Ep 214: Walt - Coastal Waves & Wires - The Ham Radio Clubhouse

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gosh, dang it, and you could see it with the numbers.
Look there, watch this. I had get yours off stage
for it.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hit the wrong button.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Steve said, Oh, Joe Brettes got it pulled up. I'm
gonna pull it up just now.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I had it. I had it pulled up before you.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
You're listening to the Ham Radio Clubhouse podcast, a weekly
show that's live on YouTube every Tuesday night. It's seven
o'clock Central time. We look forward to you joining us live,
but until then, enjoy this week's episode. Thanks for joining
us here on the.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Clubhouse, and everybody, Welcome to the Ham Radio Clubhouse.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
What's going on you guys?

Speaker 6 (00:47):
You know I was.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
As the intro was playing, I was like, you know what,
I should probably drop walt out like we normally do,
and then it'll take forty five minutes to get to him.
I was like, you know what, he's been here long enough.

Speaker 6 (00:57):
He's family. Family, he's family. You don't tell family to
sit out in the driveway.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
The car won't get salty. I'll get.

Speaker 7 (01:15):
You know what's funny, It's funny.

Speaker 8 (01:17):
I was talking to my son today and I was saying,
you know, gonna be on a Clubhouse tonight. He goes, Yeah,
I said, I'll tell you one thing about these guys
and why I love them.

Speaker 7 (01:24):
It's like, I'm coming up on thirty thousand subscribers.

Speaker 8 (01:26):
These are the guys that contacted me when I had
one thousand subscribers and asked me if I wanted to
come on.

Speaker 7 (01:31):
You know that. Yeah, it was you. It was like
I guess two or three years ago.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
Yeah, I've been blamed for a lot of things, but
that we'll put that in the category of the good category.

Speaker 7 (01:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:48):
Especially hey folks, listen. I texted Walt early on the wind.
I said, hey, Walt, what are you doing tonight? Come
on boar just you know what I mean? And he
immediately the guy wasn't working on I don't think he's
in the bathroom. He's in the bathroom and the men's
room doing one.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Of these working, working, working, and he gratefully said yes,
and we are honored once again.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
So thank you.

Speaker 8 (02:14):
I'm so happy to be here. You know, it was
it was funny. As soon as you did that, I
was like, man, I got stuff to do. You know
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna leave work at noon,
go get the oil changed in the jeep, go back
to the apartment, take a big long afternoon nap and
be ready for it.

Speaker 7 (02:28):
This all I'm resting ready.

Speaker 5 (02:30):
He's rocking and ruin.

Speaker 7 (02:33):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Well, a couple of shout outs already. And I know
you're not a new member, Frank, but welcome back. Thanks
for being a YouTube member. And Dean, thanks for the
twenty nine.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
I'm gonna have to come up with a new badge.
I did the one. I did the one for twenty
four months.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now we've got people almost thirty months as a subscriber
to the channel. Thanks to everybody in Green Thanks for
all of your support. We wouldn't be here without you,
guarantee you that. But yeah, this is a This is crazy.
Seeing thirty forty months of NonStop support, that just it's
a little bit mind blowing. So Dean, thanks so much.

(03:09):
And I'm sure now that I've opened the uh opened
the faucet, there's gonna be sever more. And of course
Tortoise Overland coming in with a gifted Ham Radio clip
class memberships.

Speaker 9 (03:20):
Thanks so much. Looks like POEA.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Power got one of those.

Speaker 9 (03:26):
Pete Leonard AA nine you you got a gifted membership,
Chris Robinson got a gifted membership and I'm not gonna
butcher that name, but you know who you are, got
another one of those memberships.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
But thank you for for the ten Man. That's fantastic.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
Jeff.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Remember for thirteen months. I'm gonna get this done as
quick as I can't. Coolie thirteen months as well, Thanks
so much. And of course we can't forget the grouch.
Remember for eleven months. Shit, almost a year already. Where's
time to go?

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Time flies when you're having fun, That's what I've been told.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
So I do see that Lee got gifted membership and
his x y L just tested with us and passed
before the event.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Nice so changed the description.

Speaker 8 (04:08):
Well, I think I looked at the description and said, no, it's.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
It's it's wal.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, it says I'm looking at both of them because
you're scared me about about about ran. But Twitch is
showing the correct one, and uh yeah, it's showing.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
The christ clean out your catch, clean out your cash
first to stream.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Living in last week, like well that he's that guy.

Speaker 8 (04:39):
He's like being that guy you know when you post
a video about an antenna and the guy has to
tell you everything he did wrong.

Speaker 7 (04:45):
It's like that.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
That's not that's just kidd.

Speaker 7 (04:50):
Sorry about his.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
First time callers, longtime listener, Walt be the bomb. Fourteen
months things here and for two months.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
All right.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
We'll get back to some of those here shortly, because
they're just rolling in faster than I can keep up.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
I do want to say, for those of you that
ordered hats.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
Hey what if I ordered a hat? They're here, They're here,
they're here.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
They arrived today from FedEx.

Speaker 9 (05:22):
They are ready to go.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
So as soon as the packaging arrives, I will get
that sent out. And Julie is especial for you because
you were the only one that got the pink hat.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
So there is your hat.

Speaker 8 (05:34):
You go, and.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Hopefully this looks a ton better than the one that
the Economy you had got off of my stupid website.

Speaker 8 (05:41):
I'll just go ahead and say that that hat will
look better on her than a lot of other people.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
I so, Shane, Yes, that's live right now.

Speaker 8 (05:51):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
See I wish I could see something in the green
room right now. Chat who had to Dawn pulled up
before Gosh, dang it.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Boy, and you could see it. He's staying up with
the numbers.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
The watch this who I had get yours off stage
for it hit the wrong button, Steve said, Joe Brett's
got it pulled up. I'm gonna pull it up.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
I had it, I had it pulled up before you
shared yours.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
He just didn't share his. That's what he's gonna tell you.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
And I will say I did see the note from
Frank to go check my discord. Heat already said that
image to me.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Okay, let's all get Walt's book.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yes, well, it's got a book, freaking author to man published.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
By the League, published by the Lead.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
He's a G ninety, he's a G ninety user, he's
an illustrator, he's a poet, a man, video YouTuber man.
What you know? He likes clams in New England, clam Chada.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
I mean that you're not breaking any contracts hanging out
with us.

Speaker 7 (07:00):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Are you sure about that?

Speaker 4 (07:03):
So I haven't seen it yet, but I've seen on
your on Twitter x whatever you want to call it.
When you post those drawings as fantastic drawings.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
As do, is that all the.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
We'll show it.

Speaker 8 (07:15):
We'll show a few pages, like all right, so here's.

Speaker 7 (07:17):
The technical markers.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Let me let me right quick here all right, So
here here's.

Speaker 8 (07:22):
A typical sketch that I did, and then I do
a little you know, modeling on it, and then we
after that we uh you know, I I give a
little talk about I do a little talk show, some
other stuff, some writing on it as well, each antenna
at the end of at the end of each chapter though,
I also, uh, let me find a good one.

Speaker 7 (07:43):
Here I go to here you go. We do the
food too, you know what I mean?

Speaker 8 (07:48):
Yeah, we go, we go to a nice spot place
I've been and put a little food at the end
of it.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
The first few chapters are really some of them.

Speaker 8 (07:57):
I get in depth on on uh counterpoise wires, and
then you know, I get I put a little science
in there.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
As far as the theoretical game.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Well, let me tell everybody out there, for a few
years now, you were posting that stuff on social media,
the the the nice composite drawings. I have a folder
that's named salty Wall and they're all in there and
every once in a while. But the book goes deeper,
and that's why you should buy the book, everybody. And
I'm gonna be asking when someone asks me, hant hint,

(08:30):
what do you want for Father's Day. I'm gonna tell
them I want the book. So there you go, great
Father's Day coming up in junior all.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
And the sketches are there.

Speaker 8 (08:41):
And then with the sketches by hand, I kind of
like did the.

Speaker 7 (08:45):
Counts for your quarter away? Vertical stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
You can't screw up. You can't screw up.

Speaker 8 (08:50):
You can't screw up with this book. Listen, I'll be
honest with you, and I say it in the book.
This isn't the Mozart symphonic antenna book of all antent
of the books, the uh Let's drink Bear, Jimmy Buffett
antenna books.

Speaker 7 (09:02):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
I'm down with that. It really margarite is intennas. Let's go.

Speaker 7 (09:07):
There's there. There's a lot of me in it.

Speaker 8 (09:09):
I mean all through at the end of these chapter
places I've been this is uh and that's quarter you
know exactly. That's what it's all about.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
So it's very personalized. Walk Walk goes above and beyond.
He personalizes it, and that's what makes this book special.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
It's you're on Amazon. You can get that book through Amazon.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
Yeah, I would. I would highly suggest the league.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
You'll get it quicker if my kids are watching and
two and Mike, Mike, my kids are not watching, I'm
gonna make them watch. Okay, this is what dad wants.
I want this book because every year I say I
don't want anything because I just bought another radio. But
we'll talk about that later. But Sarah, I want this book,
and I think everyone this is a great opportunity if

(09:53):
you don't have it.

Speaker 8 (09:54):
You know.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
I like the size too. It's like the Big eight
and a half by eleven, you know what I mean.
So it's it's yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:03):
I'll tell you what when I started, when I when
I first started writing and putting it all together, I
was I.

Speaker 7 (10:09):
One day, I'm talking to.

Speaker 8 (10:10):
The editor and I go, yeah, I don't know how
this is gonna look looking black and white, and he's like,
black and white, dude, it's gonna be full the whole book.

Speaker 7 (10:19):
I'm like, yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 10 (10:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (10:23):
So I was pretty excited about it, so a lot.

Speaker 6 (10:27):
So watch everybody, Amazon the League directly where else where
can where can.

Speaker 8 (10:32):
Right now, I'll be honest with you, The League directly
is the way to get it, because all Amazon's doing
right now is taking the orders and then buying it.

Speaker 7 (10:41):
From the league bringing it to them and shipping it
to you weeks.

Speaker 8 (10:46):
What cracks me up is there's people on my channel
goes I wouldn't buy anything from the league, and I'm thinking, dude,
they're getting your money no matter what you do, because
they published the book.

Speaker 6 (10:59):
But about the league, guy, this is about the antennas
and the food and the experience. That's how I look
at it. Put the league stuff aside. Come on, I
was aside.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
I'll tell you a story on the book.

Speaker 9 (11:12):
I was going.

Speaker 7 (11:12):
I was going to self publish it.

Speaker 8 (11:14):
I had started on this thing like everyone like like
you said, as though you have a where you've been
saving from social media my sketches or whatever, and people
every time I put a sketch up and guys go
to I think the best place to look at some
of my old sketches is my Instagram.

Speaker 7 (11:30):
They're all on there.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
But I would I would get comments, dude, you should
do a book. You should do a book about I
think it was around August or whatever. I was doing
one of my like I did this last one.

Speaker 7 (11:42):
I was doing one of my here's where I'm at.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
This is a channel update, you know, life is great whatever,
And the next day, I'm sitting at work in my email,
I keep my work email, and I'm a little personal
one on the side pops up and it's it's the
American Radio League and then's and they're like, hey, we
watched your video. Dave Minster, the CEO, wants to know.

(12:08):
Can we publish your book. I'm like, let me think
about hell, yeah, you can publish yeah. Yeah, it's like
the American Radio Relate League.

Speaker 7 (12:16):
So I was like, yeah, I was so man. It
was one of those I'll never forget that moment. I
was like, Holy cow.

Speaker 8 (12:22):
And we went back and forth a little bit and
now worked deal and made it happen, and they were awesome.
I mean everyone, I don't know you guys is that
you're in Connecticut. But if you ever go up there
and meet everyone in the office, I know there's a
lot of bad crap that's going around that's really unwarranted
or whatever about some of the stuff that's going on there.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
When when when Jason, when Jason Kyle and I went
up there and we met Steve and everything. I have
my opinions about the league just like everybody else. But
you know what I did, I up you put everything
aside you walk in there and the minute you see
that first stone from Hiram Percy, MAXI and everybody else,

(13:10):
we would not be doing what we are doing today,
as well as so many other contributors, not only in
the hobby, but stuff that's out that's associated outside of
the hobby. Put them all aside. Forget about the personalities
of you know something, don't forget to have fun in
this hobby and learn history is important to us. I'm

(13:30):
talking like the old goat here, but I don't know.
You're right, really, And guess what I worked. I worked
Saudi Arabia or something on seventeen meters. I would never
have that opportunity to do something and I caused a
pile up. Yeah, so if you know, it was just incredible.

Speaker 8 (13:48):
You know, I did a couple of videos recently because
there was another YouTuber that was just trashing and left
and right and it's funny. So I kind of I
didn't mention him somewhat in the video, but it ticked
me off because.

Speaker 7 (14:01):
You know, here's where I stand on it. You say
what you want.

Speaker 8 (14:04):
With the current leadership right now, there would not be
a Salty Waltz Portal. Antenna's sketchbooks on the market right now.
If it wasn't for the guys that are in charge
right now, they see the direction.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
Listen, I know them. I mean, I'm Steve. I freaking
love Steve. All those guys listen.

Speaker 8 (14:18):
They're trying to youth and they also know, and I'm
not ashamed to say it. I'm my audience. And guys
that like follow me, that are with me or whatever
you want to say, they're like me. Man, They're like
XCB ers that like that memorize the answers to the
test and started using voice on on hand radio.

Speaker 7 (14:39):
But there's nothing wrong with that. Man.

Speaker 8 (14:42):
We're learning were and that's what I'm trying to say
in my book.

Speaker 7 (14:45):
Listen. I'm not an expert.

Speaker 8 (14:47):
I don't you know. I'm an engineer, but I'm a
structural engineer. I'm not an RF or a luctial engineer.
I'm a structural engineer. So I mean I have some
capacity with me from that standpoint to learn and to
learn more, but that's.

Speaker 7 (15:01):
Not my field.

Speaker 8 (15:02):
And I try to tell people it's okay to memorize
the answers, and then every people are like, they're listener,
you know whatever, but listen, you start learning after you
get the license, not before.

Speaker 7 (15:13):
That's really and.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Hands absolutely get so that they can they can practice
good good.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
Game and his wife were right on this porch. We
had a great dinner. Afterwards, Steve and I took a
walk and I said, Steve, I'm just going to tell you.
He had an opportunity to get a job up there.
You know what, I told him, go for it, because
I think if I have that same opportunity, based upon
if it met or exceeded any of what I wanted
to do in this hobby, I would be doing the
same thing too. We're not just like any other job.

(15:46):
There's gonna be things we like, things we don't like
in this and that. But we're making what We're gonna
be proactive and we're gonna be good ambassadors and ethically
and we're gonna work this whole thing. Hence, I see
him four years later and it was funny. We we
talked to bought it again. Jason. That's funny. But but
but again, man, and guess what, at the end of

(16:07):
the day, I'll say this and I have to remember
this my too, myself. You want to complain about the
A R R L or any other organization. I don't
care what it is. Guess what and get involved. Don't
be the guy who just bitches and complaints, come with solutions,
participates and if.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
Not a you know it is what it is is
so much easier.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
It's so much easier for people. But look, look, and
I'll be honest with you, the current I mean, yeah,
things are changing.

Speaker 8 (16:39):
You're not getting you know, unless you pay extra, you're
not getting a paper magazine in the meal.

Speaker 7 (16:43):
But other than that, really, what what does the leadership be?
What is it doing to you? I mean, show me
on the doll where the man hurt you. You know
what I'm saying. You know, it's like.

Speaker 11 (16:58):
Yeah, nobody's yeah, nobody that that little pin cushion with
pins going and it's not like that, right right, right, Ah,
this is why we gotta.

Speaker 7 (17:08):
Have cigars, That's right.

Speaker 8 (17:10):
And like I said, I have the utmost respect for
everybody in that building, from top to bottom, from the
very top to the bottom of those people are amazing.
I've worked now over the last eight months, like you know,
weekly back and forth and you know, work to get
this book out and they're just an incredible group of people.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
They really are good I've had nothing but a positive
exchange with them, and most of my interaction has been
with a Good Game.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
I haven't I haven't had a chance to make it
up there yet to visit Good Games.

Speaker 8 (17:43):
The reason they even know who I am because he
did that, you know, his art, his monthly article in
the magazine. He did it I think last year, and
of all the magazine, it was the one leading up
to Dayton.

Speaker 7 (17:54):
The article was about me and my channel, and that
just kind of like that put me up there.

Speaker 6 (17:59):
And I will say that this Good Game is responsible
for a lot of stuff, not everything, but making them
see people us. Jason, you name names in our hobby.
It doesn't and it doesn't make a difference in modes
and the importance of getting people involved. I don't care
whether they're eight years old or eighty years old. It's

(18:20):
about getting involved in this hobby. And what's the word, Joe,
the f word f u N? Is that how it goes?

Speaker 7 (18:25):
Joe Brett's right.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
I would love to know how many radios he's given
away with all with all the kids stuff that he
was doing before he went to the league.

Speaker 8 (18:34):
Yeah, he's oh god, yeah, cool thing about Good Game too,
A lot of people don't know this. He and I
went to grade school in the same area I grew up.
I grew up to the Mississippi Gulf Coast just like
he did. So it's like my dad, my dad and
his dad both not at the same time. We were
discussing it this month.

Speaker 7 (18:51):
Last month.

Speaker 8 (18:52):
My dad worked at Engle ship Building in Pasco Gooula, Mississippi,
and so did his So we were kind of talking
about that.

Speaker 7 (18:58):
So great, dude, and really it.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Was funny about that is good game. Used to live
thirty minutes for me, really, and first time I meet
him was three hours away from here, and before we
could get together to to Poda, he moved to Connecticut.

Speaker 8 (19:15):
Did you did you ever live in the South? You're
in North Mississippi, right, Joe?

Speaker 1 (19:19):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, close to yeah, Okay.

Speaker 6 (19:26):
One of the good games accomplishments was was going to
a part or it wasn't even a PoTA part, but
he was making things work like an antenna. It was
signs to both. It was uh, like that's a post,
that's a poet apart for you guys. Excellent, but that
was incredible. It opened up the floodgates for us to
expand look at what k A. M R D did

(19:49):
did did recently. You know, you know, you know from
from from fence posts to guard rails and there and
and and a top to a garage. I mean my
because you know, Mike and so many other.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
People or Mike, Mike, how many people have told me, well,
you need to go out and do what Mike's doing
and take your g ninety out and do that. I'm like,
if you only knew how aggravating it is when you
do a video and someone else comes out and does
the same video.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
I love Mike. I got too much respect for Mike.
I would never do that to Mike.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
I like, it is interesting though, you can take you
can take the exact same footage of the exact same
thing and give it to two different people and you
will have two completely different videos.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
Right, Yeah, just in how editing is done.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
The n he showed a rattle snake on his last one.
Now I'm afraid of snakes. Guess what I'm gonna be
looking for a giraffe or a rhinoceros. That's what I
want to do. And I may just do a video short.
I may do a YouTube short for you all.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
What video Yeah, it is just gonna load up the
fence to the zoo.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
Those monkeys will be throwing stuff out.

Speaker 7 (20:59):
Up. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool, man. I'll tell you
what I'm really looking forward to the summertime.

Speaker 8 (21:10):
I'll tell you one thing is though, up here, I've
noticed we're staying the technical side of it.

Speaker 7 (21:15):
The ten meter band and the maximum usual frequency.

Speaker 8 (21:18):
Up here in New England is like down here, to
farther south you go, the better like one, twelve and ten.
Why wild you want to know why, I'll tell you why.
It's because as we go towards summer and the delayer
absorption is up farther north over New England. So that's

(21:38):
why ten meters. I mean, I hate to say it,
ten meters sucks up here right now. It really does
this weekend, but this time of year for me in
like out on the outer banks in North Carolina or
down in Virginia beach, dude, I'm slaying ten meters man.

Speaker 7 (21:53):
I'm talking to you know, VK in the afternoon. Whatever.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
It's like.

Speaker 8 (21:57):
So, I love New England, don't get me wrong, but
I am kind of looking forward to getting back down
there for.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
That that we're reporting six meters was open to South
America today.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
Get it excellent, good good, Well, while your last video
you kind of dropped the bomb. It's that the right word.
I mean, we're happy for you. But you're going to
be leaving Rhode Island in New England area in the
next one two, in the next two weeks or so.

Speaker 7 (22:26):
Maybe I'm leaving Friday morning.

Speaker 8 (22:28):
Man.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
Yeah, man, you already got that U haul packed two.

Speaker 8 (22:31):
Hours whatever I got, I gotta being packed up here
pretty much for that.

Speaker 6 (22:35):
But we're happy for you. We know, we know, and
priority one family first.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
You want to get home home to your bride.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Your family. We get it all, and but we I
just feel like we've been honored because you sort of
put New England on the map. You know, those crazy
guys up in New Hampshire, they're hitting it hard and
they're and they're also putting it on the map. But
you kind of did the Rhode Island and that whole case.
I think you really gave a lot of people a
lot of ideas, including myself. I went out last I

(23:06):
went out Saturday and I banged out four New Rhode
Island parks. I had no time to call you. I
was on a limited time. I gotta just I gotta
just do it the is O way. And I did
and it was fun. But again without you and so
many other guys bringing attention to the different parts of
the country. You know, thank you, man, thank you very

(23:27):
firm that's you. I beg this this cigar tonight. This
is a damn good cigar right here, this is you
know for you tonight.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
Southern New England, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and the southern part
of mass right the southern coast of New England epic.
I love it here, man, It's just a great place
to be now. I mean I knew the area before
I got here nineteen eighty seven, eighty eight eighty nine.
I worked at the Electric Vote and lived in New London,

(23:56):
so I know the area pretty well. And my wife
worked at Mystic Marine Life Aquarium.

Speaker 7 (24:02):
So we like, we know the area and and and
and so.

Speaker 8 (24:07):
But I just never got deep into Rhode Island like
I have gotten a chance to do this last year.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
And man, I love this state. I absolutely love it.

Speaker 8 (24:19):
So what I'm probably gonna do, as I said in
my last video, I want to start doing a yearly
like a one week de expedition and get some channel
members or our guys, like you guys or whatever that
want to get up with me. And I don't know
if we'd like rent a beach house or whatever and
do a like a de expedition.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
Yeah, and uh, and I want to do it.

Speaker 7 (24:39):
I've been saying that to Paul and Eric and uh
and to Mike.

Speaker 8 (24:43):
You know, I want to like us all to like
do a really cool like let's just have the party
house for three or four days in Rhode Island and
and like just operate, you know what I mean, live
stream the whole time and do have fun with it.

Speaker 7 (24:57):
I kind of want to start doing stuff like that.

Speaker 8 (24:59):
And I think my first one, maybe come around a
year from now, would be come back here.

Speaker 7 (25:04):
I will definitely do it in Rhode Island.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Something for us to think about now again, because because
again on Saturday in between now you know the route
one in the one A crawl, we're all there. We're
all there, and there's a lot of houses there, stuff
on the beaches and close to the beach. But I
was one or two weeks before the season opens. We
know how this area just explosed, just like down in

(25:28):
Steve you know, and the there's various parts of the country.
You know, the Carolina is a galveson. I'm sure Florida,
everything just goes crazy. New Hampshire, New Hampshire in the
lakes go they go. I get it all, So we
got it. There's a logistic thing sometimes to as well,
and that leads to cost savings too while still having fun.

(25:49):
So yeah, I would love that. Count me in. It's
a good time of the year. Kids don't have too
much going on, you know, and that ring so yeah, yeah,
I would love to be part of me. Just wake up,
have some eggs and bacon and sausage and turn on
a radio. Man, that's all I want to do, and
have a cigar. That's right.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
New Years down in Galveston. Maybe New Year's in Galveston. Yeah,
I think we'd probably get a deal in a house.
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (26:15):
That'd be cool.

Speaker 10 (26:15):
Man.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
Get us a sack of clams and have clam bake. Man,
It'll it'll be fun.

Speaker 6 (26:19):
And a lot of people don't even know what that is.
Wet as well as I want to go to different
parts of the country and I want to experience that
soul food of that area, you know. What I mean
a lot of people don't even know what a clam
bake is, you know, But that's okay. We'll teach it
and we'll and we'll play some radio. We'll have some
great discussions, some good drink, some good cigars, a lot
of fun.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Man.

Speaker 8 (26:39):
Yeah, we'll go to market basket and buy its like
healthy premade stuffies, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (26:43):
Hell yeah, absolutely, can you get us hear me? Sorry?
I had some difficulties.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
You have your software again, didn't you know?

Speaker 4 (26:52):
I bumped a wire and as as I did and
disconnected and then everybody all my applications were like freaking out.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
Hey.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
Well, from a ham radio perspective, being up here now
for for about for about what almost two years.

Speaker 8 (27:05):
Now, I've been up here a year, it'll be a
year a year, what was.

Speaker 6 (27:09):
Your biggest or or not the biggest, but what were
some ham radio challenges that you might have had here
but maybe not in other parts? Or you'll compare to
poland that where you've operated or you know, Virginia or
wherever anything that you that that comes to your mind.

Speaker 7 (27:26):
For me operating on the beach, the time comes in
a hell a lot faster here than it does down south.
Learned that the hard way. Learn that the hard way.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
In other words, I got twenty minutes.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
So in other words, the water, the water is at
your ankles and a few hours later it's waist high.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
I like how you said that because you knew instantly
that it was from experience there, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (27:50):
There it comes.

Speaker 8 (27:51):
I will tell you this, I mean this, I'm not
this is no bs. I will say this. Operating portable
out on the beaches here and being here, I have
met some of the I've gotten the most intelligent questions ever.

Speaker 7 (28:05):
I don't know what it is about people.

Speaker 8 (28:07):
In New England, but people that walk to beach in
New England are a different breed than the people that
walk to beach in the South.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
And I think it's because people in the South are.

Speaker 8 (28:16):
Like, hell, yeah, we'll vacation, and I don't get what
people in New England will come up. I actually had
a guy I was at the Mackerel Cove. It's really
cool place I was at a couple month ago or so,
a few weeks ago, and he came up to me.
He goes, are you a ham? I go yeah, I
go are you He goes no.

Speaker 7 (28:33):
I've always kind of had an interest in what goes
on with Ham radio. He goes, what are you doing?
I started explaining him salt. He goes, yeah, propagation.

Speaker 8 (28:42):
I bet it's amazing having a ground plane with saltwater
or whatever.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
I'm like, holy cow, I've.

Speaker 8 (28:47):
Never had just a common regular about channel man, let's
get you out here or whatever. But but on top
of that, too, I've I've had like some you know,
women had just come up to me and goes, hey,
what are you doing. I go, I'm a nerd, I'm
a Ham radio operator. To go really, and they go,
what do you are you making contacts?

Speaker 7 (29:08):
I go, yeah, I just talked to a guy in Austria.
He goes, there are She'll.

Speaker 8 (29:11):
Go, oh that is so cool, Mildred, come over here,
come over here, you know what I mean? And like so,
I'm really that is kind of a different thing here
on the New England Beaches.

Speaker 7 (29:22):
Of course, the New England Beaches you pay to get
on for one and two of them.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
The other ones are kind of a little private like
town beaches, whereas where I go in North Carolina and
Virginia is like everybody's on.

Speaker 7 (29:34):
There, you know what I mean. It's it's just a
different world.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
Well, that's why I went. That's why I that's why
I went, not to be cheap, but which is easier
for me to do the four part? I should have
done five, so I could have gotten a what is
it the Warhog Award, But I'm not really chasing awards.
But I ran out of time. But I think one
of the most common questions is is is how far?

(29:56):
What's the farthest person you've ever talked to? You know,
everybody is always kind of amazed. Buy that and and
I'll bring them over. And I said, we'll look at
the software here at course, you know the polo and
it has the flags. I like it when people can
recognize a flag to me that they're they're very intelligent.
They're very intelligent.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
And when they when I say that.

Speaker 6 (30:16):
I did have one guy. His grandfather was I forget
the place up in Gloucester. There's a mansion up in Gloucester,
Harmon Harmon Castle, I believe it's called. And his grandfather
was mister Harmon and he did a lot of work
with Harmon Organs and did a lot of work with
with the d O D and some real high classified stuff.

(30:39):
He came running back out to my potice side. He
lived maybe about five minutes away, with this old three
ring binder with the old cell cellul fame paper with stuff,
stuff deside and stuff was blacked out, so you knew
the da. Some people allowed him to have his father's memorabilia,
but they had to black it out. And there was
some stuff, some high stuff that I couldn't even understan

(31:00):
In about radar and submarines. And he was just so
honored to see that the hobby was moving forward and
this and that. And he sat with me and I'm like,
I got a pile up running here, guys, I got
but you know, at that rate, the hell with the
pile up, you know, I mean, the pilots will always
be there. I thought it was just more important just
to talk to the local and just be a good
ambassador to the hobby.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
I'm glad we got you off of the paper logs
and having to go to your truck and get the
globe to point to where you made your contacts.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Oh my god, glad.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
The paper days on the clipboard, the paper days on
the clipboard. Man, Hey, I still keep paper. I still
God forbid something fails. Something. I still got paper. Man,
you never know when you emergency knows, no holiday. I
still got it.

Speaker 8 (31:50):
People always ask me, why don't you log while you're
out there? They don't understand. When I'm filming a video,
I got the film going, you know, I got the
camera going the whole time. I'll make a contact and
then and I'll look up and go fourteen three two eight,
you know or whatever or fourteen two three eight, and
then I'll keep doing and I'm hunting, and then I'll go,
you know, fifteen meters twenty one three two five, and

(32:12):
then I go, I cut all that out.

Speaker 7 (32:14):
So when I get back to the house, I run
the video and I do I log it all that way.
You know.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
That's that's one of my one if you're sending secret
code out there, yeah, exactly. That hold on people are.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
Walking by or what why is he yelling at a
camera and what is that saying.

Speaker 6 (32:28):
I like it when people say are you are you
monitoring migrating birds or fish?

Speaker 7 (32:34):
I've gotten the whale. I've got the whale one. It's
in my videos. The woman came up to me and go,
are you monitoring the whales? I go, excuse me, the whales?
Are you listening to the whales. I go, oh, no, no,
I'm hammer radio operator.

Speaker 5 (32:45):
But I've had always tell them I'm looking for my dog.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
The first time I ever took a radio to apart.
This was before POTO was the thing. And I have
my TS four forty ken wood sitting on the picnic table,
twenty meters dipoles stretched out, and you know the campgrounds,
I have what's the camp the people that live there
take care of camp host.

Speaker 8 (33:10):
Camp host like we had in college, the r a
in the dorm room, you.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Know, yeah, yeah, yeah. She comes walking and I've seen
her kind of walking, kind of looking him like and
I probably haven't put this up, you know whatever, And
she's like, she finally comes up, excuse me, what is that?
And I told her and she becomes she goes, oh,
I thought you done found a way to get cell
phone service out of here. Well, I mean we can

(33:37):
make a call.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
I tell you how to contact for you.

Speaker 8 (33:42):
The coolest and the most started out frustrating, but the
coolest experience I ever had. There's a beach in Virginia,
beach like the Resort beach, and then south of that
there's a beach that's kind of it's called Crowatan at
the very end, and it is like there's that's where
like the mansions are at right, So they're they're on
the like got the resort strip. You go over a
bridge and then there's a bunch of like high end

(34:04):
places and then at the end of that there's a
public parking lot where everyone surfs. So I go down
there and I operate in the surfing area because and
I go, you know, I'm putting like a counterpoise.

Speaker 7 (34:15):
Right out in the water or whatever.

Speaker 8 (34:16):
So this guy comes walking, one of the guys that
lives in the mansions, and he's like before I even
go out, I mean this, I used to surf here
as a kid, so I know the area well whatever.

Speaker 7 (34:26):
And I go out there and some of the surfers will.

Speaker 8 (34:28):
Come up and talk to me, Hey man, what's going
on whatever, And I'm like explained to him, I'm HAM
radio operator. So I'm out there one day, I'm talking
and operating right in the surf and this guy with
his dog comes up and it's like like he's got
like fifty yards of sand behind me and I've got
all of about a five meter stretch from me to

(34:50):
the ocean, and he like has the walk his dog
right in front of me, and he's like, what are
you doing? What is this?

Speaker 6 (34:54):
What is here?

Speaker 8 (34:55):
He goes, He's like the beach Karen, right, I mean
we're walking all the way up and down here.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
I am right.

Speaker 8 (35:02):
And he's like, just you need to get rid of
that thing. I pay all my taxes here to live here. Well,
these two like really like these dudes were awesome surfer dudes.
Like behind me, they're like waxing their boards whatever. One
of them gets up and walks over and says, if
you don't get that out of here, I'm going to
you're And he's like and I'm like, I'm like, kill.

Speaker 7 (35:26):
Thanks, I appreciate it, you know what I mean. The
guy loves you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (35:30):
If you're listening on the podcast, Wall said some really
bad words, but they're very funny and very appropriate.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Censored himself, he centered himself.

Speaker 6 (35:40):
Shane didn't have to do that.

Speaker 5 (35:42):
I have to beep. Beach Karen is gonna be gonna
be my favorite beach Karen.

Speaker 8 (35:52):
And this little pristy dog went the other way.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
You know, hey, wal When different parts of the country,
like Rhode Island, they have the traditional clam shacks. They're
all nicknamed some type of clam but there, but there's
a there's a good variety of seafood and other things.
The same thing around the country or where you've been
in Poland, does every little area have.

Speaker 7 (36:14):
Its little yeah food and oh yeah absolutely.

Speaker 8 (36:19):
I'll tell you one of the things when I first
started the Channel and my very I was working in Kauai, Hawaii.

Speaker 7 (36:25):
May have tough duty, but I had to do it.

Speaker 6 (36:28):
So terrible.

Speaker 7 (36:30):
I'm so sorry, terrible.

Speaker 8 (36:33):
Yeah. So there's actually in the book, there's a couple.
I think I got two or three different places from
Kawhi when I was there. But like one of the things,
and matter of fact, one of my recent videos, I
fell in love with in in Hawaii, they're really into
pokey you know, the pokey bowls with the seafood and
the bowl with the rice or whatever.

Speaker 7 (36:54):
And I was that guy who's like niney whatever.

Speaker 8 (36:57):
Well, I started eating at all in love with it
was just so good, right, So everywhere you go Hawaii
was that. The other things that was just amazing in
Hawaii where the where the fish tacos, you know, with
the local Hawaiian fish. Love that in Hawaii. I actually
I would. I think it was maybe my first or
second video. I was working at Barking Sands Range. It's

(37:20):
a naval base and.

Speaker 7 (37:22):
It is where w w V H is at. I
mean I was I because I had a clearance and
could get in the base.

Speaker 8 (37:28):
I walked right up to the antenna and took my
little tech son and put it on. You know, uh
one zero zero zero zero. But I'm standing like I'm
standing like fifty feet from the antenna.

Speaker 7 (37:42):
But right outside the.

Speaker 8 (37:43):
Gate is like this little area there in there, like
the shrimp Shack, Island Taco whatever. You know.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
There's a lot of stuff there. So that's cool.

Speaker 8 (37:53):
You go.

Speaker 7 (37:53):
It's in the book as well. Uh as though you
might like this.

Speaker 8 (37:57):
Down in North Florida, in the northeast corner of Florida,
there's a chowder there called Minorcan Chowder. It's not like
it's not like anything in New England. It's it's kind
of like a bunch of different seafood. It's got an
olive brian bass to it. It's just a it's really good.
That's in the that's in the book. That's that's in Jacksonville,

(38:19):
right in the north side of Jacksonville, place I love there.

Speaker 7 (38:21):
It's called chowder. Ted's amazing food.

Speaker 8 (38:24):
There the outer banks of North Carolina where I go.
If we call them Pamelico reds, they're all like you
hear a Gulf shrimp. We have a shrimp down there.
And the Pamlico sound is huge that you can go
get you a half pound of steamed Pamlico reds with
Old Bay on them for you know, six ninety nine
all over the place, you know what I mean. That's

(38:45):
big there where I live out in Virginia. Crab I mean,
I live at the bottom of the of the Chesapeake Bay.
Blue crabs everywhere we have and we have blue crabs
and blue and crab cake sandwiches.

Speaker 7 (38:58):
And slash crab.

Speaker 6 (39:00):
Yeah, absolutely true.

Speaker 7 (39:03):
The golf this is good.

Speaker 6 (39:04):
Yeah yeah, Shane, I am telling you, man, a soft
shell crab on toast. Yeah, so good. So it's like
it probably at one time was probably considered like peasant food,
but it's not. It is like the ambrosia of oh Oh,
I like eating.

Speaker 7 (39:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (39:22):
Well, it's like I was talking about good game and
I both living on the Gulf coast as kids down there. Man,
crawfish man, crawfish season man, there's so you kind of
learned how to eat crawfish as well.

Speaker 7 (39:33):
And that is really where I developed my love of oysters.
As a kid. My dad would get golf oysters and
make oyster stew and you go down there.

Speaker 8 (39:41):
Now there's I love roll oysters, but there is nothing
like a I mean a big giant golf oyster raw
man with saso on it.

Speaker 6 (39:52):
Those oysters, those oysters. The rumor about being an Afro dzac, I.

Speaker 7 (39:59):
Ain't all rom or man.

Speaker 6 (40:00):
After about about eight or nine dozen, man, I am ready.

Speaker 8 (40:06):
Yeah, ok yeah, a dozen golf oysters before you go
to bed, you're gonna wake up underneath the temple.

Speaker 7 (40:14):
I'm just saying that.

Speaker 6 (40:18):
Somebody clipped that you'll have to masks. Yeah yeah, hey,
well now what about so what okay, what's just now? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (40:33):
I want to try it out there distract.

Speaker 7 (40:35):
Yeah yeah, so I got that.

Speaker 8 (40:37):
That's in the book.

Speaker 7 (40:38):
That's in the book, not that culture. But I talk
about clam chowder.

Speaker 6 (40:42):
Another reason by the book. So so once again I
don't care. So again I told you guys, how again
I shout out to Rhode Island on on Saturday, because again, preseed,
I want to get some stuff done before, because I
know Rhode Island gets so packed, like so many other locations.
I think we can all agree there are a lot
of parks that we could still participate with PODA even

(41:04):
during the height of the season. You either go on
different days or you'd savoid them and you and you
go to other parks. I think we all have that
little book up here in our head right right well
that you just kind of stay away from it's too
busy or whatever, and then you hit it more, maybe
more frequently during other times of the year.

Speaker 8 (41:23):
That was the reason I developed, which I'm sorry this
is not an advertisment for the book, but we keep
going to that coastal the coastal twenty antenna, the coastal
twenty antenna. The idea there was when the beach is packed,
I could go all the way back up on the
dune away from them and have an antenna that I
could operate with actually without needing the ground plane, you know,

(41:45):
being close enough to get an effect from the salt orter,
but not being in the midst of the salt order
without the ground playing there.

Speaker 7 (41:51):
That was the idea, Uh, is there what you're talking about?

Speaker 8 (41:54):
You know there are times of the year where you're
not going to go out on the For me, I'm
not going to go out on the beach and operate,
you know.

Speaker 7 (41:59):
It's so yeah.

Speaker 6 (42:01):
For fact, my goal I'm about I'm about a ten
minute walk to I live off a private beach and
it's not a pristine white beach. It's a real rocky beach.
But there's some opportunity to me to drop a poet
to thirty three in there, or a soda beams pole whatever.
And I want to buy your book because I want
to play with this one. Especially now where we are

(42:21):
in the solar cycle, I think it's really important to
really now's the time to do it. So that's one
of my goals that I have a personal goal of
mine this year. And whether I take out the eight
ninety one or whether I take out a QRP radio,
I don't care. I want to do it and just
try to see what it's like to have salt water

(42:42):
being really right there with you and contributing to your
PODA activation or well, well, for me it's I could
be a pote I'll be chasing, yeah, but don't happen.

Speaker 7 (42:53):
You'll see the difference.

Speaker 8 (42:53):
I can tell you for a fact, I can go
on an early morning, let's just say, in the middle
of the summer, six thirty seven am in the morning.
I could cut on my radio in my home QTH,
which is still only you know, two hundred meters from
salt water, and I could barely hear VK or I

(43:15):
can like hear them, I try, they don't hear me
or whatever. I can take my G ninety and walk
that two hundred meters down to the salt water, build
an antenna, put my counterpoise on it, and uh and
with twenty wats I'm talking to DK.

Speaker 7 (43:30):
And they're telling me I'm a five eight. You know
what I mean.

Speaker 8 (43:33):
You're you will you will know the difference. You know,
you will know the difference when you're on top of
salt water. It freaking makes a big difference.

Speaker 6 (43:41):
That's an encouragement for me. And people will tell you,
and they'll tell you because they've been rocking it for
the last year now.

Speaker 7 (43:48):
Yeah, it's a real.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Put up a kite right there on the beach.

Speaker 6 (43:52):
Hey, Julian Vaughan, I was trying to work you this weekend.
I heard you guys, you had such a pile up.
I was trying to. I wanted to get you one
in one or to. I tried so hard. It just
got so frustrating. But it is what it is. We'll
get you next time.

Speaker 7 (44:04):
So a video I did recently.

Speaker 8 (44:07):
When I went home, I was on Max Hit or
Kiddy Hawk, got on the Outer Banks where I took
three hundred dollars while I was cheering Rhode Island, and
I bought everything on Amazon and had it sent to
my home in Virginia. Flew home and picked it up,
and I got that little red cornered five watt radio
with a battery in it and went out on the beach.
Dude was I was five seven, five eight into Spain.

Speaker 7 (44:29):
With five wats talking on that little thing.

Speaker 8 (44:31):
And I'll be honest with you, if you look at
what the conditions were, they were absolutely horrible that day.

Speaker 7 (44:36):
I mean it was like, uh, we were coming out
of a you know, G one, G two storm.

Speaker 8 (44:41):
It was horrible. And I'm talking to David got it
by the name of David on over in Spain, you know,
and he's like, salty wall, Oh my god, yeah.

Speaker 7 (44:49):
I'm only five watch QRP. He's like, holy cow, you
know what I mean? Like and it's you know, and
it really is.

Speaker 8 (44:55):
I'm not really five wats That's what people had come
back to the book again. After one of the book,
I talk about decibels. Need to start thinking in DB's
and not watts, you know what I mean. So you know,
from a standpoint, if you want to just keep thinking
and watch, think of the ten dB game.

Speaker 7 (45:13):
I'm getting off of that.

Speaker 8 (45:14):
So if I'm out there with five watts's, it's really
like fifty, you know what I mean. If I'm out
there with one hundred, it's a thousand, you know what
I mean. That's the difference on being on top of
salt water. And I get these comments all the time. Yeah,
I like to see you do that in the woods
somewhere and I'm like, dude, the channel is called coastal
wage and why.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
You know that's what we're doing here.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
You know.

Speaker 8 (45:39):
That's another channel. That's another channel. Yeah, but yeah, it's
a lot of fun. I mean, I I it's my shtick.
I guess you could say I like it. I know.
But DK three ye over in Australia. I didn't know
about that guy when I started my channel, and then
everybody's like you're copying him. I'm like, dude, I don't
mean he's lots of harder than me.

Speaker 7 (46:00):
He does things different than me or whatever's on the
other Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah, he does everything upside down. That's okay.

Speaker 8 (46:09):
Yeah, he's different, and I don't want to be like him.
I want to be totally different than him.

Speaker 7 (46:12):
I respect it. I bought his book. I bought his
book a couple of years ago. When I realized he
had a book out.

Speaker 6 (46:19):
When you think about look look at it. Look at
the number of ham radio channels that has come up
over the last four years. Here, I know you, nobody
is really doing it exactly the same. And if they were,
people modified their stuff and they're still continuing to do it.
If channels have stopped, it's probably due to personal reasons, work, family, whatever,

(46:40):
and that happens. But overall, we've all kind of branched out.
And look at this. We have never I don't think
on on our on here a club. I don't ever
think we've ever done a build, have we. I don't
think we've ever done a build with a camera view
down and and we're gonna wrap this toroid and we're
going to solder this to a board, and we're gonna.

Speaker 8 (46:59):
That's that's that's it.

Speaker 7 (47:00):
That's so yeah, yeah, somebody that age thing, man, you
know what I mean, Like I wouldn't do that.

Speaker 6 (47:09):
Let me know it.

Speaker 8 (47:09):
That's him.

Speaker 6 (47:10):
Let him do it.

Speaker 8 (47:11):
Yeah, let him do it. That's what I'm all about.
That's kind of like me and we were joking about
it adding food at the end of the videos.

Speaker 7 (47:18):
Eventually someone's gonna do that because there's always and you know,
there is.

Speaker 8 (47:22):
A lot of people that that that do their own
that that do their thing and then.

Speaker 7 (47:26):
They copy or that.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
I'm thinking brewery, that's a great idea.

Speaker 7 (47:30):
That's what you should do, Like go to a different video.

Speaker 6 (47:33):
Steve is famous for copying thumbnails from and that's that's
that's that's where he gets his steal from.

Speaker 7 (47:40):
Hey what.

Speaker 6 (47:42):
Yah or vice versa. Hey, well, have you ever have
I had this experience? I want to know if you
and the other guys here have had this experience. You
bring a couple of antennas out with you, you hit
a park and you think maybe it's being conditionous, but
the ant is not really doing it for you. It's
not the intent. Well it just what is You switch
antennas and all of a sudden, you have better results more.

(48:06):
And I found that on Saturday. And no disrespect to
all my end faeds that we're doing well. But man,
I threw on that a task and for some reason
going vertical with that a task I was having. Was
it because the difference of late in the afternoon versus
eleven o'clock in the morning. I don't know. I'm not

(48:26):
the scientist here, but it's just fun to use different antennas.

Speaker 8 (48:31):
That's the beauty that that is the absolute beauty of
hf HAM radio. Its conditions are different every almost every minute,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (48:40):
Change, It can change by the minute.

Speaker 7 (48:42):
It can change by the minute.

Speaker 8 (48:43):
And then antennas like sometimes conditions are such that you
kind of need more of an inviss than you do
a low rate, you know, low takeoff, and it's just
you know, you never know until you get out there
and try it. And I'm more of a DXer though
I like to work DX. Nothing against PODA. I mean
I don't I've probably activated six or seven times PoTA.

Speaker 7 (49:05):
I hunt, you know what I mean.

Speaker 8 (49:06):
I like to I'm just a hunter.

Speaker 7 (49:07):
That's what I like to do. And and so I
go out there and do that.

Speaker 8 (49:12):
But yeah, it's it. Just like I said, every time
is different. I will tell you this, every time I
have activated Poda. I mean I think I could activate
Poda with a hundred milliwatt, the crappiest radio whatever.

Speaker 7 (49:25):
As soon as I spot everyone knows who I am.

Speaker 8 (49:30):
Yeah, it works, it works.

Speaker 7 (49:32):
I mean not, I'm not.

Speaker 8 (49:33):
I don't mean that to sound egotistical, but dude, people
just know who I am so right away they climb
over each other trying to get me in their log.

Speaker 6 (49:42):
But you know, right, but you know so once it
goes out on the Poda spotting page, people know you're there,
Hammeler if anybody has you or they plug in like like,
I got a lot of comments from guys who were saying,
I don't follow you on Hammeler, but I need it
Rhode Island, and thank you. I totally forgot about that.

(50:03):
Feel that option in hand alert if you need a
certain state or a region around the world, ham Alert
can can be that for you. You don't care who
and that and that was kind of cool. Band conditions
at one part the PoTA power group, they were a
five eight five nine. I was packing up, went to
my other part. I said, I'm going to get them
in fifteen minutes, I'm going to be set up and operate,

(50:24):
and there they were in the mud. For me, I'm
like God darning the damn band conditions. You know. I
wanted to say congratulations, Julie Van, I'm happy for you, guys.
I couldn't even say that to him. But yeah, like
I said, we'll have to just wait for the next part.

Speaker 7 (50:37):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 8 (50:39):
I tell you what worries meaning about Poda, like I said,
and I love PoTA and nothing against PODA, but I
remember the solar minimum, and I love twenty I actually
like twenty meters. During the solar minimum, I could get
out on twenty meters and work the X and the
solar minimum and have and enjoy the twenty Let's be honest, guys,

(51:02):
the twenty meter band is your friend at solar minimum.

Speaker 6 (51:05):
And it is the band is like you think, So
I will, I will, I will challenge you and say
forty yeah, forty northeast.

Speaker 7 (51:14):
What but I'm talking about in the daytime on the beach,
you know what I mean? Like that? So for me, so.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
Seventeen you should be kind of close to there because
they almost act.

Speaker 8 (51:26):
I challenge you right now. To go out on a
Sunday around lunchtime on twenty meter bands anywhere in the
United States of America and not be inundated from one
frequency to the other.

Speaker 7 (51:38):
With PODA, it's a pot to day, you know what
I mean, it's like.

Speaker 8 (51:41):
And my worries is is that for guys like me
that are more of a the excerpt, I mean, I
PODA too. I'm that's say anything moment, but I'm worried
about when we get the minimum. Oh, that's gonna crunch
in together. We're gonna be like, holy cow.

Speaker 7 (51:54):
Man.

Speaker 8 (51:54):
It's just like when a contest happens, you know what
a contest is going on, and you're like, I'm done, man,
I'm done.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
I don't you know, I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (52:02):
And I will tell you why. Maybe I am. Maybe
I am the exception, but I miss bottom of the
cycle forty meters for me because I had such a wide,
wide radius from up into New to Nova Scotia, Newfundland
into Michigan. Anything at Mississippi East uh to the Carolinas

(52:23):
was always like no problem. Five watts, one hundred wats.
Now it's a struggle. It's a struggle sometimes to make
some forty meters contacts into Virginia. You know, Pennsylvania is
usually no issue, but you see it is shrunk. So
I think again, as the cycle is going to change,
we're at the top. We're probably good for one another
what three to five years, then we're gonna see a

(52:45):
dramatic down down and where the bands are going to
be changing. And we'll probably be here three years from now,
five years from now talking about you know the differences.
But we will adapt as Hams. We will adapt because
we want to play radio. I don't think excuse me,
we want to go back and be bored again. No, this,

(53:08):
this is, this is, this will continue, This will continue
as long as we continue to be good, be good
on the bands. He is a frequency in use, and
if someone says no or whatever, or if we hear
another polo station, we're not gonna step bottom. I love
it when when another PODA activator says to me, hey, guys,
I'm all done, you can have my my frequency, just

(53:28):
keep it going. I love that, very very gentlemanlike, and
I like to pay it forward to by doing that too.

Speaker 8 (53:34):
I will say this, I mean this from the bottom
of my heart, and I'm this may go way the
other way with what people think. I honestly think Poda
is probably the greatest thing that's happened to.

Speaker 7 (53:45):
Ham Radio in the last twenty five I agree, no doubt,
no doubt.

Speaker 10 (53:50):
I mean, I'm not going to deny that it really
for a lot of folks that reignited there. This is
so reason I got my general so reason the reason.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
I was watching Mike's videos doing POD and we couldn't
do anything else, so we had to get figure out
something else to do.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
So I blew the dog just sit in the park
and play Podo.

Speaker 6 (54:10):
Yeah, I blew the dust off an icon. My first
icon sent me three hundred literally had dust on it.
I had a dish tannel over to protect it, and
I just, you know, cleaned it up. And I found
this guy Ka m R D and a hockey sweater.

Speaker 8 (54:23):
I you know.

Speaker 6 (54:24):
I mean, we've all heard the story, you know, and
I'm like, man, if that's.

Speaker 7 (54:27):
A hockey guy right there, he called it a sweater.
I love it.

Speaker 6 (54:30):
Well, no, no, because I used to call it a
sweater and Mike, and Mike would just tear me up.
So now I learned to catch myself. It's it looks
like a sweater, but they call it a sweater or a.

Speaker 8 (54:42):
Right.

Speaker 6 (54:43):
I don't want my jersey whatever. I don't want to gill.

Speaker 7 (54:49):
Is, are you a Bruins fan?

Speaker 8 (54:51):
You got to be a Bruins fan, right, You're probably
a Whalers fan back in the day, but now you're
a Bruins fan.

Speaker 6 (54:57):
That's my guests went to a Whaler's when I was young,
and I loved it, but just never follow through because
I just started working as a seventeen year old kid,
I was working forty hours and and you know, right
after high school, man, I was the guy working fifty
six sixty seventy hours. It wasn't until recently I slowed down. Now,
I don't really want any overtime. Matter of fact, if

(55:18):
I had my choice, I would love to be retired
right this second. I don't even have to clean out
the locker at work. I'll just leave it up there.

Speaker 8 (55:27):
Yeah, dude, in the last eleven months, I've worked three
thousand hours in the last eleven months.

Speaker 6 (55:32):
Yeah, and a half of working level. I'm done. I'm burned.

Speaker 7 (55:37):
Hey, I got myself out of a hot I was
in though. I mean I've had money.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
Okay, that'll do that'll do it. That helps. And those
are great opportunities, but you just get to a time
in your life and you start looking at you know,
like for me sixty one, how much longer do I have?
I want? My goal is to live to be one hundred.
But out of that hunt, if I can make it
to one hundred, how long will I be playing Ham radio?

(56:02):
Because when you get to that eighty five ninety, someone's
gonna turn on the radio for me, you know, or
will I be just really the station? Or guys, will
I be doing FT eight you know what I mean?
Or maybe maybe the new FT sixteen or something.

Speaker 8 (56:20):
I'll tell you what I'll tell you. Kind of my
mind jump on you a little bit. But this is
an important Ham radio thing for me. Uh and and
and and I want to live to be one hundred two.

Speaker 7 (56:30):
And this is why.

Speaker 8 (56:32):
My oldest grandson is six, and he's on the spectrum.
He's nonverbal, but he's so sharp. I mean, I think
he's a smart kid. He just can't talk, so he
to communicate. He he can sign, like when he wants more,
I mean in sign language that's more or whatever, So
he he just can't verbalize it, right, So I've got

(56:53):
this fantasy and not a fantasy. I've had this idea
that I'm going to teach him code, and I'm open
that I'm hoping that and that may be something that
like in the future, that that we break through autism,
nonverbal autism with Morse code. And I'm hoping that my
oldest grandson and I can have a like this strongest

(57:16):
bond and I get to live to be one hundred
and see him be you know, you know, forty five
or whatever, and he becomes a HAM and he becomes
a HAM and can code, so you know, there and
we say this about Ham radio, there's so much to
it or whatever. Now my youngest grandson's three, he's already like,
you know, he'll he'll be a lot like me or whatever.

Speaker 7 (57:38):
He's got a lot to say or whatever. And I'm
hoping I get him into the you know, he'll he'll
be out there, you know, doing his thing as well.

Speaker 8 (57:47):
But you know, I'm hoping the future that Ham radio
can be something that that I can pass on to
my grandkids and then when I'm one hundred and one
and I pass away, they'll be old.

Speaker 7 (57:58):
Salty you know. Ham radio op operators as well and
do that.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
So that's a great goal.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
Radio do just get into We talked to people all
the time.

Speaker 6 (58:11):
Yeah yeah, and you also made one sideband contact too,
at least that I know of me.

Speaker 5 (58:19):
Hey, you could go out to us one six seven
six and go poda on the beach.

Speaker 6 (58:26):
That's ham An Acid. Yeah, yes, I've been there. I
have a kilo there, the last wire in the water. See.
The problem is that's a very very popular Connecticut park.
It's huge, but it's a I have I have. I
have used a claw out there. The rangers all know me.

(58:46):
The rangers all stop I again again, it's all about
a partnership. I have knock on wood. I have never
had a problem with a ranger in any park. It's all,
I truly believe. It's all how you say hello to them,
you invite them all where, you explain honestly, you keep
you know again, I'm not building the weapons of mass
destruction over here, you know, And they all know it.
They you know. The only time they asked me was

(59:09):
is for this particular shelter I had up in the winter.
They said, you really can't have all four sides closed up,
But I said, it's wintertime. And I got to mister buddy.
They said, open a window and half close a door.
That's all you had to do. Fine, fine, fine, and
by bye. Their truck went down the road, and I

(59:29):
just kept on offering. So again, maybe I'm lucky, but
I truly believe it's all how you talk to people
you know and you know. Never. Well, I got a
real important question that I've been dying to ask you
for so many years.

Speaker 7 (59:42):
Now I'm pouring something. If you can hear it all.

Speaker 6 (59:47):
Right, now, that's that's good because I hear this is
not drink this, this question isn't drink worthy. Yet. We
may have a few. We still have an hour to go.
So you like playing with your wire in tennis? M
what I'll mention a manufacturer's name if you don't want

(01:00:08):
Is there any manufactured antenna that you would buy? Like, uh,
a pre made vertical with aluminum or you know where
I'm going.

Speaker 8 (01:00:20):
You like to be honest with you, I've fallen down
the rabbit hole of all of the of the Chinese
radios like that, which I understand are a ripoff of
the pack, like the PAC twelve, the JPC twelve, whatever
of those. I'm really starting I'm just getting into those
by really starting to enjoy those antennas, and I like them,

(01:00:44):
you know, I almost feel I feel troubled sometimes when
I do a video on let's just say the JPC
twelve or whatever kind of knowing, you know, the that
maybe they the rites or whatever they copied or whatever.
There is an American Manu facturer that I have that
have sent me some antennas, and I'll be honest with

(01:01:05):
their stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:01:06):
Is really really good.

Speaker 8 (01:01:08):
But their stuff is really really expensive, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:01:12):
That's what's what's the materire, what's the antenna, what's the composite?

Speaker 8 (01:01:20):
Like?

Speaker 6 (01:01:20):
What does it mean?

Speaker 8 (01:01:21):
Like?

Speaker 6 (01:01:21):
Is it aluminum tubing?

Speaker 8 (01:01:23):
It's aluminum, It's aluminum. I mean, it's a you know,
it's a telescopic whip that they probably got from a versus.
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:01:30):
I'm not saying they did, but there's stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:01:32):
That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
They make it in house?

Speaker 7 (01:01:35):
Yeah, but do they? That's good to know. I don't know.
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (01:01:39):
I don't want to say something out of line that
it's not true. Good stuff, great stuff. I tell you
what turned me off to doing videos and them twofold.
One of them was every time I did a video,
they've sent me a few things. I just got bombarded
by negativity from people, which I probably should kept plowing through, but.

Speaker 7 (01:01:59):
I was like, I don't have the energy to like
keep arguing with it.

Speaker 8 (01:02:02):
And the other one was there's a couple, one in
particular that I know of, that's just every one of
his videos, he's like become the spokesperson for them, and
I'm like, I don't want to.

Speaker 7 (01:02:12):
Be that guy. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
I know, we know exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:02:19):
Yeah, nothing against him, I just don't want to.

Speaker 6 (01:02:21):
Be Let him do them. Listen, listen, let him do it.
Let him do it, and he's having fun with it,
and it's meeting his objectives, maybe on a business side
of the house, but as well as having fun. And listen,
you know what we say around here, have fun.

Speaker 7 (01:02:36):
All right, right right?

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
You know, get this sound.

Speaker 7 (01:02:43):
I hope that answered your question.

Speaker 6 (01:02:44):
But I was always wanting to you like your wires,
you like yours, and I respect that.

Speaker 7 (01:02:52):
We're an hour and five minutes deep right here.

Speaker 8 (01:02:55):
I'll tell you who's romancing me right now and sending
me anything I want, and I.

Speaker 7 (01:02:58):
Like their stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:02:59):
It's been really really good stuff is Guzizu Like, I
don't know, you know, it's like I've got an infant
halfway that was just amazing from them. I've got, you know,
like the JPC antennas or whatever. The problem I have
with that, and I do fight internally on that. You know,
I'm an American. I like American made. I want American stuff.
I wish an American company would come out with that

(01:03:22):
and it would only be twenty or thirty dollars more
than what they're making instead of two hundred dollars more
than what they're making.

Speaker 7 (01:03:28):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:03:29):
It's like, and maybe that'll happen the next couple of years,
not only with that category, but maybe other yeah, categories
product so we can buy American.

Speaker 8 (01:03:39):
Yes, I've thought, and you know, I've laid awake at night,
laying in bed thinking about, Boy, if I could start
an antenna company and do it, you know myself, I'd
love to do it. I just don't have the time
and the effort and the money I could probably get
it started with.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sale.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Well, if you haven't heard of him, or if you
have a used one reliance antennas. Their little they're little
bug out min and ways.

Speaker 7 (01:04:09):
I saw them at the Northeast.

Speaker 8 (01:04:10):
I saw them in the Hamfest up here in mass
I bought a choke from them. Those guys are awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:04:15):
Not only his choke, but Matt does an incredible Again,
that is an antenna. It's lightweight. It's like the case
that the RK back. I have both. I used them
both and I like them both. It's one compliments the
other one I wanted, you know it is it's like
the Jay lentle garage.

Speaker 7 (01:04:31):
You know what exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:04:35):
What car? What car are we going to take out?
What the car is Jay gonna go?

Speaker 7 (01:04:39):
Just go for a ride.

Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
That's how I'm looking at where I am right now
with Ham Radio because I watched the video last night
from K A M R D and I bought one
of those q r P laughs. I watch radios, yes,
because of him, and I I swear, I swear I

(01:05:01):
made this statement. I probably made this statement here at clubhouse.
If it wasn't last week, it was maybe I said
I don't need anything. Matter fact, I even said it,
said it to Jennifer and the family. I don't need
any more Ham Radio stuff. Well, guess what. I never
should have said those words, but I don't care. It was.
It was a great deal. Mike. Thanks again, take my money.

(01:05:23):
Show me where to put my money and buy something,
because I'm not thinking about I bought the ten through
I'm sorry, the twenty through one sixty or eighty. Ah
that version there.

Speaker 7 (01:05:33):
I about the other See that's good. See how about
the twenty to ten. I about the other way because.

Speaker 6 (01:05:37):
I might be well, I might buy a second one,
and if I do, I'll buy that.

Speaker 7 (01:05:42):
Listen.

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
My goal nobody I said that, don't tell it right.

Speaker 7 (01:05:46):
Well, my goal with it is I'm going to I
really want to go my roots.

Speaker 8 (01:05:50):
And if you look at my channel, like the first
year was almost an it was almost a QRP channel,
you know, I mean I was out on saltwater operating KRP.
This summer, I really want to get back to all
out of that. I bought the z Benex radio It's coming,
I bought.

Speaker 7 (01:06:03):
I bought that. I bought the QRP labs, you know, Quebecs.
I got that coming. So I want to get.

Speaker 8 (01:06:10):
Back to that and and and enjoy that part of
the game because that's really where I started and I
love it. I really I love doing that. But I'm
a little bit different animal than most people. I Like
I said earlier, I can go out with five wats
and I'm putting out you know, the attend b ground
playing underneath me.

Speaker 7 (01:06:28):
I'm really putting out fifty.

Speaker 8 (01:06:29):
But people are like, whoa, He's talking to Australia with
five watts from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Like this stuff right here.
That's is the reason why, you know what I mean,
the salt water. But I want to do a lot
more of that this summer, all right now.

Speaker 6 (01:06:43):
Speaking of radios, Gen ninety has gotten various reviews from
an F to an N A plus. Why do you
like that radio and that whole setup? Is there? Is
there a couple of you like one the five things
about that that that you just continue to go back
to it. It's your am I right, that's like your

(01:07:07):
go to radio a lot of times. It's your girl.
It's like your first kiss, you know what I mean,
It's that first girl. You like it and you're gonna
take it out again.

Speaker 8 (01:07:15):
What is it?

Speaker 6 (01:07:15):
What the G ninety and you that you like me
so much?

Speaker 7 (01:07:18):
For you?

Speaker 8 (01:07:19):
For you twenty watch twenty watts is the groove man.
It is the for me is what it's. I'm a
call me twenty what waly man. I love it, you know,
I mean that's just what you know what I mean.
It's like, you know, I love twenty watch. Twenty wats
is perfect.

Speaker 7 (01:07:37):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:07:37):
Now I got twenty wats. And the other thing I
got an antenna tuner. Mike just showed you. I got
an atu in this thing that will tune everyone. It's
a cliche, but the wet noodle, it'll tune a wet noodle.
It will tune a wet noodle. Other thing is it's
not a very big radio. I mean, yeah, the the
the but I love the fact that it's an SDR

(01:07:59):
and I got the waterfall on it vit that it's
the size of a fifty cent piece.

Speaker 7 (01:08:03):
But it's still there.

Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
You can see it, and I can get and I
can operate it with a little small six amp hour
LiFePO for a battery. That whole setup for me is
the setup. And I'll tell you what really sold me.
I flew back and forth to Poland like seven or eight.

Speaker 7 (01:08:19):
Times with that radio.

Speaker 8 (01:08:20):
And I was way inland operating in the backyard and
Poland with you know, and fed halfways, dipoles, horizontal antennas
like everything that I don't use on the beach.

Speaker 6 (01:08:30):
Why you were on the second floor. One day I
saw the.

Speaker 7 (01:08:34):
House.

Speaker 8 (01:08:34):
The house I ran in there had a second floor
bedroom that looked out into the backyard. So I would
throw shit up the back window and you know, build
antennas and go and that little radio and pressed the
heck out of me because that's once again, twenty watchman,
twenty wats I worked. I worked from the backyard and
Poland was the first time I ever worked long path anywhere.

(01:08:57):
I worked long path from to Australia with a tape
measure antenna. You know what I mean with twenty watch
in the backyard in Poland, that radio right there showed
me like this is and look, look I understand I have.
I have. I owned an eight ninety one, which I
didn't like because of the menu, but I have now

(01:09:18):
an FT seventy ten. I just got an FT four
point fifty D, which I'm going to put that in
my Camper's an older radio. But I love a hunter
Watch and I love those radios or whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
But I say it, and I'll say it forever and
ever and ever.

Speaker 8 (01:09:32):
That is the first and the best radio for a
new guy coming, Like, just got your general and you
want to get into HF. Dude, it's so forgiving.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
Though.

Speaker 8 (01:09:42):
You can throw any wire up if you can't get
the SWR right on it. You're like, don't don't quit
trimming and quit working for protection.

Speaker 7 (01:09:49):
Hit that of ATU button and talk. Baby. That's just sound.

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
It makes sense.

Speaker 7 (01:09:55):
Yeah, have fun. How fun, That's what it's all about.

Speaker 8 (01:09:59):
I'm going to that's going to be part of my
one of the forums at HIM mentioned Friday. I'm sorry
it keeps sounding like a damn commercial, but no, but
Friday morning at ten fifteen. Part of that talk I
really want to talk about, and I'm going to put
it in the talk is like everyone is so worried

(01:10:20):
about perfection and loss and signal loss. How much you
lose in the coacts, what you lose here or whatever. Dude,
shut up, hit the ATU and operate. And that's kind
of what my whole thing is about. And that's why
you know, I've gone away too long on the topic.

Speaker 7 (01:10:37):
But that's why I love that radio. I love the
radio for that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:40):
You know, I had to ask trying to keep from
doing this is though, Yeah, have for a hundred bucks man.

Speaker 5 (01:10:49):
Yeah, how could you not? It's a hundred bucks man.
That's a good dinner and.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
That's look at the SSB on it too, doesn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:10:58):
Yeah, I'm gonna figure it out.

Speaker 7 (01:11:01):
I'm gonna give aid.

Speaker 6 (01:11:07):
And the only question, the only question I'm going to
have with that is how to interface to push the talk.

Speaker 5 (01:11:14):
So I don't have, I know, microphones from Adam, right.

Speaker 6 (01:11:20):
But I thought you have to do something to do
with the with that three D printing unless you just
buy the microphone from I gotta ask. I got to
ask some questions of you know what I have I have.

Speaker 8 (01:11:32):
I have the s X I built. I built it,
which was like it was like Lego. It was so
easy to build it. All all the sovereign was done.
But I have the X and it came with a mic,
and I think the pen on that mic is the
same as that so I'll just use that mic on
the on that one as well.

Speaker 6 (01:11:50):
And I was going to use if I don't use
like the that Reliance antenna, but I have a I
have a Matt Turner, so I'm just gonna pull out
the Mat Turner I have a downstairs sitting in the box.
I'm just gonna swap out the batteries and use a
Matt Tutter with it interface with it in case I,
you know, have something that needs a little bit, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:12:08):
I tell you what I'm gonna do. I'll give away
one of my videos is coming up. I'm gonna use
that radio. I'm gonna use that little PA fifty amp,
the fifty watt amp. I'm gonna use an ATU one
hundred and I'm gonna use one single battery, one single
battery and that.

Speaker 7 (01:12:25):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (01:12:25):
There's that. You've got fifty watts, you got an ATU,
You've got that radio, and you can do it all
you can do, you know what I mean? And then
just throw up an antenna and go. I can't wait
to get.

Speaker 7 (01:12:36):
My hands on that thing.

Speaker 6 (01:12:38):
Well again, you and I put our orders in, you know,
last night. If I see it for August, that's fine.
If I see it, I don't care. I don't care
because because I know when it comes in, I'm gonna listen.
I already had to talk with the seven o five.
I said, listen, we're not replacing you. We're not replacing you.
Everything is gonna listen. It's just like all my kids

(01:12:59):
in the family. I love everybody. I love everyone. Not
one kid is more special, except maybe if we're on
the lifeboat and I got to get rid of one kid,
you know what I mean, I might be able to
do that. I think I talked to my.

Speaker 7 (01:13:12):
Jeep like that. I go, I go, I go, I
rub the dash, I go, Jeepy, We're going to get
an oal change. Now. It's going to be all right.

Speaker 6 (01:13:20):
It's good for you. It's good for you. An oil
change is good for you. You're gonna feel great. I
have my I have my first oil change on the
tundra coming up on Thursday morning. And it's the same
thing I already. Right there's like nine thousand. There's there's
about nine thousand in it right now.

Speaker 7 (01:13:36):
That's awesome. I just bought my wife, Jeep. I bought
my wife.

Speaker 8 (01:13:40):
I bought my wife the grand Cherokee. She got a
twenty twenty five grand Cherokee. So she's all excited. So
we're his and her cheap family now.

Speaker 6 (01:13:47):
But congratulations, excellent. But no, but I've been dying to
ask you about the G ninety because, like I said,
so many guys, or maybe some people just didn't know
how to use it or just didn't meet their expectations.
And that's okay, that's okay because we've all had those
radios that really didn't work for us. But the Gen
ninety always seems to work for you. I see that

(01:14:08):
in your videos. It just it works for you. And
that's very encouraging. You know, that's very encouraging that there's
a radio out there.

Speaker 7 (01:14:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:14:16):
I mean, I like, I've said, here's what I think
is gonna happen. I've been, I've been, like, I've even
sent emails to the people because Radiotity has sent me stuff.
And I know Radiotity is just a front company for Zaigu.
They're the same people, really, and I send stuff back
to them. I go, guys, please please listen to me.

(01:14:36):
Please take the Gen ninety and morph it into a
hundred watt radio. I think the new FX one from
Yasu is going to force Zaigu's hand and they're gonna make.

Speaker 7 (01:14:49):
A hundred one.

Speaker 6 (01:14:49):
Really look at this prediction.

Speaker 7 (01:14:52):
You heard it here.

Speaker 6 (01:14:53):
Folks on Clubhouse are speculating, yes.

Speaker 8 (01:14:58):
Because because you can see, well, you can see what
Yace is doing.

Speaker 7 (01:15:02):
I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 8 (01:15:04):
If Zider doesn't do this, Yace's gonna steal me away.
I'm falling in love with Yas. That's seven ten. It's
the most amazing thing. No really, And I was sitting
here thinking, man, if I could just have this smaller
and like a QRP radio and then move out of nowhere,
here comes the FX one.

Speaker 6 (01:15:18):
I'm like, alright, I'm gonna tell you what I did.
I ran the seventy three hundred and the eight ninety one,
same antenna, same time of day, same propagation, same band,
and I just quickly flipped off between the seventy three hundred,
made a contact with somebody. I said, listen, I'm doing
something really informal on a park bench here. Do you

(01:15:39):
have the time? Absolutely, this guy was great and there
was really no difference audio signal wise. So to me,
it just comes down to what cosmetic appearance, the menu system.
You know, there's a whole bunch of things that you
can make a list, Which one do you want? For me?

(01:15:59):
It's it's for me. It was also size as well
as I like just taking like my antennas. I like
taking different radios out or come on the back porch. Here,
come on the back porch, use a different antwn to
use a different radio, Fire up a cigar, and let's
just see what happens. And who cares? Who cares? If
I make one contact or a hundred, who cares.

Speaker 7 (01:16:18):
I'm not a fan of the eight ninety one.

Speaker 8 (01:16:20):
I bought one really used Tim G five TM like
rag Me and rag Me, we're good friends and we talked.
We meet him like all day long, like message and
text each other. And he's a good totally well, I'll
get back to him. Funny thing with him. He and
I are opposite spectrum of politics and we laugh about

(01:16:41):
it or whatever, but totally different.

Speaker 7 (01:16:43):
But we respect each other and we like each other
a lot when it comes to it.

Speaker 8 (01:16:47):
Tim handed me and helded me and helnded me to
get at eight ninety one. I got it, used it
for about four months, and sold it. I hated that radio.
I just hated that radio.

Speaker 6 (01:16:57):
See to me, if I com would have just put
out a hundred watt radio in the same physical size,
take the seven oh six and you know, bring it
up to speed of where we are here in twenty
twenty four, twenty twenty five. Again to me, it's a
it's a nice small compact rate. Yes, the menu system
is something that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
You got to learn.

Speaker 6 (01:17:18):
It forces you to and some guys don't want to
be bothered with it, and I get that. I respect
it because at first I was fighting it too.

Speaker 8 (01:17:25):
If all these guys, I'll tell you radio, I have
the reason why I sold the A ninety one.

Speaker 7 (01:17:31):
I have an a linka d X seventy and that
thing is like a thousand times better than the eight
ninety one.

Speaker 8 (01:17:36):
And it's like, look, all we want is one hundred
what CB that does all the bands on HLF.

Speaker 7 (01:17:42):
That's all I want it. That's all that.

Speaker 6 (01:17:43):
And that radio has been out for a long time
now and they've done some nice improvements with it.

Speaker 7 (01:17:47):
You're up, yeah, yeah, Like that's what I want to do.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
Hating so much, I ain't even get it installed.

Speaker 7 (01:17:54):
You what is it?

Speaker 10 (01:17:57):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (01:17:59):
You'll have one with that? Tell you?

Speaker 8 (01:18:00):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 7 (01:18:00):
I'm gonna give you some advice right now from a
A no, no, no.

Speaker 8 (01:18:07):
You know you know how you studied for a month
to get your general study for a month the menu
system of that radio and you'll be fine. Well, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:18:18):
That I'm gonna debate on that. I think a large
I don't want to say percent, but there are so
many menu setting. Once you do one set it unless
you're bouncing around on c W, A M, you know,
FM and sidemand there are a lot of those men
you say you're not you're not touching every again, like
for me, the only there's only two settings I used

(01:18:39):
to change the A tasks. I got a memorized you know,
so it. But but that's again, that's.

Speaker 7 (01:18:46):
Just me and to be fair and to be fair
and to be fair.

Speaker 8 (01:18:51):
That's probably why I love the G ninety so much,
just because I could take the G ninety menu system
from one end and the other back and forth and
I understand every thing that's going on in A new
user might get that and be like, holy col I mean,
you know, and I did. I did a quick start
video for the G ninety because I knew that I
was pushing that radio so much, not for radiotity at

(01:19:14):
the time, they wouldn't give me a dime. I was
doing it because I love the radio so much, and
so I did the startup video for them. So I
get it, I get it, and I mean, like, this
is just me and that's the beautiful thing about radio.
So it's like, look, you drive, You drive a Toyota Tundra.

Speaker 7 (01:19:31):
I drive a jeep. You know, we we we all
whatever we like, you know, And that's the That's one thing.

Speaker 8 (01:19:38):
We're so fortunate that there are still enough manufacturers out
there making enough different radios for us that we still
can all say right now and debate it.

Speaker 7 (01:19:46):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 8 (01:19:47):
It's like, you know that that's so you know, Ford, Chevy,
you know, Chrysler, Mopar, Dodge, you know whatever, BMW whatever, Dude,
drive what you want to drive, you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:19:58):
That's what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
I have to address the chat real quick, you know,
install it in the truck, Get it in the truck.
What are you waiting on? Well, you know this antenna
that I bought from June, and I hate that gym
has not showed up in the chat tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:20:16):
An update on the saga of the antenna.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
Well, because the damn update shipped up to the seventh
and that's all I know.

Speaker 5 (01:20:23):
A month in the system. Yeah, Tomorry, it'll be a month.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
So we we both opened up a case for ups
and I've provided I got the original seller to Jim
provided me a picture of the box that was shipped
in to Gim, which Jim shipped to me in so
I provided him a box of the our picture of
the actual freaking box that was four feet by one

(01:20:47):
foot by one foot. Right, how do you lose that
big box?

Speaker 6 (01:20:52):
There's a guy right now having a great time.

Speaker 8 (01:20:54):
What it is?

Speaker 7 (01:20:55):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
I just I described the contents, I just the value.
I give him a link to the freaking website. What
I don't know what else I could have described? And
they close it the next day because there's more details needed.

Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
What Joe Brat, I will tell you that needed.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
So they closed the ticket.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
On a ups trip one day and he's going on
the ditch, Joe, what I What I did again? This
is just what I did.

Speaker 6 (01:21:19):
I took my eight ninety one I bought. I bought
a fifty calibers. I bought a fifty caliber can plastic
heavy duty resin fifty caliber can. It's delcrode in there.
I can pop it out, pop it in, droll the
couple holes for power poles. So two thirty nine, I
got the MFJ tuner in there. If I want to
use that, if not, change two settings, go to the
A Task. You know how much I love my A

(01:21:41):
task as well as other things. I made it real simple,
hook it up to a bioantal, I'm on the air.
It's it's a fun radio. It's again it's different from Icon. Yeah,
you know, but I'm still an Icon fanboy. But again,
Yezu made a radio that I wanted in a small
mobile version with a different receiver, uh, something more, more

(01:22:01):
newer as compared to the seven O six. And Shane
knows I loved that seven O six. That was hard.
That was a hard thing to say goodbye to that radio.

Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
I cried.

Speaker 6 (01:22:09):
I mean we we the seven We cried together. But
I said, you're going. But I said, you're going to
a good home. He's not going to drop you, don't.

Speaker 7 (01:22:19):
I lied.

Speaker 6 (01:22:20):
I lied him. I said I lied to him. I
said those were all just bad rumors, just for show contact.
He didn't drop nothing.

Speaker 8 (01:22:28):
I like.

Speaker 7 (01:22:29):
I'll tell you this, the one.

Speaker 8 (01:22:31):
Thing I will say about the eight ninety one, My
first ever contact voice on the beach to Japan was
with about eight ninety one on in Virginia Beach on
the beach.

Speaker 7 (01:22:41):
That was that was pretty cool. I'll never forget that.

Speaker 8 (01:22:44):
And I did sell that radio to a really good
friend who's in my club in the chest Peak, the
chest Peak amateur radio club that I'm in in Virginia.

Speaker 7 (01:22:54):
So it's funny. It's about a year ago right now.
I sold the eight ninety one.

Speaker 8 (01:22:59):
I sold my sixty one hundred by so I got
sixty one hundred, and I sold my FX four CR.
I put them all up for sale the same they
They all sold in like an hour of each other,
like the moment I put them up, boo boom, boom,
boom boom.

Speaker 7 (01:23:13):
And I sold them.

Speaker 8 (01:23:15):
Do I regret selling them a little bit because I'm
a hoarder and I like but the problem is the
reason I sold them. The reason I sold them is
I just wasn't using them, you know what I mean.
I just like that and I have something about each
one of them I love. I really used the heck
out of that for that FX four CR. Because I
went to Poland for two months with nothing but that radio.

(01:23:38):
I was like, this is either gonna be a fail
or I'm going to make myself use this radio.

Speaker 7 (01:23:43):
And I had a great time with that little radio.
It was a great radio.

Speaker 6 (01:23:47):
Kevin, our buddy Kevin in the chat kjer Okalbi who
runs to r P now and I love that radio.
Hey Shane, what do you have in there? I saw
a box? I saw a box?

Speaker 10 (01:23:55):
You do.

Speaker 4 (01:23:55):
I'm going to have to turn off this, uh this
man screen that I've got going on, so you get
to see my my boring office.

Speaker 6 (01:24:05):
It looks better, just like Steve's place. Oh look at that?

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
Look at that?

Speaker 6 (01:24:13):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:24:14):
Well has its own its own little carrying.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
Case, don't I don't see the armor locked rails on
it yet.

Speaker 4 (01:24:23):
Though all the accessories are down to the bottom.

Speaker 1 (01:24:27):
Vito's the patch cases.

Speaker 4 (01:24:29):
Man, it's all self contained. It's well protected against my follies.

Speaker 6 (01:24:38):
Hey guys, I gotta laugh. Do you think harbor Freight
about a year or two ago? Three? We're like, what
I mean? They were selling these boxes for other reasons.
Now all of a sudden the ham world comes in
and we just you know, and still continue to buy them.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
So, Shane, did you buy did you buy the slip
on PLG? Three times?

Speaker 5 (01:25:02):
You're a jerk?

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
Francis could not mean.

Speaker 5 (01:25:07):
No, I haven't bought them yet. This radio will fall
off the table. I promise it's got to get to
a table first.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
Okay, so it's gonna fall out of the balloon.

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
Got well, maybe all right, I got another.

Speaker 6 (01:25:24):
I got another question for Walt when he's ready, Yeah,
go for it. Do you ever think you're gonna buy
an amplifier?

Speaker 7 (01:25:32):
I've got an amplifiers? What do you?

Speaker 8 (01:25:34):
What?

Speaker 6 (01:25:34):
Do you got that?

Speaker 8 (01:25:35):
Come on? I've got the xp A one twenty five
u Zaegua amplifier that I hoke up to both my G.

Speaker 7 (01:25:43):
Ninety and my X five one O five Hunter Watt.

Speaker 6 (01:25:46):
And I love no, no, no, I'm talking an amplifier.
I'm talking five hundred watts, eight hundred.

Speaker 8 (01:25:52):
Oh, listen, listen, listen. I mean I may look like
I'm happy on the beach with that Saltwar amplifier, but
deep down inside I want to I want to beam
in a one killo what amplifiers?

Speaker 6 (01:26:07):
That's what I want to hear. That's what I was
waiting to hear. It only took me ninety minutes to
get that out of you.

Speaker 8 (01:26:14):
I want I want people to know me like they
know Sugar one, Sugar five one, David x Ray.

Speaker 7 (01:26:22):
I want people to know me like that great.

Speaker 6 (01:26:26):
Great when you work them on so many different bands too,
it's incredible. But I love it when Joe Watt flicks
that switch and Joe's like a five to five, and
all of a sudden, he's like a nice five eight five,
and you hear those sultry sounds of.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
Sounds like I'll tell you a few switches and turn
in some mouths. But yeah, I get there.

Speaker 8 (01:26:47):
Yeah, I'll tell you a funny story about Yanna by
Sugar five one David X Ray.

Speaker 7 (01:26:53):
When I was in Poland. So he's on like twenty
meters calling you, sugar five one David x Ray.

Speaker 6 (01:26:59):
You know you call.

Speaker 8 (01:27:00):
Everybody knows his voice, right, So I'm there. He's like
he's like like s nine plus fifty. Like I'm he's
just burying my needle, right, So I'm listening. I just
sit here and listen to him. You should hear all
the people in Europe calling him the biggest sack of whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:27:19):
They're all like relating it.

Speaker 8 (01:27:21):
Like because we don't hear we don't hear that here.
But me being in Poland, I was sitting there laughing. Listen,
It's like, all this is right, great, this is great.

Speaker 7 (01:27:31):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:27:32):
People are just like they're hating life over there because listen,
he is just like as much as.

Speaker 7 (01:27:37):
We all hear him here and hear him in the
band over there.

Speaker 8 (01:27:40):
Man, he keeps the mic and everybody in Europe here is.

Speaker 7 (01:27:43):
It's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
He didn't ask the frequency.

Speaker 8 (01:27:48):
He doesn't have to.

Speaker 7 (01:27:49):
But he is a great operator. He's so cool. I've
I've worked him from everywhere. It's like this.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
He was my first ever HF contact.

Speaker 7 (01:28:00):
H I believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
Who's the guy that goes about buffalo bills?

Speaker 5 (01:28:08):
No about to say they have they have? Everyone has
a nickname.

Speaker 1 (01:28:11):
Now he's his name's Bill and his buffalo bills. He's like,
I think he's down in the southern Hemisphere, but he's
always has a signal. He's been in my log for years.

Speaker 6 (01:28:21):
Is he out of Brazil?

Speaker 1 (01:28:26):
I want to say a little more south than that.

Speaker 6 (01:28:30):
You're gonna think, well, that's Argentina, and then.

Speaker 8 (01:28:35):
I'm gonna says he's Argentina.

Speaker 7 (01:28:36):
Are are Antarctica south of Brazil?

Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
I think instead of Armelock, I'm gonna go with with this.
I think you would be doing purpose.

Speaker 6 (01:28:50):
Should say job.

Speaker 8 (01:28:54):
I could I could run some sixteen I could run
some solar speaker.

Speaker 7 (01:28:59):
Wire that I get from Walmart for seventeen dollars through that.
Throw it out there. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 8 (01:29:06):
I can work the world.

Speaker 6 (01:29:07):
Oh my god, it's great.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
I hadn't thought about that.

Speaker 6 (01:29:12):
I'm a pull man plan Steve. What are you planing
for Japan or nothing?

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Because the trip has been rerouted or reached out, well,
the trip has not been fully approved yet. Okay, I'm
waiting on one more piece of paper before I can
actually book it. And because I didn't know what dates
I was going sixty days in advance, I did not
get a japan license, So you cannot.

Speaker 6 (01:29:37):
Do a reciprocal no. But if you meet up with
a with another Japanese fellow Ham radio operator, you can.
He could be your control operator, your best your your
your new best friend. You can invite him over on
clubhouse and in future weeks or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
And you know, yeah, the problem is it's probably ten
thirty in the morning there right now.

Speaker 6 (01:29:58):
So what he probably eats barbe potato chips to.

Speaker 7 (01:30:04):
You know what eating.

Speaker 6 (01:30:10):
It was probably ten times hotter than they. Oh yeah,
oh my god, but I was thinking of you, ste Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
Put something in the chat about what his first HF
d X contact was. Did do any of y'all remember that?
Do you have to go back to your Yes.

Speaker 6 (01:30:27):
I remember mine absolutely. I remember mine.

Speaker 5 (01:30:29):
Who was your first?

Speaker 6 (01:30:30):
Mine was over in England. Mine was over in England
and he was on a boat. He was a ship
operator and I was like, what do you mean? First off,
it's d X, but now you're talking to me on
a ship in that red Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
It just blew me.

Speaker 6 (01:30:47):
He just blew me away. Sent me a beauty. I
still have the qs O. It's not a traditional QS call.
It's a picture of the boat, but it's like a postcard.
But on the back side he wrote everything very very
he took the time in the right A very nice thing.
I the back of the postcard.

Speaker 7 (01:31:01):
I can't remember my first DX.

Speaker 8 (01:31:03):
I remember my first HF QSO was it was like
the South Dakota QUSO party and I was.

Speaker 7 (01:31:10):
In Virginia and I was like, holy cow. It was
like it was exciting, you know what.

Speaker 8 (01:31:14):
I mean, that like works on in South Dakota from
Virginia my first and it was like that what a
great day for anyone to like get on. HF was
one of state is having at QUSO party because you're
going to make a contact, you know what I mean.
Mine was like the South I think it was the
South Dakota Quso Party. I've got that certificate. It's old
as heck now it's on the wall. But you know
how you get your first your first contact.

Speaker 7 (01:31:36):
Yeah, I got that.

Speaker 6 (01:31:37):
Way two weeks ago. I worked North Paul, Alaska. I
still get excited for Alaska. I don't know what.

Speaker 8 (01:31:44):
Oh was it?

Speaker 6 (01:31:46):
Yeah, I'm sure, but I get so excited or any
of that North Yeah, probably, Who cares.

Speaker 11 (01:31:55):
I was in the log.

Speaker 4 (01:31:58):
Everybody's everybody gets a five to one from Paula, Alaska.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
I don't care.

Speaker 6 (01:32:05):
The point is he heard me. I heard him, and
he went into my ham two K polo log. Bam.

Speaker 8 (01:32:12):
My other my other radio life is medium wave d
X thing. And if I was in Alaska, oh my god.
And I can only imagine the medium wave d X
thing you could do from Alaska.

Speaker 7 (01:32:23):
It's got to be amazing.

Speaker 6 (01:32:25):
Mmm, that whole South Pacific. You go over to polls.

Speaker 7 (01:32:30):
Europe. Yeah, yeah, epic epic there, that would be awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
My first one was Sugar five one Delta X ray
and it was Winterfield Day, my first time on HF
first d X.

Speaker 5 (01:32:44):
You guys, slop is that Slavko? I think everyone's gotten.

Speaker 7 (01:32:51):
Everyone's got. I've worked him so much I can imitate
and sugar five one David X Ray, you know you got.

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
A nine Alpha hotel.

Speaker 6 (01:33:02):
Mike, Well, he almost has like a Boston twang, doesn't
he almost?

Speaker 7 (01:33:07):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
It's INTRODUC Show to Buffalo Bill. Yeah, see why from South?
Look at that South Africa? So yeah, I told you
south Southern, right, Yeah, that's uh. He's in a long
a few times, all the way back twenty sixteen. Nice
when he gets owned. He's another one of those stations
that you just always here. And you see why because

(01:33:31):
big old aluminum in there.

Speaker 6 (01:33:33):
Uh, these guys who have spent I don't know, hundreds
of thousands, fifty one hundred thousand dollars on it. You know,
when you go through QRZ and you look at these pictures,
you're like, oh my god. You know, it's the real
estate of it, the grounding, the the dressing of the
cables and that. I mean, these guys are like are

(01:33:54):
like gods to me. You know a lot of the
Italian operators are like that. Amazing, absolutely amazing. Do you
guys get excited when the Russians come on? Because that always,
and and their call signs all vary too. There's there's
all different prefixes. But I get very I still get
very excited when they when they call me, I'm like,

(01:34:17):
WHOA I do I do here?

Speaker 7 (01:34:19):
I gotta be honest with you.

Speaker 8 (01:34:21):
I worked for NATO in Poland and operated while I
was in Poland working for NATO. When I had to
report to my CEO what I was doing with Ham
Radio or whatever, so I avoided him like the plague.

Speaker 7 (01:34:32):
And there were days.

Speaker 8 (01:34:34):
There were days like if there was a Russian contest,
I just I couldn't operate.

Speaker 7 (01:34:39):
I just cut it off, you know what I mean,
I just didn't do it. They didn't tell me not
to communicate with them.

Speaker 8 (01:34:45):
In no uncertain terms. What they told me not to
communicate with them. You gotta realize I was there. I
was there for two weeks. The first two weeks I
was in Poland. Russia invaded Ukraine two weeks and I
was like, damn it, you know what I mean, Like
it was like whatever, but well, all.

Speaker 6 (01:35:05):
You know, all politics aside, this is Ham Radio. You
gotta tell the CEO, right, But you can't, right, do you?

Speaker 8 (01:35:11):
I remember when I was there, But when that happened.
I don't know if you guys remember.

Speaker 7 (01:35:16):
Qr Z cut all the Russian operators out of qr.

Speaker 6 (01:35:19):
Z and I was there.

Speaker 7 (01:35:22):
Really, yeah, they did. They brought them right back. It
only lasted two or three days and then they put them.
They brought him back in.

Speaker 8 (01:35:27):
But you know, everyone was getting political or whatever. Meanwhile,
I'm like, I was up in the the northeast corner.
I was near goodask Well. I was literally like fifty
miles from you know, from Russia. You know that the
little part of Russia that's down there the borders Poland
on the and you know, on the corner of Kaliningrad,

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you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:35:50):
We were right there. So I was funny one a
Polish story that I didn't put on video or whatever.

Speaker 6 (01:35:58):
So we.

Speaker 7 (01:36:00):
We were involved.

Speaker 8 (01:36:01):
I was working for NATO and we were doing a
missile site that we were basically building the Iron Dome
for Europe for that, and we I befriended a lot
of Russian military guys. So one weekend we went for
what we call a weekend pisser, you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:36:20):
We went out drinking or whatever.

Speaker 8 (01:36:21):
So we went to the Bell Russian border and these
guys are like, we gotta take you here. We got
to take you here and show you this. So we
go to the Russian I mean the Belarussian border. Well
you know the bell Russians are like they're all about
the Russians or whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:36:35):
And I was real close to it.

Speaker 8 (01:36:37):
So we're out there and like we're drinking peevy whatever
the beer and these these are Polish soldiers and they're
yelling over the border at the Belarussian soldiers and I
could never pronounce what they were saying, but they were
basically saying, you know, you over and they were yelling
back and forth through each other.

Speaker 7 (01:36:56):
We were like drinking beer, like like.

Speaker 6 (01:37:01):
You know what I mean, I thought you were going
to tell me they showed you that famous woodpacker antenna
and you took a leak at the base of a
woodpacker that.

Speaker 7 (01:37:08):
That would have been That would have been awesome. It
was crazy. It was crazy being there because that when
it first broke out.

Speaker 8 (01:37:14):
I don't know if you guys remember, a couple of
missiles that were being fired lost airspace and came into
Poland and and it happened like in the middle of
the night in Poland. Well, everyone it was like afternoon
in the United States. So I'm laying there asleep, and
my phone it's just like blowing up, blowing up, blowing up,
and I get on. It's my wife, it's my dad,
it's everybody, my family, and I'm like, listen, Poland is

(01:37:38):
the size of Texas. I'm in Houston and that's happening
in El Paso.

Speaker 7 (01:37:43):
I got to the back to sleep. You know what
I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:37:47):
Well, something right quick?

Speaker 6 (01:37:49):
Go ahead?

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
Well, well, because I know we have about twenty minutes left,
we're we want to buy one as Salt Walt Books
and we're gonna give it away tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:37:58):
So I guess what your snake. So if you will
put me let me.

Speaker 6 (01:38:04):
You got that random generator going yeah, I did excellent,
You're good, You're good. Now let's just be honest here.
The four of us cannot put We're gonna we're not eligible.
There you go put that in the chat guys, type
it exactly as you see it on your screen. I

(01:38:24):
can't say that enough.

Speaker 8 (01:38:27):
And whoever wins this book, if I don't know if
you'll get it in time, but if you see me
in Dayton, I'll autograph something that.

Speaker 7 (01:38:36):
You can stick in the book. I'll you what I'll do.
I'll give you this and you can put it in
the book. There you go, Oh, there you go the
occurr and you can use it as a bookmark.

Speaker 4 (01:38:47):
We wanted to wait until the very end for those
that like to stay around to the end of the show.
So this is your reward for sticking around. You to
get a free copy of Walt.

Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
So Wal the question I have essent. You brought up
Europe and other stuff, any other weird things about operating
in Europe. Take out the politics aside, but anything if
there's anyone going on vacation or anyone going to be
spending any time in Europe and they want to operate
minus minus the reciprocal requirements, I'm just talking about just

(01:39:23):
operating in general. Anything any advice with time differences here
to East to here in America or anything, any advice I.

Speaker 8 (01:39:34):
Will I will say this, I am ten times a
better operator for operating in Europe.

Speaker 7 (01:39:41):
I learned so much.

Speaker 8 (01:39:43):
You get to be in a different place, even here
in Rhode Island, being in a different place, a different
physical surrounding. Different bands are different.

Speaker 7 (01:39:51):
Whatever. The one thing I will say about Europe eighty
meters is a different animal. In Europe.

Speaker 8 (01:39:59):
The operators on eighty treat eighty like they're they're bouncing
around Europe, making contacts around Europe. They're not talking about
what their prescription they're on and what's going on in life.

Speaker 6 (01:40:10):
Would you say it's like seventeen meters what I hear?

Speaker 8 (01:40:13):
I would say eighty is kind of even maybe even
less than that. I mean forty forty is forty is?
I would say eighties like forty and forties like twenty
in Europe, if that makes sense, kind of kind of
you know what I mean, like because you got to.

Speaker 7 (01:40:27):
Realize you're working.

Speaker 8 (01:40:30):
I guess we call it DX, but I'm in Poland
on forty and I'm working other countries all over you know, Europe,
Whereas here we're working different states, so we kind of
look at it different.

Speaker 6 (01:40:41):
It's like us. So it's almost like us working Canada. Yeah,
it's fun, yeah, yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
When Callum does a live stream, it's it's just when
he does forty and he ducks to other countries.

Speaker 6 (01:40:53):
So what's the gentleman band? Wall if you know that,
what's the gentleman band in Europe? Because like here, I
always consider seventeen meters to be the gentleman's man.

Speaker 7 (01:41:02):
Probably the same, Yeah, probably the same.

Speaker 8 (01:41:04):
And that's the thing about if you're going to Europe
seventeen and twelve some countries like Poland, for instance, if
you're going to Poland as a general, you can't.

Speaker 7 (01:41:13):
Operate seventeen and twelve. If you're going to Poland as
an extra, you can.

Speaker 8 (01:41:17):
Their rules are different, you know what I mean, Like
you got to check the rules of the country as well.

Speaker 5 (01:41:23):
Or eat your extra.

Speaker 7 (01:41:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:41:25):
Yeah, but the CPT rule, the the you know, the
the agreement is. Although it's the agreement, it's different in
every country, like Poland, Poland has two license they have
the novice and the full. Like I was an extra,
so I can be a full, So I was Sugar,
Papa Stroke whatever. If you're a novice, if you're a general,
you're Sugar Oscar s O and the stroke.

Speaker 7 (01:41:48):
And you know, it's kind of like it's different.

Speaker 8 (01:41:51):
But getting back to is it what you were saying, Yeah,
it's the bands are somewhat different. The times of day
to operate, Like I said, I'm d X. For me,
I would get up early, early, early in the morning,
before the sun came up and I would operate forty
and I'm I could hit the States like a lot
of times Mike CUSOs with the United States.

Speaker 7 (01:42:11):
On forty meters band. We were at four in the
morning in Poland because it was evening here in the States.

Speaker 8 (01:42:19):
And I'll be honest with most of those contracts.

Speaker 7 (01:42:21):
Were we were New England. You know what I mean.
That's where I was talking. It was the shortest path.

Speaker 6 (01:42:26):
Hey, Shane, I just thought of a great marketing for us.
Extra extra for extra for Europe. You extra for April.

Speaker 5 (01:42:35):
I like the extra works everywhere that Yeah, there.

Speaker 2 (01:42:43):
You have enough in there. Come on, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:42:47):
Yeah, it's got pictures in the book. Guys, you ain't
got to read the whole thing.

Speaker 5 (01:42:53):
I tell everybody the words.

Speaker 6 (01:42:57):
Doctor to understand without being insulting the doctor as well
as their own mentality. Yes not green eggs and ham,
but no, no, it's.

Speaker 8 (01:43:08):
It's it's do you guys if you're my age, you
remember in the seventies, remember the Kiss comic book.

Speaker 7 (01:43:13):
It's the comic book there you know who?

Speaker 6 (01:43:18):
Hey, well, did you ever hear of Kert and Sturba?
Do you know who that is? That name? Look it up.
There's a great book, and Kerk and Sturba went after
a lot of different radio companies. It's a it's it's
a pen name. I think Wayne Green was a major distributor.
If those you remember who Wayne Green was, he was

(01:43:38):
controversial in his own way. But Kurt and Sturbu's pen
name has a hey. He has a couple of books
out there. They talk about the myths of radio. And
that's where I learned a lot. My grandfather told me,
study this book and learn it because every time you
see an ad for this is the greatest antenna, this
is the best antenna.

Speaker 7 (01:43:57):
No no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 6 (01:43:58):
And it taught you v sw R it does not
have to be one to one.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
It does not have to be one to one.

Speaker 6 (01:44:05):
There's a lot of things there that people put too
much emphasis on it and they're losing. They're losing time,
you're losing time to play.

Speaker 7 (01:44:14):
They're losing the magic.

Speaker 8 (01:44:16):
And that's if you're going to come to my forum
and Dayton, I'm going to talk about that magic versus knowledge.
Don't let your knowledge getting away of your magic and
that you're that's exactly what you're saying. You're losing the magic.
To me, the magic is like you know what you know,
and people will laugh. Yes, the magic smoke when you

(01:44:38):
blow it up or whatever. But yeah, the magic is
like the contacts. Like we're sitting here talking now about
you know, sugarfi one, David X Ray, we've all done
that whatever. You know, if we were trying to make
our antenna perfect, we wouldn't make those contacts.

Speaker 1 (01:44:51):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:44:51):
It's like if I copy of that book, if I
can find a copy of book, I'll send it to you.
I'll send it to you back at your home. Please
do get it's a great it's a fun d kind
of to re And this is a book that was
written probably about forty years ago and it still holds
a lot today.

Speaker 8 (01:45:06):
Oh that's awesome, and I get it. The magic of
radio to me, I mean, if you look at my
I think it's on my YouTube page. I'm just a
guy chasing the magic of radio on coastal beaches, you know.
I mean, that's like, that's really what I love. I
mean to me, to me, radio is so magic. I

(01:45:27):
have magical moments in my life. If I could go
back right now, I was born in nineteen sixty two.
If I could go back to nineteen seventy two when
I used to spend the summers on the farm of
my grandparents. Every Saturday evening we would have dinner and
me and my grandfather would go out on the back porch.
It was a screening porch in North Carolina, had a

(01:45:48):
big radio on there. We would fire up WSM and
Nashville and listen to the grand Ole Opry.

Speaker 7 (01:45:53):
And lay back in.

Speaker 6 (01:45:56):
Absolutely yeah, And that was to me.

Speaker 7 (01:45:58):
That's a magical radio moment, you know what I mean.
It doesn't have to be hand radio radio in general.
You know, it's all about the magic.

Speaker 8 (01:46:05):
And I kind of, like I said, I'm gonna I'm
gonna kind of talk about that in Dayton next week.

Speaker 6 (01:46:12):
Do you guys remember when a short wave station was
signing on, you would hear like the like the tone
sometimes I love it, oh that And you knew, you
as I think they would do that maybe at the end,
but I always knew in the beginning, and I would
zero beat that just try to find exactly where they were.

Speaker 7 (01:46:28):
That's why they did it.

Speaker 8 (01:46:29):
That's why they did it so you could you could
tune in. They did it for like fifteen minutes leading
up to the top of the hour. When they came
on board and be like yes, and you're like okay,
I got you know what I mean?

Speaker 7 (01:46:41):
Like wow, yeah, the good old days.

Speaker 6 (01:46:44):
As well as what listening to a great ballgame I
love in the summertime. I'm not a big Baltimore Oriols fan,
but when you hear it on one of the.

Speaker 7 (01:46:56):
Oh my god, I'm a Baltimore Oriols guy.

Speaker 8 (01:46:58):
Man, we're like on the test a big bay and
you better be.

Speaker 6 (01:47:02):
But guess what, though, I love just taking the again.
And that's the other thing with that QRP. I could
probably sit in my benef I want throw a long
patch it to the long wire and just play around
and listen to some nice short wave.

Speaker 1 (01:47:15):
What I have?

Speaker 8 (01:47:17):
Don I have a no?

Speaker 6 (01:47:20):
Don I have a Hey, Mike, I saw that, Mike.
That's not That's not nice.

Speaker 8 (01:47:26):
Don I have I literally have video? No, I have
a video plan.

Speaker 7 (01:47:31):
I've already done the thumbnail for it.

Speaker 8 (01:47:34):
Call and it's called the Sport Made for radio and baseball?

Speaker 7 (01:47:40):
Is that sport?

Speaker 6 (01:47:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:47:41):
Growing up my entire life, I'd go to sleep, fall
I fall asleep listening to you know, the Mets, the Yankees,
you know, like you know whatever, even even as an adult.
My wife and I like I would be like in
my twenties and thirties listening to the Mets on w
f A N a night, you know, sixty six down
in Virginia. We can get it, you know what I mean.
Like it was a big deal so.

Speaker 6 (01:48:02):
To me as a kid, if you knew who Phil
Rizzuto was as a broadcaster, it was great. And again
some of your especially when it's like eleven o'clock at night,
because the AM band changes too. Obviously the radios, those
am just got to drop their power, but man, they
get louder and and sometimes the audio quality was absolutely incredible,

(01:48:22):
especially when you could hear the crowds. Yeah, it was.
It was always amazing. Or if you heard the sound
of the bat, the swing and the bat hitting that ball,
Yeah that that not so cool? So cool is definitely
exactly Steve.

Speaker 1 (01:48:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:48:38):
Yeah, baseball is a sport made for radio. But if
you look back when that sport was big, there was
no TV. You know, when it started, it was like
it was just and I say that it's funny. I
have a thumbnail made and everything. I was gonna do
a video called the Sport Made for Radio and it
was about baseball.

Speaker 6 (01:48:55):
Yeah, my gods, we got eighty six people who want
to can we get to ninety? Come on? Four more?
Is there anybody? Don't make me? Don't make me put
my name? Shane?

Speaker 2 (01:49:06):
I think I think our buddy Mike and into m
K found u Joe's antenna. Oh where in Western New York? Oh,
hang on, Mike's out.

Speaker 6 (01:49:21):
On the truck. I love it, I got it.

Speaker 8 (01:49:28):
Carlos Carlos makes a comment on Here Joe about whoa
wo and Carlos Man. When I was a kid, I
would listen to comic hockey on whoaa on Fort Wayne, Indiana?

Speaker 7 (01:49:44):
W O w O Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Speaker 8 (01:49:46):
I would lay in bed at night listening to comment
the Fort Wayne comments on whoa Wo?

Speaker 7 (01:49:50):
And I so Carlos Carlos just went w O w O. Yep,
I I know that channel.

Speaker 8 (01:49:55):
I'm naturally though, I'm an am radio guy. But that's
kind of cool that he said that common hockey is.

Speaker 7 (01:50:01):
Still a thing.

Speaker 8 (01:50:01):
Yes, yes it is, no kidding, yep, Fort Wayne tongs.

Speaker 2 (01:50:06):
I'm pretty sure WSM is still on the air.

Speaker 7 (01:50:09):
Oh yeah, WSA WSM six fifty. I can hear it.

Speaker 8 (01:50:13):
I've gotten it here in Rhode Island. I can in Virginia.
It's just like really strong six fifty.

Speaker 7 (01:50:19):
It's cool to.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
See if I can pull it in here Charleston.

Speaker 6 (01:50:24):
And it's funny because the young kids today don't know.
We listened to AM for all the school for all
the school closings, all the school closings in the morning,
and if you missed it, you had to wait because
they had to go around alpha alphabetically, I mean AM.
We we used to have Mystery Mystery Theater on Sunday nights.
D Yeah. It was just absolutely incredible. We learned about syndication,

(01:50:48):
the early days of what a station was being syndicated.
You know, the different programs, and a lot again, we
all have that CB background, but a lot of us
also have that short wave in that AM background.

Speaker 8 (01:51:01):
I'll tell you what's still good on AM if you
wake up in the middle of the night or you're
late in bed at night. It's a syndicated program called
Coast to Coast a.

Speaker 5 (01:51:08):
M Yeah, listen to that. When I was driving trucks.

Speaker 8 (01:51:11):
Oh so good, art Belt he's passed away now.

Speaker 7 (01:51:14):
He was a hand. He was the guy that did
that in amazing. I love Coast to coast. Am.

Speaker 8 (01:51:20):
I still sometimes I'll go to bed at night with
the radio one forget to cut it off and wake
up in the middle of the night and it's on,
hearing some crazy stuff on it.

Speaker 12 (01:51:29):
All right, we're gonna hit the button here, ghet it,
let's hit it, Andy says, excellent, longtime supporter here on clubhouse.

Speaker 6 (01:51:45):
Excellent, congratulations, excellent.

Speaker 8 (01:51:56):
Ken.

Speaker 6 (01:51:57):
Hey Ken, if you get a chance, take a picture
of yourself holding that that book up. They send it
to Handbrailer Clubhouse at gmail dot com. We will love
the person. Discord or discord too, was user for you?

Speaker 5 (01:52:08):
Exactly?

Speaker 7 (01:52:12):
Good stuff?

Speaker 6 (01:52:13):
Oh hey, well do you besides sideband, do you do
anything on CW.

Speaker 8 (01:52:19):
I I started learning Morse code like in nineteen seventy
four when I was going for my novice and then
I like fell.

Speaker 7 (01:52:27):
Over to the CBE world. I want to I actually
answer some radios. But to answer your question short and sweet. Hell, no, man,
I'm a voice.

Speaker 10 (01:52:36):
I know you.

Speaker 6 (01:52:37):
I know you early. I know you mentioned like with
your grandson, so that might be a push, but right,
I just didn't know on a regular basis if that.
How about the digital modes, No.

Speaker 7 (01:52:47):
Not at all. I don't I'm not a hater, but
I'm not. That's not me. This is not an I
don't need my computer talking.

Speaker 4 (01:52:54):
There's a there's a facet of this hobby for everybody
right right, and some people who aren't comfortable on the
talking on the radio.

Speaker 6 (01:53:03):
There's a rabbit hole for everim here here. We don't
have fun for exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:53:10):
So where's your next stop on the book tour? Walt?
You gotta you got? You doing Huntsville or Dayton.

Speaker 8 (01:53:17):
Yeah, I'm gonna do Dayton, do Huntsville and then I
don't know, I'll just see after that.

Speaker 6 (01:53:21):
Kind're gonna be in Huntsville.

Speaker 7 (01:53:23):
Yeah, definitely be there. Yeah, it is going, It is going.

Speaker 8 (01:53:27):
I have no I haven't pooked anything, I haven't done
anything or whatever. So I'm trying to decide if I'm
gonna if I'm gonna pull my camper down there, if
I'm just gonna get a hotel room, I don't know
what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 2 (01:53:39):
If you're gonna pull a camper, you need to call
now to see if they've got any slots open.

Speaker 7 (01:53:42):
All right, I'm gonna hotel room.

Speaker 4 (01:53:46):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (01:53:48):
With the five gifted clubhouse memberships.

Speaker 4 (01:53:49):
Thank you, much pack and Jody with a five dollars
Canadian to pacify beer, sax anxiety.

Speaker 8 (01:54:00):
It's funny, good stuff, good stuff, good stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:54:04):
Who all which how who's going to Dayton? I'll be there?
Who else is going?

Speaker 5 (01:54:08):
I won't be there.

Speaker 1 (01:54:09):
I will be.

Speaker 7 (01:54:12):
All right for the first five hundred people that see
me in Dayton.

Speaker 5 (01:54:17):
Stickers.

Speaker 7 (01:54:18):
I got stickers. This year's stickers are different than last
year's stickers. But come see me. You'll get a stay
salty K four oh gu sticker. They might go quick.

Speaker 6 (01:54:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:54:29):
They might.

Speaker 8 (01:54:29):
I might be a little overestimating. I might go home
with two hundred and fifty stickers.

Speaker 7 (01:54:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:54:34):
But anyway, I have no Well, no, you're listen. Listen,
this is not a boat anchor man. Those they'll be going.
I guarantee you you mark my words. In thirty to
sixty minutes, they'll all be gone. Right, Well, those will
be going.

Speaker 8 (01:54:47):
Come come come see me, you better come see me
Friday morning then ten fifteen, uh for the forum will
be guys.

Speaker 6 (01:54:55):
Guys love stickers. You're not you're not.

Speaker 1 (01:54:58):
You're run into the big first big group of the
flag pole.

Speaker 2 (01:55:03):
Yeah, Walter is one camp site left at Montsanta.

Speaker 8 (01:55:09):
I ain't gonna make it then, I'll just stay in
the hotel. I'd rather I'd rather fly in it out anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:55:16):
Man, how many times have you been to Dayton?

Speaker 7 (01:55:22):
This is the only thing my second time. I've only
been once.

Speaker 6 (01:55:25):
What did you like the first time?

Speaker 7 (01:55:27):
All right, on the first time? What did I like?

Speaker 6 (01:55:32):
And your first and your first impressions of Dayton?

Speaker 8 (01:55:35):
Honestly, what I liked the first time. I really enjoyed
out on the racetrack, man, all the old stuff, all
the US stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:55:44):
Man, that's so epic. It's really cool.

Speaker 8 (01:55:46):
I saw so many things I had when I was
a younger me, you know what I mean, Like radios
I used to own, you know, CBS, I used to
own whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:55:54):
That was really cool. I really enjoyed that.

Speaker 8 (01:55:58):
And we'll definitely do it again this year. I think
I enjoyed going to the troll Bar on Saturday night.

Speaker 7 (01:56:04):
Everybody.

Speaker 8 (01:56:04):
That was fun, Like, you know, I had a good time.
I just I enjoyed it. I'm gonna do it again
this year. I did it last year. There will be
so many people doing live change for Dayton. I will
have no cameras. I will have nothing I'm going to
Dayton to be me and be at ham.

Speaker 7 (01:56:20):
And enjoy it. I'm not filming.

Speaker 8 (01:56:21):
I mean I may go, I may see something and
on a whim. Like last year, the guy that that
bought ten texts that man do a video for me,
I did it. I he did not do anything he
said he was going to do in the video. But
other than that, I'm gonna like just you know, I'm
going to like like not.

Speaker 7 (01:56:40):
I just trying to not be that guy. I'm just
gonna go enjoy myself.

Speaker 1 (01:56:44):
What I learned from last year is this year, I'm
going to try to remember bringing a little camel packed.

Speaker 6 (01:56:52):
Yeah, that's a good idea, Joe Brett.

Speaker 1 (01:56:56):
Yeah, almost must.

Speaker 8 (01:56:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:56:59):
I set the wife for a refill or lemonade and
then I lost her and she lost me and bringing
her back on a golf court and I, oh.

Speaker 5 (01:57:07):
God, wow, that's a story an adventure.

Speaker 6 (01:57:12):
Yeah, Joe Brett. Would you have the double camel pack
one for water and then maybe another beverage on the
other side, and with two straws, you choose which.

Speaker 1 (01:57:23):
You gotta keep.

Speaker 4 (01:57:24):
Pat Well, it's not I'm not doing radio on the beach,
but I did get pretty close to uh to playing
on the beach this over there this.

Speaker 2 (01:57:34):
Week Yeah, you didn't quite make it to the water.

Speaker 5 (01:57:37):
I got close enough.

Speaker 7 (01:57:38):
Pretty cool.

Speaker 5 (01:57:39):
I don't I don't have a I don't have a picture.

Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
It's in the video, but I've got a where I
got about six inches off the water.

Speaker 5 (01:57:47):
We're just hanging out above the water before we had
to make up.

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
I thought you were going to drop that GoPro at
the start of that video.

Speaker 6 (01:57:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:57:55):
I don't like there's turbulence or anything up there.

Speaker 7 (01:57:58):
That's true, guys, I got an incoming call. I gotta
take like thirty seconds.

Speaker 4 (01:58:02):
I'll be right back, okay, perfect, buddy. Yeah, that's that
was my adventure this weekend. I finally this is the
one on the right, that's my balloon, and we finally
got to fly it for the first time. So it
was cool getting out there and hanging with the friends.
We had four balloons that we flew. I know that
audio probably was terrible anyway, it's fun stuff. If you

(01:58:26):
want the link to the video, it's not on my
my regular YouTube channel. I have another one that's for
aviation stuff. Do you want it should be a message
in discord, or I could drop a link in the chat.

Speaker 5 (01:58:38):
It does need a little love. That channel needs a
little love, just a little bit. We're trying to see.

Speaker 6 (01:58:44):
Buddy give it a big kiss.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
I was gonna say it's a good channel if you're
into aviation.

Speaker 6 (01:58:51):
Oh come on.

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
But yeah, that was a great video. I like the
three sixty cam.

Speaker 5 (01:58:58):
Yeah, that's something that's brand new.

Speaker 1 (01:59:03):
I it was like, I feel a lot of my
just do it. So that's another rant of mine.

Speaker 6 (01:59:10):
Well, Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:59:12):
Put on a tripod and it don't matter with Shane.

Speaker 1 (01:59:15):
He's got the X five. It comes with replaceable lenses.

Speaker 2 (01:59:18):
Oh he bought the X five.

Speaker 1 (01:59:19):
He don't have to send it off and pay hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:59:23):
Joe Bray, didn't you have that three sixty and while
you were driving I thought that was so cool.

Speaker 1 (01:59:27):
I still got it. But it's the X four, which
you have to send off and pay one hundred and
twenty nine dollars to get a lens replace Julie.

Speaker 5 (01:59:34):
Wants to see her hat again.

Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
There you, Julie, there it is.

Speaker 1 (01:59:38):
I just want to see it.

Speaker 4 (01:59:41):
Like what, I'm going to try and get all of
these shipped out by the end of this week.

Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
So what be nice to have mine by Friday? So
I could wear it on the plane.

Speaker 6 (01:59:49):
But hey, what what arrives first, Julie's hat or Joe's
a task.

Speaker 1 (01:59:55):
Everybody's Julie's hat. I'll box even people that don't get
a hat until the next time we get to order
later in the year. We'll get their hab for it.

Speaker 6 (02:00:07):
All right, Well, Walt and my q RP Labs radio
come first before Joe's a pass.

Speaker 7 (02:00:14):
Ye I doubt it. You think it will? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:00:17):
Oh yeah that a task from from GEM is never coming,
so no, one better and buy something radio related from
the parts of Alabama.

Speaker 5 (02:00:27):
He was insured for for where you just go buy
a new one.

Speaker 2 (02:00:31):
I will say yes, I may, I may or may
not have gotten eleven meter radio from GYM and it arrived.

Speaker 1 (02:00:40):
Oh yeah, it wasn't an antenna, No get it atis
antenna AM radio station antenna. That antenna's don't do good
in Alabama.

Speaker 6 (02:00:51):
Joe Bretch fired up now Joe Joe Bretches fired up.
Now here we go.

Speaker 1 (02:00:55):
I've bought my seventy three hundred and seventy five. Both
come from Alabama in Huntsville. No problem. Next day service
took Shane.

Speaker 6 (02:01:03):
It only took two hours to get Joe Brett.

Speaker 1 (02:01:05):
I buying another damn antenna from Alada.

Speaker 2 (02:01:09):
Unless you pick it up from the store.

Speaker 5 (02:01:11):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, Yeah, it'll be in person.

Speaker 2 (02:01:14):
Yep, those of you in the.

Speaker 4 (02:01:17):
D f W area that bought hats David, Randy and
two point zero, I will deliver yours to you if
you want to meet me somewhere.

Speaker 5 (02:01:24):
I'm not shipping it to y'all. Will get child's first.

Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
But hold they're still last.

Speaker 5 (02:01:33):
That would be mean.

Speaker 4 (02:01:34):
Well if you didn't look, if you look in the chat,
I'm being bribed a little bit. David's gonna trade me
a bottle of whiskey for his hats.

Speaker 2 (02:01:42):
Oh okay, well there you go enough side.

Speaker 5 (02:01:47):
Hmmm, Yes, I was glad to see this box arrived today.

Speaker 1 (02:01:50):
I hope it's airplane bottle of whiskey.

Speaker 6 (02:01:55):
Balloon.

Speaker 7 (02:01:57):
You didn't agree you to?

Speaker 1 (02:01:58):
How many millimeters did you?

Speaker 8 (02:02:00):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
Ready said He's gonna drive over and beat on the
door to get his right.

Speaker 7 (02:02:06):
Always measuring millimeters. It makes it look bigger.

Speaker 5 (02:02:09):
Exactly exactly.

Speaker 6 (02:02:11):
Oh, I like that idea, so Tota.

Speaker 1 (02:02:15):
Server says, I have Joe Bird's thanks for the yeah,
he said. The shipping label was marked at with Sharper
fairy game.

Speaker 4 (02:02:28):
All right, anybody get anything we want to throw out
there before we call it quits for tonight.

Speaker 8 (02:02:34):
I want I want to say one thing is man,
thank you, thank you for inviting me tonight. This is amazing.
I enjoyed you guys so much.

Speaker 6 (02:02:42):
Short notice I had. I saw your video. I saw
your video at work. We kind of slowed down a
little bit at work. I was doing some of our
things and I saw your video. I said, let me
just send you a quick text if you're available. A
thousand thank you.

Speaker 7 (02:02:54):
As always, you guys can always short notice me. Man,
I'll pop in if I can. We'll love to do it.

Speaker 6 (02:02:59):
And this is not goodbye. This is not goodbye, but
because because when you get settled in over the summer
or the fall, whatever. Man, you know, man, your family,
you are family. You you know whatever. I will tell you.

Speaker 9 (02:03:13):
I had.

Speaker 6 (02:03:14):
I had such a fun time again in Rhode Island.
The people of Rhode Island are just And I met
a ham if y'all. I don't know if you know
about there. It's called Cumberland Farms.

Speaker 7 (02:03:24):
Yeah, Comby Baby Comby.

Speaker 6 (02:03:25):
Combies, Combies. I pulled into Combies because I needed some
beef turkey in a soda and I also bought a
candy bar too, and some other things. But there was
a ham who pulled in, who pulled into the parking lot.
He had a whip on his he had a ball
mount on his little Mini s UV telescoping whip. And
I saw the plate he bought his stuff, I said,

(02:03:47):
And I walked very carefully up into the park and
I said, hello, I'm a ham. I got a question
for you on Yourtanna Salt of the Earth. We probably
spent fifteen minutes just and again, this is what I
love about our hobby and the camarade. You know, who
are you?

Speaker 8 (02:04:02):
What do you do in this?

Speaker 6 (02:04:02):
And that he's a big CW guy, you know, so
that's cool. Again, I really had fun. I don't know
if I'm gonna make it out. I know I'm going
to be playing some some more PoTA, I think on Thursday.
Here in Connecticut, I'm walk on Friday. They're calling for rain.
But you know something, Joe Brett, I have an a task,
so even in the rain, you can play out, So

(02:04:24):
look for it. So look look for me. I don't care.

Speaker 7 (02:04:31):
H It is a kind of following up on what
you just said.

Speaker 8 (02:04:37):
One of the most amazing experiences I've ever had as
a YouTuber on the Ham Radio community. You've been up
this way. You know where the Warwick Mall is in Warwick, Okay.
Right next to it as a walmart. So I walked
in that walmart on a Sunday morning at like eight
o'clock to get a few things on grocery shopping or whatever.

(02:04:58):
I'm walking through the war walmart and I hear someoney
yell salt and I'm like, I'm like, holy cow, and
I walked in the guy.

Speaker 7 (02:05:13):
The guy came up to me. He goes, oh my god,
I can.

Speaker 8 (02:05:17):
I believe I met you in the wal martin Warwick,
Growing Island or whatever.

Speaker 7 (02:05:22):
You want to know what. He was excited. Right, I
got in my jeep and I'm driving home and wife,
oh my god, you.

Speaker 8 (02:05:29):
Don't believe what just happened.

Speaker 5 (02:05:30):
What happened?

Speaker 6 (02:05:33):
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 4 (02:05:38):
Anybody to get anything else, well, thanks for coming on
to night.

Speaker 7 (02:05:44):
We thank you guys so much.

Speaker 6 (02:05:45):
Man, next week, we have a guest next week, right, Well, I.

Speaker 4 (02:05:49):
Haven't looked at the calendar and it's probably the one
that I booked. So Andy and Andy with the World
Radio League. Uh yeah, they've done a bunch of updates
to that that website as well as the Poda app,
So looking for demonstration on that when he comes on
next week.

Speaker 5 (02:06:07):
So until then, thanks.

Speaker 2 (02:06:09):
Guys, pleasure to be here.

Speaker 5 (02:06:11):
We'll see in Discord seventy three to you.

Speaker 2 (02:06:22):
You're a little

Speaker 6 (02:06:23):
Salty, you, yes, just drop the box off from my house.

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