he's like, hey, case five HIVP for
K five. I'm like, hey, man, what are you doing?
He goes, I just saw your APR speaking. I'm like nice,

(29:13):
So I got to talk to him. He's like, what
are you doing. He's like, I'm going to work. I
was like, I'm going to Hamfest. He's like, I hate you.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Now.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
I was like, okay, good deal, Why.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Do you hate me? You just come on, just follow me.
You know what the truck looks like. It's the biggest
thing that has the tar heel on it. Yeah, come on.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
So so he's yeah, so it's uh so it's there's
activity out there. We just got to be more proactive
to keep up our own microphones.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yes, sir, yes, sir. Bill did answer, and I'm giving
him a pass this trip. Uh. He said he was
coming back from the Philippines. And the Philippines you have
to have a physical permit from the government to have
a amateur transmitting radio, and he didn't want to be
in trouble, so no, can did not have a radio

(29:59):
on him, So he gets a pass. So all right,
this trip, he's good, Okay, We're good.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Bill usually does he usually does have a radio with him.
It was very active on All Star as well.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
I was kind of sad that my mess Tastic node
was dead because I was going to see if I
could hit him up on tastics. Oh yeah, answer there too,
but it was gone. But Bill swung by. We I
picked him up and we went to the cigar bar,
the far one over there in Keller and we hung on.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
What did you go over there? All the way over there?

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Well, that's where my friends were, and we hit up
though not heartache, meet you anywhere in Trophy along the way.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
So we got some good barbecue, one of.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
The best, but some of the best brisket I've ever had.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
It was good, good, good brisket. And I have some
thing for you and Robert, and I was told it
is a monkey knife fight who chooses first, so get ready.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
So yeah, he told me that one of the one
of the bottles was like eighty bucks and the other
one was like one hundred and sixty. And I don't know,
I'm gonna put Roberts got that director of money. I
might let him. I don't know, you know, honestly, because
the place where Bill was was he said he shared

(31:28):
that picture with us, And Robert said, there were a
lot of fake stuff in there. But I don't know what.
I don't know. I mean, I don't know anything. He
told me. Bill told me what the bottles were named,
and I'm like, I've never heard of you. I don't
know anything about Japanese whiskey, so I have no idea.
So I'm gonna pick Robert's brain about that, and I

(31:48):
don't really care. Honestly, I'll take you the one. I
don't really care.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yep, so monkey knife fight, I'm gonna enjoy that.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
One, doesn't matter. I'll take you the one.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
So cool, cool, kind of back on topic. So, I've
been watching a couple of your videos, and like you said,
they are, they're the more daily blog style, not the
I'm not gonna say polished, because they're they're they're shot well,
not the fast transition to the topic. The things you're

(32:22):
you're sitting down, you're driving, you're talking to us like
like we are this next to you, and I do
enjoy that is a good break from your normal videos.
I used to do the drive and talk to and
I actually liked doing that, but I'm tired of seeing
people why are you driving at this time? And da
da da da put the camera down. I'm like, well,

(32:43):
it's pretty easy just driving and then just having the
camera up and talking and then you hit the record.
Specially you you don't have to hold it and you
got the dash mail for it.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
There's a link. I just shared a link to the
playlist in the chat. So that's the playlist of all
eight videos. Is it eight?

Speaker 1 (32:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Uh yeah, seven one, two, four seven, seven. I'm waiting
on I. Uh. He sent me the eighth video yesterday
and I was like, can you make some couple of
small edits And I haven't got those back yets, So
fingers cross that'll come back tonight. That'll post tomorrow. Video
nine's already up there, but I haven't shared it yet obviously.
But yeah, that's a playlist. So if you guys can

(33:20):
go watch that. Hey, let's cheat the system.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Here, game the system.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Click on that play link, click on that play link list,
hit play all, go to bed, so you know, let it.
I did that on my wife's account on the TV
last night. Watches all my stuff anyway, so it was
already in her history. I'm like, okay, playlist play off.
I went to bed.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Where were we? I think it was that some random
airbnb you always grab it TV off on the side whatever.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah, what's the one on the way to Colorado? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
I was sleeping on the couch out there and I
I grabbed a playlist and started playing my own playlist,
and then I think the next day Robert said something.
So I was like, okay, we're going to pack up.
This morning, I clicked on one of Roberts playlist.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
And someone are just a rando logged on the TV.
They didn't sign out.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Right, right, Yeah, so yeah, two or three random people,
but yeah, yeah, it's yeah, it's okay to game the
system every now, and you're not gonna You're not gonna
move the needle that much by playing one or two accounts,
you know, a playlist. But if you know, if a
thousand of you, if all one hundred and nineteen of
you watching right now, would do that, that'd be great.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
I know, I saw the numbers. I'm like, this is amazing.
This is the best I've ever had for in a while.
Oh are awesome. Y'all are great. We're going to keep
this up. Next week we're talking about the Youth on
the air. I've got Neil coming out. We're gonna be
talking about that organization. I have Josh potentially coming up

(34:56):
on the next week after that, and the that we
are going to have a cigar kind of Social to
finish it out and then do the hand back to Jason,
get your time slot back.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yes, but I've already got I've got like three people
lined up for October that want to come on and
do a live stream. I think. I think the first
Sunday in October, I'll probably do a recap of this
whole series and just say, here's what I learned, here's
what's here's what we can do. Fingers crossed. I hit

(35:33):
my goal before the end, but I hit that thirty
thousand goal before the end of the month. But if not,
we'll try to do like a telethon or something like here.
So yeah, so we'll see. But yeah, well that's that's probably.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Will he give the time slot back? Love it? I
love it? I think. I kind that's all the questions
I had. So we're just gonna hang out and chill
for the next like twenty so minutes.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Good. But yeah, man, so Cigar Social win again.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Frank, it's gonna be the last live stream. Let me
bring up my calendar. Yeah that sounds about right.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Okay, Okay, i'd probably make that. I should be in
town that weekend.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Here'll be your calendar.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yep, I'll be in out of town next weekend and
I should be home for the rest.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Of the month, okay for that so yep, I'll be
on the patio weather providing, and I'm I'm all right.
So the last live stream I did from my garage
like it was stuttering, and I know the internet can
be not too great, So I'm gonna try to hook
up a second router downstairs that I'm gonna stream too,

(36:49):
or if I want to, by then buy that one
hundred foot or one hundred and fifty foot eight or
ethernet cable that I just run out to the garage
or the patio, because then then then it will just
work quite quite well.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
And is your router upstairs?

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Router is in the electronics closet here, and then the
garage is caddy cornered.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
These upstairs are down upstairs.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
I'm upstairs right now, so upstairs. Yeah, so yeah, there's
all this crap everything has to go through, and I
understand why.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
So can you throw it out a window?

Speaker 1 (37:30):
But I have directly below me in my living room area,
there's an Ethernet drop and a switch already there, and
I've already upgraded that switch to be a gigabit switch
now so good. Yeah. So I have a a old
Ethernet cable like the CAT for I keep grabbing every
now and then to plug stuff in. I'm like, why
is this transfer only going ten megabasiness.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Get a CAT yeah, especially if you're gonna do a
longer run. CAT five used to be limited to seventy
five feet. I think you had to put a repeater
in the line if you want to go hired and that.
Oh I don't know what CAT six is.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
I think CAT six should be. Well, I'm just gonna
probably buy one hundred foot and that should do it.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
The hundred feet should you? Should? You should be fine
with that? I would. I would uh so go hard
line into uh into to do a.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Live stream run fiber Yeah, yep, yep, Well the whole
house is fiber, so well to to the the fiber
to the premise. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Then, but.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Because I am trying to set up a secondary wireless
node so that I could try to get better internet
when I'm sitting in the garage, not trying to live stream,
because when I'm when it's raining, I love I love
being outside of it's raininge So a couple of times
I just opened up my garage and watch it. If
I can't even play the switch out there, it drops

(38:53):
the switch. So I need a better I should watch wireless.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I should try to. I should try to do something
similar and run an Ethernet from the shack. Here m
out to my new patio. We got poured last last
year because the weather is dude high of eighty two
to day in Texas. Right is beautiful today? We're not.
It's it's it's faking us out. It's teasing us. Right
now we will have another couple hundred degree days, I

(39:18):
bet between now and I.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Don't think so. I don't think so. I think I
would have done with one hundred.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
I have been sitting well ninety five at least. I
have been sitting in a deer stand the first weekend
in November and had weather like we had today. There's
no way we're done with Texas summer. It's just not.
This is September, the early September. We got two months
until deer season and the weather will be like this.
There's no way it's done. That's my prediction. Maybe I'm wrong.
Hopefully I am, but I don't think I am.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Don says wires is always faster the wireless. I completely agree.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Oh yeah, of course, yeah, you don't want to do
wireless livestream unless you just absolutely have to.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Russell's saying a Mesh network, and I thought about Mesh
network and what I'm reading about it where I'm setting
up the second note, it's too close for the mess network,
so they will be conflicting with each other, So that's
probably not going to work. Y'all. If y'all not already,
go ahead and subscribe to the channel so you can

(40:14):
stay updated with all the amazing stuff that is coming
down the pipe this month and all the amazing stuff
I'm just putting out because dude, the rain this weekend
like completely killed my project. So that gigaparts forty five
foot mass. My goal was to put it up Saturday.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
That heavy ass mask that I carried home for you.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Yeah, and then busted out of the box.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
And then I fell on in the truck and I
tried to lift it over something that crap is in here,
holy heavy man, right.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Well, what I was trying to because I said I
was going to pick it up at the store when
we went there and had fizza, But then me and
Kyle rushed out and we never came back. So I
was like, screw up just having them ship it to me.
They wanted like another two hundred dollars shipping. I was like,
they can't be two hunter And then I picked it up.
I'm like, okay, I could see pop.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Hal is seven feet tall and it weighs forty sixty
pounds whatever it was. Yeah, yeah, I don't doubt that
it's two hundred dollars a ship that sucker. So yeah,
that's so I don't I don't mind. I don't mind carrying.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
That stuff home for you guys carried out.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
I carried Roberts M Squared antennas his satellite M Squared
Intenna's home from him from Dayton like two years ago.
But that was Those were very, very very much smaller than.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
That that mess, I know. But when I picked up
the mask, because they did a deliver it to the
booth at Huntsville Hamfest, huh. It was the first delivery
on that Saturday they did for me. So I picked
it up. I'm like, is this it? He goes yeah.
I was like dang, And then we never were you parked.
You didn't park in the normal park a lot. You
parked in the five dollars a lot and I was like, dang,

(41:53):
I walked it all the way out there. Do it
in your truck. See this one back in Texas. I
got it fully assembled this week and I was like,
I'm going to get this done. And then Friday it
just stormed. It was a lot of lightning. It was
pretty lightning. And then I went outside and it was

(42:13):
the backyard soaked. And Saturday morning was just so overcast.
I'm like, I'm not in the mood. So I did
other things instead. But man, I have my uh the
two B freight channel. That is the channel I'm doing
just Frank's weekly blog. It rolled over from what I
was unemployed and now it's my weekly blog of what's

(42:36):
going on.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Emily was watching your latest video yesterday when I got home.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
And in fact, she asked me, She's like, what is
this takeover thing he's talking about. I was like, well,
I gave him the time slide. He's like just calling
it that. He's like, oh, She's like, oh okay, it's
fun over. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Yeah. So that I I'm using the time to declutter. Declutter.
It's been a big thing in my house this month,
because you see my house, I'm a d D. Things
get set down and they stay there. Then. Yeah, So
I recorded that and I've been just cleaning up the
house and I got the out and I'll be posting

(43:20):
that video tomorrow. The channel is called do B Frank
Radio and let me just drop a link because finding
it's always kind of difficult. Don says, did you get
the skyhooks put on? Yes, yes I did. There was
a little hiccup. I'm going to talk about that in
the video. But the skyhook is going to be on

(43:40):
top of the forty five foot mast, maybe more like
a forty foot mast for this particular skyhook.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Read Ron's comment right before that one from Dawn Ron. Yeah,
w four that's Ron, Yeah, from the ham Fest.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah yeah, would you be or would a pre posted
schedule for thirty days, especially where on the air, is
involved for increasing viewers?

Speaker 2 (44:08):
So yeah, because I almost typed that out and I
want to answer that, so good, good question, Ron with
to pre posted schedule for the thirty day videos, especially
where on the air, increased views perhaps, but I like
the aspect of the allure of oh, what's he going
to do next? I don't want to put it all

(44:29):
out there. I don't want to divulge too much information.
I can tell you what I'm gonna do, well, I
can tell you some of what I'm gonna do, but
I'm I don't know the dates yet. Well I probably
know the dates, but I don't know. Assuming that nothing
goes wrong, I could tell you the dates. But still,
I kind of liked having that allure of unknownness out

(44:49):
there where on the air. Heck man, that's you know,
this raun that totally depends on how much QRM you have,
who's on the band, and and what the band is
like that day. So put me in your HAM alert.
If you're not using ham alert, then you're probably not

(45:09):
too serious about HF. And I know use ham alert, Ron,
I know you do. Put me in your ham alert,
because I will absolutely on post myself on some spotder
page somewhere, or or what I did for the lighthouse
and for the Beaches on the air. The Beaches on
the Air video will post tomorrow. I went in. I

(45:31):
have a room in my Discord server called HF Spotter,
and I posted in there and said here's where I am,
here's what I'm doing, Come work me and that worked
well both of those days, so so not a not
a bad idea, ron, but I kind of like I
kind of like people guessing wh What's he going to
do next, and kind of it being a surprise, and

(45:54):
I never know where I'm going to be on the
band because as you well know, I don't know the
band conditions can dictate. So Mike ham Alert is an
app on your phone iOS and Android. It works on
both go to hand and it's free. Just Google, just
search the play Store or the Apple whatever it's called

(46:17):
an Apple and just for ham Space Alert and download that.
And then you could put people's call signs in there,
and every time that person gets spotted somewhere doing something,
it'll send a notification on the app on your phone.
So it's a fantastic way to keep up with the people.
I have all of the YouTubers and a bunch. I
have the NASA guys, I have the University of Scranton

(46:40):
Hammatgur Radio Club, several other amateur radio clubs around my area.
I have all those guys in my ham alerts. When
they pop up, I can see where they're at. I
was like, Oh, that guy's working HF or working FT
eight or doing twenty meters or whatever, So I try
to keep up with that as much as I can.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Nice Don is talking about the skyhook, which I am
playing with and trying to get that going on that mast,
and I am going to be trying to get the
j pool section to go on top with the hamstick.
I picked up a three sets of the hamsticks six meter,
fifteen and three seventeen. Yeah, I think it's around there, No,

(47:24):
six ten and seventeen, and they were out of the
twenty meter and the forty meter hamstick, and I really
wanted those.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
That was the two most popular ones.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Right Well, that's why they're out. So I will be
probably popping up on ten meters, I guess. And once
I get that set up in the backyard, I'm maybe
going to be hoping to get that done this week
because that I wanted to be the video coming out
next Monday. I think it's next Monday. Yeah, I'm feeling

(47:55):
next Monday for the video and you go ahead.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Yeah. I was just reading that and I'm replying to
him right now. There's no reason to unlock that radio.
It's a part niny radio. It's full of and transmit
the b Tech well, oh yeah, he said, b techuv Pro.
The b techuv Pro is a Part niney radio. It's
full of and transmit. There's no reason to unlock it.
So will it go to twenty or six meters?

Speaker 1 (48:22):
No?

Speaker 2 (48:23):
No, But it's full open transmit on two meters and
seventy centimeters, So depends on what you mean by unlocked.
If you want to use it on freaking gmrs and murrhors,
it'll go there.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Nice. Nice. I really like in that radio that you
gave me. The Uh is that the pro you gave me?

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Uh? It's you have the VGC version, but it's the same,
it's the same radio.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
Well. I had to turn off the APRS functionality during
the Hamfest because you can hit the transmit button and talk,
but when it's receiving the digital side, even if you
turn if you turn off the other side and just
have one side showing on your screen, it's constantly receiving.
At least we were at the Handfest, it was constantly

(49:09):
receiving messages that I couldn't hear the other station. So
I keeyed it up and it's like hey Jason, Dad,
and you came back, and then I might hear well,
I answered to you, Frank, I don't know what's going on.
But right on top of that was just all the
digital noise and digital and Mike did show me how

(49:29):
to turn off the receiving the digital sound, but still
it will pick it up and not receive what the
analog signal is.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Right. So this is my UV pro and as I
said in my APRS video the other day, this has
been on my belt every day since Huntsville Hamfest. The
great thing about this radio and this is a total
dedicated APRS radio. The only thing I do with this
radio is APRS. I am not monitoring any repeaters or
simpler or anything like that. This has a kiss tn

(50:02):
C which you can use to Bluetooth connect to it
from APRS droid on your phone, and I have been
using that like that since since I well, I was
using it at the Huntsville Hamfest, but ever since I
got back from the Hunsfital Hamfest. Also APRS droid has
been running Bluetooth connected to the UV Pro and I'm

(50:25):
on this every day now. I keep that this is
gonna be my new EDC carry I'm going to com
I've talked about lighting up six tot five to two APRS,
same thing. I'm gonna light up APRS and use the
crap out of it. And Jason came for Ack. He
he was a fantastic help to me the other day
answer some of my questions. We've traded half a dozen

(50:47):
messages since then over APRS. I got ten fifteen messages
from you guys over APRS after my video the other day.
So this is going to be running all the time. Now.
This is something I'm gonna always do, or at least
that's my goal.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
So how was the transmitting of the signal while you're
in the vehicle, because because if you are inside a
car doing it in the HT, then it's gonna be limited.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Correct, Yeah, but I have a mobile radio running in
the car that's transmitting APR, that's beaconing APRS also. Okay,
so here here's something. This is something new that I
learned this last week. Okay. So typically speaking, your your
your APRS HT is DASH seven, your call sign DASH seven,

(51:34):
and your mobile radio in your vehicle is DASH nine. Okay. Typically,
I mean you could you could set it differently if
you want to, but that's typically what it is. If
I send Frank, if I send if you send me
a message to Dash seven, okay, and it goes through,
and you hit an eyegate or digitped or whatever and
it goes through. I will see it in both places.

(51:55):
It goes to my call sign. It doesn't just go
to Dash seven or just to Dash nine. Oh, both places.
So it's not call sign, it's not S S I
D specific, it's call sign specific. So in other words,
all of the messages that people have been sending to me,
I've seen some of them on the ht because there's
a pretty good digitipeter here in town. But I've seen

(52:16):
all of them on my truck, and I turned beaconing
off on my truck, but I let APRS run. So
it's seeing all these messages come in and I can
send and receive messages even though beca even though I'm
not beaconing apr s. So in other words, I'm using
a pr S without telling everybody my exact location. So

(52:38):
and that's something new. That's something new that I've learned
during the during this kind of process of using APRS
more just just trial and error by using it. So
this is the b tech UV pro Okay, and hold
on a second, guys, don't don't go, don't go grab

(52:59):
anything yet. I do have a ten percent coupon, frank
I don't think you have this. I'm gonna go ahead
and share it. Go ahead, where did it go?

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (53:10):
So if you use this link here, here's a btechuv
pro link. Boom, use that link I just shared. Use
the coupon code of HR two dash uv pro. HR
two dash uv pro will save you ten percent off,
not ten dollars. Ten percent. Cool Radio is about one

(53:31):
hundred and sixty five dollars, so with my coupon, it
will save you sixteen dollars and fifty cents. You'll get
it for roughly about one hundred and fifty bucks before shipping.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
That's a good price for an HT.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
The Robert got one at Prime Day for one hundred
and forty dollars from Amazon. So if you want to
wait till Prime Day they do Prime Day again, do that.
You'll save another ten dollars assuming they put it back
up there. But my coupon works every day. So yeah,
there's a there's a link right there and HR two
dash uv pro. This is not a coupon, franc has

(54:03):
I don't do you have a familiar with them.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
No, I I I want to start doing more with
HTS and the the plan is to be doing more.
I have a great idea of things are how I
want to compare these. I just need the ability to
do that at the house and I don't have that yet.
So that's why I haven't been sewing and promoting a

(54:26):
lot of HTS because I want to do like a
head head comparison and figure out how to do that.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
So well, I just didn't want to drop a link
if you had drunk. Oh no, thank you, I didn't
think you did, so yeah, so yeah, so you guys
use that link. This is a Part niney radio. The
b Tech is a Part niney radio. The VGC, I
think is just open because it's Chinese. They're both Chinese,
but VGC doesn't care. Be Tech care is a little
bit more. Baw Fang Tech is an American company. They're

(54:52):
in South Dakota, but they do Boo Fang radios that
are made in China. But they're American company, so it's uh.
But yeah, it's a Part ninety radio. So it's merrs
GMRS Marine band. Oh well I don't it won't do
am but it'll it'll go down to the like the
marine band frequencies and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
So on FM at least ron thank you very much
for the ten dollars super chat, thank you for all
the awesome bourbon at Huntsville. You're meeting you again. It
was always fun and amazing.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Don I don't think you know. Someone said something about
a mobile version of the B tech the other day.
I've never seen such a thing. I have the N
seventy six hundred that VGC sent me, and I have
the N seventy five hundred from way back in the day.
I think I think Gigaparts sent me that they used
to sell that radio. Anyway, fantastic radio. I am gonna

(55:49):
be doing some cool stuff with that radio on some
upcoming videos like that, So definitely check. Definitely. Yeah, fifty
watts of kiss T and C were works great with
apr S droid and with wode win link over Android.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
So what do you think about the your phone acting
as an iGATE for a pr S.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
I think that's I think that's fine if that's what
you want to do. My thing is now all of this,
all of a lot of these Chinese radios now, and
it's like it's like you use your phone to do everything.
Use your phone to look at your ring cam on
your door at home, and to look at your security cams,

(56:41):
and to you know, check your nest thermostat and change
your nest thermostat, and to do this, and to program
this radio and to do this. And I'm like, Okay,
how many things are you going to actually use your
phone to do? And you can only do it one
thing at a time.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
So you say that I can do multiple things on
my phone, Well, I.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Mean, but if you're if you're actually be paying attention
to the screen, you can really only do one thing
at a time. You can have stuff running in the background, sure,
but I'm just like, you know, I yeah, you can
use your phone for that. But I actually picked up
a dedicated tablet just the other day. I found a
good price on an Amazon, an Android tablet on an Amazon,

(57:19):
and I pick up a tablet, and I'm going to
dedicate that tablet to running APR asdroid into the N
seventy six hundred And I'm gonna tell you guys in
the future video how I'm gonna make that work. So, yeah,
use it on your phone, that's great, But you know,
if you've got forty seven things you're doing on your phone,
then something's gonna get neglected at some point.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Yep, yep, all right, Jason, we're coming up at the
top of the hour here, let me go ahead and
throw it to you. And I know we've been talking
about what's coming up on your channel, but just give
us a quick refresher here and where we can find
more about you.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Ham Radio two point zero on YouTube. Yeah, we're doing
three days of ham Radio, a different topic every day.
We might do a little bit of overlap kind of
here and there, but pretty much a different topic every day.
We did a Lighthouses on the air today, Tomorrow will
be Beaches on the air. Upcoming, I've got I've got
a ham Fest that I attended. I'm gonna be doing
a ham Fest video. And next weekend we're going to

(58:21):
an Overland show. A couple of Ham Radio guys are
going up there and I'm going to join them, and
they're gonna set up at radio station. We're gonna do
a VHF contest, we're gonna do a we're gonna do
some satellite work. I gotta find somebody who knows anything
about satellites. I don't know we're gonna do some satellite stuff.

(58:41):
We're probably gonna do some gigahertz stuff, some microwave stuff too.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Oh that's fine.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Yeah, yep, so lots of stuff like that upcoming. But yeah,
thirty days of Ham Radio on the channel, a new
video every day for the rest of September and help
support the Teachers Institute from a double roll a double
arrel dot org for slash thirty days. Frank has it
pinned to the top of the chat right there, So.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
I appreciate you guy. Also in the description, Okay, good well, Jason,
thank you for letting me use your time slot. And
I'm I'm I'm putting this to good use. Y'all have
been awesome and amazing. Hang out will fast, Jason.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
You want to share? Is Paul live streaming here in
a half hour?

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Uh? I think so?

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Paul looks like, yeah, it looks like he is. Yeah,
forty five outto said thirty minutes and Paul said, yes, sir,
So we gotta have we have a link for Paul's
live stream.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
Yeah, Paul, drop your link real fast.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Yeah, he's got the wrench.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Yep, yep. Thank y'all. Y'all have been amazing I appreciate it.
Thanks to everyone who donated during the stream. Thank y'all
for dropping the super chats. Don and Ron, both of y'all,
thank you, thank you, thank you, thank y'all for watching.
You really do make this channel possible. And I'm not
just saying that now because I do have a job,

(01:00:00):
but this is so much fun. I love doing this,
all right, y'all. I like doing this for y'all. This
is I It's gonna be an awesome tep Timber. That's
all I'm gonna say. It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna
be fun. We're gonna be watching Jason, we're gonna be
hanging out over here, and then we're just gonna be
having fun on the air. So don't forget put search

(01:00:23):
for tank rated in the audio podcast because I'm trying
to get that going. And y'all are awesome and amazing
as always, Go forth for conquer. Say bye Jason later.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Yeah, there's Paul's link in the chat. Sweet sweet, Thanks guys,
appreciate your support.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
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

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