Ep 217: That show about nothing.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It'll be good to talk to her. You know again,
I'm seeing again. I see her all there, she is,
I hello, I see her all the time. And that
Poeta app and that Poeta app activating, and I can't
hit her out there in California. It's frustrating, frustrating, you
can't work.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You're listening to the Ham Radio Clubhouse Podcast, a weekly
show that's live on YouTube every Tuesday night at seven
o'clock Central Time. We look forward to you joining us live,
but until then, enjoy this week's episode. Thanks for joining
us here in the Clubhouse.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Tell them you don't know nobody want to hear that
is though.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah. Thanks, I'm blind, right, I'm so blind right now
I have thought so hit hit the buttons. We're already loud, brother,
just light, already hit the button.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I thought she was practicing. What up, everybody? Hello to
the channel members in Green, you'll get the first shout
out tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Well, thank you all in Green. I see miss Murder
day six in there. Yes, yes, the ones.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
In Green, the ones that helped pay pay for the
train wreck. Oh my god, I'm seeing blue dots all
over the place. What did you do? As though?

Speaker 5 (01:17):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
These lights I use every care. So I looked into
the light. Well, it flipped around in my hands. So
there's three settings. Hang on, there's street settings, and then
you get and then you get this one here. Why
why why do you need a we wold? This is

(01:40):
not going on anyone's dashboard.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Just when you thought you were turning it off.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yes, yes, because I clicked I forgot. I totally forgot.
You got to click it four times not three. Yes,
that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
If you own the on the roadside having an emergence,
say with like changing the tire or something.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
You in South Carolina, that'll get you in trouble.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
On boot sitting on side of the road down. Yeah,
let me tell you to vehicle.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
You cannot run red or blue if they are forward
facing or.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oscillating patched to the vehicle. So what you got now,
it's sitting on the ground.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Guess what you're gonna Oh, if you put it on
the ground, you might be Okay, you're gonna you're gonna
attract alligators, kangaroos and misfits. So it's okay, No, that
is not half brass, copper and lead. That will take
the misfits here. Okay, So the three of us on stream. Hell,
oh god, so I am serious. I am seeing everything

(02:37):
is a pokon that does is? Oh how was your week?
I played the two or three potus. I'm working on
a kilo from one of the parks near me. That
and it's a noisy park and it's very frustrating, and

(03:00):
of course when band conditions are not great, it's even
more frustrating. So you got to just make you know,
you're fifteen or twenty, and just be satisfied with it
and upload and go home. Yeah, or you know, upload,
you know, go home and then upload. That's that's a
sequence I upload from the park. I haven't figured. I

(03:23):
uploaded to Google Drive, so it's saved as a as
an emergency backup.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
You haven't watched video about having well.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yes, I did watch Yours and the Three Dots. Something
about the three dots, right, yeah? No, no, no, I
remembered it. I think I remembered it. No, no, I
haven't tried it. No, no, okay, No, I did watch it,
and I think I even posted a comment, didn't I probably,
And you probably responded because you're yeah, but I haven't

(03:56):
tried it, So what else? Tried? The six meters on Sunday.
I didn't make any contacts, no, no, but I could
hear stage. I could hear when I was playing with
the squelchch on the seven h five, I could hear
stuff in the background. It was on Sunday. What else? Oh,

(04:22):
I had to work at midnight shift on Sunday too.
That was that kind of threw everything in a like
you know, what are you gonna do? I like go
home on Saturday and take a nap on Saturday night,
and but what else? What else? Did? I do a
lot of ham radio though it's been fun. Even yesterday,
I got out of work and I went into one
of my favorite parks just because, just because, because band

(04:44):
conditions looked really good too. I don't know what's going
to happen tomorrow or Thursday when I'm off, but it
is what it is, what it is, so all right,
my eyes are adjusting. Now. That's a good, good, good good.
I was just gonna say, Shane looks funny down there.

(05:07):
But it's not Shane. It's Joe Brad.

Speaker 6 (05:12):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I'm gonna get that. I'm gonna get what that was.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, how you'll just keep on going, keep talk right thee.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
See we got a lot of questions, Okay, rolling thunder
rolling to remember, rolling to remember, I'm sorry, I keep it.
It's no longer rolling thunder rolling to remember. And I
had that written down last week too, but there's a
lot there's a lawsuit on that this year, sorry, remember,
as well as what did you do with camera stuff?
And all this other technical technical So I had the

(05:50):
three sixty cam out of the bike. I'm going through
the videos now, look hotly, so that I had to
lead most of the weekend, so that was always fun.
But I saw how high was that? So it was
attached to the we call that thing the front bar.

(06:13):
No it was, yeah, just on my handlebars and up,
bring that back up again, bring that back up again.
All right, let's say let's analyze that. I analyze.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
I paused it right as I was putting my chin
bar down. Yeah no, no, that's fine, that's why. So how
high up is it?

Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's actually mounted right here, and I want to say
it was about here, just over my head. Yeah, just
up enough that I thought i'd get the bikes behind me.
But and did it? Did it work? Did you like
your configuration? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (06:49):
It worked until I hit about sixty mile an hour,
and then what happened. It started to blow back towards
me a little bit, so I, uh, I reached up
and slid it down.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
And down.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
I got yelled at for it by my mother who
was on that bike right there.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
And what she say to you, don't slide the camera down.
I can't see me nasty.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
No, Actually I was making her nervous because I was
my camera while I was riding. You're making me nervous.
You're making me making me nervous, So you're making me nervous.
So okay, so you're showing us about one hundred and
what a little bit more than one hundred and eighty
degrees right now? Are you show? Yeah? Yeah, I'm looking. Well,
that's that's straight back right there. That's all right now.

(07:44):
Now we'll take it and dry. Oh look at dis now,
so you can pick and choose during your editing process
what you want to show. Well, and now I don't.
You'll have to give me a editory.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Back on the middle middle house will all the way
back and then point it down towards.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Your Okay, look at that.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
That's play. Okay, it's so fun. Oh you're going to.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, uh, well here I'll back it up there you go. Yeah, cool,
that is so. And this was the ride over to
the National Cathedral, which I'll actually upload this video in
full three sixty mode, so you can do what you want.
But I'll have to stitch it with the second video

(08:35):
you see there because it was a longer ride over.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Mm you figure that out.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Let me know, stitching the two together.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Stitching the two together and keeping them three sixty functions. Okay,
I'm not saying it can't be done. I've put no
effort into it. Yeah, but I need to figure it out.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
You guys watch me. You mean running two cameras at
the same time. Okay, I've got I've got the two
videos here that you see on the left. Yet I
recorded it as one continuous video, okay, but it times
out after twenty nine minutes and then starts the second entry.

(09:14):
I want to upload both of them as one video
to my YouTube. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna date myself.
Back in the seventies, we would tell you when you
would listen to like Pink Floyd or many other led
Zeppelin to so many others. Rate certain music, certain music,

(09:37):
certain instruments would come out as well as audio would
come out on one channel and then on the other,
can you do something? Can you split your screen and
maybe show us something?

Speaker 4 (09:49):
I don't know how you would be able to then,
you know, spin the camera around and look all around
DC as I'm riding, or zoom and zoom out.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, if you put it, if you put it in
another editor, you're gonna yeah, you're gonna lose. It's all one,
you know.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay. My next question would be would it be fun
if you were able to give the audience the opportunity
if you went live with that and they can move
the camera of view. Is that a possibility. That is
a possibility, That is an option. Oh, look at that.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
I need to play with internet speeds and make sure
I've got a good SD card, But I might do
that next year.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
For the ride, because my concern would be Carlos, is
he gonna point that camera at something that he should
not be pointing, that should not be seen. That would
be my only worry. And I love Carlows. I was
gonna say, we're twelve minutes in, but I'm gonna show
you what he pointed at me doing this.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
It's about half the cars in DC because they don't
look out for you. Oh ship, Carlos is in the chat. Yeah, yes, yeah,
I called you out.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
You but so no, we we had a good time.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
It was an emotional weekend, stressful weekend because it was
like herding feral cats. Four wheel redneck. Nos, he's been
there with me. You see me chasing people around, yelling
and yes, Carlos, I am still under the weather. But
I had to be there for my blue Star mothers.

(11:40):
You know, come hell or high water. So if I'm
strong enough to ride, I will be there. But did
not did not get to play radio on Friday because
I had no voice when I got there, right, so
I was going to try.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
To sneak out.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yes, Carlos, your favorite blue Star mother was there, your
little spoon and her road name is Big Spoon. So
she actually rode with Dad on Sunday. Dad has been
her escort for four years now.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Oh how was it getting up there? Any traffic? Any
issues traveling?

Speaker 4 (12:22):
No travel up there was fairly light, a little bit
of road construction in North Carolina, which was to be expected.
But the bike was on the trailer, so I had
my truck there, which actually saved a buddy of mine
because he on his way up he had an issue

(12:43):
with the dipstick on his Harley, so he had to
come back here to Charleston swap out to the stock dipstick,
so that cost him two hours.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
And then when he got to Quantico, he decided to
run over a bolt and let me actually share these pictures.
Uh you got pictures to look at this? Oh yeah,
let me find where he texted me. There we go, Carlos,
what are you trying to say about Harley? He's not wrong,

(13:14):
he's because he was. He's insinuating. Yeah, and listen, I'm
not a right, I have no idea. I have no
idea what what what brand is better? Or you know,
maybe in the day, this brand was better for this
h stands for one hundred dollars? All right, well, I
that's that's why I kind of just just keep my
mouth shut and just go, oh that looks nice.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
And we we give him crap about it all the time,
and it's all in fun. But all right, so we're
gonna stop that screen share. Let's grab So here's the
bolt that he ran over.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, that doesn't look too bad, right, I don't know, uh,
I don't Well, it's round. It's still in there, yep.
Central But then oh me just share the whole freaking
I mean, it all depends how the how the rubber

(14:13):
took it. I mean on the tire, well, the rubber
it went straight through. Okay, this is his rim and
you see right there, Yeah, you see that crack. It tore,
it shredded it was it came through. Oh yeah, you

(14:38):
know it is zoom in. I'm working on a small
screen too, and Steve in case people are listening to
this on the podcast three weeks from now. That's a
big asshole, right that. Well, it's actually not that big
of a hole.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
It's about a quarter inch long crack through a magnesium rim.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Magnesium. But it took the eight inch bolt though. Oh yeah,
here's it took boat took. Is someone going to be
recording me on that one, y'all? I want to know
because I want to start, you know, y'all almost start.
I want residual royalties on this stuff, that's all.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
And here's the inside of the rim. Oh damn, look
at that. You see where it was beaten against it?
Hell yeah, Harley of Quantico.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Boat and it was beaten against it.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Just it just keep beating it and beating it and
beating it.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
But shout out to Harley of Quantico. They did him
a solid. They happened to have a very.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Similar rim and new tire that he was able to purchase.
And then, yeah, I thought I was just going to
take the.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Labor to story till yeah, there's receipts.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Well, there's receipts for some of it. Credit card, please,
they have a Harley credit card for a reason. Oh
my god, So damn that thing hit it hard.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, and I tossed, Actually, Carlos's favorite Blue Star mother
my the keys to my truck. M and she and
another mom ran down to Quantico to pick my buddy
up because it was going to be a day to
get his bike back.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
And they decided to go through the express lane. And
I thought Orlando was bad on tolls. I got the
bill this morning for eighteen dollars easy pass.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Was that one of those easy passing? Yeah? I love
my easy pass. I've got the easy pass tied to
the all the license plates. So and I like how
they're expand Dave expand, like mine's from New Hampshire. But
when I looked at the map, a couple of weeks ago.
It does pretty much all of the Atlantic States, and
I think they're working on Florida. It does Florida as well.
Oh it does now yep, yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Because I've got the sun Pass and it transitions back
to easy Pass. Okay, but yeah, it was eighteen dollars
for them to go about nine miles. Wow, you know somebody,
I'm like, whatever, listen, listen, that's somebody that one.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
But somebody has to pay a guy to pick up
the bolts on the highway. Okay, this is this is
what's all about. But no, kudo kudos to Harley Davison
for hooking them up. Yep, absolutely kudos Davison. That rim
New was probably one thy twelve hundred dollars and he
didn't pay near that. So well, you know, what do

(17:48):
you think you're going to pay anywhere from three to
five hundred on a vehicle? Oh, the tire alone is
probably two fifty three hundred bucks. Right. My tires on
all my trucks are usually around five hundred bucks. I mean,
come on, folks, this is this is again. This is
not I'm not gonna sound like the old man, so

(18:08):
you all can yell at me. But it is what
it is nowadays now. Oh so, but yeah, he yah,
he ended up driving my truck Saturday over at Arlington.
I do not have video from that, but I do
have some videos. I'll steal from some of the moms
and put together another video for them of all of

(18:33):
our pictures and stuff. When was the actual what did
it start on Saturday or Sunday?

Speaker 4 (18:38):
So we actually start Friday night, okay, with a ride
over to the Blessing of the Bikes at the National Cathedral,
and then we do a candlelight visual down at the
Vietnam Wall, then back to the hotel, and then Saturday
we do a thing for the gold Star Mothers over
at Arlington, and then Sunday is the official rolling to

(19:01):
remember ride.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
All right, the Blessing of the Bikes. Are we talking
like a Christian priest comes out with the oh yeah,
the Christian garb, the holy water, burns a palm and
flying the flying the Holy water over here in this
and that because I got to lead the ride over there,
h and let's jump man. That camera that camera is great.

(19:29):
I like that because of my timing.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
So this is us rolling into the cathedral and you'll
see here in just a second.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
There's a cathedral. That cathedral is gorgeous and I don't
care what religion you are. That is a site to
be seen. That's history. Man, look at that whole. And
we take and we pull in.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Of course, everybody else is already park and set up,
and I bring the group in and we just park
right in the front row.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
So it's sort of like being at those are all
the sinners with the confessional. You get to go first
and confession your sins. I like that. So that looks
very very nice. I like that.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
There's your clergy. And then back here this group that's
all in matching shirts. That's actually a high school choir
out of Georgia and one of the one of the
Amvett writers. It's the school near him, and they helped

(20:35):
fundraise to bring the choir and the band up excellent
and they sing and play for us here and Saturday,
and they actually got to play the national anthem and
God Bless the USA at Rolling to Remember on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
They did an amazing job. Excellent. But yeah, you can
see this. This is just a small number of bikes.
Look at that. See your bikes?

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah, and that's small mm hmm. Years past the Pentagon
Parking lot. If you look at pictures of the north lot,
you can't see the asphalt.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Mm hmm. That many bikes pretty crazy. It was smaller
this year for some reason.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
But we're trying to get it back to what it
was mm hmm, back when Rolling Thunder had it.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
So it'll be. It'll get there, just take time. So
let me guess I'm gonna throw some what I think
are motorcycle names. Obviously Harley, Davison, Kawasaki, m Indian Yep.

(21:56):
I think I'm missing somebody, Honda, Honda, yep. There's what four?
Is there? Four or five prominent big name bikes? Am
I missing? Who am I missing? Yeah? That I was
taking of the Germans Yep and Carlos got it. Yamaha, Yamaha. Okay,
I ride a Yamaha, Maha and Yep Triumphs. There's okay,

(22:22):
there you go. Okay, can Am? I see Canam? And
thanks guys. I appreciate any particular common We're talking one
thousand cc, we're talking seven fifties. What do we is?
Is there any any common? Well?

Speaker 4 (22:38):
The so this front row right here is a bunch
of Harley's and i'd be willing to bet most of
those are one hundred and eight cubicinch are larger. Mm hmmm,
I'd have to do math to convert that over to CC's.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
I've heard of that before. All I've heard of it.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
My my mode is eighty eighty two cubic inch, which
is right at thirteen hundred ccs.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
They got to be out there somewhere.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
There actually is a V eight motorcycle out there called
a big dog.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
US a Chevy three point fifty. No. It will pass
anything but a gas station, oh man. And they are
absolute to handle. What about the the side cars yep,
a lot of the side car and the try.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
We had actually in the road that went with us
with the VIP escorts. We had two side cars. Both
the sidecars had dogs in them.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Nice. One of them is JR. He's a service dog.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
He's just an absolute behemoth of a dog and super
sweet if he's out of the bike. If he's in
the bike, he will take your arm off if you
come near it.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Mhm. Is everybody pretty respectful? Hey, that's your bike? You
do you? And I don't care? Yep. Course, because the
last couple of weeks from months I'm seeing a lot
of I don't want to say anger, but as Ham
radio operators there getting everyone's getting a little wonky lately. Yeah, Nope,

(24:22):
when we're when everybody's at DC, we're all there for
the same reason. We don't care what you ride, just
the fact that you ride.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
And I'm kind of speaking for everybody and might be
speaking out of my backside there, but you don't see
the Yeah, this is my territory kind of thing, right.
I will drop two names that were there that you
may recognize. Robert Patrick mm hmmm or the terminator h

(24:56):
the terminator okay? And Jesse James Dupree.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Why do I know that name from?

Speaker 4 (25:04):
He owned that bar in Sturgis, that full Throttle saloon.
He was one of the owners there or played there
every year. But they both rode their motorcycles in from California.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
And then Robert Patrick was actually one of the MC's
for the National Concert on PBS Sunday Night.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
What can you get for gas miles or miles on
a tank? Like, like, is it like your average tank
tank gallons? Fifteen gallons of gas? I mean, what are
you six? Six?

Speaker 4 (25:40):
My tank is six gallons? And if I can keep
it below sixty mile an hour. I can go two
hundred miles on a tank. Okay, Now I will.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Tell you want to get off the bike before two
hundred miles because you're hurting being in that. Your backside hurts,
the wind kicks your absolute tail, blowing your head around. Yeah,
it's it's a lot of work to ride a motorcyclist speed,

(26:14):
which is why I started towing up that and having
a vehicle there. Like, if if there's four or five
people that want to go to dinner, pile on the truck.
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Mike says, I bet it does better than Blowers than us.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Probably he's up to that. He lives up by that
Canadian border. Dude, Yeah, don gets two hundred and sixty
miles of his TESTLEA. It has air conditioning.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Every time you air conditioning, that's right.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
That's right. Hey, as long as I'm moving, I got
air conditioning. It may be hot air, but it's still
air conditioning. Is there truly a bug issue? Because I
know how my truck gets with the wind chills the
front end. Oh you know yeah, because literally every three
to four days I am powerwa washing my front I

(27:08):
have to.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
I will say at seventy mile an hour, June bugs hurt.
Oh you can feel him, Oh yeah, even through the jeans.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Wow. See the things you'll learn here. It's like a rock.
It's like an absolute rock. Just hit me in the ship.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Keeps you awake that it does.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Well, what do you think the bug is saying? What
do you think his last words are? Holy shit? Or
you know? He he just ate, he had his girlfriend,
you know, he was at his girlfriend's place. He was
over here, over here, decides to go and then here
comes Steve.

Speaker 7 (27:50):
Yeah, all right, so seeing if I can find a
big photo.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
There we go. You know, I'm seeing Julie while you're
looking for that. I'm seeing Julie, and I'm sure I
v one's whe her somewhere. I remember one of the
times we went down to Florida. We stopped into one
of the gas stations literally on the highway, and they
had this power washing machine that you can go through
for a couple of bucks and would spray you down

(28:21):
just to And I didn't think, I'm like, what do
I need this for? I went out to look at
the front and Julie said it. The dragonflies were incredible. Oh,
the love bugs in Florida are horrible and they're like,
they're like this, you know, it's like.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
And they will absolutely ruin the pain if you don't
clean them off. So there's Mom with her escort that
is Lorraine on the back and they've ridden together two
years now, trying to find some of the good photos.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Here.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
We had a crew join us from the Iron Horse
clan and yes you're seeing that correctly. He is wearing
a kilty and they ride in kilts.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
You know, it's funny. This show in the Ham radio
community is what taught me what a kilt? You know
what the name of those was?

Speaker 1 (29:31):
What you didn't You didn't know what a kilt?

Speaker 3 (29:32):
You didn't know the whole was really somebody around here
wearing it's an Irish thing.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
I think it's or Scottish or wait a minute now
I'm I'm I'm gonna get myself in trouble. I don't
know if it's Irish or Scottish. So if you're in
the chat, please tell us or was it a combined
but and there's my buddy Michael and his Indian He

(29:59):
trailered up with me. Thank you Andy, Andy is uh Scott,
Thank you thank you. Yeah, so, yeah, we got quite
a few. I was looking to see if we had
some good pictures along the ride. Here's Dad on the

(30:22):
canam he rented up there in DC because he wanted
to have another trick up there, so instead of you know,
taking his two wheel bike, he rented a canm up there,
so that we had two can ams. He rented one,
said he rented one about one hundred and ten dollars

(30:42):
a day. Oh yeah, one hundred and a day.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Reasonable.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Oh, very better stability. Oh yeah. It's three wheels, so.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
You kind of feel like you're liding out of it
in a sharp turn, whereas on a bike you actually
lean the bike. But when you have you know, a
blue Star Mom or gold Star Mom that's getting up
there in age mm hmm, it's a whole lot easier
for them to get on three wheels. They feel safer.

(31:25):
Here's my buddy Brad that actually had the bolt go
through the rear tire. That's the new rear tire on there,
so you can't even tell. The rooms aren't the same.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, we call those things saddle bags back there, the
saddle bags and the pipes. Yeah yeah, and the lady
that's on the back of his bike is the current
national president of Blue Star Mothers. You had some good weather, right,
I had great weather. It was not too hot.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
You know, days started out cool and the nights got
downright chili when we were riding mhm. But for the
most part, you know, it was very comfortable weather, so
we weren't dying sweating like we have been in years past.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Carlos, you're not a saddle bag. You are not a
saddle bag.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Brother, and.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
You guys probably know this Yearhoo, that's you. That's me. Yeah,
that's you. They had to get me in a couple
of well what go back to that. I want to
see that camera. Now, there's a good shot of the camera.
There's there's the camera. Came there's a camera. You know.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
I was walking around with that camera. I figured out
a way to mount it on my tactical backpack.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Oh there you go.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
And so I was walking around Dayton. One guy he
turned around, Luke and stopped and you kind of started laughing,
and he's like, ah, I thought that was a cell
phone intenda. I was like, you know, it's not a
bad idea, but.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
No, Steve, did anybody say, what's the antenna for Did
they think it was an antenna of some of some sort.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yea, yes, they do, kind of some similar to what
we move or whatever you call it. Yeah, we we
move if you look here, got some rhymes, right.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
This antenna here is actually my two meter antenna. Okay,
because I do have a hammer radio on the bike.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Helmet. Because that camera looks like the antenna that came
with my bow fang UV twenty five. There you go,
just some real crazy conception of but it works, it
picks up stuff, and you know, it is what it is.
So hey, if it works, it's not stupid, right, that's right.
And even the ugliest antenna seemed to always work the best.
So yeah, we got Joe, so that's it. Yeah, okay,

(34:06):
let me take the rubber off. No, you're supposed to
keep the rubber onto. I didn't say that.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
You just slide the rubber back on from the top.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, down on it. Somebody record that. What's the battery
capacity for us?

Speaker 5 (34:27):
No?

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Seriously? Are you are we talking like an hour? Can you?

Speaker 3 (34:32):
You were probably doing more, Steve.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, so I had it set in three K in
three sixty mode mm hmm, and I still had quarter
battery left after you know, recording. What about Well, let's
see that's that's almost fifty minutes of video I have

(34:56):
in the the two going over the cathedral. Now, if
you weren't doing three K, can you knock it down
to like that? That is knocked down? Oh that's the lowest.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Uh no, no you can. You can go down I
think to seven twenty. But why Yeah, I wanted a
little bit better quality. But I know, like my phone,
when I try to do four K gets hot.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
It will get hot so thermal group and that's it
gets hot just sitting to the computer transferring the files.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
That's why I just pull the SD card out of it.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Too much?

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Word gott to pop the battery?

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Is it one of those devices to where it only
wants to see a thirty two gig SD card? Or
we'll take something bigger.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
No, it'll take larger, okay, because four K files are
larger in with and then yeah, and if you try
to do four K three sixty, I'm sure those files
are insanely large.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Right they get they get prettyhifty. Just pulling up.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Looking to see if I have any other good pictures, Frank,
I wasn't going after Yazon on that one. I just
know that was a topic of discussion with the yay
Zoo and the SD cards and icon when Icon came out.
So Frank, they're talking about you know, is it a

(36:41):
Yazoo product. No, it's not. I will but very good
Frank for paying attention. Is So, we actually took the
Blue Star Mothers in Arlington up to see their founder.
He's buried, and I had a picture of all of

(37:03):
us there and thankfully these ladies love taking photos, so
I don't have to worry about it. I just stealing
from them just like I do. Thumbnails So here's the
group of Blue Star Mothers that were there this year.

(37:25):
We're at George Mannis's grave, which is their founder. Very nice,
and then we have all of the escorts. We find
a good shot. It's not from the side, Steve. While

(37:51):
you're doing that, do you find the event getting bigger?
Has it plateaued as far as it actually shrank this
year compared to last as people get older or what
do you think? Be not not sure what caused it.
There's the group of escorts that went up to the
graveside with us, so not all of the escorts went,

(38:17):
but it was.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
I don't want to speculate on the number just yet
of how many were there this year, but they did
say the parking lot was cleared out in about an hour,
and in years past it's taken six to seven hours
clear out.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Well, let's face it, people are going to remember how
they want when it comes to this topic. They're going
to remember how they want to do it. Maybe it's
too maybe it's too much. Maybe the emotion and the
grief is just too much, and they want to do
something a little bit, maybe more subtle, and we're going
to respect that either way. So well, and you know,

(38:59):
after doing this, this was your number thirteen for me.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
Like I said, I'm going to keep going until my
ticket gets punched and I'm no longer standing on this earth,
no matter.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Where I'm at.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
But it's the emails of happy Memorial Day drive me
crazy now because Memorial Day is for those that put
on the uniform and never came right.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
It's not happy, no, No, I agree, wow, But you know,
I think that's something that I don't want to say, Hallmark,
but it's just how it it's just how it comes out. Well,

(39:51):
and for those of you that follow me on TikTok.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
You've probably seen that I shared a bunch of Memorial
Day stuff on TikTok from other creators just to get
the message out. And it was all all talking about Yeah,
it's not about barbecues, and it's not about the start
of summer. No, because, like I said, that Saturday is

(40:17):
a banquet for the gold Star Mothers of America, which
means they've lost a child in service. And one of
the moms got up and actually told her son's story.
And sadly enough, the fact that he was killed was
sad enough, but it was that he was killed going

(40:40):
between thirty second Street in San Diego down to North
Island on his motorcycle and somebody ran him off the road. Wow, Jim,
thank you for the super chat. Yep, you're right, brother Jeffrey,
brother gill all gave some brother.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Jim just said it all everybody, He just said it
all right there. Unfortunately, Steve, this is what has happened
in our culture that we tie food into almost every event.
Ye just just look at just look at a memorial

(41:21):
wake service. Just look at what look what is Look
how look how Christmas has turned out in Eastern Yah.
You know you have something really so highly religious and that,
but they tied in a bunny mm hmm, which has
nothing to do with the Christian well topic of Easter.

(41:41):
But I'll tell you from the.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
Gold Star mothers and from the gold Star wives, they said,
you know, yes, enjoy your barbecue. That's what our son
or our husband would have wanted, you know, because they
enjoyed their barbecues. Memory they they enjoyed their long weekend.
But if you take a minute and think about it,

(42:04):
raise a glass for those that didn't come home.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Set the missing man table. Yeah, I may that's the key, right,
you know something, I may get you over the Legion
and do a video on the missing man table. Let
me tell you something. What you just said, Steve is
very very important that I think at that everybody should
do at however everybody wants to choose to do it

(42:28):
that's appropriate for your family or whatever. Have that discussion
that before we start saying past the hot dogs and
the macaroni salad and go get the charts and the
frisbee and all this other stuff, go get me a beer.
We're going to stop and we're going to just remember,
whether it's for one minute or five minutes or maybe

(42:49):
talk about something in the family that's the important. I
think that is something important. And when you instill that
into the young folk of your family, and they will
continue to do it, and when they get older, they
will do it. And that's very very important, I think.
And Joe popped up a comment there for a minute
from K and four MD radioactive. People don't respect the

(43:13):
sacrifices and the flag until they've been handed a folded
one good point, and he's one hundred percent right.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
And then Frank came back and said, yeah, I eat
some still don't respect it after that, and I've seen
that too. But you know, sitting with these mothers and
these wives over the weekend and hearing the stories. Yeah,
and then even some of my writers that are veterans

(43:43):
that have buddies that didn't come home listening to their stories,
and those stories need to be told. It's very very
they need to be told. We need to hear it.
We need to hear it, and that's important. Let that
voice be heard well. And my my video from the

(44:03):
ride Sunday, I am gonna try to do some creative
editing on it and I'm going to overlay the names
of the children of the gold Star mothers that were
on the ride with me. That's nice touch because they
don't truly die until their name is spoken for the
last time. M you know, as long as we're speaking

(44:26):
their name, their memory lives on right.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
So but yeah, I usually do a playlist. I didn't
have time to do it this year with all the travel.
Of just songs that I play while we're going through.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
And I never realized the power of some of the
quote patriotic songs until you listen to the stories and
then you listen to the the songs with these ladies.
So somebody in the chat brought up Andy did regarding

(45:08):
Ray Charles, that's a very very moving Maybe I don't
know why. As I've gotten older, he always liked it,
but it just has more of a deeper, deeper And
I feel bad that sometimes here in America we are
so split. We are so split right down the middle, hardcore.

(45:32):
You know, one group wants it, one way, wants a
vision for America one way. One group wants it, and
we're always you know, and we're spending more and more
time with division instead of being united, you know, And
we gotta find some common ground. We gotta, folks, we

(45:53):
have to start finding some common ground. I don't want.
I am so sick and tired of seeing the signs
for all these projects. And then now say it's a
bipartisan project. You know, it's always been a bipartisan project
because some you know, both groups agreed to to the
funding for it. But there are there are much more

(46:15):
appropriate ways. I feel that we as Americans at all levels,
and we've got to start telling the politicians this is
what we want. Yea, we we've we've stop it, stop it,
stop it, stop it with your egos. This is about
us in America as Americans and everything. So and I
don't know, I'm listen. Maybe what I just said it's

(46:37):
it's happening all over the world, maybe out maybe in England.
Are folks who are watching and listening right now in England.
Maybe they're gonna tell me, hey, it's it's the same here.
Maybe it is. I don't know. So say I'll share
one more real, powerful photo here and then we can
get back to the radio talk. If off those sacred grounds,

(47:00):
you will understand the power of that photo. But that
is one small small piece of Arlington National Cemetery and
every one of those headstones is in perfect alignment, and
there's thirteen inches below ground. Each headstone weighs two hundred pounds.

(47:25):
They are four inches thick. So if that doesn't give
you chills, something's wrong. Yep. Between that and the change
of the guard, if you ever get the chance to
make Darlington, you've got to go the tomb and see
the changing. Yes, my kids did that. My kids were

(47:47):
mine and you know my kids Steve yep and Matthew
just said, Dad, you have got to do this. He
said it was just so in your face and through
your whole entire body and soul felt. And he goes
He's like, he's like that. I don't know. I'm only

(48:10):
seventeen eighteen, and you know, and I'm able to feel it.
I said, good for you, good for you. I should,
you know.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
And I've had the pleasure of being up there a
few times and having.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
A young.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
You know, student male, female, doesn't matter, but probably under
the age of twelve, and you know, their parent will
tell them you got to be quiet this somber place,
and I'll lean down and say, make sure you count
the steps, make sure you count how long that guard

(48:47):
is paused. Oh, real heal and then tell me what
you get after the changing. Every tomb guard takes twenty
one steps on their walk and faced the tomb for
twenty one seconds precision.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Look at that. That's that and then they turned back.
But do you know why it's twenty one steps for
the twenty one gun for the I forget what the
twenty one means that, but there's but there's a meaning
for that, right, Yeah, So yeah, it's That's one thing.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
When I was up at d C, I wish that
would have planned an extra day because Monday through Friday
we were we were just cooped up all day. By
the time you got out ate some supper, it was
not to get dark. So I went to the what

(49:46):
are they what are they called, the big the Lincoln
Memorial and all that. Yeah, the mall.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
The National Mall, yeah, National Mall. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
So I went and walked all that and I got
to see all that out there. But Artleton, of course,
it was closed up, and it's been nice. If I
if I go again, I'll try to schedule that.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Yeah, definitely schedule that.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
On a day to give me an extra day.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
What my first trip to DC, you know, my first
rolling thunder. I had said something to the folks that
were putting on a barbecue for us afterwards, about yeah,
I've never been I want to go see the changing
of the guard. And they looked at me and they said,
if you go catch the Metro now, you can probably
make the last changing of the day. And so Dad

(50:40):
and I hopped on our bikes, ran over the Metro,
took it down to Darlington and we made it in
time for the last two changing of the guards and
we stood there through both of them. Excellent part. But
shout out to read there our buddy Alpha Bravo wait
Alpha Sarah for assisting somebody in a wheelchair so that

(51:02):
people can stand up during the changing. Thank you Read
That's awesome. That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
Hoter flight escort is a big deal, Reid, thank you
for doing that. Yeah, that's one of the things on
my bucket list.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
You know when we talk about this, I always remember
my granddad's I had. I had this one granddad that
annoyed the hell out of you, the same stories over
and over and over, right, And of course when when
he's gone, it's like, man, I wish I could hear
the story, But but then I had this other granddad, sir.

(51:41):
He never spoke about it. Never, It was never spoke about,
you know, and it just makes you wonder like was
he just one that didn't speak about it, or was
this some ship that maybe speak about it.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
I will, I will tell you my grandfather. I didn't
know he served I until years later, and he would
not talk about his service.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Nobody in the family talked about it. Nobody.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
I finally got to sit down and talk to Dad
about it one year and he told me my grandfather
was a house cleaner in World War Two. They did
not expect him to come home.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Mm hmmm. He was sent into houses with a bayonet
and a pistol. Yeah, clean it out. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
I ended up. Of course he's going now. But my
grandma is still still around with that that was married
to that granddad. I couldn't help it. I asked her
about it one day. Was calmly, you know, as nonchalant
as I could, right right, she was just like, he
just didn't wasn't something that he did, And it's probably

(52:55):
because he saw some stuff and it was too.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Traumatic for him to talk about it.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
I don't know what his job was or nothing I
could imagine, well, Joe.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
We're almost an hour in and we haven't got to
you yet.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
Yep, ain't that something?

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Tell you what, man, I just kind of took over
the show.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
I'm sorry follow that. I said, this ain't a memorial thing, thankfully,
but talking about it, this is more on the veteran side.
And I had a veteran buddy come back and uh
from from serving. He'd only been home maybe a couple
of months, and uh uh I had bought me and
a girlfriend at the time some concert tickets and you know,

(53:41):
well I was single by the time the concert came around,
and I said, hey, buddy, you need to get out
of the house. You want to go to this concert
with me? It wanna be my date? And he's like,
yeah you. So here we go. We're we're sitting there
and the you know, you got the bands playing, it's
it's the right right thing. Whatever you got the the
bands that headline the show, or not headline.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
It, but open the show, the opener.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
So while we're waiting on the headliner, uh, we go
out to the to the smoke deck outside, you know,
the fenced in pigpin and we're sitting there just chit
chatting with me and him was the only one out there,
and all of a sudden, the damn World Show, the
main show started, and they started out with Piotech and

(54:29):
we're just sitting there talking, looking at each other eye level,
and then all of a sudden, he disappears, like U hell,
he stands back up and he's just holding a cigarette
like It's like dall boy, that one was close. He
he was laughing about it, but dude was trembling. We
couldn't do nothing but laugh. But I dann the stuff
that people go through. Oh yeah, so anyway, let's get

(54:53):
off your saffy asses now talk about some radio. We're
in you okay, that is.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
A yeah, I'm going I like to talk radio, all right,
all right, so you know that.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
And it works out. We gave enough time for Mike
MKA to get in here.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
So this whole damn six meters thing that he wrapped up.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
I tried. I tried.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
I really want to know how his experience turned out
to be. If he even got on the radio, I
don't know. He probably never returned.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Well, he was in between kids stuff. I think a
birthday paraty, a soccer game.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
That's about right, it's about right. Ever, talked about six
meters chuck popping in the in the chat K six
us y, what's up man? Figure out how to share
the screen?

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Well, Joe Roke, while you're doing that, Joe, I think
my problem was I didn't pull the beam from the rafters,
the two element beam, and I didn't hook it up
to the seventy three hundred and push a hundred watch trucks.
I think I think ten watch through the seven o
five through an infed halfwave.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
Look at that Saturday.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Man, Now see now you and I could have worked
in the World Radio League at that.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Look at Saturday. Oh for the ship, I might as
well use it for a year. Anyway. I wish I
would have put I should have put Saturdays in there,
But that wasn't the challenge. Sunday was a challenge, right, yes,
and uh so this is only Sunday. And I got
five contacts. Four of them was FT eight because sideband

(56:28):
was there were some stations out there. I think some
people heard Mike, you know, but they were in the
noise for me whatever. I pulled out at one station
up around New York, oh ad two h z. I
that was a good contact. But that was one hundred
watch with my eighty meter loop.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Yeah, I worked that thing. It's it's an eighty meter
full wave loop, but it does very little eighty meters
and I don't have to tune it across any other
band except twelve meters, right, nice, and I probably really
don't have to use it on that. It's just like
a little closer to three than I want it to be.
But uh, yeah, I had a whole six meter conversation. No, no, no,

(57:11):
it didn't. It was a I had a conversation on
free DV yesterday, actually used free DV and contacted a
fellow on twenty meters and we were talking about how
my intena worked and how it was kind of weird
how it works. But yeah, anyway, so that's Saturday. I
think was a little better. But this is what I
got for Sunday. Got five contacts in there, so I

(57:34):
just wanted to show I did participate, Mike.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
So this is around what balling around three o'clock in
the afternoon, maybe four o'clock in the afternoon. I'm looking
at your well see because I was listening. I woke
up around one thirty seven u TC. I woke up
around ten o'clock in the morning from that midnight shift,
so it was around ten thirty eleven, and like I said,
I quickly threw on the seven oh five and I

(58:00):
can hear things right in that noise for driving me crazy. Yeah,
I fired up the We go back to your photo
that you had up there on the left hand side,
probably when I created the log. Okay, I don't I

(58:22):
don't know.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Log the last one, but I.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
Gotta tell you I really liked what Mike and to
m Aky did. He inspired us. He basically kicked our
butts and said, guys, let's do this. Why why not?
You know, I mean, Minus, you gotta watch if you
just make the call.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
Yeah, but there ain't nothing on ere tonight.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Yeah. Well I saw n Yo said he got a
new grid on six oh excellent, Mike, congratulations, good good
for him.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
That's that.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
There's Mike with a five twenty five super chat. Thanks brother,
We appreciate your trying. Very appropriate. Joe Bratt and everyone
else I had fun heard others did too, So yeah,
we thought.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
I think his message come come across and I think
maybe some others were thinking it too, that maybe didn't
hear his message, but they realized and.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
I thought, I thought his chat donation was going to
be five hundred and twenty five dollars. But that's okay, I.

Speaker 4 (59:24):
Guess I'm only kidding me.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
I did fire up the eight fifty seven.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
I actually had to run a couple of ladies over
to their hotel after the ride, and on my way back,
I went ahead and tuned up the A ties on
six just to see if I could hear anybody right,
and I called out a couple of times, but.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Shame here the same here, I yes, all right now.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
I did, however, get to work on and Julie Sunday night,
you know, on forty. They were in a park and
every looked at me funny because I get up from
the chair I was sitting in when we were all
hanging out and go run out to the truck, tune
up the INTWNA and.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Try to work him. Band conditions have been really weird.
The spots are very very low well and very low
in between buildings. Did not help mm hm. But but yeah,
I was able to get them, so Julie was happy.

(01:00:30):
Been struggling late lately, just trying to get down the
Florida I used to have a nice pipe, nice pipeline,
and you know even the is it the eight Papa
Bravo guy, I believe in Barbados on poda Again. I
miss hearing that nice although I've been having a great
pipeline to Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri. Go figure here.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
Let me let me tell you that every time I
use six meters mm hmm, it favor is the northeast,
the East coast, Okay, And it always has no matter
if when I use my Titan DX vertical, I'm a
loop because I used to hit six meter repeaters up
and down the East Coast all the time. So it's

(01:01:15):
for whatever reason where I'm I'm at the angle of
my land here. I guess I can get out of
the places, but the majority of my context is always
the East Coast. So yeah, left try it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Some days, what I'm I have a posting note and
they're in the bedroom in that over an that stationary
de like this, and there's a there's a dual band
comment here X two hundred that's not being used anymore.
So the six meter yaggy can go on there. I
gotta move the end fat. I found another location. I

(01:01:48):
want to fool with it. So I think I I
think I want to keep that six meter gaggy. Yet
for a while I was reacher for that same one. Joe,
what did he say? What did he say?

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Cow a zero? As War says that pipeline into Missouris
though it was called the El Camino Path.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
It is great. Let me tell you something something about
working anything across the Mississippi. I love it when the
Montana Guide I'm working in Montana, Washington, Oregon and northern California.
I love saying coast to coast, coast to coast, I
love saying. And that's a great accomplishment when two stations,

(01:02:31):
you know, just running a very simple wire or maybe
I'm running the Athos whatever can do that. You know,
that's the magic of this hobby. That'll never go away
for me, never go away. I don't care if I'm
on my three hundredth million contact. That's still exciting for me,
you know.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
So I'll let me know when you're ready for me
to step on some toes.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
All right, dull haul Joe brant Rant.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
You know, we had we had guests on the show
and stuff, and yeah, it's it's time to talk about
this and it's time to talk about it. Uh, in
a in a nice productive way. I'm not gonna rant
so much like I did because I want to respect others, right,
But are you ready for do we get some more stuff?

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Yep, you don't want to call it a rant, but.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
The whole subject revolves around this kind of device. What's
that remind you of?

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Oh, light at the top of the tower tower bacon?
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
So I'm on the socials the other day.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
I'm thinking, I'm thinking of the guy who plows snows.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
I'm on the socials a couple of weeks back in
this guy. You'll have to wait, David, I have not
got that a ties from Jim yet.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Now, David, David first rant first, let's just.

Speaker 8 (01:04:00):
Let's think, let's not mix thee we'll get We'll get
to that, because I was thinking the same thing to David,
making this just a complete rant.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
I opened, you know, opinions to become to me through
the chat as well and on screen. But this social
user comes on as talks about everybody. Every single person
that has a radio tower should have it lit with

(01:04:33):
navigational beacons for low flying aircraft to see you, Okay,
which is not now he had I understood what he
was saying, but what he was saying he didn't think
all the way through. There's a reason that there's not
a damn regulation for somebody with a fifty foot tower

(01:04:54):
to have a blinking line on. Okay, Now, his reasoning
was medical helicopters, maybe some prop dust or something like that.
I kid it, Yeah, I understand that. But in the
whole big scheme of things, pilots, if they lose their instruments,

(01:05:16):
or if they're flying a plane that really doesn't have
a lot of fancy instruments whatever, they're in a balloon
floating chain't ha got all this radars shit on his
blue But they look for landmarks, your sectional maps, your
aeronautical sectional maps have towers of appropriate height, you are

(01:05:42):
corrector pilots know to look for that, so they'll use
them for navigational e's. They'll use them at night to
determine their height above ground. Sometimes Yep, this is a
regulated thing for tower two hundred feet or higher to
be lit. So therefore the train pilot knows that if

(01:06:06):
he sees a blinking light, that should be at least
two hundred feet or higher off the ground. Correct if
he's coming over kind of lost his way, lost his
aids and sees my fifty foot tower or my forty
foot tower with the big ass blinking beacon on it,
and he thinks these two three hundred feet off the ground.

(01:06:26):
He hears that he will behind my house. Then what
did I just do? So there was a lot of
discussion in this social post, and the best way I
could relate it was, Man, what you're asking people to
do is for every single person that resides at a
house next to a intersection with traffic lights should install

(01:06:47):
their own traffic light at the corner of their property
nearest to that intersection. It's not because you know, it's
additional lighting, right, So what happens when you're lights green
but the real one's red but they see yours, You know,
you just cause chaos because you're using an unregulated device

(01:07:10):
for regulated Harry, right, right?

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
Okay, well, Joe, I'll take it a step further. The
regulation is not that the tower has to be lighted
or not just that the tower has to be lighted.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
When it's over two hundred feet. You have to monitor
that light to make sure it's working.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
It goes out, You have to notify so that they
can notify their notes, you know, or put it on
their notice.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
There's a question in the extra about that. I think
there was something also maybe in the tech Yeah, something
in the extra.

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
I'm not passioning the guy completely. I'm just he was
one of those that wouldn't listen to other people's opinions.
There was several other folks on the same page.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
Yeah, but uh and if you hit my thirty foot tower, yeah,
I want to know how you missed my sixty five
foot tree in my front yard. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
I get everybody's thinking of these commercial built planes and everything. Yes, absolutely,
the likelihood of them not using instruments and not knowing
besides looking at landmarks and blinking lights of where they're
at and how high they are is very slim. But
I'm thinking of the guy flying the little experimental plane

(01:08:26):
that don't even require pilot's license. They ain't got a
lot of instruments on it. Yeah, he probably shouldn't be
flying at at night, but I don't know the regulations
on that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
I think sport probably they're not allowed to flat night.
That wouldn't make a lot of sense, but uh, right,
that would make sense to me. This is the whole thing.
If if people, if a massive people just decided to
start using regulated stuff in unregulated means, you cause confusion.
You could actually call somebody to get hurt when you're
trying to make it excel point excel point.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
But uh, that was my little rant about that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
No, one hundred percent agree with you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Yeah, if when I was more fired up, that would
have been like a thirty minute rant. But I don't
hold on the grudges very long. It's been a couple
of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
So as I'm sitting here having my cigars, should I
just let everyone know that I'm having my cigars so
so so nobody bumps into me.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Yeah, I'm not gonna as though.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
You just need to turn on the lights on your truck.
Hell yeah, hell yeah, because if it's anything like your
old truck, I know what light kit you had on there, Steve.
I'll do a video for you, Okay, Yes, Julie Carlos

(01:09:51):
has the tallest tower in the Midwest. Yeah, when when you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
Come out of the airplane at fourteenth thousand feet and
immediately deploy an antenna, you ruled v H four HF even.
But I like the idea of wrapping him at Christmas
lights to a point.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
Carlos, Yeah, I like that idea. That way we could
see him better as he's coming down in between the
bubble wrap.

Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
But I also know he needs access to his handles. Yeah,
and I want that correctly.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
It doesn't have to be Christmas lights. It could be
it could be glow sticks.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
Yeah, I think it's glow ropes.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
Could bees around him coming around.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Those led lights. Those led lights are going kids rooms
and ever, and that will give him a disco ball.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
So Carlos, he's put that on his helm, yes, yeah, yeah,
all right?

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
Tell you if he jumped at Christmas time, well, actually
he could Scott after Land. I know jumps in December
a little cold though, depending we're gonna okay different, okay, Yeah,
Scout after Land, Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
On my way to Xenia. How almost hit do you
turn about Cincinnati?

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Yeah? Take out a ups truck.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Seen that truck there. But it was a lady driver.
I wouldn't cause her no problems. I respect the ladies.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
So did you say, hey, by by any chance you have?

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Like she was kind of over the day anyway, So.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
Hey, by any chance, here's my last name. Do you
have a box of my last name. And I've done
that in town. Uh, I've done that in town. All right,
Mike seventh three that anything, Mike h a big big
boy just popped in so Joe. Everybody wants, obviously to

(01:12:13):
get kind of the the box has not arrived yet.

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
No, I'm still don't get the box yet.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
What's the least tracking on it?

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
The same it was two months ago?

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
What a dianna?

Speaker 3 (01:12:28):
I may I may have a new T shirt idea.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
I think it's still in Alabama, Alabama.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
How can I do well, let's just sure the screen.
I can't. I can't. Yeah, Oh, what's he doing? So
I got this new T shirt idea and I'm oh, geez,

(01:13:02):
I'm kind of I'm kind of his it because I
almost got in hot water over the Hunts folks making
their you know, my shirt a little too resembling to
their logo, so that I'm not so sure how UPS
is gonna feel that I was.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
I was gonna say UPS is a little bit larger
legal department council. But you know, someone though I don't
understand because I have never and I don't want to
jinx myself. I have never had an issue with the
with them FedEx and all the fed X Browns and
the d h L. I have never had an issue.
I don't understand what happened. Am I am I here?

(01:13:40):
Am I one of the lucky ones? You know? Yeah?
I will say out of all of them, UPS has
been the best to me.

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
Really.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
Yeah. My guy knows there's like an alcohol area. If
it's raining, it's wrapped, it's wrapped in plastic and it
gets pushed. And now with the notifications that your thing
is here, you could check, I could see it's not
in the regular spot. I mean, my guy goes the
extra mile? Is it just because that's him? Good guy? Yeah,

(01:14:13):
you've got a good guy, you know. And Chris and
trust me, Christmas guy, Christmas time.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
He gets twenty five bucks, he gets some cookies or whatever.
Either's there's three people here. You know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:26):
He's the same way. If the package ever get this close, yep,
Like he knows what house he can leave it at
if I'm not around and he don't feel comfortable leaving
it on my port. Yeah, right, like without asking or anything,
he knows it's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
Because because him, do you there our male lady and
our garbage, our garbage guy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
The whole thing that is, when it comes to n
antenna or tower, you got to get it out of
Alabama first.

Speaker 4 (01:14:53):
Yeah, is do you guys up there do the same
thing I've seen them do down here in the South,
which some folks will put a cooler at a basket
of snacks on their porch with a note for delivery drivers.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
No, I didn't know that. Yep. Well, during the gatorades
and waters and stuff in the cooler during COVID, we
left stuff out for him because we knew he was
working ten twelve, sixteen hour days every day and ever,
and it just became you know, first it was a
wholal dance, a handshake, You get to know their first name,

(01:15:32):
this and that, you start talking about the kids and
this and that and again he's working for a living,
just like me. Yeah. And the only difference is is
in my job, people are not dropping off cookies and
other things for me. But I feel obligated to do that. Man.
I feel he's going the extra mile. Yes, he's doing
his job, but there are many times he's going above

(01:15:53):
and beyond. And I wish I could tell his boss that.
I wish I could tell his boss. But I don't
know if it's an email that's just gonna get you
know whatever, And who knows if iver I get rid,
I'd rather tell the man himself. That's how I look
at it. And I told him I'm not asked kissing
the man. I'm just this is just who I am.
I say, thank you, you know, the guy for so

(01:16:14):
for our trash bins. When he opens up the bin,
there's a big envelope that says, driver, Merry Christmas. So
he knows, you know, don't put it in the back
of the truck. That's for you. You know, that's for you, all.

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
Right, So it's just in case. The ups thing, the
t shirt idea was a little edgy because you know,
they're a big corporation or thing. If people felt like
it probably wouldn't a good idea to step on their toes.
Then I come up with another one. I think I
think NASA would be okay with it right there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
I mean, why would they have a problem. Why would
they have a problem. That's how I look at it.
I look at from a different why would they have
the point? What's the problem with that?

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
Yeah, I actually had to stop for the night, like
I was I have freedom Lay all these different brands,
and I'm like, I got to the whole reason I'm
having to come up with.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
You got a freedom Lay. I love Freedo's. I love
freedom Corn chips. Grew up on them. Wow, I'll take
it wet or dry, I don't care. I mean, it's
all about that flavor. You know what I mean. But
I'm telling you I want royalties on that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
Is all the on.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
The cooler idea. I like that cooler idea.

Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
I'm gonna I see where they think about that actually
put you know, ups FedEx usps and Amazon. Yeah, because
a lot of people down here drive for Amazon, not
just full time, but even part time.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
Right. So it's funny you said about Amazon, Steve, because
on Friday when I when I was ordering some stuff,
I had had the option of it coming for Sunday
and Monday. I said, No, you're not coming to my
house on Sunday and Monday, not because you're not gonna

(01:18:11):
get you know, anything from me. I don't want you
coming to my house. You don't have to. You should
be home like you're making money because you need money.
If they're paying you some extra bucks, I get it,
but tell you what so I held before I actually
bought it. I waited until Sunday to order it so

(01:18:32):
it would come this week. Yeah, I just didn't feel fun.
I felt this is stuff that I didn't need it,
like God to have it in emergency and don't don't
come to my house if you can get out or early.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
One of the best legity systems in America is Amazon.
They've got it figured out.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
But some of my Amazon stuff comes usps, some comes
to ups.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
You know why you mentioned that, I'm gonna say because
this has came up before too. I think maybe even
on the show. I'm not sure, but uh, you order
Amazon package and it comes in on a Sunday, and
there's these people that, oh, man, I want my mail
man having to work on a Sunday. Right. Well, I
was the same way believer. I was like, dude, I

(01:19:21):
tried not to order this thing where it comes on Sunday,
and he said, oh, absolutely not. Make them all come
on Sundays again. He said, all right, I want the
extra work, contry pay due. They get paid good to
do that on something the other do. Yeah, I'll deliver
all the Sundays I can. I'm like, I got you, dude,
I need two double a's on a Sunday, thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:19:45):
So did I screw up? And maybe on July because
July I think July fourth is a Friday. Should I
have them come to my house? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:19:54):
I try not to have stuff delivered on a holiday
because I enjoyed my holidays off.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:20:02):
I know there's some people that just don't care, and
they'll work seven days a week.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
At my local one so far. He told me, he said,
it's a volunteer basis. You know, they ain't had a
problem where they've had to volunteer somebody right now.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
See, I I wish Amazon had that had a had
a third option. Let me choose my date now.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Yeah they do.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
I only have two. Yeah, I have my Prime, so
I have two. I want the third. Let me choose.
I mean a day later than what you wanted to.
Well that's well, that's what I ended up. I didn't
order on Friday. I waited until Sunday. Well the kids,
the kids were all doing their bonfire and all this
other stuff, and there I am. You know, I popped

(01:20:47):
onto uh popped onto Adjacent's happy hour, and in between
the happy hour, I'm like you know something, I got
something sitting in a cart. Let me take care of that. Well,
and you know the contract basis of Amazon. You know,
I've done some of those runs myself, and I'll watch,

(01:21:08):
you know, if the rates start going way up, Yeah,
I'll jump on one. Yeah, I'll go burn three hours
driving packages around. Guess what.

Speaker 4 (01:21:17):
The packages don't bitch about how you treat them.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
They don't complain about your driving. Mm hmm. I will
not do uber left forget it. Yeah, well, I guess
we should ask Kim uh not Kim? Is it Elizabeth?
My chat? Oh? What did you do?

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
Button? And it keeps going on?

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Joe, how did how did you get that request the chat? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:21:51):
The person is in the chat? What's up? Big boy?
I'm Radio Cat.

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Unfortunately I didn't bring that kenkoozy out here to night.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
I've got mine around here, so.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
I have for the past two weeks, Jody says. Joe
Brett seems very ups at about this. Upset. Yep, I
am a little upset.

Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:22:23):
One thing I've noticed about ups if you'll look at
where I don't know, I shouldn't say this everywhere, but
there was when I was down in Jackson taking my
drone class. There was a ups hub at the airport there.
I am saying three planes. It was three planes. Only
one of them disappeared the whole week. The other two

(01:22:45):
never moved. Well, you go up here to Memphis, and
Memphis is ninety eight percent fed Ex traffic constantly tail
to tale man, So I'm like, maybe thats just wasn't
one of their main.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
For Kim. If you're listening, I'm sending you a link
through email right now. There you go. I just hit
her and chat.

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
So I got go all the way back to YouTube
and get my chat back. Tell you what watching d.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
What alright? She was setting she was notified. That was
up to her. She was notified. We'll take care of that.
Take care of.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
That easy, is though.

Speaker 1 (01:23:33):
Oh man, we gotta take care of businessman. I'm watching
the clock. We're an hour, We're an hour and twenty,
we're an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
And you had this rattle in your voice that we
heard for you, Like really, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:43):
Man, really got the rattles?

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
No, no, no, no, you started getting that Jennifer voice.
What do you talk to Jennifer?

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
Oh no, the heck no, no no, no, hold uh no,
I'm watching the clock. We're we're an hour and twenty
almost twenty five minutes in here. She wants to come on. Man,
we gotta get her on now.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
Man, now's the time, right, It's hard to get them,
uh West Coast folks up in here, all right. It's
still daylight where she at.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
She hasn't probably even had suffer yet.

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
What are you using for lighting? Is that a porch
light or something? Why is it so daylight looking? It's
a ring ring, It's a ring light.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
Look at you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:27):
Operated the sun?

Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
Yeah, you know, you know how all that ring like
that was when the channel. That's when I had the
channel going to that thing. That thing, that thing's got
some history on it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
I think Jeff in the chat already trying to tell
me that I may need to preps the shame for
what I showed. You might want to check your NASA website?

Speaker 1 (01:24:51):
Am I really orange? There? Do I look orange? No? Man,
I'm not orange? Am I? And that's natural? That's natural
light coming on? Maybe it's just.

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
Frank's talking about it's easy to get us West Coast
people up in here. Frank, Frank's always there everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:25:11):
Yeah, he is.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
He's an exception.

Speaker 1 (01:25:21):
I heard a doorbell. Is that her? Yep, right, give
us up when you're ready. It'll be good to talk
to her. You know again. I'm seeing again. I see
her all there she is. I see her all the time,
and that Poeta app and that Poeta app activating and
I can't hit her out there in California. It's frustrating,

(01:25:43):
frustrating when you can't work fronts to say park the
park or here, you know whatever, and how you doing
so so so you're here now, how you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:25:52):
I'm doing?

Speaker 9 (01:25:53):
Okay, I'm hanging in there. I'm hanging in there.

Speaker 1 (01:25:57):
Where's the dogs? Where's your dogs?

Speaker 5 (01:25:59):
I hold on? Okay there, okay, can you hear me? Okay, okay,
I had to close the other window. I was getting
uh everything, okay, yeah, I'm doing okay, I'm I'm in
the back bedroom here because we gave up our master
bedroom for my parents. So I feel like this is
like the I feel like this is the college dorm

(01:26:21):
room now. So we had my neighbor over here and
Larry over here. We were like drinking here in this
room and everything it did feel like toll college dorm room?

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
Where's Larry? Tom was popping the camera way Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:26:36):
He's in the other room. He's hanging doing his thing.
So how are you guys doing.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
We're doing good.

Speaker 5 (01:26:43):
Yeah, it's still daylight here since kind of in my
eye here. But yeah, it's uh, it's been challenging. You know,
I have my parents here, so definitely a different uh
you know, oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah. We can't really
go anywhere, you know, without having plans or somebody come

(01:27:07):
take care of my parents or something, you know, or
just you know, barely pop over to the store. We
have to do it between things going on. And yeah,
so but we're we're gonna go camping in a couple
of weeks for our anniversary.

Speaker 9 (01:27:21):
So thirty five years and we haven't killed each other yet.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
The King the graduations is excellent.

Speaker 9 (01:27:27):
Thanks, Yeah, we haven't killed each other quite yet.

Speaker 5 (01:27:29):
So but my always says the day is not over.

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
Hey, Kim, refresh our memories when we see you on
the poet responding page between you know, seventeen meters and
twenty what antent are you using? What are your favorite antennas?

Speaker 5 (01:27:45):
Right? Right, So when we have the RV, I'm usually
using the it's a home vertical, homebrew vertical. And then
sometimes when we go out with the jeep. I'll bring
the shark antenna, the shark sticks, you know, hamsticks, sharks sticks,
same same thing, basically on a mag mount. So and
those were my favorite band probably when I'm doing Poda

(01:28:08):
is fifteen meters because it's quite a large band.

Speaker 1 (01:28:11):
So you know, noise, do you have less noise? I
know I have less noise where I am. She's a
little bit quieter, it is a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:28:19):
Yeah, ten is great. Ten is great for a little
less noisy. So it's definitely, you know nice, but uh yeah,
and I like six meters and stuff like that. In fact,
six meters was open for me a couple of days ago.
I worked into Florida from from southern California. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
Yeah, nice.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
So this weekend because I was like, you know, I
wonder if she has her six meter last room going.

Speaker 5 (01:28:47):
Oh, I was going to, I was going to, but
then it kind of faded out. I was going to, yeah,
so and I've been trying to think about doing that again.
But you know, it was just open briefly and then
it didn't last. So if I feel it's gonna last longer,
I'll just throw it on. Maybe I'll do it more
often and people can just even see if they can

(01:29:08):
hear themselves.

Speaker 3 (01:29:09):
So that's exact exactly what I was going to say.
I popped on there a few times when you were
live streaming and just to see if I can get
my signal out here. But I said earlier, my six
meter signal always has always no matter what antenna from
my home location. Anyway, his favorite did be to hear
myself on six meters.

Speaker 5 (01:29:28):
Yeah, that would be great, That would be great six meters.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
What are you using? Are you also using a mag
mount shark or something for six meters when we're.

Speaker 5 (01:29:35):
Out camping the vertical, I can tune pretty much pretty
much everywhere on that vertical homebrew. I've got the antenna
tuner and that will tune from six to eighty meters
with some counterpoise and everything. With the sharks, I've got
a six meter shark as well, so I've got lots
of versatility. I've probably got all the shark's legs for

(01:29:57):
all those so except for hundred and sixty that would
be pretty cool, but be a pretty massive shark indenta
for that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:06):
Have the band I mentioned earlier. We haven't had a
lot of sun spots over the last maybe three or
four weeks maybe are you did you see that again again? One?
And that's always from where I am in the New
England area, you know, Atlantic Ocean, east east coast of
of of America. Sometimes it's different in other parts of
the country as well, as you're different operating times than me.

(01:30:28):
So have you been have you noticed some kind of
weird band conditions lately?

Speaker 5 (01:30:33):
It has been a little uh, extra quiet for six
meters this year, you know, overall, I mean we might
you know Elmer and I talk about it. Just seems
like six meters has been extra quiet. May would have
been a really good opening usually typically for six meters,
and I think November maybe as well. But yeah, it's
been a little more quiet for six lately then typically

(01:30:53):
you know, typically six is a tough band anyway, but
it seems like it's been extra tough lately.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
So yeah, but what about fifteen now the last month
or so, fifteen.

Speaker 5 (01:31:07):
Has been actually pretty good. I thought, you know, I
was on the Shark antenna on fifteen meters and I
made a contact to New Zealand so from photos, so
you know, so those things work pretty good. I had
I was on the Sharks one time, and the guy
was asking me, Oh, what what tenant are are you on.
I'm like, oh, I'm just on the Shark. He says, oh,
they're awful antennas, Like I've had pretty good luck with them. Yeah,

(01:31:30):
so hey, if you're on the air, you know, who
cares what antenna it is. You're just on the air, right,
I mean, you're trying, you're there. So it's convenient, you know,
to have the Shark antennas. So and then you know,
with a quick release, that's it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
I think a lot of times I don't want to generalize,
but maybe I'll throw this out there. I think sometimes
when someone says this antenna is horrible, Yeah, are they not?
Is there a problem? Do they have a bad piece
of coax? Is it not? If it needs a lot
of grounding, or you know, like for instance, the Athoss,

(01:32:06):
my Athoss. I know if it's not, if it's not
doing something right. I go back up to the top
of the truck and I look at and sure enough
I didn't. I didn't mount it properly on the trimag
I'm not getting enough metal on those mag mounts. And
sure enough, soon as I move it and I use it,
properly right, Well, you know, I hit that tune button

(01:32:28):
and all of a sudden, here come the signals. Yeah,
so that's what I wonder sometimes, Scott, because I know
some people are very very opinionated.

Speaker 5 (01:32:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it has to be you know, resonant
or it's crap. You know. I think any intended to
get you on the air, you know, do it, you know,
whatever it is, get it, get going on there.

Speaker 9 (01:32:51):
So that's my opinion. You know, how fun that's.

Speaker 5 (01:32:54):
All it is.

Speaker 9 (01:32:54):
It's just how fun get on the air.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
You know. To back what you were saying about six
meters being good in May, I look back through my
log book filter in just six meters May, Jun and
July has been the heaviest context that I've put in.
Sometimes in the winter a few contexts, but.

Speaker 5 (01:33:12):
Yeah, yeah, and then it's kind of interesting too. Sometimes
Christmas Eve seems to have good openings too, you know.
Figure so yeah, right, and maybe a couple of things,
more people get in the new little radios and everything.
But also, you know, just there's the meteors. I think,
I don't know if it's the leonids, I can't remember
which ones.

Speaker 1 (01:33:30):
I just say that they they pop here in August, yeah, August,
and again in December or early or late November, whatever
it is. But I know locally here the guys always
used to talk about that. Yeah, play six meters when
the meteors.

Speaker 5 (01:33:50):
Yeah, it's fun. I love it, you know. You know,
I call SEEQ in the morning pretty much every morning.
Right now, my brig is in the living room, right
and I do need to remote that somehow because then
most of the day, most of the rest of the
day when my parents are up there in there, they're
in the living room now, they're planted in there, you know,
and so but before they get up, I'll spend you

(01:34:13):
know a little bit of time just throwing the CQ
out there on six meters and stuff. And that's when
I made the Florida contact. So it's been really hard
to have as much radio time as I used to.
But if I can, you know, just remote, get some
time to remote the you know, the radio, I've got
the uh was it remote hamds on my phone. I

(01:34:33):
could just put that on there. And but I've just
got to get to dedicate the time. You know, by
the time I get time for things, it's like I'm tired.
What the I have the in the living room. I
have the yesu ft.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
Okay, because it's the art control has do it? Okay,
I don't. I don't know if it.

Speaker 4 (01:35:00):
I know they sues you have to add that extra
module to give them that the server side, or if
you have a computer attached to them, do you remote hands.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
There is a few different ways.

Speaker 5 (01:35:18):
There's an Yeah, there's another one I was looking too,
because my husband's like really concerned about, you know, the
security and all that having an open port or something
like that. I'm not I'm not in the know of
all that thing. And there's another one.

Speaker 9 (01:35:32):
How was it like ham transmit ham t X or
something like that.

Speaker 5 (01:35:35):
It was another remote It was a little more secure
than than remote hams. So yeah, I have to figure
that all out. So got to make him happy.

Speaker 1 (01:35:46):
To well state let's let's tackle that. Maybe it's a
simple answer, having a port like that dedicated, Is there
a security? Is it a valid concern or you know,
gag It can be because what you're doing is you're
opening a port on your network to the world and

(01:36:09):
there are you know, nefarious actors out there that will
just scan for open ports. You know that facy the
outside world. So what is it? So? What? What is
there one or more solutions of how do you combat that?
The VPNED or what? What do you recommend? VPN is

(01:36:30):
a good option, Yeah, what you have to host it yourself.
You put a server side inside.

Speaker 3 (01:36:37):
Your nee or something similar.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
Tail scale is a good one that's been talked about
a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:36:43):
Recently, I asked, because you know there's different, right, I
don't recommend any of the ones that hide your Netflix usage.
A lot of those are shady.

Speaker 9 (01:36:58):
Yeah, that one, I can't remember. It's called a ham
TX or something like that remote TX or something like that.
That one't supposedly much more secure from what I did
a quick search on.

Speaker 5 (01:37:10):
I forget which one it was. I didn't memorize it.
But yeah, because that's that's been the issue, is that
that port being open, and my husband's worried about the security.
So and I can understand that, you.

Speaker 1 (01:37:19):
Know, guys in a chat are saying open OpenVPN or
you know, of course down's going to just get a
flex just just.

Speaker 5 (01:37:30):
Throw the money out there.

Speaker 3 (01:37:32):
Just Aurora and be done with that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:35):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:37:35):
So if Iran so does.

Speaker 5 (01:37:39):
The seventy seven sixty, is that one able to remote
without going and opening ports and all that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:48):
Yes, that's what I heard.

Speaker 5 (01:37:50):
So I'm gonna have to justify that purchase that way.

Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
Yeah, so you can do the seventy seven sixty, and
then of course you need the RSB one A or
if you have Apple products, you can do the SDR
APP on your control.

Speaker 5 (01:38:09):
Okay, okay, so I just spend a bigger amount of money.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
What I get in my seventy six. Yeah, but Kim,
it's for safety and security, exactly. It doesn't get classified
under hand. If this is for safety and security.

Speaker 3 (01:38:24):
I.

Speaker 5 (01:38:27):
Exactly don't have to dope. And it's two hundred watts.
That's what I've been missing, you know, on my radios
because my ken Wood the forty eh X was two
hundred watts, and that one's got some issues again. I
have to send that in to get repaired. And before
I spend more money again, because I already had it
repaired one time, I'd rather maybe sink some money into

(01:38:49):
a newer radio like that.

Speaker 1 (01:38:51):
So I just he'll be him.

Speaker 3 (01:38:54):
Yeah, I read it, Joe a couple more Graham the
seventy sixty. Yeah, five hundred watts, plug and play everything.

Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
You know what to do? Get out that piece of
paper and write down the models and see what they
what each one will offers, and at the bottom, what
the cost is going to be versus what your knowledge is,
what you're willing to learn to do the interfacing as
well as I say.

Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
And the nice thing about the Flex is any computer
that has the Flex software on it, yeah, can get
into your Flex.

Speaker 9 (01:39:25):
Is that one more than the seventy seven sixties?

Speaker 5 (01:39:27):
That what you're saying?

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
Believe they're about the same price?

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
Okay, okay, like six thousand dollars. What's seventy seven sixties?

Speaker 5 (01:39:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
Right, yeah, the Aurora is going to be close to seven.

Speaker 1 (01:39:41):
Now, I don't know because there's different models, right.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
There's four different configurations. But but the Aurora is changing
the game. You generate unless heat with it. You got
five hundred whats in the box. You plug it into
one ten outlet. The power is built in, the tun
is built in, so you can consolidate three pieces of
equipment right there.

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
It is not nice?

Speaker 1 (01:40:07):
Wow, nice, that's option, isn't it. That's a nice option.
That is options, many options, right, five to ten is
sixty two hundred dollars right now?

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
Oh yeah, that's all well, I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:40:22):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:40:22):
Yeah, maybe we.

Speaker 1 (01:40:23):
Ought to see if we can get a clubhouse discown
Kukon going and that would help. Maybe we had a
contact there.

Speaker 5 (01:40:28):
There you go, there you go. Yeah, he needs a
new radio.

Speaker 4 (01:40:37):
You can get the Plex eighty four hundred for twenty
five hundred dollars, but that's only one hundred watt radio.

Speaker 5 (01:40:45):
Yeah, I really want to get two hundred wats again
if I can. So, yeah, I missed that extra.

Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
Wattage, but now I'm hearing five hundred watts.

Speaker 5 (01:40:55):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
With the wattage right, Well, I wondered how long before
they come out with a legal limit. So, Kim, then
what do you use at the house then? For an
or antenna's what do you have at the house right now?

Speaker 5 (01:41:12):
Because let's see, you've got the JIGU one antenna, that one,
what is the G four or whatever antenna that one's
up there, and then then there's a homebrew six meter
antenna up there, and then there's a I've got a
a folded dipole for eighty meters and forty meters and
then I can do sixty meters on that as well.

(01:41:34):
And then I've got I've made a redneck one hundred
and sixty meter antenna. But I gotta fine tune that
so that thing goes all around the property, in this
small little property, it goes, it goes all around. Not
very effective, but I've still got to figure that one out.

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
So does you get you on the air? Do you
like one sixty?

Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
I've tried. I've still got a it's the SBRs not
so great. Yeah, so I'm still tinkering with that. So
but it's kept for one hundred and sixty.

Speaker 1 (01:42:05):
So so my DX. So my DX commander, I can
do eighty meters and I'll tune it to one sixty.
Not the best still, you know, three issues. But one
night I had nothing else better to do in the
winter time, and I was going up and down the
band bust some guys. They were probably around two three
hundred miles away from me, and it was sort of

(01:42:25):
like seventeen meters. They were gentlemen, it was. It was
a great conversation. Some some of the topics were a
little bit above and you know, over my my my understanding.
But regardless, there was no you know, a couple of
guys jumped in and and you know, one guy was
brand new, and to me it was very encouraging. It
was very encouraging because you know, sometimes on the bands

(01:42:49):
it can get like the wild West and I don't like.

Speaker 5 (01:42:52):
Right, yes, yes, oh yeah, certain spot on eighty meters
is like that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:57):
Yeah, a couple of couple of bands have that and
forty everyone they're forty two, right, So you stay away
if it's not if that's not your cup of tea,
that's that's my grandfather always said, you don't like what
you hear. That's why it's called the VFO exactly exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:43:13):
Yep, yep. Yeah, So no, but that's just what's happening here,
you know, busy with with my folks and uh, trying
to plan trips when we can, and so it's it's
all good, it's all working out. But it's a very
big adjustment for us because you know, we just became

(01:43:34):
empty nesters, right and then and then my husband retired
and now we're back working again pretty much. So so yeah, yeah,
and we did. We cleared out my mom and dad's house.
And let me tell anybody who needs to hear this,
don't leave your your kids with a ton of stuff

(01:43:55):
that they'll have to go through, because my husband and
I went through so much stuff to get their house
ready for sale. It was just incredible. It was almost
hoarding like, so it was it was tough. So don't
leave that to your kids, whatever you do. That's that
was a nightmare. So we my husband I did it ourselves.
We cleaned it out and moved things, moved, furniture sold,

(01:44:19):
furniture sold, a bunch of things, kept some things, couldn't
keep everything.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
And then.

Speaker 5 (01:44:25):
They actually just sold their house. It just sold the
about one month ago. So yeah, so that that was hard.
You know, they lived in that house for fifty one years,
so that was an adjustment.

Speaker 1 (01:44:36):
So yeah, did they have any hobbies, like how we
have our ham rate before of us, we have our
ham radio hobby, right and along with it comes a
lot of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:44:45):
It did.

Speaker 1 (01:44:46):
Yes, did they have a hobby that that had a
lot of stuff?

Speaker 5 (01:44:50):
Yeah, my dad had some organs, like a ham and
organ and a big huge I mean this this ham
and organ was ginormous and then the.

Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
Speed they are they're huge.

Speaker 5 (01:44:59):
Oh yeah. It was in the living room and so.

Speaker 1 (01:45:02):
Oh my god. Really yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:45:04):
Yeah, So my dad when he bought that, he had
to go even tected it. He put Jack's underneath the house,
just to make sure it wasn't gonna sag on the
wood floor. So and I'm not joking. So and then
well my dad had the stroke. My mom's like, and
my dad was in the hospital and my mom's like, I.

Speaker 9 (01:45:20):
Want that organ out of here.

Speaker 5 (01:45:23):
So we actually put an ad on pregslist for free
because it needed some work. And I tell you, within
three hours we had somebody coming from Lake Paris area
to come get it. And he said, how many guys
do you think I need to take this out of
the house? And I'm like four. It was heavy. It
was a heavy.

Speaker 1 (01:45:43):
It was like, what did the ads say? Free? Just
get it out of here?

Speaker 5 (01:45:47):
Yeah, and he yeah, my husband wrote the ad and
just what the model was and everything, and that thing
messed away seven hundred pounds just the organ itself. And
then there's a speaker too, So I mean it was
it was these guys were struggling. There was four guys.
So yeah, so but we're appreciative that he came and
picked it up.

Speaker 1 (01:46:07):
So I always, I always think of myself and I'm
sure I'm sure all of us here, even everybody in chat,
what do we what our Ham all of our Ham
Radio stuff. We're really again, what are people? I'm like,
don't throw that away. Yeah I paid I paid some
damn good money for or I got it for a

(01:46:28):
great deal, and you're just gonna throw it away. I
will haunt your ass. Do not do that, right right, Yeah,
do that?

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
You know, unless the spouse knows how much that's worth,
that might be what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:46:42):
I d have fair value and listen. And I've seen
a lot of times because I've I've helped over over
the years, you know, spouses, and and the answer is,
you know, it's been sitting here for a year now,
it's got to go. I understand. And I don't care.
I'm not like I'm looking to make some money. Yeah,
whatever you get, yeah, I'll take but you know, and

(01:47:04):
I'll make a donation, you know, to your club or
or something that you guys feel work. But it's just
it's very weird looking at other people stuff because you
look at it and the history of that device starts talking.

Speaker 5 (01:47:18):
To you, right right.

Speaker 1 (01:47:20):
It's just amazing. Yeah, you know when you go into
someone's basement and there at the desk is the radio
and all the all the little knick knacks that go
along with it.

Speaker 5 (01:47:31):
So, yeah, well here's so. Yeah. On a side note,
you sparked my memory was there was another Ham, well
two Hams here in Clarmont, maybe about half a mile
away from where I am K six GMV. George Dines
and his wife were huge into six meters and they

(01:47:53):
kept their six meter log books paper logs for for
back in the fifties and sixties whatever seventies, I mean.
And there's just tons and tons and tons of six
year contacts.

Speaker 1 (01:48:04):
So yeah, it's entries entries to scream. Don't those entries
scream to us? And then the hobby for anyone else,
they're like, yeah, it's just it's just it's just paid
for exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:48:15):
Somebody would trash them. Yeah, yeah, but I have them. Well,
my friend will give them to me. So but yeah,
it's pretty neat to have. You know that that is
a history.

Speaker 1 (01:48:26):
You know, it's hard to let go because it plus
you know, plus you too, you know what you've paid
for your stuff right right now, you're talking about about
making another purchase in the next you know, a couple
of months or whatever. Yeah, and then ten twenty years
down the line, you know, God forbid or whatever. You know,
you don't want that thing going for fifty bucks, right right?

Speaker 5 (01:48:47):
Yeah, Well, my husband knows what's being paid for Ham radios,
so he's not going to show away.

Speaker 9 (01:48:52):
But yes, but other spouses may not know.

Speaker 5 (01:48:54):
They may think, oh, just get it out of here,
you know, throw it away, you know, or whatever, a
piece of junk.

Speaker 9 (01:48:59):
It's just you know, it's gathering dust and taking up space.

Speaker 5 (01:49:04):
Get it out.

Speaker 3 (01:49:05):
Yeah, so no, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:49:07):
It's yeah, I can understand that.

Speaker 1 (01:49:09):
So yeah, I'm dying to ask you this question. What's
what's it like being on the West Coast and you
fire up your radio and I don't care what band?
What are you normally hitting? Are you hitting a lot
of Pacific stuff? Are you hitting a lot of uh,
you know, mid mid Midwest stations? For you to work me,

(01:49:34):
I know that what two or three times that we
have worked is it's always special. It doesn't happen all
the time. Yeah, So what's it like over on the
West Coast to play Ham radio? How you're and for
how you're doing it?

Speaker 5 (01:49:45):
Well, I've been a Ham for what sixteen years or
so or more, I don't know when, and I've had
my extra for like five and a half or six
years something like that. I can't remember now, but it's
been a while, but I've worked all the all the
continents so over time. But my my pipeline, I would say,

(01:50:06):
is probably New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, those kind of things. Japan,
get a lot of Japan, get a lot of Japan,
and sometimes I get a lot of Spain too, which
is interesting. So I love that. So and then of
course South America. Yeah, in South America, so beginning Russia

(01:50:27):
lately too, so twenty meters uh, yeah, it's it's it's
fun though, but I like working at night time, you know,
the bands get a little more quiet and stuff like that.
But with the with the sun up and the heat
and the static, and I've got power lines basically in
my backyard, you know, from the electric you know, power

(01:50:47):
lines and stuff like that. Pigfull, so that that's you know,
probably adding to my noise. But eventually we can't do
it now, but my husband and I would love to
move and have a piece of land, you know, and
not have neighbors so close. Although we love our neighbors,
we really are blessed with some really, really great neighbors.
It would be so nice to have, you know, a

(01:51:09):
property that he can have his garage and I can
have my Hamshock with all my antennas and you know,
all that good stuff with not a lot of electrical
noise or hearing the dogs barking across the street, you
know kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:51:24):
So that sounds like sounds like Kim and Larry just
need like fifty acres of just all that would.

Speaker 5 (01:51:30):
Be nice, right, that's not going to happen for a while.

Speaker 1 (01:51:33):
Sure, I think we all want that, Yeah, I really do.
I think we like that. I call it the elbow room.
We all like that. Yeah, but not too close kind
of right, right.

Speaker 2 (01:51:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:51:45):
And with my dad, you know, we were really tied
down now.

Speaker 5 (01:51:48):
I mean, there's no way to move him. You know,
he's very disabled, so that would be a huge undertaking
to get him moved.

Speaker 9 (01:51:56):
You know, in his condition.

Speaker 5 (01:51:58):
My mom she's a little better, but she's still pretty slow.
Got she needs some knees, new knees, you know, and
all that kind of thing. So it would be a
huge big deal to move both of them. But if
my mom was still here my dad's passed, that would
be more of a consideration of moving away, you know.
And we've already talked to her and said, hey, mom,
if something happens to dad, are you okay with moving

(01:52:20):
with us? And she's like sure, So, so that's good.
We've already had that, you know, that conversation. And sometimes
when I wake up in the morning, I'm so surprised
that my dad's still here to tell you the truth,
you know, because some days he doesn't look so good.
Other days he's like, looks great. So it's just a
big roller coaster of okay, is this the night that
I go to bed and he's gone the next day,
you know kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:52:40):
And but at the end of the day, you know what,
I'm sure you're great. We're all blessed to.

Speaker 5 (01:52:45):
Have what we have, right Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
so we're definitely blessed. Yeah, so definitely. We didn't think
we would be doing this at the time of life.
You know, my husband and I are at now, you know,
but it is what it is, so, you know, and
they didn't plan for retirement, so you know, the house

(01:53:06):
sell is is what they're living off of now. So
and and we just if they were to go in
a nursing home, that money would be just swallowed up
pretty quick nursing homes are just crazy price. Yeah, it's
it's terrible, but you know, some people are fortunate to
be able to do that, but you know, in our situation,
we can't, so it made sense to bring them here.

(01:53:28):
So and now we're just the hired help.

Speaker 1 (01:53:30):
It's getting so getting back to you now for a minute,
and I don't think we touched this the last time.
Besides the RV, Like on your own personal vehicles, do
you play radio? Do you know the v h F
U HF repeters in your area are do you play
Do you have anything installed or no?

Speaker 5 (01:53:46):
Nothing is permanent in the RV or any cars and
stuff like that. So when we're driving, we're just driving
and you know, not really playing radio. Although I do
have one of my handhelds that I'll just have and
I can listen to while we're right I have like
earbuds actually can plug them into and just listen. I've
actually heard because we have U my call sign is

(01:54:06):
on the r V, and I've actually heard somebody call
my call sign through you know what I'm listening to
like one six five to two zero.

Speaker 9 (01:54:14):
So and then I've tried to come back to.

Speaker 5 (01:54:16):
Them, but you know, being on the freeway that it
goes pretty fast. But but yeah, so if there's.

Speaker 1 (01:54:21):
Nothing really that's always a surprise, isn't it all.

Speaker 9 (01:54:24):
Yeah, yeah, because.

Speaker 5 (01:54:25):
I'm just listening, you know. And and sometimes yeah, when
we're driving, where's that radio, trying to think where it is? Oh,
it's over there, but yeah it's the uh Jay su
VR eight so and then you know, two meters forty
and it has six meters as well. But I'll listen

(01:54:46):
to two meters you know, on the the simplex, you know,
calling frequency. And sometimes we're just driving, I'll here soda,
you know, people working soda. You know, someone's in the air. Yeah,
hear them. I can't come back to them. They will
never hear me, you know, from you know the RV
inside the r V, you know, but I can hear
them sometimes, you know, working other people. And yeah, so

(01:55:07):
we're here locals talking to somebody. I know, they're never
gonna hear me with the antenna inside the RV. You know,
I'm not gonna transmit through that most likely. So but yeah,
it's fun.

Speaker 1 (01:55:17):
I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:55:18):
So and uh yeah, we're gonna get out again, go
camping in a few weeks and just have a nice time,
gonna go to the beach, gonna go to Refugio State
Beach up near Santa Barbara. So enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:31):
Is.

Speaker 5 (01:55:32):
Yes, it is. I've activated that one before, so yeah,
it's nice. So my favorite park, I'm a wood State
Beach is closed for camping right now because they had
some big king tides and just wiped out some of
the roads coming into the park and so they're gonna
eventually have to fix that.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
So I cannot imagine that coming in and ruining the roads.

Speaker 5 (01:55:57):
Yeah, the road was already really narrow to begin with,
and so yeah, it was. It's got a lot of
history that area, and it's i think one of the
parts of the history for the EMA would State Beaches.
I think it was an old World War two artillery
range as well, so back in the day. So yeah,
but it's it's one of my favorite places. And right

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now it's sadly I can't go. I mean we could
go for a day, but the camping area is pretty
inaccessible right now. From what I've heard, we haven't been
able to go and see it.

Speaker 1 (01:56:29):
So so when you park the r V, walk us
through what antennas are going to go.

Speaker 5 (01:56:35):
Up the deal is I'll make larious sandwich.

Speaker 9 (01:56:40):
He puts up the antenna, and that's the bribe.

Speaker 1 (01:56:44):
That's the bribe, right works and it works every time,
does it.

Speaker 5 (01:56:48):
Yeah, I'll make Lynch you get.

Speaker 1 (01:56:52):
You got him or.

Speaker 5 (01:56:54):
He's trained me. Either way, you know, it's still a.

Speaker 1 (01:56:56):
Damn good sandwich. Y. Yeah, this is right.

Speaker 5 (01:56:59):
So it's the it's the homebrew vertical that goes up.
And if you look on my cure Z page, there's
a picture of the r V and you can see
on the back of the r V is the antenna,
the blue antenna, the folks and then oh and then.

Speaker 9 (01:57:17):
I'm I was being pretty geeky that day.

Speaker 5 (01:57:19):
I put the shark uh on the front bumper, you know,
with the magmount. So the shark's on the magmount on
the front bumper, and then the other antennas on the back,
the blue one on the back.

Speaker 1 (01:57:35):
So I got exactly vertical. But who cares?

Speaker 5 (01:57:38):
Right, No, isn't it? But see I'm not allowed to
put the magnet mount on the paint.

Speaker 1 (01:57:47):
So is that Larry's Is that Larry's rules?

Speaker 5 (01:57:51):
Yes, that's Larry.

Speaker 1 (01:57:52):
So you gotta make you gotta make him a bigger sandwich.
That's all. Throw a pickle and some potato chips on
the side, come on.

Speaker 5 (01:57:59):
Right, and beer or something right.

Speaker 1 (01:58:02):
Sweeten the deal. Yeah, I kiss a kiss on the cheek.
That's all it's going to take.

Speaker 5 (01:58:08):
Yeah. So yeah, so yeah, that's fun. It's I just
make him a sandwich. I get the antenna put up.
So there was actually one time I think we had
already eaten and and you just put it up anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:58:23):
So that was it. So you're all r V and
what's the radio and what are you doing for a
power source? Now? Right?

Speaker 5 (01:58:28):
Okay, so the that's a BiONO battery and then usually
I'll bring the Icon seventy three hundred. That's usually what
I break. And then I have a backup radio which
is the U Y fifty seventy, So that's the backup.
And then sometimes if I feel a little bit like
thinking that I may have weird troubles, I'll bring another

(01:58:49):
extra radio which is the JIUG ninety just in case.

Speaker 1 (01:58:53):
Right, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:58:56):
All the bases right there, yeah, and some handhelds and
stuff like that. But yeah, the power is the the
the bio and no battery.

Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
So are you are you using any solar to recharge
that bio and or do you wait to like, how
do you do that?

Speaker 5 (01:59:13):
Right? The the RV does have solar so I can recharge. Yeah,
so I have a Yeah, it's all perfect. So yeah,
it's it's great, it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:59:23):
Well, Jess got the big question, You're going to go
to Alabama with that thing or what?

Speaker 5 (01:59:29):
I don't have any time right now, and I would
love to. That would be so so fun to do that.
But you know, that's getting away for just two days
is great, but getting.

Speaker 1 (01:59:41):
So let's ask you. So let's say let's say let's
say your home situation was different. Okay, I'm gonna pose
a big question for you. Which hand fest would you
go to? First? Would you go to Huntsville, hamd Cash
or ham vengein which would would you know? Which one
do you think you would want to go to?

Speaker 9 (02:00:00):
Okay, so I'm guessing the Huntsville is closer to the ocean?

Speaker 5 (02:00:03):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (02:00:05):
Nor?

Speaker 5 (02:00:06):
Now, which one's the closest to an ocean? Because I
want to go Oh okay, there you go, there you go.
Whichever one gets me to the ocean.

Speaker 3 (02:00:16):
I'm on the Big three.

Speaker 1 (02:00:18):
Yeah, that's probably an hour from the ocean.

Speaker 9 (02:00:21):
Okay, Yeah, then I'll do that.

Speaker 1 (02:00:25):
Because and then and because each ham Fest offers something
a little bit different as far as as it's vibe
going so right, and brother, don No, this year, I
don't think I can because we got two kids leaving
for college, and I think Huntsville is when number two goes.
They go at separate times, so unfortunately, I think I'm

(02:00:47):
just waiting for the schedules to come out. So but anyway,
I'll get there, don I will get there.

Speaker 5 (02:00:55):
I would love to have never been to any of.

Speaker 3 (02:00:57):
Those, you know, just me either.

Speaker 1 (02:00:59):
I want to experience I want to experience that sensory
overload right in a weird way. Of that would be
Orlando or Dayton.

Speaker 5 (02:01:08):
Okay, yeah, Orlando sounds good. Yeah, I would love to.
I would love to.

Speaker 3 (02:01:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:01:13):
We went to Florida back in nineteen ninety nine, but
that was for a business trip for my husband and
it was a back in the day then nineteen nine,
and they were trying to get us to move out
there with this company. And and when we saw the
size of the mosquitoes, we were a little a little concerned.

Speaker 1 (02:01:31):
That's the state bird of Florida. Yeah, Steven, Joe, my
put everything else aside the eyeball handshakeing. Q shows have
got to be great because I missed that here in
my region. I really really missed. Am I right, that's
got to be great to you know, especially that first time,
you know, yeah, absolutely, and yeah, Jeff said it, he's

(02:01:56):
been to all three. Huntsville's his favorite. He grew up
in Orlando, though, so there is that.

Speaker 4 (02:02:03):
Yeah, Huntsville was my first, and that one is now
just on my list to go.

Speaker 1 (02:02:10):
To every year. M hm.

Speaker 4 (02:02:14):
Because I know, I booked my campsite on my way out,
if not a day or.

Speaker 1 (02:02:20):
Two before I leave for the next year. I think
Joe does the same thing, right, because if not, you're
not getting a campsite. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:02:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:02:33):
But if you can't, though, Steve, if can you stay
at a local hotel and just carpool from the.

Speaker 3 (02:02:42):
Yeah he or whatever, you know, taking it at the
right right.

Speaker 4 (02:02:51):
So the ham fist happens right next door to a hotel.
You don't even have to walk outside mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (02:02:59):
If you want to spend the money the Embassy suite,
I think it is the embassy.

Speaker 3 (02:03:03):
You never have to leave the air condition if you
don't want to.

Speaker 4 (02:03:06):
Yeah, you could literally catch a shuttle from the airport
over to the embassy and never even have to have
a car.

Speaker 1 (02:03:12):
Right now, if you want to come up to the
mountain where we're at.

Speaker 3 (02:03:17):
Right, and there's and there's other parts, it's just not
where we're congregating at right. Yeah, So you know, if
you're you're set on a bringing a camper or writting
a camper or tent camping like you'd like to or whatever, Yeah,
there's other close by parts.

Speaker 5 (02:03:34):
Well, yeah, that would be a dream to go to
one of those. I would love to, you know, I
would really love to, but not not at the moment.

Speaker 3 (02:03:45):
Huntsles Just it's what's so attractive about it is everybody
gets to slow down a little bit. There's still tons
of of new gear and new vendor things, and then
there's a big flea market section as well, and really
it just keeps growing. Oh wow. But it's all inside
and it's all air conditioned, so it don't matter if it's

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raining or how hot it is outside unless you're like
me and you buy an Amritron amplifier and didn't bring
no cart to tote it three miles back to card
but just get just getting to to experience the show.
And see everything at the show within the weekend, but
then having so much time to sit and meet with

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folks at you know, when we get together Pavilion, or
when we go out to the town and huntschool and
find somewhere to eat and hang out. What I haven't
been to Orlando, but Dayton. Now, Dayton is something that
every Ham radio operator that everyone wants to go to
any Ham fast should experience. But it's it's just so
huge and anybody trying to make content or maybe working

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a booth or something like that, it's just so busy.

Speaker 5 (02:04:55):
So what's your favorite restaurant out there that and when
you go and you're done and you think, you guys
gonna have something to eat and.

Speaker 3 (02:05:02):
A Huntsville Yeah, so usually we go to a place
called Campus eight or five. So that's an old you
know school that they closed down and then they put
several different breweries and eating places and stuff in it.
That's been our go to because so many things to
do in that one location. Oh nice, there's there's a

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lot of options.

Speaker 4 (02:05:26):
But yeah, we we found quite a number of different
breweries in Huntsville and most of them have some sort
of food mm hmm. But and then of course we
all hang out up the state park where we're camping
or in the cabins, depending on where.

Speaker 3 (02:05:48):
Breakfast you gotta go to the Blue Plate.

Speaker 1 (02:05:51):
Yes, breakfast, Wow, what's the favorite there? What's the favorite
at the Blue play and eggs, pancakes, everything, everything, and
is ooh, it's like the diners up there by you. Okay,
it's a true diner, true diner. Okay, gotcha.

Speaker 5 (02:06:12):
So the campground there in Huntsville, does that get pretty
booked up around.

Speaker 4 (02:06:17):
Those Oh, it's entirely pat but already.

Speaker 3 (02:06:21):
They allow you to book up to three hundred and
sixty four days out. It's booked. If you leave and
don't reserve, you're going to have a hard time getting it.

Speaker 5 (02:06:34):
That's amazing because California, I think you're only allowed to
book six months in advance.

Speaker 1 (02:06:39):
Yeah, so yeah, Alabama residents can book a month earlier
than thirteen months out. Oh okay, so what does everyone do?
Put it on your calendar as a reminder, I need
to go book on this day from a logistics.

Speaker 4 (02:06:55):
Well for Huntsville, Yeah, for Huntsville. Yeah, when you're checking,
you can tell me you want it again, and they're like,
well you have to wait. But if you know the
hack to the website, you can actually go ahead and
book your stay for the next year, even if it's
outside of the date range, so you don't have to

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wait a day. Then if at least one of your
days is within the date.

Speaker 3 (02:07:20):
Range, which talking about all these tips and tricks, we
will be out of it.

Speaker 9 (02:07:24):
Yeah, don't give all the Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:07:27):
I'll literally book it as i'm driving in if I
have to me.

Speaker 3 (02:07:33):
My wife used to always just get a cabin up there.
And they ain't got it thirteen cabins, so they go quick,
they go very quick.

Speaker 9 (02:07:42):
Oh wow, how many sites are at the park?

Speaker 3 (02:07:48):
Over eighty isn't And then you got primitive tip camping,
pretty good size.

Speaker 1 (02:07:56):
Hang on, I'll tell you here in just a second.
I am pulling it up right now. Jody says it
best give away all your tricks and you'll be bunking
with with with Jim now. Because Jim gets the single camp,
single cabin stack him and Rackham.

Speaker 3 (02:08:16):
It comes down to that, I'm going to stay at
the rangers. Ass Ah wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (02:08:23):
Be surprised if he doesn't set up some campsites and
his front yard. They do. They have a way of
expanding that Huntsville you're you know the area that you
guys always go, is your way of them expanding.

Speaker 3 (02:08:37):
The building they're in, the Van Bryn Center. Yeah, Mark
has talked about that before. They they've got so many
options to expand in that building, they'll never run out
of space.

Speaker 1 (02:08:49):
Okay. And then what about the pavilion now, which is
a total separate now the park. The pavilions are what
they are. There are one hundred and two campsites.

Speaker 5 (02:09:00):
Oh, that's nice.

Speaker 1 (02:09:02):
Yeah, and I think the nice eighty five there's eighty
five r V sites and then the rest are primitive.

Speaker 5 (02:09:13):
Nice. That's a decent amount.

Speaker 1 (02:09:16):
Is it fair to say? Though? The YouTube Ham Radio
YouTube world exploded that area probably over the last five
or six years.

Speaker 3 (02:09:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:09:25):
Did it increase the popularity that park?

Speaker 1 (02:09:28):
Right, that's why.

Speaker 3 (02:09:30):
Well interesting that that part is popular on its own. Yeah, Okay,
that weekend is we're known as the Ham Radio people.
Are you all the Ham Radio people? Yes, that's that's
your residence.

Speaker 5 (02:09:45):
So the Rangers are pretty well used to antennas and
all kinds.

Speaker 1 (02:09:49):
Of the Rangers of Ham.

Speaker 5 (02:09:51):
Oh, okay, there you go. That's even better, right.

Speaker 3 (02:09:53):
Yeah, he busted us on five too.

Speaker 1 (02:09:58):
First year.

Speaker 5 (02:09:59):
Yeah, oh nice, wow.

Speaker 4 (02:10:03):
Uh yeah, I'm looking this year for Huntsville. There are
four No, sorry, there's a few primitive sites remaining.

Speaker 1 (02:10:12):
Still, Now, what is considered a primitive what's a what is?
For a guy like me who doesn't know what's what
does a primitive site mean? That's tenth only ten? Okay,
you can bring sleeping bag two. Yeah, it's a flat.
I'm picturing a what fifteen fifteen by fifteen piece of
land for you? I doubt it. What's primitive? Full shade,

(02:10:38):
no water, no sewer eight guess maximum two vehicles. Okay,
how far away is the bathroom?

Speaker 5 (02:10:47):
You have to look that up on the map.

Speaker 3 (02:10:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:10:50):
Yeah, you're gonna have to plan your right.

Speaker 5 (02:10:53):
If you need a bathroom close, you need to know
where that is, you know, when you're making your reservation.

Speaker 1 (02:10:57):
Because I'm an all I'm an old man.

Speaker 4 (02:10:59):
So if I got to get a walking four o'clock,
there's a reason my sight is directly across from the bathhouse.

Speaker 1 (02:11:07):
I don't like walking that far that early in the morning.

Speaker 3 (02:11:12):
Yeah, if you're tent camping, is like hiking in.

Speaker 1 (02:11:15):
Him and I just gonna say a pit, toilet or whatever, man,
can I bring it a five gallon you know, a
home depot bucket with me? I mean it is full shade,
there's plenty of trees around. Not saying you can, but
I'm not saying you can't.

Speaker 3 (02:11:33):
Right, Mike Uhr. Car camped at least one night, Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:11:39):
In a primitive spot one night and then car camp. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:11:44):
Yeah, a lot of people do that.

Speaker 1 (02:11:45):
Jeff's mentioning about the deer, that's all. I'm sure the
deer is gonna look at me and say, dude, what
are you doing?

Speaker 3 (02:11:50):
You know, that's one of the.

Speaker 5 (02:11:55):
Like.

Speaker 3 (02:11:55):
So that's one of the things that I do at
h at the Parking Hospital because I like to get
up early in the morning. Hopefully the weather's just right
to where there's it's kind of foggy. I love a
foggy morning, especially when you're up in a little mountain.
Oh nice. But then get a cup of coffee and
go walk in the trails and like ten fifteen feet
away from you, there's here walking.

Speaker 4 (02:12:16):
Oh wow, Joe, walk the trail. Hell, we were sitting
on your camping pad. Yeah, and they walked right past us,
like eight feet away.

Speaker 5 (02:12:26):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:12:26):
One year we had to call the ranger was like, hey, buddy, uh,
we got a little fun that mama. Don't run off
and left her. And he keeps getting closer to us
and he's like, don't touch it. I'm like, we're not,
but we like he's already ran us away from the
picnic table. We're standing in the road. We need you
to come get this thing right. It's cool, and I'm

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having to keep my wife from scooping it up and
catching a federal charge trying to take it home.

Speaker 1 (02:12:54):
You want to think it all. Yeah, she's already giving
it a name. It ready has the name Joe At
that boy, the worst.

Speaker 9 (02:13:03):
Worst animal we've run across in camping, you know, is
a skunk.

Speaker 5 (02:13:07):
You know. I mean I have never been sprayed, but
you know, we were at El Copye Tennesday Beach one
time in the lower loop and at night time there
was about ten skunk just walking around, you know, at night,
and we're like, oh my god, get out of here.

Speaker 1 (02:13:23):
So is oh you asked here you go. Here's your
primitive campsites up here on the top, and your bathhouse
is down at the bottom of the page there or
over on the left loop. And what's that scale? So
what's that scale, like a five minute walk, ten minute
What are we looking at? Yeah, five minutes the most,
and night's gonna filly five miles, well, especially at night.

Speaker 4 (02:13:49):
And if you're looking at that lower bathhouse, let me
see if I can zoom in on it here. So
seventy four, Joe, that's your normal spot.

Speaker 3 (02:13:59):
Right, that's where I was at last year. I'm in
thirty this, you're in thirty, okay, and I'm over in
fifty one. I'm gonna make that whole big old loop
just to get back around to thirty.

Speaker 1 (02:14:12):
Oh yeah, you do.

Speaker 5 (02:14:14):
That's a decent sized park for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:14:16):
Oh yeah, it's it's a great park.

Speaker 5 (02:14:18):
Yeah, I've seen some of the YouTubers on there, and
I'll I see it's really beautiful, a lot of trees.

Speaker 1 (02:14:24):
From what I say, it's it's full shade. So don't
expect starling to work right.

Speaker 3 (02:14:29):
Right, except inside thirty Burne was a little upset that
I got that. Holy that's neat. Sorry.

Speaker 5 (02:14:40):
Yeah, I don't have starlinks, so I don't worried about that.
But but yeah, I'm sure a stream from there, you know,
you do want that?

Speaker 3 (02:14:47):
Yeah, well, Steve, you forgot to mention the buddy sits
Mike and we forty nine by.

Speaker 4 (02:14:54):
Right, well, and I'm in fifty one either a ARB,
I don't know which, and then Ken and Jess from
Texas or in the other side of that, so they
they rented out as two separate sites. But what you
do is you find a friend that is coming and
you make sure that you get that site with them,
so you don't have somebody that's not.

Speaker 1 (02:15:14):
Part of your group. Has that happened before, it has
it has the pretentious, pretentious the word.

Speaker 4 (02:15:27):
Somebody was in I think fifty one A and then
this massive RV pulled into fifty one B. They were
there for one night, and of course forty nine may
have been the party site.

Speaker 1 (02:15:42):
So imagine those people, What the hell happened? What the
hell do we picking? Can you imagine? Can you imagine
the discussion of them when they were leaving, you know,
was she blaming him or he blaming her? That that
would have been a funny just to listen to.

Speaker 5 (02:16:00):
Most of the time, we have really good camping experiences,
my husband and I and but there's been just a
couple of times where we've had some of the worst experiences,
and that's always because of the partiers there and they
come to party and they're partying hard, you know, like
four in the morning, and the police is called and
you know, so yeah that that's only happened a couple
of times, you know, But for as many times as

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we've camped over the years, we've been pretty lucky, i'd say.

Speaker 1 (02:16:25):
But when it's all about it's all about the quiet
hours and you can still do your thing, kind of
tone it down, yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:16:32):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah this, yeah, we've we've seen some
ragers going on.

Speaker 1 (02:16:38):
There have been some late nights at Huntsville that there
there will be, But as long as you tone it down,
all yeah, right, right right.

Speaker 3 (02:16:47):
They always schedule the YouTuber's forum the first thing, what
Sunday morning?

Speaker 1 (02:16:52):
Sunday morning?

Speaker 3 (02:16:53):
Do they really.

Speaker 5 (02:16:56):
So people are like hung over the next day.

Speaker 1 (02:16:59):
That may or may not have happened.

Speaker 3 (02:17:01):
We don't know. We don't use that description. We're just
a little sleepy, just a little sleep ye at all,
not all at all?

Speaker 1 (02:17:16):
What happens after the form, you guys are just you
probably want to crash around what around noontime?

Speaker 4 (02:17:22):
Right or do you just start off well, so the
Sunday show starts kind of really wrapping up about eleven
twelve o'clock. Final drawing is not until what to Joe,
but you can tell the vendors are wrapping up about
noon and the flea market starts really clearing out pretty early.

Speaker 5 (02:17:50):
That sounds like a fun time.

Speaker 1 (02:17:52):
Wow, it is. It's a great time.

Speaker 5 (02:17:57):
I would love that, I think.

Speaker 1 (02:17:58):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:17:59):
So, I've never experienced it.

Speaker 1 (02:18:03):
And it's not unusual for people to rent on r
V and have it delivered to Montano State Park. There's
quite a few RVs on r V share outdoors e right.

Speaker 3 (02:18:16):
There in that area.

Speaker 1 (02:18:17):
Really interesting. I did that one year. I've towed a
couple of years. I'm towing this year, renting one here. Like, so,
what's that?

Speaker 5 (02:18:26):
Like?

Speaker 1 (02:18:27):
I called this guy up and I say, I want
this r V. Here's the price. They're going to drive it,
park it. I'm gonna get the key. When I'm done,
I just leave the key. They're gonna come take it away. Yep,
I'm sure it comes with a price, but it does.
There's a delivery fee with it.

Speaker 4 (02:18:44):
But then you don't have to worry about dumping the
tanks if you use the facilities in the r V. Yeah,
you don't have to worry about cleaning, pulling it through
all the traffic, pulling it through the trees, damaging it.

Speaker 1 (02:18:57):
Yeah, damaging. Well yeah, yeah, I can either confirm nor
deny if wires got cut. You know, Well, that's what
happens when you're six meters antenna is on the front
bumper on an angle. It's no, that's what happens when
they don't check their CEO detector left. Yeah, we looked

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for the fuse, couldn't find it.

Speaker 3 (02:19:26):
I found it any any time I would uh see
down on my radio set it all. My wife's and
there trying to take an app It didn't go.

Speaker 1 (02:19:35):
Oh that doesn't go over all. Well, now so I've learned.

Speaker 3 (02:19:39):
I've got to I've got an extension cord now that
stays in the camp, and fucking run the extension cord
away from the camp a little bit. It doesn't bother it.

Speaker 5 (02:19:48):
Okay, Well, I will say this about transmitting. I've had
an experience where my husband was out on the beach
where at Silverstown State Beach, and I was on seventeen
meters and he he was out by the the lifeguard
tower right and he says, oh my god, I hear
my wife calling c Q through the PA on the

(02:20:09):
lifeguard tower. So I don't go on seventeen meters at
that beach anymore.

Speaker 1 (02:20:13):
I go to other great.

Speaker 5 (02:20:18):
Life. I wonder if the lifeguard was up there, going
what is going on with my PA?

Speaker 1 (02:20:23):
What is this? Because he was there?

Speaker 5 (02:20:29):
Yeah right, so yeah, yeah, seventeen meters is the one
that I was going on the PA for the lifeguard tower.

Speaker 1 (02:20:37):
So that's great. I love it. Oh yeah, that one's
downther Coronado. I activated that one last time I was
in San Diego.

Speaker 5 (02:20:43):
Oh you did well? Did you see me?

Speaker 9 (02:20:45):
I've got like fifty activatients or something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:20:48):
Okay, so yeah, that's I haven't.

Speaker 5 (02:20:51):
Been there in a while.

Speaker 8 (02:20:52):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:20:52):
You're just east of LA, so that's yeah. I'm thirty
miles easter L A three hour run for you down
to Coronado.

Speaker 5 (02:20:58):
It's yeah, it's about one hundred and nine miles to
get down there, so and yeah, probably about two and
a half hours sometimes. And but it's a traffic. Man,
that traffic is just awful. Sometimes Sometimes we go on
a trip and I'm thinking, oh, we're gonna be home
pretty quick.

Speaker 9 (02:21:13):
We're not totally far away. And man, the last time
we were out camping.

Speaker 5 (02:21:17):
We hit the worst amount of traffic on the way
home because we left at like two thirty didn't go
home until seven.

Speaker 9 (02:21:23):
We I mean, we were only like one hundred miles away,
so it was.

Speaker 5 (02:21:27):
Just all day. Ever, we kept picking traffic alerts, traffic alerts,
and they did a traffic break and you know, the
traffic alert and I was like, and it was a Wednesday,
so it Yeah, it's la traffic.

Speaker 1 (02:21:43):
But now that that's a really nice speech. I activated
on the Bay side.

Speaker 5 (02:21:47):
Oh right, I know where that is.

Speaker 1 (02:21:48):
Yep, right there in the pavilions.

Speaker 5 (02:21:50):
We've been camping there forever.

Speaker 1 (02:21:51):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (02:21:52):
Yeah, if I would have been doing PODA back in
obviously it was PODA wasn't a thing. But you can
still backlog. I have bazillion contacts from there and many many, many,
you know, activations there. So but but it's I love it.

Speaker 9 (02:22:08):
But you know, the bad thing though, is that.

Speaker 5 (02:22:10):
They've had a lot of polluted water issues now, so
it's just really too bad. I mean, it's been happening,
but more so, it seems like in the last year
or two. I think that from what I heard, I'm
not sure. My husband said that I guess the Navy
is not having their uh you know, troops practice on

(02:22:32):
the beach right now because of that water issue. Yeah,
so that's what I heard. I don't know if that's true,
but that's what he told me. And he was kind
of like not wanting to go down there because of
the pollution from the water. And that makes me sad
because I've swam in that ocean down there and loved it,
and I mean I've had a lot of experiences there

(02:22:54):
in the water. And one time I was swimming and
then when I came back in, my husband said, do
you know you were swimming right with four dolphins right there?

Speaker 3 (02:23:02):
Right?

Speaker 5 (02:23:02):
You're like, I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (02:23:03):
I didn't know if there was really yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:23:06):
Yeah, I mean he could see them, you know, when
the waves curl, you can kind of see in the water,
and I'm out there, you know, body surfing and everything,
and He's like, there was like four dolphins right there
with you. Wow. Yeah, So I didn't know. I didn't
even know they were there. I was like, really, they
didn't even say anything, just kidding.

Speaker 1 (02:23:24):
Card right there right right. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:23:26):
So yeah, Unfortunately, a lot of that pollution is coming
up from south of the border.

Speaker 3 (02:23:34):
Yep. Yeah, I know, I know.

Speaker 5 (02:23:35):
It's just awful. It's just awful. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
that breaks my heart, really does, it really does.

Speaker 1 (02:23:47):
My cigars getting down to the end, so you know
what that means. It's been two and a half hours.

Speaker 5 (02:23:53):
Thank you guys for.

Speaker 1 (02:23:57):
What did what did we tell you when you first
came on?

Speaker 5 (02:23:59):
Just I was welcome anytime, welcome any time, Thank you,
thank you for because I know.

Speaker 9 (02:24:05):
You guys are probably getting ready to wrap it up,
and you know, and I.

Speaker 5 (02:24:08):
Was like, I wonder if it's too late.

Speaker 1 (02:24:12):
Doors always open, and I'm.

Speaker 5 (02:24:13):
Sitting here on the bed trying to like get comfortable,
and I keep slouching down and so but I'm in
a different room than I was and before, so, you know,
because my parents are in the living room. So so
I feel like this teenager again. I'm all in my
little room.

Speaker 1 (02:24:29):
The only difference is the only the only difference is
you don't have the telephone, right, the telephone and stereo.

Speaker 9 (02:24:35):
I bet you in there right, Well let's see there
is a stereo and then my different phone.

Speaker 1 (02:24:40):
Right, different phone, different type of phone. So yeah, so well, Kim,
We're glad, we are so happy. Anything as we go
around the horn here. Anything you want to say, anything
that you're doing, any special activations, anything going on over
the next you know, a couple of weeks.

Speaker 5 (02:24:56):
Yeah, in a couple of weeks, probably the week of
let's see ninth through the fourteenth. I already have definite
reservations at Refugia State Beach, but I'm just trying to
get maybe if I can get a site a little
closer to the ocean, I'll change that and it might
change the date just a little bit. But I've still
roped in, locked in for that beach. I've got a
reservation there. Not the best site, but I'm going so.

Speaker 1 (02:25:19):
Questioning field day? What do you do for field day?
Quick question?

Speaker 5 (02:25:23):
I this year I was home, so or I should
say last year I was home, but just typically stay home.
But in the desert winterfield day in the desert two
years ago, I think it was two thousand and twenty three.

Speaker 1 (02:25:43):
I think it was so, yeah, excellent.

Speaker 5 (02:25:45):
So but this day, yeah, I don't know what. It
may be a field day in the backyard or something.

Speaker 1 (02:25:52):
Hey, yeah, it's all good, it's all good. Joe Brett,
What about you, man? What are you got going on?
And that light's old? That light still flashing there in
the background.

Speaker 3 (02:26:03):
Get to cut that off, but from a D sized battery, then, yeah,
that's why.

Speaker 1 (02:26:13):
Actually, what this was.

Speaker 3 (02:26:14):
I got this at a I've seen this at an
antique store, a little thrift store, and I said it
was up on the chef and I was looking at
it and I was like, I wonder if that blinks?
And I asked the guy and he's like, I have
no idea, And I'm like, okay, what does he got?
He's got five dollars on it. I think I gave
him three, talked him down. Oh wow, come home, find

(02:26:35):
me a D sized battery, and enough it blinks.

Speaker 1 (02:26:40):
And so you didn't give him You didn't give him
five bucks for that?

Speaker 3 (02:26:44):
Oh? I probably did. What's interesting is got this what's
supposed to be a suction cup. Of course it don't
flex very much anymore, but this was I looked it
up and I think it was like in the fifties
or sixties, it was made for you to actually suction
cup to the side of your car if you like,
on the side of the road broke down.

Speaker 1 (02:27:07):
Yeah, remember those days. Yeah, and that grandreno.

Speaker 3 (02:27:12):
Yeah, Now they sell the little led beacons to do
that with like electronic flairs they call it. That was
that's the story behind it.

Speaker 5 (02:27:25):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (02:27:26):
But uh yeah, one thing, you just reminded me of
your fines.

Speaker 5 (02:27:31):
Okay, so here and I should have brought it out.
I didn't think of it. It's in a box here
in the house. As I think, I remember mentioning to
you guys, I used to be on the CB years ago, right,
and that you had to say your CB license number
and everything, and I said, I said, I remembered it
as k B KK A two A three nine, and
you know, my call or my call, like my handle

(02:27:52):
back then was sweet Lady. And so my mom and
dad for Christmas gave me a c B a base
station because I was always using the mobile. But they
had a little plaque printed or printed, I should say,
engraved for me and it had k B K K
two A three nine which the which was the CB
license and then my handle sweet lady, and it's my

(02:28:14):
mom kept everything. So that was at the house. I
found that.

Speaker 1 (02:28:17):
I was like, oh my gosh, absolutely yeah, hold on that.

Speaker 5 (02:28:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:28:22):
My great aunt, I don't remember her license number, but
she went by a Sweet Mary. Her name was Mary. Oh,
they always called her Sweet Mary.

Speaker 5 (02:28:32):
Oh that's nice.

Speaker 3 (02:28:34):
Yeah, they her and her husband had their license on
the wall and stuff.

Speaker 9 (02:28:40):
Oh that's so cool. That's really cool. Yeah, my mom
kept everything.

Speaker 5 (02:28:45):
And you know, when you have those dreams about losing
your schedule from high school, yep, I should ask my mom.
My mom kept all my schedules. I found them all,
all of my all of my kindergarten through twelfth grade homework.
My mom squirreled away.

Speaker 3 (02:29:04):
I couldn't lie.

Speaker 9 (02:29:05):
I had PTSD from going through my old schoolwork.

Speaker 5 (02:29:08):
Again, I'm not joking. I was having nightmares about it.

Speaker 9 (02:29:12):
Every time I thought I was done finding schoolwork, I
look in another door.

Speaker 5 (02:29:15):
There's more schoolwork.

Speaker 1 (02:29:16):
I like a lot of report cards, I bet Oh
my god, yes.

Speaker 5 (02:29:20):
Comments from teachers, and you know, just even my drawing
from the dissecting of a frog. I had my mom
kept that, Like what the heck?

Speaker 6 (02:29:33):
Oh yeah, good times, right, Yeah, Steve, thank you very
much for everthing absolutely that you did over the weekend
and sharing the three sixty camera with us, and but
more importantly, you know what you did down there in DC.

Speaker 1 (02:29:52):
Thank you. Yeah, the half of everybody. Thank you. Something
I thoroughly enjoy And.

Speaker 3 (02:30:01):
Yeah, my dad's a bet too.

Speaker 5 (02:30:02):
Yeah, my dad's a VET. He's a Korean wartime vet,
so he's he was stationed. My dad was stationed Derek
Cornado from fifty four to fifty eight, So yeah, he
I not trying to keep you guys here, but I am.
But he said that he remembers when there was nothing
around there basically, and he can't believe that years later,

(02:30:25):
you know, his daughter and son in law and grandson's
going camping down there while he was stationed down there
years ago, you know. But yeah, Timeshane did. Yeah, I
love I love Silver Strand, I loved Coronado. I love
that area so excellent.

Speaker 1 (02:30:39):
Yeah, Steve, anything going on for this week until we
talk to you next, do not have anything planned for
this week. I'm hoping to get over whatever cred I
got in Japan, maybe get my voice back for next week. Gotcha?
So okay, very good, I got some I'm off tomorrow Wednesday.

(02:31:00):
It's gonna rain here on Thursday, so that will be
an indoor day Tomorrow. I'm gonna try to take advantage
of maybe one to three parks if I can. The
whole thing is, how early can I get my butt
up and do stuff? In the morning and then you know,
but we'll see, we'll see how it goes. So but
that's it from here. I don't I can't remember if

(02:31:21):
we have a guest, if it's next week or the following,
but we'll have something going on here next next Tuesday. Everybody,
be good, be safe, enjoy your hobby, whatever you're doing,
whatever bands, whatever your modes. Be good guy out there.
So everybody wave, say seventy three to everybody. Thank you everyone,
So bye. Everybody turn a turn tower light off. It

(02:31:57):
ain't tall enough. If you work him, you can work
around eleven meters too.

Speaker 5 (02:32:01):
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