Episode 229: Elle Marie KJ5LXP

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Stever? You okay? What like?

Speaker 1 (00:03):
You're a mid grunt right now? Bring your posture ups?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Huh my fucking computer.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
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 Tuesday night, seven o'clock Central time.
There you go. You open up your crackers again. I

(00:33):
thought I heard some crunching.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
No, that was no way.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's not supposed to eat on stream. We got to
show the mouthful.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
So what do you? What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Stever? You okay?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
What like?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
You're a mid grunt right now? Bring your posture ups?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Huh my computers, you need to say that.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
No, you got stuff to do. No, do not update.
Chad almost got me tonight. You board wouldn't exactly angled, right, man.
They were really good. Miss missed a couple there, kind there.
I practiced my my type in speed in episode.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
What's it up to now? Fifty words a minute?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Five words a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
With your two fingers.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
It's gotta be that Southern Misissippi twang on it.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Hey, when was the last time all four of us
were together? Weeks ago, a month ago?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I was not here last month. Never well, well together
in person, that's a different story.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, because okay, we we we have that funny though,
the guy who got caught sleeping in the chair.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Slinging, I love you too, Tortoise says, hunting and pecking. Yep,
that's what it used to be until I got an
office job and then I had to step well, well, well.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Look at that.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's why I was reading the smoking coming. He must
be bored.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
He Hey, he wanted to learn something from El Marie.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
That's what's That's very true. That's very true.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well is that how have you been, my friend? Busy week?
I know you've been working a lot, Like you're using
the excuse that I used to use.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, but my paycheck is showing it.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
And unfortunately, between the Amazon deliveries coming in, you would
think I would you think I I'd have a zero balance?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is the Amazon truck driving back going? Yep, we got
another one.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
For you, Jennifers back up of the front yard. Yeah
kind of Jennifer is like you want to key to
the garage. Uh, there's there's chocolate chip cookies in there
for you and some gatorad, yeah, bottle of water for you.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
Depending on which grudge or opener you have. You can
actually link it to your Amazon and secure the packages
in the garage.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Well, well they think of next.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, they're doing drone deliveries in Arizona with out of Amazon,
and they're big with the sixty five pounds and they
do like a seventy miles an hour.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Are you serious?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Sixty five mile?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm sorry, don't don't get the balloon in the way.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Mm hm No, it's a big thing. There's a big
notice of proposed realmmaking that just came out where they're
wanting to give drones right away over maned aircraft.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
So so my garage from my garage has been turned
into a staging area.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Now that you're gonna say a studio.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
No, no, no, no. We released kid number one back
up to the college.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
So she's she's she started early, she she went, she's
done summer break.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Time to get back to business.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah yeah, now now she's got Now we got.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
The boy and he's he's he's next in line this uh,
I think Friday. So it's been a lot of tears,
but we're happy for them. It's tears, it's you know
how it's it's all those emotions. But I think I'm
gonna be able to take a good hot shower without
the water running, you know, changing the temperature.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
The food bill is going.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
To go in the the the the the the no
diversity in the pantry and refrigerator of what everybody likes
because these kids, these kids eat some crazy stuff with
guacamole and and avocado and doctor pepper and all this
other stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
And I'm like, what happened to just plain old FreeDOS people?

Speaker 4 (04:36):
My no, no barbecue are not at my new q
r P radio came in from q r P lapse
this thing.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh yeah, show and tail. Where's it at right?

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Talk about it?

Speaker 3 (04:55):
But we have a guest tonight. We have to get.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Indselves.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah next week, next week.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
All I'll tell you is, if you guys are into
q r P, this is the this is a very
talking about Fit it in your pocket with an antenna,
a little battery and your you're it's what is it?
You guys didn't know that from the nineties. No, that

(05:24):
came from the nineties. Man with ice cube and and
by fully shod all that stuff I thought people in
the chat were old like.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Would have been good. What is Nile one? Last one?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Urban Dictionary?

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Because I've been on Urban Dictionary before. There's things down
there that I don't want to learn about.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah, and I want and I don't want to see
things get getting three D printed around here anymore.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Speaking of three D printed, Joe Brent, how was the
Oh wait, you went to Huntsville? Really?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, there's always next year. Where's my wamp wamp?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
So for those of you and you even had someone
I saw a picture that someone showed up with his
shirt on.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, somebody even paid money to this sir to go
along with the experience of seeing the antenna activation.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
And that was our buddy Frequency Frontiers.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
So maybe next year apes this time to put his
to be.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Just a lot of positive car Why didn't you post
the positive stuff?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't I didn't see the positive stuff a lot.
I thought I was speaking of positive stuff. Tortoise Overland,
remember for thirteen months and the tortoise is over one year.
Finally been a good year. Thank you for your support,
So thank you for all of you guys in Green
those channel supporters that give to the show monthly so

(07:09):
that we can carry on this train wreck. Hey, guess
people watching we.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Speaking of a train wreck. Ask me later. I'm thinking
about buying an e bike.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, I guess I'm gonna put a radio on it,
just like the old just like the old cbdAB.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Put it on, put it on on the mold. We'll
talk about that later.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
You need it with Mike, he's got a neat one.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Hold forty five member for thirty two months. They're bad
in thirty two months.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
That's fantastic. Mo. Thank you, Frank, I see you in there.
Otherwise I'm gonna be reminded, uh, Eric in one you
are remember for fifteen months? People keep giving me free once. Well,
you know, maybe that's a maybe you should join up.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
That's what happens when you're a vegan, see the vegans.
That's what happens when you're a vegan. The walk just
started again.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Chris radio for like member for twenty eight months. Let's
keep it rolling. Maybe a video is so see your
your fans want a video.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Maybe maybe me on the e bike. Maybe maybe I'll
do what but I'll have a radio. Maybe I'll put
eight ninety one or whatever later later.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
We haven't got Greg member for sixteen months. Thanks for
making sure my make It Doug gets exercise monthly, Run says.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Run says that e bike, I have a banana seat
on it better?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Is it good? Is it good? Is he gonna have
cards in the spokes or do they have spokes anymore?

Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I could do that?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Is those generation?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
I could do that?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, Misha remember for nineteen months. Thanks for being there.
And look at there Twitter's over lad and gifted five
clubhouse memberships. I've got a sprint over to the other
screen to get those.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Rab one Eric Rabbit hamp Tail it hurts and Dean
k Q four a d J.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, you guys give a shout out to Tortoise Overland
in the chat say thank you for that for the
five gifted and look at they are the last but
not Lea Samrio Hammett Radio to remember for sixteen months.
Oh Shinnizzle absolutely.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Got Urban Dictionary.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
I'm not m Julie to power. Thanks for the eleven months.
You guys are awesome. Steve, how was how was your week?
And your week?

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Again? Week was good weekend. We're not going to talk about.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
We don't know. We have to tell him I don't remember.
He needs reminding. Oh no, what did you get into
that erased your memory?

Speaker 6 (09:57):
What was it?

Speaker 1 (09:58):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Brown stuff or your stuff in a mason jar?

Speaker 5 (10:01):
No, no, I didn't find the mason jar. That's what
I was looking at, looking for it that you always do,
you always play.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, were you doing your impression of norm and shocking? Greg?

Speaker 2 (10:21):
D they find you in a diture?

Speaker 3 (10:23):
He was in a chair. He was in a chair.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh and that was thing better him the picture with
him in the chair. He was he was straight that night. Yeah,
he was just a little time to talk about it.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, what happened to what happens at Huntsville stays at Huntsville.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
No, y'all pulled me out of my vacation.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Huh huh.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
And of course Steve does not still after three years,
doesn't mute his phone, of course not. Why what I Tuesday?
I mean, it is Tuesday. You would think you would know.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
He's an important man.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
He's got to be. What here is?

Speaker 5 (11:04):
That was actually fun texting me. I was just gonna
say somebody said Ray was hogging the clear stuff. I'm
using your thumbnail. Now I have to say that that
turned out. I was like, that was a great picture,
had a great lighting.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
And if I was there, If I was there, I
would be putting. I would say, somebody get some video
of this.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
I'm gonna put a blanket on you, and we're gonna
get and we're gonna get a teddy bear and.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
We're gonna just don't fly, don't lie.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Get the marks I got, all right, I'll get the
sharp all right?

Speaker 1 (11:39):
He would he wouldn't out that man.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's what I tell my boss at two o'clock in
the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
At the cos that's funny.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
I didn't get helped into the camper Saturday night. That's
good at least once.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
If not, that's what friends are for, right, ridicule you
and then they take pictures of you in There should
be a no phone policy at Huntsville.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
But absolutely just say, especially at the campsite.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
But other other than that bottle of Scott's kicking your ass,
that is your weekend. Anything fun from Huntsville you want
to talk about.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
I did not purchase anything, not even an amplifier. No,
not a barrel connector, not a barrel, not even not.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Even a piece of coax. For maybe our industries. It
looks really cool.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
On my video.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
A B n C, t U HF mail nothing, nothing,
a power pole connector Nope.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Wow, barnsbody's chair feel asleep?

Speaker 5 (12:55):
No, that was.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
You were told bring a chair. Jason said, how about
times sroboty weeks yep, and I brought like five of them.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Ham Radio two says, I wish it would have taken
a pick of his team in the bathroom Saturday night.
The story there, there is, there is, It's not me.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
No, Shane. This would have put episode six and episode
thirty two to shame.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Oh did anyone record? Was there any video? No? Yeah, friends,
I hope not.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
We're not going to find anything on on that TikTok
And you know a week from now are the only fans.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Oh god, no, I hope not.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
To be nice. And you have a lady yet, I promise.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
I told her.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
I told her we're all gentlemen. I told her we're
all gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
That is a stretch.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
But shout out to Julie.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
She was one of the ones that helped me into
the camper and then I decided to get back up
and apparently I thought the pumpkin spice cupcakes or whatever
that she had were absolutely hilarious.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Oh no, what were they telling jokes?

Speaker 3 (14:14):
No, they were smiling at me.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
That's probably what it was.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
They sort of smiling at him.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
You didn't you didn't do anything you shouldn't have done
to a cupcake, did you?

Speaker 7 (14:27):
No?

Speaker 2 (14:27):
No?

Speaker 5 (14:27):
No?

Speaker 6 (14:27):
No?

Speaker 3 (14:28):
All right?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
All right.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
So there's why there's no video.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Trying to get him to stay in bed.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
That's like mama. That's like mama, Mama trying to put
you to bed. She's like, what the hell did I
become this shop?

Speaker 2 (14:46):
There's no Frank stories? Do we not have? I guess
was it all the Steve Show this year? Oh yeah,
it was definitely Steve Show.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
That's what the club has. That's way to represent the clubhouse.
But I got a Frank story, all right, I got
a Frank story. Frank didn't make enough bean.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I didn't get no beans, because when Frank walks beans,
he don't make just regular beans. Your hole on fire beams.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
According to Kyle.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
According to Kyle, I think they fed one hundred and
forty people like that people, which was almost double Friday,
the friday.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
He hasn't made his official announcement. We won't talk about anything.

Speaker 7 (15:29):
It was.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
It was posted on YouTube. It was posted, it was
posted in one of the forums. It was the forum
he mentioned it when he had the mic he mentioned
he mentioned the dollar amount.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
I'm not going to say that. Let him.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
But as far as the attendance goes for that Friday
was almost double.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
It was familiars. That's all charity, right, that all get
donated to charity I remember.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, goes to the a r L Education.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
He was afraid we might get shut down because this
is the first time we've had people parked that on
the main road on both sides.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, cow, it was yeah, very fact. Did you guys
at least move Steve out of the out of the road.
I was good then. Actually I went down to the
drop zone then to catch big gym jumping.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Is that you mean when you fall out the chair.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Yeah, we follow the chair. You you dropped like this
now now, Frank correct me. Ninety seven burgers and one
hundred and ten dogs. Oh god, this year she was
She had a cussed mapron for it too.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
I saw that. I saved that picture too. That's that's
the picture I have it.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
I haven't.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Let me go get it.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
You know it's going to take an hour for him
to share it, not get it off of my phone.
And then I got to get it onto this television.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Oh it made what I got it? Okay, Steve got it?
Then have a chat, guys.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
I have a folder for everybody. Everyone has a folder,
including me. In all fairness, there's a folder with me.
So between Northeast Hams and the Shenanigans that they do
up there in New Hampshire.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Get you know, plus here and plus other places. Everyone,
I keep it fair? Is fair? All right? Share this?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah? Apparently Vaughan got the last of the beans st
bred you take it with him? Oh there you go.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Great, it is a great picture. It almost looks like
a dress on her. But see here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
Not only is the person wearing it awesome, I think
the sticker is just awesome.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
No, that's I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Did the emblem did
that come from spread shirt?

Speaker 2 (17:55):
It? Did?

Speaker 3 (17:56):
There? You go, guys, I've been saying it for months
and months and months. You wear the corners, yes.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
But that's not impoor And she's look at what she's gone.
Listen this ugly face to me. Something in her quarters
of you take a pretty woman and you put her
in an apron.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
There you go, let's uh, let's do this real quick.
Oh so video, No, so that's the picture you've just
seen and that was that was with it fresh and
brand new. And then there's a preview of some of
the foods, a lot of hamburgers.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
The ones on deck and the ones cooking.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Goodness, her hair, she's like capturing this guy's Joe, I'm
gonna kill you.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
So whenever Steve messaged me about thinking about this, I
was like, yeah, because she's always picking out what shirt
she can ruin for the year.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Because of all the grease. Yeah, wow, who's wearing crocks?
Who was wearing crocks? And that's that's not no?

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Is that two point zero?

Speaker 7 (19:12):
Or no?

Speaker 3 (19:13):
That guy has muscles? Frank doesn't have muscles.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, we have a guest tonight. We should well, as
some of you know, she has a YouTube channel. She's
been on a couple of different shows. Her name is
el Marie and she has this cool channel called frequenty.
She's on frequency. See I was reading the chat, wasn't
paying attention. Welcome to the show tonight. Let me change this.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
There we go, I did it right.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Welcome or Ell. I presume not El Marie L works.

Speaker 7 (19:47):
Yeah, people who know like casually Ell perfect awesome.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Well you've never met us before, so we're gonna go
around there and introduce ourselves to you. So, Joe Brett,
would you like to kick off? Introduce your sure? Why what? No?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Brett and I live in Mississippi, so if you can't
understand me, they can translate.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Sometimes she's in Texas, she can undertand Mississippi. Oh yeah,
because we're Mississippi.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
Like Steve and I'm Steve k O four a f L.
I've got a very small YouTube channel.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
But you're doing big things.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Uh, well you're here.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
I'm at least making it not as much as L is,
but you're trying. Yeah, she's already about.

Speaker 7 (20:38):
Am I I didn't. I have not been checking to
seven Okay.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, cool, mister soon And I'm don w E F
y G from Connecticut. Uh.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
They called me the booking agent. They called me the
cigar guy. I get called a lot of things, but
they don't.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Welcome I'm be following her now for maybe about two
months now when she I think she had one or
two videos out, and I love what she's doing and
there's some things that I've learned, which is great. Which
is great.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
So that you're teaching.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
In all the genre, she said, Is that the right word?
She said, at all the John her channel is the
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Oh good god. I didn't want to him.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
My daughter, My daughter's twenty.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
She teaches me stuff and I teach her stuff, and
so I think, what my son, So you can join
the group.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
She teaches you how to program the VCR. I have
YouTube channel called this Side the Radio. I don't make
videos anymore because I got other hobbies in a full
time jobs.

Speaker 7 (21:52):
So your brother reached out to me on my email
r Randy.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Name, Yes Randy?

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Was he stirring the pot.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
A hard time out?

Speaker 3 (22:11):
There?

Speaker 7 (22:13):
Were you? Were you at shape?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm in the colony here in the w area. Yeah,
I think we're neighbors.

Speaker 7 (22:20):
We are, practically are I grew up in Plano.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
So oh there you go. Well, if you see the
hotter balloons and Plano, that's us.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
Are you serious? I wants of them? Will you be
at the balloon Festival? Will you be a volunteer there
as a radio?

Speaker 2 (22:34):
No, I'm actually I'll have my balloon there volunteer el.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Radio balloon mobile.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
L he's a captain. You got to call him the captain.
Swear god, he's a captain.

Speaker 7 (22:48):
He is.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
No, I'm just a pilot. I'm not a captains are Yeah,
I mean, but yes, I did.

Speaker 7 (22:57):
So.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
My first flight in Hotter Balloon was was doing Ham
radio from a balloon and it was Hotter Balloon Mobile
and we talked. We did HF on a seven O
five and we talked from here to Connecticut, I believe,
from Dent we were flying from. We took off from
Denton and we're flying up towards the lake and we

(23:18):
we made contacts over in Florida and then all the
way up into Connecticut. And then we did a two
meter contact on an HT that was like sixty something
miles away.

Speaker 7 (23:29):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, it was fun. That's my other hobby. That that's
why I don't make you tube videos anymore about Amory
kind of fly as much as they can.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Shane sixty miles as rookie numbers.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's from an HT and H with a rubber ducky antenna,
put a single stick on it, only a three hundred.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Feet I wasn't huh, So there's a difference twelve thousand.
From twelve thousand, you get miles.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Hey, so this question come up over the weekend. Somebody
asked Shane, how what's the max height in a balloon?

Speaker 2 (24:06):
How high do you go? Max?

Speaker 1 (24:08):
No question, So I total until the areas.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Then you got it. So the balloon itself, as you
climb in altitude will lose how much lift that it
can produce. So depending on what your starting weight is
will depend on how high you can go. So if
it's just me and my regular fuel, I can do
twelve thousand feet. Anything above, anything above twelve five you
gotta have oxygen. There are balloons if fly fourteen fifteen,

(24:35):
sixteen thousand feet, they're doing those competition stuff. But I
normally like to stay between the three hundred or sorry,
if the FAA is listening, the five hundred to five
hundred to one thousand, maybe fifteen hundred feet depending, tell me.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
The fa still expects a balloon to stay over five hundred.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yep. That's like asking a t beer to only use
three watts. Come on, I'm gonna say only have one
beer at the camps.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
Okay, I'm not the one that was chasing my dinner
on stream.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
You are absolutely correct, And I would drink a lot
of mescal that night and I've never drink any sense
because it makes you do bad things.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, no, no, we gotta add we gotta add that
to the question. That could be a question later on.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
We're gonna ask somebody's responsible.

Speaker 7 (25:31):
Well, when you're done.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Okay, No, that was the story, and the episode has
long gone been deleted, but the story is it was,
It was. It was shortly after COVID we went down
to Mexico for a vacation and we were maybe one
of ten or twenty people that were at this entire
giant resort. So we were at the swim up bar

(25:57):
and the martinder just kept bringing mescal shots and yeah,
they went live, and I got a notification in my
phone and I thought it'd be a good idea to
go live from beside the pool after drinking mescal all day.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
And I started started, and then there was Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
There was this very large rodent that showed up and
I was chasing you with my phone. Enough about me,
you can of this guy's got crazy. So anyway, not
about us. So what got you into Ham Radio?

Speaker 6 (26:37):
Big story short here is my husband first introduced it
to me, and I have a degree in engineering, and
so technology was always something that interested me, and why
would I limit myself from learning something? And I took
the test, got my license, and what started the channel,
I think is more interesting then why I got it

(26:57):
is because I was like, Okay, I got my license.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
What do I do with it now? Like what's the
point of having my license? I don't use it?

Speaker 6 (27:04):
And I was about to leave for Colorado the week after.
I'm like, I really want a mobile setup. And I
went to a hammerdio outlet and Plano walked in and said,
show me what you have, Like, I have no knowledge.
I just got my license maybe a couple days ago.
What do I need for my mobile setup? So I
landed on the five ten D and I was like, okay,
I have this radio.

Speaker 7 (27:24):
How do I install this? I didn't know how. So
the first thing I did was, you know, YouTube.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
So I looked up YouTube and didn't find much content
around installing this radio or a radio in general, and.

Speaker 7 (27:36):
So I thought, well, why don't I give a try?

Speaker 6 (27:39):
Give it a try, And that turned out to be
ways more successful than I thought it would be, and
I'm like, okay, there's some opportunity here, and I just
kept going and they were.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
The same question that you did, how do you install
this stupid radio?

Speaker 7 (27:53):
Seriously?

Speaker 6 (27:54):
Like and then I saw a gap and I mean
bring bringing demographics in it. And as a woman, it's
not like a lot of spaces for women in this area.
Not not spaces, but there's not a lot of content
from women, And I was like, why not fill in
this gap that I that I kind of see here?
So learting to make a video, put the first one

(28:15):
out there as a test. Definitely had some insecurities that
I had to get over.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
Not familiar with the camera in my face and so
getting over that was very a struggle, so.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Exactly, and but.

Speaker 7 (28:33):
That's how I started the channel.

Speaker 6 (28:34):
And but I think that's more interesting than why I
got into him radio, because there wasn't like I've heard
people say that, like they've had disasters and they couldn't
contact people.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
I didn't have such a big revelation like that.

Speaker 6 (28:47):
It was why would I limit myself after knowing that
this existed and being a tech teching person, I said,
I'm going to study and get it done.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Did you did you stop at technician or did you
to your general you or kind of what's what are you?
What's the game plan there?

Speaker 7 (29:07):
The game plan is to end up at Extra.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
So right now I'm starting at my I'm studying for
my general and should be done with.

Speaker 7 (29:12):
That or testing. Mid September is when the next tests.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Well, let us know, because we do testing sessions.

Speaker 7 (29:19):
Okay, let us know.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
We Steve sets those up and the rest of us
here are all these So whenever you're ready to test,
let us know. My brother Guy is Extra, and like.

Speaker 6 (29:32):
Whenever I'm ready because my club, I love the club
that I'm a part of, but they have maybe their
next test that I'm able to take is in mid September.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Whenever you're ready, we can do it right now. Whenever
you're ready.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
We can't do it love, we can't broad test it.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Rather your laptop go into the bathroom and.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
That's what everybody else does.

Speaker 7 (29:59):
Very cool.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Now let me tell you so you you mentioned a
hand radio prep. Did you do your technician using that?

Speaker 7 (30:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (30:07):
I experience. What kind of experience was that for you?
Using that?

Speaker 7 (30:12):
It was really good?

Speaker 6 (30:14):
Love the courses, love the format, and I think I
took the practice test like in my car before I
took the exam like maybe a three or four different
times to make sure that I knew my material, and
each time I got like over ninety plus. And yeah,
I think it really helped. They have a video section
and then a reading section. I normally just watched the

(30:36):
video section, take notes, and then take the practice exams
or the practice modules, and that was really helpful for me.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
Have you thought about adding that to your things to
do list and put a video up about that? As
the no, But I was I was for your again,
for your consideration, because you've hit a lot of things.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
I've watched you. I told you about two and a
half months. I've watched your channel.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
You're doing some great stuff and everything, but you may
want to consider that to inspire other people, because again,
we're all learning at different levels.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
All I want to say, maybe touch on it, but
don't make a full on commercial because they pay for those.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
That's true, that's true.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
But she knows what we're talking about, because because again
again five ten minutes and you could talk, you know
about various stuff, and but everybody learns at different in
different speeds, different ways, different.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
And that's what and that's what it's all about.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
I mean, you were you were teaching me about wires
X and I have known and I couldn't I haven't
spent a lot of time digging down trying to find
a YouTube video.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
I don't know if I have people in my area.
Maybe I do, but the basic stuff was there.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
It was brought to me in a non technical way,
and I got so much out of it, and I
couldn't wait to tell you tonight and thank you.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Thank you so much for introducing me to wires X.

Speaker 7 (32:01):
Oh that brings me to a question, what radios do
you have?

Speaker 6 (32:05):
Because wires x is as a staple for case functionality,
and it's radios, and there's different like digital modes, and
each digital mode can be specific to specific.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
Radio and brands, and so what radios do you operate?

Speaker 4 (32:20):
So I am primary I'm primarily icon because in my neighborhood,
in my state, we have an extensive d Star network
and I've been on this d Star for about fifteen
years now and it's incredible, great, great people. We haven't
a we have a very deep, extensive DMR network. So
I have a Motorola radio, so I kind of bounce

(32:42):
between the two wherever the activity is. But I'm always
looking I think as a ham radio operator, we're always
finding something new. We go down these they call them
rabbit holes. Maybe you've heard that before.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
We go down these different rabbit holes and we and
all of a sudden, you know, one thing gets a
little little less attention and next you know, we're putting
we're concentrating more on this. So again, I mean, listen, listen.
If I tell you I'm not going to buy another radio,
I'm the biggest liar in the world, right right, So
I would have no I would have no problem.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
I do have one Yazu radio. It's an HF radio,
the f T eight eight ninety one. Other than that,
it's all Icon pretty much. But I have no problem
with doing something that potentially you.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Know, it is what it is. Man, Hey, this is
our hobby. This is our hobby. Whatever makes you happy.

Speaker 6 (33:33):
And DMR, like learning those niches is on my list
of things to do at the time. Whenever I was
researching all the digital modes, I didn't realize that they
were specific for each brand. Now that I need to
get my hands on an Icon radio to really dive
deep into d STAR and DMR.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
As well as a neighborhood and I don't know what
you have over there in the Debton area, but talk
to Shane, talk to many others because you may so
there you go. But you got to talk to that
because I feel bad for some of the newer people
who buy a radio first without finding out what is
prominent and active in their area, and then they're kind
of stuck with something. And I think the wind comes

(34:14):
out of their sales about our hobby, and that's the
worst thing that could happen here first couple of years
in the hobby. We want everything to be fun, you know,
and just kind of you know, you're not gonna listen.
I've always said, unless you get electrocuted, or unless you
fall off, unless unless you fall off the truck or
something like me or or you know whatever, it's okay,

(34:34):
it's okay.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
That's why they make me in.

Speaker 7 (34:41):
It freaking hurt.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
It's like blood blister right now. But I was doing
a simplexnet night with my club and I moved. I
actually finally got like a battery power for my radio
front because I was only operating my radio for my
car and I didn't have like a in home power setup,
and so I got it set up and it was
a simple night and I you know, the anti when

(35:04):
I was transmitting and yeah, mother.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
F yea yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Listen my grandfather, my grandfathers terminals.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Yeah, my grandfather used to teach me how to solder,
how to solder pl Two fifty nine. He says, you're
not doing it wrong until you burn yourself. So that's
that's one of or or solder drops on your shorts.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
And we're not doing it wrong.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
You're doing You're not doing it wrong. It's just like
to catch your attention, because he was trying to say
that once you do that, you won't do that again.
So you're wrong, is wrong, but but again so, but
you're you're also playing up in Colorado though, right, what's
what's the attraction up in Colorado?

Speaker 3 (35:49):
You got friends up there? Or is the stuff that
you you did George besides that?

Speaker 6 (35:55):
Uh So we've had a town up there for like
eight years, and yes, and it is gorgeous. And I mean,
I'm basic. I love hiking, I love camping. It's just basic.

Speaker 7 (36:04):
And then I might as well bring a radio along
and see what happens.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
And turns out there are actually clubs up in the
Southwest Durango, Silverton, Ura area, and which I wouldn't have
imagined at all because it's such as like a small
niche community that I didn't realize it would maybe have
expanded to ham radio. But the more I think about it,
I'm like, this is probably the most viable place to
have this type of communication because the mountain is no

(36:33):
silver service.

Speaker 7 (36:33):
It just makes the most sense.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Well, the cool thing is a lot of the peaks
up there when I was up as the Ura area
is one of my favorites, and you'd be surprised, like
people will put repeater stations up on the tops of
these peaks, and if you're down there off roading, overlanding
and stuff like that, it's if you don't have, you know,
access to the hand bands, then you wouldn't know that
that if you need communication, it's literally sitting on top

(36:58):
of a mountain the world to here. We used a
couple of them while we were while we were out
about I was. I was floored at the coverage that
we get, even even in Yellowstone when we were up
in that area. The the specific campground we were in
didn't have it, but nine times out of ten, if
you can get up in any elevation outside of Yellowstone
in the Park. There's a repeater in Wyoming and Montana

(37:19):
that you can hit with an h T. It was
and that was really cool because they're just so stinking Steve.
You need to go to Discord and see what the
Discord people are doing to your picture.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
More pictures, more pictures for the file.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
I hate to interrupt, wonderful interview, breaking news. We have
breaking news, apparently.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Who did that? Credit? Who did that?

Speaker 1 (37:53):
That looks so real?

Speaker 3 (37:55):
It does look for re.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Y'all knocked yell out over sea, shut a camera.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
When the bands are Daddy and TODYA.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Oh my god, I'm gonna I love it. Good job guys.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
You guys every week Internet, every week, every week we ask,
we ask, and not only do you come through, you
hit a home run.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Hey, you don't find that on any other show.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
So glad I didn't keep it to myself.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Thank you, Joe, Thank you, Joe, Joe. You're great.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
I mean I did.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
I held onto it for a day at least twenty
four hours, No, not even it felt like twenty four hours.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
El Ell.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
You have to rejoin us when you get a chance.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Oh great, that is great.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
The internet is We have some of the best Internet
artisans in the business. Is here, we do.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
They and they didn't even go to college for digital media.
Really yeah, no kidding, all right, welcome here, she's back,
change your back, yeah.

Speaker 7 (39:12):
Flush on me.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yep, Joe.

Speaker 7 (39:15):
I'm quite impressed with your camera set up. I'm like,
what is he?

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Well, I put a bowto on my mic just for
you tonight. It seem drissed up. There's there's my big
studio behind me.

Speaker 7 (39:32):
Very cool.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
We'll be looking too close to Johnny.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
That's when we use that pulled in virgin. Well, it's
a funny story with this camera. So this is a
Sony Alpha fifty or fifty one Alpha whatever they are.
And I ordered this thing to do to do some video,
and you know, on the go and everything. It comes
in and I realize after I get it that it
has no external mic input. So that wasn't no good.

(40:02):
So it becomes a dedicated shot camera.

Speaker 7 (40:05):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
And then at some point I wanted to change the
depth field a little bit and ordered a new lens.
Fancy yeah, And then in the midst of changing the
lenses to see how that one worked, dropped and broke
the stock clean, so I kind of stuck with that
one now, thank you. Yeah, you can probably replace that.
They I know they've got them on the definitely can

(40:28):
just I don't agree with the Pride.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
I mean that one, That one looks great, So why
why fake it if it ain't broke? Well, yeah, that's
why why I got the other one.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
If I need to show you, Hey, l when you're
out with the fields, what are you using to record?

Speaker 6 (40:42):
I have by a Cannon R five with a twenty
four to seventy two stock lens.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
Pick you say, and that for audio? What are you
using for? Is like a separate audio?

Speaker 7 (40:54):
Yeah, so this is the DJ d G DJ. I'm
like Minnie, but I am looking for other options right now.

Speaker 6 (41:02):
It's just finances are tough, so gotta a little picky
this time. Yeah, I have already, like I want my
next radio, my HF brig to be the Maybe you
guys can recommend something else, but the ft X one
the Otoma version from YESU, but.

Speaker 7 (41:23):
I'm open to.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Let's let's start with that.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Why why that I.

Speaker 6 (41:29):
Love how it's the field or like the option to
remove the head and with I need something to be
universal for soda poda everything so that I can easily
put in my backpack and go and.

Speaker 7 (41:43):
Be because I don't.

Speaker 6 (41:45):
I would love to have multiple radios for each setup.
I just can't afford that right now. So one size
fits all for me. And what's peeling about that is
I can either attach that amp if I want to
or not, or I can detach it and to operate
just fine.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Right, that's fair enough. Until you mentioned soda. I was
gonna recommend just getting like the d XTN or something. Okay,
a little you know, but that's too big to be
I'm hiking up.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
No, she car now they carried a battery.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Go watch one of her videos for one of her
friends carried a big ass heavy battery episoda.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
It was like six miles round trip, five point something.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
I'm like, you know, they're all taking turns passing around
the backpack with the battery.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
I mean, I've done it too, but I had a
lot to like. I'm like, I've done that too. I
thought I was the only crazy one, but I can't.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Too many tables attached. But is that seven O five
behind you?

Speaker 7 (42:44):
No, it's the six sixty two hundred. It's actually a loaned.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Oh yeah, Okay, now that it's out of the boca,
I can clearly and uh no, I've.

Speaker 6 (42:56):
Kind of played around with this for and I just
love how it's so easy to set up and turn
on and.

Speaker 7 (43:01):
The battery pack is with it.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
And I don't know.

Speaker 7 (43:06):
It is I believe it is QRE.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
I think it's or it's ten if you in an
external battery, and I think five if you use the
if you use the.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Intern inturnal Okay, it's all right.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
The chatting about thirty seconds, just wait, they like to
correct me.

Speaker 7 (43:24):
I like it because it's portability and it's HF but
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (43:30):
Yea tu just has that you know, the quality and
the name and the brand, and maybe some warranty as well.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Right yeah, David, David correct me at six wts.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
I mean, I mean, don't get me wrong, you're gonna
and plus you're playing with either five or ten watts
versus like uh what says Zygo not the Zygo the
G ninety at twenty watts versus the rest of the
rigs which are one hundred watts. That's why I choose
the ft gazu FT eight ninety one small. You can

(44:04):
remove the head, separate it all and it's gonna give
you a hunter watch. You want five watch, you just
turn it down. So it's one of those.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Well turn radio down radio frame.

Speaker 7 (44:18):
Story with wattage and transmitting.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
I don't know if maybe one of you have also
experienced this, but I was in my house here and
I tuned into the repeater, broken to the local repeater,
and I was testing something with SSTV with a five
to ten D I kind of it was a failed experiment,
but I'm gonna get back to it at some point.

Speaker 7 (44:35):
I think it's a data cable issue either way.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
I transmitted maybe two feet away from my radio at
fifty watts, and I felt the blast like maybe two
minutes later. I felt like dizzy, headache, migraines for the
next hour. I don't know if anyone has transmitted fifty
wats when they're like two feet away from it, but
that was my experience maybe a week ago.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
It was interesting.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
I don't know about the other guys, but I was
the portrait theory.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Of doctor Joe. Here. Doctor Joe's smart.

Speaker 6 (45:10):
I'm handling my radio, but I heard someone calling because
I was hooked as a the repeater, and I thought, oh,
might as well, answer back, and I transmitted, and it
was supposed to be set at low for the t
X power, but.

Speaker 7 (45:24):
I think it was set at high. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (45:26):
Sometimes whenever you turn off the radio and turn it
back on, it might default back to its original settings,
and I think that's what it did. And so when
I transmitted, thinking it was that low, it was that high.
So fifty watts I think is the maximum for the
ASU and I felt like the blast afterwards.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
So, uh, I can believe that because out just outside here,
I have a forty foot tower with the fourteen element
two meter beam on it, and I happened to have
this little box that turns my five or ten watts
of my seven O five into three hundred And then
if you do the fool scientific uh you know, kind
of like you engineers do numbers and stuff. The ERP.

(46:10):
ERP is a cool thing because you get a little
gain on an.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Antenna active radiated power.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Yes, yes, so what is like sixteen thousand whites when
I'm I mean, I mean the ERP on that is ridiculous.
When when you do the calculator and when I've got
it pointed to the northeast, it's just to the southwest
of my shack. So when I've got it pointed to

(46:36):
where it's so shooting over me and I'm prolonged talking
to somebody on two meters a little dizzy headed after
a little bit.

Speaker 7 (46:45):
Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
That I've experienced that I haven't put inside yet.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
You know that there's a calculation you can do based
on whage and frequency as to how close you should
be for the antenna, right that's like speed limits.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
You know what I wish ell had right now?

Speaker 4 (47:01):
I wish I wish all had the big whiteboard and
the marker is and all the equations, you know, the iron.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
What I call the iron.

Speaker 7 (47:09):
A like wall size whiteboard.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
You that you should do that, and that's probably gonna
be on your general or your extra test. So there
you go, you'll be ahead of everybody.

Speaker 7 (47:20):
Okay, I know we did have that. Uh, definitely lesson
learned there.

Speaker 6 (47:24):
I do have a plan of video for like six
months as a amateur operator, do stones lessons learned all
of that, So that's definitely on the list of lessons learned.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yeah, people, people, and why you're talking to your buddy.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
Yeah, and just to you know, kind of stay away
from it. You know, pets and people, you know, enemies,
that's different, but you know, but.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
You know, halfway up in my apartment complex, and I
was always worried that because at the end, it's like
six thousand volts at the end of the day, and
I was always worried that someone was gonna come by
and what's that thing? Well, I do an ft eight.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Somebody you just remote into my house and turn on
the oven.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
I was just gonna say, somebody on a teacher about
the ovens. And it makes sense to what we're talking about. Seriously,
it makes sense about.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
What we're steve shielding and r of shielding.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
So elle, if I don't know if you own your
house yet or not, okay, do not buy a Samsung stove.
We don't have one good, especially the smart stoves apparently
they're resident on twenty meters. And Shane, since he lives
in an apartment, will remote into my seventy six ten

(48:41):
to play radio because I've given him that access.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
And I came home one day to the oven on.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
It was preheating, and there were no brownies there. There
wasn't even brownies in the cus. That's the shame of it.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
I was just making sure it was ready for dinner,
that's all. I was being a good hand.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
So I found if I keep the child on, yeah,
if the child box stays on, it doesn't turn the
oven on.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
But it just beeps every time, every time we keep
up the radio.

Speaker 7 (49:13):
Okay, good to know.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Randy found out in his house if he keys up
his radio, all of his smart fire alarms start starts
going crazy. Nice, that's something else to think of me
of this. One of the smart Bok detectors.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
One of the funnest things.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
A two meter radio. We'll freak them out.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
One of the funnest things I've ever done with the RF.
But number two on the list is making all my
Christmas lights blink and then neighbor come knocking on the door.
But yeah, forty makes your Christmas lights blink? You got
them grounded. And anyway, my girls were horrible about leaving

(49:54):
their curling arms and their hair dryers plugged up, and
I always unplugged that stuff. Wh Well, here's father advice
from Joe. Now, so the most of your hair dryers
come with the g C. I's on them, right, The

(50:14):
big old, big old circuit breaker of the g f
C ground fault. Okay, yeah, pops, and you have to
reset button. So got you all right? We're on the
same page. Anyway, I found out one day while I
was trying to play on six meters and the girls
come out of the house running crying, something's in the house,

(50:35):
somethings trying to get them. I go running them late
the what are you talking about? And they're describing this
noise and I said, hang on a minute. So so
they're on the phone so I can hear it, right,
and I said, tell me if it does it three
to two one, and I hit the push to talk
and just big old buzz It makes that GFC eye.

(50:58):
It was buzzing like a I don't train horn. I
don't know how to describe it. Yeah, it was an
awful sound, but it was great. So now I knew
if they come running out of the room, they didn't
unplug their hair dryer. That was fun, fun time with
the kiddos.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Can I can I tell a story too? While we're
going around the horn here?

Speaker 4 (51:19):
So when I had two hundred, when I had twenty
two hundred and twenty mega hurts and my kenwood seven
forty one mos in the chat Bo remembers we all
bought Kenwoods and you had that third choice for that
third band. So I put two twenty in and we
were playing around on Simplex, and I remember certain garage
doors were opening up.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
Was driving bye, I had a Camaro. I had my
Camaro and ever.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
No, no, no, just.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
A Camaro.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
That was the difference with the T tops and this thing.
And it was funny.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
It was funny mo, right, Mo going driving through Steven
and all of a sudden the garage door, who's were
popping open?

Speaker 3 (52:01):
And whose was it?

Speaker 7 (52:02):
So?

Speaker 3 (52:03):
And that was just like thirty five forty WATCHS. It
wasn't I'm sorry, twenty five WATCHS, twenty five Watch Max.
That was a lot of power. But it happens, it happens.
R F will do funny things around the house. You
don't know until it happens. So that's right.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
I've enjoyed the Christmas light thing. You go.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Yeah, I to say, Josh, is that Christmas light in
ten every year?

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (52:27):
And so.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
To describe my Christmas light, I had the Christmas lights LED's,
you know, I got fancy that year up, but LED's
around my house and I got a little lazy after
Christmas and just unplugged them and left the plug laying there.
I didn't take them off the house, and of course
the plug it ended up laid on the ground. It

(52:49):
rained a couple of times. Now the plug is well
into the ground and evidently ground wave when forty meters
makes the led lights up.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
So that was great.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Neighbor comes knocking on the door and you know you
lights are out of blinking. I said, yeah, watch this, so.

Speaker 4 (53:08):
So al the moral of the stories around Christmas time.
That's how you wish everybody merry Christmas. You get to
know the neighbors.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
The moral of the story is never stop experimenting. You're
an engineer, so you I expect some great funny stories someday.

Speaker 7 (53:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (53:25):
Yeah, Tid my first one with the r F blast.
My antenna right now is grounded on a cooking sheet,
but it works.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
So we've talked about that r F. You talked about
that r F burn and that that kind of triggered it.

Speaker 7 (53:42):
It's still there.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
So so one of the one of the cars at work,
the guy was having problems this all right. So I
used to be a patrol guy and every time he
would kee his radio. His blue lights would just glow,
not blink or nothing, just glow. And I'm like, yeah,
some problems and people don't check the radios. And so

(54:06):
I got in there and got to looking at it,
and sure enough, as I expected, his coax connector on
the back of the radio was loose. The barrel part
wasn't even screwed onto the radio. So you know, police
cards and stuff, got that center console full of junk,
and I've got my arm down. Never mind, I'm turning
into Daniel here.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
I'm sorry, but.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
You had to you had to arm and the console.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
I'm sorry, but I was in a very odd position.
And there's no way to say this round y'all. And
you know you dang, I shouldn't even started this.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
But keep on going.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Let's just cut to the chase. My arm was stuck
in this console and he had a mic that that
key that the key the push to talk stuck and
I accidentally hit it other hand of propping up on
the dash and I couldn't let go and it wouldn't
let go of me, and it burned and it kept burning.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
But anyway, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
So those in the chain that little white dut Oh yeah,
it's never one way. That was years ago, so your
burn may stay around for a while.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
And those in the chat we are we are expecting
pictures of Joe Brett inside the car.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
That's all I'm gonna say.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
I'll give you, guys, thirty minutes, thirty to forty five minutes.
I want to see some picture, some good AI.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
I want to good.

Speaker 7 (55:39):
Stuck to say the least.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Yes, Eliers, el.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
The the installation on your suv? Did you and your
husband do that? Did a bunch of friends? How did
you guys tackle that hole?

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Yeah? Installation installation?

Speaker 4 (55:56):
Uh it does an annunciate, Well, it's.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
It's it's an you can understand Mississippi. But Connecticut's a different,
different world.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
A different part. So see, she did it herself. She
did need no help to.

Speaker 7 (56:15):
Do it myself.

Speaker 6 (56:16):
I was determined and uh you know, I mean the
trickiest part is the firewall and making sure the wires
can get through there, and the forerunner is no easy
way to at least on the driver's side.

Speaker 7 (56:29):
The firewall. You have to get under the wheel like
the driver's wheel, and I had to kind of cloth
in there to access the.

Speaker 6 (56:38):
Port, and trying to get those wires around that cloth,
and that cloth is stick, and I was stiff, and
I was, you know, cutting my hands and just like
could not. I think I'd spent like two hours trying
to get that wire through that firewall.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
And that Come on, hell, let me let me ask
you real quick. While you're doing this radio install and
you're dealing with this firewall, this carpet and all these
other quirky little things that is in your way, how
many times did you ever think to yourself, damn engineers?
You didn't then, but you are now all right, I

(57:14):
see the gears. So I'm just saying, if you ever
get the opportunity to design a firewall, lots of holes
in it, right.

Speaker 6 (57:23):
I actually someone across my street is works for Toyota
and is a quality assurance with certain parts of the
Toriota cars.

Speaker 7 (57:31):
So I was just knocking the store and be like,
what the heck? Like, why did this?

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (57:38):
You want, I'll just knock the grama down.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
We need more holes in your quality No.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
Exact exact exact O knife, drawn it through, drop some drop,
some gloat on both sides, and you're good to go.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
You know, yet the answers.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
That's how we did it. That's that's how we did
my Toyota. Yeah. Oh that's right.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
You just did a new tundrass so oh your experience
with all that.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
Oh yeah, we did things that we were all trying
to figure out because it was hardly any documentation. Even
the guy at Toyota at the dealership, my local dealership.
I came back and he went because I did the
oil change, He's like, man, you did good. I said, well,
I can tell you a few things that you couldn't
tell me that we found out by accident. And the
most important thing better well, no, the most important thing

(58:29):
is we didn't want We didn't want to do anything
with GPS, as well as the airbags, because that whole
thing is like a big airbag, you know, to protect you.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
So I didn't want airbags going off, or they better
go off, so we made sure not. But anyway, ell.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
All right, let me.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
First gotch So.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
We want to shout out a Hamshak TV member for
five months. I haven't forgot about you, guys. I'm still
catching up and ham ready wilderness Frank remember for nineteen
months and I'm not going to read that.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
Come on, do you I don't know what that's all about. Man,
this is a compliment.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Heye.

Speaker 4 (59:11):
Anyway, okay, all right, ell tell us about the soda adventure.
I thought that was fun to watch.

Speaker 6 (59:18):
Oh, it was fun, and I actually met the people
that I went up with through on the air. So
I hooked up to a local Silvision repeater and got
called back and met up with two of the gentlemen that.

Speaker 7 (59:33):
Were on air because I was I was like, I
don't know. I was off of work because I took
some time off.

Speaker 6 (59:39):
I'm like, okay, well I'm up in the area. Do
you want to meet in Silvergon? And you know, aggress
on lunch? We met up a grass of lunch and
exchanged numbers for any future events, and I said I
was asking him questions like, oh, have you ever like
what's a soda? Like have you ever done a soda?
I'm like researching about it. He's like no, I'm like,
how how have you never done a soda? And you
live in this area. That's just like bewildering to me.

(59:59):
So like, why don't we try to do something this
up coming weekend?

Speaker 7 (01:00:03):
And we don't? I say we because my dad was
also with us, and he got his technician license as.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Well, so fantastic, right, So we my dad and I were.

Speaker 7 (01:00:15):
Talking to Cole.

Speaker 6 (01:00:16):
Cole's like, okay, I can do this, I can create this.
Or because we don't have the gear, we only had
I only have my UHIVHF radio and like we were traveling,
we don't have all of our gear with us, and
so thankfully Cole he had all of his gear and
he's like, no, we're doing this, Like I want to

(01:00:37):
do this, this is going to be a great idea,
this is this is awesome. I'm like, okay, cool. So
we scheduled it and he's texting me saying like, oh,
I've got the battery set up, or I've got this,
I've got that.

Speaker 7 (01:00:46):
Yeah Matt.

Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
Matt was our extra operator, and he said like Matt
opening his radio, who brings antennas. So we're all planning.
I'm just getting updates of what they're planning. And I'm like, okay,
this is awesome. And I kept on asking like are
we doing this and we're still doing this, just to
make sure that because plans, you know, people can play,
and so I just wanted to be absolutely sure that
we were planning our Saturday to do the soda and

(01:01:10):
sure enough, wake up Saturday morning.

Speaker 7 (01:01:12):
I'm like, so we're doing this right, He's like.

Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
Yeah, absolutely, I've got my solar battery charged up and
we're ready to go.

Speaker 7 (01:01:19):
I said, okay, So we drive up to Silverton, we
meet up with Matt and Cole and start hiking.

Speaker 6 (01:01:26):
I mean, that's pretty much it as far as the planning.
But as we're hiking, we get closer to the top
and it's just windy as heck and hot cold at
the same time.

Speaker 7 (01:01:39):
Because you've got the front on.

Speaker 6 (01:01:40):
You, you're being sunburnt and but the wind is coming
in and you're just like freezing. There's also the trail
is also a public trail, so we were setting up
and people with like other dogs are coming up and
probably looking at us like we were like, what the
heck is going on?

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
And okay, yeah, track tracking sharks. I'm tracking sharks tracking
or saw squats or something.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:02:06):
I've had a couple of people like asked me. They
were like what is that battery And I was like, Oh,
it's just a battery for radio stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:02:13):
And they're like h huh. I said, yeah, it's just
for amateur radio and they're like okay, whatever, crazy and
then they and we had many I think we.

Speaker 6 (01:02:26):
Had five dogs for ourselves because between my dad and
I we have four.

Speaker 7 (01:02:31):
And then Mad brought his own dog. And it was
just like chaos. To say that it went smoothly was
it was a lie like it was an absolute chaotic mess.
But we got it done. We set up.

Speaker 6 (01:02:44):
However, we didn't get the results that we wanted, but
that's okay. It was all of our first sodas. And
that still surprises me that those two operators, even like
an extra class, hasn't done a soda in the area.

Speaker 7 (01:02:56):
But it's all right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
And I have to tell you they're not exposed to it. Yeah,
most people they'll do parks on the air, but don't
think about someone's on the air, even though you're in
the prime location for it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
I have to tell you, l what.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
You kept it real, and that's what's important. You show
that you you know, you guys didn't really know what
you're doing. Sometimes we don't know what we're doing when
we're doing or we go to a new park, a
PoTA park, and you know you're trying to figure out
how to do it. But you kept it real and
and and any time you saw or made it. I
don't want to say a mistake, but you found something
that you're going to do differently. You mentioned that on

(01:03:34):
the camera and again, so you're keeping it real. And
that's I think is a huge encouragement to a lot
of people to watch your channel and watch you kind
of you know, kind of live. You know, if they're
not you know, it may not be a soda but
follow what l did and just finish it to the end.
The most important is right, finish it to the end,
have fun and learn and you know, and and there

(01:03:57):
you go. Because I was counting the door, I'm like, how,
how the heck are they doing it? I think they
know where they're going, and I know sometimes like I'm
going to the park for the first time, I.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Really don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
I mean, I have the map, but the map is
not the real life thing in front of my windshield,
of my chalk or me walking through the parking. It's
just it's a whole new perspective. And you recorded it,
so thank you. I think that was awesome about you
know what you did.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
I think it definitely showcases while SODA's are puned, like
you better be prepared.

Speaker 7 (01:04:27):
For the challenges that will come.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
Yeah, as a beginner, I definitely uh may have been
more naive when it comes to equipment. But I can't
necessarily complain about it because it wasn't even my equipment.
But I have to be thankful for what we had
and we were able to accomplish it. But knowing the
difficulties that we went through, I can definitely better plan
for the next.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
And I don't want to give it away right right.
I don't want to give it away because I want
people to really watch it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
But there's this one clip of the wind blowing and
they have a device up there with the dogs and
people inside.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
You got to see it. It made sense and something
that maybe we should all maybe buy. And it's one
of those things use if you use it once.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
If you use it once, it's great, and then next
time you're gonna use it again, maybe for another purpose.
But watch the video, guys, watch the videos all I'm
gonna tell you, and you'll get the thing that we bought.

Speaker 7 (01:05:28):
It was definitely planned. It was like, we need this
because we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Yeah, make them watch let them watch your video.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
So what do you so besides getting your general which'll
maybe you'll get the next and then the extra What
do you want to do? What's on your bucket list?

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
In the what do you want to do for fun?
For funny and record it?

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Are you interested in CW learning learning?

Speaker 6 (01:06:00):
Yes, So that is an upcoming like knowledge gap that
I'm gonna look to fill. But what was so interesting
when in my first vlog video when I was traveling
was the weather balloon activations and the richest and radio
club is will be actually launching a weather balloon this
coming weekend on Saturday. And I've contacted the person that's

(01:06:22):
leading it, in charge of it, and so I'm going
to go and witness that, hopefully for the first time.
I say hopefully because I'm not sure if I'm actually
gonna go. I really hope it works out. But Saturday
morning this weekend, I will be watching my first like
weather boon launch and see all the different controllers that
they're using, and hopefully even receive my own SSTV images if.

Speaker 7 (01:06:43):
I bring my radio in.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
You know you can you can chase those down right
after they after the balloon pops, so they continue to
transmit and you can pick them up on an HT
and you can track them on a website. I'll get
their website in a minute. But people will actually go
and retrieve, like the all the Instys and everything that
they send up on the balloon. They don't want him
back or anything like that. But uh, people people actually
will go. A lot of them will land like the

(01:07:06):
Sherman Dennis in area. Uh. Some of them will land
out near like Tyler, depending on how how strong the
wind is. There's a lot of them that land not
far from the McKinney area that it would be really
cool to go up there because after even after it
hits the ground, you can still pick up the transmitter
on until the battery goes dead on an HT.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
Is there anybody collecting the equipment though? Shame so Noah?

Speaker 6 (01:07:27):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
Is? It?

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
Is that a Noah thing?

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
I mean there there are one and done. It's a
they usually have.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
They usually have a sticker on them for you to
contact them to return it so they can recycle it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
Yeah, that'd be some great pictures.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Yeah, Shane, they do want to.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
But I tell you, if one ever land, I've been
wanting one to land somewhere here close to the house.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
Yeah, and I probably wouldn't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
Your wife would get something. Your wife wuld get something.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
I'd be like, how much money donation you want? I've
been waiting for this all my life. You ain't getting
it back.

Speaker 6 (01:08:01):
And then one of my current efforts right now is
learning about mestastic, and I.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Wanted to.

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
Remember I told you about rabbit hole, about rabbit hole.
That's a rabbit hole, right, that's even bigger than a
rabbit hole thing.

Speaker 7 (01:08:18):
I got my boards.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Worst digital rnswer, our buddy digital ranswer in the chat
there you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Got Dave's and the chat too, Dave.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
There you go, all my goodness from Seed Studio.

Speaker 6 (01:08:30):
So as I got my degree in computer engineering, and
micro controllers is all I worked with in programming them.
And so when I found about mestastic, and my senior
design project was actually around AI and micro controllers, and
so I have a couple of like AI projects that.

Speaker 7 (01:08:49):
I have in mind with the mestastic node.

Speaker 6 (01:08:51):
So, for example, a like a wake word, so say
that you're you're hiking and like you can't reach your phone.
You can't text on it, but you can verbally say something.
So if I say S O S, it will trigger
a message call. I don't know if it's possible yet
but I'm going to research it and dive deep into
the into that process.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Look at that, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
I'm putting a link in the chat because there's actually
a active weather balloon up right now and it's out west.
It's in Weatherford, so the winds blowing from the east
it taking it out to the east. But there's there's
amateur radio listening stations that you can pick this for
this up on and it's uh, grab an HT chat.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Is that r S forty one?

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
It's yeah, r S forty one.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Okay, al, so just just go back for a minute.
Is your did you say, is your father a ham
radio operator?

Speaker 7 (01:09:49):
He is? He is his technician.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
Okay, did you guys?

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
Were you guys like always into radio or short wave
you know when you guys were younger or like, so
what kind of I mean, really, what was the spark
for to kick they said, hey, let's go get a
hand raider license?

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Was it you or you know?

Speaker 6 (01:10:06):
It was me that told my dad, but it was
my husband before that because he and his buddy they
go hunting up in Avery, Texas and they sit in
these blinds, but the blinds are super small that two
people can't fit in them. And so they were like,
what are some ways to talk to each other? And
his buddy, I want to say he's a doomsday prepper,
but he's a prepper. He's got a lot of stuff.

(01:10:26):
And I'm pretty sure he has known about hand radio
but just maybe didn't want to study. But he told Sean,
my husband, about it. And then Sean and I we're close.
We do a bunch of the same stuff to I mean,
we're yeah, we're done.

Speaker 7 (01:10:38):
We're close.

Speaker 6 (01:10:39):
But he got his engineering degree. I got my engineering degree.
So technology was always a like an interest for us,
and so hand radio was like, like again, like why not?
But I first heard about it because my husband and
his buddy wanted to go hunting and communicate with each other.

(01:11:01):
All right, now both of them have gotten their license.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Bro, I just gotta ask you that, all right? And
what kind of dogs you got? What do you have
for dogs?

Speaker 7 (01:11:10):
I have a mutt, he's like a Jack Russell mix.

Speaker 6 (01:11:14):
And then I have an Australian Shepherd which is Maple,
the one that you you know, know and see in
my uh crossband repeat video. And then I have a
Anatolian Great Pyrenees mixed. She's about fifty forty to fifty pounds.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:11:30):
So I have three dogs and a cat.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
I have a name team, Keep them on the channel.

Speaker 6 (01:11:35):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Keep it on the channel. You're keeping it real and
that's important. That's really important.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
So excuse me, thank you?

Speaker 7 (01:11:43):
Were you getting the signals? Shade? Oh caught you mid swig?

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Yeah me Drake, now I getting hear it on my end?

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
But Russell mm hmm, yeah, Kyle is Kyle, but ye.

Speaker 7 (01:12:00):
Mix go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
It's four oh four dot eight hundred for anyone who
wants to listen or try to or try to pick
up four O four dot eight eight hundred megers. But yeah,
and you can actually read uh all the information that
is transmitting back in the data packet. It's really cool.
So uh, sondhub dot org is where you can see

(01:12:23):
those as long as the the listing stations. And that's
not just for us, that's worldwide for anyone in any
state that wants to see where their weather balloons are
going up. That's where they put them out and they'll
even tell you when it pops, when it starts coming down.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
That may be one of those that may be one
of those fun frequencies you're throwing a scanner in the truck.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
You're throwing in your radio and just listening.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
You never know a look at anybody name that's cute?

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Ry it is?

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Yeah, so pis. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
I showed my wife a picture and she's like, you
didn't pick her up. She was wanting you to pick
her up. I felt like I failed her. Kyle, please still, Pixie,
I'm sorry. Yeah, all right, I think I missed a
couple in here, so let me dive back in. Yeah,
see their start all right? So uh Ham Radio John

(01:13:18):
remember for ED a C three i K member for
seven months. Happy birthday to Jason Lockwood. Okay, Jimmy k
I five p r K the brand new channel member,
Thank you so much. And Ed thanks for the two dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Because Elle mentioned Mesh tax Mesh fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:13:36):
I can't talk to metastic, remember exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
Frank with the three dollars rabbit holes for l There
you go, okay, and KB five you Dave with the
nine ninety nine love you love? You mean some mestastic love.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
You mean it some, Dave? How much of you had
to drink tonight?

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
I don't think you should be asking people?

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:14:04):
Really the kettle Blair Fair.

Speaker 5 (01:14:10):
See now you have your own episode six Hey gratulations,
except mine's not on record.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
Hey guys, what do hey guys, you think it's time
for a vote.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Yeah, I think it is. I think you may want
to make the motion.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
I think is making the motion?

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Well is that? What is your motion that you'd like
to make so we can carry out this parliament.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
This wonderful guest, This wonderful guest. She joins the group
of clubhouse membership for a lifetime membership.

Speaker 4 (01:14:39):
She can come back any time, hang out with us,
tell us what's going on, or she just even if
she just wants to say, I got nothing else better
to do on a Tuesday night and the dudes are cheap.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Is knock on the door. But it can only be
possible by way of voote. I will I will.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
Second that motion.

Speaker 4 (01:15:02):
Welcome, Welcome, There's more.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Wait, actually I will say we are actually an official club. Yes,
and we have and we have our own club call
sign w W two h r C. So if you're
ever in Texas and you hear W two hr on
the radio, it's probably me.

Speaker 4 (01:15:29):
Okay, So Elder's there's one thing before we get to
something important.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
You're familiar with what's called Hammeler.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
No, okay, Hammeler is available on a laptop, I believe,
or on a desktop, on a computer mobile device so iPhone, Android,
and you can set it up where you can put
in a call sign, you can put in a state.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
I'll use it. I'll give you an example. I could
put Joe.

Speaker 4 (01:16:00):
I have Joe Brett's in my many call signs, and
anytime Joe breck gets starts playing Poda and he gets spotted,
I get a notification. Now it could be very addicting
because sometimes you're gonna want to run to a radio
and you're not going to have the opportunity, especially like
if you're at work or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
It can drive you crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:16:19):
But it sure is fun when you you know, or
if you're looking for a certain continent or a certain
state or you know, whatever a region. There's so many
drop downs, how many deep dives you can go into it,
or you just keep it simple, put a call sign.
It is what you choose mode bands if you want.
It's a fun thing for every hand to have. If

(01:16:40):
you're looking for a little, you know, motivation to run
to a radio and chase them down.

Speaker 7 (01:16:45):
Is it an app or is it just only it's
an app an app.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Also you can you can go to HAM I think
it's HAM Alert out of Work something like that. You
can you can set it up there if you will. Yeah,
you can also download the web or the app version
on your phone and you get push notifications whenever whatever
criteria that you have, whether it be the clubhouse call

(01:17:13):
sign or or anyone's call anyone's call sign that you're
trying to make contact with, and then it'll give you
a post push notification that tells you that, hey, they're
on the air.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
Right, I'll give you, for instance, W one a W
everybody likes to work W one A A W on
various bands and modes. There you go, there's your opportunity
your friends in Colorado to hear or whatever they're on
the air. You don't know about it, or you want
to surprise them, you know, Hey I hear you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
You know, so that kind of thing.

Speaker 7 (01:17:39):
Wait, does it only detect spots that you put up
online or.

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
Just the DX cluster, the r b N motors spotsything.
But you can customize it to a lot of different ways.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
Tell you what else you can? You do a deep
dive on it and then you can do a video
on it. There you go. There's no.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Finished talking there.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
I'm sorry gets excited sometimes, but yeah. And the most
lovely feature of him alert is is when you're busy
at work and like Izzo and all these folks are
out playing radio in the middle of the work day,
you can hit the palls button and not get notifications.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
So if you want to pause, no word, do you
want to pause me? That's how you do it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
When these folks are out playing radio in the middle
of the work day and I can't participate, I usually
pause it.

Speaker 7 (01:18:34):
Okay, I say this.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
When you work from home, you can just fire up
the radio.

Speaker 7 (01:18:39):
Yeah, I do work from home and.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Ad dition Joe Joe Breads jealous, Jody thinks for the
five dollars Canadian for Pixie Therapy about not getting picked up. Julie,
thanks for the four nine nine super check. Glad glad
to have more ladies.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
On the air.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Absolutely, and Jason with the two dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
Happy birthday, buddy, Happy birthday brother. All right, now some
of one of the most important things are you ready?

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
Are you ready? L This is is oh fast question round.
There's no wrong answer. What is this question? Oh we
have we have a couple of questions. You're not You're
not gonna listen.

Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
Everybody has to do this if you want the clubhouse membership.
It's but don't so you know the rules.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
It's rapid fire question. Answer.

Speaker 6 (01:19:39):
I'm excited, I'm competitive, so I want to I'm like,
I'm getting.

Speaker 4 (01:19:42):
Ready, I'm getting scared, right, all right? Questions, don't overthink this.
Whatever comes to the top of your head. Let me
know when you're ready. Ready, okay, chicken fish or steak chicken?
How do you like your chicken.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
Cooked?

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Okay? What's your favorite ice cream?

Speaker 7 (01:20:10):
Chocolate?

Speaker 6 (01:20:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
Tell us more like what kind of chocolate in a
bowl and a cone?

Speaker 6 (01:20:21):
It's gotta be a chocolate budge and like one of
those like waffle bowls.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
There you go, all right, all right down there in Debton?
Do you call them shots, sprinkles or Jimmy's.

Speaker 7 (01:20:34):
Shots?

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Very good?

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Okay? What's a sprinkle?

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
Same thing? And what's a Jimmy same thing? It all
depends where you all live. Give me.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
Yes, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
Next question, what's your favorite snack? Springles, barbecue or regular barbecue?

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
That's easy? Is it easy?

Speaker 3 (01:21:07):
Barbecue? Chips?

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:21:09):
Or no, yes, yeah, all right, yes, all right, Final question?
You ready, Joe Joe Brett, you're ready for final question?
What happened to dun Dun Du?

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
We're not ready?

Speaker 7 (01:21:29):
And number hire I are blasted. I r F blasted
myself at fifty watts.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
I remember what we said, don't overthink this. What's your
favorite band?

Speaker 7 (01:21:43):
Oh my gosh, I'm already overthinking it. There's too many,
but one because that comes to mind is Alison. Chains
don't work.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
It don't work. When people answer, they're like, oh I
like twenty meters, they like forty meters. I like two meters.

Speaker 7 (01:21:57):
And what is your Oh I didn't even think frequency bands?

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
No you did.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
No, this is what we want. This is how we
get to know people. What's the what's uh? Give me?
Give us another music that you like? What else do
you like?

Speaker 7 (01:22:13):
I like edim So. I went to their raves in
high school a lot, so that was fun.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
So any carnival is on your bucket list?

Speaker 7 (01:22:24):
I haven't betten so yes, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:22:27):
And then what about ham bands.

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
Twenty We need to introduce the new hams to the
cool bands, the ten meters, the twelves, the fifteens in
the seventies because everyone just gravitates the twenty, but there's
so much more twelve, twelve, and fifth. So seventeen acts

(01:22:52):
almost just like twenty, but there isn't near as many
people jamming up the frequencies, so you have more room
to play. You get a lot of DX stations on there.
Ten is my favorite because it's quiet. You don't have
all that hash going on in your ear all the time.

(01:23:13):
So ten, twelve, and fifteen the higher end of the
the HF frequencies, you don't get a lot of that
static crashes and you don't get a lot of that
whenever the I guess it's called heterodyning. I guess when
you have two frequencies or two carriers that are right
close to each other and the harmonics like whistle in
your ear, you don't get all that stuff down there.

(01:23:34):
So it's a lot more pleasurable radio experience. And I
see K six wyy L six meters phone, Yes, six
meters is awesome. You just got to be patient.

Speaker 6 (01:23:47):
I haven't had experience yet on six meters, but ten
when I did, the PSTO is dead and the only
really contacts I've gotten. I say quotes because I haven't
been able to transmit was twenty so anyways, that's why
I say twenty so.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
So I suppose Randy and I need to do a
PODA sometime and you can come play on HF with
our with our setup because we're both extras. So if
you want to play, if you want to use HF,
we'll just go to PoTA Park. Sometimes you can use
a club call now and you can use a club call. Yeah,
that's right, we're all we're all extra. So that's a
cool thing about about getting to try out HF before

(01:24:27):
you get to general and extra. Because that's why Randy
got hooked. Because I took Randy out to late Ray
Roberts and we did parks on the area out there,
and it was a horrible day. We still made contacts
halfway across the country. And then we found another park
that's a port that that's part of Ray Roberts where
you don't have everybody and their dog out there doing

(01:24:48):
picnics and stuff. Because he hit that mark, it's really crowded.
So we found I found a secret spot that's still
part of the Ray Roberts State Parks. We go down
there and there's a bench, it's covered. You can put
up an in and halfway if you could do anything
you want up there. And I still do parks on
the air soda around here. There's only a couple, and
I don't know that they are on public land. The

(01:25:12):
two that I tried to go to, which are are one,
one or two pointers here in Texas that are close
to us. Now you can go out to Big Bend
and then there's there's plenty of sodas out there, but
the ones that are close to us, I've only found one,
and when I got out to it, it was on
private property. So I was like, well, not gonna be
doing that today. Look, I'm gonna go find the closest
parks on the airpark.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
Shane, I have something for you with the dad joke
on top of it. Come on, that's funny. That is funny.

Speaker 4 (01:25:50):
If you don't think that's funny, then I'm gonna leave.
I'm gonna leave right now if you don't think that
that's that's funny.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
Any bats, Everybody that just read that sung it, that's
right you.

Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
His voice is now in your head while you're reading that.
The great Freddie Mercury is now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
A slice of bread.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
I'm a remove it all right, we'll go back to normal.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
Yeah, Well, what's what's what's next on your list of
other than getting your extra and like I said, let
us know when you're ready to test for general, we'll
take care of that for you. Uh kind of what's
next on the channel? What do you get? What do
you got coming out? What's kind of the plans for
the next like month or two?

Speaker 6 (01:26:39):
Well, definitely with Mestashtik, I've got a video edit it
out right now, just you to do some fine tuning
on that. Then I hope to do the weather balloon
launch if I go to it, do like a docu
vlog style on that video. And then maybe between my
six month as a hammer operator, do some photos and

(01:27:00):
the local area. And I'm planning to go to Colorado
again in the fall, so maybe another.

Speaker 7 (01:27:05):
Soda in there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
There's some great out there too, I will.

Speaker 7 (01:27:10):
Check those out.

Speaker 6 (01:27:11):
And in between there just find any niche thing in
amateur radio and maybe make a video on it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Sounds like a plan.

Speaker 3 (01:27:20):
Do you always bring the dogs with you? They're always
with you? Got okay?

Speaker 7 (01:27:25):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
One is.

Speaker 5 (01:27:28):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
Now what about snacks? Like when you go out?

Speaker 4 (01:27:30):
What what do you what do you, what do you
pack the vehicle with anything, anything that you kind of like,
you know, I have a thing for beef jerky.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
Got to have my beef jerkey with me.

Speaker 6 (01:27:40):
I've been really into. It's not like it's like Dorito chip,
but kettle corn.

Speaker 7 (01:27:45):
So it's shaking like.

Speaker 3 (01:27:50):
Pop corners, I think.

Speaker 6 (01:27:53):
So I don't know they're calling, but I just look
at them in every gas station when I'm traveling.

Speaker 7 (01:27:58):
I'm like, where are they? And they're not all aways
at every gas station, which is.

Speaker 6 (01:28:01):
Kind of a bummer, but it's the it's like a
dorito chip, but it's like popcorn. So and then after
that is uh, usually like I I have such a
sweet tebe so I normally get like a KitKat because
my kik is probably my favorite, Like guilty presser.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
Have you got to have chocolate? Absolutely?

Speaker 7 (01:28:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
So well as ham radio is a hobby of a
thousand hobbies, so there's always gonna be something some some
quirky niche that that will be easy to explore.

Speaker 6 (01:28:33):
So it maybe not niche, but kind of like EchoLink
with using it to connect to different repeaters. Maybe that's
not something that's well known, but a function of amateur
radio that I want to find these like different common
out common aspects of amateur radio, but maybe do them

(01:28:54):
differently than maybe people would immediately jump into.

Speaker 2 (01:28:57):
Yeah. Absolutely, that's a good point.

Speaker 7 (01:29:00):
My thought was with EchoLink.

Speaker 6 (01:29:02):
I mean, I doubt you doabble it on your phone
and it's great, like it works, but it's kind of
boring because it's just.

Speaker 7 (01:29:07):
Like I can talk to someone.

Speaker 6 (01:29:08):
I can talk to someone on my phone if I
wanted to, I can join a discord channel if I
wanted to.

Speaker 7 (01:29:13):
Like, there's nothing.

Speaker 6 (01:29:15):
Interesting about it, to say the least with because you're
just interacting with your phone maybe anymore.

Speaker 7 (01:29:22):
So I was thinking, there's got to be a way
to utilize your radio with this.

Speaker 6 (01:29:26):
And I started researching and experimenting, and that's where that
EchoLink video came out. And that's what I hope to
continue my channel with, is finding different and maybe not
so common ways of interacting with your radio that doesn't
come immediately to mind.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
Good point, Yep, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
Well, yeah, when echo link first came out, it was
a pretty amazing thing. You know, I would imagine, but
I mean, you seen your website and I think it
come out the same time Windows ninety five to you
and they ain't changed it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
Yeah, everybody went fo shizzmal this is the greatest crowbarred
that one in.

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
It's shizzle. Don't put the in in your.

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
It's schnitz schitzel. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, all right, I'll
just go back. I'll just finish smoking my cigar.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
Yeah, that would be advisable. H Well, guys, anything anything
else you want to add tonight before we wrap up?

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
I want to ask her one more question.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Of course, go ahead, is no doubt, no doubt. There
was going to be another question.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
What other YouTube shows do you watch?

Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
Oh, because we're all we're we're listen, we're all friends
in the network everybody, So you're not gonna hurt, So
we're not gonna ask your favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
But who do you like to watch?

Speaker 6 (01:30:53):
I'm very picky about going to the movies and so
whatever I want to go watch a movie, I usually
go to Critical Drinker to find now if I like
that movie or not. He's got like four point five
million followers and yeah, really great channel to find out
if a movie is a hit or miss.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
So how does how does he do that? Is that
his personal perspective of it? Or is this crowd sourced
or because I don't think I rely on one man's opinion.

Speaker 7 (01:31:21):
It's a personal opinion. But go check out his videos.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
I think it's Uh he must be very objectional guy
and convincing for you trust him that much with your entertainment.

Speaker 7 (01:31:38):
Uh so critical drinker and then maybe some what is it?
What's the word?

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
Oh my gosh, any Ham radio? Any Ham radio YouTube
channels you like?

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Yes, the gazillions are out there.

Speaker 7 (01:31:58):
Yeah. Also Wavin Wires is up there.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Of course, our brother what was on here a few weeks.

Speaker 7 (01:32:06):
Ago Prepham Paul is of course.

Speaker 6 (01:32:13):
I'm also kind of in that group at the moment.
And I have to give a big shout out to
this one channel, very small, it's called getting on a Life,
but his name is Michael and he has been so
supportive of me and my journey.

Speaker 7 (01:32:26):
And I can't think of enough for the support that
he's been giving me.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
A man. I met I met him, Yeah, I met
him at the the Hillbox challenge that they have written
in Blewisville.

Speaker 7 (01:32:40):
OK.

Speaker 2 (01:32:41):
Really cool guy, really really.

Speaker 6 (01:32:42):
Super Definitely a smaller channel, but I have to hats
off to him with how much support that he's shown
me and I can text him right now and asking
him a question, and it's without any hesitation with what
I may need help with or get my answered, give
my questions answered.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
Johnson's Rotten Tomatoes for the wind.

Speaker 1 (01:33:07):
That I mean, I can't say that I wasn't thinking
about you know what happened to back in the day
when everybody just went to the theater with you know,
and threw a bunch of tomatoes if they didn't like
the show.

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
That's true, you know what any of you are any
of you young enough to remember when you had to
call movie phone to see what the showtimes were because
there wasn't the Internet back then.

Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
Press one if you want this, you know, it will
tell you six movies. Press one, they'll be press two
for times, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
And it was it was crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
But that's really really dating myself here. Knowing that there
wasn't an an Internet page you could go to to
see what time this movie was going. You had to
make a phone call.

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
And I'll just almost gonna throw out some stuff. Ham
Rado two point zero, Mike k A m r D.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Yeah, you get to Westchie guy. He's gonna ham radio
to radio.

Speaker 7 (01:34:06):
I've heard of all these. I just haven't uh.

Speaker 6 (01:34:09):
Content yet, but I've definitely seen them and I've actually
seen some of them in comments sections, so I definitely
need to.

Speaker 7 (01:34:15):
Check them out.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Live.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
There's a whole page. I think Howe has like a
whole sprint bade.

Speaker 4 (01:34:26):
Our website, excuse me about our website has a page too,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
Ham Radio Clubhouse dot com has linked to and we
have HF propagation and also links to other other YouTube channels.
So all right, guy, has anything else Before I hit
the button, they'll stay behind just a few minutes. That's

(01:34:52):
the show. Don't bump. As soon as he hits that,
we like to say goodbye. Yeah, I formal, but I
wanted to say thank you for joining us tonight. We've
enjoyed having you on the show tonight. Great seeing a
different perspective of how people are utilizing him radio and
telling your own story, because that's the thing YouTube is.

(01:35:12):
They always tell you, tell your own story, don't repeat
what else, what everyone else is.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
You're definitely doing it. Just tell your own story.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
And you've done a great job at that. So kudos
to you for that. And like I said, thanks for
coming on tonight, and I hope hopefully when you have
something else you want to share with the with the
one hundred and some of the people that are watching us,
let us know, come back out.

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
Bring the dogs on.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
Bring your dogs absolutely right now, jumbout that absolutely absolutely.

Speaker 7 (01:35:43):
I was sleeping, But thank you so much for having
me on. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:53):
You got it. If you have any any questions, you
need help with anything, we've had a whole community on discord. Uh,
you're welcome. There's links in there for for that. But
for the rest of you guys that are watching for
the last hour and a half, thank you so much
and we will see you next Tuesday. Have a good night.
God h.

Speaker 7 (01:36:20):
You're still here.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
It's over.

Speaker 7 (01:36:28):
Go home.

Speaker 6 (01:36:31):
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