E1641: 30 Days of Ham Radio Supports ARRL Teachers' Institute

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Good evening, Happy Sunday. We're back back in the shack
and we're gonna get started here in just a minute.
Thanks for joining tonight, guys. There is a donate button
at the bottom of this live stream and it is
a fundraiser for ABURL Teachers Institute. All of the proceeds
go to the teachers Institute that are raised in Oh

(01:54):
that's loud. Okay, I'm working, it's working. All of the
proceeds tonight go to a DOBRL Teachers Institute and YouTube
does not take a cut. So thank you for being
here hoping to raise a few more funds tonight. Okay,

(03:05):
enough tinkering around, Good evening to everybody. Really happy that
you guys joined us tonight back in the Shock after
a one month hiatus of live streaming. And that was
That was a very fun event. It was a very
fun event. Thirty days of ham Radio and I had

(03:28):
I had a great time doing all of those videos,
a different topic each day, and I had a lot
of really good feedback from you guys about what to
do and which ones you liked, and which ones you
thought were interesting, and which ones you thought, hey, i've
never seen a video on that before I didn't know
that program existed, that kind of thing. So some really

(03:49):
good feedback. Thank you for all of the comments in
the videos and in the in the chats, all of
the premiere comments, all of the comments, and the and
the replay videos. So I appreciate you guys being out
there tonight. And uh, yes, it looks like someone has
started off already Hamshack TV.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Josh.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, he's in the chat with us, So thank you, Josh.
We're gonna start to start us off with one hundred
dollars donation to al Teachers Institute tonight. So my goal
was to raise thirty thousand dollars. This was kind of
a lofty goal, kind of a kind of a hefty goal,
kind of a like, I don't really know what the

(04:29):
heck I'm doing and this may not work type goal.
But hey, two years ago, Mike did a live stream
for like nine freaking hours, and he might have had
a little bit too much of Grandpa's cough syrup during
that stream, but they were able to raise about fifteen
thousand dollars in one night, granted it was like all night.
And then last year Josh did a telethon livestream and

(04:52):
raised twenty thousand dollars in one night. So I thought, well,
maybe maybe I can do thirty days of videos and
ray thirty thousand dollars. But we didn't make it. We
didn't make it as of yesterday, actually right before this
live stream, because the website is still open and it
has been since. Let's see if I go here, this

(05:18):
website a DOUBLEORL dot org Ford slash thirty days is
still up, but it hadn't been updated since September twenty ninth.
It says seventy eight eighty six rays so far. It's
actually the latest number is eighty ninety six dollars. Before
this live stream tonight, one hundred and thirty five donors
total and the largest gift was one person at five
hundred dollars. So, but don't use this tonight, use YouTube

(05:42):
because we are charged credit card fees by using this
website that you're seeing on the screen right now. But
YouTube has the fundraising feature and they don't charge credit
card fees. They don't take a cut for themselves. One
hundred percent of everything that's donated in the live stream tonight,
we'll go to a DOUBLEL Teachers Institute. So I appreciate
those of you who have donated already. Don't feel like

(06:05):
you have to again, but if you want to, you can.
Nothing wrong with that. But yeah, that's what we're we're
gonna do tonight. So we're gonna bring Steve on here
in just a minute. First, if you don't know, Amazon
Big Deals Day starts in two days, and I really
appreciate you guys using my links. I'm gonna share that
link to the main website here, and then right there

(06:30):
where the ecoflow battery is is my prime Big Deal's
idea what Amazon calls an idea list. And you can
see all these things with red underneath them. Now, if
something doesn't have red underneath it, don't let that to
see you. If you click on something going here, you
can still see there's a twenty five percent discount on
this Cobra CB radio. So most of the stuff in
here is discounted. But we're gonna be doing I'm gonna

(06:51):
be doing a live stream on Tuesday morning, four Big
Deals Day. This happens every time that we do, every
time Amazon does a sale like this, We're gonna do that,
and I really appreciate you guys using those links because
those do help to support the channel, So donate tonight
and then and then use the links somewhere else. Okay,
So okay, I want to acknowledge these when they come

(07:14):
through Tortoise Overland with fifty dollars. Anonymous donated five dollars
and another anonymous donated ten dollars. Thank you guys for
those donations tonight. And for some reason, my highlight is
not worthy working. I gotta I gotta look at that,
so I'm gonna try to read all those out, So
thank you for that. But yeah, Amazon Big Deals Day
on Tuesday, Wednesday of this week, and my mystery boxes

(07:35):
are going well. Most of the mystery boxes from the
September shipment have been shipped out. I had several people,
I say several. I had like five people cancel after
this last batch, and most of them were the technician
the smaller sized box. So I created the survey and
I said, Okay, tell me what you guys want to see. Okay,
if it's not for you, it's not for you, that's cool,

(07:57):
no problem, no problem. But tell me what you want
to see, tell me this, tell me this. And so
I asked like five or six questions in a survey
email that I sent out. So if you if you
haven't got that and you want it, and if you've
gotten a mystery box and you want the survey emails,
send me an email, hit me up and discord, I'll
send it to you. But if you were in there
last month, you should have got that. And I've got

(08:19):
some updates that are coming to that. The items that
are going into the November mystery box are going to
be much more ham radio related, okay, and the and
the items going into mystery boxes after that will be
much more ham radio related. A lot of camping and
off grid and eedc stuff as well, but much more
ham radio related. Because after my I started this in May,

(08:44):
the second box was in July. After July, I reached
out to about a dozen companies companies that you guys
would recognize, VF Comms, red Odo Batteries, Bio Wino, who else,
abr Co Acts, Messi and Ploniko Acts, Gigaparts themselves. I

(09:04):
reached out to several companies of names that you guys
will recognize and said, hey, I would like to start
purchasing items in bulk to put in my mystery boxes
for future boxes. And about ninety five percent of those
people replied and said, yes, we would love to do this.
Let's work together. So we got some cool stuff coming
up in new boxes. But any suggestions from the audience
obviously is very welcome. So thank you for that, and

(09:28):
thank you for being a contributor, subscriber so far, and
I welcome your feedback from everybody. All right, let's stop
with my yaking and let's go in here and say
what's up, guys, how's everyone doing tonight?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Fantastic, Harry, what's doing? Good? Good?

Speaker 1 (09:49):
I invited some new I'm invited some extra people on
the show tonight because we always liked to have the
clamoring back and forth and just kind of the general discussion.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Also, this is not Tank Radio, right.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
I know.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, yeah, I told you that it was temporary. I
gave you the reins and I took him back and
that was very on purpose. Now, sorry, yeah, you gotta
You're gonna have to have a lot more mocks in
that and knock me off, Duke. Actually, I have an
idea of Frank, I have an idea of when to
talk to you about oh, locked, knocked, locked and knocked Okay, okay,

(10:23):
let's see hold on, Uh, that's a cool nes okay, anonymous.
Another anonymous anonymous person donated one hundred dollars. Thank you,
Nimrod Diaries. I mean, you gotta love that name. Nimrod
Diaries five bucks. Scott DeSantis with fifty dollars, Thank you, Scott.
Gilbert Stamps with fifty dollars. Thank you very much, Gilbert. Thanks, guys,

(10:44):
appreciate that I'm trying to read all those so so
let's start at the beginning. It's always a good place
to start. Steve, thank you for being on tonight. It's
been too long since we've had you on a live stream.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah it's been a minute, but yeah, to be here. Yeah,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Uh, tell us for those who may no tell us
all about the Teachers Institute, what you do and what
we're doing in this effort here. So please, the floor is.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yours absolutely, Although Brooks three hundred bucks. Thank you, thank
you very much.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh, very good.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Cool. Can I make a shameless plug real quick?

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Absolutely, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Okay, nothing to do with Teachers Institute, but definitely something
to do with with all amateur radio operators. If you
have not sent your letters to the adiblel dot org
slash hoa. It automatically sends letters to your representatives, and
they're actually, from what I understand, printing these letters out
and take them in on hand trucks into different representatives'

(11:38):
offices to show the importance of this. So if it
takes I think it took ten seconds, fifteen seconds for
me to do mine. It auto populates everything. So when
you get a minute, just ablel dot org slash hoa. Oh,
he's on it right there. If you scroll down, you
type your call sign in there, it should auto populate everything.
If it doesn't, just correct whatever needs correcting in there.

(12:00):
And this goes from my ha, it goes to your
your senators, your senators and congressional representatives and everything. So right,
I don't have a normal or a recent count, but
it's it's a lot of people that are doing this
and it makes a difference. Even if you're not in
an HLA. It's it's huge. So if you haven't done that,

(12:22):
please take him in and do that. So all right,
so back on topic now, yep, sorry, what was the
question again? Somebody was right, I'm twenty I'm twenty minutes
away from my bedtime. Actually i'm eleven minutes half.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
And good old Steve, even with even now he stopped coffee,
he still gets up early for some reason.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
I don't get it. But yeah, I did not voluntarily
stop coffee.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
I did restart coffee for about two and a half months,
and that was recently restopped.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Restarted, the restop, the restart. Okay, yeah, so all right,
uh yeah, tell us all about Teachers Institute for those
who may not know. I'm sure probably everybody knows about it,
but in case you don't, it's cool. Yeah, tell us
all about that.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
So, a Teachers Institute is a completely donor funded program.
So it's been around for twenty some odd years, like
twenty five years. I took over the Education Department fright
at four years ago, a little over four years ago. Now,
we were running two of these a year if we
were lucky and the program. Program was a good program.
It just hadn't really changed or evolved over the last

(13:25):
twenty some odd years. We've since evolved, it changed it.
We've got Teachers Institute one, which is kind of the introduction,
and then we have a slew of elective courses. Now
we have TI remote sensors and data gathering. So I
think you know APRS, So some sensors on a buoye
and a solar panel throat in a swamp somewhere, and

(13:48):
your kids in your classroom can actually monitor real time data.
We've got ballooning and amateur radio, so we teach them
how to do everything to launch their own peak a
balloon and give them everything they need to well, they
launch one at headquarters and then they also get everything
they need minus the helium to launch one at school.

(14:08):
We have Teachers Institute Space Communications in Radio Astronomy. This
one's really cool. We have a partnership with Haystack Observatory
at MIT, and so that's that's a really cool one.
And we're actually developing right now. Teachers Institute aref security
that one's going to be so into the weeds. It's

(14:28):
actually going to have a part one and a part two.
So we're constantly developing new courses. And that's important because
teachers are a lot like kids. If you don't have
something fresh to keep them engaged every couple of years,
to keep them coming back and getting re energized, you
tend to lose them. So that's kind of the goal there. So,

(14:50):
like I said, when I took over. We're running two
of these this year, budgeting permitting, I am shooting for
twenty one teachers institutes this year. Wow. Okay, I have
no hair like my friend j RZ there. So it's
a good thing because I would I would probably be
pulling it out. So but I've got a great team.

(15:11):
And I say that and it's mostly in jest, but
I've got a great team of people at the office.
And you know, the Board of Directors is firmly behind me,
as well as David Minster and everybody at headquarters. So
it's much easier to do when when everybody's rowing in
the right direction.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Absolutely, and okay, so as so you said twenty hopefully
twenty one sessions this year in correct? Are some of
those going to be remote?

Speaker 2 (15:38):
A lot of them are going to well a lot
of by remote, I don't want to imply it like
via zoom. They will be at remote locations, but they'll
still be in person. So anybody listening, if you have
connections at a school or someplace that's in a very
populous area, I'm happy to come out there. We have
already committed a road show in I'm calling him my

(15:59):
road show. It's like the Antiques road Show but a
little bit better. So we have one in Seattle and
that one was actually free funded. A group out there
called us last year and hey, we want to pony
up some cash if you'll do a t I in PNW.
And it's like okay, So the the Muckleshoot Indian tribe

(16:21):
is actually donating the venue for us.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Nice to do that.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Good, So I figure people don't mind going to a casino. Yeah,
we also are looking to have another one. We had
our first one in Louisiana last year and we're already
in discussions with them to have another one next year.
Johns Hopkins University we held one there this year and

(16:46):
we're hoping to have another one there. We've got a
few of them that are We just committed one in Charleston,
South Carolina, so that's another one. So we'll obviously have
to have a lot of them on the road to
hit twenty one. I only have, you know, eight ish
weeks of summer that's realistically usable right to use headquarters,

(17:07):
so you know, a bunch of them have to be
on the road. I did briefly kick the idea around
about bringing people in two t i's at one time
in headquarters. You know, we just got a brand new
I call it a classroom. They call it a conference room.
If you see it, it trusts me it's a classroom. But
it's a great venue that we just we just built

(17:29):
to try to not try to to host these things.
We can fit twenty two teachers in there at a time,
but we also have a little conference room above W
one a W and so if Bush comes to shove,
I'm going to start potentially bringing some of the elective
courses up there. It's much smaller, but my elective courses
are smaller anyway because they're much more hands on. So

(17:52):
we're busting at the seams and that's a good problem
to have.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
So yes, So for the purposes of donation, and we're
up to about nine hundred forty dollars, guys, thank you.
Anonymous donated twenty dollars and kay ensmun donated two hundred dollars,
So thank.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
You for that.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Yeah, tell us what it costs, because I know kind
of what it costs to bring people up there. Could
you guys fly them up, put them up room and
board for four days, five days, and then fly them home.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, and then we pay how.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Much, right, and how much does that cost if you
go to them? Surely it's a little bit better cost
if you go to them, but kind of describe that
if you don't mind.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
So it costs to bring people to headquarters. It costs,
including equipment they get and everything, about forty five hundred bucks.
That's you know, airfare, lodging meals for like TI one.
They get about thirteen hundred dollars in equipment to take
back with them, so it's about forty five hundred dollars.

(18:50):
It's it's significantly cheaper obviously doing it on the road,
which is another reason why we were looking to do
them on the road. I save about half little more
than any I have to ship fifteen sixteen big boxes
of equipment out and we have to return ship some
stuff back, but I save pretty close to half. So
it's if you figure on the road, to be safe,

(19:12):
i'd call it twenty five hundred bucks a pop. You know,
we've only got last year really to look at numbers.
So this year we'll have a much better idea as
to you know, different locations spread out across the country,
what it truly costs on an average.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Perfect Okay, do you have one plan in Texas yet.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, we actually had one last year in Kilgore, okay,
and she's actually already talking with us about doing another one.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
But I'd love to have more in Texas. I'm a
Texas boy, been lived there for a lot of my life,
and so you know, if the Houston area, the Dallas
Fort Worth metroplex, San Anton, Austin, any of those places
that have a densely populated enough area that the people
can drive in each day, yeah, I'd love to have

(19:59):
more there. So if you're if you're listening on the stream,
watching on the stream, and you know people in schools
or it doesn't even have to be in a school,
If you know a company that has an inspiring venue,
you know someplace that's just kind of cool and people
can nerd out when they go, then you know, I'd
love to talk to you and see if we can
have one there.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Well, you come to Texas again, you let me know.
I'll come down and do some videos absolutely of whatever
whatever you guys allow, which obviously we probably wouldn't get these. Well,
you guys don't teach students directly. You teach the teachers
who take them back to the students. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
we'll do we'll do some stuff. You just let me
know when that happened.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
So that was actually out there two weeks ago. I
was just so slammed busy. I was out there doing
the I'm on the a rulemaking committee for the FAA
and ballooning, so I was out there for for four
quick days and see our friend Shane different ballooning, although

(20:56):
those technically are in the category. These are amateur radio balloons,
but we did talk about Mayanda balloons as well. So wow,
it's a if you didn't know the the government there
was trying to instill technically, trying to make every every
balloon in the sky, no matter wait or anything, have
a transponder. And so you know, boy, five thousand dollars

(21:21):
ADSB transponder on a Peico balloon that weighs twenty eight grams.
Do the math on that one.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
I can see the reason they wanted it, but yeah,
we should push back.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, well, so we have success. Well I think we've
been successful. We'll know for sure later, but it's been.
It's been. I mean I think I've spent twenty five
thirty days on the road just for that this year.
So but it's it's been worthwhile.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
So Frank, I hesitate to say this, but your audio
is kind of low.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Oh so actually I thought it sounded perfect. Little.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
I mean it's a little yeah. I mean you let
me go in the windows coming through, coming through on
my side a little bit. Look, I'm gonna regret that.
I'm gonna regret that. Yes, I see that. Jason and
for YPZ, thank you for the fifty dollars. And alan
Ka four Ltc. Thank you for the one hundred dollars
that Allen's donation took us over one thousand dollars worth

(22:17):
at one thousand, ninety dollars.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Now, that's awesome thanking and.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's great for the first twenty minutes, guys, thank you
for the support. So awesome. Well, Steve, this is an
excellent This is just an excellent program because people talk
about how they you know, I'm gonna start talking about
YouTube comments again and everybody knows what that's like. But
you know, all the naysayers get out there. Ham radio

(22:42):
is dead. Nobody teaches Ham radio anymore. And you guys
are doing something that used to be done decades ago
in schools and kind of got away from and you
guys are bringing it back. So this is just an
excellent program. And I'm very much in favor of everything
you guys are doing with that, so thank you for
putting the effort forth. For sure.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
I can't do what I do, like I said, without
support from from donors and supportive board and everything like that.
So you know, it's it's been a passionate of mine.
I taught school for twenty one years before you know,
I came up there, and I mean, you know, you
were you were one of the people that helped me
get my YouTube channel going to and that's how we
were funding those things. And now now we get to

(23:22):
do it on a national level level. So it's it's.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Totally good, excellent. Well, thank you very much. Man. That's great. Uh,
Paul joined us. What's up, buddy? How are you?

Speaker 2 (23:37):
You got him?

Speaker 1 (23:38):
You're unmuted, but I can't hear you.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
All right, come back to me.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I guess there you go. You got it.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Never got to talk really close.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
I have an obnoxious sun that just came home and
is extremely loud, so I had to mute.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Well, okay, there you go.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
But now I'm good.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Everything's good.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
Just had fun this weekend on the California q Soto Party.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
That's a good opportunity to get lots of Q SHOs.
So nothing new.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Thanks for having me, you bet, thanks for joining, and
Jeff joined earlier and Josh was here at the beginning. Jeff,
what's going on your world, buddy?

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh, just fishing up my weekend and uh back to
work and uh just enjoying ham Radio today.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Did multiple things, so it's a good, good.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Good. We were at a ham fat We went to
the Belton Hamfest this weekend and I picked up a
new M squared two meter yaggy. It's not new, it's
used a used M square two meter yaggy cause and
I'm really getting interested in doing some more VHF and
and UHF stuff, So that's going to be a topic

(24:53):
on the channel again soon. But that was that was
a fun weekend. Had a really good weekend this weekend
for that. So sorry Paul and Frank and sorry you
guys weren't able to make it out there.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
But you know, a bummer.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, sometimes I have it. And how's my audio now?

Speaker 1 (25:11):
It's better?

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, I thought about coming back and shutting.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
Is it take radio?

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Is it working yet?

Speaker 1 (25:16):
If you, if you really really want to get kicked
out of Zoom, go ahead and get it. So I
had said, I had said at the beginning of my
thirty days of ham Radio, and uh yeah, and I
think I think I said earlier or I was talking

(25:36):
earlier about how some of you had asked me if
I was going to do this again, and the answer
is the answer is no, I'm not going to do
this again, or at least I'm not planning to right now.
But I have other projects similar to this. I wanted
to do this and see how well it worked, and
I think overall it was very successful. We didn't meet

(25:56):
our goal of donation money, and we didn't meet or
goal of trying to get all I was trying to
get a number of videos. I was trying to get
all the videos to ten thousand views during that time,
and and we got about five of them. I was
going to show these to you guys right now. We
almost five of them. I'm gonna I'm gonna count it
as five. Okay, So the first video we got and

(26:18):
this is here's an idea for those of you on YouTube. Okay.
I did a different topic every day for thirty days
and the one and I can tell you right now
which ones were the most popular. Okay, the first one
to cross ten thousand views was this and don't pay
attention to this top Ham Radio expert title. That's that's
I'm doing all my titles with vida iq now and

(26:38):
it that's what it picked because I'm not I'm not
a top Ham radio expert. But this one eighteen thousand views.
This one was about two meter FM simplex one's forty
six five to two meter FM simplex and that was
the first one to cross the ten thousand view threshold.
And I issued a challenged everybody during that video, and

(27:01):
I said, look, turn on one five to two when
you're in the vehicle, I mean turn it on at home. Also, yes,
absolutely turn it on at home. But when you're on
a road trip, when you're driving around town, you just
out running errands, especially on a road trip, turn on
one forty six five to two. And let's get some
more activity on that. And I have had comments from
several people on my latest video saying hey I tried this,

(27:24):
or maybe on discord, you guys have hit me up
and say, hey I tried this, and uh, I actually
had a conversation yesterday where you actually talked to some
people yesterday, So very very cool stuff.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
It's actually i've seen it more active around here lately.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
I have too. Yeah, it's been more active around this
area as well. So and that's a good thing. Ham
Radio Duo with the twenty five dollars donation. Thank you
Mike and Becky. Appreciate you guys being there.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Folks that actually my column that's I don't think it's
out yet, but it's about to come out in QSC.
That's they were the focus of my column I write
in QST.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Good, good, excellent, and but that was the first video,
so that one, and I said I was going to
donate one hundred dollars per video for every video that
reaches reached ten thousand views within that thirty days. Now
I'm I've got a couple of them that are right
there and have reached a few more views since then.

(28:18):
I'm gonna show those two you here in a minute.
And a gentleman emailed me and said he was going
to match my donation. So whatever I donate, he's gonna
match the donation. His name is Dane. I forget his callsign.
I can look it up here in a minute, Dane,
if you're in the chat tonight, please let me know anyway.
So that was the first one right there. So again,
you guys on YouTube that were looking for ideas, here

(28:38):
they are. APRS was the second one. Now, contrary to
what Mike may tell you, people actually want to watch
APRS videos. Okay, this was the longest, probably the longest
video of the whole series. It was forty one minutes long.
I brought on Jason, came for Ack. We did a
zoom call together. I asked him questions we did you know?

(28:59):
We did some messaging back and forth between Texas to
Tennessee through APRS through an igates are uh yeah, igates
that are near both of us. And I got a
lot of really good feedback on that video as well,
So I am planning some more APRS videos soon myself.
The next one was and this here here, it is

(29:21):
this one right here. And for whatever reason, every time
I put up a video about my truck, it gets uh,
it gets good views, and which is cool with me.
I mean, I like my truck. I'm glad you lies
like it too. So if I hover over this, this
one has ninety three views it's seven views away from

(29:42):
getting ten thousand. So guess what I'm gonna do. I'm
gonna share this in the chat right now. Uh so,
uh Dane Berry, Daneberry, Okay, I hope, I don't. Uh,
I hope, I hope it's okay to to say it's you, buddy.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
I don't remember you tell me not. But Dane has
volunteered to match the donation that I make, which I'm
gonna make on this live stream here in just a
little bit. So thank you Dane for your support.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
There.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
So that video is seven thousand seven, seven thousand seven
views away from ten thousand, okay. And then this next video,
which is about two meters sideband, is like sixty views.
I think it's at ninety nine to fifty three, forty

(30:30):
seven views away from ten thousand, so forty seven views,
and I'm gonna donate. I'm gonna add these to my
I'm gonna add these to my list anyway. I'm just
they're close enough. It's close enough to ten thousand. So
this one here, I'm gonna thumbs up my own video.
So this one here, So that's four. And then the
fifth video to cross ten thousand, views was the one

(30:54):
about the VHF contest station, which if you didn't watch that,
go watch this freaking thing. This is freaking This is
a freaking awesome, awesome station with arrays of VHF UHF
and microwave antennas. They have a dish. Where's that dish?
I got a picture of it in here somewhere They
have a dish for doing uh right there, this dish

(31:18):
on the left here is a twelve twelve hundred ninety
six Mega hurts one point two gigahertz antenna and it's
pointed at the moon right now. It's bouncing. I think
I think they're amplifiers. They have a killawatt amplifier for
every band. I think that one might be six hundred
watts though, So they're dishing that whatever the heck the

(31:39):
E I R P on that dish is, I have
no idea, but it is crazy. And they're bouncing that
off the moon right now. So if there are if
there were Martians at one point in time after they
built this superstation, I guarantee they all got fried. So
but they're they're bouncing all these antennas and this is
this was an awesome, awesome video. I really appreciate Ryan.

(32:00):
You guys might recognize Ryan. He works at Armlock. He
invited me down there. He's like, Hey, come down and
do a video about this place. And I'm like, I'd
love to, so hopefully be back out there for another
VHF contest soon. But those are those are the five.
So I got five videos that reached the ten thousand
view threshold. So that's five hundred dollars of my own.

(32:22):
I'll be donating here and just just a little bit
at the probably towards the end of the stream. And okay,
let me call these guys out. Javier, thank you for
the twenty five dollars donation. Vic Miller. Vic Miller's in
the chat every just about every time we go live.
Thank you for the fifty dollars donation. Appreciate you guys

(32:43):
with that, and and yeah and plus plus I said
I would donate a dime for every subscrib new subscriber
I got. And for whatever reason, I think YouTube did
some cleaning out of debt accounts. I lost some subscribers
over the last two three days, which that that happens
one two times a year. It's not a big deal.
But I gained about seven hundred subscribers over the course

(33:06):
of that thirty day video, so that's seventy dollars. So
right now I'm looking at five hundred and seventy dollars
and I'm gonna donate myself here by the end of
this live stream.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
That's what I'm looking Awesome, man, thank you. So.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah. I wish I could do more. I really do,
but you know, it's one of those things. It's a
direct correlation of how much. If I would have gotten
thirty videos in a row with ten thousand views for video,
then my numbers would have been way up and I
could afford to donate more. But you know, but we're
gonna keep it going though. This is not gonna be
the last thing that we ever do for you guys.

(33:37):
Steve So, I really appreciate everybody who's done stuff before me.
I'm sure I won't be the last person, but that's
where we're at right now.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, it's awesome knowing that the YouTube community, I mean
pretty much every It's to a point now where I
actually have to try to stagger these things, Like I've
got somebody else that was trying to schedule another fundraiser
during your thirty days, was like, now, let's not try
to double dip these things, and uh, yeah, because you know,
I mean it's it's it's a good problem to have again,

(34:07):
but it's you know, everybody wants to support you, but
at the same time, it's there's some scheduling issues and
then I'm about working Kevin and his crew to the
bone with some of these things.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
So, yeah, Kevin was a good Kevin Beals up at
a doublerell. He was an excellent, excellent resource for telling
me this is what we can do, this is what
we can't do, you know, this kind of thing. He
was a great support during that whole thirty days effort.
So I really appreciate his his help as well.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah, great, great guy. So I couldn't ask for a
better partner. And crying when it comes to, you know,
doing this stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
So totally cool. All right, So, uh, what anybody got
any anybody in the zoom got any comments, questions, or
any thing about Teachers Institute, you guys, feel free.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Y I'm happy to answer him. So if you've got
questions or do you.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Need another teacher, I can help out there, Steve.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
So actually I've I just brought on some more contract teachers.
So I've got I think six contract instructors, one staff instructor,
and then I've got Max and FOURML who the ones
that get really big and at headquarters. He he's kind
of like the the assistant teacher I guess in there.

(35:24):
He helps Wayne Green out. If you don't know Max,
he's a he's younger, twenty one something like that, but
he's a big contesting guy and a smart, smart fella.
So it's nice, nice having him in there to help
out with some of the technical stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
It's always good to have contesting guys be teachers.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Oh wow, yeh five ninety nine dollars. Thank you very much. Hey,
thank you, Jeff. That's great, very cool. So Mike is
asking why you need to call sign to film the
fill the form out. The reason for that, I don't
want to get too far out of my lane and
this is technically out of my lane. But I know
the answer to this one, so I will. The reason

(36:07):
for that is because only licensed amateurs are are eligible
to to file the the letter, so we pull that information.
I think they pull it from cures at Yes, So
that's now you know, that's that's the reason for that.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
So so explain you on the letter says you'll actively
walk in hand deliver the letter. So do we have
a double R L representatives on Capitol Hill?

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Yes, I know there are lobbyists, and I know at
least one or two of our board members or are
in and out of there. There's a eight. Like I said,
I don't want to get too I don't want to
get too far out of my lane because I don't
know all the deats. But I will say there is
a ton of work going on there that that it's

(36:52):
just you know, so it's all behind the scenes until
it's not kind of thing so right, you know, but yeah,
they're they're from what I understand their plan is, and
I think they've actually already been been doing it is
just literally printing these letters and taking them in and
putting them on on people's desks. You know. It's we
we we live in a country where voting is pretty

(37:13):
close to fifty to fifty. Yeah, and you know, these
these people are a difference of you know, twelve hundred
votes for one representative or something could be huge, and
so you know that's that's the difference that makes I
saw another question in there about what grades my program
is for yes, So my sweet spot is kind of

(37:35):
middle school early high school. We we do take younger
than that, depending on the program I've had had. You know,
while I personally did it in my classroom in third grade,
fourth grade, they do need significantly more support. So if
but if you've got a teacher who's who's willing and
able to give that support, then absolutely, and then also

(37:55):
it can easily go higher as well. The the problem
with higher is is not a content problem. It's it's
more of a capturing their interest. If we catch them
in middle school, we tend to keep them a lot longer.
If we were competing with so many things, they've already
gotten invested interested in high school. By high school, they've

(38:17):
they've discovered you know, sports and girls and girls sports, and.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
So you know, what are these girls we're talking about.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
We don't need to go there.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Frank, I mean, you know, you know, you're you're turning
you're making ham radio operators out of kids, and and
it's gonna that that right there is going to deter
their chances to get a girl anyway.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
So and I say girls, but honestly, you know a
lot of these clubs at schools are are mine and
my middle school it was about half girls, so the
same holds true. They get interested in boys, so you know,
it's it's really anytime that you start competing with more
and more, and then the homework load gets bigger in
high school, so they're they're less likely to pick up

(39:02):
something additional.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
I joke. But nowadays being a nerd is cool. Back
when we were in high school, you talk about amateur
radio circuitry, it's it's it's a death nail. But now
that is the new cool. And and it's awesome to see.

Speaker 6 (39:16):
That my son is a competitive chess player and he's
pretty popular in uh, in the seventh grade.

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Just cool because just because of that.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
That's cool.

Speaker 5 (39:28):
Nerd is the new cool.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
I mean, you know you used to see the nerd memes?
What was that that movie? Can't hardly wait? How the
the jock grew up to work at a car wash
and the nerdy guy, the computer guy grew.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Up to be the.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Owner of a software company dating a supermodel. So yeah,
it's that's not too uh, it's not too far off
the truth.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
All I'm thinking about some Revenge of the Nerds.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah, that too.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Another question in the chat from Ham Radio Duo. The
biggest challenge is that I have it is really getting
teachers to be aware that we're here. Whoa, you know
it's well.

Speaker 7 (40:11):
What one than anonymous?

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Oh yeah, there we go. Okay, thank you very much,
whoever that is, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Money.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah, some dude named anonymous.

Speaker 6 (40:25):
Well I just noticed Frank when when Josh said that,
Frank took a drink really quick.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
So if that's what it takes for people to make
it a drink.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
I should I should have. You know, this is for
this is for teachers, for kids. We didn't want to
do any of that.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
I'm not drinking for anything on stream. I'm just enjoying
the night. And I'm not even saying what I'm doing,
just enjoying the night.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
Steve can relate to this.

Speaker 6 (40:50):
My mom was a teacher, and teachers are people too. Yes,
they have the lives outside.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Of school, so there you go. But also just remember
that a lot of times it's the students are rolling
in here and things, so you can't be a teacher
a teacher.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Hold on, hold on, guys, Steve, did you finish answering
that last question?

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Not really? So okay, Yeah, So the biggest problem is, well,
other than funding, I mean, is getting teachers to know
we're here. Once I I can talk to a teacher,
if they're in a subject area that's remotely related, I've
got them. The problem is getting them to know that

(41:35):
we're out there teachers kind of like you know high
school students there. There are so many competing things out there,
and you know, a lot of them spend a lot
of money marketing their stuff straight at teachers. But they're
all for profit businesses. You know, We're a nonprofit we uh.
You know, I travel to some education shows like this

(41:57):
next year. I'm going to four of them. This year, gosh,
I think I went to eight or nine of them.
But that's really the best way for for me to
to find these people is to go to places they're
going to be to interact with them. We're also advertising
in some some teacher leader like principal, superintendent like magazines

(42:18):
and stuff like that. But but yeah, getting getting teachers
to know that we're here and that we're truly a free,
donor funded program.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
So I saw a question a minute ago, Steve, I
want you to address because this is important here, increased noise.
Don't know this person, but thank you for joining the
live stream. What is the best way to contact Steve?
I work in an industry with multiple operational facilities. If
radio was widely adopted, it would be it could save lives.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
My call sign K five A T A at A
r L dot org.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
So I have a phone number, but I'm much faster
on the email.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
So I'm the same way. I'm the same way K
five A T at A to ORL dot org. If
you guys need that later or can't remember it or something,
hit me.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Up hit dot organ Some people try the dot net
and it falls into an old Gmail account that I
remember to check every now and then. So if you've
ever emailed me from a from a dot net and
I didn't answer you, sorry.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Okay, Yeah, hit me up on discord or email me. Uh,
those of you who might have my contact info, I'll
get that to you if you need it again.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
K five A T A kilo five alpha tango alpha
at A r r L dot org. So cool. Okay,
let's see what else.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Any other questions coming out of there.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, I'm not seeing any questions right now, but if
you guys, if you guys type the word question. It
highlights it from me.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Have you ever tried to work with the Scouting organizations?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Yes, we do interact with Scouting. Scouting has gone through
some some changes in recent years, and so there have
been some challenges re engaging with the different I guess
people in charge they're they're being careful with with a

(44:12):
lot of things. And we do have a good relationship
with K two B S A good good So we're
trying to trying to reintegrate into some of the Scouting things.
The Scouts, you know, do jambre on the air, but
it's also Jamboree on the internet typically Pacific on which

(44:33):
is next week coincides with that, and so I generally
go to that show because I get the chance to
interact with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Scouts and
young people there. Nice m h okay, And right now, John,
can I you use buy me a coffee for specifically
donating to the Teachers Institute? I don't, I don't know,

(44:55):
I don't think so that's sure how that goes?

Speaker 3 (44:58):
The best right now is the donut during this live stream?

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Yep?

Speaker 6 (45:03):
So well, so real quick, and I just to address
that in some cases people have an aversion to donating
to or through YouTube. This is a fundraising donation, so
all of the money you donate will go directly to
the ar r L.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Yeah, credit card fees and everything, they cover all of it.
So you know, my program, and and it goes straight
to to my program. It's going into the education fund
and and I use that for basically bringing teachers in
and then equipping teachers and classrooms. That's it. None of
my you know, when I go to teacher conferences and whatnot,

(45:40):
that comes out of general fund. That doesn't come out
of or it comes out of you know, Diamond Club donations,
stuff like that. But any money that goes straight to
to teach the Education Technology Program is only used to
to equip teachers and to bring teachers in.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
M uh phill w zero RHP. He's very active in
the chats. Donated fifty dollars. Thanks Phil, appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
I saw several people ask for the r A double
r L h O A link. I've drawn ahead and
dropped that in this.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
I saw that in Yeah. Yeah, Lucas Kanain r FL
is saying, what what's the website for teachers to reach out?
Lucas are you asking like as a teacher and Steve,
do you guys have a website specifically for teachers to
reach out or is email better?

Speaker 2 (46:32):
So if it's a teacher that wants to get information,
they can they can email me, but also a double
r L dot org slash TI for Teachers Institute. We'll
take you to a page that the schedule. In fact,
we have a TI starting what is today's Sunday, starting tomorrow,
so we have we have two of them in October

(46:54):
because we've had to expand. So we've got teachers that
are in town right now and probably having dinner with
their instructor. So so yeah, so eight World dot over
says T. I will populate the new schedule sometime in
November with hopefully twenty one lines of schedule there could

(47:17):
that'd be cool.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
Real quick before it goes too far away. Uh, fill
donated fifty bucks. I'm going to match that. Yeah, fifty
dollars donation, and I would like to see somebody else
match my fifty dollars donation.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Oh, challenge thrown down, Here we go, it has been thrown.
Let's do this all right, there's some money, Frank, you
have a job now, right, Yes.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
There's that anonymous guy again, thank you very.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
I can't do that. I don't know why that was me.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
I don't know what Oh that was you.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
So if you there's a checkbox down there that if
you check the box, I think it lets your name
be visible. Or maybe it's the other way. Yeah, Personally,
I would appreciate it. I mean, I get it if
you don't want your name out there. The cool Personally, though,
I would appreciate it if if you're if you leave
your name there, because I do like to personally thank
each person that that gives. I mean I I thank everybody,

(48:09):
whether they give me five bucks or five thousand dollars.
I spend a significant amount of time doing that because
it's important. Nobody nobody has to click that link and
and donate a dime.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
I matched Tims, so.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, poule match Tims match Freddy Freddie Mac match pol
Here we.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
Go's who's matching Freddy Mac?

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Pass the baton?

Speaker 1 (48:33):
That's right? Oh, that's good. This is fun. Jeff, Jeff,
Jeff with the fifty dollars. Thank you, Jeff.

Speaker 5 (48:44):
Who's gonna match Jeff?

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Tim's out here calling people out. I didn't ask him
to do this. It's just something he chose to do himself.

Speaker 5 (48:51):
Actually, I'm not calling in that.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
There you go, I, there you go.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Steve's got skin in the game.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
Now, I got a lot of yeah matches, Steve.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Make sure you thank yourself, Steve.

Speaker 5 (49:06):
Right, Josh, Josh just donated.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Thank you, Josh.

Speaker 6 (49:09):
We got a double rights hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Bill James does ask is the website to donate later? Yes,
you can donate on the website anytime. And I don't
know how long the the super chats will be active
on this stream, but the super thanks maybe we'll also
go towards the I.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Believe it just has to hit the donate button to
go towards it. So you have to do the donat
they have to do the donate button. And I also
think that donate button will stay active for a while
on the replay.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
I'm pretty sure it seems active forever.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Yes, it seems like the December or November, the one
on Josh is last year. We were getting some trickling
in a week ten days after Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
I looked up both of their videos and they both
show a donate butt in which I didn't click on.
So I don't know how exactly that works, but it's
still showing there. So Bill hem Radio Tectonics. Thank you, buddy,
good to see you out there. Paul donated twenty dollars.
Two different Joshes donated well one K seven kJ seven

(50:18):
OEP donated twenty dollars. Another guy just named Josh donated
fifty dollars. Bill donated one hundred dollars, Iron Bunny Chronicles
fifty one another. There's too many Joshes out there now,
my godness, Hamshak TV with fifty dollars, Nate with fifty dollars,
del Fergus, he's in the chat all the time, fifty
dollars in my mark K five YAC, fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
And I just got a text from David Minster CEO.
Uh huh, and he wants me to tell you that
he's donating twenty dollars for every day of your thirty days.
So he's he's donating six hundred to.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
The Oh, well, thank you very much. That's that's great,
That is great.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
I don't know if he's gonna do it on stream
or if he's gonna you could just walk into Kevin's
office and do it there. Yeah, here you go.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Cast for me, that's right.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Yeah, you know, two offices down.

Speaker 6 (51:10):
So so Mark K five YAC also donated fifty dollars.

Speaker 5 (51:15):
Ronald another fifty dollars debt I don't.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Have my the best gamer forty five gamer.

Speaker 5 (51:22):
There you go.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
Fus donated ten dollars. Brandon Win donated fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Thank you guys.

Speaker 5 (51:29):
This is awesome.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
So how is the five thousand dollars mark looking?

Speaker 1 (51:34):
We're at thirty six eight or we just say thirty
seven hundred thirty seven hundred. I wish there was a
way to highlight that on the stream, but I don't
know how to do that.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Mozilla donated twenty So this is I mean, like I said,
this is awesome. And yeah, the fact that so many
people see what we're doing and it works, you know.
I mean, I just got an email. I'm not gonna
say too much about what it says, because honestly, somebody's
gonna start peeling onions and I'm gonna get tears in
my ass. But I got an email from a kid

(52:06):
yesterday evening that is at Staten Island Tech, you know
where Everton's down there, and he's he's licensed four hundred
and three kids in the last couple of years, and uh, wow,
what one of these one of these kids who I
go down there. I just catch the training down there
and Ed Wilson, the Hudson Division director, and I we
go in there and we helped test these kids, because

(52:26):
I mean, it's like a factory. We go in there,
we'll test one hundred kids in a day. But this
one gentleman that you know, I took him at a
radio once and we spent a lot of time talking
to him, and he ended up getting an Ail Foundation
scholarship for fifteen thousand bucks. So Ed and I went
down there to the school on his awards night and
had a big check printed kind of thing and did

(52:47):
the you know, publishers clearing house looking thing, and you know,
it's it's it's cool because having taught school for twenty
one years, you you get these every now and then.
But it's cool when I still get these these emails
and these these letters from from kids that I didn't
directly teach. But you realize I kind of did directly
teach this kid. I mean I spent and I mean

(53:09):
it's I'm not I'm not gonna say it because the
onion guy's coming. It's just it's awesome. It is awesome
seeing that the people don't realize the impact that that
this program has on kids. You know, even if the
kid doesn't necessarily get licensed in seventh or eighth grade
or whatever, we've still exposed this these kids to to

(53:30):
amateur radio and to to radio and wireless technology. We've
fostered a larger interest in STEM education and programs. I mean,
it's it's awesome and I've got some some hard data
and I didn't it's at work now, but we're starting
to get some numbers back from teachers from the last
three years on impact that it's had, and it's huge.

(53:51):
I mean, we've we've got hundreds and hundreds thousands of
kids that are getting their licenses and and getting interested.
You know, even if if it's like most of us
where they get licensed and they fall out of the
hobby for a few years and they come back, that's cool,
we all do. The key is they've gotten the license,
So it's much easier to get back on the horse

(54:12):
when you have the license. So that that's an important
thing to remember.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Absolutely Electric.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Well, do you have a couple other things too?

Speaker 1 (54:20):
I have a yeah, okay, so kW four L George
and Casey nine USB poa time he donated already. He
was one of the pre people who donated, and I
read his comment and shared a link to his to
his channel during the thirty days of Ham Radio. So
thank you for being out there again. The best gamer
forty five, he says, hopefully my high school picks up

(54:44):
some sort of Ham radio. I am still in high school,
and if a teacher could could have been in this,
I would have gotten into it sooner. I'm a senior
in high school now call sign kJ five CMM Charlie,
Mike Mike.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
So I would tell you, before you leave that high school,
find the couple coolest teachers you know, and then seriously
get give them, give them that website and have them
come spend a week with us. Every single person that
comes up here leaves just completely energized. They leave licensed,

(55:20):
they leave with equipment, and we were creating we have
our own discord for people who have got through through
TI and so we're creating these networks of teachers that
are all they're still talking on discord, you know that
they Hey, I'm going to launch a balloon. Anybody done
this and they're trading ideas around and they're that That's
what we're really after is these teachers finding that network

(55:41):
of people. So you know, tell that teacher to give
me a call. I mean, it's we pay their way.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
So another anonymous donation for fifty dollars, and then Mike
Burke's donated two hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Thank you, Mike, Oh, thank you Mike. Somebody else asked
about the is the should it be a more basic
exam than the technician I don't think so. Yeah, no, No,
it's a.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
You saw a technician exam from twenty or thirty years ago.
The technician exam we have today is more basic than.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Yeah, it's not a challenging thing. I every now and
then I get the occasional adult that that tells me,
oh my gosh, that test is going to be too hard.
I can't do it. And it's amazing how quickly they
change their tune when I tell him my top twelve
year olds to do this, So it's not it's not hard. Yeah,
yeah you can. I've had kids that they crammed for

(56:37):
it over a weekend and got it. That's not the
ideal way to do it, but they do it and
it works. So mhm.

Speaker 6 (56:46):
So a little further up, I think we missed k
kW four L. George donated fifty dollars also.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
Mentioned, but go ahead, digit I'm sorry, Yeah I did,
I did.

Speaker 5 (56:55):
Sorry, Okay, got measured.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Oh there you go, old Bodd pro mod. Oh this
is a car guy, I'm guessing. So uh, yes, thank
you very much.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
As that.

Speaker 6 (57:16):
I was going to say, so, this did not exist
when I was in school, and I went through in
a time yeah you know before STEM right in the eighties.
I almost didn't make it out of high school. I
was so bored and so not challenged the entire time
that I was there that I, like I said, almost
didn't make it. It wasn't until I stumbled into an Avy

(57:39):
recruiter's office.

Speaker 5 (57:40):
They tested me, and.

Speaker 6 (57:42):
They're like, you know what you you can you can
do something for us, and uh they sent me to
Advanced Electronic school. Everything that I learned in school is
what the kids are learning in middle school now and
and stuff like that, and and so there is great
advantage to this. And most of most of this audience
is a little bit older, and I think some of

(58:03):
them can relate to exactly what I'm saying as far
as that, so, the more we can teach these young guys.
I still got two young kids at home that are
that are still in school, ones in middle school, ones
in elementary, and I am looking forward to them learning
this stuff earlier. Not so much about amateur radio in general.
That is an activity, right, that is that is something

(58:25):
that you can use to to to learn with. Ultimately,
this is going to help the kids just just be better, right,
to be more into the workforce, to learn how to
problem solve, to learn how to just fix things, and

(58:46):
have a little fun along the way while they're at it.
I mean, I'm having the most fun of my life
right now in my fifties, going out to the park
three and four times a week and doing Poda and
youtubing and doing all this other stuff. That would I
have been doing this today if it wasn't for amateur radio,
probably not.

Speaker 5 (59:04):
Probably not.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
So that's that's a good point. That's we we are
not teaching teachers to teach an amateur radio class. We're
teaching teachers to use amateur radio as a learning platform
to teach other things. They're teaching coding using our Dueno
and and what that they're teaching map reading skills and

(59:26):
and direction finding with fox hunting. They're teaching all these
the STEM elements, but they're using amateur radio in the process.
Now that the ideas the kids get into it, they
start playing around with it. They're like, oh, I want
to do this on my own. Okay, now boom, so
that we can get them licensed. WHOA thank you Dane.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Yeah, Dane, Okay, Dane as pledged, I am matching your donation,
but I like round numbers, so I just rounded.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Off like I like the way you round Dan.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Thank you, Thank you very much, Dane. There's Yeah, there's
Rob Okay, thanks Rob.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Rob.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
Feel free to join the zoom if you want to
uh the zoom anybody who's I think crash course Josh
was in there earlier too. If you guys have the
zoom link, if you've ever been on my zoom before,
feel free to join us. I do want to say
hi to Dave real quick KB five U T I.
He and I spent uh spent the weekend together at
Beltonham XPO. What's up, buddy?

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:00:28):
Not much.

Speaker 8 (01:00:30):
I don't know if I donated to the wrong place
or not.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
It's just link it just came through fifty bucks.

Speaker 8 (01:00:36):
Well, I that's the third one I've done.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Really, so, so you're are you hitting the link in
the description? Yeah, that's why. So it's I appreciate your
donation thrice, but uh, it's it's actually going straight into
the education Fund. So it's not going to show up here.
For it to show up here, there's if you scroll
down a little bit underneath.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
The chatt I see, yeah, that was the last one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
I mean, you're welcome to hit it again if you want.
I'm not. I know a guy who will definitely use it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
It'll all it'll all go to the same place eventually,
so it's not it's not being wasted. But yeah, Robert.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Said he's eating a late dinner, so I won't be
able to join.

Speaker 7 (01:01:17):
Okay, so I've got a second. This motion by Dale.
I kind of like this than Jason and Frank saying
I'm in the stream.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
I would, I would. I would be real surprised if
Frank knew the words to that song.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
But the internet.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Yeah, yeah, Bill.

Speaker 7 (01:01:39):
Baker, the question is which one of you as Dolly Parton.

Speaker 4 (01:01:44):
Yes, yes, they've got a question for you, Steve that's related,
but maybe a whole other conversation. So I substituted for
four years at the local school district here before COVID
and as I FINI, yeah, as I finished, you know,
they don't have any kind of radio group or anything

(01:02:05):
like that. And I was I remember looking on the
air double a website to try to figure out how
to kind of get that going, and they really didn't
give me a lot of direction. Is there someone specific
to talk to or is there is that you to
see about finding a teacher that would want to be
able to start a school club and perhaps you know,
get gear and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Yeah, so the key is, like you just said, you
need to find that teacher. Yeah, so that you know
the days and I have this conversation every Ham fast
I go to with with a bunch of really well
meaning Hams that they're like, I'm just going to show
up at the school, knock on the door and say, hey,
I want to do Ham radio with your kids. Yes,

(01:02:43):
give me a small room in the back with no
windows please, And yeah. So those days are gone, Ben,
Thank you very much, Ben. But those days are gone.
So we have to have that teacher. That's that's our
key to getting in you're in a slightly better position
than because you substituted there. They know you, so you know,

(01:03:03):
you've already gotten background checks and stuff like that. But yeah,
that we we need the teacher, and and the way
that I'm funded, I they have to be. It doesn't
have to be a teacher, but it does have to
be a school employee. I mean, I've got a guy
who's come three times to you know, three different sessions
of different subjects, and he's like the bus shop manager,

(01:03:29):
but he he does his after school time running the
Ham Radio Club, and I mean he does some cool
stuff with these kids. I mean he he's in the
discord all the time helping people. He's anytime somebody pops
on there and says, hey, i've got some kids who'd
like to have a contact, he makes every effort to
get out there and get on the air. So they
don't have to be a teacher, quote unquote, but they

(01:03:50):
do need to be a school employee. You know. I've
got some tech directors some I've even got a couple
of principles that come I found that a if I
bring a principal every now and then the next year,
they give me several teachers.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
So that's a good idea, that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
And I also shamelessly use that for an opportunity to
try to get a venue, because I mean, I need
to find thirteen fourteen venues for this year. So hm,
you know that's that's another That's how I got Charleston.
This lady came through Ti Lath two years ago and
now she's like, Hey, that was awesome. I see that

(01:04:29):
you need places to go. I want to come here.
I'm like, yes, I do.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
I see a good question for Steve here front think
pad mods. What equipment do they teachers get when they
come to the teacher institute to take home?

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Okay, I'm going to try not to forget anything. And
because it's pretty much all of the equipment that we
give them, it's paid for with the donor money. But
I do have to say that most of the vendors
and manufacturers work with us on pricing. I'm not really
allowed to disclose what that price is because some of

(01:05:04):
it is really a good deal. Yeah, so they get
two handheld radios currently, they get an FT seventy, and
they get some Chinese knockoff this time right now, it's
currently the the Kwan chang that u v K five.
I chose that one because it's for more hackable and

(01:05:25):
that's what I want. I want kids to to play
around with doing that stuff, and if they brick it,
then they can spend another twenty bucks. Nothing, nothing lost there.
They get a zoom Spot. The zoom Spot people, he
is awesome. I can't tell you how much he works

(01:05:46):
with us on this, but Jim, Jim is amazing. Yeah,
and uh you know he every every single teacher gets
a zoom Spot to put in their classroom so that
when a kid wants to have a contact with another kid,
they can pick up a handheld radio, key it up
and talk to another kid across the country somewhere in
another classroom. And they start to figure out some of

(01:06:08):
the wow, wait a minute, is it radio? Is it
the internet? Is it both? Stuff like that. They get
a Bionics Fox. They get a directional antenna we are
currently giving them and it's in fact it's antenda that
we're gonna end up selling in the store. Oh okay,

(01:06:30):
but it's a build. It is not a kid. It
is a fully functional antenna. Okay, that's that's that's awesome.
It's pretty cool. Let's see, they get art system software.
So if if you don't know Karen and those people

(01:06:51):
over at Art Systems that they're amazing people. They work
with us a lot. Let's see they get an are
do we know, micro controller kit? They get let's see here,
I am, I'm gonna forget things right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Yeah, it's quite a bit of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
It's about thirteen hundred dollars worth of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
So, and like I said, pretty much every one of
these vendors that they work with us on pricing. So
you know, somebody gives me two hundred bucks or something
like that, that two hundred bucks may buy me three hundred
and fifty dollars worth of gear because of the discounts
that we get. So good.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
Is there any I think you've talked about this in
the past, but you were All of that equipment is
usable by the Technician Class License RREAT. So is there
any effort in there for upgrading teachers to general or extra?

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
Yeah, you would be amazed at the number of teachers
that show up on a Monday. We ship them all
of the study materials ahead of time, so as soon
as we accept them into the program. You know, Eliza
in my office, she she packages up a bunch of
a bunch of study materials, send it out to all
of them. They come in and pretty much all pass

(01:08:09):
the technician exam on that Monday, if they're already licensed,
which roughly forty percent maybe fifty percent that come through
are already licensed. Really if they if they come in
and they're already licensed, we get we send them whatever
their next license classes of study materials. So they pretty
much all come in and pass on that Monday tee

(01:08:33):
guys a four day program. Usually by Thursday they've all upgraded.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
So because I mean it's you know that they get
the itch, they get in there, they see some of
the cool stuff you can do. How can you not
want to upgrade when you walk across the parking lot
and you see people, you know, shooting fifteen hundred watch
at a W one, a W right and and I
mean it's just you know, and they can actually do
it with the control operator. They we give them that
so that they they have that that fire in them,

(01:09:02):
and they do. They end up getting upgraded every now
and then you get like the overachiever, like Everton down
in Staten Island. He came in got his technician if
I remember correctly, and then left as an extra. Several
people do that. So and then a lot of them
they don't upgrade maybe that year, but they come back
the next year and they upgrade because guess what we
send them when they come back for you know, TI

(01:09:23):
I remote sensors. We send them the book. So that
and then the same thing holds true with their kids.
You know, they the kids are going through you know,
I say Everton, and I keep saying Everton, but it's
his kid that emailed me. So he's on my head.
You know, he licensed four hundred and three kids, but
that's not counting the probably two hundred plus that have

(01:09:47):
upgraded to general an extra in there. So you know,
some of those four hundred and three kids have taken
three tests and passed. So you know, but that is
a a classroom full of nerds there. It's amazing. I
love that place. It's great.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
So k E six Gae the Hibboliham had the pleasure
of meeting him in at the More Expo this last April.
He says, we have a teacher in my area that
does a net on two meter repeater every Wednesday when
school is in session. He does it at seven thirty
before seven thirty am before school, so all the local

(01:10:23):
hams can check in with the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
That is pretty cool. So yeah, so we need to
get something like that going on in North Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Yeah. I would think in a DFLU metriplex you could
easily get something like that going. And the cool thing
about that is a lot of places have problems with
young people feeling comfortable in a club full of older people.
This this kind of levels that out. I mean, when
when they already know somebody because they talk to him
on the repeater every week, Yeah, they're more comfortable walking

(01:10:53):
into that club and being the only thirteen fourteen year
old in there because they're like, oh, hey, I know
you know you're yeah. So yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
And there's there's a lot of comments. I get emails,
comments on videos, messages on discord, people on Twitter, which
is always a dumpster fire of comments that are like
that are basically like kind of morbid about it, And
I think most of them are probably well meaning, but
they're like, Hey, what's gonna happen in ten and twenty
years when all of the most of the hams today

(01:11:23):
are retired senior citizens if you will. And you know,
and this generation starts dying off, you know, there's ham
radio is going to die. And I'm like, with all
of the efforts you guys are doing, that's that is
solving that problem. That is solving that problem with getting
younger people into amateur radio, that's going to be there
for the next four, five, six decades. So it's just

(01:11:46):
a it's just a great effort.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
So yeah, having amateur radio is not dying. Amateur radio
is evolving. I will I will say that, yes, because
kids are interested in different things than I mean, I
was licensed in ninety four January of ninety four. It's
it's a very different hobby than it was then. Yep.

(01:12:07):
But that that's good because it keeps keeps things fresh,
keeps kids interested. I personally welcome. I'm that's ninety three
percent of the reason I do what I do is
I like to see what kids are gonna come up with,
you know, I I tell them all the time. I
was like, right now, FT eight's all the rage? Can
you do better? You know? I mean, and if if

(01:12:29):
kids or if anybody can can innovate and come up
with the next cool thing, it's a twelve year old
who hasn't learned that they should not try it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:39):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
That when I was twelve years old, I was doing
stupid stuff that I should do, like riding bicycles off
of houses and bridges and stuff. I'd have been much
better served doing this kind of stuff at twelve years old.
And that's the that's what we're trying to get these
kids to do, is is think you know, like, for example,
like we give every teacher a raspberry pie because one

(01:13:04):
of the biggest problems we had was was overcoming administrative
permissions on school laptops.

Speaker 7 (01:13:10):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Okay, so you know that we we would spend I
say we, I mean for Wayne the the uh, this
guy who's instructing most of these classes, he would spend
twenty five thirty of a week trying to deal with,
you know, driver things that didn't install correctly. So I'm like,
you know what, done with it? So we just bought

(01:13:36):
a bunch of raspberry pies. And then I went to
Andy Stewart. Oh what's his call sign? I don't remember
his call sign? Andy's Ham Radio Linux guy. Oh yeah, yeah,
oh I Q maybe anyway, and he he customized his
hand Radio Linux Distro for us. So it's got everything

(01:13:57):
that that our teachers need for TI in there. So one,
it makes it super simple for the teacher coming in.
They come in, you know, they slide an SD card
in there, they're up and running. Everybody has identical systems.
But the real beauty of this is the fact that
when a kid gets interested in the classroom and they're like,
I want to do this at home, they buy a
cheap Raspberry pie and an SD card and they shoot

(01:14:19):
the same image on there and they have the exact
same system they're already comfortable with using in the classroom. Yep.
At home, the learning curve is is gone. There's no
you know, nerves of oh is this how I do this? No,
they're they're comfortable with it as soon as they get
to the house. And you know, that's that's that's another thing.
I just like seeing all the stuff kids are gonna

(01:14:41):
gonna work with and come up with. And you know,
these kids in like in Erie, Pennsylvania, when they had
that the RISS contact up there at Drew School, the
kids did that whole contact. That was awesome. You know,
Airiss is already pretty cool. I mean, I'm talking I'm
talking to, you know, people in space. But the fact
that kids did every step of that, and by every step,

(01:15:01):
I mean they ran the coacts. These kids did every
step of that. After that was done, I stuck around
with those kids for several hours talking to them and
they're like, that was pretty cool. But you know what, now,
let's see if we can bounce stuff off the moon, right,
And you know, talking to some of those kids, it's like,

(01:15:21):
you know, if you can bounce stuff off the moon,
can can you bounce stuff off of farther stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Meteor scattered or you know, Mars Mars?

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
And they're like, I don't know, can we I'm like,
I don't know. That sounds like a good thing to
try to, you know, figure out, And they're like, how
would we know if we're even pointing at it? And
then once they have the realization that there are radio
signals coming from Mars, I mean, we have remote control
cars driving around. They just have to find them. If
they can hear it, they're probably hitting it. Whether they

(01:15:52):
are or not, I don't really care. My whole thing
is they're on the roof of a school in fifteen
degree weather trying to they know, point intendas towards mars
that that's the stuff they're nerding out with. Ye.

Speaker 6 (01:16:05):
So so Steve, you just you just mentioned something and uh.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
I mentioned a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
On the kids table.

Speaker 6 (01:16:13):
On the kids table, our motto is it's not your
grandpa's a radio anymore. And one of the things that
I want to challenge a lot of people, a lot
of older people. Right, We've been around the world. We
know how things work. We know it's not going to work.
Never tell a kid no, you can't do something. Always
challenge them to go try it, try it if they
if they continue us out, I want to do this.

Speaker 5 (01:16:31):
And work it and do it.

Speaker 6 (01:16:33):
Okay, sure, as long as they're not getting hurt or
they're not going to hurt anything, challenge them to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
Yeah. The power, and it's not a good power of
the word no is a you know, it's it can
have its place, honestly, I mean you can if you
phrase it correctly, Like you know, every now and then
a kid there's those kids that like live up to
the I don't know, can you pull that off? That's
kind of a no, but it's not really a no.
It's really like a prod. And then you know, some

(01:17:00):
of those kids will take off with that. But you're right,
what if if you shut a kid down and say, no, okay,
that's fine, I'll just take this back out and start
playing with it right.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
Right right, Well, since you know, since you brought up
the topic, Tim, shamelessnessor go ahead and tell everybody what
the kid's table is because some people may not know
so uh.

Speaker 6 (01:17:24):
About a year ago, I kind of got fed up
with that that no right, and I was just joking around.
The guys from the clubhouse had taken the two Thursdays
off because of that, and I'm like, you know what,
I'm just gonna start live streaming and the Ham Radio
Kids Table was born and we have been now streaming
every Wednesday night at eight pm.

Speaker 5 (01:17:45):
Eastern since then.

Speaker 6 (01:17:47):
And it's it's growing, and it's really trying to find
people who are doing things in amateur radio that are
just kind of outside the normal.

Speaker 5 (01:17:55):
There's a lot of.

Speaker 6 (01:17:55):
People will you know, we'll we'll follow the trends, but
I want to find those people that are doing things differently,
getting out there and pushing amateur radio to new levels.
Like Steve was talking about, right, the kids, they're going
to grow this hobby. What we did one hundred years ago,
doesn't mean we still have to do it today.

Speaker 5 (01:18:14):
We can push the hobby.

Speaker 6 (01:18:16):
Steam's all like, yeah, yeah, exactly push the hobby right
because yeah, I know there's so many people that get
upset about using the Internet in amateur radio.

Speaker 5 (01:18:29):
Well that's great.

Speaker 6 (01:18:29):
R F is in every aspect of our lives. Everywhere
you turn around there is r F.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Four, G five, g Wi Fi, bluetooth, the satellite, cable modem.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
Yeah, it's even in like, you know, healthcare stuff, and
that's an area that I'm intimately familiar with lately. And
it's you know that there's the fact that like kids
don't realize that in the medical field, I mean pacemakers,
you can bluetooth a pacemaker now, yeah you know. I
mean I'm wearing this stupid thing right now on and

(01:19:01):
it's communicating wirelessly by bluetooth to a device that center.
I mean, it's that is all that biomedical engineering stuff
that the kids, who's who's interested in that? You get
them interested in the radio aspect of it, that's when
they start Wait a minute, and that's where I see
the big growth is is it feels like the medical

(01:19:22):
field where there's still so much unknown, and you get
a kid who's like, you know, well what if I
combine this and I could do it? Do something wirelessly,
puppy sorry, and watching them, you know, that's where that's
where kids are are really going to excel, because, like
we said, they don't know limits yet. And I don't

(01:19:45):
want them to know limits. I don't want them to
think about how much it costs. I don't want them
to think about how impractical it is. I want them
to see the dream at the end of it of
you know, I can do this and I can change
this type of person's life for the better if I
can pull this off, you know. And that's that's the
kind of of thinking we need these kids to have.

(01:20:08):
And that's that's kind of our you know, we have
a whole stem curriculum that that we're we're launching. It's
it's been delivered. We're actually just test driving it right
now on a learning management system. Same thing. The whole
point is to to inspire them using radio as a
learning platform, to be interested in all these other areas.
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 6 (01:20:29):
One thing I used to challenge my oldest son when
he would be he'd do the whole debt I can
like pick up my phone and like text anybody. Now,
you know I used to push I'd say, niate, Go
find any technology that you're can just do so easily.
Go look at the patents on that. Go research to
people that hold those patents, and I guarantee you one,

(01:20:51):
if not more of those people hold an amateur radio
license in the United States or another country. Guarantee it
every every piece of tech.

Speaker 5 (01:20:59):
That you've got that you find.

Speaker 6 (01:21:00):
This a creature comfort today has a tie back to
amateur radio in one way, shape, form or another.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Yeah, and it's you know yeah. And as far as
like kids in there, somebody forget which money was asking
how to get into schools. Maybe it was Paul. Throw
that scholarship number around. You know, every year we give
away somewhere between seven hundred and fifty thousand and nine
hundred thousand dollars to kids. Kids and there somebody forget

(01:21:30):
which money he was asking.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
You got to echo coming up, throw that scholarship number around.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
You know, Oh yeah, mutual, I swear I heard that before.
You know, when when you can throw throw to a
to a school leader saying hey, you know your kid,
your kids can get up to twenty five thousand dollars
scholarships or I mean we had one young lady in
the San Francisco area, Lexi got a full ride four

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years she got the Gold Farmer Scholarship. Wow, you know,
this is this is stuff that that kids who may
not get scholarships for other things can I mean twenty
five grands a huge amount of money for and that's
you know, they can apply again each year. So you know,
you've you've got kids who might not have gone to
school after high school because of financial reasons or whatever,

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all of a sudden, that's a whole nother world that's
open to them. So and it's also a great shoe
in the in the door because you know, principals love
scholarship money because it makes their school look better when
their kids get them.

Speaker 7 (01:22:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:22:36):
My thing, My thing, Steve is kind of like I
don't even know how to go about doing it, So
I'll have to hit ship and see how to how
to do it, how to initiate it?

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
What do you say?

Speaker 4 (01:22:45):
You know, what are the points that you talk about
and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, absolutely hit
up another time.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
That's good, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
So the donations has uh kind of stagnated a bit,
so I think it's time for me to put my.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
Now, remember we actually had that six hundred dollars on
there for David Minster because yes, I know, I'm he's
just gonna go give Kevin a check, so so add
that on there. So we're really at seven grand.

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
Right, So yeah, well, I'm gonna make it official because
I I said I would donate five seventy and I'm
gonna pull a I'm gonna pull a Dane and round
up a little bit, not as high as he did,
but I'm gonna no, that's the wrong Pisa number.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
Let's see, right, just what what number is it?

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
I'll check it for you, the one for the Miles man.

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
So I'm gonna put it, and we're gonna we're gonna
put it, making an even seven thousand right there.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
So boom.

Speaker 1 (01:23:47):
That's that's my thank you to everybody for the thirty
days of Ham Radio series support that you guys did,
for watching the videos, for all the comments and whatnot.
So thank you very much for that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
But don't stop at I'm just gonna say, you know,
people are looking at this number saying, wow, seven thousand,
But this is in addition to the what was it
eight thousand and now.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
We already had eight ninety six dollars from Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
We're over fifteen thousand dollars at that, right, guys, guys,
that's huge. This we're only I don't know, five thousand
dollars away from from paying for a road show. M
you know when you look at it that way, that's
that's that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:24:27):
So yeah, there's another dollar it Brooks seven thousand broke,
So you gotta go more.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
Paul is just being funny. I think you missed a
couple of zeros there.

Speaker 4 (01:24:40):
Poll Oh, I four zeros after that?

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Let me match Paul well fast.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
Yeah you do that, Frank mister, I have a job now.
But all right, Mike and Becky, you guys back.

Speaker 5 (01:24:53):
In there, I hope.

Speaker 1 (01:24:54):
So, yeah, you're good, that's okay, that's all right. What's
going what's going on?

Speaker 9 (01:25:00):
Yeah, we just wanted to stop in and say hi
to Steve and thank him for all he's doing. It
was really great to meet him up at ham Fast and.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
It was awesome, and thank you for letting me write
about you too. You guys. You know, and I think,
as I said in my uh I call him if
you're not wrong, I guess nobody's ready because it's not
out yet. Oops. But uh, you two remind me of
my wife and I, so you know, we do everything together.
We do all of our radio together. So it was

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it was kind of cool. I mean it was kind
of like, you know, it was a very different feel
writing about you too, and I really enjoyed it. So
thank you for letting me do that.

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
Yeah, well, thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:25:37):
And uh, as time goes on, let us know how
we can help. We'd be happy to get uh, get
some keys in the hands of kids if part of
the equipment of Morse Code ends up becoming a part
of the curriculum.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
So I would love to do it.

Speaker 7 (01:25:51):
So yep.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Cool. For those of you who haven't read it, which
is everybody else, it's it's coming out soon digitally, so.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
Good, good, good, good, all right, cool.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
Yeah, there's another dollar. Thanks. I just went up to
seven thousand and two.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
Oh yeah, there it goes too.

Speaker 4 (01:26:13):
Well, if everyone matches my extra dollar, we'd get another
two hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
No, got two hundred people.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Watching, that's true. Everybody donated dollar.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
I forget to and and I assume some people that
are in the in here are not the same people
from earlier. So I'm gonna go do that shameless plug again.
You have not done the HOA letters. Please do those
a wl dot org slash h o A. It literally
takes a few seconds to fill out. Hit the button,
whether you're in an HOA or not. This this is

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something that that helps all hams. So we have representatives
in DC that that are working and have been working
hard for for a long time behind the scenes to
make this go. And uh, you know it. The more
are the more people that fill this out, the more
letters we get to throw on people's desks and make
them realize that each letter is a vote. And you know,

(01:27:09):
like I said earlier, when we live in a country
where so many of these elections are pretty darn't close
to fifty to fifty, they do whatever they can to
get a vote. And if they see a stack of
twelve hundred letters and they're like, oh, if I vote
this way, I've just alienated twelve hundred votes. That costs
selections nowadays.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
So and somebody had mentioned we talked earlier about the
fact that you have to enter an amateur radio call
sign to do these letters. I've seen comments on the
video that I made about this that said that if
you put a GMRS call sign in there, it does
accept it. Now are those letters getting printed sent to

(01:27:48):
your congressman. I don't know, because this is an aborl effort.
And I've said this before in other videos. I have
my GMRS license. I plan to renew it when it
comes up for renewal. There's nothing wrong with GMRS. I'm
not talking bad about it, okay, But GMRS does not
have a supporting entity such as a doublerel for that service.

(01:28:09):
One of the great things about amateur radio is we
have a doublerel. We have other entities and groups that
are like a doublerel for the betterment and protection and
furtherment of amateur radio in the United States and parts
of Canada as well. So GMRS doesn't have that. So
GMRS is not as they don't have as strong a

(01:28:31):
pulling as that. Even though people say, well, there's a
lot more GMR eh I we can get into a
whole thing about this, which I don't want to do
right now. People say, oh, there's a lot more people
get in the GMRS license these days, in ham radio license.
I don't think that's true. But even if it is,
I bet sixty to seventy percent of the people with
a gm RS license also have a HAM radio license.

(01:28:52):
Everybody on the GMR sipeter in my area also is
a HAM. So but regardless of that, this is an
able a double orl effort for people with amateur radio licenses.
But if you don't have a call sign, then try
it with your GMRS call sign and see if it
takes it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
I've been told it what doesn't hurt Yeah, so certainly
can't hurt it. I've seen the same reports that it works. Yeah,
I don't know, and so I don't want to say it.
And then right right, like I said, this is you know,
definitely out of my lane, but it's it's important.

Speaker 7 (01:29:24):
So I will say this. I do know that in
my area I've been hearing more and more skyworn that's
being called on GMRS repeaters. So the thought of emergency
preparedness does certainly go with GMRS, and hopefully their voices
can be heard too, because I think it's just important

(01:29:45):
for GMRS and ten if it's outside, as it would
be a HAM you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
Know, And the reality is antenna restrictions impact every slavery
of radio operation. Sure, you know, I mean it's if
you're restricting one, you're you're essentially restricting all and so
you know, but but you're right that the advantages to
being an amateur radio operators is, you know, we're here

(01:30:11):
to represent us in our interests. So ideally it'd be
great if these gamorous folks would would also be licensed
and be a member. You know that this is something
that you know we're talking about, like my program is
completely donor funded. This is something that comes out of
of general fund when when we pay for these representatives,
and this I don't know the numbers, I know it

(01:30:33):
is not cheap, you know. So so this is the
kind of thing that your dues money and your Diamond Club,
I mean Diamond Club donations are huge for this kind
of stuff. So you know, if if as we get
near the end of the year and you're like, oh,
I need somewhere you know, tax deductions or whatever, I
got a guy and you know, so because there's just

(01:30:56):
there's so much that that the organization does that. No,
these other forms of radio don't have an organization to
do that for him.

Speaker 1 (01:31:05):
So uh w a whiskey Victor three Lima is asking
what the total is the total is currently seven ninety
seven dollars plus David Minster's money plus the eight thousand
dollars we already raised. So currently currently on the live stream, number,
seven ninety seven dollars is the number.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
And since John's super Chator, since Paul's one dollar super chat,
John jonata twenty dollars, Jason jonated another twenty dollars, Aaron
Ray donated another five dollars, and Roger donated another fifty dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:31:38):
Thank you, Yes, real quick, Steve, your's it's your call
sign at AWRL dot org.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
Is that what you said? Yep? Okay, okay, make sure
make sure it's dot org because if it's dot net,
it's going to fall into that waste.

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
Yeah, okay, all right, thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
Thanks, I'll check it once a month, thanks Paul nice. Yeah,
thanks man.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
So one more challenge.

Speaker 6 (01:32:01):
I'm gonna do another fifty dollars, but I want to
see it's eight thousand dollars for the live streams over.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
Oh can't we do that?

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
I don't know Tim why, I'm not gonna say no, and.

Speaker 5 (01:32:14):
I'm gonna put it on Jason's credit card, So good
luck with that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
Good luck with that. Put it on Frank's credit card.
There we go, so sorry, all right, so gray Man
put a started the fifty dollars train again. There we
go right there. And uh, this is not a sponsored effort,
No god, no, no, this TV followed suit.

Speaker 5 (01:32:38):
This is my livelihood. And I will say that I
mentioned it earlier.

Speaker 6 (01:32:42):
If it wasn't for electronics, I would not be where
I'm at today in my life could have been a
whole lot different. And it took one person, and in
my case it was a Navy recruiter. But it took
one person to walk in and show me something and
put me on a path that that made a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
H And this is you know, when you look at it,
these donations, you know, we pay for teachers to come up.
I don't obviously bring kids. When you look at it
in the long game, one teacher, if you figure one
teacher teaches I don't know, seventy five. I guess, well,
Matthew's in on a stream. Let's say a teacher teaches

(01:33:19):
one hundred kids a day. It's not an uncommon number
in school. So if they teach one hundred kids a day,
and we get that teacher, you know, and they've got
fifteen years of teaching left that before they retire. I'm
not paying. I'm not funding one teacher. I'm not funding
one hundred kids. I'm funding or you're funding I should say,

(01:33:40):
one hundred kids for fifteen years every year, so there's
fifteen hundred kids. And then the power of other kids talking.
I mean goodness. When I was in Mississippi doing this,
I walked out to the football field once and the
kids were out there having soccer practice and one of
my kids was showing his Battle Fang radio to five
other soccer kit players and they're talking on the repeater.

(01:34:04):
I'm like, so you've got the power of the kids
talking about their whole things, so so that the you know,
the actual impact is much larger than just bringing you know,
miss Jones to to t I right, So you know
it seems and it is. It's it's expensive, trust me.
I know. I just went through the budgeting process for

(01:34:26):
next year and it is no doubt it is expensive.
But it is worth every and every single dime. And
I can say that personally because I saw my daughter
grow through learning amateur radio.

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
I mean she did this right, Oh yeah, yeah, jerk,
it was big.

Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
Into you know, she she's she's and she's still into it.
She's busy with school right now. She's she's student teaching.
But you know, she comes up here, we get on
the radio, we go down there, we get on the radio.
I'm trying to get that boy that she's hanging out
with to get licensed. So that's okay. He's growing on
me a little bit, so you can.

Speaker 1 (01:35:05):
Put an APRS tracker on him, keep tabs on him.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
So but you know, it's it's I see the impact
for these kids and what they can they can do.
I mean, it's it's huge.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
So all right, so let's let's acknowledge a few things.
Uh gray Man Poda started with another fifty dollars. Brooks
WB six E d K came in with two hundred dollars.
kW four L. George donated another fifty dollars. He's already
been in there once tonight, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:35:35):
Rick Wilson donated another fifty. Mike Smith G zero r
F D from across the pond. Five. I forget the
I think is that pounds? I think that's a pounds? Yeah, okay,
always I get the I get the pound in the
euro sign mixed up.

Speaker 3 (01:35:50):
I forgot did he donate it more or less than
five dollars?

Speaker 1 (01:35:54):
I think that's more than five dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:35:55):
Yeah, good for him.

Speaker 1 (01:35:56):
Yeah, so Vic Miller with another twenty dollars. He's and
he donated once tonight and n five cop Frank is
in there. He said for the next for the highest
bid in the next ten minutes. And this was after
Brooks's donation came in. But I think you should count
his because y'all kind of came in there at the
same time. Brooks donated two hundred dollars for the for

(01:36:18):
the highest bid in the next ten minutes. I will
send you a new, never used modern morris Key if
Jason can email me and let me know who it is,
so modern morris Key. If you don't, if you want
to see one of these, I gave this away on
a live stream about two months ago and the guy
never claimed it. So this is a freaking, very well

(01:36:39):
made key. It's got a magnet on the bottom of it,
so you can stick it to the top of your
radio or to a metal table.

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
I guess i'll hold that up. Tim.

Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
Very good, very good key. Oh yeah, Tim's got one.
Two yeah, very very well made, handcrafted Morse code key
and those.

Speaker 3 (01:36:58):
Are magnets at the bottom to attest.

Speaker 1 (01:37:01):
I just I just said that Frank made in the USA,
absolutely Saint Louis, Missouri. So there we go. And I'm
supposed to have one of these coming to me with
my call sign on my logo on it. But I
haven't got that yet, not that I'm bitter or anything.
I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:37:18):
Yes, well, at.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
Least he's not trying to claim that he did something
for the first time made everyone else's copying him.

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
Well, yes, we go, I made it the first time.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
Leave that one.

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
So yeah, So I think right now, Frank N five
cop Frank, not you Frank, not not that Frank, the
other Frank. Right now it's looking like Brooks w B
six E d K because you guys sent that that
may you sent the message after Brooks. But Brooks came
in there like a minute, like thirty seconds before you

(01:37:53):
with the two hundred dollars donation. So right now it's
looking at like him. Well, yeah, anonymous seventy five dollars
or it is.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Make sure if you're the highest one, you click the
box that we can see who you.

Speaker 1 (01:38:06):
Are, right right. Yeah, So somebody comes in in the
next seven or eight minutes and beats two hundred dollars,
then you will win a modern Morris Key. So and
if you don't know Morse code, it's a really good
reason to start. Once you have a really good key
in your hand. There you go, I have a good
reason to start.

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
Health Lin sent me back there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
You can head over to ham Radio do and check
out their videos. I tell you that that inspired me
to start that. Morse Mania is driving me nuts now.

Speaker 9 (01:38:36):
So that's simple for kids too. Morse Mania it's like
a game. They just get in there.

Speaker 1 (01:38:41):
I mean they learned so fast.

Speaker 2 (01:38:43):
Yeah it is. That makes me wear the earbuds.

Speaker 7 (01:38:48):
Somewhere.

Speaker 8 (01:38:49):
It's the two fifty h they'll also get the new
seed studio L one in this case parametric sensor, uh
and all the.

Speaker 2 (01:38:58):
Cool stuff in it.

Speaker 8 (01:38:59):
So if somebody beats the two hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:39:01):
To the two hundred, that is a mess chat. Okay,
let me pin you real quick, Dave, so people can
get a better look at that. Uh No, come on,
oh come on, wrong button idiot. Okay, you're good, go ahead,
all right, this is a really cool mess testic no
that I saw myself over the weekend. Go ahead, David.

Speaker 8 (01:39:19):
Yeah, so this is the it's the Seed Studio L
one in a custom case.

Speaker 2 (01:39:23):
By ali Cat Designs. Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:39:26):
This actually has a four thousand million four battery in
it and a BMY two eighty temperature, humidity and barometric
pressure sensor built into it. It's got TPU rubber gaskets
to make it a little bit more rugged. But yeah,
somebody beats the two hundred, they get this, so they.

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
Get that and the key and the key, key and
the key. But no, somebody's got a bowfing they get
throw in the rot. Right.

Speaker 1 (01:39:56):
I've got some giveaways to do, but I was told
I couldn't do giveaways for donation.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
Yeah, I gotta tell you, I'm not sure what the
rules are with that.

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
So yeah, but I'm not I'm not doing it. You
guys do whatever you want to.

Speaker 7 (01:40:09):
But yeah, there's Robert. Yeah, got the eight fouls.

Speaker 1 (01:40:14):
So Robert really Robert wants that freaking mestastic.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
You know, I can tell you that's exactly that's what
he's after.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
Three fifty two from the Digital Rancher.

Speaker 2 (01:40:24):
Thanks, thank you. Okay, okay, but we're saying that, but
you know, technically there's still like four minutes left of
the time. So correct somebody, somebody could throw down and
be three fifty two, you could, they could. So that
the question is if somebody goes three fifty five and
rob answers with another five bucks, do we get to

(01:40:44):
tack it onto his hope?

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
I would say yes, I Would's fair, I would, I
would tack it on.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
Yeah, yeah, there you good.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
Oh boy, it's all in good fun, guys, all in
good fun. So, Dave, I need to get one of
those l ones from you. I meant to ask you
that this weekend. But I'm gonna want that that. I
know that case is still in beta though.

Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
But yeah, yeah, I'm gonna need to look at this.
We're starting to play around with some mestastic stuff with
some of our high school kids.

Speaker 8 (01:41:14):
So and if you you guys want to get into it,
I have a connection with Seed Studios that we can
probably get you some equipment.

Speaker 7 (01:41:22):
Yep, we have uh, we actually have a meteorologist in
the chat elector five weather man. You've got you've got
his interest pegued with that.

Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
Excellent. If you guys have ever seen my truck, you
know the kind of rig that I have. I get
asked all the time. Oh so you do you do
storm chasing And I'm like, well, I do. I haven't
actually done it in a long time, but I so
want to pull a read Timber and Trimmer Read Trimmer,
the guy on on YouTube Meetia Extreme Meteorologist. Yeah, he

(01:41:56):
just goes out there and drives through a storm while
live streaming on YouTube. And I'm like, I got to
do that, dude. My wife's like, you're not gonna do that.
I was like, question, is are you.

Speaker 7 (01:42:06):
Gonna put the augers on the side of your truck
he's got.

Speaker 1 (01:42:10):
I don't know, Uh, I'm not sure. Yeah, no, no,
probably not. I mean my truck's kind of heavy anywhere.
But I was watching a video from him one time,
and I'm like, this guy needs a lesson in radio
because they're like driving through a storm and his buddy
was behind him, and they pulled off the road into
a parking lot and they park next to each other,
pouring rain, rolled their windows down, and we're talking to

(01:42:31):
one another. I'm like, you don't even have a freaking
CB in your truck, dude, what what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Majority of those guys already know about amateur radio and
they have cars. I don't know why they don't.

Speaker 1 (01:42:44):
But yeah, I know, I know, yeah, read Timber. He
needs it. He needs a freaking uh he needs to
join teacher's Institute and uh get a get a hamm
radio license. So I would love to have that guy
on the channel sometime if he's ever watching the channel,
which I'm sure he doesn't, so oh gosh, okay, But yeah,
storm chasing's quite that's one of the That's one of

(01:43:04):
the first things I ever did when I got my
license was deployed for a for a local aries group
around here, and.

Speaker 3 (01:43:12):
I used to do it a lot. I used to
do it a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:43:14):
Yep, yep. It is quite enjoyable.

Speaker 7 (01:43:19):
I want to do it really bad, but it's it's
not safe here. Too many hills, too many curves.

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
Well, if you if you're talking about the just doing
it for races, the races group here in Terran County
say that they want you to go and post up
somewhere and then they'll just say announce the areas of interest.
So they don't want you running around and literally chasing
because the the storm spotting, and they don't want to

(01:43:46):
deploy anyone or move anyone if you're just in Noah
good area I always like to go on top of
parking garages so I could oversee a barge area. Yeah,
and then you just go down one level and you're
protected from hale. That's how I used to do it.
But yeah, you're not supposed to be driving around a
lot and going for the racy callouts.

Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
Right, you don't. Really, Yeah, they say we need someone
in this sector of this. They still use Mapsco for
some odd reason, or they do around here say go
to mapsco grid blah blah blah, and I'm like, dude,
hold on, let me dig through my trunk from nineteen
eighty five and find my maps.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
Go.

Speaker 1 (01:44:24):
But they do have it on the website. You go
to their website, it has all the Mapsco grids in
it or something like that. So they need to upgrade
their game to a different mapping system.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
But that's a word that hadn't heard in a wild mapping.

Speaker 1 (01:44:34):
I know it. Yeah, yeah, they still use Mapsco. But
but they'll say go out here and sit in this area,
and you go out there and you sit, you know,
in a parking lot or something like that. I don't
know about on top of a parking garage. Frank, that
may or may not be a bad idea.

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
Well, it depends if the winds kick up or.

Speaker 1 (01:44:51):
Not, right right, Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't, or if it's lightning.

Speaker 3 (01:44:55):
That's that's why I'm in the second story not the top.

Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
Oh that's good because it has long time. Tornado comes
through there and collapses the top level on you, you'd
be sorry you were there.

Speaker 7 (01:45:05):
That sounds like that sounds like the next installment of
the Final Destination franchise.

Speaker 3 (01:45:12):
I don't think I've ever seen a tornado push over
topple over a part.

Speaker 1 (01:45:16):
Well, if it were to happen, if it were to happen,
it would happen on that little pill bug car that
you drive.

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
So handway the awareness says, I want to do that
to Sapphire.

Speaker 5 (01:45:29):
Is going to become dwarfing.

Speaker 3 (01:45:32):
Yeah yeah, Well that being said, there was a tornado
here a number of years ago during on Christmas Day,
and this tornado hit the High five overpasses over on
in the Dallas side and it did not damage the overpasses.
The blue car is off the overpass, but the overpass
was still there.

Speaker 1 (01:45:50):
Yeah, yep, that is a good point. We got a
three over one one all right, Brooks wants that or no,
he well, he did. Oh, we're going to add that.
We said we're going to add that. So Brooks two
hundred plus three one is five to one. There we go,

(01:46:11):
and I think he's right at the ten minute mark.
Ro I think he's right at the ten minute mark.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
So he's trying to do like the eBay last minute bitter.

Speaker 6 (01:46:19):
Right, Yeah, he's trying to does it extend it for
a minute then I don't know, thirty seconds.

Speaker 5 (01:46:29):
Thirty has a chance to counter.

Speaker 1 (01:46:31):
There we go, thirty seconds, one dollar, Bob, you know
probably yeah, you know, Rob will be making a video
about that mestastic device.

Speaker 11 (01:46:44):
Oh yeah, mm hmm, yeah, I think uh, I think
Brooks is going to get he successfully, Yeah, I think
he did.

Speaker 7 (01:46:59):
I had two twenty five Earlierred, you say as yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:47:04):
Oh so he's saying he had two twenty five earlier
and to twenty five now is.

Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
At least yeah, but uh yeah, but uh in five
CP he was saying in the next ten.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
Minutes, Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:47:15):
So we're trying to get everything within the next two
minutes to uh to donate all right, heck, okay, okay,
and the if the answer to this is no, that's okay.
You guys are being very very generous tonight in five
cop Frank and Dave? Can we just call it a

(01:47:37):
tie and send one of those to each Rob and Brooks?

Speaker 2 (01:47:42):
Is that possible that I could do that?

Speaker 1 (01:47:44):
Okay? Thank you, Dave? Yep, all right, so we're gonna
call it a tie. Digital Rancher, you have his info, Dave.

Speaker 7 (01:47:51):
Yeah, keep it going. If we can get more donations.

Speaker 1 (01:47:57):
Yeah, can we?

Speaker 2 (01:48:01):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:48:02):
Can we call it a tie for for these two guys? Frank,
let me know, I'd like to do that because we're
not It's it's quarter to nine here, I'm not going
to be live streaming for very much longer. Anyway, we've
been going almost two hours, so.

Speaker 2 (01:48:18):
We've been going two hours past my bedtime.

Speaker 6 (01:48:22):
Past, and for that you should donate another.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
You think this was bad that nine hour one?

Speaker 5 (01:48:31):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:48:31):
Were you on for that whole thing?

Speaker 2 (01:48:33):
The whole thing?

Speaker 1 (01:48:34):
Oh wow, man, that's I stood for that entire thing too.
Oh boy, I.

Speaker 7 (01:48:41):
Just got one key.

Speaker 1 (01:48:42):
He's just got he's just got one key. Okay, okay,
all right, so let's see here. Uh, that's okay. That
Frank is very generous of you, so thank you very
much for that. All right, so Brooks donated two hundred
and then you know what I'm gonna get out of
note because mathing on a live stream, that's always fun.

(01:49:03):
Brooks donated two hundred. Rob donated three fifty two, but
he had two twenty five from earlier Brooks, do you do?
Are you a cwy Brooks? I know that Rob is
like me, He's trying to learn. He's probably better at
it than I am, all honestly. And then Brooks had

(01:49:25):
three hundred and one, so it's five oh one.

Speaker 7 (01:49:31):
That's five seventy Sam with the fifty.

Speaker 5 (01:49:37):
They also had another fifty dollars anonymous donations.

Speaker 1 (01:49:39):
So I saw CSN come in there earlier. CSN makes
the I If you go to igatemini dot com, it
is a It is a small, little raspberry pie sized
ie gate that can act as the digitpter iGATE for
APRS and it works very well. I've been tinkering with
it for the last month. Gonna do a video about
it soon. The there's a couple of things that I

(01:50:01):
think I have some settings wrong, So I'm actually gonna
meet with him over zoom some time this week hopefully,
and then we're gonna do a video about that. But
very cool device. If you want an ie gate, if
you don't have an eye gate for APRS near you,
put one up in your home gate igatemini dot com.
Check that out.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
Chad Strawn just made his way in and he actually
came through t I this this summer. He's in the
in the chat now he's oh yeah, okay. He just said,
you know, it was the best part of his summer.
I'm telling you, every single person that leaves says the
same thing. And then a ham radio crusader, you said,
thank me for everything I do. No, it's this is
a lifelong passion for me. This is just me. Thank

(01:50:42):
you guys for what you do to enable that.

Speaker 8 (01:50:45):
So and since Rob isn't getting a key, to choose
which one he.

Speaker 1 (01:50:52):
Wants, okay, and Brooks said.

Speaker 9 (01:50:57):
So, we got maybe ten minutes left, so the highest
to close out, we're gonna send antenna that we just
designed and now are selling, and a key. We're gonna
donate that to whoever is the highest bidder to the
end of the stream.

Speaker 5 (01:51:15):
So so starting now, yep, starting previous.

Speaker 1 (01:51:20):
Starting now, starting now, okay, starting now, starting now.

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
Okay, I wish it was eight fifty.

Speaker 7 (01:51:29):
I don't know if there's if you want green or clear?

Speaker 1 (01:51:32):
Okay, so we're gonna call, Yeah, we're gonna call the
modern Morst Key is going to go to Brooks uh
w B six e d K and then both Brooks
and Rob are going to get a seed studios. What'd
you call it? An l one l one l one? Okay,
w B six e d K and N five c

(01:51:56):
P Frank if you have, if you have qr Z
w B six e d K, Brooks, let me let
us know if you're good on qr Z. If not,
shoot me an email or hit me up in Discord
and let me know your contact info and I'll get
it over to UH to Frank for you. And then
I've got Robs. I've got robs info. I can send that.

(01:52:17):
I could. You've got Rob's info de so yeah, I
can get yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
And there you go. See. Chad's one of them that
passes extra. So you asked if the teachers that come
through ever upgrade, they're nice?

Speaker 1 (01:52:28):
Okay, past extra A while I was there, did a
four H club last week and used the yaz ht
from my TI class for some third party traffic. Nice
with the club.

Speaker 2 (01:52:38):
Kids this this summer. This summer was tough for me.
I was on the roads so much. I really didn't
get to know all the teachers as much as I
normally do. I mean, there were some weeks that well,
I mean I think I slipped nine days in my
bed this summer. So wow, it's a well I keep

(01:52:58):
in mind, you know, with the teacher conference and and
the the fa thing popped on there, and but it's
a you don't realize it when you're booking these things
until all of a sudden your your wife realizes it.

Speaker 1 (01:53:10):
Right, Yes, I can attest it. That is absolutely true.

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
So but you know, I mean she and I go
everywhere together anyway, but yeah, it's she's like, you know,
she would be nice to be able to like wash
some of your clothes soon.

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
So I've been on trips where I came home and
you know, dumped everything in the uh the laundry, and
then repack the same suitcase and do it again. Some
of it's even the next day totally relate.

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
Yep. I don't think I'm allowed to spur the giving on.
I'm not sure what the rules are, so I'm not
gonna say anything.

Speaker 1 (01:53:52):
Yeah, get some beds in eight minutes we're gonna call
this in eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:53:57):
I think it's you guys, not me and Jason have
to do that, because I think if Jason and I
do it, we might break something.

Speaker 6 (01:54:02):
Yeah, Kevin right donated twenty dollars, So that was the
starting bedded going towards the next hiest better for the
key from the Ham Radio duo?

Speaker 1 (01:54:12):
So is that do you guys make that key?

Speaker 2 (01:54:14):
Also?

Speaker 1 (01:54:14):
Becky?

Speaker 9 (01:54:15):
Yes, this is are three D printed. We have a
flat and a navy knob key.

Speaker 1 (01:54:19):
But yes, y'all had those at Huntsville.

Speaker 2 (01:54:22):
That's gonna say. I saw one of those at Huntsville.
That's pretty sweet.

Speaker 1 (01:54:25):
Yeah, yeah, yep.

Speaker 7 (01:54:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:54:26):
And the and the antennas it's like a little pocket
sized antenna for twenty meters.

Speaker 2 (01:54:32):
Yeah, that's that's a pocket sized spike too, right, No,
this is.

Speaker 8 (01:54:38):
Actually the antenna here.

Speaker 9 (01:54:39):
And then there's a tripod mount on the bottom so
you can put on a tripod or like we actually
have a tripod mount.

Speaker 5 (01:54:46):
Steak.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
Okay, nice sweet?

Speaker 5 (01:54:49):
So real quick, Becky, how much how much does the
keys wigh?

Speaker 6 (01:54:52):
Because I ideally because they are not metal, they're they're
three D printed, they're quite a bit lighter and probably
for people who want to take a streak straight key
on the trail.

Speaker 1 (01:55:03):
Yeah, they're very light. I think it was like.

Speaker 9 (01:55:08):
Ounces.

Speaker 5 (01:55:09):
I mean very light.

Speaker 1 (01:55:10):
I mean and it comes with the case too.

Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:55:12):
The only reason they don't flip over is because it
sticks out a little bit, and they still do flip
over if you're really heavy handed.

Speaker 2 (01:55:19):
But yeah, Chad, that the link is if you scroll
down a little bit, there's a donate button under there
that says donate now, right, that's that's the link. It's
it's not actually, it's that donate button and every every
penny goes through, including any credit card processing fees. Google
waves those for us. Correct.

Speaker 1 (01:55:37):
Yeah, So the donate so I can I can actually
share that. Hold on a second, if we go here
and okay, so we're watching ourselves. We're doing inception right now,
watching ourselves right below the live stream and I don't
know if it looks this way on an app or not,
but on a on a browser, right, but the lives

(01:55:58):
below the live stream is the donate button right there,
a double L Teachers Institute donate.

Speaker 9 (01:56:04):
So I just saw twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:56:06):
Eight twenty eight bucks, twenty bush that seven.

Speaker 1 (01:56:11):
Roads whiskey seven back roads. That's my buddy Brent up
there in Wyoming. He uh, he hosts a he hosts
a gathering every year that I really really want to
go to, but it's in freaking Wyoming. I've never been
able to go to. It looks fun though.

Speaker 2 (01:56:29):
And as a he just pointed out, we are five
hundred bucks away from we are from nine.

Speaker 1 (01:56:36):
Cha Chad stated, yeah, Chad Strawn, So he's he's the
he's the highest one.

Speaker 2 (01:56:43):
Now, Chad, look for the schedule for next year's classes
sometime in November. We'll hope to see you back.

Speaker 9 (01:56:52):
We have a tie.

Speaker 1 (01:56:53):
It's a fifty totals at eighty six hundred right now.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
Somebody's gonna have to do fifty one or something because yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:57:05):
We need to get to nine thousand. That's a good goal.

Speaker 1 (01:57:10):
Nine thousand by nine o'clock, that's right, four minutes.

Speaker 7 (01:57:14):
How about ten thousand bout ten o'clock my time.

Speaker 1 (01:57:17):
Okay, go ahead, Josh, I give you permission to donate
fourteen hundred dollars right now. Bus, This is this is fun.

Speaker 7 (01:57:35):
I appreciate everybody that's throwing stuff in to give away.

Speaker 1 (01:57:39):
Yes, yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, yep.

Speaker 10 (01:57:46):
And we picked up some of those meshitastics that they've
gave away, and those are really fun to play with.

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
Yep, yeah, they're good.

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
Good. Yeah, I need to get one of those. I
was gonna wait until they had that case ready though,
but oh well, And speaking of I had mentioned my
mystery boxes earlier, and I dave you put me in
contact with somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:58:08):
There's a hundred. There you go, your third time in
the JAS. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:58:16):
So we're gonna do some some seed studio meshtastic devices
in some future mystery boxes as well. Mike burks with
another one hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:58:24):
Jason and Mike are tiede hi again.

Speaker 2 (01:58:27):
M hmm. They're gonna have to get into the everybody
adding five here and there to see who can end
that on top right. Yeah, you're going to have to
decide whose clock you're going to determine is the time, and.

Speaker 1 (01:58:41):
I'll call it. I'll call it. I've got three minutes,
a little bit less than three minutes, but I'll make
an official executive decision here in a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
It is well, it is no, technically there's still two
minutes and change.

Speaker 7 (01:59:00):
Okay. That that made it. That was one hundred, two
hundred and fifty one dollars whatever c CHF is.

Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
C HF huh anonymous donated c h oh. I wonder
if that's another currency.

Speaker 7 (01:59:14):
It is, Okay, I'm not sure though, mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:59:21):
I have to break out the Googles.

Speaker 5 (01:59:23):
Yep, right right, yeah, all doing that right now?

Speaker 1 (01:59:27):
Yeah, I won't do it somebody else. That's Frank's Swiss
francs Swiss francs.

Speaker 3 (01:59:34):
Okay, that not you on point to say, I'm not
say not Swiss.

Speaker 5 (01:59:40):
Two hundred and fifty one dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:59:42):
Who in the chat is Swiss?

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
You can change it.

Speaker 2 (01:59:47):
You can change it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
It's pretty easy.

Speaker 7 (01:59:50):
I have a hunch I know who that is. I
won't spoil the surprise. Surprise, I mean surprise.

Speaker 1 (01:59:57):
That's uh that was uh HB nine e v T.
Frank says, I don't know how Frank knew that.

Speaker 7 (02:00:06):
Yeah, he Pepe admitted it. That's anonymous. Okay, thanks, that's
who I thought.

Speaker 1 (02:00:12):
It was, Okay, Hotel Bravo nine Echo, Victor Tango, thank
you for the d X.

Speaker 2 (02:00:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
It's two hundred and twenty dollars US roughly. So, I
don't know. You guys want to do it. I want
to you guys want to ship to Switzerland.

Speaker 3 (02:00:31):
I guess they can figure out.

Speaker 5 (02:00:32):
Gus, we'renna figure out how trying to figure out something.

Speaker 2 (02:00:35):
Make sure you mark gift right right?

Speaker 1 (02:00:38):
Yeah, yeah, awesome.

Speaker 7 (02:00:50):
We we did get nine thousand by nine o'clock.

Speaker 2 (02:00:53):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (02:00:53):
Yep, we're at nine thousand and fifty one and I've
got eight fifty nine less than sixty seconds. In fact,
there it is nonine o'clock right there, nine o'clock. All right, guys,
we're gonna call it right there. Nine fifty dollars raised today.
Plus I know a few of you clicked on the
donation link, so i'll get a total. I'll try to
get a total from Kevin to Morrel and then uh,

(02:01:16):
mister Minster is going to donate six hundred dollars as well,
he claimed.

Speaker 2 (02:01:21):
So it's it's he is. He has supported every single
telethon and everything we've had. It's pretty awesome having a
boss he which is money where his mouth is.

Speaker 1 (02:01:31):
Yeah, you know, he texted me like two thirds of
the way through it. He's like, man, that's a great effort.
I've watched every one of your thirty day videos. I'm like, thanks, man,
I appreciate that.

Speaker 7 (02:01:39):
So, so I suspect after everybody has hit that donate
but not the donate button, but click the link plus
mister Minster's donation, we're over ten thousand or not, I suspect.

Speaker 1 (02:01:55):
Uh what, possibly quite positive to at least possibly Yeah,
So thank you everyone for your help with this. I
really I was disappointed with the amount of money we
raised because just because my own personal goal that I hit,
but this was this was very good. So and I
appreciate everyone who did donate during the during the series

(02:02:16):
as well. But if I want to do this again,
I figured out that, you know, it's it works better
on a live stream than on a regular video, which
is cool. It's totally cool. It's fun to do both.
So so thank you for the support, thank you for
watching the videos, thank you for the donations tonight and
the donations for the last month during the thirty Days
of Ham Radio event that I did, and and thank

(02:02:39):
you everybody who joined me on zoom tonight. Appreciate you
guys being out there.

Speaker 2 (02:02:43):
This is awesome because we're close to like eighteen thousand
dollars between the sweet Yeah. Yeah, that's that's that's that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (02:02:50):
That's good and the donate button will stay live at
least for a while. I think it stays lives permanently
honestly on the YouTube live stream play. But somebody watching,
anybody on team replay tomorrow, the next day, next week,
next month, click that donate button. Even if it's you know,
twenty or thirty bucks, that's okay. So it's it's a

(02:03:12):
teacher's institute, is going to be an ongoing thing for
a long long time.

Speaker 2 (02:03:15):
And Jason, thank you because I know it was a
ton of work doing thir thirty days of videos. I mean,
you and I started talking about this a couple of
months ago.

Speaker 1 (02:03:24):
Right, maybe a three months ago, now, yeah, something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:03:28):
I mean, it's I used to YouTube, so you know,
I get I get it. It's a lot, it's a
lot of work. It's a lot of realize they don't
realize the amount of work it takes to film and
then post production and everything and get it. So, so
you know, thank you for time.

Speaker 1 (02:03:45):
Absolutely happy to do it.

Speaker 5 (02:03:47):
Steve real quick quick question.

Speaker 6 (02:03:49):
You know, so in the moment, we had a lot
of people who donated, and that was great and I
appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (02:03:54):
Everybody appreciates that.

Speaker 6 (02:03:56):
But if somebody were wanting to do like a planned
gift where they are donating on a regular basis, whether
it's an annual.

Speaker 2 (02:04:04):
Or a great question, how would how would they do that? So,
you know, you've heard us mentioned Kevin several times in
the in the chat. Kevin is our our director of development.
He's he's a great guy. I mean, he yeah, he
knows the best way to make all that happen. His

(02:04:27):
his email address is I'll type in the chat it's
k bal at a w L dot org. Mm hmm,
that's Kevin bal So. He's he's the he's the guy
to go to. He can you know, and he does this. Gosh,

(02:04:48):
he darkens my door a few times a day usually
with you know, so and so just donated, you know,
five thousand dollars. And then he knows how to get
funds matched through employers sometimes and stuff like that. So yeah,
you know, I mean, I obviously appreciate everybody who clicks
a link and donates, but yeah, if you want to
set up a recurring thing or or something like that,

(02:05:10):
take the time to call Kevin's office because he knows
how to make the most of everything in there.

Speaker 1 (02:05:16):
So and that's a good point, Steve. I had mentioned
this on a couple of my thirty Day videos. Some
companies do donation matching if you're donating, if you're doing
a fundraiser for a nonprofit or for a charitable donation,
which this counts towards all of that. So check with
your company, Check with the company you work for, see
if they do some sort of donation matching, and if so,

(02:05:37):
then let's, uh, let's get together on something for future
reference or something like that, or set up something on
your own and get with Steve about how you can
get donation matching.

Speaker 2 (02:05:47):
For because because that's huge. I mean just yeah, I
met I met a couple at at Huntsville and she
she wanted to donate seventy five hundred dollars. Talking to Kevin,
they I don't know what all hoops they jumped through,
but they got it mats to the employee and so
that's seventy five hundred bucks turned into fifteen thousand dollars.
And you know, my budget for this year is scary big,

(02:06:09):
and so yeah, I'm trying to do twenty one of
these things, so you know, every dollar really does count, so.

Speaker 6 (02:06:17):
You know, and total actually take a step further, you
could also in that scenario they can find ways to
bring it back into the community itself. So maybe it's
a pipeline, a gateway to the donating new funds that
eventually come back to your local school district in the
form of educating a teacher through the Teachers Institute.

Speaker 2 (02:06:38):
Yeah, I mean, that's not dissimilar to what happened in
the Pacific Northwest. They gave us money for a TI
with the caveat of we would like it done in
the Pacific Northwest because that way is directly impacting kids
in their area.

Speaker 1 (02:06:55):
So totally. That's great, all right, guys, Well, thank you
very much everybody who joined the zoom, everybody who joined
the live stream, especially those of you who donated. Again,
the donate button will stay active for a while one second, okay,
all right, So thanks a lot for the support tonight.

(02:07:16):
Thank you to UH to Dave and to also to
uh to Frank and five cope Frank in the chat
for you all support as well. Anybody who needs anything
or any questions or anything like that, answer to hit
me up on discord or email case five HBB at
gmail dot com and uh we'll catch you guys. Next
time seventy three to all you, good night yep, thanks guys,

(02:07:39):
see you