Ep 216: JoeBrett takes on Hamvention 2025!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For the first time. I went to tie with the group.
I didn't understand what the guy was saying, and I
heard one through five and like, I'll moore food better, right,
I said five? And the guy standing next to me
looked at me and went, I'm like, what is that?
They said, spice level. You ain't ready for five?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Okay, you're listening to the Ham Radio Clubhouse Podcast, a
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us live, but until then, enjoy this week's episode. Thanks
for joining us here in the Clubhouse.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
First there was six, then there was four, and now
there is two. Well, you know, Shane's got that meeting
with the FA do that unauthorized water landing?

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Correct? You know a lot explaining new boy, Yeah, beer snack.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Well, we'll see him when we see him. Yeah, he's
got a lot of family stuff. Molson's tenant to the farm,
the family in the business. Molson's got his stuff going.
Joe Brett, I don't know what he's got going on.
Oh wait, there is in the green room, I would say,
Joe bretson the storm shelter. Joe, seriously, don't we want

(01:24):
to make sure you are safe. You and your family
are safe.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
There it's passing, okay, all.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Right, and listen, this goes for anyone else out there.
This is why we have Team Replay. Don't be no
hero staying up in the living room or in the garage.
If you got some crazy storms going on, you better
be take you better be activating your family emergency plan
whatever that is, because we know that differs. So that's all. Well.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, if if Reed Timmer or Jim Cantory or in
your area, you're in trouble.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, don't don't be doing no interviews with Jim and
here again.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
But anyway, I've been trying to keep up as I
was coming out here. I guess the cameras are all flying.
But Huntsville, Decatur, Alabama, Athens area and Monty sento.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
You're next, right, that's the next. No, they just know
it's moving away from him. I was moving away, okay.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
It was on the ground route between the Athen's and Decatur,
and I was watching on the Money Cento tower. Well okay,
and it would look pretty rough. So I got to
check in with our with our friend up there.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, I was gonna say check in with our friend
from up there in Mont Santa and make sure make
sure we still have a place to camp and that
and that he's okay. More importantly, BUCkies will rebuild lou.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
And Ukies save the rolls.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Save the brisket, Yeah, save the brisket.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
The brisket.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
They can rebuild the building.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
But so well, it's been an interesting week with everything
regarding Xenia and hand vengeon weather across America. Guys, we
got Mike and and to m A K coming on
and maybe about thirty forty five minutes hour, maybe Mike

(03:24):
is doing a very cool six meter uh awareness project.
We all we all probably have six meters in a
radio or many of our radios. You probably have an
antenda that you don't even know that you can load
up and tune whatever so that.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
They tossle tune up six meters. Sure will one hundred
and two n CB whip. We'll also do it too,
one way or another. So okay, I've done it before.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
All right, Joe, We got Joe And that's the picture.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Out and then that's when the cam is that when
the camera stopped. Yeah, Guntersville Lake is just this side
from my side of Mont Sano because I passed that
coming in, so it's it's coming that way.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
All these cameras, I don't know. I thought maybe my internet, like.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Maybe you're in it froze. Oh that's your phone. Yes,
I just saw it, flip. That's how I knew. So okay,
oh yeah, a solo. So how was Dayton?

Speaker 1 (04:36):
How was Dayton? Well? Dayton was I So I got.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Your Yes, what what what dates did you get on?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
And kind of let us know? And this is no digs.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
More people this year than compared to like what's the whole.
Then we'll get into food, we'll get into vendors, we'll
get into what did you buy you? And anything else?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Hey one an atos of course.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Did you did you really? Well?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
He's never getting the one from gym. Yeah, getting that
one sitting in the back of my car. Kick it off,
Kick it off, Joe Brett, kick it off.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Uh, they're saying my audio is low.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
And just a little bad, just a tad kick into that.
Come on, kicking those sultry sounds of five land, my
five land.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
All right, we'll crank it on it.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
I don't know, there you go. Alright, oh man, making
love to my ears here.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Now pay five. Why wow your invintion report.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
I got.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
I got in on a ham mentioned Wednesday, arrived left
early from Mississippi and that was much like your trip. UH.
Doing it by myself this year, but started questioning life
by the time you get to Cincinnati. Traffic, Yeah, man,

(06:12):
Like there was this one bridge that had this big
shadow across the road, and traffic stopped me right in
front of it, and then it started to flow again
and it stopped me directly.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
On the other side of it.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Didn't enjoy it, but as expected, it was pretty hot
and muggy, quite usual, So okay, Thursday was kind of kickback.
We went to UH four Days of May Bend night
I went. I went to that with the boys. That
was interesting to see. They need a lot bigger room

(06:45):
for that crowd.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
That's why I figured I had a feeling myself standing
room only.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, myself, among many others that was trying to get
some video of that a bit. All you could do
is just hold your hand up high and try to
get it.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
You were literally elbow to elbow.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
You couldn't even see the tables, and you know, unless
you push me by your way, you couldn't.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
See break out that selfie stick for that three sixty
cam that'll get up there.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, but uh, Friday, the show started on Yeah, so
doors open right, got there Friday. Let me tell you, man,
I made the most of my day Friday. It wasn't
very hard to find me, and some people still miss me.
But I sit with the coffee and Han radio boys

(07:36):
at their table. Uh huh the entire day except for
one trip to the bathroom a little after lunch, and
then I came back really really yeah, did not move.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
I had.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
I had a few items on the table myself for
saying I didn't want to, you know, just leave it
all up to them, right, would be kind of rude.
So I need to be there to ask questions or
answer you know what.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
You don't want Jim pocketing your money? I mean the man,
I ready a pocketed you're attached. You don't want to
pocketing again?

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, I don't know. I had to keep eye on gym.
But Chuck, Chuck's pretty good seller. He sold a couple
of items for I was asking for him.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Really nice, you look at him upselling it nice. Yeah, Richard,
thanks for the nineteen months, and yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Thank you Richard.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
He hands me the twenties, says, I sold two meters.
I was like, I was only asking five, he said,
when I sold them for all.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Oh I love it. Oh my god, I love it.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
And Frank is loving the three sixty video.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Well, thank you. I'm kind of kind of gauging interest
in that, and I decided to h I did my
little walkthroughs, and I did it building by building, which
I missed. There's a couple of buildings like you got
buildings one, two, and three, but then you got like
Maxim Hall and some of the others, the smaller buildings.
I didn't get in some of those to record, but

(08:53):
and I think all but one of them were all
but two of them. I didn't have the selfie stick
attached my back packed raised up quite high enough, so okay,
you have to look left, right or behind me or
you're just gonna be staring at my hat. But I
always thought they were kind of neat, and I thought
i'd try them out. Walked through it and look where

(09:16):
you want, pause if you want to look longer.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, I need to make sure I set up the
three sixty cam for this weekend. You got one too,
But yeah, I do dany what you got, I've got
the X three.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh okay, So Friday night we'll get back to the
house that we're written and it starts storming like it's
like it's following me. Of course it always rains, right
at a convention.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
I hear.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
This started throwing some hells, some winds out. Oh yes,
some some of the car boys was hitting the basement
and me and Jim was out on the back porch
watching it and want to gim.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
First time I had Doctor Pepper smoking a cigar.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yep, our new porter or something whatever it is. I
was trying to I was trying to record some video
of the storm, and heck I had to. I would
if I showed it, I'd have to bleep most of
it out because he was sitting there cussing. But his
truck getting hit with hail. Yeah, my dude, you left
the big death of Grandma, put in the passion your door,

(10:24):
but you go about some hail. Come on, now, well,
did you want to fix the window that Mic broke?
I don't know it's there, but I don't know if
you can roll it down.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
That sounds that sounds like a do well.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
He had that through glass and tent on it, so
probably shouldn't have rolled it down anyway.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Probably shouldn't have put it on a window that can move.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Or let Mike sit in the back seat of your truck.
I mean, yeah, I ain't gonna say it's Mike's fault.
Now there he is.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah, Mike said he didn't break it. You're you're on
mic client, I break it, and that's your honor. I
let the record show. Let the record show. My client
has said he didn't break it, and that's what we're
that's our story and that's what we're sticking to.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
So after the storm pushed through, get up the next day. Man,
it's actually kind of chili outside. You see one of
my videos. Uh, somebody come in and was it chili?
It was Bob. He noticed that some people had jackets own,
some people were in short sleeves, and it was. It
was almost to the point where I was considering should
I brought a sleep night, But man, I was soaking

(11:39):
it up. So Saturday was a great.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
Day to walk around.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Did not need the hydration pack as much as I
thought I did, but I still use it.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
A lot of stuff out there. Saturday night, everybody goes
to the troll Pub. I did not make it.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
I was.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
I was heartbroken on that. I was hell bent on
being there. But we didn't leave the show till five
o'clock get back to the house, which was twenty minutes away,
and then get to the house and unpack some stuff
and type in TROLLU. And it was an hour from
where we was at one way, and I was already starving,
so we just ordered some take out and picked up

(12:23):
some food.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
I was. I was hoping whatever Kyle organized was going
to be to everyone's liking fairness.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
You know, it seemed it seemed like the tables were
handled much better this year, but the barriers still needed
some help.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
We'll have to get that from Kyle. Then.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, Noel wasn't there to secretly go behind the bar
and help serve drinks and.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Start serving.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
One for me and two and two for you.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
M Hey, they just don't know how much money they
missed out on that year.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Joe, What did you think of the new products? Very welcoming?
Was it like a big draw? Do you think people
we were expectations? Matt? You know what? What was there
a feel that you can see in here?

Speaker 1 (13:18):
I want to say some expectations were exceeded.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
Oh really the bar.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
In particular, In particular, Flex come in swinging throwing punches
at the show boy. Yeah really, Flex got me considering
the flex. I just got to figure out how to
get seven thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
It's only seven k. You're gonna you're gonna have to
sell a vehicle and maybe a kid.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
They don't come out.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
With this Aurora Aurora.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
The Aurora features a one ten plug and you plug
it into your wall outlet right and power output five
hundred out at your disposal.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Right off the rip.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Is it like ten?

Speaker 3 (14:05):
What is it like ten?

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Ten, twenty? Watching something low like that?

Speaker 1 (14:08):
And it's built into the radio.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
It is the radio. It's a five hundred watt radio. Oh,
I got some so I got some education to do
on this.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yeah. It's literally flip the switch and you have five
hundred watch if you want it, yeah, or you can
dial it back.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
But it's uh. I think they said fifty on two
meters and maybe six meters, but I know two meters
was a lower output.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
It's got two meter in it.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I believe that's what I here.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
I got to look that up. I saw little bits
and pieces on it, but I was stuck on an
airplane for sixteens on Saturday, right, So anyway, Yeah, but yeah,
five hundred out the box, plug it into the wall.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
No power supply needed, everything's built you. And I was
I was listening to the uh Ham radio workbitch. I
believe had a they I think they released a podcast.
Oh you know, several of the flex YouTubers were invited
to this early informational thing before the show and sworn
to secrecy. So but they ended up releasing that audio

(15:15):
of that recording where they told all about it and
what they've done with the heat dissipation or the the
heat what do you call it generation? They they've cut
that down like three quarters of what a traditional radio does.
Really all right, cold forty five, So that's two hundred

(15:38):
watch six meters and then there's Frank again, I'll.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
Take watch listen. I'm not a big six meter guy,
but holy christ, wats on six meters? Yeah that's a
power man, I don't care. Plus you had a beat,
you had a beam to that.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
HF and six.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
Yeah, c DC power supply, what kind of displayed Joe,
nice to split nice your computer comps.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Well, it's just it's just like the others you got.
You got two offerings with just the box and hook
it a computer. You got two offerings that has the
Maestro or screen or.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
Something like that. Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Interesting, So there's four different configurations that you can choose from.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Look at that there you go, you're just looking at
I'm just looking at that rear panel there. Yeah, very
interesting ports, nicely laid out. I like that.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
God knows what what all connections are. And it looks
like it has built in Wi Fi.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
That's I saw that.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
I spy that the connectors uh nine, a couple of
two thirty nine for antenna one and antenna two. And
then it's probably transverter down there in the bottom, because
they like their transverters.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
So what are you saying, Joe. As far as heat
dispos it just disappeared. I don't.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
It's not really Dissipati is not the right word, because
they've cut it down to where it doesn't even generate. Look,
there's a whole technical you gotta you gotta listen to
the podcast episode.

Speaker 6 (17:30):
Now.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
I'm not a technical guy. I was just curious whisper
fan whisper cooling fans or no fans at all, just
the whisper fans.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Just I'm just throwing some numbers out here because I
don't remember exactly, but something like, if you've got a
fifteen hundred white out, you're creating eighteen something hundred watts
of heat, and they've cut that down to like you're
generating a quarter of that. They've changed the ratio of that.
They revolutionize this.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Because Tuner from a kid in the sixth the late
no mid early to mid seventies, my grandfather had a
ranch house. The basement only had partial heat. The hamshack
never had the heat because back then he was all
q r O. All that amplifier, that amplifier. His room

(18:23):
was I think a twelve x twelve shack ten by
twelve twelve, had a door on it and had a big,
huge glass window. Then he had these accordion shutters to
shut when he wanted total privacy, darkness, whatever, and just
let the lights of the columns and other equipment. But
that amplifier kept us warm. I remember, oh yeah, hole,

(18:45):
you know. And he had two amplifiers, you know. One
was a heath kit I think another one was a
all made job. He had either one. There was no
such thing as heat in there. Matter of fact, in
the summertime, you sweated. You know, there was always a
fan that had to be wrong. But still, look, look
where we've come down in twenty twenty five compared to
nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, yeah, shoot, the Aurora five twenty has integrated. So so
two are.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Mm hmmm remember hearing that. Yeah, that's a lot. So
we'll have to I have to have a pretty thick
credit card for that one.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
But it sounds fun.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
My checker bounce all the way back. Meanwhile, you'll be
down the road. Don't find you, where to find me?

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Don't know where to find you? Uh huh u.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Kenwood mobile was out on display, and you know it was.
It was a lot prettier in person when I first
seen it, And you Kate tonight if when I say this,
but that is a marine radio case painted. It looks
when they first released a picture of it, it's like

(20:03):
it's like a marine radio, right. But seeing it in person,
didn't touch it. It was in a little cast glass case,
but under the glass yep. I stared at it for
a minute. It had some pretty vivid colors on the
screen and then Jesus f t X, one FT one whatever,

(20:23):
one X. They've become pretty popular. You know, Jason got
his hands on one.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
And then some controversy. Some controversy was you know, throughout
the social mediums about you know, who had them, who didn't,
and you know, I don't know. I'm sure if they
were correct, if they were misleading, but some people were
not happy. Well you know, so yeah, the whole thing. Yeah,
you know, I don't have a dog. I don't have
a dog in the fight, and I don't care, no disrespect.

(20:49):
I don't have a dog in the fight.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
So no, uh him radio two. We got him one.
So I should have went over there and messed with
But I I'm glad I didn't because probably wouldn't don't
want to know.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Well, I gotta tell you, Joe.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
I quickly add up some prices I said, if I
was and the key words, if I was to get
that yazoo, let's say two three months from now, what's
it gonna cost me? Because I have learned I'm not
just buying a radio anymore. There's accessories that I need,
accessories I'm gonna want, and I at this point i'd

(21:25):
have to really sell down because it would almost be
a sin for me to get another radio of that caliber.
There's no I'm not saying I wanted the accessories. But
and let me tell you something, you're gonna have fun
with that. I know, Mike and everyone else who has
that radio. I I'll bet every dollar I have you

(21:46):
are gonna have fun with that radio. That looks like
a fun as well as the awesome configurations that it
gives you. Just like Joe, like what you were saying
about the other radio, you can do two or three
different watching the videos that the guy's put out, very interesting,
very interesting configurations based upon everyone's different operating style, whether

(22:10):
you're home in the field, if you're in the sounds
like even in the field you got toour you got
like two options of how you went.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
They didn't plan on you taking this out.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
They don't want you taking it mobile. And they said,
ain't using the extension table. But yet somebody's already posted
on the on the interweals them using an extension cable,
kind of like we can't use just Ethernet cable to
extend or or ahead. But I usually have an unpopular opinion,
it's okay because I like it and I don't care

(22:42):
you don't, But my opinion on the whole hr selling
them at the show thing is both sided. Because if
I had a pre ordered one and was still sitting
here at the house after coming home and waiting on one,
I'd be I'll probably be a little salty.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
So I get that. Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Now, I don't think that it was that they should
not have sold them at the store, but I mean
at the show. But I do think they should have
put some kind of disclaimer saying, hey, if you want
to take a gamble, we might have a few at
the show before you pre order and wait for shipping,
and then you know that's a gamble. Because I think

(23:22):
they only brought like one hundred units or something. I
may be way off on that. I'm just guessing because
I think I heard that. But then you might have
been number one hundred and one and not had a
pre order or one in your hand at all. So
that's the only thing that I think they probably should
have done for the people is be transparent about that.

(23:44):
And it may have been a last minute thing, I
don't know.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
But but as far as the radio itself, let's forget
about the saltiness because but the radio is. I think
it's very interesting.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
I think it's a very interesting radio.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
I think for anybody who does a lot of two
meter work, I think it's a nice option.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Be interested to hear how it works on satellites.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
Right, correct.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
So John did say in one of the interviews I
watched at the show that is not full due place.
Although some people said it was, you said it's not. Again, Hell,
it may be, but it's coming from John. You also
can't use extension cables a Cat five cable in the
other radio.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
But yeah, I saw his interview with the ex engineering
So yeah, so uh, you know, I got to thinking, though,
I'm gonna put this out here.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Ray is my more favorite salesman.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
He's got a better personality when it comes to interacting
about the product to me, not throwing shade. Just that's
the way I call it. But on the way home,
when I'm sitting there looking in my truck, and every
damn radio my truck is Jesu, and I'm getting more
and more Jesus without even thinking about it. So I
got the five hundred, I got the eight ninety one,

(25:07):
I got the ft five, and I'm like, wait a minute,
now I call what you doing here? My seventy three
hundred is what ten years old?

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Now you're seven o five.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, seven o five ain't much older or much younger.
So I never been a big fan of JAESU, but
I'm telling you that DSP they've God, they've got that
on lock.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
They are the king of digital signal processing. Uh. When
I'm in the mobile in eight ninety one and with
the the noise from the I guess the alternator or
whatever electrical things making it pop a little bit, and
the noise from Junker that you're passing by, now, I

(25:51):
hit the DSP and all of a sudden, I can
actually hear an operaighter that's there.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
See, I keep forgetting, See I keep forgetting to go
into that setting. And Mike and Mike ka m already
pointed out on many many videos ago, maybe about two
months ago or so, the noise production noise blanker, and
I got to get back into the menus to start
playing with that, because every once while I get to a.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Park and I have to say about the more on
the subject of filtering the seventy three hundred, Ray was
talking about this somewhere at some point about how most
people are running their RF game at one hundred percent,
and he's always backed it down a lot, right, and

(26:35):
then adjusted filters and stuff to where the station sounded good.
Station ain't got to the station ain't got to be
hitting S nine on the meter.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
Joe, Joe. That's an interesting point because a lot of
guys I've seen they run the they run preamp two
and three.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Well on, I come now, this has been uh YouTube
studied as well well, uh anything over twenty up you
about have to at least use pre amp one to
get a good signal out of okay, you need the attenuator.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
But again, I'm not an expert in this, and I
am not. This is the ISZO disclaimer. I am not
an expert only from my operating experience where I'm operating noise,
environmental noise, whatever I have noticed pre AM two and three. Yes,
it's gonna bolster the signal. You can see it in

(27:34):
the waterfall, but here comes a whole bunch of noise
with it, even if you're trying to notch it down.
It's it's like why you're gonna bring noise in and
then try to mask it down, notch it down? That
doesn't make any sense. I'd rather run no pre amp
still hear you, And at the end of the day,
I don't care if you're a five to five or

(27:55):
a five a five nine. The point is can I
hear you? And I think it might lead to are
we getting Remember how how a lot of guys get
very hung up on flat flat vsw R or whatever,
And maybe it's the same thing when it comes to
this subject of you have to be a five eight
five five, No, you do not, you do not. Who cares?

(28:17):
As long as I can hear you and communicate with you,
you know, I don't know. Hey, tweet is all well,
I want to know.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
I just got a message here in the chat to
pull up HR's website and I want to know what's
going on. They might need a new IT.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Guy, and I have some problems that Steve. What does
that mean?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
What's an SSL certificate? Me? That is your secure socket layer.
That's you want to make sure that they have a
valid SSL sert before you put your credit card number in.
Oh okay, I get that because and make sure your data.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Is That's why you call and give it to some
stranger of the phone.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Hello, my name is bald Man.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
So while we're while we're on the substance radio, I
just got a text message m want.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
Me to Why don't he just why does he just
come on the show and say something? Then, Mike, if
you want the link, we'll send you a link. How
did you know it was a mic because I could
see something in the chat.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
So MRD has put the seven o five out, I'll
be it is in a cage, so that makes it
makes it a little more girthy.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
But but if you look beyond the cage, they're about
the same size. Okay, that way, it looks to be
a little bit thicker to me there.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Taller.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, got to put a tape measure you take it
out of the cage, Well put a.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Battle thing against it. Let's let's use the really measurement.
But look at that screen, that screen compared to the
seven o five, That screen is definitely bigger, not by much, not.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
By I think the bevils thrown you off? Is it
is it just shifted over a little bit. Yeah, gotta
do better than that. Mike can't come no conclusions of
that man, Jason.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Jason felt that Jason felt it was a little heavier,
slightly heavier than what he anticipated. I'm not saying that's
a bad thing, but just.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
You know, but it does look like a nice unit.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Though. Listen, when you're putting on what a sixty four
hundred million pre hour battery, what do you think you're
gonna get? You're not gonna of course, I get some
weight on top of so hey, man, you know, like
I said, Hope, please no icept him the link, No,
because get somebody on here.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
I want to hear. It would be nice to hear.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
And Mike.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
You know, Mike's going to give you raw, honest opinion.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
So well, then to finish, to finish up my weekend,
I guess. Saturday morning, I had a little presentation on
free data that was damn near a train wreck, but
it wasn't a total crash, you know. So I had
this little power point set up and I had to

(31:39):
change it last minute before I left the show because
I get a message from the organizer saying, hey, one tip,
just make sure all all your text is big enough
for people in the back to see. So I sure,
no problem. All went from funt size twenty two to
funt size forty eight, you know, which meant I had

(32:01):
to add a bunch of slides to fit all that
tight then and and when I started presenting that at
the show, it was what I had ran through my
head already was it was throwing me off, dude. And
I had to start out with, Hey, I'm from Mississippi.
They pulled me out the woods and I don't say.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Words, right, I'm a good old country boy.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
I'm not a developer. I'm just a user. Okay, I'm
here to introduce you to another mode that you can try.
I had to say that because I went directly after
the developer of free DV. And yeah, developers get technical.
Even after that disclaimer, these some bucks in the audience,
guess what they do? Ash you what's the thorough put

(32:50):
on on the signals there? And I'm like, you're talking
about speed? I guess. I said, well, I'll tell you this.
If you're used to j T sixty five, you're not
gonna need to go fix you a glad you use
the bathroom and then come back, sit down and still
wait for the message to finish.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Yeah, but if.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
They're writing your book, yeah it's gonna take a little bit,
but you know. And yeah, it was like two or
three technical questions back to back, and I try them
up to ask those guys give.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Me a thumbs up when you're ready. I thought I
heard a doorball.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
That's a whole nother mic.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
That's a whole nother mic.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Other mic?

Speaker 3 (33:25):
What's up everybody? What's all those?

Speaker 1 (33:27):
You go get some? Uh, your inentur is gonna get
cooked in front of the stuff.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
Going on and back there.

Speaker 7 (33:33):
Yeah, the fleet is that the flea market section. No, no,
this is usually in the summer. The Rochester VHF group,
one of the clubs out where I am that does
a lot of the stuff on the high bands, does
like a picnic and a tune up night because a
lot of the gear that you use, like the VNA's,
the any of the power meters, all that stuff when

(33:55):
you get up to really high bands is different, you know,
like a nano v and a can go so far.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
But and it's great, but uh.

Speaker 7 (34:02):
I snapped that pick and you know, the guys get
out to have a picnic but also bring all kinds
of equipment. Ape was drooling over the VNA that I
took a photo of and like shared with him because
it was like a really pricey piece of gear, but
but yeah, it's cool and then you'll see dishes like
for ten gigs, twenty four gigs, the guys will set
up and uh they do it at the park. There's

(34:24):
got good elevation and shoot right across Lake Ontario into
Canada and play radio with the guys over there.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Did you see the five gig Hurts dishes and stuff
that was in the They were in the grass part
of the boneyard.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Yeah, I saw quite a bit.

Speaker 7 (34:41):
I was surprised to see some of the stuff for
you know, VHF microwave.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
And I was trying to get a gem to pick
it up.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (34:49):
Yeah, one point two gigs is my limit right now.
I haven't gone above that. I'm sure it'll happen. But
the hard thing, I mean, the guys that get into
some of that high the high bay and stuff. Those
are some of those are like the real hams because
you can't buy you can't just go into like h
R O and easily buy some of that gear. So
it's uh, those guys know what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Oh yeah, a lot of those guys are building their
own Yeah.

Speaker 7 (35:16):
Yeah, there's a lot of engineers out here though. We
have Harris and and other companies, and so yeah, way smarter.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Than me Japan on a low ehf, No.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Talking about that before we get off subject of span. Yeah,
you at least buy a shoulder mic or something.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
I did not make it to the hammer there.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
A kimono? Did you buy a kimono? God?

Speaker 3 (35:42):
No, I bought food. Did you buy candy to some
of that candy? I did. I brought back some of
the candy with me.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Cool so handy could have hadsome.

Speaker 8 (35:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
I didn't make it up to Tokyo to tool around,
and I had to walk everywhere. I didn't have a car,
so this fat boy don't walk that much.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
They have mass transportation though, don't they.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
It was two kilometers from my hotel room, about a
mile and a half mile and a half.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Over for a week and already come back talking kilometers
and stuff.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Really that's how everything was freaking measured. Well, I'm not
how we understand it.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
I'm not doing that.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
We don't math on stream, you know better, right, mhm?

Speaker 8 (36:34):
No.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
But I did find a new drink that unfortunately get
over there.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Actually I brought back some steak flavored chips that can
be it will be risky.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
But.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Medium cook steak or yeah, medium wheat steak steak while you.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Guys talked to k Murder over there on the F
one X. I need to get a refill on my water.
I'll go grab the bag. Yeah, so we're back.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
I damn.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Him, Radio Tube. If you'd like to say anything, you're muted.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
I know.

Speaker 6 (37:12):
I'm trying to get my fine windows organized here.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Oh windows inside of your screen. That windows of.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
You sound loud and clay from here.

Speaker 6 (37:22):
You're five to thank you, thank you. So look at that.

Speaker 5 (37:26):
Huh yeah, the first thing you notice, it just sits
at a good viewing angle right just by itself.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
I like, I like the blow Now is that is
that at like a lighted blue area? Power of power
off around the talking over here? Yeah, that's an interesting question.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
You can actually change that from blue to green to
white so you can customize it. I have been learning bucks.
Yeah right, well, sixteen twenty cents is.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
What I for.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
That let me get rid of this guy there.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
So I had to figure like, I'm I I am
coming so much from the Icon universe, and I'm not
familiar with any of the.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
New yesu HF radios, So I'm.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
I'm I'm still learning it here, but we can go
two VFOs, two VFOs on top of one another single VFO.
So to figure out just how to how to even
see the screen. I'm still learning. But I filmed an
unboxing video today. But the thing I had this on
h on order, on pre order, but I canceled it

(38:38):
because I'm like, do I really need to spend this
much money?

Speaker 6 (38:41):
And then I heard it.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
And again the DSP had you. It brought you back.

Speaker 6 (38:50):
Yeah, nah, nah, it's not even the DSP.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
It's the speaker really underneath underneath there, he's right here.
This is this is like a filter that pushes the
the sound toward you. You can see underneath on the
bottom of the body.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
Those are the speakers.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Okay here, sort of like what Bose did a long
time ago.

Speaker 6 (39:18):
It's so loud and clear.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
How would be doing tonight?

Speaker 4 (39:23):
To?

Speaker 8 (39:23):
Ohio?

Speaker 3 (39:30):
That's a strong station.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
How are you doing?

Speaker 5 (39:35):
It's just it's it's stupid loud, and it's stupid even cranked.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Look that's crank.

Speaker 8 (39:42):
I mean, I.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
Go, you're doing to It's.

Speaker 6 (39:51):
So loud, it's so loud.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
I don't think in the field I would ever have
this more than about half I.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Was gonna ask you out. I was going to ask
you I you know, if you had to anticipate.

Speaker 5 (40:01):
Yeah, Like being on YouTube doesn't do this any justice
when when you see this in person and hear this
in person.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
It is.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
Insanely loud. It is so it is my.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
As a as a portable operator. Every single radio that
I own is too quiet, every.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Single one of them.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
The G ninety, the X fifty one oh five, the
RS nine eighteen, the seven oh five, the seventy three hundred,
the seventy six, y ten, what name name the radio,
They're all too quiet. When you're out portable, nature makes noise, Okay,
Nature is loud, especially if it's a windy day. The

(40:45):
trees are wrestling, the birds are chirping, the squirrels are barking,
the snakes are hissing. So when I'm portable with my
seven oh five, ninety nine percent of the time that
volume is cranked and just so I can hear it
this you get a good volume in about half.

Speaker 6 (41:09):
But if you want to crank it, okay, But yeah,
we'll talk about how clear is that?

Speaker 4 (41:18):
Got I know that it's crazy, it's crazy, well, and
will run the athos I've had.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
I don't think it'll do it without the optima. I
haven't tried it. That's on my list.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Okay, according to John, with the battery, it won't. But
if you plug it into thirteen votes, you know, if
you plug it in the external source of external okay, Douse,
the battery doesn't provide the power output for it.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Okay, Mike, I got to tell you. The viewing screen,
it's very nice cosmetically. I like that. Yeah, it's nice.

Speaker 5 (41:56):
It's a better touch screen than like, if you have
an FtM five that has the or excuse me, the
FT five D literally the worst touch screen in the world.
This one seems to be a little more sensitive, a
little more responsive.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
I don't think.

Speaker 6 (42:07):
I don't think it's quite as good.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
I mean, it's not as good as like a phone's
touch screen, but it does the job, so it's it's fantastic.
And then again to compare it to the seven oh five,
they're very similar in size, and keep in mind, I
have a pov cage on here on my seven oh
five there's the screen size lined up, so they're pretty

(42:32):
much the same size screen.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (42:35):
When Jason took his ft X one f out, he
got his on Thursday. The first thing I did was
steal it from him and I put it out. I
put the screen out in direct sunlight because it was
really sunning on Thursday. I think now the screen might
have been about fifty percent brightness. It was totally watched out,

(42:58):
so this might suck in the sun. I'm not sure,
and I still so today. I filmed the video, filmed
an unboxing video of this today. Because I literally did
not touch this since I bought it on Friday. I
just opened it up today for the first time and
filmed an unboxing video. I can't figure out how to
get it to work with WSJTX, and I was also

(43:20):
trying to figure out the SD card. I have a
bunch of st cards just sitting there. In the manual,
it just says use an SD card. They never say
anything about like a maximum size. So I've got sixty
four gigs, I've got one hundred and twenty eight gigs
like those are kind of small these days. It would
not format it. I formatted it on myater to X

(43:41):
to whatever, MS fat whatever, YEP. So then I took
the thirty two gig out of my icon seventy six
to ten put it in there hit format and it worked.
So apparently thirty two gigs is the max size SD
card for this to work, because like nothing would work.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
So, Mike, do you like the bigger VFO dial the
physical size of the the VFO dial? Uh?

Speaker 6 (44:01):
You know, I don't really care.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
I don't think it really matters this on the seven
on the seven oh five, I actually don't use the
VFO very often. I use the uh the multi knob
asp yeap, because I just have it set for.

Speaker 6 (44:15):
Like one one killer hurt yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
Steps yeah, if it'll ever boot up like that, So
I just rock through the VFO like that. Usually I
don't really I don't really do that. It's just easier
for me. But we'll see, we'll see how Uh it's
about the same size VFO as the eight ninety one
or the seven to ten.

Speaker 6 (44:39):
It's beautiful radio, beautiful radio. So I'm very excited.

Speaker 5 (44:42):
Again, I'm very uh ignorant of the new Yasu menus,
but just to show you guys, if we long press it,
it's it's the same architecture I believe as the ftd
X ten and the seven ten. Yeah, it looks so
they're they're really getting and I just need to learn
this menu system because I'm so so ingrained with Icon's menus.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
The more you do, which is like the more you yeah. Yeah,
but but I like the fact that they're keeping their
menu system yeah between radios now.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
So there's a couple other quirks, like, for example, you
can't just long press the back button to go all
the way back. Another thing, if we touch the that there,
we get our shift and our width and our notch
filter and contour.

Speaker 6 (45:32):
Well, if you turn this on, it's, uh, it's on.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
Let me get rid of Let's get rid of that.
And I'm like, how do you turn it off? Because
pushing this button doesn't turn them off. You have to
long press the back button and that turns it off. Weird,
but you know, y a sub a suing. It's like
I'm sure, I'm sure people who are familiar with the

(45:58):
ASU menus would be like duh. So again, it's just
you have to develop that muscle memory. Yes, but I'm
really looking forward to taking this out in the field.
Another thing, I don't want to take up Mike's time,
So I'll say one last thing here and I'll get
out of here. The battery is actually I'm going to
say two things. Now, I'll say one more thing. The
battery pack is USBC chargeable if I can take the

(46:24):
damn thing off. Okay, it is USBCPD. I'm putting fifteen
volts into it, but it is not fast charging. It's
only putting the max wattage I've put into this was
like twelve blots and it's a sixty four hundred million
power battery, so it takes about seven hours to charge it.

Speaker 6 (46:45):
Yeah, it's a big battery. It's a big battery.

Speaker 5 (46:47):
But they say up to nine hours of sideband usage
out of it and six hours on like two meters
seventy centimeter FM, so and that radio will do.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
What now, that's ten watts I'll put.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
On side band? What about Uh?

Speaker 5 (47:03):
With the battery it's six watts. With with a with
like an external power supplier a battery, it's ten watts.
I just made my first contact with it today to
who the hell did I work? N four TRD turd?
He was doing a PODA so I worked him and
that was pretty exciting. I have not done anything to

(47:24):
any settings. I just turned it on and plugged in
the mic and worked, so that was awesome.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
Nice I guess speaking on behalf, we can't wait to
see you and the many others in the field with it.
Just get it out there, bring it to your favorite park,
get it out there and start playing with it.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
You know already what it's worth. The chat was pretty
unanimous about thirty two was the largest.

Speaker 5 (47:47):
But neither the manual that comes with it or the
advanced manual says anything about the capacity of the SD card.

Speaker 6 (47:55):
The manuals are terrible.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
They're horrible.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Sure you didn't just miss it, I mean show you. Yeah,
it says a lot of time.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
I'll get them going.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
Use any commercially available micro SD card, something to that effect.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
This is not nail back one day.

Speaker 5 (48:15):
There are zero references the manual, the manual, the advanced manual,
and the regular manual for this suck my balls. They
tell you very briefly what things are. They do not
tell you what to do with them. So that's my
spiel brom.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
No, that's all.

Speaker 6 (48:37):
That's all radio main, that's icons, that's everything.

Speaker 7 (48:41):
Before you go, Mike, it would be really cool to
see get your take on the screens, side by side
out in the sun. I did that with a seven
ten and a seventy three hundred and they were pretty close.
But I think it's that muscle memory because I was
so much more familiar with the icon screen and where
because I primarily use it. It's just like the menu

(49:03):
anytime I grab a seven ten from like my club,
I got to think a little bit more. But it's
not anywhere near the rabbit hole that like the nine
ninety one A or the eight ninety one are, Like
the new menus are pretty solid, but yeah, these.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
Are pretty intuitive, like you can just look at it
and like, I don't like there isn't like a deep
F menu, like like there is on the eight ninety one. Okay,
so okay, Like I mean, I guess it's all deep
F because you got to long press the thing there
to get into the menus, but then you just there's
arrows to go forward and then one page, page two

(49:38):
of three is CW. But that also is where the
memory for the voice recording is. So I'm super excited
that it has the DNF, the digital notch filter, which
which is actually an auto notch, which is something that
I don't think. I don't know if the seven ten
and the d X ten have that, but that's something

(49:59):
I use on my Icon radios all the time.

Speaker 6 (50:00):
I don't know how well it works.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
I tried it once when someone was keying up on
a station I was listening to earlier, and it got it.

Speaker 6 (50:07):
I coms ICM's auto notch function is amazing.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
So I agree this.

Speaker 5 (50:14):
In the one single time that I've that I've been
able to catch a guy keying up on a station,
it did notch it out.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
So we'll see, we'll see. So very very excited to
get to use this radio. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
Page sixty four. The OPS manual says two through thirty
two gig.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
Well, when you go through when you go through the
SD cards settings, it doesn't say anything like the memory settings.

Speaker 6 (50:42):
It doesn't say any what did you say?

Speaker 4 (50:43):
Six two sixty four, Frank says sixty four, page sixty four.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
I'll blame it, Frank, I.

Speaker 6 (50:51):
Mean leave it to Yasu.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
Did not put everything together in a logical order, right,
that's the four using the micro SD card thirty two Okay,
So suck it. So I just bought a sixteen. I
bought a sixteen gig, and then I tried the thirty
two gig from my seven seventy six to ten so yeah, okay,

(51:13):
because I went to somewhere else. I don't know, so
I guess they take back I guess I take back
the SD card stuff. It should be a little more clear.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Listen for for for the last fifteen minutes here and
what we saw in the last few days.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
No one's gonna go wrong with this radio. This is
gonna be a fun This is still gonna be a
fun radio to play with, just like just like any radio.
I swear to you. I have seen guys, including myself,
we're all using different radios. Yeah, we're crossing manufacturers a
little bit here and there, but we're still having fun.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
And that's the key, I think, right, that's it.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
You're still gonna still gonna have fun.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Yes, you're not having phone. What are you doing?

Speaker 4 (51:55):
You're not playing radio.

Speaker 6 (51:56):
I believe the Icon radios will take a larger st
card than what pasbeck.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
I'm sorry, thirty two, Mike. I haven't tried larger than
thirty two.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
It won't take it.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
We don't.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
You don't need it though, you know you don't need it.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
The seven O five, the seventy three, and thirty two
gig is the mat.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
I just want to save my VHF memories and I
want to save a voice record function YEP, which I'm
curious to see how the playback and this is going
to be keep it simple because it's it's probably gonna
be weird.

Speaker 6 (52:23):
But that's all I got.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
All Right, I'm out of here.

Speaker 7 (52:25):
Take that playback of the YASU seven for the voice
record Well no, no, that's for recording the q soos.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (52:33):
Like, if you record your q sos to the sd
card icon sorts it out real nice and tags things,
but the yay sue doesn't.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
Yeah, and Martie, you're you are more.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
To welcome to hang out here. You don't have to
go if you don't want to, you know that, unless
you got things to do. We get he wants to
go to watch I gotta watch the freaking show. Okay,
all right, well okay, bye bye bye. I all right,
so you wanted to see the chips, let's go kind

(53:07):
of a medium.

Speaker 4 (53:08):
They're like sticks, They're like they're like, is that a
B word? The off steep back it off a little bit.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
I'm getting the clear from them, getting the glare.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
Yeah, because we need some interpretation here, right man, you
some interpretation. There you go number one. I can read that.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
Yeah, so what does it taste like? I haven't tasted
it yet. My taste buds are a little off right
now because I was in a fart tube for sixteen
hours and I think I got something, so jeez, that's
why I'm sucking down water like it's going out of style.

(53:54):
But I will probably taste those on stream next week
because I figure i'll be over this crap pretty quick. Interesting,
I will tell you the food in Japan was amazing.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Mm hmm. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
The sushi go rounds as they call them, where it
delivers it to your table from the sushi chef in
the back, is the craziest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
All Right, So I'm not a big sushi eater. I've
only had it maybe three four times. Yeah, but I
see it in the grocery store. So this is not
like grocery store. Now.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
The sushi here in the States is one hundred percent different.
Hang on, let me.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
Not to be ignorant here, but not to be a
redneck on.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
Yeah, the wife and I like going out for sushi
and this completely blew me away.

Speaker 4 (54:54):
But that's wait, that's how it comes to your table.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
This, this is how it comes to the table. No, yeah,
if it'll load, this is my and you hear a
little chime from the tablet that I ordered on.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
How far is that thing travel? Because I mean it
going past everybody else's breath. That's why you can't taste it.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
That's why he came back with something.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
There you go, And this was Wednesday night's dinner. You
actually finished cooking it there at the table.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
Man, that's some bull crap. I see some videos where
you cook your own food. You spent like five hundred
dollars if cooking my food it.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Was like seven bucks.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
Habachi.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Yeah, basically, well it was on a silet ten thousand
or something.

Speaker 4 (55:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
The My coworker and I went out.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
That night.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
That one was a little more expensive, but I picked
up his meal because he had picked up before. But
the sushi night we ate more than my wife than
I normally do. And it was fourteen dollars American for
the two of us total. Okay, but check out their
parking structures. It is just vertical vertical parking. Yes, it

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actually stacks the cars.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
That in New York, but I haven't seen.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Yeah, that was kind of crazy to say.

Speaker 4 (56:32):
So.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
And then the ramen, I don't see no ramen manuf.
And under just underneath that's shrimp bros.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Some radish slices.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Yeah, I believe that's where's the floats shrimp? Yeah, those
are shrimp. That ain't no shrimp that look, you know
that's all right? That ain't no Bubba Gump shrimp.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
And there's no Can you eat with chopsticks?

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (57:09):
I can, damn yep. I would be dropping forget it, man,
I would be dropping that thing. I'd be like, just
I gotta eat with my hands or give me a
fork a knife, please. I don't.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
If you get the option, or if you get the opportunity,
I highly recommend ordering it too high?

Speaker 4 (57:29):
What's it too high?

Speaker 3 (57:30):
It is a Japanese distilled liquor, soda, water and flavor.
They like a lemonade? Is that like a lemonade or
a lemonade on steroids?

Speaker 4 (57:42):
I like lemonade.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
That was the green apple. You could taste a little
bit of the liquor on the back end. The orange
you could not taste the alcohol at all. Right, they
will get you in trouble, uh, But yeah, we we
had fun. Then one night we had this one for
you actually cook it in the pot there on the table,

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but it actually brings up to the table.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
And then you cook it, and then you cook it.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
I don't understand that, and that that was three of us,
and I think that was a.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
Made Oh, Joe, bro we gotta go. I ain't going
to that. Yes we are.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
This is gonna be I'm not I'm not paying for it.

Speaker 4 (58:33):
This is gonna be a club with the clubhouse is
gonna go.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
You Right now, I go to a restaurant, it's nice,
and they bring me something to cook my food when
I'm getting up walking. Now I'll pay for my water
or whatever I'm releasing.

Speaker 4 (58:46):
This is gonna be a club. We're gonna clubhouses going
on the road.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
We're gonna I'm not cooking my food restaurant. Bad enough.
I bagged my own groceries at the store.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
Yeah, I'll tell you. I had an absolute glass, don't.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
I don't know where to self serve pay more function
comes from in corporate worlds.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
Well, I like how the robot had the light under it,
so you knew that was your trade, right that she
turned it.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Yes, another thing, there's everybody else's breath as it's walking
through the restaurant with it.

Speaker 6 (59:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Yeah, but the flight over there, yeah, hell man, do
you have to tip?

Speaker 3 (59:25):
No, they show it. They do not tip over there
could like some of the some of the americanized places.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Gotta get money back, Yeah, to get paid.

Speaker 4 (59:35):
If I'm cooking my own food, you better tip me.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
So the flight in, we were getting four hundred and
fifty one mile across the ground, but we had one
hundred and twenty five mile an hour headwind.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
See this is I'm sensing something from you folks that
fly overseas and stuff. There's eric and there's the sushi
conveyors are pretty sweet. I ain't nothing sweet about that.
I don't I want my food going past everybody else's
table while they look at it go by.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
Because what's the difference When the waiter or the waitress's.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
Holding it, they hold it above people's heads head and
she can slap somebody if they reach for it. You
don't care it's above my head. What if I took
that off the conveyor thinking it was mine? Is this
ain't mine?

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
No, you didn't see it kicking kickover? Yeah when it
got to my table. Yeah, that the inner conveyor is
far enough in that you know it's not yours. Oh
they're running Ai Joe, They're running AI over there. Yeah,
multi generations above them. What we have on this chat
GT Pie stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
It knows, it knows your face, and it knows the
fish you want that convey it already knows.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
I'm just kind of I don't like it when the
when the waitress or waiter goes with like two or
three cups to refill them the same time, Like, how
do you know you're gonna get my cup back to me?

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Right? Could?

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
But can't put two twenty in a damn radio?

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
Steve, was there regular food? When you say, you know,
more traditional American kind of like could you get a steak?

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Yeaheah? You know they had they had places that were
very Americanized. I was right there by the base, so
they had your Americanized places. I stayed away from those
because I wanted to experience the the culture. Okay, I
get it. I was over there, you know, first time
in Japan.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
I do like doing that. I just don't I don't
want to cook it because I don't know how to
cook it, and I don't want to come down to
conveyor bit is that that's for Amazon boxes, not food.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
I I figured to be the Japanese girl, you know,
walking up, Hello, Hello Steve, you know, and and this
is our specials and and and you know, and you're gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
Fall off the conveyor like in Alabama, and then I
have to pay for two places of food.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
Because if it doesn't it doesn't hit the end, you
don't pay for it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:06):
Oh now, racked Joe, I will tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
They do have the conveyors that go around the bar
where it goes past everybody, and you pay for the
sushi based on the color plate, which one?

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
What does that mean? What that means each.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
Plate is a different color or a different shape, and
based on which plate it is is the cost of
the sushi.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
So what's the price range?

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
I didn't go into that one. I walked past it.
We were headed over to the Ramen place when we
saw that one. But that one was a little more
expensive because they pre make a lot of the sushi.
But it's made that day, and if you go after
seven pm, it becomes half priced because they close at nine.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
I want to know something else to think, But if
it's going.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Past everybody, you know for an hour, I don't want well,
I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
On that one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
I want to know when the hell a fi pack
of Raymond noodles become a restaurant. It's the big rave everything.
You will go get some ramen, and I'm like, it's
not your dollar store.

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
This is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
To to Joe's use a different noodle than it ain't ramen,
americanized ramen.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
To Joe's point, Maggie worked back.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
And she's gonna be going to get some inside information here.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
Okay's working at this place called a Pookie Bowl. I
think it's called or I think God, but there's noodles
on noodles on noodles, And I.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
Said, what do you serve? She says, noodles ramen.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
And that's the These college kids, they don't want the
ramen in the hot water in a microwave. They will
go out to them and it's a meal in a
special I think it's a special bowl, I think. And
they're ordering these pooky bowls with with the beef and
the chicken or whatever. I don't know, Joe, but it's
the greatest. It's a hot the greatest. Don't you say

(01:04:11):
that to them, Because in our day, we we were impopulish.
I didn't go to college, but but there were the
days when I I when I ate pop tarts, pop
tarts my dinner, pop tarts, or frozen pizza, frozen piece Celeste,
celest pizza, a Captain.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
Crunch like stone, tombstone from the freezer section to tombstone
to exactly you name them all. But if you're talking
the pok bowls saying the cheap, cheap pokey is Hawaiian,

(01:04:51):
Eric's right.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
If I if I take if you changed the new noodle,
then it's not that that's not what it is anymore. Right,
So if it's a ram and bowl, it's a freaking
fifty bowl of noodle. Yeah, put some egg noodles in it.
I'll pay a dollar for it. I like some egg noodles.
But this was this was top of them, and it

(01:05:20):
was so the The one with the shrimp was seven
hundred and fifty en. And I'm not gonna do the math.
I'm gonna cheat and pull it up.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
See that's still doing the math. You're just not usually well,
I'm just gonna stay man, you're not doing Did you
bring back any that Japanese money?

Speaker 5 (01:05:41):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Yeah, yeah, I've got I've got three thousand yen in
the other room. Yeah, okay, now, but what's that worth?
Like ten bucks?

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
So the seven hundred and fifty dollars or seven hundred
and fifty yen bowl of ramen was five dollars and
twenty cents.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
You eat this thing hot? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Oh yeah, steaming?

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
Do you put any oyster? Does it come with like
oyster crackers? Because I gotta have oyster crackers in my soups? Nope?

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
Or is that an insult?

Speaker 4 (01:06:10):
Will will they get Maddie? Will the chef with that
MAXI chef come out with that big hatchet, you know,
with that big butcher knife? If they get the hell
out of.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
My restaurant, and the louder you slurp it, the more
satisfied they are that they did it right.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
I could do that part.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
Yeah, because because they don't have spoons, that's the problem, right,
not good? But eighty two cents?

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
It's Joe. Can you imagine going to a waffle house? Hey, I'll.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
I've heard a huddle house. I got a bigger meaning.

Speaker 4 (01:06:42):
Yeah, go into Denny's or the waffle house or your
local diner, and I'll take a ball of ramen please,
They're gonna look at you to say, what the hell
I just I don't understand, Like, I don't care, I
don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
What it is a bowl of suit going out to
eat somewhere. It should be included with my meal. I'm
not going to order separate. They it's like a sal
It's like but I know, I know it was that,
But I'm just saying that bowl of ramen is filling.

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
It can't be.

Speaker 6 (01:07:14):
I know that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
But an hour later you had to be hungry. Ninety
minutes you had to be hungry.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
No, you did not. I was good and actually here
to go out afterguard No, no.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
After after going out to the ramen, my coworker and
I actually hiked around the city and I got this
picture that is a Royal Caribbean cruise ship sailing by
you see just over the city there. I actually had
some friends from Oklahoma City. No they're not, but they

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spent a whole lot more money than I did to go.

Speaker 7 (01:07:57):
And now do they have you mentioned a waffle house?
Do they have a waffle house there? And does like
the robot bring you a pair of Eggle waffles and
a goddamn toaster.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
And you got well, hey, don't knock your seat. Wait,
don't knock the seven eleven. Why because oh everything? They
had pancakes. They had pancakes ready to cook that already
had the maple syrup in them. Damn, things were good.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
They had someble pancakes.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
Yes, did they have the hot dog? Did they have
the hot dog sitting on They did.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Not have the hot dog roller. How about a slurpee? Nope,
they didn't have an that's not a real se.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
That's all. Yeah, you don't take give me a.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
Slurpee, Give me some Give me some beef sticks, some
of the you know, slim gems and the Reese's peanut
butter cup.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
So there's breakfast in the area.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
At breakfast you no, no, that did not. But okay, apples.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
What's that thing that is? Pears and strawberries with whipped cream,
or peaches strawberries and whipped cream. And in ave, No,
this was on the shelf in seven to eleven in
the cold shelf. What's on the left there? What's a
melon pan? A melon pans? A sweet bread? It's a
very airy loaf.

Speaker 4 (01:09:26):
Can you put some peanut butter on it? Or something?
You could?

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
But it didn't need it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
How about the coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
I stayed Americano on the coffee, Okay, I don't. I
don't deviate on my coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
I love to try different different.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
Oh, Steve, go back to one of those pictures. I
see candy. Oh all right, let's I saw I saw
a candy selection.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
No, that's actually not a candy section. That was a
was it something dirty?

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
Was just was just dumping dirty.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
It's it's freaking Hello Kitty. Oh Hello, she's gotten into
Hello Kitty and Hello. They've got all these freaking Hello
Kitty items are like key change and hanging from here
and hang out.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
I don't see one day, can't oh off the top
left kids.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
I was gonna say, yeah, there's Hello Kitty there and
I've got all the different but she didn't respond which
one she wanted.

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
So she could have got one of each, one of each,
My friends, that's what you do.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Probably one of each probably cost you three US dollars, yeah, nine.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
And fifty piece. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
This was one of the more expensive stores.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Was that from the airport?

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
No, No, this was a store called don Quixote.

Speaker 4 (01:10:39):
Okay. A lot of vending machines mm hmm. No trash
cans okay, So vending machines, and is it like a
lot of variety of stuff in the in the vending machines.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Depends on the machine. They had a lot of the
drink vending machines around, and they had high and cold
drinks in some of them. Yeah, they had hot canned
coffee in some of the vending machines.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
I didn't dare and crazy and iting crazy that you
they had it would be they had a bread vending
machine bread yep, really and then you take it back
home and finish baking it. Oh, that that was kind
of crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
Anything risk, any risk, and you don't have to say
they're pretty well.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
So here's the crazy thing. Smoking is not legal in
public in jam uh Oh. They don't want to influence
the kids. So they had walled off smoking sections in
the park. So you had this, Yeah that near the toilets,
there was a like waiting area and that was where

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you stood and smoked. Was that like the red light district? No,
this was the middle of town.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
Some kind of dangerous lighting up around all that methoan.

Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
You tell it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
We walked past one store that was a bakery that
there was no employees. It was totally on the honor system.
You go in, pick what you want, pay for it,
walk out.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Oh there's somebody watching.

Speaker 3 (01:12:28):
Oh I'm sure there's somebody watching.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Somebody chopping hands off.

Speaker 4 (01:12:31):
You're gonna have some numbrucks coming at you if you
don't put some again in that, in that, in that basket. Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
But yeah, that was It was an amazing trip. I
actually wish I could have been no longer because I
I didn't get a chance to really explore.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
Option.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
I was working more than eight hours a day.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
See like, if I go wort trips, we can extend them.

Speaker 4 (01:12:56):
It's just on our dime.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
Yeah, I wouldn't. Did you meet did you meet any
Ham radio operators over there?

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
You see, he didn't even go to the Ham Radio Shop.
He went to Hello Kitty and the Raymond Noodles. Yeah,
I'm looking on radio operators. I did look for where
the Ham Radio shop was, uh huh. And actually there
were a couple of Ham radio operators on the ship
with me. Excellent, but none of us had Japanese licenses.

(01:13:28):
You have to apply for that sixty days out. Who
don't know, they're gonna know we weren't allowed to use
from there.

Speaker 4 (01:13:37):
You don't listen. You don't want to go to no
Japanese no jail, and at least would at.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Least one of us and be like, hey listen on
seven something.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Seven yeah, seven seven hundred. That's all you had to say.
Did not even take a radio because I didn't want
to fight with customs for.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
Not having somebody. Somebody radio is on the ship. Man
they tuned, dude, I know this.

Speaker 5 (01:14:01):
They all.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
We're gonna talk about the radio.

Speaker 4 (01:14:04):
They go, they go DC the daylight.

Speaker 3 (01:14:06):
We know it, we know they do.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
Yeah. Somebody comes up knocking on the doors, say I
got a signal from it. It must have been long path.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
Fans open fifteen be damned, eleven meter. You're telling them
eleven minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait minute,
wait minute wait. If you own an American ship, right, yes,
then rose on a.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
Fly right now they do. We were in a Japanese court.

Speaker 4 (01:14:34):
Wait.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
If you untie the ropes floating in the water, you've
been all right, seven miles.

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
A little large to just untie the ropes and not get.

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
I was on an aircraft. Carry my boy. Oh wow,
it's a big pontoon. Well that's your flight escape out.
Then I should enough James Bond movies. We didn't have
any any aircraft on deck. No, they're all hiding. They're
all down below, man, all folded up, all folded up
like that Japanese they are agami stuff. And then they

(01:15:07):
gotta they gotta come out. You gotta like, what.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
Dang good's that boat? Then they they gotta wait for
you to fix the networking cables on.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
Eric. I was actually in radio. I know exactly what
you're talking about. That's where I was working. But yeah,
we had a little more than fifteen hundred watts. So
any cigars out there, any anything. I didn't see any
cigar shops because you know, like I said, they and

(01:15:37):
Mike even said that they treat the smokers like lepers.

Speaker 4 (01:15:40):
So you're in the wrong part of town then, because
when I go on to you, when I go on
the YouTube and I see these walking the walking man.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
They're hitting, they're they're hitting everything.

Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
Man, you see everything going on.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Man, I will tell you I did pass up any
machine that still had cigarettes in it. Okay, and it's
been a long time since I've seen one of those.
When other ones with the levers that you would pull
the lever pull. This one was push button.

Speaker 4 (01:16:06):
This one's push button. Let me guess, take your credit card.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
Uh, most of them are cash. Like I said, So
you were in a nice section of town. Yeah, yeah,
I didn't. I didn't venture too deep into the depths.
But mama, son, come over here go for Friday. We
did get out a little early and we didn't trouble.

(01:16:31):
But the scenery is very nice. Mm hmm if you
track what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
Yeah, I was wondering if certain places in town you
won't buy and get grabbed it girlfriends, Well, just walk
down the mall.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Hey salah, hey salah, they know want it all are
gonna make you holler.

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
I was just thinking that it's mustache like I was
afraid for. I think it was walking the street by.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
So that's why I didn't go out alone. Nah, Mama
raised a flower, not a bloomin idiot. So up, Oh
my guy, there's a vending machine near Turro that serves
cern beer.

Speaker 4 (01:17:18):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
So could you walk around with a drink or is
that kind of shunning too? Absolutely you could walk around
drinking whatever you had in your hand, open, open, open, open,
no rules against it. But they didn't want the cigarette

(01:17:41):
stuff I find out interesting, well, because how do you
know it's water? Or yeah, it's too high.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
That you can't beer get you know? Yeah? Oh what
too high? Too high?

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
All right, Steve said too high? You said too high?

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
C h u h up.

Speaker 4 (01:18:05):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
It can be made with vodka, but it's actually a
Japanese distilled blicker sub flavor.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
They were damn good, Like I said, they were damn good.
Are they strong? They're actually less alcohol content than like
sake or beer, but they will sneak up on you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
Three or four of those and I need then, yeah,
three or four?

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
Oh, and you start dancing with the robot waitress and
huh that's what happens.

Speaker 4 (01:18:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
And a few of the guys that have been to Huntsville,
no I can. I could hang with some of the
best of them.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
But I don't know about they. When you hold on
the same beer for two hours still, that don't count.
Talk at yoh, ask how much of his liquor I drank.
I just kidd I don't pay attention how long. Some
like you, I'm too be.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
So, but yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (01:19:05):
It was a good time, good good time. Good to
have you back.

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
I'm glad to be back. Like I said, the flight
over and back sucked. I got middle seat both ways.

Speaker 4 (01:19:17):
Mhm, but so how did you what was was there
like a layover in California and then California straight out
or it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
Was Tokyo to Dallas, Washington, d C. And then Dallas
to Charleston. Wow, yeah, it was a.

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
Long Let's see. Let's let's touch on this because I
think Eric stuff mentioned this five times. What is cocos?
Did you not get no cocoa? I didn't get cocos.
I'm not sure what cocos are cocout We might not
be mean to say that on the streams.

Speaker 3 (01:19:50):
Is he talking about coco, pop, cereal or something different
than I don't know about. I was gonna say, Eric,
you might hit me on discord. Let me know what
exactly it is? Oh curry okay, Oh I'm afraid that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
Let me what what is?

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
What is curry? Curry?

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Because I go to Thai restaurants. I love some tie,
but I don't know about that curry stuff. It looks
like soup, and that looks like rumman, and it don't
look like it's worth my value.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
It's going to clean out your nose if you're all congestioned.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
Not always. Now, that's hot and that stuff is hot, man,
isn't it. Eric sounds like there's another trip to Japan
coming up for me here real soon. So I will
definitely have to look up Coco's and let me know
where it's at, huh, because I'll either be back in

(01:20:52):
Yakuska or I'll be down in Saspo.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
No, Frank, I don't like no layand.

Speaker 4 (01:21:00):
Well, Steve, then you should be you should be applying
for your reciprocal now. Then if it's good for a
year or find out find out the details. But that's
what I would be doing, man, for real, and bring
no Google. What's off the ship to Yeah, man, get
your get yourself a ja call man that we'll do
it live man, Yes here, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
We'll farre up the rigs. I got the rigor sitting
right back there. Eight o'clock at night is eight o'clock
in the morning for you. There you go, good morning,
Good morning waffles and Coco and let's go, Jason. I
will neither confirm nor deny if we went to the
karaoke bar.

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
Uh oh.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
That's mean court after chap that means that means yes,
and there's a lot of yes. There's a lot of
in between yes there.

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
So so.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
Okay, there's a cocos for every third seven eleven. Mmm.
I wonder if that's the place I passed right next
to the seven eleven that the spice was just wiping me.

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
Out when I walk past. M hm, that's I said.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
Many may have to I have to try that one
when I go back. Huh, Well, go to Singapore. Oh,
there there might be something there too. We'll see joe
Joey's talking about some waffles and cocoa.

Speaker 4 (01:22:23):
That's how you wake up.

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
Oh yeah, you're some.

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
Better ways to wake up, but.

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
Make sure you're not too far from the porcelain God.
All right, so let's talk about what level two out
of ten? Yeah, I know, I know where you're talking now, Eric, Okay,
I remember the guys talking about that.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
That's something I learned yesterday. I had to go down
State office yesterday and we all went out to tie
and I love me some time, man, and I always
get level three one through five, Okay, three spice, It's
just just right to me. But then I found out
you can order more than one through five mm hmmm.

(01:23:11):
One of the guys. Yeah, one of the guys like,
and my wife always asks for six or six.

Speaker 4 (01:23:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
See there's an unspoken, un menued.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Let me guess.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
So there's a bottle in the back room that has
like the skull and the crossbones on well, one talks
about it, you know what I mean, unless you give
the wink.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
I've got a I've got a tie place here in
town that you can order mild medium hot, or if
you know about it, you can go tie hot.

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:23:43):
And I was picking up lunch for a group one
day and I ordered it tie hot and they looked
at me and they went for you, white boy, I
don't know. It's for my developers. And they were from Thailand,
so they're like, oh okay.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
For the first time I went to the tie with
the group, I didn't understand what the guy was saying.
And I heard what through five? And like, how pore
food better? Right? I said five? And the guys standing
next to me looked at me and went.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
I'm like, what is that?

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
They said, spice level? You ain't ready for five?

Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
Ready for five?

Speaker 4 (01:24:19):
Yep?

Speaker 7 (01:24:19):
Yeah, my my uh my brother's wife is Thai and Uh, okay,
she grows peppers in the garden and I don't know
iso do you know?

Speaker 3 (01:24:27):
You know what chicken riggies are? You ever have chicken riggies.
It's like a Central New York dish.

Speaker 7 (01:24:33):
It's I mean, it's chicken and rigatoni, but it's in
like a vodka sauce and it's generally spicy.

Speaker 4 (01:24:38):
Yes, I've seen it, but we didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:24:40):
It's just never been called out though chicken riggies.

Speaker 7 (01:24:43):
And uh, it's so it's a vodka sauce spicy and
oh my gosh, the the chicken riggies that my sister
in law makes, it's just well.

Speaker 4 (01:24:51):
A vodka swash is well, vodka swashes is not hot.
It's just sauce with some with some cream, and so
is that kind of a sauce. It's hot, right, And
then you.

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
Add what you like to kick it up a few notches,
like the pepper flakes or whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:25:06):
Yeah, they have like some cherry peppers normally in the
in the riggies, so there's like a little bit of spice.
It's not bad, you know, but but hers, oh my gosh,
when she you know, ties it up, it's like, oh
so good.

Speaker 4 (01:25:17):
See when you say, when you say a little bit
for you, that's flaming hot for me.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
Yeah, I was gonna say, that's break out the sweat towel.

Speaker 4 (01:25:25):
Oh my god, that's I can't I I don't even
know nory about watch it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
I'll watch you guys from across the table, that's all. Now,
you wouldn't be able to sit at the table the
place Eric's talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:25:44):
Though.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
Some of the guys on the ship were talking about it,
and one guy was, you know, saying he got to
level six, but he couldn't finish it it was too hot,
and they go to level ten. I can't imagine.

Speaker 7 (01:26:00):
I like spicy food, but I want to finish what
it is, whether it's you know, Riggy's or wings or
whatever it is, Like, I want I want to be
able to finish it. I don't want to have to
pound a beer or yeah, glad like after every single
bite and I want to finish it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
But I want I want to sweat, I want to heat,
you know, but I want to finish it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:19):
I want to eat. Yeah, So, Mike, what do you
got going on coming up on Sunday? Let's talk about
what Mike wants to do. On Sunday.

Speaker 7 (01:26:32):
Sunday is going to be my youngest son's birthday party.
But congratulations, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
But like any good hand radio operator, we're gonna include
some radio in that activities. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:26:46):
Well I didn't know, you know, his birthdays on Friday,
so we didn't know when it was going to follow
when I when I came up with this, and I
teased it when I was on the show a couple
of weeks ago. May twenty fifth is Sunday, and that's
five twenty five twenty five, which the calling frequency for
six meter AM.

Speaker 4 (01:27:04):
Is fifty two five two five, so five two five
two five.

Speaker 7 (01:27:09):
It's it's just a nerdy opportunity and I'm trying to
just encourage people to get out playing six meter FM.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
We're getting close to you know, six meter season. There's
been some openings. Uh you know, those that do six
regularly say that's always open. You just got to you know,
wait for it or look for it, and and and
and be throwing your calls out and stuff. But ultimately
you know, whether there's an opening or not, just get
people on the band and get active and have fun.

(01:27:40):
So I've encouraged a lot of PODA and soda folks
to get out and activate on six meters.

Speaker 4 (01:27:48):
But you don't need to do that.

Speaker 7 (01:27:49):
It's it's just you know, whether you're in the mobile
at home, if you want to go out to park
or something, just just playing six, see what happens. I
know a lot of people complaining about six and some
other bands like it's never opened, no one's ever around
there or whatever. Well, so I'm trying to fix, you know,
and just it's a it's a unique opportunity. I think

(01:28:14):
I got the idea because my older son, who has
his general we went out and we did a PODA
on February twenty second in twenty two, and so the
date was two. It was two twenty two, twenty two.
It was on a Tuesday, and we went out two

(01:28:35):
ops to a PODA twofer and did a two meter
activation just for fun.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
And it was a last second thought.

Speaker 7 (01:28:43):
I don't know what prompted it, but I was leaving
work and I texted a couple of people and I
was like, hey, Ben and I are going out. We're
going to be on two meters. And you know, we worked,
you know, maybe between like fifteen twenty people or something.

Speaker 4 (01:28:58):
We had fun.

Speaker 7 (01:29:00):
It's all local, but you know, some of the people
appreciate hearing simple ex traffic on you know, two meters local.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
You know it's barn to get twenty two contacts.

Speaker 4 (01:29:10):
Yeah, things are getting so.

Speaker 7 (01:29:13):
Yeah, I can't remember. I'd have to look at logs
and see you could. You could pull it up, Steve
and see if you look back, because it was it
would have been from February twenty second.

Speaker 4 (01:29:23):
But uh, we had fun.

Speaker 7 (01:29:25):
And then when I realized that, you know, five twenty
five twenty five, I'm like, oh man, that's that's the
calling frequency for six.

Speaker 4 (01:29:32):
Let's let's get out there and get on it.

Speaker 6 (01:29:34):
And that's it.

Speaker 7 (01:29:35):
I'm not trying. Like some people have asked. I've talked
about it. They're like, well, what time or or is
there an exchange or anything. It's like, no, just just
get on whatever works for you. I'll be on in
the morning, early afternoon because uh, you know, we're gonna
have family and stuff over in the afternoon evening. But
when I go back home, I'll probably you see it

(01:29:56):
in the photo there on the deck, I'll probably set
up the uh that's.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
The mobile beam three element YAGI.

Speaker 7 (01:30:02):
I'll probably set that up and play and Hey, maybe
some kids will see you and get interested, especially if
there's an open or I get a group contact.

Speaker 4 (01:30:09):
Some of the kids will be like, hey, what are
you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
What's this?

Speaker 7 (01:30:12):
You had fourteen contacts? Okay, yeah, not bad. Yeah, no,
I guess at least a dozen. And uh, it was fun.
And I think sometimes we get caught up and we
forget that radio is supposed to be fun. And also

(01:30:32):
people I think have a tendency they get afraid and
Mike's you know, video on it was great on failure.
Some people are just afraid to fail. They're afraid to
go out and try something different because they don't know.
And we get caught up with the indecision paralysis. We
try to be perfectionists or whatever. But but you know,
trying new and different things, it's okay if you don't

(01:30:53):
like it. I'm not saying everyone's got to get on
and fall in love with six meters, but give it
a shot and may be, you know, it'll encourage you
if you get lucky, to to try it again. And
next thing you know, there's a little bit more activity
here there. People aren't as reluctant to to give it
a shot. And then there's fewer and fewer people complaining,

(01:31:14):
and uh, you know, at the end of the day,
if we don't use it, we lose. That is the
way I look at some of the band stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:31:21):
Well, it's funny because with the band, with the band conditions,
the last two weeks have been very interesting and on
on social media, a lot of the guys, a lot
of the guys were going up to six meters just
hanging out because it was because the the solar activity

(01:31:41):
wasn't affecting it. Yeah, so you know, and I think
that might have sparked because it sparked my interest. Yeah,
there's not going to be blackouts done two or six
or anything, right, and then when you put this out,
you you know, you sparked my interest on this too.
So yeah, I think I did I do the June

(01:32:01):
or not? I do all the VHF context right, and
I combined them with Soda and Poda. But when I
did that, that was the June it was the September contest.
I did FM only. I just wanted to see what
that was like.

Speaker 7 (01:32:12):
And there's a lot of people doing the week signal
stuff and if you have a seven oh five or
the New JESU and you can do FT eight or
sideband on two meters.

Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
It makes a huge difference.

Speaker 7 (01:32:23):
You can get out so much more with the week
signal modes than you can with FM or AM that
are taking up so much bandwidth. But I just wanted
to see what I could do, and I mean whether
it was on two meters or six meters like I
was getting contacts, you know, one hundred miles plus simplex,
you know, cross the lake into Canada. Some of it

(01:32:44):
was tropo, I'm sure, but you know, I think it
was one hundred hundred and thirty miles when I measured
some of them line of sight.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:32:52):
And that was with just modest antennas, with jpoles or
speaker wire dipoles. I didn't even set up the yaggy
because I was roving and I was bouncing between three
different parks. I didn't want to waste the time, so
I just used a quarterwave telescoping whip for six on

(01:33:12):
a mag mount on the car and was still getting
out there. Obviously not as far being on FM, but
it's worth the shot. You just just try see what
it is. There's a lot of mobiles that actually are
the quad band ones that'll do six and people probably
don't use them as much because you're limited, you know,
in those quad band and.

Speaker 4 (01:33:32):
Ten is that you can get.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
But there's some of some of those, like the tyts
or whatever they are.

Speaker 4 (01:33:36):
They'll they'll do.

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
You know, two seventy six and ten on FM and
give it a shot and shout out to n Yo.
He just worked DL eighty eight on six meters?

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
Where is that?

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
Where is that Grisquare big Ben National Park down in Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (01:33:57):
There's a very slim section of d L eighty eight
that is in the US. Oh wow, congratulations, Mike nice job.
Nice As a matter of fact, let me grab the screen,
chare here of.

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
It got me a whiskey seven on a six.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
So below that black line but above the squiggly line. Yeah,
that's all that's in d L eighty eight in the US.

Speaker 4 (01:34:25):
Wow. Wow, that's not much. Nice job, Mike nice very cool.

Speaker 3 (01:34:34):
That's all mostly in Mexico.

Speaker 4 (01:34:36):
Grid.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
But Mike, how much power were you running? That's my
question because I know you were building that amp for six.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
Yeah, got that thing going yet?

Speaker 4 (01:34:48):
Yeah? He doesn't have it going yet though. Lights are
not dimmit you mean dragon fetn So.

Speaker 3 (01:34:54):
You're telling me Jason's gonna build a dxmanter first one hundreds,
seven and elements. Okay, that's not too short. Look at
what Shane was supposed to like ten ten dB game there, guys.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
Look at what Shane did with his DX Commander building
it built it, got it, got it into the hallway
of the apartment there, and I've never seen a horizontal
one before. That was cool. Yeah, excuse me, I got
to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
I gotta walk over. Hello, Jim, Hey, Jim, let's go, Jim.
Jim missed it great after great radio man try to
get into I don't remember what it was.

Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
What was it, Jim spending his money? Joe, Joe, were
you going to spend his money?

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:35:42):
He said, I want to think about it. I said, well,
go walk around and think about it. I'll stand here
with radio. Leave me the cash on. It was when
we made one loop and was wow.

Speaker 7 (01:35:52):
I made that mistake at a local fest last year.
I sent my bag down, went to get a coffee.
I had just got there and it was done like
one and fifteen.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
Minutes ft one thousand mp.

Speaker 1 (01:36:07):
Old alreadio. But Berty guy come down fifty fifty bucks
right off the.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
Bet fifty bucks and you had to think about it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
It was, oh, fifty come off fifty bucks?

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
Okay, yeah, Joe Brett and Mike. What did you guys
think of the food?

Speaker 7 (01:36:32):
It was fine, Like I mean, I didn't notice a
difference from last year. I got the pork chop sandwich again,
and I got the bourbon chicken, which I got not
last year, but like the year before then.

Speaker 4 (01:36:46):
I mean, it was fine. You liked it.

Speaker 7 (01:36:48):
It wasn't on stare belts. There were no robots like.
It still worked like they cooked it for you. You
had to line forever if you didn't time it right,
but you know, it was all good. I had to say, Man, Jim,
pretty Jim, pretty good guy. Y'all may not believe it.
He pretty good guy. He bought me my pork chop
sandvwich because I walked up that trailer and I said,

(01:37:10):
fourteen dollars, yeah, liis Lord, I said, what else can
I get? Like the corn doll was like six bucks.
I was like, man, I think I'll just I just wait,
I'll just go hungry.

Speaker 3 (01:37:22):
That's about how it is in Orlando too. They got
you though.

Speaker 1 (01:37:25):
Jim bought me one, so I'm in debb, but uh,
it was pretty good. Nobody told me I had a
dang bowe in it though I chopped down on that bone.
I had to go see a dentist.

Speaker 4 (01:37:39):
Whose video was it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
Was it Mike's video on that I had the two
different sauces.

Speaker 4 (01:37:43):
Yeah, that's good. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37:46):
I had it with the gold sauce last year and
it was good.

Speaker 7 (01:37:50):
And I saw his video, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna
just stick with that, like if it ain't broke, don't
break it, like just just run with it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
And uh, that's good.

Speaker 7 (01:37:59):
But no, Hey, I'm surprised that you can, like a
pork chop is like that tender, you know, and like
I would not have thought that that it's good.

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
It's a delicate cooking process. I bet one minute over
cooked and it's not that.

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
It dries up right.

Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
Yeah, Jim tell please tell me you're meaning no sauce.

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:38:25):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:38:25):
Yeah, well the guys are talking about the bone in
the bone in.

Speaker 4 (01:38:29):
It's for the flavored all right.

Speaker 3 (01:38:32):
He said he eats the pork chop sandwich naked, and
I hope he means no sauce and like and like
no bread. There's rules against that. Yeah, Nisha thirty three outside.

Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
Where are you at man, Mike furn Is kicked on
in the middle of the night last night. It was
ninety four degrees here today.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
Oh yeah, we had like a frost warner the other day. Man,
I had a frost but it wasn't outside. I had
a deep follow the ur and air conditioning. Un We
come in another day and it was almost eighty degrees
in the house. Told us, I bets froze up.

Speaker 4 (01:39:14):
Show yepy, tell you so. We had so much rain
this week or a last couple of weeks. Back on
last Monday, it was just so nice to see this
on Tuesday, Wednesday, it was just so nice to see sunshine.
My god, it is psychological. I'm a firm believer, it's psychologically.
You gotta have some sunshine, some of that warmth.

Speaker 7 (01:39:37):
It was warm out there the first day when I
first got out there Thursday and got out the car,
and I mean it'd been cool back in New York
and it got out and it was warm. It was
even a little humid and stuff. It was just like damn,
but it was nice out there. Like during the show.
I know that the weather in the evening like one
of the nights some pretty bad storms. Like it didn't

(01:39:58):
affect me, but if anyone was camping out, that probably
wasn't cool.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
What, Jim, you see this in the chat, oh James
is saying the vendor side was eleven dollars, the backside
of the trucks eleven bucks.

Speaker 4 (01:40:15):
Jim, do you want to come on, We'll send you
a link you can discuss this. I'll tell you what though,
my tip and it is and I learned this kind
of last year too.

Speaker 7 (01:40:28):
If I stay in a hotel because I got points
and just use that, I grab a bunch of napkins
and throw them in my bag when I'm eating breakfast
in the hotel before I go to the show, because
the vendors they run out. If you were going later
for lunch, they run out or are they just giving
you like one or two little thin things. And when
you eat something like especially like the pork chop sandwich,

(01:40:52):
if you're getting sauce on it, or even the bourbon
chicken something like that, it's sticky, like if you don't
have wipes or napkins like you might be man.

Speaker 4 (01:40:59):
That's why dude, wipes are also good. Are good for
your hands, two on your face, you know, just don't
just don't use them all everywhere, just you know, segregate,
you know, when't use them.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
But yeah, man, that that dude wipe takes care of
that business absolutely. Who's running FT eight?

Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
Yeah, I heard that FDA stuff going on.

Speaker 1 (01:41:18):
I am almost six meter ft eight. Here's a bunch
of stations on FT eight right now.

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:41:27):
Heck they ain't none of them using that voice. I
don't know, but all right, yes, that's a I like
the idea, Mike. I would have never thought about the
date and the frequency coming up. So I'm glad you
caught that. Yeah, maybe some people will get on, and
who knows, maybe there's some other ones.

Speaker 7 (01:41:47):
I don't know, Like you know, you just started looking
at dates and thinking about random frequencies or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
But he's wearing a shirt.

Speaker 4 (01:41:55):
Who's that?

Speaker 1 (01:41:56):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (01:41:56):
There he is? There he is.

Speaker 9 (01:41:57):
I was eating my pork chop sandwich. Niked no show,
he took one home. No man, they don't travel nine hours. Well, no,
I bet not.

Speaker 4 (01:42:09):
No, Jim, listen to you last night, I felt bad
for you because your voice. It's better tonight, but man,
I felt I felt sorry for you last night. Sounded
like your your voice was struggling.

Speaker 8 (01:42:18):
There was your Joe Brett the entire weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:42:21):
Joe, Joe, don't have something. You have some manners. You
have some manners.

Speaker 8 (01:42:27):
No, Joe, you hill billy, don't know. People don't do
that in the North, Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:42:31):
No, y'all go watch that three sixty video.

Speaker 4 (01:42:33):
Of walking with you Joe's.

Speaker 8 (01:42:35):
I watched those today.

Speaker 1 (01:42:37):
That's the turn turn around, Like, where the hell Jim go?

Speaker 4 (01:42:39):
Now?

Speaker 8 (01:42:40):
The one that I was most interested in was when
we walked up to the MP one thousand.

Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:42:46):
I was like, I wonder if that guy's call sign
is visible so I can figure it out and call him.

Speaker 4 (01:42:51):
I was.

Speaker 8 (01:42:52):
I was looking on qr Z today to see if
I could figure that guy out.

Speaker 9 (01:42:55):
I found some one thousands on there, but I'm not
sure I found the dude nothing for five point fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:43:01):
It was pretty funny. Me and Jim probably called each
other two or three times, like where are you at now? Yeah,
because we'd wonder off in different directions. Yeah, use your
cell phone with the radio, the cell phone, cell phone.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
I forgot my radio.

Speaker 8 (01:43:16):
I'm in my bag back at base camp.

Speaker 1 (01:43:19):
So you know, well, actually I think that day I
think my radio was with me, but it was on
my bag and I couldn't reach it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:27):
You can't go.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
You can't reach back and get those belt clips off
of Molly Pound. No, No, that ain't happening. And I
didn't bring no shoulders Jim.

Speaker 4 (01:43:36):
So with Jim.

Speaker 3 (01:43:36):
According to Joe Brett, h our boy, Chuck, he's quite
a seller there.

Speaker 4 (01:43:43):
I wonder if he.

Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
Had hands on what he's selling, ain't they right?

Speaker 4 (01:43:46):
Yeah? Could it be used cars or you know, ham
equipment or tour rider.

Speaker 8 (01:43:51):
I'm not trust to buy a car from him because
he was I mean he could sell He could sell
ice cream bars to Eskimos the way he was going
at it.

Speaker 9 (01:43:58):
Right here you go, it sounds like Chuck Chuck made
Uh he's been working on it for months because he
shows it every time before the show.

Speaker 8 (01:44:07):
Chuck is showing his key. Okay, so I did this
and I modified this point oh two microns to the left.

Speaker 9 (01:44:13):
Oh, and then I've changed out the magnet and I'm like,
oh my god, please quit talking to me about the key, Chuck.
It's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:44:19):
Move on.

Speaker 8 (01:44:21):
I mean, he's doing it. He did a really good job.
It's it's a really nice little key and and for
he's charging I think forty five for it. Brother sold
out of everyone he brought. He brought thirty or so.

Speaker 4 (01:44:34):
Wow, so.

Speaker 8 (01:44:36):
Sold out.

Speaker 3 (01:44:37):
Good for him.

Speaker 8 (01:44:39):
And I'm like, I printed some rails for radios. I
didn't sell any of those this time.

Speaker 4 (01:44:45):
I sold.

Speaker 8 (01:44:46):
I sold six or seven in Orlando, but I didn't
sell any rail kids.

Speaker 3 (01:44:50):
Do you think because more people have three D printers now,
they're doing it themselves?

Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
What I mean?

Speaker 9 (01:44:55):
I'm sure there's a lot of people that do. I mean,
don you my target mark? It is you, not Joe Brett,
right right, printing evils carry.

Speaker 4 (01:45:05):
Right, You're right. I will not have one.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
I'm sure my son next year, my son next year
is going.

Speaker 4 (01:45:10):
To have one. I know that already.

Speaker 9 (01:45:12):
There's a lot of guys, especially our age don because
I think, yeah, I'm the oldest one in here in
your age group to mine, that are never going to
have a three D printer.

Speaker 8 (01:45:23):
They don't want one. They don't see that it's just
for printing towards.

Speaker 4 (01:45:26):
No, because I'll pay you twenty bucks somewhere between fifteen
to thirty bucks for whatever. And listen, no disrespect a
set of rails. I only need one set of rails.
It's a one time bye, you know it. It's a
one time by, right pretty much.

Speaker 8 (01:45:41):
Now I've had I've had some feedback from other people.
I don't want plastic rails, Well, what do they want?
My metal, metal ones?

Speaker 4 (01:45:49):
I have.

Speaker 8 (01:45:50):
I have two points to argue that.

Speaker 9 (01:45:53):
But the first one is metal rails for an eight
ninety one, for example, what are those one hundred and
fifty ers dollars? Yeah, Jim's rail kit out of plastic
that ain't gonna melt and can take a hell of
a beating is thirty five.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
There's the first thought, and second thought is no, if
you break it, Jim will print another one.

Speaker 8 (01:46:13):
I can for no thirty five dollars, but well take
the money you save it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:16):
You're good.

Speaker 8 (01:46:18):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 9 (01:46:19):
And the other thing my logic on it, and I
think I'm right on this. I wouldn't swear to it.
I'm not a mechanical engineer. But if you have metal rails,
absolutely they will not break, right, I mean they probably
are Chaine proof. He's not here, so I can talk
some shit about him, but maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
We're in the we're in the second hour.

Speaker 9 (01:46:39):
You can say shit, but okay, but you know the
thing with the plastic rails, it's like a crumple zone. Yes,
they may break, but they're going to absorb that impact,
whereas a metal rail kit.

Speaker 8 (01:46:50):
In my opinion, it's probably.

Speaker 9 (01:46:52):
Worse for the electronics because while it'll protect the screen,
it's going to transmit all the shocks straight into the
frame of the radio and jostles is inside.

Speaker 1 (01:47:01):
Exactly why I gave when this came up this weekend
was what does the F one formula card do? It
crumbles all around the driver? Yep, particular, it's a crumple zone.
That's exactly right, and that's my logic on it.

Speaker 9 (01:47:15):
And the stuff I used to print is PCTG, which
is extremely heat resistant, UV resistant, chemical resistant, very high
melting temperature.

Speaker 8 (01:47:26):
It's not gonna inexpensive. It's not that expensive.

Speaker 1 (01:47:30):
Ten dollars more rowing.

Speaker 4 (01:47:33):
For ham radio opera, but for ham radio field operation.
Come on, what do you need at the end of
the day. Come on, honestly, is not it's just not
nast So this is not starlink and all the time.

Speaker 8 (01:47:46):
I mean honestly, PLA is probably fine.

Speaker 9 (01:47:49):
It will get soft if it's exposed to direct sunlight
for a long time, but you know, my opinion, somebody
who does a lot of PODA.

Speaker 8 (01:47:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:47:58):
Maybe that guy sitting right there, I believe he would
be melted before the p l A would get melted.

Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
I know of a certain antenna kit that has melted.

Speaker 8 (01:48:10):
Well, yeah, if you leave it, if you leave it
sitting in a car, yeah, or in direct sunlight for
an extended period of time, yes, the CLA will get saggy.

Speaker 4 (01:48:21):
I don't go in direct sunlight full.

Speaker 1 (01:48:25):
There's not going to my radio is in it.

Speaker 4 (01:48:27):
There we go ham A a model ham for my kid.

Speaker 9 (01:48:32):
He's not going to be sitting with that with that
radio and direct songn Besides, that was the radio get
hot and.

Speaker 7 (01:48:37):
When I put it in the car, it's gonna get
you know, like it's going to go into a case,
or it's going to go into a bag or I
like using the Donkey wraps, those those those camera lens wraps.
You know, like yeah, you're gonna wrap it up and whatever,
and it's going to be insulated. Even you know, my
seven o five stays in the camera bag in the

(01:48:58):
car and I we have we have a couple of
reptiles in the house, so we have like one of
the like the infrared laser heat gun temperature things. And
so when it would get real cold and I was
testing out keeping it in the car, I bring it
in every so often when the temperatures would be in
single digits and take it out of the case and

(01:49:18):
take a temperature reading and see how cold the radio
and the battery.

Speaker 4 (01:49:21):
And it was.

Speaker 1 (01:49:22):
It was fine.

Speaker 7 (01:49:22):
I mean it was cold, but it was uh, it's fine.
But that's what you know, portable ops people are gonna do.
They're gonna, you know, after they're done, they're gonna wrap
it back up. They're gonna put in a case, put
in the bag. But okay, it was cold, but was
it below its operating temperature.

Speaker 4 (01:49:38):
Reading when it was? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:49:40):
And I and that's why I was interested to do that,
because the icons, the seven O five and then the
they're they're digital radios like the fifty two, fifty one, fifties,
those will drop the OP the maximum output down if
if the temperature gets below a certain threshold.

Speaker 8 (01:50:00):
I forget what it is.

Speaker 7 (01:50:01):
I had it up in the manuals. Yeah, they do that,
and the Yasuos don't. That's been my only hang up,
even though as much as I am in the icon Universe.
That's been my only hang up about getting one of
like the nice d star hts from icon Is. I
don't want to be out in the winter and have

(01:50:21):
that ht and then all of a sudden it drops
to what one wide output because I know and and
I got to keep that in. You know, I'm going
to keep things away from the elements if I'm doing
and I've I do SODA's in January during like the
VHF contests and stuff, so I'll have a radio ate
ht IS with me. But I don't want to have

(01:50:41):
to worry about, you know, keeping it like under my
armpit or something like that and warm the thing up
before I make a contact or whatever. But but yeah,
that the icons have that. It's it's in the manuals.
It talks about it that I haven't seen it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
I could see cutting the power for getting too hot,
but too cold, that's.

Speaker 7 (01:51:04):
Yeah, too cold, and it has They say it's because
of the battery chemistry and the charging and stuff like that,
but I don't know because because I don't see that
from anyone else. That actually be an interesting thing to
see if you looked in I guesshould look in the
new yea su manual and see if they talk about that.

Speaker 8 (01:51:23):
But but yeah, hmm, I mean it's the same battery
chemistry as far as I knew. They're all litium high
on these Yeah yeah, right, yeah exactly, that's why you know.
But you can't but that's still like twenty degrees fahrenheit maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:51:40):
Yeah, yeah, I don't remember. That's that's why you need
that Bao fang twenty five?

Speaker 4 (01:51:45):
You was it?

Speaker 3 (01:51:46):
You are or u V whatever it is, that big
boy the brick. Yeah, eighty mile range two meters right,
you just.

Speaker 8 (01:51:56):
You get a hand mic, right, a shoulder mic like
we had in the fire department. Yeah, look it up
here and stick the radio in your arm pit.

Speaker 4 (01:52:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:52:04):
Hell yeah, Mike's problem solved. You're welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
So what if you're walking funny, who cares right or you?

Speaker 8 (01:52:11):
Well, you could put it there. That would be awkward.

Speaker 4 (01:52:13):
But yeah, I mean, no one's going to say it's
stay warm. He's still five to nine, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:52:20):
Eric can see a Soota video where Mike pulls a
fifty out of his fans. He says, as I whipped
this out.

Speaker 3 (01:52:30):
Exactly, got the video, got the short right there, clip it.
I gotta agree with Ko for HRT. If you live
in an area where it's you have to worry about
your battery cutting off to the cold temperatures, you've made
some bad life decisions.

Speaker 9 (01:52:45):
Am Bro rock star, Dave rock Star, Well, if y'all
haven't met him, he's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:52:51):
There was a guy on PODA last week. I was
trying to work him.

Speaker 4 (01:52:55):
He was in Utah and he had to go. Q
RT says, starting to snow, and here it is. I'm like,
oh my god, dude, Yeah, I think it was a
bear bear lake, maybe in Utah, but there you go.
It happens.

Speaker 9 (01:53:08):
You were talking about you had the heat on. We've
had the air conditioning run for probably six weeks or more.

Speaker 3 (01:53:12):
Oh yeah, not March, not yeah, since January.

Speaker 8 (01:53:17):
Well it's Alabama, Wait a minute, and the weather will change.

Speaker 4 (01:53:20):
This is true.

Speaker 8 (01:53:21):
I mean we had two and a half snow days
in January.

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
I think snow days?

Speaker 4 (01:53:25):
What hell's that?

Speaker 9 (01:53:26):
Yeah, we were closed for two and a half days
because of the snow. Of course, is what what they
closed for down here. We never would have closed for
in Chicago or Connecticut. School I don't care.

Speaker 4 (01:53:43):
You've got to walk, but yeah, but you know, some
of those though, Jim, the boys, those my crazy friends
up there in the New Hampshire.

Speaker 3 (01:53:50):
You laugh at us when we shut down for a
day for whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:53:55):
You know. Again, it's all relative, isn't it all? It
all depends how north or house south? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
Right, say, is that snow that we had when I
was up there at your place? That was crazy that
that would have shut down Charleston for two weeks, two weeks,
two weeks.

Speaker 8 (01:54:09):
Oh yeah, we ain't got we ain't got no salt
trucks down here.

Speaker 3 (01:54:12):
The trucks and the plows and everything like he did.
And then you got to know where to put it.

Speaker 8 (01:54:16):
You don't get you guys don't got any of that
stuff in Charleston. No, God, now, there ain't.

Speaker 9 (01:54:21):
There ain't no such thing as a salt truck or
snowplow in Montgomery County, Alabama, Huntsville, maybe.

Speaker 4 (01:54:27):
They don't have like one or two sitting in the
back somewhere. Yeah, in the back of the warehouse or
you know, the back of the office.

Speaker 9 (01:54:35):
And Mike probably sees fifteen or twenty one month his
way to work in the morning up.

Speaker 3 (01:54:40):
Yeah, Joe, speaking of Huntsville, those cameras back up, I
don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:54:47):
Yeah, my nephew's up there. I we're keeping an eye out.
He's actually he's on the road and his wife is
at home. I haven't gotten an update from him.

Speaker 1 (01:54:58):
They're still showing daytime.

Speaker 4 (01:55:00):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
Refreshed mony. Sono is still great at it could be foggy.

Speaker 3 (01:55:09):
Hopefully it's foggy.

Speaker 8 (01:55:10):
As long as it doesn't get my cabin, let me
let me take for free.

Speaker 4 (01:55:16):
There you go, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:55:21):
What is the contingency plan?

Speaker 4 (01:55:23):
God forbid something happens at Monta Santo with the cabins
for you guys for August.

Speaker 3 (01:55:29):
I ain't worried about the cabins. I got a campsite.
As long as I still got a pad to put
the camper on, I'll be happy.

Speaker 4 (01:55:35):
I mean, if they just bring in chainsaws and just
open up the area, that'd be a lot easier for
you guys.

Speaker 9 (01:55:38):
Well using pace, I mean, Cabin fourteen is the primary.
The alternate might be, you know, staying at my nephew's
house because he's got spare bedroom and you know, the
contingency plan is a hotel, and the emergency on the
pay scale is is bunking with with Steve up there,

(01:55:59):
Steve with you.

Speaker 8 (01:56:00):
Thanks, so I.

Speaker 3 (01:56:01):
Will tell you big spoon. I called, there is one
extra bed to camper.

Speaker 4 (01:56:06):
Oh uh but great, I thought that. I thought that
was reserved for shocking Greg.

Speaker 1 (01:56:15):
No, no, no, wait, wait a been now? Whoa So
I just heard what a minute I just heard this?
T O would be very jealous. Does that mean t
O's contingency plan is to bunk with you in your
one bed cabin?

Speaker 4 (01:56:32):
Do you?

Speaker 7 (01:56:34):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (01:56:35):
No, I think t O is truck camping or something.
He's not ringing the death Star. Okay, and missus t
O is not coming. So wherever it listened too.

Speaker 1 (01:56:44):
Maybe you were sharing your bed. I know you got
that one bedroom.

Speaker 9 (01:56:47):
Can I have a one bedroom and one bed cabin.
I have a couch and I'm not taking a couch.
And t O's a little long for the couch. So
he can throw a sleeping blanket on the floor, sleeping
bag on the floor if he has to listen.

Speaker 4 (01:57:02):
T O.

Speaker 9 (01:57:04):
Car camped at Orlando last year. Yeah, two years ago.

Speaker 8 (01:57:09):
THEO would park into Walmart parking lot, lean the seatback
and call it a night.

Speaker 1 (01:57:15):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:57:17):
We've all done that.

Speaker 8 (01:57:18):
But going to gas station bathroom pull off some paper towels,
get them way.

Speaker 10 (01:57:23):
Yeah, yeah, quick, Yeah, that's a quickie. Yeah, we've all
done that, but that's not you don't feel good, Jim.
I don't know that you could handle my camp mates.

Speaker 8 (01:57:34):
I probably can't. Carlos is one of them, so you
gotta have a token, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:57:44):
Hey, as long as he you got a short guy,
it's a law.

Speaker 8 (01:57:47):
Okay. No, you guys are a little more outgoing, energetic
than you know, effervescent as the sun goes to bed. Yeah,
not quite, not quite.

Speaker 1 (01:58:06):
The first one go to bed all weekend.

Speaker 8 (01:58:08):
Speaking to Carlos, Speaking to Carlos.

Speaker 9 (01:58:12):
If everything works out, I will be jumping with Carlos
at Hauntsfield.

Speaker 4 (01:58:16):
This show really breaking news, Joe Bratt.

Speaker 8 (01:58:22):
Hell yeah, I mentioned this on car and I've already
told Carlos y'all don't watch that.

Speaker 1 (01:58:27):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard this.

Speaker 4 (01:58:31):
Morning.

Speaker 9 (01:58:33):
Yeah, I'm gonna, I gotta. I've still got to lose
some more weight, but I plan on. I guess I'm
gonna let's see is he in front or back in
as behind you? He'll be just like a little backpack
with a little QP doll on the back for me
and be uh, I do it?

Speaker 4 (01:58:51):
Oh, you do it.

Speaker 8 (01:58:52):
That would be cool.

Speaker 1 (01:58:53):
Of course that's with the approval of.

Speaker 4 (01:58:57):
Strapped to Carlos.

Speaker 8 (01:58:59):
But yeah, yeah, I plan to take an HT and
do some parachute two meter something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:59:05):
I have to get carless what he needs.

Speaker 4 (01:59:07):
I know he's.

Speaker 3 (01:59:10):
He's got a couple of jump scheduled.

Speaker 4 (01:59:14):
You're one.

Speaker 3 (01:59:16):
We can't talk about one of them, the jumping with him.

Speaker 4 (01:59:21):
M hmmm.

Speaker 3 (01:59:22):
Why well, because she said nobody's allowed to know.

Speaker 4 (01:59:25):
Oh she yep, Come on, that's easy, you.

Speaker 8 (01:59:34):
Think, James, I need to be I needed. It depends
on the aircraft. I could have jumped with him at
Dayton and two fifty was his weight limit. I'm five over.
I know two forty was his weight limit, and I'm
I'm about ten twelve over.

Speaker 3 (01:59:50):
That the pack seven fifty you got. You're good because
I was not a screamer over that.

Speaker 4 (02:00:00):
Mike, You're right when you're when you're on the bottom
of Carlos, you're scream and I don't care who you are,
you're absolutely screaming.

Speaker 5 (02:00:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:00:08):
For the podcast, Mike, you.

Speaker 9 (02:00:11):
Really screen jumping out of an airplane. It's like, Eh,
it won't hurt as bad for as long. Yeah, if
things go sideways.

Speaker 8 (02:00:25):
So James Cook, I need to lose probably ten or
fifteen more pounds by August, which is border line if
that's going to happen, but I need to anyway. So okay,
and uh and Ham Radio Kansas is wants me turning.

Speaker 9 (02:00:40):
My pilot's certificate because I'm jumping out of a perfectly
good airplane.

Speaker 8 (02:00:44):
I don't know, Jeff, you ever seen some of them
planes that carry jumpers in. It's probably good to have
a backup pilot. Those are not exactly top of the
line aircraft.

Speaker 3 (02:00:53):
The Pack seven fifty is a nice plane. I don't know,
I've never and it's it's built for skydiving.

Speaker 8 (02:01:01):
I had a buddy who flew jumpers a lot here
in the Montgomery area, and he was in a twin
Hotter that was probably new during the Nixon administration.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
I think twin Otters another great plane to jump from.

Speaker 8 (02:01:15):
Yeah they're just old.

Speaker 3 (02:01:17):
Oh yeah they are, but that's about fifty years old
then or older.

Speaker 4 (02:01:23):
Yeah, I was born in sixty four. I was born
in sixty four. So if you do the math, which
we don't like doing math.

Speaker 8 (02:01:29):
But math hurts does Yeah. When I started flying, I
was flying a seventy two seventy three Cherokee, PA. Twenty
eight is what I learned on yep.

Speaker 3 (02:01:42):
I think mine was sixty eight.

Speaker 8 (02:01:43):
So and it smelled like your grandpaus car Oh yeah,
oh and f gas and JP four out on the ramp.
I love the smell of an airplane ramp.

Speaker 3 (02:01:58):
Oh God, they're making new twin wow.

Speaker 9 (02:02:04):
Right, Eric, You don't need a parachute to go skydiving,
only need it if you want to do it twice.

Speaker 8 (02:02:11):
What it's like flying? Takeoffs are optional, landings are mandatory.

Speaker 4 (02:02:16):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (02:02:16):
So flying is the second greatest thrill known to man.
Landing's the first.

Speaker 4 (02:02:22):
It is.

Speaker 8 (02:02:22):
I love doing touch and goes.

Speaker 4 (02:02:24):
Man.

Speaker 3 (02:02:25):
Hey, if the airplanes were usable, it was a successful landing.

Speaker 4 (02:02:27):
Nothing was vent.

Speaker 8 (02:02:29):
The dirty side is still down. It's a good day.

Speaker 3 (02:02:33):
If you're having trouble with the shoot, you got the
rest of your life to figure it out.

Speaker 4 (02:02:36):
That's right. Well, I will tell you Mike, that's right.

Speaker 3 (02:02:41):
Carlos spiel Is he has plans for the evening and
that does not include the hospital or the morgue.

Speaker 4 (02:02:47):
Right, so.

Speaker 11 (02:02:50):
Off off his skydiving gear. So well, that's optional. You
can't do it in the air, though, you will not
allow you good.

Speaker 8 (02:03:02):
It'll probably be pooping diamonds if anything comes out.

Speaker 3 (02:03:05):
So once you hit the ground, all bets are off.

Speaker 8 (02:03:10):
No, I'm looking forward to it. I wanted to go
Skydevin forever, never got around to it.

Speaker 4 (02:03:14):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (02:03:16):
Do not tell Julie. She does not know I'm going
to do this.

Speaker 9 (02:03:20):
I suspect that there would be some negative reinforcement if
I told her, so, I'll just wait and show her
the video after I've successfully completed the mission.

Speaker 3 (02:03:30):
Julie, is in your wife or Julie? Okay, I didn't
realize your wife's name was Julie. I was thinking po
to power Julie.

Speaker 4 (02:03:38):
No.

Speaker 8 (02:03:39):
I was like, what is she your insurance agent? No,
missus Perry.

Speaker 3 (02:03:42):
Ah, okay, Yeah, I didn't tell my wife I was
doing mine either. I told her what I got back
on the ground.

Speaker 8 (02:03:49):
Yeah, I'm not going to mention it. Oh, I'm sorry,
I haven't forgot to tell you.

Speaker 4 (02:03:53):
I thought I did. I think all the women in
my life would just say just go. They'd probably just
want to push me out with or without to shoot.
Just just got here.

Speaker 9 (02:04:01):
Well, I figure the insurance is paid up. She's got
a pretty good policy. Things have a non positive outcome.
We use that in the fire department. That's how we
said things went sideways, a non positive outcome, non positive.

Speaker 1 (02:04:14):
You're right, Yeah, I mentioned to my wife. I'd be
willing to do it.

Speaker 7 (02:04:19):
I like, like Jim, I still would have some weight
to lose, but but if I'd be more worried. My
bigger challenge is getting down to Huntsville. But I want
to make it happen, if not this year, the two
years and uh, and I think it'd be hell of
cool to.

Speaker 3 (02:04:36):
Do it with UH, you know, being able to play
parachute mobile, make.

Speaker 9 (02:04:39):
A couple of contacts, and it's my plan. I haven't
decided what radio I'm going to take. I think I
won't take my five D. I'll probably take something cheaper,
just in case there's a non positive outcome at least radio.

Speaker 3 (02:04:52):
Well, so Carlos takes his three D and he sets
the record feature.

Speaker 8 (02:04:59):
You thinking about it? So that's where he's getting all
the Q out of the radio.

Speaker 4 (02:05:02):
Nice, yep.

Speaker 8 (02:05:03):
I'll take the five D.

Speaker 7 (02:05:04):
Then there you go, and it's tethered to you. Yeah,
so you don't have to worry about it. If ken
Wood is watching, I would totally do a two twenty jump.
If they want to give me seventy five this week,
I will tell you.

Speaker 8 (02:05:20):
Yep, I'll do d Star Kenwood.

Speaker 3 (02:05:22):
Yes, the the ID fifty is drop tested from fourteen
thousand feet. Yes, it is at Huntsville No less really yep.
Carlos dropped one or somebody else, Yes, he did. He
Carlos dropped one.

Speaker 4 (02:05:37):
Dropped.

Speaker 8 (02:05:37):
I remember part of the story, but I didn't.

Speaker 1 (02:05:40):
I've got a video, yep, okay, the YouTube video.

Speaker 4 (02:05:46):
Yeah. Yeah. He went over to the neighbor, knocked on
the door, so do you mind if I get my
I think it's in your backyard, and the lady let
him in. Yep.

Speaker 9 (02:05:55):
They're like, get your stuff and go. We don't need
insurance info. Then wanting short people in the neighborhood because
you know that. The next thing, Hubcaps started to wear
long hair as a bolt cutter collection in the wall
of his garage. I've seen it, Yes, I've asked him
about it. He said it's because I'm short.

Speaker 3 (02:06:14):
He said it was his lock pick set.

Speaker 8 (02:06:16):
Yeah, did he try did the radio free follower?

Speaker 3 (02:06:22):
Was it in a bag?

Speaker 4 (02:06:23):
It was?

Speaker 8 (02:06:23):
It was the whole bag, the whole bag.

Speaker 3 (02:06:26):
As he came out of the airplane now unhooked.

Speaker 8 (02:06:28):
Yeah, okay, but the.

Speaker 3 (02:06:32):
Only thing really damaged in that was his phone. But
that's how he found it was the find my iPhone out.

Speaker 8 (02:06:38):
Okay. I was gonna say, how do you even figure
out which yard it landed in? Note to self put
an air tag when anything important?

Speaker 3 (02:06:45):
Yeah, well, you know what you need to.

Speaker 7 (02:06:47):
About your three d rails on it eight ninety one
and drop it and and and if that thing lands
yeah and.

Speaker 3 (02:06:57):
Metal works, right, then you'll be selling your rails, no
problem fourteen. You don't have to run discount codes, just
sell them.

Speaker 8 (02:07:07):
That's right, That's right. I'm looking forward to it. It's
gonna be fun, that'll be awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:07:16):
So yeah, guys, guys, I'm getting to the end of
this cigar here, right, Yeah. Two hours.

Speaker 1 (02:07:23):
So well, I'll just say I did hear back from
my friend at money Cento, and I've got no details,
but he said he's doing some lumberjacket and teaching the
fire department how to how to lumber jack. So evidently
they got some trees down. But he responded, so that's positive.

Speaker 3 (02:07:38):
He got at he has cell signal and he's okay,
that's a good time.

Speaker 8 (02:07:42):
Blessed his heart that he has cell signal on that
mountain of Done.

Speaker 3 (02:07:46):
Well, you know he owns the cell repeater because he
lives there. Yeah, I don't know that to be true,
but I'm assuling.

Speaker 8 (02:07:55):
I'm kind of thinking not. But yeah, you know, the
whole internet thing is always annoying to me because they
ran cable up that mountain, right, all the cabins have cable.
You have cable, that means you have wired network circuit
up to the mountain. Throw up four or five outdoor

(02:08:16):
Wi Fi repeaters for crying out loud any hard.

Speaker 3 (02:08:18):
Yeah, and not that expensive like what, and be in
a state park. They'd probably get state funding for it.
They charge enough for the campsite.

Speaker 8 (02:08:29):
My wife used to be the IT director of Conservation
is who owns the state parks and they and she's
been retired since twenty sixteen, which I hate because I'm jealous,
but and she's always home.

Speaker 3 (02:08:46):
Yeah, coming up with honey dues. Mike's right, they weren't
using this.

Speaker 8 (02:08:53):
It's probably that.

Speaker 1 (02:08:54):
What they're using is very leaky.

Speaker 8 (02:08:57):
Truck stuff, radio shaft, some radio hickster plus that's seventy five. Oh,
I got that.

Speaker 3 (02:09:05):
That's right was sitting in there was it was sitting
in a warehouse and government con They probably.

Speaker 8 (02:09:09):
Bought it from one of them guys at Hamfest, the
one that's right next to the two outside outside. Yeah,
hey hey you want some, you want some? Seventy five
of them go. But they got they got internet in
the main office.

Speaker 4 (02:09:23):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (02:09:23):
They got and and TV and they have TV and
all the cabins. So you either put in a real
cable motives in them damn cabins Wi Fi cabin motives
about eighty bucks and whatever.

Speaker 8 (02:09:37):
That's the only annoying thing about Huntsville. And it's a
technology town, you would think. And I know when Julie
was at conservation still they were deploying wireless because I
did some side hustle stuff for free because I'm married
to the IT director. And she said, come help me,
can you help me?

Speaker 4 (02:09:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, can you help me?

Speaker 3 (02:09:58):
It was come help me with this?

Speaker 8 (02:09:59):
Yes, he knows we're all the boomsteads.

Speaker 3 (02:10:01):
So that's so sweet, husband and wife and stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:10:04):
That's nice.

Speaker 3 (02:10:05):
Yeah, well, no, Jim wanted to eat and I wanted
to eat and didn't help.

Speaker 12 (02:10:11):
I also didn't want a nice kick in my ear
that's right, you got tom hm, that's right. Mm all right,
it's a what you got coming up? Memorial Day weekend, guys.
Time for us to do some be very grateful, they say,
some prayers and some thank you. I'm gonna be doing

(02:10:32):
some poda and I'm gonna pull.

Speaker 4 (02:10:35):
The game plan is to pull the six meter beam
I got up here in the attic and the rafters,
rather pull it down and set up for Sunday, set
up on fifty five in one of my radios, and
uh see what happens as long as I don't forget.
But I should be good. But no, I'm gonna be
I'm working on a kilo, but I think I'm just
gonna go play some poda and and just have some fun.

(02:10:55):
We got some crazy weather coming in tomorrow and Thursday,
but that should be all be be done by Friday
morning Friday afternoon, so weekend looks pretty good for us.
So okay, that's what I got going on. Joe.

Speaker 1 (02:11:08):
Yeah, I don't know. I do need to look through
some other videos. I didn't take a whole loup more.

Speaker 3 (02:11:15):
You put out a bunch of videos already.

Speaker 8 (02:11:16):
So I mass the most videos I've seen out of
Joe Britton.

Speaker 3 (02:11:20):
Well, see that's what he does.

Speaker 4 (02:11:22):
That's what he does. He does.

Speaker 1 (02:11:27):
Were there were no sense of stagger in the three
sixty videos? Put them all out there.

Speaker 9 (02:11:33):
I watched them two or three times. I just scroll
around looking at all the random stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:11:37):
Yeah, it's just kind of interesting. I like going back
and washing them, seeing all the weird looks I get
from behind me. They think I wasn't looking.

Speaker 8 (02:11:43):
You need to put a flat out the next time, too,
or something.

Speaker 3 (02:11:46):
Yeah you hello, sorry, Joe, I thought you were done.

Speaker 4 (02:11:54):
Usually you're sure.

Speaker 1 (02:11:55):
An see we played cards for our cousins kids too,
or something over here. Sometimes how many times I heard
that phrase? You think they say a lot on their show.
It's in the middle of it, in the middle of
every damn conversation they had this weekend. Jim would look
at me, He's playing cards with my cousins kids. Anyway,

(02:12:21):
I was gonna say, I may go back through some
of the three sixty and make some none three sixty
videos out of them, but and I ain't even looked
at what I may have recorded. I don't even know
if I got the OSMA out much.

Speaker 8 (02:12:34):
But okay, other than that, find that guy's call sign
I needed.

Speaker 1 (02:12:39):
Yeah, let me just try to get that.

Speaker 4 (02:12:42):
So may.

Speaker 1 (02:12:44):
I have to put that up on a on a TikTok.
There you go them folks can find people. Who is
this old guy? I ain't got nothing else. I may
I may make a video on uh on what I
did get from.

Speaker 8 (02:13:06):
I'm surprised you didn't make a video, you know, Saturday
afternoon Sunday morning.

Speaker 1 (02:13:12):
I ain't had time to do that. Really, I had
a look. I come back to work yesterday, get back
home Sunday, and then Monday morning go straight to a
six hour round trip. Dude, I've been doing some driving.

Speaker 8 (02:13:26):
I took off yesterday. I said nope, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (02:13:30):
Woke up and I started to I felt like wrap.

Speaker 3 (02:13:34):
All right, how about you, Jim?

Speaker 1 (02:13:36):
How about you? Jim?

Speaker 8 (02:13:37):
We got we got Ham Church on Sunday and and
I'm incident we're gonna we're gonna do some six meter
live on on my show on Sunday morning at nine.
We'll probably rant about something as well.

Speaker 9 (02:13:52):
And you know usual, I'm not sure what coffe and
Ham Radios has got on Thursday night, because that's your show.

Speaker 8 (02:13:59):
Huh No, my show is on Sunday morning. Coffee and
Ham radios is.

Speaker 9 (02:14:03):
On Thursday night, and I'm not sure who's coming on
Thursday night or Saturday.

Speaker 1 (02:14:07):
That's what I'm saying. Your time to play on the show?

Speaker 8 (02:14:10):
No, mine was Saturday? Done?

Speaker 4 (02:14:13):
Check, got it checked, I got it.

Speaker 9 (02:14:15):
I can ignore it till the day before the next
coffee radio and then reach up deep and pull something out.

Speaker 8 (02:14:22):
You know what I'm saying. There you go, No, that's
that's about it. I need to do a video. It's
been like two weeks. I didn't do one of the
week weekend before and night done this weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:14:31):
So okay, if i'd been checking out ham Church.

Speaker 8 (02:14:35):
Now, people confuse me with Joe Brad. If I don't
start putting.

Speaker 4 (02:14:38):
Out videos, real confused with me.

Speaker 8 (02:14:42):
We've had a pretty good show, I don't. I think
we've been running about one hundred and twenty five one
hundred and fifty concurrent viewers on Saturday NDS.

Speaker 1 (02:14:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:14:53):
I was amazed.

Speaker 1 (02:14:55):
I mean you just started that back two months ago,
two months ago. Look at you a little following and
that's that's on your channel. Yeah, on my channel, that's
on labs yeah, LBS radio deal.

Speaker 3 (02:15:11):
Yeah, all right, Mike other than six meters on Sunday, Yeah, yeah,
and now that I know that Jim and them might
be on uh six meters on Sunday, it's looking like
I got to go out early on Sunday in the
morning or early afternoon because of my son's birthday party.

Speaker 4 (02:15:29):
So maybe i'll catch you guys. That'd be real cool, Mike.
It's very simple. Do you do the cake and then
you pass the mic. Then you pass the mic to
all the kids at the party. That's how you do it.
You get the kids of all that you keep it going. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:15:46):
No, I'll go out and activate in the morning on
six but I'll come back and I'll set up at
the house and uh and stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:15:52):
But I'm going to use for the first time. I
have the six meter Faara Jay which the big.

Speaker 4 (02:16:00):
The big Way all your boy the big bot character.
That'll be fun to try.

Speaker 1 (02:16:05):
I just I just come up with a new idea, Mike,
and I tried it right now live and it worked.

Speaker 8 (02:16:10):
What what's your thought?

Speaker 4 (02:16:12):
But what's that?

Speaker 1 (02:16:12):
What's that six meter ft eight on AM digital or
AM data not digital?

Speaker 4 (02:16:20):
It was true. It got a little wide.

Speaker 1 (02:16:22):
I don't know if it's within a policy or not.
You get a little wide. Just telling me you were confused,
and you thought, I probably just pissed off a lot
of six meters people with FT eight.

Speaker 4 (02:16:31):
But as long as you get tenda didn't burn up
with that to roid melt, you're good.

Speaker 8 (02:16:36):
Good six meters a huge band. Isn't that like four
mega herds a bandwidth on six meters? It's a lot
fifty to fifty four or something like that.

Speaker 4 (02:16:46):
Contacts of contact.

Speaker 1 (02:16:48):
Yeah, I wonder if that would work on am Man.
That it might. We might need to go somewhere besides
the FT eight for.

Speaker 3 (02:16:57):
The FG eight spark cap.

Speaker 8 (02:16:58):
There you go work or he's got anywhere in the
data area should be fine. I mean, it's like there's
four mega hurts of bandwidth. Tune your knob over, chief,
quit your bitchin.

Speaker 4 (02:17:11):
That's gonna be.

Speaker 7 (02:17:11):
There's probably like about a dozen times more bandwidth on
six than twenty. Oh hell yeah, you know, and I've
been drinking the brown liquor and stuff, but like.

Speaker 8 (02:17:19):
Yeah, twenty is like uh for the general band is
fourteen two twenty five to fourteen three fifty, So then.

Speaker 7 (02:17:28):
Well band A fourteen to fourteen three fifty, so it's
your point three five and.

Speaker 1 (02:17:33):
Then yeah, you got four mega hurts.

Speaker 7 (02:17:36):
Yeah, four mega hurts there, so you're it's it's got
to be like ten would be three point five.

Speaker 3 (02:17:44):
Yeah, yeah, that's already enough math.

Speaker 8 (02:17:46):
Yeah, Mike, you're making me tired listening to all the mat.

Speaker 4 (02:17:51):
And then there's Jody with a curveball right here.

Speaker 3 (02:17:54):
Yeah, five twenty five twenty five utc oh man, that's
a lot of conversions going.

Speaker 8 (02:17:58):
Okay, five twenty five u TC is like eleven on
the twenty fourth.

Speaker 3 (02:18:04):
That's gonna be like one one, one five in the
morning here.

Speaker 13 (02:18:08):
Yeah, yeah, that's okay. I'll be up twenty five in
the morning year whatever. Yeah, no, eleven twenty five, No,
that's yeah, it's wait yeah, five hours now for five
hours central time. Yeah see, I told you the math
was wearing me out.

Speaker 3 (02:18:27):
Yeah to math, thanks Mike. Oh like anything else?

Speaker 4 (02:18:35):
No, nothing else?

Speaker 3 (02:18:36):
Oh you know what, let me sure I'm going to
play with these I have a buddy.

Speaker 1 (02:18:41):
Of blists to your hands well in that word, yeah, yeah,
I have to play with them.

Speaker 4 (02:18:49):
I've been trying to get around to it.

Speaker 7 (02:18:51):
My problem is, like I I and some of the
higher frequencies, I gotta get better at testing like the
power outputs. But and if you look at these displays,
you'll see this is on six meters and thirty three centimeters. Okay,
so these rat tels, I mean they're probably dirty as Yeah.

(02:19:15):
I wasn't gonna say, but, but now that I do
have a tiny essay, I gotta I want to play
around with it. And a buddy picked up a bunch
of them on Amazon and stuff. I mean, any the
fact that you can get an HT that's going to
do seventeen meters up to thirty three centimeters, something's going
to be wrong.

Speaker 9 (02:19:34):
I've got I've got an Abri which is the same company,
I think because there was the I think I got
the AR eight ninety one and there's an equivalent red till.
It's the same radio. It's like any tone in B
tech kind of thing. And that thing was dirtier than
that cheerleader you wanted to be with in high school. Yeah,

(02:19:57):
it would transmit a full frequencies at this same time.

Speaker 4 (02:20:01):
Oh yeah, I have learned. I want to say, see
I've learned. I want to say something, but I'm gonna
bite my tongue. I have matured. I'm gonna bite my
tongue and you guys could just figure it out yourself.

Speaker 8 (02:20:16):
This is clubhouse. You should just say it.

Speaker 3 (02:20:18):
No, no, no no, because we use it against him.
That's why he doesn't want to say anything recorded.

Speaker 8 (02:20:23):
Everybody knows what you know.

Speaker 1 (02:20:25):
He gets a little complex about it stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:20:27):
Yeah, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 8 (02:20:29):
What I mean is that it's okay if you dated
this luddy cheerleader in high school. Man, it's all right.

Speaker 4 (02:20:34):
I didn't though, That's just it.

Speaker 1 (02:20:39):
He sounds so reful.

Speaker 8 (02:20:42):
Sad about it.

Speaker 4 (02:20:42):
Yeah, I don't want somebody somebody from my past is
watching this show or listening to a podcast, and then
they're gonna make some phone calls and through the year.
I don't care. I mean, it's all about that flavor,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (02:20:56):
It can't be any worse than sushi, ona conveyor belt,
just like exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:21:01):
Thank you keep it coming. Oh goodness. Well, as we
already talked about, it is Memorial Day weekend coming up.

Speaker 8 (02:21:15):
Did not come home?

Speaker 3 (02:21:16):
Remember those that never left the uniform? Please. I am
headed to DC on Thursday. I'll be up there through
I'll come home Monday, be up there for rolling to remember.
So I'll be on the bike, but I am taking
the f one fifty with the eight fifty seven in it,
I'm gonna try to sneak out and get a Maryland
Poda knocked out, and if ever, if anybody's on later

(02:21:41):
on in the afternoon on Sunday, I'll fire up six
meters yeah, through the atas and see if I can't
make a contact. But nine o'clock in the morning, I'll
be sitting in the Pentagon parking lot.

Speaker 9 (02:21:55):
So drops the info in in discord so we can
find you. Because I'm I've got the girl child who
is fourteen now and five foot seven and that starts
high school next year. I'm trying to process that, and
so she's coming over this weekend. So I'm not sure
what we'll be doing exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:22:15):
Yep, okay, but yeah, I uh, I'll keep an eye out.

Speaker 4 (02:22:20):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (02:22:21):
We'll have the Blue Star mothers who have a child
actively serving, the gold Star moms that have lost a child,
gold Star wives that have lost a spouse, and then
the TAPS folks, which are the Tragedy Assistants for Survivor's Program.
That those four are near and dear to my heart,

(02:22:43):
so I go up make sure that they have a
ride for rolling to remember and just it's a very
emotional weekend for everybody involved. I will do three sixty
video and see if I can't get some other video
in there.

Speaker 4 (02:23:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:23:00):
I support Folds of Honor, yep, which is a veteran
and first responder. Yes, so the fold is refers to
the folded flag that you get if to a line
of duty.

Speaker 3 (02:23:13):
My escort from a few years ago, her husband passed
away in Afghanistan and his name was actually on one
of the nascars for the Folds of Honor five hundred,
so she got to go to that race. I keep
up with her so and I try to keep up
with most of most of mine. I shared that twelve

(02:23:34):
years now.

Speaker 8 (02:23:34):
I just want to pop it up. Oh yep, Okay,
I can't do that here. I don't have the magic.
But yeah, so they provide.

Speaker 3 (02:23:44):
Scholarships and everything else.

Speaker 8 (02:23:46):
Yeah, and that's a great organization.

Speaker 3 (02:23:51):
And I'll tell a quick story on myself about Japan.
I almost made a big faux pas since we're talking
Memorial Day and you know veteran stuff. I like the
till Valhalla shirts and I accidentally packed my Pearl Harbor
remembrance till the Hollow shirt and almost wore that around

(02:24:12):
in Japan. Well pulled it out of the drawer and
I was like, yeah, I probably shouldn't wear that one.

Speaker 8 (02:24:19):
They've had eighty years to get over it.

Speaker 4 (02:24:20):
It'll be all right.

Speaker 3 (02:24:22):
They just allowed us to put a new carrier on
the pier.

Speaker 8 (02:24:26):
Well, they'll still get over it. They need to get
over it.

Speaker 4 (02:24:29):
Yeah, I don't know. That's sushi coming.

Speaker 3 (02:24:31):
That's sushi coming on the belt.

Speaker 4 (02:24:32):
Maybe that would have been so you're liking, you're right.

Speaker 9 (02:24:38):
I get my sushi from the grocery store usually so
public Man Publix makes decent sushi.

Speaker 1 (02:24:46):
I keep you know, it's a Kroger right down the
road from the office, and people keep saying they've got
some good sushi.

Speaker 8 (02:24:51):
I've never seen out here.

Speaker 4 (02:24:53):
It's good sushi.

Speaker 9 (02:24:54):
Yeah, I mean, we get it. And they do like
five dollars sushi on Wednesday. So typically on Wednesday Sushi
Day at my office.

Speaker 3 (02:25:01):
Okay, yeah, So, Jeff, that video was folds of honor
their website.

Speaker 4 (02:25:12):
I hasted it in the chat. Ye, and it's in
the chat I say it, So.

Speaker 3 (02:25:18):
All right, gentlemen, anything else, Thank you all for being
here coming on. Thank you everybody, and especially thank you
to those in Green Challenge.

Speaker 4 (02:25:29):
For Green. Big thank you to Mike, big thanks to
Mike Ka. I'm m r D who popped in and uh,
you know Jim and Michael and Mike down here. So
thanks everybody for popping in the night. So guys, seventy
three wave the cameon. We'll play that outro, Bye bye bye.

Speaker 8 (02:25:55):
The other point is, for most hands who don't care
about some of the other stuff, you can't operate the
Yasu radio because all you do is bitch about the menus.

Speaker 4 (02:26:05):
Every time I'm thinking about that, I'm thinking about that
cheerleader right now. Mm hm

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