Ep. 224: I don’t know what you expect?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know what you expect, Jason. You want me
to set up a YouTube show. You want me to
be grammatically correct dramatically.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
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 (00:25):
What's going on, Joe? You need me to bring in
you get sit in the green room.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
I guess I can do it. Man. I have to
pull my chat back up and do all the sextion
mouse clear? What's up? Guys?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
What's going on? Belts happening? As always?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Just happened to look up. I didn't know what is
o'heading his mouth?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Ah? Is it what you're smoking?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
To?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Night? Mia Corita, Here you go the red label. After
a crazy, freaking week and almost not making it again tonight.
You know, audience, you know brothers and sisters out there
in our chat. When you send a private message and
you say I'm not gonna be there again, I had

(01:09):
a feeling Joe Brett was gonna pull out that clipboard
and say now we're gonna start taking attendance, aren't we?
I mean, how I missed. I can't say nothing, but
Joe Brett has a secret file. I'll bet you he does.
And when I'm not doing something tomorrow, I'm thinking of

(01:33):
going into that AI thing and I think I'm gonna
create one of those AI chat things of Joe Brett
with file folders and a briefcase, maybe in a file
in comment. It's gonna be labeled clubhouse then everything. Then
the next role will be all others? There you go?
Am I right?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Am? I?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Brother?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Joe?

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't know what you expect, Jason. You want me
to set up for you to show you want me
to be grammatically correct? Grammatically Uh, I didn't even look
at it. I still don't get it. I didn't use
two double negatives.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
You have the power.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Do not know what you expect? Question mark? Mm hmm?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Is that episode two twenty four? The last one was
two twenty three. Okay, oh we missed out of my research?
Why what episode are we on? Two twenty four to
two four? Those are some good numbers. Play those numbers
if anybody, if anyone's into that, if anyone's into that lotto,
you know, win three stuff. I'm telling you. I'm telling

(02:45):
you that's a good Those are some good numbers. And
if you win something, let me know. Oh god, though,
what do they say? Play it forward, play it backwards,
box it and some like that? And I think the
fourth one is spot on? I think, or whatever. They
don't call it spot on? But what do you call

(03:05):
that when you hit it exactly in the in the
order that it's Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Does that?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well? Yes it does? But see, I won't do it
because I don't I listen. I am truly I say
this all honestly. You guys have known me now for
a long time. I buy scratchy tickets for all the kids.
They go into their stockings, and then maybe a couple

(03:31):
times a year I might be scratchies for them. But
other than that, if I spend I probably spend less
than sixty dollars a year on Lattau amusement scratchy stuff.
I don't because I feel that I have been blessed
in so many ways. I'm not going to get that ticket.
I'm not going to get that ticket with a lot
of zeros. So I don't play. I don't even know

(03:53):
the names anymore. Yeah, well, if you don't play. You
can't win. So yeah, but but my uncle used to say,
lotto l is for loser, So don't people, So don't
don't be taking that money. You useduld tell me put
that money into the savings account, your vacation fund, your
car emergency repair. Fun Again, they were old school.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
You skip one drive through me. We put that towardo
scratching there. You gets your ten dollars scratching turning to
one hundred thousand. I don't know about y'alls. I'm sure
it's the same. But the Mississippi most of the scratches.
I like that word. I didn't like it, but now
now I like it.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I'm just start using that. I'm gonna start using that
thank you, although although that's gonna get me in trouble.
I'm looking for a couple of scratches.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Right, Yeah, most of them have the second chance drowing, y'all.
Y'all's have this.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
We've got some of those. So what does that mean? Now?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
So all your ones that don't win, and I used
I picked these things up in parking lots and people
at work that that never did the second chance, I'd
collect them. I was really waiting for the state to
call them, Blake, do you have a problem because I
was entering a bunch of them paying for any of them.
And uh, but like so, say you got a ten

(05:13):
dollars card in the in the top prizes two hundred
thousand dollars, that's the jackpot on it. Well, if you
get drawled in the second chance, you get the total
amount of that game, so you would get the two
hundred thousand.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
So you're hey, so you're ten dollars a week, you're
five hundred and twenty dollars a year basically.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Now some people could say it's only five hundred and twenty.
Other people would say, hey, you could have took five
hundred and twenty and put it towards Yeah whatever. It's
all perception, isn't it. Yeah, I mean it's all priorities.
I mean, I know, guys, I'll smoke five hundred twenty
dollars worth a cigarettes in a week. There you go

(05:56):
four a month.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
After five hund trying it.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Well, because you said ten dollars a week, five fifty
two weeks, just fift I know we're not allowed to
do playing the numbers game.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
I was My head jumped to five to two. Yeah, I'm
just that's it.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
I'm not gonna argue because I know how much about
how much I spend a month in cigars and ham radio. Yeah, well,
and I know what a pack of cigarettes cost me
when I was up there visiting you. As though for
the one guy that dug my car out because I
don't smoke him. Jesus, that's because all those taxes hamptil

(06:37):
hurts right, five twenty by a G ninety. Oh look
at that good point, hey gool, that could buy you
an ax. That five twenty that buys you an a
task and maybe a g a genie coax. Yes, quitever, listen,

(07:00):
I never you know what I've learned in this world.
I have three rules. Are you guys ready? I bet
you you don't know my three rules? Okay, because you've
known me for a long time. Do you think you
know my three rules?

Speaker 1 (07:14):
You know?

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh wait, wait, hang on, I want to make sure
there's three, not four. Hang on, Okay. So the first
one is is you don't tell a man you know,
but no, you have you have to use your finger,
you don't. You don't tell a man how to spend
his money, how how he spends his money, how he
makes his money. That's his business. You don't get involved.
You don't tell him what god to believe in. If

(07:38):
if he believes in God, Buddha Allah, it doesn't make
a difference. You don't get involved in his religion. Yep, okay. Three. Three.
You don't tell a man who to kiss. If I
follow those three rules, I'm friends with probably like ninety
nine percent of everybody unless they do something bad to

(08:01):
me and then we handle it in a different way. Right,
But those three rules of life will get you through
life fairly, well, I think. Yeah, listen, I know we're
only seventeen minutes and we're not. And we did some math,
we did some other things. Nine minutes in we talked

(08:21):
about scratchies. This is going to be a great show
as far as I'm concerned. There you go. Shenanigans will
start soon. Talk about shenannigans. Oh oh, if you've seen
my my ex post, so my Twitter post. Mm hm,
so I haven't been to this uh this part all right,

(08:46):
Well it's not it's a late not a part.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
What are you laughing at?

Speaker 5 (08:49):
I have right, Mike, It's said in all the movies,
but when you hear it somewhere else, mm, thank you.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Anyway, anyway, I will who was that two point zero? Hey,
you know, I gotta give him a shout out. I
know nothing about this thing that you call three D printing.
I know nothing about it, but you know, except that
you know this was made this and that I don't.
I don't know. Yeah, listen, I wouldn't know what button

(09:24):
the push. I haven't gone down that rabbit hole of
rabbit holes of rabbit holes of the print. I mean
he was talking about various you know, you know the material.
It was a fun show for a guy like me
who knows nothing. He presented this thing. He didn't go
into a deep technical dive. He just gave you enough

(09:46):
at so many different topics within it. And he had
it working on in the background, making those dog bones.
But it was a cool, fun show to watch, and
I like stuff like that. I like, I'm sure there's
other channels that will all take you. I was chating
to print antenta toppers, but he was ignoring me. Well,
I was gonna say something, give him a tenant topper

(10:07):
for our buddy, you know, so and so right down?
Yeah that's what you two. I'm just send in the file. Well, no,
not that particular anatomy. But absolutely no, no, no, no,
that's a family show. That's that's a family show. But no, Jason,
thank you, I said, very very sincerely, thank you. That
was a fun, fun show to watch and learn. You know,

(10:31):
so I like stuff like that. That was a good show.
I did enjoy that. Joe. What about your Twitter post? Yeah,
I'm sorry, we we derail Did I derail you? No? No,
that's my no. Listen listen, listen, listen. I'm just gonna
sit back now.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
No, girls, Dad, this is like the third yeah, third
time I've been to this lake to camp. I'm sitting
there and uh, I start seeing him where it go off?
You know, m r D is doing some late late
shift poda, which was amazing. Ye, he's usually home by

(11:17):
then or somewhere else besides the part. But oh, I
just got curious. I'm like, where is the nearest Tota
park here?

Speaker 3 (11:25):
There's an app that'll tell you that, there's a there's
a website and I'll tell you that.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, the website. Anyway, you haven't heard of.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
This thing called poda? No, no, I'm thinking polo. Oh
pull it up on your phone and say nearest park.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh yeah, really talk to you. I go, I go
to Poda dot app and I go to the map,
and I'm let's see where the nearest yellow DIT is,
and right next to you, I was, I was there.
I'm like, do you freaking kidding me? I click on
the dot and the lake. I took full advantage of it.

(12:04):
So I went. I did nothing. I done hunting. I
didn't call on CQ. But my eight ninety one the
setup currently, it's like twenty or thirty feet of power
wire that has a little bit of loss in it
when I key up and cuts radio off. So I

(12:24):
took it's okay, I took. I brought this and I
had these power poles mm hm, and I just sit
that in a seat and hook hooked the radio and
it worked beautifully, one hundred blots all day.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
But there you go on that athos. Yes, yes, which
one the one that's on the truck, the real one
or the replica, the real automatic tuning intenna system.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, the other one that's a that's the u HF.
I believe our v HF. We still got some testing
to that, all right.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
I'm I am. I'm a little confused because sometimes I
come late to the party. You mean to tell me
you didn't know where all your photo parks were in relationship,
this is.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Where and if somebody screws this up, you're gonna make
a lot of people mad, including me, because then I'll
have to actually drive somewhere. But I don't think this
is supposed to be a photo park. It's the Courts
of Engineer. It's not a state park. There's a state
park there, but the lake itself. To my understanding, it's

(13:37):
Courts of Engineer, so, the SO, the.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
So, the engineering, so the Army Corps of Engineer stuff
is in the middle and the park surrounds it. Correct,
Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
I'm not sure. I haven't looked up the actual the
actual state park that is there. What's the boundary?

Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's a enid, you know, Ron's right in the chat.
You know sometimes Joe, these parks move and you don't know.
It's Secie at night, usually around three o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
You're right, there's.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
There's two parks around that lake.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
One of them is the lake itself.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
You've got two five three five and then seven one
two five.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yes, seven one two five is labeled late. That's all
it's labeled.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Correct, but you have to have a local website there
of the you know, whether it's stayed owned or federally whatever.
That shows some maps, and I haven't seen anything. Everywhere
I've gone, everywhere I looked always has Yes, I have
to do a little homework, but it's all there. It's
all that.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
I don't understand why some people get confused. So that
is owned by the Army. It's US Army Corps of Engineers. Yeah, yeah,
that qualifies.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
I thought that federally when we got some Madden to
probably do that.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Well, probably it's similar. It's still it's similar to the
wildlife I'm gonna screw this word up. I don't want
to say refugees. What do you call that thing? Wildlife
management areas? Wildlife will call it. That's easier to say
wildlife management areas get federal funding.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Like there's there's another light that uh. I used to
go to a good bit until we started going to
this one. The state park designator is there's a course
of engineer campground right next to it, but it's it's
not mm hmm inside the state park boundary. So I
just assumed that course of Engineer was was not a qualifier.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
See Kim has it right, but I get k six Yyl.
She uses she uses g I S maps for state parks.
It's helpful for for the boundaries. That's one of many
ways of doing it. I'm just saying, if you have
a question. Yeah, so, so Joe, we're in relationship. Is
this park to where your residence is close?

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I mean it's an hour and a half pulling the
camper anyways, that's not bad. No, it's not bad. Whether
and I would go to just purposely do a photo, but.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, go for a ride, go to Walmart Park. We'll
get the ice cream. That's what you do, man, That's
that's fun. Family stuff. Is so you drive an hour
you're in another state. Yes, and we're going to be
doing that. We're going to be doing that this coming
weekend for support your parks weekend. I'll talk about that later.
Okay there.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
So anyway, well, I mean that's good to know. Then.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
So uh, Eric's saying hood doesn't allow Army corps of
engineer parks.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
That's what I was underdone.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
But they added a city park in Texas.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
I I know they've been some somethings slipped through here
and there.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, I thought it all has to do with funding.
Is that?

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is that what?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'm sure there could be. Maybe that's number one, maybe
there's two, three, four. But if they're getting money from
the federal government or a state government, is a state
in state two mm hmm. Private parks that are funded privately,
I believe do not correct unless they're somewhere they receive

(17:33):
some funding for them.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, that's what did I open up the can?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
You did because because one person excused me a long
long time ago that I was not activating in a
park and they didn't do their homework. Well, they claimed
I should have been in uh A, Massachusetts where it
first comes up. But this park is so long, going
through many states, and if you read the details, and

(18:07):
you gotta do your history, you got to look into
the you gotta go to the Google. You start with
the Google, you go to this site, you go that,
and you piece it all together. And I truly feel,
after all these years, I am doing it ethically correct.
I finally got. I finally told that individual, then don't
work me. If you don't like what I'm doing, don't
work me. Yeah, don't chase me. That's fine, have a

(18:32):
good day. A salute, I like lose.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Lose thought process there. He thought the reason Army Corps
of Engineer Lands wasn't on there originally was because the
course it won't POTO on their land. But that I
have sense reversed their stance.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Well, maybe they see the popularity of it and it
brings it brings positive attention and awareness and people to
use these lands where they where the public can use them.
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
I mean I'm good with it there. I'm still trying
to get still trying to get the picnic table in
the side yard to qualify a bit. That's not gonna
happen no now, because then people be showing up trying
to activate them, like get off my yawn.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
And that's the and that's the thing with the PODA map,
like like uh a, Hantle, Hurts and Jeff are mentioned
different locations. The PODA map may only show one pin,
but it's still your responsibility. Like like I have a
couple of parks here in Connectut. I think they're separated,
and I don't know how they got separated, but it listen,

(19:48):
it is what it is, and let's not get crazy
over this, and let's use the F word fun work
the hobby for what it is, you know, that damn
face book group page. Sometimes it just you want to
throw the phone up against the wall. And there there
have been sometimes what I've really thought about saying, I'm

(20:09):
leaving this group. I don't need this, I don't need
the sarcastic Listen. Some people post without thinking. Okay, so
that's problem number that's problem number one. Here we go
with the fingers again. Problem number two. Somebody gives a
smart alec. Then three someone doesn't like the smart alcoal mark.
And then someone will always say read the rules, which
they are right, but they didn't. You know how it goes.

(20:31):
It's such a revolving door of that that group page
has changed over the years for what it was really
for what how I used to like it, you know
in the park today da da da da, or I
did this park set up? Now you got Now you
get people too many who want that instagratification of go
to the group page and give me my answers I

(20:54):
was gonna say. And then you've got the people that
want you to upload your blogs while you're still at
the park.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Isn't it right?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
But isn't that funny? Steve how that question or that
complaint comes up a little bit more frequently after it
has been said, like the guy in what Utah, I
forget his name? Who who is? You know? I mean
he may come back once every two weeks or whatever
and upload his logs or whatever. See, people are paper
chasing this thing. This is not what this program.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
And it wasn't that long ago that you had to
email your lugs in yes and wait for my lazyess
to get off my duff and yes, I.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Forget Every call region had a volunteer or two. I'm
sure the bigger call regions had more, maybe, but you
were dependent on that individual to review your logs and
upload them.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
Was originally just one per call region, and it wasn't
until four land split between three of us because there
were so many.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I love it now, I love
that thing. Take that file drop within what fifteen thirty seconds?
That thing is Yep, I love it. I love it.
I give them money every year. I give those boys
every money every year. I don't care. Matter of fact,
when I go, I should put them in the will.

(22:19):
If you got that much money left over, make sure
you cut us a piece. Let's see clubhouse gets two percent,
two percent, nothing's still nothing their brother, No, that's not true.
The problem is if my kids and if Jennifer starts
selling my stuff for not what I paid for, or
are are relevant to what I paid for, that's the problem.

(22:41):
Give them my number. I will come up there and
we're going to be handling them that all very in
the next few weeks. It's called estate planning. One on one.
We're gonna be all.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
My parents are doing that too, and they're trying to
get me into it. Yeah, you have to, man, I know,
but then again, I know about it.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
But then again, I wanted to tell anybody what I paid.
They're gonna say, but we Yeah, we could have a
camper by then. Could have had that motor coach, that
class that class C. Yeah, could have had it. You

(23:20):
could have had enough money for a lot of tickets
every week. Have you looked at what it cost to
fill that thing up?

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Well, there would have been money if you didn't buy
all those antennas in those tuners and those in those batteries.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
But you know what I did.

Speaker 6 (23:33):
If you only have one antenna, you have no intennas.
M true, I did a thing, but you do I
said I did something that I said I wasn't gonna do,
or at least not for a while, A bigger battery.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
Oh well, no, I blame no, no, no, I blame
you guys, and I blame that. I blame that your point, Yes,
I blamed that two point oh guy because of his
videos and because of that Amazon shop he has and
that affiliate he probably made thirty cents off my purchase

(24:14):
or who knows what, who knows, you know.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
I blame MRD every once in a while. This time,
this one's gonna go on. Jason, So I bought I
was playing with the work bench work. I bought one
of those hundred watt Redo batteries, I'm sorry, a hundred
one hundred amprey hour battery half hour. Then, of course
you got to get the battery box for it, of course,
but it came with a lot of stuff, and plus

(24:37):
I had stuff in my junk box that I was
able to outfit it mm hmm. And it came with
the charger. And then I went to my box of stickers.
I stickered it all up and Steve, just so you know,
I was thinking of you last night. Your sticker went
in there, and it went in the correct position. I

(25:00):
was gonna push it towards beer snack and put it
in a productivit. Wait wait, I screwed up that word.
You know, a dirty in a dirty position, But I
said provocative. Yes, gotta do it right, yes, dirty, But
I'm gonna try it this weekend. It's gonna be interesting.
Not saying I don't like my two forty forty are

(25:23):
hours which, but I want to see what this hundred
watt stuff is all about. Very yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
I.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Promise you you're not gonna be able to kill that battery
in one day. I'm not trying to. But the weight
factor is equal, I think to the forty. Yeah. So
I got a little bit more tweaking I want to do.
But other than that, it's ready to roll. That thing

(25:54):
is matter of fact tomorrow if I have I can
get maybe ninety minutes. I might just Yeah, Mike says,
it's all about the hundred amper. I'm wondering now, Mike,
I think you might be right on that one.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
I just saw a video where a c K put
a three forty into his camper. Well, see, everyone's powers
needs are different, and you need to adjust. I mean
obviously it goes without saying what I how I'm gonna
utilize this battery is going to be different than somebody
who's r ving and what are you doing in the

(26:30):
r V world, just like in my world, just for
just ham rail for running that rig. Am I running
a q RP radio. AM I running a G ninety?
AM I running one hundred? Watch? Am I doing digital?
Am I doing you know c W or Syby again,
everyone's ever you know, you got to look at it,
I mean without turning yourself into Albert Einstein, but just
you know, do it right, you know, think it out.

(26:53):
So Yeah, like Tort says, he's got three hundred emprey
hour in his MDC camper and then two lead in
the f J.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
Yeah, so combine the two of them, there's five hundred
amp hour that'll keep you going for a while.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Well, between that you I see in that RV world,
I'm learning. It's really opened my eyes to it's power consumption.
It's going to be water or how do you want
to do water? Mm hm, cooling and slash heating, and
then we have the big one sewage. So I think
once those and then then the comforts a home. I

(27:34):
guess which all get tightened. I'm sure Joe bright which
are comforts at home? Well, but I'm sure Joe Brighton
is exactly what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, I just want just make sure I go somewhere
with full hookups problems.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Okay, you're not going into no man's land.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
And right. I did have to tell of the camp
post this weekend, and I said, hey, before we left,
I said, get somebody checked that site. The thirty out breaker,
little little little shady turned it on and started doing
a bunch of fries. So I cut it off, got
my fifty MP adapter out. So it's good to have
your adapters.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Why you think it was cracking a little bit? It
was drawing too much.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Now I am bad connection or something there started sizzling,
started cooking bacon behind the panel.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
It's like making Jiffy pop popcorn.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah. So we turned that breaker back off and I
just plugged into the fifty and everything was coosh.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
There you go, Natchoe, Do you have full hook ups
in Huntsville?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Okay, why is Carlos telling its saying that you're glamping?
I don't think you glamped? Do you? Oh? Absolutely, that's glad.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
That's what you want to call it. I ain't got
no shame in it. My ear runs all day with
flush when I want to run, when I want to.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Well, what's the line? What? What is the line? Air condition?
I mean, what makes what crosses you into lamping when
you're not like like, what is there one or two
topics that are definitive? I mean.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
It's another matter of perspective, right, Yeah, Clamping to me
is the guy that's got the one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars fits wheel over there that looks like a
mobile home with a bunch of slideouts on it.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I was gonna say one fifty that's on the low end.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, I was being considered. Or okay, the guy that's
got the two to three million dollars coach bus there.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
You go, Yeah, that won't fit in Montana.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, got the one hundred and sixty inch TV on
the outside permanently mounted. There's there's some cool riggs out there,
But then other people. Glamping is just the pure fact
that you're in anything but a sleeping bag yep, or
not making your own cover and sheltered with the leaves

(29:56):
and sticks that are already out there.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
I was gonna say, you got a wheel your own
bed out of a fall on tree.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Like my K six aircraft.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Jody could be correct on that one.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Mm hmm. I did try something new. We'll always at
the count. You're talking about the TVs and stuff, so
I'll probably have this out at Huntsville. We was watching
TV outside. Okay, hold on, let me get a visual here.

(30:32):
Yeahs cool enough to pick a picture of yeh.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Adhg Life said he'll be glamping at the Embassy Suites
in Huntsville.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
That's what hell there?

Speaker 3 (30:47):
All right? All right, let me solely here, Joe. There
we go.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Well, it's not gonna show real well, but you can
see the square there right, so the white square. Yeah,
you can tell this not a not a TV. But
we're watching TV. Okay, so see right there, I'm my
little projector I got off TikTok shop for a while
back there you go, Yeah, buddy, all right.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Not gonna complain about that.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
That worked out pretty good. So I thought I bought
that with the intentions of setting it up on the
other side of the camper, which is going to be
facing the road at Huntsville, and just playing my YouTube
playlist over and over and over. Yeah, is that a
short throw? I don't know. I haven't taken it. No,

(31:42):
I mean it's you're talking about like one goes right
up against the wall. Yeah. No, it's a straightforward projector
order if you want to call it.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Okay, it appears Ham Radio. You know Tube their mic MRD.
Didn't get the memo of your antenna from about two
weeks ago, just so you know. Oh really, I guess
he wasn't watching Gotta show the detoss.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
So that's gonna end up on the Explorer, haven't you
antenna in Huntsville?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
That's gonna up on Mike's Explorer? Is that what you're saying?
At least when he's trying to find his vehicle in
the parking lot, he'll know know which one's his, as
well as some up down Pineapple girls may want to
but you never know.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
But oh so look it's got the connector. Just screw
that baby ride on with a barrel connector.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
It really does, it really does. Two.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
It's a real he tossed top there. Don't even have
to have a set screw. It's all superluedian. Just gotta
be careful that topper. Don't let it. Don't let it.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
I'll put an eye out.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
We'll see if we can't activate U money Center on
two meters, that.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Would be funny. If you can activate that park, Oh,
you can.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Activate that park. ADHD's got it. It ain't a hamstick.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah, we're not gonna say what it is. The podcast.
You'll have to come watch the podcast. You'll have to watch.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
They've probably already imagined one.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Ah. But you got seeing a lot of green and
chat tonight. So well, thank yeah, thank you everybody being
channel members and two m AK just popped and I
see and Jeff's always there. Yeah, yeah, you got it right.

(33:49):
It's all about the dB sometimes it's all about the
game towards is it circular polarized? Well, anybody doing anything
or First of all, so this is because because if
we don't cut this short, it's gonna go down bad.
I'm gonna put my foot in my mouth or someone

(34:11):
in the task and you know what's gonna happen. So
you gotta we gotta get rearranged here this coming weekend.
You want to talk about this coming weekend, you want
to talk about something else? Uh, what are we got
coming up this weekend? Support your parks weekend or July.

(34:32):
The summer one summer support your parks, which is always
a fun one, unless it's thunder and lightning out or
if it's one hundred and ten degrees out. Other than that,
it's I think it's it's probably one of the more
active ones. Maybe with that and fall sometimes we're cooler temperatures.

(34:53):
But it's still a fun one. Don't shoot me. It's
still a fun one. Yeah. Yeah, I've got the guys.
You guys doing anything. I'm gonna try to get out.
I've actually got a.

Speaker 6 (35:10):
Technician class going on this week and we're testing them
Saturday morning, so I may drag the whole class out
and go activate a park afterwards.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Nice, that's an idea. Get them all on the air.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Why not? I may hunt hunt?

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Are you going to be glamping while you're hunting? Or
or hunting while you're glaming.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I've got to get up under the truck. I don't
I don't know. I don't know if the A ties
has created some extra wind wind load on the on
the truck or what. But my transmission temperature is higher
than it has been on the camper. I got to
try to figure that out so.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
I would be very surprised if you told me that,
and that antenna is contributing to the only thing less
miles per gallon and transmission this and radiator fluid is
getting more browner that I don't think. I don't know, man,
you got to use more breaking when you're going down

(36:16):
the hill. I don't That doesn't sound.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Now, it's a I don't know. There could be some
junk in the in the cooler or something.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Or if I into the tempt censor maybe Yeah. So
if you if you told me that you're getting a
high pitched wind sound, that I could because my truck
has done that before with various antennas and various configurations
of certain antennas around eighteen inches or higher on have

(36:50):
done that. You take him down and all of a
sudden it gets quiet. I noticed I had a whistle
in the truck today.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Yeah, the whistle.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
I've got the the f antenna on the hood, you know,
from the factory. So I don't know that that's doing it.
But I've got the signal stock up on the cab,
and i've got the A toss behind me, so I
hadn't before.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
But but but the A toss also has what you
have the back of the cab, right, Yeah, so I
mean it's not saying it. I mean, I mean the
whip portion could be making that beautiful music.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
It's not gonna be r if I'd attempts because let's
just say I tried to operate HF and pull the
camper the same time, and I needed to concentrate on
pulling the camper instead of turning the VFO. Yeah, but uh,
I don't know. Steve good Game gave a great idea.
Uh he told me to look for this thermal thermal

(37:55):
I think called I passed by, okay, and it's just
a little vowel that were your cooler lines. Because I've
got the engine old cooler and the transmission cooler all
on my radiator, so it's it's got the full tow
and package and everything. But anyway, it's a little vale

(38:15):
just goes on the side of the transmission. I'm going
to look at I got to see which one I've got.
There's two different styles, so it's it's only forty bucks
and it'll reduce your transmission heat by thirty forty degrees
sometimes more. So. Oh wow, yeah, it's pretty.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
How is it doing that? How is you doing that though.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Because it's making the fluid constantly go through the cooler
instead of the GM on certain model certain model trucks,
GM put a vowel on there that only opens up
to the cooler at one hundred and ninety six degrees. Okay,
So they actually put out a bulletin and a statement
instructing the technicians to swap these out when customers bring

(38:57):
their vehicles in for transmission concerns to a new one
they make that opens up at one hundred and fifty
six peries because they put a crappy torque converter in
the transmissions, and if they get too hot, they kind
of disintegrate beside the transmission, which causes the transmission disintegrate
in itself.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
So yeah, that's a good old GM for you.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
And I had another friend that gave me another idea,
but his idea was a little more expensive. You can
buy a deeper transmission fluid pans, uh, that would increase
the cooling. But that thing was pull hundred dollars hand
to hurt.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
How much fluid do you have to put in there?

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah? Right, and we've got to put more fluid in.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Well, hand toil it hurts is asking does it have
you Do you have a toe hall mode?

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yes? I always use it. You always use it always
when when towing especially, I just yeah, leave that overdrive
at home. Can't be hunting them gears, hunting them gears?
What creates all that heat?

Speaker 3 (40:04):
I was gonna say that lock up of the torque converter. Yeah,
do you guys? Have you Have you guys ever towed
with standard vehicles in the past versus the automatic and
is there a difference?

Speaker 1 (40:18):
I have not.

Speaker 6 (40:19):
I haven't noticed a difference. But I towed a ninety
seven Toyota camera Jacksonville, Florida the Corpus Christian, Texas with
a five speed manual Chevy. Any issues, Uh, the fuel
pump went out, but other than that nothing.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
It.

Speaker 6 (40:43):
I guess got a bad spot and it didn't want
to run between sixty five and seventy five.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
But an idiot ran just fine. So when the trooper
pulled you over, that's your story and you're sticking to it.
It was Texas eighty is a starting point for them.
I don't know. I've never been on Detective Highway yet.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
I was gonna say, learn to drive in Houston. You'll
qualify for the Daytona five hundred. Really, Oh, those boys
are crazy down there.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
What is the in your opinion, what is the most
challenging city in America to or around the world to
a drive in? What do you think is based on
your travels?

Speaker 6 (41:34):
Again, I have to stay in the States for that one.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Interstellar. Yeah, Miami can be bad. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (41:44):
I gotta honestly say, San Diego, get on the interstate
and just pin it.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Or you're stopped one of the two. And how many
lanes in this in these areas that you say it's crazy?
Are we talking three lanes? Five lanes to l I mean,
what's the five each way? Five each way? Five each
So that should be enough. I would assume that somebody
engineered it that five lanes is enough to keep on following.

(42:16):
But it's not.

Speaker 6 (42:17):
But motorcycles are allowed to split between you?

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Yeah? Where did I see that in California?

Speaker 6 (42:22):
I believe Yeah, And I think they just approved it
for Wisconsin's.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Is it handbail instead of sitting at it? Stop behind
the right.

Speaker 6 (42:39):
But if traffic's moving at seventy there's no reason to split.
Who let corporate in here?

Speaker 3 (42:48):
I did? I did him, him and the other guy too.
I said, if you're not doing anything, come on it.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Well that was coming.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
It wasn't non it. You're going to turn it around
like like I did it as a mercy.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
I want to bring attention to something real quick. Audio
sounds great, man.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
You know, hey, eventually, you know, a blind squirrel gets
something nut right.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
The way it goes. Glad to have you do it.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
I'm wearing a hat. I'm good tonight. I'm wearing that.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Mine's out in the work truck.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Mine mine's around here someplace.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
Sorry, I always run a little late. Had to do
a little mercy run for the wife.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Ice cream?

Speaker 3 (43:27):
What do you have?

Speaker 1 (43:27):
What?

Speaker 4 (43:29):
Just uh, I'm a basic guy when it comes to
ice cream, not a big fan. But you know, Vanella
for ap will cover it.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Here go do My parents just yeah, they went to
the good Wheel, they like we call it in South
going picking right to these thrift stores and stuff. Yesterday
they showed me. They're like, look, well we got the
good Wheel for like three bucks, and it's like sixty
bucks online. But it's it's like a personal, little homemade

(43:54):
ice cream maker. Instead of having a big bucket churning,
it's just like handheld. It's just I was like, yes,
enough for like two people to have a little snack.
You have to put it in the freezer first.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
Joe, you haven't met my daughter yet, but she's a picker.
And I'll tell you it's amazing. You give that girl
twenty dollars and she'll come home with a whole wardrobe,
a furnished room. It isn't. I came home the other
night and there's a wicker shelf in the garage. I thought,
we just cleaned this, we cleaned that, We got you
a brand new bedroom downstairs, and redid this and read

(44:29):
and then all of a sudden, now she's refilling it up. Yep,
which Jody, thanks for the five dollars Canadian Thank you, Jody.
Oh yeah, and now a guest.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
He's family, he's not in corporate. Depending on how you
want to treat me.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
Yep. Girl comes home with a brand new pair of
Converse sneakers.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
No one, she got that wicker furniture right, that quicker? Yeah,
well buy and pass up.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Honestly, it was a beautiful, beautiful condition. So somebody had
it somewhere, maybe sitting up in the attic and there
you go. The bargain bar. Yeah, I like that word
to the bargain bar. I like that too.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll call it a dollar store up
here in the Northeast, but I hear over in England
it's called Poundtown.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
But oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Things have different meanings, don't they. Just they do where
you're looking at different actions, different meanings, Joe, I don't
think I'll take it wet or dry. I don't care flavor,
you know what I mean. See when I go on
the Northeast Ham Show, I don't get that. That's nice.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
I can I go to another you know they don't
play that. That's good. I like that.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
I still have acted your apology at this point?

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Why not? Why wait wait, wait, wait a minute, we're
still That was two months ago, and I apologize for
that after a while.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Know that's the way I go.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
You made a lot of money off of me. I've
seen all that, all that, all the damage from there,
all that Instagram and stuff that you've been posting about
broccoli and celery and every man. You're you're getting a
lot of You're getting a lot of a lot of
hits because of me. I'm the one. I'm the one
who should be saying I'll send you a bill for

(46:21):
the mark, you know, for the marketing.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
That was a flash in the pan, man flashing the pan.
For some reason, it made me think of Scout cooking
eggs and huntsle last year.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Oh, I wish.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Kyle was in the chat. He would love that. So
I think Scout. I think he got a little distracted,
you know, with squirrel or whatever in the park and
got to talking and he had had this huge flame
cook breakfast and I don't know what it's called, walk
walk Yeah. So anyway, he finally remembers he's going to

(47:00):
cook eggs, and he pops an egg and drops it
in there, and then eggs straight up in there like
fifteen feet and disappears yet exploded.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
What did you have a chicken in it?

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Well, you had the durned cooking utensil at eight hundred
degrees Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
That instant steam turned into a projectile. He vaporized that thing.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
So a thistle stopid.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Yeah. Oh, Eric, you're doing anything this weekend with the
support your parks weekend?

Speaker 4 (47:37):
You know, I'll confess here since I'm amongst friends, Uh,
summer supports. Parks Weekend for me is not a big
thing like I just don't have time, and I'm already
doing PODA through most of the summer anyway, so for
what it's worth, I kind of skip over it. But
you know, I don't know if that's a bad thing
in my part, but yeah, that's what I do.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
I mean, if you make contacts, you make contacts.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
True, you know, I mean it might be pretty good
this year, especially with the fact that the bands have
been crap, because there'll just be a whole bunch of
activity on the bands. But yeah, yeah, I don't know
if I'll be able to get out. I'm sure you know,
it'll be that. You know, it's this weekend anyway, right, yes, yeah,
So depending on what happens. If the wife's like, you know,
you're bored, you should just you know, get off the

(48:22):
couch and go do something. Why don't you go activate
a park if that comes across, then maybe I'll grab
the gear and go.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Maybe maybe if she tells you get out of the house, yeah,
pretty much.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
You know, or she'll be like, hey, I want to go,
you know, to the beach or go you know, and
there's a couple of beaches that are parks for us,
so uh, you know, just bring the gear with me
and we'll go, Yeah, get some ice cream.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
There you go. Man, see loving memories while you're while
you're making at least ten ten contacts.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Yeah, with my wife, it's not the radio memories. It's
the beach memories.

Speaker 6 (48:53):
Well, you know, if you set up a kite to
haul the atna.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Up, that is one of those things that I'm trying
to convince my wife to do because she likes to
fly kites, But I end up being the one at
the beach flying the kite, so I'm kind of doing
it for her amusement. So if I was gonna do that,
then I had to figure out how to manage the
kite at the same time while trying.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
To, you know, make radio contacts.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
And I can't do two things at once and was
never good at tying my shoes and chewing gum. She
likes to watch people fly, guys, that's what That just
corrects her. Yes, that that sums it up.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
What's your favorite? Eric? What's your favorite antanna right now?
Do you have one that's kind of taking all of
your attention? Are you giving it a lot of attention?

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Well, I have two favorites, and the second one I'll
sort of allude to because I haven't let the video
out yet on it. But you know, I'm a big
mad Dog Coil fan. I love my verticals. I know
they're compromised, I know they're not great, and you know,
a wire is always better, and I always have a
wire with me, but my verticals are always where I go.

(49:59):
So I got a mad Dog eighty that I keep
in my bag all the time. And then with us
seventeen inch seventeen foot whip, and you know a couple
of ground radios and the wolf of acoil base and
that thing works like a champ every time.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Interesting, you know, And what wire an kinda? But what's
your wire antenna?

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Well, come on, there's only one and we all know
who that is.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Spoils Aliens.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
No, everybody's got a different answer.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
Yeah, come on, how long how long have you guys
had him on? And how long how many times has
he been on giving away stuff? Matt reliance of course,
the liont reliance. Yeah, fifty six to one's growing on me.
But I love my end fed. You know forty Tenkay?

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Have you done either the forty nine or the fifty
six to one as a horizontal I've only run it
as a sloper I this week, and I really want
to try if the conditions are right where I can
set up I want to run it as a flat top.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
I would love to, but you know, when you go
to a lot of these parks, you just it's hard
to find another end point that you can get that
up high in it. So, like I did the last
activation down in it was it uh Manchester's was it
Manchester by Manchester by the Sea?

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Done in somewhere.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
It's basically over by end of almost in the Cape
or the Cape area or whatever.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
So it's coastal town.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
And the park that I was in, I had to
use my ten meter, you know, mast and that was
at at an angle because you know, if I was
going to go all the way out flat, the closest
tree was like literally sitting on the edge of the
you know, the two lane road, So not gonna happen there.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
M I my last activation, I was halfway through, I
think I made my ten or twelve, and I said, oh,
I'm gonna stop and I'm gonna do it. And then
all of a sudden, by the time I started getting
things together, somebody parked their vehicle and then one of
their family members or friends parked ald I. But now

(52:01):
I know. Now it's stored in here, so I know
when I go, and I go to this park all
the time, so I'll get to it. I've used it
as a sloper and I've actually used it as an
inverted V equally.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
I mean, that's plainly challenge with wire and tennis. Like
I can't I can't be bothered. I guess the best
way to say it to like get it up in
a tree or put it up high, or find a
spot like where vertical. I can just like throw out
in front you know, the truck or you know whatever.
In a couple of minutes and I'm on the air
and work it. Yeah, but how's your ground conductivity? Because
here in Connecticut it is horrible.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
I mean we got granted, but you know, for what
it's worth, you just throw.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Got a lot of granted up there. You guys got
a lot of That's why the state next year is
called the Granite State.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
The state next to it, that is the state New Hampshire.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
State is New Hampshire.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
All right, Well then I'll apologize again to you then,
sorry for all the geography buffs out there. Yes, now
I think, uh, you know, for me, the ground radios
are probably the only way I can you know, get
a good you know, overall response for the antenna. So
I've got a couple of different ground radio pairs that

(53:11):
I carry around. What do you like? How many on
an average? How many would you think you put out?
And I'm gonna guess what A group of three, right?
Or group of three or group of five?

Speaker 1 (53:23):
I like, group of four?

Speaker 3 (53:24):
Okay, group of four?

Speaker 4 (53:25):
I do groups of four? They very I've got like
three sets. The three sets are twelve feet fifteen feet
and twenty two twenty five feet, I think, depending on
whatever it is, and I'll mix a match. I haven't
really played around much with like finding out what the
sweet spot is. But again, like, I usually spend most
of my time on twenty because most of my activations
are in the middle of the day. So if I'm lucky,

(53:47):
you know, that's gonna be the most active band for me.
And so radios don't have to go any longer than
you know, twelve or fifteen feet to be really good.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
So I'll tell you a secret what I do because
you're on my handler and I and now that where
where we are right now, we should not be able
to work twenty meters. Nope, we should not be. But
every once in a while I'll hear guys out of
New Hampshire in Maine. I don't know if they're home stations,
but well, obviously when I work in park to park,
it's always fun, it's always fun. So I always have

(54:18):
that romantic hopefulness, you know that I that I I
can get you guys to the north on twenty. It's hard, Yeah,
it is defying I'm defying nature.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
So I get I think, actually, if I get pasta
maybe Delaware, it's a lot easier to hit up here
in the New England, you know. And and having a
contact with Grouch while he's down in Illinois is it
makes it really easy. But right, yeah, twenty is like
your best bet is enviz And the only time I
ever get that govern is if I just basically the

(54:53):
antenna happens to fall on the ground and I'm not
paying attention.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
Well that's why I ran it as I ran the
Reliance as an inverted V and it was amazing. I
was able to get into New Fundland and a little
bit of Canada on twenty. When you're not supposed to get.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
New Fundland, New Fundland. Where's that on the map?

Speaker 3 (55:15):
New Fundland?

Speaker 1 (55:17):
You mean Newfoundland?

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Newfoundland.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
I'm sorry, okay, just want to make sure at least.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
I didn't at least I didn't say that city in
Massachusetts begins.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
With the W Worchester.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
You mean Worcester. You gotta say it like you're from
bought Rochester. I forgot about that one. Oh my gosh.
But that's always fun because it's because and this is
why I almost can't wait for the cycle to start
going down. I was having better or more I don't
want to say more fun, but it was very I

(55:49):
had more contacts on forty, on a wider footprint, especially
at night. Man, that thing would open up like crazy.
And sometimes forty I'm struggling to get somebody out in Ohio,
where like Pennsylvania seems to be that that d Mark.

Speaker 4 (56:09):
Dude, you know twenty. I usually can get Ohio, Michigan,
that no problem. I mean, usually just straight B line
from being either in mass or in New Hampshire. But
if I go any south than that, yeah, I always
struggle to get anything pretty much above New York or
you know, parallel to New York you know, for contact.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
So so Florida for me is hard. Working to the
Poda power group is hard. Now if I if I,
if we work, we're like a three three. It's something ridiculous.
They have to be in a real quiet park for
them to hear me. But I could work, Kyle. I'm
working Missouri, I'm working the Dakotas, I'm working into Utah, Arkansas.

(56:49):
Sometimes I had this direct pipeline lately in Alabama. It's
just that's why I'm I'm I'm hoping the bands can
will allow us to play. I would really like to
take out an an ten or two that I haven't
used this weekend and maybe use it so well. My
last activation I did basically I got fed up with the.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
Fact that the band conditions were just garbage all the time.
So I threw up a wire, I threw up my
vertical I heck even you know, as a last ditch
effort to get a couple of contacts hooked back up
into my a task on the truck, just so I
could see if I could get a couple of end
news context in the log there.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
And yeah, yeah, it.

Speaker 4 (57:29):
Sucks up here, like a lot of people down like
in the text area down south. They don't suffer from
all of the geomagnetic storms that we get or you
know get you know, hit upon. So yeah, it always
plays havoc with us, for sure.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
I was getting frustrated last week. I was trying to work.
Oh man, I forget his first name. He has a
live show I think on Mondays and Tuesdays, Bourbon, mister
Bourbon on twenty meters KB. I mean his audio. He's
probably running you know whatever. But yeah, okay, okay, yeah,

(58:07):
maybe maybe on a dead key. Okay, but but regardless,
I love, I love, love love his audio. And again,
and I know he was swinging the beam a few times.
But man, Bank, this is just wasn't allowance. So I said, well,
just have to wait a week or so. We'll try
it again. Maybe I'll try a different antenna. Yeah here

(58:30):
here at the house. So though it sounds like you
need to build it and they will come. Yeah, guys
are talking about their n FEDS. There's so many again,

(58:51):
I I don't I I hope the end FED does
not get the what the G five r V got
because a lot of people did not really didn't understand
the intentions of the G five r V, what it
can do, maybe what it maybe what it can't do,
and then after at the end of the day, it's propagation, man.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
And I loved my G five r V and my
Hamsticks all in the same group of crappy antennas that
I never ever want to see in my view again
because they although I understand them and I've used them
maybe once, I've always just I'd rather hit my head
against the wall before I pick up another one either
one of those.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
I don't know, Why are you serious? Really? What is it?
What was it about the G five RV and what? Okay?
Question one ladder line or three hundred seventy five? It
was always ladder line, okay, to be truthfully honest. When
I got into the hobby, it was like back in
ninety one. So they were putting up G five RVs

(59:51):
at field Day all the time, and it was always
right off a tuner, and because they were most popular antenna.
But every time, you know, you'd have to spend time
tuning it and just to get.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
It to where you want in the resident part of
the band.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
And for a new Ham who's a no code technician,
I don't have time for that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Emotion though, dam it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Yes, however it did thing with that and with that
what I learned because the old man made me build
my own. He was right there helping me. But the
whole thing was you have to get it up at
least thirty five forty feet if not higher, and you
want that ladder line traditionally to come down. Yes, you
can come down on a little bit of an angle or.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
Whatever, but that anything would be affected by every like
if you had static in the air, you have anything
correct the problem.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
I said that to him one night after he left
and they started raining. I'm like, waitingne, what's this rain static?
I'm getting? What's the static build up I'm getting from
the rainstorm? He told me just relax and just be patient,
and he was right. But it was made for twenty
It wasn't made Louis Varney G five RV made that
for twenty meters. It's supposed to be a model band,

(01:01:06):
and other people started using it for a multi ban
and and then they started cursing it. So I felt
that sometimes it gets a bad rap, and that's not right.
It's not fair.

Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
But yeah, I mean it will put it this way.
It is an old man's staple antennant for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
I'll give you that amount.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Oh it's an old.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Man, you know, I can say it. I can get
away with it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
But yeah, no, it was very much a super popular
antenant like when I was, you know, like I said,
eighteen nineteen years old.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
Absolutely right, you're absolutely I do remember those early nineties,
and they were and they were always at the ham Fest,
the pre made ones. And then then the rumors would
go around by this one, this is the better one,
and I couldn't. I would look at them both. I
didn't see any difference, and then some guys would get

(01:01:56):
into the great debates between the three hundred dollars versus
the seventy five. I'm staying on.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
At everybody's got an opinion, and they're like noses, m
and otherwise.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Like to welcome to b Frank to the show. Is
a new person in the chat there get see him?

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
Oh, welcome aboard, dude. Where's he from?

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Texas? Cool backyard cigar?

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
What I like him already? You might know him so Joe,
all jokes aside, how you like in the a task?

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
You finally got to mind it, right, have you? Yeah?
So you know is ahead a little ran about it
the other.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
Day, ignoring his rants, like because I want to hear
your opinion straight from the horse's mouth, because I know
how he feels about it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
It can be pretty dagon magravating at first, because like you,
here's some of these stations that knowing if I was
at home with my two hundred and sixty foot wire
loop that I have no problem in contact with them
and I can't get them to hear me. But you
have little patients. It's kind of like if you if
you dip your toes in the q RP world, you

(01:03:15):
learn a little patience and there will be stations there
at the right time. So, uh, it's just the time,
end of the day and being there, and I know
it's just like operating at home. Really, it's just you
got to learn your intenda and what's what's going on
and uh, a station that may be in the noise
right now a few minutes later may come up and

(01:03:38):
you can grab them and then they may exact way
where'd you end up mounting it. It's a hood bracket,
vendor bracket.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
I guess you'd say, Okay, can I defend myself Like
like MRD got on his explorers.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
If you've seen his mounting videos, so.

Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
You can defend yourself on yours is permanent mounted on
the truck.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Oh wow, Now you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Know what I mean. You know what my problem is.
And you guys said the word to patients. But I
and I have learned to give patients because a long,
long and I'm not gonna get myself in trouble. So
I'm gonna say a long, long, very long time ago,
I was dating a girl and I remember we got

(01:04:25):
into this argument about what movie to see, and before
you know it, the movie was already starting in this
and that, and I said that we're not gonna go,
got in my truck and I left. And then but
a week later, there I was asking her out, you
want to go to the movies. It was just one
of those things where the a task keeps calling, it
keeps bringing me back in, and I just first off,

(01:04:48):
I did a complete reset on the on the FTA
eight ninety one, did a hard reset and some of
the settings that I some of the settings that I
had did watching some of the's YouTube video maybe was
not appropriate for me. So but propagation is also a thing.
But again, it was just kind of park it there

(01:05:11):
on a frequency, and wait, especially when you're hunting, whether
you're in a park or not, you're still hunting right
sometimes and waiting to hear other hunters and where they are.
And I would look on the map to see where
they're coming in from. You can kind of tell who's
you know. So I kind of started I started adding theory.

(01:05:32):
I said, I'm gonna get smart about this of how
I'm going to use this a task. And once I
put a little thought into it and added a smidge
and the patients here and a smidge, all of a
sudden it just started. I felt I was wrong. I
was wrong by making those comments, and that was all
on me by not being patient with the antenna. Okay,

(01:05:53):
so again it's like you, like you, It always goes
out with me as a which you know, which weapon
do I want to use today? Or how many do
I want to use today? You're gonna go out like
a ninja. You know, a ninja just doesn't go out
with numb jucks. He's got this, he's got that, he's
got his what you call those things the stars. He's

(01:06:14):
got everything. Yeah, he's got knives, he's got swords, he
has so.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
So I always looked at the A task as not
a great receiving antenna. I know that goes against the
rule like you gotta hear first before you transmit kind
of thing, But I always learned that the A task,
at least in my experience where I haven't mounted on
the truck, it's always better as an offensive antenna than
it is, say, defensive.

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
I've got a backrack on the back of my six and.

Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
A half foot bed on the ram, and it is
literally sitting on the right passenger side edge of that backrack,
you know, tucked behind the cab itself, so you know,
any obstructions won't knock it off. But uh still, by
the time it you know, tunes up at the whip
is way above the hood of the truck.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
So I'm doing pretty good on you know, receiving that side.

Speaker 4 (01:07:04):
But I'll admit it doesn't it is deaf in certain areas,
Like I like anything, depending on where I position my vehicle,
that's the big thing. Like when I'm using that, and
I'm mostly using it in the winter time or as
a convenience thing, but if I'm positioned in a way
that I want to, like we all know, if you
send if you put an infen antenna east to west,
you're gonna hear the broadside north the south kind of thing.

(01:07:25):
So I always think of, like, okay, where look at
my compass in my truck, Where the heck is the
truck related to what I'm hearing? And then if I
can move it, I'll move the truck and you know,
just to do just for yeah, and it works out
better if you're like trying to do that then just
trying to like keep yourself stationaries of rock and you know,
try to work around it. It's not it's definitely a

(01:07:45):
compromise antena. But I love it because the convenience really
more than anything, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
What is the best band you have you experienced? You're
a task with mostly forty and twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
I haven't tried ten enough with it because every time
I think to use ten, it's like in the worst
part of the cycle.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
See I used it one day in the rain. Well
it started off as a drivel drive a drizzle, and
all of a sudden and ten meters just happened to
be a drizzle, you know, like you know, I get it, yep,
And don't put that in the book about it anyway, Yep,

(01:08:23):
that erecting that big, hard, stiff black mask. Oh, that
was a good one. That's the classic, he.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Said, rego and read at that video. I'm sure is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
That as short. Eventually ten meters just happened to be
popping that day and that I found that antenna again
from that particular activation at that particular location, in time
of day and where I was. Man, I was having fun.
It was like old school days. It was like old
school ten meter days. And I was like a kid

(01:08:58):
in a candy candy store. It was fun.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
You know. I was sitting there at one time while
I was hunting stations at the at the campground, I
had my door propped open because I'm running it off
a different battery, so trucks and not own anything don't
got my door propped open prayer circulation because you know,
it's only one hundreds some degrees. And I get to
looking at the poto maph on the polo, I'm looking

(01:09:24):
at the map contacts and making and they're all spreading
out to the to the north and east and northeast.
Nothing's I haven't got anything to go toward Texas. And
I'm like, what if that door being opens got anything
because it's mounted to the fender, right, So, uh, I
sit there and was listening to the station and I
shut the door. Didn't really hear no difference. I don't

(01:09:46):
know if it made a difference to night. I think
propagation finally just opened up and I was able to
make contacts to the west. But it did make me think, no, this.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
Is something I have no like scientific, you know, factual
evidence to basis myself on. But before I made changes
to my truck in terms of like adding grounding and
bonding all the panels together, my a task always had
a trouble hearing stations. And then once I bonded everything
in the truck, I found that, like I created a

(01:10:18):
unified ground plane, I have.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
No factual evidence to base that office.

Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
So don't be sending me threats or emails or anything
telling me I'm wrong, because this is just you know,
feel good stuff. But I found that it just heard
much better.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:10:30):
I was able to pick out some of those weaker
stations because I had somewhat of a ground plane to
the truck, you know, for the other side of the antenna,
so you know it might work. I mean sort of
similar to your ex appearance.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
There's something I did real quick, is because when I
first put it on there, I couldn't get the thing
to tune. It wouldn't it wouldn't move, or it would
move all the way up or all the way down,
or it would just wouldn't do right. And I'm like
this piece of jump you know, it was about to
get thrown over the fence. And uh so well, I
read something that talked about the real Ticky about their grounding.

(01:11:02):
Mm hmm, so I might whip out the pocket knife
and said, yeah, I'm gonna do this. Took the bracket
off and scraped all the paint down the middle and
slapped that bracket back on. What do you what.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
Because you say, because you should whip it out now, Oh,
scraped paint off.

Speaker 6 (01:11:23):
Take the pocket knife to the paint of the truck.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
The truck.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
It's in the place you'll never see it. I know,
I was worried that I might mess up my knife,
but it's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
And uh about the truck. You're worried about the knife.

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
I've got two of them. It's his truck.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
If he wants to rust it up, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
I'm not keeping it forever. I'm probably I'm probably getting
a truck next year, so that's what we're aiming at.
Else's problem drill a.

Speaker 3 (01:11:49):
Hole amount that in town. You guys bring up the
guys bring up an interesting point because when I got mine,
probably about two or threeks after I said I'm gonna experiment,
I took out one of those faery Ja cloths mm hmm,
threw it, threw it over the hardcover through the mag

(01:12:10):
mounts on. I had this this big, big, huge thing
of metal, very very thin. That thing would not would
not tune it at all on my and then I
so then I took I took jumper cables to the
fay Ja cloth and went to the trailer hitch noo,
put it on the metal, put it on the metal

(01:12:30):
of where the big mag mounts are the trimag still
would not work. Slapped it on top of the roof
of the truck. Beautiful m So maybe the fairy Jay
works for certain things it But then again, maybe it's
because it's Connecticut. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:12:50):
Well, you were using the ground plane for the atass
using the okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
I even threw it on the ground, even threw it
on the ground.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
How much how much of that frabak fabric.

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
Were you using the whole thing? It's oh, it's it's
It's like a big, huge blanket the dude wipe.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
It's sold extra with the ed dong.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
But I've worked it with other antennas and that fair
Ja cloth works great. So I was under the assumption
if it works good with like an M F J
J model stick you know, band poll I can you
know what happens when you assume correct. That's why we
experiment and we have fun. We don't throw things out. Jason,

(01:13:38):
thanks for two dollars shop chat.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
Yeah, the fair like my experience with the man, I
apologize for hijacking this and turn it into a ham
radio show, because God forbid that that happens.

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
But it happens once, you.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
Know the h my experimenting with the cloth itself, I
struggle with it a little bit. I'm still trying to
find the right length in the right space, and I
always just yeah, exactly right, yeah, and trying to figure out, uh,
the right fit for it because my wires, the ground

(01:14:11):
wires just work fine every time. Guarantee, I can always
tune up the antenna, you know, dump it in the
right spot of the band, and we're all good to
go and take good contacts with it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
But I bought mine based upon what other people were buying.
Bought it on Amazon. I used my Amazon points. It
didn't cost me a thing. So I said, guess what
we're going to experiment. Maybe something will amaze me. So
so for now, the clock just stays rolled up. If
I need it, I know where it is.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
True that that works. So is oh, you are doing
supports parks week in this or no?

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
Yes? I the plan is to be somewhere in Rhode Island.
Oh right, I'm somewhere somewhere along the shore line, and
you have.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
An opportunity to come north. But you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
I'll tell you in a private chat. Okay. I thought
we were going to be going north this weekend to
be with it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:10):
The little lady in the car and just go north.
That's all you have to do, man, and I'll meet
you somewhere, you know in between.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
I got voted out. I got voted out. It was like,
what was that show The Island Spoke or whatever, I
think whatever that TV show was talking about. But that's
it's still gonna have fun. It doesn't make a difference.
Still going to have fun. All I know is I
want some lobster. I want some clam chowder. I want
some clams.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
I am.

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
Listen, I'm off for the next seven days.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
I am.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
I haven't.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
So you're going to the coast. Then you're not really
going inland.

Speaker 3 (01:15:42):
Who knows? Who knows? No, no, no, See, that's just
that's the beauty of it all. I'm going to be
flying by the seat of my pants pretty much, and
I love it because I haven't had seven days off.
It's so long. Last time I had seven days off,
I had the sea and I was kind of like
down under the weather. So you know what I mean.
You still went out and you did things, but you

(01:16:03):
really didn't go out too far and do things. It's
gonna be beautiful weather. How much?

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
How far ahead can you plan seven days out of vacation?

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Do they give you a time like? Can you block
a time slot?

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
Up? I got some I got some things where I
have to be and have to do on certain days.
I can't. I can't know, man. I'm just kind of
because you know me, I'm very structured. I'm a I'm
a very structured I'm a planner. But this time there's
gonna be certain elements of my time. I'm just gonna say,
we're gonna go that way and let's see what we do,
and let's see what we hit. And when we get hunger,

(01:16:41):
I would like to.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
You can go all the way up the coast, man.
You can literally activate parks and I know that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
And I think about all those years of all that
roving I've done through you know, Gloucester and rock Port,
and you'll hugged it up to uh Scarborough is a
Scarborough beach up there? Yep? But Poda wasn't in my life.
I don't any think Poda wasn't even even a thought.
Ye So, but that's okay, that's okay because now we

(01:17:12):
know where all this stuff is. Now that's the beauty
of it. That's my secret weapon. My secret weapon is
right here now. Oh oh, we're all screwed humanity. Yeah,
just gonna have fun. And if I listen, if I
do one or two parks, I'll be happy. That's all.

(01:17:32):
Maybe a park on Saturday, maybe a park on Sunday.
There you go. But I'm off tomorrow now. I wasn't
expecting to be so now I'm off tomorrow. So if
I get the honeydew list done. That opens opportunities play
to get out and play exactly or test the bands.
You gotta You got my sod digits right? You got

(01:17:53):
my cell phone number? No? No, I don't, actually I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:18:01):
I have Paul give it. I'll give you my cell
phone number. And usually I am wide open in most cases.
If I'm not on the road or whatever, I could
probably easily make a slight detour, and I always carry
my gear with me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
So what are you?

Speaker 3 (01:18:15):
Eight six seven five three is it zero?

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
Nine oh nine?

Speaker 3 (01:18:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
No, sorry, five five five one two.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
On two.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
Anytown, USA?

Speaker 3 (01:18:28):
Seven five three on nine.

Speaker 4 (01:18:32):
So I saw the list for Huntsville. Sounds interesting. I'm
not going, So I'm curious, Joe. You're obviously gonna be there, right,
of course, long as long as all the mechanical things,
as long as the truck makes it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
What is this list that you mentioned?

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
Was it four days in August or something like that? Yeah,
the four days in August days August list? Yeah, okay, Yeah,
talking to Grouch about it and he sent me the list,
and I was like, oh, quite interested.

Speaker 3 (01:19:08):
Yeah, how to come down?

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
I dude, I wish I looked I looked last I'm
handcuffed to work.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Yeah, I looked. I looked last night, and I'm like,
darn man. I love my kids, but why can't kids
go to college in September or in July or something.
Guys don't they know Huntsville is in August.

Speaker 4 (01:19:30):
They do, but they'll get old enough, like they get
to a point whether they're not gonna want to see dad.

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
Anyway, they're not gonna need my help. They're not gonna
need my help. I know that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:38):
I know that my son stayed down in his uh door,
not in his apartment down in Rhode Island for pretty
much most of the summers too, so bare they ever
saw him.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
Yeah, you know, I love I love my kids. It's
it's you know, my youngest this is his first year
going so well, his sister is, you know, Plus he
knows what he's getting himself into. So it's just the
initial let's just get him set up. I know it's
not a full day thing, but it's also during Huntsville,
so you know, once.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Again, you can go next year.

Speaker 4 (01:20:14):
By that time, he'll he'll have college under his belt
and so he won't need Dad to take him down
there for intro you know, basically introductions and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
I'm trying to tell them maybe they should just get
one of those storage units up there. Pack it all in. Yeah,
I know, but it's expensive. That's just it, those things,
because they all know the college kids need them, so
you know what they do.

Speaker 4 (01:20:34):
If here's my suggestion, if you can get both of
them into an apartment off campus, and that way you're
paying basically, you know, your apartment, you know, rent whatever,
divided by how many kids are slammed in, you know,
a floor, and you're gonna save money because you can
store their stuff down there all year around, because you're
paying for a full lease, year round.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
Correct correct correct. All good to but a little cheaper
than paying for on dorm stuff. I mean, everything is
going to cost money. It's all depending on where you
want to shift the money to. And that's why I
don't shift my money the lotto tickets or or batteries
or radios or are the other things that I say

(01:21:18):
that I'll never buy I don't need anymore? And there
I am mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (01:21:25):
That.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
So you bought one hundred out bower battery? What are
you doing with that?

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
I'm gonna take it this weekend h that's his poto gum. Yeah,
I'm just gonna you're going to operate all weekend. No,
that's a big battery to carry with you. Oh, it's
sits in thes and it sits in it sits in
the in in the better of the truck. Power pole
here hanging around.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Right off to tell gate.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
Yeah, and I got an umbrella to keep the sun off.
Hell yeah, I got to keep the woman happy. She
has her she has her special chair.

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
Looks like cave YV. Why is on six meters tonight? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
My ham alert is going off? Oh I'm sorry what
motive one thirty five?

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
I thought? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:22:21):
I didn't catch the fifty eight meters even ft A. Yeah,
I can't do FTA right now. If the fans open, well,
it won't be from here. I guarantee that, Eric. Are
you doing anything with that FT eight mode?

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:22:41):
Well I was until I decided to take and apply
the latest Flex update to three nine, and now FT
eight and Flex don't talk aboutter what. So I got
to do a full rip out and reinstall the see
what broke because you know, support, although helpful.

Speaker 1 (01:22:56):
Wasn't helpful. So I'm just going to start from the
ground up and rebuild. See what is shoe? Did you have?

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
What is shue? Did you have? Well?

Speaker 4 (01:23:05):
FT eight transmits like you can tune and click the
tune up button and you can see it go live.
You see it, pick the PTT and do the transmit,
But the Flex software just sits there and goes, uh, yeah,
we're transmitting. But I don't see any power out, so
I don't know what's going on. Yeah, I mean Flex
works fine. I can do sideband, I can do other modes,
so I think it's just with wsjt X, although I'm

(01:23:26):
running version Z, so it could have been something broken.
But I don't tell anybody I run Z just because
you know, I don't want to get the eye rolls.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
Oh, I wouldn't know the difference. If it was letter A,
I don't know, so you're not gonna get help my role.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
I've been using that for so long.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
Just run a band. It's true that might be the
other option. So yeah, no, I FT is usually the
modes that you know. I always common mode that I
play with. I haven't done much of the other stuff.
JS call I guess got up dated, but I don't
have time to install it. Play around with it. I
was gonna say, FT is just like looking for a
dial town mm hmm. I can't tell you if the

(01:24:08):
band's open. Pretty much, you know something I never yes,
So the more you the more I think about that.

Speaker 6 (01:24:14):
Steve and I'll credit the hamm Rating work Bench with
that one, as they mentioned that on one of their
recent podcasts.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
Because I've always said, you go, let's let's we'll use
a vacation as as an example. Everyone's sitting around the
table the world. You're doing anything. But if you just
have a radio and your laptop or something, you could
be doing FT eight maybe, right. I mean, listen, Joe
Brett's doing it now in the middle of the show
and I didn't even know he's even doing it.

Speaker 6 (01:24:45):
Well, you're seven or five in an iPad, right, don't
even have to have a wire connection.

Speaker 4 (01:24:50):
Or just find a friend who really likes you and
ask for their and has a flex and just ask
for their logging and password.

Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
You can do it from your phone.

Speaker 3 (01:24:59):
But the but the FT eight mode still hasn't bitten
me yet. I don't know. I don't know. Why.

Speaker 1 (01:25:07):
What do you wanted to do for you?

Speaker 4 (01:25:08):
I guess it's it's it's it's really it's kind of
just a no brain or type mode for me, Like
I can. The hardest part for me is remembering call signs.
I kind of use it as a way to get
more intelligent around like call you know call prefixes, so
I know exactly where the ones I'm tapping on and
where I'm working them from.

Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
But yeah, I mean just I mean, this is no disrespect.
I mean, this is no disrespect. At night, I go
into bed or if I'm waiting somewhere, if I just
wanted to to decompress and just like do nothing. I
play Solitaire on my phone. It's not connected to any points.
I just play solitaire. It just kind of I see

(01:25:50):
FT eight being as I'm not like for sideband, I'm
actively chasing or I'm actively working.

Speaker 1 (01:25:59):
Its eight.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
You just have to wait a minute and a half
before you get the next contact, or a little longer
depending on how long it takes to work that contact.
It's not a guarantee. That's the funny part is like
a lot of people look at FT eight. It's like
I'm just pressing buttons. I'm gonna get a contact guaranteed.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
No, it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
Again, I thought it was too. I thought, it's not.

Speaker 4 (01:26:21):
You know, those even getting new new people into FT eight,
you gotta let them realize it's still r F. You know,
you're still you know, at the mercy of the conditions
and whether or not, you know, even though the system
says the signal is like a minus nine, which is
really good, you might not be able to get them,
or they just might not hear you, or they don't
you know, or you could be in the wrong part
of the band, or you could be on top of

(01:26:41):
somebody else and they could be you know, covering over you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:43):
You never know. Maybe maybe when I get older, could
have somebody running kill a lot on top of it. Yeah,
exactly why Okay, dumb question, Does that really happen? Yep? Yeah, well,
I thought guys are supposed to be using this a
fifty wats or less. I thought twenty. If my watch
was an optimal you.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
Can run whatever power you want. It's a weak signal,
not a weak power mode.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
Okay. Like I said, for me, maybe when I get older.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
It's like that old you know, silly thing.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
It's like you see all these guys that bring you know,
amplifiers out to do park activations, I'm like, why, Like,
you're just it ruins the purest of you know, potent
activations and getting out and doing stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
But hey, you know, if you want to break your
back lifting a five on a WAT power amplifier.

Speaker 3 (01:27:31):
With you, go for it and a yol. That's a
great comment right there. Fifty Italian wats or less you
kill what? I had no people that have done killer activation.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
There's a guy in Vermont that I talked to often,
and he literally has a trailer with a twenty five
foot tower that he raises and lowers every time he
pulls up to a park.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
I mean like, oh god, but.

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
Hold on, Eric, is he using other modes or just eight? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
He pretty much uses.

Speaker 4 (01:28:02):
It's like literally he's setting up a mini field day
every time he goes out to you know, do a
park activision.

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
I mean, hey, if you've got to do it, that's
just fun.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
Right, Oh yes to no.

Speaker 4 (01:28:14):
I mean it's like, I don't know, like I'm a
purist because I was in parks on the air very
early on, so it was like kind of a while
while west, But now it's like, yeah, it's more fun
to actually like work a little bit for your contacts.
You know, I don't want to just like have the maid.

Speaker 3 (01:28:30):
But Eric, here's the thing. When you get the guy
purposely QRM and you and you can just reach over
and flip on the app and tell him to stfu
because you've got the power. But even with one hundred watts,
so if you just ignore him and work it through,
he's going to go away. But at fifteen hundred wats,

(01:28:51):
he's guaranteed to go away. Dude.

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
The only time I'd ever used fifteen hundred watches if
I was on seven to two hundred or fourteen got three.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
That's where you seven two and fourteen three. Yeah, that's
when you want to work every maritimes. That's maritime ships
on there, right.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
Yeah, don't get me going oh man, yeah, I don't.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:29:18):
I just like the fast pacedess of being able to
get into a park and get out. And you know,
I don't get me wrong, I like doing the four
our activations too, but I like to do it with
like a bunch of other people, Like if we have
three or four ops there that that to me is
a blast more than you know, just doing a four
hour activation by myself.

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
Yeah, my last activation. It's funny you said that because
my last activation, I think I was in the park
for about two and a half hours, three hours, and
once I did about thirty forty contacts, and again the
bands are doing. It's great because I know where I am.
In the afternoon, I'm pretty much got it downpack. I know,
you know where twenty meters starts to get a little flat.

(01:29:55):
But I just started just listening, just started listening, and
I was picking them off, maybe one every fifteen minutes.
But it was just fun to just listen. Although I
gotta tell you what I did here, and I was
very surprised. Gentleman keys up and he must have been
watching the spotting page and he says, so and so,
so and so are you still out there for for
I'm a PoTA hunter, And I thought that was very

(01:30:17):
strange to hear somebody calling a PoTA hunter like that,
as a PoTA hunter calling for an activator, are you
still on the band? I don't know. Maybe the guy
was new, maybe the guy just didn't care. I don't know,
but it was just the strangest thing to hear calling
blind happens see the spot and.

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
You want to contact him. You need that square, you
need that park. That's my thing when I'm when I'm
hunting poto and I go to the spot, I don't
hear anything like two seconds, I'm spinning.

Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
That's the perfect reason, Like that's what smartphones have done
done radio because literally, like we expect the same thing
with repeaters.

Speaker 4 (01:30:59):
I tell this all the time, like new hands. I'm like,
when you put your freaking call on a repeater, don't
just go away, like there's nobody knows that you were
there except for that two seconds and you put your
call out and your god, it's like, you know, hang
around for a little bit, you know, you know, sit
around and do nothing, and then you know, eventually hear something.

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
One of my buddies, we was doing a little group
poda and he was sitting there calling c Q. He
calls c Q and then you sit back and just
sit there for like two or three minutes, and he's like, man,
I ain't getting nobody before he call. You know, I'm like,
you gotta quit the dead air people are coming by

(01:31:38):
and if they don't hear you, they think you're already
going or whatever, Like pick it up, man, five seconds,
that's the most Like I agree. He started making more
contacts that way.

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
So right, if you got that memory by and you
got that memory butt in a ready program with it's
some generic CQ call it boom.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
It's my break class button.

Speaker 4 (01:32:02):
I only have one button program for one reason and
and I will not share here, but it's my daughter's
voice and it always used in a case of emergency,
so uh, and it has got me out of a
jam a couple of times. So yeah, God blessing me,
and thank you for the recording. I got to pose
a question because I was asked this by some an
older hand when we're always doing a pote activation.

Speaker 1 (01:32:24):
That I was on with him.

Speaker 4 (01:32:26):
I in terms of Joe's comment about dead air, I
like to be sarcastic and add humor along the way.
And even when I'm in like a flow, a lot
of times I'll like joke around and like, you know,
when another hunter will ask me, it's like, what stay
you in, I'll be like, well, I'm in the state
of photo euphoria. But if you really want to know
the actual state, and I'm in the state of mass

(01:32:47):
And a lot of times I feel like they get
thrown off by that. Yeah, and I'm like, but at
the same time, it's just to generate more like noise.
So people are starting to hear me more. And so
I find that, you know that work on the waterfall
might say O.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
There's times like when I'm calling c Q and I'm
not getting no answers, I just start making it fun, right,
and I just start sounding like I'm on a radio
FM radio broadcast.

Speaker 3 (01:33:10):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
I'm like, you're listening to K five YV. Why radio?
You know, just something fucky.

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
And when I got the voice to do that, when
I'm on two meetings, when.

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
I'm on two meters and traveling, instead of like just
randomly throwing my call out, I purposely look for like
the county signs and it tells me I'm coming into county.
So I'll make it a little fun for me. Like
I'm an airplane and I'd be like, hey, Grenada traffic,
this is K five y V. Why I entered the county.
You know, headed give my direction and everything and what

(01:33:44):
rode I'm on, and I with Grenada traffic. But and
I'll do that for every time I see a county sign.
Some people do it with city signs or whatever, but
it's just I'm probably not getting a call back. So
I just make it fun for me, right, and if
somebody happens to hear it, maybe they'll get a little
laugh at it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
Well, it's funny you say that, because it's like when
I first started to PoTA, I was super serious, but
then I caught I was actually watching pretty heavily Teo's daughter.

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
I can't remember her YouTube channel. Do you remember what
that was?

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
It was no, I remember watching her her. She she
was like, yeah, two sisters.

Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
They literally like have full conversations with each other while
the mic was pressed depressed, and like they were just
attracting people left and right.

Speaker 1 (01:34:28):
And I'm like, you can get away with that. And
then at that point I was like, I'm going to try.

Speaker 3 (01:34:32):
Look at power. I commend them. They work, they work
the crowd, they work it. I will do that when
things slow, when things slow down. But the one thing
I am consistent with is if you are a mobile
station and you work me, I'm always gonna Marrio Astraley,
thank you, thanks guys. The I will knock back. I

(01:34:55):
will always ask the mobile guy, what's your end and
how much power are you?

Speaker 1 (01:35:01):
Know?

Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
Just a quick you know, not only to promote, but
I want these are guys who have spent a lot
of time, like you, Eric, what you've done, and you're
with your mobile set up. And it also generates maybe
some other people are going to hear it. They're gonna
hear what you know, what you again if they're watching
the waterfall. But I do it as a serious to
seriously congratulate the guy who is he He could be

(01:35:22):
you know, five hundred to one thousand miles away from me,
and here we are working. You know, we're defying what's
probably not you know, his antenna is more of a
compromise in mind, but yet we're still making contact, you know.
And to me, that's fun. That is really really fun
because I know when when I do it, guys do
it to me and it's fun. Yeah, you know, so.

Speaker 1 (01:35:43):
Yeah, yeah. And any chance I get a chance that
I'm you know, working another park to park and.

Speaker 4 (01:35:47):
I know the the other guy on the other end
of that, Micah, I always you know, drag it out
as much as I can and you know, try to
make some banter back and forth. And you know, people
are a little odded out by it, but I'm gonna
seem like yo, yeah, it helps, it definitely helps.

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
It breaks the you know, the detension, you run your.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
Activation, how you want to run your activation, because I'm
sure if we went around the room here we could
all say some of the things that we don't like
about other people's activations. But we're not going to do that.
But that's not fair. So and we're all men.

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
So and that's what I think about Puto power.

Speaker 3 (01:36:17):
No, just kidding.

Speaker 4 (01:36:20):
I to try activating with them, I had, Well, no,
I've overworked them. Got to be that's up this way.
They have to come up this way. Otherwise the only
next time I'll probably meet them is a date next year.

Speaker 1 (01:36:31):
So Steve, was just one time that you uh was
that you talk?

Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
So anyway, just the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and then the
Friday after.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
I didn't ask for the story. I'm just trying to
make statement. Look at it, just the facts, looking at
his fate, like I don't know what else went home
besides photo.

Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
But like you don't get that jolly lot. It's a
lot like the Grouch. When we talk about Carlos, he
gets all, you know, start.

Speaker 3 (01:37:03):
He's not Johnny Cochran, Just go easy. He's not Tonny Cochran.

Speaker 1 (01:37:06):
You right now, it's I'm thinking like hooked upon something
special or something I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:37:14):
He's got.

Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
He's got a slick haircut. You know.

Speaker 4 (01:37:17):
Need to make PoTA pillows like Tank does and send
one to Steve.

Speaker 3 (01:37:22):
You know, if one is still still listening. Excuse me,
I have stolen his hit. One of his words, he says,
I get excuse me? Like the bug?

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
I think so? Okay, he's now that bug is that
bug is now dessert Vaughan when he says I'll catch
you down the call acts. I like that. I like that.
If he hasn't done that, that should be a T shirt.
That should be a sticky. I'm surprised that hasn't been
a T shirt yet. I've heard that quite often. I
love that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:55):
Come on, Julie, let's get on that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:56):
There we go. That bug went right wo man, that bug.
That bug was stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:38:01):
Hey, that's nutrition in New England.

Speaker 3 (01:38:05):
It wasn't even chocolate covered out. Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
You know playing is good too. I know what you
gotta do, Roger.

Speaker 3 (01:38:14):
That Tank pillows are available on I don't want to
say that word?

Speaker 4 (01:38:21):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:38:21):
Etsy?

Speaker 1 (01:38:22):
Etsy?

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
Etsy? Who did the tank for you?

Speaker 7 (01:38:28):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
Quirky quirky did yep? I keep forgetting from what I understand, Hey,
Quirky has those other pillows, the one forty six five
two that it looks like an H T.

Speaker 4 (01:38:40):
D. See Quirky should have done one of Frank's face.
That would have been more of a top seller.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
I think I'm thinking, well, I'm thinking smoking ape I
will buy I want to smoke an a pillow because
I have his T shirts. And let me tell you something.
You go out, you go out in the world wearing
a smoking a T shirt. Man, you better I don't
wear them anymore because you know I'm I'm attached. But
that thing, that thing is a chick magnet. Something about

(01:39:08):
that T shirt is a chick magnet.

Speaker 1 (01:39:10):
A right hear me out tank radios faces a pillow.
The beard is like a shag. Real there's something right there.
That's it, Joe, that's it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:23):
Ticket right there. See Worky, get on that thing, James,
get on that thing.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
If bobble heads weren't so expensive and you had to
get them in like mass quantity, I was very much
almost at the point of getting three bubble heads for Livery.

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
And Ham, so we we actually were looking at it
to ourselves, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39:43):
It would be awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
We could like do it like a full set and
then just have a McDonald's Ham Radio Clubhouse happy meal
that you buy a set of three.

Speaker 3 (01:39:49):
And we were going to tell guys keep them in
the box and someday they're going to be really worth
all money.

Speaker 1 (01:39:55):
We started talking to vendors and we just couldn't get dancers, yeah, answers.

Speaker 4 (01:40:00):
And they want the minimum quantities and I'm like, I
am not going to store that much. Sorry as well.

Speaker 3 (01:40:05):
As well, the thing is also too is the character.
I want the character to be right. I'm very very particular.
It has to be you know, I know the traditional
stuff like the the funk pops those are that's a
whole different world. But the Bibbleheads are very very close
to a character and it has to be right. If

(01:40:25):
it's not right, it's it's horrible. So and you're gonna
have to pay a lot of money for better quality,
and we don't. And beer Stack is not gonna bear Snack. Listen,
no love Beersack. Yeah, yeah, I love beer Stack, but
he's that. That was a definite no right out of
the gate, you know. So they wanted a little bit

(01:40:46):
of money in all fairness to bear Stack. He was
right it's it's not like you said, Eric too to
carry that amount of inventory.

Speaker 4 (01:40:56):
M Yeah, we were lucky to break even on the
whiskey glasses with the free and hand. So it's a
tough deal as a content creator.

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
Yes, it is, man because you're because you really don't know,
I mean, but you learn to your glasses and your
ducks and everything else. You figure out, you know, what
what do people want and what people say they want,
you know, but yeah, what will they buy? Sometimes it

(01:41:25):
could be the most obscure things and we just don't
know it yet. You Like, people have said to me,
I should get a cigar and get a nice band,
you know, work with somebody that has you know, smoke
cigaretes RF on here and I don't know. It's are
people going to buy them?

Speaker 4 (01:41:42):
Well, here's here's another side of things. Like I I know,
I don't know if HR two is in the chat
at all again, but yeah, dollars, Mike is right, Mike,
You're right. He's been trying to work on getting his
own beer label. And my brother's a brewer up here
in New Hampshire and so I mentioned it to him
and we're starting that. But my gosh, it's a pain

(01:42:03):
in the butt to just get to a point of
like actually coming up with a name and a right
mix and whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
It's like that and we're almost there.

Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
But you know, even then at that point the brewers like, Okay, well,
how much can you get for a commitment?

Speaker 1 (01:42:16):
And I'm like, that's a long ask.

Speaker 4 (01:42:19):
I mean, like, how are you going to commit to
having you like, are you gonna be able to drop
ship some of this stuff? You know, you know in general,
and so yeah, it just gets into whole logistics stuff.
But it would be nice. I mean, I'd love to
have a couple of Ham radio inspired beers.

Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
It's the licensing easier than what the logistics of this.

Speaker 4 (01:42:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's just the shipping part of it. And
then he has to commit to canning, you know, quantities
and stuff like that. So you know, if you're interested
and you want a hamd radio inspired beer lif free
and Ham stuff, hit me up over you know, lif
free Ham and we'll get you on the list.

Speaker 3 (01:42:57):
That wouldn't be bad, but.

Speaker 1 (01:43:02):
Is not even not flavored beer is not good either.

Speaker 3 (01:43:09):
What are you saying that's like PAP's blue ribbon or
barbecue potato chips to you exactly, and oh, you know
what I wanted to tell you, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:43:19):
Not a clue.

Speaker 3 (01:43:21):
No, you don't know. Hang on, let me try to
live in your head. It's too scary. I had this
stuff on my hamburger. Have you ever heard of Walker
and Sons slap your mama, Cajun seasoning? Anyone? But I've
heard it. Well, they didn't tell me it was the
hot one. I guess they have a regular season one

(01:43:43):
and then they have the hot one. And the first
thing I said, is is it hot? They're like, no, no, no, no, no.
We we eat jalipinos.

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
We do.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
And I should have I should have knew right there
you say that word Alipino. I'm walking away because I
can't do it, like like the day I meet Frank,
I can't have ranks, famous chili beans, none of that stuff. Well,
this slap your mama stuff, I gotta tell you something.
For the first five seconds, I'm like, wow, this took
a hamburger and just accelerated the seasoning and this and that,

(01:44:14):
And then all of a sudden, I'm like, oh, you
probably had the regular No I had that one. I had,
I had. I'm looking at the picture right now and
and the guy's finger was purposely when he when he yeah,
he purposely hit it about. He didn't put a lot

(01:44:34):
that was but it was just the point of oh
my god. But it was good until I had that,
you know reaction that I always do. Mm hmm goodness. Yeah,
but good stuff. All right, I'm seeing the numbers go
down a little. Our watchers are down.

Speaker 1 (01:44:56):
To nine and it's corporates here, so that number is
always going to drop, I guarantee. Yeah, so did the
contact on six? I made one?

Speaker 3 (01:45:09):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:45:10):
How far?

Speaker 3 (01:45:11):
Yeah? Whereabouts? Where Where was the other station?

Speaker 1 (01:45:13):
Whiskey seven, Oscar Sugar Golf, West Coast? All right, probably washed?

Speaker 3 (01:45:19):
I guess Washington State, maybe Oregon.

Speaker 4 (01:45:22):
Yeah, that's the eighty meter boy lout. Yeah, I can't
put one up here. Space h o A wouldn't approve
of that. You wouldn't see a wire, trust me. Well,
the one wire I have up they won't. But yeah,

(01:45:43):
eighty meters. I don't have enough woods to put up
an eighty meter full length. Well you put you put
clothes pans on it before you pull it up in
the tree. Yes, just yeah, it's only fifty feet up.
I really want my claundry dried really well, you said, Joe,
it's two hundred and sixty feet.

Speaker 1 (01:46:02):
That's a lot. Yeah, about to sixty six is what
I measured at the plus or minus just a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
What's the height of it? What's the right, Joe?

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
Uh, thirty feet at the most and thirteen feet at
the least. That's it probably, you know, it's probably not
five feet above my metal carport on one leg, but
thirteen feet across the driveway. It's thirty feet at the
feed point at the tower. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
Interesting and it it works so good.

Speaker 1 (01:46:36):
I left it alone.

Speaker 3 (01:46:39):
So what are you using it for eighty or for
one sixty?

Speaker 1 (01:46:43):
No, I don't use it for eady. It's forty through six.

Speaker 3 (01:46:49):
And it works.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
Speaking of working, and you get your time to fixed out, Steve.

Speaker 3 (01:46:54):
Or now now wow, now the old tower.

Speaker 4 (01:46:58):
Wait a bit a dick, Eric got Sorry, rude issue,
root cause analysis.

Speaker 1 (01:47:11):
We got to work to, you know, solving a you know,
a work towards a you know, new punch.

Speaker 3 (01:47:15):
This Well, I filed the insurance claim with corporate and
they denied it.

Speaker 4 (01:47:20):
Sorry, well you must have went to the division instead
of a corporate corporate.

Speaker 3 (01:47:24):
But now now he has to do what's called the repeal.
You have to repeal. Yep, I'm gonna put up a
round twenty five, probably after Huntsville. Oh cool, nice, same
spot or different place, same spot, but probably gonna put
a hex beam up on top of it, the VQ

(01:47:45):
hex or something different. If I can find a deal
on of v h q X, I'll probably go.

Speaker 1 (01:47:52):
He does live in a certain state that I'm yeah,
I know, I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (01:47:57):
Uh, you know we could get him to ship it
locally and save yourself, but load on the shipping costs.

Speaker 3 (01:48:01):
You mean the Granite State?

Speaker 1 (01:48:03):
Yes, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:48:04):
See, I learned, I learned. I learned that tonight. I
always thought it was Vermont. I don't know why I.

Speaker 1 (01:48:11):
No Vermont?

Speaker 3 (01:48:12):
Nomm so what's the Vermont state? Man? What is wrong
with you?

Speaker 1 (01:48:21):
Vermont? I don't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:23):
I have to go to the googles, that's what vermans.

Speaker 1 (01:48:26):
I think it's not maple syrup?

Speaker 3 (01:48:28):
Did you just see that bug? That bug did a
comics on me.

Speaker 1 (01:48:31):
Sure it's not that one of those cicados or something.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
No, we don't have that. We don't have that those
those things. We've had pterodactyl sized mosquitoes down here.

Speaker 1 (01:48:41):
Oh, god, no, thanks.

Speaker 3 (01:48:44):
Yeah, my wife was walking around with a fly swatter
that was a bug zappor today. That's why I didn't
know for this weekend if I should bring the liquid
you know, d d T with me in the the
spray moump.

Speaker 1 (01:48:58):
You're coming to that or that's for sure if they're
that big.

Speaker 3 (01:49:03):
Yeah, and I and I got the fan down here
that you know, screws up there, screws up the ax
on them. They can't they don't know what. They don't
know how to fly.

Speaker 1 (01:49:14):
And you got that information from made for TV.

Speaker 3 (01:49:17):
No, man, you experiment, You expl.

Speaker 4 (01:49:20):
You experiment, like how do you capture said fly or
bug to try the experiment with? Be?

Speaker 3 (01:49:28):
Could they stay away from you? When if the bugs
are not biting me, that means something what's going on?
It's not the cigar. I think it's a myth. I
think it's a myth. I've never seen any Listen, you
guys have known me. I've smoked a lot of cigars
during all four seasons. I have never seen my cigar
that where the bugs say, oh, it's a smell. I
don't want to be around that. I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:49:49):
I don't think.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
Yeah, they don't do it. That's the worse the cigar smells,
the better it tastes so so but flies. But again, yeah, true,
but you're probably sweating a heck a lot more so.
That's what they're attracted to anyway. So I'm not sweat.
I'm in a tank. I'm in a tank radio T shirt.

Speaker 7 (01:50:07):
Time.

Speaker 3 (01:50:08):
Man, this is nice thing. I am cool. This this
thing is very so.

Speaker 1 (01:50:11):
You're wearing your half shirt? What your half shirt?

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
Oh that's not a visual I needed, thank Eric. I
have never I have even when I used to wear
the Budweiser shirt in eighth grade. That was never. I
never wore ad with a mullet. But no, it wasn't
a mallet. It was not a mallet. No, no, But seriously,
this this is tank. This tank radio shirt is a

(01:50:37):
very You could wear its on a hot day. It breathes,
it's it's a nice shirt. It's not that heavy cotton.
It's a nice breeze. It's not it's not a breathable one.
But I don't know. I must have some polyesters or
hemp or something.

Speaker 1 (01:50:50):
And want a T shirt.

Speaker 3 (01:50:58):
Heat. Well whatever whatever it's doing. Man, I'm not overheating
right now. I am very stage. Yeah, I'm cool man,
the dry fit style. But the fan is the fan
is blowing and it's keeping the bugs away from me
except for the one that I ate.

Speaker 1 (01:51:16):
But it's blowing them right into your mouth, really is
what it's doing.

Speaker 3 (01:51:20):
But h okay, chats going down? How fast?

Speaker 1 (01:51:27):
Oh? Yeah, well we dropped by like six.

Speaker 3 (01:51:29):
No, no, Randy, Y know something, Randy? I thought I was.

Speaker 1 (01:51:32):
Called, we're just heading to the sewer level, got it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
No. And I don't wear tank tops and I don't
wear crop tops. That that's I've never been. That, that's
not hammocks the whole night yards. I never I never
even I I never even wore back in the day.
What do you call those things? These a sleeveless the
sleeveless muscle shirts. I don't that's not me. Mmm, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:51:57):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:51:57):
Listen, my woman knows where the muscles and the tat.
That's all. That's all I got. That's all I got.
That's the only one that needs to know.

Speaker 1 (01:52:08):
If isn't gonna stop punching dicks, that's all I got
to say. Oh, good lord, Vaughn had a serious question
in the chat, but I can't find him. Only a
string yard highlighted.

Speaker 3 (01:52:25):
Wow, Hey, Casey won you u E R is right?
Peppermint and eucalypses. She's absolutely right. That is a natural
way of keeping bugs away. He's absolutely right.

Speaker 4 (01:52:35):
I have to ask the question for Vaughn and maybe
Julie can answer this directly. Does Vaughan have any other
T shirts besides Icon?

Speaker 3 (01:52:42):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:52:43):
Okay, just was curious because I like his wardrobe.

Speaker 4 (01:52:47):
But I figured, you know, I might want to send
him a Livery and ham or shirt, but you know,
to kind of mix things up.

Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
Hey, you could send one, Okay, I'm sure he'd wear
it once.

Speaker 4 (01:52:58):
And speaking of shirts, actually, you decided to bring back
the Clubhouse wrecking shirt back, So if you're interested in
grabbing one.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
I need to get one in a bigger size. Okay. Well,
in the store, the two X was very tight. Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:53:12):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 4 (01:53:12):
Like the problem with these on demand print companies is
that they offer the right sizing and then they go
ahead and change stuff on you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:53:19):
I've got a few myself, so I always order a
size bigger and then let the dryer take it of
the rest of the work.

Speaker 1 (01:53:26):
Mm hmm, are mostly dry? Oh geez, Well, how much
money you got yeah, say who's paying for it? And
what are you putting it on?

Speaker 3 (01:53:37):
What's the difference, seriously, what's what's the difference.

Speaker 1 (01:53:41):
For one?

Speaker 3 (01:53:42):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
And how you're gonna get it up the tower? Are
you doing it yourself? Try bands?

Speaker 3 (01:53:48):
Probably a little easier lift up than the X, but
I have access to a man left.

Speaker 4 (01:53:54):
You're gonna get more bands on the heck mostly well, mostly, well, yeah,
forty twenty ten, right or forty or twenty ten to fifteen?
Mosley's any on which one you get, hecks is going
to be twenty and below. It's probably done to six yep.

Speaker 3 (01:54:13):
I thought the hecks did did forty forty? Also? Now Nope,
they've got to make that too huge. Well, they've got
a couple.

Speaker 6 (01:54:20):
There's a couple of them out there that'll do kind
of a shorty forty mm hmmm, but they're not great
at it. VHQ has a rotatable diepole that he puts
under his hecks. Yep, that might work, but I figure
for forty and eighty, I'll just run an in fed.

Speaker 1 (01:54:41):
Yeah, you run a wire off the top of the tower.

Speaker 4 (01:54:43):
You'll be good. You're up there. Just attach it and
run it all the way out. My buddy Ryan actually
the same way. He's got a Moses I think it's
a Mosley try band, and he's got you know, band
en Feds for eighty and forty.

Speaker 3 (01:55:04):
She was saying, she's paying for a lot of it,
are we all?

Speaker 6 (01:55:10):
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how she celebrated twenty
years at her job today, because I don't think she's
that old.

Speaker 1 (01:55:16):
You never asked a woman in their age, that's no,
did you punch the face?

Speaker 6 (01:55:20):
But yeah, yeah, no, I know better than that, right,
But I'm thinking she had to start working at like ten,
because she's got to be no older than thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:55:29):
Well, dude, how long you been in the workforce? God,
twenty plus years? Yeah, okay, so there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:55:36):
Dude. I look, I still look. Look, I still look
look like I'm thirty five, Yes, right, all right, maybe
forty five? That that babyface shaven every day.

Speaker 1 (01:55:47):
Put it this way is though I put it. Let
me tell you a short story.

Speaker 4 (01:55:51):
So I was in watching You Guys on TV in
the living room and my son and his girlfriend showed
up on the couch and my girlfriend his girlfriend was
looking super like focused on watching you guys. And the
first thing she does is turn to me and goes,
who's that old guy smoking the cigar. I said, oh,
that's is. Oh it's like, oh, I like his name.

(01:56:14):
And then she stopped it. After that old guy, the old.

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
Guy right, let me say, I'm listen at my age,
I'm still moving like a four year old. I'm doing
for listen, not gonna listen. I say every morning I am,
I say a prayer, and I'm what I am grateful
for the first thing I say is my health. My health.

(01:56:40):
So it took me long. Mind.

Speaker 4 (01:56:42):
Like I know, when people get to like fifty sixty
sixty five, they say, hey, the worst thing they have
is their mind, so you don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
But no, no, but but I remember the days when
I was eighteen, going in, going into the package, trying
to get a six pack, and there was just like
noh or or a court or a forty ouncer and
there was no way. I still had a whip out.
I still had to whip out the I D. And
then when and then when it went to twenty and
then twenty one, but still they were still I D.
I mean a couple of times they're like, that's a fake.
I D. It's not a fake ID. This is an

(01:57:10):
actual state driver's license. They didn't believe it because of
the face. Because you went to the local packy.

Speaker 1 (01:57:16):
That's why.

Speaker 4 (01:57:17):
Hm, well that's where you go to get here in
my youn't go local, you go somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (01:57:23):
You go out of town. You never go to the
local leguor store in your own town. Guarantee, the inner
city store, the inner city packie didn't care. Seriously, the
inner city guys, they didn't care. Day didn't. They didn't care.
If you had cash, it's green. George Washington was on
that thing. You're good.

Speaker 1 (01:57:42):
Mm hmm is that true?

Speaker 3 (01:57:44):
Swear to go twenty nine?

Speaker 1 (01:57:46):
Is not twenty nine? Is she? Jeames is being nice? Yeah,
we're just kissing, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
He probably wants one of those t shirts that they
that they wear.

Speaker 4 (01:57:57):
He wants a free school tenant. That's what good luck.
I couldn't even get one of those. You want to,
I can say, I can send you one.

Speaker 1 (01:58:06):
I got mine. I'm not a big fan of.

Speaker 3 (01:58:07):
It, No, no, why not? Why not?

Speaker 4 (01:58:11):
I manhands first and foremost, and that thing's way too
small for me, and so like when you try to
wind it up, unless you've got a screwdriver with you,
and I don't pack a screwdriver with me. I'm sorry,
Like you got, there's gotta be some mechanism that allows
me to get my manhand fingers around the knob to
wind it up the right way. And at that point,
like my endfed is much easier to wind in a

(01:58:32):
figure eight every time. So it's more of just a
it's it's not a bad intenta. I took it out
and used it. It worked great during you know G four,
you know storm, and you know picked up great FD
eight signals. But you know, for me, it's just you know,
I don't want something on a school yo.

Speaker 3 (01:58:48):
What my secret was with that? Noo, my space pen.
I always have a space pen on me. Always stuck
my space pen into the hole and it just made
it easier.

Speaker 1 (01:58:59):
To what's that in comparison to a regular pen.

Speaker 3 (01:59:03):
Then, because of the ink, it can write on anything.
I have space right upside down, upside down, on water,
I have space. I have space pads. So if it's wet,
it doesn't care.

Speaker 4 (01:59:14):
It writes, it writes, and it also winds pool intennis too.
But also, yeah, you know the only thing I and
I made a bunch of comments in my video about it.
But you know, I if I was going to do,
you know, having to unscrew a little screw to be
able to put in a you know, counterpoise wire and
stuff like that, you know, some of the things that

(01:59:34):
need to be improved upon, which is fine, you can
always do that with your own but you know, I
just I'm convenience man. I just want to be able
to put an antenta up and go fair enough, that's
your fun. Yeah, absolutely, it is the great intendent. It
does this job, but just not for me, all right, and.

Speaker 3 (01:59:56):
Two hours already already it's a bit an hour and
a half really because I wasn't here for twenty minutes
because I was on an ice cream. Yeah, yeah, but
fair enough. And when corporate comes in, and when corporate
comes in, you really don't know how it's going to be.
I mean, if I was.

Speaker 4 (02:00:10):
Really going to be corporate, we would have we would
have definitely gone another hour here and we would work
out a breakout sessions and uh, you know, a icebreaker too.

Speaker 3 (02:00:19):
So there's a power point. Would there there be a
power point in there too?

Speaker 1 (02:00:24):
Possibly?

Speaker 3 (02:00:25):
Yeah, And there's always somebody from HR. There's always somebody
from HR. Who wants their fifteen to twenty minutes of
they always have that point.

Speaker 7 (02:00:32):
No no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
We don't need no more HR. If everyone just does
their job, we don't need HR. It's very simple. It's
very very simple. This HR stuff is just crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:00:43):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:00:45):
Hm.

Speaker 1 (02:00:45):
Well, you know I always say from oh you hung up,
oh you hung up?

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
Barrack day, dang it.

Speaker 4 (02:00:54):
Oh well I don't say anything, then fine, yep, oh good.
Imagine this athesis and take take note of the results.

Speaker 3 (02:01:04):
That's what HR says. If you think, if you think,
if you think you're going to say it, then don't
say it. Because they don't want to, because they don't
want to have to do any work. That's why true.
That all right, Joe, what do you get coming up? H?

Speaker 1 (02:01:22):
Nothing? Eric, nothing, nothing, wrote now paper? Okay, Eric, how
about I got a lot?

Speaker 4 (02:01:31):
Let me see, just from a channel standpoint, finishing up
a video on the Lazy Dog. So anybody knows what
that's about, you know, stay tuned. But uh, if you
want to find out more about it, you can always
go to mad Dog Coils. He did a video on it.
But that's a freaking little fun antenna. I'm pretty happy
and it's exactly what the name means. It's lazy dog.

(02:01:53):
So you know, you put two and two together, you'll
figure out what's all about. But uh yeah, just finished
up that really least a video because I had like
five people asking me about, hey, can you do a
hand check hotline to uh you know hams over IP
video on how to convert and so I'm like fine,
I had to put my it hat on and frank
something out.

Speaker 3 (02:02:13):
But out out of that, you know, since Hamscheck hotlines
going away, yep, yep, for sure?

Speaker 1 (02:02:19):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (02:02:19):
Is it really? Yep?

Speaker 1 (02:02:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:02:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:02:22):
Can I ask twenty ninth is it.

Speaker 3 (02:02:24):
Because the infrastructure just didn't take off or no more
phones available? What? What's the what was the reason?

Speaker 1 (02:02:33):
Well know the technical reasons.

Speaker 6 (02:02:36):
Yeah, they just got to be a lot. It grew
pretty quick. Yeah, they sent out an email. There's been
a bunch of different posts on it.

Speaker 4 (02:02:46):
Well, I think the biggest thing is and I and
I'll make this really short, but I find as a
Hammerdio community, we need to do a lot more for
a lot of the smaller businesses that are out there,
even in the free services and supporting them because whatever
the economy looks like for you, it's gonna get you know, bumpy.
And if you're having to deal with like they're set
up where they have a huge infrastructure you know to

(02:03:07):
service a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (02:03:08):
Yeah, that comes at up cost for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:03:11):
So you know, help support your vendors out there, you know,
because they're doing all the awesome cool work and keeping
this hobby, you know, growing and giving us stuff to
play with.

Speaker 1 (02:03:20):
So that's my spiel.

Speaker 4 (02:03:23):
But yeah, so outside of that, I got a couple
of potas that I got to do this week with
a couple of channel members and channel subscribers. So and
then Sundays is my brew and activate live streams there
you go, and then that and then at the end
of the month, we're going to be on what.

Speaker 3 (02:03:41):
Yeah you're Northeast. Yeah, and you are allowed on IS.
So I forgive you now so you know, appreciate it
what I tell you every time I vote. But I
then I say, it doesn't matter, just pick the date
and if I if I if I'm available, and if
you will allow me to come in, I'll come in. Yeah,
it's very simple. I'm one of the I'm one of
the easiest employees to work with. You should know that

(02:04:03):
by now, I don't know about that, but yeah. The Grouch,
on the other hand, he's more flexible.

Speaker 1 (02:04:10):
Put it that way.

Speaker 3 (02:04:13):
Grouch will tell you how it is. He's grouchy though.

Speaker 4 (02:04:16):
Well he's grouchy if you press the right button. Otherwise
you know, he's a calm, even cool guy.

Speaker 3 (02:04:21):
Love. I love him. He's a great guy. Is a
what do you get? Coming up? Brother? Hanging out with
the lady and Poden and he eating some food and
I hope I don't get arrested in seven days, that's all.
Whoa nom. I've never been arrested. I've never been a
rest I'm a good guy. So we'll have fun. We'll

(02:04:42):
have fun.

Speaker 4 (02:04:44):
Try to work. Try forty. Please use forty this time,
all the time, all the time. Man, Well start on forty.
Here's the problems, Like you start on twenty and I
can't get you, and then all of a sudden, I've
already walked away.

Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
B percent of my activations always start on forty, but
recently I've been going to twenty and then I hit forty.
Now I'll go down to fifteen. See what seventeen or
twelve is, or I'll start chasing people. If I could
hear them. Who knows, I'm all over the place.

Speaker 6 (02:05:15):
Well, like I said when we started, I've got a
class going this week. We're gonna be testing people on Saturday.
Hopefully we get done in time. Got fifteen in the
class right now.

Speaker 3 (02:05:26):
Excellent, very good. That's good to hear.

Speaker 6 (02:05:30):
So I'll report next week on how many pasts. But
awesome than that, I hope to catch everybody on the bands.

Speaker 3 (02:05:36):
All right, man erecting that big, hard, stiff black mast.
And is Eric speaking of the school Tenna. I broke
my little dude using the school Tenna when I was
out in.

Speaker 1 (02:05:51):
Sandy, So.

Speaker 4 (02:05:54):
That's a tough one to do, man, But you did it.
I heard he's broken a couple of them. Yeah, but
Seawn took care of me, so okay, that's a nice job.
So alright, say seventy three all seven sevens is.

Speaker 3 (02:06:10):
Mm hm.

Speaker 1 (02:06:12):
M hm oh bye

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